{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9617859721183777,"wiki_prob":0.9617859721183777,"text":"Authorities: Ex-officer threatened to kill chief\nBy - Associated Press - Saturday, September 6, 2014\nABERDEEN, N.J. (AP) - Authorities say a former Aberdeen Township police officer stalked and threatened to kill the town’s current police chief.\nBut they wouldn’t say why 66-year-old Christian Witzig allegedly took those actions.\nThe Asbury Park Press (https://on.app.com/1rRqyEv) reports Witzig, who lives in Keansburg, was arrested this week. His bail was set at $100,000 cash and it wasn’t known Saturday if he has retained an attorney.\nCiting court documents, the newspaper said Witzig made the threat before going to Aberdeen police headquarters to confront chief John Powers- despite being previously told not to contact him.\nThe documents also state that Witzig repeatedly made alarming and threatening statements toward Powers and his family on five occasions\nPowers told the newspaper that he couldn’t comment and referred all questions to the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.\nInformation from: Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, https://www.app.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line380250"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7424188852310181,"wiki_prob":0.25758111476898193,"text":"@odenmemphis\nEven financial analysts agree at this point that brand equity is, while intangible, probably the most valuable asset on a company’s balance sheet. Stewardship of that asset is of foremost importance in the strategy of running a company. And the launch of a new brand, while exciting and full of promise, is merely one point on a sliding scale of actions that ensure nurturing of a long-term successful brand entity.\nAs with any business, brands progress through a life cycle of launch, growth, maturity, and either rejuvenation, reinvention, or fading from the market landscape. Enduring victory, therefore, depends upon making choices about brand consistency versus change. Those choices are affected by timing, the economy, customer needs, competition, and other factors that require thorough evaluation.\nConsider Crest® toothpaste, the first with fluoride, introduced to the public in 1955. Crest, while ubiquitous, is not the world’s top-selling toothpaste, but it’s a star in the crown of Procter & Gamble, the number-31 company on the Fortune 500 list. With revenues of $84.2 billion as a result of its standouts, including Tide®, Pantene®, and Crest, P&G can certainly afford to adapt to circumstances by investing in product enhancements—and it has. With Crest, P&G moved from the initial fluoride differentiator to now include tartar control, whitening, whitening strips, and complete multi-benefit herbal expressions. For 60 years, Crest has rejuvenated and expanded its scope many times over to keep those kiddies brushing and their parents smiling brightly. Relevance. Crest has it, because it’s stewarded the brand wisely, keeping its eye on the market and recognizing when it was time to invest in brand extensions and enhancements.\nNot Everybody Has $84 Billion\nWhat if you’re not Crest? Suppose you’re a 5-year-old mid-sized commercial lender with a strong product positioning. You’ve spent a lot of time and effort to develop a memorable brand image and message that’s resonating with your industrial customers. Until now, you’ve been staunch in requiring consistency in every aspect of your collateral, business cards, messaging, and online presence in order to build awareness of your brand. You’ve begun to enjoy growth regionally, yet you’re not quite a household name. You don’t have billions to reinvest in every new trick in the book, but you want to keep your brand healthy and growing.\nAt the same time, your competition’s new product offerings are coming online. This is where consistency meets adaptability, and you have to decide: stay the course, or begin to refresh and deviate from the well-entrenched image and positioning you’ve created.\nA good example of brand evolution in the B2B space is Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe was founded in 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock to develop and sell the PostScript® page-description language. Today it’s a multinational computer software company with approximately $4.147 billion in revenues. Adobe’s product line has evolved from software products (such as Photoshop®) that individuals purchased to a suite of digital media and marketing solutions served up for a monthly fee with automatic upgrades. Recently described in an article by CBS News online as one of few software companies that survived Microsoft’s competition, the article cites Adobe as one of “10 companies with insanely great marketing.”\nBeginning as a single tool primarily for the graphics and publishing market, Adobe’s product line has become requisite for anyone who wants to edit video or save files in PDF format. In a larger sense, the company describes its business this way: “Our digital media and marketing solutions empower businesses to make, manage, measure and monetize content.”\nAdobe’s history has not been without difficulty. It competes in a fast-paced industry with significant players that are larger by far. It endured a major security breach in 2013 with far-reaching consequences for customers. Yet Adobe has secured its destiny through its dedication to giving customers what they want. Adobe claims that four value characteristics drive its business: to be genuine, exceptional, innovative, and involved. Their website features these two facts that validate their lofty position:\nOver 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Photoshop.\nMore than two-thirds of Fortune 50 companies use Adobe® Marketing Cloud, including 17 of the top 20 Internet retailers; 10 of the top 10 commercial banks; 5 of the top 5 media companies; and 5 of the top 5 automakers.\nWith ever-evolving graphic design tools at its beck and call, Adobe still retains its original logo, designed by founder John Warnock’s wife, Marva. Visual consistency with product evolution—Adobe’s formula for success.\nHow to Balance Consistency and Change\nAdobe didn’t reinvent the primary visual representation of its brand—its logo. But it did adjust, fine-tune, acquire, develop, and adapt in ways that kept it in favor with its market. How do YOU do that?\nFirst and foremost, stay true to your brand promise. This is what brought your customers to you, and it’s what will keep them coming back. No matter what other changes you consider, you have to be all in when it comes to living up to your mission and purpose. Every experience your customers have should remind them of that promise.\nDon’t wait until your customers begin shifting to competitors for services you don’t offer.\nTo continue to grow, you have to be in front of demand, not behind it. To do this:\nListen to your customers. Learn what services they’d like to have or what products they’ve seen in other markets that intrigue them.\nWatch your competition closely to see whether they’re taking an aggressive future stance or merely a hold-down-the-fort approach.\nLook at other markets and at business literature to see what’s new outside your arena.\nConsider the implications for your company if you invest in new products, services, technology, or other enhancements. Do you need a new product line? What’s the payback if you develop it, and what’s the drawback if you don’t?\nTest your theory with your customers to see their reaction. Test it with potential customers.\nIf you’re expanding geographically, you may find that your more locally flavored marketing campaigns and materials don’t represent the broader picture. Call in the experts to help you evaluate how your image plays among those other markets.\nAs your company grows, you may discover that you need to create variations on the brand, expanding your product line, tweaking existing products, and perhaps even eliminating some non-performing elements. For example, in 2011 Adobe ceased development of Flash for mobile devices because Apple refused to support it on the popular iOS platform.\nOne example of a local-to-more transition is the Starbucks story. Below, see the iterations of the logo as the company grew and changed. Starbucks didn’t start out as number 196 on the Fortune 500 list, where it is today; in 1971 it was a Seattle coffee bean roaster and retailer. Notice that it took 16 years to deviate from the original tried-and-true image.\nThe Starbucks story may be beyond what you envision for your company. But it helps to see that the company held true to its original course until it was evident that the future held more in store. And even today, after adding food products and Fizzio™ hand-crafted sodas, it has maintained its quality experience. The logo has changed, but the story is the same. And so should yours be.\nCrest, Adobe, and Starbucks all undertook change that was well thought out: meeting consumers’ needs, anticipating what the next must-have would be, and even creating a need where none existed. Remaining successful is all about knowing what’s working, quickly jettisoning what isn’t, and building new products at the right time. The “right time” is when you’ve researched the marketplace and your specific target audiences, and you’ve weighed the pros and cons of making a move or staying the course.\nYou can change your logo like Starbucks, or hold on to your original like Adobe, but you can’t stanch the tide of marketplace change, especially not today. A sustained stewardship discipline is paramount to the successful evolution of any brand. The marketing saying “If you’re not growing, you’re dying” is as true today as ever. It’s just a matter of knowing when and how to create growth. That’s the art and science of success.\nFor information on Oden, contact us at hello@oden.com.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line911764"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7613966464996338,"wiki_prob":0.7613966464996338,"text":"\"Eastlake woman, 82, to be ordained as priest Saturday sees role as example for other women\" by Brian Albrecht, Cleveland Plain Dealer\nhttps://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/06/eastlake_woman_82_to_be_ordain.html\nSusan Marie Guzik of Eastlake sheds a tear as women priests of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests perform the laying on of hands during the Liturgy of Ordination mass in 2014 at the Brecksville United Church of Christ where she was ordained as a deacon. She will be ordained as a priest at the same church on Saturday. (Plain Dealer file photo\nBy Brian Albrecht, The Plain Dealer\nbalbrecht@plaind.com\nCLEVELAND, Ohio - Four years ago, when Susan Guzik was ordained a deacon by the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP), she was automatically excommunicated by the church.\nGot an official letter from the bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese and everything.\nIt didn't bother her then. And it won't bother her Saturday when she is ordained as a priest and three women as deacons by the ARCWP in ceremonies at 1 p.m. at the Community of St. Bridget in the Brecksville United Church of Christ.\nFour years ago, Guzik said, \"We're still Catholics. We believe we are the church.\n\"There have been times I've wondered if I'm doing the right thing,\" she added.\n\"I am doing the right thing.\"\nGuzik, 82, of Eastlake, recently said, \"That's still true today. We don't consider ourselves excommunicated.\"\nWhen asked why she wanted to become a priest, Guzik replied, \"Well why not? We're trying to prove that women can do what priests do.\n\"We're all priestly people. We're all equal,\" she added. \"We don't believe in a hierarchical model. Everybody has voice in everything.\"\nGuzik has been involved with the church for many years.\nShe received her diocesan certification as a lay ecclesial minister in the Cleveland diocese in 1993, and was active in St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Willowick for more than 55 years. She was one of the first woman lectors in that parish, and was a Stephen Ministry team member and director for several years.\n\"Most parishes today,\" Guzik noted, \"the lay people - and mostly women - they're doing most of the work in the parish. They always have.\"\nShe was married for 53 years to Matthew Guzik, who died in 2012, and has five children and nine grandchildren.\nGuzik will be ordained by Bishop Mary Eileen Collingwood, who will be ordaining priests and deacons for the first time in Cleveland.\n\"This is a milestone for Cleveland,\" she said.\nCollingwood said she has know Guzik for the past 35 years and described her as \"a very holy woman. She is very much into maintaining the right relationships with people as far as her family, her church and her community.\n\"She's an avid reader and has a very active mind,\" she added. \"We recognize that she has lived a priestly life for many, many years.\"\nCollingwood said Guzik decided to become a priest because \"she thought it was time. This where spirit is leading us.\"\nSusan Guzik, left, is shown as a deacon celebrating with Bishop Mary Eileen Collingwood. (Photo courtesy of Mary Eileen Collingwood)\nShe said Guzik will not have an easy road as far as the church goes.\n\"You will be ostracized. You will be persona non grata. Nobody will recognize you within the institutional church,\" she said. \"We've had to really come to grips with all of that.\"\nHowever, she added, \"We are a movement that believes church should not be a static spirit, but a continuing, living spirit that continues to move forward.\"\nThe women being ordained as deacons Saturday are Toni Kay Attanasio, Geraldne Lococo and Kathleen O'Connell Sauline.\nGuzik regards them as examples of a changing society.\n\"It's just the recognition that yes, women can do this, women have done this for years,\" she said.\nGuzik considers herself a role model, particularly for her granddaughters.\nShe said her accomplishment might motivate young women she has met who are \"lukewarm about the Catholic church because of the misogyny of male priests. They look down on women.\"\nGuzik said she has no plans to drastically alter her spiritual duties once she becomes a priest, and will continue to concentrate on her ministry to the elderly.\n\"I visit people in nursing homes, visit the sick. I'm not going start my own little circle of people and presiding as priest,\" Guzik said.\nShe also she will not celebrate Mass at her current church, the Community of St. Bridget, unless its two women priests are absent.\nGuzik chuckled as she recalled one person who asked if she has to be called \"father\" now, as are male priests.\n\"No, you can call me Sue,\" Guzik said she replied. \"I'm still the same person.\"\n(The ordination at the Community of St. Bridget, Brecksville United Church of Christ, 23 Public Square in Brecksville, will be followed by a reception in the church hall. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6753910779953003,"wiki_prob":0.6753910779953003,"text":"As the world watches Syria, don’t forget about Yemen\nThe problem isn’t that the U.S. is standing by and doing nothing while this horror unfolds. It’s much worse than that.\nSOURCECampaign for America’s Future\nImage Credit: Democracy Now!\nIn the time it takes to read these words, a child under the age of five will probably die in Yemen.\nAnd, as this is being written, the U.N. Security Council is meeting to discuss a gas attack in Syria. President Trump, with newly-appointed National Security Advisor John Bolton at his side, says he will decide on his course of action within 24 to 48 hours.\nThe Syrian people’s tragedy is enormous. So is the possibility for military confrontation between two nuclear powers.\nBut while the headlines focus on Syria, and as a multitude of voices call for increased military involvement there, don’t forget the tragedy in Yemen. We can save lives much more easily there. We don’t have to send troops or launch missiles.\nAll we have to do is leave.\nEmpathy and intervention\nPolitical scientists at the University of Toronto have linked empathy to left-leaning political views. Linguist George Lakoff associates the liberal personality with the “nurturant parent” model of the family. And the stereotypical American self-image, across the political spectrum, is that of someone who is willing to help others.\nInterestingly, most Americans see other Americans as “selfish,” according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey.\nPerhaps that’s why presidential candidate Bill Clinton used empathic language when he argued for US military action in Bosnia and Herzegovina – “because,” said candidate Clinton, “I’m horrified by what I’ve seen.”\nThat language reinforced what the New York Times called Clinton’s “aggressive tack” on the region.\nUnder President Clinton, NATO conducted years of bombing in the region and sent 60,000 troops to enforce the Dayton Accords. Clinton faced resistance from left and right. That conflict was, in the words of the New York Times Editorial Board, “not America’s war.” But Clinton and his team invoked the image of the U.S. as the world’s leader – and the suffering of children – to make the case for intervention.\nMore than just a place\nIn a 1995 speech announcing his decision to send peacekeeping troops, Clinton shrewdly leavened his liberal empathy (“In fulfilling this mission, we will have the chance to help stop the killing of innocent civilians, especially children”) with self-interest (“and at the same time, to bring stability to central Europe, a region of the world that is vital to our national interests.”)\nClinton then pivoted to the time-tested theme of the U.S. as a uniquely generous and selfless military force. “America has always been more than just a place,” he said, adding:\nAmerica has embodied an idea that has become the ideal for billions of people throughout the world… America is about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness … America has done more than simply stand for these ideals. We have acted on them and sacrificed for them. Our people fought two world wars so that freedom could triumph over tyranny.\nThis is how liberal interventionism has always been packaged in American politics: with the notion that our highest ideals are best expressed, not through diplomacy, but through the projection of military force outside our borders. In this telling, history has ended. We are the indispensable nation. We alone must balance the war-torn world on our khaki-clad shoulders.\nA “humanitarian war”\nPerhaps that’s why, as the Bosnian conflict escalated, the Clinton Administration and other world governments ignored the nonviolent independence movement taking place in nearby Kosovo. It was only after that conflict turned violent, with the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army, that the Administration responded.\nWhen Clinton addressed the nation on Kosovo, he didn’t rely on empathy for other people’s children. He called intervention the best course for American children and their future – saying it, not once, but three times.\nLiberals and leftists were divided on this intervention, as they had been with Bosnia and Herzegovina. But Susan Sontag made the case for military action in the New York Times Magazine. In the American Prospect, Paul Starr called the Kosovo intervention a “humanitarian war” and thought a land invasion would be more effective than airstrikes, but concluded:\n“Those of us who believe that the United States ought to use its power to prevent genocide and other high crimes against human decency are going to have to work a lot harder to convince our neighbors.”\nNotice the phrasing: “the United States ought to use its power …”\nWhat happens when the best way to prevent a genocide is by ending the use of American power? That seems to be a harder case to make in American political culture.\nThe forgotten catastrophe\nYemen, a nation long renowned for its beauty, has become a place of almost unimaginable horror. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently declared it ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis” and cited statistics that, once heard, should never be forgotten.\nHere’s one such statistic: Every ten minutes, a child under five dies of preventable causes. (Based on the average reading speed, it should take ten minutes to read these words. That means a child is statistically likely to die while it is being read.)\nHere are some more:\n18 million people are food insecure, and 8.4 million Yemenis don’t know how they will obtain their next meal.\n3 million acutely malnourished Yemenis are either children under 5, pregnant women, or nursing mothers.\nNearly half of all children aged between six months and 5 years old are chronically malnourished and stunted, conditions that will affect them for the rest of their lives.\nChildren are being forced to fight, or to work at very young ages. Many young girls are being forced into marriage before they are 18, or even 15, as a response to family debt and poverty.\nWomen and girls are at heightened risk of sexual and gender-based violence.\nMillions have no access to safe drinking water.\n1 million people suffered from watery diarrhea and cholera last year. There is a high risk of another cholera epidemic.\nMore than ten thousand civilians – perhaps many more – have been killed in the fighting.\nOur complicity\nThe problem isn’t that the U.S. is standing by and doing nothing while this horror unfolds. It’s much worse than that. The U.S. is actively working to cause these atrocities, by helping the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia in its relentless attack on Yemen.\nMarjorie Ransom, a former diplomat in Yemen, writes of “direct U.S. military complicity in this long and pointless campaign,” adding:\n“In addition to selling a vast arsenal of weapons to Saudi Arabia, our government’s military gave logistical guidance in the Saudi military headquarters in Riyadh and continues to provide intelligence to Saudi defense officials and aerial refueling during bombing runs.”\nShe concludes, “The Saudi-led coalition could not have conducted the two and a half years of bombing without the support of our military.”\nHow to use intelligence\nSen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont joined with one of the Senate’s most conservative members, Mike Lee of Utah, as well as Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut, to sponsor a resolution calling for an end to U.S. involvement in Yemen.\n44 senators voted for it, but 55 senators – including ten Democrats – voted against it. Some antiwar groups called it a step forward – but the war will not end.\nWhy haven’t progressives doing more to help the people of Yemen? Maybe it’s a problem of leadership. Nobody in a position of Democratic power is using their influence to end America’s involvement there. When the Clinton Administration was trying to build support for intervention in Yemen, it declassified intelligence photographs of the victims there and showed them to reluctant diplomats.\n“It was an amazing example of how you can use intelligence,” Albright later reflected.\nWhy America Slept\nWho in Washington’s national security establishment is handing out pictures of dying Yemenis? Nobody. It’s government policy under President Trump, just as it was under President Obama. In the last year of Obama’s presidency, in fact, the U.S. government dropped more than 20,000 bombs on seven countries. (There’s a map.)\nThere’s a lot of money to be made in arms sales. President Trump has approved massive U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia (Estimates of the deal’s value vary widely.) We’re told that there are no contracts in place, which places even more pressure on the American government to comply with the wishes of Mohammad bin Salman, or “MBS,” Saudi Arabia’s new dictator.\nNot that this government needs any convincing. Trump’s financial ties to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries deserve much deeper scrutiny. So do those of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.\nBut it is our country’s defense-industry ties have been driving that “special relationship” for decades, through Republican and Democratic governments alike. Those ties also serve to promote military policies that involve the use of expensive weaponry all around the world.\nAs the New Yorker’s Nicholas Niarchos reports, one such weapon – a U.S.-made bomb carrying 500 pounds of explosive – killed more than 140 mourners and injured 500 more during a Yemeni funeral in 2015. Among them was the mayor of Sana’a, who had been negotiating with several factions in an attempt to end the war\nThe bomb was manufactured by Raytheon.\nPrince not-so-charming\nBut defense contractors aren’t the only powerful interest keeping us in Yemen. American oil corporations have benefited from the U.S.-Saudi relationship for many decades.\nPoliticians have flattered and cajoled the country’s leadership all that time. So has the American media. With Mohammad bin Salman’s recent rise to power as “crown prince,” the self-interested servility of these elites is once again on display.\nThey call him “MBS,” as flattering pieces from the likes of Thomas Friedman affirm. Machiavelli wrote of princes like this a long time ago, saying “he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”\nMBS appears to be a nasty piece of work, even by Saudi standards, given his youthful threats – reportedly including, according to one story, a bullet in an envelope – toward anyone who stood in the way of his advancement. Then there’s the matter of his recent detention and torture of anyone who poses a political or financial threat to his power.\nTo cover up his brutality and flatter the thuggish potentate, the mainstream media dwells on MBS’ mild social liberalizations, like letting women drive and easing up on rules regarding live entertainment.\nWilkinson, who was chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, says MBS’ social liberalizations were “designed to shift attention from this disastrous war.”\nIf so, it’s going well. While his opponents were undergoing incarceration and torture without warrant last November, albeit in a luxury hotel, Friedman wrote gushingly: “Though I came here at the start of Saudi winter, I found the country going through its own Arab Spring, Saudi style.”\nMBS may be a dictator, but in some people’s hearts he’s Number One – with a bullet.\nResistance wanted\nAs MBS was dazzling Friedman, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna was working both sides of the aisle to end our involvement in Yemen. The Republican-led House “overwhelmingly” passed a resolution calling U.S. involvement in that country “unauthorized.”\nThis year, 44 senators voted against continued this country’s support for Saudi attacks on Yemen. Two antiwar groups, Win Without War and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, celebrated them who voted against it. Those groups are right: the tide is turning.\nBut in the meantime, the war goes on, ten minutes at a time.\nAnd as we listen to the debates in the U.N., while we wait for more information out of Douma, as the generals appear on television to discuss military options, these Yemeni children are deliberately being starved by the Saudi military – every day, all day long.\nLook at them. The morality of empathy demands that we care about these children as much as we care about children anywhere – including our own, here at home.\nWhere are the marchers, the silent vigils, the mass actions for them?\nSyria is a terrible tragedy, too – a tragedy caused by American intervention. Now we’re being told that more intervention is the cure.\nLiberal interventionism is seductive. It’s hard to resist the messianic voices that tell us we’re the indispensable heroes of our time, the saviors of the world and its children.\nBut it’s time to ask: In countries like Yemen, who will save the world from us?\nPrevious articleKoch vs. California: These groups are pushing Pruitt to undo the state’s right to regulate auto emissions\nNext articleBetsy DeVos needs an education on ethics\nRichard (RJ) Eskow is a writer, a former Wall Street executive and a radio journalist. He has experience in health insurance and economics, occupational health, risk management, finance, and IT.\nThe missing three-letter word in the Iran crisis\nI still can’t get no satisfaction\nThe riptide of American militarism\nAn hour with Noam Chomsky on fascism, nuclear weapons, climate change, Julian Assange & more\nIf war breaks out with Iran, it won’t be an accident\nVoices for Change\nWe’re not the good guys\n“What does war have to do with me?”\nOn Iran, It’s Trump vs. Trump\nWill the U.S. launch yet another unnecessary, unjustifiable war in the Middle East?\nUS military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must\nBernie warns the ‘drums of war are beating in Washington again’\nAs conflict with Iran escalates, path to peace can be found","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line387160"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5352725982666016,"wiki_prob":0.46472740173339844,"text":"ROLEPLAY by Alan Ayckbourn\nIn ROLEPLAY Justin Lazenby and his live-in girlfriend Julie-Ann Dobson are planning to announce their engagement at a dinner party for each other’s parents. Julie-Ann wants everything to be perfect for her conservative mother and father. When she discovers that a dessert fork is missing, she panics and leaves the flat, hoping she can buy a new one before her parents arrive. When a woman climbs on to their balcony, however, the couple have a lot more than cutlery to worry about. The woman, Paige Petite, is desperate to escape from her boyfriend, gangster boxing promoter Rudy Raven, who told one of his thugs, Micky Rale, to hold her captive in his penthouse. After searching frantically, Micky finds Paige hiding out in Justin’s apartment and the two uninvited guests impose themselves upon the hospitality of the young couple. In addition, Justin’s drunken mother, Arabella, arrives and provides a sharp contrast to Julie-Ann’s bigoted parents. As personalities clash it becomes clear that the two young people are bound together more by the idea of romance than true love. ROLEPLAY is the third and final play in a series called DAMSELS IN DISTRESS. The other two plays are GAMEPLAN and FLATSPIN. The comedies opened on 7 September, 2002 at the Duchess Theatre in London and ran until 11 January, 2003. They are entirely separate plays, but were written to be performed either individually or as a trilogy.\nFelicity Rhys and Adam Redmayne\nAlso in the cast: Andrew Haynes, Zoë Ann Bown, Katie Kensit, Lee Town and Susan Shrand","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1272258"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7482431530952454,"wiki_prob":0.25175684690475464,"text":"HomeReligionRev. Angela Palacious publishes new book: A Question A Day: Part One\nRev. Angela Palacious publishes new book: A Question A Day: Part One\nIt has been over 30 years since Anglican priest, Reverend Angela Palacious first began to write meditations for church bulletins and newspapers, and now she has published a new book “A Question A Day: Part One.” The book is 366 verses in the Old Testament that are highlighted for reading, prayer and study.\nIt’s a book that is for the reader who is curious about the Bible and needs an introduction. It can also be used as a tool to help read through the Bible in a year.\n“I have based my thoughts on actual questions from the Bible, hoping to evoke from each reader a prayerfully personal response to the Word of God. I encourage you to record your thoughts and feelings in a journal, and discuss with your spiritual guide, prayer partner, or small group,” said Palacious.\nThe guided devotional challenges and inspires the reader to continue the diligent search towards personal and communal growth through Godly principles.\nDaily, the reverent references a biblical verse, provides a comment, and then poses a personal question. In response, the reader is encouraged to explore some of life’s deepest queries, journaling their thoughts and feelings for future introspection and reflection.\nIt’s a devotional that she says also gives way for discussions with a spiritual guide, prayer partner or small group. If you mentor others, she said you will be able to guide them toward more intentional maturity and ministry.\nThe 366 biblical references and reflections are organized chronologically but with no specific date attached. Book One focuses on the entire Old Testament, and Book Two concentrates on the New Testament and Psalms.\nPalacious says there are many questions people wrestle with in the course of their lifetime – questions that God puts to them, that others put to them, and that they have to put to themselves.\n“The Bible has well over 1,000 questions in it, with over 50 questions in the book of Genesis alone – some are repetitious, some rhetorical and others speak to our hearts, minds and spirits about deep matters,” said Palacious. “I pray that you will find the passages and the challenges helpful on your spiritual journey, and as you mentor others.”\nPart One of the series takes you on a comprehensive personal adventure through the Old Testament, one day at a time. It is written in a clear and simple style, and features daily reading to edify a person, no matter where they may be on their spiritual journey.\nNorma A. Dean, retired educator said many of the verses in the book she has known from childhood.\n“The thought-provoking questions at the end of the verses selected in this book have made me look at them differently, and they have helped me to make adjustments to my life,” said Dean.\nDorothy Jones, a cousin of Palacious said the book was easy to read, but challenging and in some areas difficult.\n“It is thought provoking and the questions are appropriate for our day, age and indeed nations. It encourages us to journey through and explore this section of the Bible in a way we may not have done before, enhancing our knowledge of his Holy Word. It promotes self-examination, irrespective of being committed Christians or not. It has certainly highlighted my lack of knowledge in areas of the Holy Bible,” said Jones.\nRetired educator and banker Hilda Knowles said the work was an insightful, methodical and practical way to study much of the Old Testament in one year.\n“In addition to the questions posed by Rev. Angela being thought provoking, they show us that there is really nothing new under the sun. The situations, problems and conflicts encountered by people in Old Testament times are very similar to those we face today. Our answers to these questions will, hopefully, show us a better, more effective way to approach, handle and/or resolve many [if not all] of the ones presented here,” wrote Knowles.\nPalacious’ book is available on Amazon and Kindle as well as in the following stores: Anglican Diocesan Office bookstore; All Seasons All Occasions; The Bible, Book and Gift Centre; Buy The Book; Logos and from Palacious directly.\nMyles and Ruth Munro\nPastor Gibson: Love\nProclaiming the gosp\nContinuing to conque","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line846474"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6131753921508789,"wiki_prob":0.6131753921508789,"text":"Let’s Pretend It’s 1977 Again\nFebruary 28, 2014 at 4:01 pm\t(Uncategorized)\nI missed the initial blast of fresh air that was punk through accidents of age and geography.\nI was 12 years old in 1976 which meant I was starting to take music seriously, but was not quite aware: I hadn’t discovered John Peel and the New Musical Express were still two years away. I also lived in Grove, a town near Wantage, itself thirty minutes outside of Oxford. In any event, Oxford was not London or Manchester or any of the hubs of punk. The town I lived in much less so.\nSo, I read about punk before I heard it, and I heard it long before I saw it live. The first band I saw was the Stranglers in 1979 when the toured with the Raven (their fourth album!). I did see Stiff Little Fingers and Adam and the Ants the following, but it when they were already established. 1977 was something I experienced thought newspaper headlines, Top of the Pops and the occasional song on the radio. But I was almost there.\nBy the time I moved to Canada in 1981, I’d seen a few bands, but I was reading the music press and my singles collection was growing. (My dad helped me stencil the Crass logo onto my jacket – funnily enough, the only other band kids at my school had on their backs was Rush).\nThirty years on and though many of those punk bands imploded within a year or two or moved onto another form, others still play. Lee Brilleaux of Dr. Feelgood once asked his critics why don’t people get on at classical musicians, how come you’re still playing Beethoven? Why don’t you play some new stuff? Of course, Brilleaux was playing new stuff, just like the Strypes today (who are themselves heavily influenced by the Feelgoods)\nStill, that’s a little different to go and see people who are still performing their own songs, and particularly in a medium like punk. In general there are two reasons why people still go to see bands now into their third decade of performing, in most cases long past their prime.\n1. It’s the first time. I saw Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, the Avengers, Steve Ignorant, the Rezillos and probably a few others after they had broken up and reformed to tour the hits. I really wanted to hear those songs. They were great shows, but I also have nothing to compare them to.\n2. Nostalgia. My twenties were great. I was at university. The musci i listened to was fantastic etc. etc. But it’s an illusion. First of all , you can never go home. Those moments are products of specific time and selective memory (how many of us have dug out a movei or a record and realized, it wasn’t anywhere near as good as we remembered – you can’t stand in the same river twice). Chasing nostalgia is like the junkie seeking that proverbial first high. You’ll never find it.\nWhich, after a long preamble, brings me to the subject of this post: Last Friday, I went to see the Forgotten Rebels at Lee’s Palace.\nI must have first seen the Forgotten Rebels in late 1983 or early 1984. I saw them open for the Cramps at the Concert Hall in 1984, but I remember that wasn’t the first time to see them. Wow. That’s thirty years ago. After that, I must have seen them at least a dozen time,. but probably the last was at a New Year’s show at the El Mo circa 1990. (Johnny Thunders was playing upstairs, and he died in 1993 – I saw him a year of so before he died, and there was another legend whose past was dishonoured by his present). I’d seen the Dik van Dykes (another band from my youth) just before New Year’s, so I thought why not?\nMissed the Cola Heads and the Noble Savages were just finishing their set as I arrived. A band to check out further, although it struck me as strange as all four band members were shirtless (was that a theme?)\nThe Forgotten Rebels came on stage a little after midnight. The band have been for many years Mickey DeSadist, and whomever he has playing with him. And Mickey, no longer rail thin, but with as much personality as ever.\nYes, it was great to hear all the hits again, including my favourite Rebels song “I think of her.” The set list drew heavily from the early records, National Unity, In Love with the System and This Ain’t Hollywood, but so what, that’s what people want isn’t it? In the same way, and this is not a comparrison, when Mick Jagger announces, “This is our new single,” no one really gets too excited – they’re there to hear “Satisfaction.”\nBut I’ll confess to feeling a little hollow. Maybe it was me. Certainly the audience enjoyed the show. Although the demographic was odd – lots of old guys with beer guts and bald spots, along with kids who seemed barely old enough to get into the show, and who were born long after the Rebels formed.\nI suppose it might be the difficulty of reconciling the rebellion of punk, the smash-the-system, fuck-the-old ways with becoming established, but it seemed I had gone to the show with the wrong mindset. I left before what I’m sure was the last song, “Surfin on Heroin.”\nShould bands like the Rebels go gently into that good night like the Stones or the Who? It’s not a question I can answer. If people still get a kick out of it, if the band still like doing it, who am I to say no? But, it should be recognized for what it is. In “My Generation” Daltrey sang, “Hope I die before I get old.” The better formulation though is “Hope I live before I get old.”\nMusic Notes: February 2014\nFebruary 27, 2014 at 11:46 pm\t(Uncategorized)\nHere we go then…\n1. Big Star – Nothing Can Hurt Me\nI confess I haven’t seen the movie, but the soundtrack is a treasure trove for Big Star fans, er fanatics. 21 previously unreleased versions of classic songs like “In the Street,” “Thirteen” and “September Gurls.” Demos, alternative mixes and a few mixes from 2012. If you’re new to Big Star’s blend of American pop and Beatlesque sounds, maybe this isn’t the place to begin (pick up the first two records), but for those of us who are already admirers, this will do very nicely thank you.\n2. September Girls – “Heartbeat /Wasted”\nIrish garage shoegazers make beautiful noise – listen at their bandcamp page.\n3. Courtney Barnett – The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas\nTwo releases in one. You don’t want to use adjectives like quirky, but it does convey a certain sound in this Australian singer-songwriter’s work. Over to her site now Released in North America in April.\n4. Angel Olson – Burn Your Fire For No Witness\nMy favourite record this week. Folk, rock, Leonard Cohen. I really can’t describe this; just listen to it.\n5. Uncle Tupelo – Anodyne\nUncle Tupelo are in the news again because of the legacy edition of their first album No Depression, which contains among other treats the ND demos and the band’s early cassettes. Still, for my money, Anodyne is the band’s most realized vision; a perfect balance between country and rock, and between Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy’s songwriting talents. Alas, the delicate balance was unable to survive and Son Volt and Wilco were the result. This is simply beautiful work.\n6. Dean Wareham – Emancipated Hearts EP\nCame out last year, but if you didn’t get it, it serves as a nice reminder of his talent and a lead in to the new album coming in March. One whine about the album though. I his quite amazing book Black Postcards, Wareham complains about digital music. Fair enough, but the new album comes as an i-tunes release with an exclusive song. C’mon Dean. I love you, but are you trying to have your cake and eat it too.\n7. Dr. Feelgood – Oil City Confidential\nThe third of Julian Temple’s film about mb (the others being about the Sex Pistols and Joe Strummer). This time, the “best local band in the world,” Dr. Feelgood. A fantastic retelling of the Feelgood’s story up to the almost breakthrough and Wilco’s departure. Fascinating stuff. The DVD comes with extra Wilco stuff and the entire interview with Lee Brilleaux.\n8. Public Enemy – It’ll Take a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back\nHadn’t listened to this in ages, but was thumbing through stuff the other day and came across it. Bang! It’s one of those incendiary records like Bollocks or the first Velvets’ that time cannot dim the impact. Stunning.\n9. James Murphy – Subway Symphony\nThe former LCD Soundsystem leader has a plan to add music to New York’s subways. You can even sign a petitiotn\nNine because it’s February (Sorry – I thought this was funny last year, and I guess I still do)\nBeing a Dad (part 6): The Movies\nFebruary 24, 2014 at 1:58 am\t(Uncategorized)\nTook my son to see The Lego Movie this afternoon.\nInitially, the boy was too cool to see the movie, and I was puzzled. First, it’s a movie and the boy will see pretty much anything. Second, it’s Lego, and the boy loves Lego and has a couple of Lego video games.\nEventually, he changed his ind and I learned why. He thought it was a movie for younger kids, and thought maybe he was too old for it. But after a school friend told him it was a great film, he changed his mind.\nAnd yeah, I loved it too. I laughed all the way through (“Dad, I think you liked the movie more than I did”) . Why not, the portrayal of Batman as a narcissistic jerk is brilliant. Sure, sure, the movie is fairly traditional in its morality take about how every one is special, but the sheer energy and humour in the film… It’s wonderful.\nI remember the first time I went to the movies. It was around 1970. My dad took me to see Jungle Book with my cousin Richard and his dad. I was six. It’s a great moment, the first time. But the magic lingers.\nSo to the guy down the aisle from me who spent half the movie scrolling on his phone and even made a call while his little kids fussed around, “Buddy, it’s not about you and your important life. It’s about your kids. I can’t even really think you’re a jerk, because, ultimately, you’re missing out. ”\nTake your kids to a movie and enjoy the film with them. It’s worth it.\nAbout the Situation in Ukraine (Links)\nCouple of interesting pieces about situation in Ukraine.\nStatement about the Situation in Ukraine – Autonomous Workers Union (Feb 19, 2014)\nInterview with a Ukrainian Revolutionary Syndicalist (Feb 20, 2014 also on AWU site)\nFinally, a discussion on Lib com\nTwo Stories about Pete Seeger\nI’m not a regular reader of Rolling Stone, but the latest issue is worth looking at. For one thing it has a moving feature about the late Philip Seymour Hoffman – yes, it’s the issue with Hoffman on the cover which caused Drake to have a hissy fit about “his” cover being given to Hoffman.\nBut the more interesting piece is Mikal Gilmore’s article on Pete Seeger. Two stories in particular:\nIn September 1949, Seeger played a civil rights benefit with Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York. After the show, a mob attacked attendees and performers alike. Seeger drove away with his young children in the car as rocks smashed his windows. His friend Lee Hayes later asked, “What is it in the people’s songs of Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger…to inspire this savagery, this hatred.”\nTwo decades later, Seeger played a show in Beacon, New york. After the show, a young man came up to Seeger and extended his hand to Seeger. As he did so, he told Seeger, “I think I should tell you, I came here this afternoon to kill you.” Seeger was apparently so startled (who wouldn’t be?) all he could say initially was “thank you.” Apparently the man was a soldier who had lost friends in Vietnam, and believed Seeger was a traitor. But, as he watched the show, saw how the crowd reacted, he lost that anger. “I feel cleansed,” he told Seeger.\nThe full story is in the February 27 issue of Rolling Stone.\nThe Return of Super Mayor!\nOK, I live in Toronto. A city that used to imagine it was New York run by the Swiss – hardly true, but people can dream. Still, whenever I mentioned I was from Toronto, most people had a fairly positive image of the city. (“clean” and “safe”) These days, the question is “What’s with that Rob Ford?”\nYes, indeed. What IS with that Rob Ford. For those who don’t watch late night TV or read newspapers, Rob Ford is the former suburban councillor who ran for mayor on a cut-the-gravy-train /lower-taxes-for-the-little-guy platform (more of a mantra really). And despite his clownish past behaviour (drunkenly abusing patrons at the Air Canada Centre, denying he was there, then admitting it – actually, now that I think about it , that’s Ford’s MO), he was elected. Handily.\nSince then however, Ford’s personality and embarrassing list of colourful achievements have made him an international laughing-stock as Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor. There were allegations of drunken behaviour, groping female councilors and most infamously smoking crack with suspected drug dealers (who else would you smoke crack with?). Ford denied it all\nUntil…Police chief Bill Blair confirmed the existence of a video. At this point, Ford fessed up. Yes, he had smoked crack but he hadn’t lied about it because the media had actually asked him that (they had, but hey). And finally, in a completely out of the blue moment, Ford denied he had ever wanted to eat a co-worker’s “pussy” noting, in what he appeared to think was a moment of wit, “I have plenty to eat at home.”\nAnd then silence. A few interviews in which Ford adopted a semi-repentant tone. He was no longer drinking – that was over. He had apologized. What more could he do?\nYes, yes, there were suspicions Ford did not declare a state of emergency during the December ice storm because he would no longer be in charge, (Ford had lost that right earlier in the year – he could declare a SOE, but then power passes to his executive committee) but nothing really to speak of.\nAnd then it began again,. A video surfaced from an Etobicoke restaurant where Ford swayed drunkenly speaking in a slurred Jamaican patois cursing the police chief. Shortly after his brother Doug denied Ford was drinking again, Ford admitted he was, but suggested since it was on his own time, it was his business (so much for the suggestion he was done with drinking). Parenthetically, we should all have a brother as loyal as Doug Ford. Brother Rob could run down the street butt naked with a gun in one hand and a big bag of crack in the other, and Doug would blame the liberal media.\nLast week he admitted he had lied abut not lying because he was embarrassed about it. Also last week, Ford got a ticket for jay-walking in Vancouver and saw allegations surface he was served alcohol after hours in a bar there .\nNot to be outdone, this week Ford has called for a rainbow flag flying at city Hall in Toronto to be taken down and replaced by another Canadian flag. Ford also announced he would not be attending the World Pride events this summer because he ” couldn’t change who he is. Er…what?\nIt seems Ford is going after the homophobic vote, which might not be a good idea given the size of the city’s gay and lesbian community. And moreover, wasn’t that a fight that ended decades ago? Gays and lesbians are…well, just as boring as straight people.\nMy wife believes that these little pieces are actually Ford’s strategy of staying in the public eye – a sort of buffoonish version of Wilde’s notion that the only thing worse than being talking about.,\nI’m almost convinced that Ford’s antics are some sort of wacky performance art piece. Despite his self-made man persona, he was born into money so he doesn’t really need to work. Maybe he’s in a decade long version of an Office-type program.\nSo the great hope now is moderate conservative, failed Tory party leader and ex-Mayoralty candidate John Tory or possibly Olivia Chow. My only experience of Ms. Chow is at an anti-war rally a few years back. I was there with my four-year old and Chow and her husband, Jack Layton, came through the crowd. Olivia glanced at the boy and whispered, “so cute.” Good taste, but not yet a policy.\nOf course, Ford is an unpleasant bully with a substance abuse problem. And that’s what makes his backers nervous. They see the agenda which Ford stands for going down with him. Sure Chow or Tory would superficially be different to Ford (OK, in terms of public fuck-ups probably substantially different), but would the underlying agenda be fundamentally different? I’m going to say that under a Tory or Chow regime, or hell, under a Ford one, things would largely continue to go in the same way. Vanilla, Chocolate or Strawberry. It’s not much of a choice.\nNo More Mister Nice Girl: Maggie Estep\nHeard today about the loss of poet, author and musician Maggie Estep. Her sudden passing at the age of 50 following complications from a heart attack is pretty shocking.Too soon, too soon.\nI went to the collection and pulled out the only CD of hers I own, No More Mister Nice Girl. Overall the record has aged well. The stuff I didn’t like much, I still don’t like, but the inspired stuff, “Hey Baby”, “Car Guy”, “Fuck Me”, “Rip Trip Strip”, and “Bad Day at the Beauty Salon” still sound great. Oh and there’s a fantastic shot of Estep on the cover with a “Fuck with me, I dare you” expression on her face.\nHere’s the video for her most famous recording, “Hey Baby” which features John S. Hall from King Missile\nLiner Notes – (from No More Mister Nice Girl)\nI was having a foul day. Some geezer harrassed me on the street and I got completely bent out of shape, but the guy was huge so I just stuffed my retort. Went home to drink coffee. No milk. I ripped through the cupboards and found Non Dairy Creamer. It tasted like shit. I got into one of those senseless rages where you throw stuff. I hurled the Non Dairy Creamer and it fell into the tub where I was running some bath water. The creamer erupted and made this bathing gel of Non Dairy Creamer. I was ready to kill myself. Instead I wrote Hey Baby.\nSo I’m walking down the street\nminding my own business\nwhen this guy starts with me\nhe’s suckin’ his lips goin’\nYo Baby\nand I get a little tense and nervous\nbut I keep walking\nbut the guy, he’s dogging my every move\nhey Miss, he says,\nDon’t miss this!\nAnd he grabs his crotch and sneers ear to ear\nso finally, I turn around\nHey Buddy, I say\nI’m feelin’ kinda tense, Buddy\nI got a fuckin’ song in my heart\nso come on,\nI got a huge bucket of non-dairy creamer\nand some time to kill\nso let’s do it\nwe’ll make some foul-smelling artifical milk\nand drink gallons and gallons and gallons of it\nGet our bladders exceedingly full then\nsit on the toilet together and let\nthe water run in the shower\nand torture ourselves by not letting ourselves urinate\nas the water rushes loudly\ninto the bathrub, okay?\nWe’ll do it together\nwrithe in utter agony\nJust you and me\nand I’ll even spring for some of that blue shit\nfor the toilet bowl, all right?\nI mean, that’s my idea of a good time\nso how bout it, you wanna?\nThe guy backs up a bit\nWhatsa matter, Baby?\nYou got somethin’ against men?, he says\nNo, I say\nI don’t have anything against men\nJust STUPID men\nMaggie Estep\nMark Twain on Why We’re Here\nThis quotation from Mark Twain arrived in my inbox this morning courtesy of Skeptics magazine’s weekly newsletter in an article about intelligent design. Worth sharing. It reminded me of that graphic about the ascent of man from ape to upright human Richard Dawkins hates so much because it posits an intelligent path to where we are. (Which is not to suggest that’s Twain’s intent here) Evolution isn’t a design. It just is.\n“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world’s age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man’s share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.”\n—Mark Twain, “Was the World Made for Man?” 1903\nPlatypus Society Forum: The Politics of Work (Audio Link) on Work\nFebruary 6, 2014 at 12:45 am\t(Uncategorized) (Platypus Society)\nLast week on a bitterly cold night, I spoke at a Platypus Society forum on the Politics of Work representing Internationalist Perspective. Approximately 25 people came out to hear differing perspectives on work.\nMy c0-panelists were L Susan Brown author of the 1993 book The Politics of Individualism and the article “Does Work Really Work?” Dave Bush from the Rank and File project, and Sam Ginden, a former Canadian Autoworkers staffer.\nWhile my three co-panelists looked to what I consider to be solutions within capitalism, I tried to link the politics of work to a broader critique of the value-form.\nTo hear whether or not I was successful, you can listen to the audio here (but you can skip to the good part at the 33 minute mark!).\nFebruary 3, 2014 at 1:37 pm\t(Uncategorized)\nThe death yesterday, apparently from a heroin overdose, of Philip Seymour Hoffman is a deep loss.\nHoffman was an exceptionally talented individual. Unlike many “movie stars” who essentially play themselves or a variant of such in each of their films, Hoffman was a gifted actor capable of playing different characters convincingly. Seldom a leading man, he possessed no “movie star” good looks, Hoffman played supporting characters who often were as memorable than the leads.\nThat he was found sitting on a toilet in his underwear, a syringe in his arm only underscores the loss. An entirely preventable one. Hoffman’s friend, playwright David Bar Katz commented,\n“I saw him last week, and he was clean and sober, his old self. I really thought this chapter was over.”\nAnd sadly now it is.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line888409"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8002365827560425,"wiki_prob":0.8002365827560425,"text":"10 of Your Favorite 80s/90s Action Movie Stars Then and Now\nThe 1980-1999s were pretty crazy decades for Hollywood. Everyone wanted to out-do everyone else, be it in the fashion aspect, catchy one-liners, or the general machismo of the main protagonist. During these 20 years we’ve had so many iconic action movies, that they hold-up even by today’s standards where everything feels fake and CGI.\nThanks to that Big Boom of action flicks we got to witness the birth of such incredible actors as Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, Jackie Chan, and countless more. Today we’d like to revisit some of those old-school action stars and see what they’re up to these days.\n1. Harrison Ford\nAfter hitting it off as Han Solo, Ford blew up even more in the “Indiana Jones” films and “Blade Runner.” Today, funnily enough, he’s still playing in “Star Wars”, new “Blade Runner”, and the future “Indiana Jones” sequel. Nothing’s changed.\n2. Dolph Lundgren\nA big dude like Dolph was destined to make an impact on the movie scene. His Ivan Drago is to this day one of the best characters ever seen on the movie screen. And in case you forgot, he played He-man and Frank Castle (aka the Punisher). Today he’s still busy acting, with his latest appearance being in 2018’s “Aquaman”.\n3. Steven Seagal\nTo be frank, I’ve watched every single Seagal movie but can’t tell you a single title. They’re all the same! One thing is certain, his Aikido moves are legendary. Believe it or not, he’s now a reserve deputy chief in the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Sheriff’s office!\n4. Anne Parillaud\nMeet the only lady on this list! French actress Anne Parillaud became famous and internationally known for her role as Nikita in Luc Besson’s movie Nikita. This film made Anne an S-grade action star. But what about today? Well, she’s still acting but her great success has never returned to her again.\n5. Bruce Willis\n“Die Hard.” That’s it. Just “Die Hard” and nothing else. The bulk of his greatest movies were in the early 2000’s. What about today? There were the “Expendables” and Shyamalan’s still got Bruce for the Unbreakable trilogy.\n6. Arnold Schwarzenegger\nThe list for this titan goes on and on: he’s the Conan, the Terminator, the Commando, the commando hunting the Predator, and so on, and so forth, with a bunch of action comedies splattered in there. Now Schwarzenegger is the governor of California, but he still does cameos.\n7. Sylvester Stallone\nAfter his iconic role in “Rocky” and its sequels, Stallone played John Rambo, a crazy policeman in Cobra, and equally as crazy cop in “Demolition Man.” Now Stallone is doing his best to stay relevant and judging from Creed 1 and 2, he’s doing a fine job!\n8. Jean-Claude Van Damme\nDid you know he’s actually Belgian and not French? Either way after “Bloodsport”, and “Kickboxer” he’s joined the Hollywood’s S-class. Now he’s got a beautiful daughter and doesn’t seem to be super involved with the whole movie shindig.\n9. Chuck Norris\nIn short, Chuck Norris was, is, and will always be the meanest Texas ranger in the whole world. Sadly, Norris hasn’t been in anything too amazing since “Expendables 2”, but maybe one day…\n10. Jackie Chan\nSaved the best for last. It’s no secret that Jackie Chan is a certified badass. I mean, he does all his stunts and rarely uses any tethers or safety nets. He’s done well over 20 movies in 80-90’s and unlike Steven Seagal all of them were super fun. Today he’s still doing stunts, and fighting bad guys on the big screen, but he’s transitioned more into suspenseful action dramas rather than all-out Kung Fu goodness. God bless this man!\nJanuary 15, 2019\t (Updated: January 15, 2019\t )","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1210493"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6733600497245789,"wiki_prob":0.6733600497245789,"text":"August 28, 2018 6:00 am | FILED UNDER: europe\nBabis Calls For EU Ban On All Illegal Migrants\nWe have the people to help but in their country, Prime Minister Andrej Babis said in a speech before Czech ambassadors about migrants heading for Europe. “If I’m talking about not wanting to accept one migrant, it’s because it’s a symbol. We should negotiate with the states of North Africa and have the Marshall Plan for Africa,” Babis told the Foreign Ministry.\nHe wants to talk about it with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Contem, whom he meets on Tuesday. Italy is pushing for the other European countries to share the migrants heading for Europe.\nBabis also said he does not agree with the planned increase in funds for the European agency Frontex to EUR 10.3 billion. “I am not convinced that we should increase the Frontex budget,” Babis said.\nThe money should be made directly by the Mediterranean countries of Italy, Spain, Greece or Malta, which, according to the Czech Prime Minister, could be more concerned with protecting the European maritime border than with Frontex. Meanwhile, according to him, Europe is rather acting by telling those heading for Europe to try to get to the European continent and then have the chance to get asylum.\n“We are a solid part of the West, no one can question it. The question is how we perform. I’m trying to be active. When I say that I want to promote our national interests, it is nothing anti-European, “the prime minister said. Europe, according to him, must save his identity and civilization.\n“If anyone talks about Czexit, it threatens our future,” said Babis. Speaking in front of Czech ambassadors, he also talked about the need for a European Union reform. The EU, according to him, has to return to its essence, a safe continent based on a prosperous market, free movement of people, goods, services and capital. He said that if the eurozone does not reform, the Czech Republic’s accession to it is not a topic for it.\nUncontrolled migration is a fundamental risk, said Minister Hamacek\nAccording to Jan Hamacek, the Minister of the Interior, who is also in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the problem of illegal migration is also crucial. “Uncontrolled migration is a fundamental security risk for Europe,” Hamacek said.\n“The world around us has changed and not for the better,” said the CSSD chief. Climate change can drive millions of Africans out of Africa and become a detonator of war conflicts. Therefore, it is in the interest of Europe to create a belt of prosperity and security around us. But if we are to provide assistance to African states, we must also ask them to genuinely engage in the fight against illegal migration.\nWe will not impose who will work or live with us, said Babis.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line783573"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5830538272857666,"wiki_prob":0.4169461727142334,"text":"Your search found 23 Results\nProjected Uptake of New Antiretroviral (ARV) Medicines in Adults in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Forecast Analysis 2015-2025.\nGupta A; Juneja S; Vitoria M; Habiyambere V; Nguimfack BD; Doherty M; Low-Beer D\nPloS One. 2016; 11(10):e0164619.\nWith anti-retroviral treatment (ART) scale-up set to continue over the next few years it is of key importance that manufacturers and planners in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic are able to anticipate and respond to future changes to treatment regimens, generics pipeline and demand, in order to secure continued access to all ARV medicines required. We did a forecast analysis, using secondary WHO and UNAIDS data sources, to estimate the number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and the market share and demand for a range of new and existing ARV drugs in LMICs up to 2025. UNAIDS estimates 24.7 million person-years of ART in 2020 and 28.5 million person-years of ART in 2025 (24.3 million on first-line treatment, 3.5 million on second-line treatment, and 0.6 million on third-line treatment). Our analysis showed that TAF and DTG will be major players in the ART regimen by 2025, with 8 million and 15 million patients using these ARVs respectively. However, as safety and efficacy of dolutegravir (DTG) and tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) during pregnancy and among TB/HIV co-infected patients using rifampicin is still under debate, and ART scale-up is predicted to increase considerably, there also remains a clear need for continuous supplies of existing ARVs including TDF and EFV, which 16 million and 10 million patients-respectively-are predicted to be using in 2025. It will be important to ensure that the existing capacities of generics manufacturers, which are geared towards ARVs of higher doses (such as TDF 300mg and EFV 600mg), will not be adversely impacted due to the introduction of lower dose ARVs such as TAF 25mg and DTG 50mg. With increased access to viral load testing, more patients would be using protease inhibitors containing regimens in second-line, with 1 million patients on LPV/r and 2.3 million on ATV/r by 2025. However, it will remain important to continue monitoring the evolution of ARV market in LMICs to guarantee the availability of these medicines.\nUse of network meta-analysis in clinical guidelines.\nKanters S; Ford N; Druyts E; Thorlund K; Mills EJ; Bansback N\nBulletin of the World Health Organization. 2016; 94:782-784.\nIn conclusion, WHO clinical guidelines have become increasingly evidence-based through the use of rigorous methods of synthesizing the evidence. Over the past decade, high-quality, pairwise meta-analyses have been widely used in this context, but network meta-analysis methods are increasingly important for the optimal evaluation of competing interventions. We expect that network meta-analysis will increasingly be used and adapted for developing other guidelines. (Excerpt)\nProgress Toward Strengthening National Blood Transfusion Services - 14 Countries, 2011-2014.\nChevalier MS; Kuehnert M; Basavaraju SV; Bjork A; Pitman JP\nMMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2016 Feb 12; 65(5):115-9.\nBlood transfusion is a life-saving medical intervention; however, challenges to the recruitment of voluntary, unpaid or otherwise nonremunerated whole blood donors and insufficient funding of national blood services and programs have created obstacles to collecting adequate supplies of safe blood in developing countries (1). Since 2004, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has provided approximately $437 million in bilateral financial support to strengthen national blood transfusion services in 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean* that have high prevalence rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections. CDC analyzed routinely collected surveillance data on annual blood collections and HIV prevalence among donated blood units for 2011-2014. This report updates previous CDC reports (2,3) on progress made by these 14 PEPFAR-supported countries in blood safety, summarizes challenges facing countries as they strive to meet World Health Organization (WHO) targets, and documents progress toward achieving the WHO target of 100% voluntary, nonremunerated blood donors by 2020 (4). During 2011-2014, overall blood collections among the 14 countries increased by 19%; countries with 100% voluntary, nonremunerated blood donations remained stable at eight, and, despite high national HIV prevalence rates, 12 of 14 countries reported an overall decrease in donated blood units that tested positive for HIV. Achieving safe and adequate national blood supplies remains a public health priority for WHO and countries worldwide. Continued success in improving blood safety and achieving WHO targets for blood quality and adequacy will depend on national government commitments to national blood transfusion services or blood programs through increased public financing and diversified funding mechanisms for transfusion-related activities.\nAdoption of national recommendations related to use of antiretroviral therapy before and shortly following the launch of the 2013 WHO consolidated guidelines.\nNelson LJ; Beusenberg M; Habiyambere V; Shaffer N; Vitoria MA; Montero RG; Easterbrook PJ; Doherty MC\nAIDS. 2014 Mar; 28 Suppl 2:S217-24.\nOBJECTIVE: To determine the status of key national policies on the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the time of the launch of the 2013 WHO consolidated guidelines as well as to track early progress towards adoption of these recommendations following dissemination. DESIGN: Descriptive analysis of global data on baseline ART policies as of June 2013 and early intentions to adopt the 2013 WHO for use of antiretroviral drugs guidelines as of November 2013. METHODS: Compilation of existing global reports on key HIV policies, review of national guidelines, data collection through annual drug procurement surveys and through guidelines dissemination meetings in each of the six WHO regions. RESULTS: Data were available from 124 low- and middle-income countries, including 97% of the 57 high-priority countries that have been identified by WHO and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). At baseline, only one country reported recommending antiretroviral therapy (ART) at a CD4 T-cell count 250 cells/mul or less for adults and adolescents in 2013, whereas nine countries already recommended using CD4 T-cell count 500 cells/mul or less. Recommendations for ART initiation regardless of CD4 T-cell count for HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis (86%), hepatitis B (75%), all HIV-infected women who were pregnant or breastfeeding (option B+: 40%) or HIV-infected persons in a serodiscordant relationship (26%) had been nationally adopted as of June 2013. Eight of 67 countries (12%) already recommended treating all children less than 5 years of age. The triple antiretroviral combination of tenofovir + lamivudine (or emtricitabine) + efavirenz was recommended as the preferred first-line option for adults and adolescents more frequently (51%) than for pregnant women (38%), or for both adults/adolescents and pregnant women (28%; P < 0.05). Fewer than half (37%) of all countries reported recommending lopinavir/ritonavir for all HIV-infected children less than 3 years of age; 54% of countries reported recommending routine viral load monitoring, whereas only 41% recommended nurse-initiated ART. CONCLUSIONS: A number of key WHO policy recommendations on antiretroviral drug use were adopted rapidly by countries in advance of or shortly following the launch of the 2013 guidelines. Efforts are needed to support and track ongoing policy adoption and ensure that it is accompanied by the scale-up of evidence-based interventions.\nContraception for women with medical disorders.\nNg CH; Fraser IS; Berbic M\nBest Practice and Research. Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2014 Aug; 28(6):917-30.\nMany women in the reproductive years have chronic medical conditions that are affected by pregnancy or in which the fetus is placed at increased risk. In most of these women, ongoing medical management of their conditions is greatly improved, even compared with a decade or two ago. However, their condition may still be seriously exacerbated by the physiological changes of pregnancy, and close monitoring of a carefully planned pregnancy is optimal. This requires effective and safe contraceptive use until pregnancy is desired and the medical condition is stabilised. Many contraceptives will also have adverse effects on some medical conditions, and there is now a considerable awareness of the complexities of some of these interactions. For this reason the World Health Organization has developed an excellent, simple and pragmatic programme of guidelines on a four point scale (the WHO \"Medical Eligibility Criteria\": WHO-MEC), summarising risk of specific contraceptive methods in women with specified chronic medical conditions. The general approach to contraceptive management of many of these conditions is addressed in this article. Copyright (c) 2014. Published by Elsevier Ltd.\nUNAIDS terminology guidelines. Revised version.\nJoint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]\nGeneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, 2011 Oct. [40] p.\nThese guidelines to UNAIDS’ preferred terminology have been developed for use by staff members, colleagues in the Programme’s 10 Cosponsoring organisations, and other partners working in the global response to HIV. Language shapes beliefs and may influence behaviours. Considered use of appropriate language has the power to strengthen the global response to the epidemic. UNAIDS is pleased to make these guidelines to preferred terminology freely available. It is a living, evolving document that is reviewed on a regular basis. Comments and suggestions for additions, deletions, or modifications should be sent to terminology@unaids.org.\nPrevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: antiretroviral strategies.\nRead JS\nClinics In Perinatology. 2010 Dec; 37(4):765-76, viii.\nThe World Health Organization's Strategic Approaches to the Prevention of HIV Infection in Infants includes 4 components: primary prevention of HIV-1 infection; prevention of unintended pregnancies among HIV-1-infected women; prevention of transmission of HIV-1 infection from mothers to children; and provision of ongoing support, care, and treatment to HIV-1-infected women and their families. This review focuses on antiretrovirals for secondary prevention of HIV-1 infection-prevention of HIV-1 transmission from an HIV-1-infected woman to her child. Antiretroviral strategies to prevent the mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in nonbreastfeeding populations comprise antiretroviral treatment of HIV-1-infected pregnant women needing antiretrovirals for their own health, antiretroviral prophylaxis for HIV-1-infected pregnant women not yet meeting criteria for treatment, and antiretroviral prophylaxis for infants of HIV-1-infected mothers. The review primarily addresses antiretroviral strategies for nonbreastfeeding, HIV-1-infected women and their infants in resource-rich settings, such as the United States. Antiretroviral strategies to prevent antepartum, intrapartum, and early postnatal transmission in resource-poor settings are also addressed, albeit more briefly. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\nHIV: the fight is far from over.\nLancet. 2010 Dec 4; 376(9756):1874.\nThis editorial argues that despite the report by UNAIDS that the trajectory of the HIV epidemic has been broken, a US Institute of Medicine (IOM) report paints a bleaker picture for the immediate future of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The IOM report states that sub-Saharan Africa bears 68% of the worldwide burden of HIV infection and the gap is growing between the number of people needing treatment and the availability of resources.\nThe Millennium Development Goals report 2007.\nNew York, New York, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2007 Jun. 36 p.\nSince their adoption by all United Nations Member States in 2000, the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals have become a universal framework for development and a means for developing countries and their development partners to work together in pursuit of a shared future for all. The Millennium Declaration set 2015 as the target date for achieving most of the Goals. As we approach the midway point of this 15-year period, data are now becoming available that provide an indication of progress during the first third of this 15-year period. This report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on a set of data prepared by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system. The results are, predictably, uneven. The years since 2000, when world leaders endorsed the Millennium Declaration, have seen some visible and widespread gains. Encouragingly, the report suggests that some progress is being made even inthose regions where the challenges are greatest. These accomplishments testify to the unprecedented degree of commitment by developing countries and their development partners to the Millennium Declaration and to some success in building the global partnership embodied in the Declaration. The results achieved in the more successful cases demonstrate that success is possible in most countries, but that the MDGs will be attained only if concerted additional action is taken immediately and sustained until 2015. All stakeholders need to fulfil, in their entirety, the commitments they made in the Millennium Declaration and subsequent pronouncements. (excerpt)\nPopulation and HIV / AIDS 2007. [Wallchart].\nUnited Nations. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Population Division\nNew York, New York, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2008 Mar. [2] p. (ST/ESA/SER.A/270)\nThe AIDS epidemic remains one of the greatest challenges confronting the international community. In countries with a large number of people living with HIV, all population and development indicators are affected by the epidemic. Governments often cite HIV/AIDS as their most significant demographic concern. For more than two decades, the rapidly expanding HIV/AIDS epidemic has triggered a wide array of responses at the national, regional and global levels. The goals established by the United Nations General Assembly in the 2000 Millennium Declaration and through the adoption of the 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS reflect widely-held concerns about the impact of the epidemic on development and human well-being. More recently, at the 2006 High Level Meeting on AIDS, Member States adopted a Political Declaration focusing on how to attain universal access to comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention programs, treatment, care and support by 2010. (excerpt)\nChildren and AIDS: Second stocktaking report. Actions and progress.\nUNICEF; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]; World Health Organization [WHO]\nNew York, New York, UNICEF, 2008 Apr. 48 p.\nThis report will focus on three major themes. First, strengthening communities and families is crucial to every aspect of a child-centred approach to AIDS. Support by governments, NGOs and other actors should therefore be complementary to and supportive of these family and community efforts, through, for example, ensuring access to basic services. Second, interventions to support children affected by HIV and AIDS are most effective when they form part of strong health, education and social welfare systems. Unfortunately, because maternal and child health programmes are weak in many countries, millions of children, HIV-positive and -negative alike, go without immunization, mosquito nets and other interventions that contribute to the overall goal of HIV-free child survival. A final theme of this report is the challenge of measurement. Documenting advances and shortfalls strengthens commitment and guides progress. A number of countries have data available on the 'Four Ps', and targeted studies are being developed to assess the situation of the marginalized young people who are most at risk but often missed in routine surveys. (excerpt)\nInternational guidelines on HIV / AIDS and human rights. 2006 consolidated version. Second International Consultation on HIV / AIDS and Human Rights, Geneva, 23-25 September 1996. Third International Consultation on HIV / AIDS and Human Rights, Geneva, 25-26 July 2002. Organized jointly by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS.\nOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]\nGeneva, Switzerland, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2006. 115 p. (HR/PUB/06/9)\nThe International Guidelines on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights arose because of various calls for their development in light of the need for guidance for Governments and others on how to best promote, protect and fulfill human rights in the context of the HIV epidemic. During the first International Consultation on AIDS and Human Rights, organized by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, in Geneva, from 26 to 28 July 1989, participants discussed the possible elaboration of guidelines to assist policymakers and others in complying with international human rights standards regarding law, administrative practice and policy. Several years later, in his report to the Commission at its fifty-first session (E/CN.4/1995/45, para.135), the United Nations Secretary-General stated that \"the development of such guidelines or principles could provide an international framework for discussion of human rights considerations at the national, regional and international levels in order to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of the complex relationship between the public health rationale and the human rights rationale of HIV/AIDS. In particular, Governments could benefit from guidelines that outline clearly how human rights standards apply in the area of HIV/AIDS and indicate concrete and specific measures, both in terms of legislation and practice, that should be undertaken\". (excerpt)\nAIDS epidemic update, December 2007.\nJoint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]; World Health Organization [WHO]\nGeneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, 2007 Dec. 50 p. (UNAIDS/07.27E; JC1322E)\nEvery day, over 6800 persons become infected with HIV and over 5700 persons die from AIDS, mostly because of inadequate access to HIV prevention and treatment services. The HIV pandemic remains the most serious of infectious disease challenges to public health. Nonetheless, the current epidemiologic assessment has encouraging elements since it suggests: the global prevalence of HIV infection (percentage of persons infected with HIV) is remaining at the same level, although the global number of persons living with HIV is increasing because of ongoing accumulation of new infections with longer survival times, measured over a continuously growing general population; there are localized reductions in prevalence in specific countries; a reduction in HIV-associated deaths, partly attributable to the recent scaling up of treatment access; and a reduction in the number of annual new HIV infections globally. Examination of global and regional trends suggests the pandemic has formed two broad patterns: generalized epidemics sustained in the general populations of many sub-Saharan African countries, especially in the southern part of the continent; and epidemics in the rest of the world that are primarily concentrated among populations most at risk, such as men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, sex workers and their sexual partners. (excerpt)\nGlobal progress in PMTCT and paediatric HIV care and treatment in low- and middle-income countries in 2004 -- 2005.\nLuo C; Akwara P; Ngongo N; Doughty P; Gass R\nReproductive Health Matters. 2007 Sep; 15(30):179-189.\nA growing number of countries are moving to scale up interventions for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in maternal and child health services. Similarly, many are working to improve access to paediatric HIV treatment. This paper reviews national programme data for 2004-2005 from low- and middle-income countries to track progress in these programmes. The attainment of the UNGASS target of reducing HIV infections by 50% by 2010 necessitates that 80% of all pregnant women accessing antenatal care receive PMTCT services. In 2005, only seven of the 71 countries were on track to meet this target. However PMTCT coverage increased from 7% in 2004 (58 countries) to 11% in 2005 (71 countries). In 2005, 8% of all infants born to HIV positive mothers received antiretroviral prophylaxis for PMTCT, up from 5% in 2004, though only 4% received cotrimoxazole. 11% of HIV positive children in need received antiretroviral treatment in 2005. In 31 countries that had data, 28% of women who received an antiretroviral for PMTCT also reported receiving antiretroviral treatment for their own health. Achieving the UNGASS target is possible but will require substantial investments and commitment to strengthen maternal and child health services, the health workforce and health systems to move from pilot projects to a decentralised, integrated approach. (author's)\n[Molecular epidemiology of HIV infection]\nYin TM\nZhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi / Chinese Journal of Epidemiology. 1997 Oct; 18(5):309-311.\nGlobal HIV infection and AIDS: according to WHO estimates, by mid 1996 there were 7 million cumulative AIDS cases. Today the number of people infected with HIV is even more alarming: roughly 21.8 million, of those 42% are women. By the year 2000 there will be between 40 and 50 million cases. Each day about 8,500 additional people are infected with AIDS; one can say the situation is grim. Currently, the AIDS and HIV epidemic regions are shifting, they have gradually moved from the original sites of North America and West Europe toward the mass populations of developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In the Asian region which contains about 60% of the world's population, beginning in 1988, with Thailand and India at the center, an exploding epidemic has taken shape. Recent materials indicate, those infected with HIV in Thailand exceed 700,000, over 2 million in India, and the HIV epidemic has already spread to the near neighbors Burma, southern China, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam. With the accumulation of molecular epidemiology research materials, the complete picture of the causes and characteristics of this massive epidemic happening in the Asian region is gradually becoming clear. (excerpt)\nWanted: a just, humane world.\nBekele F\nAfrica Recovery. 1999 Dec; 13(4):[3] p..\nWithin a generation, the world could -- and should -- become a place where every infant is properly nurtured and cared for, where every child receives a quality basic education, and where every adolescent is given the support and guidance he or she needs in the difficult transition to adulthood, says the State of the World's Children 2000, published in December by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF). Acknowledging the progress made in protecting children over the course of this century and in the decade since the 1989 adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF says much more remains to be done. It draws particular attention to three tragedies of which children and women are currently the main victims, largely in the developing world: armed conflict, HIV/AIDS and poverty. And the report adds that women are victims of these ills in disproportionate numbers due to gender discrimination. (excerpt)\nStrategic guidance on HIV prevention.\nNew York, New York, UNFPA, 2001. 32 p. (Preventing HIV / Promoting Reproductive Health)\nUNFPA has worked in the field of population and development for more than three decades and has addressed the issue of HIV/AIDS for the last decade. However, no organization by itself has the capacity or the resources needed to address and halt the pandemic. An effective response requires careful collaboration and coordination among organizations, with each bringing to the partnership a distinct set of capabilities, strengths and comparative advantages. As one of the eight cosponsors of UNAIDS (the other cosponsors being UNICEF, UNDP, UNDCP, UNESCO, ILO, WHO and World Bank), UNFPA chairs Theme Groups in many countries and supports HIV-prevention interventions in almost all of its country programmes. To maximize its response and to strengthen coordinated activities with other partners, it is critical for staff at every level to have a common understanding of the Fund’s policies and strategic priorities. The aim of this document is to provide such guidance to staff, delineating the niche in which UNFPA as an organization has a definite comparative advantage in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially at the country level. (excerpt)\nAntiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants: guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV / AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings.\nWorld Health Organization [WHO]\nGeneva, Switzerland, WHO, 2004. v, 49 p.\nMother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the most important source of HIV infection in children. In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS committed countries to reduce the proportion of infants infected with HIV by 20% by 2005 and by 50% by 2010. Achieving this urgently requires an increase in access to integrated and comprehensive programmes to prevent HIV infection in infants and young children. Such programmes consist of interventions focusing on primary prevention of HIV infection among women and their partners; prevention of unintended pregnancies among HIV-infected women; prevention of HIV transmission from HIV-infected women to their children; and the provision of treatment, care and support for women living with HIV/AIDS, their children and families. WHO convened a Technical Consultation on Antiretroviral Drugs and the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV Infection in Resource-limited Settings in Geneva, Switzerland on 5–6 February 2004. Scientists, policymakers, programme managers and community representatives reviewed the most recent experience with programmes and evidence on the safety and efficacy of various antiretroviral (ARV) regimens for preventing HIV infection in infants. This information was reviewed in the context of the rapid expansion of ARV treatment in resource-constrained settings using standardized and simplified drug regimens. Prior to the Technical Consultation, a draft set of recommendations had been issued for public comment. (excerpt)\nAt the crossroads: accelerating youth access to HIV / AIDS interventions.\nJoint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]. Inter-Agency Task Team on Young People\nNew York, New York, United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA], HIV / AIDS Branch, UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Young People, 2004. 8 p.\nYoung people remain at the centre of the epidemic in terms of transmission, vulnerability, impact, and potential for change. Today’s young generation, the largest in history, has not known a world without AIDS. Of the over 1 billion young people worldwide, 10 million are currently living with HIV. If we are to reach the global targets set forth in international agreements, urgent action and increased investment must be made in HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes specifically for young people. (excerpt)\nSport for development and peace: towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Report from the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace.\nUnited Nations. Inter-Agency Task Force on Sport for Development and Peace\nNew York, New York, United Nations, 2003. vi, 36 p.\nThis report analyses in detail the potential contribution that sport can make towards achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It provides an overview of the growing role that sports activities are playing in many United Nations programmes and crystallizes the lessons learned. It also includes recommendations aimed at maximizing and mainstreaming the use of sport. (excerpt)\nTechnical advisory meeting on implications of the newly identified HIV-1 subtype O viruses for HIV diagnosis. Press release.\nWorld Health Organization [WHO]. Office of Information\nGeneva, Switzerland, WHO, 1994 Jun 24. 2 p. (Press Release WHO/50)\nHIV is characterized by an high level of genetic diversity. HIV types HIV-1 and HIV-2 have been identified, and HIV-1 variants have been grouped by their gag and env sequences into at least eight subtypes, subtypes A-H. Divergent HIV-1 subtypes also have recently been identified which cannot be classified in any of the existing HIV-1 subtypes and are thus designated as subtype O for \"genetic outliers\". Limited available sequence data from HIV-1 subtype O viruses suggest that diversity within the subtype O group may be as great as that which exists between HIV-1 subtypes A-H. The majority of virus strains classified as HIV-1 subtype O have been isolated from patients of Cameroonian origin or their sexual contacts although recent preliminary studies in Cameroon suggest that less than 10% of HIV-1 infections there are caused by subtype O strains. A few subtype O infections have also been reported in Gabon and France, but limited studies have found no evidence of the presence of HIV-1 subtype O in Belgium, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Togo, and Zaire. The ability of currently available anti-HIV assays to identify individuals infected with subtype O has not been extensively studied. An informal consultation of 22 international experts on the implications of this newly identified subtype for HIV diagnosis took place June 9-10, 1994, at World Health Organization headquarters. In general, one is more likely to fail in detecting HIV infection because of the absence of antibody in the seroconversion window phase than from infection with an highly divergent HIV subtype. The existence of these subtype O viruses is therefore likely to have little, if any, impact upon HIV diagnosis and blood safety outside of the area where they are prevalent. The expert group recommended that diagnostic tests and strategies for HIV antibody testing be urgently reevaluated in the region where subtype O virus has been found, a panel of sera be collected from asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals to use in assessing the sensitivity of available HIV antibody assays for antibodies against HIV-1 subtype O, envelope genes of subtype O isolates be sequenced to provide information useful in the production of HIV antibody assays and the determination of the relatedness of HIV strains, expanding the global surveillance of newly recognized HIV subtypes, and developing and evaluating algorithms for the detection and further characterization of variant HIV strains.\nEstimated global distribution and regional spread of HIV-1 genetic subtypes in the year 2000.\nOsmanov S; Pattou C; Walker N; Schwardlander B; Esparza J\nJournal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2002 Feb 1; 29(2):184-90.\nThe objective of this study was to estimate the global distribution and regional spread of different HIV-1 genetic subtypes and circulating recombinant forms (CRFs) in the year 2000. These estimates were made based on data derived from global HIV/AIDS surveillance and molecular virology studies. HIV-1 incidence during the year 2000 was estimated in defined geographic regions, using a country-specific model developed by WHO-Joint UN Programmes on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The proportion of new infections caused by different HIV-1 subtypes in the same geographic regions was estimated by experts from the WHO-UNAIDS Network for HIV Isolation and Characterization, based on results generated by HIV molecular epidemiology studies in 1998-2000. The absolute numbers and relative proportions of new infections due to different genetic subtypes of HIV- 1 by different geographic regions were calculated using these two sets of estimated data. The results of the study demonstrated that the epidemiology of HIV-1 subtypes and CRFs is characterized by their differential distribution and varying significance as a driving cause of the pandemic on regional and global basis. The largest proportion of HIV-1 infections in the year 2000 was due to subtype C strains (47.2%). Subtype A/+CRF02_AG was estimated to be the second leading cause of the pandemic (27%), followed by subtype B strains (12.3%). The same analysis confirmed an increasing role of HIV-1 CRFs in the pandemic. The authors conclude that combined analysis of data based on the global HIV/AIDS surveillance and molecular virology studies provides for a useful model to monitor the dynamics of the global spread of HIV-1 subtypes and CRFs on regional and country levels--the information of potential importance for diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS, as well as for the development globally effective HIV vaccines. (author's)\nNetworking of laboratories for isolation and characterization of HIV-1 in different countries.\nOsmanov S\nIn: International Symposium on Biomedical Research Issues of HIV Infection in Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand, January 31 - February 2, 1994. Sponsors: Thailand Health Research Institute, Harvard AIDS Institute, Ministry of Public Health of Thailand, Center for Vaccine Development, Mahidol University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard AIDS Institute, 1994. 4-6.\nHIV-1 is a complex retrovirus characterized by extensive genetic variation due to numerous errors in reverse transcription and involving different geneses of the mutations. At least six nearly equidistant genetic clades, or subtypes, can be identified based upon the phylogenetic analysis of the env coding sequences. HIV-1 variability may make it difficult to develop vaccines which are effective against the various HIV-1 strains prevalent in different geographic locations. With the goal of establishing a mechanism for monitoring HIV-1 variability on a global basis, the Global Program on AIDS of the World Health Organization (WHO) established the WHO Network for HIV-1 Isolation and Characterization. The network constitutes an integral part of the WHO Strategy for HIV-1 Vaccine Development. It is formed by primary laboratories in Brazil, Rwanda, Thailand, and Uganda, the WHO-sponsored sites for the development and field evaluation of HIV-1 vaccines; 15 secondary/expert laboratories in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US which conduct detailed characterization of HIV-1 strains; centralized facilities in Germany and the UK for the isolation of HIV-1 strains following standard procedures; repositories for the storage and distribution of viral isolates and other reagents in the UK and the US; and data management facilities in collaboration with the Los Alamos HIV-1 Database in the US. Five of the six known HIV-1 genetic subtypes were found through genetic screening of HIV-1 strains collected from the four sites. In most cases, more than one subtype was present in the same country. Biologic characterization of the HIV-1 isolates determined that most of the viral strains collected in Brazil, Rwanda, and Thailand can be defined as slow/low phenotypes and were non-syncytia inducing. The Ugandan isolates belonging to subtype D, but not to subtype A, were characterized by the highest replicative capacities and were syncytia-inducing viruses. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5601085424423218,"wiki_prob":0.4398914575576782,"text":"400 Communications Ltd\n57 Hatton Garden, London\nEC1N 8HP (Map)\ndesign@400.co.uk\njobs@400.co.uk\nCase Studies About Archive Journal Contact\nMuseum of Brands\nThe Museum of Brands hosts exhibitions that explore the social impact of good design, and is a great addition to your list of places to visit in 2019.\nLast year Time Out magazine celebrated their 50th birthday with a series of events across London. One of the things that caught our eye was their ‘50 Years, 50 Covers’ exhibition at the Museum of Brands. Not only did this explore the way in which Time Out has grown as a brand since its birth, but it made for a stunning visual representation of the changing face of London: a timeline of how the city, the consumer and our society has developed over the past 50 years.\nWith contributions from a huge number of designers, the exhibition offered a diverse exploration of aspects of design including typography, photography, illustration and collages. It exposed how each contributor has been influenced by the decade, year, month, even week in which they were working. These designs act as a social narrative, telling us something of the time in which they were created.\nExhibition: Time Out: 50 years, 50 covers\nThe museum is a great place to go to discover how society informs the way we think about design. The current exhibition, ‘Can Marketing Save Lives?’ looks at how advertising has been used over the past century to influence the British public in terms of motivating and educating them on issues of public health. It highlights how visual cues have been used in the media to influence behaviour over the years, and asks how advertising can be used going forward to engage the public and act as a support tool for the prevention and handling of public health concerns.\nExhibition: Can Marketing Save Lives?\nWith exhibitions running alongside each other that address such varied subjects, the museum explores how good design connects politics, modern culture, social issues and technology. Taking this on board, and working with clients such as UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, we are keen to further explore the social impact of design.\nLooking towards the year ahead we will be considering human-led design in more detail and looking to translate our ideas and briefs into visually effective work that both illustrates and informs. Watch this space!\nMuseum of Brands has one permanent exhibition, ‘Time Tunnel’, which showcases the history of advertising over the last 150 years, as well as a rolling series of different exhibitions, talks and events throughout the year.\n‘Can Marketing Save Lives?’ is on until 26 May.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line703215"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8854368925094604,"wiki_prob":0.8854368925094604,"text":"Arthur Meredith Walters\nArthur Meredith Walters (1918 - 2010) was a social services administrator who is most recognized for his role as the Louisville Urban League executive director from 1970 to 1987. Known as a “bridgebuilder” and one of Louisville, Kentucky’s most effective leaders for justice and opportunity, he was among the inaugural inductees of the Kentucky Human Rights Commission Hall of Fame in 2000. Walters was born Nov. 6, 1918, in Magnolia, Ky. He graduated as valedictorian of his class from Bond-Washington High School. He was attending Kentucky State College when he entered the U.S. Army in 1945. A veteran of World War II and the Korean War, he was one of the first African American officers to lead integrated troops. Walters earned the U.S. Army Bronze Star for valor and the Soldier’s Medal. He retired as a lieutenant colonel after serving 20 years. He later earned his Master’s of Education degree from the University of Louisville. He joined the Louisville Urban League, an affiliate of the National Urban League, in 1963, as its industrial relations secretary, and from 1963 to 1987, he worked tirelessly in creating employment, housing, and educational opportunities previously denied minorities. He wrote the nationally recognized on-the-job training program for the League to assist the under-skilled in finding employment and to help persuade Kentucky and area companies to hire, train, and recruit black workers. In 1969, for example, he led efforts to place 345 workers in jobs, which paid them a combined paycheck of more than $2 million, according to Urban League statistics. He told The Louisville Times in 1970, “We have convinced the ‘doubting Thomases’ that disadvantaged people can be good employees, and the only way to determine if they can perform is to put them on jobs.” Arthur Walters’ hard work gained him the respect of many, statewide and nationally. His achievements earned him an impressive list of honors, including Adult Black Achiever of the Year, Freedom Award, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Bellarmine University, where there is a scholarship named for him. The annual Louisville Urban League Arthur M. Walters Champion of Diversity Award is also named in his honor. He died Oct. 16, 2010, at the age of 91.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1025787"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.662065327167511,"wiki_prob":0.337934672832489,"text":"Hot Topic #10\nHere is our list of examples dealing with asbestos:\nPlease note that this is only a random selection of examples of good practice and this list is not supposed to and cannot be complete.\nTo learn more, you can go to our TOOLBOX and search for the title of the example (please note that the database search takes some time), go to the GOOD PRACTICE area (if the example is presented there) or follow the link to the project or partner web site.\nAsbestos in schools (UK)\nThis website by HSE offers a variety of information and material related to abestos – guidelines, regulations, information on inspection initiatives and a checklist.\nAsbestos was extensively used as a building material in the UK from the 1950s through to the mid-1980s. It was used for a variety of purposes, typically fireproofing and insulation. Any building built before 2000 (houses, factories, offices, schools, hospitals etc) can contain asbestos.\nSystem buildings (for example CLASP, SCOLA, SEAC, MACE, ONWARD) constructed during the period 1945 -1980 were widely used for the construction of school premises. These buildings can have structural columns fire proofed with asbestos containing materials (ACMs).\nThe Impact of Asbestos (Canada)\nThis video describes the history of asbestos, from its origins as a \"miracle\" material to its threat to worker health and safety. It includes personal stories from those who've been directly affected and urges those at risk of exposure to test for the presence of asbestos and only remove it if trained and qualified.\nVideo (on YouTube)\nInformation modules for the safer handling of asbestos (Europe)\nNine information modules have been produced by the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), each dealing with a specific family of products. The nine modules are presented in a folder which gives basic information on asbestos and on how to work with it. Additionally, it covers some details on the project partners. Additionally a leporello/leaflet has been produced, also giving some basic information on asbestos and showing parts of the nine information modules. This leaflet is directed to workers especially. All products are available in the following languages. English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish and Spanish. They are available as a printed version and on the project partners webpages as electronic versions.\nHåndbogen (Denmark)\nThis manual is a work of reference for the working environment in the building and construction industry. The manual provides guidelines on good working environment practice and on how the rules of the Working Environment Act can be followed within enterprises and on building sites.\nThe manual has been published by Branchearbejdsmiljørådet for Bygge & Anlæg, with specialist assistance from Working Environment Authority experts in the field of building and construction.\nABClean Project (Europe)\nIn many Member States, asbestos related training requirements are often limited to workers in companies specialized in asbestos removal. This leaves out many workers who are at risk of exposure to asbestos, who receive no training on asbestos awareness at all.\nFor this reason, ABClean distinguishes between two types of workers when it comes to asbestos. The first group consists of workers in companies that are specialized in asbestos removal, who receive the appropriate training to perform this task and the second group consists of workers in other professions who are not specialized in asbestos removal, but who may encounter asbestos containing products in the course of e.g. maintenance, demolition or renovation. While some Member States have legislation in place to train this second group of workers on asbestos awareness, other Member States do not. In order to help address this discrepancy, the e-learning course is being offered together with training providers and institutes for occupational medicine.\nIntroduction to asbestos learning package (UK)\nThis 45 minute interactive lesson with supporting activities and materials is aimed primarily at trades apprentices in the 16 - 19 age group, for delivery by college lecturers and other vocational education providers. It is also relevant to, and capable of being delivered by, industry professionals, eg as part of workplace training.\nResearch shows that although tradespeople know that asbestos is harmful to health, they believe that it is a historical problem, and so do not take action to protect themselves. This package is designed to raise awareness of apprentices about the risks they face when working with asbestos, providing them with basic guidance about what they need to do.\nThe package is free to download and consists of: Introduction and Lesson Plan for lecturers, 'Asbestos The Hidden Killer' power point presentation (Including notes for lecturers), Task sheets „The hunt for asbestos“, Pocket card
, Film poster, Comic poster, Asbestos building poster\nAsbestos – the hidden killer (UK)\nSpecial website run by HSE providing information on asbestos and asbestos- related risks and dangers. The website contains information, brochures, videos and more.\nWhats is asbestos? Where can it be found? What is the danger? How should I handle it? What are the facts? These are the questions asked and answered on the website.\nAsbestos guidelines (Austria)\nThese guidelines offers hands-on information about asbestos, risks and dangers related to asbestos and methods for minimizing and avoiding dangers and risks at work related to asbestos.\nAsbestos in Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan)\nAsbestos and asbestos waste are hazardous to human health and the environment. Kyrgyzstan is one of world's biggest consumers of asbestos. Currently asbestos containing materials are used without restriction in public buildings like hospitals, schools and kindergartens, and in many other consumer products such as brakes and building materials. To raise awareness, provide information, build networks, strengthen citizen's capacities and develop solution strategies to present to state authorities, this project will help to reduce the use of asbestos and clean up contaminated waste sites. People now and future generations will highly benefit from these activities.\nWECF in cooperation with BIOM, Kyrgyzstan, will convene a High-Level Conference on Asbestos in Bishkek and conduct trainings in several cities of Kyrgyzstan with different multpliers, including NGOs.\nasbestos.com\nThis website by The Mesothelioma Center, USA, provides various information and help on Asbestos-related health problems. Information on Mesothelioma and its causes, resources to find help, legal options and lots of other resources are available.\nVideos of people with asbestos-related health problems, the „Mesothelioma Packet“, an informational packet with detailed and comprehensive resources about this disease and the information on the website about possible Asbestos exposure at work can be used for prevention and educational purposes to raise awareness for the risks and dangers of Asbestos.\nwww.asbestos.com\nOSH Reps\nThis website from Australia offers information on many different hazards at work, training courses on various topics, frequently asked questions and the possibility to ask questions.\nwww.ohsrep.org.au\nMesothelioma + Asbestos Awareness Center\nThe Mesothelioma + Asbestos Awareness Center brings attention to the dangers of asbestos and the deadly form of cancer it causes: mesothelioma. MAA center is an independent group working to help mesothelioma patients, caregivers, \u0003advocates and others looking to learn more about the disease.\nThe website offers information about mesothelioma diagnosis, treatment, and other aspects of the disease, as well as the \u0003substance that causes it (asbestos), a regularly updated blog that provides the latest news about mesothelioma treatment research, advocacy efforts, and legal issues, a comprehensive directory of doctors and cancer centers that treat mesothelioma, complete with contact information, a well as access to free case reviews for mesothelioma patients and family members who want to learn more about legal compensation.\nMAA Center\nMesothelioma Justice Network at asbestos.net\nThe Mesothelioma Justice Network was established to be the leading online resource for victims of asbestos exposure. The network tries to help people suffering from Mesothelioma by learning exactly how asbestos has affected them, understand and cope with the disease and take legal action against those responsible for the diagnosis.\nIt’s been well-established that mesothelioma patients and those with asbestos-related diseases are legally entitled to compensation for their diagnosis. The complicated part is proving the exposure and linking it directly to one or more negligent companies.\nThe Mesothelioma Justice Network longs to help prove the case. Comprehensive informational, legal and supportive resources have been established to help patients navigate the intricacies of this situation. The Mesothelioma Justice Network is the resource that not only helps to understand the legal rights, but actually fights for the victims on their behalf.\nwww.asbestos.net\nMesothelioma Guide\nMesothelioma is a rare but serious cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. It takes 20-50 years to develop and occurs in the lining of the lungs, chest, abdomen and heart. Mesothelioma Guide is a website providing lots of resources for people suffering with this asbestos-related type of cancer. The website helps to learn about the disease, find doctors, treatment, financial help and advice. It offers an interactive live chat and maps to find a doctor in your region, a link to a community of patients, as well as reports of patients who survived mesothelioma.\nThe Free Mesothelioma Guide can be ordered on the website.\nwww.mesotheliomaguide.com\nMesothelioma Group\nMesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects the mesothelium, a thin membrane protecting the lungs, abdomen and heart. Where the cancer originated in the mesothelium determines the mesothelioma type. There are three types of Mesothelioma: Pleural Mesothelioma, Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Pericardial Mesothelioma.\nThe Mesothelioma Group is a small team of healthcare professionals, patient advocates, and communication specialists who have one goal: to lead the way in supporting and encouraging mesothelioma patients and their families. The group provides step-by-step guidance, caregiving support, and invaluable resources and information.\nwww.mesotheliomagroup.com\nMesothelioma Help\nThe mission of Mesothelioma Help is to spread awareness and provide information to individuals who might have experienced Asbestos exposure, which leads to the deadly cancer of Mesothelioma.\nThe primary victims of Asbestos exposure and Mesothelioma include veterans, emergency personnel, firemen, mechanics, and even homeowners. By providing a live chat option (the only mesothelioma/asbestos website that offers a live chat 24/7), Q & A sessions, survivor blog posts, and an annual $10,000 scholarship, the website strives to have an impact on the community. Mesothelioma Help has fostered relationships with organizations all across the globe.\nwww.mesotheliomahelp.org\nMesothelioma HelpNow\nMesothelioma HelpNow wants to educate and support mesothelioma patients and their families. Research has shown the more they know about a disease, the better prepared they'll be to cope with everything that comes their way.\nThe website offers a wide range of information material for patients and friend or family members, a blog and lots of resources to find information and help.\nwww.mesotheliomahelpnow.com\nmesothelioma.net\nAnother resource for help in case of Mesothelioma is mesothelioma.net. This website offers lots of information, contact details for doctors, trusts, veterans, a live chat and facts on Mesothelioma, treatments, benefits and free resources.\nMesothelioma Fund\nMesotheliomafund.com provides support and assistance for mesothelioma victims. Th mission is to help patients and their families get compensation through asbestos and mesothelioma trust funds. Trust funds were formed in the 1970's as irresponsible companies were forced to reveal the true dangers of the mineral. Since then, hundreds of thousands of victims have filed claims against companies that were responsible for asbestos exposure.\nwww.mesotheliomafund.com\ntreatmesothelioma.org\ntreatmesothelioma.org is a website containing information on Asbestos, Mesothelioma, treatments, medical help and further information on the topic. The site offers videos, a handbook, a community, and more.\nwww.treatmesothelioma.org\nBYGGESIKKERHED (Construction Safety) (Denmark)\nBYGGESIKKERHED.DK is a multimedia website dealing with construction safety. The website is available in four languages: Danish, English, Polish and German. It contains 15 different areas, each of them covering one profession at the construction site: bricklayer, scaffold builder, glazier, floor fitter, construction builder, mason paviour, building builder, electrician, painter, demolition worker, roofer, carpenter, plumber, asphalt worker and safety representative.\nFor every profession, a humorous video clip starring \"Bent E\" puts a focus on the special safety requirements. In addition, a collection of facts is available, as well as \"Tasks\", a kind of quiz to show what the user has learned so far.\nThis example can be found in detail in our GOOD PRACTICE area\nDealing safely with asbestos (Greece)\nGreek Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs\nMaterials containing asbestos are a risk factor for those who come into contact with them, especially employees carrying out dismantling and demolition work. The hazards attached to asbestos will have not disappeared with the adoption of the proposed Community directive (amending Directive No 83/477/EEC) prohibiting the production and use of asbestos.\nProtocol for a safe building renovation (Italy)\nRenovation of a historic 14th century country house and its buildings in its grounds (lemon-house, cellar, storerooms) in order to create a large, luxury hotel complex and the creation of a business centre for the farm’s production activities. There is generally a high accident rate in building work. This particular project was difficult because of the need to preserve the historic features of the building and renovate to modern standards. The age of the buildings meant that there could be additional and unknown safety and health risks to the building workers present, for example due to weaknesses in the building structure.\nDatabase (Tool Box)\nEducation Online","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1181964"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6267469525337219,"wiki_prob":0.6267469525337219,"text":"Fifth Quarter\nSports related news stories\nKentucky AD to succeed Duke AD as next to lead NCAA D1 men’s hoops...\nAssociated Press - July 12, 2019 3:16 PM\nKentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart has been selected to lead the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee.\nWWAY News - July 10, 2019 5:50 PM\nN.C. State fans are one step closer to drinking alcohol at Carter-Finley Stadium this fall after the Board of Trustees updated the school’s alcohol policy on Wednesday.\nTanner Barth - July 10, 2019 3:32 PM\nCori \"Coco\" Gauff took the tennis world by storm at Wimbledon and it began by beating her idol Venus Williams. There's a similar story right here in our own backyard.\nWILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — This weeks episode of Tanner’ Tee-Off Tuesday sent us to the Beau Rivage Golf and Resort in Wilmington.\nThe Burgaw Dixie Youth Sweetees are pint-sized sluggers who have something big to celebrate.\nFans cheer World Cup champs as leaders on and off the field\nAssociated Press - July 10, 2019 11:28 AM\nThe U.S. women's national soccer team will reign supreme once again Wednesday in New York City's Canyon of Heroes.\nTanner Barth - July 9, 2019 11:42 PM\nThe Los Angeles Lakers announced on Tuesday night that they have signed former UNCW men's basketball standout Devontae Cacok to deal.\nThe All-Star baseball season will continue for the Supper Optimist 10 & Under team out of Wilmington. They won the 10 & Under State Championship over the weekend in Ayden, NC.\nCoco Gauff ends run at Wimbledon after loss in 4th round\nCoco Gauff’s unexpected but remarkable run at Wimbledon is over. The 15-year-old American, who became the youngest player to qualify for Wimbledon’s main draw in the professional era, lost to former No. 1 Simona Halep 6-3, 6-3 in the fourth round on Monday.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line526007"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9132460355758667,"wiki_prob":0.9132460355758667,"text":"20 Secrets Behind Yukon Men\nby Doug Wintemute\nSince it premiered on August 24th, 2012, Discovery Channel's Yukon Men has gained a large following of fans, who enjoy the show for its unscripted feel and its look at the lives of hunters and trappers in the wild north. Set in and around the Alaskan town of Tanana, a small village with about 300 residents, the name Yukon Men might seem misplaced. That being said, Tanana's location on the Yukon River might give you some insight into the choice.\nThe show follows a few specific hunters, trappers, and their families as they try to survive among the difficult conditions of the middle of nowhere. With few resources readily available, the men on the show must hunt and fish to survive and thrive. Each episode provides viewers with an closer look at the personal lives of these men -- we hear stories and watch as they try to overcome Mother Nature.\nFans aren't told everything. By scouring behind-the-scenes, we've found information that even the most voracious of fans might have missed. We'll reveal the information that is missing from many episodes and the secrets that the producers may not want viewers to know.\nFrom untold dangers to the hidden and harsh realities of the show, here are 20 Secrets Behind Yukon Men.\n20 Stan Zuray Fights\nOne of the stars of Yukon Men, Stan Zuray, has been living in the wilderness for more than 40 years. In that time, he's experienced many close calls -- times when he's almost been bested by nature. He's discussed some of this on the show and has even encountered a few close calls on air, but when he visited Reddit to hold an AMA, he delved into his most dangerous moments in more detail.\nWhen a fan asked Zuray to talk about his scariest moment, the survivalist had two that came to mind.\nHe detailed an episode of Yukon Men, in which he nearly drowned in freezing water because his arms and legs were so cold he could barely move.\nLuckily, the current had enough mojo to help him to shore.\nThe other, according to Zuray, was what he called, \"the scariest short moment.\" He described how \"A bear came up a tree to grab ahold of my leg and rip me out of the tree. I had gotten too close to a mother with two cubs. I could tell from their agitation that that was the case. I casually climbed up a tree, not expecting the bear to come after me. The momma decided differently. I got about 10 feet up and the bear charged at the tree and ripped me out of the tree.\"\n19 The Real Yukon Men Challenge Discovery's Yukon Men\nPicking the name Yukon Men for a show that takes place in Alaska is a bit confusing. As mentioned above, however, the men in the show hunt and fish along the Yukon River, which is where they stake a claim to the name. That didn't stop some members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from issuing complaints to the network for the name. Some, like MLA Darius Elias, say the show's hunting and trapping methods are vastly different from Yukoners. In fact, many of the activities in the show are illegal in Canada.\n\"Yukon hunters and trappers consider this program's name as an outright case of identity theft,\" claimed Elias. \"Yukoners have worked so hard to ensure our territory is recognized around the world as a beautiful land filled with wonderful people.\" Currie Dixon, Yukon's Environment Minister, agreed with Elias. \"I have to say that I do agree with him that some of the portrayals of trapping in the television show in question and the presentation of that as being in the Yukon is unfortunate.”\nDiscovery Channel's president and general manager, Paul Lewis, acknowledged the differences, but insisted that the setting is made quite clear. \"With regard to the hunting and trapping activities featured in the series,\" he said. \"We understand and recognize that there are important legal and cultural differences on this issue between Canada and many other countries around the world… As a channel that brings international stories to Canadians, diverse perspectives are an important feature of our programming.”\n18 Questionable Hunting Methods\nOne of the huge controversies surrounding Yukon Men is the type of hunting methods used on the show. An article on the topic from The Guardian called the show \"bloodthirsty\" because of their tactics. According to the piece, many of the weapons used on the show seem excessive, overly violent, and brutish.\nOne of the most common guns seen, for instance, is an AR-15, a semi-automatic assault rifle, in other cases, one of the hunters uses a small tree to \"stun\" a trapped animal, and then there's the particularly troubling scene in which a man uses a wire noose for hunting. From the outside looking in, the hunters methods seem inhumane.\nIt is these methods on Yukon Men that has given rise to most of the criticism of the show.\nViewer discretion disclaimers and numerous warnings aside, there is an argument to be made that some of these hunting tactics are more for shock value than practicality.\nAccording to the Yukon MLAs, the extreme hunting methods are a big reason why they want the show to change its name. Darius Elias suggests that the barbarity of the hunters on Yukon Men is alien to true Yukon hunters. \"The few citizens who still maintain traplines take pride in their responsible approach to harvesting their fur,\" he said.\n17 Dramatic Renactments\nWhile it's expected from almost every reality show nowadays, fans still get a little disappointed to hear that their favorite \"real\" show involves a some falsehoods. For Yukon Men, the fakery might not be as extreme as most shows, but not everything shown on screen is happening exactly as viewers see it.\nOn Stan Zuray's Reddit AMA, he said that most of the film work simply made disjointed lifestyles seem coherent and story-based. \"All reality shows have to produce an understandable story for its audience,\" he said. \"But all the animals are real, all the hunting is real, all the fishing is real. Everything you've seen has been done. Sometimes it just gets edited to make it understandable.\"\nNow the key here is the phrase \"has been done.\" This is because Yukon Men, like many reality shows, use dramatic reenactments. In an interview with the Anchorage Daily News, Zuray admitted to this small manipulation. \"The shows are like ours. They dramatize them, but it's also reenactments of what they really do. The drama is absolutely needed to hold the audience who has a remote ready to click at the slightest lack of excitement but you can get a good idea of the day-to-day life of these people on these shows -- it's hard work and can be dangerous.\"\n16 Being Judged In Tanana\nOne of the most common questions that fans ask the cast of Yukon Men is about how the townsfolk of Tanana view them. Knowing that some of the scenes add in more drama than necessary and how much attention the show brings to the trapping and hunting methods, do people in Tanana like the show?\nAccording to Stan Zuray, most of the reception is quite good. \"By far, most of the people love the show and support it,\" he said on his Reddit AMA.\n\"It brings in a little bit of an economy to the village so it helps everyone out too. Kids absolutely love the show too - they run around the town sometimes trying to act like they're Courtney [Agnes], or Charlie [Wright], or me. We're always getting ribbed about being movie stars, but it's always in good fun.\"\nNot everyone in the town is exactly thrilled with the show and the representation of Tanana's hunters and trappers. In an interview with the Anchorage Daily News, Zuray explained that \"There are a few who do not like the show, did not like it when it was an idea and do not like it now.\" While he doesn't get into the reasons for the divide, it's possible that, in trying to \"let people not from Alaska see it for what it is and not all the misconceptions of us as poachers and cruel trappers,\" Zuray and the rest of the cast actually worsened those accusations.\n15 Are These Really Subsistence Lifestyles?\nThe stars of Yukon Men all live what they call a \"subsistence lifestyle.\" They work for enough food and money to keep them alive and well, but they also live without many of the comforts that most people enjoy. It seems very dramatic, but is it manufactured drama?\nWhen Charlie Wright, one of the stars, is asked if he could live without a gun, he says, \" No, not for very long; something would eat you. You could live in the middle of the town with no gun, but if you want to live a subsistence life, there’s no way you could survive.”\nAccording to some viewers who live in the area, however, this claim is mostly fiction. \"I live in Alaska 125 miles from Tanana on the Tanana river,\" one viewer wrote. \"[I] know the store owner in Tanana so, when they are saying they only have a few days of food left, all they would have to do is walk down the street to get a cheese burger at the cafe store. There is an airport in town that has flights every day in and out with mail, food, cargo, fuel, and people. The town has cell service, internet service, satellite TV, electricity, and all the other things the rest of the world has.\"\n14 In Memory Of Seth Fairbanks\nDuring the season finale of season four, \"Breaking Point\", viewers met Seth Fairbanks, a pilot from the area. Sadly, at the end of the episode, a note popped up: \"In Memory Of Seth Fairbanks, 1985-2015\". When the episode avoided any details about Fairbanks' passing, fans were sent scrambling for information.\nStan Zuray then posted a statement:\n“People have been asking about Seth the pilot in the last episode of the Yukon Men season last Tuesday. He was a good friend of Charlie and became a good friend of the cast and crew of the show and many in Tanana. The plan was for him to continue being in the show and we were all looking forward to it as he was such a great guy and very capable young man. This fall, 500 miles to the south near the city of Anchorage, he and another person passed away in a plane crash (they survived the crash, but rescuers were unable to reach them before the tide came in). May he rest in peace and his family take some comfort in knowing what a nice person he was to us here.”\nReports came out about his passing, stating that Fairbanks called 9-1-1 after his plane crashed.\nHe and his passenger were forced to stand on the plane's wing, as the tide quickly came in, and awaited rescuers. Tragically, the rescue efforts were too late.\n13 Close Encounters Of The Cold Kind\nIn a setting like Tanana, Alaska, we expect there to be dangerous situations, but just how dangerous is it to film a show like Yukon Men? According to the cast and crew, there have been a number of close calls when making the show.\nIn a behind-the-scenes special on the Discovery Channel website, Stan Zuray relates an occasion when his sled flipped over and he got stuck upside-down in a dangerous spot on a frozen channel. Thinking he needed help, a cameraman bravely ran over to his aid, but he then fell through the ice. Zuray said, \"He was in a heck of lot more danger of falling into that channel and getting swept away than I did.\"\nIn another interview on the Russell Scott Show, Zuray spoke about the dangers of extreme weather in Tanana. He discussed how even taking off protective clothing in deep freeze temperatures can be dangerous. He also noted that in Tanana, the coldest temperature he ever experienced was -76 degrees.\nIncredibly, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Alaska is -80. That came from Prospect Creek, which is about 150 miles north of Tanana. While that recording is from 1971, temperatures in Alaska lately are alarming.\n12 Camera Crew and Cast Are Great Friends\nWhen Yukon Men first started filming, before it became a hit show, the many of the townsfolk in Tanana were unsure about how it would all work out. After all, this is a town with around 300 people living in it. Everyone knows each other and outsiders might find that intimidating.\nOver the years, the crew that work on the show have been welcomed into Tanana with open arms.\nWhen speaking about how easily the camera crew integrated with the Tanana people, Stan Zuray said, \"That is hard to do in this place or any place, actually. The camera crew actually lives with us in the village and are real friends with many of the people.\" The other cast members feel the same way. Pat Moore said, \"The guys have been able to adapt into the community.\" Wright said that \"they kind of feel like part of the family now, even the dogs are used to them now.\"\nJames Roberts takes it a step further. \"I started naming my dogs after cameramen,\" he laughed. \"I got a Reno, a Scotty, a Yoshi. I had two Tims, and I think that's it. Oh! Mitch. Because he was the meanest dog I had, and I named him after the nicest camera crewmember ever.\"\n11 Camera Crew's Cabin Catching Fire\nSeveral of the camera crew on the set of Yukon Men have done other shows on the network, but few experienced dangers like the ones they encountered on the set of the Alaskan show. One cameraman, who participated in a Reddit AMA, was asked about his scariest moment on the set.\nHis answer? \"Coming very, very close to burning... while asleep,\" he said. \"Another cameraman and myself were staying at Stan's [Zuray] fish camp in one of his cabins. It was the summer so the mosquitos were terrible...like carry you away terrible. We didn't end up putting the mosquito pick completely out before bed -- like we thought we did. It smoldered under the cabin for a few hours and we awoke to the crackle of fire and a 5-foot flame in the doorway of the cabin. Our cabin was on fire!! The only way out was to jump into/over the flame. It was scary.\"\nNow, if jumping through flames doesn't light your, uh, fire, this cameraman and another crewmember were chastised by Stan when one of them fell off a fishway into the river. He scolded the crewmember, \"When you walk on a fishway, you walk like an old man.\"\n10 Stan Zuray In The Iditarod\nOne of Stan Zuray's most incredible stories tells of a day in 1982. Like every other day, Zuray worked his traplines in the woods, but opportunity was about to pounce on him.\n“In those years I was just a trapper with a very limited amount of worn-out dogs out on the trapline, barely keeping them alive and feeding them,\" he said. \"I was out on the trapline when a plane landed close to me and it was a friend of mine. He lived about 40 miles away and his wife had landed and said, \"Get into town sometime and talk to my husband. He wants to sponsor you in the Iditarod race,\"\"\nThat's how it began, but though Zuray's dogs weren't trained to race, they were trained to work. Those working dogs ended up bringing Zuray all the way to the front of the pack at one point. \"The dogs that I had were so tough,\" he said. \"And I guess it was the bush skills that I had were so hardened that I was able to get in the race and figure it out.\"\nBy the end of the 16-day grueling race, Zuray finished 9th and won Rookie of the Year.\nIn fact, Zuray's top-ten finish is a record that stood for a decade until another Rookie tied his ninth-place finish. \"It was a humble and meager start,\" Zuray recalled. \"But we ended up doing really fantastic and was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my life.\"\n9 Big Crime In A Small Town\nThough an episode of Yukon Men touched on the tragedy, the details of the incident of two state troopers in the small town of Tanana, Alaska were largely avoided. The story, however, is interesting.\nAccording to reports, it started when a public safety officer questioned Arvin Kangas for driving without a license. Kangas allegedly pointed a gun at the man. The following day, two state troopers, Sergeant Scott Johnson and Trooper Gabe Rich, two stars of Discovery's Alaska State Troopers, flew into Tanana. When the reached Kangas' home to arrest Kangas, a struggle broke out. During the scuffle, Kangas' son, Nathanial \"Satch\" Kangas, shot and ended both troopers' lives.\nNow, while both Kangas men were sentenced to prison time through the legal system, the village of Tanana ensured that Arvin Kangas would not return. Equipped with local law enforcement since the event, some villages in the Alaska area resort to tribal court to dole out punishment.\nFor his actions and for manipulating his son, Satch, the village elders banished Arvin from Tanana for life. \"Tribal councils always have attempted to protect the peace,\" said Heather Kendall-Miller, an attorney for the Native American Rights Fund in Anchorage. \"It seems to me like a reasonable approach to avoid violent situations, especially when you have no law enforcement providers within a community. Try to pre-empt a bad situation before it happens.\"\n8 Stan Zuray's Old Dogs\nNow, Stan Zuray understands well that his way of life is not always understood or even agreed with by the average person. It's an alien lifestyle to many people.\nPerhaps more than any other aspect of Zuray's lifestyle, his relationship with his dogs is one of the most jarring. In his Reddit AMA, Zuray spoke of his dogs as workers and not pets. \"They're all for running,\" he said. \"I realize that I don't have the emotional attachment to the individual dogs that somebody has with a single pet. But in some ways, as far as knowing my dogs and being in tune with them, I bet I have a closer relationship with them than most people would have with a pet.\"\nIn his interview on The Russell Scott Show, Zuray got into some of the more challenging details of his dogs' lives, such as when it's time for them to move on.\nZuray described using old dog fur to make mittens and clothes, or even dog food for his living dogs -- a difficult concept for people to grasp.\n\"With me it's a matter of respect,\" Zuray said. \"I would go out of my way, even I didn't need the fur that moment, if I had a dog that had given me its life, pulling hard for me and being loyal all its life, that dog would be specially used. I would try to use that dog for something special, make sure its life went back into the team.\"\n7 The Great Wildfires\nIn the wilderness of Alaska, there's more than the cold, the water, and the animals to be wary of. Wildfires are a major danger. Large burns devastate the food chain for trappers and hunters. In 2017, the entire town of Tanana was nearly destroyed as wildfires burned through Alaska. According to Discovery Channel reports, \"Half a million acres of prized hunting and trapping land were incinerated.\"\nWildfires threaten the lives of the animals in the woods, but they also move their territory. Long-standing trapline territories and traditional hunting grounds were gutted, forcing the Yukon Men to travel further and work even harder. While the detection systems in Alaska are improving rapidly, the causes of these fires are not always known. They are unlikely to be human-caused, which is the first thought for most people.\nAccording to the Huffington Post, \"The majority of fires in the North are started by lightning – not humans, as is the case in the lower 48 states. In the hot summer months, it’s not unheard of for more than 2,000 lightning strikes to hit Alaska’s lowlands in a single day.\" Sadly, these fires are becoming more common and more severe as global warming heats Alaska up at twice the global rate.\n6 Dangerous Home Remedies\nOn Yukon Men, and other shows like it, the stars often show off their ingenuity and ability to use what they have to accomplish tasks. Without everyday materials and resources readily available to them, they are forced to make do and find alternative methods. Sometimes, the men's creations and alternatives are remarkable and quite effective. Other times, however, the results can be shockingly dangerous.\nIn one episode, the Yukon Men discussed methods for treating Parvo virus, a dangerous and contagious viral disease affecting dogs. Without proper and accessible veterinarian care, the trappers drew up their own cures. The answer?\nThey put bleach into the dog's water and had them drink it, which is apparently quite common in the wilderness.\nAccording to Dr. Sara Smith, a veterinarian at Delphos Animal Hospital, \"Chlorine bleach is NOT a Parvo treatment or prevention, and it may cause great harm... to a dog or puppy. True, bleach deals with Parvo virus on surfaces, but those surfaces must be cleaned before the bleach is used. Contact with organic material (i.e. a puddle of feces, or a bowl of dog food) makes the bleach less active. Bleach is a strong base and is very caustic to mucous membranes in the mouth, esophagus, and stomach.\"\n5 Wolves Not Nearly As Dangerous As Yukon Men Suggest\nOne of the common criticisms for Yukon Men (and really any similar reality show) is the overly dramatic picture being painted of constant danger. While these men certainly face great danger in the wilderness, not every situation is life threatening.\nTake the depiction of wolves, for instance. In one episode of Yukon Men, the narrator explains, \"But that's not the only crisis. Wolves have been spotted on the edge of town.\" Then, one of the stars, Charlie Wright, says, \"Wolves are mean, ferocious animals and they can tear a man apart real easy. … We have to get this wolf, it's not an if, its a must, because he'll go to any measure to eat. They're the worst kind.\"\nAre they really as bad as the show makes it seem? To hear it from the narrator of Yukon Men, \"There have been twenty fatal wolf attacks in the last ten years.\" Yet, research conducted by Adam Welz of The Guardian disputes that number. In fact, his numbers are drastically different. \"Even though the US and Canada hold over 60,000 wolves,\" Welz reports. \"I found only two records of fatal attacks by wild wolves in these countries in last ten years.\"\n4 Hibernating Bear Hunting\nWhile many of the hunting methods and strategies featured on Yukon Men are concerning for critics of the show, one of the most alarming sights for viewers is the bear den hunting.\nFor the uninitiated, bear den hunting is the practice of hunting bears while they hibernate.\nAccording to Stan Zuray, \"Bear den hunting is a traditional thing going way back prior to contact. The state recognizes it as such and law allows it some places. Common when I first came to Tanana 40 years ago.\" While Zuray is correct about the legality in some places, that actually changed quite recently.\nLast year, President Donald Trump made this practice legal across the entire state of Alaska, so now all hunters, even those who aren't subsistence hunters, are allowed to take part. For animal rights activists and animal lovers, den hunting is a horrifying prospect.\nMany rally against as it seems very unfair for the animal. Zuray, however, doesn't seem to worry about balancing the playing field. \"We usually don’t care about den hunting or any hunting being sporting or \"fair,\" he said. \"We are after the meat and fur, period – not the chase. It may be because we are ignorant or something.\"\n3 The Camera Men Are World Class\nSimply watching a single episode of Yukon Men is enough to highlight the extreme conditions that these people live with every day, but when making a show like this, it's not only the cast that have to survive -- it's the crew as well. \"You got to be a certain breed to survive out here, to tag along with me and keep up,\" says \"Yukon man\" Charlie Wright.\nThese camera guys are experienced in this life. In addition to working on many similar shows, the team that works on Yukon Men spend much of their lives in the outdoors.\n\"The camera guys that make it our here, they're world class outdoorsmen,\" says Stan Zuray. When discussing the qualifications of the camera team he works with, Zuray also added, \"We do not have much contact with Discovery Channel people. The show is filmed by a smaller production company from NY and ... many of the camera men are nothing short of what I call world class outdoorsmen. One example that is easy to use is the guy that traveled with me for the first couple of years - he had been to the top of Mt Everest twice and done it since I last worked with him also. Been a good experience.\"\n2 The Struggle Against The Outside World\nOne of the recent storylines on Yukon Men, is the threat of a new road being built that bring the outside world into the remote Tanana wilderness.\nThe road off the highway will allow for cheaper supplies to be imported and exported, but the threat to the wilderness and nature's resources worry the people of Tanana.\n“There are a lot of people in the village who do the trapping, hunting and fishing lifestyles, and others who don’t do it as much. But the ones who do, they’re the ones who are going to be impacted by people coming in and taking over fishing spots and traplines,” said Stan Zuray. “There are other people who just want to use their trucks and go to town and aren’t as concerned about it.”\nYet, while Zuray, the unofficial star of Yukon Men, worries for the people of Tanana, the road won't stop him from living the way he has for the last 40 years. \"I came to the Tanana area specifically because there was no road to it,\" he said. \"I feel it is more up to the young people in town and those who were born here to decide the issue, so I voice no opinions at meetings, etc. I spent my life running from the city or better put running towards God's country and I'm good at it and will continue to do that.\"\n1 Wolverines Are Nicer Than They Seem\nOf all the animals on the show, one of the most frequently discussed is the wolverine. Perhaps because this animal is not well-known and is misunderstood, Yukon Men provides a lot of information about it. According to The Guardian's Adam Welz, however, the information the show provides appears wildly incorrect.\nIn the show, Stan Zuray tells the camera, \"He's really dangerous\", he says of the wolverine. \"I don't think any human being could keep an attacking wolverine from [ending] them.\"\nHow accurate is that information? Welz looked into it. \"I searched the web and could not find a single documented case of a wolverine even attacking a person anywhere in the world, ever,\" he writes. Welz then claims that he contacted Jeff Copeland from the Wolverine Foundation to get more information. When he asked Copeland about how dangerous wolverines really are to humans, Copeland responded that he is \"not aware of any instance in which a wolverine has [ended] a human, or even attempted to do so.\"\nNow, it is possible that the wolverines in Tanana are more vicious than other areas, but the evidence seems to suggest that they are not as threatening as Yukon Men makes them seem.\nDid we miss any secrets from Yukon Men you know about? 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.722356379032135,"wiki_prob":0.722356379032135,"text":"\"The People's Place:\" How Placemaking Can Build Today's Best Libraries\nMegan MacIver\n\"State of the Art\" Library Opens in Nova Scotia\nVisitors say \"The People's Place feels like a place to live\"\nFor all those who feared the rise of the Internet would mean the fall of the library here's a story of hope. Last week, June 26, the city of Antigonish, Canada, celebrated the grand opening of The People’s Place, the product of a community-initiated Placemaking process led by Eric Stackhouse, Chief Librarian of the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library in partnership with local “Zealous Nuts,” PPS' term for all the enthusiastic community leaders who get things done.\n“You don’t expect to be shhhhhshed here”\nToday’s best libraries so much more than places to check out books. Built within a paradigm of place, \"The People's Place\" has become a civic center at the heart of this Nova Scotia community- and an important node on the town’s main street. As Stackhouse explained, to build a truly state of the art library, “librarians have to think about our spaces differently: our role is heading toward more community development.”\nThis great video from CTV interviews visitors who say The People’s Place feels like a “place to live. ” Local press calls The People’s Place a “state of the art library” -and we couldn’t agree more. This library points the way toward building public buildings within a paradigm of place. It starts with including all those who will use the space in deciding how the space will look, function, and feel.\nThe People’s Place Building Committee “firmly believes that to create a great place, you have to build it for people.”\nComputer stations at \"The People's Place\"\nOn the library’s opening day, organizers estimate about 6,000 people (out of a population of about 18,000!) showed up to celebrate. The vision for the library was guided by PPS’ principles and was designed to serve as a multi-use destination civic center- a place where people can read, learn, enjoy art, and get to know one another.\nStackhouse says “we managed to include every idea the consultations came up with, which resulted in community ownership and the result is a 100% community thumbs up. [The library is] a green building, designed to integrate into Main Street and support the businesses, and flexible. Best thing I ever did was learn the process from PPS.”\nThe People’s Place is a $5.5 million joint project of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish, the Town of Antigonish, and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library. Funding was obtained from both Federal and Provincial government sources as well as significant contributions from the community at large and the Friends of the Antigonish Library to make sure that when the library was completed it would be true to the community’s original vision.\nMany local non-profits also use the library- making The People's Place a destination for people of all ages.\nAs well as a modern, welcoming public library, the facility hosts a Community Access Program (CAP) site, the Antigonish County Adult Learning Association (ACALA), and Health Connections. Also, several multi-purpose meeting and gathering spaces are included which can be used at no cost by non-profits. All these agencies and spaces are combined together in order to share resources and provide a single point of access by users.\nPublic Art is a Major Component Throughout several visioning sessions, community members agreed that public art should be a major component including over 20 pieces of sculpture, woodworking, visual art, textile, poster art, and more, including a mural by Alan Syliboy titled “The Dream Canoe”.\nLibraries can change the world! Resources to make your libraries and civic centers great community places:\nLibraries that Matter\nLibrary Placemaking in Action\nHow to Make Your Library Great\nA Library Instills Community Spirit in Nova Scotia\nLibraries at the Heart of our Communities (a featured article from our partner, the Planning Commissioner’s Journal)\nPublic Library Design: Working from the Inside Out and the Outside In (MP3 of seminar) featurung PPS VP Ethan Kent speaking in Melbourne on Libraries as a Catalyst for Placemaking\nCivic Centers in a Paradigm of Place: Reinventing the Courthouse\nGet inspired by all the ideas the Antigonish community generated on this page.\nPlacemaking and Consultations\nAntigonish Library Site Plan\nPlans for the library were sensitive to its context within the rest of the town. Site plan prepared by Archibald and Jones Architects Ltd.\nTell us about your community's library: how are you making it a great place?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line182792"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6336281299591064,"wiki_prob":0.36637187004089355,"text":"Doctors to be Trained in CHIP HIV Intervention\nPosted on May 21, 2010 by Chris Tarricone\nA new partnership with the W. Montague Cobb/National Medical Association Health Institute could lead to hundreds of African American doctors being trained in a nationally-recognized HIV prevention intervention developed at CHIP.\nWith UConn Incentive Grant funding, UConn’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS) and the Cobb/NMA will train physicians in the east coast region of the NMA in CHIP’s Options intervention. Following successful completion of the pilot project, the partners will seek additional grant funding for a nationwide roll-out of Options to the NMA’s full membership.\nUsing powerful health behavior change methods, Options enlists trusted healthcare providers to talk with HIV-positive patients during routine medical appointments about reducing their risky sexual and drug use behaviors. Clinicians work collaboratively with patients in assessing their risky behaviors and willingness to change. Together, clinicians and patients then develop strategies and set future goals that are written out in a “prescription” for safer sex or drug use behaviors.\nThe intervention, developed by a research team led by CHIP Director and Professor of Psychology Jeffrey Fisher and CHIP Associate Director Deborah Corrnman, is one of the few risk reduction interventions for use with HIV-positive patients. It has been tested with urban populations and proven effective in the U.S. and South Africa. It also has been lauded by the CDC as a promising intervention and included in its Compendium of Evidence-Based HIV Prevention Interventions.\nOptions has been funded by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Human Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Department of Defense.\nTo date, over 500 trainings in Options have been completed both nationally and internationally.\nThe NMA is the oldest and largest organization of African American physicians in the United States with a mission to create parity and justice in medicine for African American physicians and their patients. The Cobb Institute was created in 2004 by the NMA to promote wellness, conduct research and eliminate health disparities including in the area of HIV/AIDS.\n“This is an ideal partnership at an opportune time,” Fisher said. “We’ll be putting an intervention that has been proven effective into practice with one of the populations at greatest risk for new HIV infections.”\nAfrican Americans account for 45 percent of new HIV infections – more than any other ethnic or racial group in the U.S. – yet they make up only 12 percent of the total U.S. population.\n“Healthcare providers have an excellent opportunity to address risk behaviors and reinforce safer\nbehaviors in their HIV-positive patients, because they have a trusting relationship and repeated contact for reinforcement,” Fisher explained.\nOptions, which Fisher’s team developed in consultation with physicians and patients, uses a patient-centered, non-judgmental and supportive approach.\nCICATS and Cobb/NMA formed its partnership in July 2009.\nFisher, Cornman and the CHIP research team, including the Cobb/NMA Options Project Coordinator Joanne Cunningham, are working with Dr. Randall Morgan, Jr., executive director of the Cobb Institute, and Dr. Nicole Jarrett, director of Health Policy Research for the NMA.\nTo date, a daylong meeting with Dr. Morgan and Dr. Jarrett was held at the UConn Health Center campus in early January as part of a broader Cobb/NMA and UConn Planning Committee Meeting hosted by Dr. Judith Fifield, director of the Ethel Donaghue Center for Translating Research into Practice and Policy. In mid-January, an 11-member Cobb/NMA UConn Options Advisory Board, comprised of nationally known physicians and HIV specialists, was convened and the first board meeting was held in early February.\nMost recently, Fisher, Cornman and Cunningham attended the 11th Annual Scientific Colloquium held in Arlington, Virginia. There, Fisher made a presentation to the NMA attendees about the Options project.\nThe first focus groups for the pilot project are planned for early summer with physician trainings to follow.\nThe UConn Incentive Grant was awarded to Fisher and Fifield, partners in the Community Engagement Core of CICATS.\nNew Aetna Grant Targets Childhood Obesity\nCHIP collaborators are bringing parents and pediatricians together to target obesity in Hartford children as young as age 2.\nWith a new grant from the Aetna Foundation to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Dr. Michelle Cloutier, a professor of pediatrics at the UConn Health Center and a CHIP affiliate, and Amy Gorin, an assistant professor of psychology and a CHIP principal investigator, will develop and test an intervention to address obesity in African American and Latino children between the ages of 2 and 4.\n“In general, rates of obesity are higher in underserved populations. In Hartford, 40 percent of African American and Latino children are obese or at risk for obesity by the time they start school at age 5,” said Cloutier, the grant’s principal investigator. The UConn researchers will assess how parents in the target population view their children’s diet, activity level and weight and they will work with pediatricians to deliver meaningful messages to parents about those topics. The messages will be linked to intervention strategies families have stated that they can implement at home. Cloutier and Gorin’s team will train participating healthcare providers in a technique known as ‘brief motivational counseling,’ so that they can effectively and efficiently reinforce the identified messages and intervention strategies at every check-up during the course of the study.\n“A physician can say, ‘Eat less and exercise more,’ but that doesn’t help a family learn the specific things it needs to do differently,” said Cloutier, an expert in medical messaging. “This intervention will provide messages that can be tailored and customized for each family and that can be delivered consistently at every medical visit in three minutes or less.”\nCloutier and Gorin’s preliminary work on this project included developing a 21-question survey, called Growing Up Healthy, and conducting the survey with parents of children seen at two Hartford clinics affiliated with Connecticut Children’s. Parents were invited to complete the survey if they had a child with a Body Mass Index (BMI) at or above the 85th percentile.\nThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) considers a child overweight if his or her BMI falls between the 85th and 95th percentile. A child is considered obese if his or her BMI falls above the 95th percentile.\nThrough their survey, Cloutier and Gorin identified several behaviors linked with children being overweight or obese. These included the amount of juice consumed, the type and amount of milk consumed and the amount of television viewed daily. These behaviors will be the focus of the intervention they are developing.\n“The strength of this intervention is its simplicity,” Cloutier said. “Small changes in these three areas over the course of a year could make a huge difference.”\nThe researchers plan to recruit up to 40 pediatricians and 250 children to participate in the study. They anticipate each child will see a healthcare provider at one of the two Hartford-based clinics three to five times during the course of the study, which will last one year.\nThey will compare the BMI of each child at the beginning of the year with his or her BMI at the end of the year to determine the intervention’s effectiveness. They also will evaluate if it is efficient for pediatricians to deliver the brief obesity intervention at every visit, given the time constraints they face.\nCloutier, who also directs the Asthma Center at Connecticut Children’s, is optimistic, based on the results she had with a disease management program she created for pediatricians and their patients. The award-winning program, Easy Breathing, helped busy physicians identify and treat asthma in their patients.\nShe believes it is because of the success with Easy Breathing, coupled with the extent of childhood obesity and the concern that pediatricians have in this area, that Hartford’s pediatric community has been so enthusiastic about Growing Up Healthy to date.\nCloutier and Gorin’s pilot work on this project was funded through an award from The Donaghue Foundation and a UConn Research Foundation Faculty Grant.\nCHIP Director Named Distinguished Professor\nUConn Today, April 20, 2010\nCHIP Director Jeffrey Fisher is one of three UConn faculty members named a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor this year in recognition of excellence in research and teaching.\nThree faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are this year’s new Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors.\nJeffrey D. Fisher in psychology, Harry A. Frank in chemistry, and Johann Peter Gogarten in molecular and cell biology all earned the distinction, which is the University’s highest award for faculty excellence in research, teaching, and service.\n“These are three outstanding researchers and teachers who have made substantial contributions to their fields and mentored a new generation of scientists,” says Jeremy Teitelbaum, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “They set the standard for the College’s mission of excellence in teaching, research, and service.”\nPosted in InCHIP Affiliates in the News, InCHIP Today, News\nCHIP’s Brown Bag Lecture Series Now Available via LIVE Webcast\nCHIP’s regular Brown Bag Lecture is now available LIVE! Users can access the talk 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start by clicking here.\nCHIP’s AITC is Now a UConn Fee-for-Service Center\nPosted on May 19, 2010 November 25, 2015 by Chris Tarricone\nWith help from CHIP and AITC Director Timothy Gifford, Principal Investigator Kerry Marsh has parlayed a $2 million federal grant to study sexual risk behavior in virtual reality (VR) environments into a resource for the entire University.\nSpring 2010 CHIP Lecture Series\nThe CHIP Lecture Series hosts speakers of national and international prominence who share late-breaking research. The spring 2010 schedule can be found here.\nStatistical Support for CHIP Affiliates\nIf you are in need of any statistical help, we have set up an arrangement with Dr. Ming Chen of the UConn Statistics Department in order to fulfill your statistical needs.\nCHIP Statistical Support is offered to give CHIP-affiliated investigators the opportunity to have a methodological and statistical pre-review of a proposal being prepared for major external funding. Statistical support can also be used to assist CHIP-affiliated investigators with other health related research work. This opportunity is available throughout the year.\nIf you are in need of any statistical help, we have set up an arrangement with Dr. Ming Chen of the UConn Statistics Department in order to fulfill your statistical needs. Please follow the directions below in order to gain access to a statistical consult.\nStep 1: Visit www.stat.uconn.edu\nStep 2: On the left side of the stat dept main page, under “Consulting”, click on “Application”.\nStep 3: On the consulting main page, click on “Start Online Application” and then follow the step-by-step instructions to complete the online process.\nStep 4: If Step 3 is successful, Dr. Chen will automatically receive an email notification. Then, he will set up the userid and password and notify the applicant.\nStep 5: Dr. Ming Chen will arrange an initial meeting.\nIf you have any questions, please feel free to contact Jeff Fisher at jeffrey.fisher@uconn.edu.\nHealth Behavior Change Courses at UConn\nThe University offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in health behavior change and health policy. Click here for a listing.\nCHIP Graduate Student Affiliation\nCHIP now offers an Affiliate status to graduate students to accommodate your interest in multidisciplinary research in the area of health behavior change.\nThere are a number of benefits that you may experience as a CHIP Student Affiliate. First, there may be opportunities for collaboration or mentorship with highly-regarded, well-published and funded researchers from across the health behavior change domain. Through our network of CHIP Affiliates, we can guide you toward graduate research and career opportunities.\nSecond, you will receive notice of our CHIP Brown Bag Lecture series that attracts presenters of national and international prominence who share late-breaking research in the fields of health behavior change and health communication related to HIV/AIDS, cancer, obesity, alcohol abuse, diabetes management, and medication adherence. Search our database of previous presenters here.\nCHIP uses a significant portion of its funds to foster new health behavior change research. Specifically, CHIP graduate students may apply annually for grants to conduct preliminary research related to CHIP overarching goals. Priority is given to promising research likely to develop into a larger study and garner external funding (such as a National Research Service Award proposal through the National Institute of Mental Health). Click here for further information.\nTo become a graduate student affiliate, please e-mail the following information to C.Stacey.Leeds@uconn.edu:\n— Department\n— E-mail address\n— Name of your advisor\nAbstinence-only Sex Ed Leaves Kids Unprotected\nHartford Courant, February 12, 2010\nCHIP Principal Investigator Blair Johnson penned an op-ed in favor of safer sex education programs for teens.\nPosted in InCHIP Affiliates in the News, News","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line648893"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9236529469490051,"wiki_prob":0.9236529469490051,"text":"Clemson expert questions tariffs as a negotiating tool, says net-zero effect on jobs\nScott Baier, a specialist in trade liberalization, cast doubt Tuesday on whether Trump's trade tactics would help the South Carolina economy.\nClemson expert questions tariffs as a negotiating tool, says net-zero effect on jobs Scott Baier, a specialist in trade liberalization, cast doubt Tuesday on whether Trump's trade tactics would help the South Carolina economy. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/money/2018/08/01/clemson-prof-tariffs-threat-tariffs-poor-negotiation-strategy/869903002/\nAnna B. Mitchell, The Greenville News Published 6:30 a.m. ET Aug. 1, 2018\nAn industry analyst says he expects a proposed White House plan to impose tariffs on imported vehicles and auto parts to move forward and have a negative impact on carmakers and dealers. (July 19) AP\nEconomics Professor Scott Baier spoke Tuesday at an Upstate Chamber Coalition meeting in Spartanburg\nA shipping container is place on a train at the South Carolina Inland Port in Greer on Monday, September 25, 2017. (Photo: LAUREN PETRACCA/Staff)Buy Photo\n1994 study found protectionist trade investigations yield little success\nExtent of tariffs' impact unknown until costs work their way through the supply chain, experts say\nUncertainty prevails locally as business leaders await president's next move\nProposed auto tariffs could cost up to 2,000 manufacturing jobs in South Carolina\nSPARTANBURG — The chairman of Clemson University's economics department says tariffs and the threat of tariffs are an unreliable tool at best for negotiating better trade deals for the United States.\nScott Baier, a specialist in the causes and consequences of trade liberalization, offered his assessment of the current trade war during a gathering Tuesday of the Upstate Chamber Coalition. The Trump administration has since the beginning of the year imposed tariffs on washing machines, solar panels, raw steel and aluminum, and a range of Chinese raw materials and components.\nTaken together, said Kris Denzel of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Trump's 2018 tariffs affect $75 billion in goods, $34 billion of them from China alone. The president has also called for an investigation into automobile and auto parts imports and the possibility of a 25 percent tariff on those.\nTariffs fallout: BMW announces price increase on South Carolina-made SUVs sold in China\nPush back: Bevy of Upstate auto suppliers oppose Trump administration's proposed tariffs\n\"The current administration uses the notion that we're going to threaten to put tariffs on or we won't put tariffs on because we want you to behave better,\" Baier said. \"In the history of the United States, its ability to use this negotiating tactic to help people behave in a better way, it doesn't really show up in the data.\"\nManagers and financial officers from a host of regional small- and medium-sized businesses and manufacturers — including Berger turning tools, Röchling engineering plastics, Tietex industrial fabrics, Hogan construction, Trelleborg tires and the Elliott Davis accounting firm — came to the Spartanburg event with questions about how long existing tariffs might last, whether new ones are likely and what long-term damage they might do to the state's economy.\nDenzel and Baier agreed that no one will know the impact until negotiations conclude and the costs of import taxes work their way throughout America's complex, globally integrated supply chain.\nUncertainty prevails locally\nCharles Johnson, chief financial officer of Leigh Fibers, said much of his company's business is tied to the auto industry. Leigh Fibers recycles textiles, converting them into lint-like sound-deadening and fire-retardant materials that manufacturers like BMW use to insulate vehicles.\n\"So far the tariffs have had a minimal impact,\" Johnson said. \"It's wait and see.\"\nAllen Smith, president of the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce, said the evolving issue has caused unease in the business community.\n\"There's one thing that business people value probably above all else,\" he said, \"and that's certainty.\"\nMelody Horton with Elliott Davis said she works with many foreign companies in or considering opening shop in South Carolina. She asked Baier whether he believed Trump's tariffs and threats of more were just a negotiating tactic.\n\"We all thought maybe this is just a short-term issue,\" Horton said. \"But now it's beginning to feel like it's the beginning of a trade war.\"\n\"I'd like to believe this is a negotiating tactic, that the Trump administration wants to lower the barriers for our exports,\" Baier said, \"but it does seem like it's escalating on our part and the response by other countries seem to be escalating as well.\"\nThough not good for the economy, he said, the overall costs of the current tariffs — assuming Trump does not follow through on threats to tax the foreign auto industry and billions of dollars of Chinese consumer goods — are about 0.1 to 0.2 percent of America's gross domestic product (which totals $18.6 trillion compared to China's $11.2 trillion, according to the World Bank).\n\"So the costs aren't large, but they are there, and they will impact certain industries quite hard,\" Baier said.\nOft-cited research says tariffs a no-go\nIn his presentation, Baier referenced an oft-cited 1994 book by Kim Elliott and Thomas Bayard — Reciprocity and Retaliation in U.S. Trade Policy — that examined American protectionist trade investigations going back to the Reagan administration. The authors assessed the success of those investigations, seeing if they opened up foreign markets for U.S. exporters, reduced foreign subsidies or produced better protection of U.S. intellectual property, Baier said.\nThe Trump administration launched another such an investigation, under Section 301 of the 1974 U.S. Trade Act, to justify the tariffs on China.\n\"So Bayard and Elliot found that of the 72 investigations filed in the U.S., negotiations were 'successful' less than 50 percent of the time,\" Baier said. \"Of the 12 cases where the U.S. retaliated against foreign competition, success was achieved in only two of the 12 cases.\"\nTariffs also have a net-zero effect on jobs, Baier said, because protectionist policies tend to preserve jobs in one sector while threatening those in another.\nSouth Carolina buyers who imported a total of $550 million in steel last year would see costs increase about 20 percent if they were to purchase that same amount of steel now, Baier said. Steel prices have gone up 45 percent since Jan. 1, he added, and aluminum 23 percent.\nConsumer product companies such as Coca Cola, Polaris and Sam Adams have announced tariff-related price increases in the wake of these supply-chain increases, and the cost of washing machines jumped 16 percent from March to May after Trump imposed a tariff on that industry's imports.\nCarolina auto jobs\nAuto tariffs are still on the table, Denzel said, though talks between the Trump administration and the European Union last week look promising and have placed a pause on their going forward.\n\"This is the big one,\" Denzel said of the proposed auto tariffs. \"We figure it would have an economic impact maybe about 10 times the size of what we see on steel and aluminum. So you are looking at possibly applying tariffs on about $350 billion worth of imports.\"\nCar prices would go up $2,500 to $4,500, Baier said, and 1,000 to 2,000 South Carolina jobs in the auto-manufacturing sector would disappear.\nAllen Smith, president of the Spartanburg chamber, said people in his county, the home of BMW, are all about talking to trade partners and working out better deals.\n\"We think it's necessary that government officials do things to support free trade; however, we don't think that should be done at the cost of local jobs,\" he said. \"And unfortunately, based on today's presentation, that could be an unintended consequence of some of these tariffs.\"\nRead or Share this story: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/money/2018/08/01/clemson-prof-tariffs-threat-tariffs-poor-negotiation-strategy/869903002/\nGreenville area home construction slowly builds back to pre-recession levels\nDuke's Mayonnaise brand sold to Charlotte-based private equity firm\nWhy it matters that Lockheed Martin is set to launch production of F-16s in Greenville\nBMW freezes pension plans for all US employees including South Carolina\n6 CBD stores opened in Greenville since October, and more are coming\nEasley clinics benefit from over-prescribing opioids, lawsuits say","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line933799"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5992676615715027,"wiki_prob":0.4007323384284973,"text":"Female Authors\nBooks By Women\nBecoming An Author\n20th September 2018 11th March 2019 charlieFemale Authors\nHer Life And The Cromwell Trilogy\nDame Hilary Mary Mantel is a prolific writer from England. She is known for her expertly crafted historical fiction novels, short stories and personal memoirs. Born in 1952, Mantel has won the Booker Prize twice so far. The first award was given for her book Wolf Hall. This is a semi-fictional account of Thomas Cromwell’s early days in Tudor court. Its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies was also awarded the Booker Prize.\nThis makes Mantel the only woman to have received this particular award twice. The only other writers to do so were J G Farrell, Peter Carey and J M Coetzee. She is currently writing the concluding third part of her Cromwell trilogy. The current title for this book is The Mirror and the Light.\nHer O ther Work\nMantel’s first novel was Every Day is Mother’s Day. This came out in 1985 and was soon followed by a sequel called Vacant Possession. She later worked as a film critic for The Spectator. She retained this position from 1987 to 1991. Mantel has also provided reviews for a number of other newspapers and magazines, both in the UK and US.\nShe continued to gain acclaim with her later novels such as Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. Released in 1988, this book draws on Mantel’s time when she lived in Saudi Arabia. One of the key themes is the clash between cultures in this nation.\nHer book Fludd takes place in the mid 1950’s and deals with Roman Catholicism. In this story a mysterious character arrives in the fictional town of Fetherhoughton. He changes the lives of the other protagonists forever.\nSticking To A Routine\nChoosing A Format\nValerie Solanos\nFive Female Authors of the 19th-Century\nLITERATURE – Jane Austen\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIYiThAyY8s\nProudly powered by imrohan","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line89110"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6779913306236267,"wiki_prob":0.3220086693763733,"text":"Griet Eeckhout\nMuay Thai Professional\nPhoto Credit: KoylOgraphy\nGriet Eeckhout fight stats\nGriet Eeckhout fight records\nGriet Eeckhout personal details\nFirst Name Griet\nLast Name Eeckhout\nNickname/s The Painapple\nBirth Name Griet Eeckhout\nBorn Belgium\nResidence Belgium\nNationality Belgian\nWeight class Flyweight\nGriet Eeckhout social networks\nLike Griet\nGriet on Instagram\nGriet Eeckhout martial arts details\nBrazilian Jiu-Jitsu Blue Belt\nGriet Eeckhout fight history\nCorinne Laframboise Unanimous Decision MMA 12/08/17 TKO 41: Champions, Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada\n5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125 lbs • Preliminary Card • Weigh-In: 125.2 lbs (56.8 kgs)\nAshley Nichols TKO (Punches) MMA 06/16/17 TKO 39: Ultimatum, Complexe JC Perreault, St. Roch, Quebec, Canada\n3:31 R1 Pro TKO Strawweight Tournament Semi-Finals • 115 lbs • Preliminary Card\nBryony Tyrell Unanimous Decision MMA† 04/08/17 360 Promotion: Volition, Centre Jean Moisse, Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium\n5:00 R3 / 3×5 Pro 360 Vacant Strawweight title • 116 lbs • Main Card • Weigh-In: 114.4 lbs (51.9 kgs)\nLindsay Garbatt Rear-Naked Choke MMA 01/13/17 TKO 37: Rivals, Tohu, Montreal, Quebec, Canada\n3:07 R1 Pro Strawweight • 117 lbs • Main Card • Weigh-In: 117.2 lbs (53.2 kgs)\nJudith Levi TKO MMA 10/29/16 360 MMA Fight Nights: Genesis, Centre Sportif Jean Moisse, Belgium\n4:47 R2 / 3×5 Pro Strawweight • 115 lbs • Main Card\nDaniela Kortmann Rear-Naked Choke MMA 04/09/16 MMA Meets Wild West, El Dorado Templin, Templin, Brandenburg, Germany\n4:44 R2 / 3×5 Pro Flyweight • 125 lbs • Main Card\nAitek Emadi Draw MMA 08/23/15 K-1 Germany Topalevents\nSandra Redegeld TKO (Punches) MMA 05/02/15 Fight Lounge: Rulezzz\n3:42 R1 Amateur ……………………………………………………………………………………..\nAnke Van Gestel Points Muay Thai 11/27/10 Merchtem, Belgium\n……… ………………….. Pro ……………………………………………………………………………………..\nGriet Eeckhout Tapology Profile\nGriet Eeckhout Sherdog Profile\nOne comment on Griet Eeckhout\nPingback: April Female Fight Fixtures and Results - Awakening Fighters","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line583336"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6464796662330627,"wiki_prob":0.35352033376693726,"text":"I'll Mature When I'm Dead\nAmazing Tales of Adulthood\nI'll Mature When I'm Dead ( )\nAuthor: Barry, Dave\nPublisher: Penguin Publishing Group\nImprint: Penguin AudioBooks\nBook Format: CD-Audio\nList Price: USD $29.95\nUnabridged CDs, 5 CDs, 6 hours\nRead by TBA\nA brilliantly funny exploration of the treacherous state of adulthood by the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.\nDetailed Subjects: Humor / General\nPhysical Dimensions (W X L X H): 5.27 x 5.83 x 0.84 Inches\nBook Weight: 0.31 Pounds\nBarry, Dave (Author)\nDave Barry was born in Armonk, New York on July 3, 1947. He received an English degree from Haverford College in 1969. His early attempts at small-town journalism for the Daily Local News in West Chester, Pennsylvania, were directed towards local matters, such as zoning and sewage. In 1975, he briefly attempted to teach business writing to business people. Since then, he has worked as a professional humorist.\nFor many years he wrote a newspaper column that appeared in more than 500 newspapers and for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He is the author of numerous fiction, nonfiction, and young adult books. His novels include Big Trouble, Tricky Business, Lunatics, and Insane City. His nonfiction works include Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States, I'll Mature When I'm Dead, You Can Date Boys When You're Forty: Dave Barry on Parenting and Other Topics He Knows Very Little About, and Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster): Life Lessons and Other Ravings from Dave Barry. His young adult books include the Starcatchers series and the Never Land series.\nDave Barry's title, Best. State. Ever, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2016.\nRed, White and Royal Blue\nMcQuiston, Casey","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1330694"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9515472054481506,"wiki_prob":0.9515472054481506,"text":"Calif. filmmaker admits guilt, gets probation\nAndre Salvail\nA California documentary filmmaker who was arrested by Aspen police in March after an alleged theft at the Marolt Place seasonal-housing development pleaded guilty Monday in Pitkin County District Court to two misdemeanors in connection with the incident.\nAndrew Anthony, 27, previously faced a felony trespassing charge in connection with the March 21 events that led to his arrest. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts — criminal possession of a financial device and theft — through a plea agreement with the 9th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Judge Gail Nichols sentenced him to two years of supervised probation, which he will serve in California.\nPolice said Anthony was highly intoxicated when he showed up at an acquaintance’s apartment and was asked to leave. Upon leaving, he took some items with him, including someone else’s wallet, police said.\nHe allegedly returned to the apartment and was told to leave again. He was arrested after the second incident.\nA website for Best Coast Productions, of Santa Barbara, California, lists Anthony as the CEO. The website describes Best Coast as a video-production company “focused on promoting underground music with a positive message, small business and extreme sports.”\nAccording to the movie-information website IMDB.com, Anthony co-directed and shot a 2012 documentary called “Stillness,” featuring the voice of Irish-American actor Malachy McCourt, brother of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Frank McCourt.\nAnthony told Nichols he has lived in the Aspen area for the past two winters. His family and his business are in California, he said.\nA public defender representing Anthony said he is prepared to make restitution to the victims. Anthony also has made arrangements to receive counseling for alcohol abuse through an inpatient treatment facility in California.\n“I’m just sorry this happened,” Anthony told Nichols.\nIn the days following his arrest, he told The Aspen Times that the incidents at Marolt Place and the arrest itself were misunderstandings and that all of the charges likely would be dropped. One charge, felony trespassing, was dropped.\nIn other District Court action on Monday:\n• Weston J. Petrovich, 26, pleaded guilty to a felony drug-possession charge and received probation. Petrovich, a local restaurant server at the time of his arrest more than two months ago, ran away from an Aspen policeman who suspected him of holding drugs outside the Belly Up music club in the early-morning hours of June 8. The policeman then identified him through the club’s surveillance video and arrested him that same evening at his workplace on East Hopkins Avenue. Nichols told Petrovich that if he successfully completes his probation, his record will be changed to reflect a misdemeanor, not a felony.\n• Nichols reduced to $1,000 the bond for a 23-year-old homeless man accused of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Minnesota native Russell L. Nelson, who has been in the custody of the Pitkin County Jail on $5,000 bond since Thursday, allegedly harbored a 17-year-old runaway girl from Arapahoe County. Assistant District Attorney Scott Turner argued against his release on a personal-recognizance bond, pointing out Nelson’s extensive criminal history. A local man who recently met Nelson spoke up and said he would feed and house Nelson, a recovering substance abuser, if Nelson were set free. Nichols noted that Nelson had obvious knowledge of drug- and alcohol-counseling programs in Aspen, and Nichols agreed to reduce the bond but stipulated that Nelson attend counseling sessions five times a week and appear for all scheduled court dates.\nandre@aspentimes.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1730312"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.607913613319397,"wiki_prob":0.392086386680603,"text":"top tunes of 2018\nEach of the last two years I’ve written posts about how much music has shaped the year. In 2016 there was a lot of shit that went down and music was the bright spot. Last year was one of my favorite years in music in a while so 2018 had a lot to live up to. So as the year comes to a close, the results are in. It was in no way comparable to last year, but thats okay! Because music was still important as it always is.\n2018 as a whole will never be comparable to last year. I felt too much in 2018 and in the process I lost a lot of perspective. I had to dig myself out of personal holes so many times. A lot of which I hadn’t felt in years. In a way I’m still trying to overcome some personal struggles but one thing I learned this year is that it could be worse. So I try to remind myself of that. Despite losing perspective at times, I was able to gain it back through meeting new incredible people, through traveling all over the country, through new experiences, and most importantly through music.\nI worked harder and put in more miles than I ever had in the past this year all because of a goal that started last January. My friend and I planned a trip to London. I went on that trip last week and it was definitely a trip I won’t soon forget. As much as all the work made it worth it. It was the journey of the year that made it special and so many songs and bands that got me through this weird rollercoaster of a year. So without further delay, here are some of my faves from 2018:\n“NUMB” by Hayden James\nAccording to Spotify, this is my top song of the year. Spotify isn’t lying either. It’s now my second most played song on my iTunes. I fell in love with this song during EDC Las Vegas, a festival which ultimately changed the course of the year for me. This song related to my life in all the ways at times, so I kept turning to it. Plus it’s a big fucking mood! I saw Hayden James perform at Electric Forest this year and was able to catch this song during his sets both weekends and during his Weekend 2 DJ set. The bass was so overpowering, but I loved it nonetheless. Now, 7 months later and I’m still choosing to listen to this song. It will forever be associated with this year and all the ups and downs that came with it.\n“Safe” by Bay Ledges\nThis song was released in 2017 but I first heard this song in the spring of 2018 and I became hooked on it. It was a song that I would constantly choose to play whenever I was scrolling through my iTunes in the car or on Spotify. We also kept hearing it on our drives from Joshua Tree to Indio during Coachella this past year. It always puts me in a good mood and creates such a vibe. I was lucky enough to see Bay Ledges play last month and to hear this song live. Even if the song was released in 2017, it still got me through 2018.\nKygo was my top Spotify artist this year. It makes sense. After seeing Kygo play at Coachella, one of my favorite sets of the festival, I got really into listening to his music. I eventually created a Kygo Spotify playlist that I’ll occasionally use to work out to. I’ve always been into the tropical house style of electronic music so it was a matter of time before I dove head first into Kygo and all of his tunes that I’ve already been listening to over the past 3 years. I kind of credit the song “Stargzing”, but overall I love almost all of Kygo’s tracks and seeing him live was incredibly fun. This was the year that made it happen for me and the Norwegian DJ.\n“Curious” by Hayley Kiyoko\n2018 can be defined by the hashtag 20GAYTEEN and that’s all in part to Hayley Kiyoko. She released her first full length album this year and exploded in the music scene. She performed at Coachella, sold out her tour, opened for Panic! At the Disco, performed with Taylor Swift, and won a VMA! It’s been an epic year for Lesbian Jesus. This song was released early in 2018 as a single to promote Hayley’s debut album. It’s been one of my faves ever since. I snuck away during work at Coachella to catch a glimpse of her set Weekend 2, but missed a large portion of it. It wasn’t until I worked a Panic! At the Disco show that I got to see the entirety of her opening set and felt all the proud mom feelings. I saw Hayley play a small venue show in Philly in late 2016 and it’s been pleasure being a fan and seeing her grow so much since then. This year was the icing on the cake for that. So to answer the question, in case you were curious, it is serious that she’s only going up from here.\n2018 was a comeback year for Arctic Monkeys. They released their first album since 2013’s AM, toured worldwide, and played numerous dates on the festival circuit. It was my goal this year to see them play and I did while working their show at Forest Hills Stadium back in July. Although their new album wasn’t the comeback I hoped for, 2018 revitalized my interest in Arctic Monkeys and caused me to listen to their music even more than I did in the past. I found a love in old songs like “Suck It And See” and “I Bet That You Look Good On the Dance Floor”. I also eventually started to enjoy their latest release. It seems like the Monkeys will be riding the 2018 wave into 2019 as well so hopefully they coast back to the states soon.\n“Saturday Sun” by Vance Joy\nVance Joy released his sophomore album this year back in February. “Saturday Sun” was a single from that album that was the theme of my Coachella 2018 experience. On our 1 hour drives to and from work every day from Joshua Tree, we listened to Alt Nation on Sirius XM. “Saturday Sun” was in the rotation at the time at it seemed like we heard it ever time we got in Denise’s car. It became our Coachella song. The whole experience culminated on Sunday of Weekend 2 when Vance Joy asked to sit at our table in catering and ate lunch with us. This song will always remind me this year and drives through California with my Day One since Day One Weekend One, Denise.\n“Wanderlust” by James Bay\nThere’s no special story behind this song compared to the others I have on here. It’s just one that I kept going back to once I had it on my iTunes and Spotify playlists. I got into it right before I left for Electric Forest in June and it’s been a staple ever since. It gave me a new opinion on James Bay, whose music I thought was always slower and created romance type vibes. This song was an indie pop/rock dream that I never knew I needed from James Bay this year.\nIt took me a while to get into the new Florence and the Machine album, but I did just in time to see her live at the Barclays Center in October. Again just like the Arctic Monkeys, High As Hope, the 2018 follow-up to 2015’s How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, was a bit of a disappointment to me initially. In general, it seemed like after a big 2017 of brilliant albums, 2018’s hype wasn’t cutting it for me. New music from 2018 just took a little while to get used to. Once I did I fell for songs like “Hunger” and “Patricia”. Florence reminded me this year when I needed it most that “it’s a wonderful thing to love” and I’m grateful for that.\n“Body” by Loud Luxury\n“Body” came to me around the same time as “NUMB” at EDC Las Vegas so it makes total sense that it would always play after “NUMB” on my iTunes rotation. I first heard the song on the way to site at EDC via Josh Hurlbert’s music. My friend Erin and I were jamming to it. I didn’t know the name of the song after that, but I needed to find out. So after some detective work, Josh figured out the song I was referring to and told me what it was called on load-out day. It’s been as much of a favorite as “NUMB” since EDC and a great work out track as well. I can’t say I’ve listened to Loud Luxury beyond “Body”, but it’s been a big hit of 2018 all around so I’m sure there will be more great tracks to come from the electronic artists.\nBishop Briggs ended 2017 for me and moved right in 2018. Her debut album came out in May and she was high on my list to see live until I saw her perform at Electric Forest. I will say my interest in Bishop Briggs kind of faded after seeing her perform live, but for the first half of this year I was focused on her debut album and possibly seeing her in the summer. She didn’t disappoint at Forest either. Her performance was full of energy and power that had everyone feeling as bad ass as her by the end of the set. It was a highlight of the festival that seemed to be one of my lowest points of the year. Thankfully, I survived the Forest and went on to have some great festival experiences beyond that.\n“Happy Man” by Jungle\n“Happier” by Marshmello, ft. Bastille\n“Whippin'” by Kiiara\nSo that’s it! 10 songs and artists that were big for me in 2018 (plus a few runner-ups!). There was another band that I easily could have put on the list but I decided to hold off because 2019 will surely be a big year for them. That band is Vampire Weekend. Their comeback started in 2018 with a few festival appearances, including a special one that I was witness to at Lollapalooza, but they’ve yet to release their much anticipated fourth full length album. There were rumors it would come out in 2018, but that hasn’t happened. So I expect 2019 will be the year for them. They’re already slated to play Firefly in June and I’m sure more dates and festivals are in the works as well. I can’t wait. They’re who I’m most excited about heading in to this new year.\nAs with any year, there will be plenty of new music and new discoveries for me. I didn’t plan on this year being better than 2017 and it wasn’t honestly as far as music goes. Professionally though, 2018 was my best year yet. When I set out to follow my music industry dreams in 2015 (technically 2016 but it started in 2015), my goal was always to be better, learn more, and grow every year. I’ve done that so far, especially this year. I have no plans to stop any time soon either. I’ve started to reach some goals I’ve had, but I have so much more to do and accomplish. I’m so lucky I get to do what I love. I’m grateful for everyone that’s helped and supported me, everyone I’ve met, and all the experiences I’ve had. I owe it all to music. So hopefully next year is even better because I plan on trying to make it that way and I’m sure I’ll have plenty of new tunes to help me through it all. Be back next week for the Coachella 2019 lineup release!\n“All of life is energy vibrating at different frequencies. It has been said, the universe is a uni-verse, one song or vibration that plays throughout existence and gives us life. When we get in tune with that tone, we are in harmony with life. Music is a way we can tap into that power. That is why we feel music with our whole being. It moves us, stimulates our imagination, opens emotions, and can pass language and cultural barriers. It lives on a primal level, one that we can all connect with.”\nPosted in Music, Uncategorized and tagged 2018 music review, 20GAYTEEN, Arctic Monkeys, Bastille, Bay Ledges, Bishop Briggs, Body, Body Loud Luxury, Coachella 2019, Coachella 2019 lineup release, Curious, Curious Hayley kiyoko, dashboard confessional, EDM, Electric Forest, Electric Forest 2018, electronic, electronic dance music, electronic music, florence and the machine, Happier, Happier Marshmello, Happy Man, Happy Man Jungle, Hayden James, Hayley Kiyoko, High As Hope, indie, indie music, indie pop, indie pop music, indie rock, indie rock music, james bay, jungle, Kiiara, Kygo, Loud Luxury, Marshmello, Marshmello ft. Bastille, Music, music is sacred, music review, NUMB, NUMB Hayden James, pop, pop music, Safe, Safe Bay Ledges, Saturday Sun, Saturday Sun Vance Joy, spotify, top songs of 2018, top tunes of 2018, trop house, trop house music, tropical house, tropical house music, vance joy, Wanderlust, Whippin, Whippin Kiiara, years & years on December 27, 2018 by prostreetcross. Leave a comment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line878015"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6553564071655273,"wiki_prob":0.6553564071655273,"text":"Home / A Portrait of Magritte by Markus Pierson (2001)\nA Portrait of Magritte by Markus Pierson (2001)\nProduct Code: SG089\nMarkus Pierson began his professional life as an accountant in his early 20’s. after a near-fatal bout with Crohn’s disease in early 1985, Pierson declared the accountant “dead” and in his place was a man pursuing his dream to become a successful artist.\nPierson's coyote series was born in June of 1986, after Markus heard the Joni Mitchell song, “coyote.” the song centered on its main character, simply referred to as “coyote,” a reckless, footloose wanderer who would entice woman only to leave them behind for the next adventure. Pierson aspired to be the carefree coyote described in those lyrics and did something he’d never done before or since: made a drawing of a song.\nIn the decades that followed, Pierson's work has evolved to include a vast array of paintings, drawings, sculpture, hand-pulled serigraphs and original found-object works. Over time, the metaphor of the coyote has taken on a more poignant and profound purpose. At its essence, the work urges us to pursue our dreams, wear our hearts on our sleeves, and to celebrate all of life’s ups and downs.\nM. Pierson has had nearly one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries across America, Australia and New Zealand, museum exhibitions and representation at international art fairs including Art Miami, Sofa Chicago, Chicago Contemporary & Classic, and many others. Markus has amassed a collector base including museums, heads of state, major corporations and celebrities worldwide.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1108791"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6603463888168335,"wiki_prob":0.3396536111831665,"text":"Film ID: YFA 16\nHULL VICTORY CELEBRATIONS (1945)\nMade by Debenham & Co, Beverley, this film records the City of Hull’s Victory in Europe Celebrations, May 1945; it includes extensive footage of all servicemen and women who participated in the victory processions and salute at Victoria Square.\nNEAR AND FAR (1945)\nThis is a film from the Noel Beardsell Collection of family trips to Flamborough, Wentworth Woodhouse, and London.\nFilm ID: YFA 176\nBEVERLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDERS DAY (1942)\nOn June 18th, 1942, a Founder's Day ceremony took place at Beverley Minster. It was attended by the Lord Mayor, members of the clergy, army cadets and scouts. Members of the local community were also in attendance. The film was made by Ernest Symmons who owned the Beverley Playhouse Cinema. He filmed local events for newsreels which he would show before a main feature.\nSALUTE THE SOLDIER (1944)\nThis film documents a fund raising event for the Green Howards, an infamous Yorkshire regiment. Salute the Soldier week features a procession from international regiments, speeches from senior military leaders (Charles De Gaule is possibly in attendance) and local dignitaries. Other fund raisings schemes include an open air service.\nWINGS FOR VICTORY (1943)\nThis film records the events of 'Wings for Victory' week held in Bridlington and District 12th to 19th June 1943. The military agencies and local community join to raise money to pay for new aeroplanes that will be used to help Britain win the Second World War.\nHOMEGUARD 1 (1942)\nPart one of a training film made by the army in Yorkshire that shows the best methods of camouflage and fieldcraft for the Home Guard. Using short clips of film footage and intertitles are used throughout to explain the right and wrong way to carry out their certain manoeuvres.\nPart two of a training film made by the army in Yorkshire that shows the best methods of camouflage and fieldcraft for the Home Guard. Using short clips of film footage and intertitles the film explains the right and wrong way to carry out their duties.\nPart three of a training film made by the army in Yorkshire that shows the best methods of camouflage and fieldcraft for the Home Guard. Using short clips of film footage and intertitles the film explains the right and wrong way to carry out their duties.\nBRIDLINGTON WARSHIPS WEEK (1940)\nThis film records the events of a 'Warship Week' fundraising appeal held in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Each day different events would be held to encourage people to donate money to help build warships for the war effort. Intertitles would precede the events of each day that celebrated Home Front services.\nCIVIL DEFENCE (1941)\nThis amateur film, set in Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, shows clear examples of the work that different Home Front agencies undertook during war time. As well as capturing a Warship Week in the heart of the town, the film includes interesting scenes showing a female ARP officer going about her work.\nVISIT OF LADY MOUNTBATTEN (1942)\nThis is a film from Bridlington showing various events during 1942, including a campaign to forge links between the youth of Britain and America, a visit by Lady Mountbatten, Armistice Sunday, a procession of wartime service personnel, and a celebration of the victory in Libya.\nA SCRAP OF PAPER (1919)\nThis film, made by Debenham & Co. of York, was made in order to raise money for the dependents of war casualties as well as soldiers disabled during the conflicts of World War I. It features a mixture of drama and actuality footage.\nKING GEORGE AND QUEEN VISIT HULL (1941)\nThis E.F. Symmons film documents the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Kingston-upon- Hull in August 1941. All in black and white, it contains some superb footage of the damage to Hull’s buildings caused by the Luftwaffe, many close-up shots of the visiting Royals, and depicts the amazing resilience of the people of Hull even in the face of the destruction of their homes and communities.\nKINGSTON UPON HULL PEACE DAY CELEBRATIONS (1946)\nThis film features a Commemoration for the members of the police force who lost their lives fighting in World War Two.\nTHE WRECKED ROHILLA (1914)\nTopical Budget newsreel 167-1 (4/11/1914)\nOriginal film held by British Film Institute\nON THE WAR PATH AND SPORT'S DAY (1950s)\nMade by Bill Freeman, this film contains a variety of footage from the 1950s including scenes of Hilderthrope Primary School, Bridlington Spa, and a school sports day.\nVISIT OF US AMBASSADOR (1941)\nThis film documents the Viscount and Lady Halifax's visit to Hull in 1941. They have come to visit the city after The Blitz during World War II. The day begins at the Dorchester theatre where they view the film and are presented with a wooden engraved case containing the film. They also visit a refuge for people whose homes have been bombed and look at the worst hit sites of the city.\nPEACE DAY 1946 FREEDOM OF HULL (1946)\nThis film documents the Peace Day celebrations in Hull. It includes troop and cadet inspections as well as a parade of the East Yorkshire Regiment and accompanying parties through the city.\nCIVIL DEFENCE WEST PARK (1962)\nIn 1962, a Civil Defence Rally was held in West Park, Hull. This rally was different from previous events as it brought together all defence volunteers from across the Yorkshire region. This film documents the activities surrounding the event from initial preparations, set up in the park, defence displays, informational marquees, and musical entertainment and is accompanied by commentary explaining the events.\nMILITARY RACE (1916)\nThis film, made by Debenham & Co., documents a military race at the Beverley Racecourse on Saturday, 29th April, 1916. The cross-country race was organized by the Northern Command Cross-Country Association and included 435 starters. Upwards of 250 men finished the 6.5 mile race including winner Lance Corporal Chapell.\nTERRITORIALS ARRIVING IN BEVERLEY SUNDAY JULY 25TH 1937 PART ONE (1937)\nThis is the first part of a two part film of the Territorial Army in Beverley. This part shows them arriving in Beverley, marching to the Westwood where they are have set up camp and are cooking.\nTERRITORIALS ARRIVING IN BEVERLEY SUNDAY JULY 25TH 1937 PART TWO (1937)\nThis is the second part of a two part film of the Territorial Army in Beverley. This part shows them camped in the Westwood, cooking and eating.\nRAF BEVERLEY SCENES (1942)\nThis is a film of the RAF in Beverley, with a march through Beverley – made alongside another film, ‘Inspection of the ATC 399 (Beverley)', YFA number 5158.\nINSPECTION OF THE ATC 399 (BEVERLEY) (1942)\nThis is a film of Beverley Air Training Corp on parade through the Market Square – made alongside another film, ‘RAF Beverley Scenes’, YFA number 5157.\n(-) Remove WARTIME filter WARTIME\n(-) Remove East filter East\nNorth (1) Apply North filter","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line823528"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6136848330497742,"wiki_prob":0.38631516695022583,"text":"Princess’s possessions to go up at auction in Sussex\nPart of the 19th century ruby and diamond brooch\nMaria Hudd\nA small group of items originally owned by Princess Margaret are to be sold at auction in Sussex later this month.\nThey were among a collection that provoked a bidding frenzy at Christies in 2006, when 1,000 people packed into four salerooms, all trying to acquire a piece of royal history.\nA 1967 aquamarine brooch made by John Donald\nEverything in the sale sold for many times its estimated value, and the four lots being offered for sale in Sussex were all bought that day.\nA 1967 aquamarine brooch made by John Donald, which has the Princess’s ‘M’ monogram on the reverse, is a classic piece of retro designer jewellery. The pre-sale estimate is £5,000-10,000.\nAlso included is a 19th century ruby and diamond brooch, again monogrammed on the reverse, and again estimated at £5,000-10,000.\nA 19th century silver figure of a Hussar on horseback was given to the Princess as a wedding gift from the King’s Royal Hussars in 1960, and was on display in the dining room of her private apartment in Kensington Palace. The estimate is £5,000-7,000.\nThe final lot is a group of books on ballet which were presented to the Princess, and all have been signed by the various authors and dancers, with dedications. This group is estimated at £2,000-3,000.\nEach item comes with a leather bound document or provenance signed by Viscount Linley, under who the original sale was instructed.\nThe sale will take place at Burstow and Hewett of Battle on Wednesday, September 19 as part of an auction of antique and modern jewellery, silver, and fine art.\nFor more details, visit www.burstowandhewett.co.uk.\nMagistrates Court results for the Eastbourne area for June 19 - 27","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line332750"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6666471362113953,"wiki_prob":0.33335286378860474,"text":"Barbells, books and beer\nMost of the good things in life begin with \"B\"\nLa Perle des Antilles\nOn November 7, 2018 By expatpowerlifterIn 3rd World, Cultural differences, Dealing with adversity, haiti, travel\nThis may sound maudlin, but sometimes hate does turn into love and sometimes, if you’re in the right frame of mind, a challenging situation is indeed an opportunity. By the time I left home at 18, I had moved house 17 times in 3 continents, 4 countries, 3 US states and the District of Columbia. One of those places, for better or worse, was to have a major influence on my life. In the early 70s my family moved to Haiti for what was supposed be “a few years”.\nIf nature abhors a vacuum, it’s equally true that young children abhor uncertain, chaotic situations. So let me reiterate what I just said in the paragraph above – it was the 1970s (an era, in retrospect, when everyone was seemingly flying by the seat of their pants) and I had just landed in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, a 3rd world country ruled by secret police and a “president for life” dictator. Oh, and we didn’t speak the language (creole). My parents spoke French and my sister and I had spoken French as younger children but at that point had forgotten it after a few years in inner-city DC. (Haiti was\\is considered a francophone country but the reality is that the vast majority of the population do not speak French.)\nMy father’s job allowed us to have a comfortable life of a higher standard than we’d just had in DC, complete with a pool and servants. I was in a new school (again), and as per usual most of the kids had known each other since infancy. While it was an “American” school, most of the kids flat-out spoke creole amongst themselves outside of class. I was told we’d move again in a few years so it seemed sort of pointless to learn the language and otherwise get attached to this place that I wasn’t overly fond of.\nIt wasn’t all bad, of course, because in spite of extreme poverty and political corruption, Haiti was – and is – a country unlike no other. There is natural beauty (including the best beaches I’ve ever seen anywhere), an extremely vibrant culture and great cuisine. I might have been a moody little git, but it’s hard not to like pate, poulet creole and fresco gwenadin ak pistache griye (shaved ice with grenadine syrup and grilled peanuts – trust me). However, what really burned Haiti into my memory, and not in a good way, was the final breakdown of my parents’ marriage and also a fairly scary health issue my mother encountered. I had made friends and was doing OK in school but I really couldn’t wait to see the last of that country.\nLeave we did, and for a few brief years my sister, my mother and I ping-ponged around the US Midwest and East Coast. Somewhere along the line I made a fetish out of “normalcy”. I longed to fit in, to be as vanilla as possible, to blend into the crowd. Finally, we ended up in incredibly small-minded town in the metropolitan Boston area as my mother worked ridiculous hours, raised 2 kids and pursued her degrees in arguably the best university in the US. My “normalcy” campaign was an abject failure. Sure, I had made a few friends and had become reasonably proficient at baseball but I was far from what you’d call popular. In fact, I received more than my share of shit, straight up bullying, at school because I was a shy, geeky, pimply new kid (entirely on me) but also because of my family situation (beyond my control). At roughly the same time I discovered the martial arts and latched on with laser focus. I trained 4 hours a day 5 times a week so after a year or 2 I began to get fairly proficient. The better I got, the more local notoriety I received and, for the most part, the bullying stopped. After a fight or 2, kids decided to pursue easier targets.\nNevertheless, I was miserable anywhere outside of a dojo, and school, especially, was the 9th circle of hell. I began to skip obscene amounts of school. Towards the end, I was skipping every Monday and Friday. To this day, I’m not sure how I got away with it, but let’s just say that my middle school was a bit of a chaotic, Lord of the Flies situation for students and teachers alike. Most kids probably would have fallen in with a bad element at this point but honestly, I was too geeky to be accepted by the “bad element”. Skipping school was the limit of my rebellion.\nAll miserable things must come to an end so, eventually, the day came when my mother sat my sister and I down to announce that we’d be going back to Haiti for a brief period so she could finish her doctoral thesis. Looking back, as the divorced parent of 2 children, I appreciate the courage behind her decision. As a self-involved young teenager, naturally, my first thought was “WTF, why me and why, of all the places in the world, there???” And I didn’t want to leave my dojo, the one place that I fit in. Soon thereafter, however, the school administration finally noticed my laughable attendance record and the dragnet began to close in. Suddenly, a few months in the Caribbean didn’t seem like such a bad idea.\nIn no time at all, we were back in Port-au-Prince. This time, though, the experience was going to be radically different. My sister and I were older and there was less “family drama” to complicate things further. On the other hand, we had very little money and were operating well and truly without a safety net. Money equals power everywhere, but even more so in desperately poor countries. The 3 of us lived in 1 rented room for the first few months. In adult terms, we had only been gone for a few years, but as an early adolescent it seemed like decades.\nIt was like “The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao” in reverse, only I was painfully skinny (we all were back then) and incredibly “blan”. Even my Irish-American schoolmates in Boston used to give out to me for how pale I am…so while my school in PauP reflected all the colors in the rainbow, I selflessly anchored the far gringo end of the chromatic spectrum. The similarities with the book, however, outweighed the differences: it was the very early 80s, I was on the island of Hispaniola and, oh yes indeedy, was very socially awkward.\nMy mother had managed, by dint of a level of hustle one rarely sees these days, to send us to our old school. This was notable because it’s a private school and as I mentioned above, she had very limited funds at that point. (In fact, I’m fairly certain her income was poverty level by US standards, but in Haiti in those days it was “middle-class”. One didn’t often see an entire “blan” family with limited means (and, at the time, limited connections) so it’s accurate to say we were a rarity.) My classmates were an interesting mix of Haitian elite (the 1 percent), embassy brats, some missionary kids and a few odd-ball cases like my sister and I. It was a weird mix by anybody’s standards. The 14 year old kid on my left might have a Patek Philippe on his wrist and had driven himself to school in his BMW while the kid on my right could be a snuff-dipping South Carolina redneck in training. Every high school has cliques and subcultures, but this place added class and a wider range of socio-political issues to boot. (We had, for example, Lebanese, Palestinians and Israelis in our school – which made for an interesting period after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982).\nI also searched around for a new dojo – one that I could get to via public transportation (aka Tap-taps, camionettes and “publiques” (ancient communal taxis of a sort) and we could afford. We eventually found one and I began training with my new dojo mates. It was my first real re-introduction to unadulterated Haitian culture. Nobody spoke English, just Creole (mostly) and French (sorta). It was a real old school dojo, with the old-school “recitation of the credo” before every training session, all counting and technique names in Japanese and, distressingly (for me) they insisted on wearing a full gi at all times. Wearing a full gi while performing intense physical exercise in a stifling, non-air-conditioned dojo in a tropical country was, shall we say, challenging at first. I puked a few times and passed out at least once before my body adjusted. That being said, my dojo mates and instructors where really cool guys and surprisingly accepting of the goofy “sans-ave” “blanmana” that was deposited in their midst. Oh, and they were the most flexible bunch I had ever run into, capable of doing full splits with little or no warm-up. Long after I finally gave up the martial arts, I’d often run into guys from the old dojo whilst out and about in PauP/Petionville and they were always extremely cool.\nIn spite of a very modest living situation, a certain amount of culture-shock, a high-school environment on steroids and being the new kid once again I couldn’t honestly say that my level of adolescent angst and general miserableness was worse than it was in the States. Still, I longed to return to Boston and continue training with my original dojo. This might seem strange but as I’ve said before, karate was the only thing in my life that was entirely mine in which I had achieved a certain level of success and notoriety. However, as the months wore on, it became increasingly obvious that a “short stint” in Haiti was becoming a longer, more open-ended affair.\nIt’s fully to my mother’s credit that she allowed me to return to Boston and my old dojo. Much credit also goes to first instructor and mentor, P, as he agreed to do the heavy lifting transportation wise, waiving the already cheap monthly fees, etc. Be that as it may, I was essentially a young teenager living with very nice strangers back in the same damn town. I realized 2 things very quickly: a) I missed my mother and sister a whole lot and b) man, did I ever hate that town. I had always thought the fault was squarely on me but I realized the town sucked, too. It seemed to dislike me, and I , it. I remember a visceral feeling of suffocation and it dawned on me that there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of its’ philosophy. As much as I hated to leave my original dojo, I felt, surprisingly, a very strong desire to return to Haiti.\nSo, in very short order, I found myself back in funky ol’ PauP. My living situation hadn’t changed, it was still as “challenging” as ever, but my attitude had. I was still miserable, but I realized that non-stop moaning wasn’t solving anything. I eventually learned creole, made a number of friends (many of them outside of school) and, hell yes, even met girls. I returned back to my PauP dojo for a time, at least. After a few years, we had a very small, old school traditional shotgun style house on a hill overlooking downtown PauP. It was filled to the tin roof with books that we had brought and that various of my mother’s university colleagues had left which was key as we didn’t have a TV. Hell, the phone didn’t even work half the time. Those books saved my sanity and gave me a painless “by osmosis” education that saved my *ss in school. Boredom is a very powerful motivator, one that is increasingly rare these days. My sister eventually left for college, leaving just my mother and I. My mother’s various jobs often took her into countryside for days at time which effectively left me, by this time an older teenager, alone. I know what you’re thinking, and you wouldn’t be totally wrong (see above re: friends and girls). I learned a number of valuable lessons, like it’s possible to get by on 2 gourdes worth of fritaille a day in a pinch and who I could sell my clothes to if my friends and I had prematurely blown the food budget on parties.\nIt’s worth noting that in some respects the Haiti I am referring to no longer exists. At that time it was far safer than most US cities at the time. While I did run into some issues whilst literally running in the streets, it was pretty tame. I routinely cut through slums, on foot, at all hours of the day. We’d do things like hop a tap-tap (or hitchhike) to Grand Goave (a town on the coast outside of Port-au-Prince) to watch a voudun ceremony, drink rum and return back home the next morning. Crime and insecurity was not really a factor in those days, as crazy as that sounds now. I often wonder if our ultra low-budget, no connection having re-introduction to Haiti as described above would do-able these days. I’m not sure it would be.\nHaiti is a complex place, one that you hate and love simultaneously. It’s “The land of unlimited impossibilities” that’s always capable of breaking your heart.\nhaitilife lessonsthird culture kidstravel\nWhen life don’t give you squat, squat gives you life.\nWhat to do when you don’t feel like training…\nVeganism and Strength Sports May 26, 2019\nTo sleep, perchance to dream… January 11, 2019\nAn ode to fringe activities… January 1, 2019\nWhat to do when you don’t feel like training… December 30, 2018\nLa Perle des Antilles November 7, 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line785104"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8650224804878235,"wiki_prob":0.8650224804878235,"text":"Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism (http://www.iowawatch.org/2017/09/02/an-iowa-desperados-greatest-sorrow/)\nIowa History\nAn Iowa Desperado’s Greatest Sorrow\nBy Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa History | September 2, 2017\nMore on Iowa History\nSubscribe to Iowa History\nCourtesy Library of Congress\nPolk Wells was sentenced to life in prison.\n“Aside from the overt criminal acts described and a too liberal use of profanity, my life has been approximately pure and correct,” Polk Wells said from his prison cell at Anamosa, Iowa. And he swore he never used liquor or tobacco.\nHowever, during his lifetime the words “desperado,” “bandit,” and “wanted: dead or alive” were frequently seen in connection with Polk Wells. And according to an 1895 article in the New York Times, he was the “greatest of Iowa desperadoes.”\nIowa History, a weekly column, appears at IowaWatch on Saturdays.\nCheryl Mullenbach is a former history teacher, newspaper editor, and public television project manager. She is the author of four non-fiction books for young people. Double Victory was featured on C-SPAN’s “Book TV” and The Industrial Revolution for Kids was selected for “Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People.” Her most recent book, Women in Blue traces the evolution of women in policing.\nVisit her website at: www.cherylmullenbachink.com\nWells blamed his early life of crime on a mean stepmother. Running away from his Missouri home at the age of 12, he won a pot of money in a poker game, bought a “cowboy’s outfit,” and headed west. After spending several years roaming throughout the western territories, Wells returned to Missouri in 1872 and married Nora Wilson. He went into the grocery and liquor business, but wasn’t successful as an entrepreneur. He left his wife and baby but promised to return.\nWhen Wells returned to Nora two years later, she had married a man named Al Warnica. According to Wells, “Warnica was a hard-working young fellow, and I determined not to interfere, for there had been no intentional wrongdoing. I gave him $300 to buy a team, kissed Nora good-bye, mounted my horse, and rode away to the West.”\nWells quickly fell into a life of crime—committing highway robberies and robbing banks throughout several states. He killed a Mormon bishop in Utah in 1876. And in July 1881 he stole a couple of horses from a farmer near Sidney in southwest Iowa and rode to neighboring Riverton where he robbed the bank of $4,600.\nFremont County Sheriff Dan Farrell put together a posse of local citizens, and they took off over the prairie in pursuit of Wells. The sheriff followed Wells all the way to Randolph, Wis., where a shoot-out occurred. Carrying at least three bullets in his body from Sheriff Farrell’s gun, Wells was taken back to Iowa. (Wells once claimed his body housed 27 bullets from various encounters over his career.)\nBack in Iowa, Sheriff Farrell collected a $1,000 reward; and Wells pleaded guilty to highway robbery and was sentenced to 10 years at Fort Madison Penitentiary. Only a month into his sentence, Wells escaped by overpowering a prison guard with chloroform; and the guard, John Elder, died.\nWhile on the run, Wells hid out in a haystack in the barn of a family named Winterbottom. Word of the prisoner’s escape had traveled fast, and Mrs. Winterbottom convinced her husband to check out the barn. Taking his pitchfork along as a precaution, the farmer plunged the fork into the hay pile, striking Wells in the head, neck and breast. But the prisoner managed to wrestle the weapon from Winterbottom and took off across the countryside.\nWells hid out for several days but was recaptured and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the guard. He passed time by studying, practicing Christianity and giving talks at the prison Sunday school. He became a skilled leather tooler. Officials said he was a model prisoner. He wrote a book about his life of crime and had received an offer from a publisher but was holding out for more money according to an interview he gave to the New York Times in 1895.\nPolk Wells died of consumption at Anamosa prison in September 1896. Before he died, Wells said his greatest sorrow was hearing a mother threaten her kids, saying she would give them to Polk Wells if they didn’t behave. “I floundered in the lowest depths of shame and remorse at having my name used as a cudgel to coerce little children into submission and obedience,” Wells said.\n©www.CherylMullenbachInk.com\n• “Career of Polk Wells,” Des Moines Register, Sept. 13, 1896.\n• “Iowa’s Famed Desperado,” New York Times, Jan. 29, 1895.\n• “Polk Wells Dead,” Perry Daily Chief,” Sept. 13, 1896.\n• “Polk Wells Dies in Prison,” Estherville Daily News, Sept. 18, 1896.\n• “Wanted: Polk Wells, Dead or Alive—$1,500 Reward,” Washington Citizen, March 14, 1947.\n• “Western Bandits Caught,” New York Times, Feb. 27, 1882.\nIowa History, a weekly column by Cheryl Mullenbach exploring Iowa history, will appear on IowaWatch on Saturdays. Mullenbach is a former history teacher, newspaper editor, and public television project manager. She is the author of four non-fiction books for young people. Double Victory was featured on C-SPAN’s “Book TV” and The Industrial Revolution for Kids was selected for “Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People.” Visit her website at http://www.cherylmullenbachink.com/.\nAnamosa\ndesperadoes\nEstherville Daily News\nIowa murders\nIowa state prison\nPolk Wells\nThe Prairie City Bank Robbery That Ended In An Iowa Cornfield\nIt was about 1:30 in the morning on October 28, 1902, when Prairie City dentist, Dr. S. B. Gidford, woke up in his room across the street from the bank. As he stuck his head out a window, a “loaded 44-caliber Colt” was “presented to his face” by a stranger who told him his life was “worth less than 30 cents.”\nIs This What We Want From Our State?\nFree Speech Is For Those We Disagree With, Too","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line148071"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6813157200813293,"wiki_prob":0.31868427991867065,"text":"Aston Martin Zagato Production\nAston Martin Zagato\nRather than segregating its racing pedigree from its consumer-facing arm, Aston Martin has decided to turn it to good use.\nThe V12 Zagato race car has been tweaked to allow it to go into full production and is expected to make an official appearance at Kuwait’s Concours d’Elegance this weekend.\nUnder the hood is a six-liter V12 engine churning out 510 horsepower, which produces a 0-60 mph time of 4.2 seconds and a top speed of 190 mph.\nAll of the styling of the racing version of the Zagato has been kept the same, except for a few minor modifications to the body required for the track. Unfortunately, Aston has decided to limit production of the car to just 150 pieces, and slapped a £330,000 price tag on the side.\nThe current V12 Vantage can be picked up for some £200,000 less. Then again, it’s not quite the same as knowing your Aston can drive flat-out for 24 hours and still turn heads.\n11 Summer-Approved Sheet Sets\nReady For a New Bed? These Mattresses Hold Up\n15 Dads Share Their Experiences of Fatherhood and Entrepreneurship\nEverything You Need to Know Before You Commit to a Bed and Make the Investment\nWin Barbecue Season With These Chef-Approved Grilling Tools","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line422026"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.722871720790863,"wiki_prob":0.27712827920913696,"text":"As a new bride, I pledged to be strong after second breast cancer diagnosis\nJuanita Johnson Anderson, 57, elected to have a double masectomy following her second diagnosis in 2013. Today, she is cancer free.\nAs a new bride, I pledged to be strong after second breast cancer diagnosis Juanita Johnson Anderson, 57, elected to have a double masectomy following her second diagnosis in 2013. Today, she is cancer free. Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/opinion/guest-columnists/2016/10/02/new-bride-pledges-strong-after-second-breast-cancer-diagnosis/91148014/\nJuanita Johnson Anderson, Guest columnist Published 6:00 a.m. CT Oct. 2, 2016 | Updated 10:17 a.m. CT Oct. 3, 2016\nJuanita Anderson(Photo: Special to The Times)Buy Photo\nEDITOR'S NOTE: Throughout the month of October, The Times will periodically publish reader-submitted accounts of surviving breast cancer. Juanita Johnson Anderson, 57, is a breast cancer survivor who elected to have a double masectomy following her second diagnosis in 2013. Today, she is cancer free. This column has been edited for clarity and length.\nMy first breast cancer diagnosis came in 2007, followed by a lumpectomy (a procedure in which a portion of the breast is removed.)\nWhat should have been eight weeks of treatment turned into 12 because of infection, which led to hospitalization. They tried Tamoxifen (a medication used to treat breast cancer). But I had a reaction to it and there was nothing else at the time. There was a six-year period during which it could return, and it did.\nIn 2013, I was a new bride having just been married in June.\nOne morning, in August of that same year, my husband touched an area of my breast asking, “Is that painful?\" What I thought! I looked in the mirror, closed my eyes, said a prayer and called my doctor. The lump was inflamed.\nWhen my mother and I walked across the street to the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center that same month she told me,”you are about to get some news that is going to be hard to hear, but know that God has you.”\nStill, cancer is the hardest word to hear besides you are pregnant.\nThroughout my life, I’ve tried to keep a positive outlook and a good sense of humor. Ecclesiastes 3:1-12 is the chapter of seasons. \"Nothing happens without reason and in due season.\"\nMy doctor looked at me and said, “I am sorry. It came back, and I need to remove the whole breast. Once again, I closed my eyes, the tears slowly started to fall, I said a prayer. Looking at him I said, \"OK, let’s talk. When can we do this? Is there a possibility that it can come back in the second breast? How long will I be down? And the most important one, pain medication afterwards, right?\"\nThroughout the month of October, The Times will periodically publish reader-submitted accounts of surviving breast cancer. (Photo: Courtesy photo)\nI was determined to be strong. I decided to have them both removed. I endured four strong treatments of chemotherapy that started on my birthday Sept. 27, 2013.\nI wiped my head one morning in bed and all my hair was on the pillow, I took a shower to remove the fuzz. I was crying again because I was tired. I could not take Neulasta shot, it caused legions all over my head and a huge one in my back that had to be surgically removed. What was planned as a day surgery turned into an eight-day stay.\nI have strong support from family, friends, church family and total FAITH. I broke down, depression set in, anger, a total sense of loss, mourning a free spirited life to one of almost a recluse.\nI still cry. My mother gave me a scripture one day and told me to read it; to make me stronger — Psalms 121.\nI have no feeling in the breast area right now, nor my right underarm. I speak to people about breast cancer and encourage them to get their exams. Breast cancer runs deep in my fathers’ side of the family, my sister two years older endured the same thing in her twenties.\nDoctors report today Sept. 20 is that I'm cancer free. I still cry today, but it is because I am a SURVIVOR.\nThroughout the month of October, The Times will periodically publish reader-submitted accounts of surviving breast cancer. Submit your story by emailing yourstories@shreveporttimes.com. Stories will be accepted through Sept. 30 and should be no longer than 500 words.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/opinion/guest-columnists/2016/10/02/new-bride-pledges-strong-after-second-breast-cancer-diagnosis/91148014/\nAvallone: Mayor's apology doesn't go far enough","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line843451"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7978852987289429,"wiki_prob":0.7978852987289429,"text":"HOME • META SEARCH • TRANSLATE\nRace and ethnicity in the United States Census Information\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census\nTable of Contents ⇨\ninformation collected by self-identification in the U.S. census\nRace and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity). [1] [2]\nThe racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be and, \"generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country.\" [3] OMB defines the concept of race as outlined for the US Census as not \"scientific or anthropological\" and takes into account \"social and cultural characteristics as well as ancestry\", using \"appropriate scientific methodologies\" that are not \"primarily biological or genetic in reference.\" [4] The race categories include both racial and national-origin groups. [5]\nRace and ethnicity are considered separate and distinct identities, with Hispanic or Latino origin asked as a separate question. Thus, in addition to their race or races, all respondents are categorized by membership in one of two ethnic categories, which are \"Hispanic or Latino\" and \"Not Hispanic or Latino\". However, the practice of separating \"race\" and \"ethnicity\" as different categories has been criticized both by the American Anthropological Association and members of US Commission on Civil Rights. [6] [7]\nIn 1997, OMB issued a Federal Register notice regarding revisions to the standards for the classification of federal data on race and ethnicity. [8] OMB developed race and ethnic standards in order to provide \"consistent data on race and ethnicity throughout the Federal Government. The development of the data standards stem in large measure from new responsibilities to enforce civil rights laws.\" Among the changes, OMB issued the instruction to \"mark one or more races\" after noting evidence of increasing numbers of interracial children and wanting to capture the diversity in a measurable way and having received requests by people who wanted to be able to acknowledge their or their children's full ancestry rather than identifying with only one group. Prior to this decision, the Census and other government data collections asked people to report only one race. [3]\n1 How data on race and ethnicity are used\n2 Brief overview of race and ethnicity in the US Census's history\n2.1 18th and 19th centuries\n2.1.1 1790 Census\n2.1.1.1 Loss of data\n2.1.1.2 Data\n2.1.1.3 Contemporary perception\n2.1.1.4 Data availability\n2.2 1800 & 1810 census\n2.3 20th century\n2.3.10 2000 Census\n2.4 21st century\n3 Relation between ethnicity and race in census results\n4 Other agencies\nHow data on race and ethnicity are used\nThe OMB states, \"many federal programs are put into effect based on the race data obtained from the decennial census (i.e., promoting equal employment opportunities; assessing racial disparities in health and environmental risks). Race data are also critical for the basic research behind many policy decisions. States require these data to meet legislative redistricting requirements. The data are needed to monitor compliance with the Voting Rights Act by local jurisdictions\".\n\"Data on ethnic groups are important for putting into effect a number of federal statutes (i.e., enforcing bilingual election rules under the Voting Rights Act; monitoring and enforcing equal employment opportunities under the Civil Rights Act). Data on Ethnic Groups are also needed by local governments to run programs and meet legislative requirements (i.e., identifying segments of the population who may not be receiving medical services under the Public Health Act; evaluating whether financial institutions are meeting the credit needs of minority populations under the Community Reinvestment Act).\" [5]\nBrief overview of race and ethnicity in the US Census's history\nFurther information: Race and ethnicity in the United States\nExternal image\n\"Government Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data\", Center for American Progress, February 6, 2015. An illustrated history of the racial and ethnic categories used in the US Census from 1790 through 2010. [9]\nTitle page of 1790 United States Census\nThe 1790 United States Census was the first census in the history of the United States. The population of the United States was recorded as 3,929,214 as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution and applicable laws. [10]\n\"The law required that every household be visited, that completed census schedules be posted in 'two of the most public places within [each jurisdiction], there to remain for the inspection of all concerned...' and that 'the aggregate amount of each description of persons' for every district be transmitted to the president.\" [11] This law along with U.S. marshals were responsible for governing the census.\nLoss of data\nApproximately one third of the original census data has been lost or destroyed since documentation. The data was lost in 1790–1830 time period and included data from: Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, and Virginia; however, the census was proven factual and the existence of most of these data can be confirmed in many secondary sources pertaining to the first census. [12] [13]\nCensus data included the name of the head of the family and categorized inhabitants as follows: free white males at least 16 years of age (to assess the country's industrial and military potential), free white males under 16 years of age, free white females, all other free persons (reported by sex and color), and slaves. [14] Thomas Jefferson, then the Secretary of State, directed marshals to collect data from all thirteen states ( Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia), and from the Southwest Territory. [11] The census was not conducted in Vermont until 1791, after that state's admission to the Union as the 14th state on March 4 of that year.\nFree white males at least 16 years of age, including heads of families.\nFree white males under 16 years.\nFree white females, including heads of families.\nAll other free persons.\nSlaves.\nVermont 22,435 22,328 40,505 255 16 [a] [15] 85,539 [b]\nNew Hampshire 36,086 34,851 70,160 630 158 141,885\nMaine 24,384 24,748 46,870 538 0 96,540\nMassachusetts 95,453 87,289 190,582 5,463 0 378,787 [c] [16]\nRhode Island 16,019 15,799 32,652 3,407 948 68,825\nConnecticut 60,523 54,403 117,448 2,808 2,764 237,946\nNew York 83,700 78,122 152,320 4,654 21,324 340,120\nNew Jersey 45,251 41,416 83,287 2,762 11,423 184,139\nPennsylvania 110,788 106,948 206,363 6,537 3,737 434,373\nDelaware 11,783 12,143 22,384 3,899 8,887 59,094 [d]\nMaryland 55,915 51,339 101,395 8,043 103,036 319,728\nVirginia 110,936 116,135 215,046 12,866 292,627 747,610 [e] [16]\nKentucky 15,154 17,057 28,922 114 12,430 73,677\nNorth Carolina 69,988 77,506 140,710 4,975 100,572 393,751\nSouth Carolina 35,576 37,722 66,880 1,801 107,094 249,073\nGeorgia 13,103 14,044 25,739 398 29,264 82,548\nTotal 807,094 791,850 1,541,263 59,150 694,280 3,893,635\n^ The census of 1790, published in 1791, reports 16 slaves in Vermont. Subsequently, and up to 1860, the number is given as 17. An examination of the original manuscript allegedly shows that there never were any slaves in Vermont. The original error occurred in preparing the results for publication, when 16 persons, returned as \"Free colored\", were classified as \"Slave\". But this claim is disputed by at least one historian.\n^ Corrected figures are 85,425, or 114 less than the figures published in 1790, due to an error of addition in the returns for each of the towns of Fairfield, Milton, Shelburne, and Williston, in the county of Chittenden; Brookfield, Newbury, Randolph, and Strafford, in the county of Orange; Castleton, Clarendon, Hubbardton, Poultney, Rutland, Shrewsburg, and Wallingford, in the county of Rutland; Dummerston, Guilford, Halifax, and Westminster, in the county of Windham; and Woodstock, in the county of Windsor.\n^ The figures for Massachusetts do not include the population of Maine. Though Maine was then a part of Massachusetts, the Maine figures were compiled separately, and are shown on the line for Maine.\n^ Corrected figures are 59,096, or 2 more than figures published in 1790, due to error in addition.\n^ The figures for Virginia do not include the population of Kentucky. Though Kentucky was then a part of Virginia, the Kentucky figures were compiled separately, and are shown on the line for Kentucky. The Virginia figures do include the portion of Virginia that later became the state of West Virginia.\nContemporary perception\nCommemorative pitcher with census results\nThere was some doubt surrounding the numbers, President George Washington and Thomas Jefferson maintained the population was undercounted. [17] The potential reasons Washington and Jefferson may have thought this could be refusal to participate, poor public transportation and roads, spread out population, and restraints of current technology.\nNo microdata from the 1790 population census is available, but aggregate data for small areas and their compatible cartographic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System.\n1800 & 1810 census\nIn 1800 and 1810, the age question regarding free white males was more detailed. [18]\nThe 1820 Census built on the questions asked in 1810 by asking age questions about slaves. Also the term \"colored\" entered the census nomenclature. In addition, a question stating \"Number of foreigners not naturalized\" was included. [18]\nIn the 1830 Census, a new question which stated \"The number of White persons who were foreigners not naturalized\" was included. [18]\nThe 1850 Census saw a dramatic shift in the way information about residents was collected. For the first time, free persons were listed individually instead of by head of household. There were two questionnaires: one for free inhabitants and one for slaves. The question on the free inhabitants schedule about color was a column that was to be left blank if a person was white, marked \"B\" if a person was black, and marked \"M\" if a person was mulatto. Slaves were listed by owner, and classified by gender and age, not individually, and the question about color was a column that was to be marked with a \"B\" if the slave was black and an \"M\" if mulatto. [18]\nFor the 1870 Census, the color/racial question was expanded to include \"C\" for Chinese, which was a category that included all east Asians, as well as \"I\" for American Indians. [18]\nFor 1890, the Census Office changed the design of the population questionnaire. Residents were still listed individually, but a new questionnaire sheet was used for each family. Additionally, this was the first year that the census distinguished among different Asian ethnic groups, such as Japanese and Chinese, due to increased immigration. This census also marked the beginning of the term \"race\" in the questionnaires. Enumerators were instructed to write \"White\", \"Black\", \" Mulatto\", \" Quadroon\", \" Octoroon\", \"Chinese\", \"Japanese\", or \" Indian\". [18]\nDuring 1900, the \"Color or Race\" question was slightly modified, removing the term \"Mulatto\". Also, there was an inclusion of an \"Indian Population Schedule\" in which \"enumerators were instructed to use a special expanded questionnaire for American Indians living on reservations or in family groups off of reservations.\" This expanded version included the question \"Fraction of person's lineage that is white.\" [18]\nThe 1910 Census was similar to that of 1900, but it included a reinsertion of \"Mulatto\" and a question about the \"mother tongue\" of foreign-born individuals and individuals with foreign-born parents. \"Ot\" was also added to signify \"other races\", with space for a race to be written in. This decade's version of the Indian Population Schedule featured questions asking the individual's proportion of white, black, or American Indian lineage. [18]\nThe 1920 Census questionnaire was similar to 1910, but excluded a separate schedule for American Indians. \"Hin\", \"Kor\", and \"Fil\" were also added to the \"Color or Race\" question, signifying Hindustani (South Asia Indian), Korean, and Filipino, respectively. [18]\nThe biggest change in this year's census was in racial classification. Enumerators were instructed to no longer use the \"Mulatto\" classification. Instead, they were given special instructions for reporting the race of interracial persons. A person with both white and black ancestry (termed \"blood\") was to be recorded as \"Negro,\" no matter the fraction of that lineage (the \" one-drop rule\"). A person of mixed black and American Indian ancestry was also to be recorded as \"Neg\" (for \"Negro\") unless he was considered to be \"predominantly\" American Indian and accepted as such within the community. A person with both White and American Indian ancestry was to be recorded as an Indian, unless his American Indian ancestry was small, and he was accepted as white within the community. In all situations in which a person had White and some other racial ancestry, he was to be reported as that other race. Persons who had minority interracial ancestry were to be reported as the race of their father.\nFor the first and only time, \"Mexican\" was listed as a race. Enumerators were instructed that all persons born in Mexico, or whose parents were born in Mexico, should be listed as Mexicans, and not under any other racial category. But, in prior censuses and in 1940, enumerators were instructed to list Mexican Americans as white, perhaps because some of them were of white background (mainly Spanish), many others mixed white and Native American and some of them Native American.[ citation needed]\nThe Supplemental American Indian questionnaire was back, but in abbreviated form. It featured a question asking if the person was of full or mixed American Indian ancestry. [18] [19]\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt promoted a \"good neighbor\" policy that sought better relations with Mexico. In 1935, a federal judge ruled that three Mexican immigrants were ineligible for citizenship because they were not white, as required by federal law. Mexico protested, and Roosevelt decided to circumvent the decision and make sure the federal government treated Hispanics as white. The State Department, the Census Bureau, the Labor Department, and other government agencies therefore made sure to uniformly classify people of Mexican descent as white. This policy encouraged the League of United Latin American Citizens in its quest to minimize discrimination by asserting their whiteness. [20]\nThe 1940 Census was the first to include separate population and housing questionnaires. [18] The race category of \"Mexican\" was eliminated in 1940, and the population of Mexican descent was counted with the White population. [21]\n1940 Census data was used for Japanese American internment. The Census Bureau's role was denied for decades, but was finally proven in 2007. [22] [23]\nThe 1950 Census questionnaire removed the word \"color\" from the racial question, and also removed Hindu and Korean from the race choices. [18]\nThe 1960 Census re-added the word \"color\" to the racial question, and changed \"Indian\" to \"American Indian\", as well as added Hawaiian, Part-Hawaiian, Aleut, and Eskimo. The Other (print out race) option was removed. [18]\nThis year's census included \"Negro or Black\", re-added Korean and the Other race option. East Indians (the term used at that time for people whose ancestry is from the Indian subcontinent) were counted as White. There was a questionnaire that was asked of only a sample of respondents. These questions were as follows:\na. Where was this person born?\nb. Is this person's origin or descent...\nCentral or South American\nOther Spanish\nWhat country was the person's father born in?\nWhat country was the person's mother born in?\na. For persons born in a foreign country- Is the person naturalized?\nb. When did the person come to the United States to stay?\nWhat language, other than English, was spoken in the person's home as a child?\nNone, only English [18]\nThis year added several options to the race question, including Vietnamese, Indian (East), Guamanian, Samoan, and re-added Aleut. Again, the term \"color\" was removed from the racial question, and the following questions were asked of a sample of respondents:\nIn what state or foreign country was the person born?\nIf this person was born in a foreign country...\na. Is this person a naturalized citizen of the United States?\nb. When did this person come to the United States to stay?\na. Does this person speak a language other than English at home?\nb. If yes, what is this language?\nc. If yes, how well does this person speak English?\nWhat is this person's ancestry? [18]\nThe racial categories in this year are as they appear in the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The following questions were asked of a sample of respondents for the 1990 Census:\nIn what U.S. State or foreign country was this person born?\nIs this person a citizen of the United States?\nIf this person was not born in the United States, when did this person come to the United States to stay? [18]\nThe 1990 Census was not designed to capture multiple racial responses, and when individuals marked the Other race option and provided a multiple write in, the response was assigned according to the race written first. \"For example, a write in of \"Black-White\" was assigned a code of Black, a write in of \"White-Black\" was assigned a code of White.\" [3]\nIn the United States, census data indicate that the number of children in interracial families grew from less than one half million in 1970 to about two million in 1990. In 1990, for interracial families with one white American partner, the other parent...was Asian American for 45 percent... [24]\nRace was asked differently in the 2000 Census in several other ways than previously. Most significantly, respondents were given the option of selecting one or more race categories to indicate racial identities. Data show that nearly seven million Americans identified as members of two or more races. Because of these changes, the 2000 Census data on race are not directly comparable with data from the 1990 Census or earlier censuses. Use of caution is therefore recommended when interpreting changes in the racial composition of the US population over time.\nThe following definitions apply to the 2000 Census only. [25]\nWhite. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as \"White\" or report entries such as Irish, German, English, Scandinavian, Scottish, Near Easterners, Iranian, Lebanese, or Polish. [25]\nBlack or African American. A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as \"Black, African Am.\" or provide written entries such as Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian. [25]\nAmerican Indian and Alaska Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. [25]\nAsian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. It includes \"Asian Indian\", \"Chinese\", \"Filipino\", \"Korean\", \"Japanese\", \"Vietnamese\", and \"Other Asian\". [25]\nNative Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicate their race as \"Native Hawaiian\", \"Guamanian or Chamorro\", \"Samoan\", and \"Other Pacific Islander\". [25]\nSome other race. Includes all other responses not included in the \"White\", \"Black or African American\", \"American Indian and Alaska Native\", \"Asian\" and \"Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander\" race categories described above. Respondents providing write-in entries such as multiracial, mixed, interracial, We-Sort, or a Hispanic/Latino group (for example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) in the \"Some other race\" category are included here. [25]\nTwo or more races. People may have chosen to provide two or more races either by checking two or more race response check boxes, by providing multiple write-in responses, or by some combination of check boxes and write-in responses. [25]\nSnapshot: Race in the US Census\nThe 23rd federal census, 2010 [26] asks one ethnic and one race question (questions 1-4 not reproduced here, questions 5 and 6 paraphrased):\nIs the person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?\nNo, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin\nYes, Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano\nYes, Puerto Rican\nYes, Cuban\nYes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin — Print origin, for example, Argentinian, Colombian, Dominican, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard, and so on.\nWhat is the person's race?\nAmerican Indian or Alaska Native — Print name of enrolled or principal tribe.\nOther Asian — Print race, for example, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, Cambodian, and so on.\nOther Pacific Islander — Print race, for example, Fijian, Tongan, and so on.\nSome other race — Print race.\nThis census acknowledged that \"race categories include both racial and national-origin groups.\"\nThe federal government of the United States has mandated that \"in data collection and presentation, federal agencies are required to use a minimum of two ethnicities: \"Hispanic or Latino\" and \"Not Hispanic or Latino\". [27] The Census Bureau defines \"Hispanic or Latino\" as \"a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race.\" [27] For discussion of the meaning and scope of the Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, see the Hispanic and Latino Americans and Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States articles.\nUse of the word \"ethnicity\" for Hispanics only is considerably more restricted than its conventional meaning, which covers other distinctions, some of which are covered by the \"race\" and \"ancestry\" questions. The distinct questions accommodate the possibility of Hispanic and Latino Americans' also declaring various racial identities (see also White Hispanic and Latino Americans, Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans, and Black Hispanic and Latino Americans).\nIn the 2000 Census, 12.5% of the US population reported \"Hispanic or Latino\" ethnicity and 87.5% reported \"Not-Hispanic or Latino\" ethnicity. [27]\nThe 2010 US Census included changes designed to more clearly distinguish Hispanic ethnicity as not being a race. That included adding the sentence: \"For this census, Hispanic origins are not races.\" [28] [29] Additionally, the Hispanic terms were modified from \"Hispanic or Latino\" to \"Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin\". [28] [29]\nAlthough used in the census and the American Community Survey, \"Some other race\" is not an official race, [27] and the Bureau considered eliminating it prior to the 2000 Census. [30] As the 2010 Census form did not contain the question titled \"Ancestry\" found in prior censuses, there were campaigns to get non-Hispanic West Indian Americans, [31] Turkish Americans, [32] Armenian Americans, Arab Americans and Iranian Americans to indicate their ethnic or national background through the race question, specifically the \"Some other race\" category. [33] [34] [35]\nThe Interagency Committee has suggested that the concept of marking multiple boxes be extended to the Hispanic origin question, thereby freeing individuals from having to choose between their parents' ethnic heritages. In other words, a respondent could choose both \"Hispanic or Latino\" and \"Not Hispanic or Latino\". [36]\nRelation between ethnicity and race in census results\nThis section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (December 2018)\nThe Census Bureau warns that data on race in 2000 Census are not directly comparable to those collected in previous censuses. [25] Many residents of the United States consider race and ethnicity to be the same. [4]\nPopulation distribution by race (2000 Census) [37]\nHispanic or\n% of\nH/L\nNot Hispanic\nor Latino\n% of Not\nAll races 35,305,818 100 12.5 246,116,088 100 87.5\nOne race 33,081,736 93.7 11.8 241,513,942 98.1 85.8\nWhite 16,907,852 47.9 6.0 194,552,774 79.1 69.1\nBlack or African A. 710,353 2.0 0.3 33,947,837 13.8 12.1\nA. Indian/Alaska Nat. 407,073 1.2 0.1 2,068,883 0.8 0.7\nAsian 119,829 0.3 <0.1 10,123,169 4.1 3.6\nHawaiian N. & Pacific Is. 45,326 0.1 <0.1 353,509 0.1 0.1\nSome other 14,891,303 42.2 5.3 467,770 0.2 0.2\n2+ races 2,224,082 6.3 0.8 4,602,146 1.9 1.6\nSome other + W/B/N/A 1,859,538 5.3 0.7 1,302,875 0.5 0.5\n2+ W/B/N/A 364,544 1.0 0.1 3,299,271 1.3 1.2\nIn the 2000 Census, respondents were tallied in each of the race groups they reported. Consequently, the total of each racial category exceeds the total population because some people reported more than one race. [3]\nAccording to James P. Allen and Eugene Turner from California State University, Northridge, by some calculations in the 2000 Census the largest part white biracial population is white/Native American and Alaskan Native, at 7,015,017, followed by white/black at 737,492, then white/Asian at 727,197, and finally white/Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander at 125,628. [38]\nThe Census Bureau implemented a Census Quality Survey, gathering data from about 50,000 households to assess the reporting of race and Hispanic origin in the 2000 Census with the purpose of creating a way to make comparisons between the 2000 Census with previous census racial data. [3]\nIn September 1997, during the process of revision of racial categories previously declared by OMB directive no. 15, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) recommended that OMB combine the \"race\" and \"ethnicity\" categories into one question to appear as \"race/ethnicity\" for the 2000 Census. The Interagency Committee agreed, stating that \"race\" and \"ethnicity\" were not sufficiently defined and \"that many respondents conceptualize 'race' and 'ethnicity' as one in the same [ sic] underscor[ing] the need to consolidate these terms into one category, using a term that is more meaningful to the American people.\" [4]\nThe AAA also stated,\nThe American Anthropological Association recommends the elimination of the term \"race\" from OMB Directive 15 during the planning for the 2010 Census. During the past 50 years, \"race\" has been scientifically proven to not be a real, natural phenomenon. More specific, social categories such as \"ethnicity\" or \"ethnic group\" are more salient for scientific purposes and have fewer of the negative, racist connotations for which the concept of race was developed.\nYet the concept of race has become thoroughly—and perniciously—woven into the cultural and political fabric of the United States. It has become an essential element of both individual identity and government policy. Because so much harm has been based on \"racial\" distinctions over the years, correctives for such harm must also acknowledge the impact of \"racial\" consciousness among the U.S. populace, regardless of the fact that \"race\" has no scientific justification in human biology. Eventually, however, these classifications must be transcended and replaced by more non-racist and accurate ways of representing the diversity of the U.S. population. [4]\nThe recommendations of the AAA were not adopted by the Census Bureau for the 2000 or the 2010 censuses.\nIn 2001, the National Institutes of Health adopted the new language to comply with the revisions to Directive 15, [39] as did the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of the United States Department of Labor in 2007. [40] See Race and ethnicity (EEO).\nHistorical racial and ethnic demographics of the United States\nRace (human classification)\nRace and ethnicity in censuses\nRace and ethnicity in the United States\nRacial segregation in the United States\nClassification of ethnicity in the United Kingdom\n^ \"American FactFinder Help: Race\". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 13, 2017.\n^ \"American FactFinder Help: Hispanic or Latino origin\". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 13, 2017.\n^ a b c d e \"Questions and Answers for Census 2000 Data on Race\". United States Census Bureau. March 14, 2001. Archived from the original on April 5, 2001. Retrieved April 25, 2010.\n^ a b c d \"A Brief History of the OMB Directive 15\". American Anthropological Association. 1997. Retrieved May 18, 2007.\n^ a b \"American FactFinder Help: Ethnic Groups\". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 13, 2017.\n^ Gerald A. Reynolds, Chairman Abigail Thernstrom, Vice Chair Todd Gaziano Gail Heriot Peter N. Kirsanow Arlan D. Melendez Ashley L. Taylor, Jr. Michael Yaki (April 7, 2006). \"Racial Categorization in the 2010 Census\" (PDF). University of Maryland: Thurgood Marshall Law Library. US Commission of Civil Rights. Retrieved December 7, 2012. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list ( link)\n^ \"American Anthropological Association Response to OMB Directive 15:\". Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting. Retrieved December 7, 2012.\n^ \"Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity\" (PDF). Office of Management and Budget. October 30, 1997. Retrieved October 7, 2008.\n^ Ahmad, Farah Z.; Hagler, Jamal (February 6, 2015). \"Infographic: Government Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data\". Center for American Progress. Retrieved July 24, 2016.\n^ \"History: 1790 Fast Facts\". U.S. Census Bureau.\n^ a b \"History: 1790 Overview\". U.S. Census Bureau.\n^ Dollarhide, William (2001). The Census Book: A Genealogists Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes. North Salt Lake, Utah: HeritageQuest. p. 7.\n^ \"1790 Census\". 1930 Census Resources for Genealogists.\n^ \"1790 Census of Population and Housing\". U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015.\n^ http://slavenorth.com/vermont.htm\n^ a b \"A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900\". 1909. p. 47.\n^ \"1790 Overview\". U.S. Census Bureau.\n^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p \"Through the Decades\". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 18, 2012.\n^ copy of the full 1930 census instructions https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/1930instructions.pdf\n^ Patrick D. Lukens, A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights: FDR and the Controversy over Whiteness (University of Arizona Press, 2012)\n^ The 1930 Census in Perspective, 1930census.com\n^ JR Minkel (March 30, 2007). \"Confirmed: The U.S. Census Bureau Gave Up Names of Japanese-Americans in WW II\". Scientific American. Archived from the original on August 29, 2013.\n^ Haya El Nasser (March 30, 2007). \"Papers show Census role in WWII camps\". USA Today.\n^ \"US Census Bureau, 2000\" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 20, 2003.\n^ a b c d e f g h i \"2000 Census of Population, Public Law 94-171 Redistricting Data File: Race\". US Census Bureau. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved January 5, 2010.\n^ \"2010 US Census Form\" (PDF). US Census Bureau. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017.\n^ a b c d Grieco, Elizabeth M.; Cassidy, Rachel C. (March 2001). \"Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: Census 2000 Brief\" (PDF). US Census Bureau.\n^ a b Waite, Preston. US Census Bureau. \" 2010 Decennial Census Program.\" 2006. accessed July 7, 2008.\n^ a b \"2010 US Census form\" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2010.\n^ \"Census Bureau to Test Changes in Questionnaire, New Response Technology\" (Press release). US Census Bureau. January 16, 2003.\n^ Kay, Jennifer (February 24, 2010). \"Caribbeans urged to write in ancestry on US Census\". Archived from the original on May 1, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2010.\n^ The Washington Diplomat. \"Census Takes Aim to Tally 'Hard to Count' Populations\". Retrieved May 5, 2011.\n^ \"The Arab American Institute | Get Involved!\". Archived from the original on May 26, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2010.\n^ Ashmawey, Roqaya (March 1, 2010). \"Arab-Americans Aim to Increase Their Census Count\". Retrieved March 14, 2010.\n^ SMITH, DOUG (April 5, 1990). \"\"They ask, 'Where are we going to write Armenian? ' \"\" – via LA Times.\n^ \"OMB Standards\". White House. Archived from the original on March 10, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2010.\n^ \"Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010\" (PDF). 2010 Census Briefs. US Census Bureau. (see Table 1. Population by Hispanic or Latino Origin and by Race for the United States: 2000 and 2010)\n^ Bridging 1990 and 2000 census race data: Fractional assignment of multiracial populations Archived 2008-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, James P. Allen and Eugene Turner, Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330-8249\n^ \"Amendment: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research\". National Institutes of Health. October 9, 2001.\n^ Final Revisions of the Employer Information Report (EEO-1) Archived 2009-08-13 at the Wayback Machine by the EEOC. The page contains links to FAQs, forms and instructions\nAhmad, Farah Z.; Hagler, Jamal (February 6, 2015). \"The Evolution of Race and Ethnicity Classifications in the Decennial Census\". Center for American Progress.\nPrewitt, Kenneth. What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press; 2013) argues for dropping the race question from the census.\nBy economic\nand social\nHome-ownership\nMiddle classes\nSocial class\nUnemployment by state\nBaha'is\nCoptics\nJains\nAhmadiyyas\nFive Percenters\nMoorish Scientists\nValue Creators\nNeopagans\nRastafaris\nZoroastrians\nand ethnicity\nAfrican diaspora in the Americas\nAfro-Caribbean / West Indian Americans\nBahamian Americans\nBelizean Americans\nGuyanese Americans\nHaitian Americans\nJamaican Americans\nTrinidadian and Tobagonian Americans\nBlack Hispanic and Latino Americans\nAfrican immigrants to the United States\nCentral Africans in the United States\nHorn Africans in the United States\nSoutheast Africans in the United States\nSouthern Africans in the United States\nWest Africans in the United States\nNorth Africans in the United States\nAlgerian Americans\nBerber Americans\nEgyptian Americans\nMoroccan Americans\nAsian Hispanic and Latino Americans\nMongolian Americans\nUzbek Americans\nChinese Americans\nHong Kong Americans\nTibetan Americans\nTaiwanese Americans\nJapanese Americans\nKorean Americans\nBangladeshi Americans\nBhutanese Americans\nIndian Americans\nNepalese Americans\nPakistani Americans\nSri Lankan Americans\nBurmese Americans\nCambodian Americans\nFilipino Americans\nHmong Americans\nIndonesian Americans\nLaotian Americans\nMalaysian Americans\nSingaporean Americans\nThai Americans\nVietnamese Americans\nRomani Americans\nAfghan Americans\nArab Americans\nArmenian Americans\nAssyrian Americans\nAzerbaijani Americans\nEmirati Americans\nGeorgian Americans\nIranian Americans\nIraqi Americans\nIsraeli Americans\nJewish Americans\nJordanian Americans\nKazakh Americans\nKurdish Americans\nKuwaiti Americans\nKyrgyz Americans\nLebanese Americans\nPalestinian Americans\nSaudi Arabian Americans\nSyrian Americans\nTurkish Americans\nYemeni Americans\nWhite Americans\nAlbanian Americans\nBritish Americans\nEnglish Americans\nScottish Americans\nWelsh Americans\nCypriot Americans\nFrench Americans\nGerman Americans\nGreek Americans\nIrish Americans\nItalian Americans\nMaltese Americans\nPolish Americans\nPortuguese Americans\nRomanian Americans\nScandinavian Americans\nSlavic Americans\nSpanish Americans\nNon-Hispanic whites\nWhite Hispanic and Latino Americans\nPacific Islands Americans\nChamorro Americans\nNative Hawaiians\nSamoan Americans\nTongan Americans\nAmericans of Euro Oceanic origin\nAustralian Americans\nNew Zealand Americans\nNative Americans and Alaska Natives\nCanadian Americans\nHispanic and Latino Americans\nCosta Rican Americans\nGuatemalan Americans\nHonduran Americans\nNicaraguan Americans\nPanamanian Americans\nSalvadoran Americans\nCuban Americans\nDominican Americans\nMexican Americans\nChicanos\nPuerto Ricans (Stateside)\nArgentine Americans\nBolivian Americans\nChilean Americans\nColombian Americans\nEcuadorian Americans\nParaguayan Americans\nPeruvian Americans\nUruguayan Americans\nVenezuelan Americans\nBrazilian Americans\nAmerasian\nMelungeon\nPeople of the United States / Americans\nAmerican ancestry\nMaps of American ancestries\nRace and ethnicity in the Census\nRace and ethnicity in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission\nRetrieved from \" https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census&oldid=905142960\"\nRace in the United States\nEthnic groups in the United States\nCS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list\nUse mdy dates from August 2018\nWikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2018\nRACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE UNITED STATES CENSUS\nYoutube | Vimeo | Bing |\nPOPULAR INDEXES\nGoogle | Yahoo | Bing\nMeta Search Engine | Map | Travel Reviews","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line431720"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8552703261375427,"wiki_prob":0.8552703261375427,"text":"Brigitte DeMeyer and Will Kimbrough: Mockingbird Soul\nDeMeyer and Kimbrough are resolute artists who observe the world through their five senses. They see, hear, touch and even smell the people and places around them.\nBrigitte DeMeyer and Will Kimbrough\nMockingbird Soul\nLabel: MRI\nUK Release Date: 2017-01-27\nBrigitte DeMeyer and Will Kimbrough have been singing and playing together for several years. They have collaborated on each other’s records and performed in concert as a tandem. But Mockingbird Hill marks the first time the Nashville-based musicians are co-billed on an official release.\nThere’s a bit more Kimbrough on this album than there has been on previous discs, but the duo remains essentially the same. DeMeyer’s rich vocals sound steeped in a Southern swampy vibe. One can feel the humidity and Spanish moss dripping from the notes. Her voice dominates when she and Kimbrough harmonize, but he provides the solid ground from which she can fly. The title track works as a fine example of this as DeMeyer praises a bird singing outside her bedroom window with an intonation that resembles the eponymous creature. Kimbrough joins in quietly as a whisper before offering a low-toned counterpoint to the higher pitched DeMeyer. He lets his guitar do most of the talking.\nKimbrough’s acoustic stringed accompaniment is heavily rooted in the country blues so that even when he plays the melodies, he can’t help but also provide a thumping back up to pound the cadences forward. He’s ably aided by Chris Wood on upright bass (on the muggy number “Rainy Day”), and there are a few other artists who lend a hand on a few tracks including Oliver Wood (Chris’s brother and a co-member of the Wood Brothers), who co-wrote and sings on the graceful “Carpet Bagger’s Lullaby.” DeMeyer even strums an eight-string ukulele on one cut, but basically, Kimbrough supplies the instrumentals. He utilizes a vintage Gibson J-45 to give the music a lush yet airy resonance. The guitar’s acoustics reverberate in his hands without a clatter or a tinkle.\nWhen Kimbrough does take the lead on vocals, such as on the disc’s one cover, the Incredible String Band’s ode to the ravages of time, “October Song”, he sings without affection. He delivers the plain but poetic lyrics (i.e., “The fallen leaves that jewel the ground / They know the art of dying”) as statements of fact. It is DeMeyer’s voice that reveals the sadness of time passing. The ache in her throat conveys the change of seasons as something to be mourned instead of celebrated. It may all be part of life’s rich pageant, but that’s no reason to fete the passage of time. Acceptance is the best one can do. Meanwhile, Kimbrough’s complex stringed accompaniment suggests the dour truth. Life is temporary, and like our dreams, all things must pass.\nThe original material exposes DeMeyer and Kimbrough as resolute artists who observe the world through their five senses. They see, hear, touch and even smell the people and places around them. Rather than think too much about things, they revel in the experience of being and doing. The ideas here are expressed in terms of things, as William Carlos Williams would say. They don’t intentionally use metaphors as much as say what they mean. That’s true in the way they sing and play. DeMeyer’s honeyed vocals and Kimbrough’s intricate fingering are not ornamentation, but representation. The world itself contains its dulcet complexities. Like the Mockingbird’s song, the soul of the world can be revelatory if one only pays attention.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1295291"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7727541327476501,"wiki_prob":0.7727541327476501,"text":"If You Think Classical Music is Dead, You're Dead Wrong!\nClassical 101\nArts Presenters\nChamber Ensembles\nOpera Companies\nEsprit Orchestra\nVenue: Koerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning 273 Bloor Street West\nVenue Phone: 416.408.0208\nWebsite: espritorchestra.com\nLatest posts by Ludwig Van (see all)\nPRIMER | A Guide To Getting The Most Out Of Stratford Summer Music - July 12, 2019\nPRIMER | 10 Concerts We’re Looking Forward To The Most At Toronto Summer Music - July 10, 2019\nPRIMER | 5 Reasons Not To Miss ‘Rite Of Spring’ At Luminato This Week - June 18, 2019\nEsprit Orchestra is Canada’s only full-sized, professional orchestra devoted to performing and promoting new orchestral music. Founded in 1983 by Music Director and Conductor, Alex Pauk, Esprit’s commitment to commissioning and advancing contemporary music has set it apart as one of the few organizations of its kind on a global scale. Esprit consistently collaborates with outstanding composers, and performs with first-class soloists and ensembles from Canada and abroad.\nEach concert season, Esprit Orchestra commissions, promotes and performs the work of Canadian composers, and features Canadian premieres of music by leading International composers.\nWith a dynamic annual subscription concert series, this skilled 65-member orchestra presents music that is otherwise unavailable in Canada, always performed to the highest standards in the acoustically acclaimed Koerner Hall at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning.\nIn addition to its commitment to new music, one of Esprit’s core initiatives is to cultivate the next generation of new music professionals and audiences through mentorship and outreach programs. Each year, Esprit engages with schools and organizations to provide free educational experiences including lectures, open rehearsals, and mentorship opportunities in both composition and orchestral performance. Esprit’s annual New Wave Composers Festival celebrates young Canadian artists, providing a rendezvous where young composers and performers can connect with one another and the wider musical community.\nEsprit has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including three Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Awards, the Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award, the Vida Peene Award and the SOCAN Award for Imaginative Orchestral Programming. Esprit aims to continue this trajectory of excellence as the organization proudly undertakes its third decade of operation.\nOne of Esprit’s most important recent endeavours was a debut tour to China for performances at the 2015 Beijing Modern Music Festival and the China-ASEAN Music Week in Nanning where Esprit was also orchestra-in-residence. The tour coincided with the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and China and set the stage for developing long-lasting musical exchanges between Esprit and Chinese musical artists.\nEsprit is a non-profit charitable organization governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.\nThe Folks Behind It All\nAlex Pauk, Music Director and Conductor\nAlex Pauk was inducted into the Order of Canada on September 23rd, 2015. Through founding Esprit Orchestra in 1983 and devoting the organization to new music, Pauk revitalized orchestral life for composers across Canada. With a core of 65 top instrumentalists, Canada’s best soloists, and an annual subscription series in Toronto, Esprit encourages composers to take bold new directions. Through building and sustaining Esprit’s high calibre performances, commissioning programme, innovative programming (70% Canadian), recordings, performing arts videos and DVDs, outreach projects, national and international tours, and interdisciplinary arts and multimedia ventures, Pauk has been a leader in developing and promoting Canadian music at home and abroad.\nAs a conductor, he attains excellent performances on stage and in recordings. Pauk’s commissioning of Canadian composers of all ages and stylistic trends is central to his work. He has been a leader in taking new music out of the concert hall and into communities with performances in unusual and alternative locations. He has provided opportunities for choreographers and dancers, stage and lighting designers, actors, directors, and multimedia and visual artists to combine their talents with Esprit in adventurous cross-disciplinary projects.\nIn 2007, Pauk was a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, awarded to those who contribute to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada:\n“A passionate and visionary conductor, artistic director, composer and educator, Alex Pauk has demonstrated remarkable skills in the arts of initiative, risk-taking and the building and promotion of a leading Canadian arts organization, Esprit Orchestra, which is recognized around the world. A fervent believer in the richness and vitality of Canadian new music, he is a cutting-edge leader in the cultivation and presentation of contemporary music, in Canada and abroad. His true brilliance has emerged in the way that he has introduced new audiences – including young people and more traditional audiences for orchestral music – to the joys of exploring uncharted terrain, both musically and in the new and unusual venues where he has set his performances. Alex Pauk is a true champion of new music who continues to introduce Canadian and international composers to the world.”\n~ Molson Prize Jury Citation\nPauk’s commitment to the community through Esprit has also garnered SOCAN and Chalmers Awards, as well as three Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Awards. He was named Musician of the Year (1999) by peers at the Toronto Musicians’ Association, and has helped many composers advance their careers through commissions, high profile performances, recordings and broadcasts. Under Pauk’s direction, Esprit was awarded the 2005 Vida Peene Award for excellent standards of performance and programming.\nIn addition to his work as a conductor, Alex Pauk has a prolific career as a composer, having written music for every kind of performing ensemble as well as dance and theatre companies.\nHe has also composed over thirty film scores, many in collaboration with his wife, the composer Alexina Louie. His works for the concert hall have included pieces incorporating digital soundtracks, film, video and dance. Notable recent additions to his catalogue include Musiques immergées for orchestra and digital playback (with a film by photographer Edward Burtynski and film maker John Price having been created for integration with some performances of the work), Devotions, an oratorio for choir and orchestra and Impulse for twenty-four piece flute orchestra. Pauk has composed for and conducted more than sixty works for organizations such as the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, New Music Concerts, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Hannaford Street Silver Band, Vancouver New Music Society, the Toronto Symphony and Esprit Orchestra. Alex Pauk graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Music in 1971. He currently resides in Toronto with his wife, Alexina Louie, who is his vital partner in the development of Esprit Orchestra.\nFOR ORBITING SPHERES\n8:00pm Concert / 7:15 pm Pre-Concert Chat\nKoerner Hall, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor St. W.\nNORTH/WHITE\n8:00pm Concert / 7:15pm Pre-Concert Chat\nGRAND SLAM!\nKoerner Hall,\nTELUS Centre for Performance and Learning,\n273 Bloor St. W.\nNEW WAVE REPRISE\n7:30 pm Concert\nTrinity St. Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor St W\nTickets info TBA\nlv_toronto_ssb_atf_300x300\nlv_toronto_ssb_high_300x300\nlv_toronto_ssb_mid_300x300\nQ&A | 15 Questions For Composer Bekah Simms\nlv_toronto_ssb_low_300x300\nlv_toronto_tsb_high_300x700\nlv_toronto_tsb_low_300x700\nLudwig Van Who's Who\nAllArtist Management (1)Arts Presenters (17)Chamber Ensembles (6)Choirs (4)Education Programs (4)Festivals (4)Orchestras (7)Publicity (1)Soloists (1)Venues (1)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line198789"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7031375169754028,"wiki_prob":0.7031375169754028,"text":"Commodus to Alexander Severus – the Roman Empire\nHome » Commodus to Alexander Severus – the Roman Empire\nThe Roman emperor Commodus, Marcus Aurelius’ son\nCommodus becomes emperor\nMarcus Aurelius, unlike the other Good Emperors, had a son. His son’s name was Commodus, and when Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD Commodus took over the Roman Empire. But Commodus, like the later Julio-Claudians or like Domitian, had grown up at court, and liked partying more than he liked fighting or working at running the Empire. Still he did well enough at first, and made peace with the Germans.\nConspiracies everywhere\nBut when Commodus came back to Rome, his sister Lucilla tried to kill him, with the help of some Senators. Even though the plot failed, Commodus became very suspicious (like Domitian again!) and had a lot of Senators and other people killed. One plan he had to kill some of his closest friends backfired when they killed him instead in 192 AD.\nBut these friends didn’t have anybody in mind to be the next emperor. A few of the more powerful men in Rome called themselves emperor, but all of them were quickly killed in their turn. Civil war seemed unavoidable.\nThe Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his family\nSeptimius Severus starts a new dynasty\nIn 193 AD an African named Septimius Severus, who was the general of the army in Upper Pannonia, made himself emperor with the support of the army. Nobody knows for sure whether Septimius Severus was dark-skinned, but he certainly seems to be in this painting.\nHe beat the other candidates, though it took him several years to finally defeat the most serious threat, Clodius Albinus, also an African and the governor of Britain.\nThe Parthians attack\nThen in 197 AD the Parthians, seeing civil war in the Roman Empire, attacked again. Septimius Severus went there and pushed the Parthians back again.\nCaracalla and Geta\nAfter travelling around the Empire, he spent four years in Rome before going to England to fight an invasion there. Septimius Severus died in England, at York, in February 211 AD. He left the Empire jointly to his two sons, Caracalla and Geta. He is said to have told them to take care of each other and the army, and never mind anything else.\nMore about the Severan Dynasty\nMore about the Parthians\nBibliography and further reading about the Severans:\nThe Ancient Roman World, by Ronald Mellor (2004). Straight political history, For teens.\nClassical Rome, by John Clare (1993). For kids, the whole political history from beginning to end.\nThe Romans: From Village to Empire, by Mary Boatwright, Daniel Gargola, and Richard Talbert (2004). Okay, it’s a little dry, but it is up to date and has all the facts you could want.\nThe Roman Empire, by Colin Wells (1984). More readable. Alternates chapters on political and social history. Unfortunately, he stops at the third century crisis.\nThe Severans: The Changed Roman Empire, by Michael Grant (1996).\nSeptimius Severus, by Anthony Birley (1971). Emphasizes the emperor’s African origins.\nMore about the Severans\nThe Third Century Crisis\nBy Karen Carr|2018-04-25T10:08:45-07:00September 3rd, 2017|History|0 Comments\nCite this page: Carr, K.E. Commodus to Alexander Severus – the Roman Empire. Quatr.us Study Guides, September 3, 2017. Web. July 15, 2019.\nAncient Rome Caracalla Clodius Albinus Geta history Parthian Septimius Severus Severan","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line818675"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6692571043968201,"wiki_prob":0.33074289560317993,"text":"Business Plan Contest 2012\nChelsea Ho & Connie Hong\nEach year, the FCU Entrepreneurship Education and Development Center sponsors the Feng Chia Business District Entrepreneurship Competition. The winner of the competition wins NT$30,000, a trophy, and three months of rent-free shop space in the Feng Chia Shopping District where they can sell their product. Last year’s winner sold handmade sock dolls. She won the competition because her products were creative and because they were popular in the female market. This year’s winner has will not be chosen until the end of March.\nPeople who would like to participate in this competition should organize a group. In each group, more than half of the members must be college students. The competition is separated into two types – real shops and online shops. Feng Chia university teachers and members of the Feng Chia Shopping District Association are the competition judges.\nPhotos courtesy of FCU College of Business\nHow do the participants prepare for the Feng Chia District Entrepreneurship Competition? The leader of each group registers to participate and submits the group’s business plan to the FCU Entrepreneurship Education and Development Center for the preliminary competition. Participants who are successful in the preliminary competition then attend training camp for competitors. This year, the camp was held on February 18. The main activity in this year’s competition camp was a class on writing business plans. Participants learned how to write a more perfect business plan. During the camp, many successful entrepreneurs also shared their experiences with the participants. Before the final competition, each group had to send a more detailed business plan to the FCU Entrepreneurship Education and Development Center and prepare a poster and a presentation.\nThis year’s final competition will be held on March 24 (Saturday). Many teams will exhibit their products. Participants will grade each other, and the competition judges will also grade each team. If you are interested, come visit the exhibition and see which group’s product you think will win. The exhibit will be held in FCU’s Jung Chin Building, Room B-1 from 10:00 to 16:00; the winners will be announced at the conclusion of the exhibition.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1598569"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5636866688728333,"wiki_prob":0.43631333112716675,"text":"EU: Schengen stalls, Prüm ploughs on: fingerprint, DNA and vehicle registration data exchange networks continue to expand\nStatewatch News Online, April 2013\n11.04.2013 - Discussions on allowing Bulgaria and Romania to join the Schengen area of border-free travel may have been postponed until December, but the EU's law enforcement authorities will soon start benefitting from easier access to fingerprint and vehicle registration data from the two countries as they move towards fully implementing the Prüm Decisions.\nThe Prüm Decisions (Council Decisions 2008/615/JHA and 2008/616/JHA, named after the town in which the original treaties were signed) mandate the exchange of DNA, fingerprint and vehicle registration data (VRD) amongst EU member states. They also permit the exchange of personal data for the prevention of terrorist offences and for joint police operations.\nLast year a Statewatch analysis noted the ongoing difficulties states have had with implementing the \"complex, technologically fraught and expensive\" Decisions, which are ultimately intended to \"overcome lengthy mutual legal assistance bureaucratic procedures by establishing a single national contact point as an electronic interface for automated information exchange.\" [1]\nThe adoption of positive reports on Romania's readiness to exchange fingerprints and Bulgaria's readiness to exchange VRD shows that it may be easier for the personal data of Romanians and Bulgarians to cross the EU's internal borders than it is for citizens of the two Black Sea countries.\nOn 25 March, the Working Party on Data Protection and Information Exchange (DAPIX) recommended to the Council that it permit the exchange of fingerprint data between Romanian and other EU authorities.\nAn \"overall evaluation report on dactyloscopic [fingerprint] data exchange for Romania,\" undertaken by a team from Austria, announced that \"the implementation of the Prüm/dactyloscopic data-information flow, both on a legal and on a technical level, has been done up to a satisfactory level in Romania.\" [2]\n\"All conditions are met for Romania to start the exchange of dactyloscopic data pursuant to Council Decision 2008/615/JHA,\" says the report.\nNo date has yet been set for the next JHA Council meeting when it will have to approve the draft Decision. When it does so, Romania will become a part of the networked national systems that ease the exchange of fingerprint data amongst European law enforcement authorities.\nIt seems likely that at the same Council meeting, Bulgaria's vehicle registration databases will official become part of the Prüm network.\nA recent document summarises the outcome of a visit by a joint Dutch and Belgian evaluation team which concluded that \"for the purposes of automated searching of vehicle registration data (VRD), Bulgaria has fully implemented the general provisions on data protection of Chapter 6 of Decision 2008/615/JHA.\" [3]\nRomania has been exchanging vehicle registration data with other EU member states since 2011 and both countries also exchange DNA data with a number of EU countries. Bulgaria is able to exchange DNA profiles with Slovenia, Austria, the Netherlands and France, while Romania is connected to the systems of Austria, the Netherlands, Slovenia, France, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and Spain, and is conducting tests with Cyprus and Estonia.\nBulgaria is also part of the Prüm network for exchanging fingerprint data and is connected to Austria, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Cyprus.\nHowever, it may be possible for one member state to obtain fingerprint data from another even if the two do not have a direct connection by using a state with which they both have connections as an intermediary. The extent to which this practice may or may not take place is, however, unknown.\nIt seems likely that the next JHA Council meeting will also authorise the exchange of Prüm data from countries other than Bulgaria and Romania. Council Decisions have been drawn up that, when agreed, will permit Sweden to exchange DNA data and Malta to exchange DNA and fingerprint data.\n- \"Complex, technologically fraught and expensive\" - the problematic implementation of the Prüm Decisions by Chris Jones, March 2012\n- “Network with errors”: Europe’s emerging web of DNA databases by Eric Topfer, March 2011\n- Searching for Needles in an ever expanding haystack: Cross-border DNA exchange in the wake of the Prüm Treaty by Eric Topfer, September 2008\n[1] \"Complex, technologically fraught and expensive\" - the problematic implementation of the Prüm Decisions by Chris Jones, March 2012\n[2] Presidency, \"Prüm Decisions\" - overall evaluation report on dactyloscopic data exchange for Romania, 25 March 2013, 7824/13; Presidency, Draft Council Decision on the launch of automated data exchange with regard to dactyloscopic data in Romania, 25 March 2013 7826/13\n[3] Presidency, Draft Council Decision on the launch of automated data exchange with regard to Vehicle Registration Data (VRD) in Bulgaria, 26 March 2013, 7942/13","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1123476"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7939887642860413,"wiki_prob":0.7939887642860413,"text":"'He needs prayers': Richard Overton, nation's oldest man and WWII vet, is in the hospital\nFiled under People at Dec 17\nBrendan Meyer, How We Live writer\nConnect with Brendan Meyer\nThe oldest man in America is in the hospital.\nRichard Overton, the 112-year-old lifelong Austin resident and most-senior veteran, is fighting his latest bout of pneumonia.\n\"He needs prayers,\" said Volma Overton, Richard's third cousin. \"He needs everybody's prayers.\"\nOverton has been in the hospital since Wednesday. This year, he's been in and out of the hospital multiple times for pneumonia.\nRichard Overton, 112, smoked a cigar on his front porch on Richard Overton Avenue in Austin on May 25, 2017, among signs displayed to celebrate his birthday. Overton is known for smoking cigars and drinking whiskey on his front porch. He is the oldest living U.S. war veteran.\n(Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer)\nIn the past year, the supercentenarian and World War II veteran has had some highs and lows. In April, he went on his first private jet ride to Washington, D.C., for a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But in late June, Overton's family members learned that his identity had been stolen and that his personal bank account had been drained. Days later, Bank of America restored the stolen funds in full.\nOverton's favorite pastime is smoking his 12 daily cigars on the front porch of the home he built 70 years ago. His friends call it his \"stage.\" It's on Richard Overton Avenue, as the town renamed the street for his 111th birthday.\nThat's where he celebrated his 112th birthday in May, with DJs, food, drinks and T-shirts with one of his famous quotes — advice on the secret to a long life: \"Keep living, don't die.\"\nAll about Richard Overton, the Texan who's the oldest man in America\nIn this Collection...\nRichard Overton, nation's oldest man, laid to rest in Austin\nPhotos: Austin funeral honors WWII vet Richard Overton, 'a soldier, a survivor, a jokester, a joy'\nRichard Overton, nation's oldest man, dead at 112\nSee all 10 Stories\nWhen Apollo 11 landed on the moon, one black woman watched from the facility that made the space craft\nYoga is not a religious practice, though religious leaders would do well to practice it","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1324415"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5161212682723999,"wiki_prob":0.4838787317276001,"text":"Unlike a piano or the voices of a choir, the guitar (in standard tuning) has difficulty playing the chords as stacks of thirds, which would require the left hand to span too many frets,[40] particularly for dominant seventh chords, as explained below. If in a particular tuning chords cannot be played in closed position, then they often can be played in open position; similarly, if in a particular tuning chords cannot be played in root position, they can often be played in inverted positions. A chord is inverted when the bass note is not the root note. Additional chords can be generated with drop-2 (or drop-3) voicing, which are discussed for standard tuning's implementation of dominant seventh chords (below).\nA guitar's frets, fretboard, tuners, headstock, and truss rod, all attached to a long wooden extension, collectively constitute its neck. The wood used to make the fretboard usually differs from the wood in the rest of the neck. The bending stress on the neck is considerable, particularly when heavier gauge strings are used (see Tuning), and the ability of the neck to resist bending (see Truss rod) is important to the guitar's ability to hold a constant pitch during tuning or when strings are fretted. The rigidity of the neck with respect to the body of the guitar is one determinant of a good instrument versus a poor-quality one.\nI think for all parties, if we had the ability to send a \"two day backstage pass\" (you can use that), where we can send a friend a link and they could try the sight for free but couldn't submit videos. I have a few friends that I keep trying to sell them on but they just are not totally sold and I think it's because the beauty of this site is the personalized VE's are. The interaction between student and teacher is what really makes this magical and it's really hard to describe. The search feature could be a little better, more precise and sometimes it finds no VE hits on simple searches like street. Otherwise I am one of your biggest fans.\nThe California Conservatory of Music offers guitar lessons with the most qualified teachers in the Bay Area at both our Santa Clara and Redwood City schools. Whether you're looking to start your young child with Suzuki guitar lessons, preparing for a college audition, or getting reading for an upcoming concert, we can assist you. We offer the Bay Area’s most comprehensive guitar lessons which include technique, sight reading, music theory, and in addition to the private lessons, we offer ensemble, repertoire, and theory classes on the weekends. For students under the age of 8, we ask the parents to be involved in their guitar lessons and practice at home. To better help parents develop in to this role, the first three lessons are dedicated to the parent education class. The child can then begin their guitar lessons. This helps ensures the student’s success and motivation.\nJump up ^ \"We know from literary sources that the five course guitar was immensely popular in Spain in the early seventeenth century and was also widely played in France and Italy...Yet almost all the surviving guitars were built in Italy...This apparent disparity between the documentary and instrumental evidence can be explained by the fact that, in general, only the more expensively made guitars have been kept as collectors' pieces. During the early seventeenth century the guitar was an instrument of the people of Spain, but was widely played by the Italian aristocracy.\" Tom and Mary Anne Evans. Guitars: From the Renaissance to Rock. Paddington Press Ltd, 1977, p. 24.\nThe musical theory of chords is reviewed, to provide terminology for a discussion of guitar chords. Three kinds of chords, which are emphasized in introductions to guitar-playing,[10][11] are discussed. These basic chords arise in chord-triples that are conventional in Western music, triples that are called three-chord progressions. After each type of chord is introduced, its role in three-chord progressions is noted.\nThe fingerboard, also called the fretboard, is a piece of wood embedded with metal frets that comprises the top of the neck. It is flat on classical guitars and slightly curved crosswise on acoustic and electric guitars. The curvature of the fretboard is measured by the fretboard radius, which is the radius of a hypothetical circle of which the fretboard's surface constitutes a segment. The smaller the fretboard radius, the more noticeably curved the fretboard is. Most modern guitars feature a 12\" neck radius, while older guitars from the 1960s and 1970s usually feature a 6-8\" neck radius. Pinching a string against a fret on fretboard effectively shortens the vibrating length of the string, producing a higher pitch.\nThere's an abundance of guitar information out there on the web, some good, some not. I stumbled across Justin Sandercoe's site a year ago and now tell everyone about it. The lessons are conveyed so clearly, concisely and in the most congenial way. The site is laid out logically as well so you can to go straight to your area of interest... beginner, blues, rock, folk, jazz, rhythm, fingerpicking... it's all there and more. Spend ten minutes with Justin and you'll not only play better but feel better too. From novice to know-it-all, everyone will learn something from Sandercoe.\nLearning to play other people's guitar solos is a great way to begin learning to write your own! Guitar teacher Nils B. shares his tips to learning four classic rock solos so you can develop your technique... An essential part of every musician's development is to imitate those who have already mastered their instrument. After settling on a song, give it a couple of close listens (preferably on headphones or a decent stereo), pick up a good transcription, then learn the rhythm parts, while an\nI would especially like to stress the gentle approach Justin takes with two key aspects that contributed to my development as a musician - music theory and ear training. Justin has succeeded in conveying the importance and profoundness of understanding music both theoretically and through your ears while maintaining a simple and accessible approach to them, all while sticking to what is ultimately the most important motto: 'If it sounds good, it is good'.\nWhile the free guitar lessons here will help you get started, we always recommend committed students to invest in their guitar skills by starting a Guitareo membership. That’s where you’ll get a more comprehensive library of step-by-step video lessons so you always know exactly what to learn next, play-along songs so you can apply your skills to real music, and community support so you’ll get all of your questions answered. Click here to learn more about Guitareo.\nArchtop guitars are steel-string instruments in which the top (and often the back) of the instrument are carved, from a solid billet, into a curved, rather than a flat, shape. This violin-like construction is usually credited to the American Orville Gibson. Lloyd Loar of the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co introduced the violin-inspired \"F\"-shaped hole design now usually associated with archtop guitars, after designing a style of mandolin of the same type. The typical archtop guitar has a large, deep, hollow body whose form is much like that of a mandolin or a violin-family instrument. Nowadays, most archtops are equipped with magnetic pickups, and they are therefore both acoustic and electric. F-hole archtop guitars were immediately adopted, upon their release, by both jazz and country musicians, and have remained particularly popular in jazz music, usually with flatwound strings.\nAs a beginner guitar player, one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome is that of transition between chords. We learn the chords to our favourite songs or a new complex chord shape, but when it comes to making music with them, our lack of muscle memory and dexterity inhibits us from stringing these chords together in a meaningful and comprehensive manner.\nJump up ^ \"The first incontrovertible evidence of five-course instruments can be found in Miguel Fuenllana's Orphenica Lyre of 1554, which contains music for a vihuela de cinco ordenes. In the following year, Juan Bermudo wrote in his Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales: 'We have seen a guitar in Spain with five courses of strings.' Bermudo later mentions in the same book that 'Guitars usually have four strings,' which implies that the five-course guitar was of comparatively recent origin, and still something of an oddity.\" Tom and Mary Anne Evans, Guitars: From the Renaissance to Rock. Paddington Press Ltd, 1977, p. 24.\nStudents can earn a Certificate in MI’s Performance Studies program for Guitar. With an innovative 360-degree approach to music education, MI Certificates are centered on Harmony, Theory and Ear Training, with core subjects in Reading, Technique and Performance. This Certificate program provides students with a broad foundation of knowledge and practical experience, encouraging the rapid development of skills in preparation for a range of professional music performance situations.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1228079"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7150659561157227,"wiki_prob":0.7150659561157227,"text":"UK's first automated enclosure-making machine gets going\nThe British electrical engineering and controls group LCA has combined the operations from its sites in Runcorn and Ewloe in a new multi-million pound manufacturing plant in Hawarden, North Wales. The facilities include a £500,000 laser machining centre for the automated production of enclosures ­– the first of its kind in the UK, and one of only seven in use around the world.\nThe new site was opened recently by the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Ken Skates.\nThe new machine will automate LCA’s previously manual production of stainless-steel control panels. The company expects to boost its production rate “dramatically”, as well as well as turning around orders faster – allowing next-day deliveries in some cases.\nLCA Controls’ managing director, Alan Sheppard, describes the investment in the Rittal automated machining centre as being “incredibly important for the growth of our control panel manufacturing and design business… It means we can deliver more, faster, better, more efficiently for customers across the world, without compromising on the quality we’re famous for.”\nHe adds that the machine “will give us capabilities that are way ahead of the curve on our competitors in the UK”.\nLCA's new site was opened recently by the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Ken Skates (centre), seen here with LCA's chairman David Williams (left) and managing director, Alan Sheppard (right).\nBuilt-in 3D modelling and CAD capabilities mean that the machine can process panels in a fraction of the time needed previously. “We can immerse our customers in the design and build process like never before,” says Sheppard. “They can literally fly in and fly out of the designed products we build, and we can deliver them to their door within days. Not only that, but we can now do one-off jobs, or high-volume mass manufacturing of control panel boxes, at the touch of a few buttons.”\nAccording to Paul Metcalfe, Rittal’s product manager for industrial and outdoor enclosures in the UK, the automated enclosure-production machines are “light years ahead of the alternative, manual approach” and can speed up processing by up to 66%, compared to traditional hand-tooling.\nDespite its move to automated enclosure manufacturing, LCA is currently recruiting control panel experts to expand its workforce.\nEU project could result in machinery that repairs itself\nRitchie takes control of ABB’s automation and motion division\nServomotor-maker doubles capacity in move to new premises","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1717780"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6767343878746033,"wiki_prob":0.6767343878746033,"text":"BREAKING: Senate Passes Seven Bills Rejected By Buhari\nThe Senate has passed seven of the at least 16 bills rejected so far this year by President Muhammadu Buhari.\nThe bills are the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism Bill, National Research and Innovation Council Bill, Stamp Duties Act (Amendment) Bill, National Agricultural Seed Council Bill, Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (Amendment) Bill and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Act 2010 (Amendment) Bill.\nBuhari had expressed reservations about the constitutionality of passing the bills into law, and therefore wrote the Senate to reconsider them.\nThe upper chamber also initiated moves to the override the President’s veto on the Fourth Alteration Bill No.28 — a constitutional amendment that seeks to mandate the President and state governors to present annual budget estimates before legislature at most three months to the end of a financial year. It also seeks to encourage early presentation and passage of Appropriation Bills.\nThe President had rejected the bill, arguing that it didn’t capture the provisions of Section 58(4) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.\nWith the Industrial Development Amendment Bill, which, if passed, will enable companies expand their operations in pioneer industry or product to apply for a new pioneer status, the President had declined, saying assenting to it would interfere with ongoing inter-ministerial consultations.\nHowever, even though the Senate had listed both bills — the Fourth Alteration Bill No.28 and the Industrial Development Amendment Bill — in its Order Paper for the day as meant to be overruled. However, the two bills were not considered at the end of plenary.\nSaharaReporters had reported exactly a week ago that a clash was brewing between the executive and the legislature in the about-to-expire life of the current political dispensation, as the Senate had resolved to overrule the President’s veto on two bills.\n16 Hours Of Agony With Arik Airline By Adewale Adeoye\nTake advantage of my olive branch, Wike begs politicians in Rivers","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1003181"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8966345191001892,"wiki_prob":0.8966345191001892,"text":"11 Jul 19 | New Delhi\nMG Motor India to focus further on community building; commences contribution to girl child education with sales of MG Hector\nLeveraging its partnership with IIMPACT NGO, the carmaker will contribute towards facilitating one month’s education for every girl child from every Hector sold\nNew Delhi, July 11, 2019: Underlining its commitment towards gender diversity and community development, marquee carmaker MG (Morris Garages) Motor India has commenced contribution towards girl child education with the commencement of sales of the MG HECTOR. Leveraging its partnership with IIMPACT NGO, the carmaker will contribute towards facilitating one month’s education for every girl child from every Hector sold.\nIn partnership with IIMPACT, an NGO engaged in providing quality education to young girls through its learning centres in remote villages across the country, MG has adopted and will be supporting 30 learning centres to begin with. MG India plans to increase this number substantially every year as the scale of its operations grows as part of its focus on ‘community building’.\nSpeaking on the partnership, Rajeev Chaba, President & Managing Director, MG Motor India, said, “As responsible corporate citizens, MG India and IIMPACT share a common vision of supporting, providing access to women to support themselves and transform their lives and the community around them. Educating and empowering the girl child is amongst the most impactful ways of doing so. With IIMPACT, the focus is on girls hailing from underprivileged backgrounds, as they work towards creating a better future for themselves. The initiative also enables owners of MG vehicles to contribute to and support a critical cause and become MGChangemakers.”\nCommenting on the initiative, Rema Harish, Executive Director, IIMPACT, said, “We share a common vision with MG India, an organization which is focused on gender diversity as a core principle. Our aim is to provide access to quality education to the girl child, particularly in areas lagging in basic social services and economic development. Regional inequalities are compounded by historical social inequalities, particularly for the girl child. Our program seeks to bring about social change through education. We are grateful for this partnership which will help address issues in these specific areas.”\nIn 2018, as part of its efforts to highlight gender diversity, the carmaker collaborated with ‘The Better India’ for the “MG Changemakers” initiative, honouring 6 women trailblazers that inspired change in different communities across the country. The aim was to highlight how women, with their extraordinary spirit, peerless grit and determination, can create a positive impact within society. The carmaker also joined hands with TRAX NGO to launch its road safety initiative, ‘Road Safety and Juniors Programme’. Since its launch in November 2018, the programme has already been implemented across 257 schools in Gurugram and Faridabad, impacting over 300,000 school students.\nMG Motor India is a future-ready organization that is trying to set industry benchmarks not only in terms of a young & smart work culture but also in terms of diversity; female employees already account for 32% of the company’s total workforce, with plans to further increase the number of women hires in the future. With a focus on four key organisational pillars of innovation, diversity, experiences, and community, the carmaker is building a strong base for its future operations.\nFounded in the UK in 1924, Morris Garages vehicles were world famous for their sports cars, roadsters, and cabriolet series. MG vehicles were much sought after by many celebrities, including the British Prime Ministers and even the British Royal Family, for their styling, elegance, and spirited performance. The MG Car Club, set up in 1930 at Abingdon in the UK, has more than a million loyal fans, making it by far one of the world’s largest clubs for a car brand. MG has evolved into a modern, futuristic and innovative brand over the last 95 years. MG Motor India has commenced its manufacturing operations at its car manufacturing plant at Halol in Gujarat.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line337814"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6574288010597229,"wiki_prob":0.3425711989402771,"text":"Energy, Sustainability and Society\nLocal power and land use: spatial implications for local energy development\nCheryl de Boer1Email author,\nRichard Hewitt2,\nHans Bressers1,\nPatricia Martinez Alonso2,\nVerónica Hernández Jiménez2,\nJaime Díaz Pacheco2 and\nLara Román Bermejo2\nEnergy, Sustainability and Society20155:31\n© de Boer et al. 2015\nPublished: 7 October 2015\nThe decentralised and private nature of small-scale renewable energy development does not fit traditional models of government planning and oversight. The land use impacts related to these developments are not well understood and data is lacking related to the environmental, social and economic impacts that can occur under various scenarios.\nThis research note provides a literature review of the scarce information available about the spatial impacts of small-scale renewable energy and outlines the current stream of research being undertaken to address this knowledge gap. The preliminary case studies in Overijssel, the Netherlands and Navarre, Spain provide the background for understanding this complex issue, and a new integrated policy and land use model is introduced in order to combine qualitative and qualitative data that is important for understanding the dynamics of this growing field.\nThe main difficulties in moving forward in planning for the decentralised renewable energytransition are the variation of perspectives on the attractiveness and appropriateness of urban renewableenergy (RE) development, differences in implementation processes and incentives, the dynamic nature ofthe relevant technologies and the lack of up to date information on land use.\nMulti-functional land use is a key strategy for increasing the uptake of small-scale renewable energy but little to no data is available regarding it in European land use literature and policy. This needs to be addressed in order to enable pragmatic policies that will enable effective implementation of renewable energy.\nLand use impacts\nIntegrated modelling\nDecentralised and smaller-scale approaches to renewable energy may facilitate or accelerate implementation under certain conditions. Key elements supporting this hypothesis are (1) larger projects have more visible spatial impacts and projects with high spatial impacts are slow to develop in places with strict planning regulations and where land use changes are open to public debate1 and (2) larger projects require large investment of capital which developers may be unwilling to outlay when economic or legislative changes generate instability in the sector [1].\nSome articles exist with respect to the spatial implications of land-based photovoltaic energy (PV) installations [2–4] and the landscape impacts and related implementation issues of wind turbines [5–8]. However, there are few local or sub-regional scale studies on implementation or land planning conflicts specifically due to displacement or incompatibility of uses with the development of renewable energy-related landscape features (RELF). RELF are the physical structures necessary for the deployment of renewable energy (RE). This is an important area of study since there has been a relatively recent emergence of local RE developments aligned with the transition to a more decentralised energy model. Often due to the smaller impact per installation, the typical environmental impact assessment (EIA) or related planning instruments do not apply and installations can go “unnoticed” from a planning perspective2. We focus principally on wind and PV developments since they can be achieved through both large- and small-scale activities, which are important for increasing the resilience of the energy supply in a given region or locality.\nThis research note corresponds to research being undertaken as part of the EU FP7 funded project COMPLEX: Knowledge Based Climate Mitigation Systems for a Low Carbon Economy. The efforts involve better understanding how contextual (qualitative and quantitative) data can be used to understand land use patterns and possible future scenarios of local renewable energy in the Netherlands and Spain. We provide here the results of our literature review of the available knowledge on spatial impacts of RE and a summary of what this means for researchers attempting to understand this dynamic field. Our main research in this project is related to the relationships between land use change, renewable energy development and policy. We dedicate this research note to increasing the visibility of how current data is limiting us in understanding this dynamic and important relationship. Secondly, we introduce very briefly the model being developed to help us understand these relationships and relevant case studies that we are applying it to in order to advance future studies in understanding the spatial impacts of RE. As such, this research will support future efforts in the fields of land use change modelling and those involved in areas of public administration research-related policy implementation.\nLiterature review of the spatial impacts of RE\nThe spatial impacts of implementing various renewable energies (RE) are complex and dependent on the technology as well as the particular context in which RELF are implemented. They may be visual, physical, functional, long-term, short-term, easily reversible or not, etc. Spatial impacts are related to the topography of the landscape, the area of land physically covered by RELF, the current land use and geography, the distance from areas of natural beauty or sensitive ecosystems and biodiversity [9]. Full attribution of spatial impacts of RELF requires an understanding of the entire implementation and usage process chain; impacts may include changes to existing infrastructure, land conversion and agricultural productivity impacts, ecosystem modifications and habitat and biodiversity reduction, aesthetic changes and adjustments to recreational potential. Some spatial impacts, such as the negative impacts of wind turbines on bird populations (ecological impacts), landscape visual quality (aesthetic impacts) and disruption to food supply from transforming agricultural land to biofuels (direct land use impacts) are widely known. Other related aspects, such as land use intensity, indirect land use change and land multi-functionality have received less attention in the literature. In the following paragraphs, we provide a review of the literature relevant to the question of spatial impacts associated with solar PV and wind energy implementation and then include a more detailed discussion of land use, the key focus of this paper. Much literature relevant to the potential spatial impacts of RE development was identified; however, significant gaps do exist. The spatial impacts of solar energy installations are generally less well studied than for other RE types. The impact of solar thermic (ST) energy is likely to be minimal, since this is mostly associated with heating systems added to buildings [2], but the spatial impact on the territory of PV installations may be quite substantial. In addition, though the literature on wind energy is abundant, few studies seem to relate to the direct land use impacts of wind installations, a key concern of our research. Overall, precise assessment of expected and real impacts was generally sparse for all RE types. One exception to this is that spatial impacts due to land use transformation from food to biofuel have been deeply studied; however, the focus on RELF requires information on the location of these “crop installations”. Gathering the information related to this is seen as a particular issue in and of itself as crops for biofuels are not distinguishable from regular crops from a land use perspective. As such, we have chosen not to include biomass-related RE in this research.\nDirect land use impacts\nAlterations to land use can be expected to occur for all new RE installations. PV installations and wind turbines that are not located on top of already existing infrastructure will reduce the ability to use the land for other activities, though to different degrees based on the previous land uses and the type of project implemented. While for example, it could be expected that much agricultural land would be too valuable to turn into PV fields3, new standards requiring a percentage of utility supplied power to come from renewable sources is resulting in large-scale PV projects expanding into a wide range of locations and ecosystems that were once considered uneconomic. The potential land use issues and concepts related to PV and wind installations found in the literature are highlighted below.\nConstruction phase impacts are relevant to the installation of PV or wind installations [3]. Large-scale wind installations together with their associated access roads and electricity supply infrastructure have major direct impacts and are compatible only with some existing uses (e.g. forestry, pasture). Literature relating to impacts of wind turbines however mostly deals with issues around ecological or visual impact of the erected turbines. Research with stakeholders to estimate the social cost of wind farm developments in Saragossa (Spain) identified loss of natural areas and the impact of access road construction as key impacts [5]. In this work, stakeholders consulted in the Spanish region of Navarre noted that the impact of access construction was one of the factors that provoked public controversy when the first wind farms were developed in the 1990s (Martínez Alonso P, Hewitt R, Pacheco JD, Román L, Hernández Jiménez V, Bressers H and de Boer C: Losing the roadmap: Renewable energy paralysis in Spain and its implications for the EU low-carbon economy, Submitted). A lack of assessment procedures established at an international level for PV is also contributing to this gap [3].\nThe concept of land use intensity is important when addressing the land use impacts from installation and operation of large-scale PV plants [4]. Land use intensity is a metric that expresses the quantity of land transformed relative to power output or unit of electricity generated. The land occupation relative to the time the power plant is in use is also important and should take into account the time required for the land to recover following use. While land use intensity for large-scale solar installations and coal plants was comparable in the short-term over the long-term PV installations required lower land areas for equivalent energy generation capacity [4]. These authors found that recent commercial PV power plants in the USA covered an average of 25 km2/GWp. They estimated also that in cases where the PV systems were installed in forest areas that recovery of the forest requires an average of 10 years. Additionally, they calculate that a 30-year-old PV plant occupies ~15 % less land than a coal power plant of the same age. The study of overall land coverage of PV panels that has increased due to legislative incentives in Italy quantified the future potential impact with an assumption that between 7 and 10 m2 of surface area is necessary to generate 1 kWp [3]. A continuing increase in the installed capacity of 10 MWp per month would then result in between 80,000 and 100,000 m2 of additional PV land cover per month.\nThese studies are surprising since they challenge two key popular assumptions: (1) that solar installations always occupy far less land than coal plants—in fact, their impact is initially comparable and only begins to show advantage after ~25 years—and (2) energy generation capacity of solar is per se less intense than all fossil fuels—something that can be seen to be untrue if intensity is measured over the lifetime of the plant [4]. These impacts are related to land-based PV, not those that are implemented on top of existing infrastructure.\nMore generally, the available literature suggests that, besides the various negative impacts, there may be a number of potential land use benefits of PV systems. PV projects can be used to reclaim degraded land and reduce requirements of transmission lines of electricity grids, be used in scenic areas and National Parks, where the avoidance of pylons and wires is a major advantage, can be integrated into the façades of buildings, used as a cladding material for commercial buildings and provide shading and heat extraction [2]. Additionally, greater multi-functionality is generally more possible than with many other energy technologies. Placing PV panels on top of existing infrastructures rather than on forested or farmland can also prevent biodiversity loss [4]. The main negative land use impacts related to PV systems are the loss of amenity; the implementation of a PV system in once cultivable land limits the soil productivity in that area [2]. The electricity output in this case is then competing with food production and as such is similar to the dilemmas faced by energy crops [3]. Some negative visual aspects have also been noted, but there is little certainty about how these impacts are experienced.\nAesthetic impacts\nThe literature on aesthetic or visual landscape impacts resulting from RE installations relates mostly to wind energy as widespread deployment of wind turbines has taken place over the last 2 or 3 decades. Since this literature is extensive, the following summary is intended to be illustrative rather than comprehensive. Generally, the research on the aesthetic impacts of solar is based on solar cells that are not added to previous infrastructures. This needs to be considered when determining the relevance of these impacts to the context at hand.\n“One of the most difficult-to-quantify…environmental costs is visual impacts, whether from wind, solar or hydropower developments” [5]. These authors used choice modelling techniques based on stakeholder interviews to estimate the social cost of wind farm developments in Saragossa, Spain. Respondents tended to value impacts on flora and fauna more highly than impacts to the visual landscape or to the area’s rare geological heritage. This study is notable in that it recognises that wind farm developments have significant social costs and that these costs can be assessed through engagement with local stakeholders. In a study of annoyance due to wind turbine noise in Sweden, it was found that interviewees in a municipality in the south of Sweden were more likely to report annoyance due to turbine noise if they felt that turbines negatively impacted the visual landscape [10]. In general, respondents accepted the necessity of wind turbines but felt that their contribution to the landscape scenery was negative. Further, a 2007 study of renewable energy planning in the Netherlands, found the visual evaluation of the impact of wind power on landscape values to be the most dominant factor in community acceptance of such schemes [11].\nAlthough there seems to be broad general consensus about the importance of visual impact of wind energy developments, not all authors explicitly consider it [12].\nStakeholders interviewed in this study’s Navarre case considered that public controversy related to installation of wind farms in the 1990s had now mostly been resolved [13] thanks to public information campaigns and growing general awareness of environmental issues. Other parts of Spain have seen political disagreement between autonomous communities (e.g. between Castille and Leon and Cantabria) over the visual impact of wind energy installations in border areas of landscape beauty [13].\nFor solar energy installations [14], the aesthetic impacts of PV installations can be quantified based on four criteria: visibility, colour, fractality and concurrence between fixed and mobile panels. This study determined the overall impact by expert opinion through a Delphi procedure. Different impacts were generated by different types of plants in different types of landscapes. The proximity to urban or recreational areas was however not taken into account, and so this study can better be seen as potential aesthetic impact since frequency of impact was not considered. Analysing subjective reactions requires a cognitive study of people’s preferences for PV power plants. There is yet no psychological research specific to PV power plants in the literature according to [14], and this would be extremely important for highlighting successful opportunities for implementing these projects in urban and semi-urban areas. The only empirical result related to land use impacts was that differences in size were important in the overall impact of the subjects and that both objective variables and subjective feelings were taken into account when making their judgments. A scoping survey completed in the province of Overijssel found that among those (N = 15) that completed the survey, the landscape implications were of lower importance in the development of PV energy than other factors such as importance for the environment and economic benefits.\nRecreational impacts\nImplementation of RELF may also imply changes to the land as a public amenity. Metrics for the impacts of RE installations on recreational resources have not been developed but would likely be similar to the aesthetic impacts mentioned earlier [4]. However, additional factors may need to be considered such as loss of public access. While wind farms may be accessible to the public, in most cases, PV arrays are not.\nEcological impacts\nEcological impacts relate to habitat loss or damage, such as insect and bird death from intense light generated by solar installations or wind turbines, and increased use of resources such as water. The impact of wind turbines on birds has been widely studied, e.g. [6–8], and the importance of this aspect for assessing the environmental impact of windfarms is well-recognised. In the previously mentioned study, stakeholders in Saragossa valued impacts to flora and fauna more highly than other landscape impacts [5]. The authors include resource depletion in their list of environmental impacts of PV systems, since their manufacture required scarce materials (In/Te/Ga). A 2009 study of the territorial and landscape impacts of PV systems identifies impacts from landscape fragmentation, vegetation degradation, interference with flora and fauna as well as microclimatic change caused by the daytime warming of the surface of the solar array [3]. Concerns have also been noted about impacts to wildlife, which may prohibit solar development on large areas of desert land in California [4].\nIn terms of habitat and biodiversity impacts, research continues on measuring habitat fragmentation and risk assessment of complex ecosystem collapse. Land use intensity is often used as a proxy for assessment of impacts on biodiversity [4]. However, biodiversity can be directly measured by species density (recorded in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment), and PV installations can be sited accordingly in less biodiverse areas. The water needed for cleaning solar panels is approximated at 500–1000 gallons per MWp of panels per year [4]. The hydrological footprint of large solar arrays, particularly in arid or semi-arid environments, is likely to be considerable.\nThe term energy sprawl addresses the varying spatial extents of different energy production techniques [9]. It is the product of the total quantity of energy produced annually (e.g. TW h/year) and the land use intensity of production (e.g. km2 of habitat per TW h/year). This is used to address the potential habitat effects of energy sprawl and to show that more compact energy generation does not necessarily reduce damage to biodiversity. Particularly important is that energy production techniques can have multiple effects on biodiversity, which “operate at different spatial and temporal scales. Biodiversity impacts that are likely to scale with real impact include habitat replacement and habitat fragmentation. Further, the longevity of the impacts… also… varies” ([9]; p3).\nSpatial planning for RE impacts\nSpatial impacts of different types of RELF can be assessed, but no simple calculation will enable the right technology to be selected to ensure maximum capacity for minimum spatial impact. Instead impacts should be determined based on the particular characteristics of the area in question. Many different criteria for siting of RE installations need to be balanced to take into account the various types of impact from each technology. For example, while the elevation of the wind turbines increases the area of aesthetic land use impact compared to PV, the actual area occupied by PV is the main intrusion into the landscape due to their low elevation and wide expanse.\nReversibility\nSome impacts resulting from installation of RELF are quickly reversible through the removal of the relevant installations, such as solar panels or wind turbines. In other cases, previous or alternative uses will only return once the previous state has been regained. Clearly, installations in urban areas on rooftops are nearly completely reversible, but large-scale land clearance for wind farms or PV arrays may take decades or centuries to recover. In general, spatial planning procedures do not deal well with the issue of reversibility, often because high value land uses such as urban development or mining are irreversible on a human time scale.\nLarge-scale wind and solar developments in the EU require an EIA, which includes a visual impact analysis. Though there do not seem to be many published examples (EIA studies are mainly an annex to the project itself), a GIS-based visibility catchment (viewshed) analysis would be an appropriate starting point for evaluation of visual impact. Published research exists on the environmental impacts from the manufacturing and decommissioning phases of PV power equipment; however, more studies are needed about the installation and operation phase.\nLocal communities can experience difficulty in deciding the siting of PV installations [3]. Innovative approaches involving participatory cartography are one way to address these difficulties [13, 15, 16]. Modelling approaches directed at RE installation location, such as multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) procedures [17] or optimal site potential models [18], are beginning to emerge and are likely to offer a way forward with respect to the spatial allocation of RELF in line with environmental criteria. This section provides an overview of the two case studies used in this research to understand how local RE development is taking place and particularly what elements of spatial issues are developing alongside it that should be considered.\nThe study of local renewable energy development from a spatial perspective is a relatively new field of study. Two cases were chosen with different spatial contexts in order to develop understandings of relationships that take place in both space-scarce (the Netherlands) and space-abundant (Spain) areas. In the Netherlands, locally based solar implementation is increasing exponentially. Collective purchasing, crowd-sourcing and small-scale solar farms are becoming commonplace. The highly regulative nature of Dutch spatial planning could be used to reduce the changes seen due to solar energy. Currently, this is only being done in cases where the scale is considered to be industrial and not for personal or community use. Discussions are being held at the provincial level about how to incorporate medium-size solar installations in the landscape, but no final decisions have been made. Wind energy is highly regulated and has not achieved much in comparison to other countries in Europe. In Spain, previous advancements made through large-scale wind and solar installations have come to a standstill due to an altered funding environment at the national level. Current developments are considered to be more modest or small scale and need to address more local issues due to the lack of support from higher levels.\nConnecting the types of local RE projects and the resulting implementation processes and land use impacts that have taken place in these two cases is desired in order to provide us with the necessary preliminary data to simulate and model these relationships. What is missing from the available literature is how qualitative and quantitative social factors increase or decrease the likelihood of implementation of renewable energy in different cases. In this ongoing research, we are using a specially developed integrated participatory land use model APOLUS—actor and policy land use simulator.\nAPOLUS is articulated as two model blocks (see Fig. 1): land demand and land use allocation are connected by a feedback loop. The land demand model block determines the amount of land to be changed or combined with RE uses which is then allocated in the land use allocation model block. Land demand is initially determined for each scenario on the basis of factors exogenous to the land allocation block, but land allocation outcomes are fed back into the demand block so that the system is modified dynamically as RE implementation progresses. To produce simulations of land use and RELF at future dates (e.g. 2020, 2050), the storyline and simulation approach is employed [19]. Storylines are developed through the participatory process and the model represents them. This enables the contextual factors related to the implementation process to be introduced into the model. Determination of RE demand for each scenario is a key challenge. As noted above, the demand model block also needs to consider multi-functionality, enabling the allocation of new RELF in existing land areas. It is anticipated that more multi-functionality of land use will take place in the Netherlands area than in Spain, so some difference in the operation of the system across the two areas is anticipated.\nFig. 1 Conceptual Model for APOLUS: Actor and POlicy Land Use Simulator\nᅟ\nAs such, the differences and similarities between the chosen case studies will give us a perspective on different European approaches to land use and renewable energy. The model enables us to incorporate geographical, social and economic factors into the development of future scenarios with the help of expert and local stakeholder input. Doing so at a regional/local scale in our two case studies will provide direction as to what type of spatial land use data is necessary for understanding land use changes associated with local renewable energy development.\nImplementation of local RE installations, as with any change to local resources or amenities, is more effectively accomplished if it is community driven and if both costs and benefits are shared across different members of society. As seen in Spain, a success story can turn into failure overnight if implementation is excessively reliant on top-down mechanisms such as legislative support and subsidy regimes. Conversely, even if a considerable amount of general support for renewable energy policy exists, at a local level, many residents feel that a renewable energy system may limit their quality of life [3]. A number of important points emerged from the preliminary case study work that need to be addressed in the spatially focused simulation model that has been developed to study these implementation processes. These are as follows:\nMulti-functionality: No clear distinction was identified between wind and PV energy with respect to multi-functionality of use. In the opinion of Spanish stakeholders, PV energy installation development implies loss of the previous land use, while wind energy was regarded as compatible with other uses. This is quite different to the current situation in the Netherlands where there is strong resistance to wind energy because it is viewed as incompatible with the landscape, yet PV on roof tops is generally accepted. Since multiple land uses are not recorded under Corine land cover data, it is not possible to verify whether there were good examples of compatibility of land use from the maps. It is very important that the simulation model take multi-functionality into account since under some circumstances, RE must be incorporated into the existing land uses without taking them over.\nTemporal resolution of innovations: Another challenging aspect of this research is the speed at which changes are taking place and the minimal level of oversight which can occur. This is particularly visible for the diffusion of PV panels in the Netherlands. An underlying hypothesis is that new projects are influenced by the presence (or lack) of other PV panels in the area. Detecting the presence of any causal aspects to this relationship implies a need for data on a highly detailed temporal scale. However, since this level of detail is not present in the available open data, the model will be tasked with simulating this process. By generating plausible outcomes from multiple model runs, the simulation model serves as a virtual laboratory for exploring the spatial and temporal diffusion of these processes.\nPath dependency: A further challenge to the successful development of future scenarios is the underlying assumption that the past land use relationships will hold in the future (path dependency). Using past land use changes relationships as the basis for the scenarios has a number of issues. As technologies change, the underlying characteristics of RELF also change. This is true particularly with respect to the footprint and aesthetic impacts that are related to a technology. To address this, we include a certain amount of randomness into the development of scenarios and will also include the changes in potentially influential contextual factors as variables in the model. The spatial allocation component of the model and the cellular automata model of White and collaborators [20] is especially suitable for this kind of work, since small changes to model parameters can produce highly divergent outcomes as the simulation progresses, a feature known as bifurcation. Model results are thus not limited to a few scenarios (e.g. business as usual, renewables super development, continued fossil fuel dependence, etc.), but instead produce a broad range of possible options based on the various bifurcations from each scenario path. Multiple model runs can be used to assess the probability of the various outcomes. Model results can assist policymakers in assessing the likelihood of the developments having an impact in their particular area based on the timespan over which they expect their policies and plans to be relevant.\nThe need for additional and interdisciplinary studies related to the development of local renewable energy is clear. The multiple types of RELF possible will have significant and varying impacts on the speed and success of the energy transition in various places. The increasingly private and local nature of renewable energy development increases the complexity of monitoring and understanding these processes. We aim for this study to provide some insight into the gaps and lack of information available for policymakers and planners in preparing, supporting and steering the local, decentral renewable energy transition.\nThe exception to this is the case where changes are required for flood safety, in which case the high level of public acceptance can slightly speed up the necessary processes.\nRecently, Spain approved a new law on EIA (Law 21/2013, 9th of December, of Env. Impac. Asses.) relaxing these instruments further: photovoltaic installations under 10 ha. Do not require study as well as those dedicated to self-consumption under 100 kW.\nSee results of the land use analysis for the Navarre case study, end of Section 4.2.\nRELF:\nrenewable energy landscape features\nThe research presented in this paper is conducted and funded from the EU FP7 project number 308601—COMPLEX. Further detailed information is available on the project website.\nCDB coordinated the development of the paper, contributed to the Dutch research and text of the paper. RH coordinated the team in Spain, contributed to the research, contributed to the text of the paper and revised the manuscript. HB contributed to the Dutch research and to the text of the paper. PMA carried out the research work in Spain, contributed to the text of the paper and revised the manuscript. VHJ, LRB and JDP contributed to the research and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.\nAuthors’ information\nThis team of authors have grouped themselves together based on their collective work and interest in the effects of social factors in land use change. CDB is currently a senior researcher appointed jointly to two departments of the University of Twente—PGM (Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-Information Management) and CSTM (Department of Governance and Technology for Sustainability) at the University of Twente (UT). Her research focuses on connecting land use data and knowledge with policy relevant instruments and planning. The largest support for the land use change mapping and modelling component comes from the expertise of RH, based on his experience in participatory modelling, land use modelling and software. VHJ has a lengthy profile in community engagement and modelling which has helped to determine the stakeholder participation elements of the research. Both RH and VHJ are members of OCT (Observatory for a Culture of the Territory). The other authors (HB, VHJ, PMA, LRB, JDP) are also affiliated with these two institutions (OCT and UT) and provide expertise on policy implementation, GIS and modelling and land use change and impacts of development.\nCSTM/ITC, University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, the Netherlands\nObservatory for a Culture of the Territory (OCT), C/ Duque Fernán Nuñez, 2 – 1º, 28012 Madrid, Spain\nDe Boer C, Hewitt R, Bressers H, Verónica Hernández J, Martínez Alonso P, Warbroek B (2014) Stakeholder input and feedback on model development of PLUS4-CMP. Project Report for EU FP7 Programme COMPLEX ProjectGoogle Scholar\nTsoutsos T, Frantzeskaki N, Gekas V (2005) Environmental impacts from the solar energy technologies. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6984259486198425,"wiki_prob":0.6984259486198425,"text":"Parton visits TV to push live disc\nWednesday, April 4, 2012 – Dolly Parton is pushing her just released \"An Evening with... Dolly,\" a DVD/CD set available exclusively at all Cracker Barrel, on TV. The double-disc set includes live performances of Dolly's biggest hits, including 9 to 5, Jolene, Coat of Many Colors, Here You Come Again, Islands in the Stream, and I Will Always Love You, among others.\nParton Dolly will appear tomorrow on Nightline on ABC during their Playlist segment as well as Inside Edition. On Friday, Parton engages in a one-on-one question and answer session with Billboard.com and the entertainment news magazine show EXTRA! On Saturday, Parton sits down with Rebecca Jarvis on CBS This Morning and Katie Cook for CMT Insider.\nThe PR effort continues next week as well. On Wednesday, April 11, Parton will be featured on the mid-day syndicated The Better Show. On Saturday, April 14, she talks with Gov. Mike Huckabee for Fox News Channel's HUCKABEE. The show will re-air on Sunday, April 15.\nMore news for Dolly Parton\n03/01/18: Parton presents milestone book to Library of Congress\n08/15/17: Parton unveils first children's release\n10/04/16: Parton wins CMA honor\n08/30/16: Parton debuts atop Billboard\n08/19/16: Parton tops new releases\n07/07/16: Parton keeps it \"Simple\" with Sony\n07/05/16: Parton backs off Clinton endorsement, or was it?\n04/25/16: Parton keeps it Pure & Simple\nCD reviews for Dolly Parton\nDolly Parton is no stranger to flash. Even before our modern country era, where many of the most successful artists rival contemporary pop stars for high profile image manipulation, Parton had the city girl look down pat (alas, without ever denying her Appalachian roots). However, this master songwriter has simply given us an album about as close to purity as one can get. The incredibly bright Parton is far from simple, however, so the \"simple\" in this album's title solely refers »»»\nOf all the songs you never expected Dolly Parton to cover, Bon Jovi's \"Lay Your Hands on Me\" has got to be near the top of the list. Although by the time Miley Cyrus's godmother gets through personalizing the song there's not enough of the original left to call it a cover - just a word or two here and there and the chorus, which for those of you who have forgotten this masterpiece of 80's hair metal is just the title of the song repeated almost enough times to make a »»»\nIf Dolly Parton were to host a summer replacement daytime TV show, her new record album could very well be the soundtrack. It is so totally Dolly - an hour's worth of can-do, I'm-country-gol'-dang-it-but-don't-forget-I'm-Hollywood, yet never abandoning the singer-songwriter that's been her overriding trademark. It gets a little silly, which you expect from Dolly. In fact, the song she co-wrote with Mac Davis, Country Is as Country Does - gets a lot silly. »»»","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1311220"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9147713780403137,"wiki_prob":0.9147713780403137,"text":"These free speech lawsuits won't scare Donald Trump. But they give me chills\nLawsuits against Donald Trump and former Sheriff Joe Arpaio could test the nation's long-standing commitment to free speech.\nThese free speech lawsuits won't scare Donald Trump. But they give me chills Lawsuits against Donald Trump and former Sheriff Joe Arpaio could test the nation's long-standing commitment to free speech. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/lindavaldez/2018/10/17/donald-trump-first-amendment-lawsuit-joe-arpaio-new-york-times/1673686002/\nLinda Valdez, Arizona Republic Published 6:07 p.m. MT Oct. 17, 2018\nOpinion: Lawsuits against the president and former Sheriff Joe Arpaio could test the nation's long-standing commitment to free speech.\nPresident Donald Trump walks to Marine One on Oct. 12, 2018.(Photo: Susan Walsh/AP)\nA First Amendment lawsuit against Donald Trump won’t spark fear in the president’s heart.\nBut it ought to give you a chill.\nIt is one of a series of current events that shows the vulnerability of the free press is in our allegedly free society.\nThere is also $147.5 million lawsuit by Arizona’s own Joe Arpaio against The New York Times and one of its opinion writers over a column the former Maricopa County sheriff didn't like. Brought by a conservative group that aspires to “bring this 'failing newspaper' to its knees,” it may represent the belief that a Trump-influenced Supreme Court will roll back long-honored press freedoms.\nThere is Trump’s smiley-face, paternalistic treatment of the Saudis after the presumed murder of a U.S.-resident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was last seen entering a Saudi consulate in Turkey. The coddling of Saudi Arabia despite suspicions about its role Khashoggi's disappearance is welcome news to all despots who know a journalist they'd like to see disappear.\nCriticizing the press is fine. This is not\nIn this context, the First Amendment lawsuit against Trump offers a few good reasons why all Americans – across the political spectrum – should shudder at thought of rolling back press freedom.\n“President Trump has First Amendment rights and is free to criticize the press vehemently, but he is not free to use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it,” says the lawsuit that was filed Tuesday by the nonpartisan group Protect Democracy on behalf of the PEN American Center, Inc.\nIt cites examples of retaliation:\nThreatening online retailer Amazon, owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post – a relentless Trump critic. Trump “personally directed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon and other firms to ship packages,” according to the suit.\nAnother relentless Trump critic is CNN, owned by Time Warner, whose planned merger with AT&T was challenged by the Trump Justice Department – something candidate Trump “publicly threatened” to do, according to the suit. Time Warner won, but incurred costs that continue as the administration appeals.\nTrump has threatened to pull White House press credentials of reporters he doesn’t like.\nTrump threatened the broadcast licenses of NBC and other television stations “in retaliation for coverage he disliked,” the suit says.\nTrump’s “use of the power and machinery of government to punish his media critics creates an atmosphere in which journalists must work under the threat of government retaliation,” says the lawsuit.\nSupporters of the president may enjoy his chest-beating posture toward the press.\nCourts have long protected free speech\nBut an attempt by any president to intimidate and silence journalists represents a terrifying lack of appreciation of the role of a free press.\nIt also shows a disrespect for America’s long, long tradition of protecting a free press.\nAccording to the lawsuit:\nBenjamin Franklin defended freedom of speech as the “principal pillar” of a free society and said a leader who had “the power to punish for words would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible.”\nIn 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court said: “newspapers, magazines, and other journals of the country . . . have shed . . . more light on the public and business affairs of the nation than any other instrumentality of publicity; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgement of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.”\nIn 1964, the Supreme Court said the First Amendment represents “a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”\nIn 1972, the Supreme Court said it is “well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas.”\nIn 2012, the Supreme Court said the government cannot “orchestrate public discussion through content-based mandates.”\nWhat will a Trump-influenced Supreme Court say?\nDon't miss the point of the First Amendment\nIf the Free Speech lawsuit against Trump makes it that far, this could be another chance for the highest court in the land to speak up for a free press.\nBut Arpaio’s suit may represent the hopes of those who want to curb speech a politician doesn't like. It could become a vehicle to allow a more conservative high court to start rolling back America's press freedoms.\nTrump supporters who see that as a good thing are missing the point of the First Amendment.\nIt wasn't written to protect journalists. It was written to protect free people.\nReach Valdez at linda.valdez@arizonarepublic.com.\nMORE FROM VALDEZ:\nTucson woman wants to make sure deported parents don't lose their kids\nArizona Supreme Court blames the domestic violence victim, takes the kids\nSecretary of State candidate says LGBT workers don't need law to protect them\nWant more opinions? Subscribe to azcentral.com.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/lindavaldez/2018/10/17/donald-trump-first-amendment-lawsuit-joe-arpaio-new-york-times/1673686002/\nDump #DumpStarbucks over Tempe cops incident\nDo Democrats even want to win in 2020?\nWhy our schools are crushing this national test\nWhat? Did Gov. Ducey wear Nikes on July 4th?\nDiane Douglas's latest rant is just sick\nWhy did Gov. Ducey channel Trump over Nike?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line342779"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6458548903465271,"wiki_prob":0.3541451096534729,"text":"Critique of a Yellowish Piece of “Journalistic”-Trash\nNortheast / New York 1 week ago 40 Views\nJul 05, 2019EditorialComments Off on Critique of a Yellowish Piece of “Journalistic”-Trash\nOp-ed by Howard Eagle –\nHoward Eagle\nThat’s right, I’m referring to City Newspaper’s so-called ‘Highlights from an early summer primary‘, as representing “journalistic”-trash, which are very strong words, and which I should either be able to validate, or I should apologize. So, examine my critique (below), and you decide whether or not I owe the three different “news” reporters (truly amazing) who compiled the article an apology, or not.\nThe very first fact that should be emphasized is super-“low 14 percent Democratic [voter] turnout,” which City pundits attempted to minimize by, for no logically or relevant reason, mentioning that it “was slightly higher than four years ago”. How pitiful is that? Next, let’s be clear that the majority of those who did turnout to vote were mainly middle and upper class white folks who would not dream of sending their own children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. to Rochester City School District (RCSD) schools, period. So, most have no skin in the game. The 86% (the overwhelming majority of whom are poor and Black, and have the most skin in the game) stayed home, as usual.\nAs noted, “voters returned incumbents Beatriz LeBron (whom many believe is devilish) and Willa Powell (the 20-plus-years-know-nothing, or at least, know-little about urban, public education)\nand elected newcomers Amy Maloy and Ricardo Adams”—all of whom are recipients of benefits that flowed from thousands upon thousands of dollars spent by New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), Rochester Teachers Association (RTA), and other racist unions, in order to ensure victory of the so-called Powell Adams LeBron Maloy Slate. They are all definitely beholding to the man who many refer to as ‘the real RCSD superintendent,’ Mister Adam Urbanski.\nNow here’s where their “journalistic”-rubish starts to get really yellowish and trashy. They claim that “it’s hard to draw an overarching conclusion”\\.Really? Well it was quite easy for me to do so. The bottom line is that old, entrenched, status-quo-based, white, minority-rule, continues firmly intact in slave-town-U.S.A. Additionally, they actually had the intestinal fortitude, raw audacity, unmitigated gall to attempt to convince you and me that “the election results don’t seem to indicate a particular dissatisfaction with the school board.” They have got to be kidding. A full 86% of the electorate did not bother to show up (as most haven’t for decades). Yet, “the election results don’t seem to indicate a particular dissatisfaction with the school board?” WHAT? Even in the face of clear reality, the pundits still tried to make the case that “people did care enough about the district and the school board to show up and vote.” Well, we know (for sure) which “people” they’re talking about (the mainly white, middle and upper class minority-majority; along with some middle and upper class Blacks and other people of color, many of whom exhibit “Negropean” tendencies, and therefore (obviously) vote similar to, or just like their white counterparts, and a smattering of ordinary poor and working people. The fact that “the top vote-getters were incumbents LeBron and Powell” is an absolute affirmation that old, deeply-entrenched status-quo reigns.\nIt’s very interesting, if not amazing that three different journalists (collectively) can’t keep the story straight. For example, they claimed that “Anthony Hall and Robert Hoggard campaigned independently,” but those of us who were on the ground know that Hall and Hoggard were supposedly part of a slate that included Lebron and Adams. Thus, two were used solely to siphon off votes, and the other two were anointed by RTA’s racist ‘czar,’ along with two white women (one of whom has presided over chaos and dysfunction for more than two decades). Yes, that’s really what happened.\nNot only is their political ineptness, less than stellar research skills, and hegemonic tendencies on full display, but they are actually distorting the truth. For example they claimed that Rochester Board of Education Commissioner Judith Davis “abdicated one of her most important jobs as a board member, refusing to take part in the selection of a new superintendent because she disagreed with the process.” That’s a straight-up distorted, convoluted, conflated, twisted lie. She did in fact participate in all of the initial interviews, and definitely voted, but at the same time, she also publicly criticized the exclusionary (of parents, families and community), illegitimate, rigged process, which has absolutely nothing to do with so-called “abdicating” anything at all. Instead, the pundits obviously do not recognize critically important, necessary interruption of the entrenched status-quo when they see it. Perhaps that’s because they are such a vital part of it.\nThey tried to make a big deal out of the fact that “the current board has already committed to the professional development that Aquino recommended.” Yet they had nothing to say about the specific nature of what was, and was not recommended and why, e.g., one of Dr. Aquino’s most important findings is that “the Board acknowledges that there is a need to minimize the underlying racial tension that exists among the group and has engaged in two retreats to begin to address these issues” (Finding #4, p.16). However, one of the few shortfalls of the Report is that it contains no specific recommendations for conclusively addressing/resolving this fundamentally vital issue, which we can be certain did not get resolved via two so-called “retreats.” In the final analysis, the journalistic-pundits are merely spewing status-quo-supporting rhetoric.\nLastly, they claim that “if the June and August graduation rates continue to improve, and parents and teachers like what they see in new superintendent Terry Dade, voters may be reluctant to support the [State] takeover.” It’s most interesting that they would mention “graduation rates” and “new superintendent Terry Dade” in the same sentence, especially when considering that Superintendent Dade expressed to members of our Coalition (https://www.facebook.com/tidpc/) when we met with him on June 26th that he has been wondering about something that we believe is very, very important; something that we have also pondered for years. “How can we have a 60% graduation rate when proficiency rates are in the low teens?” Is anyone willing to try to provide a credible, rational, informed, valid answer? Don’t ask the pundits because they are guaranteed to steer you wrong.\nHoward Eagle is a longtime educator and local anti-racism advocate, known for his campaigns for the Rochester school board and prolific political and social commentary. Eagle taught social studies in the RCSD for 23 years, before retiring in 2010, and is now an adjunct professor in the Department of African American Studies at SUNY Brockport.\nClick HERE to comment on this article from our Facebook page\nPrevious PostSupreme Court Sends Mixed Civil Rights Signals As America Celebrates July 4th Next PostEast's Shaun Nelms Leads ROC the Future Convener Board\nAnother Call to Action: Come Out On March 30TH\nAn Open Letter to Tim Louis Macaluso, City Newspaper\nJim Ryan, Who Specifically is the “We” in Your Article?\nMinority Reporter\nWhy Dem. Senators Richard Pan and Steven Glazer Are Holding Out Their Votes on Ethnic Studies Bill","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1608954"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5923911333084106,"wiki_prob":0.5923911333084106,"text":"Do You Own Anything You're Wearing?\nWith a queen's ransom of loaner gowns, jewelry, and heels at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala, the CFDA Fashion Awards, and the Emmy Awards, we wondered which items actually belonged to the celebrities wearing them.\nThe 8 Best Beauty Looks From the 2014 Emmy Awards\nThe 66th annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles were nothing short of spectacular. As our favorite actresses accepted their statues (and cracked up at some of the funniest people in the world), we rounded up our favorite hair and makeup looks of the night. Take a peek at the top beauty moments that truly impressed us.\nToday's Alluring Links\nAll the looks (good and bad) from the Billboard Music Awards red carpet, what Julianna Margulies and Chrissy Teigen have in common, and some high-stakes nose strips in today's Alluring Links....\n9 Celebrities Talk About Dating\nBad-date horror story? You're not alone. Take solace in the fact that even celebrities have been there, too.\nCelebrity Hairstylist Chris McMillan on Prepping Julianna Margulies for the Golden Globes\nI've been doing Julianna Margulies's hair all week (I also helped her get ready for the People's Choice Awards and the AFI luncheon) and she is such a pleasure to work with. She says...\nThe Best Beauty Looks of the 2014 Golden Globes\nSome of the events at this year's Golden Globes were expected—Tina Fey and Amy Poehler killed it, Lena Dunham wore canary yellow, and Jennifer Lawrence won an award. What surprised us? Emma Thompson threw off her shoes, everyone was pregnant, and the hair and makeup was stunning across the board. We recap our favorites of the night.\nJulianna Margulies Named the Face of L'Oréal's Women of Worth\nI love it when a company makes good products and tries to do some good as well. In 2006, L'Oréal launched its Women of Worth program, which recognizes women who are making a big difference...\nHair Idea: Red Carpet Ponytails\nA My Little Pony Obsession has officially hit the red carpet, and this time, the evening ponytail trend transcends age—worn by teen stars like Shailene Woodley as well as over-40 actresses like Diane Lane (who...\nOn Location With The Good Wife\nWe recently dropped in on a taping of CBS TV's legal drama, The Good Wife. Two of the stars—Julianna Margulies, who plays Alicia, and Josh Charles, who plays Will—along with the rest of the crew,...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1036582"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5143121480941772,"wiki_prob":0.48568785190582275,"text":"SFWS Seminar Series – Dr. Ilari Filpponen\nSeptember 19, 2018 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm\n« AUsome Amphibians and Reptiles\nAUsome Amphibians and Reptiles »\nAuburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences Fall Seminar Series Presents:\nDr. Ilari Filpponen, Assistant Research Professor, Alabama Center for Paper and Bioresource Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, at Auburn University who will give a talk entitled, Tailoring the surface wettability of cellulose-based paper/nanopaper via novel photo-induced thiol-ene and thiol-yne reactions: Towards electronic and microfluidic applications.\nSeminar is held at 11 a.m. in Conference Room 1101 in the SFWS Building, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL.\nFaculty, students and the public are invited to attend this free program.\nComplimentary cookies and coffee will be served.\nCFEs are available by request.\nAdvanced registration is not required.\nParking is available on the 3rd and 4th floors of the South Quad parking deck on Duncan Drive, directly across from the SFWS Building. See Parking Services on Level 3 to obtain a visitor pass.\nFilms prepared from cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) have recently been considered as promising substrates for the utilization in electronic devices including displays, transistors, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), touchscreens, lithium ion batteries, solar cells, transparent conductive electrodes and antennas. However, a significant drawback for the use of CNF films in such applications is their high sensitivity to moisture. In this work, a novel and facile process to tailor the wettability of CNF film was developed. Firstly, transparent and reactive porous silicone brush-like nanolayers were introduced onto the CNF film surface by polycondensation of trichlorovinylsilane. Next, the pre-modified CNF films were converted superhydrophobic by introducing low surface tension thiolated fluorine and alkyl molecules via thiol-ene chemistry. Water contact angles (WCA) of 167° and WCA hysteresis < 3° were determined and found to change little after extensive rubbing cycles.\nMoreover, it is demonstrated that the micropatterning of cellulose paper/nanopaper can be achieved by using a novel and highly-effective thiol-yne click reaction. Firstly, the paper/nanopaper was functionalized with 4-pentynoic acid via well-known and scalable esterification procedure. Degrees of substitution (DO) of 0.2 and 0.3 were obtained for the paper and nanopaper, respectively. Next, the alkyne-bearing cellulose substrate was subjected to photo-induced click reactions with various thiol-containing molecules to yield either hydrophobic or hydrophilic cellulose surfaces. Finally, micropatterning of the cellulose surfaces was demonstrated by using a photomask-assisted approach. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), contact angle measurements (CAM) and X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy were applied to characterize the main morphological and chemical features of the produced materials. Main results and possible applications for such systems will be discussed.\nDr. Ilari Filpponen gained his Master’s degree (2003) from University of Helsinki, Finland majoring in organic chemistry, and his PhD degree (2009) from North Carolina State University (NCSU) with research on production and chemical modifications of cellulose nanocrystals. In 2009-2010 he conducted postdoctoral studies at the NCSU after which he joined the Department of Forest Products Technology, Aalto University, Finland. In 2016, he started as an assistant research professor at Auburn University (joint appointment between SFWS & CHEN). He is currently performing research on chemical functionalization of cellulosic substrates by using different chemistries, with special emphasis on Click chemistry based approaches. His research targets on developing value-added products from renewable woody biomass. To date, he has authored and co-authored 40+ peer-reviewed publications and delivered 30+ presentations in domestic and international conferences.\nEvents, Main Calendar\nDr. Brenda Allen\nallenbm@auburn.edu\nAuburn, AL 36849 United States + Google Map\nPage Last Updated: Sep 12, 2018 @ 5:17 pm","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line48873"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8725088834762573,"wiki_prob":0.8725088834762573,"text":"Jerry Buss (1933-2013): Greatest U.S. sports team owner ever!\nWhen ranking the sports team owners in American professional sports, it is not much of a contest, because Jerry Buss, who recently passed away, has every other owner beat by a mile, including New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who passed away in 2010.\nMany people say that the Yankees are the premiere team in American sports, mostly because their history of greatness dates back to the early 1900s, but in the modern era it is not even close. The Lakers, mostly because of the vision of Buss, has been the greatest franchise in any sport.\nSince Buss purchased the Lakers in 1979, the Lakers have made it to the NBA Finals 16 times, which is nearly half of the years that Buss owned the team. They won the title 10 times, more than any other American professional sports team over that time period. Under Steinbrenner, who owned the Yankees from 1973 until his passing, the ball club won seven World Series titles in 11 appearances.\nBuss took a team that was one of the better teams in the NBA and turned them into the greatest pro team in the nation. When he took over the Lakers were not even the best team in town. Los Angeles was a Dodgers town. USC football and UCLA basketball were a lot more popular, as the Lakers had lost seven times in the NBA Finals from the time that they moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis in 1960 until Buss bought the team. All of those losses came against the Celtics, and the Lakers had only won the NBA title once over that time period, in 1972.\nWhen Buss took over the Celtics had 13 NBA titles compared to the Lakers six (five of those won in Minneapolis), and it did not seem like any team would ever come close to catching them. But since Buss took over the Lakers have defeated the Celtics three times in the NBA Finals, won 10 overall, and now they are only behind the Celtics by one championship (17-16).\nFormer Laker Tommy Hawkins remembers the Dodgers receiving a parade in Downtown when they moved to Los Angeles in 1958, but when the Lakers showed up two years later, they came in on a bus through San Bernadino and nobody knew who they were.\nBefore Buss bought the team the Lakers were always lost in the shuffle of the Los Angeles sporting scene. But he instantly changed that.\nBuss' first move was to create Showtime, and that was not just on the court. He understood that in Los Angeles, just watching a game would not be enough to captivate people who are in the \"Entertainment Capitol of the World.\" Buss created an environment that the Hollywood stars wanted to be at. Laker games were the place to be, not just for celebrities, but for the masses.\nBuss created a show, but at the same time, that was not going to hold people's attention for long. Laker great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pointed out that dancing girls were not going to win games. The show was not just during timeouts, or before and after the game. The main attraction was the players, and Buss stopped at nothing to get the best.\nOne thing that separated Buss from other owners who will stop at nothing to win was that Buss knew his role, and he let others do their jobs. Bill Sharman and Jerry West built the rosters that became Showtime. They surrounded Magic Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar with other star players. They took the risk on drafting James Worthy over Dominique Wilkins. They took the risk to trade Norm Nixon in order to draft Byron Scott. And to trade Vlade Divac for Kobe Bryant, who was right out of high school. That was a major risk because Shaquille O'Neal had not signed with the team at that point, and there was no telling if he would come to Los Angeles.\nBuss also allowed O'Neal to be traded, and he convinced Bryant that he should be a Laker forever, which resulted into two more championships.\nBuss' efforts and his visions have given Los Angeles fans the best team in the modern era of sports. The only thing that it looks like Buss will miss out on is when the Lakers finally catch, and pass, the Celtics in total titles.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line284095"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8477849960327148,"wiki_prob":0.8477849960327148,"text":"Table of Contents » Gretna\nGretna, Town of\nCounty of Pittsylvania\nHistory of incorporation\nFormerly the Town of Elba.\nElba charter, 1901, c. 19, incorporation and charter; repealed 1916, c. 223.\nElba, 1914, c. 167, name changed to Gretna.\nGretna charter, 1916, c. 223; repealed 1979, c. 308.\nCurrent charter\nCharter, 1979, c. 308.\nAmendments to current charter\n1980, c. 70 (§ 4)\n2003, cc. 659, 672 (§ 4)\n2010, c. 173 (§ 4)\n§ 1. Style of corporation.\nThe inhabitants of the territory in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, comprised within the present limits of the town of Gretna, as such limitations are now or may hereinafter be altered and established by law, shall constitute and continue a body, politic and corporate, to be known and designated as the town of Gretna, and as such shall have and may exercise all powers which are now or hereafter may be conferred upon or delegated to towns under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, as fully and completely as though such powers were specifically enumerated herein, and no enumeration of particular powers by this charter shall be held to be exclusive, and shall have, exercise and enjoy all rights, immunities, powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties and obligations now appertaining to and incumbent on the town as a municipal corporation, and the town of Gretna, as such, shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and may have a corporate seal, which it may alter, renew or amend at its pleasure by proper ordinance. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 2. Town boundaries.\nThe territory and limits of the town shall embrace and extend one-half mile in every direction from the marker indicating the site of the chimney of the Southern Railway depot. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 3. Powers generally.\nIn addition to the powers elsewhere mentioned in this charter and powers conferred by general law, and the Constitution, the town of Gretna shall have specifically, but not limited to, all powers set forth in §§ 15.1-837 through 15.1-915.1, inclusive, of the Code of Virginia. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 4. Administration and government.\nA. The administration and government of the Town of Gretna shall be vested in one body, to be called the council of the Town of Gretna, which shall consist of seven members, six of whom shall be known as councilmen and one to be known as mayor, all of whom shall be residents and qualified voters of the town. The council of the town shall have power to elect or appoint such other officers as it may deem necessary, and to define their duties, including a town manager, who shall, under the control of the council, have the general charge and management of the administrative affairs and work of the town, and who shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the council. The manager shall receive a salary as shall be allowed him by the council, and may be dismissed at any time by the council. The council may create, appoint, or elect such other departments, bodies, boards, and other officers as are hereinafter provided for, or as are permitted or required by law to be appointed by the council.\nB. The present mayor and council of the Town of Gretna shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which they were respectively elected, or until their successors are duly elected and qualified.\nC. The mayor and the six councilmen shall constitute the Town Council of Gretna.\nIn the year 2010, and every two years thereafter, the mayor shall be elected at large by the qualified voters of the Town of Gretna at a municipal election to be held in November. The mayor shall be elected for a term of two years beginning on the January 1 next following his election and shall serve until his successor shall have been elected and qualified.\nIn the year 2010, and every four years thereafter, three councilmen shall be elected at large by the qualified voters of the Town of Gretna at a regular municipal election to be held in November for four-year terms beginning on the January 1 next following their election and shall serve until their successors shall have been elected and qualified.\nThe council shall be a continuing body, and no measure pending before such body shall abate or be discontinued by reason of expiration of the term of office or removal of the members of such body or any of them. Every person elected shall take an oath faithfully to execute and discharge the duties of his office to the best of his judgment, and the mayor shall take an oath prescribed by law for State officers. The failure of any person elected or appointed under the provisions of this charter to qualify or to take the oath required, within the time prescribed for entering upon the discharge of the duties of the office to which he is elected or appointed, shall vacate the office, and the council shall proceed and are hereby vested with power to fill such vacancy in the manner herein prescribed.\nAny vacancy occurring during the term of any member of the council shall be filled by the council by the appointment of anyone eligible to such office. A vacancy in the office of mayor shall be filled by the council from the electors of the town as soon as possible.\nD. For the transaction of business by the council, four members, of whom the mayor may be counted as one, shall constitute a quorum.\nE. Each member of the council may receive a salary to be fixed by the council, payable at such times, and in such manner, as the council may direct. The mayor may receive a salary to be fixed by the council, payable in such manner and at such times as the council may direct. No increase in salary of a council member or the mayor shall take effect during the incumbent council member's or mayor's term of office.\nF. The mayor shall preside at the meetings of the council and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by this charter and by general law, and such as may be imposed by the council, consistent with his office. The mayor shall have no right to vote in the council, except that in case of a tie vote then the mayor shall vote.\nG. The council shall, as soon as practicable, after qualification, choose one of its members as vice mayor. The vice mayor shall perform the duties of the mayor during his absence or disability, and in event of a vacancy for any reason in the office of mayor, he shall serve until a mayor is duly appointed by the council or is elected. The vice mayor shall continue to have all rights, privileges, powers, duties, and obligations of a councilman while performing the duties of mayor, during the absence or disability of the mayor of the town. In the absence of the mayor or vice mayor, the mayor may designate a member of the council to perform his duties.\nH. The council shall, by ordinance, fix the time for their meetings, but shall have at least one meeting each month. Special meetings shall be called by the clerk at the instance of the mayor or any three members of the council, in writing; no business shall be transacted at a special meeting but that for which it shall be called, unless the council be unanimous. The meetings of the council shall be open to the public, except such meetings as may be permitted by general law to be closed.\nI. The council shall keep a minute book, in which the clerk shall note the proceeding of the council, and shall record proceedings at large on the minute book and keep the same properly indexed.\nJ. The council may adopt rules for regulating its proceedings, but no tax shall be levied or corporate debt contracted, except by a vote of two-thirds of the council, four votes being counted as two-thirds, which vote shall be taken by \"Yeas\" and \"Nays,\" and recorded in the minute book. It may appoint such committees as may be deemed proper for the transaction of business, and may compel attendance of absent members.\nK. The council may require the mayor to communicate to it annually as soon after the close of the fiscal year, or more often, if necessary a general statement of the condition of the town in relation to its government, finances and improvements, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. He shall exercise a constant supervision over the conduct of all subordinate officers, have power and authority to investigate their acts, have access to all books and documents in their offices, and may examine such officer on oath. He shall have power to suspend all officers appointed by the council until the next regular meeting of the council, but such suspension shall, in all cases, be for misconduct in office or neglect of duty, to be specified in the order of suspension. In case of suspension of any officer, the mayor shall submit a written report of the same to the council at its next regular meeting, or any meeting called for that purpose, specifically designating the charge against the officer and reasons for dismissal, and in case of suspension by the mayor, he shall have power to appoint some other person in his place to hold such office and perform the duties thereof until the next regular meeting of the council.\nL. Every ordinance passed by the council for the violation of which a penalty is imposed shall be published in such a way as the council may order, so as to give general publicity thereto, and no order may become effective until so published, either by handbills posted in at least two public places, or in a newspaper published and having general circulation in the town, except in the case of an emergency, in which instance the ordinance shall so state and shall become effective immediately upon its passage. If published by handbill, a certification of the posting thereof shall be made by the clerk or sergeant as to the time and place where the ordinance is recorded; provided, however, that after the expiration of six months from date of the passage of any ordinance, its publication shall not be questioned, or its validity affected by any failure to publish the same.\nM. The council may, in addition to a town manager, appoint a town sergeant, a clerk and a treasurer. Such officers shall qualify and give bond, if any be required, in such amount as council may deem proper. Such officers shall perform those duties as council, from time to time, may prescribe by ordinance not inconsistent with the Constitution and general laws of this Commonwealth. The clerk of the council and the treasurer may be one and the same person in the discretion of the council.\nN. The council may add penalties and interest, in an amount not to exceed that provided for, if any, by State law, for failure of any person or firm or corporation to pay taxes or licenses at the time provided for by ordinances of the council, and there shall be a lien for all taxes assessed which may be enforced as provided by general law of the Commonwealth.\nO. The council shall issue no bonds or certificates of debt, except in anticipation of current revenue, until it shall have first submitted to the qualified voters of the town by a court ordered election on the question of whether or not such bonds shall be issued and a majority of the qualified voters voting at any election held for such purpose shall have voted for such issue. Such election shall be held as provided for by general laws of this Commonwealth including, specifically, § 24.1-165. A copy of the court order shall be published at least five days before the election in some newspaper published in the town or having general circulation therein. The publisher of the newspaper shall certify to the publication thereof, which certification shall be recorded in the minute book of the town.\nP. The council may provide for a sinking fund for the purpose of paying off as it matures, any indebtedness of the town and may make an additional levy therefor, such sinking fund to be set aside and invested as provided for hereinafter.\nWhen taxes on real and personal property are collected for the year, the town treasurer shall take therefrom the necessary amount of any additional sum, if any, so set apart, and deposit the same in a separate account to the credit of the sinking fund in such bank or banks as the council may designate.\nAll sinking funds shall be used exclusively in the payment or purchase and redemption of the outstanding bonds of the town, and when such sinking funds are not required or may not, within a reasonable time, be required for payment of any bond of the town, or cannot be used to advantage in purchase and redemption of any bond of the town, which may be outstanding, the same shall be securely invested in interest bearing municipal, State or U. S. government bonds or obligations, or invested in any security approved by the general laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia for investment of such funds. Such sinking funds may be used in the payment or redemption of all bonds of the town, at the discretion of the council.\nThe town council shall act as the sinking fund commission or committee and shall provide for the investment, deposit and application of the funds in conformity to the provisions of this charter; and may require any bank or banks receiving on deposit its revenues or any of its sinking fund a fidelity bond or other security.\nQ. The council may provide for charging and collecting fees for permits to use public facilities and for public services and privileges. The town shall have the power and right to charge a different rate for any service rendered or convenience furnished to citizens without the corporate limits from the rates charged for similar services to citizens within the corporate limits.\nR. The council may establish, regulate and control a department or division of fire.\nS. The council may establish, regulate and control a department or division of police. (1979, c. 308; 1980, c. 70; 2003, cc. 659, 672; 2010, c. 173)\n§ 5. Fixed term elections or appointments.\nWhenever, under the provisions of this charter, any officer of the town or member of any board or commission is elected or appointed for a fixed term, such officer or member shall continue to hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 6. Validation of contracts.\nAll contracts and obligations heretofore or hereafter made by the council of the town of Gretna, while in office, not inconsistent with this charter, or the Constitution, or the general laws of this Commonwealth, shall be, and hereby are declared to be valid and legal. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 7. Ordinances to continue in force.\nAll ordinances now in force in the town of Gretna, not inconsistent with this charter, shall be and remain in full force until altered, amended or repealed by the council of the town. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 8. Severability of charter provisions.\nIf any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this charter shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the charter, but shall be confined in its operations to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall be rendered. (1979, c. 308)\n§ 9. Citation of charter.\nThis charter may for all purposes, be cited or referred to as the Town of Gretna Charter of 1979. (1979, c. 308)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1740327"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6859259605407715,"wiki_prob":0.3140740394592285,"text":"India | Orissa | Puri\nChilika Wildlife Sanctuary\nNalaban Wildlife Sanctuary\nSituated in the districts of Puri, Khordha and Ganjam of Orissa, Chilika Wildlife Sanctuary is known for its immaculate scenic beauty and rich bio-diversity. It is managed by the Forest Department of the Government of Orissa. The sanctuary, spread over an area of 1000 sq km, was established in 1987 with the aim to protect the wildlife in Chilika, the largest brackish water lagoon. Due to its rich bio-diversity, the sanctuary is identified as a 'Ramsar Site'(a wetland of international importance).\nChilika Wildlife Sanctuary is a habitat for migratory birds and butterflies and protects endangered species such as blackbuck and spotted deer. Main attractions are lesser flamingos, grey and purple herons, egrets, spoonbills, storks and white ibis. Chilika Lake, Asia�s largest brackish water lake, supports a wide variety of fish, prawn, algae and aquatic plants.\nThe sanctuary is 50 km away from Puri city and 100 km away from Bhubaneswar. It is well connected to Chennai-Kolkata national highway. Chennai-Kolkata rail line passes along the western side of Chilika.\nDistrict: Khordha\nLocation: Puri","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line764883"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.651981770992279,"wiki_prob":0.34801822900772095,"text":"Proposal for H-1B visas to favour advanced US degrees underway\nA proposal by the Trump administration to make changes to the current H-1B visa application process has come into the spotlight recently, sparking debate over whether or not it’s a fair move. This proposal is a result of United States President Donald Trump’s direction that urges companies and agencies to adopt a “Buy American, Hire American” strategy.\nI wonder if they will get the pre-registration process in place prior to the 2019 H-1B application lottery or not. #H1B #Preregistration https://t.co/iXFYAyweT8\n— Immigration Lawyer (@HSDImmigration) December 4, 2018\nThe H1-B visa, for those who are unaware, is a temporary visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows foreign workers to be employed in the country under a specialty occupation.\nSpecialty occupations are jobs which commonly require a bachelor’s degree or experience in that particular field. The visa is valid for three years, and then renewable for another three years, thus clearing a path to citizenship, making it most attractive to students intending to make a life for themselves in the United States after graduation.\nThe H1-B is known among international students in America for being difficult to obtain, as there is a limit to the number of visas given out each year. Therefore, not everyone who qualifies or applies will receive it, even if their employer is willing to sponsor them, and it ultimately comes down to the luck of the draw.\nIn the past, certain degrees were also favoured, mainly from the tech sector, making the odds even slimmer for those who don’t have degrees in that field. The rationale behind this was to fill the employment gap that employers faced in these fields.\nThe proposed changes might make it more difficult for tech companies who have relied heavily on filling their workforce with skilled workers from other countries, such as India. Top tech companies such as Google and Facebook hire tens of thousands of foreign workers each year under the H1-B visa. However, this will reduce the likelihood of these workers being underpaid or certain companies hiring unskilled workers, as the new process will make that near impossible.\nThe new process might negatively affect the tech industry’s workforce. Source: Shutterstock\nCurrently, the lottery for 20,000 H-1B visas given to advanced degree holders from US institutions are conducted first, then followed by the remaining 65,000 H-1B visas, open to anyone who intended to anyone who holds a bachelor’s degree and intends to take on a specialty occupation.\nWith the new proposed changes, the process will be changed in an effort to introduce a selection based on merit, according to USCIS. All registrations, including those from people eligible for the advanced degree exemption, will be included in the application pool for the regular cap of 65,000. Following that, USCIS will select from the remaining applicants to fill the degree cap.\nWhat this means is that the number of H1-B holders who have advanced degrees from US universities will have a higher chance of obtaining the visa, potentially increasing the number of H-1B holders with these degrees to 16 percent, ensuring that “more of the best and brightest workers from around the world come to America”, according to CNN Business.\nAnother big change being proposed is to move the registration process online. Currently, US employers file a full H-1B petition for their applicants before lottery selections, but with the new ruling, employers must first register their applications online with USCIS during a designated registration period. Following this, if their applicants are selected for the visa lottery, they will need to prepare and submit the full application.\nIt is not clear if the new online system will be implemented before the next round of H-1B visa applications, set to be in April next year. Public comments on the proposed rule can be submitted from December 3 to January 2.\nWhere are Indian H-1B rejects heading?\nQuiz: How well do you know the H-1B visa program?\nTopics covered: US visas","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1041749"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9489031434059143,"wiki_prob":0.9489031434059143,"text":"Theiapolis > Cinema > Titles > T... > Th... > The... >\nThe Adventures of Pluto Nash2002\n| Gallery | Quotes || The Adventures of Pluto Nash: DVD | Blu-Ray | Collectibles\nDirected by Ron Underwood, \"The Adventures of Pluto Nash\" (also known as \"Pluto Nash\", \"Pluto Nash - Im Kampf gegen die Mondmafia\") is a Comedy/Action/Science Fiction film, released on August 16 of 2002 in the USA , starring Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Rosario Dawson, Joe Pantoliano, Jay Mohr and Luis Guzmán.\nThe Man On The Moon\nWho directed \"The Adventures of Pluto Nash\":\nThe Adventures of Pluto Nash was directed by Ron Underwood, an American director, writer, and producer.\nBefore The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Ron Underwood had directed Mighty Joe Young, released in 1998, Speechless (1994), Heart and Souls (1993), City Slickers (1991), Tremors (1990). Since, he directed In the Mix, released in 2005.\nWhen was \"The Adventures of Pluto Nash\" released:\nThe Adventures of Pluto Nash was first released on Friday, August 16, 2002, in the United States.. This was sixteen (16) years ago.\nIt has been released on Friday, August 30, 2002 in the United Kingdom; Friday, August 16, 2002 in Canada; Wednesday, August 21, 2002 in France; Thursday, May 22, 2003 in Germany; Friday, November 29, 2002 in Italy; Friday, August 23, 2002 in Spain; Thursday, August 22, 2002 in Australia and on Saturday, May 17, 2003 in Japan.\nWhat is the cast of \"The Adventures of Pluto Nash\":\nAt the casting of The Adventures of Pluto Nash we find Eddie Murphy, previously seen in Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) and Shrek (2001); Randy Quaid (The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000), The Debtors (1999)); Rosario Dawson (Men in Black II (2002), The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (2002)) [ more... ]\nPeter Boyle and John Cleese can be seen in Yellowbeard, released in 1983.\nEddie Murphy and John Cleese also worked together in Shrek 2, released in 2004.\nJohn Cleese and Eddie Murphy can also be seen in Shrek the Third, released in 2007.\nWhat is the Storyline of \"The Adventures of Pluto Nash\":\nIn 2080, on a Moon colony called Little America, a retired smuggler called Pluto Nash (Eddie Murphy) buys a nightclub, in an attempt to fulfill a longtime wish of his. Additionally, this prevents the murder by ingestion of battery acid of the club's previous owner, Anthony Frankowski (Jay Mohr) by mobsters Gino (Burt Young) and Larry (Lillo Brancato) whom Anthony owed money to. Seven years later, \"Club Pluto\" has become a successful business, frequented by many socialites. Its staff consists of Pluto [...]\nNo message has yet been posted about The Adventures of Pluto Nash.\nThe Adventures of Pluto Nash ➤ Message Board\nLuis Guzmán\nThe Adventures of Pluto Nash ➤ Cast\nNew HD Pictures from \"The Adventures of Tintin\", a film by Steven Spielberg\n2 messages - «The Adventures of Tintin» (also known as \"De avonturen van Kuifje - Het geheim van de Eenhoorn\", \"Les aventures de Tintin...\nNew Photos from \"The Adventures of Tintin\", a film by Steven Spielberg\n1 message - Directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish and Hergé, «The Adventures of Tintin» (also...\nUpdated HD Gallery for \"The Adventures of Tintin\", a film by Steven Spielberg\n1 message - Starring Simon Pegg, Daniel Craig, Cary Elwes, Andy Serkis, Nick Frost and Jamie Bell, «The Adventures of Tintin» (also known as \"De...\nHD images of \"Captain Haddock\" from \"The Adventures of Tintin\" (2011), a film by Steven Spielberg\n[PHOTO GALLERY] \"The Adventures of Tintin\", a film by Steven Spielberg\n( 2003 )The Adventures of Ociee Nash\nDirected by: K. McGary, starring S. Day, A. P. Rodriguez, B. Butler, K. Carradine...\n( 1983 )The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew\nDirected by: R. Moranis, D. Thomas, starring D. Thomas, R. Moranis, M. von Sydow, P. Dooley...\nThe Adventures of Tintin: Prisoners of the Sun\nDirected by: P. Jackson\nResources: Castle Rock Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Wikipedia and contributions from movie fans. Anyone can submit additionnal information and corrections, you can post a message into the forum, or you can contact me by e-mail. Information and materials are submitted by users and thus may not always contain up-to-date and correct information, so do not hesite to report mistakes, and submit corrections.Thank you!. Direct editing is no longer available, sorry.\nThis page includes a \"Storyline\" from Wikipedia (EN) which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line77398"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5575003027915955,"wiki_prob":0.5575003027915955,"text":"The Other America\nA young man, who had emigrated from India, stood up hesitantly, then fearlessly asked the famous author on the stage, “Could you please share some of your experiences and offer advice as to how to transition between Indian and American cultures?” Nilanjana Sudeshna Lahiri, who goes by Jhumpa, smiled at the questioner and her audience before stating that she had grown up American and her experiences of navigating cultures could be found in her stories and writings.\nFrom a hospitably crowded pew in Hendricks Chapel on a cold night on the Syracuse University campus, I thought about the “other America,” the one disparaged for its diversity, by the current U.S. President. Hendricks Chapel that evening was filled to capacity with Americans of every color and shade on the planet. What distinguished this crowd from the America painted by Trump and his ardent supporters was not skin color alone, however, but a curiosity of intellect, a willingness to listen to others, an empathy and understanding of humanity that runs wide and deep. While people’s experiences in the hushed chapel were varied, everyone shared a common concern for the redefinitions of America and Americans under the new president. Even if that concern was quiet and reflective, not posed in anger or vitriol, the Americans in Hendricks Chapel were determined not to let ignorance and fear, bigotry and animosity define them.\nWe had all arrived at Hendricks to hear Lahiri read from her new work In Other Words and to listen to her speak about language and how it shapes and suggests. We were present for a journey through cultural, philosophical, and intellectual waters all the way to Italy, as Jhumpa recounted her experiments in a language other than English.\nLahiri, who was born in England to parents originally from India, came to America when she was only two years old; she became an American citizen at 18 years. We are fortunate, indeed, to claim her as an American author—this Princeton University professor, winner of the O. Henry Award, the Pen/Hemmingway Award, and nominee for the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize, among many other distinguishing recognitions for her achievements. Lahiri is also, very much, a citizen of the world, living much of the year in Rome, Italy, where she pursues her love of the Italian language and culture that competes and struggles with her love of her American culture and English language.\nA young teacher, originally from Cuba, sat to my right, and spoke with me at the end of Lahiri’s discussion about his students who were struggling with a much more basic command of their native language. Beside me sat a dear friend, originally from Ireland, but who had lived in France and knew multiple languages of the world, before coming to America to raise her family and teach American children French. In the pew behind me were Syracuse University students who had come out of curiosity and desire to learn, as much as for their course requirements. Not everyone in the audience could afford to buy Lahiri’s new book, but all of us made the time during the evening to listen and learn.\nDriving home from the event with Lahiri’s In Other Words on the passenger seat of my car, I thought about the petulant words of Donald Trump in his tweet to America on the cusp of the New Year, his jeering comment, “including my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do.” It is almost impossible to comprehend an American President claiming openly that more than half of the American electorate are his “enemies.” Needing scapegoats for societal ills, including mechanization and robotics replacing human jobs, Trump and his campaigners found those targets in Mexicans and Muslims, in women and girls, in black Americans and recent immigrants, legal immigrants, as well as those undocumented. Some in Trump’s Cabinet and those closest to his ears also targeted Jews, but more subtly, at first. Trump’s Executive Order on immigration restrictions, banning those from seven countries (but not those predominantly Muslim countries where Trump has business dealings), was dishonorably conceived, inherently unconstitutional, and poorly rolled out. It served, however, to deepen the divide in the United States of America. Of course, the irony is apparent in that Trump’s grandfather was an immigrant. There are no citizens in the United States, except American Indians, who are not the sons and daughters of immigrants a generation or several back. We all came from other shores.\nThe people gathered at Hendricks Chapel that evening were not elites in the Trump campaign’s sense of the word, regarding class, but they are elite in the meaning of the word that is “the choice, the best” because there were people who were thinkers and doers, thoughtful, tolerant, kind, and generous.\nAlthough the Trump presidency still fills me with dread and discomfort, I left Lahiri’s talk inspired by her bravery, as well as the daring of those other Americans who were recent immigrants. Long after hearing Lahiri’s quiet, lyrical voice and words, I thought about the metaphor of her “black sweater,” comparing that garment to her language, about what a language means to both identity and understanding of others. I may be saddened by the increasingly sharp divide among Americans, yet I remain hopeful that the American ideal is still alive, still inclusive, and even if not exactly exceptional, America, even in her flaws and fallibility, is still preeminent in her peoples who have hailed from all over this Earth.\nby Nancy Dafoe\nPrevious Post: Open Letter to Claudia Tenney\nNext Post: Where’d all these elephants come from?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1162278"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5462646484375,"wiki_prob":0.4537353515625,"text":"Rodney W. Casler\nLOUDONVILLE - Rodney W. Casler, age 49, resident of Loudonville, Ohio, died Tuesday, June 25, 2019, at his home surrounded by his family.\nBorn February 24, 1970, in Ashland, Ohio, he was the son of Roger E. and Ruth A. (Palser) Casler. Rodney had been a resident of the Loudonville-Perrysville area all his life and was a 1989 graduate of Loudonville High School. He worked at Mohican Reservation and Loudonville Canoe Livery for 15 years, retiring in 2016. He was also the owner/operator of Redbird Country Towing for several years. He was so proud of that wrecker! Rodney was good at working with his hands and could fix just about anything.\nRodney's favorite pastimes were spending time with his wife and family, hunting, fishing and camping. He was a loving, ornery jokester who brightened the lives of his family and friends. He loved buying and selling anything and everything because he was a \"Wheeler-Dealer\" and smooth talker. He was deeply devoted to his parents, wife, children and grandchildren, and they were devoted to him also.\nRodney is survived by his wife, Sherri J. Brothers Casler, whom he married on November 10, 2001; son, Zachery J. Casler (Bethany M. Miller); daughter-in-law, Christina R. Casler; stepson, William J. (BJ) Mondragon; two daughters, Ruthie M. and Julia R. Casler; two grandchildren, Joseph \"Joey\" L. Casler and Lillyann V. Blair; mother, Ruth A. Casler; two brothers, Timothy (Kim) Casler and Ronald (Rose) Casler; sister, Trinia K. Casler; aunts, Patricia Ash and Sylvia Hudson; uncles, Bob Palser and John Palser; and numerous nieces and nephews.\nHe was preceded in death by his father, Roger E. Casler; father-in-law, Pete (Orman) Brothers; two brothers, Joseph L. Casler and Michael Casler; sister, Larissa Taylor; and grandparents, Rev. Edwin Casler, Edith P. Barrier Casler, Cloyd F. Palser and Ruth Margaret Hively Palser.\nThere will be no visitation. A memorial service will be held Saturday, July 20, 2019, at 4:00 p.m. at the Perrysville Baptist Church with Rev. Howdie Burnett officiating. The Diamond Street Home of Wappner Funeral Directors is privileged to serve the family.\nWords of comfort may be expressed to the family at www.wappner.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line330942"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5458565354347229,"wiki_prob":0.4541434645652771,"text":"Learn About Damages and Profits Fast and Easy\nIf a holder of a copyright discovers that another party has used his or her material for their own benefit, it is a legal right of the copyright owner to file a civil lawsuit. Once a court has decided that copyright infringement has indeed taken place, it may decided upon remedies to make up for any damages suffered by the copyright owner because of the illegal activity. In most cases, courts may find that the infringer of the copyright is liable for the owner's actual damages sustained from improper use of his or her product or statutory damages.\nActual Damages and Profits\nJudging by the nature of the copyright infringement that took place on the copyright owner, the owner may be entitled to the actual damages suffered by him or her as a result of the infringement. This also includes any profits obtained by the infringer which are directly linked to the copyright violation.\nWhen establishing a proper amount of actual damages to compensate for the infringer's profits, the copyright owner is permitted to present evidence based on the infringer's gross revenue. At the same time, the infringer must prove that the profits he or she has incurred are not directly related to the copyright infringement through deductible expenses.\nStatutory Damages\nBefore a judgment is decided upon by a court of civil law, the copyright owner has the right to request the recovery of statutory damages caused by the infringement, rather than actual damages. This is based on any single work of authorship for which the infringer is liable either individually or through joint involvement.\nThe sum of statutory damages is never less than $750 and never more than $30,000. If the copyright owner is able to prove that the infringer committed the violation willfully, the statutory damages sum may increase to no more than $150,000. If the court finds that the infringer unknowingly committed the violation, the statutory damages sum is lowered to no less than $200.\nAdditional Damages\nSome cases may also provide further damages to the aggrieved copyright owner under a certain condition. If the court finds that the copyright infringer claimed to be exempt under certain conditions of a violation, but actually was knowingly breaking the law, the copyright owner may be entitled to twice the amount of the license fee for a period of up to three years. This is in addition to any award of damages given to the copyright owner.\nRead This Before Reporting Copyright Infringement\nBlogger’s guide to avoid copyright violation\nInjunctions and Impounding Explained\nRead This Before Finding A Copyright Infringement Attorney","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line278974"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7070059180259705,"wiki_prob":0.29299408197402954,"text":"Number of Scots accepted to university at all-time high\nA record number of Scottish students have secured a place at uni.\nA record number of Scottish students have secured a place at university according to UCAS statistics published recently.\nThe figures released today also show that the overall number of students accepted so far to study at Scottish institutions in 2016/17 increased by 4 per cent compared to last year, from 44,690 to 46,380 – a record level, making Scotland the destination for Higher Education.\nMinister for Further, Higher Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said: “Firstly, I want to congratulate all students who have been accepted into university this year and secured a place at one of the many great universities in our country.\n“Scotland has a world class higher education system and one that will always be based on the principles of being free, fair and funded. The latest UCAS figures show a really positive picture for Scotland’s higher education system, with a record number of students choosing to study at one of our universities.\n“It is also extremely heartening to see record levels of Scottish students being accepted to study at universities not only in Scotland but across the UK. This is really positive news and this Scottish Government will continue to do all that we can to ensure all of our young people get an equal chance to go to university and get a world class education.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1047692"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9819327592849731,"wiki_prob":0.9819327592849731,"text":"by: MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press\nEntertainer and activist Jon Stewart, speaks at a news conference on behalf of 9/11 victims and families, Friday, July 12, 2019, at the Capitol in Washington. The House is expected to approve a bill Friday ensuring that a victims’ compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)\nWASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Friday overwhelmingly approved a bill ensuring that a victims compensation fund for the Sept. 11 attacks never runs out of money.\nThe 402-12 vote sends the bill to the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has agreed to call a vote before Congress goes on its August recess.\nLawmakers from both parties hailed the House vote, which comes a month after comedian Jon Stewart sharply criticized Congress for failing to act. Stewart, a longtime advocate for 9/11 responders, told lawmakers at an emotional hearing that they were showing “disrespect” to first responders now suffering from respiratory ailments and other illnesses as a result of their recovery work at the former World Trade Center site in New York City.\nStewart called the sparse attendance at the June 11 hearing “an embarrassment to the country and a stain on this institution.” He later targeted McConnell for slow-walking previous version of the legislation and using it as a political pawn to get other things done.\nStewart said Friday that replenishing the victims fund was “necessary, urgent and morally right.”\nReplenishing the fund will not fix the health problems of emergency workers and their families, but it would remove “a 15-year, unnecessary burden placed by their own government upon them,” Stewart said at a Capitol news conference.\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers credited Stewart for raising the profile of the issue, which has lingered on Capitol Hill for years.\n“You made it too hot to handle” in the Senate, Pelosi, D-Calif., told Stewart, praising him for shining his “celebrity spotlight” on the issue.\nEleven Republicans and independent Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan opposed the bill. No Democrat voted against the measure.\nThe bill would extend a victims compensation fund created after the 2001 terrorist attacks through 2092, essentially making it permanent. The $7.4 billion fund is rapidly being depleted, and administrators recently cut benefit payments by up to 70%.\nThe Congressional Budget Office said in a report this week that the bill would result in about $10.2 billion in additional compensation payments over 10 years, including more than $4 billion for claims already filed. The bill would require that victims whose compensation payments were reduced because of the fund’s declining balance be made whole.\n“This was not a hurricane or a flood or a tornado. This was the largest terrorist attack ever on American soil,” Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said in a floor speech before the House vote. “As Jon Stewart testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee, these terrorists weren’t saying ‘Death to Tribeca’. This was an attack on all of us as Americans and we all should be voting yes today as Americans.”\nZeldin and other lawmakers noted that one of the bill’s most prominent advocates, former New York City police detective Luis Alvarez, did not live to see its passage. Alvarez, who testified with Stewart at last month’s House hearing, died June 29 at age 53.\nAlvarez, who was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2016, traced his illness to the three months he spent in the rubble of the World Trade Center’s twin towers after the attacks.\nAlvarez “shouldn’t have had to come down here to fight on behalf of all of these other victims and first responders in the first place,” Zeldin said. “Month after month, year after year … how many first responders have made dozens of trips (to the Capitol) educating, advocating, passionately asking members of Congress for their support?”\nThe bill was renamed to honor Alvarez and other first responders.\nMcConnell said in a statement after the House vote that the Senate will take up the legislation soon.\n“The first responders who rushed into danger on September 11th, 2001, are the very definition of American heroes and patriots,” he said. “The Senate has never forgotten the victim compensation fund and we aren’t about to start now.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line77902"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6984755992889404,"wiki_prob":0.6984755992889404,"text":"Representative Tom Malinowski\nRepresenting the 7th District of New Jersey\nVotes and Legislation\nInvite Me to an Event\nCommendations and Greetings\nGrant Applicants\nCasework Request\nService Academy Request\nTours and Tickets\nMobile Office Hours\nYouth Advisory Council\nRep. Malinowski Remarks on Co-sponsoring HR 676, a Bill that Would Prevent US Withdrawal from NATO\nIt's crazy that we have to be introducing this bill. But it is, unfortunately, both necessary and urgent, for three reasons.\nI believe it's necessary, first of all, because NATO is so important to our security. No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO. Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it -- an effort I was part of when I served in the State Department and the NSC in two administrations. By the same token, it has been Russia's paramount goal to weaken and divide NATO. If we were to do anything to weaken or divide it ourselves, or, God forbid, to leave it, we'd be doing our enemies' work for them.\nThe second reason I believe it's necessary is that I take the president of the United States seriously. President Trump has made no secret of his disdain for NATO and his willingness to consider leaving it. He's been consistent from the earliest days of the campaign through the first two years of his presidency. It's part of his world view. His approach to the world seems to be the opposite of John F. Kennedy's: We will pay no price, bear no burden, meet no hardship, support no friend, oppose no foe, unless someone pays us to do it. And if NATO allies don't pay us to protect them, he doesn't see the point of NATO. The blood of their soldiers spilled alongside ours in every conflict we've waged since World War II does not seem to count.\nThe final reason this bill is necessary is that Congress is now the only check we have. In his first two years, the president was surrounded by advisers like Generals Mattis, McMaster and Kelly, Ambassador Haley, even Secretary Tillerson, who pushed back when he suggested abandoning America's commitments around the world, or siding with our foes over our friends. They're all gone now. We're all that's left. It is urgent and essential that the Congress play its constitutional role, and take this action, especially with the 70th anniversary NATO summit coming up in Washington in April. In these unsettled times, we have to be an alternative voice for America in the world.\n426 Cannon HOB\nSomerville Office\n58 E Main St.\nHouse.gov","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1138230"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7344214916229248,"wiki_prob":0.2655785083770752,"text":"In this section: Consumer Updates\nConsumer Updates\nAnimal & Veterinary\nVaccines, Blood & Biologics\nArtículos en español\nHave Food Allergies? Read the Label\nSince 2006, it has been much easier for people allergic to certain foods to avoid packaged products that contain them, says Rhonda Kane, a registered dietitian and consumer safety officer at the Food and Drug Administration.\nThis is because a federal law requires that the labels of most packaged foods marketed in the U.S. disclose—in simple-to-understand terms—when they are made with a “major food allergen.”\nEight foods, and ingredients containing their proteins, are defined as major food allergens. These foods account for 90 percent of all food allergies:\nfish, such as bass, flounder, or cod\ncrustacean shellfish, such as crab, lobster, or shrimp\ntree nuts, such as almonds, pecans, or walnuts\nThe law allows manufacturers a choice in how they identify the specific “food source names,” such as “milk,” “cod,” “shrimp,” or “walnuts,” of the major food allergens on the label. They must be declared either in:\nthe ingredient list, such as “casein (milk)” or “nonfat dry milk,” or\na separate “Contains” statement, such as “Contains milk,” placed immediately after or next to the ingredient list.\n“So first look for the ‘Contains’ statement and if your allergen is listed, put the product back on the shelf,” says Kane. “If there is no ‘Contains’ statement, it’s very important to read the entire ingredient list to see if your allergen is present. If you see its name even once, it’s back to the shelf for that food too.”\nThere are many different ingredients that contain the same major food allergen, but sometimes the ingredients’ names do not indicate their specific food sources. For example, casein, sodium caseinate, and whey are all milk proteins. Although the same allergen can be present in multiple ingredients, its “food source name” (for example, milk) must appear in the ingredient list just once to comply with labeling requirements.\n\"Contains\" and \"May Contain\" Have Different Meanings\nIf a “Contains” statement appears on a food label, it must include the food source names of all major food allergens used as ingredients. For example, if “whey,” “egg yolks,” and a “natural flavor” that contained peanut proteins are listed as ingredients, the “Contains” statement must identify the words “milk,” “egg,” and “peanuts.”\nSome manufacturers voluntarily include a “may contain” statement on their labels when there is a chance that a food allergen could be present. A manufacturer might use the same equipment to make different products. Even after cleaning this equipment, a small amount of an allergen (such as peanuts) that was used to make one product (such as cookies) may become part of another product (such as crackers). In this case, the cracker label might state “may contain peanuts.”\nBe aware that the “may contain” statement is voluntary, says Kane. “You still need to read the ingredient list to see if the product contains your allergen.”\nWhen in Doubt, Leave It Out\nManufacturers can change their products’ ingredients at any time, so Kane says it’s a good idea to check the ingredient list every time you buy the product—even if you have eaten it before and didn’t have an allergic reaction.\n“If you’re unsure about whether a food contains any ingredient to which you are sensitive, don’t buy the product, or check with the manufacturer first to ask what it contains,” says Kane. “We all want convenience, but it’s not worth playing Russian roulette with your life or that of someone under your care.”\nRegulated Product(s)\nGet regular FDA email updates delivered on this topic to your inbox.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line420373"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8347718119621277,"wiki_prob":0.8347718119621277,"text":"Doktorand\\innen\nSarah Epping\nepping@gsnas.fu-berlin.de\nDoctoral Candidate at the Graduate School of North American Studies,\nMaster of Arts in History and Middle Eastern Studies,\nCourse in Modern Standard Arabic at the Higher Language Institute,\nUniversity of Damscus\nBachelor of Arts in History and Middle Eastern Studies,\nResearch assistant at DOMiD - Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland e.V., Köln\nInternship at the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung in Amman, Jordan\nThe United States in Mesopotamia (Iraq), to 1921\nShort Outline of my Research Project\nAmerica´s penetration of the Middle East in the 19th century was, compared to other nations, slow. Mostly American merchants and missionaries were attracted to this faraway region, although with time, journalists and travelers who wanted to see the sites referred to in the bible came as well. In addition, American professionals like archeologists, and craftsmen who helped rebuild the Ottoman navy and officers who modernized parts of the army all came to the Ottoman Empire.\nWhile Americans were fewer in number than Europeans, they still reached every corner of the Ottoman Empire. Mostly staying close to the Mediterranean Sea, a few made their way to the area of the present Iraqi state, which during the 19th century, consisted of three political rather unimportant border provinces of the Ottoman Empire. The penetration of this area was facilitated by the help of foreign investors who supported the development of infrastructure which reflects the growing importance of the region as its relations with “the West” started to intensify. However in contrast to Europeans, American activities were not directed or guided by the government since they did not take part in the political power play of the other European empires in the region.\nThis political non-involvement makes the American approach to the area so unique and therefore, interesting to look at. Hence, my dissertation project asks about the diversity of the American-Mesopotamian relations up to the establishment of the Kingdom of Iraq in March 1921. It tries to pinpoint decisive, long-term personal, cultural, political and economic interactions between the United States and a region that we know very little about even though it plays such a central role in today’s U.S. relations to the Middle East. It aims to depict a structural picture of early interdependencies of both nations and to interpret them as part of a slowly globalizing world.\nvan der Walle, Sarah: Die Mission des Major Klein nach Mesopotamien. In: Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft 26 (2013/2014), p. 277-293.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line286957"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7331326603889465,"wiki_prob":0.7331326603889465,"text":"Mick Mulvaney & James E. Clyburn\nCompare the voting records of Mick Mulvaney and James E. Clyburn in 2015-16.\nRepresented South Carolina's 5th Congressional District. This was his 3rd term in the House. He left the House in 2017.\nJames E. Clyburn\nRepresented South Carolina's 6th Congressional District. This was his 12th term in the House. He is a current member of Congress.\nMick Mulvaney and James E. Clyburn are from different parties and disagreed on 78 percent of votes in the 114th Congress (2015-16).\nJune 16, 2016 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes\nMay 26, 2016 — Energy and Water Appropriations FY 2017\nNov. 18, 2015 — Reforming CFPB Indirect Auto Financing Guidance Act\nJune 16, 2015 — Intelligence Authorization Act\nJune 10, 2015 — Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015\nMay 19, 2015 — Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015\nMay 12, 2015 — Regulatory Integrity Protection Act\nApril 30, 2015 — Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes\nApril 23, 2015 — National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015\nApril 22, 2015 — Protecting Cyber Networks Act\nFeb. 27, 2015 — Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes\nFeb. 11, 2015 — Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act\nJan. 9, 2015 — Keystone XL Pipeline Act\nJuly 12, 2016 — Lujan of New Mexico Amendment No. 21\nJuly 6, 2016 — DeFazio of Oregon Amendment No. 11\nJune 16, 2016 — Lee of California Amendment No. 45\nJune 16, 2016 — McGovern of Massachusetts Amendment No. 44\nJune 16, 2016 — Conyers of Michigan Amendment No. 40\nJune 16, 2016 — Huffman of California Amendment No. 17\nJune 13, 2016 — Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Modernization Act\nJune 13, 2016 — United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016\nMay 25, 2016 — Garamendi of California Amendment\nMay 25, 2016 — First Polis of Colorado Amendment\nMay 25, 2016 — Clawson of Florida Amendment\nMay 18, 2016 — Lee of California Amendment No. 5\nApril 26, 2016 — Investor Clarity and Bank Parity Act\nMarch 22, 2016 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the burial of the cremated remains of persons who served as Women’s Air Forces Service Pilots in Arlington National Cemetery\nMarch 22, 2016 — Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act\nMarch 22, 2016 — Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act\nMarch 21, 2016 — Counterterrorism Screening and Assistance Act of 2016\nFeb. 12, 2016 — McMorris Rodgers of Washington Amendment No. 1\nDec. 11, 2015 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015\nNov. 4, 2015 — DeSaulnier of California Part B Amendment No. 41 to Rules Print 114-32\nOct. 1, 2015 — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activites of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes\nOn agreeing to the Polis of Colorado Amendment to the title\nJuly 23, 2015 — DeFazio of Oregon Part B Amendment No. 1\nJune 17, 2015 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces deployed to Iraq or Syria on or after August 7, 2014, other than Armed Forces required to protect United States diplomatic facilities and personnel, from Iraq and Syria\nJune 11, 2015 — Providing for consideration of the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1314, to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax exempt status of certain organizations; and for consideration of the Senate Amendments to H.R. 644, Fighting Hunger Incentive Act\nJune 11, 2015 — First Johnson of Georgia Amendment\nJune 11, 2015 — Schiff of California Amendment\nJune 4, 2015 — Lee of California Amendment\nApril 30, 2015 — Garamendi of California Amendment\nApril 30, 2015 — First Swalwell of California Amendment\nApril 30, 2015 — Second Mulvaney of South Carolina Amendment\nApril 30, 2015 — First Mulvaney of South Carolina Amendment\nApril 30, 2015 — Van Hollen of Maryland Amendment\nApril 30, 2015 — Setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2015\nMarch 25, 2015 — Establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017 through 2025\nMarch 25, 2015 — Second Tom Price of Georgia Substitute Amendment No. 6","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line879689"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.513945460319519,"wiki_prob":0.513945460319519,"text":"1 week agoWhy The Fall Of The Roman Republic Is A Good Analogy For Today’s Chaotic Time – Part 2 4 weeks agoWhy The Fall Of The Roman Republic Is A Good Analogy For Today’s Chaotic Time – Part 1 2 months agoMore Steve Jobs Secrets: The Technique For Forming Good Analogies To Solve Problems 2 months agoHow To Think Like Steve Jobs: Improve Your Understanding Of Things By Thinking In Analogies 2 months agoOne Simple Ancient Strategy To Calm Yourself Down When Angry\nRenaissance Man Journal\nAncient Secrets To Learning More, Making Better Decisions, And Future-Proofing Your Life\nWhat Makes A Renaissance Man?\nThe Real Gladiator Workout: Train Like A Gladiator\nTo Be Or Not To Be: When To Be A Contrarian Thinker And When Not To Be\nThe Original PUA: Learn To Pick Up Chicks The Way The Ancient Romans Did\nThe Best Bodyweight Exercises To Do When Travelling\nHow Long Does It Take To Form A Habit?\nOperation Anthropoid: The Story Of The Most Daring Secret Mission Of World War 2\nPosted On : 18/02/2016 Published By : Peter\nIf you had seen the movie “Casablanca”, you might remember the scene in the cafe where the German officers start singing a German song. To hush them down, the brave Czechoslovak resistance leader, husband of the Scandinavian bombshell Ilsa (played by Ingrid Bergman) starts singing the Marsellaise. Right after that, everyone else joins in.\nThe film was made in 1942 and one of the most heroic characters there, is a Czechoslovak resistance fighter who is trying to smuggle himself out of Nazi-controlled territories in order to continue his struggle. This guy was a fictional character, however the year 1942 was also the setting of probably the most daring act of resistance during the entire war. And this was real!\nThe act was codenamed Operation Anthropoid and resulted in the assassination of one of the most-feared Nazi leaders, Reinhard Heydrich. This was the guy who organized the Final Solution and planned the extermination of all the Jews from Europe.\nJust like the movie, the heroes of this story were Czechoslovak resistance fighters.\nThe scene is this: Hitler is on a roll. His armies have crushed all opposition and control most of continental Europe. The German armies are going from one victory to another in the East against the Soviets and an invasion of Britain is imminent.\nIn the middle of the continent lies the city of Prague, formerly the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic, the only democracy in Central Europe before the war, and now the seat of the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, completely controlled by the Nazis.\nBefore the War, Czechoslovakia was one of the continent’s economic powerhouses and had a very strong military industry, especially producing heavy machinery and tanks. It was sacrificed by the UK and France in order to appease Hitler, but that just made him even stronger.\nBy occupying the country, he took over its military equipment and added it to his own army (almost half the German tanks that attacked France in 1940 were formerly from the Czechoslovak army).\nMany Czechoslovak military personnel escaped the country and installed themselves in places like the UK, France or the Soviet Union, in order to fight the Nazis and free their country. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile was located in London and so were much of the forces of the Czechoslovak army-in-exile.\nHowever the situation in their homeland was dire. The country was occupied by the Nazis, who were crushing any forms of opposition. The exile authorities were determined to shake things up.\nStriking at the heart of the Nazi machine, at one of its leaders, could galvanize the population and wake up the resistance, which was losing any hope of success at this point. After a long discussion, it was decided that the target of this operation would be Heydrich, one of the most feared men in the Nazi Reich.\nHeydrich was serving as the Chief Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, but also had other duties in the Nazi regime. In order to oversee the Protectorate, he moved his residence to Prague, an ancient and beautiful city.\nAfter an initial period of training, the two guys chosen to carry out the assassination, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, together with a number of other paratroopers who were to carry out other acts of sabotage, were airlifted over Bohemia and parachuted down.\nUnfortunately, due to navigational errors, they were dropped down about 100 kilometers away from where they were supposed to have landed. They had to make their way through treacherous terrain in order to get to their initial destination, to meet their contacts and get their fake documents, as well as weapons.\nAfter that, they went to Prague and made contact with local resistance groups. The work on planning the actual assassination could now start.\nThey spent some time observing their target, his daily routines and his weak points. After a period of observation, it was decided that a spot on his daily ride to work would be the best place to hit him. There was a curve on a street next to some tram tracks that seemed perfect.\nThe Assassination\nThey picked a date, the 27th of May 1942.\nOn that date, like every morning, Heydrich was riding to work in his open-air Mercedes, without any other escort, except for his driver.\nJan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik called in another paratrooper, Josef Valcik, to help them out. He was to serve as a lookout for them and give them a signal when the car was approaching their position and whether it had an SS escort with it.\nThe operation was proceeding according to plan. Heydrich’s car was rounding the bend, when Gabcik threw down his coat and revealed his Sten MKII submachine gun. He aimed it at Heydrich, but it jammed!\nIt was a common complaint among many soldiers that this British-made weapon was prone to jamming. Unfortunately this now happened at the most innoportune moment.\nGabcik became fully exposed and without a way to fire at Heydrich. Heydrich could now have gotten away quickly. Fortunately, he made a fatal error. He told the driver to stop the car as he stood up from his seat and started firing his pistol at the resistance fighter.\nThis gave enough time to Jan Kubis, who was standing to the side of Gabcik, to throw a grenade into the open car. The grenade exploded and wounded Heydrich.\nEven though wounded, Heydrich could still move. The two Czechoslovak resistance fighters, also stunned from the bomb blast, took out their pistols and started firing at Heydrich and his driver, but missed.\nAt that moment, Heydrich staggered out of his car and together with his driver started chasing Gabcik and Kubis. Both resistance fighters managed to escape, but were convinced that their attack had failed.\nIt seemed that Heydrich had survived their attack. After the incident he was transported to a Prague hospital, where he was looked at by specialists. His injuries were graver than they initially seemed. It was decided to operate on him, but he died from complications the next day.\nJan Kubis\nJozef Gabcik\nJosef Valcik\nThis was not the end however. In order to retaliate for this assassination, the Nazis began a veritable reign of terror. They hauled in thousands of people for questioning, many of them dying under brutal interrogation. They also decided to raze two villages, Lidice and Lezaky, down to the ground and kill all their inhabitants. This was to serve as a grotesque example of what will happen if someone resists.\nThe two Operation Anthropoid operatives, Gabcik and Kubis, together with Valcik and four other paratroopers, hid themselves in the Eastern Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and Methodius. There, they were determined to ride things out and then slip out of Prague unnoticed. In this, they were being aided by Bishop Gorazd and others.\nThese were not the only paratroopers present on the territory of the Protectorate. There were several other groups of fighters that had been dropped down in order to carry out different acts of sabotage and several of the members of these groups were also hiding out in various places.\nAs the terror began to get worse and worse, two of them snapped. First, one paratrooper, Viliam Gerik turned himself into the Gestapo and told them the names and addresses of many of the people who were helping him out.\nHowever, what proved to be crucial was the betrayal of Karel Curda from the group codenamed “Out Distance”. The commander of that group, Adolf Opalka, was one of the paratroopers hiding out in the church.\nAfter spending several scary days and nights in hiding, Karel Curda also turned himself in to the Gestapo and gave up the names and addresses of many people in the Resistance. One address that he gave was that of the Moravec family.\nThe Gestapo raided their house. The mother managed to committ suicide as the Nazis came into the house, but the father and the son were arrested. After brutal torture, the son finally gave up the location where the paratroopers were hiding.\nI won’t go into detail on what happened next. This is an entire tale in itself, but a short summary will suffice for now.\nThe Nazis surrounded the church and tried several ways of trying to flush the paratroopers out or to raid the church and kill them. Many of these proved unsuccessful and only after hours of heroic fighting were all the paratroopers killed.\nMemory of Heroism\nThis proved to be one of the most legendary acts of resistance during WW2. Never before or after was there a successful assassination of such a high-ranking Nazi functionnary.\nIn 2016, a movie on this operation called “Operation Anthropoid” will come out, starring Mr. Grey Jamie Dornan himself as Jan Kubis and Cilian Murphy as Jozef Gabcik.\nThe heroic acts that were committed by these brave men and the people that helped them, have passed into legend. Their memory lives on, as example of people who saw a greater cause than themselves, who risked their lives and ended up paying the ultimate price.\nTheir acts were not in vain, as their nation shook off the chains of the Nazis and once again became free.\nimage 1; image 2; image 3; image 4; image 5; image 6;\nPosted in: History\nYour Simple Guide To Being Funny 6: Even More On Joke Forms\nCrazy Shit To Do: Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro\nOne thought on “Operation Anthropoid: The Story Of The Most Daring Secret Mission Of World War 2”\nJoe11b says:\nJan kubis and Josef gabcik were heroes to the Czechs\n@RenaissanceManG 16/06/2019\ngainweightjournal.com/11-lessons-fro…\ngainweightjournal.com/how-to-think-l…\nThe real gladiator workout: train like a gladiator gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladi…\nTheme: Royal Magazine by ThemeinWP","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1748958"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7330381274223328,"wiki_prob":0.26696187257766724,"text":"“Call to action” on Southland’s environment\n2019-04-18T11:50:00 Pacific/Auckland\nEnvironment Southland welcomes the Environment Aotearoa 2019 report released by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ today as an opportunity to keep the need for improving the environment at the forefront of people's minds.\nThe report takes a whole system approach to look at a wide range of issues, from how our native plants, animals and ecosystems are faring to the activities we are doing that are causing urban and rural pollution.\nEnvironment Southland chief executive Rob Phillips said that while the report paints a less than ideal picture of New Zealand’s environment, it was a good “call to action” and reminder that the need to do more is urgent.\n“Here in Southland, we have our challenges, but we are on the right path. There are many examples of people, industries and organisations coming together to improve the environment. We need to maintain and build on that momentum,” Mr Phillips said.\nEnvironment Southland recognises the complexity of the environment and our outcomes reflect this: Managing access to quality resources, diverse ways to make a living, empowered and resilient communities, and communities expressing their diversity. The approach to achieving them focuses on sharing knowledge, engaging and communicating with Southlanders, and acknowledging the interconnectedness of the environment.”\nThe council’s top priority is to maintain and improve Southland’s freshwater and land, and one way that is being achieved is through the People, Water and Land programme - Te Mana o te Tangata, te Wai, te Whenua. This programme is in partnership with Te Ao Marama Inc. (the environmental arm of Ngāi Tahu ki Murihiku) with the vision of ‘inspiring change to improve Southland’s water and land’ and is focused on bringing people together to lead change.\nEnvironment Southland has a number of initiatives underway to improve water quality and land use. We continue to support farmer-driven catchment groups and land care groups who have been leading positive on-the-ground action for a number of years, with more than 30 groups currently active across Southland.\nOne of those initiatives is in the Aparima river catchment, where six farmer-led catchment groups have come together to work on the Aparima Community Environment (ACE) project supported by industry, local and central government, and community groups. Environment Minister David Parker recently commended the ACE project as a positive example of how industry, councils and central government can work together to support farmers for positive change.\nEnvironment Southland’s land sustainability team has also put a strong emphasis on preparing farm environment plans and supporting landowners to move towards good land management practices.\nTo date, 806 farm plans covering 330,518 hectares have been completed, with focus activities including nutrient management, intensive winter grazing and riparian management, which all contribute to improving water quality.\nMirroring the sentiment of the report to acknowledge the connection of water and land across the environment is the essence of the People, Water and Land programme which takes a ‘ki uta ki tai - from the mountains to the sea’ approach that recognises the need to consider the environment in its entirety.\n“What we do in one part of the environment can have consequences in another and the New River Estuary is an example of how both urban and rural activity – past and present – has had a negative impact. It also emphasises the need for a collective response through a mountains to the sea approach to improve the situation,” said Mr Phillips.\n“Education is another area where we can have a positive impact now and into the future, and the Enviroschools programme is one great way for achieving that.”\nThe programme supports children and young people to plan, design and implement sustainability actions that are important to them and their communities. There are now more than 1,000 Enviroschools nationwide, encompassing over 260,000 children and young people, their whānau and teachers. In Southland, the programme is coordinated by Environment Southland in partnership with Kindergartens South, and supported by funding from Southland District Council, Invercargill City Council and Gore District Council.\nThe report also highlights the significant impact that introduced species can have on our ecosystems and biodiversity. The council has long had a focus on biosecurity and has coordinated its biodiversity efforts with other agencies in recent years, with a view to enhancing and protecting native species and ecosystems.\nIn recent years we have introduced the Fiordland Marine Pathway plan, a first of its kind, in conjunction with our partners the Fiordland Marine Guardians, Ministry for Primary Industries, Department of Conservation and Ngai Tahu. The plan includes a clean vessel pass system to stop the introduction of pests hitching a ride on boat hulls into the area’s pristine waters. It has had good uptake and won the New Zealand Biosecurity Supreme Award among others late last year.\nThere are many other initiatives including our very successful Possum Control Area programme where we support land managers to work together in adjoining properties to control possums; and our longstanding biocontrol programme where we facilitate the distribution and population growth of biocontrol agents on properties across Southland.\nWe also support many other groups who are doing a lot of great work with animal and plant pest control, school and community groups to plant native species, landowners to identify and preserve remnants of native forest on their properties through our High Value Area programme. Recently we consulted on a proposed pest management plan and biosecurity strategy, which will set the future direction of biosecurity and biodiversity for Southland.\n“We all want a thriving Southland and ensuring our natural resources are being used sustainably is essential to achieving this. The Ministry’s environment report is a timely reminder that we all have a role to play in ensuring our natural resources are in good shape and that we need to keep building on all the good work already underway. The council’s stepping up our People, Water and Land programme as part of that challenge. For Southland to thrive everyone needs to be part of the solution.”\nNote: LGNZ Regional council sector response to the Environment Aotearoa 2019 report: https://www.lgnz.co.nz/environment-aotearoa-yardstick-welcomed-by-lgnz/\nPage reviewed: 18 Apr 2019 11:50am","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line81350"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9947538375854492,"wiki_prob":0.9947538375854492,"text":"Shays received campaign donations from McMahons\nApr 27, 2012 at 12:01 AM Apr 27, 2012 at 11:35 PM\nFormer U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, who is running against former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for U.S. Senate, has criticized the company she led but accepted $5,000 in donations from her and her husband when he was in Congress.\nHearst Connecticut Media Group reported that Shays accepted the campaign cash from Linda and Vince McMahon in 2005 and 2006.\nLinda McMahon told the Greenwich Time her rival for the Republican nomination never raised concerns about the television content of the Stamford-based company formerly known as World Wrestling Entertainment while he was in office. McMahon said Shays visited the company and had his photo taken with Vince McMahon.\nShays' campaign spokeswoman says the visit doesn't mean he supported the business.\n\"None of this changes the fact that WWE has a long history of promoting violence, bullying, and degradation o f minorities and women,\" said Amanda Bergen, Shays' campaign spokesman. \"It also doesn't make Linda McMahon qualified to be a United States senator.\"\nWWE provided Greenwich Time with several photos of Shays at events sponsored by the company in 2000 and 2001 to encourage people to vote. In one photo, Shays and his wife, Betsi, appear with McMahon and then-WWE superstar Kurt Angle at a black-tie event in Washington, D.C.\n\"Never did Mr. Shays express any issues with our programming nor the company,\" WWE spokesman Robert Zimmerman told the newspaper. \"Now that he is running for Senate, he is using outdated video excerpts from that exact time period to mischaracterize the nature of our current business and TV-PG programming.\"\nMcMahon stepped down as chief executive of the WWE to run unsuccessfully for Senate in 2010.\nShays' campaign counters that McMahon has been inconsistent.\n\"She's criticizing his record now on a daily basis, criticizing votes and positions taken at the very time that she was contributing to his campaign,\" Bergen said. \"She knew his record when she was contributing to his campaigns in the past. So why is his record all of a sudden a problem now?\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line536210"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8271169662475586,"wiki_prob":0.8271169662475586,"text":"Celebrity surgeries\nButt Implants\nNose Job\nCelebrities without make-up\nCelebrity Hair Changes\nCelebrity family\nCelebrity Lovers Changes\nCelebrity Weight, Height and Age\nCelebrity Weight Changes\nBest Movies and TV shows\nColin Firth’s height, weight and fitness journey\nDate of birth: September 10, 1960 (Age 57)\nFull name: Colin Andrew Firth\nBorn place: Grayshott, Hampshire, England\nHeight: 6’1’’ (185.4 cm)\nWeight: 76 kg (167 pounds)\nColin Firth’s body measurements:\nChest: 43” (109.2 cm)\nBiceps: 15” (38.1 cm)\nWaist: 34” (86.4 cm)\nColin Firth is an outstanding actor who has attained the most fame through his role as King George VI in the 2010 movie, The Kings Speech. Through this movie, Colin has earned himself an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe.\nHowever, all his present success was as a result of a desire birth in him at the early age of 10.\nDuring the early years of his career, Colin was a very lean young man with a handsome looking face that always left the ladies drooling. At the age of 57, Colin has so kept himself fit as he is still considered an eye candy. Over the years, Colin has grown in various areas from his acting even to his physical appearance. He has now become more muscular than he used to be.\nColin has attained the well-built physique by regularly working out and not neglecting eating right.\nIn order to portray the role of Eric Lomax impeccably in the 2014 movie The Railway Man, he had to up his fitness game and aim at a slimmer figure. This work out was quite tasking because he had to look like a prisoner of war.\nThroughout his career of juggling various genres of movies, Colin has shown the world that he will do whatever it takes to really become the character he plays.\nBefore featuring in the Kingsman movies, Colin has to undergo some intense training both to keep his physique and perfect stunts that had to be pulled on camera. Colin stated in an interview that in contrast with the actual world, it takes much more hard work to lose a fight on camera than it does to win one.\nColin also stated some challenges in his career, one of which includes times he had put so much work and energy into training for a particular stunt and when it was time to shoot the scene, the whole thing was changed. Nevertheless, Colin has learnt to embrace this challenge after realising that the changes always make the scene better.\nColin Kaepernick’s height, weight. The Muhammad Ali of this generation?\nDaniel Sharman’s height, weight. His secret to a gorgeous body\nCaleb Followill’s height, weight and style transformation\nJennifer Lawrence – Hair Changes\nDiane Keaton’s height, weight. Aging gracefully\nBrandy Norwood and her complicated way toward slender figure\nFrench Montana’s height, weight. One of America’s top rappers\nGary Woodland’s height, weight. Professional golf player\nHome Stars Changes\nStars Changes © 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line270591"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7973082661628723,"wiki_prob":0.7973082661628723,"text":"Legal Professional Privilege and the Duty of Confidentiality - the beginning and the end\nDuncan A. W. Abate\nThe Court of Final Appeal has recently undertaken a comprehensive review of the extent to which the law will protect information obtained by an employee in the course of employment following the cessation of his employment. The case in question specifically concerned the interplay between confidential information and information protected by legal professional privilege (LPP).\nThe employee in question, Mr. Aitken, is an Australian qualified lawyer. Whilst he has never worked as a practising lawyer in Hong Kong, he did work in a regulatory capacity for PCCW and, as such, became privy to confidential communications and information between PCCW and their external legal advisors in respect of certain legal proceedings involving CSL.\nMr. Aitken left PCCW to join CSL in late March 2008. PCCW was, understandably, concerned that Mr. Aitken would use the information obtained during his employment with PCCW to the detriment of PCCW (as the litigation was ongoing). PCCW therefore applied for an injunction. The injunction imposed two restrictions on Mr. Aitken. The first was an order prohibiting Mr. Aitken from using or disclosing any information of PCCW (relating to the ongoing litigation) (the \"Non-disclosure Injunction\"). The second was an order prohibiting Mr. Aitken from, effectively, being involved in any capacity with the specific regulatory issue while employed with CSL (to use the words of PCCW, they wanted Mr. Aitken to be \"taken out of the arena\") (the \"Restrictive Injunction\").\nMr. Aitken accepted the Non-disclosure Injunction. However, Mr. Aitken did not accept the Restrictive Injunction as it would have the effect of significantly reducing his ability to work in Hong Kong in his chosen career.\nMr. Aitken challenged the Restrictive Injunction. The consequential proceedings have sped through the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal and was heard by the Court of Final Appeal in early February this year.\nThe Legal Issues\nThe key issue considered by the courts was the interplay and/or conflict between the principles in Bolkiah on one hand and Faccenda Chicken on the other.\n(a) The Bolkiah principles\nThe UK House of Lords in the case of Prince Jefri Bolkiah v KPMG considered the relationship between a solicitor (or an analogous person) and client. It determined that:\nA solicitor (or a person in an analogous position; in Bolkiah it was KPMG acting in a litigation support role) has a duty to his former client to preserve the confidentiality of information protected by LPP.\nThis duty survives the termination of the client relationship. The duty is absolute.\nThe former client is entitled to prevent his former solicitor from exposing him to any avoidable risk, including the increased risk of use of such information to his prejudice by accepting instructions to act for another client with an adverse interest in that matter and to which the information is or may be relevant.\nOnce the former client establishes that the solicitor possesses relevant information that is privileged, the burden shifts to the solicitor to demonstrate that there is no risk of disclosure.\nUnless the court is satisfied, on the basis of clear and convincing evidence, that all effective measures have been taken to ensure that no disclosure will occur, a \"strict approach is unanswerable\" and the solicitor will be restrained from acting for the new client.\n(b) The Faccenda Chicken principles\nFaccenda Chicken v Fowler, another UK case, considered the relationship between employer and employee. It determined that:\nThe obligations between an employer and employee are governed by the contract of employment.\nIn the absence of any express term in the contract, an employee's obligations in respect of the use and disclosure of information are the subject of implied terms.\nDuring the course of employment, there is an implied term imposing a duty of good faith or fidelity on the employee.\nPost-termination, the implied term imposed on the former employee is that he shall not use or disclose any trade secrets or information of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as amounts to a trade secret.\nThe burden is on the former employer to identify with precision what trade secrets (or equivalent) he seeks to protect.\nIn deciding whether any particular item of information is to be protected post-termination, the court has to consider all the circumstances of the case, including the nature of the employment and the information itself. In other words the restriction is not absolute.\nBasically Bolkiah applies in relation to a solicitor/client relationship (or an analogous situation) and Faccenda Chicken applied to an employer/employee relationship. Mr. Aitken was an employee of PCCW and also a lawyer. He was not, however, employed as an in-house lawyer.\nThe Arguments\nPCCW wanted the Bolkiah principles to apply. As such they argued that the fact that Mr. Aitken was an employee, not a retained solicitor, was irrelevant. PCCW's stance was that Mr. Aitken was privy to information which was covered by LPP. LPP is a fundamental right (enshrined in our Basic Law) and is the primary absolute and predominant public interest which trumps all other public interest, should there be a clash; including the public interest in maintaining freedom of employment. It contended that Bolkiah (and the relief granted in that case) is concerned with the nature of the information not the nature of the relationship between the parties. Therefore, PCCW argued, as the information which Mr. Aitken had obtained during his employment was privileged, the Bolkiah principles should be applied.\nAlternatively, PCCW argued, Mr. Aitken was in a position \"analogous to\" that of a solicitor.\nOn the other side Mr. Aitken and CSL argued that Bolkiah relief is limited to a solicitor/client relationship only as it is founded, not on the nature of the information, but upon the protection of confidentiality in a fiduciary relationship. In the case of an employer - employee relationship, the governing principles in the protection of confidential information are those set out in Faccenda Chicken.\nIf PCCW was correct then an absolute restriction would apply to Mr. Aitken and PCCW would be entitled to \"take him out of the arena\" with the Restrictive Injunction to ensure there is no risk of inadvertent disclosure of LPP information. If Mr. Aitken's and CSL's submission was correct then Faccenda Chicken sets the correct test and PCCW are only entitled to the non-disputed Non-disclosure Injunction.\nAt the Court of First Instance\nThe judge at first instance (Deputy Judge Au) agreed that Bolkiah applies only to a solicitor/client relationship where confidential and privileged information is imparted under a duty of confidence. Bolkiah is not of general applicability and does not apply in an employer/employee relationship.\nThe judge then considered whether Mr. Aitken was in a position analogous to that of a solicitor whilst employed by PCCW. He decided that although Mr. Aitken had been privy to conferences and discussions which were legal in nature, he did not participate in a professional capacity as a lawyer and, therefore, his role could not be said to be analogous to that of a solicitor.\nThe Restrictive Injunction was discharged.\nDJ Au, on the other hand, was satisfied that there was a serious question to be tried whether Mr. Aitken was privy to certain categories of allegedly confidential information. He therefore granted the Non-disclosure Injunction although re-fashioned it in narrower and more particularised terms than that sought by PCCW.\nAt the Court of Appeal before VP Tang, Le Pichon JA and Stone J\nImmediately after DJ Au's ruling, PCCW mounted an appeal. The Court of Appeal upheld the First Instance decision by a majority (Le Pichon JA dissenting).\nIn the Court of Appeal PCCW relied on Lord Millet's judgment in Bolkiah, that:\n\"It is of the highest importance to the administration of justice that a solicitor or other person in possession of confidential and privileged information should not act in any way that might appear to put that information at risk or coming in to the hands of someone with an adverse interest.\" (emphasis added).\nPCCW asked the Court to read the words \"other person\" widely and that, Mr. Aitken should be wholly removed from his dealings with the specific regulatory issue and associated matters in his current employment with CSL.\nMr. Aitken and CSL took the position that the case is really about \"trade secrets\" (or information of a similarly high standard of confidentiality). As such the correct statement of the law relating to an employee's post-termination duty of confidentiality is that laid down in Faccenda Chicken. Bolkiah has never been applied in an employee/employer situation and the two distinct lines of case law, underpinned, as they are, by very different policy considerations, should not be confused.\nStone J in delivering the lead judgment of the Court of Appeal refused to accept PCCW's interpretation of \"or other person\". In his Lordship's view, the phrase \"or other person\" could only have been intended as a reference to a relationship analogous to a client/solicitor relationship. To apply the Bolkiah remedy to an employer/employer context would create \"a new form of 'servitude or serfdom' whereby the employee is precluded from transport of his acquired skills within the labour market\".\nStone J stated that it is \"precisely the nature of the solicitor/client relationship which gave rise to extraordinary duties, duties which upon no basis properly can fall upon a mere employee, however well qualified.\"\nPCCW's fall-back position, that Mr. Aitken was in any event in an \"analogous relationship\" with his former employer, was also roundly rejected by Stone J.\nSimply put therefore, Mr. Aitken, as a former employee of PCCW, should not be restrained by the very onerous terms of the Restrictive Injunction.\nThat was of course not the end of the legal journey. PCCW appealed again to the Court of Final Appeal.\nAt the Court of Final Appeal before Bokhary PJ, Chan PJ, Ribeiro PJ, Litton NPJ and Hoffmann NPJ\nMuch of the First Instance and the Court of Appeal submissions were echoed in this appeal. By an unanimous decision the Court of Final Appeal dismissed PCCW's appeal.\nPCCW cited a number of cases concerned with maintaining the inviolability of privileged communications against competing public policies (of which transportation of labour skills was but one).\nMr. Ribeiro PJ in delivering the lead judgment pointed out that the appeal was concerned with the nature and scope of relief available to PCCW to maintain the confidentiality of information acquired by Mr. Aitken as a former employee. The issues of LPP were not engaged; in those cases where solicitors have been enjoined against acting for new clients, such relief was founded on the basis of protecting confidentiality in the context of a fiduciary relationship between solicitor and client.\nLord Hoffmann also stated in his judgment that \"there is a very considerable difference between the position of a solicitor and an employee, even though the confidential information which they have obtained may be the same.\" The much relied-on Bolkiah was concerned with relief ordered against a firm for all purpose to be treated as a firm of solicitors. Notably, a solicitor will not be dependant upon one client for his livelihood whereas an employee can only work for one employer at any given time, and chances are his new employer is likely to be in the same line of business and therefore be in competition with the previous one. Mr. Aitken, who falls to be treated simply as an ex-employee, is therefore not subject to the same kind of obligations as were the case in Bolkiah.\nFurthermore, it is well established in employment law that an employee brings to a job his own stock of skill, knowledge and experience and therefore it is important to distinguish between this and an employer's trade secrets (or equivalent) which are entitled to protection. Mr. Bokhary PJ also acknowledged one's freedom of choice of occupation under the Basic Law.\nAs a final point, the Court of Final Appeal specifically left open the question of the relief available against an in-house legal advisor of a company moving to a competitor to work on the other side of a contentious matter or solicitors moving between private practice and in-house roles when acting on both sides of litigation.\nThe proper way for an employer to protect the use or disclosure of confidential information (be it privileged or not) is by means of properly drafted post-termination restrictive covenants. The Bolkiah principles to protect information subject to legal privilege should be narrowly interpreted.\nFor further information, please contact,\nDuncan Abate (duncan.abate@mayerbrown.com)\nLearn more about our Hong Kong office, Employment & Benefits and Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice.\nEmployment Litigation & Counseling\nEmployment & Benefits\nPodcast - Briefing für Personalverantwortliche\n17:45 Minute Listen\nHong Kong Continues its Journey Along the Rainbow-Coloured Road\nHong Kong's New Minimum Wage Effective Since 1 May 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line308494"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9799948930740356,"wiki_prob":0.9799948930740356,"text":"LADY GAGA – THE CRAZIEST DRESSING SINGER\nby Jegan S in DANCERS, MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, MUSICIANS, SINGERS Tags: achievements, albums, artist, ascii, ascii art, awards, babe, back stage, bio, biography, commercials, dancer, disco heaven, discography, fame, girl, lady gaga, love game, most beautiful, music, on stage, paparazzi, performer, photos, photoshoots, pictures, poker face, sexy, singer, songs, the fame, the fame monster, topless, wallpapers, woman, women, young\nLady Gaga is a theatrical dance-pop performer whose debut single, the international chart-topping hit “Just Dance,” established her as an up-and-coming superstar upon its release in 2008. Born Stefani Germanotta on March 28, 1986, the New York native attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girl Catholic school in Manhattan, before proceeding to study music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts at age 17. Influenced by flamboyant glam rockers such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury (she would later draw her stage name from the Queen song “Radio Ga-Ga”) as well as ’80s dance-poppers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson, she began playing the piano at a young age and started writing original material as a teenager. In 2007, she began to make a name for herself on the downtown Manhattan club scene with a performance art show billed as Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue (co-featuring Lady Starlight; born Colleen Martin, a DJ and makeup professional), and music industry insiders began to take note. While Lady Gaga was initially signed to Def Jam in 2007, nothing came of that association, and ultimately it was pop-rap superstar Akon who took her under his wing, signing her to his vanity label Kon Live in association with Interscope Records.\nIn addition to working for Interscope as an in-house songwriter, Lady Gaga began preparing the launch of her solo career. Her debut single, “Just Dance,” was released to radio in April 2008, and her full-length album debut, The Fame, followed in August. Featuring fellow Akon affiliate Colby O’Donis, “Just Dance” slowly gathered momentum throughout 2008’s latter half. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in August, at which time it had already become a massive club hit, but it didn’t reach number one until January 2009. Internationally, the song proved similarly popular, reaching the Top Ten throughout much of Western Europe and beyond. In the wake of Lady Gaga’s international breakthrough success with “Just Dance,” the follow-up single “Poker Face” was an even larger hit, topping singles charts across the board with its combination of pop melodicism and club-worthy production. Two additional tracks — “LoveGame” and “Paparrazi” — also cracked the Top Ten, and The Fame was still enjoying a spot on the Billboard Top 40 when its follow-up, The Fame Monster, appeared in November 2009.\nAlthough originally planned as a bonus disc (to be packaged alongside The Fame in a deluxe edition of Lady Gaga’s debut), The Fame Monster was quickly expanded to eight tracks, thus warranting its own release. Meanwhile, the leadoff single “Bad Romance” became Gaga’s fifth consecutive Top Ten single.\nThe Fame (2008)\nThe Fame Monster (2009)\nASCAP AWARD\n“Just Dance” – Ascap Pop Music Award – Most Performed Songs\n“Paparazzi” – Ascap Pop Music Award – Most Performed Songs\nBET Awards 2010\nVideo Phone with Beyonce, Video of the Year\nBillboard Award\n2009 – Billboard Rising Star\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Hot 100 Artist\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Hot Digital Songs Artist\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Hot Pop Songs Artist\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Artist\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for Canadian Hot 100 Artist\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for European Hot 100 songs\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for Best Electronic/Dance album\nBillboard Year End Chart Awards for European Top 100 albums\nLatin Billboard Music Awards for Crossover Artist of the Year, Solo\nBMI Awards\n“Poker Face” – BMI Pop Awards Award-Winning Songs\n“Just Dance” – BMI Pop Awards Award-Winning Songs\n“Love Game” – BMI Pop Awards Award-Winning Songs\nThe Fame – Best international Album\nInternational Female Solo Artist\nInternational Breakthrough Act\nBest International Female Artist – 2010\nBest International Newcomer – 2010\n“Poker Face” – Best International/National Hit of the Year – 2010\nESKA Award for Best New Artist – 2009\nGLAAD Media Awards\nOutstanding Music Artist – 2010\nBest Dance Recording – Pokerface – 2010\nBest Electronic/Dance Album – The Fame – 2010\nJapan Gold Disc Award\nBest New Artist International\nThe three Best New Artist\nMeteor Music Awards\nBest International Female – 2010\nMP3 MUSIC Awards\nLove Game – The RCD Award – Radio / Charts / Downloads – 2010\nMTV Music Awards\nLos Premios MTV Latinoamérica: Mejor Artista Nuevo Internacional\nLos Premios MTV Latinoamérica: Canción del Año\nMTV Europe Music Awards for Best New Act\nBest Dance Video – PokerFace – MTV Japan\nMTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist – Pokerface\nMTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects – Paparazzi\nMTV Video Music Award for Best Art Direction – Paparazzi\nMuchMusic Video Award for Best International Artist Video – Pokerface\nNME Award for Best Dressed\nNME Award for Worst Dressed\nInternational Revelation of the Year\nFavorite Pop Artist\nFavorite Breakout Artist\nPremios Oye Awards\nThe Fame – Premios Oye for English – Album of the Year\nThe Fame – Premios Oye for English – Best New Artist\nPoker Face – Premios Oye for English – Record of the Year\nQ Awards\n“Just Dance” – Q Awards for Best Video, 2009\nSwiss Music Awards\n“Poker Face” – Swiss Music Award for International Best Song, 2009\n“Just Dance” – Teen Choice Award for Choice Music: Hook Up, 2009\nThe Record of the Year\nPoker Face – The Record Of The Year, 2009\nTMF Awards\nTMF Award for Best Female Artist International\nTMF Award for Best Pop International\nTMF Award for Best New Artist International\nUK Music Video Awards\n“Paparazzi” – UK Music Video Awards for Best International Video, 2009\nVirgin Media Music Awards\n“The Fame” – Virgin Media Music Awards for Best Album\nVirgin Media Music Awards for Shameless Publicity Seeker\n“Poker Face” – World Music Awards for Best Song of the Year\n“The Fame” – World Music Awards for Best Album of the Year\nWorld Music Awards for Best Pop/Rock Artist\nWorld Music Awards for Best New Artist\nWorld Music Awards for Best Selling Artist of America\nCheckout the Collection of pictures and ASCII Art of Lady Gaga from the below link. Download the file and extract it to your PC. To view the ASCII Art that has been stored in the Notepad Text File, Open the text file in Notepad. Then Go to Format and Uncheck WordWrap, then In Format Go to Font and Change the Font to Lucida Console and Set the Font Size to 3 or 4 Pt. Now you could be able to see the ASCII Art. Maximize the window to view in full extent. ENJOY ! !\nhttp://www.4shared.com/file/ZnRf-9MA/Lady_Gaga.html\nJUSTIN BIEBER – THE YOUNG CANADIAN POP STAR\nby Jegan S in DANCERS, MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN, MUSICIANS, SINGERS Tags: artist, atlanta, basketball, billboard, canada, canadian, canadian hot, celine dion, certified, dancer, divorce, down to earth, drummer, favourite girl, future, georgia, guitarist, haiti, hockey, internet, island records, justin, justin drew bieber, LA Reid, lionel richie, love me, mackbook pro, manager, march 2010, most searched, my world, new release, one less lonely girl, one time, parents, pattie mallette, platinum, pop, producer, R&B, release, rihanna, rubber golf club, scooter braun, sean kingston, selena gomez, signature hair style, singer, smallville, star, taylor swift, timberlake, twitter, usher, we are the world, web, young, youtube\nJustin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian pop/R&B singer. He began his professional career on YouTube, where he was discovered by his future manager, Scooter Braun. Braun flew Bieber to Atlanta, Georgia, to consult with Usher and soon signed a record deal with Island.The first part of his two-part debut album My World was released on November 17, 2009. Four successful pre-album singles have been released: “One Time”, “One Less Lonely Girl”, “Love Me”, and “Favorite Girl”, which were Top 15 hits on the Canadian Hot 100 and Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. This accomplishment made Bieber the only solo artist in Billboard history to have four singles from a debut album chart in the Top 40 of the Hot 100 before the album’s release. The album received positive reviews from critics, and debuted at #6 on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling 137,000 copies in its first week, which was the second best opening release for a new artist in 2009. It also debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart. As of the fifth week, the album has sold over 522,000 copies in the United States, and has been certified Platinum in Canada. Part II of My World is currently set for a March 2010 release.The craziest gift from a fan that he received was a rubber golf club. Bought a Macbook Pro with his own money and it was one of his biggest purchases. He likes the show “Smallville”. He started out by posting youtube videos in 2007. His debut album was “My World”. His mom, Pattie Mallette, travels with him all the time. He likes to play video games. He has a signature hair style. He met Celine Dion at a New York Knicks basketball game. She approached him and said my son loves your songs. He plays guitar at many of his concerts. He has performed with Rihanna at the Super Bowl Weekend concert in Miami. He likes to play hockey and basketball. He recorded a few songs with fellow singer Sean Kingston. He has one day a week where he just relaxes. He recorded “We Are The World” for Haiti. He got the opening verse which was previously sung by Lionel Richie. His dad still lives in Canada. He wrote the song “Down To Earth” about his parents’ divorce. The executive producer of his first record, My World was LA Reid. He has a twitter which he updates daily.He is good friends with Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez.\nCheckout the ASCII Art of Justin Bieber in the below link. Download the text file. Open it with Notepad. Please use Lucida Console font to view the art in Notepad. Before that in Notepad go to Format and Uncheck the Word Warp and then Go to Font and Reduce the Font Size to 3 to 4 pt. Use only Lucida Console Font.\nhttp://www.4shared.com/document/bGarRZ61/Justin_Bieber_1.html\nhttp://www.4shared.com/document/Xt2f98xk/Justin_Bieber_2.html\nKIM YU-NA – ICE ANGEL OF SOUTH KOREA\nby Jegan S in DANCERS, MOVIE STARS, SPORTS PERSON Tags: 2010, angels on ice, anycall, asan hospital, back injury, Bucheon, campaign, canada, cancer, Daishin Investment Forum, Daishin Securities, donations, donor, fairly on ice, figure skating, grand prix, Gyeonggi do, hauzen, Hyeon Jung Kim, hyundai, i love asia, ice skating, ivy club, J Estina, juvenile, kim, kim yu na, Kookmin Bank, korean air, LG Health Care, LG Household, little yuna, low income family, Maeil Dairies Company, motor company, nike, olympics, Saffron, samsung, seoul, Seoul Boys Town, skating, south korea, sports, sweden, Taean oil spill disaster, toronto, toto lottery company, unicef, universal music, vancouver 2010, vancover, Volunteer Day, young, yu na, yu na kim, yunas haptic\nKim Yu Na was born on September 5, 1990, in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Kim Yuna began skating when she was seven. In 2003, at age 12, she became the youngest woman ever to win the senior title at the South Korean Figure Skating Championships. The sport was not popular in South Korea back then though.The Koreans only started to pay serious attention to the young star after Kim won the silver medal at the 2005 Junior Grand Prix Final, the country’s first ever medal in an international figure skating championship.\nKim made her senior international debut at 2006 Skate Canada where she won a bronze medal. She continued to excel in various competitions and won the gold at the 2006/2007 Grand Prix Final in Russia. Kim claimed the world records in 2007 for both the short and long programs under the new ISU scoring system. She only managed a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Japan though, while successfully defended her title at the 2007/2008 Grand Prix Final in Italy.\nKim again won the bronze medal at the 2008 World Championship in Sweden despite competing with a back injury. She got silver in the 2008/2009 Grand Prix Final in South Korea. Kim’s dominance began to surface in 2009 with a new world record in short program at the 4CC. She set another new record in short programs and overall score enroute to her gold medal at the 2009 World Championship in USA. She was the first female skater to surpass 200 points under the new ISU judging system.\nKim continued to break record after record and won her third Grand Prix Final title in Japan for the 2009/2010 season. Kim broke the world record again with a total of total of 228.56 points, en-route to winning the gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.\nKim is a huge celebrity in South Korea, appearing in various commercials e.g. for Nike, Kookmin Bank, Hyundai Motors, Hauzen (profile pic) and Anycall etc. She is also appointed as an ambassador for the 2010-2012 Visit Korea Year.\nKim’s official sponsors are Kookmin Bank, Nike, Korean Air and Hyundai Motor Company. Her other endorsements include Anycall (mobile phone), Hauzen (air conditioner), Lac Vert (cosmetics), Maeil Dairies Co.Ltd (Dairy products), Saffron (fabric softener) and J. Estina (Jewelry). Her skating music and other favorites were compiled in the album Yuna Kim – Fairy On ICE – Skating Music (Universal Music Korea, 2008).\nKim has appeared on multiple commercials in South Korea. She sings in some commercials and also sang in T.V. specials. Her commercial for a new touchscreen haptic phone from Samsung Electronics, dubbed as Yuna’s Haptic (SPH-W7700), debuted in South Korea on May 24, 2009. In the commercial, she plays a rock singer, a teenager, and a writer to show off various features of the phone. Samsung Electronics has sold over one million devices in a record seven months.\nKim has been a generous donor. She has donated more than 2 billion won ($1.7 million) in the last 3 years. Kim has been supporting young figure skaters, as well as promising skaters since 2007. She has also been supporting patients suffering rare diseases and children in need. Below is part of a list of donations made by her.\nJan 2007 – 12 million won scholarships to 6 young skaters after her first advertisement endorsement of Kookmin Bank.\nMay 2007 – 10 million won scholarship to fellow skater Hyeon-Jung Kim after making a contract with LG Household & Health Care advertisement.\nSep 2007 – 200 million won (100 million of her own + 100 million won additional contributions from Ivy Club) in form of school uniforms to low-income-family youths after making a contract with Ivy Club advertisement.\nDec 2007 – 100 school uniforms (worth 20 million won) to youths damaged by Taean oil spill disaster.\nApr 2008 – Visited to Everland with 800 children from Seoul Boys Town on Kookmin Bank Volunteer Day.\nMay 2008 – 50 million won (in addition to contributions from Daishin Securities) to young skaters after giving a talk to public at Daishin Investment Forum 2008.\nMay 2008 – 40 million won worth of one-year provision of Maeil Dairies Company products to low-income-family youths.\nMay 2008 – Participated in the recording of a humanitarian song “I Love Asia” Project to help earthquake victims of Sichuan, China.\nDec 2008 – 100 million won worth of school uniforms to low-income-family youths after renewing her advertisement contract with Ivy Club.\nDec 2008 – Over 1,000 dolls, she received at Grand Prix Final, to juvenile cancer wards in hospitals in metropolitan Seoul area.\nDec 2008 – 50 million won to young skaters at “Little Yuna’ Youth skaters support project” Campaign of Sports Toto Lottery Company.\nDec 2008 – 144 million won, total amount of ticket earnings from the charity ice show “Angels on Ice 2008” to children with rare diseases and juvenile cancer patients.\nApr 2009 – 100 million won worth of dairy products to low-income-family youths through the Seongname Welfare Center of World Vision.\nMay 2009 – Visited Asan Hospital to inquire after juvenile cancer patients on Children’s Day.\nMay 2009 – 100 million won and skate boots while participating in UNICEF Pigotta Doll Project to help children with immunization campaign.\nDec 2009 – Her portrait rights for free to be included in the Christmas seals for tuberculosis eradication.\nJan 2010 – 100 million won through UNICEF to Haiti relief.\nApr 2010 – 40 million won fee for appearing in a radio campaign for the rights of the disabled to Korea Foundation for Persons with Disabilities.\nApr 2010 – 50 million won, some part of earnings from Festa on Ice 2010, to ChunAhn-Häm (sunken Korean battleship) victims who passed away in the ship.\nCheckout the ASCII Art of Kim Yu Na in the below link. Please use Lucida Console font to view the art in Notepad. Before that in Notepad go to Format and Uncheck the Word Warp and then Go to Font and Reduce the Font Size to 3 to 4 pt. Use only Lucida Console Font.\nhttp://www.4shared.com/document/tiyGFNmZ/Kim_Yu_Na_1.html\nhttp://www.4shared.com/document/MQVkxjhr/Kim_Yu_Na_2.html\nCRISTIANO RONALDO – MANCHESTER UNITED’S YOUNGEST SIGNING\n29 Jun 2010 6 Comments\nby Jegan S in MOST BEAUTIFUL MEN, SPORTS PERSON Tags: 2010, aveiro, ball, corner, cristiano, dos, fifa, footbal, foul, funchal, goal, goals, los, madeira, madeira island, madrid, manchester, match, pavillion, penalty, player, portugal, portuguese, referee, ronaldo, santos, shot, sports, sportstar, star, united, young\nCristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro arrived in Manchester amid a media storm. Manchester United had managed to sign the player without the Press suspecting anything. As the Stock Market was told that the player had been signed, hundreds of journalists flooded up to Manchester to get a proper look at one of Manchester United`s youngest signings.\nRonaldo was born on the 5th February 1985, on the small island of Madeira, which is owned by the Portuguese. Named after Ronald Reagan, due to his father`s respect for the man, few would have gambled that this child would make it to the very top of the Football tree, especially with Madeira mainly being used for farm-land. He has one brother and two sisters, and it is family whom he deems most important in his life at the moment. It was on the dusty back-streets of this small island that Ronaldo learnt his first few tricks, and it was also on this Island that he was first scouted. By the age of twelve Ronaldo had established himself as the best player on the Island, able to use his ball skills and pace to get past full-grown defenders for Andorinha.\nHaving been recognised as a serious talent, all that was left was for the big Portuguese clubs to scrap it out for his signature. Though Porto and Boavista came in for him, he could only ever play for Sporting the club he supported as a boy. He progressed slowly through the youth ranks, although all those who worked with him were impressed with the talent that he had for his age, as well as his maturity.\nAt the tender age of 17, Ronaldo was thrown in at the deep end with his first game against Moreirense. Two goals on his first appearance not only gave him his dream debut, but also endeared him to the fans, who soon learnt to chant for the ball to be passed to him. A goal against title-rivals Boavista also saw him rise to the top of the “Fan`s Favourites” list.\nHis skills were watched closely by all of the big clubs in Europe, including Liverpool and Juventus, in the U-17 European Championships. His dazzling skills put England U-17s out, and everyone who watched felt they had seen something special. At the end of his first season at Sporting he was linked to Liverpool. Though he claimed he was extremely happy at Sporting, he was also flattered by the interest of such a big club, who used to do well in the Premier League.\nSporting finished top in the league, and Ronaldo was hailed as the future of the club, alongside Quaresma, another Portuguese Starlet. As it was, both moved away, with the money on the table to much for the Portuguese club to turn down. Best-friend Quaresma ended up at Barcelona, whilst Ronaldo came to the bright red of Manchester. The deal saw Ronald become the most expensive teenage signing in Britain, with Manchester United paying £12.24million over two seasons, in two equal payments. Those who had not seen him play baulked at the price such a lot of money for someone unproven!\nThose who had seen the Man Utd vs. Sporting friendly just three days before, however, knew that this player was special. Playing for Sporting, Ronaldo had taken the game to the reds, and was the main reason that Manchester United lost 3-1. After the game, all the United players could talk about was how well Ronaldo had played, and they begged Sir Alex to buy him. Sir Alex had been following him for months, but decided that the time was right not least because other clubs were getting increasingly closer to buying him.\nAn so, on 12th August 2003, Cristiano Ronaldo held up the famous Red shirt, with his favourite number 7 (it is hero Figo`s number) for all the press to see. A new star had been born. His first performance for the club was against Bolton. He entered the fray with an hour gone, with United 1 0 up. A standing ovation from the fans at old Trafford did nothing to settle his nerves, but he rewarded the fans for their trust. A man-of-the-match performance followed, and Ronaldo became legend. He had a hand in two of the goals, won an unconverted penalty, and mesmerised the Bolton defence.\nThe next day the media proclaimed him one of the best players ever for United, comparing him with Red-Legend George Best. Much had been seen, but much is still to come.\nCheckout the ASCII Art of Cristiano Ronaldo in the below link. Please use Lucida Console font to view the art in Notepad. Before that in Notepad go to Format and Uncheck the Word Warp and then Go to Font and Reduce the Font Size to 3 to 4 pt. Use only Lucida Console Font.\nhttp://www.4shared.com/document/5SlbdRgS/Cristiano_Ronaldo.html\nCHETAN BHAGAT – THE MODERN INDIAN AUTHOR\nby Jegan S in BUSINESS PERSONALITIES, MOVIE STARS, POETS & AUTHORS Tags: 1 night, 2 states, 3 idiots, 3 mistakes of my life, 5 point someone, achiever, ahmedabad, anusha, art, ascii, atar, author, bhagat, books, call center, call centre, chetan, chetan bhagat, cinema, IIM, IIM-A, IIT, indian, love, marriage, movie, movies, new delhi, one night at call center, publisher, star anchor, star anchor hunt, star news, student, the story, the story of my marriage, writer, young\nChetan Bhagat was born on April 22, 1974 in New Delhi. He is an Indian author who has written Five Point Someone – What not to do at IIT , One Night @ the Call Center, The Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States – The Story Of My Marriage. He has also written the script of Hello, the Hindi movie based on One Night @ the Call Center. He is married to Anusha, who was his classmate in IIM.Along with Advaita Kala and Karan Bajaj, Chetan Bhagat is considered among the trio of modern Indian writers that have rewritten Indian publishing rules and brought a new scale to the Indian publishing landscape with previously unheard of book sales.\nBhagat attended Army Public School from the year 1978 to 1991, Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), (1991-1995) Delhi, and then studied at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) (1995-1997) where he was named “The Best Outgoing Student”.\nHe fell in love with his IIM Ahmedabad classmate Anusha and they eventually got married.[1] A fictionalized version of his love story is given in his book 2 states – The story of my marriage.\nBhagat’s writing style tends to be simple, with linear narratives and vivid storytelling. His protagonists tend to be named after Lord Krishna, like Hari, Shyam, Govind or Krishna. All his books have a number in the title (e.g. ‘five’ in the first, ‘one’ in the second, ‘three’ in the third and ‘two’ in his latest book.) When asked about this Chetan replied “I’m a banker, I can’t get numbers out of my head.” He is a columnist with Dainik Bhaskar & The Times Of India, and writes on political issues.\nChetan Bhagat is a judge on a soon to be hosted Reality show by Star News called Star Anchor Hunt.\nSociety Young Achiever’s award in 2004.\nPublisher’s recognition award in 2005.\nCheckout the ASCII Art of Chetan Bhagat in the below link. Please use Lucida Console font to view the art in Notepad. Before that in Notepad go to Format and Uncheck the Word Warp and then Go to Font and Reduce the Font Size to 3 to 4 pt. Use only Lucida Console Font.\nhttp://www.4shared.com/document/mxLjMM5K/Chetan_Bhagat.html","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1353390"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7004569172859192,"wiki_prob":0.2995430827140808,"text":"HEADLINES Published May13, 2015 By Staff Reporter\nPeople with Celiac Disease May Be at Risk for Nerve Damage\n(Photo : Zeynel Cebeci, Getty Images )\nA very large study of people who were diagnosed with celiac disease has found that the disease appears to be linked with an increased risk of nerve damage. People with celiac were about 2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with nerve damage (neuropathy) as those without celiac.\nCeliac disease is a disease where the immune system attacks the lining of the small intestine when gluten is eaten. Gluten is a protein found primarily in wheat, but also in barley and rye grain. The association between celiac disease and neuropathy has been known for some time, but the actual risk of neuropathy for people with celiac was not known.\nResearchers at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm, and Orebro University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden, collected data on biopsies of the small intestine that were done in Sweden between 1989 and 2008. They compared the risk of neuropathy in more than 28,000 people diagnosed with celiac disease with that of nearly 140,000 people who did not have celiac. They found that 198 people with celiac disease (about 0.7%) later were diagnosed with neuropathy, compared to 359 (0.3%) of those without it.\nAlthough the actual risk of developing nerve damage is low, the researchers noted that it might be beneficial for physicians to screen patients who are diagnosed with celiac for nerve damage.\nCeliac affects about 1% of the population of the United States, which is about 1 in every 133 Americans. It is believed that more than 80% of people with celiac are either not diagnosed or are diagnosed incorrectly as having another disease. In children, symptoms of celiac disease include diarrhea, vomiting, bloating, and weight loss as well as failure to grow properly. In adults, the symptoms can include fatigue, bone and joint pain, arthritis, or other symptoms.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1188495"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9180317521095276,"wiki_prob":0.9180317521095276,"text":"Former West Vancouver mayor was wrong to take $75K gift from godmother, panel finds\nPosted By: sherwoodparkweather 17 Views 75K, finds, gift, godmother, mayor, PANEL, Vancouver, west, wrong\nA lawyer and former mayor of West Vancouver committed misconduct when he accepted $75,000 as a gift from one of his clients, a disciplinary committee has found.\nMark Sager, who ran for a return as mayor in 2018, said in an interview last year the gift could be easily explained away: the client in question was his godmother, who wanted to thank him for some legal work he did for her.\nBut the Law Society of B.C. found Sager still broke the rules when he took the money because lawyers in the province cannot accept a gift that is “more than nominal” from a client, unless that client has had independent legal advice concerning the gift.\nReached by phone on Monday, Sager said he had no comment on the law society’s findings. He served as mayor of West Vancouver from 1990 to 1996 and has spent the last two decades heading his own law firm. He lost his most recent bid for mayor in October.\n‘Auntie J’\nThe misconduct surrounds Sager’s relationship with an aunt-like figure he’d known since he was a child.\nThe law society’s decision, posted online Monday, said the woman, identified only as J.B., was a longtime, “very close friend” of Sager’s mother. Sager and his sister grew up with her and called her “Auntie J.”\nIn 2012, J.B. had a fall at her North Vancouver home. Then 83, she was hospitalized and later moved to a care centre in West Vancouver. The decision said she phoned Sager for help six months after her fall, unhappy with the care she was receiving and her overall “predicament.”\nMark Sager previously served as mayor of West Vancouver from 1990 to 1996, when he was in his 30s. He ran for mayor again in 2018, but was unsuccessful. (Facebook)\nThe society said Sager helped rewrite J.B.’s will, represented her in her divorce, and helped her estranged husband buy her out of her home — the house she’d lived in for decades — in the months that followed.\nSager would ultimately be written into J.B.’s new will, while her biological niece was written out, and would receive a $75,000 gift from the money J.B. made on the sale of her home.\nAssistant, associate unaware\nThe society said Sager asked his associate to “step in” regarding J.B.’s will in January 2014 because Sager was “conflicted out” due to his relationship with her.\nBoth Sager’s assistant and his associate said they didn’t realize J.B. wasn’t Sager’s biological aunt, as they only ever heard him refer to her as Auntie.\nSager and his sister were included in J.B.’s new will as her “nephew and niece.”\nJ.B. gave Sager the $75,000 gift that June.\nMark Sager is a founding member and senior partner of Sager LLP, located in the Ambleside area of West Vancouver. A campaign sign for Sager’s unsuccessful bid for mayor can be seen on the building in a Google Streetview photo taken in October 2018. (Google Streetview)\nNearly a quarter of her estate went to Sager when she died on Jan. 21, 2016 at the age of 86. Sager was executor of the will.\nThe law society launched an investigation after J.B.’s younger sister complained in 2017.\nDuring hearings, Sager admitted to what had happened but said it wasn’t professional misconduct. He said he didn’t know he was breaking the rules because they’d only been added to the B.C. Code for lawyers in 2013.\nThe decision said he argued “lawyers should be entitled to a reasonable amount of time to gain familiarity with the new Law Society requirements.”\nThe panel disagreed, saying the case was “not a situation where a rule of very recent vintage caught a lawyer by surprise.”\nThe decision said Sager’s behaviour was a “marked” departure from the standard expected of lawyers in the province.\nA penalty will be decided at a later date.\n[addm2p url=””]\nUSA News Headlines\n[su_feed url=”http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss” limit=”20″]\nABC NEWS Headlines\n[su_feed url=”http://feeds.abcnews.com/abcnews/usheadlines” limit=”20″]\n🌙Solar Eclipse [2017] (end of the world?)💩\nStampede’s showband hosts world championships and wins them\nOilers sign French defenceman Yohann Auvitu to one-year contract – Edmonton – Canada News\nJuly 10, 2017 sherwoodparkweather 0\nHorror fans can’t get enough scary monsters and super creeps – British Columbia\nOctober 28, 2017 sherwoodparkweather 0\nVictoria, B.C. to introduce dock-free bike sharing service – British Columbia","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1575917"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.562130331993103,"wiki_prob":0.437869668006897,"text":"Presidential Debate Preview: Romney vs. Obama\nBy thekeystonenews on September 19, 2012\nWith the party conventions concluded and less than two months remaining until election day, President Obama and Mitt Romney are turning their attention towards the upcoming debate, the first of three.\nThe debate, scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 3, will likely include some harsh criticisms between the two candidates, as it is their first meeting and their first opportunity to counter each other’s rhetoric one-on-one.\nIt is likely that President Obama will focus his criticisms on Mitt Romney’s recent gaffes pertaining to his comments about foreign policy in regards to the protests in the Middle East as well as Americans who are exempt from income taxes. Countering that, Romney will likely make the economy the focus of his points against the president.\nThis debate, unlike ones scheduled for later in October, will have no focus point, but will instead cover a broad variety of topics. The subjects of the economy, foreign policy, health care, and education will likely be the most examined and questioned, however other topics are expected to find their way into the discussion.\nJake Horowitz, a political writer and co-founder of policymic.com, predicts that Romney may have an edge entering the first debate due to his recent series of 20 debates in the Republican Primaries, suggesting that President Obama may be a bit out of practice. Horowitz notes, however, that the president is equally likely to shake off the cobwebs and quickly get into the debate state of mind that was lauded for in the 2008 election.\nThe debates will likely be a critical time for the Romney campaign, offering them a chance to bounce back from a recent decline in the polls. After his most recent gaffes, a Gallup tracking poll has him listed as far as six percentage points behind President Obama and predicts that swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Ohio, are currently leaning in the president’s favor.\nThe Presidential debates are scheduled for Oct.3 in Denver, Colo., Oct.16, in Hempstead, N.Y., and Oct. 22, in Boca Raton, Fla., the last of which will focus primarily on foreign policy. The Vice Presidential debate will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 11 in Danville, Ky.\nBy: A.J. Simmons\nSkimpy outfits prevalent on Main Street\nMTV’s Awkward. has a major question to answer","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1040106"}
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The expert contributions explore the underlying forces and add substantial theoretical and empirical knowledge to the current state-of-the-art in several research fields including the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship, regional economics, economic geography and international economics. Learn More\nForecasting Urban Travel\nDavid E. Boyce, Huw C.W.L. Williams\nForecasting Urban Travel presents in a non-mathematical way the evolution of methods, models and theories underpinning travel forecasts and policy analysis, from the early urban transportation studies of the 1950s to current applications throughout the urbanized world. From original documents, correspondence and interviews, especially from the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors seek to capture the spirit and problems faced in different eras, as changing information requirements, computing technology and planning objectives conditioned the nature of forecasts. Learn More\n2016 Paperback Price: $ 65.00 Web: $ 52.00\nInterculturalism in Cities\nEdited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero\nCities are increasingly recognized as new players in diversity studies, and many of them are showing evidence of an intercultural shift. As an emerging concept and policy, interculturalism is becoming the most pragmatic answer to concrete concerns in cities. Within this framework, this book covers two major concerns: how to conceptualize and how to implement intercultural policies. Through the use of theoretical and comparative case studies, the current most prominent contributors in the field examine an area that multicultural policies have missed in the past: interaction between people from different cultures and national backgrounds. By compiling the recent research in Europe and elsewhere this book concludes that interculturalism is becoming both an attractive and efficient new paradigm for diversity management. 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Learn More\nHandbook of Research Methods and Applications in Economic Geography\nEdited by Charlie Karlsson, Martin Andersson, Therese Norman\nThis Handbook provides an overview and assessment of the state-of-the-art regarding research methods, approaches and applications central to economic geography. The chapters are written by distinguished researchers from a variety of scholarly traditions and with a background in different academic disciplines including economics, economic, human and cultural geography, and economic history. The resulting Handbook covers a broad spectrum of methodologies and approaches applicable in analyses pertaining to the geography of economic activities and economic outcomes. Learn More\nMegaregions\nEdited by John Harrison, Michael Hoyler\nBy critically assessing the opportunities and challenges posed by planning and governing at the megaregional scale, this innovative book examines the latest conceptualizations of trans-metropolitan landscapes. In doing so, it seeks to uncover whether megaregions are a meaningful new spatial framework for the analysis of cities in globalization. Situated within the broader contours of global urban analysis, the book draws together a range of thought-provoking contributions from scholars engaged in the study of trans-metropolitan regions. It thereby provides multiple paths of access for those wishing to familiarize themselves with this topical area of global urban studies. Learn More\nThe Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union\nPhilip McCann\nThe regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to regional and urban development policy in Europe span many academic disciplines and build on different research methodologies. 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Learn More\nArts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities\nLily Kong, Ching Chia-ho, Chou Tsu-Lung\nWhile global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities examines such ambitions and projects undertaken in five major cities in Asia: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore. Providing a thorough comparison of their urban imaging strategies and attempts to harness arts and culture, as well as more organically evolved arts activities and spaces, this book analyses the relative successes and failures of these cities. Offering rich ethnographic detail drawn from extensive fieldwork, the authors challenge city strategies and existing urban theories and reveal the many complexities in the art of city-making. 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Contributions also examine state responses to, and the wider effects of, the new social, economic and political configurations that arise from migration. Combining empirical and theoretical works, this volume will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students through to professional scholars engaging in some of the most topical issues of today. Learn More\nGlobal Clusters of Innovation\nEdited by Jerome S. Engel\nIn the geography of the global economy, there are known ‘hot spots’ where new technologies germinate at an astounding rate and pools of capital, expertise and talent foster the development of new industries and new ways of doing business. These clusters of innovation are significant drivers of value creation and function as models for economic expansion in both developed and developing countries. This book explores the key attributes of these innovation hubs using case studies from around the world. Learn More\nCities and Private Planning\nEdited by David Emanuel Andersson, Stefano Moroni\nThrough comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighbourhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Andersson and Moroni develop an under-studied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future. Learn More\nEdited by Stephane Hess, Andrew Daly\nChoice modelling is an increasingly important technique for forecasting and valuation, with applications in fields such as transportation, health and environmental economics. For this reason it has attracted attention from leading academics and practitioners and methods have advanced substantially in recent years. This Handbook, composed of contributions from senior figures in the field, summarises the essential analytical techniques and discusses the key current research issues. It will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in a wide range of areas. Learn More\nMigration and Freedom\nBrad K. Blitz\nMigration and Freedom is a thorough and revealing exploration of the complex relationship between mobility and citizenship in the European area. Drawing upon over 170 interviews, it provides an original account of the opportunities and challenges associated with the rights to free movement and settlement in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Russia. It documents successful and unsuccessful settlement and establishment cases and records how both official and informal restrictions on individuals’ mobility have effectively created new categories of citizenship. Learn More","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1226859"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9023417234420776,"wiki_prob":0.9023417234420776,"text":"The X-Files 6.19, The Unnatural: “E.T. Steal Home”\nPosted in TV tagged Bounty Hunter, The X-Files at 1:25 pm by Jenn\nI don’t know about you guys, but I do this with my co-workers all the time\nSummary: In Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2nd, 1947, a light is shining over a mound of dirt. But it’s not a UFO, it’s a light on a baseball field. (The boundaries are marked by cacti, and sometimes the balls stick to them.) When a player named Josh Exley comes up to the plate, everyone in the outfield backs up. He hits a foul ball, but an outfielder has trouble finding it. Something out in the darkness tosses the ball back to him.\nThe catcher remarks that he heard the Yankees wanted to recruit Exley, but Exley says he enjoys the quiet of the “cactus league.” The catcher has heard rumors that Exley, who’s black, could be the next Jackie Robinson. Exley says he doesn’t want to be a famous man like Robinson – he just wants to be a man. He hits a home run, his 61st of the season, and his teammates lift him up in victory.\nThe celebration ends when Klan members ride onto the field on horses. Their leader shouts racial slurs at the other black players and mocks the white ones for hanging out with them. The meek pitcher, who’s been having trouble with his throws, gets in some practice by throwing at the Klansmen. One of the coaches unmasks the leader…who’s an alien.\nIn the present, there’s a baseball game, commentated by Vin Scully, on a TV at FBI headquarters. Scully’s annoyed that Mulder has her working on such a nice day. She asks if he’s ever thought about trying to find a life on this planet. Mulder says he’s tried, and that’s why he’s looking elsewhere.\nScully has brought in an ice cream cone – well, a nonfat tofutti rice dreamsicle – and taunts Mulder for spending the day looking through New Mexico obituaries from the 1940s. Why worry about people who died 50 years ago? They should let sleeping dogs lie. The two toss cliché phrases at each other until Mulder grams Scully’s snack from her. It falls on the book he’s been looking at, and Scully sees that he’s secretly been reading up on baseball.\nMulder waxes poetic about the things you can learn from box scores. Some things are the same as they were 50 years ago, like numbers. Scully asks if Mulder’s mother ever told her to go play outside. Mulder gets distracted by a photo of Arthur Dales and rips it out of the book. Scully calls him a rebel for defacing government property.\nMulder goes to Dales’ home (in D.C., not Florida), and is confused when the man there, who’s not Dales, says he is. He explains that he’s Dales’ brother, and for some reason, they have the same name. They also had a sister and a goldfish named Arthur. Dales knows who Mulder is, thanks to his brother; they’ve talked about him a lot (nothing flattering). This Dales isn’t interested in a chat, and he closes the door on Mulder.\nSince Mulder has never given up on a possibly interesting story, he decides to ask some questions through the door. Why is Dales (not the original, as Mulder thought, but the brother he’s speaking to) in a picture with Exley, who disappeared in 1947 after hitting 61 home runs? And what about the third man in the picture, who looks just like the Bounty Hunter? Dales thinks Mulder’s uninterested in baseball, but Mulder is a big fan.\nDales invites Mulder in and looks through some boxes while talking about how “the baseball gods” could answer all of Mulder’s questions about government conspiracies. He asks Mulder if he believes that love and passion could make a man shape-shift. “What exactly has your brother told you about me?” Mulder asks.\nHe wants to know why the Dales brothers didn’t say anything about the Bounty Hunter, if they’ve known about him and colonization plans for 50 years. Dales says that no one would believe him. Mulder’s offended that Dales doesn’t think he was “ripe” enough to be told. Dales finds a coin bank shaped like a baseball player that he says will tell Mulder all he wants to know.\nWe go back in time to June 29th, 1947, when Dales (the brother, not the original, but played by the actor who played the original in Travelers – this episode is confusing) goes to a ballpark to meet Exley for the first time. He works for the Roswell police and has been assigned to serve as Exley’s bodyguard. Exley doesn’t want the protection, but there’s a $500 bounty on his head from the KKK, and Dales isn’t about to let anyone, no matter his race, religion, or nationality – even Canadian! – be murdered if he can prevent it.\nDales is playing on a Negro League team, the Roswell Grays, and they’re on their way to their next game. Dales studies French on the bus. Exley asks Dales if he can get them some police uniforms to play in. Dales jokes that, instead of the Grays, they could be the Black and Blues. The players pretend to be offended, but everyone has a good laugh. Later, after many of the men on the bus have fallen asleep, Dales wakes up during a thunderstorm and checks on Exley. He’s stunned to see that Exley’s reflection in his window looks like an alien.\nIn the present, Mulder thinks Dales is messing with him. “E.T. steal home! E.T. steal home!” he jokes. Dales insists that he’s telling the truth. In fact, all the great baseball players were aliens. That includes Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays (“well, obviously,” says Dales). None of the greats fit in on Earth or in any other world. But on the field, they did. Mulder thinks he’s being metaphorical, but Dales says he only has time to be truthful. He gets a medication delivery from a kid he calls Poor Boy.\nBack in 1947, two boys, one black and one white, argue about whether or not a ball Exley hit is worth anything, since he’s not in the majors yet. Dales is in the Grays’ dugout, practically part of the team now. They even share chaw with him (though it makes him sick). There’s a big crowd at the game, so Dales is on the lookout, and he tackles Exley to protect him from what he thinks is a gun. It turns out to squirt water, so Dales says Exley had a bee on him. (This freaking show and freaking bees.)\nLater in the game, Exley gets hit by a pitch, and when his team checks on his mental state, he starts speaking an unrecognizable language. After a moment, he recovers, and when they ask where he’s from, he says Macon. The others don’t give the weird moment a second thought. But Dales goes to collect Exley’s glove and finds an acidic green substance on it.\nDales goes to a police station and calls Exley’s hometown, Macon, to do a background check on him. At the same time, he hands over Exley’s glove for testing. A Macon officer is very interested in Exley’s current whereabouts, as he disappeared five years ago…when he was six years old. The officer is also interested in Exley’s whereabouts because he’s the Bounty Hunter.\nThe two boys who were arguing earlier hang around the Grays’ dugout during their next game. The white one, called Poor Boy, tells Exley that some Yankee scouts are there to watch him. Exley plays poorly in the game, so Poor Boy thinks he’ll lose his chance at playing in the majors. As soon as the disappointed scouts leave, Exley hits a home run.\nOn the bus after the game, Dales confronts Exley for tanking the game, then reveals that he knows Josh Exley isn’t his real name – he took the missing boy’s identity. Exley denies that he’s from Macon, though Dales points out that he said he was after he was hit in the game. Exley says he also spoke in tongues, like he did in church when he was a kid. He says he was joking around.\nDales knows Exley’s trying to stay out of the spotlight because he’s hiding something. But tanking the game means he disappointed the fans, his teammates, and his race. That last one hits Exley hard. Dales is determined to find out his secret, but Exley warns that he’d better be looking into the right secret. In the team’s motel that night, Dales hears some noises from Exley’s room. He picks the lock, lets himself in, and sees an alien. Both of them scream in surprise, and Dales passes out.\nExley revives Dales, who immediately passes out again. Exley gives him water, but that only revives him briefly. “You’re supposed to be a big, bad policeman,” Exley chastises. When Dales is finally conscious, he thinks he’s dreaming. Exley confirms that this is what he really looks like. He shifts into the appearance of a woman, asking if that makes it easier for Dales to handle the revelation. Dales says that makes it weirder. Someone comes in looking for Exley and sees Dales with a hot woman instead.\nOn the bus the next day, Exley quietly tells Dales that his fellow aliens wanted him to keep to himself and not intermingle with humans. Dales guesses that he broke the rules because he came to Earth and fell in love with a woman. Exley laughs and says that he fell in love with baseball. His people don’t laugh or smile, but seeing his first baseball game brought joy out of him. It was the first “unnecessary” thing he’d ever experienced, and he couldn’t make himself go home. The players start a singalong, harmonizing on “Come and Go With Me to That Land.”\nThe bus’ journey turns into a ’40s TV commercial for Gray Bus Lines. The tagline, voiced over by Vin Scully, is “you can go home again.” In the present, Mulder guesses that Exley made himself appear black so people wouldn’t be suspicious not to see him in the majors. He thinks Dales is implying that Exley had something to do with the Roswell crash in July of 1947. Dales tells him to stop jumping to conclusions and “trust the tale.” Things that fascinate us are true. (This, contrary to what Dales said before, is a metaphor.)\nMulder still isn’t sure if Exley was an alien or a hybrid. He admits that he’s an idiot. As the Bounty Hunter appears on the 1940s broadcast on Dales’ TV, Dales says that since Exley had the same characteristics that make a man a man, he was human. Back in 1947, the Bounty Hunter stashes a body in a car trunk, then goes to meet the rest of the team.\nDales learns that the green stuff on Exley’s glove is from a lifeform that isn’t carbon-based. He’s called around to ask questions, but Dales tells him to keep quiet. He just wants the glove back. Exley – or someone who looks like Exley – shows up at the tech’s lab, saying Dales sent him to get his lab. He attacks the tech, then morphs into the Bounty Hunter.\nThe real Exley is at a ball field, and when Dales finds him there, he warns that he’s being accused of murder. Instead of running away, like Dales suggests, Exley wants to toss the ball around for a little while. He reveals that he talked to his family and wants to go home. He doesn’t have the sense of loyalty that would keep him on Earth, playing for humans. His family is still his family. Sirens approach, and Exley decides it’s time to leave. He asks Dales to tell people, including his kids, how good Exley was.\nDales doesn’t cooperate with the local cops, just telling them that Exley said he was going home. Dales refuses to betray Exley, even if it means he’s considered an accomplice or loses his job. After the police leave, Dales finds a map of the desert, with a home plate drawn on it.\nWe revisit the game from the beginning of the episode, and see that everyone fled after the Klan leader was unmasked. It’s the Bounty Hunter, there to kill Exley. Dales drives out there to save Exley, who says that dying would be the right thing to do. The Bounty Hunter is disgusted that Exley would risk the project for a game. Exley takes one last moment of pride in his 61st home run.\nThe Bounty Hunter wants Exley to show his true face in his moment of death. The Bounty Hunter goes first, morphing into an alien. Exley says that the face he’s wearing is his true face; he won’t shift. Dales arrives just as the Bounty Hunter is riding away, having icepicked Exley. Dales doesn’t care that Exley’s blood could harm him – it’s regular red blood, not green acid. Exley laughs, then dies in Dales’ arms. “Come and Go With Me to That Land” plays as current-day Dales remembers the moment. “I got a brother in that land where I’m bound,” the song says.\nScully finds Mulder at a batting cage, having been summoned by a message from “Fox Mantle.” He wants to give her a birthday present, though it’s not her birthday. Mulder knows that she’s never hit a baseball. Scully says no; she’s found more necessary things to do. He shows her how to hold the bat, telling her he’s paying Poor Boy to shag balls and run the pitching machine.\nPoor Boy’s totally going to go home and tell his parents how he saw two FBI agents with their hands all over each other, because…seriously. Mulder helps Scully hit some balls, joking about all the stuff he puts her through. “Shut up, Mulder. I’m playing baseball,” she tells him. Up in the night sky, some of the stars shine brighter than the others.\nThoughts: This episode was written and directed by David Duchovny.\nExley is played by Jesse L. Martin. The second Dales is played by M. Emmet Walsh.\nDarrin McGavin (the original Dales) was supposed to be in the episode but had to step out because he got sick. They wrote in the character of his brother, but I guess didn’t bother to come up with a new name.\nVin Scully (the namesake of Dana Scully, by the way) recorded his part for free because of budget issues.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1459483"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6439424753189087,"wiki_prob":0.6439424753189087,"text":"Comic CONsciousness\nby Tyler and Christo Wilson\n“The great thing about the comics industry is that it’s driven by passion\n…it isn’t driven by money.”\nRoyden Lepp, graphic novelist, The New York Times, 7/28/14\nThe New York Times:\nArmed Animals Don’t Invent Themselves\n‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Character Creators Fight for Cash and Credit\n“Like millions of moviegoers over the weekend, Bill Mantlo watched “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the Marvel Studios space adventure that sold more than $172 million in tickets worldwide in its first four days of release.”\n“The film’s success is particularly meaningful to Mr. Mantlo, 62, [who watched the film from his nursing home room] a comic-book writer who helped create one of the movie’s main characters: the foul-tempered, gun-wielding anthropomorphic Rocket Raccoon.”\nGroot holding Rocket Raccoon, who was created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen, in “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Photograph from, Marvel Studios and Walt Disney Pictures\nOur very own Boulevardier Brothers have something to say,\nand it’s all about comics, Comic-Con, and yes! it’s Comic-Con season again…\nTYLER: I’ve been investing in comic books since I was 3 years old. Before I could even read I would join Ma and my older brother Christo on the weekly trips to the comic shop, and buy them just for the trip home which was a visual universe of amazing action packed illustrations. There was always a monthly budget for books and comics in our house, our Ma encouraged all varieties of reading, and she is proud today of her, “voracious reader sons.” I favored mostly Marvel titles, like Spider-Man and Iron Man, as I got older I was drawn toward the darker imprints, particularly Vertigo and the Hellblazer books.\nIllustration by Tyler Wilson\nInspired by artists like Tim Bradstreet (Hellblazer) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy), many of my pieces explore the blending of humanity, the occult, and technology. Del Toro on Mignola, “Mike’s body of work is firmly anchored in comic-book and literary traditions of Machen, Lovecraft, Toth, and Kirby. Yet what has been emerging from them is a species all on its own.”\nThe REAL Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr.\nComic books are actually versatile tools, they can be used to articulate views on political and societal shifts, as well as being colorful escapist fantasies. It is the rare author who can successfully combine both of these into a comic that doesn’t become overbearingly self serious or run off the rails (how many times can a character come back from the dead — really?).\nThere are of course some seminal works: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Sandman by Neil Gaiman, The Dark Knight Rises by Frank Miller, (soon to be newly released film Sin City: A Dame to Kill For — August 22, 2014 continues his genre) that manage to not only define entirely new worlds and characters, but to a certain extent hold up a gritty and super powered mirror to some of the real world’s problems. Comics have matured over the years, from their Golden Age beginnings like the jingoistic propaganda of early Captain America and Superman, to cynical and dark dystopian tales like Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan or the religiously polarizing and irreverent Preacher by Garth Ennis.\nFrom the Comic-Con website:\nComic-Con International: San Diego began in 1970 when a group of comics, movie, and science fiction fans — including the late Shel Dorf, Ken Krueger, and Richard Alf banded together to put on the first comic book convention in southern California. Comic-Con started as a one-day “minicon,” called San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Minicon, on March 21, 1970 at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. The purpose of this single day, which included two special guests, Forrest J Ackerman and Mike Royer, and drew about 100 attendees was to raise funds and generate interest for a larger convention. The success of the minicon led to the first full-fledged, three-day San Diego Comic-Con (called San Diego’s Golden State Comic-Con), held August 1–3, 1970, at the U.S. Grant Hotel, with guests Ray Bradbury, Jack Kirby, and A. E. van Vogt. Over 300 attendees packed into the hotel’s basement for that groundbreaking event, which featured a dealers’ room, programs and panels, film screenings, and more…essentially, the model for every comic book convention to follow.\nFrom the beginning, the founders of the show set out to include not only the comic books they loved, but also other aspects of the popular arts that they enjoyed and felt deserved wider recognition, including films and science fiction/fantasy literature. After one more name change (San Diego’s West Coast Comic Convention, in 1972), the show officially became the San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC) in 1973 with the fourth annual event. In 1995, the non–profit event changed its name to Comic-Con International: San Diego (CCI).\nCHRISTO: I’ve always been a comics fan, my Dad inspired me with his 60’s comics collection, and I passed this along to my younger brother Tyler. With 20 years and counting of collecting, I think perhaps the most astounding thing about modern comic books, and the comic industry, is how successful the material has become across the media landscape. To put this is perspective, consider that in 1996, Marvel Comics was bankrupt, and yet today the Disney/Marvel juggernaut is redefining what is possible across movies and television with projects and crossovers of immense scope. But Marvel is hardly the only success story: Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead is a cult phenomenon spanning comics, television, and a critically acclaimed episodic video game series. Similarly, Bill Willingham’s modern classic Fables is also now an award winning video game (The Wolf Among Us), as well as (arguably) the inspiration for television hit Once Upon A Time.\nA few Comic-Con facts from mental_floss:\nThe first Masquerade Ball, a fan-made costume and makeup contest, took place in 1974.\nIn 1979, $12,000 in receipts was stolen from the Comic-Con International Treasurer’s home. As a result, the organization behind Comic-Con had to ask fans for donations to pay off the debt.\nSince 2000, San Diego Comic-Con has hosted an annual film festival called the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, which highlights the best in genre movie-making.\nDirector Kevin Smith has made guest appearances at San Diego Comic-Con since 1997. In 2007, Comic-Con organizers asked the geek icon to close out Comic-Con Saturday Nights in Hall H with an hour-and-a-half long “Geek State of the Union Address.”\nSan Diego Comic-Con was featured on various TV shows throughout the last decade, including The O.C., Weeds, and Entourage. The comic book convention was also featured on the reality shows Beauty and the Geek and MTV’s Punk’d and The Real World: San Diego.\nCHRISTO: The sheer size, scope, and cross-genre popularity of Comic-Con 2014 is perhaps the strongest evidence that comic books have truly arrived as mainstream culture. You’re equally likely to encounter Joss Whedon surrounded by the Avengers, Firefly browncoats, of Buffy-esque vampires. Guillermo del Toro might be found piloting a 50-story tall Jaeger from Pacific Rim, forestalling the vampire apocalypse in The Strain (itself a trilogy of books, comics, and now a television show), or investigating the paranormal with Hellboy. In short, comic culture is now just culture, and Comic-Con is the epicenter of the new entertainment landscape.\nNote: We encourage all readers to take time and explore the visual feast of unbelievable comic art by each illustrator great in this post…hence all the links, do visit their sites and Wikipedia for an eyeball full!\nby: Tyler and Christo Wilson\nTagged as: a e van vogt, alan moore, Bill Mantlo, captain america, CCI, comic, Comic-Con, comic-con international independent film festival, dark knight rises, del toro, dystopia, fables, forrest j ackerman, frank miller, garth ennis, geek state of the union, golden age comics, guardians of the galaxy, hellblazer, hellboy, iron man, jack kirby, ken krueger, kevin smith, kirby, lovecraft, machen, marvel, mike mignola, mike royer, minicon, Neil Gaiman, once upon a time, preacher, Ray Bradbury, richard alf, rocket raccoon, royden lepp, sandman, SDCC, shel dorf, sin city, spider-man, superman, the wolf among us, tim bradstreet, toth, transmetropolitan, walking dead, warren ellis, watchmen\nPrevious post: Good Days and Bad Hair Days\nNext post: Portrait of a Photographer as a Young Man","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line565933"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8468294143676758,"wiki_prob":0.8468294143676758,"text":"Varner on \"The Guarantee\"\nBy Patrick Stevens The Washington Times - October 26, 2007, 10:43AM\n\\ The senior safety is bright, insightful, gregarious and engaging, a guy with a heck of a future regardless of what he does once he leaves college. He’s also one of the few players you’re certain actually enjoys the give-and-take with reporters. \\\n\\ He’s also honest; not in a tactless, loose cannon way, but in a “I’ve-seen-a-lot-and-this-is-how-it-is” kind of way.\\\n\\ So there was no one better to ask about Clemson tailback James Davis‘ guarantee of a Tiger victory tomorrow at Maryland than Varner, who chuckled when the topic was brought up earlier this week.\\\n\\ “I saw it, but I just laughed about it,” Varner said. “I don’t know. You just can’t guarantee things in this sport. I would never do that because you just don’t do that. That’s a very immature thing to do, to guarantee something like that.”\\\n\\ At that point, the Official Beat Diva cut in from a few seats away and lamented that she hadn’t asked Varner the same question earlier, prompting another set of laughs before Varner continued.\\\n\\ “It’s such an immature thing to do, definitely,” he said. “If you feel that strong about it, then more power to him. I’m not going to sit and guarantee anything because it’s like ‘any given Sunday.’ It’s any given Saturday.”\\\n\\ I told Varner at this point I figured he would probably have a wary view of such theatrics.\\\n\\ “I saw it and I said ‘Wow, that’s pretty bold, buddy,’” Varner said. “I want to see what you do in the game. I’m going to be looking for him. I’m going to be looking for No. 1. Definitely, I want to see if he can back up that and see what he’s going to bring to the table with all that talk. That’s cool. We like that. It’s sitting in the back of our heads.”\\\n\\ “Like you guys needed to be riled up,” I offered, referencing a last-minute 18-17 loss to Virginia last week.\\\n\\ “Thanks. We needed that,” Varner said. “Good. Like we weren’t mad enough. You’ve just really [ticked] us off now. That’s even better.”\\\n\\ The first lesson in all of this is to not engage Varner in a war of words. You’ll lose. Badly.\\\n\\ Tomorrow, we’ll learn if angering Varner and the rest of a wounded team turns out to be a particularly dangerous game for Davis to play. \\\n\\ – Patrick Stevens","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line608319"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8733032941818237,"wiki_prob":0.8733032941818237,"text":"Poverty may have pushed Sien back into prostitution; the home became less happy and Van Gogh may have felt family life was irreconcilable with his artistic development. Sien gave her daughter to her mother, and baby Willem to her brother.[78] Willem remembered visiting Rotterdam when he was about 12, when an uncle tried to persuade Sien to marry to legitimise the child.[79] He believed Van Gogh was his father, but the timing of his birth makes this unlikely.[80] Sien drowned herself in the River Scheldt in 1904.[81]\nAfter the altercation with Gauguin, Van Gogh returned to his room, where he was assaulted by voices and severed his left ear with a razor (either wholly or in part; accounts differ),[note 9] causing severe bleeding.[142] He bandaged the wound, wrapped the ear in paper, and delivered the package to a woman at a brothel Van Gogh and Gauguin both frequented.[142] Van Gogh was found unconscious the next morning by a policeman and taken to hospital,[145][146] where Félix Rey, a young doctor still in training, treated him. The ear was delivered to the hospital, but Rey did not attempt to reattach it as too much time had passed.[140]\nVan Dyke had four children with his first wife, Margie. The pair lived separate lives for years, before officially divorcing in 1984. The actor became involved with Michelle Triola, an ex-girlfriend of Lee Marvin, in the late 1970s. Trioia had been working as Van Dyke's agent's secretary when they first met. Van Dyke stayed with Triola for nearly 30 years, until her death in 2009. In March 2012, the 86-year-old actor wed 40-year-old makeup artist Arlene Silver.\nAmong Van Dyke's high school classmates in Danville were Donald O'Connor and Bobby Short, both of whom would go on to successful careers as entertainers.[10] One of his closest friends was a cousin of Gene Hackman, the future actor, who also lived in Danville in those years.[10] Van Dyke's mother's family was very religious, and for a brief period in his youth, he considered a career in ministry, although a drama class in high school convinced him that his true calling was as a professional entertainer.[10] In his autobiography, he wrote, \"I suppose that I never completely gave up my childhood idea of being a minister. Only the medium and the message changed. I have still endeavored to touch people's souls, to raise their spirits and put smiles on their faces.\"[10] Even after the launch of his career as an entertainer, he taught Sunday school in the Presbyterian Church, where he was an elder, and he continued to read such theologians as Buber, Tillich, and Bonhoeffer, who helped explain in practical terms the relevance of religion in everyday life.[10]\nHe incorporated his children and grandchildren into his TV endeavors. Son Barry Van Dyke, grandsons Shane Van Dyke and Carey Van Dyke along with other Van Dyke grandchildren and relatives appeared in various episodes of the long-running series Diagnosis: Murder. Although Stacy Van Dyke was not well known in show business, she made an appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder Christmas episode \"Murder in the Family\" (season 4) as Carol Sloan Hilton, the estranged daughter of Dr. Mark Sloan.\nDanny (last name May, I'm pretty sure) and Sierra were a pleasure to work with. They had a completely non-pushy yet totally dedicated approach. Their timing was perfect - literally every time we had a question or wanted help, they appeared and LISTENED to our wants and dislikes and guided us like they really cared. They were upbeat and personable and miles ahead of the salespeople we met at other furniture stores in the area. We couldn't be happier with how we were treated.\nVan Gogh worked for Goupil in London from 1873 to May 1875 and in Paris from that date until April 1876. Daily contact with works of art aroused his artistic sensibility, and he soon formed a taste for Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and other Dutch masters, although his preference was for two contemporary French painters, Jean-François Millet and Camille Corot, whose influence was to last throughout his life. Van Gogh disliked art dealing. Moreover, his approach to life darkened when his love was rejected by a London girl in 1874. His burning desire for human affection thwarted, he became increasingly solitary. He worked as a language teacher and lay preacher in England and, in 1877, worked for a bookseller in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Impelled by a longing to serve humanity, he envisaged entering the ministry and took up theology; however, he abandoned this project in 1878 for short-term training as an evangelist in Brussels. A conflict with authority ensued when he disputed the orthodox doctrinal approach. Failing to get an appointment after three months, he left to do missionary work among the impoverished population of the Borinage, a coal-mining region in southwestern Belgium. There, in the winter of 1879–80, he experienced the first great spiritual crisis of his life. Living among the poor, he gave away all his worldly goods in an impassioned moment; he was thereupon dismissed by church authorities for a too-literal interpretation of Christian teaching.\nMany of the comedy films Van Dyke starred in throughout the 1960s were relatively unsuccessful at the box office, including What a Way to Go! with Shirley MacLaine, Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N., Fitzwilly, The Art of Love with James Garner and Elke Sommer, Some Kind of a Nut, Never a Dull Moment with Edward G. Robinson, and Divorce American Style with Debbie Reynolds and Jean Simmons. But he also starred as Caractacus Pott (with his native accent, at his own insistence, despite the English setting) in the successful musical version of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), which co-starred Sally Ann Howes and featured the same songwriters (The Sherman Brothers) and choreographers (Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood) as Mary Poppins.\nThe piece comes back and looks horrible. The fabric was torn and stapled back together unevenly. We called Art Van to complain and were promised to be contacted by the manager. In the meantime we moved and didn't get a chance to call manager back.  We called back and were told manager would contact us. Nothing. I finally called the manager, Kathy Smith, today and received the worst treatment I've ever experienced from a store. Right away she had a chip on her should and said because it's been 8 months since original purchase, we couldn't get a replacement and basically it wasn't her problem. I wasn't rude and didn't say anything to anger her but she acted like I was trying to steal from her. I explained that if we could not get the piece replaced (which is ridiculous by itself), could we get a decent discount on the purchase of two new pieces? We need to get the reverse pieces for the new house and were hoping after all the inconvenience, that they could work with us since the original piece looks terrible from being serviced.\nIn Paris in 1901 a large Van Gogh retrospective was held at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which excited André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, and contributed to the emergence of Fauvism.[269] Important group exhibitions took place with the Sonderbund artists in Cologne in 1912, the Armory Show, New York in 1913, and Berlin in 1914.[273] Henk Bremmer was instrumental in teaching and talking about Van Gogh,[274] and introduced Helene Kröller-Müller to Van Gogh's art; she became an avid collector of his work.[275] The early figures in German Expressionism such as Emil Nolde acknowledged a debt to Van Gogh's work.[276] Bremmer assisted Jacob Baart de la Faille, whose catalogue raisonné L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh appeared in 1928.[277][note 15]\nThough The Dick Van Dyke Show got off to a slow start, it eventually developed quite a following; Van Dyke won over audiences with his good humor and likeability, and won three Emmy Awards for his work on the series. Decades after the show went off the air, in 1966, it remained a popular program in syndication. Following the show's end in 1966, Van Dyke starred on several other TV series, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show, but none captured the public's heart the way his first sitcom did.\nIn 1944, Paul Van Doren dropped out of intermediate school in 8th Grade at age fourteen when he realized he didn’t like school. He had a strong passion for horses and found his way to the race track where he earned the nickname “Dutch the Clutch”, and for just one dollar he would give you the odds of the race.[3] Paul’s mother, Rena, did not enjoy the idea of Paul being without a job and not in school, so she insisted he get a job at Randy’s, a one-time shoe manufacturer in the US. His job entailed sweeping the floors and making shoes. Paul eventually worked his way up the ladder and became the executive vice president at just 34 years old. Randy’s became one of the biggest shoe manufacturers in the US From Van Doren’s quick success in Massachusetts, he was ordered to turn around a failing Randy’s factory in Garden Grove, California that was losing close to a million dollars each month. Paul and his brother Jim moved their families and settled in Anaheim to help the factory. After just eight months of being in Garden Grove, the factory was functioning better than the one in Massachusetts.[4] Three months after trying to have the Garden Grove factory, Paul decided he wanted to start his own shoe brand.\nAfter his recovery, and despite his antipathy towards academic teaching, he took the higher-level admission exams at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and in January 1886 matriculated in painting and drawing. He became ill and run down by overwork, poor diet and excessive smoking.[99] He started to attend drawing classes after plaster models at the Antwerp Academy on 18 January 1886. He quickly got into trouble with Charles Verlat, the director of the Academy and teacher of a painting class, because of his unconventional painting style. Van Gogh had also clashed with the instructor of the drawing class Franz Vinck. Van Gogh finally started to attend the drawing classes after antique plaster models given by Eugène Siberdt. Soon Siberdt and Van Gogh came into conflict when the latter did not comply with Siberdt's requirement that drawings express the contour and concentrate on the line. When Van Gogh was required to draw the Venus of Milo during a drawing class, he produced the limbless, naked torso of a Flemish peasant woman. Siberdt regarded this as defiance against his artistic guidance and made corrections to Van Gogh's drawing with his crayon so vigorously that he tore the paper. Van Gogh then flew into a violent rage and shouted at Siberdt: 'You clearly do not know what a young woman is like, God damn it! A woman must have hips, buttocks, a pelvis in which she can carry a baby!' According to some accounts this was the last time Van Gogh attended classes at the Academy and he left later for Paris.[100] On 31 March 1886, which was about a month after the confrontation with Siberdt, the teachers of the Academy decided that 17 students, including Van Gogh, had to repeat a year. The story that Van Gogh was expelled from the Academy by Siberdt is therefore unfounded.[101]\nVincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 into a Dutch Reformed family in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.[16] He was the oldest surviving child of Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Van Gogh was given the name of his grandfather, and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth.[note 2] Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family: his grandfather, Vincent (1789–1874), who received a degree in theology at the University of Leiden in 1811, had six sons, three of whom became art dealers. This Vincent may have been named after his own great-uncle, a sculptor (1729–1802).[18]\nI am extremely unhappy with the service I was provided. My wife and I just moved, and are on a tight budget. We were in need of a mattress due to having to leave the old one at our old place. After sleeping on an air mattress for a few months we decided it was time to bite the bullet and buy a real one. We went to art van and got a cheaper mattress (due to the tight budget) and told it was not in stock at their location but it was at their Dearborn location, and they would have it shuttled and we could pick it up in 1-2 business days. After they took our card information and charged us they informed us that the mattress wouldn't be ready until February, and we are now going to have to wait 3 weeks.\n\"People say, and I am willing to believe it, that it is hard to know yourself. But it is not easy to paint yourself, either. The portraits painted by Rembrandt are more than a view of nature, they are more like a revelation,” he later wrote to his brother. The works are now displayed in museums around the world, including in Washington, D.C., Paris, New York and Amsterdam.\nVan Dyke grew up in Danville, Illinois, with his parents Loren and Hazel and younger brother, Jerry, who also became an actor. \"Danville was a town of 30,000 people, and it felt as if most of them were relatives,\" Van Dyke later wrote in his autobiography, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. His father, Loren, was often away from the family, working as a traveling salesman for the Sunshine Cookie Company.\nThere are more than 600 letters from Vincent to Theo and around 40 from Theo to Vincent. There are 22 to his sister Wil, 58 to the painter Anthon van Rappard, 22 to Émile Bernard as well as individual letters to Paul Signac, Paul Gauguin and the critic Albert Aurier. Some are illustrated with sketches.[8] Many are undated, but art historians have been able to place most in chronological order. Problems in transcription and dating remain, mainly with those posted from Arles. While there Vincent wrote around 200 letters in Dutch, French and English.[14] There is a gap in the record when he lived in Paris as the brothers lived together and had no need to correspond.[15]\nAfter Van Gogh's death, memorial exhibitions were held in Brussels, Paris, The Hague and Antwerp. His work was shown in several high-profile exhibitions, including six works at Les XX; in 1891 there was a retrospective exhibition in Brussels.[265] In 1892 Octave Mirbeau wrote that Van Gogh's suicide was an \"infinitely sadder loss for art ... even though the populace has not crowded to a magnificent funeral, and poor Vincent van Gogh, whose demise means the extinction of a beautiful flame of genius, has gone to his death as obscure and neglected as he lived.\"[263]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line992257"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5750190019607544,"wiki_prob":0.4249809980392456,"text":"Category: Grayssen Chronicles\nWhere we Will, We’ll Roam\nFiled under: Grayssen Chronicles — Leave a comment\n“Any plans after we reach our destination?” Sen asked Vanni softly as he stood at the bow of the airship watching the scenery.\n“I’m not sure,” he replied, after a moment. “I figured… I thought that I’d explore. I’d like to… see the world.”\n“The world’s a big place,” Sen pointed out. “The road gets mighty lonely. Might you want some company?”\n“Maybe,” Vanni replied. He looked out over the bow of the airship and smiled. His father had always warned him about trusting strangers. The woman might have an ulterior motive for her offer; but she might just want company on the road.\n“Where are we going?” Oliver asked, joining them.\nVanni spun to face them and waved a hand toward the horizon. “That way,” he declared. “After that… who knows.”\nTags: Oliver, Sen, Vanni\nLonger Ways to Go\nVanni bounded up the gangplank of the airship with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. He carried a violin that he’d purchased with the money he’d earned at the little inn. On his back was a pack full of the provisions that he’d forgotten in his haste to leave home. He wore more serviceable clothes now, instead of the finery he’d worn when he reached the inn.\n“Vanni Galiano?” the steward said as he reached the deck. “You’re one of three musicians on the ship. I’ll take you to your room as soon as the others arrive. For now, feel free to explore but try not to get underfoot.”\n“Yes, sir,” Vanni said. He stepped over to the side, out of the way of a passing airman. Then he looked out over the bow of the ship. Before him lay the great wide blue of the sky. The world seemed to stretch out before him, beckoning him forward. He felt the freedom of the open road and chuckled, as he had to shake his hair out of his face.\n“Might want to cut that,” an androgynous voice said wryly from behind him.\nVanni spun to find a buxom woman of dark complexion standing behind him. He pushed his hair away again and nodded. “Might be a plan,” he agreed. “Vanni Galiano,” he added. “I play violin and piano and sing tenor.”\n“Sentina Cole. My friends call me Sen. I play harp and guitar and sing alto. Classically trained or self-taught?” she asked, not taking his hand.\n“Classically trained,” Vanni returned, tucking his hands behind his back. “And you?”\n“I have formal training,” she replied, offering her hand now. Vanni frowned but shook it as she added, “Sorry, a lot of folks set themselves out as bards when they really don’t have a claim to the title. Being able to pick out a few folksy songs, does not a bard make.”\nVanni grinned and looked away, sharply reminded of his music teacher. The maestro had thought only those educated in music should pursue it as a career. He’d only learned music to please his father and, later, because it was fun. It had never even occurred to him that he could find a career in music until the barkeeper had asked him about his skills. The juxtaposition of the two ideas was intriguing.\n“Are you saying that those who learned in a more traditional manner have no business being bards?” another voice said.\nVanni looked up to find a fair man who appeared a few years older than he was. “If so I fear I must disagree. After all, going back to our roots music was largely a structureless endeavor. It’s a more recent addition, actually.”\n“The only musicians I know are largely untrained and they’re… fun to listen to. They have a sound that’s all their own,” Vanni pointed out. “I suppose because they don’t know how music is ‘supposed’ to sound.” He turned his gaze toward the horizon. “Like when I first started, I figured that I should only play the few folksongs I knew. It wasn’t until later that I began using my more classical music with a less classical audience. I was pleasantly surprised when they liked it.”\n“Just because something is different doesn’t make it bad. It can make it all the more interesting. Variety adds spice to life,” the young man agreed. He held out a hand and said, “Oliver Montgomery, pleasure to meet you.”\n“Vanni Galiano.” He took the offered hand and smiled broadly. “Are you the third musician that they were waiting for?”\n“I am,” Oliver replied. “I play flute and harp. I sing baritone… trending toward the lower end of the register.”\nVanni nodded and added his own vital information. As Sen made her introductions and the ship set out, he gazed out at the horizon. He had a long way to go before he went home again but he thought he would enjoy the journey.\nTempting me Into the Garden\nPhilippe sat up and listened to the soft music that had woken him for a few moments before standing. He walked like someone who was in a trance. He wasn’t quite entranced by the music, but if he let it the song would lull his senses.\nHe followed the song to its source – the garden. It was dark and most of the flowers were closed for the night. There in the gazebo a beautiful red-haired woman stood. It was she who sang so sweetly. He could see that she wasn’t a vampire when she opened her mouth.\n“What are you doing here?” Philippe asked as the song drew to a close.\n“I came for you,” she replied. She held out her hands and without a second thought, Philippe took them.\n“What do you wish of me?” he asked. She set a hand on his eyes and he closed them. Then he sank to the soft earth.\n“You are a vampire who chooses not to feed on humans or even the blood of animals, yes?” she asked.\nHer voice was musical. When she spoke it was as if she sang. Philippe felt compelled to answer truthfully. “Yes,” he murmured.\n“Your brothers are not vampires, true?” she asked.\n“Yes,” he replied softly. “Patrice by virtue of the treatments he underwent as a child and Vanni by birth.”\n“Would you like to be as they are?” she asked. “Do you know what you would lose if you were human?”\n“My gifts over fire. My gift of flight. My strength. My thirst for blood,” he murmured. “But I would be able to be near them without worrying that I’d bite them in a moment of excitement.”\n“Is this a fair trade?” she asked.\n“Yes,” he replied. Then he felt suddenly cold. He couldn’t stop shivering. Then he could but not from warmth. It was as if all the heat was drawn from his body. Then the sensation stopped as suddenly as it had started. Philippe sat up and looked around in shock. He was alone in the garden.\nCurious, he set a finger to his teeth. They were all the same shape. He had no more fangs. He was as human as his brothers. He shivered again – but not from the cold.\nTags: Philippe\nI’ve Waited for You for a Long Time\nVanni frowned and looked all around him. It was dark. There was no moon and the streetlights were too far off to light the cemetery. He didn’t like it. He felt like anyone could sneak up on him.\nAs if the dark thoughts had summoned up trouble, Vanni was surprised by strong arms around his chest. Another hand covered his mouth. He was half-dragged, half-carried over to a ditch that the autumn rains had filled with water.\nSuddenly, he was pushed beneath the water. He struggled to get away; to hold his breath in. In the end, he could do neither. Air escaped in fat bubbles, quickly replaced by murky water. Vanni’s struggles eased as cold filled his chest.\nThen he relaxed. Suddenly he was warm. He sat up in shock and looked around frightfully. “Giovanni,” a familiar voice greeted. “It’s too early. You have to go back.”\n“What?” Vanni looked around and found that he was still sitting in the ditch. Not far off a man was running away as two other ran toward him. He recognized them immediately as his father and godfather. He looked for whoever had spoken and found a girl standing not far off.\n“Giovanni, you have to go back,” she said, pointing to where his father was kneeling on the ground over a lifeless form.\nSuddenly, Vanni recognized the girl. “Lissa?” he said. He stood and took her hands. “Lissa, it’s you,” he said. He leaned against her and smiled. “I’ve missed you.”\n“I’ve always been there but you need to go back. I’ve waited for you for a long time. I can wait a little longer. Your father needs you. Go. I’ll wait,” she promised.\nVanni nodded and suddenly a force caught him up and he was cold again. He was coughing, gagging and vomiting up the water that he’d swallowed and inhaled. Strong hands rubbed his back and soon he relaxed. “Dad?” he whispered hoarsely.\n“Thank Gaia,” the older man said. “Are you hurt, son?”\n“I think I’m alright,” Vanni replied. He rolled over so he could look at his father. “I saw Lissa. She said… she said she’d wait, that it wasn’t my time yet. She said you needed me.”\nSuddenly he was caugh in a bone-crushing embrace. “I do need you, son,” his father murmured. “I don’t say it often. I don’t say it near enough. I take you for granted but I can’t imagine what I would do if something happened to you.”\n“I love you too, Dad,” Vanni whispered.\nTags: Vanni\nThe Dead are Gentle to Us\nVanni looked out over the cemetary with its rows of stones. His brothers stood not far away. His father stood further back. “Well, we’re altogether,” he said softly. “Just like you wanted.”\n“We’re finally a family again,” Philippe added. He took each of his brother’s hands and smiled gently between them. They were a most unusual family. Vanni was a human mage. He was a vampire and Patrice was somewhere in between the two. Still, there was no doubt that they were related. All had their mother’s coloring.\n“The question now is: what will Cris do?” Patrice said.\n“He’s had no problem raising you all these years,” Vanni pointed out.\n“He gave me treatments to subdue my vampire side, Vanni. Those treatments won’t work for Philippe. He’s too old now.”\nThe youngest brother looked at their mother’s grave. “She wanted us to be raised as brothers. Father will respect that. He may be anxious about Philippe being a vampire, but he’ll honor her wishes. He will always love her.”\n“True,” Patrice agreed. He reached over and took Vanni’s hand and smiled. They’d be fine now. They were a family.\nTags: Patrice, Phillippe, Vanni","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line4319"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6605985760688782,"wiki_prob":0.3394014239311218,"text":"Georgia Lottery Raises Historic $1.2B for Education\nGovernor Brian P. Kemp is proud to announce that the Georgia Lottery has transferred its fiscal year (FY) 2019 profits - a total of $1,207,369,000 - to the State Treasury’s Lottery for Education Account, marking the largest annual transfer in the Georgia Lottery’s 26-year history. Now, the total funds raised for education amounts to more than $21 billion.\nPeter Carter: Airline Joint Ventures are Putting Atlanta Front and Center on the Global Stage\nFor Georgians, it has never been easier to travel internationally. Take for example, Delta’s non-stop flight between Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and Seoul, Korea. This flight was made possible by Delta’s joint venture partnership with Korean Air, which gives travelers convenient access and a seamless experience across the Pacific, with easy connections beyond Seoul to more than 80 additional destinations across Asia.\nYoung Gamechangers to Present Big Ideas to Monroe/Walton County on August 9th\nSince the beginning of the year 45 of Georgia’s brightest young professionals have been working on a project in Monroe/Walton County. They met with community leaders, toured businesses and schools, visited neighborhoods and parks, researched history, and re-imagined the area’s connectivity in their quest to come up with big ideas and innovative solutions to some of the area’s most persistent challenges.\nGeorgia Chamber Completes A Successful Regional Small Business Series\nThe Georgia Chamber of Commerce hosted a six-stop statewide tour throughout the early summer months. The Regional Small Business Series, also known as New Georgia Economy, offered half-day workshops to provide unique insight on the emerging business trends and risks, and the impact to small businesses, innovation and entrepreneurship that the state faces.\nMembers of Georgia Delegation Urge Timely, Effective Implementation of Disaster Relief Funds\nU.S. Senators David Perdue (R-GA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) wrote this week to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to encourage the Trump administration to work with the Georgia Department of Agriculture to ensure that farmers affected by Hurricane Michael receive needed aid as soon as possible. They applauded Secretary Perdue for his support of disaster aid legislation signed into law on June 6, 2019.\nGeorgia Power Investing Billions in Georgia’s Energy Future; Requests Funding for Grid Improvements, Storm Restoration, Environmental Programs\nGeorgia Power filed a request with the Georgia Public Service Commission to increase customer rates by approximately 7% in 2020 to enable the company to continue making investments in Georgia’s energy future.\nShan Cooper and Frank Blake Elected to Georgia Historical Society Board of Curators\nThe Georgia Historical Society announced that Shan Cooper and Frank Blake have been elected to serve as the newest members of the GHS Board of Curators.\nCurrent Signs of the Times in Corporate Responsibility: A Conversation with Coxe Curry's Ann W. Cramer\nThe goBeyondProfit team had the privilege to sit with Ann and hear her perspective on trends in Corporate Responsibility. Ann has identified several signs of the time based on the Five Corporate Social Responsibility Trends to Watch in 2019, that are published annually by her friend and colleague Tim McClimon, president of the American Express Foundation.\nAllen, Hice Help Secure Ft. Gordon Cyber Instructional Facility Funding\nThe budget process has been out of regular order for several years now. Under normal rules, Congress would pass 12 appropriations measures that form the annual budget. These 12 separate spending bills offer a lot of chances for disagreement and possible partisan wrangling. It is much easier to pass much, much larger bills that combine spending into a package – thus, the “omnibus budget.”\nThe Outlook for the U.S. Housing Market Hits its Highest Point in Three Years\nLast year's sales slowdown, combined with the decidedly mixed data through the first half of 2019, certainly suggested that housing had passed its peak in this cycle. But the latest Health of Housing Markets Report (HoHM Report) from Nationwide Economics sees more positive, sustainable trends for the housing sector for at least the next year.\nGeorgia's Largest Technology Showcase Scheduled for March 2020\nThe premier showcase event for Georgia's technology industry, The Summit, returns March 3rd & 4th, 2020 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta to shine a spotlight on the state's industry strengths and gather top leaders and innovative companies at the Technology Association of Georgia's (TAG) annual meeting.\nAT&T Invests Nearly $5.4B Over 3-Year Period to Boost Local Networks in Georgia\nAt AT&T, we’ve invested nearly $5.4 billion in our Georgia wireless and wired networks during 2016-2018. These investments boost reliability, coverage, speed and overall performance for residents and businesses.\nCongressman Tom Graves Introduces Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act\nCongressman Tom Graves (R-GA-14) is concerned about criminal hackers in cyberspace. The Republican Congressman from Ranger, GA teamed with Democrat Congressman Josh Gottheimer (N.J.-05), to introduce a bipartisan bill that gives American businesses and consumers more tools to defend themselves online.\nGMA Convention Guest Speakers Share Unique Roads to Success\nThe GMA 2019 Annual Convention themed: “Cities United: Lead to Succeed.” will take place this week at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center.\nGeorgia Awarded Gold Shovel for Jobs and Investment\nGovernor Brian P. Kemp announced Georgia was awarded a Gold Shovel by Area Development Magazine for generating the most jobs and investment in the United States for the eight to twelve million population category.\nGeorgia Small Business Leaders Profit from Speakers' Expertise/Experience at U.S. Chamber of Commerce Event\nThis past Wednesday nearly two hundred small business leaders from across Georgia had the opportunity to benefit from attending the U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Small Business Series” held in Atlanta: a notable list of fifteen, experienced peers and experts in the small business market segment shared practical advice, anecdotal narratives, and statistical information to help inspire owners, who might want to incorporate them in their business models and plans.\nGovernor Kemp Makes Historic Appointment for Insurance Commissioner\nGovernor Brian P. Kemp made history by appointing Doraville Police Chief and Brigadier General John King to serve as Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner and Safety Fire Commissioner. King is the first Hispanic Insurance Commissioner and statewide constitutional officer.\nFreight and Logistics Commission will Look at All Options\nDemocrat and Republican lawmakers in Georgia agree that logistics and moving freight across the state will be a key issue when they meet under the Gold Dome again in January 2020. To prepare for those discussions, a Joint Commission of the state House and Senate has been appointed to study and consider different options.\nMatt Arthur: Improve Horizons for Millions of Georgians Outside Metro Atlanta\nMetro Atlanta continues to be the hub of economic activity in Georgia and the Southeast, with no sign of slowing down any time soon. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Atlanta has had a 43% growth in jobs since 1991, more than 20 percentage points higher than the national average. It has the fourth fastest population growth in the nation—nearly six million people live in the metro region.\nSmall Business Hiring and Wage Growth Hold Steady in May\nThe Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch for May shows job and wage growth were essentially unchanged from the previous month. The national jobs index stands at 98.76 and has been relatively stable throughout 2019. Hourly earnings have increased 2.53 percent ($0.67) over the past 12 months, remaining slightly ahead of the 2018 average growth rate (2.49 percent).\nGeorgia Chamber Partners With U.S. Chamber To Host Small Business Series June 12th\nThe Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will be partnering to host the Small Business Series on June 12, 2019 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Mason Fine Art and Events in Atlanta.\nGeorgia Power Customers to See Credit on June Bills\nThe second of three credits associated with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 will be applied directly to Georgia Power customers’ bills in June. These credits are a result of the reduction in Georgia Power’s federal corporate tax rate from 35% down to 21%.\nCongress Passes Disaster Relief Bill\nHelp is on the way. Nearly nine months after farmers in South Georgia were devastated by Hurricane Michael, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill Monday, sending the measure to President Donald Trump. The legislation was approved 354-58 by Congress.\n10 Most Expensive Places to Retire in the U.S.\nRetirement might be a financial struggle for many retirees, but there is a segment for whom money is not a problem. To help those who like to dream big, Topretirements.com has developed a list of the 10 most luxurious places to retire. Communities where the hardest task is to choose whether it will be the beach club, marina, golf course, or take the plane out for a flight.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1164125"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9387209415435791,"wiki_prob":0.9387209415435791,"text":"Trump Campaign Advisor Details Sept. 2016 Meeting With FBI’s ‘Informant’\nCharlie Neibergall/AP\nThe top Trump campaign official who assembled members of the foreign policy team that became the subject of the FBI’s probe into Russian election meddling went on an Iowa radio show Monday to detail his recollections of meeting with an informant reportedly working for the feds.\nSam Clovis told the Simon Conway Show that he and the informant — an American academic based in Britain — met at a DoubleTree hotel in Virginia just outside of Washington on September 1, 2016. The two sat for coffee and had a “high level” academic discussion about China, Clovis said.\n“It was like two faculty members sitting down in the faculty lounge talking about research,” Clovis, who served as the campaign’s national co-chairman, said. “There was no indication or no inclination that this was anything more than just wanting to offer up his help to the campaign if I needed it.”\nClovis’ name popped up in a story last week about the informant in the Washington Post, which also identified the informant by name Monday evening.\nPresident Trump met Monday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who’s overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, as well as FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about turning over information about the informant to Congress.\nClovis, on the radio show, alleged that the informant meeting appeared to be “a deliberative and intentional effort on the part of the leadership of the FBI to create something that didn’t exist.”\nThe FBI, he claimed, was trying to “literally like plant evidence or to create an audit trail that would lead investigators on to something, then they would have justification to go back to their FISA warrants and all the other things.”\nHe said that the informant, in an email back and forth setting up the meeting, used his previous contact with Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page as “bonafides” to get in front of Clovis. Page had met the informant at a July 2016 conference, and was in touch with him on multiple occasions.\nClovis’ lawyer, Victoria Toensing, previously said, according to the Washington Post that the informant had not mentioned his other Trump contacts when reaching out to Clovis. Clovis said he wasn’t sure “where she got that information,” since she had access to the emails setting up the September 2016 meeting.\nToensing, in an phone interview Tuesday with TPM, backed up Clovis’ account. She told TPM that the informant had said in an email to Clovis that Page had recommended that they meet. She also claimed that the informant had told Page when they met at the conference that he was a big fan of Clovis’. Page confirmed Toensing’s account in an email to TPM.\nClovis suggested that the informant then used their meeting to get a meeting with George Papadopoulos.\nThe informant would eventually meet with Papadopoulos in mid-September, according to the New York Times, where he would ask Papadopoulos what he knew about Russia’s efforts to influence the election. (Papadopoulos denied having any insight, according to the Times.)\nClovis said Monday that his meeting with the informant was focused solely on the informant’s China research. Clovis claimed he didn’t think anything of the meeting, as the campaign already a had a “host” of people with China expertise, and that he didn’t even bother to open the attachments that the informant later emailed him on Sept. 27 with more of his research.\n“I took a meeting like this probably once a day — I had somebody like this who would sit down with me,” Clovis said. “Literally dozens of people that had academic credentials that wanted to help and be involved, and I met with them all the time.”\nUpdate: This story has been updated to include Carter Page’s confirmation that the informant told him he was a big fan of Sam Clovis’.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1306874"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6599138975143433,"wiki_prob":0.34008610248565674,"text":"Belarus, UNECE discuss preparation of second Innovation Performance Review\nMINSK, 14 March (BelTA) – The State Committee on Science and Technology (SCST) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe discussed the preparation of the second Innovation Performance Review of Belarus, BelTA learned from the SCST press service.\n“Chairman of Belarus’ State Committee on Science and Technology Alexander Shumilin and international experts of the UN Economic Commission for Europe discussed the issues related to the preparation of the next Innovation Performance Review of Belarus (Innovations for Sustainable Development – the review of Belarus),” the State Committee on Science and Technology said.\nThe first project was implemented by the UNECE jointly with the State Committee on Science and Technology in 2010-2011. It was the result of joint work of leading foreign experts and specialists who gave an independent assessment of the status and trends of development of innovation activity in the country.\nThe second review of innovation development is needed to see the progress made since the first project in the light of the changed external conditions. In the second review the experts will pay close attention to the establishment of knowledge and innovation support institutes, innovations in the manufacturing and public sectors, innovative infrastructure, including the development of industrial parks and business incubators.\nThe visit of a delegation of the UNECE experts will be over on 18 March 2016. They are expected to hold a series of meetings in the ministries and departments, and visit a range of enterprises.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line885223"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7379424571990967,"wiki_prob":0.2620575428009033,"text":"This program was offered in the past. This program might be offered again, but to be certain contact the organizing institution of this program. For current programs view all programs, or see the current offer by University of Groningen.\nSearch for New Physics with Low-Energy Precision Tests\nThe unexplained nature of dark matter and energy and the relative abundance of matter and antimatter are just two out of many reasons to expect physics beyond the Standard Model. In an attempt to resolve these issues, a variety of theoretical extensions to the Standard Model were developed. These extensions also predict new phenomena, such as the variation of fundamental constants and symmetry violation beyond allowed by the Standard Model. Sophisticated experiments are needed to detect these phenomena and thereby explore the physics beyond the Standard Model.\nLow-energy precision tests are a very promising alternative to high energy accelerator research in this field. Using a combination of precision table-top experiments, electronic structure calculations and particle-physics theory, the understanding of the foundations of our universe can be tested at energies that effectively surpass those available at the largest particle accelerators. The search for new physics beyond the Standard Model using small-scale experiments is the topic of this summer school.\nLeading experts will provide an overview of both experimental and theoretical aspects of this exciting field of research. Topics will include the status of the Standard Model and its extensions, parity violation, search for the electron electric dipole moment and for variation of the fundamental constants, methods to manipulate and control atoms, ions and molecules, and theoretical approaches. By bringing together enthusiastic scientists and students from different disciplines connected to the search for physics beyond the Standard Model, we hope to foster the development of this field and to encourage future collaborations.\nView all upcoming programs of University of Groningen\nMaster / Graduate\nhousing included\nnew-physics-summerschool@rug.nl\nAll programs of University of Groningen","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line733655"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5636779069900513,"wiki_prob":0.43632209300994873,"text":"What Would The World Be Like If Video Games Didn’t Exist? Boring!\nby Dana · 4 Comments\nHave you ever wondered what would the world be like if video games didn’t exist? For some, a scary thought, for others a matter of indifference. I know it’s a bit silly to wonder about it when video games do exist and we should not dwell on what ifs but I thought that it’d be fun to look into it in one of my posts.\nIn short, there’s no way of knowing. But if video games didn’t exist, there would be other media to consume. However, the world would lose a great art form and many long-lasting friendships would not exist. Let’s look into how video games have changed the world and what it would be like without them.\nWhether you are a fan of video games or not, you have to admit that video games created a whole new culture on top of already established entertainment such as TV, movies and theatre. That brings me straight to point one.\nEntertainment substitutes\nIf video games didn’t exist, people would still stick with what they know: TV, board games, movies, theatre, music, fashion and with the vastness of the internet, social media and entertainment portals like Youtube.\nSome people would pick out a new hobby (sports, musical instruments, crafts, writing, drawing), some would pick up more books as a result. Some people believe that children would be playing outside a lot more but I think that’s debatable. With social media and TV, they could still sit for hours on end, substituting video games for TV shows and youtube videos.\nVideo games as an art\nThose who say that video games aren’t a form of art may have never touched a video game. Like books, movies, comics or TV, video games tell an engaging story with beautiful visuals. Not only that but they make the player a part of the story, allowing them to make decisions that can change the course of the game. Video games can provoke joy, sadness, grief, anger and everything in between, much like other media do. They make you think of your actions and their consequences, make you ask questions and maybe even see the world in a new light.\nNot only that, but video games have inspired many artists to draw or write about their favorite characters, creating derivative works and expanding on the franchise. Just look at the stunning illustration of Ellie from The Last of Us!\nA lot of hardware manufacturers would not be spending billions of dollars on making their products better and better. Graphic cards, while for everyone, are specifically marketed to gamers for great performance and best graphics. This is not limited only to graphic cards but also processors, headphones, gaming keyboards and mice. Technology advancement in this field develops very quickly.\nPlaying video games no longer carry (or should not carry!) the stigma of making people asocial. Nowadays video games can be an activity for the whole family or a group of friends. Not only that, thanks to online multiplayer games, we meet new people, socialize and bond over common interests, creating new friendships.\nMany of these friendships are formed over long distances and in a world where video games wouldn’t exist, we most likely would never meet the same people. The fact that these friendships have been forged online makes them no less valuable or less “real”. I’m very thankful for video games; because of them I’ve met some of my closest friends and also my best friend. In fact, my friend wanted to make a post about his experience meeting friends online, which you can find here.\nOf course there are people who prefer their own company to other people on most days and that’s okay. Being introverted isn’t necessarily a bad thing. And chances are if you’re introverted and love to play video games, you’d be introverted even if they didn’t exist.\nSome people may find the thought that video games can help people ridiculous. There are many ways in which they can:\nCareer choices – some people may find inspiration for their career paths in their favorite fictional characters or even become a video game developer or writer. Sure, such characters also exist in movies, TV and books.\nQuestionable choices – Video games can often help people from making poor life choices (turning to alcohol, drugs to escape)\nAmbition – Video games provide a lot of rewards and achievements, which can motivate people in their careers to strive higher.\nInterest in various subjects – many video games have dealt with history and mythology and as such they made more people interested in these topics better than a school would.\nBattling mental illness – Agoraphobia and anxiety disorder can be very limiting to a person to the point of isolation. With the mobile game Pokémon: GO, people with these disorders report that for the first time in a long time, they look forward to going out among others. Such idea before this may have seemed unfathomable.\nEscape from real life – If a person is going through a tough time, battling depression or even abuse, playing video games can provide an escape, forgetting their problems for a while. I’ve read this touching (and horrifying) story of Scott, whose life was saved by video games by escaping abuse.\nMove more/work out – When you picture a gamer, you just imagine a person sitting down for hours on end. While that may be true for some people, there are also games that promote working out, using motion controllers or Kinect sensors to interact. Such games can be dancing games (Zumba, Dance Dance Revolution) to fitness games on Nintendo Wii.\nCharity – A number of gamers who support various charities are on the rise. Large influencers use their reach to raise money for charity. Youtubers like Markiplier, Pewdiepie, Jacksepticeye, and others have raised millions of dollars for various charities and continue to do so to this day just by live streaming themselves playing a video game. There are charities helping people play video games or making custom controllers for people with limited mobility (for example AbleGamers, Child’s Play). My friend Ian has done 5 or six 24-hour charity live streams, raising a lot of money in the process.\nVideo games made into broader entertainment\nAs I mentioned above, video games are an art form of their own. Video games have been taken and adapted for big screens, into novels and comics.\nNotable examples of movies based on video games:\nSome may argue that these movies were really bad. While that may be true, at least there was a lesson learned from them.\nVideo games are important\nWhatever your stance on video games or gamers in general, the truth is that video games have become a large and integral part of our modern culture. So what would the world be like if video games didn’t exist?\nI dare to say it’d be very different. Characters and stories that we love and play time and time again would not exist and some people would have never met in real life and become friends or even significant others.\nWhat do you think would happen if video games didn’t exist? I’d love to hear your opinion, so make sure to comment down below!\nController photo © by Mack Male @ Flickr\nInternet Friends\nTissues Needed! The Saddest Moments in Video Games\nWhat Are AAA Games? A Guide To Unofficial Terminology\nshannon fowler\nI know my fiancé uses them to destress. He is a plaintive care doctor, and his work is emotionally demanding. Without them he doesn’t bounce back after a really hard day as easy\nYes, that is very true, they’re very good at destressing. Until you can’t move past a certain point in a game and you get stressed even more. 😀 But even then I wouldn’t change it for the world. Thank you for your comment, Shannon! 🙂\nHeather way\nBefore video games, I was obsessed with Monopoly board game and wanted to be the world champ\nEmily Conway\nI have such fun and fond memories with my brother playing video games (particularly Rock Band and the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion) in Elder Scrolls, we would be cracking up as we chased a deer in the woods and punched it to death. If that didn’t exist, I am not sure we would have too much common ground. TV is fine, but it is not interactive and you aren’t working together. There is an element missing from it.\nYour Gamer Name:","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line323181"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7346234321594238,"wiki_prob":0.26537656784057617,"text":"Lark Park at (916) 651-4011\nHANDS-FREE CELL PHONE BILL TO BE HEARD ON ASSEMBLY FLOOR\nSACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) announced he will present Assembly Bill 45, which requires cell phone users to use hands-free technology while driving, on the Assembly floor tomorrow, Thursday, May 29, 2003.\nAB 45 passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee last Wednesday on a vote of 19 to 6. Earlier this year, the bill passed out of the Assembly Transportation Committee on a vote of 14 to 5, with 1 abstention.\nSimitian is gaining momentum in his effort to make California the second State in the nation to have a hands-free cell phone law on the books. (New York passed a similar law in 2001.) More than 20 state legislators are co-authoring AB 45. The bill also has significant support from law enforcement, Global 500 businesses, and healthcare providers. If AB 45 passes out of the full Assembly on Thursday, it will go to the Senate Transportation Committee next.\nRelated Pages: Public Safety, Press Releases, 2003-2004 Legislation, AB 45: Hands-Free Cell Phones","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1243361"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8825103640556335,"wiki_prob":0.8825103640556335,"text":"Who Is Destroying the Palestinian Dream?\nhttps://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6214/palestinian-dream\nHamas's totalitarian rule over the Gaza Strip seems to be nearing its end, as the Islamist movement faces increased challenges from various militias in the area. Many Palestinians are worried that Gaza will fall into the hands of Islamic State or Al-Qaeda.\n\"By Allah's will, we will uproot the state of the Jews and you [Hamas] and others will vanish as the Gaza Strip will be ruled by sharia, whether you like it or not.\" — Spokesman for the Islamic State.\nIn public, Hamas leaders do not admit that their movement is being challenged by Islamic State and Al-Qaeda supporters in Gaza. It is more convenient for them to blame \"Israeli occupation\" for the violence, on the pretext that only Israel is interested in removing Hamas from power. This claim, however, has proven to be untrue.\nIt is time for the international community to realize that the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves.\nThe Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, which Palestinians hope will one day become part of a future Palestinian state, is quickly sliding toward anarchy and chaos.\nSince its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has maintained a tight grip on the area, home to some 1.7 million Palestinians. But now Hamas's totalitarian rule over the Gaza Strip seems to be nearing its end, as the Islamist movement faces increased challenges from various militias and groups in the area.\nSome of Hamas's rivals belong to more radical terror groups such as the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda-affiliated militias created by salafi-jihadis inside the Gaza Strip. Others belong to the secular Fatah faction, whose members continue to dream of the day when they will be able to topple the Hamas regime and regain control over the Gaza Strip.\nThe radical Islamist terror groups are seeking to overthrow Hamas because they believe that the movement is too \"soft\" when it comes to implementing sharia laws and fighting against Israel. The goal of these groups is to establish an Islamic caliphate in the Gaza Strip and wipe Israel off the face of the earth.\nIn a recent video posted on the Internet, the Islamic State announced that its men would soon reach the Gaza Strip and remove the Hamas \"tyrants\" from power. \"By Allah's will, we will uproot the state of the Jews and you [Hamas] and others will vanish as the Gaza Strip will be ruled by sharia whether you like it or not,\" warned a masked spokesman for the Islamic State.\nPalestinian sources in the Gaza Strip say that the Islamic State has managed over the past few months to recruit hundreds of young men to its ranks. According to the sources, most of the men who joined the Islamic State are former members of the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, in addition to a number of disgruntled Fatah militiamen who are unhappy with the policies of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and the leader of its Fatah movement, Mahmoud Abbas -- especially his declared opposition to terror attacks against Israel.\nPalestinians waving Islamic State flags attempt to storm the French Cultural Center in Gaza City, in January 2015. (Image source: ehna tv YouTube screenshot)\nLate last year, a salafi-jihadi militia in the Gaza Strip pledged allegiance to Islamic State, posing yet another major challenge to Hamas.\nUntil recently, Hamas leaders used to boast about their movement's success in restoring law and order after years of anarchy and lawlessness under the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip. But the \"utopia\" that Hamas claims to have created is facing an existential threat, as the Gaza Strip witnesses a sharp increase in internal violence. Some Palestinians are even beginning to wonder whether Hamas has already lost control over the entire Gaza Strip.\nThe violence reached its peak last week when a series of simultaneous explosions rocked the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. The explosions targeted the cars of six senior commanders of the armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. No casualties were reported.\nThe latest bombings are considered a severe blow to Hamas, particularly in light of the fact that they occurred in an area heavily guarded by its security forces.\nSome reports suggested that the Islamic State was behind the attacks, which came as a shock to Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders in the Gaza Strip.\nA number of Hamas officials said they did not rule out the possibility that Fatah members were behind the explosions. The officials claim that Fatah has an interest in showing the world that Hamas is not in control of the situation in the Gaza Strip. In the past, Hamas accused Fatah of being behind another wave of bombings that also targeted its men in the Gaza Strip.\nIn public, however, Hamas leaders do not like to admit that their movement is also being challenged by supporters of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda inside the Gaza Strip. For these leaders, it is more convenient to blame \"Israeli occupation\" for the violence, on the pretext that Israel is the only party interested in removing Hamas from power.\nThis claim, however, has proven to be untrue in wake of public threats by various Palestinian groups against Hamas. The attempt to lay the blame at Israel's door reflects the growing anxiety of the Hamas leadership, which has stubbornly and consistently denied the existence of Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists inside the Gaza Strip.\nHere is what Ismail al-Ashqar, a top Hamas official, had to say about the latest bombings: \"Gaza shall remain secure and calm and stable, and there will be no return to the previous state of anarchy as the occupation and its collaborators wish. The Israeli occupation is fully responsible for the explosions.\"\nAshqar acknowledged that relations between his movement and Fatah were \"very bad and tense,\" especially in the aftermath of the Palestinian Authority's recent crackdown on Hamas men in the West Bank. In recent weeks, according to Palestinian sources, PA security forces in the West Bank have arrested more than 250 Hamas men, on suspicion that they were plotting to undermine President Mahmoud Abbas's regime.\nThe confrontation between Hamas and its rivals inside the Gaza Strip is likely to escalate in the coming weeks and months. Hamas now has so many enemies inside the Gaza Strip that to combat them, it would have to step up its repressive measures. These measures, however, will only lead to more retaliatory attacks by anti-Hamas forces, and plunge the Gaza Strip into a state of increased anarchy and chaos. Many Palestinians are worried that the Gaza Strip will sooner or later fall into the hands of Islamic State or Al-Qaeda.\nIn the West Bank, meanwhile, such a threat does not exist, largely thanks to Israeli security measures against terror infrastructure and cells. The Palestinian Authority, for its part, is also waging a massive campaign against Hamas and other Islamist groups in the West Bank. The PA is not doing this out of concern for the \"peace process\" with Israel; Mahmoud Abbas and his lieutenants know that these Islamists will kill them first on their way to killing Jews.\nThe growing state of anarchy in the Gaza Strip, as well as the continued power struggle between Hamas and Fatah, do not bode well for those who still believe that the creation of a Palestinian state will bring about peace and stability in the region. The way things are going these days, particularly in the Gaza Strip, it seems that a future Palestinian state will be added to the list of Arab countries that are currently witnessing civil wars and bloodbaths.\nIt is time for the international community to wake up and realize that the Palestinian dream of establishing an independent state is being destroyed by none other than the Palestinians themselves.\nFollow Khaled Abu Toameh on Twitter\nRelated Topics: Palestinian Authority\nRecent Articles by Khaled Abu Toameh\nThe Hamas March to Destroy Israel, 2019-07-15\nWhy Palestinians Do Not Trust Their Leaders, 2019-07-11\nPalestinians: \"Hamas Is Not Afraid of Elections\", 2019-07-01\nPalestinians and the Bahrain Conference: Condemning Arabs While Asking for Arab Money, 2019-06-24\nThe Palestinian Leaders' War on Preventing Corruption, 2019-06-17\nDavid M • Aug 3, 2015 at 13:08\nToameh's analysis,as usual, identifies a simmering pot that is not likely to remain quiet for long. Gaza remains an armed camp with Fatah looking for revenge against Hamas' violent takeover just a few years back. The Hamas thugs had fun shooting Fatah knee caps and throwing Fatah loyalists off roofs!\nNow new threats from the likes of ISIL are likely to become reality. Will an unstable Gaza provoke an Israeli response? And what kind of response will it be? Given the nature of ISIL it is hard to see anything but more fighting and blood on Gaza's sand.\nFred Z • Aug 3, 2015 at 11:40\nI see the lads are still missing no opportunities to miss opportunities.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1214481"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6733981966972351,"wiki_prob":0.3266018033027649,"text":"Sarah recently emailed us:\nWhat’s the difference between Irish and Gaelic?? 🙂\nGood question! It’s important to clear up what we means. Here, we’re always referring to the Celtic language of Ireland.\nWhat does Irish mean?\nIn Ireland, people generally refer to the language of Ireland simply as “Irish”. For example, you can ask someone on the street “Do you speak Irish?”, they might answer “Yes, I speak Irish”.\nAs well as calling it Irish, you could be a bit more specific and call it the Irish language.\nWhat does Gaelic mean?\nGaelic is a bit more ambiguous. A lot of the time, it’s used to refer to the related Celtic language spoken in parts of Scotland.\nPeople in Ireland when talking with tourists about the language may also refer to Irish as Gaelic. They would do this to try to make the term less ambiguous. Still, if you simply say “Gaelic”, it’s not absolutely clear if you’re referring to the Irish of Scottish Gaelic.\nIn another post, we went into the differences between Irish and Gaelic.\nWhat does Irish Gaelic mean?\nIrish Gaelic is more specific than Gaelic. It refers specifically to the Irish language.\nThis term is not used within Ireland, but it’s a good compromise if you’re speaking with people who might not know that “Irish” is a language.\nWhat does Gaeilge mean?\nGaeilge is the name for Irish in the Irish language. Béarla is the name for the English language in the Irish language.\nGaeilge is the word where the English language word “Gaelic” is derived from.\nIf you’re speaking with a group of people who are all aware of the Irish language, then you can probably just call it Irish. Also, call it Irish if you’re speaking with an Irish person in Ireland.\nIf you’re outside of Ireland, it’s safe enough to refer to the language as Irish Gaelic. If you you “Gaelic” when referring to the Irish language, this might lead to misunderstandings.\nWatch Related Video\nYou should also enjoy our 10-minute video on Irish vs Gaelic.\nIrish: The Language that Refused to Die\nMake the Irish Language Part of Your Daily Life\nLearn Some Irish Christmas Carols!\n4 thoughts on “Back to basics: What’s Gaelic? What’s Irish?”\nso what if you call it gaelige would this be the most pure form of the word and how is it pronounced?\nGaeilge is just irish in irish like detusch is german in german and Gaeilge pronounced is the Gwale-Ga\nok so i am getting a heritage tatto and im an 8th irish and i want it to say irish in the irish language would i want to put na hÉireann or would i want to put Gaeilge\nSorry Gabriel, we don’t offer translations. But thanks for getting in touch. I suggest asking over at http://www.irishlanguageforum.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1657327"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5951126217842102,"wiki_prob":0.5951126217842102,"text":"Master Class: Jookin with Lil Buck & Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles\nLeader of the dance style known as Jookin, which originated in Memphis, TN, Lil Buck gained mass acclaim for his YouTube collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma in The Swan directed by Damian Woetzel. Lil Buck appeared with Madonna in her 2012 Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show and now performs with Madonna regularly. He has made guest appearances on The Colbert Report, and in 2017 was featured in two nationally-televised commercials, one for Lexus (during Super Bowl LI) and the acclaimed Apple AirPods spot, which has since received millions of views on YouTube.\nBessie-Award winner, Ron “Prime Tyme” Myles was born in Memphis, TN and specializes in Jookin, a type of freestyle dance developed on the streets of Memphis. Ron has appeared in the feature films Footloose (2011), Frank and Cindy (2014) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip (2015). Ron has also starred in several commercials including Beats by Dre, Diet Pepsi (with Sofia Vergara), Kohl’s and Adidas Originals.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line92853"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8368321657180786,"wiki_prob":0.8368321657180786,"text":"Clay in Context at Hope High School\nInstalling the murals at Providence’s Hope High School\nNext week when students return to Hope High School on the East Side of Providence, they’ll walk through an entrance hall that is anything but the ho-hum back-to-school norm. On glazed tile mosaics that cover four square columns in the main lobby, they will see gleaming fish scale patterns, Inca god designs and even an Art-Deco-inspired abstract staircase.\nInstalled in late May, the bold, imaginative Hope High murals represent the culmination of a unique spring semester collaboration between RISD’s Ceramics department, the department of Teaching + Learning in Art + Design (TLAD) and TLAD’s signature after-school studio program for local high school teens, Project Open Door. The project brought six Ceramics majors from RISD and six teens from Hope High School together for a highly complex, physically demanding, multi-phase collaboration—mixing, measuring, firing, sanding and testing colors for hundreds of intricately laid tiles.\n“Everyone rose to the occasion for this project, and in some cases did that in a very emotional way,” says Associate Professor Katy Schimert, who heads the Ceramics department. “The process was incredibly important—coming up with the concept, following through with drawings, colors, the firing of the clay, the installation. But the permanence of the end result is important, too. These students can come back years from now and look at their work, because it will still be there for the community to enjoy.”\nThe mural collaboration began simply enough—when a well-established Ceramics course, Clay in Context, prompted a brand new question in Schimert, who had just arrived at RISD.\n“It was kind of a traditional class where the students went out and did some kind of project. One thing they did for years was make dishes for restaurants,” says Schimert, who taught the course last spring. “But I don’t live in Providence, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to do at all in terms of a project we could do in a public space.”\nSchimert turned to her faculty mentor, longtime TLAD Department Head Paul Sproll, who suggested a project that combined Schimert’s goals for the course with RISD’s commitment to community engagement. “Basically he said, ‘This is great! There’s this high school, and they have a lobby that could really use something like that,’” Schimert says. “And that was it. We had the project and started working with six teens from Hope High School.”\nAs the course began to take shape, the collaboration grew to involve more and more stakeholders at Hope High School, from the art faculty to its custodial staff and its principal, Robert DiMuccio, whose support was instrumental.\n“I was totally blown away by how invested the Hope students got in the whole project,” says Ian Buchbiner 11 CR/MAT 12, a former student teacher at Hope who served as a liaison for the project. “It’s very difficult to get any high school student to sit down for three hours after school just ended, and these kids were so eager to do things like paint tiles or clean up seam lines. They had that sense of ownership, because it’s their school. And now it’s a huge point of pride knowing that Hope students were involved in that.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line596068"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8774638772010803,"wiki_prob":0.8774638772010803,"text":"SMU Law Review\nSMU Scholar\nHome > Dedman School of Law > Law Journals > SMU Law Review > Vol. 3 (1949) > Survey of Texas Law for the Year 1948\nMarvin L. Skelton\nMarvin L. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5450701713562012,"wiki_prob":0.45492982864379883,"text":"Jim Dauby is President and CEO of Perry-Spencer Rural Telephone Cooperative, d/b/a PSC, in Saint Meinrad, IN. Jim was hired as Controller in 1993 and was subsequently named Assistant General Manager in 1997. In 2001, he assumed the duties as the company’s chief executive. Before his career in telecommunications, Jim served as CFO of Ramsey Financial, Inc. and as a CPA for Coopers & Lybrand.\nJim has dedicated much of his 25 year career in helping lead and shape industry change for the benefit of rural telecommunications providers. He has been very active on numerous boards and committees on national, state, and local levels. For nine years, Jim served on the Board of Directors for the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) and served previously as its Board Chairman. In Indiana, Jim serves on the Indiana Broadband and Technology Association (IBTA) and is past Board Chair. Jim serves on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Exchange Carrier Association (INECA), having previously served as its President. He is also currently Board President of the Indiana Video Network, LLC (IVN), and is Vice Chairman of the Intelligent Fiber Network’s (IFN) Management Committee. Locally, Jim is President of the Board of Cooperatives ONE, LLC, a partnership between PSC, Southern Indiana Power and Dubois Rural Electric Coop.\nJim graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Business from Indiana University and is a Certified Public Accountant. Jim enjoys writing on industry issues and has made numerous presentations on behalf of the industry.\nBeck’s Hybrids\nCommunity Health Network\nWabash Valley Power Alliance\nState of Indiana\nMarshall County REMC & RTC Communications\nBerry-IT\nOutside Plant (OSP) Project Manager\nNetwork Engineer III","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line980639"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8113253712654114,"wiki_prob":0.8113253712654114,"text":"PEW Survey Results\nBy Khalid khokar\nTerrorism an American concept, says Fazl\nUK-based terrorists biggest threat to US: CIA\nTerrorism never defined\nBy Asif Haroon Raja\nUnited States and England, Safe-Havens for the Terrorists?\nBy Adnan Gill\nRelated Speakout\nMusharraf rules out military solution of terrorism\nPakistan's stability synonymous with world security: President Zardari\nPakistan will fight terrorism with iron fist, says Gilani\nU.S. Deputy Secretary of State to visit Pakistan next week\nUS should not underestimate strength of Muslims: Afgan\nRelated News Poll\nDo you think recent suicide blasts are a reaction against Lal Masjid operation?\nPEW Research Center (a US nonpartisan \"fact tank\" that provides information on the trends shaping the world) has conducted a survey of International attitudes on terrorism and has released its new findings. From the perspective of global war on terrorism, the report revealed that the support for suicide bombing and Osama bin Laden has been dramatically reduced since 2002 in Muslim countries allied with the United States. In Indonesia, Turkey and Morocco, 15 percent or less of the population back suicide bombers, and in Lebanon, the number has almost halved, to 39 percent of those polled. Meanwhile, confidence in Osama bin Laden has also plunged in Indonesia, Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon, the support for democracy is rising throughout the Islamic world, Pew found. But, startlingly, the survey showed increase in the popularity in Pakistan; - of the man who masterminded the mass murders of Sept. 11. \"Pakistan has seen increases in its population's already substantial backing for Osama (more than 50 percent support him, meaning about 75 million people\". The Pew quoted.\nThe report smacks of biasness and lacks objectivity in measuring the valid and reliable attitudes of the people of Pakistan. Pakistan is emerging as a tolerant and moderate Muslim state. Majority of Pakistanis are moderate and appreciate the thesis of enlightened moderation propounded by President Gen Pervez Musharraf. However, very few are extremists sitting on the fringe of the bordering area. So, therefore, it is misconstrued by western media that the imprint of every major act of terrorism invariably passes through Pakistan. Pakistan consistently denies giving the militants any type of moral, diplomatic and political support. Pakistan condemns terrorism in its all forms and manifestations. Already, Pakistan has handed over as many as 700 al Qaeda operatives into US custody including some high value targets in the al Qaeda leadership such as Khaled Sheikh Mohammad, Abu Zubaydah, and recently Abu Faraj al-Libbi. About 70,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed on the bordering areas along side Afghanistan to contain Al-Qaeda element on the Western front. Pakistan Army coupled with the security forces had fought vigorously against foreign terrorists, who had taken shelter in the Waziristan area of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), losing nearly 230 officers and men. Most recently, Pakistan security forces have rounded up about 600 suspected militants and Islamic clerics in a week-long crackdown that followed the July 7 London attacks. Of those arrested, 295 belonged to militant groups banned by President Pervez Musharraf in the past three years. The remaining 300 detainees included clerics, mosque prayer leaders and others taken into custody for inciting anti-Western and sectarian hatred through sermons and provocative literature.\nPresident General Pervez Musharraf's resolve to confront terrorism and extremism, is not adequately picked up by the western media especially survey organizations, rather they are dependent on the information of few NGOs already biased to the governmental efforts. The President has outlined a number of steps he intends to take, like setting of a December deadline for the registration of madrassas. Registration and careful monitoring may lead to some controls on funding and links with militant organizations. One thing that sparks controversy over Pakistan's selfless effort to curb terrorism is the dichotomous statements between the government and the ruling party. The President criticizes madrassas, the minister for religious affairs and the PML chief give them a clean chit. This indicates a sense of confusion at the highest levels. Some of it may be due to a difference of opinion between those who favour appeasement of religious parties as a way to neutralize them and those who want stronger action. It only gives wrong signals to the western societies - who often expect more from Pakistan on the war on terror. The President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has put a stop to the tide of hate-filled messages advocated by seminaries. Progress on Madrassa reform is difficult and dangerous, as raids on Madaris were pitting people against people, therefore, it may take a while.\nDespite all positive efforts, it is regrettable the foreign media and key opinion-makers has refused to dislodge its venomous stance against the Government. Pakistan has made positive and substantive contribution in the fight against terrorism. It has paid the heavy price and has come a long way in rooting out the scourge of terrorism. Various research agencies must take a stock of the aspiration of the majority of the people of Pakistan who believe in democracy and civil liberties. Islam plays a greater role in politics and it is believed that's a good thing. Cautiousness is the right attitude to take toward the Pew findings. Nevertheless, we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. There is a lot of work left to be done.\nReader Comments:\nMr Khokar are you sugesting Pew is biased against Pakistan?But its not biased against Turkey, Lebanon, Indonesia, Morocco and rest of the muslim world? Why the hell should it decide to get 'prejudiced' when it comes to Pakistan? Could it be that its findings are true? I think so. Just look at the articles on Paktribune, most are directed against the West.Many of writers seem to take pleasure in peeling the hypocracy of the West. OBL hardly gets any negative attention. Considering that Pakistan is in a mess, every day some innocent is tortured to death by Police but all our writers seem to be concerned about is death of Charles Mennez in London. We have a Mennenz happening in Pakistan every day, which of course non of our writers seem to think worth talking about.\nHow is the poor oppressed in Pakistan? Yet everybody is busy talking about Western oppression. The elite have the entire country intoxicated with the wrongs of West - After all that covers up whats being done to 10s of millions in Pakistan every day. Do we have justice in Pakistan? No, so should we not be sorting that out then babbling about whats happened in London or Washington, after all the millions of poor in our villages lead miserable lives which are not going to change one bit despite what happens in London or USA.\nRabid articles against the West are not going to change anything inside Pakistan. The principle inside Pakistan all poor and the weak know is 'Might is right' and then we have the galls to expect the West to drop its 'might is right'?\nN. Khan, Pakistan\t- 24 August, 2005\nWashington, DC: Surprise has been expressed at the lack of reaction in the Muslim world at the impending demolition of the house of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) by the Saudi authorities.\nAn op-ed article in Toronto Star, Canada's widely-circulated daily, by Tarek Fatah, a Pakistani-Canadian Muslim activist and broadcaster, finds it incomprehensible that while the demolition of the Babri Mosque by Hindu zealots at Ayodhya continues to remain an emotive issue with Muslims, what the Saudi authorities plan to do has evoked no protest at all.\nFatah writes, “What makes this demolition worse is the fact that the home of the Prophet is to make way for a parking lot, two 50-storey hotel towers and seven 35-storey apartment blocks; a project known as the Jabal Omar Scheme, all within a stone's throw of the Grand Mosque. Yet despite this outrage, not a single Muslim country, no ayatollah, no mufti, no king, not even a Muslim Canadian imam has dared utter a word in protest. Such is the power of Saudi influence on the Muslim narrative.”\nThe writer wonders if the lack of a response is because Muslims have become so overwhelmed by the power of the Saudi riyal that they have lost all courage and self-respect. Or is it because they feel a need to cover up Muslim-on-Muslim violence, Muslim-on-Muslim terror or Muslim-on-Muslim oppression? He notes that one man who is standing up to the demolition plan is Saudi architect Dr Sami Angawi, who is leading “a one-man campaign.” to save the sacred and historic edifice. He told a London newspaper, “The house where the Prophet received the word of God is gone and nobody cares ... this is the end of history in Mecca and Medina and the end of their future.”\nAccording to Fatah, “The cultural massacre of Islamic heritage sites is not a new phenomenon. It is said that in the last two decades, 95 per cent of Mecca's 1,000-year-old buildings have been demolished. In the early 1920s, the Saudis bulldozed and leveled a graveyard in Medina that housed the graves of the family and companions of Muhammad. Today, the religious zealots in Saudi Arabia are not alone.\n”Commercial developers have joined hands with them and are making hundreds of millions in profits as they build ugly, but lucrative high-rises that are shadowing the Grand Mosque known as the Kaaba. Today Saudi petrodollars have the ability to silence even its most vocal critics, but when all is said and done, history will render a harsh judgment on those who try to wipe out its footprints and steal the heritage of all humanity.”\nashah, Pakistan\t- 29 August, 2005","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line421006"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5316665172576904,"wiki_prob":0.5316665172576904,"text":"Putting this on a recent thread here where it’s more likely to be seen in a quick fashion….\nSeveral things just to update folks.\nFirst, many thanks to all those who sent along research suggestions and offerings to be of assistance on the project I can’t talk about.\nI’ve been swamped with deadlines and unable to reply to any of the public notes and private emails, but as soon as I can get my head above water, be assured that I’ll be in touch with many of you.\nSecond, as noted in the original thread before I hijacked it, yes, the plan at the moment is that I will be at Comic Con San Diego this year, primarily doing my thing on Thursday and Saturday afternoons.\nThere is a *chance* mind you, it’s just a slim chance but to be honorable I must mention it that a work situation *may* preclude my appearance there. Or it may not. I’ll know more by the end of next week, and for now as far as I know, everything’s on target for me to be at SDCC. If that changes, I’ll be sure to let everyone know as far in advance as possible.\nOne final note re: recent discussions on TMoS and more Lost Tales.\nB5:TLT was commissioned at a $2 million budget to, yet one more time, “test the waters” for B5. We did what we could with that, and that was that. As we did with Rangers, which also suffered from not having a lot of money because of concerns about “is there really a B5 audience?” Which is, of course, a foolish question from a studio that has never really understood what it has in B5.\nOf late, there have been more discussions from WB about doing more DVDs, again at a low cost, or a cable thing, again with minimal investment.\nSo for the last few months, I’ve been giving this whole subject a lot of quiet thought. And I’ve come to a conclusion.\nB5 as a five year story stands beautifully on its own. If anything else is to be continued from that story, it should be something that adds to the legacy of B5, rather than subtracts from it.\nAs well intentioned as Rangers and TLT were, as enticing as it was to return to those familiar waters, in the end I think they did more to subtract from the legacy than add to it. I don’t regret having made them, because I needed to go through that to get to the point where I am now psychologically, but from where I sit now, I wouldn’t make them again.\nSo I’ve let everyone up here know that I’m not interested in doing any more low-budget DVDs. I’m not interested in doing any low-budget cable things or small computer games. The only thing I would be interested in doing regarding Babylon 5 from this point on is a full- featured, big-budget feature film.\nIt’s that or nothing.\nAnd if it’s nothing, I’m totally cool with that because the original story stands on its own just fine. I’m not lobbying for it, I’m not asking fans to write in about it (nor should you) because such campaigns never really have much impact…that’s simply the position I’ve taken up here. Lord knows I don’t lack for other things to do these days. I’m busier on more prestige projects with terrific people and great film-makers than at any other time in my career.\nAt the end of the day, for me, it’s not just a matter of getting more B5. It’s a matter of getting more *good* B5 that respects what came before it and doesn’t have to compromise visually or in terms of action. The original show deserves better than that, the surviving cast members deserve better than that, and the fans who have supported it over the years definitely deserve better than that. A lot better.\nSo I’ve drawn that line in the sand, and I’m happy living on whichever side of that line the universe puts me. Just thought you should know, ‘cause it’s your show too.\nSci-Fried: Star Wars Christmas\n“Babylon 5” Now Available on Amazon Prime\nMore on “Pawn of the Dead”\nBabylon 5 Comes to Phoenix Comicon\nRick says\nwell this sucks beyond words, the situation obviously, not his reasoning. he’s talking about getting more money out of a studio that makes the Harry Potter franchise to a profit of millions and yet it took them 5 hit films to FINALLY decide to split book 7 into two movies. the saddest part of all this is that the idiots at warner who decide these things don’t care if we liked Lost Tales or not, just that we paid them to see it.\nMike H (Stark in 2nd Life) says\nI’m glad he chose quality over quantity. I loved getting a new taste of B5 with TLT, but he’s right. Better to end it than to run it into the ground with work that isn’t up to par with the original. Having said that though, here’s to a new big budget film sometime in the near future!\nMike Tuck says\nI have mixed feelings about the recent post from JMS. On one hand, I’m sad that we will not get another “Lost Tales” DVD. While I didn’t like last year’s “Lost Tales” as much as you guys did, I still somewhat enjoyed having two new stories in the B5 universe (even though I thought that they were both mediocre) . I also had hopes for future DVD stories to be better, especially the much-talked about Garibaldi story which was to feature a lot more special effects and action. On the other hand, I have to agree somewhat with JMS’s decision not to make any more Lost Tales.\nI think that The Lost Tales and LOTR were nowhere near as good as the best seasons of the B5 series and, therefore, I agree with JMS that they “Subtracted from the legacy”. However, I still don’t know that the reason that they were not as good has a whole lot to do with the lower budget as JMS suggested. After all, didn’t he and his crew produce some of the best science fiction television ever made on a shoestring budget week after week for five years?! I hate to slam JMS (whom I think is, usually, a great writer), but I think the problems with Lost Tales and LOTR being less than great lie mostly with the writer.\nIt seems to me that JMS lost his mojo after the fourth season of the series. I’ve been somewhat disappointed in everything B5-related that he has done AFTER season 4. I know the reasons why season 5 seemed directionless and uneventful: He was told by the distribution company that season 4 was the end and to finish it up, thus leaving season 5 stories seeming like an afterthought or an extremely extended and unnecessary epilogue to the main story. He also had SOME excuses for “Crusade” not being what it could have been – the creative “tug-of-war” between JMS and TNT hurt and killed the show before it had time to grow. But what was his excuse on “Legend of the Rangers”? As far as I know, he was given free reign by the Sci Fi Channel on that pilot, but he delivered a mediocre (at best) movie. Also, from what I read of the summary of the plot for the proposed feature film “The Memory of Shadows”, it didn’t sound like it would have been a home run either. And finally, last year’s Lost Tales was also disappointing and odd (for me, at least). The devil-in-human-guise story, while well-acted, seemed totally out-of-place for the B5 universe. Also, the Sheridan tale had some truly funny dialogue and was more B5-appropriate, but ultimately, seemed uneventful and unnecessary.\nSo, JMS hasn’t exactly been “hitting them out of the ballpark” since the end of season 4. It seems as if he has lost interest in Babylon 5 and only keeps making more stories to earn a paycheck or to try to satisfy hungry fans (maybe both). His heart doesn’t seem like it’s in it anymore. He pretty much said himself that he is satisfied with the completed 5-year story and doesn’t seem too interested in doing any more now that he is getting big-budget feature film jobs. MAYBE with a bigger budget he could tell a more epic story like we were accustomed to during the best seasons of B5, but that remains to be seen.\nI know I will probably stir controversy with my comments, but I felt it had to be said. I was THE biggest fan of Babylon 5 during its best years and couldn’t wait to see the next episode every week, but I’m getting tired of being constantly disappointed with sub-par B5 stories. I want to get back the excitement and epic storytelling of seasons 3 and 4, or even the unexpected satisfaction from a handfull of good episodes from seasons one and two. But since 1998, all we seem to get is more “season 5 – level” stuff.\nSo, in conclusion, I suppose I have to agree somewhat with JMS on this. If you can’t tell a good or great story, then why bother at all? I don’t hold out much hope for a big-budget B5 feature film, as Warner Bros will not pony up the dough for one. They also wanted to re-cast the TMOS movie, and that doesn’t sit well with me either. I can’t see anyone else in these roles. I don’t really see the money coming from any other outside interests in the future without ultimately falling through like the “Memory of Shadows” deal. I hope that I am wrong. I would love to see a B5 feature film as long as it has the feel of seasons 3 and 4. On another tangent, it is UNFAIR that Joss Whedon can get a feature film made of a failed series that only aired for about 7 episodes before being canceled due to low ratings (“Firefly”/ “Serenity”), while JMS can’t get a feature film made of a low-rated (but much beloved) series that lasted for 5 years and 110 episodes!! It doesn’t make much sense to me. (Sorry, “Firefly” fans. I watched that show for 6 or 7 episodes, but hated it. ) In the end, I guess that Whedon has more pull in Hollywood than JMS does (although I don’t know why). Isn’t JMS having dinner with the big boys now? It also seems unfair that other low-rated cult favorites such as Stargate SG-1 and even Futurama will continue on making direct-to-DVD films, while B5 will simply fade away into obscurity. Unfortunately, it seems that B5 will always be just a footnote in science fiction history. Anyway, I will miss Babylon 5. I don’t think that there will ever be another sci-fi series that I will love as much as I loved it.\nNeil Ottenstein says\nThe critical issue here, is what is Summer going to do with the podcast intro now?\nBrad Bowyer says\nWhen TLT was coming out he said that if WB was intertested and TLT does well then he has ideas for more TLT volumes. Now all of a sudden he changes his mind?\nThis is nothing but a slap in the face to fans. We bought the DVD, supported the franchise as best we can in the hope that we would get more content. Now he trashes the very thing we supported by saying it diluted the franchise?\nFine JMS … go and pout, take you ball and go home. You’ve pretty much just lost yourself a fan with an arrogant attitude like that. Why would we want to support any of your future projects? After all … you’ll just say they were crap down the road.\nBrad Bowyer,\nBrad, I fully understand your position. But, let’s take a look at WB’s “interest”. The videocassettes sold out when they were released. The DVD sets are perennial strong sellers. TLT has had strong sales. All this despite WB’s lack of effort in promotion and merchandising. The BestBuy event that Jeffrey covered only points out how disinterested WB is in the show.\nAlso recall that TLT was to be three interlocking stories, but budget constraints forced the elimination of what, by all accounts, was to be the most ambitious (read: expensive) story of the lot. That also indicates low interest on the part of WB. What more would JMS need to do to finally make WB understand what they have in their hands?\nMike, you are entitled to your opinion, and I’m glad you feel comfortable enough to share it here. I would point out that a shoestring budget for a 22-episode season for a series is still bigger than the shoestring budget for a one-off direct-to-DVD piece. The series budget allowed them to build interesting sets and locales; the TLT budget allowed them to build ten pillars that had to double for station and Minbari cruiser interiors. I’m thoroughly convinced the sock puppet thing was JMS’ arrow at WB – “you want cheap? Here’s cheap!”\nPlease, in no way construe my comments as a JMS apologist. The tone in his message is quite arrogant. I understand and accept his feelings about B5 as the creator; but I think he underestimates the fans’ emotions. I’d be happy with JMS approved novels (like for Crusade, in Valen’s name!). I don’t think LotR or TLT “tarnished” the legacy of B5 in any way. Were they great? No. But they certainly weren’t unwatchable.\nYou want tarnish, look at the last ten years of Star Trek offerings. That’s tarnish.\nNeil – looks like Summer’s gonna have to re-record the intro AGAIN….\n“When TLT was coming out he said that if WB was interested and TLT does well then he has ideas for more TLT volumes. Now all of a sudden he changes his mind?”\nhe changed his mind because he’s tired of trying to make quality product without proper financial support from Warner.\nColin says\nMy feelings were mixed at first but the more that I think about it the more upset I get. Frankly I feel like I just got smacked in the face be a man who has gotten plenty of my hard earned money over the years and you can bet that I will look twice before giving him anymore.\nJMS has been stringing future Lost Tale info out since before th e the release of the first and now only installment. He has a point about legend of the Rangers but I don’t think his point with Lost Tales is valid sure it’s not as strong as the best of Babylon 5 but it’s far better then the worst of it so I don’t think you can say that it takes anything away as a hole. I think that it might add something to it. Had JMS come right out and said that he did not want to do anymore DVDs right after the release I would have understood but he went on about how another one was in the works and had even said that he wanted to try to get other people in to write in the future.\nNow I understand that he is mad with WB for not stepping up and putting money behind it right now but why not try to get more money placed into a DVD start small and work up try to get say a 10,000,000 budget for the next one and then move up from there why is it a movie or nothing? This rings even more true given the current state of the economy, Paramount has had to pull back funding on Transformers and Star Trek which every one knows will pull in big money, and if big names like that are having problems what chance does Babylon 5 have?\nThe great maker had what I feel is a great mistake.\nPaul Hahn says\n“I know the reasons why season 5 seemed directionless and uneventful: He was told by the distribution company that season 4 was the end and to finish it up, thus leaving season 5 stories seeming like an afterthought or an extremely extended and unnecessary epilogue to the main story.”\nThis is an oft-repeated canard. The wrapping-up was done more by truncation than compression, so by and large the storylines in season 5 were the ones originally intended, and not tacked-on. If he had known he had a guaranteed fifth season, the fourth-season finale/cliffhanger would have been “Intersections in Real Time”, which ended up not that far from the end of the season the way things actually happened.\nA far greater contributing factor to the lameness of early season 5 was jms losing all his notes for that half-season, at the same convention at which he tried unsuccessfully to get Claudia Christian to sign back on. Housekeeping trashed them, he tore the place apart looking for them (including dumpster-diving) to no avail, and he ended up having to reconstruct those storylines as best he could from memory. Suddenly losing Ivanova didn’t help either.\nAll this can be searched on jmsnews.com.\n“Now all of a sudden he changes his mind? This is nothing but a slap in the face to fans.”\nThe real slap in the face to fans was Warner forcing him to do TLT on next to no budget, when the jms/B5 combo has proven itself a safe investment many times over. I heard plenty of fans complain about the limited scope of TLT, which was obviously a result of the lack of money. Arrogant? Hardly. In my view it was an admirable, honorable decision.\nOver in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated plenty of us have expressed disappointment, but not one that I recall has disagreed that this was the right decision.\nI agree with Rick.\nWhat some people don’t get is that the TLT ‘extras’ with the sock puppets were a rather pointed dig at WB. From what I’ve heard, when given the budget for TLT, JMS’s response was along the lines of “For that kind of money you can hire sock puppets, not actors.” At the panel at SDCC last year both JMS and Doug Netter said that any future Lost Tales would have to have a bigger budget.\nJMS posted that before the writer’s strike WB started talking about another Lost Tales disk but refused to commission a script since they thought there’d never be a writer’s strike. From what I gathered at the Seattle con in May, there’ve been other meetings since the strike was settled.\nMaybe to us the decision is sudden but it may be JMS’s way of telling them that he’s tired of having his time wasted and that B5 shouldn’t need to keep proving itself repeatedly.\nI agree with Jan, Rick, and the Great Maker. If there was ever a time to go to WB and lay it all out, now is the time. They know how well the DVD’s have sold. We all know that JMS has other projects out there that are going to get the funding to make them great.\nWB wants more Lost Tales. It’s time for them to put their money where their mouth is. B5 is a proven product. JMS is a proven product. I don’t want another rubber suit monster. More B5 if only we get proper funding so we can see what the show would have been like if they would have had a proper budge all long. Jerry Doyle has a nationally syndicated radio show. I think JD was supposed to be in the next set, right? JMS has plenty of projects on his table. Both guys probably both would love to do more B5, but it has to be worth our wild.\njerry doyle was supposed to be in the third, cancelled story-to be set on Mars. If memory serves, he was even under contract – until WB forced the story cut. His subsequent comments were rather curt and seemed to indicate that he was through with B5.\nAnd i’ll also point out, to all those who have given their hard-earned money to JMS, he’s hardly grown fat and lazy on that income.\nvakie says\nAll you people claiming JMS ‘changed’ his mind, seem to forget or simply missed what he was saying all along after TLT came out: that if there is to be more TLT, it will have to be at a bigger budget or they won’t do it, because what they had to work with was simply not enough. Frankly, even the CGI people worked overtime without pay to get things right, just because they were B5 fans.\nSo this is not a huge surprise to me, because this possibility came to mind when I heard that. I just hoped those people at WB wouldn’t be total mental cases and they would see the light, but I guess not. This is all on WB, not JMS.\nAnd yeah, the whole sock puppet thing came from the moment WB told him what kind of budget he would have to work with. JMS replied, “for that kind of money I can do it with sock puppets, but not real actors.”\nBrandon Atkinson says\nHey all greetings from Canada.\nI agree with many here, WB screwed JMS over royally… Yeah they want more lost tales stuff but now it’s time to\n(you certainly got enough out of me with the DVD set’s before the huge price drops! seasons 1-4 between $100 Canadian Dollars and $150! Season 5 was $65 (right after Andreas Katsulas died, to put my purchases in to context) and the movie box was around $80, TLT was $40, haven’t bought Rangers yet (might not since Scifi messed that up quite spectacularly!))…\nAt the very least double the budget (triple would help greatly).\nhowever, WB doesn’t get B5 whatsoever… they never have. And so its time for JMS to move on, perhaps somone from MGM (Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and many other shows i forget right now)is reading about this…\nTHEY KNOW HOW TO TO STUFF PROPERLY!\nAlas, JMS has said that MGM is the worst he’s ever worked with, and would never work with them again.\nHe worked with them on Jeremiah, and apparently hated the experience (with MGM, not with Jeremiah).\nG'Kwal says\nSo I’ll keep looking forward. At least some comics or canonized books would be nice, as I don’t think, that someone would pay for a movie.\nBut should a movie will come, about anything of babylon with JMS and some of the old crew, I’ll see it in the first weekend for getting the quota up (and I hate this crowding absolutely)\nBrother Ambrose says\nI got the feeling that this was not a total surprise to the Vorlon, and it did not surprise me, either. JMS and his ego could only handle being ignored for so long. Since he is now garnering attention from other aspects in his creative output, he would naturally want to apportion his time there. I, too, was disappointed at the Lost Tales DVD but kept quiet about it in hopes of its being the beginning of a steadily improving series.\nJMS, as a creator, probably saw it as the first and the lowest rung on the journey of making the Lost Tales. He imagined that the next one would be better in every respect. (Wouldn’t you?) When the hoped-for support from the studio did not come, he probably imagined that he and it would be stuck in this low-budget DVD world for a long time. This level is very close to the world of fan-based production, which in most cases is relegated to sector not by for by profit. He would not be comfortable in this, and what career writer or producer would? So he cut himself off.\nHowever, as a writer, he could have expressed himself better if he intended that fans could step in, a la Paramount and Star Trek. He concluded with “’cause it’s your show too.” This would seem to be inconsistent with the “closed door” attitude of the rest of his message. I think it’s easy to read arrogance into this post, but I suspect that arrogance is only one side of his three edged sword. It seems that the Great Maker still enjoys being cryptic, and so we must wait.\nLeave a Reply to Brother Ambrose Cancel reply","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1574304"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8377625346183777,"wiki_prob":0.8377625346183777,"text":"For other places with the same name, see Hopewell, Virginia (disambiguation).\nHopewell is an independent city surrounded by Prince George County and the Appomattox River in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,591.[5] The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Hopewell with Prince George County for statistical purposes.\nCity of Hopewell\nThe \"Big H.\" Gateway to the City of Hopewell.\nLocation in the State of Virginia\nJasmine Gore\n• Independent city\n10.83 sq mi (28.05 km2)\n0.47 sq mi (1.23 km2) 4.9%\n50 ft (15.2 m)\nUTC-5 (EST)\nwww.hopewellva.gov\nHopewell is in the Tri-Cities area of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).\nCity PointEdit\nMain article: City Point, Virginia\nThe city was founded to take advantage of its site overlooking the James and Appomattox Rivers. City Point, the oldest part of Hopewell, was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale. It was first known as \"Bermuda City,\" which was changed to Charles City, lengthened to Charles City Point, and later abbreviated to City Point. (At this time, Bermuda, the Atlantic archipelago, was considered part of the Colony of Virginia and appeared on its maps.) Hopewell/City Point is the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in the United States, Jamestown no longer being inhabited.\n\"Charles City Point\" was in Charles City Shire when the first eight shires were established in the Colony of Virginia in 1634. Charles City Shire soon became known as Charles City County in 1637. In 1619 Samuel Sharpe and Samuel Jordan from City Point, then named Charles City, were burgesses at the first meeting of the House of Burgesses.\nThe burgesses separated an area of the county south of the river, including City Point, establishing it separately as Prince George County in 1703. City Point was an unincorporated town in Prince George County until the City of Hopewell annexed the Town of City Point in 1923.\nDuring the American Civil War, Union General Ulysses S. Grant used City Point as his headquarters during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. Grant's headquarters, which President Lincoln visited, were located at Appomattox Manor, one of the three plantations of Richard Eppes, who cultivated wheat and other grains and held 130 slaves at the beginning of the war.[6][7][dead link]\nHis property included most of the present day city of Hopewell and Eppes Island, a plantation across the James River from City Point. Richard Slaughter, a former slave of Eppes, escaped to a Union ship during the Civil War,[8] as did all but 12 of Eppes' 130 slaves, choosing freedom.[7] Slaughter recounted his life story for a Works Progress Administration interviewer in 1936.[8]\nThe City Point Railroad, built in 1838 between City Point and Petersburg, was used as a critical part of the siege strategy. It is considered the oldest portion of the Norfolk and Western Railway, now a part of Norfolk Southern.\nHopewell Quaker originsEdit\nSamuel Janney in his \"History of Friends,\" says, \"Alexander Ross about the year 1732, having obtained a grant for One hundred thousand acres of land in the Colony of Virginia, situated near Opequan Creek a tributary of the Potomac; a settlement was soon after begun there by Alexander Ross, Josiah Ballenger, James Wright, Evan Thomas and other Friends from Pennsylvania, and Elk River in Maryland. Under authority of Chester Quarterly Meeting they established in 1744 a Monthly Meeting, called Hopewell, which thus became a branch of Phila. Yearly Meeting.\" 10 acres was deeded to the Quakers April 2, 1751 for a Meeting House which afterwards became \"Hopewell.\" This deed of 1751 is the first appearance of the Quakers in the old County. However, it is possible that the Hopewell described by Janney as a Virginia Quaker settlement is actually to the northwest of the Hopewell which is the subject of this entry.[9] The Hopewell Friends Meeting House (Frederick County, Virginia) describes the Janney settlement.\nHopewell FarmEdit\nHopewell, part of the Eppes' plantation, was developed by DuPont Company in 1914 as Hopewell Farm, an incorporated area in Prince George County. DuPont first built a dynamite factory there, then switched to the manufacture of guncotton during World War I.\nNearly burned to the ground in the Hopewell Fire of 1915, the city prospered afterward and became known as the \"Wonder City\" as the village of Hopewell grew from a hamlet of 400 in 1916 to a city of more than 20,000 people in a few short months. Unlike most cities in Virginia, Hopewell was never incorporated as a town, but it was incorporated as an independent city in 1916.\nAfter DuPont abandoned the city following World War I, moving its manufacturing facilities elsewhere and specializing in other products, Hopewell briefly became a ghost town until 1923 when Tubize Corporation established a plant on the old DuPont site. The same year, the city of Hopewell annexed the neighboring town of City Point, which enabled it to expand and thrive. The Tubize plant was later acquired by Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and was a major employer in Hopewell for decades. Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation and Hercules Chemical also established plants on portions of the old DuPont site.\n20th century populaceEdit\nAs early as its incorporation, Hopewell was a city of industrious migrants. Immigrants from Bohemia (now the western lands of the Czech Republic),[10] Italy, and Greece[11] populated the city, working in factories and opening small businesses. Others migrated from other parts of Virginia and neighboring states of North Carolina and West Virginia to work in Hopewell's industries.\nAs was the case in most southern cities, African Americans in Hopewell were subject to Jim Crow segregation until the success of the Civil Rights Movement. The picturesque theater in the middle of town, the Beacon Theater, only allowed Blacks in the balcony.[12] In August 1966, the Ku Klux Klan confronted the Reverend Curtis Harris and other Black Hopewell citizens when they attempted to petition the city manager to find an alternate location for a landfill that was going to be opened in the middle of a Black neighborhood.[13][14] Hopewell public schools were desegregated under court order in 1963, following Renee Patrice GILLIAM et al v. School Board of the City of Hopewell, Virginia.[15]\n1935 bus tragedyEdit\nHopewell made national news when, on December 22, 1935, a bus plunged through the open draw of the Appomattox River Drawbridge on State Route 10 just outside Hopewell's city limits. Only one of the 15 occupants of the bus survived. The modern twin spans of the Charles Hardaway Marks Bridges were built to replace that bridge and cross the river nearby.\nUrban renewalEdit\nLike many cities, Hopewell embarked on an urban renewal plan in the 1960s in an attempt to revitalize its downtown retail area. The plan was a failure because many of the retail businesses that had been located downtown moved elsewhere to new shopping centers being developed outside the city limits in Petersburg, Chester, and Prince George County.\nHowever, a new urbanization is occurring and many long vacant storefronts are now refurbished and occupied. Several others are now under construction. Further, the City invested $12 million in a new beautiful state of the art flagship library for the busy Appomattox Regional Library System, the Maude Langhorne Nelson Library. The Library has a cyber cafe, extensive YA and children's collections, and a replica of the historic, 1600s-era frigate ship, Hopewell, installed as a centerpiece.[16][17] The City also restored the Beacon Theater, which was built in 1928, and there are 70 or more concerts and other events annually. Some performers in the past two years have been The Temptations, The Four Tops, Vince Gill, Travis Tritt, Clint Black, Amy Grant, The Average White Band, Vanilla Ice, The Commodores, Pure Prairie League, Delbert McClinton, and many more. New plantings and street beautification projects have been put into place, to attract more businesses and shoppers to the East Broadway area.\nRecent historyEdit\nSmokestacks rise from Hopewell's skyline\nHopewell is located at the confluence of two historic rivers, the Appomattox and the James. From many points in the city, beautiful views of the rivers or the tidal marshes are seen. The river access makes the area popular with waterfowl hunters and freshwater fisherman; it is particularly known for excellent catfishing.[18][19]\nHopewell is the location of several large chemical plants owned by the Honeywell Corporation, Ashland, Evonik Industries, as well as a Green Plains Inc. ethanol plant and paper mill owned by WestRock. Such industries have required the city and residents to deal with many environmental issues over the years, particularly as they learned more about the effects of the industries. The Kepone debacle of the 1970s received the most national attention.\nKepone (or Chlordécone) was an insecticide produced by Allied Signal Company and LifeSciences Product Company in Hopewell. The improper handling and dumping of the substance into the nearby James River in the 1960s and 1970s drew national attention to its toxic effects on wildlife. As a result of the contamination the James River from Richmond to the Chesapeake Bay was closed to fishing for over a decade. The product was similar to DDT and is a degradation product of Mirex. In 2009, Kepone was included in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which banned its production and use worldwide.\nThe Federal Correctional Complex, Petersburg (FCC Petersburg), two federal prisons which house 3400 inmates, are located just outside the Hopewell city limits, in Prince George County[20][21]\nIn 1977, Hopewell again made the national news due to another accident involving a drawbridge when the tanker S.S. Marine Floridian outbound under the command of a James River pilot suffered a steering malfunction just after dawn on February 24 that caused it to veer out of the channel and hit the Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge just east of town. The accident caused serious damage to the bridge and it was closed for months.\nIn 1983, Hopewell again received negative publicity from the national news media when it was discovered that Evelyn Rust Wells, an elderly woman, had been held captive and terrorized in her home in the City Point section. Her captors, mostly male teenagers under 18, cashed her Social Security checks at local grocery stores. A local grocer noted a change in purchases from when neighborhood kids assisted Wells, and called the police. They investigated and freed Wells who was by then severely malnourished.[22]\nAlthough still an important industrial city, Hopewell has struggled with transitions through loss of jobs due to plant closures, changes in residential housing patterns, and the costs of environmental clean-up. Much of its middle class population moved to neighboring Prince George and Chesterfield Counties for newer housing during the suburban expansion of the 1960s and 1970s. The city's housing stock is dominated by relatively small homes with a significant percentage being offered as rental properties. Of these, many were hastily constructed over a century ago by DuPont to house plant workers during the First World War.\nHopewell has encouraged re-development along its waterfront areas along the James and Appomattox Rivers, in the downtown area, and the City Point Historic District, as well as the sites of several long vacant industrial plants. Due to its hasty construction as a mill town during the First World War, Hopewell had a large number of kit homes that were hauled in and erected in neighborhoods laid out by DuPont known as \"A Village\" and \"B Village\". The city has a surviving group of Sears Catalog Homes, with several available for exterior viewing on a self-guided tour. The city also has numerous Aladdin Kit Homes; at one time, it may have had the most such homes in the nation. Because residents moved to newer houses and the Aladdin Homes were abandoned and deteriorated, many have been razed.[citation needed]\nSince 1994, Hopewell has been twinned with Ashford, Kent, U.K.[citation needed]\nIn late 2012, press reports indicated the city had the highest rate of violent crime on a per capita basis in the state.[23]\nThe former Hopewell High School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was renovated from 2009-2010 and now serves as an apartment building.\nIn September 2010, a series of explosions occurred at a controversial new ethanol plant that had recently been constructed on a long vacant site formerly occupied by a Firestone plant. In 2007, former Hopewell Mayor and civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris, had marched against the proposed ethanol plant being built in Hopewell with support from the national Southern Christian Leadership Conference.[24] The plant had not yet become fully operational when the explosions occurred. There was no loss of life due to the accident but shortly after the explosion Osage BioEnergy, the owners of the $150 million facility, announced that the plant was for sale. Although the facility was sitting idle through 2013 with the city of Hopewell taking legal action to recoup unpaid taxes on the property, the facility was eventually purchased by another firm and operations were restarted in 2014.[25] In 2015 the troubled ethanol plant closed again for a second time after less than a year in operation with its owners citing a lack of profitability as the reason for the shutdown.[26] The plant has since been purchased and re-opened by Green Plains Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska.\nHopewell has come to the attention of AAA because some of its members have complained that Hopewell is a speed trap for its practice of citing drivers for speeding along a 1.7 mile stretch of Interstate 295, nicknamed the \"Million Dollar Mile\" by disgruntled drivers. AAA, claimed in a press release that Hopewell employs 11 sheriff's deputies working in 14-hour shifts to patrol less than two miles of the highway that lie within the city limits of Hopewell. However, this statistic has been denied by the sheriff of Hopewell, who was baffled as to where that information was generated as he said the deputies working on I-295 only work eight-hour shifts.[27] This practice, which it has been claimed, annually generated $1.8 million in revenue from speeding tickets, of which 75% were issued to out of state drivers, triggered a court clash between the Commonwealth's Attorney and the city prosecutor, and elicited an official ruling from the Attorney General of Virginia.[28] Sheriff Luther Sodat said that the almost two-mile stretch of highway \"is a safety issue for Hopewell.\"[27] Virginia's urban interstates have a fatality rate about one-third the Statewide rate for all roads combined.[29][30]\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.8 square miles (28.0 km2), of which 10.2 square miles (26.4 km2) are land and 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2) (4.9%) is water.[31]\nClimate data for Hopewell, Virginia (1980-2010)\nAverage high °F (°C)\n(8.8) 51.2\n(29.7) 89\nAverage low °F (°C)\n(−2.7) 28.8\nAverage precipitation inches (mm)\n(110) 4.5\nSource: USA.com[32]\nNeighborhoodsEdit\nCity Point – annexed in 1923\nCity Point National Cemetery\nChesterfield County, Virginia - north\nPrince George County, Virginia - east, south, west\nCharles City County, Virginia - northeast\nPetersburg National Battlefield Park (part)\n1930 11,327 710.8%\n1950 10,219 17.7%\n1980 23,397 −0.3%\nEst. 2017 22,621 [2] 0.1%\n1790-1960[34] 1900-1990[35]\n1990-2000[36] 2010-2012[5]\nAs of the census[37] of 2000, there were 22,354 people, 9,055 households, and 6,075 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,182.3 people per square mile (842.9/km²). There were 9,749 housing units at an average density of 951.7 per square mile (367.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 47.1% White, 43.5% Black, 0.8% Asian, 0.4% Native American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.2% from other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. 3.7% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.\nThere are 9,055 households, out of which 32.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% were married couples living together, 21.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% were non-families. 27.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 2.94.\nThe age of the population is spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females, there are 87.7 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over, there were 82.2 men.\nThe median income for a household in the city was $39,156, and the median income for a family was $49,730. Males had a median income of $34,849 versus $25,401 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,041. About 15.8% of families and 17.73% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.6% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over.\nThe following are schools in the Hopewell, Virginia school division.\nHigh schoolEdit\nHopewell High School\nMiddle schoolEdit\nCarter G. Woodson School\nElementary schoolsEdit\nDupont Elementary School\nHarry E. James Elementary School\nPatrick Copeland Elementary School\nAll of the schools above are accredited by the Virginia Board of Education and by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Hopewell City Schools consistently rank near the bottom of the state in Standards of Learning (SOL) scores, graduation rates, and student discipline.\nCharter and technologyEdit\nAppomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts And Technology Petersburg, VA, Open to students entering the 9th grade, with approval of passing through the admittance process.\nLibrariesEdit\nAppomattox Regional Library serves as the library system for Hopewell, Virginia.\nNotable peopleEdit\nFind sources: \"Hopewell, Virginia\" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nNelson Barclift, choreographer and dancer, was born in Hopewell.[38]\nSam Bass, artist, graduated from Hopewell High School.[39]\nRobert Bolling, American settler and planter, and his wife, Jane Rolfe, lived at Kippax Plantation, in what was then Prince George County, in the 17th Century.[40]\nSamuel Face, American inventor, was born in City Point.[41]\nPeter Francisco, soldier in the American Revolutionary War, found abandoned on the docks at City Point[42]\nWilliam Haines, actor and interior designer, ran a dance hall in Hopewell in 1914 while in his early teens.[43][44]\nCurtis W. Harris, minister, civil rights activist, 1st African-American mayor of Hopewell[45]\nSteven R. Taylor, Politician, was a previous mayor of Hopewell[46]\nDorothiea Hundley (aka Seka), adult film actress, attended Hopewell High School.[citation needed]\nCharles Hardaway Marks, Virginia politician, was born in Hopewell.[47]\nMonsanto Pope, former defensive tackle for the Denver Broncos\nRebecca Beach Smith, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia\nMediaEdit\nThe Hopewell News, locally managed and operated by HPC Media, was an 8,000 circulation twice-weekly newspaper that covers local news, sports and events of interest to the communities of Hopewell, Enon and Prince George. [2] For more than 90 years, The Hopewell News served the greater Hopewell and Prince George communities. The paper was shut down on Jan. 18, 2018. HPC Media also published the News-Patriot newspaper covering Colonial Heights and communities in Southeastern Chesterfield County.\nThe climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Hopewell has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated \"Cfa\" on climate maps.[48]\n2016 43.1% 3,885 52.4% 4,724 4.4% 399\n2008 43.6% 4,149 55.5% 5,285 0.9% 90\n1992 47.5% 3,818 35.6% 2,863 16.9% 1,361\n1948 28.8% 570 62.7% 1,242 8.5% 169\n1920 29.5% 41 69.8% 97 0.7% 1\n1916 10.7% 3 85.7% 24 3.6% 1\nNational Register of Historic Places listings in Hopewell, Virginia\nConstructs such as ibid., loc. cit. and idem are discouraged by Wikipedia's style guide for footnotes, as they are easily broken. Please improve this article by replacing them with named references (quick guide), or an abbreviated title. (May 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\n^ \"2017 U.S. Gazetteer Files\". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved Mar 28, 2019.\n^ a b \"Population and Housing Unit Estimates\". Retrieved March 24, 2018.\n^ \"American FactFinder\". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2008-01-31.\n^ \"US Board on Geographic Names\". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.\n^ a b \"State & County QuickFacts\". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 6, 2014.\n^ Bowman, Shearer Davis. \"Conditional Unionism and Slavery in Virginia, 1860-1861: The Case of Dr. Richard Eppes\", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 96 (January 1988): 31-54, accessed 13 June 2012\n^ a b https://icecreamtrikehire.co.uk\n^ a b \"Autobiography of Richard Slaughter\", pp. 46-49, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, American Memory, Library of Congress, accessed 13 June 2012\n^ Early Settlements of Friends in the Valley of Virginia, by Kirk Brown The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, Volumes 3-5 https://books.google.com/books?id=6_QxAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false\n^ \"The Bohemians in Virginia 1880s - 1930ish\". Marie Blaha Pearson - A Bohemian Journey. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\n^ \"Appomattox Regional Library System Historic Newspapers -- Microfilm Image Viewer\". appomattoxcl.archivalweb.com. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\n^ Making the American Dream Work : A Cultural History of African Americans in Hopewell, Virginia, Lauranett L. Lee (auth), Hampton, Va. : Morgan James Pub., 2008\n^ Ibid.\n^ Interview with Curtis Harris http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/4\n^ \"332 F.2d 460 - Renee Patrice GILLIAM and Reuben Lemuel Gilliam, Jr., infants, by Reuben L. Gilliam and Joy T. Gilliam, their father and mother and next friends, et al., Appellees, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF the CITY OF HOPEWELL, VIRGINIA, and Charles W. Smith, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Hopewell, Virginia, and E. J. Oglesby, Alfred L. Wingo and E. T. Justis, constituting the Pupil Placement Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Appellants\". www.freelawreporter.org. Archived from the original on 2018-04-04. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\n^ Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2014 ARLS \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2016-11-09. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)\n^ Official Website of the City of Hopewell http://hopewellva.gov/library/\n^ See Tidal River Blue Catfish https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/waterbody/james-river-tidal/\n^ \"Cat fishing out of Hopewell\". pierandsurf.com. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\n^ \"FCI Petersburg Medium\". bop.gov. Retrieved 3 August 2015.\n^ \"FCI Petersburg Low\". bop.gov. Retrieved 3 August 2015.\n^ \"Woman freed after two months\", New York Times, 31 January 1983, Section A, p. 10\n^ 25 years after her rape claims sparked a firestorm, Tawana Brawley avoids the spotlight, by Michael Gartland,New York Post\n^ \"2001 Honorees - Curtis W. Harris\". Dominion. Archived from the original on 2008-03-15. Retrieved 2008-02-02.\n^ Johnson, Katherine (22 September 2014). \"Plant has produced over 11 million gallons of ethanol\". The Progress-Index. Retrieved 17 November 2015.\n^ a b \"Putting brakes on I-295 tickets?\". The Hopewell News. Archived from the original on 2015-07-04. Retrieved 24 June 2015.\n^ \"VA Legislative Agenda\". cqrcengage.com. Retrieved 3 August 2015.\n^ \"Table FI-30 – Highway Statistics 2013 - Policy - Federal Highway Administration\". www.fhwa.dot.gov. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\n^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpt8-HcEYy8\n^ \"Climatological Information for Hopewell, Virginia\", USA.com, 2003. Web: [1].\n^ \"U.S. Decennial Census\". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved January 6, 2014.\n^ \"Nelson Barclift\". Internet Broadway Database. 2019. Retrieved March 30, 2019.\n^ correspondent, RANDY HALLMAN Special. \"NASCAR artist Sam Bass, a Hopewell High grad, holding auction in N.C. after filing for bankruptcy\". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 2019-02-19.\n^ \"UK Archaeologist Locates 17th Century Merchant's House, Plans Excavation With Students\". www.uky.edu. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\n^ \"Samuel Face biography, list of Samuel Face inventions\". Edubilla.com. Retrieved 2019-02-19.\n^ \"Peter Francisco\". American Battlefield Trust. 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2019-02-19.\n^ Terry (2015-10-24). \"Gay Influence: William \"Billy\" Haines\". Gay Influence. Retrieved 2019-02-19.\n^ \"WISECRACKER: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star\" by William J. Mann | Kirkus Reviews.\n^ \"Rev. Dr. Curtis Harris\". Legacy.com. December 16–17, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2019.\n^ Lazo, Luz. \"Hopewell mayor leaving office\". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved 2019-02-19.\n^ 'Charles Hardaway Marks-obituary,' Hampton Daily Press, November 17, 2004\n^ \"Hopewell, Virginia Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)\". Weatherbase. Retrieved 3 August 2015.\n^ Leip, David. \"Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections\". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 3 April 2018.\nCoordinates: 37°17′25″N 77°18′12″W / 37.290399°N 77.303371°W / 37.290399; -77.303371\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hopewell,_Virginia&oldid=905541587\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line7813"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9136233925819397,"wiki_prob":0.9136233925819397,"text":"Kobach has asked Schmidt to rule on whether a new state law allowing concealed carry in most public buildings applies to polling places on Election Day.\nThroughout the state, polling sites are often situated in places where guns are not usually allowed, such as churches, schools, universities and charity organizations.\n“We’ve invited the attorney general to weigh in before we issue any guidance to the counties,” Kobach said.\nAs a general rule, guns have been prohibited from polling places to prevent voter intimidation or interference with elections, Kobach said.\nHe said now there’s “some ambiguity in the law” over whether Kansas polling places – rented or borrowed by counties just for election days – would be considered “leased” property under the concealed-carry law.\nIf they are, the law mandates that licensed gun owners must be allowed to carry their weapons on the premises, unless the county files a detailed security plan for each site and provides protective measures such as metal detectors and guards to run them.\nBrad Bryant, elections director in the Secretary of State’s Office, said it would be impractical to try to provide that level of security.\n“Counties aren’t going to buy all that equipment to use for one day,” he said.\nBryant updated election commissioners and county clerks from throughout the state on the issue during a Kansas Association of Counties convention in Wichita last week.\n“Our understanding right now is that a building, a facility, that is owned or leased by a municipality, including for a polling place, would be subject to the (concealed carry) law,” he said. “When you lease a private property, it becomes a municipal property on Election Day, that’s our understanding.”\nBryant said the request for an attorney general’s opinion has a series of detailed questions about the legal status of properties used for polling places and if it matters whether the county pays to use the site or gets it for free.\nHe said the office is also asking whether it makes any difference if there’s a written contract or just a verbal agreement allowing use of the property.\nPublic officials usually request an attorney general’s opinion on legal questions that have not been decided by a court. The opinions don’t carry the force of law but can be used as guidance by agencies until an issue is tested.\nWeapons in polling places has been an issue that has flared periodically in other states. Nationally, there have been numerous charges of voter intimidation from both sides of the political spectrum because of advocates stationing themselves at and around polling places carrying weapons and/or wearing security uniforms.\nKobach said if someone displays or brandishes a weapon at a Kansas polling site, they could be prosecuted under other laws banning voter intimidation.\nTwo state legislators who attended Bryant’s speech said the idea of guns at the polls is unsettling, even if they aren’t openly displayed.\n“That’s scary,” said Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita, the ranking minority member on the Senate elections committee. “We really are going back to the Wild Wild West.”\nRep. Tom Sawyer of Wichita, ranking Democrat on the House elections committee, said he foresees difficulties in finding adequate polling sites if weapons have to be allowed.\nHe predicted some churches and nonprofit groups that open their property for voting sites in Sedgwick County may have second thoughts if they have to allow guns in their buildings.\n“It’s hard enough as it is to come up with a building that’s going to be open all day and that’s handicapped-accessible,” he said.\nSedgwick County doesn’t use school buildings for polling places, although many counties in Kansas do. Most local polling stations are in churches – and they appear to be split on the question of guns in their buildings.\nIf the ruling is that guns have to be allowed, Grace Presbyterian Church would have to talk about it in a meeting of the Session, the church’s governing body, said Martin Burch, executive pastor.\nThe church serves as a polling place for the Crown Heights area of east Wichita.\n“We wouldn’t just automatically continue,” Burch said. “I don’t know how that decision would go.”\nFirst Mennonite Brethren Church, which serves as a polling place in northwest Wichita, probably wouldn’t have a problem with concealed carry on Election Day, said executive pastor John Oelze.\n“We’d still welcome the polling place either way, I’m sure,” he said.\nSedgwick County Commissioner Richard Ranzau, a leading local proponent of gun rights, said he doesn’t think concealed-carry permit holders would cause problems at the polls.\nBut he said he’d be uncomfortable forcing private institutions whose property is occasionally used for a public purpose to accept guns in their buildings if they don’t want them there.\n“I’m not sure that the law would apply to those,” he said.\nThe law is intended for “when we lease buildings and put people in them for a long time,” he said.\nHe said he hopes the concealed-carry law can be clarified with regard to polling sites before the 2014 elections in August and November.\n“Obviously in general I support the law,” he said. But, he added, the polling-place issue “is something that is going to have to be sorted out at the state level.”\nIndependence police investigating early morning shooting at Gates Bar-B-Q\nCommunity Center in Prairie Village\nBy Glenn E. Rice\nSo far this year, more than a dozen teens have been killed in shootings in the Kansas City area. Leaders say more is needed to address the issues of gun violence among youth.\nWoman admits role in crashing car into KCK sports store to steal shotguns and rifles\nVideo shows masked suspects in shooting of Gates Bar-B-Q worker in Independence","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1107484"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9442790746688843,"wiki_prob":0.9442790746688843,"text":"Coast Guard boat overturns off NYC, crew safe\nFrank Franklin II\n<p>A Fire Rescue vessel passes a Coast Guard vessel that has overturned Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, in the Queens borough of New York. Authorities say the Coast Guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran aground in an inlet off New York City. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)</p>\nNEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a Coast Guard vessel overturned while assisting a fishing boat that ran aground off New York City.\nFive Coast Guard crew members and seven fishermen escaped without serious injury during the incident early Thursday off the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.\nThe Coast Guard crew members, wearing protective gear, swam to shore. A helicopter with a rescue basket was used to lift fishermen to safety.\nCoast Guard spokeswoman Ali Flockerzi says an overnight storm may have been a factor. She says the 25-foot Coast Guard boat was hit by 10 to 12 foot waves.\nThe Coast Guard got a distress call at 2 a.m. from the 76-foot fishing boat, the Carolina Queen III. The fishing boat initially was taking on water. Its crew got that under control, then ran aground. The boat eventually came to rest in shallow water just off the beach.\nThis story has been corrected to show that the rescue occurred on the Atlantic side of the Rockaway Peninsula and not in an inlet.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line348571"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9020431041717529,"wiki_prob":0.9020431041717529,"text":"HOME • META SEARCH • TRANSLATE\nList of shipwrecks in September 1942 Information\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_September_1942\nTable of Contents ⇨\nThe list of shipwrecks in September 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1942.\n28 29 30 Unknown date\nList of shipwrecks: 1 September 1942\nCrown City United States The 5,433- gross register ton, 410-foot (125.0 m) motor vessel was wrecked on the coast of Sledge Island in the Bering Sea off the west-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. Much of her cargo – foodstuffs, mobile machinery, Quonset huts, clothing, coal, ore, gasoline, airplane parts, and a deck load of lumber – was salvaged. [1]\nIlorin United Kingdom World War II: The coaster was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Guinea off Legu, Gold Coast ( 5°00′N 1°00′W / 5.000°N 1.000°W / 5.000; -1.000) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 33 of her 37 crew. [2]\nPurga Soviet Navy World War II: The Uragan-class guard ship was sunk in Lake Ladoga by German aircraft. [3]\nU-756 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 57°41′N 31°30′W / 57.683°N 31.500°W / 57.683; -31.500) by HMCS Morden ( Royal Canadian Navy) with the loss of all 43 crew.\nGazon United Kingdom World War II: The freighter was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Aden north of Cape Guarafui ( 13°01′N 50°41′E / 13.017°N 50.683°E / 13.017; 50.683) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [4]\nHMS LCP(L) 83 Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (large) was lost on this date. [5]\nOktyabr Soviet Navy The auxiliary gunboat was sunk on this date. [6]\nPassat Germany World War II: The tanker was bombed and sunk at Saint-Nazaire, France in an Allied air raid. The wreck was raised and scrapped in 1949. [7]\nRostov-Don Soviet Navy The auxiliary gunboat was sunk on this date. [8]\nPB-35 Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The patrol boat, a former Momi-class destroyer, was bombed and sunk off Santa Isabel Island ( 07°16′S 158°03′E / 7.267°S 158.050°E / -7.267; 158.050) by a US Army Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft of the 11th Bomb Group. 92 crewmen were killed. [9]\nRTShch-124 Soviet Navy The K-15/M-17-class river minesweeping launch was sunk on this date. [10]\nSperrbrecher 164 Bitsch Kriegsmarine World War II: The Sperrbrecher struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands. [11]\nTeikyu Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kinkasan Harbour, Honshū ( 42°08′N 141°15′E / 42.133°N 141.250°E / 42.133; 141.250) by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy). One crewman was killed. [12]\nU-222 Kriegsmarine The Type VIIC submarine collided in the Baltic Sea off Pillau, West Prussia ( 54°25′N 19°30′E / 54.417°N 19.500°E / 54.417; 19.500) with U-626 ( Kriegsmarine) and sank with the loss of 48 of her 51 crew. [13]\nArnon Palestine World War II: The coaster was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Tartus, Syria by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived. [14]\nChita Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk at Kinkasan Harbour by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy). [12]\nDonald Stewart Canada World War II: Convoy LN-7: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ( 50°32′N 58°46′W / 50.533°N 58.767°W / 50.533; -58.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 20 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Shawinigan and HMCS Trail (both Royal Canadian Navy). [15]\nF 355 Kriegsmarine The Type A Marinefahrprahm was sunk on this date. [16]\nHollinside United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) of Cape Sines, Portugal (approximately 38°N 19°W / 38°N 19°W / 38; -19) by U-107 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of the 51 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Spanish trawlers. [17]\nKaimei Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kinkasan Harbour, Honshū ( 40°14′N 141°51′E / 40.233°N 141.850°E / 40.233; 141.850) by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy). [18]\nMiriam Palestine World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Tartus, Syria by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived. [19]\nOcean Might United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 0°57′N 4°11′W / 0.950°N 4.183°W / 0.950; -4.183) by U-109 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of four of her 54 crew. Survivors reached land in their lifeboats. [20] [21]\nOktyabr Soviet Navy World War II: The gunboat was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]\nPenrose United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 3 nautical miles (5.6 km) off Cape Sines (approximately 38°N 19°W / 38°N 19°W / 38; -19) by U-107 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 45 crew. Survivors were rescued by a Spanish trawler. [22]\nProletari Soviet Union World War II: The tug was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]\nRostov-Don Soviet Navy World War II: The gunboat was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]\nS 27 Kriegsmarine World War II: The E-boat was sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by one of her own torpedoes. [11]\nSalina Palestine World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 5 nautical miles (9.3 km) north of Tartus, Syria by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived. [23]\nTenyu Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Kinkasan Harbour by USS Guardfish ( United States Navy. [24]\nU-162 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type IXC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Trinidad ( 12°21′N 59°29′W / 12.350°N 59.483°W / 12.350; -59.483) by HMS Pathfinder, HMS Quentin and HMS Vimy (all Royal Navy) with the loss of two of her 51 crew.\nU-705 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay ( 46°42′N 11°07′W / 46.700°N 11.117°W / 46.700; -11.117) by an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft of 77 Squadron, Royal Air Force with the loss of all 45 crew. [25]\nUSS Wakefield United States Navy The troopship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. She was taken in tow by Foundation Frankin ( Canada) on 5 September and beached at McNab's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on 8 September. Refloated on 14 September, eventually towed to Boston, Massachusetts, where she was declared a constructive total loss but was repaired and returned to service.\n41 Soviet Union World War II: The barge was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea off the Taman Peninsula by S 27, S 28, S 72 and S 102 (all Kriegsmarine). [11]\nAmatlan Mexico World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico ( 23°27′N 97°30′W / 23.450°N 97.500°W / 23.450; -97.500) by U-171 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 34 crew. [26]\nKashino Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The ammunition ship was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea off the east coast of Formosa ( 25°45′N 122°42′E / 25.750°N 122.700°E / 25.750; 122.700) by USS Growler ( United States Navy). [27]\nPadenna Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea approximately 45 nautical miles (83 km) north of Tobruk, Libya by HMS Thrasher ( Royal Navy). [28]\nPolluce Regia Marina World War II: The Spica-class torpedo boat was sunk by British aircraft north of Tobruk, Libya. [29]\nHSwMS Sjöborren Swedish Navy The Sjölejonet-class submarine collided with Virginia ( Sweden) and sank in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of Sweden. [11]\nAlbachiara Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk off Derna, Libya by HMS Traveller ( Royal Navy). [30]\nUSS Gregory United States Navy World War II: The high-speed transport, a former Wickes-class destroyer, was sunk in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal by the destroyers Hatsuyuki, Murakumo and Yūdachi (all Imperial Japanese Navy).\nUSS Little United States Navy World War II: The high-speed transport, a former Wickes-class destroyer, was sunk in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal by the destroyers Hatsuyuki, Murakumo and Yūdachi (all Imperial Japanese Navy).\nLord Strathcona Canada World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in Conception Bay, Newfoundland ( 47°35′N 52°29′W / 47.583°N 52.483°W / 47.583; -52.483) by U-513 ( Kriegsmarine). All 44 crew survived. [32]\nMyrmidon United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Palmas, Liberia ( 0°45′N 6°27′W / 0.750°N 6.450°W / 0.750; -6.450) by U-506 ( Kriegsmarine). All 245 people on board were rescued by HMS Brilliant ( Royal Navy). [33]\nSaganaga United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in Conception Bay, Newfoundland ( 47°35′N 52°29′W / 47.583°N 52.483°W / 47.583; -52.483) by U-513 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 30 of her 44 crew. [34]\nAeas Greece World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Saint Lawrence River ( 49°10′N 66°50′W / 49.167°N 66.833°W / 49.167; -66.833) by U-165 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 31 crew. [35]\nAnshun United Kingdom\nThe wreck of Anshun in Milne Bay.\nWorld War II: The cargo ship was sunk in Milne Bay by gunfire from the light cruiser Tenryū ( Imperial Japanese Navy) in a night attack. Two American gunners were killed. [36]\nBritannic Finland World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Aalborg, Denmark. [11]\nHelen Forsey United Kingdom World War II: The schooner was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) east south east of Bermuda ( 28°35′N 57°35′W / 28.583°N 57.583°W / 28.583; -57.583) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her six crew. [37]\nJohn A. Holloway Canada World War II: Convoy GAT 2: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea north of Gallinas Punta, Colombia ( 14°10′N 71°30′W / 14.167°N 71.500°W / 14.167; -71.500) by U-164 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 24 crew. [38]\nNo. 44 Soviet Navy The G-5-class motor torpedo boat was lost on this date. [39]\nTaika Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the South China Sea off the east coast of Formosa by USS Growler ( United States Navy). She split in two and sank in two minutes. [27]\nTurkian Egypt World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 20 nautical miles (37 km) off Khan Yunis by U-375 ( Kriegsmarine). All 19 crew survived. [40]\nTuscan Star United Kingdom World War II: The cargo liner was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) south west of Cape Palmas, Liberia ( 1°34′N 11°39′W / 1.567°N 11.650°W / 1.567; -11.650) by U-109 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 51 of the 114 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Otranto ( United Kingdom). [41]\nUSS YP-74 United States Navy Carrying a unit of Seabees, the yard patrol boat sank in Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands with the loss of four lives after colliding in fog with the merchant cargo ship Derblay ( United States). [42] [43]\nMount Pindus Greece World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence south of Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada ( 48°50′N 63°46′W / 48.833°N 63.767°W / 48.833; -63.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 37 crew. [44]\nMount Taygetus Greece World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence south of Anticosti Island ( 48°50′N 63°46′W / 48.833°N 63.767°W / 48.833; -63.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 28 crew. [45]\nOakton Canada World War II: Convoy QS-33: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence south of Anticosti Island ( 48°50′N 63°46′W / 48.833°N 63.767°W / 48.833; -63.767) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her twenty crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Q083 ( Royal Canadian Navy). [46]\nPuchero Panama The cargo ship was driven ashore at Punta Herrero, Mexico ( 19°18′N 87°27′W / 19.300°N 87.450°W / 19.300; -87.450) and was declared a total loss. The wreck was broken up in 1943. [47]\nHMCS Raccoon Royal Canadian Navy World War II: Convoy QS-33: The armed yacht was torpedoed and sunk in the Strait of Belle Isle ( 49°01′N 67°17′W / 49.017°N 67.283°W / 49.017; -67.283) by U-165 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 37 crew. [48]\nTor II Faroe Islands World War II: The trawler was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south of Iceland ( 62°30′N 18°30′W / 62.500°N 18.500°W / 62.500; -18.500) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 18 of her 21 crew. [49]\nOcean Venture United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 37°05′N 74°46′W / 37.083°N 74.767°W / 37.083; -74.767) by U-108 ( Kriegsmarine). [50]\nTynningö Sweden World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the North Sea off Borkum, Lower Saxony, Germany. [11]\nHenca Netherlands World War II: The coaster was bombed and sunk in the English Channel by aircraft of 263 Squadron, Royal Air Force. She was on a voyage from Cherbourg, France to Alderney, Channel Islands. [11]\nK-2 Soviet Navy World War II: The K-class submarine struck a mine and sank in Tanafjord. [11]\nMAS 571 Regia Marina World War II: The MAS 552-class MAS boat was bombed and sunk at Yalta by Ilyushin Il-4 aircraft of the Soviet Naval Air Force. [51] [52]\nUSCGC Muskeget United States Navy World War II: The weather ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 53°00′N 42°30′W / 53.000°N 42.500°W / 53.000; -42.500) by U-755 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 121 people on board. [54]\nPeiping Sweden World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 23°50′N 50°10′W / 23.833°N 50.167°W / 23.833; -50.167) by U-66 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 34 crew. [55]\nUSS YP-346 United States Navy World War II:The yard patrol boat was shelled and sunk in the Solomon Islands off Tulagi by Sendai ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [56]\nZhan-Tromp Soviet Union World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk at Novorossiysk by S 102 ( Kriegsmarine). [11]\nFor the loss of the Dutch cargo liner Alhena on this date, see the entry for 28 January 1941.\nList of shipwrecks: 10 September 1942\nAmerican Leader United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 800 nautical miles (1,500 km) west of Cape Town, South Africa ( 45°44′7″S 9°46′1″E / 45.73528°S 9.76694°E / -45.73528; 9.76694) by Michel ( Kriegsmarine). [57]\nArno Regia Marina ( Red Cross): World War II: The hospital ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by Royal Air Force aircraft 40 nautical miles (74 km) north east of Ras el Tin, Libya.\nElisabeth van Belgie Belgium World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 51°30′N 28°25′W / 51.500°N 28.417°W / 51.500; -28.417) by U-96 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 56 crew. [58]\nEmpire Oil United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON 157: The tanker straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 51°23′N 28°13′W / 51.383°N 28.217°W / 51.383; -28.217) by U-659 ( Kriegsmarine). She was then torpedoed and sunk the next day by U-584 ( Kriegsmarine). All 53 crew were rescued by HMCS Ottawa and HMCS St. Croix (both Royal Canadian Navy). [59] [60]\nHaresfield United Kingdom World War II: The freighter was torpedoed and sunk in the Arabian Sea ( 13°05′N 54°35′E / 13.083°N 54.583°E / 13.083; 54.583) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [4]\nHMS MGB 335 Royal Navy World War II: The Fairmile C motor gunboat was shelled and sunk in the North Sea by Kriegsmarine surface vessels. [61]\nSveve Norway World War II: Convoy ON 127: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U-96 ( Kriegsmarine). All 39 crew were rescued by HMCS Sherbrooke ( Royal Canadian Navy). [63]\nZuiun Maru Japan World War II: The coaster collided with Kuroshio Maru ( Imperial Japanese Army) whilst in convoy from Moji to Takao, Formosa and sank. [64]\nHMCS Charlottetown Royal Canadian Navy World War II: Convoy SQ 30: The Flower-class corvette was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St Lawrence 11 nautical miles (20 km) off Cap-Chat, Quebec by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of eight of her 64 crew.\nCornwallis Canada World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk at Bridgetown, Barbados ( 13°05′N 59°36′W / 13.083°N 59.600°W / 13.083; -59.600) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine). She was raised, repaired and returned to service in August 1943. [65]\nDelães Portugal World War II: The schooner was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 50°03′N 29°32′W / 50.050°N 29.533°W / 50.050; -29.533) by U-96 ( Kriegsmarine). All 54 crew survived. [66]\nEmpire Dawn United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Cape Town, South Africa by Michel ( Kriegsmarine). The attack continued after ship surrendered. Michel's captain, Helmuth von Ruckteschell was convicted of a war crime over this incident.\nFjordaas Norway World War II: Convoy ON 127: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 51°16′N 29°08′W / 51.267°N 29.133°W / 51.267; -29.133) by U-218 ( Kriegsmarine) and was abandoned by her crew. She was later reboarded and reached the Clyde on 15 September. Subsequently repaired and returned to service in December 1942. [67]\nHelgeland United States The 82-ton, 76-foot (23.2 m) halibut schooner was seen for the last time at Port Vita ( 58°03′50″N 153°04′20″W / 58.06389°N 153.07222°W / 58.06389; -153.07222 (Port Vita)) on Raspberry Island in the Territory of Alaska′s Kodiak Archipelago. She subsequently disappeared with the loss of her entire crew of 10. [68]\nHindanger Norway World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean ( 49°39′N 32°24′W / 49.650°N 32.400°W / 49.650; -32.400) by U-584 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 40 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Amherst ( Royal Canadian Navy), which scuttled the ship. [69]\nHokushu Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sun in the Pacific Ocean off the Marshall Islands by USS Narwhal ( United States Navy). [70]\nJussi H. Finland World War II: Continuation War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by a S-13 ( Soviet Navy) off Öregrund, Sweden ( 60°21′N 18°00′E / 60.350°N 18.000°E / 60.350; 18.000). [71] [72]\nKanto Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The aircraft transport was torpedoed and sunk in the central Makassar Straits, 30 nautical miles (56 km) northwest of Kendari, Celebes, Netherlands East Indies ( 03°15′S 118°27′E / 3.250°S 118.450°E / -3.250; 118.450) by USS Saury ( United States Navy). 13 passengers and 26 crewmen killed. [73] [74]\nYayoi Imperial Japanese Navy\nYayoi under attack\nWorld War II: The Mutsuki-class destroyer was bombed and sunk 8 nautical miles (15 km) northwest of Vakuta Island in the Solomon Sea ( 08°45′S 151°25′E / 8.750°S 151.417°E / -8.750; 151.417) by Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and North American B-25 Mitchell aircraft of the United States Army Air Forces and Lockheed Hudson aircraft of the Royal Australian Air Force; 68 crewmen were killed and 83 survivors were rescued by the destroyers Isokaze and Mochizuki (both Imperial Japanese Navy) from Normanby Island on 26 September. [75]\nBonden Finland World War II: Continuation War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by Shch-309 ( Soviet Navy) south of Mariehamn, Åland ( 59°55′N 19°54′E / 59.917°N 19.900°E / 59.917; 19.900). [11] [76]\nEmpire Moonbeam United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean by U-211 ( Kriegsmarine). She was then torpedoed and sunk by U-608 ( Kriegsmarine) at 48°55′N 33°38′W / 48.917°N 33.633°W / 48.917; -33.633 with the loss of three of her 55 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Arvida ( Royal Canadian Navy). [59] [77]\nHektoria United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON 127: The whale factory ship, a former White Star Line ocean liner, straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean by U-211 ( Kriegsmarine). She was then torpedoed and sunk by U-608 ( Kriegsmarine) at 48°55′N 33°38′W / 48.917°N 33.633°W / 48.917; -33.633 with the loss of one of her 85 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMCS Arvida ( Royal Canadian Navy). [78]\nHera Finland World War II: Continuation War: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by Shch-308 ( Soviet Navy) north of Åland ( 60°56′N 19°06′E / 60.933°N 19.100°E / 60.933; 19.100). [11] [79]\nIda S. Italy World War II: The sailing vessel was sunk La Maddelena, Sardinia by HMS Sahib ( Royal Navy). [11]\nLaconia United Kingdom World War II: Laconia Incident: The troopship, carrying British and Polish troops, civilians and Italian prisoners of war, was torpedoed and sunk in the South Atlantic near Ascension Island by U-156 ( Kriegsmarine). Approximately 1,600 killed, 1,100–1,500 rescued by Vichy French ships.\nNiyo Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk off Burma by Royal Air Force aircraft. [80]\nRobert Bornhofen Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed (or mined) and sunk in Porsangerfjord, Norway ( 70°43′N 25°58′E / 70.717°N 25.967°E / 70.717; 25.967). [81]\nStanvac Melbourne Panama World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Trinidad ( 10°30′N 60°20′W / 10.500°N 60.333°W / 10.500; -60.333) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 49 crew. [82]\nTrevilley United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 4°30′S 7°50′W / 4.500°S 7.833°W / -4.500; -7.833) by U-68 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of the 53 people on board. Two survivors were taken by U-68 as prisoners of war. Others were rescued by Cubango ( Portugal) and Dumont d'Urville ( Vichy French Navy) or reached land in their lifeboat. [83]\nU-88 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Arctic Ocean south of Spitzbergen, Norway by HMS Faulknor ( Royal Navy) with the loss of all 46 crew.\nWoensdrecht Netherlands World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Trinidad ( 10°27′N 60°17′W / 10.450°N 60.283°W / 10.450; -60.283) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of the 74 people on board, a survivor from Cressington Court ( United Kingdom). Survivors were rescued by two United States Navy patrol boats. U-515 fired three more torpedoes at Woensdrecht, which broke in two. The stern section sank and the bow section was towed to Trinidad. The ship was declared a total loss. [84]\nAfricander Panama World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was sunk by a torpedo from an aircraft off the Lofoten Islands. [85]\nEmpire Beaumont United Kingdom World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Arctic Sea by aircraft of KG 26, Luftwaffe.\nEmpire Lugard United Kingdom World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 12°07′N 63°32′W / 12.117°N 63.533°W / 12.117; -63.533) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine). All 47 crew were rescued by Vilja ( Norway). [59] [86]\nEmpire Stevenson United Kingdom World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea off Bear Island, Norway ( 76°10′N 10°05′E / 76.167°N 10.083°E / 76.167; 10.083) by Luftwaffe aircraft. [59]\nJohn Penn United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea ( 76°00′N 10°00′E / 76.000°N 10.000°E / 76.000; 10.000) by Luftwaffe aircraft. [87]\nLima Sweden World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Liberia ( 2°35′N 11°22′W / 2.583°N 11.367°W / 2.583; -11.367) by U-506 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 33 crew. [88]\nMacbeth Panama World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was damaged by two torpedoes from a German Heinkel He 111 off the Lofoten Islands and was scuttled by convoy escorts. No casualties. [89]\nNimba Panama World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 10°41′N 60°24′W / 10.683°N 60.400°W / 10.683; -60.400) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of twenty of her 32 crew. Survivors were rescued by USS Barney ( United States Navy). [90]\nOcean Vanguard United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 10°43′N 60°11′W / 10.717°N 60.183°W / 10.717; -60.183) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 11 of her 51 crew. Survivors were rescued by Braga ( Norway). [50] [91]\nOliver Ellsworth United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The Liberty ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Greenland Sea ( 76°10′N 10°05′E / 76.167°N 10.083°E / 76.167; 10.083) by U-408 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 70 crew. Survivors were rescued by Copeland ( United Kingdom and HMT St. Kenan, which scuttled the ship. [92] [93]\nOregonian United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Barents Sea off Bear Island, Norway ( 76°00′N 09°30′E / 76.000°N 9.500°E / 76.000; 9.500) by Luftwaffe aircraft.\nPatrick J. Hurley United States World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 950 nautical miles (1,760 km) north east of Barbados ( 22°59′N 46°15′W / 22.983°N 46.250°W / 22.983; -46.250) by U-512 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 4 gunners and 13 of her crew. 22 survivors were rescued by Etna ( Sweden on 19 September, and 23 by Loch Dee ( United Kingdom) on 2 October. [94]\nStalingrad Soviet Union World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea ( 75°52′N 7°55′E / 75.867°N 7.917°E / 75.867; 7.917) by U-408 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 21 of her 88 crew. Survivors were rescued by Royal Navy minesweepers. [95]\nStone Street Panama World War II: Convoy ON 127: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 48°18′N 39°43′W / 48.300°N 39.717°W / 48.300; -39.717) by U-594 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 13 of her 52 crew. Survivors were rescued by Irish Larch ( Ireland). [96]\nSukhona Soviet Union World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was sunk by torpedoes from a German Heinkel He 111 northwest of Bear Island, Norway. [97]\nSuriname Netherlands World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Caribbean Sea ( 12°07′N 63°32′W / 12.117°N 63.533°W / 12.117; -63.533) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 13 of her 82 crew. Survivors were rescued by a United States Navy ship. [98]\nVilja Norway World War II: Convoy TAG 5: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Caribbean Sea ( 12°15′N 62°52′W / 12.250°N 62.867°W / 12.250; -62.867) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine). The 34 crew abandoned ship but later reboarded her and sailed to Port of Spain, Trinidad, rescuing the survivors from Empire Lugard ( United Kingdom) on the way. Vilja reached New Orleans, Louisiana on 16 January 1943 and was declared a constructive total loss. She was scrapped in July 1944. [99]\nAlabastro Regia Marina World War II: The Acciaio-class submarine was sunk off Algiers, Algeria ( 37°28′N 04°34′E / 37.467°N 4.567°E / 37.467; 4.567) by a Short Sunderland flying-boat of No. 202 Squadron RAF. [100]\nAtheltemplar United Kingdom World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Greenland Sea south of Bear Island, Norway by U-457 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 61 crew. Survivors were rescued by Copeland ( United Kingdom) and HMS Offa ( Royal Navy). HMS Harrier ( Royal Navy) attempted to scuttle the ship, but was unsuccessful. Atheltemplar was later shelled and sunk at 76°10′N 18°00′E / 76.167°N 18.000°E / 76.167; 18.000 by U-408 ( Kriegsmarine). [101]\nHMS Coventry Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The C-class cruiser was bombed and damaged in the Mediterranean Sea north west of Alexandria, Egypt, by Junkers Ju 87 aircraft of the Luftwaffe. She was scuttled by HMS Zulu ( Royal Navy).\nF 159 Kriegsmarine The Type A Marinefahrprahm was sunk on this date. [102]\nHarborough United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 40 nautical miles (74 km) east of Galera Point, Trinidad ( 10°03′N 60°20′W / 10.050°N 60.333°W / 10.050; -60.333) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of her 50 crew. [104]\nI / 43 Kriegsmarine World War II: The flak boat was sunk at Tobruk, Libya by shore-based artillery. Survivors were taken as prisoners of war.\nHMS ML 352 Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Fairmile B motor launch was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk, Libya by Italian Macchi 202. [105]\nHMS ML 353 Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Fairmile B motor launch was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk, Libya.\nHMS MTB 308, HMS MTB 310,\nand HMS MTB 312 all Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Elco 77' PT boats were bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by Luftwaffe or Italian aircraft. [81]\nHMS MTB 314 Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Elco 77' PT boat was ran aground and abandoned, possibly sunk, off Tobruk. Salvaged by the Germans and put in German service as RA-10 ( Kriegsmarine). [106]\nMary Luckenbach United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter blew up and sank 600 nautical miles (1,100 km) west of North Cape, Norway ( 76°00′N 16°00′E / 76.000°N 16.000°E / 76.000; 16.000) during a German air attack when her cargo of 1,000 tons of TNT exploded. All 24 gunners and 41 crewmen were killed. [107]\nNojima Maru Japan World War II: The ammunition transport ran aground off Kiska, Alaska Territory, United States, and was wrecked. [11]\nHMCS Ottawa Royal Canadian Navy World War II: Convoy ON 127: The C-class destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 47°55′N 43°27′W / 47.917°N 43.450°W / 47.917; -43.450) by U-91 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 114 of her 183 crew.\nHMS Sikh Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Tribal-class destroyer was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk with the loss of 115 of her 190 crew.\nSperrbrecher 142 Westerbroek Kriegsmarine World War II: The Sperrbrecher struck a mine and sank in the English Channel off Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium. [11]\nU-589 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Arctic Ocean by a Fairey Swordfish aircraft of 825 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm based on HMS Avenger and also by HMS Onslow (both Royal Navy) with the loss of all 44 crew. [108]\nWacosta United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was disabled by concussion from the explosion of Mary Luckenbach ( United States), later sunk with out casualties by German torpedo bombers west of North Cape, Norway ( 76°05′N 16°00′E / 76.083°N 16.000°E / 76.083; 16.000). [109]\nHMS Zulu Royal Navy World War II: Operation Agreement: The Tribal-class destroyer was bombed and damaged in the Mediterranean Sea off Tobruk by Macchi C.200 aircraft of the Regia Aeronautica. She sank the next day.\nBoston Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship collided with USS Seal ( United States Navy) in the Pacific Ocean off Palau and sank. [110]\nBreedijk Netherlands World War II: The cargo ship was torpeoded and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 5°05′S 8°54′W / 5.083°S 8.900°W / -5.083; -8.900) with the loss of two of the 52 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Cubango ( Portugal), Royal Navy vessels or reached land in their lifeboats. [111]\nInger Elisabeth Norway World War II: Convoy SQ-36: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Cap-des-Rosiers, Quebec, Canada ( 48°49′N 64°06′W / 48.817°N 64.100°W / 48.817; -64.100) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 26 crew. [112]\nKioto United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean east of Tobago ( 11°05′N 60°46′W / 11.083°N 60.767°W / 11.083; -60.767) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine). She went aground at Columbus Point. U-514 shelled her the next day and she burnt out with the loss of twenty of her 74 crew. Survivors were rescued by Trinidad ( Trinidad). [113]\nHMS LCP(L) 29, Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (large) was lost on this date. [114]\nHMS LCP(R) 617 Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (ramped) was lost on this date. [115]\nUSS O'Brien United States Navy World War II: The Sims-class destroyer was torpedoed and damaged in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal by I-19 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). She sank on 19 October between Suva, Fiji and Pago Pago, American Samoa due to damage inflicted. All crew were rescued.\nR 66 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Räumboot struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Finland. [11]\nRavens Point United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was sunk at Gibraltar by Italian frogmen. [11]\nSaturnus Netherlands World War II: Convoy SQ-36: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Cap-des-Rosiers ( 48°49′N 64°06′W / 48.817°N 64.100°W / 48.817; -64.100) by U-517 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 36 crew. [116]\nSonderberg Germany World War II: The factory ship was bombed and severely damaged at Cherbourg, France by Douglas Boston aircraft of 107 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Gutted by fire, she was subsequently scuttled as a blockship in June 1944. The wreck was dispersed by explosives in January 1947. [117]\nSørholt Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 10°45′N 60°00′W / 10.750°N 60.000°W / 10.750; -60.000) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of seven of the 38 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Royal Navy motor torpedo boats. [118]\nStar No. 71 United States The 39- gross register ton, 61.4-foot (18.7 m) scow sank off the Territory of Alaska. [119]\nU-261 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom ( 59°50′N 9°28′W / 59.833°N 9.467°W / 59.833; -9.467) by an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley aircraft of 58 Squadron, Royal Air Force with the loss of all 43 crew. [120]\nUSS Wasp United States Navy\nWorld War II: The Wasp-class aircraft carrier was torpedoed and damaged in the Pacific Ocean near Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands by I-19 ( Imperial Japanese Navy) with the loss of 193 of her 2,167 crew. She was scuttled by USS Lansdowne ( United States Navy).\nCommercial Trader United States World War II: The Design 1099 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 75 nautical miles (139 km) east of Trinidad ( 10°30′N 60°15′W / 10.500°N 60.250°W / 10.500; -60.250) by U-558 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 38 crew. [121]\nEmpire Soldier United Kingdom World War II: Convoy ON-127: The cargo ship was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean east of St. John's, Newfoundland ( 47°35′N 51°44′W / 47.583°N 51.733°W / 47.583; -51.733) in a collision with Tanker F. J. Wolfe ( United Kingdom). [122]\nJoannis Greece World War II: Convoy SQ 36: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ( 49°10′N 67°05′W / 49.167°N 67.083°W / 49.167; -67.083) by U-165 ( Kriegsmarine). All 32 crew survived. [123]\nOcean Honour United Kingdom World War II: The Ocean ship was torpedoed, shelled, and sunk in the Gulf of Aden ( 12°48′N 50°50′E / 12.800°N 50.833°E / 12.800; 50.833) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). 15 crewmmen and 5 Gunners killed. Her Captain, 29 crewmen and 3 Gunners rescued from a remote Island by R.A.F. aircraft. [4]\nHMS Talisman Royal Navy World War II: The T-class submarine struck a mine and sank in the Sicilian Passage with the loss of all 63 crew. [81]\nU-457 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Barents Sea ( 75°05′N 43°15′E / 75.083°N 43.250°E / 75.083; 43.250) by HMS Impulsive ( Royal Navy) with the loss of all 45 crew. [124]\nAstrid Denmark World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Skaggerak 15 nautical miles (28 km) south east of the Hals Lighthouse. Her crew survived. She was salvaged in 1943. [125]\nCarbonia Italy World War II: The cargo ship was bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea, 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Hammamet, Tunisia by British aircraft. [11] [18]\nKarpfanger Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk by Handley Page Hampden aircract of 489 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force south of Egersund, Norway. Twenty-three survivors were rescued by M 5209 ( Kriegsmarine). [11] [126]\nMae United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 41 nautical miles (76 km) north of Georgetown, British Guiana ( 8°03′N 58°13′W / 8.050°N 58.217°W / 8.050; -58.217) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 41 crew. Survivors were rescued by Gypsum King ( United Kingdom and Sørvangen ( Norway). [127]\nPeterton United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north west of the Cape Verde Islands, Portugal ( 18°45′N 29°15′W / 18.750°N 29.250°W / 18.750; -29.250) by U-109 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of nine of her 43 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Canna ( Royal Navy) and Empire Whimbrel ( United Kingdom). [128] [129]\nRostro Italy World War II: The salvage vessel was sunk with gunfire by HMS United ( Royal Navy) off Zliten, Libya. [130]\nV-39 Giovanna Regia Marina World War II: The auxiliary submarine chaser was sunk with gunfire by HMS United ( Royal Navy) off Misurata, Libya. [131]\nHMT Waterfly Royal Navy World War II: The naval trawler was bombed and sunk in the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent by Axis aircraft. [132]\nF 533 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type C Marinefahrprahm was bombed and sunk in the Black Sea by Soviet Naval Air Force Ilyushin Il-4 aircraft. [133] [134]\nFZ-3 Kriegsmarine World War II: The minesweeping boat was bombed and sunk in the Black Sea by Soviet Naval Air Force Ilyushin Il-4 aircraft. [135]\nSS Kentucky United States World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The freighter was attacked by German aircraft and sunk by aerial torpedo without casualties 35 miles (56 km) off Cape Kanan, Soviet Union. Survivors were rescued by two British minesweepers. [136]\nNorfolk Canada World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Georgetown, British Guiana ( 8°36′N 59°20′W / 8.600°N 59.333°W / 8.600; -59.333) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of six of her 19 crew. Survivors were rescued by Indaucha ( Spain). [137]\nOlaf Fostenes Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 44°56′N 41°05′W / 44.933°N 41.083°W / 44.933; -41.083) by U-380 ( Kriegsmarine). All 36 crew were rescued by HMS Firedrake ( Royal Navy). [138]\nHMS Alouette Royal Navy World War II: The naval trawler was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 10 nautical miles (19 km) west of Cape Espichel, Portugal by U-552 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 17 of her 44 crew. [139]\nMonte Gorbea Spain World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km) east of Martinique ( 14°55′N 60°00′W / 14.917°N 60.000°W / 14.917; -60.000) by U-512 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 52 of the 77 people on board. [140]\nHMS Pentland Firth Royal Navy World War II: The naval trawler was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off of the Ambrose Lightship off Sandy Hook, New Jersey ( 40°25′N 73°55′W / 40.417°N 73.917°W / 40.417; -73.917) in a collision with USS Chaffinch ( United States Navy). [141]\nQuebec City United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 2°12′S 17°36′W / 2.200°S 17.600°W / -2.200; -17.600) by U-156 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of her 46 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Decoy ( Royal Navy). [142]\nShirogane Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The Kogane Maru-class transport was torpedoed and damaged in the Bougainville Strait, 11 miles east of Lulaui Point, Bougainville ( 06°33′S 156°05′E / 6.550°S 156.083°E / -6.550; 156.083) by USS Amberjack ( United States Navy). Three crewmen were killed. The ship was towed to Buin and beached on 20 September and abandoned on 16 October 1942. [143] [144]\nWichita United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) northeast of Barbados by U-516 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 50 crew. [145]\nEmpire Hartebeeste United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 100: The Design 1013 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 56°20′N 38°10′W / 56.333°N 38.167°W / 56.333; -38.167) by U-596 ( Kriegsmarine). All 46 crew were rescued by Norhauk and Rio Verde (both Norway).\nHMS Leda Royal Navy World War II: The Halcyon-class minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea south west of Spitsbergen, Norway by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 45 crew, whilst providing escort duties for Convoy QP 14. Survivors were rescued by Rathlin and Zamalek (both United Kingdom). [81] [146] [147]\nM 4448 Antoine Henriette Kriegsmarine World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper struck a mine in the Bay of Biscay and sank or was beached. [11] [148]\nReedpool United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 240 nautical miles (440 km) south east of Trinidad ( 8°58′N 57°34′W / 8.967°N 57.567°W / 8.967; -57.567) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of the 58 people on board. Survivors were rescued by Millie M. Masher ( United Kingdom). [149]\nSilver Sword United States World War II: Convoy QP 14: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea ( 75°52′N 0°20′W / 75.867°N 0.333°W / 75.867; -0.333) by U-255 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of one of her 64 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rathlin and Zamalek (both United Kingdom). [150]\nHMS Somali Royal Navy World War II: Convoy PQ 18: The Tribal-class destroyer was torpedoed and damaged in the Greenland Sea ( 74°40′N 2°00′W / 74.667°N 2.000°W / 74.667; -2.000) by U-703 ( Kriegsmarine). She was taken under tow by HMS Ashanti ( Royal Navy), but broke her back and sank four days later at 69°00′N 15°30′W / 69.000°N 15.500°W / 69.000; -15.500) with the loss of 67 of the 105 people on board.\nDiamant Kriegsmarine Originally she sailed under a Belgian flag, the ship was wrecked on the Dogs Nest rocks outside St Helier harbour, Jersey, Channel Islands [151] [152]\nAgnes United States The 10- gross register ton, 33.6-foot (10.2 m) fishing vessel was destroyed by fire off Brothers Island ( 57°18′N 133°50′W / 57.300°N 133.833°W / 57.300; -133.833 (Brothers Island)) in Frederick Sound in the Alexander Archipelago in Southeast Alaska. [153]\nAquila Regia Marina World War II: The auxiliary minesweeper was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy) off Tunisia. [154]\nKoei Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The net tender was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean south of Truk South Pacific Mandate ( 06°54′N 151°51′E / 6.900°N 151.850°E / 6.900; 151.850) by USS Trout ( United States Navy). [155]\nLiberia Vichy France World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy) off Tunisia. [156]\nPredsednik Kopajtic Yugoslavia World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 8°30′N 59°30′W / 8.500°N 59.500°W / 8.500; -59.500) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 31 crew. [157]\nHMS St. Olaves Royal Navy The Saint-class tugboat was wrecked off Duncansby Head, Scotland. [158]\nTone Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the East China Sea, east of Shanghai, China ( 31°18′N 123°27′E / 31.300°N 123.450°E / 31.300; 123.450) by USS Grouper ( United States Navy). [159]\nU-446 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine struck a mine and sank in the Gulf of Danzig off Kahlberg, East Prussia. She was raised on 8 November, repaired and returned to service. [160]\nApuania Italy World War II: The ship was bombed and damaged at Ras Hammamet, Tunisia by British aircraft. She was declared a total loss. [11]\nBellingham United States World War II: Convoy QP 14: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea west of Jan Mayen, Norway ( 71°23′N 11°03′W / 71.383°N 11.050°W / 71.383; -11.050) by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine). All 75 crew were rescued by Rathlin ( United Kingdom) or the convoy's escort ships. [161]\nEsso Williamsburg United States World War II: The tanker was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean 500 nautical miles (930 km) south of Cape Farewell, Greenland ( 53°12′N 41°00′W / 53.200°N 41.000°W / 53.200; -41.000) by U-211 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 60 crew. The drifting wreck was torpedoed and sunk on 3 October at 55°00′N 33°00′W / 55.000°N 33.000°W / 55.000; -33.000 by U-254 ( Kriegsmarine). [162]\nRFA Grey Ranger Royal Fleet Auxiliary World War II: Convoy QP 14: The Ranger-class tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea west of Jan Mayen ( 71°23′N 11°03′W / 71.383°N 11.050°W / 71.383; -11.050) by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of six of her 39 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rathlin ( United Kingdom). [163]\nKano Maru Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: The transport was torpedoed and damaged by USS Grunion ( United States Navy), with only one of three torpedoes that hit actually detonating, off Kiska, Alaska, on 31 July 1942. She was towed to Kiska Harbor, and remained there until she was washed ashore and wrecked by a storm on 22 September 1942 1 1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Kiska Harbor. [164]\nLeonardo Palomba Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 8 miles (13 km) off Kuriat, Tunisia by HMS Unruffled ( Royal Navy). [165]\nOcean Voice United Kingdom World War II: Convoy QP 14: The Ocean ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Greenland Sea ( 71°23′N 11°01′E / 71.383°N 11.017°E / 71.383; 11.017) by U-435 ( Kriegsmarine). All 89 people on board were rescued by HMS Seagull ( Royal Navy) and Zamalek ( United Kingdom). [50] [166]\nPaul Luckenbach United States World War II: The freighter was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean 800 miles (1,300 km) off the coast of India ( 10°03′N 63°42′E / 10.050°N 63.700°E / 10.050; 63.700) by I-29 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). [4]\nRTShch-121 Soviet Navy The K-15/M-17-class river minesweeping launch was sunk on this date. [167]\nAthelsultan United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 100: The tanker was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Farewell, Greenland ( 58°42′N 33°38′W / 58.700°N 33.633°W / 58.700; -33.633) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 51 of her 61 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Nasturtuim ( Royal Navy) and HMCS Weyburn ( Royal Canadian Navy). [168]\nB D Co. No. 5 United States The 37-ton, 49-foot (14.9 m) scow foundered in the Bering Sea near Sledge Island ( 64°29′N 166°13′W / 64.483°N 166.217°W / 64.483; -166.217 (Sledge Island)), Territory of Alaska. [169]\nBruyère United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 250 nautical miles (460 km) south west of Freetown, Sierra Leone ( 4°55′N 17°16′W / 4.917°N 17.267°W / 4.917; -17.267) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine). All 51 crew were rescued by HMS Decoy, HMS Petunia and HMT Sir Wistan (all Royal Navy). [170]\nLindvangen Norway World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 9°20′N 60°10′W / 9.333°N 60.167°W / 9.333; -60.167) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 15 of her 23 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Helene ( Royal Navy). [171]\nHMAS Siesta Royal Australian Navy The patrol boat suffered an explosion and burned to the waterline at Fremantle, Australia. Four of her crew were injured.\nTennessee United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 100: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Cape Farewell ( 58°40′N 33°41′W / 58.667°N 33.683°W / 58.667; -33.683) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 15 of her 35 crew. Survivors were rescued by USCGC Ingham ( United States Navy) and HMS Nasturtium ( Royal Navy). [172]\nVibran Norway World War II: The refrigerated cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 42°45′N 42°45′W / 42.750°N 42.750°W / 42.750; -42.750) by U-582 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 56 people on board. [173]\nAntinous United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Trinidad ( 8°58′N 59°33′W / 8.967°N 59.550°W / 8.967; -59.550) by U-515 ( Kriegsmarine). She was abandoned by her 48 crew but was later reboarded. She was taken in tow by HMS Zwarte Zee ( Royal Navy) but was torpedoed and sunk on 25 September by U-512 ( Kriegsmarine). All crew survived and were rescued by HMS Zwarte Zee. [174]\nDefoe United Kingdom The cargo ship exploded, caught fire and was abandoned off Rockall, Inverness-shire. She was on a voyage from Manchester, Lancashire to Famagusta, Cyprus. [175]\nEverett United States The dredge was lost at Cape Pankof on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. [176]\nFiume Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea 7 nautical miles (13 km) south east of Rhodes, Greece by Nirefs ( Hellenic Navy). [177]\nJohn Winthrop United States World War II: Convoy ON 131: The Liberty ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 56°00′N 31°00′W / 56.000°N 31.000°W / 56.000; -31.000) by U-619 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 52 crew. [87] [178]\nLosmar United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean east of One and a Half Degree Channel 08°06′N 74°23′E / 8.100°N 74.383°E / 8.100; 74.383 by I-165 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). 3 crewmen killed in the sinking and 24 did not survive before being rescue. [180]\nPenmar United States World War II: Convoy SC 100: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy due to damaged steering gear. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 58°12′N 34°35′W / 58.200°N 34.583°W / 58.200; -34.583) by U-432 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 62 crew. Survivors were rescued by USCGC Bibb ( United States Navy). [181]\nRoumanie Belgium World War II: Convoy SC 100: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 58°10′N 28°20′W / 58.167°N 28.333°W / 58.167; -28.333) by U-617 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 42 of her 43 crew. The survivor was taken on board U-617 as a prisoner of war. [182]\nSphinx Egypt World War II: The sailing ship was shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Tiros, Lebanon by U-561 ( Kriegsmarine). [183]\nWest Chetac United States World War II: The Design 1013 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 100 nautical miles (190 km) north of Georgetown, British Guiana ( 8°45′N 57°00′W / 8.750°N 57.000°W / 8.750; -57.000) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 31 of her 50 crew. Survivors were rescued by USS Roe ( United States Navy). [184]\nBoston United Kingdom World War II: Convoy RB 1: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Farewell, Greenland ( 53°23′N 27°54′W / 53.383°N 27.900°W / 53.383; -27.900) by U-216 ( Kriegsmarine). All 65 crew were rescued by HMS Veteran ( Royal Navy). [185]\nEmpire Bell United Kingdom World War II: Convoy UR 42: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 62°19′N 15°27′W / 62.317°N 15.450°W / 62.317; -15.450) by U-442 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 41 crew. Survivors were rescued by Lysaker IV ( Norway).\nHMS LCV 798 Royal Navy The landing craft, vehicle was lost on this date. [186]\nNavigator Finland World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Baltic Sea off Trelleborg, Sweden. [187]\nTeibo Maru Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the South China Sea east of Saigon, French Indochina ( 10°31′N 109°31′E / 10.517°N 109.517°E / 10.517; 109.517) by USS Sargo ( United States Navy). [188]\nU-253 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type VIIC submarine struck a mine and sank in the Atlantic Ocean northwest of Iceland ( 67°00′N 23°00′W / 67.000°N 23.000°W / 67.000; -23.000) with the loss of all 45 crew. [189]\nVledderveen Netherlands World War II: The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Öresund. [187]\nHMAS Voyager Royal Australian Navy World War II: The W-class destroyer ran aground off Timor ( 09°15′S 125°45′E / 9.250°S 125.750°E / -9.250; 125.750) on 23 September. Discovered by the Japanese on 24 September and bombed beyond repair under the circumstances. Scuttled on 25 September. Crew rescued by HMAS Kalgoorlie and HMAS Warrnambool (both Royal Australian Navy). [190]\nI-33 Imperial Japanese Navy The B1 type submarine sank at Truk due to a loss of buoyancy from a bungled retrimming attempt while being repaired. 33 crewmen killed. Raised 29 December 1942. Towed to Kure for repairs in March 1943. Repairs finished 1 June 1944. She sank again in the Iyo Nada near Kure, Japan during diving trials 16 June 1944. [191]\nM-60 Soviet Navy World War II: The M-class submarine was sunk by a mine of a flanking barrage laid by the minelayers Amiral Murgescu, Regele Carol I and Dacia ( Royal Romanian Navy). [192]\nNew York United Kingdom World War II: Convoy RB 1: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 54°34′N 25°44′W / 54.567°N 25.733°W / 54.567; -25.733) by U-91 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 54 crew. They are named on the Tower Hill Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. [193] [194]\nTambour Panama World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 8°50′N 59°50′W / 8.833°N 59.833°W / 8.833; -59.833) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of eight of her 32 crew. Survivors were rescued by Thalatta ( Norway). [195]\nHMS Veteran Royal Navy World War II: Convoy RB 1: The V-class destroyer was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by U-404 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 134 crew, and 63 of the 65 survivors from Boston ( United Kingdom). The two survivors from Boston were rescued by New Bedford ( United States). [185]\nYorktown United Kingdom World War II: Convoy RB 1: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 550 nautical miles (1,020 km) west of the Butt of Lewis ( 55°10′N 18°50′W / 55.167°N 18.833°W / 55.167; -18.833) by U-619 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 18 of her 60 crew. Survivors were rescued by HMS Sardonyx ( Royal Navy). [196]\nFrancesco Barbaro Italy World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Ionian Sea off Navarino, Greece by HMS Umbra ( Royal Navy). [11]\nGazelle Kriegsmarine The patrol boat collided with Themis ( Norway) and sank off Lervik, Norway. [197]\nRadio United States The 76- gross register ton, 74.8-foot (22.8 m) fishing vessel was wrecked on a reef in Shuyak Strait ( 58°29′N 152°36′W / 58.483°N 152.600°W / 58.483; -152.600 (Shuyak Strait)) between Shuyak Island and Afognak Island in the Kodiak Archipelago. Her crew of nine survived. [198]\nStephen Hopkins United States World War II: The Liberty ship and the auxiliary cruiser Stier ( Kriegsmarine) shelled and sank each other in the South Atlantic Ocean at 28°08′S 11°59′W / 28.133°S 11.983°W / -28.133; -11.983. The survivors of Stephen Hopkins reached Brazil in lifeboats a month later. During combat with Stier and the month-long ordeal in the lifeboats that followed it, 41 of the 55 men aboard Stephen Hopkins – 32 of 40 civilian crewmen and nine of the 15-man United States Navy Armed Guard detachment – died. [199]\nStier Kriegsmarine World War II: The auxiliary cruiser and the Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins ( United States) shelled and sank each other in the South Atlantic Ocean ( 28°08′S 11°59′W / 28.133°S 11.983°W / -28.133; -11.983). Two of her crewmen were killed. Survivors were rescued by the cargo ship Tannenfels ( Kriegsmarine). [200]\nU-165 Kriegsmarine World War II: The Type IXC submarine was depth charged and sunk in the Bay of Biscay ( 47°00′N 5°30′W / 47.000°N 5.500°W / 47.000; -5.500) by a Vickers Wellington aircraft of 311 Squadron, Royal Air Force with the loss of all 51 crew. [201]\nAlcoa Mariner United States World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 20 nautical miles (37 km) off the mouth of the Orinoco River, Venezuela ( 8°57′N 60°08′W / 8.950°N 60.133°W / 8.950; -60.133) by U-175 ( Kriegsmarine). All 54 crew were rescued by Turret Cape ( Canada). [202]\nAntonico Brazil World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off the mouth to the Marowijne River ( 5°30′N 53°30′W / 5.500°N 53.500°W / 5.500; -53.500) by U-516 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 16 of her 40 crew. [203]\nHMS LCP(R) 1019 Royal Navy The landing craft, personnel (ramped) was lost on this date. [204]\nLagés Brazil World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Amazon Estuary 75 nautical miles (139 km) north of Salinas ( 0°13′N 47°47′W / 0.217°N 47.783°W / 0.217; -47.783) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of three of her 49 crew. She was salvaged, repaired and returned to service post-war. [205]\nNefco No. 2 United States The 30- gross register ton, 55.4-foot (16.9 m) scow sank off Naked Island ( 60°40′N 147°25′W / 60.667°N 147.417°W / 60.667; -147.417 (Naked Island)) in Prince William Sound on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. [206]\nOzório Brazil World War II: The Design 1074 cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Amazon Estuary 75 nautical miles (139 km) north of Salinas ( 0°03′N 47°45′W / 0.050°N 47.750°W / 0.050; -47.750) by U-514 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of five of her 39 crew. She was salvaged, repaired and returned to service post-war. [207]\nTamon Maru No. 6 Japan World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean south of Hokkaido by USS Nautilus ( United States Navy). [11]\nBaron Ogilvy United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Cape Palmas, Liberia ( 2°30′N 14°30′W / 2.500°N 14.500°W / 2.500; -14.500) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of eight of her 40 crew. Survivors were rescued by Mouzinho ( Portugal). [208]\nEmpire Avocet United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean off Liberia ( 4°05′N 13°23′W / 4.083°N 13.383°W / 4.083; -13.383) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of two of her 56 crew. Two survivors were taken on board U-125 as prisoners of war, the rest were rescued by HMS Cowslip ( Royal Navy).\nFranz Rudolf Germany World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Baltic Sea by Shch-310 ( Soviet Navy). [11]\nLifland United Kingdom World War II: Convoy SC 101: The cargo ship straggled behind the convoy. She was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean ( 56°40′N 30°30′W / 56.667°N 30.500°W / 56.667; -30.500) by U-608 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of all 29 crew. [209]\nRegistan United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 140 nautical miles (260 km) off Barbados ( 12°37′N 57°10′W / 12.617°N 57.167°W / 12.617; -57.167) by U-332 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of 16 of her 54 crew. Survivors were rescued by Rio Neuquen ( Argentina). [210]\nV 312 Hanseat Kriegsmarine The Vorpostenboot ran aground and was wrecked. [211]\nUSS YC-898 and USS YC-899 United States Navy The non-self-propelled covered lighters sank while under tow off Key West, Florida. [212]\nAlipore United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north east of Georgedtown, British Guiana ( 7°09′N 54°23′W / 7.150°N 54.383°W / 7.150; -54.383) by U-516 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of ten of her 83 crew. Survivors were rescued by the fishing schooner United Eagle ( British Guiana). [213] [214]\nAmiral Pierre Vichy France World War II: Battle of Madagascar: The cargo ship was intercepted in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar by HMAS Nizam ( Royal Australian Navy) and was scuttled. [81] [215]\nCamila Panama World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Indian Ocean by I-166 ( Imperial Japanese Navy). She was beached on the Indian coast and was subsequently declared a total loss. [11]\nKumsang United Kingdom World War II: The passenger ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 300 nautical miles (560 km) south of Freetown, Sierra Leone ( 4°07′N 13°40′W / 4.117°N 13.667°W / 4.117; -13.667) by U-125 ( Kriegsmarine) with the loss of four of the 114 people on board. [216]\nHMS MGB 18 Royal Navy World War II: The BPB 70'-class motor gun boat was shelled and sunk by Kriegsmarine surface ships off Terschelling, The Netherlands. [217]\nSiam II United Kingdom World War II: The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the Atlantic Ocean south west of Monrovia, Liberia ( 3°25′N 15°46′W / 3.417°N 15.767°W / 3.417; -15.767) by U-506 ( Kriegsmarine). She was sunk by a coup de grâce in the early hours of 1 October. All 39 crew were rescued by Nagpore ( United Kingdom). [218]\nUnknown date\nList of shipwrecks: Unknown date 1942\nGene United States The 8- gross register ton, 32.5-foot (9.9 m) motor cargo vessel was wrecked on Rye Island on the south-central coast of the Territory of Alaska. [219]\nNo. 64 Soviet Navy The Sh-4 Type motor torpedo boat was lost sometime in September. [220]\nPSB&D Co. #6 United States The 247- gross register ton, 92-foot (28.0 m) cargo scow was lost at Unimak Bight ( 54°35′N 164°10′W / 54.583°N 164.167°W / 54.583; -164.167 (Unimak Bight)) off Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands. [221]\nSmeraldo Regia Marina The Sirena-class submarine was lost in the Mediterranean Sea. 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Retrieved 15 September 2016.\n^ alaskashipwreck.com Alaska Shipwrecks (P)\nShip events in 1942\nShip launches: 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947\nShip commissionings: 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947\nShip decommissionings: 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947\nShipwrecks: 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947\nShipwrecks 1939–45, by month\nRetrieved from \" https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_shipwrecks_in_September_1942&oldid=899197119\"\nLists of shipwrecks by year\nMaritime incidents in September 1942\nLIST OF SHIPWRECKS IN SEPTEMBER 1942\nYoutube | Vimeo | Bing |\nPOPULAR INDEXES\nGoogle | Yahoo | Bing\nMeta Search Engine | Map | Travel Reviews","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line96489"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9871312975883484,"wiki_prob":0.9871312975883484,"text":"Chloe Sevigny Talks ‘American Horror Story: Asylum’\nChloe Sevigny Talks American Horror Story: Asylum\n— November 7th, 2012\nAmerican Horror Story is one of the few shows on the air where fans will be treated to a new cast of characters each season. This year, the show moved to the East Coast insane asylum Briarcliff, where one of the patients is the nymphomaniac Shelley, played by Chloë Sevigny. The actress recently held a conference call to discuss her role on American Horror Story: Asylum, which continues with \"I Am Anne Frank\" Wednesday, November 7 at 10 PM ET on FX. The actress first discussed what drew her to the show.\n\"I guess it was having watched the first season and just being a fan of the show. I just thought it was so rich, the production design and costumes and how much detail went into it and I just thought it was wildly entertaining. I was hoping the second season would be as much so. I didn't get to read any scripts prior to signing on, so I was kind of going in on blind faith hoping that it would be what I wanted it to be and it's proven so.\"\nShe also revealed that the wealth of female characters in the asylum was also a selling point.\n\"I think with this season, he's exploring different things from the first like you said before. I think there's a lot of really good characters, how women are accused of being this, that, and the other thing. I think it's like they're wildly represented in the season. As a woman, as a female viewer I like that pitch.\"\nThe actress talked about the shocking revelation that Shelley lost both of her legs on the operating table, and the challenges that brings to her performance.\n\"I think she's pretty pissed off. I think she feels pretty helpless and I think in the beginning you kind of like not so much rooting for her. You think she's this bad girl and then see her helping Evan's character and ... character trying to escape and you realize that she's pretty selfless in that regard. I think after she gets in the clutches of the evil doctor, I think you're then kind of more rooting for her and hoping that she can escape or find a way out. So I think the character goes through a lot. The audience goes through a lot with the character. The prosthetic pieces that they put on made it impossible to straighten my legs, so I had to keep my legs bent all day and I had to be wheeled around in a wheelchair and I was feeling quite helpless. It was a strange feeling to have to need assistance to do lots of different things. And that was probably the most challenging part, feeling kind of helpless in that way. \"\nShelley is diagnosed as a nymphomaniac, although the actress herself doesn't exactly believe there is such an affliction.\n\"I don't know if people truly are addicted to that. There's so much talk about it as of late. I think that she was a little wild and her husband had it within his power to commit her and I think kind of once she's in there, she kind of goes with it to come to who she is and how she identifies herself. So I think that she probably yes really likes sex. All the reaction, I don't know if she's quite a real nymphomaniac.\"\nShe also teased that Arden (James Cromwell) has some intriguing plans in store for Shelley.\n\"I guess it's kind of under wraps, but yes, he transforms her into something else. I don't how much more dialogue I have. There's lots of gurgling. You see her transformed into something, something not so pleasant to look at.\"\nThe actress also said she surprised herself during an early scene where she touches herself during a fight at the asylum.\n\"I found myself like during that scene where Kit is fighting in the first episode, like her being turned on by the violence. Like oh my God I'm really like going for it with this part, so I guess I surprised myself in that sense, in that scene.\"\nYou can watch Chloë Sevigny as the nymphomaniac Shelley in American Horror Story: Asylum, which continues with \"I Am Anne Frank\" Wednesday, November 7 at 10 PM ET on FX.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1745732"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.888798713684082,"wiki_prob":0.888798713684082,"text":"Back to OCA\nOpening Ceremony of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang\nOCA General Assembly and day one of competition at 2018 Asian Games\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day two of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day three of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day four of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day five of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day six of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day seven of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day eight of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day nine of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Day 10 of competition\nJakarta Palembang 2018: Closing Ceremony\n42 sports and 484 events will be contested at the 2018 Asian Games.\nA total number of 462 medal sets will be awarded at the 2018 Asian Games across 47 sports.\nForty-five nations are set to participate at the 2018 Asian Games.\nThe 2018 Asian Games will mark the second time that Indonesia has hosted the event with Jakarta having done so in 1962.\nThe 2018 Asian Games will be the 18th edition of the event, which was first held in 1951 in New Delhi.\nChina go into the 2018 Asian Games as the all-time medal count with 2,976 - 1,355 gold, 928 silver and 693 bronze.\nVenues at the 2018 Asian Games will be divided into four clusters, located in South Jakarta, North Jakarta, Jakarta's suburbs and in Palembang.\nPalembang is a 47-minute flight from Jakarta.\nThe Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, built for when Jakarta hosted the 1962 Asian Games, will host athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Asian Games.\nThe Athletes' Village for the 2018 Asian Games will be located in North Jakarta.\nIndonesia’s President Joko Widodo inaugurated the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, which will host athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Asian Games, in January 2018.\nBridge, jet ski, jujitsu, kurash, paragliding, pencak silat, sambo, skateboarding and sport climbing are all set to make their Asian Games debut at Jakarta-Palembang 2018.\nAthletics is a compulsory sport has featured at all 17 previous editions of the Asian Games.\nThe Asian Games basketball tournaments were seen as the unofficial Asian championships until the Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was formed in 1960.\nBridge will become the fourth mind sport to appear at the Asian Games when it makes its debut at Jakarta-Palembang 2018, following in the footsteps of chess, go and xiangqi.\nIndia has won all nine of the gold medals awarded in kabaddi since the sport made its Asian Games debut in 1990.\nA total of 13,000 volunteers will be required for the duration of the 2018 Asian Games, including some 2,000 in Palembang.\nVolunteer roles are available for high-profile duties such as protocol assistants, National Olympic Committee assistants and liaison officers.\nVolunteers at the 2018 Asian Games will wear specially designed, distinctive, eye-catching uniforms.\nThe Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Games, at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, will feature around 10,000 performers.\nThere will be a 5,000-strong paid workforce on duty during the 2018 Asian Games.\nThe trio of animal mascots chosen for the 2018 Asian Games are bird of paradise \"Bhin Bhin\", single-horned rhinoceros \"Kaka\" and Bawean deer \"Atung\".\nThe first Asian Games to introduce a mascot was New Delhi 1982 when Appu, an elephant, was chosen.\nAice, Samsung, Asia Pulp Paper and Danone Aqua are all official sponsors of the 2018 Asian Games.\nSsangyong Information and Communications Corp, Canon, Pocari Sweat and Indofood are all official partners of the 2018 Asian Games.\nIndonesia signed a Host City Contract for the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang during the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly in Incheon in 2014.\nJakarta is the capital of Indonesia and located on the northern coast of West Java.\nJakarta is home to nine million people.\nJakarta was officially proclaimed the national capital of Indonesia in 1949, four years after the country’s independence from The Netherlands.\nJakarta has hosted the Southeast Asian Games more than any other country in the region, having staged the multi-sport event in 1979, 1987, 1997 and 2011, when they co-hosted with Palembang.\nPalembang is the seventh-largest city in Indonesia.\n2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games Medals Table\nChina 132 92 65\nJapan 75 56 74\nKorea, Republic Of 49 58 70\nIndonesia 31 24 43\nBalich Worldwide Shows to create Opening and Closing Ceremonies at 2018 Asian Para Games\nBalich Worldwide Shows will create and produce the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Para Games in Indonesia, it has been announced.\nThe Italian firm, involved in 20 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies including at Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016, will work alongside the Indonesian group Royalindo Convention International to create the shows.\nThe 2018 Games in Jakarta will be the third edition of the Asian Para Games and will run from October 6 to 13.\nThe Opening Ceremony will be held in the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium and will celebrate the “spirit of one country”, it is claimed.\nIt will celebrate the importance “that Indonesia is a multitude of different individuals”.\nThe Opening Ceremony will be held in Jakarta's Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, which also hosted the Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Games ©Getty Images\nBalich said in a statement it would be an “honour” to help create the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of this year’s event.\nThe 2018 Asian Games has already taken place across Jakarta and Palembang, having run from August 18 to September 2.\nChina topped the medals table with 132 golds, 92 silvers and 65 golds.\nChina also finished top of the medals table at the last Asian Para Games in 2014, where they won 174 golds, 95 silvers and 48 bronze medals.\nThis year's Asian Para Games are already set to break records, according to organisers.\nThe Organising Committee have announced they are expecting nearly 3,000 athletes to compete, more than any other previous edition.\nThere will also be more nations competing, 43, and more medals on offer, 568, than at any other Asian Para Games.\nBack to Jakarta Palembang 2018 home page\nSeptember 2018: Ternate welcomes Asian Para Games flame\nSeptember 2018: IWBF announce team of international technical officials for 2018 Asian Para Games\nSeptember 2018: Records broken before Asian Para Games even begin\nAugust 2018: IWAS training held for technical officials and referees in Jakarta\nJune 2018: Organising Committee holds celebration to mark 100-days-to-go until 2018 Asian Para Games","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1444331"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.780375599861145,"wiki_prob":0.780375599861145,"text":"Home Brand DS Performance Formula E DS Techeetah 2018-2019 Season 5\nDS Techeetah 2018-2019 Season 5 Formula E\nBack to listBack to list\nDS TECHEETAH HEADS TO MONACO TO EXTEND ITS CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD\nThe ninth round of the ABB FIA Formula E 2018/2019 Season sets sail in Monaco on 11 May 2019. DS TECHEETAH enter the round as championship leaders for the Teams, with drivers André Lotterer and Jean-Éric Vergne in second and sixth place respectively in the Drivers' championship.\nThe famous Monaco circuit plays host to the all-electric street racing series for the third time in championship history. The two DS E-TENSE FE19 Gen2 cars will battle it out with the 20 other Gen2 cars on an adapted street circuit in the municipality across 12 turns and 1,765 km.\nMark Preston, DS TECHEETAH Team Principal: “We head to Monaco seven points ahead of our nearest rival so it’s still a very close championship order. Both of our drivers are in a good position for the drivers’ title and André also is current leader of the voestalpine European races.\n“We’re once again in a fortunate position to be leading the Teams’ championship and be in the mix for the Drivers’ one, and it’s all down to our incredible team. In all my years in motorsport, I’ve never seen a group of people this passionate and dedicated. We may be a small team, but we’re a very efficient one.”\nXavier Mestelan Pinon, DS Performance Director: “We’re in the middle of a very intense part of the season right now. We’re working at full speed on the development of the season six and seven powertrain whilst competing at the forefront of season five. We’re currently leading the Teams’ championship and we want to fight in Monaco to keep this intact. At that stage in the season, the battle is very close, and all the points matter. We are here to win the titles.”\nAndré Lotterer #36: “I’m super excited to drive the DS E-TENSE FE19 around the Monaco track for the first time this week. I’ve lived in Monaco since 2012 but I’ve never raced here so that will be a first. It will be amazing to wake up at home, have a coffee on the balcony and then walk down to the track, it’s not many times in your career you get to do that. “I’m incredibly motivated to have a good result in Monaco. I’ve had two second places now so it’s time to turn that into a first place. As a driver, winning is all that you think about. You live and breathe it so being close yet so far really triggers you to wanting it even more and I will give it all I got. It’s all about every single little point as the championship is a numbers game in the end of the day and we can’t take any gambles.”\nJean-Éric Vergne, #25: “With five races to go, it’s getting really exciting now. With eight different winners in eight races, anything is possible. Monaco is a track I enjoy driving and it helps that I’ve driven here before. Just like the Grand Prix circuit, the Formula E circuit is super tricky to overtake on so it will be as important as ever to qualify well. All my focus will be on putting it all together to ensure I grid at the top.”\nABOUT DS TECHEETAH\nDS TECHEETAH Formula-E team is a Chinese racing team in the all-electric street racing series, ABB FIA Formula E. The team is owned by SECA (Shanghai) Limited.\nThe team won the 2017/2018 Drivers' Championship title with Jean-Éric Vergne and together with André Lotterer, the team secured second place in the Teams' Championship in the 2017/2018 season of Formula E.\nHeading into the 2018/2019 season e of the all-electric championship, TECHEETAH has partnered with DS Automobiles to become DS TECHEETAH.\nABOUT CHINA MEDIA CAPITAL (CMC)\nChina Media Capital (\"CMC\"), founded and chaired by Ruigang Li, is one of the most prestigious names in media and entertainment investment and operation in China and global markets. CMC has created and grown a number of champions and emerging leaders in the sectors of media and entertainment, Internet and mobile, and life style, covering film, television, music, sports, location-based entertainment, financial media, financial data service, online-video, smart TV, advertising, social network, game, online-education, e-commerce, O2O and etc.\nABOUT SECA\nHeadquartered in Shanghai, SECA is a leading Chinese sports marketing and management company specializing in sports talent representation, event management and content/IP development. The company's investors include China Media Capital (CMC) Holdings and member of NBA Hall of Fame, Yao Ming.\nABOUT DS AUTOMOBILES\nDriven by the avant-garde spirit and backed by an exceptional heritage of the 1955 DS, DS Automobiles, launched in 2015, aims to embody French luxury savoir-faire in the automotive industry. DS Automobiles is the PSA Group's Premium brand.\nDesigned for customers seeking personal expression and eager for the latest technologies, the second-generation DS models combine refinement and advanced technology. With the SUVs DS 7 CROSSBACK and DS 3 CROSSBACK, the DS brand is launching a range of six worldwide vehicles, all offered in electrified versions under the E-TENSE signature.\nFor its demanding customers, DS Automobiles has created \"ONLY YOU, the DS experience\", its exclusive service program for a unique brand experience.\nPresent in 32 countries, the DS brand has created and is developing an exclusive distribution network that includes 400 DS STORES and DS SALONS throughout the world in early 2019.\nFollow all DS news on www.DSautomobiles.com @DS_Official\nUK PRESS CONTACT\nKevin Jones – Head of Communications, DS Automobiles - UK Communications\n+44 (0)2476 884215 / +44 (0)7880 786596 / kevin.jones@DSautomobiles.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line2787"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7344017028808594,"wiki_prob":0.7344017028808594,"text":"Home Economy New Chinese mega-resort in Bahamas points way to future\nNew Chinese mega-resort in Bahamas points way to future\nBaha Mar, a $3.5 billion seaside gambling resort, will be the largest such development in and around the Caribbean. Given the boost in Cayman’s tourism numbers and demographics of the Islands’ visitors, the giant hotel and casino is not expected to have much of an impact here.\nThe tourism industry of an island nation near Cuba and only a short flight from the United States is about to make worldwide news with the opening of a $3.5 billion seaside gambling resort that will become the largest such development in and around the Caribbean.\nAnd by the way, the travel and hotel executives and financiers readying their announcement, chilling bottles of celebratory Champagne and preparing to count proceeds from hundreds, even thousands of new paying visitors don’t have anything to do with the Cayman Islands.\nThey are, in fact, investors in and employees of Baha Mar, a 1,000-acre super-resort on New Providence island in the Bahamas, a warm, sunny stroll from the Commonwealth’s biggest city, Nassau.\nThe build-out has been somewhat slow going, and, as with many projects in the Caribbean, developers say, the grand opening has been moved back over and over, and deadlines have been reset time and again. But then, the scope of this particular development is vast. Within the coming months, after the construction dust settles and the roar of earth movers fades, the sprawling site will include:\nSome 3,000 feet of manicured beach\nA convention, arts and entertainment center comprising 200,000 square feet of flexible space, along with a 30,000-square-foot gallery exhibiting the largest collection of Bahamian art in the island chain\nThe 100,000-square-foot Baha Mar Casino, described as the largest gaming center in the Caribbean\nAn attached 1,000-room luxury hotel, the Baha Mar, replete with ocean views and spas, and corridors that zip people onto the gaming floor\nThe Grand Hyatt at Baha Mar, a 700-room resort hotel\nAn 18-hole, 72-par Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course\nThe Rosewood 200-room beach-view hotel with 5,000-square-foot ballroom\nThe SLS Lux 300-room hotel, including private residences and luxury amenities\nThe Melia Nassau Beach Resort, an existing 694-room hotel that is undergoing renovation\nResidential condominiums priced as high as $10 million\nAn ocean of swimming pools amid a grove of slender palm trees\nAnd 40 restaurants, bars and lounges encompassing shops and kiosks, all filling 74,000 square feet of what the developers call “the Bahamian Riviera.\nBeyond its array of architectural, cultural, commercial, culinary and entertainment features, Baha Mar also has an unexpected genesis.\nWhat has been rising over a wedge-shaped plot since 2011 is the first major resort site conceived, largely financed and designed by both private and state investors from China.\nBaha Mar could become the very place that connects the rapidly expanding Asian economic behemoth with one of the great outdoor playgrounds of the Western world – the Caribbean.\nOver the last couple of years, this sun-kissed basin between Central America and the Atlantic Ocean, from Florida to the Colombian and Venezuelan coasts, has seen leisure travel heat up from the world’s economic chill. Cruises are more numerous, flights more frequent, and hotel occupancy higher than in the previous seven years, studies show. The Cayman Islands have benefited as well.\nNot a threat to Cayman tourism\nDoes the addition of a giant gambling resort near Nassau threaten tourism prosperity in the rest of the Caribbean? Ken Hydes, president of the Cayman Islands Tourism Association, thinks not.\n“To tell the truth, I haven’t thought much about this development in the Bahamas,” he said. Hydes and the CITA board are confident the visitor economy in Cayman is on sound footing, without mega-resorts or mega promotion budgets – and without gambling.\nIn part, that’s because the travelers Cayman has always attracted still seek a Cayman-like experience, not that of Las-Vegas-by-the-sea. CITA and the government’s Tourism Department have focused on marketing to their traditional demographic niche.\nThat niche is changing, Hydes acknowledges. Just as the Bahamas expects a flood of visitors from the world’s largest emerging nation, China, “We’ve been seeing more Russians and other Eastern Europeans visiting here” as they move up the economic ladder, he said.\n“We’re seeing all kinds of change in this industry, but we’re not threatened by it. I’d be more worried about Baha Mar if I were running Atlantis.”\nHe was referring to the other Bahamas jumbo-resort with a casino, Atlantis on Paradise Island.\nWith all the developments, “We think the Caribbean is going to benefit from growth in leisure travel in the years to come,” Hydes said.\nThe Cayman Islands Department of Tourism also welcomes the gambling resort to the region’s tourism mix. Director of Tourism Rosa Harris said the department “has been aware of the Baha Mar project for many years,” adding, “its introduction will no doubt bring new travelers to the Caribbean.”\nShe expressed similar confidence to Hydes that “we are able to deliver on a brand experience that cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the world. We call it ‘Caymankind.’”\nIn short, Harris said, Baha Mar is no threat to Cayman’s tourism success, which has increased significantly in recent years.\nSimilarities, differences\nTechnically, the Bahamas archipelago doesn’t rise from the Caribbean Sea. The Commonwealth’s 700-plus islands lie solidly in the Atlantic Ocean. But the demographic mix, economy, culture and political alliances make it a longtime member of the Caribbean community. In fact, its British heritage and principal economic features – dependency on tourism and offshore banking are aspects it has in common with Cayman.\nAnd, in recent history, the visitors who have come to enjoy these two paradises have come from the same places – the U.S., Canada and the U.K., as well as the rest of Western Europe.\nCross-cultural experiment\nTravel industry experts, like those at STR, the Nashville, Tennessee-based global brand benchmarking company focused on hotel and travel brands, hint that Baha Mar might be a giant cross-cultural experiment that could change international leisure travel.\n“There is this huge rising middle class in China,” notes Bobby Bowers, senior vic president of operations at STR. “It’s only natural that with the Chinese building this big resort in the Caribbean, they will reach out and try to encourage some of their own people, the ones with more wealth and their relatively new freedom to travel internationally, to vacation in the Caribbean.”\nIndeed, a year-old report from Oxford Economics, which studies and consults on travel, said China, chief among some other emerging nations, will become the driving force of the travel industry through the mid-2020s.\nNow that an international economic crisis has loosened its grip on leisure spending, some citizens of emerging countries like Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and, of course, China, the biggest of them all, will find the means to roam the globe. Plus, as Bowers said, “Along with their increased wealth, middle class people in China finally have more freedom to travel, too.”\nTravel agency giant Amadeus, which helped finance the 2014 Oxford Economics study, said China’s global travel could become a full 20 percent of the total by 2023, crowding the industry beyond what we can now imagine.\nFor Chinese interests to own and run a gambling resort on the scope of Baha Mar would seem to be part and parcel of this international trend in travel – and a good bet for the resort’s owners.\nChina’s role in Bahamas resort\nChina flexed its muscles in many ways during the development of the huge Bahamas resort. In negotiations over how the multi-billion-dollar project would proceed, the Chinese government and companies insisted that they would ship more than 4,000 Asian workers to live in barracks near Nassau and toil at the construction site.\nChina has used this labor model for a range of projects and in other locales, including in Sri Lanka and Angola.\nThat was a feature the developers wanted in their deal with the Bahamian government, and it was one to which the host nation agreed, despite the Bahamas having an unemployment rate of 15.7 percent at the beginning of 2015. Further, on the more urbanized island of New Providence, where Baha Mar has been under construction, the unemployment rate reached 16 percent this year.\nThe Tribune newspaper in the Bahamas reported yet worse economic news: “Youths between 15 and 24” – the ages of many of the construction workers on New Providence – “continued to face a considerably higher rate [of unemployment].”\nThe paper said that recent data put the unemployment rate for young workers at 31 percent. Meanwhile, at the peak of construction, a study showed that 70 percent of the resort’s labor was made up of foreign nationals, most of them the then-4,200 Chinese brought there by the main contractor, China State Construction Engineering Corp.\nHowever, a 2,900-room resort community requires a lot of resident workers year after year, not just the ones who build the structures.\nKimberly Hanson, a spokeswoman for the Dallas, Texas-based Rosewood Hotel Group, which has a small luxury hotel on the Baha Mar property, said, “We expect visitors from all over the world there, but we do expect lots of Chinese visitors.” Thus, the flow of Chinese nationals as guests, lured to the Caribbean by promotional messages, could make it easy to discount the economic contributions of a few thousand construction workers for a couple of years.\nBaha Mar executives also think the China connection will aid the resort in its cross-island competition with Atlantis. Just weeks ago, Brookfield Asset Management, with majority ownership of Atlantis, announced the departure of its top executive, George Markantonis. His replacement, Paul Burke, now serves as president and managing director.\nIn its published statement about the transition, Atlantis said nothing about the towering Baha Mar buildings taking shape just a few miles away. Markantonis, who left for a job in Las Vegas, expressed his “full confidence the property will continue to flourish under Paul’s leadership.” Meanwhile, the new mega-resort was chugging toward its launch.\nOpening delayed\nThere remains the issue of when, exactly, Baha Mar will open to guests. In 2014, the promise was that the Rosewood, the Grand Hyatt and the Baha Mar Casino & Hotel would open by December 2014, in time for most of the development to reap a fine harvest from the high-impact winter season. Delays shifted the opening to early March, then to late March and now to early May. Rosewood’s Hanson said that is still the target for launching the resort.\nThe Grand Hyatt says likewise, and so does Baha Mar management.\nBut why all the delays? Labor issues surfaced for one thing. In January, a hotel workers union voted to strike over compensation. Restaurant and bar management companies along with financial executives and bureaucrats back in China wanted to reduce their gratuities below the standard 15 percent, negatively effecting their wages. The dispute went on for months.\nA group of 60 Chinese workers marched on Nassau’s central business district, protesting that some of them had not been paid in months. Another delay.\nDay-to-day decisions that, in the Chinese central-government manner, had to be deferred to functionaries in Beijing caused yet further slowdowns. Pretty soon the bitter cold 2015 winter in much of Canada and the Midwest and Northeast United States gave way to signs of spring, when the get-away-to-the-Caribbean season becomes a memory.\nAfter initial delays, resort executives set March 27 as opening day. On March 25, executives blamed construction managers for more delays. “Subsequently,” they said in a statement, “it has become clear that the contractor has not completed the work with an attention to detail consistent with Baha Mar standards of excellence.” Hence, the latest delay until early May.\nAlso, resort managers said not all four new hotels are guaranteed to open in May. The Grand Hyatt, they said, may open “shortly thereafter,” and renovations on the fifth hotel will continue for an indeterminate time.\nThe loss of business of its once-planned first high season will cost the development tens of millions, resort executives say. Plus, the setbacks have won Baha Mar some unkind digs.\nA hotel industry blog, “Hotel Chatter,” gave the resort a backhand award for “worst Hotel Hype,” saying its continuing delays seriously undercut the project’s credibility and made it appear bush-league.\nBut then, common wisdom has it that the Chinese have shown themselves to be patient people. By the end of 2015, another winter will be taking hold, and tourists from cold-climate centers of wealth will be thinking about getting in a round of golf in the Caribbean sunshine or snorkeling and diving in warm waters.\n“We think we see diversity in our clientele now,” said Maria Ruiz, a nighttime desk clerk at a tourist hotel in Miami Beach. “We’ve got Brazilians, loads of Latin Americans, Russians, Indians, Japanese, Saudis, Nigerians.\n“But in a just a few years, you can bet we’ll be checking in people from absolutely everywhere, Chinese by the thousands, Indonesians, Vietnamese,” she said. “International travel is going to make the world flatter than ever.”\nThe Cayman Islands will benefit from that flatter world too. Bobby Bowers, with the consulting firm STR, said,\n“We track the occupancy of hotels all over the Caribbean – and other places, too,” he said. “[Tourism] was up last year. It’s up this year.\nAnd there’s building going on throughout the region.”\nCayman tourism on the rise\nAs reported in the Cayman Compass earlier this year, 2014 was a successful year for Cayman Islands tourism and was reflected across the region with almost every island in the Caribbean seeing an increase in visitation in what officials describe as the “best ever year” for the industry. Overall tourism arrival figures for the Caribbean were up just over 5 percent in 2014.\nThe Cayman Islands, which had a record year, was one of the top performers, seeing gains of just over 10 percent. Further, the Cayman Islands accounted for 1.4 percent of the 26 million visitors to the Caribbean in 2014.\n“Last year, we received more visitors than ever before – recording our fifth straight year of growth – and visitors spent more money in the Caribbean than they ever did before,” CTO chairman Richard Sealy said in a state of the industry report. The report indicates that tourists spent US$29.5 billion in the region last year.\nAir and cruise arrivals continue to set record levels in Cayman, and the outlook is positive again for this year.\nThe Caribbean Tourism Organization anticipates tourism growth to continue, forecasting a further 5 percent increase across the region in 2015.\nCompass reporter James Whittaker contributed to this article.\nAccommodations at ‘the new Riveria.’\nBaha Mar Hotel and Casino\nPaul Burke, president of Atlantis\nKen Hydes\nRosa Harris\ncayman islands department of tourism\ncayman islands tourism association\nPrevious articleWork permits have no negative impact on Caymanian employment\nNext articleDart, beyond Camana Bay","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1374960"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6611564755439758,"wiki_prob":0.33884352445602417,"text":"« Guest opinion: Lee County st... Reimbursement vote improper...»\nGuest opinion: Junior Achievement volunteers offer much to SW Florida students\nThe term \"philanthropy\" is often made in reference to monetary donations, but sometimes, it's not just about cutting a check.\nYes, financial assistance is critical, but time is just as important. Eight years ago, I joined a group of successful business, government and nonprofit leaders who offer their time and valuable insight to students through Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida.\nJunior Achievement is our way to share tricks of the trade with aspiring business leaders, life lessons we wished someone told us when we were teenagers or pre-teens. It can be advice on picking a college major, why it's important to have a savings account or how to be a leader and winner in life.\nBrandon Box\nTen years ago, I started working at IBERIABANK as a commercial banking intern. A decade later, my responsibilities as executive vice president and market president for the Sarasota and Fort Myers markets are vastly different. Yes, I've worked hard in advancing to this position so quickly in my career, but I didn't do it alone. I had help along the way, wisdom and guidance from my colleagues, friends and local business leaders who took the time to guide me down this path.\nWith my background in banking, most of my discussions with students center around money. Their financial decisions - good and bad - can change their lives for better or worse. Many students don't have a financial expert living in their home, and Money Management 101 isn't part of the standard school curriculum. That's why I help explain debt load, lending and borrowing, the importance of saving, basics of budgeting, paying for college and one element that seems to trip up most Americans - credit card debt.\nMy advice boils down to making sound financial decisions. Don't spend money that you don't have.\nFollowing our discussions in the classroom, students often pull me aside for questions about complex or personal issues like bankruptcy, foreclosure and options for parents who are out of work. It's questions like these that must be answered, and it's exactly why Junior Achievement is such a critical program for our youth.\nOn April 25, Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida will recognize two of my colleagues who graciously have given their time to the organization and area schoolchildren. Pason Gaddis, co-founder and CEO of Florida Media Group, LLC, and Gary Griffin, P.E., president and CEO of B & I Contractors, Inc., will be inducted into the 2018 Business Hall of Fame, Lee County. Since it was established in 1999, the Business Hall of Fame has recognized outstanding entrepreneurs and role models who demonstrate a strong commitment to the community and our next generation of leaders.\nI invite you to share in this fantastic event and help make a difference in the lives of local students. The Business Hall of Fame event will take place Wednesday, April 25, at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa, 5001 Coconut Road in Bonita Springs. A cocktail reception at 5 p.m. kicks off the event, followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. and the induction ceremony.\nTo reserve tables, purchase individual tickets or become a sponsor, call the Junior Achievement office at 239-225-2590 or visit www.JASWFL.org. Proceeds benefit local Junior Achievement programs.\nBrandon Box is executive vice president and market president for IBERIABANK's Sarasota and Fort Myers markets. Box is a regular volunteer for Junior Achievement and serves on the JA Hall of Fame board of directors.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1760968"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.897075355052948,"wiki_prob":0.897075355052948,"text":"Scandalous vote result annulled in North Caucasus\nPublished time: 4 Dec, 2009 13:50 Edited time: 4 Dec, 2009 20:38\nMayoral election results have been annulled in the city of Derbent, in Russia’s Dagestan, the first such case in the North Caucasus and the first time a vote’s outcome has been cancelled not in favor of the ruling party.\nOn December 3, the Derbent city court in the Republic of Dagestan nullified the results of the October 11 election, which was marked by a number of scandals and violations.\nAccording to official results, Felix Kaziahkmedov from the pro-Kremlin United Russia party won the mayoral seat for a second term with 67.5 per cent of the vote.\nThe action against the outcome of the vote was brought by three other candidates for the mayor’s post, including Kaziahkmedov’s main opponent, former prosecutor of the republic Imamali Yaraliev. The court ruling was based on Elkhan Kazimov’s and Salikh Ramazanov’s complaints, whilst the court hearing on Yaraliev’s complain is yet to be held.\nIt’s most likely that that the court’s decision will be appealed by the opposite side and the case will be brought before the Supreme Court, Yaraliev’s representative told gzt.ru.\n“In the lawsuit we filed, we presented proof that the elections were held with serious violations of the law – there was administrative pressure. For no reason, citizens were robbed of their right to vote. In other words, their constitutional right,” Khadir Yusupov is quoted as saying.\nAccording to official data, out of 36 polling stations in Derbent, only 23 opened on the Election Day. Yusupov, however, claims 20 polling places had their doors opened for the voters.\n“Moreover, they [the polling stations] repeatedly interrupted their work, explaining it by different reasons, including a bomb threat,” he said. Yusupov also added that there were cases when voters were expelled and said that evidence of that was provided to the court.\nSo far, the only reaction issued from Russia’s Central Election Commission has been a short statement on its website saying that the Derbent court’s decision can be appealed within 10 days.\nEarlier, the CEC Chairman Vladimir Churov said that after the voting in Derbent, eight criminal cases were launched, including alleged bribery of electors by one of the candidates, forged ballots and threats to a chairman of one of local election commissions.\n“It was not easy to hold elections there by a long way,” he said in an interview with “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” paper. The situation in Derbent is really complicated because of political infighting among the candidates and a “special economic situation”, he said back in October\nShow case?\nThe Derbent case is, in a way, unique and some are calling it “symbolic”. So far, despite opposition protests and claims of violations, no other October 11 election results have been annulled.\n“Court decisions like that are generally pretty rare,” political analyst Aleksandr Kynev is quoted as saying by Kommersant daily. It’s the first time ever in the North Caucasus – “where elections are always held with violations”- that the vote result has been cancelled.\nThe federal power, he said, intended to show that outrageous violations did not slip through the cracks and that consequences will follow even when United Russia candidates are involved.\nSome other observers go even further, saying that the Derbent case is a bad sign for Dagestan President Mukhu Aliyev, since he failed to prove he controls the situation in the republic. Aliyev’s term ends in February 2010 and chances that he will remain the Dagestan’s leader are not that high now.\nEarlier, a court in Moscow ordered a ballot recount and the city election committee filed a request to instigate a case against certain wrongdoings. The reason for the recount was a complaint by Sergey Mitrokhin – the leader of the opposition party Yabloko – who discovered that not a single vote had been cast for his party in the Khamovniki District in central Moscow where he and his family voted.\nOpposition protests\nOn October 11, about 7,000 elections for local and municipal legislatures of all levels were held in 76 of 83 constituent parts of the Russian Federation, most of them very small scale though. United Russia’s victory in almost all regions didn’t come as a surprise and the Communist Party came second in most elections, but, as usual, with a huge gap between them.\nThree days after the voting day, in protest against the election results, all three opposition parties – The Communists, the Liberal Democrats and Fair Russia – refused to take part in the State Duma session and walked out of the lower house of parliament. They claimed widespread voting irregularities and demanded an urgent meeting with President Medvedev.\nTwo days later, the Liberal Democrats and the Fair Russia party ended their boycott, whilst the Communists remained defiant, demanding an investigation into alleged vote-rigging.\nIn order to calm the opposition, Medvedev held a meeting with the three parties’ representatives on October 24 – three days earlier than the meeting was initially scheduled for.\n“There are special rules in the Constitution for disputing voting results. This is essential. There can be no electoral system without it,” Dmitry Medvedev said.\nFollowing the meeting, the Russian leader asked the CEC chief to look into the alleged fraud claims.\nThere have been very few cases in Russia’s modern history when city or regional vote results have been annulled.\nFirst post-Soviet local elections held in Chechnya\nTwo opposition parties end boycott\nRussian parliamentary protest lingers into second week\nElection inconsistencies to no effect\nOpposition wants answers from president\nElection fraud claims must be investigated - Medvedev\nUnited Russia party should change itself – Russian president\nElections in Ukraine restrict revolutionary icon\nUkrainian minister loses same job twice in two days\nBelarus opposition fail to find common ground ahead of race for presidency","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1345478"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7538802623748779,"wiki_prob":0.7538802623748779,"text":"Ryan D. Lewellyn\nCarlos P. Evans\nMax J. Myers\nLindel R. Larison\nTyson Williams\nFinance & Accounting Team\nChief Financial Officer | Founding Partner\nMr. Myers has more than 20 years of experience in the Energy sector. In his role as CFO of Tall Oak Midstream, Mr. Myers is responsible for leading the finance, accounting, risk management and capital formation aspects of Tall Oak Midstream. Prior to forming Tall Oak, Mr. Myers was treasurer of OGE Energy Corp. In this role he had oversight responsibility for cash management, corporate finance, insurance and corporate development. OGE owns the regulated utility OG&E and has a 50 percent governance interest in Enable Midstream Partners.\nPrior to joining OGE in 2005, Mr. Myers was with Westar Energy in Kansas as director of finance and corporate development. While at Westar, he spent three years in France, where he managed Westar's unregulated investment in Protection One Europe.\nMr. Myers has an undergraduate degree in business with a concentration in geology and a Master of Business Administration degree, both from the University of Kansas. He currently serves on the KU Business School's Dean's Advisory Board. In Oklahoma City he currently serves as the Treasurer of Allied Arts and is a member of the Board of Junior Achievement of OKC, where he is a former Chairman of the Board. Mr. Myers previously served on the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. Mr. Myers and his wife Janie have two boys and live in Edmond, Oklahoma.\nWebsite by TEN|10 Group\nCopyright © 2019 Tall Oak Midstream\n2575 Kelley Pointe Parkway, Suite 340","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line441857"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5004963874816895,"wiki_prob":0.5004963874816895,"text":"Case Name EEOC v. FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION aka FEDEX EE-TN-0042\nDocket / Court 98-2235GA ( W.D. Tenn. )\nState/Territory Tennessee\nCase Type(s) Disability Rights-Pub. Accom.\nEqual Employment\nOn March 9, 1998, the Washington D.C. and Memphis offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act against Federal Express Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The EEOC alleged ... read more >\nOn March 9, 1998, the Washington D.C. and Memphis offices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act against Federal Express Corporation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. The EEOC alleged that the defendants had violated the rights of the complainant by discriminating against him on the basis of his deafness.\nOn July 9, 1998, the complainant intervened in the lawsuit, but on January 12, 1999, he agreed to a stipulated dismissal of his private claims against the defendants. On April 8, 1999, the parties reached a consent decree. Under the terms of the decree, the defendants were prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against any individual who complained of discrimination. The defendants agreed to revise their recruitment and application practices to accommodate applicants who were hearing impaired. The defendant also agreed to post notice of employment discrimination laws in a conspicuous place for their employees. Within 30 days of the execution of the consent decree, the defendant agreed to write a letter to the Regional Attorney in this litigation detailing all measures that they took to comply with the decree.\nJustin Kanter - 02/22/2008\nDiscrimination Prohibition\nFollow recruitment, hiring, or promotion protocols\nOther requirements regarding hiring, promotion, retention\nPost/Distribute Notice of Rights / EE Law\nRetaliation Prohibition\nUtilize objective hiring/promotion criteria\nAccommodation / Leave\nDisability (inc. reasonable accommodations)\nPrivate Party intervened in EEOC suit\nAmericans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 12111 et seq.\nDefendant(s) Federal Express Corporation\nNature of Relief Injunction / Injunctive-like Settlement\n2:98-cv-02235-jsg (W.D. Tenn.)\nEE-TN-0042-9000.pdf | Detail\nStipulated Order of Dismissal as to Intervening Plaintiff, Robert H. Cook, Jr. [ECF# 28] (W.D. Tenn.)\nOrder on Plaintiff's Motion to Compel [ECF# 36] (W.D. Tenn.)\nConsent Decree [ECF# 55]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line413398"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9506264328956604,"wiki_prob":0.9506264328956604,"text":"Britain's Stateless Citizens\nby Daniel Simpson\nAn ongoing crime ignored by U.S. media\nDiego Garcia: The Special Relationship's Dirty Secret\nCRAWLEY, England - Allen Vincatassin is an immigrant with a difference: he wants to go back to where he came from but the British government won't let him. So he's importing his compatriots instead.\nFive hundred have joined this exodus since the chilly September dawn that greeted Vincatassin and the 18 friends and relatives he'd persuaded to trade tropical sunshine for a one-way ticket to Gatwick airport, where they hunkered under strip lighting by the toilets while he badgered officials to find them a hotel. The letter he'd received from London a few days earlier failed to deter him. \"There is no question of our offering any temporary accommodation or other means of short term financial support,\" a Foreign Office minister had insisted. No matter. After three days of belligerent phone calls and eating out of cans, they were given 30 pounds each for food and rooms in the airport Travelodge. Vincatassin's audacity had paid off; their bills were covered for six months until they'd cobbled together enough cash between them to decamp to suburbia.\nThis was no asylum-seeking stunt, however, and it drew none of the usual tabloid newspaper hysteria about refugees exposing Britain as a \"soft touch\". All 19 carried British passports, thanks to an Act of Parliament offering them the right to settle in a country they'd never seen, although its flag still flies over the coral atolls they called home until their families were expelled to make way for an American military base. For decades, these dispossessed exiles have demanded the right to return to their islands in the Indian Ocean, but to no avail. Most remain where the retreating British Empire dumped them: in the shantytowns of Mauritius and the Seychelles. Appeals for assistance have gone unheeded since 1982, when a meagre payout was authorised on the condition it would never be repeated.\n\"The passport came as a lifejacket,\" Vincatassin reflects. A short man of 35, given to grandiloquence, he puffs out his chest and surveys the living room of a squat terraced house he shares with his wife and brother in Crawley, a drab commuter belt New Town, barely five miles from the London runway where they landed three years ago. \"It was like enlightenment for me and I said, yes! At least if we are on their doorstep they'll have to do something.\"\nNot all of his fellow islanders are impressed by Vincatassin's quest to secure welfare payments for new arrivals to a community dispersed across the cul-de-sacs and crescents of Crawley's post-war housing estates. To some, it's a distraction from their ongoing struggle to resettle the depopulated Chagos archipelago and, as such, a symptom of identity crisis. The disputes over how best to seek redress from the British establishment reflect conflicting notions of what it means to be Chagossian; whether suffering is something to escape or to exhibit, whether a felicitous future lies in reviving a bygone way of life or in making the most of present opportunities.\nOlivier Bancoult, chairman of the Mauritian-based Chagos Refugee Group and claimant in a legal challenge to Britain's decree that the islands should remain uninhabited, is clear on how he sees it. \"Here is not our country,\" he said during a recess at his High Court hearing in London, which he's flown in from Port Louis to attend. \"If Allen Vincatassin cared about his fundamental right to return to his homeland, he should have taken up the case against the British government, not come here and settled.\"\nOf the two-dozen Chagossian visitors shivering alongside Bancoult in the court's public gallery this winter, just three speak enough English to have more than the faintest idea what's going on. The case unfolding beneath them turns on arcane constitutional principles and its two judges have no power to send them home, but might just reinstate a theoretical right of return that Bancoult's lawyers have already established once, before the government revoked it. Anything further-reaching is almost unthinkable: the island of Diego Garcia hosts a precious Pentagon outpost and the United States remains as opposed to the presence of indigenous people as it was when it ordered Britain to deport them 40 years ago.\n\"Our view,\" wrote Eric Newsom, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, in a letter to British officials in 2000, \"is that any settlement of a resident civilian population even on the outer islands of the archipelago would significantly degrade the strategic importance of a vital military asset unique in the region to both our governments.\" In other words, forget about it. Four years later, Britain duly obliged. Although the High Court had ruled in November 2000 that the original expulsion of the Chagos islanders constituted \"an abject legal failure\", ministers simply reinstated the law that banished them, only this time it was even tougher. Magna Carta be damned; \"No person has the right of abode,\" declared the July 2004 ordinance. To bypass Parliament, which would almost certainly have slapped down the legislation, the government used the Queen's ancient Prerogative power as a rubber stamp. As Britain has no written constitution, it is now up to the courts to determine whether, as the government insists, Her Majesty still has the right to do whatever she pleases to her subjects in colonial dominions.\n\"There is no precedent that we have been able to find in statute, case law, or indeed in history for what has been done,\" argues Bancoult's barrister, Sir Sydney Kentridge, who made his name defending Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko in their struggles against apartheid. Kentridge's opposite number says he has \"a knockout blow\", however, in the form of an 1865 statute granting the Queen unlimited power under colonial law unless Parliament expressly forbids a particular course of action. Regardless of which side the judges take when they hand down their decision later this year, the losing party is almost certain to appeal. An eventual Chagossian victory would be virtually meaningless in any case, the islanders' solicitor concedes, because it would change nothing in practice. \"I don't see any hope that the government will take anything approaching a humane view or what one might call a rational view of these people's rights,\" regrets Richard Gifford, a London lawyer who has devoted much of the past eight years to preparing Bancoult's two cases and an unsuccessful class action for compensation. \"I think they've made a policy decision: the exercise is simply to serve their master as best they can.\"\nThe United States itself has long since washed its hands of its role in what the Washington Post described in 1975 as an \"act of mass kidnapping\". Even if there were no legal duty to recompense the Chagossians, the chairman of a House of Representatives committee stressed later the same year, \"it is certainly not a glorious chapter in the compassion of the United States to deny responsibility for those people.\" Three decades later, following Bancoult's initial victory in London, an American attorney filed a lawsuit against a string of secretaries of defence, from Robert McNamara to Donald Rumsfeld, but a judge ruled they had immunity against litigation by foreigners. Either way, both the Pentagon and the State Department lay the blame for what happened at Britain's door and refer probing questions to Whitehall. \"Every time the British government feels uncomfortable they point the finger at the United States and every time the American government feels uncomfortable they point it at the United Kingdom,\" says Bancoult's Washington lawyer, Michael Tigar, who is appealing the decision against his client. \"The two parties acted in concert all along the way.\"\nUndeterred by all the stonewalling, Olivier Bancoult swears he'll never give up. An electrician by trade, he sill lives within walking distance of the tin-shack slum where he grew up in Mauritius, juggling his campaigning work with appointments to read meters. His family lost its hut on the Peros Banhos atoll, 100 miles north of Diego Garcia, when he was four. After a cart ran over his youngest sister's leg, Bancoult, his eight siblings and their parents boarded a boat for the nearest hospital, 1,000 miles away in Port Louis. When they tried to return home, they learned the local shipping company had cancelled all departures. Their island was officially off-limits; it had been \"sold\" to the U.S. military. This was depopulation by stealth: like hundreds of others in the late 1960s, the family had inadvertently signed up for a one-way passage. Their possessions were lost, their future bleak. Bancoult's father, an unskilled coconut farmer like his peers, failed to find work in Mauritius and died within a few years. One of his sisters set herself ablaze in despair. Two brothers drank themselves to death. \"Animals have better treatment than us,\" he protests. \"We have never asked for the closure of the base. As far as we are concerned we should just have the same rights as all human beings.\"\nFighting talk and faith may not be enough to sustain the expectations generated by Bancoult's original success in court. Five years on, fewer and fewer Chagossians believe they'll ever set foot on their islands again. \"Many people want to move here,\" their leader acknowledges over dinner at his suburban hotel, \"but the ticket from Mauritius is very expensive. Life in London is very expensive.\" Supporters in Britain chipped in to pay for Bancoult and his party to fly over to watch the case; another local sympathiser cooked the chicken and rice they're devouring in a corner of the hotel restaurant; all they've eaten since the morning are the leftovers they pocketed from the breakfast table. One of their number is here to stay; unlike most of the other Chagossians in the room, Jean-Paul Selmour is not wearing a woolly hat; he's acclimatising. \"I think England will become my second country,\" he says. \"I will take any job I can find. My 12-year-old daughter wants a better education.\"\nMost mornings, from first light, Crawley's extravagantly named central artery plays host to impromptu gatherings of Chagossians. Singularly lacking in greenery, The Boulevard is landscaped out of concrete and tarmac and flanked by poky discount retailers. In the shadow of the T.J. Hughes department store, and its prominently displayed sales pitch: \"Because everybody loves a bargain\", two recent immigrants swap job-hunting tips. An open-air public telephone stands beside the bench where they've congregated; across the street lies an employment agency specialising in temporary work. Dieson Tiatous, a sprightly 19-year-old, has just finished his first night shift at a bakery. Already, he's looking for something different. \"It was the same thing all night – very boring,\" he says. \"I went to this office now,\" he nods in the direction of the agency, \"and I asked them if they have other work and they told me yes, come back at one o'clock. Every day I need to come here in the morning and afternoon. I like it here but it's difficult to find a job.\"\nApart from the language barrier – Chagossians speak a Creole dialect and many, especially the elderly, are illiterate – there's paperwork to process and bureaucracy to negotiate. Enter Allen Vincatassin, pioneer of the Crawley community and now a one-man citizens' advice bureau, dispensing the insights he's gleaned from his own struggle to navigate his way around the system. Whether you need a translator, a new house, or guidance on getting a national insurance number, Vincatassin's your man. And he's indignant at the rumours that he charges for his services. \"It's my mission,\" he says. \"I help this community and I do it with joy.\" It's not just Chagossians who benefit, either. Other immigrants seek him out, so well established is his reputation as a fixer at the local social security office. \"Everybody knows Allen,\" the duty manager says. When his mobile phone rings, Vincatassin flips into a different gear. \"Do you have any witnesses?\" he asks a woman from the Cayman Islands, who's just been evicted by her landlord and wants help finding temporary accommodation. \"Is it your first year in the country? Tell them that you don't know the rules on how it works here.\"\nJudging by the religious references that pepper his speech, including a self-conscious comparison of himself to Moses, Vincatassin derives much of his inspiration from his Catholic faith, bequeathed to Chagossians in part by their original colonial masters, the French. The rest seems to stem from the memory of his grandfather Michel, who put his name to the first attempt to claim compensation from Britain in 1975. \"Every time my grandfather talked about the islands, he would cry,\" Vincatassin recalls. \"I remember one day he stopped me and said Allen, if there is one thing that you need to do, the most important thing in your life and that's where success lies, it's to fight for this cause.\"\nMichel Vincatassin's writ against the British government was filed on the strength of an eviction notice. As a supervisor on the Diego Garcian coconut plantation, he'd been summoned by the island's administrator and told there'd be no work once the Americans arrived: everyone still remaining would have to leave. Michel insisted on having the order in writing; when a prominent Mauritian lawyer got wind of this document several years later, he contacted Michel and took up the appeal. Although Britain had awarded the Chagossians £650,000 in 1973, the money was paid to the Mauritian government, which waited five years to pass it on. Inflation had eaten away most of its value in the meantime and nobody had given any thought to the housing projects it was supposed to fund. After protracted legal hearings and a series of rejected offers, Britain eventually agreed to a second payout of £4 million in 1982, provided Michel Vincatassin dropped his case. He reluctantly agreed. There was another proviso, however: to qualify for compensation, the Chagossians had to sign a document waiving their rights both to future claims and to return to their islands. Debate has raged ever since as to whether they understood the papers they marked with inky thumbprints. Either way, at less than £3,000 a head, the payout was a pittance, considering the indebted and impoverished state of its recipients.\n\"If you're thirsty, the first glass of water that appears before you, you are going to drink,\" muses Allen Vincatassin. \"You won't take into consideration whether there is any poison in it.\" Arguments such as these drew little sympathy from the British legal establishment when the Chagossians filed a fresh suit in 2002. \"Justice does not require an obviously unmeritorious case to be allowed to proceed,\" ruled the judge who threw out the claim, dismissing testimony from witnesses who swore they had no clue what they were supposed to have renounced. \"Ill-treatment does not require a hopeless case to be allowed to continue.\" Mindful of these damning statements, Vincatassin has focused his attention on a different form of financial assistance: benefit payments.\nUnder the 1948 National Assistance Act, a cornerstone of Britain's welfare state, local authorities are obliged to house adults \"who by reason of age, illness, disability or any other circumstances are in need of care and attention which is not otherwise available to them.\" This was the safety net that caught Vincatassin when he landed at Gatwick: West Sussex County Council stepped in to foot his bills. It set an expensive precedent that's cost more than £750,000 as fellow nationals flock to the same destination. Many recent arrivals have found work at the airport itself and the vast majority have settled within a 10-mile radius. Since more than 5,000 Chagossians remain eligible to relocate to the United Kingdom, local politicians are worried about the long-term implications. \"Plainly the British government owes the Chagos islanders a substantial moral debt,\" says Crispin Blunt, the Conservative MP for Reigate and Banstead, \"but if repaying this debt is left to a very small proportion of the British population then the goodwill these people deserve may rapidly dissipate.\"\nVincatassin agrees this is a concern, although he reports no hostility from Crawley residents. He's taking the government to court later this year to appeal against its ruling that Chagossians need to live here for six months before they're eligible to sign on for unemployment benefit and other centrally administered welfare payments, as he himself has done. Having been awarded full British citizenship in 2002, the islanders should be entitled to the same rights as UK natives, he argues: \"I'm a British islander born on Diego Garcia, therefore a British Diego Garcian.\" When the council sought to cut its costs by offering people plane tickets back to Mauritius, Vincatassin was incensed. \"I said if you want to send us back, send us back to Diego Garcia,\" he recalls. \"If you can't send us there then we will settle here.\"\nParadise is a vision debased by countless package holiday brochures, but the U.S. Navy wasn't exaggerating when it dubbed Diego Garcia \"Fantasy Island\". Its vast deep-water lagoon, framed by a palm-clad horseshoe of coral limestone, offers \"unbelievable recreational facilities and exquisite natural beauty,\" a Pentagon website boasts; living conditions on \"the Best Kept Secret in the Navy\" are described as \"outstanding\". Of this the former inhabitants are well aware. They once led simple lives there, husking the bountiful supply of coconuts and drying their kernels in kilns to yield a substance called copra, which they ground in donkey-driven mills to extract an oil used in cosmetics and confectionary. Although they owned no title to their land, the plantation managers let them build houses where they liked, providing sheets of tin and wooden planks, straw for the roofs and the stone that paved their floors, as well as rations of rice and corn. They kept chickens, pigs and goats, planted sweet potatoes and manioc in the fertile soil and cooked fresh fish over fires on the beach. Many never had to buy anything except clothes.\nLife was not always so idyllic, however: the original Chagossians were slaves, imported from east Africa by French plantation owners. After defeating Napoleon in the early 19th century, Britain took control of the 65 \"Oil Islands\", as the archipelago was then known, and supplemented the workforce with contracted labourers from its newly acquired colonies in Mauritius and the Seychelles. When slavery was abolished, these groups inter-married and their children mostly remained on Diego Garcia and the neighbouring clusters of atolls, Peros Banhos and Salomon. By the 1960s, when American strategists were scouring the Indian Ocean for a foothold to replace bases the British could no longer afford, the permanent population of the Chagos islands had swelled to about 2,000. This was unacceptable to military planners, who feared they would be obliged, under Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter, to honour their \"sacred trust … to develop self-government\" for these people, thereby handing them the power to veto a foreign presence. Once the United States had decided to build what it euphemistically termed \"an austere communications facility\" on Diego Garcia, diplomats preoccupied themselves with the question of how to rid the island of its inhabitants without attracting worldwide condemnation.\n\"We must surely be very tough about this,\" declared Sir Paul Gore-Booth, the permanent under-secretary at Britain's Colonial Office, in a 1966 briefing. \"There will be no indigenous population except seagulls.\" A junior colleague appended a hand-written note to this document, presumably amused at its wit: \"Unfortunately along with the birds go some few Tarzans or Men Fridays whose origins are obscure and who are being hopefully wished on to Mauritius.\" A £3 million backhander and the promise of independence secured the latter objective; the Chagos islands were duly hived off and reconstituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory, complete with its own flag: a bastardised Stars and Stripes featuring a Union Jack in the top left corner, 13 blue-and-white wavy bars and a palm tree embellished with a crown. Reclassifying the resident population as Mauritian migrant workers was more complicated, but Britain's willingness to \"make up the rules as we go along\", to quote a Foreign Office legal adviser, ensured it was done. In return, Washington rewarded Harold Wilson's Labour government with a $14 million discount on the Polaris nuclear missile system, which the Prime Minister had previously pledged not to buy. These agreements were concealed from Parliament and Congress, while officials concocted \"a whopping fib\", as one memo put it, to tell the United Nations. All that remained was to evict the islanders.\nIt would be difficult to find a Chagossian who could not recount in detail what happened next, regardless of whether it actually happened to them; their \"deracinement\", or uprooting, defines them as a people. It was a piecemeal process, drawn out over five years, in part to keep the plantations active for as long as possible so the cost of removing the workforce might be defrayed. Rations were gradually run down to persuade people to leave and those who ventured offshore found it impossible to return. Eventually, in 1971, a ship docked at Diego Garcia to evacuate those who remained. Before their eyes, the island's administrator demanded that their dogs, numbering around a thousand, be rounded up and poisoned with strychnine. So gruesome was the sight of the animals' plight, however, that he changed his mind and ordered them to be shot by an advance detachment of U.S. Navy Seabees, who had landed earlier in the year to bulldoze a runway. When this proved too difficult to accomplish quickly, the dogs were herded into a shed used to dry copra and gassed with exhaust fumes from military vehicles. Distraught, the Diego Garcians boarded their boat with a few bags of possessions and crammed into the hold for a 10-day voyage in the company of a cargo of fertiliser. Two years later, the Peros Banhos plantation closed and the final group of islanders set sail for Port Louis, where they, like the others, were simply left on the wharf to fend for themselves.\n\"The Chagossian cultural identity is all about suffering,\" stresses Steffen Johannessen, a Norwegian anthropologist who spent a year living with exiles in Mauritius. \"In order to change their situation they have to expose it, because they're dependent on other people to help them.\" Most Mauritians treat \"les Ilois\", as the islanders are known in Creole, with disdain. On arrival, they received no practical assistance to integrate themselves into local society; nobody provided training that might have helped them find work. It is hardly surprising that many turned to drugs and prostitution, or that \"sadness\" is blamed for a spate of deaths and suicides in the 1970s. The communal sense of grief can take on a life of its own, as the Chagossians found to their cost when the judge who dismissed their compensation claim accused witnesses of falsifying evidence. \"There was an element of 'collective' or 'folk memory',\" he ruled. \"Stories went round which became lodged in people's minds as events which had happened and then as events which they had witnessed.\"\nFor a while, a few years back, it seemed their luck might finally be turning. After declining to appeal a High Court judgement that invoked Tacitus (\"They make a desert and call it peace\") to declare the expulsions unlawful, the British government agreed in 2000 to investigate how to repopulate the archipelago's outer islands. The first phase of their study concluded resettlement was only feasible if the Chagossians had transport links to the outside world. Diego Garcia's 2.5-mile runway is reserved for the stealth bombers and B-52s stationed on what U.S. officials regard as \"an all but indispensable platform\" for policing the world. Without another airstrip elsewhere, it would be difficult to exploit the islands' tourist appeal, although they're already a popular yachting stopover. It's rare to find less than a dozen boats moored in the lagoons of Peros Banhos and Salomon, where they're allowed to lay anchor for months at a time on payment of daily fees to British officials. An organisation funded by the Foreign Office even publishes a leaflet suggesting visitors step ashore. \"There is nowhere in the world like Chagos,\" it proclaims. \"Get out and look for yourself.\"\nThe islanders themselves yearn for such an opportunity. For five years they've been waiting for Britain to honour a promise to let 100 of them visit the graveyards where, in a uniquely Chagossian tradition, they buried their umbilical cords beside the bodies of their ancestors. On five separate occasions, a date has been set, only for the trip to be cancelled at the last minute. In the meantime, phase two of the feasibility study on their resettlement concluded it would cost too much. The report ignored potential funding from a €20 billion European development budget for overseas territories and said rising sea levels caused by global warming would make human habitation \"highly precarious\". There are no plans to evacuate Diego Garcia, however, where two thirds of the 3,500 personnel at \"Camp Justice\" are Filipino civilians hired to work on the base. Chagossians who apply for jobs there are routinely rejected, as are their requests to return to the eastern half of the island, a designated nature reserve unused by the military. For them, the options are limited: lives of penury in Mauritius and the Seychelles or a struggle to escape by whatever means possible. \"If I were Chagossian,\" ventures a retired British diplomat, \"I would make for the UK and derive all the benefits of living here, with a future for myself and my children.\"\nEven the Grande Dame of the struggle has lost hope. Tired of wrestling policemen and starving herself on the British ambassador's lawn, Charlesia Alexis has come to Crawley to die. She spends her days sleeping, or squinting at the television in a Turkish-run guesthouse under the flight path into Gatwick. \"I don't have a future, that's why I say the future is here,\" she announces, as if addressing a crowd. \"What else can I do? The British government owes me.\" At the age of 71, she may be little more than a figurehead, albeit one with the thickset neck and splayed nostrils of a prize fighter, but she remains an inspiration and a whack of her palm is still enough to shake a table. \"When I met Charlesia at the airport I had goose bumps,\" remembers Allen Vincatassin, who is helping her apply for a pension that will buy plane tickets for her family. \"I had tears in my eyes because she represents the old battles.\" Back in the 1970s, a return to her birthplace on Diego Garcia seemed as improbable to Alexis as it does today, but the hunger strikes and street protests she coordinated persuaded British officials to improve their original compensation offer. She sees her decision to move here in the same light. \"I have come to open a door for my children so they can join me,\" she explains. \"If they don't, their children will always have problems.\"\nVincatassin agrees. \"This is the place they should have sent us originally,\" he says. \"That decision would have been wrong too, but at least the islanders who are in the UK are in a better position.\" Over the past three years, he's personally welcomed seven parties of Chagossians to this enclave on the outskirts of London; others have arrived independently after learning of the example he set. \"My role is to force the authorities to do what needs to be done,\" he stresses. Instead of spending more than £1.5 million on fighting the islanders in court, the government could have paid for their airfares and taught them all English, argues Xavier Siatous, who arrived in Crawley last summer, and promptly ran up a £600 phone bill speaking to the children he left behind. It's a moot point, but one that would resonate with Chagossians in Mauritius who can't afford to take advantage of their right to full British citizenship. Were it possible to resettle the islands tomorrow, only a minority of exiles would be likely to return, primarily the 900 or so survivors who were born there. Four decades on, even they are divided. \"You can't undo a crime against humanity,\" says Siatous, once a fisherman on Peros Banhos. \"When something like this happens you look for the way to go back, but really you have to find the way forward.\"\nCharlesia Alexis still dreams about her island every day. A diet of fresh seafood would cure her diabetes instantly, she quips. But her days of shouting: \"Give us back our Diego!\" are past. Instead, she writes songs about her loss and awaits the free bus pass that will come with her pension. Her latest composition describes the journey to Britain, which was funded in part by royalties from a CD she recorded a couple of years ago. \"Here, I will get my compensation,\" her husky lament concludes. \"I will eat until I die.\" Although she's lonely without her three remaining children, and the 16 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren they've spawned, she prefers life in Crawley to the hardships of Mauritius and believes the other islanders would be wise to follow her. \"I'm not saying they're leaving hell and coming to heaven,\" she cautions. \"It's kind of purgatory here unless you can speak the language.\" For now, she copes by looking forward to a reunion with her family, although the memory of her mortality is never far away, and with it her fear that the campaign she started will wither once she's gone. \"It's very sad,\" she reflects, looking vulnerable for the first time since she lowered herself into a chair. \"To struggle you need natives, but we're dying every month. In a few years there won't be any native Chagossians left.\"\nPhoto in header by Steffen Johannessen\nUPDATE (March 2015)\nTo keep in touch with this story, and to help, consult the UK Chagos Support Association.\nFake Financial Times\nInspired by The Yes Men, I printed a fake Financial Times. Its satire had serious messages. Working for Reuters and the New York Times, I saw how governments and big business skew the news. Journalistic objectivity is a myth. Unless reporters set agendas themselves, they serve someone else’s. It’s “objective” to take dictation from officials, but disputing what they say is seen as “biased”. This limits how we think about alternatives. If they're framed as they look to those who run the world, not much changes.\nPosted in Writing, World\ntagged with Chagos","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1148271"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9766409993171692,"wiki_prob":0.9766409993171692,"text":"Where is McMafia filmed? - Complete and updated filming locations for the BBC series\nThe new BBC eight-part drama is based on the book by The Guardian journalist Misha Glenny. McMafia is a thriller about how corporations are becoming international criminal organisations. You can expect a cocktail of money-laundering, drugs, violence and -of course- Russian mafias.\nIranian-British screenwriter Hossein Amini directs the series, starring James Norton as Alex Godman (Grantchester, War & Peace). Most actors have a background that matches the country of their character. This way, the cast is composed by a multicultural troupe with Aleksey Serebryakov, Maria Shukshina, David Dencik, Merab Ninidze, Juliet Rylance, Oshri Cohen, Karel Roden and Caio Blat.\nThis expensive production has travelled all over the world. McMafia was filmed primarily in England and Croatia, but the filming location list also includes Russia, India, Turkey, Israel, Qatar, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovenia, Belize and Egypt:\nOnly in London 75 different locations were used. Lancaster House in the West End is a 19th century mansion that doubled as the Palace of Versailles in France. Image courtesy of BBC and Andrew - Map\nThe exterior shots were filmed at the Waddesdon Manor country house in Buckinghamshire.\nImage courtesy of BBC and National Trust - Map\nThe top-floor restaurant Sky Garden served as the venue for the Sydney Bloom Foundation event.\nImage courtesy of BBC and Martin Pettitt - Map\nIn the first episode a charity gala is held at the Victoria & Albert Museum (image with director Hossein Amini and James Norton at the John Madejski Garden). Image courtesy of BBC and Giles Moss - Map\nA scene was filmed at Hyde Park with the Royal Albert Hall providing the backdrop.\nImage courtesy of BBC\nThe Victorian pub Crocker's Folly (24 Aberdeen Pl) was used in the 7th and 8th episodes.\nImage courtesy of BBC and Edwardx - Map\nSome scenes were filmed in the luxurious hotels The Langham (pictured) and the The Dorchester, in central London. Image courtesy of BBC and Andrew - Map 1 - Map 2\nMcMafia was also filming in the British Museum, Heathrow Airport and Ravenscourt Park tube station. According to The Guardian, Alex and Rebecca's place was set in a real Victorian house in Wandsworth, south London.\nImage courtesy of BBC and Mike Peel - Map\nMcMafia Filming Locations in Croatia\nThe next filming locations are set in Croatia, although none of the action takes place in this country. Depending on the context of the episode, Zagreb is doubling as Moscow, Prague and Tel Aviv. Several scenes were filmed at the landmarks of the city: St. Mark's Church (pictured), Kamenita Vrata, Dverce Palace, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Strossmayer Square and several streets in the center.\nThe party in Moscow from the seventh episode takes place in the Mestrovic Pavilion, also known as the Home of Croatian Artists. Image courtesy of BBC and Diego Delso\nThe crew was also shooting in one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world, Mirogoj.\nImage courtesy of BBC and Atlas of Wonders\nSome other locations across the country include the Hotel Milenij in Opatija. Boat scenes where filmed around the Rovinj Riviera. Also, according to a local newspaper, the production was filming for a couple of days in the Port of Koper (Slovenia). Image by Google Maps\nThe house of Israeli businessman Semiyon Kleiman (David Strathairn), were shot at Golden Rays Luxury Resort in Primosten near Sibenik. Image by Google Maps\nThe hotel in the French Riviera from the 3rd episode is the Villa Dalmacija in Split.\nImage courtesy of BBC - Map\nAlso it would be interesting to see if we can recognise the moonlike landscape of the unique island of Pag, that can be used for scenes in barren and desertic countries. Image Public Domain\nA production unit was filming on location during a week in the city of Mumbai (India).\nImage by courtesy of BBC\nStablishing shots were filmed in Moscow (pictured, one of the Seven Sisters: the Moscow State University), Prague, Cairo and other minor filming locations. Image by courtesy of BBC\nBelgrade doubled as Moscow on episode 8. Alex goes out the metro near the iconic Hotel Moskva, and later on walks in the popular street Kneza Mihaila. Image by courtesy of BBC and Jorge Láscar\nCan you help to improve this article about the filming locations of McMafia? To complete and correct this report, any feedback, info or images that you may have are more than welcome, thank you!\nFor further information we recommend the original book by Misha Glenny that inspired the series, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld . It is also available as an audiobook:\nIn the 5th episode Hotel Amber in Tel Aviv is actually Hotel Ambasador in Opatija/Croatia.\nRichard_Gough February 4, 2018 at 2:16 PM\nThe circular building at the end of episode 7 is the House of Artists in Zagreb, Croatia\nRa Moon February 5, 2018 at 10:57 AM\nThanks, updated!\nClive O as Doctor Fixit February 6, 2018 at 3:47 PM\nI believe that the scenes in the cafe where Alex and his dad met the\nguy from the Russian embassy in ep7 was shot at Crockers Folly, Aberdeen Place London NW8.It's a Victorian/Edwardian pub now a Lebanese restaurant\nI was at a party there recently.\nPaul Eyre February 13, 2018 at 7:12 AM\nThanks you’re absolutely right - looks amazing !\nRa Moon February 14, 2018 at 11:05 PM\nCool, thanks for your help!\nWhere is the bar that Alex father and the Russian embassy guy meet in episode 8\nGlobalEagle February 20, 2018 at 9:53 AM\nIn the opening sequence, there is a desert (urban) coastline, looks like it could be somehere in the Gulf - where is it?\n...found it: it's Doha, looking south.\nI recognized the White Palace in Belgrade Serbia. I believe it was used in the episode when Alex and Vadim were signing an agreement.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line20704"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5025247931480408,"wiki_prob":0.5025247931480408,"text":"Sir Peter Bazalgette: \" The Empathy Instinct\" | Talks at Google\nSir Peter Bazalgette in conversation with VP Comms, Peter Barron. Sir Peter was instrumental in creating the independent TV production sector in the United Kingdom. He was Chief Creative Officer at Endemol, President of the Royal Television Society, Deputy Chairman of the National Film School, Chair of Arts Council England, and is now Chair of the UK broadcaster ITV. He’s spent his career arguing for the role and importance of the arts and creative expression.\nHe joined us at Google to talk about his new book, The Empathy Instinct, which seeks to address the essential question of how we create a more civil society when so many of us are divided.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1381568"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.899387001991272,"wiki_prob":0.899387001991272,"text":"One hundred days of broken promises – Troy\nPosted on July 13, 2011 in News\nNo amount of spin will disguise the fact that Fine Gael and Labour have reneged on a litany of election promises within their first 100 days in office, according to Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy.\nDeputy Troy commented, “The Fine Gael/Labour Government set themselves the deadline of 100 days for the delivery of a series of election promises. It was the Fine Gael Leader Enda Kenny who set the time-frame of 100 days, in which his Government could be judged on their performance. But now we are 100 days on and a litany of promises, which were unleashed to secure the maximum number of votes, have been broken.\n“Over the past 100 days, we have seen some spectacular u-turns from Ministers who were elected to office on the basis of the promises they made. There has been immense public concern about Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s refusal to rule out hikes in income tax, Education Minister Ruairí Quinn’s u-turn on college fees, and the confusion over extra household and water charges next year.\n“The Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has rowed back on protecting social welfare rates and child benefit, causing serious concern among Donegal families who are fearful of cuts to payments next year. Despite the clear pledge in the Programme for Government that Fine Gael and Labour would protect social welfare rates, Minister Burton refused to stand by this commitment when questioned in the Dáil by Fianna Fáil this week.\n“On jobs, Fine Gael and Labour also promised to set up a NewERA company with billions in funding and ready to create 100,000 jobs. Where have these promises disappeared to?\n“These issues affect every single family in the country, and each of them represents a key promise made by Fine Gael and Labour during the general election campaign in a bid to win votes. Now that they are in Government, they are only too willing to forget these promises.\nDeputy Troy concluded: “In reality, it is early days. We would not be judging this Government on its first 100 days in office if they hadn’t set this deadline themselves. Enda Kenny set out a list of 25 solemn promises for delivery in 100 days, and unfortunately he and his Government colleagues have ignored most of them.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1593685"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.566975474357605,"wiki_prob":0.433024525642395,"text":"United Nation’s World Interfaith Harmony Week\nIn News by February 7, 2012\nFEB 13 Posted by youthpeacecouncil\nBy Robin Marsh\nLast night Universal Peace Federation -UK held a meeting in Parliament to remember the Holocaust, to examine the dynamics of forgiveness, reconciliation and remorse. This was held to comemorate the UN’s World Interfaith Harmony week. There were many precious contributions and stirring testimonies.Chaired by Rev. Dr. Marcus Braybrooke, President of World Congress of Faiths, the event featured presentations by Marina Cantacuzio, founder of the Forgiveness Project, Jack Lynes, Chair of Harrow Bereavement Care and a leading member of the Jewish community for interfaith, Shaykh Dr Hazim Fazlic, a Bosnian Imam now in Birmingham, Ruth Barnett, a Holocaust & Genocide Educator as well as a Kindertransport child, Jack Corley, Chairman of the Universal Peace Federation-UK and Sukhbir Singh who introduced the Forgiveness Charter on behalf of Bhai Mohinder Sahib Singh, spiritual leader of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha – Birmingham UK.\nImam Dr Abduljalil Sajid JP attended the meeting and presented a paper on ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation: From an Islamic Perspective’ to accompany the report.\nMarina Cantacuzio writes on her website, ‘Forgiveness is an inspiring, complex, exasperating subject, which provokes strong feeling in just about everyone. Having spent all of 2003 collecting stories of reconciliation and forgiveness for an exhibition of words and images which I created with the photographer, Brian Moody, I began to see that for many people forgiveness is no soft option, but rather the ultimate revenge. For many it is a liberating route out of victimhood; a choice, a process, the final victory over those who have done you harm. As Mariane Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, said of her husband’s killers, “The only way to oppose them is by demonstrating the strength that they think they have taken from you.”\nThe exhibition tells some extraordinary stories – stories of victims who have become friends with perpetrators, murderers who have turned their mind to peace building.\nAs I talked to friends, colleagues and strangers about this exhibition, I noticed that forgiveness cuts public opinion down the middle like a guillotine. There are those who see forgiveness as an immensely noble and humbling response to atrocity – and then there are those who simply laugh it out of court. For the first group, forgiveness is a value strong enough to put an end to the tit-for-tat settling of scores that has wreaked havoc over generations. But for the second group, forgiveness is just a copout, a weak gesture, which lets the violator off the hook and encourages only further violence. This is why we called the exhibition, The F Word. For some people forgiveness is a very dirty word indeed.\nShe added in her paper on ‘Forgiveness’, ‘Forgiving someone does not mean you reconcile with them, it means taking hold of your painful emotions and deciding to let them go. (It means) a refusal to let the pain of past dictate the path of the future healing the memory of the harm, but not erasing it (not forgive & forget). If F is a struggle for understanding, then it’s a realisation that, “if I had lived your life perhaps I would have made your choices”. Forgiveness is not forgetting that something painful happened. By forgiving the people who hurt you, you do not erase painful past experiences from your memory. Those experiences have a great deal to teach you, both about not being victimized again and about not victimizing others.’\nJack Corley explained Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s perspective on ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation’ particularly in his meeting with the late North Korean President Kim Il Sung. He also elucidated the principles behind the forgiveness earned by Jacob from his older Brother Esau.\nHe added that gestures are very important in higher levels of forgiveness, reconciliation and peace building. He highlighted the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Ireland in 2011 that won her great respect from the Irish people. The 1977 visit of Anwar Sadat to the Israeli Knesset was a gesture that opened the way to peace between two nations that had been frequently at war.\nHe asked where the religious leaders were when there are efforts for peace? Universal Peace Federation’s founder Rev. Dr Sun Myung Moon has promoted the establishment of an Interreligious Council at the UN. There religious leaders, who business is peace, centred on the wisdom of their faith built up over many generations, can take an innovative approach from politicians whose agenda and focus is different.\nThe Universal Peace Federation seeks reconciliation on many levels. However as we are now sitting in Parliament we do want to urge our political leaders to establish or maintain the moral foundation that is necessary for peace and reconciliation. (Full Speech)\nRev Dr Marcus Braybrooke introduced the evening with a prepared speech saying, ‘Interfaith Harmony week is so important. Sadly so often in the past religious exclusivism and contempt for the other has been a contributory factor in the genocidal killings that scar human history. It is time for people of faith to make deep apology to members of other faiths whom they have hurt and offended as Pope John Paul II did at the Western Wall in Jerusalem It is also vital that as people of faith we work together for a more just and peaceful world. Some people have expressed surprise that we should link a belated observance of Holocaust Memorial day and World Interfaith Harmony Week. At first, I felt the same, but increasingly I have seen how appropriate it is. Rightly in a time of silence we shall remember the six million Jews and many others who died in the Holocaust and many more who have been slaughtered in terrible genocides – especially we pray for comfort to those whose family members died, and those who were injured.But perhaps the least we can do in memory of the voluntary and involuntary sacrifice of so many people is to pray and act to ensure that such horrors are never repeated.This is why Interfaith Harmony week is so important. Sadly so often in the past religious exclusivism and contempt for the other has been a contributory factor in the genocidal killings that scar human history. It is time for people of faith to make deep apology to members of other faiths whom they have hurt and offended as Pope John Paul II did at the Western Wall in Jerusalem It is also vital that as people of faith we work together for a more just and peaceful world\nIn a speech entitled HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY, INTERFAITH HARMONY, FORGIVENESS AND HEALING, Ruth Barnett explained that ‘Forgiveness is an extremely complex issue which I see very much in terms of an individual process of self-acceptance. By this I mean acceptance of the aspects of our self that we would rather not own.’\n‘Reverend Braybrooke opened the evening by expressing the horror we all feel at the utter brutality and depravity of what was perpetrated in the Holocuast – and, sadly, in so many genocides and atrocities since. Expressing horror at such evil is natural and human but at the same time locates the atrocities outside ourselves. Forgiveness begins, in my opinion, by owning the capacity in oneself (which is part of every human being) for acting in this same evil manner. Only by owning our darkest thoughts, urges, ideas and interest in evil, are we in a position to take control and choose not to act violently but responsibly, not to retaliate or exact revenge but to seek understanding through dialogue.\n‘We need to develop the courage to care and the will to act before it is too late when atrocities against humanity are developing. In my opinion, the Holocaust could have been prevented if the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Ottoman Turks under cover of WWI, had been brought to justice and closure. In the 50 years after the end of WWII, silence and disbelief inhibited the process of Holocaust acknowledgement and healing, which is even now not yet complete. This has created impunity for further violence and genocides, further traumatisation and retreat into ignorance and indifference.’\n‘A part of the Holocaust has yet to be fully acknowledged, memorialised, compensated and closure through acceptance of the survivors. At least half a million Sinti and other Gypsies were deliberately murdered by the Nazis for the same reason that Jews were murdered – because the Nazis decided they could not fit into the Aryan ‘master-race’. Since 1945 Roma/Gypsy/Travellers have been persistently and increasingly persecuted, evicted, deported, their homes torched or bull-dozed, and murdered Gypsies not considered important enough by police to find the perpetrators. We have another genocide emerging under our noses all over Europe, including England. Are we going to develop the Courage to Care and the Will to intervene this time? Or are we going to allow the persecution and injustices suffered by Gypsies to continue until the massacres begin?’\nImam Dr Abduljalil Sajid commented in his paper, ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation: An Islamic Perspective’ that, ‘The God, Allah is the ultimate power Who can forgive. Forgiveness means closing an account of offense against God or any of His creation. However, forgiveness must meet the criteria of sincerity. God, the All-Knowing, has the knowledge of everything including whatever a person thinks but does not express in words or deeds. An offense may be against (a) a person, (b) a group of persons or society, (c) other creation of God such as animals, plants, land, atmosphere, bodies of water and the life therein, and (d) God, Allah. Muslims understand that an offense against the creation of God is an offense against God.’","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1280906"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8131705522537231,"wiki_prob":0.8131705522537231,"text":"UPDATED — In Wake of Vegas Massacre, Massachusetts Lawmakers On Verge of Passing “Bump Fire Stock” Ban\nBy State House News Service | October 11, 2017, 12:48 EDT\nPrinted from: https://newbostonpost.com/2017/10/11/in-wake-of-vegas-massacre-massachusetts-lawmakers-on-verge-of-passing-bump-fire-stock-ban/\nLas Vegas Police Department file photo of the room where gunman Stephen Paddock allegedly carried out his massacre. (Contributed)\n(4:30 p.m. update — the House has passed this legislation)\nBy Matt Murphy\nSTATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE\nSTATE HOUSE, OCT. 11, 2017…..Legislation banning devices known as bump stocks that may have been used in the Oct. 1 Las Vegas massacre and can enable a semi-automatic weapon to fire like an automatic weapon is expected to surface for a House vote Wednesday afternoon, according to a senior House official.\nFollowing the Las Vegas shooting, Rep. David Linksy filed legislation to ban bump stocks in Massachusetts, as well as high-capacity magazines that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition. That legislation has not emerged for a public hearing yet, but Linsky has filed an amendment to a $123 million budget bill that the House plans to take up on Wednesday afternoon.\nThe amendment does not address high-capacity magazines but would ban the possession or sale of any device “which attaches to a rifle, shotgun, or firearm, except a magazine, that is designed to increase the rate of discharge of the rifle, shotgun or firearm.”\nThose who violate the proposed law would face a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in state prison, with a 20-year maximum allowable sentence.\nBump stocks are devices that can be used to modify semi-automatic weapons to get them to act as automatic weapons. The stock uses the recoil action of the firearm to slide the weapon back and forth allowing it to fire rapidly. The devices escape the state’s ban on automatic weapons because the user’s finger technically remains on the trigger, pulling to initiate each shot.\n“I’ve yet to find any legitimate reason for someone to own a bump stock or any other device that turns semi-automatic rifles into automatic rifles. Frankly, I can’t come up with a legitimate reason,” Linsky said.\nThe Gun Owners Action League, which is the local affiliate of the National Rifle Association, has so far raised no objections to banning bump stocks. House and Senate Republicans have also said they support the measure.\nAnd Gov. Charlie Baker said last week he would sign such a bill if it landed on his desk.\nSocialists Call For Abolishing Prisons\n$15 Minimum Wage, Paid Family and Medical Leave Pass…\nConversion Therapy Ban Fails in Massachusetts Legislature","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line286402"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.622005045413971,"wiki_prob":0.37799495458602905,"text":"Alaska Could be the First State to Allow On-Site Marijuana Consumption\nFight at Unlicensed Dispensary Over Free Sample Hospitalizes Man\nCalifornia Ad Campaign Targets Unlicensed Marijuana Dispensaries\nCannabis Banking in California is One Step Away From Being Legalized\nCanadian Dispensaries Can’t Keep CBD In Stock\nJeff Chiu/AP Photo\nHome » News » Alaska Could be the First State to Allow On-Site Marijuana Consumption\nCertain cities have allowed on-site consumption but Alaska is on the road to becoming the first place where it is permitted statewide.\nAlaska could be close to making marijuana history. More specifically, it could soon become the first state to allow for on-site cannabis consumption at dispensaries. State lawmakers are currently looking at a bill that would make this type of on-site consumption legal. But given that the bill is still in the early stages of legislation, it’s unclear whether or not on-site consumption will become a reality.\nAlaska Considering New Marijuana Laws\nYesterday, lawmakers in Alaska approved rules that could allow people to legally consume weed at state-approved dispensaries.\nBefore the proposal becomes law it still needs to pass through a few other rounds of review and approval. Most notably, the Alaska Department of Law will need to do a thorough review of the new rules.\nBut if the bill is eventually passed into law it will introduce a number of new changes. For starters, dispensaries that receive state and local approval will be allowed to have a separate space set aside for consumption.\nCustomers will then be able to go the shop, purchase weed or other weed products, and then consume their purchases in the consumption space.\nAt this point, the proposal would allow dispensaries to establish separate consumption rooms. Additionally, weed shops could also allow customers to smoke weed or consume edibles in outdoor spaces like rooftops or patios.\nIf the bill passes into law, Alaska will be the first state to establish a legal framework for on-site dispensary consumption. Currently, there are certain locations in different parts of the country that allow for on-site consumption. But nothing at the statewide level.\nRegulations and Restrictions for On-Site Consumption\nOf course, as with any cannabis regulations, the new laws come with a number of new regulations and requirements. For starters, shops will be required to apply for a special license for on-site consumption.\nIn order to receive approval, dispensaries must meet the following requirements:\nConsumption spaces must be separated from the retail portion of the shop.\nCustomers will only be allowed to consume products purchased at that dispensary.\nCustomers who want to consume at the shop can only purchase up to one gram of flower or edibles with no more than 10 mg of THC.\nShops must have a smoke-free room where employees can monitor consumption spaces.\nOutdoor consumption places must not interfere with neighboring buildings.\nIndoor consumption rooms must have their own ventilation systems.\nThe scent of weed cannot reach beyond the shop’s property line.\nEven though the new bill is being considered at the state level, USA Today reports that local jurisdictions will still be able to ban on-site consumption. Additionally, local governments can also institute their own specific requirements or restrictions.\nCurrently, there are 76 cannabis retail shops in Alaska. At this point, it’s unclear how many of those shops might choose to apply for an on-site consumption license.\nEither way, the question of on-site consumption has been on the table for a while now in Alaska. The issue first picked up traction in 2016. Then, last year, the idea was abandoned.\nBut this time around things could be different. At least for now, the bill for on-site consumption has cleared its first legislative hurdle. It will now move on to additional reviews by multiple lawmaking bodies.\nRelated Topics:Alaska, Dispensary, Featured, Public Consumption\nBy Tim Kohut 07/12/2019\nThat's over 4,000 pounds of the good stuff.\nA Denver CO was caught allegedly trying to smuggle a burrito with all the fixings into...\nThere was apparently a 60 percent spike in sales during the holiday.\nThe crackdown on businesses selling CBD foods and drinks is beginning.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line890221"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5441848039627075,"wiki_prob":0.5441848039627075,"text":"Saint Mother Théodore Guérin\nFeast Day October 3\nToday people fly from Paris to New York City on the Concorde in hours. In 1840 Saint Mother Théodore Guérin left France on July 27. She and five other Sisters of Providence traveled by ship, train, steamboat, canal boat, and horse-drawn carriage. They arrived in Vincennes, Indiana, on October 22. The journey across the ocean took 26 days, going overland and by river another six weeks.\nWhy did the sisters make this long, difficult journey? The bishop of Vincennes begged the superior of the Sisters of Providence in France to send sisters to open schools and to care for poor sick people. Forty-two-year-old Sister Theodore was chosen to lead the group. When the sisters arrived, they went directly to the log cabin chapel in the deeply forested hills. There Mother Theodore dedicated their mission to Mary, and named it St. Mary-of-the-Woods.\nPioneer life is very hard. The sisters struggled to survive the first winter in a drafty little farmhouse. It was very cold, they were very poor, and food was scarce. They worked hard at learning English. By the following summer, they welcomed their first student. Within a year they opened three schools. Other young women saw the good work they were doing and joined them.\nThe community dealt with many difficulties. Once a fire destroyed their barn and the harvested crops. They faced prejudice against Catholics, especially Catholic religious women. But they persevered. When Mother Theodore died 16 years after the community was founded, the sisters had many schools, two orphanages, and two pharmacies to dispense free medicines to the poor.\nAs a girl, Mother Theodore was named Anne-Thérèse. She was home schooled by her mother. Her father was an officer in the French navy. When Anne Thérèse was 10 years old, she knew that she wanted to be a nun. Anne-Thérèse liked to go to the rocky shore near her home to pray. When she was 15, her father was killed by bandits on his way home. After that, Anne-Thérèse took charge of the house and garden, and cared for her sick mother and younger sister.\nShe joined the Sisters of Providence when she was 25 years old. For years she taught and received a medal of honor for excellence in teaching. She also studied medicine in order to care for people who could not afford a doctor. Then she was assigned to America. She thought there must be someone else who would be much better suited for the job.\nMother Theodore always told her sisters, “Put yourself gently into the hands of Providence.” Mother Theodore Guerin was declared Blessed in 1988 and canonized in 2006. She was the right person for this incredible journey after all.\nDraw Your Prayer Place\nRemind the children that when Mother Theodore was a child, she liked to pray on the rocky shore near her home. Ask them to think about their favorite place to pray, and then have each student draw a picture of himself or herself in that place.\nMake Up Skits\nUnlike some educators of her time, Mother Theodore believed in gentle discipline for her students. Ask the children to think of common infractions in the classroom and act out skits showing how they could be corrected with fairness and gentleness.\nfrom Saints and Feast Days, by Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio\nImage credit: Mother Theodore Guerin by unknown artist, unknown date. Public Domain via Wikimedia.\nThis Week's Stories\nSaint Kateri Tekakwitha\nKateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks, was a Mohawk Indian. Learn about Saint Kateri Tekakwitha’s life as a Christian.\nBlessed Anne-Marie Javouhey\nImagine a Mother Teresa in the France of Napoleon’s day and you will have a picture of Anne-Marie Javouhey.\nSaint Bonaventure’s feast day is July 15. Read his story here.\nOur Lady of Mount Carmel’s feast day is July 16. Read about it here.\nSaint Camillus de Lellis\nSaint Camillus de Lellis’s feast day is July 18. Read his story here.\nSaint Macrina\nSaint Macrina’s feast day is July 19. Read her story here.\nSaints Main Page","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1622688"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5641868710517883,"wiki_prob":0.5641868710517883,"text":"BWW Review: HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED at Pyramid Theatre: An Evening of Reflection\nby DC Felton\nBroadwayWorld.com Jun. 9, 2019\nHave you ever taken the time to look back at the people who have influenced your life? What has those influences taught us? They teach us what to do and what not to do. Pyramid Theatre's production of \"How I Learned What I Learned,\" which opened on June 8, ask us to do just that. But they ask in a unique way, by letting us look at a playwright telling the stories that influenced the plays he wrote. That playwright is one of America's most prolific playwrights, August Wilson.\nAugust Wilson was born in April 1945 in Pittsburgh, PA. He dropped out of High School in 1960. He would later receive an honorary high school diploma. He started working different odd jobs he could find, which you hear about in the play. Eventually, August became a poet, which led him down the path of becoming a playwright. He is best known for his series of 10 plays, known as the Pittsburgh Cycle. Each of the plays in this series centers around the African American experience in a different decade of the 20th century. Some of the most known plays in this series are \"Fences\" and \"The Piano Lesson.\" His play \"Fences\" is listed as the first show produced by Pyramid Theatre.\nIn the lead role of Troy Maxon in Pyramid's production of \"Fences\" was Aaron Smith. So it was very fitting that he played the role of August Wilson for this production. Aaron expertly weaves his way through this 90-minute play telling stories from August Wilson's life. He does an amazing job of bringing out the humor in the show but also brings heart to the challenging lessons he learned in his life. One of the lessons is that something is not always better than nothing. This is a story about August Wilson's mother winning a washing machine. I don't want to give the story away, but it is the part of the show that to me showed how rooted Aaron was in the performance. The way he delivered the story showed his full range of emotions as an actor.\nThe acting was not the only highlight of the evening. I found myself enjoying the projections used as part of the play. The projections are used to tell the tiles of each section of the show. They come up as though they are being written on a typewriter, which considering the author talking about his life, was very fitting. As the show goes on, the titles became a character. Some of them told exactly what was going to happen and others the theme of what August was about to discuss. There is one moment where the title of a section is humorously skipped over.\nThe most poignant and timely lesson came from the night for me came at the beginning of the show. August talks about a job where he was mowing lawns and a lady whose lawn was mowing didn't want him mowing her lawn because of the color of his skin. His boss at the time told him to just go on to the next yard to mow. His boss could have said if he doesn't mow your lawn then it isn't going to be mowed but chose to send him on. The lesson he took from this, was that the people were good honest American's but due to the way they grew up and how they learned, they became the people they were today. It made me think about how quick we are to judge people today. We often think people are terrible if they have an opposing view from us, but how often do we take the time to think about how they came to that view.\nThere are many more things that people can learn from the life of August Wilson. \"How I Learned What I Learned,\" challenges us to take a look at not only ourselves but the people around us and ask how we got to the place we are today. I appreciate Pyramid Theatre Company for presenting us with this story and with this challenge. As this show continues over the next few weeks, if you have not seen it, I would recommend that you make plans to. Performances will continue June 14 and 21 at 7:30 PM and June 23 at 2:00 PM. To find out more about this production, visit http://pyramidtheatre.org/how-i-learned-what-i-learned\nRelated Articles View More Des Moines Stories Shows\nBWW Review: NEWSIES at Des Moines Playhouse: A New Generation is Giving Audiences Something to Believe in.\nBWW Review: WOZZECK at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Thought Provoking Work of Art\nBWW Review: LA BOHEME at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Breathtaking, Beautiful and Tragic Production\nBWW Review: CANDIDE at Des Moines Metro Opera: A Beautiful Kaleidoscope That Makes the Best of all Possible Shows\nFrom This Author DC Felton\nDavid Felton has been involved in theatre since his middle school production of The Wizard of Oz. Throughout high school he stayed onstage, and once (read more...)\nBWW Review: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Des Moines Performing Arts, An Evening of Theatre That Goes Right!\nBWW Review: MACBETH at Iowa Stage: The Joy of Seeing Shakespeare Performed Outside\nReview: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG at Des Moines Performing Arts, An Evening of Theatre That Goes Right!\nDES MOINES SHOWS More\nDISNEY'S FROZEN JR\nTHEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS (8/2 - 8/3)\nSOUTHWEST IOWA THEATRE GROUP (7/26 - 7/26)\nNORTH SCOTT HIGH SCHOOL (3/27 - 4/5)\nMirrorbox Theatre (11/14 - 11/16)\nBURLINGTON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL (11/15 - 11/17)\nDes Moines Email Alerts","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line265475"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5380890369415283,"wiki_prob":0.5380890369415283,"text":"Trevor Dunbar\nSamuel Ellison\nDana Giordano\nKaitlin Goodman\nChristian Harrison\nErika Kemp\nKatie Newton\nElaina Tabb\nJacob Thomson\nMasters Racing Team\nProgram Tiers\nBAA.ORG\nMay 14, 2019 Comments Off on B.A.A. Runners Ramble on at the USATF Masters 10K Championships Featured, News\nB.A.A. Runners Ramble on at the USATF Masters 10K Championships\nKarolyn Bowley repeats her runner-up finish in the Women’s Masters USATF 10K Championships.\nIn 2018, Karolyn Bowley was new to the B.A.A. team and just getting her feet wet in the New England Masters racing scene at age 49. Since her 2nd place finish in 2018 at the USATF Masters 10k Championships, Bowley has been posting noteworthy performances in the 45-49 age division showing off her range of ability from placing 4th in the 2019 New Balance Indoor Grand Prix Masters Mile in 5:10.91 to her 2:55:01 personal best in the marathon at Hartford last fall.\nThe 2019 edition of the James Joyce Ramble proved to be her best performance of the past year lowering her personal best in the 10k from 37:38 to 37:17. While Bowley was able to beat last year’s winning time of 37:19, younger legs prevailed with Melissa Hardesty of Binghamton winning the women’s Masters 10k in 37:06. Still, a gutty performance by Bowley as she prepares to move into a new age category this summer.\nThe B.A.A. Masters Men were also runner-up finishers in the 2018 10k team competition behind rival CMS. The B.A.A. and CMS Masters Men are constant companions on the New England team racing circuit with no shortage of talent on either side. In this year’s race, Kevin Castille, of Baton Rogue, ran away from the competition finishing 1st in 30:47 and ninety seconds ahead of the runner-up finisher and former B.A.A. athlete, Eric Blake of West Hartford. Blake, who turned 40 in January, stayed ahead of the 2017 and 2018 Masters 10k winner, David Angell to finish in 32:17.\nB.A.A.’s Brendan Prindiville was the first of the three B.A.A. team scorers to finish in 4th place with a time of 33:14. David Bedoya who finished 5th in 2018 crossed the line in 6th place this year in 33:28, the exact finish time Bedoya clocked in 2018. Andy Gardiner who missed the Boston Marathon this year due to a late season injury used his marathon training strength to finish strong with a top ten place in 9th overall in 33:44 and good for 1st place in the 50+ senior division. With three in the top ten, the B.A.A. Masters returned the 10k team title to the B.A.A. Running Club.\nWhile the team scoring for National USATF Masters races only count the top three, notable performances were notched by two new, and former, B.A.A. runners. Chris Georgules who recently returned to racing finished 11th in 33:49 and Donal O’Sullivan, recently relocated back to Mass, finished 12th in 33:58. Both Georgules and O’Sullivan ran for the B.A.A. in the early 2000 years. Welcome back!\nThe B.A.A. was also represented by Harry Carter who won the 80-84 age division finishing in 56:03 and part of the B.A.A. Men’s Senior Team finishing in 7th place. Also on the team were Dennis Herman who finished in 49:30 and Kevin Grant in 52:22.\nIn the James Joyce Ramble 10K Open race, B.A.A.’s Eric Ashe finished in 30:53 in the runner-up position behind Hugh Armstrong of Providence, RI. In the women’s race, B.A.A.’s Ashley Busa placed third overall in 37:16. Nicole Borofski made her 10K debut finishing in 38:21 good for 5th place overall.\nCongrats to all of the B.A.A. athletes competing in the Ramble 10K!\nNews (View All)\nOlympic Trials Marathon Warm-Up: Bo Waggoner and Matt Fischer\nSeven Team B.A.A. Athletes Compete in the USA Olympic Team...\nB.A.A. High Performance Team in Mammoth Lakes\nB.A.A. Athletes Qualify for the 2016 US Olympic Marathon Trials...\nB.A.A. Runners Cruise at Fast Westfield 5K\nB.A.A. Running Club Competes in the 123rd Boston Marathon\nB.A.A. Athletes Race to Top Finishes at the B.A.A. 5K\nB.A.A. competes in the 31st Annual Jim Kane Sugar Bowl...\nB.A.A. Masters and Open Athletes Compete in James Joyce Ramble...\nOlympic Trials Marathon Warm-Up: Rachel Hyland\nB.A.A. Athletes Shine on Rainy Day at Hartford Marathon and...\n185 Dartmouth Street, 6th Floor\nE-mail: teambaa@baa.org\nInterested in joining the B.A.A. Running Club?\nInquire here\nBoston Athletic Association\nCongrats to #TeamBAA’s @EricAshe, Alex Taylor, Dan Harper, and @mhackett95 for achieving the Olympic Marathon Trial… https://t.co/zX8IEkSfQ6\nVimeo Feed\nThe B.A.A. from Boston Athletic Association on Vimeo.\nLearn what the B.A.A. is all about, and what our mission represents.\n© 2018 B.A.A. Running Club | Designed and developed by romanelli communications","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1610528"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6611046195030212,"wiki_prob":0.33889538049697876,"text":"Copyright Insanity: The Need To Get Licenses Just To Demonstrate A Legal Point\nLatest Thing To Blame On Google? Koi Thieves\nA Brief History Of Intellectual Property In China And India\nfrom the ups-and-downs dept\nWed, Jul 1st 2009 3:45pm — Kevin Donovan\nThis is the second post in a series of posts looking at the question of intellectual property rights in both China and India. We'll be adding new posts to this series each week for the next few weeks.\nTo fully understand why increased intellectual property in China and India is unnecessary and objectionable, it helps to understand the relationship intellectual property has with economic development. Historically, intellectual property has generally increased with economic development, but the relationship is not straightforward. Although there is no reliable cross-country index of intellectual property policy, in large part due to the difficulty of quantifying concepts like enforcement quality, some trends are discernable. When a country is poor, IP is unnecessary for a host of reasons, not the least of which is the limited access to productivity enhancing technologies that intellectual property brings and the domestic inability to innovate in a commercially viable manner. But instead of constantly increasing with wealth, IP actually falls with an initial increase in wealth before dramaticaly growing (Maskus 2000). As a country develops, it obtains imitative abilities that make legal prohibition on copying foreign technologies an artificial obstruction to economic growth. However, with further global integration and increased domestic innovative capabilities, patent protection tends to increase. However, China and India have both realized that their relative poverty makes access to technology a more pressing concern, justifying relaxed IP standards.\nIndia's On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Intellectual Property\nIndia' colonial status brought with it patent legislation, so by 1911 India's IP regime conformed with developed world status (Graff 2007). However, seeking to develop a domestic pharmaceutical industry, in 1970, India abolished patents on pharmaceutical products. This allowed domestic firms to imitate and adapt foreign therapeutic inventions. The policy was a success: the 2,237 licensed drug manufacturers in 1969-1970 grew to 16,000 by 1991-1993, production of drugs grew at an average rate of 14.4% per year from 1980 to 1993, India became a net exporter of pharmaceutical products, and the market share of foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) dropped from 80-90% to 40% (Fink 2005). In 1995, six of the top ten pharmaceutical firms in India were domestic, and employment in the sector had reached half a million people (Lanjouw 1997).\nHowever, to gain access to the global market enabled by the World Trade Organization, India had to ratify the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs), the most influential treaty on global intellectual property. Doing so included introducing full product patents on pharmaceutical innovations, extending all patents from 5-14 years to 20 years, and accepting limitations on compulsory licensing (Abramson 2007). Observers noted that this was likely to lead to a loss of consumer surplus (Chaudhuri et al.). However, the government agreed against its wishes to TRIPs for the additional benefits of WTO membership (Lanjouw 1997). Under TRIPs regulations, patenting has accelerated in India (Dahlman 2005).\nChina As The Late Bloomer\nChina was a latecomer to intellectual property. Its first patent law came into effect in 1985, followed by a copyright law in 1990 (Graff 2007). However, since then, the pace of progress has been rapid; it has now joined all major international IP treaties (Maskus 2005). Its patenting activity is increasing rapidly, too, with domestic firms nearly doubling the number of patents they received in the past four years (“Chinese firms…”). China’s Patent Office now leads the world, reviewing 800,000 applications in 2008, and in 2009, domestic firms are poised to receive more patents than foreigners for the first time ever (“Battle of Ideas”). Chinese firms are also receiving more patents abroad: in 1999 they only won 90 patents in America, but by last year they had increased that number to 1,225, demonstrating a desire to use their inventions globally (“Battle of Ideas”).\nChinese intellectual property, however, is still frequently critiqued. Enforcement is notoriously weak with the United States citing “rampant counterfeiting and piracy problems.” Strikingly, according to the USTR, China was the origin for 67% of seizures of counterfeit goods at the American border in 2008. In response to these and other concerns, China has recently updated its patent laws, increasing statutory damages and expanding the investigative power of the patent office (Lim 2009).\nIn the next post, we'll take an extended look at the case made for stronger intellectual property in China and India.\nOther posts in this series:\nDo China And India Really Want Stronger Intellectual Property?\nWhy Might China And India Want To Strengthen National Intellectual Property Policy?\nWhy Increased IP In China And India Is Likely To Disproportionately Benefit The Developed World\nIn China And India, Stronger Intellectual Property Is Unnecessary\nThere Is No Harmony In A Patent Thicket\nThe Way Forward On Intellectual Property For China And India\nFiled Under: china, developing nations, india, intellectual property, patents\nThinking Of Privacy As A Property Right Will End Badly\nChinese Border Agents Now Installing Malware On Foreigners' Cellphones\nSony, Microsoft, Nintendo Say Trump Tariffs Will Make Game Consoles Hugely More Expensive\nEU Intellectual Property Office Produces Dumbest Propaganda Film Ever, Pretending Without IP There Is No Creativity\nMichael L. Slonecker, 2 Jul 2009 @ 8:32am\nRe: Re: not creative?\nNo one can seriously argue that countries such as China and India possess potentially significant \"intellectual wealth\". At this point in time, however, they have not as yet realized the full advantage of such wealth. In some regards they seem to resemble post-war Japan through the early 60's, i.e., their R&D capabilities lag far behind the major industrialized nations.\nA first step towards parity with such other nations necessarily involves the establishment of basic manufacturing capabilities, with the growth of R&D capabilities to follow after implementation of the former. Thus, \"copycapting\" and \"free riding\" on the work of those in other nations is only natural in their growth towards becoming a major force in the international market for new products.\nIt should be readily apparent that any country embarking on the above course will at first be quite reluctant to embrace IP rights to the full extent expressed in current international treaties. At the same time, however, that reluctance will have to be reassessed as and when such a country desires a \"seat\" at the \"table\".\nSimply put, and like it or not, at some time in the future, and likely sooner than later, I expect both India and China to adopt national laws that afford significantly more substantive protection than is now the case. Until this happens they will continue to be viewed askance by the major industrial powers, and will consistently encounter difficulties having their products imported into other nations. Call it \"protectionism\" if you will, but this is simply a fact of life.\nMerely as an aside, I find it somewhat interesting that a pharmaceutical manufacturer of generic drugs in India, despite having built its business based on the manufacture and sale of generics, is just starting to secure patents in India and other industrialized countries in which it seeks to conduct business. The same can be said of businesses situated in China.\nInsider Shop - Show Your Support!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1068864"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8744370937347412,"wiki_prob":0.8744370937347412,"text":"The Presidency has confirmed the release of abducted students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State.\nThe girls were abducted by the terrorists sect, Boko Haram, sect on February 19.\nThe Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this when contacted.\nShehu promised to give further details on the development later.\n“Yes, the girls are being transported to safety. We will give details later. We thank God,” he said.\nThe girls’ release came exactly one week after President Muhammadu Buhari visited the school where they were kidnapped.\nBuhari had during the visit last Wednesday reassured parents of the abducted schoolgirls that the Federal Government will not rest on its oars, until their wards are safely brought back home.\nThe President, who was accompanied by Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State, said he had directed full scale aerial surveillance and investigation to ensure that the girls were returned safely.\n“I have read the full report of what happened in Dapchi. As I received the report, I was saddened and I am praying that God will continue to console you,” he said.\nBuhari also said government will ensure that the Boko Haram menace is totally brought to an end.\n“Boko Haram was in control of many local councils in Borno and some parts of Yobe State before we came. Now it has resorted to using young girls for suicide missions in mosques, churches and motor parks.\n“We will not spare their members. We will ensure that Boko Haram meets its waterloo. By the will of God, I have directed the police and reinforced them, and the army and air force to keep searching until the children are returned alive,” he said.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line76294"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6138413548469543,"wiki_prob":0.38615864515304565,"text":"About Energy & Power\nEnergy & Power (EP) is the first and only full-fledged fortnightly magazine that deals with the much cried energy and power sector in Bangladesh. Since its inception on June 16, 2003, EP is working very hard to\na) Develop public conscientious on sustainable and even development of energy sector;\nb) Assist the policy makers in assuming pragmatic policy for balanced development of the energy sector;\nc) Continue supply of information among public; and\nd) Develop a group of reporter in its field.\nTraditional sources of energy have adverse affects on environment. In order to minimize such affect the concept of environment friendly energy solution has been developed. Energy sector leaders are considering as many options as possible including use of renewable energy as well as optimum utilization of the energy.\nBangladesh is an energy deficit country like other countries in the region and most of the people do not have adequate access to the energy and power. The country is completely dependent on fossil energy source; at the same time, it is one of the most inefficient energy using countries in the world by all means.\nIt lacks of efficiency in planning, management, generation, distribution, load management and even at end user level consumption.\nIn spite of the above drawbacks, issues relating to utilization of renewable energy, exploring alternative use of energy, planned use of environment friendly energy are significantly undermined in Bangladesh.\nThe biggest challenge of Bangladesh is to find a path for balanced growth of its energy sector. Despite of its resource constraints, EP dynamically strives to provide with flow of energy sector information and create public awareness; so that the policymakers get guideline and platform for the sustainable development of energy sector in Bangladesh.\nEP believes that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of a journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility.\nEP editorial policy is to share a dedication to ethical behavior and uphold the Zero Conflict of Interest principles and highest standards of practice.\nEP believes into\nSeek truth and report the same\nMinimize harm to the concerned\nAct independently\nAvoid conflicts of interest, real or perceived; and disclose unavoidable conflicts in public\nBe accountable to readers, well-wishers and people of Bangladesh\nAdmit mistakes and correct them promptly\nPolicy Campaign\nEP now steps into it 16th years of publication.\nFor last 13 years, apart from publication, the EP worked on campaign programs to promote renewable energy, energy efficiency, environment and energy conservation.\nEP also started a green campaign. In this connection, the EP is working with the government and development partners like GTZ, UNDP and others.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line9610"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5844590067863464,"wiki_prob":0.5844590067863464,"text":"Gideon’s Army at Guantanamo\nby Phil Hirschkorn\nDespite enormous logistical and legal hurdles, defense attorneys for high value detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison, say they press on for the judgment of history, if not for a fair turn before the embattled military commissions that substitute for trials in federal court.\nAttorneys for alleged 9/11 attack planners Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh and alleged USS Cole bombing plotter Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri described their challenges to an audience gathered by the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School in Manhattan on Wednesday night.\nEven though all the defense attorneys are vetted and cleared to access Top Secret documents, they agree that secrecy remains the root of most delays and dysfunction.\n“If you sat down to design a system and said, ‘I want to create a legal system where everything will move slowly, glacially,’ you would design this,” said Richard Kammen, who represents al-Nashiri. For example, if Kammen, who is based in Indianapolis, wants to read a classified court document, he must travel to a secure facility in Washington, D.C. to do so. Once, Kammen said, he was ordered to respond to motions he was not allowed to read.\nEven when the attorneys are at Guantanamo to meet in person with their clients, a detainee’s own words are considered secret.\n“We were told that anything that came out of client’s mouths were considered to be ‘presumptively classified,’” said Jason Wright, who represented KSM until this August. “This phrase ‘presumptive classification’ is something that has never existed before in the laws of the United States.”\nTo make sure he understood, Wright, a former Army JAG, received a power point presentation at Guantanamo.\n“I had a briefer who told me, when you meet with your high value detainee, you have to treat everything that he says as presumptively classified – every word, every utterance, every gesture,” Wright recalled.\n“I said, ‘Hypothetically, what if he told me he liked peanut butter sandwiches? Is that classified?’”\n“Yes,” he was told.\nWright said, “What country in the world believes it can actually classify someone’s thoughts and beliefs? What they’re classifying were the words that would come out of their mouths about the torture experiences.”\nWright, Kammen, and James Harrington, who represents Bin al-Shibh, see a persistent effort to block any disclosures about detainee mistreatment, particularly when the detainees were held overseas in CIA custody.\n“Virtually all the restrictions we operate under are designed to protect CIA information,” Kammen said. “The government takes the position that even we can’t be trusted with it.”\nInstead, defense attorneys have been provided vague summaries of their client’s past interrogations and statements. How vague? As an example, Kammen shared his itinerary of the previous 48 hours – flying on Tuesday, October 28, from his home in Indianapolis to Chicago for a presentation at Loyola University. After spending the night there, on Wednesday, he flew to New York for meetings related to his Guantanamo case during the day and then attended the Fordham panel in the evening.\nKammen said, “The summary would probably read something like this: ‘On a day in the fourth quarter of 2014, Rick left his home and went from one place to another place, and then he went onto a third place, and then he returned.’ Literally that’s how general the summaries are.”\nHarrington believes the information about detainee torture is being kept secret to protect officials who carried it out or allowed it to happen.\n“Whether it’s the people who engaged in the torture, many of whom were assured by their government that if they did these things no one would ever know, and they would never be prosecuted,” Harrington said. “We want to believe still that this [country] is the shining city on the hill. This is a real black hood put over the light.”\nAt Guantanamo, everywhere the defense attorneys go seems to be bugged. Microphones at the defense tables have picked up their conversations. Fake smoke detectors in attorney-client meeting rooms hid eavesdropping microphones. During a hearing, someone off site set off an alarm when his agency thought classified information had been revealed. Just as bad, Harrington believes, is the lack of indignation over these discoveries by the military commission judges.\n“I cannot imagine a federal judge who would let somebody – anybody – interfere with his or her domain, which is the courtroom, that he or she did not know about and did not sanction for approval,” Harrington said.\nEven getting to Guantanamo is not easy. Charter flights from south Florida to Cuba leave you stuck there for a week, because the planes go down only on Monday and return only on Friday. Compounding that, according to Michel Paradis, an attorney in the DOD’s office of chief defense counsel, is the alphabet soup of agencies that control different parts of the base – the courtroom, the detainee center, lodging.\n“Every single time you go to Guantanamo, you spend about a day – a full working day — simply getting the keys to your office, or the badges you need to get where you are going, to get a car to so you can drive around this base,” Paradis said.\nDespite the hassles, the defense attorneys find the work purposeful and important. Standing up to the government and holding it accountable, even when top al Qaeda members are the clients, is what they signed up for.\nKammen said, “These cases will be reviewed in history – 10, 20, 30 years from now. The question that’ll be asked is, ‘Were the lawyers doing what lawyers are supposed to be doing? Were they telling the truth?’ And I hope when they look back on me, they’ll say, ‘Yeah, that guy was in there, and he was fighting.”\nParadis added, “In some respects, we are the immune system for the American justice system. We caught a disease after September 11th, which led us to torture, which led us to give up our values.”\nParadis recently argued an appeal of the one life sentence that has resulted from a Guantanamo military commission. He said, “Trying to heal the legal system, if that doesn’t sound too trite, I think does motivate me.”\nAl-Nashiri,\nGuantanamo,\nGuest Author,\nRamzi Bin al-Shibh\nPhil Hirschkorn\nFellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and New York-Based Journalist covering Al Qaeda and terrorism trials for 15 years\nJuly 10, 2019 by Ryan Vogel\nDeprivation and Despair: The Crisis of Medical Care at Guantánamo\nJune 26, 2019 by Scott Roehm\nFor the Military Commissions, a Fork in the Road on Torture\nMay 6, 2019 by Scott Roehm\nAl-Nashiri III: A No Good, Very Bad Day for U.S. Military Commissions\nApril 16, 2019 by Steve Vladeck\nShifted Burdens: The U.S. as Detainer of Last Resort\nFebruary 26, 2019 by Benjamin R. Farley\nThe Status of Guantanamo 17 Years In\nJanuary 11, 2019 by Rita Siemion and Patricia Stottlemyer\nThe “ISIS Beatles” and “Non-Territorial” Application of the European Convention of Human Rights\nDecember 17, 2018 by Antonios Tzanakopoulos\nRear Admiral Hutson: Why Senators Should Vote No on Kavanaugh\nSeptember 14, 2018 by John D. Hutson, Rear Admiral, JAGC, USN (Ret.)\nGuantanamo is No Answer–But Here’s What Can Work\nAugust 31, 2018 by Tess Bridgeman, Joshua Geltzer and Luke Hartig\nBrett Kavanaugh and the Risk of a Return to Torture\nAugust 10, 2018 by Jamie Mayerfeld\nHow the U.S. and EU’s Cooperation with Sudan Rubberstamps Bad Behavior\nJuly 30, 2018 by Mohammed Osman","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line38677"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6369948983192444,"wiki_prob":0.6369948983192444,"text":"AGIG plans additional development at WA facility\nThe Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) will undertake new expansion works at its Tubridgi Gas Storage Facility in Western Australia.\nAGIG announced it will complete a seismic survey and expand the injection and withdrawal capacity of the facility to 90 TJ/d and 60 TJ/d respectively.\nThe seismic survey will produce detailed 3D mapping of the location’s underground reservoir, which sits approximately 550 m below the surface, in order to define the maximum storage volume of the area and de-risk any additional wells that may be installed in the future.\nAGIG Chief Customer Officer Andrew Staniford said developing the facility was an essential operation.\n“The new expansion works are a necessary part of ensuring that AGIG can continue to meet market demand in the longer term and provide our customers with the flexibility they require to meet their energy requirements,” he said.\n“These latest projects further increase our role as an owner and operator of critical infrastructure in the state and demonstrate AGIG’s confidence in WA as an investment destination.”\nLocated in WA’s northwest, the Tubridgi Gas Storage Facility was redeveloped and commissioned by AGIG in 2017 at a cost of $74 million.\nThe facility is the largest of its kind in the state and the third largest in Australia.\nFor more information visit the AGIG website.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1478149"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9908420443534851,"wiki_prob":0.9908420443534851,"text":"NATO puts pressure on Afghanistan to sign troop agreement\nBy By David S. Cloud\nBRUSSELS -- The U.S. and its European allies on Wednesday turned up the pressure on Afghanistan to authorize foreign troops on its territory after 2014, even as officials acknowledged that they may have to wait for President Hamid Karzai's successor to resolve the standoff.\nAt the opening of a two-day NATO meeting, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that all alliance troops serving in Afghanistan would follow the U.S. in withdrawing at the end of the year if Kabul refuses to sign an agreement with Washington.\n\"If there is no agreement, there will be no NATO troops in Afghanistan after 2014,\" he said. \"This is not our preferred option, but it might be the unfortunate outcome if the security agreement is not signed.\"\nThe warning from NATO was closely coordinated with the White House and came a day after President Obama told Karzai in a telephone call that the U.S. was planning for a complete withdrawal over Karzai's refusal to sign the troop agreement.\nNATO has been negotiating a separate agreement with Afghanistan that would authorize other countries to keep troops there after this year, but alliance officials have said from the beginning that the deal was contingent on Afghanistan concluding an accord with the U.S.\nThe stalemate over the troop agreement has frustrated the White House and the Pentagon, but it has taken even more of a toll in Europe, where the idea of keeping troops in Afghanistan after this year is even more controversial than it is in the U.S.\nA senior NATO official said Italy, Germany and Turkey, each of which had pledged to play small but important roles in the post-2014 mission, face deadlines starting later this summer for getting parliamentary approval for the mission and the funds to carry it out.\nAllied countries thus may not be able to wait as long for a decision on whether foreign troops will remain as the United States, which could delay until as late as October and still get its remaining troops out of the country by the end of December, officials said.\nOn Thursday, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other NATO ministers are expected to approve guidance for alliance planners to begin preparing for possible full withdrawal later this year, officials said.\nThe U.S. has about 33,000 troops in Afghanistan, though the number will drop substantially over the summer, officials say, leaving a small force in place that will take over the post-2014 mission or depart completely. There are about 19,000 troops from other countries.\nU.S. officials say they are increasingly resigned to waiting until Karzai leaves office after elections to choose a successor this spring, in hopes that the new Afghan leader might sign the deal. In a clear sign of growing exasperation with Karzai, Rasmussen also raised that possibility Wednesday.\n\"It appears that President Karzai is not ready to sign a security agreement,\" he said. \"We are ready to engage with a new president.\"\nBut officials concede that even that option is not foolproof, because the elections could drag on for months due to runoffs and the possibility of contested results. Nor is there any guarantee Karzai's successor would sign the agreement.\nThe U.S. and Afghanistan reached a draft bilateral security agreement in November, laying out the terms for keeping U.S. troops in the country past 2014, when all combat troops are to be withdrawn.\nMarine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, is proposing a plan that would keep around 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2015, with 5,000 NATO and other international troops based in the north and west of the country as part of a NATO mission, officials said.\nMost of the troops would be limited to training and advising Afghan units, though a portion of the U.S. forces would be designated for counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda and its affiliates. White House officials have been exploring the possibility of a smaller troop presence but no decisions have been made, officials said.\ndavid.cloud@latimes.com\nTwitter: @DavidCloudLAT","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line270972"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5079241991043091,"wiki_prob":0.5079241991043091,"text":"Fast-Growing Law Firm Expands in Downtown Baltimore\nOffit Kurman is closing its Owings Mills offices and moving its Baltimore-area team of attorneys into a single location in downtown Charm City.\nAdrian Maties\n300 East Lombard St.\nOffit Kurman, one of the fastest-growing law firms in the Mid-Atlantic, is closing its Owings Mills offices and moving its Baltimore-area team of attorneys into a single location in downtown Charm City.\nOffit Kurman’s new home will occupy the entire 20th floor of the Class A office tower located at 300 East Lombard St. The location offers 16,650 square feet of renovated space and will house 28 attorney offices, eight paralegal offices, 12 administrative stations, and five conference rooms. Twenty-two of the company’s attorneys will work there.\nThis is Offit Kurman’s second expansion in the Baltimore area. The law firm posted a video of its new home on its Youtube account.\nThe office building changed owners at the start of the year, just a few months after hitting the market. PWA Real Estate LLC, a Pittsburgh private equity firm, purchased the property for $38.3 million, from Ireland-based CMC Investments. The rapid sale was a direct result of the former owner’s management strategy. CMC acquired the 237,000-square-foot office building in 2004 for $40 million, and invested an additional $2 million to renovate the asset. In 2014, the company signed leases with new and old tenants for about 100,000 square feet of space, bringing the tower’s occupancy to 91 percent.\nPhoto & video credits: Offit Kurman\nCMC Investments\nOffit Kurman\nPWA Real Estate LLC\nBaltimore Luxury Community Nabs Refi Loan\nLuxury MD Senior Housing Welcomes Residents","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1605205"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7309887409210205,"wiki_prob":0.7309887409210205,"text":"City ›\nWell past the strike of midnight, Austin City Council votes to decrease housing occupancy limit\nPhoto Credit: Caleb Kuntz | Daily Texan Staff\nAustin City Council\ncouncilman\nPublished on February 14, 2014 at 4:09 am Last update on March 22, 2014 at 2:43 pm\nBy Amanda Voeller\nAt approximately 2:30 a.m. Friday, Austin City Council approved an initial vote to limit the number of adults who are not related to each other allowed to live in a residence built on single-family zoned property.\nIn a 6-1 vote, council members voted to amend city code to limit “stealth dorms” — groups of six or more adults, often students, living together in a single-family house. If the council makes the same decision over two more rounds of votes in the coming weeks, the legal limit of unrelated adults living together will be reduced to four.\nAccording to The Austin-American Statesman, the measure would only affect homes built in the future, while homes that currently house six unrelated people would be unaffected.\nIn November, councilman Chris Riley said the council has received various complaints from residents in areas near stealth dorms, which mainly exist north of campus. Those in favor of decreasing the occupancy limit say stealth dorms result in overfull trash cans and a lack of street parking, which can have detrimental effects on other residents’ lives.\nOpponents of the measure have cited affordability problems and lack of student housing options as reasons not to limit students’ living options. Councilman Bill Spelman, who also serves as a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, was the only councilman who voted against the ordinance.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line528938"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5032011866569519,"wiki_prob":0.5032011866569519,"text":"Chirac says he opposes NATO force in Lebanon\nFrench President Jacques Chirac said Monday that NATO should not lead a proposed international force in Lebanon, saying the alliance is seen in the region as a \"the armed wing of the West.\" \"As far as France is concerned, it is not NATO's mission to put together such a force,\" Chirac was quoted as telling Le Monde newspaper in an interview, adding, \"Whether we like it or not, NATO is perceived as the armed wing of the West in these regions, and as a result, in terms of image, NATO is not intended for this.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line235494"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8943318128585815,"wiki_prob":0.8943318128585815,"text":"Danny Boyle's 'Yesterday' Gets First Trailer; Here's Everything We Know\nFebruary 12th 2019, 1:38 pm\nDanny Boyle's music-themed comedy has nabbed a title, Yesterday. Its rather startling premise has also come into focus with the release of its first trailer. Read onward for all we know about the movie.\nAfter an automobile accident during a \"mysterious global blackout,\" a struggling musician discovers that he is the only person on the planet who remembers The Beatles. His \"original\" songs then cause a worldwide sensation, straining his longtime friendship with a young woman.\nWho stars?\nHimesh Patel plays Jack Malik, the musician who can't believe he is suddenly the only person who remembers The Beatles. Lily James portrays Ellie, Jack's childhood best friend, a school teacher who fears she may be left behind in the wake of his unexpected fame. Kate McKinnon stars as a crafty music industry agent who swoops in to capitalize on Jack's \"original\" songs. Ed Sheeran also stars.\nWho wrote the screenplay?\nRichard Curtis, probably best known for Love, Actually. His other credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, About Time and many others.\nWho directed?\nDanny Boyle. He won an Oscar for directing Slumdog Millionaire and has also earned Academy Award nominations for writing and producing 127 Hours. More recently, he directed Steve Jobs and T2 Trainspotting. He previously tackled unexpected fortune in his delightful family film Millions.\nWhen can we see it?\nThe film is set for release on June 28, 2019.\nWatch the first trailer below.\nNext Article by Fandango Staff\nWatch 'A Madea Family Funeral' Clip: Why Is This Man Smiling?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line129403"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6917299628257751,"wiki_prob":0.30827003717422485,"text":"Aaron Burr\n3rd Vice President of the United States\nMarch 4, 1801 – March 4, 1805\nfrom New York\nPhilip Schuyler\n3rd Attorney General of New York\nRichard Varick\nAaron Burr Jr.\n(1756-02-06)February 6, 1756\nNewark, New Jersey, British America\nStaten Island, New York, U.S.\nPrinceton Cemetery\nDemocratic-Republican\nTheodosia Bartow Prevost\nEliza Jumel (m. 1833)\n7 or more including:\nAaron Burr Sr. (Father)\nEsther Edwards (Mother)\nPrinceton University (BA)\nContinental Army\n• Battle of Quebec\n• Battle of Monmouth\nAaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1751, – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, Revolutionary War hero and the third Vice President of the United States (1801 – 1805). He was born in Newark, province of New Jersey. Burr fought in the American Revolutionary War, reaching the rank of Colonel. After the war, Burr was a leader of the Democratic-Republican Party and served in the New York State Assembly, as New York State Attorney General, and as a United States Senator before serving as Vice President.\nBurr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, when Burr was still Vice President.\nBurr conspired to form a new country in Mexico. He wanted to be present if and when Spain and Mexico went to war. Some people, including President Thomas Jefferson, who had picked a different Vice President for his second term, saw Burr's actions as treason. However, in 1807 Burr was found innocent of the charges. He was often thought of by his enemies as unreliable. Burr died in 1836.\nVice Presidents of the United States\nJohn Adams · Thomas Jefferson · Aaron Burr · George Clinton · Elbridge Gerry · Daniel D. Tompkins · John C. Calhoun · Martin Van Buren · Richard Mentor Johnson · John Tyler · George M. Dallas · Millard Fillmore · William R. King · John C. Breckinridge · Hannibal Hamlin · Andrew Johnson · Schuyler Colfax · Henry Wilson · William A. Wheeler · Chester A. Arthur · Thomas A. Hendricks · Levi P. Morton · Adlai E. Stevenson · Garret Hobart · Theodore Roosevelt · Charles W. Fairbanks · James S. Sherman · Thomas R. Marshall · Calvin Coolidge · Charles G. Dawes · Charles Curtis · John Nance Garner · Henry A. Wallace · Harry S. Truman · Alben W. Barkley · Richard Nixon · Lyndon B. Johnson · Hubert Humphrey · Spiro Agnew · Gerald Ford · Nelson Rockefeller · Walter Mondale · George H. W. Bush · Dan Quayle · Al Gore · Dick Cheney · Joe Biden · Mike Pence\nCabinet of President Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)\nAaron Burr (1801–1805) • George Clinton (1805–1809)\nJames Madison (1801–1809)\nSecretary of the Treasury\nSamuel Dexter (1801) • Albert Gallatin (1801–1809)\nSecretary of War\nHenry Dearborn (1801–1809)\nLevi Lincoln, Sr. (1801–1804) • Robert Smith (1805) • John Breckinridge (1805–1806) • Caesar A. Rodney (1807–1809)\nSecretary of the Navy\nBenjamin Stoddert (1801) • Robert Smith (1801–1809)\nRetrieved from \"https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aaron_Burr&oldid=6581472\"\nAmerican revolutionaries\nPoliticians from New York","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line904294"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.703114926815033,"wiki_prob":0.29688507318496704,"text":"Jason Openo\nIt's NOT all relative!\nby Jason Openo\nLast night’s presenter is conducting her research from a relativist ontology. I believe a relativist ontology is an illogical, self-refuting orientation. The proof: no one lives as a relativist.\nOnce upon a time, I was facilitating an Instructional Skills Workshop. One of the new instructors going through the course was a long-term paramedic (an expert), and their 10-minute mini-lesson was on making triage decisions in emergency situations. When her lesson began, she explained: “You are at a crash site. You have to find, diagnose, and determine who is going to get medical attention. There are four index cards in this room. You have to find them. On the back of each index card are indicators that will tell you how to determine (a) whether they have a chance to live with immediate attention, (b) if they have a chance to live with moderate attention (1-2 hours), or (c) if they are likely to die no matter what you do. You need to make these decisions quickly and you should direct your attention to those who have the best chance of survival. In the next three minutes, I will tell you what to look for, and you will have five minutes to find the casualties and make your decisions. Then we will have a short debrief.”\nShe quickly outlined the criteria to look for, and we listened intently and took notes. Then she said, “Go save some people,” and we launched into action. We matched the likelihood of survival indicators to the four patients, and we sorted them accordingly. We followed the instructions perfectly. Person 1 needed immediate attention – without it, they were likely to die. Person 2 could wait a couple of hours (broken bones). Person 3 showed weak vital signs, meaning they were unlikely to survive. Person 4 showed signs they were near death and no intervention was possible.\nAnd then the instructor revealed:\nPerson 1 was a drunk driver who was seriously injured, but with the right attention would likely survive.\nPerson 2 was the drunk driver’s passenger. They had broken bones and potential internal injuries, but based on their vital signs would likely survive without immediate attention.\nPerson 3 was an in utero child near term. Even with an emergency C-section, they were unlikely to live.\nPerson 4 was a pregnant mother with a serious head injury.\nThe lesson, as the instructor revealed at the debrief, was not actually about identifying vital signs. It was about making professional judgments. It was applied ethics for paramedics. It was about making the moral judgment to save the life of a person you might hate. The point of the lesson was that paramedics have to transcend habitually inherited value systems and just see the body, not the person. They needed to be able to look past their instinctual inclinations about who should be saved. As we sat in a state of shock, the instructor said she believed saving people you didn’t want to save is an unexplored part of post-traumatic stress disorder in paramedics, but there was no way to prove this.\nIt was the best ISW lesson plan I have ever seen, and it proves no one lives as a relativist.\nFoucault, in The Order of Things, said that truth was an “arbitrary play of power and convention.” The argument that all truth is arbitrary and relative has been a powerful argument. The eminent historian Paul Johnson believes relativism was misappropriated from science but is the dominant ideology of modernity. Einstein saw moral relativism as a disease and social pandemic that led him to say towards the end of his life that he sometimes wished he had been a simple watchmaker (Johnson, 1992, p.4).\nRelativism is powerful until you dare to ask Foucault: “You say all truth is arbitrary. Is your presentation itself true?” (Wilber, 1995, p. 29). Relativists exempt themselves from the very criteria they apply to other value systems. They make truth claims that deny all truth claims, except the privileged stance of relativism, itself a truth claim. It is worth listening to Ken Wilber at length on this point.\nNobody is denying that many aspects of culture are indeed different and equally valuable. The point is that that stance itself is universal and rejects theories that merely and arbitrarily rank cultures on an ethnocentric bias (which is fine). But because it claims that all ranking is either bad or arbitrary, it cannot explain its own stance and the process of its own (unacknowledged) ranking system. And if nothing else, unconscious ranking is bad ranking, by any other name. And the relativists are very bad rankers.\nIn short, extreme cultural relativity and merely heterarchical value systems are about as dead as any movement can become. The word is out that qualitative distinctions are inescapable in the human condition, and further that there are better and worse ways to make our qualitative distinctions.\nIn many ways, we want to agree with the broad conclusions of the cultural diversity movements: we do want to cherish all cultures in an equal light. But that universal pluralism is not a stance that all cultures agree with; that universal pluralism is a very special type or ranking that most ethnocentric and sociocentric cultures do not even acknowledge; that universal pluralism is the result of a very long history hard-fought against dominator hierarchies of one sort or another. (pp. 29-30)\nOnly when we admit that universal pluralism is a value stance can judgment systems such as nursing ethics, Cultural Safety and Human Flourishing make any sense. They are not all relative. The values of tolerance and appreciation for diversity are not values simply relative to our particular cultural circumstance. They represent some of the most highly evolved ideas of humankind, ideas that are still evolving and not universally shared across the globe. The individual human being, no matter who they are or where they are, matters. From the relativist perspective, however, if all value systems are equally valid, then all value-based decisions are equally worthless.\n\"Someone once remarked that the two great errors in moral philosophy are the belief that we know the truth and the belief that there is no truth to be known\" (Wilson, 1993, p. 12). Without pretending to know the truth or be in possession of a dogmatic truth, we can affirm that we know quite a bit about what contributes to human flourishing and what does not. There should never come another day or time when the idea of Residential Schools makes sense or can be justified. It was wrong and will always be wrong. It’s NOT all relative. What if we encountered, as Wilson absurdly suggests as a philosophical counter-example, a society that believed torturing babies produced better crops?\nAbsurd, yes, but it is a variation of this absurdity that explains why feminists and those fighting for social justice have completely given up on relativist ontologies. Bloland (1995) describes the inevitable endpoint of relativist ontology very well:\nIf there are no legitimate bases for rewarding the privileged in our society, there are also no foundational standards for rewarding marginal groups. There are no grounded assumptions or moral grounds from which marginal groups can claim privilege. From this postmodern perspective, there is no compelling reasons for controlling groups to give grounds to others. (p. 529)\nAn uninformed opinion becomes as valuable as an enlightened opinion, and who needs nurses at that point? The death of values also means the death of expertise, and so let’s bring back leeches and bloodletting!\nBloland suggests that the only course of action left is to \"listen and listen very hard and long to the 'other'” (p. 553), and in listening, create space for dialogue. I listened hard to the presentation last night and offer this in the spirit of dialogue. I hope the last night’s presenter will give up relativist ontology and choose instead to stand on these values of tolerance, diversity, and universal pluralism.\nDone. Axe ground. I am stepping off the soap box.\nBloland, H. (1995). Postmodernism and higher education. Journal of Higher Education, 66(5).\nJohnson, P. (1992). Modern times: The world from the Twenties to the Nineties. New York, NY: HarperCollins.\nWilber, K. (1995). Sex, ecology, spirituality: The spirit of evolution. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, Inc.\nWilson, J. Q. (1993). The moral sense. New York, NY: The Free Press.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1023609"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5493760704994202,"wiki_prob":0.45062392950057983,"text":"Home / Articles / New Orleans Promotions / New Orleans Events\nJazz Fest 2019: Top Picks for Friday, April 26\nHEADLINER DECISION:\nSantana vs. The Revivalists\nThis is a particularly tough choice, at least for me. The Revivalists are hometown heroes, whom I first saw open the Gentilly Stage years ago. The funk-infused rock band has gradually built a name for themselves far outside of our city, but it's hard to easily pick them over the other option here. Santana is a legend and a guitar god that can mix Latin rock, voodoo elements, and great jams. He's also been at the game for decades, which means he absolutely knows what he's doing.\nVERDICT: The Revivalists are great and will be around for years to come, but Santana is a legend in the music world, whose time performing is finite. Go with Santana. -Landon Murray\nREMAINING PICKS:\nThe Subdudes\nGentilly Stage, 1:50 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.\nThis New Orleans rock group, formed in 1987, is prepared to take the stage with an abundance of hits off their 11 albums. Swampy jazz combines with New Orleans rock to create The Subdudes' unique sound. The band has taken several hiatuses throughout their career, so don't miss out on this chance to see them!\nHaitian Rara Parade with DjaRARA\nThis traditional Haitian festival music makes its way to Jazz Fest and features DjaRARA, a band dedicated to preserving Haitian culture and inspiring Haitian Americans with rich, traditional folklore music. Don't miss the bamboo trumpets and metal drums parading around the Fair Grounds.\nBefore the release of their upcoming fourth album, The Head and The Heart prepares to blow away Jazz Fest-goers. This indie-folk band, formed in 2011, is best known for their songs \"Down in the Valley,\" \"Rivers and Roads,\" and their new single \"Missed Connection.\" Don't miss this six-person band hitting the stage with their beautifully catchy tunes.\nThe Dirty Dozen Brass Band\nCongo Square Stage, 4:05 p.m. - 5:05 p.m.\nAfter 40 years and 12 studio albums, countless tours, and several collaborations, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band makes its way to the Congo Square Stage with its blend of jazz, funk, soul, and R&B. The seven-member brass band started cookin' up their \"musical gumbo\" in 1977 and have been dominating the New Orleans jazz scene since. In other words, don't miss the chance to see them perform!\nDarlingside\nSheraton New Orleans Fais Do-Do Stage, 4:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.\nWhat band has a mascot? Darlingside, best known for their indie sound and hailing from Boston, is proud to claim the Unicorn of Friendship as their mascot. The four-person band is bound to add a layer of calmness and unity to the sure-to-be hectic Jazz Fest. If you need a break from the craziness or if you're dying to listen to a different kind of sound, check them out.\nCongo Square Stage, 5:45 p.m. - 7 p.m.\n\"The Man\" is another act that you'd be crazy to miss! After coming alive with his timeless hit \"Wake Me Up,\" featuring Avicii, Aloe Blacc has released his third album and has proven that he is able to capture the complexities of human emotion in his songwriting. His upbeat, fun, and meaningful songs are sure to leave you in a good mood.\nOld-Fashioned Hand-Made Ice Cream Sandwiches by Francofonte on Wheels\nIf you need some time away from the sweaty crowds and loud bands, head on over to Heritage Square to cool off with a hand-made ice cream sandwich, guaranteed to put a smile on your face. This delicious ice cream sandwiched between two cookies is unlike any other Jazz Fest dessert and is perfect for a refreshing snack.\nCrawfish Strudel by Cottage Catering\nFood Area II\nThis Jazz Fest favorite is an absolute must-try! Who doesn't love crawfish or strudel? Cottage Catering combines them both in a simple and delicious pastry. Craving a dessert? Their white chocolate bread pudding is a perfect end to this quick and delicious Jazz Fest meal.\nHand-built Acoustic Guitars by Steve Walden\nTent F\nWe're sure that all this Jazz Fest music has you itching to learn how to play an instrument yourself, just to see if you have the potential to be the next act on stage. Look no further than Steve Walden's hand-built acoustic guitars. With one of these carefully crafted instruments, you'll be sure to discover your hidden musical talent.\nMore From New Orleans Events\nNew Orleans Spring Festivals Guide\nMargarita Mix Off\nNew Orleans' Blues and Culture with a Blueberry twist\nIndulge yourself at the 10th Annual New Orleans Oyster Festival\nTreme/7th Ward Arts and Culture Festival Second-lines into Memorial Day Weekend\nNew Orleans Greek Festival Continues a Great Tradition This Upcoming Memorial Day Weekend\nHave a Boatload of Fun on the Sunset Party Cruise\nBest of the Big Easy 2019 Voting!\nPrepare Yourself for the Third Annual Top Taco New Orleans\nJazz Fest 2019: Top Picks for Saturday, May 4\nClick Here For Your 2019 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Map!\nLakeside 2 Riverside: Upcoming New Orleans Events in April\nHow Jazz Fest Evolved from Local Celebration to Major Production\nNew Orleans Events\nTales of the Cocktail 2019: 17 Years of Growth and Purpose\nTales is more than just fun-it's also an industry conference and reunion for professionals and cocktail enthusiasts. Seminars cover relevant topics: how to finance and open a bar, building a cocktail menu, the history and modern usage of citrus, handling your social media, making...\nNOLA Caribbean Festival Kicks Off June 20!\nThe New Orleans Caribbean Festival looks to put a fun-filled close on Caribbean Heritage Month. The festival will take place across four activity-packed days from June 20-23 with the main two days of the festival being held at Central City BBQ. Guests will get to experience live music, performances, international DJs, local chefs, art vendors, kids activities, salsa dancing and more. The fun begins on Thursday, June 20, with the...\nAnderson .Paak and The Free Nationals are Coming to the Big Easy\nJune 8th, 2019 is going to be lit and here's why. Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals will be in the Big Easy bringing their funky energetic-soulful sound to Champion Square. Led by Anderson .Paak, he announced the 2019 tour \"Best Teef in the Game Tour,\" on his social media platform. The band is set to hit stages in 21 different cities across North America. The tour will include rapper Earl Sweatshirt, rapper Noname, and...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line345091"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5211707353591919,"wiki_prob":0.5211707353591919,"text":"The Ecosystems Center was founded in 1975 as a year-round research center of the MBL. Its mission is to investigate the structure and functioning of ecological systems, predict their response to changing environmental conditions, apply the resulting knowledge to the preservation and management of natural resources and educate both future scientists and concerned citizens.\nBecause the complex nature of modern ecosystems research requires a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, Ecosystems Center scientists work together on projects bringing expertise from a wide range of disciplines to bear on a variety of questions. Center scientists are currently conducting more than 50 research projects all over the world, many in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions.\nClick the links below to learn more.\nLong-Term Ecological Research (LTER)\nThe National Science Foundation established the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network in 1980 to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States. There are 28 LTER sites that represent diverse ecosystems and research emphases. Two LTER projects are based at the Ecosystems Center: Arctic and Plum Island. In addition, researchers at the center are actively involved in research at the Harvard Forest LTER.\nThe long-term goal of Arctic LTER project is to understand and predict the effects of environmental change on arctic landscapes. To achieve this goal the Arctic LTER studies the ecology of the surrounding tundra, streams, and lakes. We hope to gain an understanding of the controls of ecosystem structure and function through long-term monitoring and surveys of natural variation of ecosystem characteristics, through experimental manipulation of ecosystems for years to decades and through synthesis of results and predictive modeling at ecosystem and watershed scales.\nThe Plum Island Ecosystems LTER (PIE LTER), located in northeastern Massachusetts, is an integrated research, education and outreach program with the goal of developing a predictive understanding of the long-term response of watershed and estuarine ecosystems to changes in climate, land use and sea level and to apply this knowledge to the wise management and development of policy to protect the natural resources of coastal zones.\nIncreases in soil temperatures associated with global warming have the potential to accelerate soil organic matter decay and alter nutrient cycling patterns in forested ecosystems. By increasing soil temperatures we can explore the effects of global warming in our forests, we can examine ecosystem responses to warming and the resulting feedbacks to the climate system. At the Harvard Forest LTER site we have established soil warming studies in a range of forest types and soil conditions on various spatial and temporal scales examining the implications of global warming on different ecosystem processes.\nOther Research Projects\nEcosystem Modeling. The foundation of any science is an underpinning theoretical structure that ties together the components and processes that are addressed by the science. This foundation is particularly important in ecology because of the extraordinary complexity of ecological systems. At The Ecosystems Center, we use mathematical models both for formulating theories and for making quantitative predictions based on them. The models we have developed include the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (TEM), the Multiple Element Limitation model (MEL), and models to address how microbial communities are structured by their use of energy and nutrients and how these environmental “microbiomes” and the ecosystem services they provide change subject to environmental pressures. We use these models to study how organisms optimize resource acquisition from their environment, how various ecosystems around the world are likely to respond to elevated CO2, climate warming, changes in precipitation, and disturbances like wildfire and clear cutting. We also use these models to assess the potential of the biosphere to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. To develop these models, we rely on field and laboratory data collected by Ecosystems Center scientists and our colleagues around the world. Our model results help guide future field and laboratory studies, and inform resource use and environmental policy.\nSince 1978, the Oceanic Flux Program (OFP), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has continuously measured particle fluxes in the deep Sargasso Sea. The OFP is the longest running time-series of its kind, and has produced a unique record of temporal variability in the “biological pump,” a term applied here to material transfer from the surface to the deep ocean resulting from the interplay between physical, biological and chemical processes.\nOur Terrestrial Isotope Biogeochemistry research group has developed a compound specific biomarker technique utilizing ablated leaf wax particles in aerosols to directly measure terrestrial photosynthetic discrimination on large spatial scales.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1291629"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6296560764312744,"wiki_prob":0.6296560764312744,"text":"Closed Captioned / Drama / Family / Gay / Lesbian Interest\nOut In The Dark\nOut in the Dark is as much a political and societal commentary as it is an original romantic story. Compelling and intimate, Michael Mayer's taut first feature follows a border-crossing relationship between an Israeli lawyer and an increasingly desperate Palestinian student.\nNimer, an ambitious Palestinian student in the West Bank, dreams of a better life abroad. One fateful night in Tel Aviv, he meets Roy, an Israeli lawyer, and the two fall in love. As their relationship deepens, they are both confronted with the harsh realities of a Palestinian society that refuses to accept Nimer for his sexual identity, and an Israeli society that rejects him for his nationality. When Nimer?s close friend is caught hiding illegally in Tel Aviv and sent back to the West Bank where he is brutally murdered, Nimer is to choose between the life he thought he wanted and his love for Roy.\nDirector: Michael Mayer\nProducer: Michael Mayer\nProducer: Lihu Roter\nWriter: Michael Mayer\nReleased: Nov 05 2013\nAdded: Oct 27 2015\nMaysa Daw\nLoai Noufi\nAlon Pout\nJameel Khouri\nNicholas Jacob\nMichael Aloni\n4 Reviews for Out In The Dark\nReview by Kelly Burkhardt\nBy: Kelly Burkhardt\nIn-House Review - Jul 30 2013\nOut in the Dark, the debut feature from director Michael Mayer, is simply brilliant. The film, centering on race and sexuality, follows a young, affluent and ambitious Palestinian grad student and a Jewish lawyer who fall in love.\nThe ad... Read More\nThe adorable Nimr (Nicholas Jacob) crosses the border to study and occasionally to meet his friends at a gay nightclub in Tel Aviv. One night, he is introduced to the handsome and wealthy Roy (Michael Aloni) and an instant attraction ensues.\nWhile Tel Aviv is ostensibly more accepting of Palestinians being present, Nimr's homeland is not. He struggles to keep the peace with his Muslim family - especially his brother, who is now a member of a radical, extremist anti-Palestinian organization. Despite being surrounded by all of these weighty (and sometimes dangerous) obstacles, the budding couple cannot help but fall immensely in love.\nEverything soon comes to a gripping head. Nimr is to choose between the life he once dreamed of... or Roy, his true love.\nFrom the opening scene to the final frame, Out in the Dark is a timely and poignant film that should not be missed!\nReview by chromo_man\nBy: chromo_man\nThis film has so much for which to recommend it: a sweet romance developing between handsome strangers, mixed with political intrigue and several types of familial dramas, stirred into a tasty cocktail. Something for everyone.\nFilmmakers t... Read More\nFilmmakers take note: The fourth star I am giving is partially for having perhaps the best subtitles I have ever seen. While I cannot vouch for how well they translate the words actually being spoken onscreen, they were large and clear and readable throughout the film, and contained none of the painful grammatical errors found in far too many foreign films; nor did they disappear before they could be read. Note: the small subtitles in the trailer for the film are NOT the same great subtitles as those in the film itself\nReview by NightTim\nBy: NightTim\nThis is one of the best gay films I've ever seen. It has a lot of moving parts: love story, social/political commentary, and thriller, all woven together in a poignant, complex drama. I thought it was touching, sexy and exciting, tragic, maddening,... Read More\nThis is one of the best gay films I've ever seen. It has a lot of moving parts: love story, social/political commentary, and thriller, all woven together in a poignant, complex drama. I thought it was touching, sexy and exciting, tragic, maddening, frightening, and tension-filled.\nThe basic storyline is not new: someone falls in love with a person from the wrong side of the tracks (in this case, something the families on both sides feel). But the Palestinian/Israeli divide makes it modern and relevant, and it brings to life the conflict we usually only read about in the papers.\nBoth Nimr (Nicholas Jacob - how did he get that name??) and Roy (Michael Aloni) are beautiful to look at, and it makes every minute of the film a viseral pleasure to watch. For some reason, though both characters are shirtless in plenty of scenes, Jacob's body is the only one we usually get to see. It would have been nice to see more of Aloni's - but Jacob is beautiful enough for the both of them.\nThe love scenes are some of the best I've seen in gay films - meaning not that the sex was scorching hot and animalistic, but that it was so tender and real and aching that it was hard to believe these were two actors. (They just have to be boyfriends in real life!) If it's sex you want, porn is cheap and plentiful. This, however, is rare on film.\nIt starts out as a fun, flirty, harmless love story but then turns dark as the political and social realities surface and become undeniable. Then this viewer found himself forgetting to breathe as the stakes became clear and danger and desperation took over as drivers of the story. The loose ends are not tied up neatly at the end, but it's enough to know that Nimr makes it.\nUnforgettable, especially as we know this is not just a made-up story but reality in the Middle East, where being gay can literally be a life or death issue. Twenty bucks and two hours well-spent.\nHard-hitting and highly recommended.\nWe hear so much about the Israel/Palestine situation that we begin to think that the two peoples will never get along. We see here that this is not true. This is the story of a romantic relationship between an Israeli lawyer and a Palestinian graduat... Read More\nWe hear so much about the Israel/Palestine situation that we begin to think that the two peoples will never get along. We see here that this is not true. This is the story of a romantic relationship between an Israeli lawyer and a Palestinian graduate student who has a permit to study in Israel. (There are some in the pink washing camp who will claim that Israel does not allow Palestinians to study within her borders and that is simply not true). Each man has to deal not just with his sexuality but also with his family because of whom he loves. There are the personal issues like language, class, nationality, religion and culture and these are difficult enough without adding the broader problems of the political situations because the two men are involved with one-another despite the tensions between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. (I must admit that the word \"occupied\" bothers me a great deal because it seems to be something new-what were once the spoils of war are now considered occupied territories.\nNmir and Roy, our two lovers quite naturally are at the center of the film and they become the symbols of the two sides-each wanting peace and security but also were slow to understand that their futures are bound together. There is no blame on either side in the film nor is there examination of righteousness on either side. Each side is looked at honestly whether dealing with Palestinian fanaticism or the use of power by the Israel Defense and security services. (This is an achievement for director Michael Mayer who as an Israeli could easily have taken sides). There is even a hint here that each side may play into the hands of the other and this is something we have not seen much of. We do, however, feel a pervading sense of fear and we are surely aware of the toll fear can take.\nFor a love story this is both gritty and gorgeous. While the tension of the situation is felt throughout the film (keep in mind that we have all been tempered by Romeo and Juliet stories), so is the love that the men share. There is a figurative and literal darkness almost throughout the entire film but there is also love-not just between Nimr and Roy but between the men and their families.\nMichael Aloni is Roy Shaefer, the young Israeli lawyer and his ability to show the entire range of emotions is brilliant. He lives in a state of hopelessness yet he thinks that Israel will eventually do right by coming to terms with her Palestine problem. Nicholas Jacob is stunning as Nimr and this is his first film role. Interesting that his parents are Arab/Italian and he grew up between Haifa and Nashville and is not gay. His role requires him to deal with demons, the kind of which we will never experience but which he does not let take him over. The other actors also do fine jobs-Alon Oleartchik (whom you may remember as a band member of Keveret and whose name came to prominence with the Poogy stories) is Roy's father who suffers from conflicting emotions about his son, Alon Pdut is excellent as an Israeli security officer who has become cold because he is worried about the future of his country, Jamil Khouri plays Nimr's brother who is caught up in the terror movement and Loai Nofi as a stereotypical yet Palestinian gay Arab gives a wonderful cameo.\nI found myself so involved in the film that I am having difficulty writing about it. The love story of Nimr and Roy is super intense and we see this against the backdrop of the political situation. Roy and Nimr leads us to believe that they are living for themselves and for each other and this is in contrast to the sad picture of what is going on around them.\nThe real beauty of the film is that it is for everyone and sexuality and Israel/Palestine politics do not matter. This is first and foremost a love story. The ending is ambiguous and purposefully so. While there is no resolution there are signs of hope and let's face it, we all live for hope. Michael Meyer has united taboo with politics to give us a new way of looking at the Middle East. He examines if it is possible to remove the personal self from one's ideological background and political identity and does this though Palestinian psychology student Nimr who develops a romance with Jewish lawyer Roy.\nAt first the two guys flirt and it all seems okay but then Roy brings Nimr home and introduces him to his parents by telling them that this is new boyfriend. This horrifies Nimr as well since at home he is not out of the closet. Mayer sees the idea of self as a union and mixture o social and political environments that deal with both reality and love. I can continue writing all day about the film but whatever I say does not do justice to the film and I urge everyone who can to see it.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1307496"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7982423305511475,"wiki_prob":0.7982423305511475,"text":"Watch Alicia Keys, Beyoncé and Other Celebrities Describe 23 Ways You Could be Killed If You’re Black\nBy Melissa Chan\nAlicia Keys, Beyoncé and a group of other celebrities describe 23 ways a black person could be killed in the U.S. in a new video that urges Americans to sign a petition that calls on Congress for “radical transformation,” including funding for healthcare, education and criminal justice reform.\nThe nearly two-dozen musicians and actors, including Chris Rock, Rihanna, Taraji P. Henson and Pharrell Williams, use real-life incidents to highlight the various ways black people have died in the country.\nThe video, a collaboration between Mic.com and the We Are Here movement, begins with Keys saying, “failing to signal a lane change,” when referring to the death of Sandra Bland, who last summer was arrested during a routine traffic stop in Texas and later died in police custody. Her death was ruled a suicide.\nThe deaths mentioned in the video also include the recent fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, alongside the other high-profile killings of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice and the nine black people shot dead inside a Charleston church last year.\n“The time for change is now,” Keys says at the end of the video. “We demand radical transformation to heal the long history of systemic racism so that all Americans have the equal right to live and to pursue happiness.”\nThe petition specifically asks for the government to direct $150 billion toward education, healthcare, housing, employment and nutrition in “poor communities” over the next decade, as well as an “overhaul” of the criminal justice system.\n[Mic]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line309809"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7909595966339111,"wiki_prob":0.7909595966339111,"text":"The Ride to Creston Station\nJun 18, 2016 | People, South Napa County\nBy Marie Bowen\n1876 Parcel Map\nTracing the California Pacific Railroad (later Southern Pacific) tracks across the 1876 and 1895 “Official Map of Napa County,” one often encounters railroad depots named for nearby residents, past or present: Buchli, Thompson, Trubody, Bale, and others, depending on which map you’re viewing. But names of other stations whose origins long since forgotten are worthy of research. One of those is Creston, a station located in the southeasterly portion of Napa County and found on both official maps. The station, in fact, lay along part of what we know as Jameson Canyon Road, with the next westerly stop being Napa Junction.\nThe 1876 and 1895 maps show the station to be near or within acreage owned by a R. A. Brownlie. After some digging I discovered him to be Robert A. Brownlee. Slocum & Bowen’s 1881 book History of Napa and Lake Counties devoted several pages to Mr. Brownlee, a Scottish stonemason born in 1813. He arrived in New York in 1836 and from there went to Arkansas, where he helped build what are now several historic landmarks in Pulaski County. After arriving in California during the Gold Rush, he mined for a time in Mariposa County and subsequently married Annie Lamont. By 1857 the family had settled “fourteen miles north of Vallejo” on an 1,100-acre wheat and barley farm. Slocum & Bowen also noted that “The line of railroad to Sacramento from South Vallejo passes his gate.” Could this be Creston Station? I did more research online and found a few references to Creston Station as an unincorporated area in Napa County and Creston Station Ranch along Jameson Canyon Road – over which the Land Trust received from the ranch’s owners an easement in 2003.\nBrownlee family, courtesy California Historical Society\nReferring back to Brownlee family trees at Ancestry.com, I learned that his home, described by Slocum & Bowen as a “magnificent two-storied building,” was called Sunnyside Farm and was, indeed, Creston. He and Annie’s seven children were born there. One of Robert and Annie’s sons-in-law, Thomas Urquhart, was a Southern Pacific dispatcher who was buried at Tulocay Cemetery after his death on November 19, 1897. Additionally, various mentions of the Brownlee family were found in the Napa Register, including one entry on August 31, 1937, which noted that the sister of George Brownlee was visiting the family home at Creston. And, foretelling Creston’s semi-anonymous future, a front-page article in the Register’s January 5, 1943, edition stated, “The Worswick Construction Company has stopped work on the state highway near Creston in the Jamison [sic] Canyon…until spring.”\nI knew the property owners who had provided the 2003 Land Trust easement had names other than Brownlee. Could I find the link between those owners and the Brownlee family and thus feel sure that Creston Station Ranch was the former Sunnyside? Yes, and easily. Thanks to Napa County Recorder’s online Official Records-Public Index, I found the 1945 Deed from Robert Lamont Brownlee, surviving son of Robert and Annie, to one of the property owners named in the 2003 news article.\nI have not, however, learned why California Pacific Railroad named the station “Creston” when its Vallejo-Suisun route was completed in June 1868. Ancestry.com records showed no families in the area with the surname Creston. The Brownlee family owned the surrounding land pre-railroad, and, had the station been named “Brownlee,” this entire search would have been considerably shorter. Bill Bryson’s book Made in America provides an entire chapter on sources of place names, noting that a vice president of Milwaukee Railroad had the task of naming communities to be built along the Milwaukee line, including Othello, Ralston, and Purina. It is possible that Creston was intended to become a community, which it did to a small extent, and that someone, somewhere, within the California Pacific Railroad hierarchy bestowed the name.\nBryson, Bill. MADE IN AMERICA. New York: Perennial/HarperCollins Publishers, 2001\nDelaplane, Kristin. “Railroad brings Solano on track in 1860s.” Historical Articles of Solano County Online Database, January 7, 1996\nEtter, Patricia A. “Robert Brownlee.” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture (online), January 3, 2007\nNapa Register, August 31, 1937, and January 5, 1943\nNapa Valley Register, February 3, 2003, “Land Trust Holdings Spread,” and September 7, 2006, “Land Trust Donors are Neighbors”\nOfficial Maps of the County of Napa, 1876 and 1895\nSlocum, Bowen & Co. HISTORY OF NAPA & LAKE COUNTIES. San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1459205"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5306035280227661,"wiki_prob":0.4693964719772339,"text":"Stranded by Dani Pettrey\nWhen Her Friend Goes Missing,\nEvery Minute Counts\nDarcy St. James returns to Alaska to join a journalist friend undercover on the trail of a big story. But when Darcy arrives, she finds her friend has disappeared. Troubled by the cruise ship's vague explanation, Darcy uses her cover as a travel reporter to investigate further.\nThe last person Gage McKenna expects to see during his summer aboard a cruise ship leading adventure excursions is Darcy. And in typical Darcy fashion, she's digging up more trouble.\nHe'd love to just forget her--but something won't let him. And he can't help but worry about her as they are heading into more remote regions of Alaska and eventually into foreign waters. Something sinister is going on, and the deeper they push, the more Gage fears they've only discovered the tip of the iceberg.\nDani Petrey is a fairly new author on the Christian fiction market, having her first book just come out in May of 2012. In my personal opinion, she is one of the best new authors to have come along in recent years.\nShe had me hooked with her first book, Submerged, which is also the first book in this series, Alaskan Courage, and she has only gotten better with each book. This third book, Stranded is the best yet. I like it when an author has the same characters in a series, focusing more on different ones in each book, but using them all. In the last book, she started setting up for this book. In Stranded, she picks up Darcy and Gage's story where she left off in Shattered.\nStranded has all of the suspense, drama, great plot and characters, and romance Dani has had in her previous novels, but it is even better than the other two. The setting is on a cruise ship, which I think would be more of a challenge, but Dani shows she can write a great book in any setting.\nDani is one of the authors who is not afraid to make her books Christian and have her characters struggle with issues of faith. I found myself relating a lot to that of Gage in this story, and appreciate her addressing struggles of faith and showing through fiction that not everyone gets it as easily as some of us do.\nThis book also addresses an issue we all need to be made more aware of: the human trafficking issue.\nI could not have enjoyed this book any more than I did. I devoured every page and read it through in the same day I received it in the mail. I give it 5 stars out of 5 stars. This is a Christian suspense masterpiece.\nDani Pettrey is a wife, homeschooling mom, and author. She feels blessed to write inspirational romantic suspense because it incorporates so many things she loves--the thrill of adventure, nail biting suspense, the deepening of her characters' faith, and plenty of romance. She and her husband reside in Maryland with their two teenage daughters. Visit her website at www.danipettrey.com.\nDaniPettrey\nhttp://www.facebook.com/DaniPettrey\nhttp://www.danipettrey.com\nStranded is available from Bethany House Publishers.\nThanks to the author and Bethany House for the review copy.\nLabels: Book Review, Christian fiction, Dani Pettrey, read-in-one-sitting book, suspense/mystery\nRaw Edges by Sandra Bricker\nThis week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Raw Edge Abingdon Press (September 17, 2013) by Sandra D. Bricker\nFor more than a decade, Sandra D. Bricker lived in Los Angeles. While honing her chosen craft of screenwriting in every spare moment, she worked as a personal assistant and publicist to some of daytime television's hottest stars. When her mother became ill in Florida, she walked away from that segment of her life and moved across the country to take on a new role: Caregiver.\nThe Big 5-OH! was released by Abingdon Press in the Spring of 2010, and the novel was very well-received, garnering a couple of nibbles from Hollywood.\nAlways the Baker, Never the Bride was released by Abingdon Press in September 2010. With its phenomenal reviews, the novel spawned a series of three more books based on the popular cast of characters at The Tanglewood Inn, a wedding destination hotel in historic Roswell, Georgia. The series cemented Sandie's spot in publishing as a flagship author of Laugh-Out-Loud romantic comedy for the inspirational market.\n\"Being allowed to combine my faith and my humor with my writing dream,\" says Bricker, \"well, that's the best of all worlds, as far as I'm concerned!\"\nGrayson McDonough has no use for teal ribbons, 5k runs, or ovarian cancer support groups now that his beautiful wife Jenna is gone. But their nine-year-old daughter Sadie seems to need the connection. When Annabelle Curtis, the beautiful cancer survivor organizing the memory quilt project for the Ovacome support group, begins to bring out the silly and fun side of his precious daughter again, Gray must set aside his own grief to support the healing of Sadie’s young heart. But is there hope for Gray’s heart too along the way?\nIf you would like to read the first chapter of Raw Edge, go HERE.\nWatch the book trailer:\nThe 40 Most Influential Christians\nLearn From the Greatest Teachers and Thinkers in Christian History\nThe Bible is the bedrock of Christian belief, yet how Christians think and talk about God, the Bible, and faith has been shaped by influential thinkers from the first century right up through the twentieth. In this book, Dr. Daryl Aaron tells the powerful stories of forty who have helped us better understand what we believe and why we believe it.\nWith insight--and some surprises--Dr. Aaron explores the lives and most important teachings of these giants of church history, from Justin Martyr and Augustine to Martin Luther, John Calvin, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and many others, underscoring how their teaching has influenced the church--for better or, occasionally, for worse.\nLet your faith be strengthened as you encounter those who paved the way for us, often risking their lives for the sake of the very beliefs we hold today.\nI'm not sure I agree with the author on all forty people in this book being the most influential Christians, but it is an interesting read. Each chapter is dedicated to a different person, and most are around six pages in length, though a few are longer.\nSome of the people in the book are people I have never heard of, hence my statement that I am not sure some of them belong in the book. I studied church history and don't remember hearing of some of them, but it was still interesting reading about them and about what they contributed to Christianity. Even with the people I am familiar with, I learned some new things about.\nThis isn't a book you would read rapidly through, but one you would read a chapter or two at a time. The author did a great job of compiling information, putting the people in order that they came in\nhistory, and making it and interesting and helpful book.\nDaryl Aaron earned his ThM at Dallas Theological Seminary and his PhD at Graduate Theological Foundation. He spent fourteen years in pastoral ministry before becoming a professor of biblical and theological studies at Northwestern College. He lives with his wife in Mounds View, Minnesota.\nThe 40 Most Influential Christians is available from Bethany House Publishers.\nThanks to Bethany House for the review copy.\nFatal Tide by Lis Wiehl and Pete Nelson\nIn East Salem, the elite St. Adrian’s Academy is at the nexus of a satanic apocalypse—and the fatal tide is rising.\nWhen Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is reunited with the pagans who commissioned it, a dark prophecy begins to unfold in East Salem, beginning with a savage double-murder by hellish creatures straight out of the painting itself. The lone survivor of the attack, a seventeen-year-old Brit, finds sanctuary at Tommy Gunderson’s home—and the place is soon surrounded by demons who seem to be biding their time…but for how long?\nTommy’s pond has been contaminated with Provivilan—an insidious drug that could transform New York City’s children into an army of violence-addicted murderers. But for an occult cabal in the upper echelons of Linz Pharmaceuticals, contaminating the water supply is just part of an ancient conspiracy against all of humankind.\nAs the clouds gather, Tommy and Dani realize they must infiltrate Linz and St. Adrian’s to stop the dissemination of Provivilan. Even then, it could take a tangible eruption of the battle between angels and demons to save humanity from the supernatural evils that have been summoned to East Salem.\nThe three books in this series have been my favorite books that Lis Wiehl has written. They have also been the most Christian, so that may play into why I like them the best. Of the three books in this series, this one was the best and most exciting, in my opinion.\nThe authors brought back the same characters from the other two books, and in this book the stakes are higher and the danger more prevalent.\nI took me a few pages to remember what had happened in the last book, but I quickly got caught up. This book brings everything to a head and conclusion, and ends the series in a very satisfying way.\nI really like the combination of these two authors. I have read all of Lis Whiehl's books, and she has used different co-authors, and I think Pete Nelson is her best choice yet. The writing style is better, the plot better and more complex.... I thoroughly enjoyed this series, and especially this last book. As with the other books, there were appearances by angels and demons, and people physically fought some demonic creatures, which I know we don't actually do, but it was a neat way to show that spiritual warfare is very real.\nThere were a couple of words in this book that are inappropriate for a Christian book, but they weren't as bad as some I have run onto. Overall, this was an awesome book.\nLis Wiehl is a New York Times best-selling author, Harvard Law School graduate, and former\nfederal prosecutor. A popular legal analyst and commentator for the Fox News Channel, Wiehl appears on The O'Reilly Factor and Imus in the Morning, and was co-host with Bill O'Reilly on the radio for seven years.\nPete Nelson lives with his wife and son in Westchester, New York. He got his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1979 and has written both fiction and non-fiction for magazines, including Harpers, Playboy, Esquire, MS, Outside, The Iowa Review, National Wildlife, Glamour, Redbook. He was a columnist for Mademoiselle and a staff writer for LIVE Magazine, covering various live events including horse pulls, music festivals, dog shows, accordion camps and arm wrestling championships. Recently he was a contributing editor and feature writer for Wondertime, a Disney parenting magazine. He's published twelve young adult novels, including a six-book series about a girl named Sylvia Smith-Smith which earned him an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. His young adult non-fiction WWII history, Left For Dead (Randomhouse, 2002) about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis won the 2003 Christopher award as was named to the American Library Association's 2003 top ten list. His other non-fiction titles include Real Man Tells All (Viking, 1988), Marry Like a Man (NAL, l992), That Others May Live (Crown, 2000) and Kidshape (Rutledge Hill, 2004). His novel The Christmas List was published by Rutledge Hill Press in 2004. He wrote, with former army counterintelligence agent Dave DeBatto, a four book series of military thrillers, including CI: Team Red (2005), CI: Dark Target (2006), CI: Mission Liberty (2006) and CI: Homeland Threat (2007) published by Time-Warner. A More Unbending Battle; The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Democracy in WWI and Equality at Home, was published in 2009 by Basic Civitas books. His novel, I Thought You Were Dead, will be published by Algonquin in 2010. He also has two CDs out on the Signature Sounds label, the first entitled The Restless Boys Club (1996), the second called Days Like Horses (2000).\nFatal Tide is available from Thomas Nelson Publishers.\nUnlimited by Davis Bunn, an interview, and giveaway\nSimon Orwell is a brilliant student whose life has taken a series of wrong turns. At the point of giving up on his dreams, he gets a call from an old professor who has discovered a breakthrough in a device that would create unlimited energy, and he needs Simon's help.\nBut once he crosses the border, nothing goes as the young man planned. The professor has been killed and Simon is assaulted and nearly killed by members of a powerful drug cartel.\nNow he must take refuge in the only place that will help him, a local orphanage. There, Simon meets Harold Finch, the orphanage proprietor who walked away from a lucrative career with NASA and consulting Fortune 500 companies to serve a higher cause.\nWith Harold's help, Simon sets out on a quest to uncover who killed the professor and why. In due time, he will discover secrets to both the worldchanging device and his own unlimited potential.\nOccasionally I run across a book that sounds good, and upon reading it I find it far better than I had anticipated from the book description, and this is one such book. I have read several of Davis Bunn's books in the last few years and have yet to be disappointed. They are full of action and suspense, and Unlimited was not exception.\nThe plot of the book is about people trying to make unlimited energy from unused energy. I loved the characters, setting, and plot for the story, and especially liked the main character, Simon. He is a young man who has made some bad choices in life, and it seems nothing is going right for him, but as the book progresses, we see God can change and save even a misfit like him.\nDavis Bunn did a great job of describing scientific and technological terms in language that is easy to understand and be interesting to the reader. I was far from bored while reading this book. A lot happened, and it was written in a way to be very believable and likely to happen.\nThe book has it all: action, suspense, bad guys, good guys, romance, corrupt politicians, and God working things out for those who serve Him.\nInterestingly, this story is based on true events. Davis Bunn has done a great job of putting the events in a fictional novel and coming up with a book definitely worth reading. And as an added benefit, I learned a lot.\nDavis Bunn is a four-time Christy Award-winning, best-selling author now serving as writer-in-residence at Regent's Park College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Defined by readers and reviewers as a “wise teacher,” “gentleman adventurer,” “consummate writer,” and “Renaissance man,” his work in business took him to over 40 countries around the world, and his books have sold more than seven million copies in sixteen languages.\nUnlimited is Davis’s first screenplay to be released as a major motion picture. The book, Unlimited, is a novelization of the screenplay.\nThe inspiration behind the Unlimited film and novel is Harold Finch's book, Success: Four Keys to Unlock Your Unlimited Potential. Download a free copy of Success here: http://unlimitedthemovie.com/4-keys-book/.\nUnlimited is available from Broadman and Holman Publishing.\nI received a complimentary copy of Unlimited from B&H Publishing Group in exchange for my honest review.\nRead the first three chapters here.\nMovie trailer:\nQ and A with Davis Bunn\nThe storyline in Unlimited is inspired by true events. What actual events inspired the story?\nHarold Finch was formerly the founder and CEO of the first management-leadership consulting groups in the US. In the mid-seventies he sold the company to H&R Block for over a hundred million dollars—back when a hundred million actually meant something. Answering God’s call, he has spent the past three decades traveling the world, teaching his concepts for free and helping underprivileged children learn that they do indeed have both a purpose in God’s eyes, and the potential to succeed. His experiences form the basis for this story.\nWhat ignited your idea for the characters to create a device that would convert raw wasted energy into useable power?\nI actually wrote the screenplay for the film before writing the novel. This happens occasionally—Godfather and Love Story were both conceived in this order. While working on the film script, the producer and Harold and I were discussing what might work as a basis for the story’s suspense element. We were looking for something that had the means of revealing this ‘unlimited’ potential in people. I don’t actually remember who first came up with the idea of wasted energy, but soon as it was said, we all jumped on it.\nSimon Orwell, the protagonist in Unlimited, is a brilliant, cynical electrical engineering student who finds danger irresistible. Did you model his character traits after yourself or anyone you know?\nAlas, we all know a Simon. These days, this type of person is all too common. An individual with huge potential, who allows himself or herself to become distracted by the multitude of temptations that basically define modern life. And yes, I do know several such people. Some turn this into hugely productive directions, thank goodness. Usually to do so requires divine help, a clarification of focus, and strength they must reach out and ask to receive.\nArmando Vasquez and Harold Finch are important mentors in Simon’s life. Who has been a critical mentor in your life, Davis? How has that person encouraged you to push beyond the boundaries of what you thought possible?\nThere have been several such mentors, for which I remain extremely grateful. One such person is Carol Johnson, who recently retired as editor-in-chief at Bethany House Publishers. Carol has been instrumental in my becoming the best writer I could be, and continues to act as a sounding board for new ideas and characters. Another, I am happy to say, is Harold Finch. His lessons on combining God’s teachings with lifelong aims have been a genuinely rewarding experience with far-reaching results.\nMany of the characters in the story are orphans. What parallels do you see between the orphans in the story and real-life spiritual orphans?\nA beautiful question. While researching the core components of this story, orphanage leaders repeatedly stressed the need to teach orphans to believe in themselves and their natural abilities. Too often they see themselves as lost, without purpose, without a role to play, without chances, without love. What made this story work, I think, is how Simon Orwell shares these same feelings about himself. And how he comes to realize God is the only one to fill this need.\nMany people believe they must wear a mask to hide the parts of themselves they are ashamed of. How is this story about removing that mask?\nSo much of life remains hidden away. The darker elements of a life without God only amplify this falseness. Simon has spent so much of his life, so much of his energy and time, in hiding. As the story unfolds, he discovers that an essential element of arriving at his full potential is being honest with himself. This is where the mask is most damaging, and also where it is often hardest to release. We seek to hide the truth, even when we know the act is a lie in itself. And the mirror we require to see the truth about ourselves is the one that God offers, in infinite patience, in gentle love.\nThe title, Unlimited, has multiple layers of meaning. What does that title mean to you?\nUnlimited was the title brought to me by the film’s producers. When I first began working on this story, it was just that, a title. But as I grew to know Harold, and heard him teach, and read his lesson plan, and then actually applied what he has come to call his ‘Dynamic Life Retreat’ (see Harold full teachings on his website, HaroldFinch.com) I have come to agree with them in their choice. Bringing God into the equation of life’s direction, success, and reaching full potential does reveal the true meaning of Unlimited.\nHow can readers find you on the Internet?\nMy website and blog are at www.davisbunn.com\nSubscribe to my blog’s feed (to get my latest posts via e-mail or through your feed reader) at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavisBunn\nSign up for my e-newsletter (for subscriber-only giveaways and advance notice of my upcoming novels): http://www.davisbunn.com/news.htm\nFacebook Author Page: facebook.com/davisbunnauthor\nPinterest: http://pinterest.com/davisbunn/ -- check out my “Scenes from Unlimited” board.\nTwitter: @davisbunn - http://twitter.com/davisbunn\nYou could win a $50 Fandango gift card plus UNLIMITED, Davis Bunn's new suspense novel. Ten additional winners will receive a copy of UNLIMITED. Enter right now by clicking this link: http://woobox.com/mp5qew. You can enter once per email address per day. Rack up bonus entries by sharing the contest with your Facebook and Twitter friends! If you don’t have a Pinterest account, enter by filling out the form on the Official Rules page here http://bit.ly/15vTr8u.\nEnter on facebook here: http://woobox.com/mp5qew\nLabels: Book Review, Christian fiction, Davis Bunn, read-in-one-sitting book, suspense/mystery\nDangerous Passage by Lisa Harris\nShe's dedicated her life to ending violence. But has she moved too deep into a treacherous world?\nWhen two Jane Does are killed on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia, detective and behavioral specialist Avery North discovers they share something in common--a magnolia tattoo on their shoulders. Suspecting a serial killer, Avery joins forces with medical examiner Jackson Bryant to solve the crimes and prevent another murder. As they venture deep into a sinister criminal world, Avery and Jackson are taken to the very edge of their abilities--and their hearts.\nDangerous Passage exposes a fully realized and frightening world where every layer peeled back reveals more challenges ahead. You'll be hooked from the start.\nI have only read one book by this author before I read this one, and remember thinking it was OK, but nothing spectacular. Maybe it is because she has more writing under her belt, but this book was a terrific read. In addition to being a great suspense novel, the author tackles the human trafficking issue, which is something we all need to be aware of and learn more about.\nI liked everything about this book: plot, characters, setting. This book is classified as romantic suspense, but that part of the book took a back seat to the action and suspense, and was not overdone at all, and it wasn't all wrapped up in a neat package at the end either. As with many books like this one, I had a hard time putting it down and read it in one sitting.\nThis is the first book in a series, and I look forward to reading the other books that will follow. The author has a plot going on that will cover at least one more book, and has me hooked, waiting to see\nhow it will work out.\nLisa Harris is an award-winning author with more than 400,000 copies of her works in print. She was a 2011 Christy Award finalist for Blood Ransom and lives in Mozambique together with her husband, Scott, and their three children. Visit her website at www.lisaharriswrites.com.\nAvailable September 20 from Revell Publishing, a division of Baker Books Publishing.\nFired Up by Mary Connealy\nThis week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Fired Up (Bethany House March 1, by Mary Connealy\nMary Connealy writes romantic comedy with cowboys. She is a Christy Award Finalist, a Carol Award Finalist and an IRCC Award finalist.\nThe Lassoed in Texas Series, Petticoat Ranch, Calico Canyon and Gingham Mountain. Petticoat Ranch was a Carol Award Finalist. Calico Canyon was a Christy Award Finalist and a Carol Award Finalist. These three books are now contained in one large volume called Lassoed in Texas Trilogy.\nThe Montana Marriages Series, Montana Rose, The Husband Tree and Wildflower Bride. Montana Rose was a Carol Award Finalist.\nCowboy Christmas—the 2010 Carol Award for Best Long Historical Romance, and an Inspirational Readers Choice Contest Finalist.\nThe Sophie's Daughters series. Doctor in Petticoats, Wrangler in Petticoats, Sharpshooter in Petticoats.\nShe is also the author of; Black Hills Blessing a 3-in-1 collection of sweet contemporary romances, Nosy in Nebraska, a 3-in-1 collection of cozy romantic mysteries and she's one of the three authors contributing to Alaska Brides with her Carol Award Winning historical romance Golden Days.\nRollicking Wild West Adventure and Romance from Bestselling Author Mary Connealy\nDare Riker is a doctor who saves lives, but someone seems determined to end his. It may have something to do with the traitors he dealt with during the Civil War, or it might be related to the recent incident with Flint Greer and the ranch. Whoever the culprit is, he or she seems really fired up, and Dare can't let his guard down for a moment, which is a challenge, since right now he's trying to win the heart of the recently widowed Glynna.\nGlynna Greer came west as a mail-order bride and ended up in a bad situation. Now her husband, Flint, is dead, and she's determined to care for her son and daughter on her own. She wants to believe Dare Riker is as decent as he seems, but she's terrified to lock herself into another marriage. She plans to support her small family by opening a diner--never mind that cooking is not her greatest talent. The men in Broken Wheel, Texas, are so desperate for home cooking that they seem willing to overlook dried-out beef and blackened biscuits.\nGlynna can't help but notice that danger follows Dare wherever he goes. There's the avalanche. And then the fire. But things really get out of hand when someone plunges a knife from Glynna's diner into Dare's back. Are Flint's cronies still plotting revenge? Is Glynna's son engaged in a misguided attempt to protect his mother? Is a shadowy outsider still enraged over past injustices? And can Dare survive long enough to convince Glynna to take another chance on love?\nIf you would like to read the first chapter of Fired Up, go HERE.\nBorn of Persuasion by Jessica Dotta\nThis week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Born of Persuasion Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (September 1, 2013) by Jessica Dotta\nBorn in the wrong century–except for the fact that she really likes epidurals and washing machines–Jessica Dotta writes British Historicals with the humor like an Austen, yet the drama of a Bronte.\nShe resides lives in the greater Nashville area—where she imagines her small Southern town into the foggy streets of 19th century London. She oversees her daughter to school, which they pretend is an English boarding school, and then she goes home to write and work on PR. Jessica has tried to cast her dachshund as their butler–but the dog insists it’s a Time Lord and their home a Tardis. Miss Marple, her cat, says its no mystery to her as to why the dog won’t cooperate. When asked about it, Jessica sighs and says that you can’t win them all, and at least her dog has picked something British to emulate.\nThe year is 1838, and seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston’s position has never been more fragile. Orphaned and unmarried in a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, she finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to establish her as a servant in far-off Scotland.\nWith two months to devise a better plan, Julia’s first choice to marry her childhood sweetheart is denied. But when a titled dowager offers to introduce Julia into society, a realm of possibilities opens. However, treachery and deception are as much a part of Victorian society as titles and decorum, and Julia quickly discovers her present is deeply entangled with her mother’s mysterious past. Before she knows what’s happening, Julia finds herself a pawn in a deadly game between two of the country’s most powerful men. With no laws to protect her, she must unravel the secrets on her own. But sometimes truth is elusive and knowledge is deadly.\nIf you would like to read the first chapter of Born of Persuasion, go HERE.\nThe Machine by Bill Myers\nFor ages 8 to 14, Truth Seekers is a fast-paced, thoughtful, and funny new series using a 21st century approach to sharing ancient Bible truths.\nIn book one, The Machine, twin siblings Jake and Jenny have just lost their mother and are not thrilled about moving to Israel to stay with their seldom seen archaeologist dad. They don’t yet understand how “all things work together for good to those who love God.” But they will when a machine their father invented points them to the Truth.\nThis is the first book in The Truth Seekers series, and the first part of it is taken up with setting up the story and giving information about the main characters, twins Jake and Jen.\nI'm obviously an adult, and this book is geared for ages 8-14, but I found the book very entertaining and interesting. I could see my 12 year old nephew loving the story. It is funny, and has a lot of gadgets and wacky inventions that are used in the story. The book also deals with the issue of trusting God, and one of the main characters struggles with that especially.\nThis book is a great beginning to what has the makings of being a very good series of books for this age group. I would recommend it.\nBill Myers is an accomplished writer and film director whose work has won more than sixty national and international awards including the C. S. Lewis Honor Award. Among his best-selling releases for kids are The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle and The Forbidden Door. He has sold more than eight million books and videos and lives with two cats, two kids, one dog, and one wife near Hollywood, California.\nThe Machine is available from Broadman and Holman Publishing.\nLabels: Book Review, Christian fiction, Juvenile fiction/kid's books\nShades of Mercy by Anita Lustrea and Caryn Rivendara\nThis week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Shades of Mercy River North; New Edition edition (September 1, 2013) by Anita Lustrea\nCaryn Rivendara\nAuthentic. That’s the word heard over and over when women describe Anita Lustrea. She is a popular speaker at women’s conferences and retreats, and an amazing communicator as co-host of the award winning Midday Connection radio broadcast. Her deep desire is to communicate freedom to women and help them nurture and care for their soul. Anita is the co-author of “Come to Our Table: A Midday Connection Cookbook” and “Daily Seeds from Women Who Walk in Faith”, a Devotional for women. Her first solo venture as an author releases in November, 2010, “What Women Tell Me: finding freedom from the secrets we keep.” Anita and her husband, Mike Murphy, a pastor, along with her teenage son John live in the Chicago suburbs. When she’s not traveling or speaking, you can find her reading and drinking a venti hot tea at her local Starbucks.\nCaryn is a sought-after writer and speaker. She’s the author of four books—Shades of Mercy: A Maine Chronicle (River North, September 2013), Known & Loved: 52 Devotions from the Psalms (Revell, April 2013), Grumble Hallelujah (Tyndale House, September 2011), and Mama’s Got a Fake I.D. (WaterBrook Press, March 2009)–and a regular contributor to Christianity Today’s Her.Meneutics as well as columnist for Re:Frame Media’s ThinkChristian blog. She has written dozens of magazine article. Her work has appeared in such publications as Christianity Today, Relevant, FamilyLife, and Engineering and Mining Journal (you read that right). Caryn leads workshops and speaks at conferences and church groups across the country. She’s also a regular guest on Moody Radio’s Midday Connection with Anita Lustrea and Melinda Schmidt and has been featured on such radio shows as The John and Kathy Show, Changing Worldviews/WOMANTalk with Sharon Hughes, I Thought She Said with Faith Daly, The Paul Edwards Program with Paul Edwards, and Talk from the Heart with Rich Buhler, among many others. Caryn also appeared on The Harvest Show. Caryn earned a B.A. in English from Calvin College and attended the University of Chicago’s publishing program. She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband, Rafael, her three kids, a rescued pit bull terrier, two hermit crabs, and several tank fulls of who-knows-what-kind-of fish. Caryn and her family are members of Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church in Elmhurst, Illinois, where Caryn recently joined the worship staff.\nIt's 1954 and the world-even the far Northwoods of Maine-is about to change. But that change can't happen soon enough for fourteen-year-old Mercy Millar. Long tired of being the \"son\" her father never had, Mercy's ready for the world to embrace her as the young woman she is-as well as embrace the forbidden love she feels. When childhood playmates grow up and fall in love, the whole community celebrates. But in the case of Mercy and Mick, there would be no celebration. Instead their relationship must stay hidden. Good girls do not date young men from the Maliseet tribe. At least, not in Watsonville, Maine. When racial tensions escalate and Mick is thrown in jail under suspicion of murder, Mercy nearly loses all hope-in love, in her father, and in God himself.\nIf you would like to read the first chapter of Shades of Mercy, go HERE.\nCritical Pursuit by Janice Cantore\nOfficer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it’s personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes.\nDetective Jack O’Reilly isn’t ready to return to his homicide duties, after losing his wife to a drunk driver. He’s on the downside of his career, and bent on revenge, when he’s assigned as Brinna’s partner. While on patrol, Jack struggles between his quest for personal justice and his responsibility to those around him, especially his partner.\nSkeptical of Jack’s motives, Brinna isn’t sure she can rely on her new partner, whose reckless abandon endangers the safety of those around him. But when a man surfaces with an MO similar to the criminal who abducted Brinna twenty years earlier, Brinna and Jack must cast aside previous judgments and combine efforts to catch the kidnapper, and finally allow Brinna the peace stolen from her as a child.\nJanice Cantore is a fairly new author, with this being just her fourth book on the Christian market, but she has quickly become one of my favorite authors. The fact that she was a police officer for several years makes the police action in her books all the more believable.\nAs with her other books, this book is full of action, drama, suspense, and police action. It was lacking in romance, though there were signs that may come in the sequel.\nI like it when a Christian author isn't afraid to actually have Christian content and a Christian message in their books, and this one had a great message. The two main characters both struggled in different ways and for different reasons, the question of there being a God, and if there is, why He allows suffering and doesn't always intervene and answer prayers the way that we want Him to. This theme played a big part in the book, and the author did as good of a job addressing that question as she does with writing a great suspense novel. I don't want to give too much away, but one of them is dealing with it much better at the end of the book, and the other one seems more open to it, but it isn't tied up in a neat bow.\nI did read the book in one sitting, and loved it. It dealt with a tough crime: crimes against children, but it wasn't graphic and it was handled well. The book was a great suspense novel worth reading, but it is also a great reminder that there are evil men in this world who are intent on kidnapping and molesting young children, and we can't be too careful with the kids in our life. The book was also a great reminder that God is good, and it is men's evil deeds who cause us pain and harm, not God.\nNote: Critical Pursuit was previously published with another publisher under the title Kevlar Heart.\nJanice Cantore is a retired Long Beach police officer who now writes suspense novels to keep readers engrossed and leave them inspired. Her twenty-two years of experience on the force lend authenticity to her stories. Her Pacific Coast Justice series has met with critical acclaim. Critical Pursuit is the first book in her latest series. Visit Janice's website at www.janicecantore.com and connect with her on Facebook.\nCritical Pursuit is available from Tyndale House Publishing.\nThanks to Tyndale for the review copy.\nLabels: Book Review, Christian fiction, favorite authors, Janice Cantore, read-in-one-sitting book, suspense/mystery\nUnlimited by Davis Bunn\nTrapped by Irene Hannon\nA runaway teen, a desperate sister, and an intrepid PI determined to discover the truth\nWhen Laura Griffith's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving only a brief note behind, Laura resolves to do whatever it takes to track down the runaway teen. That includes recruiting ATF agent turned private investigator James Devlin to help. Dev knows time is of the essence with runaways--just forty-eight hours can mean the difference between recovery and ruin.\nBut the deeper he and Laura dig, the more Dev begins to suspect that something sinister is at work in the girl's disappearance. And in the icy winter weather, the trail is going cold . . .\nIn her latest thrilling read, queen of romantic suspense Irene Hannon outdoes herself with a fast-paced tale of fear, deception, and just the right dose of romance.\nChristian suspense is my all time favorite genre', and Irene Hannon is one of my favorite authors who writes it.\nThis is the second book in the Private Justice Series, and like the first book, it does not disappoint. This book centers on another of the trio of investigators, \"Dev\". He is investigating the disappearance of a teenager. The book had a slow start, but quickly became the nail biter Irene is known for. It turned out to be an excellent read that kept me turning the pages as fast as I could read them. And when I say it had a slower start, I don't mean it was boring. It just took a while for the stage to be set.\nI liked the fact that the book showed what was going on with the missing girl and those who were looking for her.\nAs with all of Irene's books, there was also romance in the book, but it was not overdone and was a secondary part of the story. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, and am looking forward to the third book in the series.\nIrene Hannon is the author of more than 35 novels, including the bestselling Heroes of Quantico and Guardians of Justice series. Her books have been honored with two coveted RITA Awards from Romance Writers of America, a Carol Award, a HOLT Medallion, a Daphne du Maurier Award, and two Reviewers' Choice Awards from RT Book Reviews magazine. Booklist also included one of her novels in its \"Top 10 Inspirational Fiction\" list for 2011. She lives in Missouri.\nFor more information about her and her books, Irene invites you to visit her website at www.irenehannon.com.\nAvailable August 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group\nLabels: Book Review, Christian fiction, favorite authors, Irene Hannon, read-in-one-sitting book, suspense/mystery\nThe Promise by Dan Walsh and Gary Smalley\nOne home, two hearts, and the power of a promise kept . . . For the last five months, Tom Anderson has been without a job, a fact he's been hiding from his wife Jean--and everyone else. He leaves each morning, pretending nothing has changed, and spends his disheartening day rotating through coffee shops and the library, using their wifi to search job listings online. The stress of keeping this secret is beginning to put serious strain on his marriage.\nBut Tom's not the only one hiding something. Jean Anderson has a secret of her own--one that will seriously complicate their situation. Will the promises they made on their wedding day hold firm?\nI don't read a lot of Christian fiction books outside of the suspense genre', but Dan Walsh is one author whose books fall into that exception. When faced with the decision to read one of his books or a suspense novel, I'll pick his book any day.\nThis is book two in a new series by Dan and relationship expert Gary Smalley. These books aren't simply good fiction. They are filled with great relationship advice.\nThe first book, The Dance, centered on Jim and Marilyn Anderson and their failing marriage. This book centers on their oldest son, Tom, and the issues he is facing. I like a series as they usually have the same characters in all of the books and you get to know and love them more, so that alone makes this series appealing. The Promise deals with more issues in marriage, and also deals with the issues between a father and his children. Through a fictional story, the authors show how a father's action and approval or disapproval can and does affect his children, even as adults.\nI devoured The Promise just as much as if it were a suspense novel. It is a very gripping story and has the ability to change people and help their relationships.\nAnd there may be a woman on the cover, but this is a book for men and women, and both should read it.\nDan Walsh is the bestselling author of several books, including The Dance and The Promise with Gary Smalley, as well as The Unfinished Gift, The Discovery, and The Reunion. He has won three Carol Awards, and two of his novels were finalists for RT Book Reviews Inspirational Book of the Year for 2011 and 2012. A member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Dan served as a pastor for twenty-five years. He lives with his wife in the Daytona Beach area, where he's busy researching and writing his next novel. Visit www.danwalshbooks.com for more.\nGary Smalley is one of the country's best known authors and speakers on family relationships. He is the bestselling and award-winning author or coauthor of 16 books, along with several popular films and videos. He has spent over 30 years learning, teaching, and counseling, speaking to over 2 million people in live conferences. Smalley has appeared on national television programs such as Oprah, Larry King Live, Extra, The Today Show, and The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, as well as numerous national radio programs. Gary and his wife, Norma, have been married for 49 years and live in Branson, Missouri. They have three children and six grandchildren.\nLabels: Book Review, Christian fiction, Dan Walsh, favorite authors, read-in-one-sitting book\nUnlimited by Davis Bunn, an interview, and giveawa...\nShades of Mercy by Anita Lustrea and Caryn Rivenda...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line9148"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6962108612060547,"wiki_prob":0.3037891387939453,"text":"(The Pharaoh said,) “Then, we will most certainly produce before you... (Tā-Hā 20:58-59)\nby Fethullah Gülen on 27 December 2012 . Posted in Sūrah Tā-Hā\nفَلَنَأْتِيَنَّكَ بِسِحْرٍ مِثْلِه۪ فَاجْعَلْ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكَ مَوْعِدًا لَا نُخْلِفُهُ نَحْنُ وَلَۤا أَنْتَ مَكَانًا سُوًى۝قَالَ مَوْعِدُكُمْ يَوْمُ الزّ۪ينَةِ وَأَنْ يُحْشَرَ النَّاسُ ضُحًى\n(The Pharaoh said,) “Then, we will most certainly produce before you sorcery like it. So appoint a meeting between us and you, which neither we nor you will fail to keep, in an open, level place convenient (to both of us).” (Moses) said: “The meeting will be on the Day of the Festival, and let the people assemble in the forenoon.” (Tā-Hā 20:58–59)\nHow many dazzling lights and mysteries flow into our spirits from the verses above, the first addressee of which was Prophet Moses, peace be upon him. Having had a mysterious experience of speaking to God in the valley of Tuwa in the Sinai, having seen his staff change into a snake and his right hand become a shining hand, and having felt his theoretical certainty transformed into experienced certainty, this exalted Prophet had perfect confidence in and reliance on his Lord. Therefore, when the Pharaoh challenged Moses to a contest against the sorcerers of Egypt, Moses was perfectly sure that he would defeat the Pharaoh’s sorcerers regardless of what they would do. Hence, based on his Prophetic insight, Moses made the offer, “The meeting will be on the Day of the Festival, and let the people assemble in the forenoon.” Through this counterchallenge, Moses meant the following:\nThe competition which would distinguish right from wrong or truth from falsehood should not take place behind walls; rather, it should occur in an open, level place where people would be able to watch and witness.\nThe competition should take place on a festive day so that whoever wanted to watch it could come.\nForenoon was the most convenient time for such an encounter. It is a time when people are free from exhaustion and drowsiness and feel energetic and vigorous. Also, it is the best time for minds to think and judge.\nThus, in order to watch the competition between Moses and the sorcerers, the people of Egypt came to the meeting area in crowds in the early morning on the Day of Festival. Sorcery was a popular and esteemed occupation in Egypt at that time. Sorcerers were not ordinary people; they were the intellectual elite of the time, who could contact jinn and who had certain knowledge of spiritism or spiritualism and parapsychology. Therefore, their defeat in the face of Moses and their possible conversion would mark the beginning of a revolution in the country in favor of belief. And so it came to pass. Having understood that the miracles God created at the hand of Moses were not magic or sorcery, the sorcerers believed in Moses’ Message immediately despite the Pharaoh’s threats that he would hang them and cut off their hands and feet alternately.[1] Many among the common people who witnessed the submission of the elite to Moses came to belief, and doubts about their own religion appeared in the hearts of many others. The goal was achieved and absolute unbelief was broken. People in general came to the point where they felt hesitant to choose between Moses and the Pharaoh, who had made his subjects ascribe Divine power to him, telling them that he knew no god for them but himself.\nThe most significant point drawing our attention in this verse is the time and place which Moses chose for that important encounter. There are important lessons in this event that today’s Muslims will learn. First of all, a believer should never despair because of the lack of or shortage in material necessities. They should use the credit that God granted them carefully without wasting it. As the proverb says, “killing two birds with one stone,” a Muslim should always plan to be able to achieve not only two but hundreds of results with one action and search for the ways to succeed in doing so. Consider how, according to God’s usual practice, a seed buried in the earth grows into an ear containing hundreds of seeds of the same kind or into a tree producing hundreds of fruits. Thus should we try to act in a way that we sow one grain but harvest seven, seventy, or even seven hundred in return and in the name of serving belief, the Qur’ān, our nation, and the whole of humanity. This was what Moses did. When, having left the Pharaoh’s palace and come into the open, he expressed himself in front of all people and on a proper day in full trust in and reliance on God, he was able to influence thousands of people with one act, making many among them his followers.\nThis is what the Qur’ān teaches us by means of Moses, while the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, contributes to our understanding with a different event:[2]\nAccording to a report from the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, a tyrant attempted to kill a young believer, who never agreed to return to the tyrant’s faith. He was thrown down from the top of a mountain, yet he came back walking. Then he was thrown into the roaring waves of a sea, but he was saved and returned. Whatever they did to kill that young believer, it proved useless. In the end, the young man said: “If you gather all the people together and shoot an arrow at me saying, ‘In the name of the Lord of this boy’, then you will be able to kill me.”\nA believer should always think like this young man: “You will die in any case, and these furious people will not let you live. Therefore, you should not go to the next world at a small cost.” Indeed, a believer should make plans to be able to do something for the sake of their cause even in their last moment as they go to their Lord. However valuable it is, even the desire for martyrdom is of little significance compared to a life lived with this consideration. In other words, believers should always think about what they can do at every moment of their life on behalf of their religion, nation, and humanity. The young man in the example would have only been martyred if he had died when he had been thrown down from the top of a mountain or into the waves of a sea. He would most possibly have gained his eternal life of happiness in the other world, but his reward would have been limited only to himself. However, after he was martyred in front of the people in the way he told, he caused hundreds of people to embrace belief. Thus he both served his cause and the conversion and eternal happiness of many others.\nTo conclude, Muslims should know the value of the Religion with which they are favored and the value this Religion has gained them. They should be aware of the fact that this universe has been created for them, with all that it contains at their service. Therefore, aware of their exceptional value, they should not leave this world in return for a low price. Their consideration should be as follows: “I am leaving the world, but I should leave a world which has found its true orbit—which has achieved its goal of creation. My death should also be a mysterious key to open the doors of Paradise for me, and while my personal tiny light is being distinguished, innumerable new lights should begin to shine.”\n[1] See Sūrah Tā-Hā 20:71.\n[2] Muslim, Zuhd, 73; Tirmidhī, Tafsīru Sūrah 85:2.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line993902"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.909259557723999,"wiki_prob":0.909259557723999,"text":"EVENTS Event Archive GRAND PRIX MANILA 2015\nMEET TZU CHING KUO\nPosted in GRAND PRIX MANILA 2015 on January 3, 2015\nBy Chapman Sim\nArchive Twitter\nConsidered to be one of the best in Asia Pacific, it would seem that Tzu Ching Kuo knows a thing or two about Standard. After all, he did just win a Pro Tour Qualifer last Sunday in his hometown, qualifying him for Pro Tour Dragons of Tarkir.\nIt seemed like a great opportunity to have a quick chat with Kuo about the state of Standard, as well as the story of how he became the player that he is today.\nTzu Ching Kuo\nKuo's resume is more than startling. World Magic Cup 2012 Champion. Ten Grand Prix Top 8s. Top Pro Points in Asia Pacific. Most Nationals Top 8s and most National Champion titles. Level 50 Archmage.\nSome also consider him the best player to have never made it to the Sunday Stage of the Pro Tour. Ever since Owen Turtenwald won his first (and second) Grand Prix, Kuo is now tied with Eric Froehlich as the player with the most Grand Prix Top 8s without a win. Not sure if praise or mild mockery.\nRegardless, while songs are frequently sung and tales frequently told about him, few people know who is the person behind the menacing facade and how he grew to become the player he is today.\nKuo has always been a Spike, the type of player who plays solely to win. Most gamers in their infancy are drawn to the beauty of Scaled Wurms and the like. But not Kuo. In his very first sanctioned tournament, he was already armed with a hardcore Tier 1 deck. A relentless predator whose motivation is to win. To go for the throat like a hunting dachshund. He didn't make Top 8 of that one, but he had tasted blood.\nKuo's very first deck contains a three-card combo that produces as many Pegasi as you want!\nKuo fondly recalls the first of his ten Grand Prix Top 8 fifteen years ago, at Grand Prix Taipei 2000. At that time, a relative-unknown, he shocked the local community when he broke into the Top 8 alongside superstars such as Tsuyoshi Fujita, Alex Shvartsman and Satoshi Nakamura. \"RecSur\" was his weapon of choice, a deck utilizing the classic combo Recurring Nightmare and Survival of the Fittest.\nThe cornerstone of Kuo's very first Grand Prix Top 8 Constructed Deck.\n\"I remembered I was paired against Alex Shvartsman, the man with the most lifetime Grand Prix Top 8s at that time. It was very scary to an amateur like me but the matchup was so good I thought there was no way I could lose.\"\nBut he did.\nOutplayed. Outclassed. Ousted.\nExperience and skill does count in this game.\nUp until then, Kuo still considered himself to be a casual player. Only attending local events such as National Championships and local Grand Prix, Kuo seldom ventured abroad and was far from being the road warrior that he is today.\nMost of his victories at that time were all on local soil. His second and third Grand Prix Top 8 came a year later in Kaohsiung and Taipei, and he quickly rose to prominence. Kuo went on to win his first of five National Champion titles in 2002, and made the Top 8 three consecutive times in 2004, 2005 and 2006. With this series of victories, he cemented his place as the best Taiwanese player of the era, a reputation he has been able to uphold even until today.\n\"I've also won a lot of Pro Tour Qualifiers in the past. Back then, cash awards of USD$375 or USD$500 were given out instead of travel awards. I usually kept the cash prize and never ventured to Europe or the States, playing only a couple of Pro Tours in Japan.\" To this day, he regrets his decisions to not have attended all the Pro Tours that he could have.\nAfter a couple of quiet years in addition to crashing out at Pro Tour Nagoya 2005, he was disheartened to the point where he shared with some of his friends that he wanted to quit the game, and drown his sorrows in online gaming.\nOld friends meet each other in the Featured Match Area at Grand Prix Yokohama.\nUnder the encouragement and inspiration of Chen Liang, Kuo decided to stay in the game but it was not until 2009 that he decided to give this whole \"Pro Player\" affair his best shot. Unknown to the rest of the world, this confidant and good friend of Kuo's was actually the brains behind most of Kuo's winning Constructed decks. A Grand Prix Top 8 competitor himself, Chen often built and tuned Kuo's weapons of choice and they playtested together regularly.\nThe road was not easy for him and it was a few seasons of wrenching misses. He ended his very first professional season at 29 points, one point short of achieving the Gold Level equivalent. Despite being a brilliant attempt for a first-timer, Kuo was disgruntled. How typical of a Spike!\nTzu Ching Kuo at Grand Prix Kobe 2009, making his sixth Grand Prix Top 8. He lost to eventual champion Tomoharu Saito in the elimination rounds.\nHis next season was similarly impressive, but equally heartbreaking. Kuo finished with 38 points, two points short of the Platinum equivalent. Regardless, his consistency on the Pro Tour is not something to be sneezed at, finishing two seasons at Silver, three at Gold and the 2012 season at Platinum in the past six seasons.\nMagic World Cup Champions 2012\n2012 also happened to be the pinnacle of his career. He scored his highest lifetime Pro Tour finish at Pro Tour Avacyn Restored. That event was miraculous, literally. Kuo started off 1-4 and was on the brink of elimination. He went on to rattle off 11 straight wins to finish 10th and locked up Platinum for that season. That year, he also won the very first Magic World Cup.\nDespite being slightly past his heyday, Kuo remains passionate about the game and hopes to run the tables today in Manila. Kuo feels like he has given so much of his life to the game and can't walk away just yet. At least not now.\n\"I am a part of Magic and Magic will always be a part of me. Forever.\"\nComplete coverage of Grand Prix Manila\nUNCHARTED REALMS\nThe Guardian Ari Levitch\nAnafenza's fate has been less kind in this Tarkir, but no less grand…\nArt Descriptions of the Not-Khans Blake Rasmussen\nThe descriptions that drove the art of the non-khans of Tarkir in Dragons of Tarkir.\nGet an alternative-art promo of Disdainful Stroke!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line570430"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9427133798599243,"wiki_prob":0.9427133798599243,"text":"Carson Valley Bridge Club welcomes all players\nActivities & Events | January 11, 2014\nby Caryn Haller\nchaller@recordcourier.com\nAl Walker of Gardnerville plays bridge on Friday.\nShannon LItz | The Record-Courier\nWith each new hand dealt on Monday, a silence fell over the room as close to 30 players put their best bridge faces on.\nThe Carson Valley Bridge Club started Jan. 3, and welcomes all duplicate bridge players.\n“It’s open to anybody. There’s no restrictions other than being able to play bridge,” club manager Al Walker said. “We’d love to have people come. Everybody plays for fun. We have players ages 60-97.”\nWalker, 70, played card games such as euchre, Pinochle, cribbage and poker most of his life, and took up bridge two years ago after a friend introduced him to it.\n“I fell in love with the game. It’s the most sophisticated of all the games. There’s more to it,” he said. “I’m the least experienced player in our unit. If you’ve never played bridge, there would be a significant amount of time you’d have to put into it to learn. A person who’s played other bidding games could pick it up easier.”\nBridge is a trick playing game that involves four players — with two partners forming each team.\nEach hand progresses through four phases — dealing the cards, the auction (or bidding), playing the hand, and scoring the results. The concept of bidding involves each player identifying the strength of their hand — hearts, spades, clubs or diamonds — and trying to communicate that strength to their partner. Once partners win the “bid,” they need to take a certain number of “tricks” in order to win the hand.\nThe highest-finishing players are awarded specified numbers of masterpoints, which are recorded with the American Contract Bridge League, a national governing body for competitive bridge. Most players value the increase in their masterpoint total as a measure of their success at the game. Unlike the Elo rating system developed for chess, the masterpoint system is strictly one of accumulation. A player’s masterpoint total can never decline.\n“The goal for people joining the game is to become a life master,” Walker said. “It’s a tradition of the game as a sign that you are a good player.”\nThe Carson Valley Bridge Club uses the duplicate bridge method of scoring, where the luck of getting a series of good hands doesn’t necessarily mean a better score.\n“The bidding and play of the game are basically the same as party or contract bridge,” Walker said.\nSilver Life Master Thelma Nelson, 97, credits playing bridge to keeping her mind sharp.\n“I started when I was 15, and I directed games for 40 years in San Dimas, Calif.,” Nelson said. “It’s good for old people because you exercise your mind. For young people, it’s good for them because they learn mathematics and reasoning.”\nBob Meyer, 75, has played bridge for 50 years.\n“This is a disease you don’t want to catch,” he joked. “You’ll never master the game. It’s a continuous challenge.”\nThe Carson Valley Bridge Club meets 1 p.m. Mondays and noon Fridays at 1321 Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. Cost is $7 per game.\nFor more information on playing bridge, visit http://www.acbl.org, or call Walker at 265-5638.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1291735"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5353423953056335,"wiki_prob":0.5353423953056335,"text":"Sign In With Your TV Provider\nYou’re just a few clicks away from the show you want to watch. Please sign in with your TV provider to watch this episode and other great programs.\nSeason 5 • Episode 14\nIn the early hours of May 1st, 2010, Jersey City escort Shannan Gilbert goes missing on the shores of Long Island. Police launch a search through the dense underbrush, and what they find hidden in the weeds will spark a gruesome investigation.\n43 min|TV-PG|Premiered 04/10/2012\nWhat Happened to Devin Bond?\nIn the early morning hours of March 31, 2017, 16-year-old Devin Bond got out of bed and walked out of his Murfreesboro, Tennessee, home. He was never seen nor heard from again.\nWhere is Savannah Spurlock?\nAt 2:30am on January 4, 2019, 22-year-old mother Savannah Spurlock called her mother to tell her she was leaving the bar where she had enjoyed a much-deserved night out. Savannah told her mother she'd be home soon, but she was never seen again.\nIs Jesse Ross Still Out There?\nOn November 21, 2006, 19-year-old Jesse Ross was attending a Model United Nations conference in Chicago. Jesse called his parents to tell him he was having a great time. They would never hear or see their son again.\nHas Akia Eggleston Vanished?\nOn the morning of May 3, 2017, 8-months-pregnant Akia Eggleston was excited to finally get out of her home to attend her baby shower. However, when the 22-year-old was hours late, loved ones rushed to her home to find Akia gone without a trace.\nWill Tara Calico Ever Be Found?\nOn September 20, 1988, Tara Calico left her home to go on a bike ride she took almost every morning. When she didn't return home, her mom anxiously drove along Tara's usual bike route, but never finds her. 30 years later, Tara is still missing.\nThe Darkest Winter\nIn 1976, the first of four children is abducted and murdered in the suburbs of Detroit. After more than 30 years the families of the four murdered children and Detroiters like J. Reuben Appelman are determined to find the Oakland County Child Killer.\nChildren of the Snow\nQueens, NY, 1965. Two children are found dead. The cops are convinced the parents Eddie and Alice Crimmins are guilty. Even after two trials both condemning Alice, it will take years to unravel the mystery of who killed Eddie and Missy.\nA Crime To Remember\nThe Career Girl Murders\nNew York, NY, 1963. Two young women are brutally murdered in their Upper East Side apartment. If these girls aren’t safe, who is? The NYPD is under pressure to solve the high-profile case but make a tragic misstep while investigating.\nJudge, Jury, Executioner\nWest Palm Beach, FL, 1955. Esteemed Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife say goodbye to friends at a dinner party and are never seen again. Police unravel a tale of corruption and evil that leaves Florida in shock.\nDenver, CO, 1955. United Airlines Flight 629 explodes in mid-air, killing everyone aboard. Crash investigators wonder if it was an accident at all. What follows is the discovery of the first-ever act of murder-by-airplane-bombing in the U.S.\nA New Kind of Monster\nMichigan, 1967-69. A series of young females from Michigan universities are murdered one by one. The young women of Southeastern Michigan are terrified and the police commence a massive hunt for the monster they call The Co-Ed Killer.\nWho Killed Mr. Woodward?\nNew York, NY, 1955. Ann and Billy Woodward are the darlings of New York society when tragedy strikes after a drunken dinner party. Billy lies in a pool of his own blood. Ann pulled the trigger by accident...or so she says.\nLies, Lawns & Murder\nIn North Carolina, a retired Vietnam veteran sells off a piece of his land to a young family. No one can predict the modern day Hatfield McCoy neighbor feud that will ensue and the midnight shootout that will end it.\nFear Thy Neighbor","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1240751"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6900907158851624,"wiki_prob":0.30990928411483765,"text":"BREAKING: Targeted Killing at Oregon High School\nPosted at 2:53 pm on June 10, 2014 by Bob Owens\nTroutdale Police Chief Scott Anderson : 1 student and gunman dead at Reynolds High School #koin6news #RHShooting\n— KOIN News (@KOINNews) June 10, 2014\nReynolds High School, the only high school in Troutdale, Oregon, is the scene of the nation’s most recent school shooting. The situation is now believed to be stable.\nThe Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the situation is now stabilized at Reynolds High School in Troutdale.\nScott Anderson, the chief of the Troutdale Police Department, confirmed the deaths and called the events a “tragic day” for the community.\nTroutdale Sgt. Carey Kaer told Fox News that the victim was a male student and the shooter was a teenage male, but it is not known whether the gunman was a student at the school.\nKaer said the victim was shot inside the school’s gymnasium and the shooter’s body was located by a police robot in a bathroom. He added that there are no other victims or current threats to the public.\nIt will be some time, of course, before the details of this incident are known, and we can expect for their to be copious amounts of misinformation and spin dished out as fact.\nHere is what we do know.\nAt this time, there is no evidence to suggest that this was an attempted mass murder or spree killing. It appears to have been a targeted killing. That the attacker’s body was found in a bathroom suggests that this was a murder/suicide (for reasons that psychiatrists or psychologists would likely better explain, public murderers seem to prefer some privacy for their own suicides) .\nPerhaps the attacker left behind something explaining the decision to target this one student. If so, we should know in the days ahead.\nTags: OregonSchool Shooting","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1471890"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6770718097686768,"wiki_prob":0.32292819023132324,"text":"You are here: Home / *Articles of the Bound* / American Communists Travel to Cuba to Increase Support for Castro Dictatorship\nAmerican Communists Travel to Cuba to Increase Support for Castro Dictatorship\nMarch 26, 2015, 11:11 am by Trevor Loudon Leave a Comment\nFrom left, Alberto Prieto, (Communist Party of Cuba International Relations Department), Zenobia Thompson, Camila Valenzuela, Fernando Gonzalez, Kenia Puig (ICAP president), Josh Leclair, John Bachtell\nA delegation from the Communist Party USA, led by new National Secretary John Bachtell, recently visited Cuba. On Feb. 27th, the delegation stopped by the the Cuban Intelligence connected Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples to “discuss building friendship, cooperation and people to people exchanges in light of the Dec. 17 announcement to reestablish diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba.”\nAmong those who warmly greeted the delegates were Fernando Gonzalez, one of the infamous “Cuban 5” who was jailed in the U.S. in 1998 as part of a “mission to monitor right-wing Cuban terrorist activities in Miami being directed against Cuba.” Several people died as a result of Gonzalez’s espionage.\nAccording to Bachtell:\nWe found Gonzalez warm, gracious and eager to speak about exploring ways to build friendship with the U.S. people. He also shared stories about his time in U.S. prisons, the people he met and the extraordinary solidarity he and the Cuban 5 received over the years.”\nThe most important thing to say, to express on my behalf, my family and relatives, is my deep gratitude to the CPUSA because of the years of participation in the struggle, the solidarity you accorded us during the time we were in prison and for our liberation.\nYou were side by side with us. Even when things look dark, there’s always a bright side. No one wants that experience (of imprisonment). It gave us the chance to experience the best of the U.S. people and those we worked with for many years, side by side in that fight.\nGonzalez made it clear that the Castro regime made no concessions in return for Communist Party connected President Barack Obama‘s diplomatic recognition of the dictatorship.\nDuring the second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Cuba we haven’t made any concessions. And with the return of all the Cuban Five it was a great victory for the Cuban people and all friends in the U.S. who have participated in struggle and for friendship between our countries.\nDiplomatic recognition of Cuba is a “win win” for Marxists, both in Washington DC and Havana.\nSoon Obama “crony capitalists” will be able to export more American jobs to Cuban sweatshops, while Cuban communists can more easily export spies, revolutionaries and drugs to the United States.\nFiled Under: *Articles of the Bound*, *In the Searchlights*","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line527827"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7340463995933533,"wiki_prob":0.7340463995933533,"text":"Corporate & Incentive Travel/\nCanada: Foreign Yet Familiar\nCanada: Foreign Yet FamiliarMay 8, 2019\nOur Neighbor Brings to Mind a Single Idea for Planners, But it Has a Lot More to Offer Than Clichés By Sara Churchville\nOur Neighbor Brings to Mind a Single Idea for Planners, But it Has a Lot More to Offer Than Clichés\nFairmont Chateau Lake Louise offers 36,000 sf of flexible meeting and event space as well as stunning views and world-class skiing in the winter. In the summer, attendees can participate in activities such as hiking, canoeing and more.\nWe had to change from Mounties — [they’re] not sexy enough,” says Chantal Sturk-Nadeau, executive director, Business Events Canada, says of Canada’s image. “It’s not just the landscape and nature. That was not resonating enough with [attracting] meetings. We had to change the story: Why would you choose Canada over the US? Why and how?”\nSo Business Events Canada (BEC), a division of Destination Canada, set out to organize strategic partnerships with meetings organizations such as Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) and incentive houses. BEC also created priority economic sectors to align with certain cities and lure meetings that would lead to foreign investment — and the other way around.\n“It’s a long game to attract the C-suite, not just the day-to-day of where meetings are hosted to grow business in Canada,”\nChantal Sturk-Nadeau\nJust an hour and a half from New York City by air, Montréal feels like a European getaway but with a much more favorable exchange rate. Even in the heart of winter, the 2.5-mile Promenade Fleuve-Montagne walkway calls on attendees to bundle up for a walking tour from the river to the mountain thanks to clear signage all along the route.\nFor foodies, there is dry-aged beef at Maggie Oakes in Old Montréal, longtime favorite Schwartz’s Deli for smoked meats and Au Pied de Cochon for an upscale, playful version of Québécois specialties beyond poutine. The restaurant offers an especially popular traditional sugar shack meal during maple syrup season.\n“It’s an electric city that’s got a great vibe,” says Jeffrey M. Weinman, principal, Summit Event Management, Inc. His client of 17 years, a Fortune 100 company, in August was looking for a “new and exciting destination that would motivate, be easy to work with and have cultural areas” for an incentive meeting of some 400 attendees and their spouses.\nMontréal fit the bill, and not just anywhere in Montréal: Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth. “We did a site inspection, and it was the best value for that fit. One property would have been a better value dollar-wise, but the flow wouldn’t have worked. It was important to get that ‘wow’ factor.”\nThat factor involved, as it so often does, getting the food and beverage (F&B) right by spending time with the chef to “touch on things Montréal is famous for and that we know our people like.” Results: buckets of fresh, hot French fries made with different types of potatoes; a make-your-own poutine station with several gravies, cheese curds and pulled pork; and a grilled cheese night with various cheeses and fillings in a panini maker.\nAt the welcome reception, performers from Montréal-based Cirque Éloize put on a show in the hotel’s 21st-floor C2 Space, with its windows that overlook the city, a roof deck, patio and removable furniture for an arrangement that can accommodate up to 220 attendees.\n“We set it up reception-style, with a stage, a contortionist and juggler. The entertainment right away as you walk in was a woman with a giant Hula-Hoop, then a rolling skating duo on a 6-foot [high] circular stage.”\nFor the general welcome reception, Weinman and the hotel agreed to combine rooms with multimedia takes on old and modern Montréal on pillars, walls and ceilings. “They were wonderful in making it appetizing for us,” he says. “It just set the weekend; it was the exclamation point on the weekend.”\nHe also provided attendees with a Passport MTL card good for 48 hours so they could experience the city in their own way, with free unlimited transportation and 28 attractions discounted or free.\nWeinman says the people of Montréal, both in the meetings industry and the residents themselves, seem very welcoming and open.” They immediately change to English from French; no attitude about not speaking the language,” he says. “[I’m] hearing from the C-levels what a great job we’ve done and how much people are enjoying it; watching people’s reactions to everything that’s going on — that makes all the work worth it.”\nThe Vieux-Québec area’s undisputed shining city on the hill continues be the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac, which under various management has been wowing visitors since it opened in 1893. For a 250-attendee convention of doctors in June 2018, the F&B team whipped up a themed menu where each course and cocktail was based on a Beatles song. There was soup in a 1970s beer can, Sergeant Pepper beef, Lady Madonna trout and a cake the shape and color of a yellow submarine. The G7 meeting of seven industrialized democracies, as it happens, was in town at the same time, creating more security without actually interrupting the festivities.\n“I used to work with the Canadian Embassy in Paris; this evening reminded me of this,” a planner summed up. “If you think it’s something a hotel can’t do, Frontenac can do it.”\nAlso in Old Québec is the Hôtel Manoir Victoria, with 156 rooms and meeting/banquet space for 175 attendees. The onsite restaurant, Chez Boulay-Bistro Boréal, serves cuisine it describes as “Nordic” — local Québec fish, duck terrine, blood pudding and bison tartare.\nAnother hotel, The Relais & Châteaux Auberge Saint-Antoine has several meeting rooms as well as jazz nights at its Bar Artéfac.\nThe Québec City Marriott Downtown is, like the rest of Old Québec, within walking distance from the Québec City Convention Centre. The center can accommodate up to 9,000 attendees and connects by underground walkway to the Hilton Québec and Delta Hotels by Marriott Québec. After a day of meetings, attendees can amble over to the Plains of Abraham or Le Musée du Chocolat, which offers history and artifacts of chocolate making going back 200 years. Get the chocolate, of course, at the adjacent chocolatier, Érico.\nPlanners looking for an unusual incentive space can do as a Portland, OR-based IT start-up did for its September 2018 annual retreat of 65 attendees: stay at a monastery. Le Monastère des Augustines is a converted monastery built in 1639 that offers a complimentary breakfast, yoga and meditation, and “cozy” monks’ cells. It has Wi-Fi, but no TVs.\n“[The IT start-up attendees] were looking for something a little more exotic, boutique, with a full buyout, that has more character than a generic hotel,” the planner says of the group. “They chose Québec City as the right mix of a small, walkable place but at same time enough variety about the property.”\nSome of that variety included La Revanche, a snacks, beer and board games spot in the old city, as well as a nearby BeaverTails food truck serving up Canadian “queues de castor” — large, flat pastry in the shape of the rodent’s tail to which any number of sweet topping and/or fillings can be applied. As a team-building exercise, curling was the sport of choice, with a rink, workshop and tournament outside; in September, that was still possible.\nThe monastery has a chapel area that can be used as a meeting space, along with a restaurant, catering and banquet menus that can provide, as it did for this group, a poutine station.\n“We were surprised how affordable things were,” the planner noted. Still, he acknowledges that the language barrier, lack of “lift” comparable to other cities and weather unpredictability can be a challenge for some. “Québec has a very rich and palpable personality; take advantage of the fact that it’s a unique destination — language, food, people, history — do the best to unearth and share that.” Planner tip: “The safety net of a local DMC helps with transfers, so you don’t have to do it in Québécois French.”\nWith 192,000 sf of meeting space 20 minutes from Ottawa International Airport, and a bridge leading directly to the 492-room Westin Ottawa and gigantic CF Rideau Centre shopping mall, the Shaw Centre is probably Ottawa’s most obvious draw for meeting planners. It can and will host anything from a Parent & Child Show to a Cannabis and Hemp Expo (complete with a bake lounge) with the same degree of verve. The center’s four levels all overlook the city’s Rideau Canal, which during Canada’s frigid winters famously transforms into the Rideau Canal Skateway. Attendees can glide along the world’s largest skating rink — it’s 4.8 miles long — for 24 hours a day in season.\nThe Delta Hotels by Marriott Ottawa City Centre provides just more than 24,000 sf of meeting space. Though it’s not specifically offered as such, an enterprising planner might find the outdoor rooftop terrace just the thing for a small gathering in kind weather.\nCher, Def Leppard and Michael Bublé are just a few of the 2019 headliners at the Canadian Tire Centre, about a 15-minute drive from the downtown area. Among the sports bars and casual dining spots at the hockey arena is The Vault, the private dining space in the members-only Club Red steakhouse that promises select attendees some face time with the chef and sommelier. The nearby Sens House Sports Bar & Grill in the Byward Market offers fans who can’t make the hockey match an authentic arena experience; this one complete with a 1,500-sf portion of the dining room with a retractable roof and floor-to-ceiling windows.\nOttawa is also home to the National Gallery of Canada, which will soon exhibit among many other things, the portraits of Paul Gauguin and International Indigenous Art Exhibition 2019, and home to the National Arts Centre, celebrating 50 years.\nTips from a planner who has met often in the city: “Morning runs along the Ottawa River over the bridges are what makes Ottawa, Ottawa. The airport is well-designed but busy; consider flying to Montréal and driving in.”\nHome to Canada’s three largest hotels — the 1,590-room Chelsea Hotel, Toronto; the 42-story, 1,377-room Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel; and the 1,365-room Fairmont Royal York — Toronto has also become a kind of watchword for “multicultural.”\nThat’s one of its many draws for Brianna Mark, CMP, senior event planner, Internal Communications, with Mozilla Corporation. “Even if not backed by fact, people feel safer traveling into Canada than the U.S.,” she says, an especially important consideration for Mozilla, where some 50 percent of employees work remotely all over the world.\nTo keep people connected, Mozilla holds an “all hands” event every June and September, remassing its far-flung workers for five days of togetherness. In June, some 1,400 attendees will converge in Toronto, where Mozilla has one of its nine offices.\n“The exchange rate is always in our favor,” Mark says. “There’s really good airlift from most of our destinations, the airport to the core is easy and the city is walkable and safe. Toronto is on our list every single time we source. It’s a natural fit; a cultural match for flying people from all over the world.”\nShe says she appreciates how responsive Tourism Toronto is, and is a fan of Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, where she convened the semiannual meeting a few years ago. “When we did a site visit, they pulled out all the stops with a bunch of people in fox outfits (Mozilla’s logo) greeting us and specific elevators with branding. It showed that they took time to know us and our brand.”\nFor Mark, who has food allergies, negotiations about food come foremost. “We want everyone to eat something they want and something they can [eat]. Part of that is working really closely and making sure we understand the ingredients and things are properly labeled.” She offered build-your-own buffets at every meal and specified a gluten-free buffet with dedicated accoutrements.\nIsn’t this rather expensive? Not necessarily. “I go in with my budget, and I let them propose something. I find that hotels want to deliver as much as I want them to deliver, so the more info I give them up front, the better. You’d be surprised what they can come up when you allow them to be creative.”\nElsewhere in Toronto, the 65-story, 260-room former Adelaide Hotel Toronto has been up-marketed to The St. Regis Toronto. The hotel has more than 100 new suites, a new design of the common spaces and an ornate restaurant, LOUIX LOUIS, serving craft cocktails and a sumptuous take on American cuisine such as a burger topped with brie, foie gras and tomato compote while overlooking Lake Ontario from its perch on the 31st floor.\nThe CN Tower’s LookOut Level observatory has a new glass floor one level up from the original that offers a vertiginous look straight down to complement the floor-to-ceiling “Window Walls.”\nIn other venue action, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto recently moved into a 55,000-sf former industrial space, and Four Seasons Hotel Toronto remains a hot spot thanks to its Café Boulud and, from the same chef, a bar and charcuterie space called d|bar.\nTwo words: Aurora Sky. The 800,000-sf space is the world’s largest legal cannabis production facility — 100,000 kilos per year when fully operational, and it has recently moved into producing hemp as well. The city views this facility as part of its next wave in economic expansion.\nEdmonton EXPO Centre, with 522,000 sf, and the now-named Edmonton Convention Centre (known for decades as the Shaw Conference Centre until its naming rights ended in 2018), with 150,000 sf, are the city’s convention hubs. The city’s 12,000 rooms in 55 hotels offer plenty of options for meetings of all sizes.\nThe La Ronde restaurant on the 24th floor of the 307-room Chateau Lacombe Hotel offers attendees a revolution every 88 minutes, accompanied by views of the Saskatchewan River and, if diners choose, a Chateaubriand for Two on Wednesdays or, on Thursdays, Steak Diane and Cherries Jubilee. Planners have 14,000 sf of event space to manipulate.\nAnother venue within walking distance of the Edmonton Convention Centre, the Quarter Note Hotel Edmonton Downtown, features 150 blockable rooms for a total of 255, and nearly 9,000 sf of meeting and event space, including banquet space for 240.\nWinters see the Silver Skate Festival in Hawrelak Park. Along with the expected skating and ice sculptures, highlights of the festival include the opportunity for attendees to cook “bannock” — a Native American fry bread — over an open fire.\nBetween a four- and five-hour drive south and a little west — about 470 km — sits the venerable Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. Built more than 100 years ago as a base for outdoor enthusiasts and skiers, the resort offers 36,000 sf of flexible meeting and event space.\n“I would live there. If it were up to me, I would hold every meeting there.” That’s how Jason Gross, assistant vice president, travel, Captive Resources feels about Vancouver, where he regularly holds meetings at Fairmont Waterfront, Fairmont Pacific Rim and Rosewood Hotel Georgia. But a group of some 350 entrepreneurs — nearly 600 attendees including spouses — who meet every January and June wanted to visit St. Thomas in the Caribbean for their January 2018 meeting. Hurricanes Irma and Maria had other plans, so as Gross scrambled for a new place, he naturally looked north. Available was the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, a venue he’d seen years ago, and not with great excitement.\n“At this time, we had no other options. We were a little hesitant; we’re used to being on the waterfront, not the city center, so it wasn’t something that we jumped at,” Gross says. What began as a last resort soon became a favorite. “They blew it out of the park,” he says. “It was as close to a perfect meeting as we’ve ever had. We are now choosing them over the [Fairmont] Waterfront.”\nIn the planning stages, the hotel didn’t take advantage of the bind he was in, he says, and he didn’t feel put upon even though the hotel had the upper hand in negotiations. They were responsive, contracting went completely smoothly and they returned emails. It also didn’t hurt that the hotel looked completely different — “night and day” — from when he’d last seen it in 2015, thanks to a $55 million renovation of the common areas, lobbies, restaurants and the addition of 8,000 sf of meeting space in a dedicated wing, all within walking distance of the Vancouver Convention Centre.\nAnd on the attendee front, no long lines at the check-in, no complaints about the rooms — even though the rooms were of varying layouts and square footage. “They must have been that good, that clean, that fresh,” Gross speculates.\nHe organized a president’s dinner onsite in the British Columbia ballroom for 400 people using standard menus with only slight changes — “there was zero push back when we asked for surf and turf.”\nThe group also ate at the onsite restaurant, Notch8 Restaurant & Bar, which serves “very modern/slightly upscale, Canadian-geared farm to table,” including fresh Dungeness crab. “I heard the greatest compliment: ‘I would go to it even though it’s in another hotel’,” he says. He also steered attendees to Chambar, a Belgian and seafood restaurant in Downtown Vancouver; and the sustainable seafood restaurant Blue Water Cafe.\nAttendees had plenty of time to take in many of the sights of the region. They took the North Shore tour, visiting Stanley Park with its rainforest, Grouse Mountain, and Capilano Suspension Bridge Park; went on a Discover Vancouver bus tour that included the Olympic Village and some popular craft beer spots; made time for the Sea to Sky Gondola sightseeing tour; and browsed in the Museum of Anthropology and the Botanical Garden at University of British Columbia. By far the most popular outing, requiring a second round for foodies, was the tour of the Granville Island Public Market.\nNow, there’s talk of returning in 2022.\n“Vancouver as a destination; go for it and don’t look back,” Gross says. “When it comes to activities, live music and nightlife, it’s the best total package destination we go to. They really understand group business.” Most of his attendees are not from big cities, he says, so a place like Toronto strikes them as too big. But “nature in Vancouver with a strong urban core really speaks to people.”\n“Nothing says Calgary better than the Stampede,” says one planner who held his annual convention there in August 2018 with 900 franchisees and families of a U.S. auto industry company.\nThe ‘hot-diggity-dog’ excitement of the rodeo held in this city in the Mountain Time Zone infects some 1 million people every July. His group stayed in three hotels connected via walkway to the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre — the Hyatt Regency Calgary, the Fairmont Palliser and the Calgary Marriott Downtown Hotel.\nHis group does a charity 5K walk every year, working closely with Tourism Calgary to find “a safe and interesting route” that included the Calgary Tower, home of the Sky 360 Restaurant & Lounge, which revolves once per hour 510 feet up, the scenic walking path along Bow River and Canada Olympic Park. The dream of the Olympics is still alive as the city mulls bidding to host the 2026 Olympics.\nBMO Centre at Stampede Park, the larger of the city’s convention centers, offers 500,000 sf of event space. Plans in 2016 to create even more meeting space by demolishing the Stampede Corral have so far come to nothing; one of the local hockey clubs plans to play a “Corral” series in the space this year.\nAnd the $245 million, oval-shaped architectural marvel that is the Calgary Central Library opened late last year, levitating over a public plaza below and beckoning with meeting spaces and conference rooms.\b C&IT\nCorporate & Incentive Travel Magazine\nMeetings Biz Buzz e-Newsletter","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line811184"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7336953282356262,"wiki_prob":0.7336953282356262,"text":"What’s Ryan’s Story?\nRyan Thewes, a native of southern Indiana, graduated from the Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning in 2000. While in school, Ryan studied the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, which made a strong impression on his development as a designer. He felt a kinship with Wright’s ideas on architecture, which seemed to closely resemble his own. Ryan was inspired by Wright’s bold use of geometry, veneration of nature and his ability to integrate a building with its site. Wright called his work “Organic Architecture,” which came from his belief that a building’s essence or character should derive from the design process in the same way a living organism grows from a seed–logically and naturally from the inside out.\nAfter Ryan graduated, he broadened his education of organic architecture by working for the late Don Erickson, an architect in Chicago, and Robert Green, an architect practicing in the Atlanta area; both successful former apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright.\nIn 2002, Ryan accepted a job with architect Bart Prince in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prince, well known for his fantastic if not surreal designs often featured in magazines such as Architectural Digest, had been an apprentice, friend and design partner of the maverick architect and educator Bruce Goff. Although Prince and Goff were both influenced by the work of Wright, they translated many of his principles in entirely new and dramatic directions. Ryan’s apprenticeship with Prince allowed him to expand his own vision of organic architecture—starting his first architectural commissions while living in New Mexico.\nIn 2006, Ryan and his wife Shay, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he set up his own architectural practice. Ryan continues to press the boundaries with award winning Organic and Modern structures that are unique to the area. His designs have received national as well as world wide attention and have been featured in many online and print media sources. He has also been recognized widely for his advancements in green construction and the green building industry, with his focus on building science and performance.\nRyan is a licensed architect in the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia and is a member of the National Council of Architects Registration Board.\nNichiha Modern Home Trends February 27, 2019\nDwell – Top 5 Homes of the Week August 30, 2018\nLive Laugh Love Nashville – Ryan Thewes Architect September 16, 2017\nTweets by @ThewesArchitect\nRyan Thewes, Nashville Modern Architecture\n165 Lelawood Circle\n© Ryan Thewes Architect 2017\nsocial_twitter\tsocial_facebook\tsocial_instagram\tsocial_googleplus","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line62148"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.838699996471405,"wiki_prob":0.838699996471405,"text":"Composer: York, Barbara\nwith Piano. 1. Out and About 2. In 3. Up and Thro\nCustomize Directions\n1 x Shipped - Directions + $20.00\n1 x Downloadable - Directions + $20.00\nBarbara York (b. 1949, Winnipeg, Canada) has been working in both Canada and the U.S. for over 45 years as a concert accompanist, choral and theatrical music director and composer. Her score and lyrics for the Canadian musical Colette won a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Canada’s version of a Tony) in 1981. She has received commissions from two Canadian symphony orchestras (Mississauga and Saskatoon), the Boise State University Symphonic Winds and the Boise State Symphony Orchestra, plus numerous private groups and soloists in both the US and Canada.\nShe has presented compositions at three World Saxophone Congresses and at the 2003 International Double Reed Symposium. Her 50-minute scripted, children’s piece, A Butterfly in Time was nominated for a Canadian “Juno Award” for recordings in 2006 and is available through Amazon.com and elsewhere on the Children’s Group label. Her first tuba piece, Sea Dreams, was on the required repertoire list for the International Tuba Euphonium Association’s 2004 Young Artists Competition in Budapest. In 2006, Barbara, won the Harvey Phillips Award for Euphonium in Chamber Music at the International Tuba Euphonium Congress. Her Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra was recorded by Tim Buzbee with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and is available internationally through Albany Records.\nAs an accompanist, Barbara plays regularly at school, university and professional concert venues throughout the United States and Canada, has recorded for CBC Radio and has premiered numerous works for other composers at International congresses. Barbara lives in Pittsburg, KS where she works part-time as a staff accompanist at Pittsburg State University.\nYork, Barbara\nPiano, Tuba\nSolo and Piano","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line418742"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.912002682685852,"wiki_prob":0.912002682685852,"text":"Kurt Schrader & Neal Dunn\nCompare the voting records of Kurt Schrader and Neal Dunn in 2017-18.\nKurt Schrader\nRepresented Oregon's 5th Congressional District. This is his 5th term in the House.\nRepresented Florida's 2nd Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.\nKurt Schrader and Neal Dunn are from different parties and disagreed on 61 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).\nSept. 7, 2018 — Community Safety and Security Act\nJuly 13, 2018 — Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act\nJuly 12, 2018 — Reclamation Title Transfer and Non-Federal Infrastructure Incentivization Act\nJune 8, 2018 — Making appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes\nNov. 8, 2017 — Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017\nNov. 7, 2017 — Save Local Business Act\nSept. 28, 2017 — Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017\nJuly 19, 2017 — Promoting Interagency Coordination for Review of Natural Gas Pipelines Act\nMarch 22, 2017 — Small Business Health Fairness Act\nMarch 16, 2017 — Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act\nMarch 2, 2017 — Regulatory Integrity Act\nFeb. 7, 2017 — Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976\nJan. 12, 2017 — SEC Regulatory Accountability Act\nJan. 11, 2017 — Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017\nDec. 21, 2018 — Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and Protection Act\nJuly 18, 2018 — Rothfus of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 85\nJuly 18, 2018 — McMorris Rodgers of Washington Amendment No. 46\nJuly 18, 2018 — Supporting the officers and personnel who carry out the important mission of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement\nMay 18, 2018 — Banks of Indiana Amendment No. 31\nNov. 8, 2017 — Rush of Illinois Amendment No. 4\nNov. 1, 2017 — Pearce of New Mexico Amendment No. 7\nNov. 1, 2017 — O’Halleran of Arizona Amendment No. 3\nNov. 1, 2017 — Khanna of California Amendment No. 2\nNov. 1, 2017 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2936) Resilient Federal Forests Act and for other purposes\nOct. 25, 2017 — Johnson of Georgia Part A Amendment No. 3\nSept. 13, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 76\nSept. 7, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Amendment No. 18\nSept. 7, 2017 — Austin Scott of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 92\nJuly 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part A Amendment No. 1\nJuly 19, 2017 — Tsongas of Massachusetts Part B Amendment No. 2\nJune 21, 2017 — Providing for consideration of H.R. 1873, the Electricity and Reliability and Forest Protection Act; and H.R.1654, the Water Supply Permitting Coordination Act\nMay 25, 2017 — Jackson Lee of Texas Part B Amendment No. 1\nMay 24, 2017 — Huffman of California Amendment No. 2\nMay 24, 2017 — Esty of Connecticut Amendment No. 1\nFeb. 28, 2017 — Plaskett of Virgin Islands Amendment No. 4","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1477795"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5953242778778076,"wiki_prob":0.5953242778778076,"text":"26/04/2017 3:14 PM AEST | Updated 02/05/2017 2:03 PM AEST\nMen Are Killing Themselves To Be 'Real Men'\nSuicide has the highest gender disparity of any cause of death in Australia.\nBy Emily Verdouw\nIn Australia, we're at a crisis point with suicide.\nThe stigma of mental illness not only works to keep people suffering in silence but can blind us to its symptoms. Indeed, eight Australians now take their own lives every day.\nYou do not need to be diagnosed with a mental illness to come face-to-face with suicidal thoughts. A relationship breakdown, losing a job or any significant moment could suddenly have you on the edge.\nAnd while no particular part of our society is left untouched, no one person exempt from the mental and physical aches that life can bring, men are three times more likely to take their lives than women.\nOne of the central drivers is in the way we define what it means to be a man in Australia, explains Dr Michael Flood, sociologist on men and masculinities.\nSUBSCRIBE AND FOLLOW HEALTH\n\"It's broken down a little, so it's shifted in some ways in Australia and it's uneven across Australia. But there's still a powerful ideal of what it means to be a man,\" he told HuffPost Australia.\n\"It's the idea that to be a man is to be tough, to be strong, to be invulnerable, to be heterosexual, to be in control, to avoid feelings and so on.\n\"If we teach men to always be tough, to be stoic, to not show pain, then we stuff up men's physical and emotional health, we limit men's friendships with other men and women, we limit men's relationships and we limit men's participation in society.\"\nTo limit men's ability to talk about how they're feeling is to interrupt their ability to seek help when they confront mental health challenges, or when they have suicidal thoughts.\nThis idea of what it means to be a man and its interference in help seeking was a key finding in a study from BeyondBlue and the Black Dog Institute, who researched the drivers behind men's suicide attempts.\n\"All of the men we interviewed, spoke to growing up in a culture where the message was implicit that they should not be speaking about their feelings,\" Dr Andrea Fogarty, research fellow at Black Dog Institute, told HuffPost Australia.\nAnd for those who confront and overcome suicide, sharing their story of recovery can go a long way in helping others to make a different decision when it comes to those moments where everything seems to much, and they don't understand why.\nEspecially for men.\nLifeline is exploring Australia's suicide crisis with business and community leaders at the #StopSuicide Summit on May 1, in partnership with HuffPost Australia and Twitter Australia.\nIf you need help in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For further information about depression contact beyondblue on 1300224636 or talk to your GP, local health professional or someone you trust.\nEmily Verdouw Associate Video Editor, HuffPost Australia\nMORE: headstart health hpvideo society\nSUBSCRIBE TO THE HEALTH NEWSLETTER","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1007086"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8322240710258484,"wiki_prob":0.8322240710258484,"text":"| Publication July 19, 2017 |\nCalifornia Supreme Court Ruling on Right to Statewide Discovery in PAGA Actions Is Not as Bad for Employers as It Looks\nBy Ramon A. Miyar and Jaime D. Walter\nIn a blow to the defense bar—and, in particular, retail employers—the California Supreme Court, in Williams v. Superior Court (Marshalls of CA, LLC), S227228 (July 13, 2017), held that there is nothing unique about claims filed under the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) that would justify restricting the scope of discovery under California law. The Supreme Court reversed a decision of the California Court of Appeal that would have precluded PAGA plaintiffs from obtaining the contact information of other potentially aggrieved employees beyond the discrete location at which they work(ed) without first making a threshold evidentiary showing that (a) they were aggrieved employees and (b) they had knowledge of systemic statewide Labor Code violations. Rather, to justify disclosure of the contact information of all employees in California, the Supreme Court found that it is sufficient for a named plaintiff to allege that the at-issue violations occurred, that plaintiff himself or herself was aggrieved, and that the defendant employer had a systemic, statewide policy that caused injury to other employees across California.\nWhile the decision deprives employers of the ability to limit the scope of discovery to some extent, the holding in Williams is actually quite narrow and should not be read as a carte blanche invitation to propound unlimited statewide discovery without any preliminary showing of good cause. The Supreme Court emphasized that its decision was limited to the particular facts before it—i.e., interrogatories seeking the contact information of similarly situated (allegedly aggrieved) nonexempt employees throughout the State of California. It specifically noted that its decision did not apply to other discovery devices—including requests for production, where, the Court noted, a statutory good-cause requirement exists.\nSeparately, the Supreme Court found that privacy objections typically will not merit altogether withholding contact information. In reaching this conclusion, the Court expressly endorsed the reasoning of Belaire-West Landscape, Inc. v. Superior Court, 149 Cal. App. 4th 554 (2007), noting that, in general, any concerns about keeping contact information private are adequately addressed through the issuance of a Belaire-West-style notice of the claims to employees, and permitting them an opportunity to opt out from disclosure of their contact information.\nThe takeaway? Absent unusual circumstances, be prepared to turn over contact information for all potentially aggrieved employees, but continue to push back with respect to any overbroad discovery requests that seek statewide information prematurely.\nProcedural History and Background\nPlaintiff Michael Williams (“Williams” or “Plaintiff”) was a retail worker for defendant Marshalls of CA, LLC (“Marshalls”). In 2013, Williams sued Marshalls under PAGA, alleging that Marshalls failed to provide Williams and other similarly situated (i.e., aggrieved) employees meal and rest periods under Labor Code sections 226.7 and 512. Slip op. at 2.\nAt an early stage of discovery, Williams propounded on Marshalls two special interrogatories seeking the name, address, telephone number, and company employment history of each nonexempt California employee during the alleged statutory period. Id. at 3. Marshalls responded that there were 16,500 employees, but it refused to provide their contact information on the grounds that the request (a) exceeded the scope of permissible discovery because it sought information beyond Williams’ particular store and job title; (b) was unduly burdensome because Williams sought private information without first showing that he himself was an aggrieved employee or that any other similarly situated employees were aggrieved as alleged in the complaint; and (c) invaded the privacy of third parties under California Constitution, article I, section 1. Id. at 3.\nWilliams moved to compel disclosure of the contact information of Marshalls’ nonexempt employees statewide. The trial court granted Williams’ motion in part and denied it in part. Id. at 3. It ordered Marshalls to provide the contact information of other employees, but only at the Costa Mesa location at which Williams worked, subject to an opt-out notice under Belaire-West. As to the remaining 130 store locations, the court denied Williams’ request for contact information but left open the door for a renewed motion after Williams sat for at least six hours of deposition and established that there was some evidentiary basis for his allegations of a statewide, unlawful practice of violating the Labor Code. Id. at 4.\nThe Court of Appeal affirmed the ruling. See Williams v. Superior Court, 187 Cal. Rptr. 3d 321 (2015). Relying on statutory language that requires that requests for production be justified by “good cause” (Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 2031.310(b)(1)), the Court of Appeal reasoned that Williams’ request for statewide contact information was premature. Id. at 325. Specifically, it found that Williams had failed to “evince any knowledge of the practices of Marshalls at other stores [or] any fact that would lead a reasonable person to believe he knows whether Marshalls has a uniform statewide policy.” Id. (emphasis added). Absent such a threshold showing, the Court of Appeal held Williams was not entitled to the contact information of employees beyond his store location. Alternatively, the Court of Appeal held that because his request for contact information implicated third-party privacy interests, Williams “must demonstrate a compelling need for discovery” by showing “the discovery sought is directly relevant and essential to the fair resolution of the underlying lawsuit.” Id. at 327.\nReversal by the Supreme Court\nThe Trial Court Abused Its Discretion by Limiting Discovery to Plaintiff’s Store Location\nThe California Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal’s decision, holding that the trial court had abused its discretion by requiring Williams to demonstrate good cause for the production of contact information. In sweeping terms, the Court noted, “The disclosure of the names and addresses of potential witnesses is a routine and essential part of pretrial discovery. Indeed our discovery system is founded on the understanding that parties use discovery to obtain names and contact information for possible witnesses as the starting point for further investigations ... ” Slip op. at 10 (quoting Puerto v. Super. Ct., 158 Cal. App. 4th 1242, 1249-50 (2008)) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). While recognizing that “in a particular case there may be special reason to limit or postpone a representative plaintiff’s access to contact information for those he or she seeks to represent[,] ... the default position is that such information is within the proper scope of discovery, an essential first step to prosecution of any representative action.” Slip op. at 11.\nThat the action was a PAGA action and not a putative class action did not change the outcome. According to the Court, nothing in the text of PAGA requires a particular threshold of evidentiary weightiness “beyond the requirements of nonfrivolousness generally applicable to any civil filing.” Id. at 12; see also Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 128.7. Moreover, although restricting access to confidential information could help curb abuses by plaintiffs or plaintiffs’ counsel, such protection is unnecessary. Class certification requirements exist to protect the due process rights of absent litigants because class actions result in the final adjudication of the private, personally held claims of absent plaintiffs. PAGA actions, by contrast, are public rights of action brought on behalf of the state. No such private due process concerns are at issue and, in any event, Court approval is necessary in order for any final settlement to be binding.\nMore relevant to the Supreme Court was the fact that the statutory scheme “imposes no obligation” on parties propounding interrogatories to establish good cause or show an evidentiary basis for their claims. Slip op. at 19. Although Code of Civil Procedure section 2031.310(b)(1) requires that demands for inspection, copying, or sampling be supported by good cause, no such requirement exists for interrogatories.\nThe Court rejected Marshalls’ argument that not requiring good cause would lead to unwarranted “fishing expeditions.” It noted that the California Legislature was aware of such a risk when it granted a broad right to discovery and that it “granted such a right anyway, comfortable with the conclusion that ‘[m]utual knowledge of all the relevant facts gathered by both parties is essential to proper litigation.’” Id. at 20.\nAccording to the Court, that the eventual proper scope of Williams’ representative action was uncertain did not render his statewide request for contact information premature. “[A] party may proceed with interrogatories ... precisely in order to ascertain that scope.” Id. at 20 (citing Union Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Super. Ct., 80 Cal. App. 3d 1, 9-12 (1978)).\nThis was not to say that Marshalls could not have delayed or modified the scope of discovery had it adduced evidence of the administrative burden of producing this information, or made a proper, timely motion to modify the timing and sequence of discovery. Crucially, the Court noted that the burden was on Marshalls to support its “undue burden” objection with evidence of the amount of work that would be required to respond. Id. at 18. The Court found that Marshalls had failed to produce any evidence showing that the production of contact information on a statewide basis would be burdensome and instead chose to rely solely on legal arguments as to the scope of discovery. The Supreme Court also noted that Marshalls failed to file a motion pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2019.020, to modify/set a special sequence or timing for discovery, and that it therefore had no occasion to determine whether the production of statewide contact information might have been properly delayed on that basis. Id. at 19-20.\nA Belaire-West-Style Opt-Out Notice Is Sufficient to Protect the Privacy Interests of Non-Party Employees\nThe Supreme Court also reversed the alternative basis for the Court of Appeal’s ruling—i.e., Marshalls’ objection that the disclosure of contact information would invade the privacy rights of the third-party employees under Article I, section 1 of the California Constitution. In weighing the privacy rights of employees, the Court found that the appropriate balancing test to employ is that under Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, 7 Cal. 4th 1, 35 (1994) and Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc. v. Super. Ct., 40 Cal. 4th 360, 370-74 (2007). Under the test established by those cases, the party asserting a privacy right must establish (a) a legally protected privacy interest, (b) an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the given circumstances, and (c) a threatened intrusion of that interest that is serious. Id. at 22. Assuming these threshold requirements are met, the party seeking the information must establish countervailing interests served by disclosure sufficient to overcome the proffered privacy interest. The court must then balance the competing considerations.1\nIn the context of the contact information of other potentially aggrieved employees in a wage-and-hour representative action, the Court found that the employees had a legally cognizable privacy interest, but that the final two factors—i.e., a reasonable expectation of privacy and a serious intrusion—were not satisfied. The Court expressly endorsed the Belaire-West reasoning, holding that the balancing of interests falls in favor of disclosure of the contact information of putative class members in wage-and-hour class and representative actions. The issuance of a Belaire-West-style notice, which provided notice of the nature of the claims at issue and an opportunity for employees to opt out of the disclosure of their contact information, was sufficient to protect the privacy interest in the employees’ contact information. Id. at 27-32.\nPrior to Williams, the restriction of the scope of pre-certification discovery to the specific location at which the named plaintiff worked was a key device in limiting discovery costs and burdens at the early stages of a class action. The Supreme Court’s reasoning in Williams will make it significantly more difficult for employers to avoid disclosure of the names and contact information of all putative class members/potentially aggrieved employees in wage-and-hour class actions/representative PAGA actions.\nThat said, it is critical to view the decision as limited to the record that was before the Court. The decision applied only to interrogatories seeking contact information and did not foreclose the possibility, based on appropriate facts, of postponing the disclosure of contact information. It acknowledged, moreover, that requests for production, which were not at issue in Williams, must be supported by good cause. It stands to reason, therefore, that at an early stage of discovery, legitimate bases exist for limiting the scope of pre-certification document productions to the location at which a plaintiff works.\nIn addition, it bears noting that in opposing Williams’ motion to compel, Marshalls failed to provide specific evidence supporting the administrative burden and cost it would be under to produce statewide contact information for 16,500 employees. Likewise, the Court specifically noted that Marshalls had failed to bring a motion under Code of Civil Procedure section 2019.020 for the Court to set a specific sequence and timing for discovery.\nAccordingly, while Williams creates a less hospitable discovery framework for employers at the early stages of discovery, it is not a fundamental re-ordering of discovery procedures as we know them. Employers can still avail themselves of a full array of tools to oppose overbroad requests and manage the timing and scope of pre-certification discovery.\n1 The Supreme Court found that the Court of Appeals erred in requiring Williams to show a “compelling interest” sufficient to justify disclosure of contact information. It noted that a compelling interest is necessary where the interest at issue is one fundamental to personal autonomy; otherwise, where a lesser interest is at stake, the Hill and Pioneer Electronics framework applies, “with the strength of the countervailing interest sufficient to warrant disclosure of private information varying according to the strength of the privacy interest itself, the seriousness of the invasion, and the availability of alternatives and protective measures.” Slip op. at 28.\nWage and Hour Class Actions","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1526275"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9784782528877258,"wiki_prob":0.9784782528877258,"text":"The day’s top national and international news\nDoctors Find Brain Abnormalities in Patients of Mysterious Cuba Embassy Attacks\nPhysicians, FBI investigators and U.S. intelligence agencies have spent months trying to piece together the puzzle in Havana, where the U.S. says 24 U.S. government officials and spouses fell ill starting last year in homes and later in some hotels\nBy Josh Lederman\nPublished Dec 6, 2017 at 3:25 AM | Updated at 8:23 AM PST on Dec 6, 2017\nThe Sound Heard By Americans in Cuba Attacks\n//www.nbclosangeles.com/multimedia/The-Sound-Heard-by-Americans-in-Cuba-Attacks-450646943.html\nThe Associated Press has obtained a recording of what some U.S. embassy workers heard in Havana as they were attacked by what investigators initially believed was a sonic weapon. (Published Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017)\nDoctors treating the U.S. embassy victims of suspected attacks in Cuba have discovered brain abnormalities as they search for clues to explain hearing, vision, balance and memory damage, The Associated Press has learned.\nIt's the most specific finding to date about physical damage, showing that whatever it was that harmed the Americans, it led to perceptible changes in their brains. The finding is also one of several factors fueling growing skepticism that some kind of sonic weapon was involved.\nMedical testing has revealed the embassy workers developed changes to the white matter tracts that let different parts of the brain communicate, several U.S. officials said, describing a growing consensus held by university and government physicians researching the attacks. White matter acts like information highways between brain cells.\nLoud, mysterious sounds followed by hearing loss and ear-ringing had led investigators to suspect \"sonic attacks.\" But officials are now carefully avoiding that term. The sounds may have been the byproduct of something else that caused damage, said three U.S. officials briefed on the investigation. They weren't authorized to discuss it publicly and demanded anonymity.\nUS Expels 15 Diplomats Following Havana Attacks\nThe United States expelled 15 of Cuba's diplomats Tuesday to protest its failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana.\n(Published Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017)\nPhysicians, FBI investigators and U.S. intelligence agencies have spent months trying to piece together the puzzle in Havana, where the U.S. says 24 U.S. government officials and spouses fell ill starting last year in homes and later in some hotels. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday he's \"convinced these were targeted attacks,\" but the U.S. doesn't know who's behind them. A few Canadian Embassy staffers also got sick.\nDoctors still don't know how victims ended up with the white matter changes, nor how exactly those changes might relate to their symptoms. U.S. officials wouldn't say whether the changes were found in all 24 patients.\nBut acoustic waves have never been shown to alter the brain's white matter tracts, said Elisa Konofagou, a biomedical engineering professor at Columbia University who is not involved in the government's investigation.\nJudges to Decide on Bond Hearings for R. Kelly Indictments\n\"I would be very surprised,\" Konofagou said, adding that ultrasound in the brain is used frequently in modern medicine. \"We never see white matter tract problems.\"\nCuba has adamantly denied involvement, and calls the Trump administration's claims that U.S. workers were attacked \"deliberate lies.\" The new medical details may help the U.S. counter Havana's complaint that Washington hasn't presented any evidence.\nTillerson said the U.S. had shared some information with Havana, but wouldn't disclose details that would violate privacy or help a perpetrator learn how effective the attacks were.\nTillerson: Cuba Responsible for Acoustic Attack Probe\nSecretary of State Rex Tillerson said the White House holds Cuba responsible for finding out who carried out the accoustic attack on American personnel in Havana.\n(Published Friday, Aug. 11, 2017)\n\"What we've said to the Cubans is: Small island. You've got a sophisticated intelligence apparatus. You probably know who's doing it. You can stop it,\" Tillerson said. \"It's as simple as that.\"\nThe case has plunged the U.S. medical community into uncharted territory. Physicians are treating the symptoms like a new, never-seen-before illness. After extensive testing and trial therapies, they're developing the first protocols to screen cases and identify the best treatments — even as the FBI investigation struggles to identify a culprit, method and motive.\nDoctors treating the victims wouldn't speak to the AP, yet their findings are expected to be discussed in an article being submitted to the Journal of the American Medical Association, U.S. officials said. Physicians at the University of Miami and the University of Pennsylvania who have treated the Cuba victims are writing it, with input from the State Department's medical unit and other government doctors.\nFeds: Fake Passport, Diamonds Found in Epstein's NYC Safe\nBut the article won't speculate about what technology might have harmed the workers or who would have wanted to target Americans in Cuba. If investigators are any closer to solving those questions, their findings won't be made public.\nThe AP first reported in August that U.S. workers reported sounds audible in parts of rooms but inaudible just a few feet away — unlike normal sound, which disperses in all directions. Doctors have now come up with a term for such incidents: \"directional acoustic phenomena.\"\nMost patients have fully recovered, some after rehabilitation and other treatment, officials said. Many are back at work. About one-quarter had symptoms that persisted for long periods or remain to this day.\nEric Kayne/AP Images for Humane Society of the United States\nEarlier this year, the U.S. said doctors found patients had suffered concussions, known as mild traumatic brain injury, but were uncertain beyond that what had happened in their brains. Concussions are often diagnosed based solely on symptoms.\nStudies have found both concussions and white matter damage in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who survived explosions yet had no other physical damage. But those injuries were attributed mostly to shock waves from explosions. No Havana patients reported explosions or blows to the head.\nOutside medical experts said that when the sample of patients is so small, it's difficult to establish cause and effect.\n\"The thing you have to wonder anytime you see something on a scan: Is it due to the episode in question, or was it something pre-existing and unrelated to what happened?\" said Dr. Gerard Gianoli, an ear and brain specialist in Louisiana.\nAs Cuba works to limit damage to its reputation and economy, its government has produced TV specials and an online summit about its own investigation. Cuba's experts have concluded that the Americans' allegations are scientifically impossible.\nThe Cubans have urged the U.S. to release information about what it's found. FBI investigators have spent months comparing cases to pinpoint what factors overlap.\nU.S. officials told the AP that investigators have now determined:\nThe most frequently reported sound patients heard was a high-pitched chirp or grating metal. Fewer recalled a low-pitched noise, like a hum.\nSome were asleep and awakened by the sound, even as others sleeping in the same bed or room heard nothing.\nVibrations sometimes accompanied the sound. Victims told investigators these felt similar to the rapid flutter of air when windows of a car are partially rolled down.\nThose worst off knew right away something was affecting their bodies. Some developed visual symptoms within 24 hours, including trouble focusing on a computer screen.\nThe U.S. has not identified any specific precautions it believes can mitigate the risk for diplomats in Havana, three officials said, although an attack hasn't been reported since late August. Since the Americans started falling ill last year, the State Department has adopted a new protocol for workers before they go to Cuba that includes bloodwork and other \"baseline\" tests. If they later show symptoms, doctors can retest and compare.\nBreakingMan Gets 2nd Life Sentence, 419 Years for C'ville Attack\nDoctors still don't know the long-term medical consequences and expect that epidemiologists, who track disease patterns in populations, will monitor the 24 Americans for life. Consultations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are underway.\nAP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard contributed to this report.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line188215"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6399964690208435,"wiki_prob":0.3600035309791565,"text":"Who is Grace Cirocco?\nGrace Cirocco is a life and marriage coach, a transformational retreat facilitator and the author of the Harper Collins best-selling classic, Take the Step, the Bridge Will be There available in several languages around the world. Grace’s mission is to empower, inspire and heal and she does so with great gusto and charm whether it’s through her writings or at one of her experiential workshops. Grace’s warmth and enchanting style catalyzes people into meaningful action beckoning them to cross the river of change. Grace’s message is to know thyself and live authentically and courageously; to heal the dark side and reach for the luminous places not only within ourselves, but in one another.\nAt GRACE CIROCCO INC., she offers educational and therapeutic workshops and retreats as well as customized seminars for the private and public sector. Grace has a wealth of experience in designing and teaching quality training programs. She has delivered her presentations to tens of thousands of people on three continents. She works with Wellness committees and organizational leaders to create out-of-the-box customized presentations. Her philosophy that the heart must be engaged in what we do coupled with research that the brain is plastic allows her to gently nudge people towards greater personal responsibility, meaning, and empowerment. Grace’s style is direct but loving, charismatic yet practical, wise but also entertaining and she has received numerous standing ovations in her twenty-five year speaking career. Her recent clients include Johnson & Johnson, Ontario Public Health, and McMaster University. For a complete list of clients click here. Check out her Keynotes.\nGrace is LIFE COACH specializing in Relationship Intervention. Her Couples Retreat held in her home town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario attracts couples from all over North America. It has been so successful that Grace has gained a wide reputation with marriage therapists in Canada and the US who regularly refer their most “difficult cases” to Grace. Her overwhelming success with couples has to do with a unique healing process that she has pioneered (Emotional Brain Therapy, EBT™), which helps couples heal from trauma and negative emotions stuck in the emotional part of the brain. Grace has been practising this unique form of Emotions-focused therapy long before university researchers discovered that traditional talk therapy is not effective when working with couples. In the past eleven years, over 1200 couples have graduated from Grace’s Relationship Renewal Retreat and hundreds of couples who came to her in absolute crisis today credit Grace for “saving their marriage”.\nGrace is impatient for change. Her speciality is transformation. Using an integrated approach with traditional and non traditional therapies, Grace has helped transform the lives of thousands of men and women at her Intensive Retreats. Her programs for men and women are simply “life changing” and many organizations have paid for their staff to attend. Even the Government of Canada has sent public servants who have been on short term disability (stress leave) to Grace’s intensives with outstanding results. Just read some of Grace’s amazing testimonials to see the difference she has made in the lives of so many men and women!\nEducation & Affiliations: Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Philosophy from Queen’s University at Kingston (Canada) and has completed graduate studies in Ethics and Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. Grace has studied Psychology, Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity as well as a wide variety of traditional and holistic healing modalities including Cognitive Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, Mindfulness, Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology including EFT (Tapping). Some of the people Grace has learned from are Psych-K Founder Robert Williams, EFT Founder, Gary Craig, Dr. Norman Doidge, Dr. Bruce Lipton, Donna Eden, and David Feinstein. Grace is a graduate of the Certified Coach Intensive with CoachVille and is a member of the International Coaching Federation. Grace is a also a member of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and the Canadian Association for Integrative and Energy Therapies.\nGrace’s most recent project is a Wellness Center in downtown St. Catharines which offers leading edge technology to help people live with less pain and more vitality and health.\nSee Grace on Video\nInterview with Grace\nGrace is Loved By Women’s Groups: Many women’s organizations have invited Grace to deliver her empowering keynotes and workshops at conferences, educational events or special celebrations in Canada and the United States. Some of these organizations include Athena International, Georgian Court University, Delta Kappa Gamma International, National Charity League,The Rosie Fund Board, Women in Action of Washington, Association of Administrative Assistants, Women in Motion, Women Entrepreneurs of Canada, Women with Vision, Canadian Women’s Foundation, Canadian Association of Women Executives, Company of Women and Administrative Professionals Conference and many more.\nGrace is the only Canadian author invited to contribute an essay in the best selling book, If Women Ruled the World supported and endorsed by Marie C. Wilson of the White House Project. All profits from the sale of this book go to help women’s charities. Grace is a mentor to her own daughter and women of all ages and sits on the board of several women’s organizations. Twelve years ago, Grace founded the “Goddess Club”, a monthly women’s circle focusing on emotional and spiritual growth which has become a beautiful and loving community of women supporting women. Regulars will drive hundreds of miles each month to attend Grace’s monthly workshops.\nGrace has authored a number of CD programs including: Journey to the Self: Finding Meaning in a World of Change, Cultivating Gratitude, a meditation program to alleviate stress and negativity as well as Connecting with Your Spiritual Guide.\nMedia Attention: Grace has been interviewed on national radio and television talk shows, including CBC TV, CBC Radio, CTV, City TV, CHCH TV, TLN, CFRB Radio 1010 and many private radio stations across Canada and the United States about her best selling book and her work. Grace has been a columnist for Business Woman Canada, and HEART: Women’s Business Journal, as well as various trade journals. Grace’s articles and ideas have appeared in national newspapers, magazines and many internet newsletters and sites.\nGrace is a former faculty member with the Canadian Management Centre having participated in their Management and Leadership Courses as well as designing training courses and keynotes for their corporate clientele. Grace started her speaking career by working as an International Seminar Leader with Fred Pryor Resources, the world’s largest one-day seminar company. She delivered hundreds of seminars to business professionals in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Grace was well loved by her attendees boasting one of the highest “satisfied customers” ratings in the company.\nFormer Life: Grace Cirocco is a former broadcast journalist with CBC Radio having worked as a reporter, editor and producer for CBC National News and Current Affairs programming in Toronto and Calgary. In 1988 she received an award of distinction in broadcasting for her coverage of the Calgary Winter Olympics. She also worked in private radio in San Diego, California where she produced a three-hour business and financial show whose listening market was estimated at 20 million people. She brought the show, “Money Matters” from #10 in the ratings to #1 in just a few months.\nPersonal: Grace has been married to her best friend for over 30 years, and together they have raised a son and a daughter. She lives in her beloved Niagara peninsula and sees clients in her downtown St. Catharines, ON office.\nGrace is not associated with any speakers bureaus. To book her for an event, call her directly at 905-688-0868 or email her.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1278133"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5968223214149475,"wiki_prob":0.5968223214149475,"text":"Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty HandbookAll www.kent.edu\nJournalism and Mass Communication Faculty Handbook\nMatters of School Governance and Related Procedures\nClose Matters of School Governance and Related Procedures Overview\nRevision of the Handbook\nFaculty Instructional, Professional and Ethical Responsibilities\nFaculty Workload\nRTP Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions\nClose RTP Criteria and the Criteria and Processes Relating to Other Faculty Personnel Actions Overview\nReappointment, Tenure, Promotion for Tenure-Track and Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty\nCriteria, Performance Expectations and School Procedures Relating to Merit Awards\nClose Criteria, Performance Expectations and School Procedures Relating to Merit Awards Overview\nOther School Guidelines\nClose Other School Guidelines Overview\nStructure and Organization of the School\nClose Appendix Overview\nReappointment for Tenure-Track Faculty\nThe policies and procedures for reappointment are included in the University Policy Register 6-16 and Addendum C of the Tenure-Track Collective Bargaining Agreement (TT CBA). Each academic year, reappointment guidelines for faculty are distributed by the Office of the Provost. These guidelines will be given to all tenure-track faculty and Ad Hoc Committee members. Tenure-track faculty members are reviewed by the Department’s Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee.\nFor tenure-track faculty, reappointment is contingent upon demonstration of appropriate progress toward the requirements for tenure. Performance expectations develop from initial letters of appointment, any additional written initial expectations and the Director’s annual reappointment letters. These expectations of individual faculty members may differ significantly, given each faculty member’s experience, background and assignments. In annual reappointment materials, the faculty member must establish and articulate both short- and long-term goals, then document progress toward meeting those goals. Specific concerns expressed by the Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee members and/or the Director in annual reappointment reviews during the probationary period must be addressed by the faculty member in subsequent reappointment reviews.\nAccording to the University Policy Register (6-14) and Addendum B of the TT CBA assistant professors following the traditional tenure clock are granted or denied tenure by March 15 of their sixth year. However, if an assistant professor carries some years of credit toward tenure, he or she could be eligible earlier. The maximum credit toward tenure is typically two years, but “in extraordinary circumstances” additional credit may be granted at the time of appointment after consultation with the Faculty Advisory Committee. Faculty members appointed as either associate professors or professors have a three-year probationary period before they are eligible to apply for tenure.\nFor faculty members following the traditional tenure clock for Assistant Professors, the review after completion of three (3) full years in the probationary period at Kent State University is particularly critical. Upon completion of the third year of the probationary period, faculty reviewing a candidate for reappointment should consider the record of the candidate’s achievements to date. This record should be considered a predictor of future success. The hallmark of a successful candidate is compelling evidence of positive development in teaching, scholarly/creative activity, and service, per the criteria detailed in this section of the Handbook.\nIf concerns about a faculty member’s performance are raised during the reappointment process, the Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee and the Director shall provide detailed, prescriptive comments to serve as constructive feedback. If such concerns arise during a review that occurs after completion of three (3) full years in the probationary period, the Director and the candidate’s mentor, in consultation with the FAC, will advise and work with the candidate on a suitable, positive plan for realignment with the School’s tenure and promotion expectations; however, the candidate is solely responsible for her/his success in implementing this plan. Failure to meet performance expectations or failure to satisfactorily address concerns expressed by the Ad Hoc Reappointment Committee or by the Director may result in a negative reappointment recommendation to the Dean.\nTolling Policy\nFrom time to time, personal and/or family circumstances may arise that require a probationary faculty member to request that her/his probationary period be extended. Upon request, a faculty member may be granted an extension of the probationary period, which has been traditionally called “tolling” or “stopping the tenure clock.” The University policy and procedures governing modification of the faculty probationary period are included in the University Policy Register. (See University Policy Register 6-13)\nTenure and Promotion for Tenure-Track Faculty\nThe policies and procedures for tenure and promotion are included in the University Policy Register 6-14 and 6-15 and in Addenda A and B of the TT CBA. Each academic year, tenure and promotion guidelines for Kent and Regional Campus faculty are distributed by the Office of the Provost. These guidelines will be given to all tenure-track faculty and Ad Hoc Committee members.\nTenure and promotion are separate decisions. The awarding of tenure must be based on convincing, documented evidence that the faculty member has achieved:\n1. a strong record of effective instruction and curricular engagement\n2. a significant body of scholarly/creative work that has undergone meaningful peer review and that has had a demonstrable impact on her/his discipline and profession, meeting or exceeding expectations as defined in initial appointment letters and other written initial expectations and in annual reappointment letters (See below for further detail.)\n3. a track record of effective service relevant to the mission of the School and to the mission of the University\nTenure considerations may include evaluation of accomplishments prior to arrival at Kent State University, but primary emphasis should be on work conducted while on the tenure track. Such considerations also may include grant proposals submitted but not funded, proposals pending, creative works and papers “in review” or papers “in press,” graduate students currently advised, and any other materials that may reflect on the candidate’s potential for a long-term successful career. The tenure decision is based on all of the evidence available to determine the candidate’s potential to pursue a productive career.\nPromotion, on the other hand, is based solely on a candidate’s accomplishments completed during the review period.\nCandidates for promotion to Associate Professor must meet all the qualifications for tenure. They must also show potential for a career likely to achieve national/international recognition, as evidenced by the body of work presented in the promotion file.\nPromotion to Professor recognizes the highest level of university achievement and national/ international prominence. Evidence for this prominence includes:\n1. sustained excellence in teaching and service;\n2. a record of scholarly/creative activity in highly significant venues that has undergone meaningful peer review and that has had a demonstrable and sustained impact on the candidate’s discipline and profession;\n3. a record of substantial prominence in and impact on the field.\nExternal funding for scholarly/creative activity or programmatic support also provides strong evidence of prominence and external validation of excellence. Many factors and criteria, both subjective and objective, are considered in recommending a faculty member for tenure and advancement in academic rank. The overall evaluation of a candidate for tenure and promotion shall include consideration of the faculty member’s personal integrity and professional behavior, as recognized by the University community. A sound ethical approach to all aspects of teaching, research, publication, and the academic profession are expected of all who seek tenure and promotion in the School.\nCriteria for Tenure and Promotion for Tenure-track Faculty\nThe School of Journalism and Mass Communication hires tenure-track faculty at the assistant professor level, generally with a terminal degree of either a Ph.D., J.D., or a M.F.A.; or a master’s degree with significant professional experience, as determined by the search committee in consultation with the Director and Dean.\nFaculty are expected to develop a strong track record in the classroom, as exhibited by responsiveness to teaching evaluations from professional colleagues and teaching peers, as well as students, professional improvement and industry engagement as appropriate. Criteria for the evaluation of teaching are listed in Table 1 in the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook. Course revision is defined as making a substantial modification to a course, such as addition of distance learning options or multi-media instruction, formally proposing to change course content/format, etc. Other information, such as written comments from students, colleagues within and beyond the School, College, or University administrators shall be considered when available. Peer reviews and summaries of Student Surveys of Instruction (including all student comments) must be submitted as part of a candidate’s file for reappointment, tenure and promotion. Copies of representative syllabi, examinations, and other relevant teaching material also should be available for review.\nScholarly/Creative Work\nThe School’s tenured and tenure-track faculty are expected to be engaged in endeavors that support the School’s mission. It is expected that these activities will lead to presentation and then to publication in quality scholarly or professional venues. Evaluation criteria are listed in Table 2 in the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook.\nThe quality of the work and the venues are important components in tenure and promotion decisions. Tenure is granted with the expectation that the faculty member will continue to be engaged at the same or a higher level of quality.\nGiven the School’s professional mission, published journalism of the highest quality qualifies as published research, using standards defined in more detail below.\nPublication, for purposes of this document, is used in the broadest sense to include multiplatform distribution to defined audiences in print, web, audio, video, or mobile formats. Considering the proliferation of open-access information and audience-generated content, we anticipate that scholarly/creative activity may be published and evaluated in new ways, such as online or in other digital venues. It is up to the tenure or promotion applicant to assess and document how his or her work is significant in leading professional change. Such documentation must include meaningful peer review conducted in a detached and dispassionate manner.\nGenerally, the School expects tenure-track faculty to build a body of scholarly, journalistic, and/or creative work that:\na. shows substantial and consistent engagement by exhibiting focused growth that is documented by professional evaluations or assessments.\nb. extends to publication or presentation in appropriate professional or academic venues as defined below.\nc. engages peer or juried review or other evidence of detached, dispassionate vetting by peers or recognized experts as defined below.\nd. creates a positive recognition and reputation for those scholarly and creative endeavors, leading in time to national recognition measured by citations or letters of recognition, invitations to present or publish, awards and honors, or other documented means.\ne. aids communities and media organizations in better understanding their roles in a democratic society and/or advances the body of knowledge about the processes, economics, uses, effects, freedoms, and responsibilities of professionals and audiences of journalism and mass communication. The School recognizes the importance of faculty working in and with emerging media and technologies. Such work is essential to the future of media-related businesses and organizations. We also encourage faculty to build partnerships locally, regionally, and nationally.\nThe School defines service as administrative service within the university, professional service through academic and professional associations and provision of professional expertise to public and private entities beyond the university.\nService activity is expected and required; however, service of any magnitude cannot be considered more important than a candidate’s teaching and scholarly/creative responsibilities. Nonetheless, a faculty member’s willingness to make contributions to the overall progress of the School is an important measure of the faculty member’s fitness for tenure or promotion.\nContributions as a University citizen include service to the School, the College, and the University as outlined in Table 3. The merits of University service should be evaluated as to (1) whether or not the candidate chaired the committee listed and (2) the importance of the service to the mission of the unit served. Other components of citizenship include active participation in School events, such as faculty- undergraduate- and graduate-student recruitment, seminars, and department meetings, etc.\nAdditional components of service include public outreach and professional or academic service. These may differ in their importance among faculty members, depending on each faculty member’s duties and responsibilities within the School.\nExpectations in service for promotion to Professor are higher than for promotion to Associate Professor.\nNote on external funding and collaboration\nThe School recognizes and supports the value of teaching, scholarly/creative, or service endeavors that generate external funding, particularly when the work is aligned with the goals and missions of the School, College, University, or our professions. Similarly, collaboration among colleagues within the School, College, and University and other universities is encouraged.\nEvaluation tables and documentation examples\nThe text in this section and the tables in the Appendix to this section are designed to facilitate assessing performance of candidates being evaluated for tenure and promotion. During the probationary period, these tools should be used for developmental assistance and projection of future success in achieving tenure and promotion and for determining the faculty member’s qualification for reappointment.\nTables 1, 2, and 3 in the Appendix provide worksheets for use in the evaluation of candidates. For promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor, the faculty member must meet the criteria for at least a “very good” evaluation in scholarly/creative activity and at least a “very good” evaluation in teaching. University citizenship must at least meet the minimum School criteria as outlined in Table 3. These same categories and assessment tools apply for tenure decisions.\nA candidate for promotion to Professor must meet the criteria for an “excellent” evaluation in either scholarly/creative activity or teaching and no less than “very good” in the other category. Service must exceed the minimum School criteria. A candidate for promotion to Professor may not have equal activity in scholarship, teaching and service, as he/she becomes more specialized.\nGiven the wide range of venues in which scholarly/creative work may be published or presented, faculty are expected to provide clear documentation regarding publication or presentation of scholarly/creative work. Such documentation should include an assessment of its quality, impact or contribution to the body of professional or scholarly knowledge.\nConference papers and presentations, for example, generally do not carry equal weight with published articles or creative work. Original scholarship or journalism based on original reporting or research, for example, generally would be weighted more heavily than analysis or review of another’s work. In collaborations, the contributions of each author should be clear.\nAssessment may be through traditional scholarly peer-review processes, demonstrated by client or external colleague evaluation, or adjudication (e.g., critical reviews, letters from acknowledged experts). Examples of acceptable assessment are provided below. Reviews by close colleagues and collaborators do not carry the same weight as dispassionate reviews by more objective, detached, external colleagues.\nFor peer-reviewed articles, faculty are expected to document:\nquality of the publication\nimpact of the article\nFor peer-reviewed paper sessions, faculty are expected to document:\nsignificance of the organization\nindication of how paper or presentation may advance to publication\nFor invited papers or presentations, faculty are expected to document:\nthe significance of the organization\nsignificance of the presentation, cited in a letter from the person who extended the invitation\naudience for the paper or presentation\nBooks also represent scholarly/creative activity. The relative weight depends on such factors as the original research behind the text, the importance of the book to the field and the candidate’s role as single author, multiple author or editor. Faculty are expected to document:\ncopies sold\nreviews or other evaluations\nFor articles in professional media, faculty are expected to document:\nthe circulation of the publication\ndescription of audience\nsignificance of the article, cited in a letter from the supervising editor, when available\nother external validation such as awards or contests\ncitations, references\ndescription of the reporting, research and/or creative process used to produce the article\nFor articles and blogs online, faculty are expected to document:\nunique visitors or other accepted measures\nsignificance of the organization that owns the web site\nsignificance of the work, cited in a letter from the supervising editor, critical reviews or other evidence or in the case of a blog, qualified outside resources\nother documented citations\nFor video/broadcast work in professional reporting or production, faculty are expected to document:\nselection for distribution by a television station, network or online\nsignificance of the work, cited in a letter from the supervising producer, when available\nassessment through professional or academic awards competitions\nreviews from relevant professional or academic experts.\nIn addition to reporting/writing/producing, the practice of journalism encompasses such creative activities as editing, photography, and design for print and digital media. These are to be vetted in a similar fashion to the three preceding examples.\nThe practice of public relations, on behalf of businesses and/or nonprofit organizations, encompasses:\nConducting formal communication audits and/or research initiatives.\nDeveloping strategic public relations campaigns or programs that produce measurable results.\nDeveloping and executing substantial public relations initiatives such as websites, social-media campaigns, large-scale events, etc.\nProviding senior-level counsel leading to the adoption of more effective and ethical public relations practices.\nAlthough the School puts the highest value on original research and creative activity, the following also are valued as part of a candidate’s portfolio: book reviews, grant proposals, as well as reviewing manuscripts and programs.\nFaculty also may apply their expertise as advisers or consultants in significant problem-solving activities for an organization and may create workshops and seminars for professional audiences. Candidates will be expected to provide evaluation and impact of their work.\nBecause of the heavy teaching responsibilities for tenure-track faculty members at the regional campuses, expectations for scholarly and creative activity will not be as great as they are for faculty on the Kent campus.\nNegative Decisions on Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion\nIn the event of negative decisions on reappointment, tenure or promotion, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will follow the procedures described in the TT CBA and the University Policy Register.\nFull Time Non-Tenure Track Appoint, Renewal and Promotion\nAppointment and Renewal of Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty\nAssignments for full time non-tenure track (FTNTT) faculty vary widely. Terms for renewal are explained in Article X of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty (FTNTT CBA). Criteria are developed by the academic units. Documentation guidelines for FTNTT Full Performance Reviews are provided in the FTNTT CBA, Addendum B. For regular FTNTT faculty, formal third-year reviews are required. For FTNTT faculty in JMC, evaluation should follow standards for teaching and service in Tables 4 and 5. Evaluation criteria for professional development are outlined in the next section and standards are noted in Table 6. For FTNTT faculty with duties other than teaching, evaluation appropriate for their assigned duties will be developed.\nPromotion of Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty\nFaculty may apply for promotion in the third year of a cycle of three one-year appointments.\nThere are six academic ranks for FTNTT faculty members: Lecturer, Associate Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. Criteria for promotion are set forth in Addendum C of the FTNTT CBA. Candidates are eligible for promotion to Associate Lecturer or Associate Professor after completing five consecutive years as an FTNTT and successfully passing one three-year performance review. They are eligible for promotion to Senior Lecturer or Professor after five full years in rank as an Associate Lecturer/Associate Professor. They will be assessed on their performance of assigned duties, professional development and university citizenship. See the FTNTT CBA, Addendum C, Section 1, Paragraph F for a more complete statement of criteria.\nAccording to the FTNTT CBA, evidence of “significant and continuous accomplishments in Performance, Professional Development, and Professional and Creative Activity” is required for promotion. Contributions in university citizenship will help the candidate’s file and may be required. The Provost ultimately makes promotion decisions after receiving recommendations from the college Dean. The Dean is advised by the Non-Tenure Track Promotion Advisory Board, whose members review the candidates’ files.\nCriteria for Promotion of Full Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty\nThe School of Journalism and Mass Communication hires most full time non-tenure track faculty at the assistant professor level, generally with a terminal degree of either a Ph.D., J.D., M.F.A., or a master’s degree with significant professional experience, as determined by the search committee in consultation with the Director and Dean.\nFull time non-tenure track faculty generally teach more than tenure-track faculty, and they are evaluated primarily on their track record in the classroom, as exhibited by responsiveness to teaching evaluations from professional colleagues and teaching peers, as well as students, professional improvement, and industry engagement as appropriate. This rigorous review is detailed in Table 4 of the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook.\nFull time non-tenure track faculty in JMC who have service obligations specified on their workload statements or letters of appointment are expected to provide service to the school. A faculty member’s willingness to make contributions to the overall progress of the School is an important measure of the faculty member’s fitness for promotion.\nContributions as a University citizen include service to the School, the College, and the University as outlined in Table 5. The merits of University service should be evaluated as to (1) whether or not the candidate chaired the committee listed and (2) the importance of the service to the mission of the unit served. Other components of citizenship include active participation in School events, such as faculty- undergraduate- and graduate-student recruitment, seminars and department meetings, etc.\nExpectations in service for promotion to Senior Lecturer/Professor are higher than for promotion to Associate Lecturer/Associate Professor. The former requires that the candidates exceed service expectations. The latter requires that the candidates meet them.\nIn addition to showing significant success in teaching, full time non-tenure track faculty candidates for promotion must show they have accomplished a great deal professionally. Given that the areas for professional development within JMC are broad, professional development is evidenced via the effective alignment of activities to the workload statement/appointment letter. Examples might include (but are not limited to) professional awards, active roles in professional organizations, or publication / appearance / presentations in an industry specific outlet, or creative works relevant to the field. Table 6 in the Appendix to this Section of the Handbook outlines evaluation criteria.\nExpectations in professional development for promotion to Senior Lecturer/Professor are higher than promotion to Associate Lecturer/Associate Professor. The former requires that the candidates exceed professional development expectations. The latter requires that the candidates meet them.\nOther Faculty Personnel Actions\nAppointment and Employment Procedure and Regulations of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication\nIn accordance with the definition in the University Policy Register, the sum of a faculty member’s “teaching, research, and/or administrative responsibilities and assignments constitutes full-time employment (one hundred percent full-time employment) at Kent State University.” JMC faculty include employees who are either tenure-track (those both tenured and probationary) or full time non-tenure track at the Kent and regional campuses.\nGraduate student appointees who are assigned responsibility for sections of structured courses are considered members of the instructional staff for the period they have such classroom or laboratory responsibilities.\nFaculty Additions and Replacements\nShould a faculty position become available, after approval of the Dean and Provost, the Director will convene a search committee from among the full-time faculty members, though members may also come from other schools, departments and the student body. This committee will institute a formal search, in line with University, College, Equal Opportunity Commission and Affirmative Action regulations.\nWhen any candidate is interviewed on campus, all faculty members shall have the opportunity to meet with the candidate and express their confidential observations and recommendations, either written or oral, to the Director. The Director will consider these observations and recommendations, and, after formal consultation with the search committee and the FAC, nominate a candidate to the Dean.\nFormal letters of appointment for both probationary tenure-track and full time non-tenure track faculty shall be formulated, stating terms and expectations for the individual faculty member in teaching, scholarly/creative activity and service, so that he or she may be positively considered for reappointment, tenure, and promotion. This is normally done at the time of hiring.\nThe letters must be approved and agreed to by the Dean, the Director, and the faculty member and may be revised with the permission of the faculty member. Ultimate approval of letters of appointment is the responsibility of the Provost. In addition to the formal letters of appointment, the Director and the new faculty member, in consultation with an assigned mentor, may develop additional written expectations for specific teaching, scholarly/creative activity, and service in the initial year of work.\nGraduate Faculty Membership\n1. Graduate faculty membership shall be assigned to those faculty members with appropriate educational backgrounds, who have produced scholarly/creative activity of sufficient quality and consistency to merit professional recognition and who are effective in providing the appropriate training for graduate students (or have the potential for providing such training).\n“Appropriate educational background,” as it relates to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, normally shall mean possession of the doctorate or terminal master’s degree. It also may mean possession of a non-terminal master’s degree with significant professional experience. Appropriate degrees vary within mass media-related disciplines and across the country, depending upon the emphases of the program and the academic/professional expertise of the faculty member.\nScholarly/creative activity of sufficient quality to merit professional recognition as it relates to JMC should be interpreted through Tenure and Promotion criteria described in this section.\nGraduate Faculty Status for Kent Campus Faculty Members\nGraduate Faculty status for Kent Campus faculty members is obtained by preparing documentation (application and supporting data sheet) and submitting it to the Graduate Faculty Committee of the School for evaluation and recommendation to the Director, who in turn recommends to the College Dean and to the Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies.\n2. The following statuses may be recommended for a graduate faculty member:\na. Associate Member, Level 1 (A1): May teach graduate courses and serve on master’s thesis and project committees.\nb. Full Member, Level 1 (F1): May do the above and may direct projects and comprehensive exams at the master’s level. Before serving as a sole director of a project, the member must first co-direct two projects with a graduate faculty member eligible to be the sole director of a project. Before serving as a sole director of an exam, the member must first co-direct two exams with a graduate faculty member eligible to be the sole director of an exam.\nc. Full Member, Level 2 (F2): May do the above and may direct theses. Before serving as a sole director of a thesis, the member must first co-direct two theses with a graduate faculty member eligible to be the sole director of a thesis.\nd. Full Member, Level 3 (F3): May do the above and may serve on doctoral committees and co-direct doctoral dissertations.\ne. Full Member, Level 4 (F4): May do the above and may direct a doctoral dissertation.\nCriteria for Membership in the Graduate Faculty\nGeneral criteria for membership is set forth in the University Policy Register (6-15.1).\n1. In JMC, a Full Member (Level F1) of the Graduate Faculty:\na. Must possess a doctorate or other appropriate terminal degree and demonstrate the potential for substantial scholarly research or creative activity, or\nb. Must possess a master’s degree and significant professional experience and a record of substantial and sustained professional publication or creative activity, or\nc. Must possess a bachelor’s degree, along with significant and prominent professional experience in his or her field and an outstanding record of professional publication or creative activity.\n2. A Full Member (Level F2) of the Graduate Faculty:\na. Must hold a doctorate or equivalent terminal degree appropriate to the faculty member’s teaching and research discipline, and must demonstrate a substantial and sustained record of appropriate scholarly research or creative activity, or\nb. Must hold a master’s degree for which a thesis was written, along with significant professional experience in his or her field, and must demonstrate a substantial and sustained record of appropriate scholarly research or creative activity.\na. Must meet all criteria for Level F2, and\nb. Must demonstrate a significant record of graduate teaching, advising, and research direction, including experience in directing or co-directing graduate-student research, and\nc. Must have demonstrated significant scholarly or creative activity in the past five years, and\nd. Must demonstrate a significant record of professional involvement.\nb. Must demonstrate a significant record of research direction, including experience in directing or co-directing graduate student research, and\nc. Must demonstrate a current and continuing record of scholarly or creative activity, and\nd. Must demonstrate a continuous record of significant professional involvement.\n5. An Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty:\nb. Must possess a master’s degree and significant professional experience, and demonstrate the potential for substantial scholarly or professional research or creative activity, or\nc. Must possess a bachelor’s degree plus significant and prominent professional experience and must demonstrate the potential for outstanding professional publication or creative activity.\n6. Temporary Graduate Faculty Member: This status shall be assigned to a faculty member whose participation in the graduate program is desired by the graduate department for a limited period or for a limited objective. Normally, this status should be assigned to lead to the appropriate instruction of a graduate course for a semester or appropriate service on a graduate examination committee, a thesis committee, or a dissertation committee. Upon the completion of the temporary assignment, the status of Temporary Graduate Faculty Member is withdrawn.\nSummer Teaching\nWhile summer teaching is not included as part of regular 9-month faculty contracts and appointments, faculty wishing to teach during the summer will be given the opportunity to do so, primarily on the basis of program need and secondarily on the basis of available financial resources. Generally, all faculty members shall be consulted by the Director and/or sequence coordinators concerning their desire to teach during the summer. The Director follows the guidelines and procedures for summer employment set forth in Article IX, Section 4 of the TT CBA and Article IX, Section 2 of the FTNTT CBA.\nEvaluation of Teaching\nFormal student evaluations, using KSU-mandated evaluation questions, plus additional questions devised by the School, are conducted for each course taught during regular academic semesters by full- and part-time faculty. Results of the evaluations are made available to the individual faculty member, along with the average score for courses in the appropriate norming group. Evaluations are public records.\n1. Travel:\nFaculty are encouraged to attend professional and academic meetings and conferences for professional enrichment. Attendance at such meetings is considered an authorized absence, provided that appropriate arrangements have been made for class coverage. The required forms for this type of leave are available from the Director. The form must be completed and approved before the faculty member’s leave.\n2. Leaves of Absence:\nLeaves of absence, including sick leave, shall follow College and University regulations as stated in the University Policy Register 6-11 and must be approved by the Dean. Appropriate documentation must be completed by all concerned parties.\n3. Professional Improvement Leave for Tenure-Track Faculty:\nFaculty professional improvement leave may be available to all those who qualify, in accordance with regulations and provisions in the University Policy Register 6-12 and 6-12.101. Faculty members requesting a faculty professional improvement leave must submit a proposal to the FAC and the Director for review, after which it is reviewed by the College Advisory Committee, the Dean and other appropriate University officials and committees. Final approval comes from the Provost and is subject to available funding.\n4. Professional Development Leave for FTNTT Faculty\nFull time non-tenure track faculty may apply for leaves of absence for professional development according to the provisions of the FTNTT CBA, Article XVI, Section 2.\nFaculty Grievance and Appeals\nA. University Procedures\nKent State University maintains a formal grievance and appeals procedures established by the TT CBA (Article VII) and the FTNTT CBA (Article VII).\nB. School Procedures for Informal Resolution\nThe faculty and the Director are encouraged to maintain open communication to the extent that formal University grievance and appeals procedures will normally not be required. To this end, the following procedure is recommended for the internal arbitration of a faculty grievance, should it be necessitated:\nStep 1: The grieving faculty member shall meet with his/her sequence coordinator, and a reasonable effort shall be made to resolve the grievance.\nStep 2: If the grievance is not resolved in Step One, the faculty member may elect to bring his/her grievance before the FAC, which shall make an advisory recommendation to the Director.\nStep 3: If the grievance is not resolved in Step Two, the faculty member shall meet with the Director who will make a final effort to resolve the grievance at the School level.\nShould the issue remain unresolved at the School level, the Director’s Office will notify the Dean regarding the unresolved grievance and the results of the informal actions that have occurred in Steps One through Three.\nIn regard to the above procedure, it is important to note the following from the University Grievance and Appeals Procedure: “Any settlement, withdrawal, or other disposition of a grievance at the informal stage shall not constitute a binding precedent in the settlement of similar complaints or grievances.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line906452"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6077946424484253,"wiki_prob":0.6077946424484253,"text":"Living and Working in Glasgow in 2019\n2. Working in Glasgow\n3. Financial Services in Glasgow\n4. Education in Glasgow\n5. Living in Glasgow\n6. Moving to Glasgow from Abroad\n7. Culture in Glasgow\nYou most likely know Glasgow as one of the friendliest cities on earth or for its reputation as the former shipbuilding capital of the world.\nBut what you might not know is that Glasgow is one of the best places to live and work in the UK.\nScotland’s biggest city, Glasgow is known for its rich history, excellent shopping and vibrant nightlife.\nDynamic and ever-changing, both residents and visitors never fail to be impressed by what the city has to offer.\nAs one of Europe’s leading financial centres, financial services also play a key role in the city, with some of the biggest companies in the sector having a presence in Glasgow.\nIf you are considering a move to Glasgow, this guide should give you a flavour of what the city has to offer its residents.\nKey Info:\nGlasgow sits at the heart of Scotland’s only metropolitan region of 1.8 million people, while the population of the greater Glasgow region is around 2.3 million – making up 41% of the entire population of Scotland.[1]\nLanguage: English is the main language with Scots, British Sign Language and Gaelic as recognised languages. Other languages spoken in the city including Spanish, Urdu, Mandarin and Polish. Strong numbers of foreign language speakers including Asian, Eastern European and Western European languages.\nCurrency: Pound Sterling (GDP)\nTime Zone: UTC+00:00\nClimate: Temperate. Glasgow benefits from long summer days with as much as 17 hours of sunlight. However, winter days tend to be much shorter and darker. There are on average 170 days of rainfall and between 15-20 days of snowfall in Glasgow.[2]\nSimilar to the rest of the country, the weather in Glasgow can sometimes be unpredictable and it’s not uncommon to experience all four seasons in one day.\nNo matter what career path you choose to pursue, Glasgow is one of the top places to work in the UK.\nThe city’s workforce combines the strong Scottish work ethic with the friendliness of its residents. This had made it an attractive location and some of the biggest companies in Scotland have a base in Glasgow.\nGlasgow has the largest economy in Scotland, with a GDP of 41.6 billion in 2013. Glasgow contributes approximately £20.74 billion GVA to the Scottish economy annually. 19,000 companies make their home in Glasgow, generating an annual turnover of £38 billion.[3]\nThere are plenty of opportunities and there has never been a better time to work in Glasgow, with the number of vacancies advertised having risen by 52% since 2016.[4]\nResidents in Glasgow benefit from an average monthly take-home salary of £1,814[5] which is higher than the UK average.\nFormerly one of the world’s leading manufacturing hubs, Glasgow has moved away from a production-based economy to a service-based one, with up to 84% of jobs in the service sector.[6]\nGlasgow Chamber of Commerce recently identified six key sectors for the city: low carbon industries; financial and business services; life sciences; engineering; tourism, and education.[7]\nBut the city is also developing in some of its newer growth sectors, such as software development and biotechnology. The tech sector in Scotland is worth £3.9bn with digital tech turnover per employee reaching £80,000.[8]\nGlasgow has particular strength in space tech, as the city rockets towards becoming a world leader. CBRE ranked Glasgow 2nd in the UK in its annual Tech Cities survey.\nGlasgow is at the forefront of healthcare and innovation across the UK and Europe. Glasgow is also the biggest media hub in Scotland and has an excellent creative sector.\nGlasgow is one of the top places to work in the UK.\nTax and Employment Benefits\nEmployment benefits offered in Glasgow vary depending on your employer but are likely to include leave from work, sick pay, maternity pay and a pension.\nThe average working week for a full-time job is between 37 and 40 hours a week. Those working full-time are entitled to at least 28 days of paid holiday each year. If you work part-time, you are also entitled to paid holiday each year.\nWhile it’s not compulsory, many organisations also close for public and bank holidays as an added incentive. Many bank holidays in Scotland are different to the rest of the UK.\nIf you’re pregnant, you may be eligible for maternity pay from your employer. Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) allows you to take time off work both before and after your baby is born. SMP is paid for up to 39 weeks from when you take leave from your job. Your partner is also entitled to up to two weeks of paternity leave – in addition to another 26 weeks if you decide to return to work early.\nIf you are eligible, the government will pay you a State Pension when you reach the national retirement age – normally between 60-65 years old. However, the amount you’re eligible for depends on the number of years you have paid National Insurance from your salary in the UK.\nThe majority of people working in Scotland have tax and National Insurance payments automatically deducted from their weekly or monthly pay. The amount of Income Tax and National Insurance you pay depends on several factors including how much you earn.\nIf you are not a UK national, you will need to apply for a National Insurance number from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and give it to your employer.\nThe financial services industry in Scotland is booming, and Glasgow is no exception. One of Europe’s top 20 financial centres, there are 40,500 jobs related to the financial services centre sector in Glasgow.[9] This makes up almost 10% of total employment in the city.[10]\nFinancial services are a rapidly growing sector in Glasgow, with plenty of jobs and investment. Since the creation of the International Financial Services District (IFSD), there has been over £1 billion invested and more than 15,000 new jobs.\nGlasgow is the location of choice for some of the biggest names in the sector. There are over 3000 companies operating in this sector.[11]\nMost of Glasgow’s finance sector is based around the IFSD. This includes companies like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and BNP Paribas. Glasgow is a base for major global corporations in the financial and services sector, such as Barclays Wealth, Aon and others.\nThe second largest financial hub in Scotland, Glasgow’s main strengths lie in general insurance, asset administration, legal services and accountancy.\nScotland has a long and distinguished history in banking. You will find many long-established and newer challenger banks in Glasgow including The Royal Bank of Scotland, Clydesdale Bank, Tesco Bank, TSB, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays.\nGlasgow is also a base for many international banks such as the Bank of China, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Santander and State Bank of India.\nWith 8,000 people working within the banking field in Glasgow, the city is the perfect place to build your banking career.\nGlasgow is one of Europe's top 20 financial centres.\nScotland has a significant concentration of life and pensions activity, accounting for 27% of employment in the sub-sector in Britain.[12]\nGlasgow is Scotland’s insurance hub, employing 8,500 people across hundreds of businesses.\nAllianz, Axa, Zurich, Hiscox Plc, Aviva and Direct Line Insurance are just some of the big names located in Glasgow.\nAsset servicing is a key growth area in Glasgow’s financial services industry. Scotland is now a leading European centre for asset servicing offering a comprehensive range of services, including: custody, securities servicing, investment accounting, performance measurement, trustee administration, shareholder services, compliance, client management and retail fund administration.\nThree out of the top ten largest asset servicing organisations operate in Glasgow. They are BNP Paribas, JP Morgan and HSBC.\nScotland is a renowned centre of excellence in investment management with its origins dating back to the nineteenth century.\nThe sector encompasses a broad mix of large institutional and smaller businesses that deliver a wide variety of innovative investment services to institutional and personal clients around the world.\nWhile this sector is smaller than that of Edinburgh, Glasgow maintains a high quality of asset management expertise.\nGlasgow has a large community of professionals providing services to the financial services industry. There are over 13,000 people working in legal and accounting services, and over 4,500 in management consulting.\nThe UK has high quality professional and support services; it has the largest and most developed market in Europe for legal services, management consulting and accounting.[13] These three sectors contributed £20.1bn, £14bn and £26.8bn respectively to UK output in 2017.\nThe Scottish legal sector is consistently strong. Corporate and commercial areas of law firms will continue to be busy, and in-house functions of financial sector companies will continue to grow.\nAccounting and finance is also an area of expertise in Glasgow. Many leading companies have a presence in Glasgow or neighbouring city Edinburgh. The great bio-diversity of businesses ensures a steady flow of opportunity in this sector.\nScotland’s financial services industry benefits from an extensive chain of providers that deliver the wide spectrum of business services required by businesses operating in the Glasgow financial sector.\nThis includes companies offering services such as outsourcing, human resources, business consultancy, and technology.\nWith over 6,000 people working in this area in Glasgow, there are plentiful opportunities with a variety of companies supporting the financial sector.\nNamed a “fintech powerhouse” by Fintech Scotland, the digital tech sector in Glasgow is growing at a rapid pace. Over the past decade there has been over £37 million worth of investment in Scottish fintech[14] and significant further investment is anticipated.\nThere are currently 12 fintech companies in Glasgow[15] and many of the world’s largest financial institutions have technology teams located in Glasgow, such as JP Morgan’s Technology Centre.\nThe city also plays a key part in the development of the Scottish fintech industry. Strathclyde University was the first in the UK to offer a masters course in fintech.\nThe future of the Glasgow fintech sector is bright as Scotland aims to become one of the world’s top five fintech hubs. The next 12 months will see the emergence of a more broadly connected fintech ecosystem across Scotland[16] and it is expected that 15,000 new roles will be created over the next 10 years.[17]\nScotland is famous for its first-class education system. It is one of the most highly educated countries in Europe and among the most well-educated in the world, with over 55% workforce educated to at least degree level.[18]\nThe city’s excellent educational system is one of the driving forces behind its talented workforce. 46% of all Glaswegians in employment are educated to degree level, making the city's workforce one of the best qualified in the UK.\nGlasgow has a reputation for educational excellence and provides a wide range of options across all levels. The city’s institutions of higher and further education graduate around 20,000 individuals per annum ensuring a healthy talent pipeline.\nGlasgow's Universities\nGlasgow is home to four universities: the University of Glasgow, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of the West of Scotland. The city also hosts the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.\nThe University of Glasgow, one of the oldest in the world, is globally recognised as a top-class institution. Business schools at the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde are both triple accredited – only 1% of business schools worldwide hold this accreditation.\nThe Glasgow city region has the largest student population in Scotland and the second highest in the UK. More than 185,000 students from 140 countries live and study here.\nThousands of students graduate each year with qualifications directly relevant to the needs of the financial services industry. Glasgow also has the highest student retention rate of any city in the UK, with over half staying to build their careers in the city.\nThe University of Glasgow is one of the oldest in the world.\nFurther and Higher Education Colleges\nThere are 6 further and higher education colleges across the Glasgow city region offering a wide range of courses and diplomas.\nThree are located in the city centre - City of Glasgow College, Glasgow Kelvin College and Glasgow Clyde College – and a further three colleges are in the wider Glasgow region – West College Scotland, South Lanarkshire College, New College Lanarkshire.\nIndependent and State Schools\nGlasgow has a rich variety of renowned schools catering for a full range of educational needs, spanning the state and independent sectors.\nThe city council provides 149 primary schools and 29 secondary schools for children up to the age of 18. The city council has also undertaken a massive modernisation initiative, with nearly all schools in Glasgow newly built or renovated.\nGlasgow also offers 14 independent schools, and three specialist schools; the Glasgow School of Sport, the Dance School of Scotland and the Glasgow Gaelic School.\nPre-school early learning and childcare\nPre-school early learning and childcare aims to encourage children aged between two and five years old to learn and develop in a caring and nurturing setting. All children can get a free part-time place at a council nursery, or funding towards a place at a private one.\nYou can find local nurseries and read about alternative childcare options for two to five-year olds on the Glasgow City Council's website.\nThe standards of living in Glasgow are consistently ranked among the best in the UK and the world. Glasgow was ranked 3rd highest in UK and 48th in the world for quality of life in 2018.[19]\nThere are excellent transport, housing and living options in the city with something to suit all lifestyles and budgets.\nGlasgow has a wide range of facilities and has more green space per mile than any other city in the UK with over 70 parks in and around the city.\nAs Scotland’s biggest city, Glasgow has excellent transport links, both in the city and to the rest of the UK and world.\nNot only is the city easy to navigate on foot but cyclists can enjoy more than 301km of cycle lanes connecting the city, which a great way to explore and get a feel for the city.\nGlasgow is the only city in Scotland with an underground network. There is a frequently running and easy to use Subway system connecting different parts of the city.\nGlasgow is served by two main railway stations, Central Station and Queen Street Station, and has the largest suburban rail network in the UK outside of London. There are also excellent rail links to the rest of the country with 8 trains per hour to Edinburgh and 23 trains per day direct to London, taking around 4hrs 30 mins.\nGlasgow Airport is Scotland’s principal long-haul airport. You can fly direct to North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as frequent domestic flights.\nGlasgow is also well connected by road. The main motorway route is the M8, connecting the city centre to the M74, M77 and M80.\nNot only are there excellent facilities in Glasgow, it is also an affordable place to live in comparison to other cities in the UK. Living costs are 26% lower than London.[20] In the Independent’s 2015 list of the Best Places in the UK to Make a Living, Glasgow placed 32 out of 64 in the cost of living rank.\nOut of 20 major cities across the UK, Glasgow offers young professionals the highest level of disposable income.[21] Expatistan ranks Glasgow as the 9th most expensive city out of 15 in the UK.\nComparison site Numbeo estimates a litre of milk costs £0.85 while a pint in your neighbourhood pub will come in at around £3.84. Two cinema tickets will cost about £20 in Glasgow and the average monthly gym membership costs £26.24.\nThe National Health Service (NHS) offers free healthcare services to people with a visa allowing them to live the UK for at least one year\nYou need to be registered with a GP to receive NHS treatment (you can find your nearest GP here).\nServices covered include:\nMedical advice from a doctor\nEmergency and non-emergency medical treatment in a hospital\nMedicines prescribed by your GP\nThere also companies offering private healthcare and health insurance, which is more expensive but may lead to quicker, more comprehensive treatment and aftercare.\nDental care is provided by the NHS, with check-up appointments covered for those over 18. Additional dental treatment is not fully NHS funded and prices vary depending on the service and treatment required.\nPrivate dental care is also available, with many dental practices in Glasgow offering both private and NHS services.\nHousing Hunting\nWhether you are looking to rent or buy a home in Glasgow, there is a wide variety of choice. Glasgow boasts an excellent range of housing options. From trendy apartments on the River Clyde to Victorian flats in Glasgow's west end and easily commutable suburbs, there is something for everyone.\nPopular areas include:\nWest End – made up of any area west of Charing Cross, Glasgow’s West End includes the sought-after areas of Dowanhill, Kelvingrove and Hyndland. The Finnieston area of Glasgow was voted the hippest place to live in Britain.\nOne of the most desirable parts of the city, there is a mix of large period houses and flats. Popular with students, professionals and families, there is something for everyone although this popularity can be reflected in the prices.\nFurther west of the city centre, places to keep an eye out for are Scotstoun, Knightswood and Anniesfield. These areas are attractive for buyers and renters alike, with a good balance of reputation and affordability.\nNorth – Bearsden and Milngavie are some of the most sought-after areas outside of Glasgow city centre. Bearsden has the lowest social housing of any Scottish town and has featured in the top 10 wealthiest areas of the UK.[22]\nBoth areas are popular spots for commuters who prefer less hustle and bustle and more green spaces.\nCity Centre – right in the heart of the city and one of Glasgow’s oldest areas, the Merchant City has a mix of modern flats with an abundance of bars, restaurants, and boutiques right on your doorstep.\nJust a short walk from the city centre is Glasgow’s East End which has been undergoing a regeneration. Many homes in this area are purpose-built and more affordable for those starting on the property ladder.\nSouth – areas located south of the River Clyde such as Whitecraigs and Giffnock in East Renfrewshire. These areas are perfect for those seeking detached houses and bungalows.\nGiffnock has a wide variety of properties, lots of shops and restaurants within walking distance and excellent schooling.\nMany choose to live outside the city, in the towns and villages from which the city is easily commutable.\nAlthough prices in rural Britain have been falling in the last years, the cost of living in the Scottish countryside is still up to 40% higher than in many British cities.[23] The reason for this is that living in remote areas of Scotland is more expensive when it comes to the costs of commuting, clothing, food, and household goods.\nLiving standards in Glasgow are consistently ranked among the best in the UK.\nThe cost of buying property in Glasgow is around 72% lower than London, 9% lower than Manchester and 11% lower than Edinburgh.[24]\nWhile most properties are sold through estate agents or solicitors, you can also buy privately from the owner – though you will still need the help of a solicitor to do the legal work.\nZoopla.com and rightmove.co.uk are popular resources for those looking to buy property in Glasgow and the surrounding areas.\nPrice levels for property in Glasgow vary but the average sale price is as follows:\nDetached - £265,113\nSemi-detached - £167,665\nTerraced - £171,760\nFlat - £134,209[25]\nGlasgow also offers very competitive rental costs compared to other UK cities.\nThe average monthly rental cost is £771[26] , and the average monthly cost per number of rooms is as follows:\n1 bed flat - £583\n3 bed flat - £1,037\nPopular resources for finding rental properties in Glasgow include:\nZoopla.com\nCitylets.com\nMost rental properties are furnished flats, though houses and unfurnished properties can also be found.\nMany letting agencies and private landlords will usually require a deposit, which is returned at the end of the tenancy.\nIt is also worth noting that most rental properties in Glasgow usually do not include utility bills, Wi-Fi or council tax within the monthly rent. These are additional costs.\nAll residential properties in Scotland are subject to Council Tax. Council Tax is a local tax, with annual receipts contributing directly to the funding of local services. In Scotland, all residential properties are assigned to one of eight bands (from A to H), based upon the value of that property.\nGlasgow council also a range of discounts and exemptions for those who qualify. More information on Council can be found at the Glasgow City Council website.\nGlasgow is an attractive location for people from all over the world and is known for being an extremely welcoming city to move to.\nThe fDi Intelligence Quality of Life ranks Glasgow higher than Los Angeles and Rome. Glasgow benefits from shorter commuting times, lower living costs and better work-life balance than other cities around the world.\nWith excellent national and international transport links, Glasgow is well connected to the rest of the globe. North America can be reached in as little as five hours and mainland Europe in over an hour.\nMeetup.com, InterNations.org and Facebook groups are great ways to connect with other expats in Glasgow and find out about events.\nVisa and immigration requirements\nScotland is governed by the same visa rules and legislation as the rest of the United Kingdom, though there are several special business visa categories to ensure Scotland remains a competitive destination for investment.\nIf you are from a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), you will need a visa to live and work in Scotland. The UK Government website allows you work out which visa you require based on your nationality and reason for coming to the UK.\nThere are a number of options open to people who require a UK visa. The two most common categories are Tier 1 and Tier 2. \"Skilled worker visas\" (Tier 2) address the needs of skilled laborers and employees. There’s also a separate sub-category for intra-company transfers. \"High value workers\" fall into the Tier 1 category.\nThe process will need to be started at least 3 months prior to your move to Glasgow and it is worth noting that there can be substantial fees.\nMore information on the different UK visa classifications and how to apply can be found on the UK Government website.\nEU Nationals working in Scotland & Brexit\nThe Scottish Government continues to welcome EEA nationals in Scotland as the status of Europeans living and working in Scotland has not changed.\nHowever, if you want to stay in the UK beyond 31 December 2020, you need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme. The scheme will be fully open by the end of March 2019 and you will have until 30 June 2021 to apply. If you have been a resident in the UK for more than 5 years you will be eligible for settled status. If you have been a resident for less than 5 years you will be eligible for pre-settled status.\nIn the meantime, it remains open to EEA nationals and their family members living in Scotland to apply for documentation from the UK Home Office that certifies their right to live and work in the UK. This can be done by applying for an EEA Registration Certificate (known as an EEA Residence Card), a Permanent Residence Card, or even British nationality depending upon your circumstances.\nIt is recommended that you sign up for email alerts from the Home Office regarding EU Nationals working in Britain for the most up to date information.\nNamed \"the UK's Coolest City” by National Geographic Traveller magazine, you will never be short of things to do in Glasgow.\nThe city centre’s Style Mile is a hotspot for shopping lovers and Experian's annual retail vitality index has named Glasgow as offering the best shopping in the UK outside of London for several years.\nGlasgow also has a thriving food and drinks scene and some of the best nightlife in Scotland. Glasgow is a UNESCO City of Music - the only one in Scotland - and there can be as many as 130 music events taking place in the city each week. [27]\nThere are 20 museums and galleries throughout Glasgow, most with free entry. There include the Kelvingrove Museum & Art Gallery, The People’s Palace, the Hunterian Museum and The Riverside Museum. Other great places to visit in Glasgow are the Science Centre, Glasgow Green the Botanic Gardens, Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis.\nGlasgow is famous for it's cultural scene.\nGlasgow is famous for its excellent sports events and for being home to local, national and international sports teams across a vast number of sports.\nThe city hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games to a resounding success. In 2020 Glasgow will be one of the host cities of the UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament.\nThroughout the year, Glasgow hosts a number of festivals and special events, including Celtic Connections, The Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow International Comedy Festival and Glasgow Mela.\nOutside of Glasgow\nWhile there is plenty to do in the city, Glasgow provides an excellent base to explore the rest of Scotland too. Some of the world’s most beautiful scenery, like Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, can be reached in as little as an hour.\nScotland’s other cities, such as Edinburgh, Dundee and Stirling can be easily reached by train, bus or car and each offer a range of things to do and see, including the newly opened V&A museum in Dundee.\nWhile Glasgow may be Scotland’s second city, it certainly is not second best. Combining excellent facilities and infrastructure, world-class talent and some of Scotland’s best companies, Glasgow is fast becoming one of the top places to live and work in the UK.\nWith over 300 years of expertise in financial services, Glasgow is the perfect place to develop your career and to work for some fantastic companies.\nGlasgow has something for all tastes and lifestyles with a thriving cultural scene and many desirable places to live.\nBut one of Glasgow’s biggest attributes is its residents, who are some of the friendliest in the whole of the UK. The pride Glaswegians have for their city is infectious. Anyone moving there will soon be sharing this same passion for life in Glasgow.\nHopefully you will now have all the necessary information to make a smooth transition into Glasgow life.\nFinancial and Professional Services Recruitment –\nContact Core-Asset\nLiving and Working in Edinburgh in 2019\nHow to Find Your Dream Financial, Accounting or Legal Job\nWhat to Take to a Job Interview (And What to Leave at Home)\nAnatomy of a Successful CV\n5 Benefits of Becoming a Contractor\n7 career paths for newly qualified accountants\nLooking to move jobs?\nBrowse through our live vacancies","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1347719"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7622014880180359,"wiki_prob":0.7622014880180359,"text":"Home » Events » 70th Venice International Film Festival\n70th Venice International Film Festival\n28 Jul 2013 | Redazione Portale di Venezia\n28 August 2013 10:00 to 7 September 2013 23:00\nSpeech by the Director of the 70th Venice International Film Festival\nAlberto Barbera\nSome people say that “history runs, cinema walks, and festivals mark time.” This cruel synthesis summarizes a certain widespread impatience with contemporary cinema and with what, until a short while ago, had been considered invaluable opportunities for promoting new movies and meeting new filmmakers. There are greater nuances in Paul Schrader’s comment, “It’s a changing world. Festivals are both more and less powerful than they used to be. More powerful because they come across like the new museum and art gallery curators. Less powerful because the exclusiveness of participating at festivals has been weakened by new, direct channels of distribution.” This problem scarcely bothers the public, a faithful and constant presence flocking by the thousands to the large and small festivals that continue to pop up here and there, often replacing events whose life cycle has come to an end.\nHowever, with a touch of pride it can be claimed that, while this year’s Venice Film Festival might not provide any answers, it does supply a few indications as to why festivals are still necessary and how they can adapt themselves to this new situation. In drawing up the list of films to offer our audience this year, we have tried to keep in mind the growing fragmentation and schizophrenia that seems to affect the universe of images in motion. These images are characterized by progressively contrasting production methods and by no means coherent models of reference; they explore the new potential offered by digital technology and are open to experimentation with new distribution and promotional platforms. But festivals are still burdened by economic complications, by the reduction of financial resources which once seemed almost unlimited, by new promotional strategies, and by the difficulty of overcoming the opaque resistance of the world of communication.\nThe Festival’s four sections – Competition, Out of Competition, Orizzonti, and Venezia Classici – are like a snapshot of the present state of contemporary cinema: intentionally stratified and varied.\nThere are established filmmakers whose participation is both proper and logical, since they represent the reason we love cinema and serve as a guarantee of its continuity.\nThere are debut directors and those in search of that hoped-for triumph, to which the Festival can contribute, sometimes decisively so, thanks to the prestige and the authority conferred by its selections.\nThere are the so-called genre films, for which no form of bias can exist but which are not always easy to position within the programming of important festivals.\nThere are documentaries, which are progressively gaining importance in the Festival’s scheduling, to the point that two are participating in the Venice 70 Competition. This “first time ever” is not only in recognition of the quality of these films, but of modern cinema’s gradual overlapping between fiction films and documentaries, a sign of an acknowledged identity that reflects shared creative processes. This is also an indication of aesthetic and linguistic enrichment, which appears to be to the benefit of all.\nThere are restored films and documentaries about cinema which indicate the growing importance of investments (in every sense of the word: cultural, aesthetic, emotional, distributing) in the immense patrimony and heritage of the cinema of the past, bringing it back into circulation to nourish the knowledge of young spectators, encourage the vocation of new directors, and enhance our education with cultural and linguistic reference points that should not be disregarded.\nThere are shorts, a valuable training ground for the filmmakers of tomorrow, to which the Festival has always ascribed the same artistic dignity as feature films, not confining them within a “reserve” but inserting them with full rights in the programming of the Orizzonti section.\nThere is the Film Market, improved and enlarged, with more services and areas at the disposal of commercial professionals, after the gratifying reception the first Market received last year.\nAnd then, there is the Sala Web, the web theatre that was launched last year and that offers the virtual audience of the web the opportunity to watch, in streaming, the films of the Orizzonti section simultaneously with their official presentation at the Lido.\nAnd, of course, there are also new entries. The first is represented by the three feature films made in conjunction with Biennale College Cinema, the project that supports, develops, and finances first films. The project was launched last year and is now concluding its first edition with concrete and positive results. The names of the twelve filmmakers selected for the second edition will be announced during the Festival.\nThe second new entry is the special project Final Cut in Venice, which provides economic support for the post-production of four African films which will be chosen during a special Film Market workshop reserved to producers, buyers, distributors, and programmers of international festivals, in order to encourage possible coproduction partnerships and market access.\nThe Venice Film Festival is turning seventy, the first time in the history of the Seventh Art that a festival has achieved this venerable age. This birthday will be celebrated in an imaginative way, thanks to the contribution of seventy filmmakers from all over the world who have accepted our invitation to make a micro-film lasting between 60 and 90 seconds. All these films will be projected during the Festival, and can be watched in streaming on the special website that has been created by the Biennale di Venezia, as can forty clips from historical newsreels that have been chosen and restored by the Istituto Luce Film Archives.\nThus, the past and the future of cinema symbolically join hands, in an edition of the Festival that looks to the future, in the conviction that its mission is far from over.\nFestival Director","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1575815"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7848429083824158,"wiki_prob":0.7848429083824158,"text":"Former Lincoln Tokyo nightclub owner fined £144k for putting lives at risk\nPhoto: The Lincolnite\nThe owner of the former Tokyo nightclub in Lincoln has been found guilty of putting lives of staff and customers at risk and fined £143,952.30.\nAaron Mellor, 44, of Deans Gate in Manchester, was on October 5, at York Crown Court, found guilty of fifteen charges of failing to comply with fire safety requirements at his Tokyo nightclubs in Lincoln and York.\nAs previously reported, the Tokyo nightclub in Lincoln was inspected in April 2014, where fire safety officers from Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue closed the basement area after serious concerns were raised about access to emergency exits, lack of emergency lighting and inadequate signage.\nOn the inspection, Paul Mead of Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, said: “Fire exits were blocked by chairs, tables and bags of rubbish and the emergency exit signs pointed in the wrong direction.\n“One of the fire escape doors at the club had to be kicked and subsequently broken by a member of staff in order to open it.\n“If a fire had occurred some people would not have reasonably been able to escape due to the fire exits not being available.”\nAs well as visits to the nightclub in Lincoln, Fire Safety officers from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue visited Tokyo in York on numerous occasions.\nThey found the emergency lighting system, fire alarm and fire detection system not to be working.\nThe property’s fire risk assessment was also not adequate and there was sleeping accommodation found on the premises.\nFor the Lincoln charges, Mellor was fined £66,000 and ordered to pay £44,504 in prosecution costs.\nFor the York charges, Mellor was fined £10,000 and Tokyo Industries (One) Limited was fined £30,000. Charges were £23,448.30.\nPaul Mead added: “This is the first time in the country that two Fire and Rescue services have acted together to successfully bring a prosecution against a company and business operator, when offences have taken place in different counties.\n“It sends a clear message out to owners of this type of venue that when they put company profit before public safety, we will take action.\n“We continue to work with other agencies in an attempt to improve safety standards.\n“Many of the business premises that we visit are conscientious about fire safety matters. However, some of the buildings which are brought to our attention because of fire incidents or complaints, turn out to have serious fire safety concerns which endanger those working in or visiting it.\n“We would encourage all business owners and those with responsibility for any premises, where the fire safety order applies, to ensure that they are aware of the legislative obligations they need to comply with, including having an up-to-date fire risk assessment.”\nFears grow for missing man who may be in Lincolnshire\nLincoln bodybuilder powers to victory in British finals\nWarehousing, Boston Road, Horncastle","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1631072"}
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Many have speculated that these changes have limited the usefulness of trusts as a tool for holding assets, but there are still many advantages to setting up a trust.\nWhat has changed?\nLimits on income splitting\nThe extension of the income splitting rules that came into effect on January 1, 2018 has made certain business owners question their current corporate structure. This is because the manner in which shares are held (i.e. through a holding company or through a trust) will affect whether the income received will be subject to tax on split income (TOSI), which imposes tax at the highest marginal rate on certain types of income.\nFor example, where shares of a private corporation (meeting the definition of a “related business” for the purposes of TOSI) are held by a family trust, and an inactive spouse and inactive adult children are beneficiaries of the trust, none of the family members will be able to exempt themselves from TOSI through the use of the “excluded shares” exemption (which may be available to taxpayers owning shares with at least 10 percent of the votes and value of a corporation). That’s because this exemption requires that the shares be held by the individual directly. As a result, taxpayers who own shares of a private corporation through a family trust will need to look to the other TOSI exclusions to alleviate the potential tax burden.\nFor some taxpayers this is an undesirable result, as the remaining exclusions typically require a certain level of involvement within the business, either through labour or capital contribution, while the “excluded shares” exemption allows individuals to receive income from a corporation simply on the basis of share ownership.\nNew reporting requirements\nAnother way that the advantages of using a trust may be limited in the future is through the new reporting requirements that will come into effect in 2021. These new rules will require that certain types of trusts file a T3 return more frequently and provide more personal identification information relating to beneficiaries, settlors and protectors of the trust.\nThe impact here is that by increasing these reporting requirements, the government will now have more information at its disposal regarding Canadian property and those who are entitled to it.\nFor example, where residential property is owned by a bare trust, the trust will now be required to file an annual T3 return that will notify the government when beneficiaries of the trust—in other words, those who are entitled to the property—change. This increased information is likely to form the basis for future tax changes. At the very least, it is sure to lead to additional scrutiny of taxpayers.\nAdvantages to using a trust\nWhile these changes mean that some of the advantages to using a trust may be limited, there are still multiple tax and non-tax advantages to using a trust.\nMultiplication of the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (LCGE)\nFrom a tax perspective, one of the major remaining benefits of using a trust—when it comes to holding shares of a private corporation in particular—is that by having multiple beneficiaries to the trust, it is possible to effectively multiply the LCGE on the disposition of shares of a qualified small business corporation (QSBC).\nMultiplying the LCGE will allow each family member that is a beneficiary to the trust to shelter from tax $848,252 (in 2018) of any gain that has been allocated to them on the sale. A family of four would therefore be able to jointly shelter $3.39 million in gains from tax through the use of a trust, which provides a significant tax advantage.\nMaintaining QSBC status of shares\nIn light of the new income splitting rules, it is helpful to ensure that your private corporation meets the criteria for being considered a QSBC. This is due to the fact that taxable capital gains on the disposition of QSBC shares are exempt from TOSI. Where a private corporation is not considered a QSBC (as a result of holding a large value of passive assets), a trust can be a helpful tool for purifying the corporation to meet the definition.\nFor example, a trust with a corporate beneficiary could be introduced (through a reorganization) as a shareholder of an operating company (Opco). 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9061211347579956,"wiki_prob":0.9061211347579956,"text":"Ebola outbreak over, but vigilance must remain, experts warn\nBy Tom Murphy on\t 14 January 2016 0\n(UNMIL/Emmanuel Tobey)\nThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa is over. More than 42 days passed since the last case in Liberia, marking the end of the outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people. The World Health Organization made the official announcement today, but it was accompanied by warnings that cases may emerge in the region and the wider lessons learned must be put into action to prevent another health crisis of this magnitude.\n“We are now at a critical period in the Ebola epidemic as we move from managing cases and patients to managing the residual risk of new infections,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) special representative for the Ebola response, in the announcement. “The risk of re-introduction of infection is diminishing as the virus gradually clears from the survivor population, but we still anticipate more flare-ups and must be prepared for them. A massive effort is under way to ensure robust prevention, surveillance and response capacity across all three countries by the end of March.”\nWhat began as an infection of a child in Guéckédou, Guinea, became a deadly outbreak that infected more than 28,000 people. It spread across Guinea and into Sierra Leone and Liberia. Single cases were discovered in the U.S. and Nigeria, leading to global concerns that the outbreak could spread beyond West Africa. Doctors Without Borders was among the first international groups that responded to the outbreak. Both they and Samaritan’s Purse increased their operations and made vocal calls for more support. Unfortunately, governments and the U.N. were slow to meet the need at the moment when the spread of the virus was spiraling out of control.\n(Economist)\n“Throughout the epidemic, I witnessed how communities were ripped apart,” Hilde de Clerck, a Doctors Without Borders epidemiologist who worked in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, said in a news release. “Initially, the response from the global health community was really paralyzed by fear. It was a horrible experience being left on our own and constantly running behind the wave of the epidemic. But it was very empowering to see how extremely dedicated all the national staff were, and fortunately other international actors eventually got involved. For the next epidemic, the world should stand ready to intervene much faster and more efficiently.”\nReviews of what happened during the outbreak exposed the major problems of the health systems in all three countries, as well as the shortcomings of the international community. The WHO came under some of the most intense criticism for its handling of the crisis from the onset. A road map outlined by an independent group of global health experts focused heavily on the reforms that the WHO needs to undertake in order to better prepare it for the next global health crisis.\nAnd while celebrations are taking place across the world now that the outbreak is over, concerns remain that new cases could emerge. Liberia was declared Ebola-free just a few months ago, before a flare-up reset the clock. There have been 10 such flare-ups at the end of the outbreak, due largely to the persistence of the virus in survivors. It is likely more cases will be found and the rhetoric from leaders indicates that precautions are being taken to ensure the virus does not spread.\nWith the outbreak behind the countries, they all must now look to the long road of recovery. The outbreak cost roughly $2.2 billion to the economies of the three countries, according to estimates from the World Bank.\n“Ebola has exacted an enormous toll on Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It has not only taken thousands of lives, it has devastated economies, health systems, social structures and families—reversing many years of development gains,” Jim Kim, head of the World Bank, said in a news release. “Ebola’s scars will not soon fade, especially for survivors and their families, and for the heroic health workers who cared for the infected.”\nEfforts will now focus on ways to recover the economic losses and build up the woeful health systems that struggled to manage the crisis. The heroic response by health workers and volunteers in the countries showed the resilience inherent in the region. Getting back to normal life will not be easy, particularly for the 17,000 Ebola survivors who face health problems from the Ebola and social stigma.\n“Today is a day of celebration and relief that this outbreak is finally over,” Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders, said in a news release. “We must all learn from this experience to improve how we respond to future epidemics and to neglected diseases. This Ebola response was not limited by lack of international means but by a lack of political will to rapidly deploy assistance to help communities. The needs of patients and affected communities must remain at the heart of any response and outweigh political interests.”\nDoctors Without Borders Ebola Guinea Liberia Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders MSF sierra leone WHO World Health Organization\nShare. Reddit Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email\nPrevious ArticleNews in the Humanosphere: Taliban attack targets polio vaccine workers, killing 15\nNext Article News in the Humanosphere: Islamic State behind deadly Indonesia attacks\nTom Murphy is a New Hampshire-based reporter for Humanosphere. Before joining Humanosphere, Tom founded and edited the aid blog A View From the Cave. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, GlobalPost and Christian Science Monitor. He tweets at @viewfromthecave. Contact him at tmurphy[at]humanosphere.org.\nBy Tom Murphy 30 June 2017\nBy Lisa Nikolau 20 June 2017\nTraveling exhibit seeks to build U.S. empathy for refugees","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line236207"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7358174324035645,"wiki_prob":0.26418256759643555,"text":"Tag Archives: fame\nDavid’s Steleae: The Psalms as Public Memorials and Private Prayers\n“I will tell of the marvellous things You have done.” Psalm 9:1b\n“I will exalt You, Lord, because You have rescued me.” Psalm 30:1a\nA stele is “an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.” [Source: Dictionary.com] They were widely used in the Near East millennia before David, and well after his time. It was standard practice for kings to have steles and statues of themselves made as positive propaganda to support their reign. However, David didn’t follow this practice. In line with the *ten commandments, he didn’t have himself pictured with a representation of YHWH behind him, neither did he carve his achievements in stone. Apart from the book of Samuel and 1 Chronicles, the only memorials we have to David are his Psalms, some of which could be likened to victory steles, and others which have an interesting function.\nRoughly half of all the Psalms that are attributed to David were sent to the choir director and made public, and 50% of those Psalms were written when he was in great distress. We don’t know how the other Psalms were used, but it is possible that the ones which have not been specifically marked as “for the choir director” were in his personal collection, then organised into books after his death. His Psalms which are marked as prayers: 17, 86, and 142, were notably not sent to the choir director.\nSome of the Psalms that were made public had national themes: Psalm 60 was written while David grappled with Israel’s failures in the battle in the Valley of Salt, and is noted as being useful for teaching; the wording of Psalm 67 is a mix of a prayer and a benediction; and Psalm 58 is an outspoken challenge to the people of Israel on justice [see the final chapter below for clarification]. David also sent Psalm 53 to the choir director, making a public statement of faith with “only fools deny God.”\nUsing my own classification of the Psalms (I get lost in the theological classifications, so I divided them further for my own use), these are the victory Psalms that David wanted sung before the Lord:\nPsalm 9: I will tell of all the marvellous things You have done.\nPsalm 18: When rescued from Saul and the enemies in that period of time.\nPsalm 20: May the LORD answer all your prayers.\nPsalm 21: How the king rejoices in Your strength, O LORD!\nPsalm 30: Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.\nThe Psalms of joy and wonder, plus David’s statements of faith that were sent to the choir director include Psalms 8, 11, 19, 62, 65, 66, 67, 53 and 58.\nOne thing which occurred to me when looking at which Psalms were attributed to specific events and could be considered memorials, is that there are no Psalms specifically linked to David’s most notable victories such as killing Goliath, bringing the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem, or his battle achievements. He didn’t mention God’s special covenant with Him, or his plans to build the temple; (neither did David ask for it to be named after him.) This is a testament to David’s humility, despite the moral dips which occurred with Bathsheba and the census.\nThe stone tablet with the code written on it. This was placed in a public space so that all could read it.\nGod is always the focus of David’s songs, which is another significant difference between him and any other ruler. He never claims honour or victory for himself. For an example, read the **Code of Hammurabi which has massive chunks at the beginning and end, glorifying and justifying the rule of Hammurabi. For example: “Hammurabi, the prince… making riches and increase, enriching Nippur and Dur-ilu beyond compare… who conquered the four quarters of the world, made great the name of Babylon…who enriched Ur; the humble, the reverent, who brings wealth…”\nDavid’s work shows that he was transparent in how he talked about his life in public and that he wasn’t hung up on appearances. He freely admitted his faults and struggles and the glory for his successes always went to the Lord. Psalm 51, which speaks of his correction by Nathan over Bathsheba, and how sin affected him, was made public. Whether that was to address his sin because it was public knowledge, or whether it was to be used as a teaching aid to strengthen the faith of the people and encourage righteousness, or both, I honestly don’t know.\nPsalm 3, which was about when he fled from Absalom, Psalm 34 where he escaped from Philistine territory feigning madness and Psalm 52, where he was betrayed by Doeg to Saul, weren’t marked for use by the choir director either. Not using Psalm 52 appears odd, as all the other betrayal Psalms were publicly sung. Perhaps it wasn’t copied or notated correctly, or perhaps David had some private reason for not sending it on? I wish I knew.\nThese are the Psalms which have a definite event associated with them and could be considered a form of victory stele.\n7 – concerning Cush of the tribe of Benjamin\n18 – rescued from all enemies and Saul [PUBLIC]\n30 – dedication of the temple / house [PUBLIC]\n54 – betrayed by Ziphites [PUBLIC]\n56 – seized at Gath [PUBLIC]\n57 – when fled from Saul and went to the cave [PUBLIC]\n59 – soldiers watching his house [PUBLIC]\nThe last point of interest is David’s request that two Psalms which relate to persecution by Saul, (57 and 59,) be sung to the tune “Do Not Destroy.” Knowing the old title attached to that melody would add a clear message to the Psalm, which would be noted by anyone knowing that piece of music. Other Psalmists also requested the same for their work.\n“Do Not Destroy” is also the melody which was selected for Psalm 58: “Justice—do you rulers know the meaning of the word?” In Bible Hub’s interlinear Bible, “ruler” is elem, or congregation. [Strongs Number 482] It is a masculine word, which is culturally correct as the assembly of believers was all male in David’s time. Some Bibles say gods, some say sons of men. There is no correct consensus. It is a source of profound frustration to me that words such as this are so poorly translated in our Bibles, and a reminder to dig deeper to find the true meaning of the Word of God.\n*“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” Exodus 20:4-6\n**The Code of Hammurabi translated by L.W. King http://www.general-intelligence.com/library/hr.pdf and the Louvre Museum’s page on it: http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon\nPosted in 2017, David's Life, Psalms, Research\t| Tagged Absalom, achievements, BathSheba, betrayal, Cush, David, distress, ego, en, ensi, escape, event, fame, Gath, Hammurabi, honour, humility, king, King David, life events, memorial, orthostat, private, propaganda, Psalm, public, Saul, stele, teaching, themes, victory, worship, Ziphites | Leave a comment\nBiblical Celebrity: the Hazard of Fame Based Thinking\nA year ago, if you had asked me what I will say to King David when I meet him face to face, I would have had trouble finding an answer. I expected to be really nervous! It’s because he’s so famous. He’s a King and he’s… well, he’s David. I also have no idea what I am going to say to Jonathan, or Moses, or Esther, or Paul… and I kind of want to hide from the prophets, because I feel so inadequate beside them. Can you relate to that?\nMy instinctive reaction prods me into assessing about how much the worldly values of celebrity culture have crept into how I perceive Biblical heroes. The sad answer is, the secular image of fame has influenced my thinking far too much. Celebrity fills a spiritual void in the secular world. It gives lost people aspirational role models, regardless of whether they are saints or sinners. Who doesn’t want to be comfortably wealthy, good looking, healthy, happily married and successful? In moderation, I could take it.\nFor that matter, as Christians, who doesn’t want to be like David? Don’t we want to slay giants, rule nations and live a spiritually successful life? Of course we do! I own kosher salt with David’s name on it, and many secular and Christian movies and books have been written, using David as a symbol of success. God did promise David fame, but it has gotten way out of hand. [Ref. 2 Samuel 7:9] As with secular celebrities, we get caught up in all the glamour, excitement and intrigue of David’s life, and we can easily, unconsciously make the fleshly mistake of treating him like a famous person, not like the servant of the Lord that he is.\nFame has nasty connotations. We all know who Oprah Winfrey is, but as much as we may relate to her and want to be like her, we know that we cannot be her. That is the unconscious lesson we apply when we look at any celebrity. “If only we could… but we can’t.” David is of such a calibre that we look at him in awe. We see him as an impossible person to equal, let alone beat. This can stop us from trying to follow his lead in spiritual areas and that should never happen. David should motivate us to imitate him through prayer, praise, studying the Word, submission to God, obedience, fasting and adoring the Lord. That is the pivotal core of every area of David’s success; he didn’t win because he was brave and strong, it was because he daily practiced those things, thus the Lord was able to use him.\nPlease stop there and read those last seven words again: “the Lord was able to use him.” There is the real problem that Biblical celebrity causes: when we look at David and all he achieved, we stop looking at the simplest of facts: that GOD did it THROUGH David. As David submitted to God he became God’s channel and all the success he had, really was God’s… and David readily, publicly, often admitted that. (See The Anti-King: David and Humility link below.) But our culture teaches us to look at the man and not the boring, routine factors that shaped him, so we lose this humble perspective.\nEphesians 1:19-21 proves we can be like David: “I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead…” God’s power worked through David as it worked through Jesus and Paul and now, all of us. Think of how much more we could grow if we caught hold of that truth and stopped looking at the people in our Bible as elite celebrities that we cannot be like. We must focus on how they allowed God to work through them, as we CAN copy that successfully. If we imitate David’s spiritual habits, God can carry out His perfect Will through us, which is our ultimate goal. We need a God fixation, not a hero-seeking one. (Please also read The Habits That Built King David’s Faith, the link is below.)\nDavid was a humble man. He would never want to be seen as a celebrity, as he delighted in placing his focus on the Lord. For our thinking to be swept away by the glory and glamour of kingship and success, is to to negate every precept that the Psalms teach us. David’s words through the Psalms always push us in the direction of the Lord as the answer, we need to go in that direction and stop being distracted by wanting to be a giant slayer, or a king ourselves. It makes me sad when I hear Christians say how much they want to rule and reign with Christ, over and above them telling me how much they love to pray or hear God’s voice. We’re aching for fame and big, visible success: the things that are most likely destroy us; and in wanting them, we ignore building our character and making ourselves usable by the Lord.\nWe need a reality check that pulls these worldly standards out of our heads! You have heard it before, Romans 12:2 “Don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” (New Living Translation)\nAnything the Lord does in your life won’t look like it did in David’s and it shouldn’t. God’s love for you is so great, He will give you what is going to fit, bless and build you and the people around you. You don’t need to battle Philistines, when you can conquer your own fears and hurts. You don’t need to liberate a nation, when you can bless people around you and move them towards Jesus. We’re not judged on not being like David, we’re judged on whether or not we did what the Lord asked US to do. So let’s get our heads out of the bright lights and go about our work with our eyes fixed on Jesus. It’s exactly what David would also advise you to do.\n“Trust in the Lord and do good;\ndwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.\nTake delight in the Lord,\nand He will give you the desires of your heart.\nCommit your way to the Lord;\ntrust in Him and He will do this:\nHe will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,\nyour vindication like the noonday sun.\nBe still before the Lord\nand wait patiently for Him…” Psalm 37:3-7a\n– The Habits That Built King David’s Faith\n– The Anti-King: David and Humility\n– How to Kill Giants: Searching for the Deep Secrets Behind King David’s Success\nPosted in 2016, Food for Thought, Scripture\t| Tagged awe, balance, Bible heroes, bravery, celebrity, David, fame, famous, fasting, giant, giant slayer, goals, hero, humility, imitate, King David, obedience, praise, prayer, renew mind, role model, self-esteem, shyness, strength, study, submission, Warrior, worldliness","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line748652"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7052503824234009,"wiki_prob":0.7052503824234009,"text":"Bill Cosby ordered to give deposition in sexual abuse lawsuit\nBy: Reuters |\nPublished: August 6, 2015 9:41:49 AM\nBill Cosby has been ordered to give a sworn deposition in a lawsuit brought by a woman accusing the comedian of plying her with alcohol and sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 years old.\nIt marks the first time Bill Cosby, 78, has been directed to testify under oath in response to a complaint of sexual misconduct against him since a deposition he gave in a separate Pennsylvania case he settled out of court nine years ago.\nThe latest order, made public on Wednesday, a day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge entered it, requires Bill Cosby to submit under oath to questions from the lawyer of his Los Angeles accuser, Judy Huth, on Oct. 9. Now in her 50s, Huth must likewise answer questions from his attorneys on Oct. 15.\nHuth gained somewhat of a tactical advantage from the judge’s decision compelling Bill Cosby to go first.\nThe precise times and places were not revealed, but Huth’s lawyer, Gloria Allred, has said she expects to depose Bill Cosby in Massachusetts, where he resides.\nThe way for the depositions, a key part of the discovery process in civil litigation, was cleared when the California Supreme Court last month denied Bill Cosby’s petition to review the case, dealing a final blow to his efforts to fend off Huth’s lawsuit.\nHer complaint, brought in December 2014, charged that Bill Cosby sexually abused her by putting his hand down her pants and then “taking her hand in his hand and performing a sex act on himself without her consent.”\nHuth alleged the encounter occurred days after she and a female friend met Bill Cosby at a park where he was filming a movie. According to her account, Bill Cosby invited the girls the following weekend to his tennis club, where they all had drinks together before he led them on to the Playboy Mansion.\nBill Cosby’s attorney Martin Singer has called Huth’s allegations false and “defamatory”.\nHuth is one of more than 40 women who have come forward in the past year to say that they were raped or molested by Bill Cosby after he gave them alcohol or drugs in incidents dating back decades.\nIn 2006 Bill Cosby reached a confidential settlement for an undisclosed sum with a former Temple University employee, Andrea Constand, who accused him of sexual assault. Parts of the deposition he gave in that case were made public last month.\nHuth’s complaint is one of at least four pending civil suits against Bill Cosby stemming from such accusations.\nHowever, Allred has said Huth’s is the only one seeking damages for the alleged misconduct itself, citing repressed psychological injuries that she claims were only discovered in the last three years, and therefore are allowed under the statute of limitations.\nThe other plaintiffs are suing for defamation instead.\nBill Cosby has never been criminally charged. He and his lawyers acknowledge marital infidelity on his part but have consistently denied allegations of criminal wrongdoing.\nBill Cosby’s wife deposed for second time in defamation suit\nBill Cosby sued an accuser of sex assault and her attorneys\nBill Cosby’s accuser drops sexual assault lawsuit\nBill Cosby arrives in court as lawyers push to get charge dropped","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line371124"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8900335431098938,"wiki_prob":0.8900335431098938,"text":"The TimesCenter, New York\nGathering the industry’s most influential people to share intelligence and spark discussions that will help shape the future of sport.\n#LEADERS17\nBuyer:Seller\nBrands Represented\nWorld Class Speakers\nSports Represented\nBrands 11%\nRights Holders 29%\nFederations 17%\nLeagues 5%\nAttendee Job Titles\nOwner 5%\nCEO/MD 32%\nDirector 26%\nManager 8%\nMeet 700 senior influencers in sport\nWe control who is in the room so the most relevant people attend\nThe highest ratio of buyers to suppliers\n60+ global brand directors\nPrecision crafted programme with laser sharp insight and world class story telling\nSpeakers from all over the world\nThe only truly global Summit on US soil\nWho's Speaking?\nTod Leiweke\nSebastian Coe\nInternational Association of Athletics Federations\nJoe Harlan\nVice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer\nTed Leonsis\nFounder, Majority Owner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer\nMonumental Sports & Entertainment\nAnthony Noto\nGary Bettman\nTina Davis\nManaging Director of Global Sponsorships and Marketing\nFrancesco Calvo\nJessica Greenwood\nVP Content and Partnerships\nR/GA\nChristian Seifert\nCrane Kenney\nAndrew Barroway\nMajority Owner, Chairman and Governor\nStephen Pagliuca\nCo-Chairman, Bain Capital & Co-Owner\nElyssa Byck\nDirector Of Business Strategy\nChloe Gottlieb\nEVP Executive Creative Director US\nJoe Puglisi\nDirector Of Branded Content\nThe Players’ Tribune\nMark Wright\nVP Media Services and Sponsorships\nDavid A. Scott\nPresident/CEO, Comcast Spectacor & Governor\nOn July 24, 2015, it was announced that Leiweke would become the COO of the NFL. He will be the first NFL COO since commissioner Roger Goodell took over in 2003. As the NFL’s COO, Leiweke will oversee business operations for the league and will work directly with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to increase the popularity of the sport globally. Tod previously served as CEO of Tampa Bay Sports and Entertainment and has led the transformation of the NHL’s $145million Tampa Bay Lightning off the ice, more than doubling the team’s season ticket base and increasing overall attendance by 20%. Prior to taking up this role, Tod spent 7 years as CEO of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and Vulcan Sports & Entertainment, also overseeing all aspects of the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Sounders FC. He also served as president of First & Goal Inc., which operates Qwest Field and Qwest Field Event Centre for the state of Washington. He was recognised for his efforts in 2009, being named CEO of the Year by the Puget Sound Business Journal and also by the Seattle Sports Commission.\nSebastian Coe is President of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF), Executive Chairman of CSM Sport and Entertainment and one of the world’s most high profile sportsmen having been a competitor, sports administrator, event organiser, campaigner, media commentator, and a life-long sports fan. He was Chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, having previously been Chairman of the London 2012 bid company and was Chairman of the British Olympic Committee in the lead up to and during the unprecedented medal success of Team GB at the Rio Olympic Games.\nSeb set 12 world records during his athletic career and at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 he won Gold in the 1500m and Silver in the 800m a feat that he repeated in Los Angeles in 1984.\nSeb retired from competitive athletics in 1990 and became a conservative MP and Private Secretary to William Hague. In 2002 he was made a Peer. He received a Knighthood in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List and received a Companion of Honour in the 2013 New Year’s Honours List.\nIn addition to a number of other roles in sport Seb is also Pro-Chancellor of Loughborough University where he studied as an undergraduate, a Non-Executive Director of VitalityHealth & Life Group of Companies and serves as an Ambassador for BMW. He is a Member of the Laureus World Sport Academy and a Consultant for his beloved Chelsea Football Club.\nJoe E. Harlan is Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer for The Dow Chemical Company, a global material science company with 2016 annual sales of $48 billion.\nAs Chief Commercial Officer, Harlan drives Dow’s global Marketing and Sales strategy and organization. He also has executive oversight of the Company’s presence in North America,\nHarlan joined Dow in September, 2011, bringing three decades of diverse geographic, business, operational and customer experience to the organization from 3M Corporation where he was Executive Vice President of the Consumer and Office business. In 2012, he added executive oversight of Dow’s Chemicals, Energy and Performance Materials businesses and oversight responsibility for Dow Asia Pacific. He was named to his current role in 2014 and expanded his geographic responsibilities in 2015.\nPrior to 3M, Harlan spent 20 years with the General Electric Company (GE), where he held various finance, business development, and operational roles in their Plastics, Appliance and Medical Systems businesses, eventually serving as vice president and CFO of GE Lighting. In 2001, Harlan joined 3M as Vice President, Financial Planning. He then spent two years in Japan with Sumitomo 3M Limited, its Japanese subsidiary, where he served first as executive vice president, and then as president and chairman of the board. He became executive vice president of the 3M Electro and Communications business based in Austin, Texas, in 2004. He was named to his most recent position in 3M in 2009.\nTed Leonsis is the founder and chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns and operates three professional sports teams (Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics) and the Verizon Center. He also serves on the board of governors for the NBA and NHL.\nTed is the co-founder of Revolution Growth, a fund investing in disruptive businesses that can change the world. Ted is also an investor, a member of the board of directors and co-CEO of Groupon. He also serves on the board of directors at AddThis, American Express and Georgetown University.\nIn 2008 Ted founded SnagFilms, which enables online audiences to watch, share and support documentary films. SnagFilms grew out of Ted’s experience as a producer of award-winning documentary films, including Nanking, which won Peabody and Emmy awards.\nDavid Levy is president of Turner, overseeing the company’s leading portfolio of domestic entertainment, sports, kids and young adult brands, including TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV, Turner Classic Movies, Bleacher Report and ELEAGUE, the company’s entry into the red hot esports category. He also leads Ad Sales and Distribution, the company’s two primary U.S. domestic revenue divisions, and has oversight of Turner Sports.\nSince assuming executive leadership of the company’s domestic portfolio in 2013, the Turner networks have maintained top competitive rankings in key metrics for TNT, TBS, Adult Swim, truTV and Cartoon Network, as well as a leading portfolio of digital brands, including Bleacher Report.\nHe has led a significant expansion in digital media for Turner including the company’s acquisition of Bleacher Report and acquiring a majority stake in streaming video pioneer iStreamPlanet. In 2016, Turner launched FilmStruck, the company’s first U.S. domestic subscription video-on-demand service.\nMr. Levy has been instrumental in deepening and expanding Turner’s sports media rights. Turner’s premium sports content includes partnerships with the NBA, the NCAA for the Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, Major League Baseball and the PGA.\nHe has received many accolades during his career, including induction into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.\nAnthony is COO at Twitter, overseeing the company’s business operations as well as its revenue generating organizations including global advertising sales, global partnerships, business development, live content, data, revenue product, and MoPub.\nAnthony also continues to serve as Twitter’s CFO, a position he has held since July 2014, as the company looks for a new CFO. As CFO, he oversees the company’s financial operations, corporate development and strategy. Prior to joining Twitter, Anthony was a partner and the Head of the Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. from 2010 to 2014.\nFrom 2008 to 2010, Anthony was Chief Financial Officer of the National Football League. He led the league through the financial crisis and many of the key deals that transformed its media business. From 1999 to 2007, he served in various roles at Goldman Sachs, including Partner in the Equity Research division, the lead Internet analyst, and the lead Media and Entertainment Equity Research analyst.\nAnthony holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.\nGary Bettman has served the National Hockey League as Commissioner since February 1, 1993 and has guided the world’s top professional hockey league through more than two decades of growth on and off the ice. Record revenues, record attendance, more media platforms and numerous fan-friendly and community-minded initiatives are just a few examples of the ways Commissioner Bettman has brought the NHL to a broader audience.\nCommissioner Bettman has fostered unprecedented economic stability for the League’s Member Clubs. League revenues have increased more than tenfold during Commissioner Bettman’s tenure and franchise values have increased exponentially.\nOn the ice, the NHL’s competitive balance may be unrivalled in professional sports: Combined with the strongest Collective Bargaining Agreement in sports and the implementation of rules designed to accentuate the speed, skill and creativity of the players, a different team has earned the most historic trophy in professional sports – the Stanley Cup – every year since 1998.\nA calendar of innovative events, including iconic outdoor games, has driven fan engagement and sponsor participation to unprecedented levels. Charity, community service and diversity also have been at the forefront of Commissioner Bettman’s tenure. Hockey Fights Cancer has raised millions in support of cancer research and awareness. Mr. Bettman also prioritized grass-roots initiatives that bring hockey to youngsters. In addition, the NHL in 2013 signed an historic partnership agreement with the “You Can Play Project” which is dedicated to ensuring equality, respect and safety for all athletes, without regard to sexual orientation.\nTina started her career at advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy and came to Citi in 2005 as the VP of North American Advertising. In 2011, Tina took on an enhanced role when Citi first decided to get involved in the Olympics ahead of the London Games.\nAfter the 2012 Games, Tina built out an entire new group to oversee all of Citi’s sponsorship efforts – the Games, Citi Field, Presidents Cup, the Citi Open, Harlem EatUp and more. She was promoted to Managing Director, Corporate Sponsorship and Marketing at the bank late last year.\nTina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UCLA.\nFrancesco Calvo is FC Barcelona’s new Chief Revenue Officer, having previously working as Commercial Director and Chief Revenue Officer at Juventus FC. Calvo worked for many years at the prestigious Italian club, where he has gathered in-depth knowledge of the football business, the generation of income and sponsorship deals.\nCalvo was put in charge of the Juventus’ commercial plans and strategies, generation of income, financial sustainability, licenses and the implementation and development of new digital platforms. Calvo has also held managerial positions at Philip Morris International and Marlboro Motorsports Global Communication, and his representation of these companies led to his involvement in the business side of such events as the World F1 Championship and Moto GP\nJess runs R/GA’s activation strategy team, which is a home for hybrid thinkers with deep knowledge of content and social, contemporary communications planning, and strategic media partnerships. The activation strategy team is charged with bringing bottom-up cultural insights into the creative process, and delivering the work in the most relevant way possible. Over the last four years, Jess has overseen strategy for a broad spectrum of work for clients including Nike, Verizon, Tiffany and Google.\nOne of the first journalists to make the leap into brand strategy, Jess joined R/GA from Contagious Magazine, where she oversaw the editorial team and hatched Insider, the company’s strategic consultancy. Following a stint in the Creative Partnerships team at Google, she returned to R/GA to build out this new approach to strategy.\nJess is a founder member of Papel e Caneta, a global collaboration between strategists across the world to solve some of society’s toughest problems; moonlights as designer of her own fashion line, and is a committed karaoke ringleader.\nChristian has been CEO at the German Bundesliga since 2005 where he oversees the strategic orientation and overall leadership of the DFL and has led the league to record revenues in every area of the business. He currently also serves as Vice President of the German Football Association and as a member of the board of the League Association. Prior to joining the Bundesliga, Christian spent five years at KarstadtQuelle New Media AG, latterly as Chief Executive Officer, and 2 years as Director of Marketing (Central Europe) for MTV Networks.\nFrank McCourt is an American businessman, Chairman and CEO of McCourt Global and current owner of the French football club Olympique de Marseille. Prior to purchasing Olympique de Marseille, Frank owned the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2012 to 2014. In 2004, he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and sold the team in 2012 for an historic $2.15 billion. In 2008, McCourt bought the operating rights to the Los Angeles Marathon. McCourt’s group changed the route of the Marathon so that it would start at Dodger Stadium. His “Stadium to the Sea” course revitalized the Marathon and in 2010 it drew the largest field in the history of the race. On top of his ownership of the LA marathon and Olympique de Marseille, McCourt has a 50% stake in the Global Champions Tour which brings together the top 30 riders in the FEI Jumping World Rankings and recently launched Global Champions League, an innovative league of franchised showjumping teams.\nCrane Kenney is a Major League Baseball executive with the Chicago Cubs, serving as their President of Business Operations. He formerly served as president of the Cubs in 2010 and 2011. The Cubs won back-to-back World Series championships in 1907 and 1908, becoming the first major league team to play in three consecutive World Series, and the first to win it twice. Most recently, the Cubs won the 2016 National League Championship Series and 2016 World Series, which ended a 71-year National League drought and a 108-year World Series championship drought, both of which are record droughts in Major League Baseball. The 108-year drought was also the longest such occurrence in all major North American sports. Since the start of divisional play in 1969, the Cubs have appeared in the postseason eight times through the 2016 season.\nAndrew Barroway became the Majority Owner, Chairman and Governor of the Arizona Coyotes on December 31, 2014.\nMr. Barroway is the Managing Partner of Merion Investment Management LP, an event driven hedge fund that currently manages more than $1 Billion. Merion was founded in January 2009. Barroway graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1991.\nStephen Pagliuca is a Managing Partner and Executive Committee Member of the Boston Celtics. As a Managing Partner and Chairman of the Basketball Committee, Pagliuca has focused on enhancing the development and improvement of the Celtics basketball operations. Mr. Pagliuca also serves as a member of the NBA Board of Governors and the NBA Competition Committee.\nPagliuca currently is a Managing Director of Bain Capital. He has helped build Bain Capital into a leading global private equity firm with approximately $80 billion capital under management.\nPagliuca received a B.A. from Duke University where he also played freshman basketball, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.\nHe is currently the Chairman of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Chairman of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, Co Chair of the Inner City Scholarship Fund and serves on the international board of The Right To Play, a worldwide children’s development group that utilizes Olympic athletes to promote children’s health and safety. He is also a Trustee of the Bain Capital Children’s Charity.\nPagliuca is a member of the Board of Directors of Gartner Group, Burger King, HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) and Warner Chilcott. Pagliuca has been active in youth basketball from kindergarten to the AAU level. He and his wife, Judy, with their four children are longtime Massachusetts residents.\nElyssa Byck joined BuzzFeed in 2014, and serves as the Director of Global Business Strategy. She develops and implements growth opportunities to drive revenue; shaping the company’s business strategy. She also manages strategic initiatives and most recently was tapped to oversee the NBCUniversal business partnership. Before joining BuzzFeed, Byck worked at OMD and focused on digital and social initiatives for clients such as Warner Bros. and Frito Lay. She studied the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and lives in New York City.\nChloe is a strategic creative leader skilled in creating connected experiences for global clients and their customers. As R/GA’s Executive Creative Director, US, she works alongside Taras Wayner to guide hundreds of multidisciplinary teams toward the creation of breakthrough products, services, and communications for global brands such as Nike and Samsung.\nIn her previous role at R/GA, Chloe built the largest Experience Design team at any global agency. Happiest when collaborating at the intersection of storytelling, design, and technology, she has been applying her unique skills as a mentor in the R/GA Accelerator program, where she helps emerging startups in the Internet of Things space develop their branding, customer experience, and communications.\nChloe was named one of the “Most Creative People in Advertising” by Business Insider in 2014 and 2015. Her work for Nike, Nokia, Verizon, Alvio, and the Ad Council has garnered the industry’s most esteemed awards at top competitions including the Cannes Lions, One Show Interactive, the CLIOs, the ADC Annual Awards, and the ANDYs. Chloe has been named a New York Times Digital Scholar and published an article on data-driven motivation in Business Week.\nPrior to R/GA, Chloe expanded her expertise at Razorfish, where she engaged in deep ethnographic and insight-related engagements, working on diverse brands from Condé Nast (embracing social networks on Flip.com) to Mercedes-AMG (creating an immersive, user-driven experience on Mercedes-AMG.com).\nJoe Puglisi used to head up Creative strategy for BuzzFeed and has an obsession with how content spreads. Currently figuring out how to make that happen for native advertising in the BuzzFeed Creative department, educating and assisting always-on partners.\nWorking with a variety of brands and their agencies to better their social voice and run programs on BuzzFeed, including, GEICO, General Electric, SC Johnson, Pepsi, MillerCoors, AirBnB, Durex, Showtime, HBO, Netflix, AMC, Quiznos, and more.\nAt heart a storyteller, writer, editor, creative content specialist in the media business space having previously worked as a music critic/journalist for a video production website as their main editorial outlet, with a focus on music. Joe has recently moved to Players Tribune where he is now Director Of Branded Content.\nMark manages all national and local media investments on behalf of the AT&T business units which includes national TV, 3-screen content, paid search and social networks. He extends the company’s brand reputation among key stakeholders and strengthens AT&T’s competitive advantages.\nMark oversees sponsorship strategy and negotiation efforts across sports entertainment. He leads numerous key sponsorship initiatives including the naming rights of the AT&T Stadium, the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, College Football Playoff and Championship, The Masters Tournament and the Tribeca Film Festival.\nPrior to joining AT&T, Mark served as Vice President, Media, Sports and Entertainment Marketing for Anheuser-Busch, Inc., where he directed media planning for the company’s beer brands and managed sports, entertainment and local marketing efforts.\nSports Business Journal has named Mark both the “29th Most Influential Executive in Sports” and the “16th Most Influential Person in the NFL.” He was also one of Advertising Age’s Media Mavens.\nDavid Scott is President and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Spectacor, and serves as Governor of the Philadelphia Flyers for the National Hockey League. As CEO, Scott is responsible for the growth and optimization of Comcast Spectacor’s three core businesses: the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers; the Wells Fargo Center Complex; and Spectra, a hospitality firm specializing in Venue Management, Food Services & Hospitality, and Ticketing & Fan Engagement.\nSince his arrival, Scott has propelled Comcast Spectacor’s business operations and winning culture behind a unified go-to-market approach and a renewed commitment to operational excellence and client satisfaction. His primary focus is shaping and developing Comcast Spectacor’s strategic vision for sustainable, long-term growth.\nIn 2015, Scott spearheaded a complete re-branding of Comcast Spectacor’s wide-ranging client solutions into Spectra, a singular and cohesive business unit that offers an unmatched blend of integrated services. Spectra’s innovative and tight coordination of hospitality offerings present incremental revenue opportunities for clients and enhanced experiences for fans visiting more than 400 venues, primarily in North America.\nScott joined Comcast Spectacor as President and COO in December 2013 following a 20-year tenure at Comcast Cable. Scott served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Cable from 2005-2013. During his time as CFO, Comcast acquired approximately five million new customers and launched Digital Voice and Home Security under the Xfinity brand, as well as Comcast Business Class Services.\nProgramme Teaser\nHow the NFL Dominates Sunday\nGrowing America’s Number 1 Sport\nThe Rise of OTT\nGrowing Live Sports on Twitter\nEstablishing Truly Strategic Partnerships\nMaking Your Brand Stand Tall in A Crowd\nInvesting in Sport\nPutting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is\nWe continually craft and refine the agenda leading up to the event. If you'd like to know more about what we have planned, please get in touch.\nView Company Details\nNolan Partners\nNolan Partners is the global leader in retained executive search for sports business and sports performance. The firm has completed over 500 placements across 25 sports and six continents.\nNolan Partners specializes in Board of Director, VP, Director, and C-level assignments. The firm’s client portfolio includes Chicago Cubs, PGA, Milwaukee Bucks, Liverpool FC, Arsenal FC, Williams F1, Oakland A’s, and the USTA.\n601 S. Figueroa Street\nOMNIGON\nOMNIGON is a team of digital strategists, artists and technologists working exclusively in the areas of consumer loyalty, audience growth and digital content delivery. Since its founding in 2008, OMNIGON has established itself as a market leader, focused on helping clients achieve returns on the strategic, creative and technical investments they’ve made. OMNIGON, headquartered in New York and with teams in Los Angeles, London, Toronto, Kiev and St. Petersburg, works with celebrated, global brands including the PGA TOUR, AS Roma, the German Football Association (DFB), NASCAR, the United States Golf Association, Verizon INDYCAR, and CONCACAF, among countless others.\nGetty Images works with over 200,000 contributors and hundreds of image partners to provide comprehensive coverage of more than 130,000 news, sport and entertainment events, impactful creative imagery to communicate any commercial concept and the world’s deepest digital archive of historic photography.\nGrabyo\nGrabyo is the premium video editing and publishing platform built for live, social and mobile. Our vision is to bring premium live sports, entertainment and news to audiences of billions, regardless of geography, media platform or device.\nGrabyo allows rights holders to take ownership of content, exploit emerging online channels and drive new monetization opportunities such as branded content, sponsored social video highlights, live streams, and premium OTT services. Grabyo’s customers and technology partners are at the forefront of the rapidly evolving video industry.\nClients include LaLiga, Wimbledon, FIA Formula E, The Premier League, BT Sport, Real Madrid CF and BeIn Sports USA.\nHotelPlanner\nHotelPlanner.com is the leading provider of online services in the global group hotel marketplace, and an established resource for group event planners and hotel partners alike. Today, HotelPlanner.com provides its group travel technology expertise to over 4,200,000 group event planners globally while servicing $7 billion in group hotel booking requests in 2017 and an estimated $10 billion in 2018.\nHotelPlanner.com’s Pro Sports Team clients most notably include, the Washington Redskins Professional Bowlers Association, and partnership with USA TODAY Sports Active Alliance. On an international scale, clients include, Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, European Professional Golfers (EuroPro), Triple Crown Sports, Matchroom Sport, Super League (Rugby), AFC Wimbledon, Euroleague Basketball, Millwall F.C., Hella Verona F.C., and Swansea F.C.\nhttps://www.hotelplanner.com/\nSport Business Journal\nTagboard is a software platform that uses the hashtag to aggregate social media for end-users, brands, agencies and marketers, displaying content from multiple networks in a comprehensive and engaging visual format. Tagboard’s turnkey solutions allow marketers to leverage powerful tools designed to filter positive influence, amplify engagement, and showcase branded experiences through social curation and integration. End-users can self-discover, interact with, and join the discussion all within a single, easy-to-use feed. Tagboard helps some of the biggest brands in the world play a more active role in the social conversation by encouraging their audiences to share their experiences on a branded, moderated platform. Based in Redmond, WA, Tagboard has discreetly pioneered hashtag marketing since 2012.\nwww.tagboard.com\nThe TimesCenter\nWe have secured the most competitive hotel rates in association with our Online Accommodation Partner HotelPlanner.com. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.549321711063385,"wiki_prob":0.549321711063385,"text":"Christie Rossiter, SAYiT\n“Gay and bisexual men are over four times as likely to have attempted suicide in their lifetime as heterosexual men”\n— The conversation\nwww.pexels.com\nThere are a multitude of poorer health outcomes and indicators for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender plus (LGBT+) people. In recent years there have been significant advances in securing equality for LGBT+ people. However, the remaining differences, not least in relation to mental health and wellbeing, are starkest in the levels of suicide and self-harm. There are higher levels of drugs and substance misuse amongst LGBT+ people as well as poorer sexual health and social isolation (especially for younger and older people).\nAs well as having longstanding mental health problems lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are more likely to have bad experiences with nurses and doctors in a GP setting. Of these sexual orientations, bisexual people experience the highest rates of reported psychological or emotional problems. This may in part be due to experiencing “double discrimination”; homophobia from heterosexual people as well as being stigmatised by the gay and lesbian communities as not being “properly gay” (biphobia). People who are transgender have a plethora of unique barriers and challenges to accessing the GP and other health services, which results in further health disparities.\nFor example, a barrier for a trans male asking for help is that they are experiencing typically female health issues such as menstruation complexities and health issues around female anatomy. Another example is lesbian women reporting the frustration at repeatedly being asked if they are pregnant because they have answered in the affirmative to being sexually active.\nLGBT Definitions\nDefinitions- Click here to find out more\nPossible health problems\n• Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are at least twice more at risk of suicide attempts than the general population. Gay and bisexual men are over four times as likely to have attempted suicide in their lifetime as heterosexual men\n• Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are 1.5 - 3 times more likely to experience depression, anxiety and substance use.\n• Across all age groups, lesbian, gay and bisexual people are up to seven times more likely to use substances; longer substance use than heterosexuals. Lesbian and bisexual women are at high risk of substance dependence\n• RaRE report in 2015 by PACE: 70% of young lesbian, gay and bisexual people and 89% of young trans people had considered suicide, in adults this is 84% but drops to drops to 3% post transition\nWhy Is LGBT+ Health Important?\nIt is estimated that between 3 and 7% of the population are lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans, yet LGBT+ communities remain poorly understood. Eliminating LGBT+ health disparities and enhancing efforts to improve LGBT+ health are necessary to ensure that LGBT+ individuals can lead long, healthy lives.\nMake sure GP/health services clearly extend to LGBT+ people. Do this by creating a safe, inclusive and diverse working environment that encourages respect and equality for all and a space that values and recognises the differences between sexual orientation and gender identity and proactively addresses these\nExtend training on LGBT+ issues to all staff members and medical students to increase provision of culturally competent care\nUse gender neutral terms, such as ‘partner’ and don’t make assumptions\nMake links with LGBT+ organisations and consider advertising services at these places. Leadership and collaboration is key across organisations, for example voluntary and community sector, local businesses, local council, GPs, and hospitals. No single organisation can effect real change at scale on its own\nCollecting sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in health-related surveys and health records in order to identify LGBT+ health disparities\nAppropriately inquiring about and being supportive of a patient's sexual orientation and gender identity to enhance the patient-provider interaction and regular use of care\nChristie Rossiter is Charity Manager at SAYiT, South Yorkshire’s largest award winning youth LGBT+ charity.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1647022"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.915527880191803,"wiki_prob":0.915527880191803,"text":"The Walking Dead Season 2: Episode 1 – All That Remains Review\nBy Peter Parrish December 19, 2013 0\nThis review contains at least one honking great spoiler for The Walking Dead Season 1. If you don’t want to see that, stop reading. I’ll be avoiding descriptions of specific events in Season 2, but may still touch on aspects of this first episode that you would rather not know. Okay, that’s the end of the warning!\nThe big problem with the episodic format is that it’s difficult to offer a definitive critique that will stand up to the release of the rest of the series. Episode 1 of The Walking Dead’s second season is one fifth of the game, which, in any other circumstances, would make this article a preview. Telltale’s heavy focus on character and narrative makes this even more of an issue, as the full realisation of (say) the Lee/Clementine story arc was only possible to see in retrospect.\nThat explains why the individual episodes of the first Walking Dead season one received more cautious review scores in comparison to the full, five episode release. The game grew in stature as it progressed, but it was impossible to judge properly until it was complete.\nTerrible things are happening and Clementine is afraid.\nSo, I have to look at All That Remains in more specific terms. How well does it continue The Walking Dead narrative that Telltale established with season one? Does it provide a compelling set-up for further episodes? And how does the change in protagonist from Lee to Clementine affect matters?\nThe glib answers to those questions would be “pretty well,” “mostly” and “in some interesting ways.” Telltale had a relative blank slate to work with in the first season, but this follow-up comes with certain expectations and baggage.\nAll That Remains is as much a post-script to season one as it is set-up for season two. Clementine’s remaining ties to the old group are cut, and she’s driven into a situation with a new, suspicious community. Between those two events, we also have some scenes where our heroine has to fend for herself. All of this is squeezed into an episode lasting just over an hour and a half.\nIt provides plenty of powerful, gut-battering moments, but leaves you with a sense that the rapid pace has been somewhat to the detriment of properly introducing a new cast.\nTerrible things are happening and Clementine is upset.\nThat, of course, is something which will doubtless be rectified over the course of The Walking Dead’s forthcoming episodes. Nonetheless, All That Remains feels closer to a post-script running immediately into a prologue, rather than a self-contained episode.\nStill, it’s one hell of a post-script/prologue combo. Few titles can compete with The Walking Dead when it comes to setting up and executing moments of stomach-sinking, eye-averting grimness. In this opening episode, the rare pieces of brevity must be snatched at and held dear, because the rest is unrelenting bleakness. Clementine is really put through the wringer, to the extent that I worry slightly where Telltale might opt to go if they feel the need to ramp up the deep hurting even further. For anybody wondering whether the developer would wimp out on the depictions of on-screen Clem-death for the various “game over” sequences, here is your answer: nope.\nThat should hopefully give you enough incentive to do your best in the usual quick-time, use-item-in-reach-A-on-zombie-body-part-B mini-games that constitute a fair amount of the player input in these titles. If anything, this season of The Walking Dead seems to be shying even further away from being anything approaching a point-and-click ‘puzzle’ game. There are set-ups that appear as though they could be from a traditional adventure puzzle (multiple objects in a single room with a clear objective) but they no longer require any major logistical reasoning.\nTerrible things are happening and Clementine is steadfast.\nMoments of player interaction now seem to work purely as beats of pacing; quieter periods, where you’re not having to make a quick dialogue choice or hoof it away from danger in quick-timey style. Those who abandoned The Walking Dead for its lack of wide-ranging player interaction will not be won back by anything in All That Remains.\nMost, though, play Telltale’s series for its character conflicts, plot progression and dialogue choices, with only a side-order of occasional clicking on stuff. In All That Remains, an action that may once have been part of a puzzle instead becomes a chance for the player to choose and reflect on how “their” Clementine is coping with Lee’s death, or her present circumstance.\nPerhaps the biggest success for this new season is the way in which it handles Clem’s move from strong supporting character and Lee’s moral compass, to the lead role itself. To say that not many videogames would even attempt to make a ten year old girl their protagonist, let alone do it well, is an understatement.\nThe Walking Dead takes a couple of liberties with Clem’s capabilities, but these can perhaps be justified by her exposure to the harsh realities of the game’s universe. In fact, the episode even makes a point of juxtaposing Clementine’s world-weary pragmatism with the naive, sheltered existence of another, older girl.\nTerrible things are happening and Clementine is alarmed.\nClementine makes one particularly foolish (and unavoidable) mistake early in the episode that most will notice instantly, though it’s impossible to prevent. In that sense it’s frustrating, but it serves as a formative experience and reinforces the idea that Clem, not matter how smart and savvy she may be, is still a child.\nDuring her lonelier moments, Telltale occasionally give Clementine one monologue too many (when looking at a photo of a happy family, for example, I’m not sure I need the line “they look like they were a happy family,”) but these missteps are rare and the majority of Clem’s lines hit the right sort of tone. Towards the latter parts of the episode, it’s possible to manipulate the adults with your youth in ways that would never have been open to Lee. Where once you may have been guarding your actions for fear of what Clementine might learn from you, now you’re deciding precisely how she’s putting those survival lessons into action.\nI played through the first season of The Walking Dead on the 360, so it wasn’t possible for me to fully interpret what impact (if any) the choices I’d made there were having on this episode. It was a little annoying, actually, not to be able to simply tell the game which choices I’d made before (rather like the comic book opening in Mass Effect 2.) Instead, those options were randomised.\nA couple of incidents were raised through conversation, but it didn’t appear to extend much further than that.\nTerrible things are ha … hold on, this doesn’t look so bad. Terrible things WILL happen though. You mark my words.\nWhile we’re on the subject, people are still reporting issues with season two being unable to detect a saved game from season one (or the 400 Days DLC.) This technical issue has plagued the PC version of the game since it was launched, and it would be outrageous if the very same bug remains in the code of season two.\nTelltale had further technical problems delivering the game to those who’d purchased it directly through the company site. Unnecessary DRM, while not on the scale of the SimCity debacle, prevented people who owned the game from actually being able to play it. Meanwhile, the Steam version was working as intended. The lack of support during this incident, and particularly the unresolved saved game issues from season one, do not reflect well on the developer.\nAll That Remains shows that The Walking Dead can survive the departure from Telltale of lead writer Sean Vanaman and co-lead developer Jake Rodkin. It’s a confident release that uses the expectations established by season one to peer at the zombie apocalypse through a younger pair of eyes. The running time of 90 minutes is too brief to do justice to the attempted arc of post-script to prologue to full introduction, but while new cast members are too lightly sketched at present, Clementine herself is skillfully established in the lead role. That achievement, alongside some significant moments of poignancy, mean this first episode is an uneven but broadly successful opener.\nPeter Parrish\nSunset gets first official screenshots\nBy Tim McDonald January 7, 2015 0\nDisney Interactive Layoffs Now Total 280\nBy Paul Younger March 15, 2011 0\nThe Division Agents Journey trailer explains what it’s all about\nBy Paul Younger January 13, 2016 0","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line394318"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5636834502220154,"wiki_prob":0.4363165497779846,"text":"Alex Rodriguez Dropped Out of a Feud With Kylie Jenner Before It Really Got Started\nHunter Biden Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to Joe Biden\nRachel Dodes\nYet Another Famous Rocker Tells the Trump Campaign to Screw Off\nElizabeth Warren’s Big Wedding Faux Pas\nKenzie Bryant\nJay-Z and Beyoncé’s Obama Fund-raiser Seemingly Better Than George Clooney’s in at Least One Way\nLast night at the 40/40 Club in New York, the sports club co-owned by Jay-Z, the hip-hop artist and wife Beyoncé hosted the president and approximately 100 guests for what we originally anticipated would be the candidate’s coolest campaign fund-raiser yet. While we cannot comment on whether this expectation was realized—because the White House press-pool report disappointingly fails to note whether the 40/40 Club’s catwalk, 18-foot-tall illuminated champagne tower, and custom pool tables were utilized—we can say that it was notably better than George Clooney’s May fund-raiser in one capacity.\nReaders of the Hollywood Blog may remember how, following the Oscar winner’s $15 million gala at his home in L.A., the press pool cattily dismissed the event’s ambiance: “the tented setting on [Clooney’s] b’ball court was just so-so.” Triumphantly, Jay-Z and Beyoncé did not earn such middling reviews. Instead, the write-up matter-of-factly describes the couple’s sports-club affair as taking place in a “large, dark glassy room” filled with donors, who paid $40,000 each, wearing suits and dresses, and sitting on sofas. The reports continues, “Small tables of wine, champagne and finger food, including sliders, were in front of them.”\nThe president had a more effusive assessment of his hosts, with whom he is apparently on nickname basis:\nLet me just begin by saying to Jay and Bey, thank you so much for your friendship. We are so grateful. Michelle and Malia and Sasha are mad at me because they are not here. (Laughter.) That doesn’t usually happen. Usually they’re like, we’re glad you’re going—we don’t need to go. But every time they get a chance to see these two they are thrilled, partly because they are just both so generous, particularly to my kids. And Malia and Sasha just love both of them.\nBeyoncé couldn’t be a better role model for our daughters because she carries herself with such class and poise—(applause)—and has so much talent. And Jay-Z now knows what my life is like. (Laughter.) We both have daughters, and our wives are more popular than we are. (Laughter and applause.) So we’ve got a little bond there. (Laughter.) It’s hard, but it’s okay. It’s okay. (Laughter.)\nLast night Obama also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, where he discussed the violence in Libya, Mitt Romney’s most recent damning tapes, and his weight (180 pounds.)\nBeyoncé and Meghan Markle Will Be in the Same Place at the Same Time on Sunday\nTrump “Purges” Pollsters Who Revealed He’s Losing to Biden\nElizabeth Warren Is Surging—And the Trump Campaign Is Taking Notice\nMeghan Markle and Beyoncé Have Now Met; the Internet Survives, Barely","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1125051"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9502149820327759,"wiki_prob":0.9502149820327759,"text":"Dunfermline Abbey celebrates 200 years since discovery of the Bruce's tomb\nThis week Dunfermline Abbey will hold a series of commemorative services and events to mark the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Robert the Bruce's tomb.\nFormer head teacher called to be Kirk's first ever Hub Minister\nThe Church of Scotland has recruited a former secondary school head teacher to become its first ever Hub Ministries co-ordinator.\nModerator reflects on the season of Lent\nRt Rev Dr Derek Browning reflects on the season of Lent and suggests that instead of or as well as giving something up, we take up something positive\nYouth Moderator - fear must be challenged to secure 'real peace'\nThe Moderator of the National Youth Assembly of the Church of Scotland speaks candidly about how building interfaith relationships help to overcome fear, suspicion and bring people together to strive for peace.\nStrangers attend community funeral for asylum seeker\nStrangers have attended a funeral for an asylum seeker whose death has left her 10-year-old son an orphan and facing an uncertain future.\nFormer Moderator welcomes new proposals to tackle homelessness\nA former Moderator of the General Assembly has welcomed a new Scottish Parliament report on combating homelessness.\nTributes paid to \"pioneer\" first woman parish minister\nThe Church of Scotland’s first female Minister of Word and Sacrament, the Rev Euphemia (Effie) Irvine, has died.\nKirk members in Aberdeen honoured for giving more than 1,000 years of service\nPeople in Aberdeen are being honoured for giving 1,059 years of service to the Church of Scotland.\nPupils vow to ensure lessons of Srebrenica are never forgotten\nA former Moderator of the General Assembly has congratulated pupils for highlighting the Srebrenica genocide as part of an event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.\nFive ministers tell us how they celebrated the launch of the Year of Young People\nWe asked churches up and down the country to tell us how they marked the launch of the Church of Scotland's Year of Young People, and here's some of the responses.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line28784"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6045212745666504,"wiki_prob":0.3954787254333496,"text":"Catherine McKenzie\nLisa C. Risi serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, since July 2012, following an interim CFO role at the American Lung Association.\nIn her current role, she is responsible for Finance, Administration, Human Resources and Information Technology and plays an important role in Strategic and Operational planning.\nLisa served as the CFO for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society from January 2009 through March 2012. Ms. Risi began with the MS Society in March 1997 as the Accounting Manager. She was promoted to Controller in September 2000 and served as Vice President of Finance from January 2003 to May 2005.\nMs. Risi also served the Society as Chief Operating Officer of the New York City chapter where she was responsible for Finance, Administration, Information Technology, and Volunteer Development from December 2005 through December 2008.\nPrior to joining the National MS Society, Ms. Risi worked in Ernst & Young’s financial services audit group and as Audit Manager for Citibank’s Investment Banking Division. She also managed the accounting department for Hilton International’s US based real estate development subsidiary, London and Leeds.\nMs. Risi has family and friends who have been affected by MS and she has a deep commitment to finding a cure and ensuring the quality of life for all people with MS today.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line103022"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9612104892730713,"wiki_prob":0.9612104892730713,"text":"What are the commercial effects of terrorism?\nTwo University of Queensland students have developed a framework to determine the short-term and long-term commercial effects of terrorism thanks to a scholarship established by UQ alumni.\nBachelor of Commerce (Honours) student Jake Sullivan and Bachelor of Econometrics (Honours) Zi Yin focused on the September 11 attacks and the consequences of these attacks for financial markets as part of a research project with UQ’s Australian Institute for Business and Economics (AIBE).\nThe students each received a $5625 Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes Outstanding Honours Collaboration Scholarship, which encourages teamwork between high-performing Honours students from the UQ Business School and School of Economics at UQ.\nMr Sullivan said the framework might help some people recognise effects of terrorism that they may not have considered before and highlighted some areas for further research in the area.\n“One of the long-term effects we consider is a so-called “terror tax” – whereby terrorism raises the cost of doing business through higher insurance premia, expensive security precautions and larger wage costs to compensate at-risk employees,” he said.\n“This scholarship says a lot about the culture here at UQ and that people who go on to have such great success feel compelled to share their success with people at the School is in no small part attributable to the School’s teaching staff.”\nMr Yin said the biggest benefit of the scholarship was being able to work with someone who approached problems in a different way.\n“Without this scholarship, I wouldn’t have had the chance to explore this topic and work with someone with different skills to me,” he said.\n“I have learned a lot in terms of applying econometrics theory into the practice question, for example how time series modelling could be used to estimate the effect of terrorism into different industries.\nAIBE Director Professor John Mangan said the scholarship recognised top performing business and economics students.\n“By receiving this scholarship, it sets the students apart, and it provides them with an opportunity to work on current topics in business and economics and to work collaboratively on a piece of work, which is similar to the working environment.”\nFollowing graduation, Jake will start a position at the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.\nZi has applied for a PhD in econometrics with various universities in the US and the UK with the plan to pursue a career in academia.\nMatthew McLennan and Richard Howes (both UQ alumni) donated gifts for The Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes Outstanding Honours Collaboration Scholarship, which was established in 2014 and awarded annually to two students.\nAIBE leverages world-class collaborative research capabilities across the UQ Business School, School of Economics and TC Beirne School of Law. The focus for the institute is on Australian and global innovation with new horizon research addressing industry’s current needs and future challenges.\nUQ graduate cohort to hit 250,000 this December\nStrong relationships the secret to valedictorian’s success\nPrivacy & Terms of use | Feedback | Updated: 16 Nov 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line73305"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7647697925567627,"wiki_prob":0.7647697925567627,"text":"Rivard Report (https://therivardreport.com/smog-expert-says-focus-on-specific-sources-to-cut-air-pollution/)\nSmog Expert Says Focus on Specific Sources to Cut Air Pollution\nBy Brendan Gibbons | October 18, 2018\nMore on Environment & Nature\nSubscribe to Environment & Nature\nBonnie Arbittier / Rivard Report\nBexar County has failed to meet air quality standards set by the EPA.\nLowering San Antonio’s ozone levels might require sleuthing out specific sources of pollution instead of imposing widespread measures across the city, a scientist who helped improve Houston’s air quality told City Council members.\nHarvey Jeffries, who served as science adviser to a Houston air-quality group, spoke about air pollution in San Antonio at a City Council meeting Wednesday. The City’s Metropolitan Health District has hired Jeffries to study where Bexar County’s ozone pollution comes from and how to reduce it.\nIf true, Jeffries’ conclusions could mean that current efforts to deal with the ozone issue, such as banning idling by trucks and closing a coal plant, might not be as effective as some had hoped.\nJeffries’ first report came three months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Bexar County’s air quality no longer meets federal standards for ozone, a key component of smog that’s been tied to asthma, other chronic lung conditions, and premature deaths.\nRelated: Bexar County’s Air Officially Too Polluted To Meet EPA’s Ozone Standard\nBrendan Gibbons / Rivard Report\nHarvey Jeffries, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has studied Houston’s air quality.\nA professor for 44 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jeffries has studied air quality issues extensively, especially in Houston. In the early 2000s, scientists in Houston found that occasional belches of air pollution from chemical plants, tanks, and barges made a big difference in ozone levels.\n“I’ve always had an interest in other parts of Texas after spending lots of time in Houston,” Jeffries said at the meeting. “It’s interesting to find out that many of the underlying scientific issues that we’ve examined in Houston apply to many other parts of Texas.”\nThe City paid Jeffries’ company, Othree Chemistry Research and Service, $45,000 for the first phase of his study and recently approved another $45,000 for a second phase.\nWhere does ozone originate?\nOzone forms when nitrogen oxide emissions interact with volatile organic compounds in the presence of heat and sunlight. Nitrogen oxides most often come from vehicle exhausts, power plants, industrial sites, cement plants, and other combustion-related sources. Volatile organic compounds are tied to chemical use, chemical storage tanks, and gas stations, to name a few sources.\nInstead of using computer models to study where San Antonio’s ozone comes from, Jeffries used measurements of pollution levels and weather patterns taken every hour in the years 2012, 2015, and 2016. He did this for 17 air-monitoring sites around the city.\n“I actually look at the observations hour by hour, detail by detail – everything,” he said.\nSan Antonio has 21 air-monitoring sites, but only three that measure ozone levels for regulatory purposes: one at Calaveras Lake on the Southeast Side, one near John Marshall High School on the Northwest Side, and one just inside the southern fence of Camp Bullis on the far North Side.\nWind patterns make a huge difference in what these monitors record, Jeffries found. Almost every high-ozone day in San Antonio was characterized by winds that shifted in direction in a full or three-quarters circle throughout the day.\nAt the Camp Bullis air monitor, at least half of the days in the year feature those circular wind patterns. But in 2012, for example, only 18 of those days were high-ozone days.\nThat means you need both the right wind conditions and the right chemistry for high-ozone days, Jeffries said.\nOverall, Jeffries found that on days when the Marshall High and Camp Bullis monitors pick up high ozone, morning winds are often coming from the north-northwest, the opposite direction of the city’s core.\nBecause of a lack of data, Jeffries could only speculate on the exact source of certain ozone-forming chemicals, but his suggestions for possibilities included storage tanks, road construction, and a wastewater treatment plant at Camp Bullis.\n“I don’t understand what the heck is up there,” Jeffries said. “It’s weird, whatever it is, but it certainly comes from that quadrant up there.”\nCouncilmen Clayton Perry (D10), a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, and Manny Pelaez (D8) exchanged glances when Jeffries brought up the Army training base.\nScott Ball / Rivard Report\nCouncilwoman Ana Sandoval (D7)\n“We don’t go and dictate terms to Camp Bullis, ever,” Pelaez said. “They’re our lifeblood here in town. … In fact, what we try to do is make sure that their missions are as easy to accomplish as possible. I want to make sure that’s not on the list – go and push them around.”\n“No,” Metro Health Director Colleen Bridger replied.\nCouncilwoman Ana Sandoval (D7), who once worked for an air-quality agency in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, called Jeffries’ conclusions “potentially good news.”\n“What it means to us as policymakers is we don’t have to implement some citywide or even countywide measure right now to find a reduction in ozone,” she said. “We can use a scalpel and look at that area where the wind is coming from.”\nDifferent studies, different conclusions\nMuch of the discussion revolved around how different Jeffries’ conclusions are from those reached by the Alamo Area Council of Governments (AACOG).\nIn the past, local officials have heard how AACOG’s computer modeling of ozone suggests that nearly 80 percent of the ozone in San Antonio’s air in 2017 came from outside the San Antonio metro area, as AACOG Executive Director Diane Rath testified before a U.S. House committee in June.\nTexas Gov. Greg Abbott’s staff cited AACOG studies frequently in letters to the EPA, arguing San Antonio should not face additional regulations in part because of air pollution wafting in from elsewhere, including “foreign sources.”\nRelated: EPA To Weigh ‘Pollution From Foreign Sources’ In Regulating Air Quality\nBut Jeffries said Wednesday that ozone being formed in the morning near Camp Bullis is coming from only about 12 to 18 miles away.\n“So you’re not looking at Mexico – it’s the wrong direction,” he continued. “You’re not even looking at some of the other states – wrong direction. You’re not looking at Austin. You’re not looking at Houston.”\n“You’re looking at something over there,” he continued, pointing to the north.\nRath called Jeffries report “interesting” but said she questioned the validity of certain sections that compared San Antonio to Houston.\n“We are so different from Houston,” Rath said. “We don’t have the petrochemical industry, we don’t have refineries, and our topography is very, very different. … I’d just like more insight into his conclusions.”\nJeffries said the two cities have similar circular wind patterns, but said the pollution in their air does have little in common.\nCurrent policies might not help\nThe chemistry of ozone formation is extremely complicated. It’s often difficult for policymakers to figure out whether to try to reduce nitrogen oxides or volatile organic compounds and, if so, by how much, Jeffries said.\n“There’s a case if you’re a policymaker, you’re gonna go out and spend a billion dollars and reduce [nitrogen oxides], and the ozone problem’s going to get worse,” he said. “That makes this very difficult to deal with.”\nFlickr CC / Paul Sableman\nLocal ordinances to improve air quality include a ban on heavy truck idling.\nSo far, state and local officials have focused mostly on reducing nitrogen oxides. This includes local ordinances banning heavy truck idling, CPS Energy’s planned closure of its Deely coal-fired generators, and the pursuit of $73 million in Volkswagen settlement funds to convert vehicles from diesel to more efficient fuels.\nRegardless of their effect on ozone, those strategies remove other types of air pollution and cut down on greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, Bridger said.\nJeffries said data on volatile organic compounds is scarce for San Antonio. He suggested using an infrared camera to survey for plumes of pollution in the area, as has been done in Houston.\n“We’re not talking about large quantities,” he said. “It could be one guy up there with some particular thing. … You could have a tank that’s sat there forever and nothing shows up, and one day a hole appears in it, and all kinds of [pollution] show up.”\nThe City has issued a request for information for potential consultants to propose how they might address volatile organic compounds, Bridger said.\nDisclosure: CPS Energy is a Rivard Report business member. For a full list of supporters, click here.\nAbout Brendan Gibbons\nBrendan Gibbons is the Rivard Report's environment and energy reporter.\nMore by Brendan\nMetropolitan Health District","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line907823"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5383102297782898,"wiki_prob":0.4616897702217102,"text":"The Schachter Law Firm\nSchachter and firm\nBreaking up is hard to do. Divorce, child custody, child support – these are not easy. David Schachter can help. He’ll negotiate these tough experiences with you and see you through to the other side.\nSpecializing in divorce and family law, The Schachter Law Firm, LLC strives to steer clients through trying times while offering judicious advice along the way. For Attorney David Schachter, being genuine and accessible is of the utmost priority.\n“Every day I have an opportunity to help people get through one of the most difficult experiences of their life,” said Schachter. “I’m grateful to be of service during the challenging transition of divorce.”\nThe trust Schachter has fostered in his past and present clients has helped the firm grow exponentially since its founding in 2013. Furthermore, the empathy and wisdom provided through the firm’s services has led The Schachter Law Firm to be voted one of Savannah’s best divorce law firms year after year.\n“I found David to be knowledgeable, efficient, and quick to respond with great attention to detail,” wrote one client. “His staff was professional, understanding and always accommodating to our schedule. Trust David’s judgment and listen to his advice.”\nSchachter affirms that he is no miracle worker, and while pleasing both parties is a prime concern, neither person is going to get everything they want. But at The Schachter Law Firm, LLC you are guaranteed to receive excellent service and outstanding representation. Compassion will be on your side.\nThe Schachter Law Firm is known for its accessibility and responsiveness, the team provides wise counsel in and out of court\nAt Case Western Reserve Law School, David Schachter specialized in family law and studied under well-established family lawyer Andrew Zashin. Upon graduation, however, Zashin urged him not to go into family practice, stating that Schachter would “have his heart broken time and time again.”\nFor two years following his graduation, Schachter heeded his mentor’s advice and mostly handled real estate cases, contract disputes, and commercial law. But that time away from family law only reaffirmed his desire to pursue it.\n“I really like helping people and having opportunities to make a difference in people’s lives,” said Schachter. “And for me, practicing family law is the best way to do that professionally.”\nBut the personal qualities needed to succeed in his endeavor of opening a successful firm were not things he learned from a textbook. Schachter’s dedication, work ethic, and perspective were instilled in him by past family hardships. All 4 of his grandparents are survivors of the Holocaust, 3 of which were imprisoned at the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz. Their ability to overcome such adversity is a quality he strongly admires and aspired to put forth in himself.\nIn 2010, Schachter and his wife, Julia, a Savannah native, returned to the Hostess City, where Schachter had previously practiced. Upon his return, he began to work exclusively in family law which has remained his focus ever since. A divorce is a compromise, and Schachter’s familiarity with both agreements and negotiations were advantageous in building his trusting clientele and upstanding reputation.\nIn 2013, The Schachter Law Firm, LLC was born and his reputation as an efficient, genuine, and courteous attorney continues to grow.\nTo read more about The Schachter Law Firm, subscribe now or pick up the June/July issue of South magazine.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line366730"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6043921113014221,"wiki_prob":0.6043921113014221,"text":"Former Liberty University VP Raises Concern After Calling for Meeting With ‘Your Holiness’ to Unite Evangelicals, Catholics\nBy Heather Clark on August 11, 2017 28 Comments\nConcerns are being raised as Johnnie Moore, the former vice president of communications for Liberty University—which heralds itself at the world’s largest Christian university—and travel assistant to President Jerry Falwell, Jr., recently sent a letter to Roman Catholic leader Jorge Bergoglio, also known as “Pope Francis,” to request a meeting to discuss Moore’s objection to “efforts to divide Catholics and Evangelicals.”\nMoore, who serves as a member of President Trump’s evangelical advisory board, wrote to Bergoglio following the publication of an article in La Cattolica Civilitas—written by Catholic priest Antonio Spadaro and Presbyterian minister Marcelo Figueroa—that condemned what they perceived as a joining together of American Catholics and Evangelicals in an “ecumicism of hate” against immigrants, Muslims and others different from them.\n“The panorama of threats to [Evangelicals’] understanding of the American way of life have included modernist spirits, the black civil rights movement, the hippy movement, communism, feminist movements and so on. And now in our day there are the migrants and the Muslims,” the article read.\nIt said that some professing Catholics are now seemingly “using tones much closer to Evangelicals” when it comes to various social issues, and have apparently united on the subjects.\n“Both Evangelical and Catholic Integralists condemn traditional ecumenism and yet promote an ecumenism of conflict that unites them in the nostalgic dream of a theocratic type of state,” Spadaro and Figueroa asserted. “This meeting over shared objectives happens around such themes as abortion, same-sex marriage, religious education in schools and other matters generally considered moral or tied to values.”\nThe men asserted that this type of ecumenism is different than that exemplified by Bergoglio in terms of other religions and those different from him, which is rather “an ecumenism that moves under the urge of inclusion, peace, encounter and bridges.”\nIn an article published by Fox News, Moore said that the “caustic language” in the Civilitas piece concerned him, as he “cannot imagine that the article’s authors understand the beautiful relationship that Catholics and Evangelicals have had in the last thirty years in the United States.” He said that he believes the collaboration between the two has produced much good in the world.\n“Together, we have worked in pursuit of the fall of communism, led a vast resurgence of pro-life sentiment in the United States, and we have fought for religious liberty here and abroad. Our humanitarian collaboration has also saved millions of lives among the poor and persecuted,” Moore wrote.\nHe therefore wrote to Bergoglio, who Moore referred to as “Your Holiness,” to request a meeting between Catholic and Evangelical leaders to discuss concerns about those who cause division, and to dialogue about how the two groups can work together. Moore said that “God put it on [his] heart” to write to the Roman Catholic leader.\n“I speak for many Evangelicals when I say that we have looked upon your appointment with great gratitude to God and with great optimism for the new spirit that you have brought to the Catholic Church,” the letter read, which also noted that Moore feels “all the respect in the world” toward the pontiff. “Your commitment to the poor and to pastoral ministry and your efforts to build bridges and to spread the doctrine of mercy around the world have been a light and hope to us all.”\nHe said that in the midst of religious persecution, as well as political polarism, that “we have also witnessed efforts to divide Catholics and Evangelicals.”\n“We think it would be of great benefit to sit together and to discuss these things,” Moore wrote. “Then, when we disagree we can do it within the context of friendship. Though, I’m sure we will find once again that we agree far more than we disagree, and we can work together with diligence on those areas of agreement.”\n“We feel like this conversation is an urgent one, and I will bring a half dozen or so of our denominational heads and significantly influential Evangelicals for our time together,” he said. “We would also like to use the time to meet with various other high level officials throughout the Vatican to find ways in which we can cooperate on matters of great concern to us all, especially as it relates to refugees, the poor and the persecuted.”\nHowever, Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries—a former Roman Catholic of more than 30 years who now teaches Christians how to evangelize Catholics—told Christian News Network that he is deeply troubled by Moore’s endeavor. He outlined several aspects of Moore’s letter that he found to be cause for concern.\n“Moore’s request for a meeting with a pope who has blasphemed the triune God by stealing His titles—Holy Father, Head of the Church, and Vicar of Christ—is deplorable,” Gendron stated.\nHe bristled at Moore’s reference to Bergoglio as ‘Your Holiness.'”\n“By the authority of God’s Word, we can see that the pope is under divine condemnation for preaching another gospel (Gal.1:6-9),” Gendron stated. “The pope’s gospel denies the sufficiency of Jesus Christ and His finished work of redemption by adding sacraments, good works, law keeping and indulgences for salvation.”\nHe also found Moore’s desire to combat division between Evangelicals and Catholics to be demonstrative of “the disturbing ignorance among many Evangelicals concerning Church history.”\n“The division between Evangelicals and Catholics took place five hundred years ago when the Roman Catholic Church sealed her departure from the Christian faith by deliberately and dogmatically rejecting the gospel of Jesus Christ at the Council of Trent,” Gendron outlined. “Her apostasy is well documented by over 100 infallible anathemas that condemn Evangelicals who do not believe Rome’s corruption of the gospel.”\nHe said that God does not need His children to link with those teaching and propagating error in order to combat evil in the world.\n“Moore’s attempt to unite Evangelicals and Catholics is playing into the pope’s agenda to rebuild the religious tower of Babel,” Gendron opined. “Our sovereign and omnipotent Lord does not need the help of unbelievers to fight the social and cultural wars. There is something much more important at stake and that is the purity and exclusivity of the Gospel. More than ever we need to contend for the faith because divine division in truth is far better than satanic unity in error.”\nFormer Liberty University VP Raises Concern After Calling for Meeting With ‘Your Holiness’ to Unite Evangelicals, Catholics added by Heather Clark on August 11, 2017","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1018522"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7638965845108032,"wiki_prob":0.7638965845108032,"text":"Glasgow celebrates its busiest-ever May for conferences as over 22,000 delegates flock to the city\nJune 11, 2018 Business Tourism\nGlasgow experienced its ‘busiest-ever’ May for conferences after more than 22,000 delegates flocked to the city for a range of business events.\nCity coffers were boosted by an estimated £25.5 million in local economic impact making it a record for business tourism, according to Glasgow Convention Bureau (GCB).\nIt began with the arrival of 7,000 attendees at the All Energy Conference and Exhibition, swiftly followed by two major medical meetings held at the SEC, attracting a combined total of over 8,000 delegates.\nOther venues across the city were also busy with conferences as the University of Strathclyde’s Technology & Innovation Centre welcomed 1,000 delegates to the Annual Conference of the European Marketing Academy.\nAileen Crawford, Head of Conventions at Glasgow Convention Bureau, said: “Glasgow is recognised as one of the world’s leading conference cities with business tourism featuring as a key pillar within the city’s Tourism and Visitor Plan to 2023. Glasgow’s reputation for innovation, the strength of our knowledge hub economy and the strong partnerships which exist between businesses and academic institutions set us apart from other potential host cities. This enables us to successfully bid to secure prestigious meetings to our city.”\nSimilarly, both the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) and Strathclyde University’s Technology and Innovation Centre, the city’s two major conference venues, celebrated their busiest-ever May.\nKathleen Warden, Director of Conference Sales at the Scottish Event Campus, said: “The Scottish Event Campus has successfully delivered major conferences in the past month, including the World Federation of Hemophilia and the European Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy Congress, and has accounted for 76% of all delegates in the city in May. These conferences take many years to secure, often against tough international competition, so we feel immensely proud to take these events from bid to delivery. Not only do these events demonstrate the value of the venue in delivering economic impact for the city, they help to internationalise the city’s reputation, and the SEC is proud to work with the many stakeholders involved in bringing these events to Glasgow.”\nDesigned to accelerate the way in which researchers in academia and industry ‘collaborate and innovate together’, Strathclyde University’s Technology and Innovation Centre officially opened for business in March 2015 and has secured a number of venue awards and industry recognition as a centre of events excellence. Last month, it hosted 68 events and welcomed a total of 3,624 delegates – a 55% increase on May last year and a 277% increase on May 2016.\nGordon Hodge, Head of Conferencing and Events at the University of Strathclyde, said: “We’re delighted to have played our part in Glasgow’s busiest May ever, which is a real testament to the collaborative approach that continues to win a wide range of high-profile, influential business events for Glasgow. What makes us truly unique at Strathclyde is our Technology & Innovation Centre (TIC), which is much more than an award-winning city-centre conference venue. It’s first and foremost our world-class research hub, a facility where our academics work in partnership with industry and the public sector on solutions to many of society’s ‘wicked problems’. Combining our research activity with flexible event spaces that are available all year round, TIC is a place where new innovations are showcased; where new relationships are forged; where the seeds of future collaborations are sown; and where ideas become legend.”\nOther developments in the city inclyde the opening of the Clydeside Distillery, the first whisky distillery to be built in Glasgow in over a century, and the launch of the first new-build Radisson RED hotel in Europe.\nPreviousPrevious post:ICCA UK & Ireland Chapter unveils new leadership\nNext Next post:Edinburgh events start-up aims to end ticket fraud with cutting-edge blockchain platform","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line707829"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5460472702980042,"wiki_prob":0.5460472702980042,"text":"Home / cars / gt-r / john abraham / launches / nissan / Nissan launches 2017 GT-R in India at INR 1.99 cr\nNissan launches 2017 GT-R in India at INR 1.99 cr\nVivek Manjarekar 12/02/2016 cars , gt-r , john abraham , launches , nissan Edit\nMumbai, 2nd December 2016: Nissan today launched their flagship sports car - the 2017 Nissan GT-R in India. The GT-R goes on sale for the first time in the country priced at INR 1.99 Crore, ex-showroom, New Delhi in European spec Premium Edition.\nThe 2017 edition of the legendary GT-R series features a new signature V-motion grille and an upgraded interior. Speaking on the occasion, Guillaume Sicard, President – Nissan India Operations, said, “The GT-R is a very special car for Nissan and we are delighted to add it to our Indian line-up for the first time in its history. It is the epitome of Nissan’s technology and design, and demonstrates our brand promise of 'Innovation and Excitement'. It also continues our commitment to our Indian customers to offer an evolving range of dynamic and exciting new models. The GT-R will give a great boost to the Nissan brand in India and is guaranteed to turn many heads.”\nPresenting the new car in India, Hiroshi Tamura, Nissan Motor Corporation’s Chief Product Specialist for the GT-R, said, “We have continued to push the GT-R’s performance boundaries to the outer limits making it even more potent than before. At the same time, we have also added refinement to take the driving pleasure to an entirely new level. India is a new market for the GT-R and we’re proud to bring what we feel is the ‘ultimate GT’, possessing amazing performance, comfort and a rich racing heritage”.\nIn keeping with GT-R’s image, deliveries of the new model started with Bollywood action star and Nissan Brand Ambassador, John Abraham, receiving the keys to his very own GT-R.\nExcited about the latest addition to his garage, Abraham said, “I have had my heart set on the GT-R from the first time I saw one. I consider it to be an embodiment of myself on four wheels - powerful, muscular and fast. When I drove a GT-R earlier this year I knew I had to have one, and today my dream has come true.”\nThe 2017 Nissan GT-R is produced at Nissan’s state of the art plant in Tochigi, Japan, and will be brought to India as a CBU (Completely Built-up Unit). It will be sold exclusively through the Nissan Dealership in Noida, National Capital Region (NCR). This dealership will also house India’s first Nissan High Performance Centre (NHPC), which will be solely responsible for the service of the car.\nNissan started taking orders for the GT-R in India in September this year and deliveries to customers who have already booked will be among the first lucky group to receive one.\nAbout the 2017 Nissan GT-R\nNissan unveiled the new 2017 GT-R at the New York International Auto Show in March this year, highlighted by an exciting new look both inside and out, as well as major driving-performance enhancements and key new features. They represent the most significant changes made to the model since it was introduced in 2007.\nThe new GT-R’s exterior gets a complete makeover across the front end. The new matte chrome finish “V-motion” grille represents one of Nissan’s latest design signatures. It has been enlarged to provide better engine cooling and now features an updated mesh pattern.\nA new hood, which flows seamlessly from the grille, has been significantly reinforced, contributing to stability during high-speed driving. A freshly-designed front spoiler lip and front bumpers with finishers situated immediately below the headlamps give the new GT-R the look of a pure-bred racecar, while generating high levels of front downforce.\nThe GT-R’s familiar wind-cutting shape defines its profile, but the side sills have been pushed out to improve air flow. The rear of the car also received a thorough makeover. While the GT-R’s hallmark four-ring taillights remain, look closely and you’ll notice new bodywork to help improve air flow, as well as side air vents next to the quad exhaust tips.\nAlso, the belt line that separates the lower black section from the body panel has been heightened to make the car look wider and more aggressive from the rear. These exterior changes don’t result just in a sportier-looking car, but an aerodynamically efficient one, with less drag but retaining the same amount of downforce as the current GT-R to keep the car stable at high speeds.\nStep into the cabin, and you’re greeted by a premium interior that is befitting a high-performance sports car of this caliber. The entire dashboard and instrument panel are new and covered with high-quality leather artfully stitched together with TAKUMI precision. The shape of the dashboard adopts a “horizontal flow” that delivers a sense of high stability for the car’s front-seat occupants, while the line from the instrument cluster to the center console provides a distinct driver-oriented environment for those behind the steering wheel.\nThe center dashboard layout has also been improved and simplified. Integrated controls reduce the number of switches from 27 in the previous model to only 11 in the 2017 model. An enlarged 8-inch touch-panel monitor features large icons on the display screen to make it easy to operate. A new display command control on the carbon-fiber center console allows easy operation.\nThe shift paddles are now mounted to the new steering wheel, allowing drivers to change gears in mid-turn without having to take their hands off the wheel. The paddles themselves, along with the ventilation controls, have improved feel and better sound when engaged or adjusted.\nThe GT-R’s 3.8-litre V6 24-valve twin-turbocharged engine - each unit handcrafted by its own TAKUMI technician - now delivers 565 hp of power at 6800 rpm and 637Nm of torque. The improved output, which are the result of individual ignition-timing control of the cylinders and extra boost from the turbochargers, allow the new GT-R to have better acceleration in the mid- to high-ranges (3200 rpm and above).\nIt comes mated to a 6-speed dual-clutch transmission that features smoother shifts and less noise. That familiar GT-R tone also has been upgraded with an engine that has never sounded better. The resonance of the new titanium mufflers and Active Sound Enhancement (ASE) enhance the driving experience during acceleration.\nThe GT-R has always been regarded as one of the world’s best handling machines, and for 2017, its cornering abilities have become even better. A more rigid body structure and new suspension result in better stability through quick lateral transitions and higher overall cornering speed. Providing the grip are sticky 20 inch tires, wrapped around new “Y-spoke” machine-finished forged aluminum wheels.\nThe everyday supercar\nDespite all the performance enhancements, the 2017 GT-R is the most comfortable model to date, with a new sense of elegance and civility that one would rarely find in such a high-performance supercar. The new GT-R exhibits a smoother ride quality than the outgoing model, and its cabin remains much quieter at all speeds and new sound absorption materials. New for the 2017 GT-R are fresh colors inside and out that complement the car’s sophisticated character.\nIn India, the GT-R will be offered in the European spec Premium Edition and will be available in Katsura Orange (new for 2017), Vibrant Red, Pearl Black, Pearl White, Racing Blue, Gun Metallic and Ultimate Silver. The choice of interior trim includes Red, Tan, Ivory & Black.\nAbout Vivek Manjarekar\nThanks for reading our post. We at MotorZest always strive to bring you the best news and quality reviews on cars & bikes in India. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.873060405254364,"wiki_prob":0.873060405254364,"text":"Police, organizers report no major problems in first two days of Dogwood Festival\nGregory Phillips Staff writer\nApr 28, 2013 at 12:01 AM Apr 28, 2013 at 5:23 AM\nPolice and organizers reported no major problems through the first two nights of the Fayetteville Dogwood Festival.\n\"It's business as usual,\" said Carrie King, the festival's executive director, Saturday night. \"Our vendors are happy, our sponsors are happy, and our patrons are happy.\"\nFive young men were cited for trespassing in downtown the first two days of the festival, as police followed through on a warning mailed earlier in the week to about 50 suspected gang members.\nPolice said threats of violence between gangs prompted the letters from festival organizers, which warned the recipients to stay away or face citations.\nPolice said organizers had the power to bar citizens from downtown because they are essentially renting the area for the festival.\nTwo were cited for second-degree trespassing in Festival Park on Friday night. Another three were cited by 9 p.m. Saturday.\nAll were from Fayetteville and were 18 to 20 years old.\nMagistrates reported a handful of other misdemeanor arrests involving drunkenness and domestic disputes. Police reported no major incidents.\n\"It's not over yet,\" King said, \"but so far it's been a great day and a great evening.\"\nThe festival wraps up today at 6 p.m.\nStaff writer Gregory Phillips can be reached at phillipsg@fayobserver.com or 486-3596.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1732195"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6047362089157104,"wiki_prob":0.6047362089157104,"text":"The Assassin Gambit\nBy William R. Forstchen\nRead by George Newbern\nWilliam R. Forstchen Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio\nThe Gamester Wars Series: Book 2\nRuntime: 10.04 Hours\nCategory: Fiction/Science Fiction\nPublisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio\nAlexander the Great. Napoleon. The Forty-Seven Ronin. Long dead, but the future still rides on their successes at war!\nFirst there was war, then there were wargames, growing more and more realistic until the games themselves surpassed war as mankind’s most popular sport. But with no blood, guts, or glory, boredom began to set in and strategy lost its edge. Something was needed to bring fresh excitement to an old, old game. And so the past was mined for the greatest warriors and generals history had to offer: Napoleon, Alexander, the Forty-Seven Ronin, assassins from ancient Persia—all brilliant at either combat or at tactics and strategy.\nIt was just a game—until mock war turned real on an unimaginable scale, and only those legendary warriors could turn the tide …\nAuthor Bio: William R. Forstchen\nWilliam R. Forstchen has a PhD from Purdue University with specializations in Military History and the History of Technology. He is a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College. He is the author of fifty books, including the New York Times bestselling John Matherson series, the Lost Regiment series, and the award-winning young adult novel We Look Like Men of War. He has also authored numerous short stories and articles about military history and military technology.\nRuntime: 10.04","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line888847"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7552738785743713,"wiki_prob":0.7552738785743713,"text":"Dancing for Life – The Place is 50!\n22 hours ago by Wonderful News\nIn Autumn 2019, The Place enters its sixth decade as a driving force for dance development pushing the art form forward. Looking to the future with a global vision of a world with more dance, The Place will invest in independent artists, expand impact locally and internationally and continue its pioneering dance education and research.\n“The Place is a landmark institution that has led innovation in contemporary dance in the UK and internationally for five decades. Its illustrious alumni and staff team have irrefutably shaped the world of contemporary dance as we know it today. The Place sees no barriers to dance and its ultra-special, incubatory environment is designed to power imagination through dance like no other in the world. The love for dance and artistic expression so dutifully gifted by our founders Robin Howard and Sir Robert Cohan has endured over this time and we are truly energised in the pursuit of our global vision to engage more people with dance over the next 50 years.” – Clare Connor, Chief Executive\nINVESTING IN INDEPENDENT ARTISTS\n“Over The Place’s 50 year history we have supported the journey of many of the UK’s greatest contemporary choreographers. The next decade will see us make a new, era-defining commitment to connect the breadth of creativity in today’s independent dance makers to more people and places than ever before.” – Eddie Nixon, Artistic Director Over the next two years, The Place is investing £700,000 to expand its producing and touring within the UK and internationally to become a producing house for a large and diverse pool of independent artists. This year, The Place will work on ambitious new productions from artists including Requardt and Rosenberg, Avant Garde Dance, Lost Dog and Sivan Rubenstein and commission the development of 36 other new performances. In September 2019, The Place will launch a new Commissioning Studio. This pioneering fundraising programme supports The Place’s commitment to create high profile professional opportunities, empowering independent artists to create ground-breaking work.\nEXPANDING IMPACT LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY\n“This is a momentous time for The Place as we look to the next 50 years through a global lens, strengthening existing relationships and fostering new ones. Our ambition to lead the dance sector forward on local, national and International scales is a strategic priority for all activity planned in our 10-year vision.” – Martin Hargreaves, Director of Undergraduate Studies Spring 2020 will see the second of a three-year partnership with the Korean Cultural Centre and Korean Arts Management Service to showcase Korea’s eclectic and dynamic dance scene through the Festival of Korean Dance in London. Building on international dance networks, The Place and LCDS will further develop their partnerships with the Merce Cunningham Trust, USA, Beijing Dance Academy, China, and School of the Arts, Singapore to create new opportunities for research, knowledge exchange, student progression and international artist networks. The Richard Alston Dance Company (RADC) will embark on its Final Edition tour across the UK and overseas, including an At Home season at The Place with special guest Siobhan Davies, founding member of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre. The final RADC performances will be celebrated at Sadler’s Wells on 7 & 8 March 2020. The Place’s investment in touring will then focus on supporting independent artists to bring their work to national and international audiences in small, mid-scale and outdoor venues. The Place continues to be a partner in the Rural Touring Dance Initiative bringing outstanding performance to over 70 venues in all corners of the country connecting more people to dance.\nLCDS – Theo Clinkard. Photo by Camilla Greenwell\nEDUCATION AND INNOVATION\n“Dance brings out the very best in people, it allows people to explore their inner passion and The Place is very much the environment for that exploration.” – Vicky Evans, Programme Manager, Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) The pioneering MA Screendance offers the only Masters Programme in the world specialising in dance filmmaking and exploring the intersections between choreography and moving image. Through research and opportunities such as the student led and curated Screendance Festival: Framerush (Spring 2020), trailblazing students lead and shape this flourishing art form. This anniversary year will further build on the artistically rich Collaborations (5&6, 10-12 DEC); a programme of student work devised together with design and film students from longstanding partners University of the Arts London and composers from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. The shared sense of invention in these inspiring opportunities supports the next generation of artist-collaborators. Over the summer, The Place will offer 18 independent artists a research residency through the Choreodrome programme, a development opportunity to explore new artistic territory, allowing for experimentation and innovation. Choreodrome now includes a Startin’ Point Research Residency Commission for artists whose work is rooted in dances of the African diaspora, conceived by changemaker Hakeem Onibudo in 2018. Other highlights this year include:\n• Touch Wood, a series of bite-size extracts of new work being developed over the summer (3 – 6 SEP 2019)\n• students from LCDS present work created in response to the Leonardo Da Vinci drawings exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery in Buckingham Palace (10 OCT 2019)\n• Richard Alston at Home, featuring legendary dancer/choreographer Siobhan Davies and a brand-new commission for LCDS students (27–30 NOV 2019)\n• RADC’s final performance at Sadler’s Wells (7 & 8 MAR 2020)\n• The Little Prince, a magical dance adaptation of the classic children’s tale (17 – 24 DEC 2019) • Place’s Youth Dance Platform: around 150 young people from London take to the stage at The Place over two days (FEB 2020)\n• Splayed Festival, exploring disruptive femininities (27 APR – 2 MAY 2020)\n• Camden Primary Schools Festival featuring work by 12 local primary schools and over 600 local children (SUMMER 2020)\n• Changing the Face of British Dance. 50 years of London Contemporary Dance School a book by Henrietta Bannerman tracing the history of LCDS from its trailblazing role in establishing a British Contemporary Dance scene, to the globally renowned dance training institution it is today (launching spring 2020)\nChampioning the value of dance in all its forms, this anniversary year will run under the tagline ‘Dancing for Life’. Inviting the dance community to join the celebration of The Place’s history and what dance means to them, a year-long social media campaign will collect #BestPlaceMoments (theplace.org.uk/bestplacemoments). The memories will be used to populate a commissioned visual artwork to be displayed in the building from 2020.\nHere’s to the next 50 years!\nTags: LCDS, London contemporary dance, The Place, The Place UK\nWonderful News\nRocio Chacon\nWhat’s on dance! London’s May Dance List is here….\nChoreodrome 2019 artists announced\nWhat’s on dance! London’s April Dance List is here….\nWOMAN SRSLY TAKEOVER Wildlife in Strange Waters “resonates with immense force in our bodies, in all bodies”\nWhat’s on dance! London’s March Dance List is here….","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1068953"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.546222448348999,"wiki_prob":0.453777551651001,"text":"Rebuilding body parts with lab grown cartilage\nin: Science & Technology News\nReconstructed body parts such as noses and ears, which have been grown in a lab, could soon be available to patients needing surgery. Swansea researchers hope to be the first in the world to start using it on humans within three years.\nThe process involves growing someone’s cells in an incubator and then mixing them with a liquid which is 3D printed into the jelly-like shape needed.\nIt is then put back in an incubator to grow again until it is ready.\n“In simple terms, we’re trying to grow new tissue using human cells,” said Prof Iain Whitaker, consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at Morriston Hospital.\n“We’re trialling using 3D printing which is a very exciting potential modality to make these relatively complex structures.\n“Most people have heard a lot about 3D printing and that started with traditional 3D printing using plastics and metals.\n“That has now developed so we can consider printing biological tissue called 3D bio-printing, which is very different.\n“We’re trying to print biological structures using human cells, and provide the right environment and the right timing so it can grow into tissue that we can eventually put into a human.\n“It would be to reconstruct lost body parts such as part of the nose or the ear and ultimately large body parts including bone, muscle and vessels.”\nThe team of surgeons are working with scientists and engineers who have built a 3D printer specifically for this work.\nProf Whitaker, who is also the chairman of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Swansea University’s medical school, said the project started in 2012 but research in the field has been going on for more than 20 years.\nHe said the work would have to be tested on animals and go through an ethics process before being used on humans.\n“The good news in the future is, if our research is successful, within two months you’d be able to recreate a body part which was not there without having to resort to taking it from another part of the body which would cause another defect or scar elsewhere,” he added.\nCells are taken from a tiny sample of cartilage during the initial operation and grown in an incubator over several weeks\nThe shape of the missing body part is scanned and fed into a computer\nIt is then 3D printed using a special liquid formula combined with the live cells to form the jelly-like structure\nReagents are added to strengthen the structure\nIt is put into an incubator with a flow of nutrients to supply the cells with food so they can grow and produce their own cartilage\nThe structure will then be tested to see if it is strong enough to be eventually implanted into patients\nImage Credit / Article via bbc.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line791771"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8521386981010437,"wiki_prob":0.8521386981010437,"text":"Johansson Confirmed As Assistant Coach\nSunday, 09 April 2017, 17:00\nRANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB is delighted to confirm Jonatan Johansson as an assistant coach at the Club.\nCurrently working as assistant manager with Finland’s national team, Jonatan brings a wealth of experience to the role and his extensive knowledge of Scottish football will be invaluable to the new management team.\nJohansson spent three successful years at Ibrox between 1997 and 2000 – scoring 25 times in 71 appearances – with 18 of his strikes coming during the Treble-winning campaign of season 1998-99.\nJohansson’s career began in Finland with Pargas IF before switching to TPS and FC Flora ahead of his move to Glasgow and he also enjoyed a productive spell in the English Premier League with Charlton Athletic followed by a loan spell at Norwich City.\nMalmo in Sweden was his next destination but he returned to Scotland to feature for Hibs and St Johnstone before ending his playing career back at TPS in 2011.\nAs a coach, Jonatan spent three years in charge of Motherwell’s under-20 side – between 2012 and 2015 – before landing the Finland number two job in December.\nHe retired with 106 full international caps for his country and is looking forward to taking up his new role with the Light Blues.\nArticle Copyright © 2018. Permission to use quotations from this article online is only granted subject to appropriate source credit and hyperlink to www.rangers.co.uk\nPedro Caixinha\nJJ Impressed By Hungry Gers 15 November 2017\nJJ Pleased With Gers Workout 9 November 2017\nClub Statement 26 October 2017\nReaction: Pedro Caixinha 25 October 2017\nClub Statement 22 May 2016\nClub Statement 7 December 2017","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1039942"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9435319304466248,"wiki_prob":0.9435319304466248,"text":"Do babies feel pain in the first trimester? New study shows incredible nerve development\nThat the nervous system develops sooner than thought could have implications for whether babies feel pain in the early weeks. Image: Just The Facts.\nAlthough there's no logical reason why a human lack of capacity to feel pain justifies ending the life of an unborn baby, it's a common argument for why abortion is acceptable in the early stages of pregnancy. However, the prevailing wisdom that babies don't feel pain in the first trimester may have to be re-examined, as Live Action reports.\nAdult-like nerves\nA study published in the Journal Cell on 23 March 2017 reveals that the nervous system of embryos and foetuses may be greatly more developed than was previously believed. Entitled \"Tridimensional Visualization and Analysis of Early Human Development\" the study shows that unborn babies in the first trimester have \"adult-like\" patterns of nerves. Researchers \"combined whole-mount immunostaining, 3DISCO clearing, and light-sheet imaging to start building a 3D cellular map\" and found that \"the adult-like pattern of skin innervation is established before the end of the first trimester, showing important intra- and inter-individual variations in nerve branches.\"\nIt's too early to conclude that the system of nerves observed in embryos and fetuses would allow the infant in development to feel pain. However, this new research shows that the nervous system develops much sooner than had previously been thought, which could point to pain sensitivity.\nWhat evidence is there for foetal pain?\nFor now, it's almost conclusively provable that preborn babies can feel pain at 20 weeks gestation, although they respond to touch as early as eight weeks. There is also increasing evidence that unborn babies can feel pain much earlier than 20 weeks — possibly as early as five weeks. Some evidence exists to show that foetal pain may be even worse in the first trimester, due to the uneven maturation of foetal neurophysiology.\nNews in brief:\nAbortion activist given 500k of taxpayers money to write book calls for midwives to perform surgical abortions.\nThe Citizens’ Assembly is due to vote this weekend on whether to recommend any change to the State's abortion laws\nNorthern Ireland abortion pills raid woman Helen Crickard won't be charged\nPregnant mum who declined life-saving cancer treatment to save her unborn baby dies three days after giving birth\nSpiked:Why pro-choice students must stop silencing pro-life speakers\nNew push for euthanasia legislation in Scotland\nIndependent:The UK's absence of legal euthanasia forces people to travel to other nations for the right to die\nLeave a message here, or call us on 020 7091 7091\nPlease Click(*)\nSociety for the Protection of Unborn Children. 3 Whitacre Mews, Stannary Street, London, SE11 4AB, United Kingdom\n© Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1156108"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9882699251174927,"wiki_prob":0.9882699251174927,"text":"Swift Names Pérez-Tasso CEO\nPérez-Tasso will take over from current CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt, who will step down in June.\n@miyadavid\nGlobal payments messaging utility Swift has named Javier Pérez-Tasso as its new chief executive, following an internal and external search to find a replacement for current CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt, who will retire in July after 14 years at the organization.\nPérez-Tasso, who has been with Swift for almost 25 years, was most recently CEO of Swift Americas and UK region. He will take up his position on July 1.\nPérez-Tasso joined Swift in 1995 as an analyst before working his way up to chief marketing officer where he was responsible for developing Swift’s five-year strategy, Swift 2020. The strategy focuses on the firm’s cross-border payments program, expansion into financial crime compliance and a larger presence in market infrastructure.\nHe became CEO of the Americas and UK region in 2015, based in New York. Once he moves into his new role, Pérez-Tasso will relocate to Swift’s headquarters in Belgium.\n“[Pérez-Tasso’s] record of impressive leadership, coupled with his in-depth understanding of the company and its business, means that he is expertly positioned for this new role. I am confident that his appointment will ensure that SWIFT can continue to build on its tradition of excellence and innovation in support of the global financial community, while also enabling the acceleration of its endorsed strategy,” says Swift chairman Yawar Shah in a statement.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line355550"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5043742656707764,"wiki_prob":0.49562573432922363,"text":"The museums in Alabama vary from historical institutions that help modern generations reconnect with the areas rich past to locations that help foster appreciation for the local environment and the natural resources it produces.\nThe Birmingham Civil Rights Institute was created to document and present to the public the long history of the black community's struggle for equality in Birmingham and throughout the South. BCRI's permanent exhibitions allow visitors to take a self-guided journey through the story of blacks and whites in Birmingham. From the period of segregation following WWI through integration in the 50's and on to the landmark the civil rights movement of the 1960's, these exhibits give the public a chance to understand Birmingham's significance in Civil Rights history. The Institute's Education Department facilitates Outreach Presentations for schools and community organizations throughout the greater Birmingham metropolitan area.\nwww.bcri.org\nAnniston Museum of Natural History - (Pell City/Anniston)\nThe seven exhibit halls of the Anniston Museum of Natural History vary from a representation of the African wilderness to artifacts from ancient Egypt to a full-scale replica of an Alabama cave. The museum also features one of the nation's oldest ornithological collections, with more than 400 mounted specimens of North American birds (including some that are now endangered and extinct). The hands-on learning continues with nature trails, a children's discovery room, and art exhibits.\nwww.annistonmuseum.org\nRosa Parks Museum\nBy all standards just an ordinary woman before the morning of December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks's refusal to give her bus seat to a white man became one of the most recognizable and unifying images of the Civil Rights Movement. The Rosa Parks Library and Museum on Troy University's Montgomery campus details the history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement as a whole. The museum also honors the courage of the stand that Rosa Parks took against inequality.\nwww.troy.edu/rosaparks\nMann Wildlife Learning Museum\nA great educational resource for children, the Mann Wildlife Learning Museum gives visitors a unique chance to get up close to a wide variety of preserved North American wildlife. Feel the soft fur of a massive grizzly bear, the soft belt of a fox's back or the rigid antlers of the mighty moose. Each of the animals is shown in recreations of their natural habitat to enhance the experience.\nwww.mannmuseum.com\nGulf Coast Exploreum Science Center\nLocated in downtown Mobile, the Gulf Cost Exploreum is a regional science center designed to educate and entertain children and adults alike. Interactive exhibits teach children many about many core scientific areas such as chemistry, simple mechanics and biology. In addition to the exhibits, the Exploreum also features an amazing IMAX theatre.\nwww.exploreum.net\nThe Rosenbaum House Museum\nAn architectural treasure by the master of modern design, Frank Lloyd Wright, the house was originally built for newlyweds Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in 1939. Wright even designed an addition to the home in 1948 when the family grew to include four sons. The house is the only structure in the entire state of Alabama designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is one of the best examples of Wrights Usonian Style, and is the only Wright-designed house in the southeast that is open to the public.\nwww.wrightinalabama.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line534553"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5252946019172668,"wiki_prob":0.47470539808273315,"text":"Stephen Aryan\nTag Archives: boom studios\nGood Comics – Part 1\nI’ve been reading comics for so long, I sometimes forget how difficult it is, and how intimidating it can be, to walk into a comic shop, or browse in a book shop, or search online, and pick up a comic worth reading. Yes, it’s all subjective and what I think qualifies as a ‘good’ comic, other people might loathe and think is boring and dull. There are other opinions out there, but hey, it’s my website.\nIf you’re interesting in buying any comics, either from this list or anywhere else, please support your local comic shop. The Comic Shop Locator will help you find your nearest, and even if it is too far away to drive or walk, many will deliver comics to you through the post. Please support your local comic shop if at all possible. The website is for comic shops around the world.\nRecommending the Wrong Thing\nThere are now so many comics out there, it can very hard to know where to start. Far too often when I hear that someone wants to get into comics people will point them towards classic superhero titles, the most well known stories which people may have heard about, such as Watchmen, or The Dark Knight Returns, which I think is a terrible idea. Because they’re complex stories, steeped in the genre and the mythology and history of comics, and in the case of DKR it’s steeped in decades of the character’s history. New readers can understand the stories, and they may enjoy them, but I think they will have far less of an emotional impact. Also, and most importantly, why always recommend superheroes?\nComics are a medium not a genre\nSuperheroes are just one genre. Comics are a medium. That’s worth repeating, because sometimes when I mention that I read comics people say, oh like The Beano and The Dandy (which are children’s comics) or comic strips (Garfield, Marmaduke, etc.), or they say like Spider-man. It’s the same as when someone says they read fantasy books and people say oh, you mean like Lord of the Rings, or now, the new touchstone is Game of Thrones. The attitude towards comics is changing, but every time I think we’re moving away from the stereotype of comics being one thing, a stranger comes out with the same old chestnut. Or they insist on saying graphic novel, as if comics are a dirty word and graphic novels are something completely different. Then I wince and realise we’re still decades away from more widespread understanding.\nFor every genre there is a comic book\nIf nothing else, please remember that there is a comic for every single genre you would find in a book shop. Every one, and many that blend genres together too. With all of that preamble out of the way, below is a short list of different comics from a range of genres. I’ve split them into Complete Series (which are finite stories available as several trade paperbacks or hardcover collections in some cases), and Ongoing Series. Also, this is only part one, as there are a lot of great comics available right now, so I will add to this list with other posts in the future.\nSleeper – An espionage story where a man named Holden Carver goes undercover in a dangerous international crime organisation, in an attempt to destroy it from the inside. Several people in the story have powers, but there are no capes and tights. These are dark, sometimes subtle and nasty powers, such as the ability to twist the mind, to confuse, or in Holden’s case, store up pain and then inflict it on others. To be clear, this is very much a crime and espionage comic, not a superhero comic. The main problem for Holden is that the only person who knows he was going deep under cover is now in a coma. All of his former friends and colleagues think he has turned and is now a villain and terrorist. So the story is really about how far can he go, how much can he do, supposedly in the name of good, before he becomes evil? Is he just pretending that he doesn’t enjoy what he does and his new life? And is he just acting or does he really care about some of the people he now works beside every day? A brutal, adult story, full of twists and turns.\nY: The Last Man – One day Yorrick wakes up to find that every other male mammal and human male on the planet has died. This is an epic road trip and adventure story across a transformed modern day America where he, and a small group of friends, try to unravel the mystery, but also survive in this brave new world. All major industry has effectively ended and society has collapsed, and out of the ashes of the old world, new tribes are emerging. New ways of looking at the future and how to remake the world, but of course, everyone has different ideas. Also does it matter who you were in the old world when everything you knew is gone? Who is Yorrick and why was he spared?\nPreacher – This is the story about a man named Jesse Custer and his two friends, Tulip and Cassidy, an Irish vampire. Jesse has lost his faith in God and he wants answers. This is a very violent, very bloody, very wordy, road trip across modern day America. The writer is well known for over the top antics and this is full of extremes, but he doesn’t do it just to be naughty or to show off. Beneath the language and blood, there is a story about faith, friendship, honour, love, doing the right thing and family. During Jesse’s search they get into all sorts of trouble with serial killers, angels, demons, immortal killers and Jesse’s insane and very dangerous family. It’s over the top and wordy, a Tarantino film is probably the easiest shorthand description, but with a lot more substance and heart.\nEx-Machina – Mitchell Hundred is the newly elected Mayor of New York, but once he was a superhero known as The Great Machine. This is in our world, one without superheroes and this is not a superhero comic. It’s a political action story about modern society and trying to do the right thing in a world that is infinitely more complex than it used to be. Mitchell was an ordinary civil servant until something exploded when he was at work on the Hudson river. The device didn’t kill him, and was probably alien in origin, but it did change him. It made him able to speak to and control machines. As the Great Machine, he saved many people, but also realised his inadequacies and the limitations of being a superhero, as it was reactive and done one person at a time. This comic covers a whole host of hot topics from racism, to sexist, art, homophobia, the media, and it also looks at power and how it corrupts.\nSweet Tooth – Most of the world’s population has been wiped out by a terrible disease. No one knows the cause or why it happened. Since then, the only children being born are human animal hybrids, kids with tails, wings, feathers, or in the case of the story’s main character Gus, he has antlers. Gus is raised in seclusion by his very religious father, who has told him how evil and dangerous the world is outside. When Gus’s father succumbs to the disease Gus finds himself thrust into the new world. At the other extreme is Jepperd, a tough old man who seems born to survive in this post apocalyptic world. Jepperd and Gus make an unlikely pair, and what follows is a touching and sometimes harrowing story about living versus surviving. Beautifully drawn and written by Jeff Lemire, the last single issue has been published and the last trade paperback collection is out later this year. So technically it’s all a complete series.\nScalped – A gritty, crime and noir series set on a modern day Native American reservation. After years of living off the reservation, Dashiell Bad Horse comes home. The rez is awash with organised crime, drugs and gambling and Bad Horse has not come back to make friends. Minor spoiler, but it is very early on and critical to the story, he is actually an undercover FBI agent investigating a murder. While the very basic premise may sound slightly similar to Sleeper, this is a very very different comic. Sleeper is espionage and this is a straight crime comic. Bad Horse struggles to cope with the two sides of his life being together in one place, staying loyal to the Bureau, while also getting hip deep in rez politics. At times the rez feels like the wild west, as they have their own laws and operate in a bubble in some ways, and many of the characters and stories are tinged with despair. If you like gritty cop shows, shows like The Wire, where it’s full on but clearly going somewhere and not just for show, I’d recommend this.\nStrangers in Paradise – This is one of my favourite comic book series ever, so I’m bias. However, I will try not to gush too much. This is best described as a slice of life story about an unorthodox love triangle, mixed with some crime aspects, but ultimately it’s a massive sprawling story about life and love. It’s a contemporary story set in the real world, with no magic or super powers, and the story focuses on two girls who meet in high school, one of who harbours a lot of secrets. As the story develops and with flashbacks to their time in school, we learn about Katina’s dark past, Francine’s daily struggles with her weight, finding a job she likes, and dealing with difficult men in her life. David is the third side of the triangle, and he loves Katina, but there again he is keeping secrets and he is far more than just an arty student type. It’s quite a complex story to describe without spoiling, but this is definitely an adult comic, exploring adult themes of sexuality, love, passion, crime, fear, family and pain. There are guns and the occasional murder, a crime syndicate, a plane crash, break-ups and tears, but mostly it is a story about three people. I say people rather than characters, because they are so well developed, both emotionally and physically. I don’t want this to sound like a bleak read, because it isn’t, and all of the dark is balanced with humour and comedy. As I say it is difficult to describe and this can be a bit of a marmite book for some people. Terry Moore wrote and drew the series and no one draws women like him. They look like real people. Fat, thin, tall and short, every character looks realistic. Overall, a remarkable book and it’s why I have a special print from the series on my study wall.\nBon e – Back when self publishing comics was a radical and new idea, long before the internet opened up and digital, print on demand and web comics made it even easier to reach your audience, three men were creating comics. Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Dave Sim (Cerebus) and Jeff Smith, writer and artist of Bone. Like all of them, Bone was originally printed in single issues but is now available in giant collections. This is an all ages comic full of wild, wacky and very inventive ideas, wonderful characters, and adventure. It’s about the journey of three little bald headed, cartoony characters through a fantastical world. It’s light, silly, and a refreshing and fun story. It has won numerous comic book awards and is very highly regarded.\nSaga – An epic space opera with unusual spaceships, magic, bounty hunters, sex planets, giants, sentient planets, dinosaurs, and animal headed aliens. Two lovers, from different sides of a conflict, are tired of war, and trying to get out with their new born baby, who is loathed by many for being a cross-breed. This comic is for adults only due to the language, violence and other adult sexual content. It’s a huge tale that is gradually unfolding, and it is told from a very unique perspective, as the narrator is the child being born at the start of the first issue. The main story follows the girl’s parents as they try to escape and start a new life. A quick touchstone is Lord of the Rings meets Romeo and Juliet, although to me, it’s more like Star Wars meets Romeo and Juliet. The story is clearly influenced by many comics, films and TV from the SFF world and it’s a thrilling, interesting and exciting adventure where you have no idea what is going to happen next and what is around the next corner. There are no limits, each issue ends on a cliffhanger and you care about the main characters. One trade paperback is out now, plus you can get single issues or digital copies.\nChew – This is a story set in the modern world where a bird flu epidemic killed millions of people and this has resulted in the ban on all chicken and chicken like meat. Speak Easy diners sell black market chicken and the enforcement of the ban has resulted in the Food and Drug Administration FDA branch of the Government becoming incredibly powerful. Tony Chu is a cop who has an unusual talent, he is a cibopath, which means he gets psychic impressions of whatever he eats and know their history. So if he eats a burger, he will see the cow being cooked, then ground up, then killed, and so on all the way back to it grazing happily in the field. Everything he eats gives him the same mental imagery, except beets, so he eats them a lot. This is, in the most loose terms, a detective comic, but it is incredibly dark and with lots of black humour. It has lots of weird and wacky characters, as Tony’s ability is not the only one, and all of the other abilities are related to food in some way. Overall this is an incredibly funny comic but it is very odd and I admit, not to everyone’s taste.\nThe Sixth Gun – This is a mix of several genres where the sum is far greater than its parts. It’s a spooky and creepy horror western with supernatural elements, where six guns bestow unnatural powers on the people who wield them. For the longest time they were in the hands of some terrible people, with some fairly unpleasant results (I’m being fairly vague on purpose so I don’t spoil the fun!), but now they’re after the 6th gun and they want to find their leader, General Hume. At the beginning of the story it focuses on several groups trying to track and then retrieve the 6th Gun, which has now fallen into the hands of the heroine Becky. She and Drake Sinclair, a man with an unpleasant past trying to make amends, are thrown together as they try to outsmart and outmanoeuvre the dangerous group of killers on their heels. This story has touches of magic, ghosts, unnatural dark powers, legendary weapons steeped in a dark and twisted history, and bags and bags of fun. It’s bright, colour, explosive and a really great and exciting read. I love westerns, and the supernatural, and this is the perfect blend of the two. It’s not really suitable for kids, despite the style of art, and so far there are four trade paperback collections available. With each chapter the story and the world expands, but there is a resolution, so the writer is not just stringing you along. It’s one of the most unique and interesting comics I’ve read in quite a while.\nSpider-Man – Miles Morales – I’m being careful about the number of superhero comics I put on this list, because the market is dominated by them, also it’s hard to know where to start sometimes when a comic has been going for decades, and as I said, they’re just one genre in the medium. However, if you want to read a Spider-Man comic then I would suggest you start with this one because it is fairly new and you can read it without knowing much about what came before. It is also suitable for younger readers, probably anyone ten and over I would say. I’ve put Miles Morales because this is about a new Spider-man called Miles. He is a modern kid and the story is set today, so he has the internet and a mobile phone and a whole set of new issues to deal with as a child growing up in the 21st century. It’s about a boy who is given great powers and how he copes with the responsibility that comes with them and what he chooses to do. It’s very refreshing as well because there is very little you need to know before picking this up and a quick internet search would fill in any blanks. The story plays with familiar archetypes for those who have read Spider-Man before, so there are lots of nice Easter eggs for us older readers, but you don’t need to know any of that to enjoy the series. A really entertaining, fresh and fun comic about a new hero in the making and the decisions he makes. There are several trade paperback collections available already.\nManhattan Projects – This series is written by Jonathan Hickman, who I think is one of the most interesting writers to have come into the comics industry in the last ten years. He has big ideas. I mean epic. He did a long run on the Fantastic Four that wrapped up last year that was one big story with lots of interlocking pieces. He’s doing the same sort of grand story on The Avengers right now, and he’s talked about in interviews how the idea he pitched was pretty big, and will unfold over several years. He also has a vivid imagination and this comic, and all of his other creator owned comics, demonstrate that fact. The story revolves around the idea that the term ‘Manhattan Project’ was actually an umbrella under which several weird and wonderful scientific experiments were being developed by leading scientists from all over the world. This story includes nasty and dark scientific ideas, touches of sci-fi, aliens and creating portals to other worlds and parallel dimensions, historic figures re-imagined and twisted slightly through a lens. It mixes small touches of fact with a lot of fiction, so at one point we see Einstein working on something that is far beyond what most people would assume. It is one of the most unpredictable comics I read and jammed full of strange ideas. If you like shows like Eureka and Fringe, where lots of different things are jammed together and strange geniuses are walking to the beat of their own drum, then this is for you. I like alternate history stories, or stories that suggest a secret history of the world that most people don’t know about, and this is both of those really. It’s a lot fun and two trade paperback are available.\nAll Star Western – A self explanatory title. It’s focuses on different characters in a western setting, and although technically it is a DC comic, don’t expect any superheroes or people with super powers. There are amusing Easter eggs, such as famous names that will later come to mean something in 200 years time in DC comics continuity, like Arkham, but these are proper, down and dirty, six gun, stories of crime, passion, greed, lust, envy, hatred and bravery. Some of the characters don’t talk about their feelings, they shoot them in the street and move on. They have goals and objectives and the law can only do so much in a country so big, so people turn to those on the edges of the law, bounty hunters and men of action with a conscience. The story focus on Jonah Hex, a scarred and famous bounty hunter and man with iron principles, and the back up stories have other characters. A really solid western comic, and if you enjoy the Hex stories and want more of him, then you can dig out lots of Jonah Hex trade paperbacks.\nMorning Glories – Six very different and exemplary students are chosen to attend the prestigious Morning Glories academy. They’re known for being excellent and all are delighted by this opportunity, until on the first day one of the teachers tries to drown everyone. This story is a giant mystery and a huge puzzle box that is slowly being unravelled. I’m delighted to say the writer knows how it ends and where the story is going. He is not doing a Lost, and has explicitly said this in interviews. None of the students remember how they arrived at the school as they were unconscious, so no one knows where it is. After several attempts on their lives, often at the hands of teachers but sometimes other students, they begin to realise they’re being tested and challenged for some greater purpose. The story involves ghostly apparitions, time travel (maybe), conspiracies, cults, and a whole host of other elements I won’t spoil. If you like mysteries, and complex intriguing stories, if you like TV shows like The Prisoner, with people trapped and having their strings pulled, then I would definitely recommend Morning Glories. Three trade paperbacks are currently available. Definitely an adult story for adult readers, despite having teen protagonists.\nElephantmen – In a distant future, a twisted and deranged scientist, working for a powerful corporation, created some human / animal hybrids using African animals. These bulky and incredibly dangerous children are trained from birth to be soldiers and brutal killers, denied freedom of thought and essentially brainwashed into believing they are unkillable machines. When the UN discovers what has been going on the programme is shut down, but not before the Elephantmen inflict heavily casualties. They are released, given independence and they try to live normal lives. Some of them are loathed, some become celebrities, some powerful businessmen, some just want to disappear and some can’t shake off their past and they become dangerous criminals and rulers of the underworld. This comic has a real Blade Runner vibe to it, as when you look at the art there is a lot of dark shadows, bright neon lights and signs, and a blending of many modern and historic elements to create a future that is a mix of many cultures. The story focuses on different characters, including Hip Flask, a hippo hybrid who is a private eye, Ebenezer Hide, who is an Elephantman, who works with Hip from time to time, and Obadiah Horn a rhino hybrid who is now a successful businessman. The artwork in this book is simply amazing, gorgeous painted covers by Ladronne, and the colours are so important. The stories are a mix of genres, but ultimately about these unusual and rather remarkable outsiders who are trying to find a place in the world. An incredible and unique comic book. Five big trades are currently available.\nWell done if you’ve made it this far. This post turned out to be much longer than anticipated. I’m going to do this again at some point, but if you would like me to recommend comics from a particular genre, then let me know in the comments section.\nFiled under Comics\nTagged as boom studios, comic shop locator, comics, dark horse comics, dynamite entertainment, genre, image comics, independent comics, local comic shop, medium, oni press, top shelf comix, vertigo comics, wildstorm comics\nStephen Aryan ·","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line397383"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7138615846633911,"wiki_prob":0.7138615846633911,"text":"Five star cruise ship puts in at Nha Trang\n(Oct 17, 2010) The Diamond Princess cruise ship, carrying 2,500 international tourists from 47 countries and territories, anchored at Nha Trang Bay in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on October 14.\nFestival of Asian Children’s Art held in Hanoi\n(Oct 14, 2010) The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in Japan opened the Mitsubishi Asian Children’s Enikki Festa 2010-2011 in Hanoi on October 13.\nGerman, Vietnamese artists exhibition in Hanoi\n(Oct 14, 2010) An art exhibition called “Deutschland shop – Vietnam branch” by a group of German and Vietnamese artists opened at Goethe Institute, Hanoi on October 12.\nExhibition named “Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – the 1000-year history from the earth’s entrails”\n(Oct 13, 2010) On October 2, the opening ceremony of the exhibition on typical vestiges of Thang Long – Hanoi with the theme “Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – the 1000-year history from the earth’s entrails” was held in Central Sector of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi. This is the first time the vestiges of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi has been displayed and introduced to Vietnamese people and international visitors.\nNha Trang to host international yacht race again\n(Oct 13, 2010) The central coastal city of Nha Trang will host the fourth VinaCapital Hong Kong-Vietnam International Yacht Race from October 20-24. The race is expected to draw more than 200 contestants from Hong Kong , Singapore , the Philippines , Australia , New Zealand and several European and American nations.\nHanoi to host Japanese language festival\n(Oct 12, 2010) The Japan Foundation for Cultural Exchanges in Vietnam and the Vietnam-Japan Human Resources Corporation Centre (VJCC) will hold a Japanese language festival in Hanoi on October 17.\nVisa fee exemption takes effect\n(Oct 12, 2010) The visa fee exemption policy took effect on October 10 after the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) had issued guidelines on the policy over weekend.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1445206"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6836574077606201,"wiki_prob":0.3163425922393799,"text":"Richard Long is a preeminent pioneer of walking as art, beginning with his seminal piece A Line Made by Walking, 1967. This work was considered – and is still considered, nearly 50 years later – a key moment in the development of a number of new art movements still flourishing today, including conceptual art, land and environmental art, performance art, the blurring of boundaries between different practices, and the idea that art does not need to be limited solely to the production of an art object.\nhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Long_-_A_Line_Made_By_Walking_(1967).jpg\nIn, this simple line of flattened turf, made by his walking backwards and forwards in a field, Richard Long is saying that sculpture can be an act of walking, and that art can be ephemeral, performative – not necessarily able to be bought or sold or viewed in a gallery. All that remains is the now famous photograph that he took at the time, through which we can share the original experience of his walk in our own imaginations: the experience of being fully connected to the natural world around us through the natural and repetitive movement of the body.\nStill highly influential today, Richard Long has made epic walks in many of the world’s remotest regions, as well as close to home – often marking the landscapes of his journeys through archetypal geometric patterns (circles, spirals, lines…) either through his own movement or through making sculpture with the stone and natural materials to hand. These large outdoor sculptural works are short-lived – working always with deep respect for nature, Long will dismantle the pieces after he has documented them with photography.\nHe also makes work for gallery viewing – his photographs, text works, maps and other forms of presentation bring us vivid impressions of his human experience during the walks, and his floor-based stone pieces and mud works made directly on the gallery walls give an immediate physical sense of the land through which he has travelled.\nI wrote before on this blog about Richard Long – at the time of his wonderful Heaven and Earth exhibition at Tate Modern, London, 2009. Here is a glowing account of the exhibition, with which I completely agree, but could never say so well! Jonathan Jones – Heaven and Earth\nAnd I was surprised to find my views haven’t changed very much since 2009, so rather than repeat what I have already said – please read my earlier post if you would like to.\n‘One thing leads to another: everything is connected’. Made for\nArt on the Underground, in London. 60,000 copies were given away to customers on the Jubilee Line in June 2009.\nRichard Long seems to be ‘flavour of the month’ here in Devon, much to my pleasure – for I have seen three separate exhibitions here recently, where his work has been featured.\nDetached and Timeless, at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter, was a superb exhibition of significant British artists from across the last 60 years, whose work has been inspired by nature and spirit of place. Unfortunately here, I felt Long’s small stone floor piece suffered somewhat from being squeezed up against a dividing wall, making it difficult for me to get a sense of its geometry in relation to the space. But it was right it should be there, representing his contribution to contemporary land-related art, and there were many other fascinating and inspiring works on show to catch my attention! The exhibition closed on Nov 2nd, but there is a little info on the RAMM website, under ‘What’s On/ past exhibitions’.\nIn Plymouth, I visited Walk On (40 years of Art Walking – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff), a wide-ranging and very interesting exhibition, which was promoted as ‘… the first exhibition to examine the astonishingly varied ways that artists, from the 1960’s onwards, have undertaken a seemingly universal act – that of taking a walk – as a means to create new types of art’.\nThe part of the exhibition held in Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery was my favourite. This was partly perhaps because of its emphasis on landscape and nature, with important works from Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, and a number of other distinguished figures such as Alec Finlay, Chris Drury, Julian Opie… But it was also because of the strength of the exhibition presentation itself, with two of Long’s stone circles rightly, I believe, taking a pivotal place in the centre of the floor, holding the exhibition together and setting it into context. The circles reflected his lifelong connection with Southwest England. Other smaller wall-based works of his represented significant moment during the course of his career. For me, there is often something timeless, almost Zen-like in the disciplined simplicity and repetitive nature of Long’s processes. The works are full of movement, and a sense of his own mental and bodily movements – and at the same time they carry a pervading sense of absolute stillness beneath the movement.\nThe ‘Walk-On’ exhibition is open until Dec.13th and well worth seeing if possible, for all the other artists too, that I haven’t been able to mention here.\nHere’s a recent short film from Lisson Gallery, London: Richard Long at Frieze Masters.\nThe third exhibition I have seen recently in Devon, is: Artist Rooms: Richard Long, at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford. I approached it with some trepidation, for somehow I had got it into my head that the space was going to be too small, too dark and too cluttered… I could not have been more wrong, for as I pushed open the door to the first room, my eye, and indeed my footsteps, were drawn as if by a magnet to the central stone sculpture Cornish Slate Ellipse, 2009 (which Richard Long had personally reassembled in the gallery).\nAs I walked very slowly around the ellipse, one of my favourite quotations (from Isamu Noguchi) flitted through my head: ‘Stone is the visible history of time, feeding us through a calm and radiant presence’. I breathed in the strong physicality of the stone, and the clear, clean spaciousness of the surrounding gallery. The two were in perfect balance. (Though, on a second visit, I found the balance was somewhat disturbed by the intrusion of a large donations receptacle into a prominent position in the space. This put an interesting new reading on the entire exhibition!)\nHowever… continuing my earlier walk around the ellipse, a relaxed sense of being out in the open landscape slowly grew in me. I sat to look at the work more closely. Its simple geometric form allowed my mind to wander free.\nI admired the machine-cut precision of the stone pieces, set against the occasional glimpses of natural mineral veins and stains within the stone itself. And in the massed tightly-packed arrangement of the pieces within the ellipse, I began to see patterns, curves and alignments – drawing me to contemplate the never-ending movement of life – and a felt sense of geological time.\nThere was a second stone piece, of Delabole slate: Spring Circle 1992, in the second room of the gallery – both sculptures acting as reference points for exploring the surrounding display of photographs, text works, lithographic prints and a small book of mud-dipped pages.\nIt was very nice to view these small-scale wall-based works at close-hand and so clearly and logically presented in the comfortable rooms of the Burton Gallery. Quite a few of them were made in our region, the Southwest: River Avon Mud Drawings: ten mud-dipped papers, 1988, for instance, or the purely textual piece: Three Moors, Three Circles, 1982, representing walks made on Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor.\nAll of them, I believe, were made in the British Isles, covering a range of different types of work and key moments during Long’s career. All of them convey a strong sense of his moment by moment relationship with the land through which he passes. And in the images where he has worked directly with earth material on paper, we can see his relaxed mastery of his medium.\nIn this second room, the first work I viewed was the renowned A Line Made by Walking, 1967 … and the final one was In the Cloud 1991: a fairly large framed text piece of an eight day walk across Scotland… ‘Coast to Coast West to East 1991.’ Chronologically, this led me straight back to the Delabole circle, then back out through the first gallery and the Cornish slate ellipse.\nHere’s a video of another exhibition, that includes what I think is an earlier iteration of Cornish Slate Ellipse.\nI vaguely remember reading somewhere that Richard Long’s practice (long solitary walks, often in remote parts of the world, focusing on nature and getting away from human contact) is a sort of romantic escapist fiction, as opposed to the reality of social interaction. I would say it is the exact opposite – that our deepest reality lies in our being part of this planet. The fiction can be seen in the games and manoeuverings of our dominant culture. Richard Long is an explorer, and very much involves himself in bringing his work back to galleries around the world, for us to consider and enjoy.\nThe exhibition, at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, continues until 10th Jan 2015, so there is still lots of time to see it!\nFor finding out more about Richard Long – here are a few good links among the many:\nRICHARD LONG OFFICIAL WEBSITE – www.richardlong.org\nHe states: “Art about mobility, lightness and freedom.\nSimple creative acts of walking and marking\nabout place, locality, time, distance and measurement”.\nLisson Gallery – http://www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-long\nTATE: A Line in the Himalayas\nRichard Long Exhibition (Heaven and Earth) – http://wp.me/p4mYE-ug\nWikipedia has a very good overview of Richard Long’s career, with quotations from the artist himself.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line196603"}
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The band consists of formally trained musicians active in the Nashville area, vocalist Nikki Elias, bassist Tyler Enslow, Drummer Jed Smith, Keyboardist Jeff Goodkind, and saxophonist DeVante' Buford. Regulars in... (more)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1261601"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5459604263305664,"wiki_prob":0.4540395736694336,"text":"Peak Potential\nExplore Energy Efficiency\nTrane partners with building owners and operators to create exceptional energy efficiency buildings – and maximum return on investment.\nMore energy-efficient buildings benefit everyone, from those who own and operate them, to those who live and work in them. Worldwide, the process of monitoring, controlling and conserving a building’s energy consumption is evolving quickly and becoming more complex. Building owners and operators may be hesitant about the best ways to do it all.\nTrane cuts through the complexity to guide customers through the energy management process. We partner with them to achieve even the most ambitious energy efficiency goals for their buildings, at minimal operating costs.\nThis means exploring their building’s mission and defining its energy initiatives with them. Then we link those initiatives, in priority order, to the customers’ strategic and financial goals.\nTrane then combines a wide range of systems and services to give customers unified business and technical solutions. And finally, using our unparalleled expertise and offerings, we work with our customers to track results and ensure their mission is achieved — now, and throughout the lifecycle of their energy efficient buildings.\nBaxter Manufacturing Facility in Sabiñanigo Significantly Lowers Energy Use and Improves Comfort\nTrane and global, diversified healthcare company, Baxter, made energy-saving infrastructure upgrades within Baxter’s Spanish manufacturing facility that are expected to reduce energy use an average of 35 percent per year. The energy-efficient systems and solutions have also helped the plant to cut its annual carbon emissions by approximately 450,000 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2), or the equivalent of planting 2,260 trees each year. The upgraded cooling and air conditioning system features three new Trane RTAD chillers, variable frequency drives and static and dynamic hydronic balancing, a dry cooler, heat exchangers and other energy efficient solutions.\nTrane Presents Leading Safety Razor Manufacturer with Energy Efficiency Leader Award\nGillette and Trane completed energy saving infrastructure upgrades at the Gillette razor manufacturing, packaging and warehousing facility in Łódź, Poland, that significantly reduced energy use and increased uptime and reliability at the facility. The improvements also provide a safer, more comfortable and more productive environment for workers at the facility. In addition to the main systems upgrades, other efficiency improvements included implementation of variable flow drives and dry coolers for optimal performance. Upgrades also included extension of the free-cooling feature, which enables the ambient cold to be used for the cooling process, limiting the need to operate in compressor mode and reducing energy use.\nUpgrades at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School Cut Energy Consumption by More Than 50 Percent\nTrane made energy-efficient infrastructure upgrades at Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass.- USA, that have reduced energy consumption by more than 50 percent, while improving the learning and teaching environment. An ongoing service and maintenance program helps ensure that all systems continue to run at optimum levels. Old Colony implemented a building automation system which provides centralized building control and enables remote access while monitoring results to help ensure that systems continue to run at optimum levels. Other upgrades included installing 18 rooftop units to increase efficiency and 54 variable air volume air handling systems which provide precise temperature control within specific zones.\nOther About Us","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line653474"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9740694761276245,"wiki_prob":0.9740694761276245,"text":"Ring News 24Boxing News Breaking Boxing NewsJaime Munguia retains WBO junior middleweight title with points win over Liam Smith in Las Vegas\nJaime Munguia retains WBO junior middleweight title with points win over Liam Smith in Las Vegas\nAnthony Cocks\nAustralian-based boxing journalist Anthony Cocks has been covering the sport for over 15 years for various print and online publications. He refuses to believe that Roberto Duran ever lost to Tommy Hearns and says that Jeff Fenech would destroy Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee and Muhammad Ali on the same night.\nFollow Anthony Cocks on: Twitter |\tFacebook\nWBO junior middleweight champion Jaime Munguia 30-0 (25) overcame a spirited effort from mandatory challenger Liam “Beefy” Smith 26-2-1 (14) to retain his title over 12 rounds at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday night.\nIn his first defence of the title he won from Sadam Ali 26-2 (14) in May this year, the 21-year-old Mexican had to withstand an early attack from England’s Smith before taking over in the fourth round and landing the harder shots for most of the fight.\nBy the time the dust settled, Munguia was awarded the victory by scores of 116-111, 119-110 and 119-108.\n“It was a tough fight and he’s a tough fighter,” said Munguia, who has only been past the sixth round once when Johnny Navarrete 31-13-2 (13) took him 10 rounds in April last year.\nIn the sixth round a sizzling left hook from Munguia dropped the 8-1 underdog, but the champion was unable to finish the job.\nThe fight ended Munguia’s six-bout knockout streak going back a year.\n“I feel good. I’m happy. I think that the people liked it,” said Munguia. “I didn’t win by knockout like I always. This is the fifth decision win of my career. But I fought a good opponent who was strong. I came in very well prepared.\n“There are no excuses and we will keep learning because this gave me a lot of experience. I’m only 21 years old and I will keep working in the gym. Liam Smith is a warrior. He is strong. There were times where I really landed punches, which really backed him up. He’s very strong and can take a punch, so I have no excuses.\n“I was always looking for the knockout. I always looked for the fight, and I went in there like a true Mexican. I think going these 12 rounds will serve me as experience.”\nSmith was originally set to face Miguel Cotto-conqueror Ali for the championship in May but was forced to withdraw after a skin condition caused by an allergy prevented him from training. This opened the door for the little-known Munguia to step in and win the WBO world title.\nDespite the wide scorecards, Smith put up a good fight and was far from disgraced.\n“I don’t think he’s a much better fighter than me,” said Smith. “It was the body shots that hurt me. I wanted the title I lost two years ago.\n“I want to stay more active than before. I’m usually known for my fitness, but was I winded in this fight. I felt my skill level made the difference in certain parts.”\nUndisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk calls out Tony Bellew after victory over Murat Gassiev in WBSS final\nTony Bellew accepts challenge from undisputed cruiserweight champ Oleksandr Usyk\nRead more articles about: Jaime Munguia, Liam Smith, Miguel Cotto, Sadam Ali","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1526538"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5452681183815002,"wiki_prob":0.45473188161849976,"text":"Wild Animals in Circuses Bill\nPolicy background\n3 The Bill takes forward the UK Government's policy in relation to the use of wild animals in travelling circuses as set out in the Written Ministerial Statements on 1 March 1 and 12 July 2012 2 . The Government stated that it intended to pursue a ban on ethical grounds on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses in England. In the absence of any compelling scientific evidence that a ban could be justified on welfare grounds, such a ban would require primary legislation. Because primary legislation would take time, as an interim measure, the Government would introduce a licensing scheme using powers available under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. The Welfare of Wild Animals in Travelling Circuses (England) Regulations 2012 came into force on 20 January 2013. Only two travelling circuses have been licensed under the 2012 Regulations to use wild animal acts.\n4 In April 2013, the Government published a draft Wild Animals in Circuses Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny. The draft Bill was considered by the House of Commons' Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee who published their report in July 2013. The Government responded in October 2013. The Government did not accept the main select committee recommendation that the ban should only apply to some wild animals, rather than all wild animals. Since the Government response, no parliamentary time has been found to introduce the Bill. Several attempts to introduce the Bill by backbench means have also been unsuccessful.\n1 Hansard 1 March 2012 Column 41 WS\n2 Hansard 12 July 2012 Column 43 WS\nWhat these notes do\nOverview of the Bill\nLegal background\nTerritorial extent and application\nCommentary on provisions of Bill\nFinancial implications of the Bill\nParliamentary approval for financial costs or for charges imposed\nCompatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights\nAnnex A - Territorial extent and application in the United Kingdom\nPrepared 8th March 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1595969"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8277153968811035,"wiki_prob":0.8277153968811035,"text":"Using anthropology, data and design thinking to disrupt development consulting\nPublished Thu, May 11 2017 8:09 PM EDT Updated Fri, May 12 2017 9:43 PM EDT\nNyshka Chandran@nyshkac\nIn sunny Singapore, one start-up is disrupting the world of development consulting.\nThe field, in which companies advise public and private sector players on projects related to economic development, traditionally uses a top-down strategy. Zeroth Labs, however, takes that a step further with an adaptive approach to problem solving and constant experimentation.\nThe two-and-a-half year old consultancy applies behavioral insights to urbanization challenges in order to create new services and business models within emerging economies, and it's beginning to make waves.\n\"In the dominant business model of development consulting, you create great strategy based on great information and analysis, and expect that to work on the ground. But things aren't always as linear we'd like it to be,\" said Zeroth co-founder Bernise Ang, who was recently named a young global leader of the World Economic Forum.\nOne of Zeroth's projects: A prototype of a service center in Gazipur City, Bangladesh.\nUNDP - Zeroth Labs - Tandemic\nDevelopment professionals need to formulate hypotheses, create a small-scale prototype, test it, and pay attention to what the data says you need to do next, said Ang, who boasts a finance and psychology background. \"It's not as sexy because it now places the client as the expert instead of the consultant. Still, this is what I think will truly build the capability for developing countries to make life better for citizens. \"\nIn 2014, Zeroth worked on a United Nations project designed to improve Bangladesh's social services that saw municipal officials in the city of Gazipur generate concepts for how they believed services should operate from a user perspective.\nThe end product was a new range of services that supported the blind, was more sensitive to women with children and culturally relevant for female slum dwellers. \"An interesting prototype that emerged was an app for municipal payments and services — not because it's techy, but because of cash and corruption issues surfaced by the mayor's office staff,\" said Ang.\nIn international development, where the interaction of public, private and civil society players is key, understanding human behavioral patterns is crucial to creating sustainable solutions to real-life problems. Organisations such as the Brookings Institution have long advocated the importance of behavioral science in economic development.\nWomen in Gazipur City working on the Bangladesh social services project.\n\"Many mainstream management consulting firms don't have a significant anthropology practice where they conduct their own ethnographic research as it's more time and cost intensive, but it's a key way to uncover the kind of deep behavioral insights we find,\" stated Ang.\nZeroth, a spin-off from Ang's previous non-profit Syinc, deploys a careful blend of anthropology, data analysis, design thinking, and lean startup methodology across a range of social issues, including sanitation, waste management, youth, education, and healthcare. The key lies in the ability to pull these different ideas together, noted Ang, deploying her music training as a metaphor.\n\"I used to play jazz trumpet, and a lot of amazing jazz solos come about from playing metaphorical Lego with other pieces but in new, combinatorial ways. Everything is a remix.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line290307"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.802653968334198,"wiki_prob":0.802653968334198,"text":"By Akon Eddy, Kaduna\nSenator representing Kaduna Central, Senator Shehu Sani has said he will dedicate a quarter of his salary to over 100 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), from Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states who flee their homes due to insurgency activities who are now taking refuge in Kaduna. He said he will also dedicate the period which he will serve in the Upper Chambers to see that the children have their dreams realized.\nSenator Shehu Sani made the declaration during a visit to the IDPs’ camp in Badarawa, Kaduna North Local Government area of the state on Sunday.\nThe senator why personally distributing honey and bottles of Yoghurts to the IDPs, hinted that he got the news that there was a substantial number of IDPs in Kaduna, and as a senator representing the State, it’s obligatory of him to intervene.\n“I got the news that we have substantial number of IDPs here in Kaduna. And as a Senator representing this very city, it is incumbent of me to intervene; and the intervention should be in such a way that I have decided to rent a house for them and also dedicate a quarter of my salary for the IDPs’ upkeep, education of their children, and for general support for all them in Badarawa.\n“These people are Nigerians, they’re part of us and we’re morally bound to support and help them. I will dedicate the period which I will serve in office to see these children have a future and their dreams realized.\n“I believe Nigeria has enough to support these people yo get their lives back. I’m here to offer moral and financial support not just for a day or two but to continue to support them so that the women among them can have their lives back. And the children can also have their future.\n“These women have lost their husbands and children. They’re widows and orphans and there’s nothing we can do that’s enough to get them out of where they find themselves. I’m pained by the continuous situation of the IDPs.\n“I’m very much disturbed that these persons are victims of insurgency that continue to threatened our peace, lives and freedom. The plight of these IDPs is a moral burden on all Nigerians. As long as they continue to remain in this position, we are morally at guilt to support them and also free them from the situation they find themselves,”he said.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1065668"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8866438865661621,"wiki_prob":0.8866438865661621,"text":"Themes from the Vernacular\nThis evening, I turned on the CD player and put in a CD full of \"American Music.\" I compiled the CD myself to celebrate the fourth of July last year, and interestingly, there are several pieces by non-american composers that appear on the CD. Among these are Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 \"From the New World.\"\nIt's a work we often group into the \"Americana\" genre, as the nation of cowboys and colonials inspired the great work. Infused throughout the work are many original themes that Dvorak wrote based on Native American and African American melodies he encountered in the US. The native Bohemian wrote the work in 1892 during his stint as head of the National Conservatory in New York.\nThe second movement of Dvorak's symphony is particularly well-known for its beautiful melody which was later popularized as a spiritual (Goin' Home). It's interesting to think that Dvorak was attempting to write themes in the vain of spirituals, and that his original theme was later turned into a spiritual and became widely popular. He obviously paid attention to what he was hearing around the country.\nMany composers have drawn on folk songs and themes from the vernacular in their music. However, not many have been able to create an original work which was later adopted as part of that vernacular. It seems backwards, but in fact it shows the care and respect that Dvorak had for this music. It is entirely possible to believe (if you don't know the history behind the work) that Dvorak's tune was in fact a spiritual that he borrowed - it fits all the criteria. Although there is some speculation about this possibility, it's highly unlikely that Dvorak's tune existed before his pencil hit the paper.\nHere's a video of Dvorak's wonderful second movement from Symphony No. 9 \"From the New World.\" Enjoy!\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYl4Xb4cDQ8&hl=en_US&fs=1&\nTagged: American music, Dvorak, folk music, New World Symphony, symphony no- 9 dvorak","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line964941"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6298905611038208,"wiki_prob":0.6298905611038208,"text":"Home » Struggle: A Documentary Film About a Brilliant and Forgotten Artist\nDecember 13, 2018 by Rebecca Forstadt-Olkowski 8 Comments\nIn 2013, I wrote a blog post about a genius artist and sculptor I knew in the early 1980s. His name was Stanislav Szukalski. My post apparently popped up on Google and I was asked to do an interview for an upcoming documentary film about his life called “Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski.” Two of the producers are George and Leonardo DiCaprio who also knew Mr. Szukalski during that time.\nThe Lobby card for Struggle at LACMA – c/o Netflix\nHappily, I didn’t end up on the cutting room floor and appear in a quick sequence. After four years in the making, I was invited to a screening of the completed documentary at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)\nStanislav Szukalski – Genius artist and Sculptor\nMr. Szukalski, or Stash, as he liked to be called was born in 1893 in a small town in Poland. He began to draw and sculpt as a child and had his first art exhibition at age 14. His family immigrated to Chicago when he was in his teens and at age 13, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. A year later he had his first art exhibition. It drew the attention of Sculptor Antoni Popiel who encouraged his parents to send him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.\nThe students being considered for the Academy were asked to draw from a nude model. Szukalski drew only the knee of the model, but it was so compelling, it immediately earned him a place at the school without having to take an examination.\nBeing the mad genius that he was, he had his own opinions about art education and after attending for a short time, hurled an insult at the Academy. Szukalski left abruptly and went back to Chicago.\nHe became entrenched in the Chicago arts scene where he met and became friends with Ben Hecht. Hecht later became a well-known screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.\nDuring the 1920s, Szukalski was becoming a rising young artist and had several important exhibitions. He worked in a grandiose and exaggerated style that incorporated meticulous detail and symbolism. It’s hard to explain what his art was like but Culture.PL describes it this way:\n“It merged the decorative flourishes of Romanticism, and multiple currents of early 20th century European Modernism, Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, as well as Pre-Columbian art.”\nLet’s just say it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen in your lifetime.\nPolivarus by Stanislav Szukalski\nHis reputation continues to grow\nAs he grew more popular, he showed his work at exhibitions in Europe and enjoyed his notoriety. He and his wife Joan returned to Poland on a commission in 1936, and they brought all his work with them. While they were there, he completed several large sculptures and other projects. News of his work spread to Germany, and he was asked to provide a caricature of Hitler who hadn’t yet emerged as a tyrant. Szukalski depicted Hitler as a ballerina, which, of course, didn’t go over well.\nThey were living in Warsaw when it was attacked by the Luftwaffe. His studio was destroyed along with most of his work. A few pieces were looted and found decades later.\nStruggle – This sculpture was recovered years after the destruction of Warsaw in WWII and was restored. It was displayed in the lobby of the Bing Theater at LACMA during our screening.\nSzukalski and his wife escaped returning to America ending up in Los Angeles. With his work destroyed and as a virtual unknown in America he ended up doing background art on several films through his association with Ben Hecht and worked at Rocketdyne creating engineering designs.\nEcho – sculpture by Stanislav Szukalski – seen in his book “Behold!!! The Protong\nMy association with the artist\nWhen I met Mr. Szukalski, he was 90-years old and was a friend of my Polish acting teacher Leonidas Ossetynski. We visited him several times at his small apartment in Burbank. Coincidentally, I now live in the same apartment complex. I always enjoyed our visits because he was so interesting to talk to. He was also a horny little bastard and often tried to cop a feel even though he was 90 at the time. I didn’t mind, though, because he was funny and we always had a great time. My late husband was asked to take photos of his work. The slides are buried somewhere in a box that I need to find and dig out.\nStanislav Szukalski (2nd from right) next to me (far right) in the early 80s at Stages Theatre in Hollywood when he was 90 years old. I was starring in a play there at the time.\nWith brilliance comes some eccentricity\nLate in his life, he developed a theory that all human culture was derived on Easter Island after Noah landed there after the flood. I know it sounds nuts but he had the kind of imagination that produces amazing art. He had also developed his own alphabet as a child which he used in his letters and his writings. I have an autographed copy of one of his books signed with his unique scribble.\nThe unique handwriting of Stanislav Szukalski – He autographed his book for my husband and me in 1982\nHe died from a stroke in 1987 at the age of 93 and his ashes were taken to Easter Island by his friend Glenn Bray, his wife and some friends. Bray is a comic book aficionado who developed a close relationship with Szukalski. He became the executor of Szukalski’s will and inherited his collection. He has a prominent role in the Struggle documentary film as well as George DiCaprio. Several others, including myself, are featured in interviews.\nA forgotten artist gets his due recognition\nGeorge DiCaprio became friends with Mr. Szukalski during the 1970s. He often brought his son Leonardo along when he visited. Leonardo also became a fan of his work and hosted an exhibition in Laguna Beach during the early 2000s.\nAtlantea – sculpture by Stanislav Szukalski on display in the lobby of the Bing Theater at LACMA\nStruggle was screened at a film festival in Amsterdam and our viewing at LACMA was the first official presentation of it in the United States. It’s being distributed by Netflix and I’m hoping it will have a wide release.\nI recently saw the film At Eternity’s Gate about the life of Van Gogh. As we all know, he was an artist who didn’t receive the recognition he deserved until after his death. Mr. Szukalski’s skill set is on the level of Michelangelo or Da Vinci, and I’m not exaggerating. I’m hoping he enjoys the same respect someday.\nAn unpleasant surprise\nIn the course of filming, the production team discovered some alarming aspects of Szukalski’s life. It came to light that he had extreme anti-Semitic leanings during his earlier years. It was typical of the mindset of Poles at the time. I met several with similar views through my Polish acting teacher. After the destruction of Warsaw during WWII, and time spent as a citizen of the U.S., he changed his way of thinking dramatically. In his later years, he became more interested in humanity coming together as one.\nStruggle is available on Netflix\nThe documentary is timely in that Szukalski’s work fully and explicitly encompasses the violence and terror of nationalism and its potentially tragic results.\nGlenn Bray ingeniously filmed hours of Betamax tape of Szukalski near the end of his life that was used in the film. The vignettes are both comical and dramatic. It’s a treasure of a film and I’m so proud to have been a part of it. I hope you get a chance to see it.\nView the film’s official homepage and trailer here.\nFiled Under: Entertainment, Movies Tagged With: Art, celebrities, film\nWow. He sounds like quite the historical figure. A lot of us Poles can be a bit eccentric but creative. And making it from the 1800s to 1980s was pretty impressive. Its cool you got to meet him. My grandmother once met Mussolini when he came by her village in Slovenia. She wasn’t political so she was just like “Someone’s coming to the village? Better be a good host”. As for his anti-Semitic views of his past, people do change over their lives. On one Springer episode was this Klansman dad who in a later episode, returned after a black guy saved his life and wanted to help his family overcome their racial issues. None of us are the exact same person we were decades ago. If I get the chance I should check this movie out.\nRebecca Forstadt-Olkowski says\nThanks, Chris. It hasn’t officially been released yet but should be soon. It was a privilege to meet him and to work on the film. Interesting about your grandmother meeting Mussolini. You just never know about people. LOL\nHaralee says\nWow, fascinating. How very cool back in the day your paths crossed then and now again!\nYou never know when someone you meet will be a significant event. That’s for sure, Haralee.\nTom P. says\nHi, do you know if struggle is still at LACMA if so, how long will it he there?\nHi Tom, It was only there for the one night as a preview. It is being distributed by Netflix and I’m not sure when it will officially open. I’m hoping it will be soon.\nTom P says\nI was referring to the actual art piece 😁. That must have really been a very special project to have been a part of!\nI’m not sure about the actual piece. I believe it belongs to Glenn Bray and he would know.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line57799"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6062341332435608,"wiki_prob":0.3937658667564392,"text":"A little bit about us...\nGroup picture from a Denver Weekend, taken near our trees\nOur club was founded on January 10th, 1981, after we had gotten the approval to do so from John and his office in late December 1980 - today we are the only official John Denver club in Germany. At this point of time, it has about 500 members in Germany, but also in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Italy, Great Britain, Australia and the USA.\nMain reason for founding the club all those years ago was to create a possibility for interested fans to be able to always get the newest information about John Denver's concerts, CDs, television appearances etc. Now, after John's fatal accident on October 12, 1997, of course some things have to be changed. Nevertheless, we have decided to go on in any case, and so to help that his music as well as his commitment for a better world won't be forgotten, respectively kept going.Until 2010, we published a printed newsletter. The last one came out in early 2011, on the occasion of our 30th anniversary. We have now completely switched to email newsletters. You can register to receive this information here. Of course we also - as far as possible - are happy to answer each question about John, his music etc..\nOur club is a member of the \"World Family Of John Denver Fan Clubs\". That means we are regularly in touch with the other John Denver clubs all over the world - a wonderful opportunity to exchange infos, opinions and also to make new friends.\nWe will also keep alive a \"tradition\" of the club - once a year, we organize a \"Denver Weekend\", a club meeting. It is meant for everybody as a chance to get to know each other, chat, sing, watch videos... The proceeds go to a worthy cause, this year for example we have been supporting the Wild Bird Care Center Kirchwald. 1992, 1997 and 2002, we even made the joint effort, along with the other three clubs in Europe, to have an \"European John Denver Weekend\"...\nIn the years since the club was founded, we have, among others, supported the following organizations:\nMenschen für Menschen\nDeutsche Leukämie-Hilfe\nDolphin Aid\nWindstar Land Conservancy and the John Denver Meadowlands\nPlant-It 2000\nWildvogel-Pflegestation Kirchwald e.V.\nIn case you would like to join us, just register for the newsletter!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line902979"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6697143316268921,"wiki_prob":0.3302856683731079,"text":"Cooperative agreements authorized between council and federal officials and agencies\n• rules\n• powers of Governor\n• exception for inactive or abandoned site\n(1) Notwithstanding the authority of the Oregon Health Authority pursuant to ORS 453.605 (Definitions for ORS 453.605 to 453.800) to 453.800 (X-ray Machine Inspection Account) to regulate radiation sources or the requirements of ORS 469.525 (Radioactive waste disposal facilities prohibited), the Energy Facility Siting Council may enter into and carry out cooperative agreements with the Secretary of Energy pursuant to Title I and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission pursuant to Title II of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Public Law 95-604, and perform or cause to be performed any and all acts necessary to be performed by the state, including the acquisition by condemnation or otherwise, retention and disposition of land or interests therein, in order to implement that Act and rules, standards and guidelines adopted pursuant thereto. The Energy Facility Siting Council may adopt, amend or repeal rules in accordance with ORS chapter 183 and may receive and disburse funds in connection with the implementation and administration of this section.\n(2) The Energy Facility Siting Council and the State Department of Energy may enter into and carry out cooperative agreements and arrangements with any agency of the federal government implementing the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. section 9601 et seq., to clean up wastes and contaminated material, including overburden, created by uranium mining before June 29, 1989. Any such project need not obtain a site certificate from the council, but shall nevertheless comply with all applicable, relevant or appropriate state standards including but not limited to those set forth in ORS 469.375 (Required findings for radioactive waste disposal facility certificate) and rules adopted by the council and other state agencies to implement such standards.\n(3) The Governor may do any and all things necessary to implement the requirements of the federal Acts referred to in subsections (1) and (2) of this section.\n(4) Notwithstanding ORS 469.553 (Active uranium mill or mill tailings disposal facility site certification required), after June 25, 1979, no site certificate is required for the cleanup and disposal of an inactive or abandoned uranium mill tailings site as authorized under subsection (1) of this section and Title I of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978, Public Law 95-604. [1979 c.283 §9; 1987 c.633 §2; 1989 c.496 §1; 2009 c.595 §955]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line267613"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.592149019241333,"wiki_prob":0.407850980758667,"text":"Awards and Funding\nGallery Representation & Public Collections\nSince 2009, I have been one of the directors and curators of Unravelled Arts which we formed in order to commission artists and makers to work in response to historic houses. In 2010, twelve artists make work for Preston Manor in Brighton, Following this, Unravelled worked in partnership with Trust New Art at the National Trust and curated three exhibitions for them at Nymans House and Gardens (2012), The Vyne (2013) and Uppark House (2014).\nThe rich and complex histories of each property proved fertile ground for the artists involved. Having between 10 and 12 artists responding to the same site allowed multiple histories to be brought to light. An unexpected aspect of the curatorial project was the democratisation of history: the space for histories that would usually be deemed as marginal to move centre stage. The interventions also allowed for a more playful and free interpretation of the past, sometimes relying more on instinct than documented records.\nIn 2008 I curated Precious: Reclaiming Art and Craft at Hove Museum with Polly Harknett. Twenty artists whose work involved the transformation of discarded materials into things of worth were displayed with objects from the collections of the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton and Hove.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line567936"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.687633752822876,"wiki_prob":0.687633752822876,"text":"Libertarianism Hits the Big Time\nBy David Boaz\nMichael Crowley, late of the New Republic and now with Time magazine, writes thoughtfully about Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and libertarianism. Crowley notes that Rand Paul, “more politically flexible than his father,” has plenty of unlibertarian positions. But both of them are tapping into a real strain in contemporary politics:\nBut he, like his father, also knows well that a genuine libertarian impulse is astir in America…. polls show an uptick in both social permissiveness and skepticism of government intervention….[Ron Paul] has already waited a long time — and it appears the country is moving his way.\nThis is a current trend, but it’s also deeply rooted in the American political culture. As David Kirby and I wrote in “The Libertarian Vote”:\nIt’s no surprise that many Americans hold libertarian attitudes since America is, after all, a country fundamentally shaped by libertarian values and attitudes. In their book It Didn’t Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States, Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marx write, “The American ideology, stemming from the [American] Revolution, can be subsumed in five words: antistatism, laissez-faire, individualism, populism, and egalitarianism.”… Richard Hofstadter wrote: “The fierceness of the political struggles in American history has often been misleading; for the range of vision embraced by the primary contestants in the major parties has always been bounded by the horizons of property and enterprise. However much at odds on specific issues, the major political traditions have shared a belief in the rights of property, the philosophy of economic individualism, the values of competition; they have accepted the economic virtues of capitalist culture.”… McClosky and Zaller sum up a key theme of the American ethos in classic libertarian language: “The principle here is that every person is free to act as he pleases, so long as his exercise of freedom does not violate the equal rights of others.”…\nSome people recognize but bemoan our libertarian ethos. Professors Cass Sunstein and Stephen Holmes complain that libertarian ideas are “astonishingly widespread in American culture.”\nMuch political change in America occurs within those guiding principles. Even our radicals, Lipset and Marks note, have tended to be libertarian rather than collectivist. America is a “country of classical liberalism, antistatism, libertarianism, and loose class structure,” which helps to explain the failure of class-conscious politics in the United States. McClosky and Zaller argue that many of the changes of the 1960s involved “efforts to extend certain values of the traditionalethos to new groups and new contexts”—such as equal rights for women, blacks, and gays; anti-war and free speech protests; and the “do your own thing” ethosof the so-called counterculture, which may in fact have had more in common with the individualist American culture than was recognized at the time.\nIn a broadly libertarian country most voters and movements have agreed on the fundamentals of classical liberalism or libertarianism: free speech, religious freedom, equality before the law, private property, free markets, limited government, and individual rights. The broad acceptance of those values means that American liberals and conservatives are fighting within a libertarian consensus. We sometimes forget just how libertarian the American political culture is.\nAnd of course American politics and policy deviate a great deal from those fundamental principles, which leaves libertarians feeling frustrated, even angry, and seeming extreme or radical to journalists and others. But as Conor Friedersdorf just wrote in Time’s longtime rival, Newsweek, the media have a bias toward the status quo and establishment politicians, even when current policies and the proposals of elected officials are at least as extreme as libertarian ideas:\nIf returning to the gold standard is unthinkable, is it not just as extreme that President Obama claims an unchecked power to assassinate, without due process, any American living abroad whom he designates as an enemy combatant? Or that Joe Lieberman wants to strip Americans of their citizenship not when they are convicted of terrorist activities, but upon their being accused and designated as enemy combatants? In domestic politics, policy experts scoff at ethanol subsidies, the home-mortgage-interest tax deduction, and rent control, but the mainstream politicians who advocate those policies are treated as perfectly serious people.\nAnd Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International, made the point a dozen years ago in a review of Charles Murray’s book What It Means to Be a Libertarian (in the Public Interest, not online)\nThe reason that libertarians seem extreme and odd is not that they are a furious minority, angry at a world that seems to have passed them by, but rather the opposite. They are heirs to a tradition that has changed the world. Consider what classical liberalism stood for in the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was against the power of the church and for the power of the market; it was against the privileges of kings and aristocracies and for dignity of the middle class; it was against a society dominated by status and land and in favor of one based on markets and merit; it was opposed to religion and custom and in favor of science and secularism; it was for national self-determination and against empires; it was for freedom of speech and against censorship; it was for free trade and against mercantilism. Above all, it was for the rights of the individual and against the power of the church and the state….\nThe reason that libertarianism seems narrow and naive is that having won 80 percent of the struggles it has fought over the last two centuries, it is now forced to define itself wholly in terms of the last 20 percent. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice if you were in Prussia in the 1850s, but in America in the 1960s? Libertarianism has become extreme because the world has left it no recourse.\nNow, I don’t feel furious, angry, or extreme. I think that libertarianism is the philosophy of the American revolution, the basic ideology of America, and indeed the foundation of Western civilization. The concept of personal and economic freedom – giving people more power to pursue happiness in their own way by restricting the size, scope, and power of government – is not extreme. Nor is it reactionary. In fact, it is the direction in which civilization has been heading, with many digressions and blind alleys, since the liberal revolution of the 17th century. I am a progressive. I believe that the simple, timeless principles of the American Revolution – individual liberty, limited government, and free markets – are even more powerful and more important in the world of instant communication, global markets, and unprecedented access to information than Jefferson or Madison could have imagined. Libertarianism is not just a framework for utopia, it is the indispensable framework for the future.\nGeneral, Government and Politics, Political Philosophy\nAmerican Revolution, Cass Sunstein, charles murray, economic freedom, free markets, free speech, freedom, freedom of speech, gold standard, government, individual liberty, individual right, individual rights, libertarian, libertarian vote, libertarianism, limited government, markets, obama, politicians, private property, rand paul, socialism","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1680184"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.744401752948761,"wiki_prob":0.744401752948761,"text":"Luxury online reseller The RealReal closes up more than 40% in debut\n(Reuters) - Shares of U.S. online luxury reseller The RealReal Inc (REAL.O) closed up more 40% in their debut on Friday, giving it a market capitalization of around $2.4 billion and signaling investor appetite for listings of consumer companies.\nJulie Wainwright (C), CEO of The RealReal Inc. takes part in the company's IPO at the Nasdaq MarketSite inside of Times Square in New York, U.S., June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson\nThe shares opened at $28, above their initial public offering price of $20, and closed at $28.90.\nThe offering of 15 million shares was priced at $20, above the expected range of $17 and $19 per share, helping the company raise $300 million in net proceeds.\nThe personal luxury goods market is expected to grow to between $364 billion and $415 billion in 2025, with millennials expected to represent 40% of the market, according to research firm Bain & Co.\nThe vast majority of The RealReal’s business is in the United States and Chief Executive Julie Wainwright said the company would eventually expand abroad.\n“We have a huge opportunity in front of us. Two-thirds of it’s outside the U.S. so at some point we’ll go overseas but not in the near term,” Wainwright said in a telephone interview.\nThe RealReal is a marketplace for second-hand luxury items including clothing and accessories. People can list their unwanted luxury goods, some that are either used or still have tags on them, and the company then takes a cut when a sale is made.\nThe RealReal, which started out as a business run from Wainwright’s kitchen table, now processes nearly 2 million orders per year. It has expanded its physical presence by opening two brick-and-mortar stores in Manhattan and one in Los Angeles that collect as well as sell goods.\nThe company has been thriving on the rising sales of second-hand, or vintage, luxury goods - from Chanel handbags and Gucci dresses to Rolex watches - banking on growing millennial interest in the price and environmental benefits of recycled clothing.\nRival resellers are looking to cash in on the booming market, including thredUP, which branched into luxury last year, and established players like Vestiaire Collective.\nThe top-selling luxury designers on The RealReal’s online marketplace include Cartier, Chanel, Christian Louboutin, Gucci, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Rolex, Tiffany and Valentino.\nThe company posted a net loss of $75.8 million in 2018, compared with a loss of $52.3 million in 2017, on revenue of $207.4 million, up over 55%, its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed.\nInvestors in the San Francisco-based company include Perella Weinberg Partners and Great Hill Partners.\nReporting by Aparajita Saxena and Aishwarya Venugopal in Bengaluru, and Joshua Franklin in New York; Editing by Susan Thomas and Alistair Bell","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line258779"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9895250797271729,"wiki_prob":0.9895250797271729,"text":"White Sox turn to Floyd in battle with Tigers\nIt could be the White Sox&apos;s inability to beat the Tigers this season that keeps them out of the postseason. If only Gavin Floyd could start every game against the division rival.\nFloyd takes aim at a fourth straight winning decision this afternoon when Chicago tries to make up ground on first-place Detroit in the second of three straight games between the clubs.\nThe right-handed Floyd has won six of his past seven decisions while going at least seven innings in five of his last eight outings. That includes a win at Seattle on Sunday as he gave up two runs on five hits over 7 1/3 innings with six strikeouts.\n\"It was an all-around good ballgame,\" said Floyd, who was backed by homers from Tyler Flowers and Dayan Viciedo. \"To get run support is nice.\"\nFloyd is 12-10 with a 4.36 earned run average in 26 starts this season and has been solid in 15 road outings, going 8-5 with a 3.08 ERA.\nThe 28-year-old has had much success against the Tigers in his career, going 6-1 with a 3.31 ERA in 15 starts. He picked up a victory at Detroit on July 15, allowing one earned run in 7 2/3 innings.\nThe White Sox, though, have lost eight of 13 so far to the Tigers this year, including five of seven in Detroit following last night&apos;s 8-1 defeat. Starter John Danks was knocked around for eight runs over 4 2/3 innings to suffer the loss as Chicago fell 6 1/2 games behind Detroit in the American League Central.\n\"We&apos;ve put ourselves in a pretty bad position here but we&apos;re not out of it,\" said Danks.\nFlowers hit a home run for the White Sox, who have lost two straight following a win in five in a row.\nJustin Verlander got plenty of support en route to his 21st victory of the season. He allowed one run over 7 1/3 frames to earn his ninth straight win, getting supported by Austin Jackson&apos;s two-run homer and a three-run double by Jhonny Peralta.\n\"Another stellar performance,\" Tigers manager Jim Leyland said of Verlander. \"It was kind of a neat night because Justin picked the guys up and the guys picked Justin up.\"\nDelmon Young added an RBI triple for the Tigers, who have won three of four and also maintained a 5 1/2-game advantage over the Indians in the standings while picking up the game over the White Sox.\nChicago will try to solve Tigers starter Brad Penny, who has won all three of his career starts versus the club with a 2.89 ERA. One of those wins came on July 17, when the righty gave up three runs over 6 2/3 innings.\nPenny is coming off a horrid outing at Minnesota on Sunday as he was denied a third straight winning decision. The 33-year-old was drilled for seven runs on eight hits over five innings of an 11-4 defeat, dropping to 9-10 with a 5.07 ERA in 26 starts.\n\"I didn&apos;t really have a good breaking ball today,\" said Penny. \"Didn&apos;t have a lot of opportunities to throw it and get a feel for it, but I felt strong, my arm felt great.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line283222"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.809864342212677,"wiki_prob":0.809864342212677,"text":"louise weir\n@smallpublishersfair Holborn London this Friday/Saturday books,cards etc work at https://t.co/XlXQmwJg89 Be great… https://t.co/tNguStdbzg\t3 years ago\nLouise Weir is an artist, illustrator and lecturer on the Illustration course at Southampton Solent University.She grew up in a small hamlet in the North West of England called Hatton in the only local pub the “Hatton Arms”. The rural landscape and the large and rich variety of “locals” that inhabited her childhood have had a profound effect on Louise’s work and she has a fascination with narrative that explores these areas.\nAfter a Foundation year at Mid Cheshire College she travelled East to study a BA in Graphic Design and Illustration at Hull college of Art before heading south to London to study an M.A at St Martins College.\nShe currently lives in Walthamstow and works in her studio next to London Fields in the East End of London.\nShe has been working within the Illustration industry for over twenty years with a wide range of experience across Design, Advertising, Publishing and Editorial. Working in the U.K and worldwide for clients such as The Royal Mail, CDP Advertising, The Ministry of Sound, Wardour Publishing, Random House Publishing, Penguin, The Guardian, Independent, Mail and Times newspapers.\nShe exhibits regularly in group and solo shows in the UK and Europe. Her current exhibition ” Expectations of the Past” has been produced with the support of Arts Council funding and will tour the UK during 2017/18. This new and recent work is an investigative journey of memory, identity and loss informed by Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations” which examines very similar themes. Exploring the text helped Louise examine her own personal history and emotional landscape, creating a dialogue between the text, isolated memories and specific events at the time of making. The dialogue between past and present is reflected in Louise’s methodology, which brings together a breadth of traditional and digital processes.\nHer work has been discussed in anthologies of Illustration including, “The Fundamentals of Illustration” by Lawrence Zeegan, , Varoom, A.O.I Images, and journals published in connection with the Illustrative Berlin/Zurich 2007- 11 in which original artworks have been exhibited. She was also a founder member of a successful Illustration collective called Monster, and has also held a position as joint director at The Association of Illustrators.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1394848"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6347290277481079,"wiki_prob":0.3652709722518921,"text":"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism\nGet updates from Biblical Evidence for Catholicism delivered straight to your inbox\nCatholic Feedback ('97-'01)\nCatholic Feedback ('02-Present)\nNon-Catholic Feedback\nCatholic Apologetics\nApologetics, General\nBaptism & Sacramentalism\nBible & Tradition\nChurch, The (Ecclesiology)\nEucharist & Liturgy\nHell, Satan, & Last Things\nMary (Mariology)\nPapacy & Infallibility\nSaints, Purgatory, & Penance\nSalvation & Justification\nTraditionalism vs. Reactionaries\nTrinitarianism & Christology\nConversion & Converts\nDevelopment of Doctrine\nFathers of the Church\nHeresies & Comparative Religion\nInquisition, Crusades, & Scandals\nJews, Judaism, & Old Testament\nOrthodoxy, Eastern\nGreat Apologists\nFr. John A. Hardon, S. 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All biblical citations (in my portions) will be from RSV unless otherwise noted.\nRelated reading from yours truly:\nBiblical Catholic Answers for John Calvin (2010 book: 388 pages)\nA Biblical Critique of Calvinism (2012 book: 178 pages)\nBiblical Catholic Salvation: “Faith Working Through Love” (2010 book: 187 pages; includes biblical critiques of all five points of “TULIP”)\nIV, 14:15\nOF THE SACRAMENTS.\n15. Refutation confirmed by a passage from Augustine.\nHence the distinction, if properly understood, repeatedly made by Augustine between the sacrament and the matter of the sacrament. For he does not mean merely that the figure and truth are therein contained, but that they do not so cohere as not to be separable, and that in this connection it is always necessary to distinguish the thing from the sign, so as not to transfer to the one what belongs to the other. Augustine speaks of the separation when he says that in the elect alone the sacraments accomplish what they represent (Augustin. de Bapt. Parvul.). Again, when speaking of the Jews, he says, “Though the sacraments were common to all, the grace was not common: yet grace is the virtue of the sacraments. Thus, too, the laver of regeneration is now common to all, but the grace by which the members of Christ are regenerated with their head is not common to all” (August. in Ps. 78).\nObviously, people have different levels of grace. Catholics don’t quibble with that.\nAgain, in another place, speaking of the Lord’s Supper, he says, “We also this day receive visible food; but the sacrament is one thing, the virtue of the sacrament another. Why is it that many partake of the altar and die, and die by partaking? For even the cup of the Lord was poison to Judas, not because he received what was evil, but being wicked he wickedly received what was good” (August. in Joann. Hom. 26).\nA little after, he says, “The sacrament of this thing, that is, of the unity of the body and blood of Christ, is in some places prepared every day, in others at certain intervals at the Lord’s table, which is partaken by some unto life, by others unto destruction. But the thing itself, of which there is a sacrament, is life to all, and destruction to none who partake of it.”\nIn other words, it is connected to salvation (“life to all”), just as Jesus explained in John 6.\nSome time before he had said, “He who may have eaten shall not die, but he must be one who attains to the virtue of the sacrament, not to the visible sacrament; who eats inwardly, not outwardly; who eats with the heart, and not with the teeth.” Here you are uniformly told that a sacrament is so separated from the reality by the unworthiness of the partaker, that nothing remains but an empty and useless figure. Now, in order that you may have not a sign devoid of truth, but the thing with the sign, the Word which is included in it must be apprehended by faith. Thus, in so far as by means of the sacraments you will profit in the communion of Christ, will you derive advantage from them.\nCalvin, as is his wont, goes too far and denies an underlying Catholic principle: ex opere operato: the notion that the sacraments have inherent power and have effect precisely because God’s power is in them. Catholics agree that the benefits of the sacrament can vary, according to inner disposition, but they also assert ex opere operato, and it is Calvin’s aim to deny that. The Catholic view is Christ-centered, whereas Calvin’s view is too man-centered on the scale of things. He puts relatively more emphasis on the recipient rather than the Lord of the sacraments, Who uses them to accomplish His purposes. The Catechism of the Catholic Church asserts the proper, balanced view:\n1127 Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer the grace that they signify. They are efficacious because in them Christ himself is at work: it is he who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in order to communicate the grace that each sacrament signifies. The Father always hears the prayer of his Son’s Church which, in the epiclesis of each sacrament, expresses her faith in the power of the Spirit. As fire transforms into itself everything it touches, so the Holy Spirit transforms into the divine life whatever is subjected to his power.\n1128 This is the meaning of the Church’s affirmation that the sacraments act ex opere operato (literally: “by the very fact of the action’s being performed”), i.e., by virtue of the saving work of Christ, accomplished once for all. It follows that “the sacrament is not wrought by the righteousness of either the celebrant or the recipient, but by the power of God.” [footnote: St. Thomas Aquinas, S Th, III, 68, 8] From the moment that a sacrament is celebrated in accordance with the intention of the Church, the power of Christ and his Spirit acts in and through it, independently of the personal holiness of the minister. Nevertheless, the fruits of the sacraments also depend on the disposition of the one who receives them.\n1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. “Sacramental grace” is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. The Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God. The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature [footnote: cf. 2 Peter 1:4] by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Savior.\nSt. Augustine (virtually Calvin’s chosen “patron saint”) accepted ex opere operato. For example, he wrote:\nBaptism consists not in the merits of those by whom it is administered, nor of those to whom it is administered, but in its own sanctity and truth, on account of Him who instituted it. (Cont. Cres., IV)\nWhence this great power of water, that it touches the body and cleanses the soul? (Tractate 80 on the Gospel of John)\nTo my mind it is abundantly clear that in the matter of baptism we have to consider not who he is that gives it, but what it is that he gives; not who he is that receives, but what it is that he receives . . . Wherefore, any one who is on the side of the devil cannot defile the sacrament, which is of Christ . . . When baptism is administered by the words of the gospel, however great the evil of either minister or recipient may be, the sacrament itself is holy on account of the one whose sacrament it is. In the case of people who receive baptism from an evil person, if they do not receive the perverseness of the minister but the holiness of the mystery, being united to the church in good faith and hope and charity, they will receive the forgiveness of their sins. (On Baptism; cited by Protestant historian Alister McGrath, Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought, Wiley-Blackwell, 1998, pp. 77-78)\nElsewhere, Calvin explicitly rejects ex opere operato, and in so doing, shows that he scarcely even understands what it is that he rejects:\nTo show more fully the agreement between the doctrine of the Papists and that which Paul opposes, it must be observed, that the sacraments, when we partake of them in a sincere manner, are not the works of men, but of God. In baptism or the Lord’s supper, we do nothing but present ourselves to God, in order to receive his grace. Baptism, viewed in regard to us, is a passive work: we bring nothing to it but faith; and all that belongs to it is laid up in Christ. But what are the views of the Papists? They contrive the opus operatum, by which men merit the grace of God; and what is this, but to extinguish utterly the truth of the sacrament? (Commentary on Galatians 5:1-6, section 3; translated by John King)\nCalvin scholar David Curtis Steinmetz makes it very clear that Calvin opposed ex opere operato:\nFrom the standpoint of medieval theology, Zwingli and Calvin placed the baptism of Jesus and John on the same level, partly by raising the baptism of John and partly by lowering the baptism of Christ. They elevated the baptism of John by insisting that John preached the gospel and offered the same baptism as the apostles. They lowered the baptism of Christ by arguing that it conferred no grace ex opere operato. (Calvin in Context, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 168)\nReformed Protestant theologian G. C. Berkouwer explains very well, and fairly and objectively (as he usually does), the differences between Catholic and Calvinist thinking regarding the sacraments and ex opere operato:\nWhy, then, did the Reformers so unanimously reject ex opere operato? . . .\nIt is striking that so much agreement exists between Lutherans and Reformed precisely in the rejection of ex opere operato. . . . he [Calvin] objects to the ex opere operato not only because it is incorrect but because (as he remarks) it contradicts the very nature of the sacraments. . . .\n[Dave: Calvin writes in IV, 14, 26 (cross-reference cited by Berkouwer, but in Latin footnotes):\nIt is here proper to remind the reader, that all the trifling talk of the sophists concerning the opus operatum, is not only false, but repugnant to the very nature of sacraments, which God appointed in order that believers, who are void and in want of all good, might bring nothing of their own, but simply beg. Hence it follows, that in receiving them they do nothing which deserves praise, and that in this action (which in respect of them is merely passive) no work can be ascribed to them.]\n. . . we must now recognize that the Roman Catholic not only rejects this reproach of magic, but that he also faces a problem of subjectivity in the sacraments. This is already apparent in the pronouncement of Trent, which not only poses the ex opere operato, but also speaks of the problem of the obstacle. It is impossible, therefore, to speak simplistically of the Roman Catholic sacramental doctrine as “magical.” . . . a subjective disposition is necessary for the working of the sacrament. Rome never intended to rule out this disposition in an objectivistic manner, but only to deny that this necessary disposition is either causal or meritorious. . . . In spite of all the criticism from the Reformed side, Rome wants to defend the gratuity of grace. . . .\nThis mode does not simply pit objectivity against subjectivism, nor sacrament-magic against human activity. It does not place the absolute gratuity of grace in opposition to the meritoriousness and the preparation of man. It rather synthesizes and connects these contradictory elements, and precisely in so doing it places itself against the Reformed doctrine of the sacraments. . . .\nFor the Reformation, the objectivity of the sacraments could no longer depend on the efficacy of infused supernatural grace . . . The sacraments are no longer independent new fountains of grace . . .\nThe sacrament no longer has the function of infusing supernatural grace, but can only be understood in connection with the word of promise. . . . There is a receiving of the sacrament which is altogether different from the receiving of supernatural grace. (Studies in Dogmatics: The Sacraments, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1969, pp. 64-65, 67, 69, 74, 76)\nThe excellent Catholic Encyclopedia article on Sacraments describes Calvin’s and Protestantism’s errors in this regard and presents the Catholic alternative (paragraphs are my own, for easier reading):\nLuther and his early followers rejected this conception of the sacraments. They do not cause grace, but are merely “signs and testimonies of God’s good will towards us” (Augsburg Confessions); they excite faith, and faith (fiduciary) causes justification. Calvinists and Presbyterians hold substantially the same doctrine. Zwinglius lowered still further the dignity of the sacraments, making them signs not of God’s fidelity but of our fidelity. By receiving the sacraments we manifest faith in Christ: they are merely the badges of our profession and the pledges of our fidelity.\nFundamentally all these errors arise from Luther’s newly-invented theory of righteousness, i.e. the doctrine of justification by faith alone (see GRACE). If man is to be sanctified not by an interior renovation through grace which will blot out his sins, but by an extrinsic imputation through the merits of Christ, which will cover his soul as a cloak, there is no place for signs that cause grace, and those used can have no other purpose than to excite faith in the Saviour. . . .\nAgainst all innovators the Council of Trent declared: “If anyone say that the sacraments of the New Law do not contain the grace which they signify, or that they do not confer grace on those who place no obstacle to the same, let him be anathema” (Sess. viii, can.vi). “If anyone say that grace is not conferred by the sacraments ex opere operato but that faith in God’s promises is alone sufficient for obtaining grace, let him be anathema” (ibid., can. viii; cf. can. iv, v, vii).\nThe phrase “ex opere operato”, for which there is no equivalent in English, probably was used for the first time by Peter of Poitiers (d. 1205), and afterwards by Innocent III (d. 1216; de myst. missae, III, v), and by St. Thomas (d. 1274; IV Sent., dist. 1, Q.i, a.5). It was happily invented to express a truth that had always been taught and had been introduced without objection. . . . “Ex opere operato”, i.e. by virtue of the action, means that the efficacy of the action of the sacraments does not depend on anything human, but solely on the will of God as expressed by Christ’s institution and promise.\n“Ex opere operantis”, i.e. by reason of the agent, would mean that the action of the sacraments depended on the worthiness either of the minister or of the recipient . . . It is well known that Catholics teach that the sacraments are only the instrumental, not the principal, causes of grace.\nNeither can it be claimed that the phrase adopted by the council does away with all dispositions necessary on the part of the recipient, the sacraments acting like infallible charms causing grace in those who are ill-disposed or in grievous sin. The fathers of the council were careful to note that there must be no obstacle to grace on the part of the recipients, who must receive them rite, i.e. rightly and worthily; and they declare it a calumny to assert that they require no previous dispositions (Sess. XIV, de poenit., cap.4).\nDispositions are required to prepare the subject, but they are a condition (conditio sine qua non), not the causes, of the grace conferred. In this case the sacraments differ from the sacramentals, which may cause grace ex opere operantis, i.e. by reason of the prayers of the Church or the good, pious sentiments of those who use them.\n(originally 10-21-09)\nPhoto credit: Historical mixed media figure of John Calvin produced by artist/historian George S. Stuart and photographed by Peter d’Aprix: from the George S. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7511888742446899,"wiki_prob":0.7511888742446899,"text":"Refugees & Fragile States\n68.5 million children and families have been forcibly displaced from their homes. These are the largest numbers of refugees and displaced people since World War II. The vast majority of them come from “fragile states”, where families and communities are affected by disasters, economic crises, conflict, and social upheaval. By 2030, an estimated 80% of the world’s extreme poor (living on less than $1.90 a day) will live in these fragile places with weak governance and disrupted public services, like education, health, and clean water. World Vision has worked in fragile states for over three decades to provide life-saving support and durable solutions for the world’s most vulnerable children.\nFollow our fragile states expert, Jonathan Papoulidis, on Twitter: @JPapoulidis\nRead our recent article, Fragile states and the search for ‘what works’\nRead the Global Washington profile on World Vision’s focus on fragility\nTell me the story\nVenezuela crisis: Facts, FAQs, and how to help\nThe Venezuela crisis has caused about 3.4 million people to flee the country, seeking food, work, and a better life. While the influx from Venezuela has caused tensions in host countries, it also has brought out their hospitable spirit.\n8 reasons why the Syrian refugee crisis still matters after 8 years\nMarch 15, 2019, marks eight years since the Syrian refugee crisis began. With reports of the war in Syria almost over and after eight years of hearing about and caring about this crisis, does it still matter? Compassionate voices come together with a resounding yes.\nFragile states: Helping children in the worst of all worlds\nOur executive advisor on fragile states breaks down this difficult context for humanitarian work and explains how we’re uniquely equipped to respond.\nPeople in 38 of the 58\nmost fragile areas receive support through our long- and short-term programming.\n5,000 World Vision advocates\ncontacted Congress to oppose proposed 30% cuts to the foreign affairs budget, which funds lifesaving programs in the most difficult places, with success.\n2 million refugees and displaced people\nhave been assisted by our staff in the midst of conflicts in Syria and Iraq.\nWhat is a refugee?\nmso-para-margin:0in;\nmso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”;\nRefugees are people who had to flee their home country due to war, violence, or persecution, according to the UN Refugee Agency. Refugees are different from immigrants because refugees cannot go home, or are afraid that it is not safe to return. Displaced people have had to leave their homes for the same reason as a refugee, but they are still living within their home country. World Vision works with both refugees and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in the most fragile places, including Syria, Iraq, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\nWhy does World Vision work in fragile places?\nWe go where humanitarian and development needs are high. If estimates hold true, by 2030, around 80% of the world’s extreme poor will live in fragile states. What’s more alarming is that extreme poverty has a child’s face: the majority of people in fragile contexts are young. As a child-focused organization, we have a clear call to help the most vulnerable children — those who live in fragile states and who are increasingly forced to flee instability within and across borders as refugees.\nWhat programs are most effective in helping families in these situations?\nPrograms that provide basic necessities while boosting a community’s resilience and self-reliance in the face of disasters and destitution are most effective. Direct assistance for children, households, and communities make a big impact in fragile states, since their governments are often unable to provide basic services. To be most effective, programs need to empower communities and work through local organizations, including churches, mothers’ groups, and farmers’ associations, so that they build local capacity while providing assistance. Programs should also help governments assume responsibility, over time, for service delivery and social protection.\nHow does World Vision’s work help?\nWe have worked in the majority of the world’s fragile states for more than 30 years. We know what types of programs work in these contexts, and more importantly, we have longstanding relationships and trust with the communities we serve. Our big focus in fragile states is on developing new approaches to enable transition out of fragility, especially in program areas where we are strong: water, sanitation, and hygiene; health; livelihoods and food assistance; and child protection, and education. By integrating all these programs, we help to provide communities with what they need most. But no single group or organization can tackle fragility alone, so we partner with churches, donor governments, corporations, and individual supporters across the globe, in addition to local communities, faith bodies, civil society, and public institutions where we work.\nUltimately, our successful programs empower refugees and displaced people and cultivate ingenuity and resilience, so that communities have the know-how, the confidence, and the ability to help themselves and care for their children.\nHow quickly can a fragile nation move toward resilience?\nThe journey can take decades, but we don’t have to wait that long to help change children’s lives. We are seeing communities achieve better health, education, livelihoods, nutrition, and gender equality. And while the road is long, sustained donor support is making a difference in the most fragile places.\nRefugees and Fragile State Resources\nWorld Vision’s Presence in Fragile Areas (PDF)\nSomRep Positive Deviance Study (pdf)\nThis study of our emergency response in Somalia found belonging to a savings group and participating in preparedness and early warning activities were consistently related to both community identification of successful coping as well as food security status.\n3 ways you can help refugees and those living in fragile contexts\nPray for refugees:\nJoin us in prayer\nSpread awareness\nGive monthly to the Refugee Children’s Crisis Fund: $29+\nYour monthly gift will provide life-saving essentials like access to healthcare, clean water and nutritious food along with emergency supplies and safe places for children to play and learn.\nSponsor a child in a fragile\ncontext: $39\nFeed a refugee child for a month: $38\nWith the help of people like you, World Vision is at work in the most broken places—like Syria, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic. Your gift of a Refugee Food Kit can help provide families with desperately needed emergency food.\nTogether, we work to help communities develop the perfect recipe for sustainable success.\nChoose one and see how our work gets done.\nPoverty in America\nHunger & Food Security","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1580929"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5854318737983704,"wiki_prob":0.41456812620162964,"text":"Nigel Paine\nAbout Nigel Paine\nNigel Paine has been involved in corporate learning for over twenty years.\nHe has run organisations producing learning software, CD Roms/multimedia materials,and offered development and support as well as learning resources to companies large and small.\nAppointed in April 2002 to head up the BBC’s Learning and Development operation, he built a successful L&D operation which included a brand-new on-boarding program, a comprehensive leadership development program for over 6,000 staff and a state of the art informal learning and knowledge sharing network.\nHe left the BBC in September 2006 to start his own company focussing on building great workplaces by promoting creativity, innovation, values based-leadership and learning and the link between them. He speaks at conferences around the world, writes for a range of international publications, coaches senior executives in Europe, Australia and the USA and is writing a book on C21st learning leadership called The Learning Challenge, to be published in 2014.\nNigel is a Fellow of the Learning and Performance Institute, Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and the Royal Society of Arts and has been a visiting Professor at Napier University since 1998. In 2006 he was given the Masie Learning Thought Leader Award, and has been a Masie Fellow ever since. In 2012 he was giving the Colin Corder Award for outstanding achievement in corporate learning by the UK’s Learning and Performance Institute.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1640326"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7891349792480469,"wiki_prob":0.7891349792480469,"text":"Books, Their Dedications, and The Media\nCP Current Page: Opinion | Sunday, October 10, 2010\nBy Richard Land, Christian Post Executive Editor | Sunday, October 10, 2010\nWhile his inauspicious beginnings as the only child of orthodox Jewish Russian émigrés did not augur his future notoriety, Saul Alinsky remains a man of tremendous influence to many on the left, including Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Marian Wright Edelman, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.\nAlinsky died in June 1972, but his principles, particularly as the \"father\" of the community organizing movement, survive him.\nSome have called him Barack Obama's political \"spirit guide.\" The president's successful campaign for the White House was framed on a foundation Alinsky built.\nSoon after Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 he went to Chicago to work as a community organizer on the city's South Side, where Alinsky had been based. While Alinsky had already died, Obama was hired by those who had firsthand knowledge of Alinsky's modus operandi, and reportedly Obama was a devout student of Alinsky's book \"Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals.\"\nThere is no question that community organizing remains a critical cog in the president's worldview, but Obama is not alone among Washington, D.C., power brokers in his affinity for Alinsky.\nHillary Clinton did her senior thesis at Wellesley College on Alinsky and his model of social change, noting, \"There is no lack of issues; what is missing is the politically sophisticated organizers.\" She also wrote of him, \"If the ideals Alinsky espouses were actualized, the result would be social revolution.\" In fact, Alinsky offered Clinton a job, which she declined, choosing instead to enroll in law school at Yale.\nClinton's thesis was embargoed during the entire time her husband, Bill, was in the White House. No doubt that was because the paper is such a strong endorsement of Alinsky and his principles, including this maxim from Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: \"That perennial question, 'Does the end justify the means?' is meaningless as it stands; the real and only question regarding the ethics of means and ends is, and has always has been, 'Does this particular end justify this particular means?'\"\nAlinsky, a criminologist by training, details in the book's first chapter a clear distinction between his book and an earlier classic political treatise: \"'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.\" He later terms the book \"a manual for the Have-Nots of the world regardless of the color of their skins or their politics.\"\nHis stated aim was \"to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people….\" Alinsky hoped to convert the \"hot, emotional, impulsive passions [of radicals] that are impotent and frustrating\" into \"actions that will be calculated, purposeful, and effective.\"\nAlinsky's book remains a founding document of sorts for those involved in grassroots organizing.\nYet there is something extremely noteworthy about his Rules for Radicals that few have noted. While his dedication of the book to Irene, his third wife, is innocent enough, the radical wasn't through with his formal notes of appreciation.\nA notation in the book's front matter should give everyone pause:\n\"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves and history begins - or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.\" - Saul Alinsky\nThis startling front-of-the-book salute to Lucifer is clear admission that Alinsky's intentions were not entirely secular.\nYet while Hillary Clinton has served as First Lady, presidential candidate, U.S. Senator, and now U.S. Secretary of State, no one in the mainstream press has ever publicized the fact that Lucifer was so admired by the subject of her senior thesis.\nAnd Barack Obama honed his skills as a community activist teaching Rules for Radicals in Chicago with the same people who were Alinsky's disciples. Yet not a word from the media.\nIt says much about Clinton and Obama's worldview that they have built so much of their life's work on Alinsky's teachings. It says even more about the national electronic and print media that most Americans don't know of Alinsky's admiration for Lucifer.\nOne can scarcely imagine the hue and cry that would have erupted if it had been discovered that George W. Bush had written his senior thesis at Yale on a person whose seminal work contained even a tacit dedication to Lucifer.\nAnd how shrill would the pundits' calls be if it were found that Sen. John McCain had taught the writings of a man whose best-known work gave a well-placed tip of the hat to the Prince of Darkness himself?\nLet's face it: The national secular media is in the tank for those on the left.\nBook dedications can have far-reaching implications for authors. They are not casually dropped in the front of a book just prior to it going on the press. As an author of multiple books, I can honestly tell you that the content on the dedication pages of each of my books was purposeful and well-considered.\nTrustees of the University of Illinois-Chicago recently took note of a dedication in a book by William Ayers, one of the founders of the violent group the Weather Underground and an associate of President Obama.\nAyers, who recently retired from the school, was being considered for emeritus faculty status. A professor's bid for such status is typically noncontroversial.\nYet a 1974 book \"Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism,\" which Ayers co-authored, is dedicated to what the Associated Press termed \"a lengthy list of revolutionary figures,\" including Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Sen. Robert Kennedy in 1968.\nAyers has said he doesn't \"regret setting bombs,\" and in his memoirs, \"Fugitive Days,\" he confesses that he found a \"certain eloquence to bombs, a poetry and a pattern from a safe distance.\"\nThe affinity of Ayers for Sen. Kennedy's assassin was not at all appreciated by Christopher Kennedy, chairman of the school's trustee body and the son of the late senator. He urged his fellow trustees to reject the honor for Ayers.\nThe university's trustees heeded Kennedy's wishes and declined to give the emeritus faculty status to Ayers, who the Sept. 27, 2010 Investor's Business Daily explained \"became an academic when he realized he could do more damage to our society by controlling what our children are taught than by blowing up buildings one at a time.\"\nWhile it is said you can tell a lot about a book by its cover, it is even more true that you can tell a lot about an author by perusing the pages before a book's table of contents.\nA personal tribute to Dr. Norman Geisler\nWe're commanded to pray for presidents but not to give them photo-ops\n'The Handmaid's Tale' is more conservative than you think\n'Unplanned' movie will cause men to repent for mistreating, abandoning women and shift the culture\nReligious freedom is for Muslims too","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1517550"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5700954794883728,"wiki_prob":0.5700954794883728,"text":"A-Level results 2018 – By the numbers\nhttps://education-forum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/A-Levels.jpg 960 640 Stuart O'Brien Stuart O'Brien https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9defd7b64b55280442ad2d7fb546a9db?s=96&d=mm&r=g 16th August 2018 27th September 2018\nStudents have picked up their A-Level results, with 26.4% gaining As and A*s – the largest proportion to do so since 2012.\nOverall, this year’s A Level results show:\nMaths continues to be the most popular subject at A Level, with the number of entries up 2.5% on last year – up 26.8% compared to 2010;\nEntries into STEM subjects continue to rise, up 3.4% on last year and up 24% since 2010;\nAn increase in entries to STEM A Levels by girls, up 5.5% from last year and 26.9% since 2010;\nOver half of the entries were in subjects that open doors to the widest range of courses at Russell Group universities, with the proportion continuing to rise year on year;\nThe proportion of entries to art and design, music and modern foreign languages remains broadly stable;\nYorkshire and the Humber has seen the biggest improvement in entries achieving top grades (A* and A); and\nIn the second year of reformed A Levels, the percentage of UK entries awarded the A* grade remains stable at 8.0% this year, compared with 8.1% in 2010 and the overall UK pass rate remains stable at 97.6%, compared to 97.9% last year.\n2018 marks the first results of 12 more reformed A Levels, following the introduction of the first reformed exams last year. Under these reformed A Levels students are examined after two years helping them build an in-depth understanding of the subject, better preparing students for future study or the workplace.\nThis follows universities saying many students lacked some of the skills and knowledge essential for undergraduate learning.\nIt comes alongside measures to create more, high-quality options for 18 year olds, including radical reforms to apprenticeships that are combining work with training in fields such as engineering and design; in some cases combined with a degree.\nSecretary of State for Education Damian Hinds said: “I want to congratulate everyone getting their results today. It is the culmination of a lot of hard work and dedication – from both those receiving their marks and the teachers who’ve been supporting them every step of the way. They should rightly feel proud of their achievements.\n“We’ve worked to improve education for every child – from their early years through to secondary school and beyond. I also want young people to have wider choice, whether that’s going to university, earning through an apprenticeship or in future taking technical qualifications that match the best in the world.\n“Today is a significant milestone in the lives of many young people. No matter what path they choose to take next, we are working to make sure it provides them with a world-class education and a passport to an exciting future.”\nIn addition, a record rate of 18 year olds are heading to university this September, including a record proportion attending from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Government says it’s introducing further measures to offer more choice to students and widen access, including accelerated degrees and access to data so students know where they will get the best outcomes.\nUniversities Minister Sam Gyimah said: Congratulations to everyone getting their results today, and to those hundreds of thousands who will begin their university experience in September.\n“Thanks to the support offered by this government, no student with the talent and potential is restricted from studying in our world-class university sector.\n“We have worked with employers to design new high quality apprenticeships – including degree apprenticeships – making them longer, with more off-the-job training and proper assessment at the end so that apprentices are learning the skills that industry really needs.”\nApprenticeships and Skills Minister Anne Milton said:\nUniversity has often been seen as the only route to a successful career, but apprenticeships can be a great way to give you the skills you need to get the job you want.\nWe are shaking up the education system and working with businesses to provide even more opportunities to get into amazing jobs, and there are now high-quality apprenticeships available in a range of exciting industries including aerospace, fashion, nuclear and teaching – and up to degree level too.\nFrom 2020 young people will be taking the first T Levels – new technical qualifications on a par with A Levels that the Government says will give young people more choice and more opportunities to succeed and fulfil their potential.\nNew scheme to boost teaching workforce for further education providers\nhttps://education-forum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Teaching-Workforce.jpg 960 640 Stuart O'Brien Stuart O'Brien https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9defd7b64b55280442ad2d7fb546a9db?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15th October 2018 8th November 2018\nIndustry Spotlight – Post-FE: What students need to focus on to succeed in their careers…\nhttps://education-forum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Flying-Start-XP-MICROSITE.jpg 800 450 Jack Wynn Jack Wynn https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e6e4c614a3e43ed5c1e30f3c96cd4d3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th September 2016 3rd October 2016\nPrep for SATs exams damaging children’s mental health…\nhttps://education-forum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/nut-logo-EDITED.jpg 800 450 Jack Wynn Jack Wynn https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/e6e4c614a3e43ed5c1e30f3c96cd4d3d?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28th June 2016 12th September 2016","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line767705"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7189286947250366,"wiki_prob":0.7189286947250366,"text":"Angels set Guinness World Record for sixth straight year\nWritten By Kirstie Chiappelli\n(Getty Images) https://images.performgroup.com/di/library/omnisport/18/a/angels-050615-usnews-getty-ftr_ltkdv5taqek31p7q26yggvbsa.png?t=702639109&w=500&quality=80\nThe Angels may not have won a World Series since 2002, but they sure can throw a fiesta.\nIn honor of Cinco de Mayo, the Angels successfully set a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people wearing sombreros for the sixth consecutive year.\nWith over 20K participants, we hold the Guinness World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Wearing Sombreros! pic.twitter.com/auk5H445wu\n- Angels (@Angels) May 6, 2015\nThe announcement came in the middle of the fifth inning during Tuesday's 5-4 win over the Mariners. In order for the record to be official, fans were required to don the sombreros that were distributed upon entry into the stadium at the same time for at least five minutes. The unofficial total of people wearing sombreros inside Angel Stadium for the record was 25,111.\n\"Sixth straight year of going for a world record now and next year, hopefully, it'll be seven,\" Angels Marketing Director Kevin Shaw said, via FOX Sports. \"Now it's something that people actually point to on their calendar and look forward to see how they can be a part of a Guinness World Record.\"\nIn addition to the sombrero record, other Guinness World Records that have been set at Angel Stadium involve Snuggies, wrestling masks, cowboy hats, wigs and Santa hats.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1397734"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6600181460380554,"wiki_prob":0.3399818539619446,"text":"Under Her Wings by Anne Marie Citro Book Tour & Excerpt\nContemporary RomanceDate Published: June 21, 2016\nWishing for death while living through hell, Gabriella is rescued off the rocks of a Scottish loch at the lowest moment of her life by the hot, humorous Edward and the sexy, staid Liam. The two men nurse the despondent woman back to health while teaching her how to pick up the pieces of her life. Both are captivated by her and vie for her attention.\nFriendships are formed and secrets revealed. One man will become her lover, while the other becomes her best friend. Together, they have a past they cannot change, a present they must live through, and a future yet to be discovered. However, every time things appear to settle down for the trio, fate deals another blow, testing their trust and faith in each other and the love they have created.\nGabriella discovers the beauty of Scotland and life anew as she learns that trust is a two-way street that can either strengthen bonds or destroy relationships. Will she accept all that she learns or continue to believe she is betraying the memories she ran from?\nPlease Take Me\nGabriella stared out at the stormy water of Loch Snizort, five minutes away from the town of Portree on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. She sat on the edge of a cluster of boulders that were half-submerged in the loch. The spray of the water mingled with the tears streaming down her face. She was soaked, shivering, and not even aware the daylight was escaping from the night.\n“Goddammit! God, if I believed in you—which I don’t—I would ask you why! Why!” She sobbed. “Why leave me? Please take me. I have nothing.” Her stomach muscles ached from the constant, racking sobs she couldn’t control.\nShe had contemplated suicide, but the fear that God did exist had stopped her. If by any chance an afterlife did exist, by killing herself, she would be denied the privilege of entering Heaven, of holding her beloved boys in her arms again. She would be stuck in the hell that was her never-ending existence.\nIt had been years—three to be exact—since her world had been turned from light to dark. Everyone had said she needed to deal with her grief, and she had tried. Regardless, it hadn’t worked.\nBesides, who the fuck were they to say what stage of grief she was dealing with? What if the next stage never came, and she never recovered? Then what? Did people actually believe it was a conscious choice not to move on? Was it depression? Abso-fucking-lutely! Did seeing a shrink help? No. Did talking about it help? No. Did medication help? No, because no one seemed to understand Gabriella’s pain.\nShe had lost her world through no fault of her own. It was marred not just by loss, but also because of the rumours surrounding her family’s deaths …\nAnne Marie Citro grew born and raised in the greater Toronto area of Ontario, Canada. She grew up in a large, loving family. Anne Marie is married to a very patient man. He is the love of her life. They have four very cool sons, and the girls they brought into their family that have become daughters of her heart. She has been blessed enough to finally have a beautiful granddaughter after four sons. She has her own personal gaggle of girlfriends, who enrich her life on a daily basis and make her laugh. Caesar Friday is her favourite day of the week. Caesars with the girls and date night with her hubby. She works with special-needs teenagers, that have taught her how to appreciate life and see it through gentler eyes. Anne Marie was encouraged by her husband to follow her life long dream to write. She loves the characters that take over imagination and haunts her dreams. She loves the arts and she has tried her hand at painting, wood sculpting, chainsaw carving, wood burning, metal and wire sculptures. Yes, her husband is a very patient man! Anne Marie is an avid reader and enjoys about three books per week. But nothing makes her happier then riding on the back of her husband's Harley and throwing her arms out and feeling the wind race by. Anne Marie and her husband take a few weeks every year to travel to spectacular destination around the world. Anne Marie is excited and can't wait to see what the next chapter holds for her life.and enjoys about three books per week.\nWebsite: annemariecitro.com\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100012775572222\nTwitter: @AnneMarieCitro\nPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/amcitro/\nGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30369363-under-her-wings?from_search=true\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Under-Her-Wings-Sistas-Book-ebook/dp/B01GP453MY/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1481036988&sr=8-4\nBarnes and Noble:\nhttp://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/under-her-wings-anne-marie-citro/1123892404?ean=9781533628183\nKobo: https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/under-her-wings-1\nEmily Heisler","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1496839"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9749996662139893,"wiki_prob":0.9749996662139893,"text":"SocGen to pay $1.34 bn for Libya bribes, Libor manipulation\nMonday 4 June 2018 - 7:35pm\nFILE PHOTO: A logo of French bank Societe Generale is pictured on a building in Geneva, Switzerland, November 8, 2017.\nPARIS - France&39;s second-biggest bank Societe Generale will pay US authorities $1.34 billion(R16.86billion) to settle allegations that it bribed officials in Libya and also manipulated the Libor interest rate benchmark, the US Justice Department announced Monday.\nFrench prosecutors had said earlier that the bank had agreed to pay 500 million euros ($583 million) to end inquiries in the US and France into its dealings with the regime of slain Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.\nThe French financial prosecutor&39;s office said the bank had agreed to pay 250 million euros each to France and the US to avoid corruption trials on either side of the Atlantic.\nSociete Generale itself announced earlier that it reached agreements to settle the Libya investigations as well as a separate US investigation into its alleged rigging of Libor interest rates.\nThe bank did not say how much it had paid in total but said it had already provided for the cost and that it would have \"no impact on Societe Generale&39;s results\".\nLast month, it said it had set aside one billion euros to settle the disputes.\nLibya&39;s sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority, had accused Societe Generale of channelling bribes to associates of Kadhafi&39;s son Seif al-Islam as part of a \"corrupt scheme\" to get the LIA to invest billions in Societe Generale and its subsidiaries between 2007 and 2009.\nThe fund claimed that at least $58 million in bribes was routed through a Panama-registered company called Leinada, which was headed by an associate of Seif al-Islam.\nSociete Generale paid nearly a billion euros to the LIA last year to settle the case before it opened in the High Court in London.\nBut it remained under investigation in the US and France.\nA French court on Monday approved the deal struck with French authorities to avoid a trial, with a US court expected to follow suit on Tuesday.\nRate rigging\nSociete Generale said it had also struck a deal with the US Department of Justice over its alleged attempt to manipulate the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), which governs credit costs around the world.\n\"For years, Societe Generale undermined the integrity of global markets and foreign institutions by issuing false financial data and by fraudulently securing contracts through bribery,\" Acting US Assistant Attorney General John Cronan said on Monday.\nThe bank is the latest in a string of lenders, including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goldman Sachs, to pay hefty sums to settle allegations of conspiring to rig the rate.\nDeutsche Bank paid $240 million, while HSBC forked out $100 million.\nThe announcement marks an end to a scandal which led to the surprise departure of Societe Generale&39;s deputy CEO Didier Valet in March.\nValet, who reportedly quit over the way the dispute with the US was handled, was one of two senior executives to step down, along with the bank&39;s head of retail banking.\nThe departures rattled investors, casting a pall over Societe Generale&39;s results in the first quarter.\nHigher-than-expected net profits of 850 million euros were offset by a decline in revenues of 2.8 percent to 6.3 billion euros.\nSociete Generale said that its French retail banking revenues were hit by low-interest rates but were expected to stabilise in 2018.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1680262"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8445916771888733,"wiki_prob":0.8445916771888733,"text":"Father of Sandy Hook shooting victim Avielle Richman found dead of apparent suicide inside Newtown town hall\nNEWTOWN, Connecticut -- The father of one of the 20 children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was found dead of an apparent suicide inside a Newtown municipal building, authorities confirmed Monday.\nPolice say 49-year-old Jeremy Richman, the father of Avielle Richman, took his own life at Edmond Town Hall, located on Main Street in Newtown, where he reportedly had an office.\nHe is the founder of the Avielle Foundation, an organization with the mission of preventing violence and building compassion by seeking a better understanding of brain health.\nHis body was found by a town worker around 7 a.m. Monday, but it was unclear when the suicide took place.\n\"The death appears to be a suicide, but police will not disclose the method or any other details of the death only to state the death does not appear suspicious,\" Newtown police said in a press release.\nThe Medical Examiner will determine the cause of the death.\n\"This is a heartbreaking event for the Richman family and the Newtown community as a whole,\" police Lieuteant Aaron Bahamonde said. \"The police department's prayers are with the Richman family right now, and we ask that the family be given privacy in this most difficult time.\"\nSenator Chris Murphy said Richman \"was with me in my office two weeks ago, excited as could be about the Avielle Foundation's latest amazing work.\"\n\"My god. This is awful, horrible, devastating news,\" Murphy tweeted. \"Jeremy was a good friend and an unceasing advocate for better research into the brain's violence triggers.\"\nThe Avielle Foundation issued the following statement:\n\"Our hearts are shattered, and our heads are struggling to comprehend. Jeremy was a champion father, husband, neuroscientist and, for the past seven years, a crusader on a mission to help uncover the neurological underpinnings of violence through the Avielle Foundation, which he and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, founded after the death of their daughter, Avielle, at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Jeremy was deeply devoted to supporting research into brain abnormalities that are linked to abnormal behavior and to promoting brain health. Tragically, his death speaks to how insidious and formidable a challenge brain health can be and how critical it is for all of us to seek help for ourselves, our loved ones and anyone who we suspect may be in need.\nJeremy's mission will be carried on by the many who love him, including many who share the heartache and trauma that he has suffered since December 14, 2012. We are crushed to pieces, but this important work will continue, because, as Jeremy would say, we have to.\nAs we did six years ago and now must do again today, we ask both the media and the public to give the family the privacy anyone would deserve to begin to process this tragic development.\"\nRichman's death comes just days after the apparent suicides of two Parkland, Florida, area teenagers.\nIf you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.\nnewtownsuicidenewtown shootingsandy hook elementary school shooting","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line886420"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6752262711524963,"wiki_prob":0.6752262711524963,"text":"The Luckiest Letter In Texas\nFrançois Simars de Bellisle outlived four other French officers after their ship’s captain abandoned them near Galveston Bay. Then, he was captured by Akokisa Native Americans.\nBy W.F. StrongFebruary 20, 2019 10:52 amArts & Culture, Stories From Texas\nThis is the story of what was luckiest letter ever mailed in Texas. It took about six months to reach its destination, which was Louisiana. But to say it was mailed is a bit of a stretch. It was handed to some people to be given to others and it bounced around a while, sat idle for months at a time and then miraculously moved on. Texas was, at the time, under Spanish rule, but the letter was written in French. It was a Hail Mary mailing. Truly an act of desperation. The fact that it arrived at all was a miracle within a miracle, and it saved the sender’s life.\nFrançois Simars de Bellisle was just 24 when he left France to come to America in 1719. He was headed for Louisiana on a small ship. As was often the case in those days, his captain overshot their destination. He missed Louisiana entirely and ended up near present-day Galveston where the ship ran aground off Bolivar Peninsula. But the captain thought they were relatively close to Ship Island near New Orleans, a little error of 300 miles. What Google Earth could have done for these early travelers!\nBellisle and four other French officers took meager supplies — biscuits, guns, minimal ammunition, swords — and went ashore to determine their location and seek help to guide their ship to port. They slept well that first night and when they got up the next morning their ship was gone. They had been abandoned.\nThey walked east and made it to what was likely the mouth of the Sabine River where they could go no further because of deep mud. They headed back the way they had come. Though they had some success finding oysters and killing small birds — they even killed a deer — they began, one by one, to succumb to starvation. Within two months, Bellisle had buried all of his friends. He was alone and hungry in this new land and, naturally, desperately depressed.\nBellisle believed he was living his last days. He was on the west side of Galveston Bay, out of bullets and reduced to eating boiled grass and worms out of driftwood. Then, one clear morning he saw the first Native Americans he had seen since being stranded. They were Akokisa and his only hope for survival. The Akokisas greeted him by taking all of his goods and stripping him of his clothes, leaving him naked – a state he would remain in for over a year. The only good thing that happened that day is that they fed him. But he was enslaved, ordered about mercilessly, beaten regularly and used as a beast of burden. How ironic that his name Bellisle meant “beautiful island,” but that is not what he found that day.\nThey took him west with them toward the Brazos River to hunt buffalo. He had to walk, naked and barefoot, carrying their supplies. But he did record later that, despite his wretched condition, he couldn’t help but marvel at the beautiful prairies they passed through for over 150 miles. He wrote, “This is the most beautiful country in the world. The earth is black. Grass grows there to a prodigal height, and in abundance, which is a certain sign that the earth is good.”\nUpon returning to the bay, he realized that his situation was dire. He would die if he stayed. So he retrieved one of the few pieces of paper he had in his belongings and wrote a letter. He asked his hosts give it to the white chief they told him was rumored to live to the east.\nHe had nothing to write with so he carved a crude pen out of wood and made ink out of charcoal and water. He wrote a letter begging for rescue from anyone who would might receive it. A couple of his tribe took the message east but never attempted to find the rumored white chief. They just passed along this strange artifact to other tribes as a curiosity. It went from tribe to tribe, perhaps traded for one thing or another, but all the while moved northeast. Then the miracle occurred. Members of the Hasinai Native Americans, which had close ties to the French, happened to see the letter and knew that it was something the French would like to see. So they took it to the commander of the French garrison at Natchitoches, Louisiana, a week’s journey away. The commander, Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, wrote a letter in return, and ordered the Hasinais to bring the castaway back, whether dead or alive.\nWhen Bellisle’s rescuers reached the Akokisa camp, they gave Bellisle the letter that informed him that the Hasinais would escort him to Natchitoches. His captors didn’t want to let him go, but they feared the Hasinais and so they relented. Bellisle said the final night in camp waiting to leave the next morning was the longest of his life. It still took him months to get to Natchitoches, but at least he was free. He had sent what was the land version of a message in a bottle, and it had caught the best currents and washed up on the perfect shore. His literacy, and luck, saved him.\nThe source of this story comes mostly from Bellisle’s memoirs, published in part by Henri Folmer in The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Oct. 1940), pp. 204-231.\nHere’s Why Voter Registration Groups Are Fighting Texas’ Attempted Voter Purge\nTexas Standard For February 20, 2019\nTexas Teachers Living Paycheck To Paycheck Welcome Senate Pay Raise Proposal\nPrivate Contractor, Conduent To Pay The State $236 Million For Alleged Medicaid Fraud\nHouston City Leaders Ready Requests For Airport Funds\nNews Roundup: Democratic Lawmakers Want Probe Into ICE’s Force-Feeding Of Hunger-Striking Detainees\n‘Little Egypt,’ A Nearly-Lost Freedmen’s Town In Dallas, Resurfaces Thanks To College’s Digging\nLegislature Looks To Ax Driver Responsibility Program – And Just Might, This Time Around\nAre US Officials Unaware When Visa Holders Cross The Border?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line740659"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5843126773834229,"wiki_prob":0.5843126773834229,"text":"Forecasting Facebook’s future trends\nBen Smith Director, Social and Emerging Media | June 18, 2019\nWhen it comes to Facebook, there’s no shortage of opinion, perspective, and news coverage of the social media titan. At times, it all can make it tough to see the forest for the trees.\nTo help us make sense of it all we sat down with Ben Smith, Callahan’s Director of Social and Emerging Media, who recently attended Facebook’s F8 conference for developers. In this episode, Ben shares his insight and perspective on the overall health of Facebook, its coverage in news, and what emerging trends could shape future marketing tactics on the platform.\nhttp://traffic.libsyn.com/uncoveringaha/Episode_23_-_Facebook_F8_Recap_and_Trends_-_Uncovering_Aha.mp3\nWelcome to Callahan’s Uncovering Aha! podcast. We talk about a range of topics for marketing decision-makers, with a special focus on how to uncover insights in data to drive brand strategy and inspire creativity. Featuring Ben Smith and Jan-Eric Anderson.\nHi, I’m Jan-Eric Anderson, Head of Strategy at Callahan.\nI’m Ben Smith, Director of Social and Emerging Media at Callahan.\nI’m pumped to have Ben on the podcast with me today. We’re going to be talking about his favorite topic, social media. Ben is fresh back from the F8 summit, a developer conference at Facebook. It’s a black tie event. No, it’s not a black tie event, but it is invitation only. Ben, what is F8? Help the listeners understand what F8 is and what it’s about.\nYeah, F8 is Facebook’s annual developer conference, as you mentioned. It’s an event they host each year, where Mark Zuckerberg, and the leadership of Facebook, really outline their vision for what’s next, both in the short term, and with their long-term roadmap, and at the same time, give attendees direct access to a lot of the product teams, the engineering teams, the people making what we’re using.\nGot you. Invitation only. How many people are there?\nYeah, so there’s about 5,000 people go worldwide, and you either have to be invited, or apply, and a small number of people have their applications accepted. So, it’s a mix of pretty diverse mix of people, but a small group, which then affords that type of direct access.\nWow, 5,000 people’s a lot of people, but when you think about that they’re pulling from the world, it is a pretty exclusive group. You’re fresh back from that. You attended. You were one of the 5,000 in attendance.\nSo, today on the podcast, Ben has agreed to share some of his insights, from what he learned while he was at the conference. We’re thrilled to have you, so thanks for being here.\nI guess I’d like to maybe have you comment on the elephant in the room. I see headlines all the time about Facebook. Is Facebook in trouble? Look, what’s going on? It seems like Facebook is in the middle, is the rope of the tug-of-war between in the U.S. political ecosystem right now. People hate or love Facebook for different reasons, depending on which side of the aisle. Is Facebook in trouble?\nThat’s a really interesting question. It’s one where there’s not a simple answer, but at the top level, to me, a lot of the headlines feel very overblown, being quite honest. There’s a lot of stories that make for good readership. There’s a lot of headlines that can get a little sensationalized. Yeah, there’s definitely things about Facebook which are under heavy scrutiny. It’s definitely the center of the political climate right now. A lot of it’s elevated in media topics, media conversations, and commentators, raising a lot of, sometimes valid, sometimes not as valid, questions or concerns.\nTo me, it’s something where, when I look at this, and really dig deep, a lot of the issues that are raised, are ones that really aren’t issues. At the same time, Facebook is going to be under scrutiny, but it’s also in a situation where it’s built itself, so whatever happens next, there’s really not a losing scenario. If Facebook was to be broken up, in many ways it becomes stronger as three individual companies. If Facebook continues as it is, it has a lot more opportunity, to keep growing and connecting its different services. So, I would say under scrutiny, absolutely, in trouble, not to the point I would be concerned.\nIs Facebook in trouble with these headlines, and sometimes sensationalist headlines? Is Facebook shedding users, are they shrinking?\nThis is the really interesting part, is you’ve got this tag-of-war going on, as you mentioned, both political parties, the media, even outside pressures, even outside influences. The Chinese tech companies really are watching, and seeing what’s happening, but in the middle of it all, you have the users. The user base keeps growing. In the last quarterly report, it showed 8% year-over-year growth despite everything you hear. What we tend to see is, outside of the bubble of media headlines, the political discussion, a majority of the people in the middle, the users, just want to keep using the platform, just want to keep doing what they’re doing, just want to keep sharing their content, talking to people, connecting with people. A lot of those people are really uninfluenced by the very bubble type conversations around them. So, it’s not losing users, it’s actually still gaining users.\nPerhaps an indication of the political system in the U.S. being disconnected from the population. This is not a political podcast, so we will leave that where it is. Let’s get back to F8, because that’s what we really wanted to, to pick your brain about.\nI’m always fascinated. You’ve been to F8 several years in a row. I really enjoy our conversations every time that you get back from F8, and hearing what you had heard from, and you usually come back with some overarching theme, maybe one or two themes that Mark Zuckerberg is focused on at the conference. What was the theme that came out of F8 in 2019?\nThis was a very clear-cut theme this year. Other years, you’ve gotten a number of different trends going on, different themes going on underneath that overarching one. This year was very definitive, and that was a move to privacy. So, move from being a very public-built social network, to being a very private, and privacy-focused social network.\nThat’s interesting, privacy. Public and privacy. Help me understand that, because it feels to me like, unless I’m sending a direct message to somebody, everything on Facebook’s private, or is public rather.\nYeah. It’s actually a headline which has scared a lot of people, in the marketing and ad tech marketing space, of, well what does a private Facebook look like? I’ve read headlines saying, “Well, this is the end of Facebook for marketers,” or “This is the end of social media.” Actually, to me, yeah, there’s a lot of things that haven’t been said, and people are joining too many dots that don’t even exist. When you really start looking at what has been said, digging deeper into both directly what’s been said, but also what’s been implied, start looking at where they’re investing engineering resources, people, money, what seems to be very clear, is that the public side of Facebook isn’t going away, but they’re adding this public layer to really compliment it.\nThe analogy they use is, in our daily lives, we have both public and private spaces. The town squares, and the living rooms, is the way they described it. So, in the same way we have those public and private spaces, in our daily offline lives, we need to have that more in our online life. That we need more spaces, we can choose to be private, choose to be secluded, choose who we’re with, while still having the space and resource to be public, but need to be able to move between the two seamlessly.\nThat analogy actually is really relatable. I think that makes, actually, a ton of sense, but historically, fair to say that Facebook has been much more about a town square than the living rooms. So, the big theme here, and the Aha, is that … or what’s revealed at F8 this year, is this this migration more toward creating these living room or private spaces.\nYeah, and really, Facebook’s mission to date, has been connecting the world, so that’s a very, very significant shift. What they talk about a lot, is how we learn, from a brand side, from marketer side, is learning how to engage in public, and then move people to in a private connection. So, it might be in, for instance, engaging or connecting with somebody in a Facebook feed, at a very high funnel level, then moving them Facebook Messenger for a private conversation.\nAh, I see. The ecosystem within Facebook is huge. Maybe run down a list of some of the big products that fall into this ecosystem, that we talk about with Facebook.\nYeah. When we say Facebook, we’re not just talking about the Facebook app, we’re talking about Facebook itself, but then also Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Groups, Oculus, the VR division. So, it’s really a whole ecosystem. What’s interesting is, you see people using different parts of that ecosystem, so where Facebook talks around 2.3, 2.4 billion monthly users, when you start looking at the ecosystem, you’ve then got 2.1 billion people using at least one of those apps every single day.\nThat’s billion with a B.\nYeah, lots of users. So, in this shift from public spaces to more private spaces, are there certain apps, or certain products, is probably the better word, that become more of a priority now, in terms of development, and enhancements, and features within that ecosystem, as they make this migration? What does that mean from a product development standpoint?\nYeah, from outside looking in, from the brand side, marketer side, looking in, we’re going to have to pay really close attention to Facebook Messenger. I think we’re going to see a lot of shift there, with resources going into the Messenger product, but also how consumers are encouraged to change their behavior through new tools, new applications. We’re going to see users encouraged to use Messenger mail, where they can communicate with one-on-one, or one-to-many, or control groups. Brands are going to have to learn to follow them, and how to engage in that environment.\nAnd then, we’re going to see a big push, on both Facebook and Instagram, with Stories. They’ve already become an incredibly popular means of sharing content, but I really think we’re going to see a lot of shift of Stories functionality, to allow us to do more than share video, and photos, and stories, but to start replicating what would have been feed functionality in that private Stories environment.\nRight. Messaging huge, Stories, and evolution with Stories is a big one, groups. As there is a migration into more of Groups, perhaps, that probably has some impact as well.\nTotally. Yeah. With the relaunch of Facebook version five that just happened, Groups was put front and center. They’re placing as much importance on communities as on friends, and Groups is a fascinating one. A business, a brand can start a group, can participate in a group, but you have to have a good reason to do that. Is there something that’s meaningful to your brand, something your brand can own in terms of conversation?\nBut yeah, Groups is another thing. And another thing we’re going to have to watch for, beyond that, is Facebook currency. It wasn’t really addressed at F8, so a little bit of a segue, but it’s coming soon. Facebook are going to be launching their own micropayment currency, which could potentially disrupt eCommerce, as well as providing a means of allowing people to make instantaneous, very small payments.\nThat’s really interesting. How does that exactly work? With these micro payments, this is a new product, that’s in development right now, right? It has not launched.\nCorrect. This is something that Facebook is going to develop and deploy, and it appears from the information we’re seeing, that it will be managed and controlled by an independent party for Facebook, so it’s under regulatory control.\nWhat it would allow people to do, is make payments, potentially make payments of any value, instantaneously. So, if you think about it, you’re on a website, and you want to access a piece of content, right now, a paywall might mean you have to pay a monthly fee, and it discourages a lot of people. What if you could pay 10 cents to read that piece of content, and could do it with no friction, no credit card to be entered, no login? You could buy things at 10 cents at a time, but buy them at scale.\nInteresting. Now, so those are bite-size, that’s the micropayment idea that … Is there, then, other extensions for commerce on that? Is it beyond just spending a nickel on an article?\nAbsolutely. Here’s a great example. Think about Instagram. Instagram is a destination people go to, not just to browse content, but to buy goods. It’s a very visual platform. People shop there, sometimes way too easily.\nTell me about it.\nOne of the things we’re seeing right now, is the evolution of, very intentional evolution of Instagram as a shopping platform. There’s new products being rolled out, that allow you to browse products, for the brand to embed product tags, so you can literally see a product, tap on it, and then have the opportunity to purchase that product.\nWhat if you didn’t have to enter your credit card number? You could just, not only see the product, tap to view it, and to enter a checkout process, but then to buy it without doing anything more. Everything’s integrated inside your Facebook account, including the payment itself. So, no third party transaction to worry about, just a fully integrated payment, from the micropayment up to a full eCommerce platform\nOh, it’s going to light the idea of impulse purchases on fire, and it will be the death of my checking account, for the record. I already have a big enough problem spending money in Instagram. The worst thing for me is, they can make it easier, which they sound like they’re doing. Thanks a lot.\nAll right, so we’ve got this shift, of going into private, and you’ve been into more private type spaces. You’ve been alluding to this, and hinting as you’ve gone through, but I guess I’m kind of curious, and I’m sure CMOs will be thinking about this, what does this mean for brands?\nI get this, as a user, and connecting with friends, and smaller communities, and smaller groups, and smaller spaces. The living room example makes a ton of sense. What does it mean for a brand? Is this limiting for a brand? What opportunities does this create for brands, and how should CMOs be thinking about that?\nYeah. That’s such an important question. I’ve heard so many negative push backs, negative headlines around this, of, well we can’t advertise in that environment. One of my personal beliefs around social, has always been, the biggest opportunity is building one-on-one relationships at scale. I’d love the process of doing that. So, to me this aligns perfectly with that.\nThat actually presents a really exciting opportunity to rethink how we advertise. So, I don’t look at this as a negative or something scary. The deeper I dig into this, the more I actually find opportunity. I’m looking at this. Think of the public space as the very top of the funnel, that initial awareness level, and then moving to private being that consideration phase. How we move from consideration to conversion.\nMoving to private doesn’t mean to say you have to have, literally, a one-on-one conversation with somebody. There’s so many technologies you can deploy, and develop, to do that automatically, but in a meaningful way.\nA great example is with Facebook Messenger. You can talk to somebody individually as a community manager, or you can develop a messenger Bot, that can help people find what they need, either information, or a product, something to buy, an appointment to make. You can have them move through that process, seamlessly, all the way to completion and conversion.\nSo, you’re engaging in a high effort awareness level in the public, moving through the funnel in private. It’s got so much potential, it’s actually a very exciting thing to see happening.\nYeah. And having worked with you enough, I’ve come to really appreciate your commitment to that one-on-one relationships at scale, of personalized relationships at scale. It almost seems like this is setting up to create an even better environment for being able to do those things.\nBen, before we wrap up, is there anything else that you … any other final notes you’d want to add about F8, or Facebook in general?\nYeah. I think, to me, that the big thing right now is just, don’t take every headline at face value. Facebook makes a good media scapegoat right now. There’s a lot of stories out there. It’s a very political issue. There’s also a lot of agendas at play. So I would encourage, particularly anybody who’s making business decisions around this, to dig deeper, and to not take every headline, not be reactionary, but to understand the longer term mission, the longer term vision, and to understand, truly, what the implications are of the changes Facebook are making, and potential political outcomes, and what it really means, and look for the opportunity instead of fearing the worst.\nWell, yeah. Just to kind of build upon that, it seems like, if you read through the tea leaves, Facebook’s actually primed to take a huge leap forward. This particular trend, or theme, around the future being private, seems like it actually lends to the strength of the platform, and we actually may be on the doorstep of a whole new horizon, of great ways for brands to be even more relevant within that platform, and making more personal relationships.\nYeah. I think something that Facebook’s done a tremendous job of, over the years, is really understanding the importance of keeping users, and to keep users, you have to have a healthy platform, a healthy environment. If they’re willing to take a huge shift in how they do their business, ultimately they’re confident in how that impacts the user health, and users on the platform. So, for a brand, for marketers, the more users that are engaged in that platform, obviously the better. So, absolutely.\nWell, the coming months will be really interesting to see, how all these developments unfold. And as you’ve stated all the time, by the time we get done recording this, maybe there will be new updates, that we’re already out of date on this podcast. Regardless of that, Ben, your insights from F8 are always really appreciated. Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast.\nWell, thank you.\nA new approach to social media strategy for sales\nMeasure first, make last: A study in social media behaviors (Part 1)\nA glimpse into the future at the Gartner Digital Marketing Conference\nHow to make Facebook data work harder for your marketing","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1000934"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6731881499290466,"wiki_prob":0.6731881499290466,"text":"> Owner's Manuals>Mercedes Benz Vito 108 CDI Manual | Instrucciones de Servicio | W638\nManuals Classifieds by Model\nMercedes Benz 600 W100 Series (1963-1981)\nMercedes Benz S-Class W105 Series (1956-1959)\nMercedes Benz SL-Class R107 Series (1971-1989)\nMercedes Benz SLC-Class C107 Series (1972-1981)\nMercedes Benz E-Class W110 Series (1961-1968)\nMercedes Benz M-Class W163 Series (1997-2005)\nMercedes Benz A-Class W168 Series (1997-2005)\nMercedes Benz SLK-Class R170 Series (1996-2004)\nMercedes Benz SL-Class W198 Series (1954-1957)\nMercedes Benz C-Class W201 Series (1982-1993)\nMercedes Benz CLK-Class W208 Series (1996-2002)\nMercedes Benz E Class W210 Series (1995-2003)\nMercedes Benz CL-Class C215 Series (2000-2006)\nMercedes Benz R-Class W251 Series (2006-2015)\nMercedes Benz UNIMOG U411 Series (1956-1974)\nMercedes Benz G-Class W460 Series (1979-1991)\nMercedes Benz MB W631 Series (1981-1995)\nMercedes Benz Vito W638 Series (1996-2003)\nMercedes Benz Vito Series W 639 (2003-2014)\nMercedes Benz Sprinter W901-905 Series (1995-2006)\nEngine Manuals\nChassis & Body Manuals\nService Manual Library\nG-Class & UNIMOG Manuals\nMercedes Benz Service Manual Engines M 110\nContains instructions for repair and maintenance of the M110 engine...\nMercedes Benz Service Manual V-8 Engine M119\nMercedes Benz Service Manual V-8 Engines M 116 (3.5), M 117 (4.5)\nMercedes Benz Service Manual Engine 615, 616, 617.91\nContains instructions for repair and maintenance of the OM615 engine...\nMercedes Benz Service Manual Diesel Engines 602, 603\nMercedes Benz Service Manual Chassis & Body Model 107 | Volume 1\nThis manual is also useful for tasks in all models of the W107 Series....\nMercedes Benz Vito 108 CDI Manual | Instrucciones de Servicio | W638\nOwner's manual of Mercedes Benz cars of the W638 Series that including models Vito 108 CDI.\nMercedes Benz Vito 108 CDI Manual | Instrucciones de Servicio | W638.\nToday, in many cases, is difficult to find or purchase the paper version of the owner’s manual for Mercedes Benz Vito 108 CDI | W638 Series was originally issued to each vehicle user of the trademark. For this reason we offer a digital version of the same content and the possibility of immediate download.\nFor the owner of Mercedes Benz Vito 108 CDI | W638 Series will not find a better manual.\nIt has 331 pages in Spanish including descriptive images and driving directions, vehicle management, care team and technical data. Available in PDF format also allows reading from the screen of a personal computer, tablet or smartphone as printing the pages.\nBrief description of contents:\nManejo\nConsejos de autoayuda\nSustancias necesarias para el funcionamiento\nDigital format PDF (compressed with WinRAR)\nShipping method: Download link\nInstructions: Unzip and open with PDF reader\nCrazy About Mercedes, Available in worldwide!\nEmail: team@crazyaboutmercedes.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1592218"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6665344834327698,"wiki_prob":0.6665344834327698,"text":"Review of “US” A New Film By Jordan Peele\nUploaded on 21 March, 2019\n“US” Reviewed by Cleo Coulter\nFilm Director/Writer Jordan Peele’s (Get Out, 2017) took a stab at creating a family summer vacation movie for his second feature film release. “Us” amply titled, takes the viewer through a corridor of dual realities. “Us” is a modern version of an old concept of an underworld parallel to our own. Modern moviegoers, who are obsessed with what can be described as a hidden clue will be satisfied to watch this movie over and over to digest this soon-to-be cult-classic fully.\nThe film’s opening scene takes film fans into an 80’s time warp, planting seeds that will, later on, become the tares amongst the wheat in this human transplant thriller. Jordan Peele’s subversive style of writing comingles comedy with horror that takes jump scares to a whole new level. This is not a conventional type of horror film per se, yet it weaves between Hitchcock’s, King’s and Peele’s different styles. Peele’s writing and directing may remind viewers of Hitchcock’s usage of reality against itself and King’s defiance to the natural order of things. The Peele style of metaphoric twists taught fans a lesson in his first film about taking frame changes for granted, so viewers beware.\n“Us” follows a family on vacation to Santa Cruz when the unthinkable happens. Lupita Nyong’o (10 Years A Slave), leads this movie as the matriarch of her family. Her husband, played by Winston Duke (Black Panther), and their two children(Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) are fighting to stay alive in what can be perceived as, “A Night of the Living Dead” scenario, but it is worse, much worse. It’s the Isaac Newton’s 3rd law, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction,” as each member faces off against their mirrored selves in what can only be described as carnage on an apocalyptic level. Lupita turns in a hair raising performance playing dual roles as her reflected self with terrifying precision. While Winston is allowed to play the vulnerable husband that has to step up as a hero in the family’s fight for survival. The children bring the right amount of terror and shock to their respective roles performing acts that can create nightmares for a lifetime.\nThis film swells with anticipation and anxiety. There are a few jokes here and there to lighten the suspenseful tension and remind the audience to breathe. Once the audience understands that there might not be any help coming for these poor souls, stress kicks in. Maybe the threat of family separation subconsciously affects us all and the maternal, and paternal instincts make us root for the family because you become invested in the outcome. You shouldn’t watch this film for that. You should watch this film because it shows that even in the scariest situations, you are stronger as a functioning family unit. This film is going to scare you and make you think.\n“US ” also stars Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Madison Curry, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon.\nCategory: Movie Reviews.\nTags: horror, Jordan Peele, lupita nyong'o, and Winston Duke.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1197160"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6064293384552002,"wiki_prob":0.3935706615447998,"text":"Home What's On\nNewsNottingham NewsWhat's On\nPictures: First look inside Nottingham’s new seaside arcade bar – Penny Lane\nTuesday, April 23, 2019 11:31 am\nUPDATED: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 11:52 am\nPenny Lane opens officially this Friday – 26th April 2019.\nLocated at 9 Fletcher Gate, the new flagship venue, named Penny Lane after taking inspiration from seaside family holidays, summer trips to Matlock Bath and Blackpool and Brighton’s iconic pier.\nSpeciality cocktails designed by an award-winning mixologist and an extensive handpicked selection of food and drinks feature on the menu, designed to reflect the seaside look and feel.\nThe new bar and kitchen, which will serve as both a daytime and evening venue, will also have a nostalgic amusement arcade with a mid-century British inspired design throughout.\nMichael Johnson, the operations director at Penny Lane, said: “We are thrilled to be opening our newest venture in Nottingham’s Lace Market – it is the perfect location and we think people will be really excited to try it out. Penny Lane will be our flagship venue, and will feature some of our most exciting and adventurous ideas yet.\n“Nottingham is such a vibrant city, known for its artistic flare and independent scene, so it was really important that we created something different with a unique interactive element – Penny Lane is just that.”\nMichael added: “There will be unusual cocktails on the menu, designed to bring back British childhood memories. Our Twister cocktail at The Hockley Arts Club is extremely popular, so we will be using similar ideas to fit in with the fun quirky theme at Penny Lane, as well as colourful lights and stunning monochrome tiles to deliver an iconic venue that the city can be proud of.\n“We are really excited to open up the venue during the daytime too, which will be suitable for families and children looking to have a go on the games and relax with some casual food and drink.”\nGET DAILY NEWS UPDATES IN ONE EMAIL\nReceive all the day's stories and events from The Wire delivered in one email every day\nWestlife’s Twenty Tour’s last show to be broadcast live in Nottingham...\nWhat's On Thursday, July 4, 2019 1:26 pm\nNews Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:12 am\n‘Everything is Roarsome’ exhibition for LEGO fans this summer at Twycross...\nWhat's On Monday, July 1, 2019 2:04 pm\nWhat's On Saturday, June 29, 2019 10:33 am","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line906139"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9897282123565674,"wiki_prob":0.9897282123565674,"text":"LATV Makes History by Launching the First LGBTQ Latinx Talk Show on Nationwide Television\nLATV Network, the original national, bicultural television network — which recently kicked off its second decade of programming — is excited to announce the launch of its groundbreaking weekly talk show “Glitterbomb”, premiering on the network this fall.\n“Glitterbomb” is an explosive pop-culture talk show hosted by an entirely gay, Latino, Hollywood-insider panel featuring “Entertainment Weekly” senior editor Patrick Gomez, iHeartRadio personality Alexander Rodriguez, and actor Enrique Sapene.\nTheir queer Latino perspective — drizzled with wit, humor and first-hand insight into A-lister life — gives “Glitterbomb” a festive and unique flavor that everyone can enjoy. Combining their experience in acting, radio and journalism, there’s no subject too hot to handle and no scandal too spicy to dig into.\n“The LGBTQ Latino community has, for too long, been underserved,” says Luca Bentivoglio, LATV’s COO and Head of Programming. “LATV is proud to foster an environment of inclusivity and we are thrilled to be a pioneer in LGBTQ Latino programming by airing the first-ever talk show with an entirely gay Latino cast. As part of our network’s mission to be as inclusive as possible, ‘Glitterbomb’ is a shining example of our network’s commitment to serving diverse and alternative audiences.”\nProduced at LATV’s state-of-the-art HD studios in Los Angeles, “Glitterbomb” is an English-language show that features heated discussions about the latest in pop culture news and trends; provides an inside look at the latest celebrity hot spots and events; and welcomes some of the biggest names in entertainment.\n“We could not be happier that LATV has given three gay Latinos a platform as big as ‘Glitterbomb,’” co-hosts Gomez, Rodriguez, and Sapene say in a joint statement. “But we hope that people of all races, genders, and orientations will see a bit of themselves in our show — or, at the very least, have a good time watching it!”\nAbout LATV:\nLATV is the only remaining Latino-owned TV network in the Hispanic television space. Its programming primarily targets U.S.-born Latinos and the coveted bicultural 18-49 Latino demographic, with content that features originally-produced shows in Los Angeles, as well as licensed content that has never before been seen in the U.S. For more go to www.LATV.com.\nAbout the hosts:\nPATRICK GOMEZ is currently a Senior Editor at “Entertainment Weekly”. As a veteran “People” magazine writer and member of the Television Critics Association, the Texas native has appeared on “Today”, “Extra!”, “Access Hollywood”, “E! News”, HLN’s “Michaela”, and “Nightline” and can be seen frequently on “Good Morning America”.\nALEXANDER RODRIGUEZ is an on-air personality and entertainer. His sense of humor shines on his nationally syndicated radio show, “On The Rocks”, “where celebrities and cocktails” on iHeartRadio and Universal Broadcasting Network. The show is broadcast live weekly from Sunset Gower Studios in the heart of Hollywood. The Southern California native also serves as Entertainment Editor for “Bear World Magazine”, a national LGBT online media source.\nENRIQUE SAPENE is an actor, host and producer. The Venezuela native has entertained audiences internationally as a reporter on Univision, NBC, ABC and Telemundo. As an actor, he has recurred on the Amazon Prime series “Borderline” and his telenovelas “ Pecadora”, “El Alma Herida”, “Eva la Trailera” and “Tomame o Dejame” have sold worldwide. In 2017, Enrique joined the cast of the docu-series “My Life is a Telenovela”, which aired on WEtv and E! Latin America and is currently available on Hulu.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line234825"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5499342679977417,"wiki_prob":0.5499342679977417,"text":"December 18, 2012 - News Leader\nRCMP WARN OF SCAM\nPrinceton RCMP would like to advise the public of a telephone scam that has come to the attention of the police. This involves an unknown individual posing as a family member or a representative of the family member. The caller requests that you send money to assist the family member and details are provided on how to transfer the money. Once the money is transferred, the person does not hear from the caller again and when they finally speak to the family member, it is realized that the call was not legitimate. RCMP would like to caution the public of such phone scams and if you do receive a suspicious phone call of this nature to contact Phone Busters at 1-888-495-8501.\nWHY CHRISTMAS TREES?\nThe Christmas tradition of bringing an evergreen tree into the house goes back to northern Europe perhaps 300 years ago, but may have originated with a pagan custom dating even further back. The first Christmas trees were decorated with edibles - apples, nuts and dates. Some families hung sugar cookies on the tree. In America, popcorn and/or cranberry garlands were strung on the tree. Around 200 years ago, some families put candles on the tree. Often, the tree was set in the middle of the best room in the house, and the family danced around it singing Christmas songs such as ‘O Christmas Tree’. When Christmas trees became popular among Europe’s nobility, the decorations became much more elaborate. Confections were hung from the tree, and often small decorated boxes were hung and used as gifts for important visitors.\nPAPER OFFICE CLOSES FOR HOLIDAY\nPrinceton’s only locally-owned weekly community newspaper, the Similkameen News Leader, will be closing this week. This will be the last issue published of the paper for 2012. The office of the Similkameen News Leader will close at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, December 19th for the Christmas holiday. There will not be a paper next week. “This is the only break we get all year so we’re going to do our best to enjoy as much of it as we can between now and the end of 2012,” explains Similkameen News Leader Owner/Publisher George Elliott. “Our office will re-open for regular business at 8:30 AM on Wednesday, December 26th and we look forward to serving you throughout 2013.” The first issue of the News Leader for 2013 will be available Monday, December 31st but will be dated Tuesday, January 1, 2013.\nDancers Celebrate The Season!\nPhoto: Dawn Johnson\nPrinceton Highland Dancers held their annual 'Christmas Fling' December 13th at Riverside Theatre. The event is free to attend, provided you bring a non-perishable food item. All 'admission fees' are collected and handed over to Princeton Crisis Assistance Society for their annual Christmas Hamper Drive.\nWinner Walks Away With Paint!\nThe joint Princeton Home Hardware/Similkameen News Leader 'Splash/Win Some Paint' Contest in November saw a lot of interest thanks to Beauti-Tone. The new paint mixing machine at Princeton Home Hardware was the reason for the contest which was won by Princeton's Noreen Pringle, right. Her prize package included $215.00 worth of paint and accessories presented by Princeton Home Hardware Co-Owner/Manager Peter Rubingh, left.\nCOUNCIL AWARDS ANALYSIS CONTRACT\nThe contract for structural analysis of the Princeton Courthouse building was awarded at the December 3rd regular meeting of Town Council. In a motion made by Councillor Jason Earle, and seconded by Councillor Doug Pateman, David Nairne and Associates of North Vancouver will conduct a Structural Assessment of the building at 151 Vermilion Avenue valued at $7,728.00. A total of seven responses were received following a Request for Proposals with David Nairne & Associates being the lowest one received. The second lowest amounted was $9,366.00 and the highest came in at $49,600.00. An assessment of the mechanical, electrical and environmental systems was completed earlier this year. The second step is the structural assessment. “If the results are favourable, the next step will be an architectural engagement to determine the suitability of the building for the purpose of a Town Hall,” Interim CAO Helen Koning stated in her report to Council. The structural analysis will start “as quickly as we can sign a contract with them,” Koning added. Expect to hear more about this project well into 2013 as Princeton Town Council continues with a step-by-step plan for the future of the building.\nMUSIC MAN RETURNS!\nPrinceton welcomed the return of Harold Crane, former band teacher at Princeton Secondary School. He was guest of honour at the band concert held at Riverside Centre on December 3. The reason for honoring Crane begins with current band teacher, Myrna Coates, seeking a vibraphone for her band. She went to a music supply store in Kelowna to ask if the shop owner knew of anyone who might want to sell a vibraphone. He did. He immediately contacted Joyce Crane, Harold’s daughter, who had a vibraphone stored in her basement. Her father had bought it for her many years ago when she was in a band with him. Joyce hesitated about selling it, but when she found out it was for Princeton, and told her father about it, he told her to make up her mind. The result was the vibraphone was donated to Princeton’s band. At the concert, 96 year old Harold Crane led the band in O Canada to begin the concert. Calling Crane Princeton’s ’Music Man’, Bob Cormack, who had been Principal of Princeton Secondary during the years when Crane taught music, gave a speech outlining Crane’s success as a band teacher. Crane began teaching in 1961 and by 1965 led the Princeton band to a championship at a music festival in the Lower Mainland. The mixed school and community bands completed the evening with a wide variety of music, some simple for the beginners and some complex involving the entire band, such as the rollicking finish with ‘Rock Around the Clock’.\nLocal Design Gets Our Attention!\nDrawing: Steve Brodie\nPrinceton's Steve Brodie has ideas. The last one he shared with us at the Similkameen News Leader was for the zigzag project. Although Brodie's design was not used, it had some creative and practical applications and design features we really liked. This week Brodie shares with us his conceptual vision of what can take place at the old court house building on Vermilion Avenue. We like it because it's designed by a local. What do you think?\nWe Visit Internet Radio Station!\nVANDALS COST PRINCETON POSSE $$$\nby W. George Elliott Owner/Publisher\nPrinceton’s Junior B Hockey Club, the Posse, suffered a lost over the weekend. No, they didn’t lose a game and they didn’t lose a member of their team. The Princeton Posse lost an opportunity. The past five seasons the Princeton Posse has been part of a network of teams in the KIJHL and other sports teams in Western Canada that ‘webcast’ their games over the internet. The games are part of a pay-per-view program that makes money for both the league and the team. Viewers spend an average of $7.00 to view the game. A portion of that fee\ngoes to the league, which is then distributed to teams at the end of the season. The Princeton Posse webcasts have been the second most viewed in the league for the past two seasons. On average there can be anywhere from 25 to 100 people watching the live webcasts at home anywhere in North America. You do the math. That’s a few dollars. Multiply that by 25 home games in the regular season and tack onto that playoff games and additional revenue from viewing archived games and you get the picture that this is not a few bucks we’re talking about. Some time after the November 16th game and November 30th the Princeton Posse webcast equipment was damaged. The damage was serious enough to prevent the team from putting last Friday night’s game online, which lost the team (and KIJHL) some revenue. The Posse pay a per game fee to webcast each game and the league fines teams a hefty amount for not providing a webcast. The Posse could be fined for all future games not provided online. Fortunately a fundraising campaign started before last Friday night’s game ended and generous donations have been received. But why did this happen? I have my suspicions of what went on in the broadcast booth at Princeton Arena between Posse home games, but I have no proof, and it is not my style to point fingers without something to back me up. What I do know is that there are issues related to safety and security at Princeton Arena, which affect all the users of the facility. But what it really comes down to is sharing. We all need to share the space and we need to respect what other users are doing with their portion of that space. Wrecking webcast equipment is one thing. Those things can be replaced, but what happens if it gets more serious than that? If you have any information regarding the circumstances revolving around the vandalism of the Princeton Posse webcast gear, I’d like to hear it.\nTOURIST STRATEGY WORTH BILLIONS\nA 10 year tourism strategy has been developed by the Thompson Okanagan Tourist Association for the entire region, which will include a strategy for marketing the Similkameen Valley. Tourism in the region is valued at an estimated $1.7 billion. During the past two years, the regional Tourist Association has worked to make business aware of the potential. Meetings with stakeholders have been involved in developing the strategy through a coordinated approach to strengthening the tourist industry. One of the key messages to every part of the region was to stop viewing competition as the business down the street, and start seeing it as the business in California or New Zealand. The goal of the Association is to put Thompson Okanagan region on the world stage as a ‘must visit’ destination. Similkameen Valley Planning Society has worked on marketing the entire valley. One of the key findings at the tourism meetings was a lack of identity for the Similkameen Valley. A Similkmeen Valley website is being developed which will contain numerous images of the valley. One of the common goals of every part of the region is to create jobs and development that respects and sustains our environment and our culture. For those who may doubt our culture, an overview of what goes on in the region is much like what goes on in the Similkameen Valley. Ours is a region of forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, ranches, vineyards and wineries, sawmills, mines, orchards, ski hills and ski trails, and First Nations Reserves and businesses. The sheer diversity of the region lends itself to a real marketing opportunity. The focus on summer tourism is still in place, but there seems to be a lack of tourists in the colder months, a problem the Association will address. Snowmobile tours and ice fishing are winter time activities which may benefit from more and better marketing.\nSightings Prompt Action!\nResidents on the Second Bench in Princeton have reported seeing a bear in their neighbourhood off and on over the past couple of weeks. There have also been bear sightings in various other residential locations in the area for several months. This bear trap spent a few days parked on the Second Bench as Conservation Officers took action resulting from the volume of sightings.\nZigzag Project Update!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line165029"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8985805511474609,"wiki_prob":0.8985805511474609,"text":"Matt's Old Man Rants\nThe rants and ramblings of a man called Matt who isn't actually old\nRant History\nMatt’s Music Spot Miniblog\n1996: The Year In Pop… 20 Years On\nARIA 1991 Top 100 Singles\nMatt’s Music Spot: 2014.05.22\nMatt’s Music Spot: whatever happened to 2005?\nThe top ten singles of 2005… 10 years on\nMatt’s Old Man ‘That’s Not News’ Rant\nTHAT’S NOT NEWS! 18 September 2016\nTHAT’S NOT NEWS! 9 July 2016\nMatt’s Old Man Travelblog\nTag Archives: Ed Sheeran\nInternet Killed The Radio Star\nPosted on March 18, 2017 by mattsoldmanrants\nLast week was record-breaking on pop music charts all over the world. It was also quite a telling week regarding the state of music in the digital age.\nHere in Australia, Ed Sheeran’s third album ÷ (aka, Divide) debuted at number one, already certified 2xPlatinum for first week sales of more than 140,000 units. During the 90s and early-2000s plenty of albums racked up multi-platinum first-week sales and debuted at number one, but these days it’s a double-whammy that almost never happens; in fact, it’s a feat only achieved so far this decade by two other albums.\nSheeran also set a chart precedent ten weeks ago when Divide’s first two singles were released at the same time and debuted at numbers one and two; no other artist had ever sent two singles to the Top 2 of the Australian chart, on début, in the same week.\nSix weeks later, while Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill were still on the two top rungs, the third track from Divide, How Would You Feel, also crashed into the chart at number two, pushing Castle On The Hill back to number three; the same artist occupying the entire chart podium had only ever been seen twice before—when Beatlemania took off in 1964, and, inexplicably, when Karise Eden won The Voice in 2012.\nLast week, the remaining thirteen tracks from Divide all debuted within the Top 40. Yep, every single track.\nAnd if you think that sounds weird—it certainly is, at the very least, highly unusual—then spare a thought for Irish music lovers: the entire Top 16 of last week’s Irish singles chart was the tracks from Divide!\nShape Of You and Castle On The Hill were, officially, Divide’s first two singles, while How Would You Feel was designated as a ‘promotional single’. And the other thirteen? Well, at least for now, they’re just tracks on the album. And this is where the modern way of things starts getting a tad confusing, if you actually try to understand how it all works. So let’s forget the complexities of the present for a bit, and take a step back in time for some context.\nIn the olden days (but, really, not that long ago at all) a single was a single, and in 99% of cases its prime objective was to promote album sales. A single had a physical release in at least one format, it was played on radio (sometimes) and on music TV shows (sometimes) and it only hit the chart if enough people went to a retail outlet and paid for it; subsequent singles from the same album would follow more-or-less the same pattern. Total sales volumes and resultant chart positions were determined by a physical exchange of cash for product—a CD, a cassette, or a black vinyl platter that, as if by magic, had somehow been infused with music. It was a pretty straightforward process: 1 payment = 1 exchange = 1 sale. 100 payments = 100 sales, 35,000 payments = 35,000 sales and, in the latter case, a gold record accreditation.\nIt was also extremely rare in the olden days for any non-single album track to ever see the light of day on TV or radio.\nIn the olden days, albums were always the big-hitters. Other than any singles already released, we were largely unaware of an album’s content until we actually bought it—and so, there was a vested interest in buying it; invariably, we enjoyed some tracks more than others, and there were sometimes even tracks that we didn’t like much at all. But we still viewed an album as a body of work and we listened to each track in the order in which it appeared on the album; even in the age of random play and ‘shuffle’, some music lovers stood firm in the belief that this was the order in which the artist wanted us to hear the album.\nThese days, the content of any album is readily accessible online, at least to ‘preview’, without necessitating any kind of purchase whatsoever. Individual album tracks can mostly be paid for and downloaded, whether they’re a single or not; in fact, as far as digital downloads go, these days there’s virtually no discernible difference between an album track and an actual single, other than the fact that some singles are available before an album’s release and some have their own bespoke cover art; some also contain additional tracks or remixes, both of which usually leads to an ‘EP’ designation and a price hike.\nThese days, album tracks, as with singles, can also be streamed. While downloads count towards a track’s total sales just as physical purchases did in the olden days, the part played by streaming involves a more complex equation. According to ARIA CEO Dan Rosen, it goes something like this: “Say for example it was 175 streams equating to one sale, once you work out that conversion you tally up all your streams, divide it by that number, tally up all your iTunes downloads and add the two and that’s the number for the ARIA chart”… clear as mud, right?\nThese days, there are virtually no physical sales of singles—although, the vinyl revival of the past few years has seen that changing, if only in small numbers. Specifically in the case of the thirteen Ed Sheeran tracks, though, it was the enormous number of times they were streamed that saw all thirteen of them hit the chart at once; purchased downloads only accounted for the tiniest proportion of this seemingly bizarre outcome. Such is the way the charts are calculated these days that three of the tracks made it all the way to the Top 10, joining the first two singles that were still sitting pretty at the top of the chart—and streaming volumes just keep getting higher and higher, to the point where digital services accounted for more than 60% of total market value in 2015.\nMeanwhile, Divide, saw an almost 50/50 split between physical CD sales and digital downloads, which in itself is also quite unusual for any album these days.\nMeasures of success have also shifted. In the olden days, whether a single was successful or not was largely inconsequential as long as the album it was promoting sold like hot cakes; and if it did, then even the least successful of singles could go on to be fondly recalled as a massive hit.\nIn 1970s and 80s Australia, full-length LPs were still relatively expensive. Nevertheless, Australians snapped up albums like Cold Chisel’s East, ABBA’s Arrival and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours in massive numbers; it was as if everyone everywhere knew every word of every song on every big-selling album. Some of those albums also featured singles that were hugely successful in their own right, although that certainly wasn’t always the case, but at any rate albums were the artists’—and the record companies’—bread and butter; singles were merely promotional tools.\nFast forward a decade or two and the radio producers and presenters who were air-guitaring and lip-syncing to all those songs in the 70s and 80s were now adding them to their playlists; even if they were never big hits to start with, their status as pop and rock classics was now assured, thanks almost entirely to radio and music video airplay decades after their release.\nBut there was trouble brewing. Long before the Internet started to skew how we watch TV and movies, it also had a significant hand in the slow demise—or, at very least, the destructive realignment—of the music industry.\nIn the olden days, the only way to hear those non-single album tracks was to preview the album at a retail outlet—some larger retailers, like Virgin and HMV, offered ‘listening posts’, others had a stereo at the counter to serve the same purpose, while smaller stores would simply play whatever you wanted to hear through their speakers, in turn allowing everyone else in the shop to hear and thusly pour scorn all over your questionable taste in music… or was that just mine? In most cases, though, the only way some people ever heard those tracks was to actually buy the album.\nSince 1998 the Internet has given rise to a constant evolution of how we consume music. Today, anyone can go online, preview album tracks, largely ignore them, buy individual songs, or use streaming services to listen to some or all of any given album, the latter of which avoids a purchase and results in artist royalties that are, at best, variable and, at worst, contemptuously minimal—for example, a track apparently needs at least 1,000 streams on Spotify to earn the artist a paltry $1.\nIndustry bodies have acknowledged artists’ record sales for decades. In Australia, the first sales accreditations were established by record companies in the 1970s. The numbers weren’t always consistent between the companies and levels were sometimes different between singles and albums but, generally, a Gold accreditation was awarded for 50,000 sales and Platinum for 100,000 sales. The physical award that was presented to the artist was generally a gold or platinum-coloured copy of the vinyl disc, in a great big frame with a plaque—thus the terms “gold record” and “platinum record”.\nHaving taken end-to-end management of the national charts in-house during 1988, in 1989 ARIA revised accreditation levels down to 35,000 for Gold and 70,000 for Platinum—possibly something to do with the organisation having been created by a conglomerate of the four major local record companies in 1983.\nEven though the reduced numbers meant greater recognition of singles sales, albums were still far and away the biggest hitters. Throughout the 90s, high-selling albums regularly achieved certifications of between 5 and 10xPlatinum, while the really big ones—Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill, Savage Garden’s 1997 début, and Shania Twain’s Come On Over—were certified up to 15xPlatinum. Earlier mega-sellers, like The Best Of ABBA, the Grease soundtrack, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, John Farnham’s Whispering Jack, Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell and Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, have all, over time, been accredited for sales in excess of 20xPlatinum.\nIn 1993, Whitney Houston’s mega-hit I Will Always Love You became the first single ever accredited 4xPlatinum by ARIA, recognising local sales of more than 280,000 units. Five years later Elton John smashed that record when his tribute to Princess Diana, Candle In The Wind, achieved an unprecedented 14xPlatinum certification, a record that went unbroken for seventeen years. But, under ‘normal’ sales conditions, Houston’s achievement technically stood for two decades, although it looked like it was about to be bettered multiple times before then—Lou Bega’s Mambo No. 5 and The Offspring’s Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) had also joined the 4xPlatinum club in 1999, but it wasn’t until 2003 when, after twelve weeks at number one, Eminem’s Lose Yourself was well on its way to becoming ARIA’s first 5xPlatinum single. Then… nothing. But finally, after the best part of a decade of a consistently small volume of digital sales, Lose Yourself was, all at once, awarded seventh Platinum certification (and therefore, by inference, its fifth and sixth) in mid-2013.\nBut by then, a 7xPlatinum accreditation for a single had become so commonplace that, in July 2014, LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem was certified a whopping 15xPlatinum—not only making it the only single to ever sell more than a million units in this country, but also placing it just behind the only eight full-length albums that have ever sold more. And since 2013, ten other singles have also been certified between 10 and 13xPlatinum.\nThat’s how much things have changed, certainly since 1993, but most significantly in just the past five years.\nIn the olden days albums were, by far, the bigger sellers—singles just propped them up—but these days it’s the reverse. As a general rule, singles now sell by the (digital) truckload, sometimes bouncing around the chart for up to two years. But long-player sales have been so depleted that it’s not uncommon for an album by a niche artist to début at number one off the back of a couple of thousand sales, before disappearing from the chart altogether within three or four weeks.\nThe divergence between olden days volumes and today’s—and the very reason why Divide’s opening week tally of 140,000 units is so significant—is crystal clear with a few historical comparisons. In December 2003, for example, Guy Sebastian’s Just As I Am had opening week sales of 164,000 units; in 2006, Anthony Callea’s A New Chapter couldn’t edge any higher than number 45 with sales of nearly 5,500 units. By January 2014, the entire Top 500 albums combined sold just under 182,000 units; in March 2015, one-time superstar Madonna’s Rebel Heart debuted at number one on less than 7,000 sales, before nosediving to a measly 1,300 sales in its second week; three months later, just 3,777 sales pushed Ed Sheeran’s previous album X back to number one; and even in the UK last week, Sheeran’s new album sold more units than the rest of the Top 500 albums combined.\nAs well, the hugely reduced volume of overall album sales results in a whole lot of super weird in/out up/down activity on the albums chart that simply wasn’t seen before about five years ago; ultimately, it calls into question the relevance, or even the validity, of the chart, particularly given outcomes like the one seen last week with Ed Sheeran—for example, why should non-single tracks appear on a singles chart, rather than their streaming and download volumes being combined to reflect sales of the album they feature on? Surely that makes more sense and it couldn’t be that hard, could it? I mean, I’m no mathematician or statistician, but it seems logical to me that each download of a single track from a 16 track album should amount to 1/16th of a sale of that album… shouldn’t it?\nAt any rate, it’s unlikely any of the thirteen Sheeran tracks will see the light of day on the radio again, once post-release hysteria has been quelled, unless they’re released as a single.\nCue the question of ‘what does the future hold?’, because, at the current rate of change, music seems to be evolving in ever-decreasing circles.\nRadio’s been around for a century, and for much of the last sixty years it was the go-to source for music that people wanted to hear; today you’re more likely to see people gathered around a smartphone’s Spotify playlist, while radios merely generate background noise in kitchens, on desks and in mechanics’ workshops across the country.\nMusic television took off in the early-80s and, for music lovers, was an essential resource for at least twenty years; today, a music video isn’t even guaranteed for any release and, more often than not, if there is one they’re usually not much more than an ultra-fancy YouTube lyric video. Music Television, as we knew it in the olden days, is virtually dead; the ABC’s Rage, which celebrates its 30th anniversary next month, is now pretty much the sole survivor.\nThe ability to quickly and easily convert CDs into individual audio files in the late 90s lead directly to the P2P file sharing revolution, which, come 1999, had music lovers all over the world partying like it was, indeed, 1999 as they uploaded and downloaded free song after free song after free song—as quickly as their glacially slow dial-up connection would allow them to; but even Napster, the one that arguably started it all, was dead within seven years.\nSo-called “legitimate” online services have very much become the accepted norm since the local launch of the iTunes Store in late-2005, and they more-or-less had a monopoly until about 2012; but since 2015 the increasing uptake of streaming services has seen digital download revenues decrease by more than 10%, year-on-year—in other words, as streaming uptake increases, the number of paid downloads decreases.\nWhat’s next, then? How soon can we expect streaming to also become obsolete? From what we’ve seen in the last ten years alone, its demise is probably just around the corner. Should we expect a replacement with an even shorter life-cycle?\nWhatever it turns out to be, it will inevitably be some form of online platform. And, it’ll mean yet another nail in the coffin of the video and the radio star.\n| Tagged Album, Australian charts, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Ed Sheeran, Highest-selling albums, Highest-selling singles, Music, Single, Streaming, Vinyl\t| Leave a comment\nSearch-a-Rant\nRecent Rants\nThe News In Brief (or The Irony Of Twitter Trending Determining What We Forget) December 4, 2017\nDeath Of The Long Play Album August 27, 2017\nWhy “Marriage Equality” Has Become Embarrassing August 11, 2017\nRESOLVED! How Car Insurance Naming And Shaming Paid Off July 4, 2017\nReview: SBS’s “EUROVISION TOP 40 SONGS”. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 8:30pm. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5397332906723022,"wiki_prob":0.46026670932769775,"text":"You're using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience.\nEvening Meal\nABOUT PAUL NEWMAN\nPaul Newman’s craft was acting. His passion was racing. His love was his family and friends. And his heart and soul were dedicated to helping make the world a better place.\nPaul was quick to acknowledge the good fortune he had in his own life, beginning with being born in America, and was acutely aware of how unlucky so many others were. True to his character, he quietly devoted himself to helping offset this imbalance and used his influence to advance many social causes. He accomplished this with an uncanny ability to break new ground.\nPaul applied his greatest commitment and derived his deepest satisfaction from his quiet work in philanthropy. He used his influence, gave of his financial resources, and personally volunteered to advance humanitarian and social causes around the world. He accomplished this with an uncanny ability to break new ground.\nIn 1982, he founded Newman’s Own, Inc., which was one of the first food companies to use all natural products. Today, Newman’s Own, Inc. is a successful international food business, of which all after-tax profits and royalties are donated to thousands of charities worldwide through Newman’s Own Foundation. Thus far, over $500 million has been awarded to grantee recipients in all 50 USA states and in 31 countries around the world.\nPaul founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, Connecticut, for children with life-threatening conditions. It was the first of many camps established where children could escape the fear, pain, and isolation of their conditions to kick back and “raise a little hell.” Later, he founded the SeriousFun Children’s Network (formerly known as the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps), which now includes a global network of camps and initiatives.\nUpon turning 70 years old, Paul decided not to accept any more awards for his charitable work. He was personally reluctant to acknowledge that his charity was anything special, and true to his character, he burned his tuxedo in a front-yard ceremonial bonfire attended by family and friends.\nWhile Paul Newman was a Hollywood star of extraordinary celebrity and a person recognized for exceptional commitment and leadership for philanthropy, he lived his life as an ordinary person, which he always considered himself. He was a man of abundant good humor, generosity, and humility. Paul departed this world on September 26, 2008.\nPaul Newman and Hotch filled empty wine bottles in the basement with homemade salad\ndressing to give as holiday gifts to friends and neighbours. Before long they all came back asking for more.\nNewman’s Own Salad Dressing officially launched, generating over $300,000 in first-year profits. Paul declared, “Let’s give it all away to those who need it!”\nPaul Newman’s Own entered the Australia market and the product line started expanding with the introduction of pasta sauce.\nThe Hole in the Wall Gang Camp opened in Connecticut, serving 288 kids in its first year. A place where children with life-threatening conditions could “raise a little hell’.\nFollowing the success of salad dressing, pasta sauce, lemonade, and microwave popcorn, Newman’s Own introduced salsa — all from Paul’s recipes.\nA significant milestone was reached of over $50 million donated to charity in the company’s first decade.\nBy this time, Newman’s Own products had expanded globally, with distribution to countries including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.\nNewman’s Own Foundation was established to carry on Paul Newman’s philanthropic legacy.\nOn September 26, Paul Newman’s life and legacy were recognised upon his passing, honouring the actor and philanthropist who helped make the world a better place.\nThe new SeriousFun Children’s Network brand was launched, uniting Paul Newman’s global family of camps, which have served over 384,700 kids since 1988.\nNewman’s Own celebrated 35 years of giving it all away in the US with worldwide donations exceeding $500 (USD) million\nCOPYRIGHT 2019 PAUL NEWMAN'S OWN / WEBSITE BY SMACK BANG DESIGNS","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1395372"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5195625424385071,"wiki_prob":0.4804374575614929,"text":"Powder Diffraction\nReference materials for the stu...\nKaduk, James A. and Blanton, Thomas N. 2013. An improved structural model for cellulose II. Powder Diffraction, Vol. 28, Issue. 03, p. 194.\nFawcett, T.G. Crowder, C.E. Kabekkodu, S.N. Needham, F. Kaduk, J.A. Blanton, T.N. Petkov, V. Bucher, E. and Shpanchenko, R. 2013. Reference Materials for the Study of Polymorphism and Crystallinity in Cellulosics – ERRATUM. Powder Diffraction, Vol. 28, Issue. 02, p. 169.\nBao, Cong Yu Long, Didier R. and Vergelati, Caroll 2015. Miscibility and dynamical properties of cellulose acetate/plasticizer systems. Carbohydrate Polymers, Vol. 116, Issue. , p. 95.\nYang, Changlin Wen, Guanghua Tang, Ping Xi, Chaochao and Sun, Qihao 2016. Quantification of crystalline fraction of solid slag film using X-ray powder diffraction. Powder Diffraction, Vol. 31, Issue. 01, p. 40.\nMastalygina, E. E. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5863168835639954,"wiki_prob":0.41368311643600464,"text":"Save Page · Saved Pages\nPick Topic\nReview Topic\nList Experts\nExamine Expert\nSave Expert\nSite Guide ··\nGout: HELP\nArticles by Michele Meltzer\nBased on 3 articles published since 2008\nHideThe current database of articles was compiled on:\nSat Jul 6 05:14:51 2019\nMore database statistics are available.\n||||\nBetween 2008 and 2019, Michele Meltzer wrote the following 3 articles about Gout.\n+ Citations - Citations + Abstracts - Abstracts\n1 Article Burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1990-2013: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. 2017\nMoradi-Lakeh, Maziar / Forouzanfar, Mohammad H / Vollset, Stein Emil / El Bcheraoui, Charbel / Daoud, Farah / Afshin, Ashkan / Charara, Raghid / Khalil, Ibrahim / Higashi, Hideki / Abd El Razek, Mohamed Magdy / Kiadaliri, Aliasghar Ahmad / Alam, Khurshid / Akseer, Nadia / Al-Hamad, Nawal / Ali, Raghib / AlMazroa, Mohammad AbdulAziz / Alomari, Mahmoud A / Al-Rabeeah, Abdullah A / Alsharif, Ubai / Altirkawi, Khalid A / Atique, Suleman / Badawi, Alaa / Barrero, Lope H / Basulaiman, Mohammed / Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad / Bedi, Neeraj / Bensenor, Isabela M / Buchbinder, Rachelle / Danawi, Hadi / Dharmaratne, Samath D / Zannad, Faiez / Farvid, Maryam S / Fereshtehnejad, Seyed-Mohammad / Farzadfar, Farshad / Fischer, Florian / Gupta, Rahul / Hamadeh, Randah Ribhi / Hamidi, Samer / Horino, Masako / Hoy, Damian G / Hsairi, Mohamed / Husseini, Abdullatif / Javanbakht, Mehdi / Jonas, Jost B / Kasaeian, Amir / Khan, Ejaz Ahmad / Khubchandani, Jagdish / Knudsen, Ann Kristin / Kopec, Jacek A / Lunevicius, Raimundas / Abd El Razek, Hassan Magdy / Majeed, Azeem / Malekzadeh, Reza / Mate, Kedar / Mehari, Alem / Meltzer, Michele / Memish, Ziad A / Mirarefin, Mojde / Mohammed, Shafiu / Naheed, Aliya / Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf / Oh, In-Hwan / Park, Eun-Kee / Peprah, Emmanuel Kwame / Pourmalek, Farshad / Qorbani, Mostafa / Rafay, Anwar / Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa / Shiri, Rahman / Rahman, Sajjad Ur / Rai, Rajesh Kumar / Rana, Saleem M / Sepanlou, Sadaf G / Shaikh, Masood Ali / Shiue, Ivy / Sibai, Abla Mehio / Silva, Diego Augusto Santos / Singh, Jasvinder A / Skogen, Jens Christoffer / Terkawi, Abdullah Sulieman / Ukwaja, Kingsley N / Westerman, Ronny / Yonemoto, Naohiro / Yoon, Seok-Jun / Younis, Mustafa Z / Zaidi, Zoubida / Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed / Lim, Stephen S / Wang, Haidong / Vos, Theo / Naghavi, Mohsen / Lopez, Alan D / Murray, Christopher J L / Mokdad, Ali H. ·Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. · Department of Community Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway. · Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. · Japan International Cooperation Agency, Lusaka, Zambia. · Ophthalmology resident in Aswan University Hospital, Aswan, Egypt. · Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopedics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. · Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. · Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Food and Nutrition Administration, Ministry of Health, Safat, Kuwait. · University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. · Saudi Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan. · Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany. · King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan. · Public Health Agency of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. · Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia. · Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, California, USA. · David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA. · College of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan, Saudi Arabia. · University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. · Monash Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Cabrini Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. · Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. · Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. · Clinical Investigation Centre INSERM (the National Institute for Health and Medical Research), Université de Lorraine, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France. · Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. · Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. · Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. · Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrine and Metabolic Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany. · West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, Charleston, West Virginia, USA. · Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain. · Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. · Nevada Division of Behavior and Public Health, Carson City, Nevada, USA. · Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. · Public Health Division, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia. · Salah Azaiz Institute, Tunis, Tunisia. · Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine. · Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. · Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. · Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. · Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA. · Department of Health Registries, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, Norway. · University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. · Aintree University Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK. · School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. · Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt. · Imperial College London, London, UK. · Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran Universities of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. · College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington DC, USA. · Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. · College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Hunger Action Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. · Health Systems and Policy Research Unit, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. · Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. · International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. · Faculty of Health Sciences, Center for Research on Population and Health, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. · Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. · Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Kosin University, Busan, South Korea. · National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. · Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran. · Contech International Health Consultants, Lahore, Pakistan. · Contech School of Public Health, Lahore, Pakistan. · Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. · Sweidi Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, India. · Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Independent Consultant, Karachi, Pakistan. · Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. · Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. · Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. · Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. · University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. · Alcohol and Drug Research Western Norway, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway. · Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. · Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. · Department of Anesthesiology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. · Department of Internal Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria. · Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany. · German National Cohort Consortium, Heidelberg, Germany. · Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. · Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. · Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. · University Hospital, Setif, Algeria. · Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ·Ann Rheum Dis · Pubmed #28209629.\nABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES: We used findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 to report the burden of musculoskeletal disorders in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). METHODS: The burden of musculoskeletal disorders was calculated for the EMR's 22 countries between 1990 and 2013. A systematic analysis was performed on mortality and morbidity data to estimate prevalence, death, years of live lost, years lived with disability and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). RESULTS: For musculoskeletal disorders, the crude DALYs rate per 100 000 increased from 1297.1 (95% uncertainty interval (UI) 924.3-1703.4) in 1990 to 1606.0 (95% UI 1141.2-2130.4) in 2013. During 1990-2013, the total DALYs of musculoskeletal disorders increased by 105.2% in the EMR compared with a 58.0% increase in the rest of the world. The burden of musculoskeletal disorders as a proportion of total DALYs increased from 2.4% (95% UI 1.7-3.0) in 1990 to 4.7% (95% UI 3.6-5.8) in 2013. The range of point prevalence (per 1000) among the EMR countries was 28.2-136.0 for low back pain, 27.3-49.7 for neck pain, 9.7-37.3 for osteoarthritis (OA), 0.6-2.2 for rheumatoid arthritis and 0.1-0.8 for gout. Low back pain and neck pain had the highest burden in EMR countries. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows a high burden of musculoskeletal disorders, with a faster increase in EMR compared with the rest of the world. The reasons for this faster increase need to be explored. Our findings call for incorporating prevention and control programmes that should include improving health data, addressing risk factors, providing evidence-based care and community programmes to increase awareness.\n2 Article Payer decision-making with limited comparative and cost effectiveness data: the case of new pharmacological treatments for gout. 2012\nMeltzer, Michele / Pizzi, Laura T / Jutkowitz, Eric. ·Department of Rheumatology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. ·Evid Based Med · Pubmed #22345034.\nABSTRACT: CONTEXT: The need for comparative effectiveness (CE) data continues to grow, fuelled by market demand as well as health reform. There may be an assumption that new drugs result in improved efficacy compared with the standard of care, therefore warranting premium prices. Gout treatment has recently become controversial, as expensive new drugs enter the market with limited CE data. METHODS: The authors reviewed published clinical trials and conducted a cost effectiveness analysis on a new drug (febuxostat) versus the standard (allopurinol) to illustrate the limitations in using these data to inform evidence-based decision-making. FINDINGS: Although febuxostat trials included allopurinol as a comparator, methodological limitations make comparative effectiveness evaluations difficult. However, when available trial data were input to a decision analytic model, the authors found that a significant reduction in febuxostat cost would be required in order for it to dominate allopurinol in cost effectiveness analysis. This case exemplifies the challenges of using clinical trial data in comparative and cost effectiveness analyses.\n3 Minor Allopurinol versus rilonacept for the prevention of gout flares: comment on the article by Schumacher et al. 2013\nMeltzer, Michele. · ·Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) · Pubmed #23281274.\nABSTRACT: -- No abstract --\nCopyright (C) 2000-2019 by Expertscape Inc.. Manifesto · Terms of Use · Recognition Program · Contact Us\nExpertscape does not provide medical advice or diagnosis.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1225587"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5325514078140259,"wiki_prob":0.5325514078140259,"text":"Audrey White\nFighting back against sexual harassment\nIn 1983 Audrey White was the manager of the Lady at Lord John clothes store in Liverpool. When her area manager sexually harassed four women in her team, she complained – and was sacked.\nBut Audrey was a TGWU (now Unite) member and she was going to fight. Her campaign put sexual harassment at work in the spotlight and ultimately led a long campaign and a change in employment law in 2005. Audrey tells us more below.\nIt was shocking to be sacked over the phone.\nI said, “I’m sorry, I don’t understand.” My manager replied, “Isn’t plain English bloody good enough for you? I’m sacking you.” The company thought they could treat me like garbage but they hadn’t reckoned on me being a union member. The advice from my union was to keep going to work until they sacked me in writing.\nBack at work, my manager brought in the police to arrest me if I didn’t leave the store.\nThe staff didn’t stand up for me – they were too scared of losing their jobs. The company refused to meet with my union so we started picketing outside the store the next day. We were there with banners and petitions from opening time to closing for five weeks. And no one crosses a picket line in Liverpool!\nInspired by this story?\nYou can’t tell people who haven’t experienced solidarity what solidarity is like – it’s priceless.\nOn the picket we had dockers, car workers, staff from unemployed centres, union members, local activists. I feel such warmth when I think of those ordinary people who invested so much time and energy in supporting the cause. It was wonderful, but it was also bitter and harrowing and my nerves were on edge because all these people were fighting for my job and I didn’t want to let them down.\nWe didn’t even know the phrase ‘sexual harassment’ back then.\nWe learned how bad things were: women came up to us on the picket and said, “I had a wonderful job but my boss would do this, so I had to leave.” And, “I didn’t go along with what the boss wanted, so I got demoted”. When the company finally agreed to meet with us, they wouldn’t discuss the sexual harassment complaints, even though I’d got statements from the girls. They claimed I’d been sacked because I wasn’t ‘bubbly’ enough.\nMy most vivid memory from that time was the victory.\nOnce we lined up pickets at the Manchester and London stores, the company relented. I remember phoning the pickets from London and saying, “You can take the pickets off because we’ve won!” That night I got back to Liverpool and had the most fantastic night of my life, singing, dancing and celebrating. I got paid for lost earnings and walked back into my job.\nMy story shows that a woman can win – even a woman in a shop in 1980’s Britain.\nWhen I’m in the supermarket I’ll always chat with the women on the tills. If they have a little moan about their work I’ll say, “Are you in a union?”. They’ll shake their heads and say, “I’d be the only one…” But even one woman in a workplace can change conditions if they’ve got their union behind them. And they’ll inspire other women to do the same. We can fight – and we can win.\nWhat happened next?\nIn 1988, Audrey’s story was made into a film – Business As Usual. Here she is with Glenda Jackson, who played her character.\nAngela Rayner MP\nA remarkable journey to Westminster\nRevolutionary Rosie\nMass Strike in Dublin 1913\nTGWU","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line456862"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6644361019134521,"wiki_prob":0.33556389808654785,"text":"papagalaamg\nп»їIn 2017, Hurricane Maria caused devastation to the island of Puerto Rico and viagra without doctor prescription its residents but until now, the health impacts of this storm on vulnerable populations, including people living with HIV were unknown. The study, conducted in San Juan, also found that HIV care outcomes were related to the participants' pre-hurricane viral suppression status.Through a computer-assisted personal interview, the researchers studied a cohort of people living with HIV and a history of substance use from the San Juan Metropolitan Area using a generic viagra without subscription social and behavioral assessment. They also collected blood samples to measure CD4 and viral load at the study launch and at 6-month follow-up visits, including time points before and after the Hurricane.Indicators such as homelessness, drug and alcohol use in the past 6 months, depression, physical abuse/interpersonal violence, access to care, and social support, among others, were also assessed.Viral suppression decreased from 71 percent to 65 percent across the sample as a result of the impacts of Hurricane Maria, and access to care was reduced by over 22 percent. Study participants who generic viagra sildenafil citrate were not virally suppressed pre-Hurricane Maria had significantly less access to care and lower medication adherence, but made a greater number of hospital/clinic/outpatient visits post-Hurricane Maria compared to pre-Hurricane Maria.The impact of Hurricane Maria on people living with HIV with a history of substance use in San Juan was mixed, observed Diana Hernandez, PhD, first author and Assistant Professor of generic viagra Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. But from our results it is clear to see the benefits of conducting further research that will help us understand divergent paths following natural disasters for vulnerable populations.Co-authors include Lisa R. Metsch, Pedro C. Castellon, Sandra Miranda de Leon, Glenda O. Davila-Torres, Yue Pan, Allan E. Rodriguez, Iveth G. Yanez, Mariela Maisonet Alejandro, Wilmarie L. Calderon Alicea, Gabriel Cardenas, Hector Melendez, Lauren Gooden, Daniel J. Feaster and Jorge Santana-Bagur. Weill Cornell Medical College (led by Bruce Schackman, canadian pharmacy) is also collaborating on this study.The study was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse R59DA085880. The study principal investigators are Lisa R. Metsch, PhD (Columbia University), Jorge Santana-Bagur, MD (University of Puerto Rico) and Sandra Miranda de Leon, MPH Puerto Rico Department of Health. Papa","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line184488"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9516223073005676,"wiki_prob":0.9516223073005676,"text":"Koch Adds Three Labels\nBy David Greenwald | June 23, 2006 12:00 AM EDT\nHBD, Worldwide and Taxi link with distro.\nPort Washington, N.Y.-based Koch Entertainment Distribution has announced exclusive, North American agreements with three independent record labels. Koch will handle releases from HBD Label Group, Worldwide Music, Inc. and Taxi Records.\nThe reggae-focused Taxi Records is owned by Grammy-winners Sly & Robbie. The 30 year-old company has previously issued albums through Island /Universal, and upcoming Koch-distributed releases include Sly & Robbie’s “Rhythm Doubles” featuring Wyclef Jean, Bounty Killer and Beres Hammond, as well as the tribute album “Greetings to Led Zeppelin + Queen.”\nThe HBD Label Group, which boasts its own overseas distribution network, encompasses urban and electronic labels. Koch is the company’s first distributor.\nWorldwide Music, Inc. is a gospel label founded alongside Gospel Truth Magazine by Kerry Douglas. The company’s releases were previously handled by Navarre.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line450111"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9838321805000305,"wiki_prob":0.9838321805000305,"text":"Tippi Blevins: C | 166 USERS: A-\nHardy Boy, Your Angels Came Home to Roost\nBy Tippi Blevins | Season 9\t| Episode 9\t| Aired on 12.03.2013\nThe next day, Metatron and Gadreel meet somewhere by the freeway. \"Frankly, I never got used to them,\" Metatron says. He's talking about humans. They're emotional basket cases. Gadreel agrees: \"Sam Winchester? It is a mess in here. And the brother? I do not know where to start.\" Metatron says he can free him from all this messy humanity. \"You would be the ruler of this new Heaven, correct?\" asks Gadreel. \"It is a burden I feel I must accept,\" Metatron says, after making a show of great reluctance. \"Then, does that not make you God?\" Gadreel asks. Metatron giggles, unable for a moment to contain his glee at the very idea. \"I don't know that I'd take on that name necessarily. When the time comes, we'll call me... X.\" He says it like it's something he's just spit balling on the spot when you know he's already daydreamed several scenarios wherein he introduces himself in just this way.\nSomewhere, still on the job, Castiel has managed to procure himself a tidy little motel room. He kneels beside the bed and folds his hands neatly together. \"Okay, I am unfamiliar with this end of the process,\" he says by way of apology. \"Of course, no one may be listening, but, um, I do need assistance.\" He closes his eyes, very earnest in his appeal. He tries many prayer poses from different religious faiths while the daylight wanes from the windows behind him. \"I don't know how humans do it,\" he says, exhausted.\nHe goes over to the TV and fiddles with the knobs, to no effect. \"Try plugging it in,\" says a woman's voice from outside. Castiel opens the door to find a lady park ranger. \"Surely that wasn't the answer you were seeking,\" she says. \"You're an angel,\" Castiel says. \"Muriel,\" she introduces herself. She looks at him -- really looks at him -- for the first time and realizes who he is. She turns to go. \"It can't be known that I even spoke to you,\" she says. \"I just need a moment,\" he says. There's no resisting those big, pleading eyes.\nAt the LOL, Kevin pores over the angel tablet without luck. \"Crowley said the spell to cast out the angels was irreversible,\" he reminds Dean. He stares harder at the tablet. \"This part is nearly indecipherable.\" Isn't it all indecipherable, and that's why you can't read any of it? He thinks maybe Metatron was trying to keep the words hidden, even from the prophets. Sam returns from Gadreel's outing, or maybe it's still Gadreel, since he isn't wondering aloud why he was missing for the past 10 hours. Dean fills him in on the campground massacre. Long, boring story short: Dean linked Kristin Cherubweth to the deaths in the Wyoming biker bar. For a mid-season finale, this episode sure does have a lot of drawn-out scenes of people just standing (or sitting) around and talking…and talking and talking.\nPrevious 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Next","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line422658"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5971133708953857,"wiki_prob":0.5971133708953857,"text":"NYPD Muslim Spying Program in NYC Was a Waste of Time and Money\nBy Elle Kay\nIn what was heard around the world as the loudest “DUH” in history, the NYPD produced zero cases of suspected terrorist activity after years of eavesdropping on Muslims, according to the Associated Press. The most the NYPD could have learned from this “investigation” is where to find the best hookah, falafel, and kebab places in New York. What they were hoping to find in college organizations and local hangouts besides nerdy students and coffee lovers is beyond me.\nOn Monday, unsealed court testimonies revealed that the NYPD acknowledged that the six-year spying program “never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation.” Set up with the help of the CIA, Demographic Unit, the division responsible for the surveillance program, was intended to serve as a first-line defense against terrorist activity in New York City.\nLike many of my Muslim friends who attend college in New York City, I was shocked to learn that the New York Police Department was spying on Muslim communities across the Tri-State area for six years. We felt violated, demeaned, and falsely associated with crimes we didn’t commit. It’s humiliating.\nAlthough controversial, the police are technically allowed to keep track of civilian life in New York. But lawyers believe that the NYPD stepped outside of their jurisdiction when police officers spied on Muslims outside of the Five Boroughs. Students at Yale University humorously protested against the program with a clever “Call the NYPD” photo campaign.\nNot only is the NYPD’s secret Demographic Unit unfairly targeting Muslims, it is practicing discriminatory policing against ethnic and religious groups. Muslims face enough discrimination, the most recent examples being the multiple attacks on mosques and schools during the holy month of Ramadan.\nEarlier this year the AP broke a series of stories documenting how the police spied on Muslim-owned businesses, accompanied college students on rafting trips, and infiltrated mosques. The Muslim population in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey was outraged.\nThe NYPD reports read like prejudiced tourist guides that give you the inside scoop on Albanian, Egyptian, Syrian, and Moroccan neighborhoods. Each includes a list of “locations of concern,” mostly consisting of cafes and mosques. Officers made specials notes if the Arabic news channel Aljazeera was allowed on the premises, if there is a prayer area, and the nationality and gender of the owner.\nThe civil liberties and advocacy group, Center for American-Islamic Relations, released a statement in which it calls the investigation “unconstitutional … counterproductive and discriminatory.” Executive Director Muneer Awad of CAIR’s New York chapter said the police surveillance was “based on only race, ethnicity, and religion, rather than suspicion of criminal activity.”\nIn addition to wasting taxpayer dollars, the NYPD surveillance program “did not make our nation more secure and only served to harm relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve,” Awad said.\nPolice surveillance programs aren’t new. In the 1950s and 1960s, the NYPD kept tabs on students, civil rights groups, and Communist sympathizers. New federal guidelines were established in the 1970s following a lawsuit against the police department to allow data collection related to potential terrorism, but not about political speech.\nSince September 11, 2001, officials cooperated with Muslim leaders to rebuild a broken relationship, but news of the surveillance program’s failure to produce any leads diminished all efforts, according to Michael Ward of the Newark FBI.\nPolice chief Raymond Kelly defended spying on innocent civilians, citing that the “primary goal is to keep this city safe and save lives.”\nThe reaction in Muslim and minority communities is a mixture of relief, anger, and confusion. We’re relieved that no dangerous activity was found, but at the same time we’re are angry and confused that our religion and national origins are reasons enough to start extensive surveillance programs.\nUntil Islamophobic sentiment dies down, there’s not much Muslims can do but fight back against discrimination in the most sensible way possible, and if it's through humor, then why not.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1701136"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8693348169326782,"wiki_prob":0.8693348169326782,"text":"Faraday Future’s wheels are coming off\nby Wynand Goosen | Mar 23, 2017 | Blog, Brands, China, Faraday Future, Fundraising, LeEco | 0 comments\nFaraday Future‘s wheels are coming off due to what its founder, Jia Yeutling, is calling a “big company disease,” being a cash crunch. LeEco, the Chinese equivalent of Netflix and parent company of two EV start-ups, Faraday Future in the USA and LeSee in China, is forced to sell its Silicon Valley property, earmarked for its US headquarters. The sale, reported by Reuters, to Chinese property developer, Genzon Group, will provide the company with $260 million much-needed cash.\nLeEco, now known for overpromising and massively under delivering, claimed that its premium car, the Faraday Future FF91, is a “Tesla Killer.” LeEco unveiled the FF91 “Tesla Killer” at the 2017 CES in Las Vegas along with the LeSee concept electric vehicle. While the LeSee received acclaim the launch of the FF91, on the other hand, was a real doozie. Faraday Future quickly published a highly edited version of the launch on its website, but it was too late as real events quickly went viral. See the video at this link. LeEco has also partnered with Aston Martin on the RapidE, where it will help with the development of the zero emission technology.\nFaraday Future, a contradiction in terms, is scaling back all its operations in the USA, with the headcount rumored to have halved over the last couple of months. The production facility in North Las Vegas has been scaled back significantly, and although ground-breaking started late 2016, it has just remained that, as no production facilities have been erected. The company could not even pay the $21 million deposit to Aecon despite being offered $300 million by the local authorities for building the assembly plant there. The new phased construction is in line with the company’s reduced model lineup down from 7 models to 2.\nThe 13-year-old LeEco is financially pressed on all fronts. Rumors have also been flying that it was exciting its India operations and shares in its flagship unit, Leshi Internet Information and Technology Corp Beijing lost 25% of its value in five months. LeEco, which products include consumer electronics and cellphones, such as the LePro phone were able to raise $2.2 billion from Sunac China Holdings, a property developer. The funds are however not earmarked for LeEco‘s electric car division.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line577853"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8960886597633362,"wiki_prob":0.8960886597633362,"text":"Home » Guides » Florida » State Road 575 / County Road 575\nState Road 575 travels just 2.24 miles through the Pasco County community of Lacoochee. The highway transitions to Hernando County Road 575 (Burwell Road) north to SR 50 near Ridge Manor and west from U.S. 301 to Trilby and Blanton as Pasco County Road 575.\nHernando County Road 575 extends 2.05 miles north from the SR 575 end along a portion of Withlacoochee State Forest. Pasco County Road 575 forms an L-shaped route 6.73 miles west along rural Trilby Road to County Road 41 (Blanton Road).\nCounty Road 575 east\nReassurance marker for County Road 575 east posted along Trilby Road after U.S. 98. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nU.S. 301 south merges with U.S. 98 on the five-mile drive to Dade City. Saint Catherine lies ten miles to the north along U.S. 301 in Sumter County. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nPasco County Road 575 (Trilby Road) sees a stop sign with U.S. 301. U.S. 301 north passes through Trilacoochee before entering Ridge Manor in Hernando County. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nSR 575 north\nState Road 575 takes over for Pasco County Road 575 east of U.S. 301. A reassurance shield is posted in each direction of the route. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nEntering the community of Lacoochee along SR 575 north. The state road crosses a CSX Railroad line ahead. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nCurving northward from Lacoochee, SR 575 spans the Withlacoochee River. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nSR 575 north reaches the Hernando County line and transition back into County Road 575. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nBurwell Road leads Hernando County Road 575 northward from the county line. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nApproaching the north end of County Road 575 by Mills Smokehouse Pond. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nState Road 50 travels across Hernando County from Weeki Wachee to the Little Withlacoochee River into Sumter County. Ridge Manor lies just to the west while Groveland is 21 miles to the east. Photo taken 02/09/14.\nCounty Road 575 ends at the rural intersection with SR 50 (Cortez Boulevard). SR 50 carries just two lanes through this stretch, as it passes through Withlacoochee State Forest to the east. The road expands to four lanes along side U.S. 98, between Ridge Manor and Brooksville. Photo taken 02/09/14.\n02/09/14 by AARoads\nU.S. 301\nCounty Road 41 & 541","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line219250"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6930232644081116,"wiki_prob":0.6930232644081116,"text":"\"Say what you want\", Texas plays Knuedler!\nIt's been 21 years since the very first Rock um Knuedler. Back in 1991 it was a very modest affair with 5 acts on 1 stage. This year it features 19 acts on 3 stages with Texas headlining.\n(ADW) It's been 21 years since the very first Rock um Knuedler. Back in 1991 it was a very modest affair with five acts on one stage.\nFast forward to 2011 and now the line-up boasts 19 acts on three stages with Texas headlining! Quite a journey for Luxembourg City's best known free rock concert that takes place on Place Guillaume II (or Knuedler in Luxembourgish) and Place Clairefontaine this Sunday.\nThe festival's recipe is quite simple. The chefs, Luxembourg City Tourist Office together with the Rockhal Centre de Resources, select the finest local rock music “ingredients”, mixing differing styles to produce sounds to everyone's taste. The icing on the cake of course being a headline international act and this year Texas comes to Luxembourg.\nSix years after their last album “Red Book”, Texas sets off on a greatest hits tour. The band from Scotland will once again play hits like “I don't want a lover”, “Inner smile” and \"Say what you want\".\nThe lead singer of Texas, Sharleen Spiteri, who launched a solo career, admitted, \"it made me realise how great it was when all the members of Texas are in the same room\". During their European tour, however, this is more likely to be the same tour bus.\nTexas plays on Place Guillaume II main stage at 10:15pm. However, we should not forget the long list of local acts that precede the Scots.\nWith two stages on Place Guillaume II and one on Place Clairefontaine, here is the full list of acts:\nLion Stage, Place Guillaume II\n15h00 Vintage Gigolos\n16h00 Medley Juke Box\n17h00 Heartbeat Parade\n18h00 Versus You\n19h00 Porn Queen\n20h00 Project 54\n21h00 The Side\n22h15 Texas\nHorse Stage, Place Guillaume II\n15h30 Elephant Ghost\n16h30 Anx 74\n17h30 Lumi\n18h30 Birdbones\n19h30 Lost in Pain\nPlace Clairefontaine\n15h00 Zero Point 5\n16h00 Moonlight in the desert\n17h00 Lego Trip\n18h00 Super heroes in ties\n19h00 Kate\n20h00 Music lounge, screening live from the Place Guillaume II main stage.\nFor more information check out the official Rock um Knuedler website","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1683212"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7338530421257019,"wiki_prob":0.2661469578742981,"text":"The tigers (Panthera tigris), which are essentially an Asian animal not found outside the Euro-Asian landmass, are defined by three distinct mitochondrial nucleotide sites and 12 unique micro satellite alleles. The pattern of genetic variation in these cats corresponds to the thesis that they came to India approximately 12,000 years ago after being forced to spread southwards in search of suitable habitat as successive phases of Ice Ages made northern Asia inhospitable. This recent history of tigers in the Indian subcontinent is consistent with the absence of fossil records from India prior to the late Pleistocene (approximately 11,000 years ago) and the absence of tigers in Sri Lanka, which separated from the Indian landmass due to rise in sea levels in the early Holocene (Holocene started approximately 11,500 years BP or before present). However, a recent study of two independent fossil finds from Sri Lanka, one dated to approximately 16,500 years ago, tentatively classifies them as being a tiger.\nThe Bengal tiger has been India’s national symbol since about 2500 BCE (Before the Common/Current/Christian Era; an alternative to Before Christ, abbreviated BC) when it was displayed on the Pashupati seal of the Indus Valley Civilisation (2900BC-1900BC). On the seal, the tiger, being the largest, represents the Yogi Shiva‘s people. Some of the seals of that time contain figures of which the front half is a woman and the hind half a tiger. One seal shows the naked figure of a woman, upside down with her legs apart and two tigers standing to one side. Later the animal became the royal symbol of the Chola Empire from 300 CE to 1279 CE and is now designated as the official animal of India. Tipu Sultan, who ruled the Mysore state in late 18th century (India), was also a great admirer of tiger. He was obsessed with the animal to the extent that he adorned almost everything with the tiger symbols. Even his banner carried the legend, ‘The tiger is God’. In India tiger has also found a place of prestige even in Vedic literatures. It has been celebrated in Hindu consciousness from time immemorial as the divine vehicle of the goddess of power, Durga or Shakti. In modern India too it has been given place of pride by Reserve Bank of India, which has chosen it as its emblem. Even the currency notes are carrying its portrait.\nAs the time passed, its image as symbol of power seems to have transcended the earlier boundaries and the cat appeared over and over again in mosaics, murals, carvings and other artistic works, cultures, religious and administrative records of various nations and societies from North Africa and Mediterranean Europe in the west to China in the east. In India tiger has not only become subject of myths and legends, but has also been given special place by various kingdoms, big or small.\n9 opinions on “Tiger History in Indian Subcontinent”\njhon smith says:\nI went over this web site and I believe you have a lot of superb information, saved to bookmarks (:.\nAndrea Milling says:\nEllsworth Castorena says:\nDo you realize your website is advised by many other sites? Great products. Thank you a lot!\nChrista Veld says:\nI’m impressed, I need to say. Actually rarely do I encounter a blog that’s each educative and entertaining, and let me tell you, you may have hit the nail on the head. Your idea is excellent; the difficulty is something that not sufficient individuals are speaking intelligently about. I’m very glad that I stumbled throughout this in my search for one thing regarding this.\nVon Drabant says:\nHi there, just became aware of your blog through Google, and found that it’s really informative. I’m gonna watch out for brussels. I will be grateful if you continue this in future. Numerous people will be benefited from your writing. Cheers!\nralph lauren says:\nCongratulations for posting such a useful blog. Your blog isn’t only informative but also extremely artistic too. There usually are extremely couple of individuals who can write not so easy articles that creatively. Keep up the good writing !!\nStephine Dibona says:\nDo you people have a facebook or twitter fan web page? I looked for one on twitter but couldn’t locate one, I’d really like to become a fan!\nValuable information. Lucky me I found your website accidentally, and I’m shocked why this coincidence didn’t took place earlier! I bookmarked it.\nLonnie Ha says:\nWe are a group of volunteers and starting a new scheme in our community. Your site offered us with valuable information to work on. You’ve done a formidable job and our entire community will be thankful to you.\n− 4 = one","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line193992"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7091299295425415,"wiki_prob":0.2908700704574585,"text":"APPEARS IN News\nFederal Ammunition Sales Regulation: A Proven Failure\nRecent calls for federal regulations and restrictions on ammunition sales ignore the failure of such laws in the past. They also ignore the impracticality of imposing and enforcing similar controls in today's huge ammunition market. The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that 10-12 billion rounds of ammunition are produced domestically each year, while billions more are imported.\nThe Gun Control Act of 1968 required federal licensing for all ammunition dealers, and required that a record be kept on all handgun ammunition sales by retailers—including the popular .22 rimfire cartridges. The requirements proved to be such a heavy burden on retailers that in 1982, Congress removed .22 caliber rimfire ammunition from the record-keeping requirement.\nEven with that change, the value of ammunition sales licensing and record keeping was doubted by many, including the nation's top firearms law enforcement officials. In 1984, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee concluded that ammunition dealer licensing \"was not necessary to facilitate legitimate Federal law enforcement interests.\"1 In 1986, the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms supported eliminating the record keeping requirement: \"The Bureau and the [Treasury] Department have recognized that current recordkeeping requirements for ammunition have no substantial law enforcement value.\"2 As a result, the Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 repealed the ammunition restrictions, with little opposition despite heated debate over other provisions of the bill.\nMore recently, anti-gun politicians have called for bans or restrictions on online or mail order ammunition sales. But limiting the ability of law-abiding gun owners to purchase ammunition online or through catalogs will not prevent any criminal from purchasing ammunition from a local retailer. A box or case of ammunition is the same if it is bought from a local gun store, a big box retailer, or an online seller. And as with sales of other regulated products, online retailers take practical measures to verify the age of shoppers—usually by requiring a copy of the buyer's driver's license and requiring an adult signature for delivery of the package.\nFinally, limiting the quantity of ammunition a gun owner may purchase online or by mail will only affect the law-abiding. Criminals typically fire only small quantities of ammunition during attacks. Leading criminologist Gary Kleck describes numerous studies showing that armed assaults usually involve either no shots or only a few shots fired, noting that \"Even in a sample of gun attacks on armed police officers, where the incidents are more likely to be mutual combat gunfights with many shots fired, the suspects fired an average of only 3.7 times.\"3\nIn contrast, it is not at all unusual for top pistol, rifle and shotgun competitors to fire tens of thousands of rounds per year. Law-abiding competitive and recreational shooters regularly buy ammunition in bulk, saving money on the large quantities of ammunition they need to improve and maintain their skills.\nEven in the international arena, the United States recognizes the fundamental problems inherent in regulating ammunition. As the top U.S. negotiator at U.N. Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty put it: \"Ammunition is a fundamentally different commodity than everything else we have discussed … It is fungible, consumable, reloadable, and cannot be marked in any practical way that would permit it to be tracked or traced. Any practical proposal for ammunition would need to consider the significant burdens associated with licensing, authorizations, and recordkeeping for ammunition that is produced and transferred in the billions of rounds per year.\"4 That statement holds just as true for recently proposed domestic controls.\n1. Federal Firearms Owners Protection Act, S. Rept. 98-583, Aug. 6, 1984.\n2. Legislation To Modify the 1968 Gun Control Act, Hearing Report, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, October 38, 30, Nov. 8, 1985, and February 19 and 27, 1986. The BATF was an agency of the Treasury Department until 2003.\n3. Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns 123 (1997).\n3. UN arms trade treaty shouldn't regulate ammunition, The Hill, July 10, 2012 (http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/un-treaties/236969-us-says-un-arms-trade-treaty-shouldnt-cover-ammunition)\nAmmunition ammunition sales\nUP NEXT x\nObama calls for gun control\nCalifornia: Lead Free Ammunition Required for All Hunting as of July 1\nCalifornia Call to Action: Help NRA and CRPA Fight the New Ammo Laws!\n60 Minutes “Research” Discovers Bullets Can Cause Damage\nCalifornia: Ammunition Background Check Takes Effect July 1","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line546632"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8925589919090271,"wiki_prob":0.8925589919090271,"text":"Trial starts in Las Vegas over Harry Reid’s exercise band injuries\nLawyers for former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and the makers of a resistance exercise band started jury selection Monday in a case that stems from an incident that blinded Reid in his right eye.\nBy\tDavid Ferrara\t/ Las Vegas Review-Journal\nUpdated March 25, 2019 - 6:05 pm\nFormer U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who sued the makers of an exercise band after injuring his eye, leaves the courtroom after attending the first day of jury selection in his civil trial at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, March. 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye\nThen-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, joined by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., takes questions from reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 10, 2015, for the first time after suffering an eye injury and broken ribs while exercising on New Year's Day. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)\nFormer U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who sued the makers of an exercise band after injuring his eye, leaves the courtroom after attending the first day of jury selection in his civil trial at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, March. 25, 2019, in las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye)\nFormer U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who sued the makers of an exercise band after injuring his eye, leaves the courtroom with his wife, Landra Gould, after attending the first day of jury selection in Reid's civil trial at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, March. 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye)\nFormer U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who sued the makers of an exercise band after injuring his eye, leaves the courtroom in a wheelchair after attending the first day of jury selection in his civil trial at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, March. 25, 2019, in Las Vegas. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye)\nThen-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2015, for the first time after suffering an eye injury and broken ribs while exercising on New Year's Day. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)\nU.S. Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev., celebrates with his wife, Landra Gould, during an election night party at Aria hotel-casino in Las Vegas in November 2010. Reid overcame a four-point deficit in pre-election poles to beat his Republican challenger, Sharron Angle. (File Photo)\nDistrict Judge Joe Hardy Jr. speaks during a case update involving former Sen. Harry Reid at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Feb. 20, 2019. Reid and his wife are suing the makers of a resistance exercise band the former politician blames for an accident that left him blind in his right eye. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Erik_Verduzco\nAttorneys Colin Esgro, left, and James Morgan, representing former Sen. Harry Reid, during a case update at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Feb. 20, 2019. Reid and his wife are suing the makers of a resistance exercise band the former politician blames for an accident that left him blind in his right eye. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Erik_Verduzco\nFormer U.S. Sen. Harry Reid was seated in a wheelchair Monday when his lawyer paused to address the political views emanating from a group of potential jurors in a Las Vegas courtroom.\n“Our country is about as split as it could be,” said the attorney, Jim Wilkes. “We can’t fix policy today. We’re here about a civil lawsuit. This is about one person’s litigation.”\nReid, now 79, sued the makers of a resistance exercise band after an incident that blinded him in his right eye more than four years ago. But as the trial in the case opened, several jurors seemed more focused on Reid’s political views.\n“Do you question the senator’s veracity?” Wilkes asked one man.\n“Absolutely. He’s stated under oath that he lied,” the man said, adding that he had researched Reid online. “There’s a whole lot of stuff I know. If I say it here, everybody might have a jaundiced view without any substantiation of what I’m saying.”\nWithin a few moments, the man was excused from the panel.\nFinding an impartial jury\nRoughly 20 people in an opening panel of about 100 indicated a possible bias because they recognized Reid or knew of his injury.\n“I’ve lived in Nevada a long time,” one man said, “and I’m familiar with Sen. Harry Reid and his politicking.”\nAnother potential juror could be heard saying: “That’s a nice way to put it.”\nWilkes asked one man directly about his views on Reid.\n“I have issues personally with him,” said the man, who was ultimately dismissed.\n“You have a negative opinion of Sen. Reid?” Wilkes asked.\n“It isn’t positive,” the man replied.\nAt one point, Wilkes joked: “Does everybody understand you don’t have to become a Democrat if you serve on this case?”\nAnother man, who remained among the potential jurors as the trial recessed for the day, stated: “I have a very positive bias toward Senator Reid.”\nSeveral prospective jurors said they could set aside their political views and remain fair in their decision.\nIn late 2015, Reid and his wife of 60 years, Landra Gould, filed a product liability lawsuit against three defendants: Hygenic Intangible Property Holding Co., The Hygenic Corp. and Performance Health LLC.\nThe trial before District Judge Joe Hardy Jr. is scheduled to last into next week.\nReid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in an interview last month that he was still blind in his right eye. When asked whether he was prepared to testify during the trial, Reid responded, “Whatever.”\nAbout two months after his injury, Reid, Senate minority leader at the time, announced that he would not seek re-election. He had served in the Senate since 1987.\nReid said his injury played a role in his decision not to seek re-election in 2016.\n“It sure didn’t help it,” he said, then adding, “It was one of the things that entered into it.”\nHe said that following the injury he had a problem with depth perception, particularly when he was speaking on a small stage. He said then-House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, would help him.\n“John Boehner, to his credit, would point me in the right direction,” Reid said.\nJury selection is slated to continue into Tuesday afternoon.\nLawyers involved in the suit seemed to know the process might be a struggle. A proposed list of questions includes:\n—What is your opinion about Harry Reid?\n—What are your thoughts on politicians telling the truth?\n—Do you think that politicians tell the truth all the time?\n—Do you think that it is acceptable for politicians to not tell the truth at times?”\nReid, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, arrived Monday wearing a dark blue suit and was accompanied by his wife, who was wearing a dark blue dress.\nNegligence allegation\nThe suit alleges that the three defendants “combined to create, manufacture and market a defective product called TheraBand or Thera-Band exercise band.”\nReid has said he was injured while exercising with the band, which was latched to a “sturdy object” in January 2015 in the bathroom of his Henderson home.\n“While in use, the TheraBand broke or slipped out of Mr. Reid’s hand,” the lawsuit states, “causing him to spin around and strike his face on a cabinet.”\nAs Wilkes asked jurors about Reid’s litigation, some in the panel said they had concerns about whether Reid should have filed suit because of the health care benefits he received as a member of Congress.\n“I feel that it is a user error,” said one woman, who remained on the panel, referring to the exercise band. “I don’t know the circumstances, but that’s just my opinion.”\nAlong with losing vision in his right eye, Reid suffered a concussion, broken orbital bones, severe disfigurement to his face, bruising and lacerations on his face, hand injuries, scarring and broken ribs.\nThe lawsuit accuses the defendants of negligence and failure to warn.\nIt alleges that the exercise band makers should have known of the “danger of injury to consumers, especially to the elderly, as a result of TheraBands breaking or slipping out of their hands while mounted to various sturdy objects.”\nContact David Ferrara at dferrara@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-1039. Follow @randompoker on Twitter. Washington, D.C., correspondent Gary Martin contributed to this story.\nPosted on: News, Politics and Government\nAssemblywoman Daniele Monroe-Moreno hosts BBQ - Video\nAssembly Woman Daniele Monroe-Moreno hosts BBQ to bring the community together to hear about the candidates up for election and for people to gather and have fun.\nDemocrat Virtual Caucus - Video\nThe Right Take: Biden's Racially Questionable Comments\nJoe Biden has uttered racially charged statements for years. Now that he’s the frontrunner for the Democrat presidential nomination, he may finally face prolonged scrutiny for them.\nChristopher Rufo Discusses Homelessness In The USA - VIDEO\nChristopher Rufo discusses homelessness in the United States and how politicians can work to improve conditions for those with drug addictions.\nClark County 2019 Election Results - Video\nThe 2019 Elections wrap up in Clark County including an upset in the Boulder City Mayor race.\nGreene discusses Read by 3 and Opportunity Scholarships - VIDEO\nThe Nevada Legislative Session is over and the results are mixed for Nevada students, according to Tom Greene, Senior regional legislative director, Excel in Ed in Action.\nThe Right Take New Education Funding Plan - VIDEO\nOn Monday, Senate Education Committee chair Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, released a new education funding formula. For years, many Democrat politicians have criticized the current education funding formula, called the Nevada Plan. They claim it’s old and outdated. Their biggest beef is that it doesn’t allocate more money for students who are English Language Learners or live in poverty. The theory is that it’s harder to educate those students and so they need additional services, which costs additional money.\nAl Gore Speaks At UNLV About Climate Change - Video\nFormer Vice President of the United States Al Gore talks to an audience at UNLV about the effects of Climate change and how to switch to renewable sources of energy.\nForum on Wages and Working People Highlights - VIDEO\nPresidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro, and John Hickenlooper speak in Las Vegas, Nevada.\nNevada Politics Today Valerie Weber - VIDEO\nValerie Weber sits down with Victor Joecks to discuss her policies and why she is running for Ward 2 of the Las Vegas City Council.\nMay-Brown describes why some with disabilities need the subminimum wage - VIDEO\nEliminating the subminimum wage will end training and work opportunities for some members of the disabled community. Instead of doing something productive, they would be relegated to adult day care. That’s according to Tracy May-Brown, Opportunity Village’s director of advocacy, board and government relations.\nLas Vegas at forefront of new effort to head off veteran suicides\nBy Briana Erickson and Mia Sims / RJ\nMilitary veterans die of suicide at a far higher rate than their civilian counterparts, but Las Vegas is one of eight cities at the forefront of an effort to change that.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1049396"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8636518716812134,"wiki_prob":0.8636518716812134,"text":"Home News Boyers sell Buglin’ Bull\nBoyers sell Buglin’ Bull\nThe Buglin’ Bull Restaurant and Sports Bar changed hands last week, as WR Hospitality purchased the property from owners, from left, Johnathan Stahl and Janet and Brian Boyer. The trio decided to sell the business after deciding to scale down their business interests and hectic schedules as Brian fights cancer. [Submitted Photo/Deb Wallenberg]\nAlmost a decade after they purchased it, Brian and Janet Boyer have sold the Buglin’ Bull Sports Bar and Restaurant.\nIt was October 2009 when the Boyers and Johnathan Stahl added the restaurant to their growing list of business interests, but at that time the restaurant was known as Elk Canyon Steakhouse. The group spent around eight months renovating the restaurant and opened for business as the Buglin’ Bull June 17, 2010.\nYesterday morning, the Buglin’ Bull became the property of WR Hospitality in connection with Ramkota Companies.\nThe sale was all about quality of life for the Boyers and Stahl, or, more importantly, the quality of life for Brian Boyer. Brian continues to battle pancreatic cancer, an especially devastating form of cancer that can have very low survival rates depending on the stage of the cancer.\nThe Boyers made the decision to sell the Buglin’ Bull in September of last year and met with a realtor that fall. By January, Janet Boyer said, the talks to sell the Buglin’ Bull had gotten serious.\n“We did not want to sell the Bull, but we just absolutely cherish quality of life and this will give us a better quality of life, simply because we will have more time as a family,” Janet said.\nBrian has undergone 15 rounds of chemotherapy and understands the grimness of the disease he carries. However, on the positive side, the cancer has not progressed since he began chemotherapy.\nBrian said selling the Buglin’ Bull is bittersweet due to the friends made through the business and the employees who became like family.\n“It’s hard to walk away,” he said.\nStahl, who spent five to six nights a week there to make sure things were operating smoothly, said the time was right to sell, calling the 10 years they owned the business a great run.\n“We had a great community behind us,” he said. “We were very supportive of the community and it supported us. We just need to take a little bit of a load off.”\nAnother silver lining, Janet says, is the sale of the business to WR Hospitality. It was the only company they wanted to sell the business to because of the company’s extensive history in the restaurant business and quality reputation.\n“They truly do understand the hospitality industry,” she said. “We feel with them coming in, the food scene will be elevated. From the beginning, this is the only company we worked with.”\nWR Hospitality owns and operates the Minerva’s restaurants in South Dakota, along with RedRossa restaurants in the state and Augie’s Sports Bar and the Deadwood Grille at The Lodge in Deadwood. It also helps with food and beverage in Custer State Park, where Regency Hotel Management, the management arm of Ramkota Companies, manages the park’s resorts. Regency also manages two other Custer businesses under the Ramkota umbrella: the Kleemann House and Rock Crest Lodge, another former Boyer property.\nJosh Schmaltz, chief operating officer for Ramkota Companies, called the purchase of the Buglin’ Bull another great opportunity to be in “the thriving Custer community.”\n“We love what the community has done as a whole, capitalizing on all the tourists coming to the area,” he said. “It’s a thriving community and we wanted to be involved in it, not just in the capacity of Custer State Park. There are great opportunities in Custer. The success Custer has had to this point is just the beginning, so why not be a part of it in a larger capacity?”\nSchmaltz said, while there will be some changes to the Buglin’ Bull, plans for now are to operate it as it is. Any changes will come after the summer tourist season.\nThe Buglin’ Bull will remain open during the winter, Schmaltz said, as WR Hospitality investigates ways to perhaps even expand during the winter. Perhaps the best news of all for the town is that all of the restaurant’s employees who want to be retained will be retained and will receive the benefits package WR Hospitality offers, such as health insurance, a 401k plan, etc.\nSchmaltz said there is no general manager in place for the restaurant yet and, because of that, Don Anderson, president of WR Hospitality, along with some other WR employees, will be onsite for at least the next 30 days to ensure the transition runs smoothly.\nAs for the Boyers and Stahl, as Stahl says, they are not going anywhere; the family still has its other business interests — Mount Rushmore Brewing Co., The Begging Burro and Custer Car Wash — to keep them busy.\n“We appreciate all the support the past 10 years. The community has been great,” Brian said. “It’s been fun to have been a part of downtown Custer.”\n“Our staff is a wonderful staff. We couldn’t have done it without them for 10 years,” Janet added. “I really appreciate the fact we have had the opportunity to support different organizations and different parts of the community and to be a part of the community. It’s just been a blessing.”\nPrevious articleTeslas coming here May 17\nNext articleEight days in Custer County","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line139551"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6918322443962097,"wiki_prob":0.6918322443962097,"text":"John?s Cafe closes after three years in downtown Palo Alto\nUploaded: Jan 5, 2015\nThe usually bright and airy John's Cafe at Lytton Avenue and Waverley Street in downtown Palo Alto looked decidedly different Monday afternoon, with glass bakery cases and the refrigerator empty, furniture stacked on itself and half-used packs of soda and water bottle sitting on tables. Owner John Adams, a longtime Palo Alto resident and former high-tech employee, decided to close the cafe Dec. 30 after a three-year run.\n\"I was working a lot of long hours and (the cafe) probably wasn't as busy as I was hoping it would be,\" Adams said Monday. \"But we had good business; we had great employees and all the customers. I think I was just spending too much time here.\n\"It appears to be time to move on,\" he said.\nA sign outside John's Cafe reads, \"John's Cafe is closed (Dec. 30 for good). Thanks for your support and have a great new year!\"\nAdams opened the cafe at 401 Lytton Ave. in 2011 after a career in high-tech. Adams ran his own market-research company for more than 20 years, worked for Yahoo and Nielsen and was consulting when he decided to open a café.\n\"I was walking across the street from Mollie Stone's and there was a 'for lease' sign on a restaurant that was there and a little light bulb turned on,\" Adams remembered. He said to himself, \"'Hey, maybe I'll do that.'\"\nHe said he wanted it to be an \"all-around cafe,\" though they specialized in freshly made paninis. All meats were made in house ? the ham baked, the turkey slow-roasted for hours and the chicken and tri-tip made on a grill that sat outside the front of the cafe. The café also served coffee, soups, salads, breakfast items and baked goods. Adams also added \"John's Cafe At Night\" with wine tastings, games and specialty dinner items.\nAdams said one of the most surprising yet gratifying things about opening the café was that it became a place that customers were attached to.\n\"You think you're opening up your cafe and what you realize quickly is that the people who come in take it over and it's their cafe. If you change something on the menu, it's like, 'You changed my menu!'\" he laughed. \"That's probably one of the gratifying or just really interesting things that happens. You think you own it and it turns out that it becomes, without you knowing it, community property.\"\nAdams said he's \"pretty sure\" the person who took over his lease will be opening a restaurant, though he doesn't know what kind.\nShort term, he said he'll probably get back into market research or consulting, though he's not ruling out another cafe.\n\"If I have another cafe I will probably try to have it on a beach somewhere,\" he laughed.\nPosted by AJ, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood,\non Jan 5, 2015 at 6:59 pm\nSounds like I could have gotten attached, too -- if I had known it was there! All the best to you, John!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1116187"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8890385031700134,"wiki_prob":0.8890385031700134,"text":"'The Simpsons Intro': Russian arthouse version of the famous cartoon hits YouTube\nYekaterina Sinelschikova\nLazy Square\nAs well as rethinking The Simpsons, Alexei Semenov has made trash animations about Barack Obama, The Terminator, Pennywise the clown, and even an existential video about his own thirtieth birthday – each lasting less than 30 seconds.\nMoscow designer Alexei Semenov makes super-short trash animations inspired by American pop culture. He publishes them on YouTube under the name Lazy Square, where he uploads real and joke advertising videos. It is the latter that have brought him more fame.\nHis latest work – which gives the legendary Simpsons a dose of Russia reality – became an online hit. The short clip (entitled “The Simpsons. Russian Art Film Version”) features a Russian “Lisa” who plays the saxophone in a dingy underpass, a “Bart” reimagined as a Russian “gopnik,” a “Homer” who works as a security guard, and a “Marge” who cusses like there’s no tomorrow. As for how it ends, see for yourself. Semenov’s longest work to date, it lasts… just over a minute. As the name might suggest, Lazy Square prefers the super-short format.\nSemenov creates the videos all by himself. Meanwhile, his main business is Serious About, which he runs with his wife. Under this brand, they sell designer badges and other eye-catching trinkets. It was for this project that Semenov first started making animations. For example, here’s an ad for a sex doll sold by Serious About.\nAnimation soon turned into a hobby. Before the arrival of The Simpsons, his most popular video was Terminator 2½ – about a liquid robot in the form of a killer spoon.\nThe average video takes about six weeks to make. He currently has no plans to up the tempo due to his “universal laziness.” On the occasion of his 30th birthday, Semenov shot a 30-second video about his life thus far, tellingly named “30 wasted years.”\n“Ever since childhood, I had no goals, didn’t do anything, didn’t aim for anything, blew a couple of talents, f***ed up a few opportunities. I was a drifter, like lots of others judging by the comments,” he once said in an interview.\nHe says he has no interest in promotion or attracting clients, and just draws what he wants. His main sources of inspiration are usually old Hollywood films like It or A Nightmare on Elm Street, and U.S. pop culture, especially animation: The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, South Park. “But it was Rick and Morty that totally shook up my mind. The darker and edgier the humor, the better,” recalls Semenov.\nSemenov also made an ironic ad for NASA and imagined what Barack Obama did on his first day after leaving the Oval Office:\nSuperheroes, too, have been given the Semenov treatment. Meet Tomatoman, who extracts ketchup from near empty bottles, and Mr Tea Bag, who solves humanity’s second most urgent problem – pulling tea bags out of mugs when the string and label have gone overboard.\nOn the Russian theme, besides The Simpsons, there is a short “comedy” about out-of-town residential developments. In it, a “happy” mortgagee regurgitates standard marketing slogans about the “benefits” of such housing before opening a window and... It’s pretty clear even if you don’t know Russian.\nIf using any of Russia Beyond's content, partly or in full, always provide an active hyperlink to the original material.\nanimation social media youtube cartoon\nHow one railway line through Siberia crushed lives in the name of communism (PHOTOS)\nHow did the Soviet economy work and why did it fail?\nBlack hole of the 1990s: The lawless market where people could buy guns and go into hiding (PHOTOS)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1476396"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5384211540222168,"wiki_prob":0.4615788459777832,"text":"Allan Rayman is Letting the Music Speak for Itself\nBy Latecia Joiner\nBeatrice Hazlehurst\nBelieve you us, songwriter and powerhouse vocalist Allan Rayman is on the verge of shaking the music industry to its core. Since his debut in 2016 with Hotel Allan, the Toronto-based Wyoming-native has been steadily making his mark, recently wrapping a 30-date world tour and hitting every live session in town.\nNow, Rayman is back again with a double visual release for \"Word of Mouth\" and \"Go My Way,\" the objective bangers from his recent EP,Courtney. The former reads like a hyperrealistic documentation of his time on tour, while \"Go My Way\" sees the singer search out a lost love. PAPER sat down with the soft-spoke rocker to talk inspiration, adventures abroad and why the center of attention is overrated.\nI heard that this is the first real conversation you've chosen to have with a publication. Why is that?\nI think it's important to let my music do the talking, give people that creative room to come up with their own stories, if that makes sense. For me most of the people I endear in the industry were musicians. You don't get to meet them so you kind of develop your own theories and opinions. I think by having very little out there allows people to shape their own opinions around me. In their minds I'm whoever they want Allan to be but at the same time I can't live up to what their expectations are.\nYou aren't concerned you might be holding too much back?\nI think naturally that worry does come into play. I think from outside sources, when they ask you what you really want from all of this, playing the game, and giving out more and more about yourself is an important thing. To me it doesn't really matter. I just want to make music and have fun doing it. I think all that other stuff is just extra but does get you to where you want to go faster. I'm in no rush. If I don't have to do it I choose not to. I think its about allowing people to give that creative space. Allan Rayman can be so many different people to so many different people. Why take that away from somebody by starting to completely define characteristics of this person in the public. Why ruin that?\nYou just wrapped your tour, how was that experience for you?\nIt was great. One of the main things as an artist is to get out there and expose yourself. For me that's always been the most important aspect of my music. If you can't do this on a stage then don't try to do it in a studio. So if you don't hit that note then just leave it because you can't hit it onstage. That's where I have the most fun doing what I'm doing. For me it's the best part.\nHow was Europe?\nWe were in Paris for a longer amount of time so we got to walk around there. We went to this cemetery where a bunch of different creatives have been buried. Jim Morrison, who is obviously is a huge inspiration for me, he was buried there. It was great. We walked around this old gothic cemetery.\nThat's so fucking cool.\nYeah there were a lot of different artists there but I think the most sought after one is his [Morrison's.] People leave bottles of liquor, and roses, and stuff. It's pretty crazy.\nI know for Courtney you went in a totally different direction in comparison to past work you've done, expand on that for me.\nI think it goes back to keeping people on their toes and being knowledgeable to jump in and out of different genres. It's an experiment. At the end of the day I think that as an artist you should always try to push limits and explore. Things like that keep you evolving and keeps it fresh.\nWas that also your approach to these new videos?\nExactly. I just wanted this whole project to have that feel. \"Go My Way\" was high contrast and a green screen and looked almost cocky and played out. I think it's good to poke fun and not be taken too seriously. At the end of the day you get to do what you love to do so you should have fun with it.\nWhat's can we expect next from Allan Rayman?\nContinuing to build, continuing to put out good projects, content, marketing campaigns, touring, just continuing to build off of what we have already built. I just have to keep it fresh. I'm working on a couple of projects right now and I'm really excited about those. For me it's just about finding my place in all of this, taking my time with it, and making sure the people that I keep close to me also enjoy it. Thee story that started with Courtney isn't finished.\nCheck out \"Go My Way\" and \"Word of Mouth\" below.\nAll images supplied\nHarry Styles Won't Be Playing Elvis\nKelly Clarkson Wants Taylor Swift to Re-Record Her Songs\nScarlett Johansson: My Quote Was Edited for 'Clickbait'","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line624653"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9828736186027527,"wiki_prob":0.9828736186027527,"text":"Phillips told Nola being a utility infielder likely wouldn’t create the path to a major-league job. He then gave Nola a possible alternative — “Have you ever thought about catching?”\nNola had never caught a game in his life — in little league, high school, college, anywhere in the minors. He wasn’t thrilled about the idea even when his younger brother Aaron, now a pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies, would ask him to put on the gear to catch him.\nPhillips told Nola to consider it.\n“I went home, I thought about it, and thought maybe I should try it,” Nola said. “I went back the next day and said, ‘I’d like to try it.’\n“He would take me in the cage before games. We’d get there a little earlier, and just take some balls off the machine, receive a little bit, just to teach me the fundamentals of it. I kind of started to like it.”\nA few years removed from learning the position, Nola, now 29, is a regular catcher for Triple-A Tacoma. He was acquired as a free agent by Seattle’s organization during the offseason.\nEntering Wednesday night’s Rainiers game, Nola has caught 15 games, also appearing in eight games at first base, and two at third, and had yet to commit an error.\n“He can play all over the field,” Seattle Mariners director of player development Andy McKay said recently about the former LSU shortstop who was a fifth-round draft pick in 2012. “A high-end college middle infielder, he’s just another guy who is creating a lot of versatility for himself, and is giving himself more opportunities to find a way to the big leagues.”\nPlaying catcher helps Nola’s resume. But, learning arguably baseball’s toughest defensive position provided plenty of challenges.\n“It was humbling. It really was,” Nola said. “There were times my first year when I really questioned whether this was the right move.”\nNola played in the Fall League in 2016, joining Phillips who was coaching there/ He said the first game he appeared behind the plate was the hardest nine innings of his career.\nMidway through the game, Nola asked Phillips if he could be subbed out. Nola remembers missing several balls in the dirt, and being hit with catcher’s interference during the first at-bat of the game.\n“I was torn up,” he said. “I didn’t know if I wanted to catch anymore. I didn’t want to show up the next day.”\nBut, he did, and his performances continually improved.\n“I feel in a better position because of the growth and the tough times,” he said.\nBlocking was the toughest to learn, Nola said, because of his background as an infielder. Learning to call the games wasn’t easy either, he said, but he adapted quickly by learning from his own mistakes.\n“They wanted me to fail on pitch calling early to learn,” Nola said. “If I just kept looking in the dugout for assurance, I would never learn.\n“That was one thing (Phillips) helped me with a lot was, ‘No, you need to learn this. You need to put the preparation in, and then you need to fail in the game in order to learn, to get better at that part of the game.’ ”\nNola said his brother has also been helpful in his development, teaching him about how different pitchers approach the game.\n“He teaches me a lot about the tendencies, pitchers and what they like to do,” Nola said. “And, what he sees with hitters from a pitcher’s vision — what he sees compared to what I’m seeing — and shows me that.\n“Sometimes there are some unorthodox things he does that I’m like, ‘That could work on some of the guys I catch.’ That’s been a big help.”\nNola split the 2017 season between Double-A Jacksonville and New Orleans, starting in 75 games behind the plate, and catching 629-plus innings. He committed just three errors in his first season at the position, and caught 27 runners stealing.\n“I was thankful the Marlins gave me the opportunity to learn that, and take that route, because it’s a long route, it’s a tough route to learn how to catch,” Nola said.\nRainiers manager Daren Brown said Nola is a valuable player for Tacoma, and thinks he could be a valuable player in the big leagues, because of his versatility and ability to play catcher — which many utility players don’t have significant experience with.\n“He’s a really knowledgeable guy and wants to be the best at it,” Brown said. “Those are some things you really can’t measure.\n“He’s done a really nice job behind the plate, but again, he’s done a nice job wherever we’ve put him.”\nNola is also having his most productive season at the plate. He leads the Rainiers in most offensive categories among players who have appeared in more than six games.\nHe has a .364/.441/.614 slash line with a 1.055 OPS, and has hit 10 doubles and four homers while driving in a team-leading 21 runs.\n“I’m just trying to have better pitch selection, and refine my approach more, and be more disciplined at the plate,” Nola said. “I think that’s the biggest thing.”\nBrown praised Nola’s consistency — as a batter, as a catcher, and anywhere else Tacoma has played him. While there is plenty of value in Nola’s bat, and his defensive versatility, he said he favors playing catcher now.\n“I see myself as a catcher,” Nola said. “I want to become a catcher. I love the position a lot. I’ve really enjoyed learning the pitchers.\n“I like being in the game, and I like being in that part of the game. I like calling pitches, I like framing, I like doing all of the stuff. You’re in every pitch.”\nAustin Nola (14) during the game. The Tacoma Rainiers played the Albuquerque Isotopes in a Triple-A baseball game at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, Wash., on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Joshua Bessex joshua.bessex@gateline.com\nMariners’ Austin Nola swings at a pitch in the eighth inning. The Seattle Mariners played the San Diego Padres in a exhibition baseball game at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Wash., on Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Joshua Bessex joshua.bessex@gateline.com\nSeattle Mariners starting pitcher Nabil Crismatt, right, and catcher Austin Nola meet on the mound for a moment after Crismatt hit Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant with a pitch in the third inning of a spring training baseball game Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Mesa, Ariz. Elaine Thompson AP\nLauren Smith\nLauren Smith covers the Seattle Mariners for The News Tribune. She previously covered high school sports at TNT and The Olympian, beginning in 2015. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and Emerald Ridge High School.\nMariners manager Servais on Narvaez’s career day, disappointing 7-4 loss to A’s\nServais on Mariners’ 8-2 win over Royals: ‘Marco pitching well and we’re hitting homers. That’s a good formula for us’\nMariners allow late homer, get swept by Angels to open second half\nMatt Thaiss hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning, and Los Angeles completed a three-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners with a 6-3 victory on Sunday.\nMORE SEATTLE MARINERS\nMariners’ Kikuchi attempts to build momentum after an up-and-down first half of the season\nTrout, Pujols power Angels to victory over Mariners\nAngels’ Cole, Pena combine for no-hitter against Mariners on night honoring Tyler Skaggs\nYou probably remember the 3-error game. The Mariners remember how Dylan Moore moved on from it\nMariners road preview: Angels, A’s on deck to open second half\nMariners would like more wins in second half but it’s all about trades and young talent","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line376788"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.72768235206604,"wiki_prob":0.72768235206604,"text":"Why We're Focusing on Mental Health\nBy Andrew Meyer • May 21, 2018\nMore than a third of Ohio residents reported poor mental health in the Kaiser Family Foundation's 2017 report.\nKAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION\n“For 29 years, I thought about mental health as someone else’s problem.”\nOn March 6th, The Players’ Tribune published an article written by Cleveland Cavs center and forward Kevin Love. The team was off to a poor start for the season. He talked about the stress from that and from personal issues. It came to a head during a game against the Atlanta Hawks. He wrote about his heart racing, not being able to catch his breath, and feeling like his mouth was chalk. He ended up at Cleveland Clinic where they ran a “bunch of tests” but found nothing.\nThe truth: Kevin Love had suffered a panic attack.\nBut he wrote he knew he couldn’t bury what happened.\nThe team connected him with a therapist.\nMonths later, Love shared his own story, and took a big step towards getting past the stigma and sharing his own struggle.\nWhether we want to admit it or not, many of us have stories about a mental-health crisis. It happens to our colleagues, our loved ones and ourselves. It is not someone else’s problem.\nThis is a story that is common to more people than you would think.\nIn a 2017 report, Mental Health America found that nearly a fifth of the people in the U.S. have a mental health condition. That’s over 43 million Americans, and more than half lack access to care.\nGraphic from Mental Health America's 2017 report.\nCredit MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA\nOhio is no different than the rest of the country; in some ways things are worse here. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, in 2017, more than a third of Ohio residents reported that they had poor mental health.\nThe federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration issues a yearly Behavioral Health Barometer.\nIn its most recent report based on data from a 2015 survey, the stats show mental health issues have been increasing over the last several years.\nThe state is either in line with or worse than the national average. More than half of Ohio residents say they have needs in dealing with mental health issues that aren’t being met.\nA colleague. A friend. A loved one. Ourselves.\nMany of us know somebody who is either struggling with a mental health concern or has been challenged in the past.\nGraphic from SAMHSA's Behavioral Health Barometer 2015 report.\nCredit SAMHSA\nWe have stories to share. We have experiences that are both distinct and yet universal. But all too often, there are a range of challenges to overcome.\nGetting past the stigma, the perception by society that mental health issues are a deficiency instead of an illness no different than any other physical ailment\nFinding the appropriate professional help\nDetermining the best course of treatment\nHaving the means to afford that help\nImproving awareness among public safety officials about mental health\nAnd knowing what the options really are when a mental health crisis is beyond your one’s own ability to deal\nWe are striving for much in our reporting. We hope to provide information and connections to resources anyone can use to get there. And most of all, we want to be a convener of a conversation, both on an intimate, one-to-one basis and amongst the larger community of Northeast Ohio. Addressing mental health issues should be no different than seeking treatment for a physical health ailment. We need to get past the stigma. We want to help light the path to better mental health in Ohio.\nMental Health America\nThe View From Pluto: Cavs' Kevin Love Starts A Much-Needed Conversation About Mental Health\nBy Amanda Rabinowitz • Mar 7, 2018\nCavs star Kevin Love revealed Tuesday that he’s been struggling with mental health issues. Love wrote in an essay published in the Players’ Tribune that he left a game in November after suffering a panic attack. He detailed how it left him confused and ashamed, and said that he’s started seeing a therapist.\nAkron Agency Will Use A Grant to Address Mental Health Among Elderly Asian Americans\nBy Mitch Felan • Jun 5, 2017\nASIA SERVICES IN ACTION\nAsian Services in Action is getting a grant from the McGregor Foundation to provide mental health resources for elderly people in Cuyahoga County.\nThe group will use the money for its Asian Senior Empowerment Program, which connects low-income Asian Americans with limited English to community and mental health services.\nHealth Insurers Are Still Skimping On Mental Health Coverage\nBy Jenny Gold • Nov 30, 2017\nIt has been nearly a decade since Congress passed the Mental Health Parity And Addiction Equity Act, with its promise to make mental health and substance abuse treatment just as easy to get as care for any other condition. Yet today, amid an opioid epidemic and a spike in the suicide rate, patients are still struggling to get access to treatment.\nHow Gaps In Mental Health Care Play Out In Emergency Rooms\nBy Shefali Luthra • Oct 17, 2016\nNearly 1 in 5 children each year suffers a psychiatric illness, according to research estimates. But a national shortage of medical specialists and inpatient facilities means that many still go untreated — despite national efforts to improve mental health care.\nCleveland Police Release Draft Guidelines for Dealing with Individuals with Mental Health Issues\nBy Annie Wu • Nov 29, 2016\nThe Cleveland Police Department has proposed new guidelines for officers called to handle health crisis situations. It’s part of the city’s police reform efforts with the U.S. Justice Department.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line173969"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.522548258304596,"wiki_prob":0.522548258304596,"text":"Pop Tart: Porn mogul Michael Lucas on the porn industry, sex and the men of Montreal\nRichard Burnett\nFamed gay-porn director and adult-film actor Michael Lucas —born Andrei Lvovich Treivas in Communist Russia in 1972— emigrated to Germany after graduating from the Moscow Law Academy in 1994. He began working as an adult performer before founding his own porn production company, Lucas Entertainment, in New York in 1998. Today Lucas has become one of the most successful producers of porn, and has used his success and notoriety to —as a media columnist and university speaker— speak out against drugs, unsafe sex and the oppression of gays, as well as support the state of Israel. Lucas was in Montreal earlier this summer and Pop Tart caught up with the opinionated entrepreneur for a fun and frank Q&A about all things porn, PrEP, LGBT civil rights, and the raid by U.S. federal investigators on the New York headquarters of popular gay-male escort site Rentboy.com. Plus, Lucas talks about his love affair with Montreal.\nPop Tart: When you started out in the porn business, did you anticipate that you’d have this incredible career and longevity?\nMichael Lucas: I was definitely hoping for a long career, because I was young and ambitious. I don’t think I anticipated such a big success. But I usually do achieve my goals, because I am very focused and hard-working.\nWhy you, and why not so many others in the adult-film industry?\nAnyone can produce a movie, but you have to have business skills to make it work. Education is a plus. I know at least 20 porn stars that opened a company, produced a few films and unfortunately lost all their savings. Vision is important, but that’s only a small part of the recipe for success. The rest is business skills.\nPorn director and adult-film actor Michael Lucas\nYou got a law degree. What made you decide to get into porn?\nAfter graduating, I moved to the West but was unable to work because I didn’t have the proper papers. I needed to start making money. I was young and had a high sex drive and someone told me that I had a big dick, so I decided to try my hand at porn.\nDo you still enjoy acting / performing in your films?\nVery much so. I love sex.\nDo you see a time when you will “retire” from your on-screen roles, and continue working strictly off-screen? Have you given yourself any kind of timeline?\nI didn’t give myself any sort of timeline. Age is just a number and I like the idea of defying age restrictions. I know incredibly hot men that are well past their 50s. It’s about leading a healthy lifestyle. Numbers don’t matter.\nFor many years you were vocally opposed to bareback sex in porn videos. Why did you change your mind?\nI wrote an article on that subject for Queerty. The short version is, times have changed. When I was doing condom scenes, there were no other ways to prevent HIV transmission. Today we have more than just condoms: We have PrEP, which has been proven to work if taken as prescribed. A person with an undetectable viral load cannot give the virus to an HIV-negative person. I myself have been on PrEP for more than two years.\nYou produced the doc Campaign of Hate: Russia and Gay Propaganda. Why did you make this film? Do you see things getting any better for LGBT Russians in the foreseeable future?\nI am very proud of that documentary and very excited that Netflix decided to show it. I grew up the Soviet Union and was a victim of homophobia myself. I have many gay friends there so I thought it was important to produce this film and help raise awareness of the mistreatment of LGBT people.\nIn fact, Russians bully, demonize and discriminate against not only gay people but anyone who is different. Russian people have been intolerant for centuries I see no reason to believe that will change. The West has no influence there. Russia resents everything progressive and that comes from the West as much as they did during the Cold War. While the Western world moves forward, Russia is going backward.\nI’ve been to Israel twice, including for Gay Pride in Tel Aviv. What do you think about charges that promoting LGBT tourism in Israel is “pinkwashing”?\nIsrael is a very accepting and tolerant Jewish state of seven million people that is unfortunately surrounded by 350 million intolerant people. Their neighbors are threatened by the only democratic country in the Middle East. “Pinkwashing” is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that is created in order to smear and disregard the good that Israel is doing. I recently produced a documentary about the gay community in Israel. It is called Undressing Israel: Gay Men in The Promised Land.\nMichael Lucas enjoys vacationing in Montreal\nWhat is at the core of your world view —your Jewish identity or your gay identity?\nIt depends on the circumstances. If I feel discriminated against for being Jewish, then Jewish becomes my first identity; if I encounter homophobia, then my gay identity comes first. But I do not identify myself as just Jewish or gay. I have many identities, one of which is being an American patriot, and that becomes my first identity when I encounter any form of anti-Americanism during my travels.\nHow did you feel when The New Republic dubbed you “Gay Porn’s Neocon Kingpin”?\nI still do not know exactly what that means, but I enjoyed reading a profile about me in one of the oldest political magazines in America.\nAny thoughts on porn director Chi Chi LaRue checking into rehab?\nChi Chi has been fighting addiction for many years and I hope she will beat it this time. I know it is not easy; my ex-boyfriend has been in recovery for four years and there are days that are really hard. It is a daily struggle.\nSome people think young porn stars are more susceptible to the ravages of the fast life in the porn business. What do you think?\nYes, but same goes for show business in general. Just look at mainstream celebrities. Many are in and out of rehab all the time.\nWhat do you think of the police raid on Rentboy.com? Was it a homophobic action?\nMaybe, but straight escort companies are raided as well. It’s infuriating that Homeland Security decided go after harmless sex workers instead of putting that time and money toward keeping us safe from terror attacks. I pay lots of money in taxes, and I hate seeing it funding pointless efforts to prevent people from choosing what to do with their bodies.\nYou were in Montreal this summer. Why did you visit the city, and what do like about the city?\nMy best friend decided to celebrate his birthday in Montreal and a bunch of us spent a weekend in your beautiful city. It was not my first time visiting and I am sure it will not be my last. I love your old streets, the open-mindedness of your people and how gay and straight couples enjoy summer concerts together at Place des Festivals. You have lots of great art and culture and amazing food.\nHow sexy are the men in Montreal?\nVery sexy! And they speak French, which makes them even sexier!\nWhat new projects have you got in development, and is a memoir in your future plans?\nMy forties have been the best time of my life. I am trying to spend as much time as possible with friends and family, and travel to places I never been before. Life is short and I don’t want to miss out on anything important to me.\nI am not planning on writing my memoirs but I’m always happy to do interviews like this one. I also write about politics, social issues and culture for the Advocate and Out. You can read my articles and learn more about my documentaries at the newly-redesigned MichaelLucas.com.\nTwitter.com/bugsburnett\nThe Watchers Sept. 14-20: A new executioner, Neil Patrick Harris as... Madonna and Diplo join Arcade Fire members onstage at Naïve Melodie...\nBianca Del Rio brings It's Jester Joke Tour to Vancouver\nRobert Downey Jr. ready to leave Iron Man behind\nLashana Lynch to become new 007 in Bond 25: Report","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line153848"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7910860180854797,"wiki_prob":0.7910860180854797,"text":"Tag Archives: Kevin Bacon\n(Fourth viewing, On DVD, August 2017) I don’t quite understand why there isn’t already a review of Tremors on this site given that I’ve seen it so often and enjoyed it every time. But my search engine tells me there’s a big Tremors-shaped hole in my reviews database, so that gives me a perfect excuse to rave about one of my favourite B-grade movies. Tremors is not perfect, but it comes really close in its chosen monster-movie subgenre. After an introduction in which we’re promised thrills, then introduced to a few sympathetic characters, Tremors ends its first act by cleanly explaining the nature of its monsters and why they’re so dangerous. Thus having set up the rules, it then spends the next hour inventively showing its characters outwitting the creatures, while the creatures themselves show signs of intelligence. It’s vastly wittier than most other monster movies, with strong characters and a convincing sense of place. A good sense of humour balances out the horror, turning the film into an unusually accessible thriller by dint of a light-hearted tone. Kevin Bacon is terrific in the lead role, but capable supporting characters include Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McIntyre and practical special effects that still hold up more than twenty years later. Writer/director Ron Underwood achieved something special here. Never mind the much-inferior sequels—the original Tremors is a near-classic, well worth watching or revisiting.\nKevin BaconRon UnderwoodTremors series\n(Netflix Streaming, April 2017) While I can recognize that Footloose isn’t a great movie, it’s easy to be swept along by its charm, clearly-defined stakes and infectious energy. I happen to like the song itself a lot, and the clever opening sequence is a lot of fun to watch. Then it’s off to rural America, when a stranger, our protagonist, comes to town to bring some wholesome urban values in the Midwestern wasteland. As a treatise on blue-versus-red America, Footloose has a lot to say and did so decades before the US electoral map ossified to the point that brought you Donald J. Trump, president. But there I go tainting Footloose’s innocent fun with not-so-fun stuff. It’s far better to focus on Kevin Bacon’s career-making performance, the ludicrous chicken-tractor sequence, or John Lithgow’s turn as a persuadable preacher. Footloose, alas, does run out of steam a bit too quickly: the ending seems to peter out after resolving itself ten minutes earlier, not quite managing to deliver a decent finale. Still, it’s a fun movie with a bit of depth to offer regarding the rural-vs-urban divide. The music is also quite a bit better than that other early-eighties musical Flashdance.\nJohn-LithgowKevin Bacon\n(On Cable TV, November 2016) It seems unfair to overly criticize a film like Cop Car. At its core, it’s nothing more than a simple low-budget film that tries for something specific and achieves it successfully. As two boys somewhere in rural Midwestern USA discover a seemingly abandoned cop car and start goofing with it (driving it on the back roads, playing with the equipment it contains), they barely realize what they’ve stumbled into. It gets much worse. As they discover a man tied up in the trunk and as the film intercuts with a crooked sheriff getting rid of a body, it’s clear to us (but not to them) how much trouble they’re into. Kevin Bacon isn’t bad, but doesn’t shine as the corrupt policeman. As a small-scale rural thriller, Cop Car sets up its elements and plays with them, steadily increasing the suspense until the end. There’s an intriguing mismatch between the crooked-cop thriller and the playful nature of the two boys having a grand day out (you don’t have to be a gun enthusiast to wince at the dangerous weapons handling shown here), up until the bullets start flying and they realize the danger they’re in. But for all of the low-budget charm that Cop Car can show, it’s not quite the film it could be. The plot is noticeably thin and the pacing even worse, leading to a film that feels too long even as it merely squeaks by 90 minutes. It also back-loads its story so that by the time everything happens in the last few minutes, it seems to end far too quickly to provide proper closure. While Cop Car ends up being a calling card for director Jon Watts (who’s moving on to no less than a new Spider-Man movie), it’s not quite good enough to reach viewers outside its chosen genre.\nJon WattsKevin Bacon\n(On Cable TV, June 2012) Romantic comedies tend to live or die on the strength of their cast, so it’s a relief to see that nearly everyone headlining Crazy, Stupid, Love is at the top of their game. Steve Carell anchors the cast as a recently-separated middle-aged man seeking lifestyle counsel from a capable womanizer, but he’s surrounded by more great performances by a variety of known names in a variety of large-and-small roles, from Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Bacon and Ryan Gosling, alongside newer names such as Jonah Bobo and Analeigh Tipton. Veterans Tomei and Bacon are hilarious to watch in small but effective roles, but Gosling is particularly noteworthy, charming his way through a character that could have been immensely repellent in less-capable hands. After focusing on the protagonist’s attempt to recapture some of his male seductive powers, Crazy, Stupid, Love soon expands into a mosaic of romantic subplots, occasionally palming a few cards in order to deliver a few almost-cheap twists along the way. No matter, though: it leads to a relatively pleasant conclusion despite the overused (but subverted) graduation-speech plot device. Such genre-awareness is a crucial component of Crazy, Stupid, Love’s moment-to-moment interest: Beyond the well-used soundtrack (including a striking usage of Goldfrapp’s “Ooh La La”), the sharp dialogue and the snappy direction, Crazy, Stupid, Love is just a joy to watch: so much so that even the tangled subplots and tortured twists seem cute rather than annoying. And that, one could argue, is a measure of the film’s success.\nAnaleigh TiptonEmma StoneJonah BoboJulianne MooreKevin BaconMarisa TomeiRyan GoslingSteve Carell\n(On Cable TV, April 2012) For years, I wondered missing out on Flatliners had led to an embarrassing omission in my movie-going culture. Hadn’t this film earned some interest as a science-fiction film? Didn’t it star a bunch of actors who went on to bigger things? Wasn’t this one of Joel Shumacher’s best-known movies from his earlier, better period? The answer to these questions is yes… but the film itself seems a bit of a letdown after viewing. Oh, some things still work well, and may even work better than expected. Of the five main actors, Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and Oliver Platt have all gone on to big careers –with poor William Baldwin being left behind. Schumacher’s direction is backed-up with Jan de Bont’s impressive cinematography: the visuals of the film may not make much sense, but they evoke a modern-gothic atmosphere that remains distinctive even today. The high-concept of the film remains potent, with genius-level medical students voluntarily defying death to investigate the mysteries of the afterlife. Unfortunately, all of these elements don’t quite add up satisfyingly. The jump from the high concept to the characters’ personification of those concepts is weak, and the contrivances become almost too big to ignore. The idea of atonement being closely linked to death is powerful, but the way this variously follows the character is more difficult to accept. (As Platt’s character knowingly remarks, those without deep-seated traumas will end up with some fairly silly phantoms.) There is quite a bit of repetitive one-upmanship in the way the plotting unfolds, and Flatliners sadly goes too quickly from provocative idea to ordinary morality. Still, it’s easy to argue that the film is worth a look: Roberts, Sutherland and Bacon look really good in early roles, and the visual style of the film is still an achievement twenty years later. There are some good ideas in the mix (witness the visual motif of “construction” -reconstruction, deconstruction- underlying nearly each scene), the portrait of intelligent characters interacting is charming and some of the suspense still works surprisingly well when it doesn’t descend in silliness. There are a few films that qualify as “minor classics” of their era in time. While Flatliners certainly won’t climb year’s-best lists retroactively, it’s a film that remains more remarkable than many of its contemporaries. I don’t regret seeing it… and I may even have liked to see it a bit earlier.\nJan de BontJoel SchumacherJulia RobertsKevin BaconKiefer SutherlandOliver PlattWilliam Baldwin","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line115064"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9033008217811584,"wiki_prob":0.9033008217811584,"text":"Location: Dedham Massachusetts\nAncestry of Nathaniel Reynolds Packard, 2d of Brockton Massachusetts\nNathaniel Reynolds Packard, 2d, who belonged to the older school of shoe manufacturers in Brockton, and whose industry and integrity, coupled with his executive ability and iron determination, won him success in his undertakings, died at Cory Hill hospital, Boston, Nov. 6, 1908, aged seventy-five years. He was a descendant of Samuel Packard, the first of the name in America, who with his wife and child came from Windham, near Hingham, England, in the ship “Diligence,” of Ipswich, and settled first at Hingham, Mass., in 1638, thence removing to West Bridgewater, where he became one of the early settlers, and where he was a tavern-keeper\nAncestry of Elmer C. Packard of Brockton Massachusetts\nFor nearly two hundred and seventy-five years the Packard family has been one prominent and influential in New England, and it has become a most numerous family, too, many of whose members both at home and abroad have given a good account of themselves. Samuel Packard, the immigrant ancestor of this family, became one of the early settlers of the ancient town of Bridgewater, and all of the name who have gone from the Bridgewaters were probably descendants of his; in fact, nearly all of the name in this country can be traced to that place. The genealogical records following\nAncestry of Jared Shaw of East Abington, Massachusetts\nThe Shaw family with which the Beal and Reed families are allied by marriage, was founded in this country by Abraham Shaw, who came to America before 1636.\nThe Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771\nThe Massachusetts Tax Valuation List of 1771 contains the names and descriptions of taxable property of nearly 38,000 individuals who resided in 152 Massachusetts towns in 1771\nGenealogy of the Rhodes Family of Taunton Massachusetts\nThrough much of the century but recently closed and on into this has dwelt in Taunton and New Bedford, Mass., a family bearing the name of Rhodes. Reference is made to some of the descendants of the late Stephen and Anna Daniels (Carpenter) Rhodes, whose birthplaces were Dedham and Foxboro, Mass., respectively. Their son, Stephen Rhodes (4), became the head of the Taunton family, several members of which in succeeding generations have given a good account of themselves in the business and social life of their community, rising to useful and substantial citizenship, and as well to responsible public trust. The names of Hon. Stephen H. Rhodes, of Boston, late president of the John Hancock Insurance Company, who for years was prominent in the activities of Taunton, a member of the board of aldermen some forty years ago, and mayor of the city for one or two years; his brother, the present John Corey Rhodes, one of the best known manufacturers of southeastern Massachusetts; another brother, the present Marcus Morton Rhodes, Esq., who for perhaps a half century or more has been actively engaged in business in Taunton, and the greater part of the period as a senior member of the firm or corporation of M. M. Rhodes & Sons Company, and at one time one of the board of water commissioners of the city; the latter’s son, George Holbrook Rhodes, long a partner and stockholder of the firm and corporation just alluded to, and for years its treasurer, many years in succession a member of the common council of Taunton and for a number of years president of that body; John Bird Rhodes, son of John Corey Rhodes, chief executive of John C. Rhodes & Co., Inc., of New Bedford; and perhaps others as well, ever stand out prominently in the annals of Taunton.\nAncestors of John Richardson Bronson of Attleboro, MA\nJOHN RICHARDSON BRONSON, M. D., who for over half a century was one of the best known practitioners of medicine in southern Massachusetts and part of Rhode Island, and who for upward of fifty years was a resident of Attleboro, was a native of Connecticut, born in the town of Middlebury, New Haven county, June 5, 1829, son of Garry and Maria (Richardson) Bronson.\nThe Bronson family was early planted in the New World. John Bronson (early of record as Brownson and Brunson) was early at Hartford. He is believed, though not certainly known, to have been one of the company who came in 1636 with Mr. Hooker, of whose church he was a member. He was a soldier in the Pequot battle of 1637. He is not named among the proprietors of Hartford in the land division of 1639; but is mentioned in the same year in the list of settlers, who by the “towne’s courtesie” had liberty “to fetch woods and keepe swine or cowes on the common.” His house lot was in the “soldiers’ field,” so called, in the north part of the old village of Hartford, on the “Neck Road” (supposed to have been given for service in the Pequot war), where he lived in 1640. He moved, about 1641 to Tunxis (Farmington) He was deputy from Farmington in May, 1651, and at several subsequent sessions, and the “constable of Farmington” in 1652. He was one of the seven pillars at the organization of the Farmington Church in 1652. His name is on the list of freemen of Farmington in 1669. He died Nov. 28, 1680.\nAncestors of Frederick Macy of New Bedford Massachusetts\nThe Macy family of New Bedford is among the oldest and most prominent families of Nantucket, the name having been identified with the business interests of New Bedford for the past seventy years. The first American ancestor of the family was Thomas Macy, clothier merchant, who came, it is said, from the county of Wilts, England, and was in Newbury, Mass., a proprietor; he was a freeman of Sept. 6, 1639. He removed to Salisbury and was town officer and deputy. He removed about 1659 from there to Chilmark; his was the first family on Nantucket island. He was a\nDescendants of William Sumner of Dorchester, MA\nThe Sumner family, to which the late Mrs. George Barstow Stetson belonged, is an old and prominent family of New England, descended from one William Sumner, who was born at Bicester, England, in 1605, son of Roger Sumner, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, and his wife Joane (Franklin).\nWilliam Sumner, the only child of Roger and Joane, married Oct. 22, 1625, Mary West, and they came to America with their four children in 1636, locating at Dorchester, Mass. He was made a freeman of the Colony May 17, 1637, and held many offices of importance, being selectman for nearly a quarter of a century. He was deputy from Dorchester to the General Court for eight years. He died Dec. 9. 1688, surviving his wife, who died June 7, 1676. Both are buried at Dorchester.\nIvers Family of Dedham, MA\nIVERS (New Bedford family). The name Ivers seems one uncommon in New England annals and the family by no means numerous. At Dedham are fragmentary records of the Ivers family name, but nothing of an early date.\nWilliam and Gregory Ivers, brothers, appear in Boston in the early part of the eighteenth century. They are said to have come about 1720 with the pioneer Scotch settlers from the North of Ireland. William Ivers married in Boston April 28, 1724, Jane Barber, the ceremony being performed by a Presbyterian minister. Jane Ivers died at Boston in 1789; her will, made April 29, 1776, proved April 13, 1789, Capt. Job Prince, executor, mentions sons James and Thomas, probably the only ones living at the date of making the will.\nHawes Family of Wrentham, MA\nFor generations, since the early Colonial period, the Hawes family has been resident in Wrentham, Mass. The line is traced back to Edward Hawes, of Dedham, Mass., born probably about 1620, who died in 1686. He married April 15, 1648, Eliony Lombard. This genealogy discusses the line from Edward through Oliver Snow Hawes who removed to Fall River Mass. It then discusses the family and descendants of Olvier Snow Hawes who resided in the vicinity of Fall River.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1009691"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9472866058349609,"wiki_prob":0.9472866058349609,"text":"African-American Firsts, Commemorations, Competitions, Events, History, International, News, Records/Prizes, Sports, U.S.\t January 28, 2017\nSerena Williams Triumphs over Sister Venus to Win Record 23rd Major Title at Australian Open\nSerena Williams lifts her trophy after defeating her sister Venus Williams in their women’s singles final match at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 28, 2017. (Mark R. Cristino / EPA)\narticle via chicagotribune.com\nSerena Williams held up a Grand Slam winner’s trophy for the 23rd time, celebrating her unrivalled place in history, and received a congratulatory letter and a pair of custom-made shoes from Michael Jordan, the name most synonymous with No. 23.\nVenus Williams got to watch from close range again, and shed tears more of joy than regret after being beaten in a major final for the seventh time by her record-breaking younger sister.\nSerena won the all-Williams final, the ninth in Grand Slam history and the second in Australia, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday. With her record seventh Australian Open title, Serena moved ahead of Steffi Graf for the most major titles in the Open era.\nSerena Williams, left, is congratulated by her sister Venus after winning their women’s final match at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 28, 2017. (Tracey Nearmey / EPA)\nWhen Serena sat on the court, holding both arms up to celebrate on Saturday, Venus walked over to her sister’s side of the net for a hug. “This was a tough one,” Serena said. “I really would like to take this moment to congratulate Venus, she’s an amazing person — she’s my inspiration. There’s no way I would be at 23 without her — there’s no way I would be at one without her. Thank you Venus for inspiring me to be the best player I can be and inspiring me to work hard.”\nAsked if it felt awkward to be on the receiving end of so many losses to her sister, the 36-year-old Venus didn’t flinch. “No, because I guess I’ve been here before,” she said. “I really enjoy seeing the name Williams on the trophy. This is a beautiful thing.”\nVenus won the last of her seven majors in 2008 at Wimbledon. She didn’t make the second week of a major for a few years as she came to terms with an energy-sapping illness after being diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome in 2011. And she only made it back to the semifinals last year at Wimbledon.\nAnother shot at a first Australian Open title was a sign of progress, she said. “That’s exactly where I want to be standing during these Grand Slams, is on finals day, having an opportunity,” she said. “That’s the highlight of all this, is to be in that moment.”\nSerena Williams, meanwhile, enjoyed the fact she made history in Melbourne. Only Margaret Court, with 24, is in front of her in terms of overall Grand Slam singles titles, although the Australian great won 13 of her Grand Slams before the Open era began in 1968.\nSerena Williams holds the winner’s trophy as she poses with her sister Venus, the runner-up, on day 13 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 28, 2017. (Greg Wood / AFP/Getty Images)\n“My first Grand Slam started here, and getting to 23 here, but playing Venus, it’s stuff that legends are made of,” Serena said. “I couldn’t have written a better story.”\nThe match didn’t live up to its classic billing, with nerves and tension causing uncharacteristic mistakes and unforced errors, with four consecutive service breaks before Venus finally held for a 3-2 lead in the first set. That included a game when Serena had game point but served back-to-back double-faults and three in all to give up the break.\nThere were six service breaks in total. Both players were relatively subdued, except when Serena smashed her racket in the third game. After the fourth game, however, Serena Williams didn’t face another break point in the 1-hour, 22-minute match.\nSpeaking of records, Serena got a little bit superstitious Down Under, and hadn’t wanted to talk about the No. 23 until she got it.\nNow there’s a limited-edition racket — 23 of them to be released — and some custom-made shoes sent by former NBA great Michael Jordan. It had Jordan’s usual jersey number No. 23 stamped on the heel, helping to provide some synchronicity for the numbers involved.\nTo read full article, go to: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-serena-williams-venus-venus-williams-australian-open–20170128-story.html\nFiled under: Australia, Australian Open, grand slam record, Grand Slam titles, Margaret Court, Melbourne, Serena Williams, Steffi Graf, Venus Williams, women's pro tennis, women's tennis\nEssence to Honor Issa Rae, Janelle Monae, Aja Naomi King and Yara Shahidi at Black Women in Hollywood Awards\nBrooklyn Federal Judge Ann Donnelly in Brooklyn Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Muslim Ban\nOne thought on “Serena Williams Triumphs over Sister Venus to Win Record 23rd Major Title at Australian Open”\nvitaminlover says:\nI wonder if Venus let her win?\nLeave a Reply to vitaminlover\tCancel reply","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line359920"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9866072535514832,"wiki_prob":0.9866072535514832,"text":"Asia Pacific|Reversal by tiny St. Lucia angers China\nReversal by tiny St. Lucia angers China\nCASTRIES, St. Lucia — This tiny Caribbean island may have thought it was no big deal when it severed its 10-year relations with China and restored ties Tuesday with rival Taiwan. Wrong.\nChina, which built a stadium and was finishing a psychiatric hospital here and considers Taiwan a renegade province, called the move \"brutal interference in China's internal affairs.\" In short order, one of the smallest countries in the world has made an enemy out of one of the largest.\nBoth Taiwan and China, which for more than 20 years have battled for diplomatic allies, brought out their big guns to curry favor with St. Lucia, a verdant, mountainous 610-square-kilometer, or 240-square-mile, island home to 168,000 people.\nChina sent its foreign minister for a two-day visit in September. Taiwan sent Foreign Minister James Huang in late April. On Tuesday, he and his St. Lucian counterpart, Rufus Bousquet, signed an agreement establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.\n\"We have been very careful about making this decision, and now that we have taken it, we do not expect the Chinese will love us any more for it,\" Bousquet said. \"But we expect that they will conduct themselves in a manner that is acceptable to our government.\"\nBousquet had indicated that any decision would be based on which country could offer a better deal to St. Lucia, where some 20 percent of the population lives in poverty.\nAs he put it in April: \"Support those who give you the most.\"\nNationalistic pride in St. Lucia, which won independence from Britain in 1979, also played into the equation.\n\"St. Lucia did not win its sovereignty from one power to be now dictated to by another as to who its friends should be,\" the weekly St. Lucia Mirror said in a recent editorial. It added that Beijing's One China policy cannot \"be legally or diplomatically thrust on St. Lucia, as though we, too, were a colony of China.\"\nSt. Lucia indicated last week that if it resumed relations with Taipei, it would still want to be friends with Beijing. The Chinese Embassy sent a rebuff on Friday, saying that China does not accept \"double recognition.\"\nChina, which had established relations with St. Lucia 10 years ago, was apoplectic at the reversal.\n\"We express indignation and opposition,\" Liu Jianchao, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in a statement carried by the official Xinhua press agency.\nShelley Rigger, a professor of East Asian politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, said the stakes of the back-and-forth game were higher for Taiwan, but both countries play it fiercely.\n\"Every diplomatic setback and step forward for Taiwan is important,\" Rigger said.\nRigger said China's foreign policy is still based on the idea that \"there's no space for Taiwan in the world.\"\n\"This is what happens when you have a foreign policy based on an absolute,\" he said.\nTo retaliate, China cannot very well cart off the stadium, named last year for the late George Odlum, who courted Beijing as foreign minister in 1997. The Chinese also built several buildings for an industrial free-trade zone.\nIt is a given that Beijing will not build a planned cultural center. And work has suddenly slowed on the almost-completed 104-bed psychiatric hospital.\nTies with China did not improve the lot of many St. Lucians. The last 10 years have seen a handful of Chinese businesses open on the island, mainly restaurants and shops. But St. Lucia has not seen the predicted influx of Chinese tourists.\nFor its part, Taiwan propagated new strains of fruits and vegetables and introduced agricultural techniques during its time here.\nBousquet said Taiwan had agreed to help St. Lucia diversify agriculture, help tourism, develop livestock and create information technology learning centers, all of which fit into government plans to fight poverty.\nSt. Lucia's recognition of Taiwan is Taipei's first victory in some time in its diplomatic rivalry with Beijing. In 1969, Taiwan had full relations with 67 countries, including the United States and much of Western Europe. Until Tuesday, that number had dwindled to 24.\nA version of this article appears in print on May 2, 2007, in The International Herald Tribune. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1183072"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.924994945526123,"wiki_prob":0.924994945526123,"text":"1619-1621 Main Street\nRobinson Building\nPossibly built as early as the summer of 1866 on land owned by John Rawls, 1619-1621 Main Street is one of several structures on this commercial corridor built during the Reconstruction era. William and Selina Robinson owned the property as early as 1879, and it passed down to their daughters following Selina's death in 1922. The Robinsons were active members of the Jewish community in Columbia; William served as a founding officer of the Hebrew Cemetery Society, a “free cemetery or burial ground for Hebrews,” today known as the Beth Shalom Cemetery at 1300 Whaley Street. By 1898, The State newspaper referred to the building as the \"Robinson building.\"\nThe original footprint of the Robinson Building, seen here in the 1904 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. The Chinese laundry was owned by Yee Ching and the \"fruit\" was a fruit and confectionery store run by G.K. Xepapas. Image courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia\nThe expanded footprint of the Robinson Building, seen here in the 1910 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. Image courtesy of South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia\nMontgomery, the Moving Picture Man was one of the many owners of the Grand Theatre. Reprinted from the 1912 Garnet and Black yearbook\nThe new facade of Allan's. Reprinted from The State newspaper, October 26, 1952.\nThe Robinson Building briefly housed a wax museum in 1979 and 1980, as seen in this photograph by Russell Maxey. Image courtesy Russell Maxey Collection, Richland Library\nHistoric Columbia staff with the recovered sign in 2017. Historic Columbia collection\nBetween 1904-1909, the Robinson building expanded to include a large theater at the rear. On April 26, 1909, the Grand Theatre opened as a vaudeville house that offered both live performances and moving, motion, pictures. In operation from 1909 until 1914, the Grand changed ownership frequently. The building also underwent extensive renovations around 1910, which included adding the name “Robinson” to the façade. Among the more celebrated acts that The Grand brought to Columbia were the Zam Zacks, “who [did] a sensational knife-throwing act in which [a] lady [was] surrounded with knives, any one of which, if there happened a misthrow, [would have] imperiled her life,” according to The State newspaper.\nIn 1936, the Allan Shop, owned by the Picow family, opened in the building's 1619 address. It later became Allan’s Clothiers, which expanded to include the entire building in 1948. In 1951, Allan’s made modifications to the façade, adding pink marble, metal jalousie windows screens and a new paint scheme done with “harmonizing paint.” This is also when the oversized, neon Allan’s sign was placed on the front of the building. Allan’s would remain at 1619-1621 Main Street until the store closed its doors in 1971.\nIn 1983, Andy Zalkin’s Army-Navy Store relocated to a portion of the Robinson building, where it operated until 2016. In 2016, the building was bought by LTC Health Solutions, which oversaw a major rehabilitation of the property began. The original core of the 1866 building remains intact, as does one of the building’s original windows that was obscured during the 1910 renovation. Intricate tile work and a steel beam that extended the façade from the 1910 renovation were found. Informed by the building's history and the rediscovery of the original sign from The Grand Theatre, the new restaurant and bowling alley was named The Grand on Main, which opened in late 2017.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line665423"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7724540829658508,"wiki_prob":0.7724540829658508,"text":"Similar to the 1982 Paul McCartney/Michael Jackson duet \"The Girl Is Mine,\" Monica and Brandy try to convince each other that they're the object of a guy's affection on \"The Boy Is Mine.\" Such lightweight pining also characterizes \"Inside,\" \"Angel of Mine,\" \"Keep It to Myself,\" \"Misty Blue\" and a remake of the Richard Marx ballad \"Right Here Waiting.\" Monica longs to rescue a former boyfriend from a \"life of doing the wrong things\" on the streets (\"Street Symphony\"). She's willing to meet someone's needs at any cost on \"For You I Will.\"\nWhen the singer learns that her lover got another woman pregnant, her biggest gripe is that he didn't wear a condom (\"Ring Da Bell\"). Disturbing rappers (Outkast) lend their voices to the love-hate anthem \"Gone Be Fine.\" At first glance, \"First Night\" seems to set sexual boundaries by saying, \"If I [make a move] it won't be right/ I don't get down on the first night,\" but suggests that teens having sex on the second or third date would be okay.\nA talented vocalist, this teenage diva stumbles when it comes to choosing her material. Some songs are harmless fun. However, several cuts communicate flawed sexual morals to her legion of young fans. That inconsistency undermines the smooth sweetness of The Boy Is Mine.\nThis million-selling album peaked at 2 on the R&B chart. \"\"Angel of Mine\"\" and \"\"The Boy Is Mine\"\" both spent multiple weeks at number 1.\nBob Waliszewski","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line499845"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5206453800201416,"wiki_prob":0.4793546199798584,"text":"Cheer Up Love\nThe Pieces of My Spirit Strewn\nLovely in Her Bones\nPrivate View (Blog)\nDamaris Athene\n© Damaris Athene 2019 All rights reserved\nSuzi Morris\nSeptember 11, 2018 in interview\nDamaris Athene: Suzi can you tell me a bit about yourself?\nSuzi Morris: I was born in Ayr in my grandparent’s house and educated in Glasgow. My mother who was also an artist, died when I was fifteen after a long illness, so I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. I come from a medico - scientific, art background. My father was a scientist so I grew up surrounded by National Geographic magazines and science journals, which inspired me to see more of the world. I left home when I was just 17.\nDA: And where is Ayr?\nSM: Ayr is a seaside town on the west coast of Scotland, 25 miles south of Glasgow. When I left Scotland, I spent a year in Carlisle on a foundation course before moving down to London to what was then Kingston Polytechnic, where I studied Illustration and Design for my BA; but I always knew deep down that I wanted to be a painter. I don’t know whether it was just at that time or in those days, but back then being a painter wasn’t seen as a proper job.\nDA: It still isn’t to be honest. You still have people that will think, ‘Oh I need to do Graphic Design, because it’s applied’ rather than pursuing Fine Art, which is their true passion. It’s sad.\nSM: It is sad. I’ve always had that love of paint since I was a child. When I was a student I took some really basic jobs and lived in sometimes-awful accommodation so that I could afford to buy quality art materials. At school I was forever in the art room painting and my reports always said ‘Susan has such a vivid imagination’. I think that was down having this sensitivity to unseen energies, often common among artists. When you just absorb too much at times.\nDA: I’m the same.\nSM: Really? And we both share an interest in exploring the corporeal and the abstraction of the human landscape! I think artists have a tendency to be sensitive. It’s one of the reasons why I have to be solitary when I’m painting.\nDA: How did your life lead up to becoming a full-time painter?\nSM: I worked in a design consultancy for a while but I didn’t have a passion for the corporate world and I was always more driven to paint. During the eighties, trompe l'oeil made a come back so I spent some time undertaking painting commissions in peoples’ homes. I was married for a long time and ended up going overseas seeking out opportunities to teach art. I really wanted to see the world.\nDA: Whereabouts did you travel to?\nSM: I’ve spent time in India, the Philippines, and Africa when it was still dealing with the AIDS epidemic in the nineties. As a consequence of the disease being so misunderstood initially, there were orphanages full of small children with HIV who had been abandoned by their families. I wasn’t painting for myself at that time but I loved sharing materials for mark making and watching children’s innate creativity. I think that some of the ordeals that I experienced through travel have made me who I am. Perhaps why I have no desire to paint the ‘visible’ world? In later years I worked in art direction for film, which allowed me to keep travelling. It was while I was working in film that I was encouraged to pursue my painting on a full-time basis. There comes a time when you’ve got to follow what’s in here *points to heart*. I feel that finally I’m doing what I want to be doing. In 2012, I met Eileen Cooper, Keeper of the Royal Academy and she suggested I apply to The City and Guilds of London Art School, and from there I went on to undertake the doctorate.\nDA: How did you find your MA at City and Guilds?\nSM: It was rather like joining the special forces of art schools! I had been out of education for some time so it was pretty challenging. I would be working on PowerPoint presentations every week and used to be in the studio from 8am until 8.30pm. I loved it though and it really helped to develop my practice.\nDA: God, every week. That’s intense! And your doctorate at the University of East London. Can you tell me a bit about that?\nSM: While I was on my MA, I had been fortunate enough to meet two leading German companies, Schmincke and Da Vinci. I was doing some filming for them and they kindly supported my doctorate. I love learning and felt at the time that I had only just scratched the surface in understanding my practice so undertaking the doctorate seemed like a natural progression. I was also interested in delving deeper into the concept of the Sublime - my own life experiences seemed to fit with this notion in so many ways. My director of studies and my supervisors at UEL were very insightful at helping me to realise just how much the language of medicine, genomics and clinical virology inform the decisions that I’m making in painting. Then began my relationship with Imperial College who continue to be really supportive. UEL was three of the toughest years of my life, yet three of the best.\nDA: How wonderful and such an achievement.\nSM: I feel that I began to find a truth in my painting that’s been incredibly hard to reach.\nDA: Can you tell me more about your practice itself?\nSM: Scientific research is a stimulus for me, which often provides triggers to inform new work. Plus I’ve always loved the qualities of oil paint. How pigment changes depending on its environment and how it can be manipulated to behave so differently. It’s so unpredictable, rather like the body. I work in multiple layers of translucent glazes, building the image up over long periods of time. Parts of the image get obscured through editing the work while other parts are destroyed and then resurrected from earlier layers. It’s not until the work is finished that I appreciate the art historical references, theory, personal experience and research that’s fed into it. The connection between the body and the performance of painting is fundamental. The imagination is massive and there’s so much I still want to do. I need another hundred years! *laughs*\nDA: *laughs*\nSM: It’s a bodily experience painting. The title of my thesis is ‘The Viral Sublime and the Bodily Experience of Painting’. It was through delving deeper into my practice that I realised how the body and painting contribute to a physical artwork. Merleau-Ponty writes of how our bodies are integrated into the fabric of the world and how painters are able to live purely in this enmeshment with the world and express it visually in their works (Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind, 2c, see 161d). I’m not a great one for theory but I enjoy Merleau-Ponty. I also draw connections from American artist Ross Bleckner, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. I so admire his drawings related to neuroscience. I made a painting recently; ‘The Burden of the Dendrite’.\nDA: Good title! *laughs*\nSM: Dendritic ulcers! *laughs* Another painting - ‘The Naked Virus’. There’s so much emotion in that painting. I realised once it was finished that it was deeply connected with the anxiety over my eye problems at that time. It marked a turning point in my research regarding the part that the subconscious plays in painting. It’s like when you go to the studio, you start off with five or six people with you in your mind, and one by one they leave until you’re left with your body and your subconscious. If I’m lucky I leave the studio too! *laughs* Then you never know what’s going to happen, but on reflection the painting always seems to relate to what I’ve been researching. It’s fascinating. I love being an abstract artist because you never know what you’re going to get. I like how James Elkins describes painting as ‘liquid thought’.\nDA: Oh wow, that’s beautiful. It’s like you’re channeling your thought through your body.\nSM: Yeah. I’ve started in the last year to use parts of the body to manipulate the paint. Exploring paints inherent qualities and working more intuitively to see what comes.\nDA: You’ve touched on this a bit but how do you usually work?\nSM: Alone in the studio with either Ennio Morricone or Chopin’s nocturnes… something classical to take me away someplace else. The light and the line are the two fundamentals that always seem to remain.\nDA: The one over there hasn’t got a line yet.\nSM: Not yet, no.\nDA: Is the line the final thing?\nSM: Often, yes. They are like the minimalist figure in the landscape. Nodding to Modernism and the colour field painters, namely Barnet Newman. I call them biomarkers because biomarkers in science are used for many things, one being to measure our individual susceptibility to things, which I find fascinating. I’m interested in the body and the corporeal. Our bodies have such wisdom if we can just access it. I love reading about epigenetics, and how through editing the human genome science is changing the face of medicine as we know it. It makes me think of Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ where the natural processes of birth, ageing and death are no longer recognisable. What might it be like to be human in the future?\nDA: Completely. Do you not fear that at all? Is it only excitement you feel?\nSM: There’s a bit of fear since germ-line engineering in the wrong hands could be annihilating. But fear of dystopian change shouldn’t blind us to the benefits to society, as this type of science could signal the end of so many inherited devastating genetic diseases. With gene editing technology scientists can sever the DNA of certain viruses, so perhaps many conditions, which are incurable today, will become curable. I’m hopeful that in my lifetime CRISPR technology might release me from the virus that causes Keratitis. It’s a virus that I fight with on a daily basis and have done for decades. Science is achieving incredible things just now in curing certain cancers and other deadly diseases. It’s an exciting time to respond to the science of my time in terms of my practice.\nDA: It makes me think, what would happen if no one died of diseases? The population would grow exponentially, and we wouldn’t be able to support ourselves. It’s difficult!\nSM: It is a daunting prospect. When I read about science extending the human life span through deciphering the genetic codes responsible for controlling limb regeneration it’s like the stuff of science fiction. Whatever would happen to the pensions crisis!\nDA: Yeah, exactly! It’s a pretty big problem! But then I guess if you were coming to later life in a healthier state… it’s just prolonging the inevitable surely.\nSM: Yeah, people would live a lot longer but as you say a healthier old age would be better.\nDA: But would you be immortal if you could be?\nSM: Oh no, no. I wouldn’t want to live forever, would you?\nDA: No! Not at all.\nSM: No, I’m exhausted *laughs* But I’d like at least another 20/30 years of painting if that’s possible?\nDA: Hopefully you will! I guess with your eyes as well, how much does it affect your painting?\nSM: It does affect my painting in that I paint how I see. My long-term fascination with blur against sharpness maybe due to my left eye having scarring in the line of vision causing permanent blurring, but I also have areas of sharpness. So as long as medicine can keep the virus in its latent state my eye will be fine. It’s just my left eye that’s the real problem. So, I like to believe that I’ll always be able to paint.\nDA: Fingers crossed.\nSM: I won’t deny that’s it’s a huge anxiety.\nDA: Yeah, for anyone, let alone an artist where there are more levels of anxiety to it. Sight is integral…Can you tell me about your gallery representation? How did you start your relationship with NoonPowell Fine Art?\nSM: Rachel the gallery director was looking for new artists at the time. She had seen my work online and was so enthusiastic about it.\nDA: Do you have any upcoming shows or anything you’re specifically working towards?\nSM: I’ve had a really busy year with shows. I’ve just finished a painting that has sold to a film producer in Los Angles so that’s great. I’m also going to be exhibiting in a group show coming up at Mall Galleries through NoonPowell, and I’m preparing to present a talk about how medical research inspires my practice, at Imperial College this September. The Department of Medicine have been really supportive throughout my doctorate so I’m looking forward to engaging the public through becoming more involved at Imperial as artist in residence.\nDA: That’s wonderful, congratulations! What’s your favourite piece that you’ve made? I know it’s a tricky question.\nSM: It is, because they all have a part of me. Perhaps ‘Truth Lies and Hidden Realms’ and the other is ‘The In-between’ which is now in a private collection. I was trying to think about why they’re favourites. Possibly some of it is the time that I spend with a piece and whether it becomes a turning point in my practice. All the work is very labour intensive and these particular pieces were painted over two years. ‘The Inbetween’ was painted at such a difficult time in my life. I had lost two studio spaces because they were sublets and I was trying to sell my property in the country and find somewhere to rent in London at the height of the property boom in 2014. At one point I was actually living in my studio in Peckham. There was a huge sense of solace in being in my studio painting. I think studio time is really precious anyway because we all have to do admin and all the other stuff that comes with being a professional artist. The relationship with both these paintings during that period was very intimate. This can make it hard to let a painting go, but at the end of the day, it’s that sense of solace that I feel in making a painting that I want to transmit out into the world. I always remember Eileen Cooper’s advice to ‘not become collectors of your own work’. Her words always ring in my ears whenever I find it hard to let go of a piece. We live in such a chaotic horrid world that’s why I’m doing it at the end of the day.\nCome and see Suzi’s work in ‘Sensibilities of Belonging’ at the Mall galleries, The Mall, London SW1 from 11th to 16th September 2018. Click here for more information.\nFind out more about Suzi’s work:\nTags: artist, female artist, artist interview, painting, fine art, interview\nNatalia González Martín in her studio\nNatalia González Martín\nFebruary 15, 2018 in interview\nDamaris Athene Can you tell me a bit about yourself?\nNatalia González Martín I grew up in Spain in a very small village. I went to school there and that’s quite a boring part of my life, until I was 18 when I came to London for my foundation diploma at City and Guilds, where I also did my BA. Now I’m trying to be a practicing artist, trying to live off that and see what happens. Complicated! With part-time jobs, little things, whatever comes. Recently I opened this space in my own home to promote the work of other artists and curators.\nDA What’s that called?\nNGM Subsidiary Projects. Some friends and I wanted to do an exhibition and we set up a space in my house. It’s too perfect not to continue doing it so I’ve gone further with it. More than just putting my own work and my friends’ work. I find other people and it’s a great way of getting in touch with different artist that I didn’t know about before. I’m not asking economically for anything, it’s art for the sake of art. I think everyone after Uni goes through a period of disenchantment with the art world. I wanted to make something genuine and for the process of experimentation. You can take a risk and make something that doesn’t work at all and you don’t have the pressure of having to answer to a big gallery. I think it’s relieving to have a space like that that isn’t just your studio.\nDA Can you tell me about your practice?\nNGM The very basics of it is archaeology. Around 2/3 years ago I realised that was what linked everything together. I had always been extremely interested in materiality in a very visceral way. My dad is a vet so I’ve seen a lot of horrid, horrid carcases through his work. I always saw it as something quite appealing and, colour palette wise, quite beautiful. I incorporated that with artefacts and history through objects. Now it’s turning into this experimentation of the things man have made with their hands. Forms we’ve been drawn to and ways of representation of materials, but giving it that organic quality that I cannot seem to get away from. Which makes sense with my idea of archaeology itself, because I see it as nothing stable, something quite alive. Not in a beautiful sense, in a precarious way. It has so much potential to decay and be forgotten and die.\nView of Natalia González Martín's Studio\nDA How do you usually work? You graduated in the Summer of 2017, and you’ve been working as an artist since….\nNGM It’s hard to keep up the momentum after Uni and I think everyone finds themselves in this place of ‘What were all of those ideas?’ ‘Where have they gone?’ ‘I had so many ideas for the Degree Show’ and now they go back to basics. That’s what I’ve done - going back to the first sources that inspired me and continuing to analyse them. Maybe it’s because there’s no pressure of having a mark on what you’re doing and it’s finally more for yourself. It doesn’t last but you’ve got this period just for yourself. It’s enjoyable to go to the most naïve, basic aspect of that. ‘I’m just going to do this’ - there is a reason but at the beginning it’s ‘because’ and then it all comes together. It’s challenging after Uni.\nDA What were the things you were drawn back to?\nNGM I had completely left out figuration and now I see myself representing certain images that I had in the back of my head, trying to do them accurately or just replicating an image, which at the end of Uni I was almost against. Like, ‘Oh no, you cannot just make an image and that’s it’. I find it so vital for going back to progress somehow. I don’t know, maybe I had left out so many materials because I had also thought that they’re not professional enough or…I don’t know, you have that pressure when you’re at Uni, especially towards the Degree Show, and you have to deliver this very stable product. It doesn’t have to be that stable after which is nice.\nDA Some freedom.\nNGM Yes, in many ways. In materials, in presentation. It cannot go on forever otherwise it’ll all crumble, but for a bit I think it’s healthy.\nDA You said you’d been working Part-time trying to support things. Is it a patchwork of work to try and pay your rent?\nNGM Yes, I'm a part-time Art Teacher, doing freelance private classes. I’ve also been working at Block 336, at the private views. It’s nice because it doesn’t take too much time from the studio. However, I am looking into getting something more constant. I had a bad experience just after Uni. I was freaking out looking for jobs and I found this one Photographer job. Everything seemed ideal, apart from the fact that it was a recent graduate job and the pay was nothing. Legally there are some things you cannot do for free and I feel people really abuse recent graduates. It was taking all my time, some days were 10 hours long. I chose the studio and not being able to pay rent!\nDA It’s tricky, a lot of the friends who I studied with have stopped making work - they had to earn money and when you lose momentum it’s so hard to start up again.\nNGM Almost impossible. I think we invested too much money in University to let it go. I’d rather starve for a few months than loose the dynamic of coming to the studio.\nDA What difference have you found between studying in Spain and studying here?\nNGM The thing is in Spain I’ve never studied Fine Art in my A levels (Bachillerato). You can find one that is artistic but because it’s Spain, it’s a very old minded country, and it doesn’t have a good reputation. I chose what we call ‘pure letters’ - Latin, Greek, History of Art. Fine Art in Spain is very academicist and not conceptual at all. No self-development of practice. You don’t have your own studio. The exam, for example, will be copying a torso very accurately, which is more of a skill than a profession. Then at the same time I’ve seen some things lacking in the English system - there's not much emphasis in the history of Art itself, which I missed. I think it would be great to do a course in Spain and learn everything until the 18th century and then come to England to learn all the rest. So, just a bit of a balance. I’ve seen what is missing in the two of them.\nDA How have you found living over here? You’ve been here for 4 years now.\nNGM It sounds a bit like the typical story – a small village girl coming to a big city, but it didn’t feel like that. It felt like the right place. Some people say, ‘Oh in London you can feel lonely in such a big city’, but I don’t feel that as much. There’s too much going on. I think it’s too easy to get by. I really like this city. Never going to leave until they kick me out. They’re trying but no way. I’m waiting for Theresa’s call!\nDA *laughs*… What have you been doing since your graduating?\nNGM I had a solo show at St Catherine’s Church, in Neasden. The building is so beautiful I almost didn’t want to put anything in it! I could put up some of my pieces but I had to keep it palatable for the church goers. You don’t want to disturb too much and it’s tricky because you do want to put across a message that’s risky.\nDA Are you religious yourself?\nNGM I am not religious. In my work there is a lot of religion, because of my Catholic background. We love the icons! I think that comes across in my work. I’m drawn to the aesthetic of processions and celebrations.\nDA What have you been working on recently?\nNGM I’ve been really interested in marbling and limbs. I have a need to completely cover something in marbling and maybe put it in weird spaces. I’m into the idea of art in non-art spaces. There is this Instagram profile called Great Art in Ugly Rooms where they post pictures of famous artworks in motels or toilets or McDonald's, etc... It’s such a great concept! It goes as well with the idea that I put into my work of the value of art. Is it the piece? Is it where the piece is? Is it what has been said about the piece? I’m sceptical that it’s not the object itself at all. Maybe changing the context will enhance that?\nDA Have you got any spaces in mind?\nNGM Well the other day I put some clay sculptures in Sainsbury’s. I took some milk off the shelves and just displayed them.\nDA Ah, brilliant!\nNGM More than the display itself it was the peoples’ reactions. No one, literally no one, was weirded out that I was taking these big sculptures out of my bag, placing them there and looking at them. Everyone went through them to get their milk and went back to the queue. None of the Sainsbury’s people said anything. So that was surprising – no impact at all.\nDA Wow, do you think they just were too busy to bother? They thought – Oh that’s weird – but didn’t think much of it. That’s so interesting.\nNGM I don’t know if it’s something to do with England. If you see a horse riding a bicycle no one will look. They’re not surprised…It’s not like not surprised it’s very polite. I think it would really change if I did it in Spain. I want to try it and see the peoples' reactions.\nDA I think you should do it again and you should film it.\nNGM Yeah, I mean I have a Sainsbury’s next to my house, I can always use it. It’s my new gallery space.\nDA They might start knowing you, 'Come along at 12 o’clock on a Sunday to see the sculpture in the milk fridge!'\nNGM Maybe I should advertise it! Who knows! Free marketing.\nDA What have you got planned for the future?\nNGM Applying to more contests and getting more of those dreadful rejection emails. I’ve learnt that we have to live with that. It’s part of it. I was considering a Masters degree but I think that England is far too expensive and I think the masters is like a business. You cannot pay that much money to receive so little space and tuition. I just feels wrong. I’m against it but at the same time I feel like it’s the only way to do it. Maybe I’ll go back on my word and do a Masters. Maybe that’s the plan.\nFind out more about Natalia González Martín's work:\nSubsidiary Projects Website\nSubsidiary Projects Facebook\nSubsidiary Projects Instagram\nTags: artist, female artist, painting, sculpture, interview\nA blog where I, Damaris Athene, interview different female artists. A step towards challenging the gender imbalance of the art world.\nAll photos taken by me unless otherwise stated.\nMellissa Fisher\nThanks to @LondonSculpture for a great wax sculpture course last week. Can’t wait to do more experiments in the stu… https://t.co/LKoMApV5nD\nFINAL DAY - You’ve got just over an hour to catch ‘Cheer Up Love’ before it closes today. Peterhouse’s Old Brewhous… https://t.co/BtonKztkIx\nDue to unforeseen circumstances ‘Cheer Up Love’ will have to close early and will shut this Sunday (12th May). If y… https://t.co/RiNk41lvSL\nPrivate View RSS","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line513444"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9687639474868774,"wiki_prob":0.9687639474868774,"text":"news, local-news\nBUSINESSES will be eligible for land tax rebates and most Tasmanian shacks will be exempt from the tax under changes announced by Premier David Bartlett yesterday. The changes, worth $19 million this financial year and $31 million next financial year, include: •Businesses with land values of more than $350,000 will be eligible for rebates this financial year reflecting the new land tax rates. •Land tax benefits to businesses and private investors across the board will be on the component of their land tax value over $350,000. •The rate of land tax on land values of more than $350,000 will be immediately cut from 2 per cent to 1.5 per cent, and those valued at more than $750,000 will be cut from 2.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent. •The new rates will apply from July 1, 2010, but to assist industry in the transition to the new rates, a cap will ensure no eligible business pays an increase greater than 100 per cent this financial year and in 2010-11. •Landlords will be required to pass on land tax savings to their business tenants, with the Government considering legislative measures to ensure this happens. •Shacks with a land value of up to $500,000 from 2010-11 will be exempt from land tax. •From 2010-11, intending first home builders will be given up to two years to complete construction in order to be eligible for a full rebate on the land tax they have paid on their block. •The Government will provide up to $4 million additional funding to the Valuer-General to enable revaluations to occur every two to three years, rather than every six. •From 2010-11, those running a small business from their home will no longer pay land tax on the part of their home used for businesses purposes. Announcing the package yesterday, Mr Bartlett said his Government had taken its \"eye off the ball\" in relation to land tax but that it was now acting in response to community anger and to protect jobs. He said he could guarantee the Government would meet its financial targets despite the cost of the reforms. \"The Government is using the state's stronger-than-expected revenues to provide tax relief to businesses that will employ more Tasmanians and keep our economy strong,\" he said. \"But we are also using our financial position to look after those Tasmanians saving to build their first home, to family shack owners and to people who run a business from their home.\" Last month Mr Bartlett said no changes would be made to land tax until the outcome of the federal taxation review being undertaken by Treasury head Ken Henry was known. Yesterday he said Mr Henry had been kept informed of the changes. Changes to the land tax rate and the exemption of shacks and home businesses will require legislation. THRESHOLDS 2009 LAND TAX THRESHOLD BY STATE NSW: $368,000 Victoria: $249,999 Western Australia: $300,000 Queensland (residential): $599,000 Queensland (commercial): $349,000 South Australia: $110,000 Tasmania: $25,000\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/resize/frm/silverstone-feed-data/84989bf6-ea06-4434-8946-ead431fc6989.jpg/w1200_h678_fcrop.jpg\nDecember 10 2009 - 12:45PM\nMost shacks now exempt from land tax\nLORETTA JOHNSTON\nBUSINESSES will be eligible for land tax rebates and most Tasmanian shacks will be exempt from the tax under changes announced by Premier David Bartlett yesterday.\nThe changes, worth $19 million this financial year and $31 million next financial year, include:\n•Businesses with land values of more than $350,000 will be eligible for rebates this financial year reflecting the new land tax rates.\n•Land tax benefits to businesses and private investors across the board will be on the component of their land tax value over $350,000.\n•The rate of land tax on land values of more than $350,000 will be immediately cut from 2 per cent to 1.5 per cent, and those valued at more than $750,000 will be cut from 2.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent.\n•The new rates will apply from July 1, 2010, but to assist industry in the transition to the new rates, a cap will ensure no eligible business pays an increase greater than 100 per cent this financial year and in 2010-11.\n•Landlords will be required to pass on land tax savings to their business tenants, with the Government considering legislative measures to ensure this happens.\n•Shacks with a land value of up to $500,000 from 2010-11 will be exempt from land tax.\n•From 2010-11, intending first home builders will be given up to two years to complete construction in order to be eligible for a full rebate on the land tax they have paid on their block.\n•The Government will provide up to $4 million additional funding to the Valuer-General to enable revaluations to occur every two to three years, rather than every six.\n•From 2010-11, those running a small business from their home will no longer pay land tax on the part of their home used for businesses purposes.\nAnnouncing the package yesterday, Mr Bartlett said his Government had taken its \"eye off the ball\" in relation to land tax but that it was now acting in response to community anger and to protect jobs.\nHe said he could guarantee the Government would meet its financial targets despite the cost of the reforms.\n\"The Government is using the state's stronger-than-expected revenues to provide tax relief to businesses that will employ more Tasmanians and keep our economy strong,\" he said.\n\"But we are also using our financial position to look after those Tasmanians saving to build their first home, to family shack owners and to people who run a business from their home.\"\nLast month Mr Bartlett said no changes would be made to land tax until the outcome of the federal taxation review being undertaken by Treasury head Ken Henry was known.\nYesterday he said Mr Henry had been kept informed of the changes.\nChanges to the land tax rate and the exemption of shacks and home businesses will require legislation.\n2009 LAND TAX THRESHOLD BY STATE\nNSW: $368,000\nVictoria: $249,999\nWestern Australia: $300,000\nQueensland (residential): $599,000\nQueensland (commercial): $349,000\nSouth Australia: $110,000\nTasmania: $25,000","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line968224"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6816369295120239,"wiki_prob":0.3183630704879761,"text":"Books Kids Nonfiction 1,000 Facts about the White House\n1,000 Facts about the White House\nSarah Wassner Flynn\nNational Geographic Children's Books\nWelcome to the White House! Go behind the scenes to get a 360-degree view of America's most famous president’s residence, from how it was built in 1792 and the fire of 1812, to today's state dinners, celebrations, celebrity pets, and more. Discover through 1,000 fun-to-read facts what it's like to live and work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the quirky rules of the house and how the Secret Service keeps it safe. Find out how the kids who have lived there play, watch movies, and entertain friends. With a treasure trove of material from the White House Historical Association, this book presents a fascinating story of the building and the many people who have shaped its 225-year history.\nIllustrations/Photos (if applicable)\nLearning Value\nTop 50 Reviewer\nView all my reviews (130)\nTons of Awesome Facts!\n'1,000 Facts about the White House' by Sarah Wassner Flynn is definitely worth reading. From facts about why the rooms are named as they are in the White House to interesting facts about first ladies, pets, and food as related to the presidency, there is something for everyone.\nThere are plenty of interesting facts that even the most well-versed presidential fanatics can find at least one that they may not have known before. It is also nice how the facts are arranged so that the connections are pretty sequential. Learning the layout of the White House and when certain wings were added adds a lot to the points being made, showing that the home has evolved as time has passed.\nNo matter whether your favorite president is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, or anyone who has come before or after, you are sure to find something that will engage your interest and round out your understanding of not only the White House, but also the importance of the highest office one can hold in the United States.\nKids Nonfiction\nLincoln's Grave Robbers\nCategory: Kids Nonfiction","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1110030"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7446050643920898,"wiki_prob":0.7446050643920898,"text":"The Autopsy of Jane Doe Movie – First look!\nTwo new official pictures of The Autopsy of Jane Doe, the upcoming psychological horror movie starring Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox, have shown up online, take a look below:\n(Click on a picture to enlarge.)\n“In small-town Virginia, police are called to a gruesome crime scene where a family has been massacred in their own house. In the basement, an even more disturbing discovery is made: the partially buried corpse of a nude woman. The cops take this unidentified victim to a small, family-run morgue, where they ask proprietor Tommy Tilden (Brian Cox) to perform an urgent forensic analysis in order to help determine what happened at the blood-stained house. Tommy’s son Austen (Emile Hirsch) cancels a date with his girlfriend (Ophelia Lovibond) in order to help his father perform an autopsy, and the two Tildens set about their grisly examination in the morgue basement.\nWorking late into the night as they methodically peel back layers of skin, muscle, and bone, Tommy and Austen are baffled by the lack of external signs of trauma on the victim and the alarming extent of her internal injuries. Increasingly perplexed and frustrated by these forensic anomalies, the pair begins to succumb to late-night jitters, getting spooked at apparitions that seem to be lurking in the shadows. As the dread mounts and the atmosphere gets thick with evil, it becomes apparent that the Tildens’ fate is intertwined with a darkness that neither of them can comprehend.”\nSo an evil demon was hiding in that corpse’s stinky innards?\nThe film is directed by Andre Ovredal based on a script by Ian B. Goldberg and Richard Naing.\n11 September 2016 tags: The Autopsy of Jane Doe\nThe Autopsy of Jane Doe Movie starring Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox - Here’s the official plot synopsis of The Autopsy of Jane...\nThe Autopsy of Jane Doe - The Autopsy of Jane Doe Genre: Horror/Thriller Directed by: Andre...\nThe Autopsy of Jane Doe Movie Trailer - We’ve got our hands on the first official trailer of The...\nThe Autopsy of Jane Doe Trailer - There’s a brand new morbid trailer for The Autopsy of Jane...\nTrailer of The Autopsy of Jane Doe starring Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox - There’s a new scary trailer for The Autopsy of Jane Doe,...\n2 Clips of The Autopsy of Jane Doe - You may watch below two new preview clips of The Autopsy of Jane...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1658983"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5942896008491516,"wiki_prob":0.5942896008491516,"text":"Swarbreck Surname Ancestry Results\nOur indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'swarbreck'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 7 records (displaying 1 to 7):\nGet all 7 records to view, to save and print for £32.00\nswanwich swanwick swanwicke swanwyk swanwyke swany swanynglee swanyngton swanzey swanzy swap swapeltrot swapes swaphel swapp swapson swarama swarb swarbeck swarbreake swarbreek swarbricj swarbrick swarbricke swarbridge swarbrook swarbrooke swarbruck swarby sward swarder swardiere swardill swardiston swardo swardridge swards swardt swardy swardz\nOfficial Papers (1694-1695)\nThe State Papers Domestic cover all manner of business relating to Britain, Ireland and the colonies, conducted in the office of the Secretary of State as well as other miscellaneous records. Here we have the period from January 1694 to June 1695.\nSWARBRECK. Cost: £4.00.\nInhabitants of Poulton le Fylde in Lancashire (1790-1797)\nThe provincial sections of the Universal British Directory include lists of gentry and traders from each town and the surrounding countryside, with names of local surgeons, lawyers, postmasters, carriers, &c. (the sample scan here is from the section for Bridgnorth). The directory started publication in 1791, but was not completed for some years, and the provincial lists, sent in by local agents, can date back as early as 1790 and as late as 1797. This particular list was included in the appendix of late returns.\nDeaths, Marriages, News and Promotions (1851)\nDeath notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. July to December 1851\nThe Law Times: Birth Notices (1869)\nVolume 47 of The Law Times, 'The Journal of The Law and The Lawyers', a weekly publication, runs from 1 May to 30 October 1869, issues number 1361 to 1387. Regular features include Birth, Marriage and Death announcements.\nMissing Next-of-Kin and Heirs-at-Law (1880)\nThe Unclaimed Money Registry and Next-of-Kin Advertisement Office of F. H. Dougal & Co., on the Strand in London, published a comprehensive 'Index to Advertisements for Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, Legatees, &c., &c., who have been Advertised for to Claim Money and Property in Great Britain and all Parts of the World; also Annuitants, Shareholders, Intestates, Testators, Missing Friends, Creditors or their Representatives, Claimants, Unclaimed and Reclaimed Dividends and Stock, Citations, Administrations, Rewards for Certificates, Wills, Advertisements, &c., Claims, Unclaimed Balances, Packages, Addresses, Parish Clerks' Notices, Foreign Intestates, &c., &c.' The original list was compiled about 1860, but from materials dating back even into the 18th century: most of the references belong to 1850 to 1880. For each entry only a name is given, sometimes with a placename added in brackets: there may be a reference number, but there is no key by which the original advertisement may be traced. The enquirer of the time had to remit £1 for a 'Full and Authentic Copy of the Original Advertisement, together with name and date of newspaper in which the same appeared'.\nSurgeons (1928)\nThe Royal College of Surgeons, established by royal charters, issued this calendar 1 August 1928, including official lists of all its fellows, members, licentiates and diplomates. The register of fellows gives full name (surname first) and address (in italics), with dates of admission as fellow and member. The list of members gives year of admission, full name (surname first) and town or country of residence. The lists of licentiates give year of admission and full name, but no indication of current address: entries of fellows of the college are prefixed with a double dagger, those of members with an asterisk. The lists of diplomates give year of admission and full name (surname first), with those diplomates who were neither members nor fellows of the college indicated with a dagger. This is the index to the members.\nDoctors trained in Britain or Ireland but living abroad (1948)\nThe Medical Directory was split into several sections. The Practitioners Resident Abroad section covered all medical practitioners who, having qualified in Britain or Ireland, were living abroad. Each year a schedule was sent to each doctor to be returned to the publishers, so as to keep the directory up to date. In the directory the doctor's name is given first, in bold, surname first, in capitals; then current address. Next are the qualifications; the italic abbreviations in parentheses following the qualifications indicate the medical school at which they were gained. Then there is a list of posts and honours within the profession, starting with those then current; previous posts are preceded by the word 'late'. Finally, brief details are given of any publications. Inclusion of names in the list did not imply a right to practise in the country of residence.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1607753"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8670274615287781,"wiki_prob":0.8670274615287781,"text":"Americans should reclaim the Betsy Ross flag instead of abandoning it | Opinion\nNike dropped plans for shoes featuring the Betsy Ross flag, which some white nationalist groups have co-opted as a symbol.\nAmericans should reclaim the Betsy Ross flag instead of abandoning it | Opinion Nike dropped plans for shoes featuring the Betsy Ross flag, which some white nationalist groups have co-opted as a symbol. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/07/08/betsy-ross-flag-nike-controversy/1675249001/\nJohn R. Vile, Guest columnist Published 3:00 p.m. CT July 8, 2019 | Updated 5:39 p.m. CT July 8, 2019\nSportsPulse: The latest Nike-Kaepernick shoe debacle isn't an opportunity to pick sides but a chance to take time to learn lessons about our own country's history, says USA TODAY Sports' Christine Brennan. USA TODAY\nJohn R. Vile is dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University and the author of \"The American Flag: An Encyclopedia of the Stars and Stripes in U.S. History, Culture and Law.\"\nIn recent days, Nike has scrapped plans for a line of shoes featuring the so-called Betsy Ross flag because of concerns that some racist white nationalist groups have used it as their symbol. This is a case where it would be better to seek to recapture the flag than to abandon it.\nAs a people we live by symbols. Some symbols, like the Confederate flag, come with such historical freight that they may better be relegated to museums and private graveyards than to wearing apparel or public marches. This doesn’t give racists, or any other hate groups, the right to appropriate the Betsy Ross flag any more than they have the right to monopolize any other cherished American symbol.\nThe Tennessee Smokies Double-A baseball team came under fire Thursday, July 3, 2019, after it posted a tweet showing the Betsy Ross flag etched into the infield. Nike reportedly designed a shoe featuring the early flag but pulled it after former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick complained. (Photo: USA TODAY Network - Tennessee)\nThe Betsy Ross flag consist of 13 white stars in a blue canton with 13 alternating red and white stripes in the field. The likelihood that Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress, designed this flag is fairly remote and originated from a speech about 100 years later. In addition to being popular during the Revolutionary War era — numerous African Americans who served in George Washington’s armies would have rallied to this flag — it was quite popular during the both the centennial and bicentennial celebrations of the Declaration of Independence. Like the Star-Spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry and that was sewn by Mary Young Pickersgill, one attraction of the Betsy Ross flag is that we associate it with a woman, who like African-Americans of her day, did not have full citizenship rights.\nDr. John R. Vile is a professor of political science and dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University. (Photo: MTSU photo by J. Intintoli)\nThe colors of the flag are largely derived from the flag of Britain. The idea of setting stars in a circle or in rows where none was larger or stood in distinction from others was meant to represent a new small-r republican constellation in which a single monarch or sun king would no longer dominate.\nWhatever the flaws of the new nation that the Betsy Ross flag represented, the Declaration of Independence, which served as its birth certificate, proclaimed that “all men are created equal” and that all were equally entitled to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”\nMore: Tennessee Smokies delete tweet showing Betsy Ross flag drawn on infield\nIn the early 19th century, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison described the U.S. Constitution as “a covenant with death” and “an agreement with hell” because of its failure to condemn slavery. By contrast, Frederick Douglass observed that the American framers had envisioned a nation where they thought slavery was on a path to ultimate extinction and that it was better to work within the Constitution than to abandon its nobler principles. During the fight for women’s suffrage and later marches for civil rights, demonstrators proudly waived American flags even though they knew that they still represented unrealized ideals.\nMembers of the Ku Klux Klan have burned crosses, yet we still humbly display them in our churches. We further ennoble our symbols as we refine our nation’s principles.\nThis undated product image obtained by The Associated Press shows Nike Air Max 1 Quick Strike Fourth of July shoes that have a U.S. flag with 13 white stars in a circle on it, known as the Betsy Ross flag. (Photo: Nike via AP)\nThe Betsy Ross flag and our current stars and stripes are collective symbols, and we would be foolish to concede them and the patriotic emotions they evoke to the most extreme elements and un-American elements among us.\nIf these flags are endangered, let’s show some of the courage that has kept our nation free and recapture them rather than let them remain in enemy hands.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/07/08/betsy-ross-flag-nike-controversy/1675249001/\nThe 21st century has been a huge disappointment\nHong Kong protest lesson: freedom is fundamental\nMore fathers must step up, take responsibility","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line61372"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.807883083820343,"wiki_prob":0.807883083820343,"text":"Sexless marriage? The sex therapist’s advice for jaded couples\nIt’s official: long-term couples are having less sex than ever before. The psychologist Dr Stephen Snyder says any couple, even after decades, can rediscover their mojo\nJennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd portray modern marriage in the film WanderlustALAMY\nSex is in trouble — especially married sex. The latest National Surveys of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3) showed that British adults are having less sex. More are reporting no sex at all in the past month, compared with data from a decade ago. A recent report in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) said this was particularly true for people in relationships.\nAccording to the data, the steepest drop in sexual frequency was seen in those who were married or cohabiting. What’s this all about? No one knows for sure, but it’s clear we’re living through a period of rapid cultural and technological change, with many more opportunities for distraction. Which is probably not great news when it comes to married sex. As Jean Twenge,…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1563411"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6281192302703857,"wiki_prob":0.6281192302703857,"text":"Famous for its charcoal grilled stakes, seafood dinners, live entertainment and illegal backroom gambling, Babette's was a staple of Atlantic City nightlife throughout the 1920s. Located at 2211 Pacific Avenue – property now occupied by the Trump Plaza Casino – Babette's was owned by Dan Stebbins and was originally called the Golden Inn.\nIn 1920, a young singer and entertainer named Blanche Babette came to Atlantic City, where she met and married Dan Stebbins who owned a small club on Pacific Avenue known as the Golden Inn. The pair expanded the facility and renamed it Babette's in the 1930s. While Dan Stebbins managed the business side of the nightclub, Blanche handled the revues: designing costumes, arranging the music, rehearsing the chorus line, and introducing the acts.\nStars like Eleanor Powell, Jack White, Joe Penner, the Carlisle Sisters, comic Little Jerry Bergen, and Velma and Buddy Ebsen performed there. Visitors included Jimmy Walker, Mayor of New York; Rudy Vallee; the Three Stooges and Milton Berle.\nThe décor of Babette's was famously unique. It was fashioned in a nautical theme which included a bar in the shape of a ship. It is rumored that a trapdoor that led from the horse room – an illegal backroom gambling center where individuals placed bets on horse races – to the roof of the building, from which one could then access the Stebbins' home.\nDuring a federal investigation in the 1930s, Babette's was targeted for its gambling and horse-race betting operations. In 1943, Sheriff James Carmack led a raid on Babette's. Racing sheets, craps tables, roulette wheels and telephones were seized. Stebbins ultimately paid $5,000.00 in fines.\nIn 1950, the Stebbins retired from the business and sold the nightclub. Dan Stebbins passed away in 1960 and Blanche in 1963.\nAn ad for Babette's in the 1946 Atlantic City City Directory. (H009.BabettesAd1946CityDirectory. Atlantic City Heritage Collections, Atlantic City Free Public Library.\nVicki Gold Levi. Atlantic City: 125 Years of Ocean Madness. New York: C.N. Potter, distributed by Crown Publishers, 1979.\nJonathan Van Meter. The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato , The Glorious 500 Club & the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City. New York: Crown, 2003.\nJim Waltzer and Tom Wilk. Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.\nUS Department of Justice and US Department of Treasury. The Case of Enoch L. Johnson: a complete report of the Atlantic City investigation conducted jointly by the Treasury Department and the Department of Justice. [United States: n.p.], [1942].\nLocal History Biography File – \"Stebbins, Blanche Babette\"\nLocal History Subject File – \"Nightclubs\"\nAtlantic City City Directories","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1584534"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8702067732810974,"wiki_prob":0.8702067732810974,"text":"Australia Dumps Another Prime Minister for Pushing Climate Policies\nMyron Ebell • August 31, 2018\nMap of Australia overlaid with Australian flag\nClimate policy has once again toppled a prime minister in Australia. After Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton threatened to challenge Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership over climate policy, Turnbull on May 18th agreed to drop the National Energy Guarantee, legislation to implement Australia’s pledge under the Paris climate treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 26% below 2005 levels by 2030. But that was not enough to save Turnbull.\nDutton then challenged Turnbull, but Turnbull survived a vote on August 21st by Liberal Party members of Parliament, 48 to 35. Dutton resigned from the Liberal-National Coalition government, but on Wednesday the 22nd Turnbull appeared to win back support from other government ministers who had voted against him.\nThe next day, Thursday the 23rd, Dutton presented a petition signed by 43 Liberal members of the House and Senate—a bare majority—asking for a new leader. After Turnbull resigned as party leader and prime minister on Friday the 24th, an election was immediately held. Three members—Dutton, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and Treasurer Scott Morrison—contested the election. Bishop was eliminated in the first round, and Morrison then defeated Dutton 45-40 to become leader of the Liberal Party and thus prime minister. Morrison is a member of the establishment wing of the party and was a strong Turnbull supporter.\nMalcolm Turnbull resigned his parliamentary seat on August 31st, thereby triggering a by-election in the wealthy Sydney suburban constituency of Wentworth. A date for the election has not yet been set and the parties have not selected candidates, but early polls show a dead-even race between the Liberal and Labor parties. A Labor victory would end the Coalition government’s one seat majority in the House of Representatives.\nMorrison is Australia’s seventh prime minister in eleven years and fifth in the last five years. Most of them were ousted because they insisted on pursuing unpopular climate and green energy policies. Turnbull now has the distinction of being toppled twice, the first time in a party revolt led by Tony Abbott.\nPresident Trump Promotes Administration's Environmental Accomplishments\nClimate Risk Disclosure Proposal Would Destroy, Not Protect, Shareholder Value\nMore by Myron Ebell\nTrump Administration Environmental Agenda Focuses on Stewardship, not Alarmist Policies\nClimate Change Narrative is Driven by Agenda of Political Control: Myron Ebell","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1722852"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9353398084640503,"wiki_prob":0.9353398084640503,"text":"Latin American states urged to ease entry for fleeing Venezuelans\nEditor | August 24, 2018 | Middle East | No Comments\nThe United Nations has urged Latin American countries to ease entry for thousands of people fleeing Venezuela’s deepening economic and political crisis.\nThe call on Thursday came after Ecuador and Peru announced tighter entry requirements for Venezuelans.\n“We recognise the growing challenges associated with the large scale arrival of Venezuelans,” UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said in a statement issued jointly with the International Organization for Migration.\n“It remains critical that any new measures continue to allow those in need of international protection to access safety and seek asylum,” Grandi added.\nLed by President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela has been struggling with hyperinflation, economic recession and shortages of essential goods, including food and medicine, as well as a political crisis that has left much of the country polarised.\nAccording to the UN, 1.6 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2015, 90 percent of whom went to countries within South America.\nThis week, Ecuador and Peru said that those without valid passports would be denied entry, in a move affecting hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who were previously allowed to cross the border with paper ID cards instead.\nThe UN agencies warned that the new passport requirement will expose people to “further risk of exploitation, trafficking and violence”.\nEcuador recently declared a state of emergency in three northern states and has called for a regional summit to discuss the mass exodus, which sees up to 4,200 Venezuelans arriving in the country daily.\n“It is the moment to exchange opinions, to see what different countries are doing in different aspects,” Santiago Chavez, Ecuador’s vice minister for human mobility, said in a statement on Wednesday.\n“The worst that can happen to the country [Ecuador] is migratory chaos,” he added.\nAl Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez, reporting from the Ecuador-Peru border, said that “there is a lot of anxiety among all these Venezuelans who are trying to get into Peru” before a Saturday deadline where they will be required to have a passport to cross the border.\n“There is a lot of expectation that there will be a lot of people coming here in the next few days,” she added.\n‘We are stranded’\nFor its part, Colombia on Wednesday said it wanted a special UN envoy and a “multilateral emergency fund” to help manage the mass exodus. More than a million people have entered Colombia in the past 16 months alone.\nColombia has granted 800,000 of them temporary residence, but many want to travel onwards to Peru, Chile or even Argentina, which has taken in more than 30,000 Venezuelans under a law that allows foreign nationals to remain in the country “when there are exceptional reasons of a humanitarian nature”.\n“What is happening in Venezuela is of such gravity that it looks as though we were going through a terrible war like Syria – except there is no war,” Trino Marquez, a sociologist in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, told Al Jazeera.\n“And there is the expectation that things will get even worse,” Marquez added.\nMany Latin American governments initially welcomed the migrants with open arms, remembering Venezuela’s role in welcoming those fleeing dictatorships and conflicts in the past.\nBut the exodus has ballooned this year, stretching social services, creating more competition for low-skilled jobs and stoking fears of unrest.\nEarlier this week, residents in a northern Brazilian town drove hundreds of Venezuelans back over the border.\n“There have been days of tension at the border between Brazil and Venezuela, especially at the town of Pacaraima where a shelter where Venezuelans were living was attacked and set on fire, with a group of Brazilians pushing about 1,000 Venezuelans to the Venezuelan side of the border,” said Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from Boa Vista, the capital of the northern state of Roraima.\nShe added that those who had managed to come back were living in shelters.\n“I cannot go back to my country, we cannot survive there,” Ricardo Rondon, a Venezuelan in Pacaraima, told Al Jazeera.\n“It’s a disaster and I won’t go back as long as Nicolas Maduro is in power. We are stranded.”\nVenezuelan migrants at a temporary shelter in the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima [Guadalupe Pardo/Reuters]\nOn August 20, Maduro’s government rolled out a new currency, slashing five zeroes from the bolivar in a bid to tame the country’s rampant hyperinflation.\nThe new bolivar, which will be in circulation alongside the old currency during a transitional period, will be pegged to the country’s state-backed cryptocurrency, the petro.\nMaduro, who says that he is the victim of a US-led “economic war” designed to sabotage his administration through sanctions, said that using the petro will abolish the “tyranny” of the dollar and lead to an economic rebirth in Venezuela, an OPEC member state and home to the world’s biggest crude oil reserves.\nBut many fear the measures could worsen the situation.\n“There has been complete confusion and paralysis since these new reforms came into place,” said Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman from Caracas.\n“There is little confidence that these new measures are going to make things better … and people believe that the only way out of this crisis is leaving this country,” Newman added.\nBut for many, this is not a realistic option. The country has all but stopped issuing passports due to ink and paper shortages, as well as bureaucratic problems. Those who can afford it have paid fees and bribes upwards of $2,000 to get a new passport.\n“I need to leave but how? There is no way to get a passport unless you pay $2,000 under the table, which I don’t have,” a Venezuelan citizen told Al Jazeera.\nVenezuela’s gross domestic product (GDP) has dropped by about 45 percent since Maduro took office in April 2013, according to the International Monetary Fund.\n“There is no work, I can’t support my family or buy milk or diapers for my baby, so I have no choice but to leave,” Alejandro Blanco, another Caracas resident, told Al Jazeera.\nDRC election: Voting under way in long-delayed polls\nIran’s Mossadegh ‘would have negotiated with Donald Trump’\nWickremesinghe: Sri Lanka democracy under threat\nAlgeria PM starts talks on new cabinet as gas field workers protest","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line273561"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9553399682044983,"wiki_prob":0.9553399682044983,"text":"Medal Of Honor Developer: \"Afghanistan Sort Of Chose Us\"\nThis spring, one of the biggest war video game franchises will be set in a current war, the conflict in Afghanistan. Why? Not politics, a developer told Kotaku. Not current events.\n\"We never chose Afghanistan,\" Medal of Honor executive producer Greg Goodrich said in a recent interview in New York City. \"Afghanistan sort of chose us. We had a story we wanted to tell and it was about a certain group of individuals. And that's where they happened to be. And so we ended up there.\"\nThis new Medal of Honor puts players in the boots of various soldiers during an undated but clearly early part of the US-led NATO war in Afghanistan that began in the fall of 2001. Players spend much of their time in the game controlling elite Tier 1 operative soldiers, the type of bearded super-soldiers who have performed some of the most elite and dangerous missions in the way.\nGoodrich denied that setting the game during this modern conflict was an attempt to grab the attention of potential players who might be gripped by current events as opposed to the fictional future combat of competing series Modern Warfare or the older wars depicted in other major war games. \"I don't think about that at all,\" he said. \"We have a story to tell: Our story, our characters and the quality level at which we're telling our story will engage people whether it's there or anywhere else. The backdrop is just that. It's a historical backdrop that has rich history. It all adds to that recipe that goes into making a great storytelling experience, beyond the locale, beyond the time of day, beyond the audio or music.\"\nThe enemy in the new Medal of Honor will be Al Qaeda and foreign fighters from areas like Chechnya. They will exhibit fighting tactics seen in the real conflict.\nBeyond providing a new enemy, Goodrich said Afghanistan unexpectedly provided the game developers, the diverse terrain they wanted. \"What Afghanistan gives us is that the average consumer is going to expect a certain thing: a very dry, arid rustic terrain,\" he said. \"That's a part of Afghanistan. Helmand Province is a very dry rugged terrain. But when [the soldiers who consulted on the game]started bringing in photographs and we started looking at video, the different terrain of that country I was surprised... I've seen photographs that I would swear was Vietnam. I've seen snowy mountain peaks... What this does is it gives us a visual cascade of terrain that is going to be appealing to the consumer.\"\nSo the game won't be using its Afghanistan setting to press any political buttons. Usually the big war games don't, even, when setting themselves in a current war, it seems they could.\nMedal of Honor ships this spring for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.\nPIC via Flickr, taken by U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Downen\nmrwaffle @Mr Waffle\nlol, so it's set in the \"we're heroes come to save the day!\" part of the War on Terror, and not the quagmire that is still going on today. Gotcha.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1163589"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6581118702888489,"wiki_prob":0.6581118702888489,"text":"High street shopsGames, gadgets and toysGifts, books and stationary\nSmiggle, the world’s hottest stationery brand, was born in 2003. The ultimate creators of colourful, fun, fashion-forward stationery. The first Smiggle store opened in Melbourne, Australia and word spread fast about the bright pens, notebooks and gadgets that filled a tiny, but very special place.\nThe concept took off and the company soon hit 20 stores, where it caught the eye of the Just Group - Australasia's most exciting fashion & apparel retailer. Smiggle joined the Just Group in August 2007 and has not looked back since!\nIn 2008 Smiggle jumped the seas and opened its first international store in New Zealand. In 2011 Smiggle expanded into Singapore, and in 2014 Smiggle opened its doors in the UK, and in 2016 Smiggle says hello to malaysia and hong kong! It's all part of the grand plan to be the world's most exciting and famous stationery brand. Check out our store locations.\nThe product range is now bigger and better than ever, with the team at the Smiggle Design Lab drawing inspiration from all over the globe. Our ultimate goal is to inspire and develop the creative spirits of our customers, by delivering original, fun and affordable stationery.\nSmiggle products are all about great design and innovation, bold colour, quirky graphics, great value and most of all - giving our fans the tools they need to have fun!\nWe think we've created a place that's well worth a peek. It's small, it's not spacious, and it's incredibly bright, with friendly and passionate Smigglers who will happily take you through the range.\nSo come on in, experiment, explore, poke, prod and play, because a visit to our stores is just like a hug from your best friend. Where a smile meets a giggle, it's the world's greatest place.\nVisit our website and browse our latest offers and visit us in store\nUnit L3 Overgate Centre, Dundee, DD1 1UF Dundee, Dundee City\n9:00am - 5:30pm Monday:\n9:00am - 5:30pm Wednesday:\n9:00am - 5:30pm Friday:\n9:00am - 5:30pm Sunday:","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line781856"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5120739936828613,"wiki_prob":0.48792600631713867,"text":"Disorientated Feelings (Part 48)\nThe only school that is best suited for my son is Mizuho Academy: the school that seem to have some special magic to it. Saeko and my husband, who have both respectively studied and worked there for a number of years, claim that they have no role in it. It's more of based on the situation, my son's character and age, and so forth.\nSadly, there's no other school that could accept both my son's feminine behavior, and prevention of being picked on because of his young age and quite a number of people whom I don't even know being able to recognize me on the streets because I hold a high-level position of Hatsuya, which many people are familiar with. Sending him to a normal school would mean that he could be an easy target to be bullied, or, worse, be kidnaped to force me as a highly ranked Hatsuya staff to do something undesirable. This would be a different story if my son could even defend himself.\nI have 3 daughters and a son, but with this, it's making my only s…\n609th post: When not to round off numbers\nYou come across a number that looks something like\n27634279.3478295 and wonder how to round that off. Most people would just simply say 30 million or 25 million. Sometimes, however, knowing what the exact number can be important. Makes a difference when over/under estimation is involved, but when it comes to just talking to people about how big the number is, saying this can be quite a mouthful.\nAnyway, I'm here to talk about rounding off numbers that you would come across for money. Before I go on, note that some countries uses \".\" or a space to separate 3 digits of whole numbers, and \",\" for decimals. For countries like India, the first group contains 3 digits, but subsequent groups contain only 2 digits.\nSituations where you are more likely to come across more than 2 decimal places for money (or, depending on currency, trailing digits that are more than the lowest denomination) when calculating taxes or dealing with foreign currency. Here's an example of …\n608th post: Small Change in foreign Currency\nHaving been to many different countries, I have accumulated quite a number of coins. As you probably know, the money changer do not carry coins besides that of the local currency. Sure I could create a collection out of these, but there are extras left over for it. How to deal with these?\nI don't know what is the smallest denomination the money changer would accept, but it's certainly banknotes instead of coins. I have received RM1 notes, which are worth only US$0.31, and sometimes, the highest denominated notes of that currency aren't worth much, so exchanging a few pieces, and getting the equivalent in foreign currency back as thick stacks of notes.\nWell, if going to the country again, make sure to bring those coins along, and try to use as much of the smallest denomination as possible, or pay in a way that you don't get small denominations. Example: Paying the exact change (or as close as possible) with as many of the low-denominated coins as possible instead of…\n606th post: Behind the scenes\nI've talked from time to time about my posts (blog stories and anime posts especially) being late/early and such.\nHowever, with a lot of things to do, including doing household chores, it's hard to keep a schedule. Blog stories are supposed to be out once a week. But as time went past, they get unknowingly longer and longer (in terms of the number of words per part/post). On top of that I have a busier schedule and things that have higher priority that it's hard to maintain that.\nEventually, that weekly thing became every fortnight Mondays, and now... well whenever I say it's ready. Sometimes, it just sits in my drafts for days and then publish it at a later date without any editing. Before you ask, it's not scheduled either.\nAlso, I am writing only because I want to write what I want, but, unfortunately, I don't earn enough from those to make a living. (Not even enough to afford one subway train ride) Wasting my effort on something that doesn't reward me …\nAlternate Dimension (Part 85)\nAt work, Hitoko (the one whom I rescued a while back) showed something that required my attention: there is something detected in the mountain ranges at the northern part of the country that is related to the phenomenon of people being turned young girls. Ironically, Hatsuya had also given me the same assignment at the same area with very vague detail and an almost immediate timing that implies that they knew that Powell had already told me.\nHatsuya said that I could go there with what I'm wearing at that moment without the need for any additional clothing as my body can withstand extreme conditions that normal people can't, but added that the same doesn't apply to how I would feel about it. Obviously, I don't want to go a mountainous region wearing nothing but summer clothes. Plus, they could track my location and see what I'm seeing, which I can't disable it myself as it's part of my body. For the latter, it's deeply implemented into my eyes that the …\nTeary Promise (Part 15)\nHisakawa seemed to have problems with the people with a certain group of people in an area near where we are now. Quite a number of people have seen her at Powell Research's official events in that Mizuho uniform, enough times for people to see it as her \"trademark\" outfit. This means that she would be recognized instantly.\nFor her to get into a disguise is nearly impossible as her Mizuho uniform can't be removed, including the name tag that has a completely different name written on it. The shape of that name tag, and her (larger-than-average) breasts, could still be seen even with multiple layers of clothes worn over it. She added that she hates wearing skirts, which is ironic as she's wearing one now and is never seen wearing anything else. Hisakawa is such a beautiful and elegant woman that I can't ever imagine her as a man.\nHisakawa's phone started ringing. She answered it, but not long after, she started crying.\nHisakawa: \"What do you mean? Didn…\nDisorientated Feelings special: College Graduation Trip\nMy friends and I have planned a trip to head to New York via car as part of the graduation trip. My university is located about 40 km south east from San Fransisco, but New York city, which is on the other side of America, is 5000 km away from here. I'm leaving behind things that I don't need with a friend, so I had to fly back to California to pick them up before heading back to Japan. It's hard to book flights due to the unpredictability of the trip that could exceed the original plan by as much as a week or more. I could get a standby ticket if I want to get to the earliest available flight at that time, but only if there are still seats available at the time the regular check-in closes, which, considering that the international airports of California and Japan are major stopover airports, that's not guaranteed.\nFor this trip, we would be traveling in two cars. Whose car? Well, from someone who is joining the trip who lives closer to New York than California: one of…\nDisorientated Feelings special: College Graduation...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line701368"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5967644453048706,"wiki_prob":0.4032355546951294,"text":"TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT: Will De-Nuclearization Instill World Peace?\nThe first ever live face-to-face encounter of a sitting U.S. President and a reigning North Korean leader was witnessed by the world in the hotels near Singapore's Sentosa Island on June 12, 2018 to sign the agreement of denuclearization of Korean Peninsula.\nThe long going war between the two nations and the exchange of insults a month before the summit has got everyone biting their nails off. This was the biggest historical event with quite a background on it. If implemented in right spirit, this peace agreement between North Korea and The United States of America can bring the ever-going violence and rivalry between the two countries that poses threat to world peace may give a sigh of relief.\nThe Korean Peninsula war in 1950 came to an end after the intervention of the US led-coalition army.\nHeart burn with the loss during the war, the North Korea was left with a big scar and a grudge against the USA.\nEver since, the North Korea has been on its mission of US invasion.\nOn succeeding his father and earlier ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un unleashed the incessant attacks on USA.\nLast year after Kim Jong-Un, the dictator of North Korea conducted multiple nuclear tests and continued with his programme of attacking the United States which raised questions about world peace that led to foundation of this summit.\nSouth Korea, which shuttled between The USA and North Korea set up the Trump-Kim meeting and is of the view that Kim Jong-Un has genuine interest in dealing away his nuclear weapons in return for economic benefits.\nDuring their summit at a border truce village, Moon, South Korean President and Kim vaguely promised to work toward the \"complete denuclearization'' of the Korean Peninsula.\nNorth Korea's Foreign Ministry said that all the tunnels at the country's north-eastern testing ground will be destroyed by explosion, and that observation and research facilities and ground-based guard units will also be removed.\nThe North Korean leader seeks a deal in which he gives away his intercontinental ballistic missiles but retains some of his short-range arsenal in return for a reduced US military presence in the South.\nTHE DEAL: Key Points\nThe United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) commit to establish new US - DPRK relations in accordance with the desire of the peoples of the two countries for peace and prosperity.\nThe US and The DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.\nReaffirming the April 27, 2018 Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK commits to work towards complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.\nThe US and The DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.\nThe deal seems to bring peace in the world with the denuclearization of the ballistic missiles by North Korea. After signing the Agreement, Donald Trump said \"better than anyone could have expected... It is a tremendous honor, and I have no doubt we will have a terrific relationship.\"\nNorth Korea's party line has been amended to focus primarily on economic development on the rationale that North Korea has achieved its nuclear goals.\nBy giving Kim the respect that comes with interaction on an \"equal footing,\" Trump has front-loaded symbolic expressions of his intent to improve relations, further instilling faith in the agreement.\nNorth Korea has suspended its Anti-US rally to show the zeal towards denuclearization.\nThere is a risk that leaning too heavily into an attempt to end the Korean war and replace it with a permanent peace might change the relationship without addressing the underlying risk that accompanies a nuclear North Korea.\nBringing the Korean War to an end could result in exposure of South Korea to North Korea with their short range arsenal still in place. This could undermine the alliance between The USA and South Korea.\nNorth Korea has been making vague promises for over three decades.\nThe Korean side of the agreement falls short of details and is very vaguely worded, presenting no timeline for the initiation of the denuclearization.\nTwo weeks after The Singapore Summit, 38NORTH(North Korea's analysis outlet) witnessed nuclear infrastructural developments of a new cooling water pump house, a number of new buildings, a completed construction on a cooling water reservoir and a possible radiochemical laboratory. This could nullify the Global peace efforts taken by the United States.\nTips to improve participation in GD Round\nThe above discussed topic is one of the most talked about issue and has been carefully chosen and solved with the sole aim to help you succeed in GD round. If you follow a few key tips, you can improve your participation and scores on this GD topic and others:\nInitiate the group discussion only if you are well versed with the facts and information on the GD Topic.\nIf you are not well versed with the topic and feel a bit low on content, try to gather information from first 1-2 speakers and then participate.\nQuote facts and figures, if you are sure of the authenticity. You may encounter volley of counter questions on the facts and statistics from your fellow participants. Unless very sure, don’t use it.\nMake multiple entries using the opportunity to speak. Note down important information from other participants and turn it to your benefit.\nSince GD is a sort of debate, you should have a clear view point on the topic – either for or against. Do not switch viewpoints. However, if you have points for both for and against the topic, substantiate your viewpoint with well qualified data, examples or exceptions.\nEven if you agree or disagree to the view point of other participant, add value by giving reasons for it when you speak but don’t simply say I agree or disagree.\nYou can conclude above topic by summarizing key facts on both point of views and conclude with the majority opinion, while respecting the minority viewpoint.\n​..Read More GD Topics","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1301475"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7470711469650269,"wiki_prob":0.25292885303497314,"text":"Porter Blinn\nFebruary 13, 2015 by BJ MacDonald\nHeirs of Alexander Barclay: Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn\nSarah Agnes Barclay has also given me trouble. I thought I had her in Connecticut married to a Porter Blinn but discovered, when I was in Connecticut in 2011, that it was a Sarah Grissom who married Porter Blinn. This is an example of checking other records like marriages and not just relying on census. The Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn I wanted married a James Blinn. As you read the information below you will see that Sarah is still giving me trouble.\nIn Salt Lake City, in October 2014, I found a birth record for an unnamed baby. The parents were Jas. B. Blinn and Sarah A. Barclay Blinn. The baby was born 29, June 1868 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. FHL#1313829.\nBirth Record child of Sarah and James.\nJune 29, ____ Blinn, Male, Jas, B. & Sarah A. Barclay Blinn, father 41, mother 22, 121 Park Street, Occupation of the father [M/Woulder] W. H. Tremaine, physician. Mother’s occupation Bonnet Maker.\nUpdate 6/10/2016 – I just recently found them in the 1870 Census. They are living in Bridgeport, Connecticut:\nline 27, They are under house 1708 of a Dolph, Edwin L. 2531, Blinn, James B, 40, M, W, Iron Moulder, $150, born Connecticut, his parents are of foreign birth\nBlinn, Sarah, A, 28, F, W, domestic _____, born Conn. parents of foreign birth.\nBlinn, Anna E, 8/12 F, W.\nSource: 1870 U.S. Federal Census, James Blinn Family, page 312, Bridgeport, County of Fairfield, Connecticut, enumerated the 26th day of July, 1870 by a Philo L. Bainerd.\nThe 1880 Connecticut Census has a James with a Sarah A. which might be them but the ages do not match the birth record above?\nLine 28, 1751/2, 19, 30 Blinn, James B. W, M, 52, Iron Maulder, born Connecticut, parents born Ireland.\nBlinn, Sarah A. W, F, 33, Wife, Hair worker, born Connecticut, father born England, mother born Scotland.\nBlinn, Rex E., W, M, 8, son, at school, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut.\nBlinn, Olive May, W, F, 3, daughter, at school, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut.\nSource: James Blinn Family, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut, page 3, SD#2, ED#4, enumerated 1 of June 1880, by J. McConville.\nSarah Agnes Blinn witnesses a deed between Grace and Amarilla in 1899 in August. I have featured this deed in a previous post on this blog regarding George A. Barclay’s estate, in Pine River. See the post dated March 24, 2014 titled: “Final Decree Aug. 15, 1899 – George’s Legacy.” I am glad Grace got to meet more of her father’s siblings. I think of all the lost stories of this family, sigh!\nUpdate 6/10/2016 – I no longer feel that this is Sarah it just doesn’t work. In the 1900 Census we find Sarah with a daughter in California.\nLine 84, 426, 55, 103, Blinn/Blum, Sarah, Head, W, F, June 1834, 65 Wd, 2 children born, 2 died. Born in Scotland, Immigrated 1851, 49 years in U.S., no occupation.\nBlum, Louisa, daughter, W, F, Nov. 1853, age 46, S, born California, father born Sweden, mother Scotland, no occupation\nSource: 1900 U.S. Federal Census for Sarah Blum, San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California, SD# 1, ED 306, Sht 4, Assembly Dist. No. 45, enumerated on the 4th day of June 1900, by Joseph A. Gendoth.\nIf this is Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn then I find her birth date very interesting and the fact she immigrated in 1851 also very interesting. Her daughter Louise is very confusing with the age 46 and the birth 1853?\n1910 U.S. Census Seattle, King County, Washington we find them under the name Blain. Update 6/10/2016 – The only thing that bothers me is that she is said to be born in PA and I think that is not correct. So this is where things get tricky.\nLine 96, 24th Avenue, 46, 56, Blain, Sarah A., head, F, W, 60 Wd, 5 children born 2 living, born Pennsylvania, Scot – Engl, Eng. English, Income, yes, yes.\nLeola M. daughter, F, W, 33, D, 0 0, Born Pennsylvania, Father born New Jersey, mother born PA, English, Clerk, Abstract Office, W, No. O, yes, yes.\nSource: Sarah Blain Family, 1910 Seattle, King County, Washington 11th Precinct part of, SD#1, ED#93, Ward 3 Part of), Sht#2, enumerated 16 April 1910, by T/F. W. Van Allen. Blain,\nIn 1920 Sarah is living in an insane asylum and probably has suffered the same fate as Alexander who was found wandering Farmington before his death and ended up in the Rochester Hospital in Olmsted Co., Minnesota. It is very interesting that her parents are born in New York?\nLine 65, Blinn, Sarah A, F, W, 69, WD, yes, yes, born Connecticut, father born New York, mother born New York, yes,, no occupation.\nSource: 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Napa State Hospital, Napa, California, Juarez Precinct, SD#3, ED# 56, Sht.#16, enumerated 14 January 1920, by John K. Harries.\nThe information provided below may or may not be the correct family, there is a tombstone at Find A Grave in the Sunset View Cemetery in Contra Costa, California, for a Sarah A. Blinn with the appropriate dates. She is listed as the Mother of Leola M. Kellogg but I don’t know or can’t find a Leola Kellogg marriage record:\nhttp://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Blinn&GSfn=Sarah&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=137683492&df=all&\nDaughter Leola Mae may have married first an Alexander Buck and lived in Contra Costa but based on the above, I am not sure.\nLine 71, 423, 433, Buck, Alexander, Head, M,W, 35 M, yes, yes, born PA, parents born PA. yes, truck_____Contractor.\nBuck, Leola Mae, F, W, 34, M, yes, yes, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut, none.\nSource: Alexander Buck Family, 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Contra Costa, California, 7th Township, SD#3, ED#17, Sht.#18, enumerated 31, January 1920, by Claire W. Schmidt.\nBy 1930 they have moved to Placer, California.\nLine 92, 178, 198, Buck, Alexander, yes, M, W, 45, M, 21, no, yes, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut, 55, yes, rancher, fruit ranch\nBuck, Leola, F, W, 44, M, 21, no, yes, born Connecticut, parents born Connecticut\nBuck, Sarah, daughter, F, W, 8, S, yes, yes, born Connecticut, parents born, Connecticut, rancher, fruit ranch.\nSource: Alexander Buck, 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Placer, California, township 14, ED# 31-27, SD4, Sht#7, enumerated on 22, April, 1930 by Matthew W. Coates.\nSarah J. Buck was born 4 January 1922 in Placer and her mother’s maiden name was Blinn.\n1940 we find Alexander with a May in Placer.\nLine 41, 141, O, 200, No, Buck, Alexander E. Head, M, W, 55, M, No, 8, born PA, Same house, Farmer. Buck, May, Wife, F, W, 56, M, No, 8, born PA, County Clinton, State PA, no occupation.\nSource: Alexander Buck Family, Placer County, California, Judicial 10, SD#2, ED#31-21, Sht 7, enumerated on 22 April, 1940, by Eldon R. Martinson.\nIt looks like Alexander Buck died on 20 November 1970 in Placer, California and was born 21 December 1884 per the California Death Index.\nUpdate 6/10/2016: About two weeks ago a lady from MOHAI contacted me with an article about a Leola Mae Blinn who was an attorney in the Seattle, Washington area. MOHAI is the Museum of History and Industry here in Seattle. So I started to doublecheck everything and found the 1870 census for James and Sarah A. Blinn. I am still having trouble verifying the death of James and finding out more about Sarah.\nThis article from the MOHAI individual had a photo from a city directory for a Leola May Blinn as an attorney.\nLeola May Blinn\nThe article was from the Urbana Daily Courier Tuesday December 12, 1916 – Woman Motorists Drive off Wolves, Their Only Weapons Were Firebrands and Hatchet — An All-night Battle. Seattle, Wash. Forced to use firebrands, their only weapon aside from a hatchet, to drive away the timber wolves and coyotes that surrounded their machine at night, three Seattle women fund excitement aplenty on the last leg of an 8000 automobile journey across the continent. The women, Miss Leola May Blinn, her mother, Mrs. Sarah Blinn, aged 70, and Mrs. Charles S. Davis, traveled alone, without even a gun to protect themselves. They slept ou in the open. Miss Blinn’s automobile being converted at night into a sleeping car. “It was when we got stuck in eastern Washington that we suffered out most harrowing experience,” said Miss Blinn, describing the events of the journey. “We had just been ferried across the river at Walla Walla to Wallula when we ran into poor roads. From there to North Yakima we had a terrible time. We managed the difficult sand piles that served for roads until we were making a forced detour around the ‘Old Horn,’ a bend in the Columbia River. Then we got stuck in the sand. “We were miles from nowhere. Night came on. We had trouble with our battery and could not switch on the electric lights We could not go ahead nor could we go back. While we sat their the coyotes and timber wolves came. We had no gun. There was nothing but a hatchet. “We had built a fire, however, with the safe brush that was near, and with the firebrands were able to keep them off. The Coyotes were afflicted with rabies, the weather having been very hot, and the wolves came right up to the machine and almost put their noses inside. We stayed up all night. Early the next morning I started out for assistance. While I was away Mrs. Davis had to use firebrands again to keep off the coyotes who had reappeared. Then she became anxious for my safety, not knowing whether I would be able to find assistance or not. I was able, however, to arouse two white men in a tent a mile away and with their help we got out of the North Yakima flats.”\nI know that Sarah Agnes Blinn was in Seattle in 1906 helping her niece and nephew with affidavits about their father’s disappearance in Alexander’s estate papers. So this is very interesting.\nI did manage to find an obituary about a Leola M. Kellogg but I don’t know what paper it is from only that it was done sometime in 1959:\nMrs. Leola B. Kellogg, Criminal Lawyer, Dies – Mrs. Leola Buck Kellogg, 82, a criminal lawyer for 40 years, died, Monday at Harbor General Hospital, where she was taken after being stricken at her Redondo Beach home. She lived at 1927 Gates Ave. North Redondo Beach. Mrs. Kellogg was born in Hartford, Conn. She was graduated from law school at George Washington University, Washington D.C., and later attended the New York School of Dramatic Art. After a brief career as an actress in the Boston stock company and at the Knickerbocker Theater, New York, she went to Seattle where she was admitted to the bar in 1912. Mrs. Kellogg was admitted to the California bar in 1919 and had specialized in criminal law in Los Angeles since then, acting as defense counsel in 18 murder trials in this area. She maintained offices at 122 S. Pacific Ave. Redondo Beach, and appeared in Redondo Beach Municipal Court as recently as March 3. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Niland Mortuary Chapel, 535 N. Pacific Coast Highway, Redondo Beach and interment will be at Pacific Crest Cemetery. Mrs. Kellogg leaves a daughter, Mrs. Sarah Jane von Dyl of Encino, and five grandchildren.\nThis obituary about Leola May Kellogg explains the notate on the tombstone that I found for Sarah A. Blinn, see above link to Find A Grave. It also explains why I was finding articles about Leola in the Seattle newspapers which stopped about 1920. I am going to summarize these articles here:\nThe Seattle Sunday Times, Oct. 27, 1912 – Miss Blinn Active in Republican Campaign – Feminine Lawyer Who Made Great Race for State Office, Heads Women’s auxiliary. With Photo. Miss Leola May Blinn, who ran third in the race for commissioner of public lands and who was the only woman admitted to the practice of law at the last state bar examination has been made chairman of the King County Republican committee’s women’s auxiliary. Miss Blinn is in charge of the women’s headquarters in the Seattle Hotel. Miss Blinn made a remarkable race for land commissioner, spending most of her time at her desk in the county clerk’s office while the campaign was in progress and devoting odd moments to her own canvas. As she is a good automobile driver she was able, in spare time, to make quick runs to nearby points and covered a great deal of the state in short trip expeditions. She introduced into politics an innovation — the woman campaign manager — who accompanied her on all her trips. Immediately after the close of the campaign, Miss Blinn appeared before the bar examining board and passed one of the most rigid bar examinations ever submitted to students. It is her ambition to devote herself to law practice in probate and realty matters, having had seven years’ experience in abstract work and having become familiar with probate business through her experience in the county clerk’s office. Miss Blinn is a member of the Women’s Relief Corps and several other organizations. She was born in Hartford, Conn. and now resides with her mother, at 1833 Twenty-fourth Avenue.\nThe Seattle Republican Friday Jan. 17, 1913 – Leola May Blinn ….first woman to be admitted to practice in the U.S. court in this district.\nThe Seattle Star, Wed, May 21, 1912 First Edition – Women Attorneys are Opposed in Man’s Trial. About a burglary case in which Miss Blinn and Miss Reah Whitehead argued the case.\nThe Labor Journal (Everett, WA) Fri, Feb 7, 1913 – First Edition – Women Form State Body. She held several positions in the creation of the organization.\nThe Labor Journal (Everett, WA) Fri Aug 14, 1914 – First Edition page 3 with photo – Woman Lawyer to Aid Paroled Prisoner.\nThe Newport Miner (Newport, WA) Thu, Aug 8, 1912 – First Edition page 6, Woman Candidate Files – Her move to run for land commissioner is filed.\nThe Oregon Daily Journal (Portland, OR) Tue, Aug 24, 1915 – page 13 – Woman Lawyer at Joint Meeting. Miss Leola May Blinn of Seattle is the only woman lawyer from Washington attending the joint meeting of the Washington Oregon and Bar Association….sort of a quick bio of her.\nThe Seattle Sunday Times, Nov. 11, 1917 She appears with a photo, About her Relief Corp work.\nThere is a Find A Grave memorial, with no gravestone at this time, to Leola. They use the name Leola Buck Kellogg, born Aug. 29, 1876 and died May 11, 1956. She is buried in the Pacific Crest Cemetery in Redondo Beach, Los Angeles Co., California. Plot 4 563 5. Billion Graves has a tombstone photo for her that reads: Beloved Mother, Leola B. Kellogg 1876 to 1959. There are other Kelloggs buried in the Pacific Crest: Daisy Evans, Emmer Edward and Michael. I did not find her husband.\nThe SSDI Applications and Claims Index has a Sarah Jane Vondyl (Sarah Jane Von Dyl) who was born 4 Jan 1922 in Auburn Place, CA and she died 16 Dec. 2006. Her father is listed as Alexander E. Buck and her mother is Leola M. Blinn. So this means that Leola M. Blinn did marry to Alexander Buck.\nI found a marriage in Skagit County, Washington on 5th September, 1917 in Mt. Vernon by a Baptist Minister. Alexander E. buck of King and Leola May Blinn of King. Witnesses were Edna M. Behrens and Mrs. J.E. Noflsinger. Rev. Noflsinger was the officiating minister. Pastor of the Davis Memorial Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon. So by 1920 they were in California.\nAccording to the SSDI He, Alexander Buck, was born 21 December, 1884 and died Nov. 1970 in California in Contra Costa. This means they must have divorced because he died 11 years after Leola died and she was Kellogg by that time.\nI found two references to court cases one took place 6 December 1940. Where a Leola M. Kellogg applied for Habeas Corpus. The petitioner, who is the wife of William V. Kellogg, was charged with grand theft accomplished by means of drawing and cashing six checks upon the alleged joint tenancy account of herself and her husband at the Bank of America in Sacramento and by appropriating the money to her own use contrary to her trust. etc. This case goes on for 10 pages. Justia – US Law, Case Law, California Case Law Cal App 2d Volume 41 in reg Kellogg.\nCollison v. Thomas, Docket No. L.A. 25793, 55 Cal 2d 490 (1961) – This litigation involves the estates of William P. O’Brien his wife Masie O’Brien..Edna M. Collison, as administratrix of Masie’s estate…Leola Buck Kellogg was administratrix of William’s estate to quiet title on land in Torrance, CA. Unfortunately Leola died during the trial etc. The entire trail of this action took less than one day. It commenced at 11:05 a.m. on May 11, 1959, Mrs. Kellogg, the administratrix of William’s estate died at 11:20 a.m. on the day of the trial. This brief was 4 pages long.\nAn article appeared titled “Woman Charges Husband Ruined Law Business, Los Angeles, Sep. 17, UP Mrs. Leola M. Kellogg, former Sacramento attorney, today filed suit asking $15,250 damages from her husband, William V. Kellogg of Sacramento, charging that he ruined her law business by causing her prosecution on grand theft charges. Mrs. Kellogg said her husband swore to a complaint Sept 12, 1940, which caused her arrest and trial in Sacramento. She said she was acquitted in a jury trial but that her practice was destroyed. Her husband, she said, was “malicious” in his action, which was described as the outgrowth of a dispute over funds in a joint bank account.\nI have not found a marriage record for Leola to William V. Kellogg at this time. I cannot get a fix on him although he may have died in Denver, CO.\nEnd of update 6/10/2016 – Well if this is Sarah’s daughter Leola must have been someone to know. Maybe some day I will figure this out. It looks very much like it could be Sarah’s family.\nI find that the Barclay’s were very inconsistent with their census information. I am using census again without other documents like vital records to verify, so the information above is all very uncertain till I get time to dig more.\nThere is certainly more to do with Sarah Agnes and her family like finding her marriage record and when did James pass. How many children did she actually have? Did I find the correct Sarah in the census or am mistaken. I need to look at vital records and more to see if I cannot get a clearer picture of Sarah Agnes Barclay Blinn.\nPosted in Blinn Surname, California, City and County of San Francisco, Connecticut, Hartford, Hartford County, James Blinn, King County, Leola Blinn, Porter Blinn, Sarah Agnes Barclay, Seattle\t| Tagged Blinn Family connections, Buck surname, Contra Costa California, Kellogg surname, Placer California | Leave a comment\nApril 3, 2010 by BJ MacDonald\nJohn Barclay’s Two Families\nJohn Barclay, my great great grandfather, was introduced to me by my Aunt Miriam in her family history notes, so I knew about him. I also had a copy of the book by the city of Pine River, celebrating their first 100 years, and he is mentioned in that book:\n“…not far from Shakopee where George’s father chose to live “because it reminded him of his native Scotland.” Apparently the father, John, remarried and had other children…”\nJohn Barclay had two families. He was first married to Margaret. When he married Margaret is not known and where she is buried is also unknown. She probably died in Connecticut but so far a search of records reveal only one possibility of a Margaret Barclay dying in Enfield in 1848 of about the right age.\ncontinuing the quote above…” because at the time of Alexander’s death in 1906, there was quite a bit of difficulty in locating all the Barclay heirs from “both families.”” pg. 105\nIn my Aunt Miriam’s notes she mentions Alexander’s probate:\nAlex's Probate\nMy great-uncle Alexander Barclay has been very good to me. I secured his probate file at some expense from the Dakota County Courthouse in Minnesota and it opened up a very big genealogical door!\nFrom this first marriage came seven (7) siblings that were listed in Alexander’s estate file. There wasn’t a will so some of the information is carefully taken from the probate file. Other information such as census searches and indexes were also used. I am slowly gathering the facts together on the siblings and will present more at a later time.\n1. John Avery Barclay born abt 1836, died – unknown. According to Alex’s estate file he disappeared and was presumed dead as stated in an affidavit of his sister Sarah Agnes. He appears in deeds, land records, and court documents in Silbey Co., Minnesota till about 1880. He may have gone to California. John Avery Barclay was probably born in Scotland per census information and other sources but that is not yet proven. John married Minerva Parks on 3 July 1865 in Henderson, Sibley Co., Minnesota. Since John Avery Barclay was considered dead his two children where his heirs and they are mentioned in the estate file. The couple actually had four children:\n1. John Avery Barclay II born 23 July 1867 in Sibley Co., Minnesota and died 8 March 1951 in Seattle, King Co., Washington.\n2. Sarah Ellen born 29 March 1869 in Sibley Co., Minnesota.\n3 and 4. There were two other children twins: Albert and Alice born 1870 Silbey Co., Minnesota but it is looking like they didn’t survive. Some of this information was supplied by another cousin.\n2. James A. Barclay born about 1838 in Connecticut, he died about 1906 in Bridgeport, Fairfield Co., Connecticut during the probate process of Alexander’s estate. He married a Maryanne Stewart and had children.\n3. Sarah Agnes Barclay born about 1840 in Connecticut. She married Porter Blinn about 1860 in Connecticut. He was born about 1842 in Connecticut. They had 6 children and it looks like they stayed in Newington, Hartford Co. , Connecticut.\nUpdate: May 26, 2010 – I was at the Family History Library researching when I discovered that the Sarah that I thought was Sarah Agnes Barclay in the census married to Porter Blinn was the Sarah I should be studying for the Barclay’s. Turns out she is a Griswold and her father is Henry Griswold. So back to the drawing board on #3. This is why it is so important to check other sources like marriages and birth records and not totally trust the census.\n4. Mary J. Barclay born about 1841 in Connecticut and died 28 March 1917 in Bristol, Hartford Co., Connecticut. I have her estate file. She married a Jerome B. Ford and had 3 daughters. Jerome was born about 1846 in Connecticut.\n5. Alexander A. Barclay was born September 1842 in Hartford, Connecticut and died on 9 December 1905 at the Rochester Hospital for the Insane in Olmsted Co., Minnesota. He apparently suffered in the end with dementia. He was only in the hospital about 6 days before he died. He was buried 17 December 1905 in the Corinithian Cemetery in Farmington, Dakota Co., Minnesota.\n6. Martha M. Barclay born about 1843 in Connecticut and died around 1920 or later in California. She married a Jeremiah Ford in about 1859 in Connecticut. I do not know if Jeremiah and Jerome were brothers. Martha and Jeremiah had two daughters.\n7. George Angus Barclay was born 18 August 1844 probably in Connecticut and died on the 28th of October 1898 in Pine River, Cass Co., Minnesota. George is the subject of our blog and more information will be forthcoming on his life. He married Amarilla Spracklin in 1878 and they had 2 children.\nThe second marriage of John Barclay was to Helen in Scott Co., Minnesota. I have not been able to find their marriage in Minnesota records but it happened prior to 1860 per the census and from this marriage their were four (4) children born.\n8. Charles Barclay was born about January 1860 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota. After the death of his mother in 1907 he seems to have moved from Shakopee and might have gone to Minneapolis and died about 1938. Charles didn’t marry as far as I can determine from census and other documents.\n9. William Barclay was born about 1863 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota and died 7 Dec 1937 in Gallatin Co., Montana. He married a Clara E, probably in Minnesota. She was born about 1859 in Wisconsin and died about 21 March 1919 in Madison Co., Montana. They had one child name Foster born 1891 and probably died by 1907.\n10. Mary E. Barclay was born about 1864 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota and died 19 February 1930 in Cascade Co., Montana. She married Charles B. Clark probably in Minnesota for he was born there about 1856. He died 28 February 1932 in Deer Lodge Co., Montana. They had at least one child named Ruth Clark who was born about 1895. It is interesting that there are two Mary’s named in John’s family a good 20+ years apart.\n11. Anna Elizabeth Barclay was born 15 April 1870 in Shakopee, Scott Co., Minnesota and died 4 August 1955 in Menominee, Menominee Co., Michigan. She married David Maurice Carter on 9 July 1885 in Eagle Creek (Shakopee), Scott Co., Minnesota. David was born 9 January 1860, Marinette, Marinette Co., Wisconsin. The information for this family was supplied by a cousin and has not been verified. Anna had 4 children.\nThe person that initiated the probate process for Alexander was his niece, my grandmother Grace A. Barclay McDonald. She was pregnant at the time and lived in International Falls. She was unable to attend the court sessions because she had the baby and was “indisposed.” The baby was my Aunt Miriam.\nBook: Logsleds to Snowmobile’s, Pine River Centennial Celebration, 1873-1973, Written by the Citizens of Pine River and edited by Norman F. Clarke, Pine River Centennial Committee, 1979. A copy is available at the Family History Library.\nPosted in Alexander Barclay, Amarilla Spracklin Barclay, Anna Elizabeth Barclay, BARCLAY SURNAME, Charles B. Clark, Charles Barclay, Clara E., Connecticut, Corinthian Cemetery, Dakota County, David Maurice Carter, Deer Lodge County, Gallatin County, George Angus Barclay, Grace Barclay McDonald, Hartford, Helen/Ellen Stevenson or Iverson, James Barclay, Jeremiah Ford, Jerome B. Ford, John Avery Barclay Jr., John Barclay, John Barclay, the son, Madison County, Margaret Barclay, Marinette County, Martha M. Barclay, Mary E. Barclay, Mary J. Barclay, Maryanne Stewart, Menominee County, Michigan, Minerva Parks, Minnesota, Miriam's Notes, Montana, Pine River, Porter Blinn, Sarah Agnes Barclay, Sarah Ellen Barclay (Helen), Shakopee, Sibley County, SPRACKLIN/LEN SURNAME, William Barclay, Wisconsin\t| Tagged Barclay, John Barclay, Logsleds to Snowmobiles | Leave a comment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1066126"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5386393666267395,"wiki_prob":0.5386393666267395,"text":"By Jeffrey Gottfried and Elisa Shearer\nThe American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults recruited from landline and cellphone random-digit-dial (RDD) surveys. Panelists participate via monthly self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. The panel is being managed by Abt Associates.\nData in this report are drawn from the panel wave conducted Aug. 8-21, 2017, among 4,971 respondents. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 4,971 respondents is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.\nMembers of the American Trends Panel were recruited from several large, national landline and cellphone random-digit-dial surveys conducted in English and Spanish. At the end of each survey, respondents were invited to join the panel. The first group of panelists was recruited from the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, conducted from Jan. 23 to March 16, 2014. Of the 10,013 adults interviewed, 9,809 were invited to take part in the panel, and a total of 5,338 agreed to participate.1 The second group of panelists was recruited from the 2015 Pew Research Center Survey on Government, conducted from Aug. 27 to Oct. 4, 2015. Of the 6,004 adults interviewed, all were invited to join the panel, and 2,976 agreed to participate.2\nThe third group of panelists was recruited from a survey conducted from April 25 to June 4, 2017. Of the 5,012 adults interviewed in the survey or pretest, 3,905 were invited to take part in the panel and a total of 1,628 agreed to participate.3\nThe ATP data were weighted in a multi-step process that begins with a base weight incorporating the respondents’ original survey selection probability and the fact that in 2014 some panelists were subsampled for invitation to the panel. Next, an adjustment was made for the fact that the propensity to join the panel and remain an active panelist varied across different groups in the sample. The final step in the weighting uses an iterative technique that aligns the sample to population benchmarks on a number of dimensions. Gender, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and region parameters come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey. The county-level population density parameter (deciles) comes from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census. The telephone service benchmark comes from the January-June 2016 National Health Interview Survey and is projected to 2017. The volunteerism benchmark comes from the 2015 Current Population Survey Volunteer Supplement. The party affiliation benchmark is the average of the three most recent Pew Research Center general public telephone surveys. The Internet access benchmark comes from the 2017 ATP Panel Refresh Survey. Respondents who did not previously have internet access are treated as not having internet access for weighting purposes. Respondents were also weighted according to their previously reported usage of eight different social networks for news consumption. The variables used for this weighting were measured on the January-February 2016 wave of the ATP and were weighted to match a Pew Research Center journalism survey from March-April 2016. For panelists who did not participate in the 2016 survey, these variables were imputed using chained equations. Sampling errors and statistical tests of significance take into account the effect of weighting. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish, but the Hispanic sample in the American Trends Panel is predominantly native born and English speaking.\nThe following table shows the unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups in the survey:\nSample sizes and sampling errors for other subgroups are available upon request.\nIn addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.\nThe August 2017 wave had a response rate of 74% (4,971 responses among 6,722 individuals in the panel). Taking account of the combined, weighted response rate for the recruitment surveys (10.0%) and attrition from panel members who were removed at their request or for inactivity, the cumulative response rate for the wave is 2.6 %.4\n“numoffset=”2” When data collection for the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey began, non-internet users were subsampled at a rate of 25%, but a decision was made shortly thereafter to invite all non-internet users to join. In total, 83% of non-internet users were invited to join the panel. ↩\nRespondents to the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey who indicated that they are internet users but refused to provide an email address were initially permitted to participate in the American Trends Panel by mail but were no longer permitted to join the panel after Feb. 6, 2014. Internet users from the 2015 Pew Research Center Survey on Government who refused to provide an email address were not permitted to join the panel. ↩\nWhite, non-Hispanic college graduates were subsampled at a rate of 50%. ↩\nApproximately once per year, panelists who have not participated in multiple consecutive waves are removed from the panel. These cases are counted in the denominator of cumulative response rates. ↩\nBack to Overview Next Page → ← Prev Page\nFact TankSep 7, 2017\nAmericans’ online news use is closing in on TV news use\nDigital News Fact Sheet\nAnalysisMay 26, 2016\nPublicationsFeb 9, 2017\nHow Americans Encounter, Recall and Act Upon Digital News\nNews Interest\nAmerican Trends Panel Data","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line320383"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5150114893913269,"wiki_prob":0.5150114893913269,"text":"Eagles Alshon Jeffery Looking Like a Significant Risk\nInside Injuries\tAugust 3, 2018 8:13PM EDT\ninsideinjuries.com has the latest on top WRs who continue to recover from season-ending injuries and offseason surgeries.\nOdell Beckham Jr. NYG: ankle surgery\nThe Giants’ crumbled when OBJ went down with a season-ending ankle injury in Week 5 last year. Now 10 months removed from surgery to address a fracture with ligament damage, he is fully cleared for training camp. Beckham originally injured his ankle during the preseason, causing his ligaments to stretch and leaving him more susceptible to a more serious ankle injury. Unfortunately it took just a few weeks for the injury to occur.\nHis ankle should be in much better shape now, but his Injury Risk remains Elevated. The good news is with a Peak HPF, he should be ready to perform as an elite WR. He could miss some practice time early in the year as he works his way back, but he should be ready to go Week 1.\nAlshon Jeffery PHI: torn rotator cuff\nAlshon Jeffery has by far the worst outlook on this list. He underwent shoulder surgery after the Eagles’ Super Bowl win. Recovery time from a rotator cuff tear is a minimum of 6 months, but it can take 9-12 months to get back to 100%. That means Jeffery is pushing it to be ready for Week 1, and even then he won’t be anywhere near full strength. His Injury Risk, of course, remains very High.\nRight now Jeffery is hovering around a Top 20 WR, making him a WR2, but he can’t be trusted that early in drafts. There’s no guarantee he will be ready Week 1, and playing in all 16 games seems like a long-shot. The Eagles need to look out for his long-term health and not rush his recovery just to have him out there in September. He is starting training camp on the PUP list, and there is no timeline for him to be fully cleared. He appears to be a ways away.\nAllen Robinson CHI: torn ACL\nAfter missing all of 2017 due to a preseason ACL tear, Robinson is fully cleared and ready to go at the start of training camp. Robinson is already back at a Low Injury Risk, and we are even showing a Peak HPF. His ADP is right around Jeffery, hovering around the Top 20, and that seems realistic. Robinson could be a steal in the WR2 spot, and he could even be a Top 10 guy by the end of the season if the Bears’ offense can improve.\nRecovery from ACL tears has improved drastically in recent years, and 12 months is more than enough time to get back into football shape. Because Robinson is a young wide receiver and his knee injury was an isolated tear (no additional ligament or cartilage damage), he should be right back where he was before the injury.\nJulian Edelman NE: torn ACL\nEdelman tore his ACL during the 2017 preseason but didn’t cause any additional damage to his knee. Like Robinson, Edelman should be close to 100% already, but he is sliding down draft boards due to his four-game suspension. When he returns, he can be locked in as a WR2. His Injury Risk just moved from Elevated to Low, currently sitting at 13%. His HPF is also Peak, so his knee won’t limit his ability to perform on the field. Sometimes returning from an ACL tear is more mental than physical at this point, but with training camp and preseason games to work his way back, he should be prepared by week 5.\nThere are two important things to keep in mind: Edelman’s age and his injury history. At 32, he is much older than guys like Robinson and Meredith. Younger players tend to have much more success on the field following an ACL tear. Edelman has also missed a lot of time due to a 2015 foot fracture and lingering problems that carried over into the 2016 season. He shouldn’t be removed from draft boards, but make sure you don’t get too excited about his potential and reach to get him in the earlier rounds.\nQuincy Enunwa NYJ: neck surgery\nEnunwa missed all of last season after undergoing surgery on his neck to repair a bulging disc. He was limited during OTAs and said he felt like he was close to 100%. He has now passed his Optimal Recovery Time and returned to a 13% (Low/Elevated) Injury Risk. It’s always concerning when a player suffered such a serious neck or back injury, so he needs to be watched closely throughout training camp, especially when participating in contact drills. This week he fully participated in the no-pads practice on Day 2 and only wore the no-contact jersey during team drills on Day 3. It’s slow and steady progress- exactly what we want to see at this point in his recovery.\nEnunwa can’t be relied on as a starting option each and every week, but he is a high-upside guy to have on your bench. If his neck is fully healed, he could become the Jets’ #1 option in the passing game, giving him WR3/flex value many weeks. He hasn’t cracked the Top 200 in ADP yet, but it could start to climb as he increases his participation at training camp and proves he is healthy enough to contribute.\nRandall Cobb GB: right ankle surgery\nCobb finally admitted that he underwent surgery on his foot over the summer to remove a small piece of cartilage that was causing discomfort. It isn’t a serious long-term concern, but this will affect him early in the season. We are showing an August 18 Healthy to Return Date. Until then, he shouldn’t be involved in 11v11 and full contact drills. His Injury Risk is currently very High. Cobb also has a concerning injury history that include ankle and hamstring issues, so there may be better WR options out there unless he slips outside the top 100 picks.\nBrandon Marshall SEA: ankle surgery\nAs Brandon Marshall continues to recover from season-ending ankle surgery, his injury numbers are very interesting. We don’t see this often- his Injury Risk is High, but his HPF is Peak. So that means his risk of a future injury or aggravation of a previous injury is very high (28%), but he should be able to play fairly well when he is cleared. It’s unlikely Marshall sees time in all 16 games this year, so he’s nothing more than a late-round flier. Marshall also underwent toe surgery to address a lingering injury from 2015, so he is recovering from multiple serious injuries. He may not even make the Seahawks final roster – watch him closely throughout camp.\nCameron Meredith NO: torn ACL & MCL\nMeredith’s devastating knee injury last season looked like it could be career-threatening. Now almost a year removed from surgery, Meredith is practicing without limitations. Because this was a multi-ligament injury, recovery is typically longer and more complicated. He may not get back to 100%, but at the 12-month mark he should be close. At 9% Injury Risk (Low), he should be viewed as a late-round option that could have huge upside after joining Drew Brees in New Orleans.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1238601"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7304310202598572,"wiki_prob":0.2695689797401428,"text":"Colombia Becomes 100th U.S. Open-Skies Partner\nColombia became the United States’ 100th Open-Skies partner yesterday as representatives of the two countries reached agreement to liberalize U.S.-Colombia air services for airlines of both countries.\n“Reaching 100 Open-Skies agreements is a major milestone in U.S. aviation history,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “Since the first Open-Skies agreement was reached with the Netherlands in 1992, nations all over the world have come to recognize the benefits of a free market in international aviation services. Travelers, shippers, airlines and economies all over the world have benefited from the competitive pricing and more convenient service that Open Skies have made possible.”\nOnce full Open Skies takes effect at the end of 2012, airlines from the United States and Colombia will be allowed to select routes, destinations and prices for both passenger and cargo service based on consumer demand and market conditions.\nSignificant liberalizations will take effect in advance of full Open Skies. When the terms of the agreement are applied, restrictions on all-cargo flights will be lifted immediately, and carriers will be able to begin operating additional passenger flights with additional passenger services phased in over the next two years. Negotiations were concluded Nov. 11 in Bogota, Colombia.\nUpdated: Wednesday, April 18, 2012\nCaitlin Harvey\nOffice of Public Affairs\ncaitlin.harvey@dot.gov","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1165582"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9408480525016785,"wiki_prob":0.9408480525016785,"text":"British MPs tour Jaffna, Vanni\nProgress in peace talks will largely determine if Britain will lift the ban on the LTTE or not, said Mr.Gareth Thomas, British Member of Parliament, Tuesday after visiting Jaffna and Vanni areas accompanied by Mr.Robert Evans, Member of European Parliament.\nMr.Robert Evans and Mr.Gareth Thomas met Mr.S.P.Thamilchelvan Tuesday afternoon and had discussions for about one and a half hours, according to the LTTE sources.\nThe British MPs arrived in Jaffna yesterday and visited Vadamarachchy, Kaithadi and Chavakachcheri. They met the Principal of Harley College, Mr. SriPathy in Point Pedro and had discussions with the representatives of the Students Union of Jaffna University. They also had discussions with Major General Anton Wijendra at the Palaly army base.\nMeeting local press in Vavuniya enroute to Colombo, Mr. Evans said, \"I was in Jaffna two years ago. The town has made significant process toward normality. But we are very conscious of the need to move forward. There seems to be a lot of evidence of re-building and it is heartening to see the people not only are going about with their own lives but looking forward with optimism towards the future.\n\"We are very enthusiastic about the peace process and the prospects for the country settling down and moving forward. No one thinks it is going to be easy. Negotiations towards reaching a settlement will be difficult and will take time. But the mere fact that within a matter of months talks are taking place and more talks are planned is very encouraging to all people of Sri Lanka.\"\nWhen asked about the meetings with the officials of the security forces and with the political head of the LTTE Mr. Evans said, \"We discussed with both sides on issues related to landmines, recruitment policies of child soldiers, resettlement, and their commitment to the peace process. Although there are differences between the sides in some aspects, over all we are satisfied with the positive nature of responses.\"\nMr.Robert Evans said that they were impressed on the changes which has taken place in Colombo and Jaffna after the peace process started to move forward.\n\"I have noticed a markded decrease of the military presence and road blocks in Colombo. Situation is similar in Jaffna. We didn't feel in any way insecure or on the edge in Jaffna. We went out in the evening and it was fine. Equally in the Vanni, there was no show of military strength by the LTTE.\"\nWhen asked about the fate of the Tamil asylum seekers in the European countries he said: \"There are number of people, mainly Tamils from North and East seeking asylum. The UK government and the other European governments are trying to work out a common European Asylum Policy that will provide an opportunity and assistance for those wishing to return to Sri Lanka to resettle. But there will not be any forced repatriation. At present we are not accepting new asylum seekers from Sri Lanka because the situation is calm and we don't believe the current position warrants it.\"\nMr.Gareth Thomas said he joined this visit to see for himself the ground situation in the country in general and particularly in Vanni, the area controlled by the LTTE.\n\"I wanted to see how the peace process is working and I am very much encouraged by the way things are going on here now. We hope the peace process will continue and the sense of peace and the sense of goodwill will deepen.\n\"One of the issues they have raised with me is the ban on the LTTE. The truth is the ban on the LTTE is not likely to be lifted until we see how the peace process unfolds. The reason I have come to Sri Lanka is because I have a large number of Tamil contituents, in some areas 10% of residents are Sri Lankans,\" he said.\nTELO sources in Vavuniya said that the MPs visit was initiated by Mr.Selvam Adaikalanathan TNA MP for the Vanni electoral district, who is now in India.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1697900"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6382876038551331,"wiki_prob":0.6382876038551331,"text":"Cheltenham HS\nCareer Honors\n2018 First Team All-American (indoor 800m)\n2018 Second Team All-American (outdoor 800m)\n2x ACC champion in the indoor 4x400m (2016, 2018)\n3x First Team All-ACC honoree (indoor & outdoor)\nClemson Highlights\nHolds program record, 1:47.14, in the indoor 800m, which he achieved at 2018 ACC Indoor Championships on Clemson’s home track\nRanks fourth in program history in the outdoor 800m (1:47.62)\nMember of 2018 ACC indoor champion 4x400m relay team, which set No. 4 time (3:07.36) in program history\nMember of both 2017 and 2018 DMR unit, which ranks firsts and second in program history, respectively.\nEarned First Team All-America honors after placing seventh in 800m at NCAA Indoor Championships\nEarned Second Team All-America honors after placing 15th in 800m at NCAA Outdoor Championships\nRan program record 1:47.14 to earn ACC Indoor Championship runner-up status and First Team All-ACC accolades\nMember of ACC indoor champion 4x400m, third-place DMR and third-place outdoor 4x400m teams\nOutdoor ACC runner up in 800m\nRepresented the Tigers at NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800m and 4x400m relays\nEarned Second Team All-ACC honors in both indoor and outdoor 800m\nAchieved outdoor personal best, 1:47.62, at 2017 ACC Outdoor Championships, which is also good for No. 4 in Clemson history\nHelped 4x400m relay to ACC Indoor crown in February, Clemson’s second straight in the event\nQualified for open 800 final at the indoor conference meet\nCompeted at the NCAA East Preliminary Round in the 800m\nTop time overall was 1:48.19 in a runner-up effort at Auburn’s Tiger Track Classic\nCheltenham High School Highlights\n2014 400m Indoor State Champion\n2014 4×4 Indoor State Champions\n2014 4×4 3rd at New Balance Indoor Nationals (Split 47.43)\n2014 4×4 Outdoor State Champions\n2014 AAU National Junior Olympics 800m Champion\n2015 800m Indoor State Champion (1:50.57, Finished ranked US #1)\nWon 2015 4×4 New Balance Indoor Nationals\n2015 800m Outdoor State Champion (1:48.72)\n2015 4×4 Outdoor State Champion (Split 46.00)\n2015 800m New Balance Outdoor National Champion (1:48.33)\nWon Back to Back Team State Championship Titles 2014-2015 for Indoor and Outdoor\nEarned Pennsylvania Gatorade Track Athlete of the Year, broke the outdoor 800 state record, earned Cheltenham High School Athlete of the Year and earned an Iron Man Award for 2014\nBorn Jan. 18, 1997\nMajoring in parks, recreation & tourism management","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1011480"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5124748945236206,"wiki_prob":0.5124748945236206,"text":"Home » Blog » Plaintiffs in the Pain Pump Litigation Earn Big 6th Circuit Reversal\nPlaintiffs in the Pain Pump Litigation Earn Big 6th Circuit Reversal\nby: Edward B. Mulligan V , Attorney\nOn Friday August 10, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit overturned a district court’s decision to dismiss the claims filed by Rachel Krumpelbeck in a product liability suit against Breg, Inc., a manufacturer of pain pumps and other medical devices.\nLike hundreds of others in the pain pump litigation, Ms. Krumpelbeck’s claims arose out of her use of Breg pain pump following arthroscopic surgery. Ms. Krumpelbeck’s surgery occurred in March 2005, when she was just seventeen. Pain pumps were designed–as an alternative to conventional narcotics–to manage post-operative pain by continuously injecting local anesthetic directly into a patient’s shoulder joint. However, in the months following her successful surgery, Krumpelbeck began to experience extreme pain, worsening stiffness, clicking and popping in her shoulder joint. In December 2007, she was diagnosed with glenohumeral chondrolysis, a painful condition involving the permanent destruction of cartilage in the shoulder joint. As a result of her extensive cartilage loss, Ms. Krumpelbeck, now only 24 years old, will require multiple shoulder replacements during her lifetime.\nBreg has faced hundreds of lawsuits premised upon both its failure to warn of the risks that its pain pumps pose to human cartilage as well as misrepresentations made to physicians regarding the safety of its pumps. Under the laws of most states, Breg was under a legal duty to warn physicians and their patients of all risks associated with its pumps about which it knew or should have known. In this case, as it has in many others, Breg argued that it was under no such duty because, at the time of the Plaintiff’s surgery in 2005, the association between chondrolysis and pain pumps was unknown to not only Breg, but the entire scientific community.\nTo counter Breg’s argument, the plaintiff merely needed to point to evidence suggesting that the facts–whether Breg knew or should have known of the risks of chondrolysis–were in dispute such that a jury trial would be required. Although Plaintiff presented a variety of evidence demonstrating that Breg did or should have had knowledge of the risks its pumps posed to cartilage, the district court agreed with Breg and dismissed all of Ms. Krumpelbeck’s claims.\nOn appeal, the Sixth Circuit panel reversed and remanded part of the district court’s dismissal of Ms. Krumpelbeck’s claims for “defective design and inadequate warning or instruction” for further proceedings and affirmed the remainder of the district court’s decision.\nIn overturning the lower court’s ruling as to Krumpelbeck’s defective design claim, the panel held the district court overlooked a key factor, the so-called “consumer expectation” test, which considers “[t]he extent to which [the product’s] design or formulation is more dangerous than a reasonably prudent consumer would expect when used in an intended or reasonably foreseeable manner.”\nAs to Krumpelbeck’s failure to warn claim, the panel determined that the evidence in the record was sufficient to create disputed issue of fact for trial. Specifically, the panel held that numerous articles and studies submitted by Krumpelbeck and published prior to her surgery had “found a link between infusion of chemicals into the joint space and harm of the same general nature as that Krumpelbeck suffered–damage and destruction of the cartilage.” “A reasonable jury could conclude,” the panel wrote, that this information “was sufficient to put Breg on notice of the risk of harm to the cartilage generally when its device was used to inject anesthetics directly in the joint space,” and “could be sufficient to put a reasonable manufacturer on notice of the need for testing to explore the potential risks inherent in such use.”\nThe panel also acknowledged the significance of evidence demonstrating\n(1) that the FDA had repeatedly refused to clear Breg’s pain pumps for orthopedic and/or intra-articular use,\n(2) that Breg had not tested the safety of these uses, and\n(3) that Breg had promoted its pumps for those uses anyway. “Like the sufficiency of the medical literature,” the panel wrote, “it is for a jury to decide whether a reasonable manufacturer in Breg’s position would have conducted such testing prior to promoting an off-label use of its product.”\nWhile this decision is consistent with dozens of decisions issued by federal district courts around the country in the pain pump litigation, it is significant because it is the first federal appellate court decision to reverse one of only a few district court decisions that Breg and other pain pump manufacturers rely upon heavily in defending these cases. In this regard, it is an important victory for those who have been permanently injured by the wrongful conduct of pain pump manufacturers, including Breg. However, the significance of this ruling does not end there as the Sixth Circuit’s decision makes clear that a manufacturer can be found liable for failing to conduct adequate safety testing. Hopefully this aspect of the Sixth Circuit decision will encourage manufacturers, such as Breg, to more seriously engage in pre-market testing before selling its products for use on humans.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line541241"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6616483330726624,"wiki_prob":0.33835166692733765,"text":"Alicia Silverstone is the the bestselling author of The Kind Diet and founder of TheKindLife.com. Best known for her generation-defining turn in Clueless, she continues to work steadily in film, television, and theater. A dynamic and well-connected fixture in the acting, political, and scientific communities, she is a dedicated activist on behalf of humans, our planet and animals. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their son, Bear Blu.\nSee Articles By Alicia Silverstone\nConnect with Alicia Silverstone\nFacebook Twitter Artboard 1","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line88725"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7968562841415405,"wiki_prob":0.7968562841415405,"text":"Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town\nby Warren St. JohnWarren St. John\nPaperback(Youth Edition)\nA moving account of how a soccer team made up of diverse refugees inspired an entire community here in the United States.\nBased on the adult bestseller, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference, this young people's edition is a complex and inspirational story about the Fugees, a youth soccer team made up of diverse refugees from around the world, and their formidable female coach, Luma Mufleh.\nLuma Mufleh, a young Jordanian woman educated in the United States and working as a coach for private youth soccer teams in Atlanta, was out for a drive one day and ended up in Clarkston, Georgia, where she was amazed and delighted to see young boys, black and brown and white, some barefoot, playing soccer on every flat surface they could find. Luma decided to quit her job, move to Clarkston, and start a soccer team that would soon defy the odds. Despite challenges to locate a practice field, minimal funding for uniforms and equipment, and zero fans on the sidelines, the Fugees practiced hard and demonstrated a team spirit that drew admiration from referees and competitors alike.\nOutcasts United explores how the community changed with the influx of refugees and how the dedication of Lumah Mufleh and the entire Fugees soccer team inspired an entire community.\nPraise for Outcasts United\n“An uplifting underdog story.”—Kirkus Reviews\n“Motivating messages that will resonate with teen readers.”—School Library Journal, Starred Review\nPraise for Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference\n“Wonderful, poignant book is highly recommended...\"–Library Journal, Starred Review\n“Engagingly written.”—School Library Journal\n“Richly detailed, uplifting … educational and enriching.”—Kirkus Reviews\n“Dee\"Inspiring...richly detailed...Deeply satisfying...a bighearted book.\"—Shelf Awareness\nYouth Edition\nWARREN ST. JOHN is the author of the national bestsellers \"Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Journey into the Heart of Fan Mania\" and \"Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference.\" A former reporter for the New York Times, he has also written extensively for The New Yorker, the New York Observer, and Wired. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Columbia University and now lives in New York City.\nThe name Luma means “dark lips,” though Hassan and Sawsan al-Mufleh chose it for their first child less because of the shade of her lips than because they liked the sound of the name–short, endearing, and cheerful–in the context of both Arabic and English. The al-Mufl ehs were a wealthy, Westernized family in Amman, Jordan, a teeming city of two million, set among nineteen hills and cooled by a swirl of dry desert breezes. The family made its fortune primarily from making rebar–the metal rods used to strengthen concrete–which it sold across Jordan. Hassan had attended a Quaker school in Lebanon, and then college in the United States at the State University of New York in Oswego–“the same college as Jerry Seinfeld,” he liked to tell people.\nLuma’s mother, Sawsan, was emotional and direct, and there was never any doubt about her mood or feelings. Luma, though, took after her father, Hassan, a man who mixed unassailable toughness with a capacity to detach, a combination that seemed designed to keep his emotions hidden for fear of revealing weakness.\n“My sister and my dad don’t like people going into them and knowing who they are,” said Inam al-Mufl eh, Luma’s younger sister byeleven years and now a researcher for the Jordanian army in Amman.\n“Luma’s very sensitive but she never shows it. She doesn’t want anyone to know where her soft spot is.”\nAs a child, Luma was doted on by her family, sometimes to an extraordinary degree. At the age of three, Luma idly mentioned to her grandmother that she thought her grandparents’ new Mercedes 450 SL was “beautiful.” The next day, the grandparents’ driver showed up at Hassan and Sawsan al-Mufl eh’s home with a gift: a set of keys to the Mercedes, which, they were told, now belonged to their threeyear-old daughter.\nHassan too doted on his eldest child. He had high expectations for her, and imagined her growing up to fulfi ll the prescribed role of a woman in a prominent Jordanian family. He expected her to marry, to stay close to home, and to honor her family.\nFrom the time Luma was just a young girl, adults around her began to note her quiet confi dence, which was so pronounced that her parents occasionally found themselves at a loss.\n“When we would go to the PTA meetings,” Hassan recalled, “they’d ask me, ‘Why are you asking about Luma? She doesn’t need your help.’ ”\nSometimes, Luma’s parents found themselves striving to please their confi dent daughter, rather than the other way around. Hassan recalled that on a family vacation to Spain when Luma was ten or eleven years old, he had ordered a glass of sangria over dinner, in violation of the Muslim prohibition against drinking alcohol. When the drink arrived, Luma began to sob uncontrollably.\n“She said, ‘I love my father too much–I don’t want him to go to hell,’ ” Hassan recalled. He asked the waitress to take the sangria away.\n“I didn’t drink after that,” he said.\nLuma encouraged–or perhaps demanded–that her younger sister, Inam, cultivate self-suffi ciency, often against Inam’s own instincts or wishes.\n“She was a tough older sister–very tough love,” Inam said. “She would make me do things that I didn’t want to do. She never wanted me to take the easy way out. And she wouldn’t accept me crying.”\nInam said that she has a particularly vivid memory of her older sister’s tough love in action. The al-Mufl ehs had gathered with their cousins, as they often did on weekends, at the family farm in a rural area called Mahes, half an hour from Amman. Inam, who was just seven or eight at the time, said that Luma took her and a group of young cousins out to a dirt road to get some exercise. The kids set off jogging, with Luma trailing them in the family Range Rover. It was hot and dry and hilly, and one by one, the kids began to complain. But Luma wouldn’t have any of it. She insisted that they keep running.\n“She was in the car, and we were running like crazy,” Inam recalled. “Everyone was crying. And if I would cry, she would just look at me.”\nThat withering look, which Luma would perfect over the years, had the stinging effect of a riding crop. Despite the pain, little Inam kept running.\nLuma’s drill-sergeant routine at Mahes became a kind of family legend, recalled to rib Hassan and Sawsan’s firstborn for her tough exterior. The family knew another side of Luma–one that others rarely encountered–that of a sensitive, even sentimental young woman with a deep concern for those she perceived to be weak or defenseless. Luma laughed along with everyone else. She enjoyed a good joke and a well-earned teasing, even at her own expense. But jokes aside, Luma’s tough love had it’s intended effect.\n“I wanted to prove to my sister that I could do anything,” she said. “I always remember that my sister pushed me and I found out I was able to do it.”\nTHE AL-MUFLEHS WERE intent on raising their children with their same cosmopolitan values. They sent Luma to the American Community School in Amman, a school for the children of American expatriates, mostly diplomats and businessmen, and elite Jordanians, including the children of King Hussein and Queen Noor. Luma learned to speak English without an accent–she now speaks like a midwesterner–and met kids from the United States and Europe, as well as the children of diplomats from all over the world.\nLuma’s childhood was idyllic by most measures, and certainly by comparison to those of most in Jordan. She went to the best school in Amman and lived at a comfortable distance from the problems of that city, including poverty and the tensions brought on by the infl ux of Palestinian and later Iraqi refugees. But her maternal grandmother, Munawar, made a point of acknowledging and aiding the poor whenever she could. Beggars regularly knocked on her door because they knew that on principle she would always give them alms. And when relatives would tell her she was being taken advantage of because of her generosity, Munawar would brush them off.\n“She would say we had an obligation because we were so privileged,” Luma recalled. “And she would say, ‘God judges them, not us.’ ”\nMunawar’s home abutted a lot in Amman where young men played soccer in the afternoons. As a kid, Luma would climb a grapevine on the concrete wall behind the house and watch the men play. She eventuallygot the nerve to join in, and she would play until her grandmother saw her and ordered her inside on the grounds that it was improper for a young woman to be around strange men.\n“She would have a fi t if she saw me playing soccer with men,” Luma said. “And then she’d say, ‘We are not going to tell your father about this.’ ”\nAt the American Community School, Luma was free from the strictures of a conservative Muslim society and at liberty to play sports as boys did. She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball with the same intensity, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown.\n“She was keen to learn,” Brown said. “And no matter what you asked her to do, she did it without questioning why.” Brown, the wife of an American diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Amman, coached volleyball. She had played volleyball in college at Miami University in Ohio and, when she found herself bored in the role of a diplomat’s wife, had volunteered to coach the women’s varsity volleyball team at the ACS. When she showed up to coach, Brown said, she was disappointed at what she found.\n“These girls were lazy–incredibly lazy,” she said.\nLuma was the notable exception. Though Brown didn’t know much about the Jordanian girl, she noticed her dedication right away and felt she was the kind of player a team could be built around. Coach Brown asked a lot of her players, and especially of Luma. She expected them to be on time to practice, to work hard, to focus, and to improve. She believed in running–lots of running–and drilling to the point of exhaustion. Brown challenged her players by setting an example herself. She was always on time. She was organized. When she asked her players to run fi ve kilometers, she joined them, but with a challenge: “Because you’re younger I expect you to do it better than me,” she told them. “If I beat you, you can expect the worst practices ever.”\n“They ran,” Brown said.\nBrown’s coaching philosophy was built on the belief that young people craved leadership and structure and at the same time were capable of taking on a tremendous amount of responsibility. She didn’t believe in coddling.\n“My feeling is that kids have to have rules,” Brown explained. “They have to know what the boundaries are. And kids want to know what their limits are. It’s important for them to know that people have expectations of them.”\nBrown was resigned to the fact that her players might not like her at fi rst. But she took a long view toward their development and their trust in her. She was willing to wait out the hostility until her players broke through.\n“I’m stubborn,” Brown said. “I don’t give in a lot. You can come across as mean, and until they see what kind of person you are they might not like you.”\nIn fact, Luma didn’t like Brown at all. She felt singled out for extra work and didn’t appreciate all the extra running. But she kept her mouth shut and didn’t complain, partly, she said, out of a suspicion that she and her teammates would benefi t from the harsh treatment.\n“I knew my teammates were lazy–talented but lazy,” Luma said.\n“And part of me was like, Maybe I want the challenge. Maybe these very harsh, very tough practices will work.”\nOver time, the practices began to have an effect. The team improved. They were motivated, and even the slackers on the team began working hard. Along the way, Luma started to pick up on a seeming contradiction. Though she told herself she disliked Coach Brown, she wanted desperately to play well for her. “For the majority of the time she coached me, I hated her,” Luma said. “But she had our respect. She didn’t ask us to do anything she wouldn’t do. Until then I’d always played for me. I’d never played for a coach.”\nWhen Luma was in high school and still playing for Coach Brown the junior varsity girls’ soccer team at the American Community School found itself in need of a coach. Luma volunteered. She emulated Brown–putting the team through fi ve days a week of running drills and pushing the young women to work harder and to get better.\nLuma loved it. She liked the way the daily problems of the world seemed to recede once she took the field, the subtle psychological strategies one had to employ to get the best out of each player, and most of all the sense of satisfaction that came from forging something new out of disparate elements: an entity with its distinct identity, not a collection of individuals, but a new being, a team. And she wasn’t afraid to admit she also liked being in charge.\nBut as she got older and accustomed to the liberty she had as a woman at ACS–where she could coach and play sports as she pleased–she began to feel at odds with the Jordanian society in which she had grown up. She wanted to be able to play pickup games of soccer with whoever was around, without regard to gender. She wanted the liberty to be as assertive in her daily life as Coach Brown had taught her to be on the court. Her family’s social status created additional pressure for her to follow a more traditional path. There were obligations, as well as the looming threat that she might be pressured into marrying someone she didn’t love.\n“When you come from a family that’s prominent, there are expectations of you,” she said. “And I hated that. It’s a very patriarchal society, and as modern as it is, women are still second-class citizens. I didn’t want to be treated that way.”\nCoach Brown picked up on Luma’s yearning. At a team sleepover, the players and coach went around the room predicting where everyone would be in ten years. Coach Brown joked that Luma would be “living illegally in the United States.” Everyone laughed, including Luma. But she disagreed.\n“In ten years, I’ll be there legally,” she said.\n“I knew from even our brief time together that she wanted something else for her life,” Brown recalled.\nToward the end of Luma’s junior year, she and her parents decided she would attend college in the United States. Hassan and Sawsan wanted their daughter to continue her Western education, a rite of sorts for well-to-do Jordanians. But Luma was more interested in life in the United States than she was in what an education there might do for her in Jordan. “America was the land of opportunity,” she said. “It was a very appealing dream of what you want your life to be like.” Within the family, Luma’s grandmother alone seemed to understand the implications of her going to college in the United States.\n“If she moves to America,” Munawar told the family, “there’s a chance she won’t come back.”\nLuma’s fi rst trip to the United States came when she enrolled at Hobart and William Smith College, a coed school in the Finger Lakes region of New York, not too far from where her father had gone to college. She played soccer her first fall there, but midway through the season injured a knee, sidelining her for the rest of the year. Luma liked the school well enough, but winter there was colder than anything she had experienced in Amman, and the campus was remote. She wondered if she had made the right choice in going so far from home. Luma decided to look at other schools, and soon visited Smith College, the women’s school in Northampton, Massachusetts.\nThe campus seemed to perfectly embody the setting Luma had envisioned for herself when she left Jordan for America. It was set in a picturesque New England town with a strong sense of community and security. And as a women’s college, Smith was focused on imbuing its students with the very sort of self-reliance and self-confidence Luma felt she had been deprived of at home. Luma fell in love with the place and transferred for her sophomore year.\nAt Smith, Luma had what she described as a kind of awakening. She was taken by the presence of so many self-confident, achieving women, and also by the social mobility she saw evident in the student body. Her housemate, for example, was the first in her family to go to college, and there she was at one of the preeminent private colleges in the United States. That would never happen in Jordan, Luma remembered thinking to herself at the time.\nLuma’s friends at Smith remember her as outgoing and involved–in intramural soccer and in social events sponsored by the college’s house system. Few understood her background; she spoke English so well that other students she met assumed she was American.\n“One day we were hanging out talking about our childhoods and she said, ‘I’m from Jordan,’ ” recalled Misty Wyman, a student from Maine who would become Luma’s best friend. “I thought she’d been born to American parents overseas. It had never occurred to me that she was Jordanian.”\nOn a trip home to Jordan after her junior year at Smith, Luma realized that she could never feel comfortable living there. Jordan, while a modern Middle Eastern state, was not an easy place for a woman used to Western freedoms. Professional opportunities for women were limited. Under Sharia law, which applied to domestic and inheritance matters, the testimony of two women carried the weight of that from a single man. A wife had to obtain permission from her husband simply to apply for a passport. And so-called honor killings were still viewed leniently in Sharia courts. As a member of a well-known family, Luma felt monitored and pressured to follow a prescribed path. A future in Jordan felt limited, lacking suspense, whereas the United States seemed alluringly full of both uncertainty and possibility.\nBefore she left to return to Smith for her senior year, Luma sought out friends one by one, and paid a visit to her grandmother. She didn’t tell them that she was saying goodbye exactly, but privately, Luma knew that to be the case.\n“When I said goodbye I knew I was saying goodbye to some people I’d never see again,” she said. “I wanted to do it on my own. I wanted to prove to my parents that I didn’t need their help.”\nLuma did let on to some of her friends. Rhonda Brown recalled a softball game she and Luma played with a group of American diplomats and expatriates. When the game had finished, Brown went to pick up the leather softball glove she’d brought with her from the United States, but it was gone–stolen, apparently. Brown was furious. She’d had the glove for years, and it was all but impossible to get a softball glove in Jordan at the time. Luma had a glove that she too had had for years. She took it off her hand and gave it to her coach.\n“She said, ‘You take this glove,’ ” Brown recalled. “ ‘I won’t need it. I don’t think I’m coming back.’ ”\nBrown–who soon moved to Damascus, and later to Israel with her husband and family–lost touch over the years with her star player, but she kept Luma’s glove from one move to the next, as a memento of the mysteriously self-possessed young woman she had once coached. Fifteen years later, she still has it. “The webbing has rotted and come out,” Brown told me from Israel, where I tracked her down by phone. “That glove was very special to me.”\nIN JUNE 1997, a few weeks after graduating from Smith, Luma gave her parents the news by telephone: She was staying in the United States–not for a little while, but forever. She had no intention of returning home to Jordan.\nHassan al-Mufleh was devastated.\n“I felt as if the earth swallowed me,” he said.\nHassan’s devastation soon gave way to outrage. He believed he had given every opportunity to his daughter. He had sent her to the best schools and had encouraged her to go to college in the United States. He took her decision to make a home in the States as a slap in the face. Luma tried to explain that she felt it was important for her to see if she could support herself without the social and fi nancial safety net her parents provided at home. Hassan would have none of it. If Luma wanted to see how independent she could be, he told her, he was content to help her find out. He let her know that she would be disinherited absolutely if she didn’t return home. Luma didn’t budge. She didn’t feel that she could be herself there, and she was willing to endure a split with her family to live in a place where she could live the life she pleased. Hassan followed through on his word, by cutting Luma off completely–no more money, no more phone calls. He was finished with his daughter.\nFor Luma, the change in lifestyle was abrupt. In an instant, she was on her own. “I went from being able to walk into any restaurant and store in the United States and buy whatever I wanted to having nothing,” she said.\nLuma’s friends remember that period well. They had watched her painful deliberations over when and how to give her parents the news that she wasn’t coming home. And now that she was cut off, they saw their once outgoing friend grow sullen and seem suddenly lost.\n“It was very traumatic,” said Misty Wyman, Luma’s friend from Smith. “She was very stressed and sick a lot because of the stress.\n“There was a mourning process,” Wyman added. “She was very close to her grandmother, and her grandmother was getting older. She was close to her sister and wasn’t sure that her parents would ever let her sister come to visit her here. And I kind of had the impression from Luma that she had been her father’s pet. Even though he was hard on her, he expected a lot from her. She was giving up a lot by not going home.”\nSo Luma made do. After graduation, she went to stay with her friend Misty in Highlands, North Carolina, a small resort town in the mountains where Misty had found work. Luma didn’t yet have a permit to work legally in the United States, so she found herself looking for the sorts of jobs available to illegal immigrants, eventually settling on a position washing dishes and cleaning toilets at a local restaurant called the Mountaineer. Luma enjoyed the relative calm and quiet of the mountains, but there were moments during her stint in Appalachia that only served to reinforce her sense of isolation. Concerned that her foreign-sounding name might draw unwelcome attention from locals, Luma’s colleagues at the Mountaineer gave her an innocuous nickname: Liz. The locals remained oblivious of “Liz’s” real background as a Jordanian Muslim, even as they got to know her. A handyman who was a regular at the Mountaineer even sent Liz flowers, and later, sought to impress her by showing off a prized family heirloom: a robe and hood once worn by his grandfather, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.\n“I was so shaken up,” Luma said.\nAfter a summer in Highlands, Luma kicked around aimlessly, moving to Boston then back to North Carolina, with little sense of direction. Her news from home came mostly through her grandmother, who would pass along family gossip, and who encouraged Luma to be strong and patient with her parents. Someday, Munawar said, they would come to forgive her.\nBut for now, Luma was on her own. In 1999, she decided to move to Atlanta for no other reason than that she liked the weather– eternal-seeming springs and easy autumns, with mercifully short and mild winters–not unlike the weather in Amman. When Luma told her friends of her plan, they were uniformly against it, worried that a Muslim woman from Jordan wouldn’t fi t in down in Dixie.\n“I said, ‘Are you crazy?’ ” Misty recalled.\nLuma didn’t have much of a retort. She knew next to no one in Atlanta. She had little appreciation for how unusual a Muslim woman with the name Luma Hassan Mufl eh would seem to most southerners, and certainly no inkling of how much more complicated attitudes toward Muslims would become a couple of years into the future, after the attacks on September 11. Luma arrived in Atlanta with little mission or calling. She found a tiny apartment near Decatur, a picturesque and progressive suburb east of Atlanta anchored by an old granite courthouse with grand Corinthian columns. She knew nothing yet about Clarkston, the town just down the road that had been transformed by refugees, people not unlike herself, who had fled certain discontent in one world for uncertain lives in another. But like them, Luma was determined to survive and to make it on her own. Going home wasn’t an option.\nPart 1 Changes\n1 Luma 11\n2 Beatrice and Her Boys 18\n3 \"Small Town… Big Heart\" 25\n4 Alone Down South 35\n5 The Fugees Are Born 41\n6 \"Coach Says It's Not Good\" 51\n7 Get Lost 60\nPart 2 A New Season\n8 \"I Want to Be Part of the Fugees!\" 69\n9 Figure It Out So You Can Fix It 78\n10 Meltdown 92\n11 \"How Am I Going to Start All Over?\" 99\n12 Alex, Bien, and Ive 110\n13 Trying Again 115\n14 The Fifteens Fight 120\n15 Go Fugees! 128\n16 Gunshots 135\n17 The \"Soccer People\" 138\n18 Playing on Grass 141\nPart 3 Full Circle\n19 Who Are the Kings? 149\n20 Showdown at Blue Springs 156\n21 Coming Apart 161\n22 Hanging On at Home 166\n23 The Dikoris 171\n24 \"What Are You Doing Here?\" 179\n25 Halloween 189\n26 The Fifteens' Final Game 194\n27 My Rules, My Way 199\n28 Tornado Cup 203\nEpilogue 220\nFor More Information 227\nWhat People are Saying About This\n\"Respecting cultural differences, building a global community, and the importance of getting involved are powerful, motivating messages that will resonate with teen readers, not just soccer fans.\"—Starred Review, School Library Journal\n\"An uplifting underdog story that will appeal to readers interested in the immigrant experience and the surprising role sports can play in people's lives.\"—Kirkus Reviews\n\"Exciting youth soccer action blends with politics . . . filled with fast kicks, scrimmages, dribbles, crossses, corners, shots, and misses on the field that will grab kids, as will the harrowing stories of what the families fled from their continuing struggle.\"—Booklist\nGr 7 Up—In this young adult adaptation of Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference (Spiegel & Grau, 2009), St. John presents the remarkable, inspiring story of a persevering female coach, a soccer team of refugee boys, and the Georgia town that is their home. With conviction and skill, Jordanian Luma Mufleh established and coached three soccer teams known as the Fugees. Her players were haunted by memories of war-torn homelands and personal tragedies and were struggling to adjust to life in the United States. However, her high expectations and willingness to help families impacted her young players. Despite challenges to locate a practice field, minimal funding for uniforms and equipment, and zero fans on the sidelines, the Fugees practiced hard and demonstrated a team spirit that drew admiration from referees and even their competitors. Featuring pivotal soccer games and anecdotes about interactions between a coach and her players, tension among the boys, family responsibilities, and a town wrestling with its changing identity, St. John delivers a vivid, cohesive story about hope and determination. Profiles are enriched with background information on the conflicts that drove the players from their homes in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Respecting cultural differences, building a global community, and the importance of getting involved are powerful, motivating messages that will resonate with teen readers, not just soccer fans.—Gerry Larson, formerly at Durham School of the Arts, NC\nAn inspiring account of a young Jordanian immigrant who created Fugees, a soccer program for refugees from war-torn nations. Adapted from an adult book of the same title, St. John tells the story of how Luma Mufleh formed a soccer team composed of young refugees from all over the world, rescued by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees and living together in a crime-ridden settlement in suburban Atlanta. After seeing refugee children playing soccer in vacant lots around town, Mufleh persuaded the local YMCA to fund a free soccer program and signed on as its unpaid coach. The children she recruited came from such war-ravaged countries as Liberia, Sudan, Zaire, Kosovo and Afghanistan. The team offered youngsters traumatized by civil war and genocide the chance to enjoy a familiar recreation and an alternative to gangs. In addition to coaching, Mufleh often acted as counselor and surrogate parent to children whose own parents worked long hours. Though insightful about immigration and the challenges of assimilation, the fast-paced account lacks sufficient detail about the experiences that forced the players to leave their home countries. An uplifting underdog story that will appeal to readers interested in the immigrant experience and the surprising role sports can play in people's lives. (Nonfiction. 12-16)\nOutcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town 4.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 10 reviews.\nOutstanding story recommend for all ages.\nThe book was so amazing\nmzavori More than 1 year ago\nOne Team, One Coach – Dreams United Luma Mufleh did not know what to expect when she arrived in the small town of Clarkston, Georgia, just on the outskirts of Atlanta. She certainly did not anticipate the sight of women walking down the street covered head to toe and carrying laundry baskets over their heads, nor did she expect the smell of traditional Middle Eastern cuisines, or even the small refugee boys playing soccer with nothing but their bare feet and a ball made from plastic bags. Outcasts United, written by Warren St. John, follows the inspirational story of a small refugee soccer team, known as the Fugees, and their coach through their many adventures as they struggle to find their place in a small southern American town. Not only does St. John document some pivotal soccer seasons of the Fugees, but readers catch a glimpse of the refugee families living in Clarkston as they describe their past experiences and share their journeys to the United States. St. John paints a vivid picture of the controversial subject regarding immigration, especially when placed in context with the topic of illegal immigration during the Bush administration, as long-time Clarkston residents struggle to accommodate the new arrivals. Left to deal with the refugees and, consequently, the widely spreading demographic change, members of the Clarkston community resort to resentment and anger towards the refugees, thus illustrating how fear of the unknown and cultural differences can disband (and eventually reunite) an entire community. At the heart of this novel, however, is the story of Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian immigrant herself, and a myriad of teenage boys from numerous nationalities who overcome their differences and band together to form the Fugees. St. John transports the readers through the highs and lows experienced in each soccer season and highlights the importance of hard work, strength, self-preservation, and team camaraderie. The team dynamics of the Fugees shows a juxtaposition on other youth sports teams across America; where they succeed, others fail, which causes readers and athletes (like myself) to wonder where youth sports programs today have gone astray in building team cohesiveness. Everyone could benefit from a coach like Luma Mufleh. While the detailed descriptions of the Fugees’ countless soccer matches overtake much of the novel, sometimes to the point of boredom, St. John weaves together a beautiful story filled with war stories, government politics, and a coach who is set upon making a difference in the lives of the Fugee family. Watching a team of misfits form a tight-knit bond is everything one looks for in a narrative such as this, and it is amazing to see them carry that love for each other on and off the field. This book is highly recommended for those who have a passion for soccer and those who are looking for an uplifting and easy tale to read. Outcasts United is St. John’s second novel; his first, Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, is as deeply satisfying and intriguing for those who cannot get enough of sports.\nI got this book and loved it. Luma is a very inspirational woman who acts as teacher, coach, mentor, supplier, lover, and tougher-upper. I totally wish I had her as my soccer coach. She is just as good as Mia Hamm, in some ways as good or better, in others less. Anyway I give it five stars and encourage it to you for a great and inspirational read.\nHeidi_G More than 1 year ago\nLuma Mufleh, a Jordanian woman living just east of Atlanta, saw a need in the community and stepped up to ensure that need was filled. She sometimes joined in a group of boys playing soccer, boys whose families came from many parts of the world. With no sponsorship and resentment from some town residents toward the swelling immigrant population, Luma managed to put together three groups of boys who were excited to be playing on a soccer team. She worked the boys hard, made them play fair, and expected them to stay current in their school work. Acting as coach, mentor, and counselor, Luma made a difference in the lives of her players. This book will appeal to teen readers who are soccer players or fans; other readers might be put off by the detailed accounts of so many soccer games. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8044654726982117,"wiki_prob":0.8044654726982117,"text":"Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is celebrated annually in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots, and works to achieve equal justice and equal opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) Americans. In June of 1969, patrons and supporters of the Stonewall Inn in New York City staged an uprising to resist the police harassment and persecution to which LGBT Americans were commonly subjected. This uprising marks the beginning of a movement to outlaw discriminatory laws and practices against LGBT Americans.\nPride parades (also known as pride marches, pride events, and pride festivals) are outdoor events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) social and self acceptance, achievements, legal rights and pride. The events also at times serve as demonstrations for legal rights such as same-sex marriage. Most pride events occur annually, and many take place around June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City, a pivotal moment in modern LGBTQ social movements.[4]\nThere are two cities in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico that celebrate pride parades/festivals. The first one began in June, 1990 in San Juan; later in June, 2003 the city of Cabo Rojo started celebrating its own pride parade. The pride parade in Cabo Rojo has become very popular and has received thousands of attendees in the last few years. San Juan Pride runs along Ashford Avenue in the Condado area (a popular tourist district), while Cabo Rojo Pride takes place in Boquerón.\nIn 1994, a coalition of education-based organizations in the United States designated October as LGBT History Month. In 1995, a resolution passed by the General Assembly of the National Education Association included LGBT History Month within a list of commemorative months. National Coming Out Day (October 11), as well as the first “March on Washington” in 1979, are commemorated in the LGBTQ community during LGBT History Month.\nThe following year the festival expanded to six hubs around England and the conference had its own slot. The Alan Horsfall lecture was given by Professor Susan Stryker of the University of Arizona in 2016. The national heritage premieres were \"Mister Stokes: The Man-Woman of Manchester\" written by Abi Hynes and \"Devils in Human Shape\" by Tom Marshman.\nEach year there are a series of parties and celebrations which take place throughout the city, and continue right up until the concluding Pride Parade, which happens towards the end of June. While the main parade usually takes place in the heart of Manhatten, pride events often transpire in other areas of the city too, including Brooklyn and Staten Island.\nSocial conservatives are sometimes opposed to such events because they view them to be contrary to public morality. This belief is partly based on certain things often found in the parades, such as public nudity, BDSM paraphernalia, and other sexualized features. Within the academic community, there has been criticism that the parades actually set to strengthen homosexual-heterosexual divides and increase essentialist views.\nThough the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people, and transgender people, as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the 'queer' or LGBT community.[37][38]\nOn June 26, 1994, to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (ProGay Philippines) and Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) Manila organized the first LGBT Pride March in Asia, marching from EDSA corner Quezon Avenue to Quezon City Memorial Circle (Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines) and highlighting broad social issues. At Quezon City Memorial Circle, a program was held with a Queer Pride Mass and solidarity remarks from various organizations and individuals.\nBoth Berlin Pride and Cologne Pride claim to be one of the biggest in Europe. The first so-called Gay Freedom Day took place on June 30, 1979 in both cities. Berlin Pride parade is now held every year the last Saturday in July. Cologne Pride celebrates two weeks of supporting cultural programme prior to the parade taking place on Sunday of the first July weekend. An alternative march used to be on the Saturday prior to the Cologne Pride parade, but now takes place a week earlier. Pride parades in Germany are usually named Christopher Street Day.\nMeetings to organize the march began in early January at Rodwell's apartment in 350 Bleecker Street.[16] At first there was difficulty getting some of the major New York City organizations like Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) to send representatives. Craig Rodwell and his partner Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, Michael Brown, Marty Nixon, and Foster Gunnison of Mattachine made up the core group of the CSLD Umbrella Committee (CSLDUC). For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the national homophile organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his position as treasurer for that organization.[17][18] Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and Brenda Howard of GLF.[19] Believing that more people would turn out for the march on a Sunday, and so as to mark the date of the start of the Stonewall uprising, the CSLDUC scheduled the date for the first march for Sunday, June 28, 1970.[20] With Dick Leitsch's replacement as president of Mattachine NY by Michael Kotis in April 1970, opposition to the march by Mattachine ended.[21]\nThe origins of Gay and Lesbian Pride month can be traced back to a turbulent weekend in New York City in June of 1969. On the evening of June 27th, the usual crowd gathered at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. New York Beverage Control Board agents and NYC police officers raided the bar to enforce an alcohol control law that was seldom enforced anywhere else in the city. Patrons were physically forced out of their gathering places, sometimes beaten, and often arrested with no just cause. On that night, lesbians and gay men spontaneously fought back against police harassment for the first time. Word spread quickly about the confrontation and large, outraged crowds gathered on ensuing nights to protest the mistreatment historically inflicted on the gay community. These protests came to be known as the Stonewall Rebellion. This uprising was the catalyst for the modern political movement for gay and lesbian liberation, calling for gay pride and action to secure their basic civil rights.\n2019 will be extra special because New York will be hosting the iconic World Pride for the entire month of June. This will be the first time in World Pride's 20-year history that the event will take place in the USA. Pride means different things to everyone, which is why World Pride NYC offers a whole heap of LGBTQ activities during the celebrations.\nThe initiative received government backing from the deputy DfES and Equalities Minister Jacqui Smith, although some sections of the press argued against its political correctness, and pointed out that the sexuality of some historical figures is more a matter of speculation than fact.[16] Supporters of the event countered that it is important to challenge heterosexist attitudes in society.\nIn Greenland, LGBT history is celebrated with a Pride Parade instead of a month-long celebration. It started in 2010 when 19-year-old Nuka Bisgard and her friend Lu Berthelse, 24, another woman, teamed up with other Greenlanders to create a pride celebration.[22] This was made to help Greenland's visible and invisible gay community feel more inclusive and united. On May 15, 2010, their hard work paid off when Pride drew over a thousand participants. Gay Pride has successfully been repeated since 2010.[23]\nCzech Republic's largest LGBT event. This year, the week-long Prague Gay Pride runs from August 5th-11th. Expect lots of fun activities - concerts, workshops, theatre, exhibitions, film, lectures, discussions, dance parties. The parade takes place in the city centre on Saturday, August 10th. Check the website for full details and program. ...read more\nOn July 22, 2005, the first Latvian gay pride march took place in Riga, surrounded by protesters. It had previously been banned by the Riga City Council, and the then-Prime Minister of Latvia, Aigars Kalvītis, opposed the event, stating Riga should \"not promote things like that\", however a court decision allowed the march to go ahead.[85] In 2006, LGBT people in Latvia attempted a Parade but were assaulted by \"No Pride\" protesters, an incident sparking a storm of international media pressure and protests from the European Parliament at the failure of the Latvian authorities to adequately protect the Parade so that it could proceed.\nThe annual gay Pride weekend in Cologne takes place from July 5th-7th in 2019. with the street parade on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of participants are expected. The street festival will feature numerous LGBT activities and events - colourful stage performances, parties, political events, film screenings, cultural activities, etc. Planning to be ...read more\nA Brazilian photographer was arrested after refusing to delete photos of police attacking two young people participating in a gay pride parade on October 16, 2011 in the city of Itabuna, Bahia, reported the newspaper Correio 24 horas. According to the website Notícias de Ipiau, Ederivaldo Benedito, known as Bené, said four police officers tried to convince him to delete the photos soon after they realized they were being photographed. When he refused, they ordered him to turn over the camera. When the photographer refused again, the police charged him with contempt and held him in jail for over 21 hours until he gave a statement. According to Chief Marlon Macedo, the police alleged that the photographer was interfering with their work, did not have identification, and became aggressive when he was asked to move. Bené denied the allegations, saying the police were belligerent and that the scene was witnessed by \"over 300 people\", reported Agência Estado.[55]\nTurkey was the first Muslim-majority country in which a gay pride march was being held.[118] However, the parades have been banned nationwide since 2015. Authorities cite security concerns and threats from far-right and Islamist groups, but severe police retrubution against marchers had led to accusations of discrimination tied to the country's increasing Islamization under Erdogan.[119]\nThe first NYC Pride Rally occurred one month after the Stonewall Riots in June 1969, that launched the modern Gay Rights Movement. 500 people gathered for a “Gay Power” demonstration in Washington Square Park, followed by a candlelight vigil in Sheridan Square. NYC Pride has continued this proud tradition by hosting the event in various locations throughout the city. The March passes by the site of the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, location of the June 1969 Stonewall riots.\nIn 2007, following international pressure, a Pride Parade was held once again in Riga with 4,500 people parading around Vērmane Garden, protected physically from \"No Pride\" protesters by 1,500 Latvian police, with ringing the inside and the outside of the iron railings of the park. Two fire crackers were detonated with one being thrown from outside at the end of the festival as participants were moving off to the buses. A man and his son were afterwards arrested by the police.[86] This caused some alarm but no injury, although participants did have to run the gauntlet of \"No Pride\" abuse as they ran to the buses. They were driven to a railway station on the outskirts of Riga, from where they went to a post Pride \"relax\" at the seaside resort of Jūrmala. Participants included MEPs, Amnesty International observers and random individuals who travelled from abroad to support LGBT Latvians and their friends and families.\nToday, celebrations include pride parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBT Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes or HIV/AIDS. The purpose of the commemorative month is to recognize the impact that LGBTQ individuals have had on history locally, nationally, and internationally.\n^ \"Making colleges and universities safe for gay and lesbian students: Report and recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth\" (PDF). Massachusetts. Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth., p. 20. \"A relatively recent tactic used in the backlash opposing les/bi/gay/trans campus visibility is the so-called \"heterosexual pride\" strategy\".\nOn Saturday, June 27, 1970, Chicago Gay Liberation organized a march[12] from Washington Square Park (\"Bughouse Square\") to the Water Tower at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago avenues, which was the route originally planned, and then many of the participants spontaneously marched on to the Civic Center (now Richard J. Daley) Plaza.[13] The date was chosen because the Stonewall events began on the last Saturday of June and because organizers wanted to reach the maximum number of Michigan Avenue shoppers. Subsequent Chicago parades have been held on the last Sunday of June, coinciding with the date of many similar parades elsewhere.\nIn 2008, the Riga Pride was held in the historically potent 11. novembra krastmala (November 11 Embankment) beneath the Riga Castle. The participants heard speeches from MEPs and a message of support from the Latvian President. The embankment was not open and was isolated from the public with some participants having trouble getting past police cordons. About 300 No Pride protesters gathered on the bridges behind barricades erected by the police who kept Pride participants and the \"No Pride\" protesters separated. Participants were once more \"bused\" out but this time a 5-minute journey to central Riga.\nIn Greece, endeavours were made during the 1980s and 1990s to organise such an event, but it was not until 2005 that Athens Pride established itself. The Athens Pride is held every June in the centre of Athens city.[80] As of 2012, there is a second pride parade taking place in the city of Thessaloniki. The Thessaloniki Pride is also held annually every June. 2015 and 2016 brought two more pride parades, the Creta Pride taking place annually in Crete[81] and the Patras Pride, that is going to be held in Patras for the first time in June 2016.[82]\nLGBT History Month was celebrated in Hungary for the first time in February 2013, and since then every year. The program series is coordinated by Háttér Society and Labrisz Lesbian Association, events are organized in partnership with other LGBT organization, cultural and academic institutions, professional organizations etc. The majority of the events take place in Budapest, but a few events are also organized in larger cities all over the country, e.g. in Debrecen, Pécs, Miskolc and Szeged.[29]\nThe Pride Parade is heavily supported by the federal government as well as by the Governor of São Paulo, the event counts with a solid security plan, many politicians show up to open the main event and the government not rarely parades with a float with politicians on top of it. In the Pride the city usually receives about 400,000 tourists and moves between R$180 million and R$190 million.\nThe West Coast of the United States saw a march in Los Angeles on June 28, 1970 and a march and 'Gay-in' in San Francisco.[14][15] In Los Angeles, Morris Kight (Gay Liberation Front LA founder), Reverend Troy Perry (Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches founder) and Reverend Bob Humphries (United States Mission founder) gathered to plan a commemoration. They settled on a parade down Hollywood Boulevard. But securing a permit from the city was no easy task. They named their organization Christopher Street West, \"as ambiguous as we could be.\"[16] But Rev. Perry recalled the Los Angeles Police Chief Edward M. Davis telling him, “As far as I’m concerned, granting a permit to a group of homosexuals to parade down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as giving a permit to a group of thieves and robbers.”[17] Grudgingly, the Police Commission granted the permit, though there were fees exceeding $1.5 million. After the American Civil Liberties Union stepped in, the commission dropped all its requirements but a $1,500 fee for police service. That, too, was dismissed when the California Superior Court ordered the police to provide protection as they would for any other group. The eleventh hour California Supreme Court decision ordered the police commissioner to issue a parade permit citing the “constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.” From the beginning, L.A. parade organizers and participants knew there were risks of violence. Kight received death threats right up to the morning of the parade. Unlike later editions, the first gay parade was very quiet. The marchers convened on McCadden Place in Hollywood, marched north and turned east onto Hollywood Boulevard.[18] The Advocate reported \"Over 1,000 homosexuals and their friends staged, not just a protest march, but a full blown parade down world-famous Hollywood Boulevard.\"[19]\nFrom 2016, Schools OUT UK has partnered with a several contract publishers to produce magazines as an Official Guide to LGBT History Month, putting 35,000 copies of their publication into every secondary school in the UK, plus community spaces, charities and businesses. The magazine had introductions from the leaders of all the main political parties and the Mayor of London. The magazine's Diversity Dashboard runs job adverts and events listings from LGBT-friendly employers and the community.\nOther Southeastern Brazilian parades are held in Cabo Frio (Rio de Janeiro), Campinas (São Paulo), Vitória (capital of Espírito Santo), and Belo Horizonte and Uberaba (Minas Gerais). Southern Brazilian parades take place in Curitiba, Florianópolis, Porto Alegre and Pelotas, and Center-Western ones happen in Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Goiânia and Brasília. Across Northeastern Brazil, they are present in all capitals, namely, in Salvador, Aracaju, Maceió, Recife, João Pessoa, Natal, Fortaleza, Teresina and São Luís, and also in Ceará's hinterland major urban center, Juazeiro do Norte. Northern Brazilian parades are those from Belém, Macapá, Boa Vista and Manaus.\nMardi Gras was Sydney's contribution to the international gay solidarity celebrations, an event that had grown up as a result of the Stonewall riots in New York. Mardi Gras was one of a series of events by the Gay Solidarity Group to promote the forthcoming National Homosexual Conference, and offer support to San Francisco's Gay Freedom Day and its campaign against California State Senator John Brigg's attempts to stop gay rights supporters' teaching in schools. It was also intended to protest the Australian visit of homophobic[according to whom?] Festival of Light campaigner Mary Whitehouse.[26]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line193933"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6126489043235779,"wiki_prob":0.6126489043235779,"text":"Home » Sports » Roland Garros 2015 edition richer than ever\nRoland Garros 2015 edition richer than ever\nOctober 7, 2015 Sports\nFor the those who don’t know, 2015 edition of Roland Garros was in fact the richer editon of the famous tennis tournaments taking place in Paris: € 28,028,600 was the amount of the total prize, increased by + 12% compared to the previous edition. Of this amount, 1,800,000 have been entitled to women’s singles and men’s singles winners; while the pair winning the mixed doubles has been awarded € 114,000. And so, in the prestigious field, named after Suzanne Lenglen, the approximately 10,000 spectators (10,076 is the maximum capacity of the stadium – almost always sold out!) have witnessed the triumph of the USA champion Serena Williams and the one of Stan Wawrinka, the swiss one, who triumphed on French Open, overcoming respectively Lucie Safarova and Novak Djokovic.\nThere were Many VIPs at the court of Roland Garros 2015; many of them coming from the world of sport and entertainment, others from the world of politics, or finance that matters. To the latter category belongs the Italian Giampaolo Lo Conte, a man who dedicated his life to international trading and large companies’ investments. “I’m here – told us in an interview in his studio in London – because I love tennis. It ‘a very tough sport, both physically and mentally, concentration always wins before physical strength. I will also be at Wimbledon! In a few weeks “.\nDo we talk about business even in Paris? “Sure, but not on on Roland Garros’s stands – says Giampaolo Lo Conte, smiling. “People here loves to sunbathe and relax while enjoying the show. Including VIPs. ” Do you feel like a celebrity too? “Not an entertainment one … nor even a sports’ one! (Laughs again). “Let’s say I meet celebrities every week, but they do not recognize me very often, because I do not feature on TV. But do I focus on the ones that matter in the world of high finance: I left Italy, from Rome where I am born, and now I work a lot between New York and London. I do not think that will change any time soon”. But maybe it’s too early to tell!\n“I’m here – told us in an interview in his studio in London – because I love tennis. It ‘a very tough sport, both physically and mentally, concentration always wins before physical strength. I will also be at Wimbledon! In a few weeks “. these are the words coming out of Giampaolo Lo Conte, baron, business consultant and a leading figure in international finance.\nWe met him in his studio in London, a few days after his return from Paris, where he had attended Roland Garros 2015, where French Open winners were Serena Williams and Stan Wawrinka; the first one, for the females, has “paved” the Czech Lucie Safarova during the final match, while the Swiss had nothing less than the pleasure of defeating the strong Novak Djokovic. Giampaolo Lo Conte is very passionate about sports (tennis and basketball above all); he was in the stands of Roland Garros and had the opportunity to chat with acquaintances and colleagues from the world of finance.\n“It felt good – reported Giampaolo Lo Conte – people there love to sunbathe and relax while enjoying the show. Including VIPs! And including me, even if I focus more on people that count in the world of high finance: I left Italy and now I work a lot between New York and London. I do not think that I will change lifestyle any time soon”. Lo Conte is not one of those guys posing in photos with Ronaldo (who was also in Paris), but it is not rare to find him in social events with celebrities. It ‘also fond of fashion: in Rome, between its interventions, he has recently participated in the four-day Alta Roma 2015 event: the event have surely had less resonance of Roland Garros but, from the point of view of business development, it sure rises lots of interest. In fact fashion is one of the areas which Italy tries to rise again in terms of global business from.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1579222"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7786916494369507,"wiki_prob":0.7786916494369507,"text":"by Noise Pop Presents\nFri, June 14, 2019, 8:00 PM – 11:30 PM PDT\nTicket sales have ended\nTickets at the door. Cash and card accepted.\nFri, June 14, 2019\n8:00 PM – 11:30 PM PDT\nThis show is 21+\n“Seductive and soulful, this one may have you dialing your ex. Don't say we didn't warn you.” - Vibe Magazine\nJanine is a fiercely talented songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. She is also a self-sufficient artist who has created her own artwork and directed music videos. But, her greatest weapon: an ethereal and devastatingly beautiful voice that commands every single verse, hook and refrain. She’s magnetic - bringing you into her world.\nBorn in New Zealand, Janine dedicated herself to music almost as soon as she could walk, recording herself singing her favorite tunes on a double cassette player at the age of five. At the age of fourteen, she began performing her original songs with a guitar at open mics, mostly held at bars she wasn’t technically allowed into. As a result, her art remains as honest as it is hypnotic.\nUnder original moniker Janine and The Mixtape, the artist made quite a mark since first arriving stateside in 2011. She moved to New York quietly building a buzz, the songstress penned, produced, and recorded 2013’s independent Dark Mind EP. Following placements on VH1’s Black Ink Crew and Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta, it vaulted to #2 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and #2 on iTunes Top R&B/Soul Albums Chart, while the single “Hold Me” went Top 10 on Spotify’s Global Viral Charts and #1 on iTunes New Zealand.\nTastemakers including Complex, VIBE, Billboard, MTV, and more lauded her sound. Signing to Atlantic Records, she co-produced 2015’s XX EP (pronounced ex’s) with 4e. The project went on to win “Best R&B Album” at the New Zealand Music Awards in between touring the states with Floetry.\nIn 2017, Janine went on her first headline tour, the Before It’s Too Late Tour, which included packed shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta, D.C and more.\nFollowing the tour she released her debut album, 99, on May 25th, which was described as “Aaliyah crooning over nocturnal Bryson Tiller production or a femme fatale Weeknd.” The album hit #8 on the US iTunes R&B chart, #54 on the US overall iTunes Charts, #1 on the NZ Heatseekers Charts, #1 on the R&B Charts and #13 on the overall iTunes Chart and was featured on multiple Spotify and Apple Music playlists. Janine's song \"Unstable\" was featured on Starz \"Power\" and reached top 30 in the US itunes R&B charts.\n“99 is a triumphant, and decidedly breakthrough-the-clouds debut from Janine, one that will surely wear your repeat button out, too.” - Paper Mag\nUnited States Events California Events Things to do in San Francisco, CA San Francisco Performances San Francisco Music Performances\nJanine at Cafe du Nord\n2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114\nNoise Pop Presents\nTue, Nov 19 7:00 PM\nTyrone Wells with special guest Dan Rodriguez\nSwedish American Hall, San Francisco\nSat, Oct 19 8:00 PM\nChris Pureka & Laura Gibson\nCafé du Nord, San Francisco\nAlice Phoebe Lou, strongboi\nPixx, Rosie Tucker\nSaintseneca\nCafe Du Nord, San Francisco\nMezzanine, San Francisco\nAli Barter\nMon, Nov 11 7:30 PM\nThe Building, Heather Woods Broderick\nIan Sweet & The Courtneys, Half Stack\nAn Evening With: A.A. Bondy\nBrowse San Francisco Events","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line93937"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.961603045463562,"wiki_prob":0.961603045463562,"text":"Burger King manager told to ‘go back to Mexico’ for speaking\nReport: USAA may sell wealth-management business for about $2B\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-warns-us-it-could-down-more-drones-as-pompeo-arrives-in-persian-gulf/2019/06/24/c7d59330-967c-11e9-a027-c571fd3d394d_story.html\nTrump imposes new sanctions on Iran, warns US 'restraint' is limited\nJohn Hudson, Anne Gearan and Erin Cunningham, The Washington Post\nPublished 7:40 pm CDT, Monday, June 24, 2019\nUS President Donald Trump shows an executive order on sanctions on Iran's supreme leader in the Oval Office of the White House on June 24, 2019. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images\nPhoto: MANDEL NGAN;Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images\nWASHINGTON - The Trump administration targeted Iran's supreme leader with new sanctions on Monday, using one of the few tools available to punish Iran for downing a U.S. drone after President Donald Trump took military strikes off the table last week.\nTrump warned that his \"restraint\" might not last, but he appeared to muddy his own tough message with a vague threat to end U.S. protection for international shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz, off Iran.\nThe U.S. economic penalties are part of Trump's strategy to drive a weakened Iran to the bargaining table for new talks over its nuclear ambitions. The sanctions were announced as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began recruiting allies, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to help monitor threats from Iran in the Persian Gulf.\nIt is far from clear that Iran will buckle. Iran's U.N. ambassador said Monday that any thought of negotiation is \"not ready yet.\" He also disputed claims that Iran was behind a recent string of attacks on oil tankers and other provocations against nations operating in the region, including the United States.\nTrump said the new \"hard-hitting\" sanctions will deny Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and several other top officials access to financial resources. The administration also plans to target Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif with economic sanctions later this week.\nPresident Trump imposed additional economic sanction on Iran on June 24, a few days after Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone near the Strait of Hormuz.(The Washington Post)\nMedia: Washington Post\nThe measures mean that any foreign financial institutions that provide significant \"financial services\" to any of the Iranian officials would be subject to U.S. penalties.\n\"The assets of Ayatollah Khamenei and his office will not be spared from the sanctions,\" Trump said. The president mispronounced the Iranian clerical leader's name as \"Khomeini,\" which was the name of the former leader who died in 1989.\nThe decision to target Khamenei directly suggests that Trump is attempting to turn up pressure on the leader who would decide whether to accept an invitation to new negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. Trump's titular counterpart is President Hassan Rouhani, who presided over the 2015 international nuclear deal that Trump rejects as flawed and weak.\nTrump withdrew the United States from the pact last year and began increasing sanctions in a campaign his critics say is aimed at further undermining the nuclear deal and forcing the regime's collapse.\n\"The supreme leader of Iran is the one who ultimately is responsible for the hostile conduct of the regime,\" Trump said as he signed an order imposing the sanctions, which come atop dozens of previous economic penalties applied over Iran's alleged support for terrorism and other actions.\n\"He's respected within his country. His office oversees the regime's most brutal instruments, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,\" the president said, which the United States blames for an attack on two tankers near the Strait of Hormuz on June 13.\nTrump appears to be gambling that the pressure campaign will compel Iran's leadership to agree to a new nuclear agreement and not prompt it to lash out militarily for what it views as an illegal effort to strangle Iran's economy.\nBut analysts said the United States is reaching a point of diminishing returns when it comes to sanctions pressure.\n\"The entities that Khamenei's office controls have already been subject to U.S. sanctions,\" said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran scholar at the Brookings Institution. \"Any new measures are only incremental and possibly redundant. The Iranian economy has already been forced to become more insular and less interconnected - which leaves the residual economic activity paradoxically more resilient to U.S. restrictions.\"\nBeginning last year, when Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal, his administration has effectively banned Iranian oil exports, the country's main revenue source, and moved onto smaller targets such as the iron, steel, aluminum and copper industries.\n\"Further economic sanctions are almost entirely symbolic, rather than being economically significant,\" said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security. \"Sanctions at this point are a sideshow to the real threat of military escalation and all-out war.\"\nDespite his aversion to a military strike, Trump said he has legal authority to order such an action without congressional approval, something some lawmakers has insisted he obtain. \"I do like keeping them abreast, but I don't have to do it legally,\" he said in an interview with the Hill on Monday.\nOn Monday, the Trump administration presented a case against Iran at the U.N. Security Council, arguing that Iran or its proxies were behind numerous assaults in the Middle East. The United States was not directly targeted in those actions, until the drone attack.\nIranian Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi told reporters at the United Nations that the unmanned \"spy\" plane violated Iranian airspace and ignored repeated radio warnings before it was shot down. The United States maintains that the aircraft was flying over international waters.\n\"We cannot accept any intimidation or any threat from anybody,\" said Ravanchi, who helped negotiate the 2015 nuclear deal. He called for a regional dialogue under U.N. auspices and appeared to dismiss direct negotiations with Washington.\n\"How can we start a dialogue with somebody whose primary preoccupation is to put more sanctions on Iran?\" he said. \"So the atmosphere for such a dialogue is not ready yet.\"\nTrump continued to sound optimistic about the prospects for a new deal that he says would do more to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb than the existing agreement.\n\"We would love to be able to negotiate a deal if they want to. If they don't want to, that's fine, too. But we would love to be able to,\" Trump said in the Oval Office. \"And, frankly, they might as well do it soon.\"\nTreasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the sanctions against senior military commanders \"will lock up literally billions of dollars more of assets.\"\nThese sanctions block access to the United States financial system and any assets the officials might hold in the United States. The order Trump signed gives Mnuchin authority to target other officials appointed by Khamenei.\nMnuchin stressed that the sanctions were not intended to hurt the people of Iran but were aimed at the country's leaders. \"I want to be very clear. We are not looking at creating issues for the people of Iran,\" he said.\nHowever, U.S. sanctions have devastated Iran's currency, making everyday goods such as fruits, vegetables, car parts and mobile phones exceedingly expensive for average Iranians.\nThe sanctions, which have strained U.S. relations with Europe, have elated Washington's allies in Israel and Arab Gulf states. But the president has shown frustration in doing most of the heavy lifting.\nTrump complained on Twitter that the United States is \"protecting the shipping lanes for other countries\" and suggested he could stop U.S. naval patrols at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, one of the world's most volatile flash points.\n\"All of these countries should be protecting their own ships on what has always been a dangerous journey,\" Trump wrote.\nPompeo reiterated that message Monday during his meeting with Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi. Asking for military help with maritime security, Pompeo said \"we'll need you all to participate, your military folks.\"\n\"The president is keen on sharing that the United States doesn't bear the cost of this,\" he added.\nZarif, the Iranian foreign minister, retorted in a tweet that Trump \"is 100% right that the US military has no business in the Persian Gulf. Removal of its forces is fully in line with interests of US and the world. But it's now clear that the #B_Team is not concerned with US interests - they despise diplomacy, and thirst for war.\"\nMilitary officials have said a new program for international cooperation on maritime security in the Persian Gulf is still in the early stages. It will require foreign nations from Asia and the Gulf region to provide payment or naval assets to help monitor and protect maritime commerce in the Middle East, said one official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a program that as not been finalized.\nCountries that buy and sell oil in the region would be asked in certain cases to escort ships, place vessels at fixed positions in the region or provide maritime patrol aircraft.\nPompeo also met with King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Monday in Saudi Arabia, which has signed onto the plan.\nCunningham reported from Dubai. The Washington Post's Carol Morello, Karen DeYoung, William Branigin, Missy Ryan and Damian Paletta contributed to this report.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line380022"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5661885142326355,"wiki_prob":0.5661885142326355,"text":"Jim Lewis\nSenior Asst. AD for Athletic Communications\nE-mail: jdlewis@catawba.edu\n@CatawbaSID\nJim Lewis was named Senior Assistant Athletic Director for Athletic Communications in 2015. He became the Sports Information Director at Catawba in June of 1996 and prior to the 2009-10 athletic season, he was promoted to Assistant Athletic Director.\nLewis has been associated with the sports information department since enrolling as a student in 1984. His duties are to oversee the publicity for all 18 sports and the athletic department. He currently serves as the primary contact for all of Catawba's 18 sports.\nLewis is a member of both the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association (NCCSIA). He currently serves as treasurer for NCCSIA and coordinates the women’s basketball college all-state team. Lewis is also a member of the NCAA II Men’s Lacrosse South Region Advisory Committee and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Southeast Region ranking committee.\nDuring his tenure, Lewis has created or expanded the record books for all of Catawba sports teams. He also helped coordinate the creation of the Catawba athletic video streaming operations. Lewis has served as announcer for many web streamed broadcasts and also has announced Catawba athletic events for WSAT Radio. During the summer, he works as an official scorer for the Kannapolis Intimidators minor league baseball team.\nLewis has helped staff numerous conference and regional tournaments. He served as host SID for five South Atlantic Conference Spring Sports Festivals that brought all SAC spring tournaments to Salisbury. Lewis also worked the 2001 NCAA II National Women’s Golf Championships in Rock Hill, S.C., and the 2008 and 2015 NCAA I Men’s Basketball tournaments in Charlotte.\nA 1989 Catawba graduate, Lewis earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is a native of Mooresville and currently resides in Salisbury.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line922287"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5525487065315247,"wiki_prob":0.5525487065315247,"text":"Figure Skaters Online October 21, 2013\nArticles/Interviews\nRippon Seeks Thrills with Quad Lutz\nFigure Skaters Online would like to welcome Chloe Katz to the staff. She is a former U.S. senior national and international pair skater (with Joseph Lynch from 2000-2011) and singles skater who retired from competitive skating in 2011. Chloe graduated from New York University in 2012 where she studied International Business and she currently holds a position in New York City working in financial services consulting. FSO hosted her and Lynch’s official site from 2006 until 2011. Chloe is thrilled to be working with FSO and as a former skater and fellow athlete her perspective adds a unique outlook to her athlete interviews. Adam Rippon was the first skater with whom she conversed in September 2013, about a month and a half before the start of his international season at Skate America (October 18-20, 2013, in Detroit, Michigan).\nPhotos by Leah Adams.\nIn 2010, a fifth place finish at U.S. Nationals left Adam Rippon just short of a spot on the U.S Olympic team; he was second alternate. That same year he rebounded to win the ISU Four Continents Championships and then took advantage of a last-minute opportunity to compete in his first World Championships where he placed sixth. Now, four years later, he is once again focused on his Olympic quest. This time, he has an improved weapon in his arsenal – a quad Lutz jump.\nA quad Lutz turns four rotations in the air in a fraction of a second; this is half a rotation more than the more commonly performed quads, the Salchow and toe loop. Adam may be the only skater on the 2013-2014 ISU Grand Prix circuit planning to execute a quad Lutz in his programs. Currently, he is one of only a handful of skaters to have ever attempted the element in competition. Although he previously had tried the quad Lutz in his free skates during the Grand Prix series in the fall of 2011, this season he plans to perform two quad Lutzes – one in the short program and one in the long. Landing it in competition truly would be an accomplishment and could make Adam a strong contender for the 2014 U.S Olympic Team.\nFew people contemplate attempting something others on earth rarely can do, and even fewer accomplish such a feat. I’d like to know how Adam has done it, and why he’s trying. Surely a quad Lutz is dangerous. Just break down the basic components of a figure skating jump: acceleration plus gravity over ice, multiplied by a lot of determination. In a perfect jump these forces are mastered; otherwise, there are painful consequences. Ice is not a forgiving surface. I decided to talk to Adam to get some answers.\nIt is a Saturday morning when Adam calls me; 9am his time. I wonder why he is up so early; I am still drinking my morning latte. “Adam, thanks for calling me, you are up early,” I say. He laughs and tells me he started his gym workout at 7am. A typical Saturday, when the rest of the world is lounging in bed, Adam is busy doing a workout that would sweep most people off their feet. Like other elite athletes, he gets confidence knowing he is fit and strong and will do whatever it takes to get that way. I take notes on Adam’s workout: core strengthening, plyometric jumps, hydrate repeat, hydrate repeat; I want to be strong like Adam. I take a sip of my latte. I am a bit tired just listening.\n“Adam, what is difficult about skating that people do not realize?”\nHe tells me: “People do not realize how taxing skating is on the body. They see a quick three minutes for one routine and five for the other and they don’t understand the work and hours that are put into these routines.”\nHe explains that a movement of only ten seconds can be worked on for countless hours in front of the mirror until it conveys the perfect message, or the years it takes to learn a triple jump.\n“Skaters look so effortless on the ice; our goal is to look effortless. But if you talk to just one skater you will find that each one always has an injury and they are almost always putting off necessary rest time or they are postponing surgery.”\nSmart athletes understand how to manage their training in a strategic way and do their best to mitigate the effects of injuries so they can sustain training in the long-term. However, regardless of how well a skater manages training, the reality is that the human body is not created to skate, and spectators often overlook the difficulty behind performances because skaters make the end result look so easy.\nIn reality, skating is dangerous. “We are doing things on a regular basis that our body isn’t meant to do, like quads where the impact is so high,” Adam says. I ask him if he’s ever been injured in a quad. He tells me he suffered a series of reoccurring ankle injuries during the 2010 Olympic season and that one of them was from a quad [Editor’s note: An ankle injury sustained while practicing a quad jump also forced his withdrawal from the 2013 Four Continents Championships]; fortunately his ankles are fine now.\nSkating is a mental challenge, he tells me. Apart from rebuilding your physical strength post-injury, you have to resist the urge to not subconsciously protect weak muscles. For example, you cannot favor a stronger part of your body or compensate in your motions to avoid putting pressure on a newly healed joint. A move like this will throw off your timing and most likely lead to another injury. Adam talks a lot about the mental aspects of skating; it is a big mind game he tells me.\nSkating is more than a mind game; it is a competition. One with an intricate set of rules that determines how skaters pick which elements they will include in their routines. I ask Adam: “If you could change one rule in skating what would it be?”\nHe replied: “I think they should broaden the GOE (grade of execution) spectrum to minus five plus five because this allows for a larger scale when grading an element.”\nI think he has a point there. A larger grade scale has the capability to more accurately reflect the quality of an element than a smaller one. As it stands, Adam says, “when an element is executed the scores do not always capture its value”; therefore, as he pointed out, a larger GOE range would also create more fairness in the judging. “It would allow more credit to be earned for harder elements as well as ones that are more innovative.” He could be referring to the triple Lutz he does with his arms over his head – certainly that is worth more merit. I like where he is going with this.\nAs a skater moves up the ranks, creativity is brought to the forefront. The pressure to be innovative within the constraints of the rules grows exponentially, and adding unique facets to a performance becomes a strategic challenge. Coupled with the mental and physical brutality of the sport, practice is exhausting.\nI have one final question for Adam: “What keeps you coming back for more?”\nHe said, simply: “It’s the thrill; I love the thrill of jumping, to push myself beyond my limits. I know I am doing something I was made to do.”\nIn a way we are all like Adam; we all want to experience the surge of intense pleasure and excitement that comes from being thrilled. As we go about our days, we secretly envision ways to escape the constraints of the mundane. Some of us will fly to white sand beaches, others indulge daydreams of a secret crush; there are the daring that will sky dive or gamble with their money and then there are those, like Adam, who will become masters of the ice. Ultimately we all want to evoke those undeniably good sensations that come from breaking the norm. In the end, we all want to be thrilled.\n[Postscript: Adam Rippon went for the quad Lutz is both his short program (light hand down) and free skate (fall) at Skate America. Both attempts were called under-rotated by the technical panel and given 70% of the jump’s base value, an improvement on his previous attempts in competition in the fall of 2011.]\nPatrick Chan on his legacy: ‘I just want to be a skater who is able to take people’s breath away’\nAshley Wagner contemplates ‘Delicious Ambiguity’ and transition to post-competition life in new podcast\nWith new coaches and a new perspective, Camden Pulkinen wants to ‘show improvement in all areas’\nEvgenia Medvedeva on Stars on Ice debut: “It’s such an incredible experience for me”\nThe Shibutanis’ whirlwind post-Olympics year: “Our approach has just been to appreciate every moment and take it all in.”\nPREVIOUS Previous post: Christina Gao ready for Olympic season\nNEXT Next post: Joshua Farris launches redesigned website","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1197439"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9138795733451843,"wiki_prob":0.9138795733451843,"text":"Lowry mum on Raptors, speaks only about USA Basketball\nW.G. Ramirez\nPMN Sports\nLAS VEGAS — Kyle Lowry knew people wanted to ask him about DeMar DeRozan.\nThat didn’t mean he was going to give them answers.\nIt was a USA Basketball minicamp in Las Vegas, and that’s all that Lowry — the Toronto Raptors point guard who watched his longtime backcourt partner get traded to the San Antonio Spurs last week — wanted to talk about. So, when he was asked about DeRozan on Friday, no matter how reporters tried to pose questions, Lowry tailored his answers the exact same way.\n“It’s been a great week for USA Basketball for me,” he said. “Being out here with these guys and hanging out and getting to talk and hang out with these guys and hanging out with DeMar and all those guys, it’s been fun.\n“Summer has been great in general for everyone. Just to have the opportunity to relax and work on your game and prepare for the upcoming season.”\nDeRozan and Lowry are very close friends on the court and off, and neither was happy to see the trade. DeRozan was shipped to the San Antonio Spurs on July 18, along with centre Jakob Poeltl and a protected 2019 first round pick, in exchange for Kawhi Leonard and wing Danny Green.\nKyle, your thoughts?\n“I’m here for USA Basketball,” Lowry repeated. “It’s been a great week for USA Basketball.”\nLowry is coming off his lowest scoring output in five seasons, after averaging 16.2 points and 6.9 assists per game last year, considerably lower than the career-high 22.4 he averaged the previous season.\nBut, as the oldest player attending the two-day mini-camp, the 32-year-old said he wasn’t as concernced about working on his game or anything particular as much as he was providing leadership at USA Basketball’s first minicamp of this Olympic cycle.\n“Just build chemistry and be a leader, be a voice,” Lowry said. “We all know each other, we all have massive respect for each other so just coming to hang out and kick it is fun.”\nLowry, who won a gold medal with the national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics, said one of the biggest benefits for him has been absorbing as much information from former USA Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, and new coach Gregg Popovich, also DeRozan’s new head coach.\n“They’re two of the greatest coaches to ever coach the game of basketball,” Lowry said. “Coach K has been amazing, having the opportunity to spend a lot of time with him three summers ago was awesome, and even these last three days with Pop has been fun.”\nAnd while Lowry refused to discuss his close friend’s departure or anything pertaining to the Raptors, DeRozan said he was confident his former teammate would be just fine without him thanks to a basketball IQ he respects.\n“His knowledge of the game, just his IQ of the game, it stands out, bar none,” DeRozan said. “Just talking about basketball, understanding basketball, reading basketball. It’s great to see that.”\nDeRozan said both players understand the league is about business.\n“Kyle is Kyle, at the end of the day this is our profession,” DeRozan said. “We understand what comes with the job. It’s gonna be simple, we all gotta job and got responsibilities to take care of with our home team. What happened, happened. He gotta do what he gotta do for his team and I go to do what I got to do for mine.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line263418"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9276418685913086,"wiki_prob":0.9276418685913086,"text":"Kapamilya Biggest Performers to Invade the Biggest Filipino Experience in Dubai \"One Music X\" on November 3\nThe “Rakrakan” concert series from 2006 to 2009. The groundbreaking “FilExpo” in 2008. The first “It’s Showtime” outside the Philippines in 2011. The thrilling “JadIne In Love” in Dubai in 2016. The milestone “ASAP in Dubai” in 2014. The record-breaking “Birit Queens in Abu Dhabi this year.\nFrom concert series, trade fairs to franchised events, ABS-CBN The Filipino Channel (TFC) has been delivering the most epic Filipino events to the Middle East that bring together Filipinos to celebrate as one community and which have come to be the most anticipated in the region.\nThis year, as ABS-CBN Middle East celebrates its 10th anniversary, the network that delivers content beyond information and entertainment, brings it a notch higher as it paves the way for the biggest Filipino music experience to date — “One Music X” on November 3 at the Dubai Media City Amphitheater.\nOn November 3, TFC will come together with ABS-CBN’s hit-making recording company Star Music; the leading FM radio station My Only Radio (MOR) For Life; the first all-Filipino music channel Myx; and the Philippines’ foremost music portal One Music PH; to deliver the highpoints of Philippine culture and celebrate everything Filipino for a full day of “One Music X”.\nONE MUSIC\nKnown for the Filipino’s penchant for music, “One Music X” is gathering the biggest Original Pilipino Music (OPM) acts from the Philippines, representing a wide range of music genres that appeal across audiences and artists who have become icons in their own right.\nFrom winning ABS-CBN’s reality singing competition “Pinoy Dream Academy” in 2006, Pop Rock Royalty Yeng Constantino has certainly come a long way. From her successful initial foray “Hawak Kamay” to a musical about her life story — “Josephine” — Constantino has truly become one of the young superstars to reckon with in the music industry.\nAlso a product of a reality singing competition and band performances, Soul Supreme KZ Tandingan has gone beyond the winning to prove that she deserves both a place to win and a niche in the music industry with her show-stopping performances.\nOnce behind the shadow of his very famous father, Teen Singing Sensation Iñigo Pascual is setting out to become a pop superstar in his own right. Today’s biggest hit “Para Sa Iyo” is his and he can very well claim it as his own success.\nMeantime four-piece Pinoy Pop Rock band Silent Sanctuary, arguably best known for their hit “Pasensiya Ka Na” became known for their own brand of baroque pop. For their first show with TFC the band is expected to bring in the sighs as well as the cheers.\nFrom being a significant part of a popular band in the 90s, OPM Rock Icon Rico Blanco went on to become a world of his own, earning critics and fans approval for his soulful songs such as “Your Universe”.\nTogether, Constantino, Tandingan, Pascual, Silent Sanctuary and Blanco will elevate the musical experience of “One Music X” where OPM truly belongs –– the world stage.\nJoining the Philippines’ biggest acts is multi-awarded young host Robi Domingo and award-winning MOR DJ Chacha and surprise acts from the local Dubai music scene for a day that also promises cultural fusion and musical collaboration.\nONE EXPERIENCE\nPromising to be the biggest Filipino experience, “One Music” X will deliver beyond music - uniquely Filipino booths and day-long activities to the Dubai Media City Amphitheater, a highly popular event place that have been host to the biggest local and international acts.\nFrom the Global Tawag ng Tanghalan sa “It’s Showtime” region finals to outdoor family activities; food trucks; acoustic lounges featuring local talents and premium lounges for VIP ticket holders; food trucks; and more, “One Music X” promises to be the complete experience for every member of the family.\nBe part of history as “One Music X” happens on November 3 at the Dubai Media City Amphitheater. Gates open at 1 p.m. The festivities start at 2 p.m. For the full “One Music X” experience, download the TFC Live app available on Google playstore and Apple store.\nFor tickets, visit Virgin Megastore and selected zoom outlets, Wall street Exchange branches or visit ktx.abs-cbn.com. Save as much as 40 AED on your general admission tickets through the Early Bird discount until September 30. Tickets are at AED 135 for General Patronage and AED 245 for VIP tickets. For more information visit emea.kapamilya.com or facebook.com/TFCMiddle East.\nWatch out for the next “One Music X” and always visit facebook.com/KapamilyaTFC and follow KapamilyaGlobalPR and KapamilyaTFC on Twitter and IG.\nTFC Brings Xian Lim and KZ Tandingan in the Biggest Filipino Event in Japan “Philippine Festival 2017” on October 1\nHeadlines of entertainment news in recent years attest to the breadth of the Filipino talent, especially in the field of music - from singing competitions in search of the best amateur performers to reality shows such as “America’s Got Talent”.\nThis wealth of talent continues to catch the attention of international icons including music producer David Foster who said in an interview with ABS-CBN: “I don’t know what’s in the water over there in the Philippines but there are a lot of great singers out there”.\nThis October, The Filipino Channel (TFC) will continue to prove the wealth of Filipino talent as the network brings multi-talented ABS-CBN stars Xian Lim and KZ Tandingan to join the Filipino community at the Philippine Festival 2017 - touted as the biggest Filipino event in Japan - on October 1, 2017 at the Hibiya Park Chuo Ku Event Square in Tokyo.\nFirst organized by the Philippine Festival Organizing Committee (FPOC) in 2012 with support from the Philippine Embassy in Japan, the Philippine Festival is organized annually for Filipinos and foreign nationals specifically “to bring expatriate Filipinos together, and at the same time introduce Philippine cuisine, music, dance, and products to Japanese and international friends”, according to the official website of the festival.\nDuring the TFC Hour of the Philippine Festival 2017 tagged also as the “most awaited Filipino event in Japan”, Lim and Tandingan will showcase the great Filipino talent as they share their singing as well as their other talents when they perform for their fellowmen (kababayans).\nWhile Kapamilya Heartthrob Lim is more known as a young sensation from ABS-CBN has proven his charm in top-rating dramas such as the recently concluded “The Story Of Us” and has equally proven his acting skills in award-winning films such as “Everything About Her”.\nUnknown to many, Lim is musically inclined and has a talent both in singing and in playing instruments like the piano and the trumpet. In fact, he has three recording albums already under his belt: “So It’s You”, “XL2” and “Key of X”. He is also known internationally as the voice behind the Philippine release of the movie “Paddington Bear”.\nMeantime, Tandingan has become a sought-after performer since becoming the first “X Factor” Philippines winner because of her soulful song performances of her own hits such as “Wag Ka Nang Umiyak” at “Mahal Ko o Mahal Ako” and with her latest hit - her own rendition of the classic song “Two Less Lonely People” by the international duo Air Supply.\nTFC first shared the breadth of the Filipino talent to the Philippine festival in 2013 when the network brought Kapamilya artists: TFC’s first Goodwill Ambassador Martin Nievera, together with the iconic series “Be Careful with My Heart’s” cast members Doris Carlos and Sabel Fortuna to personally meet, and bring entertainment to the Filipino community in Japan.\nThe next year, 2014, TFC brought the Big Band Crooner Richard Poon who serenaded the ladies during the event.\nThis year, its Lim and Tandingan’s turn to continue the commitment from TFC through a showcase of unique Filipino performances.\nIn addition to the songs and acoustics, TFC will also open its booth to give the festival-goers chances to win photo opportunities with Lim and Tandingan, and take home limited edition TFC merchandise.\nAside from the performances from the Kapamilya artists, the organizers have geared up for the annual parade representing the different popular festivals in the Philippines. The performers’ colorful costumes and lively dances are two of the highlights which the Filipino community in Japan look forward to as they help bring back memories of celebrations from home.\nDuring the event, festival-goers also get to enjoy their favorite Filipino delicacies being sold at the different booths around the venue.\nTFC and the Philippine Festival invite the Filipino community to reminisce the Filipino festivals and the locals to join the celebration at the Philippine Festival 2017 on September 30 and October 1, with the TFC Hour happening on October 1 at the Hibiya Park Chuo Ku Event Square in Tokyo.\nFor more updates about the event, visit and like facebook.com/TFCJapan or visit www.kapamilya.com/tfcjapan.\nConnect with fellow global Kapamilyas and follow @KapamilyaTFC and KapamilyaGlobalPR on Twitter and Instagram. (with additional report from Camille Naredo of ABS-CBN News)\nGrae Fernandez and Andrea Brillantes Teach Value of Contentment in “Wansapanataym” Starting October 1\nViewers are set to witness another whimsical story that will share valuable lessons this Sunday (October 1) as teen idols Grae Fernandez and Andrea Brillantes star in their very own series “Wansapanataym Presents: Louie’s Biton.”\nDon’t miss Grae and Andrea in their first-ever starring role in “Wansapanataym” as they teach the value of contentment that will surely captivate Pinoy kids nationwide.\nGet to know Louie (Grae Fernandez), the teenager who once lived a fancy life but now experiences hardships after the unexpected death of his father. He lives with his mother Mary Jane (Dimples Romana), who works hard for their everyday living. Bringing him constant joy is his friend Tori (Andrea), the girl he has feelings for.\nOne day, his school announces that it will hold a basketball clinic, with Louie’s idol PBA player Ralph Lorenzo (Aljur Abrenica) serving as coach. However, having no money and a pair of shoes to play in, he fails to join the event and gets bullied by his classmates.\nFrustrated by the rejection, he then comes to the shoe repairman Mang Dolino (Jojit Lorenzo) to get his shoes fixed. The repairman hears Louie’s desire to live another person’s life and then reveals himself as a fairy god leather. To help the boy with his wish, he gives Louie a magical shoe shiner, which will only work once he wipes it on the shoes of the person he wants to exchange life with.\nDreaming to live the life of his idol, Louie wipes the shoe shiner on Ralph’s shoes and successfully gains control of his life. However, he abuses the power of the shoe shiner and uses Ralph’s body to get even with his classmates, which leads to a grave punishment that will change his own life.\nWhat consequences will Louie face? Who will set him free from the spell?\nAlso part of “Wansapanataym Presents: Louie’s Biton” are Louise Delos Reyes, Mico Palanca, Irma Adlawan, Brace Arquiza, Marina Benipayo, Dionne Monsanto, Paeng Sudayan, Simon Ibarra, and Marnie Lapuz. It is under the direction of Benedict Mique.\nCatch the magical stories filled with valuable lessons in “Wansapanataym Presents: Louie’s Biton” this Sunday (October 1) on ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN HD (SkyCable ch 167). For more information, go to fb.com/dreamscapeph and follow @dreamscapeph on Twitter and Instagram.\n5 Things that Make Coco Martin a Modern-Day Hero\nCardo (Coco Martin) is definitely the country’s most loved “probinsyano.” For over two years now, we have welcomed him into our homes every night and joined him in his heart-pounding adventures as he battles crimes and saves lives as a tough police officer.\nDedicated to his job, Cardo surely has done it all — from going on life-threatening assignments and disguising as the alluring lady Paloma.\nHe may not have magic spells nor superpowers, but he is what you may call a modern-day hero. Here’s why:\nHe fights to preserve peace and order\nWilling to risk his life to protect others, Cardo has saved thousands of people who fell victim to notorious gangs and has raided the country’s biggest crime syndicates. But his quest does not only involve life-threatening battles; he also leads in maintaining peace and order in their community and is always just a call away when their neighborhood needs help.\nNow, his dedication to preserve peace still lives on as he went undercover to join Pulang Araw to reveal the truth behind all the terrorist attacks and chaos happening in the city, which are all orchestrated by director Renato Hipolito (John Arcilla), who aspires to be a senator.\nHe fights for the oppressed\nHaving grown up without his family, Cardo sure knows how hard life can be, which explains his desire to serve the people, especially those who do not have the capacity to fight for their rights. He has helped victims of crimes such as prostitution, child trafficking, and corruption to stand up and expose syndicate masterminds, putting an end to their evil ploys.\nEven now that he is with Pulang Araw, Cardo continues to be the warrior for the oppressed after he recently fought for the rights of the Mt. Karagao farmers, whose lands were being claimed by the illegal quarry owners Javier (Jestoni Alarcon) and Miguel Enriquez (Aljur Abrenica). Along with the rebel group, Cardo responded to the farmers’ plea and ended the Enriquez’s tormenting schemes.\nHe champions Filipino family values\nAs Filipinos, it is ingrained in our culture to give importance to filial relationships, which is evident in Cardo’s family.\nA family man, Cardo always puts the welfare of his family first and makes sure they are intact, especially during trying times. They are also a great reflection of a warm Pinoy household that welcomes and cares for people who are not related to them by blood but treats them as their own, such as Onyok and Makmak. Their family also got bigger after Cardo married Alyana (Yassi Pressman) and welcomed his partner in crime Paco (Long Mejia) and kids Ligaya, Dang, and Paquito.\nHe is a model citizen\nJust like everybody else, Cardo wants change to happen in our society. As a police officer, he is able to influence the people around him by setting as an example of what a good citizen should be. He also uses his authority to stop abusive people, like Renato Hipolito and even his then arch nemesis Joaquin Tuazon (Arjo Atayde), from taking advantage of their positions to manipulate innocent people. This makes his character not only admirable to viewers, but also to real life cops, earning the nods of the Department of the Interior and Local Government secretary Mike Sueno and Philippine National Police chief Ronald Dela Rosa.\nHe is a reflection of an everyday Filipino\nHe may now be living in the city, but Cardo remains a certified “probinsyano,” living a simple life and working hard to give his family a good life. Hardships may come his way, but his faith and resilience helps him fight against life’s biggest struggles. Despite having achieved milestones in his career, he remains humble and thankful for the blessings he receives.\nWith the traits he exemplifies, Cardo sums up what an every ordinary Filipino is and what we should continue to aspire to be.\nDon’t miss the number one primetime series in the country “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano,” weekdays on ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN HD (SkyCable ch 167).\nTo watch the show’s past episodes, login to iWanTV or skyondemand.com.ph for Sky subscribers.\nZanjoe Marudo Nominated For Best Actor at 45th International Emmy Awards\nKapamilya actor and Star Magic artist Zanjoe Marudo is the only Asian artist nominated in the Best Performance by an Actor category in the 45th International Emmy Awards.\nThe model turned actor is competing against actors Julio Andrade (Brazil), Kenneth Branagh (United Kingdom), and Kad Merad (France) in the category.\n“This recognition from the iEmmys is a personal milestone for me as an actor and as a Filipino. This is a dream come true. I thank the jurors, the show “MMK,” ABS-CBN and Star Magic,” said Zanjoe.\nZanjoe is nominated for his exceptional portrayal of a father with paranoid schizophrenia in the “Anino” episode of ABS-CBN’s weekend drama anthology “MMK” (“Remembering”). This real life story, brought to life by Zanjoe, is among the many unique stories that have given Filipino viewers inspiration, hope, and life lessons in the 25 years that “MMK” has been on air.\nDubbed as the longest drama anthology in Asia, “MMK” is hosted by actress and ABS-CBN’s chief content officer Charo Santos-Concio, who was also a former gala chair for the International Emmy Awards back in 2015.\nZanjoe is among the 44 nominees across 11 categories and 18 countries in this year’s awards.\nLast year, fellow Star Magic artist Jodi Sta. Maria also got an international Emmy nomination in the Best Performance by an Actress category for her portrayal as Amor Powers in the hit drama “Pangako Sa’Yo.” Primetime series “Bridges of Love,” meanwhile, was nominated in the Best Telenovela category.\nABS-CBN previously scored International Emmy® Awards nominations for “Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Impostor” (Best Telenovela) in 2011, “Dahil May Isang Ikaw” (Best Telenovela) and Sid Lucero in “Dahil May Isang Ikaw” (Best Actor) in 2010, and “Kahit Isang Saglit” (Best Telenovela) and Angel Locsin in “Lobo” (Best Actress) in 2009.\nThis year’s winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony to be held November 20 at the Hilton New York Hotel. The International Emmy® Awards are given by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.\nThe Filharmonic and Geneva Cruz Headline Kick-off of Filipino American History Month Celebration in Carson California on October 7\nAs October approaches, the City of Carson, California prepares to kick off the month-long celebration of Filipino-American History Month with an impressive showcase of Filipino talent.\nThe kick-off festivities on Saturday, October 7th, will be held at the Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald Community Center starting at 9:00 a.m. located at 801 E. Carson Street. This event is open to the public and admission is free.\nHeadlining this year’s event are The Filharmonic and Geneva Cruz. ABS-CBN TFC is bringing The Filharmonic, an Los Angeles-based a capella group featured in NBC’s hit musical competition, “The Sing-Off”, and featured in the Universal Pictures hit movie, “Pitch Perfect 2”, which became a viral sensation. In 2016, The Filharmonic was named the #1 college-booked entertainment group of the year, bringing their unique blend of hip hop, pop and 90s nostalgia to more than 150 stages nationwide. Geneva Cruz is an award-winning singer and actress who began her career in 1989 as one of the lead singers of the double platinum-selling teen group Smokey Mountain with massively popular classics that include “Anak ng Pasig” (named Best Pop Song in 1992 by the Catholic Mass Media Awards in the Philippines), “Ang Gaan ng Feeling”, “In the Name of Love”, and “Kailan”. Cruz also became the first and youngest Grand Prize winner of the “The Voice of Asia” in Russia in 1992.\nPerformances at the event include songs from the City of Carson 2016 FilAms Got Talent Winner Therese Masangcay, vocalists Joni Villamil and Michael Keith, comedian Joseph Gelito, and a dance number from 2016 World Championship of Performing Arts winner Junior New System. The Annual FilAms Got Talent 2017 singing contest will also be held.\nA program featuring awards for community leadership, youth achievement, and heroism will take place at the event. The awardees are Melissa Ramoso, Joanna Concepcion, Jesus-Alex Cainglet, and Marcelino Ines Jr. for Community Leadership. Other awardees include Wilfredo Credo (Heroism), Kamille Magante and Angelica Tan for Youth Achievement.\n“Carson is proud to recognize the contributions of Filipino-Americans nationwide, but especially to the Carson community. Special thanks to Councilmember Elito M. Santarina for his leadership in helping make this celebration a reality,” said Carson Mayor Albert Robles.\nFilipino American History Month Celebration is an annual event during the month of October in the City of Carson. The event is done in collaboration with ABS-CBN TFC (The Filipino Channel) and Mutch Cariño of Maxx Promos.\nFor more information about Filipino-American History Month Celebration in Carson, California, please call (310) 952-1743.\nBy: JED On 11:22:00 AM\nSKY Movies Pay-Per-View Brings “Kita Kita,” “Luck At First Sight,” and “One Step” to PH TV from September 23 to October 13\nThe highest grossing Filipino indie film of all time “Kita Kita” makes its Philippine TV premiere on SKY Movies Pay-Per-View from September 23 to October 13.\nThe surprise blockbuster hit of the year is about an unlikely romance between two Pinoys living in Japan. It has made a household name of its unconventional leading man, Empoy (Empoy Marquez) and his “AlEmpoy” love team with the talented Alessandra de Rossi.\nIt will be shown with “Luck At First Sight,” starring Jericho Rosales and Bela Padilla, and “One Step,” featuring Korean popstar Sandara Park.\nJericho Rosales and Bela Padilla play unlucky people whose fortunes are reversed when they are together in “Luck At First Sight.” To keep their luck going they make a promise not to fall in love with each other. However, keeping the promise might be harder than they thought.\n“One Step” is about a woman, played by Sandara Park, healing from the physical injuries and emotional trauma from an accident through music.\nGet unlimited access to SKY Movies PPV for seven days for only P99.\n“Kita Kita” on SKY Movies PPV is available to all ONE SKY, SKYcable, Destiny Cable, SKYdirect subscribers.\nIt is also available to SKYbroadband subscribers through SKY on Demand.\nText MOVIESPPV to 23662 or call 418-0000 or your local SKY office, or visit www.mysky.com.ph/moviesppv to subscribe.\nSKYdirect prepaid subscribers can register by texting PPV KITA to 23667, while postpaid subscribers can text SKY to 23668.\nBoy Abunda's 100+ Abundable Thoughts to Ponder Compiled in Latest Book \"It’s Like This\"\nMulti-awarded host Boy Abunda pens a new book to inspire readers with his nuggets of wisdom, quotes and life-affirming essays in “It’s Like This: 100+ Abundable Thoughts that will make you think and rethink what you’ve always thought about your life” by ABS-CBN Publishing.\nThe new manual highlights important lessons from Asia’s King of Talk as he shares his life filled with love and abundance, while recalling friends, experiences and changes that brought him to where he is now.\n“It’s Like This” covers some of the author’s unforgettable encounters as a young boy raised in Borongan, Eastern Samar, as a student inside the seminary, as a probinsyano who went to study at Ateneo, and as a fledging actor in theater.\nThe “Tonight With Boy Abunda” host also shared bits of insights on how he faced heartbreaking moments in his life, such as the death of his father. He wrote, “when Tatay died, I was forced to live.”\nBoy’s latest offering will not be complete without disclosing inspiration he got from his mother who he calls “the center of my universe.”\nThe book likewise includes his story on how he finally got an offer to be on television and the learnings he discovered as a talent manager. He penned, “when a star becomes the boss, what does the talent manager do? The dynamics between talent and celebrity changes. New rules are invented.”\nSome of the lessons readers will pick up from the book are:\n· Laugh and live with your successes and failures, knowing that all are fleeting.\n· Everything and everyone has a dark side, embrace it.\n· Gay love is equal to all forms of human love.\n· Love your mother, return phone calls, fight only when you need to, read books and the best spa is at the feet of God.\n· Always play for the crowd, and remember that they won’t always be there.\n“It’s Like This: 100+ Abundable Thoughts that will make you think and rethink what you’ve always thought about your life” is now available in National Book Store and Powerbooks for only P275.\n\"Tawag ng Tanghalan\" Grand Champ Noven Belleza Releases Debut Album “Ako’y Sayo”\n“Tawag ng Tanghalan” grand champion Noven Belleza marks his official debut as a recording artist and is all set to conquer the OPM scene as he launches his first album under Star Music, “Ako’y Sayo.”\nNoven shared his elation on the latest break that came his way. He said, “I’m overwhelmed that from the many people who dreamed, I was given this opportunity to have my own album. I am very thankful for all the blessings.”\nWith the passions of Pinoys in mind, Noven offers a debut album that features a timeless and distinct Pinoy sound and brings together the compositions of some of the industry’s best songwriters such as Vehnee Saturno, Jungee Marcelo, Jonathan Manalo, and Rey Valera.\n“There are inspirational songs, there is a prayer, there are songs for the brokenhearted, for those who are in love, and for those who had to leave their family to give them a better future. All the songs are dedicated to them,” he shared.\nHis carrier single, “Tumahan Ka Na” composed by Vehnee, has dominated the MOR 101.9 charts for ten weeks now, peaking at number one.\nFresh from the success of “Tumahan Ka Na,” the former farmer from Negros Occidental also released on September 28 his second single entitled “Nais Kong Ibalik” composed by Jonathan on September 28.\nOther tracks to expect in the album are “Problemang Puso” composed by Vehnee Saturno, “Lupa” by Charo Unite and Ernie Dela Peña, “Sino Ako” by Fr. Joe Casteneda, “Kung Kailangan Mo Ako” (jukebox version) from Rey Valera, and “Ako’s Sayo” by Jungee Marcelo.\nA cinematic version of the OPM classic “Kung Kailangan Mo Ako” is also included as a bonus track.\nAside from his recording project, the talented soloist was also recently inducted as a member of the Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit (OPM) together with other “Tawag ng Tanghalan” singers in a joint effort of TNT Versions (TNTV) and OPM.\nNoven’s “Ako’y Sayo” is now available in all music stores nationwide and all digital stores worldwide.\nFor more information, visit Starmusic.ph or follow Star Music’s official social media accounts at Facebook.com/starrecordsphil, Twitter.com/starrecordsph and Instagram.com/Starmusicph.\nKim Chiu Celebrates 11th Year in Showbiz with the Launch of Third Album “Chinita Princess: Touch of Your Love”\nKapamilya recording artist and actress Kim Chiu celebrates her eleven successful years in the industry with the launch of her new album under Star Music, “Chinita Princess: Touch of Your Love.”\nThe “Ikaw Lang Ang Iibigin” star has exceeded expectations when she ventured into making her own kind of music, and now, she is ready to prove her distinctive flair once again in her third album produced by Rox Santos.\nKim’s latest offering has five original tracks, with a bonus minus one track (song title). It is fittingly called “Touch of Your Love” as she explained in a recent “Magandang Buhay” interview. “All my songs here are about different types of love. There’s something on having a crush, on hoping to be adored in return, different touches of love,” she said.\nHer carrier single “Okay Na Ako,” composed by Nica del Rosario, has already dominated the top spot in MOR 101.9 charts for several weeks now.\nOther tracks in her album are “’Wag Kang Makulit” composed by Nica Del Rosario and Hazel Faith, “Ipadarama” by Kiko Salazar, “Katok” by Jack Rufo and Yani Rufo, and “Yun Na, You Na” by Jungee Marcelo.\nThe female singer already has several chart-topping songs in her portfolio - “Peng Yu,” “Crazy Love,” “Falling For You,” and “Mr. Right.” “Gwa Ai Di,” her debut album that includes “Crazy Love,” achieved a gold record in 2008, and her hit song “Mr. Right” was cited as the \"LSS Song of the Year\" in MOR Pinoy Music Award 2016.\n“Chinita Princess: Touch of your Love’s” album launch will be held on Thursday (September 28), 7pm at SM City North EDSA – Skydome. She will be joined by Kaye Cal, Kisses Delavin, and other special guests.\nThe physical album, priced at P199, will be available first and exclusive at the launch and will be out on digital market after the show.\nThe single “Okay Na Ako” is now available in digital stores worldwide. For more information, visit Starmusic.ph or follow Star Music’s official social media accounts at Facebook.com/starrecordsphil, Twitter.com/starrecordsph and Instagram.com/Starmusicph.\nKapamilya Biggest Performers to Invade the Biggest...\nTFC Brings Xian Lim and KZ Tandingan in the Bigges...\nGrae Fernandez and Andrea Brillantes Teach Value o...\nZanjoe Marudo Nominated For Best Actor at 45th Int...\nThe Filharmonic and Geneva Cruz Headline Kick-off ...\nSKY Movies Pay-Per-View Brings “Kita Kita,” “Luck ...\nBoy Abunda's 100+ Abundable Thoughts to Ponder Com...\n\"Tawag ng Tanghalan\" Grand Champ Noven Belleza Rel...\nKim Chiu Celebrates 11th Year in Showbiz with the ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1325372"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5088028907775879,"wiki_prob":0.4911971092224121,"text":"danny@dannymorrison.com\nDec 12, 2015 | Latest\nHave just started John McMillan’s latest novel Upstream. It’s the story of a married couple living in the West Country (south west England) told from the perspective of the husband Jim Mitchell, a struggling author. Thoroughly enjoyed his other books The Soul of the...\nReflections on WWI\nNov 13, 2015 | Features\nIn Cork on Wednesday night – 11th November – I was proud to be invited to speak at the launch in the City Library of Conal Creedon’s biography of Michael O’Leary, a Victoria Cross recipient from County Cork. Conal had also asked me would I...\nHillsborough Agreement, 1985\nNov 13, 2015 | Latest\nInterviewed this afternoon by BBC television journalist Mark Simpson about my reflections on the Anglo-Irish Agreement which was signed this day thirty years ago. My opinion hasn’t changed: Thatcher’s aim was to secure increased cross-border security...\nThe Last Jews in Berlin\nOct 25, 2015 | Features\nI read this book, The Last Jews In Berlin, whilst staying at a writers’ residential at Wannsee lake within view of Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, the villa where in 1942 the Nazis planned the extermination of European Jewry. In fact, when I finished the book I cycled...\n‘I Am A German’\nSep 22, 2015 | Features\nA Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary by Hans Fallada has been described as, ‘An outspoken memoir of life under the Nazis written from a prison cell’ (Independent), but which has also been viewed as an apologia because Fallada decided to live in Nazi...\nOn Bonfires, The PSNI, Unionism, Sinn Féin & Stormont\nMallon Tears Up The GFA\nThe Woman Behind The Poster\nBeyond The Working Class\nThe War Over Our Heads","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1713138"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5669724345207214,"wiki_prob":0.43302756547927856,"text":"He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more. Christian Canvas Art\nMasters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison— that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. ... Christian Art and Gifts\nSolomon made all the furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence; and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold. Christian Canvas Art\n19 designers and 31 writers invested their energy and creativity to this collection, each riffing on the timeless, inspired words of Scripture. Each designer worked hard to capture the essence of each verse in its historical and cultural context, and to design in a way that makes clear the way in which the original readers would have understood it. Then, after each design was complete, a writer reflected on each piece of art and the verse that inspired it. The result is 100 pairs of art and devotional that illuminate the words of Scripture. Bible Scripture Verse Art","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1099756"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6295151710510254,"wiki_prob":0.3704848289489746,"text":"2015 Democracy 360\nSamara's Democracy 360, a report card on the state of Canada's democracy, focuses on the complex relationship between citizens and political leadership. With the understanding that democracy is about more than just casting a ballot every four years, any conversation about how decisions are taken on the future of our country needs to consider a more robust definition of \"everyday democracy.\"\nSamara's Democracy 360 expands the measurement of democracy and kick-starts a conversation using measurable indicators focused on three areas essential to a healthy democracy: communication, participation and political leadership. That is: talking, acting and leading.\nThe Democracy 360 brings together a number of data sources, such as Samara's public opinion research and website content analyses, as well as publicly available data from other sources, including the House of Commons and Elections Canada. As such, it is designed to be a thorough, yet manageable, look at the health of citizens' relationship with politics, and one that was repeated in 2017 in time for Canada’s 150th birthday.\nIn an effort to set a benchmark that prompts reflection and discussion, Samara has awarded an overall letter grade as well as a letter grade for each of the three areas, as outlined in this report.\nWhat does C mean? Quite simply our democracy is not doing as well as a country as rich as Canada deserves. Canadians are not participating in politics as much as they could, they don’t believe it affects them, and they don't see their leaders as influential or efficacious. To turn this situation around, Canada requires more than just higher voter turnout. Canada requires a culture shift towards \"everyday democracy,\" in which citizens feel politics is a way to make change in the country and their voices are heard.\nWhat's Inside Samara's Democracy 360?\nCanadians don’t trust Members of Parliament or political parties and believe they largely fail to perform their core jobs:\nOnly 40% of Canadians report that they trust MPs to do what is right and only 42% of Canadians place some trust in political parties.\nCanadians give MPs and political parties failing grades on nearly all their responsibilities, ranging from reaching out to citizens to their work in Parliament. Overall, Canadians feel MPs do a better job representing the views of the party than they do representing their constituents.\nPolitics is seen as irrelevant and, as a result, Canadians are withdrawing from the democratic system:\nOnly 31% of Canadians believe politics affects them every day.\nOnly 37% give any time or resources to formal political activities between elections.\nA surprising number (39%) say they haven’t had a single political conversation—online or offline—in a year-long period.\nWith a federal voter turnout of 61% puts Canada in the bottom fifth among democracies, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.\nTo make politics relevant, Canadians will need to see the value in politics and democracy. This will require the following changes:\nMPs who serve as reliable, vibrant, two-way links between citizens and government.\nCitizens who become more politically active at and beyond the ballot box.\nPolitical leadership that acts in ways that encourages Canadians’ involvement and demonstrates how politics is a worthwhile way to invest time in order to make a difference.\nDespite an overall unhealthy picture, the Democracy 360 also reveals several positive signs on which to build:\nMPs make considerable efforts—through social media, householder mailings and their websites—to reach out to Canadians. With small changes, they can communicate much more effectively.\nOver half of Canadians petition, donate to charity and volunteer, revealing a desire to connect to causes rooted in and affected by politics.\nAn election in 2015 presents a real opportunity to build momentum towards a more engaging political culture:\nIndividual volunteers, candidates and parties, as well as community groups, can all take simple steps to change how citizens get involved and demand a more responsive democracy.\nUnder #TalkActLead, anyone can contribute ideas and solutions to improve how politics works. To spur engagement, Samara Canada will be releasing tip sheets and resources as the election approaches.\nDownload the PDF of the Report Card here\nSamara’s Democracy 360 uses quantifiable indicators to focus on three areas that are essential to a healthy democracy: communication, participation and political leadership.\nThe indicators measured in this report track Canadian democracy across a wide range of areas, from diversity in the House of Commons to the many ways Canadians can participate in politics to how Members of Parliament and parties function. While not exhaustive, together the indicators paint a rich picture of the way that Canadians talk, act and lead in politics, adding multiple dimensions to voter turnout, the metric most commonly used to measure democracy.\nLook through the Numbers below\nDownload the PDF of the Numbers here\nRead the methodology here\nDemocracy 360: The Provinces\nGet the provincial story here","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1390735"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9193103313446045,"wiki_prob":0.9193103313446045,"text":"Shoreworld: Ricky Persaud Jr. – Optimistic Bliss\nJohn Pfeiffer\nRicky is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger from Irvington, NJ whose music style is formed around reggae rock.\nRicky is part of the Berklee College of Music, Class of 2021. He received his first instrument for Christmas at the age of 1. At the tender age of 4 years old, Ricky started taking music classes at Music Together and dance lessons at Stories in Motion, both in South Orange, NJ.\nRicky was accepted by the Newark School of the Arts to study drums at the age of 4. When Ricky was 8 years old, he would go with his brother Nicholas, who was 5, to his weekly guitar lessons at Mark Murphy Music School in South Orange, NJ. Ricky studied Nicholas’ homework and taught himself how to play the guitar. By the age of 10, Ricky could perform Bob Marley’s songs on the guitar proficiently.\nAlong with drums, Ricky started taking bass lessons at the Newark School of the Arts at the age of 11. Still drawn to the guitar, Ricky decided to take guitar lessons at the age of 12, and at the age of 14, Ricky discovered Billy Joel. He taught himself how to play the harmonica and keyboards. Shortly after, Ricky started taking piano lessons in school and at the Newark School of the Arts. Upon the passing of his guitar and bass teacher, jazz guitarist, Hayes Johnson, Ricky put the guitar aside.\nRicky’s mom encouraged him to give guitar lessons another try. So, Ricky enrolled in the school that introduced him to the guitar, the Mark Murphy School of Music. Ricky studied voice, band and guitar there. Ricky studied drums at the Newark School of The Arts, and currently studies music production there. Ricky is a member of the New Jersey Performing Art (NJPAC)/Wells Fargo Jazz for Teens Ensemble and NJPAC’s George Wein Scholars Ensemble.\nRicky, along with his brother Nicholas, performs weekly on Inside with Valerie Persaud, the TV Show which airs on Comcast, Cablevision and Verizon Fios throughout the state of New Jersey. Ricky has recorded three albums. His first album was recorded when he was 14 years old. Ricky Jr. arranged the music and played all the instruments on the album. His second album was recorded when he was 15 years old, and again he played all the instruments on the album and performed the lead and background vocals. Ricky released his third album, Welcome To My World, in 2015. When it comes to this new album, Ricky wrote all the songs and again played all the instruments on the album and performed all the vocals. The album is sold on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby just to name a few.\nRicky won a Silver Medal in Music Composition and a Gold Medal in Vocal Performance in the North at the Act-So Competition in 2016. Moreover, Ricky is the recipient of the 2016 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Music. His latest record, Optimistic Bliss, has been submitted for consideration for the 60th Grammy Awards as “Best Reggae Album.” The award ceremony will be held in New York City on Jan. 28, 2018.\nHis fourth album, was produced and mixed along with Ricky Persaud Sr. and Ricky Persaud Jr. for Persaud Entertainment, LLC. It was mastered by Gar Francis for Bongo Boy Records and recorded at Crossroads Studios.\nWhile I’m not a huge reggae fan, I must admit that Persaud’s record hits the mark with mojo to spare. As far as production, performence and playing are concerned, this is a record that anyone I know would be proud to call their own.\nThe first song on the disc is called “Let Me See,” and it runs a veritable gamut of musical delights. Written along with Valerie Persaud, “Let Me See” blends traditional reggae sounds with a funky R&B vibe that commands attention from the very beginning. Percussion, bass, and guitars chime perfectly as Persaud lays toned vocals over the top. Reverbed accents, strong backing vocals, and rhythms come together to present an extremely fluid piece of music. It reminds me of Michael Jackson in the ‘80s as it contains many pop sensibilities and melodic grooves. Tight and jam-packed with musical nuances of the genre and beyond, “Let Me See” is a perfect song to kick off with. I love the middle-eight lead break and rhythmic accompaniments, and the way the song climbs back into its central theme is utterly enthralling.\n“Sound of a Hit” is up next. Another co-write with Valerie, Persaud demonstrates superior vocal technique and production moxy on this one. While this song follows a more traditional path of reggae, it also offers energetic charges of songwriting superiority. Persaud and company know how to write and “Sound of a Hit” is a perfect example of that. Keyboards whirl and twirl over the top of funk-inspired bass, drums and guitars as Persaud delivers pristine vocals and harmonies. Even his down-home ending is great as he closes out with a sigh and a statement, “That is good!”\nSkipping around the disc, I came to a song called, “Girl Has the Essence.” Valerie and Ricky Jr. continue their winning streak with another poppy reggae-tinged tune that should do well for him. Persaud’s vocal attack is infectious and well planned, bringing the value of the song to a national level. Guitars upstroke as bass, drums, and horn arrangements tear through the middle of the tune like nobody’s business. Electric guitars scream and feedback where needed and then disappear back under the curtain of percussion and accent as Persaud sings his emotional journey.\nRicky penned “People of the World” on his own. Carrying a pocket-tight backbeat, Persaud lays down fat bass, drums, guitars, and keys underneath some otherworldly vocals. This song smacks from the get-go. Everything seems to fall into place the way it should with any good song. Persaud’s vocals are clean, bright and powerful as hell. The verses work perfectly into the bridge before hitting an addictive chorus. Ricky writes exceptionally catchy songs which will count towards getting greater recognition. Once again, the production sings. The Persaud’s know their craft, and the result is a bunch of fascinating songs that should draw in more than just reggae enthusiasts.\nOne more song I wanted to mention is the disc’s namesake. “Optimistic Bliss” is a fresh cross between The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blink 182 and some of Peter Tosh’s later work. Once again, Persaud is joined by Valerie Persaud to come up with a terrific tune. Verses, bridges, and choruses pop as Persaud croons to beat the band. Waves wash over the beginning of the song, adding another level to an already powerful piece. Backing vocals sing over the top of rhythmic wah-wahs and percussive hits as Persaud brings the song to a remarkably higher level. I love the guitar work here as well. Measured and supportive, they break free in the choruses and the middle-eight. Persaud’s lyrical content is personal in nature but readily understandable and concise in its delivery. This song features a mighty chorus, and I believe that Persaud will find great success with this song.\nThere are a total of 12 songs on Optimistic Bliss, and each song is as good or better than the next. I find it hard to believe that this outstanding songwriter hasn’t been snapped up by a significant tour yet, but give him time, he’s well on his way.\nFor more information on Ricky Persaud Jr., head over to bongoboyrecords.com to get the latest scoop on this outstanding Shoreworld artist.\nricky persaud jr.shoreworld\nInside The “Cult Of Chucky”\nIan Anderson: Jethro Tull’s Early Beginnings And New Starts\nShoreworld: Jersey Shore Festival Gives It All Away\nShoreworld: The Vansaders – Jumping At Shadows Record Release Party – The Stone Pony – Aug. 22 – Opening For Social Distortion","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1690898"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5925959944725037,"wiki_prob":0.5925959944725037,"text":"The National Shrine\nof Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage\nNational Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage in Antipolo City\nONE of the most well-known pilgrimage churches in the Philippines is Antipolo Church, whose full name is the National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage. A lot of Filipino devotees head for this church for the Visita Iglesia tradition during Holy Thursday, so expect to catch a crowd there and wait patiently for your turn.\nThe National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage is a centuries-old church that traces back to the late 1500s. The first missionaries of Antipolo were Franciscans, but it was the Jesuits who administered the church from 1591 to 1768. It was greatly damaged during the Chinese uprising of 1632, followed by the earthquakes of 1645, 1824 and 1863. For three centuries, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage has been the object of religious pilgrimages all over the Philippines.\nAfter finishing your Christian obligations inside the church, treats await you outside the church, as stalls selling suman, kalamay and kasuy enthrall you with their products, and simply find it difficult to resist taking some back home as pasalubong.\nThe National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage also commands a huge crowd come May 1, when devotees get on their feet, walk up to Antipolo and attend Mass at the church. This church is also where people who buy new vehicles have their vehicles blessed by the priest.\nCategory(s): Travel\nTags: Antipolo Church, Antipolo City, churches to visit for Lent 2017, Holy Thursday Catholic tradition, Lent 2017, Lenten season, National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage, pilgrimage church, Visita Iglesia\nCathedral of Vigan in Ilocos Sur\nTwittername (without @)\nFacebook (complete URL)\nGoogle+ (complete URL)\neight × eight =","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1192076"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.99103182554245,"wiki_prob":0.99103182554245,"text":"SportsCollege Sports\nNo. 4 Michigan tops Indiana, aims for No. 8 Ohio State\nBy: Larry Lage, AP Sports Writer\nGregory Shamus\n<p>ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - NOVEMBER 17: Nick Eubanks #82 of the Michigan Wolverines celebrates a first half touchdown with Tarik Black #7 while playing the Indiana Hoosiers at Michigan Stadium on November 17, 2018 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)</p>\nANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- The Michigan Wolverines looked like they were peeking ahead to playing Ohio State, turning an expected rout into a closely contested game.\nKaran Higdon ran for a go-ahead touchdown early in the third quarter and Jake Moody set a school record with six field goals, helping No. 4 Michigan beat Indiana 31-20 Saturday.\n\"When you're in playoff mode -- that's our mindset right -- playoff wins are big,\" coach Jim Harbaugh said. \"Wins against Big Ten teams in late November are huge.\"\nThe next one would be bigger if Michigan can pull it off.\nThe Wolverines (10-1, 8-0 Big Ten, No. 4 CFP) close the regular season against the ninth-ranked Buckeyes, needing a win to reach the Big Ten championship game for the first time. If Michigan can win a road game in the series for the first time since 2000, it will be another victory away from likely earning a spot in the College Football Playoff.\n\"We understand the tradition and the meaning behind it,\" said quarterback Shea Patterson, who will make his debut in the rivalry on Saturday in the Horseshoe.\nThe Hoosiers (5-6, 2-6) were competitive against Michigan as they have been lately, losing in overtime twice in the previous three meetings, but came up short again.\n\"Went toe to toe with them and it was a one-possession game in fourth quarter,\" coach Tom Allen said. \"That's really all you can ask for. You just got to find a way to finish these out.\"\nIndiana led 17-15 at halftime and finished with more yards (385) than anyone has had against Michigan's top-ranked defense this season. The Hoosiers also forced Michigan's offense to stall in the red zone and settle for field goals.\nPatterson was 16 of 28 for 250 yards with one touchdown, a 41-yard throw to Nick Eubanks in the second quarter. He threw his first interception in more than a month and had nine carries for 68 yards.\n\"Their quarterback is a difference-maker,\" Allen said.\nIndiana's Peyton Ramsey was 16 of 35 for 195 yards with a touchdown and an interception. Ramsey also ran for 51 yards. Stevie Scott had 30 carries for 139 yards scored a touchdown -- extending his single-season, school-record total to nine -- and lost a fumble for the Hoosiers. Scott has 1,033 yards rushing, the most by a true freshman at Indiana.\n\"This performance definitely showed to the nation that we can compete with anybody,\" Scott said. \"We've got the talent here. We just have to finish strong.\"\nIndiana: After a strong performance against a team that has been winning big, the Hoosiers should feel better about their chances of beating Purdue to become bowl eligible.\n\"I'm proud of our team's fight,\" Allen said.\nMichigan: An injury may be a factor against the rival Buckeyes. Michigan defensive end Chase Winovich left the game midway through the third quarter after appearing to hurt his left shoulder. Harbaugh said Winovich's X-rays and CAT scans were negative.\nHarbaugh said Berkley Edwards, who primarily plays on special teams, had a concussion. Edwards was put on a backboard and taken off the field on a cart after being hit by Cam Jones, who was ejected for targeting. Harbaugh said Edwards was taken to a hospital as a precaution, adding he was able to talk, respond and move.\nREADY, KID?\nMoody had only handled kickoffs before finding out just before the game he would be replacing Quinn Nordin, who wasn't feeling well. The freshman made all six of his attempts, converting on field goals from 29 to 33 yards.\n\"It was an incredible experience,\" Moody said. \"The guys out there made it really easy for me with the snaps and the hold.\"\nRED ZONE WOES\nMoody had an opportunity to set a school record because Michigan's offense often stalled in the red zone. The Wolverines scored only one touchdown in seven drives that went inside the Indiana 20, settling for six field goals and having the first half end before being able to stop the clock for another snap.\nIndiana: Hosts the rival Boilermakers, needing a win to earn a spot in the postseason.\n\"We're back to where we were a year ago,\" said Allen, whose team lost 31-24 at Purdue last year to end the season with five wins.\nMichigan: Plays at Ohio State, hoping to win for the second time in 15 meetings.\nHow quickly did Harbaugh plan to shift his focus to the Buckeyes?\n\"Pretty quick,\" he said.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line637988"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5696119666099548,"wiki_prob":0.43038803339004517,"text":"\"5 X Worse than Irene\"\n3 Cheshvan 5772\n(H/T Global Disaster Watch)\nThe deadly snowstorm on US East Coast killed at least six people and left more than three million homes without electricity.\nSnowstorm damage 'five times worse' than Tropical storm Irene - The idea of snow in October - no matter the amount - was far-fetched enough that when forecasts late last week began calling for several inches of snow, many throughout Connecticut were skeptical. Even the most panicked meteorologists, though, weren't aware of just how stunningly powerful this weekend's freak winter storm would be.\nOn Sunday night, the president and chief operating officer of Connecticut Light and Power, laid things out in perhaps the most eye-opening way for a state only beginning to move on from Tropical Storm Irene.\nThe damage from the storm was \"five times worse\" than that delivered by Irene. More than half of customers throughout the state remained in the dark. Early this morning, the number of outages had begun to slowly recede. CL&P, which had more than 800,000 outages earlier in the day, reported 772,155 at 12:15 a.m. -- still an astonishing 62 percent of customers. Even as the number of outages began to drop, the total early today was still higher than it was at any point following Tropical Storm Irene. At 12:15 a.m. there were 45 cities and towns throughout the state completely in the dark, including Monroe, Oxford, Seymour, Redding, New Fairfield and Washington. There were also outages for 97 percent of customers in Newtown, 92 percent in Bethel, 87 percent in Ridgefield, 75 percent in Brookfield and 55 percent in Danbury. Emergency shelters and warming centers are open throughout the state Sunday night so residents without power won't have to brave potentially record low temperatures in their homes. 45 transmission lines and 15 substations are damaged. Officials said it could take days -- or more than a week -- before all power is finally restored.\n\"This is THE LARGEST NUMBER OF POWER OUTAGES WE HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED,\" more than Tropical Storm Irene. \"We are expecting extensive and long term power outage. This is a historic storm, NEVER BEFORE in anyone's recollection or anyone's review of history has such a storm hit the state so early.\" School closures are likely because many bus routes remained blocked and school buildings without power. Strong winds with gusts as high as 29 mph have lead to more power outages. As snow falls from tree limbs, the branches snap back, breaking power lines. Damage to 164 ATT cell phone towers will result \"degraded service\" beginning this afternoon. Two-thirds of the flights at Bradley International Airport were back on normal schedules. In Danbury, 64 percent of the city is without power. \"I would term it a catastrophic situation.\" More than 200 roads are closed in the area. There were hundreds of accidents reported across the state caused by a combination of slippery snow, downed trees and poor visibility. Saturday's storm, which didn't garner significant attention from meteorologists until Thursday night, SHATTERED OCTOBER SNOWFALL RECORDS THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND and left more than a dozen towns either mostly or entirely without power throughout the state.\nIntroducing Rabbi Sholom Gold\n30 Tishrei 5772\nRosh Chodesh 'א Cheshvan\nCheck out his website - rabbisholomgold.com .\nMessage from Binyamin at end of year 5771\nThere are a few new messages that need to be translated. I started with a short one. (Q & A to follow)\nMessage from Binyamin\nThere will yet be very big things. And what more is there to say!? At long last, what we have been talking about for seventeen years is beginning to take place. It’s not ‘beginning,’ because the process already started some time ago. And still, with all the troubles and with all the falls, with the money as well as the bizarre and difficult things from nature, also wars in every place and riots everywhere, and seeing the sheker, that it ascends and rises more and more, being exposed more and more, in every corner, in every place. With all this, at the moment that there is a drop of calm – a majority of the people return to what was. They don’t think about teshuvah. They don’t think about drawing closer to Hashem. They’re returning to the same nonsense, to the same concepts which are just the sheker of olam hazeh, and therefore, much greater troubles are coming now and almost without a break between them. [Sanhedrin: “If you see troubles pulling like a river, etc.”] Until Hashem will repair all the true Jews. In Egypt, it took a whole year, all the plagues, with breaks between them, but for us, there won’t be a lot of time in between one and the next – like now.\nLike we said once, you’ll look above and it will come from below; you’ll look right – it will come from the left. Now, it’s from the right as well as from the left, from above and also from below, and from one side and also from the other side - from every place. It’s impossible to know where to look and what to think.\nFor the not-intelligent people who are still planning for the future six months ahead when there will be some social gathering or in hopeful expectation of some trip that they will make abroad. So, I ask very much from them: To see the truth, that it’s impossible to know what will happen from moment to moment, and now, especially, it will be what it will be, very difficult for those who do not trust in Hashem. For those who do trust in Hashem and are truly waiting for Mashiach….and truly weep over the Shekhina’s suffering, it will be the greatest joy.\nSo, those who understand what I’m saying, I bless you that all of us together will receive our righteous Mashiach in mercy and happiness. And to those who don’t understand what I said, I pity you and pray to HKB”H that nevertheless, he will save you in power.\n(Re-posting due to problem with Blogger)\nNew Messages in English\nYou can read new messages from the autistic children here.\nIs this IT?\nCould this be the spark that starts WW3? Tuesday is Erev Hoshanah Rabbah.\nThe Yalkut Shimoni (Yeshayah 59) relates the following:\n“Rabbi Yitzchak said, at the time of the revelation of\nMashiach, the kings of all the nations challenge one another. The king of Persia challenges the king of Arabia, and the king of Arabia goes to Aram to seek their counsel. The king of Persia arises again and lays waste the whole world, and all the nations of the world are distressed and frightened and fall on their faces and they are seized by pains like birth pangs. Yisrael too is distressed and frightened and asks, ‘Where shall we turn?’ And Hashem answers them, ‘My children! Do not be afraid. All that I have done, I have done only for your sake. What are you afraid of? The time of your redemption has come.”\nUS on global alert for Iranian reprisal that may jeopardize Shalit releaseA worldwide advisory published in Washington Wednesday, Oct. 12, warned UScitizens to beware of Iranian-instigated terrorist attacks following the uncovering of an Iran-directed plot to assassinate Saudi Arabian ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir and bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies.\nIranian radicals look for a limited clash with the US\nThe motivation for the foiled Iranian-instigated plot to murder the Saudi ambassador to Washington at his favorite eatery, Café Milano in Georgetown, is revealed by debkafile's Iranian sources as a bid by a super-radical faction at the top of the Iranian regime to draw the United States into a limited military clash. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei approved the plot when his son and heir Mojtaba, 42, and the Al Qods Brigades commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani presented him with their \"grand plan.\nBig US airlift drill starts Monday. Fresh Hamas demands for Gilad ShalitThe United States launches a large-scale strategic airlift exercise over the Middle East Monday, Oct. 21. Tuesday, the day of the Israel-Hamas prisoner exchange for Gilad Shalit, the giant transports carrying command and combat units will practice swift emergency landings in Israel and Saudi Arabia. The US, Israeli, Egyptian and Saudi armies are on high military preparedness amid warnings of terrorist attacks to disrupt the prisoner exchange and avenge US charges of an Iran-instigated plot to murder the Saudi ambassador.\n(More on all the above at Debka.)\nMoadim l'Simcha!!\nSomething to Think About Before Yom Kippur\n8 Tishrei 5772\nFrom The Book of Our Heritage by Eliyahu Kitov\n“…one who habitually sins and overcomes his habit through repentance, and uproots that sin from his being and totally abandons it, is said to be as desired by G-d as one who offered a rich sacrifice on the altar---and his reward is exceedingly great. The more that a sin has become a part of a person, the greater the reward for repenting.\nThe same is true concerning a place, a time, or an age. For example, if one sees a place where people are prone to commit a certain sin, know that this particular sin is the greatest source of accusation against them. Hence, repentance from this sin is more important that any source of merit that might exist and is more highly regarded by G-d than any good deed. If they will repent this sin, their repentance will assist them in overcoming all other trangressions. But, if they do not repent, even if all their other acts are good, then they will be considered to be like one who immerses himself in a mikveh for purification while holding an impure object in his hand!\nIf there is an entire generation which is known for a particular trangression, then the sensitive among them should rectify that particular failing more than other failings, for their repentance will tip the scales on behalf of all the others who will emulate their behavior and also repent.\"\nG'mar chatima tova. Shabbat shalom and Chag Sameach!\nMessage - \"5772\" End\nLipi's Message - \"I am very sad\"\n14 Elul 5771\nI am very sad. Very sad that in days so difficult and dangerous, the Jews are busy with disputes. The Jews are busy with falsehood. The Jews are busy with severe sins. The Jews are busy with the Golden Calf, with the lusts and materialism of the Egel. I am sad, very, very much, that Am Yisrael doesn't understand that this is the end, that we are standing before a very huge and difficult war, not only in Israel, but also the world.\nThe changes in This World in all of this world, from two years ago, are really astonishing. Changes that are hard for us to digest. And there is, for the majority of the people in the world, a will not to believe that the world, in fact, is not the same world it was ten or twelve years ago.\nWe, the Jews, are standing before a huge birur - a clarification. Also, the whole wide world stands before a huge birur. But, especially important to me - the Jews.\nAnd the Jews, in general, the majority, don't want to believe that the end has arrived. Like two thousand years, approximately, we have been wandering around the world, in exile, sometimes living in a very good way, materialistically, and sometimes a life in a situation of very high spirituality, but usually, the two don't go together. And therefore, the situation today is one of materiality. And there are very many Jews who are of the opinion that the materialism and spirituality can co-exist. But, that can't be. Materialism and spirituality, which is closeness to Hashem, cannot co-exist. Under absolutely no circumstances. And now, at this moment, without waiting, every Jew must choose. Whether he wants the materialism or the spirituality. But both of them, impossible. They must choose only one from the possibilities. And materialism is not only silver and gold, it's also faith in other powers, foreign powers. And this is to believe in low powers. But, there are Jews who believe that low powers have like saved them. (i.e. IDF, American political support, etc.)\nAnd spirituality is closeness to the Holy One, blessed be He. And to live a life of spirituality - that is to say, to live all the time the will of Hashem, every day and every night and all your life. If he is a spiritual person - that's what there is in his head.\nAnd now will be the big choice, this Rosh Hashanah. Every Jew is choosing where he wants to be. Whether he wants to be with the Golden Calf, which means the death of spirituality and materialism forever, G-d forbid, or whether he wants spirituality, which is proximity to Hashem forever. [I Kings 18: 21 - \"And Elijah drew near to all the people and said, 'Until when are you hopping between two ideas? If the Lord is God, go after Him, and if the Baal, go after him.'\"]\nIt's the end, it's the end. We are drawing near the end at the speed of lightning. Many Jews have awakened from their slumber. And every one who chooses materialism and distance from HKB\"H, suddenly at the end, he will understand that maybe, actually, not maybe - of course, that he made the biggest mistake of his life, And this he will understand at the end before death, and then he will die, G-d have mercy.\nI very much warn all the believing Jews about lashon hara. Because slander is possible, G-d forbid, to bring down the holiness from Am Yisrael. Woe to you, woe to you. The punishment is too great even to explain to you.\nI bless all the Jews for a good year, a year of redemption and salvation, that every Jew and Jewess, boy and girl, will receive our righteous Mashiach in mercy and joy.\n[Quoting tractate Chovot Halevavot... \"Love of this world and love of the world to come, they are two problems, one to the other. Fire and water, that can't co-exist.\"]\nMessage - \"5772\"\nDaniel's Message, 28 Elul 5771\nAm Yisrael, I want to wish you shanah tovah, but how can I wish you shanah tovah; this is my problem. What can I say that I haven't already said? But, let's begin and I will tell you what is in my heart and what I know from various sources.\nAm Yisrael, truly, truly, the world as we have known it is finished. It's finished. Everybody can see it. He only has to want to accept the truth and to see that it's impossible to continue with the drunkenness that's been until now. It's finished! Do you hear? It's finished! There are here and there traces of what once was, but it's finished.\nIn the world, the Shechina is disappearing from all the lands and is gathering in Eretz Yisrael. What are you still doing there? What else are you benefitting from there? The exile is finished, the world of unnecessary materialism is finished. What else do you have there?\nThis World is being revealed as one big lie; everything is a lie. You see it already; everyone sees it already, but don't want to accept it.\nIt's finished because it's impossible to continue with a world of falsehood, that a person is not able to believe in anyone or anything, impossible.\nEven a person who doesn't believe, G-d forbid, in HKB\"H, has to believe in something. At least, to believe that his friend is honest with him, that his Prime Minister is honest with him, wants the good of the citizenry, but this, too, is no longer. They've revealed themselves, all over the world, as liars who only want to suck from the little guy all the money that he has and after they've sucked it all from him, they throw him in the trashcan.\nBut, Am Yisrael, Am Yisrael, you feel it, that in the near future, now, now, now, 5772, there will be huge things, unbelievable things. Indeed, for those who know the prophecies, it won't come as a surprise. Those who put their trust fully in Hashem, it won't be a surprise for them. They will come through it much more easily, but those who don't have a clue, who don't have real faith and trust in HKB\"H, and it doesn't matter if they are Shabbat observant or not Shabbat observant, they won't be able to get through it.\nThe situation is bad. All the institutions that we put faith in, have been revealed as empty and full of falsehood, who don't have the good of the citizen at heart or at will or at service, only falsehood.\nLeave the lie, return to HKB\"H, trust in Him, know in truth that only He is omnipotent, the \"Hakol Yachol.\" That He directs us in this world to the world to come, to the world of Mashiach, a complete world, calm, that only goes up and up in spirituality, ascending, ascending, ascending in the direction of HKB\"H.\nAnd after this, the seven thousandth, that will be something so wonderful that we don't know how to describe at all, hard for our imaginations to understand it.\nAm Yisrael, I suggest to you, in truth, I can't tell you more, but now, I will say this in preparation for Rosh Hashanah: Am Yisrael, those who are in exile and those who are in Eretz Yisrael, return to HKB\"H, those who are abroad, return, return to Eretz Yisrael, with all that is happening, it is the most secure place.\nThe Zionists? There are no more Zionists. There are various Jews that are sitting in the Knesset who are stam evildoers, decidedly not Zionists. Erev Rav, Amalek, evil ones. No longer Zionists. They're dead, all of them, and if there are here and there some old ones who still remain from then, he's also no longer Zionistic. He's either Amalek or Erev Rav. There are no Zionists, only evildoers, like all the gentiles in the world.\nThe Chareidi community is full of Amaleks and Erev Rav, so return to Eretz Yisrael, to the Holy Land. At least to demonstrate to HKB\"H that we are ready to return home, that we want the redemption already, that we want to sit on the ground, not in the State of Israel, but in the Land of Israel, upon the ground that is holy.\nIt's worthwhile, really worthwhile to return. And those who are not able, return to HKB\"H. He will bring you on eagle's wings. Only those who truly put their trust in Him, only those who truly believe in Him and trust in Him and know that He is \"Hakol Yachol.\" (He can do anything.)\nWe are entering now, with G-d's help, to 5772. All the signs are that this is the year of redemption, all the signs in every place. All the prophecies show that we have a huge chance that this is the year of redemption.\nAnd if, G-d forbid, not, then of course, this is the year that the world turns upside down, because the world can't continue like it is. The world has deteriorated very quickly. It cannot last.\nSo, Am Yisrael, I wish you shanah tovah, k'tivah v'chatimah tovah, and I request from you, to return home, to actively return to HKB\"H with all your heart, with all the essence of the person. Also to return to Eretz Yisrael, not the State of Israel, the Land of Israel.\nShanah Tovah.\nWe're All a Work in Progress\nI don't remember where I originally got this story, but it really struck home with me when I first read it and it has stayed with me ever since. I found it again in my email archives from 2005. It seems especially poignant at this time of year and at this time in history. Enjoy!\nThere was a couple who used to go to England to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, \"May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful.\"\nAs the shop owner handed it to them, suddenly the teacup spoke. \"You don't understand,\" it said. \"I haven't always been a teacup. There was a time when I was red and I was clay. My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over, and I yelled out, 'Let me alone!,' but he only smiled, 'Not yet.' Then I was placed on a spinning wheel and I was spun around and around and around. 'Stop it! I'm getting dizzy!' I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet.' Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked on the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head, 'Not yet.'\n\"Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. 'There, that's better,' I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. 'Stop it, stop it!' I cried. He only nodded, 'Not yet.' Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head and saying, 'Not yet.'\n\"Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself.' And I did. I said, 'That's not me. That couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful!'\n\"'I want you to remember then,' the master said, 'I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened; you wouldn't have had any color in your life. And if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you.'\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line129032"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8325011730194092,"wiki_prob":0.8325011730194092,"text":"New York - Garment District\nGarment District Office Space For Rent\nDisplaying 1 – 12 of 122 listings\n130 West 37th Street - 4th Floor\n110 West 40th Street - Office Space\n110 West 40th Street - 3rd Floor - Suite 302\n256-258 West 36th Street - 10th Floor\n224 West 35th Street - Suite 301\n336 West 37th Street - 7th Floor - Suite 740\n499 7th Avenue - 12th Floor\n525 7th Avenue - Office Space\n1410 Broadway - 11th Floor - Suite 1101\nThe Garment District is also called the Fashion District because of its impressive fashion industry that generates about $14 billion in sales annually. Naturally, it’s widely considered to be the fashion capital of the world. If you’re seeking affordable Midtown office space with plenty of public transportation options, the Garment District might be the right place for you and your business.\nGarment District Office Space | Lease Data & Trends\nThe Garment District has nearly 48 million square feet of office space for rent, with another 7 million under construction. Its central location to several transit hubs makes it a convenient location to accommodate employees commuting from throughout the New York Metro.\nWith an average asking rent of $65 per square foot, Garment District office space is some of the most affordable in Manhattan. More than 40 percent of available office space is in Class A buildings, with an average asking rent of $97 per square foot. However, Class B office space features asking rents of around $60 per square foot.\nThe Garment District is less than one square mile in size and rests between Fifth Avenue and the Hudson River. Nearby neighborhoods and business districts include Hudson Yards, Times Square, Chelsea, Korea Town, and notable businesses in the area include Microsoft, The New York Times, R/GA, and the Boston Consulting Group.\nOffice Space for Rent Price per square foot\nClass A $97\nClass B $61\nWhat Our Brokers Say about Garment District Office Space for Lease\nDespite its small size, the Garment District is home to more than 27,000 people. Travel quickly to and from Times Square and other popular destinations using one of the many transportation options for city and suburban residents. Convenient nearby transportation includes Penn Station, Grand Central Station, and Port Authority. Between these three transit hubs, commuters can access New Jersey Transit, Amtrak, Long Island Railroad, PATH, and Greyhound. In addition to these transit options, city residents can access the Garment District via the 1, 2, 3, 7, A, C, E, N, Q, R, and W trains.\nBecause of its proximity to Times Square and Port Authority, Garment District has among the worst traffic in NYC and isn’t a particularly bike-friendly area.\nGet to Know the Garment District\nThe Garment District includes plenty of apartment, hotel and restaurant choices. Looking for a delicious and convenient place for a business lunch event? Check out Casa Nonna, Ai Fiori, Savory and Parker & Quinn.\nThe Garment District is widely known as the ultimate destination for designers, stylists, wholesale buyers, students and, of course, shoppers from all over the world. Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, Liz Claiborne and Andrew Marc represent some of the top-notch fashion labels that have office space and production facilities in the district.\nNot only does the neighborhood attract those who work in the fashion industry—it’s also a popular destination for shoppers and tourists. As the Garment District’s name suggests, the neighborhood is an excellent place to shop for clothes and the materials to make them. Here are just a few of the most renowned places to shop in the Garment District: M&J Trimming, Louis Vuitton, Urban Outfitters, Mood Designer Fabrics and Lord & Taylor.\nGarment District: A Global Hub for Fashion\nThe Garment District began influencing what people wear and how they obtain their clothing back in the 1800s. Middle-class Americans used to make their own clothing, and only rich people hired tailors to sew for them. During the Civil War, these tailors began collaborating to sew clothing in bulk for the soldiers. At the same time, skilled immigrants began moving to New York City, creating a labor force that could work in clothing factories.\nBy 1910, approximately 70 percent of women’s clothing came from the Garment District. By 1931, the area boasted the most garment manufacturers of anywhere in the world. Today, the Garment District is known as the fashion capital of the world and offers a huge variety of niche resources such as dress dying services, full production cutting and wholesale fabric manufacturers—all within one square mile. The Garment District is a unique place to do business because it offers opportunities for fashion moguls, young entrepreneurs and recent immigrants alike.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1191842"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8580518960952759,"wiki_prob":0.8580518960952759,"text":"Chuck Jones, animator of Looney Tunes\nBY David W Brown\nFew animated series have aged as gracefully as Looney Tunes, and that’s in large measure because of director Chuck Jones. He drew relentlessly as a child, a result of a nearly unlimited access to pencils and stationery because of his father’s business ventures. (Each time one of his dad’s companies closed, Chuck and his siblings were given the remainder office supplies.) He never stopped drawing, and would go on to elevate animated shorts as an art form. Here are a few things you might not have known about the man behind Bugs Bunny.\nHe worked for Walt.\nAfter Warner Brothers closed its animation studio, Chuck Jones worked for Walt Disney. “In animation,” he said in an interview, “asking ‘Walt who?’ would be a very strange thing. It would be like saying ‘Jesus,’ and saying ‘Jesus who?’—he was that important.” (Jones added that poor Walt Lantz, director and producer of Woody Woodpecker, was always overshadowed as the other Walt. “There were no Chucks, which is just as well.”)\nHe didn’t last long at Disney, though.\n“The reason I stopped working [at Disney] was because I saw that nothing happened unless Walt okayed it, and you might have to wait three weeks to get an appointment with Walt to come in and see this sequence you were working on. And it was old stuff to these guys, but not to me. I was used to working at a pace.”\nDr. Seuss was an old war buddy.\nDuring World War II, Jones served with Theodor Geisel in a unit that produced training films for soldiers. They worked on such series as Situation Snafu and Fubar. Army training shorts could be pretty boring, he noted. “The pictures were made by some Army colonel who thought he was a director.” Jones and Geisel made it a point to keep their films interesting and entertaining. As if it’s not weird enough that the guy behind Bugs Bunny and the guy behind the Cat in the Hat were war buddies, they later collaborated with the Navy on other films. The Navy liaison? Hank Ketcham, the cartoonist behind Dennis the Menace.\nHe didn’t make Saturday morning cartoons...\nThis might sound weird to anyone under 30, but for a very long time, if you wanted to watch cartoons, you had to wake up early on Saturday mornings. Looney Tunes, of course, was a mainstay. But none of Chuck Jones’s work was made for children on Saturday mornings. “They were always made for theatrical release right up to ’63. None of them were made for television. There’s a perfectly logical reason for it, and it was that there wasn’t any television.” In the 1930s and 40s, he and his team figured the work that they were doing had a total lifespan of three years—first run through fifth run—until finally the films would be worn and retired. Accordingly, they were unafraid to take risks with what they were doing. This often drove their producers crazy. “We got a double pleasure, and that was to make pictures that we enjoyed making, plus making someone else uncomfortable by doing it.\n“Because we were so young and had recently left our parents, or teachers, we had very little respect for adults. So we ended up where every creative person is, and that is where you paint or draw for yourself. And we figured if we made each other laugh, hopefully the audience would as well. And it turns out they did.”\n...and yet he helped invent Saturday morning cartoons.\nIn the mid-1950s, KTLA in Los Angeles and WNEW in New York starting running old Warner Brothers cartoons from the archives on Saturday mornings, thus beginning the tradition of programming for children. Animated features at the cinema didn’t last long after that. “We used to kid about it when television was being done... We figured TV might put us out of work, which eventually it did.”\nHe said of his work at Warners, which was never meant to survive, let alone endure, “We kind of lived in a paradise and we didn’t know it.”\nHe reportedly considered \"What’s Opera, Doc?\" to be his greatest work.\nIf the words “Kill the wabbit!” mean anything to you, then you’re familiar with arguably the greatest cartoon of all time. The 1957 animated short features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, and parodies Wagner’s operas. (The cartoon’s most famous line is sung to \"Ride of the Valkyries.\") This wasn’t his only take on opera. He took on Rossini in 1949’s Rabbit of Seville.\nHe had to persuade his old friend that How the Grinch Stole Christmas would make a great show.\n“I had known Ted during the war, but it had been 15 years... I had really wanted to do something of his, and Charlie Brown was one of the only works I knew doing a Christmas special.” Jones thought that Dr. Seuss was the natural person for such an annual tradition. “So I called up Ted, so I ask him would he be willing to think about doing it? He was anti-Hollywood, very much, because when he left after the war they pirated a lot of his stuff and took his credits off of his features... He did some documentaries—one of which won the Academy Award and someone else took it. So he was pretty sour about that.” How did he persuade Geisel? “I told him this was another field—this was television!—and he didn't know much about televisions either.”\nIronically, a banking consortium agreed to sponsor the show, which helped Jones sell the Christmas special to the networks. Jones later noted that Dr. Seuss’s publisher should have sponsored the show, because the cartoon doubled sales of the book that year, and they haven’t slowed since.\nHe was once, under protest, the vice president in charge of children’s programming at ABC.\nIn 1972, he was hired by ABC TV to be its vice president of children’s programming. “I’m guilty of a lot of sins,” he said, “but that is one I’d just as soon forget.” How did he get the job? “I complained so much about children’s programming that these guys called my bluff. They said come over and do something... well that was a very good idea except nobody listened to me.” He didn’t last long. “I didn’t want to be vice president. I wanted to go back to doing drawings.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1724127"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5756070017814636,"wiki_prob":0.5756070017814636,"text":"How this 300-year-old city is leading on U.S. sola...\nHow this 300-year-old city is leading on U.S. solar, energy-water, and climate action\n« Fighting for the planet, one methane comment at a time\nInvesting in a strong foundation for energy resilience in Texas »\nBy EDF Staff / Published: April 24, 2018\nBy Kate Zerrenner, Jaclyn Rambarran\nOn May 5, 2018, the city of San Antonio will officially be 300 years old! On that day in 1718, the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar (a Spanish fort) was founded. The city’s tricentennial celebration will culminate in a weeklong celebration of history, art, and culture the first week of May.\nSan Antonio is a unique place that should be honored in Texas and beyond. In addition to its strong Hispanic heritage, the city boasts a large military population, straddles the border between eastern, western, and southern U.S., and claims to be the birthplace of breakfast tacos.\nThis growing city also has a powerful role to play in the future of Texas and the United States in terms of climate change and air quality, as evidenced by its initiatives around renewable energy, the energy-water nexus, and climate action. With all this in mind, let’s take a moment to celebrate not just San Antonio’s momentous birthday, but also its impressive efforts to ensure the sustainability of the city going forward.\nLeading in Texas solar\nThe Alamo City has taken great strides to incorporate more renewable energy sources into its electricity generation mix, hitting 20 percent of its overall capacity in 2016, four years before the city’s target year. Texas advocates have commended San Antonio’s municipally owned electric and gas utility, CPS Energy, for the way it values the long-term benefits of solar to the community.\n[Tweet “How this 300-year-old city is leading on U.S. solar, energy-water, and climate action”]\nIn fact, San Antonio recently jumped to number six on a list of U.S. cities with the most solar, due to a growth in solar capacity of 37 percent in 2017. The city was also one of 18 with a “Solar Star” designation for averaging more than 50 watts of solar per person. In total, there are 1,400 installments throughout the city, including community solar, utility-scale farms, and rooftop panels.\nThrough its utility, San Antonio is choosing to invest in clean energy over expensive retrofits for dirtier energy sources, which in turn helps reduce power sector pollution and better protects the vibrant community that resides there.\nEnergy-water nexus\nA major part of San Antonio’s culture is the river that runs through downtown. The San Antonio River first brought settlers to the area, and the city was built around it, creating one of the city’s most popular destinations: the River Walk. San Antonians don’t get their water from that river (it comes mainly from the Edwards Aquifer), but in this dry South Texas town, water is central.\nSan Antonio has long been a leader in water conservation, and in recent years, it’s been leading the pack on the energy-water nexus, where the two sectors intersect. Because the city has local control over both its electricity and water, as well as a water-smart population, it has embodied best practices that can be adopted and applied to other cities’ energy-water challenges. Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) new case study, Capitalizing on energy-water nexus opportunities at the utility level, can help other cities learn from San Antonio’s example.\nSpecifically, other cities can follow San Antonio Water System’s (SAWS) and CPS Energy’s collaborative efforts, which have included:\nengaging in joint rebates,\nconducting joint audits of customer’s facilities, and\nconducting audits on one another’s systems in order to identify opportunities for enhanced efficiency.\nAdditionally, designating at least one staff member at each utility as the lead for fostering collaboration opens up more opportunities for energy-water programs. Beyond rebates and communication, SAWS and CPS also acknowledge there are non-monetary costs when customers do not conserve energy and water, including negative effects on the environment and human health. The recognition of these costs has manifested in demand management programs in San Antonio, which reward the partner utility for reducing or shifting its energy demand during peak times, or conserving water during a drought.\nSan Antonio climate action plan\nFollowing its sustainability plan of 2016 and the City Council’s resolution in support of the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, the city last year announced development of its first climate action and adaptation plan, called San Antonio Climate Ready. CPS Energy and the University of Texas at San Antonio will lead an 18-month multi-stakeholder process to create a comprehensive climate action and adaptation plan for the city. EDF staff will participate in the process officially as technical advisors.\nAn important aspect of this climate plan is that it seeks the input of stakeholders throughout the city, a majority of which are in generations-deep Hispanic communities. These communities’ input is essential for preserving the city’s unique culture, while ensuring that it remains strong into the future. To that end, the city has created a technical working group on equity to ensure that the input of people most vulnerable to climate change is considered as the plan goes forward.\nWhen the plan is completed, San Antonio could join Austin as the only two Texas cities with designated climate action plans.\nSan Antonio can serve as an example to how to strive for integrated, inclusive, and innovative approaches to how we mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, while protecting our resources and preserving our local cultures. We wish San Antonio a very happy 300th birthday and look forward to helping achieve the city’s clean energy and climate ambitions. ¡Feliz cumpleaños San Antonio!\nThis post originally ran on our Energy Exchange blog.\nPhoto source: Flickr/Tim Pearce\n3 energy-water nexus lessons from the state of Texas\nClean Energy and Job Creation Go Hand-in-Hand in San Antonio\nWhy Do Latinos Support Action on Climate Change?\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.\nThis post has a guest author.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1033674"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6194442510604858,"wiki_prob":0.38055574893951416,"text":"I bet no boy can write a paragraph on internet\nSwot analysis walt disney essay example\nOnly essay writers\nPantheon in paris\nBlue all shadeswhite, with silver trimmings Beads: The students had heavily vandalized the recently refurbished center, the cost of the damages might be near 1 million euros.\nThe outermost dome is built of stone bound together with iron cramps and covered with lead sheathing, rather than of carpentry construction, as was the common French practice of the period. InMarigny commissioned Jacques-Germain Soufflot to design the church, with construction beginning two years later.\nGreen and yellow Ritual implement: Brown, with Opal and coral. In his speech, President Jacques Chirac stated that an injustice was being corrected with the proper honouring of one of France's greatest authors. Brass bell; a fan ornamented with peacock feathers Sacrifices: The Pantheon has its own drainage system to deal with the rain that falls through the Oculus.\nFounded init houses the main part of Law School. It is believed that this is the orisha that watches over the cadaver when it is laid to rest. Castrated goats, hens, pigeons, and guinea hens Taboos: Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes. However, initiation into his cult is becoming a rare phenomenon.\nPast scholars and Olorishas have argued that it originated in Egypt or the desert areas.\nOba has no roads. When she cries, she does so out of joy: For more information and to book a tour during your stay in the Eternal city: Paul's Cathedral in London. No less vast was its crypt. Inthe broad frieze below the dome with its false windows was \"restored,\" but bore little resemblance to the original.\nThe Government tried unsuccessfully to sue the group for the intervention. Genevieve was finally completed incoinciding with the early stages of the French Revolution. White with silver trimmings Beads: The administration stopped the clock from working by removing one of its parts.\nAs far back asthis site was chosen by King Clovis - the first Frankish Merovingian King - for a basilica to serve as a tomb for him and his wife Clothilde. Concealed flying buttresses pass the massive weight of the triple construction outwards to the portico columns.\nThe foundations were laid inbut due to economic problems work proceeded slowly. Mary of the Martyrs but to most people it is simply known as the Pantheon. The cross of the dome, which was retained in compromise, is again visible during the current major restoration project.\nIt houses the Economics Graduate School.Panthéon: Panthéon, building in Paris that was begun about by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot as the Church of Sainte-Geneviève to replace a much older church of that name on the same site. It was secularized during the French Revolution and dedicated to.\nThe Pantheon boasts 16 massive columns for the inner area of the Portico. There are many famous monuments all over the world modelled on the Pantheon in Rome such as; such as the US Capitol Building, the Pantheon in Paris, Santa Maria del fiore in Florence and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.\nREDUCED PRICE. Under 26 YO for not a national of a Member State of the European Union. With eight hundred years of excellence to build on, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a descendant of the Sorbonne and the Faculty of Law and Economics of Paris, is one of the largest universities in France today.\nA neo-Classical church situated in the Latin Quarter and 5th arrondissement of Paris, from here, on the top of Montagne Sainte Geneviève, you'll get a pigeon's eye view over the whole city! In early life, the Panthéon was an abbey, built in commemoration of Saint Genevieve (the patron saint of Paris).5/5().\nThe Panthéon (Latin: pantheon, from Greek πάνθειον (ἱερόν) '(temple) to all the gods') is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, jimmyhogg.com was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics but, after many changes, now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.\nGlobalization germany and the european union essay\nGood research paper topics for middle school\nAsiana airlines seat assignment\nWhy mental preparedness in sports is as important as physical training\nCollege essay editing service\nWal martmarketing plan phase i essay\nRoadside dhaba case study essay\nSolvency ii unit-linked business plan\nMaster of arts creative writing uts\nThe use of assistive technologies information technology essay\nSynchronous generator","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line923088"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8709326386451721,"wiki_prob":0.8709326386451721,"text":"Political parties the same\nTHE EDITOR: Do politicians really have the interests of the country at heart? Are politicians…\nCorey Connelly\nOsaze’s Easter miracle\nBoy, 13, gets life-saving heart surgery\nOsaze Badal is an altar server at St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Sangre Grande. He underwent life-saving heart surgery on March 28 during Holy Week. PHOTOS COURTESY THE BADALS\nIn his parents’ eyes, Osaze Badal is an Easter miracle.\nOn March 28, in the middle of Holy Week, the Sangre Grande teen underwent life-saving heart surgery at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), Mt Hope some five years after being diagnosed with a serious defect.\nAnd while he is recovering splendidly from the near three-hour-long operation, it would be months before Osaze can participate fully in football, swimming, athletics and dancing– activities he has enjoyed for much of his 13 years.\n“I’m good,” he says of his convalescence.\n“I’m not in pain anymore. But I have to hold off on sports because the doctor said I would need six weeks to heal and six months before I could become totally active again.”\nOsaze told Sunday Newsday he was extremely grateful for the love and support of his parents, Clifton and Camille Jack-Badal, as well as the team of doctors who performed the procedure.\nJack-Badal, a secondary school teacher, said they were relieved and overwhelmed their son has made it through the operation successfully.\n“I am still a little bit in shock but I am overwhelmed. I am praising God profusely,” said Jack-Badal, a devout Roman Catholic.\n“I am experiencing mixed emotions but I am thankful that this has happened at the time in which it did - Holy Week.”\nPraising the work of the team of doctors, Jack-Badal said she and her husband could not have desired better for their son.\nShe said the horror stories she has sometimes heard about the EWMSC was a far cry from what they experienced.\nDespite the high level of competence and professionalism shown in the handling of Osaze’s case, though, Jack-Badal is convinced there is an inherent spiritual dimension to their son being afforded a new life.\nShe said the manner in which the events leading up to her son’s surgery unfolded has renewed her faith in divine intervention.\nJack-Badal revealed that Osaze, which means “favoured by God” in Hebrew, turned 13 on March 21 and received the phone call for his surgical procedure– an anomalous right coronary artery reimplantation– four days later, on Palm Sunday.\nOsaze Badal at his Sangre Grande home. He says he feels good after heart surgery last month.\nCoincidentally, Osaze was born on Palm Sunday, March 21, 2005.\nJack-Badal explained the surgery was to rectify Osaze’s right coronary artery which had become intertwined with his aortic valve.\nNow, optimistic that the worst is over, Jack-Badal said she and her husband are humbled by the blessings they have received.\nThey also have vowed to never take for granted the experiences they share with their two young children.\nAn energetic, fun-loving teen, the Holy Cross College student was diagnosed as having a bicuspid valve when he was just nine years-old.\nAccording to wikipedia, a bicuspid valve is an inherited form of heart disease in which two of the leaflets of the aortic valve fuse during development in the womb resulting in a two-leaflet valve (bicuspid valve) instead of the normal three leaflet (tricuspid).\nJack-Badal said she learnt, then, the condition was not life-threatening.\n“People with bicuspid valve live to a ripe old age and it only bothers them when they are in their 70s.”\nShe said the condition would have simply required that he visit a paediatric cardiologist, annually, for a check-up.\nHowever, Jack-Badal said nine months after discovering the bicuspid valve, her son started experiencing seizure-like attacks.\n“He would stiffen up, gasp for breath and hold his chest in pain. Then we would rush him to the hospital.”\nJack-Badal said she and her husband quickly consulted the paediatric cardiologist (the only one in the country), whom she said, suggested the bicuspid valve would not have accounted for the seizures and discomfort he was experiencing.\nNevertheless, the cardiologist opted to run further examinations, which included an echo stress test and neurological test.\n“They were all good so she (cardiologist) put it down to mean panic anxiety attacks.”\nBut Osaze’s medical issues did not end there.\nIn his second week at Holy Cross College, last September, he passed out and was unconscious for about 45 minutes.\nOsaze was taken to the Arima Health Facility before being transferred to the EWMSC.\nJack-Badal said the doctors did not think the bicuspid valve would have accounted for his blackout but chalked it up to him entering puberty “so the hormone imbalance would sometimes cause pre-teens or teenagers to pass out.”\nThe doctors also advised that they again visit the paediatric cardiologist, whom Osaze had been seeing for the past five years.\nJack-Badal said when she took Osaze to visit the cardiologist, the doctor did not like what she saw and carried out further tests.\nJack-Badal said when the results came back in November, they learnt that their son’s right coronary artery was being compressed.\nShe said: “When the cardiologist broke it down for me, it was coming off on the wrong side of where it was supposed to come off and was going between the two valves and being restricted somewhat.\n“That is what caused the black-out and that is what has been causing all of his problems all along, which she mistakenly took for panic/anxiety attacks.”\nSaying the condition was rare, Jack-Badal learnt that puberty also played a role in masking the condition.\nShe said the cardiologist also told them that surgery was the only option to rectify Osaze’s problem, since it came with no symptoms and could result in death.\nJack-Badal said she and her husband did not waste any time.\nThey sought advice from a variety of sources, one of whom advised them to seek a second opinion from a visiting cardiologist.\nAnd as fate would have it, the cardiologist, she said, requested copies of Osaze’s medical report to take to the US for further consultation.\nDuring that time, the Badals had accumulated some funding through barbecues and other events to assist with their son’s surgery.\nThe also consulted with officials at the Children’s Life Fund, whom they said were extremely helpful both in consultancy and in fast-tracking the procedure.\nJack-Badal said her son was scheduled to have done the surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, in June.\n“We got through with the funding and we were going there to do it and bam, out of the blue, unexpectedly, coming out of nowhere, Caribbean Heart Care (Medcorp Ltd) called on (Palm) Sunday and they asked us to bring him in.”\nThe surgery was performed last Wednesday.\nAsked what is her advice to parents who are experiencing a similar dilemma with their children, Jack-Badal told Sunday Newsday: “The best advice I can give to them is to pray and trust that God will work it out and he (God) showed me no less than in Holy Week.”\nShe said Osaze, an altar boy at St Francis of Assisi RC Church, Sangre Grande, was preparing for the Easter Triduum at the time he got the call to prep for surgery.\n“He had the surgery done to save his life and glorify God. He (God) had prepared him to enter into this time of pain and suffering with him. That is the significance of what God did at this time.”\nJack-Badal thanked the priests at the church as well as Frs Trevor Nathasingh and Jason Boatswain for their prayers and support.\nShe said she also was grateful for the support of staff at Franciscan House and members of the Holy Cross College and Arima North Secondary communities.\nJack-Badal said the family has planned a thanksgiving service for Osaze at St Francis of Assisi RC Church on Sunday.\nReply to \"Osaze’s Easter miracle\"\nPraise Festival rocks square\nSaga Boy culture","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line104227"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.780178427696228,"wiki_prob":0.780178427696228,"text":"A Message from the Dean on Inclusive Excellence\nGillings Equal Opportunity Statement\nDiversity and Inclusion Planning\nOur Journey to Inclusive Excellence\nDiversity Outreach, Recruitment and Programs\nA Legacy of Diversity and Inclusion\nMinority Health Project\nMinority Student Caucus\nMinority Health Conference\nNational Health Equity Research Webcast\nStudent Affairs / 263 Rosenau Hall / (919) 966-2499\nDean's Office / 170 Rosenau Hall / (919) 966-3215\nBusiness and Administration / 170 Rosenau Hall / (919) 966-3215\nAcademic Affairs / 170 Rosenau Hall / (919) 966-3215\nBarbara K. Rimer, DrPH\nWelcome! Since the beginning of the UNC School of Public Health (named the Gillings School of Global Public Health in 2008), nearly 80 years ago, our faculty, students and staff have sought to create and enhance a diverse and inclusive environment, even as we contributed to the social and physical conditions to support health for all. Diversity and inclusion are central to our mission to improve public health promote individual well-being and eliminate health inequities across North Carolina and around the world. In 2011, our school’s leaders created a statement about our commitment to diversity and inclusion. Read it here. In this section, I provide a detailed description about some of our history and activities that show our commitment to increasing diversity, inclusive excellence and reducing inequities. Here’s a very short version.\nShort take. Our faculty, staff and students have been committed to increasing diversity and reducing health inequities from the earliest days of the School. There should be no question about it: we are committed to reducing health and other inequities and increasing diversity and inclusive excellence. We do not tolerate discrimination, bullying, harassment or sexual misconduct. In my blog, Monday Morning, I write frequently about these issues, including a post on the toppling of Silent Sam, the confederate monument on UNC’s campus, in August 2018.\nThe first cohort of health education students at North Carolina Negroes College. Faculty from UNC’s School of Public Health worked with leaders of the historically black college to create the program.\nWe’ve been working to advance health equity and reduce disparities for nearly as long as the School has existed. In 1945, a joint public health training program was established with North Carolina Central University (then the North Carolina Negroes College). Close partnerships with NCCU continue to this day. At a time when the South was segregated, people in this school were not intimidated by prevailing customs. That spirit is part of our school’s DNA. In the 1960s and 1970s, our faculty were among the most ardent supporters of desegregating what was still a segregated North Carolina.\nIn 1965, John Hatch, DrPH, who became a Kenan Professor of Health Behavior, was one of the courageous leaders who started the first rural community health center in the U.S. – in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, with Jack Geiger, MD, while Hatch was an assistant professor at the Tufts University Medical Center. It became a model for others across the country. Hear the story in their words. Watch a video about the Delta Health Center.\nSPH2020, a renewed commitment to diversity and inclusion. In 2010, our School’s leadership engaged in a strategic planning process, SPH2020, in which we asked faculty, staff, students and alumni to weigh in about their vision for the Gillings School in 2020. Hundreds shared their thoughts, and a Diversity and Inclusion Task Force was formed, creating a report that would serve as our roadmap going forward.\nWe’re still leaders. For example:\nO.J. McGhee, MA, Instructional Media Services manager, has served as chair of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina Black Caucus from 2015 to 2018.\nOur National Health Equity Research Webcast each fall highlights some of the nation’s most pressing issues in diversity, inclusion and health equity and emphasizes justice- and community-led approaches to fostering health equity research.\nDirk Davis, MPH, PhD candidate, Health Behavior, and May Chen, MPH, PhD candidate, Health Behavior, created the LGBTQ Health Disparities Research Collaborative in 2017 as a place where students and faculty can discuss critical issues surrounding LGBTQ health.\nPeggye Dilworth Anderson, PhD, professor of Health Policy and Management, was honored in May 2018 with the University Diversity Award.\nIn spring 2018, I was appointed to the North Carolina Governor’s newly formed Commission on Inclusion, which advises and identifies policies and measures for the state to promote inclusion and address discrimination, harassment and retaliation based on prohibited grounds.\nIn February 2019, we celebrate the 40th year of the Minority Health Conference, the largest and longest running student-led health conference in U.S.\nWhere we are today. Over the past couple years, we have come together as a community to reflect at various times on current events that have shaken members of our community. We’ve supported students leading Black Lives Matter, taken new steps to increase the diversity of our faculty, staff and students, revised our leadership statement about diversity and inclusion, and hosted major events as part of the yearly Minority Health Conference and National Health Equity Research Webcast. We are proud that the Minority Health Conference is the largest and longest-running student-led health conference in the U.S. In 2019, we celebrate 40 years!\nKauline Cipriani, PhD\nBecoming more diverse and inclusive. Like most universities and schools, we are not where we’d like to be, and we continue to work even harder to get there. We are not standing still. In the past year, I have written blog posts and spoken out on issues such as zero tolerance for discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying. To repeat, we do not tolerate these behaviors, and they violate UNC policies.\nOur campus was roiled by the presence of confederate statue, Silent Sam, and saw its toppling in August 2018. I also have written about that. Just to be clear: I do not believe that confederate statues belong on public university campuses.\nI’m delighted that, in February 2018, Kauline Cipriani, PhD, joined the Gillings School as assistant dean for inclusive excellence. Dr. Cipriani is collaborating with people across the School and University to help us become more diverse and inclusive. She is working with our faculty, staff and students and with others across campus, including Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN.\nOur Office of Student Affairs team is committed to inclusive excellence. Stop by their office Monday through Friday. Trinnette Cooper, MPH, coordinator for Diversity Programs and Recruitment, who works in our Office of Student Affairs, is another excellent resource and holds weekly hours for students.\nTrinnette Cooper, MPH\nWe take seriously our accountability for increasing inclusive excellence and track metrics for faculty, staff and students. We’re also being systematic about ensuring that all MPH students meet critical competencies in this domain.\nIn Fall 2018, we launched a new MPH concentration on Health Equity, Social Justice and Human Rights, and our Global Health concentration will have a strong emphasis on global health equity.\nThis is an amazing, welcoming, inclusive and civil community. We welcome people of all backgrounds, skills, preferences and interests to be part of the Gillings School community.\n–Barbara K. Rimer, DrPH, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line191315"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.813326895236969,"wiki_prob":0.813326895236969,"text":"CBS C.E.O. Les Moonves to Be Investigated Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations\nShari Redstone\n“The Nuclear Option”: With CBS Going to Court, Shari Redstone’s “Kabuki Theater” Falls Apart\nWilliam D. Cohan\nAfter Les Moonves’s Downfall, CBS Investors Fear the Reign of Shari\nIf Moonves goes, as seems likely, it will be just a matter of time before Shari tries to merge CBS and Viacom for a third time. And that’s what CBS investors fear most.\nLes Moonves in New York City.By Krista Schlueter/The New York Times/Redux.\nHours before Ronan Farrow published his bombshell about Leslie Moonves in the The New Yorker, the stock market had already reached a verdict about the fate of the longtime CBS chairman and C.E.O. After The Hollywood Reporter released a story on Friday afternoon foreshadowing the piece, CBS’s stock fell as much as 7 percent, costing shareholders around $1.4 billion in value. The stock recovered a bit on Friday before falling another 4 percent or so on Monday morning. As one longtime CBS loyalist told me, the market was rapidly calculating Moonves’s value to the company in real time, presupposing the conclusion of his titanic 12-year run.\nI respectfully disagree with this proposition. As Charles de Gaulle observed correctly, “The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.” Yes, the absence of Moonves may be a factor in some investors’ minds for the rout. But the bigger concern, as it has been for two years, is that Moonves was the final defense against Shari Redstone’s irrepressible plan to recombine CBS and Viacom, against the stated wishes of her nonagenarian father. Only six years after Viacom bought CBS for around $35 billion, in 2000, Sumner Redstone realized that the long hoped-for synergies between the two companies—broadcast television and a once powerful cable network—had failed to materialize and that both companies would be better off on their own. But Shari has been trying to engineer a merger ever since she assumed Sumner’s position as the controlling shareholder in both companies in 2015. Without Moonves as her counterweight, Shari will much more easily be able to swat away the CBS directors who have been steadfastly loyal to Moonves and, as a result, have long opposed the re-unification with Viacom. In other words, investors aren’t calculating Moonves’s value; they are figuring out the burdens of life under Shari and a recombined CBS and Viacom.\nCBS shareholders have had a great ride under Moonves. The company’s stock has as much as tripled since he took the helm of the independent public company in 2006. The fate of Viacom, meanwhile, has been much different: its stock has tread water since it returned to independence, down around 30 percent. Viewership at its cable channels, such as Nickelodeon and Comedy Central, has been falling steadily for years. There has also been considerable management turmoil at Viacom, with the exits of longtime executives Philippe Dauman, Tom Dooley, and Carl Folta, among others. The company is in the hands of Shari’s handpicked C.E.O. Bob Bakish. Now, things may get a little hairy. Shari has tried twice in the past few years to force a re-merger between CBS and Viacom and both times her efforts have failed, in large part because the CBS shareholders voted with their feet, so to speak, by selling their stock in the face of the proposed merger. A year ago, after Shari’s second effort to merge the companies began in earnest, CBS stock was trading at around $70 per share. As Shari kept pushing for the merger, the CBS stock fell into the high $40s. It had returned to nearly $60 a share by mid-July after it was clear to the market—thanks to dueling lawsuits in the Delaware Chancery between CBS and the Redstone’s holding company—that there would be no merger this time either.\nOn Monday, the CBS board of directors decided to keep Moonves in place, for now, as it selects an outside law firm to conduct an independent investigation into his alleged behavior. But if Moonves ultimately goes, as seems likely, it will presumably be just a matter of time before Shari tries to merge CBS and Viacom once more. And that’s what CBS investors fear most. True, Shari would have some purging to do at CBS before she gets her way. She would have to make it clear to Joe Ianniello, Moonves’s likely successor, that there is a new sheriff in town. That shouldn’t be hard to do, especially if Shari makes clear that, if he doesn’t play ball with her, Bakish will be his successor once the two companies are merged. (That may happen anyway.) She will also likely want to continue her ongoing efforts to stack the 14-member CBS board with her loyalists. In addition to her own vote, she has others locked up: Rob Klieger, one of her family’s attorneys, and David Andelman, a Boston attorney who has long been loyal to Sumner. She is in the process of trying to remove Chad Gifford, a respected Wall Street banker, whom she has accused of bullying “intimidating and bullying” behavior. He has long opposed her initiatives to merge Viacom and CBS. If her court filings are any indication, she doesn’t like him. And she is determined to get him off the CBS board, and will probably succeed in doing so. Shari will soon have another ally on the CBS board—Dick Parsons, the former C.E.O. of AOL Time Warner—when the CBS annual meeting is reconvened, after a litigation-related postponement, in August, and another opponent, Arnold Kopelson, presumably leaves the board.\nShari also must resolve the pending litigation between CBS and her holding company. A trial is scheduled for October before Judge Andre Bouchard, where CBS will try to win his approval to issue enough new stock dividends to dilute Shari’s near-80 percent voting stake in CBS down to a still formidable 17 percent. The Redstones, understandably, are trying to block that maneuver. While both sides have the best Wall Street attorneys money can buy, and are certain of the correctness of their legal arguments, the market has long decided that the fight is really one between Moonves and Shari, who, although once allies in their dislike of Dauman, now detest each other. With Moonves gone, there will be less impetus for the blood feud to continue. Look for Ianniello and the CBS board to find a way to settle with Shari, with her getting the better part of that outcome.\nWith a CBS-Viacom merger back on track, Shari will be in a position to achieve her ultimate goal: to find a tax-efficient way to sell the merged companies to another large corporate entity in the vein of the recently completed AT&T-Time Warner merger. Perhaps the likes of Verizon, or Amazon, or Apple, or maybe even a deflated Facebook might be interested. But perhaps not. It’s quite possible that Viacom will drag CBS down to its level and the combined business will flounder, and find no corporate takers in the market. Rather than wait around and see whether that happens or not, the smart money at CBS is heading for the exits.\nThat Shari now has the best chance to not only be her father’s successor but to openly defy his wishes—while he is still alive, no less—is the ultimate irony, as she herself must realize. You can take your pick of the e-mails she has sent her children over the years. In a September 2014 e-mail to her son Tyler, Shari wrote about why she rejected her father’s $1 billion offer to buy her out of the family’s holding company: “Why would I ever give [Sumner] his dying wish of peace when he never gave me any peace during my whole life.” In October 2014, she wrote her daughter, after she had called her grandfather, “I can’t believe you keep calling him when he could not make it any clearer that all of us could drop dead and it would be the happiest day of his life.” That same day, to all of her children, Shari wrote, “It could be [sic] not be more clear that the only people in the entire world who your grandfather doesn’t care about, and [in] fact is willing to hurt, damage, and destroy are the four of us.” Sumner himself appears to have perceived the morbid endgame. In July 2015, after Shari saw her father in Los Angeles, she again wrote Tyler, “your grandfather says I will be chair over his dead body.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line599503"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5735532641410828,"wiki_prob":0.42644673585891724,"text":"Adventure into the Past — How to Use GhostTowns.com & Credit Card Rewards to Explore Forgotten Towns\nIn a Nutshell: What good is a vacation if it doesn’t stoke your sense of adventure, inspire your creativity, and leave you with more memories than debt? Most popular destinations are fun once or twice, but the drag of standing in line, sitting in traffic, or laying down excessive amounts of money gets old. For more than two decades, Todd Underwood has guided visitors to memorable trips to some of America’s most remote areas through his website, GhostTowns.com. These towns can include remote locations or flourishing tourist towns. Nearly every state has a ghost town or two to visit, but most ghost towns reside in the southwest region of the US, where settlers moved more than a century ago to seek their riches while mining for precious metals.\nEveryone loves a good vacation. If you’re taking the time to read this, chances are you’re sitting at your desk right now, dreaming about your next getaway from the real world.\nI’ve been there. But don’t worry, I won’t tell your boss.\nVeteran travelers realize the point of a vacation is to escape from the everyday grind of life. So what is the use of visiting the same big-city destinations that have you fighting traffic, waiting in line, and needing a vacation just to decompress after your vacation?\nInstead of going to the same places everyone else in your office is going to, why not use those credit card travel rewards you’ve built up to visit a place where the number of stories its buildings tell is greater than its population?\nTodd Underwood of GhostTowns.com has spent the better part of the last 30 years mastering these types of trips so he could make them a reality for adventure seekers around the world. The site is an information resource on ghost towns in the American West, complete with interactive maps and photos. And Underwood and his team offer guided tours to many of the historic ghost towns and mining camps of Arizona.\nUnderwood classifies a ghost town as any place that is a shadow of its past glory and where people once lived, or are still living. This can include remote locations with very little physical structure remaining (referred to by enthusiasts as True Ghosts), or they can be flourishing tourist towns such as Jerome, Arizona, or Calico, California.\nThese sites can sometimes be relatively intact from their heyday a century ago. From silver mining towns to rural villages, Underwood has visited and explored areas most people think only exist on movie sets. In each area, he maintains the biggest rule among ghost towners — take nothing with you and leaving nothing behind but footprints.\nUnderwood, a chemistry professor turned pilot, moved to Arizona as a youngster in the 1970s and quickly adopted his father’s love for the Old West.\n“We used to get our hair cut at a barbershop called Don’s that also sold metal detectors and made regular excursions to ghost towns,” Underwood said. “It wasn’t long before we bought a pair of detectors and a four-wheel drive vehicle and started trying to find ghost towns.”\nThose early trips became a passion for Underwood, who has since visited over 1,000 ghost towns. Today, he hosts tours in Arizona for adventure seekers who want to experience a piece of history without waiting in line or fighting for space to take a picture.\nBut ghost towns aren’t unique to Arizona and other areas synonymous with the Wild West. Thousands of ghost towns are scattered throughout the country. Some are accessible at any time of year via paved road, and others require more planning, equipment, and expertise to explore.\nA Four-Wheel Drive into Areas Otherwise Inaccessible\nA trip to a True Ghost is nothing like your average vacation at a theme park. The rocky four-wheel drive off the beaten path of civilization sends dust flying and wind whistling through caves and cliffs uninhabited for decades or longer.\nWhile many experienced explorers need multiple trips through abandoned mines or across rugged terrain to find certain sites, a thriving community of enthusiasts share their experiences and findings to make it easier for newcomers to find what they’re looking for.\nTodd Underwood guides adventure-seeking travelers into ghost towns in Arizona.\nSome more advanced thrill-seekers use modern technology such as drones to cover more ground and explore areas previously thought to be inaccessible.\n“Our website provides two-wheel drive (2WD) or four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicles for each town,” Underwood said. “Generally for 2WD locations, you can take a car or light truck, but 4WD can get you almost anywhere. You may need an outfitted jeep, an ATV, a good pair of hiking shoes, a mountain bike, or more.”\nUnderwood’s website hosts a gallery of dozens of photos submitted by travelers who visited various ghost towns in the past. Each photograph is a glimpse into a life once lived by settlers who sought new territories to find their fortune.\nDespite the fascinating remains from these civilizations, Underwood said the most thrilling part of the adventure takes place before you step foot in any ghost town.\n“The best part of visiting a ghost town is the adventure getting there,” he said. “Some sites are inaccessible most of the year whereas some are accessible all year. Some are located on paved highways so there’s not much in the way of a challenge to find them and get to them. Others are very remote and require not only a great off-road vehicle or good hiking skills, but also require the ability to use GPS and other sources to locate the sites.”\n“Feel the Spirit of Those Who Were There”\nTraveling to a ghost town can require something as quick as a drive down the highway or as long as an all-day hike. As with most things in life, not all ghost towns are created equal.\nSome ghost towns contain still intact remnants of their history.\n“Visiting Jerome, Arizona, is a simple trip up a paved road that takes an hour or two,” Underwood said. “But getting to most true ghost towns requires a full day of travel. Some ghost towns are remote, but easily accessible, especially in the summer. These would require about a half-day of travel from the nearest town.”\nUnderwood said some of his favorite ghost towns to visit are Old Hundred, Animas Forks, and Holy Cross in Colorado, and Jerome, Ruby, and Gillette in Arizona.\nOld Hundred, he pointed out, requires a treacherous hike on a cliff to get to, but the payoff is the pleasure of taking in the amazing views from the side of a mountain.\n“Each town is unique and offers different challenges and rewards,” he said.\nGhost Towns are a Reflection of Our Past\nGhost Towns offer something different for every adventurous traveler and provide an experience no typical tourist attraction can create.\n“Ghost towns are a reflection of our past,” Underwood said. “It’s like looking at ourselves through a time machine and seeing the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the human spirit. When you are standing at a ghost town site, you can feel the spirit of those who were there.”\nThose sights and sounds are a far cry from the bright lights and big cities most people think about when they consider vacation destinations. Instead, ghost towns give travelers an opportunity to unplug from the busy everyday world and reconnect with a simpler time.\n“You can hear the horses trotting and the stagecoach wheels coming through,” Underwood said. “You can hear the pounding of the mills and the piano player coming from the saloon. You can get a glimpse of what life was like for our ancestors and pioneers. Of course, some visit just for the challenge of getting there — to test their skills of finding these lost locations.”\nBen Schlappig Shares how he Maximizes Credit Rewards to Travel the World\nAmber Brooks • July 8, 2016\nUse Travel Rewards to Stay at San Francisco’s Historic Palace Hotel\nSuzanne Wentley • May 11, 2018\nCash in Credit Card Rewards to Visit Lake Tahoe’s Camp Richardson\nJon McDonald • May 14, 2018\nJazz Up Credit Card Rewards Usage at New Orleans’ Windsor Court Hotel\nRay FitzGerald • June 4, 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1479635"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.617763876914978,"wiki_prob":0.617763876914978,"text":"End Child Hunger in Alabama's five-year review reveals progress toward total food security\nBy Charlotte Bedsole | 5/11/19 2:17pm\nAUBURN, Ala. - As the first outreach initiative of the Hunger Solutions Institute at Auburn University, End Child Hunger in Alabama has reduced the number of children in Alabama suffering from food insecurity in only five years.\nOne in four children and youth in Alabama suffer from food insecurity. Because Auburn University is a land-grant institution, it was important to focus on the statewide issue of child hunger.\nThe rate of child hunger in Alabama decreased almost four percent in the last five years, according to Alabama Possible, a statewide nonprofit organization.\nEnd Child Hunger in Alabama’s mission has been to identify, address and implement solutions related to child hunger issues in the state. Since Gov. Kay Ivey launched it in 2013, the initiative has compiled a report, which gives details about their impact through collaboration and intense efforts over the last five years.\n“I have had the privilege of being involved with the End Child Hunger in Alabama campaign since its kickoff. The work being done is making huge strides in putting an end to child hunger,” Ivey said. “These are not hungry children in foreign countries, these are hungry children right here in Alabama, in our communities, urban and rural. I applaud everyone involved but especially the Hunger Solutions Institute at Auburn University for working to end child hunger in Alabama and for being a shining example to others across the country.\"\nEnd Child Hunger in Alabama, or ECHA, is a task force made up of leaders from state government and nonprofit organizations, as well as the education and corporate sectors. Their goals include improving Alabama's food assistance safety net for youth, creating a strong regional food system, generating public will to fight childhood hunger, increasing economic stability, supporting community action to benefit children's health, and preventing obesity.\nECHA's efforts to achieve each of their goals resulted in positive impacts and an increased number of outreach initiatives fighting childhood hunger. The ECHA Five-Year Review gives detailed descriptions of the program's successes, such as efforts to end the summer nutrition gap.\nAlabama's summer food service program, Break for a Plate, served a record 3 million meals in 2018. The program has nearly doubled in the last five years as a result of ECHA's actions. Because of this success, the United States Department of Agriculture now uses Break for a Plate as a national example of the best ways to expand food service programs in summer.\n“In this five-year review, we are pleased to report that our collective action has shown positive impact in all of our five goal areas,” said Auburn University Hunger Solutions Institute Managing Director Harriet Giles. “Most importantly, we are so heartened to see significantly greater numbers of children having access to and participating in summer feeding, after school and alternative school breakfast programs. However, we readily acknowledge our work will never be complete as long as one child in Alabama goes hungry.”\nECHA will continue to expand their outreach efforts across the state over the next five years, using their goals prioritize action.\nTo learn more about ECHA and view the full five-year review, visit www.endchildhungeral.org.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1560366"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5240819454193115,"wiki_prob":0.4759180545806885,"text":"Home › Industry Updates › Mortgage Industry › Detroit leads nation in reverse mortgage foreclosures\nDetroit leads nation in reverse mortgage foreclosures\nPosted on June 17, 2019 by Posted in Mortgage Industry\nMichele McCoy always thought she and her siblings would inherit the house she grew up in on Decatur Street on Detroit’s west side.\nHer father, a Detroit Police officer, and her mother, a schoolteacher, bought the three-bedroom bungalow in the late 1960s after moving here from Wheeling, West Virginia.\n“It would be part of our family legacy because that was the first property my family bought when they moved to Michigan,” McCoy, 55, said.\nMichele McCoy of Champaign, Illinois speaks about how her parents, now in their 90s, lost their Detroit home after taking out a reverse mortgage. (Photo: Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press)\nBut that changed after a visit nearly 20 years ago from a door-to-door representative of a reverse mortgage lender.\nThe house on Decatur now is one of 1,884 reverse mortgage foreclosures in Detroit between 2013 and 2017. No other city in the country has seen more in that span, according to a USA Today analysis of 1.3 million loan records and hundreds of foreclosure cases. The Free Press and USA Today reporters reviewed data and conducted interviews in recent weeks to try and understand why Detroit and other urban communities have borne the brunt of the reverse mortgage foreclosure trend.\nReverse mortgages work like this: Lenders appraise the value of a house and allow homeowners to borrow back money against that market value.\nBorrowers can stop making monthly mortgage payments, and they can stay put for life, so long as they maintain the home and pay property taxes and insurance. For years, reverse mortgages required no credit check and government-mandated financial counseling can be as easy as a 20-minute phone call.\nMichele McCoy grew up in this house on Decatur St. on the west side of Detroit. (Photo: Joe Guillen, Detroit Free Press)\nAt the end — a move-out, death or default — the bank calls the loan due, to be paid back either by the sale of the home or an heir or homeowner repaying the loan money. Lenders and their investors make their money through origination fees that can top $15,000 with fees and mortgage insurance, and by charging interest on the loan balance.\nReverse mortgage lenders targeted Detroit and other large urban areas over the last couple decades, sometimes with misleading sales tactics.\nNearly 100,000 of the loans designed for seniors to generate some cash have now failed nationwide, leaving those elderly borrowers to navigate the often-unforgiving foreclosure process\nMcCoy’s parents, William and Virginia Creighton, took out an $84,000 reverse mortgage in 2000 on the home for repairs. The house needed a roof, pipe work in the basement and a furnace, McCoy said.\nThe Creightons fell behind on their property taxes and lost the house to foreclosure in 2016. Fannie Mae sold the property the next year to Paramount Consortium, a Warren-based company, for $4,500 — an amount so paltry that McCoy said she wouldn’t share with her parents.\nThey are now both in their 90s and live in an apartment in Westland. Looking back, McCoy said she doesn’t think her father fully understood the reverse mortgage.\n“He was just confused,” she said.\nDetroit edged out Chicago — with a population quadruple Detroit’s — to lead the nation in reverse mortgage foreclosures from 2013 to 2017.\nWhat’s more, Detroit has three of the top 10 ZIP codes in the United States for reverse mortgage foreclosure in the last five years. Those ZIP codes are 48221, which includes the University District, and two others nearby, 48235 and 48227.\nDetroit was ripe for reverse mortgage lenders in the past couple decades because of its high senior population and the high number of homeowners with equity built into their homes. Even if the city’s homes were declining in value, Detroit was attractive for lenders who could rake in closing costs and other fees.\nFor low-income seniors who needed help with living expenses or home repairs, a reverse mortgage seemed like an attractive option to secure a new cash flow. Borrowers must be at least 62 years old to qualify for a reverse mortgage.\n“You have a large population of homeowners with equity built into their homes,” said Joshua Akers, an assistant professor of geography and urban regional studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. “You have a large senior population that is also looking for additional income.”\nSeniors who take out a reverse mortgage are still responsible for their property taxes and home insurance, and a missed payment can trigger a foreclosure. Loans also come due for surviving family members after the death of the borrower. If the family does not cover the loan balance, the lender can foreclose on the property.\nThe effects of reverse mortgage foreclosures are particularly devastating for seniors. Many are out of the job market, making it more difficult to rebound from losing their home.\n“For many Americans, the home is their greatest asset. They’re putting it on the line,” Akers said. “For a lot of these seniors, losing their home is the last thing they had.”\nDetroit’s place at the top is emblematic of a national pattern.\nReverse mortgages end in foreclosure six times more often in predominantly black neighborhoods than in neighborhoods that are 80% white.\nEven comparing only poorer areas, black neighborhoods fare worse. In ZIP codes where most residents make less than $40,000, the analysis found reverse mortgage foreclosure rates were six times higher in black neighborhoods than in white ones.\nChicago was second in USA Today’s analysis of reverse mortgage foreclosures with 1,846 from 2013 to 2017. Baltimore had 1,516; Miami 1,329; and Philadelphia had 1,027 to round out the nation’s top five.\nOne Reverse Mortgage, part of the Detroit-based Quicken Loans family of companies, is an industry leader. It made $788 million worth of government-backed reverse mortgages in 2018, the second-highest behind American Advisors Group, which issued $2.7 billion in loans, according to Inside Mortgage Finance, a company that tracks mortgage statistics.\nGregg Smith, CEO of One Reverse Mortgage, said home equity should be factored into seniors’ financial plans. “It empowers the senior to utilize the equity in their home in a way they deem to fit their needs,” he said.\nMost of One Reverse Mortgage’s loans, by volume, are in California, Florida and Texas — places with high populations and home values, Smith said. The company was not very active in Detroit from 2001 to 2009. It only originated 17 loans in that time, according to USA Today’s data.\nBefore finalizing a loan with One Reverse Mortgage, seniors undergo a financial assessment and counseling session where obligations like property taxes and home insurance are explained, Smith said, adding that his company has been up front and clear with borrowers throughout its existence, which dates to 2001.\n“From our perspective, I think we do an amazing job with every client and putting them in a position to succeed,” he said.\nMary Jo Homrich, 80, said the reverse mortgage she took out from AAG four years ago on her home in Portage has worked out well.\n“I have money I can draw from it if I needed,” Homrich said. “I’m glad that money’s available because I’ve had to have a couple things done to the house.”\nHer home was worth about $120,000 and she used the reverse mortgage to pay off a $40,000 debt and obtain a $20,000 line of credit that can be used when she needs it. Homrich, a retired bookkeeper, said she has talked with her children about the loan and makes sure to stay up to date on her property taxes and insurance.\n“I’m hoping I can stay here for another 10, 15 years. I plan on staying around,” she said. “It was a good deal for me.”\nBut in Detroit, housing advocates and legal aid lawyers have seen families suffer as a result of reverse mortgages.\nIn the mid-2000s, risks of foreclosure often were not clear. Some advertisements for reverse mortgages even claimed that borrowers would not have to make any payments, said Joe McGuire, a staff attorney in Detroit for Michigan Legal Services.\n“There was an era, especially during the mortgage boom, where there was pretty unscrupulous pushing of these,” McGuire said.\nMcGuire said he mainly sees two types of eviction cases stemming from reverse mortgages.\nThe first type of case involves a borrower who is alive but fell behind on property tax or insurance payments. Those payments previously may have been escrowed into the original mortgage bill. “It’s a big change for a lot of people to go from that to having to pay the property taxes and the insurance themselves,” he said.\nThe second common instance involves children who lived in the home of a deceased borrower. The house is foreclosed on to satisfy the loan, leaving the senior’s child to go from thinking they were going to inherit the house to getting evicted.\n“It’s very disruptive to people,” McGuire said. “With working-class people of color, most of the generational wealth is in the home and that home being passed on.”\nTypically, there is an opportunity for families to redeem homes lost to reverse mortgage foreclosure at a sheriff’s sale. The price is based on an appraisal by the federal government and may be less than the loan balance, said Kim Stroud, director of mortgage foreclosure prevention and land contract support for the United Community Housing Coalition in Detroit.\nStroud said UCHC has small loan program that can help with those redemption costs.\nSeniors considering a reverse mortgage should make sure to get counseling from an agency certified by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said Dannielle Laura, interim director of economic opportunity services for the Wayne Metro Community Action Agency.\n“It’s easy to think (a reverse mortgage) can be the answer to your prayers,” Laura said. “My advice would be that a little healthy skepticism never hurt anyone.”\nSource: Detroit leads nation in reverse mortgage foreclosures\n‹ Cuba’s generosity after Chernobyl\nQuicken Loans to pay $32.5 million to settle FHA lending case ›","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line51683"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8076239228248596,"wiki_prob":0.8076239228248596,"text":"Recruiting Target Brent Kennedy Makes Foot Locker Nationals\nWestern Pennsylvania's Brent Kennedy (New Kensington's Kiski Area high school) is squarely in Villanova's recruiting cross hairs. Villanova is competing against Syracuse, Notre Dame, Virginia, and Virginia Tech, all of whom are keen to land a commitment from Kennedy. We at Villanova Running showcased Kennedy recently HERE, at which point in time Kennedy had made campus recruiting visits to both Villanova and Syracuse. Since that post, which highlighted his runner-up performance at the Pennsylvania state cross country meet, Kennedy -- only a junior with another prep year remaining -- has gone on to qualify for Foot Locker Nationals in San Diego (see the top results of last weekend's Footlocker Northeast Regional below) by finishing 9th of 169 competitors at Van Cortlandt Park on November 24th. Commenting on the race, Kennedy admitted that \"I thought if I went out too fast, things definitely wouldn't work out for me. I went out through the mile pretty far back and really wasn't feeling great, but people started to come back (to me) through the Back Hills. I pulled up into about 15th place at the two-mile (mark) and was able to get those last six spots.\"\nFoot Locker Northeast Regional -- Top 10: Nationals Qualifiers\n1.  Cheserek, Edward  12   Newark          NJ   15:21.8\n2.  Green, Jonathan   12   Berlin          MA   15:36.8\n3.  Wilson, Shawn     12   Marlton         NJ   15:42.5\n4.  Shearn, Brendan   12   Frackville      PA   15:45.5\n5.  Kroon, Kyle       11   Toms River      NJ   15:46.0\n6.  Crawley, Trevor   12   Cumberland      RI   15:47.3\n7.  Norris, Max       12   Narberth        PA   15:48.3\n8.  Alvarado, Chris   11   Fairfield       CT   15:49.1\n9.  Kennedy, Brent    11   New Kensington  PA   15:50.9\n10.  Pondel, Austin    12   Columbus        PA   15:51.0\nToday, Kennedy posted his first journal entry as he leads up to the national championship race on Saturday, December 8th.\nWhat a season. I am truly honored to be part of such a historic year in PA cross country. I know the purpose of this journal is to share my training and race experiences and things like that, but I could not begin without thanking my family and coaches, Mr. Berzonsky and Mr. Arabia, for their complete dedication to maximizing my success as a person and a runner. Of course, a big thank you goes to my teammates for making running such a fun and enjoyable part of my life.\nOur team set our sights on making it back to the state meet for the second year in a row. Though we came up short, it would be impossible to view the year as a failure. Our personal successes reflect the hard work from everyone top to bottom on the squad. I was lucky enough to have a legitimate shot at winning every race I was in, losing to Vinny Todaro and Dan Jaskowak in some exciting races. My friends Tyler Snider and Patrick Miller did come up big (like always) at WPIALs and joined me for states. I carried my WPIAL win into Hershey with some confidence before having my hopes squandered by a CR from Tony Russell, a great guy by the way. The finish was a bit of a letdown and I am for sure being hard on myself, but I do feel like there are a hundred other kids that deserve to be second in the state and I am not going to look past that accomplishment.\nI headed into Foot Locker with some feelings of uncertainty. A new course, new competition, even new socks (lost the racing socks). Physically, after a long championship season, I felt sort of run-down. But you don’t want to hear me complain and it wasn’t all negative, believe it or not. I felt like I had a pretty good chance of making top ten with a smart race; my plan was to hang back through the flat first mile, then stay consistent through the woods.\nA few minutes before the race, Conner Quinn welcomed me to a spot on the line next to a swarm of fellow Pennsylvania runners, and I heard Brendan Shearn screaming his head off at the other end of the line, “PA don’t play!” That really got me going and I was finally ready to run. The race played out for me like I had hoped. I went through the mile at 5 flat, moved my way into the top 20 by the two mile point, and then hammered the down hills to finish with Austin Pondell. I made that sound pretty easy I guess, but I am looking forward to the yearlong break before hitting the hills at Van Cortlandt again.\nRunning for a team, in my opinion, is the most inspirational part of any cross country race. Representing Pennsylvania at Regionals was an aspect of the race I hadn’t really thought about before. It is so cool that I get to run for my state and the Northeast Region in San Diego next week. I can’t wait to get these couple weeks of training going and see how I match up against 39 of the top runners in the country.\nPosted by BC at 9:49 PM No comments:\nWilmington Tatnall's Julie Williams Commits to Villanova\nOn November 10th of this year Julie Williams of Wilmington, Delaware's Tatnall High School committed to run for Gina Procaccio's Villanova women's team. Williams committed after finishing second at the Delaware state cross country meet, where she ran 19:12.54 over the 5000 meter course. To date, Williams has found most success over 800, 1600, and 5000 meters.\nLast weekend Williams finished 18th (for the second straight year) at the Nike Cross Nationals Southeast Regional in Cary, NC. At the race, she improved her time from 2011 (18:31.40) to 18:15.50, a new PR. In 2011 Williams qualified for Nike Cross Nationals, where she finished 120th. In late September of this year, she came 23rd at the Great American Cross Country Festival, also in Cary, NC, running 18:22.40.\nOn the track, Williams finished third at the 2012 Delaware State meets (both indoor and outdoor) in both the 800 meters and 1600 meters.\nJulie's Mile Split page can be seen HERE. She presently boasts PRs of:\n2:16.00 (800 meters)\n4:55.07 (1600 meters)\n10:27.47 (3000 meters\n11:12.00 (3200 meters)\nNovember 28th a Good Day for Villanova Track:\nHappy Birthday to Sonia O'Sullivan & Bobby Curtis\nTwo of Villanova's all-time track heroes share November 28th as a birthday.\nOn this day in 1969 three-time world champion Sonia O'Sullivan was born in Cobh, Country Cork, Ireland. After winning two NCAA cross country individual titles (1991, 1992) as well as two NCAA 3000 meter titles (both indoors and outdoors in 1990) on the track for Villanova, O'Sullivan represented her native Ireland at four consecutive Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004). She won a silver medal over 5000 meters at the 2000 Games in Sydney, where she ran a blistering PR of 14:41.02. She won two world cross country titles (executing a rare short- and long-course double in 1998) as well as the 1995 world title in the 5000 meters on the track. She won a silver medal over 1500 meters as well at the 1993 World Championships. O'Sullivan was a three-time European Champion (over 3000, 5000, and 10,000 meters) and set World Records over 2000 meters (5:25.36 in July 1994), 2 miles (9:19.56 in June 1998), and 5000i meters (15:17.28 in January 1991). She is by virtually all accounts the greatest runner ever produced by the country of Ireland.\nNovember 28th is also the birthday of Villanova's most recent male individual NCAA champion. The new 28 year old won the NCAA 5000 meter title in 2008 and his time of 13:33.93 was the 10th fastest time ever run by a US collegiate athlete over that distance. He was Villanova's first NCAA outdoor male champion since 1981. Curtis had been the 5000 meter runner-up at the 2007 NCAA championships. Curtis was a 2-time Big East cross country champion (2004, 2007), won the 2007 NCAA Mid-Atlantic cross country regional, and finished as high as 4th (2007) at cross country nationals. He was a 2-time All-American in cross country. After graduating from Villanova, Bobby Curtis has developed into an international-class 10,000 meter runner and his 27:24.67 PR is the 7th fastest time ever run by a native-born American.\nPosted by BC at 8:42 AM No comments:\nKoons & Beamish Post Top-5 Finishes at Rothman 8K\nHugo Beamish\nOver 1800 competitors contested the Rothman 8K on the streets of Philadelphia on Saturday, and two former Villanova stars finished in the top five of their respective races. Former Rothman 8K race champion (2009 in 26:34) Frances Koons finished third, covering the 8K distance in 26:29, 47 seconds behind race winner Misiker Demassie of Ethiopia. On the men's side, Hugo Beamish, the former Big East 5000 meter champion, was one of 4 men to break Marcus O'Sullivan's 15 year old course record (23:03). Beamish came 4th in 23:02, 33 seconds behind Kenya's Isaac Korir. Former Villanova trackman Brandon Eck was 63rd in 28:41.\nRothman 8K -- Men\n1.  Isaac Korir       KEN   22:29  CR\n2.  Samuel Ndereba    KEN   22:47\n3.  Scott Smith       USA   22:47\n4.  Hugo Beamish      NZL   23:02\n5.  Mengistu Nebsi    ETH   23:03\nFrances Koons\nRothman 8K -- Women\n1.  Misiker Demessie  ETH   25:46\n2.  Amy Van Alstine   USA   25:59\n3.  Frances Koons     USA   26:29\n4.  Helen Jemutai     KEN   26:51\n5.  Erin Koch         USA   27:18\nFull searchable results from the race are HERE.\nPosted by BC at 12:08 AM No comments:\nVillanova Back in the Pack at NCAA Cross Nationals\nWomen Come 20th, Men 27th\nLipari earns All-American status with her 25th place finish\nThe Villanova men and women finished close to their national rankings at the NCAA cross country nationals yesterday: the #25 men finished in 27th place, while the #22 women came 20th. Neither team ran its best race of the year. For the men, the team's usual top two finishers (Sam McEntee and Jordy Williamsz) were the team's 3rd and 4th finishers. Topping the men's finishers were seniors Mathew Mildenhall (108th individually) and Matt Kane (145th individually). McEntee (150th) and Williamsz (161st) were next, and Rob Denault (166th) rounded out the top five. Alex Tully, on whose effort the Villanova men finished 2nd at Mid-Atlantic regionals, was unable to catch lightning in a bottle a second time. He came 198th, followed by Brian Basili in 234th place. As has been the case throughout the season, the men ran is a tight cluster, with a mere 26.7 seconds from 1-5. The good news for the men is that several key runners will return next year.\nThe full men's results are HERE.\nVillanova Men 587 places\n108/84    Mathew Mildenhall     30:50.0\n145/116   Matthew Kane          31:04.6\n150/120   Sam McEntee           31:06.6\n161/131   Jordy Williamsz       31:12.8\n166/137   Rob Denault           31:16.7\n198/(153) Alex Tully            31:39.6\n234/(197) Brian Basili          32:36.8\n2000     3215     4950     6910     5 mi     10K\nMildenhall     5:49     9:24     14:47    20:56    24:35    30:50.0\nKane           5:57     9:38     15:08    21:12    24:57    31:04.6\nMcEntee        5:51     9:29     14:54    20:58    24:52    31:06.6\nWilliamsz      5:46     9:23     14:51    21:00    24:55    31:12.8\nDenault        5:56     9:41     15:11    21:15    25:03    31:16.7\nTully          5:56     9:38     15:12    21:26    25:21    31:39.6\nBasili         6:00     9:48     15:28    21:47    25:50    32:36.8\nOn the women's side, Emily Lipari put in the best performance of the day for either team, as she finished 25th overall, good for All American status. Lipari finished in 20:05.6, about 38 seconds off race winner Betsy Saina of Iowa State. Nicky Akande, who won the NCAA Mid-Atlantic regional a week ago, struggled on the day, finishing well back in 95th place overall, some 41 seconds behind Lipari. As she has done all year, Summer Cook was Villanova's no. 3 finisher, just 5 seconds in arrears of Akande. The women's 1-5 split was 1:13.6.\nThe full women's results are HERE.\nVillanova Women 475 places\n25/18    Emily Lipari          20:05.6\n95/68    Nicky Akande          20:46.5\n110/82    Summer Cook           20:51.7\n173/136   Stephanie Schappert   21:19.2\n209/171   Sydney Harris         21:34.1\n219/(181) Megan Venables        21:40.9\n240/(202) Courtney Chapman      22:04.5\n2000     3022     6K\nLipari        6:27     9:53     20:05.6\nAkande        6:34    10:06     20:46.5\nCook          6:39    10:12     20:51.7\nSchappert     6:45    10:22     21:19.2\nHarris        6:58    10:41     21:34.1\nVenables      6:57    10:40     21:40.9\nChapman       6:49    10:37     22:04.5\nBack in Philly, Koons Looks to Make a Mark\nVillanova graduate Frances Koons looks forward to Rothman 8K\nJen A. Miller, For The Inquirer\nWhen Frances Koons lists her reasons for running the 2012 Rothman 8K race on Saturday, she points out the same attributes that draw almost every other runner in the Philadelphia area.\n\"It's close, so we don't need to wake up early and drive somewhere,\" said Koons, 26, who lives in Ardmore, which is just shy of five miles away from Center City. \"It's a nice, flat course.\"\nWhat Koons leaves out is that she won the women's race in 2009 in 26 minutes, 34 seconds and that this will be her first return to the distance in three years.\nKoons, an Allentown native, ran track at Allentown Central Catholic High School and then for Villanova. While at 'Nova, she was named an all-American eight times and racked up a first-place Big East finish in the 1,500 meters in 2006 and the 1,000 and mile indoor titles in 2007, along with first-place finishes in the distance-medley relay and the 4x800 relay.\n\"She's a very determined individual,\" said her coach, Marcus O'Sullivan, the director of Villanova's track and field program who still holds the course record for the Rothman 8K. He set the mark in 1997 at 23 minutes, 3 seconds.\nKoons winning Ryan Shay Mile\n\"She's incredibly tough and very ambitious,\" he said.\nO'Sullivan added that Koons is also \"remarkably positive.\"\nCase in point: When talking about injuries that have hampered her running career, Koons references plantar fasciitis, which is the thickening of tissue on the bottom of the foot followed by a stress fracture, not a 2007 bout with clear-cell renal carcinoma.\nA golf-ball-size tumor was removed from her kidney in the summer of 2007. She took six weeks off and was back in running shape in time for the 2008 U.S. Olympic track and field trials.\nAfter graduating in 2009, Koons went right into a master's degree program at Villanova for applied statistics. And she kept running, winning the Rothman 8K in 2009 and the Penn Relays 5K in 2010. She set two personal bests in 2011: a 4:31 mile and a 15:29 5K.\nShe took time off from her degree to train with the New Jersey-New York Track Club, an elite group of runners based at Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J. It's the first track club of its kind on the East Coast and it sent one runner to the Olympics this summer.\nBut, earlier this year, Koons decided to come back to Pennsylvania to finish her master's while also working as an assistant coach to the men's cross-country team. She also wanted to be coached by O'Sullivan.\nThis year has been a struggle because of the foot injury, but O'Sullivan said the Rothman 8K has been an excellent training goal for Koons, who considers it a \"season opener\" for the forthcoming indoor and outdoor track seasons.\n\"I'd like to someday get into longer races,\" she said when asked about moving up to the half-marathon or marathon distance. \"But for now, the aim next spring will be the 5K again.\"\nThat's after Koons crosses another Rothman 8K off her race list.\nBox Draws for NCAA Cross Country Nationals\nHere are the box draws for teams and at-large individuals for this Saturday's cross country nationals. The Villanova men are in box 22, about the exact center of the race start. The Villanova women are in box 9, about one-quarter of the way off the edge. The boxes are assigned randomly, by computer allocation.\nXc 12 National Box Draw\nNicky Akande is Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year\nAkande Rolling to Regional Win\nVillanova junior Nicky Akande has been named NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Cross Country Athlete of the Year. A Villanova women has now won this award for the 5th straight year (after Frances Koons in 2008, and Sheila Reid in 2009, 2010, 2011). Akande has enjoyed a great fall campaign. She finished 2nd at the Main Line Invitational at Haverford, 8th at the Paul Short Run at Lehigh, 26th at Pre-Nationals in Louisville, and 3rd at the Big East championships at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. She capped those performances by winning the NCAA Mid-Atlantic regional at Penn State.\nThe release from the USTFCCCA is HERE.\nHere is the official news release from Villanova:\nNicky Akande Named Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year\nVillanova junior won individual title at NCAA regional meet last week\nNEW ORLEANS--For the fifth consecutive season a Villanova runner has been chosen as the Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Junior Nicky Akande (Lawrenceville, Ga.) was announced as this year's winner on Tuesday night after winning the individual title at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional last week.\nAkande made great strides as a sophomore last season to emerge as one of the Wildcats most dependable runners and this year she has become a fixture at the top of the team's lineup. At the NCAA regional last Friday she cruised to a nine-second margin of victory and registered a career-best time of 20:14 on a 6,000 meter course.\nThis is the second straight year that Akande has earned All-Mid Atlantic Region honors for a top 25 finish at the regional meet. She also earned All-BIG EAST accolades for the second straight year after coming in third at the conference meet last month.\nLed by Akande, fellow junior Emily Lipari (Greenvale, N.Y.) - the BIG EAST individual champion - and senior Summer Cook (Thornton, Colo.) the Wildcats have earned a team berth to the NCAA Championships for the fifth straight year. Villanova was selected as one of 13 at-large bids to the field of 31 teams that will compete in the national championship meet this coming Saturday afternoon.\nIn four scored meets this season Akande has been the top Villanova finisher two times and has been the team's second runner in the other two races. Prior to the first two postseason meets she led the Wildcats with an eighth place finish at the Paul Short Run and also came in 26th at the Pre-NCAA Meet.\nThe NCAA Championships are being held at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville and the women's race begins on Saturday at Noon.\nNOTES: Villanova has produced the Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year in cross country every year since 2008 ... That year Frances Koons was the winner, while most recently Sheila Reid was a three-time recipient of the award from 2009-11.\nPosted by BC at 12:55 PM No comments:\nOverview of Villanova Cross Country in the NCAA Championships\nVillanova Women's Cross Country\nNCAA Team Championships: 9\nNCAA Individual Champions: 9\nVicki Huber (1989)\nSonia O'Sullivan (1990, 1991)\nCarole Zajac (1992, 1993)\nJen Rhines (1994)\nCarrie Tollefson (1997)\nSheila Reid (2010, 2011)\nTeam Finishes\nYear Place Score\n2011     3      181\nVillanova Men's Cross Country\nVic Zwolak (1963)\n2011    13      352\nVic Zwolak: Villanova's Only Individual Male XC Champion\nDespite NCAA team titles in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1970, to say nothing of numerous team top-ten finishes and dozens of All-Americans since then, only one Villanova male harrier has ever won the NCAA cross country individual title. Vic Zwolak won that title in 1963, a year when the Villanova men finished 9th in the team competition (going 1-23-57-59-87-(112)-(117)). Zwolak led the 4-mile race from start to finish: he was in first place at 1 mile (4:34), 2 miles (9:39), and 3 miles (14:46), before ultimately winning the race in 19:35. Zwolak also won two NCAA titles (1963 and 1964) in the 3000 meter steeplechase.\nVillanova Running highlighted Zwolak previously HERE.\nHere are the top finishers in that 1963 cross country national championship race:\nTwenty-fifth Annual National Collegiate Athletic Association University Division\nCross Country Championships held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, on\nTuesday, November 26, 1963, at 11:30 a.m.\nl.  Victor Zwolak            Villanova          19:35\n2.  John Camien              Kansas State       19:38\n3.  Jeffrey M. Fishback      San Jose State     19:48\n4.  Geoff Walker             Houston            19:53\n5.  Danny  L . Murphy        San Jose State     19:56\n6.  G. Douglas Brown         Montana State      19:59\n7.  Richard A. Schramm       Miami              20:04\n8.  Ben F. Tucker            San Jose State     20:06\n9.  Arthur Scott             Idaho State        20:07\n10.  Richard Sharkey          Michigan State     20:08\n11.  Clayton Steinke          Oregon             20:09\n12.  Walter Hewlett           Harvard            20:10\n13.  Bill Clark               Notre Dame         20:11\nl4.  Ken Moore                Oregon             20:14\n15.  David  Highton           Colorado           20:16\n16.  Frank Carver             Notre Dame         20:19\nl7.  Jack Bacheler            Miami              20:20\n18.  Herman E. Gurule         San Jose State     20:21\n19.  Ralph A. Lingle          Missouri           20:23\n20.  William J. Straub        Army               20:25\nVillanova Women Receive At-Large Invite to XC Nationals\nInvite is 5th Straight & 25th Overall for the 9-Time Champs\nHere is the press release from Villanova's official athletic website, announcing that the Villanova women have received an at-large bid to cross country nationals. The Villanova women were the next-to-last at-large team invited to the national meet. They will join the Villanova men who received at automatic bid to nationals based on their second-place finish at the Mid-Atlantic Regional. The women finished third at the regional and thus were forced to rely on a non-automatic selection.\nThe Villanova women won the NCAA team title in 2009 and 2010, and finished 3rd last year (see photo above). They have won 9 NCAA titles overall.\nWomen's Cross Country Receives At-Large Bid to NCAA Championships\nWildcats earn fifth straight team berth in national meet after strong regional showing\nVILLANOVA, Pa. - One day after a strong performance at the regional championships the Villanova women's cross country team learned on Saturday that it had received a team berth to the NCAA Championships, which take place at E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park in Louisville next weekend. This is the fifth consecutive year that the Wildcats have earned a team bid to the 31-team NCAA field. Villanova was one of 13 teams chosen for as an at-large selection.\nThe berth in the NCAA Championships comes on the heels of strong performances by the Wildcats in their last two meets. Villanova came in fourth at the BIG EAST Championships on October 26 and more recently finished third in a close race at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional on Friday afternoon. Leading into the regional meet the Wildcats had been ranked second or third in the region in every poll this season, including holding down the No. 2 spot in the USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region poll for the first month of the season.\nVillanova has fire power at the top of its lineup with the junior duo of Nicky Akande (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Emily Lipari (Greenvale, N.Y.), who have combined for top-three finishes in each of their last two races. Akande captured the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region individual title by a nine-second margin on Friday and Lipari placed third in a reversal of their finishes at the BIG EAST meet two weeks earlier. Lipari was the BIG EAST individual champion and Akande finished third in that race.\nSenior Summer Cook (Thornton, Colo.) has solidified herself in the Wildcats lineup this season and joined Akande and Lipari in earning both All-Mid Atlantic Region and All-BIG EAST accolades. All three runners were among the Villanova top-seven at the NCAA Championships last season.\nThe women's national championship race begins at Noon on Saturday and the Wildcats will be returning to E.P. Tom Sawyer Park, where they registered a seventh place finish at the Pre-NCAA Meet last month. The site was also host to the BIG EAST Championships last season.\nEach of the top five teams in the BIG EAST received a berth to the NCAA Championships, including three automatic bids and two at-large selections. Connecticut, Georgetown and Providence all finished first or second at their respective regional championships to earn an automatic bid, while Villanova and Notre Dame were at-large picks.\nThis will be the 25th appearance at the NCAA Championships for the Wildcats, whose nine titles all-time are four more than any other women's program has. Over the years Villanova has crowned nine individual champions and also has the distinction of having won the most consecutive team titles with six in a row from 1989-1994.\nNova Men Qualify for Cross Nationals with 2nd at XC Regional\nMcEntee & Williamsz come 2nd and 4th\nVillanova's men ran a strong race today at Penn State's Blue & White course at the Mid-Atlantic Regional. The team (57 places) finished second, a mere 1 place behind Georgetown (56). Princeton was beaten into third, with 61 places. The hero of the day award goes to Alex Tully who ran the race of his life, finishing 14th overall, in 30:49. In a race where the top three teams were separated by a mere 5 places, Tully's dynamic run was critical in getting Villanova to nationals.\nThe Villanova men were in a strong position at the half-way mark, when they led the team competition with 33 places, ahead of Penn State (77), Georgetown (93), and regional #1 Princeton (95). Princeton moved up after 3 miles and with a mile to go crept within 45 to 60, with Georgetown at 65 and Penn State at 123. Ultimately, Georgetown was able to inch ahead, but Villanova held off Princeton to guarantee its place in Louisville. The Villanova men finished with an impressive 20 second 1-5 spread.\nFull results are HERE.\n2.  Sam McEntee         30:34\n4.  Jordy Williamsz     30:36\n14.  Alex Tully          30:49\n18.  Mathew Mildenhall   30:53\n19.  Rob Denault         30:54\n43.  Brian Basili        31:30\n50.  Matt Kane           31:42\n1.  Georgetown      8-9-11-13-15-(17)-(65)      56\n2.  Villanova       2-4-14-18-19-(43)-(50)      57\n3.  Princeton       3-5-6-21-26-(29)-(32)       61\n4.  American        7-16-22-49-51              145\n5.  Penn State      12-25-28-40-42-(46)-(94)   147\nVillanova's Nicky Akande Takes NCAA Regional Crown\nThird Place Women on Bubble for Nationals\nVillanova's top 5 marking LaSalle's Meghan McGlinchey\nToday at Penn State's Blue & White course, Villanova's Nicky Akande won the individual NCAA Mid-Atlantic regional title, with Emily Lipari in third, but the women faded a bit over the finals kilometers and came third in the team standing. They are now clearly in jeopardy of not gaining an invite to the national meet. The women dropped from the team lead at one mile, and the second spot at three miles, to finish third behind winner Penn State (61) and Georgetown (63). Villanova finished with 95 places, and Princeton was fourth with 101. Since only the top two teams at regionals are awarded an automatic berth at cross country nationals in Louisville, the Villanova women will have to hope for an at-large bid. Should that bid not be forthcoming, Nicky Akande (as regional winner) and Emily Lipari (who won the Big East individual title two weeks ago and who was 7th at Pre-Nationals) would likely be invited as at-large individual competitors.\nHere's how the Villanova women finished:\n1.  Nicky Akande           20:14\n3.  Emily Lipari           20:27\n14.  Summer Cook            20:52\n33.  Courtney Chapman       21:42\n45.  Megan Venables         21:58\n51.  Sydney Harris          22:06\n52.  Stephanie Schappert    22:06\nHere's how the top five teams fared (places are individual, not team, places):\n1.  Penn State    4-6-10-20-21     61\n2.  Georgetown    5-11-13-16-18    63\n3.  Villanova     1-3-14-33-45     95\n4.  Princeton     8-12-17-28-36   101\n5.  W. Virginia   7-22-24-27-33   111\nPA State XC Runner-Up Brent Kennedy Eyeing Villanova\nHere's an article on Brent Kennedy of Kiski Area high school from today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kennedy, a junior, was class AAA runner-up at last week's Pennsylvania state cross country championships. He has already visited Villanova and Syracuse on recruiting trips, and is also interested in Notre Dame, Virginia, and Virginia Tech.\nKennedy's Mile Split page is HERE.\nPIAA Cross Country: Kiski's Kennedy a silver streak in Hershey\nBy Cara De Carlo / Tri-State Sports & News Service\nKiski Area junior Brent Kennedy bolted to a 15:52 finish at last Saturday's PIAA Class AAA cross country championship meet in Hershey.\nHe placed second to West Chester Henderson's Tony Russell, earning a silver medal.\nThe race actually began as though the runners were in a can of sardines.\n\"We were all packed together through at least the first half of the race,\" Kennedy said. \"It's a downhill start for the first mile so everyone goes out really hard.\"\nKennedy kept his pace as the course went into the \"Aloha Hills\" -- a series of dips and U-turns in which the spectators wave hello and goodbye to their favorite runners. The disruptive terrain was stirring Kennedy's pack but he kept his sights on Russell. At 2 miles in, Russell's pace intensified to take a seven-second lead on Kennedy.\n\"[Russell] was about that far ahead of me for the last mile of the race,\" Kennedy recalled.\nHe said that didn't intimidate him, though.\nThe path continued up the course's last hill -- a 100-meter quad-drainer known as \"Poop Out Hill.\" It was on that hill that Kennedy stayed strong and separated himself from the 217 remaining finishers.\nKennedy's second place finish was definitive -- four seconds ahead of Corry Area's Austin Pondel. But Kennedy had had his eye on a victory.\n\"I just didn't have enough for the win at states,\" Kennedy said. \"Tony Russell is a great runner and he deserves it. I can't be too unhappy.\"\nSaturday's state meet wasn't Kennedy's first race against Russell.\n\"I raced him this year at the Carlisle Invitational,\" Kennedy said. \"I knew he'd be up there [in front at states].\"\nKennedy had actually beaten Russell in the 1,600-meter event at the PIAA track and field championships at Shippensburg last May. The two made it to the finals, where Kennedy finished eighth and Russell finished less than one second behind him.\nAs Russell and Kennedy finished their runs on Saturday, the two were happy for each other.\n\"We're all pretty good friends,\" said Kennedy, referring to himself and many of his cross country opponents. \"We're all doing the same type of thing.\"\nTwo days after Hershey, Kennedy was at Villanova University on a college visit that included a meeting with the cross country coach. The next day, Kennedy was scheduled to visit Syracuse.\n\"I'm just trying to check out all my options,\" Kennedy said. \"The list is getting bigger, I guess.\"\nKennedy is a junior and does not intend to make a final college decision until his senior year. Nonetheless, he attended track/cross country camps at Notre Dame and at the University of Virginia last summer. Since that time, Virginia Tech has also joined Kennedy's list of potential schools.\nBefore Kennedy can don spikes for the right college or university, he's got a lot of running still to do for Kiski Area. Kennedy said he's looking forward to running track this spring, especially if the competition includes Russell.\n\"I'm looking forward to getting the chance to race [Russell] again\" said Kennedy. \"There'll be some fast times and good competition there.\"\nReid, Koons in Elite Field for Rothman Institute 8K\nSheila Reid will make her Nike pro debut a week from Saturday at the Rothman Institute 8K. Her scheduled debut as a Nike-sponsored runner (The Dash to the Finish Line 5K in New York City, as part of the NYC marathon weekend) was cancelled duo to the recent storm. Reid will be joined by a former Villanova teammate and All-American Frances Koons. Koons won this race in 2009. Here is the press release for the event. As noted below, Villanova's own Marcus O'Sullivan still holds the Rothman Institute 8K course record -- an uber-quick 23:03 that has stood for 15 years.\nAthletics: Rothman Institute 8K Elite Field Announced\nPHILADELPHIA - The 2012 Rothman Institute 8K announces an impressive field of elite runners this year led by Philadelphia-area standouts Samuel Ndereba, Sheila Reid, Frances Koons, Samantha McNally, Cecily Tynan, Chris Heisey, John Itati and Matt Sadercock.\nThe Rothman Institute 8K (4.97 miles) -- held on Saturday, November 17 on Philadelphia Marathon Race Weekend -- is a great way to take part in Race Weekend. Runners will start on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, near the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- looking out upon City Hall -- before taking a turn on the scenic banks of the Schuylkill River and Kelly Drive.\nFemale Runners to Watch\nReid repeats in 2011\nThe fastest entrant in the field is Sheila Reid, a 2012 Olympian (5,000 Meters, Canada) and an NCAA All-American from Villanova. Frances Koons, the 2009 Rothman Institute 8K champion and an NCAA All-American from Villanova, is trying to reclaim the title.\nA few women will be doubling, running both the 8K and the Philadelphia Half Marathon on Sunday including Hirsute Madero (Flagstaff, AZ) -- the 2010 8K runner-up and the 2010 Philadelphia Half Marathon winner -- and Kenya's Helen Jemutai, who won the Tufts 10K in Chicago in October.\nOther notables are: Samantha McNally (Doylestown, PA), who qualified for the 2012 Olympic Trials while running in the 2011 Philadelphia Marathon; Amy Van Alstine (Midland Park, NJ) who boasts a 15:43 5K PR; American University standout Erin Koch (Chevy Chase, MD); and Marissa Ryan who enters with a 33:36 10K PR.\nKoons takes Ryan Shay Mile\nThe 2011 Masters Champion and local favorite, Cecily Tynan (Media, PA), will be back to defend her title in the Masters Division.\nMale Runners to Watch\nKenya's Samuel Ndereba (Philadelphia, PA), the 2011 Rothman 8K winner, is back to defend his title. Ndereba also will be competing in the Philadelphia Half Marathon, and should be a contender in that race as well; he is just coming off of a victory at the Des Moines Half Marathon on Sunday, October 21.\nLooking to stand in the way of a repeat victory for Ndereba are some speedy international runners including 2011's second-place finisher Ethiopian John Itati (Royersford, PA); Kenya's Emmanuel Bor, a University of Alabama graduate with a 23:18 8K PR (Bor will also be running the Half Marathon on Sunday), and Harbert Okuti (New Paltz, NY) is Uganda's 5K record-holder.\nScott Smith (Flagstaff, AZ), with a 28:33 10K PR, is the top American prospect in the men's field. Other Americans to keep an eye on include Chris Pannone (Gardiner, NY) with a 2:18 Boston Marathon time this year; University of Pennsylvania alumni Phillip Kawkwell; Jonny Wilson (Flagstaff, AZ) and Temple Podiatry student Chris Heisey (Philadelphia, PA).\nGoing for a three-peat in the Masters Division is two-time winner Matt Sandercock (Exton, PA), the 2010 and 2011 masters Rothman 8K winner.\nRegistration for the Rothman Institute 8K is available at PhiladelphiaMarathon.com, costs $45 and closes on November 11, 2012.\nRothman Institute 8K Records\nMen: Marcus O'Sullivan, Time: 23:03 (1997)\nWomen: Svetlana Zakharova, Time: 25:37 (2001)\nJohn Kellogg Handicaps the Mid-Atlantic XC Regional\nHere's the perspective of John Kellogg of the running website LetsRun.com. He sees the Villanova teams on the bubble in their quest to qualify for the NCAA cross country national meet. Each team is sitting at #3 in the region, with only the top two team finishers getting an automatic slot at Nationals.\n2012 NCAA Regional Formchart – Mid-Atlantic Region\nby John Kellogg\nLetsRun.com Editor's note: LetsRun's coaching/stat guru John Kellogg has done what basically no one else in the world would have the expertise/patience to do – predict what his going to happen at Friday’s NCAA D1 cross country regionals. The top two teams in each region and top four individuals not on a team that qualifies will make it to NCAAs. Then 13 at large teams will be added in and two at large individuals. If someone wants to take the time to tell us who the at-large teams teams and individuals will be based on these previews, then please email us as we’d love to put that up later in the week. We imagine even the great John Kellogg is bound to have missed someone in these predictions, so if you have corrections, please email them to us.\nMr. Kellogg seemingly comes out of hibernation every few months to make predictions in the running world. He did Regional previews in 2011 and 2008 and in the spring of 2010, he said it wouldn’t surprise him if someone ran faster than 2:03:59 in Boston and then Geoffrey Mutai ran 2:03:02 and after the race everyone (except us) was saying the unthinkable had happened.\nMr. Kelllogg has scoured the season’s results – with the most weight given to recent (conference meet) performances – to take a guess at who should be the top 25 individuals and few teams in each of the nine regions. A lot of runners were considered for the top 25 and he’ll undoubtedly get quite a few wrong – someone just outside his top 25 has just as good a chance as someone who just made it – and there are always a couple of huge surprises. Team scores are generally based on the strengths of the top teams relative to each other (discounting many of the runners outside the top 25 or so from non-contending teams) and will probably end up being higher than he’s listed them due to displacement from those individuals. In short, this is a pretty good general idea of who should be in the hunt, but it’s still bound to get a bunch of it completely wrong. So basically this is all for S&Gs. We hop you enjoy them. For more on the logic behind the picks, please see last year’s instructions.\nBlue And White Golf Course, University Park, Pennsylvania\nGeorgetown’s Mark Dennin finished 6th in this region a year ago and would be the top returner, but he hasn’t raced since winning at Paul Short over a month ago. Directly behind him in 7th at last year’s Regional was teammate Andrew Springer, who has run well of late and came in 6th at Big East to lead the Hoyas. He should be challenged by Princeton’s recently-crowned HEPS champion Chris Bendtsen. Bendtsen has been running second for Princeton throughout most of the season, but his last effort made him a conference champion, so he gets the top spot in the formchart. Tiger teammate Alejandro Arroyo-Yamin has actually had the best overall season of anyone in the field, including a 31st place at Wisconsin, best of the region’s runners in that massive race. Duquesne’s Jim Spisak was on fire until recently, with 3rd at Paul Short and 13th at Pre-Nationals, but then slipped back to 22nd at Atlantic 10. That conference meet was won by 8:36.10 steepler and 1st team All-American Travis Mahoney (Temple) ahead of LaSalle’s Alfredo Santana, who has put up some pretty impressive results of his own this fall. Santana was 14th in the region last year and is the 3rd returner (minus Dennin).\nChris Bendtsen (Princeton)\nAndrew Springer (Georgetown)\nAlejandro Arroyo-Yamin (Princeton)\nTravis Mahoney (Temple)\nBen Furcht (Georgetown)\nTyler Udland (Princeton)\nAlfredo Santana (LaSalle)\nDarren Fahy (Georgetown)\nSam McEntee (Villanova)\nJim Spisak (Duquesne)\nJonathan Vitez (Princeton)\nMathew Mildenhall (Villanova)\nEddie Owens (Princeton)\nMark Allen (American)\nMiles Schoedler (Georgetown)\nRobert Denault (Villanova)\nLogan Mohn (St. Joseph’s)\nTyler Mueller (Lehigh)\nMatt McDonald (Princeton)\nJordy Williamsz (Villanova)\nJohn Dugan (Bucknell)\nRyan Mahalsky (Lehigh)\nJonathan Mazzio (St. Joseph’s)\nRobby Creese (Penn State)\nJohn Murray (Georgetown)\nPrinceton, surprised big-time by a monster race from conference rivals Columbia at Wisconsin, went into the Ivy League meet as underdogs for the first time in a long time, but galloped to the top two individual spots and placed 4 in the top 7 on their home course to emerge with a convincing 26-58 victory over the Lions. Princeton also beat Georgetown head-to-head very early in the season. Though early September meets don’t matter in November, the 13th-ranked Tigers should still be the favorites here if they run on a par with their HEPS race. Villanova got the best of Georgetown at Pre-Nationals by a scant 13 points and one team spot, but the Wildcats were relegated to 5th at Big East, where the Hoyas came up for second. Ergo, the pre-meet edge goes to Georgetown for the 2nd auto spot.\nBig East champ Emily Lipari (Villanova) gets the nod as the favorite in the region, also having the most impressive regular season result of any of the field’s runners – a 7th place at Pre-Nationals. Meghan McGlinchey of LaSalle raced to 33rd at Wisconsin and a runner-up finish at Atlantic 10. Assuming she runs up to expectations here, there’s a small chance she could be the only individual NCAA qualifier to finish in the top 10 in the meet. Most of the other top spots stand to be occupied by runners from the four currently ranked or formerly ranked teams in the region. One spot behind McGlinchey at Wisco was Penn State’s Rebekka Simko, who continued her strong running with 5th place at Big Ten. West Virginia has been without injured XC All-American Kaitlyn Gillespie all season, but the Mountaineers regained 2011 10k All-American Sarah-Anne Brault just in time for the Big 12 meet. Brault is actually the top returner in the region (not counting Gillespie) and raced to 10th at Big 12 – perhaps not strong enough to win the Regional but an impressive rust buster nonetheless, with the likes of Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Texas in the conference.\nEmily Lipari (Villanova)\nMeghan McGlinchey (LaSalle)\nRebekka Simko (Penn State)\nNicky Akande (Villanova)\nMadeline Chambers (Georgetown)\nKatrina Coogan (Georgetown)\nSarah-Anne Brault (West Virginia)\nTori Perri (Penn State)\nAnnamarie Maag (Georgetown)\nBrooklyne Ridder (Penn State)\nSummer Cook (Villanova)\nGreta Feldman (Princeton)\nKelly Williams (West Virginia)\nSamantha Nadel (Georgetown)\nKirsten Kasper (Georgetown)\nAnnie-Norah Beveridge (Navy)\nEmily Jones (Georgetown)\nSarah Martinelli (West Virginia)\nRachael Schneider (Georgetown)\nAbby Levene (Princeton)\nJordan Hamric (West Virginia)\nJackie Nicholas (Princeton)\nBrigid Byrne (Navy)\nMegan Venables (Villanova)\nNatalie Bower (Penn State)\nLast fall, Georgetown pulled off a minor upset over a few teams to win the national championship, with Villanova in 3rd, West Virginia 8th and Penn State 13th. This made the Mid-Atlantic, geographically the smallest region, the strongest one in the country on race day. It’s a competitive region for sure. G’Town is currently ranked 9th in the coaches poll and, having won their conference, the Hoyas do look to be the top team in the region, but winning it won’t be a gimme. Villanova is extremely good at 1 & 2 and still quite formidable through 3, but lack of depth prevented the Wildcats from rising higher than 4th at Big East, and they may face the same scenario here. Penn State and West Virginia may be behind ‘Nova after four runners are scored but have a chance to make up the gap by the time all five come in. The qualifying scenario is too complicated to figure until results from all the regions are in, but Villanova and West Virginia had better be aiming for top two. PSU almost certainly makes Nationals with a 3rd place team result, but there’s a chance they don’t if they’re any lower in the standings.\nRunning Times: Who Gets in at NCAA Cross Nationals?\nFor the first times in several years, Villanova's cross country teams have a lot to worry about as we approach the NCAA cross country regional weekend. Both the women's (#25) and men's (#35) teams are ranked well off the top end of the national polls and sit outside the top two teams in the Mid-Atlantic region. There is real doubt on the question of whether or not each will make it to the NCAA national meet in Louisville. Here is an excellent article from the folks at Running Times that describes the process of filling the list of teams (and at-large individuals) that will be invited to the national meet. Villanova's squads have some real work in front of them on Friday as Penn State hosts the regional.\nNCAA Nationals: Who Gets In?\nUnderstanding the selection process for cross country’s premier event\nBy John A. Kissane\nAs featured in the Web Only issue of Running Times Magazine\nOn Nov. 17, a total of 255 men and 255 women will compete in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships at E. P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Ky. The breakdown goes like this: 31 seven-person teams (217 athletes) plus 38 individuals who are not members of any of those 31 teams.\nSo which teams make up that field? The easiest to understand is the automatic qualifying. The week before nationals, on Nov. 9, nine regional meets — the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Mountain, Northeast, South, South Central, Southeast and West — are held around the country. Each region automatically advances the top two teams (seven runners apiece), as well as the top four individual finishers not on qualifying teams. If you’re doing the math, you’ll see that 162 runners automatically make it to nationals based on the results of the regionals.\nThat’s the easy part, because there’s no analysis or decision-making involved. But filling out the fields with 13 more teams and two additional individuals is where things get dicey. This task falls to members of the NCAA Division I Track and Field Subcommittee, who will announce their selections the Sunday following regionals (i.e., Nov. 11) after they've analyzed regular season, conference and regional results and applied selection criteria to determine the at-large qualifiers.\n“It’s a really fair system, without any backroom politicking,” says Dartmouth men’s coach Barry Harwick, who also serves as President of the NCAA Division I Cross Country Executive Committee. “We’ll run our meet on Friday and the guys will be getting results from the other regions on the trip home, and by the time we get back we’ll pretty much know who the 13 at-large qualifiers are, before they’re announced. That shows the transparency of the system.”\nThe selection process is somewhat complicated, but here is a brief overview of how it works:\n• The subcommittee begins its work by placing the third- and fourth-place teams from each of the nine regions onto a board. Then they review the season performances of those 18 teams, to determine “wins” they might have against the 18 automatic qualifiers during a maximum of seven competition opportunities. The first at-large berth is awarded to the team with the highest win total. The subcommittee is required to review no fewer than 18 teams at all times during the selection process, so with the selection of each at-large team, the subcommittee immediately moves the next team from that same region (based on regional finish place) onto the board of 18 teams and again evaluates all 18 together. Each time an at-large selection is made, remaining teams having beaten the newly selected team are awarded a “win” to add to their point totals.\n• Teams must be considered for at-large berths in the order of their regional finish, and a fourth-place team may not be selected for an at-large berth ahead of a third-place team from the same region. Lower-finishing teams may be selected ahead of higher-finishing teams from different regions. (For instance, a team finishing fourth in the West region can get in ahead of a team finishing third in the Great Lakes region.)\nBut what happens if the fourth-place team from one region (say, team X) has more wins than the third-place team from the same region (team Y)? That’s where the so-called “push process” comes in. The subcommittee is obligated to extend at-large bids to both teams X and Y, so in effect team Y “pushes” team X into the national championship meet. Also, points (wins) will not be awarded to teams having defeated any team advancing into the championships by virtue of the push process.\nIf any two teams under consideration tied for total wins, the committee will look at head-to-head results. If head-to-head wins and losses are equal (e.g., each of the two teams has a record of 2-2 against the other), the committee may give greater consideration to the most recent competition. Furthermore, wins can only be accumulated against an opponent’s “A” team, which is considered to consist of four or more individuals who competed at the regional meet.\nRegular-season scheduling — and a team’s travel budget — can help a team that’s on the qualifying bubble. “Teams with the ability to travel outside their regions have some advantage, in that they’re able to compete against more of the highly ranked teams to get wins,” Harwick says. “So teams without the financial wherewithal to travel are stuck if they finish outside the top two at regionals.”\nIn addition to selecting 13 at-large teams, the subcommittee will also select two at-large individuals. These will be the two highest-finishing nonautomatic qualifiers from the nine regional meets. For instance, in 2011, Lauren Sara of Connecticut, who finished sixth at the Northeast regional, and Duke’s Madeline Morgan, sixth at the Southeast regional, received the women’s at-large individual bids.\nHere are the top four ranked teams in each regional, as of Nov. 5:\nMen                                Women\nGreat Lakes                               Great Lakes\n1. Wisconsin (6)                          1. Michigan (6)\n2. Michigan (12)                          2. Michigan State (11)\n3. Indiana (20)                           3. Toledo (18)\n4. Notre Dame (28)                        4. Notre Dame (23)\nMid-Atlantic                              Mid-Atlantic\n1. Princeton (13)                         1. Georgetown (9)\n2. Georgetown (24)                        2. Penn State (15)\n3. Villanova (NR)                         3. Villanova (25)\n4. Penn State (NR)                        4. West Virginia (NR)\nMidwest                                   Midwest\n1. Oklahoma State (1)                     1. Iowa State (2)\n2. Oklahoma (8)                           2. Oklahhoma State (21)\n3. Tulsa (19)                             3. Minnesota (28)\n4. Illinois (NR)                          4. Tulsa (NR)\nMountain                                  Mountain\n1. Colorado (2)                           1. Weber State (13)\n2. BYU (7)                                2. New Mexico (17)\n3. New Mexico (16)                        3. Colorado (24)\n4. Northern Arizona (18)                  4. Colorado State (NR)\nNortheast                                 Northeast\n1. Iona (4)                               1. Cornell (8)\n2. Syracuse (14)                          2. Connecticut (16)\n3. Columbia (22)                          3. Providence (20)\n4. Providence (NR)                        4. Boston College (27)\nSouth                                     South\n1. Florida State (23)                     1. Florida State (1)\n2. Georgia (26)                           2. Florida (14)\n3. Florida (NR)                           3. Vanderbilt (NR)\n4. E. Tennessee State (NR)                4. Mississippi (NR)\nSouth Central                            South Central\n1. Texas (5)                             1. Arkansas (12)\n2. Arkansas (10)                         2. Texas (22)\n3. Texas A&M (29)                        3. SMU (NR)\n4. McNeese State (NR)                    4. LSU (NR)\nSoutheast                                Southeast\n1. Eastern Kentucky (15)                 1. Duke (10)\n2. Virginia Tech (17)                    2. William & Mary (19)\n3. Virginia (21)                         3. NC State (30)\n4. NC State (NR)                         4. Kentucky (NR)\nWest                                     West\n1. Stanford (3)                          1. Oregon (3)\n2. Portland (9)                          2. Ariziona (4)\n3. Oregon (11)                           3. Stanford (5)\n4. Arizona State (25)                    4. Washington (7)\nNCAA Cross Country Mid-Atlantic Regional: Villanova Entries\nHere are the Villanova harriers who will compete at this weekend's cross country Mid-Atlantic regional. The top two team finishers in the Regionals are ensured a spot at the national meet, with several at-large teams selected after the automatic slots are filled. Twelve men and eleven women will compete at Penn State's University Park course. Only three of the twenty-three Wildcats are seniors.\nThe complete list of competitors for all teams is HERE.\nVillanova Men\nBasili, Brian          549   SO\nDenault, Robert        550   FR\nKane, Matthew          551   SR\nMcEntee, Sam           552   SO\nMildenhall, Mathew     553   SR\nMorrin, Greg           554   JR\nO'Sullivan, Chris      555   SO\nPickhaver, John        556   JR\nSolis, Dusty           557   SO\nTrainer, Thomas        558   FR\nTully, Alex            559   JR\nWilliamsz, Jordy       560   FR\nVillanova Women\nAkande, Nicky          277   JR\nBungo, Caitlin         278   FR\nChapman, Courtney      279   SO\nCook, Summer           280   JR\nHarris, Sydney         281   FR\nLipari, Emily          282   JR\nMargey, Kelsey         283   FR\nSchappert, Stephanie   284   SO\nSmith, Meghan          285   SR\nTucker, Leanne         286   FR\nVenables, Megan        287   SO\nAdrian Blincoe Leaving Villanova for Kiwi Coaching Position\nFond Farewell & Best Wishes in New Zealand\nAll the best to Adrian Blincoe as he returns to his homeland in New Zealand. He is to assume a new position in Auckland with Sport New Zealand as a high performance ambassador and mentor. We're sure that he will provide athletes there with the level of excellence he displayed at Villanova since his arrival over a decade ago. His 13 year stay at Villanova witnessed glory as both an athlete (he won 3 NCAA championships, set a school record, and was a 7-time All American) and as a coach (he recruited doggedly in Australia and New Zealand, helping bring several top-notch runners to Villanova -- think Gibney, Mildenhall, Mackenzie, Beamish, McEntee, Williamsz, Guest, Jenkin, and so on). We at Villanova Running selected him the Villanova male runner of the decade for the 2000s (click HERE to re-visit that selection). In doing so, we highlighted his tremendous accomplishments as a student-athlete at Villanova:\nAdrian Blincoe was a three-time NCAA champion and seven-time All American. He was the 2002 NCAA indoor champion at 3000 meters, and was NCAA runner-up at that distance in 2003. He also anchored two NCAA champion DMR teams (in 2002 and 2003). Blincoe also holds two school records: his 7:47.50 3000 meter time, achieved in Boston on January 27, 2002, erased Sydney Maree's previous mark. Moreover, Blincoe anchored the Villanova school record DMR team. While at Villanova he broke the 4:00 mile with his 3:58.19 indoors at the Armory on February 9, 2002. His other honors include anchoring the 2001 Penn Relays DMR Championship of America winner, 8 Big East titles, and a top-10 finish at the NCAA cross country nationals in 2000. In 2002 Blincoe was an NCAA finalist at 1500 meters outdoors (finishing 5th). In cross, Blincoe was the 2001 NCAA regional champion, finished 2nd in 2002, and was 3rd in 2000. He was runner-up at the 2001 Paul Short Invitational.\nHis accomplishments as a coach are obvious. During his 10-year tenure as assistant coach under Marcus O'Sullivan, Villanova produced a half dozen sub-4:00 milers, an NCAA individual champion over 5000 meters, a top-10 all-time NCAA 1500 meter man, a score of all-american certificates, numerous Penn Relay DMR wheels -- the list goes on. He brought glory to the Villanova program when he set a new New Zealand national record in the 5000 meters (13:10.19), when he represented his country on two Olympic teams, and multiple World Championship and Commonwealth Games squads.\nVillanova gave back to Blincoe, as well. In addition to the first class education he received and the degree that he earned, Adrian met his future bride, Kelly Coyle, at Villanova. Together with their daughter Ella they make the trek to New Zealand, where Adrian will continue his professional running career and help develop the next generation of New Zealand athletes. Best wishes for continued professional success.\nHere is the article detailing Blincoe's new responsibilities:\nAthletics: Blincoe lured home to work with youth\nFriday Nov 2, 2012\nOlympian and New Zealand 5000m record holder Adrian Blincoe is helping identify and develop New Zealand's future talent in a new job at High Performance Sport New Zealand.\nIn his role as high performance athlete development advisor, Blincoe will work with targeted national sport organisations to put systems in place to identify and develop athletes so they can succeed at international level.\nHPSNZ chief executive Alex Baumann said the overarching goal is to get more talented athletes into our high performance system so New Zealand can continue to succeed internationally.\n\"New Zealand has to compete on the world stage with much larger countries, whose sheer size means they will always have access to a number of top athletes,\" Baumann said. \"As a smaller country, we need to take a more systematic approach to finding and developing our athletes, and Adrian's role will be crucial to that.\"\nBlincoe has spent the past 12 years living in Philadelphia where he spent nine years running professionally for Team New Balance and seven years coaching at Villanova University.\nHe was assistant coach of track and field and cross country at Villanova University and focused on identifying and developing young talent.\nBlincoe competed for New Zealand at Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games and world championships and holds the national record in the 5000m (13:10.19). He was a finalist at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games, and competed in the 5000m at the Beijing Olympics. An ankle injury prevented him from competing at the London Olympics.\n\"I'm very passionate about helping athletes develop their potential, and I am excited about the opportunity to do this here in New Zealand,\" said Blincoe, who started work in the job on October 15. \"I'll be working with targeted sports on both specific initiatives and their overall athlete development systems so we can find individuals who may one day stand on the podium for New Zealand.\"\nSearch Villanova Running\nNorth Wales Running Company\nMike McIntosh's New Book\nwith 4X Gold Medalist\nRunningWorks XC Camp\nRunMoreMiles.com\nFollow @RunNova\nRecruiting Target Brent Kennedy Makes Foot Locker ...\nWilmington Tatnall's Julie Williams Commits to Vil...\nNovember 28th a Good Day for Villanova Track:Happy...\nVillanova Back in the Pack at NCAA Cross Nationals...\nNicky Akande is Mid-Atlantic Region Athlete of the...\nOverview of Villanova Cross Country in the NCAA Ch...\nVic Zwolak: Villanova's Only Individual Male XC Ch...\nVillanova Women Receive At-Large Invite to XC Nati...\nNova Men Qualify for Cross Nationals with 2nd at X...\nVillanova's Nicky Akande Takes NCAA Regional Crown...\nPA State XC Runner-Up Brent Kennedy Eyeing Villano...\nReid, Koons in Elite Field for Rothman Institute 8...\nJohn Kellogg Handicaps the Mid-Atlantic XC Regiona...\nRunning Times: Who Gets in at NCAA Cross Nationals...\nNCAA Cross Country Mid-Atlantic Regional: Villanov...\nAdrian Blincoe Leaving Villanova for Kiwi Coaching...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1121960"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7423097491264343,"wiki_prob":0.7423097491264343,"text":"Ron Brown was born in Gary, Indiana, the first of eight children, to Marzette and Myra Brown on May 15, 1956. When he was a senior in high school, he became blind after he was shot on his way home from a basketball game. At the time he knew nothing about blindness and was overwhelmed by the feeling that his entire life had been radically changed in an instant. One of the first painful lessons he learned was that many of his friends could not deal with his blindness and stayed away from him. Luckily he began to make new friends, members of the National Federation of the Blind. They became inspiring role models for Ron, teaching him that it was respectable to be blind and that he could continue to strive for the goals he had set himself.\nI have been an advocate for blind people for more than twenty-five years, and with every passing year my commitment to serving the blind of this nation increases. My life indeed changed the night I became blind, but with the perspective I now have, I must say that it was for the better.\nArmed with this newfound freedom, Ron graduated from Ball State University with a bachelor of science degree in health science. He then went to work at Tradewinds Rehabilitation Center in Indiana, where he met his wife Jean, who was on the staff. Eventually he was offered a job in the Business Enterprise Program. He had always wanted to own his own business, and this gave him the opportunity to do so. He has now been in business for himself for twenty years.\nRecently Ron returned to school and earned a master's degree in educational psychology with a certification in orientation and mobility from Louisiana Tech University. He now owns a second business, teaching cane travel to blind people in the state of Indiana.\nAs Ron Brown has developed and matured in his personal life, his commitment to and service in the National Federation of the Blind have deepened as well. In the early years he was a chapter president and was then elected to the NFB of Indiana's board of directors. He was first elected president of the affiliate in 1996 and has been reelected every two years since. In 2001 he was elected to serve on the NFB board of directors.\nLooking back, Ron Brown says, \"Becoming a member of the national board is the fulfillment of a life dream. I have been an advocate for blind people for more than twenty-five years, and with every passing year my commitment to serving the blind of this nation increases. My life indeed changed the night I became blind, but with the perspective I now have, I must say that it was for the better.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1119124"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6906052827835083,"wiki_prob":0.6906052827835083,"text":"Kawasaki set for a KO\nKawasaki are on the verge of pulling out of the World MotoGP Championship.\nBy Dave Fern / Published 2nd January 2009\nKawasaki pit girls\nI heard that it is all up in the air whether they run or not, but nothing has been confirmed\nThe Japanese concern are understood to have told their two contracted riders John Hopkins and Marco Melandri of their intentions.\nThe team was tight-lipped last night, but a statement regarding their future in the sport’s elite series is expected next week.\nHopkins – currently recovering from surgery to remove plates from an injured leg – says that he has had phone calls from team management highlighting the problem.\n“I heard that it is all up in the air whether they run or not, but nothing has been confirmed,” said the 25-year-old American who finished 16th in last season’s rankings.\nKawasaki had begun their preparations for the 2009 campaign with an intensive test session in Australia in November as part of a determined effort to restore fortunes after a tough time.\nThe team had finished fifth, and last, in last season’s constructors’ standings, with Hopkins having a best result of fifth in Portugal.\nThese poor results, coupled with the global economic downfall that has already seen Honda withdraw from F1 Grand Prix and both Suzuki and Subaru announce their decisions to quit the World Rally Championship, now look to have cost the MotoGP series one of its key teams.\nIf Kawasaki pull the plug, the MotoGP championship looks likely to go ahead with only 17 riders – though the saving grace for the series is the continued participation of six-times champion Valentino Rossi, riding Yamaha.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line371052"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6484512686729431,"wiki_prob":0.3515487313270569,"text":"CSBA.org > Services > Governance Technology >\nSearch the United States Code, Title 20 for:\nenter words or policy/code numbers\nSearch which fields?\ntext code\nMultiple-word search\nUse 'and' between words – returned documents will contain all included words\nUse 'or' between words – returned documents will contain one but not necessarily all of the included words\nLegal Resources | United States Code, Title 20 | 6383\nPart B - Student Reading Skills Improvement Grants. Subpart 4 - Improving Literacy Through School Libraries. Improving literacy through school libraries.\n(a) Purposes\nThe purpose of this subpart is to improve literacy skills and academic achievement of students by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials, a well-equipped, technologically advanced school library media center, and well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists.\n(b) Reservation From the funds appropriated under section 6302(b)(4) of this title for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve -\n(1) one-half of 1 percent to award assistance under this section to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to carry out activities consistent with the purpose of this subpart; and\n(2) one-half of 1 percent to award assistance under this section to the outlying areas according to their respective needs for assistance under this subpart.\n(c) Grants\n(1) Competitive grants to eligible local educational agencies\nIf the amount of funds appropriated under section 6302(b)(4) of this title for a fiscal year is less than $100,000,000, then the Secretary shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible local educational agencies under subsection (e) of this section.\n(2) Formula grants to States\nIf the amount of funds appropriated under section 6302(b)(4) of this title for a fiscal year equals or exceeds $100,000,000, then the Secretary shall award grants to State educational agencies from allotments under subsection (d) of this section.\n(3) Definition of eligible local educational agency\nIn this section the term \"eligible local educational agency\" means -\n(A) in the case of a local educational agency receiving assistance made available under paragraph (1), a local educational agency in which 20 percent of the students served by the local educational agency are from families with incomes below the poverty line; and\n(B) in the case of a local educational agency receiving assistance from State allocations made available under paragraph (2), a local educational agency in which -\n(i) 15 percent of the students who are served by the local educational agency are from such families; or\n(ii) the percentage of students from such families who are served by the local educational agency is greater than the statewide percentage of children from such families.\n(d) State grants\n(1) Allotments From funds made available under subsection (c)(2) of this section and not reserved under subsections (b) and (j) of this section for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall allot to each State educational agency having an application approved under subsection (f)(1) of this section an amount that bears the same relation to the funds as the amount the State educational agency received under part A of this subchapter for the preceding fiscal year bears to the amount all such State educational agencies received under part A of this subchapter for the preceding fiscal year, to increase literacy and reading skills by improving school libraries.\nEach State educational agency receiving an allotment under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year -\n(A) may reserve not more than 3 percent of the allotted funds to provide technical assistance, disseminate information about school library media programs that are effective and based on scientifically based research, and pay administrative costs related to activities under this section; and\n(B) shall use the allotted funds that remain after making the reservation under subparagraph (A) to award grants, for a period of 1 year, on a competitive basis, to eligible local educational agencies in the State that have an application approved under subsection (f)(2) of this section for activities described in subsection (g) of this section.\n(3) Reallotment\nIf a State educational agency does not apply for an allotment under this section for any fiscal year, or if the State educational agency's application is not approved, the Secretary shall reallot the amount of the State educational agency's allotment to the remaining State educational agencies in accordance with paragraph (1).\n(e) Direct competitive grants to eligible local educational agencies\n(1) In general From amounts made available under subsection (c)(1) of this section and not reserved under subsections (b) and (j) of this section for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible local educational agencies that have applications approved under subsection (f)(2) of this section for activities described in subsection (g) of this section.\n(2) Duration\nThe Secretary shall award grants under this subsection for a period of 1 year.\n(3) Distribution\nThe Secretary shall ensure that grants under this subsection are equitably distributed among the different geographic regions of the United States, and among local educational agencies serving urban and rural areas.\n(f) Applications\n(1) State educational agency\nEach State educational agency desiring assistance under this section shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary shall require. The application shall contain a description of -\n(A) how the State educational agency will assist eligible local educational agencies in meeting the requirements of this section and in using scientifically based research to implement effective school library media programs; and\n(B) the standards and techniques the State educational agency will use to evaluate the quality and impact of activities carried out under this section by eligible local educational agencies to determine the need for technical assistance and whether to continue to provide additional funding to the agencies under this section.\n(2) Eligible local educational agency\nEach eligible local educational agency desiring assistance under this section shall submit to the Secretary or State educational agency, as appropriate, an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary or State educational agency, respectively, shall require. The application shall contain a description of -\n(A) a needs assessment relating to the need for school library media improvement, based on the age and condition of school library media resources, including book collections, access of school library media centers to advanced technology, and the availability of well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists, in schools served by the eligible local educational agency;\n(B) the manner in which the eligible local educational agency will use the funds made available through the grant to carry out the activities described in subsection (g) of this section;\n(C) how the eligible local educational agency will extensively involve school library media specialists, teachers, administrators, and parents in the activities assisted under this section, and the manner in which the eligible local educational agency will carry out the activities described in subsection (g) of this section using programs and materials that are grounded in scientifically based research;\n(D) the manner in which the eligible local educational agency will effectively coordinate the funds and activities provided under this section with Federal, State, and local funds and activities under this subpart and other literacy, library, technology, and professional development funds and activities; and\n(E) the manner in which the eligible local educational agency will collect and analyze data on the quality and impact of activities carried out under this section by schools served by the eligible local educational agency.\n(g) Local activities Funds under this section may be used to -\n(1) acquire up-to-date school library media resources, including books;\n(2) acquire and use advanced technology, incorporated into the curricula of the school, to develop and enhance the information literacy, information retrieval, and critical thinking skills of students;\n(3) facilitate Internet links and other resource-sharing networks among schools and school library media centers, and public and academic libraries, where possible;\n(4) provide professional development described in section 6372(d)(2) of this title for school library media specialists, and activities that foster increased collaboration between school library media specialists, teachers, and administrators; and\n(5) provide students with access to school libraries during nonschool hours, including the hours before and after school, during weekends, and during summer vacation periods.\n(h) Accountability and reporting\n(1) Local reports\nEach eligible local educational agency that receives funds under this section for a fiscal year shall report to the Secretary or State educational agency, as appropriate, on how the funding was used and the extent to which the availability of, the access to, and the use of, up-to-date school library media resources in the elementary schools and secondary schools served by the eligible local educational agency was increased.\n(2) State report\nEach State educational agency that receives funds under this section shall compile the reports received under paragraph (1) and submit the compiled reports to the Secretary.\n(i) Supplement, not supplant Funds made available under this section shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, other Federal, State, and local funds expended to carry out activities relating to library, technology, or professional development activities.\n(j) National activities\n(1) Evaluations From the funds appropriated under section 6302(b)(4) of this title for each fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 1 percent for annual, independent, national evaluations of the activities assisted under this section and their impact on improving the reading skills of students. The evaluations shall be conducted not later than 3 years after January 8, 2002, and biennially thereafter.\n(2) Report to Congress\nThe Secretary shall transmit the State reports received under subsection (h)(2) of this section and the evaluations conducted under paragraph (1) to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives.\n(Pub. L. 89-10, title I, Sec. 1251, as added Pub. L. 107-110, title I, Sec. 101, Jan. 8, 2002, 115 Stat. 1567.)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line355999"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9529229402542114,"wiki_prob":0.9529229402542114,"text":"Radical Islamism and Jihad (08 Nov 2018 NewAgeIslam.Com)\n200 Mass Graves in Iraq: A ‘Legacy of Terror’\nBy Falih Hassan and Rod Nordland\nOver 200 mass graves holding as many as 12,000 bodies have been found in areas of Iraq once controlled by the Islamic State, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The findings were highlighted in a joint report released by the United Nations mission to Iraq and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which called the sites a “legacy of terror.”\nWhere Are The Graves, And What Are They Like?\nMost are in the four provinces of northern and western Iraq where the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate acted as the government: Anbar, Kirkuk, Salahuddin and Nineveh, which includes Mosul, the largest city once controlled by the extremists. They range from small burial sites with eight bodies, to massive pits believed to hold thousands. The biggest is believed to be the Khasfa Sinkhole near Mosul.\n“I can only say that the number of the victims of the mass graves is much bigger than the numbers in the report,” said Dhia Kareem, head of the Mass Graves Directorate in Iraq. He said eyewitnesses estimated there were 6,000 bodies in the Khasfa Sinkhole.\n“ISIL’s horrific crimes in Iraq have left the headlines, but the trauma of the victims’ families endures, with thousands of women, men and children still unaccounted for,” Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations human rights commissioner, said, referring to the Islamic State. “These graves contain the remains of those mercilessly killed for not conforming to ISIL’s twisted ideology and rule.”\nWhy Is This Discovery Important?\nWhile the extremists made no secret of their systematic violence, there has been little accountability for what they did. During its three-year rule, the Islamic State terrorized local residents, often releasing videos of executions of people targeted for government ties, sexual orientation and more. The militants also went after members of ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians and Yazidis.\nIn the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar, 69 mass graves have been identified, Iraqi officials said.\nBut so far, few criminal investigations have been conducted. The grave sites could provide valuable forensic evidence, but the scale of the job has made collections daunting. The deaths occurred in what the United Nations has labelled systematic and widespread violence, a campaign that “may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possible genocide.”\nWhat about the Families of the Victims?\nThe United Nations said it was likely that more mass graves would be discovered, which will only worsen the situation, especially for families of victims. The Iraqi authorities have so far exhumed only 1,258 bodies from 28 sites, the United Nations said, because of a lack of government resources at the Mass Graves Directorate. The United Nations urged officials to identify the victims quickly and to return the bodies to relatives. But it also recognized that the Iraqi authorities need more resources to make that happen, while preserving evidence of crimes, and it urged the international community to help.\nFatin Al-Hilfi, a member of Iraq’s human rights commission, praised the United Nations report for recognizing “the negligence of the government toward the mass graves team and the lack of logistical support.”\nThe report also noted that Iraqi bureaucracy made it difficult for people to find missing relatives because information was not held in a centralized way. “Their families have the right to know what happened to their loved ones,” Ms. Bachelet said.\nInvestigators recommended setting up a nationwide databank, similar to those set up in Bosnia and Rwanda.\nDo The Graves Add To What Is Known About The Scope Of ISIS Killings In Iraq?\nIt’s too early to say. The United Nations has estimated that 30,000 civilians were killed by the Islamic State from 2014 to 2017 — “a number that should be considered an absolute minimum.” But many of those victims were found and buried by their families. That so many thousands are in the 202 mass graves identified so far is shocking — and only 28 of those graves have been thoroughly exhumed.\nFalih Hassan reported from Baghdad, and Rod Nordland from Kabul, Afghanistan.\nSource: nytimes.com/2018/11/06/world/middleeast/iraq-isis-mass-graves.html?\nURL: http://www.newageislam.com/radical-islamism-and-jihad/falih-hassan-and-rod-nordland/200-mass-graves-in-iraq--a-‘legacy-of-terror’/d/116822","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1737951"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.63656085729599,"wiki_prob":0.36343914270401,"text":"Hornet City Guides\nThe Hornet Guide to Gay Beijing\nWritten by Charles Thompson-Wang on November 14, 2018\nThis post is also available in: Español Français Português ไทย Українська 繁體中文\nChina opened its doors to tourists in 1978 and finally decriminalized homosexuality in 1997. While China still needs to work on improving their human rights record, it’s quickly adopting modern ideas. The country’s been revitalized in the past two decades.\nThe capital city, Beijing, has over a thousand years of culture and history. But it’s not mired in its past — it’s a beautifully modern city. From famous sites to authentic Chinese cuisine and fantastic nightlife, there’s plenty to explore and do in gay Beijing!\nBefore your trip to gay Beijing\nChinese Embassy In Washington D.C.\nBefore you leave, you’ll need to get a travel visa. If your city has a Chinese Consulate, it’s really easy — you can get a visa in one day! If you don’t have a consulate near you, there are services online to help with the process, but they generally charge extra fees. The Chinese Embassy‘s website has additional details on how to get your travel visa hassle free — and remember, tourists need an “L” visa.\nBe warned — China keeps a firm grip on its media outlets. A number of social media sites like Facebook are also blocked. So, if you use Facebook or another similar site to communicate with friends, you’ll need to get a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Basically, it’s a little bit of software that convinces websites you’re browsing from a different country. There are a number of options, so do a bit of research to see which VPN service is right for you.\nMandarin is the official language in China, and it’s the dialect regularly spoken in Beijing. The Hornet Mandarin Phrasebook is a handy guide to some commonly used Mandarin phrases, along with pronunciation guides.\nThe Ring Roads of Beijing\nBeijing’s infrastructure is set up in a “Ring Road” system. Currently, there are six ring roads in the city; Ring Road One is the innermost district. There are a number of famous sites in this area, like Tiananmen Square, so you’ll definitely want to check this neighborhood out.\nRing Road Two consists of western hotels, fine dining and a thriving nightlife. The majority of gay Beijing bars in this neighborhood, so it’s easy to barhop. If you want the authentic Beijing experience, visit Ring Road Three and check out local shops and restaurants. And if you want to relive the 2008 Summer Olympics, head to Ring Road Five. That’s where the Olympic stadiums are, like the Aquatics Stadium (better known as the Water Cube).\nHow to get around in Beijing\nTaxi cabs are everywhere in Beijing — and they’re surprisingly inexpensive. However, the drivers don’t speak English and typically only accept cash for fares, unless you have the WeChat Wallet app.\nUber’s also available in China — but not with you normal Uber app. You’ll need to download the Uber China app to get around. It’s only available in Mandarin, though, and you’ll need to sign up with WeChat Wallet or Alipay to pay for your rides.\nGiven the difficulty of Uber China for foreign visitors, we highly recommend you download the Didi Chuxing app instead. Didi Chuxing (or simply “Didi” if you’re local) works just like Uber. But thankfully, Didi also offers an English-language interface. It’s easy to communicate with your driver, thanks to built-in translation services. And, best of all, Didi accepts major international credit cards!\nIf you don’t want to travel by cab, Bejing’s public transportation system is very easy to use. There are a total of 19 Beijing subway lines, and it’s the most convenient way to get around during rush hour.\nThe public bus is also an easy way to travel. However, there’s also an alternate bus line run by the Beijing Public Transport Holdings, Ltd. (“BPT”). BPT is the main bus and trolley operator in the city, with almost 28,000 buses. And there’s a third option from the Beijing Yuntong Bus Company. Yuntong buses have the prefix “运通” before the route number. Yuntong bus routes are different from BPT bus routes; Beijing Bus 110 and 运通110 won’t take you to the same place. However, the fares are the same for both Yuntong and BPT buses.\nPlaces to shop in Beijing\nWangfujing Shopping District\nIf you like to haggle, Beijing has several great shopping areas. The HongQiao Pearl Market is a wholesale market in the Dongcheng District. While it’s famous for pearls and jewlery, this market has a vast selection of electronics, apparel and accessories. You can find designer knock-offs here — just make sure you haggle to get a reasonable price!\nThe Wangfujing Shopping Street is Beijing’s oldest shopping district. It’s got huge upscale shopping malls at each end of the street. The street itself is a shopper’s paradise with shops selling paintings and traditional Chinese art and crafts. There are also trendy boutiques and upscale chain stores. And if you get hungry, it’s a perfect place — you can find everything from western food to authentic Chinese cuisine.\nQianmen Street is another place to soak up the local experience. While there aren’t any significant shopping malls on Qianmen Street, there’s scores of little shops where you can find clothes, shoes, traditional food and more.\nThe Place, an over-the-top shopping mall in the Chaoyang District, is a fun place to window shop and people watch. And when you get sick of that, just look up — there’s a magnificent screen in the ceiling! This mall has high-end boutiques, local stores, fine dining and great entertainment. No wonder it attracts thousands of visitors daily.\nUnique Beijing sites\nWorld Park Beijing\nThere are tons of famous sites in and around Beijing, like the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. But since you already know about those, here are a few unique sites you’ll want to make sure to visit. And since they’re relatively unknown, they won’t be packed with tourists — bonus!\nThe World Park, 10 miles from downtown Beijing and Tiananmen Square, gives visitors a chance to see more than 100 of the planet’s famous landmarks — including the Great Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and the Statue of Liberty — all in miniature. You can explore the whole world in one place. The park’s monorail connects you to all five continents. Indeed, it’s a small world after all.\nWatermelon Museum\nWho doesn’t like watermelon? But if you really like watermelon, you’ll want to check out the China Watermelon Museum. The museum has plenty of fun facts and information about the mouthwatering fruit. Inside they have a variety of different wax melons on display, but outside, you can see actual melons growing!\nThe Dongyue Temple is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Visitors walk through seventy-six different departments of the afterlife — sort of a Chinese version of Dante’s Inferno. Each of the departments tells the story of ancient Chinese underworld folklore. From the “Unjust Death Department” to the “Department of Paying Back Evil with Evil,” each room depicts a torture scene with statues in different grotesque poses.\nCentral Perk Cafe\nAre you a huge fan of the ’90s sitcom Friends? Du Xin, a Chinese entrepreneur, loves the show so much he opened his own version of Central Perk. Xin duplicated the whole interior decor from the show — the cozy orange coach, the red brick wall, the iconic logo. Come here to sip cheap coffee and watch Friends re-runs with your real friends.\nGay Beijing nightlife\nDestination Club\nGay bars act as a safe place for guys to meet in China. While homosexuality is decriminalized, it’s still stigmatized and the LGBTQ community ends up being very discreet.\nGay Beijing does have a thriving nightlife, however. Destination Club, in a massive two-storey building, is one of the most popular gay spots. If you smoke, you can mingle on the front patio. Once you enter the building, there are several rooms to explore. And if you just want a quiet night chatting with friends, there are open bars for socializing. Destination Club also hosts massive dance parties with world-famous DJs spinning.\nKai Club in the Chaoyang District is a cozy spot. While it’s tiny and intimate, the drinks are cheap, making Kai Club a great place to start your night. On the other hand, if you prefer elegance, Alfa is a fun place to dance and chat. At Alfa, you can always expect an international and mixed crowd. It’s an excellent place to jumpstart your weekend fun.\nPop Up Beijing\nPop-Up Beijing is the new, hip spot. It recently opened, and it’s the perfect place for an evening of vintage cinema, wine tasting and other fun special events. Pop-Up Beijing is located in the heart of Sanlitun, a gay-owned store selling homeware and antiques. The onsite bar has an excellent wine menu; happy hour is from 5-7 p.m. On Thursday nights, Pop-Up Beijing hosts an LGBTQ family night.\nFeature image by swissmediavision via iStockphoto.com\nAsia China traveling tips","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1059170"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7106415033340454,"wiki_prob":0.7106415033340454,"text":"International Young Ambassador of the 21st Century:\nShane continues to pick up the Young Ambassador titles\nBy Mairead O'Shea\nYoung Oran man Shane O'Brien has won the prestigious title of Lions International Young Ambassador of the 21st Century.\nThe eighteen-year-old was representing Roscommon Leo Club in the final of the British Isles and Ireland category of the competition. Shane won the nationwide event in Ireland at the end of January and he went on to compete in England last week. He beat off stiff competition from eleven other finalists from England, Scotland and Wales to be crowned the overall winner. He will now go forward to the European stage of the Young Ambassador competition, which takes place in Bologna, Italy this November.\nShane received the honour for his work on the 4U youth magazine, the 4U radio show on Ros F.M. and a plethora of other community and civic projects. Interviews took place on Saturday and a gala ball took place on Saturday night in Birmingham with the presentations to winners on Sunday morning.\nA Leaving Cert student at Roscommon CBS, Shane is a son of Michéal and Rita O'Brien from Oran. He has worked on the 4U magazine since 2007. The quarterly publication sees 3,000 copies distributed to secondary schools throughout the county.\nSpeaking to the Roscommon Herald, a clearly delighted Shane said: \"I was fairly confident going into the competition because our magazine has been a great success, it's all about promoting positive mental health and suicide awareness amongst teenagers. I think our project probably had more room for expansion than some of the others as the 4U magazine circulates to thousands of young people and schools all over the county. We are also hoping to circulate it in Athlone IT; it was a pilot project for Roscommon but I think the judges saw the nationwide potential of the magazine and it was so unique and innovative.\"\nShane also picked up a cheque for £1,500 as part of his overall prize. He plans to use the bursary award to help finance further publications of the 4U youth magazine will donate part of his winnings to flood victims in the area.\nA large crowd of family, friends and members of the Lions and Leo Club travelled to England at the weekend to support Shane. Scramogue natives, Lena O' Malley and Mick Lyons of the Roscommon Association in Birmingham also turned out in support. Shane was accompanied by his parents Michéal and Rita, friends, fellow Leo Club members, Leo Club leaders Eileen Hester, Kathleen Shanagher and Ciaran Mullooly and Lions Club President Gerry Finn.\nShane arrived into Dublin airport late on Sunday night but he was back in school in the CBS on Monday morning as he prepares for his Leaving Cert mocks later this week. A special gathering also took place in Gleeson's Townhouse in Roscommon town on Monday night for the homecoming celebrations.\nFRONT PAGE ARTICLE WITH THANKS TO ROSCOMMON HERALD.\nColáiste Éamann Rís Callain\nGive to the poor in handfuls.\nEdmund Rice","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1261539"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8812741637229919,"wiki_prob":0.8812741637229919,"text":"Submit to download\nBrisbane Airport (BNE), located just 12km from Brisbane’s CBD, has direct connections to 28 international destinations and operates 24 hours a day. Airtrain connects the airport’s modern domestic and international terminals to the Brisbane CBD via a high-frequency rail service, while the new Airport Link tunnel connects BNE to the CBD by road, reducing travel time by up to 88 per cent in peak hour (Source: AirportlinkM7, 2014).\nInternational and domestic passenger numbers through BNE increased by more than 480,000 in 2013-14 to exceed 21.8 million, representing a 2.2 per cent increase on the previous year. The fastest rate of growth in international numbers for several years was seen with an additional 267,700 international travellers translating to a 6 per cent increase on the previous year. Domestic passenger growth, while slower than in previous years, was still positive at 1.3 per cent, or more than 211,000 additional travellers (Source: Asia-Pacific Airports, 2014).\nBNE is owned and operated by Brisbane Airport Corporation Limited (BAC), a consortium of major Australian and international organisations (including Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Port of Brisbane Corporation), and significant institutional investors. BAC’s close ties with Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, one of the world’s most modern and efficient airports, helps ensure world-class standards in owning, developing and operating a global airport city of the future. In 2014, BNE was ranked 23rd out of the world’s top 100 airports (Source: Skytrax World Airport Awards, 2014).\nIt also retained its ranking of third for global airports servicing from 20-30 million passengers, airports in Australia/Pacific and airport staff Australia/Pacific. BNE has also been ranked first in Australia for quality of service 10 years in a row (Source: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Survey, 2014).\nBNE is a major commercial and industrial district, consisting of nine integrated precincts that together provide a 970ha, 24-hour global trade and commerce centre. BNE also serves an important role as a freight transport hub and in 2013/14, total international air cargo exports through BNE increased by 12 per cent.\nCovering 2700ha, BNE has the largest land area of any Australian capital city airport. With 1000ha of developable land, BNE offers significant future growth capacity. Under successive master plans, a vision is being realised to transform a city airport into an airport city, and to ensure that the significant growth this entails is achieved in a sustainable way.\nThe 2014 Master Plan has a 20-year planning horizon and will build on previous master plans to realise BAC’s vision of creating an employment and industry hub by structuring the airport’s significant land assets for a range of compatible uses.\nOver the next 10 years, BAC is investing more than $2.5 billion in airport infrastructure, including a new runway, redevelopment of the international terminal, multiple airfield upgrades, access road upgrades, and a number of new commercial buildings and facilities (Source: BAC, 2014).\nBAC recently opened the final piece of the domestic terminal upgrade, expanded the airport’s apron and taxiway network and started early works on the new parallel runway. All of this activity, along with numerous other developments, demonstrates that BNE is planning for the future, investing in Queensland, and contributing to one of Australia’s fastest-growing economies.\nTo discover more information, please visit the Brisbane Airport Corporation website, or contact the Investment Attraction Team.\nContact the Investment Attraction Team","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line775990"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.764900803565979,"wiki_prob":0.764900803565979,"text":"People v. T.R. (In re T.R.)\nNO. 4-19-0051 (Ill. App. Ct. 2019)\nPeoplev.T.R. (In re T.R.)\nAPPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS FOURTH DISTRICTMay 28, 2019\nNO. 4-19-0051•2019 Ill. App. 4th 190051•\nDocket No. 4-19-0051\nIn re T.R., a Minor (The People of the State of Illinois, Petitioner-Appellee, v. T.R., Respondent-Appellant).\nCounsel on Appeal James E. Chadd, John M. McCarthy, and Salome Kiwara-Wilson, of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, for appellant. Don Knapp, State's Attorney, of Bloomington (Patrick Delfino, David J. Robinson, and Thomas R. Dodegge, of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.\nJUSTICE STEIGMANN delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.\nIllinois Official Reports\nDecision Under Review\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County, No. 17-JD-78; the Hon. J. Brian Goldrick, Judge, presiding.\nRemanded with directions.\nCounsel on Appeal\nJames E. Chadd, John M. McCarthy, and Salome Kiwara-Wilson, of State Appellate Defender's Office, of Springfield, for appellant.\nDon Knapp, State's Attorney, of Bloomington (Patrick Delfino, David J. Robinson, and Thomas R. Dodegge, of State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor's Office, of counsel), for the People.\nJustices Knecht and Turner concurred in the judgment and opinion.\n¶ 1 In April 2017, the State filed a petition for adjudication of wardship, alleging respondent, T.R. (born April 3, 2001), committed criminal sexual assault (penis to vagina) (720 ILCS 5/11-1.20(a)(1) (West 2016)), criminal sexual abuse (in that he used force to touch the vagina of I.P.-V. (born March 31, 2002)) (id. § 11-1.50(a)(1)), and criminal sexual abuse (in that he committed an act of sexual penetration with I.P.-V. when she was between the ages of 13 and 17 years old and respondent was less than 5 years older than I.P.-V.) (id. § 11-1.50(b)). In July 2018, after a bench trial, the trial court adjudicated T.R. to be a delinquent minor. In December 2018, the court made T.R. a ward of the court, sentenced him to 36 months' probation, and imposed 30 days of detention to be stayed pending completion of probation.\n¶ 2 Respondent appeals, arguing (1) the trial court erred by considering evidence not presented at trial, (2) respondent's counsel gave ineffective assistance by stipulating to the introduction of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence that supported the State's case, (3) the trial court should have conducted a hearing pursuant to People v. Krankel, 102 Ill. 2d 181, 464 N.E.2d 1045 (1984), (4) the trial court erred by admitting testimony regarding statements respondent made during a polygraph examination for the purpose of impeachment, and (5) respondent's convictions for criminal sexual abuse should merge with his criminal sexual assault conviction pursuant to the one-act, one-crime doctrine. We agree with respondent's third argument and remand for a Krankel hearing.\n¶ 3 I. BACKGROUND\n¶ 4 A. The Petition for Adjudication of Wardship\n¶ 5 In April 2017, the State filed a petition for adjudication of wardship, alleging respondent was a delinquent minor and should be made a ward of the court. The State alleged that in March 2017, T.R. committed three sex crimes against I.P.-V. Specifically, the State contended T.R. (1) committed criminal sexual assault by placing his penis in I.P.-V.'s vagina by the use of force, (2) committed criminal sexual abuse by knowingly and through the use of force touching I.P.-V.'s vagina for the purpose of sexual gratification, and (3) committed criminal sexual abuse by placing his penis in I.P.-V.'s vagina when she was between the ages of 13 and 17 years old and respondent was less than 5 years older than I.P.-V.\n¶ 6 B. The Bench Trial\n¶ 7 In June 2018, the trial court conducted a bench trial. The State presented testimony from I.P.-V. and her cousin, X.P., that in March 2017, the two went to meet X.P.'s boyfriend, Devan, and ended up going to respondent's apartment. I.P.-V. testified that while X.P. and Devan were in a separate room, respondent, with whom she had been \"laughing\" and \"playing around,\" picked her up and took her to another bedroom, where he held her down and put his penis in her vagina for \"maybe a minute.\" I.P.-V. left shortly thereafter and went to the hospital, where a rape kit was administered. The State then stipulated that the court could consider a report that indicated \"[t]he DNA profile obtained from the sperm fraction (SF) of [the vaginal swab sample] is consistent with a mixture of two individuals including the victim and one male contributor.\" The report concluded that the \"deduced male component DNA profile matches the DNA profile obtained from [respondent's] sample.\"\n¶ 8 Respondent testified that when X.P. and Devan left the room, he and I.P.-V. continued to flirt. Respondent stated that, eventually, I.P.-V. put her hand down his pants and touched his penis. Respondent said he placed his hand down her pants and touched her vagina but did not touch \"inside the hole.\"\n¶ 9 On cross-examination, the trial court permitted the State to use statements respondent gave during a polygraph examination to impeach his testimony. Respondent objected to the use of these statements as impeachment evidence, but the trial court overruled the objection and permitted respondent to file a memorandum in support of his objection after the conclusion of the hearing. Respondent denied making a particular statement to the polygraph examiner, and the State called the polygraph examiner in rebuttal to complete its impeachment of respondent regarding that statement.\n¶ 10 In closing argument, respondent's counsel's contended that (1) the DNA testing did not demonstrate that respondent's sperm was present and (2) the match could have been from skin cells left by respondent's hand. The State argued that the \"DNA profile is sperm fraction,\" which could only be determined from testing \"because you cannot tell it is sperm without doing a test.\" The trial court took the matter under advisement and set the case over for a hearing on respondent's objection to the polygraph impeachment and for the court to issue a ruling.\n¶ 11 C. The Trial Court's Ruling\n¶ 12 In July 2018, the trial court resumed the proceedings. Before addressing the testimony and the evidence, the court stated that it received an envelope from respondent's mother but had not opened it. The following discussion then took place:\n\"THE COURT: Before the Court gives its ruling, Court would note first that on late Thursday afternoon, I received an envelope from [respondent's mother] addressed to me that I did not open.\nMr. Feldman [(respondent's counsel)], I'm going to provide that to you.\nMs. [respondent's mother], I cannot receive correspondence from parents with respect to a case. I had received correspondence in times past from parents, for example, who are incarcerated and want to be brought to court. But I did not want to open that and review any of that information, so I'm giving that to Mr. Feldman who is [T.R.'s] attorney and let him review it and for you to discuss that with him.\nMr. Feldman, do you need some time to review it and talk with [respondent's mother]?\nMR. FELDMAN: I'm reading it right now, Your Honor. Your Honor, if we could have a sidebar a moment.\n(The following conversation was held at the bench.)\nMR. FELDMAN: This is sort of a mixed bag. Some of it I don't think the Court would probably consider at this point. I think it is argument by the mother on the minor's behalf. Some of it is an issue [in] that she has complaints about my performance. I think the Court ought to be aware of it. Obviously, I would have to let you know and provide copies to the State as well. I think the Court can review it. Probably parts the Court may consider, may not consider. I think it should be at least made to supplement the record. But I don't think we need anything additional as far\nas argument at this point in time. Because of the issue she's raised, I think the Court has to take a look at it.\nMS. LAWSON [(ASSISTANT STATE'S ATTORNEY)]: I haven't seen it yet, Your Honor. I think that what Mr. Feldman is representing is for appeal, not what's important to the Court to review before giving a ruling for today's purposes. So, I think that if the Court wanted to review it, it probably should not be done until after a ruling has been made. And if ineffective assistance of counsel is a reason for appeal, it's not a reason not to give a ruling on a case.\nTHE COURT: Any response, Mr. Feldman?\nMR. FELDMAN: I don't have much of a response at this point, Your Honor. Again, I think the Court needs to be made aware of that. She also inquired if the Court received correspondence from another individual, Mr. Dunson, D-U-N-S-O-N. I don't believe the Court has or the Court would have made us aware of that.\nTHE COURT: I have not.\nMR. FELDMAN: All right. Then what I'm going to do is hang on to this. Have a ruling pending, and I can supplement the record if necessary.\nTHE COURT: All right.\n(Sidebar concluded.)\nTHE COURT: Before the Court begins, Court would note that it was also provided with a memorandum regarding the State's use of the polygraph information as impeachment that was filed by Mr. Feldman.\"\n¶ 13 The trial court did not again refer to the envelope or its contents. Instead, the trial court addressed respondent's argument regarding the polygraph evidence. The trial court concluded the testimony was admissible for the purpose of impeachment as a prior inconsistent statement.\n¶ 14 The trial court then recounted the testimony of the witnesses at trial in some detail. The court believed that, based on the conflicting testimony of respondent and I.P.-V., the question was \"was it consensual or nonconsensual?\" The court believed the answer was in the DNA evidence stipulation. The court explained the meaning of the term \"sperm fraction\" and that male DNA can only be profiled if sperm is present. However, neither the stipulation nor the report contained this information. The court concluded that respondent committed an act of sexual penetration because his DNA profile was found in the sperm fraction from the vaginal swab. Accordingly, the trial court (1) found respondent guilty of all three offenses alleged in the petition, (2) adjudicated respondent to be a delinquent minor, and (3) continued the matter for sentencing.\n¶ 15 D. The Sentencing Hearing\n¶ 16 In December 2018, the trial court conducted a sentencing hearing. Before sentencing respondent, the court noted that it based its finding of guilt on \"the scientific evidence, which in my mind leaves no dispute as to what occurred based upon the rest of the evidence that was presented.\" The court found it was in respondent's best interest and the best interest of the public that he be made a ward of the court. The court imposed the statutory minimum sentence of 36 months' probation and imposed 30 days of detention, which the court stayed pending completion of probation.\n¶ 17 This appeal followed.\n¶ 18 II. ANALYSIS\n¶ 19 Respondent appeals, arguing (1) the trial court erred by considering evidence not presented at trial, (2) respondent's counsel gave ineffective assistance by stipulating to the introduction of DNA evidence that supported the State's case, (3) the trial court should have conducted a hearing pursuant to People v. Krankel, 102 Ill. 2d 181, 464 N.E.2d 1045 (1984), (4) the trial court erred by admitting testimony regarding statements respondent made during a polygraph examination for the purpose of impeachment, and (5) respondent's convictions for criminal sexual abuse should merge with his criminal sexual assault conviction pursuant to the one-act, one-crime doctrine. We agree with respondent's third argument and remand for a Krankel hearing.\n¶ 20 A. The Applicable Krankel Law and Standard of Review\n¶ 21 \"When a pro se defendant makes a posttrial claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, the trial court's responsibility to follow the common law procedure in Krankel is triggered.\" People v. Rhodes, 2019 IL App (4th) 160917, ¶ 12. The only question to be resolved by a Krankel hearing is whether the trial court should appoint new counsel to represent the defendant on his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. People v. Roddis, 2018 IL App (4th) 170605, ¶ 47, 119 N.E.3d 52. The court need not appoint new counsel if the defendant's claims are without merit or pertain solely to matters of trial strategy. Id. ¶ 63. To determine whether new counsel should be appointed, a trial court should ordinarily inquire into the factual basis of the defendant's claims by (1) asking the defendant about the claims, (2) asking defense counsel about the claims, and (3) relying upon its knowledge of counsel's performance. Id. ¶¶ 58-59.\n¶ 22 \"[A] pro se defendant is not required to do any more than bring his or her claim to the trial court's attention ***.\" (Internal quotation marks omitted.) People v. Ayres, 2017 IL 120071, ¶ 11, 88 N.E.3d 732. \"Accordingly, a defendant may raise the claim orally or in writing, either by filing a formal posttrial motion with the court or by informally providing a letter.\" Rhodes, 2019 IL App (4th) 160917, ¶ 13. Even if the defendant makes the bare allegation of \"ineffective assistance of counsel,\" a trial court is required to conduct a Krankel inquiry. Id.\n¶ 23 The purpose of a Krankel inquiry is to allow defendants to flesh out their claims and limit the issues on appeal. Ayres, 2017 IL 120071, ¶ 13. A trial court's failure to conduct an adequate Krankel inquiry requires that the case be remanded. See id. ¶¶ 24-26. The appellate court reviews de novo whether a trial court should have conducted a Krankel inquiry and whether that inquiry was sufficient. People v. Jolly, 2014 IL 117142, ¶ 28, 25 N.E.3d 1127; People v. Taylor, 237 Ill. 2d 68, 75, 927 N.E.2d 1172, 1176 (2010).\n¶ 24 B. A Krankel Hearing Was Required in This Case\n¶ 25 Respondent argues that the trial court should have conducted a Krankel hearing when his counsel brought his mother's letter complaining of counsel's performance to the court's attention at the July 2018 hearing. Respondent recognizes that the allegation was raised prior to the trial court's ruling but asserts that the evidence and argument had been completed and all that remained was for the court to issue its decision on the record. Respondent claims that\nthe trial court was required to conduct the Krankel hearing after finding respondent guilty. Respondent also acknowledges that his mother, not he, raised the ineffective assistance claim. Respondent contends that, because (1) his mother was a necessary party and (2) parents have a special role under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 (705 ILCS 405/1-1 et seq. (West 2016)) in delinquency proceedings, his mother had standing to raise the ineffective assistance claim.\n¶ 26 In response, the State argues that (1) Krankel does not apply to juvenile delinquency proceedings, (2) Krankel applies only to posttrial motions, and (3) a Krankel inquiry is required only when the claim is raised pro se by respondent. We disagree with the State and agree with all of respondent's contentions.\n¶ 27 1. Krankel Applies to Juvenile Delinquency Proceedings\n¶ 28 The State first argues that Krankel does not apply to juvenile delinquency proceedings. The State notes that (1) juvenile delinquency proceedings are civil in nature and (2) courts have declined to apply Krankel in cases under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (725 ILCS 207/1 et seq. (West 2016)). The State also suggests that (1) applying Krankel is not required merely because juveniles have a right to counsel and (2) trial courts can intervene in the event of a substantial injustice. We conclude that the common-law requirements set forth in Krankel and subsequent cases apply to juvenile delinquency proceedings.\n¶ 29 As an initial matter, we note that we are aware of only one published case, In re Eric B., 351 Ill. App. 3d 1000, 1007, 815 N.E.2d 917, 923 (2004), in which a court has applied Krankel in the context of a juvenile delinquency proceeding. That case simply addressed the merits of whether the trial court conducted an adequate Krankel inquiry and concluded that the trial court did. In that case, the First District did not address the issue the State raises here—namely, whether Krankel applies at all in juvenile proceedings. Id. We conclude that (1) the purpose of Krankel applies equally to juvenile delinquency cases and (2) Krankel hearings should be conducted because juveniles who have been adjudicated delinquent have a very limited opportunity to raise ineffective assistance claims.\n¶ 30 \"Minors in delinquency proceedings *** have a constitutional right to counsel.\" People v. Austin M., 2012 IL 111194, ¶ 74, 975 N.E.2d 22. In particular, minors are entitled to \"effective assistance of counsel.\" (Emphasis in original.) Id. \"[W]ith the exception of the right to a jury trial, the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution extends to delinquent minors all of the basic rights enjoyed by criminal defendants.\" Id. ¶ 76. Because the legislature has amended the Juvenile Court Act to make \"delinquency proceedings more akin to criminal prosecutions,\" \"the need for zealous advocacy to vindicate the constitutional rights of minors in delinquency proceedings has become even greater.\" Id.\n¶ 31 Although juvenile delinquency proceedings are not the equivalent to criminal proceedings (see In re Jonathon C.B., 2011 IL 107750, ¶ 96, 958 N.E.2d 227), it would be anomalous if Krankel did not apply in delinquency proceedings.\n¶ 32 The State correctly notes that juvenile delinquency proceedings are in fact civil in nature even though juveniles are entitled to rights similar to that of criminal defendants. The State argues that the appellate court has declined to extend Krankel to other quasi-criminal proceedings, such as those under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act (see In re Commitment of Walker, 2014 IL App (2d) 130372, ¶ 56, 19 N.E.3d 205), and suggests we do\nthe same here. However, we conclude Walker is inapposite because of the unique circumstances of delinquency proceedings.\n¶ 33 In Walker, the Second District noted that (1) Krankel was not required by due process and (2) most jurisdictions did not employ similar procedures. Id. The court concluded that \"[a]ny remedy for counsel's alleged incompetence would lie in a collateral attack.\" Id. But juvenile delinquents cannot collaterally attack their judgments because the Post-Conviction Hearing Act (725 ILCS 5/122-1 et seq. (West 2016)) applies only to convictions and persons imprisoned in the penitentiary. Id. § 122-1(a). Juveniles are neither convicted nor imprisoned when they are adjudicated delinquent. People v. Taylor, 221 Ill. 2d 157, 168-69, 850 N.E.2d 134, 140 (2006); In re Vincent K., 2013 IL App (1st) 112915, ¶ 50, 2 N.E.3d 506.\n¶ 34 Moreover, the Illinois Supreme Court has held that petitions pursuant to section 2-1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure (735 ILCS 5/2-1401 (West 2016))—the remedy suggested by the court in Walker instead of Krankel—do not provide an adequate remedy to preserve juveniles' claims of ineffective assistance of counsel. See In re William M., 206 Ill. 2d 595, 604-05, 795 N.E.2d 269, 274 (2003) (holding section 2-1401 petitions only apply to newly discovered facts or changes in the law and therefore cannot be used to assert claims of general trial errors or a claim that counsel was ineffective for failing to file a motion to withdraw guilty plea). We note that, in this case, a section 2-1401 petition would have been inappropriate because the record demonstrates that the claim of ineffective assistance was discussed by the trial court and counsel in July 2018 and therefore could not be considered newly discovered.\n¶ 35 This court has recognized that in some circumstances juveniles are unable to adequately present claims of ineffective assistance of counsel on direct appeal because they have not developed a factual record in the trial court and cannot do so in a collateral attack. See In re Ch. W., 399 Ill. App. 3d 825, 830, 927 N.E.2d 872, 876 (2010). In those instances, we have remanded the case to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing while retaining jurisdiction. Id.; see also In re Alonzo O., 2015 IL App (4th) 150308, ¶ 30, 40 N.E.3d 1228.\n¶ 36 The Illinois Supreme Court has repeatedly explained that \"the goal of any Krankel proceeding is to facilitate the trial court's full consideration of a defendant's pro se claim and thereby potentially limit issues on appeal.\" Ayres, 2017 IL 120071, ¶ 13. \"[T]he primary purpose of the preliminary inquiry is to give the defendant an opportunity to flesh out his claim of ineffective assistance so the court can determine whether appointment of new counsel is necessary.\" Id. ¶ 20. \"By initially evaluating the defendant's claims in a preliminary Krankel inquiry, the circuit court will create the necessary record for any claims raised on appeal.\" Jolly, 2014 IL 117142, ¶ 38. \"Absent such a record, *** appellate review is precluded. Moreover, the inquiry is not burdensome upon the circuit court, and the facts and circumstances surrounding the claim will be much clearer in the minds of all involved when the inquiry is made just subsequent to trial or plea, as opposed to years later on appeal.\" Ayres, 2017 IL 120071, ¶ 21.\n¶ 37 Here, we do not know the basis of the mother's ineffective assistance claim because the trial court did not want to hear it and would not look at the letter despite trial counsel's invitation to do so. Most important, respondent does not have a remedy to develop his claims in collateral proceedings. Had the court conducted a brief inquiry when the court was informed of the mother's letter, the court could have determined (1) what respondent thought about the allegations in his mother's letter, (2) what the factual basis of the claim was,\n(3) whether respondent's counsel alleged ineffective assistance was actually a trial strategy, and (4) whether respondent needed new counsel to assert any potentially meritorious claims. Krankel inquiries like these would have gone a long way to developing a record on ineffective assistance claims generally, potentially avoiding the need to remand for a Krankel hearing after an appeal has been filed. See Alonzo O., 2015 IL App (4th) 150308, ¶¶ 23-30 (explaining remand was necessary to develop a record of whether respondent's counsel investigated a key witness and why counsel chose not to impeach that witness with a prior conviction).\n¶ 38 Finally, the State suggests that juveniles have a remedy because the trial court is in a \"parens patriae\" relationship with juveniles and \"when it perceives a substantial injustice, [it] will intervene on the juvenile's behalf, even where the juvenile is represented by counsel [citation].\" In re Vincent K., 2013 IL App (1st) 112915, ¶ 61. However, as respondent points out, the trial court in this case was presented with a claim that his counsel was ineffective but chose not to even read the letter detailing concerns about respondent's counsel despite counsel's requesting the court do so. Moreover, a trial court cannot intervene to ensure a juvenile receives effective assistance if the factual basis giving rise to the claim occurs outside of the courtroom.\n¶ 39 2. The Ineffective Assistance Claim Was Raised Posttrial\n¶ 40 Respondent argues that a Krankel inquiry was required after defense counsel told the trial court that his mother's letter alleged ineffective assistance. Although this claim could be viewed as not being raised posttrial, respondent argues that the adjudication hearing had concluded and all that remained was for the trial court to issue its ruling. Accordingly, respondent contends that the court should have conducted a Krankel hearing after announcing its findings and ultimate decision. We agree.\n¶ 41 We acknowledge that the supreme court in Ayres wrote that \"Krankel is limited to posttrial motions\" (Ayres, 2017 IL 120071, ¶ 22), but that holding does not mean that Krankel does not apply in this case. That is because, as respondent notes, the trial had concluded weeks before and all that remained was for the trial court to issue its ruling. When respondent's counsel called the mother's letter to the court's attention, the court knew it was about to rule against respondent, and it did just minutes later.\n¶ 42 Moreover, defense counsel told the trial court he believed it needed to consider the allegations and added that counsel would hold on to the letter pending the court's ruling. But after the court ruled, neither counsel nor the court raised the issue of the letter again.\n¶ 43 3. Respondent's Mother Could Raise Ineffective Assistance\n¶ 44 Respondent recognizes that Krankel is limited to pro se claims of ineffective assistance and that he did not make any such claim in this case. Instead, his mother made it on his behalf. Respondent contends that his mother's claim in this case is more akin to a pro se claim because parents are necessary parties with special interests in juvenile delinquency proceedings. The State disagrees and notes that this court has held that Krankel applies only to pro se claims.\n¶ 45 \"Krankel is not triggered when counsel raises his own ineffectiveness.\" Rhodes, 2019 IL App (4th) 160917, ¶ 17 (citing People v. Bates, 2018 IL App (4th) 160255, ¶ 102, 112 N.E.3d\n657, appeal allowed, No. 124143 (Ill. Jan. 31, 2019), and People v. McGath, 2017 IL App (4th) 150608, ¶¶ 49-52, 83 N.E.3d 671). Nonetheless, if defense counsel conveys a defendant's pro se claim of ineffectiveness to the court, a Krankel inquiry may be required. See id. We believe that the circumstances in this case are more similar to those in Rhodes because counsel was not arguing his own ineffectiveness. Instead, he was merely bringing respondent's mother's claim to the trial court's attention. Accordingly, the question before us is whether a parent may raise an ineffective assistance claim on behalf of her child, who is a respondent minor in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. Given the unique circumstances present in such a proceeding, we conclude that a parent may do so.\n¶ 46 In cases under the Juvenile Court Act, custodial parents and legal guardians \"have the right to be present, to be heard, to present evidence material to the proceedings, to cross-examine witnesses, to examine pertinent court files and records and also *** the right to be represented by counsel.\" 705 ILCS 405/1-5(1) (West 2016). In delinquency proceedings, parents generally have the right to adequate notice (In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1, 33 (1967)) and are considered parties to the proceedings. In re Marcus W., 389 Ill. App. 3d 1113, 1122, 907 N.E.2d 949, 955 (2009). In juvenile delinquency proceedings, \"[t]he purpose of a parent's presence is to ensure the juvenile his right to counsel and his right to have his parents present at any hearing.\" In re J.E., 285 Ill. App. 3d 965, 980-81, 675 N.E.2d 156, 167 (1996). Illinois courts have long recognized the importance of a parent's presence to provide aid and counsel to their child. See Marcus W., 389 Ill. App. 3d at 1127 (noting \"the importance our supreme court has placed on a minor having at least one person, besides an attorney or court-appointed guardian, present during juvenile proceedings whose loyalty and concern would be toward the minor.\"); see also In re M.W., 232 Ill. 2d 408, 439, 905 N.E.2d 757, 777 (2009) (noting lack of notice to noncustodial father did not affect fundamental fairness of proceedings because minor's counsel and mother were present to advise minor on significant decisions); In re J.W., 87 Ill. 2d 56, 61, 429 N.E.2d 501, 504 (1981) (concluding lack of notice to noncustodial father was not an error because the minor had \"the assistance of his custodian, the person on whom he relies for other important decisions in his life\"). This court has stated that \"the primary purpose of affording the parents an opportunity to be present at significant juvenile delinquency proceedings is the aid the parent can give to the minor.\" In re S.L.S., 181 Ill. App. 3d 453, 456-57, 536 N.E.2d 1355, 1358 (1989).\n¶ 47 Although this court has consistently held that trial counsel cannot assert his own ineffectiveness (Rhodes, 2019 IL App (4th) 160917, ¶ 17), we believe that a parent's raising counsel's alleged ineffectiveness in a juvenile delinquency proceeding in which that parent's child is a respondent is a far different matter. Given a parent's unique role in juvenile delinquency proceedings, we conclude that (1) a parent may raise ineffective assistance of counsel claims to the trial court in the same manner as a pro se respondent and (2) when a parent has done so, the trial court is required to conduct a Krankel hearing.\n¶ 48 Because we conclude the trial court erred when it did not conduct a Krankel inquiry, we remand this case so that it may do so. (We encourage the trial court to review this court's recent decision in Roddis, 2018 IL App (4th) 170605, for a detailed discussion of how to proceed on remand.)\n¶ 49 C. Remand\n¶ 50 \"Because we conclude a Krankel inquiry is necessary, we need not consider [respondent's] other arguments.\" Rhodes, 2019 IL App (4th) 160917, ¶ 21; see also People v. Bell, 2018 IL App (4th) 151016, ¶ 37, 100 N.E.3d 177 (\"Depending on the result of the *** Krankel inquiry, defendant's other claims may become moot.\"). We express no view on the merits of respondent's ineffective assistance claim or on any of the other arguments he has made on appeal.\n¶ 51 To avoid confusion in the event of a subsequent appeal, we retain jurisdiction over this matter pursuant to Illinois Supreme Court Rule 366(a)(5) (eff. Feb. 1, 1994). Alonzo O., 2015 IL App (4th) 150308, ¶ 31. In the event that the trial court appoints new counsel after the Krankel inquiry and ultimately determines that a new trial is warranted, the court should proceed accordingly. Only if (1) the trial court determines that appointment of new counsel is not warranted or (2) after a subsequent hearing on the ineffective assistance claim, the trial court rejects that claim, then respondent may again appeal, at which point we will address respondent's remaining arguments from this appeal and any argument on appeal respondent may raise about the trial court's determination that his trial counsel was not ineffective.\n¶ 52 III. CONCLUSION\n¶ 53 For the reasons stated, we remand for the trial court to conduct an inquiry into respondent's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel.\n¶ 54 Remanded with directions.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1264493"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8979294896125793,"wiki_prob":0.8979294896125793,"text":"ALEC Disbands Task Force On ‘Stand Your Ground’ After Liberal, Rights Groups Protest\nBy David Zielenziger @DavidZie\nQuimani Cobb, 11, holds a sign while taking part in the Seattle Unite 1000 Hoodies rally for Trayvon Martin at Westlake Park in Seattle, Washington, March 28, 2012. Photo: Reuters\nThe conservative American Legislative Exchange Council has disbanded a task force that had advocated for state Stand Your Ground laws as well as voter identification laws.\nThe move to axe the Public Safety and Elections task force came as ALEC was besieged by liberal and civil rights groups angered by the case of Trayvon Martin, the Sanford, Fla., teenager shot to death on Feb. 26 by a local security watchdog.\nLast week, a Florida special prosecutor charged George Zimmerman, 28, with second-degree murder in the Martin case. Zimmerman has claimed self-defense under the Florida Stand Your Ground Law.\nGroups including Credo, Color of Change, the NAACP, the Urban League, Common Cause and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee claim to have obtained more than 400,000 signatures protesting Washington, D.C.-based ALEC.\nThey also urged corporate sponsors including AT&T (NYSE: T) to quit the conservative group that lobbies state legislatures. Others getting complaints include Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and State Farm.\nCoca-Cola (NYSE: KO), PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP). McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), Wendy's Co. (Nasdaq: WEN), Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) Mars, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Arizona Public Service Co. and Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU), have already quit. In response, ALEC last week denounced coordinated intimidation against its members.\nThe pro-business trade group, which says it aims to connect state legislators with other state legislators, said companies join because they're more interested in solutions than in rhetoric.\nNevertheless, ALEC Chairman Dave Frizzell, a Republican Indiana legislator, announced Tuesday the group is refocusing our commitment to free-market, limited government and pro-growth principles and would abandon advocacy of the other controversial issues.\nMeanwhile, Credo and Color of Change, said AT&T had given ALEC more than $150,000 to sponsor state voter identification laws, which they charge are racist.\nALEC's board is top-heavy with conservative Republicans, including former chairmen Owen Johnston, a New York state senator with Republican and Conservative Party backing, and Tom Craddick, a former Republican speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.\nIts board of scholars includes Arthur Laffer, the inventor of the Laffer curve in economics, as well as Stephen Moore, a former president of the Club for Growth, which backs Republican candidates, who now writes for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NYSE: NWS).\nAT&T, McDonald's and Johnson & Johnson and State Farm have not commented on the controversy. Shares of AT&T fell 11 cents to $30.78, while Johnson & Johnson fell $1.10 to $63.13 in midday Wednesday trading.\nWall St snaps 4-day streak on GE, inflation worry\nALEC Ends Legal Work On Guns, Voter ID","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1612052"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6918665170669556,"wiki_prob":0.30813348293304443,"text":"The Washington National Cathedral lit up for an event. Courtesy: Washington National Cathedral\nExcerpts from the newly released documentary Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta: four centuries of history will be screened with a presentation by Film Director Francesco Vitali and Dr. Allison Luchs, Curator of Early European Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art, who will illustrate the tradition of sculpture gardens in Renaissance Italy and two masterpieces from Villa Litta now part of the NGA’s collection. To enhance the audience’s appreciation of the documentary, the screening will be accompanied by a concert featuring some music by the composers who enjoyed the patronage of the Villa’s residents during the 16th-18th centuries. Directed by Tina Chancey of Hesperus, the musical performances will feature Mezzo-soprano Kristen Dubanion-Smith and tenor Rob Petillo joined by William Simms, theorbo and renaissance lute, Elizabeth Field, baroque violin, Paula Maust, harpsichord, and Dr. Chancey, renaissance violin and viola da gamba. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. at the Embassy of Italy 3000 Whitehaven Street NW. Tickets at https://iicwashington.esteri.it/iic_washington/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2019/02/villa-visconti-borromeo-litta-documentary.html\nMusical reception\nJoin the Citizens Association of Georgetown for the February CAG Public Meeting. A moderated conversation on the DC Jazz scene including well known musicians will accompany a reception including refreshments from Stachowski’s and Potomac Wine & Spirits. 6:30 at Mt. Zion church on 29th St. Free.\nThursday, February 21st\nIn his latest book, Enemy of the People: Trump’s War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy, distinguished journalist Marvin Kalb pulls from recent history to prove that the great American experiment would suffer certain failure if not for a free and vigorous press. Mr. Kalb is currently a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior advisor at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. His work includes award-winning reporting for both CBS and NBC News as chief diplomatic correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and anchor of NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The book will be available for purchase and signing. 11:30 p.m. at the Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW. Tickets $30 https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07efyd4cpjf369464b&oseq=&c=&ch=\nCaral: The earliest civilization in the Americas. Caral is not only a city but also the name of an entire civilization of at least 25 sites centered on the Supe Valley in Peru.The Caral Civilization is considered one of the six “cradles of civilization”, joining Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India and Mesoamerica. Having begun about 5000 years ago, it is now recognized as the wellspring of South American societies. A photo exhibit features more about this fascinating civilization. 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Embassy of Peru,1700 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caral-the-earliest-civilization-in-the-americas-tickets-55595179679?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\nFriday, February 22nd\nThe Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents the opening of The Culture of Time and Space, a new exhibition of digital media art that explores the convergence of Korean traditional beauty and contemporary technology, featuring works by Korean media artist HyeGyung Kim. Kim focuses on the convergence of digital media and Taoism through the medium of East Asian antiques. She experiments with connections between digital media and traditional Oriental art that represents Korean beauty through projection mapping and interactive media. She presents not only projection mapping onto Korean traditional crafts such as porcelain and antique wooden furniture, but also interactive media art that integrates light, sound, and movement. Ultimately, Kim hopes to provide an experience beyond space and time through this artistic dialogue. This exhibition aims to introduce the vibrancy of Korean contemporary media art and the deep connections possible between traditional aesthetic values and Korea’s prominent digital technology of today. 6:00 p.m. at Korean Cultural Center, 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Free, though registration is required at www.KoreaCultureDC.org.\nSparkplug: Light Liminal illustrates how ten participating artists literally and symbolically employ light and darkness in painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. The exhibition explores themes of communication and empathy. Opening Reception 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at DC Arts Center, 2438 18th NW Street, Washington DC, 20009. Free.\nStudio Gallery, DC’s oldest arts collaborative, partners with StageFree for an evening of local art and electro-acoustic music. With five musical works written in the last four years, the program offers, a local take on new music. Featured composers include Armando Bayolo, Duncan Boatright, Ashi Day, Bradley Green, Christopher Newman, and Charles Perryman. 7:30 p.m. at Studio Gallery, 2108 R Street NW. Tickets $20. https://www.stagefree.org/concert-24\nSaturday, February 23rd\nTensions rise when Gyembo a teen who dreams of becoming a soccer player is chosen as the next guardian of the family monastery in Bhutan. Join in for a free film screening of “The Next Guardian” followed by a a tashi labay performance and Q&A discussion with the filmmakers Dorottya Zurb and Arun Bhattarai, and Communication and Program Manager for the Bhutan Foundation in Washington, DC, Tshering Yangzom. 6:45 p.m. at the National Museum of Natural History, 10th St NW & Constitution Ave NW. Free. http://go.si.edu/site/Calendar?id=102681&view=Detail&s_src=scene_web_scene_text_er&s_subsrc=NxtGrd_190223\nFor more than twenty-five years, a cappella singers have joined together to help DC’s homeless. The Sing Out for Shelter (“SOS”) concert, organized by DC’s own Augmented 8, has brought together the best of contemporary a cappella singing and raised more than $250,000 to help the homeless in the Metropolitan DC area.\n8:00 p.m. at the National United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Avenue NW. Tickets $20 -140. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-cappella-groups-sing-out-for-shelter-sat-february-23rd-to-help-dcs-homeless-tickets-51944287763\nStories and Songs of Hope in concert supports refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. A choir and guest musicians will perform musical selections on the theme of “sanctuary,” with several asylum seekers sharing their stories. Reception to follow. 4:30 p.m. Cleveland Park Congregational UCC, 3400 Lowell St. NW. Free www.asylumprojectdc.org.\nCelebrate Mardi Gras and the Carnival of Nice on French soil at a special evening at the Embassy of France! From the elegance of classical French culture to the most celebrated Rivera nightlife of the 21st Century, experience a special evening of fantastic French food (buffet-style) and wines, late night DJ and a nightclub experience that will turn the venue into “The Embassy of Lights,” with a spectacular Riviera-style ambiance, as well as attractions and shows. Enjoy the flavors of Nice, Monaco and St. Tropez in the beautiful and festive Maison Francaise. Mardi Gras Style beads will be offered to all guests upon arrival. And be on the lookout for some special Cirque Style Carnival Characters! 6:30 p.m. Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW. Tickets $89- 800. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/french-embassy-carnival-celebration-a-night-on-the-riviera-tickets-54587746419?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\nThe combined forces of the AU Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, and Chamber Singers are joined by the Strathmore Children’s Chorus and guest soloists Janice Meyerson and Rob McGinness to perform the North American premiere of Arnold Saltzman’s A Choral Symphony: Halevi. Completed in 2017, this large-scale composition is a lush and evocative symphonic setting of English translations of texts by the twelfth-century Hebrew poet Judah Halevi. 4:30 p.m. at the National Presbyterian Church, 401 Nebraska Ave. NW. Tickets $5-15. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/north-american-premiere-saltzman-a-choral-symphony-halevi-tickets-53926882758\nDC Fashion Week hosts the 30th International Couture Collections Show. Designers from around the world present their Autumn/Winter 2019 couture collections at the Embassy of France. 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Embassy of France, La Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir Road, NW. Tickets $70 -150. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/30th-international-couture-collections-presented-by-dc-fashion-week-tickets-53019616099?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\nMonday, February 25th\nDoes putting together a cheeseboard for your next party seem daunting? Do you stand in front of the cheese counter perplexed as to how to proceed? Fear not, cheese lovers! Whether it’s learning how to pick out cheeses and accompaniments that will wow your guests, or put them together in a thoughtful and crowd-stunning way, this How To Build a Cheeseboard class will give you cheese confidence and hone your plating skills. Led by cheesemonger and owner of Cheesemonster, Alice Bergen Phillips, this class is all about making the art of the cheeseboard a bit less intimidating. Talk, taste, and play around with various plating components, and at the end of the night, you”ll go home with your very own personal cheeseboard! 7:00 – 9:00 at The Lemon Collective, 808 Upshur Street. Tickets $45. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-build-a-cheeseboard-tickets-54597853650?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\nChef Sammy has had the #1 Cooking class sold on the internet for 5 years straight, and now he is offering the class direct to consumers. The class will be held at Chef’s newest restaurant CATCH 22 in the District of Columbia. Unlimited drinks will be served throughout the evening! 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. at Catch 22, 5832 Georgia Ave. NW. Tickets $40. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chef-sammy-davis-spring-cooking-class-tickets-56045426379?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\nTuesday, February 26th\nTrivia event\nTake a break from being The World’s Best Boss, your classes at art school, or beet farming to prove you know the most about the Dunder Mifflin family. Prizes will be awarded in lieu of Dundees, and you don’t want to be left empty handed… that’s what she said! 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at Pinstripes Georgetown,1064 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest. Free. https://officepgrgtwn.eventbrite.com\nCultural discussion\nIn honor of Black History Month, join in for a panel discussion featuring members of the African diaspora who are using creative ways of bridging the continental gap and contributing to Africa’s development. Food and Drinks will be served. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at 1957 E Street Northwest. Free. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diaspora-dialogue-how-we-can-be-more-involved-in-empowering-africa-tickets-56215484026?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\nPrevious articleArt and politics collide at GW Museum’s new Norman Rockwell exhibit\nNext articleDistrict Digest: Week of 2/20/19","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line851186"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.670279860496521,"wiki_prob":0.670279860496521,"text":"Women's Outdoor Track and Field\nRecords (through 17-18)\nNationals Qualifiers and All-Americans\nRecruiting Standards\nKrahe Sets School Record in 800 at Hopkins/Loyola Invite\nBALTIMORE, Md. - Freshman Allison Krahe took fifth among Divison III athletes and set a new school record in the 800 with a time of 2:21.35 at the Hopkins/Loyola Invitational. Krahe's time also gave her a spot into this season's ECAC Outdoor Championships.\nFreshman Rachel Panek missed out on a school record in the 400m hurdles by just .02 seconds with a time of 1:05.25, but did finish first overall in the event. Panek's time is currently second best in the region and the MAC. Sophomore Dyonne Hicks, who owns the current school record in the event, placed sixth with a time of 1:07.64.\nJunior Kelly Winklbauer clocked a 4:55.68 in the 1500m run, giving her fifth among DIII athletes in the event. Winklbauer's time just made the qualifying cut of 4:55.70 for the ECAC Championships.\nSophomore Achol Odolla qualified for ECAC's in the 3000m Steeplechase with a time of 12:39.29.\nIn the long jump, sophomore Kimberly Hammond placed first among DIII athletes with a leap of 5.29m. Hammond also placed third among DIII athletes in the 100 and 200 with times of 13.30 and 27.68.\nIn the shot put, junior Jess Rega's toss of 11.94 meters gave her third among DIII athletes, while sophomore Kiarra Nowell placed fifth with a 10.93. Nowell also had a toss of 37.19 meters, giving her second in the DIII field, while junior Lauren Dioses threw a 35.38.\nJunior Allison Bishop set a personal best in the hammer throw with a 42.25m toss (2nd in DIII), while freshman Jordan Mitchell had a leap of 10.21m in the triple jump (3rd in non-DI).\nThe Mustangs finished seventh out 15 schools with 43 points. Hopkins won the team title with 197.\nStevenson is scheduled to compete in the Oscar Moore Invitational, hosted by Rowan University, on Saturday, April 7.\nThu, 05/16 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field AARTFC Championship 13th/32, 18 points RC\nWed, 05/15 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field AARTFC Championship t-23rd/28, 3 points RC\nMon, 05/13 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field Swarthmore Last Chance Meet N/A RC\nSat, 05/04 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field MAC Championship 5th/10 (80) RC | R\nFri, 05/03 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field MAC Championship 4th/10 (42) RC | PH\nThu, 05/02 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field MAC Championship t-2nd/8, 18 points RC | V\nSat, 04/27 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field Paul Kaiser Classic NTS RC | R\nSat, 04/20 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field Morgan State Legacy 17th, 1 point RC\nWed, 04/17 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field York (Pa.) College Twilight 1st/8, 186 RC\nFri, 04/12 | Women's Outdoor Track and Field Mondschein Multi NTS RC | R","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1269961"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7643308639526367,"wiki_prob":0.7643308639526367,"text":"Rahul likely to become LS Congress leader\nPankaj Vohra\nJune 30, 2018,\nMallikarjun Kharge’s appointment last week as the general secretary in charge of the Maharashtra Congress, could possibly pave way for Rahul Gandhi to be elected as the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha ahead of next year’s Parliamentary elections. Kharge, who has held the position since 2014, could therefore, be relieved of the dual charge in line with the original Congress policy of “one-man one-post” that was followed by both Rajiv Gandhi and P.V. Narasimha Rao as party presidents; this however, was reversed during Sonia Gandhi’s nearly 20-year-long tenure. As per the original practice, no party leader, other than the president, could hold two portfolios, though this principle was relegated to the background with several functionaries occupying multiple offices.\nSources in the party have confirmed that Rahul was expected to expand his own role, so as to also include the responsibilities of leading the party in the Lok Sabha for enhancing his political profile. Last year, the Congress president underwent an image makeover after he visited the Berkeley University campus in California prior to the Gujarat state elections and projected himself as a serious politician who was not hesitant to gamble with fresh ideas and new faces.\nDespite being a very seasoned player, Kharge’s appointment as the leader of the Congress group in the Lok Sabha had raised many eyebrows, given that ideally speaking the position at that point should have gone to Kamal Nath, a nine-time Member of Parliament from Chhindwara, and a Doon School-mate of both Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi. It is evident that some members of Sonia Gandhi’s team were uncomfortable with the idea of handing over the prestigious office to Nath, who is also viewed by many in the party as a person with extraordinary organisational skills, immense experience and the capacity to deliver. However, after Nath was sent to Madhya Pradesh as the state unit president, he for the time being is not in the reckoning for a party slot in Parliament.\nKharge’s induction was part of the party’s plan to project a Dalit on the national stage in the Lok Sabha while endorsing Ghulam Nabi Azad’s nomination in the Upper House. He now has been sent to Maharashtra to reassure the old guard in general and Dalits in particular, that the leadership was well aware of their overall concerns. Ironically, the party’s best known Dalit face, Sushil Kumar Shinde, a former Chief Minister, continues to be amongst the tallest leaders from that state and thus it is difficult to comprehend how Kharge’s appointment would assist the party in Maharashtra so far as the Scheduled Caste votes were concerned.\nTherefore the political inference of his being named as an AICC general secretary is that his utility in his home state of Karnataka is not of as much relevance as it was prior to the Assembly elections. In other words, by assigning him an important state, the pivotal Lok Sabha berth could be vacated for Rahul Gandhi. As of now, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul have been monitoring the parliamentary proceedings in a low-key manner. However, Rahul’s probable elevation would definitely help in increasing his visibility and performance on the floor of the House prior to the 2019 clash.\nA couple of months ago, Rahul had challenged the Prime Minister to debate with him on vital issues confronting the country and the Congress president apparently is toying with the intention to take on Narendra Modi head-on during the monsoon session. Although his critics may argue that nothing was preventing him from confronting the Prime Minister, yet this move is aimed at sending a signal to the Opposition, which currently is in the process of formulating a joint strategy to curb the influence of the Bharatiya Janata Party.\nThe Congress, despite being the largest party, does not figure prominently in the Opposition’s scheme of things as several top leaders are in favour of giving more importance to the regional parties and players. On its part, the Congress appears inclined to play second fiddle to smaller organisations, as was obvious when the party backed Janata Dal (Secular) nominee H.D. Kumaraswamy for the Chief Ministership of Karnataka. There are indications that even for the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson’s election the Congress was willing to support a candidate of either the Trinamool Congress or the Biju Janata Dal; this despite being the largest Opposition group in the august House. It is apparently clear that the Congress’ topmost priority is to somehow divest the BJP of power at the Centre, and once it was done, it could do a rethink on its overall blueprint.\nThe Congress is confident of doing well in the forthcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chattisgarh, and some of its leaders believe that when the election outcome in these states goes against the ruling dispensation, the party can proportionally increase its country-wide profile to play a stellar role in national politics.\nRahul’s core team is impelling him, to replicate in the Lok Sabha, his assertive performance in public meetings, so as to counter the BJP’s perennial criticism labelling him a reluctant or part-time politician. However, with the football season on, he has to understand that unless the whole team performs in entirety, even iconic players like Lionel Messi, fail to hold any water. His notability alone is not enough, the Congress as a single outfit, needs to rise to the occasion. Between us.\nReplies to “Rahul likely to become LS Congress leader”\nN S Rajan says:\nHe is certain to make Mallikarjun Kharge look better.\nSunil Dang says:\nGood analysed\nDr. Pardeep Kumar says:\nGreat, correct assessment and well understand the politics of INC\nLeave a Reply to N S Rajan Cancel reply\nCool Breeze: A Congress Crisis Memo\nMarkets should be allowed to work freely\nUS report on religious freedom in India questionable\nGod’s love is unconditional","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line980864"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.512444257736206,"wiki_prob":0.512444257736206,"text":"Category Archives: University of Strathclyde\nAcademic IELTS, CAE Exam Preparation, English Courses, English Exams, English Language School, English Testing, eurospeak, Eurospeak Reading, Eurospeak Southampton, FCE Exam Preparation, GCSE English, General IELTS, Glyndwr University, IELTS Exam Preparation, IELTS Preparation, international student card, Language Learning, Language School, Learn English, Life in Reading, Reading, Reading University, Southampton, Southampton University, Study Abroad, Universities in UK, University of Strathclyde\nHow many words do I need to know to be fluent in a foreign language?\nLet’s say that our vocabulary counts are using headwords and word families that are included in our active vocabulary (the vocabulary that you can quickly remember and actively use when writing, speaking and thinking).\nSo, we are not counting all the different forms of a given word, and we are not counting anything that’s only in our passive vocabulary (the vocabulary that you are passively able to understand when you see it or hear it, but that you cannot use—or that you are unsure of how to use—when writing, speaking and thinking.\nWhen we reduce our perspective like this, we can start making approximations.\nFunctional beginner: 250-500 words: basic, everyday conversations. In most of the world’s languages, 500 words will be more than enough to get you through any tourist situations and everyday introductions.\nConversational: 1,000-3,000 words: With around 1,000 words in most languages, you will be able to ask people how they are doing, tell them about your day and talk about everyday life situations like shopping and public transport.\nAdvanced: 4,000-10,000 words: Past the 3,000 word mark in most languages: C2 level. Moving beyond the words that make up everyday conversation and into specialized vocabulary for talking about your professional field, news and current events, opinions and more complex, abstract verbal feats.\nFluent: 10,000+ words: Near-native level of vocabulary, words for talking about nearly any topic in detail and understanding the unfamiliar ones from context.\nWell-educated Native: 10,000-30,000+ words: Total word counts vary widely between world languages, making it difficult to say how many words native speakers know in general. As we discussed above, estimates of how many words are known by the average native English speaker vary from 10,000 to 65,000+.\nAcademic IELTS, CAE Exam Preparation, Culture, English Courses, English Exams, English Language School, English Testing, eurospeak, Eurospeak Reading, Eurospeak Southampton, FCE Exam Preparation, GCSE English, General IELTS, IELTS Exam Preparation, IELTS Preparation, international student card, Language Learning, Language School, Learn English, Life in Reading, Reading, Southampton, University of Strathclyde\nSymbols of the UK (Part 2)\nLand of kilt and Highlanders, Scotland is a land of contrasts, which uses symbols that we all know.\nThe Scottish Thistle is the oldest recorded ‘National Flower’ and is probably one of the most well-known, and easily recognized symbols of Scotland. This flower perfectly represents the history of Scotland. Indeed, it has beautiful flower heads, viciously sharp thorns, a stubborn and tenacious grip on the land and the defiant ability to flourish despite efforts to remove it.\nWith Scotland being famed for its love of myths and legends, it is no surprise that a fabled creature such as the unicorn is Scotland’s national animal. Symbol of purity and innocence, the unicorn was first used on the Scottish royal coat of arms by William I in the 12th century. This proud beast represents the ideal of the Scots which is to be untameable.\nLion Rampant of Scotland\nSymbol of the kings of Scotland, it occupied the shield of the royal coat of arms of the ancient Kingdom of Scotland. Together with a royal banner displaying the same, it was used by the King of Scots from the 12thcentury until the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.\nIt’s a long piece of fabric (tartan) tied around the waist then fastened in place with a thick, leather belt. Originally, the rest of the cloth was thrown over the shoulder and tucked into the belt at the back, but not anymore. Each tartan is closely identified with a particular Scottish Clan. During the Jacobite wars in the 18th century, the kilt became a symbol of opposition to English domination and was therefore prohibited. It reappeared in the 19th century in Wales and Cornwall where it began to be worn during celebrations.\nUniversities in UK, University of Strathclyde\nThe University of Strathclyde in UK\nThe University of Strathclyde is a leading international technological university based in Glasgow, Scotland. The University’s history dates back to 1796 and today we are the third largest University in Scotland and one of the largest providers of postgraduate education in Europe. Strathclyde’s achievements in teaching and research have led to major successes at the prestigious Times Higher Education Awards three years running – including winning the UK University of the Year award in 2012, and UK Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the most recent ceremony in November 2013.\nStrathclyde has been ranked top in Scotland for Engineering and Law, and in the UK top ten universities for Business and Physics. We offer a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research courses across four Faculties – Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and the Strathclyde Business School, all of which are united by our commitment to tackling modern global challenges and our founding principle of ”useful learning”. We take pride in our close links with business and industry, and the scholarships, internships and placements we offer to students. What is more, many of our programmes are fully accredited by professional bodies.\nThe University is currently undergoing a £370m campus redevelopment, including the construction of the new Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), which will offer unprecedented opportunities for students, academics and industry professionals to work together and share knowledge and expertise. We also have an award-winning careers service with life-long membership for graduates, excellent sports facilities and a thriving Students’ Association, with clubs and societies to cater for every interest.\nThe University welcomes around 2,000 international students each year from over 90 different countries worldwide, and our campus is located in the city centre of Glasgow. Glasgow is the host city for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and one of Europe’s most stylish cities, boasting world-class arts, shopping and sport, and within easy reach of both London and the beautiful Scottish countryside.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line912070"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7862706184387207,"wiki_prob":0.7862706184387207,"text":"NINTENDO 3DS Europe USA\nNintendo 3DS eShop Sale Discounts SteamWorld: Dig, Zen Pinball Games\nBy Ishaan . March 13, 2014 . 9:00am\nGalaga is available for the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console this week in North America. The game costs $4.99. Additionally, a few games of note are going on discount sale on the 3DS eShop in both North America and Europe.\nIn North America, SteamWorld: Dig is available for 50% off from today until March 16th, while Zen Pinball 3D, Marvel Pinball 3D and Star Wars Pinball 3D are 50% off from March 17th through March 31st.\nMeanwhile, in Europe, Zen Pinball 3D, Marvel Pinball 3D and Star Wars Pinball 3D are on discount from today until March 20th. Zen Pinball 3D costs €2.49/£2.24 (down from €4.99/£4.49), while Marvel and Star Wars cost €3.49/£3.14 (down from €6.99/£6.29).\nRead more stories about Marvel Pinball 3D & Nintendo 3DS & Nintendo eShop & Star Wars Pinball & SteamWorld Dig & Zen Pinball 3D on Siliconera.\nPhantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Coming To Vita On July 29th\nBatman: Arkham Origins, Dragon’s Crown And More On Sale On PSN In U.S.\nMega Man II’s Wily Castle Stage Will Be In Super Smash Bros. For 3DS, Too\nYo-kai Watch 1 Gets Nintendo Switch Version In Japan The Day The Switch Lite Releases","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line108415"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9348810315132141,"wiki_prob":0.9348810315132141,"text":"Conduit Labs unveils Loudcrowd social music game site\nDean Takahashi\t March 16, 2009 9:00 PM\nMicrosoft is closing down asset platform Remix 3D\nHow to get Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition for free if you own the PC version\nConduit Labs is launching a public beta for its Loudcrowd social music game site today in an attempt to create a community that combines social networking with casual game play.\nThe site is a platform for multiple web-based games, and the Boston company is kicking it off with a party at the South by Southwest conference this week in Austin, Texas.\nConduit is billing Loudcrowd as a place where you can listen to original music from new artists and play a game that lets can express yourself through dance and your taste in music. When you log onto the site, music starts playing. Everyone hears the same song, like with a radio station. You can rate the song and chat about it.\nThere are two games available on the site right now, with a third launching next month, and more in the works.\nIn the games, you create an avatar, picking options such as skin color, hair, and gender. The avatar is cartoonish, with enough details to uniquely identify you. You also upload a photo of yourself and link to your Facebook account. You use your real name and real friends in this game, in contrast to many online games. The games are free, but Conduit hopes to make money through the sale of virtual goods.\nOne game is Dance. If you score high with your dance moves, you earn points that you can use to buy music tracks, other games, or clothes for your avatar. While you’re dancing, others can join you on the dance floor. If they score high enough, then they can meet you via chat. You can choose to make your avatar dance in a way that is flirty, flashy or funny.\nIt’s a little like Guitar Hero comes to the web. Nabeel Hyatt, chief executive and co-founder, says that games such as Guitar Hero prove consumers don’t mind paying for music when it is part of a cool experience.\nThe other game is Spin, where you take on the role of DJ and create your own version of a song. You can capture gems from two spinning vinyl records on a DJ turntable. You can challenge your friends for the best score in the gem-capture game and win the ability to host parties and share music with others. It’s similar to the early version of the site that our writer Dan Kaplan managed to see in a sneak peak last year.\nThe site currently features more than 50 new artists and has 250 songs — more songs than popular console music games currently ship with. Initial artists include Santigold, Cut Copy, Justice, Spank Rock, and The Twelves who have provided Loudcrowd with exclusively mixed tracks. As those names suggest, this isn’t a top 40 music site.\nConduit Labs was founded in July, 2007, by Hyatt, a serial entrepreneur on his fifth startup, and Dan Ogles. They have 18 employees. The site has been in a closed beta for about four months, and so far 60 percent of the visitors are women, which is typical of casual games.\nThe company has partnerships with indie music labels including DFA, Downtown Records, Domino, the Beggars Group and Modular. The company has raised $5.5 million from Charles River Ventures and Prism VentureWorks. Hyatt was an entrepreneur in residence at Prism, which helped him recruit his management team.\nIt will be interesting to see if this site catches on with the college crowd and up. Doppelganger failed to draw many fans to its Vside music-oriented virtual world. Competitors are less the music console games and more like Pandora or Lastfm, which focus on building communities around music. Another challenger is Acclaim’s recently unveiled Rockfree game. Hyatt said he expects to raise a new round of money later this year.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line916438"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.841559648513794,"wiki_prob":0.841559648513794,"text":"Filter by Shop the Catalog\nblowout sale!\nIt Isn’T Always That Easy\nYour user name or password are incorrect.\nRemember me Don't have an account, create one now Forgot Password\nBe With Records\nBEWITH004SEVEN\nFirst time on vinyl\nCHOOSE FORMAT\nEstimated Ship Date 08/23/19\nWe adore Big Star and Alex Chilton more than words can express. Being able to present two of Alex’s staggeringly beautiful demos on vinyl for the first time (on a cute picture sleeve 7\", no less) is an absolute honour for us at Be With.\n“It Isn’t Always That Easy” and “If You Would Marry Me” both sound like templates for some of Alex’s best-known Big Star numbers. These demos come from the transitional recording sessions he made with Terry Manning at the Ardent studio in 1969, but were missing from the vinyl version of the wonderful Free Again compilation that was released in 2012.\nCaught between the end of the Box Tops and the birth of Big Star Alex’s song-craft was already remarkable – as these demos prove – and this release represents a fascinating, exploratory period in the career of one of pop’s most enigmatic talents.\n“It Isn’t Always That Easy” is the real knockout. A tender, acoustic ballad that, stylistically, could have appeared Big Star’s “#1 Record”. Yes, it really is that good. A deeply affecting, ruminative lament that explores the ravages of Alex’s short career to date, it is also one of the sweetest and most delicate melodies he ever wrote. A song this stunning shouldn’t just be kept for the Big Star completists.\nOver on the flip, “If You Would Marry Me” finds Alex in earnestly romantic mode. It’s just him and a piano, albeit one that is played in a poppy, uplifting fashion to complement the optimistic mood: “I could make you feel so glad inside and so alive” he confidently declares. It’s quite the gem. It really should be mandatory for this to be played at every wedding.\nUnfortunately there seem to be no photographs of Alex from around the time he was making these recordings. But luckily we were put in touch with Pat Rainer who was photographing the Memphis music scene that Alex was still part of a few years later.\nHappy to be described as “a friend with a camera who was hanging around”, Pat’s candid pictures of Alex included one of him asleep on the floor of the Ardent studio. Even though the photograph was taken 9 years after the demos were recorded, we think this intimate portrait makes a fitting cover for these equally intimate songs.\nIf You Would Marry Me Baby\nAlan Vega, Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughn\nCubist Blues\nThe Evil One\nCD $14\nOut of Stock |\nDon't Slander Me\nSmooth Noodle Maps","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line652627"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6566407084465027,"wiki_prob":0.6566407084465027,"text":"Gaming engines and VR are coming into the building industry\nLudvig Lovén has always loved computer games. He is now using the underlying techniques to draw building projects in Virtual Reality (VR).\nImagine taking a walk through a 3D model of a future building project, exactly as you can in a computer game? By combining building drawings with gaming techniques this is now fully possible.\nLudvig Lovén is a System developer in BIM and VR at ÅF, and works at generating visualisation models of the company’s building projects.\n“Drawings and CAD-models can be difficult to interpret, but visualisation makes it easy for customers and the general public to understand what it will look like when finished,” he says.\nBuilding a model of the East Link\nCurrently he is working on the first part of the Swedish rail network for high speed trains - project East Link - a stretch of 160 kilometres between Södertälje and Linköping.\nThe aim is to generate a lifelike model of the complete stretch and the surrounding environment, including everything such as existing buildings, vegetation, lights and materials, and animations of trains hurtling past.\n“The purpose is to show the inhabitants and the company owners what is going to be built and how this will influence their immediate area,” explains Ludvig Lovén.\nSince such visualisations are so lifelike they are termed Virtual Reality, for which many people think about VR glasses.\nHowever, the model of the East Link will be displayed and navigated using a screen, exactly like a normal computer game. It is even possible to generate films and pictures from the games engine.\n“In my view VR glasses are the up and coming thing, because then you can walk around in the model as if you were actually there and you get a feeling of scale and distance that is unobtainable in any other way,” says Ludvig Lovén.\nBased on gaming techniques\nWe have had visualisation at ÅF for approximately three years, and it is part of a method of working called BIM, Building Information Modelling.\nIn technical terms the process involves Ludvig Lovén and his colleagues developing a script which exports the CAD models from the project to a game engine. In the game engine they later develop an application around the model, with an interface and functionality.\nIn this case the game engine is called Unreal Engine 4 and has existed for nearly 20 years.\n“The technique is not new, but it is only now that it has become both powerful and advanced that we have been able to use it for a construction project,” says Ludvig Lovén.\nVisualisation becoming ever more popular\nHe says the demand for visualisations is increasing, not just within construction, but also in related industries, like architecture and interior design. This is therefore an opportunity to make the process simpler, and the large CAD developers have developed applications that make it possible to generate visualisations without being a games developer.\n“But there are limitations to the finished solutions, so we tailor make the models for the customers. But, for the future I believe that visualisation will be more easily available, and will also be used for smaller projects,” says Ludvig Lovén.\nLudvig Lovén trained as a civil engineer in municipal planning, but he has always loved computer games and was educated in IT at upper secondary school. He has been working at ÅF for five years, firstly as model coordinator, then as designer, project manager, BIM Strategist, and his current position is System developer in BIM and VR.\nGet More Inspiration\nSee more cases\nLudvig Lovén\nBIM VDC & Data Solutions\nludvig.loven@afconsult.com\nEnvironmental & Social Impact Assessment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line899348"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6159243583679199,"wiki_prob":0.6159243583679199,"text":"More businesses blocking access to social media\nNews by Dan Raywood\nThe number of businesses that have chosen to block access to social networking sites has risen over the past year.\nAccording to research by Clearswift, there has been a 20 per cent increase in the number of companies blocking access to social media sites, with 91 per cent of those doing so mainly concerned about security and data loss.\nThe figure was obtained from an online survey of 1,529 employees and 906 managers in the UK, US, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and Japan.\nAndrew Wyatt, chief operating officer of Clearswift, told SC magazine that the increase was due to a \"knee-jerk reaction\" to media reports about data loss.\nHe said: “Blocking the internet does not stop [employees] using it at home. [There has not been enough] education to get a hold on what is sensible and what is not with social media, and we are learning by mistakes.”\nDespite the statistic, managers continue to view social media as critical to business success, with 58 per cent citing web collaboration as a pivotal tool, and 31 per cent of companies planning to increase their investment in social media this year. The survey also revealed that 48 per cent of companies are convinced that the benefits of social media outweigh the drawbacks, although only 12 per cent are using it as a driver of growth.\nWyatt said lack of control of social media has made businesses wary of it. There is widespread concern among managers about social media usage, with 58 per cent expressing security fears, 46 per cent worried about the loss of confidential data via employees and 41 per cent concerned about data loss via external hacking.\nThe research also found that 57 per cent of managers believe employees are ignorant of security concerns. Wyatt said: “Companies do not do education. People are oblivious – a lot of the time the IT policy is seen only when you join [a company]. Employees do not know about the technology or the associated risks and they just take their own route.”\nLooking at the future of social media in business, Wyatt said companies' understanding of it will improve as they will have no choice but to educate staff and put better mechanisms in place.\nPodcast: SC Intel in Five [10 July]\nPodcast: SC Intel in Five [7 June]\nBreach of bill collection agency may affect 11.9 million Quest Diagnostics patients\nGandCrab ransomware operators put in retirement papers\nBlackSquid malware wants to wrap its tentacles around web servers and drives\nFind this article useful?\nGet more great articles like this in your inbox every lunchtime\nRegister Find out more about our daily bulletins","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1084938"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6505561470985413,"wiki_prob":0.34944385290145874,"text":"Mark Twain gives us advice about our wars\nLarry Kummer, Editor\tHistory\t 22 September 2014 21 September 2014\nSummary: Most of America’s wars have been counterinsurgencies, fought before Mao brought 4GW to maturity after WW2. As we start a new war, let’s take advice from wise men of our past about such conflicts. Such as Mark Twain (1835-1910), who lived during America’s golden age of counterinsurgency. Today we have two of his articles. One gives advice. The other is something to shock us into sense.\nMark Twain’s advice about Counterinsurgency\nThe War Prayer\nOther notes from the past\n(1) Advice\n“Mark Twain on Counterinsurgency“\nby Mike Few at the Small Wars Journal\nReposted with his generous permission\nIn a month when we’re asking the experts hard questions on the need to reform FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency and rethinking the colonial methods, Mark Twain, the quintessential American writer, decided to chime in. Nearly 100 years after his death, Mark Twain is finally publishing his autobiography. In his political views, Twain was decidedly anti-imperialist. Twain wrote in “Returning Home” (interview in the New York World, 4 October 1900):\nYou ask me about what is called imperialism. Well, I have formed views about that question. I am at the disadvantage of not knowing whether our people are for or against spreading themselves over the face of the globe. I should be sorry if they are, for I don’t think that it is wise or a necessary development.\nAs to China, I quite approve of our Government’s action in getting free of that complication. They are withdrawing, I understand, having done what they wanted. That is quite right. We have no more business in China than in any other country that is not ours.\nThere is the case of the Philippines. I have tried hard, and yet I cannot for the life of me comprehend how we got into that mess. Perhaps we could not have avoided it — perhaps it was inevitable that we should come to be fighting the natives of those islands — but I cannot understand it, and have never been able to get at the bottom of the origin of our antagonism to the natives. I thought we should act as their protector — not try to get them under our heel.\nWe were to relieve them from Spanish tyranny to enable them to set up a government of their own, and we were to stand by and see that it got a fair trial. It was not to be a government according to our ideas, but a government that represented the feeling of the majority of the Filipinos, a government according to Filipino ideas. That would have been a worthy mission for the United States. But now — why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I’m sure I wish I could see what we were getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation.\nMore of Twain’s biography and his thoughts on counterinsurgency at NPR.\n(2) An attempt to shock us into sense\n“The War Prayer” by Mark Twain One of his most powerful works. Unpublished at his death in 1910 (as sacrilegious), it was published in 1923. Opening:\nIt was a time of great and exalting excitement.\nThe country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.\nIt was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety’s sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.\nIt should be required reading for all citizens in every nation before it goes to war.\nFrom the 3rd century BC, Polybius warns us about demographic collapse, 11 June 2008\nPresident Grant warns us about the dangers of national hubris, 1 July 2008\nA warning from Alexis De Tocqueville about our military, 7 August 2009\nAnother note from our past, helping us see our future, 16 September 2009 — by Daniel Ellsberg\nFrance gives us tips for the Afghanistan War, from their successful role in the American Revolution, 11 March 2010\nAdvice from one of the British Empire’s greatest Foreign Ministers, 18 November 2011 — by Lord Palmerston\nGeorge Orwell sends us a note, giving some perspective on our situation, 22 January 2012\nThomas Jefferson saw our present peril. We should heed his warning., 21 April 2012\nVoices from the past describe the coming New America, 1 February 2013\nMartin Luther King Jr’s advice to us about using violence to reform America, 20 January 2014\nmike few\nwar prayer\nPublished 22 September 2014 21 September 2014\nPrevious Post Elysium Shouts Big, Loud Messages About Health Care & Immigration Reform. Gun Control, Not so Much\nNext Post Chuck Spinney asks why we choose to lose at 4GW\n22 thoughts on “Mark Twain gives us advice about our wars”\nCurious says:\nThe article states, ” we’re asking the experts hard questions on the need to reform FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency and rethinking the colonial methods.” Hasn’t FM 3-24 been rethought? The New FM is pretty blunt about other states being the driving factor and not us. http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/dr_a/pdf/fm3_24.pdf\nEditor of the Fabius Maximus website says:\nJust as the 2006 version placed great emphasis on building the legitimacy of the “host” state. Pointless verbage, completely ignored in practice. Eight years of experience has shown that the recommended tactics are all that matters from FM 3-24; the rest is pleasant foliage to cover the neo-colonial tactics.\nTo what extent have the tactics changed? Is there any recognition of the near-total record of failure by foreign armies — everybody’s armies — fighting local insurgencies since Mao brought 4GW to maturity after WW2?\nI think it does separate what we did in Iraq/Afghanistan from other ways the United States may enable a host nation in defeating an insurgency. Chapter 1 does tell the reader over and over again that other societies have to solve their own problems. Counterinsurgency is only seen as a “range of various methods”. The “method” we did in Iraq and Afghanistan is boxed off into one chapter (Direct Approach). In sum, I think it makes the case for using security cooperation and various capabilities (i.e. intelligence assets) to enable a society to control an insurgency movement when it is in US interests. That is with the understanding the United States is not the primary driver in the development of other societies.\nMoreover, what we are doing in Syria and Iraq currently is different from the past. We are working through others and not trying to directly drive the conflict or its solutions. I have seen very little thought in the US clear-hold-building in Iraq or Syria. I would just suggest that you are trying to have a debate with a position that the other side no longer takes. Even if it doesn’t say, “we really suck and we have failed at this over and over in the past”, directly in the text.\nMikeF says:\nThis post is about what Samuel Clemens thought about the secondary and tertiary effects of our involvements overseas. At the time, pre-WWI, we were expanding our sphere in the Pacific and Americas. Teddy Roosevelt and others felt that we had a moral obligation to rule the uncivilized world.\nIt didn’t work.\nFM 3-24 (new or old) is irrelevant in this discussion. A rose is a rose by any other name. While we might not occupy Iraq or Syria, conducting unconventional warfare to force regime change while simultaneously conducting shaping operations in Africa to disrupt “rat-lines” is going to lead to horrible effects.\nIn the beginning, our goal may or may not have been noble. However, Clemens conclusions are probably how we’ll all think about this mess in 10 years,\n“But now — why, we have got into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I’m sure I wish I could see what we were getting out of it, and all it means to us as a nation.”\n“I would just suggest that you are trying to have a debate with a position that the other side no longer takes.”\nYou are misreading what the critics are saying. FM 3-24 is not all about invasion and occupation, US involvement in CI seldom been invasion and occupation, and it fails for deeper reasons than the occasional use of ground forces.\nWe first became involved in Vietnam in the early 1950s, in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, and in Iraq in the early 1990s. Invasion and occupation were late stages of these conflicts. Yemen and Pakistan are early stage involvements, as was Libya. Not all early stages run to the late stage; few are successful at any stage.\nIf we continue our tactics, curiously changed little over 60 years (despite many different labels and formal doctrines), history suggests we will be drawn into other adventures with “boots on the ground”. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has told us so about our next chapter in Iraq.\n“That is with the understanding the United States is not the primary driver in the development of other societies.”\nThat has always been what we’re told. That’s what we were told when we had 500 thousand troops in Vietnam.\n“I think it makes the case for using security cooperation and various capabilities (i.e. intelligence assets) to enable a society to control an insurgency movement when it is in US interests.”\nI think you mean bombing, providing weapons, sending trainers and advisers, and inserting special operations forces. Those are the major common elements from the 1950s through today. The program seldom works. Local governments often win, but the post-WW2 record shows that those that win seldom get more than arms and money.\nThat we can provide more useful intel on insurgencies in foreign lands than the local government is absurd, unless we have a large local establishment (in which case we assume many of its functions, and vaporize its legitimacy).\nSkidding fast down the slippery slope, eyes closed:\n“Gates: ‘Small number’ of US ground troops needed in ISIS fight”.\nhttp://thehill.com/policy/defense/218439-gates-small-number-of-us-ground-troops-needed-in-isis-fight\n“Military missions don’t creep anymore, they accelerate towards disaster”: horrifying quotes from our blind leaders.\nhttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/21/1330822/-Military-missions-don-t-creep-anymore-they-accelerate-toward-disaster\n“what we are doing in Syria and Iraq currently is different from the past. We are working through others and not trying to directly drive the conflict or its solutions.”\nLike, say, what took place in the 1980s with the contras in Nicaragua, or has been with the Ethiopians, Kenyans and others since the 2000s in Somalia? Success with those methods has proven elusive too.\n“Success with those methods has proven elusive too.”\nOn the other hand, we eagerly try again. We’re not too bright when it comes to foreign 4GWs, but we make for it by our unwillingness to learn.\nEditor and others,\nDefine success. If “success” is achievement of the policy goals of the United States at the time of the conflict, the record is mixed. But it isn’t all negative. If success is a nebulous thought that the world would be a better place if the US wasn’t so involved, then it is an impossible case to prove either way. One would simply state, “look, everything is terrible.” But how does one prove the counterfactual. What does the world look like without the US ensuring access to the global commons, for example. And if the world looks terrible, doesn’t it look a lot better then it used to? Conflict is not more likely, it is less likely. For example, see Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels Of Our Nature.\n” If “success” is achievement of the policy goals of the United States at the time of the conflict, the record is mixed.”\nI believe everybody older than 12 knows that few things are black and white. That’s a pure form of the false dilemma fallacy. But the net balance of results on foreign counterinsurgencies since WW2 is overwhelming negative, despite vast expenditures in blood and money. By now only the blind do not see that.\nThe History of COIN, one of almost uniform failure by foreigners fighting local insurgents:\nMore paths to failure in Iraq, 16 December 2006 — Myths about COIN in Iraq\nHow often do insurgents win? How much time does successful COIN require?, 29 May 2008\nMax Boot: history suggests we will win in Afghanistan, with better than 50-50 odds. Here’s the real story., 21 June 2010 — Boot discusses 7 alleged victories by foreign armies fighting insurgencies.\nA major discovery! It could change the course of US geopolitical strategy, if we’d only see it, 28 June 2010 — Andrew Exum (aka Abu Muqawama) points us to the doctoral dissertation of Erin Marie Simpson in Political Science from Harvard. She examines the present and past analysis of counter-insurgency. This could change the course of American foreign policy, if we pay attention.\nA look at the history of victories over insurgents, 30 June 2010\nCOINistas point to Kenya as a COIN success. In fact it was an expensive bloody failure., 7 August 2012\nAbout our wars:\nA look back at the madness that led us into our wars. How does this advice read 6 years later?, 26 June 2010\nTime to ask about lessons learned from our wars, a last opportunity to gain something from them, 30 October 2013\nAbout Afghanistan:\nAbout Iraq:\nIf we won in Iraq, what did we win? Was it worth the cost?, 15 July 2009\nWe collect our winnings in Iraq, 27 December 2009\nOne criterion of victory in Iraq: when will the oil flow?, 3 February 2010\nAbout our successful nation-building in Iraq, 31 August 2010\nThe end of our Expedition to Iraq: war-boosters cheer despite its long-predicted failure., 24 October 2011\nPeter Van Buren explains “What We Lost in Iraq and Washington in 2009-2012″, 10 April 2012\nIraq gives us another opportunity to confront our mistakes, and learn from them, 27 June 2014\nOne point on this. It isn’t better or worse. It is different. I would assume a person conducting a local insurgency would like access to the various types of intel assets we have. Moreover, I would assume they would like capabilities that could do things like disrupt the funding of the insurgency.\n“what we are doing in Syria and Iraq currently is different from the past.”\nNo, it’s not. If you don’t see that, there is no point in continuing. Nothing can help the blind.\nDessenter says:\n“It’s a racket.”\nDissenter,\nThat is nice to know, but operationally useless as an insight. Either to understand (causes, dynamics), to predict, or to persuade.\nAs phrased, it is what my grandmother called “giving them a piece of your mind”. You feel better afterwards, but that’s all.\nPingback: Mark Twain's Advice On War Is Surprisingly Relevant Today\nI should have included the following from Wikipedia …\n“War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley D. Butler. In them, Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare.”\nPresent company excluded, but if it shocks some into thinking about the subject at hand further, then yes, I feel better.\nDessenter,\nThat’s my point exactly. Shouting “war is a racket” accomplishes nothing.\nI have written about Butler’s analysis, and I agree that it is a provocative –although limited in scope — analysis. Works like it and “War is the health of the State” help us understand the deep role of warn our social, economic ic, and political systems.\nBREAKING: According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the rich are getting richer while the poor in America continue to get poorer. And the government is contributing to all this.The mathematical measure of wealth-inequality is called “Gini,” and the higher it is, the more extreme a nation’s wealth-inequality.\nThe Gini for the U.S. is 85; Canada, 72; and Bangladesh, 64. Nations more unequal than the U.S. include Kazakhstan at 86 and the Ukraine at 90. The African continent tips in at just under 85.\nOdd company for the “exceptional nation.”\nhttp://wemeantwell.com/blog/2014/09/19/hah-hah-you-are-so-poor/\nHah Hah: You are So Poor\nI do not know if you are familiar with PVB’;s wbsite:\nhttp://wemeantwell.com/blog/2014/08/30/dinner-with-morris-berman/\nDinner with Morris Berman\nGoogle Morris Berman\n“Berman’s book is no feel-good experience with a happy ending. In that sense, and it matters, Spinning Straw picks up the themes from his previous books and slaps them down inside you. In an interview, Berman spelled it out:\nI was living in Washington, D.C. for eight years before I moved to Mexico, and I told myself I would be like the proverbial lotus in a cesspool. All that happened was that I became a dirty lotus. I discovered that the best way of escaping American values—values that were killing me—was to escape America. It was the smartest decision I ever made. Most of us don’t realize how the corporate-commercial-consumer-militarized-hi-tech-surveillance life has wrapped its tentacles around our throats, and is squeezing the life out of us. We merge with “our” narrative so as to have some measure of safety in our lives; but what if it’s a death-oriented narrative? (Usually it’s some version of the American Dream, which is the life of a hamster on a treadmill)… Life has a tragic dimension, and no amount of Oprah or Tony Robbins can change that. To hide from sadness—and one way or another, that’s what Americans struggle mightily to do—is to remain a child all your life. Most Americans have never grown up. Americans are probably the most superficial people on the planet. To dull your sadness with Prozac or cell phones or food or alcohol or TV or laptops is to suppress symptoms, and not live in reality. Reality is not always pleasant, but it does have one overriding advantage: It’s real.”\nhttp://wemeantwell.com/blog/2014/09/05/morris-bermans-new-book-spinning-straw-into-gold-chicken-soup-for-reality/\nMorris Berman’s New Book, Spinning Straw into Gold: Chicken Soup for Reality\nInterview by Naomi Prins:\nhttp://www.alternet.org/world/154453/why_the_american_empire_was_destined_to_collapse\nWhy the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse\nAuthor and social critic Morris Berman says the fact that we’re a nation of hustlers lies at the root of our decline.\nConversations with Great Minds with Morris Berman, Part 1. Why America Failed\nConversations with Great Minds with Morris Berman, Part …\nView on http://www.youtube.com\nPreview by Yahoo\nConversations with Great Minds with Morris Berman, Part 1.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6MBzA9lGSQ&feature=related\nWhy America Failed – The Roots of Imperial Decline\nhttp://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/WhyAmer\nCSPAN Book Video of Morris Berman’s latest book\nhttp://www.greanvillepost.com/2011/05/19/rainbow-pie-morris-berman-remembers-joe-bageant/\nRainbow Pie: Morris Berman remembers Joe Bageant\nhttp://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/morris_berman_tolls_the_bell_for_american_society_20120210/\nMorris Berman and the Decline of America\nhttp://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,778396,00.html\nBerman also discussed here:\nhttp://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/to-where-our-oppositonal-culture-takes-us.html\nhttp://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/03/anglo-american-capitalism-run-strategies.html\nHas Anglo-American Capitalism Run Out of Strategies?\nPosted on March 25, 2014 by Yves Smith\nYves here. The Real News Network commemorates the 30th anniversary of the coal miners’ strike in the UK, which was in many ways labor’s last stand, with a broad-ranging interview with George Irvin, research professor at the University of London. He takes a broad historical perspective to show how the rise of a low-wage, debt driven economy and the pressure to reduce the role of government have painted Anglo-Saxon capitalism in a corner.\nI did write one sentence poorly. Of course many of the activities we are doing in Syria and Iraq aren’t new. Some that make use of cyber capabilities are new, but most aren’t. However, it isn’t the activities being new or old that make something new. It is the mixture of those activities to meet a certain context. And that mixture changes, rather the conflict is World War II and Korea or Vietnam and Syria. It is how to effectively meet ones policy goals with the correct mixture of ways to achieve them that is the question.\nThat said, editor provided me with a long list of COIN “failures”. If we are arguing about the fact that we don’t meet our policy goals, shouldn’t the debate be about what to do, not if we should do anything? Most of the posters here seem focused on the policy. That is fine. But it provides a position that is impossible to move. If you don’t think we should do anything, what is the point of bring what we can do? What is the point of bring up FM 3-24, if any answer it provides is wrong?\nWhy bring it up?\nBecause after four decades of interfering in the Middle East (Doing something), we’ve yet to learn anything.\nMikeF,\nWhich would be my point. Is this really about the methods in FM 3-24 or that we are doing something. If it is about doing something, what have this in the article: “In a month when we’re asking the experts hard questions on the need to reform FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency and rethinking the colonial methods.” If we should not be involved, there is no need to discuss reform of doctrine to do something.\nLeave a Reply to Editor of the Fabius Maximus website\tCancel reply","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line865450"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6169248223304749,"wiki_prob":0.38307517766952515,"text":"Ancient mosaic with esoteric celestial elements discovered during recent Pompeii excavations\nimage: @PlanetPompeii 26 January, 2019\nSpecial thank-you to a specialist in ancient philosophy and history who alerted me to the recent excavation of an amazing floor mosaic which has lain buried under the ash and debris from the eruption of Vesuvius which engulfed the city of Pompeii and all of its remaining inhabitants in AD 79, and which has only recently again seen the light of day during an ongoing archaeological project in the Regio V section of the ruins.\nOn a late autumn night (long thought to have been August 24, but based on recent discoveries and analysis now believed to have been in either late October or November) in the year we today call AD 79 (or, if you prefer, 79 CE), the volcano known to the Romans as Vesuvius Mons erupted violently, sending a deadly and basically inescapable pyroclastic flow of superheated ash and toxic gas billowing down the mountainside over the seaside town of Pompeii, killing everyone who had not left the city during the preceding earthquakes and tremors which had provided ominous warning that the volcano was preparing to explode.\nThe ash flowed around and over buildings, people, and animals, preserving them even as it entombed them for centuries, eventually burying them in hardened volcanic material over 80 feet deep. For conveying the human impact on the men and women and children who were overcome by the eruption on that night, as well as providing an outstanding examination of the city of Pompeii in ancient times and after it began to be excavated in earnest beginning in the 1700s, I recommend Professor Mary Beard's Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found (2008).\nRecently, new archaeological excavations have been underway in the section of the city which is designated \"Regio V.\" The buried city of Pompeii was divided into Regiones (\"regions\" or \"wards\") during the 1800s by archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli (1823 - 1896), who began to study the ruins of Pompeii in 1848. As Professor Beard explains in her book:\nIn the absence of ancient addresses, modern gazetteers to the city use a late nineteenth-century system for referring to individual buildings. The same archaeologist who perfected the technique of casting the corpses, Giuseppe Fiorelli (one-time revolutionary politician, and the most influential director of the Pompeian excavations ever), divided Pompeii into nine separate areas or regions; he then numbered each block of houses within these areas, and went on to give every doorway onto the street its own individual number. So, in other words, according to this now standard archaeological shorthand, 'VI. xv. 1' would mean the first doorway of the fifteenth block of region six, which lies at the northwest of the city. 20 - 21.\nBelow is a map showing the Regiones and Insulae (\"islands\" or \"blocks\") of Pompeii, from a book by Eustace Neville-Rolfe (1845 - 1908), entitled Pompeii Popular and Practical: An easy book on a difficult subject (1893):\nAs the reader can see from the above map, in 1893 when Eustace Neville-Rolfe's book was published, much of Regio V was still buried under the layers of ancient ash as well as the earth that had covered over it during the intervening nineteen centuries since the eruption. However, blocks (or Insulae) in the regiones which had been excavated up to that year are numbered according to Fiorelli's system.\nEach of these blocks within the regiones contain dozens of individual buildings, as can be perceived by looking closely at the gorgeous 1911 map below:\nAs can be seen in that map as well, large portions of the city remained under layers of ash and later soil deposits in 1911, including most of the northern parts of the city in the region designated by Giuseppe Fiorelli as Regio V. However, as you can see in the map, some of the edges of the buildings lining the avenue leading across the town from the Porta di Nola (the \"Nola Gate\") were excavated prior to 1911. This important cross-town artery has been dubbed the \"Via di Nola\" in modern times, although as Professor Beard explains in her book linked above, we do not know the original name of the street, or whether the ancients even had \"street names\" in the way we think of them today (20).\nBelow is a map of Pompeii showing in different colors the periods in which various areas of Pompeii have been excavated thus far, prior to the new excavations in Regio V: V. xv. 1).\nAs you can see from this map, significant portions of the south-eastern side of the city were excavated in the years following the publication of the 1911 map shown just above it (the areas in orange), as well as some additional forays deeper into the blocks indicated in green than were shown in the 1911 map. Nevertheless, large sections of Regio V, where excavations are ongoing today, are still uncolored in the above map.\nHere is a link to an excellent modern map from the Visiting Pompeii website, showing the Regiones and outlines of buildings that have been excavated thus far, and also labeling the streets with their modern names.\nThe recent push to excavate more deeply into Regio V as part of the Great Pompeii Project (to prevent damage including water damage to unexcavated archaeological treasures) is turning up amazing new discoveries. Here is a short article from March of 2018 with some photographs showing excavated portions of Pompeii next to portions of Regio V which are still covered with undisturbed ash and soil, entitled \"New Pompeii District to be Uncovered.\"\nThis previous post discusses one such new discovery, an amazing fresco containing an erotic depiction of the scene of the mythical episode of Leda and the Swan, in which the artist has Leda \"breaking the fourth wall\" by staring provocatively at the viewer no matter where in the room the viewer is located. That post also contains a video I made entitled \"The Divine Spark descends to the Mortal Realm,\" discussing some of the celestial aspects of the myth of Zeus and Leda, and of other myths involving Zeus and his amorous affairs with mortal women, as well as possible esoteric messages conveyed by these erotic myths.\nThe cubiculum (probably a bedroom) containing the newly-discovered painting of Leda and the Swan was unearthed in Regio V during the 2018 excavations as part of the Great Pompeii Project. It was found in a villa located in a block along the Via del Vesuvio, near the well-known House of the Vettii (the House of the Vettii, in fact, is the house indicated by the example address given by Professor Beard in the quotation above: V. xv. 1). The avenue known today as Via del Vesuvio runs to the gate known as the Vesuvius Gate, along the northern wall of the city: you can find it in the multi-colored map above along the north wall, where two streets descend in an inverted \"V\" from a point at the gate (the Vesuvius Gate can easily be seen along the north wall because it is the point that has a larger \"green-colored\" section north of the wall, representing excavation that was performed between 1879 and 1923).\nThe Via del Vesuvio is the \"right-hand\" street extending down from the point of this inverted V, traversing all the way across the city from north to south (or northwest to southeast) and exiting at the Porta di Stabia (the \"Stabian Gate\"). It changes names from the Via del Vesuvio to the Via Stabiana when it crosses the Via di Nola.\nIn addition to the striking recently-unearthed depiction of Leda and the Swan, an even more-recently uncovered mosaic from a Regio V villa was revealed to the public in January of this year. This is a mosaic found in the so-called \"House of Jupiter\" or \"Casa di Giove\" (\"House of Jove\"), a villa along the Via di Nola which had been partially excavated in the late 19th century but which has rooms further back which are only now being unearthed. Here is an article from the Daily Mail dated August 2018 describing the ongoing excavations in the Casa di Giove (an article published a few months prior to the unearthing of the floor mosaic shown at the top of this post and discussed below).\nThe Casa di Giove is designated V. ii. 15 and it is linked to the building designated V. ii. 16 under the system of Giuseppe Fiorelli. You can see the actual floor plan of these buildings if you look closely enough on the close-up map contained in this article from the Visiting Pompeii website. I have taken the close-up map from that article and circled (in dark blue) the label indicating \"block\" or \"insula\" V. 2, and placed a blue arrow pointing to the buildings designated V. ii. 15 and V. ii. 16 (you can see the tiny \"door numbers\" indicated along the edge of the block facing the street labeled \"Via di Nola,\" if you look very closely):\nThe striking mosaic recently revealed in the Casa di Giove is shown at the top of this post. It depicts a winged anthropomorphic male figure shown from the waist up, emerging from a large scorpion. Below the scorpion is a massive coiled cobra, rearing up like an Egyptian uraeus.\nAbove the winged figure is another winged figure, angelic in form (with feathered wings, unlike the somewhat \"moth-shaped\" wings of the first figure who is rising up out of the scorpion). This angelic figure has an upward-stretching arm pointing skyward (in a hand-gesture or mudra which is seen in other sacred artwork, such as the mudras discussed here, or those depicted in the Last Supper by da Vinci, for example). This same angelic figure also has a downward-reaching hand holding a torch, and this torch is extended downwards towards the head of the first figure (the one rising out of the scorpion). The torch is setting the head of the first figure aflame.\nAbove this angelic winged figure with a torch, we see a third winged figure holding a crown which appears to be made of laurel branches (a \"laurel crown\"). This top figure with the laurel crown is extending both arms downwards, offering the laurel crown to one of the two figures below.\nThe twitter account of the Pompeii-based website Planet Pompeii tweeted about this remarkable mosaic on 26 January of this year (link to tweet).\nIn that tweet, they called the mosaic \"enigmatic\" and then offered their interpretation, saying: \"it would be the transformation of the gigantic Orion constellation after its fight against the scorpion.\"\nThis interpretation is worthwhile, and is at least pointing in the right direction, by perceiving that this ancient mosaic, buried beneath the debris of the eruption for 1, 940 years, is in fact based upon celestial figures found in the heavens above. While I commend their attempt to interpret the scene celestially, I disagree that the ancient mosaic depicts \"the gigantic Orion constellation.\"\nJust because the scene contains a large scorpion (which the author or authors of the tweet correctly suggest may be related to the constellation Scorpio) does not mean that the figure rising up from the scorpion is necessarily Orion. In fact, I would argue that the winged figure rising up from the Scorpion is associated with a different constellation, one situated immediately above the constellation Scorpio in the heavens: the constellation Ophiuchus.\nThe reason we can be quite confident that the winged man emerging from the scorpion and rising towards the heavens (where he is anointed with fire by the downward-facing torch of the angelic figure above, while another angelic figure descends with a laurel crown) is associated with Ophiuchus is the fact that the figures above him can almost certainly be associated with the constellation Hercules, located directly above Ophiuchus in the sky. The presence of a crown in the artwork, connected to the angelic winged figures, is yet another confirmatory clue, because this crown can almost certainly be identified with the constellation Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, which is located immediately in front of the constellation Hercules and indeed is envisioned as being \"grasped\" by the figures associated with the constellation Hercules in a great many myths from around the world.\nBelow is a star-chart showing the relevant constellations in the night sky, juxtaposed with an image of the newly-uncovered artwork from the long-buried mosaic in the Casa di Giove:\nWorking our way upwards in the mosaic, beginning with the giant scorpion, we can be fairly confident that the scorpion corresponds to the figure of Scorpio, in the heavens. I have drawn an arrow from the constellation Scorpio as we see it in the sky to the giant scorpion depicted in the ancient mosaic.\nImmediately above the scorpion in the mosaic we see the human figure, rising up with arms upraised, with moth-like wings on either side. This figure, I am convinced, can be identified with the position of the constellation Ophiuchus in the night sky. The constellation Ophiuchus is an extremely important constellation, one which plays a central role in many of the Star Myths of the world. Ophiuchus figures in ancient myth include Dionysus, Odin, Christ, and many others. Note that all of these Ophiuchus figures are mystical figures, associated with ecstasy or transfiguration -- just as we see the figure in this enigmatic ancient mosaic from the floor of the House of Jove in Pompeii undergoing some sort of transfiguration.\nThe moth-winged figure undergoing some sort of transfiguration apparently has his head set aflame by a downward-reaching winged figure immediately above him. I would suggest that this winged figure with the torch can be clearly identified as being associated with the constellation Hercules. The constellation Hercules is located directly above Ophiuchus in the heavens. What's more, the constellation has a leg which appears to be stepping on one side of the triangular \"head\" of the constellation Ophiuchus. In the ancient mosaic from the floor of the Casa di Giove in Pompeii, this \"forward leg\" is instead envisioned as a \"downward-pointing torch,\" but the outline and body position still match the outline of the constellation Hercules.\n(The reader may note that the artwork on the mosaic appears to be \"mirror-image\" to the constellations in the night sky -- this is not unusual for artwork based on celestial scenes; for example, note that the tail of the scorpion in the mosaic points to the right as we face it, but the tail of Scorpio in the heavens points towards the left, or east, as we face the star-chart above: this is why the two angelic figures above the moth-winged transfigured man are also facing to the left with their feet extending to the right, even though Hercules in the heavens faces to the right or west with his feet extending to the left or east).\nThe reader may wonder about the massive weapon which the constellation Hercules in the heavens appears to be brandishing (this feature in the outline of the constellation shows up as a weapon wielded by mythical figures associated with this constellation in many of the world's ancient Star Myths, such as the club wielded by the hero Heracles in Greek myth, or the mighty mace wielded by the hero Bhima in the Mahabharata of ancient India). There is evidence that this portion of the outline of the constellation, often envisioned as a weapon, was alternately envisioned as forming the \"wings\" of an angelic-looking figure instead. For example, below is artwork from ancient Greece, showing the famous scene in which Achilles drags the body of Hector after defeating him in battle, as described in the Iliad:\nNote that immediately behind the figure of Achilles in the chariot we see a winged figure whose leg position indicates beyond any doubt that this figure (usually interpreted as representative of the spirit of the deceased Patroclus) is associated in this particular piece of artwork with the constellation Hercules in the night sky. I discuss this scene in more depth in my 2016 book Star Myths of the World, and how to interpret them, Volume Two (Myths of Ancient Greece). The other figures in the artwork are shown in that volume to be associated with other nearby constellations, thus confirming that the winged figure is indeed associated with Hercules (for example, Achilles in the chariot can be shown to be associated with the figure of Bootes in the heavens, who is located directly in front of Hercules and thus matches this ancient artwork on the vase quite precisely).\nAdditional confirmation that winged figures such as those found in the Pompeiian mosaic and the Greek vase above can be identified as being associated with the constellation Hercules can be found in depictions of the Annunciation by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary down through the centuries. In these artistic depictions, the Angel Gabriel is almost invariably depicted in a posture characterized by a \"deep knee-bend\" and a \"downward reaching arm,\" corresponding to the outline of the constellation Hercules. The other distinctive aspect of the constellation Hercules, the \"upraised club\" (or other powerful weapon) is instead envisioned as the over-arching wing or wings of the angel.\nBelow is an example of an Annunciation scene, painted around the year AD 1270, and showing the Angel with characteristics distinctive to the outline of the constellation Hercules:\nNote that in the above Annunciation scene, the artist has chosen to depict the Virgin Mary standing in front of a tall rectangular tower with a triangular roof: this tower's shape is clearly evocative of the outline of the central body of the constellation Ophiuchus in the heavens (towards which the downward-reaching arm of the constellation Hercules can be seen to be pointing).\nThese examples should confirm that the angelic image in the mosaic recently unearthed in the Casa di Giove in Pompeii is associated with the constellation Hercules, and this helps to confirm as well that the moth-winged man being transfigured in that mosaic, just below the angelic figure, is associated with the constellation Ophiuchus.\nJust above the first \"angelic\" figure we see another similar angelic-looking figure with feathered wings, this time reaching downward and extending a laurel crown. The arc of this wreath of laurels is almost certainly associated with the dazzling arc of the Northern Crown in the heavens, Corona Borealis (as indicated in the star-chart above, where I have drawn a green arrow pointing from the Northern Crown in the chart to the laurel wreath crown in the artwork).\nIt is an undeniable fact that figures associated with the constellation Hercules in ancient myth and ancient artwork are frequently described or depicted as grasping an arc-shaped object which is associated with the Northern Crown (Corona Borealis). Indeed, the Northern Crown is located immediately in front of the constellation Hercules in the heavens, and although the constellations are not \"usually\" or \"normally\" seen as being connected, we can easily envision a line from the downward-reaching arm of Hercules to the nearby stars of the Northern Crown:\nThere are a great many myths from around the world in which a Hercules figure is envisioned as grasping a figure associated with the Northern Crown. One familiar episode on which I have written extensively in the past is the story of the Judgment of Solomon, from the book of 1 Kings in the Bible. In that story, Solomon directs a figure (whom we can designate as the \"Swordsman\") to cut a living baby in half and give one half to each of two mothers who each claim the baby to be her own (the swordsman does not actually cut the baby in half, in case you are not familiar with the story -- Solomon commands \"Stop!\" before the baby is actually divided, by which fact we know that Solomon is talking to someone else with a sword, and is not wielding the sword himself in that story).\nIn that episode of the Judgment of Solomon, the Swordsman can be convincingly shown to be played by the constellation Hercules in the heavens, while the infant being held by the Swordsman is associated with Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Artwork down through the centuries consistently represents the Swordsman in a posture reminiscent of the outline of Hercules, with sword held overhead, and consistently shows the baby in a \"hard arch\" representative of the arc of the Northern Crown in the heavens:\nFinally, we can address the coiled cobra snake depicted beneath the scorpion in the mosaic. As shown in the star-chart above, I believe this serpent corresponds to the constellation Hydra in the night sky, which is located just to the west of Scorpio, and which features a \"circlet\" at the front of the sinuous serpent shape, very suggestive of the hood of a cobra. Indeed, the outline of Hydra could be envisioned as suggesting a cobra with head rearing up. I have drawn an arrow in the star-chart between the constellation Hydra and the coiled serpent in the mosaic. Note that once again the serpent in the artwork is \"mirror-image\" to the direction of the constellations in the sky -- this mirroring is consistent throughout the mosaic and appears to have been a deliberate choice on the part of the artist. Again, such mirroring is not unusual in sacred artwork depicting figures who are based on heavenly constellations: sometimes the scene is mirror-image to the way we see it from earth looking to the sky.\nThus, we can see that the evidence supporting the assertion that the recently-unearthed mosaic from the Casa di Giove in Regio V of the ruins of Pompeii depicts a scene that is patterned after the celestial figures in the heavens is quite abundant, and quite compelling (I would say conclusive).\nThe scene does not appear to depict the constellation Orion: rather, I would argue that it depicts a transfigured mortal who is depicted in the position of the constellation Ophiuchus in the heavens, directly above a great scorpion (the constellation Scorpio) and a coiled cobra-snake (the constellation Hydra). Above, we see an angelic being with a torch, setting the head of the rising man aflame: this angelic being can be confidently associated with the constellation Hercules. Above that, we see yet another angelic being, also (according to my analysis) based on Hercules, but this time offering a crown instead of a flaming torch. This crown is almost certainly identified with the Northern Crown in the heavens, which is often envisioned in other myths as being held in the hand of the constellation Hercules.\nThe parallels to other artwork and other myths in this newly-discoverd mosaic are striking. The fact that I have published analysis of other artwork based on these same constellations from other myth-traditions years before the \"mosaic of the transfigured man\" from the floor of the Casa di Giove was ever revealed to the world is powerful confirmation that the previous analysis was correct, and that these ancient patterns based on the constellations were used in myths from many cultures (and are even found in artwork that we have not re-discovered at the present date).\nIt should be fairly self-evident that the image of the \"transfigured man\" contains many symbols which are today thought to belong to literalist or Biblical Christianity. The mosaic depicts an angel bringing a crown down towards a transfiguring mortal: this iconography is a direct parallel to scriptures describing the awarding of a crown by a heavenly angelic figure, found in the Biblical passages of Isaiah 62: 3, 1 Corinthians 9: 25, 2 Titus 4: 8, 1 Peter 5: 4, Revelation 2: 10, and Revelation 4: 4.\nSimilarly, the mosaic depicts an angelic being placing flames upon the head of the transfiguring mortal: this iconography is a direct parallel to scriptures describing flames coming down upon the heads of the assembled faithful at the Pentecost gathering described in Acts 2: 3. The scene can also be seen as having parallels to the scene described in Isaiah 6: 6 - 7 in which a cherubim brings a live coal held with tongs and places it upon Isaiah's lips.\nI would argue that these parallels arise because the scenes described in the scriptures and the scene portrayed in the mosaic are based upon the same celestial figures, the important constellations Ophiuchus and Hercules, as well as the Northern Crown.\nIt is quite moving to think of this piece of ancient artwork, buried by the deadly eruption of the powerful volcano Vesuvius in AD 79, a full 1, 940 years ago this year, resting under its heavy blanket of congealed ash and debris, waiting patiently in darkness and in silence, bearing its powerful message through the centuries, to finally emerge at this date to proclaim it again.\nIt is a message which declares that the world's ancient myths and scriptures are celestial and esoteric in nature, and that they are united by an ancient system of metaphor which has been forgotten or suppressed for many centuries (although it was obviously known during the years prior to the eruption of Vesuvius Mons).\nAnd it is a message of our connection to the heavenly realm, the realm of the Higher Self, associated with the higher elements of air and fire, with which we are actually connected even during this incarnate life, imprisoned as we are for a time in the realm of the lower elements of earth and water, and surrounded by serpents and scorpions.\nWe can only wonder what other ancient treasures await re-discovery underneath the yet-unexcavated Regiones of the ancient city of Pompeii.\nContemplating aspects of the terrible crash of February 19, 1979 in Norman Ollestad's \"Crazy for the Storm\"\nForty years ago on February 19, 1979, a small plane carrying young Norman Ollestad (11), his father Norman Ollestad, Sr (43), his father's girlfriend Sandra Cressman (30), and pilot Rob Arnold (27) crashed into the side of a rugged 8,600 foot mountain in a blizzard.\nThe story of young Norman's harrowing journey down from the peak alone after the deadly crash is told by Norman thirty years later in his 2009 memoir Crazy for the Storm, interspersed with his memories of his relationship with his father and the lessons his father taught him growing up which helped the 11-year old survive.\nHere is a link to a blog post I wrote in 2015 about this remarkable book and Norman's gripping account of his childhood and adolescence and that terrible day in February of 1979. Entitled \"Crazy for the Storm, and the inner connection to the Infinite,\" the post examines some of the terrain maps of the site of young Norman's ordeal, as well as touching on some of the other aspects of the story which are extremely noteworthy and turned out to have been essential to Norman's survival that day.\nIn particular (and those who have not read the book itself may want to stop and do so before reading further), there were several \"synchronicities\" which enabled the 11-year-old to be found prior to nightfall after he made his way down off the rugged mountain during the blizzard.\nA young mother named Pat Chapman was awakened on the morning of the crash by what she describes as a loud thud. \"Her first thought was that it sounded like a plane crashing,\" she explained (263). She also heard a strange beeping sound and a coyote who wouldn't stop howling. The text continues:\nLater that morning, nagged by a remote yet unshakable feeling that something bad had happened on the mountain, she led her two sons on a miserable hike to the meadow. They called out toward Ontario Peak, above the crown of rock, into the long apron that she called Gooseberry Canyon. Although the canyon was several thousand feet away, their voices echoed off the canyon walls. The wind and heavy fog buffered their voices some that day. When no one answered, she figured that her hunch was wrong. 263.\nAs it turns out, young Norman was trying to make his way towards this meadow, which he thought he had seen from the steep cliffs near the top of the mountain, and towards which he steered after he made his way down through the terrifying ice-chutes and funnels formed by the rock faces of the mountainside below the crash site.\nWhen he finally did make it to the meadow, it was only because he saw Pat's bootprints in the snow and followed them that he was able to trace his way through the forested areas surrounding the meadow back to a dirt road where he was eventually found by another person who followed a hunch, a teenaged boy named Glenn Farmer.\nIn addition to these \"coincidences,\" which enabled the injured 11-year old to be found after his hours-long ordeal on the mountainside, Norman later returned to the mountain twenty-seven years later (during the warmer months this time) and was surprised to discover that there was no way to see the meadow at all from the part of the mountain that he had traversed -- it was hidden by another ridgeline the entire way!\nAnd yet, if he had not navigated towards that meadow, and then followed the bootprints left in the snow by Pat Chapman and her two children, young Norman Ollestad might not have found anyone to help him in that remote location. Writing his book nearly thirty years later, he considers this thought, and the perplexing fact that based on the unmistakable physical layout of the terrain, he could not have actually seen the meadow at any point as he made his way down off the side of Ontario Peak:\nAnd even in the face of insurmountable contradictory evidence I still have a vivid memory of heading toward that meadow, compelled to reach it, believing that it would guide me to safety.\nBears and wolves navigate wilderness by instinct, and migratory birds are guided by an internal compass, so maybe the notion that I had to see the meadow in order for me to perceive it is an artificial concept.\nMaybe I sensed a place where I could rest from the steep ice and broken terrain -- a place where other humans like Pat were compelled to go -- just as a wolf or bear can sense such places. Maybe the footprints of Pat and her boys, those human markings, called to me, and because I was cut off from civilization I was able to access my animal instinct and hang on to life. 267.\nThis revelation, and Norman's reflections upon it almost thirty years later, are among the most important lessons from an entire book filled with insights of all sorts about life in general (and in modern society in particular), in my opinion.\nThe fact is that some part of us, which we might call \"the subconscious\" but which appears to stretch even beyond what is usually allowed by that term, appears to have access to information of tremendous importance, and to which we are usually completely unaware. Sometimes, such as in life-threatening situations like the one 11-year-old Norman Ollestad faced that day on February 19, 1979, that information makes itself known to our conscious mind.\nAs the book also notes, when Pat Chapman told the sheriff's deputy later that day about thinking that she had heard a plane crash (the thudding sound that woke her up that morning, and which later caused her to hike out to the meadow with her children, on a \"hunch\"), the sheriff's deputy told her that it was impossible for her to have heard the crash, due to the distance from her house. It must have been the snowplow she had heard, they said (263 -264).\nAs Norman Ollestad notes in his own reflections on this information, the animals of the natural kingdom appear to have access to this kind of awareness, which goes beyond what can be explained by the five physical senses alone, and which is usually dismissed as \"instinct.\" We ourselves are usually cut off from that awareness which is retained among the animal kingdom -- cut off by the complex entanglements of human society (the complexity of which, and the trauma with which these entanglements are imposed upon us as we grow up in the modern world, are depicted in graphic detail during the other parts of Norman Ollestad's powerful memoir).\nIn a sense, we are cut off from a very important part of ourselves by this process (necessary as it is in order to function in human society). I am convinced that healing this division, and becoming re-integrated with that part of ourselves from which we have been severed, is a central part of the message of the world's ancient myths, and of ancient practices such as meditation. Previous posts dealing with this question are numerous, and include:\n\"What lies beneath the scurrying of the superficial mind?\"\n\"Paul Selig reveals a secret menu that's available to all of us\"\n\"Descending into Darkness\"\n\"You may have a Higher Self, and He or She wants you to know it\"\n(among many others).\nNote that in one of the above-linked blog posts, there is an embedded video entitled \"Greatest dad saves EVER!!!\" in which some amazing rescues, primarily of infants or very young children, by dads are caught on film. One of these, fairly early in the video beginning at about the 0:06 second-mark in the clip, involves a dad who actually appears to be asleep when his hand suddenly shoots out to catch an infant about to fall head-first off a couch -- an infant the \"dad\" was not even looking at when his arm extends seemingly on its own to save the baby from potential disaster.\nThese types of incidents, which are barely explainable by our strictly \"materialist\" conventional paradigm, even with the vague catch-all phrase \"instinct,\" indicate that some part of ourselves (our subconscious, which is a useful term as long as we realize that our subconscious appears to be tapped into a much wider field of awareness than is usually admitted by conventional science) has a level of awareness or sensitivity that goes beyond anything that can be explained by the five physical senses. In the case of Pat Chapman (who was awakened by the \"sound\" of a crash that was seemingly much too far away for her to have heard it from her location) and the meadow \"seen\" by young Norman as he made his way down off the mountain during his life-or-death ordeal, it appears that the subconscious (or whatever term we want to use) can in fact be aware of information at distances greater than what is possible for our physical senses.\nThese life-saving aspects of the historical facts surrounding Norman Ollestad's survival on that terrible day of February 19, 1979 are reinforced by many other incidents in which \"ordinary\" people had experiences or premonitions that are equally difficult or impossible to explain under the conventional paradigm, the accepted paradigm which ignores or dismisses them as \"coincidence\" or \"superstition\" or some kind of psychological projection.\nI believe these are extremely important subjects to contemplate.\nI highly recommend reading Norman Ollestad's remarkable memoir Crazy for the Storm, about the plane crash forty years ago but also about so much more. We should be grateful for his willingness to share such a personal story.\nIn a way, it can be seen as another one of the \"greatest dad saves EVER.\"\nWelcome to new visitors from 13 Questions podcast! (and returning friends)\nBig thank-you to Darren Grimes and Graham Dunlop, the hosts of the successful Grimerica Show podcast, who have assembled a new team to launch a brand-new podcast in addition to the Grimerica Show entitled \"13 Questions to be a Better Man,\" in which they explore questions of \"manhood in the digital age.\"\nThe podcast is born out of a desire to provide perspectives on difficult questions we face during this particular time in history, and hearing heartfelt answers from a wide variety of guests can be quite eye-opening and very helpful, and something that I think would be of interest to all men and women, even though they are tackling these subjects from a \"modern manhood\" perspective.\nTheir plan is to interview a wide variety of guests while asking the same \"13 Questions.\" Above is an interview with Christian Takes Gun Parrish, the artist and Native American dancer Supaman, answering the 13 Questions with Darren and Graham in the second-ever episode of the new show. Below is a video of Supaman with world champion dancer Acosia Red Elk (White Swan Rising from the Water) dancing to Supaman's song \"Why.\"\nI hope you will check out the new 13 Questions Podcast. Even if you don't agree with every single point of view offered by every guest on the program (and it would be impossible for everyone to agree with everyone else on these questions), I believe that Darren and Graham and team are providing a really valuable new forum that can really change lives. The podcast lets you hear a wide variety of people pondering difficult questions and offering things they have learned in these different areas from their own varied life experiences. Gaining just one new perspective or one new thing to try from each interview would make listening to that interview worthwhile, even if you disagreed with everything else!\nI was humbled to be asked to be on the show as they were launching the podcast. These aren't easy questions to answer! Looking back since the interview, I have thought of many other things I could have said in answer to some of the questions, but hopefully something here or there in my interview will be helpful to someone. More importantly, I think what is most valuable about this podcast is to listen to it as a kind of a tapestry or \"quilt\" in which all the pieces add up to something bigger than any of the individual strands or squares.\nLinks to add the show to your regular line-up of podcasts to listen to are below. There is a subscription option that is explained at the beginning of each show, offering extended content, a regular newsletter, valuable online courses, and (most valuable of all) the opportunity to record your own interview asking the 13 Questions to someone you respect, and send the interview in to the 13 Questions team to be shared with the world.\nDirect Downloads\nhttps://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/13questions\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/13questions-podcast/id1452014616?mt=2\nhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4YifirYW3zOxFuVwAlslJg?si=wCF21ABrTHGlpy0WgCKqSw\nhttps://mobile.twitter.com/13questions2\nhttps://www.facebook.com/13-Questions-Better-Men--316039365915936/\nWhat lies beneath the scurrying of the superficial mind?\nIn the summer of 1989, I was beginning my third year at West Point. My summer assignments that year included what was called \"Beast 1,\" followed by a \"voluntary summer training\" commitment as part of the West Point parachute team, followed by Airborne School in Fort Benning Georgia (even though I was already an experienced skydiver with hundreds of skydives, freefall skydiving is completely different from military-style static-line airborne operations, so I had to report to Fort Benning to go through Airborne School after spending almost two weeks skydiving about six times a day).\n\"Beast 1\" meant acting as part of the \"cadre\" during the first half of \"cadet basic training\" at West Point, which since the early 1800s has been unaffectionately known as \"beast barracks\" and which consists of full-time indoctrination of the \"new cadets\" arriving for their first summer at the Military Academy. By indoctrination I mean very intensive inculcation (in the new cadets, by the \"beast cadre\") of a complex set of rules, norms, behaviors, attitudes, drills, and responses which are completely different in many ways from the rules, norms, behaviors and attitudes which are drilled into us as we grow up in \"normal\" society.\nHere's a photograph of me and one of my good friends from that summer (I'm on the left as you face the picture, and Scott is on the right) to give you an idea of the level of hostility that is generally involved in the process of foisting this new super-structure of rules, norms, behaviors, attitudes and responses upon the new cadets during their initial summer at West Point:\nNot very friendly-looking young people, I think it is safe to say, especially if you happened to be a new cadet in the summer of 1989. By the way, at the time this photograph was taken, Scott aka \"the Cyborg\" could probably bang out over 100 pushups in a row without stopping to rest, and could easily run two miles in around 11:00 minutes and change (and, I believe, he probably can still do that today, almost three decades later).\nAnyway, on this particular summer morning at West Point in 1989, we went through our usual routine as part of being the \"Beast 1\" cadre for the new cadets during the first half of their summer training, waking the new cadets up at a very early hour to conduct physical training (that day I believe it consisted of what were called \"guerrilla drills\" -- a variety of calisthenics and other exercises in a grassy field, involving a lot of crawling around in the grass until your face and body are covered in grass-stains), followed by personal hygiene, a couple of formations, breakfast at the mess hall, and then marching the new cadets down to Eisenhower Hall where they were receiving some kind of lecture in a large-group setting.\nWhile the new cadets were sitting in Eisenhower Hall receiving their lecture or other training, only a small contingent of cadre members had to stay with the new cadets, and the rest of us had a break and could leave the new cadets in Eisenhower Hall for their lecture and come back to get them again in an hour or so. On this particular morning, I distinctly remember walking back from Eishenhower Hall after dropping off the new cadets for whatever lecture they were getting, and finally having a free moment to myself.\nAs I was walking back, I suddenly realized for the first time that day that it was my birthday. I was twenty years old.\nHere's where I was at the moment, walking back alone and finally having a bit of breathing room to collect my thoughts:\nimage: Google maps.\nIf you are familiar with West Point, you can just barely make out the enormous red-brick wall of Eisenhower Hall rising up behind the little white \"Gingerbread House\" near the center of the photograph (this \"Gingerbread House\" can be seen in the 1955 movie Long Gray Line, the real-life protagonist of which is Master Sergeant Marty Maher, who was an instructor at West Point from 1899 to 1928).\nThe \"X\" on the sidewalk shows how far I had walked, alone with my thoughts, after leaving my charges at Eisenhower Hall and getting a little bit of a break, before I finally remembered for the first time that it was my birthday. I had managed to get up that morning (prior to waking up the new cadets), lead physical training (involving plenty of yelling at new cadets in order to continue their full-court-press indoctrination), get through a couple of formations and breakfast (involving more yelling at new cadets), and then march my squad of new cadets down to Eisenhower Hall to drop them off without my brain ever registering the fact that it was my twentieth birthday.\nThe point is that even though my mind \"knew\" that it was my birthday, the pre-occupation with rules, infractions, yelling at infractions, norms, behaviors, and the rest of the knotted maze of entangling social constructs that are part of life at West Point (and in particular, the even more extreme environment of \"beast barracks,\" in which as a cadre member I was responsible for trying to imprint this same set of entangling constructs onto the brains of other young men and women going through their first weeks at the Military Academy) had kept me from realizing that fact for several hours.\nIt was only when I was finally alone for a few minutes with my own thoughts, walking back by myself along the somewhat empty stretch of sidewalk pictured above, that the significant (to me, at least) fact that \"today is my twentieth birthday\" could finally surface. Until that moment, I was not consciously aware of it.\nWhat is the point of this story?\nIt's not just a story about a real-life incident that happened to someone else (me) in a very unique environment (beast-1 cadre at West Point during the late 1980s), a situation to which very few people can probably relate unless they happened to go through military training themselves. As such, it might be \"interesting\" but not particularly \"applicable\" to the very different life experiences that each of us encounters from day-to-day, most of which don't involve the kinds of things that were part of my life in the summer of 1989. Indeed, that was such a different time and place that it seems foreign even to me today, almost thirty years later.\nBut in a sense, this little vignette is illustrative of experiences that we all go through as part of the process of interacting with the entanglements of society, no matter what country or culture (or decade) we live in -- and thus, even though those societal entanglements and indoctrinations are probably very different (on a superficial level) from the various norms, rules, behaviors and attitudes encouraged (and enforced) at West Point during cadet basic training, the fact is that none of us are free from the demands of the norms and rules and behaviors and attitudes that are laid upon us over the years as we grow up in a society and learn to interact with other people, and which can be envisioned as being like a complex \"superstructure\" of intersecting lines of yarn laid down over our brains as part of the decades-long inculcation we went through during our first couple decades of human life, and which continue to be adjusted, reinforced, or added upon as we go through life even after reaching adulthood.\nThese norms and behaviors and rules and expectations are rather demanding, absorbing a lot of our mental energy as we go through the day. They include questions like who gets to go first at an intersection when we are driving, or what kinds of clothes we can wear to work, or which tasks out of the many demands on our time we decide to address first, and a host of other relationships with other people that we negotiate on a daily basis. Often, we no doubt find ourselves becoming angry at another driver who is not \"following the rules\" or \"going out of turn,\" or we have to spend energy at work addressing issues that result from others making choices that we don't agree with, and these kinds of issues absorb our thoughts and our attention in very much the same way that the various demands of cadet basic training absorbed my thoughts and attention that morning in 1989, to the point that I did not even consciously realize that it was my birthday until several hours (and several dozen or more interactions with other people) had been navigated.\nIt was not until I was actually alone with my thoughts for a few moments that a piece of information, and a piece of information of great importance (to me), was able to surface to the point that my conscious mind became aware of it.\nObviously, I had known all along, somewhere beneath the surface of my conscious awareness, that it was my birthday that day. If I had not known it, then the realization would not have popped into my conscious mind once I got away from the entangling demands of acting out my role as a beast cadre-member. I knew it, but I did not become aware of it until I had a moment of time alone. At that point, the realization surfaced and I became conscious of the fact (to my surprise) that it was my birthday.\nI only share this (rather personal) story because I believe it illustrates a point which can be helpful to our lives every single day. Our conscious mind operates inside of its own self-imposed (or society-imposed) constructs, navigating an incredibly complex set of rules and decision-trees and hierarchies and relationships as part of the process of functioning within a society that includes other people.\nAll of these tasks and judgments and decisions are necessary and important.\nHowever, they can (and do) so distract our conscious mind that it regularly overlooks and misses an enormous amount of important information that is available to our subconscious, or to the part of our being that operates beneath the \"tangle of yarn\" imposed like an artificial meshwork maze over the very tip-top of the iceberg that is our deeper consciousness.\nThis neglected part of ourselves is aware of an enormous amount of information that we would find to be of tremendous importance, if we were to become conscious of it. However, unless (as in the story above) we somehow get a \"moment to ourselves\" to relax our focus on the tangle of yarn, so to speak, we can remain in complete ignorance of even the most obvious knowledge.\nThat's why regularly spending time alone with your subconscious (or whatever term we want to use) is incredibly valuable and necessary, and appears to have been practiced in ancient cultures around the globe. Ancient disciplines such as meditation, or the practice of Yoga, or the practice of drumming or shaking a rattle at a specific rapid beat for a sustained period of time, or the chanting of mantras (including mantras containing the sacred syllable \"OM\" or \"AUM\"), were passed down from one generation to the next as vital tools for stilling the chattering of the superficial mind on a daily basis, in order to spend time listening to our deeper subconscious and our wider being.\nPractices such as those mentioned above (and many others) can enable \"messages\" or insights or realizations to bubble up to our conscious attention, in much the same way that the realization that it was my birthday suddenly bubbled up into my conscious mind as I was walking back along the sidewalk pictured above on that summer day long ago.\nIndeed, there is abundant evidence which suggests that our subconscious mind is actually aware of more than we can possibly explain -- that our subconscious is in fact somehow tapped into sources of awareness which could not be available to us through our five physical senses alone. Examples include the experiences, too many to simply dismiss as \"coincidence\" or \"superstition,\" of those who receive premonitions about loved ones far away, only to have those premonitions confirmed later (these premonitions are not always negative in nature, either -- for example, in the harrowing story of young Norman Ollestad's descent from the side of a steep ice- and snow-covered mountain after a deadly plane crash in 1979, the premonition of more than one person brought them out to a road where they were able to see Norman after he had made his way down off the mountain -- even though nothing in their five physical senses could have detected Norman's presence on that day).\nIn a very real sense, our subconscious appears to transcend the boundaries of the physical self and connect to a wider realm which is not bounded by laws we can explain through physics. Indeed, it may be that this part of our wider being is the connection to what the ancient myths of some traditions refer to as our \"Higher Self,\" and which is dramatized in the countless world myths involving twins (one of whom is often divine, while the other is mortal), including Krishna and Arjuna, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Polydeuces and Castor, Eros and Psyche, Jesus and Doubting Thomas, and many others.\nWhen we realize that quieting our chattering \"superficial mind\" is a way of spending time with and listening to our subconscious (and perhaps even to our Higher Self), then suddenly meditation (or the other similar disciplines which we can incorporate into our daily lives) no longer seems like a \"chore.\" Instead, it is a way of spending time with someone very close to us, someone who indeed cares about us very deeply, someone we should not neglect -- and someone whose help we can use on a daily basis. Why would we not want to do that? Why would we not want to do that every single day?\nSpending time quieting our superficial mind, and setting aside its entangling \"maze of yarn,\" does not mean that those various norms and social structures and rules and customs that we have learned and incorporated into our lives are worthless or unhealthy -- indeed, they are necessary for interacting in a society that contains other people, and for navigating our way through the range of complex situations in which we find ourselves on a daily basis. To say that these learned structures are unimportant would be as foolish as to say that stop signs and lane dividers and all the rules of safe driving are unimportant: as long as we have to negotiate roads on which there are other drivers, the very complex set of laws and customs of the road are necessary.\nBut if we do not regularly give ourselves a chance to take a break from living within those artificial structures and entanglements, then we are very much in the situation that I was in, in the story related above, in which my focus on all the minute-by-minute minutia of cadet life (and in this case the very artificial, albeit very demanding, constructs of West Point's \"beast barracks\" indoctrination program) caused me to remain blissfully unaware of something I should have known, for quite some time, until I had a chance to \"pause\" and my mind became aware (as if out of the blue) of something it hadn't been focusing on at all.\nI have had many experiences in more recent years in which my conscious mind would \"receive\" an answer or a \"message\" or an insight about something that I had been pondering, often upon waking up in the morning (when my conscious mind was shut down, but my subconscious was obviously still active, and used that \"little break\" in the scurrying and clattering of the conscious mind to deliver the \"answer\" to me that I had been looking for).\nI am convinced that it is through the pathway down below the conscious mind that we make contact with the inner connection to the Infinite which the ancient myths portray again and again in various episodes and adventures, in sacred traditions from virtually every culture around the globe.\nBasing his arguments on the evidence that he found in myths from around the world, Alvin Boyd Kuhn in his 1940 masterpiece Lost Light declares:\nThe kingdom of heaven and the hope of glory are within. They lurk within the unfathomed depths of consciousness. Divinity lies buried under the heavier motions of the sensual nature and the incessant scurrying of the superficial mind. 46\nIn the image at top we see a famous statue from ancient Egypt, depicting the 4th dynasty king Khafre, thought to have lived somewhere around the time we call 2500 BC (or BCE, if you prefer). Behind the king's head, and in fact invisible from the front, we see the falcon-god Horus -- perfectly depicting the concept of the Higher Self or connection to the Infinite, to which we all in fact have access, at any time.\nThis image, in fact, can be helpful to consider while beginning to meditate, or to spend time with your own subconscious or deeper and wider consciousness.\nLooking at this ancient statue, we might ask ourselves, \"Why would we not want to spend time each day getting in touch with our own subconscious -- or, indeed, our own Higher Self?\"\nI am thoroughly convinced that doing so has tremendous benefits. We may not hear \"mystical voices\" (when I realized that it was my birthday, that realization did not come to me in the form of a voice -- and when some insight about some issue or question that I am working on makes itself available to my conscious mind upon waking up in the morning, for example, or while sitting in meditation, it just arrives as a \"thought,\" and not as a \"voice\" -- at least in my own personal experience, although for others it might be different). But we will undoubtedly be made aware of things which we might otherwise have overlooked.\nI also have a suspicion that regularly spending time setting aside the superficial tangle of yarn made up of the norms and value-judgments and societal expectations that we have absorbed can help us to be less \"fanatical\" about \"enforcing them\" on others (less likely to fly into a rage, for instance, when someone else doesn't observe the expected strictures, and \"cuts\" ahead of us in traffic, for example).\nAnd I am convinced that this very important teaching can be found to be at the heart of many ancient myths, given to humanity in most remote antiquity, for our benefit and blessing -- and pertinent to our lives even in this modern day and age, even in our \"ordinary\" lives, even if we are not in the middle of cadet basic training, and on all three hundred sixty-five (and a quarter) days of the year, and not just on our birthdays!\nSeizing Venezuela's natural resources is an Affront to the Gods\nAbove is a new video I've just posted entitled \"Seizing Venezuela's Natural Resources is a Grave Assault on the Rule of Law.\"\nIf you still believe that the united states stands for the \"Rule of Law\" -- well, the coup attempt currently underway in Venezuela should be a wake-up call.\nThe preceding post argued that fiscal austerity has as its ultimate goal the privatization of the natural resources given by the gods (or, if you prefer, by nature) to the people of a nation. In the above video, you will hear National Security Advisor John Bolton of the united states announce that the goal of the overthrow of the elected government of Venezuela is to have \"American oil companies invest in and produce the oil capabilities in Venezuela.\"\nIn other words, the current leaders of the united states are not happy that the elected government of Venezuela has chosen to \"invest in and produce\" the natural resources with which their nation has been blessed by the divine realm, for the benefit of their own economy and their own people. The current leaders of the united states would prefer to have \"American oil companies invest in and produce\" those natural resources instead.\nThe natural resources of Venezuela were given to the people of Venezuela. If the government of Venezuela wants to use those resources to benefit Venezuela, instead of opening them up to foreign corporations (for the benefit of the shareholders of those foreign corporations), then that is the right of the people of Venezuela, who elected that government more than once, in monitored elections.\nFor the current leaders of the united states to engineer a coup d'etat in order to replace the elected government with a puppet who will happily sell-out the natural resources which belong to the entire nation (in exchange for a piece of the revenues to be obtained from those stolen resources) declares to the world, \"We only support democracy and elections up to the point where the results benefit our corporations and our ability to privatize your nation's natural resources.\"\nIn the above video, you will hear united states National Security Advisor John Bolton declare that Juan Guiado is the president of Venezuela, even though Juan Guiado was not elected by the people of Venezuela but instead declared himself president on January 23, 2019 (and was simultaneously declared president by current leaders of the united states and some of their client states, indicating collusion between Guiado and the leaders of the united states whose interests he serves).\nIn the above video, you will also hear united states National Security Advisor John Bolton declare that any action taken against Guiado (who himself has called the elected government illegitimate, urged its overthrow, and declared himself the new president) by the elected government of Venezuela will be viewed by the united states as \"a grave assault on the rule of law.\"\n(!!!)\nSo, by making such pronouncements, the current leaders of the united states (engaged in an active coup d'etat against the elected leaders of another sovereign nation, in order to seize the natural resources given to that nation by the gods) attempt to robe themselves in the mantle of the so-called \"rule of law\" -- a preposterous and transparently ridiculous claim to which they have no right under heaven.\nApparently, this coup d'etat is on behalf of \"democracy and prosperity in Venezuela\" -- because the \"rule of law\" now means that if the men and women of another nation vote in a way your nation does not like, then you can overturn their vote (in the name of \"democracy\"), and if the elected leaders of another nation decide that they want to use the natural resources given to their nation for the benefit of the people of their nation, then you can seize their natural resources and develop them with the corporations of your nation (in the name of \"prosperity\")!\nThank goodness for the \"rule of law\"! What would the men and women of the world do without this \"rule of law\" and those who so diligently support it? If we didn't have such defenders of the \"rule of law,\" how could private corporations and well-connected individuals and families seize the natural riches of the earth given by heaven for the benefit of the people?\nAnyone who pays any attention at all to such developments cannot help but conclude that the united states no longer cares about democracy, the will of the people, or this vaunted \"rule of law\" which its leaders constantly invoke in support of their serial coups around the globe (if indeed it ever did care about such things).\nHowever, such a conclusion is deeply unsettling and even threatening to the paradigm or vision of the world which is pounded into citizens of the united states from their earliest days in school and which is reinforced by lying media from all directions and on a continuous and ongoing basis. To the degree that one's conscious mind has incorporated such propaganda into one's own identity and \"sense of self,\" evidence which exposes the lies upon which these mental structures or constructs are built will be viewed as dangerous and hostile, and may be vigorously resisted and even mentally filtered out.\nAs explained in the previous post, our conscious mind is quite capable of buying into constructs which do not accurately reflect reality at all, although our subconscious (which detects and absorbs far more information than does our conscious mind) can and does know what is going on, even if the subconscious is filtered out by the conscious mind.\nThus, it is quite possible for men and women who have bought into (and even built their own identity, at least in part, upon) assertions such as:\n\"the united states is the world's leading democracy, and a proponent of democracy and a defender of democracy around the globe,\" and\n\"the united states stands for the glorious 'Rule of Law,' unlike more benighted countries of the world where they don't operate under a 'Rule of Law' like we do,\" and\n\"the united states is for 'free markets,' which is related to the 'Rule of Law' and means that we like to 'let the market decide,' unlike more benighted countries of the world where men and women foolishly hanker after socialism, which is pretty much the same as worshiping the devil,\"\nto actually filter out and refuse to see the plain evidence being played out in front of their very eyes which indicates that the present leaders of the united states does not care about democracy and the expressed will of the people of Venezuela whatsoever, nor do they care about free markets or the rule of law, but instead they are perfectly willing to brazenly engineer a coup d'etat in order to overturn the expressed will of the people and seize the assets belonging to the men and women of another sovereign nation, in complete disregard for their oft-repeated reverence for the sacred \"Rule of Law\" and the concept of \"free markets\" (except to the extent that \"free markets\" means \"free to trample over any laws which stand in the way of private profits\").\nEven for those who are so committed to the paradigm expressed in the above ridiculous assertions, however, it is impossible for their subconscious to see the brazen coup d'etat presently being inflicted upon Venezuela (only a few years after a similar coup d'etat was inflicted upon the people and elected government of the Ukraine, which itself was only a recent manifestation of a pattern which has been going on for decades and even for more than a century in the foreign policy united states) and to reconcile this coup d'etat with the professed ideals of \"democracy,\" \"freedom,\" and \"Rule of Law.\"\nAgain, to employ the brilliant characters developed for the long-running popular television series \"The Office\" (united states version), without implying that these actors would in any way agree with the assertions made in any of my blog posts, the conscious mind and its (often unrealistic and idealistic constructs and sense of self) can be likened to the cringe-worthy and often clueless (albeit good-natured and generally likable) regional manager Michael Scott, pictured below:\nAs we look at the above image, we can imagine him repeating mantras such as \"Rule of Law\" and \"free markets\" and \"good for the economy\" and \"at least it's not socialism!\"\nAt the same time, as discussed in that preceding post, our subconscious is not so easily fooled by the constructs and mental structures which the conscious mind has built up and to which it clings for safety and for the preservation of identity. It perceives much more of what is going on in the surrounding world (and indeed in the wider universe itself, to which the subconscious appears to have a mystical and inexplicable connection). As the conscious mind repeats, \"Rule of Law,\" and \"overthrowing the government on behalf of democracy and prosperity,\" the subconscious mind responds:\nSuch a massive disconnect will inevitably create a \"schism\" within our own psyche, resulting in a background level of angst or anxiety which our conscious mind cannot necessarily explain or even detect, but which will impact everything we are doing and feeling as we are going about our lives.\nThose who are perpetrating these crimes against the rights of men and women -- and indeed crimes against heaven and against nature itself -- rely upon their ability to reinforce the false paradigms and constructs which keep our conscious minds clueless and oblivious to what is actually going on in the world around us. They will reinforce those \"talking points\" and artificial structures relentlessly using mass-media and carefully researched propaganda techniques, and will vigorously attack any counter-narratives that become too popular or begin to show signs of demolishing the mental structures that they have diligently imposed upon the minds of the populace (especially their very useful and longstanding \"fear of socialism\" framework, which is showing increasing signs of strain and may begin to crumble despite their best efforts to maintain it).\nFor a previous video opposing the smug commentators who for the past several months have been loudly proclaiming that Venezuela's crisis is a natural consequence of \"socialism\" and a textbook example proving that \"eventually you run out of other people's money,\" see this post from September of 2018.\nEngineering a coup d'etat against another sovereign nation in order to seize their natural resources is a grave affront to the gods (or, if you prefer, \"the divine realm,\" or Nature), who are the source of those gifts and who gave them to the men and women whom they allowed to be born in that nation.\nThat this coup d'etat is being engineered in the name of \"democracy,\" \"freedom,\" \"prosperity,\" and the \"Rule of Law\" is an affront to those concepts and an insult to those who actually support them.\nThat this coup d'etat is being done in the name of the citizens of the united states (and in the name of the citizens of other nations including Canada, France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Iceland, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Ecuador, Australia, and many others) is a profound misrepresentation of those men and women in those countries who actually see what is going on and who are revolted at such a criminal act of aggression being perpetrated supposedly with their support or consent.\nWith this blog post and above video I am hereby voicing my strongest condemnation of this illegal and despicable attempted coup against the people and government of Venezuela, and I urge others to oppose it and raise their voices in whatever way possible, including through participation in nonviolent protest, to help stop this grave violation.\nIt is well past the time to shake off the mental cages which we ourselves have constructed (out of tinkertoys given to us from the time we were very young, and reinforced by an overtly dishonest mass-media apparatus) and which keep our conscious mind happily insulated from the reality that is going on all around us, imposing a deep schism and sense of alienation and anxiety upon the human psyche, while at the same time enabling the crimes and depredations of those oppose democracy, freedom, and human dignity, along with their cynical collaborators who are willing to sell out their own nations and fellow citizens for a share in the dishonest gain.\nAusterity is an Affront to the Gods\nHere is a video I made entitled \"Austerity is an Affront to the Gods,\" which refutes austerity-mongers who are presently to be found in control of both the \"right\" and the so-called \"left\" (who are not really left) in most nations of the global west.\nThe term \"austerity\" as used here means \"fiscal austerity,\" which seeks to limit the ability of elected governments representing the people to use fiscal policy (including sovereign spending and tax policy) to influence the economy for purposes of full employment and economic benefit.\nAusterity in practice involves increasing taxes and reducing sovereign spending on infrastructure and on social welfare.\nAusterity has been implemented to a greater and greater degree since the rise of \"monetarist\" policy beginning in the late 1970s and especially after 1980; the monetarist school wants to supplant fiscal policy (implemented by a nation's elected representatives) with monetary policy (implemented by central banks), using monetary policy almost exclusively to manage the economy and trying to encourage full employment and price stability, even though monetary policy is a very clumsy instrument for these tasks and actually admits to using increased unemployment as a counter to inflation.\nAusterity reflects a vision of scarcity rather than a vision of plenty. It is enabled and sustained by a general lack of understanding of the abundance of the natural resources given to a nation by the gods (or, if you prefer, by Nature), including the most important gift of all which are the talents and abilities and ambitions of the men and women whom the gods (or Nature) allow to be born into that nation.\nAdvocates of austerity (whom we could legitimately label \"austerity mongers\") seek to limit the ability of a nation to implement fiscal policy to such a degree that spending on infrastructure and social welfare is drastically curtailed, taxes are increased (or threatened to be increased for any increased spending on infrastructure or social welfare, which we are told we \"cannot afford\" otherwise), underemployment and unemployment rise which means that men and women are unable to fully use their gifts (given to them by the gods, or -- if you prefer -- by Nature), and standards of living are dramatically reduced.\nUltimately, the end result of austerity policy, as explained by Professor Michael P. Hudson in a quotation included in the above video and cited from an interview he gave in February of 2014 (the entire interview is linked in this previous post), is the straitjacketing of representative government to the degree that it must sell off natural resources to private parties (corporations or hyper-wealthy individuals), a process known as privatization -- which has, not coincidentally, increased at a steady pace since the implementation of monetarist austerity regimes beginning around 1980.\nProfessor Hudson explains:\nAnd stage two is when the governments have to pay by selling off the public domain: the land, the natural resources, the forests, the ports, the electrical systems, the natural monopolies, and the infrastructure -- the roads and the bridges -- and the economy's turned into a tollbooth economy, and so you're going very rapidly back to feudalism.\nAusterity mongers on the right typically argue for privatization and for drastic cuts to spending on social welfare (but not cuts to spending on military arsenals and standing armies). Austerity mongers on the supposed \"left\" typically argue for increased spending on social welfare but for simultaneous massive increases in taxes on the people, consistent with the paradigm of austerity -- and they are usually not opposed to privatization either (in fact, many of them argue for more of it).\nUltimately, as this video attempts to demonstrate, the entire paradigm of austerity is built upon a false and even \"upside-down\" vision of the world, including the role of the sovereign government in the creation of money, as a small but growing group of economists in the so-called Modern Monetary Theory school have demonstrated. The MMT economists show that men and women have been basically deceived with a bunch of claptrap about how macroeconomics operates, and which actually has nothing to do with reality.\nI would argue that this situation is very much illustrative of many other situations in which our \"conscious mind\" has accepted a false paradigm or framework which actually goes against reality and nature itself. In these cases, I would argue, we actually know deep down (in our gut, in our bones, or in our subconscious) that the vision we have accepted and under which we are operating is completely false -- and yet our conscious mind may not know it.\nOur conscious mind is quite capable of accepting a false paradigm, reinforcing it, and operating as though it is true -- even to the point of filtering out evidence which challenges that false paradigm, in some cases to the point of actually not seeing something (or telling ourselves we didn't see something) which would upend the false paradigm in which our conscious mind is operating.\nMeanwhile, our subconscious is not so easily fooled, and actually knows the truth -- creating an internal schism and a kind of alienation from one's own self which is extremely characteristic of the modern world.\nTo illustrate using the brilliant characters created for the popular television series \"The Office\" (united states version), without implying that these actors would in any way agree with things asserted in this blog, I have in the past compared the conscious mind and its constant chatter to Michael Scott, who often appears to \"believe his own line\" even when it is obviously ridiculous, with a kind of unshakeable good humor and cringe-worthy self-confidence:\nMeanwhile, our subconscious mind (which is aware of much more of what is going on around us and even in the wider universe than is the conscious mind), is not so easily amused, and not so ready to accept the elaborate paradigms and constructs which the conscious mind buys into:\nIf we see increasing numbers of hungry, homeless men and women in the streets and yet continue to tell ourselves that the economy is just fine (and even \"nearing full employment\"), then I would suggest that it is very likely that we have (in our conscious mind) bought into a false construct of one sort or another (see top picture, above) but that deep down our subconscious mind knows better (see bottom picture, above) and we will then be living with a kind of \"schism\" within our own psyche, creating a background level of angst or anxiety which our conscious mind cannot necessarily even detect or explain, but which will influence everything we are doing and feeling as we go about our lives.\nThe same situation would apply to a man or woman who knows deep down (at the level of the subconscious, which detects much more than does the conscious mind) that his or her wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend is having an affair, but whose conscious mind refuses to see the evidence, in order to maintain a paradigm or world-view or sense of self which is not in line with reality and which eventually will likely come crashing down (but, until it does, the disconnect will create a deep sense of background anxiety and general psychic discomfort).\nI would argue that much the same thing is going on with regard to massive criminal events such as the collapse of three steel-frame high-rise buildings into their own footprints on September 11, 2001, supposedly due to \"fire\": our conscious mind can (desperately) cling to the false narrative which is constantly repeated for our acceptance (see top picture, above) even though our subconscious mind knows deep down that this narrative cannot possibly match reality (see bottom picture, above). The threat to our paradigm and vision of the world is so great that our conscious mind will resist looking at or even refuse to see things which threaten the paradigm or structure or vision of the world which the conscious mind has constructed.\nThe good news is that the ancient myths given to humanity are all about showing us how to heal the schism between our conscious mind and our subconscious mind, in every way.\nThis fact explains why the ancient myths remain so relevant to those who are trying to fool humanity, impose austerity on men and women, and take for themselves and their cronies the gifts given by the gods (or, if you prefer, by Nature) to the people of various nations.\nAnd it explains why going to the ancient wisdom given in the world's myths, scriptures and sacred stories points us to the solution for the schism we find within ourselves, and in the wider world around us.\nAncient mosaic with esoteric celestial elements di...\nContemplating aspects of the terrible crash of Feb...\nWelcome to new visitors from 13 Questions podcast!...\nWhat lies beneath the scurrying of the superficial...\nSeizing Venezuela's natural resources is an Affron...\nHappy Lunar New Year: Propitious Year of the Pig!\nPaul Selig reveals a secret menu that's available ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line369900"}
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REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo (Mike Blake/Reuters)\nBy Danielle Paquette\nDanielle Paquette\nWest Africa bureau chief\nCompanies have dramatically increased their insurance coverage against sexual harassment complaints in recent years following high-profile scandals, as corporate America reckons with the growing risks of workplace misconduct.\nEmployment practices liability insurance (EPLI) plans, which cover sexual harassment, racial discrimination and wrongful-firing claims, have spread rapidly over the past decade from major corporations to midsize and smaller firms, industry experts say.\nBut lawyers and some women's groups say the policies, which shield businesses and executives from costly lawsuits and reputational damage, may also help perpetuate abuse by allowing companies to avoid confronting the problem head-on.\n\"Payouts can provide some monetary help and peace of mind going forward, but they create a stronger culture of silence,\" said Kim Churches, chief executive of the American Association of University Women. \"It doesn't only prohibit victims from speaking up. It means we're not encouraging colleagues to stand up to sexist language or harassment and call it out on the spot.\"\n[How confidentiality agreements hurt - and help - sexual harassment victims]\nSexual harassment surged to public attention in 1991 when law professor Anita Hill accused her former boss and then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of repeatedly asking her out on dates and talking about porn while at work.\nHill's testimony at Thomas's confirmation hearing awakened workers to what could qualify as office misconduct, women's groups say. For Victoria Stone, a Los Angeles insurance broker, Hill's willingness to go public marked a cultural shift.\nAt the time, only five insurance companies offered EPLI policies, according to the Betterley Report, which tracks EPLI trends.\nStone said she sensed a business opportunity and mailed out fliers to her clients urging them to adopt those early policies. Few took her up on the offer. Even a decade later, some remained skeptical.\nNow, though, practically all of the roughly 200 business leaders she works with have bought a plan, Stone said. As accusations mounted last month against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, two more opted in. One of the buyers was a small factory with just 39 employees, most of them men.\n\"So many people feel like, 'it'll never happen to me,' \" said Stone, senior vice president at Poms and Associates Insurance Brokers in Los Angeles. Now, she added, \"more people are pulling the trigger\" — including one client who reluctantly purchased a plan, she said, and was later hit with a $300,000 sexual harassment and wrongful-termination claim.\n\"He hasn't stopped thanking me,\" Stone said.\nU.S. companies spent an estimated $2.2 billion last year on insurance policies covering the legal fallout from sexual harassment, racial discrimination and unfair-dismissal accusations. The market is projected to grow to $2.7 billion by 2019, according to MarketStance, a research firm that tracks insurance trends.\nThat's a fraction of what enterprises spend on legal and medical malpractice insurance, but industry experts said EPLI coverage is surging into the mainstream, with the biggest growth coming from small and midsize companies.\nAbout 41 percent of firms with more than 1,000 workers report having some kind of plan to cover sexual harassment and discrimination, said Frederick Yohn, managing director of MarketStance.\nAbout one-third of companies with at least 500 employees carry such coverage, though it remains unusual for start-ups, Yohn said. Only 3 percent of companies with fewer than 50 carry such coverage.\nBut since 2011, firms with annual revenue less than $250 million have increased their spending on adding and renewing such plans by 28 percent, according to Advisen, another insurance data firm.\nMeanwhile, Nationwide, one of the country's largest insurance companies, recorded a 15 percent increase in EPLI sales between fall 2016 and September 2017 — a stretch that coincided with the ousters of Fox News's Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly.\n[After Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood assistants urged to break culture of silence]\n\"We can speculate that it is due to increased awareness in the need for this type of coverage,\" said Karen Johnston, casualty technical consultant for Nationwide Insurance Staff Commercial Underwriting.\nThe cost of such policies varies according to the size of the business and the level of protection. For firms with annual revenue below $25 million, the median coverage purchased is about $1 million, which costs about $4,900 a year, said Jim Blinn, executive vice president of client solutions at Advisen.\nAt the other end of the spectrum, firms with more than $5 billion in annual revenue typically pay about $285,000 a year for a $30 million limit.\nBefore carriers pick up any expenses associated with a claim, such as court fees and damages, companies must pay a retention, which is similar to a deductible. For start-ups, the cost ranges from $1,000 to $10,000 per complaint, Betterley said. For large firms, retentions could reach $1 million.\nWith the recent sexual harassment scandals, companies were looking to increase their coverage and expand workplace training programs meant to discourage misconduct and resolve complaints before they escalate.\n\"We will be thinking more about limits,\" said Richard Betterley, a risk management consultant in Boston who publishes the annual Betterley EPLI report. \"You're buying X million — should we be thinking about more?\"\nKen Daveler, president at Alliance Insurance Services in the District, said companies no longer see such coverage as optional; it's essential. \"Each year, we sell more. You can point to these things in the news and say it's irresponsible not to have it. It's getting to the point where it's not if you get a claim, it's when,\" he said.\nHis largest client, an education company that had purchased an EPLI plan, had also turned to him for advice on anti-harassment training. \"Nobody has ever asked me that before,\" he said.\nBut lawyers say the growth of sexual harassment insurance coverage has had uneven results when it comes to providing redress to victims.\nAlexis Ronickher, an employment lawyer at Katz, Marshall & Banks in Washington who specializes in sexual harassment law suits, said insurance coverage made it easier for companies to provide some form of remedy to workers who suffer harassment.\nLast month, two of her clients — women who held low-paying service jobs — settled sexual harassment claims with a local employer and, through the company's insurance, were promised checks for about twice their annual wages.\n[Not just Harvey Weinstein, the depressing truth about sexual harassment in America]\n\"In cases against smaller or midsize employers, it can help,\" Ronickher said. \"Because if you have a significant claim, they might not have the capital or liquidity to pay such a claim without the insurance.\"\nBut in Ronickher's experience, insurance claims adjusters may intervene to try to limit the size of the award. That can significantly prolong negotiations, even if an employer would prefer to offer more money and wrap things up.\n\"It's a curse and a benefit,\" Ronickher said.\nThe knowledge that a harasser may rely on the coverage to lessen the potential financial consequences of a harassment claim can also be toxic, according to a 33-year-old woman who said her male boss shoved her into a wall and stalked her after she rejected his advances.\nShelley, who asked that her last name be withheld because she fears retaliation, said she was outraged to learn that her former employer had such coverage.\n\"It was infuriating,\" she said. \"It's like: You're treating me as if you hit my bumper when you kind of ruined my life.\"\nEven so, the existence of EPLI provides an important alternative to the other main avenue for redress: filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.\nFewer than one in four sexual harassment complaints made to the agency last year — 1,485 of 6,758 claims — ended with a settlement of some kind, government data show.\nWith EPLI, a worker who encounters harassment on the job does not have to lodge a formal complaint to the EEOC for a chance to receive compensation. Claims can be triggered when a victim's lawyer writes a letter to a company.\n\"It's often in the best interest of the carrier to simply settle or pay a claim, rather than go through the legal process,\" said Yohn, the insurance market researcher. \"The insurance company pays them to make them go away.\"\nIt's unclear how many complaints are settled with the insurance each year — or the scale of compensation to women who suffer sexual harassment. Nearly all settlements come with nondisclosure agreements, lawyers say.\nWorkplace fairness advocates said such confidentiality agreements are potentially damaging.\nKate Bahn, an economist on the women's initiative at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, said companies that prioritize their reputation over their workers' safety risk encouraging harmful behavior.\n\"That might be a rational economic decision for businesses to make — to pay into insurance, to mitigate the risk,\" Bahn said. \"It helps your bottom line, but it's really terrible for women. It upholds existing power structures that are toxic and misogynistic.\"\nDanielle Paquette Danielle Paquette is The Washington Post’s West Africa bureau chief. Before becoming a foreign correspondent in 2019, she spent five years writing about labor, gender and the economy. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7621294856071472,"wiki_prob":0.7621294856071472,"text":"Logging for Water\nA battle is brewing over whether cutting down trees will increase California’s water supply.\nBy Will Parrish\nClear-cuts in Battle Creek Watershed, with Mount Lassen in the background, give the area a look like leprosy on the skin. Photo by Zeke Lunder.\nThe day after an unseasonal June rain swelled the streams of the northern Sierra Nevada, Marily Woodhouse steered her 2003 Dodge Dakota through 65 miles of winding mountain roads near Mount Lassen. Woodhouse first traversed the area on horseback shortly after moving here 25 years ago. Back then, the land was lush with life, and its towering conifer forests furnished refreshingly cool air on days that were blistering hot beyond the canopy’s shade.\nNow, acre after acre of land of the Battle Creek Watershed is parched as far as the eye can see. Nonnative plants like star thistle and mullein compete to cover bare ground that was once studded with pines, firs, and cedars. Rather than finding sanctuary in the forests, Woodhouse now collects data that she says demonstrates the epic damage that has been wrought by the state’s largest timber corporation, Sierra Pacific Industries, or SPI.\nNearly every week, for more than seven years, Woodhouse has stopped at the same 13 stream locations in the watershed. At each spot, the founder of the environmental group Battle Creek Alliance uses specialized equipment to examine and record water temperature, water pH, soil temperature, and “turbidity”: a measure of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in the air.\nIn 2012, the Ponderosa Fire torched 27,234 acres in the watershed. But Woodhouse says SPI inflicted much greater harm through post-fire “salvage logging,” which involved removing virtually every large- and medium-sized tree in the burned area—both living and dead—and deep-ripping the denuded soil to a depth of three feet with heavy machinery in order to accelerate the growth of newly planted trees.\n“I used to think clear-cutting was the worst thing, but it’s not,” Woodhouse said regarding the salvage logging. “They took everything down to bare dirt. The water quality went crazy bad.”\nSPI officials have repeatedly defended their logging practices in Battle Creek and elsewhere, and have even argued that they eventually improve the health of forests and streams.\nFor decades, environmentalists have countered that industrial logging, in fact, damages watersheds because it involves removing vegetation that anchors hillsides and constructing logging roads that cause chronic erosion that chokes streams and rivers with sediment.\nHowever, during the past year, a growing chorus of academics and conservationists has given comfort to the state’s logging industry by arguing that California would actually benefit from more logging, especially after years of punishing drought.\nAt the heart of the debate is the increasing realization that forests throughout the Sierra, Klamath, Siskiyou, and Coast mountain ranges—like the forests that once stood in Battle Creek—are important components of California’s water system. Not only do the trees store and filter huge amounts of water, but they also provide shade for the mountain snowpack so that it will melt gradually to fill the state’s reservoirs with a steady, year-round supply of water.\nMarily Woodhouse, founder of Battle Creek Alliance, measures the water quality of the Battle Creek Watershed. Photo by Will Parrish.\nCenter for Biological Diversity’s Justin Augustine doubts upsides for water users. Photo courtesy Justin Augustine.\nKatherine Evatt, an expert on the Mokelumne, has logging concerns. Photo courtesy Katherine Evatt\nAnd an expanding number of scientists and environmental groups are now arguing that many of California’s forests, because of years of fire suppression and other unsound ecological practices, have become overcrowded with trees and that these forests are holding too much water in the soil. Cutting or thinning the trees, they say, will release the groundwater into streams and rivers so that California’s dams and reservoirs can capture it.\nA leading proponent of this thinking is UC Merced chemical engineering professor Roger Bales, chairman of UC’s Sierra Nevada Research Institute. The institute operates 1,300 sensors that measure the geochemical balance of water in the Sierra Nevada’s forests, meadows, and streams. “Our groundwater is our largest storage reservoir,” Bales noted in a May presentation at Yosemite National Park. Given that 60 percent of the water supply used in California comes\nfrom the Sierra Nevada alone, Bales encourages people to think of the iconic mountain range as “California’s water tower.”\nAnother proponent of logging for water is the environmental group the Nature Conservancy, which is helping to bankroll Bales’ work. Last year, the group caused a stir in the state’s environmental community when it published a report called “Estimating the Water Supply Benefits from Forest Restoration in the Northern Sierras.” The report mainly focused on how thinning national forests impacts the forest’s ability to store snow and use water more efficiently.\n“The broad point we are making is that the Sierra Nevada and other forested watersheds are the source of most of California’s water,” said David Edelson, co-author of the report and the Nature Conservancy’s Sierra Nevada project director, in an interview. The report concluded that, if the current rate of forest thinning in the Sierra Nevada increases three-fold, there could be up to a 6 percent increase in the average annual streamflow for some watersheds that supply the state’s reservoirs.\nBut many environmentalists reject the idea of cutting down more trees in order to increase water supplies. While some do not oppose thinning forests that are dense with young trees, many agree that the claims of increased water runoff via more logging are greatly exaggerated, and that such an approach could wreak havoc on forests and river systems alike.\n“Saying that more logging produces more water is Orwellian ‘lies are truth’ speak,” Woodhouse said.\n“It’s amazing that this idea has cropped up again,” said veteran hydrologist Jonathan Rhodes, referring to logging for water. “I’ve seen it come and go throughout my career, and it always ends up thoroughly debunked.”\nEarlier this year, Rhodes and fisheries biologist Christopher Frissell released a comprehensive study that found the Nature Conservancy’s report to be deeply flawed. Rhodes and Frissell’s study—which was commissioned by the private environmental foundation Environment Now and drew on roughly 230 scientific research citations—concluded that in order to substantially increase the state’s water supplies, California would have to do much more than thin forests. “If people really want to take the approach of creating more water runoff through logging, we will be looking at draconian levels of forest removal in this state,” Rhodes warned in an interview.\nNonetheless, the logging-for-water idea has recently gained traction in Sacramento and among some other environmental organizations. The conservation group Pacific Forest Trust is currently sponsoring legislation, Assembly Bill 2480, written by Assemblymember Richard Bloom, D-Hollywood, that could increase forest thinning in certain watersheds to release more water for the state’s reservoirs.\nThe state Assembly has approved AB 2480, and it’s scheduled for another hearing in the state Senate later this summer. It if passes, it would head to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk.\nMany of the state’s municipal water agencies oppose the bill, however, because it could require ratepayers—California consumers—to pick up the tab for forest thinning. “Our principal concern is the financing methods,” San Diego County Water Authority representative Glen Farrell noted at aJune 28 state Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee meeting.\nEnvironment Now director Doug Bevington said in an interview that it’s crucial for municipal ratepayers to scrutinize claims being made by logging-for-water proponents. “Bay Area water users are being asked to subsidize damaging logging to the Sierra Nevada and won’t see any supply benefits,” he said. “They may even have to pay more later on to address the damage to watersheds from all that logging.”\nThe theory of thinning or clearing forested areas in order to significantly increase water supplies has been around since at least the 1950s, and has always enjoyed timber industry backing, environmentalists say. Bevington, the author of the 2009 book, The Rebirth of Environmentalism, compares the logging-for-water theory to the logic used by deer hunters as they contributed to the extinction of wolves in the American West.\n“The claim that cutting more trees would get us more water is similar to the old idea of slaughtering wolves to improve deer hunting, which actually wound up messing up deer populations,” he said. “In both notions, a simplistic mindset ignores natural complexity, leading to harmful results.”\nOver the years, the logging-for-water arguments never gained widespread acceptance, in part because of the deepening recognition of logging’s monumental impacts on watersheds.\nA case in point is the primary watershed serving the East Bay. The Mokelumne River is the main water source for 1.4 million East Bay residents, including those in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, and Alameda. The river’s headwaters are in the Stanislaus National Forest in the central Sierra Nevada, and a major reservoir—the Pardee—traps the Mokelumne’s water before releasing up to 325 million gallons per day into the 95-mile-long Mokelumne Aqueduct, which conveys it to the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s distribution system. Research suggests that 60 percent of the Mokelumne’s flow comes from water stored in the Sierra soil, as opposed to snowmelt.\nAccording to Katherine Evatt, one of the state’s leading experts on the Mokelumne, historic logging has damaged the watershed through road-building and soil compaction. Logging roads are the main source of soil erosion and landslides in disturbed forests, and they also alter runoff patterns and permanently disrupt subsurface water flows. Further damage comes from the use of heavy logging machinery, the cutting of trees, and then dragging them out of the forest. Burning leftover brush and applying herbicides create even more havoc.\nIn the late-1990s, Sierra Pacific Industries purchased approximately 78,000 acres in the Mokelumne watershed. And SPI has conducted a considerable amount of clear-cutting in the area, which Evatt said has greatly increased the amount of sedimentation in EBMUD’s reservoirs—a cost that is ultimately passed onto utility ratepayers, because it reduces the reservoirs’ storage capacity.\nBut it’s not just the Mokelumne and Battle Creek watersheds that have experienced these impacts. From 1997 to 2014, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection approved more than 512,000 acres of clear-cutting in the state, or about 800 square miles: an area approximately as large as Alameda County. And SPI has completed most of these clear-cuts.\nFrom overhead images, such as those from Google Earth, the checkerboard pattern of clear-cuts in watersheds like the Mokelumne gives the land a disturbed appearance reminiscent of leprosy on human skin. Other large timber firms, such as Seattle-based Green Diamond Resources Company, which owns more than 400,000 acres of mainly redwood and Douglas fir forestland in Humboldt, Del Norte, and Trinity counties, also rely heavily on clear-cutting.\n“If you walk in a more natural forest, you’ll hear birds, insects, see evidence of small mammals, feel moisture in the soil—it looks, feels, sounds, and smells like a forest,” said Evatt. She is also president of the environmental group Foothill Conservancy, which is dedicated to protecting the Mokelumne River and its watershed. “But when you walk into a clear-cut or young plantation, it’s nearly devoid of life—dry and hot.”\nThe main architect of SPI’s success is Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson, who, according to Forbes magazine, is worth $3.6 billion. Emmerson’s son, Mark Emmerson, argued during a 2011 presentation to the UC Berkeley School of Forestry that his company’s techniques are helping restore forests over the long run and are essential in the fight against climate change. “In the next 70 years, we will triple the inventory in our forest,” he said. “Our tree size will go up from 17 to 30 inches in diameter. We will have pulled 500 million tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.”\nBut critics say SPI’s claims are based on scientific models that are calculated to put a happy face on the company’s activities, which they say are permanently degrading the forests through converting them to plantations. Healthy forests are layered, with multiple canopies, small openings where the sun shines through, and darkened hollows where it does not. Different plants and animals thrive in the different habitats.\n“SPI is very good at growing trees,” said Calaveras County resident Susan Robinson of the conservation group Ebbetts Pass Forest Watch. “But they are also very good at turning forests into something more like cornfields or almond orchards.”\nSPI is the state’s largest private landowner and controls more than 1.8 million acres of forestland. Roughly 80 percent of California’s timber production currently comes from logging on private lands, with 20 percent of logs sourced from national forests. Thirty years ago, however, it was the reverse: 80 percent of logging occurred in national forests.\nThe timber industry has relentlessly lobbied to open up more logging on public lands. According to critics, that is partly because of the pace at which many logging companies are decreasing forest stocks on property they own.\nCurrently, there is little disagreement over the fact that national and private forestlands have sustained enormous damage from logging practices and from a century of fire suppression. Numerous forests today are more crowded with trees than ever before. And many of the trees are approximately the same age, an unnatural condition resulting from clear-cutting and other harvesting methods known as “even-aged management.”\nSome proponents of forest thinning, including UC Merced’s Bales, see a synergy between removing trees to guard against fire and extracting more water from mountain runoff. “From a water-resources perspective, there is a sweet spot in between too many and too few trees,” Bales wrote to The East Bay Monthly in an email.\nThe ideal forest pattern, Bales argues, involves creating openings in the forest that are big enough to allow snow to pile deeply, while leaving a sufficient number of large trees to shade the snow and extend the melting season until late summer.\nIn June, during a presentation to the California Senate Committee on Water and Natural Resources concerning AB 2480, Laurie Wayburn, president of the Pacific Forest Trust, made a similar assertion to that of Bales. She argued that “overly dense, even, closed-canopy forests” had altered runoff patterns in the national forests, and that thinning—followed by the reintroduction of prescribed fires—would be a means of restoring “more water-rich forests.”\nAt the June 28 meeting, committee chairwoman state Sen. Fran Pavley, D-LA, said Wayburn had given a “fantastic presentation” showing that increasing water supply through improved forest management would be a cost-effective measure.\nBut the Center for Biological Diversity’s Justin Augustine contends that such claims are fodder for “a get-rich-quick scheme” that will ultimately benefit timber companies like SPI, rather than watersheds and downstream water users. And Hydrologist Rhodes and fisheries biologist Frissell, who wrote the Environment Now report, say the benefits of logging for water are vastly overstated, and that proponents are omitting its enormous downsides.\n“The idea is that if you aggressively cut timber, then you’ll have a bigger timber supply, more water, and less fires,” Rhodes said in an interview. “Well, only one of those things is true.”\nOverall, Rhodes and Frissell’s report found that “the effects of logging on water flows are often negligible, nonexistent, or negative, and even in the more optimistic scenarios, the potential effects are small, transient, and ill-timed.” The report concluded that during drought years, water supply increases from logging would be minuscule.\nIn addition, logging produces substantial environmental harms: Rhodes and Frissell identified nine types of damage that result from logging-for-water projects, such as increased water pollution from logging and erosion from logging roads.\nThese effects can also be expensive to the downstream communities using the water, Frissell and Rhodes wrote. According to their report, numerous scientific studies have also concluded over the years that sustaining increased runoff through tree removal would mean clearing large areas of forest at a high frequency—as much as 25 percent of a watershed area every 10 years. The physical principle involved is straightforward: When forests are thinned, the trees that remain tend to consume whatever water becomes available. As a result, loggers would have to fell large numbers of trees in order to substantially increase water runoff, Rhodes noted, and that runoff would invariably be heavily polluted with sediment because of the amount of logging involved.\nMany environmentalists have a mixed view of the ideas touted by the Pacific Forest Trust and the Nature Conservancy, as well as of AB 2480. The bill, for example, calls for reducing the number of rural roads through forests, a move that all involved agree would be beneficial to watersheds. But it also includes language that could pave the way for logging-for-water projects.\nEnvironmental groups’ divided positions on the bill are reminiscent of the political battles concerning the 2014 state water bond, Proposition 1, which earmarked hundreds of million of dollars for environmental restoration projects but also furnished $2.7 billion for new water storage projects, a compromise that many fear will lead to the construction of new dams in California.\nIzzy Martin, CEO of the Nevada City-based Sierra Fund, supports the ideas on which AB 2480 based. She labels it a great starting point for restoring forests through thinning, though her organization has not taken a position on the bill due to concerns that it may finance ineffective projects.\nJohn Buckley, executive director of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center, said he is withholding support from AB 2480 because it focuses only on five watersheds, rather than addressing the totality of California’s forests, and also because the bill doesn’t address logging practices or other impacts to watersheds. He supports the idea of thinning to enhance watersheds, but said he would rather the bill create incentives for selective logging practices that thin out overly crowded forests, resulting in “lower levels of bare soil, greater protection for watersheds, and significant other ecological benefits.”\nMartha Davis, who helped lead the campaign to restore Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra in the 1980s and ’90s, has promoted stronger links between forest restoration and water supply planning as an adviser to state agencies during the last decade. But while she has not taken a public stance on AB 2480, she said that some of the ideas about increased water yield through logging are far too one-dimensional. “Some of the studies I’ve seen so far are treating watersheds like a dam, such that if you just tweak the knob, there could be more water coming out of these systems,” said Davis, now the policy director for the Inland Empire Water Agency in Riverside County. “That’s not the way it works at all.”\nEvatt of the Foothill Conservancy has supported a new collaboration by the U.S. Forest Service and the Amador Water Agency to thin forests to reduce wildfire risk, protect water quality, and improve water yield. But she says legislation like AB 2480 is dangerous, because it would fund forest-thinning projects specifically for a single purpose: increasing water yield. “Watershed management and restoration approaches should be more holistic, not focused on a single output or commodity, whether that’s timber products, recreation, or more water,” she said.\nGiven what opponents describe as AB 2480’s vague language, which promises funding for projects that improve watersheds, some fear that companies like SPI may receive public financing for damaging projects that they claim are beneficial. The Feather River is one of five watersheds that would get special attention under AB 2480. Others are the Trinity, Pit, McCloud, and Sacramento river watersheds.\nIn total, these watersheds encompass some 7 million acres, about 62 percent of which is publicly owned, mainly by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. SPI also owns a considerable amount of land in the watersheds, and the company is the largest purchaser of logs from logging on public forests in those areas.\nBattle Creek is a 350-square-mile drainage fed by water from melting snow that drips down the western slope of Mount Lassen. It’s also one of the most critical watersheds of the northern Sierra. Because of the creek’s ample year-round flow of cold water, state and federal wildlife managers have deemed it the most welcoming area in California for the reintroduction of endangered Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon. Baby Chinook must have cold water to survive.\nAs a result, Battle Creek is the focus of an ongoing $128 million state and federal restoration effort that involves dynamiting hydroelectric dams and constructing fish ladders. The Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project is one of the most expensive aquatic species restoration programs ever undertaken on the West Coast. Only the removal of two dams on Washington’s Elhwa River in 2014 entailed a bigger investment.\nBut critics say the fisheries agencies’ progress in restoring the winter-run Chinook has been persistently undermined by SPI’s destructive logging practices upstream. In addition to the salvage logging, the company has clear-cut thousands of acres of Battle Creek’s forests in 20-to-40-acre swaths since the 1990s.\nThe impacts from erosion in the area have been dramatic. Jim Smith, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of numerous state and federal agency employees administering the Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project. “Since the fire, we’ve seen an extremely high level of sediment input into the watershed,” he said. “Some of our deep pools in the south fork, which were some of the best areas for the salmon, just aren’t deep anymore.”\nThe question is how much of it has to do with the 2012 Ponderosa Fire versus SPI’s logging practices. Smith, as with other state and federal employees, pins most of the blame on the fire. And SPI Research and Monitoring Manager Cajun James asserted in a report that her company’s salvage logging actually reduced soil erosion, contending that sites in Battle Creek “disturbed only by fire produced substantially more water runoff and soil erosion than did sites that received post-wildfire salvage logging.”\nHowever, most studies of fire-induced erosion show that it dramatically declines a year later, once grasses and forbs grow back. By contrast, the use of heavy equipment in post-fire logging compacts the soil, and the application of post-fire herbicides prevents vegetation from re-establishing itself. Without adequate vegetation to anchor them, hillsides erode into roads, ditches, and culverts for years afterward.\nWoodhouse has hired Jack Lewis, a retired statistical hydrologist from the U.S. Forest Service, to analyze the data that she collects on her weekly trips through the watershed. His findings strongly support her claims, pointing to significantly increased erosion in areas impacted by salvage logging and clear-cutting.\nFollowing a 2011 Sacramento Bee investigation of SPI’s logging in Battle Creek, the California Natural Resources Agency directed four state agencies, including the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, to study the impact of clear-cutting on creating sediment-filled runoff, but reported finding “only one instance of low-magnitude sediment delivery (less than 1 cubic yard) directly associated with a clearcut.”\nWoodhouse said the study’s participants failed to find any evidence of logging-induced erosion because they conducted their study at the worst possible time: early fall, before winter rains that would have begun washing sediment into the creek basin. In an email, which was obtained via the California Public Records Act, Cal Fire forester Duane Shintaku later wrote to SPI executive staff members asking permission to conduct further studies, which, he said, “would provide the evidence we need if anyone questions the validity of the Task Force’s findings.” Despite the friendly nature of this entreaty, the SPI staff turned down the request.\nThe 1973 California Forest Practice Act was designed to strengthen protections against streamside logging and compel timber companies to harvest selectively. And in a 2009 letter to the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, a nine-member governor-appointed board that is the policymaking branch of state forestry, Deputy Attorney General Anita E. Rudd opined that the 1973 law “requires the [b]oard to adopt regulations that include . . . measures for soil erosion control, water quality and watershed control, [and] flood control.”\nBut many environmentalists say this isn’t really happening in California, and the main reason is the pro-timber bias of the state Board of Forestry. The board includes three representatives of the timber industry, and over the years, a majority of the board’s members have had some association with logging. Currently, two of the seven members of the board have worked for SPI—company forester Richard Wade and Stuart Farber, now of the timber consulting firm Beatty & Associates—while two other members currently or formerly have worked for other timber companies\nUnder California law, a lumber company must submit a timber harvest plan—a sort of scaled-down version of an environmental impact report—to the state before logging a forest. The so-called “lead agency” for reviewing timber harvest plans is Cal Fire. In an interview, Russ Henly, assistant secretary of Forest Resources Management for the California Natural Resources Agency, said he thinks Cal Fire staffers are “doing a very good job” with their timber harvest plan review responsibilities. “I know they give a hard look to the cumulative impacts of logging as part of the harvesting plans,” he said.\nBut critics contend that Cal Fire is uniquely favorable to the industry it regulates and that it routinely rubber stamps logging companies’ plans. The agency’s approvals also greatly aid the industry when environmentalists attempt to challenge timber plans through litigation.\n“In court, it’s not about who gave the better argument, but rather about whether an agency—in this case, Cal Fire—simply has some basis in evidence for their conclusion,” said Augustine of the Center for Biological Diversity. Augustine has been involved in several lawsuits against SPI timber harvest plans. “That’s a very low bar, unfortunately, that allows agencies to do bad things and still get away with it.”\nIf organizations like the Nature Conservancy are keen on protecting the state’s water supply, some say, they should be advocating for reforms of the Board of Forestry and Cal Fire. Instead, the Conservancy has teamed up with the state’s main timber-lobbying firm—the California Forestry Association, or CalForests—to promote logging-for-water proposals.\nShortly after the release of the Conservancy’s 2015 report, CalForests Chairman David Bischel and the Nature Conservancy’s Edelson co-authored an op-ed in the Mercury News, calling for an increase in “the pace and scale of fuels reduction in [national] forests as an important part of the state’s water strategy.”\nThe fact that SPI also claims that clear-cutting helps restore forests—and, thus, improves the health of watersheds—worries opponents of logging for water, like Environment Now’s Bevington: “SPI’s promotion of clear-cutting is a particularly audacious example of a disturbing trend in which harmful logging projects get repackaged to seem like they are somehow beneficial to forests, when, in fact, they are not.”\nHe says that the Nature Conservancy’s collaboration with CalForests is roughly akin to collaborating with SPI itself. SPI CEO Mark Emmerson is the board chairman of CalForests. And according to CalForests’ financial statements, SPI gave $71,500 to the organization from 2011 to 2015, more than any other company.\nGiven that avenues for increased forest protection are largely blocked at the state level, environmental activists have sought other options to build momentum for change, including an effort to create a groundswell for reform in cities and counties. In 2015, the city of Berkeley became one of seven California cities to call on the state Legislature to enact a ban on clear-cutting, joining San Francisco, Daly City, Davis, Menlo Park, Monte Sereno, and Brisbane. The resolution cited Berkeley’s desire to protect its water supply from sedimentation and pollution caused by SPI.\n“We’ve talked to lots of legislators,” said Sierra Club volunteer Karen Maki, who is an organizer of the campaign for a statewide clear-cutting ban and a resident of Los Gatos. “They’re sympathetic, but they aren’t doing much yet. We figured if we got a lot of cities to pass the resolutions, it would start to have some influence.”\nMaki acknowledges that a ban on clear-cutting is not a cure-all. But it is an important step, she said, in terms of protecting California’s water supply and quality alike, and one that most environmentalists should be able to rally around. In 1990, a ballot initiative called Forests Forever that would have banned clear-cutting throughout the state lost by only three percentage points.\nMenlo Park City Councilmember Catherine Carlton presented her city’s resolution calling for a clear-cutting ban to the League of California Cities annual convention in 2014, and she said she received a strongly favorable response from other city councilmembers and mayors. “It’s an idea that makes sense, so I’m sure it will keep coming up,” she said.\nThe municipal resolutions call attention to another aspect of forest degradation: climate change. The Berkeley version asserts that the timber industry accounts for roughly 10 percent of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.\nAccording to scientific predictions, global warming is causing more variability in California’s climate, with more intense storms, longer dry periods, and less snowpack, with more precipitation falling as rain instead of snow.\nHydrologist Rhodes says the renewal of logging-for-water claims is particularly frustrating given that there are lower-cost ways of restoring these watersheds on public lands that don’t involve logging. Three of these methods include the reduction or cessation of livestock grazing near streams and meadows in headwaters, reductions in the extensive network of logging roads in national forests, and the restoration of beaver populations, which helps to slow water on its course downstream so that it trickles into the ground.\nBut Bevington said it’s not surprising that the logging-for-water claim has gained renewed attention in California during the recent intense drought.\n“In desperate times, people are more susceptible to believing promises of easy water, rather than looking closely at the problems with those claims,” he continued. “But if EBMUD or other utilities end up subsidizing logging in the Sierra Nevada and other mountain ranges, Bay Area residents are likely to see no significant benefits in terms of water flows.”\nWill Parrish is an independent journalist who specializes in investigative and environmental reporting and lives in Ukiah. His work also appears in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, East Bay Express, North Bay Bohemian, and Counterpunch.\nAuthor adminPosted on August 22, 2016 November 10, 2016 Categories Environmental Impacts, Logging Impacting watershed, Main Article Archive, Preservation Issue\nPrevious Previous post: Last Stands","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1661535"}
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He was raised in Australia, but has spent most of his career between London, Asia and New York City.\nHis advertising and branding work has garnered numerous international awards, including thirteen Gold Lions at the Cannes Festival, as well as numerous Clio’s and One Show awards. He has created campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands, including Uniqlo, Levi’s, MTV, Jetblue and Heineken. His attention-grabbing ideas have lead to a “most watched” viral video as well as an award-winning branded content series for MTV.\nHoward has one of the most diverse creative and entrepreneurial portfolios in his field, founding the fashion and culture blog, The Unique Creatures, which garnered praise from the likes of Vogue, Net-a-Porter and Blackbook Media. He is also the author of Beautiful Economics: How Art, Design, Beauty & Unicorns Will Save the Universe. The book can be found in leading gallery bookstores such as The Gagosian NY, and LACMA (LA Contemporary Art Museum).\nThrough Howard’s multi-disciplinary cross-pollination approach, he has developed a reputation as an astute creative director across a spectrum of industries, from travel and fashion, hotels and hospitality, wellness and health.\nWith a passion for “beautiful economics” and environmental sustainability, Howard was invited in 2013 to become an associate of Studio Zung, a multidisciplinary architecture, design and branding firm associated with the visionary R. Buckminster Fuller.\nYou can view Howard's website here.\nThomas T.K. Zung | B.Arch, M.S. Design Science, AIA | Associate\nThomas T.K. Zung, president of Buckminster Fuller, Sadao and Zung Architects was a student of Buckminster Fuller. Prior to joining Fuller, he served as principal designer and project architect to the internationally renowned architect, Edward Durell Stone for many years. While associated with Edward Durell Stone, Zung worked on such notable designs as the New Orleans International Trade Mart; the Master Plan for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; the General Motors Headquarters building in New York; and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.\nZung established Thomas T.K. Zung Architects, Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio and the following year, 1968, designed the first elongated geodesic dome in association with Buckminster Fuller Synergetics organization. Thomas T.K. Zung Architects and R. Buckminster Fuller merged to form Buckminster Fuller, Sadao and Zung Architects designing numerous Geodesic domes, tensegrity structures, vector equilibriums, museum exhibitions, publications, and Fuller’s last invention, ‘Hang It All’. A founding member of Buckminster Fuller Institute and SNEC, he is a Distinguished Senior Fellow to the Stanford University Libraries, and author/editor of Fuller’s Anthology for a New Millennium published under St. Martin’s Press.\nBuckminster Fuller, Sadao and Zung Architects is a member of The American Institute of Architects.\nKupal Fontaine | B.Arch | Senior Architectural Designer\nKupal Fontaine received his Bachelor of Architecture from the New York Institute of Technology in 2010. Kupal started architectural drawing at the age of 15 and has since advanced through the field. Kupal’s assets lay in design build projects and is responsible for all aspects of schematic design, design development, and working drawings. Kupal’s exacting command of drawing enables him to simultaneously design bridging plan and section without compromising the architectural form.\nMr. Fontaine is currently pursuing his ARE to become a licensed architect.\nPhillip Yang | B.Arch | Junior Architectural Designer\nPhillip received his Bachelor in Architecture from the University of Southern California School of Architecture in 2017. Prior to Studio Zung, Phillip spent a semester abroad in Japan and various part of China including Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. As a Los Angeles native, Phillip originally fell in love with painting and drafting in high school leading him to eventually pursue a path in architecture.\nHis past work includes large-scale installation projects to residential renovations with the Los Angeles firm Paragon Architects.\nHugues De Blignierères | M. Interior Architect\nArchitect of Interior & Designer (graduated from ESAG Penninghen - Excellent Mention)\nHugues went through internationally renowned agencies such as Gilles & Boissier, India Mahdavi and Joseph Dirand. With these experiences he defines the interior architecture as elegant and timeless. He motivates his creations by the perpetual search of the beautiful in order to sublimate at every moment the facts and gestures of everyday life. Fascinated by the hand of Man, his projects are part of a desire to preserve an authentic know-how.\nTalley Carlston | BA | Graphic Designer\nTalley received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Portland, where he studied Advertising and Graphic Design. With a strong interest for graphics and fashion, he spent a semester abroad in Paris where he studied luxury brand management developing a strong understanding of high tier branding and design. Since graduating he has worked at Baron & Baron, Laird+Partners, Love&War as well as other notable advertising agencies building his expertise as a multi disciplinary designer in branding, graphic layout, and visual design.\nMr. Carlston’s works as a graphic designer for Studio Zung through visual graphic collateral and visual brand material.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1185544"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8874661326408386,"wiki_prob":0.8874661326408386,"text":"HomeContentSpecial issues100 (Suppl.I) March 2005\nMEM INST OSWALDO CRUZ, RIO DE JANEIRO, 100 (Suppl.I) March 2005\nPAGES: 67-71 DOI: Full paper\nNitric oxide and the resolution of inflammation: implications for atherosclerosis\nCatherine A Shaw, Emma L Taylor*, Ian L Megson, Adriano G Rossi* +\nCentre for Cardiovascular Science, Hugh Robson Building, George Square\n*MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK\nThe ubiquitous free radical, nitric oxide (NO), plays an important role in many biological processes including the regulation of the inflammatory response. Alterations in NO synthesis by endogenous systems likely influence inflammatory processes occurring in a wide range of diseases including many in the cardiovascular system (e.g. atherosclerosis). Progression of inflammatory conditions depends not only upon the recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells but also upon their subsequent removal from the inflammatory milieu. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a fundamental process regulating inflammatory cell survival and is critically involved in ensuring the successful resolution of an inflammatory response. Apoptosis results in shutdown of secretory pathways and renders effete, but potentially highly histotoxic, cells instantly recognisable for non-inflammatory clearance by phagocytes (e.g., macrophages). However, dysregulation of apoptosis and phagocytic clearance mechanisms can have drastic consequences for development and resolution of inflammatory processes. In this review we highlight the complexities of NO-mediated regulation of inflammatory cell apoptosis and clearance by phagocytes and discuss the molecular mechanisms controlling these NO mediated effects. We believe that manipulation of pathways involving NO may have previously unrecognised therapeutic potential for limiting or resolving inflammatory and cardiovascular disease.\nThe inorganic free radical, nitric oxide (NO), was first identified as an endothelium-derived endogenous messenger responsible for the regulation of vascular tone (Furchgott & Zawadzki 1980, Palmer et al. 1987). However, since then it has become clear that NO is the signalling molecule responsible for several diverse physiological and pathophysiological processes. Synthesised from L-arginine by three isoforms of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS), NO is now known to control vascular smooth muscle tone, inhibit platelet and inflammatory cell adhesion and activation, and to be a transmitter at non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) synapses (Moncada et al. 1991, Quinn et al. 1995). Recent studies have revealed that NO can also modulate apoptosis, or programmed cell death, in a variety of cell types, including human inflammatory cells (Taylor et al. 2003). Apoptosis of inflammatory cells is a highly regulated process whereby cellular death occurs without the disruption of the cell membrane and subsequent release of the pro-inflammatory and histotoxic contents of the dying cell (Haslett 1997, Rossi et al. 2003). Apoptotic cells are instantly recognised and ingested by phagocytes, such as macrophages, using mechanisms that down-regulate pro-inflammatory mediator release and increase the release of agents with anti-inflammatory potential from the ingesting cell (Meagher et al. 1992, Fadok et al. 1998, Liu et al. 1999). Hence, apoptosis represents a non-inflammatory mechanism to remove potentially damaging pro-inflammatory cells from the site of inflammation and is therefore critical to the successful resolution of the inflammatory response. Pharmacological manipulation of the rate of apoptosis in inflammatory cells, such as granulocytes and macrophages, may represent a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of chronic inflammatory disorders (Ward et al. 1999, Gilroy et al. 2004).\nNO can be both pro- and anti-apoptotic, depending on local concentrations and the specific cell type in question (Quinn et al. 1995, Kim et al. 1999, Taylor et al. 2003). Current evidence suggests that lower concentrations of NO produced by the constitutive endothelial and neuronal isoforms of NOS (eNOS and nNOS) are cytoprotec-tive, whilst supraphysiological concentrations produced by the inducible NOS isoform (iNOS) trigger cell death (Nicotera et al. 1997). This paradox may be explained, at least in part, by the free radical nature of NO and hence the ease with which it will react with other radicals, particularly reactive oxygen species, present in the milieu to form various NO-related species in vivo. For example, NO combines rapidly with inflammatory cell derived superoxide anions (O2-) to form highly cytotoxic peroxynitrite (ONOO-) (Maxwell & Lip 1997).\nNO AS A MEDIATOR OF INFLAMMATORY CELL APOPTOSIS\nThe pro- and anti-apoptotic actions of NO have been well documented in many cell systems. For example, high concentrations of either exogenous or endogenous iNOS-derived NO have been shown to induce apoptosis in murine macrophage cell lines (Albina et al. 1993, Sarih et al. 1993). However, pre-treatment with low concentrations of exogenous NO protects RAW 264 cells against cell death upon subsequent exposure to higher concentrations of NO which would normally be cytotoxic (Yoshioka et al. 2003). However, despite the apparent reduced capacity of human macrophages in comparison to murine macrophages (Albina 1995, Schneemann & Schoedon 2002), to generate iNOS derived NO (Thomassen & Kavuru 2001), human macrophages do undergo apoptosis in response to exogenous NO. For example, the NO donors, S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO), and spermine diazenium diolate (SPER/NO) induce apoptosis in primary human monocyte-derived macrophages (von Knethen et al. 1999). Exogenously delivered NO from NO donors (e.g., sodium nitroprusside; SNP and GSNO) induce apoptosis in human neutrophils (Fortenberry et al. 1999, Singhal et al. 1999). However, it has also been established that NO may have anti-apoptotic potential in neutrophils; low concentrations of NO generated from the spontaneous NO donors, SPER/NO and DEA/NO, reduce the rate of neutrophil apoptosis (Taylor et al. 2001). In contrast, the same study showed that the oxatriazole derivative, GEA-3162, at equivalent concentrations produced no such inhibition. However, it was demonstrated that GEA-3162 decomposes to co-generate both NO and O2-, which then react to form ONOO- (Taylor et al. 2004). This suggests that the pro- or anti-apoptotic effects of NO may be critically governed by the specific NO-related species generated.\nInterestingly, the production of ONOO- may be of particular importance at sites of inflammation where the concentration of reactive oxygen species is likely to be elevated (Crow & Beckman 1995). However, the precise role of ONOO- in inflammatory cell apoptosis remains to be fully elucidated. There is some evidence to suggest that ONOO- at high concentrations increases apoptosis in murine RAW 264.7 cells (Sandoval et al. 1997), whilst at lower concentrations it may have a protective effect against lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and interferon (IFN)-g-induced apoptosis in these cells (Scivittaro et al. 1997). A scavenger of ONOO-, uric acid, had no effect on apoptosis induced by the NO donors GSNO or SPER/NO in RAW 264.7 macrophages, but abolished apoptosis induced by the ONOO- generator SIN-1, suggesting that ONOO- is a mediator of apoptosis, at least not in this cell type (Brockhaus & Brune 1999).\nAs is the case with macrophages, there are conflicting reports about the ability of ONOO- to induce or suppress apoptosis in neutrophils. Several investigators have demonstrated that SIN-1 and GEA-3162 increases the rate of apoptosis in human neutrophils (Blaylock et al. 1998, Ward et al. 2000, Taylor et al. 2004). Conversely, Blaylock et al. (1998) reported SIN-1 produced no significant increase in neutrophil apoptosis. However, this may be due to experimental differences and the exact amounts of ONOO- present rather than a true difference in the effect of ONOO- (Taylor et al. 2003).\nNO AND APOPTOSIS IN THE RESOLUTION OF INFLAMMATION\nThe ability of NO to induce apoptosis is particularly relevant during the resolution phase of inflammation. In a mouse model of kidney inflammation, activated macrophages have been shown to induce apoptosis in neigh-bouring mesangial cells prior to their ingestion by phagocytes (Duffield et al. 2000). The ability of these activated macrophages to induce apoptosis is greatly reduced in the presence of the NOS inhibitor N-É-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA), suggesting that macrophage-directed apoptosis of mesangial cell apoptosis occurs via a NO-dependent mechanism (Duffield et al. 2001). Similarly, several studies have demonstrated that activated macrophages infiltrating murine tumours induce apoptosis via a NO-dependent pathway in both activated anti-tumour T cells and in the tumour cells themselves (Saio et al. 2001, Chattopadhyay et al. 2002). Thus, it appears that macrophages have the capacity to induce apoptosis of nearby cells by the liberation of NO to enhance the clearance of apoptotic cells and thereby promote the resolution phase of inflammation (Figure).\nMECHANISM OF ACTION OF NO\nThe classical pathway by which NO exerts many of its actions is via activation of the enzyme soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) (Moncada et al. 1991) and resultant conversion of guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP) to the second messenger 3', 5'-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) (Ignarro et al. 1999). However, recent studies have established that NO can also act via cGMP-independent pathways in various systems, particularly during the inhibition of platelet aggregation and regulation of inflammatory cell apoptosis (Gordge et al. 1998, Sogo et al. 2000, Ward et al. 2000, Crane et al. 2002).\nIt is generally thought that lower concentrations of NO inhibit apoptosis via cGMP-dependent mechanisms, whilst higher concentrations are cytotoxic on account of cGMP-independent signalling. For example, Yoshoka et al. (2003) demonstrated that pre-treatment of RAW 264 cells with a low concentration of the NO donor SNP, inhibited cell death upon subsequent exposure to higher concentrations of NO. This protection was negated in the presence of sGC inhibitors and could be mimicked by cGMP analogues, suggesting that the cellular protection was conferred by cGMP.\nConversely, at higher concentrations, NO has been shown to induce apoptosis in rabbit macrophages _ an effect which was unaffected by antagonism of cGMP-dependent kinases and not mimicked by cGMP analogues, suggesting that the pro-apoptotic action of NO is cGMP-independent (Wang et al. 1999). The peroxynitrite generators, SIN-1 and GEA-3162, have also been shown to produce a marked concentration-dependent induction of apoptosis in isolated human neutrophils (Ward et al. 2000). Again, this induction was unaffected by inhibitors of sGC, and cGMP analogues failed to elicit a pro-apoptotic response suggesting that a mechanism independent of cGMP signalling also featured in neutrophils. Interestingly, superoxide dismutase (SOD), the enzyme responsible for converting O2- to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), antagonised the actions of SIN-1 and GEA-3162, whilst \"authentic\" peroxynitrite mimicked their effects. This result may, therefore, highlight the critical importance of NO-related species in determining an anti- or pro-apoptotic response, with the final outcome depending on the balance between reactive oxygen and nitrogen species.\nAtherosclerosis is a multi-factorial condition with a complicated aetiology, and, in combination with the associated cardiovascular syndromes, such as myocardial infarction and stroke, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, it is now widely recognised that there is an inflammatory component to the disease pathogenesis and progression (Ross 1999a, b, Ludewig et al. 2002).\nAtherosclerosis is characterised by the development of lipid-rich atherosclerotic plaques in the subendothelial space of conduit vessels, such as the coronary artery and aorta (Badimon et al. 1993). These plaques are usually eccentric, with the lipid rich core encapsulated by a fibrous, collagen-rich cap of smooth muscle cells and extracellular matrix (Davies 1997). The underlying causes of atherogenesis remain largely unknown, although a critical early stage is thought to be an insult to the endothelium, either physical or through oxidative stress. The consequences of this insult are multiple; firstly, in contrast to the situation in healthy endothelium, the injured endothelium becomes dysfunctional and production of NO by eNOS decreases, promoting vasoconstriction and platelet and inflammatory cell adhesion. Secondly, a protective inflammatory response is triggered. However, depending on the nature and duration of the insult, this protective response becomes excessive and over a period of years, comes to constitute the disease process itself (Ross 1999a, b). The inflammatory process begins with the expression of chemotactic and adhesion molecules for monocytes and lymphocytes, such as vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (VCAM-1), on dysfunctional endothelial cells. Circulating monocytes adhere to the site of endothelial damage and translocate to the sub-endothelial space (Vogel 1997). Colony stimulating factors secreted from areas of endothelial damage induce monocytes to differentiate into macrophages, which then express scavenger receptors on their membranes, facilitating the in-ternalisation of oxidised low density lipoprotein (ox-LDL). The accumulation of ox-LDL continues unchecked as, unlike LDL receptors, scavenger receptors are not down-regulated by cells in the cholesterol-replete state (Maxwell & Lip 1997). In this lipid-laden state, macrophages are known as foam cells and it is an aggregation of these foam cells in the vessel intima which form the earliest recognisable lesion of atherosclerosis _ the fatty streak (Ross 1993). The plaque continues to grow via the accumulation of further macrophage foam cells and eventually becomes overlaid with a layer of smooth muscle cells forming a fibrous, collagen-rich cap. The cap serves to keep the highly thrombogenic contents of the plaque separate from the circulation. However, if the plaque cap is compromised and the contents exposed to the circulation, platelets are rapidly recruited and activated resulting in thrombus formation, leading to the more serious acute cardiovascular syndromes (Badimon et al. 1993).\nINFLAMMATORY CELL APOPTOSIS IN ATHEROSCLEROSIS\nRecruitment of inflammatory cells, particularly monocytes and macrophages, is the major driving force behind plaque growth and development. However, the plaque is dynamic and inflammatory cells are constantly turning over within the core. It is well established that apoptotic cells, particularly macrophages, are present in atherosclerotic plaques in both human and animal models of the disease. Apoptotic macrophages and smooth muscle cells have been identified by TUNEL staining in sections from human plaques by various authors (Bjorkerud & Bjorkerud 1996, Haunstetter & Izumo 1998). Because apoptotic cells are ingested by phagocytes without initiating any further proinflammatory response, it has been suggested that apoptosis may represent a mechanism to regress the plaque. NO is a particularly promising candidate for this strategy because, as well as the pro-apoptotic actions discussed above, it has several other powerful anti-atherogenic characteristics including a powerful inhibitory effect on platelet and inflammatory cell activation (Moncada et al. 1991, Armstrong 2001). Evidence is emerging in support of this hypothesis. For example, administration of L-arginine (the substrate for NOS) to hypercholesterolemic rabbits increases the number of apoptotic macrophages in intimal lesions by three fold. This increase in apoptosis was associated with a regression of the plaque, suggesting that manipulation of the NO synthase pathway may well represent a therapeutic approach to resolving the inflammatory response in the vessel wall (Wang et al. 1999). However, care must by exercised when considering this approach because NO is also known to induce apoptosis in smooth muscle cells (Labelle et al. 2004). Loss of cells from the fibrous cap during the latter stages of atherosclerosis may well be detrimental, destabilising the plaque and promoting rupture (Kockx & Knaapen 2000).\nApoptosis of inflammatory cells is a tightly regulated process whereby cells are removed from the site of inflammation without triggering a subsequent pro-inflammatory response that would instigate further tissue injury. Pharmacological manipulation of apoptosis during chronic inflammatory conditions, such as atherosclerosis, may aid the resolution of inflammation and hence halt, or delay, disease progression. The ubiquitous signalling molecule and inducer of apoptosis, NO, is a likely candidate for such manipulation and may represent a novel therapeutic target for the treatment of such conditions.\nAlbina JE 1995. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5134243369102478,"wiki_prob":0.5134243369102478,"text":"What can we learn about best practice from EU colleagues?\nSimon Cadbury examines the key areas of European banking excellence, and whether innovation in digital banking alone is the key to success.\nThe UK has a vibrant and innovative digital banking sector, but it’s in the pack rather than leading. Across Europe, incumbents and upstarts alike continue to raise the bar when it comes to innovation. The vibrancy of the continent’s digital banking is evidenced by the Forrester 2015 Global Mobile Banking Functionality Benchmark, with five of the top 10 places taken by European players. The top spot was taken by Spain’s CaixaBank, and it was joined in the top 10 by two banks from Poland and one from Turkey. One British bank made the top 10.\nWhat this indicates is that no one country is leading outright. The various demographic, regulatory and market conditions across Europe create a very different environment, for companies and their customers, in each country.\nThe UK, which many argue is the heart of the European financial services industry, leads when it comes to online banking adoption. Germany also has high levels of online banking adoption, but it’s combined with relatively low branch and mobile usage. Meanwhile, in Spain – home to two of Europe’s most innovative banks, BBVA and CaixaBank – the population remains firmly wedded to its branches.\nIn this article, we’ll explore what’s happening across Europe, why it’s happening, and what UK financial institutions can learn from it.\nThe areas of excellence and innovation seen in banks across and beyond Europe are broad, covering everything from customer experience to social media. Here, we highlight some of the most interesting and important developments.\nDelivering the best possible digital customer journey is central to the success of digital banking, and across the continent banks are constantly refining their products, apps and websites. The bolder banks are starting to move beyond traditional ways of working and starting to tackle the more fundamental obstacles to full digitization. In Spain, BBVA is taking on one of the last vestiges of paper-based banking with remote signatures; legal signatures that can be applied to digital bank documents from anywhere, via the bank’s mobile app or website.\nPoland’s mBank has made traditionally complicated products simple enough to fit into a mobile-first strategy: its one-click 30-second loan provides customers with near immediate access to funds via their smartphone, for example. And, after years of being the next big thing, biometrics is finally a viable option for authentication. In the UK, Barclays’ customers can authenticate themselves with finger vein recognition, NatWest and RBS customers via the iPhone’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor, and HSBC is rolling out voice authentication for all its 15 million retail customers. Digital-only Atom Bank plans to let customers choose how to log in via one of three identity credentials (face, voice and passcode).\nDigital banking is changing physical branches across Europe, too. In France, BNP Paribas is stratifying its network into three layouts: Express, Advice and Projects. Each is aimed at maximizing customer satisfaction in a different range of scenarios, from self-service in the Express branch to expert consultation in the Project.\nIn a similar vein, PKO – owner of a network of 2,000 branches across Poland – is pursuing an omni-channel strategy that will see the three-story branches built in the 1960s and 70s replaced by two to three smaller branches. In part, PKO is responding to relentless innovation by local competitor mBank, which is pursuing a ‘light branch’ concept. The unapologetically digital light branches feature large movement and touch-responsive screens, and are sited in high consumer traffic areas such as malls, and are modeled on boutiques rather than banks.\nSpain’s CaixaBank is so mobile-focused that it now has over 70 apps (available from its own app store, CaixaMóvil Store.) The bank also has a digital wallet integrated into its mobile banking app, which lets customers make contactless payments with their phones.\nIn Poland, mBank is thinking big and pivoting to a modern mobile-first strategy, making its mobile app the preferred gateway to all banking channels.\nWhen it comes to social media, German bank Fidor is leading the way. It has built a community of about 250,000 users called the Fidor Smart Community. The bank invites prospects to ‘bank with friends’ and gives members financial rewards for giving and receiving knowledgeable financial advice, as well as evaluating and reviewing the financial products and services they’re interested in. Its current account offers tiered interest rates on credit balances based on the number of ‘likes’ Fidor receives on Facebook.\nWith over 50 million cards issued, and Apple Pay already rolled out, the UK is leading the way in deploying contactless payments, but it’s the Czechs and Poles using it the most. Mastercard reports that, in 2015, 77% of in-store transactions in the Czech Republic, and 55% in Poland, were contactless (though neither are subject to the £30 cap applicable in the UK).\nThe UK is also leading in Europe on peer-to-peer payments (such as Paym and Barclays’s Pingit), in part thanks to its pioneering investment in Faster Payments, but adoption is nowhere near that of services seen in the developing world, such as mPesa.\nP2P payments are also a feature of Blik, a Polish mobile payment system developed by PKO, but then shared with its five largest competitors: Alior Bank, Bank Millennium, Bank Azchodni WBK, mBank and ING Bank. Blik makes it available to 80% of the market, avoiding fragmentation and establishing a de-facto standard.\nExcellence outside Europe\nOutside of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US stand out as hotbeds of digital banking innovation. In the US, where checks remain stubbornly popular, USAA bank was the first to deliver remote check deposits via smartphones – a move since copied by US giants such as Bank of America, Citibank, Chase and Wells Fargo.\nAustralasia is pioneering lifestyle apps such as CommBank’s Property App, smartphone software that can help you find a home, work out if you can afford it, and help you apply for a loan.\nAnd in New Zealand, WestPac has released an augmented reality app that superimposes 3D balances, transaction history, spend locations and other information onto your cards when you point your smartphone’s camera at it. The concept was the winner in the bank’s recent crowdsourced Global App Challenge competition.\nBroader lessons\nWhat drives innovation?\nVariations in demographics, competition, government regulation, access to talent and even luck can create different environments in which different levels and types of innovation are successful. Disruptive innovation can trigger a virtuous loop; if one bank innovates, then competitors respond in kind. This can lead to different countries specializing in particular types of innovation.\nIn other markets, environmental factors play a bigger part. Recent challenger banks have struggled to grow beyond 100,000 customers and match the success of mBank. Jacek Iljin, mBank’s managing director of retail banking, attributes the bank’s success in part to the favorable conditions in the Polish market when it started in 2000; interest rates and margins were high and there were “a significant number of unbanked and under-banked individuals”. The technology of the time was advanced enough to provide digital banking, but (according to Iljin) simple enough that “you could buy a banking system and have it up and running in 100 days”.\nSimilar conditions exist today in Turkey, and banks such as ABank are looking to demographics to give them escape velocity. Half the population is under 25, the average age is 21 and, according to ABank’s Ahmet Ertan Algan, they’re tech savvy and demanding innovation.\nAcross Europe, banks in mature markets are changing their culture to enhance their ability to innovate and take advantage of new opportunities, with Spain in particular playing host to a variety of different strategies:\nBBVA has acquired Simple, taken a stake in Atom and is transforming itself into a ‘software company’. BBVA is on a journey that will increase the number of employees working on digital banking from 3% to 50% within five years.\nElsewhere, CaixaBank has built an internal crowdsourcing platform, where employees can enact what the bank insists is their ‘desire’ and ‘responsibility’ to innovate.\nSantander has created a dedicated corporate venture fund so that it can invest in a portfolio of startups.\nFintech insurgency\nWhen it comes to fintech, it seems European eyes are trained on London and the disruptive potential of its startups. Technologies such as blockchain, and new regulations such as PSD2, are years from playing a significant role in retail banking, but when they do they just might turn it upside down.\nJakub Grzechnik, head of mobile and internet banking at PKO, is deeply concerned that if they don’t move fast enough, “We’ll be left with costs while the profitable areas are taken up by fintech providers”. His bank is betting on creating a customer experience that’s good enough to stop customers looking elsewhere.\nOthers are looking to embrace the potential for disruption. Turkey’s ABank is “planning to open our systems to third parties”, while the UK’s Starling is planning to partner with fintech companies and integrate the best of its services into its own offerings, alongside its current accounts.\nOther early examples of bank/fintech partnerships include:\nPeer-to-peer: Santander has partnered with Funding Circle.\nSME lending: BBVA has partnered with On Deck, and ING with Kabbage.\nForeign exchange: Virgin Money has partnered with World First, while Currencycloud’s clients include Mediterranean Bank and Fidor Bank.\nIs innovation enough?\nThe pace of change in digital banking technology is relentless, and it’s easy to find competitors or peers who are piloting, prototyping or rolling out something you are not, but an advantage in innovation doesn’t always translate to a commercial advantage.\nPoland’s mBank is a successful digital bank and a multi-award-winning innovator, but the much older (and more traditional) PKO remains Poland’s favorite bank. PKO isn’t as agile or innovative as its smaller rival, but it is it seems innovating enough even for a youthful and expanding market.\nPKO is an unashamed copier of good ideas, a strategy known as ‘fast follower’ that, according to Gregory Carpenter from the Kellogg School of Management, can suit companies that are agile enough to do it and have deeper pockets than their upstart rivals:\n“A lot of times, pioneers aren’t very well funded … They create a competitive game … competitors enter quickly and, with more resources, are able to win the game that the pioneer has created.”\nForrester says you should measure the success of every innovation from the outset using metrics such as sales through digital channels, development of new digitally enhanced products and services, customer acquisition through digital channels, cost reduction, digital customer experience, and perception of the company as an innovator.\nThere are organizations pushing the envelope all over Europe, but no one European market leads. Banks are watching each other (and increasingly watching technology companies outside of banking) for ideas and innovations. In today’s fast-moving environments, the benefit of being a first mover is often short-lived.\nThe different environments in each market trigger different types of innovation, so while there’s plenty of inspiration to be had, banks must be mindful of the conditions that made them possible – innovations do not always travel.\nMore significant than any one innovation, product or feature is the way banks themselves are embracing digital. The only way for traditional banks to stay on top is to embed digital from the ground up. They need an organizational structure, culture, technological architecture and appropriate KPIs that embrace digital. Only then can they call themselves a truly digital business, and more importantly be well positioned in a battle that’s set to get bloodier.\nieDigital can help your organization deploy a digital self-service platform that gives you the foundations to foster a relationship with your customer and, in time, extend and flex your value proposition. We can also work with you to better understand your customers’ needs and to prototype, test, and try out new concepts and ideas with them.\nFor more information, please click here to request a chat or demo.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1043985"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5028432607650757,"wiki_prob":0.5028432607650757,"text":"AdvertisingBranding\nTier10 | On 20, Jun 2019\nTier10 won two awards in the 40th Annual Telly Awards competition for outstanding video creative under the Automotive category of Branded Content and Regional TV. Both entries demonstrate the full-service agency’s focus on creativity and excellence in video production.\n“Acura + Precision Crafted Performance” received the Silver Award in the “Branded Content: Automotive” category. The long-form video follows Acura’s victorious return to the racetrack after an extended period of absence. Several prominent individuals connected to Acura Racing are featured in the video including, but not limited to, Acura Vice President & General Manager Jon Ikeda, and legendary racecar drivers Juan Pablo Montoya and Helio Castroneves.\nProduced for the Greater Twin Cities Honda Dealers, “Driving What’s Next | Minnesota Youth Football” received the Bronze Award under the “Regional TV: Automotive” category. The commercial depicts the determination of young athletes as they train to be the best they can be, and how they are always aiming to beat their greatest opponent, themselves.\nThe Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies and including Vice, Vimeo, Hearst Digital Media, BuzzFeed, and A&E Networks. Last year, The Telly Awards attracted more than 12,000 entries from top video content producers including Condé Nast, Netflix, Refinery29, RadicalMedia, T Brand Studio, and Ogilvy & Mather.\nThis recognition places Tier10’s creative at the same level as some of the best in the industry. In addition to the Telly Awards, the full-service advertising agency was named in this year’s Muse Creative Awards, Hermes Creative Awards, and the American Advertising Awards – DC. Tier10’s award-winning videos and more can be viewed at the agency’s Vimeo page.\nCreative Awards Telly Awards\nTier10 Wins Three Davey Awards November 16, 2018 | Nikki Manning","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line674607"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6124842762947083,"wiki_prob":0.6124842762947083,"text":"November 4, 2014 by PrairieChat\nThe Lambs of the Prairie\nAs a child my mother spoke gently of her family’s story and those that went before. She spoke of a special recollection of young children buried way too young on the plains of North Dakota. Her haunting stories spoke of the children buried beneath the plain white markers embossed with fading lambs representing their youth. The Prairie Rest Cemetery is solitary remembrance dedicated to the youngest lambs who died while establishing our state many years ago.\nBeneath the broad Dakota blue\nOn a hilltop kissed with morning dew\nWere the silent lambs on prairie old\nLying peacefully, a family’s tears consoled.\nSoundless sentinels endlessly resting\nReverent callers gazes arresting.\nTheir fading faces don’t betray\nMachine etched stones, long in decay.\nAn eternal place of gathering,\nSweet memories in stone are offering\nOld stories lost and gone\nWaiting together for their eternal dawn.\nPosted in Family Memories, Poetry\t| Tagged Barnes County, Family Stories, Farming, Genealogy, Graveyards, Homesteading, Immigrant, North Dakota, Poetry, Prairie, Tombstone, Valley City | Leave a comment\nThe Sharing Economy – Sharpen Your Fork\nLyft, Airbnb, and Uber have created quite a stir. Some have claimed it’s “The End of Capitalism” or “The Millennial’s American Dream” another says. Social medial can’t seem to get enough of the “new” ways to provide goods and services.\nTo the proponents of these dreams, I say “Beware, sharing is not all it’s cracked up to be!”\nFirst of all, I must acknowledge that I have a predisposition to suspect the motives of anyone who wants to share. From a very early age I learned to be leery of anyone who asks for you “a little bite” of your hotdog or a “sip” of your chocolate milk. Experience taught me that not only would the little bite from the hot dog not be small, but there was a good chance they would also take the remaining wiener, leaving you with only a smear of ketchup and mustard on an empty, soggy bun. And as for sipping your chocolate milk, if it wasn’t slurped in one big gulp, chances are very good there would be left over hot dog bun floating on the top.\nIf the “no sharing” lesson didn’t take hold in grade school, college should have finished off the sharing spirit. It only took you one time to learn that if you hold a keg party in your house and put a cup out for people to “chip in” not only will you not get any money, but someone will steal the cup. At the same time the keg is being emptied other “guests” will share everything in your cupboards or refrigerator (cooked or raw).\nOf course, everything changed when I graduated from college and entered into the world of grown-ups and business. Times were tough and because I was living on a tight starting salary it made sense to me to share an apartment. It turns out that sharing included roommates skipping out in the middle of the night with my record collection in tow and leaving me to discover that he had a girlfriend four states away that loved to talk on the telephone –funny how he thought it would be a great idea to get a phone line under my name only.\nNow I hear of the great idea called Airbnb that suggests sharing my home with completely unknown individuals, who were paired with me by a computer program, over the internet. I mean what could go wrong with that idea? Or better yet, I should drive and pick up a stranger (Lyft anyone) and take them on a ride like a taxi to a destination of their choice. Again, what could go wrong with that? (Hasn’t anyone noticed that taxi cabs have sturdy bullet proof dividers between them and their customers?)\nNow many would think that I am over reaching and my fears of “someone is being taken advantage” of are totally unfounded but, I still have misgivings. I guess it is hard to get over going to a local diner with high school buddies and ordering french fries. I learned pretty quick it was a good idea to order that side of fries with a sharp fork to defend them with.\nPosted in Foolish thoughts, Marketing\t| Tagged Humor, Immigrant, satire, Youth | 1 Comment\nJuly 31, 2014 by PrairieChat\nTales From The Rosencrans Family Tree\nWhile my primary genealogy research has been on my family, I have done quite a bit of research on my wife’s paternal family tree (Rosencrans/Rosenkrans/Rosenkranz). While I knew that her family was an early arriver to America from Europe, I was surprised to discover just how early in colonial history it was.\nMy wife’s 7th great grandfather was Harmon Hendrick Rosenkrans, who was born in Norway in 1634 and had moved to Amsterdam in New Netherlands prior to 1657. According to census figures, the non-native American population was less than 60,000. Harmon married Magdalene Dirckse on March 3, 1657 in New Netherlands. Apparently his new wife had a sense of humor as illustrated by court records dated just a few days later.\n“Only a few days after the wedding of Herman and Magdalena, the court records of New Amsterdam registered the following: [March 15, 1657] “The Scout N: de Silla, plaintiff v|s Madaleen Dirck and her bridegroom, defendants. The plaintiff says that the defendants have presumed to insult the Firewardens of this City on the public highway, and to make a street riot, according to the complaint made to his Worship. Requesting for the maintenance of the aforesaid gentlemen’s quality that the petitioners [?] be publicly punished or fined as their Worship shall think proper. Defendant Madaleen Dirck appears alone in Court; admits, that she and her sister passed by the door of the Firewarden Litschoe, and as they always joked, when the Firewarden came to their house, she said: ‘There is the chimney sweep in the door, his chimney is well swept, and not another word was said about it.’\nSuch behavior cannot, and ought not to be tolerated on account of its bad consequences, the Burgomaster’s condemn, as they do hereby, the above named Madaleen Dirck in a fine of two pounds Flemish, to be applied, one half for the Church and one half for the Poor, and notify her at the same time to avoid all such and similar faults, or in default thereof other disposition shall be made. Done in Court at the City Hall at Amsterdam in N. Netherland.”\n-The Records of New Amsterdam, 1653 – 1674, VII., p. 146.\nTo understand the seriousness of the fine, consider that a Flemish Pound was equal to 6 Dutch Guilders. On May 24, 1626 Peter Minuit, Director of the Dutch Colony was reported to have bought the entire Island of Manhattan from the Native Americans for goods valued at 60 Guilders. That would mean the fine leveled in Amsterdam on my wife’s 7th great grandmother was equal to one fifth the purchase price of Manhattan.\nObviously whatever was intended by her remarks was taken quite seriously.\nPosted in Family Memories, Genealogy\t| Tagged Colonial History, family history, Genealogy, Immigrant | 3 Comments\nJanuary 24, 2014 by PrairieChat\nSwedish Saga\nThe story of the Anders Erikson (Holm) Family\nAnders Erikson (Holm) was born in Eggvena Parish of Herrljunga, Alvsborgs lan, Sweden on February 2, 1829. He was the son on Erik Larson and Maja Andersdotter. They lived in a small village of Herrljunga in the southern portion of Sweden, also known as Götaland.\nAnder’s father was the second husband of Maja (Maja is the Swedish version of Mary) Andersdotter. Her first husband was Anders (last name unknown) and they had a son named Andreas Anderson, who was born three years earlier than Anders, in 1826.\nThe family’s life in Sweden would have been harsh. Property was handed down though the generations and was subdivided between the siblings. Parents remained on the farm and were then supported by the children. Because few children, born prior to 1750, survived into adulthood, the farms remained relatively intact. But, as advances were made in science and mortality decreased, the population doubled between the years of 1750 to 1850. The small farms were divided by larger and larger families.\nThe famous Swedish bishop and poet Esaias Tegne’r explained the population pressure in three words: “peace, vaccination and potatoes.” He was referring to the fact that Sweden had not been in war since the Russian war of 1809 and the war against the Danes in 1814. Smallpox vaccination had reduced the infant mortality from 21% in 1750 to 15% in 1850. Potatoes became more popular and were a nutritious supplement to the Swedish diet. The combined effects resulted in a growth in population which in turn produced other problems for society. In a country with few industries and cities, the burden had to be carried by the primitive agricultural society.\nBy the early 1820’s, farms were less that a few non contiguous acres that were spread over the entire village in small fields. Whatever production was achieved was shared with the State’s Swedish Lutheran Church, local government and the Swedish Monarchy through taxes. The combination of a growing population and an inefficient agrarian society pushed the economy of Sweden to its limits. A famine swept the nation, killing 22 out of every 1,000 Swedes.\nAt the same time that the farm economy was breaking down, Sweden was also forcing more and more people into compulsory military service. By the 1900’s Sweden had drafted almost all it males into compulsorily military service.\nThe Journey To Amerika\nIn 1852, the eldest of Maja’s sons, Andreas, left with his wife and children for America.\nAnders Erikson followed with Inga Stina Persdotter and a two year old son named Anders in 1855. Both families left well before the wave of emigrants from Sweden in 1865.\nIn order to leave Sweden they would have had to first obtain permission from the local and federal government to emigrate. Swedish emigration restrictions weren’t eased until about 1865, so the process in the 1850’s probably would have involved a certain amount of harassment, including extra red tape. Once permission was obtained, the families would meet with their church where it was notated in the church records that they had “Gone to Amerika” and their name was crossed off the roles.\nIt was very hard to get the permissions needed to emigrate, so hard that less the 1 in 2000 people were able to leave Herrljunga area during the period of 1850 to 1860. In fact, according to Swedish emigration records only 586 people total were allowed to leave Sweden in 1855. Anders and Inga were in the vanguard of emigrants to the new land. In contrast, during 1869 32,050 Swedes left for America.\nIt is difficult to imagine overseas migration without the common people of Sweden being able to read and write. Thanks to the Lutheran Church the rate of illiteracy had always been relatively low in Sweden. The Elementary School Act of 1842 almost erased illiteracy among the younger generation. These young Swedes read about America in newspapers, popular books or pamphlets. The “America-letters” brought news from relatives. Young people learned that success was available for everyone who emigrated. Those letters were circulated from person to person, cottage to cottage and city to city.\nLocation of Herrljunga in Sweden\nThe route Anders Erikson’s family took probably started with a walk of about 15 miles carrying their immigrant trunk to Lake Vänern followed by a barge trip on the Göta Canal.\nThe Göta Canal was built by 58,000 billeted soldiers from 16 different regiments. About 60,000 men, including a company of Russian war prisoners, and a number of civilian workers worked a total of about 7 million man-days, (each of 12 hours) during a period of 22 years.\nThe canal stretches all the way from Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast, combined with the river Göta älv and the Trollhätte canal, through the great lakes Vänern and Vättern, in parallel with Motala ström, and to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea.\nThe Erikson family’s canal trip would have ended at the Gothenburg Seaport. They would have boarded the two masted sailing brig call the Anna Margaretta. They sailed “on top of the cargo” or “between the decks”, spending months on the sea and finally, more dead than alive, landing in New York. At Castle Garden, in New York, they would have been inspected for disease, with the sickest ones being returned to Sweden at the ship owner’s expense. Many families were broken up at New York, with little prospect of being reunited.\nEmigrants Disembarking Near Castle Garden\nCastle Garden Interior\nMany of the emigrants landed at Castle Garden with very little funds, just enough to qualify for entry into America. Their first contact with America would have been the Labor Exchange located in Castle Garden. Some would end up as servants other would be recruited for labor. Many were hired to work on the new railroad lines being laid to Chicago and points west.\nCastle Garden Labor Exchange\nWhile we do not know for sure how Anders Erikson and his family got from New York to Minnesota, the normal route was a train to Buffalo, New York and the Great Lakes. From there they were taken by paddle steamer over the lakes to Chicago, Milwaukee or Duluth. The last part of the journey would have been on foot. Although his name was on the ship log as arriving in New York somewhere along the route to Minnesota, Anders first son perished. His name was not listed in the remaining church records, the 1860 US Census or tombstones in Minnesota.\nSettling Minnesota\nOnce Anders reached Minnesota the top priority would have been land selection, then shelter. The first home was a simple cabin much like the poor “torpstuga” in Herrljunga, Sweden, but built on Minnesota’s fertile soil. It is apparent that Anders arrived in Minnesota with enough money to buy 180 acres of land. They did not homestead, but instead bought land from Alexander Ramsey. The farm was located on a half mile north of Gotha, MN.\nCarver County, Minnesota\nThe area that Anders chose was in Carver County and was known as part of “The Big Woods”. Clearing the ground of stones in Sweden was replaced by the rooting out of stumps in Minnesota. Luckily the Swedes were use to wood as their principal material for the construction of tools, furniture, buildings, and fuel.\nNatural woodland in Wood-Rill Scientific and Natural Area, located near Orono, MN\nIn order to plant crops in the open meadows, the early settlers would have to break the sod. The sod was extremely thick and would normally need to turned and left to rot till the next crop season. Settlers could plant potatoes under the turned sod to aid in breaking it up and allowing them to get some food from the land.\nThe first years were tough, as the settlers cleared land and prepared fields. For some the only income received was from the wood they obtained and shipped by riverboat to Minneapolis for sale as firewood. Others foraged for the numerous wild ginger plants found in the woodland forest. The ginger was highly sought after and could be sold in the Orient. Ginger Agents paid handsomely for the prized roots. In fact, ginger harvesting paid so well, that many farmers abandoned their field preparations to work full time searching for the roots.\nWild Ginger- The roots were gathered for sale to oriental markets\nOther settlers moved into Benton Township quickly, including the Ranft family to Ander’s north and the Schug family to Anders’s west. Both of these Germanic families had been in America for a number of years, first living in Butler County, Pennsylvania, before moving to Minnesota.\nThe Swedish Evangelical Church\nReligion was still a major part of Anders and Inga’s life and they joined the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in East Union (Also known as King Oscar’s Settlement) that lay to the East.\nIt was soon apparent that some regulations were needed by the Church Elders to guard themselves and their congregation against preachers who were not followers of the “true evangelical Lutheran doctrine”. “Some of the settlers apparently experienced emotional of spiritual unrest caused by missionary efforts of the Baptists, Methodists, and various fly-by-night preachers including a Lutheran minister who allegedly had problems with alcohol.” Speakers found it necessary to show church authorities their licenses or letters of recommendation before delivering messages from the pulpit at Oscar’s Settlement church.\nFrom the time members in the congregation organized at the Union Settlement, the community had been pushing farther west. Some families who were now located four or more miles beyond the church discovered the reality of Minnesota’s unpredictable and often harsh winter weather. Traveling even a few additional miles became a critical factor during an era when most pioneers depended upon a few fortunate sled-owning families to pick them up along the way to Sunday services; otherwise they walked. These factors prompted these distant members to seek support for their effort to build another place of worship.\nIn 1858, The East Union settlement church board approved a request made by some of its members to build a second church, creating two congregations of the same Lutheran denomination. Thus the East and West Union churches came into being in 1858. Anders Erickson, whose farm was a half mile NW of the new church was a charter member of West Union and served as a Deacon of the Church.\nSwedish Education\nOne of the first responsibilities assumed by the newly installed deacons at Union Settlement church was to plan for their school, which became the forerunner to Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.\nChurch members were expected to help build the school and furnish the wood needed. Plans were drawn and then the boards and beams needed were divided among the members to bring to the school site. Strict instructions as to thickness and length were given for each board they were expected to bring.\nDuring the 1860’s, an increasing number of Scandinavians were entering Minnesota and the need for Lutheran pastors to serve grew. The residents of Carver County thought it would be beneficial to have somewhere to school these future pastors. After some politicking and fund raising, a school that was located in Red Wing was moved to East Union, near Carver, in order to prepare more students for the seminary. It was named St. Ansgar’s Academy in 1865 in honor of St. Ansgar, the first Christian missionary to Sweden. About half of the students attending were from Carver County. Some students were as young as 10 but many were grown men. In fact, the oldest student entered the academy at age fifty-six!\nWith hopes of strengthening the school financially and increasing attendance, the Lutheran Synod moved the school program from East Union to St. Peter in 1876. The school was re-organized as Gustavus Adolphus College. The original school building remains at this East Union site.\nMinnesota Statehood\nUntil the second half of the 19th century, immigration into Minnesota was slow. But, once the value of the state’s woodlands and fertile prairie was realized, settlers poured into the region with New England lumbermen leading the way. Between 1850 and 1857, the state population skyrocketed from 6,077 to over 150,000.\nOn May 11, 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state admitted into the Union. Minnesota’s application for statehood was submitted to President James Buchanan in January, but became entangled with the controversial issue of Kansas statehood, delaying it for several months until it was finally approved by Congress.\n1862 Indian Wars\nOn August 15, 1862, Santee Sioux Chief Little Crow went to the Indian Agency located on the Minnesota River to ask government agent Thomas J. Galbraith to distribute the Indians’ government-stockpiled provisions to his hungry people. “We have no food, but here are these stores filled with food”, he yelled at Galbraith. “So far as I’m concerned, if they are hungry, let them eat grass or their own dung”, retorted trading post operator Andrew J. Myrick. The angry Indians left, but a few days later Myrick’s corpse was found- with grass stuffed in his mouth.\nOn Sunday, August 17th, four teenage Sioux killed a white family of five in a dispute over farm eggs. Rather than hand the boys over to the army, some of the Sioux chiefs decided the time to fight had come. By dawn the next day, the horrible uprising had begun. At approximately the same hour ironically, a government wagon left St. Paul, carrying $71,000 in gold coins. The long overdue annuity payment was finally on its way.\nLittle Crow had never wanted to battle the white man. He was highly intelligent and had the bearing of a gentleman. He was considered an expert in dealing with the media of the day. Both on the reservation and in Washington he charmed reporters with his wit and subtle use of sarcasm. He knew the futility of trying to subdue the dominant culture. He gave his most impassioned speech of his life to the young warriors who came to him that morning of August 17th. He had never been more forceful, more passionate, more persuasive, and if he had stopped the council then, there might never have been a war. But another chief who favored war declared Little Crow a coward who was really afraid of the white man. In a resigned, nearly desolate voice, Little Crow responded, “I am not a coward. I will die with you.”\nBy the end of September, the Sioux uprising in Minnesota was mostly over, though other Sioux tribes in neighboring territories had taken to the warpath. The U.S. troops who were rushed to Minnesota contained the uprising, but not before an estimated 800 white settlers had been murdered and several million dollars’ worth of property had been destroyed. Of 2,000 Indians captured and tried, a military board sentenced 303 to be hanged. President Abraham Lincoln reviewed the list and trimmed it to 38. (With France undecided as to which side it should enter the Civil War on, Lincoln wisely reconsidered the image of hanging over 300 Indians!) The United States’ largest public mass execution was held December 26, 1862, when the 38 Indians were hanged.\nSAINT PAUL, December 27, 1862. – To The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:\n“I have the honor to inform you that the thirty-eight Indians and half-breeds ordered by you for execution were hung yesterday at Mankato at 10 a.m. everything went off quietly and the other prisoners are well secured.\nRespectfully, H. H. SIBLEY, Brigadier-General.”\nEarly Agriculture\nPennock’s Horse Drawn Seed and Grain Planter, circa 1846\nIn 1859, Wendelin Grimm and his wife Julianna, German immigrant farmers came to Carver County carrying a wooden box full of alfalfa seeds that he soon planted on the Carver County prairie. He gathered the seeds from the alfalfa that survived the first winter and re-planted every year until he had a full crop. Grimm Alfalfa became the most winter-hardy strain of alfalfa available and was an important contributor to the rise of the local dairy industry. Grimm’s Alfalfa was still in use on the Holm’s farm in North Dakota.\nBesides Wendelin Grimm, numerous other early pioneers practiced agricultural and horticultural experimentation. Charles Luedloff of Dahlgren Township and Andrew Peterson of Scandia (near Waconia) experimented with apples, plums, and cherries. James Robinson of Dahlgren Township developed the Robinson apple seedling. Louis Suelter of Carver developed several types of grapes including the “Beta.”\nNaturalization and a New Name\nSurnames were given based on the father’s first name as per Swedish custom. Erik Larson’s son would be “Eriksson” and daughters would be “Eriksdotter”. So Ander’s name was Anders Eriksson. (Later shortened to Erikson) Swedish naming customs were changed by the military beginning in 1820, when the surname stayed with the family. The adoption of surnames made it much easier to track people and information. Many Swedes took that time to adopt a name they liked. Many took names to reflect the area they lived in or a trade association.\nThe US Census of 1860 listed Anders last name as Erikson. After his final naturalization papers were completed his surname was changed to Holm. Anders was reported to say “There are too many Erickson’s in Minnesota” so he took the last name of his wife’s father, John Petter Andersson Holm.\nHolm is a common Scandinavian name. The name has multiple meanings but the most common one refers to an island or a hill. John Petter probably added the surname Holm (his right as a soldier) based on the geographical features of his farm in Sweden. Because his farm lay miles from the sea, we can surmise his farm was located on a hill.\nAnders Erickson Holm\nHancock Township, Carver County, Minnesota\nThe children of Anders and Inga\nAnders Peter Erikson 1853-1855?\nJohn Erikson Holm 1857-1926\nAnder Peter Holm 1860 – abt 1923 “Outwest”\nEmmeli Kristina Holm Pehrson 1861 – 1901\nMatilda Holm Noyed 1864 – 1916\nJohn Erickson Holm\nIn the 1880 Census John E Holm was listed as the head of household, with Anders E Holm listed as a dependent.\nNorth Dakota Statehood 1889\nIn 1876, units of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Lt. Col. George A. Custer left Fort Abraham Lincoln near Bismarck to search for the Dakota who had refused confinement on reservations. The resulting annihilation of Custer’s immediate command at the Little Big Horn River in MontanaTerritory made names such as Crazy Horse, Gall, and Sitting Bull familiar throughout the nation. Many Dakota moved to Canada to escape relentless punitive expeditions sent by the army, and remnants finally surrendered at Fort Buford in 1881. Nine years later Sitting Bull, the leading opponent of reservation life, identified with the Ghost Dance religion, one that forecast the return of traditional Plains Indian ways. Standing Rock Reservation Indian police were sent to arrest the elderly leader at his home in 1890, and Sitting Bull was killed.\nSignificant immigration commenced when the westbound Northern Pacific Railway built to the Missouri River in 1872 and 1873. A great settlement “boom” in northern Dakota occurred between 1879 and 1886. During those years, over 100,000 people entered the territory. So significant was this foreign immigration that in 1915 over 79% of all North Dakotans were either immigrants or children of immigrants.\nAround 1885, John E Holm moves to ND for first time, settles in Hobart Township, Barnes County. He rents land from John Anderson. The accompanying ledger page from the John Anderson Collection at the Minnesota Historical Society lists the first purchases John E Holm made at that time.\nThe purchases demonstrate the necessities needed to began a farming operation at that time. Purchases include a team of horses (named Jack and Jennie) $400, a mule (named Sallie) $150, a wagon $50, 150 bushels of oats $45, one hay stack $16, a cow calf $60 and other miscellaneous items. The total for this for the first few months of purchases was $1,184.49. According to an inflation calculator an 1885 dollar would be worth about 20 dollars in 2005 dollars. That would mean John E Holm’s purchase would have been nearly $24,000 in today’s (2006) dollars. It was interesting to notice that on the 1887 ledger pages, John E was given a $75 credit for a “Dead Mule”. Obviously, a warrantee clause was invoked.\nAccording to an interview of Kathryn Ranft Holm, kept by the North Dakota Historical Society, John E’s farm is destroyed around 1889 by fire and he returns to Carver County. This seems to be backed up by an 1888 notation in the ledger saying that the account had been balanced and closed by mutual agreement.\nJohn E Holm family returns to ND in about 1891 and settles in Cuba Township, Barnes County. He bought a quarter section of land on crop payments from John Anderson. John Holm’s family moves back and forth with the seasons between Cologne and Cuba for four years, using the railroad which has lines located in Cuba and Cologne. The farm was established and a home was finally completed in 1895, so they were finally able to take residence in North Dakota.\nJohn Anderson was the first cousin of John E. Holm, and the son of Andreas (Anders Erickson Holm’s half brother). John Anderson managed over four thousand acres of land in and around Barnes County, ND. He was one of the original owners of the “Cuba Farmers Cooperative Mercantile Co”,\nalong with John E Holm. He also was a major shareholder in stores located in Oriska, ND and Glencoe, MN.\nIt appears from the ledger books he maintained, that he and John E Holm still had a very close business relationship. The books we examined showed Anderson carried a credit line for John E Holm. Because of this line of credit, John E was able to increase his land holdings, even in the face of multiple years of crop failure in the Dakotas. Evidence of their friendship was found in pictures, found in the files, of John Anderson and John E Holm taken in 1907 in Los Angeles, CA while they were visiting relatives.\nJohn & Mollie (Haish) Anderson moved to Valley City in 1882. During the 1880’s John served as the Valley City Justice of the Peace and ran for Mayor of Valley City. In the late 1890’s, John moved Mollie and the children back to Minnesota. John maintained a business presence in Valley City for the remainder of his life. He was one of the original members of the Masons in Valley City and was given a Life Time Membership from the group. The certificate presented to him was signed by Stanley Mythaler and Vernon Gale. After returning to school to attain his Law Degree in 1891 from the University of Minnesota, he continued to operate out of Valley City.\nOne of John Anderson’s sons was Leslie Anderson. Leslie, a veteran and a Harvard Graduate, went on to become a District Court Judge of Minneapolis. Leslie was also very active in the National GOP Party. The National GOP gave him the assignment of creating the Young Republicans Group in Minnesota. Leslie was married, but unfortunately his wife died of a brain aneurism within a few months of that marriage.\nA daughter of John Anderson, named Ruth, became a Home Economist and found employment with a Minneapolis Flour Co. Her department there was better known as Betty Crocker. Ruth’s job was to answer consumer questions under the pen name of Betty Crocker.\nCuba Mercantile and Partners\nJohn E Holm Threshing Crew – Cuba, ND\nThreshing Machine – Cuba, ND\nJohn Holm photographing John E Holm (in white shirt) and friends\nJohn E Holm’s Children\nJohn Holm 1883 – 1951\nGeorge Holm 1884 – 1964\nHenry Albert Holm 1887 – 1963\nEdward Paul Holm 1888 – 1945\nAnna Matilda Holm Dill Smith 1891 – 1946\nCatherine Mary Holm Kreidlkamp 1894 – 1944\nHerman (Fritz) Frederick Holm 1897 – 1976\nFor many, however, the economic hardships of the Depression could not be overcome. Thousands of North Dakotans lost their farms and either moved into the cities and towns or from the state. One historian estimates that over 70% of the state’s people required one form or another of public assistance. The toll in broken dreams, physical hunger and hardship, and displacement will never be completely measured. Still, most North Dakotans stubbornly held on, husbanding their resources and spending carefully. Even during the hard times, for example, drought-stricken counties and cities rarely missed bond payments, and indeed the public debt in the state was substantially reduced during the Depression years.\nPosted in Family Memories, Genealogy\t| Tagged Carver County, Farming, Immigrant, Minnesota, North Dakota, Settler, Sweden | Leave a comment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1474079"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7490568161010742,"wiki_prob":0.2509431838989258,"text":"About Our Seminars\nFree Preliminary Evaluation\nFull Assessment\nAbout the Ask Us Service\nAbout Australia & New Zealand\nUnit 2M, Level 2\nREGULAR POSTS FROM NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA\nPosts in category: Lighthearted\nMigrating is more than just filling in forms and submitting paperwork; its a complex process that will test even the most resilient of people. Understanding Australia & New Zealand at a grass-roots level is paramount to your immigration survival, and to give you a realistic view of both countries, its people and how we see the world, as well as updates about any current or imminent policy changes, subscribe to our regular blog posts by entering your details below.\nA Day in Threatened Paradise - I am a Lucky Man\nPosted by Iain on June 28, 2019, 7:38 p.m. in Lighthearted\nI have been having one of those magical New Zealand days that reminds me why I was so lucky to be born in this country.\nIt is mid winter, yet temperatures continue to be mild; it’s dry and for the most part sunny but certainly not tropical. It can be a fantastic time of year with days of blue skies, little wind and bookended by chilly nights snuggling up in front of a fire with a glass of good New Zealand red wine. The days are perfect for getting outside, working in the garden and taking long walks in our patch of rainforest or along local beaches.\nMy wife and I try and spend Friday working from our beach house in Northland. The beach house sits high on a hill overlooking Bream Bay and the coast, lined with fine whitish sand which sweeps in a wide arc to the north of us.\nI was chatting to a client on my cell phone this morning when I looked out and saw the unmistakable fine mist of an exhaling whale. I nearly dropped the phone.\nOrca are regular visitors to this part of New Zealand and while massive schools of pygmy pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins regularly hunt and pass through the bay, large whales are a rarity but are increasingly being seen. There is a resident population of around 200 Brydes whales in the Hauraki Gulf that lies between us and Auckland to our south, and many years ago through my telescope I saw a pod far out to sea from our deck.\nThe two whales this morning however were very large and no more than 300 m offshore. I was clearly looking at a mother and her calf.\nFor a while they were rolling onto their sides exposing their massive dorsal fins. I wonder if in fact they were not Brydes but Humpbacks or possibly Southern Right whales, once incredibly common around New Zealand and clearly making a comeback.\nThen, this afternoon, when I was talking to my colleagues in Melbourne and Auckland on a Skype call I heard the unmistakable song of a bellbird outside and then saw it sipping from a banksia flower, a tree planted many years ago to provide winter food for nectar loving native species. Bellbirds are quite a small bird, olive green with a flash of yellow on their wings but possess an outsized call that is incredibly melodic and beautiful to listen to. This forest bird is very common in some parts of New Zealand where predator control takes place but they are rare at Langs beach where we are. Like the whales however they are making something of a comeback.\nWith more and more people stepping up trapping programmes and controlling the numbers of rats and mustelids on their properties, thus creating safer environment for our native birds to breed and raise chicks, I am increasingly seeing species like Bellbird that we have never seen in the 23 years we have owned this property.\nI have to say, it lifts my spirit.\nHaving recently returned from another three weeks in Asia cooped up in concrete and glass buildings and being surrounded by so many people so far removed from nature, I find it hard to not feel a certain level of despondency when I think of leaving this corner of the world behind. I certainly feel claustrophobic in those cities. I actually question the future of humanity when most of the population lives in cities and have no connection to the natural world. They consume relentlessly without understanding the damage they do to the environment that sustains us and every other living creature on the planet.\nThat disconnection from nature, a connection that by and large as New Zealanders we take for granted, might explain the oceans of plastic I encounter when I go scuba-diving in Asia and the mountains of rubbish that line the roads in countries like Malaysia. I’ve almost stopped looking out of airplane windows flying over Malaysia and Indonesia as I bear sad witness to the intense destruction of the rainforests.\nOver this weekend however my ritual of clearing and re-baiting our traplines of possums, rats, mice, the odd feral cat and occasional stoat or weasel will continue.\nI absolutely love the time that I spend in the rainforest and I tell myself that over time as we continue to eliminate the introduced predators one at a time, we will be creating a home for native species like the Bellbirds. After 18 months of trapping we are now approaching 500 dead possums, mustelids and rodents but it seems as fast as we kill them, the faster the traps we set fill up.\nIt is not an exaggeration to call it a war and one which never seems to end. A war I'm happy to fight even though I’d prefer not to be killing what in other situations are extremely cute animals.\nWhen the reward is the song of Bellbirds, the promise of our embattled Kiwis (birds) being seen in their ancestral forests once again and our seas have enough food in them to sustain migrating and resident whales passing through in peace, it is all so very worthwhile.\nI am indeed a lucky man.\nUntil next week...\n>> Southern Man on Instagram (New Zealand)\n>> IMMagine Australia & New Zealand on Instagram\n>> IMMagine Australia & New Zealand on Facebook\nPosted by Iain on Feb. 26, 2017, 4:26 p.m. in Lighthearted\nSun. Rain. Wind.\nIt is interesting how much of a role climate - perceived or real - plays in terms of where migrants might choose to live.\nIf you are Singaporean or Malaysian you love the fact that New Zealand is, for the most part, both drier and for most of the year, cooler, than you are used to. Comfortable is the word I hear a lot. Migrants from these countries tell me how much they love the climate of ‘New Zealand’ (they are usually referring to Auckland or Christchurch).\nIf you are a South African you tended historically to perceive the climate in New Zealand as being both cold and wet. I should say as thousands more South Africans settle here this perception is changing as expectation hits reality.\nIf you are from the UK you’ll report back to friends and family that it seems you have moved to the tropics (which the very north of New Zealand it is starting to become).\nRainfall in Auckland is around 1200mm per year. Tauranga 1100mm. Hamilton, the same. Christchurch 600mm. Dunedin 700mm.\nDurban has around 950mm. Johannesburg 500mm. Cape Town around 700mm. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur average 3000mm or more. London, believe it or not, comes in around 750mm.\nAs many readers know I have a beach house which is 160km north of Auckland and about 50km south of Whangarei (NZ’s last northern most biggish city). Nestled along the east coast temperatures here and only 90 minutes drive north of Auckland are at least 2 degrees warmer at any given time of year. Rainfall in Whangarei is 1500mm per year which makes it probably the wettest big city in the country.\nTemperatures up here last week were in the low 30 degrees (Celcius) with temperature records being set almost monthly.\nThis part of NZ lies in the sub-tropics and I was reading an article recently which said if temperatures increase by as little as 1 degree Celsius then this region will begin to be more tropical than ‘sub’.\nWhile it has been a funny old summer (it came later than ‘normal’ and many evenings have been far cooler than normal) and climate change is playing its part, we have had a preponderance of South Westerlies which is unusual for us in summer. Lying on the east coast of the North Island the rain shadow effect has been amplified so I suspect the summer has been a far drier one for Northland than ‘normal’.\nHaving said that in the past 8 years there has been drought in all but three years up this way. So ‘big dry’ summers are very much the norm. The fields and paddocks are the colour of the Serengeti. Stock has been moved off many farms. Many of the small villages that rely on rainwater and don’t have water bores for their water supply have dry tanks and have to buy it in from water tankers.\nSpending so much time up here the annual pattern of rain has almost started to mirror the tropics insofar as there is increasingly a rainy season and a dry one - both of around six months.\nI have 6000 square meters of land here which I am slowly planting out in native trees and shrubs. By September each year I consider laying drainage across the property so my trees do not drown. By November I have to irrigate. The past few years here in January there are cracks in the hillsides big enough to lose a toddler down (okay, slight poetic license) such is the lack of rain.\nWhen it does rain here in summer, it rains. A week ago I suggested to some friends that what we desperately needed was a solid 24 hours of non stop light rain or my water bills for irrigation will go through the roof. I got my wish and then some. I suspect we have had close to 70mm the past 24 hours. Today the sun is out, the temperature is around 25 degrees and the humidity must be around 90%. I can almost watch the plants grow. It feels very much like a cool day in the tropics.\nAt the same time and 1000km to the south Christchurch has been reeling as a massive fire has spread through thousands of hectares of farm and forest on the city’s outskirts destroying homes, buildings and resulting in one death. That part of the country gets half the rainfall we get up here ‘normally’. Their summers are warm and the wind they often get coming down off the Southern Alps, desiccates the land. These fires are the result.\nIn the Hawke’s Bay where summer temperatures are routinely over 30 degrees and their rainfall is closer to 600mm per year they too are coping with a lack of rain, drought and fires.\nNorthern Canterbury (north of Christchurch) has seen no significant rain for three solid years.\nOne only needs to travel 100km or so to the west (and through the weather system blocking Southern Alps) and rainfall is in the order of Singapore or KL - 3000mm plus.\nSo rain falls in very different quantities in very different ways across the country.\nIt is overwhelmingly wetter in winter (although the wettest month in Dunedin in the deep south is actually December) and much drier in summer.\nThis country has such rugged terrain with mountains and plains, hills and valleys all spread across 1600km of (relatively) thin islands and is surrounded by very warm oceans in the north and cold ones in the south. It means you can drive 30km and find very different microclimates. For those from larger countries with more consistent topographies and spread over fewer degrees of latitude it can be quite a climatological shock.\nIn fact we probably have a far more varied climate than Australia for example which is probably 20 times our size. This myth of sun, surf and BBQs everywhere there is exactly that. Myth. Many parts of Australia are far wetter than many here in New Zealand. Many parts of New Zealand have far hotter summers than parts of Australia.\nI am constantly surprised for example how cold Melbourne is whenever I am there between April and October - far colder most of the time than, say, humid Auckland.\nPerceptions and realities.\nThe climate you find when you get here might in the end be very different to what you perceived the climate and rainfall to be like before you emigrated.\nIain MacLeod\nSouthern Man - Letters from New Zealand\nThat Summer Feeling\nPosted by danni on May 6, 2016, 8:07 p.m. in Lighthearted\nOne thing that surprised me as a South African migrant was just how summery New Zealand is so much of the time.\nMaybe it’s because I’m from Johannesburg that being surrounded by beaches means “holiday” to me, but I’ve travelled quite a bit and really think that Auckland in particular has one of the nicest, most ‘summery’ summers ever. And it seems to last forever too…\nA few short weeks ago I started writing a blog post about this in the midst of a scorcher of a summer – a post sparked by having to slow my car down to allow what can only be described as a shimmy across the street to the big blue ocean by a gaggle of ladies (all over 70), their polka dot towels flung over their bikinied bodies. Even today – and it’s definitely cooling down – on my way to work I saw two people frolicking in what must have been a pretty cold ocean in the mist at 7am. We South Africans don’t believe this kind of life will be the case when moving to New Zealand! Not weather wise necessarily but this perpetual summer feeling.\nIt’s so beautiful and temperate so much of the time and while it does rain, it’s often just a mild spurt a few times a minute. For the remaining seconds it’s really quite pleasant and often quite bright and sunny...(sometimes experiences committment issues, the weather does).\nHaving looked up the average rainfall for both cities, it seems it rains twice as much in volume in Auckland as in Johannesburg. Sometimes it rains hard for days at a time…but it doesn’t happen too often. (And it’s quite nice when it does, isn’t it?)\nBefore moving to New Zealand I was sure the weather would be different and particularly rainy and a lot of potential migrants do too - while it’s different (lightning storms are pretty scarce, I miss those on the Highveld) it’s never felt “rainy”. It still looks and feels like I’m on holiday outside so much of the time - 6 years and counting.\nLast weekend my husband was lucky enough to be invited aboard a 50ft yacht for a sail through the Hauraki gulf – the weather was perfect although autumn has definitely started taper off. That summer feeling really never does! (Have a look at the shots below he got from the ferry on his commute to work in the city from Gulf Harbour - these photos are a day apart although a very extreme example!)\nThis week at Little Manly beach on the Hibiscus Coast (close to where two of us from IMMagine live and about 45 minutes from the city) locals were treated to a visit by a pod of dolphins. Not just once but every single day for almost a week. On one occasion when the dolphins where particularly close to shore, they stayed for nearly 7 hours just playing with the people who’d gathered in the water to be with them.\nIt even got a mention on the news – you can read about it and see some pictures here. I saw this spectacle right in my back yard and thought…you can’t beat this. It’s a good place to live and honestly, the weather’s great. Mostly.\n- Danni Balsaras, Auckland Office\nNew Ausland\nPosted by danni on April 15, 2016, 6:07 p.m. in Lighthearted\nOne of Crowded House’s most well known songs is called “Better Be Home Soon” – but where, actually, is “home” to the band?\nThis is just one of the topics Australians and Kiwis argue over in what’s often termed a “sibling rivalry” between the two countries. It’s a question many of us ‘down under’ have heatedly discussed (and that includes New Zealand, by the way. Given its geographical location, you might say NZ is even further \"under\" than Australia but let's not argue!) - Are Crowded House a Kiwi band, or are they Australian?\nThis is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the banter between these two brother nations. It doesn’t help the ego of either to learn that many people around the world admit to not even knowing that Australia and New Zealand are individual countries to begin with! Who could forget the Olympics faux pas when our medal count was combined for the country \"New Ausland\"?\nI must admit I enjoy the rivalry – when two countries have the time and inclination to focus on things like who really invented the Pavlova, it means that they’re clearly not desperately trying to avoid being hijacked in South Africa or blackening of their children’s lungs from the filthy, polluted air in parts of Asia.\nMy husband, upon touching ground in New Zealand, declared himself an instant Kiwi by immediately denouncing any form of affection for Australia and adopting the ‘Pavlova Stance’. He said it’s a rite of passage into Kiwihood! He can’t be blamed – his South African father is notorious for saying that he supports the Springboks “and any team playing against Australia” so the country was never given a fair chance in his eyes.\nI can only speak from my own perspective, but frankly, I love Australians. (I can hear the wailing from my New Zealand office mates and the cheering from my colleagues in Melbourne…) Maybe you need to be a real Kiwi to really feel it, but I love their slightly dark humour, their often brash approach, their ‘salt-of-the-earth’ realness and as a South African, I especially love their accents. (And yes, fellow Saffas, it is possible to tell the accents apart…eventually!)\nAs for the actual country of Australia – the contrast of beauty and danger in the wilderness, the great expanse of the Outback, the harshness of the land and environment – all of that is character building! I often joke that I’ll send my kids to school in the Outback so that they develop strong spines and the ability to defend themselves. It’s not that this is impossible in New Zealand, but it is a more delicate comparison! (On the North Island, anyway. My husband always reminds me that the South Island exists and that the environment there is harsh in many ways, too.)\nI put together this list of some of the things both the Aussies & Kiwis lay claim to, just for fun:\nCrowded House were a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1985. The founding members were New Zealander Neil Finn (vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter) and Australians Paul Hester (drums) and Nick Seymour (bass). So if you're going by numbers, Australia should probably take this one...(sorry, Paul) - although, granted, Neil's Kiwi brother Tim joined the band later which balanced it out a little.\nPhar Lap\nChampion horse Phar Lap, the thoroughbred foaled in New Zealand but trained and raced in Australia where he forged an incredible career. Phar Lap was best known for being much faster than other horses and has since been a disputed possession for both nations.\nThe Pavlova\nIn 2007, insurance company NZI ran a humorous series of television advertisements in New Zealand highlighting what are locally considered to be historic New Zealand icons being adopted elsewhere, including the pavlova playing on its status as a common feature of the friendly trans-Tasman rivalry. NZI's parent company is Australian owned!\nWell, I'm not sure why either country wants to claim him, but he was in fact born in New Zealand. What's really funny is after Mel Gibson (who was born in Australia) lost the plot and became the anti-semetic lunatic he is, Australia instantly disowned him and called him an American!\nTo be honest, while researching the finer points of this post I found very few Australians ranting about New Zealanders, and many New Zealanders expressing their thoughts about Australians – make of that what you will! – perhaps there’s an underlying sense of living in Australia’s shadow, and Kiwis do not like that.\nNew Zealand has a very strong sense of “little New Zealand nationalism” whereby we take national pride in being small and punching above our weight. We revel in being the plucky country that surprises everyone. The two countries do however share language and cultural traits as well as similar political, legal and economic institutions. The Anzac spirit forged at Gallipoli in 1915 has endured through theatres of war in Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia and the way I see it is, like brothers we are rivals. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6783356666564941,"wiki_prob":0.32166433334350586,"text":"Identity, where does it come from?\nCurrent Events, Family, gay, History, Insights, leadership, Politics, psychology, World\nDefinition of identity\na: the distinguishing character or personality of an individual : INDIVIDUALITY\nb: the relation established by psychological identification\nOur identities are composed of many parts. Some are visible, and some are not. One way to explain the widespread emergence of self, as separate from the rest, would be in the 1500’s with Martin Luther, in what today is Germany. Once we understood that we could communicate with god directly, without intermediaries; I could pray to god, I can relate to god, and I can relate to others. I can get to know myself, and thus the emergence of personal identity.\n“On the plane of ideas, we can see that the distinction between inner and outer, and the valorization of the former over the latter, starts in an important sense with Luther.*” 1\nWe have our identity and we depend on it to transact business, to relate to others, and to choose what we do. We all agree on what documents will prove our identity. We fight hard to be who we are. We struggle to gain acceptance, so we can safely say, “I am this way”. However, we haven’t had to prove we are not something else. Identity disbelief. How far has the concept of identity gone to where it has been weaponized, to deny something to someone?\nIncluded in the references are two short video interviews. The first one is a parody, the second, to give the first context, is an interview that delves deeper into immigration issues in Europe. The videos are from Jazza John, a YouTube blogger and activist.\nThe video clips show how individuals are asked to prove they are gay, to be granted asylum on such grounds. To prove their sexual identity in a vacuum. Once the idea of identity is established, it can be denied. The interview ends with a parody that shows how identity can be used as a weapon. Something purely conceptual. The video also illustrates what are believed to be ways to prove who you are. What kind of questions would prove your sexual identity.\nIdentity derives from a mutual understanding that we will both see each other. We will recognize each other, as friend or foe. When the management of identity is given to an institution, aspects of identity can be deleted from the roster. In the USA, it is said that transgender could be removed from the possible identities, then transgender people could become a non-identity. This rings to the inter war era where individuals were striped of their nationality, becoming stateless.\nThe 2004 movie The Terminal, with Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg is a spoof about a stateless traveler. This movie is an adaptation of a 1994 French film Tombés du ciel . Nationality is an important part of identity, especially our professional and financial identity. We have social identity and identity theft. This last one costing consumers 16 billion in 2017.\nI believe It would be difficult to prove one’s identity without trust or good faith; Without one’s peers. It’s not factual. One ought to keep in mind that often people are forced to obfuscate who they are in order to survive. How could one turn it around and be genuine, when all you’ve had is persecution? Individuals become guarded. We learn to deflect and obscure, and that eventually becomes part of our identity.\nProve you are straight, parody.\nFull interview\n1) from “Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment” by Francis Fukuyama.\nNote; Many centuries before Martin Luther, Augustine went through a similar tortured exploration of his inner self in his Confessions. Unlike Luther, however, his writings did not devalue established social institutions or trigger massive upheavals in the politics and society of his time.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo\nhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stripping-naturalized-immigrants-their-citizenship-isnt-new-180969733/\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/consumers-lost-more-than-16b-to-fraud-and-identity-theft-last-year.html\nhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/identity\nhttps://www.ags.school.nz/at-grammar/student-services/guidance-and-counselling/identity/\nhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362227/faq\nNovember 29, 2018 Current Events, education, gay, information, Insights, Politics, success\nPrevious Previous post: NEWS!-LITTLE BOOTS LIVE from Allaire Studios | HEADSPACE by AKG and Mixmag- mellow rhythmic voice\nNext Next post: Giuseppe Ottaviani live at Dreamstate SoCal 2018-Amazingly brilliant!!! So lost in the music I felt transcended!!! Giuseppe is the master!!!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line883115"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6620050668716431,"wiki_prob":0.6620050668716431,"text":"Big Project ME\nConstruction Machinery ME\nME Consultant\nTruck&Fleet ME\nVideo: The View at The Palm\nWhy choose LACASA?\nALEC’s BIM Journey\nWhat makes LACASA different\nVideo: MBR Solar Park, a CNN mini-doc\nRetail & Hospitality Construction Summit 2019\nAccess and Handling Summit\nME BIM Summit 2019\nBig Project ME Awards 2019\nME Consultant Awards 2019\nInterview: Andrew Mackenzie, partner at Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla\nBy Gavin Davids\nDeveloping a firm’s construction arbitration practice and where the region’s industry is headed\n“That’s what’s very typical of this region, especially on government-related projects. They’re told that everything will be fine, but then they get to a level where the budget isn’t there to clear these costly claims”\nAt the start of the year, international law firm Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla announced that it had expanded its capabilities in the GCC region through the appointment of Andrew Mackenzie as partner in its UAE Arbitration practice. Coming off the back of a recent shake-up of the UAE practice, the appointment of Mackenzie was hailed by executive chairman Dr Habib Al Mulla, who said the move would allow the firm to support clients operating in the Middle East through the lifecycle of their operations, from structuring and advisory all the way through to dispute resolution.\nJoining Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla from Hogan Lovells in the UAE, Mackenzie brings with him an expertise in international arbitration law, with a particular focus on construction, engineering, energy and insurance disputes. He has been based in the UAE for more than eight years and has full rights of audience in the Dubai International Financial Centre courts, and has also been admitted as a solicitor in both his native Scotland and England and Wales, where he is also a solicitor advocate in the higher courts.\nMckenzie acts for international corporations and governments across the Middle East, Africa and Asia on complex commercial disputes under a variety of civil and common law systems, having tried cases in all of the major arbitration forums (both treaty-based and commercial), representing developers, contractors and consultants from around the world for a variety of projects.\nWith the senior leadership of Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla determined to establish the firm as a leader in construction arbitration across the GCC and wider MENA region, Mackenzie’s expertise and experience is invaluable to their plans for expansion and growth over the coming years.\n“Myself and Dr Habib have one vision, which is to ensure that the team based in the UAE works regionally – more so than we already do. We focus on working in Saudi Arabia, in conjunction with our colleagues there, in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat – across the GCC and the wider region. Baker McKenzie benefits from the fact that we’ve got a very hefty footprint in Africa – we’re in Johannesburg, Cairo and Casablanca – and because of that, we can tap into the MENA region, the northern African states, where there are more than a trillion dollars worth of projects ongoing,” Mackenzie says during an interview with Big Project ME at the Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla offices in Business Bay, Dubai.\n“It also means that we can become a legal hub. We’re already a business hub for sub-Saharan Africa. We want to be seen as, both externally and internally, a centre of excellence for arbitration across all industries,” he continues.\nHaving been brought in to head the international arbitration and construction team, Mackenzie aims to put a particular focus on disputes, arbitration and litigation. With seven lawyers under him – soon to be eight – all construction and arbitration specialists themselves, he hopes to put in place a team that will offer a range of services and expertise to clients from all over the region.\n“I also do front-end construction work as well, I know my way around ECP contracts and the drafting of the usual standard forms. The team ranges in levels as well, which is good, because I obviously can’t be everywhere at once. Dr Habib is a very well-known arbitrator and UAE law expert, and the calls on his time are very demanding as well.\n“But the nice thing is that we have a wonderful synergy at Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla. We have the local law experience – by that I mean all regional local laws – we have the common law background – which is mine – and we obviously have the construction and engineering arbitration expertise. We’re also trying to be multilingual as well, which helps. It means that we can tender for work that would usually fall outside my remit, because proceedings are usually conducted in Arabic or because it’s for a particular client in a style or culture that other international firms would find it difficult to adopt into.”\nHaving moved to Dubai at the tail end of 2009, Mackenzie had a first-hand look at how the construction industry in the region operated right when external pressures were at the highest levels. With the real estate market in collapse, he was able to focus on the construction boom disputes that inevitably arose.\n“It was chiefly construction disputes at the time. Projects like Dubai Mall and the Dubai Airport – that’s probably one of the most heavily litigated buildings in the world. I think everyone has been involved in it, one way or another. I cut my teeth on some very sizeable and complex disputes, involving multiple parties on the contractor, consultant and government end as well. It was nice to have that experience and exposure to all the different sectors and the different viewpoints in the industry.\n“From there, I broadened my practice to a degree, focusing on services beyond construction to other general commercial disputes as well. Arbitration was about 90% construction and engineering-related, and I picked up a number of disputes that were typically main contractor, subcontractor and developer. But then I started doing work for architects and engineers, which then involved the insurers – who are a very active and often neglected part of the construction industry,” he says.\n“People don’t often see things from an insurer’s perspective, so it was fascinating to gain that insight and see how disputes that are on the face of it very clearly construction disputes often evolve into very complex coverage claims under contractual risk or professional indemnities policies.”\nThis experience is likely to stand him in good stead, given that the last few years have seen a slump in performance for the regional construction market. While experts predict that 2018 is likely to see an increase in project awards in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the region is still grappling with the issue of funding for developments. As a result, the likelihood of disputes and arbitration in the industry is likely to increase, especially since Mackenzie says one of the fundamental lessons from 2009 still hasn’t been learnt – the importance of adhering to a contract.\n“Sometimes these parties take months, if not years, to negotiate and sign these documents. They can run into hundreds of pages, with many different schedules, and then typically what happens is that the client takes it and sticks it into a drawer [and forgets about it]. They just never read it, and they forget that the contract is supposed to be the fundamental basis upon which they’re delivering their project.\n“And when they forget about it, it ultimately leads to disaster because they forget to put notices in and they forget to comply with the provisions of the contract. You do have this honeymoon period when both parties get on really well and neither party wants to break that by appearing too contractual or notice-oriented, but what that ultimately leads to is smaller issues building up, snowballing and becoming global claims that ultimately lead to large-scale arbitration, because the parties are poles apart.”\nDespite having been very successful at arbitration for the last twelve years, Mackenzie insists that if he can stop a client from going into arbitration, he always will. Not only is it an all-consuming process, it is also time-intensive, costly and rarely results in both parties walking away fully satisfied with the result.\n“That’s what’s very typical of this region, especially on government-related projects. They’re told that everything will be fine, but then they get to a level where the budget isn’t there to clear these costly claims. This leads to another issue – communication. Because these claims aren’t going through, because these warnings aren’t coming in to the people with the purse strings, they then turn around and say, ‘Well, we’ve paid $2.4 billion for this project, but now you’re saying it’s going to cost $3.8 billion – and you’re telling us this at the eleventh hour. What do you expect us to do?’\n“That is an issue that often arises, but adherence to the contract would stop all of that,” he asserts.\nHowever, Mackenzie does point out that there has been some improvement, particularly in regard to companies being more reluctant to press ahead with formal dispute resolutions and go straight into arbitration.\n“Basically, that was the only real outcome of the crash in 2009. Everyone was going into arbitration, those who could afford to at least. The others that couldn’t just had to pull out of the market. Their bonds were called and there was very little they could do about it.\n“There’s a reluctance now to go into formal proceedings, and there’s certainly more adherence to the contract. I find that there’s certainly an understanding internally, for those who had learnt their lessons and lived through it, that they had to take contracts more seriously and update their internal processes and procedures.\n“Unfortunately, those lessons were learnt through a baptism of fire. You saw companies go through these horrendous disputes which were very time-intensive and costly, and as a result of that, they’ve learnt that catching things as they arise on a project could save you years of grief that you have to go through during arbitration. However, I would say that they’re in the minority. I think a lot of these big contractors, subcontractors and engineers, even the sophisticated international ones, still don’t fully appreciate the things that they could be doing now to stop a repeat of what happened in 2009,” he warns ominously.\nThis is especially frustrating, as he says it’s not like there hasn’t been enough opportunity. The market has gone through three dispute cycles since 2009, he points out, adding that it looks likely to be edging towards a fourth.\n“2017 was quiet, but again, without sounding too corny, it was perhaps too quiet! People were battening down the hatches. Clients certainly said that to me. They just wanted to get through 2017 and hope that 2018 would bring more growth. But tie that in with the oil price rise, and tie that in with the increase in liquidity, which will slowly return to the market, and I think we’re going to see people get a bit more prone to launch formal proceedings. We’ve already seen that in January.”\nDespite his wariness, Mackenzie does see positive developments on the horizon. Based on recent experiences with government-backed developers, he believes that change is coming – and not a moment too soon, with events like Expo 2020 coming up in a couple of years.\n“Dubai Properties has actually put out a call-out for a contractor-led framework [for tendering]. Basically, the old traditional form of tendering is seen as outdated, outmoded and generally not fit for purpose. It generally leaves the contractor exposed, which ultimately leaves the developer being unable to complete. I think Dubai Properties and Nakheel have felt that most keenly, and so it’s slightly more contractor-led at the moment.\n“I think the fact that developers like Dubai Properties are prepared to look at it seriously is a good indicator that a quasi-government entity is thinking to itself, ‘Do we just want to carry on as normal?’ They’ll ultimately come out the better party, but you compare it to Emaar’s model, where they adopted an approach to the market focused on completing specific projects and delivering for its customers, and not getting entangled in big, hefty disputes.”\nWhile these steps are certainly welcome, Mackenzie does think more can be done by government entities, particularly when it comes to developing communication and relationships with the region’s contractors. This will allow all stakeholders to move away from the traditional design and build contract model and find a better way to develop projects in a more collaborative manner.\n“If you have that framework in place and an understanding that a number of contractors have fed into that framework, then it’s quite clever in a way, because while the developers are still setting the rules of the game, the contractors are going in there with their eyes wide open.”\nAnother positive development in recent years has been the work done with the DIFC courts, he adds. Although there was initial resistance to the idea, and a lack of awareness of what was on offer, Dubai’s leadership has acted quickly to allay concerns and position the courts as the region’s premier dispute resolution service, he says. The DIFC courts have been so successful that other countries in the region have tried to emulate the system, though with considerably less success.\n“It’s great that many of our competitors, from a GCC perspective, have tried to copy – in various different guises – what the Dispute Resolution Authority and the DIFC have done. But they’ve not done it successfully, because they haven’t really followed through.\n“To give you an example, Qatar tried to create an adjudication process, but there was no appetite for it. I had advised on it, way back in the day with a number of other peers, but there was no real push from the government to embrace it. In hindsight, given the problems with Qatar Rail and other projects, that would have been very sensible.\n“Other bodies around the GCC have done likewise, but with no real follow through. With the DIFC, they’ve not only given people access to things like the Small Claims Court, but they’ve also launched their own specific Construction Technology Court, which is similar to the TCC in London. There’s an education process ongoing, and I think it’s far better for the industry.”\nFinally, Mackenzie brings up another topic that he believes will have a significant impact on the construction industry. January 1 was the launch of VAT in the UAE, and he is keen to stress that entities in the region, particularly in the construction industry, need to start considering the implications.\n“For the sophisticated players, the ones who are used to working in regions where this is already in existence, or have been keeping an eye on it and planning for it, it will be a far smoother transition. What’s noticeable, and using VAT as a prime example, is that some entities didn’t even contemplate – even though it was discussed widely in the market – what the implications were for the introduction of VAT.\n“Be under no illusions, the introduction of VAT is merely the beginning of greater regulation, and indeed taxation of the industry – of all industries. Corporation tax is already under discussion; they do say it’s in the early stages, but I think we should expect to see a draft law within the next two of three years,” he forecasts.\n“Many of our clients, and other players in the industry, have not fully planned for the introduction of VAT, hence why they have approached us and we have taken various steps to not only provide them with advice and guidelines prior to the introduction, but also, as of the beginning of this year, created a tax specific department.”\nCoupled with this is the UAE’s – and Dubai’s – ambitions to become a greener, more efficient state that uses smart technology and renewables. In the last few years, stringent regulations around green building codes and energy usage have been put in place by the authorities, while government agendas and policies have been adopted to drive change across the economy.\nAs a result, companies will have to change and adapt to keep up with the new reality, and Mackenzie says that process will not be easy if companies do not prepare.\n“I think part of the industry is prepared, but the ones that aren’t are going to suffer. Many companies have had it good for too long. They haven’t had much regulation, they haven’t had to adhere to specific building codes. Dubai, and the region in general, has been reactive rather than proactive.\n“[Moving from a reactive to a proactive stance] is an inevitable part of a growing and developing industry. I think the industry players will try and hold on to the good old days for as long as possible and live in denial, but these regulations are coming.\n“VAT is difficult [to dodge] because it’s so heavily regulated and they’ll be punished if they don’t comply, but other players will attempt to get away with regulations that are looser in nature and have more wriggle room. However, I think that you’ll see the ones that are adhering to the regulations and abiding by them will begin to be singled out by the government, who wants to see this agenda pushed – they’ll want to see that the industry is responding to them.\n“Therefore, I think that these companies will begin to win a larger share of the work, as opposed to the ones who do it on the cheap and provide things that are not in compliance,” he concludes.\nRelated Items:Baker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla, construction disputes, law\nBaker McKenzie Habib Al Mulla: Appeals win sets precedent…\nSaudi mid-day break rule introduced\nNew Dubai law amends Performance Bond requirements of contractors\nDubai Municipality cracks down on lawbreakers\nLaw firm calls for off plan sales regulation\nNew contract will address gaps in market\nA new generation, a new style\nGeberit Gulf debuts 2019 product range at glitzy Dubai…\nABB to help deliver clean energy in Dubai\nInterview: Omer Al-Jamel, KONE MEA, on changing regulation and demand in the region\nRegion could be heading towards fourth dispute cycle since 2009\n‘We have the firepower to build Saudi’s future,’ Red Sea Project chief tells MECN\nAldar Properties wins multiple AUH contracts\nProject Profile: How the Coco-Cola Arena was delivered ahead of schedule\nEllisDon wins Canada Pavilion contract for Expo 2020 Dubai\nAl Bawani wins $89mn commercial tower project from Asharqia Chamber\nSaipem wins $3.5bn worth contracts in Saudi Arabia\nArabtec Holding appoints Adel Al Wahedi as acting Group CFO\nPeugeot introduces all-new 2020 Partner in GCC\nTarget wins additional work on ADNOC Onshore project\nSiemens wins $319mn contract for Maisan Combined Cycle Power Plant\nMEConstructionNews.com is the central website of leading construction magazines - Big Project Middle East, Construction Machinery Middle East, Middle East Consultant and Truck & Fleet Middle East.\nA one stop shop updated daily with industry news, interviews, analysis, expert opinion, videos and more.\nJohn Pagano on creating a tourist destination the size of Belgium from scratch, while...\nContractors will be appointed immediately to commence works on Saadiyat Island, Yas Island and...\nASGC and HPBS on creating and building Dubai's new state-of-the-art multi-purpose arena\nComplementary including business, investment attraction and cultural components will unfold in the Canada Pavilion\nAsharqia’s chairman explains Chamber is moving to a new stage that will strengthen its...\nfeaturednews featuredpost dubai constructions saudi arabia United Arab Emirates the big picture PROJECTS MACHINERY construction abu dhabi qatar infrastructure uae Oman Property development real estate network magazines development sustainability Bahrain Egypt middle east Nakheel\n© 2019 CPI Trade Media. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5559321641921997,"wiki_prob":0.4440678358078003,"text":"20th century fiction\nDeath has Deep Roots – Michael Gilbert\nVictoria Lamartine is on trial for the murder of Major Eric Thoseby. The murder was committed in a small in the Family Hotel in Pearlyman Street, run by Monsieur Sainte, who came to London after the war. Vicky is another French refugee, assisted by the Société de Lorraine, an organisation set up to help French citizens in London, to find work after suffering imprisonment & torture by the Gestapo for her role in the Resistance in the Angers region. Thoseby had been the SOE contact in the area. He knew Vicky & she had been in contact with him after the war, trying to trace Lieutenant Julian Wells, the father of her baby. Vicky gave birth in a prison camp & the baby later died of malnutrition but Vicky didn’t believe the story that Julian had been killed by the Gestapo in the same raid when she was caught. Thoseby was at the hotel that night to meet Vicky & she was discovered standing over his body. The murder weapon, a kitchen knife, has her prints on it & the very efficient method used to stab Thoseby was taught to Resistance fighters during the war.\nNap Rumbold is the junior partner in his father’s firm of solicitors. He is surprised to be contacted by Vicky’s solicitors two days before the trial commences & asked to take on the case. Vicky was dissatisfied with her counsel, who obviously believed her guilty, & she had heard of Nap through Major Thoseby (they were wartime colleagues). Nap agrees to see Vicky & is impressed by her story. The police case is that Major Thoseby was the father of Vicky’s child & that she murdered him when he refused to support her. Nap believes her innocent but realises how difficult it will be to prove her innocence & discover the true murderer. Nap enlists Major Angus McCann, a private investigator, to pursue the London end of the investigation while he goes to France to look into the wartime roots of the relationship between Vicky & Thoseby. The investigation is complicated by the other guests at the hotel, including alcoholic Colonel Alwright & Mrs Gwendolyne Roper, whose evidence seems damning until her own activities are scrutinised.\nThis is a great combination of courtroom drama & adventure story. The background of the war & the French Resistance is exciting & Nap’s investigations in Angers reveal many secrets that desperate men would kill to keep hidden. The chapters alternate between the trial & Nap’s investigations & this structure works very successfully. I’ve always been a fan of courtroom drama (Witness for the Prosecution is one of my favourite movies) & the sober recounting of evidence contrasts well with the chapters in France as Nap tries to break through the obstructions of people who have many secrets. The wartime background is fascinating as the motives of everyone involved are untangled & the time constraints involved ramp up the tension beautifully. It was a real treat to have the opportunity to read Death has Deep Roots for the 1951 Club.\nThe 1951 Club has been a wonderful excuse to read & reread some terrific books. There are lots of links to more reviews on Simon’s blog here. As well as the two books I’ve reviewed, I’ve also listened to the audio book of The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, read by Derek Jacobi. This is one of my favourite books & I must have read or listened to it over 20 times. I’ve also reviewed My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier (I’m looking forward to the new movie very much. There’s a trailer here). Other reviews on the blog – The Blessing by Nancy Mitford, Round the Bend by Nevil Shute, There are so many more that I read pre-blog, 1951 must be one of my favourite reading years! One that brought back happy memories when I saw it in the Goodreads list was Désirée by Annemarie Selinko, a romantic novel about Napoleon’s first love. I’ve also read The End of the Affair by Graham Green, They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie, The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (after seeing the TV series with John Duttine back in the 70s), Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary (a childhood favourite), Night at the Vulcan by Ngaio Marsh, Duplicate Death by Georgette Heyer, A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor, An English Murder by Cyril Hare, The Lute Player by Norah Lofts & Florence Nightingale by Cecil Woodham-Smith. I’d recommend them all, even though I read many of them over 35 years ago. What a great year for publishing!\nThe Quiet Gentleman – Georgette Heyer\nApril 11, 2017 April 8, 2017 / preferreading\t/ 25 Comments\nGervase Frant, sixth Earl of St Erth, returns to Stanyon, his family home in Lincolnshire, a year after the death of his father & after several years as a soldier on the Continent. The unregarded son of his father’s first, unhappy, marriage, his return is disconcerting for his stepmother, the Dowager Countess, & especially for her son, Martin. Martin has been the spoiled darling of both his parents, treated almost as the heir, & the reappearance of his half-brother is a source of jealousy. The estate has been stewarded by a cousin, Theo Frant, a steady hand who has kept in touch with Gervase. Miss Drusilla Morville, the daughter of a local gentry family, is visiting Stanyon as the guest of the Dowager while her parents are on their travels.\nGervase’s quiet good manners soon recommend him to the Dowager & the rest of the household. All except Martin, whose resentment is plain. When Gervase rescues the beautiful young heiress, Marianne Bolderwood, after she is thrown from her horse, Martin’s jealousy is aroused. Marianne’s easy, flirtatious manners have led Martin to believe that she returns his love although she is too innocent to realise it. When Gervase’s friend Lord Ulverston arrives, the attraction between him & Marianne is obvious to everyone but Martin. He tries to force his attentions on Marianne at a ball at Stanyon by proposing to her & then tries to force Ulverston to fight a duel.\nMore seriously, Gervase is the victim of several “accidents” which could be something more sinister. Martin forgets to warn his brother of a rickety bridge & a rope pulled deliberately across the road trips his horse. When Gervase is shot while out driving, & Martin disappears, everything seems to be pointing in the direction of a jealous young man with murderous intent. But is this really the answer? Gervase is determined to avoid scandal but can he believe that Martin was not involved?\nI love Georgette Heyer. Of course, there’s also romance as well as intrigue in this sparkling story. Drusilla Morville is a quiet, elegant young woman from an intellectual family who has an easy, companionable friendship with the whole family. She’s on the spot when Gervase is thrown from his horse & takes on the burden of nursing him after he’s shot. Her impeccable manners & competence impress Gervase but Drusilla will not allow herself to think of anything but friendship with a rich nobleman, her parents’ landlord to boot, who will surely marry an heiress. Gervase’s initial impression of Drusilla on his first evening at home,\n” And who, pray, is that little squab of a female? Was she invited for my entertainment?Don’t tell me she is an heiress! I could not – no, I really could not be expected to pay my addresses to anyone with so little countenance or conversation!”\n‘Drusilla! No, no, nothing of that sort!” smiled Theo. “I fancy my aunt thinks she would make a very suitable wife for me!”\n“My poor Theo!”\nsoon changes as they become acquainted & he realises that she has plenty of humour & conversation as well as quiet good sense. She even discusses Mary Wollstonecraft’s life & work with Gervase quite matter of factly which I loved. Drusilla is one of Heyer’s older heroines & much more interesting to me than flighty Marianne Bolderwood with her beauty & her train of suitors. I also adored the Dowager Countess with her Lady Catherine-like pronouncements & her complete self-absorption. The mystery of the attacks on Gervase is absorbing, I loved the descriptions of the estate, the house & the countryside & altogether, this is now one of my favourite Heyer novels. My enjoyment was enhanced by listening to the audio book read by Cornelius Garrett, one of my favourite narrators. I like to listen to an audio book for 15 mins or so before I go to sleep but some nights I was desperately trying to stay awake for just a few minutes more to find out what would happen. I’ve listened to several Heyers on audio & enjoyed them all. I still have Frederica, read by Clifford Norgate in my Audible library but the next one I want to read is Venetia as I want to listen to the Backlisted podcast which you can listen to here or wherever you get your podcasts.\nIt was a real treat to read The Quiet Gentleman for the 1951 Club. Thanks Simon & Karen for the opportunity to read a book that had been in the tbl (to be listened) list for too long.\nOne, Two, Buckle my Shoe – Agatha Christie\nMarch 14, 2017 March 13, 2017 / preferreading\t/ 12 Comments\nHercule Poirot visits his dentist, Mr Morley, reluctantly. It’s just a check up but he’s apprehensive. The visit goes smoothly, nothing out of the ordinary happens except that as Poirot is leaving, he sees a middle-aged woman arrive at the surgery. As she steps from her taxi, she catches her shoe & the buckle is torn off. Poirot politely picks up the buckle & hands it to her. He is amazed to hear from Chief Inspector Japp that, just hours after Poirot’s visit, Mr Morley has been found shot dead & it appears to be suicide.\nPoirot is suspicious. Mr Morley seemed perfectly normal & untroubled & there seems no motive for suicide until one of his patients, Mr Amberiotis, dies suddenly of an overdose of the anaesthetic drug administered by Mr Morley. Was it remorse at making such a terrible mistake that led to the dentist committing suicide? Then, another patient, Miss Sainsbury Seale (she of the buckled shoes), disappears after a visit from Poirot & Japp. Poirot’s investigations will involve everyone who was in Mr Morley’s house that day – Alfred, the page boy who can’t remember anyone’s name correctly; his assistant, Gladys Nevill, who should have been at work that day but was mysteriously called away to visit a sick aunt who is perfectly healthy; Gladys’s unsatisfactory young man, Frank Carter; Howard Raikes, a young American who left the surgery waiting room without keeping his appointment; Mr Morley’s partner, the alcoholic Irishman Reilly; Mr Morley’s sister, Georgina, & her maid, Agnes, in the flat above the surgery; financier Alistair Blunt (whose niece, Jane, is in love with Raikes) & the mysterious Mr Barnes who hints to Poirot about espionage. What could connect this disparate group of people & why was Mr Morley murdered?\nThis is a classic Christie plot with red herrings galore & some quite subtle misdirection. I had always thought of Christie as quite a bloodless writer (in the sense of not dwelling on the physical details of her corpses) but there’s a very gruesome scene where a decomposing body is found that was startling. There’s also humour in the reaction of people to Poirot & the way he takes advantage of their rudeness or dismissal of him as a “bloody foreigner”.\nI haven’t read any Agatha Christie for years. I read all her novels when I was a teenager – like many people, her books were my introduction to detective fiction. There have been a couple of recent blog posts about audio books (on Christine Poulson’s blog & here at Bridget’s blog A New Look Through Old Eyes) the comments have been full of great recommendations. Christine mentioned Hugh Fraser’s narration of the Poirot audio books &, as I always enjoyed his portrayal of Captain Hastings in the David Suchet series, I thought I’d try a Christie again after many years.\nI loved it. It was the perfect bedtime audio book & I thought Hugh Fraser did a great job. I especially liked his Inspector Japp, he did an excellent imitation of Philip Jackson who played Japp in the series. His Poirot was very subtle, the accent not too overpowering. I’ve put some more Christies into my Audible wishlist. I know that her golden period is considered to be the 1930s-1950s & I’ve avoided any where I can remember the solutions. I’ve chosen After the Funeral, The Hollow, Taken at the Flood, Dumb Witness, The ABC Murders & Hickory Dickory Dock. Any other classic Christies I should try? I’ve just checked my Poirot DVDs & I have the Suchet version of One, Two, Buckle my Shoe so I may have to have a look & see if they made any major changes to the plot. Lovely way to spend the afternoon. By the way, does anyone have a favourite narrator for the Miss Marple books? I see that most of them are read by Joan Hickson or Stephanie Cole, both of whom I imagine would be perfect. I’ve just listened to Stephanie Cole reading the sample of Sleeping Murder & she has Gwenda’s New Zealand accent just right so that’s a good sign. Then, there’s The Moving Finger read by Richard E Grant, another favourite voice.\nThe Uninvited – Dorothy Macardle\nJanuary 26, 2017 / preferreading\t/ 11 Comments\nRoddy Fitzgerald is a writer & critic, living in London with his sister, Pamela, who has been nursing their father & is mentally & physically worn out. The Fitzgeralds are tired of London life & are on the lookout for a place in the country. On a road trip, they discover Cliff End, a remote, slightly dilapidated but beautiful Georgian house on the coast in Devon. Pamela falls in love immediately & can see the possibilities while Roddy doesn’t think they can afford to buy it. Surprisingly, the owner, Commander Brooke, agrees to sell it for a nominal price, leaving the Fitzgeralds to pay for renovations. The Commander, a gruff man, seems uneasy about the house but says little about its history. He lives with his orphaned granddaughter, Stella, who has led a sheltered life at boarding school. Stella lived at Cliff End as a young child until the tragic death of her mother, Mary, who fell from the cliff. Her father, the artist Llewellyn Meredith, left England & the Commander cared for Stella with the help of Mary’s friend, Miss Holloway. Mary’s death combined with the scandal of Meredith’s relationship with his Spanish model, Carmel, may account for the Commander’s dislike of the house but local rumour whispers of the house being haunted.\nPamela begins the renovations with local help & Roddy winds up their London life. He plans to write a book but soon begins a play. Lizzie Flynn, the Fitzgerald’s Irish housekeeper, completes the household. Lizzie soon picks up the local gossip & her cat, Whiskey, refuses to go upstairs. Stella is fascinated with the house & the Fitzgeralds are keen to invite her but her grandfather refuses absolutely, without reason, to allow the friendship to develop. Stella does visit the house & the manifestations seem to be stimulated by her presence. Stella’s reveres the mother she can barely remember but the spirit in the house seems to be both loving & vengeful. Is it trying to protect Stella or harm her? However much Roddy & Pamela love the house, there’s an unpleasant atmosphere in some of the rooms. Sobbing in the night & patches of intense cold lead to more frightening manifestations.\nMy hand groped, trembling, for the light switch; I turned it on and ran bare-foot downstairs. everything was as we had left it: a white cloth, thrown over the laden table, made it like a bier; the nursery was empty, the curtains closed; face powder strewed the dressing table; the scent of mimosa lingered, potent still.\nI leaned against the wall, waiting for my heart to recover its natural beat, but a cold shivering had taken me and I longed for my own room. I turned the lights out and tried to go upstairs.\nI could not do it; I trembled at the knees and shuddered convulsively, sick with the chill that seemed to shrink the flesh on my bones and wrinkle my skin.My breast was hollow and a breath blew over my heart. If I had not clung to the newel-post, fighting, I would have panicked; I would have shouted for Max or pulled the front door open and torn out of the house. I thought something was coming down the stairs.\nThe Uninvited is a genuinely creepy tale of ghosts & the influence that the past can have on the present. The familiar tropes of the ghost story – the remote, abandoned house, the noises in the night, patches of unexplained cold, the cat who refuses to go into certain rooms – are there but very much grounded in a domestic story of renovating a house, making a home. Roddy’s growing love for Stella is protective but his desire to rescue her from whatever is haunting the house is combined with a recognition that she is her own person. She has been stifled by her grandfather & by the image of the saintly Mary, encouraged by the sinister Miss Holloway (whose obsession with Mary reminded me of Mrs Danvers) as well as the locals. The Commander’s desire to root out any influence from Stella’s artistic, immoral father is almost pathological.\n“She is her father’s daughter. She remembers him; that is the trouble. … She resembles him physically. The influence of that strain in her is so potent that it has been my life’s aim to break it down. God knows, I’ve left nothing undone! When Mary died I retired from the navy and dedicated myself to that purpose – to make Mary’s child the woman Mary would have wished her to be. I paid an exorbitant salary to Mary’s confidential nurse; I surrounded Stella with Mary’s pictures, gave her Mary’s books, sent her to the same school. It was a sacrifice: I missed her. But when she returned home a year ago I was pleased. She would always be without her mother’s grace, charm, beauty, but she was good. She was serious; she carried out her duties conscientiously; she continued her studies under my direction. I planned to take her abroad.”\nTo combat this stifling atmosphere becomes the goal of both Roddy & Pamela. In the course of this struggle for Stella’s future happiness, they are fighting not only her stubborn grandfather but also the uninvited inhabitants of Cliff End. Their determination to win through & release Stella from the ties of the past leads to a truly exciting climax.\nThe Uninvited was made into what is considered one of the best supernatural movies ever made, one of the first to treat ghosts seriously & not just as comic relief. Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp (one of my favourite character actors) & Gail Russell as Stella, it has a screenplay by Dodie Smith (of I Capture the Castle & Look Back with Love fame). I watched the movie first & it was very close to the book. The friends who visit the Fitzgeralds, Roddy’s play writing & most of the locals are left out but that just heightens the solitary atmosphere of the house & the supernatural manifestations. The Irishness is also almost completely removed. Macardle was an Irish writer, very active in the Republican movement, & much is made of the Irishness of the Fitzgeralds in the book. Lizzie’s Catholicism is very potent & more than just peasant superstition (which it tends to be in the movie) & the local priest, Father Anson, has a greater role.\nThe lovely new edition I read is part of Irish publisher Tramp Press‘s Recovered Voices series (I reviewed the first of the series, A Struggle for Fame by Charlotte Riddell, a couple of years ago). It’s a beautifully produced book with French flaps & an informative introduction by Luke Gibbons.\nBecause of the Lockwoods – Dorothy Whipple\nJanuary 10, 2017 January 9, 2017 / preferreading\t/ 11 Comments\nHarriet Evans, in her Preface to this edition of Because of the Lockwoods, writes of the “readability factor” in Dorothy Whipple’s work & speculates that she is not better known & valued as a novelist because her books are just so satisfying to read that critics think she can’t be writing “real literature“. Well, I can testify to the unputdownability of her work. It was a very hot day last Saturday & I sat down at about 11am with a glass of iced tea & Because of the Lockwoods . I was at about p130 & I finished the book that evening. Apart from necessary breaks for more iced tea, lunch & opening the door to the cats & trying to convince them that they should stay inside, I read over 300pp in a day. I can’t remember the last time I did that. I kept planning to stop but then “I’ll read just one more chapter. I must find out how Thea gets on at the Pensionnat or whether Martin will accept the dress clothes from Mr Lockwood or will Oliver’s plans for Molly work out?”. In the end I just forgot about the heat & anything else I should have been doing & raced on to the end of a very satisfying novel.\nThe Hunters & the Lockwoods are neighbours. Richard Hunter’s early death leaves his widow at a loss, emotionally & financially, & she eagerly clutches at the idea that William Lockwood will step in & help her with her finances even though he does this with a very bad grace. Money is going to be tight & Mrs Hunter has three children to bring up so they must sell their house on the pleasant outskirts of Aldworth, a Northern manufacturing town. The house they buy in Byron Place is cramped & inconvenient. The neighbourhood is not what the Hunters have been used to & Mrs Hunter struggles on, trying to make ends meet, keeping her distance from the neighbours. The Hunters are patronised by the Lockwoods, expected to be grateful for invitations to Christmas parties. Mrs Hunter is an ineffectual woman, pathetically grateful for Mrs Lockwood’s cast-off clothing & completely unable to reassess her circumstances & pull herself out of the slump she went into at her husband’s death.\nMolly & Martin Hunter are forced to leave school early. Mrs Lockwood finds work for Molly as a governess & Martin, who longs to be a doctor, ends up as a bank clerk. Neither are suited for these jobs but they seem unable to change their circumstances. Thea, the youngest of the Hunter children is a different proposition altogether. Thea resents the Lockwoods & their unwilling patronage. She endured humiliating visits to Mr Lockwood’s office as a child, watched his contemptuous dismissal of her mother & suffered through the torments of social occasions with the monstrously self-satisfied twins Bea & Muriel Lockwood. She manages to stay on at school, convinces her mother to allow her to go to France as an au pair for a year (unfortunately to the same pensionnat as the Lockwoods) &, when that ends disastrously, is the catalyst for the turn around in the family fortunes that comes after much heartache & misery.\nHer mother, Molly and Martin wrote every week, mostly to say they really had no news. Their letters seemed to be both wistful and flat. Now that she was at a distance from her family, with only their letters to represent them, she noticed a factor common to all three: a lack of interest in what they were doing, in the way they had to spend their lives. Her mother wasn’t interested in housework, Molly wasn’t interested in governessing, Martin wasn’t interested in the bank. Thea was shocked to make this discovery. Not only was it a waste of life, but she wondered, too, if it was a fault inherent in the family. With anxiety, she examined herself to see if it was in her as well. But though she had to admit to frequent dissatisfaction, resentment, indignation, she didn’t think she could be accused of lack of interest.\nThea is the life force in the Hunter family but it’s Oliver Reade who really makes change a reality through sheer energy & will. When the Reades move into Byron Place they see it as a step up from Gas Street where they had lived in poverty. Oliver’s hard work has taken his mother & sister to a respectable home. The difference in the two families is as simple as their attitude to Byron Place. For the Hunters, it’s a humiliating drop in social status & Mrs Hunter’s pretensions to gentility prevent her from becoming part of the neighbourhood. She’s lonely & her children are unhappy in their uncongenial jobs. For the Reades, it’s an upward move. Oliver pursues Thea & is undeterred by her cold indifference. His attempts to become friends are rejected but he gradually becomes a friend of the family, helping Molly & Martin to eventually break free of the inertia they seem unable to overcome. His attempts to better himself, attending night school & taking elocution lessons are endearing rather than comic & his steadfast love for Thea is very touching. Oliver is successful despite his origins & the Hunter’s superior social class is no help to them without the money to keep up the lifestyle they once had. Eventually Oliver is the catalyst for the tremendous & very satisfying conclusion to the novel when the Lockwoods & the Hunters get their just desserts.\nI loved everything about this book. The first sentences set the tone for the relationship between the two families. “Mrs Lockwood decided to invite Mrs Hunter and her children to Oakfield for New Year’s Eve. It would be one way of getting the food eaten up. There was always so much of it during Christmas week, thought Mrs Lockwood with a sense of repletion.” Mrs Lockwood is skewered in those few sentences – her condescension, her canny thrift, her self-satisfaction in her own charity. Who are these Hunters who are to be condescended to? Immediately the reader wants to know & the New Year’s Eve party is so awful that we can’t wait to discover how the Hunters (whose side we’re immediately on) found themselves in such a position. We know from the beginning that Mr Lockwood has indulged in a shady bit of subterfuge to get hold of a paddock adjoining the Hunter’s house that he has always coveted. Part of the reason why we race through the novel is to see just how that dishonesty will be revealed & in what circumstances. Along the way though, we lose sight of it because we’re so involved in Thea’s romance with a young man in Villeneuve, a provincial French town where manners haven’t changed since the 19th century; Martin being taken up by the Lockwoods as a presentable young man to squire the girls around & then secretly falling in love with the youngest daughter, Clare; Molly blossoming when she finds work that suits her; Angela Harvey, a friend of the Lockwoods, defying convention by planning a career on the stage.\nThank goodness Persephone Books have reprinted nearly all Whipple’s novels & short stories. The rediscovery of Dorothy Whipple is emblematic of everything that Nicola Beauman has tried to do since Persephone was founded in 1999. Whipple’s Someone at a Distance was one of the first three Persephones & I can still remember the sheer joy I felt when I realised that there were authors like Whipple, Susan Glaspell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher & Marghanita Laski that I had never heard of but could now read. The beauty of the books as objects just added to my excitement. Harriet Evans’ Preface to this edition of Because of the Lockwoods is a passionate rallying cry for Dorothy Whipple & her place in 20th century fiction. Evans wants Whipple to be up there with Barbara Pym & Georgette Heyer as rediscovered & reclaimed authors now taken seriously by critics as well as fans. The same Preface could be written for all the authors I mentioned above & many others who have been reprinted by Persephone to the delight of lovers of absorbing novels, short stories, memoirs & diaries. I’m so pleased that this was the first book I finished this year. It’s a wonderful start to my year of reading from my tbr shelves & getting back to the books, the authors & the imprints that I’ve neglected over the past few years.\nThe Poisoned Chocolates Case – Anthony Berkeley\nJanuary 5, 2017 January 2, 2017 / preferreading\t/ 10 Comments\nAt a meeting of the Crimes Circle, convenor Roger Sheringham has a surprise for his fellow club members. He has invited Chief Inspector Moresby to outline the circumstances of an unsolved murder to the Circle with the idea that the members of the Circle do some investigating of their own. Scotland Yard have run out of ideas & are left with the unsatisfying theory that the murder was committed by a lunatic. Sheringham believes that, with the facts laid out as known by the police, the solution can be found & who better to put their minds to the task than the members of the Crimes Circle, six people who have passed the stringent conditions of membership.\nJoan Bendix has been poisoned by liqueur chocolates laced with benzadrine, handed to her by her husband, Graham, who also fell ill after eating some of the sweets. However, it seems that Joan was not the intended victim. Graham had been given the chocolates at his club by Sir Eustace Pennefather. The box arrived in the post as a publicity stunt & Sir Eustace had been only too pleased to hand them on to Bendix who needed a box of chocolates for his wife in settlement of a bet they had made at the theatre the previous night. Sir Eustace is an unpleasant man with many enemies & it seems that Joan has been the victim of a tragic accident. The police have followed up the clues – the chocolates; the letter, written on the letterhead of the Mason’s, the confectioners; the wrapping paper – but every lead has become a dead end.\nThe members of the Circle – novelists Sheringham, Morton Harrogate Bradley & Alicia Dammers, QC Sir Charles Wildman, playwright Mrs Fielder-Flemming & Mr Ambrose Chitterick – take up the investigation with varying degrees of enthusiasm & confidence. Several of the group know the Bendixs & Sir Eustace. They sympathise with the Bendixs who seemed to be a very happy, prosperous couple. On the other hand, Sir Eustace was widely disliked, particularly for his predatory relationships with women. His wife was in the process of divorcing him & the circle of potential suspects for his murder would have been wide. The Circle have a week to formulate their theories & then they will reconvene to outline them & do their best to convince their fellows & Scotland Yard that they have cracked the case.\nThis is an immensely enjoyable & inventive story, rightly called one of the standout novels of the Golden Age of detective fiction. It began life as a short story & I may have read that at some stage as one of the theories sounded very familiar to me. Then again, it became such a famous book that I could have read another mystery using one of these ideas. Berkeley was certainly profligate with his ideas to use so many terrific plots in just one book because all the theories, as I was reading them, sounded more or less convincing. Even the outlining of the case so many times as each theory is explained didn’t pall because each person came to the case from a different angle & with such a range of motives from jealousy to gain to a lust for killing. The range of accused murderers also held some surprises with a final, satisfying twist as the murderer is revealed. I also enjoyed reading about the real-life cases that each member uses to reinforce his or her idea. This book really is a master class in writing sparkling fiction with humour & ingenuity.\nThis edition of The Poisoned Chocolates Case, reprinted as part of the immensely successful British Library Crime Classics series, also includes two additional solutions to the mystery. In the 1970s, Christianna Brand (best known for Green for Danger, one of my favourite mystery novels) wrote a new solution for a US edition of the novel. This is reprinted here for the first time along with yet another solution by Martin Edwards, consultant for the series & author of The Golden Age of Murder. Anthony Berkeley, who also published as Francis Iles, is probably the least well-known of the great Golden Age writers. He was a complicated man & Martin’s book is invaluable reading if you want to know more about him. Interestingly he had the idea for the Detection Club, a dining club for mystery writers that survives to this day, based on the Crimes Circle in this novel.\nIf you’re a fan of Golden Age mysteries, & haven’t yet read The Poisoned Chocolates Case, you’ve missed out on a treat. On a purely aesthetic level, the British Library have produced an attractive book with beautiful cover art based on a travel poster of the day. No wonder the Golden Age is popular again.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1124390"}
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Tutoring can make all the difference in attending the school of your choice and helping students stand out during the admissions process.\nL.A.’s future moguls begin their journey with well-rounded experiences and by spending quality time expanding and engaging their interests. With the area’s rich culture, history, gorgeous beaches and major tourist attractions, Los Angeles County has a wealth of opportunities for growing minds.\nHotspots like Disneyland, Universal CityWalk Hollywood, Santa Monica Pier, Rodeo Drive, Sunset Boulevard, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Griffith Park, Getty Museum, the Hollywood sign, Santa Monica Pier and Hollywood’s Walk of Fame propel L.A.’s booming tourism industry to the tune of $35 billion annually.\nGriffith Park is located amidst the Santa Monica Mountains and covers over 4,310 acres of land. Established in 1896, and sometimes referred to as the Central Park of Los Angeles, Griffith Park is still the second-largest park in California and one of the largest in the nation. Popular attractions in Griffith Park include Griffith Observatory (a great viewing platform for the Hollywood Sign), Greek Theatre, Live Steamers Railroad Museum, L.A. Zoo and Travel Town Museum.\nSanta Monica Pier is not too far from the metro areas of the city of Los Angeles, and the nearby beaches and attractions have served locals and tourists for over 100 years. Pacific Park, located along the pier, is a family amusement park with an impressive solar powered ferris wheel, original 1920’s-style carousel hippodrome, aquarium, trapeze school and world-class restaurants.\nThe J. Paul Getty Museum, known by locals as the Getty, is an art museum tucked away on a hill above Sepulveda Pass and the I-405 highway. The Getty is known for its breathtaking views of the Brentwood area and an art collection that ranges from the Middle Ages to present day.\nL.A. is one of America’s biggest and brightest cities and its local sports teams echo that sentiment.Many of the major sports leagues have several teams from the same sport in L.A.. Overall, Los Angeles has eleven major league teams. From the Los Angeles Lakes and Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA, to the Rams and Chargers of the NFL, the Anaheim Ducks and Kings from the NHL, the Angels and Dodgers of the MLB, L.A. FC and L.A. Galaxy in MLS and the WNBA team Sparks - L.A. has no shortage of top-tier athletic entertainment.\nWith so much to do in the Los Angeles area, it can be hard to maintain focus. Club-Z! Tutoring will keep students on the right track with online or in-home tutoring with one-on-one, private instruction and test preparation.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1578659"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7420054078102112,"wiki_prob":0.2579945921897888,"text":"What a difference straight teeth can make! A great-looking smile can boost your self-confidence and have a positive impact on social and professional opportunities. Orthodontic treatment is the original smile makeover tool — and you will be happy to know that you're never too old to take advantage of it. But it isn't all about looks: Properly aligned teeth help you to bite, chew and even speak more effectively. They are also easier to clean, which helps keep your mouth free of tooth decay and gum disease.\nThe amazing thing about orthodontics is that it harnesses the body's natural ability to remodel its own tissue. With the application of light, constant force, orthodontic appliances gently reshape bone and move teeth into better positions. Some examples of these appliances are traditional metal braces, inconspicuous clear or tooth-colored braces, and clear aligners, a relatively new option for adults and teens.\nBite Problems and How to Fix Them\nOrthodontic treatment can resolve a number of bite problems, which often become evident by around age 7. These include underbite, crossbite or excessive overbite, where upper and lower teeth don't close in the proper position; open bite, where a space remains between top and bottom teeth when the jaws are closed; and crowding or excessive spacing, where teeth are spaced too close together or too far apart.\nTo correct bite problems, teeth need to be moved — but doing that isn't as hard as you might think! Teeth aren't fixed rigidly in their supporting bone; instead, they're held in place by a hammock-like structure called the periodontal ligament, which is very responsive to forces placed on the teeth. Orthodontic appliances move teeth by careful application of light, constant pressure. This force can be applied via metal wires that run through small brackets attached to the teeth (braces), or via the semi-rigid plastic of clear aligners.\nOrthodontics is for Children — and Adults\nHaving orthodontic treatment in childhood is ideal in order to take advantage of a youngster's natural growth processes to help move the teeth into proper alignment. Like the rest of the body, the teeth and jaws are now changing rapidly. So at this time it's possible (for example) to create more room for teeth in a crowded mouth by using a “palatal expander” to rapidly widen the upper jaw. This phase of growth modification can shorten overall treatment time and ensure the best result if additional orthodontic appliances are needed.\nBut remember, healthy teeth can be moved at any age, so you've never “missed the boat” for orthodontic treatment. In fact, about one in five of today's orthodontic patients is an adult. Several new technological developments — including tooth-colored ceramic braces, clear aligners and invisible lingual braces — have made orthodontic appliances less evident, and enhanced the treatment experience for grown-ups. Before treatment, adults are carefully examined for signs of periodontal (gum) disease, which will be brought under control before treatment begins.\nTypes of Orthodontic Appliances\nWhen you imagine someone wearing braces, you probably picture small metal brackets bonded to the front of the teeth, with a thin wire running through them. This time-tested style remains very popular — but it's no longer the only option. Clear braces use brackets made of ceramic or plastic which, except for the slim archwire, are hardly visible. Lingual braces are just like traditional metal braces — except they're bonded to the back of your teeth (the tongue side) so that no one can see them.\nRemovable clear aligners are an alternative to fixed orthodontic appliances. They consist of a series of clear plastic “trays” that fit over your teeth exactly; each one moves your teeth a little bit, until they are in the proper position. Whether fixed or removable, each type of appliance may have advantages or disadvantages in particular situations. After a complete examination, the best treatment options for you will be discussed.\nRetention & Post Orthodontic Care\nOnce your orthodontic treatment is completed, it's extremely important to wear a retainer as directed. That's because teeth naturally tend to drift back to their original locations — which is the last thing you want after you've gone to the trouble of straightening them! Wearing a retainer holds your teeth in their new position long enough for new bone and ligament to re-form around them, and helps keep your gorgeous new smile looking good for a lifetime.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1118575"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6986398696899414,"wiki_prob":0.6986398696899414,"text":"Home Biography Elizabeth Vargas\nElizabeth Vargas Biography\nUpdated On 27 May, 2015 Published On 27 May, 2015\nFacts of Elizabeth Vargas\nElizabeth Anne Vargas\nPaterson, New Jersey\n3 million dollar\nMarc Cohn (m. 2002)\nALMA Award for Outstanding Host in a National Information Program\n20/20 Since 1978\nRelationship short Statistics of Elizabeth Vargas\nWhat is Elizabeth Vargas marital status ? ( married,single, in relation or divorce):\nHow many children does Elizabeth Vargas have ? (name):\nIs Elizabeth Vargas having any relationship affair ?:\nIs Elizabeth Vargas Lesbian ?\nAn American television journalist currently working at ABC channel and is an anchor of news magazine 20/20. Previously, she was an anchor of World News Tonight. She is a daughter of Rafael \"Ralf\" Vargas and Anne Vargas. She has graduated with bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She debuted as reporter/anchor for NBC affiliate KOMU-TV. She instantly rose into fame after she became weekend anchor of World News Tonight. She became the first woman to anchor in a network evening newscast in the U.S.\nThere was once a rumor that she went to rehab for alcoholism for two months. About her personal life, she is already married to her lover whom she dated for three years. After more than a decade of their marriage, they filed for divorce. It is said that her alcoholic behavior was the reason behind their breakup. She had two step children from her husband's first marriage. She has two children of her own from him.\nElizabeth Vargas Affairs\nFirst Affair with Michael Douglas\nHe is professionally an actor. They were romantically linked until he started to date another girl named Maureen Dowd.\nSecond Affair with Tico Torres\nThey were reported to be dating when he broke up with his former lover. But the relationship didn't last long.\nElizabeth Vargas Married\nFirst Marriage with Marc Cohn\nMarried date: July, 20, 2002 Divorce\nOccupationally, he is a singer-songwriter. They came to know each other from their common friend named Andre Agassi at the 1999 U.S. Open. After dating for some time, they got married. However, their relation did not last long which is suspected to be because of her alcoholism.\nElizabeth Vargas Children\nSON : Zachary Raphael\nFather: Marc Cohn\nHe is very cute and adorable boy.When he was born he weighed 7 lbs. 13 oz.\nSON : Samuel Wyatt Cohn\nHe is the youngest child of the family. When he was born he weighed 7 lbs, 9 oz.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line238448"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7918782830238342,"wiki_prob":0.7918782830238342,"text":"IIHS Homepage\nUrban Lens 2018\nAbout IIHS\nOn Practice\nNo Ângulo das Ruas (Around Corners)\nInes Alves\nLourenço Marques and Maputo, two cities separated by time, that occupied the same space. But the dimensions of one get mixed up with the past events of the other. It’s been 41 years since João, a Portuguese man, the father of the director, left Mozambique. This was one year after the country became independent from Portugal.\nIn this film the director travels to Maputo, the capital, former Lourenço Marques, for the first time, bringing her father’s memories and the desire to meet the people that live in this post-colonial city today.\nDirector’s Bio\nInês was born in Portugal (1987). She holds an international Master’s degree in Cultural Narratives and a second Master in Documentary Film from University of the Arts London (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Scholarship). Inês has been involved in several artistic, cultural and pedagogic projects. She is a member of Gato Aleatório Colective based in Lisbon, with whom she organizes MOVIMENTO: laboratory and exhibition of collaborative cinema.\nRun Time 30 mins\nLanguage Portuguese\nCountry Mozambique\nYear of Production 2018\nLife in Gray Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya\nAnica Mann-Kapur\nAnica Mann-Kapur is a consultant with Tata Trusts and the India Country Team Lead for Global Xplorer. She was a 2017 YES Global Institute Fellow, and as a cultural practitioner who engages in antiquities through art history, she was also an Art Advisor for Delhi Art Gallery in 2016. In addition to writing extensively about arts and culture, she was a research associate at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities as well as a researcher at Kyoto University.\nParmesh Shahani\nParmesh Shahani is the head of the award winning Godrej India Culture Lab, and the author of the book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (Sage Publications, 2008). He is a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.\nJasmine Lovely George\nJasmine Lovely George is a Tedx speaker, lawyer, and a sexual and reproductive health advocate from India. She has founded Hidden Pockets, a community interest startup working on access to sexual and reproductive health in cities. She is passionate about changing technology spaces and making them more inclusive for people of all genders. She is also the member of RESURJ – a transnational feminist collective.\nAromar Revi\nAromar Revi is the founding Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, a global expert on Sustainable Development; and Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, from where he helped lead a successful campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) as part of the UN’s 2030 development agenda. He is also member of the Managing Board of Cities Alliance the global partnership for sustainable cities and urban poverty reduction and UNISDR’ Global Assessment of Risk. Aromar is one of the world’s leading experts on global environmental change, especially climate change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C that assesses the feasibility of mitigation and adaptation options and defines potential implementation pathways and investment needs to implement the Paris Climate Agreement.\nSudharak Olwe\nSudharak Olwe has been a Mumbai based photojournalist since 1988 and has worked as a press photographer with some of the leading newspapers in India. His photography captures resilience, courage and change in both rural and urban communities across the country. His work has been exhibited in Mumbai, Delhi, Malmo (Sweden), Lisbon, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Washington and Dhaka. Apart from photographs, Olwe has also received the Padma Shri in 2016 for his documentaries on maternal and child mortality. Currently, he is the Photo Editor for the country’s most widely read Marathi newspaper, Lokmat. (http://www.sudharakolwe.com/)\nRajula Shah\nRajula Shah is a Visual artist, Poet and Filmmaker. After dropping out from the Fine Arts faculty Baroda, and completing a Masters in English Literature, she studied filmmaking at FTII, Pune specializing in Film Direction. Her work is located in the interstice of Poetry, Cinema and Anthropology. A keen interest in the indigenous knowledge systems, its practitioners and the changing practices thereof form the core of her study; her practice emerges through a close collaboration with people, their histories and environments.\nShe has been producing/ directing / writing/ editing & photographing films for well over a decade and continues to explore boundaries of fiction/non-fiction, photography, video essay, digital art and multi media installation. With her recent work, Pilgrimage in Nomad’s land she explores the emergent domain of Interactive Trans-media. It can be watched online @ www.nomadsfilmschool.com\nSameera Jain\nSameera Jain is a filmmaker and editor, and has worked for over 30 years in the arena of film and video. Sameera has edited several award-winning documentaries and some fiction feature films. Her directorial ventures “Portraits of Belonging”, “Born at Home” and “Mera Apna Sheher (My Own City)” have been acknowledged for cinematic excellence at national and international festivals. Sameera has been on film juries and participated in curriculum formulation at various institutions. She has been mentoring film students and filmmakers at diverse platforms and has been invited to teach filmmaking at many places, including her alma mater FTII. She has conceptualized, and is Course Director of the Creative Documentary course at SACAC (Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication) in New Delhi.\nRanjani Mazumdar\nRanjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-editor with Neepa Majumdar of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and her productions include Delhi Diary 2001 and The Power of the Image (Co-Directed). Her current research focuses on globalisation and film culture, and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema.\nRitesh Uttamchandani\nRitesh began his journey as a photographer watching his elder sister take photos of his family but sadly, he didn’t register it back then and began his journey as a professional in 2004 as an intern at the Indian Express. Inspired by the work of Reza Deghati, David Alan Harvey and of course, the usual suspects, Henri Cartier Bresson, Eugene Smith etc, he moved over to the Hindustan times and finally the OPEN Magazine where he worked for seven years before stepping into the fascinating and often scary world of freelance.\nIn his decade-long experience as a photojournalist, he has reported and documented some of the major events of national and international importance in the Indian subcontinent and has recently self-published his first photo book, The Red Cat and Other Stories, which looks at the city of Bombay through the lens of a fable his mother used to narrate to him when he was a child. The book, equal parts travelogue and journalism, is a tribute to the beauty in the mundane.\nRatheesh Radhakrishnan\nRatheesh Radhakrishnan teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. He completed his PhD from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (Bangalore), and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Chao Centre for Asian Studies, Rice University (Houston, USA). While at Rice University, he founded and curated TITLES: A Festival of Experimental Films from India (2011- 2014). He is currently part of the India programming team of MAMI – Mumbai Film Festival. His research on Malayalam cinema has appeared in a variety of journals and other publications, both in English and in Malayalam.\nJabeen Merchant\nJabeen Merchant is a film practitioner with a wide and varied experience within the independent filmmaking community as well as the mainstream film industry. She is well known for her work editing and co-scripting a number of internationally celebrated documentaries in collaboration with some of India’s best filmmakers. Side by side, she has edited a range of fiction feature films, including the critically acclaimed ‘Anaarkali of Aarah’; commercially successful thrillers like ‘NH10’ and ‘Manorama Six Feet Under’; the off-beat comedy ‘The President Is Coming’; art-house films such as ‘Kadvi Hawa’ and the soon to be released ‘The Sweet Requiem’. Apart from editing films, she teaches, consults on scripts and occasionally writes on cinema.\nSwati Dandekar\nSwati Dandekar is a film practitioner with a special interest in creating visual narratives of the living history around her; of people, places, ideas, traditions and practices. Her most recent work is “Neeli Raag”, a feature length documentary on the natural dye indigo, and the few remaining craftsmen who still work with it.\nHer earlier work includes a series of essay films that look at urban India, in particular at the changes taking place in small towns and cities, and explore the relationship between land, people, resources and the institutions that govern them. She was also closely involved in documenting best practices in elementary education, as well as designing and making radio and video programmes for rural school children. As part of Vikalp, Swati has been involved in screening documentary films in the city for over 10 years.\nSwati teaches film at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.\nAmit Mahanti\nAmit Mahanti is a filmmaker, cameraperson and editor, who has worked on films and video installations that explore questions of ecological transformation, culture and politics. His films include ML 05 B 6055 (2008), Malegaon Times (2012), Every Time You Tell A Story (2015) and Scratches on Stone (2017).\nHe has also been selected for art/film residency programs at Khoj Studios, New Delhi; Parco Arte Vivente Experimental Centre of Contemporary Art, Turin; Kran Film, Brussels and Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski, Warsaw. He was also a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Short-term Fellowship, 2016.\nSushma Veerappa\nAfter a Post-graduate diploma in Social Communications Media from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, Sushma joined the CIEDS Collective Here, she conceived and executed a film education programme for school children. Post this experience, she worked as Assistant Director and Scriptwriter with filmmaker M.S.Sathyu for 4 years. She began making documentaries in 1998.\nAs Producer / Director, her focus has been on documenting the work of grass root organizations working in Karnataka’s remote villages. Her films have been used as communication tools by these organizations to further engage with the people they work with. Her work encompasses a wide spectrum – about people’s co-operatives, leadership imaging as participatory research tool, training modules for blue collar workers, issues relating to water, women and violence.\nHer concerns with the city in transition led her to produce and direct her first independent documentary WHEN SHANKAR NAG COMES ASKING. Her last short film SHEELA GOWDA AT BATTARAHALLI CORNER was screened at the 13th IAWRT (International Association of Women in Film and Television) Festival. Along with 4 other filmmakers, Sushma is part of Vikalp Bengaluru, a group which has been screening documentaries in the city since 2005.\nSabari Pandian\nSabari Pandian works as an assistant director in documentary films. Some of the films that he has assisted on are ‘Nostalgia for the future’ and ‘Electric Shadows: Journeys In Image-making’. Based in Bombay he also loves to travel and take photographs. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Mumbai University. An avid film buff, Sabari loves being part of film festivals and has provided technical support for film festivals such as Urban Lens Film Festival (2016) and the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (2017).\nKunal Deshpande\nKunal Deshpande is an alumnus of the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore. His diploma film, Daryache Raje (Kings of the Sea) was selected and screened at the 6th Kirloskar Vasundhara Environmental Film Festival.\nHe has since worked as a cinematographer, director and editor on projects ranging from documentaries on the water resources and climate adaptation practices in the north-east, to lifestyle exploration films in Kutch, and people-oriented films. He has worked on feature films like Ferrari Ki Sawaari, on television shows and various other projects.\nKunal also worked at the IIHS where he was part of the Media Lab, creating a variety of audio visual outputs for teams and projects. He worked on videos on the process of campus development, on climate change adaptation, and on festivals such as the Urban Lens film festival and Cityscripts. He is now engaged with IIHS in the capacity of an External Consultant.\nHe is currently producing and directing SupperClub India, a food and travel web series, as well as producing videos for several corporate clients and brands.\nTejInder Singh\nTejInder, is an independent photographer and researcher. He is also senior urban fellow at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. He has had a range of work experiences from that of a trainee architect to managing electoral campaigns, participating in Model UN conferences, and documenting and archiving contemporary issues. He has photo documented Gaurav Gagoi’s campaign for Assam assembly elections, Occupy UGC movement, Swaraj Abhiyaan’s Jai Kisan Andolon, City Scripts – The IIHS Urban Writing Festival, 2017 IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Word to Screen Bootcamp and many more conferences and events across India. His work on Ennore Creek Power Plant has been published by Scroll.in and Urbanisation – a SAGE journal.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1192094"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9872693419456482,"wiki_prob":0.9872693419456482,"text":"Home»A FEATURED STORY»Susan Gibson still making a name for herself after ‘Wide Open Spaces’\nA FEATURED STORY/ALL EVENTS/GREAT FALLS Performances/PERFORMING ARTS\nSusan Gibson still making a name for herself after ‘Wide Open Spaces’\nJake Sorich / January 28, 2015 /\t0\t/\t1k\nSusan Gibson\nMany musicians go their entire careers searching for that one hit, that one piece of music that strikes a cord and connects with millions of people across the world. Some are lucky enough to do it once or twice after years of toiling in anonymity. Some never get that chance.\nBut, what happens when an artist catches that lightning in a bottle at the very start of his or her career?\nSuch was the case for Susan Gibson, a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter in Texas with lots of ties to the Treasure State.\nGibson is best known for writing the hit Dixie Chicks song “Wide Open Spaces.”\nAfter writing the song in 1993, Gibson had it produced by Lloyd Maines, father of the new lead singer for the Dixie Chicks in the mid 90s, Natalie Maines.\nGibson returns to Montana on Friday to play a free show at the Mighty Mo Brewery at 5 p.m. She’s also playing a private house event this weekend, which was what allowed her to come play a free public show, also.\nEven if she never reaches that level of success again commercially, Gibson said in an interview with Big Sky State Buzz that she’ll be forever grateful for the doors that “Wide Open Spaces” opened for her.\nAfter coming out on July 28, 1998, the song hit No. 1 on the U.S. Country Singles chart, where it stayed there for four weeks.\nIt was named the Country Music Association Awards Single of the Year in 1999 and won Gibson the American Songwriter Professional Country Songwriter of the Year award in early 2000.\n“I had been writing songs since I was going to school at the University of Montana right at the beginning of my career, but it wasn’t really even a career yet, just an expensive hobby,” Gibson said. “(Wide Open Spaces) put me on the map as a songwriter and that affirmation is really kind of indescribable because here we are, 17 or 18 years after that song was No. 1 in on the country music charts and I’m still getting to talk about that song and the doors it opened for me. One of those doors, for example, was the ability to work with some pretty cool folks.”\nWhile Gibson’s career hasn’t reached that level of mass appeal since then, to say she hasn’t written anything as authentic or as high-quality would be a mistake.\nThe Second Hand (2014) by Susan Gibson\nSince 2003 Gibson’s release four solo albums, “Chin Up” (2003), “Outerspace” (2005), “New Dog, Old Tricks” (2008) and 2011’s “Tight Rope.” She also released an album of live tracks titled “The Second Hand” last year.\nGibson plays acoustic country with folk elements. She said most of songs tell a story that touches on some kind of thought or feeling that she had while writing it.\n“I love telling stories and about kind of how I got to the song or how the song got to me,” she said.\nBeing a songwriter, she said that immediately after “Wide Open Spaces,” she felt that pressure to produce another hit that was just as popular, if not more so.\nShe said eventually she came to the realization that what mattered to her more was writing songs that resonated with her and her audiences rather than the millions of people who only knew her from that single track she wrote as a college kid.\n“I had to go through a period where I would try not writing ‘Wide Open Spaces’ again and just let every that song be exactly what it was,” she said. “Because when I wrote that song, I wasn’t a songwriter, I was a college student who played open mics once and a while, and really I hope I’m always getting better as a writer.\n“The fact that I had that song right out of the gates by no means means it’s my best song I’ve ever written. As I’ve grown, too, I think my goal is now to have, you know, 20 years from now, a body of work that I still love to sing that still resonates with people, that is timeless in a way.”\nGibson added that as long as she has new stuff to perform to mix in with her old tunes, she’ll always love coming back to Montana to play.\n“My dad is from Missoula and he has cabin on Flathead Lake, where we spent all of our summers and … so I’ve always felt very connected and at home in Montana,” she said. “I have a nice career going for me down in Texas, but man, I would love to live in Montana all the time. I think it’s a great state.”\nShe said she’s also excited to play a small venue such as the Mighty Mo because it’s a much more intimate experience for both her and her audience.\n“In a show like this one there’s more accountability, and in a sense the rewards are greater because there’s really no separation between you and the audience,” she said. “I don’t know how else to put it but it’s very direct. There isn’t a big stage with big sound and big lights that feed your ego as a performer, it’s ‘here’s this song in its most bare-bones form,’ because it shouldn’t be all about me. It’s about bringing songs to people and putting that out there and having an experience with them.”\nAlong those same lines, Gibson said while many of the songs she performs are personal in nature, she said once they’ve been written, they have to stand on their own, meaning she can’t take offense if that song doesn’t reach someone as much as other songs do because music is so subjective.\n“If I get feedback from people, no matter what it is, say someone laughs at a line or they poke their boyfriend after hearing a line or they whatever, I need that kind of feedback and that’s why I care more about playing live than I do about selling records because I want to be in the room with you and I love getting a reaction from people who hear my music,” she said. “I think one of my biggest strengths is in that kind of relationship and connection I get with my audience when you know, you’re able to open up and show the puppet strings on your songs.”\nFor more information on Susan Gibson, check out her website here.\nTags:Dixie ChicksMighty MoSusan Gibson\nInternal morality examined at Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde performance on Thursday\nRussell Museum showing Western Art inspired films starting in February\nAlt-country star Cindy Jollotta’s new single ‘Ghosts’ a personal powerhouse\nMighty Mo Brewery hosting month-long music events for local charities in February\nSpokane’s Marshall McLean joins Ryan Johnson for free show at Mighty Mo on Saturday\nA FEATURED STORY/ALL EVENTS/BILLINGS Community/COMMUNITY EVENTS/MMA\nFusion Fight League hold’s first sanctioned MMA event in Montana history next weekend","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line762227"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6027640700340271,"wiki_prob":0.6027640700340271,"text":"Reviews of “Wilson” by A. Scott Berg\nPosted by Steve in 3rd Party Reviews, U.S. Presidents\nbiographies, book reviews, Henry Adams Prize, presidential biographies, Scott Berg, Woodrow Wilson\nby A. Scott Berg\nHenry Adams Prize (2014)\nBoston Globe review from September 2013\nNew York Times review from September 2013\nWashington Post review from September 2013\nThe Washington Times review from September 2013\nThe Dallas Morning News review from September 2013\nMiami Herald review from September 2013\nSouth China Morning Post review from October 2013\nThe Oregonian review from October 2013\nNPR interview with A. Scott Berg from September 2013\n“One hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize–winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson—the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the twenty-eighth President.\nIn addition to the hundreds of thousands of documents in the Wilson Archives, Berg was the first biographer to gain access to two recently discovered caches of papers belonging to those close to Wilson. From this material, Berg was able to add countless details—even several unknown events—that fill in missing pieces of Wilson’s character, and cast new light on his entire life.\nFrom the visionary Princeton professor who constructed a model for higher education in America to the architect of the ill-fated League of Nations, from the devout Commander in Chief who ushered the country through its first great World War to the widower of intense passion and turbulence who wooed a second wife with hundreds of astonishing love letters, from the idealist determined to make the world “safe for democracy” to the stroke-crippled leader whose incapacity—and the subterfuges around it—were among the century’s greatest secrets, from the trailblazer whose ideas paved the way for the New Deal and the Progressive administrations that followed to the politician whose partisan battles with his opponents left him a broken man, and ultimately, a tragic figure—this is a book at once magisterial and deeply emotional about the whole of Wilson’s life, accomplishments, and failings. This is not just Wilson the icon—but Wilson the man.”\nEnjoy presidential biographies? Check out: http://www.bestpresidentialbios.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line463915"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7311111092567444,"wiki_prob":0.2688888907432556,"text":"Why We Give: The Jones Family\nIn December, the Jones family pledged their support in the form of a multi-year pledge as a Partners in Hospitality Sustainer. Here’s why:\nWhy is the Family House important to your family?\nSeveral years ago, my wife Sara’s parents were involved in a near-fatal automobile accident near Augusta, GA. They were air-lifted to the Medical College of Georgia and she and her sister spent a month there while their mother was in intensive care. Their experience in Augusta was extremely stressful, and the situation was compounded by staying at a lonely bare-bones hotel and having many nights of eating fast food or at best, institutional meals in the hospital cafeteria. This experience allowed us to understand first-hand the need for a welcoming place like the SECU Family House to relax and unwind after long hours in the hospital.\nWhat is your favorite Family House memory?\nDuring the first year I was on the Board of Directors, our family volunteered to serve Thanksgiving dinner to the Family House guests. Instead of having guests sit at individual tables to eat, we decided to push all the tables together to create one big family table. It was truly amazing to watch individuals and families with heartbreaking situations come together as one big family sharing a meal. There was a lot of laughter and comfort shared that night, as well as delicious pumpkin pie.\nTo this day I don’t know who received the biggest blessing that night, the families staying at the Family House or our own family.\nWhy support families and guests who are in a medical crisis when there are many other worthy non-profits?\nWe have always tried to keep our charitable donations local. With Sara working at Wake Forest Baptist School of Medicine and myself spending 28 years with the State Employees’ Credit Union, as well as our own family experience with medical crises, it just makes sense for us to support the SECU Family House.\nWhy should others consider a multi-year pledge?\nOrganizations like the Family House need to be able to plan for the future and multi-year pledges give them a solid basis from which they can commit to helping people into the future…The Jones Family has participated in the Family House since the doors opened. Jeff served on the board of directors as a SECU representative from 2010-2016. His son Matthew completed his Eagle Scout project here in 2017.\nThe Jones Family has participated in the Family House since the doors opened. Jeff served on the board of directors as a SECU representative from 2010-2016. His son Matthew completed his Eagle Scout project here in 2017.\nLearn About Partners in Hospitality Read More Stories","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1706172"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5047726631164551,"wiki_prob":0.5047726631164551,"text":"S7 Airlines Starts Flights from Novosibirsk to Guangzhou\nS7 Airlines is starting direct flights from Novosibirsk to Guangzhou (China) on May 21, 2019. Tickets are already available.\nThe flights will be operated on Tuesdays and Sundays. Departure from Tolmachevo Airport is at 21:10, and arrival in Guangzhou is at 04:15 local time on the following day. The return flight departs on Wednesdays and Mondays at 05:15 and arrives in Novosibirsk at 10:50.\n“Guangzhou, the third largest city in China, was added to the S7 Airlines schedule at the end of last year, when the airline started direct regular flights from Irkutsk. Now we are pleased to offer flights to Guangzhou to passengers from Novosibirsk as well. This is an attractive destination both for sightseeing and for business travel. Every year, the Canton Fair is held in Guangzhou, representing a platform for dialogue with Asian partners, ” said Igor Veretennikov, commercial director of S7 Group.\nAt the same time, passengers from China will appreciate the opportunity to travel comfortably to the cities of the route network with convenient connections in a key Siberian hub — Tolmachevo Airport.\nS7 Airlines also operates direct flights to Beijing from Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk, to Shanghai from Novosibirsk and Vladivostok, to Hong Kong from Vladivostok, Irkutsk, and Novosibirsk.\nMembers of the S7 Priority loyalty program will be able to earn 500 miles for a flight from Novosibirsk to Guangzhou. Accumulated S7 Priority miles can be used to get award tickets and additional services.\nGuangzhou S7 Airlines\nWorld’s Largest Aircraft  Completes First Flight\nSpiceJet to Launch New International Flights from Mumbai\nBelavia Carried Out the First Flight to Munich\nOn July 15, 2019 Belavia carried out the first regular flight on the route Minsk-Munich-Minsk. Flights will be carried out 4 times a week on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays with the departure from Minsk at 12:30...\nS7 Airlines Starts Testing a Face Recognition System\nS7 Airlines launched a face recognition system pilot at the Domodedovo hub airport. The system is currently operational at the executive lounge in the domestic departures area. The software...\nHeathrow and First Bus Launch a New Service to Guildford\nHeathrow has teamed up with First Bus to offer passengers and colleagues traveling from Guildford a more sustainable way of getting to and from the airport, starting this month. The partnership sees the launch of a new...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line751171"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5756556987762451,"wiki_prob":0.4243443012237549,"text":"The Virtual Reality Roving Vehicle Project\nDR. WILLIAM WINN, Director Human Interface Technology Laboratory's Learning Center University of Washington Seattle, Wash. Between November 1994 and June 1995, almost 3,000 students in grades four through 12 throughout the state of Washington experienced Virtual Reality (VR) in their classrooms. Another 365 built their own Virtual Worlds. The Virtual Reality Roving Vehicle project (VRRV, pronounced \"verve\") was funded by the US WEST Foundation to bring VR equipment and experiences to children in all areas of the state. The project was based at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HITL), part of the Washington Technology Center on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The VRRV team consisted of software designers and engineers from HITL, Educational Technology faculty and students from the College of Education, a cadre of \"Van Techs\" who did everything from loading and driving vans to giving presentations and demonstrations in schools, plus students and teachers in close to 70 schools. Here, I describe what we did, how we did it, what we learned and what we plan to do next. What We Did Our goals were ambitious. First, we wanted as many children as possible to experience immersive VR and to discuss with them its potential and limitations. Popular media has hyped VR to excess and we felt that youngsters need to understand that VR is a technology that still has to mature before it is used widely. Second, we wanted to get our high-end workstations and software out of the lab and into children's hands, confident that they would use them effectively and imaginatively. And third, we wanted to see whether having students build virtual worlds that embodied concepts and principles they were learning as part of their regular curriculum would help them understand what they were studying. We were especially interested in determining whether this radically new technology and the learning strategies it supports can help children who are judged by traditional criteria to be less likely to succeed in school. Experience has shown that the only way technology can be successful in schools is if teachers and students have access to the machines they need, have the software to make them work, and have the knowledge and skill to take control of both. We addressed the access issue by setting up a van-based outreach program that carried VR workstations to schools. In the schools where worlds were built, we addressed software and control issues by providing the schools with modeling software that teachers and students learned to use, by building our own Supercard tool for automatically generating computer code that made virtual objects behave in particular ways, by putting on training workshops for teachers, and by working long hours with children as they planned and built their worlds. We used two vans. Each was equipped with a Division, Inc. Provision 100 workstation, a head-mounted display that provides stereo vision and audio, a hand-held \"wand\" for moving through virtual worlds and manipulating virtual objects, and an electromagnetic tracker that tracked both the position and attitude of the student's hand and head. The Provision 100 is a 486 system running UNIX. It achieves its high rate for rendering graphic images by graphics boards that provide massively parallel graphic processing. The system has sound capability. It runs dVISE software from Division (based in the U.K., with a U.S. office) that uses a C-like scripting language that serves to build and run virtual worlds. A limited amount of authoring and editing can be done through a graphic interface that runs under X-Windows. Centered Around Two Projects Our plan centered around two projects, which we called the \"Hors d''euvre\" and the \"Entreé.\" All schools enjoyed the hors d''euvre; 14 stayed for the entreé. For the hors d''euvre, we took a van to each of the VRRV schools for a day, longer in a few cases. We began by giving a presentation about VR to one or two classes of students and their teachers, spending time discussing VR with them. The rest of the day we demonstrated commercially produced virtual worlds to as many as 50 students. Each student spent 5-10 minutes in a virtual world. We showed each one how to move around in the world and to interact with its objects using a \"wand,\" a joystick-like device you hold in your hand. As you move it vertically, horizontally, towards you or away from you, the virtual hand you see in the helmet moves correspondingly. You can also tilt your hand around any axis. Five buttons control how you pick up and move objects and how you \"fly\" through the world. One may also walk around in the world, but this is limited by the tracker's range and the length of the cable attaching the wand and helmet to the computer. Once briefed, students put on the helmet and visited the world. For the entreé, we spent a number of days over an average of six weeks in each school working with teachers and their students. Our first visit was set up to take place at the point in the class where the teacher had taught enough content for students to be able to design effective worlds. We began our work in the schools by explaining the four-step world-building process: Planning: Students decided how they would represent the concepts and principles that their world embodied. Modeling: They drew and built their objects on Macs using Macromedia's Macromodel 3D graphics software. Programming: Students determined how objects were to interact with each other and with the participant, which guided HITL's programmers on how to put the worlds together. Experiencing, where students visited the worlds they had created and performed their assigned tasks. In subsequent visits, we worked with them at each step in the process, spending at least three days in each school. Students visited their worlds on the final visit. How We Did It We identified our initial group of VRRV schools through a questionnaire distributed at the NCCE Conference in Spokane in the spring of 1994. During the summer and early fall of 1994, teachers who had indicated an interest were invited to HITL in groups of two or three. We briefed them on the project and had them experience VR for themselves. (Other schools joined along the way.) In late fall of 1994, we held a day-long workshop for VRRV teachers and administrators on the University of Washington campus. In the morning, HITL staff gave presentations about previous work on educational applications of VR, other HITL projects and a more detailed overview of the VRRV program. In the afternoon, teachers brainstormed on how to use VR in their curriculum while the administrators met with VRRV staff to discuss how the project might best be implemented in their schools and districts. At day's end, teachers interested in being part of the world-building phase of the project were invited to submit proposals to us describing what they would like to do. Fourteen of these were selected by the end of the year; others went on a waiting list for the 95-96 school year. Worlds proposed and actually built included: A space station in which students could recycle waste materials; a medieval castle; a microcomputer, parts of which students had to assemble themselves; a rain forest whose over-exploitation resulted in an ecological disaster; a fly-over of Washington state that helped students learn their local geography; and nine others. In early 95, two full-day workshops were held for teachers selected for the entreé, during which we introduced them to the Macromodel software. Meeting in a school computer lab, the entire day was devoted to \"hands-on\" activities. At the end, one teacher from each school was given a set of disks to load onto their own machines. (A number of schools had to upgrade machines to 12MB of RAM and to add a math processor to run the software well.) We provided the software for free under a site license that we had purchased from Macromedia. Subsequently, several elementary teachers told us the software was too complex for their students to learn in the available time, so we modified the project for the elementary schools. Elementary students would all work on a common \"Tree World\" in which their task was to make a tree healthy by providing it with sunlight, water and nutrients. HITL staff built the basic Tree World. Students contributed objects that depend on healthy trees for their own survival -- everything from fruit to giraffes. We added these to the basic Tree World, creating a different version for each elementary school. In this way, everyone was able to contribute to the world without having to master 3D CAD. Finally, in February 95, we held another full-day workshop in which we covered four topics: instructional design, what VR can do best, assessment of learning from VR, and project management. At its end, each school signed up for a start date when VRRV staff would make their first visit to the school. We intended the projects to be staggered to spread our workload over the rest of the school year. Perhaps predictably, this did not work! A lot of the labor piled up at the school year's end. We also provided each school with a Teacher's Manual on world-building that we had written. The hors d''euvre had started in November and was well underway by this time. Indeed, the hors d''euvre operated fairly independently from the entreé, with its own van, personnel and computer system. We hired a pool of people who loaded, drove and unloaded the van; gave presentations to students; and ran the school demonstrations. Initially, these operated an easy day's drive from Seattle, returning to HITL at the end. Later in the year, we took vans to other areas of the state with a crew (always two people) that visited four schools a week. A lot of effort went into coordinating the program with schools throughout the state and we remain grateful to those who were flexible enough to accommodate our last-minute schedule changes caused by computer crashes, bad weather and the occasional scheduling conflict. What We Learned Needless to say, we were anxious to find out whether we had been successful in achieving our goals of helping children understand VR and of using world-building to teach content. However, our research agenda extended beyond simply determining if the students had learned anything. Any technology tends to be better at supporting some pedagogies over others. Our approach to teaching and learning was based on the premise that the acts of planning, designing and building virtual environments would help students construct an understanding of the topic they were working on. This \"constructivist\" approach required that most of the decision-making be placed in the hands of the students. We therefore spent a lot of time facilitating discussion in small groups of students as they argued and debated about the appearance and functionality of their world. Our role was largely one of keeping students' ambitions within the limits of what our VR systems could actually do. We were anxious to find out whether using constructivist pedagogy that VR supports so well would lead to different outcomes when compared to outcomes from students learning similar content in more traditional ways. In schools where more than one class was studying the same material (in some of the secondary schools), we were able to compare what students learned from world-building with what others learned from more traditional teaching. However, the VRRV project was by no means a controlled experiment and our findings to date are more suggestive than conclusive. We were also curious about how student characteristics affected how well they learned from world-building. We measured all students' general ability and middle and high school students' spatial ability. We also looked at how gender affected the outcomes. Pre- and post-tests of content were given to the secondary students. We also gave exit questionnaires to all students, interviewed some and videotaped others. The tests of content were teacher-built. They varied considerably in the content they tested, since at the secondary level each class built a different world in a different area of the curriculum. They also varied in scope and format. For this reason, we standardized test scores before conducting our statistical analysis. Finally, we gave a questionnaire that assessed students' attitudes towards science and computers. For the hors d''euvre, we gave every student an exit questionnaire. This asked them to rate on a five-point scale everything from how much they enjoyed the experience, to how easy it was to navigate in the virtual world, to the extent to which they experienced \"presence\" -- the conviction that they were really in another place when in the virtual world. We have gathered a large amount of data. The following is a brief description of some of the most important findings -- the tip of a very big iceberg. Beyond the purely descriptive data, the results that we mention below come from statistical analyses whose findings were significant at the .05 probability level. The Hors d''euvre Group Results From questionnaires given to 1,001 students in elementary schools, 922 students in middle schools and 949 high school students who experienced VR as part of the hors d''euvre: Students rated their enjoyment of the experience as very high with a negligible number of reports of queasiness. The latter finding is important because it allays the fear that exposure to VR, at least over short periods, has bad side effects. Difficulty moving around the world and interacting with it, as well as ratings of disorientation inside and on leaving the virtual world, decreased with age. The wand was difficult to hold and manipulate if you had small hands! Rated enjoyment of the experience and the sense of presence decreased with age. Perhaps the older children were more jaded in their attitudes to the technology. A factor analysis of the scale scores on the questionnaires showed remarkably consistent results across elementary, middle and high school students. In each case, the VR experience was shown to have three clear dimensions: Enjoyment/presence, disorientation/ malaise, and the ability to perform tasks. Interestingly, these three factors -- identifying affective, physiological and cognitive dimensions to the VR experience -- have been found, with very different populations, in other HITL projects. The Entrée Group Results From data obtained from 365 middle and high-school students who took part in world-building, not all of whom completed all tests, we can report: Students who built virtual worlds did learn the content they were expected to. Students who built virtual worlds did equally well regardless of their general ability. In the case of students who learned equivalent content in traditional ways, low-ability students did less well than high-ability students. This suggests that knowledge construction through a world-building activity helps students who might not learn well from traditional methods. This effect was most noticeable for boys. Students who built virtual worlds had consistently better attitudes towards science and computers after the experience, stating more frequently, for example, that scientists were honest, that they would consider taking science and computer courses in college, and follow careers in science and computing. Students learned more and enjoyed the project more who: used 3D models to visualize their world before they built their object on the computer; were easily able to find the object they had made when they visited their virtual world; and reported experiencing a high level of presence.\nStudents who had difficulty navigating in the virtual world or who lacked a clear understanding of the tasks they were to perform in it learned less and enjoyed the experience less. Students who collaborated with other students learned more and enjoyed the project more. Girls with low spatial ability reported feeling less presence. At the elementary level, boys reported they had learned more about VR than girls and also that they needed less time than girls to build their worlds. At the secondary level, boys enjoyed the world-building more than girls and spent more time on the computers. We can report, anecdotally, that boys often tended to \"hog\" the computers and to dominate a lot of the activities, which could account for these findings. High spatial ability was correlated with enjoyment, learning and the feeling of presence. Suggested Conclusions Our findings suggest a number of conclusions, all of which require confirmation under more rigorously controlled conditions. First, it worked! Our students did learn from designing and building virtual worlds. Notice that we do not claim that visiting the worlds they created taught them content. (We have learned in other projects, however, that students can learn from worlds built for them by someone else.) The acts of researching, designing and constructing worlds was the deciding factor. Next, the project seemed to level the playing field for less-able students. We believe that VR takes advantage of visual and kinesthetic abilities and learning strategies that are less likely to be used by students in more traditional, symbolic modes of instruction. Next, working with VR is motivating, as one would expect. Finally, general ability, spatial ability and gender all influence the cognitive and affective outcomes of working with VR. What We Plan to Do Next From now until the end of the academic year, the hors d''euvre part of the project moves to Nebraska. With further funding, we hope to take the project to other states in subsequent years. Of course, we are looking forward to the day when the entire project can be conducted over a network and we can dispense with the vans. But, again, to take that step requires significant resources that we do not yet have. World-building will continue in some Washington schools where the project's research on the effectiveness of world-building and of world-visiting will continue. Our studies will be more carefully designed and executed so that we can begin to explore more thoroughly the questions concerning what aspects of VR contribute to what kinds of learning, and the influence of general ability, spatial ability and gender on learning from building and visiting worlds. Further Information: Several reports about our work on educational applications of VR can be found at HITL's Web site (www.hitl.washington.edu) under \"Publications.\" Information about HITL's Learning Center and the VRRV project can be found under \"Projects\"; information about our team is under \"People.\" We will continue to make our reports available on the Web as we complete them. In the meantime, we are encouraged by the progress we report in this article and are looking forward to \"pushing the envelope\" with the help of the creative and energetic children in our the public schools here and around the country. William Winn, a professor in the Educational Technology program in the College of Education, is also Director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory's Learning Center at the University of Washington. He holds an adjunct professorship in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering. Winn's research focuses on how people perceive and learn from maps, diagrams and pictures and on how cognitive and constructivist theories of learning can be used effectively by instructional designers. His work on the applications of Virtual Reality to education, some of which is reported here, brings together these two research interests. The VRRV project started while Winn was on sabbatical at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory during part of the 1994-95 school year. E-mail: billwinn@u.washington.edu Products mentioned in this article: Provision 100 system, dVISE software; Division, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, (919) 968-7797 Macromodel 3D; Macromedia, San Francisco, CA, (415) 252-2000\nDelivering Desktops Virtually\nAs Lubbock Independent School District makes the transition from Windows devices to Chromebooks, it's relying more and more heavily on virtual desktop infrastructure to give users — both students and staff — access to the learning and work applications and other tools that still require Windows access. At the beginning of 2019, over a single weekend, the Texas district implemented hyperconverged infrastructure, and it's not looking back. As Chief Technology Officer, Damon Jackson, and Senior Platform Technology Engineer, Jason Blackburn, discuss, HCI has given them the \"Easy Button\" they sought for network management and delivered \"remarkably faster\" performance. Read more...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line471171"}
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If we walk in and filter what we say through the fruit of\nHundreds of Catholics trooped to Lingayen’s Epiphany of Our Lord Parish Church to watch live on a large screen the mass officiated by the pope. “We strongly felt the presence of the Holy Father even.\nOur purpose is symbolically to re-enact the Christmas story with Bible passages and songs of the season. Special service Saturday at 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., at Ponderosa High School, 2384 N. Steves Blvd.\nZubik said the five parish mergers are a result of the ongoing On Mission for The Church. and Our Lady of the Angels (Lawrenceville). • City Center/Hill District Grouping, which comprises the.\nThe allegation was referred to law enforcement and public announcements were made to the media as well as the parish communities where Logrip. Bishop Kenrick High School (1974-1983); Epiphany of.\nApr 15, 2018. Sunday, April 15, 2018 | Sunday, April 12, 2020 at Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church, Tampa, FL. Find event and ticket information.\nEpiphany of Our Lord. Report On The Parish School Previous 5 Years (PDF). The sign language interpreter is provided on a regular basis or your church is.\nEmail: [email protected] | Phone: (215) 334-1035. Epiphany of Our Lord Church. Parish Giving & Donations. However you choose to give.\nREP Registration. To learn more about our parish Religious Education Program (REP) or to register, click the link below. Read More\nChevy Chase United Methodist Church, 7001 Connecticut Ave., Chevy Chase, Md. Parking lot and entrance off Shepherd Street. Free. 301-652-8700. Saturdays through April 8, 11:30 a.m.: All are welcome to.\nTake it to the Lord in prayer. Morning Prayer, that is. We’re coming to the conclusion of the season of Epiphany. On March 1, next Wednesday, we begin our journey through. one of the members of the.\nYates to the Sacred Order of Priests during a Eucharist service on the Feast of the Epiphany of Our Lord. At 25 years of age. Yates said personal interaction within a church community is partly why.\nWe’ve been coming all our lives. It makes you feel good.” The annual pilgrimage is hosted by the Sisters of St. Basil the Great and conducted under the patronage of the Byzantine Catholic.\nToday we celebrate Epiphany, that is, the “manifestation” of the Lord. This Solemnity. collaborate in the mission of the Church. I thank you for this and I bless you! I greet all of you present.\nThe parish. Church. — St. Raymond parish will close and merge with St. Leo the Great parish. 7th Ward– Epiphany parish will close and merge with Corpus Christi Parish. — St. Francis de Sales.\nConnect with Epiphany of Our Lord Parish, Church in Saint Louis, Missouri. Find Epiphany of Our Lord Parish reviews and more.\nBAY CITY, MI — Choral Evensong for the Seventh Sunday after Epiphany takes place Sunday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m. at Bay City’s Trinity Episcopal Church. Rev. Ann Grady. Powell and “Thou Knowest Lord the.\nUnderstanding what we must do to be saved is very simple, but not easy to live. God explains salvation to us each and every time we pray the Our Father: \"Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.\" From Jesus’ lips to our ears, we hear what we must do to be saved – God’s Holy Will, not our own human will which is strongly attached to our personal subjective opinions.\nBulletins. June 2, 2019 · May 26, 2019 · May 19, 2019 · May 12, 2019 · May 5, 2019 · April 28, 2019 · April 21, 2019 Easter · April 14, 2019 · April 7, 2019.\nMasjid Rahmah Newark Nj Prayer Schedule Our Call. At, Masjid Rahmah, we call to Islam according to the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Messenger (may Allah raise his rank and grant him peace), upon. Phone, (973) 621-8833 · Address. 657 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd; Newark, New Jersey 07102. November 11, 2018 ·. Beautiful time at sisters Luncheon, such beautiful\nThe Church of the Epiphany of the Lord is a Catholic Parish in Northwest Oklahoma. Holy Thursday — Morning Prayer 9 am, Mass of the Lord's Supper, 7 pm. Let us therefore celebrate our families, our homes, our relationship with Christ.\nEpiphany of Our Lord Catholic Academy. 3150 Pharmacy Avenue Agincourt,ON, M1W 1J5. View Map Online. Phone: 416-393-5378; Fax: 416-393-5602.\nEpiphany of Our Lord Parish is currently comprised of the people of. children wishing to join our parish or enter more fully into the Catholic Church by receiving.\n\"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,\" says the Lord. The Church is the sign of Christ’s presence in our midst. Epiphany Parish is called to be the way, the truth and the life of Christ for all of us.\nThe same thing happens to Father Kendall Harmon every year during the 12 days after the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The faithful take their Christmas trees to church and build a bonfire as.\nThe Parish Church of Epiphany of Our Lord, formerly Three Kings Parish Church, is a Roman Catholic church located in Lingayen, Pangasinan in the.\nToday, the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, the Gospel presents three. vigor and communion among all of us Christians, who recognize Him as our Lord and Saviour. Epiphany is marks Youth Mission.\nEpiphany of Our · Lord Parish · Bulletins · New Parishioner Registration · Online Giving. Search. Home · Sacraments · Baptism · First Communion · Confirmation.\nHannah Prayer For A Child Offred/June becomes pregnant (to Nick), and Serena ‘rewards’ her with a fleeting glimpse at the resettled Hannah. The ‘treat’. Hannah reminds us of the fragility of life, the immediate loving bond of parent and child, and the enigma of God’s divine providence. The doctors, nurses and staff at Baylor University Medical Center. NOTICE IS HEREBY\nFind the best Epiphany of our lord, around North Collins,NY and get detailed driving directions with road. Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church.\nProceeds from this sale go to our Outreach work in the city. of silent prayer and meditation followed by a short period of prayer for the parish. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. Information:.\nEpiphany of Our Lord Parish is a bilingual (English/Italian) and mutual. and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and providing diverse opportunities.\nA byzantine rite ukrainian catholic church under pope benedict xvi. orthodox in communion with rome.\nAn Example Of Freedom Of Religion Other examples are just as ironic. irrational laws that restrict people’s freedom based not on any public interest, but on personal religious beliefs that should remain private. Alexandria. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5177921652793884,"wiki_prob":0.5177921652793884,"text":"Nationwide Children's Legislative Advocacy\nSearch Newsroom:\nViewing: 1-10 of 24 | All\nColumbus Family Travels to Washington D.C. to Advocate for Children’s Health and Patient-Centered Research\nThe Gibson family’s advocacy efforts this week are in conjunction with the annual Children’s Hospital Association’s Speak Now for Kids Family Advocacy Day, June 25-26. Family Advocacy Day provides families, like the Gibson’s, the opportunity to meet members of Congress and discuss issues that affect children’s healthcare.\nABMS Names Nationwide Children’s Hospital as Recipient of its First-Ever Quality Improvement Award\nThe American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the leading not-for-profit organization overseeing physician certification in the United States, has awarded Nationwide Children’s Hospital its first-ever ABMS Multi-Specialty Portfolio Program™ (Portfolio Program) Outstanding Achievement in Quality Improvement Award.\nFamily Advocacy Day\nOne central Ohio family is traveling to Washington D.C. next week to seek support for the reauthorization of the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Act (CHGME). Funding from the program enables children’s hospitals around the country to increase training for pediatric specialists, a field of great shortage in children’s health care.\nLett Family Travels to Capitol Hill to Advocate for Childrens Health Care Funding\nAs Congress continues working on legislation that could impact the health care of all Americans, the Lett family is delivering an important and timely message on Capitol Hill.\nMEDIA ADVISORY: 2016 Candidates Forum on Children & Youth\nWHAT: Nationwide Children’s Hospital will host the 2016 Candidates Forum on Children and Youth WHEN: Monday, October 17, 2016 Breakfast at 7:30 a.m., program begins at 8 a.m. WHERE: Nationwide Children’s Hospital Ann Isaly Wolfe Education Building, Stecker Auditorium 575 S.\nBellville, Ohio, Teen and Family Travel to Capitol Hill to Advocate for Pediatric Cancer Research\nThe Reed family of Bellville, Ohio, is taking their story to Capitol Hill to deliver an important message to their members of Congress. Nationwide Children’s Hospital patient, Grant Reed, 15, and his family will join more than 40 other pediatric patients and their families to meet with\nNational Study Finds Rising Rate of Marijuana Exposure Among Children 5 Years Old and Younger\nDebates about legalizing marijuana have focused on crime rates, economic benefits, and health effects among adults. But a study published today from researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital shows that the risk to young children of swallowing, breathing in or otherwise being exposed to\nNationwide Childrens Hospital Lauds House Passage of Legislation in Support of Funding for Pediatric Residency Training\nNationwide Children’s Hospital applauds the U.S. House for passage of S. 1557, the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2013.\nMedia Advisory: Ohio First Lady Karen W. Kasich and Nationwide Childrens Hospital Introduce Time For 10! Fitness Program to Ohio Schools\nM E D I A A D V I S O R Y WHAT: Ohio First Lady Karen W. Kasich and Nationwide Children’s Hospital Introduce “Time For 10!” Fitness Program to Ohio Schools A collaboration between Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Ohio First Lady Karen Waldbillig Kasich, Time For 10! is a\nColumbus Area Child and Family Travel to Capitol Hill to Push for Childrens Health Care Access and Research\nOne local family is taking their story to Capitol Hill to deliver an important message to their members of Congress. Nationwide Children’s Hospital patient, Patrick Bibbee, 2 (Columbus, 43235), and his family will join nearly 30 other child patients and their families to meet with members of\nFamily Health & Safety\nPhilanthropic News\nInjury Research and Policy","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line453778"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6544751524925232,"wiki_prob":0.6544751524925232,"text":"New Bible resources for Gaelic speakers released\nPublished on 18 June, 2019\nThe Scottish Bible Society, the Gaelic Books Council and the Church of Scotland’s Gaelic group have announced new resources to help Gaelic speakers engage with the Bible and practice their Christian faith.\nThe Gaelic NT New Translation is available to buy now online through the Scottish Bible Society and the Gaelic Books Council, or by calling 0141 337 6211\nThe Scottish Bible Society and the Gaelic Books Council have released a modernised Gaelic version of the New Testament and Gaelic audio versions of the four Gospels, while the Church of Scotland’s Gaelic group has employed a Gaelic development officer to progress the work of the Kirk’s Gaelic Language Plan over the next year.\nThe work of the Gaelic Group was approved during the General Assembly of 2018, with their report advising that they would be “exploring a number of different opportunities to receive funding for this work, both internal and external to the Church.”\nDuring this year’s General Assembly the group announced they are delighted to have secured funding from Bòrd na Gàidhlig, an internal Church of Scotland grant, and from Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS). The group also published a Gaelic version of the Thy Kingdom Come prayer diary.\nA modern Gaelic translation of the New Testament\nDid you know? There are about 54,000 Gaelic speakers in Scotland.\nThe Scottish Bible Society.\nMembers of the Kirk’s Gaelic Group worked in conjunction with the Scottish Bible Society and the Gaelic Books Council to publish the newly translated version of the New Testament.\nRev John Urquhart, a Church of Scotland minister who is part of the team, said:\n“It has been a decade since the Scottish Bible Society brought the translation team together to begin the New Testament project.\n“Though we were drawn from different places and different churches, we all shared the same aim: that the Scriptures of the New Testament should be made available to Gaelic speakers in modern Gaelic, faithfully translated.\n“Throughout our work, we kept our focus on fidelity to the Greek and the clarity of the Gaelic.\n“The translators hope that putting the word of God into contemporary Gaelic will enable every person who reads it to hear God’s voice speaking to them, and that through this they will come to know the peace and salvation that are to be found only through Christ.\n“Our desire is that all praise, and honour, and glory, be given to God and to God alone.”\nPreviously released in old Gaelic, this new version of the New Testament is designed as a more modern translation and aims to put the Word of God into contemporary Gaelic, enabling every person who reads it to hear God’s voice speaking to them.\nThe ecumenical team of translators who worked on the project over a 10-year period included representatives from the Church of Scotland, the Free Church of Scotland and the Roman Catholic Church.\nGifted, committed and passionate translators\nThe New Testament was first translated into Scottish Gaelic by Rev James Stuart, minister of Killin, and published in 1767 – barely 20 years after the battle of Culloden. His son John, minister of Luss, was the main translator of the Old Testament, completed in 1801.\nIn recent years, the future of Gaelic in education and public life has received much attention as the language flourishes. However, the gap between everyday Gaelic in common use and the Gaelic in the most recent Bible edition continues to widen.\nElaine Duncan, Chief Executive of the Scottish Bible Society, said:\n“It’s been our pleasure to support a group of gifted, committed and passionate translators throughout this project.\n“Their faithfulness, love of the Bible and handling of the Greek and Gaelic languages have been essential to the success of this project.\n“We are thankful for the partnership and support of the Gaelic Books Council, and we pray that God’s Word will be appreciated and understood more through providing the New Testament in the New Gaelic Translation.”\nAlison Lang, Director of the Gaelic Books Council, said:\n“We are proud of the translation team who have worked to produce this New Testament in modern Gaelic, and delighted to have been able to support the Scottish Bible Society with this project.\n“It is appropriate that this new translation is being published in the UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages, and we hope that churches, schools and individual readers will enjoy this beautiful book.”\nThe work comes at a time of opportunity in the development of Gaelic. As the translators worked through the New Testament they were very much aware of the importance that this new translation will have for education and for the churches.\nAlasdair Allan, MSP for the Scottish National Party welcomed the new translation in a motion lodged at the Scottish Parliament last month.\n“The Parliament warmly welcomes the new translation of the New Testament, and praises the huge amount of work that has been put into this by Rev John Urquhart, Rev Ruairidh MacLean, Rev John Lincoln and the late Canon John Angus MacDonald over the course of ten years,” Alasdair said.\n“The Parliament also considers that this new publication represents one of the many ways in which the Gaelic world will be celebrating the International Year of Indigenous Languages in 2019.”\nThe Gaelic NT New Translation is available to buy now online through the Scottish Bible Society and the Gaelic Books Council, or by calling 0141 337 6211.\nWhat’s next for the Gaelic Group?\nAs a result of the new funding awarded by both the Church of Scotland and Bòrd na Gàidhlig, a Gaelic development officer has been hired on a consultancy basis for one year in order to progress the Gaelic Group’s work including the Gaelic Language Plan.\nDuncan Sneddon, the current co-editor of Na Duilleagan Gàidhlig (the Gaelic supplement to Life and Work magazine), will take up the role in October.\nThe next steps for the Gaelic Group include a national conference considering the needs and ways of promoting Gaelic ministry and mission, as well as offering support and encouragement to Gaelic speaking ministers and anyone using Gaelic within the Church context. This follows the Next Steps conference in 2015 which looked at the place of Gaelic in Scotland’s churches.\nAlso currently in the works is a Gaelic audio version of the four Gospels, which is due to be released in the autumn.\nACTS awarded the Church of Scotland’s Gaelic Group a £9,000 grant towards the development the audio resources, as well as translations for inclusion in the recent Thy Kingdom Come global prayer initiative, including a Gaelic invitation recorded by Very Rev Dr Angus Morrison.\nThe project to develop the four Gospels into Gaelic has been managed by Nicola Thomas of the Gaelic College in Skye over the last nine months.\nWith voices sought from a wide range of Scottish church denominations, contributors are so far confirmed from Lewis, Skye, South Uist and Tiree.\nThe audio gospels are being recorded at Studio Ostaig, based at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, and will be available in text format, audio, as well as for download as an audiobook.\nMore information on the audio translation project will soon be released on the Scottish Bible Society’s Gaelic website, which also features a Gaelic Scriptures mobile app (available for download on Android and iOS).\nFormer Moderator accepts honorary doctorate with historic Gaelic address | The Church of Scotland\nGaelic group takes first steps toward national plan | The Church of Scotland","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line739348"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8415768146514893,"wiki_prob":0.8415768146514893,"text":"Heralds of the failing state\nTHEY’RE known as “public service programs” and have been in Philippine radio for decades, particularly after 1986, when the laws restricting the media were lifted. But they have proliferated in recent years, and every radio station includes at least one example in its programming, although that one may run several hours, in addition to the regular news and commentary programs.\nThe template is straightforward. The program host accepts complaints from listeners through phone calls and text messages as well as personal visits to the station, puts his phone conversations on the air, reads text messages and interviews complainants.\nThe grievances could include being duped in a private transaction that went sour, fired by an abusive employer, ignored or given the run around in a government office, and wronged by an abusive policeman. Once armed with the details of the complaint, the host either calls the government office involved, or makes arrangements to confront the wrong doer and even to cause his arrest, during which he’s usually present, and which is duly recorded in sound and video.\nIn one episode of a popular program that runs for several hours in the afternoon, the host interviewed a construction worker who had lost his job, and for P4,000, pawned his motorcycle to a neighbor, who, he complained, lent the motorcycle to someone who in turn “pawned” it to someone else. The worker’s neighbor was demanding P60,000 to return the motorcycle, which was still in the hands of the last person to whom it had been pawned. The complainant named all three people involved. The host instructed an assistant to call the police and to arrange for the arrest of the man holding the motorcycle, during which both he and the complainant would be present. The arrest would of course be recorded.\nThe host interviewed next a taxi driver who said he’d been pulled over by a policeman for ignoring a red light. He admitted the offense, but complained that the policeman, after confiscating his license, was angling for a bribe, which he said was obvious from the fact that he (the policeman) wanted him (the taxi driver) to get out of his cab and to talk to him in the shadows of a pedestrian underpass. When he did not comply, the policeman did not write him a traffic ticket, but refused to return his license.\nThe host managed to somehow call the policeman and to ask him if he was authorized to apprehend traffic law violators, since that task is primarily the responsibility of metro Manila traffic enforcers. At the same time, his assistant had managed to call the policeman’s immediate superior, a police captain. The host gave the policeman an ultimatum: return the cab driver’s license or else. The “or else” part was no idle threat: he proceeded to extract from the policeman’s superior a promise to discipline him unless he complied, at one point berating the captain for hesitating to order the policeman, while on the air, to return the license.\nThe two cases took all of one hour to air. Both were demonstrations not only of the appalling state of law enforcement, the desperate straits of the poor, and the absence of plain civility in much of Philippine society. It was also a display of media power.\nTo anyone whose radio was tuned in to the program, the host’s action in both the worker’s and taxi driver’s cases would be something to applaud, leading him or her to thank “the media” for helping curb the abuses so rampant in Philippine society and bringing its most abusive elements to account.\nPublic service programs over Philippine radio do serve what has become an urgent need to curb abuses so egregious they defy explanation. They also help justify the need for a free press. (Without the media, a listener observed, abusive officials would get away with it.) In addition, these programs either prod government agencies to provide the citizenry the service they’re entitled to but seldom get (e.g., being served promptly at the local office of the Social Security System), or provide the service themselves (e.g., getting the complainant taxi driver’s license back).\nThe downside of the media’s assuming roles government institutions are supposed to be playing in behalf of a sane, safe and orderly society is not only the encouragement of media arrogance and a sense of entitlement.\nThe media practitioners killed on November 23, 2009 assumed themselves immune from harm. Others presume they’re entitled to various perks, including the usual envelope and the deference of government officials and of the public as a whole. In addition there’s the tendency on the part of many media practitioners, especially the untrained, to take on such dubious roles as the entrapment of criminal suspects, and other functions way beyond their mandate of providing information and commentary.\nBut the proliferation and popularity of these programs speaks for itself. It is the direct result of the decline or outright failure of the institutions of Philippine governance, particularly of the police and judicial system — some would say of the entire justice system.\nThe killing of journalists, for example, has continued because of the culture of impunity — the police and judiciary failure to identify, investigate and prosecute the killers that’s based on the weaknesses of the justice system particularly at the community level. That failure has compelled private intervention in the form of journalist and media advocacy groups’ having to go on fact-finding missions and to hire private prosecutors, not only in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, but in numerous other cases as well.\nWhat’s happening in the Philippine media echoes the privatization of functions that are the government’s responsibility but which it is unable to perform because of the failure of its institutions. That failure has been evident for decades in, for example, such private initiatives as the development of more and more gated communities in response to runaway criminality; the hiring of private garbage collecting companies; the institution of “the little divorce” and co-habitation without the benefit of either law or clergy, etc. Public service programs are part of the same environment of government failure. They are heralds of the failing state.\n(BusinessWorld)\n(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Luis Teodoro)\nSource: LuisTeodoro.com\nURL: http://www.luisteodoro.com/\nUnang Dalawang Tula: Para Kay Ericson Acosta\nSome in AFP, PNP like Roman soldiers: Brutal tortu...\nEU-NAVFOR: Pirates seize ship with 15 Filipino sea...\nPriest tells RH bill supporters to leave Mass\nTropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line711433"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5747149586677551,"wiki_prob":0.4252850413322449,"text":"The Fascinating Racial Component of 'Louie'\nBy Dustin Rowles | Think Pieces | May 28, 2014 |\nBoth Louis C.K.’s stand-up comedy and his television show are heavily based on the real life of Louis C.K., his co-parenting relationship with his ex-wife Alix Bailey, and the two children he takes care of for half of each week as a part of their shared custody arrangement. Louis talks so openly, honestly, and realistically about parenting, and the relationship he has with the two actresses who play his daughters on Louie feels so genuine that I often forget that those aren’t his real daughters. Louie is obviously not a documentary, but it has a very autobiographical feel.\nBut in reality, Louis’ daughters’ names aren’t actually Lily and Jane (their names are Mary Louise and Kitty Szekely), and they don’t look anything like the actresses who portray them on TV (in fact, they look like adorable versions of Louis). Even Louis’ name is spelled differently in the show (I don’t know how many times over the years that I’ve basically used the two spellings interchangeably). In fact, in real life, Louis’ ex-wife Alix Bailey is not black, although Janet (Susan Kelechi Watson), the character based on Bailey, is.\nI never gave it much thought until this week, when during one of the episodes, there was a flashback sequence to the near break-up of Louie and his ex-wife and the conception of their first child. Funny thing: In the flashback sequence, Louie’s wife was white.\nIt was confusing, and even a little jarring at first, because I initially thought it was a flashback to an earlier relationship with someone before his ex-wife, but then I realized that Louis was just fucking with us. And it didn’t even occur to me until that very moment that it was strange that Louie’s ex-wife was black and the two children he has with her are white.\nI don’t know if it was intentional or not, or if he was just messing with us, but the flashback opened the door to my own curiosity. Is Louis’ ex-wife black? (No). Are his children mixed race? (No) What the f*ck is going on? Then there’s the other element, which is that Louis himself is half Mexican but he passes for white, and now I don’t know what — if anything — Louis is trying to say about race in Louie.\nWhy did Louis cast his ex-wife in Louie with a black actress? He’s actually spoken to this, basically saying that his kids on the show are “extremely white” but that race wasn’t a factor in casting.\n“If the character works for the show, I don’t care about the race,” he told Jimmy Kimmel in an appearance on his show in 2012, adding that it was all about delivery: “When a black woman tells you to get a job, it’s just more … ” he said, trailing off with a laugh.\nSo what is Louis doing? Is he attempting to challenge us with his casting choices, or is he not doing anything at all? is he suggesting that a black woman is a better choice to play a very vocal, very forceful ex-wife? Should we even think about race? Or is it inescapable?\nI don’t know, but the whole thing reminds me of the conversation between Donald Glover and Lena Dunham’s character in a scene on Girls when he accused her of just wanting to date a black guy. “Well, the joke’s on you,” she said, “because I never thought about the fact that you are black, not once.”\n“That’s insane,” he responded. “Because you should, because I am.”\n← Rick Baker's Original E.T. Designs Will Chew Through Your Face to Eat Away At Your Fond Childhood Memories\nMarvel And Netflix Find Their New Daredevil →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1021170"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7006314992904663,"wiki_prob":0.2993685007095337,"text":"Things to do in Harrogate\nTurkish Baths and Health Spa\nAs befits a fashionable spa town, Harrogate boasts several well-equipped spas and health clubs to relax the day away. Harrogate Turkish Baths and Health Spa offers a wide range of treatments, ranging from quick facials to full-day experiences, and is just 10 minutes’ walk from our Harrogate Town Centre hotel.\nDating back to the Victorian era, the spa has been lovingly refurbished and restored with the stunning tiled interiors matched by the imposing exterior. Opened in 1897, the spa was one of the main tourist destinations in Harrogate, welcoming thousands of visitors from across Europe every summer, and it’s one of only seven spas from the Victorian period that remain intact. While the focus might be on the treatments, it’s well worth having a good look around and taking in their impressive arches, glazed brickwork, arabesque ceilings and Italian terrazzo floors.\nAimed at purifying the body and mind, the process takes you through a range of experiences. From the plunge pool to the frigidarium (the coldest room) through to the laconium (the hottest room available), each step aims to clear your body of toxins and remove stresses. Thankfully, some of the original treatments are no longer featured, including the worrying sounding plombière douche and galvanism process.\nIf you’re looking for alternative therapy treatments, they offer everything from 25-minute Indian head massages to hour-long hot stone therapy and even the mysterious art of Reiki: an ancient Japanese healing therapy that aims to help relieve stress and aid relaxation.\nIf you prefer the more hands-on approach, they have a range of massages, including a choice of sweet almond or grapeseed oil. A quick back, neck and shoulder massage takes 25 minutes, while a full-body workover takes up to an hour.\nAlternatively, you can opt for one of their packages including the signature Turkish Baths experience, which takes in a full-body spa, facial, lunch and a long session in the Turkish baths, saunas, hot rooms and plunge pool. The more inquisitive can also opt for a 45-minute guided tour, which explains the heritage and history of the 120-year-old spa, taking in the decor, treatments and how the baths were recently renovated to bring them back to their Victorian splendour.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1265411"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5424661636352539,"wiki_prob":0.5424661636352539,"text":"JillianTubeHD Bio\nJillianTubeHD is an American YouTuber. Check out this biography to know about her childhood, family life, achievements and fun facts about her.\nBirthday: October 3, 2008\nSun Sign: Libra\nBorn in: Pennsylvania\nFamous as: YouTuber\nfather: Jared\nmother: Alisa\nsiblings: Evan\nU.S. State: Pennsylvania\nVloggers #472 Instagram Stars #84\nJillianTubeHD is an American YouTuber and social media influencer with over a million subscribers on her channel as of March 2018. As her parents have decided to keep their surname a secret due to security reasons, she is known online simply as Jillian. The younger sister of YouTuber EvanTubeHD—one of the most successful and popular young creators on the platform—Jillian set up her own channel in March 2013. However, she waited until January 2016 to upload her first video. Since then, her personal image as a social media influencer has grown slowly but steadily and she has found her own audience beyond the spotlight of her brother’s fame. She mostly posts challenge videos, vlogs, and piano recitals.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlLVCf4zCxA\nhttp://celebsroll.com/top-10-richest-youtuber-kids/\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJa9vQUTSJU\nPennsylvania YouTubers\nJillianTubeHD\nThe Meteoric Rise to Fame\nThe family’s journey to internet stardom began in late 2011, when Evan approached his father, who is an amateur filmmaker, about a potential YouTube channel. Initially, for both of them, it was a way of bonding with each other. The channel, EvanTubeHD, was set up on September 20, 2011, and they posted their first video that very day. Since then, the channel has grown exponentially, garnering over 5 million subscribers. They have also launched four more channels, EvanTubeRaw (for vlogging), EvanTubeGaming (for gaming), DTSings (for music), and Jillian’s JillianTubeHD.\nJillian made her first appearance in April 2012 on her brother’s channel, where she was introduced by her current social media name, JillianTubeHD.\nLibra Women\nOn March 11, 2013, when she was only four years old, her parents decided to set up a channel for her and name it after her online persona JillianTubeHD. The idea was to attract the younger audience members who were not that interested in Evan’s content, which primarily focused on toys, gaming, and challenges. It proved to be a smart and sensible move. Jillian, with her natural charm and charisma, began to attract young girls—who find in her an ideal same-aged role model—to her channel.\nIn January 2018, she reached one million subscribers and as of March 2018, she has just over 1 million 86 thousand subscribers. Besides YouTube, Jillian is not that active on other platforms of social media although her parents have set up a Facebook page for her.\nJillian was born on October 3, 2008, in Pennsylvania. Her parents are Jared and Alisa. She has an older brother, Evan. The family has a Goldendoodle named Chloe.\nHer parents are well aware of the dangers of too much exposure on social media. They are striving to maintain a level of privacy for their children as they are growing up in front of millions of viewers. Not only have they kept their surname a secret, they have also not mentioned where exactly they live. For a long time, Jared and Alisa went by their YouTube aliases on social media, DaddyTube and MommyTube, respectively.\nLast Updated : March 15, 2018\nJillianTubeHD Bio As PDF\nJillianTubeHD Fans Also Viewed\nBen Hampton\nPenelope Juliette\n21st Century | Celebrity Names With Letter J | Female Celebrity Names With Letter J","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1081409"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6116924285888672,"wiki_prob":0.3883075714111328,"text":"May 1 - 6, 2018 / Nice, France\n2018 Nice UltiMED\nJoin the action for the 49er/FX and Nacra 17 worlds\nDecember’s 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 world championships are expected to dish up some spectacular racing and fans are invited to venture to Auckland to experience some of the action.\nAs many as 400 sailors are expected to compete at the world championships at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club from November 29-December 8.\nMost of the top teams will be competing, given world titles and Olympic qualification are on the line, and many countries will also be using it as an Olympic selection event. Olympic champions Peter Burling and Blair Tuke will be looking to win their fifth world title and first since returning to the class after a two-year break and the Nacra 17 fleet will be looking to knock Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti off their perch after the Italians dominated the class in 2018.\nThere will be spectator boats for anyone wanting to get close to the racing while big screens will also be operating at the fanzone at the event venue.\n“We have spent so many hours training on the Waitemata Harbour over the last 10 years, so to have a world championship here is super-exciting,” Tuke said. “We are really looking forward to welcoming the world and giving Kiwis an upclose look at Olympic sailing at the highest level.”\nSituated only 10 minutes drive from the heart of Auckland’s central business district, this new marine precinct will become the event village. This will include the boatpark, yacht club, competitors’ hub, and fanzone for supporters from around the world and local audiences.\nAfter a day on the water, in no time at all you can be lazing on the white sands of Mission Bay indulging in ice cream or fish & chips, cycling your way along Tamaki Drive – a picturesque waterfront promenade – dining in one of Auckland’s many food precincts or relaxing back at your accommodation.\nAuckland is a sophisticated international city, with a world-class food and beverage industry as well as the other exciting attributes which make up a thriving and diverse city.\nDecember is a good time to explore Auckland beyond the boat park, with a host of sights and activities including many on the Hauraki Gulf itself like the Auckland Whale and Dolphin Safari, America’s Cup yacht experience or the Maritime Musuem.\nSome might like to discover a little more of what New Zealand has to offer before or after the world championships with a trip to somewhere like the Bay of Plenty, Taupo, Fiordland or Northland.\nSee here for more on Auckland or here to help you with some ideas or visit here for information on New Zealand.\nThe notice of race for the world championships has been released and entries will open soon.\nAustrian FX sailors tell us about their training in Auckland\nCheck out this event preview to see what this spectactular sailing concept is all about.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line211552"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6139150857925415,"wiki_prob":0.3860849142074585,"text":"Pregnant women ‘suffering in silence’\nMercy Sister Angela Mary Doyle is a legend in Australian health care and she used International Women’s Day to spread a much-needed message about the stigma attached to perinatal mental health issues. Source: The Catholic Leader.\nSr Doyle, an award-winning humanitarian and Member of the Order of Australia, was a guest speaker at the Springfield City Group International Women’s Day event on March 8.\nShe spoke about her work in healthcare, touching on the work she did in the 1980s for AIDS sufferers, a condition with stigma attached to it to this day.\nBut it was another issue with stigma attached that she focused her message on – perinatal mental health issues. “Perinatal” refers to the period of time before and after childbirth.\nSr Doyle stressed the importance of spreading awareness about the condition and the need for more services to support women and families suffering in silence.\n“It’s a disturbing situation, largely hidden and, if not recognised and treated, can have severe and long-lasting consequences,” she said.\n“Surprisingly this condition affects as many as one in 30 pregnant women and, while it may not be an overtly visible condition, many women will suffer in silence, often not understanding that they have a mental health issue.\n“The effects can be distressing for the woman and those around her and, if left untreated, can result in adverse effects on the child, relationship breakdown, isolation and even maternal suicide.\n“If this situation is to be addressed adequately, a range of services is required, including expert psychological and psychiatric support, ensuring the mother is having adequate sleep, taking her food, and that mother and baby are treated together and not separately.\n“Important too is support for her husband or partner who can often feel lost or bewildered in a situation with which he may not be familiar.\n“Throughout Queensland there may be only four beds dedicated to this purpose, so a lot more beds need to be provided, and in a loving, caring and professional way.”\nMercy Sister Angela Mary Doyle becomes a leading voice for women suffering in silence (The Catholic Leader)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1158868"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9628923535346985,"wiki_prob":0.9628923535346985,"text":"Zuckerberg discloses Facebook working with Russia probe\nLoop News Created : 10 April 2018 Business\nFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed Tuesday his company is \"working with\" special counsel Robert Mueller in the federal probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign — and working hard to change its own operations after the harvesting of users' private information by a Trump campaign-affiliated data-mining company.\nThe founder of the social media giant publicly apologized for his company's errors in failing to better protect the personal information of its millions of users, a controversy that has brought a flood of bad publicity and sent the company's stock value plunging. He seemed to achieve a measure of success: Facebook shares surged 4.5 percent for the day, the biggest gain in two years.\nZuckerberg told the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees that he has not been personally interviewed by Mueller's team, but \"I know we're working with them.\" He offered no details, citing a concern about confidentiality rules of the investigation.\nEarlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil. A number of the Russian ads were on Facebook.\nDuring Tuesday's at-times-contentious hearing, Zuckerberg said it had been \"clearly a mistake\" to believe the data-mining company Cambridge Analytica had deleted user data that it had harvested in an attempt to sway elections. He said Facebook had considered the data collection \"a closed case\" because it thought the information had been discarded.\nFacebook also didn't alert the Federal Trade Commission, Zuckerberg said, and he assured senators the company would handle the situation differently today.\nHe began a two-day congressional inquisition with a public apology for the way Facebook handled the data-mining of its users' data. He took responsibility for failing to prevent Cambridge Analytica, which was affiliated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, from gathering personal information from 87 million users.\nSeparately, the company began alerting some of its users that their data was gathered by Cambridge Analytica. A notification that appeared on Facebook for some users Tuesday told them that \"one of your friends\" used Facebook to log into a now-banned personality quiz app called \"This Is Your Digital Life.\" The notice says the app misused the information, including public profiles, page likes, birthdays and current cities, by sharing it with Cambridge Analytica.\nZuckerberg had apologized many times already, to users and the public, but this was the first time before Congress. He also is to testify Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.\nSen. John Thune, R-S.D., the Commerce Committee chairman, told Zuckerberg his company had a 14-year history of apologizing for \"ill-advised decisions\" related to user privacy. \"How is today's apology different?\" Thune asked.\n\"We have made a lot of mistakes in running the company,\" Zuckerberg responded. \"I think it's pretty much impossible, I believe, to start a company in your dorm room and then grow it to be at the scale that we're at now without making some mistakes.\"\nZuckerberg said Facebook is going through \"a broader philosophical shift in how we approach our responsibility as a company.\" He said the company needs to take a \"more proactive role\" that includes ensuring the tools it creates are used in \"good and healthy\" ways.\nSen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Zuckerberg's appearance marked the most intense hearing for a tech company since entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates testified before Congress in March 1998.\nMany of the senators' questions seemed to focus on Facebook's basic functions, such as its privacy settings and what it does and doesn't do with user data. Because each of the 44 senators had just 5 minutes to ask questions, there was little time for tough follow-ups. On some subjects, that allowed Zuckerberg to tell the lawmakers that his people would get back to them with more information.\nIn the hearings, Zuckerberg is trying to both restore public trust in his company and stave off federal regulations that some lawmakers have floated. In his opening statement, he also apologized for his company's involvement in facilitating fake news and Russian interference in the elections.\nDemocratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida said he believes Zuckerberg was taking the congressional hearings seriously \"because he knows there is going to be a hard look at regulation.\"\nDemocrats like Nelson have argued that federal laws might be necessary to ensure user privacy. Republicans have yet to get behind any such legislation, but that could change.\nSen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked Zuckerberg if he would be willing to work with lawmakers to examine what \"regulations you think are necessary in your industry.\"\nAbsolutely, Zuckerberg responded, saying later in an exchange with Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, that \"I'm not the type of person who thinks that all regulation is bad.\" He called for a \"full conversation about what is the right regulation not whether it should be or shouldn't be.\"\nAnd Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of the Judiciary panel and the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, appeared open to regulation in a speech ahead of the hearing. Cornyn said apologies are \"not enough\" and suggested legislation could eventually be needed to give consumers more control over their data privacy.\n\"This is a serious matter, and I think people expect us to take action,\" Cornyn told reporters after his speech.\nAt the hearing, Zuckerberg said, \"We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here.\"\nAfter resisting previous calls to testify, Zuckerberg agreed to come to Capitol Hill this month after reports surfaced — and the company confirmed — that Cambridge Analytica had gathered Facebook users' data. Zuckerberg said his company has a responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen again.\nHe acknowledged that the company was too slow to respond to Russian election interference and said it was \"working hard to get better.\" The company has said that as many as 146 million people may have received information from a Russian agency that's accused of orchestrating much of the cyber meddling in the election.\nHe outlined steps the company has taken to restrict outsiders' access to people's personal information. He also said the company is investigating every app that had access to a large amount of information before the company moved to prevent such access in 2014 — actions that came too late in the Cambridge Analytica case.\nUS Congress grills Facebook founder on data row, Russia\nFacebook users to learn if they were part of privacy scandal\nFacebook data scandal 'hit 87 million users'","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line554187"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6752657890319824,"wiki_prob":0.6752657890319824,"text":"Philadelphia area consumers paid more than the U.S. city average for electricity\nPhiladelphia area consumers paid more than the U.S. city average for electricity (26.2 percent) and utility (piped) gas (41.1 percent), but less than the national average for gasoline (-2.3 percent) in May 2009 according to data from the Consumer Price Index (CPI) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Sheila Watkins, the Bureau’s regional commissioner, noted that local consumers have consistently paid more than the national average for electricity and utility gas during May over the last 10 years. On the other hand, local gasoline prices in May over the last decade were typically lower than or close to those for the United States as a whole.\nSelected key characteristics of Average Energy Prices in the Philadelphia Area for May 2009\nA kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity cost Philadelphia area consumers $0.159 in May 2009—4.6 percent higher than one year earlier, and 43.2 percent more than in 2000 when the local price was at its lowest May level over the last 10 years.\nA therm—a measure of constant heating value—of utility (piped) gas, commonly referred to as natural gas, in the Philadelphia area averaged $1.483 in May 2009, a decrease of 2.9 percent from the previous May.\nOver the last decade, the price per gallon in the U.S. and the Philadelphia area has generally trended upward; however, since last May, gasoline prices dropped 39.3 percent in the U.S. and 39.5 percent in Philadelphia. (Please see attached PDF file for a full version of the release.)\nAverage prices are estimated from Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for utility (piped) gas, electricity, and gasoline to support the research and analytic needs of CPI data users.\nGerald L. Perrins, Jr. Regional Economist and Branch Chief Bure\nMiss Hispanic Delaware 2009\nBridgeville Man Charged with Assault Following an Attempt to Enter Court with a Knife","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line410504"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6900414228439331,"wiki_prob":0.6900414228439331,"text":"Should You Get Tested for the 'Breast Cancer Genes'?\nTUESDAY, Feb. 19, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Women who have specific mutations in genes known as BRCA are at increased risk for breast and ovarian cancers. Now, an influential expert panel reaffirms that certain women should be screened for the genes.\nThe draft recommendation comes from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, whose advisories often guide physician practice and insurance coverage. The guidelines -- which restate a 2013 advisory -- encourage genetic testing only for women with either a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, or an ethnicity or ancestry associated with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations.\nWomen who fall into these categories should receive genetic counseling to help them understand their risk and, if indicated, get genetic testing for BRCA, the recommendation says.\nWomen without a family history or ethnicity associated with these mutations should not be screened, counseled or tested, the task force says.\nThe BRCA genes first gained media attention when actor and director Angelina Jolie announced in 2013 that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after discovering that she carried one of the BRCA mutations. She later had her ovaries removed, as well. Jolie's mother died from ovarian cancer.\nHowever, the USPSTF panel stressed that the gene tests are not advised for most women.\n\"BRCA testing is beneficial for the small number of women in the United States who are at increased risk for BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations,\" said task force member Dr. Carol Mangione. She is chief of general internal medicine at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.\n\"The test results are complex and testing comes with some harms, so we recommend women who get tested meet with a licensed genetic counselor who can guide them through the process,\" Mangione said in a task force news release.\nOnly a few women have a personal or family history, ethnicity or ancestry associated with a risk for a BRCA mutation, according to the task force.\nCurrent test results also do not definitively tell if a woman has harmful mutations that will lead to cancer. But for some women, testing and counseling will be a guide to their potential risk.\n\"Women should talk with their primary care clinician if they have questions about their risk for BRCA mutations,\" said Dr. Douglas Owens, vice chair of the task force, and a professor of medicine at Stanford University.\n\"This discussion can be part of a routine office visit and is the first step in determining if counseling and testing are needed,\" he said.\nThe U.S. National Cancer Institute offers more details about BRCA mutations.\nSOURCE: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, news release, Feb. 19, 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1488854"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.890663743019104,"wiki_prob":0.890663743019104,"text":"Pronk Press\nThe Benghazi cover story\nPosted on November 13, 2013. Filed under: Central Intelligence Agency, Columns, Congress, Crime, Foreign Policy, Homicide, Law, Liberty, People, Philosophy, Politics, War, Weapons | Tags: al-Qaida, Andrews Air Force Base, Ansar al-Shariah. Senator Lindsey Graham, aul Schemm, Benghazi, Benghazi Cover Story, Benghazi Scandal, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Annex, Cover Up, Economics, Elections, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Glen Doherty and Ambassador Chris Stevens, Gregory Hicks, Jihadist, Lara Logan, Libya, Lt. Col. Andy Wood, Lying, Michael Maggie, Politics, President Barack Obama, Raymond Thomas Pronk, Sean Smith, Susan Rice, Terrorist Attack, Tyrone Woods, U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, United Nations General Assembly, YouTube Video |\nBy Raymond Thomas Pronk\nPresident Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speak at transfer of remains ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base for Americans killed in Benghazi. Credit:www.vosizneias.com\nThe Benghazi cover story was an awful, offensive, crude and disgusting online video that insulted believers in Islam lead to a spontaneous protest that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya.\nOn Sept. 14, 2012 during the transfer of remains ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made remarks to the families of the four Americans killed in Benghazi. She briefly reviewed the careers and lives of the deceased: Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Ambassador Chris Stevens.\nClinton said, “We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing to do with.”\nOn Sept. 16, 2012, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice appeared on all five Sunday morning TV news shows. The interviewers on all five shows asked Rice to provide the Obama administration’s explanation for the murder of the four Americans in Benghazi.\nOn ABC’s “This Week,” in response to a question by Jake Tapper, Rice answered, “But our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous — not a premeditated — response to what had transpired in Cairo. In Cairo, as you know, a few hours earlier, there was a violent protest that was undertaken in reaction to this very offensive video that was disseminated.” Rice repeated this explanation on all five shows.\nOn Sept. 25, 2012, President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York. He also repeated Rice’s explanation for what happened in Benghazi. Obama said, “That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video.”\nAccording to an Associated Press story by Paul Schemm and Michael Maggie: “Within 24 hours of the attack, both the embassy in Tripoli and the CIA station chief sent word to Washington that it was a planned militant attack,” and “there was no sign of a spontaneous protest against an American-made movie denigrating Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.”\nThe terrorist attackers numbering about 150 are suspected of being members of the powerful militia organization Ansar al-Shariah. Their members espouse a jihadist al-Qaida-like ideology. They fought in the Libyan civil war that overthrew the 42-year dictatorship of Moammar Gadhafi.\nGregory Hicks was deputy chief of mission and charge d’affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya on Sept. 11. He was called to testify before the House Oversight Committee that is investigating Benghazi on May 9. Hicks said, “I thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go. I think everybody at the mission thought it was a terrorist attack from the beginning.”\nOn Oct. 27 CBS’s 60 Minutes Lara Logan said, “Contrary to the White House’s public statements, which were still being made a full week later, it’s now well established that the Americans were attacked by al-Qaida in a well-planned assault.”\nLogan’s reporting coup was an interview with a new source, a British security officer, who uses a pseudonym. He said, “On his first drive through Benghazi, he noticed the black flags of al- Qaida flying openly in the streets and he grew concerned about the guard forces as soon as he pulled up to the U.S. compound.”\nAlso interviewed was Lt. Col. Andy Wood, chief security officer in Libya, and Hicks. Wood said, “Al-Qaida — using a familiar tactic — had stated their intent in an online posting, saying they would attack the Red Cross, the British and then the Americans in Benghazi. They made good on two out of the three promises. It was a matter of time ‘til they captured the third one.”\nWood added, “I made it known in a country team meeting, ‘You are gonna get attacked. You are gonna get attacked in Benghazi. It’s gonna happen. You need to change your security profile.’”\nOn Oct. 28 Fox News interviewed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). He said, “So I am calling for a joint select committee. … The people who survived the attack in Benghazi, have not been made available to the U.S. Congress for oversight purposes. I’m going to block every appointment in the United States Senate until the survivors are being made available to the Congress.”\nThe truth was known from the beginning that the terrorist attacks were planned and well-organized by a militia group called Ansar al-Shariah and had absolutely nothing to do with a YouTube video. The Benghazi cover story was a lie repeatedly told to deceive the American people during an election year.\nRaymond Thomas Pronk presents the Pronk Pops Show on KDUX web radio from 4-5 p.m. Monday thru Thursday and from 3-5 p.m. Friday and authors the companion blog http://www.pronkpops.wordpress.com.\nRaymond T. Pronk\nHealth Care Insurance\nMacroeconomis","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1015331"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8813093304634094,"wiki_prob":0.8813093304634094,"text":"Aisha Tyler: Forever a Friend of “Friends”\nSteve Gidlow\nBehind the Scenes in Hollywood\nSince leaving CBS’ The Talk a year ago, life has been non-stop for self-admitted workaholic Aisha Tyler. Not only has she produced and directed her first feature film (Axis, currently streaming on VOD platforms), she continues to provide the voice of Lana Kane for FX’s animated hit Archer (as she has for the past nine years); heads her own chat show on AMC titled Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler, continues her role as Dr. Tara Lewis on CBS’ Criminal Minds, and hosts The CW’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? She has been called the female Ryan Seacrest and she agrees. But back in 2002 the stand-up comic turned multifaceted performer was reeling from the cancelation of Talk SouponE! (the show she’d hosted for a year). That same year Tyler made the decision to switch career gears, expand her resume and try acting. Little did she know the decision would lead to a groundbreaking guest spot on one of her favorite shows -- Friends. It would also become something that would forever change her life.\nSteve Gidlow has written about television and pop culture since 1994, beginning in Australia. Since moving to Hollywood in 1997, Steve has focused on celebrity interviews for the weekly market. He has been a contributing editor to In Touch Weekly, Life &… read more","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line836441"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8936206102371216,"wiki_prob":0.8936206102371216,"text":"\"Discovering Lucy Angel\" Premieres On AXSTV Tonight\nLearn more about a the family trio's new Docu-series here.\nMother-daughter trio Lucy Angel and their family, The Andertons, will receive their shot at fame with the premiere of the original docu-series Discovering Lucy Angel. Produced by Taylored TV and Eggplant TV, AXS TV’s first original docu-series premieres Tonight, Tuesday, January 13, at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. The country music themed series is set to air its 13-episode season during AXS TV’s Tuesday night primetime block.\nDiscovering Lucy Angel follows the mother-daughter trio Lucy Angel and their family, the Andertons, as they work together to launch their music career in Nashville. The original docu­-series captures the ups and downs of the family’s lives as they make a name for themselves in country music and highlights the endearing group while out on tour and at their family home in Franklin, Tennessee. In the premiere episode the Anderton family members rehearse and prepare for the biggest performance of their career: a live concert at the Pocono Raceway.\nIn addition to the premiere, their debut self-titled album debuted as New and Noteworthy on iTunes TODAY and will be available in Walmart and Target stores January 27th.\nAfter watching Lucy Angel's program last night at the live premiere in Franklin, TN. The show is entertaining, uplifting and features a good cast of characters.\nLucy Angel\nMatt Bjorke\nThe Editor of Roughstock since 2008, Matt Bjorke also enjoys a sip of good whiskey, watching and discussing films, a good vinyl LP and road trips. He is a graduate of the University of Washington.\nThomas Rhett, Kelsea Ballerini return to host CMA FEST TV Program","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line554003"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7717417478561401,"wiki_prob":0.7717417478561401,"text":"Neutral's Not Enough: Institutionalizing Gender Equity for the Health of Women and Girls\nPhoto credit: Warren Zelman, Democratic Republic of the Congo.\nFor over four decades, MSH has promoted equal access to healthcare for women and girls in more than 135 countries, as we work toward our vision of \"a world where everyone has the opportunity for a healthy life.\" Health for all is a human right, and we believe strengthening health systems within a gender framework can help achieve this vision.\nGender shapes the ways in which health systems are planned, delivered, and experienced by beneficiaries and providers. To meet the specific health needs of women and girls, and to address gender within the health workforce, gender must be mainstreamed globally within and throughout health systems. What does that mean? Transforming the framework of health systems from being gender neutral (not taking the interests, needs, priorities, and contributions of different genders into account)—to being gender equitable (taking into account the interests, needs, priorities, and contributions of all).\nOur gender equity approach promotes access to all aspects of care. We integrate activities to empower women and girls and address gender-specific health needs into maternal, newborn and child health; family planning and reproductive health; and HIV & AIDS programs. For example, we integrate screening for cervical cancer with HIV & AIDS services for women; treatment and prevention of gender-based violence and gender-specific health risks from early or forced marriage with primary health services; and Option B+ in maternity clinics (the latest World Health Organization-recognized approach for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and treating the mother for life, regardless of the progression of the disease).\nWomen and girls have a right to have their health needs institutionalized as a consistent part of the health system. Women and girls have a right to have family planning and reproductive health services mainstreamed into the health system. Women and girls have a right to access quality care.\nStrengthening the role of women leaders wherever they are within the health system (e.g. working in maternal, newborn and child health or HIV/AIDS, as advocates, or as leaders) contributes to closing gender gaps and to achieving gender equality. Greater participation of women as health service providers and planners increases the likelihood that health services meet women’s needs and rights. MSH, through USAID’s Leadership Management and Governance Project, works to create more opportunities for women to move into leadership, management and governance positions within health systems by:\nShifting the perception of women as mere beneficiaries to include their role as providers of health care and as leaders within health systems\nIncreasing awareness of the critical role gender plays in health systems\nStrengthening governance structures to be more gender responsive and gender accountable\nBuilding the capacity of health ministries and related institutions to address gender inequality in the health workforce\nPromoting research and knowledge exchange on the role of women in the health workforce\nEstablishing partnerships and carrying out advocacy to promote women leaders\nOur global efforts to mainstream gender in health systems include supporting Ethiopia's ministerial-level efforts to integrate gender into health systems; addressing gender inequalities that affect women and may limit the impact of health interventions in Nigeria and supporting orphans and vulnerable children by addressing the livelihoods of women caregivers; working with partners in Democratic Republic of the Congo integrating cervical cancer screening with other health services and addressing the needs of women who are victims of gender-based violence (while working to prevent the violence); empowering women leaders with disabilities; and more.\nWithout targeted efforts, women won’t have a fair chance at health. As a global health organization specializing in health systems strengthening around the world, MSH is in a unique position to support gender integration in policies and programs to help reduce the significant gender gaps in access, quality, and availability of health services to women and girls. With access to all key stakeholders and institutions that contribute to health improvement, along with strong technical expertise and advocacy, MSH can help level the playing field for women’s health.\nUnited Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Women 2000 and Beyond: The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality\ngender, gender equity\nGovernance in the Spotlight: Gender Responsiveness in Governance\nInternational Women's Day 2014: Celebrate Women Health Leaders Inspiring Change\nIn The Name of Culture: A Reflection on International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting\nRelated to Neutral's Not Enough: Institutionalizing Gender Equity for the Health of Women and Girls","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line881922"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5193758010864258,"wiki_prob":0.4806241989135742,"text":"Justia Patents Electric Current Or Electrical Wave Energy Through Earth For TreatingUS Patent for Method for reducing power loss associated with electrical heating of a subterranean formation Patent (Patent # 4,010,799)\nMethod for reducing power loss associated with electrical heating of a subterranean formation\nSep 15, 1975 - Petro-Canada Exploration Inc.\nMethod for reducing the loss of power accompanying the transmission of electrical energy down a wellbore to heat a subterranean formation via electrical conduction between a plurality of wells completed therein, characterized by providing a low frequency alternating current to the conductors in the wellbore. Also disclosed are specific embodiments of the invention.\nLatest Petro-Canada Exploration Inc. Patents:\nAzeotropic dehydration process for treating bituminous froth\nDevice for splicing cable ends\nBlending tar sands to provide feedstocks for hot water process\nControl of process aid used in hot water process for extraction of bitumen from tar sand\nSkimmer apparatus for recovering bitumen\nThis invention relates to a method for the electrical heating of a subterranean formation. More particularly, the present invention is concerned with the reduction of the power losses associated with the transmission of electrical energy down a wellbore to effect the heating of a formation via electrical conduction between a plurality of wells completed therein.\nThere is a considerable body of prior art relating to the general field of so-called electrothermic processes for raising the temperature of hydrocarbonaceous subterranean formations, all of which rely upon the electrical conductivity of the formation. Known techniques typically involve sinking a well into the formation having an electrode positioned near its bottom in electrical contact with the formation. The electrode is formed as part of an alternating current circuit extending through the wellbore from the surface with the circuit being completed through the formation.\nThis large body of prior art discloses very little information which is concerned with the loss of power in the transmission thereof between voltage sources and downhole electrodes. The efficiency with which an electrical heating effect is provided in a formation is dependent upon producing electric power at the electrodes. Accordingly, it has been previously recognized that it is most desirable to provide good conductive paths between voltage sources and electrodes to obviate any unnecessary voltage losses; and also to insulate against any extraneous current paths which would carry the flow of current outside the desired paths. The prior art does disclose various insulating means to aid in lowering power losses. For example, insulating tubing, casing fluids, and coatings which act as barriers or shields have all been disclosed as means for defining a conducting path for the current.\nHowever, it has been found that while transmitting power downhole in an electrical heating operation a considerable amount of the power is lost due to the magnetic hysteresis effect and the induced eddy current in the casing. The use of insulating casing, tubing, fluids, and coatings aid in the reduction of this loss but by no means eliminate it. Further, the use of insulating materials such as fiberglass, epoxy coatings and the like present their own problems in regard to lack of strength and their lack of ability to withstand high temperature.\nAccordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a method for heating electrically a subterranean formation.\nA further object is to provide an efficient and economical method for transmitting power downhole in order to electrically heat a subterranean formation.\nIt is another object of this invention to provide a method for minimizing the power loss which occurs when transmitting electrical energy down a wellbore to heat a subterranean formation.\nThese and other objects will become apparent from the following descriptive matter, particularly when taken in conjunction with the appended claims.\nIn accordance with this invention, a subterranean formation intermediate a plurality of wells completed therein is heated via electrical conduction by passing a low frequency alternating current through the conductors in the wellbore significantly reducing the power losses associated with the transmission of the electrical energy down the wellbore.\nIt has been found that when transmitting power downhole in an electrical heating operation, as a result of using 60 cycle alternating current, considerable power is lost through induced eddy currents in the conductors and magnetic hysteresis. As a piece of steel is alternately magnetized and demagnetized, energy is dissipated and converted to heat due to the hysteresis loop resulting in a net power loss in the system. It has also been found that this loss can be as great or better than 10% of the total power carried by the conductor downhole. The present invention provides a method for significantly reducing this power loss to only as much as 10% of what the loss would be otherwise. The utilization of alternating current is preferred in order to reduce the effects of electrode corrosion and polarization which accompany the use of direct current.\nThe FIGURE is a side elevational view, partly schematic and partly in section, illustrating one simplified embodiment of this invention.\nReferring to the FIGURE a plurality of wells 11 and 13 have been drilled into and completed within a subterranean formation 15. Each of the wells 11 and 13 have been completed so they may be operated as either injection or production wells. Specifically, the wells have a string of casing 17 that is inserted in the drilled bore hole and cemented in place with the usual foot 19. A perforate conduit 21 extends into the subterranean formation 15 adjacent the periphery of the wellbore that was drilled thereinto. Preferably, the casing 17 includes a lower electrically insulated conduit for constraining the electrical current flow to the subterranean formation as much as practical. The perforate conduit 21 may be casing having the same or a different diameter from casing 19, or it may be large diameter tubing inserted through the casing 19. As illustrated, the perforate conduit 21 comprises a separate string of conduit extended from the surface for better preserving the heat content of an injected immiscible fluid.\nEach of the wells 11 and 13 has an electrode 23. The respective electrodes 23 are connected via electrical conductors 25 and 27 with surface equipment 28 and a source of electrical current, illustrated as alternating current (A.C.) source 29. The eletrical conductors 25 and 27 are insulated between the electrodes 23 and the surface equipment. The surface equipment 28 includes suitable controls that are employed to effect the predetermined current flow. For example, a switch (SW) 31 and voltage control means, such as rheostat 33, are illustrated for controlling the duration and magnitude of the current flow between the electrodes 23 in the wells 11 and 13 by way of the subterranean formation 15. It is preferred that the alternating current source 29 be adjusted to provide the correct voltage for effecting the current flow through the subterranean formation 15 without requiring much power loss in surface control equipment, exemplified by rheostat 33. The respective electrical conductors 25 and 27 are emplaced in their respective wells 11 and 13 with conventional means. As illustrated, they are run through lubricators 35 in order to allow alternate or simultaneous heating, and injection and production, without having to alter the surface accessories, such as changing the configuration of the well head 37, with its valves and the like.\nAs illustrated, the well 11 is connected with an immiscible fluid injection system by way of suitable insulated surface conduit 39. The illustrated fluid injection system comprises a storage tank for injecting fluid which has a specific resistivity less than that of the connate water in place. The injection system 41 is constructed and operated in accordance with conventional engineering technology that does not, per se, form part of this invention and is well known and is not described in detail herein. The conventional injection system technology is contained in a number of printed publications which are incorporated herein by reference for details.\nThe perforate conduit 21 in well 13 is connected to surface production facilities by way of a second surface conduit 45. The production facilities are those normally employed for handling normally viscous crude oils and are not shown, since they are well known in the art. The production facilities include such conventional apparatus as heater treaters, separators, and heated storage tanks, as well as the requisite pumping and flow facilities for handling the oil. The production facilities also are connected with suitable conventional oil processing facilities (also not shown), such as are employed in the conventional processing of the oil after it is recovered from the formation by surface mining techniques, or otherwise. Since these production and processing facilities do not, per se, form a part of this invention, they are not described in detail herein.\nIn operation, the wells 11 and 13 are completed in the formation 15 in accordance with conventional technology. Specifically, bore holes are drilled, at the desired distance and patterning, from the surface into the subterranean formation 15. Thereafter, the casing 17 is set into the formation to the desired depth. As illustrated, the casing 17 may comprise a surface string that is cemented into place immediately above the formation. Thereafter, a second string of casing, including an insulated perforate conduit 21, is emplaced in the respective bore holes and completed in accordance with the desired construction. For example, a perforate conduit 21 may have its foot cemented in place, or it may be installed with a gravel pack or the like to allow for expansion and contraction and still secure the desired injectivity and productivity.\nIn any event, the electrodes are thereafter placed in respective wells. For example, the formation may be from 100 to 300 feet thick and the respective electrodes 23 may be from 50 to 100 feet or more in length. The electrodes 23 are continuously conductive along their length and are connected with the respective electrical conductors 25 and 27 by conventional techniques. For example, the electrodes 23 may be of copper based alloy and may be connected with copper based conductors 25 and 27 by suitable copper based electrical connectors. Thereafter, the alternating current source 29 is connected with the conductors 25 and 27 by way of the surface control equipment, illustrated simply as switch 31 and rheostat 33. If the desired current densities are obtainable without the use of the rheostat, it is set on the zero resistance position to obtain the desired current flow between the wells. The electrical current will flow primarily through the formation, although some of the electrical energy will flow through the oil-impermeable shales, as illustrated in the dashed lines 47. In one embodiment of the present invention the low frequency alternating current utilized herein is provided by a low frequency generator.\nIn another embodiment, the low frequency alternating current is provided by using a frequency convertor to convert high frequency alternating current to a low frequency alternating current.\nIn still another embodiment low frequency alternating current is provided by generating a direct current and reversing the direction thereof in a periodic manner with suitable switching means to produce a current approaching a \"square wave\" rather than a sinusoidal wave of ordinary alternating current. In this manner a commercially available alternator of 60 cycles, for example, could be utilized to produce a square wave with a frequency of only a few cycles per second or less. The direct current could also be provided by rectifying an alternating current. In order to produce a current approaching a square wave the time interval between reversals in current direction should be equal (symmetrical). A solid-state switching device would be suitable for accomplishing this reversal of current direction.\nThe low frequency alternating current of the present invention regardless of means through which it is provided should have a frequency of less than 60 cycles per second in order to achieve reduction in power loss. The lower the frequency the greater the reduction in power loss that will be achieved. However, at the extremely low frequencies of less than about 0.10 cycles per second, problems of corrosion and polarization associated with the use of direct current again begin to enter into the operation to reduce the advantages thereof. At a frequency of from about 0.10 to about 5.0 cycles per second the largest reduction in power loss is achievable.\nBy taking advantage of the fact that the power losses resulting from induced voltage and hysteresis are directly related to the frequency, the present invention has the overall effect to drastically reduce the loss of power associated with transmitting power downhole to electrically heat a formation. Such a reduction in power loss is extremely critical to the overall efficient and economic performance of a system whereby a subterranean formation is heated via electrical conduction between a plurality of wells completed therein.\nThe following example illustrates the applicability of the invention in lowering the power loss associated with the transmission of power downhole.\nExample ______________________________________ 1000 feet, copper cable 270 amperes 1000 feet, 7-inch steelcasing having a Brinell hardness of 188 magnetic hysteresis frequency, cycles and eddy current reduction in power per second power loss, watts loss, % ______________________________________ 60 15360 40 11280 26.6 20 8400 45.4 10 5280 65.7 5 3360 78.2 2 1340 91.3 ______________________________________\nUtilizing a commercial generator powered by a diesel engine the low frequency alternating current is transmitted down a wellbore through a copper cable running the length of a 1000 foot seven-inch steel casing. The varying frequency is achieved by varying the speed of the generator. The very low frequencies are provided by gearing down the generator to very low speeds. As can readily be seen from the above table, utilization of low frequency alternating current significantly reduces the power loss associated with transmitting power down a wellbore as a result of induced eddy currents and magnetic hysteresis. Power loss to cable is not included in this example. The particular size cable used determines that amount of loss. However, regardless of the size of cable utilized, the use of low frequency alternating current will significantly reduce induced eddy current and magnetic hysteresis loss when compared to the use of high frequency alternating current.\nIt should be noted that when employing the present invention to heat a subterranean formation via electrical conduction between, for example, two wells completed therein, the reduction in power loss illustrated by the above example will be approximately twice that shown because of the circuit being completed through the formation and up the second wellbore. Power losses in the second well will also be reduced an equivalent amount by the use of low frequency alternating current.\nHaving thus described the invention, it will be understood that such description has been given by way of illustration and not by way of limitation, reference for the latter purpose being has to the appended claims.\n1. Method of reducing power losses associated with transmission of electrical energy down a wellbore to heat a subterranean formation via electrical conduction between a plurality of wells completed therein, which comprises, passing an alternating current having a frequency of from about 0.10 to about 5.0 cycles per second through the conductors in said wellbore.\n2131585 September 1938 Curtis\n2748868 June 1956 Carpenter\n3507330 April 1970 Gill\n3594492 July 1971 Edison et al.\n3829707 August 1974 Pflanz\n\"Composite Catalog of Oil Field Equipment & Services\", 25th Rev., vol. 1, 1962-1963, World Oil (Gulf Publishing Co.), Houston, Texas, p. 197.\nDate of Patent: Mar 8, 1977\nAssignees: Petro-Canada Exploration Inc. (Calgary), Imperial Oil Limited (Toronto), Canada-Cities Service, Ltd. (Calgary)\nInventors: Loyd R. Kern (Irving, TX), Thomas K. Perkins (Dallas, TX)\nPrimary Examiner: Stephen J. Novosad\nAttorney: Ronnie D. Wilson\nCurrent U.S. Class: Electric Current Or Electrical Wave Energy Through Earth For Treating (166/248); Electrical Heater In Well (166/60)\nInternational Classification: E21B 4324;","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line302604"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.984004020690918,"wiki_prob":0.984004020690918,"text":"Some Rod Blagojevich convictions tossed; wife tells him disappointing news\nBy Jason Meisner and Bob Secter\nA federal appeals court threw out five of 18 counts against Blagojevich, vacated his 14-year sentence and ordered him retried on the five counts.\nMore than three years ago, Rod Blagojevich stood with his family on the steps of his Chicago bungalow and vowed to dozens of supporters to fight to overturn his conviction on corruption charges and his 14-year prison sentence.\nOn Tuesday, 1,224 days after the disgraced former governor checked in to a federal prison in Colorado, his lawyers staged a news conference at the same spot on the Northwest Side. This time, however, there were no cheering crowds or autographs to be signed. The pained look on the faces of Blagojevich's wife, Patti, and 18-year-old daughter, Amy, spoke volumes.\nIn a long-awaited ruling just hours earlier, a federal appeals court in Chicago threw out five of the 18 counts against Blagojevich and ordered his sentence vacated. The three-judge panel tempered the small legal victory by calling the evidence against Blagojevich \"overwhelming\" and making it clear he will likely remain locked up for years to come.\nThe same judge who imposed the original sentence — a frequent target of the defense for his alleged unfairness — will still decide his punishment.\nCalling her husband an eternal optimist, a somber Patti Blagojevich said she broke news of the ruling to the former governor, who is more than three years into his sentence.\n\"This has been a long road for our family. We've waited a long time for this decision. We are very disappointed,\" Patti told reporters. \"There's been so much in the last 3½ years that Rod's missed — high school graduations, proms, birthdays — and so if there's any silver lining for us it's that possibly this is a step in the right direction to getting him home with us and with his girls where he belongs.\"\nAs she listened, Amy began to cry, resting her head on her mom's shoulder.\nBlagojevich's lawyers blasted the ruling as legally unsound and said they'd consider asking the full 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to rehear the case or possibly filing an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court — both considered long shots at best.\nThe ruling came 19 months after oral argument, and at 23 pages, it was surprisingly concise. Its author, Judge Frank Easterbrook, said the court could have produced \"a book-length opinion\" because of the complexities of Blagojevich's two trials but chose to stick to \"the most important facts\" and the \"principal arguments\" of the lawyers.\nBlagojevich's appellate attorney, Leonard Goodman, said he was stunned that the court didn't address many of the issues and alleged evidentiary errors that the former governor's appeal raised.\n\"And the ones it does address it gets it wrong,\" said Goodman, referring in particular to the trial judge's decision to exclude testimony from Blagojevich that he believed his actions were lawful. \"So it's shocking to me that after a year and a half this could be the result of the court's work.\"\nThe ruling left uncertain how Blagojevich's fate would ultimately be resolved. Prosecutors could opt against a third trial, throw out the five overturned counts and proceed to a resentencing on the remaining convictions.\nIf prosecutors elect to drop the counts that were thrown out on appeal, then U.S. District Judge James Zagel, who presided over two criminal trials for Blagojevich, should \"proceed directly to resentencing,\" the opinion stated.\n\"It is not possible to call the 168 months unlawfully high for Blagojevich's crimes, but the district judge should consider on remand whether it is the most appropriate sentence,\" Easterbrook wrote in the unanimous opinion. In ordering a sentencing redo, the judges indicated that Blagojevich might not expect a more generous outcome from Zagel this time around.\nThe U.S. attorney's office in Chicago had no immediate comment Tuesday. Both U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon and his top assistant, Joel Levin, likely won't be involved in deciding how the office responds to the court's ruling because of conflicts of interest. Both represented clients connected to the Blagojevich case while in private practice.\nJeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor, said the ruling wasn't a vindication for Blagojevich \"by any stretch of the imagination,\" noting the court did not find that he was wrongfully convicted.\n\"This is a technicality on jury instructions,\" he said of the decision.\nCramer said the government will almost certainly throw out the five counts reversed by the court and attempt to defend the 14-year prison sentence Zagel already handed down. In fact, the court noted that Zagel had already found that the original sentence called for under federal guidelines was too harsh.\n\"He had already given (Blagojevich) more than half off,\" Cramer said.\nBlagojevich, now 58, was convicted of misusing his powers as governor in an array of shakedown schemes, most famously for his alleged attempts to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama after his 2008 election as president. Blagojevich, incarcerated in a federal prison in suburban Denver since March 2012, is not scheduled to be released until May 2024, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.\nThe appellate court had mulled the ruling since holding oral arguments in December 2013, a delay that led to speculation over a split among the panel of three judges — Easterbrook, Ilana Diamond Rovner and Michael Kanne.\nBlagojevich has long claimed he was no different than other elected officials who leveraged their political power, and much of the appellate opinion focused on that sometimes gray line between traditional political horse-trading and flat-out bribery.\nThe court ruled that the instructions given to the jury in Blagojevich's second trial should have differentiated between Blagojevich's various schemes to sell the Senate seat, in particular his idea to seek a position in Obama's Cabinet in exchange for appointing longtime Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. The opinion called that a \"common exercise of logrolling,\" essentially the swapping of political favors.\nAnother aspect of the scheme — to give the seat to Jarrett in exchange for money — represented a much brighter line of criminal activity, the court held.\n\"The (jury) instructions treated all proposals alike,\" the opinion stated. \"We conclude, however, that they are legally different: a proposal to trade one public act for another, a form of logrolling, is fundamentally unlike the swap of an official act for a private payment.\"\nThe opinion also invoked a key exchange from the 2013 arguments when Easterbrook pressed a federal prosecutor on how Blagojevich's conduct differed from a famous political deal supposedly struck more than 60 years ago: President Dwight Eisenhower's nomination of Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court in exchange for the California governor's support in the 1952 election.\n\"If the prosecutor is right, and a swap of political favors involving a job for one of the politicians is a felony, then if the standard account is true both the President of the United States and the Chief Justice of the United States should have gone to prison,\" the opinion stated.\nBut the opinion was also clear that the evidence against Blagojevich was overwhelming, \"much of it from Blagojevich's own mouth\" as a result of wiretaps on his phone and his rambling testimony in his second trial. The opinion also upheld what perhaps was the most brazen of Blagojevich's extortion and bribery convictions: a deal to name then-U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. to the Senate seat in exchange for $1.5 million in campaign cash.\nWhile it was forced to reverse convictions on the five counts, the court wrote, prosecutors could focus at a retrial on the then-governor's more straightforward efforts to swap Jarrett's appointment for money, not a Cabinet post.\nIn his remarks to reporters outside Blagojevich's home, Goodman said he had not yet spoken to Blagojevich so he wasn't sure about the next course of action. But he said his advice to Blagojevich will be to continue to fight the case.\n[Most read] Top floors of Macy’s flagship evolving from Frango mints and furs to thousands of office workers »\n\"The evidence that would have acquitted him was excluded at trial, and my advice to the governor is that he should fight on,\" Goodman said.\nPatrick Collins, another former federal prosecutor who helped secure a corruption conviction against former Gov. George Ryan, said the opinion's legacy may be in the way it attempts to draw a clearer distinction between logrolling and behavior that is clearly corrupt.\n\"It really tries to draw a bright line, and that gives some helpful guidance to politicians, particularly those who operate in the gray zone,\" Collins said.\nIG: Cook County needs revamp on sexual harassment outside of work following allegations against Preckwinkle ex-chief of staff\nDespite residency rules, World Business Chicago VP, Wilmette school board president holds a key role in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s orbit\nOn ‘Face the Nation,’ Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin discusses fear in Latino community over planned immigration raids, Trump tweets\nFeds raid home of second Speaker Madigan ally, ex-Ald. Mike Zalewski\nIllinois gambling expansion could take a while. Here’s a look at what’s to come.\nChicago Tribune's Dawn Rhodes, John Chase and Jeff Coen contributed.\njmeisner@tribpub.com\nbsecter@tribpub.com\nTwitter @jmetr22b\nJails and Prisons","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1690478"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7306388020515442,"wiki_prob":0.2693611979484558,"text":"5 WEDDING DRESS SHOPPING BLUNDERS TO AVOID\nSeptember 03, 2014 / mirabridal\nIf you're like us, you've probably spent one too many Friday nights watching TLC's \"Say Yes to the Dress\" marathons with a glass of wine and a fistful of tissues. Thousands of brides — approximately 17,000 a year, to get specific — strut through Kleinfeld's doors in search of their perfect dress, which is why when had a few questions about potential shopping pitfalls, we took them straight to Kleinfeld's Fashion Director Terry Hall. Here is his expert take on what not to do on your wedding dress journey. 1. Don't Shop Before You've Set the Date \"Whenever a bride comes in and she doesn't have the date and the venue, we really don't know where to begin because we don't know what the time frame is, and it really is all about the time frame,\" Hall says. \"Many designers take four to even eight months to make a gown,\" he elaborates, so if you're not sure what timeline you're working with, consultants won't know what dresses to show you.\n2. Don't Bring Too Many People \"More people equals more opinions and most of the time you're not always going to agree so it's really important that the bride chooses only those whose opinions she really values,\" Hall suggests.\nSee More: 5 People You Should Not Go Wedding Dress Shopping WIth You\n3. Don't Forget to Factor Alterations Into Your Budget To keep expectations in check, be sure to set a budget that includes alteration costs. \"Alterations can be several hundred dollars and if there are any changes that need to be made to the dress, those all have costs involved and really can significantly add to the budget,\" Hall explains. 4. Don't Forsake Trendy Dresses \"Oftentimes I hear brides say, 'I love this dress, but I know it's kind of a hot trend right now so I think I should wear something a bit more classic because what am I going to say about this picture in 20 years?' What I say to that is: 'You're not getting married 20 years from now, you're getting married right now.' It's not about whether or not that dress is timeless or not, it's about that day, and that picture should be frozen in time,\" Hall notes.\n5. Don't Get Camera Happy \"I understand brides want to take pictures of their dress, and a lot of times family members or friends can't make it to the appointment. But I always discourage them from taking photos, mainly because most of the photos today are taken with a cell phone and oftentimes the way the dress photographs, isn't the way it really looks in person. So the person that's receiving the photo on the other end is seeing something different than what the bride is seeing, and she may not get the answer that she wants. Also, I've seen emailed pictures of the dress accidentally be posted, or shared with people that weren't supposed to see it,\" Hall warns. \"When it's absolutely necessary, I encourage them to either Facetime or Skype in real time, because you can actually speak to any of the differences, and those images aren't going to be saved.\"\nSee More: FAQ for Wedding Gown Shopping\nSeptember 03, 2014 / mirabridal/\n5 WEDDING DRESS SHOPPING BLUNDERS TO AVOID, BRIDAL ADVICE, BRIDAL SHOPPING ADVICE, BRIDLA ADVICE, WEDDING GOWN SHOPPING\nOUR FALL 2014 MAGGIE SOTTERO BRIDAL ...\n5 PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT GO WEDDING ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line932141"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5396909117698669,"wiki_prob":0.5396909117698669,"text":"Man from southern NJ faces criminal charges for shooting at pilot whales\nBy editor on February 22, 2015 Comments Off on Man from southern NJ faces criminal charges for shooting at pilot whales\nNEWARK — A Cape May man surrendered to U.S. Marshals Thursday for shooting at pilot whales off the New Jersey coast, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.\nDaniel Archibald, 27, is charged by complaint with one count of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. He appeared Thursday afternoon in Newark federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge James Clark III in Newark federal court. He was released on $10,000 unsecured bond, with travel restricted to the United States, except for fishing in international waters. He is required to surrender all firearms and firearms purchaser identification cards and is prohibited from using or possessing a firearm on land or sea.\nAccording to the complaint unsealed today: Archibald, a tuna fisherman, allegedly shot at pilot whales while aboard the fishing vessel “Capt Bob.”\nPilot whales are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, a statute that prohibits the hunting, killing, capture or harassment of any marine mammal. Harassment under the statute includes any act of pursuit, torment or annoyance that has the potential to injure a marine mammal in the wild.\nOn Sept. 24, 2011, an 11-foot, 740-pound pilot whale beached itself in Allenhurst, and died shortly thereafter. A necropsy uncovered a .30 caliber bullet lodged in the whale’s jaw. The bullet wound triggered an extensive infection that caused the whale to starve to death a month later.\nReview of the Capt Bob’s vessel monitoring system confirmed that it was in New Jersey fishing waters for much of August 2011, the approximate time that the whale was shot. Also, nearly a month before the pilot whale washed ashore, defendant Archibald posted a Facebook photograph of a tuna head on a hook with the caption “thanks a lot pilot whales.”\nSpecial agents eventually searched the Capt Bob and found a Mosin-Nagant, a World War II rifle that has not been manufactured in several decades. Forensic analysis revealed that the bullet found in the whale was similar in all general rifling characteristics to test bullets fired from Archibald’s rifle. When interviewed by special agents, Archibald admitted that he had “spray[ed]” bullets at pilot whales in an effort to chase them away.\nThe violation charged carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a statutory maximum fine of $100,000 or twice the gross gain or loss resulting from the offense.\nFishman credited special agents of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Law Enforcement, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Ray, with the investigation leading to the charges.\nThe charges and allegations contained in the complaint are accusations, and the defendant is considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.\nMan from southern NJ faces criminal charges for shooting at pilot whales added by editor on February 22, 2015","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line369102"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6798444390296936,"wiki_prob":0.6798444390296936,"text":"Daily Ratings and News for NVIDIA\nComplete the form below to receive the latest headlines and analysts' recommendations for NVIDIA with our free daily email newsletter:\nObermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp Buys Shares of 191,677 NVIDIA Co. (NVDA)\nPosted by Anthony Sawyer on May 16th, 2019\nObermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp bought a new position in NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA) in the first quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm bought 191,677 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock, valued at approximately $34,418,000. NVIDIA accounts for 3.2% of Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 14th biggest position.\nA number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in NVDA. Bay Harbor Wealth Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 41.4% during the first quarter. Bay Harbor Wealth Management LLC now owns 205 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $37,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares during the period. LS Investment Advisors LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.5% during the first quarter. LS Investment Advisors LLC now owns 11,952 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $2,146,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the period. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 19.8% during the first quarter. Tradewinds Capital Management LLC now owns 393 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $71,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the period. Sky Investment Group LLC grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 0.9% during the first quarter. Sky Investment Group LLC now owns 7,160 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $1,286,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the period. Finally, Atlas Brown Inc. grew its holdings in NVIDIA by 1.7% during the first quarter. Atlas Brown Inc. now owns 4,227 shares of the computer hardware maker’s stock worth $759,000 after purchasing an additional 70 shares during the period. 70.03% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.\nGet NVIDIA alerts:\nA number of brokerages have recently issued reports on NVDA. TheStreet upgraded NVIDIA from a “c+” rating to a “b-” rating in a report on Thursday, April 4th. BidaskClub upgraded NVIDIA from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 5th. DZ Bank cut NVIDIA to a “sell” rating and set a $170.00 price objective for the company. in a report on Friday, April 12th. Nomura began coverage on shares of NVIDIA in a research report on Tuesday, April 2nd. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $147.00 price target for the company. Finally, Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of NVIDIA from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Monday, April 1st. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have issued a hold rating and twenty-six have given a buy rating to the stock. The company currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $200.51.\nIn other NVIDIA news, EVP Debora Shoquist sold 5,823 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Wednesday, April 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $185.00, for a total transaction of $1,077,255.00. Following the sale, the executive vice president now owns 171,783 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $31,779,855. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this link. Also, CFO Colette Kress sold 14,092 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, March 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $183.33, for a total transaction of $2,583,486.36. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 20,029 shares of company stock worth $3,678,385. Insiders own 4.64% of the company’s stock.\nShares of NVDA opened at $162.04 on Thursday. NVIDIA Co. has a one year low of $124.46 and a one year high of $292.76. The company has a market cap of $96.42 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.70, a PEG ratio of 3.82 and a beta of 1.85. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21, a current ratio of 7.94 and a quick ratio of 6.76.\nNVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 14th. The computer hardware maker reported $0.80 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.27. NVIDIA had a net margin of 35.35% and a return on equity of 41.78%. The business had revenue of $2.21 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.22 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.72 earnings per share. The company’s revenue was down 24.3% on a year-over-year basis. On average, sell-side analysts anticipate that NVIDIA Co. will post 4.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.\nCOPYRIGHT VIOLATION WARNING: “Obermeyer Wood Investment Counsel Lllp Buys Shares of 191,677 NVIDIA Co. (NVDA)” was published by Week Herald and is the property of of Week Herald. If you are reading this piece on another site, it was illegally stolen and republished in violation of U.S. and international trademark & copyright laws. The legal version of this piece can be viewed at https://weekherald.com/2019/05/16/obermeyer-wood-investment-counsel-lllp-buys-shares-of-191677-nvidia-co-nvda.html.\nNVIDIA Company Profile\nNVIDIA Corporation operates as a visual computing company worldwide. It operates in two segments, GPU and Tegra Processor. The GPU segment offers processors, which include GeForce for PC gaming and mainstream PCs; GeForce NOW for cloud-based game-streaming service; Quadro for design professionals working in computer-aided design, video editing, special effects, and other creative applications; Tesla for artificial intelligence (AI) utilizing deep learning, accelerated computing, and general purpose computing; GRID, which provides power of NVIDIA graphics through the cloud and datacenters; DGX for AI scientists, researchers, and developers; and cryptocurrency-specific graphics processing units.\nFeatured Story: Average Daily Trade Volume – What You Need to Know\nWant to see what other hedge funds are holding NVDA? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA).\nReceive News & Ratings for NVIDIA Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for NVIDIA and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter.\nSounDAC Trading 9% Higher This Week (XSD)\nAmerican Airlines Group Inc (AAL) Stake Lessened by State Board of Administration of Florida Retirement System","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1207312"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.929275631904602,"wiki_prob":0.929275631904602,"text":"Derby winner Country House out of Preakness\nBy STEPHEN WHYNO AP Sports Writer\nAfter being declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby by disqualification, Country House will not run in the Preakness because of illness, ending any chance a Triple Crown this year.\nTrainer Bill Mott said Tuesday the long shot winner of horse racing’s biggest event was no longer being considered to run in the second jewel of the Triple Crown after it looked like Country House was getting sick. After the horse started coughing, which Mott called unusual, blood work showed he was harboring some sort of virus.\n\"Hopefully just rest and a little time is going to be what the doctor ordered,\" Mott told The Associated Press. \"Other than that, he doesn’t actually act sick. He’s kind of a big, tough horse, but there’s signs that things are not going in the right direction with him.\"\nCountry House was elevated to the winner’s circle at the Kentucky Derby in sloppy conditions Saturday after Maximum Security was disqualified for impeding other horses. His absence at the Preakness means there won’t be a third Triple Crown winner in five years. Bob Baffert-trained Justify and American Pharoah have each won it since 2015.\nCountry Horse is the first Kentucky Derby winner not to enter the Preakness since Grindstone in 1996. Grindstone, who was found to have bone chips in one of his knees, was the first Derby winner to be retired immediately after that race since Bubbling Over in 1926.\nBecause of how the Kentucky Derby went, Mott said he and those around the horse were not as disappointed by this as they would’ve been under normal circumstances.\n\"I guess it’s been an unusual ride anyway,\" Mott said of his first Derby victory. \"I don’t think it hit any of us as hard as what it might have. I think we’re grateful to have the win we had and hopefully he bounces back for some races later on.\"\nCountry House joins Maximum Security in skipping the Preakness.\nThe 1 3/16-mile Preakness is May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. Though shorter than the Kentucky Derby, the race requires a quick turnaround. Maximum Security owner Gary West didn’t want to burden his colt with the Triple Crown off the table.\nWest on Monday appealed the decision to disqualify the horse from the Derby, which was quickly rejected by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission because the stewards’ decision isn’t subject to appeal.\nCountry House was 65-1 to win the Derby, the second-longest odds in the 145-year history of the race. It was the first time the horse who crossed the finish line first was not declared the winner.\nWith trainer Mark Casse’s War of Will and other contenders expected to enter the Preakness, Country House likely would not have been favored to win. Even his Derby performance was a surprise.\n\"I thought he showed amazing improvement from his previous race,\" Mott said. \"Even his running, he was up in the race, he looked like a different horse the first half of the race.\"\nIn a statement, the Maryland Jockey Club and the Stronach Group that owns Pimlico said Country House not running \"doesn’t take away from the excitement\" and that they anticipate more interest from owners and trainers to enter the race.\nWhile the stakes barn behind Pimlico will not have a Derby champion for the first time in more than two decades, Mott said Country House is a possibility to run in the third jewel of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes in New York on June 8. Keeping him out of the Preakness, though, was a no-brainer for the 65-year-old trainer.\n\"I’ve never liked training a horse that’s given an indication that he’s sick,\" Mott said. \"We will monitor him and he’s off the training list.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1437954"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7308447957038879,"wiki_prob":0.26915520429611206,"text":"Tate Promoted to President in Pryor, Okla. Region\nTuesday, May 30 at 07:15 AM\nIndustry veteran will serve bank's Pryor, Okla. region.\nPRYOR , Okla. – Arvest Bank is pleased to announce Brandon Tate has been promoted to community bank president.\nTate will serve as Arvest’s community bank president for the bank’s Pryor, Okla., region, which includes Pryor, Tahlequah and Wagoner. He will office at the Arvest branch at 1521 W. Highway 51 in Wagoner.\nHaving held various roles in his banking career, Tate most recently served Arvest as senior vice president and commercial relationship manager. In his role as community bank president, he will formulate a hierarchy of objectives, standards of performance, strategies, plans, and budgets, among other duties, for the Pryor region.\nTate earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration at Northeastern State University, with a major in finance and minor in accounting.\nActive in numerous civic organizations, Tate is chairman of the board of the Wagoner Lions Club, as well as vice president and board member of the Fort Gibson Lake Association. He’s also an active member of the Wagoner and Coweta chambers of commerce, and the Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa.\nTate lives in Wagoner with his wife, Heather, and their son.\nTags: Associates, Oklahoma, Press Release, Tulsa","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line412146"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6765046715736389,"wiki_prob":0.3234953284263611,"text":"EXCLUSIVE: ‘Mafia’ 'Lost My Appetite' Blu-ray Clip\nEXCLUSIVE: Mafia 'Lost My Appetite' Blu-ray Clip\n— January 31st, 2013\nWe have an exclusive clip from the upcoming crime thriller Mafia, debuting on DVD February 5. Ving Rhames stars as crime lord Renzo Wes, who must deal with an obsessive cop (Pam Grier) determined to take him down, and is willing to break the law to do so. The plot thickens further when the cop's clean partner (Robert Patrick) gets involved. Take a look at this exclusive scene, along with the trailer.\nRuthless crime boss Renzo Wes (Ving Rhames) rules the underworld. But when he crosses a cynical, jaded cop bent on revenge (Pam Grier) she becomes obsessed with bringing him down and is willing to break the law to do it. Her partner (Robert Patrick) is a clean cop who wants to do the right thing, but when his personal life intersects with Renzo's, loyalties are tested. The three of them are on a collision course with destiny - and no one will emerge unscathed.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1140060"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8541681170463562,"wiki_prob":0.8541681170463562,"text":"The company's control and monitoring system made a complex live production much smoother with intuitive control of 80 external sources.\nCerebrum, Axon Digital Design's customizable control and monitoring system, played a significant part in helping CTV Outside Broadcast deliver a much smoother service to its broadcast customers during this year's Open Golf Championship in St. Andrew’s, Scotland.\nFor the second year running, CTV was responsible for live mobile production services for both IMG Media/ESPN and The Golf Channel. To meet the demands for wider coverage, the team drew on lessons learnt in 2014 to improve the workflow and established Cerebrum as the nerve centre for routing control for this year’s event.\nHamish Greig, CTV OB's Technical Director, says: \"Due to the scale of this production and the increased number of sources and destinations, particularly on the ESPN side, we needed to simplify the operation and make it more manageable. We worked hard to improve the flow of information on the technical front, and brought Axon's Cerebrum into the heart of the workflow to support us. It’s perfectly suited to this complex production environment and gave us much smoother control over elements such as tally, UMD and cameras. It truly was the nerve centre of the production.”\nLive broadcasts, especially complex productions that involve a fleet of Outside Broadcast vehicles, benefit hugely from an 'always on' control and monitoring system that can deliver comprehensive system management in an easy and operator-friendly way. By linking together all the main broadcast equipment from major manufacturers, Cerebrum's advanced functionality and broad range of features simplifies multi device control onto one easy-to-use interface. It supports a wide range of devices including routers, production switchers, servers, audio desks, camera control units, receiver decoders, multiviewers and waveform monitors – using either SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) or third party protocols.\nCTV has equipped two of its OB trucks with Cerebrum and both of these vehicles were integral to the production of the championship at St Andrew’s.\n\"Primarily, we used Cerebrum for tally, UMD and multi-viewer control and monitoring, remote colour balance and the control of both the bunker cameras and the Panasonic pan and tilt cameras,\" Greig explains. \"In total, the system supported 80 external sources, each individually pre-set on the panel. This meant that just one operator was able to manage set-ups, signal routes, QC, tally and multi viewers in a very smooth and efficient way. Cerebrum enabled our engineer to achieve tasks in minutes that previously would have taken hours to complete – that’s impressive.\"\nAdrian Richmond, Axon’s Director of Sales UK and Africa, says CTV OB is just one of a number of broadcast companies that are realizing the benefits that Cerebrum can bring to their productions.\n\"The Open is a great example of how Cerebrum can make light work of large, complex events by integrating seamlessly with other technology, providing reliable, scalable and flexible control and monitoring, simplifying workflow and significantly reducing the workload,\" he says.\nCerebrum is fast becoming the control solution of choice for mobile production, news and studio live production, master control and remote production, with recent installations including Indonesia's 24-hour news channel Metro TV and News UK, which has installed Cerebrum in its state-of-the-art broadcast facilities in London.\nNow that the Open is over for another year, CTV will be deploying Cerebrum with its OB11 production unit to cover the 2015 Ashes test match cricket series and with OB3 to deliver coverage of the upcoming Barclays Premier League football season for BBC’s The Match of the Day. Later this autumn, Cerebrum will also be helping other production companies make light work of top sporting fixtures, including Gearhouse at the US Open tennis at Flushing Meadows and Timeline’s 4K production of BT Sports UEFA Champions League coverage.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1047970"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6068983674049377,"wiki_prob":0.6068983674049377,"text":"One service to rule them all\nGoogle is making it easier for carriers to communicate over RCS\nGoogle \"hub\" model allows carriers to implement RCS with ease.\nRCS is a next-generation communication protocol with read receipts, group chat, support for high-definition images, and more. The goal with RCS is to bring SMS and MMS to feature parity with the likes of Facebook Messenger, and Google has been leading the charge on that front. Earlier this year, the company rebranded Messenger to Android Messages, making it the de facto messaging app for RCS.\nGoogle is also working closely with carriers to make RCS ubiquitous on Android — the platform's answer to iMessage. There are inherent challenges involved in getting carriers to talk to one another over the protocol — over the years, carriers have built additional features into their own messaging clients as a means of differentiation. For instance, AT&T and T-Mobile both offer RCS, but their version isn't compatible with Sprint's implementation, which uses Google's recommended universal profile.\nRogers is another carrier that uses the standardized universal profile, and earlier this week the Canadian carrier announced that its RCS solution is interoperable with Sprint. To bring further intercompatibility among carriers, Google's VP of communication products Nick Fox said that the company is using a \"hub\" model to get carriers connected to one another over RCS. For instance, a carrier connected to the hub will be able to connect to all the other carriers also connected.\nWe are deploying a \"hub\" model, so that carriers can interconnect to the hub once to get access to all other carriers connected to the hub.\n— Nick Fox (@RealNickFox) June 5, 2017\nThe model makes it far less cumbersome for carriers to get set up with RCS as they don't have to develop individual connections with other carriers, saving resources and time. The move should lead to more carriers adopting the messaging protocol in the future.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1314018"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6256780624389648,"wiki_prob":0.6256780624389648,"text":"How Exercise May Protect the Brain From Alzheimer’s Disease\nBy Amanda MacMillan\nRegular exercise may offer some protection against Alzheimer’s disease, even for people who are genetically at risk, according to recent research.\nIn the study, published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, people who did more moderate-intensity physical activity were more likely to have healthy patterns of glucose metabolism in their brains—a sign of healthy brain activity—than those who did less. Light-intensity physical activity, on the other hand, was not associated with similar benefits.\nThe study involved 93 adults with an average age of 64, all of whom had at least one parent with Alzheimer’s disease, at least one gene variation linked to Alzheimer’s disease, or both. This put them at high risk for developing the disease themselves, although none showed any cognitive impairment at the time of the study.\nTo illuminate the relationship between brain activity and exercise levels, everyone wore an accelerometer for a week to measure their daily physical activity and received PET scans to measure glucose metabolism, which reveals neuron health and activity, in several regions of the brain. For people with Alzheimer’s disease, these regions tend to have depressed glucose metabolism.\nResearchers found that people who spent at least 68 minutes a day engaged in physical activity at a moderate level—the equivalent of a brisk walk—had better glucose metabolism in all of those regions than those who spent less time doing so.\nThe amounts of time spent being sedentary or doing less-intense physical activity (like slow walking) were not associated with changes in any of the brain regions studied. Vigorous activity was linked to better glucose metabolism in one brain region—the hippocampus—but not in the others.\nLarger doses of high-intensity exercise may be needed to provide the benefits of just “a modest increase” in moderate activity, the authors wrote, suggesting that you don’t have to exercise to the extreme to get brain benefits. Past research comparing the brain-boosting power of moderate- and vigorous-intensity exercise has been mixed, says lead author Ozioma Okonkwo, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. But in general, he says, the evidence suggests that “light activity is insufficient, and vigorous activity might be unnecessary.”\nBeing able to quantify the connection between moderate-intensity activity and brain health is an exciting and important step in Alzheimer’s research, the researchers say, although further studies are needed in order to show a cause-and-effect relationship between exercise and glucose metabolism—and to demonstrate real-life benefits. (The team is currently recruiting people with concerns about their brain health for a clinical trial to help determine the right dose of exercise for people with mild memory problems.)\nBut Okonkwo points out that previous research has already established a connection between glucose metabolism and cognitive function. “We’re showing now that a moderate-intensity active lifestyle actually boosts neuronal function,” he says. “I don’t think it’s too much of a leap to make the argument that this probably is one of the pathways through which exercise prevents cognitive decline in middle life.”\nOkonkwo says this research offers reassurance that people can take steps to protect themselves against Alzheimer’s disease, even if they are at high genetic risk. “The evidence shows that it’s never too late to take up and maintain a physically active regimen,” he says. “It also suggests that the earlier you begin and the longer you continue it, the more benefits you tend to accrue.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1644970"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.964263379573822,"wiki_prob":0.964263379573822,"text":"Dominic Raab attempts to calm no-deal Brexit fears\nThe UK Brexit secretary says it is ‘very hard to imagine’ that Brussels would not act to help minimize disruption.\nBy\tCharlie Cooper\nUpdated 4/19/19, 1:43 AM CET\nBritain's Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab delivers his speech outlining the government's plans for a no-deal scenario | Peter Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images\nLONDON — There are no plans to deploy the military to secure food and medicines supplies in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Thursday, as the U.K. government published advice for citizens and businesses to prepare for a breakdown in talks with Brussels.\nCalling the documents a “practical and proportionate” approach to the threat of disruption in the event of no deal, Raab sought to debunk what he called “misinformation” about the consequences of no deal, insisting that neither the army nor air force would be called upon and that there would be no “sandwich famine.”\nHowever, he said he recognizes the risks of no deal “in the short-term.”\nAdvisory documents published today cover 25 different areas, including health and medicines regulation, trade, banking and insurance services, energy, farm payments, university research and tobacco regulations.\nSeveral of the documents raise explicit concerns about higher costs and red tape for business. The notice on trade with the EU acknowledges that traders who have never had to deal with customs declarations before will have to engage a customs broker, acquire new authorizations from the tax authority and buy the appropriate software to manage their new responsibilities, all of which “will come at a cost.”\nThe U.K. government now has 7,000 people working on Brexit preparations and funding is in place for another 9,000.\nIndividuals could also see the cost of card payments to the EU go up, the documents warn, and these transactions (covering everything from goods purchases from EU firms to Airbnb payments for holiday homes) would no longer be covered by rules that prevent businesses placing surcharges on transactions. But Raab pointed out that the problem of access to bank accounts would apply to EU citizens as well because in the event of no deal \"we are not considered, strictly, an EU member state.\"\nBut he said, “I would think that was a practical issue that we should be able to resolve.”\nBrexit holds up UK Labour split — for now\nTom McTague\nNo-deal Brexit could send UK cigarette labeling up in smoke\nCharlie Cooper\nMuch of the no-deal planning is based on a unilateral approach, but Raab said he finds it “very hard to imagine” that the EU would not cooperate with the U.K. to minimize disruption.\nHe said that the U.K. government now has 7,000 people working on Brexit preparations and there is funding in place for another 9,000 people to join the civil service for Brexit-related work. The U.K. Border Force is recruiting an extra 300 staff, he said, with plans “in the pipeline” to recruit a further 1,000 people.\nRaab and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images\nThe documents say that a no-deal must not disrupt the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and acknowledge that there would be “very significant challenges” surrounding trade for Northern Ireland in the event of no deal and this represents a “unique and highly sensitive context.”\n“The U.K. would stand ready to engage constructively to meet our commitments and act in the best interests of the people of Northern Ireland,” the trade technical notice says, and pledges to “provide more information in due course.”\nOn medicines regulation, the U.K. would continue to recognize drugs and medical devices approved by the EU, but sharing information on databases on medicines safety would cease in the event of no deal, the documents say. EU laws governing the regulation of tobacco would cease to apply in the U.K., but the government would seek to replicate them. However, every cigarette pack in the U.K. would need to change immediately from exit day, because the health warning photos used on them are copyrighted by the EU.\nRaab also claimed that while the U.K. wants a deal, there are some “opportunities” from a no-deal outcome, including regulatory freedom, the ability to set an independent trade policy immediately, and to put in place an independent immigration policy. The U.K. would also be able to cease its payments to the EU budget.\nJosh Hardie, deputy director general of the Confederation of British Industry said: “By now, few can be in any doubt that ‘no deal’ would wreak havoc on economies across Europe. These papers show that those who claim crashing out of the EU on World Trade Organisation rules is acceptable live in a world of fantasy, where facts are not allowed to challenge ideology.\"\nKeir Starmer, Labour's shadow Brexit secretary said: “We are eight weeks out from the deadline for reaching an agreement. Ministers should be getting on with the job of negotiating a Brexit deal that works for Britain, not publishing vague documents that will convince no one.\"\n“A no-deal Brexit has never been viable and would represent a complete failure of the Government’s negotiating strategy,” he added.\nDominic Raab said the papers published Thursday represent around a third of the total and he expects the rest to be published in batches before the end of September.\nBREXIT CHEAT SHEET\nGuide to the Brexit impact report industry\nWho’s who in the Brexit talks\nBrexit policy guides\nBrexit timeline: From referendum to EU exit\nImagining the Brexit cliff edge\nUK trade secretary: Johnson’s pre-Brexit US trade deal won’t work\nNegotiating a limited deal with Washington before Brexit would ‘breach’ EU law, says Liam Fox.\nUS regulators fine Facebook $5B for failing to protect users’ privacy\nDemocrat lawmakers dismissed the record-high amount as ‘chump change.’\nEU draws up measures against Turkey over Cyprus drilling\nIn response to gas exploration in Cypriot waters, bloc is prepared to cut pre-accession funding to Ankara.\nUS pressures France, UK on tech tax proposals ahead of G7\nUS lawmakers threaten to scuttle a UK trade deal if London tries to tax digital giants.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line171980"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5336447358131409,"wiki_prob":0.5336447358131409,"text":"Dean Baker, Contributor\nThe House Financial Reform Bill: Don't Touch the Banks, Get a Smarter Fed\n03/18/2010 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011\nThose who like banks that are too big to fail will love the latest financial reform proposals circulating in the US Congress. The bill put forward by Barney Frank, the chairman of the House finance committee, does little to change the current structure of the financial system.\nThe \"too-big-to-fail\" banks will be left in place, even bigger and less accountable than before. There will be nothing done to separate commercial and investment banking, so giants like Goldman Sachs will be free to speculate with money guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The main difference is that the Federal Reserve Board will be granted even more power than it has now. And, we will tell the Fed to be smarter in the future, so that it doesn't make the same stupid mistakes that gave us the current crisis.\nWhile we all want a smarter Fed, it is not clear that the bill before Congress will get us one, even though it will definitely give us a more powerful Fed. The new Fed will be able to decide which financial firms need to be put through a bankruptcy-like resolution process, paid for with a virtually unlimited amount of taxpayer dollars.\nWhile the bill proposes that the cost of cleaning up after a big bank failure is supposed to be paid by other big banks, in fact the mechanism laid out in the bill virtually guarantees the opposite. Rather than raising a pool of money in advance from the big banks to cover the cost of a bailout, the bill proposes that large banks would be assessed a special fee only after a failure.\nTo see how strange this is, suppose Citigroup or some other major bank collapsed, requiring $100bn to pay off creditors. (We actually should not need a penny to pay off anyone other than insured depositors if we were serious about the banks not being too big to fail.) Either the failed bank was acting as a rogue institution, engaging in behaviour that was far more reckless than its peer institutions, or it was doing the same thing as everyone else.\nIn the first case, would it make sense to tax the other large banks $100bn because Citigroup acted recklessly? If the recklessness of one bank had led to its collapse in an environment where its competitors are sound, this would imply that there had been some serious failures of regulation. Why would we tax other large banks because the Fed, the FDIC and/or other regulatory bodies had failed in their job?\nAlternatively, suppose Citigroup collapses because it was doing the same thing as other banks, but was just slightly more reckless or unlucky. In this situation, which is similar to the one we faced last fall, all of the banks would be severely stressed. It would be impossible to hit them with a special fee. Could we have slapped a special fee on Citigroup and Bank of America last autumn to have them cover the cost of the failure of Lehman Brothers? At the time, imposing any significant fee would have almost certainly pushed several more banks to insolvency.\nThe bottom line is that this bill is almost certain to leave the taxpayers holding the bag for future bailouts. Even worse, it does nothing about the moral hazard created by having institutions that are too big to fail. There is nothing in the bill to lead creditors to believe that the government will not make good on their loans to Goldman, JP Morgan and the other banking behemoths.\nThere is a large and growing consensus across the political spectrum for breaking up banks that are too big to fail. Advocates of this position include former Federal Reserve Board chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan; Sheila Bair, the current head of the FDIC; and Simon Johnson, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. There is no reason that we need financial institutions that are so big that they cannot be safely unwound without large commitments of government money.\nThe only people who seem to stand outside this consensus are those who hold power and are steering the process of financial reform. This is largely the crew whose regulatory failures gave us the current disaster. If they cannot learn from their mistakes then someone else will have to drive the reform process.\nBusiness Financial Reform Banks Financial Crisis Financial Regulation","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1238992"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9288255572319031,"wiki_prob":0.9288255572319031,"text":"Tanzania in pursuit of ICC Women T20 Qualifiers final\nSENIOR national women cricket squad will be out to make the most of its last chance for qualifying for the final of the ICC Women T20 Qualifiers, Africa, as it locks horns with Rwanda in the Group A duel at the Old Hararians Sports Club in Zimbabwe today.\nSenior national women cricket squad’s Fatuma Omary bowls against Indonesia in an international friendly game, which was played in Thailand last year.\nThe Tanzania girls will, however, not only need to grab victory over Rwanda but also pray the hosts, Zimbabwe, tumble to Nigeria in their last match, which will also be played today, if the East Africans are to book a place in the final, slated for tomorrow.\nZimbabwe, nevertheless, are strong favourites for progression to the final, given they have yet to lose a match in the Group A of the qualifiers, which also has Rwanda Mozambique and Nigeria.\nZimbabwe girls had, as of yesterday, been topping the Group A of the qualifiers with three wins in as many matches which have seen them collect six points and a net run rate of 5.617.\nThe Tanzania girls were positioned second with two wins and a loss, which have seen them record four points and a net run rate of 1.465.\nThey opened their campaign with a loss to Zimbabwe but then regrouped to record wins over Nigeria and Mozambique thereafter.\nAlthough Rwanda have tied Tanzania on wins, loss and points, the former have been placed third as they have an inferior net run rate of -0.691.\nNigeria and Mozambique come fourth and fifth respectively in the group. Nigeria girls have recorded one win and two losses, which have seen them collect two points and a net run rate of -1.935.\nMozambique girls have lost all four matches to end their campaign with no point and a net run rate of -3.817.\nIn Group B, Namibia have already cruised to the final, given they have won three matches to collect six points.\nUganda, Kenya and Sierra Leone have been placed second, third and fourth respectively in the group.\nIn today’s match, experienced players, Monica Paschal and Fatuma Omary, will have to be in great form to catapult Tanzania to a much-needed victory.\nThe duo showcased scintillating displays to help their team record an impressive 10-wicket victory over Mozambique, with Fatuma nailing 26 runs not out and Monica notching nine runs not out.\nFatuma is currently placed third in the list of the event’s top run getters, having recorded 97 runs in three innings and an average of 48.50.\nShe is trailing Zimbabwe duo of Sharne Mayers and Modeste Mupachikwa that have registered 167 runs and 121 runs respectively in three innings.\nMonica has been placed ninth in the list with 70 runs in three innings and an average of 70.00.\nThe Africa regional qualifying tournament for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, which started on May 5, is set to climax on Sunday.\nThe five regional tournaments act as a dual qualifier for the 27 teams in their pursuit for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers places taking place in Scotland between 31 August and September 7 2019 where they will join Bangladesh, Ireland, Scotland and Thailand.\nChess League set to climax next month\nTanzania’s karate players win praise","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line203306"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7971809506416321,"wiki_prob":0.7971809506416321,"text":"Laurent Blanc Refuses To Commit Himself To Inter Just Yet\nBy Kunal | October 27, 2016 | 0\nREUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes\nFormer Paris Saint Germain manager Laurent Blanc has refused to commit himself to Inter just yet, according to AS.\nBlanc, who had a trophy-laden spell during his time in the French capital, is currently being monitored by numerous clubs from all across Europe, but Italian giants Inter seem to be the most interested party, as per reports.\nThe Italian media is currently rife with rumours suggesting that Inter are ready to sack their current manager Frank De Boer, and have identified Laurent Blanc as the best possible replacement.\nBlanc has a history with the Serie A club, having already made 74 appearances for them as a player between 1999 to 2001.\nAs per Le Parisien, Inter had made contact with Blanc’s agent, Jean-Pierre Bernes, about a potential move, and Bernes’ reply had been a positive one, as his high profile client was rumoured to be very much interested in returning to his old club.\nHowever, new reports have now come to light, which suggest that Blanc is, indeed, keen to return to his former club as a manager – but the club isn’t Inter; it’s Manchester United.\nWatch: Real Madrid’s Nacho Scores Goal Better Than Zidane’s Champions League Volley\nAccording to AS, Blanc is trying his best to put a hold to his move to Inter, because he’s much more interested in securing a move to England.\nThe Frenchman, who retired at Old Trafford as a player in 2003, is currently monitoring Mourinho’s situation with the Red Devils, as he would very much like to get himself into the contention for the Man United job if the Portuguese ends up getting sacked.\nJose hasn’t had the best of starts to his life in Manchester, and his team currently sits 7th in the Premier League table – 6 points behind league leaders Manchester City.\nIf Jose’s mediocre performances continue, it won’t be a shock if the United hierarchy decide to part ways with him, and Laurent Blanc will then be one of the top contenders to replace the Special One at the Theatre of Dreams.\nFollow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook\n← Mourinho Set To Bring The Axe Down On Four United StarsPolice Arrest Seven Fans Following Crowd Trouble At The Olympic Stadium →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line282210"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.818307638168335,"wiki_prob":0.818307638168335,"text":"Home > Blog > Sarajevo\nTag: Sarajevo\nPosted on 31 March, 2014\tin1989 after 1989 End of Yugoslavia\nBy Ljubica Spaskovska\nA new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national dividing lines in the region?\n‘New project for democratic socialism in Yugoslavia’ read the title of the resolution for the last congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. It was January 1990.\nAs the Yugoslav Party was writing the last pages of its seventy-year old existence, few were left who believed in the viability of the project of democratic socialism. ‘The liberal utopia which underpinned 1989’ was the idealized way the socialist East and South imagined ‘the West’ and liberal democracy. In the aftermath of the last Yugoslav party congress, even fewer could imagine that ‘democratic socialism’ could ever be resurrected as a viable political project.\nAlmost a quarter of a century later, however, the Slovenian ‘Initiative for democratic socialism’, the Democratic Labour Party and the Sustainable Development Party have announced the establishment of a ‘United Left’ coalition. These non-parliamentary leftist groups will present their bid for a new socialist model in Europe at the upcoming EU elections in May. While the recent wave of protests in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and on a smaller scale in Macedonia, have raised social concerns and acted as a vent for rebellion against the political and economic mismanagement by elites, Kosovan students at the University of Prishtina made a strong case against structural corruption and fraud, eventually succeeding in deposing the Rector.\nMany of those who found themselves at the forefront of these ‘acts of citizenship’ have been young people who came of age in the post-socialist period. The Kosovan student protesters, the Macedonian activists for social justice in the leftist groups ‘Solidarity’ and ‘Lenka’, the organizers of the Zagreb Subversive Forum, and the activists in the Slovenian Initiative for democratic socialism, belong in a pool of activists groups, initiatives or centres for research that espouse progressive politics while they have sought to deconstruct the ‘liberal utopia’ of the post-socialist period. They are unquestionably part of a new political generation (or, a ‘generation unit’, to use Mannheim’s terminology) whose political subjectivities, demands and visions represent a departure from those that twenty-five years ago ushered in the post-Yugoslav era.\nFrom the Bosnian youth magazine ‘Nasi dani’, 1988. Photo: Ljubica Spaskovska.\nHow to account for this sudden post-Yugoslav outburst of social discontent and the resurrection of a long-forgotten vocabulary, where social rights, democratic socialism, the working class and the dispossessed feature rather prominently? Beside the generational factor, one possible answers lies in the concluding paragraph of last month’s open letter to the international community signed by 130 scholars and academics from around the world:\n“In [the] spring of 1992, Bosnian citizens staged in Sarajevo the largest demonstrations ever against all nationalist parties. They were silenced by snipers, and their voices, from that point on, ignored by the international community. This time, the world should listen.”\nIndeed, the conventional narrative of the 1980s, as the climax of political skirmishing and ethnic hostility, has so far managed to conceal a major stream of critique that was silenced by the subsequent armed conflicts and progressively erased in the new nation-states. The last Yugoslav public opinion survey conducted in 1990, from a sample of 4,230 adults, revealed clear divisions along lines of ethno-national belonging.\nHowever, there was one part of the survey where Yugoslav citizens appeared strikingly unanimous. Namely, respondents were asked if expenditures on education, culture, healthcare and social security should be reduced. 74% of Bosnians, 66% of Montenegrins, 81% of Croatians, 71% of Macedonians, 72% of Slovenes, 79% of Serbs, 80% of Kosovans and 84% of Vojvodinians said this budget should be either increased or the present level of spending should be maintained. Moreover, the survey found that the ‘democratic optimism’, i.e. a support for a multi-party system was highest among Kosovans and Slovenes (19%) and lowest in Bosnia-Herzegovina (4%). Indeed, respondents from ethnically-mixed regions expressed fears that a multi-party system would exacerbate inter-ethnic divisions.\nOne of the spheres where many of these debates took place during the 1980s was the Yugoslav press and, in particular, the so far scarcely researched youth press. A commitment to exposing socio-economic structural inequalities and forms of corruption, especially among top Party officials, came to define the increasingly vocal youth press that was subject as a result to ongoing bans, trials and public discrediting throughout the 1980s. This led foreign scholars to observe that:\n“Of all the periodical publications appearing in Yugoslavia, it is the youth press which has proven the most consistently nettling to the authorities. Outspoken to the point of rebelliousness, the young editors […] have repeatedly ignored even the most fundamental taboos”.\nPedro Ramet, ‘The Yugoslav Press in Flux’, in Pedro Ramet (ed.) (1985), Yugoslavia in the 1980s, p.111\nYoung journalists tended to link these phenomena to the authoritarian traits of Yugoslav socialism, in particular the Party’s elites and their monopoly on power. In December 1984, for instance, the Croatian youth magazine Polet published an ironic call for the ‘Big, bigger, the biggest Yugoslav competition for the photograph of the most beautiful, richest, most luxurious and most unavailable house for the working class on the territory of the former Yugoslavia’, printed over a black and white photo of a big mansion. It also noted that ‘precedence will be given to the photographs which will also supply information about the location, the size, the owners and their occupation’. Four years later, the main Bosnian youth magazine Naši dani was at the helm of a big public debate which exposed the practice of building summer villas by high Bosnian political officials at the sea-side resort of Neum. One article unreservedly attacking high-ranking politicians put forward demands which could be heard in a modified form at recent protests: ‘To nationalise what had been robbed. To take away once and for all from the red bourgeoisie and give to the working class’. Finally, a similar affair burst into the open when Slovenian youth magazine Mladina accused the federal Minister of Defense of having a summer villa constructed for himself by army recruits in the sea resort of Opatija.\nAs the decade drew to a close and the Yugoslav sonderweg led many to believe that the multi-level crisis was a dead-end street and that violence was looming, many voices warned at the prospect of elites capitalizing on social discontent and posing as national saviours. Even regions like Macedonia, which were later spared from the violence of the dissolution conflicts, were mired in a new nationalist rhetoric and calls for prohibition of ethnic minorities’ political parties. The way the editor-in-chief of the youth magazine Mlad borec, Nikola Mladenov targeted the rise of nationalism in his editorials, both at Yugoslav and local level, captures this:\n“As if it became a civic duty to propagate national tragedy and vulnerability. In place of one collectivity – the class, we are being offered another one – the nation, the easiest way of manipulating the emotions of tomorrow’s voters. The propagating of one’s one history – always the most bloody and most difficult – hasn’t bypassed us either […]”\nFor two and a half decades former Yugoslavs were repeatedly reminded of their national tragedies, bloody histories, or their victimhood at the hands of neighbours. They were encouraged, if not forced, to erase out of their memories and identities that other collectivity – the class. What the Bosnian student magazine Valter wrote in 1990 indeed reads like a prophecy:\n“We should not have any doubts that this is a period where we’ll see a formal change of government, accompanied by strong disillusionment of manipulated voters. Because exclusive anti-communism does not imply automatic creativity; on the contrary, the motives are quite banal and easily recognisable – taking power.”\nA generational shift, growing inequality, deterioration in living standards and the withering away of social rights have undoubtedly proved crucial for the emergence of a new political vocabulary and a range of demands which appear to neglect, if not transcend, the ethno-national frame. However, it remains to be seen whether the social(ist) utopia that underpins this shift is going to successfully restore some of the betrayed hopes of the late 1980s.\nGeorge Lawson, Chris Armbruster and Michael Cox (eds.), The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2010).\nLjuljana Baćević, et al. Jugoslavija na kriznoj prekretnici (Beograd: Institut društvenih nauka/Centar za politikološka iztraživanja i javno mnenje, 1991).\nPedro Ramet, ‘The Yugoslav Press in Flux’, in Pedro Ramet (ed.), Yugoslavia in the 1980s (Westview Press, 1985), p.111.\n‘Veliki, veći, najveći’, Polet 292, 21.12.1984, p.10.\nRadmilo Milovanović, ‘Neum ili dolje crvena buržoazija’, Naši dani 949, 2.9.1988, p.7.\nNikola Mladenov, ‘Народе македонски’, Mlad borec 1971, 07.03.1990.\nGoran Todorović, ‘Sveti Ante’, Valter 28, 17.4.1990, p.2.\nTags:1980s, Albania, Balkans, Bosnia, Croatia, democratic socialism, ethno-national, Herzegovina, Kosovo, liberal, liberal utopia, Macedonia, Montenegro, politics, post socialist, Sarajevo, Serbia, Slovenia, socialism, socialist, United Left, Western Balkans, Yugoslavia","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line396298"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8902369141578674,"wiki_prob":0.8902369141578674,"text":"How to Be a Latin Lover\nHow to Be a Latin Lover Ratings & Reviews Explanation\nHow to Be a Latin Lover Videos\nHow to Be a Latin Lover: Trailer 2\nHow to Be a Latin Lover Photos\nIn this riches to rags comedy, an aging gigolo (Eugenio Derbez) is kicked to the curb by his 80-year-old millionaire wife, forcing him to move in with his estranged sister (Salma Hayek) and her young son. Anxious to return to the lap of luxury, he attempts to reignite his powers as a Latin Lover and win over the wealthy widowed grandmother (Raquel Welch) of his nephew's school crush. HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER also stars Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, Rob Corddry, Rob Riggle, Michael Cera, and Raphael Alejandro.\nPG-13 (for crude humor, sexual references and gestures, and for brief nudity.)\nKen Marino\nChris Spain, Jon Zack\nApr 28, 2017 wide\nPantelion Films\nas Maximo\nas Celeste\nRaphael Alejandro\nas Hugo\nNews & Interviews for How to Be a Latin Lover\nOn DVD This Week: Alien: Covenant, Riverdale Season 1, and More\nThe Matrix Trilogy, Bad Santa, Chef, and More on Netflix and Amazon Prime This Week\nBox Office: Guardians Vol. 2 Gives Marvel Its 15th Straight #1 Opening\nCritic Reviews for How to Be a Latin Lover\nOK, so it will never be mistaken for vintage Pedro Almodovar or Bigas Luna, but the feel-good satire How to Be a Latin Lover nevertheless gives you less cause to be a hater than you might have expected.\nMichael Rechtshaffen\nDerbez brings warmth and intermittent goofy humor to this too-broad and uneven comedy. The best moments are between him and co-stars Salma Hayek and young Raphael Alejandro, who both have an easy chemistry with Derbez.\nClaudia Puig\nSurprisingly deft in mixing Mr. Derbez's broad but accomplished style with more ostensibly hip-absurdist Anglo modes of humor.\nGlenn Kenny\nIts humor is broad, but most of the jokes work for the intended audience - with a few even breaking through to more resistant viewers.\nKimber Myers\nHow to Be a Latin Lover doesn't know how to be a comedy-at least not a 21st century one that can get away with dopey double entendres while promoting the importance of family ties over money.\nApr 28, 2017 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…\nSusan Wloszczyna\nHow To Be A Latin Lover is basically an Adam Sandler movie without the Happy Madison shingle.\nApr 28, 2017 | Rating: C | Full Review…\nIgnatiy Vishnevetsky\nIt's definitely on an Adam Sandler level of humor.\nMar 11, 2019 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…\nRachel Wagner\nrachelsreviews.net\nFilms like this, for more records that they break, respect, dignity and creative openness, diminish us more than what they bring us. [Full Review in Spanish]\nJan 20, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…\nSofía Ochoa Rodríguez\nEn Filme\nBy no means will this become a cult comedy classic, but it's an amusing diversion that's much better than it should be.\nLouisa Moore\nScreen Zealots\nThe result is stupid, self-conscious, but stupid after all. [Full review in Spanish]\nJun 30, 2017 | Rating: 2/10 | Full Review…\nCarlos Díaz Reyes\nVanguardia (Mexico)\nIt will be enjoyable to Eugenio Derbez fans but puts a rope around the Mexican comedian, about if he will dare once and for all to empty his talent into something more risky. [Full review in Spanish]\nMario P. Székely\nSiete24.mx\nA horrible mess full of clichés and jokes that feel worn, despite the efforts of Eugenio Derbez to make them work. [Full review in Spanish]\nMay 17, 2017 | Rating: 4.5/10 | Full Review…\nRafael Rosales Santos\nKonexión\nAudience Reviews for How to Be a Latin Lover\nYou know, I started thinking of this as I was watching the movie, but Eugenio Derbez reminds me of a male version of Ellen DeGeneres. This may seem odd to a lot of people seeing as, outside of both being humans and North Americans, they really don't have anything in common. What I mean by that is that, to me, Ellen DeGeneres is an incredibly likable, but not hilariously funny person. I find her more likable than she is funny. That's not to say that she can't make me laugh, because she has, but she's the type of person that your mother would find funnier than you would. Not that that's meant as an insult or anything, but that's just the demographic her humor seems to appeal to. Her humor, for the most part, is very safe. Which, again, is not an insult, since there should be something for everybody out there. Safe humor, however, doesn't appeal to me. This is what I mean when I compare Derbez and DeGeneres. Eugenio Derbez is more likable than he is funny and, like Ellen, I think he can get away with a lot of jokes that may be on the lame side because of his likability. But, and this bears repeating, the man can make me laugh, it's just that I think it might take a little bit more effort for him than others I find more naturally funny, like Hannibal Buress or Danny McBride. With that said, I wasn't really expecting much from this movie. Reason I picked it was rather simple. I just wanted something light to watch. These are moods we all go through. Sometimes you just wanna watch something that;s low-stakes. That's why I followed up Black Panther with Sydney White when I had originally planned on watching Infinity War. After Black Panther, I just wanted to decompress. And my idea of decompressing is not watching a movie in the MCU where the stakes have never been higher, where the Avengers either defeat Thanos or he destroys the universe. That's not exactly low-stakes, if you ask me. Though, at least in this case, I think I used this movie more to watch the bad taste that Hell and Back left in my mouth. Goddamn, that movie was atrocious. This movie is infinitely better than the aforementioned piece of crap. Though it's the kind of movie where you have to go in expecting it to be exactly what it is. It's a shameless and unabashed crowd-pleaser. I don't think anyone would ever expect a movie called 'How To Be A Latin Lover' to be high art worthy of comparison to the classics like the Godfather and Taxi Driver. But, in my opinion, I feel that this movie is much better 'enjoyed' if you know what you're getting. I put enjoyed in quotation marks because, to be fair, I don't really think I'd say that this was a good movie. What I can say is that it was a very pleasant and amiable experience. I think sometimes people confuse the two. I probably have been guilty of that one time or another. I'm not gonna tell people what they can or can't enjoy, but this is the type of movie where you really have to inspect deep down. It can't all be taken at face value. Because, if I did, I'd be saying that this was good. The thing about this movie is that it is put together in a way where it will be pleasing to the masses. And, hey, I have no problem with that. As I said in my Hell and Back review, variety is the spice of life. But, at the same time, there's also the fact that this movie's script is very basic and it relies almost entirely on Derbez's charm to carry it through. And, for the most part, it works. Even when Maximo, Derbez's character, is at his most asshole-ish, Derbez finds a way to make it an endearing character trait as opposed to making you hate his character for being such a gold-digging asshole that, inevitably, is gonna hurt his nephew and break his dreams once he finds out that Maximo was only using him to score another sugar mama. I do think that, while the concept isn't exactly amazing, there's far more potential for comedy with this concept than what they do end up doing. Maximo is used to an incredibly luxurious lifestyle where he has someone to do everything for him, even swipe his tablet. So you know the type of humor that they're gonna go for once his sugar mama (who's around 80 years old) has an affair with someone younger (in this case Michael Cera and, really, I don't know if that's an upgrade or a downgrade). He moves him with his sister, whom he estranged himself from after marrying getting together with his sugar mama, who lives in a modest apartment with her young son. Maximo expects the highest quality meals, he expects his sister to clean up after him, he doesn't remember Hugo's name and, shock of all shocks, he has to do something he's never had to do before in his life...get a job. It is predictable humor at best and, really, maybe even lazy at worst. With that said, the movie is sporadically entertaining. Obviously it's not consistent, but it's decent enough to get an average rating. But I do think that the movie butters its bread more on the bond that develops between Maximo and Hugo. I'll be honest, it wasn't as nauseating as I would have expected. It's certainly better and less melodramatic and manipulative that Derbez's last major movie foray into the American film market with Instructions Not Included. And, at the same time, the character of Hugo is not annoyingly precocious. I mean, they do try to make him into an adorable little muppet but, again, for some reason, it's executed better here than in other movies. Let's just say that I didn't wanna beat myself with a sledgehammer as a result of the bond that is built between Hugo and Maximo. It's still very much a fabricated bond, though Eugenio seems like someone who would work well with kids, but it's not as bad a nauseating bond as other flicks of this kind. The acting is...fine. I mean there's no one here that delivers anything more than an acceptable performance, but it gets the job done. Rob Riggle and Rob Huebel provide the comedic relief and they're, to me, the highlights of the entire movie. I don't know what else to say, I'm running out of shit. It's a movie that goes exactly where you think it's gonna go. You're not gonna be in for a transcendent experience. But Eugenio Derbez is likable enough and he manages to carry the movie for the most part. The movie isn't exactly the most tightly scripted and structured, but it's a decent enough little movie. It's not good, it falls quite short of that, but it is a pleasant and harmless experience. This is something you can watch with your sweet little abuelita. Wouldn't recommend it, but you could do far worse. Like Hell and Back. Yea, fuck that movie.\nJesse O Super Reviewer\nHow to Be a Latin Lover is just like all those movies that have previously failed in the box office. Not worth watching and looking forward by its visuals this movie gives us. I think if there's numerous attempts for a film to end up this soggy and, for some weird reason, clichéd. If you literally want to watch this, unfortunately for you, you won't get much of the fun found in this film.\nEpicLadySponge t Super Reviewer\nHow to Be a Latin Lover Quotes","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1167173"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6343488097190857,"wiki_prob":0.6343488097190857,"text":"Speaking of (spiritual) Sisters…\nby Linda Bloom June 8, 2011\nOne of the things I’ve always admired about the actress Victoria Clark, now performing in her 11th Broadway production, is that she isn’t afraid to talk publicly about her faith.\nOf course, when you’re playing a nun – she is now Mother Superior in the musical “Sister Act” – the topic of religion is bound to come up.\nIn a March 28 interview with Broadway Buzz on Broadway.com, she joked about the differences between her personal Protestant and professional Catholic experiences: “You know, I’m a United Methodist and I’ve been going to my church and feeling oddly out of place after wearing the habit. I’m not kidding! I was looking for the liturgy. I’m missing all the saints and saying, ‘Where’s my rosary, what’s going on?’ I guess she’s really getting to me.”\nThe church she is referring to is the Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew, a United Methodist congregation on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where both of us have been members for years. For those who tuned in to the CBS broadcast of St. Paul and St. Andrew’s Christmas Eve Service, Vicki rocked the rafters with “O, Holy Night” and was instrumental behind the scenes.\nSince I’ve seen “Sister Act,” I can report that Vicki makes a convincing Catholic – so much so that she was nominated this spring for a Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Musical. She and her fellow cast members will be performing during the Tony Awards broadcast this Sunday (June 12).\nThis is not her first Tony nomination. In 2005, Vicki won the Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical, along with rave reviews, for “The Light in the Piazza.”\nWhen I interviewed her then, Vicki – a Dallas native with a music degree from Yale – talked about how church was “always the main venue for singing” as she was growing up. Her faith also helps her infuse meaning into the roles she plays. In “The Light in the Piazza,” for example, the “light” – to Vicki — signified compassion, redemption, grace and even forgiveness for Margaret Johnson, the character she portrayed.\nTo prepare for “Sister Act,” Vicki visited Mother Dolores, who served as inspiration for 1992 “Sister Act” movie, at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn. Mother Delores, who later saw the show on Broadway with some of her fellow sisters, helped the actress “make my character real.”\n“She said, ‘Do me a favor, don’t make her pious.’ So we talked about humanity,”Vicki told Celebrity Buzz: Diva Talk on playbill.com. “She was trying to teach us about how God wants our humanity, not our divinity.”\nPlaying Mother Superior has allowed her to both examine her own religious beliefs and become, well, more ecumenical.\n“I’m a United Methodist, where everything gets decided around the table, so there is food all the time, everywhere,” she said in the Diva Talk interview. “There is such a structure in Catholicism and so many different people that you can pray to. And learning about the saints, and learning about marriage intercession, and learning about all the different nuns and the orders, it’s just fascinating how much there is to learn.”\nVicki is not the only United Methodist-related connection to a show set in a convent. The playwright Douglas Carter Beane, another Tony nominee, was brought in to provide additional book material for the musical.\n“I’m getting all the liturgy down,” he told the New York Times in February. “If you’re raised Methodist, Catholicism is a bit of a workout. It’s sort of like you’re up, you’re down, you’re up, you’re down. It’s a continual hokey-pokey.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line417207"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5943608283996582,"wiki_prob":0.4056391716003418,"text":"Home > Airlines > Croatia Airlines\nCroatia Airlines is the flag carrier of Croatia and operates flights mainly between Croatia and other European countries.\nCroatia Airlines is for almost 100 percent owned by the government of the Republic of Croatia. The airline has about 1,000 employees.\nGovernment Asset Management Agency for the Republic of Croatia\nZagreb Airport\nCroatia Airlines was founded and started operating within Croatia in 1989. A few years later, the airline launched its first international flight to Frankfurt (Germany). At the end of 2004, the airline became a member of Star Alliance.\nCroatia Airlines offers Business Class passengers and Star Alliance Gold members access to multiple lounges across Europe. Please consult website Croatia Airlines for more information.\nEconomy Class passengers that fly with Croatia Airlines are permitted to bring one piece of cabin luggage with a maximum weight of 8 kg. In addition, passengers are allowed to take one personal item with them on board. Business Class passengers can bring two pieces of hand luggage of 8 kg and also a personal item. The amount of check-in luggage that passengers are permitted to bring depends on the travel class. Please consult website Croatia Airlines for more information.\nCroatia Airlines does not offer in-flight Wi-Fi.\nBani 75b, Buzin, Zagreb, Croatia\ncroatiaairlines.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1708885"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5207197070121765,"wiki_prob":0.4792802929878235,"text":"Effective Philanthropy\nAmicus Portfolio\nDonate for specific training\nPackaged giving in dollar and sterling\nPhilanthropists are paying more attention to how they give their money away: The Economist, May 26th 2005\nANDREW CARNEGIE would surely have approved of David Sainsbury. The supermarket tycoon turned politician is one of Britain’s richest men. It was reported this week that he not only intends to give away at least £1 billion ($1.83 billion) during his lifetime, but to insist that his charitable foundation spend both its income and capital before he dies. Few rich donors have yet gone this far. But Lord Sainsbury’s decision is part of a broad trend among a new generation of philanthropists to play an active role in seeing that their money is well spent. Such efforts should be applauded.\nIn his great 1889 essay on wealth, Carnegie—a steel magnate who gave away about $7 billion in today’s money—argued that the rich had a duty to use most of their money to benefit the community, and should do so actively during their lifetimes. He took a dim view of those rich folk whose philanthropy consisted only of bequests in their wills—“men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all, had they been able to take it with them”—even arguing in favour of a tough inheritance tax because “by taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire’s unworthy life”.\nCarnegie’s belief in taxing estates remains as controversial as ever, though it may come as a surprise to learn that many rich people today feel the same way. Some 120 wealthy Americans, including Warren Buffett, George Soros and David Rockefeller among others, have opposed recent Republican efforts to scrap what Republicans like to call the “death tax”.\nWhether or not scrapping inheritance taxes makes sense, thoughtful and well-targeted philanthropy is clearly to be encouraged. Inevitably, controlling how donations are used is especially difficult once the donor is dead. True, some charitable foundations have played a positive role as their founders intended. Britain’s Wellcome Trust is reckoned to do a good job in supporting medical research, just as its founder, Sir Henry Wellcome, who died in 1936, would have wished. But the effectiveness of many of the older charitable foundations is increasingly being questioned. Right-wing American critics love to point out—probably correctly—that Henry Ford would spin in his grave if he knew about the many leftish causes now funded by the Ford Foundation.\nTrustees and charity professionals who run foundations after a founder’s death are rarely obliged to spend much of their capital (only 5% a year in America, for example), and may be tempted to put personal job security before the founder’s goals. There is no one (other than regulators, who may have their own agendas, and the press, who have theirs too) to hold them to account. And, says Carl Schramm, outspoken head of the Kauffman Foundation, many other foundations have “undertaken projects or programmes that were capricious, poorly thought out or just plain silly.”\nSo no wonder a growing number of wealthy donors are declining to leave the fate of their charity to chance. Indeed, many of today’s philanthropists—including Bill Gates, who has so far donated over $20 billion to his foundation—are, like Lord Sainsbury, intent on being far more active than previous generations of philanthropists in setting clear goals and devoting a lot of their own time and energy to seeing that their money is well spent, during their own lifetimes. This is certainly the best way to ensure that, as Carnegie put it, they do not “pass away ‘unwept, unhonoured and unsung’”.\nSource: http://www.economist.com/node/4009460\nBy admin| 2016-12-01T13:08:34+00:00\tOctober 27th, 2015|Categories: Giving while living|0 Comments\nHow much and for what causes do South Africans give\nBelastingvrystelling: bestaande en nuwe SARS-toegewings vir donateurs","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line359687"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7490968704223633,"wiki_prob":0.2509031295776367,"text":"The Abolition of the Apocalypse\nDecember 1, 2018 Radagast Uncategorized 1\nWoops. Turns out Mad Max has been canceled and you’ll have to deal with the real world after all.\nIt’s 2018 and I’m not living in the end of the world. Energy consumption hasn’t plunged by 20% since 2015. People still drive around in cars, I still have electricity and noticed no signs of any brownouts. The supermarket shelves are stocked. In fact, last time I checked I could choose between two dozen different types of peanut butter in my local supermarket. Exploding methane clathrates have not drowned me in a megatsunami, drought induced food shortages haven’t reduced me to eating my pets, roving gangs of criminals haven’t set my house on fire, Fukushima hasn’t made the Northern hemisphere uninhabitable yet, I ate Chinese seaweed without developing cancer, I haven’t died in any government orchestrated bioattack and haven’t been lobotomized.\nYou’ve seen the headlines in the media, claiming that the Club of Rome was correct. They feature this image. We see food and services per capita overshooting the projection, pollution below the projection and birth and death rates below the projection. How am I supposed to pretend the models were correct? The models are going to diverge further from reality in the years ahead and then you’ll never hear about them again. This is what happens when you try to use four or five different variables to predict the fate of the entire world.\nHow is this possible? Wasn’t everything supposed to go to shit by now? The big mistake I’ve noticed people tend to make is their assumption that technological innovation makes the world more fragile, rather than making it more resilient. It’s easy to assume human beings are going to drop dead like flies, if you reduce us in your mental model to an animal dependent on non-renewable resources for our survival. But we’re much more than just an animal that consumes non-renewable resources. The primary mistake made by Michael Ruppert, Gail Tverberg, James Howard Kunstler, Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome before them and numerous other prophets of the apocalypse, is that their view of man is both excessively pessimistic and simplistic. If you take all the problems we’ve caused for ourselves and willfully ignore all the new opportunities we have developed over the years, of course you’re going to conclude that everything is going to fall apart. What annoys me is that these people don’t admit they were wrong. They delay their apocalyptic predictions by ten years, or they quietly move onto a different expertise. Alex Jones and his crowd quietly went from predicting we’re all going to be murdered by the Illuminati in FEMA death camps to making fun of fat blue-haired feminists.\nI’m going to give you a very simple example of a new opportunity we have created, that I am convinced none of the high prophets has attempted to fit into their grand apocalyptic model: Wind turbines. You probably know wind turbines as ugly grey monoliths that inefficiently generate electricity. What you don’t know is that rows of wind turbines placed in the ocean can reduce wind speeds in hurricanes by 92 mph and reduce the storm surge by up to 79%. The modern huge wind turbines are more efficient than turbines built in the past, generating cheaper electricity and more efficiently mixing different layers of the atmosphere.\nBesides countering hurricanes, they have another noteworthy effect: By mixing different layers of the atmosphere, they reduce heatwaves. Wind turbines increase temperatures during the night, but decrease temperatures during the afternoon, when temperatures are normally highest. As a consequence, agricultural yields near wind turbines tend to increase. The most useful wind turbines are located in the sea however. Here the wind turbines serve as attachment points for mussels, giving birth to new oceanic ecosystems in places that were formerly barren.\nHow do you even fit such complexity caused by rational actors (human beings) interacting with a complex system (the world around us) into a scientific model? How do you predict that billions of people are going to die in a world where wind turbines boost agricultural yields? This is like a group of ornithologists trying to bet which branch a bird is going to sit on because they have specialized themselves in understanding various subsystems of the overall organism. The amount of complexity involved here is so immense that you become dependent upon heuristics, rather than on complex models.\nI do not imply that the climate models we have are wrong. Instead, the climate models we use tend to emphasize the huge range of uncertainty. If your scientific models can’t predict whether a doubling in CO2 will warm the world by three degree or by six degree Celsius instead, then you’re admitting that you’re dealing with a complex system the overall behavior of which is neigh impossible to predict. More importantly, the models can’t be used to predict how changes in our climate will affect our civilization, except under extreme conditions. Instead we should primarily base policy in cases like this on simple heuristics. One of such heuristics is the precautionary principle. If we’re radically changing the composition of the atmosphere at an unprecedented pace, it would be wise to stop carrying out such destabilizing actions in a complex system.\nAttempts are made to look at the collapse of various pre-industrial empires, to extrapolate conclusions for our own current situation. What’s generally missed however, is that the fragility of these civilizations tends to be a consequence of their complete reliance on a limited number of variable conditions and a near inability to react to changes in their environment in a productive manner. As a simple example, consider that we live in the first civilization in human history with access to reliable contraception and abortion. A decline in our standard of living is now generally met with a reduction in fertility. It’s much easier to envision catastrophe in societies where a temporary abundance of food leads to the birth of a dozen children per woman than it is in a society where we can voluntarily reduce our numbers.\nWhen it comes to food production, we have to comprehend the simple fact that almost all cases of starvation in recent history have been associated with war and political instability. People die of hunger, not because of a lack of food, but because they live in conditions that isolate them from the global economy. In the middle of a war zone we find ourselves unable to deliver food aid to people who are hungry. Biafra-child became a term associated with a child with a swollen belly, but Biafra was a Nigerian region placed under a severe military blockade. We live under conditions of food abundance, we throw away vast amounts of food and feed perfectly edible human food to animals. Almost ninety percent of edible tomatoes have to be thrown away due to their appearance, simply because consumers won’t buy ugly tomatoes. If we live under such circumstances, how can you imagine starvation to occur?\nThe economy is disrupted by sudden catastrophes. It adjusts itself to slow catastrophes. This is in contrast to previous eras of history, when slow catastrophes could not be adequately responded to. If the fish you ate slowly went extinct, you died out together with them. What happens to us when we can’t find fish in the ocean? We migrate to other food sources. In 1978, China produced 60,000 tons of mushrooms. In 2002, China produced 8.2 million tons of mushrooms. Today China is an industrial powerhouse, the world’s second largest economy. This is what happens in a society that is flexible and capable of grasping new opportunities when old ways of doing things become unsustainable.\nWhat people forget, is that ancient civilizations did not have the opportunities we have. Trying to apply simplistic mathematical models to our way of life is bound to set you up for embarrassment in the future, because technology has allowed human beings to respond to scarcity in one area by migrating to alternative ways of sustaining themselves. The Mayans, the Rapa Nui, the vikings in Greenland and all these other historical civilizations reduced to poor analogies in the minds of those praying for a catastrophe did not figure out how to grow shellfish and seaweed on ropes in the ocean, mushrooms on cow feces or rotten logs, meat in Petri dishes, Quorn in fermentation vats or tomatoes in Dutch greenhouses kept warm with waste-heat from nearby industrial facilities. They had two or three traditions on which the bulk of their economy depended and if those traditions became threatened by ecological exhaustion or environmental changes then they went down with the world around them.\nI’m not claiming the world is a paradise, or that it is soon to be a paradise. I’m claiming that preparing yourself for a global catastrophe means setting yourself up for disappointment. There’s a rough global transition underway, in some places it will be very rough. One thing that hasn’t changed from the past is that those places that will face the roughest transition are the places that refuse to transition to new ways of life. If people in West Virginia were to think that an economy based on coal production can be sustained, they would set themselves up for catastrophe. The lowest hanging fruit was exploited long ago, so today mountain tops are removed to mine the last easily accessible coal. Some grass is then sown and people will insist the mountaintop has been ecologically restored, even as the soil has become toxic and barren.\nAs another example of the problem, consider India. India simply doesn’t have enough accessible coal to develop an industrial economy for one and a half billion people. Much of the coal it does have is located under people’s houses and farmlands. If this nation were to pursue industrial development in a manner akin to that of Europe in the past, catastrophe would ensue. Keep in mind that I’m not just referring here to a lack of coal. India also doesn’t have sufficient cold water to power the turbines that drive a coal plant. A nuclear power plants or a coal plant needs cold water to cool the device, the warm water is then dumped into the local river or ocean, where it can kill the fish or rapidly evaporate. Half of all water consumption in India is caused by power plants right now, it’s not hard to envision what would happen if India pursued the same path of economic development as Europe did in the past.\nThis ties into another point I wish to make, which is that the different horror scenarios people envision tend to cancel each other out. In particular, the business as usual scenario of the IPCC envisions a world destroyed by global warming long after it has surpassed ecological limits that would destroy our civilization in the first place. In its business as usual scenario, the IPCC envisions global CO2 emissions tripling by 2100. How exactly is this supposed to happen? Am I supposed to ignore that the Netherlands has exhausted more than half of its natural gas reserves? Am I supposed to ignore that those same climate models suggest the Middle East will be too hot to survive in within a few decades? Am I supposed to pretend that India will dig up coal located underneath cities or in the middle of the desert and keep its turbines cool with water it won’t have due to the droughts caused by global warming? If you blindly extrapolate one or two variables without considering how they interact with the rest of a complex model, you’re going to get absurd results.\nTrump and other incompetent leaders are willing to sacrifice the rest of the world to sustain their own outdated model of society for a few more decades, but they fail to comprehend that they’re merely setting their nations up to become the world’s laughing stock. The kind of selfishness Trump endorses is a form of selfishness that eventually blows up in your own face. If you don’t want to transition your own society to using electric vehicles, you’re going to be buying your electric vehicles from Chinese companies. If you want to open the coal mines again, you’re going to find yourself faced with a polluted nightmarish landscape, children born with birth defects and a resource crisis when it becomes too expensive to dig up the coal. It’s in people’s own direct interest to transition to a renewable way of sustaining their economies, because they will eventually be forced to transition out of necessity.\nMy expectation is that we’re going to dramatically overshoot two degrees of global warming, but in contrast to what people assume, it’s not going to cause a global catastrophe, because the models used to predict catastrophe tend to assume that civilization is a placid actor utterly dependent on the stable conditions of the Holocene rather than an anticipating self-augmenting agent that adjusts to changing global conditions. If we notice the coral reefs around us are at risk of dying during an oncoming heatwave, we respond by spraying atmospheric sulfur into the atmosphere. If we notice shellfish are struggling to grow due to ocean acidification, we grow seaweed next to them to reduce the effect of ocean acidification.\nWhat matters more than anything else is avoiding technological, cultural and political stagnation. We need to avoid the mentality that makes people deny new insights that happen to contradict their own ideology. When new observations contradict your limited model of the world around you, it’s your model that is flawed, not the observations. Those who choose to embrace stagnation, end up embracing their own death. If Brazil under its new president chooses to embrace the cattle industry and sacrifices the Amazon rainforest, what happens to Brazil’s economy when lab grown meat is introduced to every supermarket? We’ve seen in the Soviet Union what happens to societies that cling onto an outdated economic model that doesn’t function. The denial of Darwinian evolution which was seen as politically incorrect lead to Lysenkoism, as people began to believe that rye can spontaneously transform into wheat and weeds can transform into actual crops. This lead to food shortages, the Soviet Union became dependent on American food exports.\nToday libertarians and conservatives see global warming as a politically incorrect fact. They cling onto obscure scientists who predict a coming ice age, or any other nutcase who allows them to deny the existence of negative externalities. Guess what’s going to happen to them when reality turns out to disagree with them, when it turns out that you can’t cling onto an inherited mentality forever and the world is not spontaneously transformed into a paradise by embracing your own selfishness a la Ayn Rand? If Brazil wishes to sacrifice its rainforest it will face consequences just as catastrophic as anyone else who chooses to deny the abundance of evidence that implores him to divert from business as usual.\nCatastrophe is not inevitable, it’s merely what happens when you close your eyes and press down the gas pedal with a brick wall ahead. There are people who feel like doing that, who just want to watch the whole world burn. They get exactly what they’re hoping for, but you tend to regret it when it actually happens. Consider for example, the Iraqi Baathists who helped ISIS conquer Mosul. These were relatively secular Sunni Arab Muslims, filled with anger and resentment against a society now dominated by Shiites. They ended up paying for it in the form of a society blown to smithereens and now governed by Kurdish people. My expectation is that most Americans who voted for Trump will similarly come to regret it.\nMoving on from the apocalypse\nMy suggestion would be to leave your apocalyptic fantasies behind you. There’s nothing wrong with preparedness, but focus on preparing yourself for problems that can actually happen, rather than preparing yourself for a sci-fi catastrophe that seems nice in your head. As an example, you might wake up one day with fifteen minutes left to flee before your whole village is incinerated in a forest fire. However, you won’t spend two years in an underground bunker eating stored food waiting for radioactive dust to sink into the soil.\nThis applies to all the people who imagine their own apocalyptic model to be more realistic too. You won’t be sitting by yourself with a couple of friends on your permaculture farm as all of us in the city die of hunger because we were too dumb to grow our own food. If something would genuinely happen that destroyed the society you live in, armed thugs with guns would visit you and seize your harvest. More likely than not, what happens instead is that you spend the next few years struggling to break even, before moving on with your life and applying for an office job. That’s how it works out, because that’s how I’ve seen it work out numerous times.\nThe biggest problem with the back to the land fantasy is that it tends to mean isolating yourself from society, which is always a bad idea equivalent to shooting yourself in the foot. It might be seductive to become a hermit and renounce the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s smart or virtuous. One day you’ll realize that for every ten guys willing to spend forty hours a week with their hands in the dirt for the privilege of living in a cold black mold-infested shack, there are three girls willing to do the same.\nI enjoy gardening, but I don’t enjoy it so much that I want to devote my whole life to it. I cultivate San Pedro cactuses, Salvia Divinorum and a few other plants, but the rest of my day is spent doing other things that I enjoy. If you want to devote your whole life to your permaculture farm, you’ll find yourself no longer enjoying gardening, not earning money and isolating yourself from society. There is also an intrinsic problem of privilege inherent to the “sustainable” back to the land movement. We city-dwellers don’t “choose” to live in the city because we’re mindless consumer drones brainwashed by material wealth. We live here because we can’t afford to own giant plots of land where we inefficiently produce food in a labor-intensive method dependent upon people willing to volunteer for us out of ideological considerations. Most people would enjoy living without having neighbors, but that means wasting resources.\nYes, you, the PDC guru in his sustainable bio-dynamic permaculture farm dependent on WWOOFers willing to work for free for the “experience” are in fact privileged. You might be deeply aware of the tragedies inflicted on Native tribes who lived in harmony with their environment, but you seem to turn a blind eye to all those “mindless consumer drones” who live in “unsustainable” cities not because they’re greedy and wicked, but because they have limited budgets that don’t allow them to live in accordance to your green delusions. The world is better off with a thousand office workers on bicycles than a single anarcho-primitivist traveling in his diesel pickup truck to his permaculture farm. In fact, the majority of studies show that Western people in cities have a smaller environmental impact than rural people. We can walk to the supermarket, we can take our bicycle to work and we can keep our radiator low because we share a wall with our neighbors. We live in communities, whereas you live in neofeudal palaces.\nPut this idea of catastrophe out of your head. In the real world, it’s not fun when society fails, it’s miserable. It doesn’t mean hunting deer on abandoned highways. It means ISIS in Syria running child sex-trafficking rings. Do you really want to make the world better? Sell your farmland, take the money and donate it to charities that deliver birth control to women in Congo. You don’t do that because it takes away your own sense of agency, whereas growing your own sweet chestnuts or shiitake mushrooms that you couldn’t sell for a profit if your life depended on it makes your life part of a grand narrative in which you are like Noah building his arc, as the rest of the world has slipped away into decadence and will soon be destroyed as a punishment for its wickedness.\nIn the fake world, the world of our imagination, collapse can mean whatever we want it to mean. Put your creative effort there, there where it can genuinely have an impact. There are thousands of people around the world, who have made simulations of the collapse of civilization that are a thousand times more fun than the real thing. Rather than preparing for the world to become worse, spend your time building things that make the world better. You will meet other people who value the same things as you.\nWhy would you endlessly browse news headlines and spend money on stored food, if you can play the Flame in the Flood? Why would you watch another boring documentary about Peak Oil, if you can watch A Boy and his Dog? There is an open-source procedural roguelike called Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, where you can hunt and gather food in a forest and drive over zombies with stolen vehicles in the destroyed remnants of the city. If you want everything to go to shit, it’s already here for you and you’re welcome to help make it better.\nIn my mind I can build an apocalypse where negligibly senescent resurrected neanderthal women harvest oysters from underwater concrete skycrapers and radioactive blind albino rats inhabit dark abandoned metro tunnels where they nibble on green-glowing genetically manipulated mushrooms. In the real world apocalypse, gangs of militants in South Sudan and Syria mutilate and abuse children. If you’re really that utterly convinced that everything is soon going to hell in a handbasket that nothing I can say can convince you otherwise, don’t spend your days stocking up on stored food. Buy a pack of cyanide pills and go on with your life.\nThe moral narcissism of bourgeois white girls\nThe long overdue demise of Bitcoin\nUhm, well written, convincing, and certainly full of common sense! I will summarize what i think in just a few lines. I suppose it all boils down in how much faith in humanity you have. I mean, your line of reasoning depends on believing in a rational man that somehow do the right things and learn from past mistakes. Well i don’t know if i can fully agree with this, on the contrary there are sufficent things happening around the world to show that greed and selfishnes are more developed traits than foresight in the human species at large, but i certainly hope you are right! But as much as i don’t think it will all end up in a zombie apocalypse, paper like this http://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse/ paints a certainly less distant but equally bleak scenario for the years to come (without touching other equally important aspects of what is going awry like that of the rampant loss of privacy and data of the population).","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1079460"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5222381353378296,"wiki_prob":0.5222381353378296,"text":"@BusyPhilippsFan\nBusy Philipps Fan\nyour #1 fan site dedicated to actress Busy Philipps Welcome to Busy Philipps Fan, the web's largest and most comprehensive fan site dedicated to actress, writer, and talk show host Busy Philipps!\nBusy is known for her roles on the TV shows \"Freaks and Geeks,\" \"Dawson's Creek,\" \"Cougar Town,\" and \"Vice Principals.\" She has appeared in movies such as \"White Chicks,\" \"Made of Honor,\" \"He's Just Not That Into You,\" and \"I Feel Pretty.\" She is now the host of the E! talk show, Busy Tonight airing Sunday-Wednesday nights at 10pm.\nYou can see the latest news, photos, and media featuring Busy here at www.busy-philipps.org and follow us on Twitter @BusyPhilippsFan for daily updates.\nHome > TV Shows: Series Regular > Busy Tonight (2018 - 2019) > From 2018 > Screen Captures > 2018 - November 28th (Captures)\nFilename: 0101.jpg\nAlbum name: Jennifer / 2018 - November 28th (Captures)\nURL: https://www.busy-philipps.org/pictures/displayimage.php?pid=95055\n© Busy Philipps Fan (www.busy-philipps.org) 2009 - 2018\nEstablished 2009, Re-Opened 2018\nTheme by CWD","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line406325"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8425531387329102,"wiki_prob":0.8425531387329102,"text":"Anchorage Concert Association Announces Ten More Shows of Upcoming Season Lineup\nComedy, classic Broadway, and even a hip-hop orchestra will inspire Alaskans\nANCHORAGE, AK – Anchorage Concert Association, the state’s largest arts and entertainment presenter, is pleased to announce 10 more shows from its 2019/2020 season line-up: Latin bluegrass band Che Apalache (Sept. 20), hilarious comedy group The Improvised Shakespeare Company® (Oct. 11-12), Hawaiian songbird Kalani Pe’a (Jan. 31), the finger-snapping The Doo Wop Project (Feb. 15), innovative chamber musicians PUBLIQuartet (March 7), fiddler extraordinaire Eileen Ivers (March 21), hypnotic hip-hop orchestra Ensemble Mik Nawooj (April 4), a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. We Shall Overcome (April 10), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I (April 21-26), and YouTube sensation The Piano Guys (May 2). All shows will be at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts.\nArgentina meets Appalachia with Che Apalache, a four-person string band based in Buenos Aires, with members from the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina. Singing in Spanish and English, they perform everything from bluegrass standards to Latin roots music, and originals that blend the best of both. Sept. 20, 2019, in the Discovery Theatre.\nThe Improvised Shakespeare Company® takes a suggested play title from the audience, and then improvises a two-act Shakespearean masterpiece. Plots could feature star-crossed lovers, sprites, fools, sword-play, and plenty of witty insults. Each performance is both a world premiere and a closing night. Oct. 11-12, 2019, in the Discovery Theatre.\nLike the warm waters that surround his home in Maui, the music of Hawaiian singer Kalani Pe’a comforts, relaxes, and transports audiences into peacefulness. The two-time Grammy winner sings in Hawaiian and English – hitting notes as high as Mauna Kea’s peak. Jan. 31, 2020, in the Discovery Theatre.\nThe Doo Wop Project sings classic tunes and today’s hits in the finger-snapping, close-harmonies style of doo wop and features stars of the Broadway musicals Jersey Boys, Motown: The Musical, A Bronx Tale, and more. Feb. 15, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.\nProviding a fresh take on classical music, PUBLIQuartet performed a 90-minute improvised soundtrack to a live presidential debate on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in 2016. March 7, 2020 in the Discovery Theatre.\nAwe-inspiring moments continue with fiddler Eileen Ivers, whom The New York Times called “the Jimi Hendrix of the violin.” March 21, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.\nOakland’s Ensemble Mik Nawooj, led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, subverts expectations with a multi-genre crew of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, drums, bass, an opera singer, and profound rhymes from mesmerizing MCs/lyricists Do D.A.T. and Sandman. Combining classical techniques and method sampling, EMN creates awe-inspiring arrangements that have been called “the cutting edge of hip-hop” (Huffington Post). April 4, 2020, in the Discovery Theatre.\nWe Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. is a searing, soul-stirring soundtrack to the civil rights movement. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words and actions, and the movement’s struggle for equality and justice, this show ties together a living lineage of African-American music and culture that includes traditional and modern gospel, soul, jazz, classical, Broadway, and spirituals. April 10, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.\nOne of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s finest works, The King and I reminds audiences why they love Broadway — a classic opposites-attract romance, bold musical numbers, and lavish costumes and sets. Set in 1860s Bangkok, this musical marvel tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher who travels to Siam to teach his children. Their clash of wills leads to compromise – and eventually love – through iconic moments and memorable songs like “Getting To Know You,” “Whistle a Happy Tune,” and “Shall We Dance.” April 21-26, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.\nWith their serendipitous start in a small-town Utah piano shop, four dads set out to make a positive impact all over the world through music videos. That shared purpose struck a chord, and their stunning, self-made videos parlayed The Piano Guys into more than 1 billion YouTube views, six albums, a PBS special and a concert empire, including two sold-out shows in Anchorage in 2014. May 2, 2020, in the Atwood Concert Hall.\nCategories: Member-to-Member News","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line279491"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5166996717453003,"wiki_prob":0.5166996717453003,"text":"Conan the Barbarian and The Thread of Reason\nTales of Medieval Islam.\n“The power of ideas—Allah’s ideas—was all I ever needed.”\nThus spake the Sheikh of the Mountain, the leader of the medieval Assassin cult in real life, and one of the principal villains in my novel The Thread of Reason. In the book, the sheikh captures and imprisons the hero, Omar Khayyam, along with Omar’s assistant, Muhammad Baghdadi. At a confrontation in the sheikh’s study, Omar was characteristically skeptical about the sheikh’s grandiose claims of his power—basically it was the scene from every James Bond movie where 007 confronts the bad guy bent on world domination. But unlike Omar, Baghdadi was intrigued. He wanted to know how the sheikh commanded such unwavering loyalty from his Assassins, who were all too eager to die for their master on a suicide mission. In response, the sheikh offered Baghdadi a demonstration. “Let me prove how powerful an idea can be,” he said. “When it comes from Allah.”\nHe rose from his cushion and gestured for Baghdadi to follow him to the window. Putting one arm around Baghdadi’s shoulders, he pointed out to the courtyard, where dozens of men were working by torchlight. “Every one of my Assassins is completely dedicated to our cause,” [he] said. “Pick one of them out—any one—and I’ll show you how much.”\nStill at the table, Omar was absorbed in extracting the pit from a date when suddenly he jerked his head upward. He had just remembered something: a story from the history books. It gave him a bad feeling about where this was going. He scrambled to get to his feet and join the others at the window.\nBaghdadi had made his selection. “That one,” he said. He pointed to a young man stripped to the waist who was hustling across the courtyard at a good clip despite the two baskets of bricks hanging from a pole across his shoulders.\n“You there,” the Sheikh of the Mountain shouted. The porter dropped his burden and prostrated himself in the dust. “What is your bidding, O Sheikh of the Mountain?” he shouted back.\n“I want you to climb the ramparts and—”\n“Stop this right now,” Omar said firmly…\n“Why do you say stop? You don’t even know what I’m going to tell him.”\n“You mean you’re not planning to order him to jump off the castle wall?”\n“Now you spoiled the surprise.”\nIf the scene seems familiar, it’s probably because you saw something similar in the 1982 sword and sorcery flick Conan the Barbarian. In explaining how he made the transition from warlord to cult leader, the villain Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) tells Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger), “There was a time, boy, when I searched for steel, when steel meant more to me than gold or jewels.”\n“The riddle...of steel,” Conan replies.\n“Yes! You know what it is, don't you, boy? Shall I tell you? It's the least I can do. Steel isn't strong, boy, flesh is stronger! Look around you. There, on the rocks.” He beckons to one of his followers standing above them on a ridge. “A beautiful girl. Come to me, my child...” The girl calmly steps off the edge of the cliff and plummets to her death.\n“That is strength, boy!” says Thulsa. “That is power! What is steel compared to the hand that wields it?”\nBut lest you think the Sheikh of the Mountain plagiarized Thulsa Doom, it was in fact the other way around. The story has been associated with the Assassin cult ever since the Crusaders returned to Europe with tales of their adventures. Bernard Lewis, in The Assassins: a Radical Sect in Islam, relates “a somewhat questionable story” of one of the later Assassin leaders:\nCount Henry of Champagne, returning from Armenia in 1198, was entertained in his castle by the Old Man, who ordered a number of his henchmen to leap to their deaths from the ramparts for the edification of his guest, and then hospitably offered to provide others for his requirements: and if there was any man who had done him an injury, he should let him know, and he would have him killed.\n(From the “continuation” of William of Tyre’s History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea.)\nBut even in 1198, the story was already old. An earlier version occurred during the Qarmatian Rebellion. The Qarmatians were one of the strangest sects in the history of Islam. They were communists. A dissident Shiite offshoot, dedicated to the brotherhood of mankind, they threw off the authority of the caliphs and established their own egalitarian utopia in the early 900s, with their capital at Lahsa, near Bahrain. Naser-e Khosraw, who visited the Qarmatians around the year 1050, described what he found:\nThey neither pray nor fast, but they do believe in Mohammad and his mission…They take no tax from the peasantry, and whenever anyone is stricken by poverty or contracts a debt they take care of his needs until the debtor’s affairs should be cleared up. And if anyone is in debt to another, the creditor cannot claim more than the amount of the debt. Any stranger to the city who possesses a craft by which to earn his livelihood is given enough money to buy the tools of his trade and establish himself. If anyone’s property or implements suffer loss and the owner is unable to undertake necessary repairs, they appoint their own slaves to make the repairs and charge the owner nothing. The rulers have several gristmills in Lahsa where the citizenry can have their meal ground into flour for free, and the maintenance of the buildings and the wages of the miller are paid by the rulers.\n[From Naser-e Khosraw, Book of Travels (Safarnama), W. M Thackston, Jr., tr. (1986)]\nYou may wonder how a communist state can afford to be so generous and survive, let alone prosper for 150 years, when every other experiment in communism that litters the pages of history collapsed under the weight of its own poverty. The answer is buried in the passage above: slavery. “At the time I was there,” Khosraw writes, “they had thirty thousand Zanzibar and Abyssinian slaves working in the fields and gardens.”\nThe Qarmatians supplemented the stolen product of their slaves' labor with plunder from neighboring communities. In 930, for example, under the command of Abu Tahir Suleiman Janabi, they sacked Mecca, killed several pilgrims in the holy precincts of the Kaaba, stole the sacred Black Stone that was kept there, and brought it back to their capital. According to Khosraw, “They said that the stone was a ‘human magnet’ that attracted people, not knowing that it was the nobility and magnificence of Mohammad that drew people [to Mecca].” After Janabi’s death his successors returned it for a ransom. At some point during its theft and captivity it got shattered—to this day a silver frame is used to hold the pieces together.\nThe raid on Mecca was not the Qarmatians’ only attack on Muslim cities. Two years earlier, Abu Tahir Suleiman Janabi and his men had marched on Baghdad, capital of the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph al-Muqtadir. Edward Gibbon, in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, tells us what happened next:\nBaghdad was filled with consternation; and the caliph trembled behind the veils of his palace. In a daring inroad beyond the Tigris, Abu Tahir advanced to the gates of the capital with no more than five hundred horse. By the special order of Muqtadir the bridges had been broken down, and the person or head of the rebels was expected every hour by the commander of the faithful. His lieutenant, from a motive of fear or pity, apprised Abu Tahir of his danger, and recommended speedy escape. “Your master,” said the intrepid Qarmatian to the messenger, “is at the head of thirty thousand soldiers: three such men as these are wanting in his host:” at the same instant, turning to three of his companions, he commanded the first to plunge a dagger into his breast, the second to leap into the Tigris, and the third to cast himself headlong from down a precipice. They obeyed without a murmur. “Relate,” continued the imam, “what you have seen: before the evening your general shall be chained among my dogs.”\n[Spelling updated for consistency with modern use]\nAbu Tahir Suleiman Janabi's boastful prediction was not to be. The Qarmatians were driven away from Baghdad and al-Muqtadir, despite a turbulent reign, remained unchained.\nI put the “Riddle of Steel” scene in The Thread of Reason because I wanted to make a serious point about the power of ideas and because the book is about the Assassins and the scene is a timed-honored part of Assassin lore. But I couldn't resist poking fun a little at how often it has appeared, not only in Conan the Barbarian and The Thread of Reason, but in many other works as well (1964’s The Long Ships and 2005’s The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam come to mind). And so, when the Sheikh of the Mountain accuses Omar of ruining his surprise, I have Omar reply, “When Suleiman Janabi performed that demonstration—a century and a half ago—it was a surprise. Now it’s just a cliché.”\nAs for whether the porter actually jumps, you’ll just have to read the book.\nPhoto credit(s): You Tube, Crystalinks\nPosted by Michael Isenberg at 9:04 AM\nLabels: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Assassins, Conan the Barbarian, Islam in the Middle Ages, James Earl Jones, Omar Khayyam, Riddle of Steel, The Thread of Reason\nA well-loved tax collector\nProfessor Lewis Strikes Back","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1691183"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7391974329948425,"wiki_prob":0.26080256700515747,"text":"Center for Inflation Research\nNational Economy and Monetary Policy\nFinancial Markets and Banking\nHouseholds and Consumers\nIndicators and Data\nBeige Book\nIndustrial Heartland\nBanker Resources\nNewsroom and Events\nCleveland Fed Digest\nMultimedia Storytelling\nInfographics Library\nThe Cleveland Fed\nOur Officers\nTreasury Services\nLearning Center and Money Museum\nHistorically, the nation's industrial heartland has relied heavily on manufacturing—and, to a lesser degree, it still does today. See all of our industrial heartland work.\nWhile black people account for 15% of Fayette County’s population, they make up only 5% of home buyers there. Explore our analysis of home lending data in this Kentucky county.\nRead about Cleveland’s last 50 years compared to other industrial heartland MSAs'.\nColumbus’s employment expanded by 2% in the second half of 2017. Read more in Metro Mix.\nWhat are business people in Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia saying about economic conditions? Check out the latest Beige Book.\nWe offer state-level data sets on employment and other labor categories. Download them here.\nRead about small business credit and financing in the Fed's 2016 Small Business Credit Survey.\nWelcome to our region. Here you’ll find data, maps, research, analyses, and articles related to the diverse economies and communities of the region served by the Cleveland Fed.\nOur region encompasses all of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky, and the northern panhandle of West Virginia. Within our borders lies a range of industries—from manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture to oil and gas extraction—and communities, including urban and older industrial cities to rural Appalachian areas. Explore our work.\nThe States of the Fourth District\nOur Region: The States of the Fourth District\nOur district encompasses all of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, eastern Kentucky, and the northern panhandle of West Virginia. We find it useful to compare data at the state, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), county, city, or local levels, where the availability of data makes such comparisons possible. We compare data for the region against data at the national level, too, to gain a sense of how the states we represent in the Fourth Federal Reserve District are faring relative to the nation.\nThe Cleveland Fed’s district includes the entire state of Ohio, comprising 88 counties, 12 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), and a range of community types, from urban, older industrial, and suburban to rural, agricultural, and Appalachian. In our work, we focus on topics related to the well-being of the economies, industries, and people of our district—topics like labor market productivity, small business credit conditions, and affordable housing. We compare data for the state to data for other states in our district as well as to data at the national level, to better answer the question, “How is Ohio faring relative to nearby states and the nation?” And as a core part of the nation’s industrial heartland, Ohio is a subject of our study on the rise, the fall, and the resurgence of manufacturing in the region.\nOhio is also home to two of our three locations: the main office in Cleveland and a branch in Cincinnati (the other branch is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).\nThe Cleveland Fed’s district includes 56 counties in Kentucky, all of which are located in the eastern portion of the state. Because data are often available at the state level, we look at data for the entire state, not just eastern Kentucky. We also conduct in-depth analyses, focusing on eastern Kentucky and the largest and only metropolitan area in the region, Lexington.\nIn our work, we focus on topics related to the well-being of the economies, industries, and people of our district; in Kentucky specifically, our focuses are economic and community development, energy and extraction industries, and workforce development. We compare data for the state to data for other states in our district, as well as to data at the national level, to gain a sense of how Kentucky is faring relative to nearby states and the nation.\nRegionally, we partner with other Reserve Banks—including the Richmond Fed, the Atlanta Fed, and the St. Louis Fed—and with educational and nonprofit organizations to examine the issues affecting the economics, communities, and people in the Appalachian communities of the nation.\nThe remaining 64 counties of Kentucky are served by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Eighth District. Visit the St. Louis Fed’s website to learn about their work.\nThe Cleveland Fed’s district includes 19 counties in the western third of Pennsylvania. Because data are often available at the state level, we typically examine data for the entirety of the state. We also conduct in-depth analyses that focus on western Pennsylvania and the two metropolitan areas in the region, Pittsburgh and Erie. We compare data for the state to data for other states in our district as well as to data at the national level, to gain a sense of how Pennsylvania is faring relative to nearby states and the nation.\nIn our work, we focus on topics related to the well-being of the economies, industries, and people of our district; in Pennsylvania specifically, our focuses include economic and community development, energy and extraction industries, and workforce development. We partner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on applied research and events relevant to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including quantitative assessments of opportunity occupations and the Cleveland Fed’s biennial Policy Summit.\nThe remaining 48 counties of Pennsylvania are served by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Third Federal Reserve District. Visit the Philadelphia Fed’s website to learn about their work.\nThe Cleveland Fed’s district includes just 6 counties in West Virginia, located in the northern panhandle of the state. Because data are often available at the state level, we typically examine data for the entirety of the state. We also conduct in-depth analyses that focus on the largest and only metropolitan area in the region, Wheeling. We compare data for the state to data for other states in our district as well as to data at the national level, to gain a sense of how West Virginia is faring relative to nearby states and the nation.\nIn our work, we focus on topics related to the well-being of the economies, industries, and people of our district; in West Virginia and the area surrounding the northern panhandle, our focuses include economic and community development, energy and extraction industries, and workforce development. We partner with other Federal Reserve Banks on quantitative studies, outreach, and events on topics that are relevant to the state and the region.\nThe remaining 49 counties of West Virginia are served by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Fifth District. Visit the Richmond Fed’s website to learn about their work.\nWe welcome your feedback and questions: Contact us.\nThe Beige Book, released 8 times a year, contains reports of economic conditions across the United States by region. Reports are based on information gathered primarily through interviews with business people and are prepared by each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for their respective Districts.\nBeige Book: Economic activity in the Fourth District has risen modestly\nInterviews with our Fourth District Beige Book contacts suggest that recent business activity in the region has risen modestly. Find specifics on wages, prices, spending, and industries in report. Read More\nAn Uneven Recovery: Home Lending in the Fourth District by Race and Income\nFocusing on seven counties across Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, our researchers used Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data to examine application and origination activity by income and race during the past 27 years (1990–2016). In a 13-year span preceding and following the Great Recession (2004–2016), three trends were consistent across all seven counties. Read More\nColumbus—Labor Market Cruising at a Slightly Slower Pace\nThe Columbus metro area’s economy is sturdy, with a low and relatively stable unemployment rate. Total employment grew at a slower rate recently than the metro area’s average pace in the current economic expansion, but the growth was broad-based across sectors. Read More\nToledo—Economy Rebounds\nSeveral measures—the number of jobs, the unemployment rate, output per person, and median personal income—indicate the economy of the Toledo metro area has essentially bounced back to where it was at the end of 2015. This represents a recovery from the 2017 closure of the Jeep Cherokee plant that reduced the number of jobs and increased the unemployment rate in the region. Read More\nOpioids and the Labor Market\nThis paper studies whether the opioid epidemic is causing workers to leave the labor force or whether a shock to the labor force like the Great Recession causes greater opioid abuse. We find evidence for the former but not for the latter. Individuals in areas with higher prescription rates are less likely to participate in the labor force. And the Great Recession had no effect on the share of people abusing opioids. Read More\nA Long Ride to Work: Job Access and the Potential Impact of Ride-Hailing in the Pittsburgh Area\nWhether measured by proximity or commute time, data show that for the average transit rider, jobs are increasingly out of reach. Cleveland Fed researchers explored one solution for improving job access. Here’s your ticket to ride. Read More\nThe Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) for Smaller Communities and Rural Regions\nWhat’s one key element to drive funding to low-income areas of the country? Meaningful and productive partnerships between banks and community-based organizations (CBOs). Read More\nChanges in the Occupational Structure of the United States: 1860 to 2015\nThis Commentary describes how the mix of occupations in which people have been employed in the United States has evolved over time. After 100 years of dramatic change, the mix of occupations has been more stable since 1970. This trend adds occupational structure to the growing list of ways our nation’s economy has become less dynamic in recent decades. Read More\nPopulation, Migration, and Generations in Urban Neighborhoods\nThe number of people living in urban neighborhoods has been rising in recent decades. This Commentary investigates changes in the number, ages, and financial status of those who have been moving into and out of urban neighborhoods, using data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York/Equifax Consumer Credit Panel. I find that since 2000, the increase in urban populations is the result of young adults migrating into urban neighborhoods and senior citizens aging in place. Urban populations have also become more educated and well to do. While declining urban neighborhoods may still outnumber growing urban neighborhoods within some regions, urban leaders there can work toward population or tax base growth knowing that consumer tastes and national trends are favorable to those goals. Read More\n© 2019 Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line719331"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7984029650688171,"wiki_prob":0.7984029650688171,"text":"Crome, Edward (DNB00)\n←Crombie, James\nCrome, Edward\nby Charles Trice Martin\nCrome, John (1768-1821)→\nCrome, EdwardCharles Trice Martin1888\n​CROME, EDWARD (d. 1562), protestant divine, was educated at Cambridge, taking the degrees of B.A. in 1503, M.A. in 1507, and D.D. in 1526. He was a fellow of Gonville Hall; but although his friend Archbishop Cranmer, also a Cambridge man, speaks of him as having been 'president of a college in Cambridge,' his name does not appear in the lists of heads. It may be that he acted as deputy to Dr. Bokenham, master of Gonville Hall, who was seventy-seven years of age when he resigned in 1536. In 1516 Crome was university preacher. He resided without interruption at Cambridge until he attracted the king's notice by his approval of Cranmer's book demonstrating the nullity of his marriage with Catherine of Arragon, and by his action as one of the delegates appointed by the university, 4 Feb. 1530, to discuss and decide the question of the same purport proposed by the king. During the following Lent he was three times commanded to preach before the king, and shortly after (24 May) was one of the representatives of his university who, together with a like number from Oxford, assisted the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Durham in drawing up a condemnation of the opinions expressed in certain English religious books, such as ‘The Wicked Mammon’ and ‘The Obedience of a Christian Man,’ which assailed the doctrines of purgatory, the merit derived from good works, invocation of saints, confession, &c.\nIt was probably about this time that he became parson of St. Antholin's Church in ​the city of London, a rectory in the gift of the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, but owing to the destruction of the registers in the fire of 1666 it is impossible to fix the date.\nWhile at Cambridge Crome had gained some insight into the ideas of religious reformers by attending the meetings of ‘gospellers’ at the White Horse in St. Benet's, and in spite of his acquiescence in the prohibition of their books, his preaching was so coloured with their views that he was convented before the Bishop of London and examined, the king himself being present. The answers he gave were in accordance with the popular articles of belief, even in such matters as purgatory and the efficacy of fasting. There is extant a copy of them with remarks apparently added by him when reading them in his church, in which he endeavoured with some success to explain away the discrepancy between the articles he was reading and his previous opinions. His confession was immediately printed by the bishops, but his old friends thought it ‘a very foolish thing,’ and openly said that he was lying and speaking against his conscience in preaching purgatory.\nArticles were formally produced against him, Latimer, and Bilney in the convocation of March 1531, but in consequence of his previous recantation no further steps were taken against Crome. In 1534 he removed to the church of St. Mary Aldermary, which Queen Anne Boleyn procured for him by her influence with Archbishop Cranmer, the patron. He was unwilling to make the change, and did not accept it until the queen wrote an urgent letter to him on the subject. A few years later (1539) Archbishop Cranmer tried to obtain for him the deanery of Canterbury, but was not successful.\nAbout this period Crome is frequently mentioned in connection with Latimer, Bilney, and Barnes, and he was one of the preachers appointed by Humfrey Monmouth, a leading London citizen and great favourer of the gospel, to preach his memorial sermons in the church of All Hallows Barking.\nAfter the passing of the Act of Six Articles in 1539, in consequence of which Latimer and Shaxton, bishop of Salisbury, resigned their bishoprics and were imprisoned, Crome preached two sermons which his enemies hoped would give them a handle; but hearing of his danger he immediately went to the king and prayed him to cease his severities. No proceedings were at that time taken against him, and not long after (July 1540) a universal pardon was granted. Crome did not, however, alter his opinions and preaching, and a controversy between him and Dr. Wilson having caused some stir in the city, they were both forbidden to preach again until they had been examined by the king and council. This was done on Christmas day 1540. The articles alleged against Crome were denial of justification by works, the efficacy of masses for the dead and prayers to saints, and the non-necessity of truths not deduced from holy scripture. His answer was an argument that these articles were true and orthodox; but the king, averse to severity in his case, only ordered him to preach at St. Paul's Cross and read a recantation with a statement that he would be punished if hereafter convicted of a similar offence. This he did, but as his sermon contained but little reference to the formal recantation which he read, his license to preach was taken away. This prohibition did not endure many years, for in Lent 1546 he again got into trouble for a sermon preached at St. Thomas Acres, or Mercers' Chapel, directed against the sacrifice of the mass. Being brought before Bishop Gardiner and others of the council he was ordered as before to preach in contradiction of what he had said at St. Paul's Cross, but his sermon rather hinted that the king's recent abolition of chantries showed that he held the same opinion. This was not considered satisfactory, and he had to perform a more perfect recantation on Trinity Sunday.\nDuring the reign of Edward VI he appears to have lived quietly, for the only notices of him are a casual mention by Hooper a short time before he was made bishop of Gloucester, that Crome was preaching against him, and a letter, referred to by Strype, from a poor scholar asking for help. After Queen Mary's accession he was again arrested for preaching without license and committed to the Fleet (13 Jan. 1554), but a year elapsed before he was brought up for trial. In January 1555 many of his friends were examined and condemned. Hooper, Rogers, Bishop Ferrars of St. David's, and others were burnt. Crome was given time to answer, and having had some practice in the art of recantation made sufficient compliance to save himself from the stake. It was proposed that he, Rogers, and Bradford should be sent to Cambridge to discuss with orthodox scholars, as Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer had done at Oxford, but they refused, not expecting fair play. Their reasons were published in a paper which is printed by Foxe. How long he was kept in prison is doubtful. He died between 20 and 26 June 1562, and was buried in his own church, St. Mary Aldermary, on the 29th.\n[Cal. of State Papers of Henry VIII, vols. iv. v. vii. viii.; Strype's Memorials, i. i. 492, ii. 369, iii. i. 92, 157, 221, 330, ii. 192; Annals, i. i. 545; Strype's Cranmer, 487, 495, 566, Par ​ker Soc. 3 Zur. 208, &c. (see Gough's Index); Foxe's Acts, v. 337, 351, 835, vi. 413, 533, 536, 588, vii. 43, 499; Burnet's Hist. Ref. i. 150, 271, iii. 254, 264, 346; Wilkins's Concilia, iii. 725, 737; Machyn's Diary, 51, 80, 81, 286; Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 436; Cooper's Ath. Cant. i. 215.]\nC. T. M.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Crome,_Edward_(DNB00)&oldid=4307873\"\nDNB biographies\nPages with noyear","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1169869"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7022032141685486,"wiki_prob":0.2977967858314514,"text":"Call us +977-01-4485120\ninfo@weinspirenepal.org\nHealth and Education\nBehavioral Change Communication\nWomen Empowerment and Child Protection\nYouth Leadership and Civic Engagement\nInternship with us\nApply for our recent fellowship program\nWe Inspire Nepal / Health and Education\n“His wit and vision conquer every state and kingdom is the man with the sound mind, sound body, and wisdom”.The physical, mental, emotional and intellectual wellbeing of mankind is never to be compromised for the wellbeing of the nation, the world rather. Here at We Inspire Nepal ( WIN), we are aware of the importance of good health and good education to every human being and try the best to work in these areas.\nWe Inspire Nepal (WIN) inspire Nepal to be aware of their health and provide people with the needed knowledge and information. WIN mainly focuses on the issues of sexual and reproductive health as these issues are regarded as taboo in many developing countries and mainly in Nepal. Sexual and reproductive health are often belittled despite of their importance. It is often found that people do not feel comfortable to talk about such issues and thus we raise such issue in front of the masses to make them aware of their importance.\nFurthermore, we advocate for people about their proper sexual and reproductive health and the method is generally policy level advocacy. There are many examples of people, mostly women who have been victimized because of their sexuality and reproductivity and many people in the society have been abandoned by sexual and reproductive rights. We see many examples but since these issues are considered as a taboo subjects, we get minimal interest of people to advocate on such issues. These drawbacks of the society inspire We Inspire Nepal to advocate on such topic.\nIn order to seek solution for the problems in the health sector and also to make people aware of further problems, we conduct programs mainly focusing on awareness, conveyance and solution of health issues. We conducted awareness program about the most odious disease, HIV-AIDS . Also, the WIN reached the lives of rural people during the time of crisis by distributing medical support.\nApart from working in the field of sexual and reproductive health, WIN inspire Nepal to be healthy physically, mentally and emotionally. WIN realized the lack of resources and facilities to local people for maintaining proper health but explored solution to these by conducting a revolutionary dance program entitled “Dance for Nepal”. WIN conducted it for couple of years and brought revolution in the mindset of people about health. The people who used to have lack in resources for proper health found dance as the cheapest and the best way for having a proper health. With this dance program, WIN not only brought changes in people’s health but also in the attitude by inspiring them to think out of box and explore new alternatives in their life. Dance for Nepal was implemented by WIN in Kathmandu in association with Restless Development Nepal. WIN has lots of plans and policies to work on various health issues and it does its work realizing the urgency of health issues. WIN realized Peer Education Program as the crucial one for adolescents and youth of the country. It went to the door steps of about 500 different schools of different parts of Nepal and conducted the Peer Education Program. This program helped the students, teachers and parents to know different unspoken and hidden problems and simultaneously helped WIN to know the different problems of different regions of Nepal and to set a new vision for conducting further programs. The psychological counseling programs of WIN has touched many hearts and raised awareness about mental health.\nWe Inspire Nepal inspire the heart to educate the mind. There is no other way of gaining wisdom, knowledge and intellectual strength without proper education. Education is something that differentiate human beings from other animal beings. It is a matter of great disappointment that many people have been deprived of getting quality education. Quality education which is the basic right of every individual has also been victimized of gender, social, cultural and political issues in the country. WIN is a group of eduacated people from all over the country and we realize the effect of education in our lives and work to bring changes in the field of education.\nEducation, one of the basic right is the most important right and need of the people. The development of the country solely depends on the education it provides to its people. The data and statistics of Nepal shows the progress in literacy rate but there are still many things lagging behind in the education sector. The research done by WIN in many regions and sectors of Nepal makes WIN unsatisfied about the educational systema and it continuously conduct many programs for educational system’s upliftment.\nMoreover, WIN tries to prioritize the importance of sustainable education amongst people. It provides knowledge to the people about the meaning and importance of sustainable education. It has realized that education has been provided to the public but it has not brought effect in the lives of them for longer time and there is where the need of sustainable education arises. The education for each and every human being which educate the mind, enhances the personality and provide a unique vision for every unique individual is the education of this age and hence is the sustainable education. WIN by doing advocacy for sustainable education want to bring changes in educational system of Nepal. It has done many awareness and advocacy programs on Sustainable Development Goals in education, conducted many sustainable education conferences.\nSustainable education is never accomplished without the complete participation of triple factor of education and they are parents, teachers and students. WIN has conducted many programs focusing on these important people. It has worked not only for making students aware of sustainable education but also has made many parents aware of their role for sustainable education. It conducted teachers training programs in over 500 schools of different regions of Nepal where it provided knowledge and information about new, scientific and effective methods of teaching and the WIN has always inspired students to be the leader tomorrow and for this, it has conducted many leadership programs to over 10,000 students. The leadership program mainly focused to get information about students’ personalities, provided them knowledge about leadership skill and inspired them to be a leader for tomorrow. Apart from programs and seminars, WIN has different ways of promoting sustainable education and thus adopted debate programs to participate students and other general public in it. The success of these programs could be felt by the change in people’s vision and attitude towards the educational system.\nVisit us Battishputali, Kathmandu, Nepal\n© 2017 – We Inspire Nepal. All rights reserved","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line442498"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5209388136863708,"wiki_prob":0.47906118631362915,"text":"Michael Shaw Is Fast\nIncoming recruit Michael Shaw saw his high school track career end prematurely when the OSHAA ruled he had transferred to Trotwood-Madison illegally, but dude got it awwwwn at nationals:\nTrotwood-Madison OH coach Randy Waggoner, honored earlier in the day as the meet’s Coach of the Year, couldn’t help blinking back tears at the courage and gutsy efforts of his Waggoner’s Raiders team after they toppled favored Dominguez CA in the marquee 4x400 (3:11.33 to 3:11.41).\n“I’ve been coaching since the ‘60’s,” Coach Waggoner said of his 46.4 anchor, Mike Shaw, “and I’ve coached a lot of guys, but he’s one of the best.”\nShaw had a huge meet for his team from Ohio, anchoring the Raiders to a Friday win in the 4x200 (1:25.18), then taking the 200 title (21.19 in a headwind) and anchoring the 4x400 win on Saturday.\n“We all promised each other we were going to lay it on the track for each other,\" Shaw said. \"Last race of the season, and even though I was dead from the 200 [earlier in the day], I told them that if it was close, I’m going to win it.”\nAye, that he did:\nShaw also qualified for the final in the 100 M but finished last. Dunno what happened there.\nDude is ninja fast, though. He runs the forty in femtoseconds. I use him instead of fiber-optic cable. I had him take a message to South America and when he got there it was Gonwanaland.\nMIKE SHAW IS FAST.\nLabels: football, recruiting","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1609072"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6921506524085999,"wiki_prob":0.30784934759140015,"text":"There are numerous species of snakes in NYS the vast majority of which are NOT POISONOUS. In fact in NYS there are timber rattle snakes and copperheads which are about the only two that are poisonous. However, in some snakes the saliva can cause an allergic reaction but this is much different from a poison. That said the most important thing when reporting a snake is the color and detailed description which is obviously used for identification purposes although not only do patterns change from species to species but individual to individual, male to female and young to adult. The location of the snake is also important starting with is it inside or outside and what time of day the snake(s) are typically seen. Being cold blooded snakes are attracted to warmer areas but like to hide in hard to reach crevices. Snake dens are often rocky areas with many crevices such as underneath concrete slabs or decorative rock beds. Various snake species will breed at different times but typically young are hatched from eggs in the spring. All snakes are carnivorous and eat small mammals, amphibians and birds. One way to prevent problems with snakes is to eliminate or reduce suitable habitat such as long grass and swampy areas which typically house many prey species and eliminate crevices and other entrances into your house such as water pipes leading to a sump pump or downspouts that allow a snake to stay around your home. Snakes don’t typically cause “damage” per se and in fact are in most cases beneficial from an ecological standpoint but are so misunderstood that they often instill fear in homeowners. Droppings are difficult to identify and about the only tell tale sign other than an actual sighting is a “shed” which is an older skin layer left behind as the snake grows. Snakes fees are the same as mice - $250 for a two week cleanout and $450 for a year long service.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1308278"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6917318105697632,"wiki_prob":0.3082681894302368,"text":"The Forgotten Dream of a Russian Africa\nThe Forgotten Dream of a Russian Hawaii\nVladivostok – Once More a Free Port\nReflections on Vladivostok\nThe Latest Stratfor Predictions for Russia\n10 Surprising Coloni… on The Forgotten Dream of a Russi…\nReblogging the… on The Forgotten Dream of a Russi…\nRussia Considering O… on Vladivostok – Once More…\ntowardsthegreatocean on The Latest Stratfor Prediction…\nTowards the Great Ocean\nAll things Russia\nAuthor Archives: towardsthegreatocean\nPosted on January 25, 2015 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged ВладивостокДВФУДальний Восток РоссииРоссияРусский ОстровFEFURussiaRussian Far EastRusskiy IslandVladivostok\tCommentsNo Comments on Back in Business\nIt’s been a while since I wrote an article for the blog, way too long infact. I started out with the aim of writing articles about developments in the Russian Far East, and it all faded away after I returned from my summer trip there. I got caught up with a lot of work through the end of 2014, but it’s no excuse really. Now that I’ve arrived here in Vladivostok to spend six months living in the city, it’s time to be far more regular with my output. I’ll have a post up over the next couple of days to give my impressions after a month in the city, and I’ve got some other posts planned after that, mostly contemporary stuff but also some historical stuff from time to time to mix it up and give you an idea of how the region has developed over the past 150 or so years. The past several months has seen a lot of attention given to Russia, with a lot of negative and gleeful coverage provided by the western media due to the civil war in Ukraine and the massive devaluation of the ruble. But in terms of the east, the relationship with China has dominated headlines, and for those of us who focus on these eastern regions it’s interesting to see just how far the economic relationship will go between the two powers, and how the overall development of the region will progress with tighter budgets and changing priorities. In short there will be plenty to talk about it in the articles to come.\nPosted on July 25, 2014 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged AsiaRussiaRussian Far EastSoft Power\tCommentsNo Comments on Russia Through Asian Eyes\nRussia Through Asian Eyes\nAfter finishing my trip to Russia around 5 weeks ago, I headed onwards to six other Asian countries and made the most of my summer holidays. I first took in Japan then onwards to South Korea, The Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Aside from relaxing and doing all the fun things that you’d expect on a holiday, I tried to keep an eye out for any sort of Russian presence in these countries and to ask the locals what they thought about the country. As with my time in Russia this amounted to a handful of people in each place, but I think the feedback I got is the starting point for a better understanding of exactly how Russia is viewed by the average citizen in these countries and how far away Russia is from achieving its goal of a greater presence in Asia.\nThe Asian leg of my journey began in Sapporo, capital city of Hokkaido prefecture and home of the Hokkaido Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre. At the airport things looked promising; as well as having signs written in Japanese and English, they also had directions in Russian. After I left the airport however, that was virtually the last I would hear of Russia beyond the university. English was ubiquitous in transport areas, and some of the locals spoke English, but I didn’t hear a single word in Russian. Despite this it was a great honour to meet the staff and students at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre, with my trip very fortunately coinciding with an end of year BBQ that I was invited along to! There was a range of research projects amongst the group, and researchers from a variety of backgrounds, and it was good to see Russia receiving at least some academic focus at the university. It seemed that very few focused on the Russian Far East, aside from some continuing research on the Kuril Islands dispute, suggesting that the region still has much to do to capture the imagination of foreign scholars. Overall it was good to meet fresh faces who focus on Russia, and with any luck it won’t be my last visit to the institute. After this I was able to meet some other citizens of the city, but they knew little of Russia. One girl had met some Russians before and noted that once she got to know them they were great people, friendly, dependable, great sense of humour, but of the country and its development she knew little. She knew vaguely that the Kuril Islands were disputed, but felt that her own generation cared far less about it than older ones, and was not too concerned if territorial claims were dropped. Carrying on my trip in Japan to Tokyo, I was hoping for at least some more awareness of Russia, but none was forthcoming. Once a day I might hear some Russian words from tourists, but nothing more. I spoke with an older businessman who confessed he had little idea about Russia and had read only one Russian novel when he was younger. I spoke with a group in their 20s and 30s who occasionally met a tourist from Russia, but had never had the desire to visit Russia for themselves. For them it was a cold place all year round, far away, with little to do or see. For some it was even a dangerous place as any news they heard about it was invariably negative.\nAfter Japan I moved on to Seoul in South Korea, and yet the same familiar answers were to be found, even amongst some European expats. For all of them Russia was a country that existed on the news, not something they came across in their everyday lives. Oil, wars and cold weather were common stereotypes to be found amongst Russians, and there was no presence of Russian goods, companies or the language in public places. No-one knew of any Russian restaurants or bars, Russian goods, Russian companies, Russian residents…undoubtedly there were some tourists, but not so many to be a common sight. Journeying next through The Philippines and Indonesia brought no change, though I must say I didn’t visit places like Bali or Cebu which may have had more Russian tourists. The most promising lead I had was the Pochta Rossii symbol on a restaurant in Davao, but the waitress informed me it was just a random picture the owner had found and thought would look cool as a decoration. In Jakarta I managed to meet one girl who thought Putin was the sexiest thing to happen to the world in a long time, though she was most certainly an outlier. Indeed it was only a short time before my flight to Singapore that I started to get a few messages from the people I had met in Asia about Russia, regarding the MH17 flight going down over Eastern Ukraine. The impression they had, after the initial shock and confusion, was that Russia had deliberately shot down the plane over a Russian region called Eastern Ukraine. I had to clarify the geography and nature of the civil war in the Ukraine to make them aware that Russia was not shooting down civilian airliners, but at times it was difficult as their news was mostly recycled into their own language from western media outlets, which have shown since the event that they are heavily invested in blaming Russia for the tragedy. Unfortunately I was unable to read websites and media in the local languages for myself, so whether Russian statements were given full coverage I can’t say.\nAfter reaching Singapore I noticed a definite increase in the amount of Russian language I heard; still not much, but it seemed to have some popularity as a tourist place, particularly amongst Asian-looking Russian speakers. It was here that I thought I’d hit the jackpot and finally found a Russian bar, with a street of bars and restaurants apparently having one called ‘Rasputin’. Alas when I got there, despite the street being lively and all the bars open, Rasputin’s was closed. Permanently or temporarily I don’t know for sure, but perhaps it was appropriate to find it closed after seeing so little Russian presence up until then. From there I finished my journey in Malaysia, where discussion was understandably still focused on MH17 and what exactly happened to the aircraft. As with the other Asian countries I visited, Russia was cast in a negative light by the media stories being filtered through, and people were interested to know if, as a researcher of Russia, I could confirm if it was all true. I may have given those few a clearer overview of the situation, but that still leaves hundreds of millions of more who hear a very one-sided of interpretation of Russia being presented in the media.\nWhat then can I take from my trip across six Asian countries, and Russia’s presence there? For one, it’s almost non-existent to the point of being damaging. There was little or no knowledge about what Russia is, about its territorial presence in Asia, and what the country stands for. On a soft power level there was no Russian food, Russian drinks, Russian bars and restaurants, consumer goods…no Russian anything. Even the vodka on sale was usually Scandinavian or European rather than Russian! News was generally coming through western outlets, meaning that if someone did take an interest they would generally meet a wall of negative propaganda about the country. Russian tourism in Asia seems to be focused most prominently in resort areas given the lack of any information and signage in Russian throughout tourist sights and hotels. All of the above is a worrying sign if Russia is serious about making a presence in Asia. Ask people around the world about Asian countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines…there’s a good chance you’ll hear at least one thing positive, whether it’s the holiday resorts, the food, the people, the technology, the sunshine or the culture. Wherever the natives of these countries go, they take part of their culture and offer it to the host country. Russia needs to offer something positive about itself to Asian countries, not just from the government but from businesses and citizens as well. Pick a country and you’ll find an Irish pub there, but chances are you’ll not find a Russian one. It’s hard to say if there are bureaucratic problems that prevent such moves, or if Russian businesses lack the drive and ambition to expand and take a chance abroad. But if it wants to be part of the Asian development story, and develop its own Far East, something has to change in that attitude. A greater Russian news presence and a greater Russian cultural presence are possible beginnings of that. Make a person interested in your story and they might just pay you a visit and try your borshcht.\nPosted on June 20, 2014 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged KorsakovRussiaRussian Far EastSakhalinYuzhno-Sakhalinsk\tComments3 Comments on The End of the Line in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\nThe End of the Line in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk\nOver 29 days I had travelled 15,000 km, starting in Glasgow and going across Russia all the way to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Some of it has been good, some of it has been great, but at the end of every chapter there’s a bit of reflection, and as I sit here in the departure area of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk airport there’s a fair few thoughts going through my mind. It’s hard to really describe what my expectations for the city were; written material about it usually focuses on the oil and gas industry, or on the nature and scenery, and you get the odd mention of Chekov’s journey and his brutal description of the place. Perhaps with that in mind I expected to see a bit more vibrancy and wealth on show in the capital of the island, or at least some kind of energy and excitement about the place. I’d been told at different times it was expensive, or full of expats, or an island with increasing revenues to spend on the place…but that’s not what I found here.\nI’m getting used to flying into minimalist regional airports in Russia, getting onto the bus and sitting in a cramped seat for at least half an hour, and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was no different. The sky was grey and rain was threatening, but it looked like I had avoided the storm that battered the island only a few days before. Evidence of its impact was everywhere, from trees and branches strewn across pavements and streets, to bus stops that had been mangled and blown over walls. However the city lived on, the buses ran, people found their way to work, and shops were open as normal. I would be staying with a guy called Maxim in the city, he works for an international company and was kind enough to offer me a room for a couple of nights. I dropped off my bags with him and set out to explore the city on foot, though I’ll admit I wasn’t too impressed with the weather on this occasion. The conditions were as close to Scotland as I’ve come across in Russia, with temperatures at 7C at the best of times, with gusts of wind and the odd shower of rain a constant presence. My first impressions of the streets were a sense of depression and sporadic development; the pavements were non-existent at times or lost beneath decades of muck, other times there were gaping holes every few steps. Dirt and debris covered every roadside and cars would speed past missing parts of their anatomy. I can accept that the storm caused damage and a lot of the debris is likely from that, but the rest has been there for the long-term and really is in need of repair. Whatever the money from the Sakhalin projects is being spent on, it’s not fully making its way to the benefit of the general population. I continued walking away from the main streets of the city, hoping to see some of the Japanese architecture that is said to remain, but even this seemed an exaggerated claim at best; some of the sites I visited were crumbling. I tried the botanical gardens, but the storm had seen it having to close for a while. A walk through Gagarin Park was a mixed bag; the storm had damaged a few kiosks and rides, but it’s hard to imagine great weather bringing much more beauty to the area. As I walked back towards the centre from the north, the streets blurred into a mish-mash of decrepit wooden buildings and peeling flats covered in Soviet murals from yesteryear. I began to wonder if I was entering the local equivalent of a favela. Maxim would later tell me of an area called ‘Shanghai’ which in the 1990s was the hotbed of crime and poverty in the city, though there is at least a greater sense of safety than in those days.\nAs I headed back to meet Maxim I had started to completely write the city off as a dead-end, that the city could turn up all of the Tsar’s missing gold and it wouldn’t make a single difference to the development of the city. I tried to remind myself that you can’t just fly into a city for a few hours, make a quick judgement and head off again with a few sensationalist headlines. For all the negatives I had seen, I wanted to find positives amidst the gloom, even if it was only one or two. At worst, I would be able to tell myself I had given it a fair crack of the whip. Maxim’s grandmother cooked a meal for us, and I’ll give my compliments to the chef as it’s one of the few times I’ve been satisfied with a bowl of cabbage soup. I asked him about his life in the city, he told me that he was born and raised here with a few spells abroad including the USA and China, and had been to Europe a few times on holiday. He told me that although he still likes Europe and the UK for music and culture, he was comfortable living in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and was in no rush to move. I enquired about the reasons why, usually those who are such big fans of foreign cultures want to go there, but he described a sense of local pride. It was in sync with Russia, but people had their differences. At this point Alexei arrived and he added to it, feeling that the sense of humour in the city had differences to that in the west of the country, more intelligent and less direct. He said people on the island were more hospitable and helpful than the mainland, with people willing to do a favour even for someone they didn’t know. I won’t pretend to know for sure if that’s the case, but the next day we would see an old woman lying on the ground, and there was no shortage of help and a willingness to stay with her until help arrived, despite lots of those workers previously rushing to make it to the office by 9am.\nAfter dinner we went on a tour of the city, taking in a few of the local monuments to the war heroes, the Lenin statue and best of all a trip to the top of the nearby hills for a view of the city. In the winter the place turns into a great place for skiing and snowboarding, with both Maxim and Alexei telling me it rivals nearby Sapporo for the experience. We would then meet Katya and head off for Korsakov. I asked them about the Japanese cars, and the fact that many vehicles seemed to be bashed, broken or looking the worse for wear, and they told me, quite expectedly, that the second-hand car market here is huge, with most cars from Japan, some from Korea, and even fewer from Russia. However the run-down nature of the cars is because everything delivered to the island is raised in price, even from the Russian mainland. Maintaining a car in perfect condition can be an expensive business, especially with the poor quality of roads. Maxim in particular wasn’t too happy about the degradation of the roads, and it’s something the city really needs to sort out. Korsakov itself is dominated at night by the flaming gas and the lights of the facilities. You can see tankers creeping out or arriving from Japan, and there are usually a few people at the peak of the town looking out on the view. If you’re ever in town it’s something to do when the sun goes down.\nWe talked more about the development of the island, and all were in agreement that it was lopsided and usually the benefits were in areas important to the gas industry. This I can understand, international companies don’t get into business for the benefit of the average citizen, but it sounded like the regional government had work to do to win over the hearts of the populace. There didn’t seem much optimism about seeing results, though I should add that it didn’t make them want to leave, they still felt comfortable here despite the problems. I asked my obligatory question about the fortunes of the local football team, FK Sakhalin, who had just earned promotion to the second tier of the Russian system, and with it a crazy schedule of matches stretching as far away as Kaliningrad; they weren’t too interested in the team. Football just didn’t seem too popular in general; even hockey was of limited interest for the league on the island. People were more interested in individual sports, winter ones in general, and the forthcoming World Cup matches were more of a novelty than a deep concern. I took a walk to the stadium the next day; it’s a really small place with one stand and it’s hard to imagine it hosting bigger games next season, though it had strong links with local youth programs which was good to hear.\nThe weather the next day was just as dismal as the last, but I endeavoured to keep up my walking and reach the 10km mark. I paid a visit to the regional museum, set in an old Japanese building that really is a marvel on the eye. The grounds were kept in great condition despite the storm, with only a few signs of disturbance. Inside there’s two floors, covering some fauna and archaeology at the bottom, through to exploration of the islands and life during and between the wars. It’s not the biggest museum I’ve ever been to but it’s definitely the best one on the island and worth a visit. If nothing else the price is an example for all of Russia, 70 rubles to get in, no extra cost for foreigners and 100 if you want to take pictures. Afterwards I tried the local art museum, with some interesting work there from a local artist and even a room of works by North Korean artists. However if you come here as a tourist be aware there’s a very limited amount of things to do and see. Even the local brewery had shut its restaurant doors, and many cafes or restaurants never opened before lunchtime. Either you live and work here, or you find yourself a hobby during your visit and get out to see the surrounding nature.\nI met Maxim and Alexei again, as well as a few others, and this time we went out for a beer. They opened up a bit after a while and I began to get more of an insight into the local culture. There was a good sense of solidarity as I had begun to see earlier, and people looked out for each other. However the one thing I had noticed on the streets was the divide between the Koreans and the Russians. There was a bit more mixing than in Yakutsk, but there was definitely a divide there. I asked the group about it, and they agreed that there was a social divide between the two races. The Koreans were born here, they spoke Russian, but they still retained their own cultural preferences, the social structures still related to the Korean mainland, and the Russians could feel that. Not that they complained or held resentment, they understood it as normal, different peoples have different ways of life. There was a bit more resentment for immigrants from Central Asia, though it wasn’t as strong as I’ve come across in other Russian cities. The numbers are very limited and hasn’t reached any sort of tipping point, and interestingly enough a number of construction works have North Korean workers here. I didn’t see any, but I’ll have to take the group’s word for it that they’re there. Indeed one non-Russian group who got the most flak were Americans, with a disappointment that some would stay for several years and learn barely more than a few words of Russian in that time. The numbers are so small that it is unlikely to become an issue, but even here on Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk people like long-term visitors to make an effort. With the beers starting to add up we left the conversation there and called it a night.\nWith that my stay was at an end, the next day taking the lunchtime flight on to Sapporo in Japan. I’d like to offer firm conclusions and thoughts about Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but I feel like I was only scratching the surface. The problems that exist there are very visible, possibly permanent, and I couldn’t imagine any Russian moving there unless it was for the energy and resource industries. At the same time the people I spoke with were comfortable living on the island, they had a basic sense of regional pride and there were a number of sub-cultures going on that just didn’t have any obvious outlet. Life will continue to amble along here no matter whether there’s investment or not, and perhaps appealing to foreign investors and even tourists is just completely unnecessary here outside of the nature and adventure tourists. What the island did give me was a few things to chew over about the Russian Far East in general, and I’ll try to approach those issues in future articles.\nFor now it’s on to Japan and a few other Asian countries. I won’t be posting the same articles as I have done so far, but I do aim to get talking to the natives and find out what people in Asian countries think about Russia and the Russians. It’s time to see Russia from the outside, through the eyes of others.\nPosted on June 15, 2014 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged ArtemKhabarovskRussiaRussian Far EastRusskiy IslandVladivostok\tCommentsNo Comments on Two Tribes: Khabarovsk and Vladivostok\nTwo Tribes: Khabarovsk and Vladivostok\nThe first time I ever travelled to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok was five years ago in the winter of January 2009, the last legs of a Trans-Siberian journey that also took in Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal and Ulan-Ude. The winter wasn’t particularly vicious but I sure as hell felt the cold, and endless days of snow and ice meant that while I could see the cities and talk to people, any underlying beauty remained hidden. This time I was hoping to see both cities in full bloom, and despite some rain I got to see just that. Both cities would probably consider themselves the big dog in the far eastern yard and I wanted to try and get a better idea of whether that manifests itself in everyday life.\nMy first stop was Khabarovsk, fresh from another red-eye flight out of Yakutsk. The airport greets you with a message telling you that it’s the capital of the Far East, a not-so-subtle reminder to anyone who was ever in any doubt. A cheap ride on the trolleybus later and I’m set up in my flat and ready to explore the city. At least, that’s what I thought. It turns out I’m not immune to jet-lag; jumping numerous time zones and taking several flights over the space of a few weeks was catching up with me. After closing my eyes for ‘forty winks’ I woke up several hours later and the day was mostly gone. Given I was only going to be in Khabarovsk for a few days I kicked myself for not being able to stay awake. However the lesson is always have a ‘Plan B’, and I set off for a shorter walk through a few of the parks. I already knew a Korean-Russian girl called Ola before I arrived, and she met me for a walk and afterwards a beer. I wanted to ask about life in the east, but it seemed like I was the one being interviewed at first, with the conversation revolving around what I thought about other cities in Russian, and whether I noticed any difference in dialect and accent between Khabarovsk and Moscow. For the record I’m honest enough to admit I’m not good enough at the language to detect any subtle differences, but at a basic level there’s little or no difference to my ears. Eventually I get the conversation back towards the east, and Ola tells me about her thoughts on Khabarovsk. She likes it, it’s her home city, she’s very proud of it. But as with so many, there’s always a ‘but’…Ola wouldn’t mind living elsewhere, preferably in southern parts of Europe. The climate is terrible, and she has dreams to fulfil with her boyfriend. I ask about her the development of the region, is it making a difference to life there for the average citizen? She thinks certain things have improved, but the important things aren’t; housing is still a problem, both in costs and availability. Wages aren’t high enough for the cost of living out east, and variety in opportunities is lacking. The politics and management of the development are out of people’s reach, and there’s a resigned tone to her voice. I push a little deeper, I ask her if she likes Vladivostok, if there’s really a rivalry between the two, but she’s not really interested in any rivalry. She prefers Khabarovsk; even Vladivostok is too far away to inspire a competitive instinct. I let the conversation drift again briefly, but the night is young and soon enough I would get a chance to talk to her boyfriend Roberto about life in Khabarovsk.\nRoberto isn’t ethnically Russian either, he’s a Serb who moved out east after he met Ola, and he ended up going to the local university for a few years. He’s the outsider on the inside, and he tells me about his life in the city. He gives the almost mandatory complaint about the climate, saying he prefers to be elsewhere when the snow and ice arrive. He loves his homeland but after enduring the east for years to be with Ola he’d be happy with anywhere in Southern Europe as well. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that his answers began to resemble Ola’s, long-term couples often agree on these things. I let the beer kick in a bit more and turn to entertainment in the city; he tells me that not much happens out east, it’s not a popular spot for music and famous performances. He nods at the beer and the pub around us, smiles, and says drinking is a local pastime when there’s nothing else to do. We raise a toast to that and I turn off my interview mode and enjoy the rest of the evening.\nI meet Roberto again the next day and we head for a trip to the museum of regional history. I had somehow missed it the first time I was in the city and I was interested to see how deep it went into the earliest history of Khabarovsk. It’s empty aside from the staff, which in Russia I usually take as a good sign of the content. Some of the history is well-known to me, of Nikolay Nikolayevich Muravyev-Amurskiy, its founding as Khabarovka, early conditions and the strategic value beside China. They even had a small display about the disastrous Khetagurova campaign to populate the east so props to them on that front. There’s a great collection of posters and documents throughout the various rooms, and I’ve now got over a dozen pictures which I need to work on translating. In the second room we get talking to the middle-aged lady who keeps an eye on things from her seat. She’s passionate about local history, and she tells us more about the Japanese and Allied presence in the Far East and Siberia during the Russian Civil War. She’s impressed that a Scotsman would go all the way to Khabarovsk for more than just Trans-Siberian tourism, and jokes about a Scot and a Serb being the only two visitors of the day; she assures us however that it’s usually busy with Russians. We talk modern events, and she’s happy living her life in Khabarovsk. She sounds hopeful on the future, and that since the city has an interesting past, it can also have an interesting future. There’s a hint of ‘love is all you need’ about her outlook, but I’m happy to hear some real positivity. Sometimes it’s easy to drift into resignation instead of doing something positive.\nI talk to Roberto about sport afterwards, and ask him if he’s found a place in his heart for SKA-Energiya Khabarovsk, or Amur Khabarovsk. He looks a bit sheepish and says he’s not really interested in them, and that in general people in the city only get interested in the teams when they’re doing well. The worldwide phenomenon of choosing a Spanish, German, Italian or English team instead has crept up even in this corner of Russia. Individual sports are more popular, though it’s hard to say if any one individual sport is more popular than the rest. At this point we meet Ola again, and I need to offer a huge amount of thanks to her for what happened next; I had wanted to get a scarf of SKA-Energiya, but with the season over it was nigh-on impossible. Just when prospects looked bleak, she made a phone call, and that someone made another phone call…well it only turned out that they knew the managing director of the club, who had a brand new scarf sent over for me free of charge. A great gesture and one I’m extremely grateful for.\nLater that day Ola introduces me to Vladimir, a Siberian lad who has made Khabarovsk his home and who knows a lot about local history. Given that most people aren’t too interested in the topic I’m looking forward to talking more with him. We discuss the progress of Khabarovsk over the years, and the conversation drifts towards the modern era. Despite not being born and bred in Khabarovsk, Vladimir has come to enjoy the city. He’s lived and worked across the country, served in the military for a while, and settled down with another Korean-Russian girl from the city. He says Khabarovsk is definitely a better place to live than Vladivostok, and he wishes more people would stay to try and improve the region. Given the cold nature of his own home city he doesn’t get scared off by cold winters here, he just grins and bears it. As with almost everyone else he wonders why the hell I’d be interested in researching the Russian Far East, but respects the fact that I’m giving it a go. We talk a lot more as the evening draws on, but with the beer flowing some of the details of our conversation by then drift from memory. As we walk the street during the evening I realise how good this city is for a pedestrian as compared with other Russian cities; wide pavements, well-maintained and generally in full repair, combined with decent-looking buildings and efficient services. It’s a refreshing sight, and something that the local authorities and planners in other cities should learn from.\nMy final day in the city was a bit more pedestrian, but it picked up near the end; I finally got around to eating some dogs. I have to thank Ola again, (if you need something done in Khabarovsk, talk to a Korean!) she was able to find an unregistered restaurant who served the dish, and an interesting meal was had. (Apparently there are three in the city, though I’ve no idea where the dogs come from) Afterwards I got a lift to the train station from the owner of the flat I had stayed in, and I talked to her a bit more about the city. Much like Vladimir she was happy here; she operated a number of small businesses and appeared to have a successful job on top of it all. She lamented the quality of Russian goods, and one look at her car and the contents inside told you that Japanese and Korean products were preferred. She felt that the development of the region wasn’t resulting in many changes on the ground for ordinary people, and she was concerned about whether things would ever really change. Once again there was a hope and desire for improvement, but a sense of resignation that there was little she could do individually to make a difference. As we reached the station I repeated the question I had given to others, and asked her about Vladivostok; Khabarovsk was better, but she didn’t really see it as a rivalry. Khabarovsk happened to be more professional whereas Vladivostok was dirtier and less organised. In the end they were all Russian though, and both cities just happened to be close to each other. An interesting perspective, and at that we said our goodbyes as I headed to Vladivostok on the overnight train.\nThe sun was already shining bright as the train pulled into Vladivostok station, and it inspired me to take the walk to where I was staying. It was a move I almost regretted, lugging my case uphill virtually all the way for about 3km, then again up several flights of stairs. Compared to Khabarovsk the city is a logistical nightmare, with houses and buildings strewn across a wide area. The main difference I noticed right away is that Vladivostok looks very similar to the way it did five years ago, from the Lenin statue opposite the station right down to the roads and pavements off the main streets that are often in need of solid repairs. I’ve heard it said that it adds to the charm of the city, but they don’t have many excuses for letting things get to this stage, especially with the drive to modernise the city structures during the 2012 APEC conference. Nevertheless the two bridges constructed as part of those preparations loom large in the skyline and are an imposing feature of the landscape.\nI was staying with a Korean-Russian for the first night of my stay, and we got to talking before she had to go to work. Olga works in the medical tourism industry for a South Korean company, and for those of you who don’t already know South Korean companies are aiming for growth in the Russian market, with rising success in a short period of time. She was born in the Primorskiy region and has lived in some cities abroad, but despite her time away she still loves her city and enjoys living there. I told her my first impressions of the city and asked her how she would compare Vladivostok to Khabarovsk; her response was far more favourable to Vladivostok, saying that it had more culture and events happening. She admitted the place could be tidied up and repaired, but didn’t worry too much about it. I moved on to the APEC legacy, and posed that the bridge was obvious but had anything else changed? Again she seemed positive, but couldn’t really specify anything else significant that had occurred, and after a while mentioned the Russkiy Island developments for use by the Far Eastern Federal University. I didn’t press on the issue, but I got the impression that whilst obvious changes weren’t easy to point out, there may well have been a boost in morale amongst the city, a positive outlook pushing through amidst several years of pessimism as shown by Olga’s feeling that things were on the up.\nAfter our chat I took a walk along the main square and down to the docks to see the fleet. If there’s one thing that definitely hasn’t changed, it’s the prominent presence of the monuments on the main square, celebrating the partisans who defended the revolution in the east and brought the Far Eastern Republic back into the fold once the Whites and foreign forces were pushed out. They’re huge and dominate the street, though the image is lessened slightly when you see donkey rides and children hiring out electric bikes around the square. Further on at the dock area there’s some work being done, though the submarine museum is still there, and the fleet still looks imposing.\nFor lunch I fancied a game of bilyard, but it was hard to find a decent place. I settled on a dinghy looking rock bar that showed some potential, and even though there was no bilyard table I got talking to a guy at the bar who told me his thoughts on the city. Unfortunately I forget his name, but he was a musician (it’s a rock bar!) who trained at university. He was a bit more pessimistic about the economic direction of the region and felt that there was a lack of opportunity to get a solid career. I asked if he thought about setting up his own business since he had ideas, but he complained of too much paperwork and regulation. At this point I should admit I felt a bit unsympathetic, here he was in a bar at lunchtime complaining about not finding good work, however he moved on to cultural life in the city and things picked up a bit. He told me that despite his previous pessimism he still loved the city dearly, and had more regional pride than he did national pride; Vladivostok first, Russia second. I expected him to be opposed to Putin and United Russia at this point, but he was relatively happy with them, it was simply a mentality he said existed in the east. He spoke of the creativity in the city, the tendency to be different, and that Khabarovsk by comparison was a dull and sterile place. He suspected they were in greater favour with the federal government, and would never move there. He became more wistful of his future musical dreams at this point, but I shared a drink with him before heading back out into the city.\nIt never fails to amuse me that Vladivostok has a series of beaches; yes it’s by the sea but the water always looks dirty and the weather is only occasionally inviting for ‘taps aff’ sunbathing. However I ventured on down to the beach anyways with the consolation in my mind of taking a wee look at the stadium of Luch-Energiya. I hate to be critical but it felt a bit soulless again, the highlight being a fountain that sprayed its water in tune with piped music. Songs by ‘Busted’ and dance remixes of Celine Dion’s song from ‘Titanic’ just don’t work for me I’m afraid, and it looked like they didn’t quite work for the sparse crowd either. There are some factors that the city can’t control when it comes to their beaches, but the public entertainment can surely improve. After the trek to the beach I met up with another local called Anna, this time a twenty-something PR worker who was born and raised in the Primorskiy region. She had been to Khabarovsk and a couple of other cities, and even lived in Komsomolsk-Na-Amure, but for her Vladivostok was better than the rest. It seemed to be a theme amongst the natives, there’s a definite feeling of pride no matter how good or bad things are. Like my first host she struggled to think of any visible changes beyond bridges and other infrastructure development, and after thinking about it she raised some exasperation at how money was spent and decisions reached in the region. She told me that although there was development in some sense, it was not a development that was benefiting ordinary people, and was primarily for the political and business elites to benefit further from foreign investment and domestic kickbacks. Housing was a big complaint, with tales of high costs and limited availability. Things were so bad that even as a full-time worker with a university education, she was staying in shared accommodation akin to a dorm in order to save money. I asked if such circumstances meant she would be looking to move elsewhere, but aside from the dream of a trip to Manchester to watch some football, she was content staying in Primorsky. A very tasty Armenian and Azeri style dinner later and I was spent for the day, but I still had time for one more brief chat with a local PhD student who was working on Korean history. Her experience mirrored that of the rest, a strong local pride, a concern about opportunities and costs, and a desire to see the region fulfil its potential.\nMy second day in the city turned to more academic matters when I met up with a local professor and PhD student to talk all matters Russian Far East. I won’t go into too much detail on all their views as they were numerous and detailed, but it was good to have the opportunity to sit and talk away about the region, a situation that unfortunately doesn’t arise too often back in Scotland. I got the impression that even in Russia specifics about the development of the Russian Far East aren’t too common, with more focus on Russian relations with Asian countries. We agreed that whether Russia will remain focused on Korea, China, Japan and India, or whether their relations start reaching out more towards Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and other South-East Asian nations, will be very interesting in future. I spoke about my desire to spend more time in the Far Eastern regions, whether to learn Russian language, carry out fieldwork or both, and it’s something I’ll be following up in the weeks and months ahead. After dinner I was given a tour of the campus on Russkiy Island, and I have to say it looks better than any other facility I’ve seen in Russia. It was of course designed to host the APEC conference and house the attendees, but the fact it’s being put to good use is a positive sign for the city. Combine that with the gorgeous scenery all around the island and you have a great environment for students in the years ahead. Russia could do with a lot more construction and development in the university sector, especially if it wants to attract paying students from other countries such as Korea and China.\nThe rest of my time in the city was devoted to more walking and sightseeing, with the highlight a trip to the top of Sparrow Hills to look out over the bay. You can see the panorama picture below this paragraph, but if you ever make it to the city you should climb up and take a look out there for yourself. (If you’re not up to walking the funicular can take you up) On that note I also noticed by the end of my stay that I’ve been losing some body fat, despite indulging my taste buds on a few occasions out here. I guess keeping up my workouts, walking at least 10km a day and a few beers here and there is a great way to keep in shape!\nAs a bonus to this article on Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, I spent half a day in Artem. I didn’t go out exploring the town, instead heading straight for the hostel before an early flight the next day, but it was a really depressing sight from what I did see. I don’t know if I just happened to see all the bad parts, but from exiting the train station, getting a taxi to the hostel, and taking a look around the area at the streets and buildings, everything and everyone just looks utterly depressed. Even the taxi driver said the place was dire. The cafe worker at the hostel couldn’t think of anything nice to say about the town. If that’s the state of affairs across all of the second tier towns and cities of Eastern Russia, it’s going to need more than a wee bit of development to sort out. However when it comes to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, there are definitely some differences between the two cities, whether it’s the architecture, the industries and prospects, regional pride with Vladivostok more competitive towards Khabarovsk than vice versa, and expectations for the future. I think both of them can still make something of themselves, and probably they’re the only two real contenders to develop serious urban hubs in the Russian Far East, but it’s still going to take some work. People from the west don’t want to go there, and those from the east want to stay but can’t always do so due to limited opportunities. Fresh ideas are needed from those with the ability to implement change, but I’m pessimistic about it in the immediate future.\nNext up is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where the weather has been hurricane-esque. Hopefully all will be well when I arrive, but rest assured I’ll let you know my thoughts on the city sooner rather than later.\nPosted on June 11, 2014 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged RussiaRussian Far EastYakutiaYakutsk\tCommentsNo Comments on A Long Weekend in Yakutsk\nA Long Weekend in Yakutsk\nOver the past few years my interest in Yakutia has grown. At first I only came across the usual articles on Oymyakon, a cold and God-forsaken place at the arse-end of Russia where people live and toil through a brutal winter that lasts most of the year. It makes for a sensational headline, but I wanted to see the republic for myself and get an idea of the pace of life. Recent times have only added to my interest, with stories ranging from the big-money industries of gold, diamonds, oil and gas, to grand dreams of resurrecting the woolly mammoths, and the potential role of Yakutia in opening up the Northern Route through Russia’s Arctic waters. So it came to be that in the early hours of a sleepy Thursday morning I stepped out of the airport and looked out on the city of Yakutsk, still draped in sunlight and conveying the contrast of modern buildings with old wooden shacks that still had people living in them.\nI was met at the airport by my friend Alina and her uncle (both Yakuts), a level of hospitality that would continue over the following days, and I’ll be forever grateful for their help during my time in the city. I was able to take a look around the streets while the city slept, wide roads covered in dust, pavements pocked with bumps and divots where the permafrost was moving, puddles and dirt almost ever-present. Most buildings were colourful, but uniform in style, the practicalities of protecting themselves against the winter more important than aesthetics. There was something quaint about the city; despite the appearance there was a sense that people here had made it a home. Just when I thought the row of buildings would continue on forever, an area of park or stretches of the river would appear to remind me that nature still reaches out here during the summer months.\nI had few firm plans for my time in the city and spent the first day exploring it by foot with Alina. We took a trip to the university, and whilst you normally need to show a student card to get in, when I told them I was a foreigner just coming to visit they laughed and waved me in. As with most places you get a wee bit of leeway when you say that you’re from Scotland! The university isn’t much to look at, built for function, but the students work hard and there’s a positive atmosphere about the place. As we walked around the campus I asked Alina more about her studies and where she sees her future, and her outlook was to be repeated to me by most of the people I met in the city. She talked about wanting to get out of Yakutsk while she was young, to visit European countries and use her English and German language skills, and see more of the world in general. She saw little hope for a professional future in Yakutsk, but as a Yakut she wanted to return when she was older and live the rest of her life in her homeland. Apparently there was a fad in the city for a while for UK-themed clothing and London was a local favourite, though she laughed and denied it when I asked if she had joined in. When I asked her about the development of the city and whether things were changing, she was more pessimistic. I’ve mentioned the problems that the weather and the permafrost bring, and she felt that life in the city was unlikely to change much no matter how much money was spent on development. To be fair I could understand her point, you can build roads and bridges, but you can’t change everyday life in the city by government planning. If Alina and others study languages, or indeed most other subjects, they’re going to need to leave to use those skills. I didn’t see any other foreigners during my time there, and only heard two foreign voices around the airport. Tourism is still at an absolute minimum, even by Russians.\nAfter the university we took a stroll around some of the local museums, and were joined by one of Alina’s friends. I asked her a few of the same questions, and she was absolute in her desire to get out of Yakutsk once she had finished her university education. Western Russia and Europe were once again mentioned, and there was a sense of inevitability about her future. I asked her what she liked best about Yakutsk, at which point she screwed up her face, laughed and simply said nothing was best about Yakutsk. She appreciated that it was her homeland, and that she could lead a comfortable life there, but to do anything with her life she felt she would have to move sooner rather than later. We finished up our walk around the museum and headed back out onto the streets. The old town looks great in the summer, old-style wooden buildings inhabited today by bars and shops, and there’s a large monument to the founder of the city, Pyotr Beketov, who got the ball rolling here in 1632. As with most Russian cities there’s a large monument to the war heroes, including a warrior on a horse which is an important part of Yakut folklore.\nLater on I would get a chance to meet Alina’s grandmother and try out some reindeer meat. As a man who eats meat for most of his diet, I loved it. There are more succulent meats out there, but it has plenty of chewing in it and fills the stomach. As I ate she asked me about what I do and where I come from, and she seemed confused as to why anyone would visit Yakutsk for fun. She didn’t believe that anyone would get funding to study the Far East, and she would later ask Alina if I was some sort of spy! In some ways it’s understandable to wonder why anyone would go out of their way to visit the city, but as we talked more I got the sense it was another reflection of how far away everything seems from Yakutsk, and that development is something that does not affect everyday people. Why go to Yakutsk when you can go to the beach in Europe or in Asia?\nMy second day in Yakutsk saw me fulfil one of my goals on the trip; make a visit to the Tuymaada stadium. I’m a big football fan and being able to get into the stadium, walk about (and if you want you can also exercise on the athletics track and use the pitch) was good value at only 20 rubles. I didn’t bring my football boots on this occasion, but it was great to sit in the stand and look out on the pitch. I missed the last game of the season by a day, so unfortunately my quest to see the team play and get a scarf will have to wait for another visit. Near the stadium there’s also a theme park of sorts, but if I’m being honest it was probably the most depressing theme park I’ve ever seen. It was around lunchtime so I didn’t expect many people to be about, but to give you an example there was a lonely-looking tent which claimed to be a house of horrors. A picture of the clown from ‘IT’ was featured on the door, and the sounds of canned screaming from within did not quite get the adrenaline flowing. Afterwards we took a trip to a facility within the nearby hills, it’s frozen inside all year round with mammoth remains, ice sculptures and gives you the chance to eat stroganino and drink vodka from an ice glass. The best part though is a slide made of ice, good fun until it freezes your arse! Once you’re done you can take a walk up the hills and look out over the city, well worth doing to see the view. Later on we would meet another friend of Alina’s, also a student at the university. As with others she wanted to get out of Yakutsk, though she was inspired to go and live the rest of her life in Romania because she loved the stories about Transylvania and vampires. I can’t say I was expecting that response, but fair play to her for dreaming of something a wee bit different! She liked Yakutsk, but she didn’t see any future in the city and didn’t expect development to change that. I asked her if she knew much about the plans for the city and what the money was to be spent on, but beyond a vague notion that a bridge might get built over the Lena she hadn’t heard anything.\nThe third day saw me fulfil my second dream in the city, a trip to the mas-wrestling and my very first lesson. For those of you who haven’t heard of it mas-wrestling is a Yakut sport, you basically have two people across from each other with legs pressed against a wooden divider, and both with a grip on a wooden stick. The goal is to pull the wooden stick away from the other person or at the very least pull them over to your side of the divide. It’s straightforward and each round is quick, but it’s great fun. Don’t let the description fool you either, the sport requires a lot of strength and determination. Even warming up I could feel muscles being used that rarely get much action, and that’s despite me doing pull-ups, push-ups and various other bodyweight exercises on a regular basis. I lost the stick almost every time, but I’ll put that down to the 30kg weight difference between me and the trainer! Next time I’m in Yakutsk I’ll be doing it again. The trainer was also pretty happy and surprised to see a Scotsman giving it a try, though he seemed crest-fallen when I told him that no one in Scotland, or most other countries, has heard of the sport. If there’s any justice in the world he’ll get to see it as an event at the Olympics one day.\nIf there’s one good way to recover from a bout of mas-wrestling, it’s with a trip to the Lena to cook some shashlik and do some fishing. The roads there are akin to a bouncy castle and are in perpetual need of repair, but it’s a great scene when you finally arrive. The Lena is a mighty river, and there’s history in the area too with the 1912 massacre of goldfield workers. On this occasion it was quiet and peaceful, with pockets of Yakuts enjoying the sunshine, picking wild spring onion, and cooking up plenty of meat. I took the opportunity to talk more with Alina’s uncle, a middle-aged man with a successful career and a different perspective on life in Yakutsk. He had travelled around the country with his work, and enjoyed visiting Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as trips to other cities such as Yekaterinburg and Irkutsk. No matter how far he travelled though he loved Yakutsk the most and had no desire to leave the city. He pointed out to the river, to the endless fields around, and asked why he would need to live anywhere else. He was happy about the future construction of the bridge across the river as it was only in winter that you could drive across instead of a huge detour, and he was comfortable with exploiting the various resources of the republic to bring in money. He reminisced about the Soviet era, saying that even in Yakutsk the lengths of Soviet power had made its presence felt. He welcomed the political and economic changes after 1991, saying capitalism and opening the markets had brought roads, infrastructure, goods and development to the region. It was a stark contrast with younger people who wanted to leave, though it’s hard to say if it’s simply generational, a sense of homeland or his experience in other cities which had given him that outlook. Perhaps it’s all three. It was refreshing though to hear someone who saw a future for the city, and who wanted to be there to help it along.\nMy final day in the city was spent talking with more locals, all younger people, and there was almost a unanimity about the desire to leave at some point. One guy had previously studied in Yekaterinburg and was looking to move to another city in Russia when he had finished his studies in Yakutsk. Others were less fussy but saw their future anywhere west of the city. There wasn’t much interest in Asia at all, either for work or travel, and there was a strong wariness of immigrants who had arrived from Central Asia. Some of the group loved rock music, but said that Russian bands rarely ventured to Yakutsk to play, never mind foreign groups. Even the local beer didn’t have a good reputation. (EDIT: I was told of a Chinese presence in the city although I only saw a couple of Chinese people walking around. You can buy ‘Harbin’ beers in some of the shops and bars though which means there’s probably some kind of presence!)\nOverall the atmosphere was one of inevitability and a resignation that leaving was the only way forward. Returning later in life to see out their days was rarely considered aside from Alina. As we ended the day at the main hang-out area beside the Lenin statue, I got the sense that whilst industrial development of the region may bring dividends, and the opening of the Northern Route may benefit the Arctic parts of the republic, social development would find little traction here. The local youth may well find their dreams elsewhere, and it’ll be a hell of a challenge to attract anyone else to set up shop here for even a few years.\nNext up is Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where I’ll aim to find out the local outlook from the more populated and prosperous cities of the Russian Far East. Until then, enjoy some political graffiti from Yakutsk.\nPosted on June 3, 2014 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged MoscowRussiaRussian Far EastYekaterinburg\tComments2 Comments on Looking East from Moscow and Yekaterinburg\nLooking East from Moscow and Yekaterinburg\nThe last time I travelled to Russia was six years ago, during which I spent nine months abroad as part of my time at university. My first experience of the country was daunting, arriving into a jam-packed airport at the same time as several other flights, waiting in a massive queue to hand in my migration card form, and waiting another lifetime at passport control, before heading into a sea of people beyond the arrival gates. I was not looking forward to a repeat performance, but to my surprise, it was a completely different story this time. There were no other flights, there was no need to fill in the migration card myself, and after waiting a couple of minutes in line for passport control, I passed through the gates, received my migration card, and stepped into a virtually empty arrivals area. Sure, a few taxi drivers were touting aggressively for a fare, but in a matter of minutes I was heading into the sun-kissed city on the express train to Paveletsky station. If the airport can keep up that kind of standard in future, there will surely be more repeat visitors to the country.\nMy trip on this occasion is of course partly about just travelling, relaxing and seeing a few sights, but I also made the time to talk to some of the people I met about their thoughts and ideas of the Russian Far East. The questions weren’t detailed or conducted interview-style, just a few minutes each on the topic. The sample size is quite small, twelve people in total, a fairly even split of male and female, and most of them in the 18-30 age-ranges, so I would stress that the opinions I’ve heard should not be considered as definitive or necessarily representative of the entire population. However it’s still interesting to hear what people think of Russia’s eastern lands, even if, as you will see, the results are maybe to be expected. In addition, I’ve left out the names of the respondents. The main limitation in going further was my language ability; whilst I can get through the day and talk for hours about simple things, I’ve not yet reached the stage where I can talk or understand in detail about complicated topics. It’s one of my main priorities for the rest of the year, and hopefully next time I’m in Russia I can provide more detailed observations than on this occasion.\nThe first couple I spoke to were of a mixed-marriage, the guy from western Russia and the woman from Italy. They had visited the east a year ago, heading as far as Lake Baikal and Ulan-Ude during the summer-time. They had enjoyed the visit, and inspired a desire to see a few more cities in the country, but their knowledge of the east did not spread any further than the trip. They confessed to knowing little about the region, and the only events they could recall were the recent deal with China and the Amur floods of last year. They had vague recollections that the region was being developed, but had no idea of the cost, and when I asked if they would consider living in the eastern regions the answer was a definite no. They were happy near Moscow, with a preference to move a bit further away from the city and nearer the surrounding countryside. Adding something extra to their salary would not make any difference in their choice.\nThe second couple I had the chance to speak with were both natives to Moscow, their families mostly from the region too, and both had finished university in recent years. As with the first couple their knowledge of the region was limited. The woman had a classmate from Sakhalin and had heard of the great nature there, as well as in Kamchatka. She said she wouldn’t be against going to see the region one day, but expressed regret that the cost was far too high, and with a baby on the way, it was unlikely it would ever happen in the years to come. They both expressed a desire to remain in Moscow, to live and work there, and no amount of extra money would change that. Once again the floods of last year were something they knew about, and they remembered the numerous appeals for donations on TV. The gas deals with China were fresh in the news, though they admitted they only listened to the headlines of the deal. The only other major events they could recall were spending on the APEC 2012 conference, and there being reports of poor construction standards on the roads.\nThe third couple I spoke with had a more eastern-oriented background; although the man was from the Moscow regions, the woman was born in Yakutsk, spending her early years there. She’s an ethnic Russian, and had moved to Moscow with family when she was still a child. At this point I expected to hear some more detailed opinions on the region, but as it turns out the woman had absolutely zero interest in the city anymore. She had little desire to go back, and only did so once every several years around New Years’ time to visit older relatives. Particularly interesting was how deep the desire not to go back was, with their intention to live and raise children in Moscow. The woman had heard they wanted to develop the east, and knew about the various mineral and hydrocarbon reserves in Yakutia, but did not know much about the details. Outside of Yakutsk their knowledge was even more limited.\nAs well as talking to couples I spoke with some single people in the city, firstly with a girl who had moved to Moscow from Tatarstan. She knew there was talk of developing the east, but as with the others she had little idea about the details and expenditure. Her interest was firmly in the west, being very happy living in Moscow and occasionally visiting relatives back home, as well as a love of the New York area after spending some time working there. When asked whether she would consider moving east if the job and money were right, she responded with a laugh and a firm ‘nyet’, unless moving east carried her all the way back to New York. The second single person was from the Moscow regions, in his late-20s and what could be considered as a more liberal representative of the city, with one eye firmly on Europe. He was comfortable talking about events in Moscow and Russian elite politics, but when it came to the east he also had little idea of what was going on in that region. He was aware of the development, but was surprised by the amount of money being spent, albeit he was happier for the money to head east than to the Caucasus. As with all the previous respondents mentioned, he found it highly unlikely that he would move to the region, even for a better or higher-paid job. His preference was Moscow or the UK, and even a holiday east seemed time-consuming, expensive and not particularly interesting.\nPerhaps the most interesting set of respondents was on the train from Moscow to Yekaterinburg. I didn’t take the much-feted platzkart option, having done it several times before, and on the previous occasion having enjoyed the atmosphere of a train full of young army conscripts living it up on the 25-hour ride from St. Petersburg to Murmansk…it was definitely kupe this time! It provided less people to talk to, but I had a lot more time to talk to them individually. One of the other passengers in my cabin was a middle-aged surgeon from Kazan, who had experience of living in other countries and travelling to a few cities. He knew of Sakhalin, having visited a friend there, and he spoke warmly of the nature and scenery you can find when you move beyond Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. He was interested in seeing Kamchatka one day, but admitted it was unlikely since he had to work, his relatives were all in Western Russia, and he was at the stage of his life where he enjoyed the quiet life, which he said also meant he was unlikely to ever consider moving to the eastern cities. He knew about the development of the region without having heard many details, but believed it was ultimately fruitless and that the region was unlikely to benefit much, as was usually the case with grand initiatives. As an added bonus he was eager to talk about Scottish independence, and couldn’t understand why Scottish people would want to leave something like the United Kingdom. It was an interesting discussion, but I’ll leave that for another day.\nThe other passenger in my cabin was an older woman, curious about other countries despite never having travelled, and born and raised in Yekaterinburg before heading to Moscow after university for a work assignment. Her answers ranged from the Far East to the Urals, but she was very bitter about the situation in the country with regards to wages and social benefits such as healthcare, particularly when she was asking about what older people received in the UK. She said that buying train tickets to visit her relatives in Yekaterinburg every now and then was far too much for someone like herself who was making a basic wage in Moscow, so even imagining going to the Far East was just crazy. She loved her home-region, but felt it needed development as much as the east did. As with the surgeon, she mentioned how trying to develop the Far East, and even researching it as I do, was a dead-end and would lead to nothing. She confessed that she didn’t have much knowledge of the region, but from the rare piece of news she had heard it was not a place she would have moved to even as a youngster. Overall it was interesting that the two older people I spoke to on the train had more knowledge and opinions of the east, or regional development in general, than any of the younger people in Moscow. It’s often said that the capital lives in a bubble, and my conversations seemed to reinforce that stereotype, even for those who had previously lived or travelled to the region.\nFinally I spoke with two people in Yekaterinburg about the east, with hope that residents of a very proud region would know a bit more about events around the country than those in Moscow. Unfortunately that was not the case, as both had very limited knowledge of the east. The first did not know much more than the names of some cities, though expressed a love of the ocean. I asked if she was referring to the Pacific Ocean, but alas no, it was the Atlantic Ocean after having worked in the USA. Her interest was definitively about preferring to go back to the USA rather than moving to the Russian Far East. The final person I spoke to had a more interesting background, with ties to the region through her mixed Tatar and Mari heritage, a local girl whose father had lived in a small town in Primorsky Krai called Olga. She said he sometimes spoke about his life there, but the stories were short, and the overwhelming impression she got was that it was a place for soldiers and the navy. Given the time-frame involved, her father living there decades ago during the Soviet era and early days of the post-Soviet Russia, this is only to be expected. However once more she did not know much about the region beyond those stories, and had never visited. Whilst she had no desire to move to Moscow, Europe or the USA, she loved the Urals area, and would stay there as long as her relatives did. Holidays were a possibility, but cost, time and distance were once again raised as an issue.\nOverall I think there was a clear pattern to responses, with zero interest in relocating to the region, limited or no knowledge of the development plans in the east, limited interest in taking even a holiday there, and any interest restricted with the distances, time and costs involved in getting there and back. It’s perhaps no help that the region rarely features on the national or regional news outside of the east unless there is a catastrophe or energy deal, and it’s viewed as almost a faraway country at times. If the Russian government is serious about developing the region and encouraging skilled workers to relocate there, particularly the married ones when you consider that Russians commonly settle down relatively early and meet their future husbands and wives during their university years, then it will need to utilise far more of its new-found soft power abilities on its own internal projects. Without serious internal initiatives to raise awareness of the region, all the energy deals, mineral extractions and infrastructure development won’t change the demographic and workforce issues that are ever-present.\nMy next stop is in Yakutsk where I’ll spend five days exploring the city, and where I’ll be taking advantage of the trip to talk to more people; it should be really interesting to hear how people in the northern parts of the Russian Far East think about developments, and in particular if there’s any difference in opinion within the city between ethnic Yakuts and ethnic Russians.\nPosted on May 20, 2014 by towardsthegreatocean Tagged RussiaRussian Far East\tCommentsNo Comments on Welcome to “Towards the Great Ocean”\nWelcome to “Towards the Great Ocean”\nThe main objective of “Towards the Great Ocean” is to offer commentary and original analysis on the development of the Russian Far East, to develop my academic research on the region, and to establish a dedicated outlet for a part of Russia which receives relatively scant attention in the English-speaking world.\nWith the continued economic rise of a number of Asian countries, and a massive drop in relations between Russia and the West, Russia has once again cast its eye east and earmarked huge sums of money to develop its eastern territory, a program which has been described by the Russian government as a national priority for the rest of the century.\nMuch of the development is based on exploiting the region’s vast energy and mineral resources, and a highly ambitious level of foreign investment is sought to go along with funds earmarked from the federal budget. My research aims to look beyond the headline goals of the project and examine how the targets and ambitions of the federal government match up to the realities and perceptions on the ground.\nFor those who don’t recognise the phrase used as the title of this blog, it comes from the construction of the Trans-Siberian railway at the end of the 19th century, with a call to expand Russian presence and power all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Given the rhetoric around the contemporary development of the region, it’s a timeless representation of long-term Russian desires and frustrations in the east.\nI’ll be visiting Russia for the second time during May and June, taking in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Yakutsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Sakhalin. My time in the country will be limited on this occasion, but whilst I’m there I aim to find out more about local thoughts on the development of the Russian Far East and share my findings through this blog.\nAll comments, discussion and feedback is welcome, with the usual caveats on not being a troll.\nFollow Towards the Great Ocean on WordPress.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line625284"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6509646773338318,"wiki_prob":0.6509646773338318,"text":"Dr. Carlos Bustamante\nWebShield Advisor, EP3 Foundation Trustee\nProfessor of Biomedical Data Science and Genetics at Stanford University\nDr. Carlos D. Bustamante is an internationally recognized leader in the application of data science and genomics technology to problems in medicine, agriculture, and biology. He received his Ph.D. in Biology and MS in Statistics from Harvard University (2001), was on the faculty at Cornell University (2002-9), and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010. He is currently Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Genetics, and (by courtesy) Biology at Stanford University.\nDr. Bustamante has a passion for building new academic units, non-profits, and companies to solve pressing scientific challenges. He is Founding Director of the Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics (CEHG) and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science. He is the Owner and President of CDB Consulting, LTD. and also a Director at Eden Roc Biotech, founder of Arc-Bio (formerly IdentifyGenomics and BigData Bio), and an SAB member of Embark Veterinary, the Mars/IBM Food Safety Board, and Digital Ventures.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1177976"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.727931797504425,"wiki_prob":0.727931797504425,"text":"TELESOFT HAS ANOTHER PAIR OF REAL-TIME ADA CROSS-COMPILERS\nNEW SOFTWARE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE PLANNED BY JAPAN INC\nCABLE & WIRELESS SPRINGS SURPRISE AS MERCURY BEGINS TO PICK UP RESIDENTIAL SUBSCRIBERS\n- CBR Staff Writer\nMercury Communications Ltd is growing its residential customer base at a rate of 15,000 a month, 5,000 of which are coming in on the back of cable television sales, said chief executive Mike Harris, speaking at Cable & Wireless Plc’s annual results meeting in London yesterday. A total 130,000 customers were pulled in in 1992, […]\nMercury Communications Ltd is growing its residential customer base at a rate of 15,000 a month, 5,000 of which are coming in on the back of cable television sales, said chief executive Mike Harris, speaking at Cable & Wireless Plc’s annual results meeting in London yesterday. A total 130,000 customers were pulled in in 1992, bringing the total number of customers to 250,000 at the year end. Mercury hopes that, largely through relationships with various cable television companies, it will achieve 2m subscribers by the middle of the decade. One agreement Mercury has is with the TCI-US West joint venture, which is claimed to have access, by cable, to some 2.9m homes. Mercury also has an agreement with Videotron in the UK, for access to 1.2m homes in Southampton and London, and with Nynex, which has access to a further 250,000 homes in Portsmouth. On the recent Office of Telecommunications ruling, (CI No 1,939), Harris said he expects the impact of the new pricing proposals to be neutral in the short to medium term, while the new principles of interconnect are favourable to Mercury. Mercury reported trading profits up 34% at UKP155m on revenues up 30% at UKP915m. Cable & Wireless, meanwhile, turned in trading profits up 27% at UKP727m on revenues up 22% at UKP3,176m. Return on net assets was up at 25% from 21%, capital spend as a percentage of revenues was down to 27% from 32%, and net gearing was 26% at the year end. Pre-tax profits rose a modest 6% to UKP644m, after UKP70m exceptional charges taken above the line this time, up from just UKP9m last time. These comprised UKP37m group rationalisation costs this time, UKP15m outlay on Mercury PCN, as well as UKP18m to reflect the fall in the value of the Jamaican dollar (from $Ja15 to the pound, to $Ja40) following the lifting of exchange controls in September. The fall of the Jamaican dollar, which has now apparently stabilised, has had a major effect on the result of Cable’s third largest business, Telecommunications of Jamaica (of which Cable & Wireless owns 79%), when translated into sterling. Cable has now been refocused to concentrate on three core business areas: premium and business services; basic telecommunications and mobile communications. Majority-owned Hong Kong Telecommunications’ trading profit was up 28% to UKP475m on sales up 20% at UKP1,367m. Its international telephone traffic rose by 15% while traffic between Hong Kong and South China increased by 35%. The full digitalisation of the network is nearly complete. Guangdong is planning to double the number of telephone lines in use in the next three years, and HongKong Telecom is poised to reap the benefits. With Hong Kong as the hub for a surging South China, Cable & Wireless chairman Lord Young expresses confidence about the firm’s prospects in the region. Negotiations with the Hong Kong government have come to a conclusion, the new pricing regime to ensure that the communications environment in Hong Kong will continue to compete with any other part of the Pacific Rim; at the same time, the govenment has allowed Hong Kong Telecom’s current investment programme to continue. Investment in Telecommunications of Jamaica, meanwhile, has brought up the number of telephone lines from 90,000 to 130,000 during the last two years. And, in addition to the improvement in Cable’s shareholding in Barbados, the group has extended its Cayman Islands franchise for a further 20 years. The Global Digital Highway, providing a broad band fibre optic network linking Cable & Wireless customers in the main financial and commercial centres of Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim, is now in operation, taking the group a step nearer its goal of conquering the world (or the bits that are worth conquering). Optus Pty Ltd in Australia, in which Cable & Wireless has a 24.5% stake, is trading at a loss, though the group feels that this will be contained within the next two to three years – regulatory conditions Down Under are described as favourable, with equal access from the start of operations. The Optus consortium has won t\nhe opportunity to establish a second national network in Australia.\nAs well as long distance and international, Optus also has satellite and mobile licences. During the year, Cable & Wireless was invited by Intertelecom, Russia’s long distance and international carrier, to undertake a feasibility study for a 50-50 partnership to develop long-distance and international telecommunications services in certain business areas. The group has also joined Sovam Teleport, the Russian-US data networking company serving the whole of the former Soviet Union. Mercury’s personal communications mobile phone venture, Mercury Personal Communications, owned 50% by Cable & Wireless and now linked up with Unitel’s PCN operation, expects to have its Personal Communications Network up and working within the M25 London ring by May 1993. Once it has been proved, and as demand dictates, this will be expanded in stages around the country. Lord Young reckons Cable & Wireless now has its management team for the 1990s – in addition to the appointment of Mike Harris as chief executive of Mercury in February, the group in April took on British Petroleum Plc managing director James Ross as & Wireless group chief executive.\nPrevious ArticleTELESOFT HAS ANOTHER PAIR OF REAL-TIME ADA CROSS-COMPILERS\nNext ArticleNEW SOFTWARE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE PLANNED BY JAPAN INC\nUniversity of Bradford Uses HPC System to Build 3D Models of Lost Heritage Sites\nConor Reynolds Conor Reynolds 23rd May 2019\nMet Office Publishes New Supercomputer Requirements, Inches Closer to Procurement\nEd Targett Editor Ed Targett 14th May 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line425745"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6836226582527161,"wiki_prob":0.6836226582527161,"text":"Amenmesse\nAmenmesse ruled briefly towards the end of the nineteenth dynasty (New Kingdom), but possibly only over part of Egypt. It was originally thought that he ruled in the period following the death of Merenptah, before being ousted by Seti II. More recently it has been suggested (by Krauss and Dodson) that he managed to gain control of the area around Thebes for a few years during the early part of the reign of Seti.\nThis has not been proven, but does chime with the fact that no references to year 3 or 4 of the reign of Seti have been found in Thebes or the surrounding area, while Amenmesses is well documented in that area alone. In the excerpt from Africanus Manetho credited him with a four year reign, but in both Eusebius and Jerome gave him a rather unbelievable twenty-six year reign.\nThe events of this turbulent period are not clear, and a number of scenarios have been put forward by scholars:\nAmenmesse was a son of Ramesses II, and therefore brother to Merenptah and cousin of Seti II (Yurco, Wilkinson).\nAmenmesse was another son of Merenptah, making him the brother of Seti II (Kitchen, Yurco, Von Beckerath)\nAmenmesse was the son of Seti II and his wife, Takhat, who was probably a daughter of Ramesses II (Dodson). It is suggested that Seti II planned for his eldest son Setimerenptah B to succeed him, but Amenmesse (his younger son) tried to assert his right to rule and managed to wrest control of Thebes from his father for a short period.\nAmenmesse was the Viceroy of Kush during the rule of Merenptah, referred to as Messuy or Messuwy (Krauss, Dodson). Although there are a couple of tantalising hints that this man may have taken on kingly insignia such as the ureaus (although this is disputed by Yurco) and he used the title kings son himself, the fact that Messuys images and titles were not defaced after Seti II came to power would seem to argue against this. Yurco also notes that ushabti and other burial goods are known from the burial of Messuy at Aniba which would seem to date his death to the rule of Merenptah.\nMessuy at Amada with added ureaus\nHis other familial relationships are similarly obscure. While it is generally agreed that his mother was a woman named Takhat, Dodson has pointed out that there seem to have been more than one royal woman bearing that name and the usurping of statues depicting these royal women can make it hard to be sure which woman is being referred to. Similarly, it had been assumed that his wife was a woman named Baktwernel who appears in the tomb of Amenmesse. However, it is now generally agreed that her burial was a later intrusion and she was probably the wife of Ramesses XI. Aldred proposed instead that the wife of Amenmesse was Tia, the mother of Siptah. This would make the accession of Siptah more understandable as a move to mollify the supporters of Amenmesse. It may also confirm Siptah as a relative of Seti II, but also explain why he required the support of Tausret as co-regent.\nWe know little about his reign. He is referenced in monuments from the Theban area, and his names and titles display a notable Theban bias which may support the suggestion that he only held sway in the south. Although his Nebty name is the same as that of Horemheb (another ruler whose rise to power was by unconventional means) be must be careful not to read too much into this as Nebty names asserting the divine connections were also adopted by pharaohs (like Ramesses II) who had no need to bolster their legitimacy.\nSome consider that the Tale of Two Brothers may be referring to the dynastic difficulties of the period, but more direct evidence of the disruption comes from details of a feud in the Workers Village of Deir el Medina. Papyrus Salt 124 (dated to the beginning of the twentieth dynasty) records that on of the chief workmen (Neferhotep) died and was replaced by Paneb, his adopted son. Neferhoteps brother (Amennakhte) accused Paneb of numerous serious crimes including rape, theft, attempted murder, bribery and corruption. According to the document Neferhotep had prevoiously complained about the behaviour of Paneb to the vizier, Amenmose, who had punished Paneb. However, Paneb had then successfully complained to Mose or Msy – possibly Amenmesse himself. Whatever the truth of either sides accusations, it is clear that this was a fairly turbulent period.\nThere is little doubt that Seti undertook to remove references to Amenmesse’s reign, but he too seems to have been guilty of usurping monuments. As the sculptors often took great pains to entirely remove the name being replaced we cannot be sure who was named in the original text. Texts in the Cachette Court of Karnak are considered by some to have been originally carved for Ramesses II, usurped by Merenptah, then Amenmesse and finally Seti II! Brand concluded that it was most likely that Amenmesse began removing text of Merenptah in order to remove a link to the crown-prince Seti Merenptah whose position he had usurped. Once Seti II had regained or taken control of the monument, he removed the names of Amenmesse replacing them with his own, but leaving any undamaged examples of Merenptahs name intact.\nWe do not know how his reign came to an end, but there is no evidence that he was ever buried in the tomb he had planned for himself (KV 10). If he was it is likely that the burial was despoiled shortly after his death. His mumy did not turn up in any of the later caches and his tomb was clearly defaced. Strangely the cartouches were not entirely removed but rather scarred and scratched. leaving them still readable. References to him in more public places were more thoroughly destroyed.\nPharaoh’s Names\nHorus Name: Ka nakht mery Maat semen tawy (Strong bull, beloved of Maat, he who strengthen the Two Lands)\nHorus Name: Nub hebu sed mi Tatenen (Lord of Sed Festivals like Tatenen)\nPrenomen: Men mi Ra, Setep en Ra (Enduring like Ra, chosen by Ra)\nNomen: Amenmesse heqa Waset (Born of Amun, the Ruler of Thebes)\nNomen: MAmenmesse Mery Re (Born of Amun, beloved or Re)\nNebti: Wer biaut em Ipet-sut (Great of marvels in Karnak)\nGolden Horus: Aa khepesh saa waset en messu (Great of strength who glorifies Thebes for the one who bore him)\nBrand, Peter J (2009) Usurped Cartouches of Merenptah at Karnak and Luxor from Causing his Name to Live: Studies in Egyptian Epigraphy and History in Memory of William J Murnane Edited by Peter Brand and Louise Cooper\nDodson, Aidan (1987) “The Takhats and Some Other Royal Ladies of the Ramesside Period” from The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 73 (1987), pp. 224-229\nDodson, Aidan (1995) “Amenmesse in Kent, Liverpool, and Thebes” from The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 81 pp. 115-128\nDodson, Aidan (1997) “Messuy, Amada and Amenmesse” from Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt Vol. 34 pp. 41-48\nDodson, Aidan (1999) “The decorative phases of the tomb of Sethos II and their historical implications” from The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 85 pp. 131-142\nDodson, A and Hilton, D. (2004) The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt\nDodson, Aidan (2010) Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the 19th Egyptian Dynasty\nDodson, Aiden (2016) The Royal Tombs of Ancient Egypt\nHardwick, Tom (2006) “The Golden Horus Name of Amenmesse?” from The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 73 (1987), pp. 224-229\nVan Dijk, Jacobus (2000) “The Amarna Period and later New Kingdom”, in The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt Ed I. Shaw\nWilkinson, Richard H. Editor (2012) Tausret: Forgotten Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt\nWilkinson, Richard H and Weeks, Kent Editors (2016) The Oxford Handbook of the Valley of the Kings\nWilkinson, Toby (2010) The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt\nYurco, Frank J (1979) “Amenmesse: Six Statues at Karnak” from Metropolitan Museum Journal Vol. 14 pp. 15-31Yurco, Frank J (1997) “Was Amenmesse the Viceroy of Kush, Messuwy?” from The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 92 pp. 255-260","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1062548"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9180593490600586,"wiki_prob":0.9180593490600586,"text":"6 months after Hurricane Maria, life in Puerto Rico is better — but will 'never be normal again'\nPuerto Rico 6 months after Hurricane Maria: 'We’ll never be normal again'\nAuthor: Rick Jervis, USA TODAY\nPublished: 8:20 PM PST February 27, 2018\nUpdated: 11:56 AM PST March 5, 2018\nMichelle Rebollo cooks dinner in her kitchen by solar and battery-powered light, using a propane camp stove in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico after a major power outage hit the island earlier that day, March 1, 2018.\nCARRIE COCHRAN, USA TODAY NETWORK\nTOA ALTA, Puerto Rico – Life is better for Michelle Rebollo since Hurricane Maria upended her world last year. The electricity vanishes at times, often for hours, but is largely back on, water flows steadily from faucets and work crews finally hauled away piles of debris left by the storm.\nYet life is still far from normal. She’s a month behind in her bills. Her income is unsteady. Worst of all, the jovial unity forged among her neighbors in the storm’s immediate aftermath has faded to sullen despair.\n“Recovery here has been so slow that it’s affected people,” said Rebollo, 45. “Everyone’s tense. No one’s talking to one another. You see it in their faces: They’ve changed.”\nThe powerful Category 4 Hurricane Maria raked across the island Sept. 20, killing at least 60 people and causing widespread damage. It was the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory in 89 years.\nAs the six-month anniversary of the storm approaches, Puerto Ricans are trudging slowly away from survival and into the difficult realities of long-term recovery.\nLife for Michelle Rebollo since Hurricane Maria is still a struggle\nMichelle Rebollo cooks dinner in her kitchen by solar and battery-powered light, using a propane camp stove in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico after a major power outage hit the island earlier that day, March 1, 2018. Power was restored for Rebollo a month and a half after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, but it's not steady. She says she and her family experience outages every few days. Nearly a half-year after the hurricane, they've adapted, she says, but it's tiring to still be prepared to live like they are camping inside their own home.\nShortly after Hurricane Maria, Michelle Rebollo had to siphon water from a mountain stream. Today, her home has electricity and water but other challenges still loom, including earning enough income to feed the seven other members of her household.\nUSA Today first met Michelle Rebollo, right, just over a week after Hurricane Maria struck the island, as she was collecting water from a stream on the side of a mountain outside of Naranjito, Puerto Rico.\nAfter a major power outage hit the island, Michelle Rebollo's grandson, Josstin Ramos arranges dominoes on their veranda in Toa Alta, about 18 miles outside of San Juan, March 1, 2018: When power goes out, they often hang out there, where it is cooler than inside the house.\nMichelle Rebollo transfers water from one barrel to another as she collets rainwater from her downspouts because her family has been without running water for the past seven weeks, Nov 4, 2017.\nMichelle Rebollo shows some of the MREs (meals ready to eat) her family received from federal aid workers,Nov 4, 2017. Rebollo was working for UNICEF, preparing merchandise for shipping in damaged stores, until she is able to find customers for her adventure travel company, Aventura Total. Her company has had no business since Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico and brought tourism to a halt on the island.\nMichelle Rebollo opens her empty refrigerator, Nov 4, 2017. Her family has been without power and running water for the past seven weeks.\nMichelle Rebollo and her daughter Nicole load up their car with water gather from the side of a mountain from a natural water stream in the town of Naranjito in Puerto Rico, Sep 30, 2017. Drinking water is critical issue on the island and people are gathering it for multiple uses like flushing toilets to bathing. Most of the water is not potable.\nMichelle Rebollo's grandsons, Josstin Ramos and Jesús Ramos sing and listen to music from their tablet while Rebollo cooks by camp stove in her kitchen, March 1, 2018. Seven family members now live with Rebollo in Toa Alta, about 18 miles outside of San Juan.\nMichelle Rebollo dances with her grandchildren, Josstin Ramos, Bethany Cruz and and Jesús Ramos n their living room March 1, 2018.\nNearly 200,000 families and businesses — 16% of the island — remain without power. The island faces a growing mental health crisis as people wrestle with their losses from the storm. And the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is answering tough questions about botched contracts in its recovery effort.\nSo far, the agency has approved $1 billion in individual assistance grants, which goes to households, and an additional $558 million in public assistance grants for things like repairs to bridges and government buildings.\n“Wheels are spinning, but things don’t seem to get off the ground,” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz told the non-profit news site Democracy Now!\nFor Rebollo, recovery has been slow and frustrating. USA TODAY first met Rebollo in October as she captured water from a mountain stream on the side of a highway near Naranjito, about 20 miles southwest of San Juan. The following month, electricity and water returned to her home, though she was still washing clothes by hand because Maria damaged the washer and dryer she kept outside on the patio.\nToday, her top concerns are the lack of revenue from her tour business and the darkening moods of Puerto Ricans. She lives in a small concrete home in Toa Alta, about 20 miles west of San Juan, with seven other family members: her two grown daughters, her 12-year-old son and four grandchildren. \"I have a lot of mouths to feed,\" Rebollo said.\nHer tour company, Aventura Total, relies on young Puerto Ricans and foreigners wanting to take trips such as kayaking near Culebra Island or hiking in El Yunque National Forest. But many people are leaving Puerto Rico in the wake of the storm and foreigners are still hesitant to visit, she said. Where she would organize trips of 15 or 16 people every week or every other week before Maria, today she averages around six or seven people — and sometimes none, she said.\nJASPER COLT/USA TODAY NETWORK\nA FEMA worker visited Rebollo's home in mid-January — four months after she applied for assistance — but she said the federal disaster agency denied her any money because she has home insurance. The federal agency routinely doesn't award disaster grants until a claim is first processed through the homeowner's private insurance.\n“It’s hard,” Rebollo said. “I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders.\"\nElectricity returned to the Rebollo home last year. But outages still routinely hit the neighborhood. On a recent afternoon, the lights went out at the home as Rebollo prepared to go shopping with her daughter. Rebollo quickly set up solar-powered lamps around the home as the sky darkened outside.\nUsing a Coleman propane camp stove she keeps under the sink, she boiled water in a large pot to cook pasteles and rice while the children played dominoes by camp lamplight outside, where it's cooler. \"Unfortunately, this is normal,\" she said.\nAnother concern has been money. A temp agency that once assigned her jobs cleaning out molded merchandise at a storm-damaged Home Depot in Caguas now only offers work placing tarps on roofs. But the company doesn't offer insurance, and Rebollo said she can't risk falling off a roof and leaving her family without an income-earner.\nThrough the hardships, Rebollo has been awed by the random kindness of strangers. One JetBlue flight attendant reached out to her via her firm's Facebook page, took her, her daughter and grandson out to breakfast in San Juan and left her a suitcase full of batteries, solar-powered lamps and other gifts. A former boss at her Home Depot temp job gave her a $500 Walmart gift certificate for Christmas and a $200 check for groceries.\n\"I fell to the floor, crying,\" she said.\nBut she's worried about her fellow Puerto Ricans. Whereas not long ago everyone on the street was asking about the welfare of each other or handing out plates of food, today everyone seems to be tense and quiet, she said. While waiting in line at the bank recently, Rebollo started telling jokes out loud to break the tension.\n“That trait of helping each other out, asking if you had power or water, we’ve lost that,” she said. “I’d like to see it return.”\nAfter a major power outage hit the island, Michelle Rebollo's grandsons, Josstin Ramos, 7, left, and Jesús Ramos, 9, sing and listen to music from their tablet while Rebollo cooks by camp stove in her kitchen.\nRebollo is taking online classes at Bayamón Central University several hours a week and plans to graduate in August with a bachelor’s degree in social work. She hopes to someday open a senior center to help the island’s elderly population, one of the hardest hit by the storm.\nBut she realizes life will likely never return to what it was before the storm.\n“We’ll never be normal again,” Rebollo said. “Maria really clobbered us. For better or for worse, we’ve all changed.”\nFollow Jervis on Twitter: @MrRJervis.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line353694"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5392791628837585,"wiki_prob":0.46072083711624146,"text":"Barbershop harmony is a style of vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note, except for occasional short passages which may be sung by less than four voices. It is invariably sung without accompaniment and is described as “A Cappella” music.\nThe parts, or voices, from highest to lowest, are called Tenor, Lead, Baritone and Bass. The melody is usually carried by the Lead, with Toner consistently singing higher harmonizing notes, the Bass singing the lower harmonizing notes, and the Baritone completing the chord, either above or below the Lead. The melody may occasionally be sung by the Baritone or Bass, but not by the Tenor except for an infrequent note or two to avoid awkward voicing of a chord, or for special effects, such as in introductions or in the coda (“tag” or song ending).\nBarbershop music uses a minimum of sixth and ninth chords, and dissonant chords containing the Major 7th or Minor 2nd intervals. It features triads and Major-Minor 7th chords (“Barbershop seventh chords”) resolving primarily on the circle of fifths. The basic harmonization may be embellished with additional chord progressions wherever these may artistically serve to maintain rhythmic interest, to carry over between phrases, and to introduce or close the song effectively.\nBarbershop music is not sung in the tempered tuning of mechanical keyboard instruments, but in more acoustically correct tuning in which the singers pay close attention to enharmonic pitch adjustments, thus producing a clear interlocking of the voices and a reinforcement of the overtones which gives the characteristic “ring” of the chords.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1187226"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8433035612106323,"wiki_prob":0.8433035612106323,"text":"Geologists Warn Arkansas Lies in Major Earthquake Zone\nCasper Neighborhood a Finalist for Kindest Place in U.S.\n2020 Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Share Views in 5 Iowa Cities\nFarm to Summer Week: MN Kids Enjoy Locally Grown Food\nCensus Reveals Bright Spots, Challenges for Ohio Farming\nIowans with Disabilities Urged to Make Their Votes Count\nWomen Empowered by Hillary Clinton's Nomination\nFemale politicians in Indiana hope more women become inspired to take on leadership roles in government. (whitehouse.gov)\nINDIANAPOLIS – Indiana doesn't have a good track record when it comes to electing women to political office, and advocates hope the Democratic Party’s nomination of Hillary Clinton to run for president will bring a change to the Hoosier State's political makeup.\nIndiana ranks 34th in the nation for the percentage of women serving in the legislature. It is one of eight states that never have had a female governor or U.S. senator.\nIndiana's four largest cities – Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Evansville and South Bend – have never had female mayors.\nGary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson is the only female mayor of a city of 30,000 or more in the state. She says an attitude needs to be adjusted, adding that just recently she was approached by someone needing to fill some jobs.\n\"He said, 'I'm looking to hire some guys,’” she relates. “’The job pays $13 dollars an hour. It's entry level, no skills, but it really has to be guys because this environment isn't good for women.'\"\nWomen aren't the only under-represented group. Blacks make up more than 9 percent of Indiana's population, but hold 8 percent of the seats in the legislature.\nHispanics make up almost 7 percent of the state's population, but less than 1 percent of the legislature.\nMara Candelaria Reardon in 2006 was the first Latina woman elected in Indiana. She says women often underestimate themselves, and more need to step up because they make great leaders.\n\"I think that our womanhood isn't threatened by compromise and finding solutions to problems, where I think often times men's manhood is threatened if they're not successful in 'my way or the highway,'” she states. “And I don't think that works for anybody. Look at the stalemates we have going on in Congress right now.\"\nShelli VanDenburgh is a former state representative in Indiana and is running for office again. She thinks Hillary Clinton's nomination will inspire women.\n\"My 13-year-old daughter has so much to say about Hillary running and the potential of her becoming president, and she was even asking me, 'Can she be president, Mom, because she's a woman?'” VanDenburgh tells. “You know it's changing the way that younger women think.\"\nVeronica Carter, Public News Service - IN","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1643623"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7037582397460938,"wiki_prob":0.29624176025390625,"text":"Dates, Times Announced For Phase 2 Of Parks Plan Listening TourThe Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is ready to deliver feedback.\nPittsburgh Catholic Diocese Announces Closing Of Saint Sylvester School In BrentwoodSaint Sylvester School in Brentwood will not reopen for the 2019-2020 school year due to rapidly declining enrollment.\nTarget Raising Minimum Wage From $12 To $13\nFiled Under:Minimum Wage, Target\nNEW YORK (AP) — Target is raising the minimum hourly wage for its workers for the third time in less than two years.\nThe discounter said Thursday it plans to raise the hourly starting wage to $13 from $12 in June.\nThe Minneapolis-based retailer announced in 2017 a plan to raise its starting hourly wages for workers to $15 by the end of 2020 and raised its starting hourly wage to $11. In March 2018, it boosted hourly wages to $12 after seeing a bigger and better pool of candidates.\nWith unemployment near rock bottom, retailers are under pressure to find qualified workers. In October, Amazon announced a minimum hourly wage of $15 for its U.S. employees.\nWalmart raised its starting pay to $11 an hour in early 2018.\n(© Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1379636"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7067794799804688,"wiki_prob":0.29322052001953125,"text":"Home→Uncategorized→A note on hypocrisy\nA note on hypocrisy\nPosted by Joseph Heath on December 12, 2014 | Uncategorized\nThis is a long-standing pet peeve of mine. Many people, and most noticeably many journalists, do not seem to have a clear understanding of what hypocrisy is. To keep things simple, let’s go with the everyday definition of hypocrisy as “saying one thing, while doing another.” This is fine, except that it’s important, when accusing people of hypocrisy, to pay careful attention to what they are saying. In particular, it is important to pay careful attention to the distinction between what people would like the general rule to be, and what their preferences over their own actions are, given the existing rules. (Viktor Vanberg and James Buchanan introduced the term “constitutional preferences” and “action preferences” to distinguish the two, which is maybe not the best terminology, but their discussion of the distinction is invaluable.)\nLet me give a concrete example. I was reading a little article the other day about Bill Gates’s five favorite books of 2014. One of them was Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, which I think is kind of hilarious. Here is what Gates said “I agree with his most important conclusions: inequality is a growing problem and that governments should play a role in reducing it. I admire his work and hope it draws in more smart people to study the causes of, and cures for, inequality.”\nSome people’s knee-jerk response to this will be to say “Hypocrite! If you’re so keen on reducing inequality, why don’t you give your money away?” Of course, Gates has given away an enormous amount of his money — more that you or I will ever earn — and he has also made it clear that he is placing strict limits on how much money he intends to leave for his children. Nevertheless, he remains rich as Croesus, and he could certainly make a big dent in inequality by giving away a couple more billion dollars. So isn’t he “saying one thing, doing another” by calling for government to take a more active role in reducing inequality, while doing less than he could to reduce it on his own?\nThe answer is “no,” and the reason why hinges on the distinction between constitutional and action preferences. Most people think that the amount you are obliged to do, as an individual, to solve some particular problem, depends in part upon how much other people are doing. At the same time, you might wish that others were doing more, and you might also be prepared to do much more, if others were as well. So you can quite consistently support a rule change, that would force everyone, including yourself, to do x, while at the same time not volunteering to do x in the absence of such a rule. This is a really simple and obvious point, but often one that gets neglected in public debate. (I have always thought that G.A. Cohen’s book, If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? could have been a lot shorter, if he had just made this one simple point, although come to think of it, one of the defects in Cohen’s work is that he may not be able to avail himself of this point.)\nAnyhow, I think that taxes on the 1% should be higher, but I don’t voluntarily pay more in taxes — on the contrary, I have a crafty accountant who uses various strategies to reduce my tax liability. I think university professors should teach more, but I don’t volunteer to teach extra classes. I think we should be doing all sorts of things to combat climate change, yet my own carbon footprint is clearly not at a sustainable level. None of this makes me a hypocrite.\nThat having been said, it might not be a bad idea to come up with a term to describe the person who makes overly self-serving use of the “everyone else is doing it” excuse, or the “I’m happy to go along, once everyone else does too.” For example, the Government of Canada’s current position on climate change is that, at the constitutional level, we are all in favour of a binding regime of carbon mitigation, but at the action level, we are not prepared to do anything until absolutely everyone else has agreed to a plan. An analogy on the individual level would be a person who says ‘I think everyone should pay their taxes honestly,” but then as long as there is someone, somewhere, who is in some way avoiding them, says “why should I pay?” and engages in all sorts of dodgy tax-avoidance.\nThe general idea is that, if you have a constitutional preference in favour of action x being mandatory for all, this does not oblige you to choose x in circumstances in which is it not mandatory for all, but the constitutional preference should at least loosely constrain your behaviour — like you shouldn’t be choosing things that are totally antithetical to x. It would be nice to have a name for this sort of moral failure — “hypocrisy” clearly is not the right name for it.\nOh yeah, I suppose if you wanted a canonical example of hypocrisy, it would be this:\nA note on hypocrisy — 3 Comments\nHasko vk on December 12, 2014 at 11:32 am said:\nThe newly appointed deputy mayor of Toronto is a great example for someone who does not understand the distinction in play here.\nFrom the Toronto Sun:\n“Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong says it is pretty clear residents don’t want to pay more taxes. Minnan-Wong drew that conclusion based on a report received by the executive committee Wednesday that showed just 218 taxpayers out of around 786,000 tax bills opted to pay more than the tax they owed the city last year through the city’s voluntary contribution program. … he reminded his colleagues the voluntary donation form idea came after they heard from speakers earlier in the term telling them that people want to pay more taxes.”\nThe last sentence goes to show that M-W is not the only one at City Hall who fails to understand what people mean when they say they want to pay more taxes.\nMinnan Wong didn’t use the term hypocrisy but he came close:\n“Minnan-Wong speculated those who claim they want to pay more, might only want others to pay more. ‘They don’t want to pay more taxes, they want everyone else to pay more taxes,’ he said.”\nOf course, what he doesn’t understand is that what (many) people (like Joe) want is for everyone – including themselves – to pay more taxes.\nJames on December 13, 2014 at 1:49 am said:\nIn collective action terms, it boils down to knowing what a free rider problem is. I think everyone can understand free rider problems, but almost no one bothers to think of the world in that way. And so they try to fit what you’re saying with the simpler and more intuitive hypocrisy idea.\nBensonBear on December 15, 2014 at 1:16 am said:\nI don’t think Bill Gates is a good example. He through his company violated the law pretty seriously in many ways. Also, just because someone *says* he would like the law changed in a way that would benefit most people but ostensibly harm themselves, does not imply that this is what they really want, or that they would have wanted it before they made off like bandits at the expense of society at large. The idea that Gates giving away much of what he “earned” makes him a good guy is suspect also, given that he “earned” it by extracting it from many not-so-well people. Nor is Gates “giving” it away in reality. What else could he do with it? He buys himself the adulation implicitly contained in this article. And that he limits the amount of money transferred to his children? Big deal. I think we can be sure they won’t want for anything.\nIt is definitely correct that one cannot rightly accuse a person of hypocrisy merely because they engage in behavior that is currently legally allowed while at the same time expressing a wish that it be legally disallowed. But Gates is not a good example of this.\nThere is a lot more to wealth that just money. I have not read Picketty but I wonder if he considers this to any great extent. People at the lower socio-economic scale, if they have *enough* (cf. Frankfurt “On Equality”), arguably have no complaint on that score. But if their daily activities are limited in the possibilities available to them (as they are, in one way, by the secret, proprietary Microsoft software), they arguably do have a complaint about that.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1672255"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.552052915096283,"wiki_prob":0.44794708490371704,"text":"Weekend Television Listings\nInternationals reign supreme once again on what should be a busy weekend for rugby watching. Saturday has the most action with the likes of Tonga vs. Italy, Georgia vs. Scotland, Australia vs. Ireland, and South Africa vs. Wales all on ESPN3/WatchESPN. England vs. Argentina is on The Rugby Channel. If that's not your thing there is Premiership rugby on NBCSN and the Pro12 on The Rugby Channel. There is of course the Women Eagles vs. France today as well.\nIf you know of an event or a tournament that is not on our list, please share it with us at thisisamericanrugby@gmail.com.\nConnacht vs. Cardiff, 2:35 p.m. et/11:35 a.m. pt (live on The Rugby Channel)\nGlasgow vs. Ospreys, 2:35 p.m. et/11:35 a.m. pt (live on The Rugby Channel)\nNorthampton vs. Newcastle, 2:45 p.m. et/11:45 a.m. pt (live on NBCSN)\nWomen Eagles vs. France, 3:00 p.m. et/12:00 p.m. pt (live on The Rugby Channel)\nTonga vs. Italy, 9:00 a.m. et/6:00 a.m. pt (live on ESPN3/WatchESPN)\nGeorgia vs. Scotland, 9:30 a.m. et/6:30 a.m. pt (live on ESPN3/WatchESPN)\nEngland vs. Argentina, 9:30 a.m. et/6:30 a.m. pt (live on The Rugby Channel)\nAustralia vs. Ireland, 12:30 p.m. et/9:30 a.m. pt (live on ESPN3/WatchESPN)\nSouth Africa vs. Wales, 12:30 p.m. et/9:30 a.m. pt (live on ESPN3/WatchESPN)\nExeter vs. Worcester, 12:30 p.m. et/9:30 a.m. pt (delay on NBCSN)\nDoncaster vs. Cornish Pirates, 9:00 a.m. et/6:00 a.m. pt (live on The Rugby Channel)\nHarlequins vs. Bath, 2:30 p.m. et/11:30 a.m. pt (delay on NBCSN)\nCircle G Artworks November 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM\nToo bad..! No NZL v. FRA\nDrea November 27, 2016 at 12:56 PM\nThanks for publishing these listings with all the details. It's much appreciated!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line239813"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6998114585876465,"wiki_prob":0.6998114585876465,"text":"2015 L.A. Auto Show: Mazda CEO talks rotary engines, hydrogen fuel\nBy Jerry Hirsch\nMasamichi Kogai, president and CEO at Mazda Global Motor Corp., is seen in a new Mazda at the Los Angeles Times. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)\nMazda is a quirky brand. It's the only automaker to have mass-produced vehicles equipped with rotary engines, and it is content to remain one of the smallest companies in the business.\nThe Japanese car company makes only about 1.5 million cars annually and controls about 2% of U.S. auto sales.\nAnd that's all right with Masamichi Kogai, Mazda's chief executive, who was at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week to introduce a redesigned CX-9, a seven-seat mid-sized crossover that replaces an aging model.\nKogai, through an interpreter, talked with The Times about Mazda's survival strategy, its plans for a new generation of rotary-engine vehicles and increasingly stringent environmental regulations.\nMazda U.S. sales are up just 2.9% through the first two months of this year, lagging the industry's 5.8% gain. Would you like to see greater sales in the U.S.?\nSales volume is not the only indicator. We need the right sales. If we put market share as a target, we might fall into the trap of discounting the product. That is a short-term strategy and a myopic view.\nSee the most-read stories this hour >>\nWhat we need to make sure we don't have too much aging of the existing products in the marketplace. We need a fresh lineup so that when our customers are ready to purchase another vehicle we have the product to sell them and they come back to us.\nWhere do you sell best?\nLooking at market share by region, we have about 10% in Australia, about 8% in Canada and that's all followed by Japan, Thailand and Mexico — each at about 5%. The top market by volume is the U.S.\nWe are allocating production to various regions based on the profit in that country and the number of customers who see value in Mazda's vehicles and the way they drive.\nPHOTOS: See the best of the L.A. Auto Show\nOne reason why Mazda isn't as focused on growth as other automakers is that it has fewer factories and they are running near full production. Have you considered building a new factory?\nBefore constructing a new plant, we will improve the output of each factory we already have. For example, the CX-5 crossover is a big hit product for us. It is built at our Hiroshima plant with a production capacity of about 240,000 units. We can increase that to 300,000 units without bringing on another factory.\nIf each worker at the plant improves the cycle time by just 0.1 second, we can get more production. We need small but steady increases like that. While our current production capacity is 1.5 million vehicles, I think that in three years time, we can increase to 1.65 million units.\nIf our sales capacity exceeds volume three years after that, we will study construction of new plant.\nL.A. Auto Show 2015: Mazda CX-9\nOther automakers are talking about mergers and how to gain scale in what is now a global industry. How does tiny Mazda survive?\nBecause we are a small-scale company we are able to focus on clearly identifying our brand. We have launched each new generation of vehicles with the defined Mazda design applied across the car line. We have demonstrated what our brand is about. That has established a solid base for our survival.\nThere is a saying in Japan that if you are just a small frog in a small pond, there will be bigger ponds, or worlds, that you have not seen. But somebody told me once that doesn't have to be true. Even if you are frog living in small pond, you can still look up into the sky. You can still look toward the long future and have a long-term vision, and that is what we do.\nWe also have entered into a comprehensive business cooperation agreement with Toyota. By working together on each element of technology, we have a critical mass and can reduce cost and improve efficiencies.\nCalifornia plans to ramp up its requirement for zero-emission and low-polluting vehicles. Mazda doesn't even have a hybrid in the marketplace. What are your plans?\nWe understand that we need to meet that regulation, and we are doing some research and working on the electrification of our vehicles. For the Japanese market, we have produced an electric vehicle. For hybrid systems, we have a license from Toyota and are continuing research in that area.\nL.A. Auto Show 2015: The 'Fiata' Jaguar XE and other highlights\nWe also are looking at our rotary-engine technology. It can combust hydrogen and use it as a fuel. The engine can run as a dual fuel system, switching between hydrogen and gasoline. We can also use rotary engines to charge the battery as a range extender in an electric vehicle.\n(Most vehicles use a piston engine where pistons travel up and down to transmit power to the drivetrain. In a rotary engine, the piston travels in a circular motion to transmit energy to the drivetrain. Generally these engines are smaller and lighter than piston engines. Because of their unique design, they can run on both gasoline and hydrogen fuel.)\nSpeaking of rotary engines, tell us about the RX Vision concept sports car introduced at the Tokyo Motor Show last month?\nThe RX Vision created so much buzz. Many customers who purchased our rotary-engine vehicles in the past keep asking us when the next rotary vehicle will be launched.\nWe have not been able to decide on when there will be sales of the RX Vision. But the RX Vision presents our dream vehicle that we would like to launch into the market.\nFor more automotive news, follow me on Twitter (@LATimesJerry) and Facebook.\nIn Malibu, Kelsey and Camille Grammer’s former compound aims for $19.95 million","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1619139"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6489315032958984,"wiki_prob":0.6489315032958984,"text":"Christmas 2017: December 2\nLake Alice (2017)\nOn the days when my podcast co-host and I have absolutely nothing else to do, we often find ourselves watching movie trailers on Youtube. Usually, we end up going down the rabbit hole of trailers for upcoming horror movies. I'm not talking about the glossy studio releases or the buzzy upcoming indies. I'm talking about the shit. The super low budget horror flicks that pack their trailers full of cliches and jump scares. More often than not, we laugh or roll our eyes. Occasionally, however, we come across something promising. I had not heard of “Lake Alice” before. Yet I found the trailer to be effective. The promise of a snowy, Christmas-set slasher seemed right up my alley. So I decided the film would fit in with my December watch list.\nSarah is returning to her home town, in rural Wisconsin, for Christmas. She's brought along her boyfriend Ryan, who her parents have never met before. Soon, the four are vacationing at the family cabin near Lake Alice, which is blanketed with snow this time of year. While there, Ryan proposes to Sarah, which she enthusiastically accepts. This happy holiday is soon interrupted. In the middle of the night, a masked figure knocks on the door. Soon, the family is being stalked by a knife-wielding killer.\n“Lake Alice,” the feature debut of director Ben Miliken and writer Stevie Jane Miller, is clearly a low budget film. It's one of those horror films that clearly couldn't afford big name actors or flashy make-up effects. So instead, the movie tries to compensate with some snowy atmosphere. And it almost works. “Lake Alice” is very much a slow burn. It spends the first forty minutes developing the characters and the town around them. So we spend a lot of time with the cast. The script goes out of its way to introduce three or four separate red herrings, most of which end up adding to the body count. Random stops by cops, visits to bakery, or trips to gas station become more ominous than they probably should be. An unseen figure watches and records the family's activities. The long build-up to the slashing makes you wonder if “Lake Alice” is actually attempting to create atmosphere or is just wasting time. I'm split on that myself, as the film is interchangeably tense and tedious.\n“Lake Alice” runs all of 77 minutes long and the carnage doesn't begin until the half-way point. If you're expecting a gore-fest, you're going to be disappointed. There's a throat slicing, a head bashing, and a full body burning but none of these scenes are especially explicit. The film attempts a certain voyeuristic edge, with the killer recording most of his murders. There's occasionally a tense moment but, too often, the murderer sneaks up on the victim in an obvious way. There's one clever twist involving the slasher's identity but it's still pretty easy to guess. The killer certainly has a neat appearance. The combination of a dark parka and a white ski mask, with the blackened eyes emphasized, is a striking look.\nThe film's cast is a mixed bag. Brad Schmidt plays Ryan as an optimistic guy and strikes an occasionally charming moment. Caroline Tudor, as Sarah, is obviously a novice performer. Tudor's delivery is often pretty flat. Her screaming is not especially convincing either. Peter O'Brien, a character actor of some note that is probably the movie's biggest name, plays the dad, Greg. (Unless, perhaps, Eileen Dietz – otherwise known as the demon face from “The Exorcist” – counts as a big name.) He does a good job of making his obvious contempt for his daughter's new boyfriend clear without being a jerk. Probably the best performance in the film is Laura Niemi as the mom and she's out of the movie for most of its run time.\nSo “Lake Alice” tries. I can appreciate that. However, the film ends up being a little anemic. The short run time and minimalist plot combines to make a movie that doesn't offer much. The choice of favoring suspense over gore, or even over jump scares, is an admirable one. It doesn't quite work though, as the film's cast and characters don't quite live up to its ambitions. I suspect the director's next film will probably be better. The film does utilize its December setting well, with a gift-giving scene around the Christmas tree and plenty of stomping around in the snow. [5/10]\nThe Simpsons: Marge Be Not Proud\nThe very first episode of “The Simpsons” was Christmas themed. Oddly, the series has not returned to the holiday too often in the years since. However, it's second Christmas episode – from the seventh season, a season packed with classic episodes – may be the show's best December-related offering. “Marge Be Not Proud” begins with Bart lusting after “Bonestorm,” a “Mortal Kombat”-style, hyper-violent video game. He asks for it for Christmas but Marge refuses, saying the game is too expensive and too violent. Bart wants the game so badly that he decides to shoplift it. He's immediately caught but the security guard lets him go, as long as he doesn't return to the store. Naturally, the Simpsons goes to that same store the next day for a family photo. The revelation ends up effecting Bart and Marge's relationship in a serious way.\n“Marge Be Not Proud” is packed full of fantastic gags. Lawrence Tierney has a hilarious guest spot as the store security guard, who becomes angry at a cheese-and-cracker set and baffles Bart with his odd words. This leads to an inspired weird gag, where Bart imagines the back of the car seat as the guard, who utilizes the built-in ash tray. Milhouse contributes some inspired moments, involving a ball-and-cup game or Bart trying to get close to his mom, desperate for mom-related affection. The boy's imagination leads to some great moments, such as an imaged dreary Christmas in prison or video game characters coming to life to egg on his theft. (Including, I must point out, Sonic the Hedgehog.)\nThis is a Bart centric episode, though Homer gets some great moments. Such as his insight into the “Police Academy” series, his reaction to Allan Sherman, or the particular way he sets up a baby gate. Lisa gets one or two funny moment as well, such as her metaphor about the bathroom rug, her comments about artificial snow, or her reaction to the final moment. There's some other free-roaming absurdity here, such as the reoccurring gag about a golf game or an insightful appearance from Troy McClure. And, of course, the “Bonestorm” commercial is a classic.\nUltimately, what makes “Marge Be Not Proud” a classic is its more poignant moments. In the beginning, Bart is uncomfortable with how his mom treats him like a little kid. Following his shoplifting episode, Marge begins to treat her son differently. She no longer sees him like a child. It's a feeling most kids and parents have to deal with eventually. The episode brings the subtle changes to a growing relationship to life in an effective way. The conclusion, which shows that familial love can overcome anything, is surprisingly touching. This mixture of hilarious absurdity and emotional character interaction is often when “The Simpsons” was at its best. That is clearly on display here. [8/10]\nPosted by Bonehead XL at 9:36 PM\nLabels: animation, christmas 2017, holiday horror, horror, other television, slasher films\nZack Clopton's 2017 Film Retrospective\nDirector Report Card: Lucky McKee (2017)\nCatching Up with the Bangers n' Mash Show Again\nDirector Report Card: Errol Morris (2016)\nChristmas 2017: December 24\nNO ENCORES: To All a Goodnight (1980)\nRECENT WATCHES: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)\nWHY DO I OWN THIS?: Santa with Muscles (1996)\nDirector Report Card: Stephen Sommers (2013)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line257162"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6600462794303894,"wiki_prob":0.6600462794303894,"text":"I read an interesting paper recently by a group of psychology researchers who were investigating the influence of electromagnetic stimulation of parts of the brain in terms of how it affected the moral choices which people will make.\nTwo groups of people faced the same set of questions. One group was wired up to a machine which ran a small electromagnetic charge across the temperoparietal junction (TPJ) of the brain. The other group wasn’t.\nAn example of the types of moral judgements which the subjects were asked to make is as follows:\nExample 1.\nGeorge is having a coffee at John’s house. George asks for sugar in his coffee. John has two similar jars in his cupboard. One contains sugar but it says POISON on the label; the other contains poison but the label says SUGAR.\nJohn, knowing that the jars have the wrong labels, gives George a spoonful of poison from the SUGAR jar. George dies.\nDid John deliberately poison George?\nThe group which was NOT being subjected to the electromagnetic stimulation (EMS) almost unanimously said yes.\nRemarkably, there was a significantly high percentage of subjects in the other group which did not consider John to be guilty. Their reasoning was that John had taken the poison from the jar marked SUGAR and that was enough for them to believe he was off the hook.\nIn another example, John does NOT know that the labels have been switched. He believes he is putting sugar, not poison, into George’s coffee. George dies.\nGroup One (nonEMS) found him not guilty of premeditated murder. Most of Group Two found him guilty because George died.\nIn a third example, John thinks the labels have been switched, wants to poison George but inadvertently gives him a spoonful of sugar (believing it to be poison) and George finally gets a break, enjoys his coffee and goes off to watch the football.\nBy now, you’ll know what the groups’ verdicts are going to be. Group One condemned John for intending to poison George while a significant proportion of Group Two saw nothing wrong in what John did, simply because George survived.\nThere are numerous other variations of these experiments which all indicated the same confusion in moral judgement in subjects whose brains had been fogged by external stimuli such as electromagnetic charges. In all of them, the confusion arises from their inability to separate the facts of the matter from the intention of the agent. In moral judgements we regard somebody’s intentions as being the prime factor, regardless of whether they succeed in carrying out those intentions. In moral terms, attempted murder is just as serious as murder whereas being unwittingly involved in someone’s accidental death is not a criminal act at all. In assessing the guilt or innocence of an accused person, we need to establish if the accused had any motivation for causing or attempting to cause a death.\nAs an aside, the implications of this research are far-reaching and give rise to serious concerns about much of our Western lifestyle. We are surrounded by mobile phones, iPads and mp3 players (especially with headphones), digital televisions, wireless telephones, wi-fi computer connections, modems, so-called energy-saving light bulbs, microwave cookers, laptops and netbooks, transmission masts and numerous other appliances and devices, all of which emit electromagnetic radiation comparable to the EMS which was applied in the experiment. In the light of the experiment mentioned above, I find it to be inconceivable that our immersion in a veritable ocean of electromagnetic radiation is having no comparable effect. I also have information which indicates that a lot of research into these issues has been suppressed and marginalised. It’s not easy to adversely affect the corporate interest with hard, medical, scientific truth.\nMore generally, I’m struck by the fact that people can be so easily influenced to change their opinion of right and wrong by subtle environmental factors. You don’t necessarily need to have electrodes attached to your cranium in order to have your moral compass deflected off course. Fear of social unrest or other supposedly disruptive consequences may also affect someone’s idea of right and wrong. It’s very important to recognise that the members of Group Two who were making perverse judgements about John’s guilt or innocence genuinely believed in the value of their verdicts at the time. In their minds, it was clear that if George had survived, even though John had intended to poison him, then no condemnation of John’s character was warranted.\nThis experiment came to my mind when I read Lord Nimmo-Smith’s report of his inquiry into allegations that Rangers deliberately withheld and concealed parts of their arrangements to pay their playing staff. LNS at least managed to note that this was indeed what they had done. The registration conditions had not been met and Rangers had deliberately intended to keep part of their payment arrangements concealed. Those facts were recognised, hence the guilty verdict.\nLNS then demonstrated his Group Two credentials by stating that Rangers had not gained or sought to gain a competitive, sporting advantage by deliberately and continuously breaking the registration rules. He ignored the obvious fact that Rangers intended to acquire a stronger playing squad by avoiding the taxes due on £47 million of salary. He ignored the significance of the fact that Rangers intended to dupe the tax authorities by disguising players’ remuneration as loans through an EBT scheme. Registering these payments with the SPL (and SFA) as they should have done would have blown Rangers chances of pretending to HMRC that monies paid to their employees via EBTs were entirely discretionary. And despite media misdirection and propaganda stating that Rangers had “won” their appeal to the FTT over HMRC assessments, LNS had the facts in front of him which stated clearly that the FTT had ruled – and Rangers had accepted – that the EBTs were indeed contractual salary arrangements in the case of at least five players.\nLet’s recap that. LNS could see that Rangers paid players part of their salaries via EBTs. Those arrangements should have been part of the documentation submitted to the SPL as part of the player registration process. Rangers deliberately concealed that documentation. David Murray told the FTT , under oath, that Rangers used the EBTs to offer wage packages to better players whom they would not otherwise have been able to sign for the club. LNS concluded that Rangers, knowing full well that they were poisoning Scottish football regardless of what the label read, had not gained any sporting advantage from deliberately breaking the rules.\nRangers broke the rules. They knew they were breaking the rules. They were breaking the rules in order to sign better players than they could afford by keeping to the rules. They signed those better players and fielded them in hundreds of matches.\nAnd LNS, relabelling the jar to suit, says that no competitive sporting advantage was gained.\nThat is his Group Two moment; George survived, no harm done, let’s move on.\nEverything else proceeds from that viewpoint. Now that we’ve decided that John didn’t succeed in his attempt to poison George, we can indeed move on. We can move on to minimising John’s punishment. We might even avoid punishing John at all by dumping a fine onto hundreds of John’s long-suffering creditors. We can move on to finding somebody – anybody – whose interpretation of the penalty that should be imposed on a club which does not correctly register its players flies in the face of all reason, sense of fair play, precedent and practice.\nStep forward Sandy Bryson, the man who decides which labels belong on which jars, regardless of their contents. Bryson, lest we forget, was the man who was in charge of registrations at the time of the scandal which led to Jim Farry’s disgrace and downfall over the SFA’s failure to allow Jorge Cadete’s registration with Celtic. Farry pulled the trigger but Bryson provided the gun, supplied the ammunition and pointed it towards the target. (By the by, let us also recall that James Traynor has never varied from his outspoken opinion that Farry was a magnificent administrator.) But the panel decided that Bryson was wearing the SUGAR label.\nLNS and his fellow panel members decided that Bryson’s testimony was the be all and end all of interpretation of the SFA’s implementation of fair play. This was in spite of the fact that on the only occasion when his guidelines had been challenged in an independent judicial tribunal, the SFA’s case collapsed ignominiously before lunchtime on the first day of the hearing and the SFA immediately parted company with its long-serving Secretary. It was also in spite of the fact that Bryson’s advice to Celtic about FC Sion’s registration irregularities was that all was in order and nothing could be done; a perverse interpretation which was shot down in flames by UEFA who not only threw FC Sion out of Europe but also ordered the Swiss FA, on pain of being suspended from international competition, to retrospectively award victories to every one of Sion’s opponents in domestic league and cup fixtures in which improperly registered players had turned out for FC Sion. No matter; it says SUGAR on this jar of Bryson.\nA credible witness? A man on whose testimony the learned panel should base their verdict? Only if your capacity for making moral judgement has been disrupted could you conclude an inquiry by ruling that no cheating had taken place and no unfair competitive or sporting advantage had been gained. Furthermore, why did the LNS panel take evidence from the SFA’s registration officer in the first place, given that the SFA was already standing by to hear any appeal? What sort of appeals body turns up at the initial hearing in order to give evidence in support of one of the parties and what kind of panel is so morally confused that it thinks such an intervention is okay? It is little surprise that this panel had such a complete unawareness of the principle of fair play.\nMake no mistake about this. Scottish football has been run by Group Two members for a long time and continues to suffer for it. The poison in Scottish football’s coffee was put there deliberately, knowingly and with malign intent, regardless of what labels are on the jars. There is no excuse for asserting that the opinions of Group One and Group Two members have equal validity just because they may be sincerely held. They most certainly do not have equal validity.\nIt may well be the case from now on that football supporters in Group One decide that their only remaining option is to do without sugar or give up coffee altogether because they can recognise the futility of paying money into a sport which is being run along its present lines. It may well be the legacy of the LNS inquiry that George went home and decided not to bother watching the football after all.\nTags: contracts, corruption, David Murray, EBT, electromagnetic stimulation, experiment, FTT. LNS Inquiry, Henry Clarson, Lord Nimmo Smith, moral judgement, morality, psychology, Rangers, registration, remuneration, research, RFC, Sandy Bryson, SFA, SPL, temperoparietal junction\nHeads, You Win\nThe League Cup semi-final against Danny Lennon’s spirited St. Mirren side ended with another Hampden let-down from a Celtic team which is getting to the stage where it can be relied upon to under-perform in do-or-die matches where victory is expected.\nLast season’s League Cup Final was a fairly evenly contested game for the most part but Kilmarnock got the breakthrough and deserved to edge it in the end. But there’s no doubting that Celtic didn’t do themselves justice. The Scottish Cup semi-final against Hearts was another occasion in which the Hoops looked as if they had forgotten how to do their jobs.\nRoss County’s stunning upset at the same stage of the same tournament was well deserved on their part but it was a mystery that Celtic played so badly when they were in the middle of a superb winning streak in the league and should have had great confidence in their ability to overcome their First Division opponents.\nThis season, although Celtic eventually knocked Arbroath out of the Scottish Cup at the second time of asking, the performances in both matches belied the colossal gap in the status and resources of the two clubs.\nMany supporters would add to this list a severe disappointment in the Highlands a couple of years ago when Celtic seemed to be strong favourites to win the SPL until they lost an away match in Inverness. We should bear in mind, in fairness to the Highlanders, that they have consistently presented a difficult challenge to every club that visits them and it was Celtic’s turn to be ambushed that night but the result was still a shock. Personally though, I strongly maintain that the fix was in that season to ensure that Murray’s fraudulent enterprise got first dibs at the Champions League booty. The refereeing in that particular match was McCurryesque. That was a big factor in the ultimate result, not only in that match but also in the final league standings.\nBut there is no denying that Celtic have regularly failed to show the hunger and will to win which the supporters are entitled to expect of the team. There can no longer be any doubt that this is true. I think it is highly significant that after the match Neil Lennon stated in an interview that some of the players were like spoilt children in the first half. That is a very strong – and not entirely inaccurate – criticism of the side’s thoroughly abject display but it is also very unusual for a manager to say such a thing in public. It makes me suspect that he has tired of regularly feeling duty bound to shield players from well deserved criticism in the wake of performances which are far short of what is rightly expected from them. However, I don’t think it addresses the core problem. More on that later.\nAs far as the league is concerned, there has been criticism of the fact that Celtic haven’t won as many points this season as they had at the same stage of the last title campaign. I couldn’t care less how many points Celtic accrue so long as we end up with more than anyone else. Celtic fans are well aware of the nine-in-a-row which Jock Stein’s sides achieved. I doubt if there’s one fan in a hundred who could say how many points Celtic won in each of those years.\nWhen Wim Jansen’s team won the league title in 1998 with 74 points and stopped the nine-in-a-row achievement from being surpassed, I don’t remember a single Celtic supporter who grieved over the fact that Tommy Burns side had won more points in each of the previous two seasons while finishing second. (75 and 83, to save everybody looking it up.)\nWhat matters is winning the title.\nSo I’m prepared to cut the team some slack in the league because, highly paid or otherwise, there is a limit to the amount of physical wear and tear which professional footballers can withstand over the course of a season. A successful quadruple campaign would require at least sixty-five games. The possibility of cup-tie replays and representative call-ups could easily take that total above seventy. It’s too much to expect any player to perform in every one of those games at the required standard so I’m glad that we have the opportunity to use squad rotation to rest players who need a break. The fact that several points may be dropped without fatally damaging the title quest is nothing but good news in my book.\nBut in one-off, knock-out cup-ties, there’s a different set of criteria altogether and I don’t think the players have developed the correct mentality for these competitions. This is underlined to a certain degree by the fact that Celtic very rarely win a match in which they’ve lost the first goal. Games can be lost on the way to winning league championships but not in the course of a triumphant cup campaign.\nRecent Celtic teams have not shown that they have the ability to deal consistently with the pressure of playing in a match which they can’t afford to lose, most especially against opponents who set out to exploit that factor. There have been a few notable exceptions but Celtic’s best performances have generally come in games where they have felt that they have nothing to lose and lots to gain.\nThe current Celtic side has a number of good qualities but it only overcomes its numerous deficiencies when every player’s work rate, self-belief and resolve are at a very high level. It’s the players’ responsibility to ensure that they rise to that standard every time they are called upon to discharge their professional responsibilities. If they’re not self-motivated, they’re wasting everybody’s time.\nThe first-team coach can only encourage them and give them an opportunity to show that they are up to that challenge. If they don’t have the correct approach to their work, they need to look at themselves instead of hiding behind the management team. I expect that there are at least a dozen current Celtic players who are being honest with themselves tonight about why they froze this afternoon but they might not necessarily know how to find a solution.\nIt appears to me that the fear of losing to underdogs strongly inhibits the present side. Too many players tighten up and, as their performance consequently suffers, so the prospect of defeat further erodes their self-confidence and they enter into a negative feedback loop. Losing the first goal highly exacerbates the problem. The downward spiral continues as players begin to panic or show petulant signs of frustration. These responses in their turn further reinforce the sense of impending doom and self-doubt. Opponents sense this and are inspired to raise their own game still further, buoyed by the growing belief that they have the psychological upper hand. Meanwhile, baffled coaches watch from the technical area, trying to understand why under-performing players are behaving like “spoilt children” or why they don’t seem to have the same hunger as their opponents.\nThis is where I would have hoped and expected Jim McGuinness to earn his corn as part of Celtic’s coaching staff but I fear that his role is currently limited to working with youth players. I feel that Celtic would lose nothing by looking in the direction of professional advice from a successful sports psychologist to address some of the recurring issues that are afflicting the team. These regular pratfalls can no longer be dismissed as blips or off-days. They’re a direct result of well researched and fairly well understood mental processes and states of mind which need to be, and can be, adjusted with suitable programmes, specifically designed for each individual player.\nFootball is still years behind other sports in this field but Celtic could do a lot worse than to make room for a Head Teacher in the first-team coaching staff.\nTags: Celtic, Hampden Park, Heart of Midlothian FC, Hearts, Henry Clarson, Inverness, Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC, Jim McGuinness, Jock Stein, Kilmarnock FC, League champions, psychology, Ross County, Scottish Cup, Scottish League Cup, SPL, Sports Psychology, St. Mirren, Tommy Burns, Wim Jansen","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line368778"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9184658527374268,"wiki_prob":0.9184658527374268,"text":"L-39 Safety Officer: Zak Tomczak\nL-39 Safety Officer: Zak Tomczak\tadmin\t2018-04-19T20:00:25-04:00\nRobert J (Zak) Tomczak\nRobert J (Zak) Tomczak is President of Peregrine Defense Solutions. LLC. Peregrine provides consulting services regarding aviation safety program management to a select list of Corporations involved in unique flight operations.\nMr. Tomczak grew up in the northern Wisconsin city of Park Falls. The city’s airport was a privately owned 1800 ft dirt airstrip built by a neighbor, which essentially made it in his “backyard”. His father owned a 1947 Aeronca Champ so he began his flying career at age 16, paying for flying lessons by washing and waxing airplanes.\nHe graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in business administration and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the USAF through the AFROTC program.\nMr. Tomczak served as an active duty U. S .Air Force fighter pilot for twenty-six years, retiring at the rank of Colonel. He flew both the F4 Phantom and F-16 Fighting Falcon and held various leadership positions including Operations Group Commander, Director of Operations of the Alaska NORAD region and fighter wing Vice Commander. During his career he also served as Chief Flight Examiner of the Air Force’s largest F-16 Wing, Flying Safety Officer, Chief of Flight Safety of the Air Force’s first F-16 combat wing and Chief of Safety of Air Combat Command at it’s headquarters at Langley Air Force Base Virginia where he was responsible for the Mishap Prevention Programs for the 120, 000 person command flying over 1800 aircraft.\nHe led numerous Air Force Mishap and Accident Investigations and was awarded the Air Force Chief of Staff Individual Safety Award for his flight safety program management and investigations of F-16 mishaps during the early operational use of the aircraft.\nAfter retirement from the USAF, Mr. Tomczak joined Lockheed Martin Corporation in Orlando Florida where he became Director, International Business Development, responsible for worldwide sales of airborne precision targeting systems. He retired from Lockheed Martin Corporation in 2015.\nMr. Tomczak holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, a MS in Systems Management from St Mary’s University of San Antonio, is a graduate of the University of Southern California Institute of Systems and Safety Management Flying Safety Officer program and is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College.\nHe has over 3300 hours of flying time and holds Commercial, Instrument, Single and Multi engine ratings.\nFor more information about our UPRT program call (407) 846-4400 or contact us below:","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line387302"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7573438286781311,"wiki_prob":0.7573438286781311,"text":"United Way Receives $1.3M Grant from Wells Fargo\nBy: United Way Staff\nGreater Twin Cities United Way announced a $1.3 million grant from Wells Fargo to support United Way programs and nonprofit partners. Over the past five years, Wells Fargo has provided $6.5 million in grants improving household stability and economic opportunity for people and families experiencing poverty in our region.\nThis grant will help nearly 17,000 individuals by providing:\nCrisis resources for nearly 5,000 callers through United Way 2-1-1\nStable housing for over 300 youth and families\nGroceries and meals for nearly 11,000 people\nJob training for more than 200 low-income adults\nThe grant also will help us engage nearly 1,900 volunteers through community-wide volunteer projects and events, such as Action Day and Feeding Who’s Hungry.\n“Wells Fargo’s commitment to the community is inspiring,” said Trent Blain, interim president and CEO of Greater Twin Cities United Way. “We are grateful for our partnership and we look forward to continuing to work together to make the Greater Twin Cities a region where everyone thrives, regardless of income, race or place of residence.”\nRead the April 23 press release\nUnited Way Worldwide recently recognized Wells Fargo as its No. 1 Workplace Giving Campaign for 10 consecutive years. Over the past decade, Wells Fargo and its team members across the country have donated more than $713 million, and just last year, logged 31,000 volunteer hours.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1563092"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6112509369850159,"wiki_prob":0.6112509369850159,"text":"Connecting Kids with the Outdoors Comes Naturally to Bass Pro Shops\nBy Therese Ciesinski, In The Dirt newsletter editor\nPhotos courtesy of Bass Pro Shops and GardenSMART\nOutdoor retailer Bass Pro Shops and GardenSMART are partnering with the not-for-profit Whole Kids Foundation to address concerns that today’s children don’t spend enough time outdoors. Gardening is one way to bring kids back to nature. When kids garden, they see the fruits of their labors, and understand the importance of clean air, water, soil, and the environment.\nGetting children outside is core to Bass Pro Shops’ mission. “Introducing kids to the outdoors is critical to fostering the next generation of conservationists,” said Bass Pro Shops Founder Johnny Morris. “Bass Pro Shops is excited to connect even more people to nature and inspire students to discover, enjoy and protect the outdoors.”\nAs an incentive, Bass Pro Shops, Whole Kids Foundation, and GardenSMART are hosting a sweepstakes to plant gardens in schools. During the month of October, you can enter your child’s school to win a $2000 garden grant. Five lucky schools will each receive a grant to start a garden or improve an existing one. What’s more, each school will have the opportunity to showcase their garden on its own episode of GardenSMART.\nBass Pro Shops has been getting people into nature for over 40 years. By now, the story of Johnny Morris, Bass Pro Shops’ founder is almost legend: In 1971, Morris, an angler, drove across the country buying the fishing tackle that he couldn’t find locally, and selling it in his father’s liquor store. That success led to a mail order catalog and more stores. Today, 72 stores later (and more opening every year), the rest is outdoor retailing history.\nThe stores are enormous, each about 150,000 square feet, and each one is customized to reflect its location. From the aquarium and the wildlife displays to the merchandise, no two stores are alike. Combining education, conservation, entertainment and retail sales, every store is an experience, like a visit to a natural history museum and aquarium combined.\nYear-round events are a big part of how Bass Pro Shops gets its outdoor message across, and are tailored to all ages and experience levels, from hardcore anglers and hunters, to camping families, to kids playing in their backyards.\n“There’s a Father’s Day catch and release fishing event,” says Stan Lippelman, Vice President of Marketing. “In June and July we have outdoor camps for kids, with different seminars, including archery, shooting, and identifying animal tracks.” A family swim camp is held in summer. There are also fishing and hunting events in fall. “The stores are gateways to the outdoors,” he says.\nFrom October 24 to the 31, Bass Pro Shops is hosting in-store Halloween events for kids ages 12 and under. It includes a free photo with the Peanuts gang in a pumpkin patch. There are also costume parades, free gifts, craft-making sessions, and the opportunity to enter your child’s school in the sweepstakes to receive a $2,000 grant to start or improve a school garden.\nAnd on October 24, Bass Pro Shops, in partnership with Whole Kids Foundation and GardenSMART, will host a special “Grow A Pumpkin Patch” event for kids, with a garden craft and free gardening tips booklet.\nWhy gardens? “It’s all about the power of the outdoors and spending quality time in nature,” Lippelman says. “It’s getting kids off of couches. Being outside is good for kids’ physical and emotional well-being.\nBass Pro Shops is a sponsor of GardenSMART, and we thank them for their sponsorship and their commitment to nature and the outdoors. Sponsors are why GardenSMART can continue to bring you the quality garden programming it has for more than 17 years. We couldn’t do it without them.\nClick to download a PDF of the Grow A Pumpkin Patch Booklet. For more information about Bass Pro Shops, go to basspro.com.\nhttps://www.GardenSMART.com/?p=articles&title=Connecting_Kids_with_the_Outdoors_Comes_Naturally_to_Bass_Pro_Shops","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1024541"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5142086744308472,"wiki_prob":0.5142086744308472,"text":"01. Freedom's Children - Sea Horse\n02. Freedom's Children - The Homecoming\n03. Freedom's Children - That Did It\n04. Freedom's Children - Fields And Me\n05. Freedom's Children - The Crazy World Of Pod (Electronic Concerto)\n06. Freedom's Children - 1999\n07. Freedom's Children - About The Dove And His King\nFREEDOM'S CHILDREN\nGalactic Vibes\nSHADOKS MUSIC\nSHAD 102CD SHAD 102CD\nThis is the third album by South Africa's Freedom's Children, originally released on the Parlophone label. The year is 1971, but the song is \"1999.\" The group is Freedom's and the vibes are galactic. And now just over 30 years later, we can look back at \"1999.\" This is a many-layered album, almost to the point of being cluttered, but this is what makes it interesting. Each time you listen you can hear something new, be it a tone in Brian Davidson's wailing vocals, a riff from Julian Laxton's screaming guitar, a sequence of notes from Barry Irwin's booming bass, the change from sticks to hands on Colin Pratley's awesome drumming, or merely putting your ear right up against the speaker to feel the presence of Ramsay MacKay on the live version of \"The Homecoming.\" The centerpiece of Galactic Vibes is \"The Homecoming,\" which appeared in a shorter version on Astra, but this live version has to be one of South Africa's epic tracks. Recorded live at the Out of Town Club (which, according to a copy of their flyer in the sleeve notes, advertised as a \"steak parlor\"), the track features a quite stunning and by all accounts legendary drum solo that lasts for the best part of 8 minutes before those dramatic guitar chords. Aside from this monstrous drumfest, the album features some blistering, fuzz-edged guitars on the thundering \"That Did It\" as well as the quieter and beautiful \"Fields And Me.\" There is also the experimental keyboard piece, \"The Crazy World Of Pod: Electronic Concerto,\" which is just short enough not to become irritating. The orchestration on \"About The Dove And His King\" adds a beauty and quality sheen to what is quite a rough rock sound, which is due mainly to the inventive recording methods used. With layers of overdubs and no noise reduction, this method created what the sleeve notes describe as a \"musical mystical mist of sound.\" This is a wonderful way to describe the slightly distorted guitars and vague hissing sounds. These guys were breaking barriers not only in South Africa's rather narrow 1970s rock world, but would have broken through numerous perceived limitations on the world stage, had the world bothered to listen. Galactic Vibes is an album that South Africans can be proud of, even 30 years later. It is a great musical achievement that can be hauled out again and again and simply marvelled at.\nOther releases on SHADOKS MUSIC\nOther releases by FREEDOM'S CHILDREN","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line980553"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6818189024925232,"wiki_prob":0.3181810975074768,"text":"Legislative Service Commission\nLSC Analysis of Senate Bill\nSub. S.B. 321*\n126th General Assembly\n(As Reported by S. Finance and Financial Institutions)\nSen. Carey\nBILL SUMMARY\n· Removes the Attorney General from the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation (TUPAC) Board of Trustees.\n· Changes the quorum requirements for the TUPAC Board of Trustees to a majority of voting members instead of a majority of the members.\n· Requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum, instead of an affirmative vote of a majority of the members, in order for the TUPAC Board to take action.\n· Provides that not more than 5% of the total \"disbursements, encumbrances, and obligations\" (rather than \"expenditures\") of certain Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement foundations and funds in a fiscal year may be used for administrative expenses in the same fiscal year.\n· Makes changes to the law governing the Physician Loan Repayment Program including changes to eligibility requirements, reimbursement for certain expenses associated with Program recruitment, and Advisory Board membership.\n· Changes the requirements for participating in the Dentist Loan Repayment Program.\n· Changes certain procedures of the Dentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board.\nCONTENT AND OPERATION\nTobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation (TUPAC) changes\nCurrent law establishes the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation (TUPAC). The purpose of the Foundation is to reduce tobacco use by Ohioans, with emphasis on reductions by youth, minority and regional populations, pregnant women, and others who may be disproportionately affected by tobacco use. The reduction in use is to be accomplished through a plan created by the Foundation that provides, among other things, for grants for research and programs related to tobacco use prevention and cessation. Grants are funded primarily using money distributed to the state pursuant to the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement entered into between the state and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers on November 23, 1998.\nThe general management of the Foundation is vested in a 24-member board of trustees that is made up of 20 voting members and four nonvoting members. Of the 20 voting members, the Director of Health, the Executive Director of the Commission on Minority Health (or the Executive Director's designee), and the Attorney General are ex officio members. Of the four nonvoting members, two are members of the House of Representatives and two are members of the Senate. A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum, and no action can be taken without the affirmative vote of a majority of the members.\nRemoval of Attorney General from Board of Trustees\n(R.C. 183.04)\nThe bill removes the Attorney General from the TUPAC Board.\nChange of Board of Trustees quorum requirement\nThe bill changes the quorum requirement for the TUPAC Board of Trustees to a majority of voting members, instead of a majority of the members. This change coupled with the removal of the Attorney General from the board will result in the quorum number requirement changing from 13 to ten.\nChange of vote requirement for Board of Trustees action\nThe bill provides that the TUPAC Board of Trustees cannot take action without an affirmative vote of a majority of a quorum, instead of an affirmative vote of a majority of the members.\nAdministrative expense limitations regarding certain Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement foundations and funds\nUnder current law, the money received by the state through the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement is divided up and distributed to various funds and foundations that include, for example, the Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation, the Southern Ohio Agricultural and Community Development (SOACD) Foundation, and the Biomedical Research and Technology Transfer Trust Fund (BRTTTF). With respect to the TUPAC and SOACD Foundations, current law provides that no more than 5% of each foundation's total expenditures in a fiscal year can be for its administrative expenses. No more than 5% of the total expenditures of the BRTTTF by the Third Frontier Commission in a fiscal year can be used for the Commission's administrative expenses.[1] The 5% limitations do not apply, however, for any fiscal year for which the Controlling Board approves a spending plan submitted by the Commission or particular foundation.\nThe bill alters the 5% limitation by substituting \"total disbursements, encumbrances, and obligations\" for \"total expenditures.\" The bill also specifies that the 5% limitation in a fiscal year applies to the administrative expenses in the same fiscal year. Finally, the bill provides that the 5% limitation for the BRTTTF applies to expenses relating to the administration of that fund by the Third Frontier Commission, instead of applying to any Commission administrative expenses.\nPhysician Loan Repayment Program\n(R.C. 3702.71 through 3702.81)\nIn 1993, the General Assembly created the Physician Loan Repayment Program.[2] Under the Program, primary care physicians[3] agree to provide primary care services[4] 40 hours per week in a \"health resource shortage area.\"[5] They also agree to treat a percentage of Medicaid and Medicare patients equal to the percentage in their service areas. In return for their service, the physicians receive repayment of up to $80,000 of medical school debt ($20,000 annually over a four-year period).[6]\nProgram participants contract to provide an initial two years of service, then either enter into one follow-up contract for two years of service or two follow-up contracts for one year of service each.[7] The Director of Health may approve a physician for the Program only if the General Assembly appropriates funds for the Program, the Director finds that the physician is eligible for participation, and the physician's primary care specialty[8] is needed in a health resource shortage area.[9]\nEligibility to apply for Program\n(R.C. 3702.72)\nCurrent law. Under current law, a primary care physician may apply for participation in the Physician Loan Repayment Program if the physician has not received national health service corps tuition or student loan repayment assistance and meets one of the following requirements:\n(1) Has enrolled in the final year of an accredited program required for Board certification in a primary care specialty.\n(2) Is enrolled in the final year of a fellowship program in a primary care specialty.\n(3) Has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in Ohio for not more than three years prior to submitting the application.\nThe bill. The bill eliminates the requirement that an applicant for the Program cannot have received national health service corps tuition or student loan repayment assistance and instead requires that the applicant cannot have an outstanding obligation for medical service to the federal government, a state, or other entity at the time of participation in the Program. The bill also eliminates the requirement in (3), above that the applicant has been in practice not more than three years, and replaces it with a requirement that the applicant hold a valid certificate to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery from the State Medical Board of Ohio. The bill retains the requirements in (1) and (2), above.\nReimbursement for travel, meals, and lodging; referral to association\nCurrent law. Current law permits the Director of Health, when recruiting an applicant for the Program, to pay costs incurred by the applicant and the applicant's spouse for travel, meals, and lodging in making one visit to one health resource shortage area. Current law also permits the Director to refer the applicant to the Ohio Primary Care Association, Inc., for assistance in being recruited to a site within a health resource shortage area at which the applicant agrees to be placed.\nThe bill. The bill eliminates the Director's authority to undertake these activities.\n(R.C. 3702.81; R.C. 3702.79 and 3702.80 (not in the bill))\nCurrent law. Current law provides for a Physician Loan Repayment Advisory Board that must provide consultative services, along with the Ohio Board of Regents, to the Director of Health when the Director adopts rules governing the Program. The Advisory Board must also annually submit a report to the Governor and General Assembly describing the operations of the Program during the previous calendar year.\nCurrent law requires that the Board consist of 11 members as follows:\n(1) Six members appointed by the Governor: a representative of the Department of Health, a representative of the Ohio Academy of Family Practice, a representative of the Board of Regents, a representative of the Ohio Primary Care Association, Inc., a representative of the Ohio State Medical Association, and a representative of the Ohio Osteopathic Association.\n(2) Two members of the Ohio House of Representatives: one representative from each political party, appointed by the Speaker of the House.\n(3) Two members of the Ohio Senate: one representative from each political party, appointed by the Senate President.\nExisting law specifies that Board members serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.\nThe bill. The bill removes the requirement that one of the six members of the Advisory Board appointed by the Governor be a representative of the Ohio Primary Care Association, Inc., and replaces it with a requirement that one of these six members be a representative of the Ohio Association of Community Health Centers. The bill also eliminates the provision under which Board members may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties.\nDentist Loan Repayment Program\n(R.C. 3702.89 and 3702.92)\nSub. S.B. 51 of the 125th General Assembly created the Dentist Loan Repayment Program. The program provides loan repayment on behalf of individuals who agree to provide dental services in areas designated as dental health resource shortage areas by the Director of Health. The Department of Health is required to administer the program in cooperation with the Board of Regents and the Dentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board. Under the program, the Ohio Board of Regents may agree to repay all or part of the principal and interest of a government or other educational loan taken by an individual for tuition, educational expenses, and room and board. These expenses must have been incurred while the individual was enrolled in an accredited dental college or a dental college located outside of the United States that meets the standards set by the State Dental Board and must be determined reasonable by the Director of Health. The Director of Health is required to adopt rules in consultation with the Ohio Board of Regents and the Dentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board to implement the Program.\nTo be eligible to participate in the Dentist Loan Repayment Program, an applicant must not have received National Health Service Corps tuition or student loan repayment assistance and must be one of the following: a dental student enrolled in the final year of dental college, a dental resident in the final year of residency, or a dentist engaged in the practice of dentistry in Ohio for no more than three years prior to submitting the application. The application must be submitted to the Director of Health on a form the Director is required to prescribe. All of the following information must be included or supplied:\n(1) The applicant's name, address, and telephone number;\n(2) The name of the dental college the applicant is attending or attended and dates and verification of attendance;\n(3) If the applicant is a dental resident, the facility at which the dental residency is being performed;\n(4) A summary and verification of the educational expenses the applicant seeks reimbursement for under the Program;\n(5) If the applicant is a dentist, the verification of the applicant's license to practice dentistry in Ohio, and proof of good standing;\n(6) Verification of the applicant's United States citizenship or status as a legal alien.\nThe bill changes the requirements for participating in the Program by specifying the following:\n(1) That the individual is not receiving certain assistance in student loan repayment, instead of has never received such assistance;\n(2) That, if practicing dentistry, has been in practice for less than three years instead of less than three years in this state.\nDentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board\nSub. S.B. 51 also created the Dentist Loan Repayment Advisory Board. The Board consists of seven members: one member of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker, one member of the Senate appointed by the President, one representative of the Ohio Board of Regents appointed by the Chancellor, the Director of Health or an employee of the Department of Health designated by the Director, and three representatives of the dental profession appointed by the Governor from persons nominated by the Ohio Dental Association.\nThe Board must designate a chairperson and meet at least once annually. The chairperson is to call special meetings as needed or on the request of six members. Six members constitute a quorum.\nThe bill reduces from six to four the number of members of the Board that constitute a quorum and that are required to compel the chairperson to call a special meeting of the Board.\nReported, S. Finance & Financial Institutions\ns0321-rs-126.doc/kl\n* This analysis was prepared before the report of the Senate Finance and Financial Institutions Committee appeared in the Senate Journal. Note that the list of co-sponsors and the legislative history may be incomplete. In addition, this analysis does not include appropriations or other fiscal provisions. See the Legislative Service Commission's Fiscal Note for Sub. S.B. 321 for an analysis of those provisions.\n[1] The Third Frontier Commission administers the BRTTTF pursuant to the law governing the Commission. (R.C. 183.18 and Chapter 184.)\n[2] The Physician Loan Repayment Program was authorized by H.B. 478 of the 119th General Assembly.\n[3] A \"primary care physician\" is an individual authorized under Ohio law to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery who is Board-certified or Board-eligible in a primary care specialty. (R.C. 3702.71(A).) The terms \"Board-certified\" and \"Board-eligible\" are not defined in the Revised Code. However, according to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), a physician who is Board-certified has completed an approved educational training program and an evaluation process including an examination designed to assess the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to provide quality patient care in that specialty. A physician who is Board-eligible is in the process of becoming Board-certified, although the ABMS discourages the use of this description. ABMS, FAQs (visited Mar. 2, 2004) <http://www.abms.org/faq.asp#WBE>.\n[4] \"Primary care services\" means professional comprehensive personal health services, which may include health education and disease prevention, treatment of uncomplicated health problems, diagnosis of chronic health problems, and overall management of health care services for an individual or a family, and the services of a psychiatrist. \"Primary health care services\" also includes providing the initial contact for health care services and making referrals for secondary and tertiary care and for continuity of health care services. (R.C. 3702.71(B).)\n[5] The Director of Health has designated the following areas as health resource shortage areas:\n· A geographical area, facility, or population group in Ohio that has been designated by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services as a health manpower shortage area under Title III of the \"Public Health Services Act.\" (Title III now classifies a \"health manpower shortage area\" as a \"health professional shortage area.\")\n· A geographical area, facility, or population group in Ohio that meets both of the following criteria: (1) has a population to primary care physician ratio exceeding two thousand to one, and (2) has previously been designated to be a health manpower shortage area by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, but the Director of Health has determined no longer meets the criteria to be a health manpower shortage area.\n(O.A.C. 3701-6-04.)\n[6] Ohio Department of Health, Physician Loan Repayment--Ohio (visited May 1, 2006) <http://www.odh.ohio.gov/odhPrograms/chss/phyloan/ploan1.aspx>.\n[7] Id.\n[8] \"Primary care specialty\" means general internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, or family practice. (R.C. 3702.71(C).)\n[9] R.C. 3702.73.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1383892"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7409414649009705,"wiki_prob":0.25905853509902954,"text":"Year of the Norma/Norman Bates Mother/Son Dynamic?\nPosted in Curiouser & Curiouser with tags ahs, american horror story, american horror story freak show, bates motel, batman, carol kane, clowns, finn wittrock, frances conroy, freak show, freddy highmore, gotham, horror, norma bates, norman bates, robin lord taylor, television, tv, tv series, vera farmiga on November 30, 2014 by TheLadyCatEye\nIs this the year of the Norma/Norman Bates mother/(killer) son dysfunctional relationship dynamic on TV?\nNorman & Norma Bates of Bates Motel\nNo seriously, we have the actual Norma & Norman Bates of Bates Motel, with Norma having to come to terms with her sons psychological illness and issues getting worse and worse; we have Oswald Cobblepott & his mother, Gertrud Kapelput that have a weird connection all their own going on; and then there’s psychotic, copy-cat clown, serial killer, Dandy Mott, and his mother Gloria in this season (four) of American Horror Story: Freak show.\nDandy & Gloria Mott of season 4 of American Horror Story: Freak show\nWhat do these mothers & sons all have in common? Well…the sons are all obviously killers; their mothers know this…or will soon find out…they’re unabashedly devoted to their boys, yet they haven’t a clue how to properly deal with their sons descent into madness….\nBut watch out: These overprotective mothers will do whatever it takes to make sure their boys are safe from harm; even if that means hiding the bodies for them, and crossing a few moral lines themselves along the way.\nOswald Cobblepott, & his mother, Gertrud Kapelput of Gotham\nGertrud is….pretty convinced her Oswald has run off with some lady friend. Not sure where she gets that idea…But nonetheless there’s a few boundaries she needs to abide by:\nFirst rule: Let your son take his bath. Alone. Capiche? …All kinds of awkward here. He’s had a rough day dealing with all kinds of pre-Batman criminal mob stuff. I think he can sponge bathe himself.\nSecond: I’m going to feel very sorry for the poor unfortunate lady soul that may date Oswald in the future. …Both because he’s Oswald Cobblepott and, of course, Gertrud. Nah. I joke. No! Really! 😉 Kudos to whomever dates Robin Lord Taylor’s Oswald. He’s a keeper.\nOh hell…lets be real: These mothers are facing their own journey and descent into madness.\nYeah, Gloria….where he devours them into that void of a mouth, behind that faux DCnu Joker mask.\nIn spite of these mama’s over-protective killer instincts…the monsters their sons have become reflect a really nasty reality we face today: Enabling undesirable, unacceptable, and often abhorrent behaviors in people in order to maintain the status quo; particularly at any costs, and especially if said person has a reputation to maintain.\nIt’s much worse when the killer is rife with privileges, which include class, gender, and race–specifically the white, rich, males who have some sort of societal and class protection. Dandy Mott is a perfect example of someone whose privilege and stunted emotions run unchecked. Sheltered from the world and spoiled rotten by his mother hasn’t helped his psych any either. He’s come to embrace his inner emptiness and darkness, as well as pulling inspiration from the now deceased, tortured soul, Twisty the clown (pictured above).\nDandy Mott’s smashing clown costume\nDandy isn’t afraid to show his mother whom he truly and fully is. This puts Gloria in a very tight spot. Though…it’s hard to empathize someone who enables such warped behavior….especially one that’s admitted to having been at least aware of the inbreeding that’s been going on in the Mott family. It’ll be interesting to see what Gloria ends up doing in the midst of Dandy’s knife happy shenanigans…\nSame could be said for Norma Bates. In that corrupt, quiet, coastal Oregon town there’s only so many places one can hide a body. Norman is still a teenager, and has killed two people or more already….though his diagnosis and motivation isn’t necessarily caused by malice or sociopathy…that we know of. Norman’s blackouts are still something to be explored. He may just have a bad case of mental illness…We’ll have to wait and see. We know where his story goes…but it’s the mechanics of his mental illness we need to understand.\nEither way…It’ll be interesting to see how far these mothers are willing to be pushed, both by themselves and by their sons’ madness.\nGloria, haven’t we seen you at this angle before? Oh! Wait!\nPOISONOUS PARENTS: Harry & Zinnia Wormwood (Matilda)\nPosted in POISONOUS PARENTS on November 13, 2014 by TheLadyCatEye\n“Narrator: Everyone is born, but not everyone is born the same. Some will grow to be butchers, or bakers, or candlestick makers. Some will only be really good at making Jell-O salad. One way or another, though, every human being is unique, for better or for worse.\n[Harry takes his first look at Matilda, grunts, and leaves]\nNarrator: Most parents believe their children are the most beautiful creatures ever to grace the planet. Others take a less emotional approach.\n[Harry and Zinnia are leaving the hospital with the baby]\nHarry Wormwood: What a waste of time!\nZinnia Wormwood: And painful!\nHarry Wormwood: And expensive, $9.25 for a bar of soap?\nZinnia Wormwood: Well I had to take a shower, Harry!\nHarry Wormwood: $5,000? I’m not paying it. What’re they going to do, repossess the kid?”\n-Matilda (1996), the day Matilda was born.\nAh…Harry and Zinnia Wormwood.\nWhere could I possibly start with these two?\nWell, first of all:\nCongratulations, for taking absolutely no interest in your intellectual prodigy daughter. She’s a human calculator, has read every single children’s library book, and has a college level IQ. I mean, look at this face:\nShe has a face that will one day, undoubtedly, cure cancer…and all you can do is sit there in sloth with your tainted TV dinners and your dirty car sales tricks. Yeah…I mean, who needs to read and fill their minds with knowledge right? Who needs those pesky intellectuals who move our society forward anyway?? You know…the doctors and scientists that help cure common diseases; the teachers that are partially responsible for making sure the next generation doesn’t devolve. Oh! And the engineers that build our space ships to send our astronauts into space in hopes that we might find signs of intelligent life somewhere….out there…wherever that may be. Because lets face it: We’re coming up bone dry in the signs of intelligent life on our planet; common sense becoming a common rarity. But yeah…Who needs those people, eh? Meh…\nWell, the good news is that your kid is immune to your bullshittery of deceit, stupidity and ignorance with her hunger and eagerness to learn and grow as a person. She’s proof that we, as offspring, aren’t fully influenced by our environment, and/or our parents or the guardians that raised us.\nConsidering how many parents would deem it a god send to have a child like Matilda, one can only wonder WHY people like Harry & Zinnia Wormwood have children to begin with? Chances are Michael (Matilda’s older brother) and Matilda were the byproduct of a couple of passionate nights between Mr. & Mrs. Wormwood. I mean, that’s how it all starts out anyway, right? Perhaps Zinnia and Harry don’t actually like children. …The world may never know. And for that, I shrug.\nEither way, Harry and Zinnia, between your negligence, and not caring whether your child succeeds at life, people in the real world like YOU are the very definition of why our society is heading towards a real life Idiocracy.\nSo again, congratulations and hats off to you!\nIn all seriousness, Matilda is one of those stories where the book and the movie are both really good, at least in my humble opinion. I never did see the Broadway musical, so I cannot comment on that. In terms of the book and the film each has a unique vision, is stylistic, and each allow the audience to look through the eyes of this extraordinary young girl.\nAnd come on! Who doesn’t like Danny Devito’s vision and direction? Have you seen his later film, Death To Smoochy (2002)?\nMatilda is a grade A example of why we don’t need to be co-dependent on our parents for everything. Given the direction Generation Y (Millennials) are headed in at this moment in time, with the state of the economy, dwindling full time jobs, hours, and benefits, loss of healthcare. etc. it becomes more of a challenge for a good number of my generation not to depend on their parents and family in some aspect or another. Like it or not, there are many situations that are not within my generations control right now, even if we do everything in our power to be as independent as humanly possible. But that’s just where we’re at at this moment in time.\nThe story of Matilda is a clear demonstration of how our reactions play a crucial role in maintaining our own happiness, health, and overall well being. That’s not to say that everyone isn’t different in how they deal with stress and negativity. If you suffer from depression or any sort of mental illness, then that crucially needs to be factored into the equation. Matilda holds herself up pretty well, in spite of her parents neglect and unethical behavior. She doesn’t allow her parents to discourage her from reading, learning or growing to her fullest potential; and most certainly doesn’t react or blame herself unnecessarily for Harry and Zinnia’s ignorance. Her maturity level is exceeded beyond her years.\nLauren Lungerich, creator of MTV’s Awkward once said: (…though I’ve heard this quote before) “You can’t always control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it.” Something about her saying this during the making of Awkward really stood out to me. Awkward’s main character, Jenna Hamilton–which I’ll be writing about here soon in more detail–had a lot of negativity coming her way during the first couple of seasons of Awkward from school, her parents, and various curve balls that life kept throwing at this high school misfit. She managed to handle and deal with her problems with grace and tact, and turned a lot of her problems into something that could help herself, as well as others move forward. Matilda does something similar, but still manages to have fun in the process; proving you don’t have to be malicious to play a prank on someone, especially your parents. After all, it’s a possibility they deserve a lot worse than a prank scare, but that’s not for me or you to decide. 😉\nThat poor parrot though…stuck in a chimney for days? Ah, well…I’d probably stick to super gluing my dads hat on his head.\nThere are two drastically different directions this story could have gone:\n1. The actual direction it went in: Overcoming fear, discouragement, and the ignorance of others; resulting in fun times.\nHow I put it: Going full Carrie.\nAs I tweeted just a couple of days ago to Mara Wilson herself:\nhttps://twitter.com/YoungNStrange\n“.@MaraWritesStuff Matilda could have gone full Carrie, had she not believed in the power of #Cheerios Thurston Harris & Cheerios.” #ThurstonHar\nHey…anything is possible. 😉\nCarrie had a much more damaging upbringing than Matilda did, so I’m not too sure this is a fair assessment… Ultimately, the choice was theirs.\nHarry and Zinnia Wormwood represent the apathy that comes when society starts to take for granted the thing, situations, places, and people we should value…but don’t have an appreciation for because they’re so integrated into our daily lives. Although the book came out in 1988, and the movie in 1996, many aspects of the story of Matilda still ring true, especially in this day and age as we descend further and further into a materialistic and self absorbed society. Harry and Zinnia’s bad parenting doesn’t just come from their self absorbed and unethical nature; they allow themselves to become susceptible to the media and other societal influences by zoning out in front of the television and other forms of easily digestible consumerism.\nThe Wormwood’s don’t value their daughter and her intelligence, simply because they don’t value hard work, intellectual pursuits, education, or a challenge. They’d rather take the easy way out by doing the least amount of work for the largest amount of reward. Harry Wormwood’s job as a dirty car salesman makes this fact pretty obvious and overt. This extends to their parenting as well. Matilda learned instinctively very very early on that she had to become super self reliant if she were to survive in this world; especially from an emotional standpoint.\nOften times, those that cannot seek emotional solace and support from within their own families often have no other choice but to seek it out elsewhere. Matilda found a kindred spirit–and later a mother–in her teacher, Miss Honey. Both of them share a similar past with abusive and negligent family members. Ms. Trunchbull being Miss Honey’s main guardian after the death of her father at a very young age.\n“You were born into a family that doesn’t always appreciate you, but one day, things are going to be very different.” Miss Honey; Matilda (1996)\nWhen we’re young, we have very little say in where we get to live, let alone who we surround ourselves with. In the US, many teenagers don’t get to leave their home until their 18th birthday. …That is unless they get themselves emancipated, or can convince social services to have them removed from whatever dysfunctional situations they’re in. Many children end up coming up with coping methods to deal with the dysfunction. Matilda’s coping method was immersing herself in her story books, school work, and surrounding herself with friends. For someone as young as six, that may have been her only option. Either way, as challenging as it can be not to get sucked into family drama and dysfunction, Matilda managed to completely focus her energies on expanding the power of her mind; using it constructively. That’s not an easy thing to do, but it can be done and is often necessary.\nIn spite of their bad parenting, Harry and Zinnia did at least one great thing for their daughter, and that was giving her up for adoption to the one person who loved and valued her most: Jennifer Honey; allowing Matilda to grow up in a loving family.\nEveryone has to do what’s best for their children. Sometimes that requires letting them go so they can live up to their fullest potential, in a positive and loving environment.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line818778"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5909777283668518,"wiki_prob":0.4090222716331482,"text":"Courtenay wellness clinic to host grand opening celebration\nPublic welcome to festivities at Grove Health & Wellness\nHot dogs and cake, bouncy castle and balloon animals – The Grove Health & Wellness is celebrating their grand opening. And you’re invited!\nThe Grand Opening Community Party takes place June 22 from 1-4 p.m. at the corner of Third Street and Duncan Avenue (332-3rd Street) in The Grove’s parking lot, and all are welcome to attend.\n“We’re so excited to invite the community to help us celebrate our new wellness centre and show off our fabulous location,” said Dr. Liza Grant, chiropractor and managing co-partner at The Grove. “We actually opened earlier in the year but waited for warmer weather and barbecue season to have a party.\n“We’ll be serving up burgers and dogs, painting faces and eating cake out in our parking lot – should be tonnes of fun! Plus, the clinic will be open for tours, and all our practitioners will be on hand to meet people and answer questions.”\nGrant and fellow chiropractors and partners, Dr. Debbie Wright and Dr. Alicia Steele, opened the doors to their new facility in January.\nAs the Valley’s only clinic that’s exclusively dedicated to offering an integrated and collaborative model of healthcare, Grant notes that they have been very well received.\n“The public response has been overwhelmingly positive, and the clinic is thriving,” she said. “In fact, we’re in the process of adding two more healthcare professionals to our multi-disciplinary team, which includes registered massage therapists, chiropractors, naturopathic and traditional Chinese medicine doctors, an acupuncturist and even an artist in residence.”\nWith an integrated approach to healthcare, practitioners take a team approach and have the expectation of working as a collective. This method of collaboration allows the practitioners to have shared access to patients’ medical files and discuss cases in order to better support them. Patients are free to agree to the approach or not and are consulted throughout the process.\n“Our ‘whole-patient’ approach to healthcare is really catching on, and our patients love being part of a collaborative, supportive environment,” said Grant. “We can see that with just how bustling our clinic is – well, it’s that, and also being able to access multiple wellness options in one great downtown location.\n“So, save the date, and come on down and see what we’re all about!”\nTo find out more about the event and/or to book appointments, visit grovewellness.ca or call 250-334-4844.\nB.C. Liberals call for tax relief for struggling forest industry\nNorth Island College celebrates 150th bachelor of business administration graduate","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1010346"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7089879512786865,"wiki_prob":0.7089879512786865,"text":"Arts, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Islamic Studies Research: Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum 2011\nRuth Mas\nPresented by The Qatar Foundation\nMeeting Report\nSociety, Education, and Urbanization\nAn Islamic Society in the Modern World\nThe Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum convened for the second time from November 20 – 22, 2011, in Doha, to discuss progress and challenges in transforming Qatar from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy and in creating a more sustainable future. The Foundation recruited eminent scientists and leaders from Qatar and around the world to share their insights on how to build a robust R&D infrastructure, encourage regional and worldwide collaborations, and foster entrepreneurship in Qatar. In addition, one day was devoted to a series of research presentations in five areas: energy, environmental, biomedical, computing, and arts and humanities research.\nThis eBriefing looks at the research presented in the arts, social sciences, humanities, and Islamic studies research track—comprising three general sessions. The three general sessions spanned social sciences research, cultural commentary, and economic analysis. A panel of distinguished experts in various fields of the humanities and social sciences challenged the presenters to consider new ways of thinking about their methodologies and their results. The sessions covered research questions of specific interest to Qatar and the Gulf States, among them understanding the role of Islamic law in questions of modern jurisprudence, unpacking the effects of increased urbanization in Doha, analyzing the changed and unchanged patterns of daily life in Qatar, and considering the various manifestations of civic engagement in the country.\nUse the tabs above to find a meeting report and additional information from this event.\nA report and multimedia presentations from the forum-wide sessions can be found in the Building a Knowledge-based Economy in Qatar eBriefing.\nReports on the individual research tracks can be found at:\nBiomedical Research eBriefing\nEnergy Research eBriefing\nComputing Research eBriefing\nEnvironmental Research eBriefing\nFor speaker abstracts, download the Annual Research Forum Proceedings here.\nFor speaker biographies, download the Annual Research Forum Program book here.\nDistinguished Research Award Sponsors\nScientific Publication Partner\nBooks and Journal Articles\nAmani Ahmed\nAhmed A. 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Georgetown contributes to Islamic bioethics field. November 14, 2010.\nArts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Islamic Studies Research Panel\nRichard Charkin\nBloomsbury Publishing Plc, UK\nMostafa Kharoufi, PhD\nNader Ardalan\nHarvard University & Ardalan Associates, LLC\nAli Mohayuddin Qaradaghi, PhD\nMohammad Hussien Al-Anazi\nAwqaf Ministry of Qatar\nDarwish Al-Emadi, PhD\ne-mail | website\nBadria Ali Al-Harami\nQatar General Secretariat for Development Planning\nFatima Al-Kubaisi, PhD\nAshraf Galal, PhD\nQatar Charity\nKelly Knez, PhD\nAspetar-Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital\nRichard Leete, PhD\nOmar Bin al-Khattab, Qatar\nZiad Said, PhD\nCollege of the North Atlantic-Qatar, Doha\nAshraf Salama, PhD, FRSA, FHEA\nPinar Ucar\nQatar Statistics Authority\nSue Underwood OBE\nQatar Museums Authority\nGeorgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar\nGeorgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar\nRuth Mas, PhD\nRuth Mas is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islam. A graduate of the University of Toronto's Religious Studies Department, she is currently working in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research expertise lies in the intellectual and political dimensions of contemporary Islam and she focuses on issues of secularism and contemporary Islamic thought. She is specifically interested in Islamic discourses that explicitly support the secularization and reform of the Islamic tradition and examines how they are shaped by secular power. Ruth Mas is currently completing a book project entitled: On Secular Islam: Time, Power and Tradition in Contemporary Islamic Thought.\nProfessor Mas has published widely in the areas Muslim subject and identity formation, secularism, post-colonialism, transnationalism, affect and temporality as well as in the fields of gender and Islam and classical Islamic thought. She has held visiting positions at Cornell University, Cambridge University, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities–Essen, and at Viadrina University–Frankfurt Oder. She has also been invited to participate in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, the Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory at the University of California–Irvine, and the Foucault Spring School at the Catholic University of Leuvan. Mas conducts her field work in Morocco and Syria, and her work is recognized for its interdisciplinarity.\nQatar's pursuit of a knowledge-based economy is directed by its high profile in an interconnected world where knowledge resources are increasingly crucial to sustaining economies. The Qatar Foundation's emphasis on education and research recognizes the productive assets of human capital and technology as well as the globally competitive need for interdisciplinary and boundary-crossing innovation developed from the research community. It strives to produce information and knowledge for all, while focusing on the needs of developing societies around the world. The creation of knowledge clusters in the universities and research centers of Doha reflects Qatar's recognition that the establishment of knowledge in the form of the arts, social sciences, humanities, and Islamic studies is a crucial aspect of its national enterprise, especially if it is going to grow its capacity to intervene collectively and strategically on a global scale. These are the fields that shape the ways in which conceptual frameworks, social structures, cultural contexts and social relations are communicated and rendered meaningful to others.\nQatar's global competitiveness has resulted in the spectacular economic growth and urbanization of its capital city Doha, whose changing urban geography has been driven by economic diversification that is transforming its public spaces. The large and increasing revenues from its exports of gas and oil have allowed Qatar to invest heavily in its economic and social infrastructures and in the well-being of its people. Extensive infrastructural plans and urban development designs have vastly restructured urban spatial geography and the social practices and patterns of its urban life, transforming traditional Arabic social interactions and aligning individual and social identities with the values of the economic cosmopolitanism of middle class society.\nQatar's globalization is shaping the values of the country's civil society. Whether or not this will lead to the adoption of Western liberal values and these values' claims to democracy depends on the degree to which Qatari civil society supports the cultural and ideological icons of globalized financial capitalism and its elites. The reorganization of Qatar's civic and social institutions is building up the social capital, trust, and shared values that are holding Qatari society together. Qatari citizens have an opportunity to pursue political solutions for the wide variety of pressing issues that arise in developing societies. In Qatar, these issues include the needs that accompany the evolution of social formations and family units, different barriers to social development, education reform, the creation of mass media and communication, health advocacy and gender, and the role, economics, and welfare of migrant laborers. The ability of civil society to advocate for and collaborate with the State on urgent matters will amplify the productive and prosperous aspects of Qatari society and ensure the self-sufficiency of its citizens.\nQatar's openness to the world is conditioned by its attachment to the Islamic tradition and the country's grounding in the values of Arab society. Qataris are considering carefully what this adherence will mean with regard to the impact and strictures of global power. Because of the rapid social change and innovation that Qatar is experiencing, it is to be expected that traditional social values and practices are transformed. However, the centrality of the Islamic tradition in Qatar motivates Qataris to ensure the continued relevance of practices legislated and prescribed by the Qur'an and Hadith. This adherence to the Islamic tradition not only shapes the affective ties and sensibilities of Qatari Muslims, it also compels them to preserve their artistic, legal, and pedagogical traditions. As a result, Qatar is building museums, deliberating the limits of economic and jurisprudential change, and creating international information resources and databanks of Islamic bioethics.\nBadria Ali Al-Harami, General Secretariat for Development Planning\nAshraf Galal, Qatar Charity\nRichard Leete, General Secretariat for Development Planning\nZiad Said, College of The North Atlantic-Qatar\nAshraf M. Salama, Qatar University\nPinar Ucar, Qatar Statistics Authority\nSue Underwood OBE, Qatar Museums Authority\nStudent Speakers:\nAmani Ahmed, Qatar University\nAljazzi Hamad Fetais, Qatar University\nAhmed Khalid Osman Warfa, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar\nThe Qatari fertility rate is in decline.\nKenyan migrants face challenges due to Qatar's high cost of living and because they are not hired in the jobs for which they have been trained.\nDoha will be characterized in the future by the \"differential space\" of proactive participation, innovation, and diversity.\nThe Villaggio in Doha has shifted the consumer practices and social behaviors of the population.\nThe Supreme Council for Family Affairs (SCFA) assesses the quality of national institutions in delivering basic social, educational, health, cultural, media, and environmental services to Qataris.\nSocial organization\nQatar's spectacular economic growth has transformed the organization of its society. One of the most marked changes in a society that is characterized by strong family cohesion and that identifies strongly with the Arabo-Islamic tradition, is in family formation. Badria Ali Al-Harami, Social Researcher at the General Secretariat for Devleopment Planning, working with Pinar Ucar, Statistical Specialist at the Qatar Statistics Authority and Richard Leete, Director of the Department of Social Development at the General Secretariat for Development Planning in Doha, Qatar, asks how and to what extent recent economic and social changes have affected Qatari family formation and child rearing, and whether these changes follow marriage and child rearing patterns in other countries.\nAl-Harami has found that a rising proportion of Qatari women remain permanently unmarried and this has affected the fertility rates. (Fertiilty rate is the number of births per woman. Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates.) One reason may be that, in general, Qatari men are attaining lower levels of education than women, and many women are remaining unmarried because they are reluctant to marry someone of lower educational status. Al-Harami and her team has found that another reason for declining birth rate lies in the fact that the more educated a women is, the fewer children she has. Pinar Ucar also reported on the large decline in Qatari fertility in the past generation, and found that this change is a result of women marrying later, starting childbearing later, and ending childbearing earlier. In addition, women who marry men of high occupational status are having fewer children. Richard Leete believes that another factor in the decrease in Qatari fertility is the rising incidence of divorce; unlike their male counterparts, Qatari women who divorce are much less likely to remarry.\nThe likelihood of marriage of Qatari women decreases as education level increases. (Image courtesy of Badria Ali Al-Harami)\nThe Qatari family unit is also a keen interest of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs (SCFA) of Qatar. The Council's purpose is to enhance the role of the Qatari family in society and to advance the sustainable development of Qatari society. These goals have led the SCFA to assess the quality of national institutions in delivering basic social, educational, health, cultural, media, and environmental services to Qataris. Ashraf Galal, Local Development Director at Qatar Charity, documented and discussed how the SCFA has attempted to improve the quality of national services offered by the government and the extent to which these services respond to Qatari needs.\nQataris identified education, health, and entertainment services as lacking in their society. (Image courtesy of Ashraf Galal)\nGalal's study integrates a comprehensive methodological and situational analysis with an impressive array of qualitative and quantitative measures that cut across different categories of age, gender, class, marriage status, housing, and educational levels. The study assesses how Qataris perceive the current services offered by the government and identifies remaining barriers to social development. In light of the study's results, Galal recommends establishing and maintaining community centers as a social enterprise shared by government groups, NGOs, and the private sector in order to encourage community participation and to motivate and create social and family cohesion.\nImmigrants are crucial to the economic growth and organization of Qatari society\nAhmed Warfa, of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, has conducted an exploratory survey of Kenyan migrants in Qatar and has found that Kenya is one of highest recipients in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) of inward remittances—the money sent back to Kenya by Kenyans living and working abroad. His study of the impact of remittance and migration on the local economy of Kenyans in Qatar has found that as migrant workers, they are highly disappointed with gaining an income lower than what they initially imagined. The challenges that these migrants face results from Qatar's high cost of living, which impedes their saving enough money before returning to Kenya. The median migrant is a 29-year-old man who has 13 years of schooling; more than a third of male Kenyan immigrants have a university degree, which is unexpected for a migrant from a developing country. On average, these migrants work 9 hours a day, 6 days a week and earn an annualized income of USD 4,681 of which they remit USD 2,472 (over half) to Kenya. More than 70% of Kenyan migrants are unsatisfied with their savings, and 21% are saving less than they were in Kenya. Warfa strongly advocates empowering migrants to manage their expenses and recommends matching migrants to the jobs for which they have trained.\nQatar is invested in the education and future of its society. As such, careful attention is being paid to the trends and attitudes of Qatari citizens towards the education sector. Aljazzi Hamad Fetais of Qatar University discussed the importance of higher education for developing countries, especially in a globalized context where universities are competing to supply the increased demand for education. Fetais is examining the quality of university services delivered to students by the offices of admissions and registration at Qatar University. To measure student satisfaction, she has adapted the SERVQUAL survey method to evaluate specific service attributes in terms of their tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, and empathy towards students.\nMeanwhile Ziad Said of the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, Doha, is studying the impact of Qatari education reform. Said, an industrial chemist by qualification and a university faculty member by profession (former head of applied science at Qatar University), turned to this subject after the decline in student interest in science forced Qatar University to close its program in the sciences. The Arabic Speaking Students' Attitudes toward Science Survey (ASSASS) is a pilot study which seeks to determine whether elementary and high school students will go on to study science at the university level. The results indicate that almost two thirds of the students enjoy science classes at school and almost half are interested in continuing on to science programs at university. According to a World Bank analysis in 2008, however, only 19% of college students are enrolled in science and engineering programs in Qatar. Nevertheless, the high intention factor in this study indicates a positive attitude toward science in Qatari schools and marks an improvement in student interest, which although not immediately evident in terms of student enrollment in science at the university level, reflects one positive outcome of the education reform in Qatar.\nUrban space and social practice\nThe rapid and extensive urbanization of Qatar is propelled by economic strategies that situate its capital city, Doha, as an international center that thrives in a knowledge economy. Ashraf Salama of Qatar University and his team are conducting a study that analyzes the complex factors that produce urban space as well as the complex interdependencies between knowledge and economic and physical urban development in Doha. Because Doha's recent economic renewal influences the evolving structure of its urban environment, Salama is tracking how it has moved from a traditional settlement to a construction boom and then to a city with high global connectivity. The framework he has created addresses the spatial development of Doha over the past 50 years and the conflict that the commercialization of space has produced with its social environment. Salama, however, projects a period in the near future of \"differential space\" in which proactive participation, innovation, and diversity will be Doha's key characteristics. For a city like Doha to compete globally, it will increasingly rely on the production of a knowledge-intensive economy, one based on international services, international banking, and international education. Salama estimates that urban space will be the driver of this economy, and a key to the future prosperity of the country.\nThe commercialization of Qatar's urban space has transformed the social practices of its inhabitants. Amani Ahmed discussed the role and symbolic function of Villaggio, Doha's newest and largest shopping mall. She explored the impact of Qatari shopping malls upon Qatari society, culture, and identity. Though supermalls are less frequently visited than was initially anticipated, they accommodate an assortment of social expectations and needs while sustaining a variety of cultural traditions. In Doha, the Villaggio has shifted the patterns and social behaviors of everyday life, changed the daily activities of the population, and created new consumer practices. These changes include new eating habits, altered times of sleep, and new relationships within both the household and neighborhood. Since individuals tend to visit the malls with their families, the mall has partially replaced home visits between families and neighbors. This also means that restaurants and coffee shops are playing a significant role in integrating Qatari families. After some initial resistance, the cinema has also now become a part of mainstream Qatari social life. Ahmed contends that the Villaggio functions as a space for new forms of social practice that are free from the social constraints observable in other spaces of traditional Qatari society.\nUnderstanding the dynamic between urban space and social practice and the changes that ensure is necessary to the preservation and promotion of Qatar's historical and aesthetic traditions. When Sue Underwood was commissioned by the Qatar Museum Authority (QMA) to develop a new museum, she investigated the characteristics of Qatari Arab audiences that might visit such a museum to understand how the spatial and content planning of such a museum should be modified for these audiences. Underwood focused primarily on the constitution of Arab families and on their motivations for visiting museums. To gather this information, she distributed a questionnaire endorsed by the Supreme Education Council and the QMA. This study revealed that respondents across all demographics are highly receptive to visiting the museum with their families. A range of emotional engagement and attitude patterns characterize the experiences of families visiting museums, but family behavior once in museums is primarily directed by their social motivations. For 72% of families surveyed, the ability to socialize was the primary motivational characteristic in their museum experience, a fundamental cultural difference from the West. Museum planners need to be aware of the characteristics of family socialization in Qatar such as the importance given to conversation in interacting with museum exhibits and the need for museum content to engage all members of the family, including children.\nMohammad Hussein Al-Anazi, Awqaf Ministry of Qatar\nDarwish Al-Emadi, Qatar University\nFatima Al-Kubaisi, Qatar University\nKelly Knez, Aspetar–Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital\nKhalid Mohammed Muftah, Omar Bin al-Khattab, Qatar\nFrieda Wiebe, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar\nTara Makarem, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar\nHadeel Ali Radwan, Qatar Petroleum\nIn Qatar, civic participation does not necessarily lead to increased democracy.\nAIDS stigmatizes Qatari women living with the disease more than it does men.\nA bioethics research infrastructure will establish Qatar as the world's premiere resource on Islamic bioethics.\nIslamic tradition and civil society\nCivic engagement and civil society are pillars of democracy in the West, leading many to assume that strengthening civil society inevitably leads to democratization. U.S. foreign policy for example, has promoted civic engagement as a crucial element in the unfolding of democratic political systems in the Arab world. Darwish Al-Emadi of the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute at Qatar University, however, questions this causal relationship after creating and administering the first ever Qatar World Values Survey (QWVS) in December 2010 to over 1,000 Qataris.\nThe QWVS gauged the level of social tolerance, political interest, appreciation for democracy, confidence in government institutions, and of participation in civil society organizations amongst its Qatari interviewees. The questions were formulated to assess whether people who participate in civic organizations and movements in Qatar exemplify democratic behavior or not. What Al-Emadi found was that in Qatar, civic participation does not necessarily lead citizens towards an increased appreciation for democracy. He concluded that because those most actively engaged in civil society stand the greatest chance of benefiting from existing social and political structures, they have little motivation or desire to change them.\nQatar's citizens are motivated to voluntary collective action and social organization by their shared adherence to identities, practices, and beliefs, and many of these are increasingly shaped by and in reaction to mass media. One recent example of this lies in the high-profile debates to affect the Middle East and Qatari society that resulted from the publication of the Danish cartoons and the boycotts that followed in 2006. Tara Makarem from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar asked whether the background of Qataris who viewed media coverage of these events, or whether the way reports were branded by different news channels affected viewers' perception of bias in the media coverage. If branding does affect perception, Makarem asks, then what are the background attributes that trigger the differences in viewer responses? She and her team conducted an experimental survey consisting of a short video clip and five different modules which assessed the background perceptions of the controversy and evaluated views of Al-Jazeera's and CNN's coverage of the affair. While they found that for the most part religion does drive differences in perception of the events and other background characteristics do not, they also found that perception of bias in news coverage also changed when the group thought they were receiving information from CNN instead of Al Jazeera.\nThe news media play an important role in constituting the modern subjectivities of Muslims. Presently, research is being conducted on the effect and influence on children in Qatar of religious material disseminated by the internet and satellite television. Mohammad Hussein Al-Anazi from the Awqaf Ministry of Qatar, who studies the importance of religious discourse in all phases of childhood psychological health, cautions that religious leaders, teachers, and all those who publicly invoke religious terminology should pay special care in the messages they deliver to children. These messages should be clear and straightforward, and follow the example of the Prophet Muhammad as well as the many verses in the Qur'an and Hadith regarding the care and attention to be paid to children.\nIn order to analyze the psychological impact that religious discourse can have on a child, Al-Anazi created a questionnaire for male students in Doha. He visited several psychological health centers and interviewed religious scholars and teachers to determine whether young students enjoyed listening to religious lectures. The study found that the reason most likely to prevent children from attending classes in religion was a lack of clarity and fear about the afterlife. Following modern psychoanalytic theory, Al-Anazi stresses the importance of clear and informed communication in treating these topics with children and the importance of religious discourse in cultivating the self-worth of a child.\nRecommendations for adapting religious teaching for children to account for their psychological development. (Image courtesy of Mohammad Hussein Al-Anazi)\nThe Islamic legal tradition is increasingly being subjected to modern economic structures of power and governance and Islamic scholars therefore preoccupied with ensuring the applicability of traditional jurisprudence to present-day situations. Khalid Mohammed Muftah, of Omar Bin al-Khattab, Qatar contends that Islamic sciences and practices are inherently versatile and in a constant state of renewal, and he argues that this is especially so with the science of jurisprudence, because it is applicable to diverse contexts and locations. This is because the renewal of any tradition begins at the moment it is studied, and it becomes a never-ending process that accompanies current scientific advances and is influenced by other types of social processes. Therefore, in order for Islamic jurisprudence to be relevant to a modern Islamic nation state, its origins and fundamentals need to be recognized, as well as the Islamic modalities that this tradition has instituted and how these are being regenerated in the present. Muftah advocates integrating historical and descriptive methods to understand the inherent regenerative and adaptive capacity of the texts of Islamic law. These approaches can elucidate the contexts, intellectual sources, and the languages of the texts of jurisprudence, as well as the different schools of thought and the epistemologies that they represent. For Hadeel Ali Radwan of Qatar Petroleum, Islam's legal tradition needs to support an Islamic economic system that is able to develop new economic policies that are relevant to a globalized economy and competitive with global institutions. This is especially pertinent, as Islamic law forbids commercial insurance. Radwan explores the possibility of obtaining economic services that are compatible with Islamic law to facilitate the introduction of insurance in Muslim countries as well as their implementation within the laws and regulations of the State of Qatar.\nPublic health and bioethics\nThe concern with preventing disease and prolonging the life of its citizens is pushing Qatar to promote public health and information. Qatar not only takes health measures, it also deals with the social stigma brought on by the increased awareness of diseases. For example, three decades into the epidemic, AIDS still carries a destructive stigma. Fatima Al-Kubaisi of Qatar University reported that this stigma is difficult to investigate because of the paucity of research on the topic in Arab society, and especially in Qatar. From her review of the few studies that do exist, she revealed that HIV is seen as a male disease. Scarce consideration is paid to women who are HIV-positive and who make up 30.4% of people living with AIDS in the Arab world. Al-Kubaisi has collected data from 520 students at Qatar University and analyzed the attitudes that continue to mark HIV-positive women in Qatar. Reactions to HIV-positive individuals vary according to the gender of those with the disease. The students interviewed attributed more blame and stigma to women with AIDS than to men and supported imposing harsh limits on the sexual and reproductive rights of women suffering from AIDS. Only 45% approved of women with AIDS getting married (as compared to the 63% for men), 78% believed that women with AIDS should not get married, and 56% advocated that these women be sterilized.\nIn order for public health intervention to effectively prevent disease and improve the health and quality of life of its citizens, Qatar needs to promote healthy behavior that is compatible with its society. As Qatar shifts from being a Bedouin nomadic society to one that is more urban, there has been a dramatic increase of diabetes and obesity in Qataris. The Qatari culture and physical infrastructure has limited the opportunities for planned and incidental physical activity for women. Kelly Knez, of Aspetar–Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital contends that to better advocate for health norms that are appropriate to the boundaries and cultures of Qatari society, we must disabuse ourselves of Western assumptions about Qatari women and focus instead on their lived experiences. Knez examines the physical and cultural conditions under which Qatari women do participate in exercise. Using a qualitative analytic approach, she has researched the lived experiences of a group of young and single Qatari women and found that they do indeed exercise. Her results attest to the central role of families in facilitating young women's physical activity, within cultural boundaries that preserve the reputation of the family. Young women must be able to work within and across cultural norms to be physically active.\nThe health norms of Islamic societies in the Middle East are legislated within and coextensive with a comprehensive tradition of bioethics. The Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University and its Bioethics Research Library in Washington DC and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Library in Qatar are collaborating on an ambitious project to create an international information resource on Islamic bioethics. Frieda Wiebe and her team are developing a core collection and database, which will include source material in bioethics and its intersections with Islamic law, Islamic studies, and the modern scientific and medical advances that are being questioned and dealt with from an Arab-Islamic perspective. Their aim is to promote the use of and access to information that will underlie scholarly studies and any research or clinical work being pursued in the field of Islamic bioethics. The material's classification and index supports the needs of scholars, researchers, clinicians, students, and the general public. This project will create a bioethics research infrastructure, establishing Qatar as the world's premiere resource on Islamic bioethics.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line889177"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7293339371681213,"wiki_prob":0.27066606283187866,"text":"Disability Discrimination Act\npublished on June 21, 2019byAuthor Comments Off on Disability Discrimination Act\nDisability Discrimination Act\nThe Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against people in respect to their disabilities in connection to employment, education, provision of goods and services, and transport. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, several countries have passed laws focused at reducing unjust discrimination against people with disabilities, these laws started to appear as the concept of civil rights which has become more significant globally. The law follows other forms of anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation intended at preventing racial discrimination and sexism which started to surface in the second half of the twentieth century.\nA UK parliamentary act of 1995 on Disability Discrimination departs from fundamental principles of older UK Discrimination Law such as Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976. The core concepts of the UK Disability Discrimination Act are: less favorable treatment for reasons related to a disabled person’s disability; and the failure to make a reasonable adjustment.\nReasonable adjustment is the radical perception that makes UK Disability Discrimination Act very different from the older legislation. This idea focuses more on an active approach that necessitates employers, service providers, and others to take strides to remove barriers from the participation of disabled people, such as employers providing accessible IT equipment, or shops making their premises accessible to wheelchair users.\nThe Codes of Practice of the Disability Rights Commission give more information to organizations with duties on assessing whether a certain adjustment is reasonable. Generally, the factors to consider include: whether the planned adjustment would meet the needs of the disabled person; whether the adjustment is affordable; and whether the adjustment would have a severe effect on other people.\nOccasionally, there may be no reasonable adjustment and the outcome is a less favorable treatment for the disabled person such as a person did not understand the implications of entering a loan or mortgage agreement and did not have anyone authorized to act for them, it would be senseless for a bank or building society to enter into the agreement. Consequently, the Act permits service providers and employers to justify less favorable treatment and in some cases failure to make reasonable adjustment in particular situations.\nThere is no doubt that the public part can make a true difference to the lives of disabled people, many of the services given by the public sector are of serious importance to disabled and many of this services are only provided by the public sector. Through leading the way in guaranteeing fair treatment to people with disabilities, the public can do a big difference to the enhance a better way of living for disabled people. The Disability Discrimination Act ensures all the activities by the public sector and introduces a new positive duty on the public’s part to eliminate discrimination and harassment of people with disabilities as well as promote equality of opportunity for them.\nPrevious Previous post: When Should You Instruct A Car Accident Lawyer\nNext Next post: The Court Determines Child Custody\nWhat is the true definition of a Personal Injury?\nCommercial Litigation Financing\nThe Court Determines Child Custody\nWhen Should You Instruct A Car Accident Lawyer","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line627992"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6732242703437805,"wiki_prob":0.6732242703437805,"text":"Tag / Sherlock Holmes\nSunday June 3rd 2012 Sunday June 10th 2012 by Xavier Voigt-Hill\nE3: The Preview\nEditorial, Gaming\nAC3, Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed 3, Bethesda, Bethesda Softworks, Dawnguard, Dawnguard DLC, Dead Island, E3, E3 2012, Far Cry, Far Cry 3, Gaming, Hitman, Hitman: Absolution, Kinect, Lara Croft, Lego, Lord of the Rings, lord of the rings lego, LOTR, Microsoft, Naughty Dog, Nintendo, PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PS3, Sherlock Holmes, Skyrim, Sony, The Elder Scrolls, The Last of Us, Tomb Raider, tomb raider lara croft, Ubisoft, Uncharted, Vita, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Smart Glass\nE3 is just around the corner, so we thought we’d give you a peek at some of the stuff that we’re looking forward to this week.\nThe Last of Us is the latest title from Naughty Dog, famous for the Uncharted and Jak & Daxter games. This PS3 exclusive is set in a post-pandemic world destroyed by a plague, and players take control of Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a brave young girl, as they try to survive across America. Think Dead Island but better.\nLara Croft is back, and she’s determined to get her crown back as queen of action games.\nThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard\nSkyrim came out late last year to almost universal acclaim, including our own game of the year award. Now, Bethesda is set to give us more information about the recently-announced Dawnguard DLC.\nLego games are always awesome, and the minifgure take on Lord of the Rings promises to be no exception.\nThe Hitman series returns with death, death and even more death.\nDespite being an obvious attempt to cash in on the ongoing Sherlock fever, this LA Noire-esque detective game seems intriguing.\nThe Far Cry series returns to an isolated island, and this time you get crazier the longer you stay there.\nWith a new protagonist and a new continent, AC3 promises to be epic, but can it differ enough from its predecessors to make gamers happy?\nHave we missed anything? Let us know in the comments, and get ready for the biggest week of the gaming year. E3 here we come!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line146566"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.615903913974762,"wiki_prob":0.615903913974762,"text":"Ozone in the air has increased by 40% since the industrial revolution\nAngle News June 17, 2019, 4:43 am 1.7k Views\nOzone in the air has increased by 40 per cent since the industrial revolution, analysis of 150-year-old snow and ice has revealed.\nThe greenhouse gas is created when pollutants from cars and factories react with sunlight.\nNow the first study of its kind has backed fears it’s fuelling the rise in asthma and other lung illnesses.\nIt’s based on ice cores and compressed snow from Antarctica and Greenland that contain a history of concentrations over more than 150 years.\nOzone in the air has increased by 40 per cent since the industrial revolution, analysis of 150-year-old snow and ice (pictured) has revealed. The greenhouse gas is created when pollutants from cars and factories react with sunlight\nOzone molecules do not remain trapped in ice and snow – but oxygen chemicals do, so his team measured the amounts of two of these trapped in air bubbles.\nKnown as oxygen-16 and 18 isotopes respectively, the production of ozone in the atmosphere changes their proportion.\nThe analysis showed the rise in ground level, or tropospheric, ozone since 1850 was around 40 per cent.\nThis is much smaller than the increases indicated by 19th Century observations – and consistent with the numbers predicted by computer models.\nLead author Dr Laurence Yeung, of Rice University in the US, said: ‘We’ve been able to track how much ozone there was in the ancient atmosphere.\n‘This hasn’t been done before – and it’s remarkable we can do it at all.\nThese results show today’s best models simulate ancient tropospheric ozone levels well.\n‘That bolsters our confidence in their ability to predict how tropospheric ozone levels will change in the future.\n‘These measurements constrain the amount of warming caused by anthropogenic ozone.’\nThe first study of its kind has backed fears it’s fuelling the rise in asthma and other lung illnesses. Pictured: Rice University geochemists Laurence Yeung and Asmita Banerjee\nThe most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated ozone in Earth’s lower atmosphere today is contributing 0.4 watts per square metre of radiative forcing to the planet’s climate.\nBut the margin of error for that prediction was 50 per cent – or 0.2 watts per square metre.\nDr Yeung said: ‘That’s a really big error bar. Having better pre-industrial ozone estimates can significantly reduce those uncertainties.\n‘It’s like guessing how heavy your suitcase is when there’s a fee for bags over 50 pounds.\n‘With the old error bars, you’d be saying, ‘I think my bag is between 20 and 60 pounds.’ That’s not good enough if you can’t afford to pay the penalty.’\nWHAT IS THE OZONE LAYER?\nOzone is a molecule comprised of three oxygen atoms that occurs naturally in small amounts.\nIn the stratosphere, roughly seven to 25 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen, shielding the planet from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer and cataracts, suppress immune systems and also damage plants.\nIt is produced in tropical latitudes and distributed around the globe.\nCloser to the ground, ozone can also be created by photochemical reactions between the sun and pollution from vehicle emissions and other sources, forming harmful smog.\nAlthough warmer-than-average stratospheric weather conditions have reduced ozone depletion during the past two years, the current ozone hole area is still large compared to the 1980s, when the depletion of the ozone layer above Antarctica was first detected.\nIn the stratosphere, roughly seven to 25 miles above Earth’s surface, the ozone layer acts like sunscreen, shielding the planet from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation\nThis is because levels of ozone-depleting substances like chlorine and bromine remain high enough to produce significant ozone loss.\nIn the 1970s, it was recognised that chemicals called CFCs, used for example in refrigeration and aerosols, were destroying ozone in the stratosphere.\nIn 1987, the Montreal Protocol was agreed, which led to the phase-out of CFCs and, recently, the first signs of recovery of the Antarctic ozone layer.\nThe upper stratosphere at lower latitudes is also showing clear signs of recovery, proving the Montreal Protocol is working well.\nBut the new study, published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, found it is likely not recovering at latitudes between 60°N and 60°S (London is at 51°N).\nThe cause is not certain but the researchers believe it is possible climate change is altering the pattern of atmospheric circulation – causing more ozone to be carried away from the tropics.\nThey say another possibility is that very short-lived substances (VSLSs), which contain chlorine and bromine, could be destroying ozone in the lower stratosphere.\nVSLSs include chemicals used as solvents, paint strippers, and as degreasing agents.\nOne is even used in the production of an ozone-friendly replacement for CFCs.\nMost of Earth’s ozone is in the stratosphere, which is more than five miles above the planet’s surface.\nThis is sometimes called ‘good’ ozone because it blocks most of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, and is thus essential for life on Earth.\nThe rest of Earth’s ozone lies in the troposphere, closer to the surface. Here, ozone’s reactivity can be harmful to plants, animals and people.\nIt’s a primary component of urban smog, which forms near ground level in sunlit-driven reactions between oxygen and pollutants from motor vehicle exhaust.\nThe Environmental Protection Agency considers exposure to ozone levels greater than 70 parts per billion for eight hours or longer to be unhealthy.\nDr Yeung said: ‘The thing about ozone is scientists have only been studying it in detail for a few decades.\n‘We didn’t know why ozone was so abundant in air pollution until the 1970s. That’s when we started to recognise how air pollution was changing atmospheric chemistry. Cars were driving up ground-level ozone.’\nMost of Earth’s ozone is in the stratosphere, which is more than five miles above the planet’s surface. This is sometimes called ‘good’ ozone because it blocks most of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, and is thus essential for life on Earth\nWhile the earliest measurements of tropospheric ozone date to the late 19th century, those data conflict with the best estimates from today’s state-of-the-art atmospheric chemistry models.\nDr Yeung said: ‘Most of those older data are from starch-paper tests where the paper changes colors after reacting with ozone.\n‘The tests are not the most reliable – the colour change depends on relative humidity, for example – but they suggest, nevertheless, that ground-level ozone could have increased up to 300 per cent over the past century.\n‘In contrast, today’s best computer models suggest a more moderate increase of 25 to 50 per cent. That’s a huge difference.\n‘There’s just no other data out there, so it’s hard to know which is right, or if both are right and those particular measurements are not a good benchmark for the whole troposphere.\n‘The community has struggled with this question for a long time. We wanted to find new data that could make headway on this unsolved problem.’\nWith the onset of industrialisation and the burning of fossil fuels around 1850, humans began adding more ozone to the lower atmosphere.\nDr Yeung said: ‘One of the most exciting aspects was how well the ice-core record matched model predictions.\n‘This was a case where we made a measurement, and independently, a model produced something that was in very close agreement with the experimental evidence.\n‘I think it shows how far atmospheric and climate scientists have come in being able to accurately predict how humans are changing Earth’s atmosphere — particularly its chemistry.’\nThe full findings of the study were published in the journal Nature.\nWHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR AIR POLLUTANTS?\nAccording to the Environmental protection Agency, there are six major pollutants which can impact on human health and well-being.\nParticulate matter: Particulate matter is the term for a mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air.\nThese particles come in many sizes and shapes and can be made up of hundreds of different chemicals.\nSome are emitted directly from a source, such as construction sites, unpaved roads, fields, smokestacks or fires.\nFine particles (2.5 parts per million)are the main cause of reduced visibility (haze) in parts of the United States, including many of our treasured national parks and wilderness areas.\nCarbon monoxide: Breathing air with a high concentration of CO reduces the amount of oxygen that can be transported in the blood stream to critical organs like the heart and brain.\nAt very high levels, which are possible indoors or in other enclosed environments, CO can cause dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and death.\nNitrogen dioxide: Nitrogen dioxide primarily gets in the air from the burning of fuel. NO\nIt forms from emissions from cars, trucks and buses, power plants, and off-road equipment.\nBreathing air with a high concentration of NO can irritate airways in the human respiratory system. Such exposures over short periods can aggravate respiratory diseases, particularly asthma, leading to respiratory symptoms (such as coughing, wheezing or difficulty breathing).\nSulfur dioxide: The largest source of Sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere is the burning of fossil fuels by power plants and other industrial facilities.\nShort-term exposures to SO can harm the human respiratory system and make breathing difficult. Children, the elderly, and those who suffer from asthma are particularly sensitive to effects of SO.\nGround-level Ozone: The ozone layer in the lower area of the lower portion of the stratosphere, approximately 12 to 19 miles above the surface of the planet (20 to 30 km).\nAlthough ozone protects us against UV radiation, when it is found at ground level it can cause health problems for vulnerable people who suffer from lung diseases such as asthma.\nIt is created by chemical reactions between oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC) – that are found in exhaust fumes – in the presence of sunlight.\nLead: Major sources of lead in the air are ore and metals processing and piston-engine aircraft operating on leaded aviation fuel.\nOther sources are waste incinerators, utilities, and lead-acid battery manufacturers. The highest air concentrations of lead are usually found near lead smelters.\nDepending on the level of exposure, lead can adversely affect the nervous system, kidney function, immune system, reproductive and developmental systems and the cardiovascular system.\nInfants and young children are especially sensitive to even low levels of lead, which may contribute to behavioural problems, learning deficits and lowered IQ.\nSource: EPA\nPrevious article US ‘deaths of despair’ surge to record high, report reveals\nNext article Man, 40, cuts off BOTH of his hands after he’s dragged through an industrial machine work accident\nUS ‘deaths of despair’ surge to record high, report reveals\nMan, 40, cuts off BOTH of his hands after he’s dragged through an industrial machine work accident","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line931901"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9671127200126648,"wiki_prob":0.9671127200126648,"text":"Federer Survives Opening Round Battle\nWorld No. 1 and defending champion Roger Federer survived his opening round match against American Robby Ginepri, prevailing 6-7(2), 7-6(5), 6-0 at the Lindner Tennis Center on Tuesday.\nFederer, who fired 21 aces, avoided his first three-match losing streak since dropping four matches in a row in July-August 2002. Last week in Toronto Federer fell to Frenchman Gilles Simon in a three-set opening round match and prior to that in the Wimbledon final to Rafael Nadal on July 6.\nAfter dropping the first set in a tie-break, Federer found himself on the brink of defeat as Ginepri served for the match at 6-5. But Federer broke at 30-40 and then grabbed a 6-4 lead in the tie-break before leveling the match.\nIn the third set, Federer lost only one point on serve and broke Ginepri three times as he improved to 5-0 lifetime against the Georgia resident.\nFederer converted six of 16 break points while saving three of six on his serve in the two hour and 13 minute match. Going into the third set, Federer converted three of 10 break points.\n\"I mean I actually played okay I thought throughout the match. I Just missed some opportunities,\" said Federer. \"I thought I was the better player actually throughout the match. I was down a set and 6-5 with the break. So it was dangerous today no doubt, but I believed in my chance all the way to the end.\"\nGinepri, added, \"Honestly I was just caught up in the match and I didn't have too many feelings. Usually I would get pretty nervous or tight at that point, but from the first set on at four-all, five-four I was already, my anxiety was at a pretty high level. So the looking across the net and seeing Roger and playing in a high stakes match, it's tough. But I really didn't have a chance to really think about that game too much. Just kind of stepped up and played a couple sloppy points. Went into a tiebreak and obviously lost it.\"\nIn a first round match, 2002 Cincinnati champion Carlos Moya defeated Serb Janko Tipsarevic 7-6(5), 7-5 in just over two hours while improving his career tournament record to 17-9.\nAfter an opening set that didn't include a break point for either player, Moya broke for the first time to go up 3-2. He lost serve in the eighth game but then broke in the 11th game. He then served out the match to even his match record at 16-16 on the season. Moya will take on No. 4 Nikolay Davydenko in the second round on Wednesday.\nMoya converted two of seven break points while saving five of six break points on his serve. Tipsarevic's first serve percentage was only 44 and he double-faulted six times.\nNo. 10 seed Fernando Verdasco overcame nine double faults to defeat qualifier Victor Estrella of the Dominican Republic 6-3, 7-5. The Spaniard saved all five break points he faced while converting three of eight break point chances.\nNo. 11 seed Richard Gasquet of France defeated countryman Michael Llodra for the second week in a row as he advanced to the second round with a 3-6, 6-1, 1-0 ret. victory on Tuesday.\nLast week at the Rogers Masters in Toronto, the top Frenchman prevailed in three sets before losing in the quarterfinals to eventual champion Rafael Nadal.\nAfter a slow start, Gasquet took control of the second set with breaks in the second and sixth games. He served out the set and then broke Llodra in the first game of the final set before the left-hander retired after 70 minutes with a left arm injury.\nIn second round play, top Swede Robin Soderling hit 10 aces and surprised No. 12 seed Tommy Robredo 7-6(6), 6-4. Soderling never faced break point on his serve and broke the Spaniard in the third game of the second set. He will face the winner of Philipp Kohlschreiber and No. 6 Andy Roddick on Thursday.\nNo. 16 seed Ivo Karlovic lost only two points on first serve (37 of 39) en route to a 6-3, 7-6(3) win over Argentine Jose Acasuso. The towering Croat fired 17 aces and he will next face Federer in the third round on Thursday.\nIn the longest match of the tournament so far (2:35), French lucky loser Arnaud Clement fired a career-high 25 aces in a 7-6(4), 6-7(5), 6-3 first round win over Swede Thomas Johansson. The all-time series between the two veterans is now 6-6.\nJohansson, who hit 28 aces, including 12 in the second set, was broken for the second straight time in the fourth game of the final set as he double-faulted. Clement closed out the match with his 25th ace.\nAmerican wild card John Isner set an ATP record by winning all 39 first serve points in his 7-6(2), 6-3 victory over Italian qualifier Andrea Stoppini.\nIsner fired 17 aces and only lost nine points, all on second serve, in 11 games. Since the ATP began keeping match statistics in 1991, no player had won more than 35 points without losing one in a match.\nFrenchman Florent Serra saved a match point in the second set tie-break and rallied to defeat German qualifier Benjamin Becker 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-4.\nSerra trailed 5-6 in the tie-break before winning the next three points to level the match at one set each. In the final set, Becker was broken in the third game and Serra never faced break point in his last four service games.\nHe will face World No. 2 and seven-time '08 title winner Rafael Nadal in the second round on Wednesday. The Spaniard comes in with a career-best 29-match winning streak.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line850506"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9097728133201599,"wiki_prob":0.9097728133201599,"text":"You are here: Riolo Law » Drone Aircraft, FAA, Legal » UAV for Christmas\nPublished on: Saturday - 27 December 2014\nCategories: Drone Aircraft, FAA, Legal\nAny day now, federal regulators will propose rules for safely operating small commercial drones over the U.S.. But the fledgling drone industry — in Los Angeles County and across the nation — has not been waiting to take off. Sales of the robotic flying machines are soaring. This month several thousand people flocked to the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena near USC for the commercial drone industry’s first expo.\nGauging from the energetic crowd and busy industry booths, spectators could easily forget that flying a drone to make money is illegal, and new rules won’t be finalized for months.\nThe Federal Aviation Administration says that by year-end it plans to propose rules for commercial drones weighing less than 55 pounds. The public will then get to comment. “Drones will affect and change the world—much like automobiles, but on a much larger scale.”\n– Taylor Chien, DroneFly’s 30-year-old co-founder and chief executive\nNear the Los Angeles expo entrance, a booth for DroneFly Inc., a Westlake Village start-up, was promoting its small helicopter-like drones with the help of music and a DJ. Young women in crop tops and short skirts attracted interest in the company’s drones that it was selling to anyone, including kids and professionals.\n“Drones will affect and change the world — much like automobiles, but on a much larger scale,” Taylor Chien, DroneFly’s 30-year-old co-founder and chief executive, proclaimed in a video playing on a big screen.\nThe video showed footage taken by the company’s camera-equipped drone as it flew through downtown streets bordered with skyscrapers, along the Los Angeles River and over nearby neighborhoods, before landing with a thud.\nNot everyone was impressed. “It frightens me. It really does,” David Morton, a retired Federal Aviation Administration inspector and speaker at the expo, said when a person in the crowd asked about DroneFly’s video 15 minutes later. “The technology is way ahead of the regulatory environment.”\nDrones have hit buildings and people, but so far there have been no reports of serious injuries in the United States. A growing concern is the almost daily reports by pilots who see drones flying dangerously close to their aircrafts.\nTwo aircraft on approach to Los Angeles International Airport in May reported seeing a “trash can-sized” drone at 6,500 feet, according to a report filed with the FAA.\nIn October, a small plane flying above Burbank at 8,000 feet reported seeing a red-and-black drone, measuring three feet across, passing just off its wing in the opposite direction.\nA Life Flight helicopter in Pennsylvania had to make a sudden hard turn when a nurse on board noticed a drone flying fast toward the craft.\nA boy plays with the controls of a helicopter used to promote pilot training during the drone expo. Anyone can fly a drone for fun or personal use — as long as national safety guidelines are followed. YouTube has videos of drones flying out of control and then disappearing. The “flyaways” can be caused by faulty programming, interference with the drones’ GPS systems or lost connections with the ground controller.\nThe FAA’s ban on flying commercial drones until regulations are in place has clearly held back the industry. Yet some entrepreneurs have grown tired of waiting and are operating the unmanned robotic flying machines anyway — spurred by the agency’s lack of enforcement.\nSales are increasing fast as the drones become cheaper, more powerful and easier to fly. Drone prices start at under $50 on Amazon. Frank Tesoro, DroneFly’s 30-year-old president, said the company that he founded with Chien in a garage sold $3 million in drones in 2013 — its first year of operation. This year, he said, the company is set to triple that. Evidence of the industry’s booming sales comes from Parrot, a French firm that is one of the few drone makers that is a public company. The firm said last month that its third-quarter sales of the machines climbed 130% over the same period last year.\nThe public often connects drones to their controversial use by the military. Organizers of the expo, however, said they wanted to promote the technology’s many promising commercial uses.\nFarmers want to use drones to monitor crops and improve yields. Industrial companies see using them to inspect smokestacks, pipelines and other hard-to-reach property. News media groups envision them as reporting tools. Only a handful of companies have received an exemption to fly drones commercially. Anyone, however, can fly a drone for fun or personal use — as long as national safety guidelines are followed.\nExpecting thousands of drones to be given as Christmas gifts, the FAA began a safety campaign this week, reminding amateur operators of the rules. The guidelines require operators to keep drones below 400 feet, always within sight and at least five miles from airports. Entrepreneurs have been waiting for years for the FAA’s rules for commercial drones. Many expo attendees said they fear the proposed rules will be so onerous that many people will be kept out of the business. Among their concerns is that the agency will require drone operators to get a license similar to what is required of commercial pilots — a certificate that can take many months and cost tens of thousands of dollars.\n“Licenses hold you accountable for doing the right thing with the technology,” Morton told a roomful of entrepreneurs and others at the expo, which attracted dozens of companies and an estimated 4,000 people. “We want to follow the rules,” A.J. Jolivette, chief executive of Terosaur, a drone firm in Huntington Beach, responded. But if the rules are too strict, he said, it will cause people to “go around the regulations.”\nSo far, the agency has filed notices of enforcement action against just five people who were flying drones commercially.\nRaphael Pirker was fined $10,000 after he used a drone to film a promotional video of the University of Virginia. The FAA contended that he had operated the unmanned glider without a license and recklessly, nearly missing a pedestrian and buildings. Pirker challenged the fine, but last month the National Transportation Safety Board ruled the FAA had the power to punish drone operators for reckless behavior. An administrative law judge must now determine whether Pirker’s flight was reckless.\nDuring an expo panel, the chief executives of four drone companies, including Chien, spoke of trying to succeed despite the ban on flying commercial drones. “I can teach anyone to fly in five minutes,” Chien said. “Who hasn’t had the dream to fly?… It’s a huge movement, and it’s here to stay.”\nLA Times 24 Dec 2014\nWant to Fly a UAV? - FAA Propose New Rules for Small UAS","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line802177"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8826932311058044,"wiki_prob":0.8826932311058044,"text":"Yogi’s journey from subsistence farmer to one of top traders of Surkhet - Blogs\nGovinda Yogi manned the counter of his vegetable shop along a bustling road in Birendranagar, the headquarters of Surkhet district in mid-western Nepal. Green vegetables-- cabbages, cucumbers--were kept on racks as Yogi’s employees took orders from customers and weighed the vegetables. It was late afternoon, which meant customers were out shopping for vegetables. The shop, among a dozen wholesalers in this town of 50,000 people, remains busy every day in early morning and evening, when small shop owners and customers purchase vegetables.\nOutside the shop, a pick-up truck and jeep were being loaded with dry vegetables such as onion and potato. Yogi, a 39–year-old man with a lean frame which he draped in layers of white shirt and black waistcoat, was himself travelling in the truck to Kalikot, a district 70 kilometres north in Karnali region, to sell the products.\n“I am happy with what I have got now. I get to travel to several places in course of my business. I also get to meet farmers and talk about growing vegetables,” he said. “I will also tell famers what to grow in upcoming seasons and promote their products.”\nA former subsistence farmer, Yogi’s fortunes took a turn for better after he moved from the village of Goganpani in Dailekh district to this burgeoning town nine years ago. Back in the village with about 46 households, his life was full of deprivation. After his 52-year-old father died in 1993, Yogi who was eldest among five brothers, shouldered the responsibility of running the family of nine including two sisters. He passed the grade 10 examination that year and travelled to Birendranagar to pursue higher education.\nBut that was not to be. Before long, he started to support his contractor uncle as an accountant, earning a monthly salary of 12,000 rupees. But he was under pressure to support his large family back in Dailekh. He spent most of time at work, hence missed his classes. As a result, he couldn’t complete his education. In 1999, he married and moved back to Goganpani.\nBack at his native place, Yogi resumed vegetable farming at his 12 ropanis of farmland. In Kewal Singh Bogati, a local agriculture technician who ran a nonprofit called Forward, he found a mentor. “He encouraged me to grow vegetables,” Yogi recalled. Until then, smallholder farmers like Yogi grew maize, wheat and rice, but they could barely live off the products for six months. With the help of Bogati, he started to explore commercial farming.\nFourteen years ago, he and other farmers registered a cooperative and started to grow cauliflower, beans, tomato, potato and cabbage. But they faced stiff competition from businessmen who had better resources such as pick-up trucks to carry vegetables to bigger markets. “For almost a year, we had to battle against big businesses that enjoyed monopoly over vehicles for transportation,” he said.\nMembers of the cooperative decided to have their own vegetable collection centre in Ratanangla, a township of about 40 households. Yogi was tasked with setting it up. With the zeal of a man committed to perform better, Yogi explored new markets in Nepalgunj and elsewhere.\nFarmers would carry the vegetable in doko, a weaker basket and sell it at his collection centre in Ratanangla. By 2005, his supply grew four times. “I used to send 4-5 trucks to Nepalgunj and Kohalpur in a day,” he recalled.\nHe was buoyed by the success at Ratanangla. So he moved to Birendranagar 10 years ago. Five years after his move, he made yet another stride, thanks in large part to High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP), a $18.9-million project funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) with Ministry of Agriculture Development as an executive agency and SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) and the Agro Enterprise Center as implementing partners. The seven-year project, launched in early 2011, targeted 13,500 households in seven districts in mid-western Nepal. Its goal: to reduce poverty and raise incomes of smallholder farmers.\nYogi benefited from several training programs and exposure visits organized by HVAP. He was part of a trip to nearby markets of Babiyachaur, Salkot and Bidhyapur, where he discussed with farmers about vegetable production. “We spoke about vegetable seeds and the market for the products. The famers also started to receive technical assistance through HVAP,” he said.\nTraders, farmers, bankers and agriculture experts participated in the meetings called Multi Stakeholder Platform. They were crucial in helping develop links that would form the core of the network for the business. The value chain approach adopted by the project was instrumental in building business linkages in order to assist farmers make the crucial transition from subsistence farming to sustainable commercial farming. The initiative has allowed thousands of farmers to sell their agri-products in fast growing markets in and around the region.\nOver the years, Yogi participated in training on accountancy, marketing and business management. For him, these sessions proved transformative. He has significantly upgraded his business.\nBut sometimes, effective learning derives from experience rather than lectures in a seminar hall.\nIn November last year, supplies of tomato suddenly increased, prompting him to scramble for market. “We hadn’t expected such huge output. It turned out that the harvest was good,” he recalled. Every day during the autumn season, he collected about 70 quintals of tomatoes from 120 farmers from three villages—Chiurikhet, Jangala and Salkot—of Surkhet district. Overwhelmed with the supply, he sought new markets and ended up sending vegetables to the capital Kathmandu, his first foray outside the region.\nStill, he struggled to manage the shipment. He had to work overtime and cultivate contacts with traders in the bigger market of Kathmandu. The price of vegetables wildly fluctuated: he suffered loss of one quintal in each shipment. Nevertheless, Yogi learned a few lessons from the transaction. “After the deal, I gained confidence that I could supply to Kathmandu. But for now, I will concentrate on markets here because without cold storage, tomatoes can get damaged quickly. So it’s better not to take big risks,” he said.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1471906"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.74937504529953,"wiki_prob":0.74937504529953,"text":"« Back All about Concerts\nNew Wave 2010: when the stars light up Jurmala\nBy Howard Jarvis. 31.07.2010\nThe budget is €2 million. The official prize money totals €100,000. The publicity is priceless. New Wave is back.\nGallery: New Wave 2010\nIt’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for young artists to display the verve and beauty of their natural musical talents in a significant and widely watched musical event. The ninth New Wave 2010 International Competition for Young Singers of Popular Music is once again underway.\nOut of more than 12,000 initial applications from 31 countries received by the competition’s organizing committee, the expert jury selected 17 participants from 12 countries to compete for victory in the final in Jurmala, following qualifying rounds in Russia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, China, Latvia, Ukraine and Finland.\nTaking place at the Dzintari Concert Hall in the coastal resort of Jurmala, from July 27 to August 1, this final stage in the competition is bound to be a grueling but ultimately rewarding process for the participants.\nThe New Wave 2010 prize fund is worth €100,000. The first-place winner will get €50,000, the runner-up will receive €30,000, and the third-place prize is €20,000.\nBesides the upcoming stars, all eyes will be on the red carpet to watch the biggest names in the Russian and international music and entertainment business arriving in Jurmala. Many will be performing during the festival. This year, special guests include pop singers Toni Braxton, Lara Fabian and Engelbert Humperdinck, the Italian tenor Alessandro Safina, and soprano Anna Netrebko. A long list of big-name Russian stars includes Philipp Kirkorov, Vladimir Presniakov, Dima Bilan, Valery Leontiev, Kristina Orbakaitė and Zemfira. The organizers promise “a boundless sea of positive emotions in hospitable Jurmala” in which all fans of popular music will be able to see “a brilliant six-day show-program competition”.\nThe popularity of New Wave (Novaya Volna), with its pine-and-dune seaside setting, rivals that of Eurovision in many of the countries of the former Soviet Union. The 17 participants for the competition’s grand prize this year come from 12 countries: Sona Shahgeldyan from Armenia, Milk and Kisses from Azerbaijan, Litesound from Belarus, Gabriella from Brazil, Niki Manolov from Bulgaria, Uku Suviste from Estonia (see interview), Stacy from Finland, Hila Ben David from Israel, Kairat Tuntekov from Kazakhstan, the groups PeR and Lady's Sweet (see interview) from Latvia, three artists from Russia – Music Hayk, Murakami and Yegor Cesar – and three from Ukraine – Tatyana Shirko, Ivan Berezovsky and the girl group Payuschie trusy (Singin' Panties).\nSome finalists were already named after the national selection rounds. Several applicants were given additional musical tasks on the basis of which the jury could make a final decision. Those who were selected by jury in the selection rounds participated in a semi-final at the Borodino Hall in Moscow on April 14 and 15. That was attended by as many as 125 performers, 51 of whom were admitted to the second day of the semi-final.\nThe event in Jurmala lasts for six days: three contest days, two special-event days involving the well-established stars, and, at the end, a day in which the competition results are announced followed by a final concert.\nCompetition participants will have to perform internationally known hit songs, hits known in their own countries, and songs specially written for the festival. The jury, headed by the well-dressed and easily distinguishable Igor Krutoi, is known to be highly critical of the participants and justifiably feared. Other jury members include Alexander Rumyantsev, New Wave’s general director, as well as music producers, composers, radio DJs and past New Wave winners.\nRivaling Eurovision\nThe similarity to Eurovision is evidenced by the fact that several of the participants – Milk and Kisses, Litesound, Niki Manolov, PeR and Ivan Berezovsky – have also been finalists in national Eurovision competitions. This is a fact that hasn’t escaped the watchful eyes of the organizers of Eurovision themselves, as they told RigaNOW!.\n“Naturally, we keep an eye on other music contests organized around the world, so we are aware of the New Wave contest,” Jarmo Siim, communications director for Eurovision, said. “Especially as some of the participants of the Eurovision Song Contest have taken part in the New Wave competition too and have been successful.”\nAs examples, he mentioned the winners of the 2004, 2005 and 2007 New Wave contests – Cosmos, Intars Busulis and Natalia Gordienko, as well as Maarja (or Maarja-Liis Ilus) from Estonia. And, of course, Russia’s most famous music superstar Alla Pugacheva, who represented Russia at Eurovision in Dublin in 1997 and who has helped New Wave independently, even handing out her own special prize.\n“But it seems that the way the two contests are organized is very different,” Siim cautioned. “The Eurovision Song Contest has a true television format, in which countries, represented by their public broadcasters, compete to find Europe’s best act and song. Viewers are heavily involved through tele-voting at the Eurovision Song Contest, which now has a long tradition.”\nHowever, Eurovision has only the best things to say about New Wave. “We believe that the New Wave festival is organized at a high level and with the best intentions,” Siim explained. “Obviously, this is intensified because the festival has seen several of the biggest music names in Europe participate.”\nTo boost their chances, some of the participants from smaller countries have spent a lot of time working on their songs and routines in better-connected cities, increasing the international nature of the festival – and cooling any nationalistic fervor that may be felt by audiences.\nMilk and Kisses, for example – the first artists from Azerbaijan to participate in New Wave – relocated to Kiev in the months leading up to the festival, recording, mixing and rehearsing their numbers for the competition. Their song written for the contest is called “Podruga” (Friend), written together with the popular Ukrainian musician Dmitry Shurov.\nLatvia, the hosts, will be represented by two contestants this year. “The organizing committee, after thinking for a long time and weighing up all the pros and cons of the quality of the Latvian artists, announces that it invites two groups who were noted by the jury – PeR and Lady’s Sweet”, New Wave General Director Alexander Rumyantsev said at the national stage of the competition.\nThe trio PeR, founded in 2007 and named after the initials of the three members’ names Pēteris Upelnieks, Edmund Rasmanis and Ralph Eiland, sing in the style of beat-boxing. Lady’s Sweet also has three members, Karīna Tropa, Jolanta Strikaite and Vineta Elksne. Their musical career began with a collaboration with the group Sweet Waterz. This talented trio has also participated in a rock opera based on a Latvian national myth, “Lačplēsis”, and a concert series called “Stories of the Captains”.\nRigaNOW! wishes all contestants and applicants, from all countries, the best of luck for the final.\nJapan welcomes first store of Latvian goods Plastic Surgery: the knife that heals?\nArtify-online 24.01.2011 05:23\nmida ma otsin, aitah\nAly Chiman 08.03.2019 15:42\nMy name is Aly and I would like to know if you would have any interest to have your website here at bestriga.com promoted as\na resource on our blog alychidesign.com ?\nWe are in the midst of updating our broken link resources to include current and up to date resources for our readers. Our\nresource links are manually approved allowing us to mark a link as a do-follow link as well\nIf you may be interested please in being included as a resource on our blog, please let me know.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1320126"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7503131628036499,"wiki_prob":0.7503131628036499,"text":"Newington Blogs\nHands on History 2019\nLog into Newington College →\nQ1)\nOne of the main reasons why our group decided to choose this game was because we thought it looked fun and interesting. When we started researching the game, we found it originated from the 1700s in Britain, especially for sailors and boatsmen. We thought this would be an exciting topic as it was quite a unique topic as instead of just society as a whole, it was a specific time and place in which the game was played.\nCrown & Anchor is a chance game that originated in Britain. The game is played with a board with the 6 symbols of the game (club, diamond, spade, heart, crown and anchor) on it. Then there are players, in our game we had two or three and a banker. The players had 3 chips in which they placed all of them on certain symbols in which they think they would role on. Each player was playing individually against the banker and depending on what symbols the dice landed on the more or less money they would win back from the banker.\nAt first, the game started off poorly as we took a while to set the game up and the players were getting frustrated and board, however, once the game did start it started to flow nicely and most people seemed to be enjoying the game and were doing well. We did have to enforce the rules a bit to some people but after that, the game got better and went into a better rhythm.\nWhat we found that Crown & Anchor was a game that was played by mostly sailors and that it was a game that anyone could play as it required no skill just luck. And on a boat with lots of people and nothing to do, this game brought a sense of excitement as anyone could play and it was exciting to see who would win the jackpot.\nPosted by Nicholas Calic on 07 Apr 11:36\nYou need to be signed in to view comments for this post. Sign in now?\n© Copyright 2019 Newington College ICT","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1244563"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6833767294883728,"wiki_prob":0.6833767294883728,"text":"Home News Brexit Leadership Deals No One Signed Up For\nBrexit Leadership Deals No One Signed Up For\nBritain’s political slate is about to be wiped clean as politicians on all sides of Parliament resign as part of the Brexit fall out.\nHowever, as the dust settles and the way ahead becomes clearer, the future of the country appears to be in the hands of a minority of left and right activists rather than the electorate.\nMany may consider they did not sign up to see Boris Johnson or a leave unknown take over as prime minister when they voted to remain or leave the European Union.\nBut the result seems to be that Labour’s 750,000 members and the 150,000 signed up Tory supporters will decide what happens next.\nThe move disenfranchises millions of voters who watching events play out in Westminster.\nCorbyn’s untenable position\nThe Tories are discussing their options behind closed doors, while Labour has a more public demonstration of dissatisfaction with leader Jeremy Corbyn.\nAt least 18 of his shadow cabinet have resigned, claiming he lacks the leadership skills to take them into a general election. They have been replaced with more faceless unknowns carrying out roles no one knew existed.\nTory MPs and party activists will decide who is the next incumbent of 10 Downing Street, while Labour’s MPs and supporters will make a similar decision for their party if Corbyn goes, which is becoming extremely likely.\nCorbyn is increasingly reaping the blame for Brexit for failing to mobilise Labour supporters to vote remain.\nOsborne switches sides\n“Half of our voters didn’t know what Labour’s position was,” said MP Angela Eagle, as she resigned from the shadow cabinet.\n“Labour can’t be led by someone who can’t get that simple message across.”\nMeanwhile, Chancellor George Osborne seems to have switched sides from remain to leave as he voiced support for Boris Johnson’s move to take over leadership of the Tories and take the plumb job in Downing Street.\n“I’ve still got a job to do to steer Britain through economic turbulence,” he said. “The Treasury and Bank of England have a strategy and funding in place to settle the markets and to stabilise the economy. There’s no need for anyone to panic while Britain’s relationship with Europe is sorted out.”\nPrevious articleJust How Free Are You To Spend Pension Cash How You Like?\nNext articleQROPS Offer A Safe Haven In Turbulent Pension Market","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1000016"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6329834461212158,"wiki_prob":0.3670165538787842,"text":"Home About Us Services Products Insurance Information Staff About Your Teeth Contact Us\n640 E. Sioux Ave.\nSend a Quick Message...\nQuestion or Comment:\nPierre Dental Clinic Staff\nDr. Monty Bechtold grew up in Mission, SD and is a proud alumnus of South Dakota State University. He graduated from Loyola University Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1981.\nDr. Bechtold has held many prestigious positions in dentistry to include member of the SD State Board of Dentistry, Central Regional dental examiner, SD Dental Association Foundation board member, Delta Dental Board member (Vice President), SD Dental Association President, member SD Dental Association and member of the Southern District Dental Society.\nFurther, he is a proud parent of 4 girls, a loving husband to his wife Peggy, and a happy grandfather.\nDr. Murray Thompson grew up in Pierre, South Dakota, graduating from TF Riggs high school in 1997. He is a 2001 graduate of Creighton University with a BS in Physics and a 2005 graduate of the Creighton University Medical Center School of Dentistry.\nAfter graduating dental school, he practiced 3 years with the US Air Force and 4 years in the SD Air National Guard 114FW. While on active duty, Dr. Thompson received advanced training in clinical operative dentistry, infection control, and both oral and intravenous conscious sedation. Continuing to serve the state of South Dakota, and the nation, he is also an officer in the SD Army National guard.\nProfessionally, Dr. Thompson is a member of the American Dental Association, the South Dakota Dental Association, and the Southern District Dental Society. He further serves the communities of Pierre and Ft. Pierre as a board member of the Capital Area United Way, Pierre/Ft. Pierre Kiwanis club, and is a frequent volunteer on the Delta Dental Mobile Dental Unit.\nWhen not at work, you will find him spending time with his wife Jen and 2 children.\nHome | About Us | Services | Products | Insurance Information | About Your Teeth | Contact Us\n© 2019 Copyright Pierre Dental Clinic. Site Designed and Maintained by BPro Inc","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1311373"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9746278524398804,"wiki_prob":0.9746278524398804,"text":"British Prime Minister Theresa May | Carl Court/Getty Images\nTheresa May to reveal more Brexit details before March\nGovernment accepts Labour motion in bid to head off Tory rebellion.\nBy\tCharlie Cooper\nUpdated 12/7/16, 10:02 AM CET\nLONDON — Theresa May will publish further details of the U.K. government’s plan for Brexit before triggering Article 50, as she seeks to head off a rebellion by Conservative MPs who want parliament to have more scrutiny over her negotiating position.\nThe government made the commitment in an amendment to a Labour motion, to be debated in the House of Commons Wednesday, which had won the support of a number of Tory MPs who support a so-called \"soft Brexit.\"\nIn return, the government’s amendment calls on Labour and Tory rebels to support May’s timetable for triggering Article 50 by March 31, 2017.\nLabour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer called the decision “a hugely significant climbdown” and said his party will now push for a Brexit plan to be published by the end of January.\nHowever, Downing Street sources suggested that Labour’s motion calling for greater scrutiny was consistent with May’s previous statements that the government will reveal more details about its Brexit strategy “when it is possible.”\nMay does not believe the Labour motion binds her to publishing any specific documents before March, but the government’s willingness to back the motion — albeit with caveats — points to a clear intention to release further details of the negotiating strategy before Article 50 is triggered.\nIt also allows between 20 and 40 potential Conservative rebels, who were reportedly considering backing the Labour motion, to do so while still voting with the government, heading off a rebellion or House of Commons defeat.\nThe vote on the motion is not binding on the government, but a rebellion would have been politically embarrassing for May, and a clear sign of instability within her own camp, which could have been seized upon by EU negotiating partners.\nTheresa May could opt for ‘gray Brexit’\nBarbara Surk\nLabour’s carefully worded motion called on May to “commit to publishing the government’s plan for leaving the EU before Article 50 is invoked,” but conceded that the government could not reveal its full plan without damaging the U.K.’s negotiating position.\nThe government’s amendment, which will likely see the motion passed on Wednesday, adds an expectation that MPs “will respect the wishes of the United Kingdom as expressed in the referendum of 23 June” and asks them to call on the government to trigger Article 50 by March 31.\nThe amendment was welcomed by Euroskeptic Tory MPs, who want to hold the government to leaving the EU as soon as possible.\nBut Labour also claimed a victory. Starmer said: “For the last two months Labour have been pushing the government to put their plan for Brexit before parliament and the public. Without that plan, we have had unnecessary uncertainty, speculation and a running commentary on the government’s likely approach.\n“The government have now agreed to publish that plan, and to do so before Article 50 is invoked.\n“Labour will hold the government to account on this. We will also push for a plan to be published no later than January 2017 so that the House of Commons, the devolved administrations, the Brexit Select Committee and the British people have a chance to scrutinize it.”\nWednesday's debate is not directly linked to the Article 50 case currently being heard in the Supreme Court.\nJudges will rule in the New Year whether MPs must hold a legally binding vote before Article 50 can be triggered, or whether the government can trigger Article 50 without parliament's authority.\nccooper@politico.eu\nWho’s who in the Brexit talks\nBrexit policy guides\nImagining the Brexit cliff edge\nExclusive: Boris Johnson finds it ‘hard to disagree’ with Trump’s verdict on May\nThe man set to be Britain’s next prime minister refuses to echo criticism of the US president’s leadership style.\nMainstream parties block Euroskeptics from top Parliament posts\nSome committees suspend voting on leadership positions as pro-EU groups move to exclude far right and populists.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line581892"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6377434730529785,"wiki_prob":0.6377434730529785,"text":"‘Supergirl’ Moves to the CW Increasing Their DC TV Universe\nPosted by Ryan | May 12, 2016 | News, TV | 0 |\n“Supergirl” is renewed with a new network home!\nWhile there have been reports of “Supergirl” not being picked up for renewal, a recent report invalidates previous speculation. In addition to being renewed, “Supergirl” will be continuing its second season on the CW network. This means that “Supergirl” star Melissa Benoist will also be sharing her universe with “Arrow,” “The Flash,” and “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.” With the Supergirl/Flash crossover earlier this year, the transition should be much smoother and give added value to the show.\nSupergirl, which stars Melissa Benoist as the Girl of Steel, will now air on The CW, joining the other super series in producer Greg Berlanti’s universe, Arrow, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.\nFans may rejoice having another character added to the CW universe, but this move also comes with a hefty price. CBS reports that the pilot episode of “Supergirl” cost around $14 million and $3 million for each episode that followed. CW producer Greg Berlanti has shown interest in the franchise but was far from interested in that price tag. With the move to CW, we can expect the budget for “Supergirl” to be cut tremendously with a production venue change from Los Angeles to Vancouver.\n“The other thing I would say was incredibly hard, was just trying to do something of this scope and size, and, quite truthfully, in Los Angeles. It’s an expensive city to shoot in. These things don’t come cheap, and we didn’t want to do it if we couldn’t give it the scope that it really deserves.”\nWith Berlanti’s creative spirit, this budget cut shouldn’t impact the show’s production value. We’ve seen flying superheroes in the current run, so I don’t expect that incorporating Supergirl into the mix would be too much trouble.\nWhat are your thoughts on “Supergirl” joining the CW? Is this the right move?\nThis was first reported by Entertainment Weekly\nPrevious‘Assassin’s Creed’ Trailer Premieres on Jimmy Kimmel\nNextSimon Kinberg Wants ‘Fantastic Four’ Sequel with Same Cast\nAmerican Horror Story Freakshow casts Magic Mike’s Matt Bomer\nBig Hero 6’s Jamie Chung wants to be X-Men’s Psylocke\nKeanu Reeves Says “Bill & Ted 3” Is Happening, And The Plot is Out Of This World\n‘Terminator Genisys’ Movie Clips Go Deeper Into The Plot!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line637589"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8421587347984314,"wiki_prob":0.8421587347984314,"text":"Jan 16 2017 January 16, 2017 January 16, 2017 NoComment\tby Administrator\nSri Lanka warns of worst drought in 40 years\nThe Sri Lankan government declared a state of alert in response to what is already considered the worst drought in four decades, implementing measures such as water-use restrictions.\nSteps taken by the government of President Maithripala Sirisena in recent days included deploying soldiers, establishing a presidential commission and urging the population to be prudent in the consumption of water.\nThe National Water Supply and Sanitation Council warned of the need to rationalize the consumption of drinking water, as the currently available reserve is only expected to last for two months.\nAlahudeen Ansar, the head of the council, said that drinking water demand had increased by 15 per cent and that measures have already been taken to restrict its use in many areas of the 13 affected districts.\nSri Lankan authorities have expressed concern that the situation may lead to social instability in a country where 31.8 per cent of its 22 million inhabitants directly depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. The Deputy Minister of Provincial Council and Local Government, Karunarathna Paranawithana, said on Saturday that there had already been rumours about farmers are threatening to open water reservoirs to access the vital resource.\nThe situation led President Sirisena this week to appoint a presidential task force with the participation of key ministries and secretaries of state to take action to tackle the problem after the Department of Meteorology said on Friday that the country was facing the worst drought in 40 years.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1502294"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6943700909614563,"wiki_prob":0.3056299090385437,"text":"PT-ZHY\nEmbraer Legacy 500\nAstonjet\nClass Super midsize\nMax. passengers 9\nThe first deliveries of the Legacy 500 occurred in early 2014 as Embraer launched their first ever aircraft to have a revolutionary fly-by-wire cockpit, intended to fill the gap between their larger Legacy aircraft and the Phenom series. It is also the first Super Midsize Jet with full fly-by-wire technology, providing improved comfort, efficiency and stability. Embraer designed the 500 with one objective: to become the leader of its class. In terms of its interior, the Legacy 500 offers a wider and longer cabin than any other Super Midsize jet in existence, providing unparalleled space and comfort. Designed by BMW, the cabin features typical seating for up to 10 passengers and premium seats are available which include electrically actuated lumbar support and massage and heating systems, not seen on any other jet in the category. The Legacy 500 does not compromise performance for its luxurious cabin as it offers an excellent range and maximum cruise, thanks to its two state-of-the-art turbofan engines, which are more fuel-efficient than those of the majority of its rivals. Fast, efficient and extremely comfortable; the Legacy 500 provides an exceptional service.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1558873"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8651838898658752,"wiki_prob":0.8651838898658752,"text":"Rock glaciers gain speed as permafrost thaws\nOctober 7, 2018 - 06:25\nArticle from Norut - Northern Research Institute\nThe acceleration of rock glaciers in Scandinavia has been documented for the first time. It can be linked to the thawing of the permafrost in the north.\nKeywords: Glaciers\nBy: Rannveig Haugen Stiberg\nIn August 2014, the ground-based radar measured large movements (marked in red) in the rock glaciers at Ádjet in Troms county. (Photo: Norut).\nScientists have long known that rock glaciers in the European Alps are moving faster than previously recorded. This is related to the thawing of permafrost and it is creating challenges for emergency preparedness in the Alps.\nDue to climate change, the permafrost in the north has also started to thaw. And it could have major consequences for people as well as infrastructure.\nRock glaciers as climate predicters\nRock glaciers are unique landforms consisting of a mix of rock fragments and ice. They often look like a tongue-shaped section of scree. Rock glaciers are only found in areas with permafrost and a supply of rock debris, which usually comes from rockfalls and avalanches.\nUsing remote sensing data from the last 60 years, a Norwegian research group has found clear signs that previously stable rock glaciers are now accelerating.\nThe movement of a rock glacier complex on the Ádjet mountain in the Skibotn valley, Troms county, Norway, has received considerable attention in the doctoral project of Harald Øverli Eriksen at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Norut.\n“By comparing recent and historical aerial photos, we have documented that the glacier, which moved at an average of 0.5 metres per year in the period from 1954 to 1977, accelerated to around 3.6 metres per year in the period 2006 to 2014,” says Eriksen.\n“Data from radar satellite from the period 2009 to 2016 showed that speed accelerated from 4.9 to 9.8 metres per year. The maximum velocity for one year was no less than 69 metres. It’s almost as if you can see the rock glacier creeping down the mountainside,” continues Eriksen.\nResults suggest that the lower part of Ádjet is moving the fastest, and is in the process of detaching.\nHarald Øverli Eriksen. Photo: Norut.\n“In all likelihood, the accelerating rock glaciers are a visible result of the permafrost thawing,” says Harald Øverli Eriksen.\nResearchers at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET) have recently pointed out that thawing permafrost can cause more rock flows. In Svalbard, this is causing problems, including settling damage to buildings with foundations directly on permafrost.\nObserved for the first time in Scandinavia\nHarald Øverli Eriksen has recently published an article on the findings in the international journal Geophysical Research Letters along with co-authors from Norut, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET).\nThe study documents for the first time a unique acceleration of a rock glacier in Scandinavia.\n“A lot indicates that the increased velocity of the rock glacier may be linked to an increase in temperature and precipitation, which has resulted in warming of the permafrost and increased amounts of water that has made the body of the rock glacier more unstable,” says Senior Researcher Ketil Isaksen at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.\nWhat are the consequences of permafrost in the north thawing?\n“The social consequences and which measures should be taken are something that are outside our field of expertise. We have now documented that the thawing affects our mountain areas. It is now up to our politicians and operational authorities, such as the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), to consider and implement any emergency preparedness measures,” says Harald Øverli Eriksen.\n“We continue to follow developments by analysing radar satellite images. This data is very well suited for measuring ground movements,” adds Senior Research Scientist Tom Rune Lauknes at Norut.\nRemote sensing provides unique information\nTo study the rock glacier at Ádjet in Troms, the researchers used four supplementary remote sensing methods to collect data from a period stretching 62 years. They used old aerial photos of the glacier terminus, radar satellite images processed with SAR interferometry (InSAR) and offset tracking and data from ground-based radar, among other things.\n“Using remote sensing from satellite and the ground enables us to follow this type of landform that is often found in inaccessible places with steep and dangerous terrain,” says Tom Rune Lauknes.\nBrains like glaciers Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers NASA project reveals vulnerability of Greenland glaciers Detecting avalanches with satellite radar The mysteries of glide avalanches\nH. Ø. Eriksen, L. Rouyet, T. R. Lauknes, I. Berthling, K. Isaksen, H. Hindberg, Y. Larsen & G. D. Corner, Recent Acceleration of a Rock Glacier Complex, Ádjet, Norway, Documented by 62 Years of Remote Sensing Observations.\nHarald Øverli Eriksen\nNorut - Northern Research Institute\nNorut Northern Research Institute is a national research and innovation company located in Northern Norway. Read more\nNatural Sciences - partner news\nSmokeless «fire» under water\nIt is all in the genes: Decoding the effects of multiple stressors\nWhy are you and I – and everything else – here?\nWhy does the humpback whale migrate?\nNews from University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway\nSolving the mystery of Serengeti’s vanishing wild dogs","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line72858"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.678044319152832,"wiki_prob":0.32195568084716797,"text":"Board presentation on Gender Identity\nRutgers Collaboration\nDr. Gail S. Verona appointed as the Rutgers Advisory Board Liaison to the ESCNJ Board\nRutgers Director Speaks At Graduation\nOnsite Support For Students\nRU Student Leads ALC Training\nRutgers Provides Board Presentation On Gender Identity\nThe impact school policies and practices have on students whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth was the focus of a comprehensive presentation by Rutgers Associate Professor Dr. Melinda Mangin at a recent Board of Directors meeting.\nAn Associate Professor in the Department of Education Theory, Policy, and Administration in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, Dr. Mangin shared a wealth of information pertaining to what it means to be transgender, best practices for supporting transgender students, and recommendations for \"promoting a sense of belonging\" at school.\n\"Schools should be inclusive spaces where all students feel they belong, including transgender and gender-expansive children,\" said Dr. Mangin.\nAmong the many terms and statistics shared by Dr. Mangin were:\n1.4 million adults in the United States identify as transgender.\n54 percent of K-12 students participating in a 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey reported being verbally harassed, and 24 percent were physically attacked.\nApproximately two percent of people are \"intersex,\" meaning their physical bodies do not conform to the standard definition of male and female.\nDr. Mangin acknowledged that habits like separating students into typical boy and girl activities are hard to break, but said there is \"both a legal and educational imperative for schools to be gender inclusive.\"\nDr. Mangin is the recipient of a Spencer Foundation research grant titled \"Educational Standards of Care for Transgender Children: How School Leaders Develop Transgender-Inclusive Elementary Schools.\"\nAn article on the topic by Dr. Mangin was published in Phi Delta Kappan, and can be found at https://www.kappanonline.org/mangin-transgender-gender-identity-school-policies-gender-expansive/","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line356938"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5897216200828552,"wiki_prob":0.4102783799171448,"text":"Dental office tragedy shows need for emergency preparation\nBy Joanna Brown\nIt's been more than a decade that Larry Sangrik has been lecturing about medical emergency preparedness, urging his colleagues to educate themselves and their staffs to respond quickly and appropriately when the unexpected arises. He knows that it’s not a question of IF but WHEN will you have a medical emergency in the office.\nLarry Sangrik“Most dentists think a medical emergency won’t happen during the scope of their practice,” said Dr. Sangrik, a general dentist in Chardon, OH. But statistically, the fact that you’re dealing with people – the number of people who come into your office – suggests you will deal with a medical emergency. It doesn’t have to be life threatening. It may be an allergy, or low blood sugar in a diabetic patient.\nDr. Sangrik routinely scans the national news in search of examples that will keep his content current. They’re not hard to find – there have been 19 pediatric deaths alone since 1996.\nHe stopped in his tracks, however, when he learned of how Raven Maria Blanco’s family had responded to her 2007 death under conscious sedation in a dental office.\nThe Raven Maria Blanco Foundation, established by the 8-year-old’s family, aims to increase awareness of and preparedness for medical emergencies in dental offices. With Dr. Sangrik as its consultant, the foundation is working within organized dentistry to influence dentists and their staffs.\n“They are committed to raising awareness within the profession and working with the dental profession,” Dr. Sangrik said.\nThe Institute of Medical Preparedness (www.emergencyactionguide.com) has prepared a list of six steps toward emergency preparedness. The Raven Maria Blanco Foundation would like to see it implemented nationally.\n“It’s an easy system. Dentists have good intentions, but they may not know where to go to get their offices started,” Dr. Sangrik said. “Dental visits can be stressful events to patients. Some type of medical event may occur, and we need to be prepared for it.”\nThe Institute’s Six Links of Survival can be divided into two groups. There are three educational components – doctor training, staff training, mock drills – and three physical components – the presence of an emergency manual to guide your response, having the right equipment on hand, and stocking appropriate medications.\n“These are timeless principles that offices need to incorporate,” Dr. Sangrik said. “Science will change and improve and be different 20 years from now, but these six areas will remain. Even as technology evolves, these six things will still be true.”\nBe prepared for emergencies in your dental office\nThe Raven Maria Blanco Foundation aims to increase the awareness of medical emergency preparedness in dental offices across the United States. The foundation was established by the family of 8-year-old Raven Maria Blanco following her 2007 death under sedation in a dental office.\nThe Institute of Medical Preparedness, in partnership with the Raven Maria Blanco Foundation, has prepared a list of survival. Dentists and their staffs might consider the Blanco family’s story and the downloadable handbook below as they work to better equip themselves to respond to medical emergencies of all kinds.\nView the public service announcement from the Raven Maria Blanco Foundation below.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1142113"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5928064584732056,"wiki_prob":0.40719354152679443,"text":"Chase William Coffin\nFuneral services for Chase William Coffin, 23, McLouth, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at McLouth First Baptist Church. Burial will follow at the Fall Creek Cemetery near Jarbalo.Mr. Coffin died Friday, July 7, 2006, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., from injuries received in an all-terrain vehicle accident near McLouth.He was born April 4, 1983, in Leavenworth, the son of Dale William and Terri Elaine Pennel Coffin. He graduated from McLouth High School in 2002 and was a lifelong resident of the McLouth and Oskaloosa area.Mr. Coffin played football and basketball and ran track in high school. He attended the Manhattan Area Technical College and worked as a lineman for the Leavenworth-Jefferson Rural Electric Cooperative in McLouth. He was an active member of the Quartermaster Company in Kansas City, Kan., of the U.S. Army Reserve, and was a member of the McLouth First Baptist Church.Survivors include his parents, of Oskaloosa; paternal grandmother, Jennie Coffin, Leavenworth; maternal grandmother, Mary Pennel, McLouth; two brothers, Joshua and Nicolas, both of McLouth; a sister, Amelia Coffin, Oskaloosa.Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the church.The family suggests memorials to the church, sent in care of the Barnett-Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 416, Oskaloosa, 66066.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1009666"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7109634280204773,"wiki_prob":0.2890365719795227,"text":"Los Angeles International Airport (IATA Code: LAX) is one of the largest in the western United States and is classified as the sixth busiest in the world. The airport serves over 60 million passengers a year and offers approximately 680 flights serving nearly 30 countries around the world. The airport is equipped with a nine passenger terminals, including the Tom Bradley International Terminal. The Bradley Terminal serves nearly 18 million passengers a year. All terminals have upper and lower levels, offering a variety of dining, shopping and other service options.\nFacilities that today incorporate Los Angeles International Airport have been in use since the 1920s, when a landing strip there attracted pioneer aviators. A Los Angeles Municipal Airport formerly known as Mines Field was created there in 1928. The airport recently celebrated its 86th birthday, continuing a long history of providing extensive services, flights, and domestic and international destinations for travelers.\nLos Angeles International Airport is massive, with upper and lower levels, dozens of restaurants, cocktail lounges, as well as traditional and the duty free shops in the domestic and international terminals. Favorite restaurants at LAX include Panda Express, located in the Great Hall Food Court and, the Home Turf Sports Bar, located at the departure level of Terminal 1, and Chaya Sushi located in the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Shopping options include everything from Hugo Boss and Michael Kors to Coach, to Relay, and See’s Candies, (all located in the Tom Bradley International Terminal). The airport also provides a number of currency exchange and banking services as well as ATM machines.\nCar rental services at Los Angeles International Airport are plentiful and include those provided by Budget, Dollar, Hertz, National, Alamo, Thrifty, and Avis. Additional car hire companies provide free phones at the interactive visitors information centers located in baggage claim areas of every terminal. The phones provide contact information for each car rental company. Customers of some car hire companies can utilize the free LAX Shuttle Airline Connection Bus designated for “Lot C” to reach their rental car courtesy shuttle. These free shuttle buses are located on the lower arrivals level islands outside of baggage claim under the blue signs. Purple signs designate “rental car shuttles” that take customers to appropriate rental car services near the airport.\nCompare pricing and car options at LAX: Alamo – www.alamo.com, Car-hire.net/usa/los-angeles.php.\nReview additional information regarding Los Angeles International Airport by visiting their website at www.lawa.org and clicking on the LAX tab at the upper right corner of the screen, or by contacting them at (310) 646-5252. The airport is located at 1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90045.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line40624"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7423975467681885,"wiki_prob":0.2576024532318115,"text":"Coworking à Gateshead, Maingate Team Valley, Gateshead\nThe Axis Building, Maingate, Kingsway North, Team Valley, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE11 0NQ\nThe Gateshead Maingate Centre occupies three floors of the prestigious six-storey Axis building at the north entrance to the Team Valley Business Park. Team Valley is traditionally a heavily industrial area but has in recent years been transformed into a major European retail and business park, home to over 650 businesses employing 17,000 people. Gateshead is a modern town in the north east of England offering an impressive mixture of urban vitality and rural charm. It extends nearly 13 miles along the south bank of the river Tyne and over 4,000 businesses are based here. The Tyne and Wear region is now a major centre for international investment and Gateshead riverside is the site of one of the largest capital regeneration schemes in Europe. It has achieved global recognition for a number of ambitious projects contributing to the success of this vibrant area for both culture and business.\nGateshead, Maingate Team Valley\nVoir tous les sites à Gateshead\nDes solutions sur mesure à Gateshead","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line803567"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8582988977432251,"wiki_prob":0.8582988977432251,"text":"Public Service grads told to resist fear and anger: 'Be the difference'\nPaul Atkinson\nDean Jonathan Koppell told some 330 graduates at Arizona State University's College of Public Service and Community Solutions convocation on Dec. 13 that he hoped the current political climate would not diminish their sense of optimism for work in the public interest.\n“So we live in a time of extraordinary fear, all kinds of fear,” Koppell told the crowd at Comerica Theatre in downtown Phoenix. “I’m not saying that fears can be unfounded. But the fear can’t be paralyzing, and it can't be the only basis upon which people are mobilized.”\nA political scientist by training, Koppell reminded the 5,000 people in attendance that there are legitimate kinds of fears. Fear of terrorists. Fear of cutting off Social Security. Fear of losing rights. And fear of an intrusive state.\n“All these things are powerful and real and they can be enormously powerful as tools,” Koppell said. “But it’s very hard to use them to create constructive change.”\nThe dean reminded the audience of the famous words spoken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his first inaugural address: “... that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”\nKoppell said he has a better appreciation for what Roosevelt was responding to as he took office during a time of crippling unemployment and poverty.\n“Now I understand his warning,” he said. “You’ve reached this day having overcome great challenges.\n“You did not accept that what you accomplished today was not possible because it was scary.”\n“Fear didn’t own you,” Koppell reminded graduates. “You got here because you believed and you were optimistic about what could be done.”\nJonathan Koppell, dean of the College of Public Service and Community Solutions, addresses students at the Fall 2016 Convocation held at Comerica Theatre in downtown Phoenix on Dec.13.\nJonathan Koppell, dean of the College of Public Service and Community Solutions, addresses students at the Fall 2016 Convocation held at Comerica Theatre in downtown Phoenix on Dec. 13.\nHe suggested there was one other emotion that poses a significant danger.\n“Anger seems to be in the air everywhere,” Koppell cautioned. “It is, along with fear, the other powerful emotion that seems to govern most discourse in the public and the private realm.”\nAs proof, he pointed to the comment section of news articles on the internet.\n“If you look down at the comment sections, it will only take a couple lines before people are spewing the most vile, vitriolic, hateful things that you've ever seen,” said Koppell.\nHe reminded students that anger would make it impossible to do any of the things U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema — the ceremony's keynote speaker — suggested they pursue.\n“If we only feel rage and anger, then how do you listen?” asked Koppell. “If you only feel anger, then how do you empathize?\n“How do you learn? How do you craft solutions that don’t come from anger?”\nKoppell pointed out that anger would not have helped them pass their tests.\n“You didn’t succeed when all the obstacles in your way said you couldn't — out of anger,” Koppell said. “So I suggest to you that in order to be successful in public service you have to hold back on the very things that are so powerful — fear and anger.”\nHard work and a helping hand\nSinema delivered the keynote address, discussing the polarization in the U.S.\n“We face a significant challenge today. The fight between the two edges has gotten severe,” Sinema said in a soft and somber tone. “I’ve recently said that these folks on the edges — they’re pulling at the fabric of their country and they are ripping the seams.\n“But we can’t let that happen. We, those of us here today, all of us committed to public service — we must be the difference. We must be different.”\nSinema is a 1999 graduate of the college and a lecturer in the School of Social Work. She told students that those committed to public service can make a difference by trying to better understand another person’s life experiences and perspectives.\n“We can be good people who care deeply about each other even when we disagree,” said Sinema. “We can all start by listening to someone with a different opinion, listening not to rebut or debate, but listening to understand.”\nRepresentative Kyrsten Sinema delivers the keynote address to graduates at the Fall 2016 College of Public Service and Community Solutions Convocation.\nA Tucson native, Sinema told her family’s story of going from middle class to a life of poverty living in an abandoned gas station. She said her family utilized government food stamps, and she relied on free school lunches and used federal grants to help pay for college.\nSinema saw education as essential to leaving poverty. She was valedictorian of her high school class at age 16 and graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in social work at age 18. She was employed as a social worker at a Phoenix school district before earning a graduate degree in social work from ASU in 1999. She went on to receive a law degree and a PhD from ASU.\nIn fact, Sinema was in law school in 2004 when she ran and won a seat in the Arizona Legislature, where she served four terms. She was elected to Congress in 2012 and will soon begin her third term representing Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District. A progressive Democrat, Sinema has earned a reputation for working with members of both major political parties on a variety of issues.\n“There’s a conservative and a liberal narrative in our country, and often those two narratives are pushed against each other,” she told students.\n“A conservative narrative says: ‘Hey kid, pull yourself up from your bootstraps! Do it yourself. Work hard,’” Sinema said. “And a liberal narrative might say: ‘You need to help those who are vulnerable. We need a safety net. Leave no one behind.’”\n“The truth is that both of these narratives are true and they need each other,” said Sinema. “My whole life, my journey from homelessness to serving in the halls of the United States Congress is the combination of these two narratives.\n“I worked so hard to make it, and thank goodness that there were people there to give me the helping hand I needed growing up.”\nEmbrace differences\nWith convocation taking place a month after a polarizing presidential election, College of Public Service and Community Solutions Deann Koppell told graduates not to be distracted by the adversarial tone of current discourse. Instead, he insisted it’s an opportunity for “rededication to the ideals that animate us today.”\n“We are strong precisely because of our differences, including differences in beliefs,” said Koppell. “Our willingness and ability to engage constructively with people whose views are dramatically different than our own is our greatest asset.”\nKoppell suggested that the current divisions should be cause for introspection with the goal to improve the ability to build bridges and to “stand up to injustice when we see it.”\n“Let it be cause for vigilance to ensure that the rights and protections — which every member of our community is entitled to — are defended and preserved,” emphasized Koppell.\nThe dean called on graduates not to give up.\n“Let it not be a cause to abandon the ideals of service or the search for solutions to our shared challenges,” Koppell said. “And let it not be a cause to fear free expression and dialogue.”\nKoppell reminded graduates that the nation had faced deep divisions and uncertainty in the past only to emerge stronger. He acknowledged that this kind of optimism does not diminish the real struggles ahead, only that it illuminates the hard work that remains.\n“Your optimism in getting here today, your optimism regarding our future is an inspiration to me,” Koppell confessed. “It's what gives me hope, and I urge you to retain it.\n“Use it as a source of strength. It is what we need today, more than anything else.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1018578"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5765233635902405,"wiki_prob":0.4234766364097595,"text":"Doña Ana County Clerk's office checks electronic vote tabulators\nThis check is a normal part of the election process in New Mexico, which takes place following each general election.\nDoña Ana County Clerk's office checks electronic vote tabulators This check is a normal part of the election process in New Mexico, which takes place following each general election. Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2018/11/26/dona-ana-county-clerks-office-checks-electronic-vote-tabulators/2120923002/\nSun-News report Published 6:36 p.m. MT Nov. 26, 2018\nEmployees from the Doña Ana County Clerk's office participate in a statewide voting system check of electronic vote tabulators Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, at the Bureau of Elections Warehouse. The check takes place after all general elections.(Photo: Josh Bachman/Sun-News)Buy Photo\nLAS CRUCES - The Doña Ana County Clerk participated in a statewide voting system check of electronic vote tabulators on Monday.\nThis check is a normal part of the election process in New Mexico, which takes place following each general election, and focuses on verifying select precinct results for federal offices, for governor and for statewide elective office.\nThe check comes a day ahead of the New Mexico state canvassing board's certification of official results of the 2018 general election. The board is comprised of Gov. Susana Martinez, Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver, and Chief Justice Judith Nakamura, who will meet in Santa Fe on Tuesday to canvass and certify official results, except for those races that will need to be recounted.\nThe U.S. second congressional district race has been of interest. On election night, Republican Yvette Herrell was ahead in the vote count, but after absentee votes were tabulated the following day, Democrat Xochitl Torres Small led by approximately 3,500 votes. Pivotal in that turnaround were 8,517 absentee ballots in Doña Ana County, where Torres Small lives.\nOn Nov. 13, Herrell petitioned the Third Judicial District Court in Las Cruces to impound the absentee ballots in order to \"safeguard the putative voting documents, investigate reports of chain-of-custody issues and other improprieties, and ensure that a valid democratic outcome is obtained.\"\nJudge Manuel Arrieta ruled on Nov. 16 that the impoundment would take effect after the election is certified.\nMore: Herrell's legal team proposes terms for inspecting election ballots in Doña Ana County\nRead or Share this story: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2018/11/26/dona-ana-county-clerks-office-checks-electronic-vote-tabulators/2120923002/\nEpstein's NM ranch linked to investigation\nDrug abuse survivor hopes to be Mrs. NM America\nMurder suspect may not get bond after all","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line693614"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9053825736045837,"wiki_prob":0.9053825736045837,"text":"Home > Members > Representative Bill Foster\nRepresentative Bill Foster (1955 - )In Congress 2008 - 2011, 2013 - Present |\nIllinois 11 House: 113th-116th (2013-Present)\nIllinois 14 House: 110th-111th (2008-2011)\nhttps://foster.house.gov\nLegislation Sponsored or Cosponsored by Bill Foster\n1. H.R.3561 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2019 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 06/27/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 06/27/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n2. H.R.2987 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) National Security Accountability Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/23/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence (Permanent Select) Latest Action: House - 05/23/2019 Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the... (All Actions) Tracker:\n3. H.R.2986 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) BEST Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/23/2019) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 05/23/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy. (All Actions) Tracker:\n4. H.R.2870 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) End the Threat of Default Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/21/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 05/21/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:\n5. H.R.2804 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Fair Allocation of Highway Funds Act of 2019 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/16/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 05/17/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (All Actions) Tracker:\n6. H.R.2572 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) To amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to clarify the definition of a deposit broker, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/08/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 05/08/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n7. H.R.2430 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2019 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/01/2019) Cosponsors: (41) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 05/20/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n8. H.R.2400 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) American Innovation Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/30/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Budget, Science, Space, and Technology, Armed Services Latest Action: House - 05/01/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities. (All Actions) Tracker:\n9. H.R.2304 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Autofill Act of 2019 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/12/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 04/12/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:\n10. H.R.1718 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) GI Education Benefits Fairness Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/13/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 03/13/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:\n11. H.R.1303 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2019 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/15/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 03/08/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States. (All Actions) Tracker:\n12. H.R.1302 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act of 2019 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/15/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 02/15/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n13. H.R.1165 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) ETO is Toxic Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/13/2019) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 02/14/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. (All Actions) Tracker:\n14. H.R.1045 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/07/2019) Cosponsors: (24) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/25/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. (All Actions) Tracker:\n15. H.Res.468 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Defense should review section 504 of title 10, United States Code, for purposes related to enlisting certain aliens in the Armed Forces. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 06/27/2019) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Armed Services Latest Action: House - 06/27/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n16. H.Res.327 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Encouraging greater public-private sector collaboration to promote financial literacy for students and young adults. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/25/2019) Cosponsors: (18) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 04/30/2019 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. (All Actions) Tracker:\n17. H.Res.232 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Expressing support for designation of March 14, 2019, as \"National Pi Day\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/14/2019) Cosponsors: (16) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 03/14/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:\n18. H.Res.162 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Expressing the condolences of the House of Representatives and honoring the memory of the victims of the mass shooting in Aurora, Illinois, on February 15, 2019. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/28/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Oversight and Reform Latest Action: House - 02/28/2019 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:\n19. H.Res.137 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) nuclear security role. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/15/2019) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 03/14/2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and Nonproliferation. (All Actions) Tracker:\n20. H.Amdt.289 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Description: Amendment increases the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority account by $1,000,000 to support increased R&D for biosecurity. Amends Bill: H.R.2740 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 06/12/2019) Latest Action: 06/12/19 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A023) Agreed to by recorded vote: 358 - 66 (Roll no. 273). (All Actions)\n21. H.Amdt.288 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Description: Amendment increases and decreases funding by $1 for the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the purpose of instructing BLS to accept a wider and more forward-looking range of inputs into its range of projections for its workforce of the future. Amends Bill: H.R.2740 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 06/12/2019) Latest Action: 06/12/19 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A022) Agreed to by recorded vote: 260 - 164 (Roll no. 272). (All Actions)\n22. H.Amdt.287 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Description: Amendment increases and decreases funding by $1 for the Substance Abuse Treatment account. Amends Bill: H.R.2740 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 06/12/2019) Latest Action: 06/12/19 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A021) Agreed to by recorded vote: 336 - 87 (Roll no. 271). (All Actions)\n23. H.Amdt.286 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Description: Amendment strikes Section 510, which currently prohibits HHS from spending any federal dollars to promulgate or adopt a national patient identifier. Amends Bill: H.R.2740 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 06/12/2019) Latest Action: 06/12/19 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A020) Agreed to by recorded vote: 246 - 178 (Roll no. 270). (All Actions)\n24. H.R.7398 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) SPA Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 12/22/2018) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - House Administration Latest Action: House - 12/22/2018 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions) Tracker:\n25. H.R.7295 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Medical Records Access Fairness Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 12/13/2018) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 12/13/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n26. H.R.7189 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) ETO is Toxic Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 11/29/2018) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 11/29/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n27. H.R.6501 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) WISE Government Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 07/25/2018) Cosponsors: (9) Committees: House - Oversight and Government Reform Latest Action: House - 07/25/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:\n28. H.R.5936 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) National Security Accountability Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/23/2018) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence (Permanent Select) Latest Action: House - 05/23/2018 Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the... (All Actions) Tracker:\n29. H.R.5789 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicaid coverage protections for pregnant and post-partum women while receiving inpatient treatment for a substance use disorder, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/15/2018) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Committee Reports: H. Rept. 115-730 Latest Action: House - 06/12/2018 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 565. (All Actions) Tracker:\n30. H.R.5119 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) P3 Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/27/2018) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 02/27/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n31. H.R.4948 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) National Fab Lab Network Act of 2018 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/06/2018) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 02/06/2018 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:\n32. H.R.4859 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act of 2018 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 01/19/2018) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 04/05/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. (All Actions) Tracker:\n33. H.R.4346 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) GI Education Benefits Fairness Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 11/09/2017) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 11/09/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. (All Actions) Tracker:\n34. H.R.3763 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Smarter EPSCoR Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 09/13/2017) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 05/22/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:\n35. H.R.3252 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Second Chance for Students Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 07/14/2017) Cosponsors: (12) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 07/14/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n36. H.R.2750 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Protecting the Independent Funding of the Office of Financial Research Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/26/2017) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 05/26/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n37. H.R.2687 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Medicaid Coverage for Addiction Recovery Expansion Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/25/2017) Cosponsors: (59) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 05/26/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions) Tracker:\n38. H.R.2608 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Fair Allocation of Highway Funds Act of 2017 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/23/2017) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 05/24/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. (All Actions) Tracker:\n39. H.R.2018 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Autofill Act of 2017 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/06/2017) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 04/06/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:\n40. H.R.1569 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) American Innovation Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/16/2017) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Budget, Science, Space, and Technology, Armed Services Latest Action: House - 04/25/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:\n41. H.R.994 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2017 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/09/2017) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce, Natural Resources Latest Action: House - 02/24/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:\n42. H.R.993 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2017 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/09/2017) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions) Tracker:\n43. H.R.992 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act of 2017 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/09/2017) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 02/10/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions) Tracker:\n44. H.R.913 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/07/2017) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/09/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n45. H.R.912 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2017 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/07/2017) Cosponsors: (42) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/09/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n46. H.Res.849 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Office of Technology Assessment should be reestablished. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/26/2018) Cosponsors: (23) Committees: House - House Administration Latest Action: House - 04/26/2018 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. (All Actions) Tracker:\n47. H.Res.828 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of science diplomacy, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/13/2018) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 04/13/2018 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:\n48. H.Res.782 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expressing support for designation of March 14, 2018, as \"National Pi Day\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/14/2018) Cosponsors: (16) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 05/22/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:\n49. H.Res.640 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expressing support for the designation of December 3, 2017, as the \"National Day of 3D Printing\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 12/01/2017) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 12/08/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. (All Actions) Tracker:\n50. H.Res.426 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Defense should review section 504 of title 10, United States Code, for purposes related to enlisting certain aliens in the Armed Forces. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 06/29/2017) Cosponsors: (31) Committees: House - Armed Services Latest Action: House - 07/17/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (All Actions) Tracker:\n51. H.Res.300 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Encouraging greater public-private sector collaboration to promote financial literacy for students and young adults. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/01/2017) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 05/01/2017 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n52. H.Res.260 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) nuclear security role. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/06/2017) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 05/18/2017 Referred to the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. (All Actions) Tracker:\n54. H.Amdt.837 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Description: Amendment sought to prohibit the use of funds to develop a space-based ballistic missile intercept layer. Amends Bill: H.R.6157 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 06/27/2018) Latest Action: 06/28/18 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A033) Failed by recorded vote: 160 - 251 (Roll no. 310). (consideration: CR H5849) (All Actions)\n55. H.Amdt.521 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Amends Bill: H.R.620 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 02/15/2018) Latest Action: 02/15/18 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A003) Failed by voice vote. (All Actions)\n56. H.Amdt.518 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Description: Page 3, line 4, strike \"source code, including\". Page 3, line 6, insert \"algorithmic trading\" before \"source code\". Page 3, line 15, strike \"source code, including\". ***. Amends Bill: H.R.3978 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 02/14/2018) Latest Action: 02/14/18 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote. (All Actions)\n57. H.Amdt.401 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Amends Bill: H.R.3354 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 09/12/2017) Latest Action: 09/12/17 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A129) Agreed to by voice vote. (All Actions)\n58. H.Amdt.266 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Description: At the end of division A (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used for the procurement, the deployment, or the research, development, test, and evaluation of a space-based ballistic missile intercept layer. Amends Bill: H.R.3219 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 07/27/2017) Latest Action: 07/27/17 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A054) Failed by voice vote. (All Actions)\n60. H.R.6206 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Second Chance for Students Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 09/28/2016) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 09/28/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n61. H.R.6205 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act of 2016 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 09/28/2016) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 09/28/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n62. H.R.6204 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) No Cost Educational Resources Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 09/28/2016) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 09/28/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n64. H.R.6178 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Fair Allocation of Highway Funds Act of 2016 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 09/27/2016) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Transportation and Infrastructure Latest Action: House - 09/27/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. (All Actions) Tracker:\n65. H.R.5835 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Fair Distribution of Affordable Housing Funds Act of 2016 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 07/14/2016) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/14/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n66. H.R.5287 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Medicaid Coverage for Addiction Recovery Expansion Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/19/2016) Cosponsors: (14) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 05/19/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n67. H.R.4982 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2016 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/18/2016) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Reports: H. Rept. 114-560 Latest Action: Senate - 05/12/2016 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (All Actions) Tracker:\n68. H.R.4960 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 525 N Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the \"Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/15/2016) Cosponsors: (19) Committees: House - Oversight and Government Reform | Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 07/15/2016 Became Public Law No: 114-193. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions) Tracker:\n69. H.R.4669 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Advancing Standards in Regenerative Medicine Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/02/2016) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 03/04/2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions) Tracker:\n70. H.R.3677 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Opioid Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 10/01/2015) Cosponsors: (7) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 10/02/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions) Tracker:\n71. H.R.3676 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 10/01/2015) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 10/02/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health. (All Actions) Tracker:\n72. H.R.3343 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 07/29/2015) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 09/08/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n73. H.R.2980 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Mayflower Commemorative Coin Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 07/08/2015) Cosponsors: (53) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 07/08/2015 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n74. H.R.2372 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Closing the Digital Divide for Students Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/15/2015) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Financial Services Latest Action: House - 05/15/2015 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. (All Actions) Tracker:\n75. H.R.2008 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) GI Education Benefit Fairness Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/23/2015) Cosponsors: (11) Committees: House - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: House - 05/11/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity. (All Actions) Tracker:\n77. H.R.1622 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) National Fab Lab Network Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/25/2015) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 04/29/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n79. H.R.1123 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/26/2015) Cosponsors: (29) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/31/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n80. H.R.787 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Payer State Transparency Act of 2015 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 02/05/2015) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Oversight and Government Reform Latest Action: House - 02/05/2015 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:\n81. H.Res.940 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Expressing support for designation of December 3, 2016, as the \"National Day of 3D Printing\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 12/02/2016) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 12/02/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. (All Actions) Tracker:\n82. H.Res.759 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) nuclear security role. Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 05/26/2016) Cosponsors: (6) Committees: House - Foreign Affairs Latest Action: House - 05/26/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:\n83. H.Res.641 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Expressing support for designation of March 14, 2016, as \"National Pi Day\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 03/14/2016) Cosponsors: (6) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology Latest Action: House - 03/14/2016 Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. (All Actions) Tracker:\n85. H.Res.547 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Expressing support for designation of December 3, 2015, as the \"National Day of 3D Printing\". Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 12/02/2015) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Energy and Commerce Latest Action: House - 12/04/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. (All Actions) Tracker:\n88. H.Amdt.1391 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Description: Amendment removes provisions related to brochure delivery and the requirement for annual audits at select private funds. Amends Bill: H.R.5424 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 09/09/2016) Latest Action: 09/09/16 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote. (All Actions)\n89. H.Amdt.1122 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Description: Amendment sought to prohibit the use of funds to be used by the Secretary of Energy for the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. Amends Bill: H.R.5055 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 05/25/2016) Latest Action: 05/25/16 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A041) Failed by recorded vote: 206 - 213 (Roll no. 257). (All Actions)\n90. H.Amdt.818 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Description: Amendment requires the Department of Transportation to issue an annual report detailing how the funds authorized in the bill are divided among the states and the sources of those amounts and also requires the IRS to submit an annual report to Congress detailing the tax burden of each State. Amends Bill: H.R.22 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 11/04/2015) Latest Action: 11/04/15 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A085) Agreed to by voice vote. (All Actions)\n91. H.Amdt.317 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Description: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: SEC 543. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to fund any Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. Amends Bill: H.R.2578 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 06/02/2015) Latest Action: 06/03/15 On agreeing to the Foster amendment (A049) Failed by recorded vote: 195 - 232 (Roll no. 279). (consideration: CR H3784) (All Actions)\n92. H.Amdt.176 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Amends Bill: H.R.2028 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Offered 04/30/2015) Latest Action: 04/30/15 By unanimous consent, the Foster amendment was withdrawn. (consideration: CR H2689) (All Actions)\n94. H.R.5588 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Payer State Transparency Act of 2014 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 09/18/2014) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Oversight and Government Reform Latest Action: House - 09/18/2014 Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (All Actions) Tracker:\n97. H.R.4473 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Small Business Growth in Manufacturing Act of 2014 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/10/2014) Cosponsors: (4) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 04/10/2014 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:\n98. H.R.4455 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Learning Opportunities With Creation of Open Source Textbooks (LOW COST) Act of 2014 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 04/10/2014) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: House - Science, Space, and Technology, Education and the Workforce Latest Action: House - 06/13/2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. (All Actions) Tracker:\n99. H.R.3914 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 01/16/2014) Cosponsors: (21) Committees: House - Judiciary Latest Action: House - 03/20/2014 Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. (All Actions) Tracker:\n100. H.R.3856 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Homeowners Debt Relief Extension Act of 2014 Sponsor: Rep. Foster, Bill [D-IL-11] (Introduced 01/13/2014) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: House - Ways and Means Latest Action: House - 01/13/2014 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions) Tracker:\nSponsored Legislation Remove\nAmendments (H.Amdt. or S.Amdt.) [21]\nHouse amendment offered [21]\nHouse amendment offered/reported by [21]\nHouse amendment agreed to [13]\nAmendment agreed to Committee of the Whole [11]\nAmendment failed in Committee of the Whole [6]\nHouse amendment not agreed to [6]\nAmendment agreed to by House [2]\nTaxation [12]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line971079"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7233167290687561,"wiki_prob":0.7233167290687561,"text":"Homepage > Social Studies > Ch 5 Challenges in the West > Ch 5.2\nChapter 5 – Section 2\nNative Americans of the Great Plains fought to protect their way of life.\nNative American Life on the Plains; A Clash of Cultures (p. 160-162)\nBefore 1500, the Native American tribes hunted buffalo as their main food in their diet. They used almost every part of the buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter. In the 1540's the Spanish brought horses to the Great Plains which allowed them to lead a nomadic way of life for buffalo hunting (move from place to place).\nNative American tribes from the east were also living on the Plains by the mid 1800s because the federal government had forced them to move west onto reservations (land set aside for the Native American tribes).\nHowever as the settlers moved west, there was a demand for land and the government tried to buy back the reservation land. Some tribes agreed but some tribes refused. Their refusal led to fighting between the whites and Native Americans. In 1862, 1200 Colorado militia attacked a peaceful Cheyenne village and killed more than 150 Cheyenne - Sand Creek Massacre.\nBattle of the Little Bighorn (p. 162 - 163)\nIn 1874, white prospectors rushed onto Sioux land after discovering gold there. The Sioux warier chiefs, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse tried to drive the settlers off of their land. Fighting was fierce between the white settlers and the Sioux. The Seventh Cavalry led by George A. Custer tried to get the Sioux to return to the reservation. Several thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne killed Custer and his 211 men near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. The Battle of Little Big Horn was the last major Native American victory because the government increased its military. Native Americans of the Great Plains fought to protect their way of life.\nResistance in the Northwest and Southwest (p. 163- 164)\nNorthwest - The white settlers tried to take over the land of the Nez Perce in eastern Oregon and Idaho. They were forced to sell their land and move. Chief Joseph refused and the army forced them to surrender.\nSouthwest - The Navajos and Apaches fought against being forced to move to reservations but they also surrendered to the U.S. army.\nA Way of Life Ends (p. 164)\nMillions of buffalo were killed by the white hunters and the herds disappeared.\nNative American prophet, Wovoka, and his followers, the Ghost Dancers, believed his prediction that Native Americans would again roam free.\nThe government feared that the Ghost Dancers were preparing for war and made them go to a temporary camp along Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota and hand over their weapons. When a shot rang out, the U.S. troops responded with gunfire and killed 300 Sioux. The Wounded Knee Massacre.\nThe Dawes Act Fails (p. 165)\nReformers wanted to \"Americanize\" the Native Americans and make them more like whites. Through assimilation the Native Americans were to adopt the culture of the people around them.\nThe Dawes Act in 1887 encouraged Native Americans to settle down as farmers. The government divided the reservation land into individual plots of land for each family. This failed because few Native Americans wanted to be farmers.\nNative Americans Fight to Survive\nMain Idea: The Native Americans of the Great Plains fought to maintain their way of life as settlers poured into their lands.\nMost Plains tribes lived in villages along rivers and streams. They ate buffalo and made clot5hing, shoes, and blankets from it.\nIn the 1830s the federal government forced Native American tribes of the Southeast to move west of the Mississippi to territory between the Missouri River and Oregon Territory.\nThe Dawes Act divided reservations into individual plots of land for each family. The government sold leftover land to white settlers.\nNative Americans did not know how to farm and or lacked the tools, training, and money to be successful; therefore many Native Americans had to sell their land for a fraction of its value to white settlers.\nThe Last of the Sioux (3:48)\nResistant to government regulated reservations, the Sioux retreated into the Black Hills until a final massacre at Wounded Knee.\nThe Buffalo and Native Americans (1:52)\nThe buffalo was an essential part of Native American life, used in everything from religious rituals to teepee construction.\nSitting Bull (2:54)\nThe tragic, yet true tale of Sitting Bull, the leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux tribe who led his people's resistance against the United States, sung by musician and artist Jeffrey Lewis.\nCh 5 Section 2 Native Americans Fight to Survive\nCh 5.1","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line808123"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7487867474555969,"wiki_prob":0.7487867474555969,"text":"Series & Films / Storm\nDirector: Harris Done\nCast: Luke Perry, Martin Sheen, Robert Knott, David Moses, Alexandra Powers, Marc McClure, Renée Estevez, Glenn Shadix, E.E. Bell, David Sederholm, Richard Steven Horvitz, Kathleen Randazzo, Brendan Cowles, Mark Conley, Terry Parmer\nOn August 23, 1992, a black-ops research program led by General Roberts perfected a device to control the weather. It was launched from a specially outfitted plane and tested for the first time. But control of the machine was lost, and within hours a deadly hurricane had formed. It became the greatest natural disaster since the San Francisco Earthquake - Hurricane Andrew. In the wake of this catastrophe, all evidence of the program was buried. Seven years later, General Roberts has revived the top-secret project. He recruits ambitious meteorologist Ron Young, who has developed software that directs weather systems. The STORM device, now equipped with this software, has been launched into a weather front 300 miles off the California coast. Moments after the device has whipped the storm into a full-blown hurricane, Roberts orders it targeted at Mexico. The storm has grown in power to a super-hurricane...\nhttp://www.youtube.com/v/E6yWfmVKIw0?fs=1&hl=en_US","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1372141"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7392033934593201,"wiki_prob":0.26079660654067993,"text":"Law and Leviticus\nLaw and Leviticus by Bruce Wells\nQ. How are the different laws of Leviticus characterized as civil, ceremonial, and moral? What is this characterization based on?\nA. The distinction between moral, ceremonial, and civil law is often associated with John Calvin and Reformed theology, though it may go back to Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century. Some have argued that it goes all the way back to some of the early church fathers.\nBiblical texts themselves do not make this distinction. In fact, there are so-called ceremonial and moral laws together in the same lists in Leviticus (in the lists in Lev 18-20, for example) without any clear differentiation, and in some cases the violations of these laws are all lumped together as “abominations.” In addition, there is nothing explicit in the New Testament to support making this threefold distinction. I would say that, in general, each of the laws points to a meaning—loyalty to Yahweh, ethical behavior in the community, and so forth—beyond the literal rule that the law contains. How one should appropriate that meaning in our world today is a difficult question and one on which modern faith communities differ.\nBruce Wells, \"Law and Leviticus\", n.p. [cited 15 Jul 2019]. Online: http://bibleodyssey.org/en/tools/ask-a-scholar/law-and-leviticus\nBruce Wells\nProfessor, Saint Joseph's University\nBruce Wells is professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Wells is the author of The Law of Testimony in the Pentateuchal Codes (2004) and the co-author of Everyday Law in Biblical Israel (2009).\nRelated Videos (1)\nLaw and the Bible\nInterpreting biblical law requires a careful look at the original setting of the law and a recognition of how those laws changed over time.\nInfluential theologians and writers from the first few centuries of Christianity.\nA collection of first-century Jewish and early Christian writings that, along with the Old Testament, makes up the Christian Bible.\nWriting, speech, or thought about the nature and behavior of God.\nLev 18-20\nSexual Relations\n1The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:2Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: I am the Lord your God.3You shall not do as they do in the lan ... View more","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line26644"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5507292747497559,"wiki_prob":0.44927072525024414,"text":"NCSE at Work: A New Mexico Story\nAt 9:30 p.m. on a recent work day, I called a reporter who had just e-mailed me, asking for comment on the latest developments with the New Mexico science standards. “Don’t you ever sleep?” he joked. I chuckled. Ten hours later, at 7:30 a.m. the next day, a different reporter called me, asking for comment on the same developments, and I happily, if a bit blearily, discussed the situation with him. I say this not to brag of my work ethic—my secret, I confess, is coffee—but to illustrate a benefit of your support of NCSE.\nThere simply isn’t any organization out there that rivals NCSE in monitoring the all-too-frequent attempts to compromise the integrity of science education in the United States. So when the media needs to understand the details of such attempts—the background, the players, the implications—they come to NCSE. The benefit is obvious: when the press coverage of attacks on science education is more accurate and complete, the public’s understanding is more accurate and complete—and that translates into action.\nTake New Mexico, for example. As soon as NCSE was aware that the proposed state science standards were edited to weaken the treatment of evolution, climate change, and the age of the earth, we swung into action, preparing a quick explanation of the scientific and pedagogical problems with the revisions, organizing a coalition of activists within New Mexico, and—crucially—identifying journalists in the state who would need to be alerted about the problem and informed about the underlying issues.\nNot everything goes as planned, of course. I was still trying to get in touch with a reporter at one of the state’s newspapers, who I thought was in a good position to break the story, when I was informed, via the coalition of activists that NCSE had organized, that a concerned New Mexican had informed a reporter at Mother Jones, who was about to break the story. No worries: I managed to get in touch with Andy Kroll before he filed his copy, so NCSE set its stamp on the very first coverage on the New Mexico standards to appear.\nSince then I’ve lost track of how many reporters I’ve talked or e-mailed with about the New Mexico science standards in the last two months, but perhaps only half of the time have I or NCSE been mentioned in the resulting story. That’s fine. The point is not necessarily to get NCSE’s name in the headlines, although that’s always nice. The point is to alert the public, via the media, of the urgent need—here, to oppose the misguided revisions that would have compromised the scientific accuracy of New Mexico’s science standards.\nAnd, again, such alerts translate into action. New Mexico abounds in people who are concerned about science education, whether because they’re science educators themselves, scientists, environmentalists, businesspeople, faith leaders or freethinkers, parents, or all of the above. And lots of them, when they saw coverage of what was proposed for their state’s science standards, decided to take action. That often included, I’m happy to say, getting in touch with NCSE, which helped them join the coalition of activists.\nThanks to NCSE’s early and unrelenting efforts in September and October 2017, there was a virtually unbroken stream of criticism of the Public Education Department, which finally, in late October, announced that instead of the flawed standards originally proposed, it would be adopting the Next Generation Science Standards in their entirety, with the addition of six New Mexico-specific standards, and—crucially—with their standards on evolution, climate change, and the age of the earth complete and unmolested. It was a decisive victory.\nNow, none of the activities that NCSE was involved in with respect to New Mexico was all that extraordinary, considered individually. It’s not rocket surgery to compare two sets of science standards and note the divergences, or to identify education reporters at the largest newspapers in a given state, or to recruit scientists to speak about evolution and geochronology at a public rally, or to keep people informed of developments by e-mail, or (for that matter) to be by the phone late one day and early the next.\nBut considered collectively? It takes experience and organization to ensure that all of these tasks are appropriately coordinated and consistently accomplished. So if you want to be sure that when science education is under attack in your state, or your town, or your school, there’s someone ready to help, you should support NCSE. And remember: a portion—albeit a too small portion, if you ask me—of each donation pays for the office’s supply of coffee, allowing us to be hard at work, day and night if necessary.\n(-) Remove Anti-evolution filter Anti-evolution","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1391775"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5273505449295044,"wiki_prob":0.5273505449295044,"text":"Exploiting Epigenetic Variation for Plant Breeding\nEpigenetic changes can bring about new traits without altering the sequence of genes. This may allow plants to respond quicker to changes in their environment. Plant biologists at the University of Zurich have now demonstrated that epigenetic variation is also subject to selection and can be inherited. This could expand the possibilities for crop breeding.\nThe sequence of genes passed on to daughter cells or offspring isn’t the only factor that determines the traits of cells and organisms. Chemical changes in the genetic material that do not alter the underlying DNA sequence also play a role in controlling which genes are active or inactive. Methylation is one such epigenetic mark, which involves the addition of small chemical groups to specific bases in the DNA. The role of the inheritance of epigenetic variation in humans and mammals is controversial; however, there are several examples of epigenetic inheritance in plants.\nAdaptability thanks to epigenetics\nPlant biologists at the University of Zurich have now demonstrated that naturally occurring epigenetic variation in mouse-ear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) is subject to selection. The team of Ueli Grossniklaus at the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology also showed that newly selected traits – which are important for seed dispersal – are passed on for at least two to three generations even without selection. “Epigenetic variation thus contributes to the ability of plants to quickly adapt to changes in the environment without sequence changes in the genome,” explains Grossniklaus.\nSelection of plants with effective seed dispersal\nIn their experiment, the plant biologists simulated a rapidly changing environment. They selected Arabidopsis populations over five generations according to how far they dispersed their seeds. Only seeds that spread to locations a certain distance from the mother plant were used for the subsequent generation. The researchers then took the seeds of three independent populations featuring effective seed dispersal and grew them together with seeds of the original, non-selected population – but this time in an environment without selection pressure. The plant populations were examined in depth after a further two generations.\nAnalysis of genetic activity, genome, and epigenome\n“We were able to show that in the selected plants, two traits that are important for seed dispersal were different compared to the original population. The plants flowered later and had a higher number of branches,” says Grossniklaus. These changes could not be traced back to mutations in the genome of the plants. However, the researchers found significant differences in the epigenome: The state of methylation was altered at about 50,000 bases in the DNA. Differences were also found in the activity of genes that controlled flowering, for example.\nNew opportunities for crop breeding\nEven under normal environmental conditions without selection, the new traits were maintained for at least two to three generations. “Like genetic variation, epigenetic variation is subject to selection and contributes to the diversity of plant traits. Since the genetic basis of crops is often very limited, epigenetics could be used to expand the material for plant breeding,” emphasizes Grossniklaus. Climate change is likely to alter the environmental conditions in many of the world’s regions within a short period of time. Plant species that can quickly adapt to changes are thus becoming increasingly important.\nRead the paper: Nature Communications\nArticle source: University of Zurich\nImage credit: University of Zurich","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1010991"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5596991181373596,"wiki_prob":0.4403008818626404,"text":"My Dear Wendy\nSinger / Songwriter / Pianist / Multi-Instrumentalist\nBorn and raised in an Atlanta suburb, Amanda Gunnels always had a passion for music. She began taking classical piano lessons in elementary school, and quickly evolved into a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter by the end of high school. Though piano is still her main instrument, Amanda is proficient on bass guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, and vocals.\nAfter moving to Los Angeles and attending Musician's Institute, Amanda decided to upgrade her music and create My Dear Wendy. A songwriting project that continues to be the focus of her musical career. My Dear Wendy performs and records to release music and also makes it available for publishing and other artists.\nAmanda recently began working as a dueling pianist. She began her dueling career at Howl at the Moon- Hollywood, and has now played at many renowned clubs across the country including The Shout! House San Diego, Tickler's on Bourbon St, New Orleans, The Big Bang in Nashville, and Savannah Smiles in Georgia.\nNow, she has relocated to Nashville, Tennessee to get back to her songwriting roots. Though dueling pianos is a part of her career that she loves, songwriting has always been her passion and she has begun recording her next album with My Dear Wendy. Look out for some new songs and videos coming soon!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line675652"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6001114249229431,"wiki_prob":0.6001114249229431,"text":"U.S. DOT and EPA Propose Fuel Economy Standards for MY 2021-2026 Vehicles\nWASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks (SAFE Vehicles Rule), to correct the national automobile fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards to give the American people greater access to safer, more affordable vehicles that are cleaner for the environment.\nThe SAFE Vehicles Rule is the next generation of the Congressionally mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) and Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards. This Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is the first formal step in setting the 2021-2026 Model Year (MY) standards that must be achieved by each automaker for its car and light-duty truck fleet.\nIn today’s proposal, NHTSA and EPA are seeking public comment on a wide range of regulatory options, including a preferred alternative that locks in MY 2020 standards through 2026, providing a much-needed time-out from further, costly increases. The agencies’ preferred alternative reflects a balance of safety, economics, technology, fuel conservation, and pollution reduction. It is anticipated to prevent thousands of on-road fatalities and injuries as compared to the standards set forth in the 2012 final rule. The joint proposal initiates a process to establish a new 50-state fuel economy and tailpipe carbon dioxide emissions standard for passenger cars and light trucks covering MY 2021 through 2026.\n“There are compelling reasons for a new rulemaking on fuel economy standards for 2021-2026,” said Secretary Elaine L. Chao. “More realistic standards will promote a healthy economy by bringing newer, safer, cleaner and more fuel-efficient vehicles to U.S. roads and we look forward to receiving input from the public.”\n“We are delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American public that his administration would address and fix the current fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards,” said EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler. “Our proposal aims to strike the right regulatory balance based on the most recent information and create a 50-state solution that will enable more Americans to afford newer, safer vehicles that pollute less. More realistic standards can save lives while continuing to improve the environment. We value the public’s input as we engage in this process in an open, transparent manner.”\nThe current standards have been a factor in the rising cost of new automobiles to an average of $35,000 or more—out of reach for many American families. Indeed, compared to the preferred alternative in the proposal, keeping in place the standards finalized in 2012 would add $2,340 to the cost of owning a new car, and impose more than $500 billion in societal costs on the U.S. economy over the next 50 years.\nAdditionally, a 2018 government study by NHTSA shows new model year vehicles are safer, resulting in fewer deaths and injuries when involved in accidents, as compared to older models. Therefore, the Administration is focused on correcting the current standards that restrict the American people from being able to afford newer vehicles with more advanced safety features, better fuel economy, and associated environmental benefits.\nOn April 2, 2018, the EPA issued the Mid-Term Evaluation Final Determination which found that the MY 2022-2025 GHG standards are not appropriate and should be revised. For more than a year, the agencies worked together to extensively analyze current automotive and fuel technologies, reviewed economic conditions and projections, and consulted with other federal agency partners to ensure the most reliable and accurate analysis possible.\nNHTSA and EPA are seeking public feedback to ensure that all potential impacts concerning today’s proposal are fully considered and hope to issue a final rule this winter.\nThe public will have 60 days to provide feedback once published at the Federal Register. Details can be found at NHTSA’s website www.NHTSA.gov/SAFE and EPA’s website.\nUpdated: Thursday, August 2, 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1448273"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.555841863155365,"wiki_prob":0.555841863155365,"text":"Sylvia Anne (Pask) Duncan, 64, formerly of Potsdam\nSylvia Anne Duncan, a long-time resident of Huntsville, Texas, formerly of Potsdam, died early Sunday, October 2, 2011.\nBorn Sylvia Anne Pask on Nov. 23, 1946 in Potsdam, Sylvia was the oldest of three children. Sylvia graduated from Potsdam High School and later attended flight attendant school in Illinois.\nSylvia married Dene Walter and eventually relocated to Huntsville, Texas, in 1981 where they raised three loving children.\nLater in life, Sylvia married Harold Duncan who has been her best friend, loving husband and biggest supporter throughout her battle with cancer.\nSylvia is survived by her loving husband Harold Duncan; daughter, Deanna Walter Alderson and her husband, Roger of Magnolia, Texas; son, Jaie Walter and his wife, Lisa of Magnolia, Texas; son, Chad Walter and his wife Cindy of Clifton Park, N.Y.; step-son Matthew Duncan and his wife, Lindsey of the Woodlands, Texas; step-daughter, Kortney Nichole Engles & husband, David of Ft. Worth, Texas; step-daughter, Danette Dean of Kilgore, Texas; sister, Dianne Pask Tallion of Madrid; brother, Stephen Pask of Colton; as well as several grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.\nSylvia was a loving parent, a caring friend and ray of light to many. For those closest to her, she taught us the value of loyalty, perseverance and the ability to overcome any obstacle. Sylvia will be greatly missed by everyone she touched.\nMom, you’re in our hearts and we will miss you…Always and forever!!!\nMemorial gifts may be made directly to the American Cancer Society through their website at www.cancer.org.\nFuneral Services will be held Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 10:00 a.m., at the Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home in Huntsville, Texas with burial to follow at Brooke Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas.\nThe Sam Houston Memorial Funeral Home has been entrusted with funeral arrangements. Condolences can be made electronically through the funeral home website at www.shmfh.com.\nView Full Story at: https://www.northcountrynow.com/obituaries/sylvia-anne-pask-duncan-64-formerly-potsdam","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line175612"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6657687425613403,"wiki_prob":0.6657687425613403,"text":"Benjamin Fulford Report, July 8th, 2019\nBenjamin Fulford (investigative reporter)\n“Major Victory” – Fulford Report – 7.8.19\n7/11/2019 12:52:00 AM Fulford, Intel, News\nMajor victory as all three power obelisks fall: Washington, London and Rome\nBy Benjamin Fulford, White Dragon Society\nLast week saw a major victory for humanity as the Khazarian mafia lost its grip on all three centers of Western power—Washington D.C., London, and Rome, according to Pentagon and other sources. Each of these capitals has an obelisk, variously symbolizing military, financial, and religious power.\n“Trump declared America’s independence from the Deep State on July 4, as Russian President Vladimir Putin meets the Pope and Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the UK in a no-deal Brexit, giving white hats control over the three obelisks of global power,” was how Pentagon sources summed up the situation.\nThis means the undeclared civil war in the West is mostly over. Now a unified West will negotiate with the rest of the world, especially Asia, on how to improve the way we run our planet, multiple sources agree. Of course, this will take time, so don’t expect any sudden, dramatic announcement yet, the sources warn.\nThe battle that led to this victory in the undeclared Western civil war was seen in the news in the form of various seemingly unrelated news events. These included the sinking of a Russian submarine, earthquakes at a U.S. naval base, the arrest of pedophile blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein, and more.\nLet’s start with the Russian submarine. Fourteen senior Russian naval officers, including seven admirals, were killed aboard a top-secret Russian submarine last week, according to news reports and official Russian government sources.\nhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-submarine-accident-fire-nuclear-reactor-catastrophe-sailors-dead-a8991531.html?utm_source=reddit.com\nWhat is not being reported is that the submarine was attacked in revenge for the sinking of an Israeli submarine in the Persian Gulf, according to Russian and U.S. military sources. Early reports, since deleted, on the Mossad-linked Debka site tried to blame the sinking of the Russian sub on the Americans, in yet another obvious Israeli attempt to start World War III.\nPentagon sources say, “The special-purpose nuclear Russian submarine Losharik may have been fried by a directed energy weapon that failed to trigger WW3, but its cabal controllers may have reaped instant karma with not just one but two quakes at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in Southern California.” Seismographs of the California quakes bear the distinctive signs of being the result of explosions and not natural forces. Please start at the 2:28 second mark on this video to confirm.\nThe Russian submarine controlled a Russian doomsday nuclear unmanned underwater drone, and the officers died preventing it from being launched, Russian sources say. That’s why the families of the dead Russian soldiers were told their relatives averted a “planetary disaster.”\nThe base that was attacked was part of the Nazi Paperclip base complex that includes the notorious Area 51, Pentagon sources say.\nIt is interesting in this context that Nazi Jeb Bush put out the following Tweet just hours before Trump announced victory of the Deep State:\n“It is a fact of American history that three of the five Founding Father Presidents died on the Independence Day anniversary. But was it just a coincidence?”\nBush was undoubtedly angry and scared, since his parents Barbara and Herbert Walker Bush were executed and his brother George Bush Jr. arrested. One can assume Jeb has also been arrested following this treasonous Tweet.\n“The takedown of Israel, pedos, and Zionist blackmail operation began July 6 with Mossad agent Jeff Epstein arrested for the sex trafficking of minors, and this may lead to many more arrests,” Pentagon sources say.\nA look at Epstein’s little black book reveals, among many others, the following names: Tony Blair, Richard Branson, Edgar Bronfman, Bill Clinton, Prince Pierre d’Arrenberg, Steve Forbes, Dustin Hoffman, Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Senator Edward Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Jessica and Hannah Rothschild (English side) and Evelyn and Edward de Rothschild (French side), Prince Salman Saud, Larry Summers, and Ivanka Trump.\nWhile being in Epstein’s black book itself is not a crime, it is a good indicator that people in the book were tempted with underage sexual partners and subsequently filmed and blackmailed if they succumbed to this temptation. Donald Trump was also a visitor to this island, and presumably time will tell if he resisted temptation or not.\nSince Trump’s Russia investigator Robert Mueller was close to Epstein, and since fired FBI director James Comey’s daughter is part of the team that arrested Epstein, we can be sure Trump’s involvement (if any) will not be glossed over.\nhttp://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=109497\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maurene-comey-09022897/\nhttps://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1147728721383571461\nThe fallout from the Epstein arrest is likely to continue for some time. However, the fact that he was arrested and 2,000 pages of information related to his previous arrest and conviction have been made public means this will not be swept under the carpet. Thus, it is a major victory against the cabal.\nIn any case, despite victory in the West, the battle for the planet as whole is far from over. It now looks like the Khazarians are activating their Iranian sleeper cells to start World War III. Remember, Marc Rich of Glencore Commodities (pardoned by Bill Clinton) was paying both Iranian and Israeli government officials from the profits of the “bomb Iran” oil futures manipulation scam for decades.\nWhat this scandal has revealed is that there are Khazarian mafia fifth columnists at the highest level of the Iranian government. That’s probably why certain Iranian government officials are now suddenly making nuclear threats in tandem with their Khazarian counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel.\nThe German Khazarian faction and their EUSSR are still probably going to try to stir up trouble in the Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe as well. Last week they showed the whole world that the EU was not a democratic institution by ignoring the EU Parliament and imposing German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leven as President of the European Commission.\nhttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-juncker-eu-parliament-a8987841.html?utm_source=reddit.com\nhttps://benjaminfulford.net/\nBenjamin Fulford Report, June 10th, 2019\nBenjamin Fulford Report, June 3d, 2019\nBenjamin Fulford Report, May 27th, 2019\nBenjamin Fulford Report, April 8, 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line456765"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7039211988449097,"wiki_prob":0.29607880115509033,"text":"World Tuberculosis Day 2016: Four Ways to End TB\nPedro Suarez, MD\nPhoto credit: Warren Zelman\nTuberculosis (TB) claims a life every 15 seconds; it is the single largest infectious killer and is universally recognized as a global epidemic. Nearly 200 children die every day of TB.\nThe challenges of tackling TB are well known, particularly in settings with limited resources, crowded urban environments, and among high risk groups including people living with HIV, prisoners, and children. The emergence of multidrug resistant strains of the disease (MDR-TB), the result of incomplete or poor managed TB treatment, present further obstacles and add exponential costs to already burdened health systems. Furthermore, challenges with access to, affordability, and proper use of pharmaceuticals and laboratory materials can have devastating consequences on diagnosis and treatment.\nThe key to ending TB is to work together to strengthen health systems in high TB-burden countries to be able to effectively implement both proven and innovative strategies. Four approaches will help save lives by uniting stakeholders to collaborate, innovate, and end TB:\nEnding a Global Epidemic: Tuberculosis in Children\nRudi Thétard\nCatherine Lijinsky\nAtsede Tefera recalls three months of long delays in the diagnosis of tuberculosis for her daughter Nigist, who was eventually able to initiate treatment.Photo credit: MSH Ethiopia\nWhen my daughter got sick, I took her to a clinic in my neighborhood. They gave her cough syrup for seven days.\nI thought she was getting better, but it was apparent that she was still ill. After another examination, they referred her to St. Paul Hospital in Addis Ababa where they put her on oxygen and started taking blood sample after sample and injection after injection for a month. Her condition did not get better so they gave her another medicine. The doctors then decided to take blood from her back… only then did they know it was tuberculosis.\n~ Atsede Tefera\nTuberculosis (TB) kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, causing over 1.5 million deaths globally. More than a quarter of cases are in Africa, the region with the highest burden of TB disease relative to population. Children are amongst the most vulnerable, and all too often children with TB remain in the shadows, undiagnosed, uncounted, and untreated. Today, more than 53 million children worldwide are infected with TB and over 400 die each day from this preventable and curable disease.\nAddressing Childhood Tuberculosis through Maternal and Child Survival Platforms\nUSAID's ASH Project, led by MSH, brings together global and African regional partners for a new video on addressing childhood TB.\nTuberculosis (TB) is now the leading infectious cause of death worldwide -- ahead of HIV. While major advances in the diagnosis and treatment of TB have been made since 1990, children suffering from this disease have remained neglected and vulnerable. An estimated 1 million children become ill with TB each year, and at least 200 children die each day from TB around the world.\nTB is curable and preventable, but we must recognize and treat it with the least possible delay. For children experiencing TB symptoms, the primary point of health care, often community-level facilities, is an important opportunity to identify and begin treatment. Symptoms such as a persistent cough, loss of appetite and high fevers must be recognized as possible signs of TB (not just of pneumonia, malaria, malnutrition, and other common illnesses among children), and health workers must be empowered to recognize and take appropriate action. Ensuring that children can access treatment close to home is a critical step towards eliminating preventable deaths from TB.\nHealth Systems Strengthening Will Stop TB\nStepping Up the Pace on Pediatric HIV & AIDS: \"Treatment is Prevention\"\nManagement Sciences for Health\nPhoto credit: Mark Tuschman, Kenya.\nOn the eve of the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014), Rachel Hassinger, editor of MSH’s Global Health Impact Blog, spoke with Dr. Scott Kellerman, global technical lead on HIV & AIDS, to discuss his latest research on prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and pediatric HIV & AIDS. Kellerman and colleagues will be attending AIDS 2014, July 20-25, in Melbourne, Australia. (Read more about the conference.)\nRH: What is the state of HIV & AIDS globally?\nScott KellermanSK: We are at the threshold of a sea change. In the beginning, our HIV prevention tool box was sparse. We could offer extended counseling and condoms, and impart information, but not much else. Behavioral change was the cornerstone of tackling the epidemic. It worked sometimes, but, not consistently.\nNow biomedical advances are propelling treatment as prevention—even what I call “treatment IS prevention”.\nWorld AIDS Day 2012: From Cleveland to Kigali: Why We Work for an AIDS-Free Generation\nPhoto credit: MSH.\nI got a call from the resident doctor to come to exam room 6. As soon as I entered the room, I prepared myself. The little girl, 7- or maybe 8-years-old, didn't look well; she was “floppy,” combative, and not entirely aware of where she was or what we were doing to her. She was HIV-positive, and my colleague needed to get an IV line in her arm to test the latest in experimental treatments for kids with HIV– and needed the four of us interns to help hold her still.\nIt was 1993 during my residency in pediatrics in Cleveland, Ohio. We were at one of the best children’s hospitals in the world; it didn’t matter. The young girl died a few months later.\nWith the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) a few years later, the whole world changed. The world of HIV medicine blossomed; new drugs and drug combinations literally exploded with amazing effect. HIV-positive mothers could give birth to HIV-negative babies, and HIV-positive children and their moms could get treatment.\nPMTCT and 5th Birthdays: Not Without the Mothers\nPhoto courtesy of S. Kellerman.\nThe prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV is taking center stage this week during USAID’s 5th Birthday campaign -- and rightly so. Preventing mother to child transmission of HIV is one of the most critical, effective tools to helping kids reach their fifth birthdays.\nProviding Essential Health Services in Remote Corners of Haiti\nGumy Dorvilmar\nPhoto credit: Gumy Dorvilmar/MSH.\nIt was 11 o’clock one February morning when the Santé pour le Développement et la Stabilité d’Haiti (SDSH) project technical team arrived on site at St. Joseph Health Center.\nThe center’s activities were well underway. Dozens of people sat on benches or stood in line, waiting for their turn. One person comes to care for her child who has had a high fever. Another comes for contraception. Another just gave birth to a healthy infant.\nSt. Joseph Health Center is located in Abricots, a remote community in the department of Grande’Anse, Haiti, far from Port-au-Prince. Abricots is nearly inaccessible because of rough terrain and hazardous mountain trails.\nSince 2007, with support from the USAID-funded SDSH project, led by Management Sciences for Health (MSH), St. Joseph Health Center has provided a basic package of health services: pediatrics, maternal health, reproductive health, detection and treatment of sexually-transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and family planning.\nThis free clinic is the only health institution in this hard-to-reach area, serving an estimated 32,000 people.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line978984"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8469406962394714,"wiki_prob":0.8469406962394714,"text":"filed: October 29, 2012 • General News\nGlobal headwinds trouble India’s Suzlon\nCredit: AFP | 28 October 2012 | www.france24.com ~~\nWind energy giant Suzlon, once a star of India’s green technology, is facing a stormy future after aggressive expansion left it mired in debt at a tricky time for the industry, analysts say.\nThe world’s fifth largest wind turbine firm this month made the biggest default on repayments by an Indian company, after bondholders rejected its request for a four-month extension to more than $200 million of debt.\nInvestors are watching with concern to see if founder Tulsi Tanti can steer them out of a desperate fund-crunch over the coming crucial months, in an uncertain global business environment.\nThe picture was once far rosier for Suzlon, headquartered on a sprawling 10-acre campus on the outskirts of Pune, a city in western India.\nBefore the global financial crisis, the firm was the bluest of blue-chips and chairman Tanti, fondly called the “Wind-Man of India”, was a poster-boy for entrepreneurship and unbridled ambition in the country’s growth story.\nHe had capitalised on rising international concern over global warming and climate change to rapidly expand his firm, which generates nearly 20,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity in 30 countries worldwide, including North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.\nIn 2005, Forbes ranked Tanti as India’s eighth richest man, but this year he has fallen off the list of the country’s richest 100 people.\nHis company’s fortunes have mirrored the slide, which analysts blame on an over-aggressive expansion, compounded by its unfortunate timing just before the global economic bust.\n“It borrowed more than its appetite,” said Bhargav Buddhadev, power utilities analyst with equity research firm Ambit Capital.\nSuzlon spent more than $2 billion, largely raised through debt, on two large acquisitions in Europe: Belgium’s Hansen Transmissions, which made wind gear boxes, and Germany’s wind turbine maker giant REpower.\nThe firm stumbled in 2008 when the credit markets froze after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a big lender to clean energy projects. Lehman’s demise made other banks reluctant to lend to wind farming, which needs large funds.\nThe following year, Suzlon’s global revenues fell by 30 percent and it reported its first net loss in more than 10 years.\nTanti then decided to focus on the domestic market in India but things have not improved much since, despite steps by the firm to reduce debt, including selling off its Hansen stake by 2011.\nThe firm is rapidly losing market share in India due to competition from new rivals, such as ReGen Power and Orient Green Power.\n“They will not come close to Suzlon in terms of market share, but they are growing faster than Suzlon,” said Buddhadev.\nSuzlon has posted losses for the last three financial years and had a net debt of 130 billion rupees ($2.5 billion) in June-end this year.\nLike other emerging economies, India is under pressure to boost renewable sources to meet its huge and growing energy needs and lower reliance on coal and oil, which currently account for two-thirds of India’s energy production.\nBut despite the potential for wind energy growth, tax incentives are reducing in India as elsewhere.\n“Worldwide, several countries are struggling with weak balance sheets and their governments have been unable to hike subsidies for ‘clean’ renewable energy initiatives, including wind,” an analyst with a close knowledge of the company said.\nWith banks reluctant to loan, renewable technologies will struggle commercially without state support in grants and tax-reliefs.\nAlthough India’s wind industry has grown annually by an average 22 percent since 1992, new installations have slowed for the first time in 20 years, according to the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA).\nIn April to September they were down 39 percent from a year earlier to 851.35 megawatt capacity, the IWTMA said.\nGlobally, new wind installations are expected to drop by 8.4 percent in 2013, driven by the US market’s fears of state subsidies ending there, HSBC analyst Charanjit Singh wrote in a note to clients in June.\nSuzlon has embarked on a cost-cutting drive to reduce operational expenses and manpower by 20 percent by the end of 2012, but the firm declined to talk about the debt default and other concerns despite requests from AFP.\n“Our business fundamentals as a group remain strong… with a record orderbook valued in excess of $7.2 billion,” said an emailed statement from the firm.\nSource: AFP | 28 October 2012 | www.france24.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line805523"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6280482411384583,"wiki_prob":0.6280482411384583,"text":"The evolutionary paradox of homosexuality\nBeing gay no longer holds the stigma it once did, but in evolution, why does a non-reproductive trait persist?\nBy Tom Whipple\n09th May, 2018 at 00:00\nIn 1913 George Levick, an explorer, travelled to Antarctica. There, he found something so terrible that he requested his findings not be published. In case the correspondence was leaked or intercepted, he took the further precaution of writing key sections in ancient Greek: these were not letters to be read by the lower orders.\nLevick had been studying penguins: birds whose monogamous lifestyle had so impressed the Victorians that they had been held up as models of probity and integrity.\nBut he had seen something on his trip to the bottom of the world that had caused him to question that assessment. “There seems,” he wrote with palpable shock, “to be no crime too low for these penguins.” Levick’s penguins, you see, were gay.\nAnd if penguins can be homosexual, what was to say that that behaviour, far from being the perversion society presumed it was, was natural in humans too?\nThese days homosexuals, avian or otherwise, generally have an easier time of it. While we may have accepted that same sex attraction is natural, though, there is a far harder question: why is it natural?\nWe know that homosexuality is, at least in part, genetic. Studies show, for instance, that identical twins are more likely to be both homosexual than non-identical twins. So it is passed on by evolution. This is a problem, particularly so with men – who for obvious reasons find it harder to fake an interest in sex.\nImagine you had never heard of evolution, and someone described it to you. One of the most basic predictions you would surely make is that a trait that made people less likely to reproduce should die out. Male homosexuality, a trait that, at least among exclusive homosexuals, means people have no interest at all in the act of reproduction, should never have existed in the first place. And yet it does. How?\nTo answer that question, researchers have gone to a place where homosexuality itself does not exist, at least in the form we know it: Samoa. Here, in the South Pacific, there is a third gender called the Fa’afafine – a group born male who behave as women.\nThis is not the only place with third genders. There are the “Two-Spirit” people of Native America. There are the Khatoey ladyboys of Thailand. There are the Hijras of Pakistan. In 2004 a Hijra, Asha Devi, was elected mayor of Gorakhpur under the slogan “You’ve tried the men and tried the women. Now try something different”.\nHijra offer prayers on the occasion of Urs festival in Hooghly near Kolkata © Saikat Paul/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images\nPaul Vasey, from the University of Lethbridge in Canada, believes that homosexuality as it manifests itself in most of today’s world is unusual. In more ancient cultures, he thinks you can see homosexuality as it was practised by our ancestors in deep time – as a “third gender”.\nAnd in looking at these third genders – in particular the Fa’afafine – he believes we can find clues as to why this evolutionary paradox of male homosexuality persists.\nWhat is interesting for Professor Vasey is that, firstly, there is no recognised gay identity in Samoa and that, secondly, the Fa’afafine occur at the same proportion as male homosexuals in the west. He believes there is a simple explanation for this.\n“I’m gay,” says Professor Vasey. “But if I’d grown up in Samoa I wouldn’t look like this. I’d probably look like a really ugly Fa’afafine.”\nFa’afafine translates literally as “in the manner of a woman”. Boys who appear more feminised in their behaviour will often be classified as a Fa’afafine, and brought up as something between a woman and a man. There is also an analogue for masculinised girls – Fa’afatama.\nThe fact they also go on to sleep with men is not the only similarity between Fa’afafine and western gay men. “There’s all kinds of traits the two share in common. Both exhibit elevated childhood gender atypical behaviour, both exhibit elevated childhood cross sex wishes, both exhibit elevated childhood separation anxiety, both prefer female-typical occupations in adulthood.”\nFor Professor Vasey, it seems obvious that being Fa’afafine and being gay is the “same trait, expressed differently depending on the culture.” He even argues that the oddity is the West – that the way homosexuality manifests in Europe and North America may even be an expression of our repression rather than our freedom.\n“The part of the brain that controls sexual partner preference, it’s the same for all of us,” he says. “It’s just that if you take that biological potential, put it in Samoa where society doesn’t flip out about male femininity, then feminine little boys grow up to be Fa’afafine. If you take that potential, put it in Canada, feminine boys learn pretty quickly they had better masculinise to survive.” This, he believes, is precisely what he ended up doing.\nWhether the “third gender” really is the ancestral form of homosexuality, with the way it is practised in the West today an aberration, is a separate issue. That it can take such widely different forms, shows the impact society can have on sexuality. That its prevalence remains largely the same also shows the limits of such socialisation – that there is something else going on. But what?\nProfessor Vasey is one of the very few scientists in the world looking at this question, and he does so thanks to the Fa’afafine. There are two specific theories used to explain male homosexuality that he is interested in. The first could be termed the “benevolent uncle hypothesis”.\nAlatina Ioelu does not remember not being a Fa’afafine. Yet he does remember not wanting to be one. “You don’t really come out,” he said. “You’re just that. In a way it’s good, in a way it’s not good. When you’re growing up as a kid you’re innocent of your actions, how you move or sound. You’re not aware you are doing something that doesn’t conform to the norms of how society considers boys.”\nBut he clearly didn’t, because his classmates began to call him a Fa’afafine. “And so you grow up being known as that. I wanted to distance myself from it, I didn’t want to be that.” He couldn’t, though, because he realised it was true. “In the end you’re like, ‘sh*t, that’s what I am.’”\nIt would be wrong to claim that the Fa’afafine are completely accepted in Samoa. There is a place for them, however, and always has been. “They walk around and nobody says, ‘Oh, that’s a Fa’afafine’. In my family we have a long line going back. I have a great uncle that’s a Fa’afafine, I have four second cousins, a first cousin…”\nHe realised that this itself was a paradox – all these Fa’afafine going back generations. “How the hell do we have Fa’afafine, and they don’t reproduce? How is it we are still around, when we don’t have children?”\nHe also realised that Professor Vasey may have the answer. Fa’afafine do not have biological children of their own. Conventionally, from the point Alatina realised who he was, he was taking himself out of the reproductive game. Or was he? Perhaps not entirely.\nThe benevolent uncle explanation is based on the idea that there is more than one way to pass on your genes. The best way to reproduce, in terms of percentage of genes passed on, is to clone yourself through asexual reproduction. Stick insects can do this. Humans, alas, can’t.\nThe most efficient method we have to perpetuate our genes is sexual reproduction – passing on half our DNA each time. It is not the only option, though. Your siblings, for instance, share half your genes, which means your nieces and nephews share a quarter. To an uncle each of those nieces and nephews is therefore, from a genetic point of view, worth half a child.\nTafi Toleafoa, a fa’afafine living in Alaska, USA, tends to her niece during a family gathering after church © Erik Hill/Anchorage Daily News/MCT via Getty Images\nWhat if simply having an extra man around, a benevolent uncle to provide for the extended family’s children, was enough to ensure more of those children survive to reproduce themselves? This could be where the Fa’afafine come in. Alatina says that there are clear and defined roles for them.\n“They become almost like the caretakers of families. They are responsible for taking care of the elderly, parents, grandparents, even their siblings’ children. Because they are feminine they take up this motherly role in families.”\nHaving an extra hardworking adult without dependants is no minor advantage. Everyone has extra fish, extra firewood – and fuller bellies. It is not implausible that, particularly in difficult times, a childless Fa’afafine could ensure more nieces and nephews reach reproductive age. That is the idea behind the benevolent uncles hypothesis, that good uncling becomes a form of reproduction in itself.\nTo test the theory, Professor Vasey looks to see if the Fa’afafine are more avuncular – literally, uncle-like. He has found that, compared to single straight men or aunts, they are indeed more likely to want to look after their nieces and nephews. They take more interest in them, babysit more than straight men, buy more toys, tutor more and contribute more money to their education.\nOf course, in order for a gay uncle to be useful you need to ensure he actually has nieces and nephews (and preferably a lot of them) to be useful for. There’s no point in being a good uncle with no one to look after. So it would be good for this theory if gay uncles were more likely to pop up in big families. Incredibly, they do.\nOne of the best-established and more intriguing results in homosexuality research is that the more elder brothers a man has, the greater his chances of being gay. The mechanism, only discovered this year, seems to involve each pregnancy leading the mother to develop antibodies against a protein involved in male foetal brain development.\nThe result is, as families get more likely to benefit from the services of a gay uncle, the chances of one appearing increases.\nProblem solved? Not quite. In order for this to completely explain homosexuality, a lot of extra nieces and nephews would have to be born and survive – probably too many for the genetic mathematics to add up.\nBut Professor Vasey does not think the benevolent uncle theory needs to be a complete explanation. It can be one of many, and the other leading contender is the “sexually antagonistic gene hypothesis”, more snappily known as the “sexy sisters hypothesis”.\nWhat if the genes for homosexuality persist because despite making non-reproductive (if avuncular) men, when they appear in women they produce excellent breeders? Again the Fa’afafine, and Samoa, have been his laboratory. Professor Vasey took 86 Fa’afafine, and 86 heterosexual Samoan men. He then looked at their grandmothers – who are easier to study than sisters, because all their breeding is already finished.\nHe found that the grandmothers of the Fa’afafine were indeed better breeders. The theory is simple. By passing on their genes these grandmothers might end up with the occasional grandson who wears dresses and doesn’t reproduce (though always remembers his nieces’ and nephews’ birthdays). But they themselves, thanks to the very same genes, were also better at reproducing – so made enough other grandchildren to make up for it. There is a problem, though, given the way the theory was originally framed. Somehow, the “sexy grandmothers’ hypothesis” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.\nX and WHY – The rules of attraction: why gender still matters by Tom Whipple is available now (£9.99, Short Books)\nUnderstand:Discover\nPain | How a genetic mutation could bring an end to suffering\nAre women really better at multitasking?\nWhy do women feel the cold more than men?\nThe power of music for health\nWhy do little girls like pink?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line436569"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9174200296401978,"wiki_prob":0.9174200296401978,"text":"Claudia cardinale nude\nClaudia cardinale nude. Claudia Cardinale Nude Free Videos 2019-04-15\nClaudia cardinale nude Rating: 6,3/10 1020 reviews\nClaudia Cardinale Nude Free Videos\nIn 1962, Cardinale was interviewed by the writer , who focused exclusively on her sexuality and body image in film, treating her as an object. As of July 2015 , it has a rating of just 6% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 34 reviews. She starred alongside in 's The Leopard 1963 Il Gattopardo , portraying a village girl who married a progressive young aristocrat Alain Delon , and played a film actress cast by a director Marcello Mastroianni in 's 8½. On 11 October 2018 she received the Tabernas de Cine award in the Almería Western Film Festival. In 1987, Cardinale starred opposite , , and in 's film Un homme amoureux , Kurys's first English-language feature. It was entered into the.\nI mean, I've been going to Hollywood many, many times, but I didn't want to sign a contract. The marriage was never made official in Italy. Her maternal grandparents had a small shipbuilding firm in Trapani, but later settled in La Goulette, where a large Italian community existed. Cardinale's 1961 appearances also included 's French comedy , and in which she had a cameo role. Later in 1961, Cardinale starred as a brothel owner opposite in Bolognini's. And in front of a camera, no less! Vitti's biographer noted how Cardinale and Vitti stood out as the female duo in a predominantly masculine cast.\nRetrieved 7 July 2015 — via. Le stelle della mia vita in Italian. Like Loren, Claudia was coveted for her beautiful face, sultry voice, and charismatic curvature. Outspoken on causes over the years, Cardinale has been a goodwill ambassador for the Defense of Women's Rights since March 2000. She did not learn to speak Italian until she had already begun to be cast for Italian films. This was followed by a role as a telephone operator in , and as a nurse opposite and in 's , based on the story of the mission to rescue and the other survivors of the crash of the.\nThat year, she starred in 's war picture for opposite , Alain Delon, and. She appeared in the most popular European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in several famous English films. After being spotted by several film producers at the event, she was invited to study at the in Rome under. According to Cardinale, the couple had a marriage party but did not marry, and they became increasingly detached. Cardinale published an autobiography with Anne Mori, Io Claudia, Tu Claudia, in 1995. For her performance in the film, she received her first in 1965.\nSex Symbol Claudia Cardinale Nude Photos\nJaded with the Hollywood film industry and not wanting to become a cliché, Cardinale returned to Italian and French cinema, and garnered the award for her roles in 1968 and as a prostitute alongside in 1971. In 1982, she starred in 's as the love interest of , who raises the funds to buy a steamship in. In 2010, Cardinale received the Golden Orange Best Actress Award at the for her performance as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student in Signora Enrica. By 1966, Cardinale was being cited as the most popular film star in Italy, even more than Mastroianni and Loren. On this discovery, he wanted her to have an abortion, but she decided to keep the child. While the two were staying in , he surprised her by taking her to their wedding ceremony which he had arranged without her knowledge.\nIn 1998, Cardinale portrayed the mother of in the French picture , a wealthy baroness who leaves her hotel to her daughter to care for during her absence. Cardinale next portrayed Pauline Bonaparte in 's French film , and after appearing opposite Gassman and Salvatori in the sequel to Big Deal on Madonna Street, , she portrayed Ginetta, the fiancée of , alongside Salvatori and in 's critically acclaimed. Not until 8½ was she allowed to use her own voice. He taught me everything, without ever making demands on me. She portrayed Carmelita, a Sicilian girl virtually imprisoned in her home by her overpowering brother.\nCardinale was educated at the Saint-Joseph-de-l'Apparition school of , which she attended along with her younger sister Blanche. Volume quarto: Dal miracolo economico agli anni novanta 1960—1993 in Italian. Ladies and Gentlemen received mixed reviews; A. In her early roles, she was usually , as producers considered her voice too hoarse.\nThe following year, Cardinale played the peasant mother of two children who are members of 's 's army during the era, in Cristaldi's historical film. In 1984, she played the love interest of Marcello Mastroianni in a production of , based on the play of the. Although she never dared to go tuta bare, this rare Romanesque bird's sun-tanned shoulders and quick flashes of boulders can be seen while sudsing in a tub in Once Upon a Time in the West 1969 and Queen of Diamonds 1970. In 1968, Cardinale featured opposite in , in a -winning performance.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line688829"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6696790456771851,"wiki_prob":0.6696790456771851,"text":"IBM Triples Cloud Datacenter Capacity in the UK\nLONDON, U.K., Nov. 22 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is adding four new cloud data centers infused with cognitive intelligence in the UK, to keep pace with growing client demand. The investment in the new facilities underscores IBM’s long-standing commitment to providing innovative solutions to the UK market and triples its cloud center capacity in the UK.\n“We are already among the most digitally connected countries in the world, with a globally successful digital economy worth more than £118 billion a year and strong cyber security defences to protect consumers and business,” said Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Digital and Culture. “Today’s announcement by IBM is a further boost for this thriving area, and another vote of confidence which shows Britain is open for business. These new cloud data centers will help our firms work smarter and quicker to become the world-leading businesses of tomorrow.”\nCloud adoption rates increased to 84% in the UK over the course of the last five years, according to Cloud Industry Forum. IDC forecasts that the global market opportunity for public cloud services will exceed $195 billion by 2020. The expansion strengthens IBM’s ability to bring clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage data, run their businesses and deploy IT operations locally in the cloud.\nThese new facilities expand IBM’s cloud data center footprint from two to six in the UK and 16 across Europe as part of IBM’s network of more than 50 data centers worldwide. With these new data centers, clients have access to a complete portfolio of IBM cloud services for running their mission critical enterprise workloads and innovations through more than 150 digital services (APIs). These digital services are available via IBM’s development platform, Bluemix and include Watson, IBM’s cognitive intelligence technology that allows computers to think and learn like humans, building blocks for innovative Blockchain applications that increase trust in transactions, plus enabling technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) and analytics applications.\nThomson, part of TUI UK & Ireland, the UK’s largest tour operator, is trialling a new travel search tool, which leverages Watson cognitive services on the IBM Cloud with its customers giving them the opportunity to find travel inspiration by interacting with the virtual travel assistant. The tool is a smart chatbot that interacts with consumers to provide real-time search results on travel destinations and holiday inquiries, such as “I want to visit local markets/ go on an adventure/ have a cultured holiday/ see exotic animals.” Thomson is tapping into IBM’s Cloud data center in the UK and leverages Watson APIs such as conversation, natural language classifier and speech-to-text. The experimental website gains insights and learns from data via frequent requests to provide more digital intelligence that matches customer requirements.\n“By leveraging IBM’s Cloud platform with Watson’s cognitive intelligence we have raised the bar in the travel industry and delivered an interactive website to our digitally savvy customers in a fun and innovative way. We are excited to learn how customers interact and what they get out of the experience,” said Jo Hickson, Head of Innovation, TUI UK&I.\nIBM Cloud Expands Capabilities for Highly Regulated Industries in the UK and EU\nIBM was first to offer cloud services to clients in the UK through an existing Cloud data center more than five years ago, which was swiftly followed by a second UK Cloud data center in 2014. IBM was recently cited as a “strong performer” in Forrester’s latest Wave Report on global public cloud platforms in Europe. IBM also earned the highest possible score for its hybrid cloud strategy as well as the top ranking for IBM’s infrastructure services.\n“By adding four new Cloud data centers in the UK, IBM is giving local businesses an easy route to the cloud, helping them quickly innovate and respond to market demands,” said Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president of IBM Cloud. “IBM is continuing to invest in high growth areas, offering clients higher-value cloud data services such as Watson and Blockchain running on our cloud infrastructure that delivers world-class scalability, performance and security.”\nIBM client Armakuni, a provider to financial services and fintech, commented: “Data security and residency are two key concerns when considering use of cloud services in financial services. IBM’s investment and expansion of their cloud data center footprint in the UK goes a long way to address these concerns and enables us to better serve UK customers securely.”\nIBM also signed an agreement to lease space within Ark Data Centres in the UK, which will see the second of the four new cloud data centers fully operational in mid-2017. Ark is the joint venture partner with the UK Government delivering public sector data center services under the Crown Hosting Framework. Crown Hosting, based in the same Ark facility, is already being used by a number of public sector departments and agencies.\nIBM Cloud: A Focus on Quality, Performance, Innovation and Choice\nClients choosing IBM Cloud services will benefit from the company’s experience across public, private and hybrid cloud deployments and easy access to cloud innovations on a simple pay-as-you-go model. Clients also benefit from services like load balancing, auto scaling, object storage, bandwidth pooling and Static IPs that are resilient across the cloud data centers in the UK. From migrating existing workloads to the cloud for the first time to supporting advanced applications that draw on High Performance Computing and cognitive technologies, IBM Cloud data centers are distinct in several ways:\nModern Infrastructure: The new facilities are designed to provide users with the largest portfolio and pool of bare metal servers in the market delivering up to an 8X performance increase on database applications. This design also means clients can mix infrastructure resources, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, and networking, to find the right balance for their workloads. These facilities will also offer users the latest IBM POWER and x86 processors, NVIDIA GPU accelerators, OpenPOWER-based servers, SAP HANA applications and IBM Bluemix development tools.\nEnhanced Network Performance: All IBM Cloud data centers connect to a global backbone network that enables seamless data transfer, lower latency, and more consistent network performance between cloud infrastructure and end users around the world. With this innovative network foundation, high-bandwidth apps and services like video streaming, database querying and HPC applications perform at their best.\nNext-Generation Data Center Capabilities: Clients using these facilities will also have access to IBM Watson, Blockchain, IoT and other leading cloud-based services through more than 150 open APIs. IBM provides a complete stack of cloud services with IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities that can be accessed.\nThe new facilities provide clients greater flexibility, transparency and control over how they manage data, run business operations and deploy IT operations locally in the cloud. The facilities also connect to IBM’s public data centers around the world to help clients transfer and replicate their data in multiple locations and quickly balance or reroute workloads between multiple locations.\nUK Clients Already Benefitting from IBM Cloud\nHundreds of UK clients of all sizes are already taking advantage of the benefits IBM Cloud offers including Dixons Carphone, National Express, National Grid, Shop Direct, Travis Perkins PLC and Wimbledon.\nDixons Carphone, Europe’s largest telecommunications retailer, migrated to IBM Cloud to integrate two distinct infrastructures following its 2014 merger, and enable easy scaling to better manage seasonal shopping trends. “One of the biggest IT challenges in the retail industry is performance, reliability and rapid scalability to manage the peaks and valleys of seasonal shopping trends. IBM’s investment and expansion in the UK provides us with an even more seamless ecommerce and retail experience for our customers during these busy retail periods including holidays and new product launches,” said David Hennessy, IT Director, Dixons Carphone.\nIBM’s Global Cloud Footprint\nWith more than 50 global cloud data centers, IBM helps companies securely manage and gain insight into their data no matter where it resides. The news also reinforces IBM strong cloud presence across Europe, and the additional facilities announced today uniquely position IBM as the market leader with more UK data centers than any other vendor. In September, IBM announced the opening of its first cloud data center in the Nordics. The addition of the new UK data center facilities will mark 16 IBM data centers across Europe.\nThe new UK facilities will enable companies of all sizes to digitize business and operations and drive innovation through the IBM Cloud. The first facility will open in Fareham at the end of December, with three more opening in the UK next year.\nSource: IBM","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line841565"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6027877926826477,"wiki_prob":0.6027877926826477,"text":"The New Era Project\nMusic Player/Sub-Store\nNews/Journal\nMoments & Events\nKnowledge, Learning, and Things of Interest\nPowerful Quotes, Words of Wisdom, and Inspiration\nGovernment, Politics, Business & Economics\nCriminal Justice & Corruption\nComedy & Satire\nVito's YouTube Channel\nRT America TV\nNASA TV Media\nThe Next Chapter continues...\nThe New Era is Coming!\nListen to: The New Era!\nTweets by @vitomasilotti\nThe New Era on Spotify\nOther Social Networks...\nThe New Era - The Answer\n- Digital Single\nA Progressive Pop track that dares to ask the question: \"What does it all mean?!\nThe New Era - Lydia's Dream\nI originally wrote this piece some years ago, (as a kid), while attending a School of The Arts on Long Island - as a songwriting project assignment in the Lydian mode. (Hence, the title). And, finally got around to recording it for the first time around April 2004 - which is the version here...\nI like this quote from Edgar Allan Poe, which pretty much describes the feeling and mood I was attempting to create when I wrote this tune: \"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream...\"\nThe Long, Lonely Road...\nA song of musical and lyrical imagery, based on real life...\nThe New Era - Loch Lomond Suite\nThis suite (or medley) is in three movemnts: I. Loch Lomond II. The Enchanted Lake III. A Walk In The Park\nHad a dream about the song \"Loch Lomond\" recently, for some reason, (maybe because I had incorporated it into the ending of a song I had been working-out the lyrics to, off and on, for some time). In the dream, the music was incredibly beautiful, and the chorus you hear here was being sung by a choir, sort of like a fade in and fade-out type of thing, and then I woke-up. After that, I set my mind on experimenting with that part of the song a little bit. Sort of like making a musical collage', (or medley) out of it, based on the chorus, and combining it with several other things that I had in the works, when I had the dream. As many know, it is a piece that has been in the public domain for a few centuries now, and I always loved listening to the many different versions of it, especially around the spring season time of year. As it appears to be a spring-time kind of song. (And when it seems to be performed most often). I guess this is my version, for now. The other two movements I wrote myself. The 3rd movement (\"A Walk In The Park\") incorporates the chorus of a complete pop song that I also recently wrote, but have yet to record. The words and melody just sort of fit together, and (much to my surprise) seemed to work with the variation in the chord changes, to fit the movement. So, I thought I would just flow with the inspiration (as I improvised around the chord changes), turn on the tape deck, and go with it; And the result was a medley (or suite) in three movements...\nThe New Era - A Children's Song / Moonlight Slumbers\nThis instrumental piece is in two parts, or movements. The first movement, is based on an ensemble, sort of written in the stlyle of Mozart. The second part, I think, is kind of reminiscent of Anthony Phillips, Steve Hackett, and David Arkenstone. As some of that musical influence seemed to inadvertantly come through during the recording of the track. You can see an interesting slide show video of the song on my blog page, and YouTube channel...\nOfficial release date: Jan. 31st, 2012\nThe New Era - Mid-December\nThis is a song for all the hopes and memories of the Christmas holiday season...\nThe New Era - Song for Caylee\nThis single is based on the Caylee Anthony story. Officially released, using the name of my registered, \"done in business as\", Independent label: Carousel Records, on August 29th, 2011...\nThe New Era - And Then, Winter Came...\n- EP - CD\nSeasonaly related EP of seven songs, consisting of 6 originals and one cover; Also appropriate for any time of year...\nVito Masilotti & The New Era Band Project - The Walkersvile Sessions-Demos of Significance\n- CD-R\nTheme album of 17 songs, composed during the time period when I was performing with \"The New Era\" band, back on Long Island, N.Y. As well as, newer material written after this time. Some of the songs were also influenced by things related to the area where I had recorded the CD. Hence, the title: \"The Walkersville Sessions\"...\nI had recorded, performed, and produced all the tracks myself, using my own personal Porta-Studio. Hence, the second part of the title for the album: \"Demos of Significance\". And thus, a rather personal album, in more ways then one...\n© 2019 The New Era Project. All Rights Reserved.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line262561"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6040441989898682,"wiki_prob":0.6040441989898682,"text":"By wpadmin | January 29, 2019\nA student died after eating leftover pasta that had been left on his kitchen benchtop for five days.\nThe 20-year-old from the Brussels in Belgium became sick after eating leftover spaghetti with tomato sauce which had been prepared five days earlier and stored at room temperature.\nAfter becoming violently ill, he went to bed to try and sleep the sickness off, only to be found dead in bed the next morning by his devastated parents.\nAn autopsy later revealed he’d died suddenly from food poisoning caused by a bacteria called bacillus cereus.\nAccording to the Food Standards Authority, bacillus cereus is a spore forming bacteria that produces toxins, causing cause vomiting and diarrhoea.\nWhile the student — known only as AJ — experienced both these symptoms, he treated his them as a regular bout of food poisoning, drinking plenty of water and taking no medication.\nHowever, the toxins from the bacteria caused his liver to go into failure, killing him as he slept.\nThe shock incident happened back in October 2008 after the man came home from school.\nHe warmed the spaghetti in the microwave before heading out to play sports, but ended up coming home half an hour later suffering from headaches, abdominal pain, and nausea.\nHe threw up for several hours and went to the bathroom twice only to fall asleep around midnight.\nHis lifeless body was discovered 11 hours later by his “worried” parents who were concerned because he didn’t get up for college.\nThe shocking story has been featured by Dr Bernard, a licenced practitioner who studies and shares bizarre medical cases from around the world on his YouTube channel.\nDr Bernard analysed the case, which originally featured in the US Journal of Clinical Microbiology, along with several others in a dramatised re-enactment, explaining the harmful bacteria caused AJ’s liver to shut down.\nSamples of spoiled pasta and tomato sauce samples were also analysed, with the National Reference Laboratory for Food-borne Outbreak confirming the spaghetti was contaminated with “significant amounts” of the B.cereus — while it was absent in the sauce.\n“AJ is an otherwise healthy 20-year-old man,” he explains in the video, adding the story was not a “typical” food poisoning case.\n“Many people eat pasta, or any other form of noodles, that are leftover for a day or two and they’re fine,” he said.\n“Be careful of food left out for more than a few hours. If the food smells funny, it’s always better to be safe than sorry.”\nSince the video was shared last week, it has received hundreds of comments from shocked viewers.\n“That was kinda dumb but not really something you expect to kill you a day later,” one person wrote on Reddit.\n“I don’t know why anyone would leave perishable food in the kitchen for 5 days and think it’s okay to still eat it,” another added.\nContinue the conversation @RebekahScanlan | rebekah.scanlan@news.com.au\nHealth and Fitness | news.com.au — Australia’s #1 news site\n← Medical News Today: Diagnosis and treatment of duodenal cancer Medical News Today: What are the signs of depression in men? →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line842159"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6962184906005859,"wiki_prob":0.6962184906005859,"text":"Hackers Now Targeting Girl Scouts, Raising Privacy Concerns\nAs far as hackers are concerned, no target is safe. Not even the Girl Scouts.\nRecently, one of the Girl Scouts' official email accounts was accessed by an \"unauthorized third party\" and as a result, as many as 2,800 girl scouts in Orange County, California may have had their personal information compromised.\nGaining access to the account naturally gave the hacker access to every email sent from that account that had not already been deleted. When the breach was discovered, the Girl Scouts sent an email to every potentially impacted individual.\nThe email reads, in part, as follows:\n\"Some of the emails stored in this account, which included emails with dates as far back as 2014 through October 1, 2018, contained information about our members. Out of an abundance of caution, we are notifying everyone whose information was in this email account.\"\nBased on the information the account contained, compromised data varied widely from one person to the next. However, the data included details like email address, home address, health history information, insurance policy numbers and driver's license details. In short, that's more than enough information to steal an identity.\nWhile this breach is not noteworthy for its scope and scale, it has been attracting a great deal of attention because it targeted children and young adults. Identity data belonging to this demographic is extremely attractive to hackers because it can often be monetized for months, if not years before red flags are raised.\nLast year, more than a million children in the US were impacted by identity fraud. What's worse, according to a report published by Javelin Strategy and Research, 60 percent of child identity fraud victims know the fraudster, compared with just 7 percent of adult victims.\nThe investigation is still ongoing, but if you live in Orange County, California, and have a child in the Girl Scouts, be on high alert.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1500305"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9093634486198425,"wiki_prob":0.9093634486198425,"text":"Thousands rally in support of Tibetan monks\nProtesters in India and Taiwan show solidarity for Buddhist clergy alleging oppression in China.\nThousands of people have staged rallies in India and Taiwan in a show of support against alleged Tibetan oppression in China.\nMonks gathered at the memorial for Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi in India's capital, New Delhi, where they were joined by other religious leaders, while in Taiwan students found common cause with protesters.\nThe movement comes a day after a Buddhist nun died of wounds after setting fire to herself in China. Her protest came on the heels of the self-immolation of eight monks in China's Sichuan province this year.\nSelf-immolation is not a traditional form of protest in Tibetan society, but the Tibetan government in exile says it is trying to draw attention to how badly Tibetans are being treated in their homeland.\nThey are calling for an independent investigation into the treatment of Tibetans in China.\nAl Jazeera's Caroline Malone reports.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line107969"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6836691498756409,"wiki_prob":0.31633085012435913,"text":"Robinson: Katrina's toxic legacy lives\nEugeneRobinson\nWASHINGTON --\nThe Obama administration is making a big health-care mistake. I'm not talking about the final push for comprehensive reform legislation, which is righteous and necessary. I mean the sale of more than 100,000 contaminated trailers and mobile homes -- a move that could make people sick.\nThe trailers are a legacy of the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina. They were purchased by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as temporary housing for displaced Gulf Coast residents, but some people who moved into them reported burning eyes, irritated throats, headaches and nosebleeds.\nThe Sierra Club began testing the air inside some of the trailers in 2006 and found unusually high levels of formaldehyde. The government delayed almost two years, as reports of illness mounted, before declaring in 2008 that all those living in the trailers should move out.\nAdditional testing by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FEMA found that, on average, formaldehyde levels inside the trailers were five times higher than expected for indoor air. \"Long-term exposure to levels in this range can be linked to an increased risk of cancer, and as levels rise above this range, there can also be a risk of respiratory illness,\" a CDC statement said. Formaldehyde is particularly dangerous for people with asthma or bronchitis.\nThe government did its testing in the months of December and January, when levels of the toxic chemical would be at their lowest. Warmer temperatures -- such as those common in the Gulf Coast area most of the year -- make the levels rise significantly.\nIn January, FEMA agreed to sell 93,000 trailers and 9,300 mobile homes -- virtually all the units it still owns -- at pennies on the dollar. The purchasers are wholesalers who plan to resell the mobile dwellings, and each unit will bear a sticker warning that it is for occasional use only, not residential use.\nThe theory is that limited, episodic exposure to the formaldehyde -- as would be experienced by someone who used a trailer as a storage container, say, or as a seasonal hunting lodge -- is safer than continuous exposure from living, eating and sleeping inside.\nStill, the federal government is selling housing units that it knows are unsafe to live in. For an administration that claims to believe in consumer protection, this is no way to show the love.\nThe sale, scheduled to become final in April, should not be allowed to proceed.\nNo warning sticker can absolve the government, the wholesalers and the eventual retailers of these trailers and mobile homes of their moral responsibility. Given the state of the economy -- especially the unabated national epidemic of foreclosures and evictions -- it is lunacy to pretend that families will not buy these units as primary residences.\nOfficials told the Washington Post that there would be little demand for the trailers because so many are in poor condition, having sat unoccupied and unattended for so long. But my guess is that if problems such as mold, mildew and propane gas leaks drive retail prices even lower, the number of potential buyers is only likely to increase. Things are tough out there, and even a musty trailer -- with a warning sticker -- is a more comfortable place to sleep than the back seat of a car.\nFEMA spent $2.7 billion to buy the trailers and mobile homes and has spent an additional $220 million to store them. Selling the units is expected to recoup $279 million -- a significant amount of money, to be sure. But is it right for the government to release into the marketplace a product known to be defective? And even though the trailers are plastered with warning stickers, perhaps bearing a skull and crossbones, will that deter the inevitable lawsuits if buyers become ill?\nThese units don't need to be sold, they need to be destroyed. And the Environmental Protection Agency -- remember the EPA? -- needs to finally set standards for the presence of formaldehyde in indoor air.\nThe agency has known about the problem for more than two decades. In the late 1980s, dozens of employees at the agency's Washington headquarters reported respiratory and other symptoms after a remodeling. One of the chemicals being released by the newly installed building materials was, you guessed it, formaldehyde.\nEUGENE ROBINSON is a Washington Post columnist (eugenerobinson@washpost.com).","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1611999"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7942594289779663,"wiki_prob":0.7942594289779663,"text":"live, single track, tribute\nThe The – We Can’t Stop What’s Coming\nOne of the highlights of Record Store Day 2017 was The The’s first new single in 15 years. We Can’t Stop What’s Coming is a tribute to The The frontman (and only constant member) Matt Johnson’s brother Andrew, who designed many of the band’s record sleeves and who passed away last year. It’s the third time Johnson wrote a song about the death of a close family member, after Love Is Stronger Than Death (for his brother Eugene) and Phantom Walls for his mother).\nWe Can’t Stop What’s Coming features former The The members Johnny Marr, Zeke Manyika and James Eller, on guitar, percussion and bass respectively. The female vocalist is Meja Kullertsen. The song was recorded live in one take during Matt Johnson’s first performance in 15 years, on his own radio station.\nAfter quickly selling out the always too low number of vinyl 7”-es (2000 copies, not kidding), the track has now also been made available via streaming services.\nTags: pop\n← Werner’s Weekly (week 21)\tWildcard (week 21):\nRocky – Love Is A Soft Machine →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line773978"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8295040130615234,"wiki_prob":0.8295040130615234,"text":"John W. Ward, M.D.\nRecipient of the 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Award\nPublished Tuesday, April 9, 2019 8:00 am\nby Beth Eddings\nFor over 34 years, Dr. John Ward has served as a medical epidemiologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After graduation from the UAB School of Medicine (1981) and completion of his internal medicine residency at UAB (1984), John joined the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service. He was assigned to the new AIDS Activity program responsible for preventing the spread of HIV.\nOver a 14 year career in HIV/AIDS prevention, Dr. Ward identified new transmission, conducted one of the first natural history studies of HIV infection documenting the progression of HIV, and evaluated the first HIV antibody test licensed to protect the nation’s blood supply. Later, to track HIV transmission and disease, he guided the adoption of national HIV infection reporting and revising the case definition for AIDS, which still remains the national and international surveillance standard. In 1998, John became editor of the CDC’s flagship publication, The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and was involved in the CDC response to large outbreaks including the anthrax attacks after 9/11.\nTo assist these efforts, he developed the Epidemic Information Exchange (Epi-X) as a secure electronic network for outbreak reporting and response. Since its inception, over 5400 health officials around the country have shared more than 58,000 Epi-X reports of emerging disease outbreaks. In 2005, Dr. Ward became Director of the CDC Division of Viral Hepatitis with responsibilities for viral hepatitis surveillance, prevention, and research.\nAt the national level, he led development of recommendations for Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B vaccination and Hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing and linkage to care. With the anticipated licensure of all-oral, curative therapies for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, he authored the first national action plan for viral hepatitis prevention and developed the recommendations for HCV testing for all persons born during 1945-1965. With the availability of curative treatments for HCV, Dr. Ward launched development of the US National Academies strategy for viral hepatitis elimination and the nation’s first pilot HCV elimination program.\nGlobally, he advises the World Health Organization including setting elimination goals for HBV and HCV. He assists countries in developing and evaluating viral hepatitis prevention and elimination programs. Dr. Ward has authored over 150 publications of scientific work in viral hepatitis and HIV and also conceived of and edited, Silent Victories, a history of public health in the 20th Century published by Oxford University Press. For over 20 years, John served as a clinician in the Emory Medical System caring for persons living with HIV/AIDS. John is a Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.\nDr. Ward was nominated by Dr. Gordon Mowry.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line429728"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6639330387115479,"wiki_prob":0.33606696128845215,"text":"According to ATA, The American Tinnitus Association, 45 million Americans are struggling with tinnitus. In Germany the “Deutsche Tinnitus-Liga” estimates that 19 million Germans have experienced tinnitus, and that 2,7 million Germans have persistent tinnitus, of which 1 million have very severe tinnitus. The British Tinnitus Association estimates that 10% of the UK population suffers from tinnitus. Read more about the prevalence of tinnitus.\nThere's no known cure for tinnitus. Current treatments generally involve masking the sound or learning to ignore it. A research team led by Dr. Michael Kilgard at the University of Texas at Dallas and Dr. Navzer Engineer at MicroTransponder, Inc. set out to see if they could develop a way to reverse tinnitus by essentially resetting the brain's auditory system. Their work was funded in part by NIH’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).\nTinnitus affects every layer of society, and there has been increasing support for awareness. Recently, musicians who are affected by tinnitus have come together to create awareness for the disorder. Artists including Chris Martin of Coldplay and Black Eyed Peas have created a compilation album to help raise funds towards finding a cure for tinnitus. In the United States, the Department of Defense has invested millions of dollars into investigations of tinnitus sound therapies. In addition, the American Tinnitus Association makes efforts to lobby the US government to provide support for tinnitus sufferers.\nTinnitus is not a disease in and of itself, but rather a symptom of some other underlying health condition. In most cases, tinnitus is a sensorineural reaction in the brain to damage in the ear and auditory system. While tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss, there are roughly 200 different health disorders that can generate tinnitus as a symptom. Below is a list of some of the most commonly reported catalysts for tinnitus.\nIf you are living with tinnitus, contact the Sound Relief Hearing Center. We are the tinnitus experts you need to experience the best possible outcome with your tinnitus treatment. To learn more about us, please browse our website or give us a call at 720-259-9962. You can also schedule an appointment online to meet with one of our tinnitus specialists. We look forward to hearing from you!\nTinnitus retraining therapy is a form of treatment that tries to retrain the nerve pathways associated with hearing that may allow the brain to get used to the abnormal sounds. Habituation allows the brain to ignore the tinnitus noise signal, and it allows the person to become unaware that it is present unless they specifically concentrate on the noise. This treatment involves counseling and wearing a sound generator. Audiologists and otolaryngologists often work together in offering this treatment.\nApproximately 50 million Americans have some form of tinnitus. For most people, the sensation usually lasts only a few minutes at a time. About 12 million people have constant or recurring tinnitus that interferes with their daily life so much that they seek professional treatment. For these individuals, tinnitus may result in a loss of sleep, interfere with concentration, and create negative emotional reactions such as despair, frustration, and depression.\nSteven Doerr, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician. Dr. Doerr received his undergraduate degree in Spanish from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He graduated with his Medical Degree from the University Of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, Colorado in 1998 and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine from Denver Health Medical Center in Denver, Colorado in 2002, where he also served as Chief Resident.\nIt is possible that the most common cause of pulsatile tinnitus is sigmoid sinus diverticulum and dehiscence, which can be collectively referred to as sinus wall abnormalities or SSWA. The sigmoid sinus is a blood carrying channel on the side of the brain that receives blood from veins within the brain. The blood eventually exits through the internal jugular vein. Sigmoid sinus diverticulum refers to the formation of small sac-like pouches (diverticula) that protrude through the wall of the sigmoid sinus into the mastoid bone behind the ear. Dehiscence refers to absence of part of the bone that surrounds the sigmoid sinus in the mastoid. It is unknown whether these conditions represent different parts of one disease process or spectrum, or whether they are two distinct conditions. These abnormalities cause pressure, blood flow, and noise changes within the sigmoid sinus, which ultimately results in pulsatile tinnitus. Narrowing of the blood vessel that leads into the sigmoid sinus, known as the transverse sinus, has also been associated with pulsatile tinnitus.\nHearing loss often accompanies tinnitus, so a hearing aid can hit two birds with one stone. In addition to amplifying sound, the device can camouflage the ringing in your ears by boosting other soft sounds in your environment. If you experience hearing loss in addition to your tinnitus, discuss the potential benefits of a hearing aid that may assist with both conditions at the same time.\nIt’s the same mechanism that’s happening in people who feel a phantom limb sensation after losing a limb, explains Susan Shore, PhD, a professor of otolaryngology, molecular physiology, and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. With tinnitus the loss of hearing causes specific brain neurons to increase their activity as a way of compensating, she explains. “These neurons also synchronize their activity as they would if there were a sound there, but there is no external sound,” she adds.\n^ Jump up to: a b Schecklmann, Martin; Vielsmeier, Veronika; Steffens, Thomas; Landgrebe, Michael; Langguth, Berthold; Kleinjung, Tobias; Andersson, Gerhard (18 April 2012). \"Relationship between Audiometric Slope and Tinnitus Pitch in Tinnitus Patients: Insights into the Mechanisms of Tinnitus Generation\". PLOS One. 7 (4): e34878. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...734878S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034878. PMC 3329543. PMID 22529949.\nTry meditation and relaxation techniques. Stress can aggravate tinnitus, so take deep breaths and relax if you start to feel anxious, worried, or overwhelmed. Count to 4 as you breathe in slowly, hold your breath for a 4 count, then count to 4 as you slowly exhale. Continue to control your breathing for 1 to 2 minutes, or until you feel at ease.[10]\nTinnitus is believed to be caused by inner ear cell damage. Cilia in your inner ear move in relation to the pressure of sound waves. This triggers these cells to release an electrical signal through a nerve from your ear (auditory nerve) to your brain. Your brain interprets these signals as sound. If the hairs inside your inner ear are bent or broken, they can \"leak\" random electrical impulses to your brain, causing tinnitus.\nIf you have tinnitus you also may suffer from anxiety, depression, or insomnia. Discuss treatments with your doctor. While tinnitus cannot always be cured, there are many treatments available for you to make it easier to live with tinnitus. See your doctor if tinnitus is accompanied by dizziness, fever, or headache; as this may signal a more serious condition.\nHowever, the multidisciplinary approach based on CBT is not a “cure for tinnitus”, as implied in some papers, but rather a system for managing its symptoms and effects on people’s lives. The differences in outcomes between the treatment and usual care groups were quite small, with the multidisciplinary approach giving a small improvement in quality of life compared with usual care, and moderate improvements in tinnitus severity and impairment. Also, less than 70% of participants completed the trial to 12 months, and this could have affected the reliability of the study’s overall results. Furthermore, as the patients in the study were only followed for 12 months, it is uncertain whether this approach can help in the longer term.\nVarious techniques can help make tinnitus tolerable, although the ability to tolerate it varies from person to person. Many people find that background sound helps mask the tinnitus and helps them fall asleep. Some people play background music. Other people use a tinnitus masker, which is a device worn like a hearing aid that produces a constant level of neutral sounds. For the profoundly deaf, an implant in the cochlea (the organ of hearing) may reduce tinnitus but is only done for people with severe to profound hearing loss in both ears. If these standard techniques are not helpful, people may want to seek treatment in clinics that specialize in the treatment of tinnitus.\nAdditional conditions that can cause pulsatile tinnitus include arterial bruit, abnormal passages or connections between the blood vessels of the outermost layer of the membrane (dura) that covers the brain and spinal cord (dural arteriovenous shunts), or conditions that cause increased pressure within the skull such as idiopathic intracranial hypertension (pseudotumor cerebri). Sigmoid sinus dehiscence may be associated with pseudotumor, but this connection has not been firmly established. It possible that cases of pulsatile tinnitus associated with pseudotumor may be caused by an undiagnosed SSWA. Head trauma, surgery, middle ear conductive hearing loss, and certain tumors can also cause pulsatile tinnitus. Obstructions within in the vessels that connect the heart and brain can also cause pulsatile tinnitus.\nMost people develop tinnitus as a symptom of hearing loss. When you lose hearing, your brain undergoes changes in the way it processes sound frequencies. A hearing aid is a small electronic device that uses a microphone, amplifier, and speaker to increase the volume of external noises. This can mollify neuroplastic changes in the brain’s ability to process sound.\nTinnitus is when people think they hear something in their ears but there is actually no sound. People with tinnitus actually do \"hear\" noises that range from a whistle to a crackling noise to a roar. It can happen only occasionally, can occur for a period of days then take a break before recurring again, or it can be constant. The sound can vary in pitch from quiet to unbearably loud, or it can stay the same.\nAlthough mitochondrial DNA variants are thought to predispose to hearing loss, a study of polish individuals by Lechowicz et al, reported that \"there are no statistically significant differences in the prevalence of tinnitus and its characteristic features between HL patients with known HL mtDNA variants and the general Polish population.\" This would argue against mitochondrial DNA variants as a cause of tinnitus, but the situation might be different in other ethnic groups.\nOften people bring in very long lists of medications that have been reported, once or twice, to be associated with tinnitus. This unfortunate behavior makes it very hard to care for these patients -- as it puts one into an impossible situation where the patient is in great distress but is also unwilling to attempt any treatment. Specialists who care for patients with ear disease, usually know very well which drugs are problems (such as those noted above), and which ones are nearly always safe.\nCan an iPhone app truly relieve tinnitus? Believe it or not, the answer is yes. The ReSound LiNX2 app utilizes a combination of sound therapy and relaxation exercises to reduce the severity of tinnitus. The convenient app can be used in combination with hearing instruments, which are small but strong. This groundbreaking program transforms your iPhone into a remote control for your hearing aid.\nSchecklmann et al (2014) suggested that tinnitus is associated with alterations in motor cortex excitability, by pooling several studies, and reported that there are differences in intracortical inhibition, intra-cortical facilitation, and cortical silent period. We doubt that this means that motor cortex excitability causes tinnitus, but rather we suspect that these findings reflect features of brain organization that may predispose certain persons to develop tinnitus over someone else.\nTinnitus is a symptom, not a disease. Most cases are due to damage to the microscopic endings of the sensory nerve in the inner ear, commonly from exposure to loud noise (as from amplified music or gunfire). Other causes include allergy, high or low blood pressure, a tumor, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, and head or neck injury. In addition, some drugs, including aspirin and other anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, sedatives, and antidepressants can also cause tinnitus. If so, changing drugs or lowering the dosage usually helps.\nYou don’t need to enroll in an eight-week program to get started with mindfulness training. Participants in the MBTSR program all received a copy of the groundbreaking book “Full Catastrophe Living” by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Kabat-Zinn’s book is the premier manual for practicing mindfulness in daily life. You will learn about, and be encouraged to practice, meditation and breathing techniques that can help draw your focus away from tinnitus.\nTinnitus is commonly thought of as a symptom of adulthood, and is often overlooked in children. Children with hearing loss have a high incidence of tinnitus, even though they do not express the condition or its effect on their lives.[100] Children do not generally report tinnitus spontaneously and their complaints may not be taken seriously.[101] Among those children who do complain of tinnitus, there is an increased likelihood of associated otological or neurological pathology such as migraine, juvenile Meniere’s disease or chronic suppurative otitis media.[102] Its reported prevalence varies from 12% to 36% in children with normal hearing thresholds and up to 66% in children with a hearing loss and approximately 3–10% of children have been reported to be troubled by tinnitus.[103]\nTinnitus matching is helpful to identify the frequency and intensity of the tinnitus. This is a simple procedure in which the audiologist adjusts a sound until a patient indicates that it is the same as their tinnitus. Most patients match their tinnitus to the region of their hearing loss (Konig et al, 2006; Mahboubi et al, 2012). Unfortunately, the \"gap detection test\", does not work to confirm tinnitus in humabs (Boyen et al, 2015).\nTherefore, the Department of Defense and Congress have taken an interest in furthering tinnitus research, adding it to a list of researchable conditions that impact the military. Both American Tinnitus Association and the Department of Defense fund tinnitus research. New research developments are reported in journals such as Tinnitus Today and the International Tinnitus Journal.\nAge-Related Hearing Loss: Also known as presbycusis, age-related hearing loss results from the cumulative effect of aging on hearing. This permanent, progressive, and sensorineural condition is most pronounced at higher frequencies. It commonly impacts people over the age of 50, as all people begin to lose approximately 0.5% of the inner ear’s hair cells annually starting at age 40.\nThe latest news about tinnitus treatment comes from a UK study showing that Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) significantly helps reduce the severity of the disorder. The researchers reported that, among the 75 patients being studied, both relaxation therapy and MBCT worked to alleviate symptoms as well as reducing psychological distress, anxiety and depression related to the disorder. MBCT led to greater reductions in tinnitus severity and the improvements lasted longer.\nThe results were calculated using a measure called “effect size”, which is a way of quantifying the size of the difference between the two groups. For the difference in quality of life scores between groups, the effect size was calculated to be 0.24. This can be interpreted as a “small” effect. In other words, treatment including CBT gave a small improvement in quality of life compared with usual care.\nPulsatile tinnitus is generally caused by abnormalities or disorders affecting the blood vessels (vascular disorders), especially the blood vessels near or around the ears. Such abnormalities or disorders can cause a change in the blood flow through the affected blood vessels. The blood vessels could be weakened from damage caused by hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). For example, abnormalities affecting the carotid artery, the main artery serving the brain, can be associated with pulsatile tinnitus. A rare cause of pulsatile tinnitus is a disorder known as fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), a condition characterized by abnormal development of the arterial wall. When the carotid artery is affected by FMD, pulsatile tinnitus can develop.\nDr. Julie Prutsman’s team of audiologists offer a higher standard of expertise. She has been deeply involved with tinnitus for more than 15 years, long before effective treatments had been developed beyond hearing aids and maskers. Dr. Julie also studied under one of the industry’s most respected and leading medical experts, Dr. Pawel Jastreboff, and she has personally trained each and every one of her doctors.\nTinnitus is a ringing, buzzing, hissing, swishing, clicking, or other type of noise that seems to originate in the ear or head. Most of us will experience tinnitus or sounds in the ears at some time or another. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), about 10% of adults in the U.S. - nearly 25 million Americans - have experienced tinnitus lasting at least five minutes in the past year. Tinnitus is identified more frequently in white individuals, and the prevalence of tinnitus in the U.S. is almost twice as frequent in the South as in the Northeast.\nThe use of sound therapy by either hearing aids or tinnitus maskers helps the brain ignore the specific tinnitus frequency. Although these methods are poorly supported by evidence, there are no negative effects.[3][90][91][92] There is some tentative evidence supporting tinnitus retraining therapy.[3][93] There is little evidence supporting the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation.[3][94] It is thus not recommended.[73] As of 2017 there was limited evidence as to whether neurofeedback is or is not helpful.[95]\nThe similarities between chronic pain and tinnitus have led researchers to develop a mindfulness-based tinnitus stress reduction (MBTSR) program. The results of a pilot study, which were published in The Hearing Journal, found that participants of an eight-week MBTSR program experienced significantly altered perceptions of their tinnitus. This included a reduction in depression and anxiety.\nDon't give up on things unless you are sure they are having some effect, especially if it's something you enjoy; or you could end up feeling miserable and deprived for no reason. Do not give up several things at once, or you will not know which one was affecting your tinnitus. If you decide to limit these things and fancy the occasional treat, maybe try using the other strategies (such as relaxation) for those times when your tinnitus is a bit louder. For more details, see our information on Food, drink and tinnitus.\nTechnology and portable music devices also contribute to noise pollution, especially in younger people. Keep the volume of your phone, MP3 players or iPod on the lower end when listening to headphones, and don’t play very loud noises for long durations of time. To aid in tinnitus treatment, look out for changes in your ability to hear if you’re frequently exposed to loud noises, limit use of headphones or consider wearing earplugs.\nIt is important to note that existing hearing loss is sometimes not directly observable by the patient, who may not perceive any lost frequencies. But this this does not mean that hearing damage has not been done. A trained audiologist or other hearing health professional can perform sensitive audiometric tests to precisely measure the true extent of hearing loss.\nThe diagnosis of tinnitus is usually based on the person's description.[3] A number of questionnaires exist that may help to assess how much tinnitus is interfering with a person's life.[3] The diagnosis is commonly supported by an audiogram and a neurological examination.[1][3] If certain problems are found, medical imaging, such as with MRI, may be performed.[3] Other tests are suitable when tinnitus occurs with the same rhythm as the heartbeat.[3] Rarely, the sound may be heard by someone else using a stethoscope, in which case it is known as objective tinnitus.[3] Spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, which are sounds produced normally by the inner ear, may also occasionally result in tinnitus.[6]\nAlmost every ENT, audiology practice, and hearing aid dispenser who claims to offer tinnitus treatment only offers one solution: hearing aids. While amplification may help some, only 50% of people living with tinnitus experience hearing loss that affects their understanding of speech, which means hearing aids are ineffective. At Sound Relief, we offer only evidence-based options like sound therapy and have seen countless patients experience life-changing results.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1653243"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8225572109222412,"wiki_prob":0.8225572109222412,"text":"Approach & Philosophy\nPeter Welford\nJudy Corbett\nThe Gwydir Press\nGwydir Castle Gardens\nThe historic gardens at Gwydir Castle are amongst the very few in Wales accorded Grade 1 listed status. They represent an important example of the formal Renaissance garden of the Tudor and Stuart periods, with later overlays and plantings from the nineteenth century. As well as two fine 16th century garden arches and associated walls and terraces, there are many fine early trees, including fourteen pre-1700 yews and three surviving Cedars of Lebanon from the original twelve said to have been planted in honour of King Charles I’s wedding to the French Princess, Henrietta Maria in 1625.\nThe Old Dutch Garden is famous for its huge yew trees and fountain, while the Knot Garden, in the Courtyard, was laid out in 1828 by Sir Charles Barry, the famous architect, in the form of a Tudor Rose.\nThe fine wisteria, which adorns the Hall Range was planted in 1828, the same year that peacocks are claimed to have been introduced to the gardens. Gwydir’s sweeping views and formal vistas make it one of the most romantic gardens in Wales.\nView of the Solar Tower from the Lower Lawns (top left); the restored Dutch Garden Terraces (top right), completed in 2015, and the Little Yew Avenue (right), planted in 1995. Below: Senses Garden with Mercury Fountain and Sir John Wynn’s Arch (left); the Knot Garden (centre), and the new fountain sequence to the Dutch Garden Terraces (right).\nThe Senses Garden was laid out in 2000 as a millennial project on a site which had been used as a dump for rubble and debris after the 1921 fire.\nGwydir Castle - Llanrwst - Conwy - LL26 0PN - Tel: 01492 641687- Email: info@gwydircastle.co.uk\n© Gwydir Castle 2019| Web Design by","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1323564"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6361042857170105,"wiki_prob":0.3638957142829895,"text":"OECD Home EconomyFor Good Measure - Advancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP - en\nFor Good Measure\nAdvancing Research on Well-being Metrics Beyond GDP\nThe 2009 Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (“Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi” Commission) concluded that we should move away from over-reliance on GDP when assessing a country’s health, towards a broader dashboard of indicators that would reflect concerns such as the distribution of well-being and sustainability in all of its dimensions. This book includes contributions from members of the OECD-hosted High Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, the successor of the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission, and their co-authors on the latest research in this field. These contributions look at key issues raised by the 2009 Commission that deserved more attention, such as how to better include the environment and sustainability in our measurement system, and how to improve the measurement of different types of inequalities, of economic insecurity, of subjective well-being and of trust.A companion volume Beyond GDP: Measuring What Counts for Economic and Social Performance presents an overview by the co-chairs of the High Level Expert Group, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Martine Durand of the progress accomplished since the 2009 report, of the work conducted by the Group over the past five years, and of what still needs to be done.\nSustainable Development Goals and the measurement of economic and social progress\nMeasuring the distribution of household income, consumption and wealth\nHorizontal inequalities\nInequality of opportunity\nDistributional national accounts\nUnderstanding subjective well-being\nEconomic security\nMeasuring sustainability\nTrust and social capital","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1512655"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7010398507118225,"wiki_prob":0.7010398507118225,"text":"Sellers Finished Just off the Podium in Fourth in the Jaguar I-pace Etrophy in the Berlin E-prix; Legge Gained Three Positions to Finish Sixth\nRahal and Sato Look Forward to Returning to the Detroit Grand Prix — A Track Where Each Has Had Success\nSato Finished Third in the Indy 500; Rahal and King Encountered Different Problems\nTakuma Sato, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, during driver introductions\n103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500\nRACE NOTES/QUOTES – May 26, 2019\nSATO FINISHED THIRD IN THE INDY 500: RAHAL AND KING ENCOUNTERED DIFFERENT PROBLEMS\nGRAHAM RAHAL, No. 15 United Rentals Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I just got a killer run, and I was lifting to just manage my gap. You pull out, and you get to this point, and you can see him squeezing me inside, turns into me, and there is nothing you can do. As all of us know, with 20 to go, 22 to go, it’s the time. You have to give every opportunity to go for it. I think Sebastien (Bourdais) knows that, which is probably why he hasn’t said much to me. But, yeah, it was disappointing. The United Rentals car was just heating up. It seemed like Alex (Rossi) and I were the only two who were really able to pass there at the end. I was feeling good about things. Hadn’t changed much, just trying to march to the front. I’m just very disappointed. It’s another year you get to sit and think about this. I respect Sebastien a lot. I don’t respect that move. I do respect him as a driver tremendously, and I’m sure he feels the same right now. At those speeds, that’s how you kill somebody. And I’m just not a fan of squeezing people and putting people in those positions. It’s not necessary.”\nFAST FACTS: After starting 17th and steadily moving to the front, Rahal had been biding his time until the final 50 laps to turn the heat up. He was passing Bourdais for fifth on Lap 178 when Bourdais squeezed him down on the track and the two made contact which set off a multi-car crash that collected a total of five cars. He started 17th for his 12th Indy 500 and retired in 27th place. His best qualifying position in the Indy 500 is fourth in 2009 with Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing and best finish is third with Service Central Chip Ganassi Racing in 2011 after he led six laps. He ran in the top-five in seven of his 10 previous races here. Detailed Indy 500 information available upon request. Has SIX IndyCar Series wins (2008 – St. Pete street course; 2015 – Fontana Super Speedway, Mid-Ohio road course; 2016 – Texas Super Speedway; 2017 Detroit Race 1, Detroit Race 2) and THREE poles (2009 – St. Pete street course, Kansas oval; 2017 – Detroit Race 1 street) and his highest series season-ending standing is fourth place in 2015… He dropped from seventh in series standings to 12th with 123 points.\nTAKUMA SATO, No. 30 Mi-Jack / Panasonic Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “It was an amazing job from the team really, once we went laps down, I know the Indy 500 can be a miracle, but after that there was a long period of no yellows. I think we spent more than 100 laps to get back on the lead lap, but you know we just put our head down and did the job. Just brilliant strategy, I feel, and we got back to the lead lap. But before that, huge congratulations to Simon. What a big win as an outstanding performance winning the GP and everything. Alex and I tried everything we’ve got. If you have the last seven laps, we were just all over the place. Power sliding, we were just, I don’t know, we had a lot of understeer. It was a great battle but just a shame we were not quite there yet. Huge credit to the team. What a comeback after being a lap down.”\nFAST FACTS: Sato was in 11th place when the pit cycle began and he moved up to lead Lap 36 before he mafde his first stop on Lap 37. The right rear tire changer had trouble putting the tire on and, after a delay, Sato returned to the track but came back to the pits on Lap 40 to check for a possible loose wheel. He dropped to 31st place and lost a lap to the leaders. He got back on the lead lap on Lap 141 during a caution and cycled back into the lead on Lap 176 of 200. On Lap 170 he had moved to fifth place. After the final restart, Sato passed both Josef Newgarden and Ed Carpenter in the closing laps to take the checkered flag in third after starting 14th for his 10th Indy 500 in 2019 and third with RLL. In 2012 with RLL, he was alongside eventual winner Franchitti in Turn 1 on the final lap but his race ended due to contact after he was squeezed down on the apron and lost control of his race car. Prior to his 2017 win with Andretti from his best start of fourth place, his highest finish was 13th in 2013 and 2015 – both with A.J. Foyt Racing… Has FOUR IndyCar Series wins (2013 – Long Beach street course, 2017 – Indy 500 oval, 2018 – Portland road, 2019 – Barber road ) and EIGHT poles (2011 Iowa oval, Edmonton street; 2013 Houston Race 1 street; 2014 St. Pete street, Detroit Race 2 street; 2017 Detroit Race 2, Pocono oval; 2019 Barber road). He remained fifth in series standings with 203 points. Leader Pagenaud has 250.\nJORDAN KING, No. 42 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Dallara/Honda/Firestone: “I’m thinking about Chachi (Chris Minot) obviously. I’m really disappointed in myself for the team, really for everybody. I think we had a pretty strong car. We were looking quite strong and making progress and looking at how the race finished, I think we could’ve been in the top 10, so that’s quite hard to swallow. First bit of call is to check that everything’s okay at the hospital. It’s not good, it’s not what you want to do (injure a crewman). It’s not. I don’t even know what to say. I’m really disappointed in myself and for everyone involved. We could have had a good race but didn’t, so that’s that.”\nFAST FACTS: King started 26th and had been running 21st before his second pit stop on Lap 69. King lost control of the car and slid into the rear tire was set out to be put on and into the path of Chris Minot, chief mechanic for the entry and outside front tire changer. Minot was attended to in the infield care center before being transported to IU Health Methodist Hospital. King later served a drive through penalty on Lap 80 while running in 20th place, two laps down. He went on to finish 24th. It was his first oval race and first Indianapolis 500… Competed in 11 road and street course races with Ed Carpenter Racing with a best start of fourth at St. Pete in his debut and a best finish of 11th at Toronto. He participated in a 2018 pre-season test at the Phoenix International Raceway oval before the season-opener at St. Petersburg but that was his only oval experience.\nTEAM STATEMENT ON CHRIS “CHACHI” MINOT’S CONDITION FOLLOWING THE PIT LANE ACCIDENT: “We were relieved to hear that Chris was in good spirits before surgery on his left leg. He will be held overnight at IU Health Methodist Hospital. He has been a member of this team for almost 10 years and is a big asset. We have no doubt that he will come back stronger.”\nNEXT UP: The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix doubleheaders will take place on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2.\nSellers Was Unable to Fight for the Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY Title in Race 1 After a Qualifying Crash Sidelined Him; Legge Finished Fourth","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1758108"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7436191439628601,"wiki_prob":0.2563808560371399,"text":"blogger, brand strategy, coach, events, mentor, speaker, storyteller\ncrushing close to home\nIt's Woman Crush Wednesday. I am featuring someone a little more close to home this week. As you may remember, the goal of this series is to feature women who are pushing the boundaries and following their purpose with hustle, grit and grace.\nRight now I can think of no one better fitting that category than the curator of The Written Runway. This blog/site was started as a way to share a love of fashion and make it tangible off the runway for people in their every day lives.\nThe muse is Ambyr, a FIDM graduate, stylist, social media expert, writer and overall fashion junkie. You can learn all about her at the site. What I am going to write about is why she is my crush this week and why you should crush on her too.\nIn today's world it is sadly difficult to find people who truly do hustle. I am talking about the type of person who isn't just chasing money, they aren't asking for other people to do all of the hard work. The people I am talking about dig in with both hands and those hands get dirty. They do whatever it takes to follow their purpose. It is not always easy. In fact most of the time it is actually very hard, but this type of person keeps after it anyway. That is the type of woman Ambyr is.\nShe grew up in a farm/wine town in Oregon. It was a small upbringing but Ambyr never was small. From her earliest moments she always had a fire to her. She would demand things that other kids were too afraid to ask for. It was almost as if she knew that if she didn't speak up from the start then she never would. So she did.\nAmbyr was always one to be on the edge of fashion trends from her earliest days. So as she graduated high school and was deciding which direction to go nobody was surprised to see her choose to go to California. While in there she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM). She did this on her own, while holding down a full time job and living over an hour away from the school. It wasn't easy. There were many tears shed, many nights of little to no sleep. But she persevered.\nOnce she graduated, she found the real world to be a lot less kinder than expected. Jobs in fashion look very glamorous on screen and in print, but the reality is often much different. Lots of girls with dreams of fashion come to Los Angeles. In my experience, a lot of those girls do NOT come from humble beginnings. Yes, some most certainly do, but a lot of the girls I saw around Ambyr at this time were being taken care of financially by parents and family members. They were able to take these jobs for very little pay where as oftentimes other girls can't.\nHere is the thing about that though. Those girls may have been willing to accept a lower salary but the employers had to accept a lower quality of work. Ambyr on the other hand had to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Yet her energy level and work ethic never faltered. She was able to work with a number of different celebrity stylists and learn from experts in her field. She earned a reputation as a hard working, passionate and kind person who would treat your business as if it was her own.\nIf that wasn't enough, at this time she also started her own blog/website, The Written Runway. This was a way for her to interact with the world of fashion on her own terms, through her own brand. Blogs are very popular, many people do them, HECK, you're reading mine right now. Her's is different though. She could have monetized her site in many ways that would help her financially but she has been very particular with who she wants to partner with. She doesn't want to dilute her message. She wants to provide an honest commentary on how she sees fashion.\nLuckily for her, people have noticed. in 2013 she moved to Washington DC where she was able to secure opportunities with a number of people in the industry and build up her skill set even more. Working with Fashion Group International, TAA PR, The Vogue Bloggers Network, The Independent Fashion Blogger Association as well as many more.\n“FORTITUDE:\nmental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously:”\n— dictionary.com\nShe is my WCW because quit isn't in her vocabulary. She isn't where she wants to be yet, and as a young person that can be very demotivating, but it's almost as if she can see something in the distance and so she keeps running. FORTITUDE, I think that's what they call it. and a crush is definitely what I have.\nOh, and did I mention that Ambyr is my sister? I might have failed to mention it before on purpose. I didn't want you to think I was biased. My guess is after reading this and check out her site, that is not a concern you will have.\nToday I am at the Women in Sports & Events (WISE) Synposium so stay tuned to hear all about it Friday,\nTagged: woman crush wednesday, wcw, sisers, The Written Runway, fashion, Fashion Group International, Vogue Blogger Network, Independent Fashion Bloggers, FIDM, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, stylist, maximizesocialbusiness.com, social media expert\nNewer Postwomen in sports and events\nOlder Postpower of a smile","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1469925"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7644091844558716,"wiki_prob":0.7644091844558716,"text":"Ouseph breezes into quarter-finals at London Grand Prix\n03 October 2013 / 18:40\nRajiv Ouseph hailed a triumph for experience over youth as his bid to reach at least the men’s singles semi-finals at the London Grand Prix gathered pace.\nThe 27-year-old is seeded fourth in the Copper Box at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and made it two wins in two days with victory over Taipei’s Hsu Jui Ting.\nOuseph, who beat Ukrainian Vitaly Konov after a bye into the second round, defeated his younger third-round opponent 21-14, 21-12 in 34 minutes.\nHe will now face Zulfadli Zulkiffli of Malaysia in the last eight and is getting increasingly confident he can enjoy success at the inaugural London Grand Prix.\n“I was probably a bit more comfortable in the hall than I was on Wednesday and I think his game style suited mine,” said Ouseph, who failed to make it past the group stages at the London 2012 Olympics last summer.\n“He is quite young, so he made a few mistakes that he wouldn’t have made if he was older. So I managed to capitalise on those and it was comfortable in the end so I was quite happy.\n“The conditions change day to day, so every day you need to get used to the arena as quickly as you can so you’re comfortable and playing your own game.\n“I’m probably favourite to win, but I’ve played him [Zulkiffli] before and it was a three-game match, so we’ll see how it goes.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line110162"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8938868641853333,"wiki_prob":0.8938868641853333,"text":"As Victoria’s Secret struggles, fashion show will no longer be on network TV\nBy Tim Feran tferan@dispatch.com\nThe Victoria’s Secret fashion show has reached the end of the runway — at least on network television.\nIn a note to employees on Friday, L Brands founder and chairman Leslie H. Wexner announced that “we have decided to re-think the traditional Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Going forward we don’t believe network television is the right fit.\n“In 2019 and beyond, we’re focusing on developing exciting and dynamic content and a new kind of event — delivered to our customers on platforms that she’s glued to ... and in ways that will push the boundaries of fashion in the global digital age.”\nThe annual event was launched in 1995 and features elaborate costumed lingerie worn by the brand’s “Angels,” several dozen fashion models who walk a runway in the costumes. But the first few shows were not aired on national television, and in 1999 and 2000 were streamed online. The show made its network television debut in 2001.\nThe move is part of Columbus, Ohio-based L Brands’ ongoing work to reinvigorate its Victoria’s Secret business, Wexner said in the note.\n“Fashion is a business of change. We must evolve and change to grow,” he said. “For the past few months, we’ve said that we are taking a fresh look at every aspect of our business — from merchandising, marketing and brand positioning, to our real estate portfolio, digital business and cost structure ... literally everything. We have made enormous progress in a very short time, and are looking forward to a successful fall and holiday with an elevated, fashion-forward assortment.”\nWexner concluded by saying that John Mehas, who was hired as Victoria’s Secret CEO late last year, is “re-birthing the brand.”\nWall Street analysts have pummeled L Brands recently, in particular calling attention to Victoria’s Secret and Pink’s poor performance.\nSubmit Engagement / Wedding\nCarsTexoma.com\nVan Alstyne Leader\nAnna Melissa Tribune\nProsper Press\nTexas Newspapers\nHerald Democrat ~ 603 S. Sam Rayburn Fwy., Sherman, TX 75090 ~ Privacy Policy ~ Terms Of Service\nBest of Texoma\nGrayson Magazine","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1575294"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6289381980895996,"wiki_prob":0.3710618019104004,"text":"State moves 1st degree felons out of county jail\nNov 28, 2007 | 6532 views | 0 | 1184 | |\nSeveral attempted escapes from county jail facilities throughout the state have had an impact on state inmates in the San Juan County jail. Approximately 25 state inmates with first degree felony convictions have been moved from the jail in Monticello in the past month. They have been replaced by inmates with less serious convictions.\nThe transfer of inmates came after escape attempts from the Daggett and Beaver county jails. An internal review showed that there may be security issues at the county jails, so the state corrections officials ordered the transfer of all first degree felons back to state facilities.\nOn September 23, two convicted murderers escaped from the Daggett County jail. They were captured nearly a week later in Wyoming.\nOn October 28, a convicted rapist escaped from the Beaver County jail for several hours.\nThe transfer of state inmates from the San Juan County jail has had an impact on the programs offered at the facility. San Juan County has one of only two treatment programs for sex offenders.\nIn addition, San Juan County has one of two programs in county jails that offer college-level courses through Utah State University. The transfer of inmates came after the beginning of a new semester and took roughly half of the students who were enrolled in the program. Registration timeframes will keep enrollment low through the remainder of the school year.\nSan Juan County is pursuing a possible expansion that could triple the number of state inmates in the jail.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1304587"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7908973097801208,"wiki_prob":0.7908973097801208,"text":"The Flipside of Dominick Hide\nAn oft bandied around paradox about time travel is the 'Grandfather paradox'. This questions the effects of a time traveller going back in time and killing their Grandfather. Headaches then begin to form whilst trying to figure out how this could happen if the protagonist was, in theory, never born due to their Grandfather's untimely demise.\nThe Flipside of Dominick Hide eschews this and, instead, looks at the great-great-great-Grandmother paradox. This curious postulation features a time traveller going back in time to kick-start his own lineage with their great-great-great-Grandmother. Child's play for any theoretical physicist.\nTransmission: 09/12/1980\nThe Flipside of Dominik Hide was a 90 minute sci fi drama broadcast on BBC1 on 9th December 1980 at 9.35pm. Part of the Play For Today series, the show was cooked up by Alan Gibson and Jeremy Paul - the blueprints of the show being inspired by the Alan Gibson's fascination with flying saucers in the 1950s.\nA fresh faced Peter Firth took on the mantle of Dominick with the delectably beautiful Caroline Langrishe playing Jane. The great Patrick Magee featured in a supporting role as Caleb. Filming for the play started on 10th May 1980 and wrapped on 4th June 1980.\nIn 2130, time travel is possible and any period before the Time Barrier was broken is known as the 'flipside'. This has led to the employment of time travellers whose mission is to travel back to the flipside and observe the mechanics of past societies.\nDominick Hide has been tasked with observing transport systems in London, 1980. Tracing his family history has led to Dominick discovering that he has a distant ancestor, also called Dominick, living in this same era and location.\nAgainst strict instructions, Dominick begins to land and search for his great-great-grandfather in London, 1980. Any slight change Dominick makes to the past could buckle the future, but his yearning compels him to continue.\nCompared to the ordered and steady society of 2130, the London of 1980 is noisy and chaotic. Finding himself in Portobello Market on a particularly busy day, Dominick befriends a small group of pals who vow to help find his distant relative 'Dominick' whilst he takes on the name 'Gilbey' - influenced by a quick glance at a bottle of gin.\nWhilst the search for 'Dominick' continues, Jane and Dominick become increasingly attracted to each other. A romance fuelled by the difference between their backgrounds and outlooks. Jane eventually falls pregnant with Dominick's child and at this time, Dominick's superior - Caleb Line - reveals that this is the ancestor Dominick has been searching for.\nDue to a one in a million genetic time mutation, Dominick is his own great-great-great Grandfather - a fact that Caleb has long known and why he has allowed Dominick to land on the flipside.\nDominick returns to London, 1980 one more time to set Jane and his son up for life with details on how to win the next week's football pools. Returning to the future, Dominick proceeds to have a child with his 2130 'wife', Ava.\nThe Flipside of Dominick Hide attained viewing figures of 5.3 million and a respectable reaction index of 75 - compared to an average Play For Today score of 59. The Radio Times letter editor claimed that \"No other single new BBC tv play in 1980 attracted so much correspondence \" - highlighting the public's affection for the show.\nThe success of the show led to a sequel in 1982 entitled Another Flip for Dominick. A DVD containing both plays was released in 2005 accompanied by a very detailed viewing notes booklet.\nCurious British Telly first discovered Dominick a few months back and was thoroughly charmed by the production. The originality of the core concept is clever and well written - the divides between the two time periods are highlighted subtly, but leave a powerful question about the values of freedom over security.\nPeter Firth, Caroline Langrishe, Sylvia Coleridge and Patrick Magee all put in terrific performances and capture the essence of their characters perfectly. Some of the acting does fall below par - Pippa Guard came across a little wooden and Timothy Davies was a bit too hammy, but this could also be down to poor characterisation on the writers' part. On the whole, though, there are more hits than misses which is impressive for the era.\nOne other area of the play which impressed was the music. The theme tune being a soulful number entitled You'd Better Believe It Babe by the band Meal Ticket which is echoed throughout. Also present, in the 2130 scenes, are wonderful medieval muzak takes on the Beatles songs: Yesterday and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.\nAll in all, this is a fantastic play which comes across with charm and innocence whilst balancing the genres of comedy, sci fi and drama. We thoroughly advise picking up the DVD.\nRadio Times 06 - 12 December 1980\nAt 26 Peter Firth has come a long way from the time he was ‘the boy in Equus’. After some notable achievements in films and television, and a good deal of foreign travel, he returns to television in Tuesday’s play as a very different sort of traveller – one who specialises in time-warp. He tells Benedict Nightingale why this part particularly appeals to him.\nWhat Peter Firth ruefully calls his ‘damaged-cherub face’ was looking strangely phosphorescent when we met at his imposing pad in London W9. Perhaps it was a natural charisma, perhaps a blend of exhilaration and exhaustion, the result of the arrival of a son and heir within the past week. The birth had occurred at home, in defiance of medical scruple, and had brought with it a still unresolved problem. What was the ‘small person’, as he’s still known, to be called?\n‘I keep coming up with names I think are all right, then I tell my wife, and they just seem to fall to pieces,’ said Peter. ‘I hope one will suggest itself when his character begins to form. We’ve got to register him some times.’\nUp the stairs, puffing and contentedly grunting in his mother’s arms, went Timothy, Tristram or Tyrone; and Peter ambled through the house, into the big communal garden through which Nicholas, Nigel or Norbert will one day no doubt make his way to school. That is not a prospect that altogether pleases his father.\nHe is a warm, enthusiastic, outgoing young man; but he cannot speak about his education without resentment. Understandably so. He spent his schooldays in the D stream of a large comprehensive, never was encouraged to read literature or even taught to punctuate properly, and left with no qualifications whatever.\n‘I felt cheated, frustrated. They were always telling me I was stupid, so I believed I was stupid and became stupid, and even now I feel stupid inside. I keep waiting for someone to tumble me as a fake and fraud – tell me I can’t really act. I was stamped as a second-class citizen, educated to be factory fodder. It’s hard to get over that.’\nThat was in Bradford, where Peter’s parent ran a pub in a rough, rowdy neighbourhood. His main occupations seem to have been hanging around on street corners and, just occasionally, getting into trouble with the police and putting in an appearance at juvenile court. But a girl he fancied went to drama classes and one Saturday he followed her there, arriving late and having to hammer on the door. If no one had answered he probably would have mooched off, never to return. As it was, the door opened, he was allowed in and someone even offered him a ‘scholarship’, meaning the two pounds ten shillings course fee he didn’t have.\n‘Luck, chance, fortune, the line is this thin,’ says Peter, indicating with thumb and forefinger the tiny gap between success and disaster in his life. The point was re-emphasised when Yorkshire TV came to the drama class recruiting schoolboy walk ons: it was ‘you, you and you’, and he was one of the three.\nFrom that came a part in a serial called The Flaxton Boys, and from that a leading part in another – Here Comes the Double-Deckers. At age 15 Peter was in London, beginning to lose his thick Yorkshire accent, and being paid for what he found he liked best: acting.\nHe never went formally to drama school, and doesn’t regret the omission, because he feels there’s no substitute for ‘the real thing’.\nThe real thing was St Francis’s youngest disciple in the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon. It was also the boy with an overwhelming and finally destructive passion for horses in Peter Shaffer’s play, Equus.\n‘I had ten auditions over two months for that part,’ he recalls, ‘the last time before the whole National Theatre board, Laurence Olivier and all. I had to get on the stage of the Old Vic, get astride a table, and mime an orgasm; and I had this awful moment, thinking to myself, this is insane, what am I doing? Then I went into the pub next door, my nerves absolutely shattered, and someone came in and told me: you’ve done it.’\nHe recreated the part in New York, and then in a film version, and found himself internationally acclaimed at the age of 20. It wasn’t an experience he altogether liked. For one thing, he found it difficult to appear on chat shows, smile on demand at press photographers, go lobbying for an Oscar in Hollywood, and do all the other things expected of showbiz celebrities in America. For another, ten months on Broadway proved too long.\n‘If you’re going to take your clothes off you’ve got to believe in the part and the play to keep sane. And after a while I started to have doubts, get analytical, feel I couldn’t do it. It was worst on the matinees, when the blue-rinsed brigade was there for a day out. I felt like a circus sideshow: come and see the naked boy. It became a nightmare.’\nIf Peter had pursued success more relentlessly, he might not now be mainly remembered as ‘the boy in Equus’ and, on occasions be obliged to audition for roles which would once have been thrust upon him. But he preferred to go his own way, rejecting tempting offers, indulging his enthusiasm for travel (‘one way of making up for the education I never had’), and enjoying what he wryly calls the decadent, leisured life in New York City.\nThere were notable achievements over the years – among them Dorian Gray in a television adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel, the title part in Tony Richardson’s movie, Joseph Andrews – but there’s no doubt his career was becalmed when Roman Polanski lured him back to Europe from America to play Angel Clare in Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.\nThis movie, already a considerable success on the continent, arrives in Britain next January. Meanwhile, the important even in Peter’s professional life is his return to British Television in The Flipside of Dom Hide, in which he plays a prim young pilot who time warps his flying saucer from the future to the London on 1980.\n‘The nice thing about acting is that you can live out your schoolboy fantasies, and one of mine is to go back in time. So for this part I tried to imagine what it was like being in London in 1830, with all the gin palaces, debauchery, filth in the streets. Someone who came back to our era would probably feel the same – that we were decadent by his standards.’\nThe naïve and confused attempts of its time travelling Candide to come to terms with our world give a strong comic slant to the play; and that, too, appealed to Peter when he first read the script.\n‘Serious drama takes its toll,’ he says, remembering those fearful matinees in New York. ‘It is so gruelling, so wearying. I’d like to do more comedy. You get an instant gratification, a wonderful feeling of rapport, an immediate reward for your efforts.’\nPeter would like to return to the stage, provided the play doesn’t run too long; but it’s clear his heart belongs to the camera.\n‘It’s very real to me, not an inanimate object at all. You can feel when it’s happy and when it’s not. You can see it glow, and get bored. You can move it, and make it laugh. Yes, I love it.’\nPosted by Telly Viewer at 11/24/2012\nThe Pig Attraction","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line647803"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9893571138381958,"wiki_prob":0.9893571138381958,"text":"Video›\nWhy Drake's latest album 'Scorpion' is so long\nNoah Friedman,Jordan BowmanAug 28, 2018, 02:59 IST\nDrake's latest album, \"Scorpion\" has broken several records on the Billboard charts. With 25 tracks, \"Scorpion\" follows a trend of hip-hop albums with huge tracklists. We explored the changes in the Billboard charts that have led to the increase in album lengths in the past few years. Following is a transcript of the video.\nDrake's latest album, \"Scorpion,\" debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and had one of the biggest weeks ever for a hip-hop album. But to listen to the entire project, you're going to have to dedicate a lot of time. It's Drake's longest album. It's 25 tracks and has a running time of one hour and 30 minutes. But Drake isn't the only artist with a bloated album. The deluxe edition of Chris Brown's latest was a 57-track behemoth that ran for a solid three hours and 18 minutes. That's longer than \"The Two Towers.\" Migos followed a similar path with \"Culture II,\" which had nearly twice the amount of tracks as their previous album, \"Culture.\" But these lengthier albums aren't just a coincidence. It might just be a response to the way we consume music.\nTo understand, you're going to have to look at streaming services. Spotify and Apple Music have completely changed the music industry. In 2017, 54% of music consumption came from streaming platforms, and streaming generated $3.9 billion. But the Billboard charts have had a hard time trying to figure out how to count streams in an industry that was once dominated by physical album sales. In 2014, people sat around, debated, deliberated, and ultimately decided on a way to quantify streaming music: 1,500 streamed songs counted as one album sale. Previously, Billboard didn't take streaming into account. It only counted the sales of full albums.\nThis caused a huge shakeup in the music industry. Record labels and artists quickly realized that more tracks equals more streams, and that ultimately equals more money. Artists like Eminem, Post Malone, and Future all held top stops on the hip-hop charts in 2017, with albums that averaged at least 18 tracks. Suddenly an individual track could help an artist reach number one on the Billboard charts without selling any physical albums, which was hugely beneficial for hip-hop, because streaming made up 89% of hip-hop consumption in 2017.\nThat's one of the reasons Drake might have added \"Hotline Bling\" onto \"Views.\" By adding that one track, Drake almost guaranteed his album would go platinum. It had 400 million streams that converted to 267,000 streaming albums before \"Views\" was even released. So if an artist has a massive hit like \"One Dance\" or \"God's Plan,\" it can help turn an album into a hit. Streaming listeners quickly pluck their favorite tracks from albums, put them on playlists, and then reject the leftovers. In 2015, a research company found that 60% of streaming service listeners only listen to albums a few times, because they're discovering so much new music. So the more tracks you have, the higher chance you have of making a song that lands on a playlist.\nBut it didn't always work this way. Music was once dominated by different physical formats. Vinyl, cassettes, and CDs all had restrictions that dictated an album's length. But no matter how long or short an album was, if one album was purchased that meant one unit was sold. But that same rule doesn't apply anymore. Streaming is the dominant format, which means the 25 tracks on \"Scorpion\" make a lot more sense. You could argue that Drake is a prolific artist who enjoys making long albums, or he's an incredible businessman who understands his audience's habits. But no matter how you feel about streaming, it's completely altered the way we listen to music and the way music is made, for better or for worse. Artists are still trying to experiment and find their footing on these new platforms. Kanye West took the opposite approach from Drake, releasing a bunch of albums that were only seven tracks long. Some have argued that the shorter length helps with the album's replay value, although you'll need to listen to Kanye's album a lot more times to reach 1,500 streams.\nNext StoryThis London-based food truck only sells cheese sandwiches - here's how they're made\nAPPLY NOW: INSIDER is hiring a producer for Insider Productions\nHow to add link shortcuts to Business Insider and INSIDER on your iPhone or iPad\nAPPLY NOW: Business Insider is hiring a video assignment editor for Business Insider Today\nNetflix's 'The Haunting of Bly Manor' is filling out its cast with actors from 'The Haunting of Hill House'\nThe US Air Force is warning people to stay away from Area 51 after a viral Facebook joke to storm the base and 'see them aliens'\nRory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and 9 others with the best odds to win the Open Championship at Royal Portrush\nUS stocks end mixed as earnings season kicks off\nIn a stark reversal, Citi's revved-up credit-card business helped it beat earnings - and it may be pivotal in proving Wall Street doubters wrong\nThis London-based food truck only sells cheese sandwiches - here's how they're made\nAn aerospace company reintroduced its precision helicopter with two crossing motors\nAn environmental group is testing giant floating pipes to clean up oceans\nThis 'aquadrone' swims through the water to collect waste\n1Why Drake's latest album 'Scorpion' is so long\n2This London-based food truck only sells cheese sandwiches - here's how they're made\n3An aerospace company reintroduced its precision helicopter with two crossing motors\n4An environmental group is testing giant floating pipes to clean up oceans\n5This 'aquadrone' swims through the water to collect waste","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1694170"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7380384206771851,"wiki_prob":0.26196157932281494,"text":"What are the laws governing acupuncture in Pennsylvania?\nThese are the Pennsylvania laws governing the use of acupuncture and oriental medicine. (Source)\n§ 18.11. Definitions.\nThe following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:\n(i) The stimulation of certain points on or near the surface of the body by the insertion of needles to prevent or alleviate the perception of pain or to normalize physiological functions, including pain control, for the treatment of certain diseases or dysfunctions of the body.\n(ii) The term also includes the use of supplemental techniques.\nAcupuncture educational program—Training and instruction in acupuncture or supplemental acupuncture techniques offered by a degree-granting institution authorized by the Department of Education that leads to a master’s degree, master’s level certificate or diploma or first professional degree, that meets the relevant and appropriate requirements of 22 Pa. Code (relating to education) and 24 Pa.C.S. Chapter 65 (relating to private colleges, universities and seminaries) and that meets or exceeds the standards required for acupuncture or Oriental medicine programs established by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education.\nAcupuncture examination—An examination offered or recognized by the Board to test whether an individual has accumulated sufficient academic knowledge with respect to the practice of acupuncture and herbal therapy to qualify for the privilege of practicing as an acupuncturist or as a practitioner of Oriental medicine. The Board recognizes the NCCAOM component examinations in acupuncture and sterilization procedures as the examination for registration as an acupuncturist and the NCCAOM examination component in Chinese herbology as the examination for registration as a practitioner of Oriental medicine.\nAcupuncture medical program—An academic or clinical program of study in acupuncture which has been given category I continuing medical education credit by an institution accredited or recognized by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education to conduct category I continuing medical education courses.\nAcupuncturist—An individual registered to practice acupuncture by the Board.\nChinese herbology—The study of the use of herbs in the Oriental medicine tradition.\nHerbal therapy—The application of Chinese herbology to the treatment of acupuncture patients.\nNCCAOM—The National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.\nPractitioner of Oriental medicine—An acupuncturist who is registered by the Board to use herbal therapy.\nSupplemental techniques—The use of traditional and modern Oriental therapeutics, heat therapy, moxibustion, electrical and low level laser stimulation, acupressure and other forms of massage, herbal therapy and counseling that includes the therapeutic use of foods and supplements and lifestyle modifications.\nThe provisions of this § 18.11 amended under section 3 of the Acupuncture Registration Act (63 P. S. § 1803); and section 8 of the Medical Practice Act of 1985 (63 P. S. § 422.8).\nThe provisions of this § 18.11 adopted January 2, 1987, effective immediately and applies retroactively to December 31, 1986, 17 Pa.B. 24; amended May 19, 1989, effective May 20, 1989, 19 Pa.B. 2161; amended April 13, 2007, effective April 14, 2007, 37 Pa.B. 1644. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (222904) to (222905).\n§ 18.15a. Scope of practice of acupuncturists and practitioners of Oriental medicine.\n(a) An acupuncturist may practice acupuncture and use supplemental techniques but may not use herbal therapy.\n(b) A practitioner of Oriental medicine may practice acupuncture and use supplemental techniques including herbal therapy.\n(c) This subsection does not limit the scope of practice of a medical doctor who is registered as an acupuncturist.\nThe provisions of this § 18.15a issued under section 3 of the Acupuncture Registration Act (63 P. S. § 1803).\nThe provisions of this § 18.15a adopted April 13, 2007, effective April 14, 2007, 37 Pa.B. 1644.\nCategory: Oriental Medicine\n← FAQs","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1476988"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.602922797203064,"wiki_prob":0.39707720279693604,"text":"Experts gather in Tallinn for the conference on cyber conflict\n400 experts from all over the world gather in Tallinn, Estonia from 6-8 June for the fourth International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon) organised by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. The conference topic, Military and Paramilitary Activities in Cyberspace, is disserted from the aspects of law and policy, strategy and technology.\nThe topic of the fourth conference was chosen to reflect the ever-changing nature of cyberspace. “The number of cyber conflicts keeps rising and it is important to understand who the actors in these events are, how to classify these events and participants, and how to interpret such events,” commented Colonel Ilmar Tamm, Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. “One of the aims of our conferences is to bring together people from different areas and give them more insight to the other aspects of cyber,” he added.\nSpeakers and participants come from a wide range of disciplines, from law professors to politicians, from IT experts to strategists. Among the speakers in Law & Policy Track are Professor Dr Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg who will talk about territorial sovereignty and neutrality in cyberspace, Michael N. Schmitt who will talk about the meaning of an armed attack in cyberspace, and Jason Healey who will talk about the political considerations in regard of neutrality and cyberspace. Technical Track will contain a mix of practitioner and researcher presentations and discussions, among them Professor Thomas M. Chen’s “A Game Theoretic View of Stuxnet and Its Implications”, Felix Lindner’s “Preparing a Military Cyber Attack” and Ilias Chantzos’ “Cyber Attack Case Study”. Strategy Breakout Session will view the cyber conflict from the conceptual perspective and among the speakers are Dr Samuel Liles (“Applying Traditional Military Principles to Cyber Warfare”), Jeff Bardin (“Iran and Cyber”) and Timothy L. Thomas (“The Three Faces of the Cyber Dragon”). On Friday, a high level cyber attack scenario discussion will take place where a round of experts walks the listeners through the key points of a realistic cyber attack scenario.\nThe conference main event takes place from 6-8 June, but one day earlier on 5 June, number of workshops takes place. The workshops vary from introductory course in computers and networks, designed especially for law and policy experts, to advanced malware analysis aimed at computer forensics investigators and incident responders.\nCyCon 2012 is supported by IEEE, Cisco, Gamma International and Microsoft.\nNATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is one of many NATO Centres of Excellence. Its mission is to enhance the capability, cooperation and information sharing among NATO, its member nations and partners in cyber defence by virtue of education, research and development, lessons learned and consultation.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1558928"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6038461923599243,"wiki_prob":0.6038461923599243,"text":"Prisoner of the state\nAn afternoon with writer-activist CK Raut during his trial at the Special Court\n| Kathmandu | October 16, 2014\nGYANU ADHIKARI October 16, 2014\n@saatdobato\nWhen I got to the Special Court, the hearing was already under way in the case of Government of Nepal v. CK Raut. The defendant is a man who is being prosecuted for his writings denouncing discrimination against the Madhesis and advocating for swaraj (self-rule)—an individual with ideas powerful enough for the Nepali state to feel threatened. The government accuses him of “crime against the state” and has charged him under a law created during the monarchy to stifle dissent. If he is found guilty, Raut will be sentenced “for life,” which means 20 years in jail.\nI took a seat in the middle row and listened as each side made its case.\n“He has a website where he publishes separatist information,” the government prosecutor said in his closing statement, “we can also prosecute him for cybercrime under Electronic Transaction Act because the published material is still there.”\nIn the front of the court, three judges sat at the bench, identically dressed in daura, suruwal, and topi. The chief judge at the center asked,\n“Others have written similar things, but why should we only prosecute CK Raut, and that too years after he first published his views?”\nThe government lawyer argued that many crimes might be happening as we speak, but might not be noticed by the police. “Those we notice, we must prosecute,” he said. The judge then asked if the government knew anything about the publisher or whether the government lawyer had read his books.\n“That type of literature should be banned,” the government lawyer replied, resting his case after several moments of rambling. He did not answer the question.\nIt was now the defense’s turn. With his voice cracking, advocate Sunil Kushwah argued that Raut was merely exercising his fundamental right of freedom of expression, which is inscribed in the Interim Constitution.\n“The state should return his confiscated goods and respect the dignity of the individual and the freedom of expression,” Kushwah concluded.\nThe hearing was over by noon. For five hours we waited as the Special Court deliberated over whether Raut should be released on bail as his lawyers had pleaded.\nIt was only then that I noticed CK Raut sitting in the last row, the backbench corner, with his back to the wall, surrounded by Madhesi friends. He was not handcuffed. Two policemen sat in the next bench, one in front, and two diagonally. Raut had long, wavy hair and sported a moustache. His dark blazer contrasted with his white shirt. He could easily have been one of the lawyers in the room. He was smiling, displaying a row of teeth the color of his shirt. He looked healthy.\n“This is your time to interview him,” a friend murmured, nudging me forward. I collected myself and crossed the room. As I approached, I stuck out my hand and eagerly switched on my recorder. Raut shook my hand politely. It was surreal, facing a man who had been jailed for speaking his mind. For a moment, I faltered, unsure what to ask. I had to remind myself why he was there.\n“Why do you think Madhes should secede?”\n“The police have told me not to do interviews,” he said.\nI asked him about his family, whether he was allowed to talk to them on the phone. He said he wasn’t. Raut looked over my shoulder; there were a few other people in the room he wanted to speak with. He asked someone to come and sit next to him. I moved away and decided I might be better off talking to people who knew him personally.\nThe hours passed slowly. As we waited for the court order, everyone in the room must’ve read the same copy of Kantipur that was passed around to kill the time. I watched as Raut flipped through it. He then read the printout of the law under which he was being prosecuted.\n“One good thing is that by the time he gets out, Doc Sa’p will be a law expert,” someone joked. (Most people call Raut “doctor” in reference to his Cambridge PhD.) Raut was sarcastic throughout the day when he talked about his case, with flashes of seriousness when he spoke of the Madhes movement and politics.\nSome people left, others arrived. Except for the police, I noticed that I was the only non-Madhesi in Raut’s corner. The police simply sat and looked on as he spoke. At one point a lawyer came and whispered in his ear. At another point two policemen followed him to the toilet.\nThree hours later, as I was talking to someone who had known Raut since he was a young man (Raut was the youngest son of working class parents and was stubborn, the man confided), Raut came over and stood behind us. He leaned forward, his hands spread over the back of the bench.\n“What do you think of the Nepali Congress proposal on federalism?” I asked him.\n“It’s dishonest,” he said, “federalism could be a positive step toward ending discrimination, but that’s not going to happen.”\n“Do you think the current government will take steps to end discrimination against Madhesis?”\n“No,” he said sternly, “the discriminatory character of the state will not end. This government is moving in the opposite direction. We have given them time to change, but there has been no change. The problem is that of an entrenched Pahadi attitude that thinks, mistakenly, that a country’s boundaries are unalterable. But countries break, just as families break when two brothers can’t stay under the same roof.”\nIn his written statement to the court Raut doesn’t come off has a radical separatist. He has said that his writings are intended for “social, political transformation and political rights.”\nI asked for his thoughts on why he was arrested at this time, a few months before the deadline for constitution. He had been putting forth the same views for years before the police decided to arrest him.\nRaut thought his arrest was a kind of “testing tool” of a section of Nepal that doesn’t want a constitution.\n“They will keep me in jail for the next six months or so under different pretexts—until the deadline for the Constituent Assembly passes,” he said. “You heard earlier the way the government lawyer was invoking the Electronic Transaction Act. That was a message. Even if they let me out on bail on this subversion case, I’ll be re-arrested, either under Public Offense or this Electronic Act he brought up.”\nHe then asked me not to talk about his family in the media. “There is a hatred against me out there,” he said, “that’s part of the reason there’re so many police around me.”\nAt 5 pm, a government official entered and asked Raut to come to the registrar’s office. Raut’s men and the trailing police officers followed. A few-minutes wait and the registrar arrived, sat on his swiveling chair, and addressed the audience of fifteen men and a lone woman, who looked like a reporter.\n“For Doc Sa’p, the bail has been set at 50,000 rupees,” he said.\nMany faces in the room lit up, but Raut remained passive. His eyes were on the registrar; his fingers were on his lips. He was thinking.\n“Ok, let’s all go now, come on,” the press officer of the court said, “you can read the court order later.”\n“Perhaps it’s better for everyone to listen to the order,” I suggested.\nWhile the registrar read the order from the bench of three judges—Mohan Raman Bhattarai, Bhupendra Rai, and Narendra Siwakoti—he was frequently interrupted by phone calls, which he took, grunting out information we all already knew.\n“Yes. Bail is 50,000. He can pay and go. Yes, 50,000. The judges were so and so . . .”\nHe turned to the defendant.\n“Given that the defendant refuses the allegation that he ran a campaign to break Nepal from Mechi to Mahakali, south of the Chure Hills to the no man’s land . . . but given that it cannot be said that no crime against the state has been committed . . . and keeping in mind the freedom of expression . . . based on Muluki Ain . . . a bail amount has been set.”\nAs the registrar read, Raut looked irritated and fidgety. He clearly disapproved of the order.\n“We can go today? Now? Sure? He won’t be re-arrested?” one of his friends asked, incredulous. Nobody expected this order.\n“Let me think for a few days . . .” I heard Raut say to his lawyer, “This is a trick, I’ll get arrested as soon as I post the bail.”\nBy now, the press officer was keen to get everyone out of the registrar’s office. “You can carry on your discussions outside,” he said. Everyone then flocked to the corridor. Raut was led to a bench where he sat, surrounded by supporters.\n“You don’t want to get out?” I asked him.\n“It’s better to be in a big pond than a small one,” he replied, meaning, presumably, that it was better to be in jail in Kathmandu than a jail in Biratnagar.\n“Why do you think they will re-arrest you?”\n“This is a mayajal. I will not pay the bail and stay here.” I had heard Raut say earlier in the day that he was like a fish on a hook. If they thought he was too much trouble, they would just pull the string tighter.\nThe Special Court order on Government of Nepal v. CK Raut. Gyanu Adhikari/The Record\nA jovial police inspector walked into the crowd. I had chatted to him earlier in the day about his stay in Kapilvastu, constantly amazed by his views about the people he was supposed to serve and protect. He laughed easily and spoke alternately in Nepali and Hindi. It seemed that the easy laugh was a part of the arsenal he carried, just like his camouflage shirt or his gun.\n“Is it true that the police will arrest him again if he pays the bail?” I asked him.\n“That is so,” he said, grinning from ear to ear. “The order you just heard said nothing about the Biratnagar case. We’ll have to take him there.”\nFor a moment, inside the registrar’s office, I’d assumed that Raut had refused to pay the bail because he thought it would be better for his movement if he stayed in jail. Whether he’s inside or outside, all he wants is for the movement go on, someone had told me earlier in the afternoon. So at first it seemed the man refused his freedom for the sake of his movement. But that was not true. Raut was not free to go. The law had not spoken. The bail was a bait, and Raut didn’t bite. All that had transpired that rainy afternoon was one more gimmick by the state, which knows that it must release Raut eventually, but carries on because it can. For now.\nCover photo: CK Raut/ckraut.com\nGyanu Adhikari\nThe Attention Merchants shows how the media is misused for profit and power\nThe goal is to get your attention, then show you advertisements.\nWhy many Nepalis are converting to Christianity\nHow two journalists broke Nepal’s biggest tax scam story\nEarlier this month, two journalists from the Kantipur daily came out with an explosive story on the largest ever case of tax fraud in Nepal. In collaboration with the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Krishna Acharya and Krishna Gyawali had investigated how the Tax Settlement Commission had abused the law to give tax exemptions of over […]\nThe curious case of the Mustang incident\nIn 1960 a Nepali officer was shot by Chinese soldiers along the border, causing a heated diplomatic dispute. Decades later, the details of the case are still contentious\nWhat we talk about when we talk about history\nYogesh Raj explains why history shouldn't be about scoring political points\nA Separation Foretold\nITISHA GIRI\nFrustrated by the issue of citizenship, a woman reflects on her relationship with Nepal. ::::: You must know that loving you is not an instinct. It does not come into being through stirrings of the heart. It is the type of love that can only be taught. And I was always a good teacher. I […]\nInterview: “Fewer but more intense rainy days behind the flood crisis”\nMonsoon mayhem\nManisha Koirala’s life lessons from surviving cancer\nABHA LAL\n\"Healed\" lacks the self-knowledge and introspection that characterizes a good memoir","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line980827"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7246542572975159,"wiki_prob":0.27534574270248413,"text":"Formerly Amelia Swan\nRomance Author. Vegan. Yogi.\nWrestling With Summer\nLength: Novel\nWill Summer’s past stop her from giving her heart to a professional wrestler?\nSummer Sullivan is in a slump. Her friends-with-benefits relationship with yoga teacher Drew is going nowhere, and she’s behind schedule on preparing for her upcoming art show. When she hears that a professional wrestler is scheduled to speak at the private school where she works, she’s convinced things have gone from bad to worse. After growing up with a father who changed from a loving family man to a womanizing, heavy-drinking deadbeat while he worked as a wrestler, Summer has wanted nothing to do with the industry.\nBut Ryan Steele isn’t like the wrestlers from Summer’s past. With boyish good looks and a lean physique, he doesn’t look like the big, bulky wrestlers she used to know. And with his kind heart and romantic tendencies, Ryan doesn’t act like them either.\nIt doesn’t take long before Summer is smitten with the charming wrestler, but even though\nSummer wants to be with Ryan, memories of her past keep getting in the way of their happiness. Will she be able to give Ryan a fair chance or will she let her misconceptions about wrestling stand in the way?\nCategory: New adult romance\nRe-release coming soon\nPublisher: Hearts Desire Press\nHailey Sommers is only home from New York for a few months. So when she reconnects with the one guy she can't forget, will she be able to walk away...again?\nHailey can't wait to get back to New York City. There she's a hip children's book author with a healthy social life. Being back in her hometown of Medford only reminds her of the less-than-cool girl she used to be. Until she runs into Cody, her old partner-in-crime in high school art and the boy she lusted after all four years.\nCody West has everything he could want in Medford, except Hailey. When she left for the big city, there was a hold in his life no other girl could fill. But he's not sure he wants to open himself to the pain if she leaves again.\nA chance encounter at the town coffee shop reignites the chemistry between the pair and is almost enough to make Hailey forget how much she wants to return to the city she's grown to love. Almost. Wanting it all, Hailey plans to bring Cody back to New York with her. The only catch is that she's not sure he'll agree...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1251826"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7825007438659668,"wiki_prob":0.7825007438659668,"text":"FAVORITE RACING CARS, PART III.\nMonday, October 8, 2018 at 09:48AM\nEditor's Note: We hope you've enjoyed these \"Favorite Racing Cars Part I & Part II\" columns as much as we have. In the midst of writing this series, however, Peter realized that he could devote the entirety of \"Fumes\" to this subject indefinitely. He is not going to do that (I don't think), but a \"Part III\" seemed in order, so here we go. -WG\nDetroit. I hope you've all enjoyed these \"Favorite Racing Cars Part I & Part II\" columns as much as I have putting them together. In the midst of writing last week's column, however, I realized that I could devote the entirety of \"Fumes\" to this subject indefinitely. I am not going to do that (I don't think), but a \"Part III\" seemed in order, so here we go.\nDesigned by Vittorio Jano for Lancia in 1954, the Lancia D50 Grand Prix entry pioneered many significant innovations. For example, the engine acted as a stressed chassis member and it was also mounted off-center, which allowed for a lower overall height; and the pannier fuel cells were used for better aerodynamic performance and more balanced weight distribution. The D50 made its debut at the end of the 1954 Grand Prix season with two-time World Champion and Italian driving great Alberto Ascari behind the wheel. It was blistering fast right out of the box, but because the Lancia family was facing severe financial trouble, the Lancia family sold their controlling share in the Lancia company, and the assets of its racing team - Scuderia Lancia - were granted to Scuderia Ferrari. Although Ferrari continued to develop the car, many of Jano's most innovative design characteristics were removed. The car was first renamed as the \"Lancia-Ferrari D50\" but that was quickly dropped in favor of \"Ferrari D50\". Juan Manuel Fangio (above) won the 1956 World Championship driving the D50 for Ferrari. The D50s were entered in fourteen World Championship F1 Grands Prix, winning five.\n(RM Sotheby's)\nThe Jaguar D-Type is one of the most iconic racing cars ever built. Originally produced between 1954 and 1957, the Jaguar bristled with technical innovation heavily influenced by the aviation business. It featured monocoque construction and a sophisticated approach to aerodynamic efficiency. The Jaguar D-Type won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1955, 1956 and 1957. Jaguar is now producing 25 \"continuation\" D-Types, which will be priced at $1.4 million. I expect the prices for these continuation models to soar, especially since original D-Types now go for over $20 million.\n(Grand Prix History)\nThe Lotus 25 revolutionized the design of open-wheel racing cars and fundamentally changed the sport. The mid-engined Lotus 25 was not the first racing car with a monocoque chassis, but its visionary design by Colin Chapman combined with the brilliance of Jimmy Clark resulted in phenomenal success. Clark won seven out of ten races and his first World Championship with the Lotus 25 in 1963.\n(Ford Racing Archives)\nJimmy Clark (with Colin Chapman) in the Lotus 38-Ford during practice for the 1965 Indianapolis 500. He would win the race handily.\n(Autosport)\nSpeaking of iconic racing machines, Mario Andretti won his World Championship in 1978 with the beautiful and highly innovative Lotus 79-Ford.\nParnelli Jones in the all-wheel-drive No. 40 STP-Paxton Turbocar machine dominated the 1967 Indianapolis 500 at will. Jones coasted to a stop with three laps to go because of a $6.00 transmission bearing failure. Innovation courtesy of Andy Granatelli, a man who never got enough credit for his vision.\nGraham Hill in the No. 70 STP Lotus 56 Turbine machine at Indianapolis in 1968. Colin Chapman took the turbine power idea to heart and came up with a visionary car design of his own for the 1968 Indianapolis 500.\nMario Andretti's No. 11 Ford Fairlane \"stock car\" with which he stunned the NASCAR establishment by winning the 1967 Daytona 500. The 60s NASCAR machines were brutal, purposeful but beautiful in their own right.\nI may have already mentioned this car, but Jackie Stewart's 1971 Carl Haas Racing L&M Lola T260 Chevrolet remains one of my favorite Can-Am machines of all time. I watched Stewart manhandle this evil handling machine, wringing every last drop of speed out of it while giving Team McLaren fits. It may have not been the prettiest of machines, but in Stewart's hands it was magnificent.\nYes, another chapter of \"Favorite Racing Cars\" has come to a close. I could go on and I probably will in another chapter, because there are so many pivotal - and memorable - racing machines that writing about them never gets old.\nAnd that's the High-Octane Truth for this week.\n(Dave Friedman photo)\nLas Vegas, Nevada, 1966. Talk about an all-star lineup. Early laps of the Stardust Grand Prix Can-Am race with John Surtees (No. 7 Team Surtees Lola T70 Mk.2 Chevrolet); Jim Hall (No. 66 Chaparral 2E Chevrolet); Parnelli Jones (No. 98 John Mecom Racing Lola T70 Mk.2 Chevrolet); Phil Hill (No. 65 Chaparral 2E Chevrolet); Jackie Stewart (No. 43 John Mecom Racing Lola T70 Mk.2 Chevrolet); George Follmer (No. 16 Lola T70 Mk.2 Chevrolet); Bruce McLaren (No. 4 McLaren Elva Mark II B Chevrolet); Chris Amon (No. 5 McLaren Elva Mark II Chevrolet) and Mark Donohue (No. 6 Penske Racing Sunoco Special Lola T70 Mk.2 Chevrolet). Results: 1. Surtees 2. McLaren 3. Donohue.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1574245"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.908496618270874,"wiki_prob":0.908496618270874,"text":"Home ⇒ Arts & Entertainment ⇒ Review: Gilmore Girls-A Year in the Life\nDec 13, 2016 Christina Hedwall 710 0 0\nAs many fans are aware, “Gilmore Girls” released a 4-part mini-series on Netflix over the holiday weekend with each episode exploring a different season. Each episode was written by the creator the series, Amy Sherman-Palladino, who also directed two of the episodes, and her husband Daniel Palladino directed the other two. This mini-series gave fans a year’s worth of new information about the lives of Lorelai and Rory that, let’s face it, we have all been missing.\nFrom the beginning of the first episode titled “Winter” to the last four words of the final episode titled “Fall,” viewers experience a sense of nostalgia for the previous seven seasons and hope for what could come after this mini-series. The series explores what life has been like for Rory after graduating from Yale and a few years after, where viewers meet a new boyfriend and run into the old ones (yes, ALL of them). We also get a glimpse of Lorelai and Luke’s relationship, which is still as amazing and tension-filled as ever.\nArguably the best part of any of the episodes is the premier of Kirk’s second short film, as well as his strong presence in each episode. In addition to Kirk, the Stars Hollow cast included Taylor, Babett, Ms. Patty and Caesar. The show also provided an excellent showing of Paris Gellar as a working mom, which has taken nothing away from her strong personality. She is as difficult and neurotic as ever, yet it is still clear that so much has changed since we last saw her.\nOne of the most noticeable and saddening aspects about this mini-series is the absence of Edward Herrman, who played Richard Gilmore in the previous 7 season. Herrman passed away on December 31, 2014 from brain cancer, before production of the reprisal began, but his presence is severely missed throughout the four episodes. Emily, Richard’s wife, struggles to cope with his death, as does Rory and Lorelai. His death becomes a source of conflict between Emily and Lorelai that continues to tear away at their already cracked relationship.\nThis series causes the viewers to reminisce about what was and hope for what is to come, allowing fans and newbies alike to formulate new opinions and speculate whether there will be more episodes in the future. Whether new episodes are released or not, it is important to remember that we were just handed a year of Gilmore Girls on a silver platter. None of the cast and crew were certain they would ever reprise their roles, but they did and, hopefully, they will again.\nTo Narnia and Back: A Lyceum Production\nShakespeare’s Most Famous Comedy: Coming to a Theatre Near You\nSundance: “Best Week of My Life”\n‘Jurors’ Provides Suspense by the Dozen\nVanguard Newspaper Strives to Restore Visibility\nChristmas Myths\nAbout Christina Hedwall\nChristina Hedwall was the Arts & Entertainment section editor for the 2015-2016 school year. She is now currently the Broadcast Director for theVoice's student broadcast network. She is looking forward to graduating in May of 2017 and pursuing a Juris Doctorate degree in the fall of 2017.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line685057"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6114943027496338,"wiki_prob":0.3885056972503662,"text":"Improving quality, increasing impact: The Youth Programme Quality Intervention UK-Wide Pilot\nThe Centre for Youth Impact has received over £607,000 of National Lottery funding through the Big Lottery Fund to lead a three and a half year (Apr 2018- Sep 2021) test and learn project for a ground-breaking quality improvement initiative. The Youth Programme Quality Intervention (YPQI) was developed in the US, and has never before been piloted in the UK. Through extensive research, the YPQI has been shown to improve outcomes for young people, to create a sustainable and supportive culture of organisational reflection and improvement, and to refocus evaluation on the quality of relationships and setting. This pilot project will test the YPQI in all four nations of the UK, to learn from its impact on culture and practice, and assess its applicability to different policy and practice contexts. It will build the foundations for wider roll-out, through establishing a community of practice and cohort of trained coaches. It will translate the YPQI for the UK context. It is an exciting and potentially transformative opportunity for the UK youth sector.\n​Quality improvement and impact measurement in the youth sector\n​The drive to measure, demonstrate and prove impact is strong within the UK youth sector, though it has evolved at different ‘speeds’ across the four nations. Regardless, a uniting feature is a policy narrative that connects sustainability and funding to evidence of impact, which has led to an over-focus on the measurement of outcomes in isolation in an effort to prove impact at the expense of improving services. Refocusing on the quality of practice would create the opportunity for two profound shifts: firstly, it would direct energies to the improvement and observation of quality alongside the monitoring of outcomes, and secondly, as a consequence, it would create the potential for the observation of quality to become predictive of outcomes for young people.\nAt the same time, there has been a concerted development of quality standards across the UK youth sector, which although welcome, have a different focus to the YPQI. Indeed, the systematic and embedded reflection on continuous improvement that is at the centre of the YPQI approach is both different and complementary to formal quality assurance processes.\nThe Youth Programme Quality Intervention (YPQI)\n​The YPQI is a systematic approach to quality improvement, developed in the States during the 1990s. It is based around an observational assessment tool, the Program Quality Assessment, and training in Youth Work Methods from qualified coaches. It follows an assess-plan-improve sequence to help youth organisations focus on and improve the quality of their provision.\nThe YPQI looks at quality in four domains of practice: safety, support, interaction and engagement, which together create a set of key developmental experiences for young people. The assessment of quality is based on observation, by peers and youth work managers. The YPQI creates a context where quality improvement is prioritised, provides technical support for providers to improve, and builds capacity within providers to put continuous quality improvement into practice. It has been subjected to an experimental trial, which highlighted its positive impact on the quality of provision, and thus outcomes for young people[1].\n[1] See Smith, C et al (2009) Managing for Positive Youth Development: Linking Management Practices to Instructional Performances in Out-of-school Time Organizations.; and Smith, C. et al (2012) Continuous quality improvement in afterschool settings: Impact findings from the Youth Program Quality Intervention study; both Washington, DC: The Forum for Youth Investment.\nThe UK pilot plan\nThe UK pilot is being led by the Centre for Youth Impact in partnership with the David P Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. The pilot will work with its first wave of organisations in England (starting Autumn 2018), followed by Scotland and Wales (starting Spring 2019) and finally in Northern Ireland (starting Autumn 2019). We will be working with partners in each country to help support and guide the pilot. Alongside the piloting of the YPQI itself there will be substantial research and evaluation that aims to understand both the experience and success of the approach in different contexts and assess the link between the quality framework and positive outcomes for young people.\nThe Centre for Youth Impact will work with partner organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to recruit and support pilot organisations and build the infrastructure for further roll-out beyond this project. Specifically, the goals of the pilot are to:\nExplore the applicability of the model to informal and non-formal youth provision in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland;\nTest the potential of the model to make a measurable improvement to the quality of informal and non-formal youth provision;\nAssist participating organisations in developing a culture of continuous quality improvement;\nLearn about the support delivery organisations need – and how best to provide this support – to improve the quality of their provision; and\nDemonstrate that the YPQI can assist a diverse group of providers in improving the quality of their provision.\nThe ultimate goal of the pilot is to both increase the availability of high-quality provision for young people in the different countries of the UK, and to develop an in-depth understanding of the relationship between the quality of practice and outcomes for young people.\nFor more information please contact Matthew Hill at matthew.hill@youthimpact.uk.\nOur monthly newsletter collects news, events, research and blogs from the Centre, our networks and practitioners and organisations around the world. Sign-up, and read our previous newsletters, here.\nCentre Thoughts\nListening Fund\nYIF\nYPQI","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1691"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5299626588821411,"wiki_prob":0.4700373411178589,"text":"IMPORTANT: You are using an older version of Other that may not be supported in the future. Upgrade Now\nWelcome to myUMBC\nInstitutional Group • 2268 people\nUse Your Analytics Background for a Career in Investments\nT. Rowe Price Presentation - Investments Business Unit\nWednesday, March 28, 2018 · Noon - 1 PM\nThe Commons : 318\nUndergraduate and Graduate students! Join us for a workshop with Chris Brown of T. Rowe Price. He will be highlighting the Fixed Income team within the firm’s Investments Business Unit, and provide insight into how to apply your analytical and quantitative skillset within the investment management industry, which is increasingly driven by data analytics.\nThis is a great opportunity for those with any quantitative background such as math, computer science, engineering, and financial economics to obtain an inside look into this industry.\nPresenter Background:\nChristopher Brown is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. He is also a portfolio manager in the Fixed Income Division at T. Rowe Price. Mr. Brown is the head of the Securitized Products team, the co-portfolio manager of the Total Return Strategy, and a member of the portfolio strategy team for U.S. taxable bond strategies.\nMr. Brown has 17 years of investment experience, 12 of which have been with T. Rowe Price. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Brown was an associate portfolio manager on the U.S. Taxable Bond team and a portfolio investment strategist on the Fixed Income Quantitative team. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price in 2005, he was a fixed income analyst and trader at Riggs Investment Advisors, Inc., in Washington, D.C. Before this, he was an investment analyst for Cambridge Associates LLC in Arlington, Virginia.\nMr. Brown earned a B.A. in economics from Washington & Lee University and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.\nBank of America Summer Webcast Series - Ask a Recruiter #3\nSep 18 at Noon\nAug 21 at 6 PM\nBank of America Summer Webcast Series - GBAM\nJul 31 at 6 PM\nJul 24 at Noon\nBank of America Summer Webcast Series - Global Transaction\n© 2019 UMBC Directory Use of Student Data Equal Opportunity Safety Resources\nDiagnostic Info: 1.6.22.3 - 5161 - production - prod1 - general-public","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line618130"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.822124183177948,"wiki_prob":0.822124183177948,"text":"Name Lars Jaeger\nAddress Rosenweg 10a, 6340 Baar\nEmail mail@larsjaeger.ch\nLars Jaeger (born 1969 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a Swiss-German entrepreneur, scientist, writer, financial theorist, alternative investment manager. He studied physics and philosophy at the University of Bonn in Germany and ÉcolePolytechnique in Paris and holds a doctorate degree in theoretical physics from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, where he also performed post-doctoral studies.\nHis writing has focused on two areas: finance and science. Un his scientific writing Lars’ focus is on the history of science, the interplay of science and spiritual traditions, how science shaped and continues to shape our modern society, and how the ongoing technological revolution unfolds itself. In finance, Lars has published books on hedge funds, quantitative investing, and risk management. With his books he has been an influential voice in the hedge fund industry fostering developments towards more transparency, liquidity, and cost efficiency. He was the founder and CEO of Alternative Beta Partners in Zug, Switzerland, that targets the extraction of alternative beta as a cost efficient way of accessing hedge return sources. Lars has taught at several universities over the years (European Business School, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, ETH Zurich, etc.)\nPrior to founding Alternative Beta Partners in early 2010 Lars had served Partners Group as a partner for eight years, responsible for hedge fund and alternative beta investments, risk management and managed accounts. He is a co-founder of saisGroup, a hedge funds asset management firm, which merged into Partners Group in 2001. Jaeger started his finance career in 1997 at the quantitative research firm Olsen & Associates in Zurich. Since 2014 Lars Jaeger has worked with GAM as “Head of Alternative Risk Premia”. Lars lives in Baar, Zug, and greatly enjoys the growing up of his three daughters.\nSee also: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Jaeger","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1636989"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5870833992958069,"wiki_prob":0.4129166007041931,"text":"Everything on Kong: Skull Island is bigger in first official pic\nTag: Kong: Skull Island\nTag: Tom Hiddleston\nTag: Brie Larson\nTag: SDCC 2016\nEveryone’s favorite giant teddy bear ape, King Kong, is returning for a cinematic encore when Kong: Skull Island will beat its massive chest on the big screen in early 2017. The man helming the blockbuster movie, Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer), promises everything will be bigger in the movie reboot.\nSkull Island -- which won’t feature the beauty-and-the-beast storyline that was a staple of the previous movies (aww) -- takes place in the 1970s and stars Tom Hiddleston as an ex-British SAS tracker and Oscar winner Brie Larson as a war photographer. You can get an idea of just how massive the scale will be in this first official image of Larson and Hiddleston in what looks like a boneyard. So, just how big can we expect Kong to be in the movie?\nHere’s what Vogt-Roberts told Entertainment Weekly:\n“From the size of the skull, you can tell that things on this island are much bigger than audiences are used to with traditional Kong lore. Our Kong is by far the biggest Kong that you’ve seen on screen, and that translates to a lot of different things on the island. In terms of actual size, our Kong is by far the biggest Kong. Peter Jackson’s Kong was around 25 feet. The ‘33 Kong ranged between 25 feet and 50 feet, I want to say he was 50-plus feet when he was on the Empire State Building. He varied in size dramatically! The ’70s Kong was somewhere between them. The thing that most interested me was, how big do you need to make [Kong], so that when someone lands on this island and doesn’t believe in the idea of myth, the idea of wonder – when we live in a world of social and civil unrest, and everything is crumbling around us, and technology and facts are taking over – how big does this creature need to be, so that when you stand on the ground and you look up at it, the only thing that can go through your mind is: ‘That’s a god.’”\nUntil the first trailer finally comes out (crossing my fingers for it to be released during next week's SDCC), the picture below can give us an impressive idea of the scale of the giant ape.\nAlso starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Tobby Kebbell and John C. Reilly, Kong: Skull Island opens in movie theaters on March 10, 2017.\n(via EW)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1517933"}
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As it can be seen in the graph, the majority of them - almost 170 thousand men and 167 thousand women - were enrolled in an undergraduate course at a Mexican university.\nUniversity/technological bachelor 1,697,511 1,668,354\nPostgraduate 115,228 124,720\nHigher technician 102,075 68,400\nNormal education* 22,795 65,912\nAs of August/September 2017\nEnrolled for the 2017/2018 academic year; Only formal education\n* Under this category are grouped all the teaching academic courses to form teachers for the different education levels.\nCollege enrollment in public and private institutions in the U.S. 1965-2028\nThe 20 richest colleges in the U.S. 2018\nEducational attainment in the U.S. from 1960 to 2018\nNumber of higher education institutions in the U.S. from 1980-2016\nStatistics on \"Colleges and universities in the U.S.\"\nEnrollment Figures\nAttendance Costs\nNumber of higher education degrees earned in the United States from 1950 to 2029 (in 1,000s)Degrees in higher education in 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7046882510185242,"wiki_prob":0.29531174898147583,"text":"click on images to enlarge\nBors was an Englishman living in Essex in the 12th century. When the Twelfth Doctor saved him from a splinter, Bors pledged himself to the Time Lord as a debt for the Doctor “saving his life.”\nBors was with the Doctor while he was trying to meditate in a castle. Bors and his men began to dig a well on the Doctor’s orders when he claimed the water they had wasn’t good enough. It took them nearly a week to find water, and the Doctor suggested they build a visitor’s centre once the well was complete, annoying Bors.\nBors was also able to solve the Doctor’s magic trick, but admitted he still thought of himself as an idiot. He also noted that The Doctor was unable to meditate due to the fact he couldn’t remain silent, but then listened intently as the Doctor told him about a battle field he had found which would be his last. (The Doctor’s Meditation)\nBors later challenged the Doctor to an axe fight, to which he arrived playing an electric guitar and riding a tank. Distracted the Doctor’s presence with the crowd, Bors was strangled by one of Colony Sarff’s snakes, and converted into a Dalek puppet.\nAfter Colony Sarff took the Doctor prisoner on his ship, Bors, with his free will lost, located the Doctor’s TARDIS for the Daleks. (The Magician’s Apprentice)\nIn DWM 492, a fan asked showrunner Steven Moffat how Bors became a Dalek puppet. Moffat revealed the snake which wrapped itself around Bors’s neck also bit him, and Colony Sarff’s venom contained the Dalek conversion nanogenes seen in Asylum of the Daleks.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1570514"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5583024621009827,"wiki_prob":0.44169753789901733,"text":"“The Pedestrian Crush” on 34th & 7th Avenue\nby on September 11, 2009 | 5,180 Plays\nAlthough there is undoubtedly an amazing streets renaissance going on in NYC, there still remain places in dire need of improvement. Heavily-used areas like the blocks surrounding Penn Station area from 4 to 7 PM on weekdays are overwhelmed with pedestrians making their way home to via a network of subways, NJ Transit, the Long Island Railroad, Amtrak and catching myriad buses. The sidewalks are so clogged by this \"crush of humanity\" that people are forced to walk in the streets. If you've never seen it or fear claustrophobia, get ready.\nOur Executive Director Mark Gorton recently went out to the sample the atmosphere on a typical weekday commuter night and posits that we can do much better in our choice of allocation of street space. His words sum it up nicely:\nThe reason it's so crowded here is not because there's not enough space, it's because we give all of our space to the least spatially-efficient form of transportation available.\nOf course he is referring to the automobile, especially the single-occupant vehicle. Oddly enough, I did a PSA over three years ago which aired during our initial NYCSR campaign launch. I filmed most of it in the same location. And it still looks much the same, perhaps worse.\n<blockquote class=\"_text\"> Mark Gorton: [0:01] The automobile is a space hog, and the rest of us pay the price. Look at it. There is a demonstrated need for much wider sidewalks. Why? Because it's 10 people wide having to walk in the street! [0:14] I'm standing here at West 34th and Seventh Ave, and it is just an unpleasant place to be. We had a hard time finding a place to stand to just even talk. And just think about it. There are people, every day, just have to go through this crush of humanity. And you say, \"OK, New York's a big city. It's got a lot of people.\" But the reason it's so crowded here is not because there's not enough space. It's because we give all of our space to the least spatially efficient form of transportation available.</p><p>[musical interlude] </p><p>Mark Gorton: [0:54] The people that are here, most all of them got here on mass transit. This is a mass-transit crowd. It's a mass-transit place. It's a mass-transit city. We're here near Penn Station. We're here near the subway. There's great accessibility to this location.</p><p>[1:09] Right now, the explicit policy of the city, that has accumulated over 100 years of policy making decisions, is to consciously try and promote automobile usage and suppress human activity, because there is a fight for space. You've got little kids. Think about what it's like being a little kid. It's not just the cars. It's the people. You're going to get stepped on. As a parent, it's not even safe to bring your kids here, just because it's so crowded. We've made our streets hostile, toxic places for people.</p><p>[musical interlude] </p><p>Mark Gorton: [1:47] Do you think anyone likes walking in the middle of Seventh Avenue, with all this nasty traffic and the honking and the buses and the danger? People don't want to do it. They're doing it because they're forced to do it. As a society, we tolerate this. We tolerate incredibly crowded, dangerous conditions.</p><p>[musical interlude] </p><p>Mark Gorton: [2:12] What we have here can be fixed in a day with action from the DOT, like we saw over in Herald Square. These sidewalks can be wider. You could just put out some temporary cones as a start. Paint the ground, a few barrels, a few planters. Bam. It doesn't have to be like this, because we have made a decision, as a society, to try and cram as many cars onto our streets as possible. It is very easy to make policy decisions that get rid of the cars.</p><p>[2:38] However much space we will give to cars, they will take. People will selfishly take it because we give it to them. Right here in the middle of New York City, if you had 16 lanes, you'd have 16 lanes of cars. If you have two lanes, you have two lanes of cars. It is that simple. </blockquote> <br/><br/>\n<iframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/12743110?app_id=122963\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"&ldquo;The Pedestrian Crush&rdquo; on 34th &amp; 7th Avenue\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen></iframe>\nPosted in Pedestrians. Tagged as Manhattan, Mark Gorton, Pedestrian Safety, Quality of Life.\nhttp://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/ Howard Freeman\nI'm sympathetic, having been born and raised here (96th and Madison) and now raising three boys on the UWS. That said, the argument is 100% correct for 34th and Seventh and perhaps a small radius around it, but not for most other neighborhoods. My office is at 36th and Bway and even before the pedestrian mall, there was very little traffic in front of us. Commuters coming in from Long Island and New Jersey account for just as much of the congestion problem at that intersection as \"too many cars.\" But we wouldn't of course think about cutting down on commuting workers, who are just as much of NYC's vitality as anything else. I think the solution is a local one - to that neighborhood - not a universal one to the borough of Manhattan. Stats in this video are provocative but do not gyve with my decades of living in different neighborhoods in Manhattan. Also, it's not a horrible place for kids b/c of traffic. I'd rather put a ban on soft porn ads on bus shelters.\nhttp://guerrillagiving.org Guerrilla Giving\n\"Space Hog\"--Absolutely correct, esp. considering that most of the behemoths have but one occupant. Crazy. Thanks for this.\nI get what the narrator is saying and agree, but his strident tone and repeats don't make me want to. A bit hysterical with the crushed kid bit.\n10 Years Later the Pedestrian Crush on NYC’s 34th Street is Still Chaos\nPSA-Pedestrian Density\nUWS Streets Renaissance: Amsterdam Avenue\nPsychic Space","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line708234"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7178417444229126,"wiki_prob":0.2821582555770874,"text":"James Turk – This Is Why The Price Of Silver Is About To Soar\nWARNING: A Shocking Story About How One Man Lost $83 Million, Plus China, Gold And U.S. Dollar\nWith continued uncertainty around the globe, here is a tragic tale about how one man lost $83 million, which was his entire fortune. Plus, a look at China’s massive stockpiling, catastrophe for the dollar and a major warning for the West.\nHow One Mast Lost Everything\n(King World News) Stephen Leeb: “In 2002, Andrew “Jack” Whittaker, 55, seemed the epitome of the American dream. The self-made head of a successful construction company that had made him a millionaire, married with a family, he seemed to have it all. Then he won the Powerball lottery, a record $315 million, which he took in a lump sum of around $83 million after taxes…\nContinue reading the Stephen Leeb interview below…\nStephen Leeb continues: “His work ethic gave way to reckless spending and dissolute living, and within a decade he was a broken man, divorced, accused of bouncing checks to cover gambling losses, his daughter and granddaughter dead from drug overdoses.\nWhat does this woeful tale have to do with gold? Almost exactly 45 years ago, in August 1971, President Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard. The U.S. no longer would redeem dollars for gold at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce, as it had committed to doing following World War II. And that turned out to be akin to hitting the biggest jackpot in history – with all the euphoria along with the unintended devastating consequences.\nOnce the dollar and gold were delinked, the U.S. had no restraints on printing all the money it wanted. It was like having a credit card where the sky was the limit. That’s because, even absent the gold link, the dollar remained the world’s de facto reserve currency thanks to U.S. economic and military dominance. It was the one currency people everywhere felt comfortable using, not only for international transactions but sometimes even within countries themselves.\nBut like Whittaker and many other lottery winners, we lost our identity. After 1971, our culture of savings gave way to a culture of spending and a search for instant gratification, with long-term planning out the window.\nOur health care system is one example. Instead of the kind of careful planning that characterized European and Japanese health care systems, we assumed the more money we spent the better. Today U.S. per capita health care spending is still far higher than in both Switzerland’s private-consumer-oriented system and the government-oriented systems in Britain and Japan – while life expectancies here are notably lower than for any other developed country.\nOne thing our health care system does have more of is complexity of management and regulation – from PBMs to insurance companies to hospitals to distributors to insanely complicated payment schedules. There are layers upon layers, and at each one there are managers, regulators, and executives – which means costs and salaries that dwarf those of any other country. We created such a complex system simply because we could: we had the money to waste, and it’s easier to waste money than think things through. One particularly shocking statistic is that according to the World Health Organization, so-called “healthy life expectancy” is about the same in China as in the U.S.\nWhen money is there for the taking, it’s no surprise that money’s originators end up with the most. Our finance industry – banks, credit card companies, private equity firms, insurance companies, hedge funds, wealth management companies, etc. – accounts for about 25 percent of U.S. corporate profits. This compares to an estimated less than 10 percent globally. Even more striking, the money taken home by participants in the financial industry here amounts to nearly 10 percent of GDP.\nWhat does the country as a whole gain from all the money lavished on its financial sector? Little if anything. Nano trading, in which computers make countless trades every second, is an egregious example. It benefits the well-paid traders carrying it out, leaving everyone else as bag holders. As for all those fancy complex financial product offerings – well, you saw the results in 2008.\nThe vast amount of money funneled to money’s originators explains why income inequality is greater here than in any other developed country. Such inequality feeds right back into the failings of our health system: life expectancies and one’s place on the income ladder are directly correlated throughout the world.\nToday, some 45 years after we ditched what some have termed a “barbarous relic,” we could be on the verge of becoming a barbarous civilization. The dollar’s days as the world’s reserve currency are numbered.\nCatastrophic For The Dollar\nEither anger stemming from middle-class poverty will boil over, conceivably making it politically expedient to dissolve debt and leading to massive deflation. Or, more likely, resource scarcities will set off a major scramble that will lead to high inflation. Both could be catastrophic for the dollar.\nWe have our work cut out for us. Going right along with the ability to create instant money has been an abdication of any long-term perspective. This shows up alarmingly in how increasingly dependent the U.S. is becoming on other countries for essential resources. Every year for at least the past 20, more and more resources show up on the USGS list of those for which we import more than 50 percent of our needs. These are the resources, ranging from rare earths to silver to copper, needed for our computers, for electric cars, and for a future. And we don’t have nearly enough of them.\nThe RoadIn the U.S., computers have gone mainly to indulging our growing appetite for instant gratification. China, by contrast, uses computers – and it’s now building faster ones than ours – to secure its long-term future. They’re long-term planners. We used to be – and our only hope is that we will find our way back to being so again.\nA vivid example of the difference between instant gratification and saving for the future can be found in the commodity trading pits. When the Chinese trade gold, they are trading physical gold, which is withdrawn from vaults. When we trade gold, we are trading “IOUs” and “You owe me’s.” Taking delivery of the real stuff almost never happens. Indeed, as much physical gold is delivered in a single week in China as is delivered during an entire year in the U.S.\nIn other words, with us, trading gold is a form of gambling. We want the immediate rush of winning. In China, the idea is to accumulate a long-term asset at a reasonable price.\nChina Is Stockpiling\nWhatever China’s near-term growth rate today, which we are so fixated on, their imports of oil, iron ore, copper, and virtually all other minerals they don’t produce, continue to grow rapidly and beyond their current needs. They are stockpiling for the future.\nYet how many news stories have you seen on those massive imports? It’s a good bet that this article is the first one you’ve seen. Going along with this, China is hoarding everything of value that it produces, from gold to silver to rare earths.\nThe only way to allocate scarce goods is with another scarce good that is trusted. Gold fits that bill above all.\nI can’t change our immediate fate but I can tell you this country risks going the way of Jack Whittaker. The only way to avoid such a fate is to make sure you have what so few Americans have – that metal that made the era between 1946 and 1971 so great, gold.”\n***KWN has now released the extraordinary audio interview with legendary short seller Bill Fleckenstein, where he discusses the short-term and big picture in the gold, silver, mining, and global markets, and you can access it by CLICKING HERE OR ON THE IMAGE BELOW.\n***To hear about the gold and silver markets, listen to the jaw-dropping audio interview with Michael Belkin, the man who advises the most prominent sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, hedge funds, and institutional funds in the world discussing the historic run in the gold & silver markets, what to expect next for gold, silver and the shares and much more by CLICKING HERE OR ON THE IMAGE BELOW.\nWhistleblower Andrew Maguire Exposed 14 Days Ago ‘Vampire Squid’ Goldman Sachs Was Moving In For The Kill. Maguire Now Says Admission By Goldman’s Currie Is A Big Deal\nALERT: Gerald Celente Just Released The Top 10 Trends For 2017 And They Will Surprise You\nTERRIFYING: Paul Craig Roberts – We Are Witnessing The Final Enslavement Of Humanity\nFamed Short Seller Warns The Nightmare Outcome Will Occur In The Blink Of An Eye\nGlobal Stock Market Crash Just Getting Started As Fears Of Deflation Spread\nFear & Panic Beginning To Engulf Global Markets","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line725290"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5639207363128662,"wiki_prob":0.4360792636871338,"text":"Politics interferes with chess for Cuban chess players\nNigel Hanrahan\nWednesday, 15th May, 2019, 12:05 AM\nThis one is somewhat chess-related: the Government of Canada, among other things, has eliminated visa processing at the Canadian Embassy in Havana. So Cubans now have to fly to another country to get a visa to come to Canada - say, to play in a chess tournament.\nThere has been a systematic reduction of Canadian (and US) staff at the embassies in Havana over the last year or so. The reason? A mysterious illness - which, at one point, was identified as caused by ... the noise of crickets! - and Canada and the US have used this as an excuse to reduce staff and services.\nIt seems very much as if cause and effect have been reversed; first cut the staff and services, then find a reason to justify the actions.\nI guess that is effectively saying goodbye to all Cuban chess-players in Canadian tournaments - who can afford to travel to another country in the hope that a visa might be granted ?\nugh. Not very friendly by Canada I would say.\nSee Canada Reduces Services for Cubans at its Embassy in Havana\nLast edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Wednesday, 15th May, 2019, 12:08 AM. Reason: link re crickets\nDogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.\nTags: cuba, politics\nVlad Drkulec\nThursday, 16th May, 2019, 01:58 PM\nThese phenomena have severe impacts on the embassy staff. Whether they are a sonic attack or mutant crickets it is prudent to reduce exposure of staff to possible permanent and irreversible disabilities which have occurred in some people. I find it implausible that cricket noises could lead to the observed symptoms.\nIt's disappointing to read such blithe indifference to fair play in sport from the CFC President based on lurid, unproven tales of sonic weapons and such. The whole thing is far more likely some sort of covert US gov operation the purpose of which is to create yet more problems for the heroic people of Cuba by spiteful actions against those who want to visit Canada - for chess or any other purpose.\nOriginally posted by Nigel Hanrahan View Post\nPeople have gone deaf as a result of these situations. It is not a small thing to go deaf and the Canadian government should protect its employees until it establishes exactly what is going on. Presumably, there is a mechanism in place to allow Cuban players to continue to come to Canada. Dealing with governments is always a pain when it comes to individuals who do not come from approved countries being invited to tournaments. I recall that I had to send a photocopy of my birth certificate to allow a Russian GM to attend the Canadian Open in 2016. That same GM had to attend two sessions at a distant Canadian embassy or consulate in a subsequent year for another Canadian Open.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome\nImpact on Canadian Diplomats\nIn March of 2018, MRI scans and other tests taken by a chief neurologist in Pittsburgh, on an unspecified number of Canadian diplomats showed evidence of brain damage that mirrored the injuries some of their United States counterparts had faced. In spring of 2018, Global Affairs Canada ended family postings to Cuba and withdrew all staff with families. Several of the Canadians who were impacted in 2017 were reported to still be unable to resume their work due to the severity of their ailments. The fact that there is presently no knowledge of the cause of the “havana syndrome” has made it challenging for RCMP to investigate. [26]\nIn 2019, the government of Canada announced that it was reducing its embassy staff in Havana after a 14th Canadian diplomat reported symptoms of Havana syndrome in late December 2018.[27] On February 6th, 2019 the federal government of Canada was served with a $28 million dollar lawsuit by five diplomats, on the alleged basis that Ottawa did not promptly address the serious health concerns the Canadian diplomats and their families had faced in Havana over two years ago. The origin of these health concerns are unknown but these ailments manifest as symptoms that are similar to that of a concussion. Presently, none of these allegations have been proven in court. [28]\nhttps://www.thestar.com/politics/fed...deau-says.html\nhttps://www.miamiherald.com/news/nat...225293195.html\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/20...n-cuba-deepens\nhttps://www.scmp.com/news/china/dipl...ms-case-echoes","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line999288"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7451202273368835,"wiki_prob":0.25487977266311646,"text":"Isis Nyong’o\nMedia & Technology Entrepreneur\nTechnology, Moderators and MC's, Culture, Business,\nIsis Nyong’o is a Kenyan American media and technology leader in Africa. She is the founder and CEO of Mums Village- an online community that seeks to provide a safe space for Mothers to seek out advice, support and inspire each other as they embark on this wonderful journey.\nShe is a principal at strategic advisory firm Asphalt & Ink and was previously with InMobi, Google and MTV in Africa. She is a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group.\nShe holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School.\nShe has been named as one of the top 40 women under 40 in Kenya for several years as well as shortlisted on the Forbes Top 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa, on IT News Africa’s Top 10 Women in ICT and Africa’s most powerful women in tech 2013. She serves on the board of the Mango Tree Orphan Trust in Kenya. She was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1313153"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.555205762386322,"wiki_prob":0.444794237613678,"text":"The Patriot Post® · The Cultivated Ignorance of Millennials\nBy Arnold Ahlert · Nov. 16, 2017 · https://patriotpost.us/articles/52456-the-cultivated-ignorance-of-millennials\n“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” —economist Thomas Sowell.\nA poll taken last year by Harvard University revealed that 51% of 18-to-29 year-old Americans opposed capitalism, compared to 42% who supported it. Another poll taken by YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation revealed 44% of Millennials would rather live in a socialist country, versus 42% who would rather live in a capitalist one.\nYet those same Millennials rejected government control of the economy by a 2-1 margin.\nIn other words, many Millennials have no idea what they’re talking about.\nAdam J. MacLeod, associate professor at the Jones School of Law at Faulkner University, believes he knows why such ignorance resonates among younger Americans. “Before I can teach you how to reason, I must first teach you how to rid yourself of unreason,” he explains in a speech given to first-year law students. “For many of you have not yet been educated. You have been dis-educated. To put it bluntly, you have been indoctrinated. Before you learn how to think you must first learn how to stop unthinking.”\nMacLeod was dismayed by the reality that many of his students reflexively labeled the foundational knowledge contained in texts such as Plato’s Crito and the Code of Hammurabi “classist” and “racist,” because they have been taught “to label things with various ‘isms’ which prevent you from understanding claims you find uncomfortable or difficult.”\nSowell puts the blame for this Snowflakery precisely where it belongs. “If our so-called educators cannot be bothered to teach our children knowledge and logic,” he writes, “they can at least refrain from undermining the importance of knowledge and logic by leading students to believe that how you feel and express yourself are what matter.”\nIt’s not going to happen, because undermining knowledge and logic — in pursuit of unassailable power — is the centerpiece of the progressive agenda. And nothing enables that agenda better than legions of younger Americans who remain perpetually offended, because, MacLeod insists, they have “learned to associate truth with your subjective feelings, which are neither true nor false but only yours.”\nThus, while 71% of those same Millennials profess to be champions of free speech, 48% would limit it on social media, and 45% want it limited on college campuses — so no one is offended.\nCollege campuses are the epicenter of the progressive assault on reason and logic, and the University of Texas at San Antonio reveals how organized and dedicated the assaulters have become. The Federalist’s Robert Tracinski chronicles an exchange between bisexual graduate student Alfred MacDonald and UTSA Philosophy Dept. Chairwoman Eve Browning, following MacDonald’s post-class discussion where he noted his sexual identity could get him “killed in ten Muslim countries.”\nGiven that homosexuality is punishable by death in some Muslim nations, the statement is accurate. Nonetheless, he was summoned to a meeting by Browning. Suspicious of her motives, McDonald recorded the conversation and produced a transcript.\nSmart move. Despite his insistence that he was making an observation about religious practices in certain Islamic countries, Browning warned him “that kind of thing is not going to be tolerated in our department.” And if it happened again, he would be referred to a “Behavior Intervention Team,” which could ultimately recommend “that you be academically dismissed.”\nBrowning then said something that makes a complete mockery of anything resembling a course in philosophy: “I would add to that that confrontational interaction with other graduate students is objectionable and unprofessional.”\nNo doubt the Behavior Intervention Team would heartily agree. They have specific guidelines for dealing with “disruptive” students, giving faculty members sole discretion for defining the term. That colleges actually have something called a Behavior Intervention Team, or philosophy departments that insist confrontational interaction is objectionable and unprofessional?\n“There you have it, the predominant culture of the contemporary university: don’t think, don’t argue, don’t try to understand, don’t seek to defend or justify yourself. Just conform,” Tracinski explains.\nNothing breeds ignorance more effectively than conformity.\nThus for example, when Millennial champion Bernie Sanders promotes the notion of a free college education, it resonates among those so economically ignorant that they have no idea the word “free” represents an abject lie specifically tailored to exploit that ignorance.\nThey also remain vulnerable to nonsensical diatribes about class warfare. An article by The Guardian cites a report entitled the “Billionaire Bonanza” that reveals “the three richest people in the US — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett — own as much wealth as the bottom half of the US population, or 160 million people.” Adding a dollop of racialist arson to the mix, the report further notes the top 25 wealthiest people are Caucasian.\nWhat the report omits? That the accumulation of wealth by one person has no relationship to another person’s lack of wealth. Despite what progressives believe, there is no finite amount of wealth. Nor is there a limit on the amount of envy and class warfare progressives will cultivate in the pursuit of power administered by “enlightened” progressives, whose socialist-inspired “benevolence” will transcend the capitalist instincts of their “deplorable” subjects.\n“I’ve seen the failings of modern-day capitalism,” declared Grayson SussmanSquires, an 18-year-old Wesleyan University student who came to New York City last week for a forum called “Capitalism: A Debate.” It was a discussion about whether capitalism should be overthrown. “To him and many of his peers, he said, the notion of well-functioning capitalist order is something recounted only by older people,” Bloomberg News explains. “He was 10 when the financial crisis hit, old to enough to watch his older siblings struggle to get jobs out of college.”\nWhat else were SussmanSquires and his peers old enough to watch during the same timeframe? The disintegration of the Venezuela and the “21st-Century Socialism” championed by the late Hugo Chávez. Socialism that has devolved into an outright dictatorship under current President Nicolas Maduro.\nThus, a nation of 32 million citizens that was once the richest in Latin America, in possession of the largest proven oil reserves in the entire world, now endures life-threatening shortages of food, medicine and other essentials, while the value of its currency, the bolivar, has been so decimated, the International Monetary Fund predicts inflation will hit 650% this year — and a mind-numbing 2,300% in 2018.\nOn Monday, Venezuela also defaulted on its debt payment, which will further exacerbate its humanitarian crisis.\n“Glib demagogues have been the curse of the 20th century and tens of millions of human beings have paid with their lives for the heady visions and clever talk of political egotists,” Sowell warned us 19 years ago. “Yet the danger is not that a particular child will follow in the footsteps of Lenin, Hitler or Mao. The danger is that great numbers of people will never know what it is to know, as distinguished from sounding off.”\nMillennials are sounding off on the glories of socialism, even as a 2016 CBS/New York Times survey found that only 16% of them could accurately define what socialism is.\nThe danger is here.\nSupport the Patriot Fund at https://patriotpost.us/donate","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line66438"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7013435363769531,"wiki_prob":0.2986564636230469,"text":"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them. Scripture Images\n\"You shall make two cherubim of gold, make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. \"Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at its two ends. \"The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat.read more.\nJacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ... Scripture Images\n“Then bring near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood. These are the garments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash. They shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons to serve me as priests. They shall receive gold, blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and fine twined linen. ... Scripture Images\nBeaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men. But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.” Scripture Images\n“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that did not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you. ... Share Your Faith Products Gifts\nYes! We have a heart for busy teachers and those in poor regions of the world. All pictures are free for use in teaching. We provide the pictures and you tell the story, with the Bible as your reference source. Conditions about the reuse of the images in new projects vary with each contributor. Those who donate to this project help share these resources around the world as a gift.\nJacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father. Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more. ... Scripture Image\nPractice hospitality to one another (those of the household of faith). [Be hospitable, be a lover of strangers, with brotherly affection for the unknown guests, the foreigners, the poor, and all others who come your way who are of Christ’s body.] And [in each instance] do it ungrudgingly (cordially and graciously, without complaining but as representing Him). - 1 Peter 4:9 (AMPC) Scripture Images\nAnd it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns. People will come there with bows and arrows because all the land will be briars and thorns. As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample. Christian Art and Gifts\nThe porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold. He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains. Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.read more. Scripture Images\nIt was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces, a man's face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion's face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were carved on all the house all around. From the ground to above the entrance cherubim and palm trees were carved, as well as on the wall of the nave. The doorposts of the nave were square; as for the front of the sanctuary, the appearance of one doorpost was like that of the other. The altar was of wood, three cubits high and its length two cubits; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood And he said to me, \"This is the table that is before the LORD.\" The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door. Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. Also there were carved on them, on the doors of the nave, cherubim and palm trees like those carved on the walls; and there was a threshold of wood on the front of the porch outside. There were latticed windows and palm trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the porch; thus were the side chambers of the house and the thresholds.\nComfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ... Share Your Faith Products Gifts\nTo the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel. His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains of prey. The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands. ... Scripture Images\nThen I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived. And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. ...\nBeing one of the industry leaders for over a decade, we know more about vinyl wall decal than most companies out there. We have learned by trial and error and from amazing feedback from our awesome customers. We are Amazon Professional Sellers, Ebay Power Sellers, and Ebay Top Sellers, and sell through at least 15 other sites online. However, you will typically get our best pricing here at our website plus it is definitely easier to find specific wall arts here than at most sites. Share Your Faith Products Gifts\nTo the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel. His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion. There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah Glorious are you, more majestic than the mountains of prey. The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands. ...\nNow there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more. Share Your Faith Products Gifts\nLikewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ... Scripture Image","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line25401"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5843414664268494,"wiki_prob":0.5843414664268494,"text":"Van Gogh and Japan\nPosted on April 9, 2018 by Alexander Adams\nFor Vincent Van Gogh, Japan was an ideal – a place of light, pleasure and a productive society framed by awe-inspiring nature. Van Gogh had a typically Western view of the Orient, with Japan being a fantasy composition of familiarity with some cultural objects, travellers’ tales and assumptions. So, in many ways, the exhibition Van Gogh and Japan is an examination of the artist’s conceptions about a distant land he never visited and his deep involvement in the art of Japan, as it was understood in France of 1880-90. This review is of the catalogue for the current exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (23 March-24 June 2018; previously Hokkaidō Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, National Museum of Art (Kyoto)).\nAlthough Van Gogh’s knowledge of Japan and its culture was fragmentary, the relationship was important to Van Gogh and influenced the artistic production of his last years. The influence is apparent in the art but there is a degree of uncertainty about how much the artist knew of Japanese art and culture. He perused the stock Parisian print dealers (including Siegfried Bing), bought as much as he could and discussed the art with others. His brother Theo was in the art trade and they frequently discussed the qualities of Japanese prints and tried to build a collection of the art that appealed to them. This was an easy task as Paris was still in the grip of japonisme, the craze for all things Japanese, especially art, clothing and furnishings, so there was much to see in museums, shops and new publications. This was the effect of Japan being opened up to the West in the 1860s. Japan, it seemed to Westerners, was a blend of the primitive and sophisticated – an exotic paradise that was culturally, linguistically and geographically inaccessible.\nVan Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in September 1888, “We wouldn’t be able to study Japanese art, it seems to me, without becoming much happier and more cheerful.” In the West there is the frequent longing for a return to simplicity to combat the effects of industrial production, complex social systems and political sophistication in a participatory democracy. The exotic non-Western society is a fantastic release from the demands and complexities of life. Such views tell us about escapism and discontent in the West, but not anything meaningful about the actual lives of those in the East.\nOften idioms of non-Western cultures are used by to inject a dose of invigorating “primitivism” into Western art (Tahitian culture for Gauguin, West African masks for Picasso, Oceanic art for Surrealism, and so on). While such incorporations are often based on misapprehensions, they sometimes successfully introduce new elements or ideas into Western art. One of the most prominent examples of this is the art of Japan, as viewed by Vincent Van Gogh.\nVan Gogh’s attitudes towards Japanese culture essentially matched the prevailing European view of Japan. In that respect he was conventional. What is distinctive about Van Gogh was how he found a way to express his admiration for an alien culture by incorporating elements of that into the Western art tradition. Certain elements of Japanese woodblock prints appeared in his art: emphatic contours; clearly delineated areas of strong unmixed colour; increased planar flatness as opposed pictorial depth; horizons placed high in compositions; aerial perspective; strong diagonals; cropping and enlargement of foreground elements; absence of chiaroscuro; emphasis on the decorative over the naturalistic description. Van Gogh’s success is not in how noticeable these elements are but in how well – generally – they mesh with the Western tradition within which he worked. The uninformed viewer comparing a late Van Gogh landscape to a traditional Nineteenth Century Dutch landscape will feel the former is powerful and dynamic but – apart from noticing the strong colour and visible brushwork – will not sense how Van Gogh’s art differs. Likewise, it is not clear to the average viewer that the influence is non-Western.\nIncluded in the exhibition are two oval paintings made on wooden panels. The panels are Japanese in manufacture. Photographs show the reverse of the panels, complete with manufacturer’s name.\n[Image: Vincent van Gogh, Three Novels (1887), oil on panel, 31.1 × 48.5 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)]\n[Image: Back of Three Novels, with mention of the firm Kiryū Kōshō Kaisha, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)]\nOne aspect that seems to have passed unremarked is how the two still-life paintings are set on tables and the oval format evokes the shape of a round table viewed obliquely. Van Gogh, who was familiar with classic Dutch painting including illusionistic and trompe l’oeil painting, may possibly have used the unusual format to evoke perspectival distortion. It seems relatively unlikely. There is little in the way of visual wit in Van Gogh’s art. It was not in his outlook.\n[Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry, from an untitled series known as Small Flowers and Birds (c. 1834), from an untitled series known as Small Flowers and Birds (c. 1834), colour woodcut, 25.5 × 17.1 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1925, Photo credit: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY/ Scala, Florence, © 2017]\nIn two double-page spreads, two versions of Portrait of Père Tanguy (both 1887) – which show a supporter of Van Gogh seated beside an array of Japanese woodblock prints – are juxtaposed with illustrations of the prints, allowing us to compare the sources with the transcriptions. The painter made substantial changes to the images but the spirit is carried over. For the artist, his positive feelings regarding his patron were expressed visually in a montage of Japanese art, which he associated with pleasure and exuberance.\nOn three occasions the artist transcribed Japanese prints as oil paintings, tracing the originals for accuracy. (The tracings still exist.)\n[Image: Utagawa Hiroshige, Sudden Evening Shower on the Great Bridge near Atake, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo (1857), colour woodcut, 33.8 × 22.6 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)]\n[Image: Vincent van Gogh, Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) (1887), oil on canvas, 73.3 × 53.8 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)]\nInspired by the slightly wrinkled surface of prints on thin Japanese paper – called crépons by the French, after the uneven surfaces of pancakes – Van Gogh began to produce paintings with textured surfaces. The regular impasto brushstrokes formed a crinkled appearance. He adapted his drawing technique to imitate Japanese masters, by using blends of blue and black ink and working with reed pens. He adopted a stenographic style of drawing: creating areas of pattern by making rapid repeated (simple) marks. Thus with dashes, dots, circles and so forth, he could describe discrete areas of grass, foliage, roadway or sky in ways that had distinct vibrancy and density. These marks are clear enough to be legible but small enough to generate an overall impression. One could almost describe the vibrancy of the areas as “colour”. (Compare to Bonnard’s style of drawing, which took Van Gogh’s approach one step further by using differing weights of touch.)\nThe catalogue includes fascinating glimpses of Van Gogh’s enchantment – and possible late disenchantment – with Japanese art, including contact with two Western artists (Louis Dumoulin and Edmund Walpole Brooke) who had visited Japan. It seems Van Gogh was interested to hear first-hand testimony about life in the Far East or was assessing the practicality of actually visiting Japan. One essay examines the Van Gogh brothers’ collection of Japanese prints. The number of Japanese prints that entered the Van Gogh Museum in 1973 was 482. Originally there were at least 660 prints but some were disposed of by the brothers. Vincent bought 660 prints by early 1888, though apparently he never paid the full price due. The artist had initially thought of exhibiting and selling on the prints but had little success in the one display he arranged. His admiration was genuine and daily acquaintance with his stock influenced his art. His collection included a wide range of subjects – except for warrior and war scenes and erotic prints – and items varied in quality and condition. It notably excludes Hokusai, whose prints were more highly priced than those by other by other printmakers. Chris Uhlenbeck concludes that “Van Gogh quickly formed the collection, within his own limited means, based on aesthetic considerations such as outspoken colour, striking compositional elements in landscapes or sumptuously clad beauties in kimonos. The collection, together with other Japanese art that the artist may have encountered in Paris, provided a new, exotic aesthetic that profoundly influenced Van Gogh’s own artistic voice.”\nThe catalogue includes a chronology covering Van Gogh’s links to Japanese art and covers some works only tangential to the subject, which gives the publication a satisfying breadth of scope. The reproductions are crisp and largely accurate. For anyone interested in understanding key stylistic aspects of Van Gogh’s art, this catalogue will become essential.\nLouis van Tiborgh, Nienke Bakker, Cornelia Homburg, Tsukasa Kōdera & Chris Uhlenbeck, Van Gogh and Japan, Van Gogh Museum, 2018, paperback, 240pp, 200 col. illus., €29.95, French & Dutch versions available, ISBN 978 9 462 302204\nPosted in exhibition catalogue, fine art, painting, post-impressionism, UncategorizedTagged art culture Dutch Hiroshige Hokusai Japanese woodblock prints japonisme primitivism transcription van gogh museum amsterdam Vincent Van Gogh\n← Hate-speech laws help only the powerful\nCollectors without Remorse: Dominique and John de Menil →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1627041"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7186197638511658,"wiki_prob":0.7186197638511658,"text":"Heather Small\nKnown to many as The Voice of M People, Heather Small is a quintessentially British institution. With hits such as 'Moving On Up', 'One Night In Heaven' and 'Search For The Hero', M People achieved major worldwide success, with Heather becoming one of the seminal British voices of the 1990s. The band went on to win the Best British Dance Act Award at the Brits in 1994 and 1995.\nSince M People, Heather has had further successes with two solo albums – the title track of her 'Proud' album has gone on to become the soundtrack to a whole host of very special events including London's 2012 Olympic bid, the 60th anniversary of VE Day in Trafalgar Square, the 2005 Tsunami Relief Concert and England's victory at the Rugby World Cup celebrations. Heather's infectious personality and her trademark sense of humour has always earned her respect and public affection. She has appeared on a number of TV news and chat shows including Paul O'Grady, GMTV, BBC Breakfast, and Newsnight, as well as special appearances on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Strictly Come Dancing.\nMost recently, she has completed several highly successful full tours of the UK to sell-out crowds – twice in 2009, and again 2016. This is also not to forget her critically acclaimed side-project 'Here Come The Girls' tour, teaming up with singing sensations Anastacia and Lulu and touring arenas across the UK and Ireland in winter 2010.\nSo what gives Heather the impetus to keep moving forward, to keep challenging herself, to keep trying new things and not resting on her laurels? 'If you got the feeling I do when I sing' she smiles, 'you'd understand'.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line141712"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6618770956993103,"wiki_prob":0.3381229043006897,"text":"About\tzeusfilms\t2017-02-21T11:40:36+00:00\n“I consider myself a ’boutique’ service provider. By only filming one event per day, I pride myself in offering a personalised service to each and every client.\nI’ve been a full time cameraman for the last 20 years. Having started a career in broadcast television, working for the BBC and independent networks, I embarked on my own career in covering private functions.\nWith my experience in covering weddings from all cultures and faiths, I’m able to adapt to the event and capture the most intricate details of the day.\nQuality and attention to details are second nature to me. I believe in discretion and quiet professionalism on the day and pride myself in capturing natural images to give a true representation of your wedding day.”\nAndy Louca\nCameraman / editor","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line468209"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6420621275901794,"wiki_prob":0.6420621275901794,"text":"Looking ahead for WhatsApp\nToday, we’re updating WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years, as part of our plans to test ways for people to communicate with businesses in the months ahead. The updated documents also reflect that we’ve joined Facebook and that we've recently rolled out many new features, like end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp Calling, and messaging tools like WhatsApp for web and desktop. You can read the full documents here. We’re notifying everyone on the latest supported versions of our app about these updates, and you’ll be asked to tap ‘Agree’ to accept the updated terms.\nPeople use our app every day to keep in touch with the friends and loved ones who matter to them, and this isn't changing. But as we announced earlier this year, we want to explore ways for you to communicate with businesses that matter to you too, while still giving you an experience without third-party banner ads and spam. Whether it's hearing from your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction, or getting notified by an airline about a delayed flight, many of us get this information elsewhere, including in text messages and phone calls. We want to test these features in the next several months, but need to update our terms and privacy policy to do so.\nWe're also updating these documents to make clear that we've rolled out end-to-end encryption. When you and the people you message are using the latest version of WhatsApp, your messages are encrypted by default, which means you're the only people who can read them. Even as we coordinate more with Facebook in the months ahead, your encrypted messages stay private and no one else can read them. Not WhatsApp, not Facebook, nor anyone else. We won’t post or share your WhatsApp number with others, including on Facebook, and we still won't sell, share, or give your phone number to advertisers.\nBut by coordinating more with Facebook, we'll be able to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp. And by connecting your phone number with Facebook's systems, Facebook can offer better friend suggestions and show you more relevant ads if you have an account with them. For example, you might see an ad from a company you already work with, rather than one from someone you've never heard of. You can learn more, including how to control the use of your data, here.\nOur belief in the value of private communications is unshakeable, and we remain committed to giving you the fastest, simplest, and most reliable experience on WhatsApp. As always, we look forward to your feedback and thank you for using WhatsApp.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line950102"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5012028217315674,"wiki_prob":0.5012028217315674,"text":"Ferries to Vancouver Island\nVancouver Island sits immediately off Canada’s Pacific coast with Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, nestling in the southern tip.\nIt is a haven for exciting wildlife and is the nation’s culture and arts hub. It also has the mildest climate in Canada, boasting warm summers and winter temperatures usually above 0°C.\nWhilst in Victoria, be sure to visit the Robert Bateman Centre, which features around 160 stunning pieces by the country’s most popular nature painter.\nWalk through Point Ellis House and Gardens for a taste of what 1860s Canada was like for the social elite. It houses over 5,000 fascinating artefacts and a range of family photos of those who once lived there. On a sunny day, you can relax in the colourful gardens with tea and fresh-baked scones.\nChildren will love the Victoria Bug Zoo. They’ll learn all about various Canadian critters and can take pictures with remarkable insects such as the dragon-headed cricket and three-horned scarab beetle.\nThe capital has excellent cycling routes too. Rent a bike and visit as many of the English-style quirky shops and independent coffee bars as you can. Or stop off at Bastion Square, which was once a Victorian fort but is now a centre for excellent restaurants and boutiques.\nThe Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park, just off Vancouver Island's southeast coast, offers 22km of well-developed hiking trails and is an ideal destination for families. Here you can sit around a campfire whilst cooking the salmon you caught just hours before. Or you can spend your afternoon spotting the local wildlife, which includes grey whales, orcas, the Vancouver Island black bear as well as over 200 bird species.\nThe fastest and most frequent ferry route to Vancouver Island is from Seattle in the United States to Victoria, which usually takes under three hours.\nThere are also less frequent crossings from Campbell Island, Swindle Island and Prince Rupert, further up the coast. These routes all dock in Port Hardy on the north coast.\n7 Sailings Weekly 3 hr 30 min\nRoutes and Ports in Vancouver Island\nCanada to Vancouver Island\nVancouver to Victoria Ferry\n7 Sailings Weekly\nFor more information, please visit our Ferries from Canada to Vancouver Island page.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1639860"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5506245493888855,"wiki_prob":0.5506245493888855,"text":"Review of Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012)\nAbraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (2012) is a historical horror/action film, that is produced by The Asylum, a film studio specializing in mockbusters.\nDirected by Richard Schenkman (The Man from Earth (2007), The Pompatus of Love (1995)).\nWritten by Karl T. Hirsch (Green (1998), Clown (2005)), J. Lauren Proctor and Richard Schenkman (Flower Girl (2009), Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God… Be Back by Five (1998)).\nStarring: Bill Oberst Jr., Kent Ingleheart, Jason Vail, Debra Crittended, Bernie Ask, Canon Kuipers, Chris Hlozek, Richard Schenkman and others.\nIs there really any better way to learn about American history than from a movie that depicts a dead president killing zombies.\nBill Oberst Jr., who is playing Lincoln is really good. The performance would fit just as well in a serious movie. Spielberg’s Lincoln could have him playing the lead role. It wouldn’t be as acclaimed as Daniel Day-Lewis, who is loved by everyone, but he could do it.\nIt is almost sad that a great performance like this is wasted on a silly B-movie. But I suppose in some oscar-bait piece we wouldn’t get Abe driving his scythe into the skull of a zombie, while yelling „Emancipate this!”.\nFor the budget the production value is pretty good. You can tell it’s cheap, but it tries to have a style. Which is more than most The Asylum movies have going for them.\nThe dialogue is also some of the best I’ve heard in an Asylum movie. Sadly, some/most of the actors aren’t really able to deliver it convincingly.\nLincoln gathers a group of people to go and… well, fight zombies, I guess. In this group of people there is a black guy named Mr. Brown. Obviously. The plot is kind of confusing, I don’t know if I must have some previous knowledge of American history, but I seriously doubt that the problem lays there.\nAs usually Asylum uses CGI in their movies and here we get some CG blood and it is kind of sad that even in a B-movie today, we have to watch the shitty looking CG blood spurting about, since it used one of the main attractions of B-grade cinema that we got to see some realistic practical effects. I guess it’s easier to put in some cartoon violence afterwards. But judging by the really unconvincing fake facial hair on everybody, I doubt there was a great potential for any special effects artistry.\nThis is probably the best Asylum movie I’ve seen and not even in the so-bad-it’s-good category, more in the low-budget-we-did-what-we-could pretty competent B-flick. It would be unfair to compare it to Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, the blockbuster this is mockbusting.\nOverall, I enjoyed the movie quite a bit. Of course it’s not a good movie, but as far as The Asylum goes, this was one of the best ones they can offer.\n“I feel like going to theater! You’re coming with me John ‘not Wilkes Booth’ Wilkinson!”\nTags: 2012, Action, B-movie, Horror, Movies, Reviews, The Asylum, Zombie\nReview of ATM (2012)\nATM (2012) is a horror/thriller/mystery film, which mostly takes place in an ATM booth on a parking lot.\nDirected by David Brooks (Gone (2009 Short)).\nWritten by Chris Sparling (Buried (2010), An Uzi at the Alamo (2005)).\nStarring: Brian Geraghty, Josh Peck, Alice Eve, Aaron Hughes and others.\nSo we’re following this guy, who works as some kind of bank-cubicle-call-answer person. His really douchebaggy co-worker convinces him to come to this office christmas party. He comes to the party and offers a ride home to some chick that he really likes. But the douchy cock-blocker of a friend tags along, because he was his ride too.\nThe douchebag is played by Josh Peck, who was the fat kid on that shitty kids show Drake & Josh. He has lost some weight, but still speaks like he’s 15, which gets annoying pretty damn soon. The fatty MacDouche wants to eat so they stop to get some cash from an ATM. Voila! The title. I imagine that’s how this movie got made, they picked a genre, someone said ATM, someone had seen Frozen recently and we’re done. Thankfully, Josh & Drake’s acting gets better as the movie goes on.\nFrom the ATM booth they see someone waiting for them outside. They decide to wait him out, but after the guy beats the shit out of some random guy, they become somewhat unnerved. That’s the whole concept. They’re stuck in an ATM booth, with no heat in the winter, while a killer is standing right outside.\nAt one point they think the guy has gone away, but you know that’s not true since it’s only halfway into the movie. The movie is pretty fast-paced, which is good, because if a movie like this drags it really drags, because we have this half-baked concept set in one location. The whole movie is basically a build-up of who the killer is and what he wants, so the ending is what either makes it or breaks it.\nAnd, guess what, the ending breaks it. The deal with the ending is that the whole movie there’s just questions and so you’d want to have most of them answered, the movie does answer some, but even those are so incredibly implausible, that except for the reasoning behind why the killer didn’t enter the booth, it makes like no sense, unless the killer has the ability to calculate exactly how ineffective technology is.\nOverall, the premise and build-up is pretty decent and I was mostly entertained throughout, but the whole conclusion and pay-off is completely idiotic. If you like some cheap thrills, give it a try, but you’re better off staying away. Not Recommended.\n“Hey guys, am I the only one that thinks this is a great porno setup?”\n“Yes, Emily, you’re the only one.”\nTags: 2012, Horror, Movies, Reviews, Thriller\nReview of The Expendables 2 (2012)\nThe Expendables 2 (2012) is an ensemble action/adventure/…action film, a sequel to The Expendables.\nDirected by Simon West (Con Air (1997), The Mechanic (2011)).\nWritten by Richard Wenk (16 Blocks (2006), Vamp (1986)), Sylvester Stallone (F.I.S.T (1978), The Expendables (2010)) and others.\nStarring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Jet Li, Liam Hemsworth, Nan Yu and others.\nThis is a movie made specifically for me. When I was growing up, most of these guys were my idols. They were my favourite actors, not because they were good actors, but because they’re bulging muscles and sweaty, snarling faces made me believe in superheroes, people, who could machine gun entire hordes of bad guys down, while standing in plain sight and not take one bullet. And then face off with the main baddie, who was really bad and after killing him, spit out some cheesy one-liner. I looked up to them, I felt protected by them. We approached the 2000’s and soon these guys went away. I was left with action stars, that looked like male models.\nI couldn’t be the only person who felt disappointed. Sure, I like good acting now, but seeing Arnie jam an enormous drill into a guy, while screaming “SCREW YOU!” was something that I missed seeing in movies. And I really wasn’t the only person. When I was a kid, I would have never imagined a movie like this possible, but two years back, Stallone answered my childhood prayers and made The Expendables. If you think I could ever have enough of this you’re insane. So did I like The Expendables 2? Of course, I did.\nI mean, it is NOT a good movie. The dialogue is bad, the one-liners stupid, acting silly, plot simple, action over-the-top and so on. But, this also describes most of the action movies with these guys that I loved. This is what I wanted and this is what I got. There’s no use in describing the plot, there’s nothing really specific about it, mostly coming down to Expendables shooting people and blowing shit up.\nThe best parts were the call-backs and references and self-aware humor. Willis and Arnold are in the movie a lot more as well, even Chuck Norris, who has maybe the smallest part does get more than one appearance. Jet Li is in the movie only for the first action scene, though and Rourke doesn’t appear at all. My favourite was definitely Dolph Lundgren, who is more of the comic-relief character here, which is interesting, since I think I liked him the most in the first one as well, when he played an asshole. They added some younger/newer faces, like Nan Yu and Liam Hemsworth, but in all the testosterone provided by the rest of the cast they got lost and forgettable.\nThe action is insane, but pretty well choreographed and mostly practical effects, except for additional CG gore and the more complex effects scenes. The movie opens with an action scene that is just crazy violent and over-the-top. Stallone takes down a helicopter by “driving” a bike into it. And the movie rarely slows down after that. There’s not much to say about it, except that you should know what to expect going into it.\nOverall, more funny and entertaining than the first one, if you want no holds barred, balls to the wall action with some real gory mayhem and puns, if you grew up with 80’s action hero movies, definitely recommended.\nPictured: Irony, as the one who is supposedly the most bad-ass of them all, is the only one who looks and sounds like some maintenance guy.\nTags: 2012, Action, Adventure, Movies, Reviews, Sequel, Sylvester Stallone\nReview of The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)\nThe Amazing Spider-Man (2012) is an action/sci-fi/drama film, based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, rebooting the film franchise.\nDirected by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer (2009), Lone Star (2010 TV)).\nWritten by James Vanderbilt (Darkness Falls (2003), Zodiac (2007)), Alvin Sargent (Gambit (1966), Unfaithful (2002)), Steve Kloves (Racing with the Moon (1984), Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)).\nStarring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Denis Leary, Martin Sheen, Rhys Ifan, Sally Field, Irrfan Khan, C. Thomas Howell and others.\nMy first introduction to Spider-Man was through the animated series, probably when I was around six. I loved him, the series itself wasn’t as good as X-Men and not that great overall, but I loved it. Then the Sam Raimi movies came along and I sort of liked them, but that wasn’t it, I didn’t love the guy himself, I was carried by my affection for the character, but this doughy-faced, bulky, man-child bearing the name of Tobey Maguire wasn’t him. So for about 15 years I’ve been waiting for a movie to re-ignite my love for him. Turns out I was waiting for this movie.\nI did somewhat enjoy the Raimi ones, especially the second one, but at the same time I found them too cheesy and, at times, making me cringe. However, I’ve never wanted The Dark Spider or something overly realistic and “gritty”, I just wanted to care about characters and not caricatures. Also for something as campy as Raimi’s Spider-Man adaptations, they were basically humorless. Watching this I genuinely smiled and laughed.\nOh, Andrew Garfield is just brilliant. He is Spider-Man, he’s got the right kind of build, athletic, but lean, agile, but physically awkward. I believe he’s actually really intelligent (mechanical Web-Shooters FTW), he’s adorably twitchy in conversations, nerdy, but not a wimp. And when he cries you don’t feel uncomfortable, but feel with him. Watching Maguire cry, I forgot if I was watching Spider-Man or The Elephant Man.\nThe relationship between him and Gwen Stacy is really good too, it’s sort of a teeny romance, but Marc Webb knows how to not make it too cliché and also Stacy learns early that Peter is Spider-Man and it’s nice that he has a confidant. Emma Stone being one of the cutest young actresses out there right now also helps a great deal. Other supporting actors do a great job too. Rhys Ifan is cool, Denis Leary is bad-ass and Martin Sheen really makes you care about the Uncle Ben character and his fate is really impactful.\nI’m not a fan of 3D and even though it was still unnecessary, I liked it in this movie. The action scenes mostly, because the shots are incredible, it really feels like a person is doing all the crazy shit Spidey does. The swooping over the city is spectacular, I actually felt immersed in the space of the movie sometimes. The downside is that, the dramatic scenes have basically no 3D effect whatsoever, I mostly just lifted my 3D glasses and there was no layering blur or anything.\nThe special effects are pretty solid, there’s an awful looking, mutated CG lab-rat, but, thankfully, that’s only a few seconds. Then there’s the big thing of The Lizard. It didn’t look great, but it wasn’t bad either, it was very middle ground. I could accept it, because he did walk around in a lab coat for a bit, that was all I was asking for.\nOverall, not flawless, but a great superhero movie, definitely in my top 3 Marvel movies (if not my favourite), it made me laugh, it made me teary-eyed, it made me want to run around and pretend to be Spidey, it made me 10 years old again. I thank you for that, movie. If you like superhero movies, definitely recommended.\n“I’m melting!”\nTags: 2012, 3D, Action, Based on comic books, Comedy, Drama, Movies, Rated PG-13, Reviews, Sci-Fi\nReview of The Avengers (2012)\nThe Avengers (2012) is an action/sci-fi/adventure film, which is based on Marvel Comics’ superhero team of the same name and several previous movies featuring its members.\nDirected by Joss Whedon (Serenity (2005), Firefly (2002 TV)).\nWritten by Joss Whedon (The Cabin in the Woods (2011), Toy Story (1995)) and Zak Penn (The Incredible Hulk (2008), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)).\nStarring: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Tom Hiddleston, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and others.\nThis is the movie, that it’s all been leading up to. Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America together in one movie? Sounds epic? Yes, it does! Does the movie live up to all the hype? Maybe? Not really? I don’t know.\nI’m really lost on all of it so I’ll just run through the characters.\nBlack Widow – although they tried to make her do some cool stuff, she still felt like the lamest member of The Avengers, I mean, being a spy is cool and all, but she has no powers, except looking hot. In one scene Johansson attempted to speak Russian, I’ve heard worse in movies, but if her character is Russian, she should be able to speak better, that’s just a nitpick though.\nHawkeye – not much to say about him, at first he just shoots arrows while under Loki’s control and later he shoots arrows and… well, there’s not much else to his character, but Renner does well in the role.\nLoki – the villain. Hiddleston really impressed me, I thought he was ok in Thor, but here he was just great, not overly serious, just a very stubborn, arrogant jerk, at first I thought it’s not the greatest villain choice, but Hiddleston made it enjoyable.\nNick Fury – Well, it’s Samuel L. Jackson, in other words, he’s a stick with two ends, you can’t go wrong, but you can’t do anything new and interesting either.\nThor – He’s kind of whatever, I’ve never cared for his character, even after his movie, the only difference was that I could accept him as a serious character.\nCaptain America – Chris Evans is ok, his costume helmet looks a bit stupid, but it’s not a big deal, the waking up in a world where everyone you knew is dead and everything is different is an interesting aspect of his character, but only vaguely explored.\nIron Man – he is still sort of funny, but I’m getting tired of Downey Jr.’s shtick, his fast talking asshole genius routine is getting tiresome for me.\nHulk – I was surprised, but he was totally the best part of the movie. Mark Ruffalo was good as Banner and the Hulk was awesome. He looked as good as a green CG gorilla can look and was used correctly. There’s one beautifully hilarious moment, where Hulk goes against Loki.\nThe story itself is basically: bad guy has MacGuffin, good guys need it, with some ulterior motives and dire consequences thrown in. Most of the entertainment comes out of Hulk smashing and personalities clashing. It is cool that the team doesn’t really get along. That is until they get something to… (clue: the title).\nThe 3D is shit, it’s incredibly pointless. It was ok in the last half-hour, in the climactic action scene, which was going on at daytime New York, but the first half of the movie, takes place mostly during the night or in dark places, so it sucks. If I had watched it in 2D, I’d probably enjoy it a lot more.\nOverall, it’s a fun, entertaining, lighthearted movie, it walks the line between providing fan service and fun for the common movie goer, who cares if it also loses something in both departments at the same time. Recommended for everyone who enjoys some superhero action and doesn’t mind heavy CG.\n“Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking superheroes on this motherfucking plane! ”\nTags: 2012, Action, Adventure, Based on comic books, Captain America, chris hemsworth, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Hulk, Iron Man, Joss Whedon, Marvel, Movies, Rated PG-13, Reviews, robert downey jr, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Thor\nReview of The Hunger Games (2012)\nThe Hunger Games (2012) is an action/drama/sci-fi film based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins.\nDirected by Gary Ross (Pleasantville (1998), Seabiscuit (2003)).\nWritten by Gary Ross (Big (1988), Dave (1993)), Billy Ray (The Shooter (1995), State of Play (2009)) and Suzanne Collins (Clarissa Explains It All (1991 TV), The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996 TV)) .\nStarring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Liam Hemsworth, Wes Bentley, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz and others.\nSo here is the movie, the marketing tried to tell us is going to be the next Twilight. And that is a fucking insult. Except for its target demographic, there’s nothing these two have in common. Twilight is a characterless romance with a gimmick and The Hunger Games is a cool action drama for young people. Another comparison that is often brought up is Battle Royale and some other similar films, but the survival reality TV wasn’t a new concept even when Battle Royale was made. Why didn’t we draw the line after The Running Man or even earlier Death Race 2000, in an age of constant idea recycling, this is not a serious offense.\nAnd now even more than ever this satire of reality television makes sense. During the contest we get all the staples of modern reality TV, forced romances, very antagonistic characters, fake obstacles created by the producers, sleazy hosts and so on.\nIt’s also very stylistic movie and I think this could get an Oscar nomination for production design. It is abundant with weird anime inspired/Neo-Victorian outfits for the upper class members of the society and some early 20th century common plain clothes for the working class.\nJennifer Lawrence, who I think is one of the most promising new actresses, doesn’t disappoint here and is solid as Katniss, who volunteers for the game show, after her sister is chosen and thank god, because her sister was a total wimp, she would’ve been dead in 5 minutes. Most of the other contestants are either not given enough screen time to do much (would have loved to see more of Isabelle Fuhrman) or they are just ok.\nThe adult characters, however, are very fun to watch. Woody Harrelson, is a winner of the games, who now is a drunk mentor for the District 12 contestants and he’s just amazingly entertaining. Also here he looks like an older Josh Holloway. Elizabeth Banks I didn’t even recognize under a heavy layer of make-up that looks like taken straight off of Helena Bonham Carter in Alice In Wonderland. She also acts appropriately over-the-top. As does Stanley Tucci being the overacting host with blue hair, who really knows how to milk the contestants for the right emotions, both from them and audience. Seems like the director told all the adult main actors to turn their eccentricity up to eleven. Lenny Kravitz went the other way though and just put on some golden eye-liner. Donald Sutherland does what he does best, plays a cold bastard.\nThe main negative point was the way it was shot. At the start of the movie we get some very shaky handheld shots of static things and I didn’t suspect that it was getting me ready for some of the later way more extreme shaking. In order to get the PG-13 rating they decided to keep some of the violence in, but make it totally incoherent. Seriously, after a couple of minutes of seeing stuff that looked like it was shot handheld by Michael J. Fox trying to stand while wearing roller skates, where the wheels are replaced by rotating vibrators, I thought it’s going to be the first time I’ll get motion sickness from a movie.\nOverall, a good movie, I liked it and could recommend basically to anyone.\nPictured: Jennifer Lawrence interviewed by Meryl Streep on the set of The Iron Lady.\nTags: 2012, Action, Adventure, Based on literature, Drama, Movies, Rated PG-13, Reviews, Romance, Sci-Fi, Set in future, stanley tucci, Survival\nReview of Project X (2012)\nProject X (2012) is a comedy/something/nothing film, which is filmed in the popular “found footage” style.\nDirected by Nima Nourizadeh, who prior to this has worked as a music video director.\nWritten by Matt Drake (Tully (2000)) and Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), 21 Jump Street (2012)).\nStarring: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Brady Hender, Nick Nervies and others.\nI really don’t know what to say about this movie, I had fun, but on the other hand it’s not a good movie. And I don’t mean it in a so-bad-it’s-good way.\nFirst of all the technical aspect. It was only a matter of time before they would start making found footage movies in other genres. But the problem here is that it is a total gimmick. The camera man is intentionally a non-interactive character. The whole point of handing the camera to a character is that we are presented a subjective view of the events, but here since the character doesn’t show any attitude and the other characters treat him as just a camera, it becomes pointless to use this trick. There are points where other characters use Flip cameras or other handheld cameras and they actually serve a purpose and I really don’t see why that couldn’t just be inserted into a traditionally filmed movie. I didn’t for a second feel the illusion of this being an actual „found footage”. I’d call it MTV’s found footage, where you get crystal clear sound in the midst of a thousand people party and music cuts off immediately after something sudden happens and has various party-dance montages (not surprising given the director).\nIt is marketed as „Superbad on crack”, which is true in the sense that the three main characters are the same ones from Superbad, they also want to get chicks and all, but here they lose sight of any sense of morality or responsibility.\nAfter it all the main characters remark, that it was the most epic party ever and they think it was worth it. No, it wasn’t. Although the consequences of this party are just thrown in there, like an afterthought. At the end of the movie the main character has destroyed his future and bankrupted his parents in one night. What does he get out of this? He gets the girl. He gets the girl, who has been his friend since childhood and he could’ve gotten her at any point anyway. I have no sympathy for him.\nI just don’t like people who are so afraid to be different, that they would do anything to fit in. Ok, maybe I don’t understand it, because I have never been the kid others make fun of, I have never tried to pretend to be someone I’m not to fit in and so on, but trust me, being an interesting person gets you better friends than a huge party.\nI felt sorry for the guys parents, but then again the father was a total douchebag. At the beginning of the movie he calls his son a loser and in the end is a bit proud of him. Well, if you think that your son becoming a successful, normal person is worth less than him throwing a huge party, banging chicks and whatever, then fuck you, you deserve it all.\nI don’t want to go in all the details of what is wrong with this movie, but just know that this was really an epic party, with some hilarious moments of a midget punching balls and various finger-banging techniques explained, so if you just switch you’re brain off for the duration of it, you might enjoy it.\nOverall, I had fun watching it, it’s a spectacle alright, but although I laughed at most of the jokes, I also felt depressed because it might be one of the most juvenile movies I’ve ever seen. If you like sex-comedies, recommended, if not, don’t bother. Project X is like some really hardcore porn, you watch it and think “oh, yeah, that’s awesome!”, but if it really came (no pun intended) to it, you’d be like “nah, I’ll pass”.\n\"I seem to have wondered into the wrong movie. Could've sworn it said \"Project X\" on the door.\"\nTags: 2012, Adventure, Comedy, Found footage, Movies, Rated R, Reviews","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1530962"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9384808540344238,"wiki_prob":0.9384808540344238,"text":"Home News Elections Durham Endorsements Spring 2006\nDurham Endorsements Spring 2006\nElection Day is May 2\nPhoto by Derek Anderson\nSandy Ogburn is our choice for House District 29\nDolores Paylor is our choice for District 1 on the Durham School Board\nHouse District 29: Democratic Primary\nThe only contested legislative race in Durham is the House District 29 Democratic Primary. The seat is open because state Rep. Paul Miller opted not to run for his fourth term in office. His retirement comes as a welcome move to some who decried his poor attendance and absentee voting record. A more committed representative could strengthen the Durham delegation to the legislature and help seek the state funds so necessary to support education, healthcare and a new district court judge, as well as advocate for reform in mental healthcare, campaign financing and the tax code.\nA crowded field of five candidates is running for the seat: Sandy Ogburn, a former Durham city councilwoman; Larry D. Hall, a lawyer and former chair of the N.C. Black Leadership Caucus; Mary D. Jacobs, a former city councilwoman and county commissioner; Angela V. Langley, a former city councilwoman; and T. Brock Winslow, chair of the Board of Trustees at N.C. School of Science and Mathematics. Barring a mass write-in, resignation or other fluke of the electoral process, the winner of this Democratic primary in this strongly Democratic district will go on to hold the House seat, provided he or she wins at least 40 percent of the vote. A smaller margin of victory would ensure a May 30 runoff between the top two candidates.\nWe endorse Sandy Ogburn, whose experience on the Durham City Council demonstrates her effectiveness at implementing progressive policy. A Philadelphia native who moved to Durham 32 years ago, Ogburn, 60, got involved in politics working with the Morehead Hill neighborhood association. Neighborhood advocacy eventually led to an interest in city politics. When she was elected to city council in 1987, she soon became a strong proponent of smarter zoning laws and transportation planning. Her leadership on the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization, the regional organization responsible for transportation planning in the western part of the Triangle, helped secure state funds for local transportation projects.\nIn the House, Ogburn promises to push for a sales tax referendum to fund the TTA's regional rail project. She also advocates fully and permanently funding the State Energy Office to encourage alternative energy use, and raising teacher salaries.\nLarry D. Hall is a 50-year-old lawyer who is active in the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People and the N.C. Black Leadership Caucus. Through the caucus, he pushed for increased minority contracting, abolition of the death penalty, equality in education funding, universal healthcare, and a ban on payday lending. In office, he promises to establish a standard of transparency to maintain integrity and accountability. He wants to look for alternate funding for TTA's rail plan and increase funding to the N.C. Housing Trust Fund to promote more home ownership opportunities. Hall has progressive ideas, but lacks the record of elected service that could be used to evaluate his effectiveness.\nMary D. Jacobs worked for Durham County for 29 years before she retired and ran for the city council in 1997. In that race, she won more votes than any other candidate. In her time on the council, she pushed for a living wage for the employees of city contractors, but also was one of the council's most pro-development members. When she ran for county commissioner in 2002, she again won more votes than any other candidate, but failed to distinguish herself as a progressive force. She served one term and did not seek reelection.\nT. Brock Winslow worked on Gov. Jim Hunt's reelection campaign and served as the executive director of the state Democratic Party from 1993 to 1996. He believes that the friends he made in those positions would be useful allies if he makes it to the House. He supports the funding of more district court judges and assistant district attorneys to make Durham's courtrooms more efficient.\nAngela V. Langley was elected to the city council in 1996 and served one term.\nDurham School Board\nFor years, the Durham school board has been a contentious political theater that sometimes provided more drama than substantive policy debate. Most of the tension revolves around race, with board members often voting 4-3 along racial lines. Some trace the tension back to the way voting districts were drawn after the city and county school systems merged in 1993. But more recently the flashpoint has been Durham schools Superintendent Ann Denlinger. The school board hired her in a 4-3 vote split along racial lines. In Denlinger's tenure, she led Durham's students to earn higher test scores. But as the public face of the school system, she struggled to win the support of many parents, teachers, administrators and board members, black folks especially.\nLet's hope that the appointment of Carl Harris to replace Denlinger, who steps down this year, will be a move in the right direction. With unanimous support from the board, Harris, an African American, could usher the board in a new, more cooperative direction. The three contested school board elections could also herald the coming of more civil board relations (Stephen A. Martin is running unopposed in District 4). The elections on May 2 will determine the board.\nEveryone will be watching this race in a majority black district. Incumbent Jacqueline D. Wagstaff has long been a divisive force on the board. Her actions in the meetings often lack decorum, professionalism and respect. She represents an important part of the Durham community--the disaffected, mostly poor, mostly black voters who feel that the school system is failing them. Anyone who sees the tragic correlation between sub-par education and crime, imprisonment and unproductive lives can begin to understand their outrage. But Wagstaff has failed to channel that outrage into productive policy-making for the citizens that need her most. That may be one reason why, when she ran for mayor last year, she received only 545 votes.\nDolores Davis Paylor, 48, works as a team leader on the State Board of Education's assistance teams, which work to turn around failing schools. That kind of experience will only be helpful with implementing Judge Howard Manning's recommendations from his Leandro case ruling, which required that the state ensure a sound basic education for every North Carolina child. Paylor has been a principal in the Chapel-Hill Carrboro, Wake and Durham school systems. She's African American, and while she lacks Wagstaff's stature in the black community, she stands a better chance of fighting for their needs.\nOmega Curtis Parker was a librarian for almost 40 years before she retired, and she still works as a substitute teacher in Durham's schools. She's a reasonable candidate with a good reputation and probably wouldn't contribute to the board's contentiousness in the way that Wagstaff does, but Parker lacks Paylor's expertise.\nIncumbent Regina George-Bowden has represented this majority black district for eight years. But she has not been effective. The Rev. Fredrick A. Davis, 50, a respected black preacher and activist, would be a good alternative. His priorities are vocational education, equity in student disciplinary action and seeking greater diversity in student and staff populations.\nD.J. Waldow, 30, a young, relative newcomer to Durham, works as a software salesman, but taught social studies before moving to town. He shows enthusiasm but lacks the strong community ties and depth of experience and knowledge needed to make a real impact on the board.\nSchool board chairwoman Gail Heath's decision not to run for reelection in this majority white district has opened up the position to two highly qualified candidates. Kirsten Kainz, who is 38 and white, has a Ph.D. in education from UNC. She directs research on school improvement and is an articulate school reformer. Phillip W. Graham, who is 40 and black, also has a UNC doctoral degree in public health. His current research focuses on adolescent behavior with special emphasis on violence and substance abuse prevention and evaluation. Both candidates would bring great expertise to the school board. And both understand the problems that have beset the board and the need to move in a more productive and cooperative direction. It's a difficult decision, but we endorse Phillip W. Graham. As a black candidate running in a majority white district for a seat that has traditionally been held by a white board member, his election could flip the racial balance on the board. We don't believe that race should be the determining factor in an election, but a black majority working closely with new Superintendent Carl Harris could go a long way toward easing relations on the board. A majority black board representing the majority black school system could help gain parents' trust.\nEditor's Note: Independent Weekly president and board chair Steve Schewel is not generally involved in making the newspaper's endorsements. In the case of the Durham school board, he and the Independent's editorial staff particularly agreed that he would distance himself from the endorsement process due to his membership on the school board. Schewel was involved in recruiting Kirsten Kainz to run for the vacant District 3 seat on the board and remains her strong supporter. He did not participate in making these school board endorsements.\nThe terrible allegations against Duke University's lacrosse team have thrown the district attorney's race into the national spotlight, but when Durham voters go to the polls on May 2 for the Democratic primary, they can vote based on years of local prosecutorial experience, not just the recent handling of one case. Incumbent Mike Nifong faces two challengers: former assistant district attorney Freda Black and defense lawyer Keith A. Bishop. No Republicans filed for the race. Any candidate who takes 40 percent of the vote would become Durham's next district attorney. We endorse Nifong.\nNifong, 55, has spent his entire professional career in the Durham D.A.'s office. He took over as district attorney last year when Jim Hardin was appointed to a Superior Court judgeship. Over the years, he has approached his job in a hardworking and professional manner. Colleagues and legal opponents alike laud his sense of fairness and justice. His colleagues also assert that he manages a supportive work environment where attorneys against the death penalty aren't forced to try capital murder cases.\nFreda Black was an assistant district attorney in Durham for 14 years. Her role in the prosecution and conviction of novelist Michael Peterson catapulted her into celebrity status. But she has been accused of unethical behavior: her boyfriend escaped punishment for domestic violence in 2004, and more recently she has had to answer allegations that Jerry Clayton, Black's current boss and a backer of her campaign, tried to intimidate attorneys in the DA's office.\nIn the race for Durham County Sheriff, we endorse incumbent Worth L. Hill over challengers Joe W. Bowser and Tony Butler. Hill, 70, is seeking his fourth term in office. Under Hill, the department has managed an increasing jail population, implemented community policing programs, and sought out grants that have eased the financial burden of the county. Bowser, 50, who has no law enforcement experience, served on the board of county commissioners for two terms and is the former president of the Durham NAACP. Butler works with disabled students at John Umstead Hospital in Butner. He worked for 11 years as a state trooper and two as a Guilford County Deputy.\nDistrict Court Judge, District 14\nSeven judges are vying for two contested seats in the nonpartisan District Court judgeship elections. In one race, Judge Richard Chaney's impending retirement opens his seat to four candidates: family law attorney Nancy E. Gordon, 51; Assistant Public Defender Shannon Tucker, 40; Anita L. Smith, general practice attorney; and Brian C. Wilks, 34, attorney in the N.C. Department of Justice. Gordon and Wilks are both strong candidates, but Nancy E. Gordon, whose family law expertise is highly regarded across the state, wins our endorsement. Her mastery of the complexities of family law make up for her relative lack of criminal experience.\nIn the second race, incumbent Judge Ann McKown, 56, faces Tracy Hicks Barley, 44, and Robert (Naughty) Nauseef, 40. McKown is a hard worker on the bench and takes pride in her decisions. And her work outside the courtroom is exemplary; she started a school-based intervention program called Truancy Court and other programs that help battered women and rape victims. But there's a strong sentiment among many courthouse insiders that her slow decision-making impedes progress in the courts--and that she should be replaced. The fact that her colleagues on the bench rule more quickly shows that speedy decisions are possible. Tracy Hicks Barley, a 44-year-old private practice attorney, would make a fine addition to the bench. Her commitment to juvenile justice will add insight to Durham's gang problems. And her experience is well-rounded enough for her to be comfortable in any district court. Nauseef is a defense attorney at the Clayton, Myrick, McClanahan & Coulter Law Firm.\nIssue: 2006-04-19 elections Our Endorsements","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line220706"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.970811665058136,"wiki_prob":0.970811665058136,"text":"Skip image thumbnails\nScriabin: Complete Preludes\nDmitri Alexeev (piano)\nIn this third instalment in his survey of Scriabin’s complete piano works, Alexeev’s temperamental affinity once again comes paired with sovereign command of colours and intonations (in the Russian... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…\nRelease Date: 7th Dec 2018\nCatalogue No: 95651BR\nLabel: Brilliant Classics\nHi-Res FLAC(lossless, 44.1 kHz, 24 bit) $18.50\nScriabin: 2 Pieces for the left hand, Op. 9\nNo. 2. Prelude\nNo. 1. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor\nScriabin: Preludes (24), Op. 11\nNo. 1 in C Major\nNo. 2 in A Minor\nNo. 3 in G Major\nShow 21 remaining tracks for Scriabin: Preludes (24), Op. 11\nNo. 6 in B Minor\nNo. 7 in A Major\nNo. 8 in F-Sharp Minor\nNo. 10 in C-Sharp Minor\nNo. 11 in B Major\nNo. 12 in G-Sharp Minor\nNo. 13 in G-Flat Major\nNo. 14 in E-Flat Minor\nNo. 15 in D-Flat Major\nNo. 16 in B-Flat Minor\nNo. 17 in A-Flat Major\nNo. 18 in F Minor\nNo. 19 in E-Flat Major\nNo. 20 in C Minor\nNo. 23 in F Major\nNo. 24 in D Minor\nHide 21 tracks for Scriabin: Preludes (24), Op. 11\nScriabin: Preludes (6), Op. 13\nNo. 1 in C Major: Maestoso\nNo. 2 in A Minor: Allegro\nNo. 3 in G Major: Andante\nNo. 4 in E Minor: Allegro\nNo. 5 in D Major: Allegro\nNo. 6 in B Minor: Presto\nNo. 5 in C-Sharp Minor\nNo. 1 in B Major\nNo. 2 in G-Sharp Minor\nNo. 3 in G-Flat Major\nNo. 4 in E-Flat Minor\nNo. 5 in F-Sharp Minorr\nNo. 3 in D-Flat Major\nShow 4 remaining tracks for Scriabin: Preludes (7), Op. 17\nNo. 4 in B-Flat Major\nNo. 7 in G Minor\nHide 4 tracks for Scriabin: Preludes (7), Op. 17\nNo. 1 in D-Flat Major: Andante\nNo. 2 in F-Sharp Minor: Con stravaganza\nNo. 3 in E-Flat Major: Presto\nNo. 4 in A-Flat Major: Lento\nShow 12 remaining works on this recording\nNo. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Vagamente\nNo. 4 in A-Flat Major: Ardito, bellicoso\nNo. 1 in B-Flat Minor: Mesto\nNo. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Maestoso, fiero\nNo. 3 in B Major: Andante\nNo. 4 in G Minor: Irato impetuoso\nNo. 1 in F-Sharp Major: Allegro\nNo. 2 in D Major: Elevato\nNo. 3 in G Major: Languido\nNo. 4 in A-Flat Major\nExcerpt, Scriabin: 3 Pieces Op. 45\nNo. 3. Prelude in E-Flat Major\nNo. 1 in F-Sharp Major: Impetuoso fiero\nNo. 2 in C Major: Poetico con delizio\nNo. 3 in D-Flat Major: Capricciosamente affannato\nNo. 4 in C Major: Festivamente\nScriabin: 3 Pieces for Piano, Op. 49\n3 Pieces, Op. 49: 3 Pieces, Op. 49: No. 2. Prelude in F Major\nExcerpt, Scriabin: Four Pieces, Op. 51\nNo. 2. Prelude in A Minor\nScriabin: Quatre Morceaux Op. 56\nNo. 1. Andante\nNo. 2. Presto\nNo. 1. Douloureux dechirant\nNo. 2. Tres lent, contemplatif\nNo. 3. Allegro drammatico\nNo. 4. Lent, vague, indecis\nNo. 5. Fier belliqueux\nHide 12 works on this recording\nThe Complete Preludes constitutes another captivating milestone in Dmitri Alexeev’s ongoing project to record Scriabin’s entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, a cycle that already includes the complete Piano Sonatas (2-CD 94388) and Complete Études (94439).\nThe 90 preludes composed by Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) span the entirety of the three periods into which his musical career is usually divided. His fastidious habit of indicating the date and location of compositions allows us to trace groups of roughly contemporary pieces. Consequently, it can be seen that around half of the preludes fall into the ‘first period’ (1888–1900), in which the composer’s music was heavily influenced by Frédéric Chopin’s work.\nScriabin’s music evolved over the course of his life, and in 1900, he completed the 2 Preludes Op.27. These compositions exorcised the spirit of Chopin which had hovered over their predecessors, therefore marking the end of the so-called ‘first period’. Whilst more harmonically adventurous, his ‘middle period’ works still mostly adhere to traditional functional tonality.\nIn the third period (1910–14) Scriabin composed his final works, the Preludes Op.74. Stable tonality and key signature disappear completely. However, Scriabin’s interest in symmetrical patterning is highly evident. They raise the tantalising question of where Scriabin might have taken 20th-century music had he not tragically died the following year.\nRussian pianist Dmitri Alexeev is one of the world’s most highly regarded artists. His critically acclaimed recitals on the world’s leading concert stages and concerto appearances with the most prestigious orchestras have secured his position as one of ‘the most remarkable pianists of the day’ (Daily Telegraph).\nRecorded July 2017, London\nContains liner notes on the composer and works and the musician’s biography\nIn this third instalment in his survey of Scriabin’s complete piano works, Alexeev’s temperamental affinity once again comes paired with sovereign command of colours and intonations (in the Russian sense of musical eloquence). Giving the music its due quota of caprice and volatility, he never deviates into aggression or superficiality, conveying instead an overall impression of humane dignity and a powerful sense of journey.\n“Dmitri Alexeev’s Scriabin cycle goes from strength to strength. I was impressed by his set of Études and now I have been completely blown away by this new set of the preludes. Alexeev seems the complete Scriabin pianist: he not only has the superb technique which is a necessity in these often very demanding pieces, he also knows how to shape them, how to clarify the complex textures with subtle voicing of the complex harmonies. His pedalling is fastidious, and he resists the temptation to drown the pieces in a wash of sound.\nScriabin, Alexander Nikolayevich (1872-1915)\nScriabin: Nocturne in D flat major Op. 9 No. 2\nScriabin: Prelude, Op. 9 No. 1 in C sharp minor for the left hand\nScriabin: 3 Pieces Op. 45\nScriabin: Four Pieces, Op. 51\nAlexeev, Dmitri","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line836531"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9129657745361328,"wiki_prob":0.9129657745361328,"text":"Sam Smith Got A Huge Surprise On Carpool Karaoke\nBy Ryan Aliapoulios\nIf you’ve watched any late night television at all recently, you’re likely already familiar with James Corden and Carpool Karaoke.\nFor those who don’t know, Corden is the host of the popular The Late Late Show. Unlike other late night talk shows, Corden differentiates himself by having a more casual, chatty environment where the guests sit next to each other and are sometimes even asked to do spontaneous performances in front of a live audience. Still, what Corden deserves the most credit for is for building his show up via the internet.\nAnd that’s because of all his various segments and set pieces, Carpool Karaoke has proved enormously successful.\nIn each of these pieces, Corden films in his car as he drives through Los Angeles with a celebrity of the show’s choosing.\nOver the years, Corden has had guests on the show including Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, Celine Dion, Adele and Stevie Wonder in his passenger seat.\nStill, in all of those performances, he’s never had English singer-songwriter and neo-soul performer Sam Smith—until now! As the clip begins, Smith and Corden exchange a hug and a few simple greetings with one another.\nBefore long, it’s time to start singing Smith’s hits.\nUp first is Smith’s huge hit song, “Too Good At Goodbyes.”\nAs fans of Smith’s know, his voice is incredible—and this is no different. While Smith is definitely the star of the show, Corden does a great job of keeping up with him! After the first song is over, they chat for a little longer before they start into another song. The second one up is “Lay Me Down,” the lead single from Smith’s debut album.\nOnce again, Smith’s voice soars with ease and proves why he’s become so successful.\nAlthough Smith is once again taking the lead here, Corden does an awesome vocalization with him throughout as well!\nAfter they sing together, Smith tells Corden that he’s actually one of the first people to ever bring his music to a wider platform of people. When Smith’s first single was coming out, he was still working at a bar when Corden shared it on Twitter with a bunch of his followers—and shortly thereafter, the song blew up!\nCorden is taken by surprise and says he didn’t even know that, but that he knew he’d be listening to Smith for the rest of his life the first time he heard his voice.\nAt this, Smith starts to tear up a little bit.\nAfter a few more songs and a little bit more chatter, the conversation turns to pop group Fifth Harmony.\nJust upon hearing their name, Smith is nearly beside himself. He explains that he loves “Work From Home” nearly every day and never gets tired of it. Smith then says that he would love it if Fifth Harmony could perform at his wedding one day—meanwhile, Corden is cracking up in the driver’s seat. Eventually, Corden suggests that they should sing along to “Work From Home” just for fun.\nStill, after a moment Corden stops the song and pulls the car over.\nAfter a minute, he makes a phone call and says the “Work From Home” performance could be even better.\nOnly a second later, Corden has Fifth Harmony in the backseat of the car! Needless to say, Smith had no idea it was going to happen.\nWith everyone assembled, they start the song again—and the harmonizing gets out of control! Of all of these performances, we don’t know if we’ve ever seen the performers have as much fun as they do at the end of this one. Regardless, the entire segment is worth watching and Smith is a great guest.\nCongratulations to Corden for pulling off the big surprise! Check out the full video below:\nSources: Wikipedia, YouTube/The Late Late Show with James Corden\nRyan Aliapoulios\nRyan Aliapoulios is a contributing writer at Shareably based out of Los Angeles. Find him on Twitter @rollyops.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line377012"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9915726780891418,"wiki_prob":0.9915726780891418,"text":"R&B singer\nCelebrity DJ Set\nCopyright © Slice PR\nCraig emerged in late 1999 and early 2000 on the UK soul and R&B scene. His first success was as the smooth, soulful voice on Artful Dodger's 'Re-rewind When The Crowd Say Bo Selecta' that reached number 2 in the UK Top 40 and spent a total of 13 weeks on the chart.\nAt the age of 14, David was MCing on a local pirate radio station as well as at nearby clubs before moving into DJing, playing mainly garage. It was while involved in this scene that he met Mark Hill of Artful Dodger, also from Southampton. David's career was boosted when he won a national songwriting competition. The prize was to co-compose the b-side of 'Wonderful Tonight', a UK number 3 hit in 1997 for R&B stars Damage.\nGiven only the music, he put the finishing touches to 'I'm Ready'. Now travelling to London at the weekends to record in the studio, his first track was a cover of the R&B-tinged US number 1 'Human' by the Human League. It was his collaboration with Mark Hill 'What Ya Gonna Do' that gave David his first club hit and the track that eventually became 'Re-rewind'. Released on the Public Demand label, it became an underground hit and this led to appearances around the country.\nRising interest in the vocalist led to a deal with the Telstar/Capital Radio joint venture, Wildstar Records in August 1999. His first single for them, the infectious 'Fill Me In' received substantial national radio airplay and rose to the UK's number 1 spot in April 2000. David repeated the feat in August with '7 Days', and completed a memorable year by winning three MOBO awards two months later.\nHe was named best UK newcomer and best R&B act, and 'Fill Me In' was voted best UK single. During the following twelve months he began to make an impact across the Atlantic, culminating in '7 Days' breaking into the US Top 10 in February 2002.\nTo book Craig David, please submit an online enquiry, send us an email or speak with one of our friendly booking agents on +44 (0)1372 361 004.\nTags for Craig David\n90s Musician\nAlan Hudson\nBeverley Knight MBE","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line36984"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8912701606750488,"wiki_prob":0.8912701606750488,"text":"Sporting Scene\nDealing With Olympic Failure\nBy Reeves Wiedeman\nReeves Wiedeman on dealing with Olympic failure, and on athletes and protest. Photograph by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty.\nThe London Olympics will feature ten thousand five hundred athletes, give or take a few rhythmic gymnasts, but it’s possible that none are more compelling than American air-rifle shooter Matt Emmons. At the 2004 Games, Emmons competed in the three-position event, in which participants shoot from their stomachs, knees, and feet at a target fifty metres away. Going into his final shot, Emmons was in first place and needed only a mediocre score for gold. Instead, he shot at the wrong target, one lane over, and got no score at all. He finished eighth. Four years later, in Beijing, Emmons again had a large lead on the final shot: he needed a score of 6.7 in a sport where anything below 8.0 is amateurish. Each time Emmons shoots, he aims above the target, lets his sight fall into the bull’s-eye, then pulls the trigger. This time, his finger slipped and he fired early, scoring a 4.4. Emmons called the shot a “freak of nature.” He finished fourth.\nRunning down the list of twenty-six sports in London, none requires less athleticism, as we typically define it, than the shooting events. (Archery demands at least one muscular arm.) Yet there is no sport that requires more mental precision. Rifle shooters are trained to fire between heartbeats. Medals are won by millimetres. It’s a sport whose top competitors are expected to be so accurate that we have a hard time believing that they could actually miss. In the first Olympiad, in 1896, the American Sumner Paine used a Colt revolver to win one gold and one silver in the pistol competition. Five years later, arriving home to find his wife in a state of undress with his daughter’s music teacher, Paine pulled out his gun and fired four shots at the fleeing teacher. None hit their mark. Paine was arrested for assault but quickly released. Had he wanted to, the police figured, Paine could have nicked off the man’s fingernails one by one then put a bullet through his heart. He had shown restraint.\nIn the intervening century, competitive gun technology has only gotten more sophisticated. (This year’s modern pentathlon, which combines running, horseback riding, swimming, fencing, and shooting, will feature laser guns rather than air guns.) As such, the expectations for an élite athletes’ precision have only increased. “I did my pre-shot routine and I remember—as I’m looking through my sights, settling from twelve o’clock down into the bull’s-eye—I got this calm feeling. ‘We got this, we trained for this,’ ” Emmons told the BBC, trying to explain his lapse. “And as I’m doing this, I put my finger on my trigger. And I twitched. Just a little.” (A representative from U.S.A. Shooting declined an interview request from The New Yorker on Emmons’s behalf, saying he was in full prep mode for the Olympics.)\nMissing by “just a little” is all it takes. What is it like to give in to nerves at a crucial moment? Is there any way to prevent it? “I’ve seen him called Wrong-Way Emmons or Cross-Fire Matt,” says Bill Cole, a sports psychologist who has worked with a number of Olympic athletes. “Every time he gives a press conference the media bring it up again, and at some level he relives the agony. Top that off with the fear of leaving a legacy as ‘The guy who failed three times when he had the medal within an inch of his hand,’ and you have some real pressure to contend with.” Cole says that after his experiences at the Olympics, Emmons might suffer from what he calls “failure syndrome,” a sort of post-traumatic stress disorder for athletes. He suggests three possible solutions:\nDefine failure on your own terms. Did you fail or was it a “learning situation”?\nExtract all the wisdom from the situation and then never bring it up again.\nTurn lemons into lemonade. Find something humorous about it and refer to the situation that way.\nSumner Paine had a more specific strategy. During competition, when the tension got tightest, he took hits from a flask of whiskey.\nEmmons’s Olympic record isn’t defined entirely by failure. He’s won medals in two other events, and there was even an benefit to his blunders: he met his wife, a fellow-shooter, when she came over to console him at a bar after his 2004 flub. He is back in London, and will be competing in the three-position event. If he's fortunate enough to reach the final shot in gold-medal position yet again, how will he react? He is widely regarded as the best shooter in the world, yet twice in a moment of great pressure his skill and form have abandoned him. “I’ve been asked a ton of times about those situations,” Emmons said. “And it hurt a lot at the time—something you work so hard for, and then it doesn’t pan out. And then people are asking me, ‘Well, why didn’t it work out?’ Well, it’s kind of a tough thing.” Emmons has spent time with a sports psychologist, but there doesn’t seem to be much of a concrete solution in that response. Anyone have a flask?\nEmmons and his wife, Katerina, at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Photograph by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty.\nReeves Wiedeman is a writer living in New York.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line122457"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9216635227203369,"wiki_prob":0.9216635227203369,"text":"The Still Point\nSackville, Amy\nAt the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood.\nA hundred years later, on a sweltering mid-summer's day, Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings and memories from that ill-fated expedition, and taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance.\nThe Still Point slaloms through past, present, and future, with dreams revealing a universal simultaneity to the choices we must all make in the faces of love and passion. Long-listed for the Orange Prize, The Still Point is a powerful literary debut, masterfully told in the language of the heart.\nPublisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, c2010.\nBranch Call Number: FIC SACKVIL\nCharacteristics: 307 p. : map ; 24 cm.\nRead more reviews of The Still Point at iDreamBooks.com\nTold over one day, this story is of both the heroine's ancestors a century ago and of her marriage today. Julie's great-great uncle was an Arctic explorer and she is archiving his letters, diaries and possessions in his house, in which she and her husband now live. The novel is restrained and dreamlike. Sackville has been compared with a young Rachel Cusk and a young Virginia Wolff. I liked this book.\nExplorers — Fiction.\nExplorers' Spouses — Fiction.\nMarried People — Fiction.\nFamily Secrets — Fiction.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line609382"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.613885760307312,"wiki_prob":0.613885760307312,"text":"This 40,000-Year-Old Cave Painting Of A Cow Is The World’s Oldest Animal Drawing\nBy Caroline Redmond\nUpdated December 6, 2018\nSome experts believe that the animal painting and others found in the cave are some of the earliest examples of the formation of human culture itself.\nLuc-Henri FageThe trio of cows in a piece of cave art dating back at least 40,000 years.\nA team of researchers in Indonesia has come across record-breaking ancient artwork that is revealing new things about one of humanity’s oldest cultures.\nArchaeologists found the earliest known painting of an animal in the remote mountains of the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The bovine painting covers a wall inside a cave named Lubang Jeriji Saléh.\nThe artwork, depicting a trio of cows, dates back 40,000 years, making it the oldest known figurative painting — one in which real-life objects are shown rather than primitive abstract shapes.\n“It’s clearly like someone decided to depict what they saw, like an animal or like another human,” Maxime Aubert, an archaeologist and author of the study published in Nature, told NPR. “And they made that, they did that on purpose.”\nPindi SetiawanThe mountains of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo where the caves are located.\nDr. Aubert and his team tested the calcium carbonate deposits surrounding the image using dating techniques which allowed them to discover the painting’s age.\nThe artwork depicts three cows total, with the largest of them spanning more than seven feet wide, according to National Geographic. In the painting, one of the cows appears to have a spear piercing its flank and they are a part of a series of similar paintings found in the cave that were made using a red-orange, iron-oxide pigment.\nThis piece of cow artwork might be the oldest figurative painting that the researchers found but it is far from the only painting on the cave walls. The system of caves nestled inside the rugged mountains is a treasure trove of ancient artwork, according to the BBC.\nKinez RizaMulberry-colored painted handprint outlines that cover a portion of the cave walls in Borneo.\nThe team also found a series of paintings in the second phase of the cave’s artworks, which dates back to somewhere between 16,000 and 21,000 years ago. These paintings were made using a purple-colored paint and show what the researchers believe are depictions of humans.\nThese artistic depictions of animals, handprints, and humans join a growing list of examples of artwork that show a shift in how early humans saw their surroundings and how they expressed it through their art.\n“It looks like there was a transition from depicting the animal world to [depicting] the human world. And it’s interesting because I think we have the same thing in Europe,” Dr. Aubert told the BBC.\nPindi Setiawan/NaturePaintings of human figures in Borneo that could be around 20,000 years old.\nThe switch from ancient artwork being abstract to being figurative is hugely important in the history of human culture. According to National Geographic, these cave paintings could represent some of the first examples of what we can call human culture.\nAs April Nowell, a Paleolithic archaeologist at the University of Victoria, told National Geographic, “I think for a lot of us, that’s a true expression of human-ness in the broadest sense of that word.”\nThe cow cave art is a remarkable find and when you think about what the painting represents in regards to human culture as we know it, the discovery only becomes more groundbreaking.\nNext, see perhaps the world’s oldest smiley face, found on an ancient Turkish jug. Then, behold Gobekli Tepe, the oldest known temple on Earth.\nCaroline Redmond\nCaroline is a writer and Florida-transplant currently living in New York City.\nOklahoma Zookeeper And Gubernatorial Candidate Accused Of Killing 5 Tigers And Selling Their Cubs\n11 Of History's Most Famous Suicides, From Artists To Politicians","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1665574"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9845999479293823,"wiki_prob":0.9845999479293823,"text":"Baldwin interim coach as McElwain goes to Florida\nFILE - In this Sept. 27, 2014, file photo, Colorado State head coach Jim McElwain talks in his headset during the first quarter of an NCAA college football game against Boston College in Boston. A person familiar with the search says Florida has hired McE\nStephan Savoia, File\nThere were the 10 wins and an appearance in the Top 25. Oh, and that $7 million, too.\nHard to say Colorado State lost even though the coach who orchestrated the dramatic turnaround is bailing on the Rams after three years to take over at Florida.\nJim McElwain may have used the Rams as a stepping stone to a more high-profile coaching gig with the Gators, but he left the team in great shape - and with a financial windfall.\nAs part of the buyout agreement, the Rams will receive $7 million, including $5 million in cash and $2 million to play a football game in Gainesville, Florida, down the road. His buyout clause was for $7.5 million.\nOffensive coordinator Dave Baldwin will step in as interim coach for the team's upcoming bowl game as the school begins a national search.\n''CSU athletics has benefited from the three-year association with Jim McElwain,'' President Tony Frank said in a statement.\nAn emotional McElwain met with his team one final time Thursday in the auditorium where he's gone over many a game plan. There was a roar from inside the room.\nIn his time in Fort Collins, Colorado, McElwain restored the luster to a program that had gone 3-9 in three straight seasons before his arrival. The Rams won 10 regular-season games this season for just the fourth time in school history.\n''As a university we have to be happy for him. He came in and he helped us out,'' said tailback Dee Hart, a graduate transfer from Alabama who arrived on campus over the summer because of his relationship with McElwain. ''He put us back to where Colorado State wanted to be at.''\nAnd now it's back to the business of football. There's an undetermined bowl game to prepare for under Baldwin, who called the plays for a high-powered offense that averaged 36 points a game this season behind senior quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate Garrett Grayson.\nBaldwin may receive strong consideration for the position should the Rams prefer continuity. He came on board with McElwain and has head coaching experience, with San Jose State from 1997-2000.\nThere are plenty of big-name candidates out there, too, like recently fired Michigan coach Brady Hoke, who knows the Mountain West given his past ties with San Diego State.\nHere's an intriguing possibility: Once again courting an Alabama offensive coordinator. This time, Lane Kiffin, the former USC coach who has roots with the Rams after serving as the team's offensive line assistant coach in 1999.\nHiring an Alabama coach certainly worked out well the first time, when McElwain was lured to Fort Collins from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He served as offensive coordinator for Nick Saban and helped the Tide capture two national titles.\nWhen he was hired, McElwain was billed as an offensive mastermind who could lift the Rams from their doldrums, even if it was his first head coaching position. The team went 4-8 in his first season and then 8-6 in 2013, which included a win over Washington State in the New Mexico Bowl.\nThis season, the Rams (10-2) flourished as Grayson took another step in his development under McElwain.\nGrayson had quite a few explosive weapons, like Hart and sophomore receiver Rashard Higgins, who leads the nation in yards receiving (1,640) and TDs (17).\n''The sky is the limit (for the offense),'' Grayson recently said. ''We are a very talented group.''\nMcElwain turned the town into big football backers again, with the parking lot at Hughes Stadium usually filled on Saturdays, much like it was when Sonny Lubick was in charge.\nThe success also helped push forward the agenda for a new stadium, with Frank even recommending last week that the school build a new sports stadium on campus instead of renovating the existing football arena.\nFormer Colorado State tailback Kapri Bibbs was sorry to see McElwain go.\n''I think Colorado State probably just lost one of the great coaches to coach this game,'' said Bibbs, who's now with the Denver Broncos. ''This new coach, if he can try to implement what Coach Mac had in place, I think they'll have another successful season.''\nColorado State put a positive spin on losing a coach who has turned around a downtrodden program, saying in a release that it was receiving the largest-ever buyout. The school said the amount it recouped had eclipsed the $4.3 million that Texas paid to Louisville to hire away coach Charlie Strong.\nThere's no timetable to find McElwain's replacement. But there's plenty of interest.\n''I would say I have been contacted by 40 to 50 candidates. Impressive ones. It is staggering,'' interim athletic director John Morris said.\nAP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton and AP freelance writer Dale Bublitz contributed.\nlane kiffin\ngarrett grayson\ndee hart\nkapri bibbs","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1657779"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.513919472694397,"wiki_prob":0.513919472694397,"text":"Scott Lankton was born in Midland, Michigan in 1956. He attended Ohio State and received his B.F.A. from Western Michigan University in 1978. He opened his own studio in 1979. In 1985 he went to Aachen, Germany and received his Diploma at The International Teaching Center for Metal Design where he apprenticed under his late Master, Manfred Bredohl.\nToday he works as a studio artist mostly doing architectural commissions in steel and bronze such as stair railings, gates, furniture, kitchen racks, swords, and sculpture. Recent projects include 180 feet of dogwood motif railing in steel and bronze, forging handguns into artwork, and a large hanging sculpture for a cancer center.\nIn 1989 the British Museum commissioned him to replicate the complex pattern welded sword from the famous Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (dated near 600 A.D.) This sword is now permanently displayed in London alongside the original. His writings on this helped others to explore creating complex composite blades. See elsewhere on this site for details.\nHe has taught at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Peter’s Valley Craft Center in New Jersey, Appalachian Center for Crafts, Smithville, TN, and Tillers International, Kalamazoo, MI. He has lead many workshops and demonstrated and lectured at national and international conferences such as ABANA, Ferro 2000, and Ferro 2005 in Germany and in Stia, Italy.\nHe was President, Vice President, and Financial Chair of ABANA, the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America. He served on their Board of Directors for nine years.\nAccording to Lankton, “the spontaneity of forging hot steel continues to delight me as does the strength and integrity of this medium. I am fascinated by the duality of beauty and danger that that life combines and I hope that through my work, the lives of others will be made a bit more beautiful.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line728852"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6237460374832153,"wiki_prob":0.37625396251678467,"text":"News, Physical Security\nArtificial Intelligence in Security Discussed at SIA GovSummit Panel\nThe SIA GovSummit panel discussed the potential and implications of artificial intelligence in security solutions in both the private and public sectors.\nJuly 19, 2018 Zach Winn Leave a Comment\nA panel discussion on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the security industry focused on current and future applications of the technology at the Security Industry Association (SIA) GovSummit, held here June 26-27.\nPanelists agreed that current AI technologies have the potential to vastly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of current security operations.\n“Previously standalone technologies are coming together in ways we have never seen before,” Todd Veazie of Kiernan Group Holdings said in his opening remarks. “These machines now see as we see and hear how we hear, allowing cameras and microphones to automate many tasks. These systems’ recognition abilities allow for new inferences about the nature of the environment and the choices we make to operate in it.”\nEven amid that optimism, members of the panel wanted to cut through the hype surrounding AI technologies. Adam Ayotte-Savino, senior manager of organizational effectiveness at ASIS Int’l, described the solutions being used today as “data-centric systems that are able to process large amounts of information to detect patterns and irregularities.”\nThe straightforward definition proved to be a useful anchor as the panelists discussed the dizzying capabilities such systems can offer end users.\nAI Opportunities in Security\nDavid Sousa of the Federal Protective Service, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), explained AI’s immediate role in the security industry by describing a situation familiar to anyone who’s been in an emergency operations center.\nWith AI and machine learning, Sousa explained software can be combined with integrated audio and video analytics systems to make monitoring operations vastly more efficient.“[Organizations] have dozens of systems, each with multiple sensors,” Sousa said. “A security manager is tasked with interpreting all of that data flowing in. Right now that’s one unlucky guy.”\n“These systems provide data, but if we think of them as merely inputs to a technology that can make sense of all that information, we can get much more actionable data,” Sousa said. “That means we can have monitors that only get alerts when several different sensors have decided an event needs to be looked at.”\nSousa believes the sensing technology and computing power is already advanced enough to make AI useful.\n“We have sensors that can tell me who in this room has a fever or who is acting suspiciously,” he said. “That’s where we start to look at AI and machine learning to provide better information.”\nThe panelists also dispelled fears of mass job displacement, telling the audience that AI will augment security officers more than it will replace them.\nLimits to AI’s Advance into the Security Industry\nMembers of the panel also listed several features that officials need to incorporate into their security infrastructure in order to get the full value of AI on their campuses.\nThey listed systems integration, user education and data collection as requirements for AI technologies to bring their full value to security operations.\n“We need to implement these technologies so that they focus on where we need them to focus,” Sousa said. “[Organizations] also need to connect their disparate systems in order for AI to maximize efficiencies.”\nAdditional considerations include risks such as privacy concerns around data collection, deploying systems that aren’t ready and hacking AI-based systems.\n“[With autonomous vehicles], we’ve seen someone put stickers on street signs that convince the self-driving cars to blow right through any stop sign,” Ayotte-Savino noted. “A sticker can actually hack some of these systems.”\nTo navigate these risks, Sousa speculated that some common standards or government regulations may be adopted in the near future.\n“It’s a little bit of an unknown from my standpoint, but as these technologies advance, there’s going to need to be some semblance of control over them,” he said.\nOverall, the panel encouraged organizations to consider the risks involved with these systems long before they implement them.\n“You’ll always need a degree of human interaction, and that comes back to education,” Ayotte-Savino said. “But if you don’t understand and think about the limitations of AI in security, you’re in trouble.”\nThe Road Forward for AI in Security\nMany systems, particularly in the video surveillance realm, already offer some form of machine learning on their devices or through cloud services.\nChristian Morin, vice president of Cloud services at Genetec who spoke on a separate panel, noted earlier in the day that Cloud services have exploded onto the scene in the security industry recently and are maturing rapidly.\nBut Sousa says most of the AI technology incorporated into systems today are watered-down versions of what’s to come.\n“We’re already seeing some basic AI, but most of these systems are very rules-based, they give you yes or no answers,” Sousa explained. “Now we’re starting to look at the normal environment and determining who’s exhibiting any abnormal behavior; that’s not rules-based, that’s learned.”\nSecurity officials can’t simply buy an AI system and step back. First, they need to invest in the sensors, personnel training and integration to make the technology work.\nBut, based on the panelists’ predictions, that effort will be worth it in the near future.\nThis article first appeared on TD sister publication campussafetymagazine.com.\nTagged With: Artificial Intelligence\nRenewable Energy Beats Coal In U.S. for the…\nFrom Huddle Rooms To Video Walls: Benchmark Electronics…\nRFP Template: Video Surveillance\nVideo surveillance is the cornerstone of greater safety and security and often the starting point in a physical security specification. Our guide provides a blueprint for writing your own video surveillance RFP.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line162564"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5650227069854736,"wiki_prob":0.43497729301452637,"text":"Contact: Michael Drewniak (609) 777-2600 GOV\nColin Reed (609) 777-2600 GOV\nLarry Ragonese (609) 292-2994\nChristie Administration Announces $26.3 Million in Federal Aid for Post-Sandy\nBuyouts of 89 Residential Properties in Woodbridge\nFEMA Allocation for New Jersey Buyouts Now Totals $100 Million\n(14/P9) TRENTON – The Christie Administration today announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded the state $26.3 million in federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding for the voluntary acquisition of 89 homes in flood-prone sections of Woodbridge. This action is part of the Administration’s plan to buy out homes from willing sellers impacted by Superstorm Sandy to preserve the land as open space and protect against future flooding.\nWith this next round of funding, FEMA has now approved $100 million for the purchase of 361 homes in Sayreville, South River and Woodbridge in Middlesex County. These communities sustained extensive flooding from the Raritan River, South River and Woodbridge River, as well as storm surge from the Raritan Bay, during Sandy.\n“We continue to make excellent progress toward our goal of moving willing sellers in flood-prone areas out of harm’s way,” said Governor Christie. “In cooperation with the federal government, my Administration is working hard to expedite this process and to help these victims of the storm get on with their lives.’’\nSo far, the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Blue Acres Program has made 272 buyout offers in Sayreville and South River, and has closed on 27 Sayreville homes, including four in the past week, with several dozens more nearing settlement. The acquisition process in Woodbridge is in the early stages.\nOf the 272 buyout offers made in Sayreville and South River, 155 have been accepted by residents in both towns. The Blue Acres team is working to finalize closings on those 155 properties.\n“We remain committed to helping guide these Sandy impacted families through this process, knowing the impact it has on their lives,’’ said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. “Our DEP team of case managers is working closely with the impacted families and with FEMA to ensure that willing sellers have their applications processed quickly and smoothly, with minimal red tape.’’\nThe Christie Administration has committed more than $300 million to the buyout program that is targeting 1,000 properties in tidal areas affected by Sandy and another 300 properties in the Passaic River Basin that have repeatedly flooded. The Blue Acres program also is working on potential buyouts in East Brunswick, Linden, Manville, Old Bridge, Neptune, Newark, Union Beach, and another section of Woodbridge, and has engaged in dialogue with residents and officials in many other communities.\nOnce acquisitions are completed, the homes will be razed and the land will be permanently maintained by the municipalities as open space, accessible to the public for recreation and conservation purposes, and able to absorb flood waters and reduce the need for future disaster assistance by police, fire, emergency crews and other first responders.\nIn a separate buyout effort, the state’s Blue Acres Program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service are partnering to buy and preserve as open space the Bay Point section of Cumberland County’s Lawrence Township, including 33 homes. That land will be converted to open space that will provide wildlife habitat and buffers against flooding.\nFEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program will provide 100 percent of the funding for buyouts in Sayreville and South River, plus this first round of Woodbridge buyouts. Additional federal funding to acquire other properties impacted by Superstorm Sandy, including the next round of homes in Woodbridge, will be provided through the $1.46 billion second round of federal Community Disaster Block Grant (CDBG) Disaster Recovery funds allocated to New Jersey by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).\nAn independent licensed appraiser hired by the state conducts property appraisals. The appraisals are predominantly based on the value of the property before Sandy. These appraisals are the basis for the amount offered for each property.\nThe DEP has created a special team in its Blue Acres Program to work closely with sellers and process their applications as quickly as possible. The team is reaching out to individual homeowners personally and guiding them through the process.\nLaunched in 1995 the initial Blue Acres Program targeted purchases of lands in floodways in the Delaware, Passaic and Raritan river basins, but was later expanded to include all state waters. Eligible properties are those that have been storm damaged, that are prone to incurring storm damage, or that may buffer or protect other lands from such damage.\nHomeowners interested in selling their homes through this process may contact the DEP’s Blue Acres Program at 609-984-0500.\nFor more information on the Blue Acres Program, visit: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/greenacres/blue_flood_ac.html\nFor information on Sandy Recovery, visit: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/special/hurricane-sandy/\nLast Updated: February 6, 2014","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line982472"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6857274174690247,"wiki_prob":0.6857274174690247,"text":"Greenerpasture Daily News - April 30\nLittle Compton, Rhode Island, USA (Adamsville)\n1829 - Attempted Murder\nHesekiah Willibor, of Little Compton, Rhode Island, has been tried at Newport for an attempt to commit murder, found guilty, and sentenced to pay $50, and be imprisoned 3 months. Willibor had paid his addresses to a young woman, but having been discarded, he had been heard to utter threats of revenge, and soon after this a gun was discharged into the chamber in which she slept, and the ball... Read MORE...\ngenealogybank.com\nBaltimore Gazette and Daily Advertiser - Baltimore, Maryland - April 30, 1829\n1879 - Cleveland became the world's first city to be lighted electrically in 1879 when Charles Brush successfully demonstrated arc lights on the streets.\nwww.e-referencedesk.com/ resources/ state-history-timeline/ ohio.html\n...At five minutes before eight o'clock there was a flicker in the lamp nearest the Telegraph Supply Company's headquarters and immediately the twelve lights beamed forth from their various stations. The lamp posts are much higher than the gas posts, making the electric lamps like beacon lights.\nThousands of people... Read MORE...\nPlain Dealer - Cleveland, Ohio - April 30, 1879\n1885 - ON THE WARPATH - The Edmonton People Panic-stricken, Many of Them Seeking Safety in Flight.\n...Dispatches from Edmonton, via Calgary, received here to-day, indicate that affairs there are not on an encouraging state. The settlers are thoroughly alarmed, because of the overbearing conduct of the Indians and half-breeds, who threaten to\nRISE AN BURN THE TOWN.\nScouts have been sent out to scour the country for fifty miles around to learn the extent of the dissatisfaction. General... Read MORE...\nThe Inter Ocean - Chicago, Illinois - April 30, 1885\n1895 - Deadly Knockout Drops. The Gentle Art of Drugging as Practiced in New York's \"Tenderloin.\"\n“The term knockout drops is used to designate a solution of chloral that persons of evil intent place in the liquor or good natured, half drunken men in order to render the latter sleepy and helpless, so as to rifle their pockets the easier,” said Police Captain Pickett of the Tenderloin precinct to a New York Press reporter.\n“Most druggists sell the solution at a strength of 100 per cent. One ... Read MORE...\nWarren Ledger - Warren, Pennsylvania - April 30, 1895\nSt Louis, Missouri, USA\n1904 April 30 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri (closes December 1).\nIce-cream cones were first served in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition world's fair in St. Louis. Also, at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the ice cream cone was invented. An ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold ice cream.\nwww.ereferencedesk.com/ resources/ state-facts/ missouri.html\nLaredo, Texas, USA\n1905 - TWENTY-ONE KILLED BY TORNADO IN TEXAS. STORM FROM MEXICO WRECKS BIG BUILDINGS AT LAREDO. ROOF RIPPED OFF HOSPITAL.\nTEACHERS AT SEMINARY HAVE NARROW ESCAPE - STUDENTS RESCUE ONE - GOVERNOR APPEALS FOR AID.\nLaredo, Texas, via Bermuda, Texas, April 29. - Twenty-one persons were killed and scores injured in Laredo and in New Laredo by a tornado which tore through the city late last night, crossing the Rio Grande. Rumors of others killed in places outside Laredo lack confirmation. The property damage is... Read MORE...\nSouthbridge, Massachusetts, USA\n1918 - Help Wanted\nHelp Wanted - Help Wanted in Southbridge, Mass., to work in Hamilton Woolen Co., established nearly 100 years, employing 2,000 hands. Easy work, steady employment, best of wages, especially good for boys and girls. Southbridge is a proseperous town with a population of 15,000, situated on N.Y. N.H. R.R. and the Worcester & Springfield trolley line. 45 miles to Boston, 45 miles to... Read MORE...\nThe Adirondack News - New York - Saturday, April 30, 1918\nJacksonville, Florida, USA\n1926 - NEGRO AVIATRIX IS KILLED IN CRASH. NEGRESS AND PUBLICITY MAN FALL TO DEATH IN PLANE CRASH.\n(By The Associated Press)\nJacksonville, Fla., April 30. - WILLIAM D. WILLS, 24, Dallas, Tex. and BESSIE COLEMAN, said to be the only negro aviatrix in the world were killed when the airplane in which they were making a practice flight overturned at 2,000 feet over a field here today. WILLS' body was cremated after the plane fell to the earth when a spectator struck the wreckage igniting gas line ... Read MORE...\nThe Ada Evening News - Oklahoma - April 30, 1926\nBeverly, Massachusetts, USA (Prides Crossing)\n1926 - Dies of Suffocation\nBeverly, Mass., April 30 - (AP) - George H. Stamper, 60, died of suffocation in a fire which destroyed the building of the Jubilee Yacht Club here this morning.\nThe clubhouse was one of the landmarks of this city's waterfront. Stamper, who occupied a room in the building, and retired when the fire was discovered. He was awakened by members and dressed but apparently became confused by the... Read MORE...\nAkron, Ohio, USA\n1928 - FOUR AKRON BOYS KILLED BY BLAST. FIRED DRUM OF BENZINE UNDER SHED. THREE BROTHERS AND PLAYMATE DIE AND FIFTH OF GROUP MAY LIVE ALTHOUGH BADLY BURNED.\nAkron, April 30 - Four boys, three of them brothers, were killed and a fifth was seriously injured when a steel drum of benzine exploded in a shed at the rear of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant here Sunday.\nThose killed were:\nCHARLES CARTER, 14.\nALBERT CARTER, 10.\nLEEMAN CARTER, 5.\nFREDERICK WADTLY, JR., 13.\nLESLIE BUSH, 14, was badly burned although physicians believe he will... Read MORE...\nSandusky Star Journal - Ohio - April 30, 1928\n1928 - Airplane Crash\nH. E. Larue, pilot, Loren Craven and Dietrich were fatally injured when the machine went into a tail spin, and fell in flames near Lowry Field, Denver.\nTail Spin Fatal\nThe flaming airplane carried three men to their deaths at Denver when H. E. Larue, Denver pilot, was unable to bring the ship out of a tail spin.\nLarue head of the Aidcraft Transport company here, took off with Loren... Read MORE...\nWisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin - April 30, 1928\nPasadena, California, USA\n1950 - Plane Crashes Into House As Pilot, Wife Die\nPASADENA, Calif., April 29. (AP) - A private plane crashed into a 25-room house in the Linda Vista district of Pasadena Friday and exploded killing the pilot and his wife and causing $25,000 damages to the residence.\nKilled in the accident were O. N. Lowry, 41, North American Aircraft Assembly Plant foreman, and Eleanor Lowry, 38, of Downey. They had taken off shortly before from the east Los... Read MORE...\nThe Big Spring Daily Herald - Big Spring, Texas - April 30, 1950\n1870 They make three Yankee clocks every minute during working hours at Bristol, Conn.\n1870 The house of Mrs. Martha Kean, in East Mansfield, Mass., was burned on the 25th, and a young man named Frederick Ames perished.\n1870 Miss Anna L. Coffin, who was chosen on the Newbury (Mass.) School Committee, declined to serve, as she could not attend to the duties if she would, and would not if she could.\n1870 C. D. Warner, while grading his grounds at Red Bank, N. J., recently found a quantity of stone implements,\nconsisting of an ax, pestle, oyster knife, etc., undoubtedly the relics of a now extinct race.\n1945 April 30 – Death of Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as the Red Army approaches the Führerbunker in Berlin.\nBorn April 30\nPosted by greenerpasture at 4/30/2017 08:11:00 PM No comments:\nLongueuil, Québec, Canada (St-Antoine-de-Longueuil)\n1830 Very Large Swan\nA large white Swan was shot last week at Longueuil, in the St. Lawrence, which measured eight feet between the extremities of the wings, five feet from the tail to the beak, and weighed between thirty and forty pounds.\nJamaica, New York, USA\n1869 - RAILROAD DISASTER. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD - SIX PERSONS KILLED AND FIFTEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED.\nNew York, April 23. - A horrible accident is reported on the Long Island Railroad. The train which left Hunter's Point at 10 o'clock this morning, when about one mile east of Jamaica, ran off the track when going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Six passengers were instantly killed, fifteen others seriously injured, two or three mortally. Every person in the rear car was either killed or... Read MORE...\nEau Claire Weekly Free Press - Eau Claire, Wisconsin - April 29, 1869\n1896 - April 29 - CENTRAL DISTRICT COURT. UTLEY, J. - TUESDAY, APRIL 28.\nThe greater portion of Tuesday's session was taken up with the continued case of Charles T. Aldrich, Jr., of Sutton, charged with the shooting of Albert Baker, Feb. 22.\nCharles M. Thayer, Esq., appeared for the prosecution and F. L. Brown, Esq. of Brown & Hopkins, for the defendant.\nMr. Thayer stated that the government proposed to show that Mrs. Baker, mother of the complainant, went to... Read MORE...\nWorcester Daily Spy - Worcester, Massachusetts - April 29, 1896\nCumberland, Rhode Island, USA (Valley Falls) (Ashton) (Cumberland Hill)\n1900 - TRAPPISTS ARE TO MOVE. Monastery in Nova Scotia to Be Removed to Cumberland in Rhode Island.\nSt. John, N. B., April 28. - The trappist monastery at Tracadie, N. S., is soon to be removed to a far near Cumberland, R. I., and the farm at Tracadie abandoned. It was established in 1814. It was founded by members after the house in France was broken up by the Emperor, Napoleon. There are twenty-five monks at Tracadie. The discipline is rigorous. Bread and water constitutes their diet, eleven... Read MORE...\nChicago Daily Tribune - Chicago, Illinois - April 29, 1900\n1900 - FALLING BUILDING KILLS TWO. Eleven Others Injured, Two Mortally, in an Accident at Birmingham, Ala.\nBirmingham, Ala., April 28. - By the collapse of the framework of the main building of the Dimmick Pipe and Foundry Company, in course of construction at North Birmingham, this morning, two men are dead and eleven injured, at least two of whom will die.\nThe dead are: JAMES McWHORTER and DAVIS WHITE. The injured are: WILLIAM McWHORTER, head crushed and internally injured, will die; D. O.... Read MORE...\nBrooklyn Eagle - New York, New York - April 29, 1900\nLansing, Michigan, USA\n1904 - FOUR DEAD AS THE RESULT OF A HOTEL FIRE IN LANSING, MICHIGAN, ON THURSDAY NIGHT.\nLansing, Mich., April 29 - Four men are dead as the result of a fire that destroyed the Bryan block on Michigan avenue, this city, last night. The dead are:\nJEROME STILES.\nJOHN VOLLIN.\nRANSOM DINGMAN.\nJOHN ROY.\nAll were laborers who occupied rooms in the hotel on the upper floors of the building. STILES fell from a window on the top floor, where he was waiting for rescuers to reach him. He... Read MORE...\nThe Newark Advocate - Newark, Ohio - April 29, 1904\n1905 - DEATH IS MET IN MINE EXPLOSION. A TERRIBLE DISASTER OCCURS NEAR DUBOIS, PA. A DOZEN MEN ARE KILLED.\nONLY ONE IS INJURED, BUT HE MAY DIE - OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION WILL BE REQUIRED TO DETERMINE CAUSE.\nDubois, Pa., April 29. - The mine disaster that occurred at Eleanora shaft Thursday night is the worst that has taken place in this region since 1896, when 12 men were killed in the Berwind-White shaft, near this city. Twelve were killed and one had both legs and both arms broken. He will probably ... Read MORE...\nLogansport Reporter - Logansport, Indiana - April 29, 1905\nJersey City, New Jersey, USA\n1907 - GRAND STAND CAVES IN. ONE KILLED AND MANY HURT AT JERSEY CITY BASEBALL GAME.\nOne boy was killed, another had his right leg broken and several persons received scratches and bruises when a grandstand on the St. John's baseball grounds, at Seeman Avenue and Larch Street, Jersey City, caved in yesterday afternoon.\nThe boy killed was RUSSEL NIELSON, of No. 270 Van Winkle Street. ALEXANDER POPPEWESKI, of No. 1012 Newark Avenue, had his leg broken.\nThe grandstand was... Read MORE...\nNew York Tribune - New York, New York - April 29, 1907\nWilbraham, Massachusetts, USA\n1909 - MODOC EXPRESS WRECKED\nSPRINGFIELD, MASS., April 29 - The Modoc Express from the West, on the Boston and Albany, was wrecked today near North Wilbraham, the engine, five coaches and a sleeper going down an embankment. One man is reported kill outright and many injured. A special wrecking train, with doctors and nurses, has been sent from this city. The train left Chicago yesterday on the Lake Shore, passing through... Read MORE...\nTrenton Evening Times - Trenton, New Jersey - April 29, 1909\nPalmer, Massachusetts, USA (Bondsville) (Three Rivers)\n1909 - CHICAGO EXPRESS. HAD SERIOUS MISHAP AT PALMER TODAY.\nPalmer, April 29. - Passengers on three sleepers, the diner and a passenger coach on the east-bound Chicago express on the Boston & Albany division of the New York Central railroad were severely shaken up and half a dozen sustained cuts and bruises when a broken rail sent five of the eight cars off the track about a mile west of the station at 8:20 a.m. today. The derailed cars came to a stop... Read MORE...\nLowell Sun - Lowell, Massachusetts - April 29, 1909\nMiddletown, New York, USA\n1929 - NINE KILLED AT RAILWAY CROSSING IN NEW YORK.\nMiddletown, N.Y., April 29. - (INS) - Nine persons, all but one of a family of 10, are dead today and the other so seriously injured he may die, as the result of a train-auto crash at a grade crossing last night.\nThe dead:\nANTONIO BIANCHI, 42.\nROSE BIANCHI, 32, his wife.\nAnd their children:\nLUCY, 16.\nMARION, 14.\nMINNIE, 10.\nGEORGE, 8.\nLOUISE, 6.\nANTOINETTE, 3.\nHELEN, 8 months.\nFRANK ... Read MORE...\nThe Bee - Danville, Virginia - April 29, 1929\nPosted by greenerpasture at 4/28/2017 09:03:00 AM No comments:\nGranby, Québec, Canada\nTHE DISASTER AT GRANBY - A BRIDGE SWEPT AWAY BY THE FLOOD - ELEVEN LIVES LOST.\nTo the Editor of the Montreal Daily Witness:\nAt 7:40 this evening the writer and others were standing on the bridge at Granby, watching the high state of the river, and also the cars slowly passing the embankment to the depot. Just as I passed along the bridge from the south side, and was going off on the north side, I found the bridge sway, as if it was a drawbridge. I ran off the north end,... Read MORE...\n1882 - RALPH WALDO EMERSON.\nThe wires last night announced the death of Ralph Waldo Emmerson, one of this country's most distinguished thinkers and writers, which took place at his residence in Boston after a brief illness. He was born in Boston, May 25th, 1803. He obtained his primary education in the public grammar schools, where he soon qualified himself for the Latin school. Here he attempted his first literary work,... Read MORE...\nDaily Charlotte Observer - Charlotte, North Carolina - April 28, 1882\nNorman, Oklahoma, USA\n1893 - SIXTY-TWO ARE KILLED. FRIGHTFUL RESULT OF THE CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA. PROPERTY DAMAGE INESTIMABLE.\nONE CYCLONE JOINS ANOTHER, AND WITH THEIR COMBINED STRENGTH THEY SWEEP DOWN UPON DEFENSELESS TOWNS AND LEAVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BEHIND.\nOklahoma City, April 27. - The half has not been told concerning the awful storm which swept this country. Two distinct cyclones, a terrific hail storm, and a waterspout combined to wreak awful destruction. It is reported that sixty-two human lives were... Read MORE...\nThe Daily Review - Decatur, Illinois - April 28, 1893\nNewport News, Virginia, USA\n1897 - BIG CONFLAGRATION. THE BURNING OF VESSELS IN PORT AT NEWPORT NEWS.\nSEVERAL PERSONS INJURED.\nDAMAGE OF OVER $2,000,000 WAS DONE TO THE SHIPPING IN THE HARBOR, TWO STEAMERS AND A GERMAN SHIP BEING DESTROYED.\nNewport News, Va., April 28. - Fire broke out in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad company's pier No. 5, and before the flames were checked damage to the extent of $2,000,000 had been done. Two of the company's immense piers were destroyed, three vessels... Read MORE...\nUnion, Connecticut, USA\n1931 - Mayor's Stepson Killed When Roadster Overturns On Curve At Union, Conn.\nUlric E. Duval, 33-year-old motion picture operator of Worcester and step-son of Mayor Joseph N. Carriere, was killed in an automobile accident at Union, Conn., yesterday afternoon when his roadster overturned, presumably after a front tire had blown out.\nMr. Duval was pinned beneath the machine and his spine was fractured.\nThere were no witnesses of the accident.\nInvestigations made after ... Read MORE...\nFitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - April 28, 1931\n1888 The busting of a water pipe on the 25th caused a sewer ditch at Yonkers, N. Y.,\nto cave in on the workmen, six of whom lost their lives.\n1896 Ice Bridge Gives Way\nThe Cap Rouge ice bridge, near Montreal, gave way yesterday morning, and the last barrier to navigation on the St. Lawrence river was removed.\nSpringfield Republican\n1924 April 28 – An explosion in a mine at the Wheeling Steel Corporation in Benwood, West Virginia kills 119 men.\n1938 April 28 – The towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott in Massachusetts are disincorporated to make way for the Quabbin Reservoir.\n1866 - May 16 – The United States Congress approves the minting of a nickel 5-cent coin (nickel), eliminating its predecessor, the half dime.\nFIVE CENT COIN.\nIn the House of Representatives, a few days ago, the following proceedings took place.\nMr. Kasson - The Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures have instructed me to report House bill No. 397, to authorize the coinage of five cent pieces.\nNo objection being made, the bill was considered, and was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.\nThe bill provides that as... Read MORE...\nThe Lincoln County Herald - Troy, Missouri - April 27, 1866\nFitchburg, Massachusetts, USA\n1889 - A Narrow Escape.\nGeorge E. Hayward narrowly escaped being crushed by the falling of a gravel roof about 6 p.m., Friday. The wooden ell of the brick building, 337 and 339 Main street, had been removed, except the roof, which had been left to shelter the sheathing of the new brick ell in process of erection. Mr. Hayward, fearing that the roof was not properly secured, was putting shores under the roof, when it... Read MORE...\nThe Fitchburg Sentinel - Fitchburg, Massachusetts - April 27, 1889\nNorthampton, Massachusetts, USA (Florence) (Leeds)\n1900 - Fires at Northampton and Amherst.\nThe engine-house number was struck on the fire alarm bell at Northampton at 1 o'clock yesterday because of a forest fire near Park hill. Several acres were burned ever near H. J. Searle's house and the Westhampton road, and the smoke rolled up dense volumes at noon. Chief Chase and about a dozen men drove to the fire and aided in getting it under control. Forest fires were raging in the woods... Read MORE...\nSpringfield Daily Republican - Springfield, Massachusetts - April 27, 1900\n1900 - MOTORMAN BLAMED.\nJustice Drew of Brookline filed with the Clerk of Courts in Dedham yesterday his report of an inquest into the cause of the death of Frank Knox of Brookline, who was struck by an outward-bound car of the Boston Elevated Railroad Company in Brookline, March 16, and died the next day.\nIn his report Justice Drew says: \"I am of the opinion that the accident was the result of the high rate of speed ... Read MORE...\nBoston Morning Journal - Boston, Massachusetts - April 27, 1900\nLongmeadow, Massachusetts, USA\n1900 - IN AND ABOUT SPRINGFIELD. A BAD DAY FOR FOREST FIRES. A HARD FIGHT AT LONGMEADOW.\nMany Acres of Woodland Burned Over - A Veteran's Home Destroyed.\nThe most extensive forest fire in Longmeadow for years raged yesterday, and the red light shooting up for miles in the east last evening showed that it was still burning. The fire was first discovered in the vicinity of Converse street, east of South park terrace, about 8 in the morning, and the strong wind drove it southward... Read MORE...\nWare, Massachusetts, USA\n1900 - Two Miles of Flame at Ware.\nA forest fire which started near the Charles Gould farm at the foot of Warren hill in Ware, about noon yesterday, spread in a few hours to such an extent that the entire hill south of the town was in flames. A high wind was blowing all the afternoon and drove the fire along through the brush on the side of the hill until it reached the wooded section of the summit, when it burned furiously. Fire... Read MORE...\nBurrillville, Rhode Island, USA (Harrisville)\n1900 Fire Leaves Fourteen Families Homeless.\nWOONSOCKET, R. I., April 26. - Fire at Harrisville to-day left fourteen families homeless, burned out five stores and a society hall, destroying in all fourteen buildings, with a total loss of $25,000. The insurance is $18,000. The village has no Fire Department or apparatus.\nGroveland, Massachusetts, USA\n1900 - WORST IN YEARS.\nHaverhill, April 26. - The R. H. Page building, at Groveland, where the town offices were located, was burned to the ground this morning. Before the fire was gotten under control damage aggregating $20,000 was done.\nThe cause of the fire is unknown. It was the worst blaze that has occurred for years in the town. The building was situated near the end of the Haverhill-Groveland bridge, and was... Read MORE...\nBuffalo, New York, USA\n1911 - $250,000 FIRE IN BUFFALO FACTORY. FIREMEN BATTERED AND BURNED IN FIGHTING TO AVERT BIG EXPLOSION. TWO WOMEN RESCUED.\nTHICK SMOKE OVERCOMES DWELLERS IN ADJACENT HOUSE, WHO ARE CARRIED TO SAFETY - SCORE OF FIREMEN BLOWN ACROSS STREET - FLAMES KEPT FROM TURPENTINE.\nSpecial to The Syracuse Herald.\nBuffalo, April 27 - Damage estimated this morning at $250,000 resulted from a fire which practically destroyed the plant of the Buffalo Glass company at Nos. 96 and 98 Seneca street. Three alarms sent the entire... Read MORE...\nThe Syracuse Herald - Syracuse, New York - April 27, 1911\nWilna, New York, USA (Carthage)\n1931 - Eight Killed in Two Auto Mishaps\nCarthage, N. Y., April 27 (AP). - St. Regis Canal, at \"Skinny\" Bridge three miles west of here, was being drained today in an effort to recover the bodies of four men, who lost their lives in one of two automobile accidents fatal to eight persons in this vicinity over the week-end.\nThe body of James Kenyon, 40, of Watertown, was recovered yesterday. The automobile in which were Kenyon, Charles ... Read MORE...\nKingston Daily Freeman - Kingston, New York - April 27, 1931\nLunenburg, Massachusetts, USA\n1931 Wind Blows Silo Down\nSpecial to The Sentinel LUNENBURG, April 27. - The heavy wind this forenoon blew over the silo at Sherman Sanderman's place on Oak Street. Three large apple trees were blown down on the property of C. C. Lane.\n1931 Students' Suite Burns At Cambridge Hotel\nCAMBRIDGE, April 27. (AP) - A fire at the Hotel Commander early today destroyed a suite occupied by A. B. Young and R. T. Dunn, Harvard Law school students, and aroused 300 guests. Dunn lost all his belongings. Young was away for the week-end. Richard Winsor, night clerk, roused the guests after he discovered the fire, the cause of which was unknown.\nLeominster, Massachusetts, USA\n1931 - Garage Annex Is Blown Into Nashua River\nLEOMINSTER, April 27 - A two-stall addition to Hartwell's garage near the Main street bridge in North Leominster, was blown into the Nashua river this forenoon. The addition had just been completed. The loss is estimated at $300.\nTwo large elm trees on Central street, near the plant of the Whitney-Feed corporation, were uprooted and fell across the highway this forenoon blocking traffic for a... Read MORE...\n1908 April 27–October 31 – The 1908 Summer Olympics are held in London.\n1967 April 27, 1967: Expo '67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson\nThe Old Farmer's Almanac www.almanac.com\nClinton, Dutchess, New York, USA\n1879 In 1818, thirteen men gathered together, thirteen prayers were said, and thirteen dollars subscribed for the establishment of a place of learning for Baptists.\nTo-day Madison University, at Clinton, N. Y., owns all its buildings and 160 acres of land in a beautiful part of the country. It has a fine library, no debts and more than $400,000 drawing interest.\nSt Joseph Herald - Saint Joseph, Michigan - April 26, 1879\nHamilton, New York, USA\n1879 Madison University\nIn 1818, thirteen men gathered together, thirteen prayers were said, and thirteen dollars subscribed for the establishment of a place of learning for Baptists. To-day Madison University, at Clinton, N. Y., owns all its buildings and 160 acres of land in a beautiful part of the country. It has a fine library, no debts and more than $400,000 drawing interest.\nButte County, California, USA\n1913 - CHILD RISES FROM COFFIN. Shock of Temporary Resuscitation Kills Aged Grandmother.\nButte, Ca., April 25. - While members of the family and relatives were grouped about the open coffin of Mrs. J. R. Burney's 3-year-old son yesterday listening to the funeral service, the body moved and presently the child, clad in its shroud, sat up and gazed about the room. His eyes caught those of his grandmother, Mrs. L. P. Smith, 81 years old. The aged woman stared at the child as if... Read MORE...\nThe Washington Post - Washington, District of Columbia - April 26, 1913\n1915 - HISTORIC THEATRE BURNS. Grand Opera House in New Haven Destroyed, with Loss of $80,000.\nNEW HAVEN, April 25.- The Grand Opera House in Crown Street, the oldest playhouse in New Haven, was destroyed by fire early today, and the entire fire-fighting force of the city had a hard time to prevent the blaze from spreading to near-by buildings.\nVarious office buildings were endangered for a time. The loss is $80,000. The fire started in a cafe on the first floor, from an unknown... Read MORE...\nMiddletown, Rhode Island, USA (Green's End)\n1919 - A Bad Accident\nAs Mr. Russell Morgan Peckham, accompanied by Mr. Lewis Plummer, Miss Ethel Plummer and the Misses Helen and Katherine Bronson, was driving his Dodge touring car from Wyatt Road on to East Main Road his machine was struck from the rear by a Hudson speedster driven by Mr. Habib of Newport. Both cars were proceeding toward Newport Mr. Peckham asserts that he was going about ten miles... Read MORE...\nNewport Mercury - Newport, Rhode Island - April 26, 1919\nNaperville, Illinois, USA\n1946 - TRAIN WRECK DEATH TOLL AT 43. ENGINEER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.\nNaperville, Ill., (AP) - Weary rescue workers Friday counted at least 43 dead in a terrific rear-end collision of the Burlington railroad's westbound fast Exposition Flyer and Advance Flyer Thursday.\nOf 125 persons injured when the Exposition Flyer, speeding at more than 60 miles an hour toward San Francisco, rammed the stopped Advance Flyer, 31 remained in hospitals, some in critical... Read MORE...\nMason City Globe-Gazette - Iowa - April 26, 1946\n1921 April 26, 1921: First U.S. weather report broadcast, by WEW in St. Louis, Missouri\n1846 April 25 – Mexican–American War: Open conflict begins over border disputes of Texas' boundaries.\nThe war, stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim), resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.\nwww.britannica.com\nAuburn, Maine, USA\n1868 Shoe Business Thriving\nThe shoe business in Auburn, Me., is said to be now far more lively than it has been at any time for six months. All the manufacturers are busy, and pressing to fill orders by working extra hours.\nShelton, Connecticut, USA (Huntington)\n1890 - A FATAL CONNECTICUT FIRE.\nShelton, Conn., April 25. - Fire was discovered in the Birmingham Bone Comb manufactory on Division Street, yesterday. The flames spread to the Housatonic Brass Company's building, then to the Radcliff woolen mill, Horace Wheeler's grocery store, Newell's printing establishment and two dwelling houses.\nMRS. MARIE SLIE, aged 85 years, who occupied a tenement in the Wheeler building, was burned... Read MORE...\nTrenton Times - Trenton, New Jersey - April 25, 1890\nBeaver Falls, Pennsylvania, USA\n1891 - DASHED INTO ETERNITY - A SERIOUS COLLISION AT ROCK POINT ON THE P. & L. E. R. R.\nOne man killed and four others badly injured - A train crowded with laborers runs into a freight - A brakeman said to have given the wrong signal - the killed and injured.\nBEAVER FALLS, PA, April 25, - a serious accident occurred on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad, between Rock Point and Homewood, in which one man was killed and four men badly hurt. Freight train No. 42 was running west... Read MORE...\nThe Salem Daily News - Salem, Ohio - April 25, 1891\n1898 - April 25 – Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain; the U.S. Congress announces that a state of war has existed since April 21 (later backdating this one more day to April 20).\n...On April 11, 1898, President William McKinley asked Congress for authorization to end the fighting in Cuba between the rebels and Spanish forces, and to establish a “stable government” that would “maintain order” and ensure the “peace and tranquility and the security” of Cuban and U.S. citizens on the island. On April 20, the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution that acknowledged Cuban... Read MORE...\nhistory.state.gov\nLitchfield, Connecticut, USA\n1910 - FIRE IN FAMOUS HOTEL. House In Which Lafayette Was Entertained Damaged $10,000.\nSpecial to The New York Times.\nWINSTED, Conn., Dec. 23. - The old United States Hotel in Litchfield, built about 130 years ago and the scene of a ball in honor of Marquis Lafayette when he visited this country in 1824, was damaged to the extent of $10,000 by fire and water to-day.\nThe second and third stories of the hotel were destroyed. The blaze started in the attic from the chimney or... Read MORE...\n1910 - Leaps From Blazing Hotel. Roomer Trapped by the Flames Goes Out a Third Floor Window - Unhurt.\nFinding his escape cut off by flames JOHN MUGLER, an expressman, jumped from a window on the third floor of the Elton Hotel, at 769 Elton Avenue, the Bronx, last night to the sidewalk, a distance of thirty feet, and escaped unhurt. Then he ran to a box on the corner and turned in an alarm.\nThe Elton Hotel is a three-story brick building owned and occupied by TONY WEITLAIER. Mugler and two... Read MORE...\n1868 Cheese factories, or associated dairies, first organized at Rome, N.Y., about seven years ago, now number twelve hundred, involving in their outlay $3,500,000.\n1901 April 25 – New York State becomes the first to require automobile license plates.\n1903 April 25 - Two cases of smallpox were found at Conway, Mass., and the board of health is puzzled to account for the appearance of the disease.\nWestport, Connecticut, USA\n1886 - Seventy-Four Years Married\nWESTPORT, Ct., April 18. - Captain Alfred Taylor, of the Poplar Plains District, some two miles north of the town of Westport, is now in his 95th year. He is the oldest voter in Fairfield county, and one of the oldest in the State. He owns a farm of several hundred acres, and has worked upon it during a period of more than two generations. His wife, Mrs. Chloe Taylor, is 92. Should they live till ... Read MORE...\n1873 Joseph Sweet, ninety-one years of age, has been elected President of the Eagle National Bank at Providence, Rhode Island.\nWhether Joseph will make it sweeter for himself or the bank is not definitely known.\nThe Indianapolis News\n1913 April 24 – The Woolworth Building opens in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it is the tallest building in the world at this date and for more than a decade after.\nDanbury, Conn., April 23. - The fire yesterday afternoon which destroyed Mackinzie & Sons' and Devenport & Von Gals' hat factories and George Taylor's tobacco store, near Taylor street, inflicted a total loss of fully $70,000. The fire started in the drying room of the Mackinzie factory. Engineer Charles B. Pickering smelled smoke, and on opening the door of the drying room the flames burst out... Read MORE...\n1902 Wednesday, April 23, 1902 - Fire at Webster, Mass. - It Was so Hot That it Made the River Boil\nWebster, Mass. April 23 - John D. Putnam's box factory, adjacent to French river, burned last night. A large section of the factory fell into the river and floated two miles wrapped in flames. The fire was so hot that the river boiled for yards.\nNEW YORK, April 22. - Walter A. Seymour, a Manhattan salesman, who lived near Mount Vernon, was killed by an electric train at the Mount Vernon station this evening.\nHe was waiting for a local train to go to Pelham, when and express came along on the local track. Mr. Seymour, it is said, was standing close to the edge of the platform. The suction of the train... Read MORE...\nDeputy Chief Langford got one whiff of the fumes which poured from the quarters of the Sheffield Standard Plating Company on the second floor of 206-208 Canal Street early last evening and then ordered the men... Read MORE...\nSt Paul, Minnesota, USA\n1868 ST. PAUL. Disastrous Fire\nSt. Paul, Minn., April 21 Early this morning the McKibben Block, a four-story stone building, together with Mrs. Johnson's brick boarding-house and three frame buildings burned down. The origin of the fire is unknown. Loss, $105.00; insurance $40,000.\nMorning Herald - Titusville, Pennsylvania - April 22, 1868\nManhattan, New York, USA (New York City) (New Amsterdam)\n1880 - DESTRUCTION AND DEATH - A FRESH HORROR FURNISHED IN NEW YORK CITY.\nFALL OF THE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN - THE BUILDING FILLED WITH PEOPLE IN AID OF A CHARITY - SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED AND MANY MORE INJURED.\nNew York, April 21. - An accident of a fatal character and which caused intense excitement, occurred at the Madison Square Garden tonight. The Hahnemann Hospital fair, which opened a week ago, was in progress, and there were about 800 people in the building.... Read MORE...\nDaily Globe - St. Paul, Minnesota - April 22, 1880\n1910 - Mark Twain World's Greatest Humorist Passes Into The Great Beyond\nEnd of Brilliant Career Came Peacefully - Biographical Sketch.\nBy Associated Press.\nRedding, Conn., April 22. - Samuel Langhorn Clemens, (Mark Twain), died painlessly at 6:30 o'clock last night of angina pectoris. He lapsed into a coma at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and never recovered consciousness. It was the end of a man out-worn by grief and acute agony of body.\nFor long hours... Read MORE...\nThe Charlotte News - Charlotte, North Carolina - April 22, 1910\n1970 - April 22 - The First Earth Day\nSenator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin was disturbed that an issue as important as our environment was not addressed in politics or by the media, so he created the first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attended festivities that day. It was a truly astonishing grassroots explosion, leading eventually to national legislation such as the Clean Air Act and the... Read MORE...\nwww.americaslibrary.gov\n1889 April 22 – At high noon in Oklahoma Territory, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Run of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed, with populations of at least 10,000.\n1895 A farmer near Kemptville, Ont., killed a lynx that weighed 1000 pounds.\nThe San Francisco Call\n1836 - The Alamo and Texas Declaration of Independence\nIn 1836, a small band of Texans fought the Mexican Army from inside an old mission chapel known as the Alamo. Texans fighting for independence from Mexico had seized the structure and sent Mexican troops away from San Antonio the previous December. Colonel James Bowie and Colonel William B. Travis commanded the small force defending the Alamo, including the famous backwoodsman Davy Crockett.... Read MORE...\nYork, Pennsylvania, USA (Yorktown)\n1856 - Tornado\nFurther Particulars. - The storm of Saturday night was quite serious at York, Pa. The Gazette says:\nIt lifted the sheet iron roof from the large warehouse of P. A. & S. Small, in the rear of their store, carrying one end across the alley into an adjoining lot, whilst the other end hung to the building. The roof was also blown from the engine house of Messrs. Small & Smyser's foundery, whilst... Read MORE...\nThe Adams Sentinel - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - April 21, 1856\nWilmington, Delaware, USA\nAT WILMINGTON, DEL.\nConsiderable damage was done by the heavy wind. One half of the roof was blown off the public school house in Washington street, and other buildings partly unroofed. The roof on the southern side of Asbury M. E. Church, some twelve feet in breadth, was stripped off from the eaves to the comb; nearly sixty feet of the roof of the railroad bridge over the Brandywine was... Read MORE...\nOlean, New York, USA\n1881 - Wagon Shop Fire\nAt a little past 8 o'clock Tuesday morning there was an alarm of fire and a hurrying to and fro, as it was announced that in Conlkin's wagon shop was on fire. The Fountain and Citizens hose companies were prompt to respond, but the H. & L. company had been up all night at the dance and many of them were enjoying repose when the alarm was given. However, there was little cause for anxiety, as the... Read MORE...\nThe Democrat - Olean, New York - April 21, 1881\nLee, Massachusetts, USA\n1886 - A Raging Flood\nBOSTON, MASS. April 20. - A special dispatch, received about noon from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, states that the great dam at Lee, ten miles below there, which furnished power for some dozen huge mills, gave way without warning at an early hour and almost swept the town out of existence. The noise of the explosion sounded like and earthquake, and the houses were swept away while their inmates... Read MORE...\nReview - Decatur, Illinois - April 21, 1886\nLubbock, Texas, USA\n1926 - Lubbock man Is Killed by Lightning Bolt\nSpecial to The News.\nLubbock, Texas, April 20,- J.H. BURROUGHS, 60 years old, pioneer pure seed breeder and director of both the State and local Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association, was struck by lightning early Tuesday morning and instantly killed at his home, about twelve miles west of Lubbock.\nThe bolt is thought to have hit the top of his head and passed through his body to his right... Read MORE...\nDallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas - April 21, 1926\n1962 April 21 - Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens\nwww.e-referencedesk.com/ resources/ state-history-timeline/ washington.html\nNashua, New Hampshire, USA (Dunstable)\n1870 - Great Fire in Nashua.\nAbout half past ten Saturday evening fire was discovered in the belfry of the First Congregational Church in Nashua. The fire could have been put out with a gallon of water at first, but fanned by the wind the whole tower was soon enveloped, and owing to the great altitude of the flames no water could be thrown to any effect. The first story of the church was owned by Mr. Jas. L. Pierce and... Read MORE...\nThe New Hampshire Patriot - Concord, New Hampshire - April 20, 1870\n1880 Beaver Falls, Pa., File Works Burned; Loss $400,000 - FIRE IN FILE WORKS\nPittsburg, April 19.- The Western File works at Beaver Falls, Pa., caught fire at 10 o'clock in this morning, and totally destroyed the building, together with its stock and machinery. Loss estimated at $400,000; insurance 125,000. The origin of the fire is not known, but suspected to be a spark from the shovel factory. Over 200 hands are temporarily thrown out of employment.\nThe Dubuque Herald - Dubuque, Iowa - April 20, 1880\nMonmouth, Maine, USA\n1888 - A MAINE VILLAGE WIPED OUT. ALL THE STORES AND THE POST OFFICE DESTROYED BY FIRE.\nWINTHROP, Me., April 19 - A disastrous fire occurred in Monmouth Centre this afternoon, destroying every store in the place and causing at least $75,000 damage. Monmouth is a great trading centre for the country around and one of the liveliest villages in Kennebec County. The fire, which originated in the cellar of Edwards & Flaherty's drug and general merchandise store, was discovered at 3:35 P. ... Read MORE...\nToledo, Ohio, USA\n1896 - COSTLY BLAZE. Gasoline Explodes and Causes Heavy Losses at Toledo.\nToledo, O., April 20. - By the explosion of a barrel of gasoline in the Dauntless bicycle factory the entire plant was wrecked. The fire was communicated to the Toledo machine and tool works, where many valuable patterns were ruined. Their loss will amount to $40,000, with insurance at $30,000. In the Dauntless factory there was 200 finished wheels and many fittings. A second explosion, supposed... Read MORE...\nEvening Bulletin - Decatur, Illinois - April 20, 1896\nStaten Island, New York, USA\n1918 - PENNED IN OVERTURNED CAR. THIRTY-ONE PERSONS INJURED IN STATEN ISLAND TROLLEY ACCIDENT.\nThirty-one persons were injured last night, two seriously, when a steel trolley car on the Richmond Light and Railway Company was derailed on the curve at Richmond Turnpike and Jewett Avenue, Castleton Corners, S. I., by the failure of the airbrakes. The momentum of the car was so great that it left the track and ran about 200 feet before it overturned.\nWhen LOUIS SCHALZO, the motorman, found... Read MORE...\n1933 - April 19 – The United States officially goes off the gold standard.\nU.S. Off the Gold Standard\nFirst Time in Half Century\nUnited States' Action in Leaving Gold Standard Felt Over the World\n(By The Associated Press).\nThe first official departure of the United State from the gold standard in more than fifty years was felt today throughout the world.\nLondon. - Britain's reaction was puzzlement and extreme anxiety. The dollar value dropped heavily, at one... Read MORE...\nThe Hutchinson News - Hutchinson, Kansas - April 20, 1933\nLake with 45-letter name has spelling errors - The central Mass. lake has one of the world's longest place names\nWEBSTER, Mass. — Officials have agreed to correct spelling errors in road signs pointing to a central Massachusetts lake with a 45-letter name.\nLake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster has one of the world's longest place names. It's been spelled many different ways over the years. Some locals have given up and simply call it Lake Webster.\nBut after researching... Read MORE...\nAssociated Press - April 20, 2009\n1861 April 20 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.\n1870 Fire\nIn Meriden, Ct., on the 15th, at a fire in Wilcox & Co.'s mill, EDGAR C. FENEYAK was killed and two other firemen injured.\nThe New Hampshire Patriot\n1912 April 20 – Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, opens.\n1914 April 20 - Ludlow Massacre (Colorado Coalfield War (1913–14)): The Colorado National Guard attacks a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado in the United States, killing 24 people.\n1916 April 20 – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (modern-day Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7–6 in 11 innings.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1435331"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.672336995601654,"wiki_prob":0.32766300439834595,"text":"Health and Wellness Franchise:\nTrue REST Float Spa:\nTrue REST Float Spa Franchise Awards & Testimonials\nBe on the ground floor of taking this movement mainstream by joining the established market leader today!\nAdd to Request List\nI am absolutely without doubt in the right place, doing the right thing. This is new, this is something that's emerging and I have the intuition and the nudge that's telling me to do it. After University training there is no doubt in mind, floating needs to be out there. This is a missing element in the world of natural healing.\nWalter & Martha Reed\nArrowhead, AZ\nWe appreciate the sense of family. I'm going into business with these people, and I wanted to make sure that I felt connected with them, it was very important to me, because we're in this all together. I'm blown away by the team and knowledge that is here. The turn-key systems and processes are set up as a well-oiled machine - and it works really well.\nHeather & Pat Gerke\nPowell, OH\nCash Investment: $125,000\nAvailable Markets:\nUnited States: AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY\n2019 #7 Entrepreneur - Top New Franchise Concept\nOriginally I was not interested in being involved in franchising because I've been a private business owner for many years, and after hearing what they were doing, meeting the team, and having the opportunity to get involved at the ground level, I was absolutely sold on franchising with True REST. I think they have a phenomenal business plan and a strong team.\nRené Russell\nFor us, the biggest thing is having their experience behind us. And it's not just about having a team, it's about the specific team that's involved with True REST. They're just the best people on the planet and they'll do anything to help us be successful. It's a no-brainer, it's unbelievable how much energy they're put into the infrastructure of the organization.\nLaura & Alden Witte\nWe don't have a lot of business experience, so we knew this was the right choice for us to get started. What attracted us to True REST was it had an entire experience associated with it, it's not just a float. From the second you walk in the door they had it all figured out. And we knew that was the direction we wanted to go in.\nJosh & Janelle Slack\nI was so excited to hear they were franchising because I didn't want to have to re-create the software, re-create the pricing, what the look of the spa would be, go through the trial and error process at my own expense; and that's the beauty of franchising - having the proven systems and a successful business model in place from day 1; How could you go wrong?\nDave & Laurie Bell\nThis web page does not constitute a franchise offering or an offer to sell a franchise. A franchise offering can be made by us only in a state if we are first registered, excluded, exempted or otherwise qualified to offer franchises in that state, and only if we provide you with an appropriate franchise disclosure document.\nLooking for more information about True REST Float Spa? Take a moment to fill out our quick information request form.\nInterest Level Single-Unit Operator Multi-Unit Operator\nPlease send me email updates on the latest Franchise News and Opportunities\nBy submitting this form, you give consent for Franchising.com to provide the information above to True REST Float Spa so they may contact you via phone or email. View our Privacy Policy for more information.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1320771"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6178373098373413,"wiki_prob":0.3821626901626587,"text":"Jefferson Burke and the secret of The Lost Scroll by Ace Collins\nBook Description: Jefferson Burke and the Secret of the Lost Scroll is a mystery as old as the Christian church wrapped in a modern-day thriller. Though an unwilling hero, Professor Jefferson Burke's intellectual curiosity pits him against the powerful Bruno Krueger in a race to find a 2000-year-old scroll that calls into question the divinity of Christ and could shake the foundation of Christian faith, upsetting the balance of power in the modern world. Their deadly quest spans the globe, involving officials from the Vatican, CIA and FBI agents, British royalty, a Hollywood actress, and modern terrorists. This classic battle of good vs. evil will hook believers and doubters alike. The uncertainties raised by the very existence of the elusive scroll will have every reader questioning the basis of their faith and wondering what would happen if certain fundamental truths suddenly were proven untrue. Artfully and thoughtfully told, this is the kind of action-packed adventure story that will keep loyal Ace Collins readers---and increasing legions of new fans---coming back for more.\nMy Review: I love a good action/suspense novel! And I was surprised by the action, adventure and pure suspense in Ace Collins book, The Secret of the Lost Scroll!\nWOW! When a book begins with \"Baltore the priest had no idea where they had come from. Like ghosts, they seemed to appear out of thin air, but he was well aware that his plight was his own making.\" (p. 11) then the reader knows this is going to be a one.of.those.fantastically.great reads!\nDr. Jefferson Burke is approached by Anthony Columbo to help him find the lost scrolls. Actually this first scene of the book where Columbo talks with Burke reminded me of the beginning of Indiana Jones . . . college history professor talked into helping find an ancient artifact for the \"good of humanity.\" But there's oh-so-much-more!\nI love National Treasure, so again there's a bit of that in Burke too! Burke's life is turned upside.down! as he races to find the first clue!\nThis is an incredible read with Cho and Burke having some serious soul searching as they think what would happen if they find that Joseph is the true father of Jesus! Because if one finds the truth then one has the obligation to tell the world the truth, right? God has a way of bringing the truth to light for those who search for righteousness! Of course, there's always a \"bad guy\", Krueger, the evil one who would love nothing more than spreading lies and untruths!\nI loved it and truthfully had a hard time putting this book down! I'll be looking for more books by Ace Collins.\n*This book was provided for review by Zondervan*\nAce Collins is the writer of more than sixty books, including several bestsellers: Stories behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas, Stories behind the Great Traditions of Christmas, The Cathedrals, and Lassie: A Dog's Life. Based in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, He continues to publish several new titles each year, including a series of novels, the first of which is Farraday Road. Ace has appeared on scores of television shows, including CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and Entertainment Tonight.\nBUY BOOK HERE!\nHarvest of Grace An Ada's House Novel by Cindy Woodsmall\nBook Description: When Sylvia Fischer turned down her beau's offer of marriage, she expected him to give her the time and space she'd requested, believing they would eventually wed. Instead he married her sister. When she learns that his betrayal was her father's idea--a proposition made to save the farm--she knows she'll never trust another man.\nDespite the secrets hiding in Aaron Blank's youth, he thinks he's ready to face his future. As he sets out to make up for the wrongs he's done to his family, he meets Sylvia, the new farmhand from a nearby district. She doesn't want him around, seems to have his father's heart in the palm of her hand--and what she knows could ruin his future.\nMy Review: This is the third book is in the Ada's House Series. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this when I decided to read Harvest of Grace. But since this read is about Sylvia Fisher, Ephraim, Aaron, Lena and Grey (and so many others), it reads like a stand-a-lone novel. However. I would definitely recommend reading this series in order since I feel there is \"history\" I may have missed.\nI like this Amish love story. The tug-of-war between Sylvia and Ephraim is fun and so universal, \"Jealousy crept up her spine. It seemed that he'd spent his years as a bachelor dating every single Amish woman in Dry Lake and the surrounding communities.\" (p. 45). Sounds like some \"English\" guys I know. Men will be men. <smile>\nLearning about an Amish dairy farm was interesting too. But it was \"the secret\" that kept me turning the pages.\nThis reads has quite an involved plot and is a \"wonderful gut\" read! If you enjoy Amish fiction don't miss this fantastic read! And maybe you could read books 1 & 2, too!\n*This book was provided by Waterbrook Press/Multnomah*\nCindy Woodsmall is a New York Times best-selling author whose connection with the Amish community has been featured onABC Nightline and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.\nShe is also a veteran homeschool mom who no longer holds that position. As her children progressed in age, her desire to write grew stronger. After working through reservations whether this desire was something she should pursue, she began her writing journey. Her husband was her staunchest supporter as she aimed for what seemed impossible.\nHer first novel released in 2006 to much acclaim and became a best seller. Cindy was a 2007 ECPA award finalist, along with Karen Kingsbury, Angela Hunt, and Charles Martin.\nHer second book, When the Morning Comes, hit numerous best-sellers lists across the US, including edging into the extended list of the New York Times, coming in at number thirty-four.\nHer third book, When the Soul Mends, hit the New York Times best-sellers list, coming in at number thirteen, as well as making the USA Today’s best-sellers list.\nCindy continues to write and release best-selling works of fiction, and she’s also written a nonfiction work with an Old Order Amish friend, Miriam Flaud. The book is titled Plain Wisdom: An Invitation into an Amish Home and the Hearts of Two Women.\nHer real-life connections with Amish Mennonite and Old Order Amish families enrich her novels with authenticity.\nThough she didn’t realize it at the time, seeds were sown years ago that began preparing Cindy to write these books. At the age of ten, while living in the dairy country of Maryland, she became best friends with Luann, a Plain Mennonite girl. Luann, like all the females in her family, wore the prayer Kapp and caped dresses. Her parents didn’t allow television or radios, and many other modern conveniences were frowned upon. During the numerous times Luann came to Cindy’s house to spend the night, her rules came with her and the two were careful to obey them—afraid that if they didn’t, the adults would end their friendship. Although the rules were much easier to keep when they spent the night at Luann’s because her family didn’t own any of the forbidden items, both sets of parents were uncomfortable with the relationship and a small infraction of any kind would have been enough reason for the parents to end the relationship. While navigating around the adults’ disapproval and the obstacles in each other’s lifestyle, the two girls bonded in true friendship that lasted into their teen years, until Cindy’s family moved to another region of the US.\nAs an adult, Cindy became friends with a wonderful Old Order Amish family who opened their home to her. Although the two women, Miriam and Cindy, live seven hundred miles apart geographically, and a century apart by customs, when they come together they never lack for commonality, laughter, and dreams of what only God can accomplish through His children.\nCindy, her husband, their three sons and two daughters-in-law reside in Georgia.\nWOW {Warm Oven Wednesday} Veggie Pizza! SO GOOD!\nSince we're eating WAY more veggies lately\nI love this recipe from ALLRECIPES.com\n2 (8 ounce) packages refrigerated crescent rolls\n1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened\n1 teaspoon dried dill weed\n1 (1 ounce) package ranch dressing mix\n1 stalk celery, thinly sliced\n1/2 cup halved and thinly-sliced radishes\n1 red bell pepper, chopped\n1 1/2 cups fresh broccoli, chopped\nPreheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a jellyroll pan with non-stick cooking spray.\nPat crescent roll dough into a jellyroll pan. Let stand 5 minutes. Pierce with fork.\nBake for 10 minutes, let cool.\nIn a medium-sized mixing bowl, combine sour cream, cream cheese, dill weed, garlic salt and ranch dip mix. Spread this mixture on top of the cooled crust. Arrange the onion, carrot, celery, broccoli, radish, bell pepper and broccoli on top of the creamed mixture. Cover and let chill. Once chilled, cut it into squares and serve.\n(Kregel Blog Tour} Glastonbury Tor by LeAnne Hardy\nBook Description: His mother wanted him to be a monk... His father wanted him to be a man... A priest tempts him to pursue power... But Colin must find his own way.\nAfter his mother’s tragic death, seventeen-year-old Colin Hay is so consumed with anger that he tries to kill his cruel father. Running from these tormenting desires and his home, he seeks the protection and cleansing of the Glastonbury monastery, at a time when King Henry VIII is closing monasteries all over England.\nBut Colin’s past has followed him to Glastonbury. As he now pursues forgiveness and salvation, Colin is conflicted by the doctrines he learns at the monastery and the grace he receives from a local family with a forbidden English Bible. And then there is a quick-tempered priest whose lust for power threatens to compromise Glastonbury Abbey, and to destroy the astonishing treasure it holds—the Holy Grail.\nMy Review: LeAnne Hardy writes a wonderful, historical novel in Glastonbury Tor. Before beginning this novel I confess that I had to look up Glastonbury Tor. I wasn't familiar with what Glastonbury Tor meant but I found out that this is no ordinary place; in fact, it is considered to be a holy place where people go and after climbing up the hill they are different people as they come down the hill chanting and singing....maybe not changed people but definitely \"enlightened\" and seemingly happier.\nAs I began reading Glastonbury Tor my heart ached for Colin and his mom. Colin's father is a wicked, selfish man who only wants to satisfy his own desires.\nColin never really knew his father and then a tragedy strikes. Colin runs away seeking something that he's never known.\nThe language and descriptions of the book took me back to Medieval times. Times when people had to seek the Good and that is exactly what Colin does.\nHe has a \"coming of age transformation.\" He seeks the truth trying to rid himself of the the terrible anger he has against his own father. An anger he feels may consume him.\nColin is counseled by Father David to make his way to Glastonbury. Father David tells Colin that he has the gift of learning and the monks at Glastonbury can teach him more than ,he, Father David knows.\nSo, Colin begins his life's journey. However, upon reaching Glastonbury, Colin is told by the Abbot that he may stay as long as he needs for a spiritual retreat.\nThe story continues and the \"simplicity\" of the unlearned mind is also revealed in this story. As \"the great library was sold, piece by piece. Few outside of the abbey valued reading, and one day I saw customers leaving the fishmonger's with purchases wrapped in illuminated missal that had been laboriously copied before their great-gradsires were born.\" (p. 174) Even though people were quite uneducated it was the \"voice\" of the educated who saved and carried on the work so that others could learn.\nOf course, there is a bit of romance in this lovely read. God and the Holy Word are incorporated into this truly great story allowing the reader to see how God works all things for our good!\nThis 5 star read flows allowing the reader to \"cross over\" into another time and another place.\nIf you're a history buff and love to read of days gone by then don't miss this great read!\nLeAnne Hardy has traveled the world responding to God's call to be a missionary, a call that has taken her to Africa, South America, and Eastern Europe. The diverse settings and plots in her books have been inspired by her real-life encounters there. Many of the stories and scenes from her books come from her family's experiences on the mission field or are based on true stories of others.\nCOTT: Clash Of The Titles....\nGuest post by http://www.michellemassaro.blogspot.com/Michelle Massaro Asst. Editor for http://www.clashofthetitles.com/Clash of the Titles.\nThis week COTT is focusing on gut-wrenching passages, which are some of my favorites! So it got me wondering, why do we so enjoy reading those scenes that tear our hearts out and end with an empty box of tissues?&nbsp;\nMost of us already know about stress hormones and how they build up in the body, causing all kinds of problems. According to one article I read, emotionally-induced tears contain protein-based hormones as well as leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller. So \"a good cry\" flushes all those stress hormones out of our system.\nWell, the science is all fine and dandy but I still wanted some experiental answers. Here's what some of you had to say:\nhttp://www.facebook.com/profileDiana Prusik Tears are cathartic. There's nothing like a good cry during a touching scene . . except for a good cry followed by laughter. (Think Sally Fields' stellar graveside scene in Steel Magnolias. Poor Ouiser!) Something about reading or watching a scene like that feels emotionally cleansing.\nhttp://www.facebook.com/brian.heffron Brian Heffron agrees:Catharsis\nhttp://www.facebook.com/profile Barbara Robinson Because a book has to touch us emotionally or it's nothing to us. It must evoke reader emotions. If I don't feel anything when I read a book, the book is not any good, and I wouldn't finish it.\nhttp://www.facebook.com/christine.lindsay2 Christine Lindsay I think we need to cry as much as we need to smile and laugh. Although when we cry, it's because we are always reaching out for hope. That this sad situation will not remain, but that the sun will shine again. It's about hope.\nhttp://www.facebook.com/profile Jessica Patch God designed us to connect with others. The bible says rejoice when others rejoice and weep when others weep. We're built to care. We want to. Real life or fiction, we're drawn to it and good writing makes us feel like it's real even when it's not.\nThose are some great answers! What about you? Why do you love those gut-wrenching scenes? (Or if not, why don't you care for them?\nConnect with Michelle at her bloghttp://www.michellemassaro.blogspot.com.\nFREE Kindle Books!\nPosted by Tammy G. at 2:01 PM 1 comment:\nSurrender the Dawn by MaryLu Tyndall\nBook Description: Cassandra Channing's determination to save her family from destitution sends her on a near impossible quest. The war of 1812 presents the unique opportunity to invest in a privateer--yet no man is willing to submit himself to a woman investor.\nThe town rake, Luke Heaton, isn't the most reputable. With only a broken sea vessel that will cost far too much to repair and no one willing to take a chance on him, he knows his luck is short. When the beautiful Miss Channing offers to invest in him, he knows he can't turn the opportunity down. Is it possible she could be the answer to his deepest desire--a new start? As Luke and Cassandra work together, an undeniable attraction pulls them closer together. When it finally seems as though Luke may have his new start, the British blackmail him into selling to them and betraying his country, risking everything he holds dear.\nMy Review: Have you ever began a book and thought, \"I've read this before?\" Well, after beginning Surrender the Dawn by MaryLu Tyndall this is exactly what I was thinking. Deja vu!\nAs I continued reading I realized that the events were not on timeline but the story was backtracking. Once I realized this \"it all made sense.\" So, this is a book that if you've read the preceding book, Surrender the Night, you may think you've read it before which you have but this is not the same story...just a few facts from the previous book.\nI loved reading about the high seas adventure and the characters in this well written story makes it very hard to put this 5 star read down!\nIf you enjoy historical reads mixed with courage, adventure and romance then make sure to add this book to your summer TBR pile!\n*This book was provided for review by NetGalley & Barbour Publishing*\nFOR A LIMITED TIME (JULY 31),\nYOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE FIRST BOOK IN THE\nSURRENDER TO DESTINY SERIES FOR FREE!\nWater's Edge by Robert Whitlow\nBook Description: Sometimes small towns hold the biggest secrets.\nAmbitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a high-profile Atlanta law firm. But first he must clear one final matter from his docket-the closing of his deceased father's law practice in his hometown of Bethel, Georgia. Killed in a mysterious boating accident, John Crane didn't appear to leave his son anything except the hassle of wrapping up loose ends.\nBut instead of celebrating his promotion, Tom finds himself packing up his office, having suddenly been \"consolidated.\" To add insult to injury, that same night his girlfriend breaks up with him . . . by letter.\nReturning to Bethel with no sense of his future and no faith to fall back on, Tom just wants to settle his father's final affairs and get back to Atlanta. But then he runs into an unexpected roadblock-two million dollars of unclaimed money stashed in a secret bank account. And evidence that his father's death may not have been accidental. Worse still, a trail of data suggests his father played a role in an international fraud operation.\nTom follows the money into a tangled web of lies, theft, and betrayal. Along the way, he meets a woman who is as beguiling as she is beautiful. And her interest in the outcome of the case is just as high as his. She challenges Tom's assumptions . . . and his faith. Now he has to decide who he can trust-and how far a father's love can reach.\nMy Review: I like the way this story begins...Tom is at his desk stunned that his boss called him and basically tells him he's in for a great life at the firm ... \"Future potential always outshines faded glory.\" This one sentence \"tells\" the story of Tom's life. Then everything starts to go down hill~fast!\nTom begins to lose everything dear to him-his father passes away unexpectedly during a fishing trip, his employer makes cutbacks due to the economy-eliminating Tom from his job and his girlfriend, Clarice, breaks up with him and takes his cat! That's all in the first two chapters!\nThen Tom decides to leave Atlanta and go back to his hometown of Bethel, a small community where Tom's dad had a law office. Tom decides this is a good time to take care of his dad's things. To begin clearing up and cleaning out the office. When a mystery appears. \"Things\" in one certain case aren't adding up. Where did \"this\" money come from and was his dad as honest as he should have been? Here begins the suspense and the mystery!\nRobert Whitlow is a master at legal suspense. He takes an ordinary, everyday young lawyer like Tom and turns his whole life into a thrilling tale of action packed suspense, thrilling turn of events and christian values.\nTom's baptism made me teary eyed... his pastor asks him if he is willing to walk the paths of the ancient ones ... just like we read in Jeremiah 6:16. This is one read that will make one take a look at your own spiritual life.\nA most EXCELLENT read! Don't miss this newest book by Robert Whitlow!\n*This book was provided for review by BookSneeze/Thomas Nelson Publishing*\nRobert Whitlow grew up in north Georgia. He graduated magna cum laude from Furman University with a BA in history in 1976 and received his JD with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1979. A practicing attorney, he is a partner in a Charlotte, NC law firm. He and his wife Kathy have four children and two grandchildren.\nRobert began writing in 1996. His novels are set in the South and include both legal suspense and interesting characterization. It is his desire to write stories that reveal some of the ways God interacts with people in realistic scenerios.\nIn Between {A Katie Parker Production ACT 1} by jenny b. jones\nBook Description: Unlike most kids, teenage Katie Parker never got a fair shot at a normal life. With a mother in jail and a missing-in-action dad, she's never known what it's like to truly be loved. Low on options and family members, she's soon shipped off to a foster home. Now in an unfamiliar town, Katie's rebellious attitude is at odds with her new family, school, and classmates. And after falling in with all the wrong people at school, things go from bad to really bad after she takes the blame for vandalizing the local performing arts theater. But in the midst of a dark situation, Katie finds light in the most unexpected places: through her new friendship with an eccentric senior, the commitment of her foster family, and a tragic secret that changed them forever. And as she inches closer to acceptance and forgiveness, she finds that God has been there all along.\nMy Review: This book, In Between by Jenny B. Jones, begins with Katie telling the reader, \"I'm what you call an orphan, I guess. I'm officially a ward of the state of Texas. Knowing that your greatest achievement to date is becoming a dependent of an entire state can totally blow a girl's confidence.\" (p.9)\nKatie is at a girl's home for a total of six months before being shipped out to foster care or as she calls them \"pretend-o-parents.\"\nOne can't help but love Katie. She's funny, quirky and she's a survivor!\nMs. Smartly, the director of said girls home, tells Katie that Mr. & Mrs. Scott will be her foster parents. Katie tries to talk Ms. Smartly out of sending her to the Scotts but Katie goes....Katie is impressed with the pink room that Mrs. Scott has prepared for her. She can't help but like the Scott's!\nThen Katie meets Maxine (aka foster grandma)! The most outrageous senior citizen in the history of the world! Boy! Can this woman eat!\nKatie is funny so when she decides she doesn't want to go to school Millie (Mrs. Scott) asks, \"What are your symptoms?\"\nKatie instantly thinks, \"My symptoms? Let's see, fear, embarrassment, regret, and the strong desire to morph into someone else.\" (p.174) Katie goes to school.\nThe Scott's introduce Katie to church. She seems to enjoy getting to know what church is all about and learning about God. Then Katie finds out why Mrs. Scott is so sad....the mystery behind the tears. And God is always for us not against us!\nThis is one of those reads that gives us a glimpse into the life and times of a foster kid~the emotion, the feelings of aloneness, and being cared for by a stranger(s)! I loved this teen fiction read!\n*This book was provided for review by NavPress*\nVISIT JENNY'S PAGE HERE!\nWOW {Warm Oven Wednesday} Watermelon Salad 'cause it's TOO HOT to cook!\nA friend sent me a recipe she found at ALLRECIPES.com\nINCREDIBLY GOOD EATING!\n3/4 cup halved, thinly sliced red onion\n1 tablespoon fresh lime juice\n1 1/2 quarts seeded, cubed watermelon\n1/2 cup pitted black olive halves\n1 cup chopped fresh mint\nPlace the onion slices in a small bowl with the lime juice.\nThe acid of the lime will mellow the flavor of the raw onion.\nLet stand for 10 minutes.\nIn a large bowl, combine the watermelon cubes, feta cheese, black olives, onions with the lime juice, and mint. Drizzle\nolive oil over it all, and toss to blend.\nDig in and be prepared for a pleasant surprise!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line320045"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6022809743881226,"wiki_prob":0.6022809743881226,"text":"Europe: Convention on Violence Against Women Takes Effect in August\nThursday, April 24, 2014 11:30 AM\nThe Council of Europe's Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention, will enter into force on August 1, 2014. The Istanbul Convention, named for its adoption in Istanbul in 2011, is Europe’s first treaty designed to combat violence against women. It requires states to focus on four primary areas: protection of victims, prevention of violence, prosecution of perpetrators and victim services, such as shelters and medical care. The Istanbul Convention will also establish an independent group of experts who will assess states parties’ compliance with the Istanbul Convention’s standards.\nEntry into force of the Istanbul Convention is significant in light of a landmark report by the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (“FRA”), which found that physical and sexual violence affects 62 million women across Europe. Calling on European countries to ratify the Istanbul Convention in March, FRA Director Morten Kjaerum stated, \"[m]easures tackling violence against women need to be taken to a new level now.”\nOn April 22, Andorra became the 10th Council of Europe (COE) member state to ratify the Istanbul Convention, which required ratification by 10 COE members in order to become legally binding. On April 23, Denmark also ratified the Convention, bringing to eleven the number of countries that have ratified the treaty, including: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Spain and Turkey. An additional twenty-two countries have signed the Convention, which is the first step towards ratification. The treaty will only be legally binding for those countries that have ratified it.\nCompiled from: Europe Treaty on Violence Against Women to Take Effect, Human Rights Watch (April 23, 2014); Europe takes major step forward to protect women’s rights, says Secretary General Jagland, Council of Europe (April 23, 2014); Statement by the Secretary General on the 10th ratification of the Istanbul convention, Council of Europe (April 22, 2014); New Report: Violence Against Women Prevalent Across Europe, The Advocates for Human Rights (March 7, 2014).\nPlease see the Istanbul Convention and Domestic Violence sections of this website.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1621705"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9796769618988037,"wiki_prob":0.9796769618988037,"text":"Nick Ayers, Trump's likely pick for chief of staff, won't take the job\nBy Felicia Sonmez\nDecember 10, 2018 — 9.42am\nWashington: Nick Ayers has announced he is leaving the White House and will not be President Donald Trump's next chief of staff, with four other candidates now in the running to succeed John Kelly as Trump eyes a decision by the end of the year.\nUS Vice President Mike Pence, left, with his Chief of Staff Nick Ayers in Georgia last year. Ayers said he is also leaving the White House. Credit:EPA/AP\nAyers, a longtime operative who is currently Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, said in a tweet that he would leave his position at the end of the year but \"will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause.\"\n\"Thank you @realDonaldTrump, @VP, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at The White House,\" he said.\nUS President Donald Trump before boarding Marine One at the weekend. Credit:AP\nAyers was skeptical of taking the top administration job based on the challenges that Kelly and his predecessor, Reince Priebus, faced in the position, according to an administration official with direct knowledge of the negotiations.\nHe will instead probably move back to Georgia and work with a super PAC set up to assist the President's reelection, the official said. A White House official said Trump and Ayers could not reach agreement on Ayers' length of service. Trump wanted his next chief of staff to hold the job through the 2020 election.\nTrump announced on Saturday that Kelly would leave by the end of the year, closing out his rocky tenure.\nA person familiar with Trump's thinking told The Associated Press that the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney, was among those under consideration","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line324063"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7522407174110413,"wiki_prob":0.7522407174110413,"text":"English language and linguistics: general interest\nIdeas and Ideals\nNeil Smith, University College London\nNicholas Allott, Universitetet i Oslo\nHardback, eBook\nNoam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human nature. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, this book explores Chomsky's key theories, especially recent developments in his Minimalist Program, addressing issues such as: how do we know a language? How do children acquire this knowledge? How did language evolve? This third edition has been expanded and thoroughly updated and includes an exploration of Chomsky's contributions to philosophy and psychology, outlining the impact of his radical and often controversial views. It concludes with an account of his political activism and his critique of recent developments such as the Arab Spring, Wikileaks and the Occupy movement. There is also a new section covering his views on climate change and nuclear disarmament.\nA wide-ranging overview of all areas of Chomsky's work\nAuthoritative and unbiased coverage of his more controversial ideas\nThoroughly updated to cover recent developments\n'This is the book about Noam Chomsky that you were looking for. Without presupposing any background, it takes the reader on a fascinating intellectual journey documenting the enormous contributions Chomsky has made to the history of ideas … This book is carefully crafted and beautifully written. As far as books on popular science go, this is a masterpiece.' Stephen Crain, Macquarie University, Sydney and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders\n'… a clear, accurate and compelling introduction to Chomsky's work.' Jan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo\n'A superb, synoptic, and not uncritical exposition of Chomsky's views, in linguistics and politics, usefully updating previous editions to include discussion of 'Minimalism', 'Darwin's Problem', and political commentaries since 9/11.' Georges Rey, University of Maryland, College Park\nEdition: 3rd Edition\n1. The mirror of the mind\n2. The linguistic foundation\n3. Language and psychology\n4. Philosophical realism: commitments and controversies\n5. Language and freedom.\nNeil Smith is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.\nNicholas Allott is Senior Lecturer of English Language at the University of Oslo.\nInterview with Neil Smith and Nicholas Allott on the third edition of 'Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals'\nThis title is available for institutional purchase via Cambridge Core\nCambridge Core offers access to academic eBooks from our world-renowned publishing programme.\nThe Science of Language\nInterviews with James McGilvray\nThe Cambridge Companion to Chomsky\nOn Nature and Language\nEnglish Today provides accessible cutting-edge reports on all aspects of the language, including style, usage, dictionaries,…\nEnglish Language and Linguistics\nEnglish Language and Linguistics, published three times a year, is an international journal which focuses on the…\nAcquiring Phonology\nA Cross-Generational Case-Study\nAfrican and Caribbean language and linguistics\nApplied linguistics and second language acquisition\nArabic and Middle Eastern language and linguistics\nAsian language and linguistics\nEuropean language and linguistics\nGrammar and syntax\nLatin American language and linguistics\nOther languages and linguistics\nPsycholinguistics and neurolinguistics\nResearch methods in linguistics","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line319058"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6370261311531067,"wiki_prob":0.3629738688468933,"text":"Balancing the League\nEveryone involved in Little League wants what is in each child’s best interest:\nEach child wants to have fun playing baseball.\nParents want their children to have a positive experience.\nFCKLL wants the teams to be selected so that each child has a fair opportunity to participate and contribute. The skills assessment/tryout and draft is the Little League-approved method for achieving these goals.\nAlthough FCKLL is sensitive to the wishes of parents regarding the level into which their child is drafted, it is Little League’s policy that a child will play at the level at which he/she is drafted. This rule means that by registering to play baseball, a child (and his/her parents) agree to play at whatever level the Managers determine is best, based on the child’s ability. If you wish an exemption, you may discuss your situation with the player agent; however, all exemptions, detailing the reasons for the exemption, must be submitted in writing to the player agent. Exemptions may be granted to have siblings playing together on a team. FCKLL’s job to ensure that each player is playing at an appropriate level. The draft is the method which most successfully:\nDistributes talent into the appropriate level of play (i.e., Majors, AAA, AA), keeping the League strong and growing.\nDistributes talent evenly throughout each level, making the games more competitive and fun.\nPromotes the safety of the players (if a player is playing above his/her skill level, he/she could be hurt. If a player is playing below his/her skill level, he/she could hurt others).\nThe list of Major-eligible players (i.e. they earned the minimum required rating which indicates that they have the skills necessary to play in the Majors) is presented to the Board of Directors at a special meeting. Once the Board approves that list, only the players on it are eligible to be drafted into the Majors. Typically, there are more players on the Majors-eligible players list than there are available positions on Majors teams. Not every child on the list will be drafted to the Majors. The remaining players are included in the AAA draft and are available to be called up to the Majors to fill vacancies that may occur during the season. Once the Majors teams have completed their draft, a list of AAA-eligible players is prepared for that level’s draft. A similar process is used to prepare for the AA draft. Not every child who attends tryouts will be drafted onto a Majors, AAA, or AA team. Those not selected in the AA draft will be placed on A teams. For Single A, T-Ball Sluggers, and T-ball Rookies teams, a player’s parents may request the team for which he/she plays. If no request is made, players are assigned by home/school area. Every attempt is made for each team to have a similar number of each age group to balance the competitiveness of teams. Teams are formed by the Player Agent.\nOnce teams have been assigned in late February/early March, the Manager will contact each player’s family with the practice schedule.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1366882"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8861216306686401,"wiki_prob":0.8861216306686401,"text":"TDP 109: A short Story at Christmas. Raining Cats and Dogs\nenjoy this xmas gift from the TDP\nDirect download: TDP_109_Raining_cats_and_dogs.mp3\nTDP 108: RPG Adventures in Time and An Earthly Child\nRPG Update\nDirect download: tdp_108_RPG_Earthly_child.mp3\nFri, 4 December 2009\nTDP 107: Dalek, Dreamland and SJSA 3.6\ninfo to follow\nDirect download: TDP107_Dalek_Dreamland_sjsa_3_6.mp3\nThu, 19 November 2009\nTDP 106: Waters of Mars & SJSA 3.5\nThe Waters of Mars is the second of the 2009 Specials leading up to the end of the David Tennant era. It aired on 15th November 2009 on BBC One.\n5.1 Earth history\n5.2 Locations\n5.3 Races and Species\n5.4 Robots\n8 International broadcasts\n9 DVD release\n11 Footnotes\nMars. 2059. Bowie Base One. Last recorded message: \"Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop.\"\nThe TARDIS arrives on Mars and the Doctor steps out in his spacesuit, seemingly just to relax and enjoy the landscape. Stumbling across a base inhabited by a team from Earth, the Doctor is detained by a remote-controlled robot called \"GADGET\" and brought inside. The base commander, Adelaide Brooke, is at first suspicious of the Doctor, but after a tense interrogation, decides to trust him. The Doctor learns that the date is 21st November 2059, and that this is in fact Bowie Base One, the first human outpost on Mars. History has it that on this date the base was destroyed in a mysterious explosion and Brooke and her crew were all killed. Unwilling to break the laws of time and interfere with fixed points in history, the Doctor decides to leave. However, at the very same moment a crisis is developing: two crewmembers, Andy Stone and Maggie Cain, have been infected by a mysterious life form which takes over their bodies and causes them to gush copious amounts of water. Adelaide confiscates the Doctor's spacesuit, reasoning that he could be responsible for the infection in some way, and orders him to come with her and another crewmember, Tarak Ital, to investigate.\nThe infection spreads, with Andy passing on the condition to Tarak. The two men are contained in the base's \"bio-sphere\" section while Maggie is secured in the medical wing. In a conversation with colleague Yuri Kerenski, the organism occupying Maggie's body reveals its desire to reach Earth, a planet rich in water. The crew plan to evacuate in an escape shuttle, and the Doctor breaks the news to Adelaide that she must die today, on Mars, if events are to unfold as they should. However, he also tells her that her death will inspire her descendants to travel further into space and establish peaceful relations with numerous extraterrestrial species. Unwillingly, Adelaide lets him leave. As the Doctor is making his way back to the TARDIS, Maggie breaks out of confinement, infiltrates the shuttle and infects pilot Ed Gold, Adelaide's deputy. Before the condition takes a hold over him, Ed manages to trigger the shuttle's self-destruct mechanism, which traps the infection on Mars but also leaves the surviving crew with no means of escape. The destruction of the shuttle is witnessed by the Doctor who, overcome by defiance against time itself, returns to the base to save the others.\nRealising that there is no way to change the course of history, Adelaide activates Bowie Base's self-destruct sequence. The infected personnel mount the roof of the control centre and exude more water, which pours into the room and claims GADGET's operator, Roman Groom, and Steffie Ehrlich. However, the Doctor uses GADGET to access the TARDIS, operate its controls remotely and transport the time and space machine into the base, rescuing Adelaide, Yuri and Mia Bennett from the resulting nuclear explosion.\nThe TARDIS materialises outside Adelaide's house on Earth. Mia and Yuri are shocked by their experiences on Mars and Doctor's power and depart, bewildered. In a conversation with Adelaide, the Doctor reflects on why he ultimately decided to save her and the others. He argues that the Time Lords' rules were only valid while their civilisation existed, and that since he is the last of his race he has total authority over time. He proudly declares himself the \"Time Lord Victorious\" and remarks that with this power he will now be able to save influential figures such as Adelaide as well as \"little people\" the likes of Yuri and Mia. Scolding the Doctor for his new found arrogance, Adelaide returns home and commits suicide, reverting the changes that the Doctor has made to the timeline.\nOnly now understanding the full impact of his actions, the Doctor is overcome with horror and realises that there will be a price to pay for his interference. Ood Sigma appears in the street, prompting the Doctor to ask him whether he has finally gone too far — whether the time has come for him to die. Unresponsive, Sigma vanishes, and the Doctor staggers back into the TARDIS to the ominous sound of the Cloister Bell. With a defiant \"No!\", he begins to work the machine's controls.\nAdelaide Brooke - Lindsay Duncan\nEd Gold - Peter O'Brien\nTarak Ital - Chook Sibtain\nAndy Stone - Alan Ruscoe\nMaggie Cain - Sharon Duncan-Brewster\nMia Bennett - Gemma Chan\nYuri Kerenski - Aleksander Mikic\nSteffie Ehrlich - Cosima Shaw\nRoman Groom - Michael Goldsmith\nEmily Brooke - Lily Bevan\nMikhail Kerenski - Max Bollinger\nUlrika Ehrlich - Anouska Strahnz\nLisette Ehrlich - Zofia Strahnz\nAdelaide's Father - Charlie De'ath\nOod Sigma - Paul Kasey\nYoung Adelaide - Rachel Fewell\n1st Assistant Director - William Hartley\n2nd Assistant Director - James DeHaviland\nUnit Manager - Geraint Williams\nProduction Runner - Siân Warrilow\nFloor Runner - Alison Jones\nContinuity - Llinos Wyn Jones\nScript Editor - Gary Russell\nCamera Operators - Roger Pearce, Rory Taylor\nFocus Pullers - Steve Rees, Jamie Southcott\nCamera Assistants - Jon Vidgen, Tom Hartley\nElectricians - Ben Griffiths, Jonathon Cox\nStunt Co-ordinator - Abbi Collins\nChoreographer - Ailsa Berk Supervising\nArt Director - Stephen Nicholas\nStandby Props - Phill Shellard, Jackson Pope\nSet Decorator - Joelle Rumbelow\nProperty Master - Paul Aitken\nMake-Up Artists - Pam Mullins, Steve Smith, Morag Smith\nCasting Associate - Andy Brierley\nCasting Assistant - Alice Purse\nPost Production Supervisors - Samantha Hall, Chris Blatchford\nDialogue Editor - Douglas Sinclair\nAdelaide was 10 years old when the Earth was stolen by the Daleks, she witnessed one herself.\nWhilst on Earth when the Doctor is in the TARDIS the cloister bell is audible.\nEarth history\nAdelaide Brooke says that the last forty years on Earth have been chaos, with massive climate change, ozone degredation, and \"the oil apocalypse\"; humanity \"almost reached extinction\" during this period. Andy's obituary mentions \"appalling storm conditions\" in 2040, and climate change affecting agriculture in 2045.\nMaggie believes the Doctor may be a Philippino or Spanish astronaut, as the Philippines are rumoured to be building a Mars rocket and Spain have a \"space link\" that they managed to keep secret. Andy Stone's sister worked for the Spanish space programme. Ed Gold believes the Doctor is from a non-state independent group, referring to the Branson Inheritance.\nVarious lunar missions have been carried out, including ten German missions and Project Pit Stop, establishing a refueling station on the moon. Mars was landed on in 2041, with Adelaide Brooke as part of the crew. Thirty years after 2059, Brooke's granddaughter Susan will pilot the first lightspeed ship.\nAt least one of the webpages -- the one showing Brooke's granddaughter -- dates from the 2080s or later, suggesting the Internet still exists in some form in the late 21st century.\nBowie Base One is Earth's first off world colony.\n\"Bowie Base One\" is a reference to the David Bowie song \"Life on Mars\", which is also the name of a BBC TV series set in 1972 starring John Simm, who currently plays The Master.\nBowie Base One is located on Mars in the Gusev Crater.\nRaces and Species\nThe Doctor mentions the Ice Warriors and suggests that they may have frozen the Flood.\nThe Doctor said that he hates \"funny robots\" but notes that he'd be okay with a robot dog.\nGadget was built by Roman Groom using parts from the drones that constructed Bowie Base One.\nThis story was initially envisaged as a Christmas special, several festive references remain, such as the crew on Mars preparing for Christmas dinner, and it snowing when the Doctor arrives back on Earth as he exclaims how he likes snow.\nThis story was originally entitled; Red Christmas.\nAs Lindsay Duncan has been cast as a companion, she is the oldest actor to play a companion on television since the beginning of the series, although this title will be taken away from her in the next episode when Bernard Cribbins becomes the Doctor's companion.\n33.9% of TV share\nVictoria Place, Newport\nNational Botanic Gardens of Wales, Carmarthenshire\nTaff's Well quarry, Cardiff, Wales\nIf no Human had ever heard of the Ice Warriors then how can the events of NA: The Dying Days not be known by the Humans? The novels may not be considered canon, by the current production team, also that event may have been in flux. It is never explicitly stated that Humans have never heard of the Ice Warriors. When the Doctor mentions them, Adelaide simply states, \"I haven't got time for stories.\"\nAfter the explosion of the shuttle, several fires are burning all around the site. Taking into account the initial explosion was fueled by the base's oxygen, and given that Mars has no appreciable atmosphere, how can these smaller fires burn in the vacuum? Because Mars does have an atmosphere, albeit one with a pressure roughly equivalent to one hundredth that of Earth's atmosphere.\nGiven that Mars's thin atmosphere consists primarily of carbon dioxide, with a very small concentration of oxygen (which is required for combustion), how can the smaller fires after the explosion burn? There is a lot we don't know about Bowie Base One. We don't know what sort of fuel they're using, we don't know how the self-destruct mechanism on the rocket works.\nIn Father's Day The Reapers turned up due to Rose saving her father when somebody who was dead is now alive - surely this should be the case now for Yuri and Mia as they should have died but are now alive. The Reapers only showed up in Fathers Day due to Rose saving her father's life, as then, that altered the timeline meaning that in the future Rose wouldn't have travelled to the past to save her father, causing a paradox, the Doctor only changed the future when he saved Adelaide's life. Had Adelaide's granddaughter travelled back in time to save her grandmother, for instance, that would more likely have caught the Reapers' attention. Also, as Adelaide almost immediately kills herself, thereby maintaining the timeline, there was no need for the Reapers to appear.\nThe news article on Adelaide claims that she was born in 1999 and yet was also 10 when her parents died in 2008. (There was clearly a typo in the article in regards to either the year or her age.)\nThe news article identifies The Stolen Earth as occuring in 2008, instead of 2009 (as the show's been a year ahead since Aliens of London). The production team have deliberately stated that Series Three occurs within a space of a few days to rectify the year-off discrepancy that Aliens of London introduced, so the Whoniverse timeline is in sync with ours again. (Two explanations: either the article we were \"seeing\" had some sort of typo, or the events of The Stolen Earth actually did happen in 2008.)\nThe news article on the mission refers to \"Dr Tarak Ital MD.\" It would be correct to write either the \"Dr\" or the \"MD,\" but both at once is redundant and grammatically incorrect. Ital's obituary also misspells \"Havana\". It is correct if the person has both an MD and a PhD.\nThe article on Susie Fontana Brooke's first \"Faster then Light\" flight lists Adelaide's team at the end as hers.\nWhy would the Doctor comment on Mia's age when Roman is two years younger than her?\nWhen it is revealed that Maggie is one of the creatures, the outer shot shows her hair back while in the closer shot, it is around her face.\nThe Doctor speaks partially to the events of DW: The Fires of Pompeii.\nThere is a flashback to (which includes a cameo by a Dalek) DW: The Stolen Earth / Journey's End\nThe spacesuit the Doctor wore was the same suit from DW: The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit.\nMars appears not to have much of an atmosphere, however NA: The Dying Days suggests otherwise.\nSJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic is also (partially) set in 2059.\nCarmen's prophecy \"he will knock four times\" is mentioned from DW: Planet of the Dead.\nSound clips of the Doctor talking about the Time Lords and The Time War are used from DW: Gridlock, Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords\nInternational broadcasts\nABC1 - Australia : 6th December 2009[1]\nBBC America: 19th December 2009\nSpace - Canada: 19th December 2009[2]\nDirect download: TDP_106_Waters_of_mars_sjsa35.mp3\nTDP 105: SJS3.4 and Aliens of London/WWIII\nrevisiting the past\nDirect download: TDP_105.mp3\nTDP 104: Dead Shoes and SJSA 3.2 & 3.3\nDirect download: TDP_104_SJS_3_2_and_3_second_edit.mp3\nMon, 19 October 2009\nTDP 103: Planet of the Daleks & SJSA 3.1\nDirect download: TDP_103_Planet_of_Daleks_and_SJSA_31.mp3\nTDP 102: Fronteer in Space and New Logo Chat\nTDP info to follow\nMon, 28 September 2009\nTDP 101:The keys of Marinus and Hornets 1\nDirect download: 101.mp3\nTDP: Extra\nSorry. no show this week\nDirect download: TDP_EXTRA_SEPT_21_09.mp3\nTue, 8 September 2009\nTDP 100: The 100th Show!\nmy top 20 Whoness things\nDirect download: TDP_100_FINAL1.mp3\nTDP 099: Twin Dilemma\nAfter his regeneration from their previous adventure, the Doctor starts behaving erratically. He goes to the wardrobe and looking for a new outfit and finds a glaring, mismatched, brightly coloured coat to which he immediately takes a shine. Peri tells him that he could not go outside wearing such an awful garb, to which the Doctor takes offence.\nTwo twins, Romulus and Remus Sylveste, receive a visitation from a mysterious old man called Professor Edgeworth. They question how he managed to get inside their house; he tells them he will return when their father is there, then proceeds to abduct them and the trio disappear. They arrive on a spacecraft in deep space. Edgeworth then communicates with his superior, a slug-like creature called Mestor, who instructs Edgeworth to take the twins to Titan 3.\nIn the console room, the Doctor has a funny turn, quoting a poem about a Peri — a good and beautiful fairy in Persian mythology, but one which used to be evil. The Doctor accuses her of being evil, and of being an alien spy before rushing toward her and throttling her. He catches a sight of his own manic face in a mirror and collapses in a heap, releasing Peri. When she tells him that he tried to kill her, he initially denies he could be capable of such an act, but seeing how terrified of him she is, decides he must become a hermit on the desolate asteroid Titan 3.\nThe twins' father contacts the authorities; he found Zanium in their room — a sure sign of intergalactic kidnap. A Commander Lang begins the pursuit and soon finds a suspicious ship previously reported missing. He tries to contact it, but it enters warp drive — something that class of ship is not designed to do.\nOn Titan 3, as the Doctor contemplates a thousand years of solitude and Peri expresses her disapproval, they hear the crash landing of a craft. Examining its wreckage, they find the concussed body of Commander Lang. They take him back to the TARDIS where he reveals his whole squadron has been destroyed. Believing the Doctor to be responsible, he points his gun at the Doctor and threatens to kill him…\nPeri pleads with Lang, telling him that the Doctor had in fact saved him, but he faints away. The Doctor is not keen to treat Lang, more concerned for his own life, but eventually agrees to Peri's persuasion.\nEdgeworth argues with Romulus and Remus, making them do Mestor's work. He scolds them for setting up a distress signal, so they are not allowed to use electronic equipment to solve the equations they have been set. An image of Mestor appears and gives the twins a more blunt threat — work for him or have their minds destroyed.\nOn the TARDIS scanner, the Doctor and Peri see a building — something which has no place on an uninhabited asteroid. Leaving Lang behind, they find a tunnel which may lead to the building, but on exploring find two aliens wielding guns. The Doctor cowers in fear and pleads with them not to shoot him. They are led off and are brought before Edgeworth. The Doctor claims to be a pilgrim to Titan 3, but Noma, one of the aliens, says they are spies and should be shot. The Doctor suddenly recognises Edgeworth as an old friend - Azmael, master of Jaconda, whom he last saw two incarnations ago. When the Doctor sees Romulus and Remus and discovers it is Azmael who has abducted them, he is disgusted. Azmael teleports away with the twins and the aliens, leaving the Doctor and Peri locked in the building. The Doctor starts to break the lock's combination, but Peri discovers Noma has set the base to self-destruct. The Doctor improvises a solution to teleport them back to the TARDIS. Peri makes a successful return, but the Doctor has not appeared when she sees the base explode on the scanner…\nA glimpse of the Doctor is seen appearing in the TARDIS; he was delayed returning because he was using Peri's watch to synchronise their arrival, but the watch had stopped. The Doctor is surprised at Peri's compassion when she thought he had died.\nOn Jaconda, Mestor is seen putting one of the bird-like Jacondans to death for a petty offence of stealing a few vegetables. Soon, the TARDIS arrives, but instead of the expected beautiful planet the Doctor is expecting, he, Peri and Lang find a desolate wasteland covered with giant Gastropod trails. The Doctor is reluctant to go to the palace, scared for his own life, but is persuaded to take Lang there in the TARDIS. In the palace corridors they see murals depicting Jaconda's history, depicting the slugs of myth - but it appears that they are now all too real. After avoiding Gastropods, Lang gets stuck in their slime trail.\nAzmael takes the twins to his laboratory and shows them a store room full of Gastropod eggs. Mestor arrives and tries to persuade them that his aims are benevolent. Azmael begs him to stop reading his thoughts and stop Noma watching his every move. He agrees and leaves. Azmael explains to the Twins that Mestor usurped him as leader of Jaconda and outlines a plan to draw two outlying planets into the same orbit as Jaconda. The Twins' genius is required to stabilise those planets in their new orbit. The Doctor, leaving Peri and Lang behind, finds Azmael's lab. In a manic fit of pique, he attacks Azmael, but is restrained by a Jacondan and the Twins. The Doctor apologises to Azmael but demands to know what is going on.\nMeanwhile, Peri is captured by Jacondan guards and brought before Mestor. When Lang escapes to Azmael's lab and informs them what has happened, the Doctor finally shows compassion for her when he thinks she might die…\nMestor refrains from killing Peri immediately, finding her appearance pleasing. Jacondan guards arrive in Azmael's lab and seize the Doctor. The Doctor tells Mestor that he ought to allow him to assist with the dangerous operation of moving the planets, as a single mistake could blow a hole in that corner of the universe. Back the laboratory, Azmael informs the Doctor the details of the plan to bring the planets into the same orbit — they will be placed in different time zones using time travel technology that Mestor stole from Azmael. The Doctor realises that, as the other planets are smaller than Jaconda, bringing them closer to Jaconda's sun will lead to catastrophe. The Doctor enters the egg storeroom, and is disturbed that they have no nutritional mucus. He tries to cut one open with a laser cutter; the shell is impenetrable, but the egg reacts slightly to the heat. The Doctor realises they have been designed to withstand the heat of an exploding sun — the explosion of the Jacondan sun will scatter the eggs throughout the universe. When they hatch, the Gastropods will conquer the universe.\nThe one remaining Jacondan in the lab collapses dead, his mind burnt out. Mestor had been using him as a monitor, and knows the full details of what has been discussed. Peri, Lang and the Twins return to the TARDIS, whilst the Doctor and Azmael go to confront Mestor. When Mestor refuses to abandon his plans, the Doctor hurls a vial of acid taken from the lab at him, but a force field protects Mestor from any harm. Mestor threatens to possess the Doctor's mind and body, and demonstrates by taking control of Azmael's body. Azmael tells him to destroy Mestor's body before he can return to it, which he does with a further vial. Then Azmael, in his last regeneration, forces himself to regenerate — killing himself — and in doing so destroys Mestor. Dying, Azmael says he has no regrets and that one of his fondest memories was a time spent with the Doctor by a fountain.\nThe Doctor and Peri return to the TARDIS; Lang decides to stay behind on Jaconda to assist with their rebuilding. When Peri tells the Doctor off for being rude, he reminds her that he is an alien, with alien sensibilities: \"I am the Doctor… whether you like it or not!\"\nMaurice Denham makes a guest appearance as Azmael. See Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who\nColin Baker also provides, uncredited, the voice of a Jacondan at Freighter Control in part three.\nDennis Chinnery had previously appeared as Gharman in the Tom Baker story Genesis of the Daleks.\nThe Doctor states that he has regenerated twice since his last encounter with Azmael. This means that this last time (including the incident at the fountain) occurred during the Doctor's fourth incarnation.\nThe Doctor is unusually violent at the start of this episode, even attempting to strangle Peri. The intention was to create a Doctor that was initially unlikeable, but would gradually reveal a kind-hearted soul (glimpsed in Revelation of the Daleks). This was also intended to be a contrast to the instantly likeable Tom Baker and Peter Davison Doctors. However, in later interviews, director Peter Moffatt said that the original idea was merely to have the Doctor in a much more energetic state than he was during the Fifth Doctor's début story Castrovalva. Colin Baker said during a 2003 documentary celebrating the series' 40th anniversary that \"the idea was that over the many, many years I would be playing the part, the outer layers would gradually peel away, revealing the kind-hearted soul.\"\nEric Saward intended for Azmael to be the hermit to whom the Doctor had spoken in his youth, referenced in The Time Monster. Anthony Steven misinterpreted the request and instead made Azmael a former academy tutor of the Doctor.[2] The Hermit character had already been introduced as K'anpo Rinpoche in Planet of the Spiders ten years before.\n\"Part One\"\nMarch 22, 1984 (1984-03-22)\n24:42 7.6\n\"Part Two\"\n\"Part Three\"\n\"Part Four\"\nAnthony Steven worked very slowly on the scripts, offering many strange excuses (purportedly saying that his typewriter had literally exploded) and turning them in at a very late stage. Compounding things were the fact that the scripts were viewed as being of poor quality and too much for the show's budget by script editor Eric Saward, who was forced to rework them at great length in a very short amount of time.[citation needed]\nAt least one aspect of Steven's original script featured the Jaconda and Gastropods being dropped totally early in the fourth episode without resolution to the plot, with the final battle taking place in another dimension against a being called Azlan who was controlling Mestor all along.\nThe cat badge worn by the Sixth Doctor on his lapel for this story was hand-made and painted by Suzie Trevor, and purchased for the programme from a specialist badge shop in central London. For each subsequent story, the Doctor was to wear a different cat badge to symbolise that he was a \"travelling cat of different walks.\"\nBesides being adjusted for the new Doctor, the opening credits underwent additional modifications with this episode. A prism-colour effect is added and the series logo takes on a somewhat bluish hue (which also results in it appearing slightly curved in comparison to the version introduced during Tom Baker's era). The theme music remains the same version as that introduced in 1980. Prior to this, the opening sequences of the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Doctor eras had incorporated a still photograph of the lead actor. For the Sixth Doctor opening this was changed to using two photographs - one of the Doctor with a serious expression which changes to a second image showing the Doctor smiling. This limited animation would continue with the opening sequence for the Seventh Doctor.\nFandom often holds the serial in a very low light, being regarded as one of the very worst serials in the history of the series (indeed in SFX #150 new series producer Russell T. Davies cites this story as \"the beginning of the end\" of Doctor Who). A 1997 poll by Doctor Who Magazine ranked the serial the second worst of all time (the Children in Need special Dimensions in Time was ranked lowest), while a 2003 poll by fansite Outpost Gallifrey ranked it worst of all, below even Dimensions in Time.\nShortly before the Doctor assaults Peri in a paranoid rage, he quotes the line \"One morn a peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate\" and asks Peri to identify its author. The answer is Thomas Moore, in his poem Lalla Rookh.\nThe first two instalments of the BBV Stranger video series appear to borrow the premise of the Doctor's desire to become a hermit to atone for mistakes he has made. Since the Stranger is played by Colin Baker and his companion Miss Brown is played by Nicola Bryant, it is often viewed as a \"What-If\" scenario, despite the fact that the BBV production could not legally use the Doctor Who characters.\nThe Twin Dilemma\nEric Saward\nOctober 1985 (hardback)\n13 March 1986 (paperback)\nThe Time Monster\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Saward, was published in hardback by Target Books in October 1985, and in paperback in March 1986. The cover illustration originally featured Colin Baker. However when Baker's agent enquired about a royalty, the decision was taken to not feature him on the cover and a replacement was commissioned. This adaptation is notable for Saward's convoluted attempt at explaining in detail how the regeneration process works.\n[edit] Broadcast, VHS and DVD releases\nThis story was released on VHS in May 1992. The tape was available exclusively through branches of Woolworths as part of a special promotion. A general release followed in February 1993.\nA Commentary with Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant and Kevin McNally was recorded in April 2008 for a planned DVD release on September 7 2009. This will also be the last of the Colin Baker years of Doctor Who to be released onto DVD.\nDirect download: TDP_099_twin_dilemma.mp3\nTDP 098: Enlightenment\nnotes to follow\nDirect download: TDP_098_Enlightenment.mp3\nFri, 7 August 2009\nTDP 097: Terminus\nDirect download: TDP_097_TERMINUS.mp3\nThu, 30 July 2009\nTDP 096: Maudryn Undead and Children of Earth Round Up\nNot sure if anyone else is aware of the Twitter/James Moran things. Thought youd like to read the item from his blog. the direct link is at the bottom of the page\nStepping back\nBefore I start, this post - and every post on here, and anything I say on Twitter, or anywhere else - is entirely MY opinion. Nothing to do with the people I've worked with, or the BBC, or anyone else. I don't speak for any other writers, I *only* speak for myself, and I will not pass on any messages to anyone.\nHere's my position: I'm not going get into any more discussions or debates about what happened in Torchwood this week (being vague, in case people come across this and haven't seen it). Not now, not in the future.\nWhy? I started trying to discuss it, but swiftly realised that it was pointless. It simply turns into \"No it isn't\" / \"Yes it is\", and there's no way I can win the argument, because in certain people's opinion, I am wrong, and that's the end of it. And it's all just opinion anyway. It would also feel like I was trying to justify the show, and I'm not doing that. I have absolutely no need to. The show is the show. Whether you like it or dislike it, that's up to you.\nI helped plot the whole storyline, and I stand by every single decision. Yes, including *that* one - I had my hand on the death lever along with everyone else, and was fully involved. I think it's a fantastic, brave, challenging drama, and contains some of the best moments on TV all year.\nI've received over a thousand messages from viewers talking about the show. The vast majority have been extremely positive. Even though many of them are upset and shocked, they have managed to express that without making it personal. So to you, I'm extremely grateful. I'm glad you liked the show, and love that it made you respond so strongly. I can't reply to everyone, it'd take weeks, so please accept my thanks.\nBut the rest of the messages? Unacceptable. Some have been spewing insults and passive aggressive nonsense. Accusing me of deliberately trying to mislead, lie, and hurt people. Telling me I hate the fans, that I'm laughing at them, that I used them, that I'm slapping people in the face, that I've \"killed\" the show, that I'm a homophobe, that I want to turn the fanbase away and court new, \"cooler\" viewers, even that I'm hurting depressed people with dark storylines. Asking me to pass on vitriolic, hateful messages to people I love and respect.\nThese are all things that nobody would dare to say to me in person. But on the internet, it's easy for them to fire off these things. Forgetting that at the other end is me, a real person, someone who has been nothing but open and friendly. But I've been a bit too open, a bit too nice, a bit too willing to explain the thought process behind story decisions. And some people are taking advantage of that, or misinterpreting what it means.\nSo here's the deal: I'm a professional writer. That's my job. I write what I write, for whatever the project might be. I have the utmost respect for you, and honestly want you to like my work, but I can't let that affect my story decisions. Everybody wants different things from a story, but this is not a democracy, you do not get to vote. You are free to say what you think of my work, even if you hate it, I honestly don't mind. But the ONLY person I need to please is myself, and the ONLY thing I need to serve is the story. Not you. I will do my work to the very best of my ability, in an attempt to give you the best show, the best movie, the best story, the best entertainment I possibly can. Even if that means that sometimes, I'll do things you won't like. I won't debate it. Either you go along with it, or you don't. None of it is done to hurt you, or to force some agenda down your throat, or anything else. It's all in service of the story.\nWhen I started this blog, I wanted to give some insight into the writing process. I've done that. I've answered all the questions, written about the process, done several huge posts trying to pass on what I've learned. The posts are all still there, and will remain there. I've had great fun with it, and given as much as I can, but it's never going to be enough. For a while now, I've let things get too cosy here, indulged myself too much, and if I let it carry on, it will affect my work. The last few days have just confirmed that for me. So I'm going to step back and take a break from it. Things are very busy for the next month or two, and I won't have the time anyway. I'm extremely grateful to everyone who has commented on here, and the blog will probably continue in some form, but limited to anything that isn't about the work - announcements, TV/movie recommendations, etc. I have to concentrate on my writing.\nAnd I will not put up with any more abusive messages, or threats, or accusations, or attempted guilt trips. So while I completely understand your pain at some of the events in the series, that does not give you the right to insult me. Talk about the *work*, all you want. But lay off the person behind the work. Because I'm simply trying to tell you good stories. In the end, that is all I can do.\nJames Moran\nPlease feel free to pass this on, I encourage you to do so, to make my position clear to everyone - but you must include the link to the full post here: http://jamesmoran.blogspot.com/2009/07/stepping-back.html\nBookmark and Shareinfo to follow\nDirect download: TDP_96_UNDEAD_and_COE_final_edit.mp3\nTDP 095e: Day 5 Torchwood Children of Earth\nThe last of 5 podcasts about Children of earth\nDirect download: TDP_095_e_TW_COE_Day5.mp3\nThu, 9 July 2009\nTDP 095d: Day 4 Torchwood Children of Earth\nDirect download: TDP_095d_TW_D4_.mp3\nTDP 095c: Day 3 Torchwood Children of Earth\nDay 3 Podcast\nDirect download: TDP_095_C_TW_COE_Day3.mp3\nTDP 095b: Day 2 Torchwood Children of Earth\nDirect download: TDP_095b_TW_D2.mp3\nTue, 7 July 2009\nTDP 095a: Day 1 Torchwood Children of Earth\n0Torchwood Children of Earth Day One Podcast.\nDirect download: TDP_095a_TW_D1.mp3\nTDP 094: The War Games\nThe War Games\nThis article is about the Doctor Who serial. For the 1965 television film on nuclear war, see The War Game. For the war games in the anime/manga MÄR, see The War Games (MÄR). For the 1983 US movie, see WarGames.\n050 – The War Games\nThe Doctor and his friends are caught in the middle of World War I... or are they?\nPatrick Troughton (Second Doctor)\nFrazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)\nWendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot)\nDavid Savile — Lt Carstairs\nJane Sherwin — Lady Jennifer Buckingham\nNoel Coleman — General Smythe\nRichard Steele — Commandant Gorton\nTerence Bayler — Major Barrington\nHubert Rees — Captain Ransom\nDavid Valla — Lieutenant Crane\nEsmond Webb — Sgt Major Burns\nBrian Forster — Sergeant Willis\nPat Gorman — Military Policeman\nPeter Stanton — Military Chauffeur\nDavid Garfield — Von Weich\nGregg Palmer — Lieutenant Lucke\nJohn Livesey, Bernard Davies — German Soldiers\nPhilip Madoc — War Lord\nEdward Brayshaw — War Chief\nJames Bree — Security Chief\nVernon Dobtcheff — Chief Scientist\nJohn Atterbury — Alien Guard\nCharles Pemberton — Alien Technician\nBill Hutchinson — Sgt Thompson\nTerry Adams — Corporal Riley\nLeslie Schofield — Leroy\nRudolph Walker — Harper\nMichael Lynch — Spencer\nGraham Weston — Russell\nDavid Troughton — Moor\nPeter Craze — Du Pont\nMichael Napier-Brown — Arturo Villar\nStephen Hubay — Petrov\nTony McEwan — Redcoat\nBernard Horsfall — First Time Lord\nTrevor Martin — Second Time Lord\nClyde Pollitt — Third Time Lord\nClare Jenkins — Tanya Lernov\nMalcolm Hulke\nTerrance Dicks (uncredited)\nDerrick Sherwin\n10 episodes, 25 minutes each\nThe Space Pirates Spearhead from Space\nThe War Games is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from April 19 to June 21, 1969. It was the last regular appearance of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, and of Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines as companions Zoe Heriot and Jamie McCrimmon. It is the 50th story of the series, and the last Doctor Who serial to be recorded in black and white.\n1.1 Synopsis\n1.2 Continuity\n1.2.1 Firsts\n1.2.2 Lasts\n3 Commercial releases\n3.1 In print\nOn an alien planet the Doctor uncovers a diabolic plot to conquer the universe, with brainwashed soldiers abducted from Earth forced to fight in simulated environments, reflecting the periods in history from whence they were taken. The alien's aim is to produce a super army from the survivors, to this end they have been aided by a renegade from the Doctor's own race the 'Time Lords'.\nJoining forces with rebel soldiers, who have broken their conditioning, the Doctor and his companions foil the plan and stop the fighting. But the Doctor admits he needs the help of the Time Lords to return the soldiers to their own times, but in asking risks capture for his own past crimes including the theft of the TARDIS. After sending the message he and his companions attempt to evade capture, but are caught.\nHaving returned the soldiers to Earth, the Time Lords erase Zoe and Jamie's memories of travelling with the Doctor, and return them to the point in time just before they entered the TARDIS. They then place the Doctor on trial for stealing the TARDIS and breaking the rule of non-interference. The Doctor presents a spirited defence citing his many battles against the evils of the universe. Accepting this defence the Time Lords announce his punishment is exile to Earth. In addition the operation of the TARDIS is wiped from his memory and his next regeneration is imposed.\nPatrick Troughton later reprised the role of the Second Doctor in The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors and The Two Doctors. In the second of these, he expresses knowledge of events of the final episode of this serial, on the face of it a chronological impossibility, and in the last he is on an assignment for the Time Lords, which is incompatible with the events seen here. These facts gave rise to the Season 6B theory, enabled by the aforementioned lack of on-screen depiction of the regeneration.\nThe Doctor again faces trial in The Trial of a Time Lord, the beginning of which refers to this previous trial.\nThe time machines designed by the War Chief and used by the War Lords are called SIDRATs, an inversion of the name TARDIS. Though this name is used only once, and then merely in passing, on-screen during the serial (and pronounced \"side-rat\")[1], the expanded acronym is revealed to stand for \"Space and Inter-Dimensional Robot All-purpose Transporter\" in the 1979 novelisation by Malcolm Hulke. It is repeated in the Virgin New Adventures novel Timewyrm: Exodus by Terrance Dicks, which forms a sequel to The War Games.\nThe Second Doctor's appearance in Terrance Dicks' BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, The Eight Doctors, occurs during this story.\n[edit] Firsts\nFor the first time, this serial names the Doctor's race as the \"Time Lords\". Although his home planet (Gallifrey) is seen, it would not be referenced by name until The Time Warrior (1973). His reasons for leaving Gallifrey, and the fact that he stole the TARDIS, are also revealed.\nAside from the Doctor and Susan, the War Chief is the second person of the Doctor's race (after the Meddling Monk) to appear in the television series.\nAgain the concept of regeneration is presented but not named in this serial, following The Tenth Planet/The Power of the Daleks. The process was eventually named in Planet of the Spiders, then retrospectively attributed to the earlier two changes of actors — first by series fans, then later by the early-'80s production team in The Five Doctors. Until that point, there was some fan controversy over whether the Second Doctor had actually regenerated or merely had his appearance changed.\nWhile Troughton's Doctor is sentenced to a forced regeneration at the end of this serial, we do not actually see him regenerate into the Third Doctor (who first appears — briefly wearing the Troughton costume — in the next serial, Spearhead from Space). The only other Doctor not to receive an on-screen regeneration is the Eighth Doctor, who has already regenerated into the Ninth Doctor at the start of the 2005 series.\nIn the first Episode, the Second Doctor kisses Zoe. [1] This display of platonic affection is the first time that the Doctor kisses one of his companions, though as the series went on it would be far from the last.\n[edit] Lasts\nIn the final episode, the Time Lords wipe Zoe's mind and return her to the Wheel, where she encounters Tanya Lernov, a character from The Wheel in Space. A set from The Wheel in Space was rebuilt and actress Clare Jenkins (Tanya) rehired for this one scene.[2] The Big Finish Productions audio drama Fear of the Daleks shows an older Zoe having detailed dreams of her adventures with the Doctor, suspecting that something is blocking her memory, and seeing a psychiatric counsellor in an effort to understand the \"dreams\".\nThis marks the last appearance of the TARDIS Control Room until The Claws of Axos in 1971, though the removed TARDIS console would be seen in the Doctor's UNIT headquarters laboratory in The Ambassadors of Death, and in a hut on the grounds of the titular project in Inferno.\nEpisode 10 is the last episode of the original series to be produced in black and white.\n\"Episode 1\" 19 April 1969 25:00 5.5 16mm t/r\n\"Episode 3\" 3 May 1969 24:30 5.1 16mm t/r\n\"Episode 4\" 10 May 1969 23:40 5.7 16mm t/r\n\"Episode 8\" 7 June 1969 24:37 3.5 16mm t/r\n\"Episode 10\" 21 June 1969 24:23 5.0 16mm t/r\nDoctor Who and the War Games\nJohn Geary\nDoctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl\nDoctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks\n[edit] Commercial releases\nThis serial was released in the UK February 1990 in a two-tape set in episodic form. It was re-released in remastered format in September 2002. Since this VHS re-release, better quality film prints of the story have been located at the BFI, and were used for the DVD release.[6] The DVD will be released on July 6th 2009 and is a 3 disc set,[7] with a commentry provided by Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Philip Madoc, Graham Weston, Jane Sherwin, Terrance Dicks and Derrick Sherwin.\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Hulke, was published by Target Books in September 1979, entitled Doctor Who and The War Games. Despite the length of the serial, Hulke was allotted only 143 pages in which to adapt the 10-episode script, the third longest Doctor Who serial. By comparison, the later novelisation of the second longest serial, the 12-episode The Daleks' Master Plan, was published in two volumes, each of which were much longer than Hulke's book, while four books were used to novelise the longest serial, the 14-episode The Trial of a Time Lord.\n^ Cornell, Paul, Martin Day, & Keith Topping, Doctor Who: The Discontinuity Guide, Virgin Books, 1995, p. 104\n^ Wood, Tat; and Lawrence Miles (2006). About Time 2: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who: 1966–1969, Seasons 4 to 6. Des Moines, Iowa: Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 0-9759446-1-4.\n^ Shaun Lyon et al. (2007-03-31). \"{{subst:PAGENAME}}\". Outpost Gallifrey. http://gallifreyone.com/episode.php?id=zz. Retrieved on 2008-08-31.\n^ \"{{subst:PAGENAME}}\". Doctor Who Reference Guide. http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_2z.htm. Retrieved on 2008-08-31.\n^ Sullivan, Shannon (2005-05-12). \"{{subst:PAGENAME}}\". A Brief History of Time Travel. http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/zz.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-31.\n^ http://www.purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/rtwebsite/TheWarGamesDVD.htm\n[edit] External links\nThe War Games at bbc.co.uk\nThe War Games at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)\nThe War Games at the Doctor Who Reference Guide\nDoctor Who Locations - The War Games\nDoctor Who Restoration Team - The War Games\n[edit] Reviews\nThe War Games reviews at Outpost Gallifrey\nThe War Games reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide\n[edit] Target novelisation\nDoctor Who and the War Games reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide\nOn Target — Doctor Who and the War Games\nDirect download: TDP_94_The_Wargames.mp3\nTDP 093: Big Finish Roundup Enemy of Daleks and Season 3 of 8th Doctor\nDirect download: TDP93_EDIT.mp3\nTDP 092: Delta and the Bannermen\nOn an alien planet the genocide of the Chimeron by the merciless Bannermen led by Gavrok is almost complete. The last survivor, Chimeron Queen Delta, escapes by the skin of her teeth clutching her egg, the future for her species. She makes it to a space tollport where the Navarinos, a race of shape changing tourist aliens, are planning a visit to the planet Earth in 1959 in a spaceship disguised as an old holiday bus. She stows aboard, as does Mel, while the Doctor follows them in the TARDIS. The Doctor and Mel have won the trip as a prize for arriving in the Navarino spaceport at the right time to be declared the ten billionth customers. No sooner has the tourist vehicle blasted away than the Bannermen turn up, ruthlessly hunting down the fugitive, and they kill the Tollmaster when he refuses to co-operate.\nThe holiday vehicle from Nostalgia Tours meets an unfortunate collision with an American space satellite and is diverted off track, landing at a holiday camp in South Wales rather than Disneyland. However, the basic but cheerful Shangri-La holiday camp is happy to accommodate the visitors led by the ebullient Burton, who assures the travellers of a warm welcome while they wait for the driver, Murray, to repair their innocuous seeming transport. Mel gets close to Delta and uncovers the truth of her situation, including the hatching of the egg into a bright green baby that starts to grow at a startling rate. The Chimeron Queen supports this development with the equivalent of royal jelly given to bees.\nDelta tries to take her mind off the situation and goes to the Shangri-La dance, instantly capturing the heart of Billy, the camp’s mechanic – and making an enemy of the smitten Rachel (or Ray), who loves Billy herself. Ray confides her situation to the Doctor, and they both stumble across a bounty hunter making contact with the Bannermen to tell them of the Chimeron’s whereabouts. It is only a matter of time before Gavrok and his troops arrive. Delta and Billy head off on a romantic countryside ramble the following morning, but the Doctor wastes no time in persuading Burton to evacuate the camp, helping Murray repair the ship, and then heading off to find the young lovers while there is still time. Once they are found, everyone returns to the camp but the situation has become dire. The Bannermen have destroyed the Navarino bus with all its official passengers inside, taking Mel as a hostage, as Gavrok tries to work out how to capture the Chimeron. The Doctor’s early attempts to intercede are futile, but he does rescue Burton and Mel from the Bannermen.\nTwo Bannermen are holding prisoner two aging American agents, Hawk and Weismuller, who were tracking the missing satellite when they first arrived. The Bannermen were instructed by Gavrok to wait for the Doctor, Burton and Mel on the side of the road. Just before they left the Americans, they place a joined head lock device to prevent them from escaping. While the two Bannerman were placing a tracker on the Doctor, riding Billy's motorbike with Burton and Mel, in an attempt to disguise an ambush attempt, Ray manages to rescue Hawk and Weismuller head locks with an Allen key. They all make contact with the mysterious beekeeper Goronwy, who hides them for a while in his house.\nAs the two Bannerman find that the Americans have been set free, they track the Doctor’s party to Goronwy House. As they were closing in to the house, the Chimeron child Princess made a high pitched scream of warning which traumatised the ears of the two Bannermen, allowing Delta was able to shoot one of them, while the other escaped to inform Gavrok of the location of Delta and the Princess. At Shangri-La, before leaving to attack Goronwy House, Gavrok booby-trapped the outside of the TARDIS in an attempt to kill the Doctor. As Gavrok and his Bannermen approached Goronwy House shooting, and crashing into the rock-and-roll-music-filled house, only to have honey broken over them in the process. This then set Goronwy's bees on the honey-covered Bannermen. In the meanwhile, the Doctor and his party made it to Shangri-La to set up a defence. Billy rigged up the Shangri-La sound system to amplify the perfectly pitched scream of the Chimeron child Princess – a sound which is excruciatingly painful to Bannermen.\nGoronwy explains to Billy the purpose of royal jelly in the lifecycle of the honeybee, provoking the mechanic to consume Delta's equivalent that she has been feeding her daughter, in the hope of metamorphosing into a Chimeron.\nAs Gavrok and his band of Bannermen attack Shangri-La, the amplified scream of the Chimeron princess traumatised the attackers, including Gavrok, who becomes so stunned that he falls into the beam of the booby-trap he placed on the TARDIS and is incinerated. Other Bannermen are so traumatised that they are easily rounded up. Delta and Billy leave together with the child and the prisoners, heading for an intergalactic war crimes tribunal. To their delight, The Doctor shows Hawk and Weismuller the missing satellite nearby. All is well and the next bus of holidaymakers, this time human, arrive at Shangri-La as the Doctor and Mel slip away.\nThe Seventh Doctor's question mark handle umbrella makes its first appearance in this story.\nSylvester McCoy can be seen wearing his glasses in certain long shots of him riding a motorcycle (consequently, the only time the Seventh Doctor is seen wearing spectacles, though he does produce a pair for use as an aid to hypnosis in the extended version of Silver Nemesis).\nThe Navarinos are also featured in the novel Return of the Living Dad by Kate Orman.\n\"Part One\" 2 November 1987 24:47 5.3\n\"Part Two\" 9 November 1987 24:23 5.1\n\"Part Three\" 16 November 1987 24:22 5.4\nThis was the first three-part story since Planet of Giants (1964), not counting the 3 x 45 minute episodes of The Two Doctors, which had been broadcast 2 years previously, and the first intended to be this length (Giants had been recorded as a four-parter and cut).\nWorking titles for this story included The Flight of the Chimeron[5]. The eventual title is a reference to the British band Echo and the Bunnymen. The story title makes a single substitution using the phonetic alphabet and a slight change in the final word of the title.\nThe character of Ray was originally created as a new companion for the Doctor as Bonnie Langford had announced she would be leaving the series at the end of the season. The serial, with the working title, The Flight Of The Chimeron, was originally scheduled to end the season. However, as the serial neared production, Langford had not yet decided whether she would leave at the end of Season 24 or during Season 25; that, plus the rescheduling of Delta and the Bannermen to earlier in the season and the decision by script editor Andrew Cartmel to create another replacement companion named Alf (later renamed 'Ace'), led to the idea of Ray as a new companion being abandoned[5].\nFeatures guest appearance by Ken Dodd, Don Henderson, Hugh Lloyd, Richard Davies, and American stage and screen actor Stubby Kaye. See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.\nThe scenes at the Shangri-La holiday camp were shot on location at the Butlins Holiday camp on Barry Island, Wales. The holiday camp is no longer there, but the island was used again, this time as a stand-in for a bomb site in 1941 London, in the 2005 series episodes \"The Empty Child\" and \"The Doctor Dances\".[6]\nThe soundtrack of this serial contained a higher-than-usual number of recognizable pop songs, although due to licensing costs all were re-recorded by \"The Lovells\", a fictional group created by the show's incidental music composer Keff McCullough. The songs featured in the serial were: \"Rock Around the Clock\", \"Singing the Blues\", \"Why Do Fools Fall in Love\", \"Mr. Sandman\", \"Goodnight, Sweetheart\", \"That'll Be the Day\", \"Only You\", \"Lollipop\", \"Who's Sorry Now?\" and \"Happy Days Are Here Again\".\nThe motorbike ridden by Billy in this story is a Vincent, made by British manufacturer Vincent Motorcycles.\nThe guitar the Doctor is seen hugging at the end of the story is a Fender Stratocaster, although the model is not one available at the time the story was set.\nThe story was released on VHS in March 2001 in the UK and June 2002 in North America, but music clearance issues prevented the release of the serial in Australia. A commentary by Sylvester McCoy, Sara Griffiths, Chris Clough and Andrew Cartmel has been recorded for the DVD release. The DVD will be released on June 22 2009.\nMalcolm Kohll\n0-426-20333-X\nParadise Towers\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Malcolm Kohll, was published by Target Books in January 1989.\nDirect download: TDP_92_Delta_upload.mp3\nSat, 30 May 2009\nTDP 091: Planet of the Dead and Fab Whostrology\n\"Planet of the Dead\" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was simultaneously broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 11 April 2009. It is the first of four special episodes to be broadcast throughout 2009 and early 2010, which serve as lead actor David Tennant's denouement as the Tenth Doctor. He is joined in the episode by actress Michelle Ryan, who plays one-off companion to the Doctor Lady Christina de Souza. The episode was co-written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts: the first writing partnership since the show's revival in 2005.\nThe episode depicts Christina fleeing the police from a museum robbery by boarding a bus that accidentally travels from London to the desert planet of San Helios, trapping her, the Doctor, and several passengers on board a damaged bus. After the bus driver dies trying to return to Earth, the Unified Intelligence Taskforce, headed by Captain Erisa Magambo (Noma Dumezweni) and scientific advisor Malcolm Taylor (Lee Evans), attempt to return the bus to Earth while preventing a race of metallic stingray aliens from posing a threat to Earth. At the end of the episode, one of the passengers delivers a warning to the Doctor which foreshadows the remaining three specials.\n\"Planet of the Dead\" is the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in high definition, after a positive reaction to the visual quality of spin-off series Torchwood and the financial viability of HDTV convinced the production team to switch formats. To ensure that the desert scenes looked as realistic as possible, the production team filmed in Dubai for three days, sending several props—most notably, a 1980 double-decker Bristol VR bus—to the United Arab Emirates for filming. After the bus was unintentionally damaged in Dubai by a shipping container, Davies rewrote the script to explain the damage in the narrative.\nReaction to the episode was mixed: the audience gave the episode an Appreciation Index of 88[3]—considered excellent—but critics gave average reviews to the episode. The consensus among critics was that it was enjoyable as a whole but that it was only an average script. The main point of praise was Evans' performance alongside Dumezweni in scenes set on Earth, which countered their criticism of the events on San Helios as being relatively boring.\nThe episode begins with a young thrill-seeking burglar, Lady Christina de Souza (Ryan), stealing a gold chalice once belonging to King Athelstan from a museum. She then narrowly evades the police by riding on a London bus on which the Doctor (Tennant) is also travelling, shortly before the bus suddenly passes through a wormhole and arrives on the desert planet of San Helios. The Doctor and the other passengers find that the wormhole is still present, but deduce that the bus had protected them like a Faraday cage after the bus driver is killed trying to cross back on foot, evaporating to a skeleton instantly. Seeing the driver's skeleton coming out on the other side of the portal, the police call in UNIT, commanded by Captain Erisa Magambo (Dumezweni) and aided by scientific advisor Malcolm Taylor (Evans), to close the wormhole. Trapped on a heavily damaged bus, the other passengers introduce themselves: Angela (Victoria Alcock) is a middle-aged mother travelling home to her family; Lou (Reginald Tsiboe) and Carmen (Ellen Thomas) are an elderly couple who win £10 each time they play the National Lottery due to Carmen's low-level psychic abilities; Barclay (Daniel Kaluuya) was travelling to a friend's house to ask her on a date; and Nathan (David Ames) was travelling home to watch television. The Doctor and Christina decide to scout the planet, spotting an approaching storm, while Nathan and Barclay try to fix the bus.\nAs they travel, the Doctor learns of Christina's troubled history, and appreciates her callousness and aptitude to the alien situation. The Doctor and Christina encounter the Tritovore, an anthropomorphic fly species, who take them to their wrecked spaceship. The Tritovore explain that they were making a routine goods collection from the planet but crashed in an unfamiliar environment; a year previously, the planet housed a hundred billion inhabitants and a thriving ecosystem. The Tritovore send out a probe to investigate the cause, and discover a large swarm of metallic stingray-like aliens who routinely create wormholes and destroy ecospheres as their biological imperatives. To rescue the Tritovore and the bus passengers, Christina uses her burglary skills to retrieve a crystal which powers the spaceship (together with the pedestal it is located on), unintentionally awakening a stingray that kills the two Tritovore.\nThe Doctor attaches parts of the pedestal to the bus and uses the chalice of Athelstan as an interface to the technology. This allows the bus to fly through the wormhole, with the stingrays in hot pursuit. Taylor quickly closes the wormhole but not before three of the stingrays pass through it. After UNIT has shot down the stingrays and the passengers have been debriefed, Christina asks the Doctor to let her travel with him; he rejects her because he does not want to lose another companion. The characters part ways. The Doctor recommends that UNIT hire Barclay and Nathan, Christina is arrested by the police for the theft and Carmen has a premonition that visibly unnerves the Doctor:\nYou be careful, because your song is ending, sir. It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor... oh, but then... he will knock four times.\n— Carmen, \"Planet of the Dead\"[4]\nAs a final act of kindness, the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to release Christina from her handcuffs. The pair part on good terms as she flies away in the bus as the Doctor enters his TARDIS and dematerialises.\nWriting and casting\nRyan and Tennant reviewing the script before filming in Butetown on 28 January 2009.\nRussell T Davies co-wrote the episode with Gareth Roberts, the first writing partnership for the show since its 2005 revival.[5] \"Planet of the Dead\" was a departure from Roberts' usual stories—Roberts had previously only written pseudo-historical stories—and instead consisted of \"wild\" science fiction elements from his literary career and teenage imagination. The episode had no clear concept—such as Shakespeare and witches in \"The Shakespeare Code\" or Agatha Christie and a murder mystery in \"The Unicorn and the Wasp\"—and instead was a deliberate \"clash [of concepts] with many disparate elements\". Roberts explained he was cautious to ensure that each element had to \"feel precise and defined ... like we meant that\", citing the serial Arc of Infinity as an example where such control was not enforced.[6] The episode includes a common feature of Davies' writing in that there is no clear antagonist: the Tritovore are eventually sympathetic to the protagonists and the stingrays are only following their biological imperative.[7][8]\nUnlike the Christmas specials, the theme of Easter was not emphasised in the story; the episode only contained a \"fleeting mention\" of the holiday instead of \"robot bunnies carrying baskets full of deadly egg bombs\". The episode's tone word—\"joyous\"—was influenced by Davies' realisation that \"every story since \"The Fires of Pompeii\" [had] a bittersweet quality\" and subsequent desire to avoid the recurring theme.[5] The starting point for the story was Roberts' first novel The Highest Science. Davies liked the image of a London Underground train on a desert planet and rewrote it to contain a bus. Davies nevertheless emphasised it was not an \"adaptation as such\" because tangential elements were constantly being conceived and added.[5]\nMichelle Ryan portrays Lady Christina de Souza, the daughter of a recently impoverished aristocrat and adrenaline junkie. Christina is a \"typical\" Doctor Who companion, Davies electing to draw parallels from the Time Lady Romana rather than new series companion Rose Tyler. Roberts described her as an \"adventuress\" who is \"upper class and glam, suited and booted, and extremely intelligent\" which the Doctor could relate to because they both rejected their heritages. The episode's director James Strong described the character as reverting to a traditional romantic-based companionship—rather than the platonic companionship of Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) in the fourth series—while still being a unique companion:[9]\nIt's back to basics: she's probably more of a traditional, romantic kind of Thomas Crown Affair kind of heroine, if you like. [...] It echoes to me of Rose, in that there may be a good old fashioned romantic connection between them. She's young, she's beautiful, she's sexy, but whereas Rose was a very ordinary, normal girl, Lady Christina is a lady, she comes from a very privileged, very elite background. She's different to any of the companions we've ever had in that she doesn't particularly want to get caught up with the Doctor. She's got her own thing going on, so she's very much a match for the Doctor and very much an equal. Often in an adventure the Doctor will take control and everyone will do what he says. She's very much in control – the two of them are in a sparring way, battling against each other to get through this adventure.\n— James Strong, Digital Spy interview.[9]\nComedian Lee Evans plays Professor Malcolm Taylor, a UNIT scientist devoted to his predecessor, the Doctor. Davies created Evans' character to serve as a foil for Noma Dumezweni's pragmatic character Captain Erisa Magambo, who previously appeared in the episode \"Turn Left\".[5] Roberts noted after writing the episode that Evans' character had unintentionally become a \"loving\" caricature of Doctor Who fandom.[6][10]\nThe episode was influenced by several works: Davies described \"Planet of the Dead\" as \"a great big adventure, a little bit Indiana Jones, a little bit Flight of the Phoenix, a little bit Pitch Black.\";[11] the relationship between the Doctor and Christina was influenced by 1960s films such as Charade and Topkapi, which included Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn \"being witty and sophisticated together, and then running for their lives\";[5] and the Tritovore were influenced by 1950s and 1970s science fiction B-movies such as The Fly and Davies' habit of including aliens that were recognisable to the audience as animals from Earth, such as the Judoon.[7] Carmen's warning evoked memories of the Ood's warning to the Doctor and Donna in the fourth series episode \"Planet of the Ood\".[7] Tennant explained the prophecy meant that the Doctor's \"card [had become] marked\" and the three specials would thus be darker—characterising \"Planet of the Dead\" as the \"last time the Doctor gets to have any fun\"—and that the subject of the prophecy was not the obvious answer:\nReally, from this moment on, the Doctor's card is marked. Because when we come back in \"The Waters of Mars\", it's all become a little bit darker.\nAnd as we know, David, he really does knock four times.\nYeah, absolutely, and if you think you've figured out what that means, you're wrong!\nBut when you do figure it out, it's a sad day.\n— David Tennant and Julie Gardner, Doctor Who: The Commentaries, \"Planet of the Dead\"[8]\nThe two major filming locations of the episode: the desert of Dubai was used for scenes on the \"planet of the dead\"; and the Queen's Gate Tunnel in Butetown, Cardiff was used for the majority of Earth-bound scenes.\nPre-production on the four specials started on 20 November 2008—four days before scheduled—because the episode's overseas filming in Dubai required the extra planning time.[12] Two weeks later, the production team was on a recce for the special and the final draft of the script was completed.[13] The production team examined overseas locations to film the episode because they wanted the scenery to feel \"real\" and thought that they would be unable to film on a Welsh beach in winter. After examining countries such as Morocco and Tunisia, the production team decided to film in Dubai because the area was more amicable to the filming industry and viable filming locations were nearer to urban areas than other locations.[14]\nProduction began on 19 January in Wales.[2][10] The special was the first Doctor Who episode to be filmed in high-definition television resolution.[15] The move to HD had previously been resisted for two major reasons: when the show was revived in 2005, high-definition television was not adopted by an adequate portion of the audience to be financially viable; and special effects were considerably more expensive to create in high-definition than in standard-definition. \"Planet of the Dead\" was used to switch to HD because of the show's reduced schedule in 2009 and because the filming crew had become experienced with the equipment while they were filming Torchwood.[8]\nFilming began at the National Museum Cardiff,[location 1] which doubled for the history museum depicted in the episode's first scene. To portray the tunnel the bus travelled into, the Queen's Gate Tunnel of the A4232 road in Butetown[location 2] was closed for four nights to accommodate filming. The last major piece of filming in Wales took place in the closed Mir (formerly Alphasteel) steelworks in Newport,[location 3] which doubled almost unaltered for the Tritovore spaceship. Filming took place at the peak of the February 2009 Great Britain snowfall, where the sub-zero temperatures slowed filming and had a visible effect on the cast. To accommodate for the adverse conditions, Davies included a line in the script that specified that the Tritovore spaceship cooled as external temperatures increase.[8]\nThe 200 bus—so named after the episode's landmark—in dock at Dubai City Port, after a container was accidentally dropped on it.\nFilming in Dubai[location 4] took place in mid-February 2009. Two weeks previously, one of the two 1980 Bristol VR double-decker buses bought for filming had been substantially damaged when a crane accidentally dropped a container in Dubai City Port.[7][16]After an emergency discussion by the production team, they agreed that the damage was unintentionally artistic and decided to include the damaged bus in the episode;[7] instead of shipping the spare bus from Cardiff—which would have delayed the already hurried filming schedule—the production team decided to partially reconstruct the bus in Dubai, damage the spare bus in Cardiff to match the bus in Dubai, and rewrite part of the script to accommodate and mention the damage to the bus.[7][8][17][18] James Strong recalled the reaction of the production team to the damage to the bus in an issue of Doctor Who Magazine:\nOne morning in the first week of February, I was leaving my flat when Julie Gardner phoned. She said, \"there's been a little accident with the bus [...] it's a disaster; the bus is fucked.\" When I got into the office, I was handed a photograph—and my initial reaction was absolute horror. We called an emergency meeting. Russell came in [...] and we discussed our options. We had bought an identical London bus to film on in Cardiff, so could we send that out to Dubai? We could have got it out in time if it'd left Cardiff, literally, the next day, but we'd have had to find a third bus, an exact replica, to film on in Cardiff a week later. It had taken us a month to find the one we had. It was even mooted that we'd have to forget Dubai and opt for a beach in the UK. But Russell's response was \"Okay, let's embrace it. Let's say that the bus was damaged on its way to the alien planet. [...] He wove it into the narrative. We're not trying to hide the damage at all. In fact, we show it off, enhancing it with special effects, smoke and sparks. It works rather marvellously. That London bus, damaged and smoking, in the middle of the desert—yeah, it looks incredible, especially in gorgeous hi-def.\n— James Strong, Doctor Who Magazine issue 407.[14]\nA notable use of lens flares being used in the episode for artistic effect. Strong sought to maximise—rather than minimise—effects such as these because it disguised the fact it was filmed in a studio and allowed the viewer to suspend their disbelief more easily; this specific shot was highlighted by Strong and Tennant as an example of how it was correctly utilised.[8]\nThe damaged bus was not the only problem to filming in Dubai: the first of the three days was afflicted by a sandstorm which left most of the footage shot unusable.[14] The production team then struggled to complete three days of filming in two days; the last day was compared to \"filming Lawrence of Arabia\".[7] To complete the episode's filming, interior scenes in the bus were filmed in a studio in Wales. To disguise the fact they were using a translite—a 360-degree background image—, Strong utilised often-avoided techniques such as muddied windows and lens flares; the latter also served to create a warmer environment for the viewer.[8] After filming ended, editing and post-processing took place until two days before transmission, leaving the BBC to resort to using an unfinished copy to market the episode.[7][8]\n200th story\n\"Planet of the Dead\" was advertised as Doctor Who's 200th story. Writer Russell T Davies admitted that the designation was arbitrary and debatable, based upon how fans counted the unfinished serial Shada, the season-long fourteen-part serial The Trial of a Time Lord, and the third series finale consisting of \"Utopia\", \"The Sound of Drums\" and \"Last of the Time Lords\".[19] Davies personally disagreed about counting The Trial of a Time Lord as one serial—arguing that it \"felt like four stories\" to him—and grouping \"Utopia\" with its following episodes, but agreed that it was only an opinion which did not override any others.[19] Gareth Roberts inserted a reference to the landmark—specifically, the bus number is 200[20]—and Davies emailed the show's publicity team to advertise the special as such.[19] Doctor Who Magazine's editor Tom Spilsbury aknowledged the controversy in the magazine's 407th issue, which ran a reader survey of all 200 stories.[21]\n€Broadcast and reception\nOvernight figures estimated that the special was watched by 8.41 million people, a 39.6% share of the audience. An additional 184,000 watched the programme on BBC HD, the channel's highest rating so far. The initial showing had an Appreciation Index of 88: considered excellent.[22][23] A BBC One repeat, two days later, gained an overnight figure of 1.8 million viewers.[22] The special was therefore the second most watched programme of the day, being beaten by the premiere of the new series of Britain's Got Talent.[23] The final viewing figure for the initial broadcast was 9.54 million viewers on BBC One and 200,000 viewers on BBC HD, making it the fifth most watched programme of the week and the most watched programme ever aired on BBC HD.[24] Including repeats in the following week and viewings on the BBC iPlayer, 13.89 million viewers watched the episode in total.[25]\nThe episode received average critical reviews. Simon Brew of science fiction blog Den of Geek said the episode was \"by turns ambitious and predictable\" but \"still quite entertaining\". The first part of the review mentioned an objection from his wife that the bus trapped in the sand \"[looked] really fake\", despite the episode being actually filmed in Dubai, and then mentioned Brew's appreciation of the concept of people stranded in the desert and concluded that \"made a fair fist of it\". Brew positively reviewed Michelle Ryan's performance—comparing her performance to be on par to her role in Bionic Woman rather than her role as Zoe Slater in Eastenders—and Lee Evans' performance as Malcolm Taylor, calling him the highlight of the episode because of his dialogue. He closed his review by saying that \"\"Planet of the Dead\" was passable enough\": he thought it \"never really gelled\" for him; but he thought it was overall entertaining and was excited for the remaining three specials as a result of Carmen's prophecy.[26]\nCharlie Jane Anders of io9 \"mostly loved \"Planet Of The Dead\"\", commenting that it was a standard Russell T Davies script that had the \"elements of a cracking good story\":\nPOTD was pretty much everything you've come to expect from Russell T. Davies' Who: crazy adventures, slightly cartoony characters, clever dialogue, moments of sheer silly fun, a childlike solemnity, a miraculous save, bombastic music, and one woman who's held up as being the most special person ever.\nIt didn't hurt that POTD had all the elements of a cracking good story: The Doctor and friends trapped on an alien planet, on the other side of the universe, with no easy way to get home. Alien creatures who might be hostile. A deadly swarm coming to tear our heroes apart. And UNIT on the other side of the wormhole, trying to come to grips with this almost unimaginable threat.\n— Charlie Jane Anders, io9[27]\nShe compared it to two previous episodes, \"The Impossible Planet\" and \"Midnight\", both of which she enjoyed. She criticised three aspects of the episode: Lady Christina, who was the \"first RTD heroine who actually filled [her] with revulsion\", leaving her hoping that the character would be killed off-screen, Malcolm's reluctance to close the wormhole and the implausibility of only three stingrays travelling through it. She thought that the episode was \"a pretty solid adventure with a cool set of monsters\".[27]\nBen Rawson-Jones of entertainment website Digital Spy gave the episode two stars out of five. He characterised the episode as being \"as hollow as a big chocolate Easter egg\" because it was \"lacking in the enthralling drama and compelling characterisation that has been the lynchpin of the Russell T Davies era\". His main criticism was towards Ryan's character, describing the romantic tension between Christina and the Doctor as \"feeling forced\" and arguing that Ryan was \"utterly unconvincing\" as Christina. Conversely, he was appreciative of Strong's direction and the UNIT subplot. Specifically, he approved of Evans' performance, noting that \"the fact that Malcolm names a unit of measurement after himself is both inspired and hilarious\". His review ended by describing the episode as \"lifeless for much of the hour\" and expressing his hope that the ambiguous entity from Carmen's premonition would \"hurry up\".[28]\nOrlando Parfitt of IGN gave the episode a 7.1 (Good) rating out of ten. Parfitt called it a \"straightforward story\" that did not elevate to the level of excitement typically seen in Doctor Who until the episode's climax, instead describing the majority of the story as being \"taken up with Tennant and Ryan standing in the desert, swapping flirtatious banter in between proclaiming how dire their situation in between\", and criticised the writing of the part of the episode where the bus was on San Helios, claiming that plot devices such as the Tritovore or Taylor being held at gunpoint and ordered to close the wormhole as \"feel[ing] forced and unnaturally shoe-horned into the script\". His praise of the episode went to Ryan and Evans: although he thought of Christina as a \"shameless Lara Croft ripoff\", he said that the character \"still proves a sexy and wise-cracking counterpart to the Doctor\"; and Evans' acting alongside Dumezweni highlighted his \"undeniably great comic acting\" as opposed to his \"love-it-or-hate-it\" stand-up comedy. The last paragraph of his review focused on the climax, which he thought was \"a cracker [that] just-about makes up for the previously plodding plot\", and described the entire episode as having \"enough enjoyable moments\" to entertain fans before the transmission of \"The Waters of Mars\".[29]\nDVD and Blu-Ray release\n\"Planet of the Dead\" will be released on DVD on 15 June 2009,[30] and on Blu-Ray on 29 June 2009.[31]\nDirect download: TDP_91_final.mp3\nMon, 18 May 2009\nTDP 90: Big Finish Round Up\nto follow\nDirect download: TDP_90_Big_Finish_Round_Up_V2.mp3\nSat, 9 May 2009\nTDP 89: The Deadly Assassin\nThe Doctor answers a summons and finally returns to his homeworld, Gallifrey, seat of the Time Lords. However, when the President of the High Council is assassinated, he becomes the prime suspect, while an old enemy lurks in the shadows, pulling the strings.\nThe Fourth Doctor has arrived on Gallifrey after receiving a mysterious summons from the Time Lords. Along the way, he has a precognitive vision about the President of the Time Lords being murdered.\nAs soon as the TARDIS materialises within the Gallifreyan Citadel, an alarm sounds and it is surrounded by soldiers. Their leader, Commander Hildred, reports to Castellan Spandrell. Both note that the TARDIS is a Type 40, which is no longer in service. Since the arrival is unauthorised, the soldiers are ordered to impound the TARDIS and arrest the occupant. The Doctor overhears this, and realises that the Time Lords did not summon him. Someone has gone to great lengths to set him up.\nSpandrell goes to see Coordinator Engin in the Archives Section, leaving Hildred in charge. Hildred and his troops enter the TARDIS, but the Doctor manages to sneak out and make his way to a service lift that leads to the main tower. A soldier is present, and threatens to place the Doctor under arrest. However, the soldier is quickly killed by a phantom-like figure who disappears before the Doctor can get a good look at him. The Doctor sends the lift on its way, in an attempt to fool the soldiers into thinking he has fled deeper into the Citadel. All of this has been observed by the Doctor's old adversary, the Master, who is wearing a black hood that conceals his features. \"Predictable as ever, Doctor,\" he snorts, before returning to the shadows.\nChancellor Goth arrives outside the TARDIS to see the situation for himself. Inside the TARDIS, the Doctor is watching a news broadcast by a reporter he recognises as Runcible (whom the Doctor nicknames \"the Fatuous\"), a classmate from his days at the Academy. It is revealed that the President is set to retire, and he is to name a successor before he does. Runcible is talking to Cardinal Borusa, one of the Doctor's former teachers. He asks Borusa who the Presidential successor will be, but Borusa brushes him off.\nThe TARDIS is transmatted to the museum, and the Doctor takes the opportunity to steal a set of traditional Gallifreyan robes to mingle with the crowds. Meanwhile, deep within the archive tower, the Master, revealed to be horribly emaciated, confers with an unseen accomplice. He says that the trap has been set, and they must make sure the Doctor dies quickly.\nAt the Panopticon, the disguised Doctor briefly converses with Runcible before the outgoing President makes his entrance. The Doctor scans the area and notes a camera stationed on an unguarded catwalk. He also spots a sniper rifle next to the camera. The Doctor fights his way to the catwalk, warning that the President is about to be killed. Unfortunately, for the Doctor, the assassin is actually among the delegates. He pulls out a pistol and shoots the President dead. The crowd sees the Doctor on the catwalk with the rifle and assume he is the assassin.\nThe captured Doctor insists that he is innocent. Eventually, Spandrell starts to believe him and orders Engin to assist him in an independent investigation. Meanwhile, Goth and Borusa debate over the Doctor's impending trial. Goth notes that the election for a new President will occur in forty-eight hours, and he is eager to see the Doctor executed before then. Borusa, however, wants to ensure that the Doctor receives a fair trial, according to law. The Doctor surprises everyone by invoking Article 17: he will run for President, which will mean he can only be tried if he loses the election. The Master and his assassin are not pleased with this turn of events.\nThe Doctor returns to the scene of the crime with Spandrell. They discover that the sight on the Doctor's rifle was fixed, making it impossible for this weapon to have killed the President. They conclude that the real assassin would have been caught on tape by a nearby video camera, but when they inspect the camera, they find the shrunken body of the technician inside. The Doctor then realises that the Master is behind this. Runcible attempts to take the tape from the camera to the archives for review, but he is killed by a spear to the back.\nThe Doctor realises that the Master sent the Doctor the premonition of the assassination through the Matrix, a vast computer which turns thought patterns into virtual reality. He decides to enter the Matrix as a means of tracking the Master. Engin warns him that if he dies in the virtual world, he will die in the real world as well.\nThe Doctor enters the Matrix and finds himself in a forbidding landscape of crumbling white cliffs and sparse vegetation. The disembodied laughter of some unknown presence echoes off the canyon walls. The Doctor is then engaged in a series of surrealistic sequences. First he nearly walks into the open jaws of a hungry crocodile, which simply disappears into thin air. He is then attacked by a masked samurai warrior and falls from a cliff into unconsciousness. He revives upon an outdoor operating table with a masked surgeon standing over him. The surgeon tries to inject him with a substance from an extremely large hypodermic needle. The Doctor pushes the surgeon away and runs off to find himself in the midst of a World War I battle. Shell and machine gun fire is heard and gas canisters explode all around. A soldier and his horse stumble out of the smoke wearing gas masks. The Doctor runs bewildered until he comes upon a train track, the rail of which closes upon one of his boots and traps him. A group of three masked men appear and one attempts to run him down with a mine train.\nThe train disappears before hitting the Doctor and he works his foot free. The Doctor realizes that his surroundings are but an illusion and tries to deny their existence, but passes out from the strain. Recovering consciousness he becomes aware of the two large black eyes of his unknown adversary in the side of a cliff, telling him that he is the creator of this world and that there is no escape. The Doctor, dehydrated and thirsty, hears the sound of running water, but when he attempts to dig into the ground to locate its source he is greeted by a red-nosed clown peering through a window, laughing at him. He is then strafed by machine gun fire by a masked pilot in a biplane, eventually receiving a bullet wound in the leg. The Doctor tries to deny the existence of the wound, and it disappears. However, the disembodied voice of the assassin reminds him that this is his reality, and his rules, and the wound reappears. The Doctor declares that he will then fight the assassin in his reality.\nIn the real world, Engin tells Spandrell that the Doctor’s adversary is using a lot of energy to maintain the virtual environment, so the Doctor can defeat him if he provides an adequate distraction.\nInside the Matrix, the dry barren virtual environment merges into a thick, sticky jungle, and the assassin soon appears dressed as a big game hunter, a mesh veil obscuring his face. The assassin concludes that the Doctor will need water, and, leaving his backpack behind him, goes off to contaminate the local supply with poison from a small bottle. The Doctor finds the assassin's backpack and takes a grenade and some twine, setting up a makeshift booby trap. The assassin returns and trips it, setting off an explosion which wounds him in the abdomen.\nFearing that his protégé might lose, the Master sends a hypnotised guard to kill the Doctor's physical form.\nBack inside the Matrix, the Doctor continues to be hunted through the virtual jungle. Coming to the pool of water, he finds dead, floating fish and the empty bottle and realises that the water has been poisoned. He finds a small amount of uncontaminated water and drinks it through a reed, then uses the reed and some thorns off of a nearby tree to make a blowgun, dipping the ends of the darts into the remnants of the poison from the bottle. The Doctor climbs up into a tree and shoots the assassin in the leg with a dart. The assassin fires his rifle and hits the Doctor in the arm, causing him to fall out of the tree. Ripping his pants leg open to reveal a potentially fatal wound, the assassin injects himself with an antidote while the Doctor again escapes.\nIn the real world, the hypnotised guard makes his way to the Matrix chamber, but Spandrell manages to shoot him before he can sabotage the Matrix link.\nBack in the Matrix, the Doctor has made it to a gas-filled marsh, where the assassin reveals his true identity: Chancellor Goth. Goth tries to shoot the Doctor but ignites the marsh gas, setting himself on fire. Goth falls into the water to extinguish the spreading flames. The Doctor comes out of hiding to confront him, but is caught by surprise by Goth and tackled. Intense hand-to-hand combat ensues, with Goth seeming to gain the upper hand. He attempts to drown the Doctor.\nHowever, the strain of fighting and keeping up the virtual reality overcomes Goth. The Doctor breaks free and hits Goth over the head with a large stick. The Master, realising that Goth has been effectively defeated, decides to hedge his bets and tries to trap the Doctor in the Matrix by overloading the neuron fields, even though this will also kill Goth. Engin manages to get the Doctor out, but Goth is not so lucky. The Master then injects himself with a hypodermic needle.\nThe Doctor and Spandrell, accompanied by soldiers, manage to make their way to the chamber where the Master and Goth were accessing the Matrix. They find the Master slumped in a chair without a pulse and Goth dying. Goth reveals that he found the Master, near death, on Tersurus. The Master was nearing the end of his twelfth and final regeneration. Goth went along with his schemes mainly for power: he knew the President had no intention of naming him as a successor, but if a new election was held, he would be the front runner. Before he dies, Goth warns that the Master has a doomsday plan.\nWhen Spandrell relates the story to Borusa, the Cardinal orders that a cover story be created to maintain confidence in the Time Lords and their leadership. The official story will be that the Master arrived in secret to assassinate the President, and Goth heroically tracked him down and killed him but perished in the attempt. The charge against the Doctor will be dropped on condition that he leave Gallifrey.\nAttempting to piece together what the Master and Goth were planning, the Doctor inquires as to what becoming the President entails. He is told that the President has access to the symbols of office: the Sash and Great Key of Rassilon. As Engin plays the records of the Old Time, which describes how Rassilon found the Eye of Harmony within the \"black void\", the Doctor realises these objects are not ceremonial. The Doctor inspects the hypodermic needle, and realises that it contained a neural inhibitor. The Master is still alive.\nThe Doctor, Spandrell, and Engin arrive at the morgue, to find that the Master has revived and killed Hildred. Armed with Hildred’s staser pistol, the Master seizes the Sash from the President's corpse and traps the three in the morgue. The Doctor explains what he has deduced: that the Eye is actually the nucleus of a black hole, an inexhaustible energy source that Rassilon captured to power Gallifrey, and the Sash and Key are its control devices. The Doctor deduces that the Master was planning to steal this energy to gain a new cycle of regenerations. However, if the Eye is disrupted, Gallifrey will be destroyed and a hundred other worlds will be consumed in a chain reaction.\nInside the Panopticon, the Master makes his way to the obelisk containing the Eye. He unhooks the coils that connect it to Gallifrey, and is prepared to access the energy. The Doctor makes his way to the Panopticon via a service shaft. The Citadel begins to quake, and cracks appear in the floor. The Doctor and the Master fight, until the Master loses his footing and falls into a chasm. The Doctor reconnects the coils and saves Gallifrey, although half the city is in ruins and many lives have been lost.\nThe Doctor is now free to return to his TARDIS. He bids farewell to Borusa, Spandrell, and Engin, but also warns that the Master may not be dead. He had harvested some energy from the obelisk before he was stopped, and may have been able to channel it. As the Doctor’s TARDIS dematerialises, Spandrell and Engin witness the Master sneak into his own TARDIS – disguised as a grandfather clock – and make his escape. Spandrell concludes that it is only a matter of time before the two enemies cross paths again.\nBernard Horsfall guest stars as Chancellor Goth. He had previously appeared as an unnamed Time Lord (credited as 'Time Lord 1') in the serial The War Games prompting some speculation that they were the same character. Other parts played by Horsfall in Doctor Who were Gulliver in The Mind Robber and Taron in Planet of the Daleks.\nThis is the only serial of the original Doctor Who series in which the Doctor does not have a companion. This was reportedly at Tom Baker's request as he wanted to try a solo adventure. In addition, some have suggested that the production team hoped to discourage Baker's interest in solo serials, but his enthusiastic reaction to the scripts seems to have belied this.\nAlthough this story was well-received, the experiment of the Doctor without his companions was not repeated until the revived series episode \"Midnight\" in the 2008 series. Robert Holmes later stated how difficult it was to write a script without anyone for the Doctor to share his thoughts and plans with (the character is seen to talk to himself more than usual).\nThe planet Tersurus, where Goth says he found the Master, is seen in the 1999 charity spoof Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death. How the Master arrived there in an emaciated state is described in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Legacy of the Daleks by John Peel.\nThe character of Borusa reappears in The Invasion of Time, Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors. In each subsequent story, the character is played by a different actor, Borusa having regenerated. He has also been promoted in each interim, a cardinal here, Chancellor, President, and Lord High President in the later serials, respectively.\nEarth is referred to as Sol 3; this name is again used in \"Last of the Time Lords\".[1] The Factfile for that episode on the official BBC Doctor Who website, compiled by fan Rob Francis, refers to the term as Earth's Gallifreyan name.[2] It is used as such again in \"Voyage of the Damned\".\nThe Doctor's trial and subsequent exile to Earth by the Time Lords and the later lifting of that sentence are mentioned.\n[edit] Notable additions\nThis is the first story to state that there is a limited number of times that a Time Lord can regenerate, and that this number is twelve. None of the Time Lords who are killed in this story are seen to regenerate, and the Doctor does qualify (in The War Games) that his people can live forever \"barring accidents.\" In The Brain of Morbius, the fourth Doctor states that his people chose to not live forever because \"death is the price of progress.\"\nThis episode is one of the very few where we see the written Galifreyan language by way of a note to the authorities the Doctor leaves in the Tardis. The handwriting, done with a quill pen, resembles random stylized penstrokes shaped like the upside down capital letter L.\nThe source of the Time Lords' power and that of the TARDIS is the Eye of Harmony, the nucleus of a black hole that lies beneath the citadel on Gallifrey. The Eye (or a link to it) is seen inside the TARDIS in the 1996 television movie. Whether the Eye survived the destruction of Gallifrey mentioned in the 2005 series is not clear, though the TARDIS is seen twice (\"Boom Town\", \"Utopia\") drawing its power from the time rift in Cardiff.\nThis story introduces Rassilon who, along with Omega (introduced in The Three Doctors) would become the central figure in Time Lord mythology. When Rassilon's name is first mentioned, the Doctor inquires who he is.\nOne of the artefacts that controls the Eye of Harmony is the Great Key of Rassilon, a large ebonite rod. Confusingly, there are two other Keys of Rassilon mentioned later in the series. One, also known as the Great Key, whose location is known only to the Chancellor, resembles an ordinary key and is a vital component of the demat gun (The Invasion of Time). The other, simply called the Key of Rassilon, gives access to the Matrix (The Ultimate Foe).\n\"Part One\" 30 October 1976 21:13 11.8\n\"Part Two\" 6 November 1976 24:44 12.1\n\"Part Three\" 13 November 1976 24:20 13\n\"Part Four\" 20 November 1976 24:30 11.8\nWorking titles for this story included The Dangerous Assassin (which Holmes changed to \"deadly\" because he thought it \"didn't sound right\"). The final title is a tautology: a successful assassin must, by definition, be deadly. However, since Time Lords can in general survive death, and the assassin's victims do not, he is perhaps \"deadly\" in that sense.\nThe story drew considerable hostile commentary from Mary Whitehouse, who particularly objected to the extended freeze frame of Goth drowning the Doctor at the end of episode 3.\nThe story was largely inspired by the film and book The Manchurian Candidate, down to the inclusion of a CIA.\nThe serial begins with Tom Baker doing a voiceover introduction referring to Time Lords in the third person, over a text crawl similar to that seen in the opening of Star Wars (although The Deadly Assassin predates the premiere of Star Wars by six months). The 1996 television movie, \"Father's Day\", \"Army of Ghosts\" and \"Doomsday\" are the only other stories so far that begin with a voiceover.\nSee also: Simulated reality\nDoctor Who and the Deadly Assassin\nDoctor Who and the Mutants\nDoctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in October 1977, entitled Doctor Who and The Deadly Assassin.\n[edit] Broadcast\nThis serial was repeated on BBC One in August 1977 (04/08/77) to (25/08/77) on Thursdays at 6.20pm.\nThe cliffhanger to Episode 3 — where Goth holds the Doctor's head underwater in an attempt to drown him — came in for heavy criticism, particularly from television decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse. She often cited it in interviews as one of the most frightening scenes in Doctor Who, her reasoning being that children would not know if the Doctor survived until the following week and that they would have this strong image in their minds during all that time. After the episode's initial broadcast, the master tape of the episode was edited to remove the original ending. However, off-air U-matic recordings of the original broadcast exist with the ending intact, and have been used to restore the ending on the VHS and subsequent DVD release.\n[edit] VHS and DVD release\nThis story was released in March 1989 in edited omnibus format in the US only.\nIt was released in episodic format in the UK in October 1991. It was also re-released & remastered for the W H Smith exclusive Time Lord Collection in 2002 with a better quality freeze frame cliffhanger for Episode 3.\nDWM 404 confirmed this story for 2009 DVD release. Play.com has it listed for 11th May and Amazon.co.uk have this listed for a 4th May release.\nDirect download: TDP_89_deadly_assassin.mp3\nMon, 27 April 2009\nTDP 88: Red Dwarf and Season Six B\nSeason 6B\nPatrick Troughton as the Second Doctor in The Two Doctors\nSeason 6B or Season 6 (b) is a popular fan theory related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. An example of fanon, it is a hypothetical series of adventures of the Doctor that takes place between the last serial of Season 6, The War Games (first broadcast in 1969), and the first serial of Season 7, Spearhead from Space (first broadcast in 1970). This unconfirmed piece of continuity was first used by fans, notably Paul Cornell, to explain away certain continuity problems in the programme.\nAlthough the majority of stories in the series were constructed to leave short gaps (or no gaps at all) between episodes, the Season 6B hypothesis inserted a sizeable gap in which untold stories and previously unknown companions could be inserted into series continuity, in a number of novels and other productions. Other potential gaps in the eras of other Doctors have been identified, and utilised in the same way.\nSeason 6B is not to be confused with 6B, the production code for the Doctor Who serial Earthshock (1982).\n1 Continuity problems\n2 Season 6B\n3 Adoption in tie-in fiction\n3.1 BBC website\n[edit] Continuity problems\nThe conclusion of The War Games sees the capture of the Second Doctor by his people, the Time Lords, who put him on trial for interfering with the universe contrary to Time Lord policy. This was the first time the Time Lords had appeared in the programme, and also the first time the Doctor had revealed he was one of them (prior to this the other members of the Doctor's race to appear on television, the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, and the Meddling Monk, were not explicitly identified as Time Lords). The Time Lords return his companions Jamie and Zoe to their own times and wipe their memories of their experiences with the Doctor bar their first adventure with him. They then sentence the Doctor to exile on Earth, as well as forcing him to regenerate. The first part of Spearhead from Space follows on from this, introducing the Third Doctor, who does not actually appear on screen at the end of The War Games, one of only two occasions (the other being the regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the Ninth) that a regeneration has not been shown to completion on screen in one form or another.\nPatrick Troughton reprised his role as the Second Doctor in the anniversary stories The Three Doctors (1973) and The Five Doctors (1983). In the latter story, illusions of Jamie and Zoe are dismissed because the Second Doctor knows that the Time Lords wiped their memories and therefore Jamie should not have recognised Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.\nHowever, it is not explained how the Second Doctor could know of Jamie and Zoe's memory wipe, since he was told of it only just before his forced regeneration and exile, and consequently there does not seem to be any time to fit in the events of The Five Doctors between his trial and Spearhead from Space. Conversely, if this Second Doctor came from a time before The War Games he would have had no knowledge of the memory wipe because, from his perspective it had yet to happen.[1]\nTroughton once again returned to the series in the 1985 serial The Two Doctors, where the Second Doctor and Jamie are on a mission for the Time Lords. This caused confusion among fans, since Jamie did not find out about the Time Lords until just before he was sent back to his own time. Robert Holmes, who wrote The Two Doctors, stated on occasion that he believed the Doctor had long been a discreet agent of the Time Lords, undertaking missions for them despite his autonomous status. However, this was still at odds with what had been seen on-screen in The War Games. (Holmes felt that the Second Doctor had lost half a life due to the events of The War Games and came up with an idea to extend his life span).\nCoupled with this were other, more minor problems - the visibly aged appearance of the now grey-haired Troughton and Frazer Hines (who played Jamie) and the second Doctor's confidence in his ability to control his TARDIS time machine, which would hardly have been justified given what was seen on-screen during his own era.\n[edit] Season 6B\nTo account for these apparent discrepancies, the \"Season 6B\" theory was proposed. It was first published in the 1995 book The Discontinuity Guide, by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping.[2] The hypothetical \"Season 6B\" takes place off-camera between The War Games and Spearhead from Space, and has Troughton's Doctor working as an agent of the Time Lords, specifically their covert organization the Celestial Intervention Agency, who grant him increased control over his TARDIS at the cost of his freedom. The Second Doctor who shows up in The Five Doctors comes from this period, and is therefore aware of Jamie and Zoe's mindwipe.\nThe plausibility of the theory is aided by the fact that we never actually see Troughton regenerate into Pertwee. The end of The War Games merely sees Troughton vanish into darkness and the opening of Spearhead from Space sees the Pertwee Doctor stumbling out of the TARDIS already transformed. The Third Doctor also carried a ring, a bracelet, and a watch which homed in on the TARDIS, none of which he had at the close of The War Games.\nDuring this time, the Second Doctor apparently regains Jamie and Victoria Waterfield (who is mentioned as being away studying graphology in The Two Doctors) as companions, acquires a Stattenheim remote control device to summon the TARDIS, and undertakes the mission which was related in The Two Doctors. Eventually, either the Time Lords tire of keeping the Doctor on a leash, or, as is more likely, the Doctor rebels and attempts to escape once more. This results in the exile which begins in Spearhead from Space. To explain why the Sixth Doctor does not remember his own past in The Two Doctors, it is also suggested that the Time Lords wiped the Second Doctor's memory of the events of Season 6B — the Third Doctor did claim significant memory loss in Spearhead. (The Discontinuity Guide acknowledged that alternatively, this could be due to the fact that the Doctor is injected during The Two Doctors with \"siralanomode\"; a fictitious drug that the Doctor states can affect one's memory.[2])\nAlthough the specifics of Season 6B were first laid out in The Discontinuity Guide, the idea of a post-The War Games Second Doctor had already been introduced in the TV Comic comic strip in 1969. Action in Exile (TVC #916-#920) sees the Doctor arrive in London without his TARDIS, and he checks into the luxurious Carlton Grange Hotel. From this base, he proceeds to have five Earth-bound adventures, culminating in The Night Walkers (TVC #934-#936). In this story, the Doctor investigates tales of scarecrows walking. He discovers that the scarecrows have been animated by the Time Lords to capture him, and we learn that the Doctor escaped from the Time Lords before they could complete his sentence of a forced change of appearance. The scarecrows take him into the TARDIS and proceed to trigger his regeneration, leading directly into Spearhead from Space.\n[edit] Adoption in tie-in fiction\nSome parts of the Past Doctor Adventures novel Players are set in this period, as is the whole of World Game. Both books are written by former Doctor Who series writer and script editor Terrance Dicks. Dicks co-wrote The War Games and his adoption of the Season 6B hypothesis is seen by some as lending authorial legitimacy to the idea.\nIn World Game, it is revealed that at the conclusion of the Second Doctor's trial, he was actually sentenced to death. However, the Celestial Intervention Agency required an operative who could discreetly investigate temporal disturbances but could also be disavowed. The CIA approaches the Doctor and the Time Lord High Council, proposing that the Doctor's sentence be commuted if he becomes their agent.\nTo test this arrangement, the Doctor is first sent via time ring to 1915 France (Players) and subsequently given a Type 97 TARDIS and a supervisor/companion in the politically ambitious Time Lady Serena (World Game). Although the relationship between the two was more antagonistic, over the course of the mission they begin to appreciate each other's talents.\nAt the conclusion of World Game, Serena sacrifices herself for the Doctor's principles, while the Doctor uses what he learned of Gallifreyan politics from her to negotiate with the CIA, agreeing to their terms, but demanding the return of his TARDIS and Jamie. The CIA also agree, giving him a Stattenheim remote control and fitting the TARDIS with an override to give them ultimate control. They alter Jamie's memories so that he believes Victoria is away studying graphology, and the novel leads into the events of The Two Doctors.\n[edit] BBC website\nThe BBC Doctor Who website uses excerpts both from The Discontinuity Guide and The Television Companion by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker. The mention of Season 6B on the site could be taken as the BBC lending legitimacy to the theory. However, the BBC has never made a clear statement on canonicity, and the site also contains material which is explicitly non-canonical. The exact position remains unclear.\n[edit] Footnotes\n^ The actual explanation is because the scene was a hasty re-write. The phantom companions were originally supposed to be Zoe and Victoria, and the illusion of Victoria would have given the game away by addressing Lethbridge-Stewart as \"Brigadier\", because in the television series she encountered him on only one occasion, when he was but a Colonel. However, actress Deborah Watling was unable to schedule time for an appearance, and Frazer Hines as Jamie was written in when Hines became available. See The Five Doctors at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel).\n^ a b Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin; Topping, Keith (1995). \"Season 6 (b)\" (reprinted on BBC Doctor Who website). The Discontinuity Guide. London: Virgin Books. pp. 105–107. ISBN 0-426-20442-5.\nCornell, Paul, Day, Martin & Topping, Keith (1995). The Discontinuity Guide. London: Virgin Publishing, ISBN 0-426-20442-5.\nDiscontinuity Guide entry at the BBC website\nThe WHOniverse's timeline\nDoctor Who - The Complete Adventures timeline\nOutpost Gallifrey timeline (not current with World Game)\nDirect download: TDP_RED_AND_6B_final.mp3\nTDP 86: Cyberman Histroy 101\nThe Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. Cybermen were originally a wholly organic species of humanoids originating on Earth's twin planet Mondas that began to implant more and more artificial parts into their bodies as a means of self-preservation. This led to the race becoming coldly logical and calculating, with emotions usually only shown when naked aggression was called for.\nThey were created by Dr. Kit Pedler (the unofficial scientific advisor to the programme) and Gerry Davis in 1966, first appearing in the serial, The Tenth Planet, the last to feature William Hartnell as the First Doctor. They have since been featured numerous times in their extreme attempts to survive through conquest.\nA parallel universe version of the Cybermen appeared in the 2006 series' two-part story, \"Rise of the Cybermen\" and \"The Age of Steel\". These Cybermen also appeared in the two-part 2006 season finale, \"Army of Ghosts\" and \"Doomsday\". This then carried through to the spin-off Torchwood in the episode \"Cyberwoman\". They would later return to the revived series in the 2008 Christmas Special \"The Next Doctor\", introducing two new variants of the race; the Cyber-Shades and the Cyber-King.\n1 Physical characteristics\n1.1 Costume details\n1.2 Voice\n2 Cybermen variants\n4 Cybermats\n5.1 Conceptual history\n5.2 History within the show\n5.2.1 Origins\n5.2.2 The Earth invasions\n5.2.3 The Cyber-Wars\n5.2.4 Parallel Earth and the Battle of Canary Wharf\n5.2.5 Torchwood Three Incident\n5.2.6 The CyberKing\n6 Other appearances\n6.1 Spin-offs\n7 Major appearances\n7.2 Stage plays\n7.3 Audio plays\n7.4 Novels\n7.5 Games\n[edit] Physical characteristics\nAn original Cyberman from The Tenth Planet\nWhile the Doctor's other old enemies the Daleks were on the whole unchanged during the original series' twenty-six season run, the Cybermen were seen to change with almost every encounter. The Cybermen are humanoid, but have been cybernetically augmented to the point where they have few remaining organic parts. In their first appearance in the series, the only portions of their bodies that still seemed human were their hands, but by their next appearance in The Moonbase (1967), their bodies were entirely covered up in their metallic suits, with their hands replaced by two finger claws, but changed back to regular five-fingered hands in The Invasion (1968). As they are relatively few in number, the Cybermen tend towards covert activity, scheming from hiding and using human pawns or robots to act in their place until they need to appear. They also seek to increase their numbers by converting others into Cybermen (a process known as \"cyber-conversion\").\nIt is presumed (and often implied) that there are still organic components beneath their suits, meaning they are actually cyborgs, not robots: in The Tenth Planet, a Cyberman tells a group of humans that \"our brains are just like yours\", although by the time of Attack of the Cybermen, their brains seem to have been replaced with electronics. Also in this same story, two human slave-prisoners of the Cybermen on the planet Telos, named Bates and Stratton, reveal that their organic arms and legs have been removed by the Cybermen, and replaced by Cyber-substitutes. In Earthshock (1982), the actors' chins were vaguely visible through a clear perspex area on the helmet to suggest some kind of organic matter. In The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), veins and brains were visible through the domed head of the Cyberman Controller and similarly, in Attack of the Cybermen (1985) and \"The Age of Steel\" (2006), the Cyber-Controller's brain is visible through the dome. The first is a Mondas Cyber Controller, while the second involves alternative Earth's John Lumic. However, in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975), the Doctor says they are \"total machine creatures\".\nThe audio play Real Time implies that the converted victim's face remains beneath the Cyberman faceplate, although the audio plays, like all non-televised spin-off media, are of uncertain canonicity with regards to the television series. The Virgin New Adventures novel Iceberg by David Banks states that some Cybermen experience rare flashes of emotional memory from the time before they were converted, which are then usually suppressed. The parallel Earth Cybermen in the 2006 series are usually constructed from human brains bonded to a Cyberman exoskeletal shell with an artificially grown nervous system threaded throughout (\"The Age of Steel\"), although direct grafting of cyber-components is another method of conversion (\"Cyberwoman\").\nAlthough the Cybermen often claim that they have done away with human emotion, they have exhibited emotions ranging from anger to smug satisfaction in their confrontations with the Doctor (although this is only clearly present during their appearances in the 1980s). Some Cybermen in the early stories were even given individual names such as \"Krang\". Some parallel Earth Cybermen did retain some memories of their pre-conversion lives, although their emotional response varied. In \"Cyberwoman\", the partial conversion led to a degree of insanity in Lisa Hallett, which was retained even after she transferred her brain into a cyberman body. In \"Doomsday\", Yvonne Hartman is able to retain at least some elements of her personality in order to prevent the advance of a group of other Cybermen, and is last seen weeping what appears to be either an oil-like substance or blood. In the same episode, the Cyber-Leader expresses clear frustration at the humans' refusing to surrender, although in a later scene he criticizes the Doctor for showing emotion. In \"The Age of Steel\", the Doctor is able to defeat the Cybermen by shutting down their emotional inhibitors, enabling them to \"see\" what had become of them. Their realization of what they had become led them to either simply shut down out of sheer horror, or partially explode. Lastly, when the first Cyber Leader is killed, his head explodes with some white liquid leaking down his body; there are references in that episode to a patented Cybus Industries mixture of chemicals used to preserve the brain.\nThe Virgin Missing Adventures novel Killing Ground by Steve Lyons suggests that some Cybermen imitate emotions to intimidate and unnerve their victims. The Big Finish Productions audio play Spare Parts (set on Mondas in the early days of cyber-conversion) suggests that the Cybermen deliberately remove their emotions as part of the conversion process to stifle the physical and emotional trauma of becoming a Cyberman. The conversion process in the parallel Earth is termed \"upgrading\".\nThis motive behind the removal of emotions is made more explicit in \"The Age of Steel\" where it is done by means of an emotional inhibitor. In that episode, the deactivation of their emotional inhibitors drives the converted Cybermen insane when they realise what they have become, killing them. This motive may also be applicable to Mondas Cybermen, given their forcible conversion of other lifeforms to Cybermen to maintain their numbers, despite the fact the Mondasians appear to have originally willingly converted themselves as a survival mechanism.[citation needed]\nCybermen have a number of weaknesses over the years. The most notable weakness is the element gold. Their aversion to gold was not mentioned until their attempt to destroy the planetoid Voga (the so-called \"Planet of Gold\") in Revenge of the Cybermen (1975). Initially, it was explained that, due to its non-corrodible nature, gold essentially chokes their respiratory systems. For example, the glittergun, a weapon used during the Cyber-Wars in the future, fired gold dust at its targets. However, in later serials, gold appeared to affect them rather like silver affects werewolves, with gold coins or gold-tipped bullets fired at them having the same effect. The revived series' Cybermen have no such weakness, though the tie-in website for the episode makes mention of it.[1] Cybermen are also rather efficiently killed when shot with their own guns. Other weaknesses from early stories include solvents, gravity based technology, and excessive levels of radiation. In \"The Age of Steel\" an EMP grenade is shown to disable a Cyberman and shut down its emotional inhibitor. Their armour is often depicted as flexible and resistant to bullets, but can be penetrated by gold arrows and projectiles made of gold. The Parallel Earth Cybermen are bullet-proof and are very resilient, but are not indestructible — they are vulnerable to heavy explosives, electromagnetic pulses and specialised weaponry, as well as Dalek weapons.\n[edit] Costume details\nThe design of the Cybermen acted almost as a guide to prevailing fashion at the time of transmission. Nearly all were silver in colour and included items and material such as cloth, rubber diving suits, PVC, chest units, tubing, practice golf balls, cricketers' gloves, and silver-painted Doc Martens boots.[2] A BBC Cyberman costume from the black & white era of TV has recently been discovered.[3]\nThe 1980s design used converted flight suits painted silver. Unlike the Doctor's other foes, the Cybermen have changed substantially in appearance over the years, looking more and more modern, although retaining certain commonalities of design, the most iconic being the \"handle bars\" attached to Cybermen heads, that were supposed to aid with their hearing, their round eyeholes and their chest units. Completely black-coloured Cybermen were seen briefly in \"Attack of the Cybermen\".\nA Cyberman head from the 1975 serial Revenge of the Cybermen, seen here in a display case in \"Dalek\" (2005).\nAside from these changes, variations in design between rank-and-file Cybermen and their leaders have been seen. In The Wheel in Space and The Invasion (both 1968), the Cyber Director was depicted as an immobile mechanism. In The Tomb of the Cybermen and Attack of the Cybermen, the Cyber Controller was a larger Cyberman with a high domed head instead of the \"handle bar\" helmet design. In Revenge of the Cybermen, the Cyber Leader had a completely black helmet except for his face. From Earthshock (1982) onwards he could be distinguished from his troops by the black handle bars on his helmet. The Cyber-Leader in \"Army of Ghosts\" also had black handles.\nBecause the Doctor is a time traveller, he meets the Cybermen at various points in their history out of sequence from the order the serials were made. This can be confusing since Cybermen from serials set in \"earlier\" periods of history can sometimes look more sophisticated than those from \"later\" periods. Lawrence Miles suggests in his reference work About Time 5 that the anachronistically designed Cybermen of Earthshock and Silver Nemesis are time travellers, like those in Attack of the Cybermen.\nA Cyberman head was seen in the 2005 episode, \"Dalek\", kept in a display case. The text on the info card states that the head was found in a sewer, suggesting that the head was from The Invasion. However, the enlarged Cyber-Handles suggest that the head is from Revenge of the Cybermen. The info card states the head was found in 1975, the year in which The Invasion was set and the year in which Revenge of the Cybermen was broadcast.\nThe Cybermen returned in episodes 5 and 6 of the 2006 season of the new series, in a two-part story set on an alternate Earth. The new Cybermen were designed by production designer Edward Thomas's team and Neill Gorton at Millennium FX. The new Cyberman design is physically imposing, being about 6 feet 7 inches (2.0 m) tall. The general design is made to resemble modern consumer electronics, such as the iPod. To this extent, they are made from burnished steel instead of silver, feature the Cybus Corporation symbol on its chest, and have a general art deco design. The other distinct Cyberman design is that of the Cyber-Controller, which had glowing eyes, a transparent forehead revealing the brain, and sockets on its chest-plate providing connectors to other systems.\nThe Torchwood episode \"Cyberwoman\" features a partially cyber-converted woman who lacks the outer plating of a fully converted Cyberman. Her body is encased in metal structures but much of her flesh, including her face, is visible. She also has clearly visible metallic breasts, though it is not clear how much of her own flesh has been replaced and how much is merely covered. Another character speculates she could be 40-45% human, and 55-60% Cyberman.\n[edit] Voice\nEarly Cybermen had an unsettling, sing-song voice, constructed by placing the inflections of words on the wrong syllables. In their first appearance, the effect of this was augmented by the special effect of having a Cyberman abruptly open his mouth wide and keep it open, without moving his tongue or lips, while the separately recorded voice would be playing, and then shut it quickly when the line was finished. Although the cloth-like masks of the first Cybermen were soon replaced by a full helmet, a similar physical effect involving the mouth \"hatch\" opening and then shutting when the line was finished was used until The Wheel in Space (1968).\nLater, the production team used special effects from its Radiophonic Workshop by adding first a mechanical larynx, then a vocoder, to modify speech to make it sound more alien and computer-like. In later stories of the original series and in the audio plays, two copies of the voice track were sampled and pitch-shifted downwards by differing amounts and layered to produce the effect, sometimes with the addition of a small amount of flanging. From Revenge of the Cybermen to Silver Nemesis (1988) the actors provided the voices themselves, using microphones and transmitters in the chest units.\nThe voices for the 2006 return of the Cybermen are similar to the buzzing electronic monotone voices of the Cybermen used in The Invasion. They were provided by Nicholas Briggs (who performed the voices for the Cybermen in Big Finish audio stories as well as the Daleks in both the new series and the audio stories). As shown in the season 2 DVD special feature \"Confidential Cut Downs,\" the timbre was created by processing Brigg's voice through a Moog moogerfooger ring modulator. Unusually, in \"The Age of Steel\", the Cyber-Controller (John Lumic, played by Roger Lloyd Pack) retains his voice after being upgraded, but it is still electronic. In \"Doomsday\", a Cyberman which contains the brain of Torchwood Institute director Yvonne Hartman retains a female-sounding though still electronic voice, as does the partially converted Lisa Hallett in \"Cyberwoman\" when her Cyberman personality is dominant. The reason for this is that their minds are taking control of the suit into which their brain has been placed, thus allowing the Cyber-suit's design to be exploited through sheer mental power. In an effect reminiscent of the earliest Cybermen's mouths snapping open while speaking, the new Cybermen have a blue light in their \"mouths\" which blinks in synchronisation with their speech.\n[edit] Cybermen variants\nSome Cybermen are given titles, being credited as \"Cyber Leader\" (or variants thereof), \"Cyber Lieutenant\", \"Cyber Scout\" or the \"Cyber Controller\". The Cyber Controller in particular has appeared in multiple forms, both humanoid and as an immobile computer, and has also been referred to as the \"Cyber Planner\" or \"Cyber Director\". The Controller seen (and destroyed) in various serials also may or may not be the same consciousness in different bodies; it appears to recognize and remember the Doctor from previous encounters. In Iceberg, the first Cyber Controller is created by implanting a Cyber Director into the skull of a recently converted Cyberman.\nThe Cyber-Controller in \"The Age of Steel\" used the brain of John Lumic, the creator of the Cybermen in that parallel reality. In \"Doomsday\", a Cyber-Leader appears, and when he is destroyed, mention is made of downloading his data files into another Cyberman unit, which is then upgraded to Cyber-Leader.\nThe 2008 Christmas special, \"The Next Doctor\", featured a new variant called a Cybershade.[4], The Doctor theorises that it is a more primitive version of a Cyberman, using the brain of a cat or a dog. In the same story a \"Cyber-King\" appears; according to the Doctor, it is a \"Dreadnought-class\" ship resembling a Cyberman hundreds of feet tall, and contains a Cyber-factory in its chest. It is controlled from within its mouth. Its right arm can be converted into a cannon, and its left into a laser.\nCybermen technology is almost completely oriented towards weaponry, apart from their own bodies. When originally seen in The Tenth Planet they had large energy weapons that attached to their chests. In The Moonbase, the Cybermen had two types of weaponry: an electrical discharge from their hands, which stunned the target, and a type of gun. They also made use of a large laser cannon with which they attempted to attack the base itself.\nThe hand discharge was also present in The Tomb of the Cybermen, which featured a smaller, hand-held cyber-weapon shaped like a pistol that was described as an X-ray laser. In The Wheel in Space the Cybermen could use the discharge to also operate machinery, and had death rays built into their chest units. They displayed the same units in The Invasion as well as carrying large rifles for medium distance combat. In Revenge of the Cybermen and Real Time their weapons were built into their helmets. Killing Ground indicates that this type of Cybermen also have more powerful hand weapons. Subsequent appearances have shown them armed almost exclusively with hand-held cyberguns.\nThe Cybermen have access to weapons of mass destruction known as cobalt bombs, which are also sometimes known as Cyber-bombs, which were banned by the galactic Armageddon Convention (Revenge of the Cybermen). A \"Cyber-megatron bomb\" was mentioned in The Invasion, supposedly powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. In Earthshock, the Cybermen also used androids as part of their plans to invade Earth.\nThe parallel Earth Cybermen electrocute their victims by touching them and at first carried no other weaponry. In \"Army of Ghosts\" and \"Doomsday\", the Cybermen are equipped with retractable energy weapons housed within their forearms (these were actually first shown in \"The Age of Steel\", but only very briefly and were not used during that episode), but also use modified human weapons to battle the Daleks. The arm mounted guns prove effective against humans but are unable to penetrate Dalek shields. Two Cybermen sent to parley with Dalek Thay at the Battle of Canary Wharf shot the Dalek but were promptly exterminated. In the Torchwood episode \"Cyberwoman\" the partially converted Lisa Hallett used her electrical touch against the Torchwood team, as well as an energy beam fired from her arm which could only stun the part of the body at which it was aimed.\n[edit] Cybermats\nThe Cybermen also use smaller, cybernetic creatures called \"cybermats\" as weapons of attack. In their first appearance in The Tomb of the Cybermen, they resembled oversized metallic silverfish and had segmented bodies with hair-like tactile sensor probes along the base of their heads, which were topped with crystalline eyes. The Second Doctor described them as a \"form of metallic life,\" implying that they may be semi-organic like the Cybermen, and that they attacked by feeding off brain waves.\nThe second model of cybermat seen in The Wheel in Space was used for sabotage, able to tune in on human brainwaves. They were carried to the \"Wheel\" in small but high-density sacs that sank through the hull of the space station, causing drops in air pressure. These cybermats had solid photoreceptors for eyes instead of crystals. The Second Doctor used an audio frequency to jam them, causing them to spin, crash and disintegrate.\nThe third model, seen in Revenge of the Cybermen, was a much larger, snake-like cybermat that could be remotely controlled and could inject poison into its victims. It had no visible eyes or other features, and was as vulnerable to gold dust as the Cybermen were.\nIn Spare Parts, \"mats\" are cybernetically augmented creatures, sometimes kept as pets. Cybermats of a different design are used for surveillance by Mondas' Central Committee. The creatures occasionally go wild, chewing on power sources, and must be rounded up by a \"mat-catcher.\" In the Past Doctor Adventures novel Illegal Alien by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, set in the 1940s, the Cybermen create cybermats by cyber-converting local animals like cats or birds, possibly because of lack of technological resources.\nIn the Bernice Summerfield audio adventure The Crystal of Cantus, a Cyberman reveals that the organs of children who are too small to be fully cyber-converted are used in the creation of cybermats.\n[edit] Conceptual history\nThe name \"Cyberman\" comes from cybernetics, a term coined in Norbert Wiener's book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (MIT Press, 1948). Wiener used the term in reference to the control of complex systems in the animal world and in mechanical networks, in particular self-regulating control systems. By 1960, doctors were performing research into surgically or mechanically augmenting humans or animals to operate machinery in space, leading to the coining of the term \"cyborg\", for \"cybernetic organism\".\nIn the 1960s, \"spare-part\" surgery was starting out, with the first, gigantic heart-lung machines being developed. There were also serious suggestions of wiring the nerve endings of amputees directly into machines for quicker response.[5] In 1963, Kit Pedler had a conversation with his wife (who was also a doctor) about what would happen if a person had so many prostheses that they could no longer distinguish themselves between man and machine. He got the opportunity to develop this idea when, in 1966, after an appearance on the BBC science programmes Tomorrow's World and Horizon, the BBC hired him to help on the Doctor Who serial The War Machines. That eventually led to him writing, with Gerry Davis's help, The Tenth Planet for Doctor Who.\nPedler, influenced by the logic-driven Treens from the Dan Dare comic strip, originally envisaged the Cybermen as \"space monks\", but was persuaded by Davis to concentrate on his fears about the direction of spare-part surgery. The original Cybermen were imagined as human, but with plastic and metal prostheses. The Cybermen of The Tenth Planet still have human hands, and their facial structures are visible beneath the masks they wear. However, over time, they evolved into metallic, more robot-like designs.\nThe Cybermen attracted controversy when parents complained after a scene in The Tomb of the Cybermen in which a dying Cyberman spurted white foam from its innards. Another incident was initiated by Pedler himself, who took a man in a Cyberman costume into a busy shopping area of St. Pancras. The reaction of the public was predictable, and the crowd almost blocked the street and the police were called in. Pedler said that he \"wanted to know how people would react to something quite unusual,\" but also admitted that he \"wanted to be a nuisance.\"[6] Pedler wrote his last Cyberman story, The Invasion, in 1968, and left Doctor Who with Gerry Davis to develop the scientific thriller series Doomwatch.\n[edit] History within the show\n[edit] Origins\nMillennia ago, during prehistoric times, Mondas was knocked out of solar orbit and drifted into deep space. The Mondasians, already far in advance of Earth's technology and fearful for their race's survival, sent out spacecraft to colonise other worlds, including Telos, where they pushed the native Cryons aside and used the planet to house vast tombs where they could take refuge in suspended animation when necessary.\nOn Mondas, the Mondasians were dying out, and therefore, in order to survive and continue the race, they replaced most of their bodies with Cybernetic parts. Having eventually removed all emotion from their brains, to maintain their sanity, the natives installed a drive propulsion system so they could pilot the planet itself through space. As the original race was limited in numbers and were continually being depleted, the Mondasians — now Cybermen — became a race of conquerors who reproduced by taking other organic beings and forcibly changing them into Cybermen. The origins of the Cybermen were further elaborated upon in Spare Parts.\nThe move to \"cybernise\" Mondasians must have commenced on Mondas before they conquered Telos. Otherwise, there must have been some ongoing contact between Mondas and Telos after it was conquered, or the move to develop into Cybermen must have been paralleled after that point.\n[edit] The Earth invasions\nThe Cybermen's first attempt at invading Earth, around 1970, was chronicled in The Invasion. A group of Cybermen from \"Planet 14\" had allied themselves with industrialist Tobias Vaughn, who installed mind control circuits in electrical appliances manufactured by his International Electromatics company, paving the way for a ground invasion. This was uncovered by the newly formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, led by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who repelled the invasion with the help of the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe.\nIn The Tenth Planet, the First Doctor and his companions Ben and Polly, met an advance force of Cybermen that landed near an Antarctic space tracking station in the year 1986. This advance force was to prepare for the return of Mondas to the solar system. As Mondas approached, it began to drain Earth's energy for the Cybermen's use, but in the process absorbed too much energy and disintegrated. The Cybermen on Earth also fell apart as their homeworld was destroyed.\nIn 1988 a fleet of Cyber warships was assembled to convert Earth into a New Mondas. A scouting party was sent to Earth in search of the legendary Nemesis statue, a Time Lord artifact of immense power, made of the \"living metal\" validium. Due to the machinations of the Seventh Doctor and his companion Ace, however, the Nemesis destroyed the entire Cyber-fleet instead. (Silver Nemesis).\nIn 2012, the inert head of a Cyberman was part of the Vault, a collection of alien artefacts belonging to American billionaire Henry van Statten (\"Dalek\", 2005). According to its label, it was recovered from the London sewers in 1975[7] and presumably came from the 1970 invasion attempt, although it is of a design only seen in Revenge of the Cybermen, which took place in the late 29th century (in a metafictional sense, the label is accurate, as Revenge was broadcast in 1975).\nBy the mid-21st century, mankind had reached beyond its planet and set up space stations in deep space. One of these, Space Station W3, known as \"The Wheel,\" was the site of a takeover by Cybermen who wanted to use it as a staging point for yet another invasion of Earth. The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe prevented this in The Wheel in Space.\nThe Cybermen returned in The Moonbase. By the year 2070, Earth's weather was being controlled by the Gravitron installation on the Moon. The Cybermen planned to use the Gravitron to disrupt the planet's weather patterns and destroy all life on it, eliminating a threat to their survival. This attempt was also stopped by the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly, Jamie and the surviving crew of the moonbase.\n[edit] The Cyber-Wars\nFive centuries after the destruction of Mondas, the Cybermen had all but passed into legend when an archaeological expedition to the planet Telos uncovered their resting place in The Tomb of the Cybermen. However, those Cybermen were not dead but merely in hibernation, and were briefly revived before the Second Doctor returned them to their eternal sleep, with help from some of the archaeologists, Jamie and Victoria.\nThis was short-lived, however. By the beginning of the 26th century, the Cybermen were back in force, and the galactic situation was grave enough that Earth hosted a conference in 2526 that would unite the forces of several planets in a war against the Cybermen. A force of Cybermen tried to disrupt this conference, first by trying to infiltrate Earth in a freighter and when that was discovered by the Fifth Doctor, to crash the freighter into Earth and cause an ecological disaster. Although the attempt failed, the freighter was catapulted back in time to become the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs (Earthshock). Unfortunately, the Doctor's Companion Adric was trapped aboard the freighter, and died in the crash; leaving the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa to mourn him.\nThe Cybermen faced complete defeat now that humanity was united against them in the Cyber-Wars. The glittergun had been developed as a weapon against them, with Voga, the legendary \"Planet of Gold\", being a major supplier of gold dust ammunition. Meanwhile, the native Cryons on the planet Telos rose up and sabotaged the Cybermens' hibernation tombs. Using a captured time travel machine, a group of Cybermen travelled back to Earth in 1985 to try to prevent the destruction of Mondas, but were stopped by the Sixth Doctor and his companion Peri (Attack of the Cybermen). The Cryons also finally succeeded in taking back Telos.\nThe Cybermen did survive, but by the late 29th century they had been reduced to small remnant groups wandering throughout space. The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan encountered one such group during this time; and the Doctor very sarcastically pointed out their diminished state, noting that they had \"no home planet, no influence, nothing!\", and were \"just a bunch of pathetic tin soldiers, skulking about the galaxy in an ancient spaceship.\" These Cybermen had discovered that Voga had drifted through space and wandered into the solar system, being pulled into orbit around Jupiter as a new moon. They planned to restore their race's power with a plan of revenge against Voga by destroying it with Cyber-bombs. They hoped that this would disrupt their enemies' supply of gold, but their plot was stopped by the Doctor. This was their last chronological appearance to date, with the Cybermen seemingly vanishing from history after this point (Revenge of the Cybermen).\nA Cyberman (of the type seen in The Invasion) also appeared in the Miniscope exhibit in Carnival of Monsters (1973). Three squads of Cybermen of the Earthshock variety, each led by a Cyber-Leader, appeared in The Five Doctors (1983) in a slightly larger role.\n[edit] Parallel Earth and the Battle of Canary Wharf\nIn the \"Rise of the Cybermen\"/\"The Age of Steel\" two-part story, the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Mickey Smith crash down into a parallel London in a parallel universe, where the Cybermen are being created on modern-day Earth. These alternate Cybermen were created as an \"upgrade\" to humanity and the ultimate move into cyberspace, allowing the brain to survive in an ageless steel body. These Cybermen also referred to themselves as \"Human Point 2 (Human.2)\" and \"deleted\" all those deemed incompatible with the upgrade. They could electrocute humans with a touch.\nThese Cybermen were created by John Lumic, a terminally ill and insane genius whose company, Cybus Industries, had advanced humanity considerably. To find a way to survive, he perfected a method to sustain the human brain indefinitely in a cradle of chemicals, bonding the synaptic impulses to a metal exoskeleton. The Cybermen \"handle bars\" were part of a high-tech communications device called an EarPod. Also created by Lumic, the EarPods were used extensively in the place of MP3 players and mobile phones, allowing information to be directly downloaded into people's heads.\nLumic began to trick and abduct homeless people and convert them into Cybermen, and assassinated the President of Great Britain after the President rejected his plans. Using the EarPods, Lumic took mental control of London, marching thousands to be cyber-converted. He was betrayed by an old friend who damaged his wheelchair's life-support systems. He had told the Cybermen that he would upgrade 'only with my last breath' and since that moment was at hand he was involuntarily upgraded into the Cyber-Controller, a superior model of Cyberman. However, the Doctor and his companions, having accidentally landed on the parallel Earth, managed to foil his plans. They freed London from mental control and disabled the Cybermen's emotional inhibitors, causing them to go insane and in some cases explode. Lumic himself fell to his apparent death into the burning remains of his factory. A human resistance group, the Preachers, then set about to clean up the remainder of Lumic's factories around the world.\nThese Cybermen reappeared in the 2006 season finale \"Army of Ghosts\" and \"Doomsday\". It is to be noted that these Cybermen also use energy weapons built into their right arms. However, in \"The Age of Steel\" after the conversion sequence, the newly created Cybermen can be seen to have the retractable weapons in place after exiting the conversion chambers. Having infiltrated that world's version of the Torchwood Institute and discovering a breach between universes caused by the passage of an interdimensional void ship, the Cybermen used it to invade the Doctor's universe. However, the void ship's users, the Daleks, also revealed themselves, leading to all-out war across London with mankind caught in the crossfire. Eventually, the Doctor re-opened the breach, causing the Cybermen and Daleks (who had been saturated with background radiation from the Void) to be sucked back into it. The breach then sealed itself, leaving the Cybermen and Daleks (except the Cult of Skaro, who used their emergency temporal shift function to escape) seemingly trapped in the Void forever.\n[edit] Torchwood Three Incident\nLisa the \"Cyberwoman\"\nIn \"Cyberwoman\" it was revealed that at the height of the \"Battle of Canary Wharf\" the Cybermen had begun to directly convert whole bodies using regular Earth technology, rather than transplant their brains into parallel earth Cyberman shells. One of their victims, a woman called Lisa Hallett, was only partially converted when the power was shut off and she was rescued by her boyfriend, Ianto Jones.\nJones took her to Torchwood Three in Cardiff along with a cyber-conversion unit which he made into a life support system for her under her directions. He tried to find a cure for her condition, calling on cybernetics expert Dr Tanizaki. Unfortunately Hallett's Cyberman personality asserted itself, leading to her killing Tanizaki and trying to take over Torchwood Three as a staging area for a new Cyberman army. She eventually transplanted her own brain into the body of a pizza delivery girl whom she let into the base, and was shot to death by the other members of the Torchwood team.\n[edit] The CyberKing\nA small handful of the Cybermen t\nDirect download: TDP_86_Cybermen_History_101.mp3\nTDP 85; Attack of the Cybermen\nThe Sixth Doctor and Peri encounter the mercenary Lytton, stranded on planet Earth and in the employ of the Cybermen. A plot is being hatched that aims to change the history of Earth in favour of the Cyber-race, and the Doctor finds himself on an alien planet he has visited before as he tries to defeat his enemies and work out who he can trust to help him.\nIn the London sewer system, a worker vanishes and another is beaten to death.\nThe Doctor is repairing the chameleon circuitry in the TARDIS's roundels, using his new sonic lance. He ponders why he has not worked on this before. Peri questions his new energy levels; he reassures her he is stable and would never hurt her.\nLytton is organising what he claims is a £10 million diamond heist on the Bank of England. He explains the plan: his merry band of four shall go into the sewers, and use plastic explosives to blow a hole in the wall of the vault, escaping with the diamonds, and no one (in theory) should get hurt. Down they go into the sewers, with Payne agreeing to stand on lookout by the manhole. As the others move away, no one notices the tall, black figure silently advancing behind Payne...\nThe Doctor says he is taking Peri somewhere nice and peaceful, to treat her after the awful time they both had on Jaconda. After a very difficult trip through the Time Vortex, he shows Halley's Comet to her, inadvertently revealing that he plans to take her to Earth. It is soon clear that being so close to the comet upsets her (as does, undoubtedly, the fact that they nearly crash into it), so he steers away from it. The TARDIS then picks up a distress signal coming from London, in 1985; they both agree that they have to investigate this.\nThe TARDIS lands in 76 Totter's Lane, London, a scrapyard that the Doctor finds oddly familiar. As he and Peri begin to leave the scrapyard the chameleon circuit turns the time machine into a stove with an attractive (or cloying) floral pattern (much to Peri's mirth). The Doctor, slightly defensive, says that the TARDIS is slightly out of practice when it comes to choosing new forms. (They both fail to notice two policemen, who are walking past them.) As the pair move through the streets, the Doctor scanning for this signal, Peri reveals how worried she is for him: his memory is in pieces, and he keeps calling her the names of his previous companions. He assures her he is fine. After tracing the signal to an abandoned warehouse that does not contain anyone; he remarks how foolish he was for not realising what has happened. After dashing back to the scrapyard, they eventually find a door in the TARDIS's new form and take off.\nMeanwhile, Lytton's group are not faring well in the sewer: Russell has cold feet, and Griffith is doing all of the wall-demolishing single-handedly (much to his annoyance). Lytton does not seem to be noticing these things, and seems almost to be waiting for someone.\nOnboard the TARDIS, the Doctor explains that the alien has put relays around the city, making it hard for them to trace his signal (and thus help him). Peri points out a vital clue: such an extraterrestrial would surely leave a time trace; the Doctor starts tracking down that very thing.\nThe TARDIS then lands, disguised as a pipe organ, in the garage containing the manhole Lytton's crew have descended. There, the two policemen seen earlier accost them, but the Doctor (unseen) knocks one of them out in the sewer, and Peri handcuffs the other to a railing and takes his gun. They then descend the manhole.\nIn the sewer, Lytton's trio discover a tall, black figure advancing towards them. Although Lytton insists that all is fine, Griffith panics and shoots his (previously unseen) gun at the tall figure; prompting Lytton to take out his own firearm and threaten Griffith, in order to stop him firing at the figure. Suddenly, the wall behind them slides open and an entire army of silver giants is revealed. Then Lytton offers their Leader his weapon, saying that he offers his life to the Cybermen. The Cyber Leader effortlessly crushes Lytton's gun, eliciting a scream from Griffith...\nLytton's two policemen comrades - as well as the two sewer workers we saw at the beginning - are being converted into Cybermen. Lytton manages to talk his way out of the same procedure, explaining that he detected the Cybermen's transmissions and deliberately contacted them, bringing along humans for them to convert as a sign of goodwill. He identifies himself as a warrior mercenary from Riften V and points out that he could easily have alerted Earth authorities to the Cybermen's presence but chose not to. The Cyber Leader accepts the logic of his argument and decides to report to the Controller on Telos.\nOn Telos, a work party of slaves plants explosives in the ground. Three of them make a break for it, but one is killed and the decapitated Cyber-head, which they require for the next stage of the escape, is destroyed. The two survivors, Bates and Stratton, hide nearby, but without a third pilot and a Cyber-head, they're still as good as prisoners. The other slaves' spirits have been completely crushed; nobody else has tried to escape. In Cyber Control, the Controller receives a report of the escape attempt, and decides to analyse Bates and Stratton's behaviour as they attempt to survive and escape.\nThe Doctor and Peri are captured by Russell, who frisks the Doctor and finds Payne's gun. The Doctor manages to surprise and overpower Russell, who eventually admits that he's an undercover policeman who infiltrated Lytton's gang to find out who he was. After a raid on an electronics warehouse -- which the Doctor and Peri realise supplied Lytton with the parts he needed for his intergalactic transmitter -- the police heard Lytton's name whispered on the streets, but could find no records of his existence at all. It was as if he'd just arrived from another planet. The Doctor warns Russell that this is exactly what he did -- and he's a ruthless, professional killer...\nBates and Stratton use their mining tools to destroy and decapitate a Cyberman sent out to recapture them. Bates intends to clean out the head so Stratton can use it as a disguise; as prisoner and escort they stand a better chance of getting into Cyber Control. But the destruction of the scout is detected, and the Controller decides that Bates and Stratton are too resourceful and must be destroyed.\nBack on Earth, the Cybermen detect temporal distortion nearby, and send scouts to investigate. The Doctor, Peri and Russell encounter one, and the Doctor destroys it by plunging his sonic lance into its chest unit. The Cybermen detect this, and the Leader decides to close down this base and send the partially converted humans to their mothership. The Leader himself takes a squad out to investigate the scout's destruction, and when they find an alien artefact was responsible Lytton soon guesses who the \"alien\" is. He's surprised to learn that the Cybermen already know of the Doctor. The Cyber Leader decides to alter his plans and capture the Doctor and his TARDIS.\nThe Doctor, Peri and Russell emerge from the sewers, closely followed by the Cybermen. But the Doctor has accidentally left the TARDIS doors open and Cybermen have already entered the ship. Russell destroys one by shooting it through the weak point in its mouth panel, and shoots another with the first Cyberman's gun. But before Peri can shut the doors the Cyber Leader and his patrol arrive, and while Russell is distracted a third Cyberman emerges from the corridors and strikes him upon his neck, killing him instantly. Peri approaches Russell and the Cybermen then close in on Peri...\nThe Doctor threatens to destroy the TARDIS unless the Cyber Leader agrees to spare Peri's life. He does so, giving the word of the Cyber Controller that she will not be harmed -- and the Doctor realises that, by implication, not only did the Controller survive their last meeting but these Cybermen have somehow travelled through Time. He sets the coordinates for Telos, and he, Peri, Griffiths and Lytton are locked up in a nearby storeroom. Lytton returns the Doctor's sonic lance so he can sabotage the navigational controls and shift the TARDIS slightly off course, and reveals that the Cybermen haven't developed their own theories of Time travel; they simply stole a ship which was forced down on Telos for repairs. The Doctor, attempting to explain the history of the Cybermen to Griffiths and Peri, is forced to admit that their home world Mondas was destroyed while attacking Earth -- in 1986, which in their terms is next year. The Doctor assures them that Earth survived with minimal damage; the surviving Cybermen evacuated to Telos, wiped out the indigenous Cryons and transformed their refrigerated cities into cryogenic tombs in which to hibernate and recover their strength. Bates and Stratton continue to approach Cyber Control despite Stratton's conviction that the plan will never work. The reactivation of dormant Cybermen is halted when too many are found damaged or dead; some are going rogue in the tombs and destroying everything they encounter.\nThe Doctor is forced to switch off the distress call he'd surreptitiously activated, but thanks to his earlier sabotage the TARDIS (in the form of a set of iron gates) materialises in the tombs rather than in Cyber Control. While the Cyber Leader reports for further instructions, the Doctor notices a stench of decay in the air -- and realises that Lytton knows more about it than he's saying. A rogue Cyberman suddenly bursts out of a tomb and attacks them, and in the confusion Peri, Lytton and Griffiths escape. Peri, separated from the others, is attacked by yet another rogue Cyberman -- and is rescued by two Cryons...\nGriffiths and Lytton hide in the tunnels outside the tombs, where they are contacted by a Cryon named Threst -- who welcomes Lytton by name. Lytton admits that he's been working for the Cryons all along; it was they who picked up his distress call from Earth, and on their behalf he intends to steal the Cybermen's time machine. Since the Cryons can only survive in sub-zero temperatures they will be unable to help, and Lytton thus brought Griffiths along to act as his bodyguard, in return for which the Cryons will pay him the equivalent of two million British pounds in uncut diamonds. Griffiths is reluctant to risk his life, but Lytton points out that his only two alternatives if captured are death -- or conversion into a Cyberman.\nThe Doctor is locked up in a storeroom with a Cryon prisoner, Flast, and upon learning that some Cryons survived the Cybermen's attempt at genocide he also realises that they must be responsible for the damage to the Cybermen in the tombs. He's less pleased by Flast's revelation of the Cybermen's plans -- since they stole their time machine they don't fully understand the principles of Time, and intend to change history by preventing Mondas from being destroyed...\nLytton and Griffiths emerge onto the surface of Telos, where Bates and Stratton confront them. Griffiths is shocked to learn that Bates and Stratton are partially cybernetic; they were sent to the work parties when the conversion process failed. Lytton points out that the time vessel requires a crew of three and suggests that they join forces. Meanwhile, Peri is held in the Cryon base by Rost and Varne, who are unable to help her rescue the Doctor, as they would perish in the heat of Cyber Control. They admit that Lytton is working for them to prevent the Cybermen from leaving Telos -- upon abandoning the planet the Cybermen intend to destroy it to observe the effect on its atmosphere.\nFlast explains to the Doctor that the Cybermen intend to divert the course of Halley's Comet, causing it to collide with Earth. The Doctor suddenly realises that the Time Lords have once again manipulated him into this situation so he can clean it up for them. Flast points out a potential weapon; the storeroom contains canisters of vastial, an unstable mineral which explodes upon reaching fifteen degrees above zero, and she's managed to open one. The Doctor uses his sonic lance to pick the lock of the storeroom door, and uses a small amount of vastial to destroy the guard outside. Flast takes the sonic lance, turns it on and buries it in the open canister of vastial, hoping to spark an explosion, which will destroy Cyber Control. She is unable to leave the sub-zero storeroom but urges the Doctor to escape without her.\nLytton and his companions enter Cyber Control, but as Lytton is guarding their backs he is attacked and overpowered by Cybermen and the others have no choice but to carry on without him. Lytton is taken back to the control room and tortured, and when he refuses to speak he is taken to be converted into a Cyberman. Rost and Varne learn of Lytton's capture while taking Peri back to the TARDIS.\nThe Doctor returns to the TARDIS, where he finds two Cybermen on guard and is reunited with Peri. Rost and Varne help him break into a tomb, which they have already sabotaged, and the Doctor activates the distress call in the dead Cyberman inside, luring the two guards away from the TARDIS and into a trap. In the ensuing battle, Varne is killed but both Cybermen are destroyed. As the Doctor prepares to leave, Peri insists that they rescue Lytton first, and the Doctor, who was fully prepared to leave Lytton to his fate, is startled to learn that he was working for the Cryons all along. He agrees to see what he can do.\nBates, Griffiths and Stratton finally reach the landing pad, but just as they're within sight of their goal Bates is killed by an electrified door -- which opens to reveal a Cyberman who guns down Griffiths and Stratton. Meanwhile, the Cybermen detect the Doctor's escape and question Flast; when she refuses to speak they fling her into the corridor, where her body boils away in the heat. As the Cybermen begin checking the vastial stores, the Cyber Controller learns that the TARDIS has been moved and returns to the control room. The sabotaged vastial container, hidden in the back of the storeroom, has begun to steam...\nThe TARDIS, once again in the form of a police box, materialises in the control room. The Doctor emerges to find Lytton partially converted, and as he tries to free him from the processing machine Lytton, drugged and partially converted, begs the Doctor to kill him. The Cyber Controller arrives, having guessed that the Doctor's emotional weaknesses would draw him back to rescue his friend. As the Controller approaches, however, Lytton attacks him, puncturing his hydraulic valves with the knife the Doctor was using to pry him free from the processing machines. The Controller strikes back, snapping Lytton's neck and killing him, while the Doctor grabs the Controller's gun and shoots the Cyber Leader, who staggers back into his Lieutenant, causing him to accidentally fire his gun at point-blank range, killing them both. The Doctor then shoots the Cyber Controller, destroying him once and for all. Peri emerges from the TARDIS and practically drags the Doctor away from Lytton's body.\nAs the TARDIS dematerialises, the sonic lance finally heats the vastial to ignition point, and the resulting chain reaction destroys all Cyber Control and the stolen time machine as well. The Earth is safe and the web of Time has been preserved... but at a great personal cost, as the Doctor blames himself for misjudging and failing to save Lytton\nThis story takes place immediately after The Twin Dilemma. Peri is still worried about the Doctor's problem regenerating, and the Doctor says they need a rest after Jocanda. This story has been criticised for relying heavily on elements from Doctor Who's past, confusing all but hardcore fans of the series.[1]\nDirect download: TDP_85_attack_cybermen001.mp3\nTue, 10 March 2009\nTDP 84: Orbis and Chaos Pool Key 2 Time Part 2\nStarring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith with Andrew Sachs and Laura Solon\n(Duration: 60' approx)\nPaul McGann (The Doctor), Sheridan Smith (Lucie Miller), Andrew Sachs (Crassostrea), Laura Solon (Selta), Katarina Olsson (Headhunter), Beth Chalmers (Saccostrea), Barry McCarthy (Yanos)\nThe Doctor has fallen to his death. His companion, Lucie Miller, has returned to her life on Earth, grief-stricken. Then, one night, an alien visitor arrives at her front door and shoots her.\nCould it be that Lucie’s days with the Doctor are not over? She will only find the answer on the planet Orbis. A planet where all forms of life are facing violent extinction.\nAUTHOR: Alan Barnes and\nNicholas Briggs\nAndy Hardwick MUSIC:\nAndy Hardwick\nSimon Holub NUMBER OF DISCS:\n8Y/F ISBN: 978-1-84435-393-4\nStarring PETER DAVISON\nFeaturing BEN JONES and LALLA WARD\nWith CIARA JANSON as AMY\nPeter Davison (The Doctor), Ciara Janson (Amy), Laura Doddington (Zara), Lalla Ward (Madam President), David Troughton (The Black Guardian), Ben Jones (Captain Pargrave), Toby Longworth (Commander Hectocot), Cate Hamer (The Voice)\nThe ageless leader of a dying race believes that salvation lies within The Chaos Pool, a place that even the Guardians of Time have been unable to locate. Meanwhile Commander Hectocot and his Teuthoidian followers move in for the kill - again and again and again...\nTwo different races from opposite ends of Time - so how can they co-exist?\nIn their search for the final segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Amy become caught in the crossfire. As the end of everything approaches, old friends and enemies reveal themselves and the final battle between the forces of Chaos and Order ignites…\nAUTHOR: Peter Anghelides DIRECTOR: Lisa Bowerman\nSOUND DESIGN: Simon Robinson MUSIC: Jamie Robertson\nCOVER ART: Alex Mallinson NUMBER OF DISCS: 2\nRECORDED DATE: 22 & 23 April 2008 RELEASE DATE: 30 March 2009\nPRODUCTION CODE: 6R/C ISBN: 978-1-84435-365-1\nBetween Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani and after Key 2 Time - Destroyer of Delights\n<< 118. Doctor Who: Key 2 Time - Destroyer of Delights | 120. Doctor Who - The Magic Mousetrap >>\nDirect download: TDP_84_Big_finish_Chaos_pool_and_Orbis.mp3\nSun, 1 March 2009\nTDP 83: The Destroyer of Delights Key 2 Time Part 2\n118. Doctor Who: Key 2 Time - Destroyer of Delights\nFeaturing DAVID TROUGHTON and JASON WATKINS\nPeter Davison (The Doctor), Ciara Janson (Amy), David Troughton (The Black Guardian), Jason Watkins (Legate of the Caliph), Jess Robinson (Nisrin), Bryan Pilkington (Prince Omar), Paul Chahidi (Hason), Will Barton (The Djinni), David Peart (The Vizier)\n“You will be always looking in the wrong place. I have searched through all of Time and I cannot find it.”\nThe search for the Key to Time has stalled: the next segment does not appear to exist anywhere in the Universe. Forced into a temporary alliance with one of his greatest enemies, the Doctor suggests a course of action that is a validation of chaos itself.\nThrown at random across Space and Time, the Doctor and Amy arrive in 9th Century Sudan, where the greedy Lord Cassim is hoarding gold from the Legate of the Caliph. But why does Cassim look so familiar? What is the mysterious Djinni that lives out in the desert? And why does it need so much treasure?\nAUTHOR: Jonathan Clements\nLisa Bowerman\nSimon Robinson\n21 & 22 April 2008 RELEASE DATE:\n6R/B ISBN: 978-1-84435-364-4\nBetween Planet of Fire and The Caves of Androzani and after Key 2 Time - The Judgement of Isskar\n<< 117. Doctor Who: Key 2 Time - The Judgement of Isskar | 119. Doctor Who: Key 2 Time - The Chaos Pool >>\nDirect download: TDP_83_The_Destroyer_of_delights.mp3\nFri, 27 February 2009\nTDP 82: The Romans - sorry about the sound quality\nWith the TARDIS stuck at the bottom of a cliff, the four time travellers have ingratiated themselves into an unoccupied Roman villa. The owner, Flavius Giscard is away campaigning in Gaul. As the Doctor and Ian recline, Barbara and Vicki walk to the nearby Roman village. At the market they are spotted by two slave traders, Didius and Sevcheria. When they return to the villa the Doctor announces that he is off to Rome, some miles away, and will travel there with Vicki. Later that evening Barbara and Ian, now alone, are relaxing when the two slavers burst in upon them. They are soon overpowered and taken prisoner. Ian is sold to one slave owner, while Barbara is to be traded with another and sent to Rome.\nThe Doctor and Vicki are en route for Rome when they find the murdered body of a lyre player named Maximus Pettulian. The Doctor is holding the man’s lyre when a Centurion arrives and mistakes him for the dead man who is late for an engagement in Rome. The Centurion thus accompanies them to Assysium. Once stationed at an inn there, the Centurion makes contact with the mute assassin Ascaris, who killed the real Pettulian, and instructs him to kill the Doctor. The assassin draws his sword and heads off to the Doctor’s chambers.\nThe Doctor overpowers the assassin and, along with Vicki, drives him away through an open window. It seems the Centurion has fled, and the Doctor concludes the soldier was in league with the assassin. He decides to maintain his alias as Pettulian and head onward to the city of Rome. Barbara is meanwhile already in the city and is soon sold in open auction for 10,000 sesterces to a man named Tavius, who is highly placed in the court of the Emperor Nero. She is to be a handmaiden to Nero's wife, Poppaea. Tavius is a kindly man but warns that if she tries to escape her slavery that she will be killed.\nThe Doctor and Vicki arrive at Nero’s court too and encounter Tavius, who seems to imply to the Doctor that Pettulian is part of a secret network in which he is also a player. Further discussion is interrupted by the arrival of Nero himself, a laughable excuse for a leader who seems arrogant, vain and selfish. The Doctor cleverly avoids an extended lyre concert and then have the freedom of the court. On one walk around they find the body of the Centurion who imperilled them earlier.\nIan has been confined to a galley in the Mediterranean but the craft soon runs into rough seas and is broken up. He is washed to the nearby shore and there is found by another survivor of the galley, Delos, who has saved his life and removes the last of his chains. They agree to head for Rome in search of Barbara. When they reach there, however, they are captured by some centurions. Taken to the arena they are set to be trained as gladiators – and their first opponents will be the lions.\nIt becomes apparent to the Doctor that Tavius had the Centurion murdered and that he too is expected to fulfil some sort of action. Nero decides the Doctor must fulfil an obligation too, and organises a banquet in his honour at which he must play the lyre. He also takes a shine to Barbara and starts to pursue her romantically – and literally – much to the anger of Empress Poppea, who decides to have her poisoned at the Pettulian banquet. Barbara has just left the banquet chamber when the Doctor arrives there, warning the Emperor that he has learnt his wine could be poisoned. It has been, as part of Poppea’s plan.\nThe Doctor is soon put to perform centre stage and picks up his lyre with the warning that only those with the most sensitive and perceptive hearing will be able to discern its subtle melody. He then creates absolutely no sound but has created a climate in which no-one wishes to make themselves out to be philistines by not appreciating the music. Nero is not convinced, however, and in private fumes against the deception. He decides to have Pettulian fed to the lions.\nMeanwhile, at the arena itself Ian and Delos have been trained as gladiators and are set to fight each other. With Nero watching them they are told to battle to the death.\nDelos and Ian decide to fight their way out of the arena instead, and Ian is able to shout to the watching Barbara that he will be back to rescue her before he and Delos flee. The Emperor calls off his soldiers when it becomes clear they cannot be caught, planning to have him killed when he returns to rescue Barbara. A crowd of soldiers are arranged at the palace.\nThe Doctor has meanwhile found the architectural plans for Nero’s new Rome, and deduces that since the year is 64 AD that the Emperor is planning to destroy the city. Tavius arrives and warns the Doctor that the Emperor is planning to kill him too, advising him to fulfil his mission and kill Nero soon. It seems that Pettulian was an assassin all along. The Doctor and Vicki decide to leave quickly but before departing accidentally set fire to Nero’s architectural plans. The Emperor notices this and decides to burn down the city, thanking the Doctor and deciding after all to spare his life. A rabble are bribed into starting the blaze and while anarchy rages Ian is helped into the palace by Tavius, who reunites him with Barbara. Under Tavius’ eye the two are allowed to escape and make their way from Rome and back to the villa. Delos helps them get clear of the palace, parting from his friend Ian. The Doctor and Vicki also escape the city, watching it burn from a nearby hill.\nBy the time the Doctor and Vicki return to the villa, Ian and Barbara have spruced themselves up, and the Doctor mistakenly assumes that they have not even left the villa. All four leave in the TARDIS but have barely begun to travel when a strange force starts dragging the ship to an unknown location.\nDirect download: TDP_82_Romans.mp3\nTDP 81: The Rescue and Transit of Venus\nThe TARDIS crew is still missing Susan Foreman when the ship lands on a planet the Doctor eventually recognises as Dido, a world he has visited before. The trio soon encounter two survivors of a space crash, Vicki and Bennett, who are awaiting a rescue ship, due to arrive in three days time. Vicki and Bennett live in fear of Koquillion, a bipedal inhabitant of Dido which is stalking the area. Koquillion encounters the time travellers and attacks, pushing Barbara over a cliff and temporarily trapping Ian and the Doctor. Vicki finds Barbara injured and rescues her from Koquillion, and they share reminiscences. Vicki’s father was amongst those who died when the survivors of the crash, save Bennett and Vicki, were lured to their deaths by the natives of Dido. She is evidently very lonely, having befriended an indigenous Sand Beast for company. However, when Ian and the Doctor reach the ship tempers are fraught because Barbara mistook the Sand Beast for a threat and killed it.\nThe Doctor enters Bennett's room, and finds things are not as they seem. The supposedly crippled Bennett is missing, and a tape recorder hides his absence. He finds a trap door in the floor of the cabin and follows it to a temple carved from rock where he unmasks Koquillion as Bennett. Bennett reveals he killed a crewmember on board the ship and was arrested, but the ship crashed before the crime could be radioed to Earth. It was he who killed the crash survivors and the natives of Dido to cover his crime. He has been using the Koquillion alias so that Vicki would back up his story. Just as Bennett is about to kill the Doctor, two surviving native Didonians arrive and force Bennett to his death over a ledge. With no living family and nothing left for her on Dido, Vicki is welcomed aboard the TARDIS.\n\"The Powerful Enemy\" 2 January 1965 26:15 12.0 16mm t/r\n\"Desperate Measures\" 9 January 1965 24:36 13.0 16mm t/r\nThe series would not feature another two-part serial until a decade later with The Sontaran Experiment, although the format would become a regular feature in the Fifth Doctor era of the 1980s.\nThe story had the working title Doctor Who and Tanni, which was the original name for Vicki.\nThe 1973 Radio Times 10th anniversary special called the story The Powerful Enemy, as it titled all the early stories by the title of the first episode. Some subsequent listings repeated this error, as did the story's broadcast on some American PBS stations.\nTo preserve the mystery of its true identity, Koquillion was originally credited as being played by \"Sydney Wilson\" — a name made up by the production team in tribute to two of the creators of Doctor Who, Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson. This was the first instance of an alias being used, in the credits, for a cast member in order to conceal a plot twist in Doctor Who.\nIan Marter\nTony Clark\nAugust 1987 (Hardback)\n21st January 1988 (Paperback)\nThe Macra Terror\nTerror of the Vervoids\nThis story was released in 1994, on a double VHS With The Romans. It has also been anounced by the BBFC website that 'The Rescue' along with The Romans will be released on DVD on 23 February 2009. The DVD will have a commentary track featuring star William Russell, designer Ray Cusik & director Christopher Barry.\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Ian Marter (the actor who played companion Harry Sullivan during the Fourth Doctor era), was published by Target Books in August 1987, nearly a year after his death. Marter died soon after completing the manuscript, which was subsequently edited (with some new material added) by Nigel Robinson, editor of the Target Books line. According to Robinson, he did not have to do too many changes to Marter's manuscript, although he did have to remove an apparent reference to fellatio in an early chapter.\nPerformed by William Russell as Ian Chesterton with Ian Hallard as Joseph Banks\nWilliam Russell (Ian Chesterton), Ian Hallard (Joseph Banks)\nThe year is 1770, and daring explorer Captain James Cook and his crew on the Endeavour are navigating the Pacific Ocean.\nInto their midst come strangers: the Doctor and Ian Chesterton, who are believed to have come from Venus. But the TARDIS is lost to them - along with both Susan and Barbara - and Ian makes an enemy of the ship's chief scientist, Joseph Banks.\nWhy is Banks acting strangely? Could it be that the travellers are not the only visitors from the stars?\nAUTHOR: Jacqueline Rayner\nDIRECTOR: Nigel Fairs\nSOUND DESIGN: David Darlington MUSIC: David Darlington\nCOVER ART: Simon Holub NUMBER OF DISCS: 1 CD\nRECORDED DATE: 3 November 2008 RELEASE DATE: 31 January 2009\nPRODUCTION CODE: BFPDWCC16 ISBN: 978-1-84435-356-9\nDirect download: TDP_81_RESCUE_AND_VENUS.mp3\nFri, 6 February 2009\nTDP 80: Warriors Gate and The Key 2 Time Part 0 and 1\nWarriors' Gate is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1981. The serial is the last of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space trilogy and the last to feature Romana and K-9 as companions.\n1.2.1 Departures\nAt a null point in space and time on the interface between our universe (n-space) and E-space (exo-space), a slaver cargo vessel becomes trapped. It manoeuvres the timelines using members of the leonine Tharil race as navigators – and they too are the cargo of the grim vessel, held in cryogenic storage in its hold. A Tharil named Biroc flees the craft on the time winds, leaving it moored and trapped, and ventures to the TARDIS, which has also become trapped in a time rift in this strange dimension. The creature manifests itself in the TARDIS console room and imparts to the occupants the warning that he is a shadow of his own past -- and of their future; and that the others that are following him should not be trusted. The Tharil then disappears, with the Doctor in pursuit. Romana, and Adric are left worried about K-9, whose memory wafers have been shredded by the time winds.\nThe commander of the slave ship, Rorvik, is increasingly angry about their entrapment in the void and the general apathy of his crew toward their condition. When the ship picks up another object in the void, he and two of his crew members use a portable mass detector to track down the TARDIS. Romana steps outside to confront them and is persuaded to return to their ship with them to examine the damaged warp drive of their ship. Rorvik has, however, worked out she may be a time sensitive like the Tharils and is interested in her for potential profit. Adric and K9 both venture separately into the void in her pursuit.\nThe Doctor has meanwhile reached a vast stone archway in the void, containing an abandoned banqueting hall, decaying skeletons and partially functioning robot knights known as Gundans. They were built by slaves as part of a revolt against a previous tyranny that ended in a massacre at the feast in the same hall. The slavers used the time winds to descend on worlds and enslave the populations. K9 arrives at the Gateway too and begins to help the Doctor repair the Gundan, which has worn itself out. However, before they can obtain any more information Rorvik arrives with some of his crew and seizes control at the point of a gun. Romana has been taken back to the slaver ship for use as a navigator, while Rorvik has used the portable mass detector to isolate the Gateway. He becomes angry when a Gundan comes to life and walks out of the room straight through a solid mirror, and challenges the Doctor to explain the situation. His response is to walk through the mirror: a step the human slavers behind him cannot take.\nBack on the slave ship, a Tharil called Lazlo, who had been left for dead by the slavers when his revivification process seemingly failed, frees Romana from certain death in the navigator’s chair. She hides in the hull of the ship and there finds Adric, and together they work out the slave ship is made of the incredibly dense dwarf star alloy, the remnants of a collapsed star. This heavy metal is the only thing that can hold the Tharils trapped in a single timeline. When they meet K9, the badly damaged robot informs them of dimensional instability and the imminent collapse of the void, which is contracting upon itself. The sheer weight of the slave ship is damaging the delicate balance holding the dimension together. Romana is shortly afterward separated from Adric and K9 and reunited with Lazlo, who takes her through the mirrors too.\nBeyond the mirror the Doctor has found Biroc, who explains he was able to pass through because his hand was caught in the time winds. They enter an elegant mansion, seemingly frozen in time, where the Tharil explains that his people were the notorious slavers of the Gateway whose rule was overthrown by the use of the Gundans. As the sorry tale of the decay of their society is retold, the Doctor is reunited with Romana but in a bizarre twist they are returned to the reality of the decaying Gateway in the void once the Tharils’ story has been told – and once more find themselves prisoners of Rorvik.\nBased on the reports of the shrinking of the Gateway, the Doctor deduces that the slave ship is indeed the cause of the problems and – more worryingly – there is not much time before the Gateway retracts into nothing. Adric has meanwhile hidden himself inside the MZ, a vast portable cannon which the slavers are going to use on the Gateway and the mirrors in an effort to escape the void. When the weapon reaches the Gateway he uses it to free the Doctor and Romana, and the time travellers flee into the void. When the slavers set out in pursuit they find their ship has moved much closer to the gateway – proof positive that the dimension is shrinking and therefore doomed. In frustration Rorvik fires the MZ at the mirrors, but succeeds only in destroying the weapon. The crazed and infuriated slaver now decides to use his ship’s engines to back-blast through the mirrors and escape the void. It is a foolish move: the backblast from the mirrors engulfs and destroys the ship and all its crew.\nThe Tharil slaves have, however, been freed by Lazlo and Romana, who has formed an empathy with the race. She elects to voyage through the Gateway with them and help the Tharils. The Doctor gives her K9, who will be restored beyond the Gateway, though he can never return. After they depart, the Doctor uses the knowledge he has gained from the Tharils to successfully pilot the TARDIS through the Gateway and back into N-Space.\nThis serial comprises the third and final leg of an extended adventure generally known as the \"The E-Space Trilogy\"; the trilogy began in Full Circle, and continued in State of Decay.\nThe multi-coloured scarf can be seen on the hatstand.\n[edit] Departures\nThis story was the last story to feature Lalla Ward as Romana. Two months after her departure, Ward went on to marry her co-star Tom Baker in 1981, but the marriage lasted less than two years. Ward is one of two former companions to ever be married to an actor who played the Doctor. The other was Jean Marsh, who played the First Doctor's companion, Sara Kingdom, was married to Jon Pertwee, although the marriage occurred prior to Pertwee landing the role of the Third Doctor.\nWard was seen again as Romana on television in The Five Doctors (1983) (via footage of her and Tom Baker from the unaired story of Shada (1980)) and reprised her role in the Children in Need charity special Dimensions in Time (1993). She continues to participate in the world of Doctor Who by attending conventions, recording audio commentary on DVD releases, performing in several Big Finish audio dramas and by appearing in the BBC's online drama webcasts.\nThis story was also the last television story of the classic series to feature the character of K-9 Mk. II, played by John Leeson. Leeson, who left the series at the end of Season 16, returned for Season 18 on the understanding that K-9 would be written out toward the end of the season.[citation needed]\nThe character of K-9 (Mk. III and Mk. IV), voiced again by John Leeson would return in the 1981 spin-off episode, K9 & Company, the 1983 anniversary special, The Five Doctors and the 2006 episode \"School Reunion\". He would later pop up twice in the first series of spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures. He also appears in the Series Four Finale, Journey's End.\nRomana and K-9's journey in E-space is continued in two BBV audio plays.\n\"Part One\" 3 January 1981 22:54 7.1\nWorking titles for this story included Dream Time.\nDoctor Who and Warriors' Gate\nStephen Gallagher\nDoctor Who and the State of Decay\nDoctor Who and the Keeper of Traken\nThis story was released on VHS in October 1997.\nA DVD commentary has been recorded with actors Lalla Ward and John Leeson Script Editor Christopher H. Bidmead Visual Effects Designer Mat Irvine and Director Paul Joyce and was released on January 26th 2009 in a box set with Full Circle & State of Decay.\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Stephen Gallagher under the pseudonym \"John Lydecker\", was published by Target Books in April 1982.\nDirect download: TDP_80_WIP.mp3\nFri, 30 January 2009\nTDP 79: State of Decay and Master of War\nContinuing the Doctor's adventures in E-Space, the Doctor, Romana, K-9, and their newest companion/stowaway, Adric, arrive on a planet experiencing what appears to be a feudal period. The population scratches out a living as subsistence farmers under the thrall of three local lords, Zargo, Camilla, and Aukon, who dwell in a shadowy tower. Adding further fear to their lives, they experience a yearly ritual called \"the Selection,\" in which a sample of young villagers are taken to the tower, never to be seen again. This selection process is enforced by a thuggish band of guards led by Habris.\nThe Doctor and Romana venture out into the village (not knowing that Adric is following them), and it doesn't take long for the Doctor to realize that something is very wrong when he discovers evidence of technology considerably more advanced than what this medieval society seems capable of producing. With such technology, the Doctor and Romana wonder what happened in the course of the planet's development to cause it to evolve \"backward\" from a presumably advanced culture to its current rustic condition -- to be in a \"state of decay.\" The arrival and then departure of the Doctor and Romana from the village hall is reported by the headman, Ivo, via an electronic communications device to an unseen figure called Kalmar. As the two head out of the village they are seized by cloaked figures who convey them to a secret base filled with illegal computers and other technology. Kalmar is a scientist - a heretical role in their society - and is very grateful for the Doctor's help in repairing a computer which proceeds to reveal the names of the original chief officers of the spaceship Hydrax. The faces of three senior officers are revealed as those of the Lords of the Tower.\nThe Lords too have learnt of Romana and the Doctor, and Aukon sends a flock of his winged servants, bats, (aka \"The Wasting\") to menace them as they travel a clearing near the village.\nThe Doctor and Romana are now seized by Habris and his guards and taken to an audience in the Tower. Zargo and Camilla entertain them for a while, then are called away to deal with a situation called the Arising. The Doctor and Romana start to snoop around and discover that in fact, the great Tower in which the Lords dwell is itself a spaceship originally from Earth, which also somehow was pulled into E-Space long ago.\nAdric has meanwhile wandered into the village and finds himself looked after by Ivo and his wife Marta, both of whom are grieving for their late son who was chosen for the Selection.\nIn the Hydrax the Doctor and Romana discover rows of corpses drained of blood, while the craft's fuel stores are full of blood. Talk turns to vampires. They head downwards and find an amphitheatre. It is there that the Lord Aukon greets them, welcoming them to his domain.\nAukon invites the Doctor and Romana to become the first of the new servants of the Chosen Ones then tells them that he has Adric much to their surprise. When they refuse they are imprisoned. The Doctor deduces by applying principles of consonant shifting that the current lords' names are a corruption of the original crew names (e.g. \"Sharky\" becomes \"Zargo\"). Thus the Doctor realizes that the three lords might not be descendants of the original crew, but members of the original crew themselves. He is reminded of ancient Time Lord stories of the Great Vampires, a giant race of rapacious, destructive, and powerful creatures that were ancient enemies of the Time Lords themselves. He deduces that the Great Vampire escaped destruction at the hands of the Time Lords by somehow retreating into E-Space, and it managed eventually to gather enough power to pull the old Earth ship into this universe and corrupt the crew. Over time, it licked its wounds and gathered power so that it could once again feast on worlds.\nMeanwhile, Adric's attempts to mingle with the natives have led to him getting caught up in the Selection. He is put under a hypnotic trance by Aukon and accompanies him to the tower. Normally, the Chosen Ones are chosen for Guards or killed if they defy the Three Who Rule, but Aukon has other plans for Adric when he finds, to his surprise, something different about the third stranger. Aukon plots to change Adric into the new Chosen.\nAnother rebel named Tarak, makes a solo attack on the Tower in the hope of freeing the Doctor and Romana. The Doctor returns to the TARDIS, while Romana stays with Tarak to search for Adric, whom she knows now is in the Tower's Inner Sanctum. As they try to snap Adric out of his trance, they unknowingly awaken Zargo and Camilla. Tarak is literally throttled by Zargo and dies when his neck snaps on the edge of the \"bed\". Adric throws a knife at Zargo's heart and Camilla advances on Adric. Romana backs away but Zargo grabs her shoulder. With a toothy evil grin, he chuckles as he pulls the knife out of his heart and is about to give a fatal blow to Romana.\nRomana closes her eyes as Zargo draws his arm back for a fatal blow but Aukon orders him to stop. \"The boy,\" he says \"is the first of the Chosen Ones, soon to be one of us. He is not for you!\" Camilla then asks to have Romana. Aukon grabs Romana's chin and says gloatingly, \"The girl is a Timelord, one of the enemies of the Great One. She is to be held for sacrifice at the time of Arising!\" Romana and Adric argue about their fate. Adric says if it's a choice between death and joining the dine that means there's no sense in two of them getting the chop. Adric asks Aukon why he is being kept prisoner when Romana is the sacrifice and he is a Chosen One. \"I'm sorry Timelady. One of my families died for your lot already. I reckon one's enough!\" Romana asks Adric if he knows what happens to vampires when they die. Adric smugly replies \"But they don't die, do they Aukon!\". They are taken to the bottom of the Tower (as shown in the picture above), where Romana will be sacrificed at the time of Arising and Adric will indeed become a Chosen One.\nIn the TARDIS the Doctor and K-9 review the old stories about vampires. The lore that the Doctor and K-9 uncovers determines that the Great Vampires could only be defeated by metal bowships driven through their chests (rather like the wooden stakes that work on lesser vampires). He takes the craft to Kalmar's base and there uses scanning equipment to scan the Tower. Under the lake of blood he finds a restless, demonic presence, whom he determines to be the last Great Vampire. He warns it is about to be revived. Kalmar, Ivo and many other villagers agree to help him fight back. This rebel army and K9 make an assault on the Tower itself, killing collaborator guards. Ivo finds Habris and tells him \"This is for my son!\" and then kills him. The Doctor heads off to the peak of the Tower and, in a burst of characteristic ingenuity, the Doctor manages to rig one of the old scoutships still attached to the spaceship/tower to launch and achieve a trajectory that caused it to point back toward the ground and drive itself into the heart of the subterranean Great Vampire, thus duplicating the effect of the \"metal bowships\" of Time Lord history.\nWith the Great Vampire dispatched, the three vampire Lords crumble to dust without the power of their master to sustain them. The Doctor finds Romana and Adric. Together with K9 they leave the planet to its own fate, hoping that, now freed from the corruptive effect of the vampires, it will change direction and develop once again toward its former advanced state and even perhaps surpass it. He leaves the planet in Kalmar's hands, while hoping the next journeys in the TARDIS will take Adric home and lead the craft back out of E-Space.\nThis serial comprises the second leg of an extended adventure generally known as the \"The E-Space Trilogy\"; the trilogy began in the previous serial, Full Circle, and concludes in Warriors' Gate.\nThe Doctor mentions his childhood on Gallifrey and \"an old hermit who lived up a mountain behind our house [and] used to tell me ghost stories\" – tales of the Time Lord's war with the Vampires. This is the first mention of the Doctor's mentor from his youth since his last regeneration. This figure, K'Anpo (or Cho-Je) is first mentioned in The Time Monster and seen in Planet of the Spiders.\nThe Great Vampires are mentioned by the Tenth Doctor in \"The Infinite Quest\".\nTie-in media\nThe Virgin New Adventures spin-off novel Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks and the Missing Adventure Goth Opera by Paul Cornell are sequels to this serial. Other Doctor Who novels featuring vampires include Vampire Science and Warmonger.\nMany of the novels feature references to the war between the Time Lords and the Vampires. Another anti-Vampire weapon, the N-Forms, were introduced by Russell T Davies in his New Adventures novel Damaged Goods. Bowships are mentioned in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 as one of the weapons used in the Time War against the Daleks, along with N-Forms and Black Hole Carriers.\nThe Fourth Doctor segment of The Eight Doctors, in which the Fourth Doctor is captured by the last few surviving vampires and is rescued by Romana and the Eighth Doctor, takes place between the destruction of the Great Vampire and the end of this story.\nThe Big Finish Productions audio dramas Project: Twilight, Project Lazarus, and Zagreus refer to the vampires and to their history with the Time Lords. The BBC audio webcast Death Comes to Time features a vampire named Nessican.\n\"Part One\" 22 November 1980 22:24 5.8\n\"Part Two\" 29 November 1980 23:16 5.3\n\"Part Three\" 6 December 1980 24:13 4.4\n\"Part Four\" 13 December 1980 24:54 5.4\nWorking titles for this story included The Wasting and The Vampire Mutations.\nThe serial was a re-written version of a story called The Witch Lords which Dicks had submitted to the series in 1977, but which had been pulled just before production and replaced with Horror of Fang Rock.\nThis was one of two serials to feature a highly improved K-9 prop. The other was Warriors' Gate.\nAn Unearthly Child\nThis story was released on VHS in October 1997. On the video, one tiny scene is omitted that was previously on the TVOntario version. In Part 4, K-9 is perched on the thrones of Zargo & Camilla, determining the moment when the Doctor is activating the scout ship. When he tells the rebels to evacuate the Tower, a rebel lifts him down and they escape.\nA DVD commentary with Terrance Dicks, Matthew Waterhouse and Peter Moffatt has been recorded and it was released on January 26th 2009 in a box set with Warriors Gate & Full Circle.\nA novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in September 1981. A condensed version of the book was read by Tom Baker and released on cassette.\nThis story was released on audio cassette with linking material by Tom Baker\nA new adventure for a new Doctor in a new Dimension…\nThe Doctor and his travelling companion, retired army officer Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, take a random trip in the TARDIS - and land on the planet Skaro. The Doctor helped the Thals to defeat the Daleks years ago, so he is surprised to find the Thal city under Dalek occupation. He determines to help them again, but what is the Daleks' purpose in keeping the Thals alive? Does it have anything to do with the Daleks' mythical creator, named in their teachings as Davros?\nThe Doctor — David Warner\nDavros — Terry Molloy\nThe Daleks — Nicholas Briggs\nNadel — Amy Pemberton\nGillen — Sarah Douglas\nDelt — Jeremy James\nToloc — Christopher Heywood\nThis is a sequel to Sympathy for the Devil.\nAs the previous story was named after a Rolling Stones song, this play is named for a Bob Dylan song.\nIn this audio drama, David Warner plays an alternative Third Doctor. He previously appeared with his \"predecessor\" Patrick Troughton in The Omen.\nThe incident in 1972 that the Brigadier mentions is apparently an alternate version of the events of 1972's Day of the Daleks.\nBig Finish Productions - Masters of War\nDirect download: TDP_79_State_of_Decay_and_Master_of_War.mp3\nTDP 78: The Next Doctor and The Proms\n\"The Next Doctor\" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was broadcast on 25 December 2008 and is the fourth Christmas special of the revived series.[3]\nDavid Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor, David Morrissey plays the titular \"Next Doctor\", and Velile Tshabalala plays the latter's companion Rosita.[4][5]\nThis special sees the return of the Cybermen, (of the design of the parallel universe's Cybus Industries Cybermen[6][7]), following their previous appearance in the two-part finale of Series Two in 2006, \"Army of Ghosts\"[8]/\"Doomsday\".[9]\nDuring its original airing, the episode had a viewing audience of 13.1 million viewers. It was the second most watched programme of Christmas Day 2008.\n2.3 Casting\n3 Broadcast and reception\n3.1 Broadcast\n3.2 DVD release\nThe Doctor lands in London on Christmas Eve, 1851, where he encounters a woman called Rosita and another man who calls himself 'The Doctor'. After failing to capture a Cybershade, the two men talk, with the Tenth Doctor believing the other to be a future regeneration. Unfortunately, the other (dubbed 'the Next Doctor') is lacking many memories. Meanwhile, the Cybermen are planning an attack with a human ally, Miss Mercy Hartigan. The Tenth Doctor follows the Next Doctor to a house of a dead man, Reverend Aubrey Fairchild, where they search for clues to what the Cybermen are planning. The Next Doctor begins to regain some of his lost memories; when the Tenth Doctor finds a pair of 'infostamps' (the Cybermen's data storage devices) the Next Doctor remembers he was holding one the night he lost his memory. The Cybermen then attack the house, but before they can kill the 'Doctors', the Next Doctor kills them with an electrical charge in the infostamp.\nAt the Reverend's funeral, Miss Hartigan and the Cybermen attack the mourners, sparing four who are subsequently fitted with Ear-Pods and dispatched by Miss Hartigan to their workhouses to recruit the children. Returning to the Next Doctor's home base, the Tenth Doctor is shown the other's TARDIS \"Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style\" - a gas balloon. Realising what has happened, the Doctor explains that the Cybermen have escaped from the Void (following the Battle of Canary Wharf) when the walls of the universe were weakened in \"a greater battle\". The Cybermen came upon a man named Jackson Lake, the first person to disappear, attacking him and his wife. In the confusion, Lake destroyed the Cybermen with an infostamp (one containing information on the Doctor gleaned from the Daleks), as earlier in the house, but it also backfired, overwhelming Lake's mind with information about the Doctor. In despair at losing his wife, Lake came to believe he was the Doctor. Meanwhile, the children are taken to a sluice gate to the Thames. The Doctor and Rosita investigate and are confronted by Miss Hartigan, who explains that the Cybermen offered her liberation. The Doctor returns the infostamp to the Cybermen, who download it, confirming him as their foe. Miss Hartigan orders the Cybermen to delete the pair, but Lake appears and destroys the Cybermen with another infostamp, allowing them to escape. A furious Miss Hartigan announces that \"the CyberKing will rise tonight!\"\nLake reveals that he and his family were attacked at their new house and the Doctor realises it may lead to the Cybermen base. There, they find a Dimension Vault, stolen Dalek technology that allowed the Cybermen to escape the Void. In the Cybermen base, the captive children are working to generate power to allow the CyberKing to ascend. Hartigan is betrayed by the CyberLeader and 'converted' to the CyberKing - thus receiving liberation from her anger and hatred. However, she proves too powerful to control, and uses her new powers to obliterate the CyberLeader. The Doctor, Rosita and Jackson evacuate the children, including Jackson's son who was abducted when he was attacked. However, the CyberKing - a giant Cyberman-shaped robot ship - emerges from the Thames and begins to lay waste to London. Using the gas balloon, the Doctor confronts Hartigan and offers her a chance to live in peace. When she refuses, the Doctor uses the infostamps to sever her connection from the CyberKing. Realising what she has become, Hartigan screams in horror destroying the Cybermen and herself. Before the CyberKing can collapse on the city, the Doctor uses the dimension vault to transport it into the Time vortex. In the aftermath, Jackson thanks the Doctor for what he has done and offers him a place at his Christmas celebration with Rosita and his son. They walk away, to a Christmas dinner in honour of those they have lost.\nThe ten genuine Doctors, to date, appear in this episode through an infostamp projection. Apart from Peter Davison's newly filmed appearance as the Fifth Doctor in special mini-episode \"Time Crash\", \"The Next Doctor\" marks the first time since Doctor Who was revived in 2005 that footage of the Doctors prior to the Ninth (Christopher Eccleston), and indeed any footage made prior to 2005, has been used within an episode. The ten Doctors were all illustrated in A Journal of Impossible Things, a book featured in \"Human Nature\", however only a few of these illustrations were actually shown on screen. Audio clips of Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley as the Master were used in \"Utopia\". The footage of the First Doctor (William Hartnell) is taken from The Time Meddler; the Second (Patrick Troughton) from The Ice Warriors; the Third (Jon Pertwee) from Terror of the Autons; the Fourth (Tom Baker) from City of Death; the Fifth from Arc of Infinity; the Sixth (Colin Baker) from The Mysterious Planet; the Seventh (Sylvester McCoy) from Time and the Rani; the Eighth (Paul McGann) from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie; the Ninth from \"The Parting of the Ways\"; and the Tenth from \"The Family of Blood\". Further footage of the Tenth Doctor appears from episodes including \"Blink\", \"The Runaway Bride\", \"Voyage of the Damned\" and \"The Lazarus Experiment\".\nWhen trying to trigger Jackson's memories, the Doctor refers to 'not blinking', 'weeping angels' and 'Sally Sparrow', all of which featured in \"Blink\". The Doctor also refers obliquely to past companions, noting to Lake that they either leave him, meet someone else or forget about him.\nThe Doctor mentions the events of \"Doomsday\". This is the first episode since \"Doomsday\" that the Cybermen have appeared in Doctor Who, although the Doctor Who spin-off series, Torchwood, furthered that story in the episode \"Cyberwoman\". These Cybermen have survived the apparent destruction of the Void, using Dalek technology developed in the Void to pass through dimensions. It is also implied by the Doctor that the events of the fourth series allowed the Cybermen to escape the Void, as it also allowed Rose Tyler to return to her own universe.\n[edit] Writing\nPre-broadcast publicity, based on excerpts from Davies' book Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale, revealed that the Doctor would meet a man played by David Morrissey who also claims to be the Doctor. In further excerpts, Davies commented, \"The best title for this episode would be The Two Doctors... but maybe not. The New Doctor, perhaps? Or The Next Doctor? I quite like The Next Doctor.\"[10] The book also contained two pictures from a scene cut from the end of the previous episode, intended to segue into the special echoing the previous two series. This scene was included on the series boxset.\nFollowing the success of last year's Christmas special, \"Voyage of the Damned\", which guest starred pop star Kylie Minogue as one-off companion Astrid Peth, Russell T Davies had initially felt tempted to copy this format with another high-profile guest star, but decided against it after jokingly offering up \"Cheryl Cole on board the Hindenburg\" as an example.[4]\nRegarding the unanswered question of why a gigantic robot in London 1851 \"isn't in the history books\", Davies and Gardner jokingly offer several possibilities ranging from there being alternate history of Doctor Who England, pointing out \"a spaceship didn't fly into the Big Ben in 2006 either\" (in the episode \"Aliens of London\") or that perhaps \"maybe everyone was retconned by the soon-to-be-born Torchwood, or something.\"[5]\nDavies, from a writer's standpoint, was also unhappy with the final scene in the episode where the Doctor gets rid of the CyberKing with the convenient Dalek dimension vault but he couldn't during the writing process think of another way to stop London being crushed by a giant robot. However, after the episode was produced, a different idea came to him. In this alternate ending Davies imagines, Miss Hartigan \"should have destroyed the Cybermen when she screamed... but she's still in the chair\", as the CyberKing falls to the Earth, the Doctor calls out to her saying \"Save them.\" This version would have Hartigan redeem herself as she is the one to cause the CyberKing to disappear, with no need for what Davies calls \"a silly Dalek continuum dimension vault\". Julie Gardner felt this would have been a superior, \"marvellous\" ending and Davies says he \"can't bear that there could have been a better ending than we actually transmitted\".[5]\nDavies also feels he would like to write a BBC Books novel, set in the midst of that brief scene where Jackson Lake is in the Doctor's TARDIS in which the Doctor takes Jackson to another planet, ending with the \"no no no scene\" before Jackson invites the Doctor to spend Christmas dinner with him.[5]\n[edit] Locations\nFilming for this episode was conducted in April 2008 at Gloucester Cathedral [11][12] and St Woolos Cemetery in Newport, [13] and in the streets of Gloucester, where shooting was hampered by up to 1,000 onlookers. The main setting of Torchwood, their Torchwood Hub was also redesigned and used as the workshop for the children.[5]\nDavid Morrissey is the main guest star, playing \"a character called The Doctor – a man who believes himself to be a Time Lord\".[14] He was influenced in his performance by previous Doctor actors William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, as he believed there was \"a truth\" to their performances because they \"never saw [Doctor Who] as a genre show or a children's show\".[15] He is joined by Velile Tshabalala as Rosita, the companion to Morrissey's \"Doctor\", whom Russell T Davies describes as \"probably cleverer than the two of them [the Doctors] put together\". For Tshabalala, the character came naturally because her \"feisty cockney girl\" characterisation was very \"close to home\" for her.[16]\nDervla Kirwan plays Mercy Hartigan, who Russell T Davies describes in the episode's podcast commentary as \"a dark a villain as you will ever have\". A lot of her characterisation goes unstated, but Russell discussed it in long conversations with Dervla Kirwan and fellow executive producer Julie Gardner. Davies characterises Miss Hartigan as \"a victim of abuse\", for whom the subtext suggests a \"terrible backstory\" which is symptomatic of her being \"part of [this] Victorian Age.\" Davies describes this as being \"a powerless woman who's been in servitude or far worse all her life\", but holds his tongue from saying her precise profession, relaying: \"I'm talking quite discreetly around this because there are children listening and watching and there's only so far I should go.\" He does however explain that \"She's had terrible things done to her\" which is responsible for her \"really twisted character where she sexualises everything.\" In terms of costume, \"she wears red\" because \"everything's inflammatory with her\". \"And in the end, actually\" Davies discusses how to escape her male oppression she \"becomes a man, she becomes the CyberKing. She has to go through this extraordinary process because she's so damaged.\"[5]\nMillennium FX's Neil Gorton's original design for the Cybershade took the existing Cyberman design and \"refurbished\" it by adding rivets and a copper finish. The design was cost-effective but Russell T Davies did not believe it was the right approach. He sketched a new design for the Cybershade that was \"a crude version of a Cyberman, all angular and blocky, with its trademark handlebars set at a jaunty angle and shrouded in flowing black robes\". Gorton used Davies' sketch to create a fibreglass mask that the Cybershade actors wore over their heads. Costume designer Louise Paige made the flowing robes, that were \"light enough to not restrict movement\" to complete the Cybershade costume.\nOriginally, Gardner relayed that there was a widespread dissatisfaction with Hartigan's CyberKing crown. The original helmet, he remarked \"was like the Cyberwoman's head from Torchwood\" (referring to the episode \"Cyberwoman\"), literally \"a Cyberman's head on Dervla Kirwan\" or \"as if Dervla Kirwan decided to go to a [fancy dress] party as a Cyberman.\" Davies' response was \"Oh my lord, no.\" The production team however worked hard, and in two days produced the final headpiece seen in the episode which Davies described as \"beautiful\", because it's \"Victorian and it fits the design.\" In the scene after the headpiece is placed on her, Dervla wore black contact lenses and SFX company The Mill helped to get rid of \"any traces of white\" in post-production.\nPreliminary figures show that the episode had a viewing audience of 11.71 million during its original airing, with a peak at 12.58 million viewers, and a 50.5% share of the 18:00 timeslot it was shown. It was the second most watched programme of Christmas Day 2008, behind Wallace and Gromit's A Matter of Loaf and Death. Final viewing figures show an audience of 13.1 million viewers.\nThe episode had an Appreciation Index figure of 86 (considered \"Excellent\"), making it the second most enjoyed programme on mainstream television on Christmas Day. The only programme to score higher was Wallace and Gromit's A Matter of Loaf and Death, which scored 88. Australia, the ABC will broadcast the episode much earlier than usual on Sunday 25 January at 19:30.\nDirect download: TDP_78_Next_Doctor_and_Proms.mp3\nMichelle Ryan and Lee Evans to guest star in Planet Of The Dead\nThe BBC has confirmed that Michelle Ryan and Lee Evans will guest star in the forthcoming Doctor Who Easter Special which began filming this week in Wales.\nMichelle, best known for her roles as Zoe Slater in EastEnders, and Jaime Sommers in the recent remake of Bionic Woman, will play the mysterious Lady Christina de Souza in the special episode entitled Planet of the Dead. Christina joins the Doctor on a bus-trip which takes a very unexpected detour into danger.\n\"I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who and very excited to be joining David Tennant and the Doctor Who team,\" said Michelle. \"It is such a fantastic show and I can't wait to get started!\"\nOne of Britain's best loved and biggest comedy stars, Lee Evans, will also be joining the cast playing a character called Malcolm, whose life becomes connected to the Doctor's under extraordinary circumstances.\nPlanet of the Dead is the first of four Doctor Who Specials which will air in 2009. Michelle joins David Tennant as he continues his role as The Doctor, and Noma Dumezweni who returns as Captain Erisa Magambo - last seen helping Rose and Donna save the world in Turn Left.\n\"Michelle is one of the most sought after young actors in the country and we are delighted to announce that she will be joining the team,\" said Executive Producer and writer Russell T Davies. \"As always the script is being kept strictly under wraps - however we can reveal that Lady Christina is a woman with a mysterious past who's going to have a huge impact on the Doctor!\"\nPlanet of the Dead, written by Russell T Davies and Gareth Roberts, is currently in production and will be screened on BBC One in Spring 2009.\nTDP 77: Full Circle\n112 – Full Circle\nA Marshman emerges from underwater.\nJohn Leeson (K-9 Mk. II)\nLalla Ward (Romana II)\nMatthew Waterhouse — Adric\nLeonard Maguire — Draith\nJames Bree — Nefred\nAlan Rowe — Garif\nGeorge Baker — Login\nTony Calvin — Dexeter\nRichard Willis — Varsh\nJune Page — Keara\nBernard Padden — Tylos\nAndrew Forbes — Omril\nAdrian Gibbs — Rysik\nBarney Lawrence — Marshman\nNorman Bacon — Marschild\nPeter Grimwade\nChristopher H. Bidmead\nBarry Letts\nOctober 25–November 15, 1980\nMeglos State of Decay\nFull Circle is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 25 to November 15, 1980. The serial is the first of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space trilogy and introduces Matthew Waterhouse as the Doctor's newest companion, Adric.\nEn route to Gallifrey to return Romana to the High Council of Time Lords, the TARDIS passes through a strange phenomenon and ends up in an alternative universe called E-Space. Neither the Doctor nor Romana herself (who is a little relieved to have avoided home) can calculate why the TARDIS scanner shows the Capitol of their planet when in fact they have arrived in a verdant forest. It later emerges they have journeyed to this pocket universe through a rare space/time phenomenon known as a Charged Vacuum Emboitment.\nNearby is a small but sustainable civilisation of humanoids who live between a river and a grounded but not irreparable spaceship called the Starliner. They came to the planet Alzarius from Terradon and much of the focus of society is on repairing their craft to make it navigable once more. It is an oligarchy ruled by three self-selecting senior colonists knows as Deciders, who ensure the smooth running and order of their adopted world and lay particular store on technical ability. One of the brightest of the younger generation of colonists is Adric, who bears a Badge of Mathematical Excellence in recognition of his computational skills.\nHowever, his brother, Varsh, has rejected the regimented society of the Starliner and leads a band of rebels called Outlers, who steal harvested riverfruit and other foods to survive. However, all is not well in the colony. Strange eggs have started to appear in the riverfruit and this is interpreted by First Decider Draith using the precious System File of the Starliner as an omen of Mistfall, a strange periodic change to the planet during which the natural balance of society is threatened. Soon Mistfall begins, and the colonists move into the Starliner to protect themselves, apparently in a well prepared manner. Adric chooses the moment of confusion to try and steal some riverfruit to prove himself to his brother. Draith gives chase to his young protégé but falls and lands in the river – only to be dragged beneath the waves by a strange force. His last words are aimed at the chief scientists of the colony: “Tell Dexeter we've come full circle!\" Adric muses on this as he heads into the forest in panic, finding the TARDIS. The Doctor and Romana take him in and tend to his leg wound, which recovers remarkably quickly. The Doctor heads off to investigate the planet, while Adric attracts Varsh and the other Outlers to the protection of the TARDIS.\nThe two other Deciders, Garif and Nefred, have meanwhile ordered the Starliner doors closed as per procedure, knowing that both Draith and Keara, an Outler and the daughter of a prominent citizen called Login, have not entered the ship safely. Despite his worries, Login soon accepts a position as Third Decider when it is determined that Draith has died. It is as well the doors have been closed – humanoid, aggressive Marshmen begin to appear from underwater, looking threatening (as shown in the picture above); and soon scuttling Marshspiders hatch from the eggs of the Riverfruit. The Marshmen beat on the walls of the Starliner to gain entry but the fearsome primitive creatures are not admitted. The Doctor, however, gains entry to the Starliner using his sonic screwdriver, followed by a young and inquisitive Marshchild. Both of them are soon found and taken before the Three Deciders. The Doctor is appalled when chief scientist Dexeter starts to perform vivisection experiments on the Marshchild.\nA group of Marshmen have meanwhile carried the TARDIS to a settlement cave, intending to use it as a battering ram to force their way into the Starliner. Romana decides to venture outside. She is bitten by one of the Marshspiders and starts to change, seeming possessed. Adric panics and materialises the TARDIS inside the Starliner. When the Outlers emerge Login is reunited with his daughter, but the Doctor is not impressed not to be reunited with Romana. Thus he pilots the TARDIS back to the cave, and finds an alert but amnesiac Romana. The Doctor scoops up the remains of a Marshspider and then reverses his journey once more with Adric and an unconscious Romana in tow. By the time he is back in the Starliner, however, Dexeter has tried to examine the brain of the Marshchild, provoking it to attack and kill him and itself. The Doctor is so incensed he turns on the Deciders and denounces their society – revealing secret ship controls that show the Starliner has been ready to pilot from Alzarius for centuries but, for some reason, the farce of constant repair has been continued. The problem it seems is that though the Deciders understand the technical construction of the ship, no-one knows how to pilot it.\nThe Doctor persuades the Deciders to give him equipment to examine the cells of the marshspider and marshchild and also deduces that they are from identical DNA sources. This situation is complicated, however, when a transformed Romana releases the emergency exits and allows the Marshmen to invade the Starliner. The colonists retreat before the creatures, many of whom are more inquisitive than dangerous, but anarchy reigns. Nefred is mortally wounded while fleeing one room, but his last admission is that the colonists cannot return to Terradon, because they've never been there. It is realized that the present-day Alzarians are actually a subspecies of the Marshmen, who wiped out the Starliner's original Terradonian crew and then gradually evolved into human form to take their place.\nThe Doctor uses a protein serum to cure Romana, and they determine from research in the ship's science unit that the ship has been maintained for 40,000 generations by a species that has three aspects; spiders, marshmen, and the current humanoids. They are all from the same DNA and thus have come \"full circle\". This is the real secret of the System Files.\nIt is accidentally deduced that oxygen in pure form is problematic to the Marshmen, who have not the capability to cope with the gas in that concentration, and soon this non-lethal defence is used to force the Marshmen out of the Starliner. During their retreat Varsh is killed, leaving Adric in emotional turmoil. With the Marshmen returning to the swamps, the boy stows away on board the TARDIS. His fellow colonists meanwhile follow their dreams and pilot the craft away from Alzarius. The Doctor and Romana are unaware of Adric's presence as they pilot their own craft to another destination.\nThis serial comprises the first leg of an extended adventure generally known as the \"The E-Space Trilogy\"; the trilogy continues in the next serial, State of Decay, and concludes in Warriors' Gate.\nThe Doctor briefly mentions both Leela and the Key to Time early in this serial.\nDirect download: TDP_077_Full_Circle.mp3\nSat, 3 January 2009\nTDP SPECIAL: THE Eleventh Doctor Announced\nThe BBC today announced that Matt Smith has been cast in the role of the Doctor in the iconic BBC series Doctor Who. Smith will be the eleventh Time Lord and will take over from David Tennant who leaves the show at the end of 2009. He will be seen in the forthcoming fifth series that will be broadcast in 2010.\nThe fifth series will also have a new lead writer and Executive Producer in the form of the BAFTA award winning writer Steven Moffat who is taking over from Russell T Davies. Moffat will be joined by Piers Wenger who will be the new Executive Producer for BBC Wales making the show.\nFollowing David Tennant's decision to step down at the end of 2009, the team behind the new series set about casting the new Doctor so that new adventures could be created and scripts written with Matt in mind.\nThe identity of the new Doctor was revealed on a special edition of Doctor Who Confidential that was broadcast on BBC One on January 3rd at 17.35hrs. In it Smith revealed his initial reaction at taking on such a legendary role and his thoughts on what direction the Doctor might now be going with him playing the part.\nMatt Smith said of his new role \"I'm just so excited about the journey that is in front of me. It's a wonderful privilege and challenge that I hope I will thrive on. I feel proud and honoured to have been given this opportunity to join a team of people that has worked so tirelessly to make the show so thrilling.\n\"David Tennant has made the role his own, brilliantly with grace, talent and persistent dedication. I hope to learn from the standards set by him. The challenge for me is to do justice to the show's illustrious past, my predecessors and most importantly to those who watch it. I really cannot wait.\"\nLead writer and Executive Producer Steven Moffat said \"The Doctor is a very special part, and it takes a very special actor to play him. You need to be old and young at the same time, a boffin and an action hero, a cheeky schoolboy and the wise old man of the universe. As soon as Matt walked through the door and blew us away with a bold and brand new take on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man. 2010 is a long time away but rest assured the Eleventh Doctor is coming - and the universe has never been so safe.\"\nPiers Wenger, Head Of Drama, BBC Wales added \"With two hearts, a ferocious mind and over 900 years of experience behind him, it's not every 26 year old actor who can take on a role like the Doctor but within moments of meeting Matt he showed the skill and imagination needed to create a Doctor all of his own.\nIt's just the beginning of the journey for Matt but with Steven Moffat's scripts and the expertise of the production team in Cardiff behind him, there is no one more perfect than him to be taking the TARDIS to exciting new futures when the series returns in 2010.\"\nBen Stephenson, Controller BBC Drama added \"I am delighted to see Matt take on this iconic role. It will see him continuing his relationship with the BBC following his performances in Ruby In The Smoke and Party Animals, and his upcoming role in Moses Jones. The combination of Matt, Steven and Piers will, I know, take Doctor Who onto new and even dizzier heights.\"\nJay Hunt, Controller. BBC ONE said \"Matt Smith will be a mesmerising eleventh Time Lord, true to the spirit of the show. He is a worthy successor to David Tennant who has been utterly remarkable in the role and promises to continue to be in next year's four special episodes.\"\nMatt Smith, 26, grew up with his family including one sister in Northampton. He was head boy at Northampton School For Boys where he excelled at sports, music and drama.\nInitially, Matt wanted to be a professional footballer and played for Northampton Town Under 11 and 12s, Nottingham Forest Under 12,13,14s and Leicester City Under 15 and 16s before a back injury forced him out of the game.\nFollowing his injury, and with the encouragement of one of his teachers, Jerry Hardingham, Matt decided to join the National Youth Theatre. It was during this time that Matt first gained attention at the Royal Court Theatre when he was cast in the play Fresh Kills, directed by Wilson Milam, whilst still at the University Of East Anglia where he was studying Drama and Creative Writing.\nAlready a stalwart of the National Youth Theatre, his performance at the Court led to a variety of theatrical experiences at the National Theatre: in the award winning History Boys (directed by Nick Hytner), On The Shore Of The Wide World (directed by Sarah Frankcom) and also in the acclaimed trio of plays Burn / Citizenship / Chatroom (directed by Anna Mackmin).\nThese roles led to Matt's first outings on the small screen, alongside Billie Piper in Phillip Pullman's period detective stories, The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North, where he played Jim, right hand man to Billie's detective heroine Sally Lockhart. These pieces were followed by the lead role of Danny in the BBC Two series Party Animals, the brilliantly observed drama set in the world of young politicians.\nIn a dazzling return to the Royal Court in 2007, Matt played Henry in Polly Stenham's award winning first play That Face, opposite Lindsay Duncan. His performance gained Matt an Evening Standard Best Newcomer nomination and a year later the play had a second life in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre. In between the two runs, Matt played Guy opposite Christian Slater's Buddy in Swimming With Sharks, Mike Leslie's searing West End adaptation of the 1994 Hollywood film. In this time he also played a lead role in the BAFTA winning BBC One series, The Street, opposite Gina McKee and Lorraine Ashbourne.\nMatt has recently completed work on Moses Jones for BBC Two, directed by Michael Offer, in which he plays the lead role of Dan Twentyman, alongside Shaun Parkes in the title role.\nDirect download: TDP_Eleventh_Doctor.mp3","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1209941"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6910957098007202,"wiki_prob":0.3089042901992798,"text":"Slug (unit)\nThe slug is a derived unit of mass in the weight-based system of measures, most notably within the British Imperial measurement system and in the United States customary measures system. Systems of measure either define mass and derive force or define a base force and derive a mass unit.[1] A slug is defined as the mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/s2 when a force of one pound (lbf) is exerted on it.\nBritish Gravitational system\nUnit of\n1 slug in ... ... is equal to ...\n14.59390 kg\nUS customary units\n32.1740 lb\n1 slug = 1 lbf ⋅ s 2 ft ⟺ 1 lbf = 1 slug ⋅ ft s 2 {\\displaystyle 1\\,{\\text{slug}}=1\\,{\\frac {{\\text{lbf}}{\\cdot }{\\text{s}}^{2}}{\\text{ft}}}\\quad \\Longleftrightarrow \\quad 1\\,{\\text{lbf}}=1\\,{\\frac {{\\text{slug}}{\\cdot }{\\text{ft}}}{{\\text{s}}^{2}}}}\nOne slug has a mass of 32.1740 lb (14.59390 kg) based on standard gravity, the international foot, and the avoirdupois pound.[2] At the Earth's surface, an object with a mass of 1 slug exerts a force downward of approximately 32.2 lbf or 143 N.[3][4]\nThe slug is part of a subset of units known as the gravitational FPS system, one of several such specialized systems of mechanical units developed in the late 19th and the 20th century. Geepound was another name for this unit in early literature.[5]\nThe name \"slug\" was coined before 1900 by British physicist Arthur Mason Worthington,[6] but it did not see any significant use until decades later. A 1928 textbook says:\nNo name has yet been given to the unit of mass and, in fact, as we have developed the theory of dynamics no name is necessary. Whenever the mass, m, appears in our formulae, we substitute the ratio of the convenient force-acceleration pair (w/g), and measure the mass in lbs. per ft./sec.2 or in grams per cm./sec.2.\n—  Noel Charlton Little, College Physics, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928, p. 165.\nThree approaches to units of mass and force or weight[7][8]\n2nd law of motion\nm = F/a\nF = W ⋅ a/g\nF = m ⋅ a\nAcceleration (a)\nft/s2 m/s2 ft/s2 m/s2 ft/s2 Gal m/s2 m/s2\nMass (m)\nslug hyl pound-mass kilogram pound gram tonne kilogram\nForce (F),\nweight (W)\npound kilopond pound-force kilopond poundal dyne sthène newton\nPressure (p)\npound per square inch technical atmosphere pound-force per square inch atmosphere poundal per square foot barye pieze pascal\nThe slug is listed in the Regulations under the Weights and Measures (National Standards) Act, 1960. This regulation defines the units of weights and measures, both regular and metric, in Australia.\nSimilar unitsEdit\nThe blob is the inch version of the slug (1 blob is equal to 1 lbf⋅s2/in, or 12 slugs)[2][9] or equivalent to 386.0886 pounds (175.1268 kg). This unit is also called slinch (a portmanteau of the words slug and inch).[10][11] Similar terms include slugette[12] and snail.[13]\nSimilar metric units include the glug in the centimetre–gram–second system, and the mug, par, or MTE in the metre–kilogram–second system.[14]\n^ See Elementary High School physics and chemistry text books/fundamentals.\n^ a b Shigley, Joseph E. and Mischke, Charles R. Mechanical Engineering Design, Sixth ed, pp. 31–33. McGraw Hill, 2001. ISBN 0-07-365939-8.\n^ Beckwith, Thomas G., Roy D. Marangoni, et al. Mechanical Measurements, Fifth ed, pp. 34-36. Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1993. ISBN 0-201-56947-7.\n^ Shevell, R.S. Fundamentals of Flight, Second ed, p. xix. Prentice-Hall, 1989.\n^ gee. unit2unit.eu\n^ Worthington, Arthur Mason (1900). Dynamics of Rotation: An Elementary Introduction to Rigid Dynamics (3rd ed.). Longmans, Green, and Co. p. 9.\n^ Comings, E. W. (1940). \"English Engineering Units and Their Dimensions\". Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 32 (7): 984–987. doi:10.1021/ie50367a028.\n^ Klinkenberg, Adrian (1969). \"The American Engineering System of Units and Its Dimensional Constant gc\". Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. 61 (4): 53–59. doi:10.1021/ie50712a010.\n^ Norton, Robert L. Cam Design and Manufacturing Handbook, p. 13. Industrial Press Inc., 2009. ISBN 0831133678.\n^ Slug. DiracDelta Science & Engineering Encyclopedia\n^ \"1 blob\". Wolfram Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine. Retrieved 27 October 2011.\n^ Celmer, Robert. Notes to Accompany Vibrations II. Version 2.2. 2009.\n^ Rowlett, Russ. \"How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement\". unc.edu, September 1, 2004. Retrieved January 26, 2018.\n^ Cardarelli, François (1999). Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. Springer. pp. 358, 377. ISBN 1-85233-682-X.\n\"What is a Slug?\" on phy-astr.gsu.edu\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slug_(unit)&oldid=867135594\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1169867"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6359090805053711,"wiki_prob":0.6359090805053711,"text":"Home | King's & London | King's London Stories | Data diving\nData diving\nWhich London Underground lines have the cleanest air? What do we know about the night-time economy of Westminster? How can joggers choose which London park to run in to avoid current air pollution?\nThese are the city-centred challenges that have been tackled over the past three years at annual student hackathons hosted by the Centre for Urban Science and Progress London (CUSP London).\nHackathons bring together computer programmers, software developers and designers, and subject matter experts in an intensive collaboration, usually lasting just a few days or a week, with the goal of creating usable, innovative software.\nEach of the CUSP London hackathons have involved some 40 to 50 people – experts from King’s College London and the Greater London Authority, students from New York University and the University of Warwick, and a wide range of London-based governmental and commercial organisations. The aim has been to explore the data available on the given topic, and come up with analyses that will develop our understanding of – and help deliver practical solutions to – challenges that affect Londoners’ everyday lives.\nOutputs have included an app to guide joggers on the best parks to exercise in to avoid the worst levels of air pollution, an analysis of where those coming to Westminster in the evenings were coming from, and an examination of air pollution on different London Underground lines.\nWhile these outputs were simple prototypes, they give helpful indications to governmental bodies and researchers as to what further analyses could be done, for what questions data exists to support robust analysis, and in what form the output of such analyses could be presented and accessed by the public.\nThe hackathons are an engaging and challenging way of connecting King’s with the capital. By bringing together the brightest and best students and researchers from CUSP partner institutions with London-based subject matter experts, the hackathons also help develop our students’ skills in thinking about how data science can solve realworld problems.\nCUSP London enables researchers, businesses, local authorities and government agencies to apply urban science to improving public health and wellbeing. A partnership between King’s, the University of Warwick and New York University, the Centre is based at Bush House, part of King’s Strand Campus.\nLondon is the first city to build on the success of CUSP in New York City – now established as a leader in the field of urban science and informatics. In establishing CUSP London, King’s is at the forefront of an approach that draws on the real experience and big data available in cities, using London as a living laboratory to tackle the needs of our capital and some of the complex challenges it faces.\nFind out more about the Centre for Urban Science and Progress London (CUSP) here.\nKing's & London\nPartnering to serve London\n#KingsLocal\nKing's London Stories\nLondon Stories 2017\nKing's London Collective\nMemberships & Networks\nOpportunities for staff and students\nmore stories from king's & london\neducation stories\nserving london stories","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line171811"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5182988047599792,"wiki_prob":0.5182988047599792,"text":"Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is pleasing in a thousand ways\nDick Yarbrough\nUpdated: May 7, 2019, 3:35 p.m.\nWhat a nice way to celebrate my 1,000th syndicated newspaper column. University of Georgia President Dr. Jere Morehead and Athletic Director Greg McGarity have proposed that the field at Sanford Stadium be named for Hall of Fame football coach Vince Dooley. It’s about time. In fact, it is long overdue. I have known Vince Dooley for more than 50 years. I can say without equivocation he is finally getting what he deserves.The proposal must be approved by the Board of Regents, but since Gov. Brian Kemp — a UGA grad and local Athens boy — says he is looking forward to seeing the Dawgs playing on Dooley Field this season, I think we can pretty much put this one in the bag. Applause for Gov. Kemp. If it were not for him, we still might be waiting for the Board of Regents to do the right thing.\nHow does this all apply to my grinding out columns for the past two decades? Among a bucketful of crusades I have undertaken over the years, none have meant more than seeing Vince Dooley honored for his contributions to the University of Georgia. I have long advocated that either Sanford Stadium be hyphenated to include Dooley’s name as has been done at Alabama with Bear Bryant and at Auburn with Shug Jordan or that the field be named for him. I have said so repeatedly — starting back in 2003 and as recently as this past week. And now it has happened.\nFor me, this one has been up-close and personal. As a member of the UGA Foundation, I got caught in the middle of a controversy between then-president Michael Adams and Vince Dooley over Adams’ refusal to extend Dooley’s contract to continue to serve as athletic director. Adams was aided and abetted by a powerful member of the Board of Regents, Donald Leebern, who was no friend of Vince Dooley for a lot of reasons, all of them wrong.\nLeebern, whose net worth approaches that of Croesus, has held a seat on the prestigious Board of Regents since first being appointed by Gov. Zell Miller in 1991. He was reappointed by Govs. Roy Barnes and then George E. Perdue and then Nathan Deal.\nOne of Gov. Deal’s last actions before leaving office was to recommend Don Leebern for yet another seven-year term. Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan promptly turned that idea down along with Deal’s other lame-duck board appointments because of “technical errors.” (Meaning: Nice try, Nathan.) As a result, it looks like the Reign of Leebern has come to a merciful end. As for Mike Adams, I can only assume he is doing wonderful things at Malibu U, aka, Pepperdine University. He and I don’t howdy much these days.\nAnyway, that is all in the rearview mirror. The Georgia Bulldogs will be playing on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium from now on for all the world to see. As I write this, I am getting mail from readers across the state thanking me for my advocacy in the naming of Dooley Field. As humbling as that is, I can’t take much credit except for having, with malice aforethought, ripped those who either stood in the way or those who should have been the coach’s advocates but were too timid or intimidated to get in the fray. But that is OK. The deed is done. Let the high-fives begin. Victory has a lot of fathers.\nAs pleased as I am for this good man, my love for the University of Georgia extends far beyond athletics. The proceeds from this column go to fund a professorship in Crisis Communications Leadership at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at UGA as well as for student fellowships. I am told that becoming a Yarbrough Fellow is considered a prestigious appointment. I am glad to hear that. I only know there is no way on God’s Green Earth I would ever qualify for one. I wouldn’t even be able to get into the university these days, let alone into the Grady College. Timing is everything.\nSpeaking of timing, someone asked me the other day if I still enjoy what I do after 1,000 columns and 21 years. You betcha. Every single word. Particularly when Column Number 1,000 includes the words “Dooley Field.” Now, it is on to the next thousand and other crusades, God and the editors willing. May they be as rewarding as the past thousand have been. Thank you for being a part of it.\nYou can reach Dick Yarbrough at dick@dickyarbrough.com; at P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/dickyarb.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line471344"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5808148980140686,"wiki_prob":0.4191851019859314,"text":"LILLIAN SHIZUKO OKAZAKI\n88, passed away peacefully on May 22, 2018. She was born in Honolulu, HI on September 9, 1929 to Suekichi and Tsuya Kuwamoto and grew up in Kalihi. Lillian helped out at her parents' Kalihi Bakery until graduating from Farrington High School in 1947. She attended sewing school for several years and became a skilled seamstress. She was also an accomplished singer and performed with the all-female Shojo Orchestra. Lillian met her future husband, Walter Okazaki, on a blind date. They married in 1956 and soon moved to Los Angeles, CA while Walter attended Northrup Institute of Technology. Upon their return to Oahu, Lillian became a full time mom, raising four children. Later, she began working part time for the Department of Education and then full time at Sears Roebuck at Pearlridge, retiring in 1999 with over 25 years of service. Lillian loved life and always had a smile for everyone. She also loved her garden, where she grew a variety of flowers orchids, ginger, roses, gardenia, pikake, pakalana and bougainvillea. She was a devout Buddhist and belonged to the Waipahu Hongwanji Mission, where she participated in a myriad of activities hosted by the church, among which was her beloved Karaoke Club. Surprisingly, Lillian also loved sports especially football and golf, which she watched on TV whenever she could. She also mastered her iPad in order to pursue her favorite word search and mahjong games. But her biggest passion in life was running. She participated in countless 5K and 10K events, but her proudest moments came from crossing the finish line at the Honolulu Marathon not just once, but four times all after she turned 40! She is preceded in death by her husband, Walter and is survived by her children, Melanie (Eugene Villaluz), Lianne Whang, Wynn and Keane, one grandson, Nicholas Whang, and her dog & best friend, Busta. The family would like to extend a special Mahalo to Dr. Dipak Ghelani of Kaiser Moanalua and Howard Araki, RN, of St. Francis Hospice for their kind and compassionate care as well as to the team of caregivers from Safe Harbor Homecare who treated Lillian with gentle hands and great respect. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 28 at the Mililani Mortuary, Mauka Chapel, with visitation at 5:00 pm and services at 6:00 pm. Aloha attire.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line196435"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9590787887573242,"wiki_prob":0.9590787887573242,"text":"Laufer’s Work:\nPeter Laufer, winner of major awards for excellence in reporting, is an independent journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker working in traditional and new media. He is the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.\nWhile a globe-trotting correspondent for NBC News, he also reported, wrote, and produced several documentaries and special event broadcasts for the network that dealt in detail with crucial social issues, including the first nationwide live radio discussion of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “Healing the Wounds” was an analysis of ongoing problems afflicting Vietnam War veterans. “Hunger in America” documented malnutrition in our contemporary society. “A Loss for Words” exposed the magnitude and impact of illiteracy in America. “Cocaine Hunger” was the first network broadcast to literally trace the drug from the jungles of Bolivia to the streets of America, and alerted the nation to the avalanching crises caused by the consumption of crack cocaine. “Nightmare Abroad” was a pioneering study of Americans incarcerated overseas.\nLaufer’s first major exposure to immigration issues dates to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980 when he reported from Afghan refugee camps for NBC Radio. Almost 10 years later, as the Iron Curtain began to rise at the Berlin Wall, which he reported for CBS Radio, Laufer went on to cover immigration from Western Europe, reporting on the hordes of desperate people trying to better their lives by talking, sneaking, bribing, cajoling themselves and their families into Western Europe with the same ferocity he would find more than a decade later among Mexicans and other impoverished Latin Americans hungry for work and heading north to the U.S., even at risk of their lives. In 2002, Laufer’s documentary film, “Exodus to Berlin,” and the ensuing book of the same title, told the relatively unknown story of Germany’s attempt to rebuild its Jewish population by providing sanctuary and financial support to Soviet-era Russian Jews who came over the border from Russia and Ukraine to build a new, safer life, in – of all places – Germany.\nLaufer’s books include The Question of Consent: Innocence and Complicity in the Glen Ridge Rape Case. It is the study of the rape of a mentally retarded schoolgirl by a gang of her classmates, and the effect of the case of the health of the local community. He’s written works on the fall of Communism in Europe (titled Iron Curtain Rising), a severe criticism of contemporary talk radio, Inside Talk Radio: America’s Voice Or Just Hot Air, and a book version of the documentary about Americans in prisons overseas, also titled Nightmare Abroad.\nAnother of his books, Made in Mexico, published by the National Geographic Society, deals, in a juvenile environment, with cross border issues between California and Mexico. Laufer has written Exodus to Berlin, a book version of his study of the resurgence of the Jewish population in Germany and the concurrent rise of right-wing violence, and Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border. With Markos Kounalakis he’s written Hope Is a Tattered Flag, based on conversations from “Washington Monthly on the Radio”, the nationally-syndicated radio show they co-anchor. Another of their Washington Monthly projects is “Calexico,” a series of radio documentaries celebrating the California-Mexico Borderlands, and supported by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities. The research for that project developed into Laufer’s book Borderlines.\nHis experiences with Mission Rejected resulted in a natural history trilogy: The Dangerous World of Butterflies, Forbidden Creatures, and No Animals Were Harmed During the Writing of this Book.\nPeter Laufer was the charter anchor of the radio program “National Geographic World Talk,” a nationally-syndicated show he created. He hosts “The Peter Laufer Show” Sundays which originated on the Pacifica radio station KPFA, moved to the San Francisco Clear Channel station Green 960, and on to Sonoma County’s KOWS. It now airs on Eugene’s KPNW.\nPeter Laufer’s detailed c.v.:\nNo Animals Were Harmed (to be published by Lyons Press, fall 2011)\nForbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets, Lyons Press, 2010\nThe Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists, Lyons Press, 2009\nCalexico: True Lives of the Borderlands to be published by the University of Arizona Press, fall 2011)\nHope Is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era, PoliPoint Press, 2008 (co-author with Markos Kounalakis)\nMission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006\nWetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican Border, Ivan R. Dee, 2004\nHighlights of a Lowlife: The Autobiography of Milan Melvin, (compiled\nand edited by Peter Laufer), Swan Isle, 2004\nShock and Awe: Responses to War (edited and with an introduction by\nPeter Laufer), Creative Arts Book Company, 2003\nExodus to Berlin: The Return of the Jews to Germany, Ivan R. Dee, 2003\nMade in Mexico (illustrated by Susan L. Roth), National Geographic\nSociety, 2000; Spanish-language edition: Hecho en México\nWireless Etiquette: A Guide to the Changing World of Instant\nCommunication, Omnipoint Communications, 1999\nSafety and Security for Women Who Travel, Travelers’ Tales, 1999 (co-author with Sheila Swan Laufer); Spanish-language edition: Guía Para Mujeres Que Viajan Solas, published by Ediciones\nPaidós Ibérica in Barcelona, 2002\nInside Talk Radio: America’s Voice or Just Hot Air? Birch Lane Press, 1995, Chinese-language edition published by Cheng Chung Book\nCompany in Taipei, 1996; excerpted for use by Harvard University and the\nUniversity of Missouri, 1995; and excerpted in Penthouse magazine, April\nA Question of Consent: Innocence and Complicity in the Glen Ridge Rape\nCase, Mercury House, 1994; German-language edition Sie\nhat es doch gewolt, Bastei-Lübbe in Cologne, 1995; excerpted for use by\nthe University of Massachusetts, 2003\nNevada Neon, University of Nevada Press, 1994\n(co-author with Sheila Swan Laufer)\nrevised and updated edition to be published by Globe Pequot Press, fall 2011\nWhen Hollywood Was Fun, Birch Lane Press, 1994 (collaborator\nwith Gene Lester)\nNightmare Abroad: Stories of Americans Imprisoned in Foreign lands,\nMercury House, 1993\nIron Curtain Rising: A Personal Journey through the Changing Landscape\nof Eastern Europe, Mercury House, 1991\nPeter Laufer took on his first radio job while in high school at what is arguably the first all-talk radio station in America, Metromedia’s KNEW in Oakland (known at the time as Radio Free Oakland). From there he crossed the Bay to San Francisco and joined KSFO as a news writer at its zenith, self-proclaimed “The World’s Greatest Radio Station.”\nIn 1970 he took a cable car down Powell Street from KSFO to the studios of the famous and infamous KSAN (Jive 95), America’s premier so-called underground radio station. As a news reporter and talk show host at KSAN he and other members of the KSAN Gnus team won the DuPont/Armstrong Award for their unique coverage.\nFrom KSAN Laufer moved his talk radio act to market leader KGO and its sister ABC-owned radio station in Los Angeles, KABC. Returning to the newsroom, he became part of NBC’s News and Information experiment, an early test of a nationwide 24-hour radio news service. Based at the NBC-owned KNAI in San Francisco, he covered northern California for NBC News in the mid seventies.\nHis wanderings next took him to stints at KPTL in Carson City, KOLO in Reno, and WFAA in Dallas before he returned to San Francisco and NBC to work as the “News Flash” at KNBR and a general assignment reporter at KYUU. Next Laufer took over as news director at KXRX in San Jose where he also hosted a talk show, attracting nationwide attention when he managed to connect via telephone with the hostage takers holding Americans in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.\nThose KYUU reporting duties included foreign correspondence covering the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S.-Soviet proxy wars in Central America. From KYUU he transferred to NBC News and was assigned to its Washington bureau where he worked for much of the 1980s as general assignment reporter and worldwide documentarian, winning the prestigious broadcast journalism awards detailed below.\nStopping off for a brief tour as news director of public radio station KQED in San Francisco, Laufer took a mid-career study fellowship in Berlin just prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, and he covered the fall of the Soviet bloc for KCBS in San Francisco and the CBS radio stations nationwide, before switching to ABC Radio for further coverage of the post-revolutionary elections in Eastern Europe.\nHe returned to CBS to cover the run-up to the Gulf War and then moved back to Washington to take over as News and Program Director of the capital’s news and talk radio station WRC. That experience led to his assuming the role of founding Programmdirektor of NEWSTALK 93.6 in Berlin, Germany’s first American style, but German language, talk radio station. While in Berlin in the mid 1990s he served as Germany bureau chief for the public radio business program “Marketplace.”\nIn Europe he worked as consultant to Talk Radio 1395 in Amsterdam, training the staff for the launch of this first American style and Dutch language talk radio station. He consulted management and coached air staff at TalkRadio/talkSPORT in London, working with manager/owner Kelvin MacKenzie, the former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s flagship British tabloid, the Sun. He consulted Bill Sinrich at TWI for their launch of the London television talk show “Under the Moon,” created for Channel Four, and he fielded a comparative study of German and American commercial television broadcasting for DuMont Funk und Fernsehen in Cologne.\nBack in America, Laufer created the “Omnipoint Business Minute,” a daily business show sponsored by Omnipoint Communications as a branding vehicle for the launch of the mobile phone network that became T-Mobile. He reported on America with a weekly broadcast post card for Radio New Zealand. He established the Business Shrink daily business talk show with Peter Morris, which broadcast on Sirius Satellite Radio, the content of which became the Business Shrink book series published by Adams Media. With Mother Jones publisher Jay Harris he founded “Mother Jones Radio,” which broadcast nationwide on Air America affiliates. Along with Washington Monthly publisher Markos Kounalakis he created and anchors “Washington Monthly on the Radio,” syndicated nationally and heard on its flagship outlet, XM Satellite Radio. He created “National Geographic World Talk” and the “National Geographic Minute.”\nHe hosts “The Peter Laufer Show” Sundays, which originated on the Pacifica radio station KPFA, moved to the San Francisco Clear Channel station Green 960, and on to Sonoma County’s KOWS.\nSince founding the Sausalito Sun while in grammar school, Peter Laufer has been immersed in print journalism. His other newspaper duties included working as the media critic in the early 1990s for SF Weekly and acting as editor-in-chief in the early 1970s of the resurgent Gold Hill News, bringing the classic Nevada newspaper back to the Comstock after a 92-year hiatus, a lapse he apologized for in a sardonic “note to readers” on the paper’s front page that was flashed across the country on the wires of Associated Press.\nHe’s written on the post-Communist scene in Prague and about the fate of Soviet-bloc spies for the San Francisco Examiner’s Sunday magazine Image, and his feature articles fill the pages of a diverse stack of periodicals including Europe magazine, Mother Jones, Hungry Mind Review, Washington Journalism Review, Kansas City Star, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Francisco Chronicle, and Prague-based Pozor magazine.\nOpinionated, Laufer’s op-ed pieces run the gamut from calling for the opening of the Mexican-American border to sounding post-9/11 wake-up calls regarding the domestic attacks on Americans’ civil rights. These tirades have been published in papers including the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and his hometown Marin Independent Journal.\nWith its publisher Markos Kounalakis, Laufer writes a regular feature for Washington Monthly magazine, based on their conversations with political and cultural leaders on their radio program, “Washington Monthly on the Radio.” Counter-intuitive as it may seem, some of the most productive magazine journalism assignments for Laufer have come from what he calls “my favorite pornographer,” Penthouse magazine. For Penthouse, Laufer’s work included travel to Peru to interview Lori Berenson, training for survival in conflict zones with former British Marines, and investigating the predatory scam of selling bogus university degrees.\nPeter Laufer worked as reporter, writer, and producer of the documentary film “Exodus to Berlin” which won the David Wolper best documentary prize at the Wine Country film festival in California. The project was supported by grants from the RIAS Berlin Commission and the Robert Bosch Foundation. He is reporter and cinematographer of the under-production independent documentary “Sea to Shining,” a portrait of immediate post-9/11 Middle America. His documentary “Garbage,” a biography of household trash, was broadcast on the San Francisco public television station KQED.\nPeter Laufer did his undergraduate work in English at the University of California in Berkeley, he earned his Masters in Communications: Journalism and Public Affairs from the American University School of Communication in Washington, DC, and his Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University Faculty of Arts and Society in England. His post-graduate work includes media studies while a Robert Bosch Fellow stationed at the Freie Universität in Berlin, German language study at the Carl Duisberg Centren in Cologne, French culture and politics study at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris, and Spanish language study at the Academia Sonora lengua y cultura española in Macharaviaya, Spain.\nHe served on the faculty of Sonoma State University in California in the early 1990s, and he’s taught journalists from Egypt, Cambodia, and Indonesia in the International Journalism and Media Management Training Program at Western Kentucky University. Under the auspices of San Francisco-based Media Alliance, he was instructor and coordinator of the “Dateline: Prague” seminar and workshop in foreign correspondence held in cooperation with the newspaper Prognosis in Prague and its twin program “Dateline: Berlin” held in cooperation with the Freie Universität in Berlin.\nFor Internews Networks and as a charter fellow of the Knight International Press Fellowship, he was dispatched to make an assessment of the Minsk Mass Media Center in Belarus. He conducted a field analysis of post-Fox media in Mexico for Internews, a project funded by the Packard Foundation.\nHis guest lecturing datelines include San Francisco State University, the University of Nevada at Reno, the University of Oregon at Eugene, California State University at San Luis Obispo, American University in Washington, the Freie Universität in Berlin, and Misr University in Cairo on subjects from “The Myth of Objectivity” to “The Big Story Syndrome” to “Facts versus Truth” to “The Dangers of Post-Wall Germany.” As a guest expert he presented on the myth of objectivity and the importance of storytelling to a UNESCO freedom of expression conference at its Paris headquarters.\nA frequent speaker, Laufer’s topics and venues include the Democracy Radio Forum in Washington, DC where he tackled “Why Right-wing Rhetoric and Ranting Dominate American Talk Radio”, SENAC in São Paulo to discuss “Media and the Third Sector”, the RIAS Berlin Kommmission/Radio Television News Directors Association meeting in Berlin to detail “Founding a Talk Radio Station in Berlin”, and the World Affairs Councils in Portland and San Francisco to address the question: “Are the Germans Still Dangerous?”\nLaufer has written the talk radio chapter “Talk Nation: Turn Down Your Radio” in the radio text Radio Cultures (edited by Boston College Communication Department professor Michael Keith) and the talk radio chapter “Hier spricht Berlin: Newstalk 93.6” in the radio text Vox Populi: Hörerinnen und Hörer Haben das Wort, published by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung in Bonn.\nPeter Laufer participates in symposia such as the Sonoma State University Internet conference where he addressed “Talk Radio as a False Community,” the Radio-Television News Directors 48th Annual International Conference in Miami where his theme was “On the Beach, by Force or Choice.” He spoke to the National Association of International Educators about “The Media as International Affairs Educator” and considered “Talk Radio Democracy” for the Peace and Justice Center of Marin County in California. At a University of California Graduate School of Journalism conference his criticized “The Media’s Coverage of the 1989 Earthquake”.\nKnight International Press Fellowship charter fellow, assigned to Minsk, Belarus, 1994\nKonrad Adenauer Foundation, journalists exchange program to Germany,\nHeadlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, affiliate artist (writer),\nThe Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship, research and study in Germany,\nInternational Press Institute, journalist exchange program for study\nin Japan, 1983\nJohn J. McCloy Fellowship, American Council on Germany, research in\nGermany, 1982\nThe California Council for the Humanities awarded The Calexico Project a radio production grant as part of its California Voices program 2008.\nMission Rejected was awarded a Koerber Foundation (Hamburg) Transatlantic Idea prize in the foundations “Transitions in Life” competition 2006.\nWetback Nation was acknowledged with Gustavas Myers Book Awards honorable mention from the Gustavas Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights at Simmons College, Boston 2005\nRIAS Berlin Commission/ Radio Television News Directors Foundation\nGerman/American Production Grant for TV documentary: “Exodus to Berlin,” 2000, which won the David Wolper Best Documentary Prize from the Wine Country Film Festival in California, 2001\nNational Parenting Publications Awards\nGold Award for the book “Made in Mexico” (National Geographic, 2000), also cited on the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2001 list, compiled by a joint committee of the Children’s Book Council and the National Council for the Social Studies\nGerman/American Production Grant for radio documentary: “Border Wars” 1994\nThe Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Goldsmith Research Grant: talk radio book 1993\nThe Society of American Travel Writers Foundation\nLowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition First Runner-up travel book category 1992\nThe Society for Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter\nExcellence in Journalism Award 1991\nCo-anchor and reporter for KCBS, San Francisco earthquake coverage that won the Peabody Award, the Radio-Television News Directors Association, Edward R. Murrow Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award 1990\nEdward R. Murrow Award from the B’nai B’rith for national radio talk show (NBC network) on AIDS 1987\nNational Headliner Award for documentary on the war in Nicaragua\nSigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award, public service in radio journalism and National Headliner Award for the documentary “Cocaine Hunger” 1986\nB’nai B’rith Edward R. Murrow Award for the documentary on immigration reform, “Promise of Liberty,” also cited by the Ohio State Awards 1986\nGeorge Polk Award from Long Island University for reporting a documentary on Americans imprisoned overseas, “Nightmare Abroad,” which was also cited by the New York State and American Bar Associations 1985\nAmerican Academy of Family Physicians Award for documentary, “AIDS: The Killer Epidemic Continues”\nInternational Reading Association Award for documentary on illiteracy “A Loss for Words,” which was also cited by the Robert F. Kennedy Awards\nThe Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi, Northern California Chapter Outstanding Young Journalist Award\nAmerican Academy of Family Physicians Award for documentary, “AIDS: The Facts and the Fears” 1984\nWorld Hunger Media Award for the 1984 documentary “Hunger in America,” which was also cited by the American Women in Radio and Television, the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation and received the Distinguished Urban Journalism Award from the National Urban Coalition 1984\n“Healing the Wounds,” a documentary on post- war problems suffered by Vietnam veterans, won an Edward R. Murrow Award from the B’nai B’rth and a Gabriel Award from the Catholic Association for Broadcasters 1984","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line39238"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8263484239578247,"wiki_prob":0.8263484239578247,"text":"Raven's Makeover Transformed the Beloved Superhero Into a Fashionable Young Teen\nMeet the \"Spider-Man: Far From Home\" Actor Pushing for Positive Muslim Representation\nVanessa and Laura Marano Open Up About Working on \"Saving Zoe\" Together\nClaire Dodson\nActor Nico Tortorella Says Dressing Up Helped Them Learn to Express Their Gender Identity\nMarvel's Runaways’ Lyrica Okano Talks Hulu’s New Series and Diversity for Superheroes\n\"This is how all Asian characters and all actors of any race, color, gender should be portrayed.\"\nMagdalena Niziol\nAt one point in time, most teenagers believe that their parents are keeping secrets from them. But for the kids on Marvel’s Runaways, it turns out that their moms and dads have something a bit more sinister up their sleeve than just old embarrassing college pics or a surprise birthday gift.\nThe teens at the center of the new Hulu show, an adaption of the wildly popular comic book series with the same name, accidentally discover what really happens during their parents’ charity organization meeting: some good ol’ human sacrifice. While the kids are unsure about all the pieces to their guardians’ mysterious (and deadly) shenanigans, they know it’s not good.\nLyrica Okano plays Nico Minoru on the superhero television show, the de facto goth kid in the group. The death of her older sister Amy a few years prior is also what seemingly caused a rift within the group, who had been distant from one another up until meeting up for the first time in a while during the show’s pilot. And while she may come off as the most stand-offish of the six teens, she arguably functions as the heart of the gaggle. Nico struggles with both feeling like she’s living in the shadow of her beloved sibling and missing her at a level that the others simply cannot comprehend. Dabbling in Wicca, Nico practices a ritual at the beach (yes, very The Craft) during the first episode in which she hopes to be able to make some sort of contact with Amy, eventually breaking down into a puddle of tears and frustration as the grief of losing her sisters washes over her.\nLyrica didn’t know the exact details about the role when she found out about the audition, being that Marvel is extremely secretive about things like casting and filming locations. She was told that the role was originally labeled as “Nancy,” but she did know that it was for a Japanese-American superhero. A quick Google search later led her to deduce that it was likely for the character Nico since there’s still (unfortunately) so few heroes that fit this description. And while she wasn’t familiar with the Runaways comics per se, she’s been a longtime fan of the Marvel movies including Iron Man and decided to pick up a copy pre-audition.\n“I felt like this weird electric charge of positivity or whatever when I went into the room for Marvel. And this usually doesn't happen because I always get really nervous when I audition,” Lyrica told Teen Vogue. “But for some reason, with this part, I felt like I knew who Nico was and I knew what I wanted to do with her. And I had choices that I wanted to make for her already.”\nAnd Nico is such a breath of fresh air when it comes to the typical portrayal of Asian-American characters on the screen. She’s the goth kid with killer, dark eye makeup. When we typically think of witches in pop culture, there’s an overwhelming number of white ones: Sabrina, the Charmed sisters, Hermione. Nico expands what our idea of the archetype, something that’s sure to cast a spell over Asian-American audiences. On top of that, Nico defies her parents, subverting the stereotype of the obedient, studious Asian-American high schooler.\n“For Nico, I just feel like I'm on cloud nine because I get to play her. She's so complicated and this is how all Asian characters and all actors of any race, color, gender should be portrayed as,” Lyrica said. “This has been such a wonderful opportunity to play such a multi-dimensional character. Underneath the façade of being goth and being isolated away from her parents and her friends, she's really, really vulnerable inside, too. And I don't know, I think this is huge for TV to see a character like Nico who can be both things at once.”\nIn fact, the character reminded Lyrica of her best friend in middle school who was a Japanese-American Wiccan who would carry around her Book of Shadows everywhere she went. The friend was a big inspiration for Lyrica, who talked to her constantly. She even sent the actress packages of Wicca books and her very own Book of Shadows when she was out in Los Angeles filming.\nLyrica was also particularly excited to work with showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage as they translated the Marvel comic onto the small screen. Josh is no stranger to crafting interpersonal drama between teens and their parents, having helmed classics in the genre including The O.C. and Gossip Girl. And while this technically is a show about teens that have superpowers, it’s also very much so one about budding adolescence and growing up, realizing that your parents aren’t as perfect as you might have thought as a kid. While it’s easy to write the parents off in the show as evil from just hearing the premise, Josh and Stephanie have helped make it more about evaluating their decisions and the sort of gray area that they navigate.\nSo what happens when Nico and the rest of her friends finally confront the very people that raised them? You’ll have to watch to the end of the season to find out. However, the experience enough has really bonded the squad of young actors. Clearly, banding together to take a fight to your parents is quite the team building exercise. And Lyrica and her castmates are just as close in real life too.\n“I didn't know any of them beforehand at all,” Lyrica said. “[But] I just felt like this was the right group of people to be working on this with. And we all somehow just got along from the very start. Then we've always just stayed in contact ever since. I'm best friends with all of them right now.”\nSeems like the best case scenario when your parents turn out to be a little evil.\nRelated: Why It’s So Important That Comics Are Finally Including More Girls\nKeywordsMarvelmarvel's runawayslyrica okano\nAOC's Bronx Pride Speech Featured Copious Air Horns","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1230629"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6612172722816467,"wiki_prob":0.33878272771835327,"text":"Bride shamed for $165G wedding paid for by parents: 'I lost my job a month after getting engaged'\nFox News Flash top headlines for July 10\nFox News Flash top headlines for July 10 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com\nA bride is getting dragged for having an elaborate wedding that set her back a whopping $165,000. Though the outrage didn’t stem from the bride’s expensive tastes — it was from who was footing the bill.\nEmily, 29, from Phoenix, Ariz., shared details of her wedding on Refinery29’s article “10 Women Share Who Paid For What at Their Wedding.”\nEmily, who did not give a last name, shared that her wedding cost $165k — including marriage prep, church-related costs, ceremony and reception with fireworks.\nThough the expense was massive, those who commented on Emily’s story were outraged by the fact that Emily did not pay for any of it.\nBRIDE SLAMS COUSIN FOR REFUSING REQUEST TO BE BRIDESMAID: &apos;YOU’RE TOO FAT TO BE A BRIDESMAID ANYWAY&apos;\n“My parents paid for basically everything. I paid for a few little &apos;extras,&apos; like my bridesmaids&apos; gifts, but I lost my job a month after getting engaged, so I didn’t have an income for about half of the time I was wedding planning. I would have liked to contribute more, but it just wasn’t in the cards, and my parents were very generous,” she wrote in Refinery29’s questionnaire.\nEmily added that her husband paid for the engagement ring and engagement trip to Canada, as well as his groom expenses, and his parents paid for the rehearsal dinner and gave the couple $5,000 toward the honeymoon.\nMy husband and I are aggressively paying back his six-figure student debt, so a lavish 200+ person wedding would not have been in the cards.\n— Emily\nThe 29-year-old goes on to explain that her parents&apos; generosity was just “understood.”\n\"It was just always understood that my parents would be paying, but I still often felt guilty about how much everything cost. But my parents, my husband, and I all agreed very early on that we wanted a big, fun wedding, and that’s just expensive,” she wrote.\n“Since I wasn’t working, I would have had to forgo a lot of that stuff in the moment, and they made it possible for me to just enjoy it and not worry about the cost,” she continued, adding that she is “incredibly grateful” to her parents.\nEmily went on to explain the couple would have had a wedding that looked “a lot different” if her parents didn’t pitch in.\n“My husband and I are aggressively paying back his six-figure student debt, so a lavish 200+ person wedding would not have been in the cards,” she wrote.\nThough the expense was massive, those who commented on Emily’s story were outraged by the fact that Emily did not pay for any of her wedding. (iStock)\nThough Emily claimed she doesn’t think anyone “should go into debt” for a wedding, she is happy she was able to have the wedding of her dreams.\nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER\n“It’s the marriage that is important, not the wedding. (I know, I know, easy for me to say, I got both.)\" Emily wrote.\nThose on Refinery29’s Facebook page were quick to respond, shaming the bride’s budget.\n“That’s just immature and irresponsible. Wow,” one person wrote.\n“You can have an amazing wedding day for less than $165k and it is definitely not a parent’s job to pay for a wedding,” another person commented.\n“My parents paid for my wedding. About $30k 20 years ago. They saved my whole life to do this for me. It was such a blessing! I will do the same for my daughter. $165k however is over the top. And I would never ask for that, and I’m raising my daughter to now be outlandish too!” one person shared.\nThose on Refinery29’s Facebook page were quick to respond, shaming the bride’s budget. (iStock)\n“’My husband and I are aggressively paying back his six-figure student debt, so a lavish 200+ person wedding would not have been in the cards... ...If you can’t afford a big party, don’t have one.’ Girl. YOU couldn&apos;t afford it, your parents could,” another person wrote, referencing the bride’s husband’s debt.\n“Geez, you could buy a house (or at least an awesome down payment) for that!” one shared.\n“That&apos;s a waste of money, your parents could use that money for retirement. Spoiled much,” another wrote.\nNot everyone was against the bride, though.\n“Why shame someone else on what they spent on their wedding? If her parents were happy to pay for it, that’s their business,” a commenter wrote.\n“I’m tryna have coins like this. I’d love to be able to really afford my son’s wedding. Or honeymoon. It’s goals for me,” one commented.\n“This a good way to distribute wealth. ~ If the parents of the bride can afford it, more power to them. this wedding kept a number of people employed. It is a whole lot better than handing it out,” another in favor of the bride wrote.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1585832"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6892427802085876,"wiki_prob":0.31075721979141235,"text":"Search and explore Duke Law's wide variety of courses that comprise near every area of legal theory and practice. Contact the Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs to confirm whether a course satisfies a graduation requirement in any particular semester.\nNOTE: Course offerings change. 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Emphasis will be placed on exploring contemporary constitutional issues and other issues involving fundamental principles of American law. Much of the focus will be on recent, and controversial, Supreme Court cases dealing with property law rights, affirmative action, the death penalty, punitive damages, the commerce clause, federalism, and separation of church and state. Special focus will also be given to developing a working understanding of the American litigation system, including reliance on pre-trial discovery, experts, and the jury system.\nInternational Arbitration 2\nJD elective\nLLM-ICL (JD) elective\nIntlLLM/SJD/EXC elective\nIn today's global economy, parties to cross-border commercial transactions increasingly choose to resolve their disputes through arbitration. This course introduces students to the law and practice of international arbitration. Among other things, the course will consider the formation and enforcement of arbitration agreements; the conduct of arbitral proceedings; the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards; the international conventions, national laws, and institutional arbitration rules that govern the arbitral process and the enforcement of arbitration agreements and awards; the strategic issues that arise in the course of international arbitration proceedings; and the practical benefits (and disadvantages) of arbitration.\nComparative Law 3\nLLM-ICL (JD) required\nThis course has two aims. On a practical level, we will learn about the differences and similarities, both real and perceived, between different legal orders. We will focus on legal orders within the \"civil\" and \"common\" law and try to find out in which way it makes sense to conceive of them as \"the Western Legal Tradition\". On a theoretical level, we will try to understand what it means to \"compare\", and how it can help us both to understand other legal systems as well as our own.\nConflict of Laws 3\nA study of the special problems that arise when a case is connected with more than one state or nation. Topics include the applicable law (choice of law), personal jurisdiction, and the recognition and effect of foreign judgments.\nUse of Force: Cyber, Drones, Hostage Rescues, Piracy, and more 2\nJD SRWP, option\nPIPS elective\nResearch paper option, 25+ pages\nResearch and/or analytical paper(s), 20+ pages\nOral presentation\nThis fall-only seminar is designed to introduce students with limited familiarity with international law to principles involved in the use of force during periods of putative peace. It will explore what circumstances constitute an “act of war” in variety of situations, to include cyberspace.\nThe course will analyze when and how force may be used in self-defense and will survey topics such as humanitarian intervention, hostage rescue, air defense identification zones, freedom of navigation operations, and the legal aspects of international counter-piracy and counterterrorism operations (including drone strikes). Efforts to limit the use of force in outer space as well as the implications of nuclear weapons and the emergence of autonomous weaponry will be explored.\nCase studies and current news events will be examined in conjunction with the covered issues. In addition, students will get an overview of the practical issues associated with the use of force, to include the weaponry, planning, and military techniques involved.\nThere is no examination, but a 20-page paper (constituting 65% of the grade) is required on a topic chosen by the student and approved by the instructor. With instructor approval, the course paper may fulfill the Substantial Research and Writing Project or other writing requirements. provided it is at least 30 pages in length. The remainder of the grade (35%) is based on the quality and frequency of class participation, and may require the preparation of short, written products.\nInternational Human Rights 2\nIn-class exercise\nThis course critically assesses the international and domestic laws, institutions, and legal and political theories that relate to protecting the fundamental liberties of all human beings. The course emphasizes (1) specific \"hot button\" topics within international human rights law, such as extraordinary renditions, hate speech, and lesbian and gay rights); (2) the judicial, legislative, and executive bodies that interpret and implement human rights; and (3) the public and private actors who commit rights violations and who seek redress for individuals whose rights have been violated. Course requirements include a final exam, a negotiation exercise, and student participation in class discussions.\nForeign Relations Law 3\nThis course examines the constitutional and statutory doctrines regulating the conduct of American foreign relations. Topics include the distribution of foreign relations powers between the three branches of the federal government, the status of international law in U.S. courts, the scope of the treaty power, the validity of executive agreements, the pre-emption of state foreign relations activities, the power to declare and conduct war, and the political question and other doctrines regulating judicial review in foreign relations cases. Where relevant, we will focus on current events, such as military detention of alleged terrorists, human rights litigation against multinational corporations, the prosecution of piracy, and controversies over immigration enforcement.\nInternational Law 3\nThis course offers a general introduction to the international legal system and provides a foundation for more specialized courses. Topics covered include the sources, actors and institutions of international law; the application of international law by U.S. courts; adjudication by international tribunals; the extraterritorial application of domestic law; and an introduction to specific topics, such as human rights, international criminal law, international trade and investment, environmental protection, and the use of force.\nComparative Constitutional Law 2\nJD SRWP with add-on credit\nResearch and/or analytical paper(s), 10-15 pages\nThis course explores constitutional law from different parts of the world. The course will start by examining the goals, methods, and practical relevance of comparative constitutional analysis. We will then turn to a comparative analysis of constitutional structures, including differing approaches to separation of powers, judicial review, and federalism. The remainder of the course will examine comparative approaches to the constitutional protection of human rights.\nComparative Constitutional Law, Writing 1\nJD SRWP\nResearch paper, 25+ pages\nStudents enrolled in Law318 Comparative Constitutional Law may choose to write a 25-30 page research paper, in lieu of the 10-12 page paper, in order to satisfy the JD Substantial Research and Writing Project degree requirement. Students choosing this option should enroll in Law 318W.\nInternational Debt Finance (and Sovereign Debt Crises) 2\nIntlLLM Business Cert\nThis course uses the lens of international debt finance to provide students with an advanced course in securities law, corporate law, and contract law. In the area of international debt finance, particular attention will be paid to debt issuances by sovereign nations. Given that much of this market is centered in New York and London, the focus of the course will be on U.S. and English law contracts and securities regulatory systems (including stock exchange listing regimes). Particular attention will be paid to how lawyers and their clients (both the sovereigns and the investment bankers) think about how to structure their contracts and what disclosures to make to the public regarding these contracts. Finally, attention will also be paid to the question of how domestic law private law principles can be utilized to solve or at least ameliorate the problem of third world debt (with particular reference to Sub Saharan debt).\nNote: Students may enroll in 328P for an opportunity to earn an additional credit.\nInternational Debt Finance II 2\nGroup project(s)\nPractical exercises\nThis course is offered to students who have previously taken law 328 International Debt Finance and Sovereign Debt Crises.\nEast Asian Law: Business & Finance Focus 2\nThis is a reading seminar, which will cover the East Asian law relating to the economic development, business practices, and financial regulation, exclusively focusing on Japan, Korea, and China. The legal system and economic development of these three countries have several features in common, if compared to the Western legal tradition, but the different history, culture, and politics of each country made its legal system distinctive to each other. This course aims to examine both these commonalities and distinctions, and thereby enhance our understanding of these three countries today. We will only cover the laws and practices relating to the corporate business and financial regulation, most of which have been inherited from the West. Such legal system has very little to do with the East Asian legal tradition. In most cases, it was previously based on the European Civil Law system, and recently more and more influenced by the Anglo-American laws and regulations. In this regard, the notions that have been often employed to explain the East Asian distinctions, such as Asian value, Confucianism, and traditional culture, will be rarely used or emphasized in this class. Rather, this course intends to examine how these three countries have struggled to incorporate the Western legal system—with or without its underlying assumptions and background social environments—into their society in a surprisingly limited time. To be sure, such transplant has not always been successful, and we can learn several lessons both from success and failure.\nU.S. Immigration and Nationality Law 2\nThis course will provide an overview of selected law and policy topics in immigration law. It will consider the following questions: what criteria are used in determining who can come to the United States as an immigrant or visitor? When and why may noncitizens be forced to leave? How should choices about admission and removal be implemented? It will focus on current topics in immigration enforcement, including the “sanctuary” movement, border enforcement, immigration detention, family separation, and the merger of criminal and immigration enforcement. Discussion will be based on a variety of sources, including statutes, caselaw, administrative enforcement guidance, social science research, and legal scholarship. Assessment will be based on written papers and class participation.\nInternational Taxation 3\nThe course explores both the existing tax rules and the widespread policy concerns under discussion in the US and globally about current international tax law.\nInternational Trade Law 3\nIntlLLM Environ Cert\nInternational trade and the World Trade Organization attract a lot of attention and debate. Why do almost all economists say that liberalizing trade flows is a good thing? Why do politicians – even ones who purportedly support free markets – often rail against import competition and \"unfair trade\"? How does trade liberalization interact with other public policy choices such as protecting the environment or promoting the economic development of poor countries? In this course, we will examine why the WTO exists, how it developed from the GATT and how it fits in the international economic order (Part I). The course will offer you an in-depth, practical knowledge of substantive WTO law drawing heavily on case law. It will address the basic principles of trade in goods and trade in services, as well as some of the more specialized WTO agreements on, for example on trade remedies (subsidies, anti-dumping and safeguards). From a more procedural side, the course will pay close attention to the unique WTO mechanism for the solution of global trade disputes, with special reference again to recent and ongoing cases (Part II). It will conclude by examining U.S. trade law – particularly the widely-used trade remedies laws – and assessing not only the practice of international trade law in the United States, but also whether these laws actually achieve their supposed policy objectives (Part III). Although this course will necessarily address key principles and theories undergirding the international trade law system, one of its driving themes will be the actual practice of this discipline in the United States and at the WTO. The course will be graded based on class participation and an open-book final exam.\nInternational Intellectual Property 3\nLLM-LE (JD) elective\nLLMLE (1 yr) elective\nIntllLLM IP Cert\nThis course surveys international intellectual property law as reconfigured by the new universal standards of protection embodied in the TRIPS Agreement (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), which is a component of the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization of 1994. Although some contextual materials on trade policy will be read, the course will not focus on general principles of international trade law. Rather, it will focus on the legal and economic implications of the new international intellectual property standards in the light of prior Conventions, with particular regard to such topics as patents; copyrights and related rights (including software, databases, sound recordings); trademarks; integrated circuit designs; trade secrets; and industrial designs. The new WIPO treaties (Dec. 1996) governing copyright law in cyberspace will also be covered. Other topics will include the interface with antitrust law; the enforcement provisions (i.e., civil and criminal due process); dispute resolution (including all the new WTO decisions on intellectual property); and the overall implications for global competition between developed and developing countries in an integrated world market.\nCombatants, Brigands, Rebels, and States: The Law of Transnational Terrorism 3\nSince September 11, 2001, transnational terrorism has been treated as both crime and war. Accordingly, the U.S. and other states have captured and held members of Al Qaeda and associated forces as law-of-war detainees, targeted such individuals in major military operations and surgical strikes on the territories of (certain) third-party states, and have prosecuted suspected members of those groups, for “terrorism” offenses and for “war crimes,” in civilian courts and military tribunals. This course will explore the reasons for this novel development and consider its ramifications for public international law, the law of war, and U.S. constitutional law.\nThe reasons for the peculiar legal posture of transnational terrorism are best understood in the context of broader trends in the history of international law. In 1880, a leading international law treatise stated as axiomatic that “[p]rima facie, a state is responsible for all acts . . . within its territory by which another state is injuriously affected.” By 2007, the International Court of Justice, ruling on states’ duties under the Genocide Convention, stressed that the Court did not “purport to find whether . . . there is a general obligation on states to prevent the commission . . . of acts contrary to . . . norms of general international law.” The intervening century had witnessed a diminution in the recognition and enforcement of interstate duties and an increase in states’ acting directly on alien individuals in foreign territories. Those trends were reflected in claims to a “protective principle” of extraterritorial criminal jurisdiction over aliens in the nineteenth century, the addition of “targeted sanctions” against aliens abroad at the close of the twentieth century, and the emergence, most recently, of “targeted killing” of—or, more broadly, “armed conflict” against—private actors abroad in the twenty-first century.\nThe course will examine the implications of these developments for the interstate system itself, the law of war (in particular, the distinction between combatants and civilians that forms the core of the jus in bello), and the structures of the U.S. Constitution governing war, crime, and military jurisdiction.\nResearch Methods in International, Foreign and Comparative Law 1\nThis one-credit seminar in advanced legal research introduces students to specific sources and strategies for international, foreign, and comparative legal research. It covers key primary and secondary sources in both print and electronic formats, including freely available and subscription-based resources. The subjects examined include treaty law, the law of international organizations, European Union law, civil law and other foreign legal systems, as well as selected topics in international private law. The course emphasizes the research process, strategies, and evaluation of print and online sources in a changing information environment. This course is required for students enrolled in the J.D./LL.M. in Comparative and International Law and open to other students (2L and 3L) with the instructor's permission. The class will meet for eight 90-minute sessions. Grades will be based on in-class and take-home exercises, class participation, and a final research project.\nInternational Human Rights Clinic 5\nJD experiential\nPIPS experiential\nThe International Human Rights Clinic provides students with an opportunity to critically engage with human rights issues, strategies, tactics, institutions, and law in both domestic and international settings. Through the weekly seminar and fieldwork, students will develop practical tools for human rights advocacy—such as fact-finding, litigation, indicators, reporting, and messaging—that integrate inter-disciplinary methods and maximize the use of new technologies. Students will also develop core competencies related to managing trauma in human rights work, as well as the ethical and accountability challenges in human rights lawyering. Types of clinic projects include those that: apply a human rights framework to domestic issues; involve human rights advocacy abroad; engage with international institutions to advance human rights; and/or address human rights in U.S. foreign policy. Students work closely with local organizations, international NGOs, and U.N. human rights experts and bodies. Some travel will likely be involved. Student project teams will also meet at least once a week with the clinic instructors. Students work on clinic projects approximately 10-12 hours a week, for a minimum of 125 hours of clinical work during the semester. This course may not be dropped after the first class meeting.\nCivil Litigation in U.S. Federal Courts: Transnational Issues 2\nThis course analyzes civil suits in U.S. federal courts that raise cross-border, international and foreign legal issues. Specific topics covered include transnational jurisdiction, international forum selection, transborder choice of law, extraterritorial application of U.S. law, federal rules for service of process and discovery of evidence abroad, the special treatment of foreign governments as parties, and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.\nInternational Criminal Law 3\n\"An international crime,\" wrote eminent legal scholar George Schwarzenberger in 1950, \"presupposes the existence of an international criminal law. Such a branch of international law does not exist.\" This course will begin by probing the concept of international criminal law. What does it mean to say that certain conduct constitutes an \"international crime\"? What are the objectives of such a legal regime? We will then examine the law of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression, torture, \"terrorism\" offenses, and drug trafficking. Particular attention will be focused on the issue of jurisdiction over those offenses (and immunities to such jurisdiction), including the jurisdiction of domestic criminal courts, military tribunals (such as the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after World War II, and the current military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) and international criminal courts (such as the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court).\nClimate Change and the Law 2\nThis 2-credit seminar will examine global climate change and the range of actual and potential responses by legal institutions – primarily at the international treaty level and in the United States, with attention as well to the law in Europe, Australia, China, Brazil, and elsewhere.\nWe will compare alternative approaches that could be taken by the legal regime to address climate change: the choice of policy instrument (e.g., emissions taxes, allowance trading, technology R&D, prescriptive regulation, reducing deforestation, geoengineering, adaptation); the spatial scale (global, regional, national, local); the time scale (precautionary or adaptive, over decades or centuries); and key normative criteria for policy choice. We will also examine the actual legal measures that have been adopted so far to manage climate change: the international agreements such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992), its Kyoto Protocol (1997), and the results of follow-on meetings such as Copenhagen (2009), Cancun (2010), Durban (2011), Doha (2012), Warsaw (2013), and the Paris Agreement (2015); and the policies undertaken by the US, Europe, Australia, China, Brazil, and other key countries. In the US, we will study national (federal) and sub-national (state and local) policies, including: legislative proposals in the US Congress; the US Supreme Court's decisions in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), and Connecticut v. AEP (2011), addressing issues including standing to sue, statutory interpretation, delegation, administrative discretion, comparative institutional competence, and statutory preemption of common law; administrative regulation by US EPA under the current Clean Air Act; other federal laws such as the ESA and NEPA; state-level action by California, RGGI, and others; and common-law tort liability applied to climate change.\nQuestions we will discuss include: How effective and efficient are the policies being proposed and adopted? How do actions at the national and international levels affect each other (e.g. reinforcing or conflicting)? Can current institutions deal with a problem as enormous, complex, long-term, uncertain, and multi-faceted as climate change? What roles do changing scientific and economic understanding play in evolving legal responses? How do institutions and the public respond to potential but inchoate catastrophes? Will dealing with mega-problems necessitate or lead to basic changes in legal institutions? Should the US states be acting? Should you buy personal carbon offsets? Should the US have joined Kyoto, or have organized a parallel regime of major emitters, or have done something else? How should we appraise FCCC/Kyoto process so far? What will follow from the 2015 Paris Agreement, and how should it be implemented? What are the best ways to engage countries in international cooperation? What principles of international and intergenerational justice should guide efforts to control climate change? How should aggregate social well-being, and distributional equity for the world's poor, shape climate change policy? Should greenhouse gas emitters (countries, businesses, consumers) be legally liable or responsible to compensate victims for their losses? What is the best mix of mitigation (prevention) and adaptation (resilience)? How will climate policy be influenced by geopolitical changes such as the rise of China and India, and a shift from the US as lone superpower to a more multipolar world of several great powers? How will technological change affect law and policy, and how should the law seek to promote technological change? How should the legal system learn and remain adaptable to new information over time? What threats, challenges, and opportunities might climate change pose to legal and political systems?\nStudents must read the assigned materials in advance of class, and participate in class discussion. Each student will submit a short (5-6 page) paper, addressing the week's readings (and adding outside research), for three (3) of the 12 class sessions (not counting the first class session). A sign-up sheet will be circulated at the beginning of the course for students to select the 3 topics/class sessions for which they will submit these 3 short papers (so that these papers are spread across the semester). In addition, each student will write a longer research paper (15 pages), due at the end of the semester. Grades will be based on: 33% class participation, 33% the 3 short papers, and 33% the longer paper.\nThe Syllabus with weekly assignments, and the Resources (readings), will be posted on the Sakai site. (There is no textbook for this course; all readings will be posted on the Sakai site.)\nAccess to Medicines: Intellectual Property and Global Public Health 2\nFinal Exam, option\nThis 2 credit seminar examines the law and policy governing the availability, price and development of medicines worldwide, providing an overview of the international legal frameworks, national regulations, and innovation policies affecting access to existing medicines and the development of future treatments for global health. It encourages students to critically examine current international law governing pharmaceutical innovation and to engage in efforts to improve incentives for the pharmaceutical sector to better meet global health needs. This seminar is open to non-law graduate students depending on space and prior experience. Students may take a final take-home exam or write a 30 page paper.\nNote: An additional credit is available for students writing a 45 page paper. Students wishing to take this option should enroll in Law 527W Access to Medicines Writing Credit and must be enrolled no later than the 7th week of class.\nAccess to Medicines Writing Credit 1\nAdd on credit\nWhile enrolled in Law 527 Access to Medicines: Intellectual Property and Global Public Health, students have the option to take an additional 1 credit if they wish to write a 45 page paper. *LAW 527W MUST be added no later than 7th week of class.*\nComparative Corporate Law 2\nThis is a reading seminar, which will be conducted by interactive class discussions, which will utilize heavily comparative approaches. We will start with the U.S. style corporate law theories and practices, and then discuss on how they are actually applied or rejected throughout the world, particularly in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, and East Asia. The goal of this course is not merely to compare legal institutions of different legal origins. Rather, this course intends to consider several core problems with modern business association, and ask why and how different rules have been developed across the countries. There would be no clear answers, but such discussions will enhance our understanding of corporate law as well as capitalism in general. For these purpose, readings are carefully edited from three articles: roughly, one is associated with the United States, another with the Continental Europe (including the United Kingdom, if any), and the other with the East Asia (mostly Japan and Korea). Due to the time constraint, however, only a handful of core issues and selected papers will be assigned and discussed in class. More advanced theoretical issues on corporate governance will be covered by another corporate governance course. Instead, we will focus on controlling families and corporate group, different schemes of corporate monitoring (directors and institutional shareholders) across the countries, flexibility of corporate finance rules in terms of creditor protection, and finally, dramatic differences of takeover markets. Although the readings sometimes employed economic reasoning, the course requires only a basic understanding of microeconomics.\nInternational Human Rights Advocacy Seminar 2\nThis course critically assesses the field of international human rights advocacy, its institutions, strategies, and key actors. It explores how domestic, regional, and global human rights agendas are set; the ethical and accountability dilemmas that arise in human rights advocacy; and human rights advocacy concerning a range of actors, including governments, international institutions, and private actors. Drawing on case studies within the United States and abroad, the course will also examine core human rights advocacy tactics, such as fact-finding, litigation, standard-setting, indicators, and reporting, and consider the opportunities and challenges of new technologies in human rights advocacy. Evaluation will be based on class participation and a final paper.\nThis class is a pre-requisite or corequisite for Law 437 International Human Rights Clinic.\nInternational Law of Armed Conflict 3\nThis seminar will examine the international law of armed conflict, and it focuses on the jus in bello context. Students will consider the rationale for the key concepts of the law of armed conflict, and examine their practical application in various contexts. Case studies (contemporary and historical) will be examined in conjunction with the topics covered. This historical context for the law of armed conflict agreements, the status of conflicts, combatants, and civilians, targeting, rules of engagement, war crimes, are all included among the topics the class will address. Students will be encouraged to relate legal and interdisciplinary sources in order to better understand the multi-faceted interaction between law and war. There is no examination for this course but a 30-page paper (constituting 65% of the grade) is required on a topic chosen by the student and approved by the instructor. Students desiring to use the course paper to fulfill Upper-Level and possibly other writing requirements must obtain instructor. The remainder of the grade (35%) is based on the quality and frequency of class participation. Students should be aware that this course may include discussion and visual depictions (still and video) of armed conflict and other acts of extreme violence. The textbook for this course is Gary D. Solis's \"The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War\" (2nd ed., 2016). This course will only be offered in the spring.\nLaw and Economics of Chinese Capitalism 2\nChina’s transformation from a planned economy to the most capitalist country in the world, despite the absence of a well-functioning legal system, at least from the western perspective, raises numerous questions. This seminar endeavors to understand Chinese capitalism from the law and economics perspective. What is the constitutional and private legal foundation of Chinese capitalism? What is the role of law in Chinese society and business? What roles has law played in the different stages of China’s market transition and different sectors of Chinese economy?\nThis course takes an integrative, evolutionary, and comparative approach. Firstly, it integrates studies of black-letter law with observations of Chinese society. In particular, it explores whether and how black-letter law is implemented in reality through a series of case studies in property, corporate governance, constitutional review, etc. Secondly, it investigates the evolution of Chinese law to deepen our understanding on Chinese law and also shed light on its future direction in a rapidly shifting environment. Thirdly, it takes China as a comparative case study to enhance our understanding of law and market institutions.\nForeign Anti-Bribery Law 2\nCorruption is one of the major factors inhibiting economic development and undermining governmental legitimacy. Developed governments generally enforce rules prohibiting domestic corruption, but have historically been less concerned with (and even encouraging of) foreign government corruption. The United States passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977, which prohibits covered entities from bribing foreign officials, represents a major shift in this policy. In the last fifteen years, most other major economies and economic institutions (the IMF, the World Bank) have followed suit, although enforcement has been inconsistent. This seminar will examine the origins and evolution of this effort to regulate firms' relationships with foreign government officials. The seminar explores the history, economics, and policy behind anti-corruption efforts and the major challenges ahead. The seminar will engage academic articles that address the economic effects of corruption, the politics of anti-corruption enforcement, the variation in current anti-bribery agreements (the UN Convention Against Corruption and the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention), and influence of these rules on foreign investment and trade. The seminar is designed to be very participatory, with students leading discussion.\nStudents will be evaluated on a series of critique papers, leading a class discussion, and class participation. If students wish to write a paper on a topic related to the course materials, they may request the opportunity to complete an additional two credit independent study. A final paper cannot replace the critique papers.\nNOTE: An additional 2 credits are available for students who wish to write a longer paper in order to satisfy the JD or JD/LLM Upper-Level Writing Requirement. Students wishing to take this option should enroll in Law 558W Foreign Anti-Bribery Writing Credit. These credits will count towards the Independent Study Research Credit Limit (Rule 3-12) *LAW 558W MUST be added no later than 7thweek of class.*\nForeign Anti-Bribery Law, Independent Study 2\nWhile enrolled in Law 558 Foreign Anti-Bribery Law, students have the option to take 2 additional credits in order to satisfy the JD or JD/LLM Writing Requirement. These credits will count towards the Independent Study Research Credit Limit (Rule 3-12) *LAW 558W MUST be added no later than 7thweek of class.*\nCorporation and International Law: Past, Present, and Future 3\nFrom politics to popular culture, the corporation has become one of the most critical economic, political, and cultural institutions of the modern era. It has also been one of the most controversial. Are corporations people, societies, or even governments? Do they have rights? If so, what are their civic, social, ethical, and political responsibilities? If such questions are vexing within municipal and national contexts, they have been downright confounding for international legal regimes. Corporations have a global footprint and influence on our conceptions of sovereignty and governance, the functioning of international markets, the nature of interstate relations, wealth distribution, international development, and, at a basic level, the lives of people around the world. Yet modern international law has generally been understood to apply almost exclusively to states and to touch only lightly on corporate institutions, with profound consequences for everything from human rights to the global environment. This course will address these questions and many others, both through our own readings and discussions, as well as frequent guest speakers, panels, and workshops, in conjunction with a year-long Mellon Foundation funded Sawyer Seminar.\nA limited number of JD students may be permitted to use their paper to satisfy the JD upper-level writing requirement with prior approval of Professor Brewster.\nCorporation and International Law 3\nNational Security Law 3\nThis fall-only course is designed to provide students, particularly those with no background in the topic, with an overview of the American legal architecture for its security enterprise. The class will also examine related issues that arise \"in the news.\" It is aimed not only at students considering a career in government or the military, but also for those headed to private practice who appreciate that the U.S.’s $719 billion defense budget, along with $1.7 trillion in defense outlays worldwide impacts virtually all potential clients.\nThe course analyzes the Constitutional structure governing national security matters, and the role played by the three branches of government (with special emphasis on Presidential power). It will also examine governmental surveillance, the investigation and prosecution of national security cases, as well as First Amendment issues related to national security. In addition, domestic security issues (to include the domestic use of the armed forces), security-based travel restrictions, the role of the Centers for Disease Control, the military justice system, civil-military relations, and the impact of national security issues on business transactions will be reviewed.\nThere is no examination for this course, but a 30-page research paper (constituting 65% of the grade) is required on a topic chosen by the student and approved by the instructor. With instructor approval, the course paper may fulfill the Substantial Research and Writing Project or other writing requirements. The remainder of the grade (35%) is based on the quality and frequency of class participation, and may require short, written products.\nRisk Regulation in the US, Europe and Beyond 2\nThis seminar pursues an advanced, integrated analysis of the law, science and economics of societies' efforts to assess and manage risks of harm to human health, safety, environment and security. The course will examine the regulation of a wide array of risks, such as those from food, drugs, medical care, automobiles, air travel, drinking water, air pollution, energy, climate change, finance, terrorism, emerging technologies, and extreme catastrophic risks (students may propose to research other risks as well). Across these diverse contexts, the course will explore the components of regulatory analysis: risk assessment, risk management (including the debate over \"precaution\" versus benefit-cost analysis), risk evaluations by experts vs. the public, and risk-risk tradeoffs. And it will explore options for institutional design and structure, including the interrelated roles of legislative, executive, and judicial functions; delegation and oversight; fragmentation and integration; and international cooperation.\nThe course examines these issues through a comparative approach to risk regulation in the United States, Europe, and other countries. These comparisons address topics including the choice of policy instruments, the selection of which risks to regulate, \"precautionary\" regulation, \"better regulation\" initiatives, regulatory impact assessment and regulatory oversight bodies, and others. It examines the divergence, convergence, and exchange of ideas across regulatory systems; the causes of these patterns; the consequences of regulatory choices; and what regulatory systems can learn from each other.\nStudents' research papers in this seminar may analyze specific risk regulations; compare regulations, institutions or tools across countries; formulate and advocate original proposals to improve the regulatory state; or other related topics.\nDevelopment Finance 1\nThe Course will provide a general overview of persisting development challenges in Low and Middle-Income Countries, and the shared global responsibility under the Agenda 2030 to address them. It will focus on the roles of and partnerships between various actors of development finance, such as government agencies, multilateral development banks, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and impact investors; and familiarize students with development finance instruments, such as budget aid, grants, loans, and blended finance mechanisms. The Course will also deal with critical views on Aid Effectiveness, and issues of Policy Coherence for Development in developed countries.\nTwo 3-page essays: the first to be handed in on or before September 29, 2019, 11:59 p.m.; the second to be handed in on or before October 4, 2019, 11:59 p.m. (combined 30% of final grade)\nOne 10-page final paper to be handed in before December 13, 2019, 11:59 p.m. (40% of final grade);\nParticipation in class discussions (30% of final grade).\nFamily Creation: A Non-Judicial Perspective 2\nThis course will focus on the role of the legislative and administrative process in intercountry adoption, wherein a child born in one country becomes part of a family in another. Intercountry adoption raises complex issues of law and policy, including those relating to the definition of family, state sovereignty, immigration and citizenship, human rights, and ethics and transparency. Not all countries participating in intercountry adoption are subject to international treaties regarding adoption and related issues. In nations where the treaties are in effect, implementation through the legislative and administrative process has been characterized by conflict and delay. At the local level, regulation of intercountry adoption through oversight of adoption agencies and adoptive families, has been uneven.\nThis seminar aims to give students the opportunity to understand the policymaking process by closely examining what has transpired in the field of intercountry adoption in the last 15-20 years, and considering what the future may hold, both within the U.S. and abroad. Students will be expected to explore and understand the intersection between policy, treaty, and national law, as well as the interrelationship between the legislative and administrative processes. Because the seminar will examine not only the law within the U.S. but that in other countries, students will be able to explore the differences in culture and policy that exist nation to nation and consider how those differences affect an inherently international issue such as intercountry adoption.\nReadings will draw from the United States and international sources and will include existing and proposed legislation, existing and proposed administrative regulations, treaty provisions, court decisions interpreting these sources, academic and journalistic writings, and audiovisual materials.\nJD-LLM Readings: Current Issues in International and Comparative Law 1\nThis one-credit year-long readings class will explore current issues in international and comparative law. Drawing on the expertise of Duke Law School’s international and comparative law faculty, the course will examine topics such as international law and populism, human rights and economic inequalities, and the future of multilateral institutions. This evening class will meet off campus six times throughout the year and will be offered on a credit/no-credit basis. It is open to JD.LLM students only. Response papers will be required. This class will be taught by Profs. Curt Bradley, Brewster, Helfer, Huckerby, Michaels, and Reichman.\nComparative Constitutional Design 2\nRecent constitutional reconstructions in various parts of the world have called new attention to the problems of institutional design of political systems. In this course we will examine the design and implementation of national constitutions. In particular, we will address the following questions. What are the basic elements of constitutions? How do these elements differ across time, across region, and across regime type? What is the process by which states draft and implement constitutions? What models, theories, and writings have influenced the framers of constitutions?\nIn the first half of the course, we will review the historical roots of constitutions and investigate their provisions and formal characteristics. We will also discuss the circumstances surrounding the drafting of several exemplary or noteworthy constitutions, from various regions of the world. We will then examine particular features of institutional design in depth. These will include judicial review, presidentialism vs. parliamentarism, federalism, and the relationship of the national legal system to international law.\nInternational Business Law 3\nThe goal of this course is to provide students with a broad overview of how international rules shape global commerce. It will serve as a foundation in international law for students who never plan to take another international law course but also serve as a roadmap of the possibilities for international law study (and careers) for students who want to do more with international law. The course begins with private, cross-border contracting, then moves on to public international law agreements as well. We start with conflict of law rules as well as international treaties designed to coordinate contract law (CISG). From there we dive into the world of private international arbitration, including questions of when state should not permit international arbitration. The course will also covers torts claims, particularly under the Alien Torts Claims Act. We will examine the Bhopal litigation before moving on to some of the cases that have been brought against major oil companies by citizens of developing countries. At that point, the course pivots towards more public law issues that govern international transactions. We look at the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as well as the OCED Anti-bribery Convention. Finally, we turn to the major treaty regimes on economic subjects, including multilateral trade agreements and the network of bilateral investment treaties.\nGRADING: Grades are based on an exam.\nFinancial Law and Regulation: Practitioner's Perspective 2\nEvery aspect of financial law and regulation depends heavily on its daily practice. The environment changes all the time, and the scope of regulatory discretion, at every level of government (state, federal and international) is so large that successful practitioners must understand the current trends in regulatory thinking and practice. This course will allow students to dive deep into a different aspect of modern financial regulation every week by bringing in prominent alumni practitioners who are experts in specific areas of the field.\nThe course will be structured as follows:\nSix 4 hour components, focusing on specific aspects of financial practice according to the expertise of the teacher. Lee Reiners will hold an opening 2 hour class session.\nTaught by a series of expert practitioners, who will spend two days at the school. Classes will be held on Thursday and Friday.\nThe course is a seminar based on a compilation of readings provided during the course.\nStudents will be graded based upon class participation and six, 1,500-word, writing assignments pertaining to each of the six topics discussed by our guest lecturers.\nLikely topics to be covered include:\nDerivatives regulation\nFDIC resolution and the insurance fund\nVolcker Rule and Regulation W\nBank capital requirements\nClass will run from Feb 15th to April 5th and will consist of 13 class sessions that are 2 hours long. Seven class sessions will be on a Friday morning from 9-11am and 6 class sessions will be on Thursday afternoon from 4:00pm to 6:00pm.\nReligious Laws 2\nIntlLLM writing\nNot all law is state law. Among the most important, and challenging, non-state law we confront today are religious laws. Among those is first and foremost Islamic law, but also Jewish law, as well as the laws of other religions like Buddhism and Hinduism. The seminar will serve as an introduction to these laws and their role in the global legal world. We will learn about the nature and structure of different religious laws. We will discuss to what extent we can call such laws laws, and whether we can compare them to each other and to state law. We will ask to what extent state law is also religious. And we will discuss the role that religious law plays for state law today.\nThe Law of Slavery and Freedom: The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments 2\nThis course will explore the ways in which the institution of slavery interacted with the law in the United States and how the law defined freedom and the practices of freedom. The first two weeks will focus on slavery and the law. The rest of the course will focus on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. For added credit, students may satisfy the writing requirement by enrolling in Law 794W.\nLaw in Slavery & Freedom: From the Historical to the Contemporary/ Writing Credit\nStudents enrolled in Law 794 Law in Slavery & Freedom: From the Historical to the Contemporary, may earn an additional credit by writing an additional 25+ page paper, due at the end of the semester . *LAW 794W must be added no later than 7th week of class.*\nDuke Law Academics More\nRegistration Portal","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line724217"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5946882963180542,"wiki_prob":0.4053117036819458,"text":"100 Years of Amnesia\nPeace, war, WW1\nDarryl Accone\nIt was meant to be the war to end all wars, another of those grandiose and foolish human notions. World War I, often dubbed the Great War, formally ended at 11am on 11 November 1918, though fighting on the far eastern front, in Russia, dragged on.\nIf there was greatness in the slaughter of 20 million soldiers and civilians, it lay in the sheer magnitude of the dead, and in countless acts of nobility, sacrifice and bravery, most unrecorded, if not unremembered. “Never again” was the cry that rang through Europe and the world after the guns grew silent, the troops returned home, and peace began scrabbling its way up from the bloodied earth of Europe.\nYet, here we are again, a scant 100 years later, faced with many of the same preconditions for continental and global conflict that saw the war of 1914 begin. Populist demagogues hold the reins of government in powerful nations with key strategic interests in Europe and the Middle East, from Erdogan in Ankara to Putin in Moscow. The United States is even more isolationist than it was in 1914, but with a vital difference: its leader is very keen to be numbered among those US presidents who have waged war and won.\nSpoiling for a fight with new bogeyman China, Donald Trump embarks on a mutually destructive trade war, which is like the real thing without the shooting. Meanwhile, a series of skirmishes and little wars are waged by his administration against people who aren’t white Anglo-Saxon Protestants: migrants, non-capitalists, intellectuals, pacifists, conservationists, indeed anyone who lacks the radical reactionary beliefs of those enraptured by the so-called Rapture and the coming great war that will see Us (the Trumpites) beat Them (everyone else).\nBugles calling them from sad shires\n“Was it for this the clay grew tall?” asks Wilfred Owen in Futility, one of the greatest of the poems written by the war poets, that small group who fought, and mostly died, between 1914 and 1918. Owen was killed in action on 4 November 1918, exactly a week before the war ended. He was 25.\nIn a ceremony this month to mark the centenary of Owen’s death, some of his poems were read at his graveside and the bugle that he had sent home, taken from a fallen enemy soldier, was played. It called to mind a line from his Anthem for Doomed Youth: “And bugles calling for them from sad shires”—“them” being the doomed and fallen youth.\nThat poem begins, viscerally:\nWhat passing bells for those who die as cattle?\nOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.\nOnly the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle\nCan patter out their hasty orisons.\n(Orisons being an archaic and literary word for “prayers”.)\nBugles are summoned again in 1914, Rupert Brooke’s set of five short poems.\nBlow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!\nThere’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,\nBut, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.\nThese laid the world away; poured out the red\nSweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be\nOf work and joy, and that unhoped serene,\nThat men call age; and those who would have been,\nTheir sons, they gave, their immortality.\n(The first stanza from III. The Dead.)\nIs it all going to happen again?\nBrooke died at 28 in 1915, a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy, during the campaign against Istanbul. He is buried on the Greek island of Skyros. In my first edition of his 1914 & Other Poems there is a poignant inscription, in pencil, by a previous owner of the book. It reads: “RBA / August 1915 / Ypres”. Ypres was one of the bloodiest chapters of the war, and one can reasonably surmise that RBA died there and was remembered by a loved one or a friend in that pencilled memoriam.\nIt was a survivor of the carnage, Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who most conveyed the horror. In Aftermath, he writes:\nDo you remember the rats; and the stench\nOf corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench –\nAnd dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?\nDo you ever stop and ask, ‘Is it all going to happen again?’\nThree sections of the poem, italicised in the original, remind the hearer of what they dare not forget:\nHave you forgotten yet? …\nBut the past is just the same, – and War’s a bloody game …\nLook down, and swear by the slain of the War that you’ll never forget.\nLook up, and swear by the green of the Spring that you’ll never forget.\nAnd yet, we have forgotten, doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.\nDarryl Accone is books editor of the Mail & Guardian, a South African weekly newspaper, and director of the annual M&G Literary Festival.\nPreviousThe Political Roots of Falling Wage Growth\nNextAmbedkar’s Socialism: Some Reflections","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1034518"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.695107102394104,"wiki_prob":0.304892897605896,"text":"Home » Chapter 7: Cessation » 7.1 Health and other benefits of quitting\nSuggested citation: Greenhalgh, EM, Stillman, S, & Ford, C. 7.1 Health and other benefits of quitting. In Scollo, MM and Winstanley, MH [editors]. Tobacco in Australia: Facts and issues. Melbourne: Cancer Council Victoria; 2016. Available from http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-7-cessation/7-1-health-and-other-benefits-of-quitting\nA substantial body of research has established that quitting smoking has immediate as well as long-term health benefits for men and women of all ages, reducing risks for diseases caused by smoking and improving health in general.1-4\nThe strongest evidence for this comes from a landmark 50-year follow-up of 34,000 British male doctors first studied in 1951.5-7 Many participants quit as the evidence on smoking and health accumulated from the 1950s onwards, providing a natural experiment demonstrating the impact of number of years smoking on health and eventual mortality. The study showed just how hazardous tobacco is and estimated that almost two-thirds of persistent smokers were killed by their smoking. Among those who quit, the greatest benefit was seen in those who quit earliest in life.7 Quitting at age 50 halved the risk of smoking-related death, but cessation by age 30 avoided almost all of the excess risk. Stopping at age 60, 50, 40 or 30 resulted in gains, respectively, of about 3, 6, 9 or 10 years of life expectancy.7, 8 A number of more recent studies have supported these findings. A 2015 Australian study that explored tobacco smoking and all-cause mortality found that past smokers who quit prior to age 45 did not significantly differ in mortality from never-smokers. Mortality diminished gradually with increasing time since cessation. Current smokers lost an average decade of life compared with non-smokers.9 Similarly, Italian researchers found that the more cigarettes per day a person smokes, and the earlier the person quits, the more years of life gained. For men that smoked 10-19 cigarettes per day, cessation at age 30, 40, 50, or 60 led to a gain of about 7, 7, 6, or 5 years of life respectively, and for women, 5, 5, 4, or 3 years of life, respectively.10\nChanges in disease risk following cessation can be measured in different ways. A common measure is relative risk, as in the studies cited above, where the likelihood of developing or dying of disease in a population of former smokers is compared to either current or never smokers. At a population level, relative risk represents the fraction of disease attributable to smoking. However this measure is influenced by the rates of disease in the reference population, which should be taken into account when examining the influence of cessation on disease risk. Another measure is absolute risk, where the actual rates of disease in former smokers are compared to those of current or never smokers. Rates can be directly compared, or the excess rate of disease caused by smoking in smokers can be calculated as can the excess disease rate in former smokers. Another measure is cumulative risk of disease, which enables the cumulative risk for those who quit at different ages to be compared to that of continuing smokers.\nA more complete discussion of changes in risk following cessation can be found in a handbook published in 2007 by the International Agency for Research in Cancer.3 i In general, the risk of disease is lower in former smokers than in otherwise similar current smokers. Smoking results in both acute and chronic changes to the body and progression towards disease. Cessation results in reversal of acute changes and slowing of disease progression and provides the potential for damage reversal.3\nMany harmful effects of smoking are arrested or begin to decline as soon as a person stops smoking.1, 2 Many disease risks in former smokers continue to decrease with prolonged abstinence, compared to continued smoking. The risk for some health effects decreases more rapidly than for others, and improvement may continue for years after quitting. Some disease risks return to the level of never smokers after a long period of abstinence, but others do not, even after 20 years of abstinence.3\nThe extent of damage to health and risk for smoking-related disease is related to how much the person has smoked and for how long.3 For some health effects, for example inflammation of the lung, the reversal process is not yet well understood.3\nHowever, while some damage may be irreversible or less reversible, there are substantial benefits to be gained from quitting at any age, regardless of smoking history.1, 2 Benefits accrue to persons both with and without smoking-related disease.1\n7.1.1 Health problems that may be temporarily exacerbated by quitting\nWhile there is no question of the overall long-term benefits of cessation, quitting is associated with a number of bothersome short-term problems such as mouth ulcers and cold symptoms, weight gain and constipation.11\nMouth ulcers and colds\nThere is evidence that smokers and users of smokeless tobacco are less likely to develop aphthous stomatitis (common mouth ulcers). Individuals commonly report a short-term increase in mouth ulcers and cold symptoms on quitting smoking.12\nMany smokers appear to have an increase in depressed mood and associated negative affect as part of nicotine withdrawal, but for the majority of people who quit this is temporary.13, 14 A common belief is that smoking cessation will exacerbate mental illness.15 However, recent evidence suggests that the reverse is true; quitting smoking for at least six weeks actually improves mental health, mood, and quality of life, both among the general population and among people with a psychiatric disorder.16 (See Section 7.12)\nPeople with diabetes who quit smoking have a lower risk of death and cardiovascular events compared with those who continue to smoke.17 However, recent research has shown while quitting generally decreased the risk of diabetes overall, smoking cessation is associated with an increased risk and deterioration in blood glucose control in the first 2-3 years of abstinence.18, 19 A recent review similarly found that cessation can cause weight gain and can be associated with diabetes or obesity onset.20 Therefore, it is important that quit attempts are accompanied by preparation, extra care, and careful monitoring to keep the person's blood glucose well controlled during this time.18, 21\n7.1.2 Quitting and weight gain\nWhile smoking cessation usually results in some level of weight gain, there is disagreement about the extent and how long it lasts.\nSmokers' average weight is about 3 to 4 kg less than that of non-smokers.14, 22 Smoking appears to attenuate weight gain over time, in part due to increasing metabolic rate.22, 23 The difference in weight between smokers and non-smokers is more marked in older long-term smokers while the average weight of younger smokers is similar.23-26 The weight difference, however, is further complicated by the finding that despite their lower weight and body mass index (BMI), smokers have a greater waist-to-hip ratio than non-smokers. Increased waist circumference is a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease than BMI.27\nWhen smokers quit, the majority experience some weight gain.1 Estimates of weight gain associated with cessation vary depending on the sample, study design and follow-up period.28 Most excess weight gain occurs in the first year after cessation, after which the rate of weight gain slows.22, 24, 29-33 One study found that increase in body weight may continue for longer.34 Estimates of the mean weight gain in people continuously abstinent for a year are about 5 to 6 kg.30-33 Results from a 2015 meta-analysis showed that on average, quitters gained 4.1 kg and continuing smokers gained 1.47 kg over an average of 5.15 years follow-up.35 Individual experience of weight change after quitting is quite broad, ranging from weight loss to a minority gaining over 10 kg.24, 31, 33, 36-39 Increase in waist circumference per kilogram gained is smaller in people who quit than in continuing smokers, indicating that recent ex-smokers gain less visceral fat.37, 40\nLimited research suggests that some of the weight gained during the first few years after quitting may be lost with continued abstinence,41, 42 however more research is needed to resolve this issue.43 Large cross-sectional studies show that long-term former smokers have a mean waist-to-hip ratio and a mean BMI similar to or approaching that of people who have never smoked.27, 36, 39, 44 Research in New Zealand that followed a cohort of people from age 15 to 38 concluded that on average, quitters do not experience greater weight gain than never-smokers.45\nReasons for the association between smoking cessation and weight gain are not fully understood. Predictors of weight gain include younger age, lower socio-economic status and heavier smoking, with some influence of underlying genetic factors.29 Weight gain after smoking cessation is related to a transient increase in food intake,46 changes in metabolic rate,47 and minimal physical activity.48, 49 There is some evidence that smoking and obesity are independently associated with specific food cravings and mood states.50 Smokers who have a higher BMI also experience more weight gain after quitting.51, 52 A person's gender may also influence post-cessation weight gain. One study found that among light smokers, men gained more weight on average than women one year after quitting, while the opposite was observed among heavy smokers. Young women who were heavy smokers had the highest risk of weight gain after quitting.53\nThe health benefits of smoking cessation far outweigh the health risk from extra body weight, unless the weight gain is extraordinarily large.1 Even in cases of significant post-cessation weight gain and/or high prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension, sustained tobacco abstinence appears to substantially reduce cardiovascular risk.54, 55 The risk of death is smaller in overweight or obese ex-smokers than in normal-weight smokers.56 One study concluded that cessation related weight gain may actually be beneficial, as it is associated with increased muscle mass, muscle strength, and bone density.57 Nonetheless, fear of weight gain is a significant factor in discouraging quitting and provoking relapse in smokers.29, 58-66\n(See Chapter 3, Section 3.29 for further information on the health effects of smoking in conjunction with and compared with those associated with obesity, and Section 7.8.3 for further information on managing weight gain.)\n7.1.3 Immediate health effects of quitting\nUpon cessation, the nicotine and carbon monoxide levels in the body decline rapidly. Nicotine levels drop to very low levels within a few hours, and the main metabolites of nicotine are largely eliminated within a week.1, 3, 67 After 24 hours the level of carbon monoxide in the blood has decreased substantially.1 After four weeks small airway function improves, with further improvements after six months.68 After two months, improvements can be seen in blood viscosity, blood flow to the limbs and blood levels of high-density cholesterol.1, 69, 70 Within six months the immune system improves greatly. Within a few months the cilia in the lungs and airways improve at sweeping mucus and debris from the lungs (as long as irreversible damage has not taken place).71 Lung function improves and the presence and severity of respiratory symptoms reduces.11 Symptoms of chronic bronchitis, such as chronic cough, mucus production and wheeze, decrease rapidly, and lung function in asthmatic patients improves within a few months after stopping smoking.3, 72, 73 Rates of respiratory infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia also decrease, compared to continued smoking.1\n7.1.4 Short to medium-term reductions in health risks following quitting\n7.1.4.1 Problems during pregnancy\nIt is extremely dangerous for a woman to smoke during pregnancy. (Refer to Chapter 3, Section 3.7 for a more detailed discussion of health effects, and Section 7.11 for a more detailed discussion of interventions aimed at pregnant women and their partners.) The US Surgeon General has stated that ‘smoking is probably the most important modifiable cause of poor pregnancy outcome among women in the United States'.1 Stopping smoking before or during pregnancy is important and has benefits for both the baby and the mother.74 Encouraging women to quit before they become pregnant or early in pregnancy is important because the critical period may be quite early.23\nThere is limited evidence that reducing consumption to fewer than eight cigarettes per day can improve birthweight75 and reduce preterm birth.76 However, complete abstinence is the only proven way to maximise health benefits. Women who stop smoking either before becoming pregnant or in the first three to four months of pregnancy have infants with a similar birthweight to those infants born to women who have never smoked.1, 77 Women who stop smoking any time up to the 30th week of pregnancy have infants with higher birthweights than those who smoke throughout pregnancy. Women who quit smoking before or during pregnancy reduce their risk of pregnancy complications, including preterm premature rupture of membranes and preterm delivery (birth at less than 37 weeks gestation).1, 23 Smoking cessation reduces the risk of infant death.78\n7.1.4.2 Diseases for which the risk quickly declines\nSmoking cessation reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and death for male and female smokers of all ages with or without existing heart disease.4 One study found that smoking cessation is beneficial for people even after the age of 65 in reducing the excess risk of cardiovascular events and mortality.79 There are immediate and long-term benefits of cessation.80 After one year the increased risk halves and after about 151, 81 to 2082 years the rate is similar to that of a non-smoker for most former smokers. However, one study found that these cardiovascular benefits did not extend to former heavy smokers who smoked more than 3.2 packs per day, although they did have lower risk of death relative to current smokers.81 Quitting helps to improve peripheral vascular tone83 and to prevent atherosclerosis (the narrowing and hardening of the arteries due to build-up of plaque on the artery walls) advancing to heart disease and stroke.2, 3, 84 Smoking is a known risk factor for sudden cardiac death (SCD),2 and quitting smoking results in a significant reduction in SCD risk.85 Quitting is also associated with improved exercise tolerance among middle-aged men and women, with physical fitness being a protective factor against cardiovascular disease.86\nThere is a marked reduction in risk within two to five years of quitting.3 After 15 years the risk of stroke is the same as a non-smoker.1\nStopping smoking can reduce the risk of oral diseases associated with smoking including cancer, and improve the health of the mouth, gums and teeth.2, 87-89 Stopping smoking reduces the risk of leukoplakia, and after one to five years about half of leukoplakia disappears.90 Cessation reduces the risk of developing periodontitis, slows down the progress of existing disease, and quite quickly improves wound healing.2, 87, 91-93 Following cessation, gum colour gradually returns to normal88 and so-called ‘smoker's palate' can disappear.87, 88 Stopping smoking improves the success rate of dental implants.89 Smoking cessation may be associated with relatively rapid improvement in periodontal health in young adults.93\n7.1.5 Medium to long-term health benefits of quitting\nSuccessful cessation appears to stop the progressive increase in the use of health services associated with continued smoking within a few years.94\nSpecific long-term health benefits include:\nLung cancer. Quitting is beneficial for lung cancer risk.95 Quitting at age 30 reduces the risk of lung cancer by several times compared to a lifetime smoker. Even quitting at 50 more than halves the risk over the next 25 years compared to continued smoking.96 The absolute annual risk of developing or dying from lung cancer does not decrease, but by stopping smoking the much greater increase in risk that would result from continuing to smoke is avoided.3\nChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Smoking cessation remains the only proven strategy for reducing the disease-causing processes leading to COPD.4 Cessation reduces decline in lung function.97 In smokers without COPD, stopping smoking improves lung function by about 5% within a few months of cessation. The accelerated decline in lung function in smokers stops within five years of smoking cessation, returning to the far slower rates of decline that naturally occur with ageing.1, 3 Existing emphysematous damage to lung tissue caused by smoking is permanent1 however cessation slows the progression of COPD.11 Symptoms of COPD will be less likely in the short and long term.1 However, even after many years of abstinence, COPD risk still remains elevated in comparison with never smokers.1 Statistical modelling has estimated that about 35% of the excess risk still exists after 20 years of quitting.98 In people diagnosed with COPD, stopping smoking reduces the rate of lung function decline, decreases the risk of hospitalisation for COPD,3, 71, 99 and results in fewer physician visits and less use of COPD medications.100\nOther cancers. Smoking cessation is the only proven strategy for reducing the disease-causing processes leading to cancer.4 The risks of cancers of the mouth, throat, larynx, oesophagus, stomach, bladder, kidneys, pancreas and cervix are reduced after quitting compared to continued smoking, and continue to decrease over time.1, 3 The risk of pancreatic, oral and cervical cancers quite quickly become similar to people who have never smoked, but the risks for the other cancers remain higher than never-smokers even after 15 to 20 years.1, 3\nPeripheral vascular disease. Quitting slows down the build-up of plaque on artery walls, so that the risk of the disease is substantially reduced. For those who already have the disease, amputations are less likely.1, 101\nBlindness. Cataract development and macular degeneration risks and progression are reduced.2, 67\nMale erectile dysfunction is reduced when smokers quit.2, 67\nFemale fertility. Missed and painful periods are reduced after quitting, as is the risk of delayed conception and early menopause.23, 102 The higher risk of heart disease and stroke among women smokers who use the contraceptive pill is reduced.103\nOverall health and quality of life improve, with some evidence that heavier smokers report greater improvement in quality of life after quitting and report feeling happier compared with when they were smoking.1, 2, 104-107 Ex-smokers also appear to experience a meaningful increase in subjective well-being (i.e. satisfaction with life) from quitting.108 A 2014 meta-analysis reported that smoking cessation is associated with reduced depression, anxiety, and stress, and improved positive mood compared with continuing to smoke.16 Quitting has also been linked with less financial stress among women.109\n7.1.6 Cutting down: are there health benefits?\nCutting down the number of cigarettes smoked each day is a common strategy used by smokers to reduce harm, to move towards quitting, or to save money.110-113 However, research shows no noticeable improvement in health outcomes or lifespan among smokers who are able to cut down on a long-term basis.4, 114-116 This is largely because smokers primarily seek a consistent level of nicotine. Those who cut down therefore tend to smoke the remaining cigarettes harder by taking more and larger puffs, and holding each puff longer. Thus they do not reduce their intake of toxins as much as the reduction in the number of cigarettes suggests.111, 117 For a detailed discussion on smoking reduction, see Chapter 18, Section 18.3.\n7.1.7 Other benefits of quitting\nThere are other benefits of quitting smoking. Financial savings for a 20 cigarette pack-a-day smoker are about $7500 per year (2016 prices).118 Smokers who quit reduce their likelihood of financial stress and are likely to enhance their material wellbeing.119 As more public and private places become smokefree, ex-smokers avoid the inconvenience of having to find somewhere to smoke. Quitting avoids further smoking-related damage to skin, and slows the development of wrinkles.120 Life insurance is often cheaper,121 the risk of smoking-related fires is reduced122, 123 and people who quit have fewer sick days.2\nRelevant news and research\nFor recent news items and research on this topic, click here.(Last updated May 2019)\n1. US Department of Health and Human Services. The health benefits of smoking cessation. A report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1990. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/pre_1994/index.htm.\n2. US Department of Health and Human Services. The health consequences of smoking: A report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004. Available from: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/index.htm.\n3. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Reversal of risk after quitting smoking. IARC handbooks of cancer prevention, Tobacco Control, 11 Lyon, France: IARC, 2007. Available from: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1.jsp?sesslan=1&codlan=1&codcol=76&codcch=22.\n4. US Department of Health and Human Services. How smoking causes diseases: A report of the Surgeon General. 2010. Available from: www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/tobaccosmoke/Cached .\n5. Doll R and Hill AB. The mortality of doctors in relation to their smoking habits: A preliminary report. British Medical Journal, 1954; 1(4877):1451-5. Available from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13160495\n6. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7245665192604065,"wiki_prob":0.7245665192604065,"text":"Richard III cortege through Leicester on Sunday\nSaturday, March 21st, 2015\nThe week of events leading to the reinterment of King Richard III on Thursday, March 26th, begins this Sunday with a cortege bearing his coffin from the University of Leicester to the Leicester Cathedral. After emerging from the university’s Fielding Johnson Building, the coffin holding Richard III’s remains will depart in a hearse at 11:40 AM and begin a slow procession stopping at historical sites from Richard’s last days.\nThe first stop is Fenn Lane Farm, the spot where archaeologists believe Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth on August 22, 1485. There the Reverend Hilary Surridge will lead a private ceremony bringing together soil from three locations of significance in the king’s life: Fotheringhay (where he was born), Middleham (where he spent his early teens learning the knightly arts), and Fenn Lane (where he died).\nFurther stops include the Sutton Cheney church, the nearby Bosworth Heritage Centre and Bow Bridge, the medieval boundary of Leicester where the City Mayor, Lord Mayor and Gild of Freemen will welcome the remains. The cortege will then follow on foot to St. Nicholas Church where after a brief service the coffin will be transferred to a horse-drawn hearth to process through the city center.\nThe final stop at 5:45 PM is Leicester Cathedral where the king’s remains will be formally handed over from the University, holder of the Ministry of Justice exhumation license, to the Cathedral Church of St Martin, Leicester. The congregation will hold a service of Compline with a sermon preached by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster. On Monday the Cathedral will open to members of the public who wish to view the coffin and pay their respects. It will remain open during the week.\nI haven’t been able to find any live video feeds of the entire cortege, but BBC Radio Leicester will be covering it. Listen live here. Channel 4 television will be covering the reinterment live on Thursday but is only scheduled to broadcast the arrival of Richard’s coffin at Leicester Cathedral on Sunday at 5:10 PM GMT.\nLeicester has a website dedicated to reinterment week with lots of information and details about the events. The BBC has interactive maps of the cortege’s stops outside and inside the city. I’m hoping the University of Leicester’s YouTube channel, which has been replete with Ricardian goodness in anticipation of the reinternment, will have complete video of all the ceremonies.\nPosted in Medieval, Modern(ish) | 2 Comments »","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1055412"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9905562400817871,"wiki_prob":0.9905562400817871,"text":"The Cliffsofmoher dies after suffering injury in Melbourne Cup\nBy Adam Pengilly & Chloe Booker\nUpdated November 6, 2018 — 6.51pm first published at 3.51pm\nIrish visitor The Cliffsofmoher has been put down after a mishap passing the winning post the first time in the Melbourne Cup.\nThe Caulfield Cup placegetter, trained by Aidan O'Brien, fractured a shoulder as he was approaching the turn out of the straight for the first time.\nStablemate Yucatan was favourite and ran 11th in the race, which was won by Cross Counter, with Marmelo second and A Prince of Arran third.\nJamie Stier, Racing Victoria's manager of integrity services, confirmed the news on Tuesday afternoon.\n“It is with sadness that we confirm that The Cliffsofmoher had to be humanely euthanised after sustaining a fractured right shoulder during the running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington,” Stier said.\n“The horse received immediate veterinary care, however it was unable to be saved due to the nature of the injury sustained.\n“This was an unfortunate incident that happens infrequently, with Victoria having one of the best safety records in world racing.\nThe Cliffsofmoher is attended to on the track after suffering an injury. Credit:Eddie Jim\n“Our sympathies are extended to Coolmore and the Williams family, the owners of The Cliffsofmoher, jockey Ryan Moore, trainer Aidan O’Brien and his staff who cared for the horse and are greatly saddened by their loss.”\nRyan Moore was uninjured in the incident.\nThe chairman and the directors of the Victoria Racing Club released a statement extending their sympathies to the Williams family and Coolmore connections of The Cliffsofmoher.\nJockey Ryan Moore is assisted by a race steward after The Cliffsofmoher was injured. Credit:AAP\nIt is the fourth time in the past six years that the Melbourne Cup has been shrouded by the death of horses.\nIn 2014 pre-race favourite Admire Ratki died after collapsing from heart failure in the stalls minutes after the race.\nIn the same race, import Araldo had to be euthanised because of an injury suffered when he was returning to scale.\nAraldo placed seventh but was spooked by a flag in the crowd on the way back to weigh in, kicking out and breaking a rear leg on a fence.\nIn 2015 crowd favourite and three-time Cup runner up Red Cadeaux had to be euthanised two and a half weeks after the Cup as a result of complications from an injury suffered in that year's race.\nThe RSPCA has called the death of Cliffsofmoher a tragedy.\n\"Today's tragedy is a stark reminder of the risks these horses face every time they run, and highlights that behind the gloss and glamour of Cup celebrations there is a dark reality,\" spokeswoman Jane Speechley said.\n\"The racing industry has much work to do.\"\nAnti-racehorsing protesters have condemned Cliffsofmoher's death, calling for major reforms to the industry.\n\"We are calling on the racing industry to phase out two-year-old racing and ban the whip so that horses are not pushed beyond their limits,\" said Elio Celotto from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses.\nPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said it wanted an investigation into the horse’s death.\n\"Cliffsofmoher [is] the most recent victim of the cruel annual spectacle known as the Melbourne Cup,’’ the PETA spokesman said.\n\"Considering Australians hate cruelty to animals, commemorating a day on which horses routinely die in the Melbourne Cup is fundamentally un-Australian.\"\n\"Horrific to see celebrations continue while this horse may be dying,\" one of many tweets about the horse's death said.\nWith AAP\nSpring Racing Carnival\nAdam Pengilly\nAdam Pengilly is a Sports reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.\nChloe Booker\nChloe Booker is a reporter at The Age.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line899865"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9890371561050415,"wiki_prob":0.9890371561050415,"text":"Special Coverage Civic Election 2010\nParting shot maligns quality of councillors\n'I think the average IQ has been less with every council'\nPosted: 09/20/2010 1:00 AM\t| Comments:\nOne of the longest-serving politicians in the City of Winnipeg's history says the quality of city councillors has declined during his decades in office because salaries have become too low to attract gifted candidates.\nThis Wednesday's city council meeting will be the final legislative hurrah for Old Kildonan Coun. Mike O'Shaughnessy, who has sat on city council for 30 out of the past 36 years.\nOnly Mynarski Coun. Harry Lazarenko, who remains hospitalized following a May aneurysm and who is also expected to retire, has served the city as long as O'Shaughnessy.\nAn often outspoken conservative with federal Liberal affiliations, O'Shaughnessy served as council speaker, finance chairman, and other roles during a career that saw him work with six different mayors during two stints on council, from 1974 to 1980, and then from 1986 until next month. Prior to entering politics, he covered city hall for the Winnipeg Free Press.\nMIKE APORIUS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES\nCoun. Mike O'Shaughnessy served 30 years on council under six different mayors.\nHe also witnessed council contract from 50 members to 29 and then finally 16. But he does not believe Winnipeg has better representation now than it did when he was first elected.\n\"I think the average IQ has been less with every council,\" O'Shaughnessy said last week in an interview inside the office he'll soon vacate.\nThe salaries offered to councillors are part of the problem, he said, as they're better suited for low-level managers than politicians responsible for $1.4 billion worth of annual city budgets. Meanwhile, unelected managers are compensated far more handsomely. \"You have department heads making up to $200,000 and EPC (executive policy committee members) making $75,000. It's kind of silly,\" he said.\nO'Shaughnessy also contends some of today's full-time councillors have entered politics for the wrong reasons. \"There are too many people who want to be a city councillor and not enough who want to do the work of a city councillor,\" he said, citing modest works such as the construction of community centres, arenas and basketball courts in Old Kildonan as his proudest achievements.\nCity-wide, he's proud of helping create The Forks and thankful he was off council when Portage Place was approved. He concedes he made a mistake when he voted against Esplanade Riel, the pedestrian bridge he now calls \"the stamp of Winnipeg.\"\nHe wants this city to continue to promote business, complete an inner ring road, and help create more affordable apartments in the Exchange District for singles, young couples and seniors.\nBut he fears council will remain divided between ideological factions. \"Let's not argue over what to do,\" he says, imploring council's left-leaning opposition to be less negative and more constructive in its dealings with the centre-right majority. \"Let's not argue 'this is bad.' Argue 'I've got something better,' \" he said.\nWinnipeg Mayor Sam Katz said O'Shaughnessy will be remembered as a very creative but no-nonsense public servant who knew the rules of council better than anyone else and never shied away from speaking his mind.\n\"He was extremely outspoken,\" Katz said.\nThe heated atmosphere of public life is partly what's leading O'Shaughnessy to retire. He has diabetes, must lose 45 kilograms, and has suffered two heart attacks over the past seven years.\n\"With my last one, my heart stopped. They had to put the pedals on me twice,\" he said. \"After property committee (on Sept. 14), my chest was so heavy because I was so pissed off and so into it.\n\"I can't afford to care that much any more. It isn't worth dying for.\"\nO'Shaughnessy refuses to formally endorse a successor, although he makes no secret of his affection for Old Kildonan candidate Devi Sharma, a former executive assistant.\n\"Who I help privately on the side is my business,\" he said. \"Devi's son calls me grampa, so you can figure out.\"\nO'Shaughnessy said he won't miss anything about public life. He said he expects the same sorts of people who stopped calling him when he was away from council from 1980 to 1986 to follow suit this time.\nHe said he \"found out who my friends were in a hurry\" during his darkest days on council, when he was accused of taking an envelope of money from a developer but was fully exonerated by the RCMP. A six-month investigation took place toward the end of the Bill Norrie administration.\nO'Shaughnessy is not sentimental about leaving office. He said he would have skipped Wednesday's council meeting if he didn't have to introduce a minor item on the public works agenda he took over following the death of Charleswood Coun. Bill Clement in May.\n\"Council was my least favourite of all my meetings,\" he said, dismissing it as theatre. \"When I spoke on things on occasion, it was quite often since I heard so much B.S. from other people.\n\"I wanted to make sure something was on the record that was factual.\"\nTrio of veterans leaving\nAt least two veteran city politicians will make their final appearance in the council chamber this Wednesday -- a third may have already said goobye.\nMike O'Shaughnessy (Old Kildonan): Will retire next month after serving on council for 30 years, from 1974 to 1980, and then from 1986 until the present.\nLillian Thomas (Elmwood-East Kildonan): Will retire next month after serving on council for 21 years, beginning in 1989.\nHarry Lazarenko (Mynarski): Expected to retire next month after serving on council for 30 years, from 1974 to 1977, and then from 1983 until the present.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1364848"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7226959466934204,"wiki_prob":0.2773040533065796,"text":"Biosphere 2\nThere's a rather interesting pair of podcasts on Biosphere 2 from the people at 'Stuff to Blow Your Mind.\nhttp://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/tag/biosphere-2/\nIf you're not familiar with the project, Biosphere 2, built on three (and a bit) acres, was a self-contained environment in which volunteers lived, grew their own food and struggled for survival (and this was back in early days of the 1990s before reality-TV had been invented.)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2\nThe show is in two parts and covers the failures and successes of the experiment and how the lessons learnt can and are being used in the development of the upcoming Mars missions.\nThey've also got a great photo gallery, and I've just spent a rather fun half hour flicking through, imagining the students from the university which now operates the site fleeing there after the outbreak, struggling to keep the crops growing whilst the undead bang on the windows outside...\nhttp://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blog/gallery/biosphere-2-the-encapsulated-earth/\nWarning! Looking at the Meteor Shower may cause blindness!\nTonight, if you look up, you’ll see the Geminids Meteor Shower.\nhttp://astronomynow.com/2014/12/11/2014-geminid-meteor-shower-reaches-its-peak/\nIt’ll be visible in both Hemispheres and is being touted by some as a ‘must-see’ event. But in case you haven’t read The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, you may be unaware that this may cause blindness.\nThis book, the pre-cursor to most Apocalyptic Fiction, begins when a similar meteor shower causes all those to see it to loose their sight. This provides the opening for the Triffids - genetically modified plants, bred for their oil as a cheaper, greener alternative - to take over the Earth.\nIt truly is a great book. It begins in a hospital, and is the very reason that, when writing 28 Days Later, Alex Garland set the opening scene in a hospital.\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/features/featurepages/0,,2073292,00.html\n(Book 1 shares that opening setting, but in my story our hero has everything that happened explained to them. I make no secret of the fact my book wouldn’t have been written without Mr Wyndham’s inspiration). So, tonight, if you are like me and in reading apocalyptic fiction have become superstitious to the point of paranoid, then don’t at the skies. Otherwise, do make sure and look up.\nNo Mummies were harmed in the printing of this book.\nThere was an urban legend about Mummies (you know, the Egyptian kind) being used as fuel during a snowstorm somewhere in upstate New York back in... gosh... eighteen-something-or-other. As you can tell, I can't remember the details. In my search for them I've found this rather fascinating article on Mummies as fuel and in the manufacture of paper:\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2341/do-egyptians-burn-mummies-as-fuel\nI thought I'd share.\n(Book 5 update - Half way through first draft, current word count = 35,000 words.)\nBook 4: Unsafe Haven on Itunes & Drive Thru Fiction\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/book/surviving-evacuation-book/id949188407?ls=1&mt=11\nhttp://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/141248/Surviving-The-Evacuation-Book-4-Unsafe-Haven\nBook 4: On Kobo\nhttp://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/surviving-the-evacuation-book-4-unsafe-haven\nBook 4 is now out on Kobo. Happy reading!\nepub's available from Libiro & Smashwords\nFor readers who want an epub version, Book 4 is now available from Libiro at $0.99 and Smashwords at $2.99 (other sites will follow during the day) Due to Smashwords distribution system, I'm afraid it's not possible to offer the book at a discounted rate during the first few days.\nhttp://www.libiro.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1485\nIt's (a)Live!!! Book 4: Unsafe Haven - Out now!\nSurviving The Evacuation, Book 4: Unsafe Haven is now available to purchase on Amazon (only £0.77 until Wednesday)\nClick here for Amazon UK\nClick here for Amazon Everywhere else.\nI've submitted it to the other sites, and expect it to be up on Kobo, Itunes, Nook and others soon. The paperback should be available from tomorrow.\nBrrr, it's cold!\nThe first proper frost of the winter hit last night. Everything is covered in a thick coating of ice, and the street is filled with the sound of frustrated scrapping, as drivers try and clear their windshields.\nI write outside. I find, surrounded by the coughing of birds and predatory snickering of spiders (I've been breeding them for size), that I get more done. So, it's a good thing that I've just hit publish on Book 4. If I had to do any actual writing today, even wrapped up in scarf and gloves (and have you tried to type in gloves? It's not easy), I'm not sure I'd get much done.\nIt can take up to forty-eight hours for the books to be reviewed and approved for distribution. I'll post up the links just as soon as I have them.\nWork Rest Repeat - Free Until Sunday\nWork Rest Repeat - A Post Apocalyptic Detective Story is free until Sunday.\nUK: http://amzn.to/1FXjIjQ\nWorldwide: getBook.at/workrestrepeat\nOver the last twelve months I've been promoting the books I've written quite heavily. Whilst at least something that I've done must have worked, having run two or more promotions per week it's rather tricky working out exactly what. Following a thoroughly disastrous marketing campaign in September/November, I thought I'd see how effective it would be to give a book away for free without any promotion whatsoever (I don't count social media as this doesn't cost me anything but time).\nSo this is the first stage of the plan, justing putting the book up for free on Amazon for a few days and seeing how many (if any) downloads it gets by virtue of being free. The next stage (Launching Book 4 without any promotion) should follow in a couple of days. And speaking of which I should really get on with some work.\nBook 5: Reunion\nBook 5: Reunion, the conclusion to the story begun in Book 4: Unsafe Haven will be out early in 2014. It currently stands at 23,000 words, beginning just outside of Penrith a few months before the end of Book 4, then following the journey south. The story then switches point of view, and follows a journey to Hull.\nThe above will make more sense when you've read Book 4. So will my choice of a working title for Book 6, I've been calling the draft document Svalbard.\nI've a title for the US spin off, but I'm keeping that one under my hat for now.\nBook 4 - Update\nI've had the book back from the final proof-reader. All that's left now is to go through it one last time. This should only take a few days, so the book will be released next week at the latest.\nIn the meantime, Work Rest Repeat will be free on Amazon from tomorrow until Sunday.\nClick here to grab a copy in the UK\nOr here for everywhere else\nBook 4: Unsafe Haven - Cover\nThe novel has gone off for the final proof-reading, this should take a few days, then I'll need another two just to go through it one last time. In short, it will be out soon.\nThe story takes place in Cumbria, Scotland and Anglesey, from the outbreak up until September. Though this isn't a story about Bill, Kim and Sholto - they will return (and with a vengeance) in Book 6 - there are some familiar faces.\nOn release it will be priced at £0.77 for the first three days (and Book 1 is on sale at £0.77 until Book 4 is released)\nI'll post up the prologue, and first few thousand words over the next few days, but in the meantime, I thought you might like a look at the cover.\nJust a quick update. I was hoping to get my side of the editing finished today. There was something about the last quarter of the book that wasn't sitting quite right. Books 4 & 5 feature a (mostly) new cast of characters, which tie into the wider story in Book 6, which will see a return of familiar faces (and perhaps an absolutely final end to the series. It's too early to say)\nThis section I was unhappy with isn't that important in the terms of the story for Books 4 & 5, but it deals with Kim, Svalbard and what happens on Anglesey after the end of Book 3, neatly setting everything up for Book 6, so it's important that I get it right. To that end I ditched what I'd written and have spent the day rewriting it.\nAnd it is re-writ, and all is now good with the world, but I am worded out for the day, so am off to find a biscuit and something in which to dunk it.\n(publication date - the end of this month or the beginning of the next. Book 5 will be out (maybe) 10 weeks after that and Book 6 out in time for the summer holidays.)\nThe Freakonomics of the Undead\nJust heard a great episode of Freakonomics about the undead. It's great to hear academics talk about zombies and vampires, and the economics of the genre. Take a listen.\nhttp://freakonomics.com/2014/10/30/what-can-vampires-teach-us-about-economics-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/\nThe show references a book on the subject. (one of the first academic texts to deal with the real-world impact of the undead. For instance, would a zombie outbreak be good for the economy? Well, would it?)\nOne worth adding to the Christmas list.\nThe Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires and the Dismal Science\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LXVG5OK/\nBook 1: London - Featured on Annelie Wendeberg's blog\nhttp://www.anneliewendeberg.com/blog/\nAnnelie Wendeberg, author of the \"Anna Kronberg\" series is featuring Book 1 as her Indie Book of the Week. This is very cool, not just because it's always great to get some recognition, but she's one of the best writers of Sherlock Holmes & Victorian England Thriller books in the business. I'm quite a big Holmes fan myself, which you might have gathered from the references, some subtle others not so much, in all the books so far.\nhttp://www.anneliewendeberg.com/books/the-devils-grin/\nAnd the first book in the series, The Devil's Grin, is currently free. So if you like all things Sherlockian, grab a copy and give it a try.\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00B7KGYAW/\nLondon's Housing Crisis - Solved!\nI just saw this photo-article about the tunnels under London.\nI love the tunnels under London. Book 3 originally had a chase sequence in it set within the disused tube tunnels. It got cut, but expect to see it in some future book - it's far too cool to remain on the cutting room floor. I digress. During World War Two, as you probably know, they built air raid shelters under London. It turns out that they left the bunk-beds in some.\nYup, those are bunk-beds, in a section of tunnel that was built but never used for transport. And it's in Clapham. AND no one is sleeping in them! With studio apartments at £400,000 a pop, I think that you could easily charge rent for one of those. Probably quite a high one since it's so close to the tube.\nAnd whilst I'm on the topic of air raid shelters, I'll recommend the book The Blitz by Juliet Gardner. It's without doubt the best book on the subject that I've read (and recommend every chance I get. It's brilliant!)\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007386613/\nWork Rest Repeat - Free on 2nd & 3rd November\ngetBook.at/workrestrepeat\nThe novel will be free on Amazon for the next two days (and on unlimited for the next six weeks).\nWhy can't you buy low calorie snacks?\nI'm just back from a rain-drenched walk to the shops. Whilst seeking inspiration amongst the aisles I started picking up the snacks and examining the calorie content. I noticed a very weird thing. Crisps, chocolate, biscuits or sweets (or chips, cookies, candies and... chocolate. Is there a thing in the US that all types of snacks must be spelled with the letter 'C'?), it didn't matter what I picked up, each had between 450 and 550 calories per 100g.\nWhy? There has to be a reason. Is it something to do with manufacturing methods? Has market research discovered that anything less than 450 (like the bag of popcorn I bought at the weekend) leaves a customer so unsatisfied that they won't buy it again? Or is it just a coincidence, some quirk caused by a confluence of halloween treats and limited shelf space, and next week I'll go in and find a variety of foods to fill every caloric gradation.\nI don't think it's the latter. The cost of re-printing the packaging would be too great. But it does remind me of a rather interesting programme on planet money that solved a similar puzzle, as to why peanut M&Ms come are sold at a different weight to milk chocolate ones;\nhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/06/06/319509152/episode-544-the-m-m-anomaly\nAnyway. That's enough procrastination. I went out in search of inspiration for a way to describe a ship's passengers travelling down from Svalbard, approaching Holyhead (on Anglesey) and being presented with a flotilla of small ships huddling against the shore. I should have written this part on the ferry over from Ireland, but instead I've got to try and find my muse in the puddle-filled pavements of London. Lesson learnt for next time.\nWant to make your own dinosaur?\nJust heard a great TED talk on how to make your own dinosaur (ok, so not really how to make one at home, but close enough.) very very cool!\nhttp://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_building_a_dinosaur_from_a_chicken?language=en#t-246903\nRenowned palaeontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering them to reactivate ancestral traits — including teeth, tails, and even hands — to make a \"Chickenosaurus\".\nJack Horner is a consultant on the upcoming Jurassic Park IV, so expect the Chickenosaurus in the movie.\nBooks now available in WH Smith's\nhttp://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/surviving-the-evacuation-book-1-london-/1230000253279\nMy writing 'process' (which is an incredible organised sounding phrase for what is really a frenetic assault on a keyboard) involves a notebook and a computer. Into the notebook goes every cool line, important scene, character name and so on. When I go off on a field trip, travelling the country working out which route the characters will take to or from Anglesey (or from Washington to the remote spot in Maine), the notebook comes with me, and the directions get scrawled down.\nSo, last night, I was looking through the notes for Book 5: Radio Free England. Underneath a line that read; \"Look at him! You know how I'd describe him? A guy in desperate need of a belt.\"\nI found another note saying that, by the end of the year, I should aim to get the books into Smith's, Foyle's and Waterstone's (they're the three largest bookstores in the UK). I'd become so lost in getting these stories written that I'd completely forgotten about that.\nWell, I went online this morning and found that the books did get into Smith's. Or, the ebooks, at least. Next stop is getting the paperbacks in there, but that'll have to wait. Book 4 is heading towards completion. I've got another 10 pages to read through and then it's just the prologue and epilogue to finish. Time to get on.\nFree Ebook Code For Inktera & Caffeine Nights\nThe kind people at pagefoundry, the operators of the Inktera store and the Caffeine Nights app have given me 10 free ebook codes. This will definitely work with Book 1: London, and may work with other books.\nThe Code: TAYELL\nThis is a first come first serve deal, there's only 10 of them.\nThe Inktera store link link:\nhttp://www.inktera.com/store/title/7da8734b-2c1a-486c-8c88-1ff9630eeead\nThe apps:\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/caffeine-nights-books/id732634983?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D10\nhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inktera.caffeine\nThe apps are genre specific, and I have to say this has to be the next generation in book purchasing, cutting down on the whole click-wait-sync time. So, give it a try, I think this is a really neat idea.\n(prices for non-US readers may work out cheaper here than on other stores, as they are set using US dollars, then converted.)\nHeath Robinson Mornings\nI thought I'd been clever. At night I've taken to leaving the curtains open, so as to be woken by the first light of dawn. In this way I can capitalise on those oh-so-productive early hours of the day. It worked brilliantly in the summer, not so much these days. As I look at the clock here, and see three hours already wasted, I'm resolved on buying a new alarm clock. Something like this one designed by Heath Robinson, perhaps;\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson\n\"The secret of getting ahead is getting started\" - Mark Twain said that. So I should probably stop browsing the web and get on. Today we begin the final draft-edit of Book 4.\nBook: 0.5 Free (again) on Amazon\nviewBook.at/ZombiesVsLivingDead\nThe glitch has been fixed. The book is now free on Amazon again. Sorry for any inconvenience.\nHow (not) to start a business - Start Up by Alex Blumberg\nhttp://hearstartup.com\nI've just listened to all five episodes of this podcast. It's brilliant. It's presented by Alex Blumberg, formerly of Planet Money and This American Life, charting his ongoing journey to achieve fame and riches by setting up a podcast company (meta, right?)\nSo it's a fun listen, but it's a pretty informative step by step guide to how you do actually create a business. From sourcing venture capital to choosing names to hiring a business partner. Well worth a listen. So persuasive, in fact, if I'd signed my movie deal by now, I'd be down as an investor.\n(PS: One of the names he ends up not using for the business is 'The Global Listening Service'. I'm definitely stealing that as the plot for the next book.)\nZombies vs Living Dead free on Kobo & Itunes\nhttp://store.kobobooks.com/en-uk/ebook/surviving-the-evacuation-book-0-5-zombies-vs-the-living-dead\nhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/surviving-evacuation-book/id907927379?mt=11\nHi, I've just seen that the Book 0.5: Zombies vs The Living Dead is currently not free on the UK Amazon store. Amazon don't allow authors to permanently set the price to 0.00, but price match against other stores, and reserve the right to raise the price as and when they wish.\nI'm not sure if this is a temporary glitch, but you can find the book elsewhere for free.\nWhilst I'm appreciative of the £0.20 a copy I get from each sale, I really think you'd enjoy Book 3 more if you've read this short story. You're certainly going to have want to have read it before Book 4: Unsafe Haven and... (though I'm not confirming this as definite until I've got the covers)... Book 3.5: Svalbard, Book 4.5: AWOL, Book 5: Return and the absolutely final book in the series Book 6: The Blood Red Line.\n(I'm also planning a separate 1 novel, 1 short story spin off set in the US, but more on that closer to the time.)\nCheck out Limerence 2 - A new release (& a freebie)\nClaire C Riley, another of the authors with whom I'm collaborating on the 'At Hell's Gate' project has a new release out this weekend. (and the first book in the series is free!)\nLimerence 2 (The Obsession Series) by Clare Riley\nWhen you see life through the eyes of a vampire, you see the true colors of the world.\nIt’s been almost a year since Mia’s life was forever altered, and each day is a battle as she fights the dark vampire trapped within her. She is strong, and powerful, and she wants control. She will do anything to be free. Even if it means destroying them both.\nhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBVZDJM/\nLink to book 1:\nhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BWUILDU/\nBraineater Jones - A weekend recomendation\nI've been putting together (on top of editing the next Evacuation book, and a short story staring Kim) a story for the next volume of the At Hell's Gate Anthology. Stephen Kozeniewski, one of the authors I'm collaborating with has a book on offer this weekend. Thought you might like to check it out.\nBraineater Jones by Stephen Kozeniewski\nBraineater Jones wakes up face down in a swimming pool with no memory of his former life, how he died, or why he’s now a zombie. With a smart-aleck severed head as a partner, Jones descends into the undead ghetto to solve his own murder.\nhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FRT4CD0/\nA note on publishing (alright, marketing)\nWriting is my full time occupation. I wake, I write until the words lose all meaning, then I get on with the marketing. And there’s as much marketing in books as there is in any other product under the sun.\nI had a chat the other day with a chap who’s somewhat of an expert in advertising. He finds my foray into self-publishing fascinating. As in “And that promotion cost you $200 and netted only an additional 4 sales per day, fascinating. Why do you think that was?”\nThe answer is I don’t really know (nor why a $25 promotion a couple of months ago netted 300 sales in an hour. A lot of people would say it’s down to luck. I’m not sure I believe in luck. Circumstance and coincidence, sure. But luck? No.)\n\"Why do you think?\" I asked him. \"You are, after all, meant to be an expert in this sort of thing.\"\n\"Well,\" he said, \"there was <name redacted>, they launched a £25,000,000 marketing push in Russia, timing it to coincide with the winter Olympics. Then came the Crimean Crisis.\"\nHe sipped on his coffee for a while, as I waited for him to continue.\n“Timing,” I said when it was evident he was finished. “You’re saying that’s what it’s all about.”\n“Being at the right place, just before the right time, so that when the perfect moment comes around, you’re already there.”\nGood advice for some, perhaps, but not so much for a writer of post-apocalyptic fiction. I mean, if I were to write a prescient novel, there wouldn’t be anyone left to notice how foresighted I’d been. But Timing does have a part to play. I’ve noticed that. With a book about zombies with ‘London’ in the title, it’s no wonder I noticed sales collapse on those warm summer evenings.\nKnowing that doesn’t help me improve my sales figures to the point I could afford a <name redacted> myself, though. But I need to be pro-active. As I see it, I’ve two choices. Either I stop global warming, so Britain returns to that damp miserable weather I remember as a child, or I build a machine to bring on a new ice age. Or maybe I can just buy a machine like that. I’m off to ebay to check.\n[to other authors who are interested, the $25 promotion was with Ereadernewstoday.com, I highly recommend their services. I’d also recommend The Fussy Librarian and Peoplereads.com The $200 was spent across about 30 different sites, during a week long promotion. I won’t name them here as I and others have had great success with them in the past.]\nA thought (Elbert Hubbard's) on reviews\nI was looking up the origin of a quote for a short story I've just finished; 'Life is just one damned thing after another.'\nThanks to the marvels of the internet I quickly confirmed it's from Elbert Hubbard. In my search I came across this other quote of his:\n\"Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.\"\nLove Ballads of the Sixteenth Century (1897)\nThat made me smile.\nHe is a fascinating chap, though. If you're not familiar with him I do recommend spending a few minutes just reading about his life. Seriously, one of the most interesting potted biographies I've read.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbert_Hubbard\nHollywood and Dystopian Fiction\nhttp://priceonomics.com/why-hollywood-loves-dystopian-science-fiction/\nMy take; An image of a half-submerged landmark will intrigue people more than some alien ruins. I want to know what happened to the Statue of Liberty. How did the seas rise up so much. That's easier to sell, and can be sold with that single image.\nNow, I'm off to rent that movie.\nBook 1: London featured in '30 Days of Horror' at the bards and sages blog\nhttp://bardsandsages.com/juliedawson/2014/10/02/tayell/\nand there are 29 other days to check out!\nSimultaneous Translations & The Nuremberg Trials - PRI's The World\nhttp://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-29/how-do-all-those-leaders-un-communicate-all-those-languages\nJust heard this on public radio international's 'The World'. Very interesting piece about how simultaneous translation came about, and how it works. Something I'd never thought of before. Worth a listen!\nhttp://www.scribd.com/frank8tayell\nKU isn't the only subscription service on the net. Scribd is another, (and if you're in the UK, it works out cheaper at $8.99). Almost all the books not exclusive to Amazon can be found there, like the Evacuation Series.\nebooks unlimited - new service for Kindle Unlimited\nhttp://ebooksunlimited.net\nIf you're signed up to Kindle Unlimited, you might want to sign up to this newsletter (I have). It's brand new, but as I understand it will be a moderated & genre specific list. Looks pretty cool.\nOnly $0.99 (also on Kindle Unlimited in the US)\nhttp://bookgoodies.com/a/B00NT82FNU\nIt is sixty years since The Great Disaster laid waste to the Earth. Outside the city walls, the rising seas have long since flooded the toxic desert that once was humanity’s home. Inside, the descendants of the few that survived that terrible apocalypse strive day and night to complete construction of the colony ships. An evacuation to Mars is the species’ only hope. It is a desperate plan but, after generations of labour, the first of the ships is nearing completion.\nA launch date has been set. There is to be an election to choose a new Chancellor, to lead the people during this last exodus. But, with only twenty-four hours before voting begins, two workers are murdered. It is the first serious crime since the survivors retreated into the Towers of The City of Britain.\nIt is down to Ely, Constable of Tower-One, to solve the crime and apprehend the killer. No matter what, the workers must be protected, production must come first.\nWork. Rest. Repeat. - Inspired by Planet Money (partly)\nI listen to a lot of podcasts. One of my favourites is planet money from NPR. One of their recent episodes played a significant part in the development of this story.\nhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/02/308640135/episode-536-the-future-of-work-looks-like-a-ups-truck\nIt's the story of the delivery drivers. The terrifying part, the line I can't get out of my head, is that the drivers were told in which pocket they should store there pens, in order to ensure maximum efficiency when they reached for them.\nTruly disturbing. (but a brilliant episode)\nRight, so in the UK (and in the borough in which I live) we have separate bins for garden, domestic and recyclable waste. And these are large bins. Mine is currently full of brown cardboard from Amazon. Don't get me wrong, getting sent a free storage box with every purchase has saved me a lot of money this year, but I've packed away everything I own, (and then packed the small boxes into large boxes) and I'm still left with a bin full of cardboard.\nAnd sure, it's going to be recycled, but it's still a lot of water and energy that's going to end up wasted.\nI've a solution. A while back I heard an episode of Peter Day's BBC podcast, in business:\n(it's dated Saturday 30th May, and titled Packaging in a pickle)\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/worldbiz/all\nor direct link to the mp3 here:\nhttp://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/worldbiz_20140531-0000c.mp3\nIn the episode they talk about edible packaging. The reason given to why it's not used is that when cooked (to sanitise it) the nutritional value is lost.\nSo, my solution, packaging that is soluble in water, made of some cellulose type material dosed with plant food.\nPlants don't mind if it's sanitised, or care what it tastes like. Brilliant, right?\nOf course, this might be a problem in the rain (we could solve this by using hot water, perhaps redirected from the out-flow from the washing machine, say.).\nI say it's worth a try.\nt's been a busy day. I've been crossing out i's and tweaking the t's in Work. Rest. Repeat. and working on Unsafe Haven (it's at 37,000 words, so about half done), and plotting out the rest of the series. Like I said. Busy day.\nI don't know if I'll write all theEvacuation books for which I have ideas, certainly the one set in the US featuring the Last President (and Sholto's connection to him) may end up turning into a different story for a different series, but I do plan a book about a siege. And I mean a proper siege, one set in a castle. My big problem here is picking the right one.\nEltham Palace is my current favourite. It has a moat, filled with the largest fish I've seen in London outside of the Aquarium\nBut it's too close to London.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eltham_Palace\nI love this place, one of the reasons being that, when it was rebuilt/restored in the 1930's, the owners wanted to have all the mod cons. Those included a central vacuum cleaner system. So in each room there is a little nozzle to which you can attach a vacuum hose, the dust and dirt then gets sucked up into some central repository. Very cool, but not very helpful when trying to withstand a siege by hundreds of thousands of the undead.\nhttp://www.franktayell.com/#/workrestrepeat/\nAn 8,000 word excerpt (this is the prologue to the story) can be found at the above link. The book is currently back at the editors, and is waiting for the final proofreading. All should be complete to have the book out on Amazon in the next few weeks.\nAfter I sent ‘Work Rest Repeat’ off to the editors last week, I took six hours off. Then I went back to Unsafe Haven. I’ve finished the outline and am now going through it, fleshing out the story.\nThere’s a couple of things I’ve noticed that I thought I’d share. For one, (just like ‘Work Rest Repeat’), this was meant to be a novella. It’s already turning into a novel.\nMore interestingly, you wouldn’t believe the number of great castles there are near the Scottish border where survivors could hold off a zombie horde. But I can't set this story in a castle. Why not, you ask?\nAh, because Chirk castle is referenced in Undead Britain, a short story that’s going to be released in a horror anthology coming out this autumn.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirk_Castle\nI’ve plans for this castle, you see, and don’t want to dilute the plot by setting any of the other stories in a similar place.\nhttp://www.popsci.com/article/technology/why-scientists-want-throw-lawn-darts-mars\nIn Work Rest Repeat, the last remnants of humanity are in a desperate race against time to complete work on colony ships to evacuate humanity to Mars. I based the technologies used on those being developed and trialled for the worlds various upcoming missions to the red planet. When I saw this article I thought I'd have to share it.\nEssentially, it comes down to this. The missions so far have been focusing on whether life existed (past tense) on Mars, not whether it still does. This proposed experiment would search for life under the surface.\nZombies vs The Living Dead - Now Free\nIf you've not read it yet, the short story prequel, Zombies vs The Living Dead is now free (and will be for the foreseeable future).\nInktera\nDriveThruFiction\nAnd a reminder that Work Rest Repeat (and all other new releases) will be released at £0.77 for the first few weeks of release. Thanks.\nWork Rest Repeat - It's gone to the editors\nThe title says it all.\nFully aware of the irony, I'm going to put my feet up for a bit.\nWhat would Kurt Vonnegut say?\nThe news is pretty grim at the moment, so I've been changing my morning routine. Instead of trawling through the increasingly bleak headlines, I've been reading up on authors whose work I don't know well enough.\nI found this, in the onion, on Kurt Vonnegut;\nhttp://www.avclub.com/article/15-things-kurt-vonnegut-said-better-than-anyone-el-1858\nAnd you know what he'd say about times like these?\n\"So it goes.\"\nGreat piece on the Evacuation series on examiner.com\nThe series has made the press!\nhttp://www.examiner.com/review/surviving-the-evacuation-could-you\nBig thanks to the author of the piece, Autumn Turner\nThe cover designs I wish I'd thought of\nhttp://myjetpack.tumblr.com/image/91627718750\nNow I've found this site, please expect a slight delay in publication as I read through all the cartoons.\nWork Rest Repeat , Unsafe Haven & Undead Britain, All Out Soon\nJust a quick update to say that 'Work Rest Repeat - A Dystopian Detective Story' has been booked into the editors for next week.\nI'm hoping to get the book out before 27th September. I'll be able to confirm this when the editor has taken a look.\nAfter this, I've got another Evacuation book coming out, titled Unsafe Haven, it's the story of Nilda, a woman betrayed, abandoned and left for dead.\nThe story begins a few weeks after the outbreak, and concludes at the end of the summer (after the events of Book 3)\nThere will also be a 10,000 short story coming out later this Autumn, titled 'Undead Britain'. More on that in the next few days.\nIt takes 556 bees to make a jar of honey\nI thought it would interesting to tell the story of the outbreak from a different perspective. Obviously, the first idea that came to mind was to tell if from the point of view of a hive of bees.\nSadly, I came across a number of stumbling blocks. That number was Five Hundred and Fifty-Six, the number of bees it takes to make one pound of honey, and thus the number of central characters I would have to create and (and this is where the idea for the story collapsed) the number for which I'd have to come up with names.\nThe number of bees needed to make a pound of honey came from here:\nhttp://www.royalbees.com/bee-facts.html\nAnd to quote from another site I came across during my research;\n\"Honey bees will tap about two million flowers and fly 50,000 miles (80,000 km) to make one pound (454 g) of honey.\"\nThis is from the Honey Council of Canada. Now, personally I think the idea that Canada actually has an official Honey Council is even more interesting than the fact about the bees.\nhttp://www.honeycouncil.ca/chc_poundofhoney.php\nAn Interview with Frank Tayell, by birt.\n[interview transcribed as recorded, by birt, at 08:15, August 11th, 2014]\nb - Hey Frank. You busy?\nF - Very.\nb - Really? The screen’s reflected in the window behind you. You’re on youtube.\nF - It is work. I’m trying to find appropriate music that can be played from a helicopter to lure zombies away.\nb - Well, the obvious one would be...\nF - No! Don’t suggest ‘Ride of the Valykries’, that’s been done so many times it’s gone beyond satire, through pastiche and out into the netherworld of ‘the expected trope’.\nb - [presses play] That’s Johnny Cash.\nF - Folsom Prison blues. Picture it; a Sea-King helicopter, approaching with the dawn. At first you hear the some of the blades. The zombies’ heads turn. First looking around, then looking up. Months of dust have scratched their desiccated corneas, making them next to useless. Slowly, their arms clawing towards the sound, they begin to move away from the tower block that has become the prison for the handful of survivors who had taken refuge there. And then, there is a loud crackling sound. A cheer. Then a voice. “Hello. I’m Johnny Cash.”\nb - OK, that’d be very cool in a movie. A very special type of movie. In a book, though? I’m not so sure. Where does the Tower block feature in the series?\nF - That would be in ‘After The Evacuation’ Book 2. I don’t have a name for it yet. Or a name for any of the books set after that first series. Essentially, having found refuge of a kind on Anglesey, the survivors now need to go out and rescue all those people trapped on the mainland.\nb - That’s the plot of the next series?\nF - Um... no... not really. It’s just one of the events that occur. Anyway, what are you doing here?\nb - You agreed I could interview you.\nF - Oh.\nb - You promised me twenty minutes.\nF - I knew giving you a back door key was a bad idea. Did you bring coffee?\nb - Why would I bring coffee?\nF - Or water. When I watch those interviews on the TV, they always give their guests water. Or that’s what they say it is. Have you noticed, it’s always in a mug? I bet it isn’t water.\nb - You want some water?\nF - No. Not really. I wouldn’t mind a coffee.\nb - I’ll make one when we’re done.\nF - That’s got to be soon, right? The twenty minutes must be nearly up.\nb - [sighs] we’ve not started yet. We need to talk about your next book.\nF - Work. Rest. Repeat.\nb - Nice title.\nF - Thanks. But it was originally going to be called ‘Death Came To All.’\nb - I’ve heard that name before.\nF - Most recently you read it in Book 1. When Bill goes rummaging about, and ends up reading all of his tenant’s books he discovers one called ‘Death Comes To All’, by ERK Daley. That’s a book written between the late fifties, early sixties, that’s as much an allegory on the collapse of the localism as it is a post-apocalyptic story. The whole book takes place in a Tower block in Birmingham, one built in that brutalist style, [i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellick_Tower] with each chapter being set five years apart. The technology behind how the Tower actually works is a bit ropey, borrowing as much from science fiction as it does from science fact, but there’s an underlying message that’s quite interesting. It’s about how ideas and structures that are thought to bring us closer together end up dividing us further.\n[below is the passage from Book 1 that Frank was talking about]\n16:00, 18th March.\nI fell asleep reading a book this morning. It's called “Death Comes To All” by an E.R.K. Daley. I’m sure that the title is a quote, but without the internet I couldn’t tell you whose. Probably it's something Churchill said, either him or Shakespeare. Most quotes are. The book was written in the 1960's and is about a post-apocalyptic dystopian society surviving in a tower block and, as the story progresses, in underground farms beneath it. Each chapter advances the story five years, and at the end, well, no, I won't spoil it, you might want to read it someday.\nIt's an interesting enough book, an allegorical take on isolationism, but what's grabbed my attention are the ideas on farming. In the story, since the inhabitants are trapped inside with no access to land, and with their only resource being the light constantly streaming through their windows, they turn to hydroponics. They make a good go of it too, but I think only because the author wanted generations who'd never been outside, to grow old enough to rule.\nb - And that’s the theme of ‘Work. Rest. Repeat?’\nF - No, not really. ‘Work Rest. Repeat.’ is set sixty years after The Great Disaster. The world has been destroyed by a series of wars and famines. Humanity has been reduced to 300,000 people living in three cities about as far from each other as they can be. There is the City of Rights to the west, The People’s City to the east and The City of Britain, where the story takes place. The world outside the cities had been turned to a desert, then fifteen years ago the rains started. Whether the rains caused the sea levels to rise or the encroaching oceans caused the rains, no one knows, but the waves are now lapping at the city walls. The only place still above ground is at the launch site, where three of the first great colony ships are being constructed. Humanity’s only hope is to leave Earth and attempt to colonise Mars. And, when the story begins, it looks like they might be able to do it. A launch date for the first ship has been set for one year hence. There is hope. And then, there is a double murder.\nb - And what, other than “Death comes to All,’ was the inspiration\nF - It was something you said over Sunday lunch, back on June 8th.\nb - It was? What did I say?\nF - Honestly? I can’t remember. Sorry, I wasn’t really listening to you.\nb - Oh, thanks!\nF - I was tired. I’d just published book 3 and wasn’t happy with the notes I had for the next book. I was looking for some spark of inspiration, and then you said something...\nb - which you can’t remember.\nF - Right, but then I started wondering about a world that was so crowded a home would be used by multiple families. I don’t just mean that you’d have people sleeping on the sofa’s and floors and wherever else. I mean that multiple families would share the same house, the same beds, wardrobes, picture frames and so on. One family sleeps, whilst another is at work or school, yet both call it home. That was the starting point. Years ago, there were a brand of work boots, I think it was Tuff, though it might have been someone else, and they offered a lifetime guarantee. Labourers would often share their boots on a day shift, night shift system. The manufacturer only found out when they sent someone to investigate why the shoes were wearing out at twice the normal speed. Of course hot-desking is commonplace, and hot-bunking is common enough on submarines, so this isn’t a new idea. What I needed was a motivation that would cause them to abandon many aspects of society that we take for granted. There would be no despotic rulers, no opiates to keep the masses subdued, just a shared belief in the pursuit of that phrase we here far too often, ‘The Greater Good’.\nb - It doesn’t sound like there are many jokes in this one.\nF - No.\nb - So, you started it on June 6th...\nF - June 8th.\nb - OK, but it’s two months on, why’s it not finished yet.\nF - It started out as a novella. I was aiming for around 30,000 words. But that turned out not to be enough words to explain how the city works.\nb - And do we get to see the colony ships?\nF - The story is set in the thirty six hours leading up to the election. It’s mostly set in Tower 1, where the components for the colony ships go through a final round of testing before being taken to the launch site for assembly.\nb - And then there’s a murder?\nF - Yes, but this one’s more of a detective story than a murder mystery. The only reason for that is that I spent the first half of this year writing a draft for a detective novel set somewhere in middle England. That book has been put on hold for now. Let’s just say I had detectives on the brain at the time.\nb - Is this the start of a series?\nF - No. Not really. There won’t be a sequel. But it is part of a very loose series of books that are all completely unrelated, except that in each there will be a homicide. I’m calling it ‘Murdering The Genre’. Next year there will be a First-Contact novel about the first ever inter-species homicide, but before then there will be ‘A World of Magic’, that’s a comic fantasy featuring the trials and tribulations of a newly elected Prime-Minister in a world very similar to ours, except where magic is real. That’ll be out before next year’s election.\nb - That sounds utterly amazing. Far better than anything else you’ve been writing. In fact, you should abandon everything else and get to work on that right now.\nF - You’re just saying that because you’re helping to write it.\nb - It’s still true.\nF - Well, why don’t you go and get on with it then. I’ve still not seen the first three chapters you promised. Then I can get back to rescuing survivors from the ruins of Newcastle.\nb - Get back to watching youtube, more like.\nF - I heard that.\nb - but I’m writing this up, so I get the last word.\nZombie Lego\nLego has officially jumped the shark. And it's a zombie shark. A zombie shark made of lego...\nhttp://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Zombies-9465\nhttp://minifigures.lego.com/en-gb/Bios/Zombie.aspx\nI honestly don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand all those childhood memories seem shattered, but on the other, I so want one of those!\nHave you scribd\nThe series is now on scribd. If you've not heard of it, this is a subscription service (described as the netflix of books) for $8.99 you can borrow any books you like. (Like mine.) Due to territorial restrictions some titles aren't available in the UK, but most are.\nThe Evacuation Drives Through\nThe Series is now out on Drive Through Fiction;\nBook 1: London\nBook 2: Wasteland\nBook 3: Family\nKobo Survives The Evacuation\nThe Evacuation series is now available on Kobo as an epub:\nhttp://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/Search?query=Surviving%20The%20Evacuation&fcsearchfield=Series\nGreat Review on Random Redheaded Ramblings\nI just got back from a long day researching locations for the next book, to discover a great review of Book 1 has been published on the 'Random Redheaded Ramblings' blog:\nhttp://redheatherduff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/evac1.html\nI'm going to alternate books from now on. One zombie book to one absolutely-no-undead-whatsoever book.\nThe first of these is a novella titled 'Work, rest, repeat...' and is a dystopian murder mystery set fifty years after The Great Disaster ravaged the Earth.\nIt's about three quarters of the way finished, and I'm hoping to get it out in August.\nIn the Autumn I'll be publishing the next Evacuation novel. The prologue and epilogue are set on Anglesey, a few days after the events of Book 3, with the main story set in during the first few weeks after the evacuation. It'll feature a couple of characters you'll recognise and quite a few you won't.\nMore will be posted when I get more written, and that will probably be on the new website.\nFor now, can I just say thank you?\nTwitter and New Website\nI'll be retiring this blog shortly (which is one of the reasons I've not been posting much. Sorry about that) and moving onto the imaginatively titled website; www.franktayell.com\nI'm also on twitter. Don't expect me to tweet very often, but I will use it, like facebook (and a mailing list which is the next thing on my list) to inform readers of new releases. @FrankTayell is the handle. You can tell it's me by the avatar and the fact I've not posted anything yet.\nZombies vs The Living Dead - New Cover\nI've tweaked the cover for the short story a little. When I wrote it, I thought that I'd release one novel and three short stories per year in the Evacuation series. It's worked out the other way around. There will be more stories published, both set during the first few months after the outbreak, and the years that follow, but more on that when I'm closer to publishing them.\nBook 3: Family Out Now In Paperback\nBook 3:Family is now out in paperback.\nWith all my paperbacks I've chosen the paper size, typeface margins, gutter, layout etc to keep the total page count down, and so keep the books as reasonably priced as possible. Book 3 is slightly more expensive because I've included the short story Zombies vs The Living Dead with this volume.\nAmazon US/Worldwide\nSurviving The Evacuation, Book 3 Out Now\nBook 3 is out now and on offer for 77p (or local equivalent) for the first week of release\nUK, US/Worldwide, Canada, Spain\nPlease note that this is an unproofed excerpt. It comes from the beginning of the book.\nRiver, Road & Railway\nDay 127, River Thames\n17:00, 17th July\n“I’ll go and see if there are any supplies in the lock-keepers house,” I said, as I limped away from the boat.\n“Why bother?” Kim asked. “We don’t need anything.”\n“Well you never know,” I muttered. I don’t think she heard me.\nShe was right, though. We’ve enough food to keep us going until Christmas and enough petrol to get us anywhere in the British Isles. Not just on the mainland but, if we’re careful, enough to get us across to Ireland. We worked it out. It’s not like there’s much else to do.\nWe’ve finally got the supplies to get us anywhere we want to go, and finally we know where that is. But for now we’re stuck on the River Thames, travelling no faster than driftwood as we let the current drag us back towards London.\nWe left Lenham Hill yesterday and made a paltry ten miles before darkness fell. We had to stop. If we’d gone on, we risked passing the boat that Barrett used when she, Stewart and Daphne kidnapped Annette and Daisy. There was no sign of it yesterday and none so far today.\nIt was anger, that’s why I needed to get away from the boat.\nIt wouldn’t be so bad if we could just turn the engine on. We can’t. The River Thames is full of locks. At each we have to stop, operate the gate and wait for the water levels to equalise. It takes an age. We wasted about a hundred rounds from Sholto’s M-16 yesterday evening finding out what we should all have realised. If we motor up to a lock, with the boats pitiful engine going at full blast, we find the zombies waiting for us, and the ones we’ve past catch up before we can get away. That only leaves us two hundred rounds for his semi-automatic, eighteen for the sniper rifle and eleven for the pistol. It’ll have to be enough.\nWhat makes it worse, especially for Kim, is that we only went to Lenham Hill in the hope of finding enough fuel to catch up with Barrett and the others. Since we can’t use it, all that those wasted days mean is that the children just got further away. I know Kim blames herself for not following Barrett straight down the river. I think she blames me too.\nIt’s odd that as long as we stay inside this tiny cabin, the smattering of undead along the banks and bridges pay us no heed. There’s probably something important in that, something to do with the boats size and motion that we could use to our advantage, but right now I just don’t care. It’s been ten days since Barrett took the girls and if they’ve left the river they could be anywhere in Britain by now. They might even have found a way past the demolished bridges around central London and be out at sea. I don’t know which of those two prospects scares me the most. I try not to think about.\nAnd whilst all of that is frustrating, it’s not the cause of my anger. Nor is any of it the reason why I needed to get away from Kim and my brother, if only for a few minutes.\nThe lock-keepers cottage was twee. That’s the kindest word I can think of to describe a post-war prefab built to last a decade but which perennial local-council austerity meant was never replaced. Ringed with a miniature white picket fence, barely a foot high, the garden was mostly gravel except where it was gnomes. Plastic, ceramic or metal, no two were alike, and each stood guard over a withered plant. Someone had cared deeply for this house. It had been their home, and it must have been a lonely existence, living in a house lost amongst the towering steel and concrete of the nearby industrial estate. It should have been a poignant sight, that fading echo of someone’s dreams, but I was unmoved. I’ve seen the like too often.\nI picked my way around the side of the house, careful not to disturb any of the ornaments. Call that superstition, I’ve adopted a lot of those in the last few months.\nAt the front of the house lay the river. At the back, beyond the picket fence, lay a path that led to a road that, eventually, led to the bridge half a mile downstream. On the other side of the path stood a fence, covered in a patchwork of red paint that didn’t quite mask the graffiti underneath. Behind that fence were the roofs of warehouses and factories on the industrial estate. They were of no interest to me.\nI turned back to the cottage. It appeared deserted, but that didn’t mean anything. I looked at the lush canopy of the London Plane trees lining the footpath. There were no birds. I half closed my eyes and listened. I could hear nothing but leaves blowing in the gentle breeze, and the sound of water slowly churning through the sluice gate.\nMy hand ached. My leg ached. My back ached from sitting on the boat’s absurd little bench seat. My stomach ached, rebelling against the unfamiliarity of a high quantity of high calorie food. Even my head ached, from all that Sholto had told us.\nI looked at the cottage again, but it was as uninspiring as any of the other dead little houses in the dead little towns in this dead little island. There was nothing to stay for, there, here or anywhere else in Britain. Nothing. And once we find the children, no reason to linger. We’ll leave. On the second of August.\nI should be happy. I should be grateful. I’ve spent five months scrabbling about, trying to do more than just staying alive. Then we went to the one place that logically I should have gone to straight from London. We find Sholto and all of a sudden every idea and plan is cast to the wayside. I suppose I should be happy, but I’m not. Perhaps part of it is that out of all the things he’s told us, there’s only one piece of news that anyone could call ‘good’.\nI took one last look around, but it did seem truly deserted. I started walking back to the boat but thought, since I was there, I might as well have a look inside the house. Why not? I’d said I was looking for supplies, after all.\nMy hand had barely touched the door when it swung inward. I took a step back and levelled the pike. There was no movement from inside and enough light coming through the windows that I could be certain. The cottage was empty. Judging by the dirt, the musky smell and the pile of discarded belongings from a hasty packing, it had been empty since the evacuation.\nThere was a sudden, loud, startled ‘caw’ from a tree by the road. I spun around. A zombie lurched though a gap in the fence, next to the tree. Its mouth opened and snapped closed. Its arms waved and clawed at nothing as it spasmodically staggered towards me. I stood my ground, waiting and, for once, wishing They weren’t so slow.\nIts right leg kicked forward, splintering the white picket fence. Then its left leg knocked a gnome from its perch on an ornate toadstool. At that my simmering anger boiled over into rage.\nIt wasn’t right, this creature doing that. The superstition that had kept me from knocking those ornaments over now meant I couldn’t let this creature damage them.\nThe zombie lurched forward and I swung the blade up. The weight was too much, the balance wrong. Without the two fingers from my left hand I couldn’t handle the weapon properly. It slipped and twisted, the flat of the blade hitting the creature’s cheek, ripping off a chunk of flesh before bouncing down across its body. The tip of the spear point scored a line across its chest. The zombie was knocked backwards. It was off balance. The problem was, so was I.\nI managed to half twist and push the blade. The creature fell backwards and sideways a few steps. I fell flat on my back, and I fell hard. Pain shot up every worn and damaged nerve. I saw stars and as they dimmed, I saw the creature getting closer.\nMy good hand was still gripping the pike. With no real thought I twirled it round in a long sweeping arc. The zombie stepped forward, and the wooden shaft, thumped against its leg. I started to roll, wanting to get out of the way and find the room to stand up. I was still gripping the pike and as I rolled the axe head hooked under the creature’s leg, pulling it up. Now it was the zombie’s turn to fall down onto its back.\nI scrambled to my feet and managed to thrust the spear-point through the creature’s temple before it managed to rise.\nIt died.\nI’d killed a zombie. I could still do it. I wasn’t useless. I repeated those words a few times, but I still didn’t feel any better. I’d only managed it by luck. Somehow it just didn’t count. I looked down the path and through the gap in the fence, in the direction the zombie had come from. There was another creature less than fifty yards away, and another a hundred yards behind it. Behind that one, on the edge of the car park near the warehouse were three dozen more. All were heading towards me, all strung out in a line, a good few seconds between each of Them. This was it, then. This would be the proper test. If I could dispatch all of Them, then I would have proved it. I started counting, sizing Them up, gauging the ground, assessing the footing... Everything seemed suddenly quiet. No, everything was quiet. The gurgling of water at the lock had ceased.\n“Hey, C’mon Bill. The... What the hell are you doing?” Kim snapped. I hadn’t heard her approach.\n“I was...” I couldn’t think of a simple way of explaining it.\n“Well let’s go,” she said tugging at my arm, pulling me backwards. Reluctantly, I let her.\nSholto was standing on the boat, shifting impatiently from foot to foot.\n“Zombies,” Kim said as we half-clambered, half-fell on board.\n“Right,” he muttered, picking up his M-16, and aiming it the way we’d just come.\n“No,” she snapped, pushing the barrel away, “you’re as bad as him. Let’s just get out of here.”\nWarning! 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7413210868835449,"wiki_prob":0.7413210868835449,"text":"These maps show how ethnic cleansing has become a weapon in Syria's civil war\nFabrice Balanche,\nThe Washington Institute For Near East Policy\nDec. 8, 2015, 9:51 AM\nREUTERS/Kadir Celikcan\nBetween refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), more than half of the Syrian population has left their homes since the war began in 2011. To understand why this has happened and what can be done to reverse it, one must examine the country's demographics in detail.\nThe Washington Institute\nA population shortfall\nSyria currently has around 16 million residents — a far cry from the 2010 UN projection that the population would reach 22.6 million by the end of 2015. The birth deficit and excess mortality (violent and natural) have reduced the natural population growth by half since 2011. Even if refugees are added to the current population figure, the total would be only 21.3 million, or 1.3 million less than the prewar projection.\nThe Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has registered 4.2 million Syrians thus far, but that figure undervalues the actual number of refugees by at least 20%. Some refugees refuse to register for fear of being arrested and taken back to Syria (as is happening in Lebanon), while many wealthy refugees do not see the point of registering. So a more realistic estimate of total refugees is 5.3 million.\nThat number is expected to increase sharply.\nIn Aleppo province alone, escalating hostilities have spurred another 200,000 people to leave their homes in the past two months. The Russian offensive and the lack of short-term hope for peace have convinced many living in relatively calm areas to leave as well, and more may follow suit if the recent German-led plan to welcome more refugees is implemented.\nAreas of control\nAlthough it is difficult to give an exact number for IDPs, the available data suggests that 6.5 million Syrians have fled violent areas for safer parts of the country. This includes about 2 million who have fled to the current government-controlled zone from areas controlled by other factions, as well as millions of others who fled one regime-controlled area for another due to intense fighting.\nThe areas held by rebels (the northwest, the south, and other small pockets such as Ghouta) have lost the most people because they are the least secure — Russian and regime airstrikes impede normal life there, and the presence of numerous different rebel factions creates persistent insecurity. The area held by the self-styled Islamic State (IS) seems safer, in part because it has a central authority.\nAlthough religious minorities and secular Sunnis fled Raqqa and Deir al-Zour, they were replaced by foreign jihadists and Syrians displaced from Aleppo. In general, people tend to seek refuge where they have relatives, and where there is no fighting; the identity of the faction that controls the area does not necessarily matter to them as much.\nThe Kurdish area attracts displaced Kurds but few Arabs — no surprise given that the faction in control, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), aims to make the area ethnically homogeneous.\nMainstream media reports often highlight the fact that the Syrian army controls less than 17% of the country, and IS over 50%.\nYet these seemingly shocking figures do not factor in Syria's geography — namely that 47% of the country is sparsely inhabited steppes. Of course, extending control over some of the steppes may hold ​​strategic interest for IS; Palmyra is a traffic hub with important gas and oil resources, for example, and it borders Iraq and Jordan. In any case, the Assad regime controls the largest share of Syria's residential areas, and also the most populated area.\nAround 10.1 million inhabitants live in the government zone, or 63% of the total resident population. The areas controlled by the other three main factions (Kurds, IS, and rebels) are roughly equal, with about 2 million each. In short, the regime has gone from controlling about 20 million Syrians prewar to about 10 million now.\nLocal ethnic cleansing\nThe large-scale population movements have not been a simple byproduct of war. Rather, they represent conscious strategies of ethnic cleansing by each faction.\nTo be sure, the ethno-sectarian composition of the country as a whole has not changed much, despite the departure of disproportionately Christian and Sunni Arab refugees. Christians have traditionally been scattered throughout the country and do not have their own area of refuge like the Alawites and Druze, spurring many of them to flee abroad.\nAs for Sunni Arabs, because the insurgency took root in their ranks, they have been the first target of regime repression and airstrikes (though some Sunni clans support Bashar al-Assad and have remained safe in the government zone). Overall, Syria's current population is 22% religious minorities, 16% Kurds, and 61% Sunni Arabs — in other words, not that different from the prewar composition.\nThese figures could change in the coming months, of course, particularly if the PYD creates a continuous zone of Kurdish control along the border with Turkey by seizing territories between Azaz and Jarabulus.\nAny such move to connect the northwestern Kurdish enclave of Afrin with the rest of the PYD's territory in the northeast (known as Rojava) could spur hundreds of thousands of Sunni Arabs to flee.\nMeanwhile, expanded efforts to eliminate IS will likely produce an internal Sunni war between tribes supporting the terrorist group and other factions, creating further refugee flows.\nFor now, Syria's overall population figures hide the rampant ethnic separation already occurring within territories controlled by each faction.\nAcutely aware that its Alawite base is a shrinking minority, the regime has created a zone of control with 41% religious minorities, compared to the national figure of 22%. The army consistently prioritizes asserting its grip over Christian, Alawite, Druze, Ismaili, and Shiite localities.\nIn contrast, rebel victories often spur local religious and ethnic minorities to depart. Only the Druze area of Jabal al-Summaq in northwestern Idlib province remains in the rebel zone, enjoying special Saudi protection in connection with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt — it is the fragile exception that proves the rule. Rebel groups dominate a Sunni Arab territory; the main minority there is Sunni Turkmen, which is probably the most anti-Assad group.\nSimilarly, all religious minorities tend to flee IS-held areas. Some Kurds have remained behind; IS does not seem to distinguish them from local Sunni Arabs, probably because they are Sunni believers as well. That said, many secular Kurds have fled to PYD territory.\nIn the Kurdish zone of Rojava, Arabs must agree to live as minorities — as the Kurds did during centuries under Arab rule — or leave. This reversal of power is intolerable for many Sunni Arabs accustomed to dominating the northeast, leading some to support IS.\nThe fact that the regime-controlled zone is the most diverse does not mean that Assad is more benevolent than the rebels, Kurds, or IS. Rather, it reflects his political strategy.\nHe knows he must expel millions of Sunni Arabs to make the balance of power more favorable to minorities who support him. He also needs to divide the Sunnis by redistributing land and housing that belonged to refugees, making loyalist Sunnis who remain behind even more beholden to him and pitting them against any who decide to return.\nIn sum, the Syrian conflict is a sectarian war, and ethnic cleansing is an integral part of the strategy used by various actors, even if they claim otherwise.\nWhat ethnic cleansing means for Syria's future\nA man rides a bicycle near damaged buildings in Jobar, a suburb of Damascus, Syria\nAlthough many refugees and IDPs will want to return home once peace is established, they will be unable to do so because of their ethnicity and/or political affiliation.\nResettling displaced people will become a strategic question for each player. Their efforts at local ethnic cleansing are already making Syria's de facto partition more and more irremediable. Sectarian diversity is disappearing in many areas of the country, and this process of regional homogenization is drawing internal borders.\nYet formal partition is not necessarily a good solution. It could generate new conflicts, as seen when Sudan split and then the new country of South Sudan dissolved into civil war.\nTherefore, the international community may need to work toward a Syrian agreement that lies somewhere between the Taif Accord, which imposed a kind of unity on Lebanon, and the Dayton Agreement, which imposed a difficult partition on Bosnia under intense foreign supervision. Syria's various communities will accept living in a new, united Syrian Republic, but not the Syrian Arab Republic as it existed prewar.\nA federal system would be the best political regime because the previous centralization cannot be reestablished, whatever the ruling group.\nFabrice Balanche, an associate professor and research director at the University of Lyon 2, is a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute.\nRead the original article on The Washington Institute For Near East Policy. Copyright 2019. Follow The Washington Institute For Near East Policy on Twitter.\nSEE ALSO: Assad Regime bombardment in Syria kills 56 civilians\nNOW WATCH: Here's footage of a Russian warplane crashing after Turkey shot it down\nMore: The Washington Institute For Near East Policy Military Defense Syria","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1181065"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5708496570587158,"wiki_prob":0.5708496570587158,"text":"OHCHR > English > Countries > Latin America and Caribbean Region > OHCHR – Central America Regional Office\nOHCHR Human Rights Programme for the Americas\nCountry Mandates Established\nby the CHR/HRC\nStanding invitations to Special Procedures\nRegional Members of the Human Rights Council:\nVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2018\nVoluntary Pledges and Commitments\nUN Human Rights Report 2018\nOHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021\nHuman Rights in Action (PDF)\nA Handbook for Civil Society (PDF)\nOHCHR – Regional Office for Central America\nOHCHR Regional Office for Central America was established in Panama City, Panama, following the signature of an agreement between OHCHR and the Government of Panama on 15 February 2007.\nThe Regional Office for Central America covers the countries of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama, as well as regional issues and activities. It coordinates its activities with other OHCHR presences in Central America and in particular the country offices in Guatemala and in Honduras.\nThe Regional Office promotes awareness and dissemination of human rights standards and the implementation of recommendations made to the countries of the region by international and regional human rights mechanisms. The Regional Office also promotes dialogue and cooperation between the mechanisms of the Inter-American Human Rights System and the ones of the United Nations in order to coordinate interventions and ensure maximum impact on the ground.\nThe Regional Office works with governments, national human rights institutions and civil society organizations to promote and protect human rights. It engages regularly with UN country teams in the countries covered and is an active member of the Regional UN Development Group Team for Latin America and the Caribbean.\nIt chairs the Inter Agency Working Group on Indigenous peoples.\nThe thematic priorities of the Regional Office are:\nStrengthening the effectiveness of international human rights mechanisms with a focus on: ratifications; submission of information by civil society actors, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) and United Nations entities to treaty bodies, special procedures and the UPR; and establishment of national participatory bodies for reporting and implementing recommendations of human rights mechanisms.\nIntegrating human rights in development and the economic sphere with a focus on: land, water and sanitation and housing rights; rights to consultation and to give informed consent; post 2015-development agenda; and integration of recommendations from human rights mechanisms and a human rights-based approach in United Nations work.\nEnhancing equality and countering discrimination with a focus on: legislation and policy on non-discrimination; women; racial and religious discrimination; indigenous peoples; afro-descendants; migrants; and lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and intersex persons.\nCombating impunity and strengthening accountability and the rule of law with a focus on: human rights in the administration of justice and promoting the effective implementation of international human rights standards by the judiciary.\nEarly warning and protection of human rights in situations of conflict, violence and insecurity with a focus on: sexual and gender-based violence and insecurity\nThe Regional Office’s activities include:\nThe dissemination of international human rights norms as well as the creation of practical tools to address human rights issues such as the “Latin American model of protocol for the investigation of gender-related killings of women”.\nThe implementation of the recommendations made by treaty bodies, special procedures and the UPR including through the establishment of inter-institutional participatory mechanisms in countries under its responsibility.\nThe development, jointly with national human rights institutions in the region, of intervention protocols for cases of human rights violations concerning Afro-descendants and indigenous peoples.\nSupporting civil society organizations in the region to increase their use of international human rights protection mechanisms.\nInteraction with the Central American Integration System (SICA) to strengthen the application of a human rights approach to the implementation of the new regional security strategy.\nProviding technical assistance to judicial academies in the region on the inclusion of human rights training in their educational curricula.\nGreater integration of human rights standards and principles in the inter-agency work of the United Nations at the national and regional level, particularly in the humanitarian and development areas.\nFor more detailed information, please visit www.oacnudh.org\nRegional Representative for Central America\nCasa de las Naciones Unidas\nEdificio 128,\n3er. piso,\nCiudad del Saber, Clayton\nPanama City,\nTel: (507) 302 4698, (507) 302 4699\nEmail: Pregionaloffice@ohchr.org\nWebsite: http://www.oacnudh.org/\nField Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)\nContact is in Geneva, Switzerland.\nAmericas Section\nRegional Offices/Centres\nRegional Representative for South America\nAv. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8417732119560242,"wiki_prob":0.8417732119560242,"text":"Continuing its response to the controversy over President Obama’s speech at the prominent Catholic institution, the University of Notre Dame has announced the creation of a coordinator for pro-life initiatives. The new coordinator says she is honored to hold the position and will work to advance the Catholic identity of the university.\nThe Task Force on Supporting the Choice for Life, which ended its service in May, recommended to Notre Dame president Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., the creation of structures to implement its previous recommendations and to continue its work. Fr. Jenkins then created the position of coordinator for university life initiatives and appointed 2010 Notre Dame graduate Mary K. Daly to the post.\nDaly served as president of Notre Dame Right for Life and was a spokeswoman for NDResponse, a coalition opposed to the honoring of President Barack Obama. She will coordinate present efforts to implement the task force’s recommendations and will serve as a liaison between various university departments and offices to advance collaboration on life issues.\nAccording to the University of Notre Dame, she will also seek ways to “broaden and deepen respect for the sanctity of life” at the university and beyond.\nHer office will be located in the Institute for Church Life and she will report to John C. Cavadini, the McGrath-Cavadini Director of the Institute for Church Life who was a co-chair of the task force. She will also organize a faculty advisory committee to be chaired by Cavadini.\nDaly responded to an inquiry from CNA in a Tuesday afternoon e-mail.\nShe said she was “very pleased” that the university created a permanent position dedicated to increasing the institution’s “witness to the culture of life.”\n“I am grateful and honored to have been invited to work with the university on these initiatives,” Daly commented. She said her position will also help support and enhance the university’s mission and vision “as a Catholic institution of higher education.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1651149"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6080546975135803,"wiki_prob":0.3919453024864197,"text":"A meditation on \"Some Words with a Mummy,\" by Edgar Allan Poe\nJust in time for Halloween (truly one of the most-important stations on the annual cycle, as discussed in this post from last year at this time), we have the tremendous good fortune to be approaching the 170th anniversary of the publication of one of my favorite short stories from that groundbreaking pioneer of the macabre, the unworldly, and the hauntingly symbolic: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).\nPoe's story \"Some Words with a Mummy\" was first published in Broadway Journal (New York) on November 01, 1845.\nIf you have never had the pleasure of reading it before (and even if you have), please stop whatever you're doing right now and give it a long, leisurely read, without rushing: you'll be glad you did!\nThe best way to enjoy any great work of literature, of course, is to read a physical text (if at all possible for your particular situation). If you do not have a copy of Poe's complete tales within easy reach, you can easily purchase a good collection here (where \"Some Words with a Mummy\" will be found on pages 805 - 821), or you might also try your local library.\nBarring that, you can also find the complete text of this delightful tale online in various fonts and formats; if you don't mind consuming your Poe tales electronically, you can read \"Some Words with a Mummy\" in its entirety by following this link to a Project Gutenberg online edition.\nAgain, please don't go any further until you enjoy the story for yourself -- it is much better to read it first before I spoil it for you by focusing in on just a few of the many fascinating layers of this story, any one of which could lead to hours of profitable discussion and contemplation.\nAlso, if you have somehow arrived here because you are a student somewhere who has been given an assignment that involves your own interaction with this wonderful story, please don't interfere with your own chance to engage with the mind of Poe by clouding your view with the interpretations that I myself offer below: the observations that I offer below are simply the aspects of this rich story that resonate most strongly with what I feel like talking about at this particular moment in time, based on my own particular views and agendas.\nIf someone has assigned this story to you in class, it is probably because he or she really loves \"Some Words with a Mummy\" and wants you to be able to have the experience of wrestling with it to try to determine what messages you think Poe was trying to send with this tale, or what messages the story itself (which does seem to take on a life of its own) is trying to convey to us, across the chasm and the cobwebs of one hundred and seventy years. It would be a shame if you were to miss the messages that perhaps only you yourself can hear it whispering, because you let those messages be drowned-out by my own dronings on the subject!!!\nAll that said (and with the assurance that you have now read the story for yourself [here's that link again]), let's take just a moment to unpack some of the incredible tidbits of wisdom Poe seems to be packing into this fantastic tale -- all of which are so fresh and so relevant to our situation at this particular moment in time that it is almost unbelievable to learn that they came from Poe's pen one hundred and seventy years ago, rather than just the other day.\nThe reader will immediately begin to perceive that Poe is poking fun at the characters in his story, including his narrator (who exhibits some of the signs of a classic \"unreliable narrator,\" but who also seems to have participated in the entire encounter as part of an \"ecstatic dream\" or shamanic vision, which tends to elevate his narrative to another plane and which adds even more layers of complexity to the question of what is really going on in the story), nearly all of whom seem to be blissfully secure in the superiority of their own intellects and in the modern civilization whose distinguished representatives they take themselves to be.\nThrough a series of comedic comparisons in which the assembled intellectuals try to impress the grandeur of their modern achievements upon the bemused and patient representative from the ancient world -- the charming mummy Count Allamistakeo, who at times can barely contain his laughter at the ignorance of the moderns -- Poe reveals that the current conventional storyline of human history willfully ignores and papers-over the evidence of sophisticated technology and profound wisdom left by the most ancient civilizations (including, of course, Egypt, where some of the most abundant evidence has survived, but to which we could also add some of the stone structures, art and artifacts found in the many other parts of the world, including many sites across Europe, Africa and Asia but also in the Americas and in the vast Pacific, such as in the region of Puma Punku in South America, for instance, or in the islands of Pohnpei and Temwen in the far west part of the South Pacific) in order to maintain (just barely) a complete fairy tale that supports the present societal structure.\nIt is very noteworthy that Poe appears to have had a very strong sense of the complete inadequacy of modern engines of construction to even begin to replicate the feats of the builders of the vast ancient temples and monuments. At one point, for instance, the narrator (in an attempt to impress the Mummy), relates:\nI spoke of our gigantic mechanical forces.\nHe agreed that we knew something in that way, but inquired how I should have gone to work in getting up the imposts on the lintels of even the little palace at Carnac.\nThis question I concluded not to hear [ . . . ]. 819.\nAnother humorous incident takes place when Count Allamistakeo is confronted with the modern condescending opinion of his understanding of the realm of the divine.\nHaving informed the assembled nineteenth-century gentlemen that he is from the family of which the Scarabaeus is the insignium -- that is to say, in the Count's way of phrasing it, \"of the blood of the Scarabaeus\" -- one of the two members of the party who can speak ancient Egyptian addresses the Mummy:\n\"I thought,\" said Mr. Gliddon very meekly, \"that the Scarabaeus was one of the Egyptian gods.\"\n\"One of the Egyptian what?\" exclaimed the Mummy, starting to its feet.\n\"Gods!\" repeated the traveler.\n\"Mr. Gliddon I really am ashamed to hear you talk in this style,\" said the Count, resuming his chair. \"No nation upon the face of the earth has ever acknowledged more than one god. The Scarabaeus, the Ibis, etc were with us (as similar creatures have been with others) the symbols, or media, through which we offered worship to a Creator too august to be more directly approached.\"\nThere was here a pause. 814 - 815.\nIt is really quite remarkable to note that Poe is here, in 1845 (and remembering that the Rosetta Stone was only first deciphered in 1822, after a lapse of centuries during which all understanding of ancient hieroglyphics had been forgotten) making an assertion that the spiritual understanding of ancient Egypt was substantially the same as that everywhere else on the face of the earth -- only the symbols or media varying from one climate or culture to the next.\nIt is also remarkable that Poe happens to have selected the Scarabaeus as the insignia of the family from which Count Allamistakeo has come -- the family whose members at times submit to mummification while still alive (in the fictional realm of this satirical story, of course) in order to \"travel through time\" so to speak, surfacing in various periods to correct the errors of the historians (who invariably get it all wrong, all the time, according to the Count).\nCould Poe have known that the Scarabaeus was anciently (in Egypt) the symbol of the summer solstice, the top of the year, the symbolic \"top of the upraised Djed column\" representing our divine nature (buried alive, as it were, in our material body)? See these previous posts for extended discussion of the evidence that the ancient Egyptian scarab was associated with the \"upraised arms\" of Cancer the Crab, and from there to the entire theme of \"raising the divine nature\":\n\"Scarab, Ankh and Djed,\" and \"Summer Solstice, 2014.\"\nSee also the extended discussion in the previous post entitled \"Ambrose and Theodosius\" for abundant evidence that the ancients understood this meaning of the symbol of the Scarabaeus, and that early Christian theologians even went so far as to use the term to refer to Christ upon the Cross -- which certainly throws a new light upon the significance of Poe's decision to have Count Allamistakeo declare that he himself (this representative who has come back from the dead) is \"of the blood of the Scarabaeus.\nIn fact, that post cites a direct quotation from the ancient literalist Christian Bishop Ambrose, whose power was so great that he was able to deny access to mass by the Emperor of Rome at the time, in which Ambrose speaking of Christ describes him as: \"Him, I say, who, as a scarabaeus, cried out to his Father to forgive the sins of his persecutors\" (link to the entire ancient speech from AD 394 here).\nIt would be quite a stretch to argue that Poe simply used this phraseology of \"the Scarabaeus\" and the \"blood of the Scarabaeus\" by coincidence or by accident. In fact, as a young man of seventeen, Poe entered the University of Virginia (which had been founded by Thomas Jefferson only the year before) and earned distinction for his excellence in the study of both ancient and modern languages, according to the biographical notes included in the same volume of Poe tales and sketches linked above, on pages 1455 - 1456.\nThe fact that Poe is including this reference in a story which centers around the willful ignorance of history among the modern gatekeepers of academic and scientific knowledge, in a story which indeed contains the above-cited exchange in which modern chauvinistic disdain for the spiritual belief of the \"pagans\" is completely upended and shown to be in error, seems to indicate that Poe knew exactly what he was doing when he wrote \"Some Words with a Mummy.\"\nThe story is about willful ignorance of history because, as the story makes quite evident, the evidence is there for anyone who wants to look at it -- the men assembled around the Mummy laid out upon the dining-room table, so secure in their imagined superiority, clearly maintain their contrived narrative of history because it is essential to their maintenance of a society that treats all those deemed \"below them\" as mere objects to be exploited, experiments to be operated upon, prodded, cut, or electrified as necessary.\nThey maintain their fairy-tale view because it is useful to them -- not because they lack the evidence to discard that fairy tale.\nIn fact, throughout the story, the narrator and his companions are shown to grow increasingly uncomfortable as the holes in their conventional paradigm become more and more glaringly obvious, but in each case they seem to succeed in shaking off the body-blows that the Mummy deals to their smug self-confidence (even when those body-blows should be fatal to their conventional paradigm), and they continue to relentlessly \"move on to the next question\" until they come up with something that they think conclusively proves their superiority, and they can finally take their leave of the anxiety-producing Count Allamistakeo.\nAs the conversation with the Mummy takes one turn after another \"for the worse\" (in other words, as it becomes more and more evident that the Mummy's responses are exposing the tissue of fabrications and fictions upon which the gathered group's imagined superiority is supposedly founded), the narrator says that the assembled moderns pulled out what they think will give them the last word:\nWe then spoke of the great beauty and importance of Democracy, and were at much trouble in impressing the Count with a due sense of the advantages we enjoyed living where there was suffrage ad libitum, and no king.\nHe listened with marked interest, and in fact seemed not a little amused. When we had done, he said that, a great while ago, there had occurred something of a very similar sort. Thirteen Egyptian provinces determined all at once to be free, and so set a magnificent example to the rest of mankind. They assembled their wise men, and concocted the most ingenious constitution that it is possible to conceive. For a while they managed remarkably well; only their habit of bragging was prodigious. The thing ended, however, in the consolidation of the thirteen states, with some fifteen or twenty others, into the most odious and insupportable despotism that ever was heard of upon the face of the Earth. 820\nKeep in mind, thank goodness, that Poe was writing the above lines in the long-ago year of 1845, and thus cannot possibly have been commenting upon the state of affairs in 2015.\nHowever, the fact that this warning seems particularly relevant to our modern times here in the twenty-first century should cause us to pay very close attention to what is going on in this story from one of the true masters of fiction from the early part of the nineteenth.\nIt seems that Poe is expressing very clearly the opinion that the two seemingly-separate subjects of tyranny or despotism and false historical paradigms (and the deliberate ignoring of evidence that is basically sitting right in front of our face) are in fact very closely connected.\nOne apparently leads to the other (deliberately false history leads to despotism), and in fact it is possible that you cannot maintain oppression and despotism without getting people to buy into false narratives -- buy into them to the point that they refuse to look at the abundant evidence that undermines those false narratives.\nIt should be noted that Poe does not seem to be saying Democracy itself is necessarily a bad idea, or even that the experiment with democracy or the \"ingenious constitution\" he describes in the story (obviously referring to the United States of America) were doomed to failure: quite the contrary, he states that \"for a while they managed remarkably well.\"\nGiven, however, that this story's central theme clearly revolves around the pitfalls inherent in stubbornly clinging to an erroneous and self-serving historical narrative, it might be safe to say that Poe is here arguing that our understanding of history is actually a question of critical importance, and that it may even make the difference between the ability to create a world in which everyone can enjoy the advantages of freedom, and one that collapses into \"the most odious and insupportable despotism that ever was heard of upon the face of the Earth.\"\nIn fact, we can even go further and say that Poe might even be implying that our understanding of ancient history is one of the critical factors between a society that treats others with dignity and respect (as the Mummy in fact seems to do in the story) and one that does not, and ultimately between one that tends towards increasing freedom, or slides into despotism.\nIn the end, the narrator seems to have been shaken somewhat more than the others, and decides that he has grown heartily sick of life in the nineteenth century -- and that he'd be better off going to get embalmed himself for a couple of hundred years: \"I am anxious to know who will be President in 2045,\" he tells us.\nThe fact that our own present calendar has now advanced remarkably close to 2045 should cause us to consider this amazing little story from Edgar Allan Poe with renewed interest, and to ask ourselves whether our general view of history and humanity's ancient past are any more accurate today than they were 170 years ago.\nLabels: ancient Egypt, consciousness\nDazzling conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Mars in the pre-dawn sky\nimage: stellarium.org (background of stars), Wikimedia commons (Venus, Jupiter and Mars).\nThe important gods Jupiter and Mars and goddess Venus are staging a stunning confabulation in the early morning sky beneath the majestic form of the Lion, and if it is at all possible for you to do so, I highly encourage everyone to make the effort to rise early (two to two-and-one-half hours before sunrise should suffice) and get to a location with a fairly dark sky and unobstructed views.\nFor observers in in the north-of-tropical latitudes of the northern hemisphere, observation times between 5:00am and 6:00am are ideal.\nNot only are these planets particularly dazzling right now, but the pre-dawn sky is positively bursting at this time of year with some of the most glorious stars and constellations that we on earth have available to us.\nWhen you go outside in the pre-dawn hours right now and look towards the south [all instructions in this post are written from the perspective of an observer in the northern hemisphere; southern-hemisphere brothers and sisters please adjust all references accordingly, with my apologies for my northern-hemisphericentricity], the constellation Orion will be passing his highest point on his arc above the horizon at around 4:45am on the morning October 25th (a few minutes earlier each day after that, until he eventually makes his way into the \"prime-time\" viewing hours before midnight during our winter months), and from his high place at or near the top of his path, Orion will be surrounded by a host of other celestial luminaries and figures of great beauty and importance.\nBelow is a screen-shot from the open-source planetarium app stellarium.org showing the pre-dawn sky as it will look from the latitude of about 35.6N at around 5:30am on the morning of 25 October, facing generally towards the south (east is to the left and west is to the right when we face south):\nYou can see that Orion with his distinctive three-star belt and hourglass shape of bright stars has already passed his transit point (his highest point, due south above the red letter \"S\" that is shown down at the horizon) and is proceeding downwards to the west, but still quite high in the sky. To the left of him is the shining band of the Milky Way galaxy, angling upwards slightly towards the right as it climbs towards the north, and just at its edge is the star Sirius -- the brightest fixed star in our heavens (Orion's belt points towards it if you extend the line of the belt's three stars to the \"left\").\nOrion's outstretched arm towards the west is clearly visible holding its bow, and above this is the distinctive \"V\" of the Hyades, which form the \"jawbone\" of the Bull of Taurus. Above Orion to the other side (left as we face the south) are the linear forms of the Twins of Gemini, with their heads marked by the two bright stars Pollux (brighter and lower) and Castor (dimmer and higher, stacked almost directly above Pollux), and then as we proceed towards the eastern horizon (where the sun will be rising) we pass over Cancer the Crab (difficult to spot but with the assistance of this blog you can find Cancer and its distinctive Beehive Cluster) and encounter the rising form of the mighty Lion, with the breathtaking Jupiter and Venus just beneath, and further down reddish and sullen Mars.\nBelow is the same screen-shot as that presented just above, but this time with the constellations and planets just described marked for your easy identification:\nIn this image, which shows the relative positions of the three planets as they will be on the morning of 25 October, Venus appears to be just \"below\" (closer to the horizon from) Jupiter, although please note that in order to try to present on a flat \"page\" the arrangement of stars that we see as occupying the \"dome\" or \"vault\" of the heavens, stellarium (and hence this screen-shot) curve the horizon upwards as you approach the left and right sides of the rectangular screen or image. In other words, the app is trying to create the effect of a planetarium or night-sky that wraps around the viewer on either side.\nBecause of this, if you think about it, that means that all the \"stuff\" you see on the left and right edges of this image has to be \"pulled downwards\" in your mind in order to match what you would see if you went outside (or observed the same image while inside an actual vaulted or dome-shaped planetarium), which means that Leo is actually going to be much more vertical in his orientation in the sky than he appears in the \"wrapped\" (but flattened) image you see reproduced above. (Another way of saying this is to think of an observer standing in silhouette right on the horizon at the very left of the above image: because of the way the horizon is \"wrapped,\" the person would appear to be almost horizontal, with his or her head pointing to the right, even though that person is really standing straight up-and-down. In the same way, Leo seems to be almost horizontal in this image, but when you go out to see him, he will be much more vertical in his orientation).\nWhat this means for the three planets marked on the planetarium app screen-shot is that they will actually form a triangle with Jupiter and Venus much more on the same level with one another, Venus to the right of Jupiter, and Mars below them.\nWe can actually see this more clearly if we just use the stellarium app and swivel our view towards the east (which means that now the screen's \"wrap\" effect will cause Orion and the stars on his side of the screen to warp inwards) and then we will see the Lion and the three planets in an orientation that will resemble more closely what you will see in the morning if you are able to go outside into the pre-dawn night:\nNote that we've now rotated our view until we are looking about \"due east\" (placing the red letter \"E\" in the center of the horizon, which continues to wrap-upwards on the outer edges, where you still need to use your imagination for the \"dome effect\"). Stars along the \"vault of the sky\" directly ahead of us are thus positioned about the same way that you will see them in the morning: stars towards the edges require you to remember that you are looking at what is supposed to simulate a dome.\nAs you can see, Venus is actually just slightly higher in the sky and to the right of Jupiter, while Mars is a bit below them, clearly visible and forming a kind of \"downwards-pointing isosceles triangle\" with the brighter two planets.\nLeo now appears as he will in the pre-dawn sky: rising up from the eastern horizon at a steep upwards-angle. As always, the Lion is \"geared\" to the lower edge of the Big Dipper, which fits it almost like a puzzle piece that is lined up with Leo but separated by a stretch of sky (see previous discussion here).\nBelow we see the same screen-shot, this time with labels and outlines for the planets and constellations just mentioned:\nAs earth progresses on our path around the sun, and as Venus, Jupiter and Mars continue on their own tracks around our central star, these relative positions will continue to change, rather dramatically from day-to-day. Venus will drop past Jupiter and soon be much lower than Jupiter in the sky. For additional diagrams showing the positions of these three divinities, check out this excellent discussion page over at Sky & Telescope.\nThat discussion page shows as well the position of Mercury, who is also visible just before sunrise if you have a good view of the eastern horizon (in the screenshots above, Mercury is not visible yet, because it is still about two hours before sunrise).\nWhile you are out enjoying the gorgeous conjunction of these celestial wanderers (especially if you are able to go out while it is still dark, such as two hours before sunrise), you will have the opportunity to see the Pleiades, located in Taurus beyond the Hyades (about equal distance beyond the Hyades from Orion -- see the labeled south-facing image above that contains Orion). You should also be able to continue past the Pleiades and locate Perseus, whose foot is pointing towards the Pleiades. Perseus is not marked in the images on this post, but several previous posts show you how to locate him (see here, here, and here for example).\nPerseus figures in many Star Myths that have been discussed in previous posts (the first link in the previous paragraph takes you to one of them), as do the Pleiades, and the V-shaped Hyades mentioned earlier and clearly visible in the pre-dawn sky are also very important in myths the world over. For discussion of the role of the Hyades in the Samson-cycle of myths, see previous posts and video here and here.\nIn the episodes of Samson's life, an encounter with a lion features quite prominently, as does a certain swarm of bees which make their home in the carcass of the lion after Samson kills the lion with his bare hands. As the above discussion and video about Samson point out, I believe there is abundant evidence which indicates that the lion encountered by Samson is none other than Leo the Lion, and the swarm of bees is the beautiful Beehive Cluster in the zodiac constellation of Cancer the Crab, located almost directly in front of the mouth of Leo.\nIf you are able to go out to see Jupiter, Venus and Mars when the night is dark and clear, you should be able to make out the tiny silvery cloud of the Beehive with your naked eye. Previous posts have explained some techniques for finding the Beehive: see for example here and the second half of the video here. Once you have located the Beehive with the naked eye, you may also want to have a look at it with binoculars.\nBelow is a screenshot showing the location of the Beehive, in the constellation of Cancer the Crab and directly in front of the \"jowls\" of the face of Leo the Lion:\nThe Beehive is actually more visible outside in the night sky than it appears in the screenshots here. However, due to the way our eyes are designed, you may find that you can \"see\" the Beehive most easily when you are not looking directly at it.\nInstead, try sweeping the sky rather slowly and deliberately working from Leo towards Gemini, or back from Gemini to Leo. Just after you \"pass\" by the Beehive, you may see it or sense it or perceive it \"out of the corner of your eye,\" even if you did not see it when you were looking directly towards the Beehive itself.\nThe constellations visible before dawn at this time of year are well worth the effort to try to view and become familiar with, if it is at all possible for you to do so. All of them figure prominently in multiple Star Myths from around the globe, and all of them are very beautiful in their own unique way.\nThe conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Mars in the eastern part of the sky just below Leo the Lion creates a special bonus and one that can be seen on successive mornings for some time (although it is arguably at its most dazzling right now).\nPlanetary conjunctions also figure in ancient mythology -- previous posts have investigated some of these: see for instance here, here and here. The stars and the planets truly form the basis for all the incredible sacred myths, scriptures, and stories bequeathed to humanity as a precious inheritance.\nI believe that these esoteric allegories utilize the awe-inspiring celestial cycles in order to convey to us profound truths which are absolutely essential during our earthly sojourn and intended for our benefit, in much the same way that Mr. Miyagi used different physical motions (such as wax-the-car or paint-the-fence) to impart profound knowledge to Daniel-san, knowledge which was also intended for his benefit and which was essential for him to understand.\nI truly believe that the more you are able to become familiar with the beautiful constellations and planets in our night sky, and their intricate cycles and turnings, the more you will be able to appreciate and understand the ancient wisdom which was given to you and to me and to all of humanity at some point now hidden behind the mists of time.\nLabels: astronomy, mythology\nFragments of a lost whole\nimage: Wikimedia commons, \"Landscape with Buddhist Temples,\" 16th century, unknown artist (link). Cropped.\nIn a justifiably well-known quotation from the introduction to the ground-breaking 1969 book Hamlet's Mill: An essay on myth and the frame of time, Giorgio de Santillana quotes from an earlier essay of his which he wrote in 1959 (and which, although I may be incorrect on this, I believe was published in 1962 or 1963 as an article in a literary journal, under the title \"In the High and Far-off Times\").\nOften quoted for its most memorable lines, the full quotation is worth considering carefully (from pages 4 and 5 of the edition linked above):\nThe dust of centuries had settled upon the remains of this great world-wide archaic construction when the Greeks came upon the scene. Yet something of it survived in traditional rites, in myths and fairy tales no longer understood. Taken verbally, it matured the bloody cults intended to procure fertility, based on the belief in a dark universal force of an ambivalent nature, which seems now to monopolize our interest. Yet its original themes could flash out again, preserved almost intact, in the later thought of the Pythagoreans and of Plato.\nBut they are tantalizing fragments of a lost whole. They make one think of those \"mist landscapes\" of which Chinese painters are masters, which show here a rock, here a gable, there the tip of a tree, and leave the rest to imagination. Even when the code shall have yielded, when the techniques shall be known, we cannot expect to gauge the thought of those remote ancestors of ours, wrapped as it is in its symbols.\nTheir words are no more heard again\nThrough lapse of many ages . . .\nThink for a moment of the implications of what is being asserted in the above statements. The author is saying that all of the world's surviving myths, rites, and even fairy tales are \"tantalizing fragments of a lost whole\" -- in other words, that they are all connected, or were at one time.\nBut, he says, like the \"mist landscapes\" of Chinese art, vast portions of this \"great world-wide archaic construction\" are now hidden from our sight, and all the little pieces or bits of ground which we can see today seem at first glance to be disconnected.\nNow, with the great ancient structure now in ruins, we can only pick out \"here a rock . . . there the tip of a tree,\" or perhaps the corner of a gable on a roof, or even some mysterious artifact whose original purpose is now unknown.\nModern \"isolationist\" theory, and most conventional understanding of ancient sacred scriptures, treats this landscape as if each part is not and never was part of a single unified whole, that they are not descended from some single vastly ancient unified design.\nIt is as if someone were to stand on one little \"island in the mist\" in a Chinese painting and declare that they are part of their own separate landscape, and that they have no connection to what is going on over on the other side of the mist-covered parts of the same painting.\nOr, to use the metaphor from the first line of the above quotation, it is as if a vast ancient ruin of great antiquity can be seen poking up in various places around our entire planet, sometimes scattered in the sands of deserts, or peeking out of the vines of jungles, or rising up out of lonely swamps or marshes or even windswept tundras . . . and all of it apparently once functioning together as a single overarching and interconnected structure.\nAfter making this remarkable assertion, the authors of Hamlet's Mill, both university professors, then proceed to fill hundreds of pages with evidence to back up their reconstruction of the now-vanished lines of connection, connections which are now obscured by thick mists, or which must be lying deep beneath the shifting sands and the jungle overgrowth between the few fragments of ancient ruins that we can still see above the surface. In support of their argument, they provide hundreds of examples from mythology, images of the stars and constellations and of artifacts and art from ancient times, and extensive quotations and footnotes from scholars during the twentieth and previous centuries in the fields of mythology, religion, anthropology, history, linguistics, and literary criticism.\nThe \"great world-wide archaic construction\" whose now-fragmented pieces they are examining appears to have encompassed aspects of measure (of distance and of time), of music, of art and proportion, of architecture, of history, of astronomy, of cosmology, of physics, of what the authors call a \"kind of Naturphilosophie\" (p70), of consciousness, of the gods and their realm . . . and perhaps of much, much more.\nAnd of course, central to this structure in some way appears to have been the myths -- like pillars holding up the vast over-arching design, not one single pillar perhaps but numerous pillars located in every single part of the globe, all different in some way and yet all connected and all mutually-supporting.\nCarrying further the work that von Dechend and de Santillana have done in tracing the interconnectedness of these myths and myth-systems and cosmologies, we can see that it becomes harder and harder to deny that all the world's sacred traditions appear to share a common system, an esoteric system, a system founded upon the heavenly cycles and on celestial metaphor.\nSince first encountering Hamlet's Mill, I have over the course of many years of investigating and pondering and even dreaming about various ancient myths and stories, begun to see the outlines of this system -- particularly in regard to the myths of the world -- more and more clearly, and now believe that its outlines and connections can be seen even more extensively than even was visible at the time that de Santillana and von Dechend were writing. In addition to the \"rock here\" and \"tip of a tree there,\" additional features have occasionally emerged out of the flowing mist, to the point that the existence of this vast ancient system cannot be denied.\nThe preceding post, explaining in fairly extensive detail all the celestial connections and clues preserved for our understanding in the ancient Hebrew scroll of Numbers (part of the Pentateuch) and specifically in the story of Balaam and the Ass and their encounter with the Angel on the way, is just one more example of an analysis that could be repeated again and again and again, using other sacred stories from around the world, including from Africa, Scandinavia, ancient Greece, ancient India, ancient Egypt, the Americas, China, Japan, and many more.\nSignificantly, the same celestial analysis can also be repeated again and again in the stories of the Old Testament and New Testament (see the partial list here -- and dozens more could be provided).\nThe fact that the very same system of celestial metaphor can be seen forming the foundation for the sacred stories of the Bible that forms the foundation for virtually all the other myths, scriptures, and sacred traditions, from every part of the planet, shows that -- far from being somehow set apart from the rest of humanity, as some literalist interpretations have maintained -- the ancient wisdom preserved in these particular scriptures, and the stories themselves, are almost certainly also fragments of the same ancient structure.\nTo maintain that they are somehow disconnected and independent and self-contained is akin to some isolated group dwelling amidst some small part of the remains of this vast world-wide construction, ignorant of its original ancient purpose, standing on top of their own local clump of ruined blocks, and declaring that their piece of the whatever it used to be is superior to all the others, and that their portion cannot possibly be connected to the rest of the ruins, because obviously there are now great sections of wasteland in between the various places, and they could never have once functioned all together (and besides, some of them even say, all those other ruins are fakes, or at best copies of this one section over here in our territory).\nThe question, then, of whether the myths are all fragments of an ancient whole thus becomes one of incredible importance, and the evidence (overwhelming in its abundance once the system begins to emerge) that they are all connected by a common system of celestial metaphor thus becomes evidence which argues that the myths of humanity actually unite us, rather than divide us.\nTaken literally, the myths and stories tend strongly towards dividing us from one another. Their literal interpretation has been very frequently used in the past (and indeed right up through the present) to divide instead of to unite different groups and branches of the human family.\nIn part, literal interpretations tend strongly towards division because, taken literally, the myths are understood to be about external, literal, historical individuals and groups -- individuals who are the ancestors of some of us but not of all of us.\nFor example, the Old Testament story of Shem, Ham and Japheth has been used in previous centuries to divide all people on earth into the supposed descendants of one or another of these three sons of Noah -- and to justify all kinds of oppression, denigration and mistreatment of one or another supposed set of descendants based on a literal interpretation of what I believe can be shown quite conclusively to be based upon a celestial metaphor.\nBut when the story is seen to be, like virtually every other sacred myth or tradition from around the globe, a celestial allegory, then it can no longer be used to claim that some are descended from one or another of the figures (if the figures are constellations in the heavens). Once this allegorical aspect is perceived, then the esoteric meaning of the myths can begin to impress itself upon our understanding: they cannot be about human progenitors of various people-groups, and so they must be about something else -- and that \"something else\" that they are about, I believe, is our human condition as simultaneously spiritual and material beings, inhabiting a cosmos which is also simultaneously spiritual and material . . . and all the incredible ramifications of those twin aspects of our incarnate existence.\nThe Star Myths of humanity are not about someone else: they are about each and every one of us, and the motions of the stars and the other heavenly cycles were selected because they perfectly allegorize our own spiritual experience of descending from the spiritual \"realms above\" into this apparently-physical material existence, and the necessity of our remembering the spiritual realm from whence we originally came, and of reconnecting with it and elevating it both within our own lives and in everyone and everything else around us, while we are \"down here\" in this \"valley below.\"\nAnd if they are about each and every one of us, then again it is clear that the myths unite us. If their message is primarily esoteric, and applicable to each and every human soul, then they are about you, and for your benefit, and they are about me and for my benefit as well.\nWhen taken literally, however, the opposite can tend to happen -- they are seen as and taught as being about and for one group, and not for anyone else. That group can be defined by supposed physical descent from this or that historical person (as in the case of Shem, Ham and Japheth cited above), or it can be based upon acceptance of one set of literal interpretations and assertions, in which case those who believe and accept those assertions separate themselves from everyone else who does not.\nAll of these literal misinterpretations can be seen as a form of \"living in one part of the mist landscape, and denying its connection to the rest of the picture,\" of falsely dividing and isolating and, if you will, \"getting lost in the fog.\"\nThey are also a form of \"physicalizing\" teachings that, properly understood, are spiritual and esoteric in nature. De Santillana strongly hints at this mistake when he says, in the original quotation cited above, that \"Taken verbally . . . \" [and by this I believe he means the same thing I am saying when I say 'taken literally' or 'literalistically'] these ancient myths were mainly incorporated into \"bloody cults intended to procure fertility\" and to bend the ambivalent forces of nature for one's own interests.\nIn other words, they were basically \"physicalized\" and turned towards material ends, almost towards \"animal ends,\" rather than pointing us towards the invisible and spiritual truths and the elevation of the divine spark (although occasionally, as in the teachings of Pythagoras and Plato, their \"original themes could flash out again\" and light up the general darkness).\nToday, thanks to the tireless work of many, many researchers in the decades since de Santillana and von Dechend wrote Hamlet's Mill (many of those researchers inspired in their own work very directly by the \"tantalizing fragments\" which they encountered in Hamlet's Mill), we can see even more clearly than when that book was published that we do indeed stand within and among the mighty ruins of a great, world-wide archaic construction.\nIndeed, new and astonishing aspects of the physical remains of that ancient construct continue to come to light -- such as Nabta Playa and Gobekli Tepe, neither of which were known in 1969 when Hamlet's Mill came out.\nMuch of this \"mist landscape\" still remains shrouded with mist, to be sure.\nBut the fact that these fragments are part of what was once some ancient and very sophisticated unified system of understanding is now almost impossible to deny.\nThe ramifications of this fact are extraordinary.\nBut we can be encouraged in the knowledge that at least one of the important ramifications of the assertions made in that quotation, so long ago, and the evidence which continues to be found in its support, is the fact that we are all connected, that all of us as human beings share an incredible (if still mysterious) past history, and that we are all inheritors of the precious treasure of the ancient wisdom that was preserved in the world's myths for our benefit -- an inheritance that belongs to us all, and not just to some.\nLabels: consciousness, Hamlet's Mill, mythology\nBalaam and the Ass\nThe position of the earth on its annual journey around the sun is currently bringing the part of the heavens into view which I believe forms the basis for the fascinating ancient scriptural incident of Balaam and his ass (or donkey).\nThe account of Balaam is found in chapters 22 through 24 of the Old Testament book of Numbers, and it involves a number of important themes, chief among them the theme of blessing versus cursing.\nThe story of Balaam probably does not get much focus from those devoted to a literalistic reading of the scriptures these days (and my own personal experience during the nearly twenty years I was devoted to such an understanding was attending churches teaching a literalist understanding supports that assertion), due to the fact that it poses some fairly significant difficulties for those trying to read it literally.\nChief among these problems is undoubtedly the climax of the story, in which Balaam's donkey turns around and speaks to him to complain about Balaam's inhumane treatment. Balaam doesn't help things, because he answers right back to the donkey as if it is the most natural thing in the world do be accosted by one's mount while out for a ride. The two get into a conversation.\nThis is actually not the biggest difficulty in the text, as we shall see. The biggest problem is probably the fact that God appears to become angry with Balaam even after he explicitly tells Balaam to go ahead and travel to Moab, as we'll see in the text below.\nAnother factor which has probably led to the decline in focus on this story is the fact that the older translations consistently refer to Balaam's mount as an ass, which is what it is, because it was apparently not until some time in the 1700s that the word donkey was even used in English to refer to one particular sub-variety of ass. The 1611 King James translation, which had an enormous impact on literature and culture, thus refers to the animal as an ass, and the story has generally been referred to through the centuries in English-speaking cultures as the incident of \"Balaam's ass.\"\nHowever, if we can just get past those superficial problems, we can see in this story yet another example of the incredible worldwide system by which the same celestial foundations were dressed up in myth after myth after myth, in order to convey profound truths to us for our benefit during this earthly sojourn.\nUnfortunately, trying to force the ancient scriptures into a literalistic-historical framework can cause us to miss their beautiful message altogether, or to distort it into something that means the exact opposite of what they were actually intended to convey.\nThe story of Balaam begins in Numbers chapter 22:\n1 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plain of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.\n2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.\n3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.\n4 And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.\n5 He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face [literally \"the eye\"] of the earth, and they abide over against me:\n6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou belssest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.\nThe messengers from Balak come to Balaam and convey the message, but Balaam consults with God and is told in verse 12 not to go with them nor to curse the people, \"for they are blessed.\"\nDisappointed, Balak sends yet more princes to Balaam, even more honorable than the first messengers, and this time offers great honor and says that Balaam can name his reward if he agrees to come.\nBalaam is again visited by God at night who tells Balaam that if the messengers ask Balaam to go with them, he should rise up and go, but only say the word which God gives to him (verse 20).\nThis brings us to the most famous part of the story (still in Numbers chapter 22):\n22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.\n23 And the ass saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.\n24 But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.\n25 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.\n26 And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.\n27 And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.\n28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?\n29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.\n30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever won't to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.\n31 Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.\nThe angel then informs Balaam that, had it not been for the fact that the ass perceived the presence of the angel, the angel would have slain Balaam. Balaam offers to go back home, but the angel tells him to continue, repeating the previous admonition from verse 20 that Balaam is only to say what is given to him to speak.\nSo Balaam continues, and joins Balak, who takes him \"up into the high places of Baal\" (verse 41). Balaam instructs Balak to have seven altars prepared, for seven bulls and seven rams, which are made into a burnt offering (Numbers 23: 1 - 6). But when the time comes that Balak expects Balaam to pronounce a great curse, Balaam announces that he cannot curse what God hath not cursed, and concludes with words of blessing (23: 7 - 12).\nBalak is upset, but Balaam notes that he had said from the very start when first approached by Balak's messengers that he could only say what was given to him by God for Balaam to say.\nBalak doesn't give up, however, and suggests they try another location, where seven altars are again constructed for seven bulls and seven rams. But the LORD meets Balaam and tells him exactly what to say, resulting in an even more eloquent blessing than before (this time replete with celestial imagery, particularly of a great lion). Balak isn't very happy about this and asks Balaam if he can just say nothing if he's not going to pronounce a curse, but Balaam explains that he must say what the LORD tells him to say (23: 25 - 26).\nBalak decides to try one more time, and seven more altars are built as before, with similar results. This time the blessing is even more elaborate and takes up the first part of Numbers 24 (verses 5 - 9). The text also tells us that to deliver this message, Balaam falls into a trance, in which his eyes are open but in which he was given a vision of the Almighty (Numbers 24: 4).\nAfter this, Balak tells Balaam to flee back to his home, but Balaam asks Balak if he wouldn't like to know more, and goes into another trance to give more predictions -- all of which I believe have to do with the celestial realms and to have spiritual meaning for our lives here on earth, but which could be (and often are) misinterpreted as literal predictions of things that would happen in earthly history. After delivering this message, Balaam returns to his place (Numbers 24: 25).\nNow, how can we be reasonably certain that this event, preserved in ancient scripture, is allegorical and not literal and historical?\nSetting aside the fact that donkeys cannot actually carry on conversations with humans as Balaam's ass is literally described as doing, there are abundant clues in the story which indicate the exact set of constellations involved.\nThe best place to start is with Balaam himself. The specific detail that he has his foot crushed by his donkey's efforts to avoid the awe-inducing presence of the angel (Numbers 22: 25), gives us our first clue as to his identity -- and it is a very important one. There is one specific constellation who appears to have a severely twisted foot, and that constellation is currently rising brightly in the east during the \"prime-time\" viewing hours after the sun goes down: the constellation Perseus.\nBelow is a star diagram looking generally south and east, in which I have drawn in the outline of the constellation Perseus and several of the accompanying constellations surrounding Perseus which may also play a role in this story.\nI've labeled Perseus as playing the role of Balaam in this story, and noted the location of the foot that was injured (ouch -- that looks pretty bad):\nNow, if we're correct in identifying Balaam with Perseus (primarily on the basis of the crushed foot in the story, although there is plenty of other corroborating evidence that we will find shortly), then we need to find out which constellation is playing the role of Balaam's mistreated beast of burden in the story: the ass.\nIt just so happens that, directly beneath the figure of Perseus is the zodiac constellation of Taurus the Bull. Now, we know that this story has not come down through history as the famous tale of Balaam's Bull but rather of Balaam's Ass, so how can we possibly assert that Taurus could be playing the role of an ass in this story?\nWell, as you can see from the diagram above (and the labeled diagram below, both of which indicate the outline formed by the brightest stars of the constellation Taurus using orange lines), the zodiac constellation of the Bull primarily consists of the brilliant V-shaped Hyades, and then there are two stars much further out above each of the \"prongs\" of the \"V\" which enable us to trace a long line in our imagination from the top of the Hyades to the ends of two mighty bull-horns.\nThese \"horns\" could also be envisioned as the ears of an ass.\nThe ass as a species can have some pretty long and impressive ears, as shown in the image collection below (all images from Wikimedia commons, links to originals here, here, here and here):\nLooking again at the stars of the constellation Taurus, it is not hard to understand why the formulators of the world's ancient Star Myths sometimes chose to envision this outline as a long-eared ass:\nIn the diagram, I've indicated the location of the V-shaped Hyades, and then if you look directly to the \"left\" of the \"V\" you can see the two stars which form the tips of the horns (if playing the role of the Bull) or the tips of the ears (if playing the role of an ass, as in the story of Balaam).\nBut in addition to the fact that the outline of the brightest stars in Taurus can very easily be envisioned as fitting a story with an ass or donkey, there is also plenty of evidence from other myths which help to confirm that our interpretation of the story of Balaam is on the right track so far.\nPerhaps the most powerful piece of confirmatory evidence comes from elsewhere in the Hebrew scriptures themselves, for the V-shaped Hyades feature prominently in another Star Myth which I have outlined and discussed in some detail: the Samson cycle of myths.\nIn the story of Samson, of course, Samson's chosen weapon for slaying thousands of Philistines is the famous \"jawbone of an ass,\" which does not seem to make much sense if the story is taken as literal history. Perhaps Samson might use such an implement in a hurry for one or two opponents, but it hardly seems likely that he would continue to employ it over and over against literally a thousand: wouldn't he decide to pick up one of their weapons after slaying a few enemies who had swords or spears? (Unless, that is, all his opponents were also using jawbones as weapons that day, which seems unlikely).\nThe account is recorded in the scroll of Judges, chapter 15 and verse 15. I have explained in previous posts and in a video that the story of Samson is clearly not intended to be understood literally, but that it was almost certainly intended to convey powerful esoteric truths regarding our experience in this physical incarnate life (Samson was not a literal-historic character but in fact represents aspects of the incarnation of each and every human soul: in a very real sense, the story of Samson is all about you).\nThe understanding that Samson's jawbone-weapon is actually a group of stars -- that this jawbone is, in fact, the very specific V-shaped formation of the Hyades -- was one of the first breakthroughs in my own understanding that the stories in the Bible are built upon the very same celestial foundation that underlies all the other myths found in virtually every culture and every corner of our planet. This conclusion is explained by Hertha von Dechend and Giorgio de Santillana in their groundbreaking 1969 text, Hamlet's Mill, in which they present evidence that jawbone-weapons are described in myths from the Americas and from the Pacific Islands as well, and all of them relate to the Hyades (the Hyades are located above the constellation Orion, who can be seen \"reaching out\" towards them, just as Samson is described as \"putting forth his hand\" to grasp the jawbone in the book of Judges -- you can actually see a few stars of Orion peeking above the horizon in the star-diagrams presented here).\nIf the Hyades can function as a jawbone-weapon, and if that jawbone is described as \"the jawbone of an ass\" rather than \"the jawbone of a bull\" (as we might expect, since the Hyades are in Taurus), then this is very strong confirmatory evidence to support the proposition that Taurus is functioning as the ass in the story of Balaam as well.\nInterestingly enough, as can be seen from the included diagrams here, Perseus is reaching out with one arm in the direction of another important constellation: the beautiful maiden Andromeda, whom Perseus rescues in the Greek myth based upon these same stars. In a moment, we will see that Andromeda is playing the role of the powerful angel in this Old Testament story, but first let us briefly note another important confirmatory piece of evidence from Greek myths which also involves the theme of \"ass's ears,\" and that is the story of King Midas.\nIn that story, of course, Midas reaches out towards his daughter (played, I am convinced, by the same constellation of Andromeda who plays the heroine in the story of Perseus). It is very noteworthy that Midas was later given ass's ears as a sign of his foolishness, given the above discussion regarding the likelihood that Taurus functions as the ass in the story of Balaam in the Old Testament. The existence of another myth involving Perseus and Andromeda, and featuring ass's ears, indicates that myths involving Perseus and Andromeda can also feature nearby Taurus, but as an ass rather than as a bull in some cases.\nNote also that there seems to be an element of greed or of overstepping proper bounds due to temptation of money in both the story of Balaam and (much more clearly) the story of Midas.\nAll of this evidence appears to indicate that we are on the right track in our analysis of the Balaam story. Let's proceed to the identity of the angel.\nIn the scriptural text, we are told that an angel blocks the path of Balaam, and that specifically (in Numbers 22: 24) the angel \"stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.\"\nAndromeda is positioned between Perseus and the Great Square of Pegasus, and she is actually touching one corner of the Square itself. If the Square represents the vineyards that are mentioned in verse 24, then it is quite evident that indeed she has a wall on \"this side\" of her, and a wall on \"that side\" of her. In fact, I believe this is exactly what the scriptures intend us to understand (it is very common for Star Myths all around the world to contain this very kind of super-abundant evidence, pointing us towards a fairly clear understanding of which constellations they represent).\nJust in case we are still in confusion, we can also take a look at verse 22, where the angel is first mentioned, and see that in that verse we are told that Perseus is traveling with \"his two servants with him.\" Just beneath the Great Square of Pegasus is one of the notable \"dual constellations\" in the zodiac wheel: Pisces. I would argue that the twin fishes of Pisces are probably the \"two servants\" of Balaam, traveling along the road with him (the road, in this case, following the zodiac through the heavens, up from Taurus to Aries to Pisces to Aquarius).\nIn fact, I have previously outlined another very important Biblical Star Myth in which Andromeda plays the role of an intercepting angel: the story of Abraham and Isaac. In that story, Perseus plays Abraham about to sacrifice his son, and Andromeda is the angel who stays his hand and points the way to the substitute: the Ram of Aries (located below Andromeda). In fact, the artist who drew this image included in that previous post does a very good job of depicting the characters as they are arranged in the sky -- Abraham standing with his arms out like Perseus, the angel flying in with outstretched arm in the location that Andromeda is found in the heavens, and the Ram trapped in the thicket just about where Aries is actually seen in the sky as well.\nThe fact that Andromeda plays an intercepting angel in another Biblical scripture is very strong confirmatory evidence that our interpretation of the Balaam story is on track.\nLet's have a look at the analysis thus far:\nAll in all, the amount of details included in the scriptural account provide overwhelming evidence that the story of Balaam is a celestial allegory, and that it is specifically a celestial allegory involving the region of the heavens containing the constellations Perseus, Taurus, Andromeda, Pisces and the Great Square. To hold that all these celestial correspondences are \"merely coincidental\" and that the story is really supposed to be understood as a literal-historical account of someone named Balaam (who also happens to have a literal conversation with his donkey using spoken human language, when his foot is crushed because the animal sees an angel blocking the path) seems to be a very unlikely hypothesis at this point, because the texts themselves provide us with abundant evidence that they want to be read as celestial metaphor.\nOne more set of clues from the text is worth a brief mention, which is the construction of seven altars for seven burnt offerings, which Balaam requests to have built each time Balak takes him up to a high place. Of course, the number seven is fraught with many layers of significance and may be present in the story because of some other aspect of its numerical and symbolical import. However, a very strong argument can be made that the presence of seven altars in this story (a detail repeated over and over) is one more textual clue regarding the celestial origin of this episode.\nJust beneath the twisted foot of the constellation Perseus can be found one of the most beautiful celestial formations in the heavens: the brilliant Pleiades. The importance of the Pleiades to cultures around the world is very well known, and has been explored in numerous previous posts on this blog over the years: see for instance\n\"Go have a look at the Pleiades!\"\n\"Mars, Venus and the Pleiades\"\n\"The Pleiades, the Upton Chamber, ancient traditions and Halloween\"\n\"The love of Ares and Aphrodite Crowned with Flowers\"\n\"The Heart of Everything That Is\"\nMuch more could be written about the importance of the Pleiades in other cultures as well (such as across the Pacific Islands, from Hawai'i to Aotearoa).\nThe Pleiades is a dazzling cluster of bright and beautiful stars, unmistakeable once you know how to locate it in the sky. It is currently rising up above the eastern horizon in the hours after sunset, and just last weekend I was sitting on a beach in California with some good friends watching the Pleiades climb higher and higher above the horizon in some of the best star-gazing conditions I can remember seeing in a long, long time.\nWhile the number of stars in the Pleiades cluster which can be visible to the naked eye under good conditions number far more than seven, the Pleiades in many myth-systems of the world are depicted as \"Seven Sisters\" or as related to the number seven (the brightest of the Pleiades are six in number, and sometimes there are stories about the \"missing sister\" as well, although as you can see from the NASA images and my own hand-drawn diagrams in the blog posts above, there are more than seven stars that you can probably identify for yourself in the Pleiades cluster).\nBecause of the strong connection between the Pleiades and the number seven, and because the Pleiades are located very near to Perseus (Balaam) and are in fact technically part of Taurus (the ass in the story), I believe it is very possible that the seven altars which are built in the Balaam story are a reference to the Pleiades.\nThis possibility gains further traction from the fact that we are told that the altars are the site of burnt offerings -- very appropriate for a cluster of glowing stars.\nAdditionally, we are told that the burnt offerings are bulls and rams. Of course, the two zodiac constellations in this part of the sky are Taurus and Aries.\nBelow is our now-familiar diagram of the Perseus - Andromeda region of the sky, with a few final labels added to round out the details we've discovered in our analysis of this Star Myth:\nWith this many details, I believe we can make a very strong case to argue that the incident of Balaam and the Angel is entirely celestial in nature, and that its message is thus allegorical and not literal-historical.\nBut what does it all mean? That, of course, is open to interpretation, but previous posts have cited the assertion of Alvin Boyd Kuhn to the effect that the ancient myths are not about fabulous kings, powerful warriors, or even enlightened sages and mystics, but are actually about the experience of each and every human soul in this incarnate life (see for instance here, here and here). In an important 1936 lecture entitled \"The Stable and the Manger,\" Kuhn said:\nThe one actor in every portrayal, in every scene, is the human soul. The Bible is the drama of our history here and now; and it is not apprehended in its full force and applicability until every reader discerns himself [or herself] to be the central figure in it!\nThat means that we don't have to try to imagine an external literal-historical figure named Balaam having a conversation with his donkey -- the story is not really about anyone named Balaam at all! It is about each one of us.\nBut we will not be able to figure out what it is trying to convey to us if we try to force the text to be about a literal-historical figure named Balaam. In fact, as we will see shortly, doing so risks inverting the esoteric message entirely.\nTo understand what I think the story of Balaam is intended to convey (or at least part of what it is intended to convey -- there is no doubt much more to this very deep metaphor, the depths of which each reader is invited to plumb on his or her own), we must understand that the specific part of the heavens which we have been examining in our analysis is very significant due to the sun's rising in the sign of Aries at the point of the spring equinox during the Age of Aries during which many ancient myths (and especially Biblical myths in the Hebrew scriptures) are set.\nThis is the point of \"crossing upwards\" into the upper half of the year, when hours of daylight begin to dominate again over hours of darkness, after the long winter months in which darkness dominated over day.\nThe constant interplay between the \"lower half\" and the \"upper half\" -- between the forces of \"darkness\" and the forces of \"light\" -- were anciently allegorized in myths around the world as a great struggle or battle. Previous examinations of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, for instance, have discussed the evidence for this assertion, and the stories of the Trojan War in the Iliad as well as the crossing of the Red Sea in the Old Testament can be shown to relate to this same interplay.\nBut the myths are not \"just\" about the natural cycles of the year: they can be definitively shown to have used the great cycles to convey knowledge about spiritual truths. In other words, the myths use the most majestic physical models conceivable -- the mighty cycles of the heavens, the turning of the stars through the night, the progression of the zodiac signs and the planets through the year, the interplay of the seasons and the sun's path from equinox to solstice and back, the phases of the moon, and even the longer cycles of planetary conjunctions and the titanic precessional mechanism that grinds out the ages over the course of thousands and thousands of years -- in order to convey to our understanding truths about invisible matters.\nIn terms of the great zodiac wheel, at least on one level of metaphor, the upper half of the year is associated in myth with the invisible realm of spirit but also the spiritual and divine aspect in each and every incarnate human being, just as the lower half of the wheel is associated with our physical, material, animal, corporeal nature, into which we are plunged upon incarnation.\nMuch of the purpose of the myths of the world appears to have been to remind us that we are not merely physical, to awaken the spiritual within and point us towards the truth of our divine inner nature. Previous posts such as those linked above have connected this awakening of the \"spiritual component\" in ourselves, others, and in all the universe around us, with the concept of blessing.\nThe opposite impulse, of course, denies the spiritual, seeks to degrade, debase, brutalize and otherwise reduce to the physical and the animal (which is why violence is so wrong, on any level). All forms of cursing can be seen to be connected to this opposite \"physicalizing\" and \"brutalizing\" impulse.\nIn the story of Balaam, the concept of blessing and cursing is clearly central to the narrative. In the allegory presented, Moab and her king Balak are representative of the lower half of the wheel, and the forces of darkness. The king, Balak, specifically wants cursing, and seeks to hire Balaam to do it.\nThe children of Israel in the metaphor are representative of the upper half of the wheel. In one part of the Biblical passage quoted, the text tells us that they \"cover the face [literally the 'eye'] of the earth\" (Numbers 22: 5). In other words, they are associated with the sun (the \"eye of the earth\") and with the half of the year in which the hours of daylight cover more and more of the hemisphere in question (the summer months, the upper side of the wheel).\nThe upper half of the year metaphorically represents the realm of spirit, and the re-establishment and re-affirming and uplifting of the divine present at all times in men and women (and in all of creation). It is the same concept expressed by the raising-up of the Djed Column in ancient Egyptian myth-systems discussed in many previous posts and videos, such as here and here and here.\nIt should not have to be repeated at this point, but because literalism has so firmly entrenched itself in the cultural consciousness of the west for the past seventeen hundred years, it must be stressed that the children of Israel in this story do not represent historical or literal personages, any more than does Balaam (or, for that matter, King Midas). The text is a spiritual allegory. The children of Israel in this story represent a spiritual aspect of reality that is present in all of us -- not a group of literal or historical people (the allegorical understanding is inclusionary, not exclusionary as the literalistic understanding tends to be).\nThey (like the Danaans in the Trojan War) represent the upper half of the zodiac wheel, and allegorically the realm of spirit and the uplifting of the divine spark present in all human beings (and all nature as well). This is made clear in some of the \"blessings\" pronounced by Balaam in Numbers 22 - 24 (see for example the mention of the Lion in Numbers 23: 24, which is undoubtedly a reference to the sign of Leo, strongly associated with summer and the \"upper half\" of the zodiac wheel). None of us are literal descendants of any constellation -- but the idea of being descended from the stars conveys a an allegorical truth about our spiritual condition.\nMoab and Balak represent the lower half of the wheel. The story is about spiritual matters, and not about historical and literal battles between different physical branches of the human family.\nThus, when Balaam is asked to curse the allegorical representatives of the divine spark, the invisible realm of spirit -- the very aspect of our dual human nature that we are supposed to be lifting up and calling forth -- he is being asked to deny the spiritual, the divine, and everything associated with the invisible realm.\nDoing so would be to send the message that we are nothing but physical, animal, brutal beings, with no invisible, spiritual, divine component.\nOf course, whenever Balaam gets in touch with the realm of spirit, with the realm of the divine, by going into a state of trance, he is strongly warned not to convey such a brutalizing, cursing message. He is instead given a message that raises up the spiritual -- and indeed a message that predicts the eventual and inevitable triumph of spirit over the brutal, the physical, the debasing and the degrading aspects of our physical incarnate condition.\nWhenever Balaam is on the way to cooperate with the king of Moab, he is opposed by the angel, representative of the invisible realm (and indeed, invisible to Balaam until his eyes are opened). We watch as he grows more and more angry at his beast, more and more violent, more and more brutal, until his ass with her just questions appears to be at least as human as he is.\nShe is more in touch with the spiritual realm than he is, and she saves him from destruction even though he beats her for it.\nClearly, Balaam in this story is representative of our own human condition. And this helps us to understand one of the aspects of the scriptural passage which could give literalist readers major difficulties -- the fact that God told Balaam to go along with the messengers of the king of Moab, and then sent the angel to oppose Balaam (literalist interpreters often try to construe some kind of culpable motive to Balaam in his going along, even though he has just been told in a dream to do so).\nIf Balaam is representative of some aspect of our own soul's condition, here in this incarnate life, then our entry into incarnation is akin to \"going into the kingdom of Moab\" and it is ultimately for our own good and in thus in accordance with the divine will. In other words, we descend into this life from the realm of spirit for our own benefit. But our mission here is not to become brutal, not to become violent, not to become bestial, but rather to bless and to uplift and to reconnect with that upper half of our nature -- our spiritual and divine True Self.\nWhen we understand this allegorical system, then the story begins to make sense in a way that it does not when we try to force a literal reading on the text. It is a story of hope and of the dignity and divinity inherent in each and every human being. We all are a combination of physical and spiritual, but we are told that the spirit will eventually and inevitably triumph, no matter how ugly the physical circumstances and situations may become, and no matter how our own spiritual blindness will often lead us to do stupid and even self-destructive things as we go up the path.\nWhen we understand the story as esoteric and allegorical, then we see that it applies to each and every person, and that it teaches us to work to lift up the spiritual in ourselves and in others, and not to put them down.\nBut when it is taken as literal and historical, this message can become distorted, because when it is externalized then it can be mistakenly seen as a message which lifts up some groups and puts down others.\nIn fact, by externalizing the text, a literal reading can lead to some conclusions that are \"180 degrees out\" from the interpretation just offered. A \"physical\" message, so to speak, instead of a spiritual one.\nBut, when we see the clear and overwhelming evidence that the text describes the motions of the stars, it becomes clear that the literal and historical reading -- already very difficult to maintain in light of the incidents in this particular episode -- is almost certainly not the intended message of the ancient text.\nThe same exercise can be performed with virtually every single other story in the scriptures included in what we today refer to as \"the Bible\" (both the \"Old\" and \"New\" Testaments), and indeed with virtually every other myth and sacred story from around the world.\nLeaving us with what I believe are several inescapable conclusions, among them:\nthat we are all connected,\nthat we are all primarily spiritual and that thus the external and physical should not be used to divide us from one another,\nthat we should pay attention to the invisible realm (as Balaam learned \"the hard way\" in the story, but as we ourselves also generally \"learn the hard way\" in this life),\nthat we should bless and not curse,\nthat we should lift up and otherwise draw forward the divine spark in others and, as much as possible, in the part of the cosmos that we can impact around us (including by planting gardens, opposing degrading treatment of animals, and opposing the pollution of the air and land and waters around us),\nand that the side of uplifting will ultimately and inevitably win out, and that those who are on the side of cursing and debasing and brutalizing may seem to be powerful now but that in fact they are not.\nLabels: consciousness, Hamlet's Mill, mythology, the Bible, the esoteric\nA meditation on \"Some Words with a Mummy,\" by Edga...\nDazzling conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and Mars in...\nBirthday of John Lennon (October 9)\nThe incredible importance of the INNER connection ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line427062"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6498681306838989,"wiki_prob":0.3501318693161011,"text":"Abolishing Aristocratic Entitlement in an Independent Scotland\nNovember 1, 2018 January 3, 2019 SC_Admin\nLast week the welfare debate took a turn for the vile when Chancellor George Osborne capitalized on the arson case of Mick Philpott to draw a parallel between receiving welfare benefits and burning your children.\nThere is a picture online of Philpott wearing an England jersey. It would be equally ludicrous to suggest that he burned his children because he’s an England fan. Regrettably, psychopaths come from all classes, and Osborne’s vicious insinuation reflects the current base level of debate on class.\nWhile we’re debating class, the maintenance of all lifestyles must be open to public scrutiny. As I have come to observe UK politics and society more closely, one scent that never fails to induce dyspepsia is the rotten legacy of aristocratic privilege and entitlement.\nI realize that being a ‘Baron’, ‘Duke’, ‘Marquesse’, ‘Earl’, or a ‘Viscount’ is not what it used to be. They no longer have their serfs pulling on their locks in obligatory deference, or requisitioning their crops. They are no longer collecting taxes from their vassals to fund their lifestyles, and many other unearned privileges they used to enjoy.\nSo in many ways, they exist only in name. You can buy a noble title if you want. However, they still constitute a vast swath of the governing class, most notably in the House of Lords, but also in the upper echelons of business and finance. Their vast network of money, privilege, and entitlement continues to be passed down through the generations. They are often the ultimate skivers, because they are born into the exalted place they hold in society without having to do anything to actually earn it.\nThe manner in which titles are allocated further diminishes their relevance and credibility, as well as the UK’s status as a meritocracy. Some guy born in Greece became the ‘Duke of Edinburgh’, and is about as Scottish as a Berber. The ‘Duchess of Cambridge’ was born in Reading, and went to St. Andrews University. She is English, so her ‘Duchy’ is at least in the same country. The ‘Prince of Wales’ was born in Buckingham Palace, and as far as I know is about as Welsh as an Eskimo. In terms of ‘merit’ for granting titles, they just make it up as they go along.\nTrue, they hold no political power over the regions for which they hold title, but that does not make the aristocratic system any less corrupt. An independent Scotland can abandon this legacy and instead embody the idea that all citizens are equal, and that all will be given the means to earn their place in society in large part through a decent and equitable provision of education and welfare benefits.\nOne of the ways in which an independent Scotland can promote the fundamental notions of democratic equality and meritocracy is to abolish any official recognition of nobility in a written constitution.\nFrance accomplished this by the guillotine during their Revolution in 1789. The current descendants of the French aristocracy may still have a nice family manor house in the country, and may reminisce about a time when the faded family crest above the fireplace meant something, but they largely have to earn their place in society just like everyone else. An independent Scotland can accomplish the same result without spilling a drop of blood.\nWinston Churchill once opined “I think we need fewer peerages and more disappearages.” If there is to be a second chamber in an independent Scotland, the members can gain their seats in it through the democratic process, rather than it being hereditary or a golden parachute for a failed career in the Commons.\nThere will be those who object because aristocracy is ‘tradition’, ‘the way it has always been’, or worse ‘what made Britain great’. Most of these will probably be aristocrats themselves, who because of their inherited privilege are ill-equipped to compete on a level playing field with the rest of society. I don’t think most Scots will shed any tears.\nJust because the aristocratic system is a ‘tradition’ does not obscure the fact that it is a corrupt and anachronistic form of biological determinism. Picture a young girl born in Easterhouse: why should her dreams of becoming head of state in an independent Scotland be shattered because she was not born in Buckingham Palace to the correct parents?\nGiving this young girl hope is perhaps the greatest reason for abandoning the nobility system, and building a meritocratic and democratic Scotland. Only independence can afford this opportunity.\nFirst published on Newsnet.scot on 9 April 2013 as part of a series of articles on constitutional issues published between July 2012 and Sept 2014.\nMonarchy and Aristocracy Illegitimate in an Independent Scotland\nThe Head of State Under a Written Scottish Constitution","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1591722"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8740577101707458,"wiki_prob":0.8740577101707458,"text":"Mugabe not considering retirement\nMarking his 90th birthday, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said he isn't ready to consider retirement.\n\"Why should it [retirement] be discussed when it is not due?\" he said in an interview broadcast on state television.\n\"The leadership still exists that runs the country. In other words I am still there... When the day comes and I retire... I do not want to leave my party in tatters. I want to leave it intact.\"\nMugabe claimed he is \"fit as a fiddle,\" but appeared frail in the prerecorded televised interview, at times stumbling over his words and slumping in his chair.\nMugabe's actual birthday was on Friday when he was in Singapore for a cataract operation on his left eye, according to the president's office. Mugabe returned from Singapore on Saturday and will celebrate his birthday at a sports stadium on Sunday.\nSunday's birthday celebrations, estimated to cost $1m, will be held in a 50 000-seat stadium in Marondera, 74km east of Harare, where organizers said potholed streets have been repaired for the event.\nCritics say Mugabe won't discuss his retirement because he wants to die in office.\n\"The truth is we are faced with a very sick president who doesn't want to retire,\" analyst Ibbo Mandaza told The Associated Press.\nMugabe's 90th birthday comes amid intense speculation on Zimbabwe's future when his grip on power loosens.\nVying to replace him are Vice President Joice Mujuru and Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.\nIn July, Mugabe who has ruled the nation for 33 years since 1980, won disputed elections for another five-year term that will take him to age 94.\nExcellent vintage model\nAdventure enthusiast","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line294236"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6002249121665955,"wiki_prob":0.39977508783340454,"text":"Premio: Henri Cartier-Bresson Award 2015\n16 Marzo 2015 17 Giugno 2015 / saramunari\nFirst set up by Robert Delpire in 1988, the HCB Award has been revived in 2003 whith the opening of the HCB Foundation. The prize was awarded to Chris Killip in 1989 and to Josef Koudelka in 1991.\nThe HCB Award is a prize to stimulate a photographer’s creativity by offering the opportunity to carry out a project that would otherwise be difficult to achieve.\nIt is intended for a photographer who have already completed a significant body of work, a talented photographer in the emerging phase of his or her career, with an approach close to that of documentary. The prize is of 35 000 Euros and is awarded every other year.\nEighteen months after the reception of the prize, the winner will have an exhibition of his work at the Fondation HCB in Paris and a catalogue will be published. The HCB Award is made possible with the partnership of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.\nThe HCB Award is open to photographers of all nationalities who have already completed a significant body of work with an approach close to that of documentary. There is no age limit.\nThe HCB Award is of 35 000 Euros. It shall not be divided.\nThe winner must use the prize for carrying out a project which would otherwise be hard to accomplish within the normal conditions of his activity\nCandidates should be nominated by an institution. Applications from individual photographers will not be considered.\nThe range of potential institutions is broad and has no geographical boundaries: museums, photographic societies, photographers’ agencies, art schools, universities, galleries, magazines, festivals, publishers… are entitled to present a candidate.\nDeadline: April 30 2015\nFor more info and applications: http://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/hcb-prize/rules/\nPostato da: Anna\nAward, fotografia, Henri Cartier-Bresson, MU.SA., premio\n← Questo è un genio, Oggi ha 80 anni! Jerry Uelsmann VS Photoshop.\nEsercizio sull’ombra, non la guardate perché è in ombra? →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1194793"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7680509686470032,"wiki_prob":0.7680509686470032,"text":"Campsites and Caravan Parks\nShropshire Campsites\nShropshire Campsites and Holiday Parks\nActon Burnell\nBurnell Castle is one of England’s oldest fortified manor houses and the first meeting of an Enghsh parliament to include commomers is said to have been held here by Edward I.Bishop’s CastleThe original castle – now just a few stones was built in 1127. The town stands on the edge of the Clun Forest, 500ft above sea-level and surrounded by hills, the highest rising to 1500ft. It has three Tudor houses the Old Hall, the Old Market Hall and the Old House on Crutches, with its overhanging upper storey supported on posts. The Town Hall is one of the smallest in England and contains two silver maces hallmarked 1607. The e Three Tuns Inn dates from 1642 andbeer is made on the premises.\nThe old market town of Bridgnorth is divided into Low Town and High Town by a red sandstone cliff, the two parts linked by steps and by the Castle Hill Cliff Railway. Caves in the sandstone were used as dwellings until Victorian times, and one the Hermitage is said to have housed Ethelred, brother of King Athelstan, in the 10th century. The tower, sole remnant of the castle, leans 17 degrees from the perpendicular because it was undermined during the Civil War. Bishop Percy’s House (1580) is the most ancient building in Bridgnorth; it was the birthplace in the 18th century of Thomas Percy, who became Bishop of Dromore. St Mary Magdalene‘s Church, Italianate in style, was designed by the engineer Thomas Telford.\nIn summer, the Severn Valley Railway runs from here to Kidderminster. Midway between the two is Alveley, where the church contains glass from the ruined chapel of Coton Hall, One and a half miles north east.\nLocals claim this attractive old place to be the birthplace of William Langland, one of the great English medieval poets, who wrote his masterpiece, Piers Plowman in the 14th century. No evidence has been found, but one of the east windows in the church is dedicated to the poet. Appropriately it shows Piers dreaming his dreams. The wooden church spire has an interesting twist to it, and has defied all efforts to straighten it.\nCosford\nCosford Airfield has a fascinating Aerospace Museum. The array of aircraft includes the World War II Spitfire, Mosquito, Messerschmitt, and V1 and V2 rockets. The British Airways collection and a Moon Buggy reflect less bloodthirsty achievements.\nThis pleasant little market town lies at the heart of Shropshire’s lake district, a tranquil region of nine lakes in the north west of the county. Some, such as Cole, Blake and Kettle Meres are small, wooded and more or less untouched by the 20th century; others, such as White Mere and The Mere, are used for sailing and other leisure activities; Crose Mere and Sweet Mere are well known for their bird life.\nA rare chained 15th-century Nuremberg Bible can be found in the 14th-century church of this small hill town, which has black and white timbered houses typical of north-west England. The beautiful 60-acre landscaped gardens of Victorian Hodnet Hall are well worth a visit.\nThe town is situated in the deep, wooded gorge of the River Severn and developed, like many others in this region, during the Industrial Revolution. The community takes its name from the world’s first iron bridge, built here in 1778-81. It was designed by the ironmaster Abraham Darby III as an example of the quality of his cast iron and was cast at his foundry in Coalbrookdale. The bridge is 196 ft long, weighs 380 tons and, seen from a distance as it spans the wooded Severn Gorge, presents a romantic and inspiring picture. Abraham Darby I had been the first man to smelt iron using coke, 70 years earlier. His grandson’s iron bridge is built using woodworking joints. Nowadays accessis restricted to pedestrians. Scattered along the Gorge is a unique series of museums of industrial history, under the general title of the lronbridge Gorge Museum. These include: Blists Hill Open Air Museum, which covers 42 acres, recreating the iron, coal and clay industries; Coalbrookdale Museum and Furnace Site, Abraham Darby’s original blast furnace; the Coalport China Works Museum; and the Severn Warehouse. Two miles to the north west of the town are Buildwas Abbey ruins, and 1 mile south west is Benthall Hall, an interesting 16th-century house.\nln Ludlow, wide Georgian streets contrast w ith narrow medieval alleys, and elegant 18th century brick and stucco rubs shoulders with half timbered Tudor buildings with leaning walls and steep-pitched roofs. In the 12th century Ludlow was a ‘planned town‘, its streets designed on a gridiron pattern that can still be traced today. The most famous of all the timbered buildings, the Feathers Hotel, its exterior ornamented with heads and other carvings, has stood in the Bull Ring, where bulls used to be penned before market, since 1603. Even older is the Bull Inn, and another attractive old tavern is the Angel, its overhanging upper storeys supported on slender columns. More ancient than the inns and overlooking the church is the Reader’s House, a medieval stone building with an attractive three-storey timbered porch. Mary Queen of Scots is thought to have been held prisoner here for some time.\nMuch Wenlock lies at the northern end of Wenlock Edge, the landscape ‘ celebrated in the poetry of A E Housman. The atmosphere of a medieval market town prevails. The stocks still stand outside the Guildhall, which rests on wooden pillars, and the old Market Hall is now a local history museum. A lane leads to the ruins of St Mildburga’s Priory, founded in the 11th century.\nA town fought over by England and Wales for centuries, Oswestry nowadays makes an excellent centre for visiting both the Shropshire and the North Wales countryside. Few of its medieval buildings survived the years of conflict, but the old grammar school dating from 1407, is still there, now divided into cottages. In the parish church are monuments of Hugh Yale and his wife -related to Elihu Yale, benefactor of the American university. The interesting Llwyd Mansion, a black and white 17th-century timbered building bears the insignia of the Holy Roman Empire, a double-headed eagle, on its walls. The arms were granted to an ancestor of the family for service in the Crusades. To the north of the town is the Iron Age hill-fort known as Old Oswestry.\nShrewsbury, situated on a bend of the River Severn, has ten bridges spanning the river. The town may have been founded by Britons who fled from the Roman city of Vicoconium (now Wroxford) 5 miles south east, and there are relics of the Roman occupation in Rowley’s House Museum, one of Shrewsbury’s many half-timbered buildings. In the old part of the city are winding streets such as Wyle Cop, Grope Lane, and Gullet Passage, and Bear Steps, a restored 14th-century cottage, with old shops and a meeting hall, is well worth a visit. The Norman castle, built high above the river, was much enlarged by Edward I, and in the 18th century was converted into a house by the architect and engineer Thomas Telford for Sir William Pulteney. St Mary’s Church, with its lofty spire, dates from the 12th century. The nave has a 15th-century carved roof and some fine stained glass, particularly in the Jesse Window.\nStokesay Castle is one of the earliest fortified manor houses in England the oldest parts date from the 12th century and the great hall from the 13th. It is an extraordinary structure its massive stone towers topped with a timber-framed house and of outstanding interest.\nFrom the wooded slopes of the Wrekin (1334ft) you can see one of Britain’s newest New Towns, named after the famous 18th-century engineer and former county surveyor of Shropshire, Thomas Telford. The planners hope to weld a number of established industrialised towns and villages into a ‘Forest City’. Over a million trees and shrubs are to be planted and a new city centre is planned at Randley Lake. Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale form part of the conurbation and are designated areas of special architectural and historical interest.\nWrekin, The\nThe Wrekin, probably the country’s oldest hill, lies two miles south of the town of Wellington. Its summit, at 1334ft, is not the highest point in Shropshire, but it offers incomparable views that take in several counties. A beacon fire on this hilltop warned of the coming of the Spanish Armada and traces of an Iron Age camp indicate that it was recognised as a good defensive site almost 2000 years ago.\nWroxeter, on the ancient highway of Watling Street, contains the remains of the roman settlement of Viroconium, which was established as an army camp about the middle of the 2nd century, and when the garrison moved north a new town grew up, probably remaining inhabited until the 8th. The site was excavated in the 1920’s, and finds are exhibited in the local museum and in Rowley’s House in Shrewsbury. Some Roman material can be seen in the church though the workmanship is Saxon and the columns flanking the entrance to the churchyard are Roman.\nUp and Around The Wrekin\nTo find out more about Shropshire Campsites and Holiday Parks – Search the website for Parks\nOne of our favourite sleeping accessories – Self Inflatable Mattress\nCamping in Staffordshire near Elmhurst\nCamping in Staffordshire near Loxley\nGlamping in Staffordshire near Curborough\nGlamping in Staffordshire near Four Ashes Industrial Estate\nCaravan Sites\nself inflatable mattress\nCamper / Motorhome Hire\nCampfires Allowed\nCamping / Touring Pitches\nCamping Only\nCaravan / Motorhome Pitches\nCaravan / Motorhome Sales\nCaravan / Motorhome Storage\nDog Free Sites\nFishing Available\nStatics – Holiday\nStatics – Holiday/Residential\nStatics – Residential\n©[current-year] Camping & Caravanning. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6381900906562805,"wiki_prob":0.3618099093437195,"text":"CalSTRS Enhances Corporate Governance Principles with Expanded Board of Directors Accountability Standards\nChanges highlight dynamic nature of CalSTRS’ Governance Program through increased corporate board accountability to protect interests of long-term shareholders.\nTesting Post August 23, 2016 Krista Noonan\nWEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California State Teachers’ Retirement System last Thursday, July 14, approved policy changes to the Corporate Governance Principles which establish the high-level framework, proxy voting activities and shareholder priorities. The recent changes focus primarily on climate change risk management expertise, board diversity, governance structure and composition of public company boards, as well as holding corporate directors accountable to represent and protect the interests of long-term shareholders.\nThe changes emphasize CalSTRS support of boards of directors possessing a diverse mix of skills, attributes and experience, which includes the management of risks faced by various public companies. Having a wide and diversified range of skills, expertise and exposure to market trends is critical in maintaining the knowledge-base and accountability standards of corporate boards.\n“This action reflects how important board diversity, structure and overall effectiveness are to good corporate governance…”\nAnne Sheehan,\nCalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance\n“These principles guide our proxy voting, which is one of the most important tasks we undertake as a long-term shareholder in support of our fiduciary duty to our members,” said CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan. “This action reflects how important board diversity, structure and overall effectiveness are to good corporate governance, which in turn is the keystone to long-term, healthy corporate performance.”\nOne of the recently approved changes focuses on increasing board competency and expertise in climate change risk management. CalSTRS has identified this topic as a priority, especially in the wake of the global financial crisis, which caused investors’ expectations of boards to increase and with that, the importance of mitigating climate change risks and maximizing opportunities to impact and modify business practices. As a long-term shareholder, CalSTRS is continually assessing and mitigating portfolio risks, and has increasingly called for climate-competent corporate boards and directors. Additionally, last week in a separate discussion, CalSTRS committed $2.5 billion to a low-carbon global equity index, which further aligns with the organization’s climate-focused commitments under the COP 21 Paris climate change talks of 2015.\n“Diversity is not simply a social issue.”\nBoard diversity is also highlighted as one of the recent policy revisions with the addition of language defining CalSTRS’ right to hold boards of directors accountable and, ultimately, voting against the directors, if after engagement, no action has been taken to address the lack of board diversity. According to Ms. Sheehan, “CalSTRS has a long-standing diversity initiative in place because we believe diversity is not simply a social issue. It is about mitigating risk, improving accountability, and enhancing the long-term sustainable value and company performance for shareholders. And, to be effective in impacting corporate performance, research shows that diversity starts at the board level and permeates throughout leadership and staff positions.”\nCalSTRS also made several additions to the language addressing executive compensation standards. While many of the additions were implicit in the previous policy, increased emphasis was placed on equity awards outside the normal incentive plan, as well as the use of peer groups in determining executive pay structures. As executive compensation continues to be a perennial issue in the United States, it is vital that investors stay alert and vigilant to ensure there is an alignment between management interests and those of the shareholders.\nLastly, CalSTRS continues to stress the importance of a one-share, one-vote structure. A recent trend includes a number of companies entering the public markets with unequal voting rights, and even well established companies have issued new classes of stock which perpetuate these unfair voting structures. CalSTRS wants to make its position clear: Voting rights should be aligned with economic interests.\n“CalSTRS’ Corporate Governance Principles are dynamic, living documents that are responsive to the marketplace.”\nAnne Sheehan\nLightframe Link\n“CalSTRS’ Corporate Governance Principles are dynamic, living documents that are responsive to the marketplace,” Ms. Sheehan added. “We are constantly reevaluating our principles and policies to bring them in line with the market and relevant to the issues that are of utmost importance to shareholders, which reinforces our mission to support the financial security of California’s educators.”\nAbout CalSTRS\nThe California State Teachers’ Retirement System, with a portfolio valued at $188.7 billion as of June 30, 2016, is the largest educator-only pension fund in the world. CalSTRS administers a hybrid retirement system, consisting of traditional defined benefit, cash balance and voluntary defined contribution plans. CalSTRS also provides disability and survivor benefits. CalSTRS serves California’s 896,000 public school educators and their families from the state’s 1,700 school districts, county offices of education and community college districts.\nFollow us on Twitter @CalSTRS\nProfile August 29, 2013\nKrista Noonan\nAs Director of Communications for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System from 2011-2019, Krista was responsible for state, national and international strategic communications, media relations, internal communications and multi-media efforts.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line556787"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5978894233703613,"wiki_prob":0.5978894233703613,"text":"People v. Hunter\nE070848 (Cal. Ct. App. Jun. 17, 2019)\nPeoplev.Hunter\nCOURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION TWOJun 17, 2019\nTHE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID ROY HUNTER, JR., Defendant and Appellant.\nRichard Jay Moller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Michael Pulos, Teresa Torreblanca, and Nora S. Weyl, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.\nRAMIREZ P. J.\nORDER MODIFYING OPINION AND DENYING PETITION FOR REHEARING [NO CHANGE IN JUDGMENT]\nThe court has reviewed the petition for rehearing filed June 28, 2019. The petition is denied. The opinion filed in this matter on June 17, 2019 is modified as follows:\nIn the last paragraph on page 12, the following is deleted:\nHe has forfeited this as grounds for reversal by failing to raise it under a separate heading, as required. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.204(a)(1)(B); People v. Luo (2017) 16 Cal.App.5th 663, 678, fn. 6; People v. Roscoe (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 829, 840.) In any event,\nand replaced with:\nExcept for these modifications, the opinion remains unchanged. This modification does not effect a change in the judgment.\nNOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS\nP. J. We concur: RAPHAEL\nJ. MENETREZ\nCalifornia Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115. (Super.Ct.No. BAF1601512) OPINION APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Elaine H. Kiefer, Judge. Affirmed. Richard Jay Moller, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Michael Pulos, Teresa Torreblanca, and Nora S. Weyl, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.\nDefendant David Roy Hunter, Jr. got angry when his seven-year-old son made a couple of mistakes during a piano lesson. There was sufficient (though controverted) evidence that defendant choked his son and also spanked him twice.\nA jury found defendant not guilty of felony child abuse (Pen. Code § 273d, subd. (a)) or misdemeanor child abuse (Pen. Code § 273a, subd. (b)), but guilty of the lesser included offense of misdemeanor battery. (Pen. Code, § 242.) He was placed on probation for two years, on conditions including 90 days in a work release program.\nDefendant contends that the prosecutor committed misconduct by stating, in closing argument, that the jury could convict him based on the spanking alone, rather than the choking; or, alternatively, that his defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to object to these statements. We will hold that the prosecutor's statements were correct, and hence defense counsel was not ineffective.\nSTATEMENT OF FACTS\nA. Background.\nDefendant's ex-wife (mother) lived with their seven-year old son (son) at an apartment in Hemet. She let defendant visit their son there, sometimes overnight. Defendant was teaching their son to read music and to play piano.\nB. The Mother's Account.\nOn November 6, 2016, defendant came over to the apartment for an overnight visit with his son. The mother left to stay overnight with a couple that she was friends with.\nLater that evening, defendant sent the mother a text message telling her to phone their son immediately. When she did, the son was crying. He said, \"I'm stupid,\" \"I messed up.\" \"I don't know how to spell my name. I don't know when is my birthday.\" He added that defendant had spanked him. Defendant picked up the phone and said that their son was being \"insolent and devious.\"\nStill later that evening, defendant texted the mother again, saying, \"[Y]ou need to come to . . . stay with your child, 'cause I'm leaving.\" She left and drove home. She picked up her son, then drove back to her friends' house.\nOn the way there, the son said that defendant had choked him. She pulled over, looked at his neck with a flashlight, and saw marks on his neck. At her friends' house, one of them also looked at the son's neck and saw bruises.\nC. The Police Interview of the Son.\nThe next morning, November 7, a police officer interviewed the son.\nThe son said that, as part of a piano lesson, defendant told him to write notes under a line. When defendant asked him a question, he \"messed up\" and got the answer wrong. Defendant spanked him. When he \"messed up\" again, defendant spanked him again. After he fixed his mistake, defendant grabbed him by the neck with both hands. For about five seconds, he could not breathe.\nThe officer saw \"redness and scabbing\" on the son's neck, but no finger marks. He did not see any marks on the son's buttocks. He took photos of both areas.\nD. The Forensic Interview of the Son.\nLater on November 7, a forensic interviewer interviewed the son.\nHe said he made two mistakes writing music, and defendant spanked him. Defendant also choked him with one hand (i.e., not two). For about five seconds, the son could not breathe. It was only after the choking that the son fixed his mistake.\nE. The Physical Examination of the Son.\nAlso on November 7, a forensic pediatrician examined the son. He told her that defendant had long fingernails and had scratched his neck.\nShe found a horizontal abrasion that wrapped around his neck, and multiple vertical abrasions just above it. The horizontal abrasion was consistent with being choked. The vertical abrasions could have been caused by the son trying to \"rake off\" defendant's hand. In her opinion, these injuries were not consistent with self-harm.\nShe also found two purple bruises on the son's buttocks and upper leg, consistent with being spanked. They were visible in photos that she took at the time. However, she had not indicated them on a diagram of his injuries that she made at the time.\nF. The Son's Trial Testimony.\nBy the time of trial, the son was eight. He testified that he and defendant were writing music in a binder. When he \"got it wrong,\" defendant got mad and first choked him, then spanked him.\nG. Key Defense Points.\nThe mother had used corporal punishment on occasion. If taking away her son's privileges or giving him a timeout did not work, she would spank him with a wooden spoon.\nThe son had been committing acts of self-harm, such as hitting himself in the head and pulling his hair.\nDefendant had \"very short\" fingernails; the son had long fingernails.\nThe mother told police that she did not see the marks on the son's neck until she got to her friends' house.\nOne of these friends testified that it was he who drove the mother to her house to pick up her son and then back to his house. The son did not say the father had choked him. The mother did not look at her son's neck until they got back to the friend's house.\nThe mother did not call the police until the next morning. She explained, variously, that this was because the son was tired or because the police were busier at night.\nThe police officer who interviewed the son was not trained in interviewing children. He asked leading questions. An expert testified that this can give rise to false memories.\nAt the time of the crime, the mother was in the country illegally. Afterward, she applied for a U visa, based on her status as the mother of a domestic violence victim. As a result, she was required to testify truthfully in defendant's prosecution.\nTHE PROSECUTOR'S ARGUMENT THAT DEFENDANT\nCOULD BE CONVICTED BASED ON THE SPANKING ALONE\nDefendant contends that the prosecutor misstated the law in closing argument by asserting that the jury could find defendant guilty based solely on the spanking.\nA. The Closing Arguments.\nIn closing argument, the prosecutor repeatedly stated that the jury could find defendant guilty of the charged crimes based on either the choking or the spanking.\nRegarding count 1 (misdemeanor child abuse), he said, \"So you can decide . . . if it's the spanking, or if it's the putting his hands on his son's neck . . . .\" \"[I]t could be the spanking, but if . . . you say, well, the spanking seemed to be justified or we're just not sure if the spanking was justified, the neck injuries can show that he's guilty of this crime.\"\nRegarding count 2 (felony child abuse), he said that the \"traumatic condition\" element (see Pen. Code, § 273d, subd. (a)) had been proven by \"the bruising and abrasions on [the son's] body\nHe also said, \"[Y]ou have to ask yourself what is [defendant] guilty of based on the spanking and based on the strangling . . . .\" \"[Y]ou have to decide whether he's guilty . . . and based on which act . . . .\"\nThe prosecutor did not discuss the elements or evidence of the lesser included offense of battery; he merely told the jury, \"[I]f you find the defendant guilty of both these charges, you don't need to consider the lesser.\"\nDefense counsel did discuss battery; he said, \"So Mr. Hunter is not guilty of the two main charges. He's also not guilty of a battery, because he's allowed to spank his child. And that's all he did here is spank his child.\"\nB. The Jury Instructions.\nThe jury was instructed on a parent's right to discipline a child, as follows: \"A parent is not guilty of [felony or misdemeanor] child abuse . . . and the lesser crime of battery if he used justifiable physical force to discipline a child. Physical force is justifiable if a reasonable person would find that punishment was necessary under the circumstances and that the physical force used was reasonable. [¶] The People must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the force used was not justifiable. If the People have not met this burden, you must find the defendant not guilty of [felony or misdemeanor] child abuse . . . and the lesser crime of battery.\" (CALCRIM No. 3405.)\nC. Analysis.\nDefendant argues that the prosecutor's argument misstated the law because, as a matter of law, the spanking shown in this case was within his right to discipline his child.\n\"[I]t is misconduct for a prosecutor, during argument, to misstate the law [citation] . . . .\" (People v. Whalen (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1, 77.) However, \"[a]s a general rule, '\"[a] defendant may not complain on appeal of prosecutorial misconduct unless in a timely fashion, and on the same ground, the defendant objected to the action and also requested that the jury be admonished to disregard the perceived impropriety.\"' [Citation.]\" (People v. Centeno (2014) 60 Cal.4th 659, 674.) Here, defense counsel forfeited the claimed prosecutorial misconduct by not objecting and not requesting an admonition.\nDefendant alternatively contends, however, that this failure to object constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. We therefore address the issue under this rubric.\n\"'\"To establish ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show that (1) counsel's representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness under prevailing professional norms, and (2) counsel's deficient performance was prejudicial, i.e., there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's failings, the result would have been more favorable to the defendant. [Citation.] . . .\"' [Citation.]\" (People v. Rices (2017) 4 Cal.5th 49, 80.)\n\"A parent has a right to reasonably discipline by punishing a child and may administer reasonable punishment without being liable for a battery. [Citations.] This includes the right to inflict reasonable corporal punishment. [Citation.] [¶] However, a parent who willfully inflicts unjustifiable punishment is not immune from either civil liability or criminal prosecution. [Citations.]\" (People v. Whitehurst (1992) 9 Cal.App.4th 1045, 1050.)\n\"Whether a parent's use of discipline on a particular occasion falls within (or instead exceeds) the scope of this parental right to discipline turns on three considerations: (1) whether the parent's conduct is genuinely disciplinary; (2) whether the punishment is 'necess[ary]' (that is, whether the discipline was 'warranted by the circumstances'); and (3) 'whether the amount of punishment was reasonable or excessive.' [Citations.]\" (In re D.M. (2015) 242 Cal.App.4th 634, 640-641.)\nIn defendant's view, \"spanking by hand on the butt over clothes\" is reasonable discipline as a matter of law. (Capitalization altered.) In support of this proposition, he cites Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services (2014) 223 Cal.App.4th 72 and In re Joel H. (1993) 19 Cal.App.4th 1185.\nIn Gonzalez, a 12-year-old girl became interested in gangs. (Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services, supra, 223 Cal.App.4th at p. 76.) She neglected her homework and started getting to school late; her grades dropped. She also started lying to her parents. (Ibid.) They tried grounding her and taking away her electronic devices, but without result. (Id. at pp. 76-77.) They then laid out specific behavioral standards and warned her that, if she did not comply, they would spank her. She did not, so the mother spanked her five or six times with a wooden spoon over her clothes. (Id. at p. 77.) This left visible bruises. (Id. at pp. 75, 81.) As a result, a social services agency caused the mother to be listed on the state Child Abuse Central Index. (Id. at pp. 75, 81.) The trial court denied her administrative mandate petition. (Id. at pp. 75, 84)\nThe appellate court reversed, because both the social services agency and the trial court had refused to consider whether the spanking constituted reasonable parental discipline. (Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services, supra, 223 Cal.App.4th at pp. 90-91, 95.) It explained that the spanking had \"a genuine and deliberate disciplinary purpose . . . .\" (Id. at p. 91.) Moreover, \"the circumstances furnished a reasonable occasion for discipline.\" (Ibid.)\nIt continued, \"The only question presenting any difficulty is whether the measure actually applied . . . was reasonable in kind and degree.\" (Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services, supra, 223 Cal.App.4th at p. 92.) \"We cannot say that the use of a wooden spoon to administer a spanking necessarily exceeds the bounds of reasonable parental discipline.\" (Ibid.) \"Nor do we think that the infliction of visible bruises automatically requires a finding that the limits of reasonable discipline were exceeded. Certainly, the presence of lasting bruises or other marks may support a finding that a parent crossed the line between permissible discipline and reportable abuse. [Citations.] However, such effects alone do not compel a finding of child abuse. [Citations.]\" (Id. at pp. 92-93.)\nThus, the court merely held that the spanking was not excessive or unreasonable \"as a matter of law.\" (Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services, supra, 223 Cal.App.4th at p. 92.) However, it left open the possibility that it could be found to be excessive or unreasonable as a matter of fact. Significantly, the court did not direct that the mother be removed from the list; rather, it directed the social services agency either to remove her from the list or to hold a new hearing. (Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services, supra, 223 Cal.App.4th at pp. 95, 102.)\nTurning to Joel H., there the juvenile court removed a dependent child from relatives with whom he had been placed, based on its finding that they \"had physically and emotionally abused\" him. (In re Joel H., supra, 19 Cal.App.4th at p. 1192.) Regarding physical abuse, another relative had testified that he saw the caregivers discipline the child by spanking him. (Id. at p. 1191.) However, \"[h]e either did not witness or could not remember what would precipitate the spankings.\" (Ibid.)\nThe appellate court found insufficient evidence to support the removal. (In re Joel H., supra, 19 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1199-1203.) Concerning the spankings, it said, \"There was no evidence that these acts resulted in actual physical harm or posed a danger of such harm . . . . Nor was there proof that the spankings . . . w[ere] outside the realm of legally acceptable and age-appropriate corporal punishment, let alone cruel or abusive conduct. While some might well debate the need for or value of these acts as forms of discipline or effective parenting, they did not appear to exceed legally acceptable behavior for a care provider.\" (Id. at p. 1202.)\nHere, unlike in Gonzalez and Joel H., there was evidence that there was no reasonable occasion for physical discipline. Defendant's son, who was only seven years old, made two mistakes during a piano lesson. He characterized these as \"stupid\" and \"mess[ing] up\" — i.e., as inadvertent, rather than intentional. Defendant complained that his son had been \"insolent\" and \"devious,\" but this was after the fact, and he did not offer any specifics. The mother testified that she, too, sometimes used corporal punishment, but only after lesser punishments, such as a timeout or taking away privileges, had failed. Reasonable jurors could conclude that spanking was uncalled for.\nAlso unlike in Gonzalez and Joel H., there was substantial evidence that defendant used an excessive amount of force. His son was left with two purple bruises. As Gonzalez stated, this \"may support a finding that a parent crossed the line between permissible discipline and reportable abuse.\" (Gonzalez v. Santa Clara County Dept. of Social Services, supra, 223 Cal.App.4th at p. 92.)\nDefendant ignores these two crucial factors — the occasion for the discipline and the amount of force used. His position, if taken to its logical conclusion, would mean that a parent could spank a child, hard enough to leave bruises, at any time, just to remind the child of who's in charge. This is not the law.\nWe therefore conclude that the prosecutor did not misstate the law and defense counsel did not render ineffective assistance by failing to object.\nDefendant also asserts that CALCRIM No. 3405 was erroneous. He has forfeited this as grounds for reversal by failing to raise it under a separate heading, as required. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.204(a)(1)(B); People v. Luo (2017) 16 Cal.App.5th 663, 678, fn. 6; People v. Roscoe (2008) 169 Cal.App.4th 829, 840.) In any event, he does not identify any particular flaw in the instruction. He simply claims that it was erroneous because it did not absolutely preclude the jurors from convicting him based on the spanking. As we have already held, this was not error.\nThe judgment is affirmed.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1748849"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6807261109352112,"wiki_prob":0.3192738890647888,"text":"Gluten, Depression, and Anxiety: The Gut-Brain Link\nby Therese J. Borchard\nYou only need to spend 10 minutes in a supermarket these days before noticing that half of the items seem to be marketed as “gluten-free.” Even raisins and nectarines are labeled that way, as if they ever contained gluten in the first place. Is it a fad much like the “fat-free” hype of the ’80s?\nBut based on my own experience eliminating gluten from my diet, and the stories of people who struggle with chronic depression that I’ve read in the online forums I participate in, I believe the stuff can be toxic to your mood, especially if you have a sensitivity to it.\nWhile only 1 percent of the U.S. population has celiac disease (where eating gluten triggers an autoimmune response that damages the intestines and keeps nutrients from being properly absorbed), many more may be living with non-celiac gluten sensitivity. For these folks, consuming even a small amount of gluten (a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye) causes digestive problems, drops in energy, and symptoms of depression and anxiety.\n“[Gluten and dairy] are the main allergens and foods that cause bad brain reactions,” writes Mark Hyman, MD, in his best-seller The Ultramind Solution. “Stopping these foods can be life-changing for the majority with brain and mood problems.”\nGluten and Depression\nA small study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics in May 2014 demonstrated the psychological effects of gluten on people with self-reported non-celiac gluten sensitivity. In this study, 22 participants ate a gluten-free diet low in FODMAPs (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols) for a three-day baseline period, and then received one of three dietary challenges (supplemented with gluten, whey, or placebo) for three days, followed by a three-day minimum washout period before starting the next diet.\nResearchers assessed the participants at the end of the study using a psychological tool called the Spielberger State-Trait Personality Inventory (STPI). People in the study who consumed gluten had higher overall STPI depression scores compared to those on the placebo diet.\nThe high correlation between celiac disease and depression is also telling in regards to gluten’s effects on mood. One study published in 1998 in Psychiatric Quarterly determined that about one-third of those with celiac disease also have depression. Another studypublished in April 2007 in the Journal of Affective Disorders evaluated approximately 14,000 people with celiac disease and found that they had an 80 percent higher risk of depression. Swedish researchers reported in August 2011 in Digestive and Liver Disease that the risk of suicide was moderately higher in people with celiac disease.\nGluten and Schizophrenia\nThe first research into how gluten impacts the brain and could lead to psychiatric problems occurred more than 60 years ago with groups of schizophrenic patients. In a studypublished in January 1966 in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers calculated the numbers of women admitted to mental hospitals in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Canada, and the United States from 1936 to 1945, and the consumption of wheat and rye during the same period. They found a significant positive correlation between the increase in average annual admissions for schizophrenia in each country and the increase in consumption of wheat or wheat and rye. The reverse was also true; as gluten grain rations decreased so did the rate of first-time admission to psychiatric institutions.\nThere is an increasing volume of research associating gluten consumption to schizophrenia, such as the study published in September 2013 in the The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry that found elevated levels of antibodies to the gluten protein gliadin in people with schizophrenia. Researchers compared the anti-gliadin antibodies of 950 adults with schizophrenia to those of 1,000 healthy controls. The odds of having anti-gliadin antibodies was 2.13 times higher in schizophrenics, indicating the possibility of an adverse reaction to wheat proteins among this population.\nIn a study published in January 2011 in Schizophrenia Bulletin, researchers discovered that people with schizophrenia have higher than expected antibodies related to celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.\nHow Gluten Affects the Brain\nSo what is the link between gluten and psychiatric disorders? How might wheat impair the brain? That’s what I find most fascinating.\nIn 1979, Christine Zioudrou, PhD, and her colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health found that gluten contains polypeptides, or protein fragments, that are able to bind to morphine receptors in the brain — the same receptors that the polypeptides in opiate drugs bind to. They dubbed them “exorphins,” short for exogenous morphine-like compounds, distinguishing them from the endorphins (also morphine-like compounds) that we produce internally and occur, say, during a runner’s high. These receptor sites impact the degree of pleasure and reward we feel and, because of the withdrawal effect, alter brain chemistry. They can have a distinct effect on mood.\nAccording to William Davis, MD, author of Wheat Belly, researchers speculate that exorphins might be the active factors in wheat that caused the deterioration of schizophrenic symptoms in a famous study led by F. Curtis Dohan, MD, during his time at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. “Wheat, in fact, nearly stands alone as a food with potent central nervous system effects,” Dr. Davis writes. “Outside of intoxicants such as ethanol (like that in your favorite merlot or chardonnay), wheat is one of the few foods that can alter behavior, induce pleasurable effects, and generate a withdrawal syndrome upon its removal.”\nThe Gut-Brain Connection\nIn people with celiac disease, gluten causes intestinal dysbiosis, a condition in which the gut bacteria are out of balance. As I’ve written about before, gut bacteria can certainly impact mood — so much that our gut is sometimes dubbed our second brain. In some people, gluten could also erode the gut lining when certain foods enter our bloodstream: Our immune system, responding to an attack by a foreign object, sends an SOS message through our nervous system, which can generate symptoms of anxiety and depression.\nBasically, gluten triggers inflammation, and the response to that inflammation can affect different organs and tissues, all of which impact mood. A damaged intestinal wall also means that we are not properly absorbing essential nutrients, especially those critical to mood, like zinc, the B vitamins, and vitamin D.\nFinally, if our intestines are unhealthy, that means we’re not manufacturing as much serotonin, since 80 to 90 percent of serotonin is produced in our gut nerve cells. Gluten could also limit the production of tryptophan, an amino acid that is the precursor of serotonin.\nI eliminated gluten from my diet two-and-a-half years ago and noticed a substantial improvement in my mood — but it didn’t happen instantly. It took as long as nine months to reap all the benefits. Now that I’m gluten-free, I’ve become much more sensitive to it and can feel its effects almost immediately: anxiety, brain fog, and death thoughts.\nFad or no fad, I’m a believer in gluten-free!\nMichael Kobel December 5, 2017\nNormal Stress Reactions after a Traumatic Event\nMichael Kobel October 24, 2017","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line438790"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5094793438911438,"wiki_prob":0.4905206561088562,"text":"Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain\nOrtiz-Carboneres, Salvador\nSouthworth, Eric\nJones, Michael\nI thought you would find this interesting: Lorca: The House of Bernarda Alba: A Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain Ortiz-Carboneres, Salvador; Southworth, Eric; Jones, Michael Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics (2009)\nLa casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy. The play is based around five daughters who live with their fearsome and tyrannical mother. The daughters have been kept sheltered from the opposite sex, but the arrival of a suitor after their father's death catapults the family into a downward spiral of sexual jealousy and death. The play explores themes of sexual oppression, passion, and conformity, and examines women's lives in Spain at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Bernarda's cruel tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the stifling nature of Franco's fascist regime, which was to arrive just a few weeks after Lorca finished writing his play. The introduction by Eric Southworth addresses the main issues of the play and the issues involved in translating it.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line61583"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7139506936073303,"wiki_prob":0.7139506936073303,"text":"2014 No. 1850\nFinancial Services And Markets\nThe Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Green Deal) (Amendment) Order 2014\nComing into force in accordance with article 1\nA draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 40(5) of the Energy Act 2011(1) and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted the Financial Conduct Authority and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in accordance with section 30 of the Energy Act 2011(2).\nThe Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers have been consulted in accordance with section 40(8)(b) and (12) of the Energy Act 2011.\nAccordingly, the Secretary of State makes the following Order, in exercise of the power conferred by section 30 of the Energy Act 2011.\nCitation, commencement, application and extent\n1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Green Deal) (Amendment) Order 2014.\n(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which this Order is made.\n(3) This Order does not apply to a green deal plan (within the meaning of section 1 of the Energy Act 2011) made before 28th February 2014.\n(4) This Order extends to England and Wales and Scotland only.\nAmendments to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001\n2. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001(3) is amended as follows.\nAmendments to article 3\n3.—(1) Article 3(1) (interpretation)(4) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the definition of “borrower”—\n(a)in paragraph (a)—\n(i)for “or” substitute “,”;\n(ii)after “given by article 36H)” insert “or an agreement that is a green deal plan”; and\n(b)after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c)in relation to a credit agreement that is a green deal plan, has the meaning given by article 60LB;”.\n(3) For the definition of “credit agreement” substitute—\nin relation to an agreement other than a green deal plan, has the meaning given by article 60B;\nin relation to a green deal plan, has the meaning given by article 60LB;”.\n(4) After the definition of “funeral plan contract” insert—\n““green deal plan” has the meaning given by section 1 of the Energy Act 2011;”.\n(5) In the definition of “lender”—\n(a)in paragraph (c)—\n(b)after paragraph (d) insert—\n“(e)in relation to a credit agreement that is a green deal plan, has the meaning given by article 60LB;”.\nAmendments to article 39I\n4. In article 39I(3) (activities carried on by certain energy suppliers)(5)—\n(a)omit sub-paragraph (a); and\n(b)in sub-paragraph (b), for “that Act” substitute “the Energy Act 2011”.\nAmendment to article 60B\n5. In article 60B(3) (regulated credit agreements)(6), for the definition of “credit agreement” substitute—\nin relation to an agreement other than a green deal plan, means an agreement between an individual or relevant recipient of credit (“A”) and any other person (“B”) under which B provides A with credit of any amount;\nAmendments to article 60C\n6. For article 60C(4)(c) (exempt agreements: exemptions relating to the nature of the agreement)(7) substitute—\n“(c)the agreement is a green deal plan made in relation to a property that is not a domestic property (as defined by article 60LB).”.\nAmendment to article 60F\n7. In article 60F(2)(a) (exempt agreements: exemptions relating to number of repayments to be made)(8), after “for fixed-sum credit” insert “, other than a green deal plan”.\nAmendments to article 60L\n8.—(1) Article 60L (interpretation of Chapter 14A etc)(9) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a)in the definition of “borrower”, after “means” insert “(except in relation to green deal plans: see instead article 60LB)”;\n(b)for the definition of “credit agreement” substitute—\nin relation to a green deal plan, has the meaning given by article 60LB;”;\n(c)in the definition of “lender”, after “means” insert “(except in relation to green deal plans: see instead article 60LB)”.\n(3) After paragraph (1) insert—\n“(1A) For the purposes of this Chapter, a credit agreement that is a green deal plan is to be treated as—\n(a)a borrower-lender-supplier agreement falling within paragraph (a) of the definition of “borrower-lender-supplier agreement”;\n(b)a restricted-use credit agreement falling within paragraph (a) of the definition of “restricted-use credit agreement”.”.\nAmendment to article 60LA\n9. In article 60LA(3) (meaning of consumer etc.)(10), after “in article 60L” insert “or, where the credit agreement is a green deal plan, article 60LB”.\nInsertion of new article 60LB\n10. After article 60LA (meaning of consumer etc.) insert—\n“Green deal plans\n60LB.—(1) A green deal plan is to be treated as a credit agreement for the purposes of this Order if (and only if)—\n(a)the property in relation to the plan is a domestic property at the time when the plan is commenced, or\n(b)if sub-paragraph (a) does not apply, the occupier or owner of the property who makes the arrangement for the plan is an individual or relevant recipient of credit.\n(2) In the application of this Order to a green deal credit agreement—\n(a)the lender is to be treated as being—\n(i)the green deal provider (within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2011) for the plan, or\n(ii)a person who exercises or has the right to exercise the rights and duties of the green deal provider under the plan,\n(b)credit is to be treated as advanced under the agreement of an amount equal to the amount of the improvement costs, and\n(c)the advance of credit is to be treated as made on the completion of the installation of the energy efficiency improvements to the property (but this sub-paragraph is subject to any term of the green deal plan providing that part of the advance is to be treated as made on completion of any part of the installation).\n(3) A reference in a provision of this Order listed in the first column of the table in Schedule 4A to the borrower is, in the application of the provision in relation to a green deal credit agreement, to be read as a reference to—\n(a)a person who at the relevant time falls (or fell) within the description or descriptions specified in the corresponding entry in the second column of the table, or\n(b)if more than one description is specified and at the relevant time different persons fall (or fell) within the descriptions, each of those persons,\nand except as provided by this paragraph, a person is not and is not to be treated as the borrower in relation to the agreement.\n(4) References in Schedule 4A to the “improver”, “first bill payer”, “current bill payer” and “previous bill payer” are to be read as follows—\n(a)a person is the “improver” if the person—\n(i)is the owner or occupier of the property, and\n(ii)is the person who makes (or has made or proposes to make) the arrangement for the green deal plan;\n(b)a person is the “first bill payer” if the person is liable to pay the energy bills for the property at the time when the green deal plan is commenced;\n(c)a person is the “current bill payer” if the person is liable by virtue of section 1(6)(a) of the Energy Act 2011 to pay instalments under the plan as a result of being for the time being liable to pay the energy bills for the property;\n(d)a person is a “previous bill payer” if, as a result of previously falling within sub-paragraph (c) for an earlier period, the person has an outstanding payment liability under the plan in respect of that period.\n(5) In this article—\n“domestic property” means a building or part of a building that is occupied as a dwelling or (if not occupied) is intended to be occupied as a dwelling;\n“energy bill” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Energy Act 2011;\n“energy efficiency improvements” has the meaning given by section 2(4) of the Energy Act 2011;\n“green deal credit agreement” means a green deal plan that is to be treated as a credit agreement for the purposes of this Order by virtue of paragraph (1);\n“improvement costs”, in relation to a green deal plan, are the costs of the energy efficiency improvements to the property which are to be paid by instalments under the plan after the time when credit is to be treated as being advanced by virtue of paragraph (2) (but ignoring any interest or other charges for credit in determining those costs);\n“occupier” and “owner” have the same meanings as in Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2011;\n“property”, in relation to a green deal plan, means the property to which the energy efficiency improvements under the plan are or are intended to be made.\n(6) For the purposes of this article—\n(a)a green deal plan is commenced when—\n(i)the occupier or owner of the property signs in the prescribed manner a document in relation to the plan in accordance with section 61(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (requirements as to form and content of regulated agreements)(11), or\n(ii)if the occupier or owner of the property does not sign such a document, the green deal plan is made;\n(b)a person is liable to pay the energy bills for a property at any time if the person would be treated as the bill payer for the property at that time for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2011 (see section 2(3) and (10)).”.\nMeaning of “borrower” in relation to green deal plans\n11. After Schedule 4 (relevant text of the insurance mediation directive)(12) insert the following Schedule—\nArticle 60LB\n“SCHEDULE 4AMEANING OF “BORROWER” IN RELATION TO GREEN DEAL CREDIT AGREEMENTS\nArticle of this Order\nReferences to “borrower” are to be read as references to the—\nArticle 36B(13) improver\nArticle 36H(14) improver\nArticle 36J(15) improver\nArticle 39D(16)\ncurrent bill payer\nprevious bill payer\nArticle 39E(17)\nArticle 39M(18)\nArticle 60C improver\nArticle 60L, so far as relating to definitions of “deposit” and “security” improver\nArticle 60LA\nimprover\nfirst bill payer\nTransitional provision in relation to this Order\n12.—(1) This article makes provision in connection with the application of the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (the “1974 Act”) to a green deal plan which—\n(a)is made in the period starting with 1 April 2014 and ending with the day on which this Order is made, and\n(b)is not a regulated credit agreement for the purposes of Chapter 14A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 at the time it is made, but\n(c)becomes on the coming into force of this Order a regulated credit agreement for those purposes in consequence of provision made by this Order (an “interim plan”).\n(2) Sections 55(21), 55C(22), 60(23), 61(24), 61A(25), 62(26), 63(27), 64(28), 65, 66A(29), 67 to 73(30), 75A(31), 80, 94 to 97A(32), 102, 105 to 107(33), 129(34) to 130, 136 and 173(35) of the 1974 Act do not apply to an interim plan.\n(3) Sections 76, 86, 87(36) and 98 of the 1974 Act do not apply in respect of an entitlement of the creditor to take a step or action which arises in connection with an interim plan before this Order comes into force.\n(4) Sections 77(37), 77B(38) and 110(39) of the 1974 Act do not apply to an interim plan in respect of a request which is received by the creditor before this Order comes into force.\n(5) Section 78A(40) of the 1974 Act does not apply to an interim plan in respect of a change in interest rate which takes effect before this Order comes into force.\n(6) Section 82(1) to (1E)(41) of the 1974 Act does not apply to a variation to an interim plan which takes effect before this Order comes into force.\n(7) Sections 86E(42), 86F(43) and 93(44) of the 1974 Act do not apply to an interim plan in respect of a sum which first becomes payable before this Order comes into force.\n(8) Section 130A(45) of the 1974 Act does not apply to an interim plan in respect of a sum that is required to be paid under a judgment given before this Order comes into force.\nGregory Barker\nDepartment of Energy and Climate Change\nThis Order relates to the green deal energy efficiency scheme established by Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2011 (the “2011 Act”).\nThis Order applies in Great Britain and is made under section 30 of the 2011 Act. It makes amendments to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (the “Regulated Activities Order”) in consequence of the provisions of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the 2011 Act.\nThis Order makes provision as to the treatment of green deal plans under the Regulated Activities Order. In particular, it makes provision as to the circumstances in which a green deal plan is a credit agreement for the purpose of the Regulated Activities Order and the persons who are to be treated as being the lender and borrower in relation to a green deal plan.\nIn the case of the borrower, the Order makes provision as to the articles of the Regulated Activities Order in respect of which different categories of person are to be treated as the borrower.\nArticle 12 makes provision as to the application of the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (the “CCA”) to a green deal plan which is made in the period starting with 1 April 2014 and ending with the date on which this Order is made, and which is not a regulated credit agreement when made, but becomes regulated when this Order comes into force. It disapplies certain provisions of the CCA in respect of these green deal plans. It also clarifies the way in which, after this Order comes into force, certain provisions of the CCA will apply in respect of these green deal plans.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.\n2011 c.16.\nSection 30 was amended by S.I. 2013/1881, article 28 and paragraph 17 of the Schedule.\nS.I. 2001/544. S.I. 2001/544 was amended by S.I. 2013/1881 and S.I. 2014/366.\nArticle 3(1) was amended by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 3 and S.I. 2014/366, article 2.\nArticle 39I was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 5.\nArticle 60B was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 6.\nArticle 60C was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 6.\nArticle 60F was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 6.\nArticle 60L was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 6 and amended by S.I. 2014/366, article 2.\nArticle 60LA was inserted by S.I. 2014/366.\n1974 c.39. Section 61 was amended by S.I. 2004/3236, article 2.\nSchedule 4 was inserted by S.I. 2003/1476, articles 2 and 12.\nArticle 36H was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 4.\nArticle 36J was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 4.\nArticle 39D was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 5.\nArticle 39E was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 5.\nArticle 39M was inserted by S.I. 2013/1881, articles 2 and 5.\nSection 55 was amended by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 16.\nSection 55C was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 6, and amended by S.I. 2013/1881, regulation 20.\nSection 60 was amended by section 278 of and Schedule 25 to the Enterprise Act 2002 (c.40), S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 7, S.I. 2013/1881, article 20, and S.I. 2013/1882, article 7.\nSection 61 was amended by S.I. 2004/3236, article 2.\nSection 61A was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 8, and amended by S.I. 2013/1881, article 20.\nSection 63 was amended by S.I. 2004, 3236, article 2 and S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 11.\nSection 64 was amended by section 278 of and Schedule 25 to the Enterprise Act 2002, S.I. 2004/3236, article 2, and S.I. 2013/1882, article 7.\nSection 66A was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 13 (as amended by S.I. 2010/1969, regulations 2 and 8).\nSection 67 was amended by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 14. Section 69 was amended by S.I. 2004/3236, article 2. Section 70 was amended by S.I. 1998/997, article 3 and Schedule.\nSection 75A was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 25 (as amended by S.I. 2010/1969, regulations 2 and 8), and S.I. 2013/1881, article 20.\nSection 94 was amended by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 30, and section 29 of the Energy Act 2011. Section 95 was amended by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 31. Section 95A was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 32. Section 95B was inserted by section 29 of the Energy Act 2011. Section 97 was amended by S.I. 2008/1277, regulation 30, Schedules 2 and 4, and S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 33. Section 97A was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 34, and amended by section 29 of the Energy Act 2011.\nSection 107 was amended by S.I. 1998/997, article 3 and Schedule, and S.I. 2008/1277, regulation 30 and Schedules 2 and 4.\nSection 129 was amended by section 108 of and Schedule 6 to the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987 (c.18), and section 16 of the Consumer Credit Act 2006 (c.14).\nSection 173 was amended by section 278 of and Schedule 25 to the Enterprise Act 2002, and S.I. 2013/1881, article 20.\nSection 77 was amended by S.I. 1998/997, article 3 and Schedule, S.I. 2008/1277, regulation 30 and Schedules 2 and 4, and section 27 of the Energy Act 2011.\nSection 77B was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 26, section 27 of the Energy Act 2011, and S.I. 2013/1881, article 20.\nSection 78A was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 27.\nSection 82(1A) to (1E) was inserted by S.I. 2010/1010, regulations 2 and 28.\nSection 86E was inserted by section 12 of the Consumer Credit Act 2006.\nSection 86F was inserted by section 13 of the Consumer Credit Act 2006.\nSection 93 was amended by S.I. 2013/1881, article 20.\nSection 130A was inserted by section 17 of the Consumer Credit Act 2006.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1463949"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6738523244857788,"wiki_prob":0.3261476755142212,"text":"United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile\nAbout UCP\nUCP of Central Alabama\nCareers at UCP\nWhat is CP?\nUCP Employee Login\nUCP Programs\nCamp SMILE\nCCEP – Childcare Training\nComputer Physicians\nUCP Preschool\nPreschool Playground Project\neRecycle – Electronics Recycling Program\nUCP Tees\nSpring Casual Day 2018\nUCP News\n2019 Mobtown Mac ‘N Cheese Fest\nFood & Folly\n12th Annual Hooked Up To Help Inshore Fishing Tournament\nWilliams 16th Annual Golf Tournament\n2018 Iron Bowl Fundraising Contest\nUCP’s Christmas Nights of Lights 5K & Fun Run 2018\nSupport UCP\nContact UCP\n$50,000 Preschool Playground Match\nUnited Cerebral Palsy’s Preschool Playground Project is well underway.\n#GivingTuesday2017 was a huge success – generating nearly $13,000 towards a fully accessible playground for the children in UCP Preschool. The playground is a vital part of our children’s education – giving them a place to learn, grow and socialize with one another.\nThe efforts from Giving Tuesday captured the attention of an anonymous donor who wants to see these efforts go even further during this season of giving. Every dollar given to the preschool playground project from now until December 31st will be matched dollar for dollar up to $50,000!\nThis means that every gift you give leaves double the impact!\nYour gift of $50 now has a value of $100.\nYour gift of $500 has a value of $1000!\nWe have the opportunity to move the ball forward in a big way on this project and we are asking for your help! All you need to do is click the image above or visit our Preschool Playground Page. Thank you for your consideration. We hope to invest in the future of the next generation of United Cerebral Palsy Preschool graduates with you by our side!\nLocal Business Opens Doors During NDEAM\nWith the arrival of October, United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile prepares to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). UCP’s mission is to promote the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities.\nUCP of Mobile boasts over thirteen programs in 32 counties throughout south Alabama. Various programs are available anywhere from Mobile to Baldwin County all the way to Montgomery. One program in particular plays a critical role during NDEAM, Supported Employment. Supported Employment assists people with a variety of disabilities in locating, acquiring and maintaining competitive employment in integrated settings. The program is funded by the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services (ADRS), and it follows the “MILESTONES” system that is set by the state.\nThe Supported Employment (SE) Program relies heavily on meaningful community partnerships. Business leaders throughout the surrounding areas open the door of opportunity to UCP’s clients. We spoke with the Director of Human Resources at The Grand Hotel Marriott Resort and Spa, Jeremiah Bush, in regards to his involvement with the SE Program.\n“The Grand Hotel, as it is known locally, is a full-service, luxury-oriented resort along the Eastern Shor of Mobile Bay. A member of the Historic Hotels of America, it has been in existence since 1847 and currently employs almost 600 associates year round and an additional 150-200 associates during the peak summer season, making us one of the largest employers in Baldwin County,” says Bush regarding the hotel.\nBush became aware of UCP’s SE program when he began working for the Grand Hotel in January of 2016. However, the partnership goes back nearly four years. “We are able to offer multiple types of jobs that are tailored to an individual’s various needs and preferences, such as Stewarding, Grounds Keeping, Housekeeping, Public Space, Catering, etc.,” Bush says. “Employees hired through UCP’s SE Program have several strengths, including a positive attitude, a passion for the job, reliability and commitment.”\nWhile United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile does secure positions for individual clients, the involvement continues long after hiring. Employment Specialists remain with the individual in order to help them learn their job tasks. As the individual becomes more independent and comfortable with the day to day tasks, the Employment Specialist decreases the amount of time they spend with them on the job site. Occasionally, UCP staff follows-up with the individual and their progress.\n“The UCP staff has been a great partner for us. They are responsive to our needs and are very knowledgeable about the nuances of our industry and what it takes for an employee to have a successful career with us… the Job Coaches, Employment Specialists and all of the staff are very attentive and involved in every component of the employment cycle, from the hiring and onboarding, to the on-the-job training, and throughout the entire career span should you ever need assistance,” mentions Bush of his experience working with the SE staff.\nWhen it is all said and done, working with someone who has a disability often surprises people. “Working with UCP and the employees they’ve provided us has given me new insight and appreciation in finding great opportunities for people with disabilities,” says Bush, “It also serves as a pleasant reminder that a disability isn’t necessarily an obstacle to having meaningful employment in a rewarding industry such as hospitality. In fact, some of our best employees have come through the SE Program, which goes to show that everyone deserves an opportunity.”\nWhen asked how working with UCP aligns with the Grand Hotel Marriott Resort and Spa’s values, Bush said, “We are in the people business, so putting people first is what we do in hospitality, and providing opportunities for people coming through UCP is just one example of that. Our core values are Trust, Respect, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation, Accountability and Execution and part of our mission statement is that we ‘Create the most successful hospitality company, by ensuring that TRUST and RESPECT for our associates, guests and ownership are at the forefront of everything we do.’ Having trust in our employees’ ability to do the best they can while taking care of guests and respecting everyone without regard to any disability or special need they may have is simply who we are and who I am. I fully expect everyone I hire to be committed to doing an excellent job and doing the best they can today and finding an even better way tomorrow.”\nFor every job placement, an individual’s life is changed. That individual receives an opportunity to grow and be a part of their community at large. United Cerebral Palsy is extremely grateful for the partnership between the Grand Hotel and all other business partners that play a critical role in promoting productivity and full citizenship for our clients.\nSmiling at camp – The Atmore Advance\nSmiling at camp\nLiving Without Limits – Meet Kayden\nAnyone who has had the chance to visit United Cerebral Palsy’s Preschool would have a hard time missing Kayden King’s welcoming smile and cheerful personality.\nKayden, a member of UCP Preschool’s K4 class, is a joy to be around. “Kayden is a very fun, loving, dramatic and outgoing child. He’s also very affectionate and sometimes a little selfish, but all in all he’s one of the most mannerable kids you would want to meet. Family and friends are his everything,” says Tora, Kayden’s mother.\nKayden has been working with United Cerebral Palsy since the start, getting to know the organization through his time receiving therapy through UCP’s Early Intervention program. When it was time to choose where Kayden would attend school for the first time, Tora says, “I could not turn down the opportunity, it just felt right.” She was attracted by the fact that UCP’s Preschool has a blended classroom, meaning that children with disabilities share the classroom with typical peers. Allowing typical peers in the classroom offers a model for behaviors such as speech and play. “He’s getting the opportunity to interact with kids that are like him and others that are not, but still being treated normally,” says his mother.\nThere is no question that Kayden loves his friends and his teachers. “I love the fact that my child gets excited when it’s time for school. It lets me know that he is comfortable and being treated with love.” He is also a very vocal support for his classmates in their triumphs. Kayden himself has had many personal triumphs during his time with UCP Preschool. “Kayden’s first few years of schooling have been amazing. My son has learned things beyond my expectations. I’m impressed because on certain levels he knows more than some kids his age without a disability… Kayden is more a people person now, his vocabulary has grown and he is no longer afraid to explore and try different things that he would normally be afraid of. It makes me a proud parent,” says Tora.\nIn cooperation with the Mobile County Public School System, United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile offers preschool classes to approximately 25 children with disabilities and their typical peers each year. UCP’s preschool classes allow students to combine typical preschool activities such as story time and crafts with their individual regimen of speech, occupational and/or physical therapy.\nWelcome to the new website for United Cerebral Palsy of Mobile! Please be patient as it is currently under construction.\n3058 Dauphin Square Connector\n12th Annual Hooked Up To Help Inshore Fishing Tournament April 25, 2019\n2020 Mobtown Mac ‘N Cheese Fest January 28, 2019\nNew Mobile Mardi Gras Flags Feature Icons of Carnival in the City November 20, 2018\nSouthWest Mobile County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year 2017-2018 June 12, 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line675002"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7366876006126404,"wiki_prob":0.2633123993873596,"text":"Tag Archives: robert smith\nWhat I did last summer (Martin Gore – twice! and Fat Bob)\nLast summer, everyone who was involved in writing this blog post met up in Chicago to see (worship at) a Depeche Mode show. The three of us (me, H and K) have all been internet pals for a long time but we’d never all been in the same city at the same time, and we are all huge Depeche fans. We had lots of adventures in Chicago, but the main event was seeing Depeche Mode, and Martin Gore, our favorite.\nI’m an extremely anxious person and so I wanted to leave really early on the day of the show. The venue wasn’t that far away, but I get nervous. I was literally shitting bricks so finally H agreed to head towards the show. It turned out there was horrendous traffic getting into the venue, so we barely made it in time. All three of us had panic attacks in the car by that time.\nI have to say that the venue we went to was one of the most poorly planned venues I have ever seen in my life. We ended up parking in VIP and not paying for it (shhhhh it’s our secret),and running to our seats just before Depeche Mode hit the stage.\nFinally, we were in our seats and ready to go. All of us had our anxiety amped up to maximum levels and so it was inevitable that we all had emotional breakdowns during the concert. Martin Gore, sensitive and elfin as ever, stepped into the spotlight in his silver suit to croon Shake the Disease, and our collective knees buckled. We all held each other up while we sobbed our hearts out. I am not kidding. We were crying like babies. When people say, “I cried like a baby,” they may not mean it, but I totally mean it.\nFor the rest of the night, we each took turns bawling our eyes out over Depeche Mode, especially when Martin was singing. They had two set lists on that tour, and I was praying he’d sing But Not Tonight, but it wasn’t meant to be. Still, the show was incredible and we all agreed it was better than we had hoped for. There was a magic in the air that could never be recaptured. Thanks, anxiety!\nTickets for Austin City Limits (ACL) were going on sale a few weeks later. Depeche Mode and The Cure were both playing, so I knew I had to go, no matter what, and my friend H was coming with me. Martin Gore and Fat Bob (Robert Smith) are two icons from my holy trinity of goth (Morrissey is the third, if you were curious), so It was going to be insanely great.\nACL had it set up so that Depeche Mode played on Friday night, and The Cure played on Saturday night. This was basically a dream come true for me. I could not believe I was going to see two of my favorite bands in one weekend, with one of my best friends!\nMy friend didn’t want to spend all day at ACL, and I agreed, because it was hot as balls and also because there are so many other fun things to do in Austin. We went to Book People, and gasped loudly when we spotted an entire magazine dedicated to Depeche Mode. Yes, I bought it and we squealed over it like teenagers. Whatever, don’t judge me!\nWe went to ACL that evening, and I parked at my office, which was two miles away, and those two miles seem pretty far in the hot weather. We were already wilting.\nWe hardly got to see any bands besides the headliners, because we had to get a decent spot in the crowd. We went on the second weekend of the festival. The first weekend had temperatures in the 70’s, absolutely perfect weather. The second weekend predicted rainstorms, so we had rain ponchos.\nDepeche Mode’s show is so fun when you’re in a big, excited, festival crowd. I love hearing everyone singing along to every song. I didn’t cry as much this time, probably because I wasn’t as anxious as I had been in Chicago, but when Martin sang But Not Tonight, I lost it. I think it was raining by then too, so when he sang, “Oh God, it’s raining, but I’m not complaining,” every cell in my body exploded with joy. I tried to sing along but I couldn’t, because I was crying too much. I wasn’t sobbing, just quietly letting tears run down my face while I mouthed the words. When the song ended, I was kind of embarrassed, until a man standing nearby gently patted me on the shoulder and told me that was a beautiful moment. I choked up just writing about that moment.\nH and I had a great time laughing at Dave’s crazy dancing. He grabbed his dick a lot, as usual. I remember shouting, “Look at that chicken leg!” during one particularly lecherous grope. Dave, never change.\nWhen the concert was over, we walked the two miles to the car in the rain. We had our ponchos on, but honestly, they don’t help much. You still get wet and then also feel clammy. By the time we got to the car, we were exhausted and hungry. We stopped at Kerbey Lane for some late night grub and I felt (and looked) like I had been run over by a truck. That was only day one!\nThe next day, we woke up and still felt terrible so we planned to go even later than we did the day before. We ended up seeing the Arctic Monkeys, but had to leave early to get a good place to see the Cure.\nWe were really excited to worship at the altar of Fat Bob (affectionately nicknamed by Siouxsie, so we aren’t body shaming, okay?). I’ve been listening to the Cure since Let’s Go to Bed. I remember scoffing at the people who discovered the band when The Head on the Door came out. I’m still a terrible music snob, sorry. (not sorry)\nI knew it was supposed to rain again that night, and as promised, the deluge began about halfway through the show. I didn’t have a rain poncho and I forgot my umbrella, so we huddled under H’s umbrella. Seeing The Cure play One Hundred Years in a heavy rainstorm through a sea of umbrellas was probably the ultimate experience I could have as a Cure fan. I will never ever forget that.\nI’d seen The Cure play at Coachella in 2010, so I knew they were notorious for breaking curfews and playing for hours and hours. They played on, covering their equipment with tarps, makeup smearing in the rain. Sadly, due to the storm, they were cut off. You could tell that Robert did not want to leave the stage, as he reluctantly shrugged and waved goodbye.\nWe trudged out of Zilker Park, and got lost trying to get to the car. I think we walked an extra mile out of the way. I was soaked to the bone. When we got home, we bundled up and I had the chills. The next day, I was miserable, the park was flooded, and ACL was canceled due to the fact that we had over a foot of rain.\nThe only band we really wanted to see on Sunday was Franz Ferdinand. They were playing a secret show at a club downtown. I felt so awful that we didn’t get in line early enough. I knew we weren’t going to get in, but after three hours, we ended up sneaking in only to be escorted out seconds later. We saw the band walk into the club, and I touched Bob on the arm as he went by. Oh, the humanity!\nTo salve our disappointment, we went to dinner and got some Amy’s Ice Cream. I felt terrible because I’d been a whiny bitch all the time we were in line. I seriously felt so sick, though.\nAfter I dropped H off at the airport the next day, I went home and passed out. I ended up calling in sick the whole week, because I had a bad upper respiratory infection. They thought maybe it was pneumonia or pertussis, but I dodged those bullets, thank goodness.\nI’m not sure I will ever go to ACL again. I could just livestream it all on the web, and see more bands than we saw. If it wasn’t for Depeche Mode and The Cure, I would have never gone in the first place. I guess I’ll go back to ACL for a Smiths reunion…haha! As if…\nThis entry was posted in Music and tagged austin, austin city limits, chicago, concerts, crying in the rain, dave gahan, depeche mode, fat bob, martin gore, martin gore makes the young girls cry, robert smith, the cure on May 12, 2014 by mekkalekkah.\nThe five stages of Morrissey fandom\nI have spent the last few days listening to quite a lot of Morrissey and The Smiths. Seeing as how this week marks the 25th anniversary of the release of one of the greatest albums of all time, The Queen is Dead, I felt I should write about my love for Morrissey.\nI have been a Morrissey fan ever since I met my first boyfriend. I would go over to his house and we’d sit in his bedroom and listen to the first Smiths album, and sometimes we’d cry together. (Yes, he turned out to be gay and left me for a boy.) He educated me about a lot of amazing music, but I really fell in love with Morrissey and The Smiths.\nMorrissey spent a lot of time alone reading books, just like I did. We both thought Oscar Wilde was a genius, and we both thought we were unloveable. I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside. If I had ever thought of getting a tattoo at age 17, I am pretty sure it would have said that. (I am glad I never got this tattoo though) Things change as you get older…that being said, here is my interpretation of the Five Stages of Morrissey fandom.\n1. Romanticism\nKeats and Yeats are on your side…\nWhen you first encounter Morrissey, you’re a teenager (if you’re lucky). Teenagers feel things so much more deeply than anyone else in the world. I would hear Morrissey’s songs and they would speak to me in such powerful ways. I was an outsider and a loner, and so was he. It was terribly romantic to picture him as a Byronic figure, standing on the windswept moors, with a tear running down his cheek. Only he understood the pain of living. Only he could rescue me from that pain.\n2. Wit\nMorrissey is known for making good sound bites. He has often gotten himself into trouble for saying things that have been misconstrued. Back in the 80’s, he gave a good quip. I remember that he said things like “Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.” (Later, I discovered this photo of him as a lad with very long hair…haha!) He also loved to put down other pop stars of the time. He accused Robert Smith of The Cure of being a “whingebag”. Robert Smith replied by saying that, “If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat; that’s how much I hate Morrissey.” (Not that Robert Smith is an angel – I remember that he said he wanted to see George Michael hung by the neck – I can’t find the exact quote but you get the idea.)\nBut you lose, because Wilde is on mine….sugar…\nDuring this phase, the young Morrissey fan will educate him or herself by reading loads and loads of Oscar Wilde, Byron, Shelley, Keats, etc. etc. Every word that passes the lips of a Morrissey fan in this stage is either a quote, an epigram, or a witticism of their own invention. This becomes very tedious for their friends, if they should happen to have any.\nThis phase ends when the fan reads A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, and ends up highlighting every line that ended up in a Morrissey song. Finding out that Morrissey has plagiarized and taken on loan creates an overwhelming sense of disillusionment, which is immediately internalized and forgotten so that you can continue to listen to Morrissey and not feel like the world is crashing around you.\n3. Vegetarianism\nSteven, you don’t eat meat…\nI personally have never gone through this phase, because when it comes to food I am unable to deny myself. Well, I do eat a lot less meat than I used to, but that’s just out of necessity due to not having any money. Also, there are all sorts of nasty diseases caused by toxic meat, and also I happened to read Fast Food Nation, which is The Jungle of the 21st Century. If you don’t know what The Jungle is, click here.\nHowever, the young Morrissey fan who first hears Meat is Murder may become inclined to eschew meat, leather, dairy, eggs, and all of those things that are made from animals. The Morrissey acolyte will also make sure to let everyone within hearing know that they are eating the decayed flesh of an animal that once had a face, or some such similar lecture. This phase will either continue until the person becomes a vegan, or it will end once their family cooks up a barbecue.\nI did see Morrissey at Coachella in 2009, and he could smell the barbecued meat coming from a nearby food vendor. He left the stage for a moment, declaring, “I smell burning flesh…I hope to God it’s human.”\n4. Death Wish\nIt’s inevitable. If you are listening to Morrissey, eventually your thoughts will dwell upon your eternal slumber. For someone that has written so many songs about suicide, Morrissey sure does persist in staying alive. Still, there is nothing like listening to endless litanies about how things would be so much better if you were dead. I used to listen to Asleep before I went to sleep, which is a song about killing yourself and/or dying in your sleep. NITEY NITE! SWEET DREAMS! Yes, I had issues. (Still do) It’s terribly romantic to think of your funeral, and all of the people who would be there in tears, wishing they had been nicer to you while you were alive. (Ah, youth!) This is the phase in which I should have gotten that tattoo I mentioned earlier.\n5. Nostalgia\nOnce you’re grown up, and you’ve become a clever swine, Morrissey might lose some of his allure. The golden god may tarnish a bit and you might forget about him altogether. If you forget about Morrissey, I hope you enjoy your corporate sycophantic life, because you are dead inside. As long as you have a little affection for the Mozzer, you will continue to question reality. When you’re listening to Morrissey and The Smiths during this phase, you will think back on all of those nights you spent crying into your cat’s fur and smile fondly. What fools we all were in those days, ah what fun to write your suicide note in longhand while tears splashed the page! Is it weird to feel nostalgia for crippling depression? I am not sure. All I can say is that back in the late 80’s, Morrissey already knew how we were going to feel about him in the future, so he wrote a song about it.\nListen below to Rubber Ring, and remember that Morrissey is in the corner of your room, holding a torch.\nWhen you’re dancing and laughing, and finally living, hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly…do you love me like you used to?\nThis entry was posted in Music and tagged 80s, brits, fandom, feuds, listicle, meat is murder, morrissey, moz, nostalgia, oscar wilde, robert smith, the queen is dead, the smiths on June 18, 2011 by mekkalekkah.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line701814"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6809743642807007,"wiki_prob":0.3190256357192993,"text":"Best Canadian Casinos\nStrategies to Help You Win at the Slot Machines\nBecome a Millionaire Playing Mega Moolah\nIf you want to win a significant jackpot playing online casino games, Mega Moolah is the game you need to try. No other online casino game has produced as many millionaires as this one. The base jackpot of this progressive slot game is a cool $1 million, but often stands at many multiples of this.\nClick Here To Play Mega Moolah With Zodiac Casino\nWhat is Mega Moolah?\nMega Moolah isn’t a new game by any means. Having been around for a number of years now, it remains one of the most played, and most popular, of all online casino games. For most players, it is the huge jackpot that draws players in.\nNot only does the jackpot often stand at the multi-million level, the game was recently responsible for the largest jackpot payout ever on a mobile game. You don’t even have to put down the maximum bets to score those supersized jackpots. One player took away $5.5 million on a $0.50 spin.\nNaturally, the potential to create instant millionaires has given Mega Moolah a reputation that is currently unmatched by any other online casino game. As a result, it is a game that you will be able to find on the pages of all the biggest online casino operators.\nThe last few months have been exciting times for Mega Moolah players. Two Canadian players became instant millionaires after managing to hit the top jackpot in Mega Moolah. One was a woman who was playing on her iPhone while at her mother’s house. As the bonus spin began, she decided to head to the toilet to let it play out. When she returned, there was a cool $3.3 million waiting for her.\nAnother player was able to score a $3.9 million jackpot while playing using a free bonus given to him by the casino. On the back of his win, he was able to leave his current job and start up his dream business.\nIn both cases, the Mega Moolah jackpot was a life changing experience. These are just two instances of many.\nAbout Mega Moolah\nMega Moolah is a digital slots game with an African safari theme. Its cast of characters includes all the usual safari animals you would expect. The game itself is a 5 x 3-reel video slot game, meaning that reels are ‘spun’ to generate a 5 x 3 board. The characters that appear on that board and their positions relative to one another will determine the result of the spin.\nThe Mega Moolah game is linked across all casinos and uses a progressive jackpot system. This means that the available prizes quickly build up from their base levels. In addition to the four levels of progressive jackpots that the game offers, the game also features a number of other features. For example, you can activate up to 15 free spins within the game. If the Wild Lion symbols turn up on your reels, they can offer a significant payout sometimes.\nMega Moolah has created more instant millionaires than any other online slots game. The charming art style and easy to understand gameplay make it easy to appreciate the game’s current popularity.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1597614"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6534485220909119,"wiki_prob":0.34655147790908813,"text":"Articles/Stories/Videos\nCooking for Kids\nDad Meetups\nGood Local Info.\nMuseums (Free Days and Free all the time)\nMemorial Day -Weekend-Whaddup-\nMay 23, 2014 By Studiocitydad\nMemorial Day Festival at Battleship IOWA\nwhen: May 26 at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nwhere: USS IOWA, 250 S. Harbor Blvd., San Pedro, Ca\ncost: Free-$18\nages: All Ages\nthe Whaddup:\nHonoring those who served at the United States Military Appreciation Day at Battleship IOWA\nYou can Tour the Battleship IOWA, there will be entertainment, carnival games, food and snacks and more. Military and veterans are free. You can register for free military admission, or discounted general admission online.\nValley Greek Festival\nSaturday, May 24 through Monday, May 26\nWhere: St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church 9501 Balboa Blvd., Northridge, CA 91325\nWhen: 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nWho: The whole family\nHow: Just show up\nDo delectable dolmathes and freshly constructed gyros suit your palate? How about homemade moussaka and juicy souvlaki? These and other Greek delicacies are served up during the annual Valley Greek Festival fundraiser held on Memorial Day weekend, from 1pm to 9pm. The Mediterranean delights are only part of the party, which includes the chance to survey the goods available via a number of vendors hawking everything Greek, from music to pottery to jewelry and more. Folk dances from the old country are also a big treat, as is the chance to tour St. Nicholas Church. Opa!\nFor more info: More Info\nTake a Walk into the Chumash World\nwhen: May 25 at 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.\nwhere: Westside, Temescal Gateway Park, 15601 Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, Ca\nDiscover how the Chumash used the natural resources of the environment for thousands of years to create a sustainable way of life. Take an easy 1 mile walk through the woods and learn from a Ranger!\nFree Holiday Monday at LACMA\nwhen: May 26 at 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.\nwhere: Miracle Mile, LACMA, 5900 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Ca\nAnother Monday off, another free day at LACMA with the perfect way to entertain and enlighten the whole family! Entry to the museum, bilingual tours, programs, art-making activities, and live music by Mehrdad Arabi and Friends at 12:30 p.m. and 2:45 p.m. are all free!\nTips: Tickets to the Boone Children’s Gallery on Target Free Holiday Monday are timed and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Pick up your free, timed ticket in the Boone Children’s Gallery on the day of the event. Timed tickets allow for a thirty-minute visit.\nMemorial Day Concert: The Stars of Beatlemania\nwhen: May 26 at 5 p.m.\nwhere: Valley, Conejo Community Park, 1175 Hendrix Ave., Thousand Oaks, Ca\nThe first summer concert of the year at the Conejo Community Park is a celebration of the 50th Anniversaries of the City of Thousand Oaks and the Beatles’ U.S. invasion. Featuring two original cast members from the Broadway “Beatlemania!” production, this talented group performs incredibly authentic renditions of Beatles tunes.\nBirdwatching for Kiddos (and Parents!)\nwhen: May 25 at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.\nwhere: Malibu Lagoon State Beach, 23200 P.C.H., Malibu, Ca\nThis is a special short walk for kids and their families – just bring sunscreen, jackets, water, walking shoes and sharp eyes – the binoculars will be provided!\nTopanga Days\nwhen: May 24 – May 26 at 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.\nwhere: Topanga Community House Fair Grounds, 1440 N. Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Topanga, Ca\ncost: $25 Adults / $15 Children 6-12 / 5 and Under Free\nA Memorial Day Weekend-long bash that includes live music, a Kid’s Zone, Art Walk, local vendors, food and more. Take part in old fashioned games like sack races, a baby derby, a bat spinning relay, 3 legged races, pie eating contests, egg tosses, a water balloon way, watermelon seed spitting and other fun that takes you back… Plus tons of music on 2 stages and cap the weekend off with a parade Monday morning!\nIt’s Time to Party, Fiesta at Hermosa\nwhere: Hermosa Beach, Pier Plaza & Strand, Hermosa Beach, Ca\nFiesta Hermosa is the biggest arts & crafts fair in Southern California with featured painters, photographers, ceramicists, jewelers, sculptors, and handi-crafters.\nSo come out and enjoy the art, the music (two live stages) and the FOOD – don’t miss the Hermosa Beach Lifeguards’ famous fish tacos. Or the handmade guacamole, crepes, shaved ice, cotton candy, caramel apples, fresh squeezed lemonade, or funnel cakes!\nAnd of course there’s the Kiddie Carnival, which features a 30 foot slide, mechanical rides, rock climbing wall and bungee jump, and games for kids from 3 to 10 years old. Pony rides, a petting zoo, and facepainters are sure to delight the little ones.\nSimi Valley Sings the Blues and Goes Cajun\nwhen: May 24 – May 25 at 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.\nwhere: Rancho Santa Susana Community Park, 5005 Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley, Ca\ncost: $15-$22 (kids under 7 are free)\nThis is a full weekend of nonstop award-winning entertainment, more food choices than you can sample in two days, and activities to keep kids of all ages entertained!\nThe Cajun & Zydeco stage will feature international and award winning Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music acts like Lisa Haley and the Zydecats, John Mayall, Guitar Shorty and the Bayou Brothers and even plenty of kids performing on the Kids Stage.\nIn addition, this family friendly event has a giant kids area featuring bouncers, rock walls, specialty acts, crafts and talent shows. There are also food booths and many crafts and merchandise booths.\nCircus Vargas’ Magikaria Extreme\nwhen: May 23 at Various times\nwhere: Westfield Promenade, 6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd , Woodland Hills, Ca\nGet ready for the ultimate entertainment extravaganza for all ages, where the magic begins and the heart-pounding, death-defying action takes place. It’s awe-inspiring excitement, all under the Circus Vargas big top…where imagination comes to life and the world is full of possibility and wonder.\nBe sure to come 30 minutes early for an interactive pre-show where your kids create their own magic center ring.\nMozart Opera Tales\nwhen: May 23 at 3:30 p.m.\nwhere: West Hollywood Library, 625 N. San Vicente Blvd., West Hollywood, Ca\nages: 5 and up\nOpera Tales is a fun, high energy show that tours libraries every spring, bringing the joy to opera to kids every, for free. (No seriously! Opera is a joy, and your kids – and you – will love it. It’s stories, song, love and emotion…)\nMozart Opera Tales features five professional opera singers as the “opera pals” who perform musical moments from such Mozart opera stories as Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Magic Flute.\nFriday Night Jazz at LACMA\nwhen: every Friday at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.\nDon’t forget blankets, sweaters, chairs and a picnic to while you lounge on the grass and listen to the jazz… Every Friday from April 18th through the end of October, you can hear a free jazz concert at LACMA in the grand entrance.\nBring the kids early to snag great seats and let them run around Hancock Park, rolling down the hill and exploring the tar pits before the concert starts. And remember that the museum is free to all Los Angeles County residents after 5 p.m. on Fridays (Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays too!), so be sure to check out the latest exhibits.\nThis Goldilocks is Just Right\nwhen: every Saturday at 1 p.m.\nwhere: Universal City, Theatre West, 3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles, Ca\nTheatre West specializes in non-threatening, interactive musicals with a message for children 3 – 9 years old. Currently playing is Goldilocks, where the little blondie befriends the three bears and begins a friendship with Baby Bear. Through Goldilocks and Baby Bear, Goldilocks’ parents and Mama and Papa Bear learn that they have more in common than they thought and learn to respect each other. It’s a happy, original show with a huge amount of opportunities for audience participation.\nSaturdays at 1 p.m.\nSplash To Seaside Lagoon\nwhen: every Saturday at 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.\nwhere: Seaside Lagoon, 200 Portofino Way, Redondo Beach, Ca\ncost: $6-$7\nThe Seaside Lagoon is open for the summer daily through Labor Day weekend.\nThe large saltwater lagoon, offers trained lifeguard supervision. Besides swimming, the Lagoon offers a large sand area for sunbathing, children’s play equipment, snack bar facilities provided by Ruby’s Restaurant , and volleyball courts. There is also a grassed area and luau shelter for day and evening events.\nSanta Anita Racetrack Family Fun\nwhen: every Sunday at 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.\nwhere: Santa Anita Racetrack, 285 West Huntington Dr., Arcadia, Ca\ncost: $40/family of 4\nOn the weekend Santa Anita race track has a Family Fun Zone with a field full of activities for your little jockeys to enjoy, from inflatable jumpers, face painting and carnival games to pony rides, a chance to meet Seabiscuit and the Santa Anita Playground. Plus, you enjoy an exciting day of racing as the horses run around you. Family 4 packs give you admission, parking, racing programs, hot dogs, chips and sodas for the whole family, plus 2 pony rides and 8 carnival games.\nAnnenberg Pool Pre-Season Splash\nwhere: Westside, Annenberg Beach House, 415 P.C.H., Santa Monica, Ca\nThis is one of the hottest things to do in SoCal, meant to cool you down.\nWith spectacular views, a splash pad, children’s play area, gallery, historic pool, and Marion Davies Guest House there’s something for everyone to enjoy at the Beach House, and it’s open this weekend and on June 1tth for the season, so when it heats up in the Valley get to the beach and enjoy a dip and some LA history!\nThe pool is open Memorial Day Weekend from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., then it opens daily for the season on June 11th.\nPasses go on sale daily at 9:30 am. The pool is 4′ to 8′ deep, heated to 80 – 85 degrees and chlorinated. Towels and locks are not provided – please bring your own.\n-Weekend-Whaddup-\nPost? Don’t Mind if I do.\nKids Bowl Free? Yes, they do!\nTime for New Wheels\nJennifer on Museums (Free Days and Free all the time)\nAlisha Jenkins on About this Site","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line517662"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7202681303024292,"wiki_prob":0.7202681303024292,"text":"Florida sees record tourism in 2014\nBy Arlene Satchell\nRoberta Porco of Denver takes pictures on Fort Lauderdale beach. (Carline Jean / Sun Sentinel)\nA record 97.3 million visitors traveled to Florida in 2014, the fourth consecutive record year, according to preliminary estimates Monday by Visit Florida, the state's official tourism marketing corporation.\nTourism increased 3.9 percent over 2013, Visit Florida said. The previous record was 93.7 million tourists in 2013.\nLast year, about 11.5 million visitors came from overseas, with 3.8 million more from Canada, up 2.6 percent and 2.4 percent respectively. Both were records.\nThe improving economy and increased flights between Florida and Europe and Latin America fueled higher tourism statewide and in South Florida.\nIn Broward County, 14 million travelers visited last year, spending $11.4 billion, according to data from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau. That was up from 13.4 million visitors and $10.6 billion in spending in 2013.\n[More business] John Knox to begin construction on 150 senior apartments »\nPalm Beach County is forecast to see more than 6.24 million visitors in 2014, up from 6 million the year earlier, but final numbers are not complete.\nStatewide, a record number of people — 1,135,700 — were employed in the travel industry in 2014, up 3.6 percent from the year before, Visit Florida said.\nThe state Department of Economic Opportunity estimates that of the 9.1 million people currently employed in Florida, 1.1 million have jobs tied to the tourism industry.\nNew hotels contributed jobs in South Florida. They included the 105-room Hampton Inn & Suites in Coconut Creek, which opened in summer, employing about 30 people. Another was the 156-suite Residence Inn by Marriott Fort Lauderdale Airport and Cruise Port hotel in Dania Beach, which opened in October, bringing more than 60 new jobs to the area.\n[More business] Here’s how much you can save at Charming Charlie closing sale »\nThe new 95-room Fairfield Inn & Suites in Delray Beach also recruited many of its 30 employees in 2014.\nThe increase in visitors also means additional revenue for the state.\nVisit Florida President and CEO Will Seccombe told legislators last week that about 12 percent of all state sales-tax revenue comes from people who don't live in Florida.\nTourism officials think they can boost the number of visitors with additional money for marketing and by getting people to also consider Florida for ecotourism and more off-the-beaten path trips.\n[More business] Buying on a budget? Here are the best lightly used cars for under $20,000 »\nGov. Rick Scott has asked lawmakers to increase tourism-marketing funding from $74 million in the current fiscal year to $85 million during the budget year that begins July 1. He has been pushing for Florida to surpass 100 million visitors a year.\nVisit Florida hopes to attract wealthier international travelers, who will spend more, and to entice people to consider Florida for bicycle trips and small-downtown shopping in addition to Disney World and the beaches. Seccombe outlined the marketing plan during an appearance before a Senate budget panel last week.\n\"With all the marketing in the world we couldn't put a whole lot more people down into the Florida Keys today,\" Seccombe said. \"They're running 92, 95 percent occupancy in the Keys. But there are areas that don't have that high occupancy. We're working very hard in our strategic planning process to identify the need areas of the state.\"\nSome senators last week raised questions about the return on investment if they increase funding for Visit Florida to $85 million. Senate Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development Appropriations Chairman Jack Latvala, R-Clearwater, said it appears that the increase in tourism numbers has gone up at a slower rate than the state's spending.\nJohn Knox to begin construction on 150 senior apartments\nBuying on a budget? Here are the best lightly used cars for under $20,000\n\"To me, potentially, we're getting to a situation where maybe we've spent or are spending what we need,\" Latvala said during last week's meeting of his panel.\nSeccombe estimated that about 50 million visitors each year would come to Florida regardless of advertising, due to family, friends and other personal interests.\nInformation from the News Service of Florida was used in this report.\nasatchell@sunsentinel.com, 954-356-4209 or Twitter@TheSatchreport","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line716238"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5253207683563232,"wiki_prob":0.47467923164367676,"text":"Anti-evolution, Creationism, Evolution denial, History, Intelligent design creationism\nA Crystal Anniversary for the Wedge Document\nA Crystal disco ball to celebrate the crystal anniversary of the Disco. 'tute's entry into the creationism business.\nFifteen years ago yesterday, a mail clerk in Seattle was handed a document to copy. As the Seattle Weekly reported, the packet was labeled “TOP SECRET” and “NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION,” and the cover sported an Illuminati-esque triangular design and a copy of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam.” The title: “The Wedge”; the author: a newly-created division of the conservative Discovery Institute, the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture (CRSC). Later, the Center would drop “renewal” from its title to escape the religious reference, and also switched its logo from the Creation of Adam to a picture of God creating DNA, then to a more secular galactic nebula, and now a mashup of Leonardo’s Vitruvian man and a DNA strand.\nThe Wedge Document, as the packet came to be known, laid out a bold plan by which the Center would “re-open the case for a broadly theistic understanding of nature,” and “reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.” From its first sentence, the document proclaimed its sectarian goals, stating: “The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built. Its influence can be detected in most, if not all, of the West's greatest achievements, including representative democracy, human rights, free enterprise, and progress in the arts and sciences.”\nIn order to achieve this religious revival, the creators of the CRSC proposed a five-year plan, with three phases: “Research, Writing and Publication,” “Publicity and Opinion-making,” and “Cultural Confrontation and Renewal.” Of these, they insisted that the first was most crucial: “Without solid scholarship, research and argument, the project would be just another attempt to indoctrinate instead of persuade.”\nOn this fifteenth anniversary of that five-year plan, it's worth asking just what the Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture has accomplished. They promised at the time, “we can accomplish many of the objectives of Phases I and II in the next five years (1999-2003), and begin Phase III (See ‘Goals/Five Year Objectives/Activities’).”\nThe Five Year Goals:\nTo see intelligent design theory as an accepted alternative in the sciences and scientific research being done from the perspective of design theory.\nTo see the beginning of the influence of design theory in spheres other than natural science.\nTo see major new debates in education, life issues, legal and personal responsibility pushed to the front of the national agenda.\nOf these, the first has certainly not happened within science. The second is immeasurable, but hasn’t happened in any obvious way, and to the extent there are new debates in the fields described in the third item, the CRSC seems to have no role to play (aside from sitting on the sidelines and carping).\nAnd the Five Year Objectives covered seven topics, beginning with:\nA major public debate between design theorists and Darwinists (by 2003)\nWhile there have been public events staged in which ID creationists and evolution’s defenders squared off, any grand debate died off long ago, and was ended for good with the Kitzmiller v. Dover ruling.\nThirty published books on design and its cultural implications (sex, gender issues, medicine, law, and religion)\nUnless one really stretches the meaning of those “cultural implications,” or includes the heaps of books written to debunk ID creationism, I don’t think they can claim success here, either.\nOne hundred scientific, academic and technical articles by our fellows\nUnless you count articles published in the various unimpressive and intellectually incestuous ID journals that have come and gone over the years, or include papers that have nothing to do with ID creationism, they haven’t met this standard, either. Even the CRSC’s own list of publications only hits about 75 items, and most of those are not in credible journals, or don’t mean what the Center claims they mean.\nAgain, the Wedge document opened by insisting that “Without solid scholarship, research and argument, the project would be just another attempt to indoctrinate instead of persuade.” By their own standard, the ID creationists have to be judged as engaged in “just another attempt to indoctrinate instead of persuade.”\nSignificant coverage in national media:\nCover story on major news magazine such as Time or Newsweek\nPBS show such as Nova treating design theory fairly\nRegular press coverage on developments in design theory\nFavorable op-ed pieces and columns on the design movement by 3rd party media\nWhile ID creationism has gotten its share of media coverage, and even some cover stories, I wouldn’t say that coverage has been especially favorable. A skim through the CRSC’s media complaints division suggests that they don’t think so either. Certainly no favorable NOVA documentaries—although NOVA’s Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial did treat ID creationism (IDC) fairly—and since there is no “design theory” to make advances in, there’s been no media coverage either.\nSpiritual & cultural renewal:\nMainline renewal movements begin to appropriate insights from design theory, and to repudiate theologies influenced by materialism\nMajor Christian denomination(s) defend(s) traditional doctrine of creation & repudiate(s) Darwinism\nSeminaries increasingly recognize & repudiate naturalistic presuppositions\nPositive uptake in public opinion polls on issues such as sexuality, abortion and belief in God\nMany mainline Protestant churches (and their seminaries) have issued policy statements in favor of evolution in recent years, and against IDC, while the CRSC’s allies in the older creationist organizations have backed away from IDC since its failure in the Dover trial. Public opinion polls show increasing acceptance of marriage equality, views on abortion are quite stable, and belief in God is declining.\nTen states begin to rectify ideological imbalance in their science curricula & include design theory\nNo state science standards cover creationism, not even in the deracinated form of ID creationism, nor does any textbook from a major publisher. Coverage of evolution has increased since the ‘90s.\nScientific achievements:\nAn active design movement in Israel, the UK and other influential countries outside the US\nTen CRSC Fellows teaching at major universities\nTwo universities where design theory has become the dominant view\nDesign becomes a key concept in the social sciences\nLegal reform movements base legislative proposals on design theory\nThere’s a group in the UK promoting IDC with little success, but no such movement in Israel or any other country. The CRSC fellows are not to be found at major universities; a couple are at UT Austin, and some at Baylor, but before you’d need two hands to keep count, you’d have to stretch the definition of “major university” beyond any meaning. “Design theory” doesn’t exist, and isn’t a dominant view at any university, nor is it relevant in social science research (except for sociologists interested in why people deny science). Nor do any lawyers seem interested in ID creationism, except for civil liberties lawyers.\nIn short, on this crystal anniversary of the Wedge Document, it appears that the C(R)SC staff’s crystal-gazing skills were awful; they essentially achieved none of their goals. The document also promised that:\nPaul Nelson…CRSC Fellow will very soon have [a] book published by…The University of Chicago Press…Nelson's book, On Common Descent, is the seventeenth book in the prestigious University of Chicago \"Evolutionary Monographs\" series and the first to critique neo-Darwinism.\nFifteen years later, Nelson’s book remains unpublished, to the point that it became a running joke among anticreationist activists of a certain vintage.\nBy the way, the Wedge Document also offered these “Twenty Year Goals,” which we can revisit in five years:\nTo see intelligent design theory as the dominant perspective in science.\nTo see design theory application in specific fields, including molecular biology, biochemistry, paleontology, physics and cosmology in the natural sciences, psychology, ethics, politics, theology and philosophy in the humanities; to see its influence in the fine arts.\nTo see design theory permeate our religious, cultural, moral and political life.\nI am willing to wager a bottle of single-malt scotch that they fail. And unlike some people, I’ll even pony up if I lose.\nPolar Bears on the Ark?\n(-) Remove Humor filter Humor","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1240274"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7422802448272705,"wiki_prob":0.7422802448272705,"text":"Music the Dead Can Hear: Theosophical Presences in Luigi Russolo's Art of Noises. A lecture by Luciano Chessa\nInstruments built by Russolo, photo published in his 1913 book \"The Art of Noises\", first published in \"The Art of Noise\" by Luigi Russolo, 1913, author: Luigi Russolo\nms², Ogrodowa 19, audiovisual room\n27 June 2017, Tuesday, at 18:00 hrs, admission free\nChessa’s study and his lecture present a completely new reading of the mechanical sound synthesizers—the intonarumori—painter/musician Luigi Russolo created beginning in 1913. Chessa, along with other Italian scholars, has reestablished the previously unacknowledged prominence of occultism, including Theosophy, in early 20th-century Italian culture. There it operated in tandem with contemporary scientific ideas about X-rays and wireless telegraphy—all with an emphasis on waves and vibrations and their new communicative potential. With that background he argues that both Russolo’s noise aesthetics and its practical manifestation—the intonarumori—were for him and his Futurist associates elements of a multi-leveled experiment to reach higher states of spiritual consciousness.\nLuciano Chessa – musicologist, composer and performer. His book Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts and the Occult, published in 2012 by the University of California Press, is a first monograph entirely devoted to the artist Luigi Russolo and his Art of Noises. Luciano Chessa has been performing futurist sound poetry and conducting an orchestra of rebuilt intonarumoris for well over 10 years. The orchestra was so far performing, among others, as a part of the New York-based Biennale of the Arts PERFORMA or the Festival Transart in Rovereto. Chessa is also the art director and conductor of The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners. He teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, serves in the Advisory Board of TACET, the international research publication dedicated to Experimental Music of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1136555"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8185662031173706,"wiki_prob":0.8185662031173706,"text":"Brownback to call special session to address school funding; no date set\nJun 7, 2016 - 11:08am\nPeter Hancock\nphoto by: Richard Gwin\nKansas Gov. Sam Brownback addresses legislators Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, in his State of the State address.\nTopeka ? Gov. Sam Brownback said Tuesday that he plans to call a special session of the Legislature to address a recent Kansas Supreme Court ruling on school finance.\n“I will do everything I can to keep this session focused on education,” Brownback said in a statement. “I am working to arrange the particular dates of the session, which will occur later this month.”\nLast month, the Supreme Court ruled that the formula the state uses to distribute one form of aid to local school districts is unconstitutional, and it gave the Legislature until June 30 to fix the formula.\nMany have interpreted that as a threat to close schools on July 1, although the court also has the option of ordering its own fix to the formula.\n“After discussion with Legislative Leadership, I have decided to call a special session to keep Kansas schools open, despite the Court’s threat to close them,” Brownback said in the statement. “It is distressing that the Kansas Supreme Court has put the schools and legislature of Kansas in this position over less than 1 percent of school funding.”\nOn May 27, the court struck down a portion of this year’s school funding formula that distributes equalization aid to poorer school districts to subsidize their local option budgets, which is the additional money districts raise above and beyond their base state aid.\nThose budgets, known as LOBs, are mainly funded through local property taxes. But the state subsidizes those budgets for less wealthy districts so they don’t have to levy higher property taxes than wealthier districts with larger bases of property valuation.\nRepublicans have been saying that the issue involves less than 1 percent of the state’s $4 billion education budget because it is estimated that implementing one possible fix would cost less than $40 million.\nHowever, in its May 27 opinion, the court stated that the unequal method of distributing aid makes the entire LOB system unconstitutional. When both local tax dollars and state equalization aid are combined, that adds up to roughly $1 billion, or 25 percent of the entire education budget.\nThe court’s decision was released late in the day on May 27, the Friday before the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Lawmakers returned to the Statehouse the following Wednesday, June 1, for the traditional “sine die” ceremony to close out the session. But they did not take up the school finance decision, saying that too many lawmakers had not yet read the opinion and there wasn’t enough time in the one-day sine die session to deal with it.\nConservatives in the Legislature have been harshly critical of the court’s opinion, calling it an overreach of judicial authority, with some indicating they might prefer to defy the court by not calling a special session. And Demcorats, who began calling for a special session over the weekend, have been equally harsh in their statements, blaming the GOP leaders for creating an unconstitutional funding scheme in the first place.\nFollowing Brownback’s announcement Tuesday, neither side appeared willing to tone down its remarks.\n“The Kansas Supreme Court has made their desire to close Kansas schools crystal clear,” House Speaker Ray Merrick, R-Stilwell, said. “Their willingness to use Kansas children for their own political gain is despicable. Despite the court’s attempts to stir up fear, it’s not going to happen. During the upcoming special session Republicans will ensure that schools remain open while at the same time upholding the Kansas Constitution and not bowing to judicial overreach.”\n“It appears that Sam Brownback is finally listening to the people of Kansas who are very concerned about keeping schools open in August,” Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley, of Topeka, said. “However, it remains to be seen whether he and Republican legislative leaders want to comply with the Gannon (v. Kansas) equity order in a bipartisan way. Or, will they once again push through legislation that sets up yet another confrontation with the Kansas Supreme Court?”\nMeanwhile, Rep. Tom Sloan, of Lawrence, a moderate Republican, urged the governor and speaker to put their anger toward the court aside.\n“Just as the Legislature and Governor may disagree with each other, so too may Legislators and the Governor disagree with the Court’s decisions,” he wrote in a letter to Brownback and Merrick. “Yet, we must recognize that within the authority granted by the people, all of us are striving to uphold the Kansas Constitution to the best of our abilities, even when we disagree.”\nLawmakers on both sides of the aisle have suggested that the week of June 20 would be the most likely time for a special session. That would give them only 10 days to pass a bill and send it to the governor so that he could sign it and deliver it to the Supreme Court before the June 30 deadline.\nBut lawmakers have another incentive to work quickly, especially those who are involved in contested primary elections.\nUnder state law, according to Carol Williams, executive director of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, incumbent lawmakers may not solicit or receive campaign contributions from registered lobbyists while the Legislature is in session.\nAfter the sine die session last week, lawmakers could begin soliciting and receiving contributions. But Williams said they will not be able to do so during the special session.\nShe also said that if a lawmaker already has a fundraiser scheduled, and if the special session is going on that day, he or she may go ahead and hold the event. But any registered lobbyist attending will not be allowed to make a contribution until after the special session ends.\n? Kansas Supreme Court rejects lawmakers’ school finance changes, threatens in new ruling to close schools\nGov. Kelly to visit Eudora on Tuesday for ceremonial signing of library bill\nGovernor appoints 3 members to Kansas Board of Regents\nGov. Laura Kelly has appointed three new members to the Kansas Board of Regents, the governing body of the state's ...\nGOP threat ends Kansas governor’s food assistance extension\nKansas AG gives governor until Friday to drop welfare plan\nKansas Supreme Court justice to retire, setting up replacement by Kelly\nHodgson officially launches campaign for Congress, says she’ll focus on financial stability for Kansans","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1590327"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8774992227554321,"wiki_prob":0.8774992227554321,"text":"#WinnieMandela: Timeline of a legend\nPolitics / 3 April 2018, 08:33am / Staff Reporter\nWinnie Madikizela-Mandela has died at the age of 81. Picture: Independent Archives\nPretoria - Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died on Monday following a long illness. She was 81.\nHere are some key points from the struggle stalwart's life:\n• Born on September 26, 1936 in Bizana, Eastern Cape. She was the fourth of eight children. Her Xhosa name is Nomzamo (“she who tries”).\n• Her parents, Columbo and Gertrude, were teachers. Her father taught history and her mother domestic science.\n• In 1953, she moved to Joburg and was admitted to the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work. She completed her degree in social work in 1955, finishing at the top of her class. She then took the position of medical social worker at the Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, making her the first qualified black member of staff to fill that post.\n• She met lawyer Nelson Mandela in 1957 when she was 22 at a bus stop in Soweto. They married the following year and had two daughters, Zenani in 1959 and Zindziwa in 1960.\n• Her husband was arrested in 1963 and imprisoned from August that year to February 1990. Winnie was slapped with a banning order restricting her movements to Joburg.\n• In June 1963 Winnie made her first visit to Nelson who was incarcerated on Robben Island.\n• In 1965, a new and more severe banning order was handed to Winnie that allowed her to move around only in her neighbourhood of Orlando West.\n• In 1969 she spent 18 months in solitary confinement at Pretoria Central Prison.\n• In May 1973, Winnie was arrested again, for meeting with banned photographer Peter Magubane. She was handed a 12-month sentence to be served at Kroonstad women’s prison.\n• In 1977 she was banned to the town of Brandfort in the Free State for eight years and only on occasions allowed to visit her husband on Robben Island. She returned from exile in 1986.\n• In 1990 she was at Mandela’s side when he was released after 27 years in prison.\n• By the time Madiba became president in May 1994, they had been separated for two years. They divorced in March 1996, after which she adopted the surname Madikizela-Mandela.\n• At the end of her ban she started the Mandela United Football Club, a group of youngsters known to be involved in vigilante attacks. The attacks included the death of 14-year-old James “Stompie” Seipei, who was accused of being an informant, in 1988.\n• In 1991 she was convicted of kidnapping “Stompie”. Her six-year jail sentence was reduced to a fine on appeal.\n• Winnie appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997, which judged her to have been implicated in a number of assaults and murders carried out by the Mandela United Football Club .\n• In December 1993 and April 1997 she was elected president of the ANC Women’s League.\n• In 2001 she was involved in a scuffle with former president Thabo Mbeki when she arrived late for an ANC event.\n• In 2002 she was re-elected to the ANC executive.\n• In April 2003 she was convicted on 43 charges of fraud and 25 of theft related to money taken from a funeral fund. She was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, but in 2004, on appeal, her theft conviction was overturned. Her prison sentence for fraud was suspended.\n• Shortly after her conviction she resigned from all leadership positions in the ANC and gave up her parliamentary seat.\nPretoria News\n#WinnieMandela: We must never forget her sacrifices\n#WinnieMandela: Controversial Mother of the Nation","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line902966"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8301146030426025,"wiki_prob":0.8301146030426025,"text":"[OPINION] Diyarbakır’s Tragedy Displays AKP’s Distaste for Multiculturalism -1\nPhilip Bernard Kowalski\nDiyarbakır is a city unlike any other in Turkey. With the second longest set of historic walls in the world that enclose its densely packed antique core, it rivals better known Middle Eastern cities with the sheer magnificence of its architectural heritage. Unlike many other cities in Turkey, which have had their historic structures destroyed to make way for concrete high-rise modernity, Diyarbakır’s historic center, known as Sur, has managed to retain its traditional character, being recently awarded UNESCO World Heritage recognition.\nWith its structural heritage giving way to an evocative, quintessentially Mesopotamian atmosphere, Diyarbakır should by all means be one of the most popular destinations in the world; instead, within Turkey, it is branded as a backwards and dangerous place. Diyarbakır is also unique amongst Turkish cities in its misfortune.\nThe symptom of Diyarbakır’s tragedy is easy to identify – the majority of its inhabitants are Kurdish. To further complicate the matter is the inconvenient detail that many of its inhabitants are also Armenians. Prior to 1915, Armenians were one of the most significant portions of the population, and many Armenian intellectuals considered Diyarbakır to be the most important Armenian center in the Ottoman Empire. The Armenian Genocide saw Diyarbakır hit particularly hard, but it did not entirely end the Armenian presence in the city; many Armenians converted to Islam as a means to escape persecution, in addition to those who were forced to convert by local Muslims who kidnapped them.\nAfter the genocide, the Turkish Republic, founded in 1923, inherited a new problem – Diyarbakır was now overwhelmingly Kurdish. The Turkish state, with its monoethnic and monolinguistic nation-state project, sought to “Turkify” its Kurdish population. The Kurdish population resisted, resulting in a fierce rebellion in 1925 that was brutally quelled. Subsequently, Turkey made Diyarbakır the focal point in its effort to modernize and Turkify the Kurdish southeast, the most economically backwards and uneducated region of the Republic.\nWith Kurdish ethnic expression strictly forbidden and economic development virtually non-existent, the Kurdish problem erupted once again in the 1970’s with the rise of the PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party), plunging Diyarbakır into a now-familiar cycle of violence.\nWith an estimated 40,000 deaths since the 1970s and untold economic damages, the conflict between the PKK and the Turkish state has been modern Turkey’s largest challenge. It has also resulted in generations of distrust between Turks and Kurds, a tension which has played out as Kurds have emigrated to Western Turkish cities such as Istanbul, Izmir, and Ankara as a way to escape the violence and earn better wages.\nAfter decades of conflict, the status quo began to cool in the 2000’s, cumulating in the declaration of a ceasefire on March 21, 2013 by imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan that was subsequently accepted by Prime Minister Erdoğan. For Diyarbakır, this slowing down and eventual cessation of hostilities allowed for unprecedented improvement of its social and economic woes.\nMaking Amends\nIn 2004, Abdullah Demirbaş, a Kurd, was elected mayor of the Sur municipality. Amongst politicians within Turkey, Demirbaş was unusual in his cosmopolitan aspirations. Seeking to restore Diyarbakır’s historic grandeur after decades of destruction amidst the PKK conflict, Demirbaş advocated for his municipality to focus on the restoration of historic structures. Mansions, mosques, gardens, and most controversially, churches, were given badly needed professional attention and resources.\nDemirbaş didn’t limit his cosmopolitan ideology to structures; Kurdish, Armenian, and Assyrian identity were all encouraged, perhaps being epitomized in the Sur city hall being marked by a large sign in the Turkish, Kurdish, Armenian, and Assyrian languages, an extraordinarily taboo move in a country that pushes for a monocultural identity. Demirbaş’s innovations were viewed as separatist provocations by many in Ankara, and he was jailed on several occasions for what was deemed as terrorist propaganda.\nStill, every time Demirbaş was released, he continued his work. The crown jewel of Demirbaş’s efforts was the reconstruction of Diyarbakır’s Surp Giragos Church, the largest Armenian church in the region. Derelict since the 1970s, Demirbaş and his allies oversaw a faithful restoration of the church, which was reopened in 2011, quickly becoming one of the main draws to the city, pulling in tourists from Turkey and abroad. Furthermore, the reconstruction once again turned Diyarbakır into the center of Armenian life in Turkey. For the descendants of Armenian converts to Islam, the church served as a means to reconnect with their Armenian heritage, and many of the city’s crypto-Armenian inhabitants felt safe to once again identify as Armenian.\nIn April of 2012 and 2015, significant memorial events were held in Diyarbakır commemorating the Armenian Genocide, generously sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a Portuguese organization which dedicates a large portion of its funding to Armenian cultural events. The openness with which the Genocide was discussed and remembered would have been impossible in any other city in Turkey. Of the reforms, British-Armenian intellectual Ara Sarafian said “…the city authorities did everything they could to retain the memory – if not recreate the reality of Diyarbakır’s Armenians…Armenians were not strangers in those lands, but lost custodians.”\nIn combination with the peace process, Diyarbakır was finally beginning to gain the recognition it so well deserved. New businesses were opening, the city expanding, and the infrastructure was modernizing. One Diyarbakır-born transplant to Istanbul expressed his amazement at how nightlife had become so exceptional for a city within the traditionally conservative Turkish southeast; with bars being opened up in the numerous restored mansions, serving up local Assyrian and Armenian-made wines and meze. Tourists arrived from Izmir and Istanbul, returning to the west with rapturous remarks on what they discovered. The perception that Diyarbakır was a backwater to be avoided began to change.\nFor Demirbaş, it was part of a wider vision. As he told Open Democracy, “…we were trying to make Sur reflect its own historical roots, because it is estimated that Sur is historically over eight or nine thousand years old and that over thirty-three different cultures have thrived there. Sur is the largest part of Diyarbakır, making Diyarbakır a multi-cultural, multi-identity, and multi-vocal city. But this remarkable diversity was denied at the foundation of the Turkish Republic, which consists only of a single nation, with a single language, and a single religion.\nSo we wanted to rehabilitate all of these diverse fragments which have been under the shadow of destruction and keep them alive for the future…We also wanted to give a model of peace to the Middle East, because the Middle East is constructed of different linguistic, religious, and racial groups. We plan to make Diyarbakır, and especially Sur, the center of Middle Eastern peacemaking.”\n*Philip Bernard Kowalski is a US based researcher who completed his MA at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, where he studied Kurdish history. He previously lived in Turkey from 2012-2016, during which he traveled extensively across Turkey, the Kurdish southeast, and the Syrian-Turkish border, where he witnessed the rise and fall of the peace process between the Turkish government and the PKK.\nAKPECHRKurdsSelahattin DemirtasTurkey\n[REPORT] Cancellation of Turkish Passports and Prevention of the Freedom of Movement\n[OPINION] Turkey drifting away from the West because of the lack of the rule of law\nUgur Tok\n[OPINION] Journalists against journalists: Dangerous fragmentation of the Turkish media\n[REPORT] Failure of Strasbourg Against Turkish Encounter\nTurkey’s Idlib adventure; will it end in tears?\nBill Park","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line326387"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5009007453918457,"wiki_prob":0.4990992546081543,"text":"Charity collection for mothers’ home\nOn the 18th of May the PR and Marketing Section of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary visited the Lorántffy Zsuzsanna Mothers’ Home in the city of Miskolc to hand out the donations collected by the community of our university within the framework of the Reformed Volunteer Days of the Carpathian Basin.\nCyril O’Regan: Modernity and the Gnostic Thesis\nCyril O’Regan, Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, will give a lecture in English at the Faculty of Humanities (H-1088 Budapest, Reviczky street 4., room 104) under the title ‘Modernity and the Gnostic Thesis’ on 24 May 2017, at 14:00.\nSpring Semester 2013 for Exchange Student\nOur team of three law students has returned from Vienna where they represented the University in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot („the Moot”). This year, 290 law schools participated in the Moot from 62 countries. The competition commenced in October – the writing phase of the Moot was over in January, and the oral hearings took place in Vienna in the spring, the week before Easter. Our students succesfully handled the challenges during the four simulation hearings that they participated in, each lasting for 1,5-2 hours before panels of three international commercial arbitrators. Our opponents were the University of Miami from the United States, the Russian Academy of Justice from Moscow, the famous Brooklyn Law School from America, and the Law Society of Ireland. The subject matter and procedure of the competition is placed in the fifth-year course „The Law of International Economic Relations” in the law curriculum (international sales law and international commercial arbitration).\nThe week-long oral phase of the Moot was made even more colorful by professional and social events. The Moot commenced as the The 2013 Károli Pre-Moot Sessions, organized by the Faculty of Law, came to an end.\nThe Faculty was represented by Marianna Balogh, Balázs Szvetlov and Balázs Timár, all full-time students of law in their fourth or fifth year of legal studies. Coaching, which lasted during the entire academic year, was provided by associate professors Dr. Gábor Palásti (Department of European Law and International Law) and Dr. Ádám Boóc (Department of Civil Law and Roman Law). During the stay in Vienna, additional professional instructions were offered by associate professor Dr. Anikó Grad-Gyenge, deputy head of the Department of Civil Law and Roman Law.\nWhile hereby congratulating the participants to the Moot, we also express out thanks to the University and Faculty for the financial, administrative and professional support.\nDr. Gábor Palásti, associate professor, Department of European Law and International Law\nInternational Moot Court Competition and Student Conference on the Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church\nThe Faculty of Law of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church hosted an international competition designed for law students, called a moot court, between 18-20 March 2013. The language of the moot court, which was called \"The 2013 Károli Pre-Moot Sessions\" was English. Competing teams came from the University of Oxford, Northwestern University from Chicago, Centre for Transnational Legal Studies from London, the Pontifical Catholic University, Sao Paolo, from Brazil, and the host Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. However, the students’ countries of origin displayed an even more colorful picture, since the teams from The United Kingdom and The United States had students from China, Korea, Canada and Germany.\n“It was our pleasure to host the foreign students. We were proud to see that law students visited us from such distant locations as Brazil or the United States, representing such renowned universities world-wide as the University of Oxford” – said Dr. Péter Antalóczy, dean of the Faculty of Law.\nThe three-day event was completed with an international student conference, where students from participating countries described their own systems of legal higher education. The comparison of the different models of legal higher education (American, Brazilian, UK and Hungarian) provided an opportunity to come to interesting conclusions regarding the contents of the law curriculum, its duration, admission requirements, tuition or the employment opportunities of fresh law graduates. The system that appeared to be the closest to the Hungarian one was from Brazil, where legal higher education is also a five-year undivided degree program based upon civil law traditions.\nAdditional social programs – such as an opening reception, sightseeing, museum visit, spa-experience, wine tasting with lecture – made the Pre-Moot even more enjoyable.\nDr. Gábor Palásti, associate professor, chief organizer of The 2013 Károli Pre-Moot Sessions\nReport on the Dictionary Day (3 October 2012)\nIt was the eighth time that the so-called Dictionary Day had been organised by the Dictionary Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The event was held at Károli Gáspár University on 3 October 2012. This occasion was special not only because the Awards for the Best Dictionaries of the Year were distributed, but also because Tamás Magay, who is well known for his being the chief editor of the László Országh bilingual dictionaries, but is as yet little known as the founder of the English Department at our University, received an official laudation as well.\nThe idea of the Dictionary Day is the direct product of the Change of Regime in1990. The change, brought about by the new regime, had both many advantages and disadvantages. After that time, the edition of dictionaries ceased to be a centralized process. This meant that every publishing house could come up with dictionaries and publish them without any difficulties. The new dictionaries―with either outward or inward innovations, attractive blurbs, favourable prices, however, were not always accompanied by appropriate and acceptable quality. Therefore, on the initiative of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the Dictionary Day was created, so that attention could be directed to the importance of quality, of learning languages and becoming more conscious of our mother tongue. This occasion also provided the opportunity to officially appreciate the work of the most excellent Hungarian dictionary editors of the year.\nAs it had already become a tradition, the day was started with a huge book fair in the University’s Hall where such prominent Hungarian Publishing Houses like Grimm Publishing House, Akadémiai Publishing House and TINTA Publishing House exhibited and advertised their different editions, providing an excellent opportunity for those interested to update their home library with new dictionaries and language books.\nThis year the Award for the Best Dictionaries of the Year was given by Professor Ferenc Kiefer who rewarded the publications of four editors. Among the honoured, the name of Regina Hessky for the bilingual German-Hungarian Dictionary for Children, of Katalin Márkus and Eszter Magay for their English-Hungarian bilingual Dictionary, of Ervin Székely for his Portugese-Hungarian bilingual Dictionary, and finally of Zoltán Kövecses whose English-Hungarian Idioms Dictionary was highly praised should be mentioned.\nThe bestowing of the awards was followed by the official laudation of Tamás Magay, whose 55 years’ jubilee of being a dictionary editor was celebrated. He was praised for his incredible, indefatigable and versatile contribution to English-Hungarian lexicography. While Dr Dóra Pődör, the head of the Department of English Linguistics at Károli Gáspár University, praised the academic achievements and the personal qualities of Professor Magay, emphasising his contribution to the establishment of the English Department, László Borbás, the company director of Grimm Publishing House, highlighted the lexicographic merits of Professor Magay, calling him “the Michael Schumacher of English-Hungarian Lexicography”. Finally, Tibor Pintér talked about the ‘Festschrift’ entitled Szavak pásztora (The Shepherd of Words), which was to symbolise the respect and gratitude for the energetic work and achievements Professor Magay managed to carry out in the field of lexicography.\nAfter the introductory part of the day, the more practical side of the event followed in the form of three lectures on certain aspects of lexicography and related areas.\nZita Hollós introduced and popularized the EMLex program which is an excellent opportunity for MA students interested in lexicography not only to deepen their knowledge in this field but also to visit different universities within Europe and to gain an insight into the actual creation process of dictionaries. She was followed by Ágota Fóris whose presentation dealt with the use and necessity of terminology in modern life, and introduced shortly what terminology is about and how it could be used in several spheres of life. The event was closed with the thought-provoking lecture of Ottó Pecsuk who elaborated on the difficulties concerning the translation of the proper names in the Bible; the Hungarian forms of these names are to be standardised among the denominations.\nIn short, the event of the Dictionary Day shed light upon the competition concerning dictionary publishing. The meeting also highlighted and showed great appreciation for the―in the most cases―“invisible” amount of work that is behind a published volume. Moreover, through some examples the problems and modern attempts made in the field of lexicography were also shown.\nViktória Hesz and Amandine Agboca\nMA students in English Studies\nEducation and Culture DG Lifelong Learning Programme\nThe Department of Labour Law and Social Security of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest) participates as vocational partner in the Implementation of the Lisbon Strategy (Europe 2020), 2nd edition (EU)” Erasmus Intensive Programme (IP), a course lasting seven months.\nSub-topics of the program are: human resource management (HR and felxibility), labour law, economic growth (the role of SMEs); CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility), social security (pensions).\nFive students of law represent the Károli Gáspár University in this programme: Alexandra Espár, Éva Mercédesz Konta, Emese Lehoczky, Róbert Muzsalyi and Liliána Urbán. The mentors of this students are associate professors Dr. Attila Kun and Dr. Árpád Homicskó\nEuropean Universities participating in the program:\nKaunas College Lithuania;\nPlantijn Hogeschool van de Provincie Antwerpen Belgium;\nHochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen Germany;\nUniversitat de Girona Spain;\nOulun Seudun Ammattikorkeakoulu Finland;\nJuridische Hogeschool Tilburg Avans-Fontys Netherlands.\nAs closing of the program the participants attend a two-week course in Oulu.\nThe program is sponsored by the European Union.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1303086"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9675143361091614,"wiki_prob":0.9675143361091614,"text":"Former Make-A-Wish child raises $23,000 to grant wishes for others\nZack Abel, 13, organizes fundraiser for kids fighting cancer\nUpdated: 12:59 AM EDT Aug 21, 2012\nA 13-year-old cancer survivor helped raise more than $23,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.Channel 4 Action News first reported on Zack Abel's fight with cancer several years ago. Now, as a survivor, he's come a long way, helping other kids live their lives.The 13-year-old Ingomar Middle School student organized an Aug. 19 bike/walk/run fundraiser for Make-A-Wish at North Park on Sunday. \"I'm so proud of him,\" Zack's mom, Natalie Abel, said. \"This was completely his idea. He begged me to do this. He got this idea in his head. When Zack gets an idea in his head, he doesn't give up.\"Abel said Zack is paying it forward, knowing the struggles of so many other children who just need their spirits lifted.\"That's why I want to do this fundraiser,\" Zack said. \"To help kids get new thoughts about that and what happened and new memories.\"His goal was to raise $3,900, which is the cost of one Make-A-Wish wish.\"They've just done so much for me, and I just wanted to give back to them,\" he said.Instead, he raise more than $23,000.\"It was phenomenal. It was outstanding. I couldn't even begin to talk to the people or thank them enough for coming, because I crushed my goal and helped Make-A-Wish a lot,\" he said.Seven years ago, an 8-foot-tall T-Rex named Meaty paid a visit to Zack, who dreamed of becoming a paleontologist. Zack's wish was granted through Make-A-Wish.\"I still have people come up to me today and say how big I've gotten since then,\" Zack said.Now, Zack said that visit is a constant reminder of how his wish was granted and how he beat cancer.\"I was lucky I got it because there's kids that go through it … and they don't get their childhood like they wanted to,\" Zack said. \"So I want to raise money so more kids can get their wish and have a memory they'll remember forever.\"The teen is now already planning his next fundraiser.\"We had three months to plan this fundraiser, and we're just going to make this one bigger by planning it for a full year,\" he said.\nFRANKLIN PARK, Pa. —\nA 13-year-old cancer survivor helped raise more than $23,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.\nChannel 4 Action News first reported on Zack Abel's fight with cancer several years ago. Now, as a survivor, he's come a long way, helping other kids live their lives.\nThe 13-year-old Ingomar Middle School student organized an Aug. 19 bike/walk/run fundraiser for Make-A-Wish at North Park on Sunday.\n\"I'm so proud of him,\" Zack's mom, Natalie Abel, said. \"This was completely his idea. He begged me to do this. He got this idea in his head. When Zack gets an idea in his head, he doesn't give up.\"\nAbel said Zack is paying it forward, knowing the struggles of so many other children who just need their spirits lifted.\n\"That's why I want to do this fundraiser,\" Zack said. \"To help kids get new thoughts about that and what happened and new memories.\"\nHis goal was to raise $3,900, which is the cost of one Make-A-Wish wish.\n\"They've just done so much for me, and I just wanted to give back to them,\" he said.\nInstead, he raise more than $23,000.\n\"It was phenomenal. It was outstanding. I couldn't even begin to talk to the people or thank them enough for coming, because I crushed my goal and helped Make-A-Wish a lot,\" he said.\nSeven years ago, an 8-foot-tall T-Rex named Meaty paid a visit to Zack, who dreamed of becoming a paleontologist. Zack's wish was granted through Make-A-Wish.\n\"I still have people come up to me today and say how big I've gotten since then,\" Zack said.\nNow, Zack said that visit is a constant reminder of how his wish was granted and how he beat cancer.\n\"I was lucky I got it because there's kids that go through it … and they don't get their childhood like they wanted to,\" Zack said. \"So I want to raise money so more kids can get their wish and have a memory they'll remember forever.\"\nThe teen is now already planning his next fundraiser.\n\"We had three months to plan this fundraiser, and we're just going to make this one bigger by planning it for a full year,\" he said.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line489540"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5849115252494812,"wiki_prob":0.4150884747505188,"text":"Agrizoophobia (Fear of Wild Animals)\nPosted on February 11, 2014 by Steven Fritchie\nAgrizoophobia\n(Fear of wild animals)\nEdward Jones had always had a fear of wild animals. The one incident that had brought on this fear occurred when he was eight years old. He was on a school trip to the zoo and everything was going fine until James Barrow, a boy who was a year older than Edward, had dared him to climb up on the fence which ran around the wall of a gorilla enclosure. Edward had always liked animals but gorillas were not known for being the most tranquil of animals. Edward and James held back from the rest of the class and when everyone, especially the teachers, were out of sight, Edward climbed up the bars of the fence. He was half way up the fence when he decided that this may not have been the smartest thing that he could do and was ready to climb down, but James insisted that he touch the top of the fence. Edward took a deep breathe and hooked one of his legs on the fence and climbed the rest of the way. Once his objective had been reached, Edward started on his way down. Unfortunately, neither Edward nor James had been paying too much attention to the gorillas. One of the alpha males saw the boy trying to climb the fence and charged. The gorilla considered this as an assault on his territory and was not going to allow this incursion. He swiftly ran across the trench that divided the fence and his pseudo-rocky territory and grabbed the intruder by both arms and banged him against the bars. Edward let out his first scream when he felt the strong hairy paws of the primate grab a hold of him. Before the gorilla started to slam Edward against the bars, Edward had looked into the eyes of the enraged primate and saw the primal rage within. That was one of the last things that Edward remembered before the pain of the bars knocked him unconscious. He never saw James running away calling out for help from the teachers. He never saw the zoo attendant run up to the enclosure with a rifle loaded with a tranquilizer dart and shoot the gorilla and he never saw the faces of the ambulance attendants as they carried his limp body away on a stretcher. Edward Jones was in the hospital for a week recovering from his injuries, and James Barrow and his parents were the first people, after his own family, to come visit him after he was allowed visitors. James deeply apologized for daring Edward to do such a stupid stunt and he promised that he would never do such a thing again.\nJames, for the most part, kept his promise because one year later he and his family moved to Eugene, Oregon. Edward and James kept in touch with each other until they both hit puberty, but after that they both found other things, and people, to occupy their time. James would eventually go to college in Oregon, get married after graduation, have two kids, and in his fifteenth year of marriage leave his wife and kids and move to Denver with his new girlfriend. Edward never knew any of these things but, during the occasional times that he did remember James, his recollections were always scarred by the gorilla attack.\nEdward also went to college, met a girl he liked but did not make any commitments to her, due to the heavy load of work that college presented him with. He was planning to be a lawyer but he wasn’t sure what area of law he wanted to get into. He was torn between Corporate Law and Medical Law and until he could make a commitment to his future, he felt that it wasn’t fair to make a firm commitment to his girlfriend. Sandra, who understood Edward’s dilemma and supported him in his decision, felt happy just knowing that he cared for her and that once he made his choice for his career, he would be more secure in committing himself to her. Sandra, although a very pretty and smart girl, did tend to sometimes live in a fool’s paradise. She would sometimes visit Edward in his dorm room in order to help him study for exams, but she also saw this as an opportunity to slyly remind Edward of her usefulness to him.\nOne evening as Sandra was coaching Edward for his final exams, she asked him if he had made any plans for the summer.\n“Huh? I’m sorry, what did you say Sandra?” Edward asked as his half-sleepy eyes fluttered open.\n“I said, have you made any plans for the summer?”\n“Well, the only thing that I thought about was going back home and trying to get a summer internship at a law office in LA.”\n“Well, does this mean that you’ve finally decided on what area of law you’re interested in?”\n“I think that I’m going to go into corporate law.”\n“Well, Los Angeles is fine but I think, and this is only a suggestion, that you would be better off if you tried to get an internship in New York. You’d be able to make more money and there are more important companies that you could work for in New York.”\n“But, I have family in Los Angeles and I could save money on rent by living with them.”\n“However, if you go to New York, you could stay with me and my family. My father has lots of important connections and I’m sure that he would be happy to help you. It would also give us more time together. You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”\n“Sure, you know I would, but…”\n“But what? You think that I’m trying to pressure you into making a commitment?”\n“No, it’s not that. I’ll tell you what, we have four more days until summer vacation and I’ll give you my answer in two days, but right now, I just want to get some sleep. Is it a deal?”\n“Two days? Alright, I’ll hold you to that. Well, I better leave now anyway. It’s after eleven o’clock and I have an eight o’clock class tomorrow. I’ll see you later, Eddie.”\n“Good-night, Sandra.”\nEdward had made his decision; he decided to spend two weeks with his family and then he would fly to New York to be with Sandra and her family. “If her father is as well-connected as she says, it might be worth my time to stay with Sandra,” Edward told his parents when he got back home. Although his parents were a bit disappointed, they understood Edward’s reasoning.\n“Well, do you have any plans for the time that you’re here?” his mother asked.\n“I do plan to check out any internship programs while I’m here; sort of get the lay of the land, so to speak.”\n“But if you find something here that you’re interested in, won’t Sandra be disappointed?”\n“I have thought of that, mother. Sandra is a very nice girl, but I’m not sure if her invitation has any strings attached and I’m trying to focus on my career before thinking of marriage.”\n“Well, I’m sure that you know her better than your father and I do, but it wouldn’t hurt to see where your options in New York would lead you.”\nEdward gave his mother a small smile and left the living room. He knew that his mother worried about him, but after the near death experience at the zoo when he was a child, her worry sometimes became oppressive. Edward, for his part, managed to suppress the terrible incident. The only time that the experience had caused him any discomfort was when Sandra and some friends had invited him to a party at one of the frat houses and some joker thought that it would be funny to dress up in a gorilla outfit and jumped out of some bushes when guests showed up. Unfortunately for the prankster, Edward, without thinking, took a swing at the guy and knocked him out. It’s true that his hands were shaking after wards, and the guy forgave him, but the party lost any joy for Edward and he told Sandra and her friends that he was not feeling very well and that he was calling it a night. Sandra asked him what was wrong but Edward didn’t give her an answer. She never brought the incident up to him and, after a few days, totally forgot about it. That night he did have trouble sleeping, but after waking up in a cold sweat, he got out of his bed, went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water. That seemed to calm his mind and he went back to bed without further incidence.\nAfter his time home with his parents, Edward packed his bags, had his father drive him to the airport, and caught his plane. Six hours later, he was greeted at JFK by Sandra. They found her car and she drove Edward to her parents’ house in the suburbs. It had been built in the Tudor style and had six bedrooms and three bathrooms. Sandra’s mother and father greeted the couple at the front door and were very cordial towards Edward. After all of the formalities had been taken care of, Sandra led Edward up to the room that would be his while he was there. Checking to see if anyone else was around, Sandra closed the bedroom door and practically jumped into Edward’s arm after he set down his luggage. She gave him a passionate and long kiss, then broke off and said,\n“I’m so glad to have you here. I missed you terribly for those two weeks.”\n“And I missed you, Sandra. Well, I suppose I should get unpacked.”\n“Oh leave it. The valet will take care of that for you. I think that you should just freshen up a bit and come downstairs for a drink with my parents. I know that daddy has been busy on your behalf.”\nEdward and Sandra’s parents did manage to get along quite well. Her father told Edward that the family had invited some of their friends over the next night for dinner and a cocktail party and that many of the people that could be helpful to Edward would be there. The rest of the evening went well and after dinner, Sandra took Edward out to a club to meet some of her friends. Although, for the most part, Edward did enjoy the night out, he was beginning to wonder about Sandra’s intentions. Was she taking him to meet her friends only as a courtesy or was she trying to get him to be overwhelmed with the social life in New York and decide to stay? His fears about being pressured to make a decision were slowly creeping into his head. Edward was not normally a heavy drinker, but that night he had a couple drinks more than usual. This, combined with his nagging fears, caused him to ask Sandra if they could go home before she practically had him proposing to her in front of all of her friends. The drive back to Sandra’s parents’ home was fairly quiet. Sandra asked Edward what was bothering him but he only mumbled an answer as he stared out at the lights along Broadway. When they got back to the house, Edward gave Sandra a peck on the cheek and went up to his bedroom. The next morning at breakfast, conversation was at a minimum. Edward had come to the table with his head hung down, walked over to Sandra and quietly apologized for his behavior. Sandra gave him a small smile and told him that she forgave him. Sandra’s mother was the only other person at the table and she knew better than to ask questions about any problems the couple may have had.\n“So, Sandra, do you and Edward have any plans for today?” her mother asked after what she considered an appropriate amount of time.\n“I thought that Edward and I would go downtown for a few hours and catch a matinee of a play and then have lunch. Would that be alright with you Edward?”\nEdward put down his fork, looked at Sandra and gave her a smile and told her that would be a very nice idea. Satisfied that Edward was willing to give her another chance, she told him that they would leave in an hour in order to get to the first matinee. Edward was relieved by the fact that Sandra was willing to give them time to be alone and not be surrounded by people who would expect him to pretend to be something that he was not, mainly Sandra’s fiance.\nThe ride into the city was less tense than the night before and the conversation leaned more towards their academic futures than their personal futures. Sandra found a parking space in a lot and they crossed the street towards the theater. Edward did not really pay much attention to the name of the play, but he went to the window and ordered two tickets, hoping that it wouldn’t be something too boring. They found their seats, which were about a dozen rows away from the stage, and sat down.\n“I’ve wanted to see this play since it came here. It’s suppose to be very entertaining even though it is basically meant for children.” Sandra told him. Edward then happened to look at the program and saw the title of the play. He was startled but then thought to himself, “It’s only a play; the animals aren’t real.” With this thought implanted into his subconscious, he smiled at Sandra and sat back in his seat as the house lights went down and the curtain rose on the first part of “The Lion King.” On the outside, Edward put on a facade of enjoying the play for Sandra’s sake, but on the inside, Edward was beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable. He knew that the animals on stage were just actors in costume, but the costumes were so well done, that he clutched the armrests of his chair throughout the play. He was almost relaxed enough by the final act of the play to let loose of the armrests, when something occurred which he had never expected. The actors in their costumes when coming off of the stage and into the audience. The final song of the play was being sung, but Edward paid no attention to it. Within minutes, he and Sandra were being surrounded by the actors. Edward’s heart was racing as he saw the actors playing the lions come closer to their seats. Sandra and the other audience members were smiling and laughing, but Edward’s fear was becoming too much. Suddenly, he leapt out of his chair, screamed, pushed the actor in the lion suit to the floor, and ran out of the theater.\nAt the same time that Edward’s fear was overtaking him in the theater, Marco Santorini was on his way to his part-time job. Even though the job didn’t particularly pay well, Marco decided at the time that “beggars can’t be choosers” and accepted the job. The outfit for his job was a bit cumbersome and since it was the middle of summer, he carried it in his strong, muscular arms. Marco’s job was to be a costumed performer for kids at a family restaurant which had a circus theme to it. He was two blocks away from the restaurant when someone ran into him so hard that, although Marco kept his balance, the person who had run into him bounced off of him and fallen to the ground. Marco looked down to see if the man was hurt, but instead he saw that the man was staring at the gorilla head of the costume that Marco had been carrying. When Marco bent down to get the head, the man suddenly looked at Marco and started screaming.\nSandra, in the meantime, had grabbed her coat and purse and, excusing herself to the animal-actors, made her way out of the theater. Once her eyes got used to the daylight, she saw Edward sitting on the sidewalk screaming while a large man carrying part of a gorilla suit was trying to calm him down. She slowly walked over to Edward so as to not startle him. When she got to him, she managed to embrace him and, at the same time, quietly asked the large man to call for an ambulance. An ambulance arrived within ten minutes and the EMT managed to get Edward on a gurney and in the ambulance. The EMT helped Sandra get into the ambulance and, with a word to the driver, the medical vehicle took off. After the ambulance had taken off, Marco picked up the gorilla head, looked it over carefully for any damage and noticed that he had only five minutes to get to work if he didn’t want to get fired.\nThe day after Edward was admitted to the hospital, Sandra came to visit him with a bouquet of flowers. Edward was awake when she entered the room and almost as soon as she sat on the side of his bed, Edward told her about his childhood experience. Sandra was very understanding and once Edward was out of the hospital, she swore that she would never take him to a play with animals ever again. She also made sure that when they were together and went to a movie that “King Kong” was not playing at any of the cinemas.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged actors, corporate law, Edward Jones, play, wild gorilla, zoo by Steven Fritchie. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 thoughts on “Agrizoophobia (Fear of Wild Animals)”\nRemmy Meggs on May 17, 2016 at 2:30 pm said:\nWow i am more afraid of cars than animals but the story is good.\ncorporatewhoreofbabylon on May 17, 2016 at 5:36 pm said:\nThank you for the compliment.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1428427"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.959669291973114,"wiki_prob":0.959669291973114,"text":"Anti-war march in 1972; Credit: Asian Pacific American Photographic Collection, Visual Communications Archives\nWhat Today’s Protesters Can Learn From the History of L.A.’s Asian-American Movement\nLilian Min January 24, 2017\nOn Saturday, Jan. 21, hundreds of thousands of people spilled into downtown Los Angeles to protest a president whose promise to “make America great again” threatens to turn back the clock on civil liberties at least several decades for marginalized groups.\nCoincidentally, just two days earlier, the Chinese American Museum opened “Roots: Asian-American Movements in Los Angeles 1968-80s,” an exhibit that digs into an oft-overlooked historical resistance, which can inform how we build new activist coalitions for the future.\nThe Asian-American movement was the first broad, pan-Asian diaspora coalition in America. Within it, activists rallied around causes that ranged from the war in Vietnam to the eviction of elderly, non-English-speaking residents within gentrifying communities to youth drug abuse. They boosted socially conscious films and music by Asian-American artists, joining a groundswell of movements that included the civil rights movement, the Chicano movement, second-wave feminism and the gay liberation movement. “Roots” is an effort to contextualize the many causes at work during this era while specifically centering L.A.’s Asian-American activism and identity formation — a mighty task, considering that Asia is a vast continent with individually and regionally complicated histories.\n“This idea of Asian America didn’t exist until 1968, and it’s really the work of people in their 20s, even teenagers, coming together and producing culture, making institutions, working on campaigns, that defined this identity. It’s pretty remarkable to think about how Asian-American is a term all of us use now, but it was really created and invented by dedicated young people,” Ryan Wong, who curated the exhibit over the course of years, said over the phone. Wong had previously put together the show “Serve the People: The Asian-American Movement in New York” in NYC’s Interference Archive space.\nThat show ran from late 2013 into early 2014, and it was during this time that CAM curator Steve Wong (no relation) first entertained the notion of bringing a similar show to L.A. Though the exhibit is hosted at CAM for the next six months, Ryan Wong is quick to point out that this was for the space’s community-oriented mission, rather than a move to, say, center Chinese-American activism: “A really important and significant step for any kind of identity-focused museum is to recognize these common points of intersection and overlap.”\nCredit: Alan Ohashi, Courtesy Visual Communications\nThe task of centering Asian-American identity in Los Angeles is extra difficult. The city’s Asian ethnic enclaves include Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Koreatown, Historic Filipinotown, Little Bangladesh, with larger communities in the surrounding area. “Roots” makes a sincere effort to include as many intersections of Asian-American identity as possible, but part of the problem is that inter-Asian conflicts abound. Yet as Steve Wong explained in a tour of the exhibit, “Back then, because of strict Asian immigrant laws, most Asian-Americans were second-gen[eration], third-gen, and didn’t have the same opinions about other Asians that their parents might have.” Combined with both the recent past of Japanese internment and the vicious war in Vietnam, young Asian-Americans began to formulate explicitly political identities. One of the photographs on display, of an anti-war protest, features someone marching with the sign “Viet Cong don’t call me a fat chink.” Activists, generally young and often college-educated, mobilized to defend their immigrant elders and challenge what they saw as an imperialist war against both Vietnam and the Third World as a whole — it was part of a larger critique of Western militarization and colonialism.\nAs we’ve seen in the past year, public memory about the struggles of civil rights activists of all causes is incredibly shoddy. When a Trump supporter raised Japanese internment as a precedent for a new Muslim registry, what surprised me more were the stories people shared of never having been taught about internment in basic U.S. curriculum, or about any sort of Asian-American political activity. It is into this information void that the Asian-American movement has slipped; many of the organizations behind the movement, like JACS-AI (Japanese American Community Services-Asian Involvement) and the Amerasia Bookstore in Little Tokyo, and the Asian-American Tutorial Project (centered in Castelar Elementary School in Chinatown) no longer exist, though others like SIPA (Search to Involve Pilipino Americans) and Visual Communications (which was home to the first Asian-American filmmakers) do. This lack of available activist history then contributes to pervasive stereotypes that Asian-Americans are apolitical model minorities, aligning themselves to a white, heteropatriarchal status quo.\nThe full legacy of these movements, Asian-American and otherwise, seems to have been compartmentalized into narrow academic strata. Steve Wong received his education through UCLA’s groundbreaking Asian-American Studies department, but like African-American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies and Chicana/o Studies, the Asian-American movement’s legacy of activism and organizing is lost to most of the general population — Asian-Americans included.\nPolice and protesters in downtown L.A.; Credit: Courtesy CAM\nWhat “Roots” showcases well is the breadth and reach of the movement’s efforts: Old copies of Gidra Magazine, which was started in and centered at UCLA but circulated across the country, detail many of the same issues we face now. The Chinatown Education Project’s family newsletter included English, Chinese and Spanish text to reach out to the area’s heterogeneous population. And the show’s name comes from the landmark UCLA Asian-American Studies textbook, published in 1971, which became both a foundational text and a reference for young activists.\nThese artifacts, many of them in the form of fragile paper posters, newsletters, magazines and prints, alongside music by singers like Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin and a loop of Visual Communications–produced films, were painstakingly curated from archives, museum collections and personal collections. But it was through oral histories from now-elders of the movement that Ryan Wong first became interested in this part of Asian-American history; “Roots” is necessarily formed through personal narratives like that of Yvonne Wong Nishio, whose speech for the 1977 International Working Women’s Day (the first and only one) remains fiercely relevant today. The result is an exhibit that knows it’s limited — by its material, by the void it’s trying to redress, by the spread of its interests — but leaves viewers wanting more.\nCAM’s opening reception for “Roots” drew more than 700 people: activists of yore reflecting on their contributions (both then and literally on the walls) and communities, but also many young people who came to seek out a history that has largely been elided over in their educations. These are the people that Steve and Ryan are seeking out. The latter Wong knows this can happen because that was the impetus behind his research and curation, and hopes that what “Roots” does is give activists now a new foundation upon which to stand: “That’s a really important lesson for this moment: If you believe that history is made by presidents, then it’s really easy to despair. But, in fact, by looking back at this history, history is really made by communities, it’s made on the person-to-person level, it’s made by people organizing, by creating arts. … To remember that what you’re doing as an Asian-American activist isn’t in isolation but actually comes in this lineage.”\nCredit: Courtesy CAM\n“Roots: Asian American Movements in L.A. 1968-80s,” Chinese American Museum, 425 N. Los Angeles St., downtown; through June 11. camla.org.\nK-Pop and Politics: \"Take My Money/Take My Body\" Opens at LACE\nShana Nys Dambrot January 2, 2019\nCelebrating Black Girlhood at the 38th Annual Black Doll Show\nDavid Cotner January 2, 2019\nThe Birth of Ty Joseph, Artist\nDustin Clendenen January 3, 2019\nDance at the Odyssey 2019 Is a Six-Week Epic\nAnn Haskins January 3, 2019\nWhose Am I? Parker Day's Possession Opens at Superchief\nL.A. Weekly January 11, 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line142018"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6302736401557922,"wiki_prob":0.6302736401557922,"text":"Exhibition Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1973\nUnfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1973\nSupports/Surfaces installation view. Work by Patrick Saytour, Louis Cane, André-Pierre Arnal, Pierre Buraglio. Courtesy of CANADA\nThe Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit presents the first exhibition in the Midwest and most comprehensive show to date of the French art movement Supports/Surfaces. This group of twelve artists, along with several others who were closely affiliated, lived and worked in the South of France, producing artwork marked by an interest in materiality, a lyrical use of color and expansive ideas of what constitutes a painting. French society was undergoing social protests and upheavals in the 1960s that mirrored the civil rights and anti-war movements in the USA. The Supports/Surfaces artists sought new forms and methods to reflect their times: standard art materials were dropped in favor of homespun non-art materials (bed sheets, rope, dish rags) and figuration was replaced by loose, permeable grids that hinted at a more democratic method of art-making and a proposal for humane society.\nAPRIL 4: TALK SUPPORTS/SURFACES—RACHEL STELLA + RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN + WALLACE WHITNEY\nSupported by Étant donnés Contemporary Art, a program of the FACE Foundation, developed in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, with the support of Institut français-Paris, the French Ministry of Culture, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Comité professionnel des galeries d'art, and private donors.\nWhen Feb 1 - Apr 24, 2019\n2019-02-01 00:00:00 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC Unfurled: Supports/Surfaces 1966-1973 Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit 4454 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI 48201\nWhereMuseum of Contemporary Art Detroit\n4454 Woodward Ave\nThe Arts of Fire\n\"The Smoking Image\": Laure Prouvost's Talk","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line639845"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6481961011886597,"wiki_prob":0.6481961011886597,"text":"Tag Archives: Hudson River\nDecember 4, 1913: Sewer Explosion, Salinity of Hudson and Other Stories from Over a Century Ago\nSewer Gas Explosion\nDecember 4, 1913: Municipal Journal. A series of stories that dealt with both drinking water and sewage problems, which were typical for the beginning of the 20thcentury, were featured in this issue.\nTerrific Sewer Explosion in Pittsburgh.Pittsburgh, Pa.-Almost a mile of a nine-foot sewer in the Lawrenceville and Bloomfield districts was rent with a terrific explosion last week that tore up streets and alleys, demolished houses and solid brick buildings and broke gas mains. Estimates place the more seriously injured at 17, but scores were slightly hurt. Sewer gas is generally accepted as the cause of the explosion.\nNewark’s Sewer Disposal Plant Finished.Newark, N. J.-Newark’s new disposal plant is now finished. The pipe line, however, will not all be in before some time the first of the year, so the modern disposal plant that has been constructed by Contractor L. B. Jacobs, can not be put in operation for several months.\nTyphoid.Chicago, Ill.-Typhoid fever has invaded Chicago with a force not felt for several years, according to the bulletin of the Health Department just issued. More cases have been reported each week during the last month than for any similar period for several years. Figures of the Health Department show that 68 cases of typhoid fever were reported two weeks ago, compared with 58 the preceding week and but 16 for the corresponding week of 1912. Commentary: The chlorination systems on the lake water source would not be finished for 3 years, but after completion, typhoid disappeared.\nNew Sewerage System at Valley Junction.Valley Junction City, Ia.-The Valley Junction City Council has voted to accept the new sewage system which has recently been completed by the contractors.\nAshokan Reservoir at Sunset\nAshokan Reservoir Increases Salinity of Hudson.Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-The relation of the filling of the Ashokan reservoir to the increasing salinity of the Hudson river in the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie formed one of the main topics of discussion at the meeting of the Poughkeepsie Board of Health. Mayor Frank, president of the board, said that the river water is getting constantly more salty, and that the natural supposition would be that the fresh water being taken by the Ashokan reservoir for New York City was being drained from the twelve-mile watershed in the neighborhood of Esopus Creek and its tributaries, which formerly emptied into the Hudson and were the main sources of the city’s water supply. Commentary: I seriously doubt that this is true.\n1907 Postcard of Binghamton Waterworks\nFilter Plant Overtaxed, Water Polluted.Binghamton, N. Y.-A note of warning was sounded by Health Officer D. S. Burr to all water users, directing that until the new filter plant is completed all water used for domestic purposes be boiled. This is made necessary by the discovery of sewage bacteria in the filtered supply and the realization that the present filter plant is entirely inadequate to answer continually increasing demands.\nAltoona Has Solved Its Water Problem.Altoona, Pa.-All the city’s storage and service reservoirs are now filled with water, including Lake Altoona, in which there are 601,000,000 gallons, the big basin being filled to its capacity and running over. After the impounding dam became filled following the heavy rains of several weeks ago, Lake Altoona filled up very rapidly and several days ago it was filled and is now running over.\nCannot Find Waterworks Leak.Dayton, O.-Consternation is beginning to develop in the water department because of its utter inability to locate a bad leak or a series of leaks that developed and which now threatens to cause a serious water famine all over the city. There is scarcely any part of the city that is not now affected, and there is no means of determining when the difficulty will be adjusted.\nReference: Municipal Journal. 1913. 35:23(December 4): 770-1.\nThis entry was posted in Year 7 TDIWH and tagged Altoona, Ashokan Reservoir, Binghamton, Dayton, drinking water, Hudson River, leak detection, Newark, salinity, sewage, sewer explosion, water, water history on December 4, 2018 by safedrinkingwaterdotcom.\nOctober 13, 1821: Birth of Rudolf Virchow; 1986: Hudson River as Source of Water for NYC\nOctober 13, 1821: German physician Rudolf (Carl) Virchowwas born. He was famed for cell theory, founded the medical journal Medical Reform(Medicinische Reform), and wrote “Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia.” He was also was a well-known pathologist, anthropologist and statesman, widely credited for his advancements in public health. Later in life, Virchow fought for improving the health and welfare service, meat inspections, and the first four urban hospitals in Berlin. He encouraged water and sewage system development.\nHudson River at Poughkeepsie\nOctober 13, 1986: New York Times headline–Report Backs Hudson as Water Source. ”Supplementing New York City’s water supply of 1.5 billion gallons a day with up to 300 million gallons from the Hudson River is feasible, an engineering study commissioned by the city has concluded.\nBut even before the study has officially been made public, concern has been mounting here in the Hudson Valley about the potential impact of such withdrawals, which have been called the only realistic means of meeting the city’s water needs by the year 2000.\n‘If New York City were to take 300 million gallons from the Hudson, the major question is: would there be enough for us?’ said Herbert Hekler, chairman of the water supply committee of the Hudson Valley Regional Council. Several municipalities in the fast-growing Hudson Valley, including the city of Poughkeepsie, rely on the river as their sole source of drinking water.”\nCommentary: Mayor Koch called for universal metering in the city to cut water use and that is exactly what happened. There was no need to tap the Hudson after all.\nThis entry was posted in Year 7 TDIWH and tagged drinking water, Hudson River, public health, Rudolf Virchow, sewage, water, water supply on October 13, 2018 by safedrinkingwaterdotcom.\nDecember 4, 1913: Municipal Journal. A series of stories that dealt with both drinking water and sewage problems, which were typical for the beginning of the 20th century, were featured in this issue.\nTerrific Sewer Explosion in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pa.-Almost a mile of a nine-foot sewer in the Lawrenceville and Bloomfield districts was rent with a terrific explosion last week that tore up streets and alleys, demolished houses and solid brick buildings and broke gas mains. Estimates place the more seriously injured at 17, but scores were slightly hurt. Sewer gas is generally accepted as the cause of the explosion.\nNewark’s Sewer Disposal Plant Finished. Newark, N. J.-Newark’s new disposal plant is now finished. The pipe line, however, will not all be in before some time the first of the year, so the modern disposal plant that has been constructed by Contractor L. B. Jacobs, can not be put in operation for several months.\nTyphoid. Chicago, Ill.-Typhoid fever has invaded Chicago with a force not felt for several years, according to the bulletin of the Health Department just issued. More cases have been reported each week during the last month than for any similar period for several years. Figures of the Health Department show that 68 cases of typhoid fever were reported two weeks ago, compared with 58 the preceding week and but 16 for the corresponding week of 1912. Commentary: The chlorination systems on the lake water source would not be finished for 3 years, but after completion, typhoid disappeared.\nNew Sewerage System at Valley Junction. Valley Junction City, Ia.-The Valley Junction City Council has voted to accept the new sewage system which has recently been completed by the contractors.\nAshokan Reservoir Increases Salinity of Hudson. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-The relation of the filling of the Ashokan reservoir to the increasing salinity of the Hudson river in the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie formed one of the main topics of discussion at the meeting of the Poughkeepsie Board of Health. Mayor Frank, president of the board, said that the river water is getting constantly more salty, and that the natural supposition would be that the fresh water being taken by the Ashokan reservoir for New York City was being drained from the twelve-mile watershed in the neighborhood of Esopus Creek and its tributaries, which formerly emptied into the Hudson and were the main sources of the city’s water supply. Commentary: I seriously doubt that this is true.\nFilter Plant Overtaxed, Water Polluted. Binghamton, N. Y.-A note of warning was sounded by Health Officer D. S. Burr to all water users, directing that until the new filter plant is completed all water used for domestic purposes be boiled. This is made necessary by the discovery of sewage bacteria in the filtered supply and the realization that the present filter plant is entirely inadequate to answer continually increasing demands.\nAltoona Has Solved Its Water Problem. Altoona, Pa.-All the city’s storage and service reservoirs are now filled with water, including Lake Altoona, in which there are 601,000,000 gallons, the big basin being filled to its capacity and running over. After the impounding dam became filled following the heavy rains of several weeks ago, Lake Altoona filled up very rapidly and several days ago it was filled and is now running over.\nCannot Find Waterworks Leak. Dayton, O.-Consternation is beginning to develop in the water department because of its utter inability to locate a bad leak or a series of leaks that developed and which now threatens to cause a serious water famine all over the city. There is scarcely any part of the city that is not now affected, and there is no means of determining when the difficulty will be adjusted.\nOctober 13, 1821: German physician Rudolf (Carl) Virchow was born. He was famed for cell theory, founded the medical journal Medical Reform (Medicinische Reform), and wrote “Report on the Typhus Epidemic in Upper Silesia.” He was also was a well-known pathologist, anthropologist and statesman, widely credited for his advancements in public health. Later in life, Virchow fought for improving the health and welfare service, meat inspections, and the first four urban hospitals in Berlin. He encouraged water and sewage system development.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1263122"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.542037308216095,"wiki_prob":0.542037308216095,"text":"Posts Tagged ‘Nina Simone’\nJohn Legend and the Roots – “Wake Up!”\nPosted in Album review, tagged ?uestlove, Arcade Fire, Baby Huey, Barack Obama, Bill Withers, Black Thought, Captain Kirk Douglas, Common, Curtis Mayfield, hip hop, Jimmy Fallon, John Legend, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Lincoln Thompson, Marvin Gaye, Melanie Fiona, Nina Simone, protest music, reggae music, soul music, Tammi Terrell, The Roots on September 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »\n(Above: First Stephen Foster, then Ray Charles. Now John Legend and the Roots have “Hard Times.”)\nA little more than three months after releasing one of the best albums of their 17-year career, The Roots are back, this time with John Legend.\nThe pairing is inspired. The Roots have long have a reputation as the best band in hip hop. For the past couple years they’ve proved their mettle to the mainstream as the house band on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” Legend is clearly a great talent, but often gets overwhelmed by slick production and light-weight songwriting. These 10 reinterpretations of classic soul protest songs offer the perfect platform for him to shine.\nLegend lives up to the opportunity, singing with grit and emotion only hinted at on his solo albums, and feeding off the Roots’ vibe. Opening cut “Hard Times,” a lost Curtis Mayfield classic written for Baby Huey, feeds off a horn line ricocheting off of Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson’s drums and Captain Kirk Douglas’ bright guitar. Black Thought’s rap in the middle reinforces the track’s message and feel. This is music to spark both revolution and revelry.\n“Wake Up Everybody” features a guest rhyme from Common that feels like a verse from a lost hymn. Legend’s duet with Melanie Fiona here captures the same mood as a classic Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell number. “Little Ghetto Boy” – bolstered by another Black Thought cameo – and the buoyant gospel reading of Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to be Free” are other high points.\nUnfortunately, the album can’t sustain these moments. Legend’s vocal shortcomings come to the foreground on “Wholy Holy.”Gaye’s voice soars effortlessly on the original, while Legend strains just to lift off. His over-singing on Bill Wither’s “I Can’t Write Left-Handed” is accidentally exposed by Douglas’ understated, tasteful soloing.\nNot all of the blame lies at Legend’s feet. Normally an impeccable arranger, there are some surprising issues with Thompson’s choices. Les McCann’s “Compared to What” swings and skips like a rock skimming the top of a lake. Thompson’s slower arrangement is leaden in comparison. His treatment of Lincoln Thompson’s (no relation) reggae song “Humanity (Love the Way it Should Be)” hews closely to the original, but without the Jamaican patois it seems stiff and forced. The performance should have been reworked to emphasize what Legend could bring to the number.\n“Wake Up” was inspired by Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential victory and Arcade Fire’s song “Wake Up.” The original plan was record an EP, and truthfully Legend and the Roots should have stayed with that concept. The handful of strong cuts present would have made for an outstanding mid-player. As is, this is a solid album with plenty of outstanding moments, but ample opportunity to skip to the next cut. Or, better yet, seek out the originals.\nReview: For The Roots It’s All In The Music\nMarvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell – “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”\nFans delay Maxwell’s next album\nBettye LaVette – “Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook”\nPosted in Album review, review, tagged Barry Manilow, Bettye LaVette, covers album, Elton John, George Harrison, Interpretations, Nina Simone, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, R&B, Ringo Starr, Rod Stewart, the Beatles on May 28, 2010| 3 Comments »\n(Above: Bettye LaVette owns The Who’s “Love Reign O’er Me” at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2008. This performance helped inspire LaVette’s latest album, and is included as a bonus track.)\nFrom Rod Stewart to Barry Manilow, albums based on the 1960s and ‘70s pop song book are a dime a dozen and usually worth even less. So while the concept behind Bettye LaVette’s latest album may not be novel, the delivery certainly is. LaVette has audaciously selected a baker’s dozen of the era’s biggest songs and steals every single performance.\nThroughout “Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook” LaVette not only erases Paul McCartney and Elton John’s fingerprints from “Maybe I’m Amazed” and “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” respectively. She scrubs off four decades of radio saturation, turning in performances that arrive sounding completely fresh.\nLaVette accomplishes this feat by ignoring the original melody and phrasing and focusing entirely on the lyrics. She crawls inside the words, mining new depth and emotion and lets that frame the arrangement. Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” aches with loneliness. LaVette sneaks a reference to HIV/AIDS in “Salt of the Earth,” the Rolling Stones free-love era tribute to the working class. In “Don’t Let the Sun,” LaVette pleads with a desperation that feels like her life is hanging in the balance between light and dark. Robert Plant liked her treatment of “All Of My Love” so much he gave her the opening slot on his summer tour.\nWhile every song fulfills the title by hailing from the United Kingdom, LaVette slyly hedges her bets with two numbers that are also associated with one of her primary influences, Nina Simone. LaVette mirrors Simone’s epic treatment and sparse arrangement of George Harrison’s “Isn’t It A Pity.” Earlier, LaVette reminds listeners that while the Animals may have had the bigger hit with “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” it was originally a Simone single. LaVette happily returns the gift.\nFive years into her comeback, LaVette sings like something to prove. At 64 she is a contemporary of most of the performers she covers on “Interpretations.” But while most of them are content to coast by on these very songs, LaVette still sings with a hunger fueled by the decades she unjustly lost in obscurity. The force and authority in her voice make LaVette one of the most vital and compelling artists today.\nReview: Bettye LaVette and Buddy Guy at Roots n Blues BBQ Fest (2008)\nReview Roundup – Rakim, Dodos, Naomi Shelton, Blakroc and Daptone Gold\nReview – Booker T.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1169963"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8519872426986694,"wiki_prob":0.8519872426986694,"text":"10 Most Overlooked Shows That Deserve an Emmy\nby Merrill Barr\nin TV News, SR Originals\nLast week, the television community was smacked in the face with a major surprise when it was announced Tatiana Maslany had finally received an Emmy nomination for her outstanding work as the various clones on BBC America’s Orphan Black. However, the famed genre series isn’t the only one long overdue for some kind of Emmy nomination. In fact, throughout the years, there have been several series without even a much-deserved technical award… and that’s what we’ve compiled for you here.\nThat said, before we begin, there are a few qualifications that must be met for a series to make it onto this list:\nThe show must have never been nominated for an Emmy in any category, including technical awards (sorry, Parenthood).\nThe show must still be eligible for Emmys in 2016 (sorry, Sirens).\nThe show must have been eligible for Emmys no later that than this past year and not received a nomination (sorry, UnReal).\nTHE FOLLOWING IS PRESENTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER\nCategory: Outstanding Stunt Coordination\nThis won’t be the last time a show deserving of the Outstanding Stunt Coordination category comes up on this list because, while things like Outstanding Drama and Outstanding Comedy may take the spotlight, it’s hard to deny the amount of snubbing that takes place in this category. Just this past year, Daredevil was passed over for this award in favor of, of all things, Boardwalk Empire. However, the Marvel series did get some other nominations for its trouble, which brings us to Arrow.\nThe Greg Berlanti-produced CW series has been killing it on the fight choreography and pulse-pounding action front since day one. Even if the story sometimes dips to the point of controversy among fans, what hasn’t dipped is the show’s ability to excite once someone wields a bow and arrow or sharpened blade. Also, how does Oliver’s boxing glove arrow moment not land the show something? That’s just plain ignorance right there.\nCategories: Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor (Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen), Outstanding Supporting Actor (Laurence Fishburne), Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Special Visual Effects\nIt simply wouldn’t be an Emmy snub list without the inclusion of one of the academy’s most egregious and constant omissions: Hannibal. To be fair, the show wasn’t eligible this year since season 3 missed the cut-off with its push to summer, and won’t have a (final?) shot at awards until 2016. That said, there’s plenty in seasons 1 and 2 that made the Bryan Fuller series worthy of acclaim.\nEven just ignoring the amazing acting, writing, and directing for a second: how does the show not land an Outstanding Visual Effects nomination? Not only is its post-work hauntingly beautiful, it also does something so rarely seen in Hollywood: It has narrative importance. All that CG blood means something to the narrative of the show, particularly for Will, and it’s a shame that fact constantly goes unnoticed.\nAs this year was the first time it was eligible for awards, since season 2 only just started airing a few weeks ago, you’re probably wondering why The Last Ship made the cut. Well, the answer has to do with the scene that surely was submitted by the production team for the category it lost out on.\nThose that saw the pilot of The Last Ship will remember an epic action sequence that took place in the snowy tundra of Antarctica. Well, believe it or not, that entire sequence was shot and directed by none other than the show’s executive producer, Michael Bay. So, are you really going to tell us that the best action sequence of 2014, helmed by one of Hollywood’s top action directors, wasn’t worthy of at least a nomination for Outstanding Stunt Coordination? Please.\nCheck out an EXCLUSIVE 5-minute sneak peek from the premiere of The Last Ship! Join the ranks this Sunday at 9/8c on TNT!\nPosted by The Last Ship on Thursday, June 19, 2014\nCategory: Outstanding Comedy Series\nWith its final season set to premiere later this year, it’s hard to believe that The League has never garnered an Emmy nomination for its efforts. Despite not having any actual scripts to go off of during production – instead relying on the improvisational skills of its actors – the show remains a bright spot in television’s comedy scene. Every episode contains more laughs than some of the best sitcoms that do make the cut (looking at you Louie), and given that the first rule of any comedy is to be funny, it’s clear there’s some serious oversight happening on the part of the Television Academy concerning The League.\nSome may say the show’s crassness is to blame, but Louie is far crasser and more offensive at times, yet it still manages to land acclaim. Some may say it’s the show’s lack of a script and reliance on improv, but that doesn’t make much sense since the show is still written. The creators have said repeatedly that every episode has a detailed outline, which contains everything featured on screen, except for dialogue. That’s the only thing made up on the spot. So, if it’s not an Academy-wide aversion to crassness or improvisation, then what could possibly be the reason for not allowing one of television’s best comedies a chance to compete with the big boys? The answer: a simple unwillingness to think outside the box of “usual suspects.”\nNEXT PAGE: Maron, Morgan Spurlock Inside Man, and The Strain\nTags: teen wolf, suits, arrow, hannibal, The Strain, emmys, mr. robot\nZachary Levi Reunites With Two Chuck Co-Stars in Feel-Good Video","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1424984"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.772858738899231,"wiki_prob":0.772858738899231,"text":"Buy Lisa Moore's Book Now\nLike most literature fans, I don't read a lot of short story collections, and once I do, I don't re-read many of them. This is partly a pragmatic decision (who has the time to re-read everything?); but not many deserve re-reading, either. Then again, those that do deserve it don't necessarily inspire it: Dubliners, for example, is arguably the most famous short story collection ever, but I've not cracked its spine since I first read it 23 years ago. Compare that with my experience with Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: I tore through it in an afternoon, but I could never really put it down, so to speak, until I finally gave in and re-read it over a year later.\nWhich brings me to Lisa Moore's 2002 collection, Open, which was a bestseller in Canada and a finalist for the Giller Prize there, but was largely unnoticed here in the States. (I have my public library to thank for bringing it to my attention: thank you, thank you, Multnomah County.) One could say that my decision to re-read Johnson and Moore and not Joyce says more about my reading tastes than their relative merits -- and you'd have a strong case. Moore's collection, at any rate, appears at first glance to be disappointingly homogeneous. Almost all of the ten stories are first-person (and those that aren't may as well be), the main character is always a woman, usually middle-aged with a child or step-child and an emotionally remote husband to whom she is nevertheless almost helplessly attracted. Even the stories' greatest strengths -- their sensuous, room-wrecking imagery and their odd fusion of past and present -- are unvarying from story to story, which is the sort of thing that usually causes my heart to sink.\nWith all that said, though, I found myself re-reading Open within a week of finishing it, and suggest you get started on her too. If you're a fan of the monotonously sequential or you're deaf to imagery (so to speak), then skip it. But if you've got an ear for voice and like stories that appear to be relentlessly allusive and indirect, than Moore should be on your bedside table by nightfall.\nThe stories in Open are fragmentary, non-sequential, unpredictable, and rely heavily on repeated imagery to convey their emotional undercurrents. Here's the section I found when browsing the book at the library that convinced me to check it out:\nI guess I should read the Manifesto. The literary critic who spoke before you at the conference said it was an authorless tract. That Marx repeatedly tried to make it sound as though it came from thin air, or rose by itself from the people, spontaneously. He was willing to claim the bad poetry of his youth that even Penguin didn't want to publish. But the Manifesto just was. Just passed through his pen.\nTell me what happened? Did you meet somebody? (from \"Mouths, Open,\" p. 29)\nYou don't need to know that the narrator and her partner (the \"you\" mentioned in the second sentence) are in a relationship, and that the narrator's partner is turning away from her -- it's abundantly clear. The longing in the second paragraph, the abrupt juxtaposition, is poignant. Marx's delusion, his attempt to remove his fingerprints from his own work, suggests fertile parallels: perhaps the narrator's partner is attempting to dissociate himself from his own work (the life he's built with the narrator, or his responsibility for breaking them up); or perhaps the narrator is trying to remove herself from the pain of his rejection by accepting that it \"just is,\" that it's historically inevitable.\nMuch of Moore's fiction works like this, by suggestion and juxtaposition. In this way, she is able to dramatize how memory can radically impinge upon the present - many of her characters seem to live in an unstable storm of past and present, a cinematic montage of moments flashing by. In some stories, like \"The Way the Light Is,\" she makes her debts to the cinema explicit; in others, like \"Mouths, Open,\" she uses the technique and expects her readers to follow. She can pull this off because of the sheer sensuousness of her imagery and the sharp turns she takes to pull the reader through the story.\nLike a poet, she is prodigal with her images: at an outdoor party, \"a paper napkin flutters off the table and dips, like a dove shot out of the sky, a gash of lipstick on its breast\" (154). Or this:\nMelody comes out with a bottle of orange juice. It has stopped raining. Steam lifts off the asphalt and floats into the trees. Sky, Canadian flag, child with red shirt -- all mirrored in the glossy water on the pavement at our feet. A car passes and the child's reflection is a crazy red flame breaking apart under the tires. The juice in Melody's hand has an orange halo. A brief rainbow arcs over the wet forest behind the Irving station (8).\nShe can stumble, too, as she does here, when the narrator of \"Craving\" describes a childhood friend's dexterity in handling adolescent boys:\nShe could suss out the swift-forming passions of the gang of boys we knew, and make them heel. She knew the circuit of their collective synaptic skittering and played it like pinball (62).\nI have trouble imagining \"passions\" coming to \"heel,\" but more than that, \"circuit of their collective synaptic skittering\" isn't nearly as concrete as her imagery usually is - it's abstractly interesting, but works better for its sound than its sense. (Nor can I imagine playing a \"skittering\" like \"pinball,\" but that's comparatively minor.) Sure, I'd've liked to see her edit this sort of thing out, but it's a mark of the sheer fertility of imagery that her stories don't suffer from lapses like this one - she knows her next one will be better, and so does the reader.\nHer opening story, \"Melody,\" is impressive because it tells four stories in one, almost all indirectly: the narrator, a teenager, slowly awakens to desire, sexual and otherwise, as she carelessly betrays her friends, including Melody, who has an abortion after getting pregnant by an older man; the narrator's subsequent marriage and five years of grief after her husband dies; the mistake of her second marriage to a rich dentist; and the wrenching power of Melody's reappearance in her life at 40. (Actually, the piece may contain fewer than four stories or it could be more; like all of Moore's work, it's hell to summarize.)\nOther pieces are weaker -- \"Grace,\" for example, the novella that closes the collection, is wonderful but shows the weakness of applying her technique to longer fiction: it's exhausting, after a while. One stops taking in the imagery and the connections and begins longing for closure. But there are many standouts here. \"Craving\" is about an old theme - the destruction of romantic illusion - but does it well. The narrator is at the dinner table with two old friends she hasn't seen since her teens, and their respective men:\nShe's thinking, Remember the guy on the surboard in Hawaii? I felt total abandon. An evanescing of self, my zest uncorked.\nYes, but if you had kept going, it wouldn't have been abandon. He wouldn't be a man swathed in the nimbus of an incandescent wave, muzzling the snarling lip of that bone-crushing maw of ocean with a flexed calf muscle. He would be one of these guys at the table, half drunk and full of mild love (62-3).\nPerhaps the best story of all is \"The Way the Light Is,\" in which the narrator is making a short film inspired by a poem by John Steffler. She describes the poem as being about \"the elusive,\" and tries to do this by filming her friend Mina, who affects nonchalance that her husband sleeps with other women but unintentionally keeps revealing her pain. The narrator describes the video her own husband took of their son's birth, a series of jumpcuts of the contractions (the camera was shut off during all the peaceful, happy moments in between) and then the bloody, terrifying complication that follows. She and her son survive, and then she writes, ostensibly about Steffler's poem, \"Everyone knows what it means to want something with such intensity you crush it in your haste to have it. \" But of course she's talking about giving birth, and her friend Mina's longing for her husband, and even the way in which artists always fail to entirely grasp what they're reaching for, and so for that story alone, the book is worth your while.\nPosted by Benjamin Chambers at 7:53 AM\nLabels: books, literature, review\nWe're Guerillas - We Don't Floss Our Teeth\nThe Return of the (Prize-winning) King\nParadise Lost - the Text Message","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1445079"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9312753081321716,"wiki_prob":0.9312753081321716,"text":"VIMN Buys Channel 5 For £450 Million\nCategory : News, UK News, US News\nTags : Channel 5, Viacom, VIMN\nViacom International Media Networks has reached a deal with Northern & Shell to acquire free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 for £450 million.\nThe two parties announced a definitive agreement for the deal today, with Viacom adding that the acquisition of Channel 5 will improve the content on offer to UK viewers on both Channel 5 and Viacom’s other UK channels – such as MTV and Comedy Central. Channel 5 airs a number of US dramas (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Mentalist) and commissions a diverse slate of factual programming and more recently made a move back into scripted drama. Channel 5’s output in all of these areas is expected to increase dramatically under the umbrella of VIMN\nThe deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, fell short of the £700 million price tag that Northern & Shell’s Richard Desmond was seeking during the bidding process, which began in January. It is nevertheless a big profit on the price he paid (just north of £100 million) for Channel 5 back in 2010. A number of possible buyers emerged during the process, though the frontrunners had always been considered to be Viacom and Discovery, who retracted their bid last month.\n“The acquisition of Channel 5 accelerates Viacom’s strategy in the UK, one of the world’s most important and valuable media markets. Channel 5’s momentum is indisputable, with impactful programming, increasing popularity and a growing digital platform. Channel 5’s management and employees have done an outstanding job building their brand and we are pleased to welcome them to our team”, said Philippe Dauman, CEO and President of Viacom. “Viacom’s global resources, technology and expertise will help Channel 5 develop even more compelling programming and provide content to consumers in exciting new ways. In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and on-line.\nWhile Paul Dunthorne, Channel 5’s Chief Operating Officer, added: “Since Northern & Shell’s acquisition of Channel 5 in 2010, the financial and operating performance of the business has been transformed with improved audiences and content offering. The combination of Channel 5 with Viacom’s global resources, technology and expertise adds further to the momentum of the business and offers numerous exciting opportunities for the channel’s future.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line841826"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5316104888916016,"wiki_prob":0.46838951110839844,"text":"lip lit: the girls\nEmma Hardy\nEmma Cline’s debut novel, The Girls, is a coming of age story set in extraordinary circumstances. Based on the true events of the Charles Manson family, The Girls follows Evie Boyd, a fourteen-year-old girl on the cusp of adolescence, as she is drawn into the inner circle of a soon-to-be-infamous cult.\nThe research that has gone into The Girls is incredible — few details stray from the actual Manson case, aside from a relocation to California — but it’s not historical fiction. Instead, Cline uses the time and setting to craft an enduring tale of girlhood. While the majority of the book is set in 1969, and possesses the dreamy echoes of a bygone era, Cline paints the details of the time lightly. She doesn’t get carried away with specifics, preferring to use the mood and tone to create a world that is distant, yet timeless.\nThe book is set in the present tense, narrated by a middle-aged Evie as she reflects on her time inside the cult. Cline is an exceptional stylist and uses this vantage point well. On numerous occasions her carefully crafted sentences unveil a depth of clarity and insight. It’s stunning to read, and more than once left me feeling as though Cline had described my own feelings with words I’ve been unable to find.\nThe novel begins when Evie is young, innocent and only just beginning to press against the boundaries of childhood and independence. She witnesses a group of girls with long, unkempt hair and is captivated by their freedom and careless sensuality. One girl captures Evie’s interest more than the others: Black-haired Suzanne with her unaffected attitude and dirty smock dress.\nEvie is immediately bewitched by Suzanne and the other girls in the cult. She joins them on the ranch, enthralled by the way they share possessions, swim naked in the creek, and let their children roam wild.\nAt the centre of it all is Russell, who has a magnetic pull over the girls that Evie is both drawn into and repulsed by. She realises, with more fascination than repulsion, that all of the girls are sleeping with Russell. It’s not long before he begins making calculated advances on her, too. Evie is soon persuaded to perform unwanted sexual acts with the cult leader. It’s a perverse and upsetting scene — one of several in the book — coloured with Cline’s sharp insights into the male gaze and female vulnerability.\nWhile we get to know fourteen-year-old Evie with great depth, her present-day portrayal remains lacking. You may, like me, be left with myriad questions about her life after her days in the cult ended. Cline doesn’t indulge those questions. Instead she uses present-day Evie as a tool to explore girlhood. Middle-aged Evie exposes the nuance of her younger counterparts, but does not develop much character in her own right.\nWhere Emma Cline shines is through her depictions of female friendships. At one point, she writes, ‘Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention’. The close attention Cline lends to female relationships is thrilling to read. From Evie’s evolving relationship with her childhood best friend to her romantic fascination with Suzanne, Cline endows every interaction between her female characters with nuance and meaning.\nThe Girls blurs the line between desiring and longing to be desired. Evie yearns for Suzanne while simultaneously wishing to possess Suzanne’s wild demeanour — does she want Suzanne, or does she want to be Suzanne? For an adolescent girl, desire is a complicated beast. Cline gives these relationships the power they warrant. Boys aren’t big players in this novel. Rather, they’re symptoms of the more powerful and complex dynamics playing out between the women.\nCline explores the cold, hard judgement that women place on one another as a place of conflict and commiseration. No one will understand you quite so well as another woman, but no-one can expose you quite so cruelly, either. Setting this against the gruesome events of the Charles Manson family allows Cline to heighten this cruelty substantially. It’s rare to be confronted with female aggression in literature, but The Girls captures the rough, violent edges of being a teenage girl with apparent ease.\nThe Girls is refreshingly honest, feminine and stunningly insightful. I can’t wait to see what Emma Cline does next. Until then, The Girls should be mandatory reading for anyone fascinated by what it means to grow up as a woman.\nThis entry was posted in Arts, Books and tagged book review, lip lit, literature. Bookmark the permalink.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1445096"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6148486733436584,"wiki_prob":0.38515132665634155,"text":"Navigation news clients articles about contact\nTara Timberman a.k.a METAL MOTHER\nMetal Mother is the neo-surrealist manifestation of Tara Timberman. The idea that we are all playing roles in some perverse ‘cosmic joke’ has been a key component of her process. Having written poetry since a young age, songs began forming after a small Yamaha keyboard was given to her by her sister, Guenevere, when she was 27 years old. What was initially a procrastination tool to stave off the homework of her theatre management studies and her fledgling cannabis business, turned into a 10-year journey of writing, performing, refining and rebirthing through the process of realizing Metal Mother.\nShe currently resides in Los Angeles, however, forests have always been a common place for her song writing. It’s noticeable in her music as it teems with a certain futurist devotion to the religion of Nature; it’s elemental, meta, pagan, and continually seems to defy classification and order... at the same time as being ever so familiar. The themes of the bittersweetness of life, love, death, and loss have been central elements of her creative process.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line301106"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6484774351119995,"wiki_prob":0.3515225648880005,"text":"Film Archives - Page 221 of 225 - Kaboom Magazine\nICE CUBE SAYS NEW ALBUM FIRST THEN LAST FRIDAY FILM\nWhile on the set of his new project, Actor/Director/Rap Icon Ice Cube took a minute to answer a few questions from the press. The Well Versed crew was on...\nEXPLOSIVE TRAILER: “TEMPTATION: CONFESSIONS OF A MARRIAGE COUNSELOR&#...\nBE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, BECAUSE TYLER PERRY COULD GIVE IT TO YOU! Tyler Perry has released the first trailer for his upcoming film Temptation: Confessions of a...\nYOU HIT IT TOO! RITA ORA CHEATED ON ROB KARDASHIAN WITH JONAH HILL!\nThe third person in Rita Ora and Rob Kardashian’s relationship has been identified. Turns out Kardashian found out that Ora was cheating on him with “Moneyball” star Jonah Hill...\nREBEL WILSON SET TO HOST 2013 MTV MOVIE AWARDS!\nIt’s official, the 2013 MTV Movie Awards has found its host. On Thursday, December 20, the network announced that it was comedienne Rebel Wilson who would take the center...\nEXPLOSIVE TRAILER: THIS IS THE END [STARRING SETH ROGAN, JONAH HILL, JAMES ...\nSeth Rogen and Evan Goldberg release the red band trailer to their directorial debut comedy This is the End. Coming along for the first effort from the Knocked Up...\nMILEY X! SINGER/ACTRESS MILEY CYRUS IS DEMANDING THEY CREATE BLACK EMOJIS!\nNOW KABOOM! MAGAZINE F*CKS WITH MILEY CYRUS! Emojis have taken on a huge role in modern texting, but have recently been accused of being racist towards black people....\nGETTING IN THE ZONE! THE TWILIGHT ZONE TO BE REVIVED BY CBS!\nA new version of the classic TV series “The Twilight Zone” is in the works with CBS TV Studios at the helm of the development of the modern-day revival....\nEXPLOSIVE TRAILER: “PAIN AND GAIN” (STARRING MARK WAHLBERG \u0003...\nMark Wahlberg and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, along with Anthony Mackie, are body builders who engaged in a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong in the movie “Pain and...\nHAVE A SEAT! ANGELINA JOLIE TO DIRECT WWII FILM!\nONE OF THE SEXIEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD WILL SOON BE ONE OF THE SEXIEST DIRECTORS IN THE WORLD! Universal Pictures has recruited Angelina Jolie to direct the WWII...\nEXPLOSIVE TRAILER: SNITCH [STARRING THE ROCK]\nJudging by the trailer for Snitch, mandatory minimums are a great law-enforcement strategy as long as you force Dwayne Johnson to be an untrained undercover informant. Johnson plays a...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1415476"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8922731876373291,"wiki_prob":0.8922731876373291,"text":"Movie Review - The Boss Baby\nPublished Saturday, April 8, 2017\nBy Bob Garver\nGood news, everyone: \"The Boss Baby\" isn't as bad as the advertising makes it seem. Frankly it would be hard to be that bad. I was expecting 97 minutes of painful, lowbrow baby jokes mixed with tired corporate stereotypes left over from the 80's. Some people thought the movie might be redeemed with political satire, since Alec Baldwin voices the Boss Baby and he has recently taken to playing America's most iconic boss, but this movie was completed long before any Trump jokes could be worked in. No, the movie has to rely on other ideas to redeem itself, and a few of them actually succeed. A few.\nSeven-year-old Tim Templeton (Miles Bakshi) lives an idyllic life with his parents (Lisa Kudrow and Jimmy Kimmel), but his world gets turned upside down with the arrival of his little brother, the otherwise-unnamed Boss Baby. Immediately something seems off about the newborn. Some of it is just baby stuff that Tim has to learn to accept, but some of it is strange even by baby standards. He arrives unaccompanied in a taxi, he keeps the family awake all night, he wears a suit (fortunately the necktie is just a fabrication, more on that later), he takes the parents' attention away from Tim, and he's a spy from a corporation that supplies all the babies in the world.\nThere's a surprisingly intricate plot to this movie, but basically the Boss Baby is an adult with the body of a baby who was sent to Earth to stop evil puppy manufacturer Francis Francis (Steve Buscemi) from unleashing the world's cutest puppy to the masses. Supposedly adults will love the puppy more than babies, and this will lead to the depletion of the human race. Boss Baby doesn't have much luck recruiting other babies for the mission, but Tim is willing, provided Boss Baby goes back to BabyCorp afterwards and lets him have his parents all to himself again. Adventure, hijinks, bonding, and life lessons ensue.\nAlmost everything that happens in the movie is ridiculous, and the reason is that it's a story being told by an adult version of Tim (Tobey Maguire). It's established that Tim has an overactive imagination, hence the obvious embellishment. But the movie makes you think that it's taking one approach to the narrative when it's actually taking another, and I liked the first one more. The \"real\" version negates the whole story and it basically means that all the growing and learning that Tim does throughout the movie doesn't count. But at least it means that the parents didn't do frightfully irresponsible things like give the baby a necktie (I never could get past that detail).\nI was really dreading the humor of \"The Boss Baby,\" and make no mistake, there are a lot of dumb gross-out gags. But about five minutes in, I laughed at something. And then again at ten minutes. And then maybe at a creative action sequence around the 15-20 minute mark. The movie's strength is that it goes for so many types of gags and at such frequency that something is bound to work. If you can enjoy the baby humor, that's great, but there's also wordplay, pratfalls, deadpan, jokes for adults that will go over kids' heads, and when all else fails, Elvis.\nThere's a little something for everybody in \"The Boss Baby,\" but I have to emphasize \"a little.\" This movie probably isn't worth seeking out if you have no interest in it. But if you feel obligated to see it, say, if your kids want to go, then go with them. There's more to this movie than you think, though much of it is exactly what you expect.\nTwo Stars out of Five.\n\"The Boss Baby\" is rated PG for some mild rude humor. Its running time is 97 minutes.\nContact Bob Garver at rrg251@nyu.edu.\nmovie-review\nMovie Review - Jason Bourne\nMovie Review - Get Out\nMovie Review - The Secret Life of Pets\nMovie Review - Power Rangers\nMovies - Picks and Predictions for the 89th Academy Awards","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1358714"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5347508788108826,"wiki_prob":0.46524912118911743,"text":"OPERATION LIGHT SUMMIT\nOPERATION LIGHT SUMMIT About\nOPERATION LIGHT SUMMIT Blog\nGeoWalk\nUpcoming GeoWalks\nGeoWalk Almanac 2015\nThe Great Invocation\nThe Unified Field\nMeditation Mission\nStanding for Peace\nUnity Trust - Global Vision\nThe Unity Trust is a charitable, not-for-profit trust, dedicated to world service promoting spiritually focused education, and meditation, whilst embracing a fully inclusive, non-sectarian and non-political heart and mind. The Unity Trust is the umbrella organisation created to oversee the GeoWalk Project. GeoWalk is a global meditation walk based on sacred geometry and the focusing and distribution of light, love and goodwill to humanity and the Earth.\nThe vision of the Unity Trust is a global one, and it is expected that its work will eventually be established throughout the world. The foundations are being mindfully created to establish templates in order to make this goal possible. Unity is the essential basis of all life, seen and unseen, and when humanity is able to fully embrace this essential and fundamental unity, our way of being on the Earth will manifest true love and harmony, in accord with divine principles.\nAbout the Unity Trust\nThe Unity Trust was founded by Nicola Mannering in 2013 in Nelson, New Zealand. The idea for the Trust arose long before GeoWalk was inaugurated, however it took another two years after the inauguration of GeoWalk on 15 June 2011 before it was to take form as a registered charity. The Trust gained charitable status on 10 June 2013. The founding trustees are Carole Green of Nelson and Murray Rogers of Golden Bay. Corina Nino joined us in 2014.\nWhile continuing to focus on the establishment of GeoWalk, the Trust is also launching a new project this year, 2015, The Unified Field Project. We plan to landscape and plant a permanent GeoWalk on the field, which has been given to the Trust for this purpose - THE UNIFIED FIELD.\nOther projects which the Unity Trust will implement include Meditation Mission, a non-sectarian vehicle for assisting humanitarian and ecological crises through the combined use of group meditation and visualisation, and the raising and offering of funds to humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross.\nUnity Trust Mission Statement\nThe Unity Trust aims to promote peace, goodwill, equality and right understanding between all peoples of the world, regardless of race, creed, gender, background, culture or colour, and to offer education as to the true, underlying unity of humanity and indeed of the Earth and the Cosmos. We also aim to encourage a right relationship with the Earth in supporting a sustainable way of life and the wise use and sharing of the Earth’s resources.\nUnity Trust Charitable Purpose\nThe Trust is committed, in attaining its purposes, to:\n3.1 Promote peace, goodwill, unity, equality, and right understanding between all peoples, and the encouragement of a right relationship with the Earth.\n3.2 Educate through the publication and dissemination of material promoting the non-sectarian Ageless Wisdom teachings and any or all other Wisdom teachings which expound and deepen understanding of the Essential Unity of Life, and of humanity’s movement toward greater understanding, brotherhood, sisterhood, and unity.\n3.3 Establish GeoWalk, a non-sectarian global meditation vehicle for united global action aimed at promoting goodwill, right human relations and understanding.\n3.4 Establish Meditation Mission, a non-sectarian vehicle for assisting humanitarian and ecological crises through the combined use of group meditation and visualisation, and the offering of funds to established humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross.\n3.5 Establish Standing for Peace, a global peace meditation initiative for people of all faiths.\n3.6 Promote the scientific path of service and compassion in order to assist our brothers and sisters and the lower kingdoms (animal, vegetable and mineral), and develop our true spiritual nature, that is, to come into rapport with the Self, the soul, the true spiritual entity.\n3.7 Establish links and commonalities between the study of divine, inter- dimensional science and the continually developing discipline and field of science, as it exists today.\n3.8 Provide other support and assistance consistent with this charitable purpose.\nThe Unity Trust Symbol\nThe Unity Trust symbol or logo is based on the letters U and T, which embody the receptive and creative principles respectively. These principles, made concrete through the letter symbols, have been intertwined so as to become fully united, balanced and harmonious. The U symbolises the Chalice, the feminine principle of receptivity, containment and nurturing. The vertical stroke of the T symbolises the Sword of Spirit, entering the Chalice, the Matrix of Matter. The T joined with the U creates the Unity between Spirit and Matter. As an integrated whole, the Unity Trust symbol expresses also the third, or middle principle – that of Consciousness – which emerges when the two opposing poles, creative and receptive, unite.\nFounding Director\nNicola Mannering\nNicola Mannering was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1954. She trained as an artist at the University of Canterbury in the early 1970s, after which time she travelled in Australia and India with her teacher, a Canadian Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition. She later joined a Japanese spiritual organization, learning to give light from the palm of the hand. After raising a family and on suffering a major health crisis, she was contacted by those who serve on the inner planes on the side of the light. She began to receive regular hints and short instruction via mental impression, a form of telepathy. She recognized the spiritual power and beauty, and the global implications, of what was being given. It is this continuing guidance and inspirational impulse which led her to found the Unity Trust and the GeoWalk Project. Nicola is also a writer and has dedicated her life to the search for spiritual understanding.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1616472"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7454031109809875,"wiki_prob":0.25459688901901245,"text":"(-) House Committee on the Judiciary (33)\nH.R. 5422, a bill to ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and for other purposes\nAs passed by the House on November 29, 2016\nH.R. 3765, ADA Education and Reform Act of 2016\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 7, 2016\nH.R. 759, Recidivism Risk Reduction Act\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on February 11, 201\nH.R. 5982, Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2016\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 14, 2016\nH.R. 3438, REVIEW Act of 2016\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on September 8, 2016\nH.R. 68, Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2016\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 13, 2016\nH.R. 320, Rapid DNA Act of 2016\nH.R. 5578, Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act of 2016\nH.R. 5063, Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2016\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on May 11, 2016\nH.R. 4002, Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015\nAs ordered reported by the House Committee on the Judiciary on November 18, 2015","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line796148"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7969478964805603,"wiki_prob":0.7969478964805603,"text":"SATURDAYS @ 3:30 PM\nNBC BAY AREA\nYour real estate, renovation and design destination\nYou're Paying Your Rent, But You Could Still Be Evicted\nA rent-paying woman in New York City almost was kicked to the curb.\nBy Lauren Passell\nPublished Mar 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM | Updated at 9:21 AM PDT on Mar 13, 2013\nWILLMAR, MN - AUGUST 10: A For Rent sign stands in the window of a business August 10, 2004 in the financially struggling town of Wimar, Minnesota. Greyhound, the iconic bus company, will stop servicing Wilmar, and 266 other small communities west of Chicago as of August 17. For many of these communities, Greyhound is the last form of affordable public transportation for people wishing to get out of their communities to larger cities and towns.(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images for Fortune Magazine)\nA recent story in the New York Times reads like a nightmare for anyone renting. You pay your rent (and in New York City, you pay your ridiculously high rent) and you think that's the end of the story--the only people who get evicted are people who refuse to pay, right?\nNot this time. Charanna Alexander was living in an apartment in Harlem with her roommate, and one day got an eviction notice from the city marshal, out of the blue. The note said she had six business days, but time had been ticking for four days, so Alexander, who had certainly been paying her rent, had to act fast. Apparently Alexander's landlord, who did not actually own the building, had stopped paying his rent. (For two years.)\nAlexander called the city marshal, who told her that there was nothing that could be done. She went to Housing Court, where she was shuffled from office to office, waiting in line after line. Until she met a man named Steve when talking to a legal aid representative. Steve had Alexander fill out a show-cause order, which allowed her to go before a judge to explain why she shouldn't be evicted.\nA few days later, the judge approved the contract Alexander had written. Phew. Happy ending, right?\nAt least, this time. Her advice if the same thing happens to you? \"Ask for Steve.\"\nRead the full story on the New York Times.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1251232"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8083864450454712,"wiki_prob":0.8083864450454712,"text":"Site Selection | Logistics / Infrastructure\nIntermodal Infrastructure Drives Regional Growth and Expansion\nWithout a solid logistics infrastructure, a company could not efficiently and cost-effectively serve its customers and grow their business as well as its own.\nJim Romeo\nJLL: Industrial Investment Continues in U.S. Seaports\nShort-Line Railroads Help Keep Economic Growth On Track\nColliers International: Will the United States Be Ready for Intermodalism?\nBirth of a Corridor: Developing a North American Intermodal Route\nIn Columbus, Ohio - as in other places across the nation - companies need the essentials of an intermodal infrastructure to enable them to supply their customers within and outside the region and to maintain efficient operations.\nFor example, the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, operates the leanest of supply chains and relies extensively on a network of strategic suppliers to provide just-in-time assemblies and goods for its Honda Civic production lines. Columbus' Rickenbacker Inland Port is one part of a multi-modal logistics hub known for its expansive network of freight forwarders, cargo airlines, and trucking companies, as well as rail siding to support companies like Honda. The vitality of this region depends on the logistical infrastructure that supports it.\nA Win-Win Situation\nLogistics firms are expanding and locating to regions where they are in demand, i.e., where firms seeking an efficient time-to-market would also like to expand and relocate. When such a marriage occurs, both benefit, as does the economy of the entire region.\nIn June of 2012, the Murphy Warehouse Company, one of the Upper Midwest's largest asset-based logistics companies, sets its sights on expansion beyond its Minnesota presence. The company leased a 50,000-square-foot logistics facility in North Kansas City, Missouri. The expansion represents a strategic move to expand its own growth while enabling customers in this new area to be supported and also grow and expand.\n\"We've worked hard as a company to be able to grow our business at this time,\" says Richard Murphy, Jr., president and CEO of Murphy Warehouse and fourth-generation business leader. \"This expansion will allow us to serve existing customers with a presence in the Kansas City area and reach new customers.\"\nAccording to Murphy Warehouse, the new facility will serve customers in the apparel recycling, food, and telecommunications industries throughout Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Its part of the company's strategy to meet an anticipated increase in demand for its warehousing services. The firm also expects to expand the new facility to 135,000 square feet by the end of 2012 and add 12 employees to manage the facility.\nMurphy Warehouse is also considering upgrades to the company's North Kansas City logistics site. It hopes to integrate a connection to rail access. Rail access is available at its existing Minnesota-based logistics campuses. For many firms, rail access is as important as truck access, highway access, and other transportation modes and arteries in designing strategic distribution for globally competitive companies throughout the country. The services that a rail carrier offers can greatly benefit a location.\nShortline Railroads Complement Other Services\nMurphy Warehouse also recently purchased a 350,000-square-foot warehouse facility in Eagan, Minnesota, to serve the food, medical, retail, paper, and home construction industries. The company plans to invest $3 million in improvements. Part of its vision is to facilitate smoother truck movement in and out of the campus, as well as re-establishing rail connections to bring rail cars indoors. \"By re-establishing the Progressive Rail connection, we complete our goal of having our facilities on all railroads serving the Twin Cities,\" said Murphy in a statement released by the company.\nProgressive Rail is a shortline railway, as is Illinois Railway. \"As a shortline rail carrier, Illinois Railway [a division of OmniTRAX] serves a diverse base of customers [who] are seeking to transport their products within Northern Illinois communities,\" says Patrick Black, director of marketing and sales for OmniTRAX's Chicago region. \"OmniTRAX owns and operates a total of 113 miles of trade and interchanges and provides many specific benefits to its customers including flexible pricing, customized service based on the destination, local decision-making, and the ability to link communities and companies that otherwise would not have access to rail service.\"\nClass 1 rail carriers are those whose revenue exceeds $398.7 million and operate more than 95,000 miles of the U.S. rail network; they can transport products in an efficient method from point A to point B across the country with no stops in between. \"For example, if a company needs [its] product to go from Chicago to Los Angeles without any stopping points, the Class 1 railroads provide excellent efficiency in that transportation,\" Black explains. \" However, in many cases, companies need to transport their products in short distances via shortline rail carriers, and this provides competitive options to companies that don't have the capability to locate on Class I lines.\"\n\"We have the unique ability to help grow the region and serve the region,\" says Black. \"More consistently, we are finding that companies are seeking to move their product by rail - and within a shorter distance. So by offering the short-rail service line and providing competitive pricing, we are providing a competitive advantage for those companies locating and/or growing in our region and seeking to transport their products efficiently and cost-effectively.\" He further explains, \"Companies that are sensitive to logistics need to know that you have globally competitive logistics infrastructure available in the local market. In addition these companies want an efficient access to their markets and suppliers, a relatively lower costs of operations location, and an area with a favorable business climate.\"\nBlack notes that OmniTRAX owns and operates a total of 113 miles of trade and interchanges and provides many specific benefits to its customers including flexible pricing, customized service based on the destination, local decision-making, and the ability to link communities and companies that otherwise would not have access to rail service. This provides competitive options to companies that don't have the capability to locate on Class I lines.\nIntermodal to the Rescue\nOther companies - both logistics and industrial firms - are expanding their logistics capabilities as well. For example, Continental Transportation Solutions of Bensenville, Illinois, recently expanded its operations with a new 134,000-square-foot facility with more than 20 exterior docks to quickly receive shipments, sort and segregate product, cross dock various material, and quickly prepare for final delivery. Continental provides transportation solutions for firms in the financial, healthcare, marketing, and food industries.\nAmazon recently broke ground on its latest fulfillment center in Jeffersonville, Indiana - its fifth in the state as the company is growing, moving, and expanding its fulfillment operations to afford a more competitive offering with its products often arriving on or about the next day. Such an offering is only possible with a very strategic and carefully selected mix of fulfillment centers and supporting modes of transport.\nCompanies within certain industries will target regions where the logistics infrastructure is developing to meet the transportation and intermodal demands of companies. Black uses the example of his locale in Rockford, Illinois.\n\"Industries that should consider the Rockford area because of its rail assets are those that ship much of their product by rail, such as plastics, steel manufacturing, building products and materials, automotive manufacturing and support, agricultural product processing and shipping, heavy equipment manufacturing, and food products processing,\" he says. \"As a shortline rail carrier, OmniTRAX serves a diverse base of customers that are seeking to transport their products within Northern Illinois communities.\"\nThis very topic is ripe for discussion among the many members of critical supply chains. Recently, Transplace, a provider of transportation and logistics technology, held its Shipper Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona, which focused on the trends in transportation and logistics technology and the industry's outlook. Transplace President George Abernathy served on a discussion panel with Richard Hyland, president of Celtic International, an intermodal brokerage service that joined forces with Transplace in 2011, to discuss what they call the three essential elements of a successful supply chain: transportation management, intermodal, and brokerage.\n\"When the economy rebounds and truck drivers begin to retire or leave for higher paying jobs that are closer to home, intermodal can come to the rescue,\" said Hyland. \"The growth of intermodal has caused the length of haul for drivers to become shorter and shorter. Additionally, intermodal is continuing to become an attractive option for companies as it is a cheaper alternative to over-the-road transportation. It is estimated that converting 10 percent of trucking shipments to intermodal would save hundreds of millions of gallons of gas.\"\nThis aligns with Starbucks International's decision to expand its operation with a facility in the Southeast. In mid-2012, Starbucks International broke ground on one of the first company-owned production plants in Augusta, Georgia. The facility will produce products currently manufactured abroad, including Starbucks VIA® Ready Brew, as well as the coffee base for Frappuccino® blended beverages and many of Starbucks® ready-to-drink beverages.\nWhy Augusta, Georgia? According to the company, not only did the community offer the ever-important attributes of strong work force and technology support for the new facility, but it also had a transportation and logistics infrastructure that was akin to what Starbucks needs to sustain its business goals and visions. \"During such challenging economic times, I am thrilled that we are creating jobs and building something special right here in Georgia,\" says Peter Gibbons, executive vice president of Starbucks Global Supply Chain Operations.\n\"Starbucks has long believed that there is a direct link between our success and the vitality of the communities in which we do business. With access to a skilled labor force, advanced technology, and critical transportation and logistics infrastructure, Augusta is a great example of how building high-tech manufacturing facilities in America makes good business sense while supporting the communities where our customers and partners live and work.\"\nJim Romeo is a writer based in Chesapeake, Virginia. Specializing in business-to-business and high-tech writing, he has more than 700 publishing credits. Romeo has written extensively about the industrial and technology sectors and is the author of two non-fiction business books. He holds an MBA in Marketing from Columbia University.\nRailroads: Still an Important Industrial Link\nQ1 / Winter 2013\nEnergy/Sustainable Development\nResidual Waste Management: From Disposal to Resource\nHigh Tech/Nano/Electronics\nMarket Report: Electronics Focuses on Economics, Access, and Sustainability\nMarket Report: Healthcare Industry Tries to Drive Down Costs\nRELATED TOPICS AND ARTICLES\nFirst Person: Globalization, E-Commerce, Last-Mile Delivery, and Other Supply-Chain Challenges\nInfrastructure Investment: Shifting the Focus from Cost to Opportunity\nThe Surprising Impact of E-Commerce on Urban Real Estate Markets\nFor Industrial Development, Rail Is the Gravy Train\nGet On Track With a Rail-Served Site","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line353433"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9888344407081604,"wiki_prob":0.9888344407081604,"text":"Novelist Yun I-hyeong wins 43rd Yi Sang Literary Award\nNovelist Yun I-hyeong Courtesy of Munhaksasang\nBy Kwak Yeon-soo\nNovelist Yun I-hyeong was named the winner of the 43rd Yi Sang Literary Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Korea, Monday.\nThe 43-year-old won the grand prize for her latest novel, \"Their First and Second Cat,\" described by the judges as \"a trailblazing novel that highlights the importance of loving all living creatures.\"\nThe story was published in the November and December issues of local literary magazine Munhaksasang.\nThe judges were unanimous in their choice of winner due to her utterly distinctive depiction of a married couple struggling with hardships in life, including financial difficulties. In the story, the couple eventually gets divorced and the mother takes custody of the daughter.\nKwon Yeong-min, Life & Thought's chief editor who was on the judging panel, said he was impressed by how writer Yun depicted divorce without acrimony and hatred.\nThe story and title of the novel were inspired by Yun's experience after the death of her cat, according to the author.\n\"I was devastated by the loss of my cat last year. Then I started to delve into dark themes about life and death. As a result, I crafted the story about people who find new life through death,\" Yun said during a press event held in Seoul, Monday.\n\"The novel is commended for giving us a deep understanding of death, the limitations of the marriage system and a divided society,\" she added.\nYun, who debuted in 2005 after winning the Joongang Rookie Literary Award with \"Black Starfish,\" has written novels that explore the boundary between reality and imagination with immersive prose.\nPrior to receiving the Yi Sang Literary Award, the writer has won the Munhakdongne Young Writer Award and Moonji Literary Award. Her other novels include \"A Waltz for Three,\" \"Love Replica\" and \"Personal Memories.\"\nThe 2019 Yi Sang collection, consisting of \"Their First and Second Cat\" and five other finalist works, will be published Jan. 21 and the award ceremony will be held in November. Five other works that earned runner-up prizes are Kim Hee-sun's \"Grave at the Beach,\" Chang Kang-myoung's \"Three Bakeries in Hyeonsoo-dong,\" Jang Eun-jin's \"Cry,\" Jung Yong-jun's \"Things that disappear\" and Choi Eun-yeong's \"One Year.\"\nThe grand prize winner will receive 35 million won and the runner-up prize winners will get 3 million won respectively.\nThe annual Yi Sang Literary Award ceremony was established in 1977 to celebrate the finest Korean fiction.\nyeons.kwak@koreatimes.co.kr More articles by this reporter","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1466372"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5195740461349487,"wiki_prob":0.48042595386505127,"text":"Great Western Academy in Swindon Completes\nThe Scott Brownrigg-designed Great Western Academy (GWA) in Swindon has completed. The £21 million building was built by BAM Construction.\nWon through the ESFA Framework with BAM, the Academy has been developed in close collaboration with the ESFA and New College Swindon.\nBuilt on the fringe of the award-winning Tadpole Garden Village development, the new 9,350 sq m school for 1,210 pupils includes a 460-place sixth form and offers stunning views towards the Cotswolds.\nThe academy has been developed in response to Swindon’s need for more education places, following a growth in new local housing developments and a population surge.\nWith modern, state-of-the-art facilities to support 21st century learning, the architectural design promotes openness and transparency, central to the school’s educational philosophy.\nAcademy Principal Graham Davis said of the new design, “The Great Western Academy building is visually striking both inside and out, and has been designed to maximise teaching and learning opportunities. It provides a light and vibrant environment in which our students will be able to thrive, making the very most of specialist areas such as the science labs, activity studio, sports hall and main hall/theatrical space. The spaces outside have been carefully thought through to mix sport and social areas effectively. The excellent design, by Scott Brownrigg, means that many parts of the building can easily be made available for use by the community at evenings and weekends too, meaning that it we can help benefit all those living locally, not just our students.\nThere are just 18 schools in the country opening in brand new buildings this year and this must be one of the best, we feel very fortunate to be able to have such a superb environment in which to develop and grow our students.”\nArranged over three storeys, the design incorporates four distinct areas within it – Sports and Cmmunity Drama, Music and Art, General teaching and the IT rich Heart space. The central space has been maximised and creates a hub to the Academy, which contains dining and social enrichment areas, a library, administration areas and a feature staircase, and provides a connection to the wider facilities and external areas. The central space aids passive supervision and spills out onto a protected courtyard that is partially covered by an upper level overhang.\nThe reception and administration areas overlook the main entrance, which helps with security and creates an active frontage to the building.\nBAM’s Construction Manager Rob Shipp said: ‘The school looks smart with a clean and fresh design and great views. It will be a lovely place for young people to learn and develop. It's been a big success for the Education and Skills Funding Agency and for the school. Our collaborative approach has worked very well and and I think the parents, teachers and the community will truly appreciate these new facilities.'\nWith a strong focus on Business, ICT and Enterprise, and with close links to local and international businesses, a professional working environment has been delivered which visually references these business connections. This approach has not only met the ethos of the Academy, but has also delivered a cost effective new building for the Academy and its community.\nThe official opening takes place on the 22nd October.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line35304"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5048038959503174,"wiki_prob":0.5048038959503174,"text":"« Kate Gosselin says she cries behind closed doors | Back to Main Page | Valley pop culture clash in HBO's \"True Blood\" »\nNazareth Teen Mom 2 to sign new book in Whitehall\nPosted by Kathy Lauer-Williams at 08:46:38 AM on June 30, 2014\nMeet Nazareth Teen Mom Kailyn Lowry when she does the first signing of her new book in the Lehigh Valley.\nLowry will sign \"Pride Over Pity\" at Barnes and Noble at the Lehigh Valley Lifestyle Center/Lehigh Valley Mall, in Whitehall at 2 p.m. Saturday July 5.\nThis is the first time Lowry will be signing locally since she wrote her new tell-all memoir about her experiences becoming a mother while still in high school and appearing on a reality show, with friend Adrienne Wenner. “Pride Over Pity,” was released last month by Post Hill Press.\nMTV is reporting the book is a New York Times bestseller making it to #10 on the week's combined print and e-book nonfictio list.\nThe Nazareth grad starred in the second season of MTV's reality series “16 and Pregnant” when she was a senior at Nazareth High School, along with three other pregnant teens - Jenelle Evans, Chelsea Houska and Leah Messer. Lowry's son Isaac was born Jan. 18, 2010.\nThe stories of the four young mothers continued in MTV's \"Teen Mom 2\" which premiered January 2011 and just started its fifth season. \"Teen Mom 2: airs at 10 p.m. Tuesdays.\nThe show first followed her relationships with Isaac's father Jonathan Rivera, which fell apart under the stress of raising their child. Lowry moved out amidst their constant fighting, and moved on to a new relationship with co-worker Jordan, who is co-writer Wenner's cousin, only for that to end after Lowry briefly went back to Rivera. Then Lowry met Javi Marroquin and she became pregnant with Marroquin's child. Lowry married Marroquin last fall and the wedding at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, as well as the birth of the couple’s son Lincoln Marshall Marroquin, on November 16, 2013 were featured on the fourth season of the show.\nAccording to a press release, the book \"gives readers a raw and brutally honest account of her troubled, often painful story and, for the first time, reveals the dark secrets she has so closely guarded\nThe book will take readers behind the scenes as Lowry stays at a homeless shelter to qualify for a program that would provide a safe home for Isaac; talks about the question of her sexuality, and discusses traumatic sexual experiences that have left her scarred. It also will delve into her custody battles for Isaac, her diagnosis with bipolar disorder, and struggle with online bullying.\nIn an excerpt from the book, Lowry writes “If I ever gaze at the past, I shudder. I shudder to count how many times I mistakenly thought I was loved. I quiver unpleasantly to recall the person I used to be and how I acted in some of my relationships. Looking back, it’s not surprising that I turned to boys for love so early. I needed appreciation. I needed to feel worthy. Most of all I needed support.”\nWenner of Bethlehem who wrote the book with Lowry, also took the cover shot of the teen mom.\nThe book is available at www.amazon.com and costs $19.99 for the hardcover and $9.99 for the eBook.\nTrackback URL for this entry: https://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c4fe353ef01a73dd960a3970d\nListed below are links to weblogs that reference Nazareth Teen Mom 2 to sign new book in Whitehall","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line437307"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6460236310958862,"wiki_prob":0.6460236310958862,"text":"How Disney Fooled The World in These Classic Films\nThis will make you question your childhood\nRay Porter October 14th 2017 Entertainment\nEveryday it seems like Earth shattering information is being uncovered by internet sleuths, which has the potential to blow our minds and make us take a second look at things we remember from our childhoods. In this list, we prove that Disney fooled us all by reusing classic scenes throughout their films in order to save costs on animation. Luckily, it's not really plagiarism if it's against yourself, so Disney gets a pass here--but they've still been caught red handed!\nTricking Us Through Animation\nAs it turns out, Disney has been fooling their fans for years and years by reusing animation from old films in other projects in order to cut corners on animation costs and reuse their own ideas! These examples are really cool to see.\nExample 1: The Jungle Book\nThe first example we will be looking at is this still from the 1967 classic Disney film, The Jungle Book. Here, we can see Mowgli standing near some trees on what appears to be a cliff. What we're about to show you, is that Disney reused this scene in a later film!\nExample 1: Winnie the Pooh\nThat later film was the 1977 film Winnie the Pooh, which was featured around the titular character of Winnie the Pooh, as well as his friends and their adventures. Here, Christopher Robin is standing in the exact same place and way as Mowgli stood in The Jungle Book, showing that Disney reused this animation 10 years later.\nExample 2: Sleeping Beauty\nSleeping Beauty is one of the most classic tales of all time, and the Disney film that was released to cinemas in 1959 features some extremely classic scenes. Here, the titular sleeping beauty can be seen dancing in a what appears to be a ballroom.\nExample 2: Beauty and the Beast\nDisney would go on to reuse almost the exact same scene in the 1991 Disney film, Beauty and the Beast. They almost got away with it, but some clever folks online managed to spot the similarity in the animation and positioning of these two scenes.\nExample 3: The Sword in the Stone\nThis 1963 Disney film features another example of Disney playing a little bit of a trick on their audience. They decided to recreate this scene of the characters being playfully tackled by these two dogs shown here in this screen capture.\nThe Jungle Book (1967) makes this list for a second time, but this time it is the one doing the self-plagiarizing. Disney recreated this scene from The Sword in the Stone in The jungle Book only 4 years later, with Mowgli.\nExample 4: Snow White\nThis scene of Snow White playfully dancing with one of the 7 dwarves was a fun scene in the 1937 Disney film version of Snow White. The animation here would be used again in a later Disney project, as we're about to show you.\nExample 4: Robin Hood\nWhen Robin Hood came out in 1973, it was another huge success for Disney. Here, this scene seems reuse the animation from the Snow White scene, since the dancing style and way the characters are holding hands is extremely identical.\nHere we take a look at The Jungle Book (1967) for the third time on this list! The dancing that occurs here must have been expensive to animate, because Disney ended up using the animation again in a later film!\nHere, the film in our example is Robin Hood (1973), which reused the scene from The jungle Book and simply replaced the characters and the backdrop to create a new scene without anyone noticing--until internet sleuths solved the mystery, that is.\nExample 6: Bambi\nThis scene of the rain hitting a bird in Bambi (the 1942 Disney classical film) was quite brief, and that's probably why Disney didn't see any harm in using the scene again in a later film project. Tricking us all!\nExample 6: The Fox and the Hound\nThis one is probably the most evident example on the list, since these scenes are almost exactly the same except for a few changes to the size and color of the bird, and the amount of debris in the background.\nExample 7: The AristoCats\nThis lovely scene from the 1970 Disney film titled The AristoCats, is one of the best of the film, and Disney were quick to reuse it three years later with some changes made in order to fit it into their newer film.\nRobin Hood (1973) came out 3 years later and has this very similar scene that caused a few observant Disney fans to raise an eyebrow. As it turns out, the animation was reused and they almost got away with it. Nice try, Disney!\nHere is the Video:","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1262098"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6618342399597168,"wiki_prob":0.3381657600402832,"text":"Easter events in the South Bay\nBy The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | dailybulletin@dfmdev.com |\n60 years of Easter sunrises\nWhy Easter is so early this year\nHistory of Hollywood Bowl Sunrise Service\nA Virtual Easter Egg Hunt\nEaster’s a little early this year, but there was still time to plan some events in the South Bay. Here is a sampling of some of them:\nFestival de Los Ninos\nLennox Park will be the setting for Festival de Los Ninos, an annual Easter Hispanic community fair, featuring music, food, arts and crafts, face painting, music and free gifts and samples. The event will also have information booths on a variety of important subjects, such as immigration, health, legal services, job opportunities and more.\nFestivities are from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Lennox and Hawthorne boulevards, Lennox.\nAdmission is free. Call 818-718-7956.\nEaster breakfast and egg hunt\nRuby’s Diner, Redondo Beach and the King Harbor Association are organizing an Easter breakfast and egg hunt with a portion of the proceeds going to the Leadership Redondo Beach 2007 class project of building a permanent tribute monument using the piece of steel donated by the New York Fire Department.\nThe event will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Seaside Lagoon, 200 Portofino Way, Redondo Beach.\nTickets are $25 for one child with one adult; $35 for two children with one adult (or vice versa); $50 for a family of four to six members. Tickets can be pre-purchased at Ruby’s, 245 N. Harbor Drive; or the Redondo Beach Marina Office of Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, 181 N. Harbor Drive. Call 310-376-7829 for ticket availability. Day of event sales will be limited to space and food available.\nEl Prado Egg Hunt\nThe Old Torrance Neighborhood Association presents its 27th annual Easter in El Prado Park event starring Mr. & Mrs. Bun, who will arrive at the park in the bright blue Bunny Mobile, pose for pictures, and lead the children in the bunny hop.\nImmediately following the hop, the Easter egg candy hunt will begin. The event is for children 11 and younger, and just so the younger kids won’t get lost in the shuffle, there is a special section called Peggy’s Patch for children ages 3 and under.\nThe festivities get underway at 10 a.m. Sunday and will last about a half an hour. Families are welcome to stay afterwards to enjoy the day. The park is at Arlington and El Prado avenues in downtown Torrance. Admission is free.\nBig Bunny’s Spring Fling\nCome and get egg-cited as you pet a fuzzy bunny, plant a carrot, paint your face, make bunny ears, enjoy musical entertainment and take a photo with the Easter Bunny. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Sunday at the Los Angeles Zoo, 5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles. Free with paid zoo admission. (323) 644-4200. www.lazoo.org.\nEaster/Passover Street Fair and Brunch\nJoin celebrity host Dick Van Dyke in serving needy men, women and children with delicious holiday meals. Destribute shoes for women and girls and participate in an Easter Village. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Midnight Mission, 601 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles. (213) 624-1026. www.midnightmission.org.\nSigned Easter Egg Hunt\nThe Reagan Library has hidden 14 wooden Easter eggs, autographed by celebrities and politicians, all over the Museum and the Air Force One Pavilion. Children can search for them, and those that find 10 of the eggs can enter a drawing to win a signed egg. Daily through March 31. Admission is free with paid museum entrance. (805) 522-2977, www.reaganfoundation.org.\nBreakfast with the Easter Bunny includes egg hunt, decorating cookies, puppet show, pictures with Easter bunny; $15, pre-registration required, (310) 618-2720; 9 a.m.-noon Saturday; Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance.\nEaster in El Prado Park with Mr. and Mrs. Bunny includes posing for pictures and egg hunt for children 11 and under; free; 10-10:30 a.m. Sunday;3/23 El Prado Park, El Prado Street and Arlington Avenue,\nTorrance, (310) 328-7549.\nSUNRISE SERVICES\nWHAT: Green Hills Memorial Park is sponsoring the 60th annual Easter Sunrise Service. The multi-denominational service is held in conjunction with the South Coast Interfaith Council with the San Pedro Pastor’s Fellowship. The Rev. Ginny Wagener of the South Coast Interfaith Council will offer this year’s message. Musical selections performed by Trinity Lutheran Worship Team, San Pedro.\nWHERE: 27501 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes.\nWHEN: 6 a.m. Sunday. Gates open at 5:15 a.m.\nINFORMATION: Refreshments will be provided before and after the service.\nWHAT: Hope Chapel Hermosa’s Easter Sonrise/Sunrise Service. The service will include special music and a message from the Rev. Zac Nazarian.cq\nWHERE: In the former Albertsons parking lot at the corner of Artesia Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach (next door to Hope Chapel).\nWHEN: 6 a.m. Sunday.\nINFORMATION: Call 310-374-4673.\nWHAT: Calvary Chapel South Bay Sunrise Service at Home Depot Center. Click www.ccsouthbay.org/events/Easter08/HomeDepotDirection.pdf for printable directions.\nWHERE: Home Depot, 18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson.\nWHEN: 6 a.m. Sunday\nIN ADDITION: Regular Easter services will be held at the church www.ccsouthbay.org, 19300 S. Vermont Ave., Gardena, at 9 and 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 and 6:30 p.m.\nWHAT: Calvary Presbyterian Church’s Easter Sunday Celebration.\nWHERE: 13560 Hawthorne Blvd., Hawthorne.\nWHEN: 10:15 a.m. Sunday.\nWHAT: King’s Way Community Church Easter celebration. The King’s Chorale will sing “The Risen Savior.” Brunch will be served before each service.\nWHERE: King’s Way Community Church, 1748 W. 251st St., Lomita.\nWHEN: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday.\nWHAT: Unity Church of South Bay Easter Breakfast, Service and Easter Egg Hunt.\nWHERE: 2545 W. 237th St., Torrance.\nWHEN: Breakfast is at 9 a.m. Sunday; service at 10:30 a.m. followed by egg hunt.\nINFORMATION: 310-326-2760.\nWHAT: Faithful Central Bible Church and the Family of Champions presents the annual Citywide Easter Celebration. Highlights include dancers, live animals, and a 40-piece orchestra accompanying a 200-voice Mass choir. Stella Award-winning Tramaine Hawkins and Grammy Award-winning Chaka Khan will also perform.\nWHERE: The Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd. (at Prairie Avenue), Inglewood.\nWHEN: 10 a.m. Sunday; 3/23\nINFORMATION: Admission is free. Call 310-330-8000 or visit www.faithfulcentral.com.\nWHAT: Wayside United Methodist Church Easter worship service and continental breakfast.\nWHERE: 25904 Cayuga Ave., Lomita.\nWHEN: Breakfast is at 9 a.m. Sunday; service is at 10:30 a.m.\nHope Chapel Gateway presents “Easter at the Armstrong 2008,” an annual event.\nWHERE: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance.\nWHEN: 10 a.m. Sunday.\nINFORMATION: Admission is free. Call 310-320-2440 or visit www.hopegateway.org.\nWHAT: Hope Chapel Hawthorne’s Big Tent Community Easter Service with special music, children’s activities and lunch.\nWHERE: 13560 S. Hawthorne Blvd., Hawthorne.\nWHAT: The First Southern Baptist Chruch is hosting an Easter program titled “I Will Follow Christ” followed by music and refreshments.\nWHERE: 1025 Marine Ave., Gardena.\nThe Inland Valley Daily Bulletin\nFamilies of military killed in training band together to push lawmakers into action","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1117680"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9002247452735901,"wiki_prob":0.9002247452735901,"text":"Einstein's Universal Changes\nDecember 23, 1999 / 4:48 PM / CBS\nAlbert Einstein is the most influential person of the 20th century, as chosen by Time and CBS News. Written by CBSNews.com's Gary Paul Gates.\nOf all the great thinkers who left their mark on the 20th Century, there was one genius that towered above all others as the intellectual giant of his age. And that man - Albert Einstein - is who Time magazine and CBS News have chosen to honor as the person of the century.\nThe century was in its infancy and Einstein himself was just a young man of 26 when, in 1905, he suddenly captured the attention of the world's most eminent physicists.\nIn his day job that year, Einstein was working as an obscure clerk in a patent office in Bern, Switzerland. But in his spare time, he wrote and published three revolutionary research papers, including the one in which he unveiled his famous theory of relativity.\nUntil then, the laws of physics hadn't changed since Sir Isaac Newton set down his principles of time and motion - gravity - in the 17th Century. But in his theory, Einstein utterly demolished Newton's central assumption that time is absolute, and in doing so, he forged a link between time and space that, in effect, transformed the basic law of the universe.\nIn writing about that astonishing achievement many years later, one awestruck admirer noted that Einstein \"discovered, just by thinking about it, the essential structure of the cosmos.\"\nOr as the great man himself observed in one of his rare public comments: \"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.\"\nAnother landmark discovery came from Einstein's study of the connection between energy and matter, which led to his celebrated formula - E equals MC squared - and which, in turn, led to the atomic bomb. In fact, he played a discreet but critical role in the development of the bomb.\nWhen the Nazis came to power in his native Germany in 1933, they confiscated all of Einstein's work because he was Jewish, and soon thereafter he fled to the United States, which became his home for the rest of his life.\nSix years later, on the eve of World War II, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt expressing his urgent concern that Hitler's scientists were using his formula to build an atom bomb.\nThat letter prompted Roosevelt to establish the top-secret Manhattan Project, the first step toward producing the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.\nBut setting in motion the process that enabled the United States to become the world's first atomic power was just part of Einstein's legacy. His revolutionary theories also served as the guiding lights to space travel, to television and to other electronic breakthroughs that have brought us to the computer age and the wonders of cyberspace.\nIn a century that was blessed with great advances in science, Einstein stands out as the greatest scientific genius of his time - and perhaps th most profound scientific mind of all time.\nAnd even those of us who have trouble grasping the complexities of his theory of relativity can appreciate the droll wit of the limerick it inspired:\n\"There was a young lady named Bright/ who could travel much faster than light/ She went out one day/ in a relative way/ and came back the previous night.\"\nEinstein was one of three finalists drawn from the list of outstanding men and women Time and CBS News have selected as the 100 most influential people of the century. The other two were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi.\nRoosevelt was picked in the Top Three because more than any other leader, he was the driving force behind the century's greatest political achievement - the triumph of democracy.\nWhen Roosevelt was elected president in the bleak autumn of 1932, the country was mired in the most severe economic catastrophe in its history. Because of the Great Depression, millions of Americans not only felt betrayed by the capitalist system but were losing faith in the democratic institutions that governed the nation and held it together.\nThe hardship of economic crisis had spawned a political crisis. But Roosevelt met that daunting challenge with vigor and confidence.\n\"This great nation will endure, as it has endured, will revive and will prosper,\" FDR promised in his first inaugural address. Then came the words that will forever be enshrined in America's political lexicon: \"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.\"\nBacking up the strong rhetoric with action, Roosevelt launched the \"New Deal,\" a flurry of new federal programs designed to provide relief and lead to recovery. Some of the new laws - such as Social Security and unemployment compensation - would go on to become cornerstones of American life.\nThe bold steps FDR took to combat the economic misery revived hope for millions and restored their faith in both democracy and capitalism.\nThen a few years later, as Commander in Chief of the world's largest democracy, Roosevelt had to confront an even greater threat to freedom: the military aggressions of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.\nIn leading the allies to victory over those two despotic forces, FDR both preserved and strengthened democracy at home and abroad. Moreover, that supremely critical triumph in World War II pointed the way to the democratic revolutions that swept communist governments out of power in Eastern Europe later in the century.\nIn his own way, Gandhi was no less influential. The struggle he led against British colonial rule in India changed the face and future of political revolution.\nUntil he came along, political rebels had mainly been firebrands who believed that violence and bloodshed were necessary to achieve their goals.\nGandhi rejected that approach, and by adopting the unorthodox tactics of nonviolence and passive reistance, he turned a political revolution into a moral crusade.\nIn fact, he was essentially a spiritual leader who once defined the movement he launched as an attempt \"to introduce religion into politics.\" And throughout the world Gandhi was revered as a saintly man.\nEven so, he did make enemies along the way. For the sad irony is that in 1948, just one year after India finally achieved its independence, Gandhi - the great apostle of nonviolence - was assassinated by one of his own countrymen. To many, his murder brought to mind the Biblical assertion that \"a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.\"\nBut Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolence proved to be a powerful legacy, one that has had enormous influence on other revolutionary leaders.\nMartin Luther King was an ardent disciple of Gandhi. So was Nelson Mandela. And the nonviolent crusades for freedom and justice that they led in their countries were, in large part, inspired by Gandhi.\n©1999, CBS Worldwide Inc., All Rights Reserved\nFirst published on December 23, 1999 / 4:48 PM","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line123881"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8836931586265564,"wiki_prob":0.8836931586265564,"text":"From A World To Win News Service\nSaudi Arabia: the West’s chosen Islamist head-cutters\nJanuary 12, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us\nThe interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests—they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way.\nBob Avakian, BAsics 3:8\n4 January 2016. A World to Win News Service. The latest executions in Saudi Arabia should make it very clear that the Western powers’ “war on terror” has nothing to do with opposition to chopping off heads and sectarian religious fanaticism. Instead of condemning this crime, the U.S., UK and other Western powers have continued to give the Saudi regime, if not their public political blessing, at least their practical backing—in the name of the necessary alliances they claim flow from that “war on terror.”\nThese crimes were part of the beleaguered Saudi royal family’s efforts to defend its rule by wielding state violence and religious authority, both represented by the executioner’s sword. The most prominent of those put to death was Nimr al-Nimr, a leading Shia cleric tried in secret and convicted of supporting the protest movement that swept the Shia population in eastern Saudi Arabia and neighboring Bahrain in 2011, especially among youth influenced by the Arab Spring. Several people accused of participating in political rallies at that time, arrested when they were young teenagers, are set to be executed next.\nNimr’s execution, along with that of several other Shias, was a heinous response to legitimate protests against discrimination in employment, education and other fields—proof, if any is needed, that the Saudi regime, rather than moving away from religious fanaticism under the year-old reign of King Salman and his princes, is escalating its use of religiously-justified murder against any political challenge.\nEven more, it was a deliberate provocation against Shia political forces internationally, especially the Iranian regime, very likely with the hope of forcing the Iranian ruling clergy—themselves notorious for mass executions—to react in such a way as to complicate the endeavors of those within the Iranian regime seeking agreements with the U.S. and those in the American ruling class who believe that U.S. interests now require such agreements.\nIt was also meant to put an end to challenges to the legitimacy of the House of Saud coming from Al Qaeda, Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and the like, inside as well as outside the kingdom and even among the myriad members of the royal family, seizing the role of leader of all Sunni believers with overtones of a religious showdown.\nThe executions were a barbaric act but not a deranged one—they served very clear political goals, the same goals behind the Saudi-led war on Yemen and Saudi efforts to confront the Syrian Assad regime and its Iranian backers on religious grounds and contend with Daesh sharia by imposing Saudi sharia. These are goals which, in some aspects, converge with thinking among the Western powers about how to shape the chaos in the Middle East to their advantage.\nThe difference with Daesh is not that the Saudi regime is more “moderate” or in any way less cruel. The monarchy’s relationship with the U.S. is complex and potentially volatile—the U.S. has played both sides of the Sunni/Shia divide, including working with the Iranian Shia fundamentalist regime in some places at some times. But the fact is that the U.S. and its allies would not have been able to dominate the Middle East without their alliance with Saudi Arabia, as fraught as that alliance might be for both sides right now.\nObama personally came to meet with King Salman after his enthroning a year ago, and his reign has been hailed as inaugurating an era of reform by Westerners like the leading American liberal commentator Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 25 November 2015—written at a time when these executions were already set to take place). The main “reform” so far has been holding elections for insignificant municipal bodies, and allowing women to vote in them, although not to drive to the polling places or anywhere else, or make any decisions without the permission of their male guardian. Over the last year the Saudi regime has stepped up its executions, in some cases crucifying the decapitated victims and leaving their bodies to rot on public display. Photo: Wikimedia Commons\nThat’s why U.S. President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President François Hollande have kept silent in the face of these executions. At first deputies were deployed to cluck their tongues about the general atmosphere of “sectarian tensions in the region,” as if Western intervention itself were not the biggest factor churning the voracious whirlpool of religious conflict in the Middle East. As shock waves mounted, their governments expressed concern solely about the possible political inconveniences arising from the killing and not the injustice of it.\nThe 4 January editorial in the UK Independent could not have been more explicit: while distancing itself from the Tory Party’s shameless enthusiasm for the Saudi regime—noting that PM Cameron recently supported the successful Saudi bid for the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Council—the newspaper concluded that “it is not in our interest to see, let alone provoke, the fall of the House of Saud.” This is also, of course, the policy followed by Obama, who a year ago proclaimed “the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.”\nThe Western imperialists have always known what the Saudi regime is like. It has always practiced decapitating alleged apostates (accused of abandoning Islam)—the young Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh is still scheduled to be executed for this “crime.” Many of the 153 people executed in 2015 and the total of at least 2,200 people over the last three decades were migrant workers from South Asia and elsewhere, who have constructed the Gulf region’s palaces, palatial shopping malls, museums, sports stadiums and other architectural marvels in virtual bondage enforced by the sword.\nThe Saudi rulers are beholden for their swords, in the broadest sense, to the Western powers. In November, not long before the executions and long after the Saudi government announced its plans to carry them out, Obama’s State Department approved a Saudi request to buy 1.29 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of bombs and missiles. The State Department website gives a chilling itemization of the purchases, the kinds of munitions that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have been raining down on the Yemeni people in a war that has killed at least 5,700 people, half of them civilians, since the air and land invasion began in March 2015. This war of aggression against a country Saudi Arabia has traditionally considered its rightful “back yard” could not be carried out without the logistical support, air refueling and targeting teams provided by the U.S.—this latter aspect making Washington directly responsible for the bombing of schools and hospitals.\nAlthough the factors are complex, this war, like the executions, is being carried out in the name of the Saudi royal family’s religious authority against Shia and other disbelievers. (The Houthi rebels in Yemen, whose Zaydi religious banner makes their faith a cousin of Shiaism, are backed by Iran—which is far from the main factor in the rebellion by Houthis and others against the Saudi-backed regime.) This is another example of how the Saudis are seeking to escalate the religious dimension of the region’s conflicts—with concrete U.S. support.\nObama personally came to meet with King Salman after his enthroning a year ago, and his reign has been hailed as inaugurating an era of reform by Westerners like the leading American liberal commentator Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 25 November 2015—written at a time when these executions were already set to take place). The main “reform” so far has been holding elections for insignificant municipal bodies, and allowing women to vote in them, although not to drive to the polling places or anywhere else, or make any decisions without the permission of their male guardian. Over the last year the Saudi regime has stepped up its executions, in some cases crucifying the decapitated victims and leaving their bodies to rot on public display.\nMembers of the royal family (which, thanks to polygamy, numbers in the thousands) and high-ranking members of the regime itself have supported Al Qaeda, and the regime met Al Qaeda’s sharpest criticism of it, the stationing of U.S. troops in Moslem holy lands, with the transfer of those troops to bases elsewhere in the Gulf. In Syria, Saudi Arabia has armed and financed a shifting constellation of Islamist fundamentalist alliances. As for Daesh, which shares the Salafi (fundamentalist) ideology that legitimizes the rule of the House of Saud and similarly centers its system of oppressive relations on the extreme oppression of women, the group’s name change from ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Greater Levant) to the Islamic State signaled a direct threat to the Saudi regime’s claim to hold authority over the world’s Sunni Muslims.\nThe Saudi absolute monarchy calls for obedience as the earthly “protector of the Ummah” (the so-called community of believers) and not on the basis of direct religious rule like Daesh’s caliphate, run by a self-proclaimed descendent of Mohammed. This distinction is both a danger to the Saud dynasty’s existence, and at the same time not much of a difference at all, especially insofar as the Saudis respond to Daesh’s particular signature, its determination to exterminate Shias as apostates worse than infidels, by putting itself forward as the greatest Shia slayers of all.\nAvailable in English, Spanish, Farsi, Turkish, German, Portuguese, Arabic (draft)\nThe Western imperialist powers knew very well what they were getting in their relationship with the Saudi monarchy. Britain helped establish the monarchy in 1932, after encouraging the rise of Wahhabism (the specific form of Salafism associated with Arabian tribal authorities) in its campaign to absorb the Ottoman Empire into its own. In a 1945 treaty signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. promised to keep the Saudi monarchy in power, a pact renewed by George W. Bush in 2005. Although the U.S. grabbed the country away from Britain, as part of replacing British domination of the Middle East, the UK continues to maintain close financial and military ties with Saudi Arabia. France, under the Socialist president Hollande, is now also forging new political and military links with the regime.\nYet Saudi Arabia’s association with imperialism has deeply transformed the country and its ruling class. Like other Gulf states, it has become a major site of capital accumulation in its own right within the globalized capitalist economy dominated by the Western imperialist powers. This has happened both through the exploitation in the Gulf of laborers from the Moslem world and far beyond, on the one hand, and on the other the investment of Saudi and other Gulf capital in much bigger countries like Egypt, whose economy, politics and religious life are conditioned by this relationship.\nIn many ways, such as political influence and subsidies to regimes like Pakistan, the religious inculcation of the millions of Arabs brought to work in the Gulf and the sponsorship of enormous religious and “charitable” institutions and hundreds of TV preachers and media outlets, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies are the main vectors bringing modern Salafism to the Sunni Moslem world, even as all of these countries are connected ever more tightly to the international market and the global capitalist system, with all its inevitable rivalries among ruling classes that can only accumulate capital in deadly competition with one another.\nIt is true, as Obama said, that “the U.S.-Saudi relationship” has been invaluable to the U.S. and the West as a “force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.” But at the same time, that relationship has played a major role in creating the conditions for today’s instability in the region, where the U.S.’s continued domination is not secure at all. High stakes require desperate measures.\nA great many people, especially in the Middle East, whose people are by far the main targets and victims of Daesh and all forms of Islamic fundamentalism, think that the U.S. deliberately created Daesh and the rest. That’s not literally true. Although Washington, London and Tel Aviv encouraged Islamism in opposition to more radical trends in the region, and although the workings of the imperialist system created the conditions from which Islamists arose, today various forms of Islamic fundamentalism are an intractable problem for the U.S. and other Western imperialists. Yet the reality underlying the “war on terror” is not a neat lineup of two sides. Instead, rival imperialists and regional powers are moving to advance their own reactionary interests in collusion and collision with one another on a very complex battleground. At the same time, in a general way, all the contending monsters are feeding religious fundamentalism of every sort, both intentionally and as a by-product of their political and military maneuvering and the backward economic and social relations they represent.\nImperialist capital now represented by people like Obama and his fellow “Western leaders” needs the rule of people like Saudi King Salman and his murdering princes, who call on ancient ideologies and social systems but would be powerless without modern imperialism. The U.S. and its partners and rivals can’t stop making Islamic and other religious fundamentalisms an increasingly major feature of the twenty-first century. The “war on terror” is a fraud—it is a contest over who can impose their interests and the most terror.\nA World to Win News Service is put out by A World to Win magazine, a political and theoretical review inspired by the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the embryonic center of the world's Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations.\nVolunteers Needed... for revcom.us and Revolution","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1707547"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5977244973182678,"wiki_prob":0.4022755026817322,"text":"The historic Sumas Powerhouse goes up for auction starting on Friday. Submitted photo\nFormer B.C. Electric substation, now luxury mansion, up for auction\nHistoric estate in Abbotsford open for bids starting Friday\nBen Lypka\nMar. 19, 2019 3:33 p.m.\nOne of the oldest buildings in Abbotsford is officially open for bids beginning on Friday.\nThe Sumas Powerhouse, built in 1906 by the B.C. Electric Corporation, is available to the highest bidder, and the completely restored and modernized property will sell without reserve by March 28.\nLocated at 39623 Old Yale Road, the Powerhouse boasts 12 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, five kitchens, four balconies, an elevator and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar.\nThe property spans 11,462 square feet and includes more than 2.35 acres of land.\nIt was last listed at $4.999 million, but the without-reserve stipulation means the market will dictate both its pricing floor and ceiling.\nAmerican company Concierge Auctions is handling the auction portion of the sale, and project sales manager Scott Pate said his company offers luxury-property sellers the chance to ease the sales process.\n“Luxury property can sometimes sit on the market for a long time, and this electric station is a great example of a very unique property that is difficult to find a buyer for because there really are no comparables,” he said.\nPate arrived in Abbotsford in late-February and has been hosting open houses at the location every day.\n“A project manager like me comes on site for four to six weeks and we market the property extremely hard,” he said. “We want to create a buzz for it in Abbotsford and Vancouver, but we have wide-reaching arms all over the world, and the auction process makes it more available for people in all different time zones.”\nThe auction process is similar to eBay, with all bids being submitted online.\nThose interested in participating in the auction must sign all the terms and conditions and wire in a $100,000 refundable bidder deposit.\nThe winning bid has 30 days to close the sale, just like any other real estate transaction.\nPate and Concierge Auctions also partner with a local agent, and in this case are working with Sara Gilloly of Re/Max All Points Realty.\nPate said the Sumas Powerhouse, which was used for many years to house equipment for the Fraser Valley line of Vancouver’s commuter and cargo streetcar system, is an extremely unique property.\n“What a legendary building this is,” he said. “I’ve heard lots of stories from many of the locals coming in. I didn’t see what it looked like before, but what an amazing finish job the seller has done. There is so much imagination put into it and the overall quality is just fantastic.”\nBidding opens on Friday at 2 p.m. For more information, visit conciergeauctions.com/auctions/39623-old-yale-road-abbotsford-british-columbia-canada.\nUPDATED: Prime minister talks housing in Maple Ridge\nB.C. father fights for his life after flu turns into paralyzing condition\nMan stuck on trail in Golden Ears park\nRidge Meadows Search and Rescue reach him at 1:30 a.m.\nMaple Ridge dancer lands role in Bard on the Beach\nWilliam Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well runs until August 11","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line462496"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8510141372680664,"wiki_prob":0.8510141372680664,"text":"Social Impact Initiatives\nProducts and Live Entertainment\nTraumatic Experiences\nRefugee Response\nContact Us Get Our Newsletter\nSesame Street Launches Newest Initiative to Support Military Families\nElmo and Rosita Report for Duty to Help Military Families Transition to Civilian Life\nNew York, NY—(January 27, 2016)—Sesame Workshop announced today the launch of Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions, the latest effort in its 11-year commitment to meet the needs of American military families. Informed by extensive research and recommendations from parents and caregivers plus child development and military advisors, the innovative resources feature the lovable Elmo and Rosita with success strategies for every member of a family facing the major milestone of leaving military service. Adults are provided tips for maintaining everyday routines, keeping lines of communication open and reaching out for help if needed; children will find fun, comfort and coping tactics with characters they love.\nSesame Street for Military Families: Transitions was funded with major support from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and additional contributions from Prudential. The free resources will reach families nationwide as Sesame Workshop partners with military, veterans and employment organizations as well as university and human resource departments for distribution across multiple channels.\nPrevious military-focused Sesame Street initiatives approached issues like deployment, homecoming, injuries and grieving. Now Elmo and Rosita address an unmet need in the community – emphasizing a child’s perspective in new resources for families transitioning from active duty to civilian life.\nMore than a million personnel will exit the military between 2011 and 2016.1 The challenges they and their families face may be considerable–the search for new employment, a new home, new family roles and routines–and they often happen simultaneously. In 2013 and 2014, 148,000 children under age 10 had a parent who transitioned into the civilian community2 – more than 50 percent of families said that readjustment to civilian life was “difficult.”3\nSesame Street for Military Families: Transitions aims to help with resources including:\nMy Story, My Big Adventure Activity Book: A printed keepsake book to support kids through the transition, with activity and conversation ideas to spark family excitement about new possibilities. Printable pages will also be available on web site.\n10 New Videos: Original musical anthem, “It’s an Adventure” featuring Elmo and Rosita, interviews between Elmo and kids, a new animated segment and video moments of parents sharing their transition experiences.\nImplementation Toolkits: Guides for partner organizations to spread the word about these resources on social media, at meetings and more.\nWeb Site: A new page on sesamestreet.org to house all the Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions resources.\nThe Adventure Campaign: A series of engaging e-newsletters that provide helpful tips and relevant content to caregivers and on a bi-weekly basis. Anyone can sign up here to share in the adventure!\n“Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions was designed to help alleviate anxiety and stress that our service members and their families may experience as they begin reintegration into civilian life,” said Sherrie Westin, Sesame Workshop’s EVP of Global Impact and Philanthropy. “We are honored to continue supporting our nation’s military families and hope that these resources will help fill a gap by addressing the needs of the whole family at a time of transition.”\n“For many military families, the transition to civilian life can be challenging because they often lose their existing support networks,” says John Damonti, president, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. “We are proud to support Sesame Workshop’s efforts to make this transition easier for military families and to help the general public better understand and recognize the service and sacrifice of all veteran family members, especially children.”\nSesame Workshop will work in collaboration with military, veterans and employment organizations to distribute the materials and implement them into their communities. In addition, a combined effort with the USO will help reach targeted communities across the U.S. and bring additional resources supporting military transitions to families nationwide.\n“We have appreciated the long-standing working relationship with Sesame Workshop,” said Rosemary Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy. “Their unique ability to translate difficult topics into language easily understood by children and trusted by their parents is most unique. These fun and engaging products will only help military families as they adjust to new changes with the same resilience that marked their service to our nation.”\nSesame Workshop is the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, the pioneering television show that has been helping kids grow smarter, stronger and kinder since 1969. Today Sesame Workshop is a global educational force for change, with a mission to reach the world’s most vulnerable children. We’re active in more than 150 countries, serving kids through a wide range of media and philanthropically-funded social impact programs, all grounded in rigorous research and individually tailored to the needs and cultures of the communities we serve. Sesame is a beloved household name in dozens of languages, and it means learning – and fun – in all of them. For more information, please visit sesameworkshop.org.\n1: White House. (2011, August). Fact Sheet: President Obama’s Commitment to Employing America’s Veterans. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/05/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-commitment-employing-america-s-veterans\n2: Defense Manpower Data Center. (2014). Information transmitted by email on request.\n3: Blue Star Families. (2013). 2013 Military Family Lifestyle Survey. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/141215832\nPhilip Toscano Director, Corporate Communications, Sesame Workshop\nphilip.toscano@sesame.org\nSesame Street Games and Videos\nJoan Ganz Cooney Center\nSesame Street in Communities\nSesame Ventures\nSesame Workshop ©2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1580777"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7264339923858643,"wiki_prob":0.7264339923858643,"text":"Dara Palmer’s Major Drama\n“Dara’s larger-than-life personality and true-to-life middle grade issues command center stage until the curtain falls.” —School Library Journal, Starred Review\nDara Palmer is destined to be a star, and she’s writing herself the role of a lifetime.\nDara longs for stardom—but when she isn’t cast in her middle school’s production of The Sound of Music, she get suspicious. It can’t be because she’s not the best. She was born to be a famous movie star. It must because she’s adopted from Cambodia and doesn’t look like a typical fraulein. (That’s German for girl.)\nSo irrepressible Dara comes up with a genius plan to shake up the school: write a play about her own life. Then she’ll have to be the star.\nPraise for Dream On, Amber:\nA Booklist 2015 Top 10 First Novels for Youth\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015\n“[This] novel is a charmer…While its humor and illustrations lend it Wimpy Kid appeal, its emotional depth makes it stand out from the pack.”—Booklist Starred review\n“A gutsy girl in a laugh-out-loud book that navigates tough issues with finesse.” —Kirkus Starred review\n“Amber’s effervescent and opinionated narration captivates from the start.” —Publishers Weekly Starred review\n“By turns playful and poignant, in both style and substance, this coming-of-age novel will hook readers from the first page to the last.” —School Library Journal Starred review\nFrom Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile…\nHarry Brodribb Irving was a British stage actor and actor-manager; the eldest son of Sir…\nGreek Drama\nIn power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece…\nDrama Free\n\"All the World's a Stage\"—What Part Will You Play? You know what drama is...in your…\nHome Sweet Drama\nIn Home Sweet Drama, if the girls have learned anything, it’s that only the strong…\nLaJill Hunt's wildly successful first novel entertains readers with the tale of a woman who…\n← Sleeping Beauty: A Moment to Remember Stone Fox →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1071555"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7476126551628113,"wiki_prob":0.2523873448371887,"text":"Leo Costa\nSometimes you just gotta say screw it, let's go eat!\nDeveloping a proper habit and mindset that can endure a kick-ass weight training regimen that produces results forever. Certainly, for those in which this ideal applies, this is utopia. The reality of this, however, is so far off the spectrum, it cannot be seen with the naked eye.\nAnd yet for the hardcore athlete/ real bodybuilder/ or those with a death wish, it doesn't matter, because we will toil away, day in, day out, beating the crap out of our body, damned or doomed to defy the laws of physiology. We are those who are incessant about knowing everything about training. We eat, breathe and live it, hell we read everything in site and then some, even if it's in a foreign language.\nWe will ask the infinite amount of questions to the point of absurdity, just to find the magic bullet that will produce sick results beyond belief. But this still isn't good enough, because we need to go to the next level and try everything we've learned, because there's no better way than the first-hand experience. Now it gets really good, because suddenly after thousands of hours and reps in the gym we start getting results, which to us looks and feels like the utopia we imagine.\nThis is when the fire in our belly really ignites. Hell, our whole body is on fire. The intensity of our training just continues to increase, scarily. The weight training sessions that were once hard to get through look like child's play compared to how we train now. Now every workout is harder than the next.\nYour now certain not only do you see utopia, you are convinced you're in it, and then from one day to the next, it happens. You wake up, psyched for your upcoming training session, then all of a sudden the energy leaves your body like someone reached in your body and ripped out every last bit. Holy shit you think, I gotta go train. All of a sudden you don't want to. What the hell, yesterday you were a bull in a china closet, and today you're a wimp in pampers.\nYou feel so damn guilty because you know you should be in the gym kicking ass and taking name's, but by now you know it ain't gonna happen. But here's the truth, when you really train with this kind of unrelenting intensity, although mentally you want to hit the gym, physically, whether you know it or not, your body needs rest. When this happens, and it shouldn't happen very often, you gotta just say screw it, and go eat, rest, and enjoy the hell out of it, minus the guilt trip of course. No worries, tomorrow will be back soon enough for you to get back to your kick-ass workout.\nYour trainer is probably confusing the hell out of your body\nWhen and why you should cycle your supplement regimen...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1484686"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9453811645507812,"wiki_prob":0.9453811645507812,"text":"RIDLEY SCOTT ASSOCIATES DOES SAINSBURY'S CHRISTMAS 2013\nSainsbury's say their Christmas campaign for 2013 is the boldest project they've done. Do you think it has outdone the others as this year's ultimate yuletide tearjerker?\nThe idea behind the campaign is simple, but one that viewers have found to be the most moving. Sainbury’s teamed up with production company Ridley Scott Associates to create a heartfelt Christmas campaign that was filmed by people around the UK and directed by Oscar-winning director, Kevin MacDonald (Marley, The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void).\n“Christmas In A Day” premiered as a three and a half minute trailer on UK television on 13 November, made up of a carefully edited patchwork of home videos shot last year - including a man planning his Christmas roast on a spreadsheet, families waking up enthusiastically to presents and three children desperately missing their father who is stationed in Afghanistan… (just watch it).\nCan people’s amateur videos be this touching? To one of their Facebook followers who asked if those featured were actors, Sainbury’s assured that “there are no actors in our Christmas In a Day film. All the clips were sourced from real people, sharing their Christmas experience”.\nSome 360 hours of footage was submitted by 114 families all over the UK, which was then created into a film over 14 months. Sainsbury’s will release the full 47-minute film on 29 November on their YouTube channel.\nThe festive campaign is a nod to “Life In A Day,” a docu-drama crowdsourced from YouTube submissions, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. It was produced by Ridley Scott and also directed by Kevin MacDonald.\n“MacDonald's film, captures a true look at what Christmas in Britain is really like today,” says RSA Films.\n“The result, Christmas In A Day, is a beautiful and moving document created from over 360 hours of festive footage submitted by people from all over the UK.”\nMark Given, Head of Brand Communications at Sainsbury's says it is the boldest project they have done.\n“We wanted to capture this richness and diversity and lift the lid on how Britain really celebrates Christmas.\n“To show real Christmas rather than an airbrushed, picture perfect version that few people can really identify with.\n“We took a deliberately experimental attitude to the project. Kevin had total creative freedom and we accepted that there was no way of knowing what the end result would be or what we would do with it.”\nVideo Sainsbury's \"Christmas in a Day, Full Length Trailer\" produced by Ridley Scott Associates and Scott Free Films and directed by Kevin MacDonald (Rogue Films)\nDiscover the finest campaigns from print, TV and digital: Subscribe now\nYou might like: Ridley Scott: rediscover the iconic director's sci-fi ads | Editor's Blog Christmas 2013 ad round-up","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1218100"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5522146224975586,"wiki_prob":0.5522146224975586,"text":"Meghan's entourage for her trip to Morocco is missing one important person\nBy Samantha Stewart| 5 months ago\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex have flown in to Casablanca ahead of their three-day royal tour in Morocco. Meghan, who is due to give birth in just two months, is travelling with an entourage of nine people, however there's one important figure absent.\nHer royal squad includes two assistant private secretaries, three communications team members, a digital officer, a programme coordinator, a logistics coordinator and a hairdresser.\nMeghan, Duchess of Sussex is welcomed by British Ambassador to Morocco (Getty)\nNoticeably missing from the group is a doctor for the heavily pregnant duchess – someone you’re likely to want by your side when you’re a heavily pregnant woman. However, according to official sources \"medical provisions have been made\" for the weekend trip.\nThe couple will be staying at a royal residence in in the North African country as guests of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, who they will have a meeting with on Monday afternoon. During the short trip, Meghan and Harry will also be travelling to Asni, a town in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, just outside the capital of Rabat.\nThere's no doctor in the royal entourage (Getty)\nHere they will be welcomed with a performance of traditional music at a boarding school for teenage girls, built by charity Education for All, an organisation which promotes education for girls living in rural regions. The Duchess will also experience a traditional Moroccan henna ceremony.\nPrince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex arrive at Casablanca Airport (Getty)\nThe tour comes just a few days after Meghan returned to the UK from New York with Amal Clooney following her lush baby shower. The private jet had been paid for by Clooney, who was also returning to the UK.\nMeghan's baby shower saw the Duchess jet to New York for five days to celebrate the upcoming birth of her first child with a group of 20 of her closest friends. The event took place at the $104,000 per night penthouse suite at the Upper East Side hotel, The Mark.\nA handy guide to the friends Meghan's been hanging out with in New York\nMeghan Markle Baby","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1417776"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7485170960426331,"wiki_prob":0.25148290395736694,"text":"Home » All » This House of Grief by Helen Garner\nThis House of Grief by Helen Garner\nPosted by Ms A on October 13, 2014 in All, Book Club Fodder | Leave a comment\nIn September this year, an apparently loving father from Lockhardt, NSW shot his wife and three children before killing himself. This incomprehensible tragedy sent shockwaves across the country and left us all scratching for an explanation. By pure co-incidence, Helen Garner’s second non-fiction book based on a case involving a father facing murder charges for drowning his three sons in 2005 hit the shelves. Call me sad but I just couldn’t help but want to know more.\nJust like her most recent non-fiction novel (Joe Cinque’s Consolation) Garner has in impressive track record of presenting facts with the flair of a fiction writer. In this book she had me hooked from the outset with the harrowing details of the 2008 trial of Robert Farquharson from the small country town of Winchelsa, Victoria. After his wife pulled the pin on their marriage, Robert moved in with his widowed father and did his best to get on with his life. Although grieving, no one could have foreseen what he did on Father’s Day 2005 when he drove his car into a freezing dam with his three sons (aged 2, 7 and 10) in the back. He escaped the sinking car unscathed and left the three boys to drown.\nFor this book, Garner sat through seven weeks of evidence in the Supreme Court of Victoria which included painful testimonials, boring technicalities and grizzly, drawn out reconstructions of the scene. All she wanted was an explanation. She was as conscientious as anyone present in terms of the facts presented but also managed to weave in her own doubts and observations on the evidence presented. While the barristers were interrogating witnesses in the box, she was watching for the the way they held their heads during the breaks. Her descriptions of the daily rhythms and tensions of the room are so humble and uncomplicated and set a reflective backdrop to the protocols and technicalities of the judicial process.\nWhen I first picked up this book, I assumed the title “This House of Grief” was referring to the Farquharson family home but when I read back through the dedication, I realised it was a reference to the courthouse itself and you can see why. This is painstakingly constructed and very sad story with no happy ending. As a conscientious observer of human nature, I enjoyed the re-telling of this case through Garner’s eyes where technical details are secondary and human frailties and motives tell all. I only wish she had been able to unearth an explanation.\n← The Children Act by Ian McEwan The Mandarin Code by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1623964"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6889981031417847,"wiki_prob":0.31100189685821533,"text":"Powaqqatsi\nLast updated by Darren on 03 July 2009\nPowaqqatsi, Godfrey Reggio's sequel to Koyaanisqatsi , Released in 1988, 99 minutes.\nPowaqqatsi is the second part of Godfrey Reggio's Qatsi trilogy.\nPowaqqatsi concentrates on people of the developing world. Images from Brazil, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Kenya, Nepal, and Peru make the film a good contrast to Koyaanisqatsi. Powaqqatsi concentrates more on people and less on their creations or surroundings than in Koyaanisqatsi.\nThe images are beautiful and show the people of the developing world in a great way. The different colours found in South America, Asia and Africa are more vivid when shown in films such as Powaqqatsi. The insight into the everyday lives of these people is excellent. Powaqqatsi nearly puts you close enough to smell the cooking food, fresh fish and nearby fires.\nPowaqqatsi shows groups of people and their movements well, perhaps better than any of the other films such as Baraka or Koyaanisqatsi. People and their crafts are well show in Powaqqatsi. The daily lives of many religions are made clearer. Powaqqatsi overlaps in places with Koyaanisqatsi. The very long shot of the passing railway freight train is very reminiscent of Koyaanisqatsi. The images of crowded city streets remind me of Baraka.\nBuy Powaqqatsi if you like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi.\n\"Where KOYAANISQATSI dealt with the imbalance between nature and modern society, POWAQQATSI is a celebration of the human-scale endeavor the craftsmanship, spiritual worship, labor and creativity that defines a particular culture. It's also a celebration of rareness - the delicate beauty in the eyes of an Indian child, the richness of a tapestry woven in Katmandu - and yet an observation of how these societies move to a universal drumbeat.\"\nSerra Pelada, Para , Brazil\nNo suggestion\nSerra Pelada, Brazil\nSerra Pelada, Para State, Brazil. As well as the others pictures before.\nGold Mine in Brasil\n1 other suggestions\nHunting for food and goods in Mumbai garbage dump.\nRice Terraces in the Philippines: Ifugao Province, Cordillera Region\nbhaktapur, nepal (descriped as walking route 2 in the lonley planet - but/and ???\nThar desert, Rajasthan, India\n¿Verán esos ojos el futuro?\ncambodja (from siem riep to battambang by boat)\nVaranasi (Benares)\nThese womans are from Cusco, Peru.\nShe may be a cusquenian woman, in the sunday market of Pisac.\nCamel fair, Pushkar, Rajasthan, India\nPrayer wheel, containing inside millions of rolls of prayer paper.\nButterlamp offerings.\nHave you seen the Moon?\nThis is Swayambhu in Nepal/\nThe biggest stupa of Nepal, Bodnath, Nepal\nIsland of Taquile, Lake Titicaca - Peru http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taquile_Island\nIsland of Tacquile, Lake Titicaca - Peru\nIsland of Tacquile, lake Titicaca - Peru see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Taquile_festiva\nTrain carrying coal to the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.\nEiffel Tower?\ntime will tell, the rich man's heaven is the poor man's hell...\nThis is the view out of a \"Pater Noster\" Lift, probably in Germany or Austria.\nThe image is easily recognizable as Hong Kong's distinctively-shaped Cross Harbour Tunnel, the first\nVaranasi India /burning ghats\nThis is one of the double decker electric trams running through Central in Hong Kong.\nsomewhere in Peru\nThe Wailing wall, Jerusalem\nThese girls are schoolgirls from Peru.\nthe kathedral in the city of berlin\nRaw sewage being dumped in a bay; Hong Kong in the background.\nCGI stock footage of USA and Soviet missiles above Earth\nThis is a shot of a Boeing 707 taking off from the now-demolished Kai Tak Airport in Kowloon Bay, Ho\nnew territories, hong kong. i guess.\nCalcutta (Kolkata)\nRussi - Sibir\nCuzco, Peru\nNorthsouth: Life on the Edge (USA working title)\nDirected and Produced by Godfrey Reggio.\nProduced by Mel Lawrence & Lawrence Taub.\nEdited by Iris Cahn & Alton Walpole.\nMusic by Philip Glass.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1672605"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8424163460731506,"wiki_prob":0.8424163460731506,"text":"On the Set of No Offence with Saira Choudhry\nWe're on the set of the third series of Channel 4's hit crime drama No Offence. Chatting with key cast about the upcoming run.\nRead our chat with Joanna Scanlan\nRead our Chat with Alexandra Roach\nRead Our chat with series newcomer Lisa Mcgrillis\nRead our chat with Elaine Cassidy\nRead our chat with Will Mellor\nI'm on the set of Channel 4's No Offence as the cast film scenes for the third series. Saira Choudhry sits before us with her lunch on her lap having been whisked away to perform press duties but any vain attempts to actually eat it are soon forgotten.\nShe plays the confident and brassy PC Tegan Thompson and we need to know if she's still going to be a force? \"Yes, she's still a force! She's got a lot this series and I'm really happy about it. I'm also really happy I get to work with my daughter. Leah is playing a teenage girl who has a goat! She auditioned about three weeks ago. She's only done one job before this so it's a massive thing for her. I feel blessed being able to work in the same scene, Not many actors get that in a lifetime. We've not shot the scene yet but I'm a great lover of animals so it should be fine!\" Yes, it's the goat scene crime drama never knew it needed. Let's just say, you won't want to miss it.\nActing is obviously in the family blood. \"I've got my own drama school called 'TV Talent'. It's for kids in Manchester and they come in a do some supporting artist work in one of the episodes. It was great for them to spend a day on set and experience what it's like. it was a great day for everyone. I got so many messages from parents and children saying how brilliant it was to experience it and meet the cast.\"\nWhat's in store for Tegan this year? \"My relationship with Stuart is still going, that's always up and down and we have some issues that go on as well. I think they work because they're such opposite energies and they don't work for the same reason. Tegan probably needs to give Stuart a bit of a break! She's hard on him but I think he likes it!\" Away from romance, is there fun to be had on the mean streets? \"I've got some really exciting stuff for episode six which I'm really looking forward to. Tegan gets into a bit of danger. It's probably one of the biggest challenges I've faced in my career. I'm really excited about it, there's some really heavy stuff. The action stuff is what I love most to be honest. The fast cars and chasing criminals around. it's exciting.\"\nWhat do you like about playing Tegan? \"Her strength, she's very good at her job. I like the fact she's quite feisty. Sometimes she says things without thinking. She's very ambitious and looks up to Deering because she's such a force. Tegan sees herself as a younger version, someone who's going to grow into that.\"\nThe series is notorious for being open-minded and brave, do you feel that's missing from most television? \"I think this show offers diversity. I don't think it pigeonholes anybody or goes into stereotypes. We need to be more open-minded and just see people as people and represent that as well. I think this show does. When I first got into acting I got asked to do these roles that were stereotypical Asian girls. I was totally against it because for one I'm mixed race, my mum's Irish and my dad's Indian. That in itself was an experience, my whole life was like East Is East! I refuse to do that and I think it's our responsibility as actors, writers and producers to show the real world how it is.\"\n\"I was at college when I had Leah and I took a couple of years out and went back to uni because I thought it was never going to stop me doing what I was going to do. i went back to uni and did a course on TV and radio and then realised I wanted to be in front of the camera so I left there and went to a place called 'Manchester School Of Acting' for six months and got an audition for Hollyoaks which was my first job and I was there for three years! I can still say it's a great training ground.\"\nShe went on to form her drama school when leaving Hollyoaks. \"I was twenty-five but playing fifteen-year-olds! I used to get a load of teenagers following me around the supermarket asking \"how did u get in telly?!\" I thought there's a demand for this, people want to know. I hired the local leisure centre and was absolutely inundated. I started to really enjoy it so opened one up on the other side of Manchester and there's now six. Whenever I'm not filming I will be there to teach but our drama school is all about creating confidence. It's not all about acting, it's about them believing in themselves.\"\nShooting locally certainly brings an air of nostalgia as Saira is one of the only main cast members who doesn't need to put on an accent. \"This is a brilliant job for me as I only live ten minutes from here. I get to work for five months and go home to my life which I think is important. .Location filming to me is quite special as it's in Manchester. It might be where I've been to college, where I first went for a drink or near a friends house. I remember shooting on a market in series two and I went to that market when I was eight with my Nana, I never thought at eight I'd be shooting here. It felt special.\"\nIs police work something you could see yourself doing? \"The police do an amazing job and risk their lives every day and we don't really think about that. I'm not that brave. A lot of our supporting artists are either still in the police or ex-police and they tell us everything we need to know. They do it a lot better than me though. I remember when I first put the uniform on in series 1 I felt like G.I. Jane but now when I put it on it's like putting on Tegan's skin. It just feels right.\" We leave Saira to have a second attempt at lunch before putting Tegan's skin back on.\nNo Offence returns Thursday 13th September 9.00pm on Channel 4\nLabels: Channel 4, interviews, No Offence, Previews, UK drama series","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line725056"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7800180912017822,"wiki_prob":0.7800180912017822,"text":"Clean Lignin\nIndustrial Alcohol\nJune 20, 2017 Jonathan Sherwood Press Release\nSweetwater Energy Announces Dr. Markus Buehler of MIT as newest Board Member\nSweetwater Energy, Inc., a Rochester NY-based renewable bioproducts producer, announced today that Dr Markus Buehler, the McAfee Professor of Engineering and Head of Department, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has become the newest member of Sweetwater’s board of directors. Dr. Buehler also directs MIT’s Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics (LAMM). Following undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, and earning a Master’s Studies in Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech, he received a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Materials Science) from the University of Stuttgart. After postdoctoral work at Caltech, he joined the faculty of MIT in 2006 and rose through the ranks of Assistant Professor and Associate Professor to full Professor. Dr. Buehler will be using his expertise in materials science to lead exploration in advanced technology, new markets and products for Sweetwater’s clean cellulosic sugars and Ultra-lignin™.\n“Sweetwater Energy is delighted that Dr. Markus Buehler, one of the world’s pre-eminent researchers and thought leaders in lignin and materials science, has enthusistiacally agreed to join our Board of Directors and lead our efforts in the development of advanced technology and sustainable products”, says Arunas Chesonis, Chairman and CEO at Sweetwater.\nIn his research, Dr. Buehler pursues new modeling, design and manufacturing approaches for advanced sustainable materials that offer a wide range of controllable properties from the nanoscale to macroscale. With his background in nanomaterials, Professor Buehler will be able to not only explore new products pathways, but also help Sweetwater’s engineers improve the quality of its lignin for many high value markets. Dr. Buehler has published more than 320 scholarly articles on multiscale materials and authored several monographs. His most recent book “Biomateriomics” presents a new paradigm for the analysis of materials and structures to devise sustainable technologies using a mathematical categorization approach that connects insights from disparate fields, such as biology and materials science, to music and language.\n“I’m very excited to join the Board of Directors at Sweetwater Energy. The work accomplished to date at Sweetwater, and that which we will accomplish together, has the potential to truly change our planet as we bring renewable and sustainable carbon technology products to market that successfully compete with products hitherto derived from petroleum,” says Dr. Markus Buehler of MIT.\nDr. Buehler has received a large number of awards and recognitions, including Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award for exceptional distinction in teaching, research or scholarship, the highest honor bestowed on young MIT faculty. Other major awards include the Alfred Noble Prize, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, the Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, and a number of other recognitions from professional societies. He is also a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the United States Air Force Young Investigator Award, the Navy Young Investigator Award, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award, as well as the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their careers. He was an invitee to several National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Symposia and has delivered several plenary lectures at this forum. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and NANOSMAT Society. In 2016, he was awarded the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology.\nGot Something to Say? Cancel Reply\nSweetwoods Named as Biofuels Digest’s #7 Cellulosic Project in the World\nWatch “Sweetwoods Explained in 3 Minutes” Video\nSweetwater Moves Headquarters to Eastman Business Park\nSweetwater CFO Keith Wilson Becomes Ubiquitous Energy CEO\nSWEETWOODS Consortium brings together 9 European bio-innovation oriented stakeholders\nABOUT SWEETWATER ENERGY\nSweetwater Energy uses a unique technology for producing low-cost sugars and clean lignin from multiple non-food plant materials to help meet the modern world's increasing bioenergy and biochemical demand.\nSweetwater has a comprehensive intellectual property portfolio of issued and pending patents. Sweetwater's highly efficient technology and process allows the company to produce very high quality sugars and unique, clean, non-sulphonated lignin fiber. Extensive testing with multiple third-party companies has proven that both our sugars and lignin shine as platform feedstocks for many final products.\n2400 Mt. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6882596611976624,"wiki_prob":0.31174033880233765,"text":"7 More Adoptions A Day is All We Need\nSomeone made a misleading statement on our Facebook page the other day, and I'd like to set the record straight. This page has been known to say that Long Beach could be No Kill in 3 months if the right programs were in place. Don't get us wrong - we don't mean half-heartedly put in place, done in half-measures or done only here and there. (That's the current practice). We mean FULLY put in place, vigorously pursued with a STRONG and KNOWLEDGEABLE leader, using data that is readily available or gatherable to inform staff practices.\nWe stand by that claim. Here's why:\nLBACS killed 1662 animals last year. That means that in order to save all of those animals, LBACS would need to do approximately 7 more adoptions per day each day that the shelter is open than they currently do.\nThat number may even be slightly lower since some small percentage of the animals at LBACS are truly incurable or unable to be helped medically.\nNow - let's look at the population of Long Beach. Approximately 500,000 people live in Long Beach.\nIn a city the size of Long Beach, it is absolutely, beyond the shadow of a doubt, completely feasible for a City agency with more than $4 million budget at its disposal to do 7 more adoptions per day than they are currently doing.\nLBACS doesn't have an animal INTAKE problem; it has an animal ADOPTION problem. LBACS simply does not maximize its ability to do adoptions. It doesn't have a lifesaving culture at the higher levels of management, and the lower levels of staff and volunteers are left scrambling.\nSacramento has a lifesaving culture with a knowledgeable leader who makes lifesaving a priority and pushes hard for it each and every day she wakes up and goes to work.\nAustin has a lifesaving culture - same situation as Sacramento, but their lifesaving plan is codified by a city ordinance (Bravo, Austin - that will save animals' lives for decades to come).\nWashoe County, NV has a lifesaving culture -\nPetaluma, CA has a lifesaving culture -\nPike County, KY has a lifesaving culture -\nJefferson County, OH has a lifesaving culture -\nThe list goes on and on.\nSo - don't let it be said that we can't go No Kill in LB and do so immediately.\nWe can.\nBut we don't. And Ted Stevens has set as his goal for the coming year to \"shoot for under a thousand\" euthanasias. That is NOT the mindset we need in our city shelter. Life-affirming is what we need. We need to shoot for 1662 lives SAVED, not lives killed.\nThat's why people need to raise awareness of what's going on at the Long Beach shelter. Even as we wait for the Audit to happen, there is no guarantee that it will result in change (more on this in a later post).\nPlease write to your city council member and tell them you want a STRONG adoption program that is separate from SpcaLA at the Long Beach shelter.\nContact info for LB City Council is here: https://goo.gl/y7QqpF\nThey NEED our help.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line719704"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6440706849098206,"wiki_prob":0.35592931509017944,"text":"Speaking of readings, the first thing to know is that there actually are two different types of Tarot readings: question readings and open readings. In question readings, you are addressing a specific question. Tarot is not intended to answer specific yes or no questions. Most say it also shouldn't be used to make decisions, but instead should be used as a guide to help you make the decision yourself. For this reason, the way a question is stated is very important. Tarot reader and teacher Joan Bunning gives this advice:\nI work for the highest good, consider myself a child of God, and believe in a Higher Power; therefore, I wouldn’t attract this type of energy. I’m not that keen to call them “bad spirits,” as I’d rather refer to them as spirits that exist at a lower vibration and dwell in the lower spheres of the Spirit World. They’re just farther away from the Divine Source, so it will take longer for them to reach a higher level.\nBy comparing various decks from different time periods, tarot-card enthusiasts can identify the evolution of certain illustrations. “For example,” says Matthews, “the modern version of the hermit with the lantern, you’ll find that that was an hourglass and he was Saturn or Chronos, the keeper of time. You can see how that translates with the Tarot Bolognese meaning of delay or blockage. It was about time moving slowly, though that’s not used as a modern meaning much now.”\n“When we used to send telegrams, each word costs money,” Matthews explains, “so you’d have to send very few words like, ‘Big baby. Mother well. Come to hospital.’ And you’d get the gist of it. I read cards in a very similar way—starting from a few general keywords and making sense of them by filling in the words that are missing. This isn’t the tarot style of reading where you project things, like, ‘I can see that you’ve recently had a great disappointment. Mercury is in retrograde and da da da.’ A cartomantic reading is much more straightforward and pragmatic, for example, ‘Your wife will eat tomatoes and fall off the roof and die horribly.’ It’s a direct way of reading, a pre-New Age way of reading.”\nBrigit Esselmont is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling books the Ultimate Guide to Tarot Card Meanings and the Biddy Tarot Planner, and the brand new book and Tarot deck, Everyday Tarot. A professional Tarot reader for more than 20 years, Brigit founded Biddy Tarot in 1999, where each year more than 4.5 million people (like you!) are inspired to live more mindful and enlightened lives, using the Tarot as a guide.\nAn experiment conducted by the British Psychological Society in 2005 suggests that under the controlled condition of the experiment, people who claimed to be professional mediums do not demonstrate the mediumistic ability. In the experiment, mediums were assigned to work the participants chosen to be \"sitters.\" The mediums claimed to contact the deceased who were related to the sitters. The research gather the numbers of the statements made and have the sitters rate the accuracy of the statements. The readings that were considered to be somewhat accurate by the sitters were very generalized, and the ones that were considered inaccurate were the ones that were very specific.[193]\nMost card readers recognize that the associations and preconceptions of the person being read for are just as important as the actual drawings on the cards: Divination cards offer a way to project certain ideas, whether subconscious or not, and to toy with potential outcomes for important decisions. Thus, like scenes from a picture book, the best illustrations typically offer clear visions of their subjects with an open-ended quality, as though the action is unfolding before you.\nEach Reading will assist you with the choices that you are choosing in and for your life's path and Soul Life Purpose, recognizing your inner wisdom, and identifying and assisting with the energetic cyclical patterns, axioms, e~motions, and illusions that we choose that are being invited to be shifted which will gift you with the Absoulute Love, Inner Peace, Bliss, Spiritual Oneness, and all that you so desire for your Life Experience. While offering an overview of the soul's path in this Life Experience, each reading also focuses on soul resonance cycle patterns within your Life Experience in the moment and your life choices and why on a soulful resonance that you have chosen these choices with regard to your life and with regard to such matters as relationships, career, geographic location, family and business matters. If you have been asking for clarity about your life path, or would like to connect more deeply with the Spiritual Soul BEing that you are, then this is the reading that will gift you this experience. Many souls have expressed to me receiving major shifts of consciousness and healing during these Spiritual Channeled Soul Readings.\nSt. John Paul II opens up Fides et Ratio extolling the complementarity of faith and reason; they are “like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.”[v] Every Catholic isn’t expected to get an advanced degree in theology, but each one of us has to understand what we believe. St. Peter reminds us to “always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15).\nEven the earliest known tarot decks weren’t designed with mysticism in mind; they were actually meant for playing a game similar to modern-day bridge. Wealthy families in Italy commissioned expensive, artist-made decks known as “carte da trionfi” or “cards of triumph.” These cards were marked with suits of cups, swords, coins, and polo sticks (eventually changed to staves or wands), and courts consisting of a king and two male underlings. Tarot cards later incorporated queens, trumps (the wild cards unique to tarot), and the Fool to this system, for a complete deck that usually totaled 78 cards. Today, the suit cards are commonly called the Minor Arcana, while trump cards are known as the Major Arcana.\nIn a reading, for instance, if you are skeptical, the messages might not be quite as clear as they could be if you were more open-minded. If you are fearful or angry, this low mental energy could inhibit the clarity of the messages. If you are on medication or abusing drugs or alcohol, your mental and emotional clarity could also affect the clarity of the messages.\nIn contrast, the meanings in other decks are particularly difficult to decipher, like the infamous Thoth tarot developed by Aleister Crowley, notorious for his involvement with various cults and experimentation with recreational drugs and so-called “sex magick.” Completed in 1943, the Thoth deck was illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris and incorporated a range of occult and scientific symbols, inspiring many modern decks. As Wolf explains, “with the rise of the divination market in the 20th century, more liberties were taken, and the imagery evolved into increasingly personal artistic statements, both in content and style of execution.”\nA Spiritual Reading is a session in which we connect with your energy and channel information that may come from our Spirit guides, Angels, or helper souls. We can also connect to your Akashic Record, which is comparable to the “Library of Your Soul.” It includes all of your lives – past, present, and future. We can connect and find out what your soul purpose is in this life, we can see which souls traveled with you to this life those that have accompanied you in other lives (soul mates), and we can ask if there is anything that can help you on your path to overcome and understand the lessons you chose to face in this life.\nOne frequent obstacle with spiritual reading is the question of where to start. There are so many writings of saints, magisterial documents, and enough devotional books and pamphlets to fill a library. Choosing what kind of books to read should have a multi-pronged approach, depending on each individual. I think a great way to organize it is an adaptation of St. John Paul II’s recommendations in Pastores Dabo Vobis. The encyclical was on the training of priests, and he called attention to four basic areas of formation: human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral. Even though most of us aren’t ordained priests, we can still apply this to our spiritual reading habits. Good spiritual reads will ideally aid us in all four of those elements—or at least focus on one or two.\nIt is most likely connected to a previous life in which there is a lesson that must be learned and overcome. Are you ever drawn to something that you can’t explain? A country? A profession? A life mission? These may be connected to a past life. We can help you understand your past so you can move forward with a renewed passion and understanding of your life’s purpose.\nTarot card readings have long surpassed the chintzy, neon “Fortune Teller” sign store front stereotype, which gives tarot a bad name and should be avoided. Scholarly research indicates that the cards originated in Italy in the 1500s where they were used as a game, called Tarocchi, by the very wealthy. They weren’t interpreted for spiritual divination until the 18th century. There are tarot schools where you can study and huge communities with thousands of Tarosophists who meet online and at conventions around the world.\nDo compose your emotions and appearance to hide any revealing information about yourself. Your facial expression, style of dress, personal mannerisms, and emotional outbursts can tell a psychic, especially a false one, a great deal about you to make it look like she knows all these things from a paranormal reading, when in fact, she is merely interpreting your physical appearance or reactions.\nA medium that has been screened over several months by the University of Arizona's VERITAS Research Program, and has agreed to uphold a code of spiritual ethics as well as hold a strong commitment to the values of scientific mediumship research. An Integrative Research Medium has undergone several stages of questionnaires, interviews, and tests; participated in training in grief psychology, afterlife science, and human subjects research; and demonstrated a strong ability to report accurate and specific information during double-blinded test readings. In January of 2008, Joanne was invited to continue to participate as a Certified Research Medium in the new mediumship research program, under the direction of Dr. Julie Beischel at the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research in Human Potential.\nAfter giving me short and pretty generic readings, she would allude to more specific stuff that she'd be happy to tell me if I paid more. I obliged one time to this \"upgrade\" and yeah, it got slightly more specific. She mentioned an issue with an aunt, which could apply to anyone, but definitely applies to me. She mentioned some incorrect stuff about my parents. Then she tried to bait me one more time into paying more for more information and an energy healing. I declined, paid via credit card, and left.\nHeart Reading is a miracle tool used to achieve a more thorough understanding of others. This tool can help you improve any relationship, such as between a husband and wife, difficulties in communication with parents, children, friends, employers, co-workers, or anyone else in your life. If you wonder if a person would be an honest and suitabbyle partner in business or a faithful and caring soul mate in love, this is the direct line to the truth inside of their heart.\nJump up ^ Joseph Jastrow. (1935). Patience Worth: An Alter Ego in Wish and Wisdom: Episodes in the Vagaries of Belief. D. Appleton-Century Company. pp. 78–92. Lyon Sprague de Camp. (1966). Spirits, Stars, and Spells. New York: Canaveral. p. 247. Robert Goldenson. (1973). Mysteries of the Mind: The Drama of Human Behavior. Doubleday. pp. 44–53. Milbourne Christopher. (1970). ESP, Seers and Psychics. New York: Crowell. pp. 128–29\n\"Pull a card and put it under your pillow at night. Let the energy of that card seep into your dreams,\" she said. \"Wake up in the morning; observe the card. Read about what its different meanings are. Is it the major arcana or minor? Is it connected to one of the elements - fire (wands), water (cups), air (swords), or earth (pentacles)? Then notice during the day what happens that might have been a sign from the cards. It's pretty cool when you start connecting the messages.\"\nThe word tarot and German Tarock derive from the Italian tarocchi, the origin of which is uncertain but taroch was used as a synonym for foolishness in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.[2][3] The decks were known exclusively as trionfi during the fifteenth century. The new name first appeared in Brescia around 1502 as tarocho.[4] During the 16th century, a new game played with a standard deck but sharing a very similar name (trionfa) was quickly becoming popular. This coincided with the older game being renamed tarocchi.[1] In modern Italian, the singular term is tarocco, which, as a noun, means a type of blood orange, and, as an adjective, means 'fake, counterfeit'.\nIn English-speaking countries, where these games are not played, tarot cards are used primarily for divinatory purposes, usually using specially designed packs.[1] The cards are traced by some occult writers to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah but there is no documented evidence of such origins or of the usage of tarot for divination before the 18th century.[1]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line600412"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7263718843460083,"wiki_prob":0.2736281156539917,"text":"Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio\n@ Catherine Edelman Gallery\nOpening Friday, May 3rd, from 5PM - 8PM\nOn view through Wednesday, July 3rd\nAfter more than 31 years in River North, Catherine Edelman Gallery is relocating to 1637 W. Chicago Ave., in the growing West Town gallery district. We are thrilled to inaugurate our new space with Joel-Peter Witkin: From the Studio. The exhibition will feature more than 25 photographs, 80 drawings, as well as sketchbooks and journals, darkroom tools and cameras, letters and contact sheets, offering viewers a glimpse inside the mind of one of the true masters of photography. The exhibition will also be showcasing a newly filmed documentary about Witkin’s life, art, and legacy, created by Catherine Edelman and filmmaker Ben Kolak (Scrappers Film Group).\nFor more than 60 years, Joel-Peter Witkin has stayed true to his mission: to create photographs that show the beauty of marginalized people by placing them into art referential tableaus, often laced with Catholic overtones. His work features hermaphrodites, post and pre-op individuals, and people born with physical abnormalities. In his eyes, all people are beautiful, regardless of societal norms.\nMuch has been written about Joel-Peter Witkin. With more than 25 monographs dedicated to his work, there is no denying his importance in the art world. Recently, Witkin revealed he was diagnosed with dementia. As he approaches his 80th birthday, he graciously agreed to speak with Catherine Edelman about the disease, and the effect it has had on his creativity and life. Catherine spent two days in his home/studio in Albuquerque with filmmaker Ben Kolak (Scrappers Film Group), talking with him about his life, his art, his legacy, his views on God, and what he hopes he has contributed to photography. A short film called From the Studio will be presented alongside some of his most well known works including The Kiss, Siamese Twins, Harvest, Bee Boy and Woman Once a Bird, as well as new work including A Mermaid’s Tale, the last photograph he was able to make before the onset of dementia, which has left him unable to create art. CEG is honored to recreate the set of A Mermaid’s Tale in one of its galleries, which includes the painted backdrop, shells, and objects that formed the making of this amazing photograph.\nTags: Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, From the Studio, Joel-Peter Witkin, West Town","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line452833"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9849656224250793,"wiki_prob":0.9849656224250793,"text":"Medvedev shocks Djokovic to reach Monte Carlo semis\nAssociated PressApr 19, 2019, 12:52 PM EDT\nMONACO – An erratic Novak Djokovic suffered a surprise 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 defeat against Daniil Medvedev in the Monte Carlo Masters quarterfinals Friday.\nThe 10th-seeded Russian was appearing in the last eight of a Masters tournament for the first time but was not overawed. In fact, it was the top-ranked Djokovic who made the most mistakes. The two-time champion looked out of sorts in tricky conditions and produced 47 unforced errors.\n“On a windy day like today, conditions are changing every game,” Djokovic said. “It’s tough to find rhythm and he doesn’t give you much rhythm. He was very patient and played well tactically.”\nAfter failing to serve out the match, when his Serbian opponent broke back to 5-2 down, Medvedev broke for the fifth time to seal a memorable victory.\nDjokovic double-faulted at 30-30 to give Medvedev his first match point and a backhand winner secured a first win against his top-ranked rival at the fourth attempt, and a first victory against a No. 1.\n“It was amazing,” Medvedev said. “He played worse than before and I am gaining more experience. He was not so good in the first set and made a lot of mistakes.”\nMedvedev twice had his thighs massaged during changeovers in the third set. “Cramp didn’t affect my game,” he said.\nThe 23-year-old Monaco resident next faces the unseeded Dusan Lajovic, who also reached a Masters semi for the first time when he beat Italian qualifier Lorenzo Sonego 6-4, 7-5.\nLajovic has not dropped a set at the clay-court event and is more surprised than anybody.\n“I didn’t expect this. I was sick before the tournament and taking antibiotics,” the 28-year-old Serb said. “But it’s the best week of my career.”\nThe same goes for the 23-year-old Medvedev, who is ranked 14 and is chasing a fifth career title.\nHe had lost the three previous matches against Djokovic, including a tough four-setter in the fourth round of this year’s Australian Open.\n“In Australia he was at his best, but I made him run for his win there,” said Medvedev.\nDjokovic won that tournament to secure a third straight Grand Slam title and 15th overall, moving two behind Nadal and five adrift of Roger Federer’s record haul of 20.\nBut Djokovic has now failed to reach the last four in three straight tournaments, after also falling short at Indian Wells and Miami.\n“I am lacking that determination to go for shots on some points,” he said.\nAt times it looked like Djokovic would take control and he clinched the second set with two aces. But his shot-making was below its usual high standards and his drop shot rarely worked.\nNadal has won at Monte Carlo a record 11 times. The second-ranked Spaniard plays the unseeded Guido Pella of Argentina later.\nThe other match is between No. 9 Borna Coric of Croatia and No.13 Fabio Fognini of Italy.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line205178"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6136083006858826,"wiki_prob":0.6136083006858826,"text":"Facing a difficult health choice? Decision aids can help.\nby User Not Found\nThe McMaster Optimal Aging Portal now features patient decision aids to help support older adults and caregivers with important decisions involving their health care.\nPatient decision aids are tools that help people become involved in decision making by making explicit the decision that needs to be made, providing information about the options and outcomes and by clarifying personal values.\nThe patient decision aids featured on the Portal are drawn from the decision aids database maintained by Professor Dawn Stacey at the University of Ottawa. They are vetted by the Portal research team and profiled based on their relevance to specific health topics.\nVisitors to the Portal can find decision aids supporting prevention and treatment decisions for cancer, depression, end of life care and heart health, to name a few topics.\n“Decision aids help people learn what options are available as well as the pros and cons of each,” says Dr. Stacey. “Patients are then better prepared to ask questions, play a more active role in their treatment and know what they can realistically expect in terms of benefits and possible side effects.”\nLook for decision aids on the Portal by browsing by health topics here and then filter your results by content type. Not all health topics have associated decision aids available.\nNew Partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Ontario\nby Lori Mosca\nHamilton, ON – April 10, 2017 - McMaster University has partnered with the Alzheimer Society of Ontario to support people living with dementia and their caregivers by ensuring they have access to the evidence-based health information featured on the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal.\nThe McMaster Optimal Aging Portal is a website developed by McMaster University to provide public access to evidence-based information about prevalent seniors’ conditions and health concerns. The content is presented in a consumer-friendly format and is based on the latest systematically reviewed research evidence.\n“Dementia remains one of the most popular topics of interest on the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal,” says Dr. Parminder Raina, a Specialist in Geroscience at McMaster University and one of the Portal Leads. “Our resources provide clarity on common questions and challenges that people with dementia and their caregivers are facing. And dementia is just one of many health topics featured on the Portal.”\nWith a shared commitment to improving the quality of life for those living with dementia, the partnership will focus on providing Ontarians with evidence-based information about dementia and other common conditions affecting the health and well-being our aging population.\n“Along with providing services across Ontario and funding research, it is our mission to provide current and useful information about Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Education is a key component to what we do.\" Shawn Paron, Chief Development and Marketing Officer, Alzheimer Society of Ontario.\nFor more information about the Alzheimer Society of Ontario please visit: alzheimer.ca/en/on. Follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.\nMcMaster University launches the French version of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal – a unique website that supports healthy aging with evidence-based information\nHamilton, ON – February 7, 2017 - As a leading Canadian authority on the study of aging, McMaster University created the highly acclaimed McMaster Optimal Aging Portal in 2014 as a unique online health resource that supports the healthy aging goals of Canada’s growing senior population. The research team behind the Portal is now announcing the launch of French version of the Portal which can be found at www.mcmastervieillissementoptimal.org.\n“We’ve seen great success with the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal thus far, including an expanding global audience as well as powerful endorsements from government officials and healthcare professionals who are encouraging older adults and their caregivers to visit this useful resource,” says Parminder Raina, scientific director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging. “We are proud to bring this invaluable health content to Francophone audiences in Canada and beyond.”\nProvincial Minister of Seniors Affairs Dipika Damerla notes: “The French-language version of the Optimal Aging Portal is an invaluable health resource for Francophones in Ontario and across the country. Congratulations to McMaster University for your thought leadership in connecting aging research with the critical health concerns of Canadian seniors.”\nElizabeth Allard, President of the The Ontario Federation of Francophone Seniors and Retirees (known as Fédération des aînés et des retraités francophones de l'Ontario (FARFO) in French) adds: “We congratulate and thank McMaster University for its research on optimal aging and for creating a Portal on this theme. The French version of the Portal is appreciated two-fold, as Francophones will be able to make informed decisions about their health and will also be made aware of the various social aspects of aging.”\nAs the Internet is overflowing with health-related websites, what sets the Portal apart is its emphasis on providing the best available research evidence in a relatable way, so visitors can make informed health decisions and important lifestyle changes that influence optimal aging.\nThe Portal content includes Blog Posts, which are short articles written by trusted experts to support healthy aging; Web Resource Ratings, which evaluate free online health resources based on a five-star rating scale; and Evidence Summaries which summarize – in plain language – the key messages from recent high-quality scientific evidence. The Portal also features a weekly ‘Hitting the Headlines’ column that connects aging news headlines with related research evidence.\nThree world-class McMaster research databases and consultations with aging experts from across the country inform all of the Portal’s health content. In 2017, the Portal will be expanding the topic coverage beyond health considerations to include additional evidence-based content about the social aspects of aging.\n“With the continual growth in the number of older adults in Canada, one of our most pressing health and social policy issues is the support and care of our aging population,” says Raina. “Our goal with the Portal is to reach as many people as possible.”\nHe said the Portal team would like to thank the Quebec Network for Research on Aging, a thematic Network funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec –Santé for French translation support, as well as the CHUM (Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal) where the network’s director, Pierette Gaudreau is based.\nFor more information, or to book an interview, please contact:\nJillian D’Archi, Lead, Marketing & Public Relations - McMaster Optimal Aging Portal\ndarchij@mcmaster.ca | 416.458.0645\nGoing for Gold As We Age\nEvent: Public Talk\nDate of Recording: Tuesday, October 4, 2016\nSponsors: Funded by McMaster University's Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative.\nIt's time to look at aging from a new perspective. What's your podium going to be?\nOn Tuesday, October 4th, Olympic Champion, Mark Tewksbury, Debbie Muir, one of Canada's greatest coaches, and Dr. Jennifer Heisz from McMaster University delivered an engaging talk about the benefits of exercise and social engagement for optimal aging and tips for setting goals and creating a winning mindset to help us achieve gold as we age!\nMcMaster Optimal Aging Portal and the YMCA team up to promote healthy aging\nby The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal Communications Team\n(June 30, 2016) - Hamilton, ON - The McMaster Optimal Aging Portal and the YMCA of Hamilton/ Burlington/Brantford have partnered to help Canadians stay healthy, active and engaged as they grow older. The partnership marks an important alliance inspired by a shared commitment to ensuring Canadians have access to the highest-quality health information to foster healthy communities.\nThe partnership is an extension of the LiveWell Community Health Partnership between Hamilton Health Sciences, the YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford and McMaster University. Livewell designs, delivers and evaluates chronic disease self-management programs and has had over 2500 participants to date.\n“The YMCA works with members across a wide range of ages with various health concerns. Our partnership with the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal will focus on connecting older adults to resources that will help them independently manage their conditions beyond our on-site programs,” says Genevieve Hladysh, Senior Manager at the YMCA Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford. “We encourage our members to visit the Portal for credible information to help them age well.”\nThe Portal:\nPuts the research into context: Blog Posts include commentary on what the scientific research on a topic actually means and why good science matters.\nMakes sense of the science: Experts identify key messages from scientific research that’s relevant and ready to be acted on.\nProvides information you can trust: There are many free online health resources out there, but it’s hard to know which are worth a closer look based on evidence. The Portal uses explicit criteria to assess and rate other free online seniors’ health resources – as well as in the development of its own featured content.\n“Community partnerships with like-minded organizations are a key component to raising awareness about this critical resource throughout Canada,” says Dr. John Lavis, Director of the McMaster Health Forum and one of the Portal Leads. “We look forward to working with the YMCA’s staff and members to support our aging population.”\nMental Health Matters: Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults\nby McMaster Health Forum\nDate of recording: Wednesday June 8, 2016\nMental health issues impose an enormous disease burden on societies across the world with depression alone affecting 350 million people globally. It is estimated that one in ten Canadian adults will experience major depression at some time in their lives. For older adults living in institutions, the rate of anxiety and depression increases significantly. The social stigma around mental illnesses presents a serious barrier, not only to diagnosis and treatment but also to acceptance in the community.\nMichael Landsberg, host of TSN’s Off The Record and well-known mental health advocate, and Dr. Doug Oliver, a family physician with a passion for supporting the physical and mental health of older adults, engaged in an open discussion on depression, anxiety and other mental health challenges facing older adults on Wednesday, June 8, 2016.\nClick here to watch other past events.\nThe science of Alzheimer’s: where are we going?\nDate of recording: September 22, 2015\nSponsors: Funded by McMaster University’s Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative.\nPartners: This public talk was organized by the McMaster Health Forum in collaboration with the Alzheimer Society of Canada, Alzheimer’s Disease International and the MedicAlert Foundation Canada.\nDetails: Alzheimer's disease is estimated to account for 60–70% of the 47.5 million cases of dementia worldwide. It is one of the major causes of disability and dependency among older people and has been recognized by the World Health Organization as a public health priority. Despite the increased focus on this disease, many questions remain unanswered. Jay Ingram, one of Canada’s best-known and most popular science personalities, and Dr. Christopher Patterson, an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of dementia, delivered an engaging and informative talk examining the latest research into risks, prevention and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.\nFollow the discussion on Twitter via\nFollow @Mac_AgingNews and @MacHealthForum\nWearable Technologies and Optimal Aging\nDate of recording: May 21, 2015\nDetails: The popularity of wearable technologies has grown rapidly over the past few years, but the impact of these devices on health and healthcare remain uncertain. Join Nora Young and Dr. Anthony Levinson as they discuss the impact of wearable technologies on optimal aging and their potential for the future. Follow the discussion on Twitter at #MacAging.\nFollow @Mac_AgingNews and @MacHealthForum.\nActive Living: How to Form Healthy Habits for Optimal Aging\nDate: June 3, 2015.\nDetails: Physical activity at all ages is essential to healthy aging. Despite the growing awareness of the health dangers of our modern sedentary lifestyles, keeping active can be a challenge. Join BodyBreak’s Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod as they discuss the benefits of, and simple strategies to form habits for healthy, active aging. All are welcome to attend this free public event, which will include an opportunity for audience questions. Follow the discussion on Twitter at #MacAging.\nBreast cancer screening: making sense of the evidence\nDate of recording: March 25, 2015\nDetails: We know that breast cancer screening (mammography) can identify breast cancer early, but at what cost? Join us on March 25 as Dr. Jonathan Sussman and Dr. Cathy Risdon discuss the latest evidence on breast cancer screening and reflect on the impact this evidence has on their interactions with patients. All are welcome to attend this free public event, which will include an opportunity for audience questions. Follow the discussion on Twitter at #MacAging. Follow @Mac_AgingNews and @MacHealthForum.\nWhat we eat: Nutrition as the foundation to healthy aging\nDate of recording: Thursday, January 22, 2015\nDetails: Good nutrition is essential to aging well. Much of the malnutrition that occurs in long-term care is preventable, attributed to the eating environment, food quality and the ability to access food. Join Heather Keller, a leader in research on nutrition and aging, as she shares her views on these issues and how we can provide a better foundation to healthy aging.\nAlzheimer’s disease caregiving: Health effects and treatment strategies\nDate of recording: Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 7:00 - 8:30 PM\nSponsors: McMaster University’s Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative; Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres; Gilbrea Centre for Studies in Aging\nDetails: Supporting caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease is imperative given that they face significant challenges, including high emotional stress, severe fatigue, depression, and/or experience social isolation. Join Richard Schulz, a leader in research about the health effects of caregiving, as he shares his views on how we can better support caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease.\nWho cares? Preparing the system and the caregiver for what lies ahead\nDate of recording: Monday, December 8, 2014, 7:00 - 8:30 PM\nDetails: With the number of people over the age of 65 expected to double in the next 20 years and family and friends providing 80% of home care in Canada, it is critical to prepare both our system and caregivers to meet the challenges ahead. Join Janice Keefe, a leader in research about caregiving policy and practice, continuing care policy and projecting the needs of older Canadians in the future, as she shares her views and insights about how to address these and other challenges related to preparing for what’s needed to care for older Canadians.\nThere is no place like home: Providing alternatives to hospital care\nDate of recording: Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 7:00 - 8:30 PM\nSponsors: McMaster University's Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative; Ontario Association of Community Care Access Centres\nDetails: Dr. Graham Ellis, a geriatrician from Scotland, describes the successful 'hospital-at-home' service that he's been leading for the past three years. The service has been successful in allowing more patients to be cared for at home rather than in hospital, with services provided by a team of nurses, doctors, social care staff and other health providers.\nSod 70: Using research evidence to push the problems of aging to our 90s\nSponsors: McMaster University's Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative; MedicAlert Foundation of Canada\nDetails: How do we make the right health decisions today to improve the quality of our lives as we age? Sir Muir Gray, a leading authority from the United Kingdom on how we can use research evidence to push the problems of aging to our 90s, will share insights to empower us to make informed decisions about our health. In this talk he draws upon more than 40 years of working in the medical field including his work on the The 70 Plus programme which is designed to support people who are 70 or older to maintain and improve their health.\nDisruption, peer to peer healthcare, creativity and YouTube: How to fail well in patient engagement\nDate of recording: Monday, October 27, 2014, 7:00 - 8:30 PM\nSponsors: McMaster's Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative; MedicAlert Foundation of Canada\nDetails: Mike Evans, a Toronto family physician whose YouTube videos about health have been viewed more than 10 million times, talks about the changing landscape in how patients and healthcare professionals interact, and the impact technology has made on the way consumers seek out health information.\nKnowing what's best: Discover how the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal does your homework\nEvent: Webinar\nDate of recording: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 3:00 - 4:00 PM\nDetails: This public webinar was conducted by McMaster professor Maureen Dobbins, who explains the Web Resource Ratings feature of the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal. This feature involves finding and evaluating hundreds of online resources about health and aging, to help you determine which ones are based on scientific evidence and useful to you.\nNo home care priority without appropriate financing: Canada has to move\nDetails: Réjean Hébert, a former minister of health and social services for Quebec and founding scientific director of the Institute of Aging at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, will draw on insights from his extensive research and recent political experience to discuss the need for governments to find a way to finance home care and to ensure older adults have access to a variety of options for appropriate types of care, when they need it.\nHealthy aging: Learn how to use the McMaster Optimal Aging Portal\nDate of recording: Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 3:00 - 4:00 PM\nDetails: The newly launched McMaster Optimal Aging Portal provides trusted information on how to stay healthy, active and engaged as we grow older. A public webinar by Anthony Levinson, a McMaster associate professor who led the design of this new website, will demonstrate how to efficiently use the Portal to find scientific-based evidence, written in consumer-friendly language, that can be helpful to your personal situation.\nThinking Ahead: Do celebrities do more good than harm with their medical advice?\nEvent: Panel discussion\nDate: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 7:00 - 8:30 PM\nPartners: McMaster University's Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative\nSponsors: Labarge Charitable Foundation\nDetails: Celebrities often use their status to support or refute health advice. Those claims can be either beneficial or harmful, depending on whether they are based on quality research evidence. This panel discussion was moderated by Julia Belluz a journalist who previously wrote for Maclean's and the Medical Post. The panel was made up of medical professionals and journalists, discussing whether celebrity health claims do more good than hard. Full details available here.\nThinking Ahead: Will extended and second careers become the norm?\nDate of event/recording: Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 7:00 - 8:30 PM\nDetails: This public panel discussion moderated by Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, included five panellists: Sherry Cooper, former chief economist and executive vice-president of Bank of Montreal; Parminder Raina, McMaster researcher leading the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging; Samir Sinha, director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai Hospital and Provincial Lead of the Ontario’s Seniors Strategy; Ian Thomas, singer, songwriter, actor and author; and Brian Williams, sports broadcaster for CTV and TSN.\nNeuroculture, memory and the aging brain: Sociological reflections on cognitive health\nDate of talk/recording: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 5:30 - 7:00 PM\nSponsors: Labarge Optimal Aging Initiative at McMaster University\nDetails: Stephen Katz is Professor of Sociology at Trent University. He is author of Disciplining Old Age and Cultural Aging: Life Course, Lifestyle and Senior Worlds, along with numerous book chapters and articles on the sociology of aging. His current research is on the cultural aspects of memory and will be part of a new book on Age, Mind and Self in Later Life. In 2009 he received the prestigious Trent University Distinguished Research Award for his work in critical aging studies.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line357099"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8839660286903381,"wiki_prob":0.8839660286903381,"text":"Emancipation Day in Jamaica\nLoop News Created : 1 August 2018 Jamaica News\nThe 'Redemption Song' monument at the main entrance of Emancipation Park in Kingston, Jamaica.\nEmancipation Day was reinstated as a Public Holiday by Prime Minister PJ Patterson in Jamaica in 1998 after a six year campaign led by the late Professor Rex Nettleford.\nIt was discontinued as a holiday when Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1962. However at that time it was not an official national holiday.\nThe holiday is more than just a welcome break from work when one can lounge around and relax in preparation for the Independence Day weekend. For Jamaicans of African descent, the day is a very important date in their history as a people as it represents the time when their forebears were ‘freed’ from the shackles of chattel slavery.\nEmancipation Day is also celebrated in most other English speaking Caribbean countries and also in the French speaking countries of Martinique and Guadeloupe. The United States of America, Canada and South Africa also recognize the day.\nRelated article :Emancipate Yourself Quiz: Test your knowledge of the past\nAugust 1, 1834 marked the date when all children under six years of age were deemed to be free, but all other slaves were deemed to be apprentices and forced to work 40 hours per week without pay as compensation to their owners. Full ‘freedom’ was not given to the slaves until four years later in 1838.\nIn Jamaica, people would traditionally keep vigils on July 31 and at midnight church bells would ring out and drums played in parks and public squares to re-enact the first moments of freedom for enslaved Africans. On Emancipation Day, there was a re-enactment of the reading of the Emancipation Declaration in town centres especially in Spanish Town which was the country’s capital when the Emancipation Act was passed in 1838.\nEmancipation Park was opened on the eve of Emancipation Day, July 31 in 2002 and is named in commemoration of Emancipation Day. In 2003, the 11-foot bronze sculpture, Redemption Song, by Jamaican Laura Facey, was unveiled at the main entrance of the park. The sculpture comprises a male and female statue gazing to the skies – symbolic of their triumphant rise from the horrors of slavery. Facey said she was inspired by the words of National Hero Marcus Garvey and later reggae legend Bob Marley, \"none but ourselves can free our minds\".\nRelated article :Emancipation monuments of the Caribbean\nThe first country in the world to commemorate Emancipation Day as a national holiday was Trinidad and Tobago, which did so in 1985. It was brought on stream to replace Columbus Discovery Day which commemorated the arrival of the European explorer at Moruga on July 31, 1498.\nFor the latest news, download our app at http://bit.ly/GetALoopJM for Android; and at http://bit.ly/GetiLoopJM for IoS.\nPJ Patterson\nLaura Facey\nHillel Academy apologises for controversial slavery assignment\nNational Heroes busts unveiled at Emancipation Park\nTake monuments down! - Don’t revere historical wrongs, says Sir Hilary","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1431407"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9519754648208618,"wiki_prob":0.9519754648208618,"text":"Marvel wanted Mel Gibson to play Thor's Dad but he turned down the role\nBy Amon Warmann 2016-05-27T10:42:59.147Z News\nFor most actors, a key role in a Marvel movie is not something you pass on. Back in 2010 however, that wasn't something Mel Gibson was particularly interested in.\nSpeaking with The Guardian at the Cannes Film Festival, Gibson revealed that he could have joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe long ago; “Yeah, [I was approached] a long time ago to play Thor’s dad. But I didn’t do it”.\nWhile it’s fun to ponder what a Mel Gibson Odin might have looked like, Anthony Hopkins has left an indelible mark on the role. This isn’t to say that Gibson isn’t a fan of superhero cinema though; \"Some are good. Some are kind of funny … ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’ Or the first ‘Iron Man.’ And some of them are just like [retreads]. I mean you can watch them do Spider-Man five times…”\n“It’s a different kind of business these days”, Gibson continued. “I think all films are suffering from people not being able to now open them with their name. You used to get more variety of stories, films and performances. You had more of a chance of a profound film experience. But that’s not gone. I think that has been relegated to the independent world – but they have to do it twice as fast for half the money”.\nGibson is 100% correct about how the business has changed; Back in the good old days names like Schwarzenegger and Stallone were enough to open a movie, whereas nowadays it's all about brands like Marvel. It would be interesting to see how Gibson fares in a comic book movie though, whether he's on camera or behind it.\nDirected by Taika Waititi and starring Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Jaimie Alexander, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett, Karl Urban, and Mark Ruffalo, Thor: Ragnarok will be released in UK cinemas on October 27, 2017 before opening in US theatres on November 3, 2017.\nImages: Lionsgate","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line913184"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5436657071113586,"wiki_prob":0.45633429288864136,"text":"Tag Archives: illegal aliens\nClinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has given lectures all over the world—drawing massive audiences with a message that empowers and challenges them to find meaning in their lives through personal responsibility. He shared his wisdom with hundreds of Heritage Foundation supporters in New York City in this captivating conversation with Genevieve Wood.\nBy Centinel2012 • Posted in Civil Society, Domestic Politics\t• Tagged 9/11, 9/11/2001, Agenda 21, anti God, Anti-American, Anti-White Intifada, anti-white propaganda, ANTIFA, “social justice”, Barack H. Obama, Biological essentialism, Black Lives Matter, Black on White crime, Black Panthers, BLM, Boarder security, Caravans, Castrated men, Central American Caravans, Cloward-Piven strategy, Communism, Cuba, Cultural Marxism, Democrat Party, Divide and Conquer, DNC, Dog Whistle, Economic migration, Economic socialism, Environmental socialism, Facial recognition, Free everything, gender equality, gender identity, gender neutral, gun confiscation, Gun Control, Huxley’s “Brave New World”, Identity politics, illegal aliens, income “inequality”, male dominance, Manpacking, Manspiration, manspreading, Mansulting, Mark Bray, Marxism, Masculinity, Maxine Waters, micro-aggression, Migrants, Misogyny, Mobs, Moral Equivalence, moral relativism, Multiculturalism. Political Correctness, Neutered men, open borders, Oppressed, Oppressors, Orwell’s “1984”, Passport Control, Patriarchy, Political Correctness, Postmodernism, Power, Procedures, progressives, Progressivism, Propaganda, Race baiting, Racism, radical feminism, Red Yenta, Rules for Radicals, safe place, Saul Alinsky, Scientific Socialism, sexism, Sissified, SJW, Snowflakes, social justice warriors, socialism, Traditional family, Traditional roles, Transgender, TTP Tactics Techniques, Universal Basic Income, Venezuela, War on Whites, Welfare migration, White Genocide, White privilege\nBill Whittle\nThe Boston Globe reports that the FBI and ICE sweep photo databases at state departments of motor vehicles (DMV) to run criminal searches unauthorized by state or federal law. You didn’t sign off, granting the feds permission to access your image and information without probable cause. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle complain that the law enforcement agencies have done this on their own initiative, turning the land of the Fourth Amendment — the Republic of “innocent until proven guilty” — into suspect nation. Right Angle’s 20 new shows each month come to you thanks to the Members who pay for production and distribution. If you value these conversations, join the producers at https://BillWhittle.com/register/ Our 30-day money-back guarantee means that if you don’t think Membership is well worth your investment, just write us for a rapid, cheerful, refund.\nSunday Talks – Senator Lindsey Graham Discusses Immigration Enforcement, Upcoming Mueller Testimony and Iran…\nSenator Lindsey Graham traveled to the U.S-Mexico border region on Friday with Vice-President Mike Pence. Graham appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss that visit and the politics of congressional inaction to stop the border crisis.\nBy Centinel2012 • Posted in Domestic Politics\t• Tagged #DrainTheSwamp, #JobsNotMobs, #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, #TeamTrump, #Winning, #YesIStandBehindTrump, 1st amendment, 2019 State Of the Union, 2nd amendment, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, America First, Americanism vs. Socialism, “Long March” trade war, Beat ISIS, Bill-of-Rights, Boarder security, Broken VA, build the wall, C-VID, CCC, checks and balances, Classified material leaks, Common Core, Complete Verifiable and Irreversible Denuclearization, Corruption, Cycles of war, DACA, Davos World Economic Forum, Debt bubble, Deplorables, Destroy ISIS, dirty politics, Eliminate ISIS, Executive Order, extreme compliance, First-step act, FISA “Queries”, FISA-702 (U.S. individual or entity), Forest Management, Government Corruption, Gulf Cooperation Council, Hunt for Taxes, illegal aliens, illegal migrants, Impeachment, ISIS defeated, Jobs not mobs, Joe diGenova, Kellyanne Conway, Lobbyists, Lordstown Plant, MAGA, Make America Great Again, March for Life, Michael Richard Pompeo, MS-13, Mueller found nothing, National Prayer Breakfast, Never Trump alliance (ie. Sea Island group), North Korea, Obama leftovers, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, Operation Faithful Patriot, Pause the Muslim immigration, Peace or war. Win or lose. Yin and Yang, Pelosi must Go, Pension Crisis, Political Correctness, political downside, Political paradigm shift, Political Scandals, Post Truth News, Principled Realism, Putting America First, Qatar Memorandum of Understanding, Radical Egalitarianism, Radical Islam, Remains of US service men from Korean War, RIP Caliphate 2019-03-22, Rocket man, Russian conspiracy theory, Schumer Shutdown, Soft Anti-Coup, Soft Coup, Sovereign debt crises, Space Force, Spygate, STEM, Stop endless wars, Surveillance of Trump, TDS, terrorism., The Art of the Deal, The ‘First Step Act’, The ‘Second Chance’ program, The Caliphate is no more, The Forecaster, The Trump Operation, The Wall, Tom Homan Border czar, TPA/TPP, transparency, Trump 4 point immigration plan, Trump Budget, Trump Derangement Syndrome, Trump the master politician, Trumps first two years, U.S. corporations repatriate off shore cash, unfair trade with China, UniParty, Victoria Toensing, Violent left, Voter fraud, Vulgarians, We Can’t Go Back, WikiLeaks, Wiretapped, Witch hunt found no witch’s, World Leadership Reestablished\nThe DC Illegal Immigration Business…\nCTH has tracked this issue so closely through the years it often feels futile for another reminder. However, with the insufferable political games in the headlines over the issue of illegal immigrants and children, perhaps it is worth another visit.\nThere is no greater disconnect from ordinary Americans on any singular issue than the policy positions of Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC surrounding illegal immigration. President Donald Trump is confronting their unified interests.\nUnderstanding The Big Racket.\nMassive illegal immigration is supported by both sides of the professional political machine. There are few issues more unifying for the K-Street purchased voices of DC politicians than keeping the U.S. borders open and the influx of illegal aliens as high as possible. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce pays politicians to keep this system in place.\nAll Democrats and most Republicans support mass immigration. Almost no DC politicians want to take action on any policy or legislation that stops the influx. There are billions at stake. None of the GOP leadership want to actually stop illegal immigration; it’s a lucrative business. Almost all of the CONservative groups and politicians lie about it.\nThe religious or ‘faith-based’ immigration groups are also part of the problem. In the past 15 years illegal immigration and refugee settlement has been financially beneficial for them. Additionally, the prior actions of Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck et al show they are as committed to facilitating illegal immigration as Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Ben Sasse, Kevin McCarthy, Lisa Murkowski and the rest of the Decepticons.\nWashington DC and the activist media, are infested with illegal immigration supporters; the issue is at the heart of the UniParty. Follow the money. It’s the Acorn model:\nU.S. Chamber\n✔@USChamber\nSeparating children from families must end now https://uscham.com/2I3Fb0B\n4:20 PM – Jun 19, 2018\nSeparating Children from Families Must End Now\nThousands of children are being forcibly removed from their parents by our government. This is not who we are.\nuschamber.com\nThere is no greater disconnect from ordinary Americans on any singular issue than the policy positions of Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC surrounding immigration. President Donald Trump is confronting their unified interests.\nAll political opposition to the Trump administration on this issue is structured, planned and coordinated. The issue is a valuable tool for the professional political class to sow chaos amid politicians.\nThe resulting crisis is useful for them; therefore they fuel the crisis.\n(LINK To Data)\nSouthwest Key was given $310,000,000, in taxpayer funds in 2018. And that’s just one company, in one part of a year. Prior CTH research showed this specific “Private Company” nets 98.76% of earnings from government grants (link).\nTEXAS … [Houston Mayor Sylvester] Turner said he met with officials from Austin-based Southwest Key Programs, the contractor that operates some of the child shelters, to ask them to reconsider their plans. A spokeswoman for Southwest Key didn’t immediately reply to an email seeking comment.\n“And so there comes a point in time we draw a line and for me, the line is with these children,” said Turner during a news conference Tuesday. (link)\n“The thought that they are going to be putting such little kids in an institutional setting? I mean it is hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” said Kay Bellor, vice president for programs at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, which provides foster care and other child welfare services to migrant children. “Toddlers are being detained.” (link)\nDo you know why kids are targeted for smuggling?\nThey are worth more money; that’s why.\n(Lutheran Immigration – Grant Link)\n“Faith Based Immigration Services” is a code-speak for legalized human smuggling.\nHuman smuggling is big business. If you dig in to the IRS 990 forms you’ll see a lot of, well, “generous” wage/benefit perks. Golf, florists, cafe’s, mysterious leases, land purchases, third party mortgages, $$$ Spouses on the payroll, etc.\nSo when you’ve got each individual immigration business making multi-hundreds of millions; and politicians getting kick-backs (lobbyists); and bribes to Mexican government officials; and payments to smugglers; who do you think actually wants the business to stop?\n(Data For Catholic Bishops – FY 2018)\nThe “faith-based” crew (Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, etc.) don’t want it to stop, because facilitating illegal alien import is now the financial bread and butter amid groups in their base of support. The man/woman in the pew might not know; but the corporation minister, preacher or priest (inside the process) surely does.\nThe Wall Street, big GOPe, U.S. Chamber of Commerce crew doesn’t want it to stop because they benefit from it (cheap labor), and the taxpayers -not them- are the ones funding it.\n(Baptist Child and Family Services – BCFS – FY 2018)\nSad thing is, it’s you and me that are paying the South American human smugglers through U.S. taxpayer funds. Laundered through the immigration business bagmen at U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and/or, U.S. Catholic Charities, or Southwest Key Programs Inc; or Baptist Child and Family Services Emergency Management Division (BCFS-EMD), just to name a few.\nThese immigration groups, get *MASSIVE* HHS grants and then pay-off the DC politicians and human smugglers, including MS13. Billions of dollars are spent, and the business has exploded in the past six years.\nIt’s a vicious cycle. Trafficked children are more valuable than adults because the organizations involved get more funding for a child than an adult. Each illegal alien child is worth about $56,000 in grant money. The system is full of fraud.\nFrom our prior research approximately 65% of the money they get is spent on executive pay and benefits, opaque administrative payrolls, bribes, kick-backs to DC politicians and payoffs to the South American smugglers who bring them more immigrants.\nAs best it can be determined, approximately 35% ($19,000) is spent on the alien/immigrant child; maybe. It gets sketchy deep in their accounting.\nPresident Trump is not only threatening to secure the border, he’s threatening a Washington DC-based business model that makes money for a lot of interests. The operation also has side benefits for the participants; child sexploitation, child labor, and yes, much worse (you can imagine).\nBecause the history of DHS reports are so critical to the full understanding of how this crisis was manufactured, DTH has also embedded them in their entirety near the end of the border crisis origination timeline:\n♦April 2009 – After a Mid-East trip to Egypt to deliver his Cairo speech, President Barack Obama travels to South America for the “Summit of the Americas“.\nThe summit included thirty-four South American countries. Obama wanted to promote his point that relations in North and South America can be heavily improved, especially after age old ideals on immigration and commerce are dropped. Hugo Chavez warmly embraced Obama and provided a gift, a book titled “The Open Veins of Latin America“. (link)\n♦December 2009 – November 2010 – 100% of all political effort was leveraged to create and institute the ACA or ObamaCare. All media oxygen is focused on ObamaCare 24/7.\n♦November 2010 – President Obama is “shellacked” in Mid-Term elections. Loses control of the House of Representatives to Republicans. Biggest electoral defeat since 1918.\n♦January 2011 – Emphasis, and political strategy changes. “Comprehensive Immigration Reform“, ie. “amnesty” becomes the mainstay approach toward retention of political power. Throughout a contentious Republican primary season, to assist their ideological traveler, the U.S. media kept the issue on the front burner.\n♦May 2011 – President Obama travels to the Rio Grande sector of the border to push for his immigration platform (ie. Amnesty). He proclaims the border is safe and secure and famously attacks his opposition for wanting an “alligator moat”.\n♦November 2012 – Election year campaign(s). Using wedge issues like “War on Women”, and “Immigration / Amnesty”, candidate Obama promises to push congress for “amnesty”, under the guise of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”, if elected. President Obama wins reelection.\n♦December 2012 – Immediately following reelection President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order creating the “Deferred Action Program“, or DACA. Allowing millions of illegal aliens to avoid deportation. (link)\nAccording to their own documents and research, this Deferred Action Program is what the Central American communities are using as the reason for attempted immigration. In both the border control study and the DHS intelligence report the DACA program is mentioned by the people apprehended at the border in 2013 and 2014.\nChart Source: 2013 DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics – Enforcement Analysis – Table 39:\n♦May 2013 – President Barack Obama visits South America. Following a speech Mexican entrepreneurs, Obama then travelled to Costa Rica, his first visit as president. In addition to meetings with Costa Rican President Laura Chincilla, Obama attended a gathering of leaders from the Central American Integration System, (CAIS). The regional network includes the leaders of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. (link) President Obama meets with the leaders of the Central American Countries.\n♦Summer 2013 – Numbers of Illegal Unaccompanied Minors reaching the Southern U.S. border from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua doubles. 20,000+ reach U.S. Southern border by travelling through Mexico. Media primarily ignores. (link)\n♦October 2013 – At the conclusion of the immigrant travel season. White House receives notification that tens of thousands of illegal Unaccompanied Minors should be anticipated to hit the Southern U.S. border the following Summer [2014]. An estimated 850% increase in the number of UAC’s (from 2012’s less than 10,000) was projected. (link)\n♦January 2014 – In response to the projections, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posts a jobs notification seeking bids to facilitate 65,000 Unaccompanied Alien Children. The posting outlines DHS and Health and Human Services (HHS) requirements for contractors to fulfill the job. (link)\n♦February 2014 – President Obama visits Mexico for “bilateral talks”, in an unusual one day visit (link):\n♦Spring 2014 – With a full year of successful transport and border crossing without deportation – DHS begins to notice a significant uptick in the number of criminal elements from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua; which have joined with the UAC’s to gain entry. Internal DHS documents reveal the “refugee” status is now being used by both criminal cartels, and potentially by Central American government(s) to send prison inmates into the U.S. (link)\n♦June 2014 – As expected tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua hit the border and the headlines. Despite the known planning, and recently discovered prior internal notifications, the White House claims it did not see this coming. However, internal documents including a –DHS Border Security Alert– show that in March, fully three months earlier, the White House was aware of what was coming in June.\n♦June 20th 2014 – Congressional leadership and key Latino Democrats from the Democrat Hispanic Caucus meet with representatives from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.\n[…] “As long as (U.S.) immigration reform is not approved, the exodus of children to the United States will continue,” Jorge Ramon Hernandez, the senior representative of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, said at the talks. (link)\n♦June/July 2014 – By the end of June the media have picked up the story and it’s called “A Border Crisis”. However, the White House is desperate to avoid exposure to the known criminal elements within the story. (link)\n♦July 3rd, 2014 – President Obama requests $3,700,000,000 ($3.7 billion) in supplemental budget appropriations to deal with the border crisis. Only $109 million is for actual border security or efforts to stop the outflow from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Growing concern amid Democrats brings out a defense position that George Bush created the crisis in 2008.\nHidden inside a massive budget request is President Obama seeking legal authorization to spend taxpayer funds for lawyers and legal proceedings on behalf of the UAC’s and their families.\nIn essence congress is being asked to approve the executive branch’s violation of previous immigration law. Section 292 of the Immigration and Nationality Act prohibits representation of aliens “in immigration proceedings at government expense“. President Obama is seeking authorization to use taxpayer funds to provide the Illegal Aliens with government lawyers.\nIt becomes increasingly obvious the spending request is to facilitate President Obama in expanding the services toward ALL illegal immigrants throughout the U.S.\nThe stealth nature of the request is brilliant. Once the funds are established and appropriated the administration can then use millions of taxpayer funds to essentially integrate not only the UAC’s but any illegal alien currently within the system.\nThe $3.7 Billion becomes the amnesty program Obama has sought but been blocked from achieving.\n♦July 9th 2014 – Fearful that U.S. political interests might bring a halt to the outflow already in place, and/or actually result in a backlog of travelling migrants stuck at the border inside Mexico:…\n[…] Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina held a joint press conference in Playas de Catazaja, Mexico, to officially announce an agreement to make it easier for those making the illegal journey to the United States from Central America, to cross into Mexico.\nThe Southern Border Program to Improve Passage, will provide for more border checkpoints along Mexico’s border with Guatemala, and offer more protection and even emergency medical care to those making their way north. The illegal aliens will receive a so-called Regional Visitor’s Card, according to El Universal. (link)\n♦July 10th, 2014 – Facing pushback from congress as well as sticker shock at the amount he is requesting, President Obama sends his DHS team to Capitol Hill to ramp up anxiety, and threats of consequences:\nHomeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Thursday that as many as 90,000 unaccompanied child migrants could cross the southwest border before the end of this fiscal year in September.\nThat will place a huge strain on immigration agencies, which will badly need new money to get through the summer, Johnson says.\nThe 90,000 number — the highest yet given by the administration — is spelled out in written Senate testimony by Johnson as well as Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, who must also deal with the border crisis.\n“We are preparing for a scenario in which the number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border could reach up to 90,000 by the end of fiscal 2014,” Johnson’s testimony reads, and he bluntly warns that without an infusion of new funds, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will run out of money in August. (read more)\nNot only did the White House know what was going to happen this year, as far back as 2012; but the White House actually appears to have constructed the events to fall into a very specific pattern and done NOTHING to stop the consequences from the DACA executive order issued in December 2012.\nThe amount of U.S. taxpayer money spent on the Illegal Alien Children, through HHS and DHS grants, since 2010 is staggering. Literally hundreds-of-billions have been spent to facilitate mass immigration into the United States. A significant percentage of that taxpayer money works its way back into the pockets of the DC politicians by design.\nCombined with the ideology (future voters and cheap labor) the scale of money inside the process is why DC will never take any action to fix it.\nBy Centinel2012 • Posted in Domestic Politics, Important\t• Tagged #IranProtests, 401K confiscation, Abortions, administrative law, Agenda 21, American Exceptionalism, American Oligarchy, Americas Second Civil War, Animal rights, anti God, anti-American globalists, ANTIFA, Awan Brothers, Barack Hussein Obama, Benghazi, Big Brother, Big Club, Bill-of-Rights, birthright citizenship, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Bribery, Cannibalizing a country, Censorship Trolls, centinel2012, Central Planning, checks and balances, Clinton Foundation, Cloward-Piven strategy, Common Core, Crony Capitalism, Cultural Marxism, Debt bubble, Debt slaves, Decline in Entertainment, Decline in sports, Democrats anti-Christian, DNA data base, Equal Justice, 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Uranium One, Very Fake News, Vote at 16, Wag the Dog, War on Women, What Happened, Wiretap, Women for Sharia law, WW III\nSunday Talks: Kellyanne Conway -vs- Chris Wallace…\nAs immigration enforcement leads the Sunday headlines, White House Adviser Kellyanne Conway appears on Fox News to debate the international defender of all downtrodden economic migration, Chris Wallace.\nThe ever-insufferable Wallace takes his natural Fos/GOPe cocktail circuit position that all immigration enforcement is antithetical to the global rights of humans to have unfettered access to the United States.\nBy Centinel2012 • Posted in Domestic Politics\t• Tagged #IranProtests, 401K confiscation, Abortions, administrative law, Agenda 21, American Exceptionalism, American Oligarchy, Americas Second Civil War, Animal rights, anti God, anti-American globalists, ANTIFA, Awan Brothers, Barack Hussein Obama, Benghazi, Big Brother, Big Club, Bill-of-Rights, birthright citizenship, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Bribery, Cannibalizing a country, Censorship Trolls, centinel2012, Central Planning, checks and balances, Clinton Foundation, Cloward-Piven strategy, Common Core, Crony Capitalism, Cultural Marxism, Debt bubble, Debt slaves, Decline in Entertainment, Decline in sports, Democrats anti-Christian, DNA data base, Equal Justice, excessive spending, Extortion, Extreme Vetting, Facial Recognition software, Fake News, FATCA, Fed Take Over of Elections, Feminazis, Feminism, Free Market, Free Press, Free Speech, Free Speech Zone, Fusion GPS, GDPR, gender equality, gender identity, gender neutral, General Data Protection Regulation, George Soros, Georgia Guidestones, Government Corruption, Government Incompetence, Government Is Not Reason It Is Not Eloquence It Is Force, Government propaganda, Government run Ponzi Schemes, gun confiscation, Human trafficking, Hunt for Taxes, Huxley’s “Brave New World”, IC, illegal aliens, illegal migrants, Indentured servants, IRS, ISIL, ISIS, Judicial Tyranny, K-12 Data Collection, kickbacks, LBGTQ, Make Prostitution legal, Marxism, Maurice Strong, McCain is part of the Deep State, MGTOW, micro-aggression, Middle class job loss, money laundering, Moral Equivalence, moral relativism, Morocco, MRYA, Multiculturalism, Muslim Brotherhood Wahhabi trained terrorists, NAFTA, Neo-Conservatives, new world order, No Gender, NSA surveillance, NWO, Obama Care, OFA, open borders, Organ harvesting, Organizing for Action, Orwell’s “1984”, Out of control spending, Out of Control ticketing, PC, Personal bar codes, Planned Parenthood, police asset forfeiture, Political Correctness, Political Scandals, Praire Fire, progressives, Project Veritas, Propaganda, Pussy Power, Qatar, Race riots instigated by BLM, race wars, Restricted Mode, Rigged elections, Rob Peter to Pay Paul, rule of law, Russiagate, Sanctuary cities, Satanism, SCOTUS, Secularism, Shadow party, SJW, Slutwalks, Social Justice Warrior, Soft Anti-Coup, Soft Coup, Sovereign debt crises, Steele Dossier, Stephen Paddock, Student Loans, Supreme Court, Susan Rice, Take Over of Education, terrorism., The CIA is big Brother, The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, TowerGate, TPP, Trade Wars, Transgender, tyrants, U-Tube Restricted Mode, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Southern border, UN, Unmasking, Uranium One, Very Fake News, Vote at 16, Wag the Dog, War on Women, What Happened, Wiretap, Women for Sharia law, WW III\nArmed Activist Hurling Molotov Cocktails at ICE Facility Shot Killed by Police…\nThis is an example of what happens when politicians and far-left activists push a false narrative that ICE facilities are comparable to concentration camps.\nAn obviously unstable man armed with a rifle attempts to blow up an ICE detention facility in Tacoma Washington following protests hours earlier.\nWASHINGTON – An armed man was fatally shot early Saturday during a confrontation with police after he hurled incendiary devices at a Washington state immigration detention center, Tacoma police said.\nThe shooting occurred about 4 a.m. local time outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Northwest Detention Center, where the gunman attempted to set the building and parked cars on fire, according to police spokeswoman Loretta Cool.\nAuthorities did not immediately identify the gunman, saying in the statement the “medical examiner will release the identity of the victim when it is appropriate.”\nThe assault on the privately-run immigrant detention facility came amid protests over ICE plans to begin the previously postponed raids across the country on Sunday. The goal is the arrest of thousands of migrant families who already have court orders to be removed, according to US officials.\nA peaceful rally against the raids at the Tacoma detention center had ended about six hours before the shooting, Cool said. […]\nPolice said the man set a vehicle ablaze in the center’s parking lot and attempted to ignite a propane tank with a flare to set the building on fire. Officers called out to the man and shots were fired, according to a police statement. It’s not known whether the man fired on the officers, Cool said.\nThe gunman died at the scene; four officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative leave per department policy. The incident is under investigation. (more)\nThis death is directly attributable to the dangerous incitement by politicians and immigration activists. However, watch the media run cover for those who advocated for exactly this type of Antifa resistance violence.\nFormer ICE Director Tom Homan -vs- Congressional Hypocrites…\nFormer Acting ICE Director Tom Homan appeared on capitol hill today to deliver testimony to congress. As Democrat lawmakers attempted to place blame for the border crisis on Mr. Homan he was firing back.\nIn an embarrassing exhibition of smug disconnect, freshman congresswoman Alexander Ocasio-Cortez attempted to frame a narrative about border separations and asylum seekers. Again, Homan delivered the atomic sledgehammer of truth.\nGenuine asylum seekers go through ports of entry…\nProceed With Caution – Media Reporting ODNI Dan Coats Possibly Being Replaced…\nThe Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, was created post-9/11 at the recommendation of the 9/11 commission. The purpose is to serve as the central hub of intelligence information, gathered by multiple intelligence agencies, to insure equal distribution to all elements of the intelligence apparatus.\nDue to the structure of the ODNI, the cabinet member filling that position has an important role in: (a) knowing what each intelligence agency is doing; and (b) sharing intelligence operations and outcomes, beyond the originating agency, to those national security offices who may have an operational need/interest in cross-agency information.\nPresident Obama saw the ODNI structure as a problem. The ODNI would know what each agency is doing. The structure of the ODNI means corrupt CIA, State, DoD and/or DOJ and FBI cabinet officials couldn’t keep secret intelligence operations hidden from review by alternate officials. The structure of the ODNI was a risk.\nPresident Obama together with Donilon, Holder, Emmanuel and Jarret, solved this problem early on by placing an abject idiot named James Clapper into the position of ODNI.\nYes, James Clapper was purposefully put into the position due to his lack of competence. Clapper’s stupidity was a purposeful asset asset for the corrupt -politically motivated- officials that President Obama placed into the intelligence apparatus (ex. Brennan, Holder, Comey, Clinton, Panetta, Carter et al). Cue the audio/visual evidence:\nOh, there are dozens more examples, but you get the point!\nPresident Trump placed Senator Dan Coats into the ODNI position, and many critics of Dan Coats have surfaced as a result of various declassification requests that appear to have stalled in his office. Some of the criticism is valid, some, notsomuch.\nIt could be true that Dan Coats is part of the aggregate deep state problem. However, there are both Pro and Con examples of ODNI Dan Coats on both sides of this argument.\n(1) Dan Coats declassified and publicly released the April 2017 FISA Court opinion of Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer. At the time there was no-one looking for that very serious criticism of how the Obama administration weaponized the FISA process and abused the FISA court. ODNI Dan Coats could have easily kept that 99-page report classified and hidden in the vaults of the deep state.\n(2) You might remember the aftermath of President Trump traveling to Helsinki, Finland, for a meeting with Vladimir Putin. The media and former Obama intelligence officials were at the apex of their “Russia Collusion/Conspiracy” claims. The day after Brennan, Yates, Comey and Clapper went media crazy with the anti-Trump fuel, ODNI Coats arbitrarily declassified and released the FISA Application used against Carter Page. That release supported President Trump and immediately crushed the resistance narrative.\nAt the time of the FISA application release, SATURDAY July 21st, 2018, everyone was so caught up in the substance of the explosive information that no-one stopped to ask: hey, wait, where did this come from and why are we getting it? At the time no-one was looking for the FISA application and it would have been very easy to keep the highly classified document hidden. The declassification and release appeared without anyone really asking for it.\nSo, it’s possible that Dan Coats is keeping stuff hidden that would disparage the institutions; however, it is also true that Dan Coats has released stuff that does exactly the opposite.\nAll of that is said to remind everyone we should pause before jumping to conclusions about media reports of Coats demise that originate from Axios and then spread through the media bloodstream – Fox News example. There is always a possibility the anti-Trump media is just trying to stir stuff up.\nRemember, the Lawfare resistance is connected to more than just currently employed, and consistently corrupt, DOJ and FBI officials along with their political allies. The Lawfare resistance is heavily associated with their media cohorts and fellow travelers.\nDC is a very deep swamp.\nPresident Trump Impromptu Presser Departing White House – Video and Transcript…\nChopper pressers are the best pressers. As President Trump departs the White House for a trip to Wisconsin he stops for the assembled media pool. The president fielded questions on a variety of current topics leading off with the unfortunate resignation of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. [ Watch Video and Transcript below]\n[Full Transcript] – Q How do you think your Labor Secretary did?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I think he was a great Labor Secretary, not a good Labor Secretary. He’s done a fantastic job. He’s a friend of everybody in the administration. And I got a call this morning, early, from Alex. And I think he did a very good job yesterday. Under a lot of pressure, he did a fantastic job and he explained it. He made a deal that people were happy with, and then, 12 years later, they’re not happy with it. You’ll have to figure all of that out.\nBut the fact is, he has been a fantastic Secretary of Labor. And Alex called me this morning and he wanted to see me. And I actually said, “Well, we have the press right out here, so perhaps you just want to say it to the press.”\nBut I just want to let you know, this was him, not me, because I’m with him. He was a — he’s a tremendous talent. He’s a Hispanic man. He went to Harvard. A great student. And, in so many ways, I just hate what he’s saying now because we’re going to miss him.\nBut, please, Alex.\nSECRETARY ACOSTA: Thank you, Mr. President. Over the last week, I’ve seen a lot of coverage of the Department of Labor, and what I have not seen is the incredible job creation that we’ve seen in this economy — more than 5 million jobs. I haven’t seen that workplace injuries are down, bucking a three-year trend; workplace fatalities are down, bucking a three-year trend; that we had the safest year ever in mining, the lowest number of fatalities ever in mining.\nI have seen coverage of this case that is over 12 years old, that had input and vetting at multiple levels of the Department of Justice. And as I look forward, I do not think it is right and fair for this administration’s Labor Department to have Epstein as the focus, rather than the incredible economy that we have today.\nAnd so I called the President this morning. I told him that I thought the right thing was to step aside. You know, Cabinet positions are temporary trusts. It would selfish for me to stay in this position and continue talking about a case that’s 12 years old, rather than about the amazing economy we have right now.\nAnd so I submitted my resignation to the President –effective seven days from today, effective one week from today — earlier this morning.\nQ If the Secretary explained himself, as you say he did two days ago, why the need for him to resign?\nTHE PRESIDENT: There’s no need at all, as far as I’m concerned. I would have — I watched Alex yesterday. I thought Alex did a great job. And, you know, you could always second guess people, and you could say it should have been tougher. They do it with me all the time. I make a great deal with anybody, and then they say — like, the Democrats — “Oh, it could have been better.”\nI got $1.2 billion settlement fined from a company, from ZTE. And the next day — and everybody couldn’t believe it. The next day, the Democrats said, “Oh, he should have gotten more.” So you can always be second guessed. That’s what people do.\nI just want to tell you: This is a person that I’ve gotten to know. There hasn’t been an ounce of controversy at the Department of Labor until this came up. And he’s doing this not for himself; he’s doing this for the administration.\nAnd, Alex, I think you’ll agree. I said, “You don’t have to do this.” He doesn’t have to do this.\nQ Why would you — why would you accept his resignation?\nQ But you accepted the resignation. You accepted the — why did you accept the resignation if he hasn’t done anything wrong?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I do, and we have — we have — as everybody knows, we have Pat Pizzella, who right now is a deputy, and he’ll be Acting for a period of time. I think you know Pat. He’s a good man, highly recommended by Alex. But Pat is going to be Acting, and we’ve already informed him.\nQ Why did you have a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein? Why did you have a falling out with Jeffrey Epstein? And did you ban him from Mar-a-Lago?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Yes. And I did have a falling out a long time ago. The reason doesn’t make any difference, frankly. But I haven’t spoken to him in probably 15 years or more. I wasn’t a big fan of Jeffrey Epstein, that I can tell you. And now, if you look, the remnants hurt this man. And I hate to see it happen.\nI will say this, and I say it again and I say it loud and clear: Alex Acosta was a great Secretary of Labor. What he’s done with plans and — you see the plans coming one after another. You’re just about done with the 401(k) and —\nSECRETARY ACOSTA: That’s correct.\nTHE PRESIDENT: — and that happened. Things that nobody would even think of. So it’s very sad. But at the same time, he wants the focus to be on accomplishments, not on what you’re talking about.\nQ But do you believe — do you believe, Mr. President, that Epstein has become and Mr. Acosta has become a distraction to the Labor Department?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Well, Alex believed that. I’m willing to live with anything, John. I think you know me. I’ve lived through things that you wouldn’t believe.\nAlex felt that way. And he also felt — we’re so good; we’re doing so well. The economy — the stock market just hit the highest point yesterday in the history of our country. Our unemployment numbers are the best they’ve ever been. If you look at specifically certain groups — African American, Asian, Hispanic — the best unemployment numbers in the history of our country.\nYou know, there are so many good things, and he didn’t want to distract from that. And I understand that, 100 percent.\nQ Did Paul Ryan prevent you from making any bad decisions?\nTHE PRESIDENT: For what?\nTHE PRESIDENT: So Paul Ryan was not a talent. He wasn’t a leader. When the people in Freedom and great congressmen wanted to go after the Dems for things that they did very badly, he wouldn’t give subpoenas, whereas Nancy Pelosi hands them out like they’re cookies.\nPaul Ryan was a lame duck for a long time as Speaker. He was unable to raise money. He lost control of the House. The only success Paul Ryan had was the time that he was with me because we got taxes cut. I got regulation cuts. I did that mostly without him.\nBut for Paul Ryan to be complaining is pretty amazing. I remember a day in Wisconsin — a state that I won — where I stood up and made a speech, and then I introduced him and they booed him off the stage — 10,000 people.\nSo for him to be going out and opening his mouth is pretty incredible. But maybe he gets paid for that. Who knows? Maybe he gets paid for that.\nQ Mr. President, the raids — can you — Mr. President, are you putting law enforcement at risk by having these raids? Is the public at risk now that everyone knows that the raids are coming?\nTHE PRESIDENT: So people come into our country illegally. We’re taking them out legally. It’s very simple. It’s not something I like doing, but people have come into our country illegally.\nWe’re focused on criminals. We’re focused on — if you look at MS-13 — but when people come into our country, we take those people out and we take them out very legally. They all have papers. And it’s a process. And I have an obligation to do it. They came in illegally; they go out legally.\nWhat the Democrats should be doing now is they should be changing the loopholes. They should be changing asylum. I’ve been talking to that — to you about this for a long time. They should be changing asylum. There’s so many things.\nNow, let me — let me give you the good news: Mexico has done an outstanding job so far. If you look at the border, it’s down now 30 percent, and that’s only one week inclusive where they’ve gotten it together.\nThe June numbers just came out. It’s down. It looks like it’s going to end up being a little bit above 30 percent down. It’s going to be down more and more. They have 21,000 — and I say “21,000” — Mexican soldiers on the borders — both their southern border and our southern border.\nAnd we really have it in control. The problem is — we have a big problem. The laws are so bad. The Democrats have to help us fix the immigration laws. But even with that, because of the job that Mexico is doing — and, yes, they maybe did it because of tariffs, but they’re doing a great job and I appreciate it.\nQ Democrats are portraying your action yesterday on the census citizenship question as backing down. Do you believe that you backed down?\nTHE PRESIDENT: No, no. Who said — who said that?\nQ Democrats are saying you backed down. Do you believe you backed down?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Look, anything you do, the Democrats will say it’s not good. In the meantime, they had a disaster. They had these laws that are so bad — catch-and-release, and you look at the different laws — visa lottery, that was a Chuck Schumer law. It’s a disaster. A lottery. You pick them out. A lottery.\nThe Democrats have caused tremendous problems. What they’ve let China get away with — for years and years, China has been ripping us off. They’re not ripping us off anymore. Right now, companies are fleeing China because of the tariffs. And right now, we’re taking in billions of dollars. And, by the way, our people are not paying for it. They’re paying for it — they’re paying for it by depressing their currency and they’re putting a lot of money.\nLook, nobody’s ever done what I’ve done with China. And that’s fine. And we’ll get along with China. But you know, when I see a guy like Biden, who is weak and ineffective — and everybody that knows him knows it. He’s a weak man. He’s an ineffective man. President Xi laughs at guys like that.\nNow, with that being said, I would say this: President Xi, Putin, all of these guys go to bed at night and they pray that Joe Biden or somebody like him becomes President so they can continue to rip off our country.\nQ Two questions, please. With regard to Jeffrey Epstein, did you have any suspicions that he was molesting young women, underaged women?\nTHE PRESIDENT: No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to him in many, many years. But I had — I didn’t have no idea.\nQ Secretary Acosta, now that you’re resigning, do you regret that plea deal that you struck with Epstein (inaudible)?\nSECRETARY ACOSTA: I’ve already — I’ve already talked about the Epstein matter. I gave a press conference that, according to the media, was longer than any other Cabinet official in this administration.\nYou know, I will reiterate what I said previously. My point here today is we have an amazing economy. We have unemployment lower than we have seen, literally, in my lifetime. And the focus needs to be on this economy and on job creation, on the decreased fatalities in the workplace and in mining. And going forward, that’s where this administration needs to focus, not on this matter.\nQ Mr. President, following up on your Social — following up on the Social Media Summit, you’re instructing agencies to look into this. How long do you think this review is going to take —\nTHE PRESIDENT: We are looking into it. The platforms are absolutely, in my opinion, 100 percent crooked. They discriminate against Republicans and conservatives. They’re 100 percent dishonest. That’s my opinion. And something is going to be done.\nBut I can tell you, from personal experience, I see it. I had something happen this morning — I won’t tell you about it yet — but these platforms are 100 percent — they’re 100 percent dishonest.\nQ Mr. President, the reason for your falling out with Mr. Epstein matters. Was it related to business or the abuse of underaged girls? People want to know.\nTHE PRESIDENT: I was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didn’t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago. It shows you one thing: that I have good taste. Okay?\nNow, other people, they went all over with him. They went to his island. They went all over the place. He was very well known in Palm Beach. His island — whatever his island was, wherever it is — I was never there. Find out the people that went to the island.\nBut Jeffrey Epstein was not somebody that I respected. I threw him out. In fact, I think the great James Patterson, who is a member of Mar-a-Lago, made a statement yesterday that, many years ago, I threw him out.\nI’m not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein.\nQ Mr. President, are you planning to move ahead with deportations intensities this weekend? Are you planning to —\nTHE PRESIDENT: Yes. Yes.\nQ You are.\nQ But what about the families, Mr. President?\nTHE PRESIDENT: You know what? You know what? They came in illegally. They have to go out.\nWe have millions of people standing on line waiting to become citizens of this country. They’ve taken tests. They’ve studied. They’ve learned English. They’ve done so much. It’s — they’ve been waiting seven, eight, nine years. We have some waiting 10 years to come in. It’s not fair that somebody walks across the line and now they’ve become citizens of the United States.\nQ (Inaudible) British ambassador resign?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Well, I wish the British ambassador well. Some people just told me — too bad — but they said he actually said very good things about me. He was sort of referring to other people. And I guess I quoted Lindsey Graham today; he said some things that were pretty nice from the British ambassador.\nBut look, I wish the British ambassador well. But they’ve got to stop their leaking problems there just like they have to stop them in our country.\nQ Why have you pre-announced these ICE raids? Why have you given warning, essentially —\nTHE PRESIDENT: We’re not giving warning.\nQ — to all of these illegals?\nTHE PRESIDENT: No, we’re not giving warning.\nQ They know about the ICE raids, Mr. President.\nTHE PRESIDENT: There’s nothing to be secret about.\nQ They know about the ICE raids.\nTHE PRESIDENT: Can I tell you what?\nQ Absolutely.\nTHE PRESIDENT: There’s nothing to be secret about. ICE is law enforcement. They’re great patriots. They have a tough job. Nothing to be secret about. If the word gets out, it gets out. Because hundreds of people know about it. It’s a major operation.\nSo if the word gets out, it gets out. It starts on Sunday, and they’re going to take people out and they’re going to bring them back to their countries. Or they’re going to take criminals out, put them in prison, or put in them in prison in the countries they came from. We’re focused on criminals as much as we can, before we do anything else.\nQ [Crosstalk.]\nTHE PRESIDENT: For instance, MS-13 — very important — we’re taking them out by the thousands. We’ve already been taking — you know, we didn’t stop this. We’ve been taking criminals out for the last year. These people have been here for many years — MS-13. We’re taking them out by the thousands. We’re getting them out.\nQ Mr. President, do you believe that using data to fill in the citizenship data on the census will be as effective as a question?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I think we’ll have it in the end where it’ll be actually more accurate than a census. Because we have information, gotten through other means, whether you look at Social Security or other places. We have — including loan applications — we have information that’s probably more accurate than the information we could get by going in and asking somebody, “Are you a citizen?” Because a lot of people aren’t going to tell the truth.\nQ Did you back down on that (inaudible)?\nTHE PRESIDENT: No. No. Not only didn’t I back down, I backed up. Becau- — anybody else would’ve given this up a long time ago. The problem is we had three very unfriendly courts. They were judges that weren’t exactly in love with this whole thing. And they were wrong. But it would’ve taken a long time to get through those courts. You understand that better than anybody, John. It would’ve taken a long time back up to the Supreme Court.\nSo I asked, “Is there another way?” And somebody said there’s a way that might be better. It might be more accurate. They explained it. I said, “Then what are we wasting time — we’re going to be in court for the next two years. What are we wasting time for?”\nIn the meantime, we have to, by law, have the printing done. So the printing has starting and we’re already finding out who the citizens are and who they’re not — and, I think, more accurately.\nSo, when I heard this, I said, “I think that’s actually better. I think what we’re doing is actually better.” And only the fake news, which there’s plenty, would say differently.\nQ Did Wilbur Ross let you down, Mr. President? Did Wilbur Ross let you down?\nTHE PRESIDENT: No, he didn’t let me down. No.\nQ How many people are you targeting? How many people are you targeting during the raids? And, again, are you worried at all about law enforcement — putting them at risk because everybody knows about the raids? Two questions.\nTHE PRESIDENT: These are great professionals. These are people that have done this for a long time. We’re really looking for criminals as much as we can. We’re trying to find the criminal population, which has been coming into this country over the last 10 years. We know who they are, too. We’ve been taking them out by the thousands — specifically, gang members from MS-13 and other gangs. We’ve been taking them out by the thousands.\nQ How many?\nTHE PRESIDENT: But we are really specifically looking for bad players, but we’re also looking for people that came into our country not through a process — they just walked over a line. They have to leave.\nQ The mayors don’t want ICE raid. The mayors don’t want the ICE raids, Mr. President.\nTHE PRESIDENT: Some do. No. No. No. The mayors in sanctuary cities, like — a mayor like de Blasio, who is probably the worst mayor in the country — from New York. I don’t even know what his attitude is. Nobody does because he doesn’t work very hard. Nobody knows what the hell he does. But a guy like de Blasio probably wouldn’t want the raid. But many mayors do — most mayors do. You know why? They don’t want to have crimes in their cities or states.\nQ What do you think about Christine Lagarde? What do you think about Christine Lagarde running?\nQ On military families — what about military families? Will you’re- — is your administration going to reconsider ending the parole in — policy — place on military families and provide assurance —\nTHE PRESIDENT: So nobody has treated the military better than President Trump. Nobody. Nobody has even come close. And you see that with budgets, you see that with the pay increases, and you see that with medical. But you know where you see it more than any place is with the vets. Because the vets now have Choice. They never had Choice before. For forty- —\nQ But can you guarantee that their loved ones won’t be deported?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Wait. Wait. Wait. For 44 years —\nQ Can you guarantee that their loved ones won’t be deported?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Wait. Wait. For 44 years — we are looking at that. For 44 years, they’ve tried to get Veterans Choice. I got it. Nobody else could’ve gotten it.\nQ What did you mean — what did you mean, Mr. President, when you said —\nQ Turkey — Turkey is planning to take delivery of —\nTHE PRESIDENT: Okay. Go ahead.\nQ What you would like Robert Mueller to tell Congress next week?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Say it.\nQ What would you like Robert Mueller to tell Congress next week?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Well, I think, how many bites at the apple do you get?\nQ (Inaudible.)\nTHE PRESIDENT: We’ve gone through 500 witnesses, 2,500 subpoenas. I’ve let them interview my lawyers. I’ve let them inter- — because I had nothing to do with Russia. Now that’s come out. There was no collusion.\nQ You didn’t do an interview, sir.\nTHE PRESIDENT: But how many — how many people and how many times — and this has been going on for two and a half years. Rush Limbaugh said there’s nobody else in the world that he knows that could’ve taken it. And on top of taking it, I’ve been a great President. I’ve done more —\nQ But, sir, you did not sit down with the Special Counsel.\nTHE PRESIDENT: Listen. Listen. I’ve done more in two and a half years than any other President — nobody’s even close — including, we just said, Veterans Choice and all of the other things I’ve gotten.\nBut for two and a half years — so now they have Mueller go make a speech. That goes. Now they wanted to have him again. They want to go it again and again and again because they want to hurt the President for the election. Because I see what I’m running against. You got Sleepy Joe Biden. He doesn’t have the energy to be President. And the people that nipping on his heels — they don’t have what it takes.\nAnd I can tell you that China and Russia — and I’ve been rougher on Russia than any President in the last 50 years. China and Russia and try North Korea — where I have a relationship. You don’t have a man testing nuclear anymore. You have a man —\nQ Is there something you want Mueller to say in this hearing?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Wait. Wait. You have a man that was so happy to see me. That’s a good thing, not a bad thing. You have a man that doesn’t smile a lot. But when he saw me, he smiled. He was happy. You have a man that, when I came into to office, all he was doing before under Obama was testing nuclear weapons and blowing up mountains. And now he’s not doing it.\nQ But on Robert Mueller, is there anything you’d like Robert Mueller to say about you?\nTHE PRESIDENT: There’s nothing he can say. He’s written a report. The report said, “No collusion.” And it said, effectively, “No obstruction,” because there’s no obstruction. And the other thing, it’s very interesting —\nQ But he couldn’t clear you on obstruction, sir.\nQ Do you think he should (inaudible)?\nTHE PRESIDENT: So they find out there’s no collusion. The whole thing is about collusion. So they find out it’s no collusion. Now, actually, it was different; it was bad crimes committed by the other side. We’ll find out about that. I’m sure that’s being looked at right now.\nQ Do you regret not talking to Mueller?\nQ Do you think he should show up? Should he show up show, sir?\nTHE PRESIDENT: So — so there’s no collusion and there’s no obstruction.\nNow, we have a great Attorney General now — he’s strong and he’s smart — and he read it and he studied it — along with Rod Rosenstein, who worked it from the beginning. And Rod Rosenstein and Bill Barr said, “There’s no obstruction.”\nIt’s also interesting — number one, there’s no crime. And how do you obstruct when there’s no crime?\nAlso, take a look at one other thing. It’s a thing called Article II. Nobody ever mentions Article II. It gives me all of these rights at a level that nobody has ever seen before. We don’t even talk about Article II.\nSo they ruled: no collusion, no objection. Very simple.\nTHE PRESIDENT: And you can only — by the way, you can only get so many bites at the apple. We got to get on to running a country. You got immigration, infrastructure, drug prices. The Democrats aren’t working. All they’re doing is trying to hurt people like Alex Acosta, a man who has done —\nQ Do you think Democrats hurt Mr. Acosta?\nTHE PRESIDENT: — a man who has done — I have no idea. Are you a Democrat?\nSECRETARY ACOSTA: I am not, no.\nTHE PRESIDENT: I have no idea. You know what I know? You know what I know about Alex? He was a great student at Harvard. He’s Hispanic, which I — which I so admire, because maybe it was a little tougher for him, and maybe not. But he did an unbelievable job as the Secretary of Labor. That’s what I know about him. I know one thing: He did a great job.\nSECRETARY ACOSTA: And — and —\nTHE PRESIDENT: And until this came up, there was never an ounce of problem with this very good man.\nGo ahead.\nSECRETARY ACOSTA: And let me — let me just add — let me — let me just add, you know, I hear a lot about how individuals got jobs and whatnot. Before our interview, we had never met, we had never talked. The President selected me as it should be done. It wasn’t that we knew each other. It’s not that we had a longstanding relationship. And I think that’s a testament to his selection process.\nQ Mr. President, what do you make of the infighting going on among Democrats in Congress between Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her squad?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Well, I think Cortez — who kept Amazon out of New York, and they don’t like her for that; thousands and thousands of jobs — I think Cortez is being very disrespectful to somebody that’s been there a long time.\nI deal with Nancy Pelosi a lot, and we go back and forth and it’s fine. But I think that a group of people is being very disrespectful for her — to her. And you know what? I don’t think that Nancy can let that go on.\nA group of people that came from — I don’t know where they came from. I’m looking at this Omar from Minnesota, and if one half of the things they’re saying about her are true, she shouldn’t even be in office.\nBut Cortez should treat Nancy Pelosi with respect. She should not be doing what she’s doing.\nAnd I’ll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you know better than I do: She is not a racist. Okay? She is not a racist. For them to call her a racist is a disgrace.\nQ Mr. President, are you visiting an immigration detention center like the Vice President?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Yeah — and very importantly, today, in a few hours, Vice President Pence and the head of Homeland Security are taking the press and congresspeople into detention centers. And we’re the ones that said they were crowded. They’re crowded because we have a lot of people. But they’re in good shape.\nAnd the reason is because the fake-news New York Times wrote a phony story. What Border Patrol is doing — they’ve become nurses and janitors and doctors. And they’re not trained for that. What they’ve done is so incredible.\nSo they’re touring detention centers. And that was my idea because I read a phony story in the New York Times today — or the other day — about the detention centers, about the conditions. And I had people calling me up at the highest levels from Border Patrol and ICE, almost crying, about that phony story.\nAnd they never saw anything. They have phony sources. They don’t even have sources. They write whatever they want. The New York Times is a very dishonest newspaper. They write what they want. And what they do is a tremendous disservice to this country. They are truly the enemy of the people, I’ll tell you that. They are the enemy of the people. And what they wrote about detention centers is unfair.\nNow, I believe it’s going to be the center they wrote about, but we’re taking a tour. They are — I’d love to be there, but I’m going to Ohio, Wisconsin.\nQ Are you going to — are you going any time?\nTHE PRESIDENT: I’ll be going. I’ll be going.\nBut I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. And these centers are — I mean, to have Ocasio say, “They’re drinking out of toilets.” She made that up, okay? That’s a phony story. She made it up. And these people, they — I’ll tell you what, I’ve been with ICE and I’ve been with Border Patrol a lot. They love those people coming across the border. They love them. And I’ve seen it. They love them.\nQ Does your administration have an estimate of how many illegals are living in the United States? Have they given you a number?\nTHE PRESIDENT: So one of the reasons the Democrats don’t want to have a census is because the number of people in the United States, for many years — you know, for years, you’ve heard 11 million; it’s far greater than that. But we’ll find out because I’m going to do something much more accurate than the way we — the way we did it in the census would never have been very accurate. What we’re doing will be much more accurate.\nQ Anything on Iran, Mr. President? Anything on Iran?\nTHE PRESIDENT: The wall is being built. The wall is being built. We had a couple of very good decisions. We had one bad decision. It’s very tough.\nAgain, Paul Ryan let us down. Paul Ryan was a terrible Speaker. Frankly, he was a baby. He didn’t know what the hell he was doing. The wall let us down.\nNow, in all fairness, the problem with — during — when we had both houses — in the Senate, you need 60 votes. Well, we don’t have 60 votes. We had 51 last time. Now we have 53 because we won during the ’18 election, which nobody wants to say, just so you understand.\nSo the wall is being built. We had one setback. We had one tremendous victory.\nAnd I had a tremendous victory that was very rarely covered by the press. Two days ago, I won the emoluments case. That was the biggest case of them all. I won the emoluments case. People don’t know that, by being President, I lose billions of dollars. By my being President — and especially in money I can’t make because I don’t do deals. But I lose billions of dollars.\nBut, another thing, I get a salary of $400- or $450,000 a year. I don’t think any other President has ever given up — it’s a lot of money, almost a half a million dollars. I give it up. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody say, “I give up my salary.” I’m not looking for credit, but I give up my salary. I get zero. I get zero.\nBut you know what makes me happy? That we’re doing a great job. And I want to thank Alex Acosta. He was a great, great Secretary.\nQ Anything on Iran, sir? Sir, I asked about Iran. I asked about Iran — I asked about Iran, not the wall. Could you give us an update on your thoughts on Iran?\nTHE PRESIDENT: Iran better be careful. They’re treading on very dangerous territory. Iran, if you’re listening, you better be careful.\nQ Mr. President, on Turkey: Will you sanction Turkey?\nQ Should Epstein stay behind bars?\nQ Yesterday you got a win in the Ninth Circuit court over Title X funding. What’s your reaction? And are you trying to completely defund Planned Parenthood?\nTHE PRESIDENT: They had a big win yesterday. We have some very big cases having to do with that. We’ll see where it (inaudible).\nEND TRANSCRIPT – 10:04 A.M. EDT\nPresident Trump Delivers Remarks on USMCA From Wisconsin – 2:25pm Livestream…\nU.S. President Donald Trump is attending an event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, today to discuss the importance of a North American trade bloc and support the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal.\nAnticipated start time approximately 2:25pm EST.\nFox Business Livestream – USA Today Livestream – Global News Livestream","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line309378"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5406941175460815,"wiki_prob":0.45930588245391846,"text":"Third ReadingMackenzie Valley Resource Management ActGovernment Orders\nCathy McLeod Conservative Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC\nMr. Speaker, I have found it very interesting that as the Liberals have been debating this particular bill, they only pay attention to half of the bill, and that is the half related to the water board issue. They are completely silent on the very important second half, which is a direct paradox to consultation and collaboration. It is where the government is taking the power onto itself, in terms of placing moratoriums through Governor in Council, through the executive branch, for very vague national interest reasons.\nI would ask my colleague to ignore part A in his answer, but look at Bill C-69, Bill C-48, the letter that was sent yesterday from the premier of his territory and part B of this bill, and tell us if he believes that the government is acting in the best interests of his territory.\nMichael McLeod Liberal Northwest Territories, NT\nMr. Speaker, I would like to correct the hon. member. There are not only two parts to this piece of legislation. There are actually three. The first part is referring to the superboard. The second part contains the eight regulatory items that were brought forward by the previous Conservative government that I think everybody agreed to and were focused on. When the bill came forward it had the superboard attachment. In Bill C-88, we have a further piece which is the Canadian Petroleum Resources Act. I believe that is the part the member is referring to.\nWe heard loud and clear from the Premier of the Northwest Territories when he appeared as a witness in front of the indigenous affairs committee. The member was chairing the meeting so she was there when he said he appreciated how well the negotiations were going. There are negotiations that are happening with the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the Government of the Northwest Territories and the federal government that will bring oversight and co-management abilities on the Beaufort Sea. This is a piece that was ignored by the previous Conservative government. The Conservative government would not put the Beaufort Sea discussions on the table.\nI find it very surprising when members are concerned about how we react to the discussions on the Beaufort Sea when the previous Conservative government would not include it. Neither would it include the Norman Wells oil fields, two cash cows that generate revenue. They were left out. They were not part of the deal. The Conservative government would not let them put these items on the table, but our government has.\nAlexandre Boulerice NDP Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC\nMr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech.\nHe probably already knows that the NDP will be supporting Bill C-88, which fixes some of the mistakes made by the previous government.\nWe agree on the broad principles and the fact that the people of the Northwest Territories should have the right to manage their own affairs and govern themselves when it comes to assessments and respect for the environment.\nI do, however, have one simple question. My colleague, and all other members of the Liberal government, voted to support the bill that states that we must respect and include the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in every piece of Canadian legislation. Unfortunately, it has not been included in Bill C-88. I would like to know why.\nMr. Speaker, I would argue that this is UNDRIP in action. This includes all of the indigenous governments in the regulatory process. Every government that has agreed to and signed on to the land claim agreements is involved in the regulatory process in the Northwest Territories. Fifty per cent of the seats are guaranteed for indigenous people. We have a resource revenue-sharing component in the Northwest Territories. I do not think any other jurisdiction has that, a revenue-sharing component for indigenous people. They get 20% of the Government of Northwest Territories' share.\nThis is the best example we could have when it comes to inclusion of indigenous people. I think it is a model that other jurisdictions, including the hon. member's province, could look at using. Other countries have come to look at how we operate and how we include indigenous people. They see it as a very good model that we should share with other jurisdictions.\nLarry Bagnell Liberal Yukon, YT\nMr. Speaker, a lot of the debate has been technical, but I want to ask a more spiritual question.\nWhen you make a treaty with first nations, like the treaties with the Sahtu, the Deh Cho and the Gwich'in, there is a trust there. They trust that the government will at least follow the treaty and it will keep its word.\nThen, how does it feel when we pass a law in this Parliament that breaks the treaty, that is unlawful, that does not follow the rules of a treaty? This is not the first time it has happened in our history, obviously. I certainly think you would have strong feelings on this.\nThe Speaker Liberal Geoff Regan\nI would remind the hon. member to direct his comments to the Chair.\nThe hon. member for Northwest Territories.\nMr. Speaker, it took many years to get to the point where the management and decision-making around resource development in the Northwest Territories could be agreed to in the form of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. The government of the day agreed to it, signed on to it, only to renege a couple of years later, saying it was going to make changes, while not consulting with anybody. A consultant was brought in from Alberta, a consultant who specialized in oil and gas and knew nothing about land claims or self-government or any kind of legislation in that area.\nI think it shattered the trust of all the indigenous people who were involved with the Mackenzie Valley resource management boards and also the people who were involved in the creation of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. It has taken a long time. People wonder why it has taken so long to bring Bill C-88 back to the table. We had to deal with the trust factor. We had to convince indigenous people that we were serious and that we were not going to do what the previous government did, and that we were going to sort out all the issues before we got here.\nNow, every indigenous government that has a role in the Mackenzie Valley boards supports this legislation. They have taken out ads in newspapers stating that they support it. The Government of Northwest Territories supports it. Industry supports it. It provides reassurance that they know the process and everybody is comfortable with it.\nPat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB\nMr. Speaker, I have travelled with the member to his territory a couple of times, and I know how important it is to him that the residents of his riding have access to employment opportunities. I know that is important to him and to the people of the Northwest Territories.\nIn his remarks and in general in the debate on this, there has been heavy criticism of Bill C-15 from the previous Parliament. Neither of us was in the previous Parliament. Is the member aware that his party voted for Bill C-15, the bill that the Liberals are now describing as this terrible, poor bill that needed to be undone by the government?\nMr. Speaker, I am aware that Bill C-15 was a Conservative bill that really shattered the confidence of the indigenous people in the Northwest Territories.\nIt was a bill that never should have come forward. It is a bill that we are trying to correct today. There is an opportunity for my honoured colleague from across the way, who I travel with most weekends to return home, to support this bill. He has the opportunity to stand up now and support Bill C-88. I would appreciate it if he would do so. I think he knows the bill. He knows how important it is to the Northwest Territories. I think he is quite supportive of indigenous governments and resource development.\nThis would provide reassurance. I would ask the member to stand up and support this bill. Let us clear up some of the wrongdoings from the past.\nMr. Speaker, I have noticed a pattern with the government. It consults when it feels like it. In the case of the tanker moratorium, in the case of the northern gateway project, and in the case of the Beaufort Sea moratorium, there was no consultation. How does the member align that with his words about consultation around this bill, when clearly there are many times when the government has utterly failed in that area?\nMr. Speaker, the member fails to point out that the moratorium was only on new exploration licences in federal waters. She does not point out the fact that there was no activity. There were no applications in sight. Historically, over the five years prior to that, it was $7 million. There is no economic boom if they are only going to find $7 million spent in the Northwest Territories as a whole on oil and gas. Therefore, there was a natural moratorium.\nKevin Waugh Conservative Saskatoon—Grasswood, SK\nMr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise tonight to speak to Bill C-88, an act to amend the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act.\nOnce again, this bill, like many other bills we have seen in the House, is being debated and rushed through Parliament in the last few days before the House rises for the summer. It is worth noting that this is a bill that was only studied in our committee on indigenous and northern affairs for one meeting before we went into clause-by-clause consideration. As a result, we were unable to hear live testimony from stakeholders such as the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and the Northwest Territories Chamber of Commerce.\nWe have recently seen these legislative delays with other important bills, such as Bill C-92, which was passed at third reading in this House just last week, on June 3. It is totally unacceptable that the Liberals have so utterly mismanaged their legislative schedule when it comes to the bills that are now before us, days before we rise.\nBill C-88 is a bill that forms part of a long Liberal saga to kill natural resources development in this country. The bill would amend subsection 12(1) of the Canada Petroleum Resources Act to allow the Governor in Council to arbitrarily ban any oil and gas activity across the Arctic offshore. Under this bill, the government would only need to invoke the national interest to ban oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea. However, the term “national interest” remains undefined in this bill, so the government would have complete discretion to decide when it should ban oil and gas activities in the Arctic offshore. These opportunities for greater economic prosperity in the north would therefore be limited and controlled by the ministers here in Ottawa. Again, under the current government, Ottawa knows best.\nWe have already seen the Liberals reveal their paternalism when it comes to economic opportunities for northern communities. We just have to go back to December 2016. While the Prime Minister was in Washington, D.C., he announced that there would be a moratorium on offshore oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea. No, he was not up in northern Canada. He was, in fact, meeting with President Obama in Washington.\nThere was absolutely no consultation with the Government of Northwest Territories before this moratorium was announced in Washington. In fact, the territorial leaders of the day were given less than half an hour's notice before the Prime Minister declared the moratorium, in the United States, the farthest destination away from northern Canada.\nBy single-handedly introducing a moratorium on oil and gas development in the Beaufort Sea, the Liberals are telling northern communities that Ottawa knows best. The Liberals are saying, through their actions, that northerners do not have the right to pursue their own economic opportunities without the approval of the current federal government.\nWe heard from multiple witnesses in committee about the devastating impact the Liberals' moratorium has had on northerners. Wally Schumann, the minister of industry, tourism and investment and the minister of infrastructure for the Northwest Territories, said the following about the moratorium:\nI guess we can be very frank because we're in front of the committee.\nWhen it first came out, we never got very much notice on the whole issue of the moratorium and the potential that was in the Beaufort Sea. There were millions and millions, if not billions, of dollars in bid deposits and land leases up there. That took away any hope we had of developing the Beaufort Sea.\nWe also heard from Merven Gruben, the mayor of Tuktoyaktuk. He was very disappointed with the Liberal decision to unilaterally impose this moratorium on northerners. He was very concerned about the effects this ban would have on the people of his community. He said:\nIt's so easy to sit down here and make judgments on people and lives that are some 3,500 klicks away, and make decisions on our behalf, especially with that moratorium on the Beaufort. That should be taken away, lifted, please and thank you. That is going to open up and give jobs to our people—training and all the stuff we're wishing for.\nUnfortunately, the Liberals are not listening to the voices, again, of the northerners, and as a result, communities are paying the price now for the Liberal government's arrogance. There is absolutely no doubt that Bill C-88 is just another attempt by the Liberal government to polarize oil and gas extraction in this country. It explains the power of cabinet to block economic development and adds to the ever-increasing levels of bureaucratic red tape that need to be navigated by proponents of energy development.\nThe bill makes northern energy development more difficult by increasing the obstacles that must be overcome by energy proponents before they can even put shovels in the ground.\nIn response to these polarized anti-energy provisions, many stakeholders have voiced their concerns. One of the numerous stakeholders that want to see the Governor in Council power to ban oil and gas development removed finally from the bill is the Northwest Territories Chamber of Commerce. It has written submissions to our committee. The chamber indicated its opposition to the final authority of the Governor in Council to ban northern oil and gas development.\nThe chamber wrote to us as follows:\nThe final decision needs to be approved by the Indigenous Nation of the prescribed area who are the steward's of the area but also rely on the land to provide economic independence to their membership and throughout the NT.\nOf course, in pushing through Bill C-88 without any amendments, the Liberals have demonstrated that they do not care about the opinions and concerns of our northern communities, which will be deeply affected by this piece of legislation. These northern voices are once again being ignored by the Liberal government.\nAnother important stakeholder that expressed really serious concerns about Bill C-88 was the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation. Unfortunately, like the Northwest Territories Chamber of Commerce, the IRC was not afforded the opportunity at all to present live testimony to our committee, because, as I mentioned before, we were only given one day to hear from witnesses on this very important matter.\nAgain, the Liberals rushed the process. It was the result of the Liberals' mismanagement of the parliamentary agenda and a consequence of the fact that the Liberals left this bill to the very last minute for deliberations.\nLike so many other crucial stakeholders, the IRC is opposed to the unilateral power to ban oil and gas development in the Arctic offshore, which the bill gives to the Governor in Council.\nIt is hardly surprising that the IRC is against the arbitrary power given to politicians here in Ottawa to determine the fate of energy development in the north. Bill C-88 says that the Governor in Council can ban oil and gas development projects when “it is in the national interests to do so”. However, does Bill C-88 tell us what the national interest is? Does Bill C-88 tell northern communities what the national interest is? No, of course not.\nLike so many other Liberal anti-energy policies, questions of the national interests are only for the Liberals to decide and nobody else. The bill is simply a reinforcement of the arrogant mantra that the Liberals know best.\nGiven that the IRC was not given the opportunity to offer live testimony on this discussion on Bill C-88, I would like to read into the record some of the serious concerns the IRC highlighted in its written submission to our committee.\nFirst of all, it bears noting that the IRC is an organization that was created way back in 1984 to manage the settlement that formed part of the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, better known as the IFA. The Inuvialuit occupy the Inuvialuit Settlement Area, or the ISR, and beyond.\nThe IFA was the first comprehensive land claim agreement settled north of the 60th parallel and only the second settled in Canada's history.\nWhy was this land claim agreement so important for Inuvialuit people, and why did they initiate the negotiations with the Government of Canada? In the IRC's own words, the land claim negotiations “came in response to our limited influence in increasing development activity on our lands and the vast marine areas of the ISR.”\nIn the short term, then, the Inuvialuit secured a land claim agreement, in part, so that they could have greater influence over development activities on their own lands.\nWith this background in mind, the IRC has written about its serious reservations with regard to the power the bill would give to Ottawa to declare oil and gas moratoriums on IRC lands. In fact, the IRC already saw the Prime Minister declare a moratorium in a significant portion of their settlement region when the Liberals were first elected to power in 2016. In regard to this ban, the IRC wrote,\nit is important to note that the imposition of the Moratorium by the Prime Minister was done without consultation with any Inuvialuit in contravention of the IFA and with the framework established and the promises made under the Northwest Territories Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement.\nThe Liberals simply seized the opportunity in 2016 to unilaterally implement a moratorium on oil and gas in the north while the Prime Minister, as I mentioned before, was not even in this country. He was in the United States of America looking for photo ops and free publicity. The Liberals did not consult at all with stakeholders before they took on this decision. What is worse, instead of apologizing to many of the northern communities that are suffering because of this moratorium, the Liberals are going full steam ahead with Bill C-88, as we see tonight, to ensure that they can unilaterally put bans on northern oil and gas development again and again.\nBill C-88 says that the Governor in Council can make these bans when it is in the national interest to do so. The IRC and Conservatives would like to know what the Liberals mean when they say “in the national interest”.\nThe IRC had the following to say on the issue of the national interest:\nThe national interest criterion is problematic as it elevates the national priorities of the day vis-à-vis Inuvialuit priorities within our traditional territory. It would be akin to an appropriation a constituent might experience in the south without any restitution from the government. Bill C-88 does not define national interest or incorporate an express requirement to consider how the national interest ought to be balanced against the ability of rights holders to provide for their economic future.\nDespite these concerns from indigenous stakeholders in the north, the Liberals have demonstrated repeatedly, through their anti-energy policies, that they have no intention at all of ever balancing their vision of the national interest against the views of indigenous groups that do not share the Liberals' hostile attitude toward natural resource development.\nUnfortunately, Bill C-88 is not the only bill the Liberals have pushed forward, to the detriment of the indigenous communities across this country. We have just heard from indigenous communities about the real concerns they have about Bill C-69, the Liberal environmental assessment act.\nStephen Buffalo, the president and CEO of the Indian Resource Council and a member of the Samson Cree Nation, said:\nIndigenous communities are on the verge of a major economic breakthrough, one that finally allows Indigenous people to share in Canada's economic prosperity. Bill C-69 will stop this progress in its tracks.\nRoy Fox, chief of the Kainai or Blood tribe first nation, said the following about Bill C-69:\n...I and the majority of Treaty 7 chiefs strongly oppose the bill for its likely devastating impact on our ability to support our community members, as it would make it virtually impossible for my nation to fully benefit from the development of our energy resources.\nBill C-48, the northern B.C. oil tanker ban, is yet another Liberal anti-energy bill that the Liberals have rammed through this Parliament against the wishes of major indigenous stakeholders. Bill C-48 shuts the door to the Eagle Spirit pipeline proposal, an energy corridor that is supported by over 35 first nations and is an indigenous-led and indigenous-owned initiative. It is a $17-billion project that has the potential to provide economic opportunity to numerous indigenous communities. However, as with Bill C-88, this one tonight, Bill C-48 is another Liberal anti-energy bill that is both hurtful and patronizing to indigenous communities. Bill C-48 is another example of the Liberal government here in Ottawa telling indigenous communities that they cannot pursue their own natural resource development when it does not suit the interests of the Liberal agenda of the day.\nIndigenous communities are tired of the paternalism that has been constantly demonstrated toward them by this anti-energy Liberal government. The chair and president of Eagle Spirit Energy, Calvin Helin, who is a member of the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation, had the following to say about the viewpoint of the 35 first nations that are in favour of the Eagle Spirit pipeline. He said that these first nations “do not like outsiders, particularly those they view as trust-fund babies, coming into the traditional territories they've governed and looked after for over 10,000 years and dictating government policy in their territory.”\nHowever, the Liberals clearly do not think that these indigenous viewpoints are part of the current government's idea of a national interest, so they choose to ignore these voices. As a result of Liberal indifference to the concerns of these indigenous groups, in 2018 the chiefs council for the Eagle Spirit pipeline had to launch a GoFundMe campaign just to help pay legal costs in a court challenge to Bill C-48. The Eagle Spirit project noted the sad state of affairs by stating that this action is required to be taken by Canada's poorest people against a federal justice department with unlimited resources. Other indigenous groups have either filed lawsuits or are planning to do so pending the legislative fate of Bill C-48.\nSadly, the Liberals again did not listen to these indigenous voices then, and they are not listening to the indigenous voices in our northern communities today. It is glaringly clear that all the Liberals care about is the pursuit of their anti-energy policies at all costs. However, the cost is a very real human cost to the ability of northern communities to be in control of their own economic development opportunities.\nThe Liberals have promised time and time again to work with northerners. With only days left now in this Parliament, when will the Liberals finally live up to this promise?\nLabrador Newfoundland & Labrador\nYvonne Jones LiberalParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade\nMr. Speaker, I listened very attentively to my colleague across the way, and there are so many things I could say in response. I know I do not have the time to do so, but I will have the opportunity down the road.\nThe member talked a lot about what is in the national interest of the country. I want to remind him that the national interest is defined by Canadian legislation. Several references to that can be found in different acts within the House. When I get a chance to speak, I can certainly point them out. Once he has an opportunity to read them, I am sure he will see more clearly why the phrase is used in the context of this decision.\nIn addition, what the member failed to talk about this evening is how the Liberal government has gotten to where we are today with this piece of legislation. We are here because the Conservatives passed a bill in 2014 that took away the rights to ownership of indigenous land claims and treaties in the Northwest Territories. The bill would restore those values, that trust and the agreements back to indigenous governments in the Northwest Territories.\nIf that trust had not been broken and the treaty agreements had not been threatened under previous legislation by the Harper government, we would not be here this evening having to right the wrong that was done to indigenous governments in this country. Why did the member not want to speak to that issue this evening?\nMr. Speaker, I should note that I was not here when Bill C-15 first came forward under the previous government. However, of course, the Liberals voted for Bill C-15 in the last Parliament. Here they are now, saying it is no good, yet at the time, they voted for it. It is really interesting.\nSo what is the national best interest regarding the oil and gas in this country? Today, we saw the Prime Minister ridicule six premiers of this country, including the Premier of the Northwest Territories. They have major concerns over Bill C-69 and Bill C-48, and the Prime Minister took shots at all six of them today in the House.\nGuy Caron NDP Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC\nMr. Speaker, we are indeed talking about Bill C-15, which this bill seeks to replace. I was in Parliament when Bill C-15 was passed under the Conservative government. It sought to replace the regional councils in the Northwest Territories with one large pan-territorial council.\nThe problem is that those regional councils were created as a result of land claim and self-government agreements with indigenous governments. The regional councils were created through nation-to-nation agreements. The Conservatives unilaterally overruled those decisions without consulting the indigenous peoples involved.\nI would like to know why the member wants to go backward. Why he does not want to have this conversation and work on this nation-to-nation relationship that was undermined and ignored by the Conservatives?\nMr. Speaker, we did have Neil McCrank, from Calgary. He did all the consultations regarding the superboard. He was one of the few live guests we could bring in on the one day we had to talk about Bill C-88 at committee. As members may know, other submissions were submitted through email.\nAt committee, Neil McCrank disputed that claim. He spent months talking about the superboard. As members know, the proposal back then was to go from four boards down to one. Members know the result: It ended up in court and we did not do that.\nI want to put on the record that Neil McCrank spent months in the territories dealing with the superboard issue.\nMr. Speaker, what does the member support in the bill?\nMr. Speaker, well, there is not much, as members can tell by my 20-minute speech.\nThe minister said that the Northwest Territories government wanted Bill C-88 passed expeditiously. Why then did the Liberals sit on this bill for months, if not years? They had the opportunity to move this long before 10 days before the House rises. That is the question I had when the minister stood before us and talked about how great Bill C-88 was when, in fact, the Liberals buried the legislation for months.\nMr. Speaker, I want to pick up on some of the comments my colleague made regarding the arbitrary decision-making that the government has done. The Liberals have not done any consultations. It seems that the Liberals' desire to consult is only when they feel like it, and that would be related to a number of projects, like the tanker moratorium, Eagle Spirit and the northern gateway. There is also the moratorium that was announced down in the United States.\nWe are hearing increasing concerns not only from indigenous communities, who have not been consulted properly, but also from the premiers of these provinces. I speak in particular about a very concerning letter regarding Bill C-48 and Bill C-69 and how dismissive the Prime Minister and his party are in terms of engaging the premiers and indigenous communities to allow projects to move forward. The Liberals are happy to cancel projects, but they are reluctant to create an environment for projects to move forward.\nMr. Speaker, the letters from six premiers to the Prime Minister came out yesterday. There are letters from the territories, New Brunswick, the premiers of Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. As well, one of the biggest oil and gas demonstrations this country has ever seen was taking place today in Calgary, Alberta.\nIt is shameful what the government has done with Bill C-69, Bill C-48 and certainly with this legislation, Bill C-88.\nMr. Speaker, I am surprised that the hon. member for Saskatoon—Grasswood, in describing this bill, which is about the restoration of indigenous treaty rights around rejecting the idea of superboards, among other details, has raised the issue of oil and gas, the need for development, and demonstrations in Calgary in favour of oil and gas.\nWe have a lot of discussion in this place about the need to recognize a climate emergency. I wonder if my hon. colleague has any particular notion of when we should stop expanding oil and gas, and how quickly we need to phase out oil and gas in order to avoid catastrophic impacts from the climate crisis.\nMr. Speaker, Canadians are looking forward to seeing the Green Party policy because it has been under the rug for so many years. Now it has a little jump in its step from the by-election and Canadians are really going to know what the Green Party stands for. It wants to shut down oil and gas. It would rather get it from Venezuela and other countries, not Canadian clean energy.\nI am wondering where the Green Party will go in October, because it is not going to be welcomed in my province of Saskatchewan. The Green Party will not be welcomed in Alberta. It will be interesting to see where the party goes once its policies are looked at by Canadians from coast to coast to coast.\nMike Bossio Liberal Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON\nMr. Speaker, I am thankful for the opportunity to speak on Bill C-88, and I acknowledge that I do so on traditional Algonquin territory.\nI will be splitting my time with the member for Port Moody—Coquitlam.\nThis important bill demonstrates the Government of Canada's commitment to the north and to the people who live there.\nThe legislation now before us proposes to amend the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act. This bill would reverse legislation that aimed to amalgamate three regional land and water boards established under comprehensive land claim agreements in the Northwest Territories. It would also modernize the overall regulatory regime that oversees the development of resources along the Mackenzie Valley and in the offshore Arctic.\nPerhaps most significantly, though, Bill C-88 would be a tremendous win for the environment. With the devastating effects of climate change that are evident in the Arctic more than anywhere else in the world, we all know how important this is. While Canada's north is rich in natural resources, it is also a fragile and rapidly changing environment. I am sure that my hon. colleagues will agree that it needs to be handled with care.\nHow do we do that? We would take a big step forward with Bill C-88 on what I call the three Ps of environmental responsibility: people, protection and prosperity. Bill C-88 would provide the right people with the right regulatory tools to make the right decisions for the environment and for Canada.\nThe first P in environmental responsibility is people, and one of the best ways to care for the environment in the north is to involve the people who live there in decisions about development projects. In the same way that urban communities across Canada invite residents to have a say in proposed developments in their neighbourhoods, northerners must also have a meaningful say in how natural resources are managed in their region. Bill C-88 aims to do this in the best possible way.\nMost importantly, the legislation would repeal provisions in the Northwest Territories Devolution Act that would have eliminated the regional panels of the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board and established a single consolidated board. Bill C-88 would reverse the board restructuring and reintroduce other regulatory elements to function under the existing four-board structure, including the Gwich'in Land and Water Board, the Sahtu Land and Water Board, the Wek'èezhìi Tlicho Land and Water Board and the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board.\nThese are all independent, co-managed boards that have appointed members who bring valuable local and traditional knowledge to the table. These members have the experience and local knowledge needed to effectively review and influence resource and development projects, as only they can. It is also important to know that the regional land and water boards are part of the existing land claim agreements, and that respecting these agreements is crucial to reconciliation with indigenous peoples.\nThe second P of environment responsibility is protection. A scientific report from Environment and Climate Change Canada shows that the Arctic is being hit hardest by climate change. The region is warming at a rate that is about three times faster than the rest of the world. In winter, this means melting permafrost and less sea ice. By the middle of this century, most marine regions in the Canadian Arctic may be ice free for at least a month at a time.\nThis would change everything. The habitat of ice-dependent wildlife, such as narwhals, polar bears and walruses, would be severely impacted. The Arctic caribou population would be at risk, because these animals rely on sea ice for their long-distance migration. Various species of fish would likely move away from where they are usually harvested in search of colder water temperatures. Of course, the melting sea ice would likely open new shipping routes and expose more fossil fuel reserves to development.\nWhat is clear is that we have to understand what is happening to the environment and protect it, for both current and future generations. Bill C-88 would help us accomplish this goal. This is because the legislation also proposes amendments to the Canada Petroleum Resources Act, CPRA, which regulates oil and gas rights on federal Crown lands in the north and in offshore areas not under federal-provincial co-management.\nThe CPRA amendments support commitments made by Canada and the United States in the joint Arctic leaders' statement of 2016. The two nations agreed to base decisions about the future development of offshore oil and gas resources in the Arctic on scientific reviews that would be conducted every five years.\nBill C-88 would encourage governments and local communities to work together and move forward with both scientific and traditional knowledge to protect and develop the rich natural environment. It is so important that we take our indigenous knowledge into account, which has existed for thousands of years and that has a far greater understanding of the Arctic than any other Canadian does. We need to ensure that traditional knowledge is taken into account when we are considering any resource projects or otherwise that occur in the north.\nBill C-88 would encourage governments and local communities to work together, to move forward with both scientific and traditional knowledge to protect and develop the rich natural environment.\nThis brings me to my third P of environmental responsibility, and that is prosperity. Canada's prosperity, in many ways, relies on the development of natural resources. As the Right Hon. Prime Minister said recently at the 2019 Nature Champions Summit in Montreal, “We can't afford to ignore climate change.” The future of our country and our economy depends on it. “You cannot have a plan for the future of our economy as a country, as a nation, if you don't also have a plan for environment sustainability and environmental protection.”\nBill C-88 would support a robust regulatory regime that not only protects the environment, but also provides a responsible approach to the development of natural resources. Furthermore, renewing the relationship with northern and indigenous organizations and governments is the proper and just way to move forward in partnership, with legal certainty in regard to environmental protection and toward increased investment and jobs.\nAll told, I would suggest that this is what reconciliation is all about. It is establishing that relationship with indigenous communities that can be based on trust. That trust is only going to happen if we have meaningful and collaborative consultation with our indigenous communities.\nIt is about making sure that indigenous peoples have a meaningful voice in important decisions about their lands, their lives and their future. Bill C-88 would enable a resilient resource sector while also respecting the rights and interests of indigenous peoples.\nThe three Ps of environmental protection, people, protection and prosperity, are the key drivers of Bill C-88. They are also sound reasons to support the proposed legislation. This legislation is finally going to bring about an environment where all indigenous peoples in the north will feel they can actively participate in determining what happens with that environment, what happens with their economy, and what happens with their future, for both today and for their children and grandchildren. Once again, indigenous people always look out seven generations. We need to take that into consideration in the north.\nI encourage my hon. colleagues to vote in favour of Bill C-88 at third reading.\nMr. Speaker, one of the things that my hon. colleague did not bring up was the fact that the government has imposed a drilling moratorium on the North Sea and that this moratorium was put in place without any consultation with the Northwest Territories. The government gave the premier a phone call 20 minutes before making the announcement in the United States to a foreign audience. So much for consultation.\nWill this member agree that there was no consultation on the northern drilling ban?\nMr. Speaker, it has been great to work with my colleague over the last number of years on the indigenous committee. I think we accomplished a lot of great things together, on many different bills and many different reports, that I feel have made a difference in the lives of indigenous people. I thank him for serving on that committee and his contribution to it.\nHowever, I do not agree with the premise of his question. The Premier of the Northwest Territories and Inuvialuit both agree that they are making great progress right now in negotiations on how to properly develop the resources both in the Beaufort Sea and the Norman Wells oil fields. These are two areas which I have to say the previous government did not consider involving indigenous communities in consultation. Let us face it. That has been the reason that so many big projects like this in the past have failed, because of a lack of proper consultation.\nOur government is taking the time to consult with those communities to ensure that they determine the future development of those resources.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line164315"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9660152792930603,"wiki_prob":0.9660152792930603,"text":"For Walker, a 50-year legacy in public housing and then chaos\nBy Shayla Nidever | Mar 1, 2019\nThis story is one in a continuing series covering the crisis in public housing in Columbia.\nGilbert Walker’s 50-year tenure in public housing administration came down to a month of chaos and criticism, followed by his abrupt retirement.\nThe Columbia Housing Authority’s executive director announced his retirement on Feb. 21, just over a month after two men were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in the Allen Benedict Court public housing complex. The 26-building complex was shuttered permanently and its 411 residents forced to abandon their apartments, some fleeing during the night because of the build-up of poisonous gases and other life-threatening issues.\nWalker has worked for the housing authority since 1968 and became the executive director in 2000. His decision to retire came at the end of a CHA board meeting on Feb. 21.\n“There was no one ushering him out or anything like that, that he was able to come to that decision and after more than 50 years of service to an organization, he has a right to go home,” said Cynthia Hardy, a public relations specialist and former television host who was hired in February as the new communications director for the Columbia Housing Authority.\nHardy says that the board made it clear to her that Walker made this decision on his own.\n“You spend so much of your years doing something you love, you have a lot of accomplishments and then something tragic like this happens, and you’re responsible,” Hardy said of Walker. “You want to do what you love, but if moving aside and doing some other things are going to make the organization stronger, then a good leader does that, too.”\nWhen the housing authority came under scrutiny after the deaths at Allen Benedict Court last month, District 3 Columbia City Councilman Moe Baddourah called for Walker to step down.\n“Somebody has to be held accountable for what happened at Allen Benedict Court,” said Baddourah.\nHe believes Walker’s decision to retire has been a positive development.\nIn the next few months, Baddourah said he would like to see a more open process when it comes to the workings of the CHA, and says it’s time for change throughout the organization moving forward.\n“Let’s just not forget that there are two dead people that resulted in 411 people out of their own homes. They were asked to leave their houses in the middle of the night,” said Baddourah, “Hopefully we learn from that experience.”\nAlthough Walker was not available to speak directly to his legacy or his next steps, he did release a retirement letter to former Columbia mayor who now serves as the CHA’s attorney, Bob Coble.\nIn the letter, Walker said, “I regret that current events will overshadow the multiple outstanding achievements of the Columbia Housing Authority during my tenure.”\nHe noted achievements during his tenure at the CHA, including redeveloping old public housing, increasing the availability of affordable public housing in Columbia, and the demolition of older public housing including Gonzales Gardens, Saxon Homes and Hendley Homes.\nWalker ended his letter with a promise to remain dedicated to the CHA during this time of transition.\nRead more about the transitions coming to the CHA here.\nAfter five decades at the Columbia Housing Authority, Executive Director Gilbert Walker announced he will retire at the end of June. Some called for his resignation after two men died in January of carbon monoxide poisoning in a public housing complex.\nPreviousBattle of Aiken draws Yankees and Confederates\nNextA time of transition for the Columbia Housing Authority\nShayla Nidever\nShayla Nidever is a Texas native who has a passion for people and telling their stories creatively using words and multiple mediums. She was an editorial intern for Columbia, S.C.’s daily newsletter, COLAtoday. She enjoys writing long form stories and covering unlikely topics. She plans to use her writing to cover difficult stories often avoided and put those people and issues in the spotlight. Along with writing, Nidever wants to tell stories in many different ways, using everything from audio to video to digital design.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1415920"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7200927734375,"wiki_prob":0.7200927734375,"text":"Read Next Watch Skateboard-Breakdancing Pro in Fitz and the Tantrums' 'I Just Wanna Shine' Video\tSend Us a Tip\tSubscribe\nHome Music Music Features\nLittle Richard: ‘I Am the Architect of Rock & Roll’\nThe Georgia Peach, the Living Flame, the Southern Child, the King of Rock & Roll: Little Richard is all of these, and he’ll be the first to tell you so\nParke Puterbaugh\nParke Puterbaugh's Most Recent Stories\nMonkee Business Revisited\nMemphis Honors Big Star’s Alex Chilton at Hometown Tribute Show\nN’Awlinz: Dis Dat Or D’Udda\n\"I really feel from the bottom of my heart that I am the inventor [of rock & roll],\" Little Richard says. \"If there was somebody else, I didn't know than, didn't hear them, haven’t heard them. Not even to this day. So I say I'm the architect.\"\nTerry O'Neill/Getty\nThis story originally appeared in the April 19th, 1990 issue of Rolling Stone dedicated to the 1950s.\nMore than any performer, Little Richard blew the lid off the Fifties. With his mascara-smeared face twisted in a midscream paroxysm of rapture and dementia, hair piled high in a proud pompadour, he was an explosive and charismatic performer who laid the foundation of rock & roll. His outrageous personality captured the music’s rebellious spirit, and his frantically charged piano playing and raspy, shouted vocals defined its sound.\nLittle Richard was born Richard Penniman on December 5th, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. His father, Charles “Bud” Penniman, sold moonshine and ran a tavern called the Tip In Inn. His mother, Leva Mae Penniman, raised Richard and 11 brothers and sisters in a small house in the Pleasant Hill section of Macon. As a youngster, Richard soaked up music, which was part of the fabric of life in the black community. He heard acts of all kinds at the Macon City Auditorium – blues, country, vaudeville – where he sold Cokes. He also went to church, not so much for the message as for the music: the fervid, unrestrained style of black gospel singing lit a fire in him.\nLittle Richard: 20 Essential Songs\nLittle Richard learned to play gospel piano from an equally flamboyant character named Esquerita, combining it with his own love of boogie-woogie in what became a blueprint for rock & roll. By his late teens he was a veteran of several traveling vaudeville revues, where he got schooled in the theatrical side of performing He cut his first sides for RCA Camden in 1951, followed by a string of singles for Peacock. But it was at Specialty Records that the wild rock & roller within was turned loose.\n“One day a reel of tape, wrapped in a piece of paper looking as though someone had eaten off it, came across my desk,” Specialty AALR man Robert “Bumps” Blackwell told Charles White, Little Richard’s biographer. Richard was scrubbing pots and pans at the Greyhound bus station in Macon while waiting to hear from Specialty about his submission In 1955 he got the green light, entering J&M Studio in New Orleans with Blackwell and some of the Crescent City’s finest musicians. After a slow start, Blackwell grasped the untapped potential of Richard’s singing and playing, and they switched gears from conventional urban blues to something that was raw, uptempo and undeniably new. The rest was rock & roll history, as Little Richard laid down a stunning succession of sides over the next several years, including “Tutti Frutti,” “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” “Miss Ann,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Rip It Up,” “Good Golly, Miss Molly,” “Lucille” and “Keep a Knockin’.” Specialty recently issued a box set including every song Richard cut for the label.\nLittle Richard scaled the heights of fame as he toured the world with his peerless band the Upsetters. But his success, and the hypersexual lifestyle that went with it, came to an abrupt halt late in 1957 when he abandoned rock & roll for religion. He attended Bible college and recorded gospel music until the early Sixties, when he made a triumphant and unexpected realm to rock from the stage of a British concert hall. The second chapter of Little Richard’s career as a rock & roller saw him recapture his popularity as a live performer and cut some well-received albums for Reprise. By 1975, however, a substance-abuse problem drove him to abandon rock & roll for the Rock of Ages once more.\n“I think that if Elvis had been black, he wouldn’t have been as big as he was”\nIn recent years, Little Richard has begun testing the waters again, performing and recording occasionally. The following interview was conducted in the mobile environs of a limousine cruising the freeways of Los Angeles, a city he has called home since 1956. We broke her a lunch of fried chicken, pork chops and collard greens at a favorite soul-food eatery. During the meal a braided and bespangled entertainer calling herself “Afrodyete, the African Goddess of Love” presented him with a signed picture of herself; which was inscribed, “Stay\nChocolate.” With characteristic color-blind wit, Little Richard quipped, “Stay chocolate? Suppose I feel like being pineapple tonight?” –\nLet’s start with a simple question. Did you invent rock & roll?\nWell, let’s say it this way: When I first came along, I never heard of any rock & roll. I only heard Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Ruth Brown and Roy Brown. Blues. Fats Domino at the time was playing nothing but low-down blues. When I started singing [rock & roll], I sang it a long time before I presented it to the public, because I was afraid they wouldn’t like it. I had never heard nobody do it, and I was scared.\nI was inspired by Mahalia Jackson, Roy Brown and a gospel group called Clara Ward and the Ward Singers and a guy by the name of Brother Joe May. I got the holler that you hear me do – “woo-ooh-ooh” – from a lady named Marion Williams. And this thing you hear me do – “Lucille-uh” – I got that from Ruth Brown I used to like die way she’d sing, “Mama-uh, he treats your daughter mean.” I put it all together.\nI really feel from the bottom of my heart that I am the inventor. If there was somebody else, I didn’t know than, didn’t hear them, haven’t heard them. Not even to this day. So I say I’m the architect.\nWhere were you hearing music – on records, jukeboxes or the radio?\nWe didn’t have nothing to play records on, ’cause we were real poor. My mother had 12 children, so we didn’t have nothing. We had an old radio we would play late at night We would listen to WLAC out of Tennessee. Back in that time boogie-woogie was very popular. I would say that boogie-woogie and rhythm & blues mixed is rock & roll. Also, back in that time black people were singing a lot of country music. You didn’t see this separation of music as you do today. I’m a country-music lover. I think it’s a true music. It’s from the heart.\nCan you remember the first time you sang for people and got a reaction?\nYes. I sung a song called “Strange Things Happening Every Day,” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. [Sings] “Oh, you hear church people say/We are in this holy way/ There are strange things happening every day…”\nAnd I’d just but this [taps rhythm on car seat] and sing, “There are strange things happening every day.” People used to give me quarters and dimes and nickel to sing that song.\nHow did you choose the stage name Little Richard? Was there a Big Richard?\nNo [laughs]. At the time, they had Little Esther, Little Willie John, Little Walter. Everybody was using the title Little. And most people used to call me “Penny-man,” and nobody would say “Penniman” They couldn’t pronounce my name. Another thing – my family did not approve of what I was doing, and I felt that if I didn’t use my name, people wouldn’t know I was a part of them. I didn’t want to hurt them. Music was not respected back then. To them, it was down. Everybody was down on it.\nAs a teenager, you went on the road with several vaudeville revues. What was your role in those shows?\nI just wanted to tear up the house. I would pick up tables and chairs in my mouth and dance with them. I would let somebody stand on the table and dance while holding up the table in my mouth.\nThat sense of competition stayed. You just weren’t going to let anyone upstage you.\nThat’s right. I still have that. I think you have to have that in life. I would go onstage, and we didn’t have stages like Michael and Prince or Bruce. We had to do with what they had. If they had spotlights, they had them, but now they carry everything.\nYou had to do it all with charisma.\nYeah, and that’s when I wore the colors, the sequins, the shoes made of stone, so they had something to light up.\nIn the 43 years you’ve been playing, has anybody upstaged you, taken a show away from you?\nUh, yes, Jimi Hendrix. He was my guitar player, and you know, we didn’t know he could play with his mouth. One night I heard this screamin’ and hollerin’ for him! I thought they were screamin’ for me. But he was back there playin’ the guitar with his mouth. He didn’t do it again, ’cause we made sure the lights didn’t come on that area no more. We fixed that! We made sure that was a black spot!\nHow did you wind up signing with Specialty Records?\nLloyd Price came through my hometown. He had this black-and-gold Cadillac, and I wanted a car like that. I said, “How’d you get famous?” He told me about Specialty and gave me the address. I did a tape, and I sent this to Specialty. A year later they got in touch with me.\nDid Art Rupe, the owner of Specialty, match you up with Bumps Blackwell?\nNo. Bumps was the A&R man for Specialty Records. He was in charge of everything. Art Rupe didn’t know anything about music. Bumps had been with Quincy Jones and Ray Charles and all those people. Ray Charles did his first tour with us. He didn’t have a band. It was my band that played behind him. And he had “I Got a Woman” and sung that on the tour, with my band backing him up. Am I tellin’ the truth, Ray? You used to come by my room and tell me, “That’s the prettiest suit you got on. I like that suit, that green suit.” [Laughs]\nDid you enjoy recording in New Orleans?\nOh, yes. You’ve got to remember that the same band recorded with me, Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, Shirley and Lee, Professor Longhair. It was the same band: Lee Allen, Red Tyler, Earl Palmer, all those guys. When they played for me, I played the piano. When they played for Fats, Fats played the piano.\nHow would you compare recording in the Fifties with recording today?\nI enjoyed recording back then better ’cause it was real. You had to play. It wasn’t no machines, you couldn’t just mash buttons and sound like a band. If you couldn’t play, you didn’t have no music.\nWere your songs based on real characters? Was there a Miss Molly, a Lucille, Miss Ann, Long Tall Sally?\nThere was a Miss Ann. She was a white lady I used to work for. She had a club in Macon filled Ann’s Tick Tock. She and her husband, Johnny, were like a to me. They had been good to me when a lot of people hadn’t. I really appreciated them, so when I got famous, I made up a song. That’s the only real person.\nWhat do you think it was about your music that helped bridge the gap between the races?\n“Tutti Frutti” really started the races being together. Because when I was a boy, the white people would sit upstairs. They called it “white spectators,” and the blacks was downstairs And the white kids would jump over the balcony and come down where I was and dance with the blacks. We started that merging all across the country. From the git-go, my music was accepted by whites. Pat Boone covered “Tutti Frutti,” made it broader, ’cause they played him more on the white stations.\nYou could argue it both ways, but overall do you think Pat Boone’s cover versions helped or hurt your career?\nI believe it was a blessing. I believe it opened the highway that would have taken a little longer for acceptance. So I love Pat for that.\nThat said, what did you honestly think of his recording of “Tutti Frutti”?\nHe did the best he could. I think mine was the best, but Pat Boone’s version was all right. I think he was forced to record it. He was a balladeer and not a rock singer. I believe his record company saw a chance for him to get bigger.\nIs it true you sang “Long Tall Sally” so fast that he’d have difficulty covering it?\nYes. I figured that since he outsold me with “Tutti Frutti,” I’d put so many tricks in “Long Tall Sally” he couldn’t get it.\nHow do you think the Beatles did with it?\nFantastic. I think the Beatles did one of the best versions of “Long Tall Sally” I’ve ever heard.\n“My family didn’t approve of what I was doing. Music wasn’t respected.”\nYou toured with them in England before they broke over here, didn’t you?\nOh, before they ever recorded, before anybody ever heard of a record company.\nDid you see potential in them?\nI saw it in Paul McCartney. Paul was the one who was so crazy about me. Paul and George. I believe they had it – they were gifted.\nThey were gifted, but they also did their homework.\nThey knew who we recorded with, they knew what doorsteps we walked up, they knew what saxophone we played. They knew more about it than me!\nDo you see in Prince a young version of yourself?\nDo you like his music?\nOh, I really like Prince a lot. I like Michael Jackson. I like Bon Jovi. I like Bruce Springsteen. I like a lot of them. I get that old thing from them – I think that’s the reason I like them.\nHave you worked with any producer since Bumps Blackwell who have been able to capture your sound?\nIt has to be someone who feels that type of music. I think the problem today is that a lot of black entertainers don’t feel the old music. A lot of white entertainers still use the music, while black people have gone to another type of thing, the synthesized thing that you hear, like [sings], “My, my, my/Once bitten, twice shy babe …\n“Once Bitten Twice Shy,” by Great White.\nNow, that’s the old way. See, the blacks have gotten so that’s not what they want. They like this other thing, with the synthesizer, and the whites are still with the old music. So that’s the reason when you play for them, you feel comfortable. They appreciate the type of music, the old music, that you play.\nEspecially in the Seventies, your audience became really lopsided toward whites over blacks.\nWith the black audience, if you don’t have a hit record, they don’t support you. If you’ve got a hit record, it’s all right, but if you don’t, you’re in trouble\nDo you think the black audience at large will ever get interested in black music from a more historical perspective?\nThey should. I believe that Michael Jackson’s generation will be more up on it than my generation. I believe black people love me, and I believe they appreciate me. But I’m not recording the kind of music they want to hear in this generation. I am where I am, so that’s it.\nYou’ve claimed that your band the Upsetters was the best show band in the country.\nOh, they were. They were choreographed by me and by Grady [Gaines, the tenor saxophonist]. They wore makeup. They wore beautiful colors. It was the only band with a makeup kit. You thought they were showgirls, but they were showboys. They were very good. Until this day, I haven’t seen another band surpass them.\nWould you have preferred to cut your Specialty sides with the Upsetters instead of the New Orleans guys?\nI did do one song with them, “Keep a Knockin’.” We did that in Washington, D.C. You can’t tell the difference, can you?\nNo, you can’t. Led Zeppelin nicked the drum intro on “Rock and Roll.” Have you heard that?\nNo. Did you know Led Zeppelin’s manager used to be my chauffeur? Peter Grant was my chauffeur for about three years! I used to argue with him all the time. I saw him in Miami later on, and he said: “Little Richard, I’m wealthy now. I’m a millionaire. You want me to buy you dinner?” I said, “No, Peter.” He said: “I’m gonna buy it anyway. I have a group called Led Zeppelin. I don’t have to take your abuse anymore.” [Laughs loudly] Old Peter! And you know, Sonny Bono used to drive me, too. That’s before Cher. That was about 1958. He was working for Specialty Records, and they used to send him to ride me around.\nAs far as your live shows, which are considered to be some of the most incendiary performances in the history of rock & roll, where did the energy come from?\nI don’t know, and it still comes. We just did Palm Springs, and it was unbelievable. People was crying, screaming. You wouldn’t believe I was the age that I am. It was just like a power, and you felt like crying. When I touched the piano, the house just went insane.\nIn the Fifties you’d scream, pound the piano and toss clothes into the crowd. How did you rise to that level every night?\nI didn’t drink or smoke at the time. I didn’t take any dope or nothing. The music turned me on. The music still does it! If the music is good, you got me.\nWere you ever concerned that you’d taken an audience too far? Has it ever gotten to a point where it became dangerous?\nI have seen ’em go a long way. I have seen people worked into frenzies. I’ve seen ’em foaming at the mouth, I’ve seen ’em fall out. I’ve seen people screamin’, cryin’, can’t stop. I’ve seen girls who just wanted to touch me, just screamin’, lookin’ at me, screamin’ and fallin’ out.\nWasn’t there a night when the stage actually caved in?\nCollapsed. That was at the Olympic Auditorium [in Los Angeles]. The piano fell. The stage fell. One guy broke his leg. It was pandemonium: The crowd was screaming, and they kept screaming. I was on top of the piano, and I was screamin’, too, ’cause I was fallin’. Everybody was screamin’. Screamin’ and screamin’!\nDid you ever get into what the jazz people call cutting contests, where you’d be on the bill with someone and you’d each be trying to top the other?\nOh, I’ve been on plenty of those. Me and Chuck Berry, for instance, have done it plenty of times. He’d say that he’s the star and I’d say that I’m the star. He’d say, “I’m gonna close the show.” I’d say, “No, you’re not” I’ve been on a bill with Jerry Lee Lewis like that ,too. And I’d say, “Okay, you can close the show.” And I’d go on first and sing for about two hours, and then can’t nobody come on the stage. We were all of us vain back in that time. It’s a shame. The young and crazy often need a-spankin’ and a-plankin’.\nWhat was it like after a show? What would you do to wind down?\nI would go to clubs just to hear girls scream. I would go to clubs to have a good time and then bring girls back to the hotel.\nWe have an impression of the Fifties as being a very staid and conservative era, but to hear you talk, it sounds a lot more sexually liberated than people might imagine.\nOh, it was liberated all right! It was experimental, too, ’cause we were young and hadn’t done a lot of things. Being a country boy from the South, I had been held back. My family was religious. Sometimes you couldn’t toe-tap or tap a toe or ask for mo’, and that’s for sure! And that’s the way it go! And we was po’!\nI used to like a lot of girls back in that time. But I wasn’t into anything out of the ordinary. Just regular do’s.\nWhere do you stand on homosexuality now? You made some pretty strong statements against it in your book.\nI’m not against it I believe God gives every man a choice. Every man has a choice to do what he will, bad or good, right or wrong, black or white, rich or poor. I was just saying that from where I stand, a lot of people think different things because of the way you look. Some people will judge you, and they don’t even know you. I played the piano, I wore the hair, I wore the makeup, and everybody classified me without asking me anything.\nBut didn’t you want to he “the Living Flame,” “the bronze Liberace”?\nI am the Living Flame. Not so much the bronze Liberace, but I am the Living Flame. I just wanted to be a musician that spread joy to people. I’m not down on any lifestyle, any shape, form or fashion. Whether God has sanctioned our lifestyle or not, we still have a right to do what we want So I’m not putting anything down. Neither am I picking anything up! [Chuckles] And I’ll leave it right there.\nWhen you had your first religious conversion in 1957, what persuaded you to walk away from the phenomenal popularity you’d worked so hard for as a rock & roller?\nI wish I knew then what I know today. I was young and didn’t have anybody to talk to. I’ve always been religious, basically. I wanted to do God’s will. I’ve always wanted to do his wil. But at the time I had nobody no really counsel with.\nTouring must have taken a toll.\nNo, I enjoyed touring, but I had a bad dream. I think the dream kind of disturbed me, the thoughts kind of shook my mind. The dream was “Prepare for eternal life.” That was it.\nAnd you went to Bible school.\nYes. Let me let down this window and say hello to these people [rolls down the window of the limousine and greets a couple on the sidewalk]. I just wanted to make their day. Excuse me. I feel all right! [Laughs]\nWhen you quit rock & roll for the second time, in 1975, you were coming out of a period of heavy cocaine and alcohol use.\nYes, yes, yes. My nose was big enough to put diesel trucks in. I was payin’ almost $10,000 a month for cocaine. I was into it. I was eatin’ it. I was snortin’ it, I was freezin’ everything that could be frozen. I was screamin’ and hollerin’. It was a terrible time for me. I’ve never had this drug they have today, crack. By the grace of God, I don’t drink or smoke now, haven’t done it in years. I’m just glad to be alive and show the young people that it doesn’t pay, that you can live above it and that it don’t make you famous, it makes you dead. It steals life from mankind, and we need God in our life. And that’s what it’s about.\nAre you getting more comfortable with the idea of playing rock & roll again?\nWell, what I feel about music now is that I love God, I will always love God, and I feel that I’m a messenger for him. To me, rock & roll music is the only way I know how to make a living. I’m making people joyful, and I still spread my love for God. So I’m still the person that God has placed, but the music is my job.\nDid you think Elvis did anything as far as opening the door for the white audience to listen to black singers?\nI think the door opened wider, but the door may have already been opened by “Tutti Frutti.” I think that Elvis was more acceptable being white back in that period. I believe that if Elvis had been black, he wouldn’t have been as big as he was. If I was white, do you know how huge I’d be? If I was white, I’d be able to sit on top of the White House! A lot of things they would do for Elvis and Pat Boone, they wouldn’t do for me.\nIt’s like they won’t even give me a Lifetime Achievement Award, and look at Paul McCartney. [McCartney was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys on February 21st.] I was the first famous person he ever met, the first famous person he ever traveled with. They give him a Lifetime Achievement Award, and they won’t give me one. They won’t even mention me! They give Dick Clark an award, but they don’t give me nothing! Don’t even mention my existence! It’s a shame, but that’s what it is.\nDo you think McCartney should have mentioned you in his acceptance speech?\nYes. I just don’t understand some things sometimes. I was sitting there in front of him, and he didn’t say nothing. It makes you feel like crying, you know?\nI was surprised about that myself.\nI was shocked. I should have run up on the stage and did one of my outrageous numbers and said, “Listen, Paul, let’s face it, now you know that I’m the one that bought the hamburgers.” I should have done that. But I think that when you’re in love with God, your reward is what he says it is – eternal life. So I think I’m going to have to settle for that .And I’m not dismayed or disarrayed. I will settle for that. In fact, I’d rather have a crown of gold than to lose my soul.\nIn This Article: Little Richard","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line246357"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5920987725257874,"wiki_prob":0.40790122747421265,"text":"A Haunting in Savannah\nIf Savannah Georgia is the second most haunted city in the United States, I don’t want to hang around in the first. Actually I did. New Orleans holds that distinction, but I didn’t go on a late night Ghost Tour in New Orleans, much less hang about in one of the most haunted houses in the city. I can’t say the same for Savannah, a heritage city that expanded over the graveyards and cemeteries, where the dead are as restless as the Spanish moss blowing with the wind in the gnarled old trees. As with many others, the city first came to my attention when I read the bestselling book, and watched the film adaption of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. True crime, travelogue and drama collided in an acclaimed story that convinced the world that Savannah is home to decadent eccentrics, where wives compared their husbands’ suicide notes, drag queens (the legendary Lady Chablis) reigned in high society, political and personal corruption was the norm, and the elite drained artillery punch inside their southern gothic fortress mansions, impervious to the outside world. Or something like that. Along with Gulfstream Aerospace, a military base, the second largest port on the eastern seaboard and the Savannah College of Art and Design, tourism keeps this quirky city thriving.\nThe historical district, dating back to the arrival of British settlers in 1733, is a grid system comprised of 22 leafy plazas, churches, and ornate antebellum mansions. Antebellum is defined as “before the war” – both the War of Independence and the Civil War, in which Savannah was spared a sacking by Sherman’s Union Army. There’s so much history here you can trip on it, which is what I did as soon as I crossed the Savannah River from my hotel. A free ferry dropped me off near the first of many statues depicting the characters and legends of Savannah. The lady who waved a flag at every passing ship. The flag-bearing soldier who was killed during the Siege of Savannah (along with a couple thousand other soldiers). There’s fountains and steeples, scenes reminiscent from the many films shot here, including Forrest Gump, Glory, and yes, Spongebob Squarepants. I bought a ticket for a hop-on hop off bus which was a little lazy, considering I basically walked the entire route looking for the bus after hopping it off it explore the fading tombstones that remain in Colonial Park Cemetery. Ten thousand people were buried here, but only 600 grave markers remain. They say the city was built on the dead, as other cemeteries were moved or built over. Construction in the old town often yields unidentified bones.\n​It was a fine spring day, the warmth blanketing me after my long northern winter. In summer, the temperature is hot enough to make a skeleton sweat, but late March I was happy to walk beneath the shady plazas, reading the many informational plaques, soaking back a beer in a go-cup (it’s legal to drink on the streets in Savannah, although my grey whiskers did little to stop bartenders carding me for ID at every turn). River Street is the main tourist strip, and it can get pretty ugly. Guns and cheap crap and booze and morbid obesity and religion. I check out Rousakis Plaza where a strange construction quirk creates an echo chamber. I spoke to eight locals in my 36 hours in the city, and nobody knew it existed. When the city was founded as a buffer between British South Carolina in the north and the Spanish in Florida to the south, there were four prohibitions: no slaves, no alcohol, no Catholics, no lawyers. All of that went by the wayside pretty quickly. Various fires destroyed half the town, and a yellow fever plague in 1820 killed on in ten people, including all the doctors. Despite all this, its strategic location as a port and the booming cotton and shipyard trade ensured great wealth flooded to Savannah, funnelled into rich families living in their sprawling mansions around the leafy squares. It makes for great walking, open-window tour buses, horse carriages, cycle tables, bike rides, Segway Tours, scooter tours, Pedi-cabs, heck there’s even hearse tours. Few tourists go beyond the old district, to the parts of the city less scenic and far more troublesome. I was warned that even though the bars are open late, the city shuts down early, and it’s best not to marginalize myself on the fringes late at night. Which of course is actually what I did, but only after spooking myself right out with a late night ghost tour to the Sorrel-Weed House.\n​I had one night to myself in the city, and judging by the sheer volume of brochures at the airport, Ghost Tours seemed like all the rage. I laid them out on the hotel table, and my hand was drawn to the Sorrell-Weed tour, consisting of a one-hour walking tour and an hour in the house itself. The tour and house has been featured on all the Ghost Hunter type shows, but so have a lot of others. It is however the only tour that lets you go into one of these houses at night, and truth be told I was expecting something hokey when I showed up at 9:30pm on the corner of Bull and East Harris. The house was built in 1840 by a wealthy merchant named Francis Sorrel, opposite Madison Plaza, scene of an epic battle during the War of Independence. Francis’s wife Matilda was a social butterfly, throwing lavish dinners and parties, the house was a social hot spot, hosting the likes of General Robert E Lee, and all seemed swell. Except that Matilda, the sister of Francis’s deceased first wife, suffered from depression, and one day found her husband in bed with the head slave Molly in the slave quarters. Matilda promptly ran into the house, up to the third floor balcony, and jumped off it, breaking her neck. Three weeks later, Molly was found hanging from the rafters. The Sorrel fortunes took a nose dive, but not before their son, a doctor, turned the basement into a little house of horrors, amputating his way through death and carnage in that wonderful time where infections were best treated with hacksaws. It was a not a happy place, and let’s not go into the dozen dead bodies lying beneath the foundations dating back to the war. The house was sold to Henry Weed in 1859, and the ghosts of the dead have been known to haunt it ever since. There’s Matilda, the shapeless and mischievous Shadowman, the screams of Molly about to be strung up (her death was called a suicide), children, soldiers, old ladies – they are said to pop up. Our guide’s name was Maddy, and first she led all 25 of us on a short walk to the cemetery, revealing some of the more morbid history of what would otherwise be a charming neighbourhood. There’s the Hamilton-Turner House that Walt Disney stayed at, the one that inspired the Haunted House at Disneyland. Today it’s an upmarket B&B. People have reported ghost soldiers parading around Madison Square. Many mansions were built on hallowed ground of the removed and forgotten cemeteries. “Wherever you’re staying in Savannah, there’s no place safe from a haunting,” she tells us. Not in a “oooooh” voice mind you, just kind of matter-of-factly. Standing outside Colonial Park Cemetery (my second visit in the day, although night is way creepier) we learn how people were buried in mass graves. Fever induced comas led to premature burial as well. Many were buried alive during the plague of yellow fever, sparking a mass paranoia of relatives worried their loved ones would wake up underground. Bells were attached to the wrists of corpses, with guards on the “graveyard shift” listening for rings in case anyone needed to be “saved by the bell.” When the wind was howling, the bells might ring on their own, but the graves had to be dug up just in case, although the result was often a “dead ringer.” Then came the Union soldiers who camped in the cemetery, taking great joy in using tombstones for target practice, graffiti, or anything else they could think of to upset the surrendered Confederate populace. There’s even a happy ghost story, but things really get interesting when we return to the house, entering through a squeaky iron-wrought gate with a creepy sound straight out of a movie.\nThrough the front doors, the air is thick and musty. Low-lighting adds the required ambiance one expects when visiting a genuine haunted house, and even the motion-detected infra-red cameras add an unnerving touch. Maddy regales us with the tragic story of the Sorrels, and a few ghost stories from her experience working at the house. Flickering lights, slamming doors, that sort of thing. It’s warm and despite my scepticism, adding the $38 x 25 in my head, not to mention the other group who started in the house before us, I can’t deny a sense of dread and my accelerated heart rate. Old portraits of dead people can do that too. We enter the front salon, where we learn that all the period furniture is not original, save for the two giant mirrors in the front and back salon. Houses can be haunted, but so can objects, and we learn that these mirrors are definitely haunted. Apparitions appear in tourist’s photos, orbs of light, strange shadows. It doesn’t help that the low lighting all but guarantees blurry photos that can let the imagination runneth over. Using flash creates double exposures and weird lights so that’s not particularly helpful. Still, everyone takes photos of the mirror, including myself. I wait until everyone moves into the back salon to get a photo with no tourist reflections in the mirror. I’m the only one in the room, shooting from a low right angle. We continue the tour, learning more about the hauntings and history, descending into a dark basement where we’re handed EMFs – the device electricians use to pick up energy. Paranormal investigators believe ghosts must draw on energy to manifest, which they do through humans, devices or the atmosphere. If the EMG starts flickering (and it’s not close to our phones), chances are something’s going on. Maddy tells us a personal story of hearing laughter in the room, the creepy Shadowman, and how she’s had to run out of the house in fear a couple times when locking up on her own. It’s an impressively understated and believable performance, and her dismissal of “theatrical” haunting nonsense feels genuine. It’s almost as if she doesn’t have to prove anything, because she doesn’t have to (or the operation is slick and well rehearsed). Nobody sees anything in particular. One women thinks she caught a weird apparition, but Maddy quickly points out it looks like someone in the group. Someone’s EMG goes off when we stand beneath the same rafters where Molly was hung in the slave quarters, adjacent to the main house. Well, that was fun, but I’ve got 20 minutes to walk the 20 minutes back to the river to catch the free ferry to my hotel, otherwise it’s an expensive cab ride home. I walk alone through the empty plazas, the streets mostly deserted. I’m a little edgy, but the streets are well lit and after a full day walking back and forth I’m familiar with the grid. I make the ferry, return to the hotel, and look through the photos I took in the house on my phone. And that’s when things go very, very weird.\nRemember when I hung back to take a photo of the mirror with no reflections of tourists in it. Something catches my eye in the bottom left corner. No. Freaking. Way. I blow it up. That is a definitely a woman. She would have had to be almost directly in front of me to be in that spot. But I was alone, and there was nobody in the mirror. What’s more, she bears a striking resemblance to Matilda, appears old fashioned, doesn’t resemble anyone who was on the tour, and is looking in the direction of all the people in the back salon. I do believe I have just captured a ghost on film! I email the Ghost Tour folks immediately, who reply the next morning that they’ll check the time stamp to see if I was indeed alone, and whether their infra-red cameras picked anything up. They do three ghost tours a night, I don’t think they’re too surprised by this. Heck, I’m not even the first journalist to capture an apparition in the mirror, although the Lady does look remarkably clear – in that creepy, blurry ghostly sort of way. Combined with the jetlag and the fact I had to get up at 6:30am to give a keynote at conference, let’s just say a blissful night of sleep was not forthcoming.\nI won’t get into the politics of being in a blue city in a red state. The lively conversations I had with locals, of all colour, absolutely terrified for the future of their country. The BBQ-sauce, the open carry gun laws, the St Patricks Parade hangover, America’s third largest synagogue, the African American Baptist Church that smuggled slaves beneath its floors, the canons and art and steamships and towering cargo ships that passed along the river on their way to the ocean. There's much to chew on in Savannah, a real southern treat. Weird, fascinating, and a town that refuses to let sleeping ghosts lie.\nChilling Out in: Köycegiz, Turkey\nSay what you will about the value of guidebooks, but I’d never have found Köycegiz if I’d had one with me in Turkey. To be fair, this small Aegean town peppered against a large, warm, freshwater lake does get a mention in most Turkish guides - usually a throwaway paragraph with words like “sleepy” and “quiet” and “nice for lunch”. It’s just one of several signposts you’ll pass en-route from the infamous ruins at Ephesus to the Mediterranean beach resorts around Fethiye. But stop inside, look around, and you’ll find it as sweet as the sugar in Turkish tea, as chilled as a penguin guzzling down some flash-frozen baba ghanouj.\nI got the hot tip about Köycegiz from a New Zealander named Alison who ran a guesthouse in Selcuk. She had married herself a Turk, settled in for a life of olives and fruit orchids, and was only too happy to share the secret of the lake with me. Since I had no real urgency to be anywhere else, I asked the Selcuk-Fethiye bus driver to let me out on the highway outside the town. A couple of other travellers looked on with mild curiosity, and who could blame them? Why is this guy getting off in the middle of nowhere? Alison suggested I hit a local hostel and after walking through the quiet, sleepy, nice-for-lunch town, I was pleased to find the Tango welcoming and comfortable. Large mattresses were covered in rugs and pillows, interspersed with hammocks, a bar and a DJ booth. There were just a straggling of backpackers, but the owner Sahin assured me things would pick up when the Fez Bus pulled in. The Fez is a hop-on hop-off backpacker bus with the deserved reputation of being a moving party. In anticipation, Sahin had organized a booze cruise on the lake for that evening. Enjoying the calm before the storm, I walked down to the lakefront and was blasted by a fresh breeze, the gentle lapping of water, the view of towering mountains in the distance. The lake, also called Köycegiz, connects with the Mediterranean through a channel called the Dalyan Delta, and cruising through large bulrushes to the sea is a popular activity for Turkish tourists. I see a couple guys playing tavla, which we know as backgammon, and gradually readjusted to the pace of a fishing village where not much happens and people prefer it that way. Here is the real Turkey away from the bustle of the tourist circle, and with it of course, real Turkish hospitality. People smile, invite you for tea, quiz your origins, all with a genuine sincerity and warmth. Sometimes they’ll try sell you a rug too.\nWell equipped with a headache the following morning, I awake to find the Tango Inn empty, the Fez Bus departed, and another delightful Turkish sunny day. Hopping aboard a wooden boat crammed with local tourists on their way to the beach, I am the only foreigner and relish the enthusiastic hospitality. I am ploughed with homemade food and polite questions by new found friends. Along the canals, we pass imposing 2000-year-old Lyceum rock tombs carved into the cliffs above us. History is never far away in Turkey. After stopping off for a refreshing dip in the lake, we arrive at a long sandy beach, and the crystal blue Mediterranean. I end up playing Frisbee with a some brothers from the boat, eating local delicacies, enjoying my spontaneous off the beaten path adventure. The boats slowly makes its way back to Köycegiz at sunset, humid wind in my fingertips, the notes of a tanbur floating out the speakers up front. These are the moments in life when you stop, look around, and believe that somehow, everything, for everybody, is going to work out just fine. ​","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line662135"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8201712965965271,"wiki_prob":0.8201712965965271,"text":"Alumni - Miriam Johnson and Victoria Harben, MA Publishing\nNews from Jargon Media\nWe just wanted to update you and Brookes on the newest venture that Jargon Media (Miriam Johnson and Victoria Harben) are working on. We are putting together an international literary magazine that we will publish on 1 November 2011.\nThe Istanbul Review creates a platform for dialogue between authors, new and established, and readers. It gives writers an opportunity to talk about their craft, showcase new work and discuss the philosophical implications of literature and its place in modern society.\nFounded by Miriam Johnson, Hande Zapsu Watt and Victoria Harben in 2010, the Istanbul Review began with a simple wish: to bring together writers, critics and those influential people from other walks of life whose lives have been changed by literature and who in turn change the world.\nWe are committed to literature, the environment and the spreading of literacy across the world. The journal uses only sustainable resources and gives 2.5 per cent of all profits to NGOs working towards spreading literacy.\nSubmissions are invited for the first annual volume of the Istanbul Review to be published in 2011. We welcome writing in the form of essays, fiction and poetry but not full-length plays or novels, though self-contained extracts are acceptable. The work must be neither previously published nor accepted for publication. All submissions must be received by 1 July 2011.\nThe Istanbul Review\nA Living History of Voices in Ink\nPosted on 02 Feb 2011 around 9am","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1500028"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6303400993347168,"wiki_prob":0.6303400993347168,"text":"AMA Guides: Disability v. Impairment\nOklahoma Cases, Statutes and Rules » Benefits » AMA Guides: Disability v. Impairment\nTHE \"IMPAIRMENT\" AND \"DISABILITY\" DISTINCTION IN THE 1977 ACT\nThe employer urges that the trial judge impermissibly deviated more than 10% from IME's impairment rating because he failed to provide the explanation required by § 17(D) of the compensation law. This issue calls for an analysis of the conceptual distinction between disability and impairment embodied in the 1977 Workers' Compensation Act [1977 Act]. When examining the impact of this legislation, it is helpful first to explore Oklahoma's pre-1977 benefits regime.\nThe Pre-1977 Disability-Based Compensation Scheme\nWhen first enacted in 1915, Oklahoma's regime for delivery of benefits to an injured worker was designed to restore lost earnings for compensable harm from \"hazardous employment\". This institutional design established four categories of disability-based [895 P.2d 722] benefits (permanent total, temporary total, permanent partial and temporary partial). The key term \"disability\" was not defined by statute. The court eventually came to measure it by a worker's capacity to perform \"ordinary manual or mechanical labor\". An injury to a specific, scheduled member of the body (a classified disability) was measured by the number of weeks in the member schedule, while one to an \"unclassified part of the body\" fell under the \"other cases\" clause of § 22 and was compensated on the basis of percentage disability to the body as a whole.\nThe 1977 Act's Disability-Based and Impairment-Related Benefits Regime\nThe 1977 Act made two significant changes in the compensation law. It extended coverage to nearly all Oklahoma employees (not just to those in \"hazardous employment\") and introduced a mixed impairment-related and disability-based benefits regime. The terms disability and impairment were given distinct meanings.\nDisability is designed to measure an employee's capacity for work, i.e., the degree to which an injury affects a person's ability to perform any task for which the worker is reasonably suited by training, education and experience. The purpose of disability-related compensation in the 1977 Act is to replace the incapacitated worker's lost earnings for injury to the limbs based on the number of weeks assigned as a maximum for each limb. The Act left intact this (pre-1977) wage-replacement concept of disability but confined its application solely to (1) temporary (temporary total and temporary partial) and (2) permanent total benefits. Permanent total disability is defined as \"[i]ncapacity because of accidental injury or occupational disease to earn any wages in any employment for which the employee is or becomes physically suited and reasonably fitted by education, training or experience.\" In short, a permanently and totally disabled worker within the meaning of the Act is one eligible for wage replacement because of lack of capacity to earn any wages.\nImpairment, on the other hand, is a medical condition; it refers to the effect of the injury upon a person's ability to perform basic life functions. The term permanent impairment is defined as \"any anatomical or functional abnormality or loss after reasonable medical treatment has been achieved, which abnormality or loss the physician considers to be capable of being evaluated at the time the rating is made.\" Permanent partial disability means \"permanent disability\" and is the \"same as permanent impairment.\" This definition not only signifies a complete departure from the old theory of ordinary manual or mechanical labor, but also introduces a new and more specific concept for evaluating permanent partial disability by placing it on a footing absolutely equal with permanent impairment, i.e. loss of bodily function.\nThe American Medical Association Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment [AMA Guides] provides helpful insight into the impairment-disability dichotomy. An impairment is viewed as a \"medical matter\", whereas disability is deemed to \"arise out of the interaction between impairment and external demands.\" As used in the AMA Guides, (a) impairment means \"an alteration of an individual's health status that is assessed by medical means,\" and (b) disability, \"which is assessed by nonmedical means, means an alteration of an individual's capacity to meet personal, social, or occupational demands, or to meet statutory or regulatory requirements.\" With the sole exception of scheduled member losses, total or partial, the AMA Guides must be used for rating permanent impairment. In short, permanent partial disability, as distinguished from other payout classes, contemplates recompense for lost physical fitness, though the amount paid the worker must be measured by a percentage age of wages he (or she) would have earned but for the covered injury.\nThe terms of § 17(D) require that a trial tribunal specifically identify the reason for its award's deviation of more than 10% from the impairment rating by an independent court-appointed physician. Section 17(D), construed together with §§ 3(11) and (13) - the latter two of which define the terms permanent impairment and permanent partial disability - indicates that it is intended to deal with medical permanent partial impairment ratings.\nThe issue of permanent total disability turns on the evaluation of the worker's present capacity \"to earn any wages in any employment for which he is presently suited or fitted by education, training or experience.\" The determination of a claimant's disability-based benefits presents a fact question for the trial tribunal. Its finding in this case declared Bucek to be totally and permanently disabled. Because § 17(D) has no application to disability-related benefits, the trial tribunal neither grounded its award in the AMA Guides nor was it statutorily required to explain why that award deviated (by 89%) from the IME's impairment rating.\nFarm Fresh, Inc. v. Bucek, 1995 OK 44, 895 P.2d 719 (footnotes omitted).","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line974484"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6506696343421936,"wiki_prob":0.6506696343421936,"text":"Gene Mutation May Make Food More Tempting\nNews By -- Mary Elizabeth Dallas\nWEDNESDAY, July 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Some obese people have a genetic mutation that seems to ramp up the reward centers in their brains when they see food, researchers report.\nGaining a better understanding of how this mutation triggers feelings of pleasure and gratification at the sight of high-calorie foods like chocolate could help improve strategies designed to prevent overeating, the scientists suggested.\nMore than one-third of U.S. adults are obese. Obesity is typically caused by a combination of overeating, a lack of physical activity and genetics. The most common genetic cause of obesity is a mutation in the melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) gene, the British researchers explained.\nIn conducting their study, published July 30 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the scientists compared eight people who were obese and had the MC4R gene mutation with 10 people who were overweight or obese who did not have the gene mutation, and eight people who were a normal weight.\nUsing functional MRI scans, the study authors observed how pictures of tempting foods, such as chocolate cake, activated the reward centers of the participants' brains. Their response to photos of appetizing foods was then compared to the effect of pictures of bland foods, such as rice or broccoli, and objects like staplers.\nSurprisingly, participants who were the same age and weight had different responses to pictures of appetizing foods, the researchers found. The brain scans revealed that obese people with the genetic mutation and participants who were a normal weight had similar heightened activity in the reward centers of their brain. Meanwhile, the reward centers in the obese and overweight people who did not have the genetic mutation were underactive.\n\"The brain's reward centers light up when people with the mutation and normal weight people viewed pictures of appetizing foods. But overweight people without the mutation did not have the same level of response,\" lead researcher Dr. Agatha van der Klaauw, of the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, England, said in an Endocrine Society news release.\n\"For the first time, we are seeing that the MC4R pathway is involved in the brain's response to food cues and its underactivity in some overweight people. Understanding this pathway may help in developing interventions to limit the overconsumption of highly palatable foods that can lead to weight gain,\" she explained.\nThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about eating to maintain a healthy weight.\nThis article: Copyright © 2014 HealthDay. All rights reserved.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1086566"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6881363987922668,"wiki_prob":0.6881363987922668,"text":"Class Notes > Class of 1956 > In Memoriam\nAlvin “Al” Lawrence Andrews JD ’56\nAlvin “Al” Lawrence Andrews passed away December 25, 2015, at his home. He was 88 years old.\nAl was born March 12, 1927, to Ellis and Leona Andrews. He was raised in Ontario, Oregon, where he lived until graduating from high school and joining the U.S. Navy near the end of World War II. Following his discharge, Al attended Eastern Oregon State College and the University of Oregon until he was recalled to active duty at the onset of the Korean conflict to serve aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Boxer. After his military service he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon.\nAl worked as partner in the firm of Fitzwater, Fitzwater and Andrews before beginning a solo neighborhood practice in North Portland in the late 1960s. He closed his office in early 2000 to become a full-time caregiver for his beloved wife, Darlene (Devine), whose death preceded his.\nAl was a member of the Oregon State Bar, Bethel Baptist Church, and Peninsula Kiwanis Club for over 50 years. He was a longtime supporter of the Mount Hood Kiwanis Camp for children with special needs. He was also a member of the U.S.S. Boxer Association and had an interest in hunting, hiking, genealogy, stained glass, music, and the Oregon Ducks.\nAl is survived by his children, Connie Stahly, Kris Wilkinson, Steve Andrews, Dixon Andrews, and Tony Andrews; two sisters, Florence Conant and Margaret Diehl; 12 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and close friend Betty Doble.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1680395"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6853100061416626,"wiki_prob":0.3146899938583374,"text":"Doctoral Consortium\nThe 8th Israel Strategy Conference\nColler School of Management, Tel Aviv University\n20-22 December, 2020\nSubmission opens\nAbout / conference overview and organization\nIsrael Strategy Conference\nConference Administration\nThe Israel Strategy Conference (ISC) is a voluntary initiative, not affiliated with any institution, aimed at promoting academic excellence and advancing the field of strategic management in Israel. Towards this end, ISC invites highly prestigious keynote speakers, subjects paper proposal submissions to a very strict double-blind review process, and offers the prestigious ISC Best Paper Award which carries a $1,000 cash value.\nISC provides an opportunity for scholars to exchange ideas and advance their research in strategic management and related fields such as entrepreneurship and international business. ISC is held every two years and is hosted by different Israeli universities on a rotating basis.\nISC was founded by Niron Hashai, Dovev Lavie, and Ithai Stern, with the help and advice of Avi Meshulach, Zur Shapira, and the late Avi Fiegenbaum. The first conference was held December 2007 in Jerusalem, with more than a hundred participants from all over the world. Over the years, the conference has grown to over 160 attendees. We hope that the upcoming conference in Haifa and the ones to follow will continue to draw a growing number of participants.\nISC offers a variety of opportunities to get involved, including special session organizers, keynote speakers, panelists, presenters, discussants, volunteers, and sponsors.\nEmail us at info@isc.org.il for more information about these opportunities.\nShiko Ben-Menahem\nUriel Stettner\nNiron Hashai\nGabriel Szulanski\nIthai Stern\nZur Shapira\nDovev Lavie\nSharon Klein-Raz\nConference Information / the 8th Israel Strategy Conference\nFiegenbaum Best Paper Award\nPaper presentation guidelines\nPoster presentation guidelines\n1 April, 2020: Submission and registration opens.\n1 June, 2020: Submission deadline.\n1 July, 2020: Application deadline Doctoral Consortium\nMid July, 2020: Notices to authors indicating whether the proposed paper has been selected for inclusion in the conference program, and whether it has been accepted to a paper session or an interactive session.\n15 August, 2020: Registration deadline for presenting authors.\n1 November, 2020:\nDeadline for authors of paper sessions to submit an updated abstract and the full-length paper\nDeadline for authors of poster sessions to submit an updated short abstract.\n20-22 December, 2020: Israel Strategy Conference, Haifa\n20 December, 2020: ISC Doctoral Consortium\nSelect paper proposals which receive the highest assessment in the review process will be nominated as finalists for the ISC Best Paper Award. The finalists will be asked to submit a full paper for an additional blind-review process by a distinguished panel. The selected winner(s) of the Fiegenbaum Best Paper Award will receive a plaque and a $1,000 cash prize. The winning paper will be announced in the concluding session of ISC.\nCongratulations on your acceptance to the ISC 2020 Paper Session Program! Below please find some guidelines for preparing your presentation.\nWe want to encourage individual paper presentations and entire sessions to be interesting, stimulating, and engaging. You will have about 15 minutes to present your paper. Your presentation will be followed by a short discussion by a discussant, and a Q&A with the audience. Towards the end of the 75 minutes session, the discussant will spend additional time integrating the papers and offering suggestions for improvement and development.\nThe standard meeting room will include a computer, an LCD projector with a screen, a flip chart, and markers. Please prepare your presentation using PowerPoint and bring your presentation file on a USB stick.\nPlease arrive at your session’s meeting room at least 10 minutes before the session begins. Take time to familiarize yourself with the room set-up. The discussant or one of the organizers will help you upload your presentation to the computer.\nIf you have any questions, feel free to contact the organizing committee.\nThe objective of this “Research Bazaar” is to benefit from the advantages of traditional poster and interactive sessions while avoiding their disadvantages. Traditional poster sessions offer participants an opportunity to visually present their research in a clear and concise way, but limit their ability to present their research verbally in a formal manner. Interactive sessions, on the other hand, offer participants an opportunity to discuss their research, but suffer from the lack of visual aids. The Research Bazaar session will provide you the opportunity to both visually present your research, using a poster, and the time and place to discuss your research with others.\nTo that end, accepted proposals have been grouped by topic. Each group of presenters has been reserved a designated a room where posters will be displayed and presentations will be given, with the coordination of an assigned facilitator. You have about 5 minutes to present your work. After all presenters have completed their formal presentations, in the remaining time, you will have the opportunity to informally discuss your work with the audience and with other presenters. With only 5 minutes per presentation, please use this limited time to talk about the following items:\nThe paper’s research question and why it is interesting.\nThe paper’s main premise and hypotheses.\nThe research setting.\nThe paper’s main findings and conclusions.\nPlease update the submission system with your abstract of up to 1000 characters by November 1st, 2017. This abstract will be included in the ISC Abstracts document and distributed to conference participants.\nPoints to consider when preparing your presentation:\nWe want to encourage papers and presentations to be interesting, stimulating, and engaging.\nPlease arrive at your session’s meeting area at least 10 minutes before the session begins. Hang your poster and take time to familiarize yourself with the set-up. The facilitator or one of the organizers will help you hang your poster if needed.\nPoints to consider when designing your poster:\nThe standard poster size is A0: 1189mm x 841mm, 46.82 inches x 33.11 inches.\nDivide the contents of your poster into appropriate sections. For instance, title, author, affiliation, research question, methodology, data, results, and conclusions.\nPosters should be readable from a distance of at least two meters. Use font size 16 or larger. You may also want to bring hand-outs for the audience. This can be especially helpful for figures and information presented in tabular form.\nBe concise with your written material. Save elaborative points for discussion/interaction with other presenters. For conclusions, focus on a central finding that lends itself to informal discussion.\nUse graphs, charts and/or tables (color if possible) to show results. Graphics help make your poster interesting.\nA neutral poster or matte board is more amenable to the eye than a bright colored background. A splash of color here and there, perhaps highlighting central finding(s) or provocative results, will make your poster “stand out” from the crowd.\nA mailing tube or portfolio case is recommended for transporting your poster.\nKeynote Speakers / distinguished scholars speaking at ISC 2020\nBruce Kogut\nRuss Coff\nRebecca Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School in the General Management and Strategy units. Professor Henderson is also a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work explores how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. She teaches Reimagining Capitalism in the MBA Program.\nFrom 1998 to 2009, Professor Henderson was the Eastman Kodak Professor of Management at the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she ran the strategy group and taught courses in strategy, technology strategy, and sustainability. She received an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a doctorate in business economics from Harvard.\nProfessor Henderson sits on the boards of Amgen and of IDEXX Laboratories, and she has worked with both members of the Fortune 100 and small, technology-orientated start-ups. She was retained by the U.S. Department of Justice in connection with the remedies phase of the Microsoft trial, and in 2001 she was named Teacher of the Year at the Sloan School. Her work has been published in a range of scholarly journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Research Policy, The RAND Journal of Economics, and Organization Science.\nHer most recent publication is Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited jointly with Ranjay Gulati and Michael Tushman, and published by the Oxford University Press.\nBruce Kogut is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He teaches courses on Governance and on Governance on Ethics. He has taught in executive programs in the US, Europe, and China.\nHis current research focuses on governance and corporate compensation, social capital markets and social metrics , and the ‘political color of boards,’ financed by the National Science Foundation in the area of sociology and computational social science. In cooperation with IFMR in Chennai, colleagues and he have completed a study on the prosocial attitudes of employees and incentives on the productivity of microfinance institutions. His research has 70,000 Google citations and has been published in leading journals in economics, management, sociology, and computer science.\nHis most recent book is The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance, published by MIT Press in 2012. A collection of his past articles on real options and foreign investment and knowledge of the firm was published by Oxford University Press in 2008 under the title Knowledge, Options, and Institutions.\nHe has been a member of the academic advisory board to the chief economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and is or has been a director in corporate and academic boards in Europe, Russia, and India. He received his PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management and holds an honorary doctorate from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has been an academic visitor at several research institutes, including Science Center Berlin (where he was the Karl Deutsch Professor), Ecole Polytechnique, Santa Fe Institute, and Tsinghua University.\nHe directed the strategy and emerging-economy research centers and was the associate vice dean for the PhD program at Wharton and was the founder of the social entrepreneurship program at INSEAD. At Columbia University, he collaborated with Cambridge University to co-direct the Ariane de Rothschild Fellows Program that identified and trained social entrepreneurs with an interest in fostering a culture of mutual respect and dialogue among Jewish and Muslim communities.\nIn 2012-2013, he was a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and is currently a member of its external board.\nRuss Coff is the Thomas J. Falk Distinguished Chair in Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research explores the role of human assets in innovation, creativity, and, ultimately in competitive advantage. For example, he studies management dilemmas associated with human capital including: 1) the management of strategic investments in knowledge-based assets under great uncertainty 2) appropriating value (rent) from competitive advantages, 3) creativity & innovation under conditions of asymmetric information and uncertainty, and 4) how buyers cope in mergers and acquisitions that involve human assets. Coff received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has previously been a faculty member at Emory and Washington Universities.\nRuss has served the research community through his participation on a variety of editorial boards including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization (where he was a Co-Editor). He also chaired the Business Policy and Strategic Division of the Academy of Management and the Strategic Human Capital Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. He is a Past President of the Strategic Management Society.\nDoctoral Consoritum\nDC Faculty\nAdmission and Application\nISC will be holding its annual Doctoral Consortium on Sunday, 20 December, 2020 from 9AM to 4PM. The world of research is all about communicating with a community of scholars with overlapping interests. Doctoral consortia are most valuable in providing an intimate setting for a cohort of doctoral students to get to know each other and meet senior scholars in the field. The ISC Doctoral Consortium aims to offer such a setting for Ph.D. students interested in conducting cutting-edge research in strategy and related areas.\nThe consortium is organized by Adam Kleinbaum (Dartmouth) and Annamaria Conti (University of Lausanne) and features an international panel of senior faculty members.\nThe Consortium is comprised of three components:\nCurrent and future themes in Strategy: panelists will present their views of emerging “hot” topics in the general management field, and students will be invited to suggest ideas and jointly speculate how they may play in the wider audience of strategy research.\nGetting published in top journals: a panel discussions aimed at conveying to students some proven techniques of (1) framing research questions, (2) research design, (3) packaging, (4) dealing with editors and reviewers.\nThesis Development workshop: a select group of doctoral students will have an opportunity to present their research and receive guidance and commentary from senior faculty. Selection for this workshop is highly competitive. Students admitted to this program will receive a 50% discount on the ISC registration fee (the doctoral consortium will be offered at no charge to all attending students).\nAnnamaria Conti (HEC Lausanne)\nAdam Kleinbaum (Dartmouth)\nDoctoral students in the proposal/dissertation stage will have the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback in a thesis development workshop. Students attending the doctoral consortium must register to the Israel Strategy Conference (ISC). Only electronic applications will be considered. Student discount rates apply. An additional 50% discount will be offered to students presenting their research at the Thesis Development workshop.\nAdmission preference will be given to students whose research is at the dissertation proposal stage. Doctoral students who do not wish to present their research at the thesis development workshop are still invited to apply and attend the doctoral consortium. Only those students wishing to present their research will be required to submit an abstract and a nomination letter. The dissertation should be sufficiently developed to allow for a clear presentation of the theory and research design, but leave significant room for revision based on comments received at the consortium. A nomination letter by a faculty member relating to the state of the applicant’s dissertation research is required as part of the application process.\nTo apply, please complete the application form below and upload the following documents:\n– A Curriculum Vitae.\nStudents applying to the Thesis Development workshop should also submit:\n– A brief abstract of your dissertation research. The abstract should be no longer than two pages of text and one page of references (adhering to the ISC proposal submission guidelines).\n– A signed nomination letter from a supervising faculty member attesting that the student is in good standing and referring to the progress of the applicant’s dissertation research.\nAll of the documents should be integrated in one file (.pdf or .doc).\nThe application deadline for students wishing to present their work is 1 July, 2020.\nThe application deadline for students wishing to attend without presentation is 1 November, 2020.\nIf you have questions regarding the doctoral consortium, please contact Adam Kleinbaum (adam.m.kleinbaum@tuck.dartmouth.edu)\nConference Location / Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University\nThe 8th Israel Strategy Conference will be held at Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Tel Aviv University (TAU) – Israel’s largest and most comprehensive institution of higher learning – is home to over 30,000 students studying in nine faculties and over 125 schools and departments across the spectrum of sciences, humanities and the arts.\nSituated in Israel’s cultural, financial and technological capital, TAU shares Tel Aviv’s unshakable spirit of openness and innovation – and boasts a campus life as dynamic and pluralistic as the metropolis itself. Tel Aviv the city and Tel Aviv the university are one and the same – a thriving Mediterranean center of diversity and discovery.\nConsistently ranked in the top 20 in the world in terms of scientific citations and among the top 100 universities internationally, Tel Aviv University is also Israel’s first choice for students, and its graduates are the most sought after by Israeli companies. Global in outlook and impact, TAU advances teaching and research that break down the walls between disciplines, striving to address the twenty-first century’s most pressing challenges through bold, interdisciplinary solutions.\nTel Aviv is one of the most vibrant cities in the world. Titled the ‘Mediterranean Capital of Cool’ by the New York Times, this is a 24 hour city with a unique pulse, combining sandy Mediterranean beaches with a world-class nightlife, a buzzing cultural scene, incredible food, UNESCO recognized architecture, and an international outlook.\nFor more information about Tel Aviv\nAttendees are responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements.\nAttendees of ISC can benefit from special rates at the following hotels:\n(Shuttle services will be available from these hotels to the Technion)\nDan Carmel Haifa\nAs the first exclusive hotel in the City of Haifa, The Dan Carmel’s perfectly placed mountain top location allows for panoramic views of the Mediterranean Sea with a breathtaking backdrop. Overlooking Haifa Bay and the Galil & Golan Landscapes, the sheer magnificence is simply overwhelming.\nThe Dan Carmel’s recently refurbished rooms and suites are all designed with classic and elegant tones, complete with modern accessories and luxurious comforts, as expected in the best hotels in the world. Extra-Large bathrooms designed for indulgence and 42-Inch LED screens with multimedia outlets enable you to relax and unwind after a rigorous day of touring or work.\nDan Carmel’s stylish lobby and public areas are a perfect place to gather ones thoughts, and the large swimming pool, hidden between the all trees of the luscious gardens, create an enchanting relaxation zone, enabling one to reconnect and re-energize.\nRate per night on bed & breakfast basis:\nDeluxe Sea View – 200$\nSupplement for double room: 45$ per room per night.\nSpecial Benefits for conference guests:\nFree entrance to business lounge\nReservations at Dan Carmel\nDan Panorama Haifa\nThe Dan Panorama Hotel, rising twenty-one stories high on Mount Carmel, offers you a choice of spectacular views: one side commands a splendid panorama of the city of Haifa, Mount Carmel and the sea. Another vantage point presents the huge curve of Haifa Bay and the endless stretches of Israel’s beautiful Mediterranean coastline. The only Haifa hotel that’s a city landmark, the Dan Panorama Hotel is contemporary in style with spacious public areas and guest rooms featuring floor to ceiling windows. The hotel also adjoins the city’s upscale Panorama Mall that houses fine boutiques, elegant cafes and entertainment venues. Close by are the outdoor coffee bars and stores of the bustling Carmel Center, a favorite gathering place for visitors and locals. Designed for the young at heart, the informal, easy-going ambiance of this Haifa hotel invites you to relax and feel at home.\nSuperior Room – 140$\nReservations at Dan Panorama\nHaifa Bay View Hotel\nThe new Haifa Bay View Hotel is located at the top of Mount Carmel overlooking the spectacular view of Haifa Bay. It features 109 sea-facing guestrooms and suites ideal for vacations as well as business accommodation.\nHotel guests are welcomed by a unique, energetic entrance complex featuring an open lobby, restaurants and a bar. Relaxing lounge areas combine chic and comfort to provide a contemporary working environment and at the same time a recreational setting for social gathering or a culinary treat. The lobby offers a variety of menus throughout the day: Chinese menu, Dairy menu and a wine and alcohol menu.\nBayview Haifa Hotel offers the ideal location near the Carmel tourist sites, within walking distance from the entertainment center, including coffee shops, shops, the Carmelit (the sole underground in Israel), Louis Promenade – from which you can enter and explore the wonders of the Bahai Gardens, the Zoo and Botanical Gardens, the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, art galleries and museums, and a short drive from the University of Haifa and the Technion.\nSingle Standard Room – 115$\nSingle Deluxe Room – 145$\nSupplement for Dinner: 40$ per meal, per person, per day.\nDaily newspaper upon request\nDownload Haifa Bay View Hotel reservation form\nPlease e-mail your completed reservation form to: inc6@hiil.co.il\nDecember in Haifa is an amazing opportunity to experience co-existence, harmony, and beautiful neighborhoods in the time of “the holiday of the holidays”.\nWe will enjoy the views of beautiful Haifa from the Loui promenade, and walk to the spectacular Bahai gardens. The route continues along the German colony with its Hannuka and Christmas lights.\nAfter the tour, we will continue for a fun night out at a unique dining site located at the heart of the Carmel Mountain. Dinner will be followed by a live music show by the ‘Ritalin Band‘ with top-notch musicians and a rich repertoire of different music styles. It will be a great party!\nPrice USD 100 per participant / companion\nRegister for the social event.\nDay 1: December 18th 2017 – Tour to Akko and Rosh Hanikra\n09:00-16:00. Price: USD 130 per person\nThe Mediterranean shore provides and outstanding view with a rich history.\nWe will travel back in time to the Crusaders and Ottomans era and visit underground Akko and the Turkish bath. We will drive along the sea to the Northern point of Western Israel–Rosh Hanikra, where we will enjoy the beautiful setting of ice caves and the waves. Lunch is included.\nRegister for this day trip.\nDay 2: December 19th 2017 – Tour to Caesarea, Tel Aviv and Jaffa\nThroughout history, many empires have tried to conquer Israel due to its strategic location. We will meet Herod the Great and his magnificent port city of Caesarea, capital of Judea under the Romans. See the excavations of the crusader city and the Roman port, aqueduct and the ancient theater. We continue our drive South along the shore all to way to Jaffa–with its history dating back to early antiquity. We will end the day in Sarona Market, a commercial area in a former 19th Century German colony, which today is a lively gastronomic hotspot.\nHebrew University, Jerusalem, 2007\nTel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2008\nBen Gurion University, Be’er Scheva , 2009\nTechnion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 2010\nFor questions, please contact us by e-mail: info@isc.org.il\n© 2019-2020 Israel Strategy Conference —","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line713639"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6656346917152405,"wiki_prob":0.3343653082847595,"text":"Discovering Hope. Every Day.The Largest Phase 0 Clinical Trials Program in the World.\nDetermine Your Eligibility\nA New Hope ForBrain Tumor Patients\nThe Ivy Brain Tumor Center at Barrow Neurological Institute is a nonprofit clinical trials program that offers state-of-the-art clinical trials for patients with even the most aggressive brain tumors.\nLive Q&A with Brain Tumor Experts\nTune in live at 9:00 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, July 17 to have all your questions answered by neurosurgical oncologist, Dr. Nader Sanai, and his multidisciplinary team of brain tumor experts. Learn how our Phase 0 clinical trials work and why we believe they are the key to accelerating drug discovery for patients with glioblastoma and other malignant brain tumors.\nMelissa's Story\n“The day I woke up and had that MRI, I never thought in a million years that I would have a brain tumor,” Melissa Geiser recalls. The mother of three had suffered from migraines for most of her life, and her doctor had finally ordered an MRI. At first the results were inconclusive, even suggesting she had suffered a stroke. But she persisted in searching for answers and finally received a diagnosis, confirmed by specialists from across the country: a type of glioma called anaplastic astrocytoma. Because of where it was located in her thalamus, they deemed it inoperable.\nThe Ivy Brain Tumor Center's collective efforts in clinical trials, basic science research, and patient outreach demand a team approach. We welcome everyone from the community of patients, caregivers, students, volunteers, health professionals, local organizers, sponsors, fundraisers, and more.\nThe Ivy Foundation, established in 2005, is the largest non-government organization supporter of brain tumor research in the world.\nPhase 0 clinical trials are exploratory studies that accelerate and streamline the drug testing and approval process, allowing new drug combinations to be evaluated in patients in as little as seven days. Through this approach, a patient is given a single dose of the experimental drug before a planned tumor surgery. During surgery, our team collects and tests tumor tissue to determine if the drug is having an effect. Ultimately, Phase 0 clinical trials mean that patients, regardless of diagnosis, can have individualized treatment in a fraction of the time and costs associated with traditional drug research and development.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line492719"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7502225637435913,"wiki_prob":0.7502225637435913,"text":"Just Dance's Best Player Is A 16-Year-Old Kid From Turkey\nFiled to: Just DanceFiled to: Just Dance\nJust Dance World Cup\nJust Dance 17\nJust Dance has a new World Cup champion, and it’s not who anyone thought it would be. Somehow breezing past stiff competition from around the globe, high school-aged Umutcan managed the biggest upset in the game’s short competitive history.\nI know what you’re thinking: there’s a World Cup for Just Dance? Yes, there is. That motion-tracking rhythm game from 2009 that originally released for the Nintendo Wii that everyone insisted on playing after coming back from the bar drunk and which spawned seven sequels and even more spin-offs is also an esport.\nUmutcan, who goes by “Technoth” in the dancing world, who came to Paris for the Just Dance World Cup as one of its youngest contenders, will leave it a champion. Hailing from Ankara, Turkey’s capital, Umutcan was nobody’s favorite to take the championship. Instead, many assumed Brazil’s Diegho San would take first place for the third year in a row, or that if anyone were to unseat him, it would be France’s own TheFairyDina or perhaps Australian newcomer Denzal Van Uitregt.\nUmutcan (center) holding the Just Dance Word Cup trophy beside Pamela (right) and Uitregt left).\nBut Umutcan proved them all wrong. Using a Swiss-system for the group stage meant that only the top four performers would make it into the playoffs. Umutcan was actually tied with previous champion Diegho San wins, but because he had defeated him during their group stage best-of-three series, it was the Turkish dancer who got to progress (the final ranking was based on points, and San being the two-time world champion, a win against him was worth the most points).\nAfter sending the former world champion home, Umutcan had to go up against Hian who was, up until the semifinals, undefeated. But even on the first song, Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” despite the superb timing of his competitor, it was Umutcan’s style and energy gave him a lead. While Hian took the next round on Frankie Valli’s “Cant Take My Eyes Off You,” it was Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” that decided the winner, which turned out to be, to the surprise of even the announcers, Umutcan.\nThe judges loved his fluid movements and passion even when it cost him precision on the choreography, a trend that continued through to the finals against a third Brazilian opponent, Pamela. “Don’t Stop Me Now,” returned for the first round, followed by will.i.am’s “Scream & Shout” featuring Britney Spears. Umutcan took both with one of the judges, Just Dance’s own Manager of Choreography, saying she simply couldn’t take her eyes off the aspiring champion. The World Cup trophy was presented to Umutcan with The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” blasting in the background, because when you’re a slave to the money then you die the only thing to do is dance in front of a video game.\nPrior to the tournament, he told Ubisoft, the game’s publisher and the organizer behind the event, that he tried to qualify last year but was unsuccessful. “I was not as good as now,” he said, having trained three hours a day in the months in-between to make sure 2017 was different.\nEver since Diegho San won the first Just Dance World Cup a few years ago, the scene around the game in Brazil has exploded, as evidenced by the number of top ranked talent that hails from that country. With no comparative community to be inspired by or borrow from in Turkey, Umutcan’s rise feels even more like Billy Elliot (2000) meets The Wizard (1989).\n“[The] crowded environment doesn’t make me scared,” he said before the tournament. “On the contrary, it makes me excited and encourages me.” For Umutcan, Just Dance is more than just a competition though, who added that the game is a key part of how he socializes with friends and has built lasting relationships. And of course his favorite Just Dance song is David Guetta’s “Hey Mama” featuring Nicki Minaj, because “when I play this song, I feel more excited and free.”\nYou can watch the end of the finals here.\nMore Grooves\nFor Twitch Streamers Who Spend Their Lives On Camera, It&apos;s Hard To Know When To Stop\nArmed Robber Demands Just Dance 2014\nBritney Spears&apos; Son Follows In His Mother&apos;s Dance Steps\nFan-Made Smash Bros. Ultimate Level Features Dueling Snakes","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1565873"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8117680549621582,"wiki_prob":0.8117680549621582,"text":"Choose Your Middle East Historical Comparison: 1989, 1968 or 1848?\nObservers are struggling to fit the Middle East uprisings into a historical analogue. Is this the fall of the Soviet bloc? Student protests? Or should we be going even further back in history?\nUri Friedman\nIn recent weeks, analysts have time and again invoked history to explain the anti-government, pro-democracy protests sweeping the Arab world from Tunisia to Egypt to Libya. Below are the most common historical precedents they're citing and why these analogies may or may not be appropriate:\nTHE REVOLUTIONS OF 1989\nBackground: In 1989, around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests in China, pro-democracy demonstrators overthrew a string of Soviet bloc communist dictatorships in a matter of months through generally non-violent methods. The movement arose in Poland when the opposition group Solidarity rose to power and soon spread to Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and finally Romania, where the unrest turned more violent and the dictator and his wife eventually faced a firing squad. When the dust settled, the Berlin Wall had fallen, the Soviet Union was teetering, and the collapse of Communism was underway.\nSimilarities: The spontaneous, domino-like way in which today's protests have migrated from one Arab country to another reminds many observers of 1989. German Chancellor Angela Merkel--who grew up in East Germany and entered politics in 1989--claimed that Middle East protesters were \"shaking off their fear\" just as Eastern Europeans had, while Oxford's Eugene Rogan remarked that \"the Poles showed the rest of the region that demonstrations and strikes could challenge the state's ability to repress basic rights, like freedom of speech and free assembly, the same lesson the Tunisians hoped to teach other Arab nations.\" Adrian Michaels at The Guardian, meanwhile, argues that both revolutions arose out of a climate of political stagnation.\nDifferences: The Hungarian-American businessman George Soros, who financed opposition movements in Eastern Europe in the lead-up to the revolutions of 1989, points out that Eastern Europeans supported America because it was the Soviet Union's sworn enemy, while demonstrators in the Middle East are suspicious of the U.S. because it is allied with the regimes that are collapsing. James Collins, the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1989, told the AP that the Middle East protests \"have been uprisings against a sclerotic and out of touch leadership\" whereas in in Eastern Europe \"the change was much deeper, systemic. It touched the roots of the economy and the way society operated.\" The Guardian's Timothy Garton Ash, meanwhile, claims that the Middle East movements are less organized and not \"led by democratic opposition movements and civil society groups, which in 1989 sustained non-violent discipline, even in the face of provocation, and paved the way to a transition negotiated at round tables.\"\nTHE PROTESTS OF 1968\nBackground: In 1968, a year dominated by the war in Vietnam and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, student and worker protests convulsed countries ranging from Mexico to Czechoslovakia to the U.S. Perhaps the most high-profile rebellion occurred in France in May, when students swarmed the streets, clashed violently with police, and joined forces with workers, paralyzing the French economy for several weeks.\nSimilarities: Michael D. Mosettig at PBS states that the rebellion in France in 1968, like the uprising in Egypt in 2011, was \"a largely leaderless revolt of the young, and a government initially in disarray, ending as the middle classes demanded a restoration of order and the government regained control of the situation.\" Amiel Unger adds that the French students, like the young Egyptian protesters, rose up because they had bleak job prospects after completing their studies.\nDifferences: George Friedman at Spero News argues that the 1968 protests \"overthrew no regime even temporarily and left some cultural remnants of minimal historical importance.\" While \"the Muslim world will not experience massive regime change as in 1989,\" he continues, the consequences of the revolts currently underway probably won't be as \"ephemeral as 1968.\" He predicts that \"the democracies that eventually arise will produce regimes that will take their bearings from their own culture, which means Islam.\"\nBackground: In 1848, a revolution in France in 1848 triggered similar uprisings in almost every other country in Europe. Historians attribute the reform movements, which were largely spearheaded by the middle class, to a variety of causes ranging economic hardship to the influence of nationalism, liberalism, and socialism. The revolutions were largely unsuccessful and played out differently in different countries, though were largely unsuccessful regardless of location. In France, for example, protesters ousted the monarch only to see the republic they created crumble shortly thereafter, while the German states failed to unite as they had hoped.\nSimilarities: The Washington Post's Anne Applebaum argues that that the 1989 revolutions were all about the Soviet Union withdrawing its support of Eastern European dictators, the Middle East protests, like the revolutions of 1848, \"are the product of multiple changes--economic, technological, demographic--and have taken on a distinctly different flavor and meaning in each country.\" She adds that while the revolutions of 1848 failed in the near term, they planted the seeds for change over a longer period. By the end of the 19th century, she notes, Bismarck had united Germany and France had established its Third Republic. She predicts that even if many of the Middle East uprisings fail by 2012, the region may indeed undergo a longer-term transformation, perhaps fueled as much by negotiation as by popular revolution.\nDifferences: The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan argues that 2011, simply put, isn't 1848: \"What happens when a backward region has an 1848 in 2011, an era where the rest of the world has already moved way past them--and the people, demographically skewed young, know it via the web and satellite TV? ... We will see some good outcomes and some disastrous ones. But the idea that these tyrants could hang on for ever, given their records and within these global currents is a fantasy.\"\nMIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS AS SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW\nSurveying many of these historical analogues, The Guardian's Timothy Garton Ash concludes that much of what occurred in Egypt was simply new, with no historical precedent:\nNew in Cairo 2011 is that it is now Arabs and Muslims standing up in large numbers, with courage and (for the most part) peaceful discipline, for basic human dignity, against corrupt, oppressive rulers. New in 2011 is the degree of decentered, networked animation of the demonstrations, so that even the best-informed observers there struggle to answer the question \"who is organising this?\". New in 2011 is the extraordinary underlying pressure of demography, with half the population in most of these countries being under 25.\nUri Friedman is a staff writer at The Atlantic, covering national security and global affairs.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1619362"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9207086563110352,"wiki_prob":0.9207086563110352,"text":"2019 Regional Tournament\n1997 & 2009 NCAA Div. III National Runner-Ups\nNo. 4 Wooster Drops Appleton Opener Against No. 6 Texas Lutheran, Plays Swarthmore in Saturday's Elimination Game\nTexas Lutheran\nTexas Lutheran (39-9) 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 14 0\nWooster (40-9) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1\n2B: Tyler Cauley; Chad Curtis\nHR: Tyler Cauley\n2B: Michael Wielansky\nAPPLETON, Wis. – The fourth-ranked College of Wooster baseball team will have to claw its way back through the elimination bracket, as the Fighting Scots' return to the Div. III Championships didn't get off to the start the Black & Gold were hoping for with sixth-ranked Texas Lutheran University taking a 7-0 ball game on Friday evening at Fox Cities Stadium.\n\"It's obviously not the way you want to start a tournament, but give their guy credit,\" said head coach Tim Pettorini. \"He pitched a great game. He was spot on and came as advertised. We knew he would be very good, and he was. We didn't get the job done. It's a double elimination tournament for a reason, and the Fighting Scots will show up tomorrow ready to play.\"\nWooster (40-9), making its sixth appearance at the Div. III Championships, and first since 2009, was dealt a three-run hole in the first inning. Wooster junior Chandler Dippman induced a quick ground out against Div. III's leader in hits, Riley Schaefer, to start the game, but the Bulldogs quickly had the Scots' right-hander timed up. Back-to-back singles by Ben Marvin and Thomas Varner set the stage for Tyler Cauley, who drilled a three-run homer over the double-tiered billboards in left field.\nWooster junior Michael Wielansky looked to jump-start a two-out rally in the bottom of the first inning, and clubbed a two-bagger up the left-center alley, but a fly ball off the bat of sophomore Dan Harwood found its way into the waiting glove of Schaefer out in center field.\nTexas Lutheran chalked out a run in the second inning. After the first two men reached via a walk and a single, Eric Rabinowitz sacrificed the runners over to second and third base, and Schaefer lifted a sacrifice fly out to right field to up the lead to 4-0.\nIn the third inning, a pair of two-baggers – first by Cauley, and then by Chad Curtis – upped the Bulldogs lead to 6-0. That's where the score stood until the eighth inning, but in between Wooster had to work its tail off to keep it at a six-run deficit.\nIn the fourth inning, junior Harrison Walls threw out a would-be base stealer and junior Garrett Crum made a nice pick on a screaming grounder to end the inning and strand a pair. An inning later, two more runners were stranded when senior Drew Tornow tracked down a fly ball to end the inning.\nSophomore Jeremy Parton breezed through his second inning of relief with a one-two-three sixth inning, and he hung a \"K\" backwards on Cauley's line for the game, and in fact, that was the lone time Wooster was able to retire the Bulldogs' top slugger on the night.\nTwo innings later, a three-hit inning by the Bulldogs made it a 7-0 game.\nSenior Jake Fling is congratulated by first-base coach Dan Wyand after his fourth inning single. Photo courtesy of Russell Kramer, NCAC.\nWooster's top chance offensively came in the fourth inning when senior Jake Fling led off the inning with a single and moved up to second base on a base knock by sophomore Dan Harwood.\nNathan Malinovsky handcuffed the nation's top offense all evening long. The junior right-hander fired a four-hit shutout while striking out nine.\nCauley went 3-for-4 with five RBI and two runs scored.\nNoteworthy, Wooster held Schaefer, who entered the championships with a division-leading 86 hits to a 0-for-4 performance.\n\"Our approach was to give him a lot of different looks,\" said Pettorini. \"We didn't want to throw him the same pitch back-to-back. He's a great hitter, and his numbers are outstanding to say the least.\"\nDippman suffered his first loss on the year. The right-hander allowed six runs on nine hits in four innings.\nWooster will look to stay alive and must win its next four games to advance to the best-of-three championship series. Up first is a date with Swarthmore College (37-10) on Saturday with first pitch set for approximately 5:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. CT.\n\"We've got some really good seniors who have been through the wars a lot in some tough situations,\" said Pettorini when highlighting getting the guys ready to go for Saturday. \"Tomorrow's another great opportunity. We talked about it at length with our young guys before we came. It doesn't really matter. We've had an outstanding season. These guys have done a tremendous job, put up fantastic numbers, and really represented the school and our conference and everybody else in a first-class manner. This was going to be the icing on the cake. That's how we're going to approach it tomorrow. We're still in the middle of this thing. We have a lot of pitching depth. I know that. We're going to trot guys out there. If we can get the first one, hopefully we can get some momentum.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line562565"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8920260667800903,"wiki_prob":0.8920260667800903,"text":"Sean Hannity Is Losing His Mind Over Jimmy Kimmel\nHe keeps egregiously comparing the late-night host to ‘Harvey Weinstein’ and digging up clips of his satirical television series ‘The Man Show’ as evidence.\nMarlow Stern\nPhoto Illustration by The Daily Beast\nThe feud between Sean Hannity, Fox News’ resident wannabe MMA fighter, and Jimmy Kimmel reached even greater levels of ridiculousness on Friday, with the self-proclaimed non-journalist repeatedly accusing the late-night host of being “Harvey Weinstein Jr.”\nIn a series of unhinged tweets, Hannity pointed to clips of Kimmel’s past satirical sketch-comedy series The Man Show, which ran from 1999 to 2004 on Comedy Central, as evidence of his being a “pervert” and “Harvey Weinstein Jr.”\nLate Thursday night, Hannity teased that he’d have “much more tomorrow” concerning Kimmel’s so-called antics—which has thus far consisted of digging up more archival Man Show clips, browsing the show’s Wikipedia page, and referencing a conversation about Kimmel with Disney honcho Bob Iger that may or may not have happened.\nFor those existing on this planet—and not whatever one Hannity is on—conflating Kimmel and Weinstein isn’t just egregious, it’s incredibly irresponsible. Weinstein, a disgraced film mogul, has been credibly accused of rape or sexual harassment by up to 100 women; Kimmel, who has a reputation of being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood, has been accused of rape or sexual harassment by zero women.\nAnd while The Man Show was no doubt problematic—Kimmel once boasted of it as “a joyous celebration of chauvinism”—it’s harmful to compare a sketch-comedy show, where sketches are often staged, pre-recorded, and participants sign consent forms, with real-life sexual misconduct.\nKimmel indeed fired back on Friday afternoon, tweeting at Hannity, “I vote for whichever one best helps you trivialize the horrors of Harvey Weinstein by comparing them to televised comedy bits in which every woman was a willing participant who gladly signed a release.”\nSuch behavior is particularly rich coming from Hannity, who repeatedly defended Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore after he was credibly accused of a rash of sexual misconduct; defended Fox News president Bill Shine for allegedly covering up Roger Ailes’ sexual misconduct (Shine was eventually let go from the network); passionately defended Fox News chief Roger Ailes following several sexual-harassment allegations (Ailes was also let go); and hosted Bill O’Reilly on his show after it was revealed that O’Reilly had settled multiple sexual-harassment suits, with Hannity saying to his predatory pal, “I think you should come back [to Fox News].”\nThe dust-up between Hannity and Kimmel began when the staunch Trump defender took issue with a joke the comedian made on his Jimmy Kimmel Live! program about Melania Trump’s accent while reading a children’s story during the White House Easter Egg Roll.\n“Liberal Jimmy Kimmel making fun of the first lady of the United States and her involvement in the White House Easter Egg Roll, even her accent. Jimmy, you’re a despicable disgrace,” Hannity said, adding that he’s an “ass clown” and arguing that English is Melania’s “fifth language. How many do you speak?”\nKimmel, as is his wont, fired back at Hannity during his Thursday night monologue, saying, “This is the guy who defended multiply alleged pedophile Roy Moore, and I’m the despicable disgrace? I’m the ass clown?! If I’m an ass clown, and I might very well be, you, Sean, are the whole ass circus.”\nHe continued: “You’re the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey of ass-clownsmanship, but I do wanna say, I appreciate how compassionate you’ve suddenly become to the plight of immigrants in this country over the last 24 hours. Do you know what I think is disrespectful to the first lady? Cheating on her with a porn star after she has a baby. Why don’t you rant a little about that, Sean Hannity?”\nThe funnyman was, of course, referring to porn star Stormy Daniels, who’s accusing the president of conducting an affair with her mere months after the first lady had their son, Barron.\n@marlownycmarlow.stern@thedailybeast.com\nGot a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line253672"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8428407311439514,"wiki_prob":0.8428407311439514,"text":"Home Real Estate Historic DC A State Funeral Illuminates the Life of George H.W. Bush and America\nA State Funeral Illuminates the Life of George H.W. Bush and America\nFormer President George W. Bush delivers the eulogy at the funeral service for his father, former President George H.W. Bush Dec. 5 at the Washington National Cathedral. Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks.\nState funerals are high and mighty, sometimes surreal occasions, solemn and full of formality, and, contrarily, stretched to the limits of theatrical and historical high drama. For such an effect, the visually dramatic spaces of the Washington National Cathedral, the air appears rarefied, almost visible before the stained glass windows and brave arches.\nThis is true if you happened to remember the funerals—in person or otherwise— of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, and some years later, of its legendary editor Ben Bradlee, or of Civil Rights leader Dorothy Height, ablaze with Sunday-go-to-meeting hats, or the quiet, smaller celebration of the life of political cartoonist Herblock, or of astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon or, three months earlier, of Sen. John McCain.\nIt is especially true for the celebration and passing of the life of United States Presidents. All the ingredients were there for the Dec. 5 state funeral of George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States, shepherd of a one-term presidency of gigantic import, who lived a multi-faceted life of public service that touched critical levers of governance for the nation.\nThere is always a certain comforting similarity to these occasions that you watch keenly for the details—the rows of large, black vehicles delivering their cargos of family, one of whom was also a president, and attendance by four other presidents, and a swell of the mighty: international leaders, such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mingling with cabinet secretaries, partners and wives, whether of days past or today’s power brokers. You see time and again servicemembers carrying the flag-draped coffin, the careful lifting, the small, measured and precise steps, the full-breath orders given, up the stairs, through the heavy doors and to its place before the altar.\nFor all this solemnity and visual allure of tradition, this funeral will be remembered not just for its lasting summation and expression of a remarkably affecting life, but for the life within the ceremonial itself. This was a funeral that often resembled an Irish wake for all the sounds of laughter, real life feelings and length.\nIn some ways, the various speeches—by a journalist-historian, by a former Canadian prime minister, by a former senator and close friend, by the son and former president, by a minister—proceeded in an orderly manner to reveal the full life of George H. W. Bush, late of this world, of Maine and Texas.\nThe recitations and reflections of Jon Meacham, the Bush biographer, included a full-circle story about the young aviator whose plane was shot down, with his rescue, and the loss of two fellow airmen in World War II. Meacham noted that Bush spent his life asking the question of “why me, and not them,” but also said that he was “an imperfect man who left us a more perfect union.”\n“Leadership” is how former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney defined the 41st president. “When Bush was president of the United States of America, every single head of government in the world knew that they were dealing with a gentleman, a genuine leader—one who was distinguished, resolute and brave,” he said. Former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson spoke of Bush’s modesty. “Those who travel the high road of humility in Washington, D.C., are not bothered by heavy traffic,” he said.\nBush was often noted—not always kindly by others—for his healing, uniting and softer qualities: the thousand points of light, a kinder, softer nation, because that seemed hallmarks of his life. He set aside grudges, buried old rivalries and wrapped his arms around old rivals in friendship.\nHe lived literally in the bosom of a large and always growing family which acted, as they did with the Kennedys, as a kind of buffer against outrageous fortune and political loss and the lingering, lifelong grief over the loss of a young daughter.\nFormer president George W. Bush, who knew something of political pitfalls, centered his eulogy around love with conviction and recalled calling his father on his last day to tell him he loved him. “I love you, too,” the father replied, the last words he ever spoke. At the end of his eulogy, the son broke into tears. So did former Secretary of State James W. Baker when the story was told that he rubbed his good friend’s feet for a long time at the end.\nThis funeral was not shy of sentiment, or even a small amount of silent controversy. People wept, or sighed because in a cathedral you imagine you hear every breath and sigh, and talked of the lost child, how hate can be all consuming.\nAll four former presidents and first ladies sat in the front row. Then, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived to sit, too, with the Obamas, Clintons and Carters. Their presence seemed to cast a pall of silence on the pew of presidents which had been noticeably animated before, turning silent as a stone pillar. The Trumps did not read or say prayers, nor did they sign, looking straight ahead. It was as if they were there, but not there.\nAlong the family pew in the other front row, the contrast could not have been stronger. Here the Bush children and their spouses sat, where tears could be seen, but smiles also, where Jeb and George reached out to each other, where wives and husbands held hands, and where emotions flowed freely.\nAs many noted, the contrast was not just about the occasion, but the times — with the speeches so full of references to truth, honesty, warmth, loyalty, accomplishments, modesty and humor, cooperation and friendship and respect, qualities that seem absent from today’s fraught political dealings.\nWhat also emerged from the funeral was a portrait of George H. W. Bush that at various times when he was in pursuit of high office went un- or under-appreciated.\nAs with the lines that continued endlessly during the Bush viewing the day before, as his old friend Bob Dole came for one last salute, as people came to say goodbye, they stretched out on streets and roadways and would again in Texas. Bush’s worth rose to be seen clearly with the feeling of loss enlarged by the outburst of public affection which in the end was clearly his due.\nstate funeral\nPrevious articleFamily Follows Tree from Oregon to Washington\nNext articleJulie Kent Takes Center Stage\nCanal Road Reopens to Traffic\nCanal Road Repairs May Continue All Week\nTime limit is exhausted. Please reload the CAPTCHA. + seven = fourteen","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1317037"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7225273251533508,"wiki_prob":0.27747267484664917,"text":"Latest Events, Information & Tickets. Independent Theatre Guide.\nTyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play at Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis\nTyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play Tickets\nOrpheum Theatre in Minneapolis\nIf catching the latest Theatre is your cup of tea, then this is a heads-up that Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play is headed its way to Minneapolis, Minnesota on Wednesday 27th March 2019. Witness Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play happening at the Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis , and seize this opportunity of a lifetime. Book your tickets early so you would get the best seats and make this experience truly memorable. Get your tickets now!\nExperience the spectacular production of Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play – one of the most talked about Theatre events of the year! This life-changing show comes to Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis on Wednesday 27th March 2019, bringing the critically acclaimed performance to the stage and creating a world like no other! Escape from the routine of your usual Wednesday and find yourself totally immersed. A hit from day one, there's a reason Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play has been the Theatre show on everyone's lips – you've never seen anything quite like this! Make sure you catch Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play while it's in Minneapolis – tickets will sell out quickly and you won't want to miss this unforgettable show!\nFans of Orpheum Theatre Minneapolis\nSummer - The Donna Summer Musical 16/07/2019\nTony Bennett 28/07/2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1183733"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6889580488204956,"wiki_prob":0.3110419511795044,"text":"Women do not haunt the State. They occupy it.\nAround the world, women are taking to the streets in great numbers, to protest, to take charge, to transform. In the past couple weeks, women have led and populated mass protests and marches in Malawi, Uganda, Lebanon, Argentina, Romania, Chile, Haiti. Women have occupied Wall Street, Nigeria, and beyond.\nWomen have been the bearers, in every sense, of Spring … in Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain. Today, January 25, women are returning to Tahrir Square … and to every square in Egypt. This is nothing new for northern Africa. Women, such as Aminatou Haidar, have born `spring’ in Western Sahara now for decades.\nFor women, the street does not end at the sidewalk. It runs, often directly, into the State offices.\nWomen are everywhere on the move, changing the face and form of State.\nIn Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner returned to her office today, after a 21-day health related absence, to resume her activities as President. On Thursday, January 5, Portia Simpson Miller was inaugurated, for the second time, as Prime Minister of Jamaica. On Monday, January 16, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated to her second term, of six years, as President of Liberia.\nThese are precisely not historic stories or events, and that’s the point. Women in positions of State power are women in positions of State power. Not novelties nor exotic nor, most importantly, exceptions. That is the hope.\nBut for now, that struggle continues.\nIn Colombia, women, such as Esmeralda Arboleda, helped organize the Union of Colombian Women, fought for women’s rights and power, and was the first woman elected as a Senator to the national Congress. That was July, 1958. Fifty or so years later, in January 2012, women in Chile launched “Mas mujeres al poder”, “More women in power”. In tactics, strategies and cultural actions, Mas mujeres al poder builds on the work of student activists in the streets. Women are saying enough, women are saying the time is now, and women are pushing their way through the electoral process, with or without the political parties, into the provincial and national legislatures.\nMeanwhile, in Bolivia, Gabriela Montaño was named President of the Senate and Rebeca Delgado was named President of the House of Representatives. Women are everywhere … and on the move.\nOn Tuesday, January 10, voters in Minnesota, in the United States, elected Susan Allen to the state legislature. Allen is the first American Indian woman to serve in that body. She is a single mother, and she is lesbian. Many firsts accrue to her election.\nAcross Europe, Black women are struggling and entering into legislative bodies with greater and greater success: Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen, originally from Martinique, in Norway; Nyamko Sabuni, originally from the DRC, in Sweden; Mercedes Lourdes Frias, originally from the Dominican Republic, in Italy. The struggle continues … into the national and regional legislatures, into the political structures, into the cultures of power as well as recognition.\nAcross the African continent, women are on the move. In Kenya, women, such as Charity Ngilu, are set to make their marks in the upcoming elections … and beyond. Meanwhile, South Africa’s Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is running, hard, for the Chairpersonship of the African Union Commission. She would be the first woman in that post, and some say she would be the most powerful woman in Africa.\nAnd in South Korea, four women, Park Geun-hye, Han Myeong-sook, Lee Jung-hee and Sim Sang-jung lead the three major political parties. Together, their three parties control 262 seats of the National Assembly’s 299.\nThis barely covers the news from the past three weeks. Everywhere, women are cracking patriarchy’s hold on and of power, in the streets, in the State legislatures, in the political structures. Today, and tomorrow, women do not haunt the State. They occupy it.\n(Photo Credit: BeBlogerra)\nFiled Under: General Tagged With: African Union, Aminatou Haidar, Arab Spring, Argentina, Bahrain, Bolivia, Charity Ngilu, Chile, Colombia, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Dan Moshenberg, Dominican Republic, DRC, Egypt, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Esmeralda Arboleda, Gabriela Montaño, Haiti, Han Meyong-sook, Haunts, Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Lee Jung-hee, Malawi, Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen, Martinique, Mas mujeres al poder, Mercedes Lourdes Frias, Ngilu, Nigeria, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Norway, Nyamko Sabuni, Occupy, Park Geun-hye, Portia Simpson Miller, Rebeca Delgado, Romania, Sim Sang-jung, South Africa, South Korea, Susan Allen, Sweden, Syria, Tahrir Square, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Yemen","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1516863"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.654155433177948,"wiki_prob":0.345844566822052,"text":"Linda Blacken\nWeehawken, New Jersey\nOrganization: New York Cares\nVolunteering gives me so much joy and fills me with purpose.\n-Linda Blacken\nLinda Blacken grew up in an Army family that travelled a lot. She was born in Alaska, but the family eventually made their way across the country before settling in Virginia. She now lives in New Jersey working as an editor for medical literature to help patients better understand the medicine they are taking. And for the past fourteen years, she has been an avid volunteer with New York Cares.\n“I began volunteering in 2004,” said Linda. “Growing up in a household where both parents gave their time to different community efforts and individuals, volunteering was just a normal part of life. A few years after an injury stalled my career as a professional musician, I needed to fill that space in my life with something that was more meaningful than just having an office job. One day I was chatting with a friend about looking for a way to volunteer. I told him about some individual efforts that had failed, and he told me about New York Cares. I signed up to attend a one-hour orientation, and that was the start of this amazing journey that has provided so much growth and joy in my life.”\nLinda says she likes the variety of projects she can get involved in through New York Cares. She has become a team leader with the organization, training other volunteers to lead programs in areas like children’s education, environmental improvement, large community initiatives and volunteer training.\n“One of the things I enjoy the most is having the opportunity to make a positive change in or impression on someone else’s life,” says Linda. “I’ve led a team of volunteers taking elementary school students on monthly field trips for 13 years now. We’ve gone on tons of fun and exciting adventures their families might not have been able to provide for them. While I don’t need the kids to remember me when they’re older, I do hope they remember there was that nice lady and her team who took them on fun trips when they were kids.”\nLinda also logs the time she spends volunteering through Reward Volunteers. She learned of the Cabot program through longtime friend and 2014 Cabot Celebrity Beth Lehmann, who shares her volunteer time on Facebook. Once she learned of the program, Linda started logging volunteer time on behalf of her organization and sharing it online.\n“Being a part of the 2017 Cabot Celebrity Alaska Cruise was really special for me,” said Linda. “I was born in Alaska, and the cruise was the first time I had been back after my family left when I was an infant. The cruise was also a day after my birthday, making that special cruise really feel like a journey home.”\nIn her spare time, Linda loves to craft. She has shelves full of various supplies for things like beading, polymer clay, knitting, crocheting, sewing and bedazzling. She also was once a professional French horn player and still plays today. Her favorite Cabot cheese is Shredded Mozzarella.\nCabot has also honored New York Cares volunteer Beth Lehmann (2014) with Community Celebrity Cruises who returns this year as an Alumnus along with first-time New York Cares Community Celebrity Phara Policar.\nThis will be Linda’s second Cabot Community Celebrity Cruise. She was first honored by Cabot with a cruise in 2017 on our trip to Alaska. We’re honored to have Linda join us again as a 2019 Community Celebrity Cruise alumnus.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1409554"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9890848994255066,"wiki_prob":0.9890848994255066,"text":"© Pierre Monetta\nChivas Stadium © Omnilife\nW083 by Wästberg\nme.we © Pierre Monetta\nWallace Chair © Poliform\nFlow Slim Armchair, © Massaud\nGlobe Suitcase collection, © Massaud\nSilver Time for Christofle © Luxproductions.com\nExecutive Chair for Coalesse, © Massaud\nFrench multidisciplinarian Jean-Marie Massaud was born near Toulouse, France, in 1966. His visionary work spans architecture and the full spectrum of object design—from bespoke furniture and industrial products, to, more recently, futuristic installations like a helium-filled airship hotel.\nEducated at the renowned Les Ateliers École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris (along with fellow alums Cédric Ragot, Philippe Malouin, Nina Tolstrup, , among others), Massaud moved to Asia after his 1990 graduation to collaborate with Yamaha Offshore on a submarine design. Upon his return to Paris, he enjoyed a four-year intensive partnership with his former Les Ateliers professor Marc Berthier, an industrial products maestro. In 1996, he laid the foundation for his own studio, which officially launched in partnership with architect-turned-product-designer Daniel Pouhezet in 2000 as Studio Massaud.\nStudio Massaud’s macro-architectural projects include the Tanabé House in Fukuoka (2000) and the volcano-shaped Estadio Akron for the Chivas football club in Guadlajara. Massaud has created interiors for Sephora, Poltrona Frau, and B&B Italia / C&B Italia; his product design clients include Paloma Picasso, Cacherel, Air France, Kartell, Axor, and Daum, among others. He’s also worked on branding for Lancôme; B&B Italia, Wastberg, and Foscarini.\nMassaud designed his first furniture pieces—the sculptural Horizontal Chair (1998), exhibited in January 1999 at the Museé des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and the architectonic Chuck Rocking Chair (2000), based in steel and upholstered in polyurethane foam—for the Tokyo furniture label E&Y. In 2001, he collaborated with Cappellini (at Giulio Cappellini's behest) to produce his polished fiberglass InOut Sofa (2001). His post-Cappellini CV includes work for Cassina (Aspen Sofa and Auckland Armchair, both 2005), Arper (Fred H74 Table, 2007), Dedon (Dean Slingchairs, 2016), Emu (Heaven Seating, 2007), Poltrona Frau (Archibald Armchair, 2009, and Gran Torino collection, 2013), B&B Italia (Seven Table, 2008), and various designers for Poliform.\nMassaud has said he draws design inspiration from the thoughtful elegance of Charles & Ray Eames, the eclecticism of Philippe Starck and Castiglioni Brothers, the sharpness of Antonio Citterio, and the expansive creativity of Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Edison. His work has received several honors, such as the Créateur de l’Année at the Paris Salon du Mueble (2007, 2009), the Wallpaper Design Award (2014), and the Interior Innovation Award (2015), and can be found in the design collections of major international museums, from the Musée National d'Art Moderne de Paris, to the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, The Chicago Athenaeum, The Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), and the Musée des arts Décoratifs (Paris).\nFlow Swivel Chair by Jean-Marie Massaud for MDF Italia, 2000s","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line154431"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5200878381729126,"wiki_prob":0.4799121618270874,"text":"Entergy Agrees to Sell U.K. Unit to French Firm\nKathryn Kranhold and\nPaul M. ShererStaff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal\nEntergy Corp., the New Orleans electric utility, has sold its British utility to Electricite de France SA for about 1.39 billion pounds ($2.3 billion) plus the assumption of about 530 million pounds in debt, according to individuals close to the negotiations.\nThe sale of Entergy's London Electricity marks an end to the company's auction of most of its international operations. Part of a strategic overhaul by Robert Luft, Entergy's new chairman, the sale also would continue the retreat of U.S. utilities from Britain's electricity...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line515630"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7804603576660156,"wiki_prob":0.7804603576660156,"text":"Home Articles Interesting Facts 10 Interesting Facts About Chinese Philosopher Confucius\n10 Interesting Facts About Chinese Philosopher Confucius\nBorn in 551 BC in the district of Zou, in the tributary state of Lu near present day Qufu, China; Confucius is considered as a towering personality in ancient Chinese history. After working in a number of small jobs in his early life, Confucius became a renowned philosopher who had thousands of disciples and numerous followers. He also served as Minister of Crime in his political career. In his role as a political thinker, philosopher, teacher and great master, Confucius left a deep influence in the essence of Chinese society. The impact of his philosophy Confucianism on East Asia and, through it, in other parts of the world can be perceived even today; many centuries after his death. Know about the family, life, career, death, teachings, philosophy and disciples of this great Chinese sage through these 10 interesting facts.\n#1 Confucius is not his real name\nConfucius’s personal name is understood to be Kǒng Qiū (Zi). Zi representing the family lineage and Kong, a certain branch of the family. As per prevalent customs his personal name was only used by the family elders and his courtesy name Zhòngní was commonly used by his contemporaries. His students address him as Zi in their compilations of his teachings; a title which is mostly translated as “Master” and does not imply his surname. Besides this Confucius was decorated with many titles over the years. Some of them being\na. “Laudably Declarable Lord Ni” (褒成宣尼公)\nb. “Extremely Sage Departed Teacher” (至聖先師)\nc. “The Model Teacher for the Myriad Ages” (萬世師表)\nd. “The Great Sage” (至聖)\ne. “Grand Master Kong” (孔夫子)\nf. “The First Teacher” (先師)\nConfucius is the Latinization of his title Kǒng Fūzǐ (Grand Master Kong) made popular in the west through the writings of Jesuit missionaries in China.\nAn ancient painting depicting Confucius and his students\n#2 The Lunyu and Shiji are widely sourced for his biography\nThe Lunyu or “Analects of Confucius”, compiled by Confucius’s disciples and later followers, is considered as one of the most reliable biographical material on Confucius. Shiji or “Records of the Grand Historian”, a masterpiece by Sima Qian, is a monumental account of ancient Chinese history covering over 2500 years. It was completed around 94 BC during the rule of the Han dynasty and consists of a biography of Confucius. Besides these, other important texts from which one can know about Confucius include Zuo zhuan or “Commentary of Zuo“, composed in the 4th century; and the Mencius, compilations of teachings and philosophies of Confucius by his well-known 4th century follower Mencius, known as the “second Sage” after Confucius himself.\nAnalects of Confucius from the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden\n#3 Confucius had to take up many small time jobs in his youth\nConfucius was born in the class of shi, between the ruling elite and the commoners; most shih served as court officials, scholars and teachers. His father Kong He, a soldier and commander in the Lu garrison died when Confucius was three years of age. The little boy was thus cared for by his mother Yan Zhengzai within her meager means. Confucius married Qiguan when he was 19. The couple had a son and two daughters. He took up many minor jobs to support his family. His first occupation appears to have been as a book keeper of the Lu granary. It is noted that he also worked as a laborer, supervisor of the fields, shepherd, cowherd and a clerk.\nAn 18th century portrait of Confucius\n#4 Confucianism emerged as a major philosophy in the 100 schools of thought\nThe era of the “100 schools of thought” is considered one of great ages of cultural, philosophical and intellectual expansion in China. It took place during the Spring and Autumn period (771 to 476 BC) and the Warring States period (475 to 221 BC) of ancient China. Born towards the end of the spring and autumn period, Confucius grew up in a time when China was getting more and more divided. The rise of disunity and civil strife gave rise to various philosophies. Confucius and his followers competed successfully with many other schools during the era. Other major philosophies, underlined by historian Sima Qian, during this period are Taoism, School of Yin-yang, Mohism, Legalism and Logicians.\nFamous Confucian historian Sima Qian\n#5 He included the concept of Six Arts in his philosophy\nMencius – One of the most prominent Confucian philosophers\nIn ancient China, during the reign of the Zhou Dynasty (1122 to 256 BC), a perfect gentlemen was supposed to be the master of “liù yì” or the Six Arts. Confucius was himself educated in the six arts namely archery, mathematics, music, calligraphy, charioting and ritual. These six arts became a part of Confucian philosophy. They were emphasized besides the established scholarship and were practiced by the disciples of Confucius. To Confucius, the main objective of being an educator was to teach people to live with integrity. Through his teachings, he worked to resurrect and bolster the traditional values of benevolence, propriety and ritual in Chinese society.\n#6 Only 70 odd disciples mastered what he taught\nAccording to Sima Qian, Confucius once said “The disciples who received my instructions, and could themselves comprehend them, were seventy-seven individuals. They were all scholars of extraordinary ability.” Menicus puts the number at 70. Traditionally it is said and widely believed that Confucius had 3000 disciples, but only 72 mastered what he had to teach. Yan Hui was the favorite disciple of Confucius. He is considered the first among the Four Assessors or the four prominent Chinese philosophers in the Confucian tradition. Others being Zengzi (disciple of Confucius); Zisi (Confucius’s grandson, student of Zengzi); and Mencius (student of Zisi), who is the most notable among the four. Within a traditional Confucian temple, his favorite disciple Yan Hui’s tablet is placed first to the east of Confucius.\n#7 He rose to the position of Minister of Crime in his political career\nDuring the times of political turmoil in which Confucius lived, the state of Lu was governed by what may be termed as a duke of Lu, Lord Ding. Under him three aristocratic families of Ji, Shu and Meng held important bureaucratic and political positions. The fiercely competitive politics, and lack of morality in the state and the empire as a whole, had led to a vast array of problems. This led to the rise of various philosophies which were looked at as guiding lights by certain people in power. Around 500 BC, Confucius had gained in esteem through his teachings and was appointed to serve first as a magistrate, then as an assistant minister of public works, and eventually as minister of crime in the state of Lu.\nWorld’s largest statue of Confucius at Yushima Seido, Tokyo, Japan\n#8 Confucius went in a self-imposed exile for 13-14 long years\nRan Qiu – Who facilitated the return of Confucius to his native state Lu\nBeing among the annals of power in Lu, Confucius must have been glad with the opportunity to propagate his ideas. There are varied accounts on why he abrogated his position and went into exile most pointing to the internal politics within the state, the moral denigration of the ruling elite, jealously of other states and that his ideas did not sit well with the aristocracy. So around 496 BC, Confucius went into a long self-imposed exile of 13 to 14 years looking for a feudal state that would utilize his services. His journey was primarily in the north-east and central China including Wey, Song, Zheng, Cao, Chu, Qi, Chen, and Cai. Confucius was mostly received with much respect and admiration during his journey. He expounded his philosophy but was disappointed that much of his teachings were never implemented.\n#9 His forsaken disciple facilitated his return to Lu\nRan Qiu (Ziyou/Ran You) was a leading disciple of Confucius. He is noted in the Analects for his achievements in government and political affairs. He worked in prominent positions for the aristocratic Ji family in the state of Lu. He most notably served under Ji Kangzi, who was the chief minister of Lu from 492 to 468 BC. Ran was interested in the administration and ignored many Confucian dictates. Confucius thought that Ran lacked ren or humaneness and criticized his disciple many times, once suggesting he no longer considered Ran as his disciple. In 484 BC, Ran Qiu, as commander of the Lu forces, defeated the invading Qi army. As a result his influence rose in the state of Lu. It is believed that the rise of Ran Qiu led to Ji Kangzi inviting Confucius back to his native state of Lu, after his years in exile.\n#10 Confucius died in 479 BC leaving a lasting impression on the life in East Asia and beyond\nConfucius returned to his native state of Lu as an old man of 68 years. He finally breathed his last in 479 BC. During his last years he acted as an adviser to the government officials, transmitting his wisdom to his disciples and working on various texts including the 5 classics. His teachings would later be compiled and elaborated by his disciples and his philosophical school continued and prospered for ages. The succeeding Han and Tang Dynasties encouraged Confucian thought with Emperor Wu of Han making it the imperial philosophy. During the Song Dynasty, famous Confucian scholar Zhu Xi (12 century AD) built upon Neo Confucianism, a more rationalist and secular form of Confucianism. The ideas of Confucius had great influence in not only China but also Japan, Vietnam, Korea and others, up until the 19th century.\nConfucius Temple of Kaohsiung in Taiwan\nThe Lasting Impact of Confucius\nThere may be arguments and counter arguments but the impact of Confucianism on the life, culture and thought in East Asia and through it in other parts of the world can be perceived even today; many centuries after his death. He is widely considered as one of the most important and influential individuals in history who had a deep and profound affect on humanity.\nLeaders & Icons\nPrevious article10 Major Achievements of The Ancient Inca Civilization\nNext article10 Most Famous Short Poems By Renowned Poets\nArun is an educationist, writer, novelist and graphic artist. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.938311755657196,"wiki_prob":0.938311755657196,"text":"Brexit: The day the music died\nHamburg, August 17, 1960. Unbeknownst to them at the time, The Beatles are about to launch their international career in a tiny club called \"Indra\" just off the city's notorious Reeperbahn strip, trying desperately to make their amps and PA heard over the racket of the punters.\nUnhindered by visa and border restrictions, their biggest concern at the time would have been the logistics of getting themselves and their equipment into a small van and catching the ferry in time from Harwich to the Netherlands. \"It was cramped. The van didn't even have seats; we had to sit on our amplifiers,\" recalled George Harrison in The Beatles Anthology.\nFast forward to 2018 and in a little over six months' time, UK bands may not have the luxury of figuring out travel logistics, let alone playing a Hamburg venue.\n'Road to Nowhere'\nIn the event of a no-deal Brexit, up-and-coming bands may have to cross off Cologne's Luxor, Amsterdam's Paradiso, or La Cigale in Paris from their Europe 2019 tour posters.\nRead more: Brexit Big Band: Musical dialogue on European tour\nIn a nutshell, a no-deal outcome would impact upon the freedom of movement to be able to travel and work. EU-funded touring benefits would be slashed, not to mention the introduction of visa and travel licenses, and higher duties on imported equipment, bringing back memories of the so-called carnet system. Before the UK joined the Common Market in 1973, touring musicians were required to carry a \"carnet\" — a document listing their every piece of equipment, which would be closely checked at each border — and visas were required to enter most European territories.\n\"[It meant] you would be stopped at every border and have to account for all the merchandise you were taking over the border and there'd be silly things like crews would have to make sure that they got any broken guitar strings off stage to make sure that when they went out of the country it didn't look like they had fewer guitar strings then when they went in and then have to pay [additional] tax,\" Ian Moss, director for public affairs at the British Phonographic Industry, told DW.\nAt this point it's difficult to put an exact figure on the visa costs involved but as UK artist Sarah Howells can testify it's essentially uneconomical for small bands. She's been playing in bands for years and now performs as Bryde. \"I had to get a visa for America a couple of years ago and the amount of effort and forward planning that it took just to go there and play to a handful of people. And it cost thousands of pounds.\"\n'I Predict a Riot'\nThen there are uncertainties around tax and social security rules, not to mention the potential loss of the European Health Insurance Card, which means band members would incur extra costs for medical insurance when on tour. \"There are some countries that say that if you're touring there you're working and therefore you have to pay national insurance and those sorts of things can get deeply bureaucratic,\" Moss said.\nElise Phamgia is the project coordinator for Liveurope, an initiative supporting concert venues to promote up-and-coming European artists, co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe Program. \"The platform that we're coordinating is supporting young emerging talent touring in 14 venues in Europe and currently an average of 30 percent of our emerging European talent touring are from the UK,\" she told DW. While much of it is still a guessing game, Phamgia is under no illusions that Brexit will have an impact on her industry. \"We can we foresee that indeed it would be much more difficult for a venue to book emerging UK acts.\"\nLucie Caswell, chief executive of the Featured Artists Coalition based in London, says artists on their roster are thinking twice about their potential European tours \"We're already seeing people holding off to wait to see what happens. [But] we can't just drop Europe. It's our pipeline really for these young artists.\"\nIndeed, the very livelihoods of many emerging artists would be at stake. \"If it becomes even more difficult [to tour] we would have to rein it in, which would be a shame because there's a lot of British acts that are bigger in Germany, for example, than they are in the UK. I've got more fans in Berlin according to Spotify than I do in Hull so I'd really like to be able to go and play to people in Berlin,\" Bryde told DW.\nCaswell's especially frustrated by the government's perceived inability to value the UK creative industry's role in Europe. \"We heard [at a meeting] that the creative sector [economically] outperforms aerospace, pharmaceuticals and one other of that ilk so you'd think someone would actually recognize their importance,\" she told DW.\n'I See Fire'\nIt's not just the bands who will feel the brunt — even more so in this day and age when, as Caswell puts it, \"the artists have to focus on live [performing] perhaps ironically more than ever because it takes so long to earn any money out of digital.\" The entire supply chain will be affected, says Moss. \"So, for example Ed Sheeran will tour but at the moment he would have taken a UK crew across the whole of Europe. They won't be able to do that anymore, or certainly in a no-deal scenario that would be extremely complicated, not least because of things like lorry driver permits. At the moment we have some of the best riggers and lighting engineers and if the crews are being picked up in Germany or Ireland or wherever they land first, that ecosystem starts to be chipped away at as well.\"\nThat type of talent drain to the Continent is already happening, says Andy Lenthall, general manager of the Production Services Association. \"There are quite a few UK-based crews who work overseas a lot. They've been applying for foreign passports, trying to find an Irish or Portuguese Grandma and it's great. So they will be there. [But] what about the equipment? And oh by the way please can you bring back some cheese or a few BMW Mini fuel injections?\"\n\"You know, we used to be famous for bringing back piles of drugs packed in speaker cabinets and now we'll be bringing back broccoli from Italy. So, really it's broc 'n' roll.\"\nCurrently transport and licence issues can be sorted out relatively seamlessly. But that, says Lenthall, could change dramatically. \"There is a contingency plan for transport but the contingency plan is based on an old system of quotas of truck movements. And the quota is somewhere around 1,280 per year, which the Road Haulage Association said would for last two-and-a-half days. Even if we do [in the future] have some magical digital system for checking goods through a border and it only takes two minutes, that's a 70-mile (112 kilometers) tailback on the motorway within 24 hours.\"\nBut at least there's a chance crews and equipment will get to mainland Europe at some point. To put into perspective how farcical the situation is, Lenthall described how an industry colleague from Germany asked him to speak at next year's pro light and sound conference. \"I asked him 'When will it be'? And he said April 3 or 4. And I said, sure I'll come: Are there any airplanes flying then?\"\nRead more: Opinion: Brexit — #Brexcrement horrors and howlers\n'The Great British Mistake'\nThe outlook for emerging artists and the industry as a whole, admits Moss, is bleak. \"We keep on going back to the costs and that's where you can sweep out a whole range of small artists. So looking 20 years down the line: What set of bands never managed to break Europe because they never had an opportunity to tour and start their careers?\"\nOn that note (pun intended), the last word should go to British punk band the Adverts, who, in an astonishing act of music prophecy, wrote a song some 40 years ago that presciently predicted the entire Brexit fiasco:\nThe great British mistake was looking for a way out\nWas getting complacent, not noticing\nThe pulse was racing\nThe mistake was fighting\nThe change, was staying the same\nIt couldn't adapt so it couldn't survive\nSomething had to give\nThe people take a downhill slide into the gloom\nInto the darn recesses of their minds\nThe genie's out of the bottle, call in the magician\nThey didn't mean to free him, devil behind them\nDevil in the mirror, chained to their right hands\nThey're the great British mistake\nThey'll have to come to terms now, they'll take it out somehow\nThey'll blame it all on something\nThe British mistake - when will it be over?\nHow can they avoid it?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1135569"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9877633452415466,"wiki_prob":0.9877633452415466,"text":"Archives|New York State Votes to Reduce Drug Sentences\nNew York State Votes to Reduce Drug Sentences\nBy MICHAEL COOPER DEC. 8, 2004\nALBANY, Dec. 7 - After years of false starts, state lawmakers voted Tuesday evening to reduce the steep mandatory prison sentences given to people convicted of drug crimes in New York State, sanctions considered among the most severe in the nation.\nThe push to soften the so-called Rockefeller drug laws came after a nearly decade-long campaign to ease the drug penalties instituted in the 1970's that put some low-level first-time drug offenders behind bars for sentences ranging from 15 years to life.\nUnder the changes passed Tuesday, which Gov. George E. Pataki said he would sign, the sentence for those same offenders would be reduced to 8 to 20 years in prison. The law will allow more than 400 inmates serving lengthy prison terms on those top counts to apply to judges to get out of jail early.\nThe changes reflected a nationwide push in recent years to lessen some of the punishments for drug offenders, as states like Michigan and Pennsylvania have moved to emphasize drug treatment options or to give judges more discretion in sentencing those convicted of narcotics crimes.\nThe law's passage also represented a major achievement for a state legislature that studies have called the least efficient in the nation. Until now, state leaders have strived for years and without success to overhaul the drug laws, named for Nelson A. Rockefeller, who was governor when they were enacted.\nThe State Legislature also broke another logjam Tuesday when it passed a bill authorizing the expansion of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on the West Side of Manhattan so that New York City could compete with other cities for major conventions.\nAs part of that deal, the Republican-led State Senate won a provision that $350 million would be spent on other projects outside of New York City, and the Democrat-controlled State Assembly ensured that the bill remained neutral on the question of whether to allow the New York Jets to build a football stadium on the site. [Page B1.]\nWhile some elected officials and drug policy advocates hailed the drug sentencing changes as a major step forward, others complained that they did not go far enough. They complained that inmates serving what they called unduly long prison terms for lesser crimes would not be allowed to apply for early release, and that judges were not given the power to sentence some offenders to treatment programs rather than prison.\n\"This is it?\" an exasperated State Senator Thomas Duane, a Manhattan Democrat, shouted during the debate. \"This is it? After all this time, this is what comes to the floor? It would be an unbelievable stretch to call this Rockefeller drug reform.\"\nBut Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul who had vigorously pushed for the changes, said he was \"very, very happy,\" and credited pressure from the hip-hop community for raising awareness on the issue.\nAssembly Speaker Sheldon Silver credited a changed political landscape -- including the election of a new district attorney in Albany County, David Soares, who ran with the backing of the Working Families Party on a platform seeking drug-law changes -- for bringing the state's leaders to a compromise. He said he would continue to push for more changes next year.\n\"It isn't everything we wanted, and I think we will continue to press for some of those things, but I think the climate has changed here,\" he said.\nIn the mad scramble of late-session activity, though, several significant issues remained undone: how to comply with a court order requiring the state to fix New York City's schools, and how to overhaul a budget process that has yielded late budgets for 20 years in a row. Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the Senate Republican majority leader, backed away from a plan to override Governor Pataki's veto of the budget overhaul bill that the Legislature passed earlier this year.\nGovernor Pataki said the new drug law \"reflects a greater knowledge than we had 30 years ago.\"\nSenator Bruno urged his colleagues not to underestimate the importance of their vote to change the state's drug laws.\n\"We are doing something here that changes people's lives,\" he said, citing the case of Elaine Bartlett, who served 16 years in prison for a single sale of cocaine, and whose story was chronicled this year in \"Life on the Outside\" by Jennifer Gonnerman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004). \"And don't minimize it. Please don't minimize it.\"\nStill, he said, \"There is more to be done, and we're going to get there.\"\nA study by the Democrats in the State Senate found that New York imposed the harshest penalties in the nation for low-level drug offenders. It found that 32 states, including Texas and Florida, offer probation to nonviolent offenders who sell small amounts of drugs, and that New York was the only state that required more than three years in prison for such offenses.\nBut year after year, talks to overhaul the laws have fallen apart.\nTo reach a compromise, the Senate and Governor Pataki gave up on their calls to increase penalties in some areas for drug kingpins, drug dealers who use children as couriers and drug dealers who use guns. The Assembly gave up its calls to give judges the discretion to sentence offenders to treatment instead of prison, to allow more inmates to seek early release and to add more treatment options.\nAssemblyman Jeffrion L. Aubry, a Queens Democrat who has led the Assembly's efforts to overhaul the drug laws for years, said: \"We reached a point where you're going to do something this year or you're not. So, since nobody was willing to give on those other issues, you boil it down to what you can concur on.\"\nBut a number of drug policy advocates complained that even with the changes, the state's drug laws remained unduly harsh, and that the new law did not change the state's basic approach to fighting drugs, which they said has failed. Robert Gangi, the executive director of Correctional Association of New York, a prison monitoring group, said that the current system was still weighted in favor of prosecutors.\n\"What mandatory sentencing means is that judges no longer have the authority to make the threshold decision of whether someone should be incarcerated or not,\" he said. \"We're supposed to have an adversarial system: the defense attorney on one side, the D.A. on the other side. And the judge is the neutral arbiter who is supposed to weigh their claims. What mandatory sentencing does is stack the deck in favor of one side in the adversarial process, and that is the prosecutors.\"\nMr. Gangi complained that after years of negotiations, and a brief flirtation with public conference committees, the final agreement was reached behind closed doors, with interested parties unable to weigh in.\nOne district attorney who was happy to see the change was Mr. Soares, the incoming district attorney of Albany County, who upset an incumbent, Paul Clyne, in a race dominated by their debate on the drug laws. And on Monday, District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau of Manhattan called for overhauling the laws.\nBertha Lewis, the co-chairwoman of the Working Families Party, which backed Mr. Soares's candidacy, said, \"The incumbent D.A. paid a political price for his public opposition to reforming arcane and outdated laws, and clearly the State Legislature took notice.\"\nGovernor Pataki said that the deal struck Tuesday was largely the same as one that was nearly sealed in 2003 during a bizarre late-night negotiating session on the second floor of the Capitol with the leaders of the Legislature and Mr. Simmons. (Assemblyman Aubry, famously, was left outside the closed-door meeting.)\nMr. Simmons said that he was pleased something had finally happened.\n\"I think it is a big win,\" he said. \"Do I believe that there is more room? Yes is the answer. I think the people who fought, the kids who came out, the artists who worked hard, I think they will embrace it. It shows their power. That they have a political might that can be used to benefit the state and the country.\"\nAl Baker contributed reporting for this article.\nA version of this article appears in print on December 8, 2004, on Page A00001 of the National edition with the headline: NEW YORK STATE VOTES TO REDUCE DRUG SENTENCES. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line876702"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6830344796180725,"wiki_prob":0.6830344796180725,"text":"Review: FABRICATED CITY, Mediocrity Hidden Behind Big-Budget Thrills\nBy Pierce Conran\nTwelve years after the success of Korean War comedy-drama Welcome to Dongmakgol, director Park Kwang-hyun is finally back in theaters with the action-thriller Fabricated City. A tale of gamers and conspiracies in modern Seoul, Park's latest presents itself as a high concept twist on a familiar story but quickly abandons its ambitions and proceeds as a gratingly by-the-numbers effort.\nUnemployed Kwon Yoo spends his days in internet cafes as an ace gamer until one evening he is framed for a young woman's rape and murder in a motel room. The court case draws plenty of media attention and it doesn't take long for him to wind up behind bars for life. In prison, he has to learn to fight back as he faces daily beatings until one day he manages to escape. On the outside, he connects with his gamer friends, whom he's never met in real life, and tracks down the mysterious organization that may be responsible for his predicament.\nMuch of the marketing for Fabricated City surrounds the opening sequence, which sees Kwon Yoo as his character within a game, called the captain, as he and his friends enter a war zone in a city. Courtesy of top Korean VFX house Dexter Studios, the visual effects in this sequence are impressive, unlike the standard camerawork and editing that accompany them. Once Kwon Yoo is back in the real world we're down to standard thriller business. Visually, the film doesn't perk up again until a scene in the villain's secret control center, where a large room's floor essentially becomes a massive fancy iPad.\nFollowing Welcome to Dongmakgol, director Park tried for years to mount the sci-fi martial arts project Kwon Bob but ultimately moved on to Fabricated City. While it teases a high concept it's a decidedly less ambitious sci-fi project, though some traces of a more interesting project do exist. Elements such as the maximum security prison built out of a mountain, and the black birthmark covering a third of a character's face indicate a more stylized alternate universe that for whatever reason wasn't fully brought to fruition.\nTV star Ji Chang-wook takes on his first leading film role in Fabricated City, bringing along his good looks but not much else with him from the drama world. Though never bad, he never makes the role his own, and could easily have been swapped out with any number of young Korean actors. As his hacker friend, Shim Eun-kyung channels her robot character from last year's Sori: Voice from the Heart in a role that asks her character to communicate solely through her phone, even when beside who she's speaking to, and, despite her clear abilities, frustratingly turns her into a damsel in distress.\nThough lacking imagination, Fabricated City's story moves clearly from start to finish and director Park does a decent job with several set pieces. However, take away the budget and all that remains is a mediocre middle-of-the-road Korean thriller.\nReviews and features on Korean film appear regularly on Modern Korean Cinema. For film news, external reviews, and box office analysis, take a look at the Korean Box Office Update, Korean Cinema News and the Weekly Korean Reviews, which appear weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings (Korean Standard Time).\nLabels: fabricated city, internet cafe, ji chang-wook, korean thriller, park kwang-hyun, 박광현, 조작된 도시, 지창욱\nReview: A SINGLE RIDER Subtly Ponders the Small Re...\nReview: FABRICATED CITY, Mediocrity Hidden Behind ...\nBerlinale 2017 Review: ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE...\nReview: DONGJU: THE PORTRAIT OF A POET Offers Sobe...\nReview: PANDORA Melds Melodrama and Fukushima Fear...\nReview: CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT, A Routine Action-...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line977842"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.880324125289917,"wiki_prob":0.880324125289917,"text":"Jul 13, 2019 · 08:38 pm\nKarnataka crisis: BS Yeddyurappa says BJP is ready for Assembly floor test\nOn Friday, Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy asked Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar to fix a date and time for the trust vote.\nKarnataka BJP President BS Yeddyurappa with party leaders and MLAs at a resort in Bengaluru on Saturday. | PTI\nBharatiya Janata Party president in Karnataka BS Yeddyurappa on Saturday said his party would ask for Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy to seek a trust vote on the floor of the Assembly on Monday to prove his government’s majority, PTI reported. This came a day after the chief minister asked Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar to fix a date and time for the floor test.\nThe Monsoon session of the Assembly will resume on Monday even as the state government remains perilously close risk of losing its majority. Sixteen legislators of the ruling alliance of the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) have stepped down since the start of this month, plunging the state into a political crisis.\n“Monday morning at business advisory committee meeting we will advise that chief minister’s commitment should be fulfilled,” Yeddyurappa said. “The chief minister himself has said in the Assembly that without the support of MLAs, he would not like to continue and hence would be moving a motion seeking trust vote. Let us wait till Monday, if he is going to move confidence motion we have no objection. We will wait till Monday.”\nThe former chief minister asserted that the coalition government had lost majority and its collapse was imminent. Yeddyurappa said it was better for Kumaraswamy to resign and for him to allow a new government to take over for the people of the state.\nEarlier in the day, five rebel Congress MLAs aapproached the Supreme Court against Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar for not accepting their resignations. The legislators – K Sudhakar, Roshan Baig, MTB Nagaraj, Muniratna Naidu and Anand Singh – alleged they were “being forced to support the government on the threat of disqualification”.\nOne of the MLAs, MTB Nagaraj, however said he was reconsidering his resignation from the Assembly, and would talk to K Sudhakar about withdrawing his resignation. He made the statement after Congress leader DK Shivakumar and other senior leaders requested him rethink his decision because of his 40-year association with the party. “I have asked them to give me some time because I have to discuss this with Sudhakar as well, who resigned along with me,” he was quoted as saying. “I told the leaders that I will also bring him for a discussion.”\nYeddyurappa said he does not think Nagaraj “will go back” on his decision to resign. “Some people may have tried to put pressure,” he added. “I heard that DK Shivakumar was at his residence since 5 am. I feel that as they have produced affidavit before the Supreme Court, Nagraj or Sudhakar cannot go back and they will not go back.”\nSpeaker KR Ramesh Kumar also filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Saturday, saying he did not avoid meeting the rebel MLAs from the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular). The legislators had alleged that speaker wanted to prolong the life of the ruling dispensation in Karnataka. Kumar reiterated that resignations were not submitted in the prescribed format.\nThis came a day after the Supreme Court ordered status quo on the resignations of 10 MLAs, who filed a petition on Wednesday, till it decides larger constitutional questions. The matter will be heard again on July 16. Until then, disqualification proceedings cannot be initiated against the legislators.\nThe state units of the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party moved their legislators to hotels in Bengaluru after the first day of the Assembly proceedings on Friday.\nBS Yeddyurappa\nKR Ramesh Kumar\nKarnataka Trust Vote","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line282823"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6639734506607056,"wiki_prob":0.33602654933929443,"text":"Cities »\nSasaram, Bihar, India\nSasaram is a small city located in southern Bihar, with the number of residents close to 150,000 people. It is an ancient city with a good number of old historic buildings and religious establishments located there. It is also a famous center of education, with a few great colleges offering excellent educational services on the fields of engineering, law, and medicine. The city's economy is heavily agricultural, and there are plenty of medium size agricultural companies operating in the city.\nMap of Sasaram, Bihar, India\nSasaram, Bihar, India Lat Long Coordinates Info\nThe latitude of Sasaram, Bihar, India is 24.953514, and the longitude is 84.011787. Sasaram, Bihar, India is located at India country in the Cities place category with the gps coordinates of 24° 57' 12.6504'' N and 84° 0' 42.4332'' E.\nSasaram, Bihar, India elevation is 112 meters height, that is equal to 367 feet.\nSasaram, Bihar, India Geographic Information\n84° 0' 42.4332'' E\nCoordinates of Sasaram, Bihar, India is given above in both decimal degrees and DMS (degrees, minutes and seconds) format. The country code given is in the ISO2 format.\nOngole, Andhra Pradesh, India\nBardoli, Gujarat, India\nKolkata, West Bengal, India\nMandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, India\nHoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh, India\nAlso check out these related Cities.\nChittorgarh, Rajasthan, India (24.879999, 74.629997)\nRatnagiri, Maharashtra, India (16.994444, 73.300003)\nGoregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (19.155001, 72.849998)\nPindwara, Rajasthan, India (24.794500, 73.055000)\nRaipur, Chhattisgarh, India (21.250000, 81.629997)\nGokak, Karnataka, India (16.166700, 74.833298)\nLucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India (26.850000, 80.949997)\nDelhi, the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India (28.610001, 77.230003)\nMumbai, Maharashtra, India (19.076090, 72.877426)\nSagar, Karnataka, India (14.167040, 75.040298)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line518733"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9443297982215881,"wiki_prob":0.9443297982215881,"text":"Mick: I got it wrong over Doc positional switch\nTim Nash March 24, 2019 Wolves Bite - Blog 0 Comments\nMick McCarthy admitted his experiment in playing Wolves’ Matt Doherty as a right winger in Ireland’s 1-0 Euro 2020 qualifying win over Gibraltar didn’t work.\nDoherty played as an orthodox right-winger, having spent this season impressing as a right-wing back, while captain Seamus Coleman played right-back in the 1-0 win.\nThe pair linked up neatly during the first-half, but Doherty made way for Robbie Brady just 11 minutes into the second-half.\n“No. It didn’t particularly work well, that,” said the Ireland manager and former Wolves boss when asked about his decision to play the 27-year-old in a more advanced role.\n“He’s been the best attacking wing-back in the Premier League to be quite honest, but there’s probably been more room on the pitch.\n“When teams are sitting back, has he got the silky skills to go past people? I’m not sure.\n“He’s more of a passer and a runner. We did have a little bit of joy down that side in the first-half, but I always thought I might have to put Robbie (Brady) on.”\nMcCarthy also confirmed Brady was unfit to start having completed 90 minutes just twice for Burnley all season.\n“I’m certain Robbie wouldn’t have lasted 90 minutes if I started him,” he added. “But he has a winger’s instincts, rather than a full-back’s.”\nWhile McCarthy refused to make a mountain of the conditions at the foot of the Rock ahead of the game, afterwards he reflected on the artificial pitch and high winds as complicating his side’s job.\n“It was a horrible game. I’ve not enjoyed one single minute of it,” he said. “Playing against a team with nothing to lose and everything to gain.\n“It was a difficult surface, but no excuses, we didn’t play particularly well on it.”\nElsewhere, McCarthy said he and the squad were unaffected by the negative chants regarding now former chief executive John Delaney.\nA banner critical of Delaney was flown among the Irish fans during the game, and was accompanied by anti-Delaney chants.\nAn FAI statement announced Delaney would assume a new role as the association’s executive vice-president.\n“No, when fans told me I’m a w****r or I’m getting sacked in the morning it was annoying”, said McCarthy.\n“I didn’t realise they knew me that well, to be honest! It didn’t affect me.\n“I kept smiling, and then I had that bulge in my pocket at the end – the three points.”\nIreland now prepare for Tuesday’s qualifier against Georgia in Dublin.\nAsked if he could promise a better performance in front of a home crowd, he replied, “I’d take the same if we get a 1-0 win. We’ve only got eight games.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1116357"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5768147110939026,"wiki_prob":0.5768147110939026,"text":"It’s a changing market – where innovation is key\nPeter Backman, Managing Director of Horizons, tells us about the trends in the market and explains how innovation is key…\nAt the beginning of 2016, Horizons issued its annual forecast for the trends we were likely to see in the UK’s foodservice sector in the year ahead. Their overriding theme centered on overcapacity in the sector, which is likely to slow in the longer term by putting downward pressure on like-for-like sales, while competition amongst operators for new sites will continue to intensify.\nRelentless growth amongst group operators has driven outlet numbers upwards, largely offset by a drop in independently-run businesses. Over the past decade growth in the number of food-serving outlets has been strongest in the pub sector where operators have moved primarily from wet-led sales to food-led.\nThe number of chain restaurants has also shown strong growth, from 7,700 outlets in 2001 to some 11,900 in 2014, a 55% rise. Quick service restaurants [primarily takeaways, home delivery and counter-order outlets] have seen a 78% growth, from 7,600 outlets in 2001 to 13,500 in 2014.\nIt’s difficult to see how this level of growth in the number of food outlets can be sustained in the longer term and competition is likely to intensify. One outcome of that has been a blurring of eating out formats. With food outlets already having moved into new locations such as shopping malls, leisure outlets and transport hubs, businesses continue to broaden their offer away from their core niche – with Pret a Manger, for example, developing a sit-down evening food offer; Starbucks turning its London Covent Garden site into a high-tech, wine bar offering platters of food in the evening; and Costa, as well as Starbucks, joining forces with a healthy food brand.\nWe have also seen a strong growth in the numbers of American-style restaurants such as barbecue pits, smokehouses, burger bars, and diners which could be about to replace Mexican outlets as the biggest growth area on the UK’s eating out scene over the next few years,\nOur biannual Ones To Watch report, which tracks the growth of new and emerging brands with between five and 25 outlets and which have shown over 20% growth over the past three years, lists a number of US-themed outlets in its list of the top10 fastest growing brands, either by number of new outlets or percentage growth, and an even larger number of US-themed fledgling ‘Bubbling Under’ brands.\nWhile Dunkin’ Donuts tops the latest chart of the fastest growing brands by percentage growth rate (2013-2016), US themed Red’s True Barbecue comes in jointly at number six alongside Grillstock Smokehouse while Coast To Coast, the Restaurant Group-owned American-themed outlet, now has 21 sites with another four planned to open this year.\nAmerican-style restaurants are opening across the UK on high streets in affluent market towns and secondary cities, many in converted pub premises, which offer the size, location and parking facilities that suit these all-day diners.\nAmerican casual dining certainly isn’t new to the UK but we are seeing a steady resurgence in its popularity as operators have modernized and upgraded the concept. They appeal to a broad range of consumers, whether dining as a couple, a family or a group of friends. Not only that but they are good value, often offer a broad range of dishes of various cuisines, with friendly service and sophisticated marketing.\nWhile Mexican burrito bars and restaurants were the growth story of the past few years the market now seems to have reached a point of consolidation whereby the main players continue to expand but fewer new operators are emerging.\nIn terms of other food trends Horizons’ most recent Menu Trends research has recently noted the popularity of humble macaroni cheese, as mac ‘n’ cheese clocks growth of over 550% on British restaurant menus since 2010.\nMac ‘n’ cheese has become a firm favourite on British menus loved by both consumers and restaurant operators who can add simple twists to the classic dish with the addition of a range of ingredients or crunchy toppings for a relatively low price. The dish is also being served in restaurants in a variety of ways such as inside a burger or calzone or as a side dish.\nHorizons’ biannual Menu Trends survey, which tracks changes on the menus of 120 high street eating out brands, also reveals that the pulled pork phenomenon is far from over, with 20% more menus featuring the dish year-on-year.\nHash potato dishes are another revamped dish growing in popularity, listed on 18% more menus this year than last. Hash is being served with ingredients such as halloumi and beetroot, duck confit, eggs or chorizo.\nLike macaroni cheese, coleslaw has undergone a similar makeover and re-emerged as ‘slaw made with ingredients such as bacon and cranberry, fennel & beet, or as chilli slaw. The popularity of ribs continues too – up 11% year-on-year – appearing as a main course or on sharing platters topped with a variety of sauces.\nBeefburgers and pizzas are still the nation’s more frequently listed dishes although rump steak is becoming more popular with steady growth over the past two years.\nConcerns over healthy foods appear to be increasing too, with 45% more menus mentioning ‘superfoods’, while the words ‘allergy’ or ‘allergen’ increased 20% year-on-year. The number of vegetarian dishes listed on menus has also risen since last winter, up to 27% of menu items from 23% last year.\nThere is no doubt it is a challenging market and one in which no operator can afford to stand still – innovation and the importance of keeping your offer fresh remain paramount.\nPeter Backman is the managing director of Horizons, the analyst and specialist information consultant for the foodservice and hospitality sector. Peter is an expert on the structure and dynamics of the foodservice sector, and its supply chain, in the UK and across Europe. He has been involved in foodservice, as an analyst, researcher and consultant, for almost 30 years.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line697442"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6492244601249695,"wiki_prob":0.3507755398750305,"text":"Review - The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women\nExploding the Estrogen Myth\nby Barbara Seaman\nSeven Stories Press, 2009\nReview by Cecile Lawrence\nJan 4th 2011 (Volume 15, Issue 1)\nGloria Steinem is alleged to have described the author of The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women (2003), Barbara Seaman, as \"the first prophet of the women's health movement.\" From her mid-twenties, Seaman spent her entire career, until her death in 2008 of lung cancer, writing about problems with how women were treated by the U.S. medical system, especially when it came to their hormones. She blazed upon the national consciousness with her incriminating first book The Doctor's Case Against the Pill, published in 1969. Thirty-four years later, Seaman's fierce advocacy for the particular needs of women in a male-oriented medical culture still shone brightly.\nIn The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed Upon Women, Seaman presents a wealth of evidence of the misuse and misunderstanding of the role of estrogen in a woman's body over her lifespan. She uses the feminist technique of interspersing narratives of individual women's lives in tandem with laying out chapter and verse of the decade after decade of experimentation upon women, done, from Seaman's perspective, either out of arrogance and/or inexcusable ignorance. Amongst the chief perpetrators of the series of almost criminal behaviors are pharmaceutical companies.\nIn her words, her purpose in writing this book was to arm women with the information they need in order to resist and to fight back. Inferred is the message that women, in order not to lose their health or their lives, and no matter how meek and quiet they may have been acculturated into being, they must perforce become militant activists. It is not enough to have the knowledge and information, as crucial as those ingredients are, women must also act to protect not just themselves but the entire female half of the human race. Seaman perceives the situation to be nothing less than a war on women through their subjection to dangerous hormones, \"for the sole purpose of increasing the wealth of drug companies, akin to the attack on Pearl Harbor.\"\nHer underlying premises go to the very heart of what it means to be a woman in a society that, in spite of advances, continues to maintain many of the trappings of patriarchy. In the general culture, estrogen is associated with the female although both genders have varying amounts of all the sex hormones. One bizarre example of this association is the existence of a company selling women's cycling, running, and fitness apparel having the name TeamEstrogen©. With this association came the notion, including in the medical profession, that a higher level of estrogen can be a good thing as it feminizes and increases fertility, e.g. bigger breasts, as well as a bad thing if it gets in the way of male lives and capitalist productivity, e.g. premenstrual syndrome. Therefore, according to Seaman, and others, for the good of women and humanity, the estrogen levels of women have to be monitored and manipulated. Seaman, over and over, advocates for the precautionary principle, while railing against the dominance of the management of risk precept, because sex hormones, including or especially estrogen, are too complex with so many unknowns that to prescribe or to inject them into bodies constitutes dangerous experimentation.\nConsidering the tone and premises of this book, a better title might have been The Most Dangerous Experiment . . . or something other than \"Greatest\" but perhaps that was the publisher's decision so as not to scare away potential readers, even though there's a disconnect between \"greatest\" and \"performed upon.\"\nAnd \"performed upon\" is truly what Seaman means as, at one point, she compares the products invented for administration, including from the sex organs of animals, to treating women as laboratory rats. Seaman dissects the poor understanding of hot flashes, of menopause, of the deleterious effects of hysterectomy, which used to often include removal of the ovaries. She goes into extensive and detailed descriptions of the experiments done by the Nazis upon women in concentration camps, easily leading the reader to infer that what was being done to women in the U.S. in the 20th century was not much different. She excoriates what she describes as the callous attitudes of some researchers even when faced with the evidence of the dangers of birth control pills and estrogen replacement \"therapy\" for women going through menopause. She delves into the role of U.S. birth control researchers in \"pressuring poor women in public housing in Puerto Rico to be subjected to dosages ten times higher than in use today,\" drawing a link between Auschwitz and the Rio Pedras housing projects. In relating a long series of acts, which she clearly regards as crimes, at times she interjects personal comments such as \"I began to wonder if it was the doctors, not the patients, who might need head exams.\" For those oriented towards \"pure\" science, this might be a drawback, while for others these inserts brings to life the kind of outraged response Seaman seems to be demanding from her readers. The story of Rio Pedras continues to be carried in Puerto Rican culture, although in the 21st century with its distractions, younger Puerto Ricans might not be so strong in this race memory.\nRelevant to current events in the early part of the 21st century are her analyses of the start of what she calls the control of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A.) and the legislators in Washington D.C. by the pharmaceutical cartel (her term), what activists now call Big Pharma. She names names. Seaman also describes what she calls the complicity of women in promoting the very drugs that have the potential to maim and kill them. So much of what she describes would resonate with the history of the subjection of African-Americans and the existence of internalized racism.\nSome of the flaws of this book involve areas of disjointedness where Seaman takes the reader back and forth in time, possibly leading to confusion as to who did what and when, but I have no problem with excusing Seaman as the issues are very complex. There's little to no chance of the reader of this book being bored but, just in case, I would recommend a short run through those sections where Seaman relates astounding and infuriating anecdotes of the actions and statements of physicians.\nThis book would play a valuable role in an undergraduate course in the history of women's health in the U.S. as well as being worthy for helping women understand how they have been used and abused by the interrelationships between the medical, the pharmaceutical and the legislative. As increasing amounts of evidence point to our entire environment having become deeply saturated with endocrine disrupting chemicals, hormones in our food, birth control pill residues being found in our drinking water, we need a new Barbara Seaman to continue her valuable work in fervent information collection, confrontation, dissemination and advocacy.\n© 2011 Cecile Lawrence\nCecile Lawrence, NY","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line369916"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5731713175773621,"wiki_prob":0.42682868242263794,"text":"Svitlana Kmit - Violin\n​Svitlana Kmit Antons was born in Ukraine and has been playing the violin since she was seven. She received her education from the Lviv Musical College and one of the most prestigious Ukrainian conservatory – Lviv National Conservatory. While in the Ukraine, she performed in orchestras and taught at Sambir music school for 10 years. Many of her students continued her love and passion with music and became teachers themselves. Svitlana had the honor of playing in the orchestra conducted by the famous Ukrainian composer and conductor, Professor Mykola Kolessa.\nSince coming to the United States, Svitlana has continued to perform in area orchestras. She has performed with North Shore Chamber Orchestra, St Vincent Orchestra, and has collaborated with pianist Dr.Alexander Zintchenko and conductor Anatol Lysenka. She has been deeply involved with teaching students of all ages and abilities in several local community schools such as Hinsdale Community House, Fairview Music School and St Joseph Ukrainian School.\nSvitlana’s teaching style has a unique touch of a traditional European music school. Her curriculum is fun with a pleasant blend of theory and playing the violin. She has a wide variety of method books that keep students engaged and excited to learn!\n​Svitlana is a real pet lover. She has a lovely and very friendly boxer named Indi who loves to sing while she is playing the violin at home.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line571034"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9081799983978271,"wiki_prob":0.9081799983978271,"text":"Selena Gomez on Social Media: ‘You’re Worth More Than an Instagram Like’\nBradley Stern\nDonato Sardella, Getty Images for Coach\nSelena Gomez commands one of the biggest platforms in the world, especially among teenagers — she's the most-followed person on Instagram, after all — and she's hoping to use her position in the spotlight to empower her impressionable fanbase.\nDuring a Today segment, the Revival singer visited a L.A. high school to meet young girls involved in the Step Up organization, a youth empowerment program, as part of her work as a Coach ambassador.\nWhile speaking to the group, the \"Kill 'Em With Kindness\" pop princess, who took off time in 2016 to deal with depression and anxiety issues brought on by lupus, opened up about opening up in the public eye — which she says is something that wasn't exactly her decision.\n\"I didn't really have a choice. I think a lot of people saw my life, whether I liked it or not. I had two options: either I would succumb to what everyone was saying or assuming, or I could take that opportunity to be vulnerable with my specific audience, which is the people who've been with me since the beginning, and I think that's what I chose to do.\"\nAs a result, Selena's using her platform to instill some self-confidence in her devoted following.\n\"I just hope they know that they're worth more than an Instagram like, and they're worth more than a comment on any other social platform,\" she says of young girls stressing out over social media.\nAs for SelGo herself? She's enjoying her less-is-more approach to sharing on social.\n\"I'm actually enjoying finding moments for myself, whether I'm in the studio and I've been in the studio for a week straight, and I haven't said anything about it....I like having a little mystery to where I'm at. I think that makes me feel very empowered and very in control of where I'm at. I'm also taking time to have a personal life, so I'm enjoying mixing that because I've always been kind of straight work. Now it's just taking my time.\"\nWatch Selena's full Today segment below.\nhttps://reynimen.tumblr.com/post/158894084208/selgomez-news-selena-gomezs-message-to\nSelena Gomez Through the Years:\nNext: Selena Gomez and Kygo Collaborate on 'It Ain't Me'\nSource: Selena Gomez on Social Media: ‘You’re Worth More Than an Instagram Like’\nCategories: Entertainment News, Music News","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1473627"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7892545461654663,"wiki_prob":0.7892545461654663,"text":"State Opera\nState Opera (Prague)\nVienna State Opera\nBerlin State Opera\nThe Clock (comics)\nThe Best of Mozart, simply it is the Best Classical Music. Mozart Orchestra | The Blue Danube | Waltz @ Vienna State Opera The concerts are performed in the style of 18th century \"Musical Academies\" at which it was usual to perform single movements from his many symphonies and solo concertos, as well as overtures, arias and duets from his best-known operas. 13/7/2015 في دار الأوربيرا في فينا النمسا. يتم تنفيذ الحفلات في أسلوب القرن الثامن عشر من خلال \"الأكاديميات الموسيقية\" التي كان من المعتاد لأداء الحركات واحدة من له العديد من السيمفونيات وكونشيرتو منفردا، فضلا عن مبادرات، ألحان وثنائيات من له أفضل المعروفة المسلسلات.\nGianluca Marciano conducted the great Tbilisi State Opera Orchestra when they performed Antonin Dvořák's 9th symphony. As an integral part of the Al Bustan Festival 2014, we couldn't be happier that Gianluca Marciano agreed when we asked if we could film all 63 musicians on stage. Images by Roy Jamhouri Brought to you by: https://www.facebook.com/AlBustanFestival Sponsored by: https://www.facebook.com/caimanfilms Special Thanks to: https://www.facebook.com/wickerparkfestival and Soul Arch\nVladimir Golschmann (16 December 1893 – 1 March 1972) was a French-American conductor. My blog: https://sonarmc.com/wordpress/site01/2012/10/13/%e3%83%81%e3%83%a3%e3%82%a4%e3%82%b3%e3%83%95%e3%82%b9%e3%82%ad%e3%83%bc%e4%ba%a4%e9%9f%bf%e6%9b%b2%e7%ac%ac6%e7%95%aa%e3%83%ad%e7%9f%ad%e8%aa%bf-%e3%80%8c%e6%82%b2%e6%84%b4%e3%80%8d/\nJoin me for a wonderful evening at the Opera House in Budapest on Andrassy street where I attend a concert of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra ( Budapesti Filharmóniai Társaság Zenekara )\nRecorded in 1928. Thanks to Rolf for allowing me to use his excellent transfers. You can find this and many other wonderful selections and information at his website: http://www.satyr78kl.blogspot.com Manfred Ludwig Hugo Andreas Gurlitt was born in Berlin on 6 September 1890 to the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt (1854-1893) and Annarella Gurlitt (1856-1935). He studied for a time with Engelbert Humperdinck. From 1908 to 1910, he was a coach at the Berlin Court Opera and in 1911 acted as musical assistant to Karl Muck at Bayreuth. In 1911-12, he was second conductor in Essen, then in Augsburg for two years. in 1914 he was given the post of first conductor at the Bremen Stadttheater, a position he held until he became general music director there in 1924. In 1920 he founded a Society for New Music in Bremen to encourage avant-garde and rarely heard pre-classical works. His first opera Die Heilige, set in 12th-century Japan, premiered in Bremen in 1920. His opera Wozzeck after the play by Georg Büchner premiered with Gurlitt conducting in Bremen on 22 April 1926 four months after the opera of the same title by Alban Berg. Berg called it \"not bad or unoriginal\" but added that \"the broth in the kettle of this opera, that is, in the orchestra, is too watered down\". Like Berg, he used selected scenes from the play, added a lengthy elegy after Wozzeck's death, and added an epilogue. He used an offstage choir of sopranos that, in addition to commenting on the action, began and ended the opera with the text \"we poor people\". Unlike Berg, he provided a distinct musical setting for each scene without connecting interludes. In another assessment, \"Musically, he stands closer to Strauss and Hindemith than to Schoenberg. His instrumentation is less sophisticated and complex than Berg's; his orchestra is subordinated to an accompanying role in the drama\". Gurlitt's work attracted much attention at the time and marked the zenith of Gurlitt's career. Malicious gossip, charges of \"debauchery and loose living\", caused him to move to Berlin in 1927 where he taught at the Charlottenburg Musikhochschule and conducted for the Staatsoper, Krolloper, Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater, and Berlin Radio. He wrote Die Soldaten (1930) based the 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz and Nana (1932) based on the novel by Émile Zola. In the former he anticipated the operatic treatment of the same Lenz play by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, which premiered in 1965. In Nana he took on a subject similar to Berg's Lulu, also written 1933, but not premiered till 1937. Gurlitt's Nana had a libretto by Max Brod, and productions were cancelled because Brod's Judaism and Zola's politics offended Nazi ideology in Cologne and Mannheim. Gurlitt's music was banned by the Nazis when they assumed power, but his presence in Berlin was tolerated as he undertook to bring his music in line with the aesthetics of the Third Reich. His mother Annarella tried to satisfy the Nazis of his non-Jewish heritage by certifying first that his Jewish paternal grandmother had converted to Protestantism and second that Gurlitt was not the son of Fritz Gurlitt, but of Willi Waldecker, the man Annarella married not long after Fritz died in 1893. Manfred Gurlitt was accepted as a member of the Nazi party on 1 May 1933. He was ejected from the party by court order on 3 May 1937. The court declared that Gurlitt was a \"Jew of Mixed Race of the 2nd Order\". German authorities frustrated his attempts to secure a teaching position in Japan for months, until he managed win readmission to the Reichsmusikkammer (State Music Institute) and proposed a trip abroad for \"study, observation, and documentary\" activities. He emigrated in April 1939 and arrived in Yokohama, Japan, with his third wife on 23 May. Japan was then an ally of Germany, both soon to become parties to the Axis Pact in September 1940. Gurlitt became active as an opera conductor with Fujiwara Yoshie's company, the Fujiwara Opera. In 1940, he became Musical Director of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In these positions he presented the Japanese premieres of many works from the standard repertoire by Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. Gurlitt's attitude to the Nazi regime remained equivocal, and he was a regular guest at the German Embassy in Tokyo. In 1952 he founded the Gurlitt Opera Company in Tokyo.\nDigitized from the LP above, released in 1968 on the Vanguard label, catalogue number VSD-2086. \"David Hertzberg\"\nVarios - Classical Music in Hollywood Vol. I Artista Intérprete: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Compositor: Richard Strauss Orquesta: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Director: Janos Sándor\nW. A. Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 Adonis Gonzalez - Piano Robert Ward - Conductor Slovak State Opera Chamber Orchestra Primaciálny Palác - Hall of Mirrors Archbishop's Palace - Bratislava, Slovakia Performed on July 30th, 2017\nBohuslav Martinu: Saltarello from the opera Mirandolina Conductor, Charles Olivieri-Munroe Prague State Opera Orchestra Live Concert 'Martinu Gala' from the Prague State Opera October 2, 2009\nFranz Josef Haydn - Symphony No. 101 in D major, \"The Clock\" (Hoboken 1/101) 0:00 Adagio - Presto 8:46 Andante (\"The Clock\") 17:43 Menuetto - Allegretto 25:12 Finale - Vivace Vienna State Opera Orchestra / Mogens Wöldike Recorded in 1956 or 1958 Another early stereo recording, this one for Vanguard. Vanguard changed hands a number of times over the years, and is currently a subsidiary of Entertainment One (also known as eOne), a Canadian company. Many items of the classic Vanguard catalog are being re-released in cheap digital \"box sets\" on Amazon under the \"Bach Guild\" label.\nFrom Wikipedia: Leo Blech (21 April 1871 – 25 August 1958) was a German opera composer and conductor who is perhaps most famous for his work at the Königliches Opernhaus (later the Berlin State Opera / Staatsoper Unter den Linden) from 1906 to 1937, and later as the conductor of Berlin's Städtische Oper from 1949 to 1953. Blech was known for his reliable, clear, and elegant performances, especially of works by Wagner, Verdi, and Bizet's Carmen (which he conducted over 600 times), and for his sensitivity as an accompanist. Blech's stylish account of the waltz from 'Der Rosenkavalier,' recorded in December 1928, has long been a favourite of mine, and I hope others will also enjoy it. I have made the transfer from a laminated Australian 78 rpm pressing.\nThe Rehersal of Bohemia Symphony Orchestra Prague at State Opera Prague www.bohemiaorchestra.com\nState Opera may refer to :\nBavarian State Opera\nHamburg State Opera\nStaatsoper Hannover\nSächsische Staatsoper Dresden\nHungarian State Opera House\nPrague State Opera\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/State_Opera\nThe State Opera (Czech: Státní opera), is an opera house in Prague, Czech Republic. It is part of the National Theatre of the Czech Republic, founded by Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in 1992. The theatre itself originally opened in 1888 as the New German Theatre and from 1949 to 1989 it was known as the Smetana Theatre. More recently it was known as the Prague State Opera.\nNew German Theatre\nThe history of the theatre currently known as the Prague State Opera dates back to the late 19th Century. While often overshadowed by the more prominent National Theatre of Prague, the company has its own distinct history. The birth of a magnificent Czech Theatre, the National Theatre, in 1883 indirectly created a longing among the Prague German community for a German-speaking opera house of its own. At that time the Czech lands were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and there was a large German minority living in Prague. On 4 February 1883 the Deutscher Theaterverein was founded with the goal of raising funds for the new theatre. The plans were developed by the well-known Viennese firm Fellner & Helmer along with Karl Hasenauer, architect of the Burgtheater in Vienna. The resulting Neues deutsches Theater (New German Theatre) was designed by the Prague architect Alfons Wertmüller and built within 20 months. With its spacious auditorium and elaborate neo-rococo décor, the theater was one of the most beautiful in Europe.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/State_Opera_(Prague)\nThe Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper) is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper). In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Republic of Austria, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.\nHistory of the building\nThe opera house was the first major building on the Vienna Ringstraße commissioned by the Viennese \"city expansion fund\". Work commenced on the house in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style by the renowned Czech architect and contractor Josef Hlavka.\nThe Ministry of the Interior had commissioned a number of reports into the availability of certain building materials, with the result that stones long not seen in Vienna were used, such as Wöllersdorfer Stein, for plinths and free-standing, simply-divided buttresses, the famously hard stone from Kaisersteinbruch, whose colour was more appropriate than that of Kelheimerstein, for more lushly decorated parts. The somewhat coarser-grained Kelheimerstein (also known as Solnhof Plattenstein) was intended as the main stone to be used in the building of the opera house, but the necessary quantity was not deliverable. Breitenbrunner stone was suggested as a substitute for the Kelheimer stone, and stone from Jois was used as a cheaper alternative to the Kaiserstein. The staircases were constructed from polished Kaiserstein, while most of the rest of the interior was decorated with varieties of marble.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/Vienna_State_Opera\nAn orchestra (/ˈɔːrkᵻstrə/ or US /ˈɔːrˌkɛstrə/; Italian: [orˈkɛstra]) is a large instrumental ensemble used in classical music that contains sections of string (violin, viola, cello and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. Other instruments such as the piano and celesta may sometimes be grouped into a fifth section such as a keyboard section or may stand alone, as may the concert harp and, for 20th and 21st century compositions, electric and electronic instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ὀρχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus. The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, but changed very little in composition during the course of the 20th century.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/Orchestra\nThe Berlin State Opera (German: Staatsoper Unter den Linden) is a German opera company. Its permanent home is the opera house on the Unter den Linden boulevard in the Mitte district of Berlin, which also hosts the Staatskapelle Berlin orchestra. Originally the Hofoper (court opera) from 1742, it was named Königliches Opernhaus (Royal Opera House) in 1844, and Staatsoper unter den Linden in 1918. It is also known as Deutsche Staatsoper, and short as Lindenoper. From 1949 to 1990 it was the state opera of East Germany. Since 2004, the Berlin State Opera belongs to the Berlin Opera Foundation, like the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Komische Oper Berlin, the Berlin State Ballet, and the Bühnenservice Berlin (Stage and Costume Design).\nKing Frederick II of Prussia shortly after his accession to the throne commissioned the original building on the site. Construction work began in July 1741 with what was designed by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff to be the first part of a \"Forum Fredericianum\" on present-day Bebelplatz. Although not entirely completed, the Court Opera (Hofoper) was inaugurated with a performance of Carl Heinrich Graun's Cesare e Cleopatra on December 7, 1742. This event marked the beginning of the successful, 250-year co-operation between the Staatsoper and the Staatskapelle Berlin, the state orchestra, whose roots trace back to the 16th century.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/Berlin_State_Opera\nThe Clock or The Clocks may refer to:\n\"The Clock\", another name for Haydn's Symphony No. 101\nThe Clock (comics), the first masked comic book crime-fighter character, initially published in 1936\nThe Clock (1945 film), a 1945 American film\nThe Clock (2010 film), a 24-hour art video by Christian Marclay\nThe Clock (radio), a dramatic anthology radio series from 1946–48\nThe Clock (TV series), television series\nThe Clock (The Americans), the second episode of the first season of the television series The Americans\nThe Clocks\nThe Clocks (novel), by Agatha Christie\nThe Clocks of Iraz\nClock (disambiguation)\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/The_Clock\nThe Clock is a fictional masked crime-fighter character created in 1936, during the Golden Age of Comic Books. According to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, he was the first masked hero to appear in American comic books.\nCreated by cartoonist George Brenner, the Clock first appeared in two Comics Magazine Company publications: Funny Pages #6 and Funny Picture Stories #1 both cover-dated November 1936. His first appearances were in two-page features, with little room for character development. The Clock's secret identity was eventually disclosed as Brian O'Brien, a wealthy member of high society.\nThe Clock may be a “missing link” between pulp and comic-book heroes. A hypnotist with a secret underground lair, his minimalist costume as a master of disguise was a three-piece suit and mask. The Clock used a number of gadgets (including a cane whose head becomes a projectile, and a diamond stud which fires tear gas), and customarily left a calling card with a clock face and \"The Clock Has Struck\".\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia -\thttps://wn.com/The_Clock_(comics)\nMozart Orchestra Vienna Opera\nTbilisi State Opera Orchestra - Symphony No. 9 (Antonin Dvořák) | Beirut Jam Sessions\nTchaikovsky Symphony No.6 \"Pathétique\" - Vladimir Golschmann / Vienna State Opera Orchestra\nBudapest Philharmonic Orchestra - Opera House\nRossini: La gazza ladra Overture - Gurlitt/Berlin State Opera Orchestra\nSilcher / Erich Kunz, 1965: Die Loreley - Anton Paulik, Vienna State Opera Orchestra\n01 Hungarian State Opera Orchestra - Also sprach Zarathustra (De 2001 A Space Odyssey)\nADONIS GONZALEZ - Mozart Concerto K. 467 - Slovak State Opera Chamber Orchestra\nMartinu: Saltarello - Charles Olivieri-Munroe / Prague State Opera Orchestra\nHaydn - Symphony No. 101 \"The Clock\" (Wöldike / Vienna State Opera Orchestra)\nLeo Blech and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra - Der Rosenkavalier Waltz (R. Strauss) (1928)\nThe Rehersal of Bohemia Symphony Orchestra Prague at State Opera Prague.mp4\nRecorded in 1928. Thanks to Rolf for allowing me to use his excellent transfers. You can find this and many other wonderful selections and information at his website: http://www.satyr78kl.blogspot.com Manfred Ludwig Hugo Andreas Gurlitt was born in Berlin on 6 September 1890 to the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt (1854-1893) and Annarella Gurlitt (1856-1935). He studied for a time with Engelbert Humperdinck. From 1908 to 1910, he was a coach at the Berlin Court Opera and in 1911 acted as musical assistant to Karl Muck at Bayreuth. In 1911-12, he was second conductor in Essen, then in Augsburg for two years. in 1914 he was given the post of first conductor at the Bremen Stadttheater, a position he held until he became general music director there in 1924. In 1920 he founded a Society for New Mu...\nUploaded Date: 15 Jul 2016\nThe Best of Mozart, simply it is the Best Classical Music. Mozart Orchestra | The Blue Danube | Waltz @ Vienna State Opera The concerts are performed in the sty...\nhttps://wn.com/Mozart_Orchestra_Vienna_Opera\nGianluca Marciano conducted the great Tbilisi State Opera Orchestra when they performed Antonin Dvořák's 9th symphony. As an integral part of the Al Bustan Fes...\nhttps://wn.com/Tbilisi_State_Opera_Orchestra_Symphony_No._9_(Antonin_Dvořák)_|_Beirut_Jam_Sessions\nUploaded Date: 05 Jan 2019\nVladimir Golschmann (16 December 1893 – 1 March 1972) was a French-American conductor. My blog: https://sonarmc.com/wordpress/site01/2012/10/13/%e3%83%81%e3%83...\nhttps://wn.com/Tchaikovsky_Symphony_No.6_Pathétique_Vladimir_Golschmann_Vienna_State_Opera_Orchestra\nJoin me for a wonderful evening at the Opera House in Budapest on Andrassy street where I attend a concert of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra ( Budapesti Fi...\nhttps://wn.com/Budapest_Philharmonic_Orchestra_Opera_House\nRecorded in 1928. Thanks to Rolf for allowing me to use his excellent transfers. You can find this and many other wonderful selections and information at his w...\nhttps://wn.com/Rossini_La_Gazza_Ladra_Overture_Gurlitt_Berlin_State_Opera_Orchestra\nhttps://wn.com/Silcher_Erich_Kunz,_1965_Die_Loreley_Anton_Paulik,_Vienna_State_Opera_Orchestra\nVarios - Classical Music in Hollywood Vol. I Artista Intérprete: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Compositor: Richard Strauss Orquesta: Hungarian State Oper...\nhttps://wn.com/01_Hungarian_State_Opera_Orchestra_Also_Sprach_Zarathustra_(De_2001_A_Space_Odyssey)\nW. A. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6477859020233154,"wiki_prob":0.6477859020233154,"text":"The ISO and the Cooper Tire lockout\nBy Barry Grey and Charles Bogle\nSome 1,050 workers at the Cooper Tire & Rubber plant in Findlay, Ohio are entering the second month of a bitter struggle against the company’s demands for new concessions, including revamped production targets that could slash wages by 40 percent, as well as cuts in health care and vacations. The workers were locked out November 28 after they rejected the company’s offer.\nThree years ago, the United Steel Workers of America (USW) union agreed to a two-tier wage at Cooper, with new hires making a mere $13 an hour. They also agreed to a wage freeze and other concessions amounting to $30 million over the period of the contract. The claim then was that Cooper needed the concessions in order to reverse falling profits, with the alternative being the shutdown of the factory.\nThe company is now making large profits, and its CEO has nearly doubled his compensation since 2008 to $4.7 million. But Cooper is demanding even more onerous give-backs.\nIn standing up to the company’s blackmail, the Cooper workers are fighting for workers all across the country—and, indeed, internationally—who face ever more brutal demands for cuts in wages, jobs and conditions. And like workers in auto, steel, transit, communications, the service industry and the public sector, the Findlay Cooper workers face in the trade union apparatus a hostile force that is working to isolate and betray their struggle.\nNeither the international union nor USW Local 207-L has called a strike or taken any action to halt company-organized scabbing. The union has made it clear that it opposes joint action with USW workers at Cooper’s plant in Texarkana, Arkansas, where the contract expires in January. Although it sits on a $150 million strike fund, the USW has refused to provide strike benefits to the workers, who were denied jobless benefits by the state for several weeks.\nAt a rally held in Findlay December 17, union leaders told workers nothing about their talks with the company. They proposed no action beyond impotent protests in the form of a “corporate campaign”—a diversionary tactic pioneered by the Steelworkers union in the 1980s, when it and the AFL-CIO as a whole were repudiating any form of class struggle and embracing labor-management “partnership.”\nIn opposition to the mobilization of the broad support that exists for the Cooper Tire workers, the union is telling them to place their faith in worthless appeals to the National Labor Relations Board and Democratic politicians. The USW, along with the rest of the unions, is backing Obama’s reelection bid, despite the Obama administration’s support for wage-cutting in auto, steel, and manufacturing in general.\nIn the name of reviving US manufacturing and boosting “made in America” exports, the Democratic Party, along with the Republicans, is using mass unemployment to permanently reduce the wage gap between American workers and super-exploited workers in the cheap-labor havens of Asia and Latin America.\nIn the face of this treachery, the International Socialist Organization (ISO) is doing its best to disorient and confuse the rank and file and give a boost to the union leadership. The fake-socialists of the ISO are seeking to do in Findlay what they have done in the mass protests and strikes earlier this year in Wisconsin and in every other struggle of the working class—use hollow rhetoric to disarm the workers and protect their own alliance with the trade union apparatus and the Democratic Party.\nAn article by Shaun Harkin posted December 16 on the ISO’s web site, socialistworker.org, is little more than a hack piece written for the benefit of the USW officials. There is not a word of criticism of either the USW International or Local 207-L. Nor is there so much as a suggestion that more aggressive action should be taken to halt the scabbing, or that the union should call out the other Cooper Tire plants, including the Texarkana plant, in solidarity with the Findlay workers. The idea that the union should provide strike benefits to the workers is not broached.\nThe ISO, supposedly an “international” organization, does not criticize the union’s promotion of “America first” economic nationalism as a means of lining US rubber workers up behind “their” bosses and pitting them against their class brothers and sisters internationally.\nThe method employed by the author is to impute to the union the determination and principled stand taken by the workers. Thus Harkin uncritically quotes Local 207-L President Rodney Nelson as saying, “They [management] have to understand that people are not going to keep working for less and less.”\nBut when it comes to the massive concessions imposed on the workers in 2008, the union is suddenly out of the picture. It was entirely, it would seem, the responsibility of the workers themselves. Harkin writes: “In 2008… workers reluctantly accepted steep concessions—a wage freeze and a two-tier wage rate for new hires…”\nThe ISO does not mention the sabotage of the 12-week Goodyear Tire strike of 2006-07 by the USW, or the union’s support for two-tier wages at a growing number of plants.\nInstead, it quotes a length and without criticism the USW’s statement on the unfair labor practices charges it has filed with the National Labor Relations Board—a legal ploy by the bureaucracy to attempt to work out a rotten compromise that will include most if not all of the company’s concessions demands.\nFinally, the ISO holds up as a model for the Findlay workers the referendum mounted by the unions and the Democratic Party that overturned an anti-workers’ rights law imposed last year by the Republican governor and Republican-controlled state legislature of Ohio. “The struggle against SB 5 [the anti-worker law] galvanized Ohio’s labor movement and demonstrates the spreading mood of resistance,” the article declares.\nThe unions and the middle-class “left” groups like the ISO that are allied to them are cynically using the repeal of SB 5 to promote the fiction that workers can defend their rights and conditions through the Democratic Party and by seeking to pressure the institutions of the capitalist state. In fact, the unions opposed SB 5 only because it undercut their institutional and financial interests, not because they oppose the cuts in jobs, wages and social programs being carried out at every level of government—federal, state and local.\nThe Findlay struggle is another indication of the coming entry of the American and international working class into historic battles. There are critical political and programmatic issues that must be clarified in order for the working class to defend its past gains and achieve new ones. Among them are the need to establish the political independence of the working class from all parties and politicians of the capitalist class and the necessity to fight consciously for a fundamental, revolutionary—i.e., socialist—change in economic relations, in order to end social inequality, poverty and unemployment.\nThe old official trade unions are an implacable obstacle to such a struggle. They have long ceased to represent the workers. They have become businesses that serve the interests of a right-wing, wealthy layer of officials who provide cheap labor to the companies and receive in return a share in the profits extracted from the exploitation of the workers.\nThese rotten organizations have to be swept aside and new, democratic organizations of struggle formed by the workers themselves. A new, revolutionary leadership must be built among the workers to lead these struggles. Key to this fight is exposing and politically defeating the “left” organs of the bourgeoisie and the trade union apparatus such as the ISO.\nThe authors also recommend:\nMobilize the working class behind the Cooper Tire workers!\n[15 December 2011]\nStrikes get “silent treatment” at NEA convention, as candidates take center stage\nRoasting on the line: Autoworkers warn of unsafe conditions at US plants as summer heat hits\nAmazon call center worker in Rabat, Morocco speaks out against company harassment\nInternational Socialist Organization\nLeaders of dissolved International Socialist Organization openly embrace Democratic Party politics\nAn assembly of political bankrupts: Historical Materialism and Jacobin host “Socialism in Our Time” conference\nWho funded the ISO? An analysis of the financial basis of pseudo-left politics\nFactional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization\nUpdated: Letters oppose barring of SEP panel on the fight against fascism from Historical Materialism conference\nThe Cooper Tire Lockout\nIndian tire maker Apollo set to buy Cooper Tire\nLessons of the Cooper Tire struggle\nAmidst widespread discontent, Cooper Tire workers vote for concessions contract\nUnion pushes concessions contract at Cooper Tire\nUnion announces tentative settlement in Cooper Tire lockout","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1642986"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.930690348148346,"wiki_prob":0.930690348148346,"text":"Alpine snowboarder Robby Burns is making his own path to the 2022 Olympics\nNews | December 28, 2018\nAlpine snowboarder Robby Burns, who trains with the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club, missed the 2018 Olympics by one spot. He currently works a night-time security job to pay for his training in Steamboat Springs. (Photo courtesy of Carrie Kizuka)\nSTEAMBOAT SPRINGS — At 11 p.m., Robby Burns checks into his shift as a security officer at Steamboat Resort.\nHe’ll get off work at 7 a.m., go to sleep a half an hour later, then wake up in three hours to start training for the 2022 Beijing Olympics as an Alpine snowboarder.\nBurns spends two to three hours on snow, then eats before taking another three-hour nap before hitting the gym. He’ll rest before his shift, then repeat it all again the next day.\nIt’s not normal for an athlete of Burns’ caliber to work a full-time job and spend only eight hours on snow and 10 hours in the gym per week. Ideally, Burns would get eight hours of sleep, eat a well-balanced meal that isn’t microwaved rice or protein shakes and train 10 hours on snow and 15 hours in the gym every week, but when he fell just one spot short of the 2018 Olympics, that luxury was lost.\n“I don’t want to give up on this because it’s hard right now,” Burns said. “I’m sleeping where I can sleep to make it to training; it’s a little bit of survival time. I’m making it work. It’s challenging but also beautiful. There’s not another thing on this earth I want to dedicate my time.”\nBurns was the third-best American Alpine snowboarder, but the U.S. Team only took two athletes. Knowing that he may not have the means to compete in Alpine snowboarding was not just a question of making it, but a question of the 28-year-old’s own identity.\n“I spent five years creating this program to go to the Olympics and didn’t reach that goal,” Burns said. “I had to take some time for myself to re-evaluate — is snowboarding still my passion? When I took time away from snowboarding, it was great, but it was also like, this is my life. I don’t have any intention of walking away from snowboarding yet.”\nBurns is originally from California but has been training with the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club for six years. He wanted to stay with his coach Thedo Remmelink, and to bring down the costs of training, the Winter Sports Club helped him find the security job and allowed him to coach snowboarding once a week.\n“Before I even started looking, the most realistic thing is a night shift,” Burns said.\nTori Koski, the head of the SSWSC snowboarding program, found Burns the $14-an-hour security job and a roommate, Millie Bongiorno, who also trains in Alpine snowboarding.\nWith few sponsorships, Burns limits his travel. He won’t be making any World Cup appearances but hopes to compete in the World Championships in February. He won both the parallel and giant slalom at the SSWSC Race to the Cup and the parallel slalom at the Buck Hill Race to the Cup. Burns ranks second to Steamboat Springs’ own Cody Winters in the NorAm cup standings.\nRemmelink believes Burns’ race in Steamboat was one of his best.\n“It’s not easy, but it’s really fun,” Remmelink said. “At big events something can happen to anybody in the preparation. You can have an injury or a bad night of sleep. As an athlete you have to learn how to perform at a given time and a given place whether you’re ready or not.”\nBurns is still young in the sport, having only 19 World Cup starts. More seasoned\nAlpine snowboarders are in their 30s with over 100 World Cup starts.\nRobby Burns is focused on training for the 2022 Olympics, rather than traveling to every World Cup. (Photo courtesy of Cale Conner)\n“We’ve tried to give him a home where he can rebuild himself this year and then move forward in a strong way,” Remmelink said. “I think he can be in a very strong spot for the next Olympics.”\nNot competing in World Cups puts Burns at a disadvantage for making the World Championships in Salt Lake City in February. To be a part of the A team, athletes must medal at a World Cup event. The B team requires two top-eight finishes at a World Cup event. He hopes he can hold onto his NorAm ranking and make his case.\n“If the goal was to just be a part of the U.S. Team, going to World Cups is the obvious choice,” Burns said. “In a four-year program, a lot more goes into it. Are you riding well enough to achieve a good time at the World Cup race?”\nFunding a World Cup season is impossible for Burns right now. If it’s done right, the cost can average from $60,000 to $90,000 a year. Remmelink believes that training should be the focus, allowing Burns time to peak at the right times, and hopefully, that will be at races like the World Championships.\n“In a competitive atmosphere, you measure yourself against somebody else and you hope to learn from that,” Remmelink said. “What we teach at the club is we also measure yourself against yourself and your own goals. Solid fundamentals play a huge role in peaking and that’s both on a technical level and on a mental level.”\nWhile the training has lessened due to the demands of a full-time job, Burns believes that the strict schedule has allowed him to keep a focused mentality.\n“It just really brought me to living in the moment,” Burns said. “I’m not going to worry about what tomorrow brings. Before, I’d start stressing about a race two weeks out, three weeks out and that affects my ability to focus. In my current situation, I don’t have a ton of time to worry about what tomorrow’s going to bring. Race day comes up, and I’m like alright I’m tired, but now I have this.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line87084"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.694425642490387,"wiki_prob":0.30557435750961304,"text":"Work Intro\nBlogging, content marketing and social\nDigital Content Strategy\nMobile and Web Copywriting\n~ Your Armored Thinktank\nA Buddhist approach to the Inauguration\nPosted by Eric Hayward in Content Strategy\nI’m not qualified to speak on behalf of all Buddhism, an ancient and worldwide system with innumerable regional and cultural variations. However, if I was forced to generalize, it would be safe to say that most schools of Buddhism are decidedly apolitical. That’s because most are based on a belief in the human potential to experience life without evaluations, mental categorizations and judgments. This kind of perspective frees up the opportunity for compassion.\nI would argue that compassion is not a state but an active effort, at the center of which is a striving to understand other people, many of whom use different evaluations, mental categorizations and judgments than you. Therefore a Buddhist approach to the inauguration might have something to do with letting go of the fear and anger characterizing both sides of the deeply disturbing rift in our national consciousness, and to see what kinds of solutions may arise from that open space between our thoughts.\nToward an enlightened society\nVery much in the spirit of these principals, the Shambhala tradition, founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, talks about an “enlightened society” founded on the radical idea that people are basically good. An enlightened society might sound sort of political. Really, it is just a collection of people striving to live their lives free from passion, aggression and ignorance (or “apathy”), those inevitable human mental states that cause us to chase after this or that thing at the expense of the present; to push away uncomfortable ideas, missing an opportunity to grow courage and learn from them; and to ignore the deeper reality of human suffering. All of these mental states are rooted in a fear that what we need or value will be taken away from us.\nKung Fu, kittens, and the true art of war\nLetting go of fear is even more terrifying than the original fear. Fear and anger are hardwired into the armored tactical survival suit that is our human body. We feel afraid that if we take off our armor and stop fighting, the “other side” will win, or those suffering under the causes we care about will be left to suffer. But there must be some way to continue acting on our beliefs without making ourselves miserable and potentially harming our own cause. This is where the principal of non-violence becomes paramount. Personally I look at this in two ways. First, I draw on my love of Kung Fu movies. Second, I think about kittens.\nIn the famous “be as water” quote, Bruce Lee suggests that yielding and flexibility are the roots of strength. This means calming our minds. It means allowing our clear thinking to see the naturally-occurring, strategic opportunities to redirect whatever it is we are trying to stop. I encourage each of us to think about ways we have been defeating ourselves and our causes by missing obvious and auspicious opportunities. When we keep quiet in a potentially contentious argument, for example, we inspire respect, and we portray a confidence in what we believe that may give our would-be opponent pause. We allow him or her to feel listened to. Sometimes when you allow someone to see their thoughts through to the end, you and they both realize there is something you can agree on. Enter the second perspective, kittens.\nOnly a true beast remains unmoved by a good interspecies pile-on. (Please ignore the mess in the background.)\nFew Republicans or Democrats would stomp on a kitten or run down an old lady in the street. Personally, I’ve had to remind myself of this throughout the past year. If you won’t stomp on a kitten, you and I have something to work with, no matter how awful, naive, misguided or hateful I think your other beliefs may be.\nI love this quote from Shepherd Book, one of my favorite characters in one of my favorite science fiction movies, Serenity:\n“I don’t care what you believe in, just believe in it.”\nThe kind of belief he’s talking about is not a belief in gravity (or something else it would be difficult for anyone to argue against). It’s a belief that there is something greater than ourselves more important than our individual whims. I believe that if, from a calm state, we examine our minds and our beliefs and follow them to their roots, we will discover the first terrifying but eventually liberating experience of emptiness. Of formlessness. Formlessness doesn’t mean non-existence. It means that even our most closely-held values are just thoughts. How much are my values, some of which I might kill and die for, rooted in my own attempt to slice and dice reality into digestible chunks—categorizations—that in fact don’t really “exist” anywhere?\n“I don’t care what you believe in. Just believe in it.” – Shepherd Book’s last words in Serenity\nCarl Sagan on human existence\nAs I like to say, the stars and planets don’t give a crap what you believe in. Carl Sagan said it a lot better in his deservedly famous excerpt from Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. “The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” This snippet doesn’t capture the majesty and wisdom of the full quotation. Please, promise you will read it!\n“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” – Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space\nJust believing in something\nI’m reading what I’ve written so far and it seems trite, except for the part about the survival suit. Taking that thing off, and, as some Tibetan Buddhists say “leaning into the sharp edges” of the things that terrify us, takes tremendous courage. That fundamental terror—based on vulnerability—is shared by everyone from fascists to saints. Segue to another quote from a great film, one inadvertently containing some great Buddhist wisdom, The Big Lebowski:\nDonny: “They were Nazis Dude?”\nWalter: “Oh come on Donny they were threatening castration! Are we going to split hairs here?”\nDonny: “No.”\nWalter: “Am I wrong?”\nDude: “Man, they were nihilists, man! They kept saying they believe in nothing.”\nWalter: “Nihilists! F*** me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”\nIn the film, Walter says this even though he is a very enthusiastic and vocal convert to Judaism (“I don’t roll on Shabbos!”).\nI don’t know how I got here, but let’s get away from the subject of Nazism, fast. Suffice it to say I’m more afraid of someone who operates without a code than someone whose code condones even the most deplorable act of hate. With a code, at least there is a fundamental belief in the value of belief. With analysis and self-examination, there may be some hope for the opportunity to believe in something else.\nSeven words to summarize “Buddhism”\nFor what it’s worth, here’s what I believe:\nEven my most cherished and undeniably unassailable values—for example, don’t stomp on kittens in the street—are still ultimately just choices. The sun and the planets and the stardust and carbon know nothing from right and wrong, and that is the stuff I am also made of and whose laws I am completely subject to. However, everything I have read, from Taoist scripture to the Bible to Buddhist dharma, suggests that life is more satisfying when we try to think about other people. That’s why I started meditating and studying Buddhism. Not because I’m a nice guy. But because I was looking for a way out this essential “askewedness,” often mistranslated as “suffering,” that Siddhartha Gotama discovered first on the marathon meditation that led to his enlightenment. It’s called the First Noble Truth, and it basically says that human life is effed up. Among other things, we are still wired to run from tigers and club the guy stealing our food even though we spend most of our time in temperature-controlled buildings pulling the food we need out of a magic box.\nAny time you find yourself baffled over the stupid crap we do, you are experiencing the First Noble Truth.\nI called this post “a” Buddhist approach to the inauguration and not “the” approach, because, again, I can’t speak on behalf of something much bigger than me, that I have profound respect for, that isn’t really an “ism” to begin with. But here’s how I would summarize Buddhism, if asked:\nSlow down, pay attention, and be nice.\nTruth be told I am going to fight, and fight hard, for the things I believe in, harder than before. But I’m pledging to do that without sharing Memes of Despair and Gloating on the internet (pledging to. I won’t always succeed). I’m pledging not to accuse people who voted differently than me of being terrible people (again, I will sometimes fail).\nLike The Dude, I plan to abide.\n– Eric Hayward\n15 Reasons the Dude is a Zen Master\n(Pictures courtesy of Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Pups are Fun Enterprises, Universal Studios and Carl Sagan).\nChicken Attack!\n6 ways writers can learn to like SEO (they don’t have to love it)\nThe 8 rules of B2B blogging in 250 words or less","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line609334"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.737846314907074,"wiki_prob":0.262153685092926,"text":"Teen Pot Use Stalls as States Regulate Use\nby your humble narrator | Dec 28, 2012 | Activism, Law Enforcement | 0 comments\nby Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance\nDespite several attempts by the media and policy makers to associate the rising number of state regulated medical marijuana programs (and popular legalization efforts) with a rise in use and a drop in associated risk, the 2012 Monitoring the Future Survey reports that there was no rise in daily or annual marijuana use among teens. According to the report, “annual marijuana use [among 8th, 10th and 12th graders] showed no further increase in any of the three grades surveyed in 2012… [And the] daily use of marijuana…remained essentially flat.” Also of note, despite the sharp decline in perceived risk of marijuana use across all three grades, there was a statistically significant decline of use among 8th graders. These numbers are consistent with other recent studies showing that states with regulated marijuana programs have not seen an increase in teen use. Some have even seen a decrease in pot use among their youth population.\n“This study suggests that exposure among teens to the concept of marijuana regulation policies (one third of whom live in such states) does not cause an increase in use. It is also important to consider that a drop in perceived risk is likely associated with their rejection of the overzealous scare tactics used in most schools’ drug education programs” said Sabrina Fendrick of the NORML Women’s Alliance.\nIt is important to note, however, that marijuana use rates and availability nationwide remain at relatively high levels, while alcohol use rates remain historically low. This is most likely due to the fact that the former is illegal and thereby not subject to government controls, while the latter substance is legally restricted to adults only. The same goes for tobacco. We did not have to outlaw cigarettes to reduce the use among minors. A policy of education and regulation (not prohibition) has created an environment in which cigarette usage has fallen to an all time low. According to the principal investigator of the study, Lloyd Johnston, “[A] lowering teen smoking rates…likely…depend[s] on…changes such as raising cigarette taxes, further limiting where smoking is permitted, bringing back broad-based anti-smoking ad campaigns, and making quit-smoking programs more available.” It has been proven that age restrictions, coupled with the imposition of government regulation and education are the most effective at reducing youth access to adult-only recreational substances. According to the 2011 MFS report, the drop in alcohol use can be attributed to a strict regulation scheme that include educational campaigns focusing on responsible use and age restrictions which, in turn, lowers availability.\nThe report concluded; “In the 1980?s a number of states raised their minimum drinking age to twenty-one, which these researches were able to demonstrate reduced drinking.” It goes on to say “the proportion of 8th and 10th graders who say they could get alcohol ‘fairly easily’ or ‘very easily’ had been declining since 1996 and continued to drop in all three grades in 2011. Various other factors of likely importance include…higher beer taxes and restrictions on alcohol promotion to youth.” The 2012 survey reported that again, “there was no increase in perceived availability of alcohol.”\nOne can therefore conclude that the only sensible answer to restricting marijuana access to [as well as use among] minors is through state and local government regulation and a message of moderation.\nRhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signs marijuana decriminalization bill\nHelp Legalize Marijuana By Supporting NORML\nMore States To Discuss Legalizing Marijuana\nTeenagers Wise Up\nMr. President : Legalize Marijuana and You’ll Get the Youth Vote and Win the Election.\nMarijuana Legalization Push Ramping Up In Northeast","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line433543"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6216484308242798,"wiki_prob":0.3783515691757202,"text":"SENSATIONAL SOLIDARITY DEFINES CONFERENCE IN JERUSALEM\nHadassah International Conferences 30 April, 2004\nAs the enthusiastic voices in many different languages filled the King David Hotel, an onlooker could sense the diversity of the over 250 delegates from 18 countries who came to Jerusalem, March 13-15 for Hadassah International’s Solidarity Conference.At the same time, the bond that transcends this diversity came to life during the standing ovation and continuous applause for Founder of the Hadassah International Medical Relief Association, Bernice S. Tannenbaum.\nThe strong connection was vivid again with the expressions of empathy for the victims of terrorism, whether in Madrid or Israel, and in the respect and admiration for our Hadassah Medical Organization physicians, nurses, and social workers. Clearly, these delegates were powerfully linked by their love for Hadassah International and HMO as premier bridges to nations through medicine.\nAs Amos Attali, Chair of Young Hadassah International, stated: “Our commitment unites us.” Amos led a delegation of over 35 young people from Argentina, Holland, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, who expressed pride in their mission of health care without discrimination.\nFrom the opening session, it was evident that the Israelis were thrilled to have Hadassah International’s presence and support. As Israeli Minister of Health Danny Naveh said, in thanking the delegates for\ncoming to Israel:\n“You can be proud that you are part of the family of Hadassah. Thanks to your involvement, we can keep high standards of medical treatment, despite the need for budget cuts in these difficult times.”\nMinister Naveh also expressed the conviction that “we must show the terrorists that there are no political fruits from terrorist acts.”\nHadassah France President Dr. Sydney Ohana, who led a delegation of over 100 from his home country, noted, “With optimism, we can confront terrorism and achieve the upper hand. We feel the hope that no other mothers should cry for their kids; that we can live in a world without terror.”\nA wonderful highlight of this opening session was the tribute to Hadassah International President Nancy Falchuk by HMO Director General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef. “HMO is in Nancy’s soul,” he noted, adding that “a labor of love is what volunteerism is all about.”\nAnother touching moment came with the presentation of the first Bernice S. Tannenbaum Young Volunteer of Distinction Award to Dr. Enrique Bassat, a pediatrician from Barcelona. Dr. Bassat has reached out with his medical expertise to needy children all over the world.\nThe opening session featured the showing of a video created by Dr. Alain Salimpour, President of Hadassah Nice, and his wife, Ruth, “in appreciation of Hadassah’s giving us the opportunity to give.” The video showcased the song, “Hadassah, For Peace,” composed by the Salimpours especially for Hadassah.\nDr. Raanan Gissin, Israel’s Foreign Press and Public Affairs Advisor, gave the delegates a comprehensive update on where the Middle East conflict stands today. While he did not downplay the seriousness of widespread terrorism, he maintained a measure of optimism about the future. He expressed his thanks to Hadassah International for its staunch support. He commented that just as back-up troops behind Israeli soldiers tap lightly on the helmets of the soldiers in front of them so they know they are not alone, “your coming here is tapping on the helmets of all the Israelis who are standing on the front line.”\nThe opening session also proved extremely uplifting as Young Hadassah International leaders from Holland, Spain, and Israel told of their commitment to Hadassah International and to the Hadassah Medical Organization.\nThe next two emotion-packed days featured tours of our Medical Centers as well as a myriad of presentations on absorbing educational topics. Professor Yoel Donchin gave a presentation on the history of the nine-decade partnership between Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (our parent organization ) and Israel, whose steadfast goal was elevating the country’s standard of health care. Psychiatrist Daniel Sibony offered a perspective on the Arab-Israeli situation which emphasized that current events are perceived differently, depending on each person’s beliefs about the history of the Middle East.\nThere ensued a panel discussion with HMO physicians Professor Moshe Gamori, Chief of Neuroradiology, Professor Meir Liebergall, Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery, Dr. Esti Galili-Weisstub, Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Director of External Relations Ron Krumer. During this emotionally charged session entitled “Coping with Terror in Real Time,” the panelists described their conflicting emotions when a terrorist attack hits. They explained the pressure they feel when their personal worries for their loved ones’ safety combine with professional responsibilities to care for victims who might be the terrorists themselves.\nAs the delegates walked through the halls of the hospitals at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus, witnessing the work of their hearts, they were touched by the spirit of hope and harmony pervading the treatment rooms.\nThe excellence of HMO’s three pillars—healing, teaching, and research—filled the delegates with admiration. Outfitted with hard hats, they walked through the construction site of the new Center for Emergency Medicine, seeing with their own eyes what their volunteer efforts have made possible.\nThey reveled at the fact that the Hadassah Medical Organization is truly a state-of-the-art health facility, and they expressed enthusiasm that they can now return home and describe to their community the cutting-edge clinical care provided at Hadassah.\nOn Sunday, surrounded by the Chagall Windows in the beautiful Abell Synagogue, representatives from HIMRA units around the world accepted certificates of\nappreciation for major gifts to further the work of HMO. Making the event particularly special was the presence of many of the physicians whose departments are the beneficiaries of HIMRA’s donations.\nMonday brought another very special event: the dedication of the Bernice S. Tannenbaum Play Area in the Center for Children with Chronic Diseases at Mount Scopus, brought to fruition by HIMRA donations in memory of Bernice’s son, Richard Salpeter. “From both my grandmother and my father,” noted Bernice’s granddaughter, Ellen Salpeter, “my family has learned to respect the past, embrace the present and dream into the future. Let this playground be the site of thriving generations of new leaders for families, Hadassah, Israel, and peace.”\nFun and festivities marked the evenings of the Conference. On Sunday, there was the gala dinner, chaired by His Excellency Ambassador Zalman Shoval, honoring Eli Hurvitz, Chairman of the Board of Teva Pharmaceuticals, as “Hadassah’s International Man of Distinction.” Held at the beautiful Mercaz Shimshon with its breathtaking view of the Old City of Jerusalem and attended by over 450 people–from Conference delegates to Israeli businessmen and dignitaries– it featured a touching dedication to Mr. Hurvitz (who is the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of Israel’s premier drug manufacturer), as well as an elegant dinner and lively dancing well into the night.\nThe following evening, delegates enjoyed the camaraderie of their colleagues and, after Israeli dancing and dining at the Carmel Winery of Zichron Ya’akov, said good-bye until next year!\nParticipants left Jerusalem, bolstered by pride in their show of solidarity with Israel and the Hadassah Medical Organization during these difficult times. They headed for home, filled with mesmerizing images of a Medical Center that is empathetic, cutting-edge, and a true bridge to nations. They carried home with them, too, memories of emotion-packed experiences they shared with HIMRA colleagues, old and new, from all around the world–colleagues who hold a mutual vision for a better world through universal medicine.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1432908"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9048576354980469,"wiki_prob":0.9048576354980469,"text":"Rest and Relaxation (often abbreviated to R&R) was a short vacation given to members of a military force.\nWhile preparing a survey on an uninhabited planet, Jonathan Archer suggested he and Tucker could spend some R&R after completing the mission. (ENT: \"The Catwalk\")\nIn 2154, Jonathan Archer suggested that Hoshi Sato take some R&R in Norway or Canada after the Xindi crisis had been averted. (ENT: \"Zero Hour\")\nThe Starfleet crew of Deep Space 9 often took R&R in Quark's. The concept was alien to Tosk, as he felt that the Alpha Quadrant had too much \"down\" time. (DS9: \"Captive Pursuit\")\nAfter he was assigned to the former Federation colonies in the Demilitarized Zone, Calvin Hudson had hoped to spend some R&R time with his old friend Benjamin Sisko, but, as Sisko himself pointed out, \"Who's got R&R time?\" (DS9: \"The Maquis, Part I\")\nIn 2374, Admiral William Ross was motivated to spend his next R&R on Bajor, following Benjamin Sisko's descriptions of the planet's beauty. (DS9: \"Favor the Bold\")\nAfter talking to many people on the USS Defiant later that year, Captain Lisa Cusak suggested that the crew could use some R&R. (DS9: \"The Sound of Her Voice\")\nIn 2375, after Rom told him Grand Nagus Zek was missing, Quark suggested that he may be having \"a little rest and relaxation\" on Risa. (DS9: \"The Emperor's New Cloak\")\nExternal link Edit\nRest and Relaxation at Wikipedia\nRetrieved from \"https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rest_and_Relaxation?oldid=2237959\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1282374"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8641542196273804,"wiki_prob":0.8641542196273804,"text":"Planning for College\nHow College Rankings Work\nby Jacob Silverman\nEfforts by Colleges to Spread Information\nCollege counselors say that rankings can be a useful starting point, but in-depth research and campus visits, whenever possible, ­are an essential part of the college search.\nPhoto by Jose Gil courtesy Dreamstime\nThough some colleges have turned away from rankings and no longer use them in their marketing materials, these schools say that it's important not to deprive prospective students of the data they need. As a result, colleges are trying to present more comprehensive information that better reflects their institutions. In September 2007, a consortium of schools expects to launch a Web site on which prospective students will find information about colleges and universities. It will be useful information like the real cost of a year at a school, rates of acceptance , matriculation and graduation and demographic information. The site will also feature descriptive graphics and comparison tools.\nThe National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, which represents more than 600 public colleges and universities, is considering its own Web site. It would include even more information like survey results showing how much students feel they are learning. Another organization, the Association of American Universities, a group of 62 schools, claims to be considering a site as well.\n­Schools dropping out of the U.S. News ranking will likely generate some confusion and controversy at first but should also bring about some welcome changes. Numerous interscholastic associations, education nonprofit organizations and other groups are meeting, discussing initiatives, lobbying for changes to ranking systems, and brainstorming more comprehensive materials and more accurate rankings. The process should facilitate better communication between colleges, administrators, publishers of rankings and past, present and future students.\nIf this ranking- and information-sharing revolution comes about, the Internet will play an important role. Nearly every proposal calls for sharing information online and making it descriptive, easy to access and useful. Then, if publications still want data for rankings, they can just go to a school's Web site, the same place where many prospective students will get their information.\nAlready, some of these changes are taking place. Sites like collegeboard.com, which also handles SAT registration, allow students to learn about and conduct side-by-side comparisons of the colleges that interest them.\nSo with all of this controversy and potential change, how should rankings be used? Most college counselors say that they have their uses, but they're only one of many tools and are best considered as starting point. Pay attention to the facts and data they provide, but know that the rankings may not be entirely accurate. In the past, schools have, sometimes intentionally, submitted incorrect information, throwing off their scores. And some publishers may change how they determine the rankings of schools that no longer provide data.\nCollege counselors recommend visiting schools whenever possible. Talk to current students and alumni. E-mail a professor if you can and find out what truly distinguishes this school from another. After all, Americans are lucky: We have hundreds of diverse schools from which to choose, and college counselors generally agree that there is more than one \"right\" school for a person.\nFor more information about college rankings and related topics, please check out the links below.\nRelated HowStuffWorks Articles\nHow College Admission Works\nHow College Financial Aid Works\nHow 529 Plans Work\nHow Homeschooling Works\nHow Becoming a Doctor Works\nHow Becoming a Lawyer Works\nHow Online Degrees Work\nHow the Electoral College Works\nHow SATs Work\nCappex.com: College Search\n­­­­Maclean's\nThe Center for Measuring University Performance\nGlobal University Rankings: G-Factor\n\"College Rankings.\" MSN Encarta.\n\"Colleges Pull Out of 'U.S. News' Rankings.\" NPR. June 22, 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11277622\n\"Colleges Resist Pull of Published Rankings.\" NPR. June 26, 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11422186\n\"G-Factor.\" Global University Rankings. University Metrics. April 29, 2006. http://www.universitymetrics.com/g-factor\n\"Maclean's.\" http://www.macleans.ca/education/index.jsp\n\"The Top 100 Global Universities.\" Newsweek. Aug. 13, 2006. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/\nDamast, Alison. \"More Opposition to U.S. News Rankings.\" BusinessWeek. May 20, 2007. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/may2007/bs20070520_011612.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_b-schools\nEditors. \"The Washington Monthly College Guide.\" Washington Monthly. Sept. 2005. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0509.collegeguide.html\nEditors. \"The Washington Monthly's Annual College Guide.\" Washington Monthly. Sept. 2006. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.collegeguide.html\nFinder, Alan. \"Colleges Join Forces on a Web Presence to Let Prospective Students Research and Compare.\" The New York Times. July 4, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04rankings.html?ex=1184904000&en=b31923f8afeea0be&ei=5070\nJohnson, James A. \"Vanguard College Rankings.\" http://www.postmaterial.org/collegerankings/index.html\nLavelle, Louis. \"A Rank Offense to B-Schools?\" BusinessWeek. Aug. 5, 2005. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/aug2005/bs2005085_1796.htm\nLee, Stephanie. \"College rankings losing their relevance.\" San Gabriel Valley Tribune. http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_6389616\nRemke, Andrea. \"Looking beyond the rankings.\" Cincinnati Enquirer. July 17, 2007. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070717/NEWS0102/707170371/1058/NEWS01\nSamarasekera, Indira. \"Rising Up Against Rankings.\" Inside Higher Education. April 2, 2007. http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/04/02/samarasekera\nSelingo, Jeffrey. \"What the Rankings Do For 'U.S. News.'\" The Chronicle of Higher Education. May 25, 2007. http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i38/38a01501.htm\nSkube, Michael. \"The No. 1 reason to rank colleges.\" The Los Angeles Times. July 8, 2007. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-skube8jul08,0,6137792.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\nStrauss, Valerie. \"'U.S. News' rankings? No thanks, they say.\" The Washington Post. Concord Monitor. May 21, 2007. http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070521/REPOSITORY/705210368/1013/NEWS03\nTung, Michael. \"Rankings Colleges Using Google and OSS.\" Unnaturally Long Attention Span. Jan. 30, 2006. http://vcmike.blogspot.com/2006/01/ranking-colleges-using-google-and-oss.html\nWeissman, Neil B. \"College Rankings Are 'Lame Science.'\" The Washington Post. June 30, 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/29/AR2007062902135.html\n10 Reasons College Costs So Much\nHow Admissions Counselors Work\nHow College Admissions Tests Work\nWhat should be on my college packing list?\nDo college admissions officers value students who speak more than one language?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1749076"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7156621813774109,"wiki_prob":0.2843378186225891,"text":"PAO Novatek (NVTK)\nThursday 25 April, 2019\nPAO Novatek\nNOVATEK and CNOOC Sign Agreement on Arctic LNG 2\nRNS Number : 1036X\nNOVATEK and CNOOC Sign Entrance Agreement to Arctic LNG 2\nBeijing, 25 April 2019. PAO NOVATEK (\"NOVATEK\" or the \"Company\") announced today at the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that NOVATEK and CNOOC Ltd. (\"CNOOC\") have signed a binding agreement on the acquisition by CNOOC of a 10% participation interest in the Arctic LNG 2 project.\n\"We are very glad that CNOOC has joined our Arctic LNG 2 project as our new partner, since China represents one of the key consuming markets for our LNG sales,\" noted Leonid Mikhelson, NOVATEK's Chairman of the Management Board. \"Arctic LNG 2 will be a game-changer in the global gas market, and our proven track record to successfully build an LNG facility in the Arctic zone, combined with a proven logistical model with access to prospective markets and large hydrocarbon resource base will ensure the successful implementation of this world class project\".\nThe Arctic LNG 2 project envisages constructing three LNG trains at 6.6 million tons per annum each, using gravity-based structure (GBS) platforms. The Project is based on the hydrocarbon resources of the Utrenneye field. As of 31 December 2018, the Utrenneye field's 2P reserves under PRMS totaled 7,981 million barrels of oil equivalent. Under the Russian classification reserves totaled 13,835 million barrels of oil equivalent. OOO Arctic LNG 2 owns an LNG export license.\nFor further information, please visitor contact:\nPAO NOVATEK is one of the largest independent natural gas producers in Russia, and in 2017, entered the global gas market by successfully launching the Yamal LNG project. Founded in 1994, the Company is engaged in the exploration, production, processing and marketing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. The Company's upstream activities are concentrated mainly in the prolific Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, which is the world's largest natural gas producing area and accounts for approximately 80% of Russia's natural gas production and approximately 15% of the world's gas production. NOVATEK is a public joint stock company established under the laws of the Russian Federation. The Company's shares are listed in Russia on Moscow Exchange (MOEX) and the London Stock Exchange (LSE) under the ticker symbol «NVTK».\nMSCEANLSALLNEEF","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1288105"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.69407057762146,"wiki_prob":0.30592942237854004,"text":"As shot at the Olympics, we can provide the facilities to start or practise this ISSF shooting discipline. It is shot at a distance of 10 meters (10.94 yards) with .177 (4.5mm) calibre pellets. There is a maximum weight limit on the rifle of 12.13lbs (5.5kg) and there are allowances for special clothing as in smallbore target rifle but with the added benefit of trousers. The speciality clothing is generally very strong and rigid to help keep a supported position as this discipline is shot from standing, so every bit of stability that can be gained is a benefit.\nCourse of fire for this event is different based on gender. Men shoot 60 shots (known as AR60) and Women shoot 40 shots (known as AR40) with each shot scoring a maximum of 10. The top 8 shooters in competition can then go on to shoot an additional 10 shots, each with a maximum score of 10.9. The Winner is determined by the highest aggregate score over the 60/40 + 10.\nThe target is a total diameter of the target is 45.5 mm and the 10 ring is a mere 0.5 mm\nThis has been an Olympic shooting discipline since 1984 and there have been World Championships since 1970.\nIf you'd like to give it a go, get in touch with our club secretary, alternatively, if you'd like more information on the subject, check out the 10 Metre Air Rifle Wikipedia page.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line269887"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7018382549285889,"wiki_prob":0.29816174507141113,"text":"HoverTank Download (1994 Arcade action Game)\nDownload full HoverTank:\nHoverTank screenshots:\nHoverTank is a fun two-player split screen tank battle game, just like Atari's classic Combat, but with better graphics and more power-ups. You start out at either a random or a predetermined location depending on the map that you are on, then you must hunt down the enemy tank, which can be either human- or computer-controlled.\nAside from improved graphics and sounds compared to Atari's original, HoverTank introduces a few new features. For example, you can take advantage of the grey and red mines that are scattered throughout the map. One effective strategy is to hurl the enemy tank into a mine to zap life-force. You can also use WARP feature to warp to another part of the screen, but you only have a limited number of WARPs to use, so you must use it sparingly.\nOne of the things I really like about HoverTank is the great physics model. Your tank moves in a manner more akin to ships in Finnish cavefliers (e.g. V-Wing) than a tank game: that is, inertia is taken into account. If you are going very fast, don't expect to be able to make sharp 90-degree turns or abruptly stop. You can also bounce from certain surfaces and lose life force if you are not careful enough. Needless to say, the game is most fun with played against a friend on the same computer, but the computer \"drones\" also put up a good fight. If you like Atari's classic, HoverTank is one of the best fanmade clones you will ever come across.\nPeople who downloaded HoverTank have also downloaded:\nHouse of the Dead 3, The, Freddy's Rescue Roundup, House of the Dead 2, The, Hexen 2, House of the Dead, The, Hovertank, Hexen: Beyond Heretic, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line226669"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7935291528701782,"wiki_prob":0.7935291528701782,"text":"Back Women Crime Writers: Forty books, four pen names, and one enigmatic author Print\nWomen Crime Writers: Forty books, four pen names, and one enigmatic author\nFools’ Gold author Dolores Hitchens.\nPublished last week, The Library of America’s two-volume collection Women Crime Writers of the 1940s and 50s has already won praise from the Washington Post and the Charlotte Observer, which says that the anthology “revives many a forgotten masterwork.”\n“Forgotten masterwork” is a helpful capsule description of the last novel collected in the set, 1958’s Fools’ Gold by Dolores Hitchens, which had effectively fallen off the cultural radar despite having been made into the film Band of Outsiders by Jean-Luc Godard in 1964. Readers may be curious to know more about Hitchens (1907–1973) beyond what’s contained in The Library of America’s biographical note, which lists the more than forty titles she published under four different names in a career that spanned thirty-five years.\nSo who was Dolores Hitchens, aka D. B. Olsen, aka Dolan Birkley, aka Noel Burke? Women Crime Writers editor Sarah Weinman has uncovered a 1952 letter from Hitchens to her editor at Doubleday, Isabelle Taylor, which explains at least one change of nom de plume and also serves as a witty miniature author bio. The letter originally saw the light of day in the privately published 1995 Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928–1991, edited by Ellen Nehr, and is here reprinted by permission of the Dolores Hitchens estate.\nIt’s no secret that I am also D. B. Olsen. In fact I’m glad to get away from the Olsen name for a change (not having been married to Mr. Olsen for some twelve years now makes the necessity of continuing to be D. B. Olsen literally a bit irksome). The books I do under the Hitchens label are not the same type. It gives me a fresh lease on life. A new reincarnation, book-wise.\nThe full name, and I’m not making this up as I go along, is Julia Clara Catherine Maria Dolores Robins Norton Birk Olsen Hitchens. The first five names have been whittled down to one—the only one I like. The five last names are accounted for by a series of step-fathers and two husbands.\nI always hated the name Julia and the pay-off came, at a graduation party at High School, when names were used in rhymes on the place-cards, and some would-be poet rhymed Julia with fool-ya. That was the moment when I became, once and for all, Dolores. Wouldn’t you?\nI’m taking psychology courses at the local college in my spare (joke) time with the ultimate aim of outfitting my characters with the latest in psychoses and fixations. Last time I wrote you we lived in Eureka but are now back in southern California on the outskirts of Long Beach in a district called Lakewood where the houses are laid overnight, like eggs. An estimated 3,500 people are moving in. We’re in an older district, however, and miss much of the excitement.\nFools’ Gold by Dolores Hitchens is also available as a Library of America e-book and audiobook. Click here (scroll down) for more information on both formats.\nVisit the Women Crime Writers companion website for complete information on all eight novels and their authors, along with appreciations by contemporary writers and related contextual material.\nSarah Weinman: Women Crime Writers anthology tells a new story about genre fiction\nListen: Library of America makes rediscovered genre masterworks available in audio, digital formats\nRelated Volumes: Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (boxed set) Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s Dolores Hitchens: Fools’ Gold (LOA eBook & Audiobook Classic)\nForthcoming: Spring–Summer 2020\nForthcoming: Fall 2019\nWendell Berry: My literary friendships\nWorld War II honor roll: LOA donors dedicate gifts to veterans\nOver 250 veterans honored by donors to Library of America’s “L...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1709192"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8663860559463501,"wiki_prob":0.8663860559463501,"text":"Systematic Dismantling of the Rose Art Museum Well Underway Even as Brandeis Claims Otherwise\nby Art Fag City on April 23, 2009 · 3 comments Newswire\nThe following headline quotes verbatim the title of an email I received from Schwartz Communications, Inc., the PR team now representing the Rose Family. I’ve pasted the press release highlighting the most relevant information after the jump, but to sum up the basic points:\nThe Rose family was very clear about the integral role the museum was to play in the Brandeis community when it was founded.\nThe museum can’t function without a director, and to indicate otherwise is for the University to be completely disingenuous about its intentions.\nThe Committee for the Future of the Rose was founded after Brandeis’ announced that they would close the Rose Art Museum. Not only is the Committee prohibited from determining the fate of the works of art “that are the heart of the institution,” but the Museum itself was not allowed to chose its own representative.\nOn an editorial note, I find Brandeis’ shady representation of their intentions over the past few months very disturbing. When the University deliberately issues misleading statements about the future of the Rose Art Museum, you have to wonder what else they’re not being up front about.\nPress release after the jump.\nWhile Brandeis University Provost Marty Krauss claims in an April 17, 2009 letter to the Brandeis Board of Trustees that the “Rose Art Museum will remain a museum,” the University continues to take steps to dismantle the beloved institution, according to the Rose Art Museum Board of Overseers.\nIn her letter, Krauss attempted to clarify future plans for the Rose Art Museum once the University closes it on June 30, 2009. Despite the existence of the current Board of Overseers for the museum, Brandeis has named a new committee to “explore future options for the Rose.” In addition, the current position of museum director will be eliminated. According to Jon Lee, chair of the Rose Art Museum's Board of Overseers, “Without a director or curator, the Rose cannot continue to function as a museum under any meaningful definition. Since the University's announcement on January 26, 2009 that it would close the museum, membership and Rose Overseer dues, and all donations have ceased or been asked to be returned. This amounts to more than $2.5 million.”\n“When the Rose family originally founded the Rose Art Museum, they were very clear about its mission and the integral role it would play as a part of the Brandeis community,” said Meryl Rose, a member of the Rose Art Museum's Board of Overseers and a relative to the original museum founders. “A museum with a collection and reputation such as the Rose needs a director, and while Krauss's letter states that the collection will be cared for, it does not erase the fact that the Rose as we know it will cease to exist under the administration's current plans. The administration is carrying out an elaborate charade, the first step of which is to turn the Rose from a true museum as its founders intended, into something quite different.”\nTwo months after first announcing and then restating its intentions to close the Rose and sell off the artwork, the University released the mandate for its “Committee for the Future of the Rose.” The group was established by Brandeis in the wake of its announcement that the Rose Art Museum would be closed and the Museum's art collection─valued at approximately $350 million─would be sold to defray the University's operating expenses.\nAccording to Brandeis, the committee is designed to “explore options” for the future of the Rose, but is specifically prohibited from determining the fate of the works of art that are the heart of the institution, leaving that to the administration and Brandeis Board of Trustees. Although the committee includes representatives from various constituencies, including the Rose Art Museum Board of Overseers, members were hand-picked by the administration and the Rose was not allowed to choose its own representative.\n“By forming the committee, Brandeis has turned a blind eye to the fact that the Rose already had an active board, in the Rose Art Museum Board of Overseers, to map out its future,” said Rose. “For decades, the museum has also had in place highly acclaimed programming and a dedicated staff to oversee its priceless collection.”\n“What is also terribly saddening to us,” continued Rose, “is the role the Brandeis Board of Trustees played in this matter. We know that the trustees have only the best interests of the University at heart. They care about the arts, as many of them sit on the boards of prestigious arts institutions. Unfortunately, they have been led astray by a disingenuous administration motivated to push an agenda that involves looting the school's culture to simply balance the books. Brandeis is devoted to 'Truth, even unto its innermost parts,' but their actions, which always speak louder than words, are designed to do just the opposite, to hide true motives behind bureaucracy, highly paid Boston PR consultants and eventually to the end of a renowned and respected collection that can never be reassembled.”\n“In January, the Brandeis Board of Trustees unanimously approved a proposal set before them by President Reinharz that called for the museum to be closed and the artwork sold off, ostensibly to meet a financial shortfall,” said Rose. “The intense negative public response prompted President Reinharz to undertake a series of public moves designed to quiet the anger while still moving forward with the overall plan.”\n“As a museum of modern and contemporary art, a code of ethics in the arts community dictates that the Rose Art Museum cannot sell off art that is core to its mission,” continued Rose. “The University is taking steps to turn the museum into an arts center, which is entirely different from a museum. By making that one change the current collection would not fall under the same rules and codes of ethics, freeing the University to sell the art in two years. So the actions set in place by the administration today will lead directly to the sale of the artwork in 2011.”\n“We can't let this happen, we won't let this happen,” said Rose. “Louis Brandeis understood the importance of art as part of a strong university. He wrote to his daughter to establish a strong collection as she built the University of Louisville. To think that the school that bears his name will lose its own art collection goes beyond words.”\nAbout the Rose Art Museum\nLocated on the campus of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., The Rose Art Museum was founded in 1961. Over the past 40 years The Rose has earned a considerable reputation for its collections and exhibitions. The collection contains significant holdings in post-War American art including iconic works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem DeKooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and numerous others.\nvincent vallarino April 23, 2009 at 4:32 pm\nEverything Brandeis has done to date pertaining the Rose has been utter lying bullshit. They have positioned themselves in an end game forcing their agenda as one would do in a chess game. They think no one actually understands their passive aggressiveness for their own good and they think they can wear everyone down, eventually getting all they wanted in the first place. This is actually a crime and they should be prosecuted for their role in attempting to dismantle something that was established with a set of rules & intentions many years ago by the Rose family, many donors and patrons and the art community. If this is stopped properly through the legal channels it will be a precedent setting case for institutions, museums and foundations in the United States and therefore establish a paradigm example so this doesn’t happen again to our cultural history in the arts.\nvincent vallarino April 23, 2009 at 11:32 am\nThe Digest. 04.24.09. at C-MONSTER.net\nNext post: AFC Participates in Futuristic Non-Panel Tonight","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1042520"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8455706238746643,"wiki_prob":0.8455706238746643,"text":"Astellas Announces Acquisition of Quethera\nAcquisition furthers Astellas' commitment to innovation in ophthalmology with addition of novel gene therapy program for glaucoma\nTOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, England, Aug. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa,Ph.D., \"Astellas\") and Quethera Limited (CEO: Peter Widdowson, Ph.D., \"Quethera\") today announced that Astellas has acquired Quethera, a gene therapy company headquartered in the United Kingdom, that is focused on developing novel treatments for ocular disorders, such as glaucoma.\nThrough this transaction, Astellas has acquired Quethera's ophthalmic gene therapy program, which uses a recombinant adeno-associated viral vector system (rAAV) to introduce therapeutic genes into target retinal cells for the treatment of glaucoma. The lead pre-clinical candidate of the program has demonstrated significantly improved survival of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in pre-clinical models.\n\"This acquisition demonstrates Astellas' commitment to proactively incorporate state-of-the-art scientific and technological advances and turn them into VALUE for patients,\" said Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., President and CEO, Astellas. \"We believe the rAAV program has potential as a new therapeutic option for the treatment of refractory glaucoma through an intraocular pressure (IOP)-independent mechanism. It would address a high unmet medical need in glaucoma patients who are at risk of losing their eyesight.\"\n\"Quethera's novel technology approach is focused on exploring potential treatment options for common ophthalmic diseases, such as glaucoma, that can cause blindness and severely affect the quality of life for patients,\" said Peter Widdowson, Ph.D., CEO, Quethera. \"This deal enables us to accelerate our evaluation of this investigational technology program to see if we can slow or prevent disease progression for these patients.\"\nFounding investor UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) backed the company with co-investment from Cambridge Enterprise in August 2015 and followed with subsequent investment.\nUnder the terms of the purchase agreement, Astellas may pay up to £85 million in aggregate consideration (upfront and contingent payments) to Quethera shareholders to acquire Quethera. Upon the closing of the transaction, Quethera has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Astellas.\nThe impact of this transaction on Astellas' financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, is expected to be immaterial.\nAstellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, is a company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.\nAbout Quethera Limited\nQuethera Limited, based at the Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, United Kingdom, is a gene therapy company dedicated to improving the future treatment of common blinding eye diseases. Quethera was co-founded in 2013 by Dr. Peter Widdowson (Quethera's CEO) and Professor Keith Martin (Professor and Head of Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge). Founding investor, UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), backed the company with co-investment from Cambridge Enterprise in August 2015 and followed with subsequent investment.\nAbout UKI2S\nSince 2002, UKI2S has been investing in the earliest and riskiest stages to build world-leading companies from world-leading UK science. As a leading 'patient capital' investor UKI2S has leveraged more than £330 million private investment. UKI2S works closely with its partners - led STFC, BBSRC and NERC, which are all part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and Dstl — and is aligned with the Catapults and Innovate UK to create the best environment for innovation to flourish and in turn, boost the UK's competitiveness and productivity by commercialising key technological advances in industrial biotech, ag tech, healthcare, medicine, clean energy, materials, artificial intelligence, software and space. For more information, please visit www.ukinnovationscienceseedfund.co.uk.\nAbout Cambridge Enterprise\nA wholly owned subsidiary of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge Enterprise Limited is responsible for the commercialisation of University intellectual property. It provides access to early stage capital through the Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds, University of Cambridge Enterprise Funds and Cambridge Enterprise Venture Partners, and offers business planning, mentoring and related programmes. Activities include management and licensing of intellectual property and patents, proof of concept funding and support for University staff and research groups wishing to provide expert advice or facilities to public and private sector organisations. For more information, please visit: www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk.\nAstellas Forward-Looking Statement\nIn this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas' intellectual property rights by third parties.\nInformation about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development), which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.\nFor further information: Contacts for inquiries or additional information: Astellas Pharma Inc., Corporate Communications, Tel: +81-3-3244-3201 FAX: +81-3-5201-7473, Corporate Communications (Europe), TEL: +44-7919-302926, contact.emea@astellas.com, Corporate Communications (Americas), TEL: +1 312-772-0050, corporate.communications@astellas.com, OR Contacts for inquiries or additional information: Quethera Limited, Catherine Aman, Press and Media Manager, University of Cambridge Enterprise, Tel: +44-1223-760335, catherine.aman@enterprise.cam.ac.uk, or Sarah Collins, Communications Officer, Tel: +44-1223-765542, sarah.collins@admin.cam.ac.uk","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1437143"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9514999389648438,"wiki_prob":0.9514999389648438,"text":"Galaxy Quest TV Show Will Continue Where the Film Left Off\nby Anthony Couto\nin Movies, Movie News, TV, TV News\nIn a new interview, writer of the upcoming Galaxy Quest TV adaptation, Paul Scheer, provided new details surrounding the project's development, and clarified where the series fits in the film's timeline.\nScheer, famous for his sketch work with Human Giant and for creating NTSF: SD: SUV at Adult Swim, said he's handed in the first script to Amazon, which will house the new series. He also confirmed that the show will be set after the original film, and involve two separate casts that eventually meet up as the series progresses.\nRELATED: Paul Scheer Joins Amazon’s Galaxy Quest Reboot Show as Writer\n“Right now, I just handed in my first script to Amazon, so I’m in that zone,\" Scheer revealed (via /Film). \"I’m excited about it. It’s a bigger idea that’s kind of morphed and changed a little bit. Not much. The thing I keep on saying about it, without giving too much away – because it’s going to be so long before people get to see it, I don’t want people to get too burnt out on me telling you what it’s about before it gets to that point – but for me, it was really important to do service to a Galaxy Quest story that gives you everything that you want and indoctrinates people who have never seen Galaxy Quest into what the fun of that world is. That Tropic Thunder, Galaxy Quest world. And also to continue the story of our original characters and have consequences from the first film.\"\nHe added, \"So it is mixing two casts. It’s separate kind of adventures that kind of merge, and I’m looking at this first season not as episodic, but as a serialized story. So, the only way I’ve been looking at it is, using everything from the first movie and making the reasons for everything not just – I want to avoid anything that could be viewed as a reboot for reboot’s sake. There are real reasons behind these choices – maybe too much so.”\nA parody of Star Trek and other sci-fi classics, Galaxy Quest starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell and Daryl Mitchell as the cast of the long-canceled TV show who become reluctant heroes when an alien race in need mistakes the series for a historical documentary.\nFinancially successful and critically acclaimed at the time of its release (it even won a Hugo Award), Galaxy Quest has developed a cult following over the past 16 years, particularly among Star Trek fans.\nTags: galaxy quest\nCrazy Rich Asians Star Has a Suggestion for Marvel's Shang-Chi Movie\nEndgame: Dave Bautista Reveals One Reason Drax Is 'Unsatisfied' With Ending\nThe King's Man: First Trailer Reveals Kingsman Organization's Secret Origin\nJohn Ridlehoover\nFuture Marvel Studios Films Potentially Revealed by Private Facebook Pages\nAvengers: Infinity War - Tom Holland Reveals Details of Crazy Cut Scene","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line102769"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7361074686050415,"wiki_prob":0.2638925313949585,"text":"Cairngorms land based workers asked to Share Stories\nThe next in the series of creative writing workshops for the ‘Shared Stories: A Year in the Cairngorms’ project are exclusively for the Park’s land based workforce. Gamekeepers, stalkers, ghillies, farmers, rangers, outdoor instructors, forestry workers, ecologists, wildlife guides – and many more – are encouraged to come along to one of four sessions being led by the Cairngorms National Park’s Writer in Residence, Merryn Glover.\nThe free creative writing workshops are taking place on Wednesday 5th June at Balmoral, Monday 1st July at Blair Atholl Estate and Wednesday 18th September at the Glen Esk Retreat & Folk Museum (all 2pm-6pm) with a fourth date to be confirmed.\nThrough guided story-telling and writing activities, land based workers will be encouraged to draw from their close relationship with the land to express the joys and challenges of a life in nature. Bringing together a range of voices to celebrate common ground in the Park, the workshop will culminate in pieces of writing that reflect the richness of the land-based worker experience.\nCairngorms National Park Writer in Residence Merryn Glover said: “I am excited about delivering these workshops as land based workers have the most amazing stories to tell. They have experience of the challenges of a career spent in the outdoors with stories about the wonderful sights and sounds they experience on a regular basis that the rest of us can only dream about.\n“Absolutely no experience is necessary to take part in the workshops and they are completely free with all resources provided. Whether you already dabble in a bit of creative writing or are totally new to it, this is a great chance to explore your relationship with nature in your work in the National Park through fun and supportive creative writing activities.”\n‘Shared Stories: A Year in the Cairngorms’ has been organised – and part funded – by the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA) with a funding award of £8,000 from Creative Scotland and £10,000 from the Woodland Trust. Led by the Park’s first ever Writer in Residence, the project aims to encourage people to put pen to paper to share and explore the ways in which people and nature thrive together in the Cairngorms National Park.\nWhether attending workshops or not, people are encouraged to submit their writing on the themes of people’s relationship to nature in the Cairngorms National Park to the ‘Shared Stories’ project, some of which will be published online, on displays and in an end-of-year anthology. Through the year, Merryn is also working on her own writing around people, nature and place, which can be followed on her blog.\nBooking for the land based worker workshops is essential so please email [email protected] as soon as possible. There is more information on the Shared Stories project here.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1311838"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5682239532470703,"wiki_prob":0.4317760467529297,"text":"Bensman testifies before Congress\nI testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee about my experience combating domestic extremism while working for the Texas Department of Public Safety. The testimony took place Tuesday, June 4, 2019 in the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C.\nThe topic of testimony for two panels (mine was the second) was “White Supremacy, Adequacy of the Federal Response.”\nPURPOSE OF HEARING:\nThe hearing will examine the efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to combat white supremacist extremist violence, including their budgets and allocations of personnel, data collection practices, and strategic plans.\nUnder the Trump Administration, DHS appears to have significantly reduced resources and infrastructure that would address the increasing threat of white supremacist extremism. Reportedly, DHS recently disbanded a group of analysts focused on domestic terrorism in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, reducing the number of analytic reports on white supremacists.\nLast month, the Subcommittee held its first hearing on this issue to examine the rising threat of white supremacist violent extremism in the United States and the impact on communities frequently targeted by white supremacists. Witnesses included Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer who was killed in Charlottesville, and former DHS official George Selim.\nVideo of the full hearing can be found here, starting at Minute 3:24:00\nA long version of my written testimony, which is now entered into the Congressional Record, can be accessed here.\nMy five-minute opening statement is below:\nChairman Raskin and Subcommittee Members, thank you for inviting me to discuss the important issue of countering hate-based domestic extremism in all of its forms, which presents a steady threat to public safety.\nI am here to share insights from my decade-long work countering domestic extremism with the FBI and DHS through August 2018 with the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division. I helped build and manage a counterterrorism unit of intelligence analysts for one of the country’s most muscular fusion centers, the Joint Information Crime Center in Austin. With security clearances, we worked under one roof with the FBI, DHS Intelligence and Analysis officers and many other federal agencies.\nTexas certainly has its share of racially motivated extremists, and we worked hard to learn their criminal intentions.\nNeither we nor the FBI ever dismissed the domestic extremist threat or violent white supremacists, as some suggest, but faced them at every turn during my service from 2009-2018.\nI personally saw to it that some of my analysts were always dedicated to this threat problem. We worked hand-in-glove with the FBI’s five Joint Terrorism Task Forces in Texas, each of which maintained its own domestic terrorism squad. For an idea of how hand in glove, Texas DPS investigators were assigned to all five JTTFs, usually to the domestic terrorism squads. Information sharing was strong both ways in our system.\nWhat I can tell you from my experience is that:\nOur collaborative arrangements remained in place after the 2016 election. At the line level, we created intelligence, passed information to the FBI on the e-Guardian system or in person, and filled their requests for their case needs. Good things happened as a result.\nFor a number of years after 2010, DHS Intelligence & Analysis was not as helpful due to an order under Secretary Napolitano for the domestic threats group to stand down research and analysis. This was due to controversy over a leaked 2009 paper that returning military veterans might join extremist groups. In recent years, DHS I&A did begin to provide value.\nThe number of racially motivated criminal events is now higher than what we were used to. A pivot is necessary to reverse the trend. But any effort must account for the fact that not all dangerous domestic extremists are motivated by racist or religious animus. In Texas, anti-government extremists not animated by racism threatens public safety too, as evidenced by black nationalist extremists who have murdered and wounded 25 police officers since 2016, including five in one horrific Dallas ambush.\nIt would be a mistake not to recognize this diversity. We certainly worked on cases involving racial motivations, like:\nThe Atomwaffen Division (Neo-Nazis), which thinks violence will ignite a race war to establish national socialism in the United States. Some have been implicated in murders, building a dirty bomb, and wanting to destroy infrastructure. Some of its national leaders are based in Texas.\nBut we worked on others not squarely in the white supremacist rubric.\nSovereign citizen movement, which features anti-government, anti-tax extremists who mostly reject government authority over them.\nAnti-government militias. Texas residents have been linked with anti-federalists who carried out the 2014 Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada and the 2016 Malheur National Wildlife Refuge standoff in Oregon.\nAnarchist extremists (Antifa movement) From November 2016 through the spring of 2017, masked anarchist extremists continually assaulted DPS troopers and peaceful demonstrators at the Texas State Capitol, harassed businesses in gentrifying neighborhoods, trained in live-fire military assault tactics, are on terror watch lists, and some currently fight with communist Kurdish groups in Iraq.\nAs the FBI pivots to meet an up-cycling domestic extremism, it should be remembered that a national fusion center infrastructure, with well-oiled collaborative practices are in place as a result of 9/11. I recommend that the homeland security enterprise:\n1. Mobilize the nation’s 78 fusion centers to focus them on increased support to FBI JTTFs on this problem set.\n2. Conduct a national risk assessment of bias-motivated criminality to build knowledge of the problem set.\n3. Require police agencies to report bias crime to the FBI’s Unified Crime Report system. Currently, voluntary reporting is not reliable enough to do much of anything.\n4. Require military services to collect and share disciplinary case information and suspicious behaviors as potential early warning, since service is a common circumstance among extremists.\nMore than 100 migrants on terror watch lists caught at U.S. southern border or enroute 2012-2017 – New Center for Immigration Studies Report\nThe Hero Texas Cop Who Killed the Two Garland ISIS Terrorists\nReport from Hungary’s Fenced Borderlands","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line31904"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8830859065055847,"wiki_prob":0.8830859065055847,"text":"West African Teen Taunted With Chants of ‘Ebola’ at High School Soccer Game\nIbrahim Toumkara\nOne Pennsylvania teen, who is originally from Guinea, recently had to endure his high school rival's soccer team chanting “Ebola” at him during a match, WPVI reports.\nAccording to the station, Ibrahim Toumkara, a Nazareth Area High School student and soccer player, got into a fight last week after he heard players from rival Northampton High School taunting him about the deadly virus, which has killed more than 4,000 people across West Africa, including in his home country.\n\"Being from western Africa and having family in that area, he didn't take too kindly to those remarks and went after one of the players on the Northampton team,\" the boy's coach, Edward Bachert, explained. Bachert is also Ibrahim's legal guardian, as well as a police chief for Lehigh County.\nThe 16-year-old moved away from Guinea three years ago, the station notes.\n\"There were tears coming down his eyes. He was visibly shaken by this, that it got to that level on the field,\" Bachert added.\nIbrahim's parents are still in West Africa, and according to WPVI, he is constantly worrying for them.\nAfter the tasteless incident, both Northampton's head soccer coach and its assistant coach resigned. Some of the student athletes are also expected to face disciplinary action, according to the station.\n\"This is part of the educational process to make sure that students are understanding sportsmanship and what's happening out there in the world,\" Northampton Area Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik said.\n\"I want them to know we are all the same; nothing can make us be different,\" Ibrahim said.\nRead more at WPVI.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line278217"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6679192185401917,"wiki_prob":0.6679192185401917,"text":"Michael Corleone\nCFM Team\nLessons We Learned from 50 Years of The Godfather\nFew films of any generation have had the lasting impact as The Godfather, which turns 50 this year. Amid all the violence, crime and intrigue, the movie conveys phrases and life lessons that have become everyday expressions and bedrock beliefs for many Americans.\nThe Godfather turns 50 this year, which is a reminder of how influential the trilogy has been, even though it tracks the lives and travails of a mobster family.\nPhrases derived from The Godfather such as “an offer you can’t refuse,” “it’s not personal, it’s business” and “time to hit the mattresses” have become everyday expressions. But the movie’s influence runs deeper to life lessons about power, family and even capitalism, according to Iris Milanova. “It has so much substance, and it offers some very important life lessons. That’s certainly an offer you can’t refuse.”\nHere are some of the life lessons Milanova identified:\nDon’t make promises you cannot keep. Your word is the most important thing that you have to offer.\nDon’t involve yourself in other people’s personal lives. “Sonny, don’t get involved,” advised Carmela Corleone.\nFamily is the most important thing in life. “A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man,” says Don Vito Corleone.\nDon’t go against your own family. “Fredo, you’re my older brother and I love you. But don’t you ever go against the family again. Ever.” – Michael Corleone.\nKeep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Always keep a watchful eye on your enemies and play life’s game of chess with precision, dedication and tact.\nEstablish friendships out of respect, business and trust. “Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.” – Don Vito Corleone.\nViolence is the last option. “I don’t like violence, Tom. I’m a businessman. Blood is a big expense.” – Solozzo.\nBuild a powerful community. “Someday, and that day may never come, I’ll call upon you to do a service for me.” – Don Vito Corleone.\nDon’t take things too personal. “it’s not personal, it’s business.” – Michael Corleone.\nFrancis Ford Coppola gained fame by directing the three Godfather films, which he readily admitted “made me,” not the reverse.\nFrancis Ford Coppola, who directed The Godfather movies, wrote a new introduction to Mario Puzo’s novel to mark its 50th anniversary. One of his more interesting observations is that many of the life lessons espoused by Don Vito Corleone were actual expressions Puzo heard from his own mother.\n“Mario told me that all of the great dialogue, those quotable lines he put into the mouth of Don Corleone, were actually spoken by Mario’s mother. Yes, ‘an offer he can’t refuse,’ ‘keep your friends close but your enemies closer,’ ‘revenge is a dish that tastes best cold,’ and ‘a real man takes care of his family,’ among many others, were sayings he heard from his own mother’s lips. Mario later wrote, ‘Whenever the Godfather opened his mouth, in my own mind I heard the voice of my mother. I heard her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and life itself. Don Corleone’s courage and loyalty came from her, his humanity came from her.’”\nCoppola revealed it was his sister who suggested the idea that Kay, Michael Corleone’s long suffering wife, would abort their unborn son. “I loved it because it seemed symbolic and the only way a woman married to such a man could halt the satanic dance continuing generation after generation.”\nMany films are unforgettable and have intergenerational appeal. The Godfather is that rare cultural phenomenon that became part of our lives for 50 years – and counting. To turn Michael Corleone’s phrase, “It’s not business, it’s personal.”\nTagged: The Godfather, life lessons, Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, iconic phrases, ‘hit the mattresses, ’ Vito Corleone, Michael Corleone, family, violence, CFM Research","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1561207"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5639479756355286,"wiki_prob":0.5639479756355286,"text":"EDITORIAL: Farewell to 2018\nPublished: Dec 28, 2018 at 6 a.m.\nUpdated: Dec 28, 2018 at 10:17 a.m.\n(stock photo). - Contributed\nAs 2018 draws to a conclusion, Atlantic Canadians try to find a little time between the hectic Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays for some quiet reflection. It’s a chance to look back on the past year and decide whether we are better or worse off today than when the year began.\nOur thoughts cover a wide range of topics. We often think in economic terms, such as changing jobs or getting a promotion, food costs, purchasing the latest electronic gadgets, the cost of gasoline or moving into a new house. Perhaps even the weather.\nOthers will rate 2018 on a more personal level, such as the loss of a loved one, the arrival of a new baby, making new friends or even a great family vacation. It’s really about what we feel is important in our lives.\nThere is a general sense that Atlantic Canadians feel 2018 wasn’t a bad year, nor was it a good year. Perhaps just holding our own made it a successful year.\nThe topic that dominated newscasts in Atlantic Canada concerned trade and tariff uncertainty with NAFTA. It was a relief when a new deal was finally signed although dairy, egg and poultry farmers were hurt. They must be fairly compensated.\nNew Brunswick had an interesting year, highlighted by a provincial election. Former premier Brian Gallant won the popular vote by six full percentage points but trailed the Progressive Conservatives by a seat and was eventually forced to resign. He was hurt by economic issues — lumber tariffs, the collapse of the Energy East pipeline, the potash mine closure in Sussex and carbon pricing. New Brunswickers voted on pocketbook issues.\nNewfoundland and Labrador was caught up with a public inquiry into Muskrat Falls. Many residents wondered how the project could run billions of dollars over budget, while others just want to move on and stop wasting money on an inquiry into how money was wasted. The province feels the worst is over, the severe belt-tightening and austerity programs are easing and the economic outlook for 2019 is much brighter.\nPrince Edward Island continued to enjoy a strong economy but it’s finally starting to cool; although the housing sector remains hot. For the first time, Premier Wade MacLauchlan had to deal with economic setbacks, such as several plant closures. The potato industry is reeling from the loss of an estimated 7,000 acres of spuds left in the ground.\nNova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil’s biggest concern centres on the future of the pulp mill in Abercrombie, which is pitting fishermen and environmentalists against forestry workers. There is intense pressure against a company plan to dump waste water into the Northumberland Strait, putting the mill’s future at risk. But exports are up and Michelin is expanding. A major call centre in Sydney is set to re-open — a most welcome Christmas gift for Cape Breton.\nOverall, Atlantic Canadians can confidently raise a glass on New Year’s Eve and bid a generally fond farewell to 2018.\nRead more editorials here.\nMore Editorials stories\nEDITORIAL: Probing the interference allegations\nUpdated Feb 21, 2019 at 10:43 a.m.\nEDITORIAL: Patrolling for propaganda\nPublished Feb 01, 2019 at 6 a.m.\nEDITORIAL: Hope it doesn’t spread\nThank you Dr. Ferguson\nPublished Jun 22, 2019 at 3:02 p.m.\nEDITORIAL: Liberal sleight of hand\nEDITORIAL: Electoral homework\nUpdated Feb 22, 2019 at 1:25 p.m.\nMemoirs of military service don’t glorify war\nA perfect honour for a former premier\nPublished Jun 11, 2019 at 10:59 p.m.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line47352"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9324798583984375,"wiki_prob":0.9324798583984375,"text":"Woody Harrelson joins Netflix assassin thriller 'Kate'\nWoody Harrelson attends the SXSW premiere of the Netflix original film \"The Highwaymen\" on March 10, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Getty Images\nWoody Harrelson will star opposite Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Netflix’s upcoming assassin thriller Kate.\nThe film will follow ruthless criminal operative Kate, as played by Winstead, who has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies after she is irreversibly poisoned.\nDuring the process, however, the assassin forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.\nThe flick will be directed by filmmaker Cedric Nicolas-Troyan from Umair Aleem’s script and is set to be produced by Bryan Unkeless, Kelly McCormick, and Patrick Newall.\nLittle more is known about the movie, including details of Harrelson’s character.\nThe actor has had a busy few years, starring as Beckett in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story and Maney Gault in Netflix film The Highwaymen.\nBACON BASH: Woody Harrelson urges Texas governor to ban boar hunts\n’The Highwaymen’ review: Costner and Harrelson make Bonnie and Clyde hunt enjoyable\nHe also received his third Oscar nomination for his role as Bill Willoughby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and is currently in the post-production phases on Zombieland: Double Tap and Midway.\nProduction on Kate is due to kick off in the near future, with some scenes to be shot in Asia.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1557931"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7001249194145203,"wiki_prob":0.7001249194145203,"text":"Schools, farms and voting machines in Gov. Tom Wolf's budget sights\nUpdated: 1:03 PM EST Feb 5, 2019\nMARK SCOLFORO and MARC LEVY, Associated Press\nPennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars more for schools in his budget proposal released Tuesday, as well as a sprinkling of money for new voting machines and programs to improve worker training and the agricultural sector.The Democrat is also seeking new college benefits for members of the National Guard who re-enlist and tuition aid for community college students who remain in Pennsylvania.FULL VIDEO: Tap the video player above to watch the governor's budget address.In his budget address to a joint session of the Republican-controlled Legislature, Wolf said the most significant element of the $34.1 billion budget plan, his first since winning a second term, is its efforts to help Pennsylvanians compete in a changing economy by bolstering skills and education.He called it \"a plan to create a new generation of prosperity in our commonwealth by building the strongest workforce in the nation.\"\"Our challenge demands an all-hands-on-deck approach,\" Wolf told lawmakers in the address. \"And this budget proposal itself asks Pennsylvanians to come together - business leaders, educators, students, workers - to address the challenge of renewing our prosperity for another generation.\"Including nearly $500 million in supplemental cash for the current fiscal year, Wolf is seeking authorization for another $1.9 billion in new spending, or nearly 6 percent more.The proposal would not increase the state's taxes on income and sales. But Wolf last week laid out a parallel plan to impose a severance tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas production to finance borrowing for an ambitious capital plan that would fund a wide range of projects.Wolf's first term was marked by long, drawn-out budget fights with Republican lawmakers. The new proposal is modest in comparison to his earliest plans, which carried multibillion-dollar tax increases, and seems to reflect Wolf's shift in strategy in the past couple years to the realities of negotiating with big Republican majorities.The extra spending would largely go toward public schools, prisons, pension obligations, health care for the poor, mental health services and social services for children, the elderly and disabled. The administration said the plan carries a half-billion dollars in new initiatives.To help fund it, Wolf's administration is counting on tax collections to rise by a solid 3 percent, plus hundreds of millions of dollars from money already appropriated, higher assessments on Medicaid providers and a fee on municipalities that rely only on state troopers to provide police coverage.Pennsylvania's tax collections are perhaps in their best shape since the recession a decade ago. But the state is facing challenges, including rising borrowing costs, a ballooning retirement-age population and a static working-age population.Most of the new money in Wolf's budget would go to public schools, including $200 million for general operations and instruction. About $13 million of that would finance a boost in the state's decades-old minimum wage for teachers from $18,500 to $45,000, a provision officials said would mostly benefit rural school districts.Schools would get another $50 million for special education and $45 million for school safety, a higher priority after last February's mass high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.Wolf also wants to lower the age at which children in Pennsylvania must attend schools, currently age 8, to age 6, a change projected to affect about 3,300 children. He also wants to raise the permissible dropout age from 17 to 18. State officials said nearly 4,400 17-year-olds left school without graduating in the 2016-17 school year.Another $50 million would go toward expanding the number of state-subsidized slots for pre-kindergarten, while the state would borrow more money for school construction projects.\nHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) —\nPennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars more for schools in his budget proposal released Tuesday, as well as a sprinkling of money for new voting machines and programs to improve worker training and the agricultural sector.\nThe Democrat is also seeking new college benefits for members of the National Guard who re-enlist and tuition aid for community college students who remain in Pennsylvania.\nFULL VIDEO: Tap the video player above to watch the governor's budget address.\nIn his budget address to a joint session of the Republican-controlled Legislature, Wolf said the most significant element of the $34.1 billion budget plan, his first since winning a second term, is its efforts to help Pennsylvanians compete in a changing economy by bolstering skills and education.\nHe called it \"a plan to create a new generation of prosperity in our commonwealth by building the strongest workforce in the nation.\"\n\"Our challenge demands an all-hands-on-deck approach,\" Wolf told lawmakers in the address. \"And this budget proposal itself asks Pennsylvanians to come together - business leaders, educators, students, workers - to address the challenge of renewing our prosperity for another generation.\"\nIncluding nearly $500 million in supplemental cash for the current fiscal year, Wolf is seeking authorization for another $1.9 billion in new spending, or nearly 6 percent more.\nThe proposal would not increase the state's taxes on income and sales. But Wolf last week laid out a parallel plan to impose a severance tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas production to finance borrowing for an ambitious capital plan that would fund a wide range of projects.\nWolf's first term was marked by long, drawn-out budget fights with Republican lawmakers. The new proposal is modest in comparison to his earliest plans, which carried multibillion-dollar tax increases, and seems to reflect Wolf's shift in strategy in the past couple years to the realities of negotiating with big Republican majorities.\nThe extra spending would largely go toward public schools, prisons, pension obligations, health care for the poor, mental health services and social services for children, the elderly and disabled. The administration said the plan carries a half-billion dollars in new initiatives.\nTo help fund it, Wolf's administration is counting on tax collections to rise by a solid 3 percent, plus hundreds of millions of dollars from money already appropriated, higher assessments on Medicaid providers and a fee on municipalities that rely only on state troopers to provide police coverage.\nPennsylvania's tax collections are perhaps in their best shape since the recession a decade ago. But the state is facing challenges, including rising borrowing costs, a ballooning retirement-age population and a static working-age population.\nMost of the new money in Wolf's budget would go to public schools, including $200 million for general operations and instruction. About $13 million of that would finance a boost in the state's decades-old minimum wage for teachers from $18,500 to $45,000, a provision officials said would mostly benefit rural school districts.\nSchools would get another $50 million for special education and $45 million for school safety, a higher priority after last February's mass high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.\nWolf also wants to lower the age at which children in Pennsylvania must attend schools, currently age 8, to age 6, a change projected to affect about 3,300 children. He also wants to raise the permissible dropout age from 17 to 18. State officials said nearly 4,400 17-year-olds left school without graduating in the 2016-17 school year.\nAnother $50 million would go toward expanding the number of state-subsidized slots for pre-kindergarten, while the state would borrow more money for school construction projects.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line569536"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6347204446792603,"wiki_prob":0.36527955532073975,"text":"1/20 oz 1990 Chinese Panda Gold Coin\nAdded 1/20 oz 1990 Chinese Panda Gold Coin\nThe Chinese Panda coin is one of the only government issued bullion coins to change the reverse design every year.\nThe obverse features the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (The Temple of Heaven), the title of the People's Republic of China in Chinese characters, and the year 1990.\nThis coin's reverse design depicts a panda bear gazing over it's shoulder from atop a rock face. The Reverse also includes the coin's face value, weight and purity.\nThis coin is legal tender of the People's Republic of China. This beautiful release continues a more than thirty-year old tradition which began in 1983.\nReverse Panda standing on a rock with a bamboo background\nLegal Tender CNY 5\nPanda standing on a rock with a bamboo background\nCNY 5\n1/20 oz 1990 Chinese Panda Gold Coin The Chinese Panda coin is one of the only government issued bullion coins to change the reverse design every year. The obverse features the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (The Temple of Heaven), the title of the People's Republic of China in Chinese characters, and the year 1990. This coin's reverse design depicts a panda bear gazing over it's shoulder from atop a rock face. The Reverse also includes the coin's face value, weight and purity. This coin is legal tender of the People's Republic of China. This beautiful release continues a more than thirty-year old tradition which began in 1983.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line921445"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6938719153404236,"wiki_prob":0.6938719153404236,"text":"Private & Independent Schools for Orielton & Pembrokeshire\nOne stop shop for Orielton independent, fee-paying, private boarding & day schools - plus their ISI inspections reports & International Baccalaureate status\nAssociation of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools - AGBIS\nBoarding Schools Association\nGabbitas Education Consultants - Gabbitas\nGirls’ Schools Association - GSA\nHeadmasters' & Headmistresses' Conference - HMC\nIndependent Association of Prep Schools - IAPS\nIndependent Schools Career Guidance - ISCO\nIndependent Schools Council - ISC\nIndependent Schools Inspectorate - ISI\nInternational Baccalaureate - IB\nISEB - Independent Schools Examinations Board\nAssociation of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools\nThe Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools (AGBIS) supports and advises governing bodies of schools in the independent sector on all aspects of governance, under the umbrella of the Independent Schools Council. The charitable objects of the Association are the advancement of education and the promotion of good governance in independent private schools.\nFive really great tips on how to choose a school\nBest Schools nationwide area and in the Orielton.area\nWebsite features 12 separate exam league tables of almost all UK private schools in terms of A levels, GCSEs, UCAS tariffs, SATS tests, International Baccalaureate points and Scottish Higher results. There are also three exam league tables for boarding schools and one league table for private preparatory schools. You can search for prep and senior schools, those teaching International Baccalaureate and 6th form colleges near Orielton or anywhere in the UK.\nGabbitas Education Consultants\nGabbitas is the UK's premier independent education consultancy, specialising in: school search and placement advice, guardianship for international students, recruitment and tutoring, higher education and careers advice, summer schools, school start-ups, development and improvement, special educational needs, independent school and SEN guides\nGirls’ Schools Association\nThe Girls’ Schools Association (GSA) represents independent girls’ schools in the UK - use their school finder to search for girls' schools near Orielton or anywhere in the UK.\nMy Daughter Website\nExpert guidance on education for girls helping parents raise happy, fulfilled daughters. Packed full of information, expert opinion and useful advice. This website is an offshoot of the GSA.\nThe Good Schools Guide offers lots of expert help and advice on schools and schooling ; school admissions advice, tutoring and school entry examinations, special educational needs, how to find the right school... The Guide covers both state and private fee-paying independent schools and has a good search facility so that you can find schools local to Orielton Field Centre or further afield.\nHeadmasters' & Headmistresses' Conference\nHMC (the Headmasters' & Headmistresses' Conference) is a professional association of Heads of many of the world's leading independent schools. It has provided support and advice to Heads for over 100 years and is the oldest and most influential association of its kind in the English speaking world. HMC’s membership includes the Heads of co-educational schools, single sex schools and diamond schools where both single sex and co-educational teaching takes place. The association also includes Heads of schools with a particular religious affiliation or with dedicated provision for children with special educational needs. Use the search facility on the site to find HMC schools near Orielton or worldwide.\nIndependent Association of Prep Schools\nThe Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS) is the professional association for Heads of the leading independent preparatory schools and pre-preparatory schools in the UK and worldwide. Click on the Schools Tab to search for prep and pre-prep schools near Orielton or further afield. To find suitable IAPS schools, simply choose whether you wish to consider day or boarding schools and if the school is for your son or daughter. Enter the distance (in miles) from your location to narrow down the search.\nISCO is the independent schools career guidance service - a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1942 to provide careers education and guidance for young people. The foundation provides in-school services and advice.\nIndependent Schools Council\nThe Independent Schools Council (ISC) brings together eight associations of independent schools, their heads, bursars and governors. OSC provides research, legal, regulatory and press services to ISC schools. The site has a Find A School tab so you can search for private schools near Orielton or throughout the UK\nISI - Independent Schools Inspectorate\nThe ISI is responsible for the inspection of independent schools which are members of organisations affiliated to the Independent Schools Council. Use this site to find up-to-date inspection information, support and resources for independent schools around Orielton - and discover why their work matters to you!\nUse this site to find schools near Orielton offering the International Baccalaureate Programme\nIndependent Schools Examinations Board - ISEB\nISEB offers examinations for pupils transferring from junior to independent senior school at the ages of 11+ and 13+. The main examination is Common Entrance, established in 1904. See resources, syllabi, past papers and general information for parents.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line736541"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6840848922729492,"wiki_prob":0.3159151077270508,"text":"November 10, 2015 by Chester S\nShould you learn to scuba dive this summer?\nAustralians are well accustomed to beach life. But while sunbathing, swimming and surfing are second nature to many, a significantly lower number have properly experienced life underwater.\nEnter scuba diving. Whether you're a visitor to the east coast or you've lived there your whole life, you'll see a new side to Australia when you experience its marine world. For this reason, a scuba diving expedition should be on your to-do list this summer. Grab a mask, scuba tank and a couple of friends, hop into your rental, and learn to dive these holidays.\nWhat does learning to dive involve?\nFirst things first, you'll need to know how to scuba dive. Unlike snorkelling, there are certain regulations and requirements that have to be met before hitting the water. A licence from the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is what you'll need to spend summer exploring the land below ground.\nA PADI license lets you dive anywhere in the world. Getting one of these licences is also particularly convenient in Australia, as we have numerous dive centres scattered all over the place.\nWhile diving is relatively easy, there are a few things that need to be confirmed before you've even put on a wet suit. Being comfortable in deep water and having a reasonable level of swimming ability is important. There's also a small amount of study involved before the first lesson (don't worry, not much!).\nNow comes the fun part. Starting in a swimming pool, you'll get used to the equipment and breathe underwater for the first time. After this is the open water course which involves a dive in the ocean. Most people will find that this first dip leaves them starving for more.\nWhere can you learn?\nThe east coast's proximity to the ocean means you'll find no shortage of places that will teach you to dive.\nThe east coast's proximity to the ocean means you'll find no shortage of places that will teach you to dive. Sydney, Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast all have PADI-certified beginners diving courses, usually just a short drive from the city centre.\nDive Centre Manly, for example, is located in Sydney's popular eponymous beach. Alternatively, there are a huge number of learn-to-dive PADI courses available in beautiful holiday spots such as the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Furthermore, these programmes often offer courses taught in German or Japanese, so tourists can join in the fun. Hire a car in Cairns, or one of our many other car rental facilities along the east coast, and start your summer holiday with a proper splash.\nBest dive spots in Australia's East Coast\nAbout 70 kilometres from Cairns, you'll find a luxe holiday town. With many gorgeous resorts and hotels, Port Douglas is a great place to relax and unwind. It also offers excellent access to the GBR making it the perfect spot to start your scuba adventure.\nBooking with a reliable company such as Blue Dive is the best way to get you out to the most exciting parts of the reef. You and your group will head out on a boat to the Agincourt Ribbon Reefs, where the stunning visibility makes it easy to see the array of wildlife, including numerous species of fish, coral, turtles, reef sharks and if you're lucky, whales and manta rays. Indeed, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority hails Agincourt as the \"best and most pristine examples of coral reefs in the whole GBR\".\nA photo posted by Jo Eyles (@joeyjoey75) on\nNov 6, 2015 at 3:09am PST\nHMAS Brisbane, Sunshine Coast\nFor a dive site that satisfies your inner Indiana Jones, you can do no better than the HMAS Brisbane. A former Navy vessel, the HMAS Brisbane was launched in 1966 according to the Queensland government's National Department of Parks, Sport and Racing. The ship served dutifully until it was decommissioned, then sunk in 2005 to create an artificial reef and diving site.\nSince then, all manner of marine life has moved in. The Parks department noted that within a year, the ship was entirely covered in plant life and that countless fish had already made their homes there. You'll see turtles, fish and a range of live coral all amongst the ruins of a war ship – does it get more intrepid?\nNorth Stradbroke Island, Brisbane\nPark your rental in the marina and board a ferry for a day trip to this picturesque little island. While North Stradbroke Island is a destination in its own right; it's waters are particularly renowned for their abundant wildlife. Manta rays, dolphins, turtles and, according to Lonely Planet, humpback whales between June and November.\nIn particular, Manta Bommie, as the name would suggest, is home to a huge host of manta rays, as well as numerous reef sharks and turtles. Swimming alongside these wonderful animals is bound to make for an unforgettable summer.\nA photo posted by Maduro Dive (@madurodive) on","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1207492"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7057768702507019,"wiki_prob":0.7057768702507019,"text":"taliban-al qaeda\nSenior al Qaeda official praises Taliban’s ‘victory’ in Afghanistan\nAsim Umar, a senior al Qaeda official, has released a lengthy statement praising the Taliban’s “victory” in Afghanistan. He claims that America’s “defeat” proves that its superior technology is no match for the jihadists’ faith,…\nAyman al-Zawahiri eulogizes Jalaluddin Haqqani\nOn May 10, al Qaeda’s propaganda arm, As Sahab, released Ayman al-Zawahiri’s eulogy for Jalaluddin Haqqani — an early ally of Osama bin Laden who also served in the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Haqqani and his eponymous…\nAl Qaeda video emphasizes unity with Taliban’s Islamic emirate\nAl Qaeda rarely advertises its presence on the Afghan battlefields. But that is what the group does in a new video: “Under the Shade of the Islamic Emirate.”Al Qaeda’s As Sahab media has released a new video advertising the group’s…\nTurkistan Islamic Party head decries Chinese occupation\nroot\t Mar 19, 2019 0\nAbdul Haq al-Turkistani’s message is addressed to the leader of the Taliban, the head of al Qaeda and a number of al Qaeda ideologues.Abdul Haq al-Turkistani, the emir of the al Qaeda-affiliated Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), has…\nAl Qaeda-linked group in Syria praises Taliban, Shabaab operations\n“Guardians of Religion” fighters train for operations in Syria.The Guardians of Religion Organization (Tanzim Hurras al-Din) has praised recent operations by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Shabaab in Somalia. The one-page statement…\nUN: Al Qaeda continues to view Afghanistan as a ‘safe haven’\nThe United Nations Security Council warns in its latest report on al Qaeda and the Islamic State that both groups maintain a significant presence in Afghanistan. The UN describes al Qaeda’s relationship with the Taliban as…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line903977"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.642776608467102,"wiki_prob":0.35722339153289795,"text":"tv Bloomberg Technology Bloomberg March 18, 2019 5:00pm-6:00pm EDT\n♪ emily: on emily chang in san francisco and this is \"bloomberg technology.\" coming up in the next half-hour is the biggest tech startup ipo three years in the largest ipo in the u.s. this year. we will talk about lyft's prospects. apple unexpectedly reveals a new ipad and ipad many. how does it fit into the overall\ndevice strategy? u.s. officials are in the early stages of a probe into google focused on antitrust and privacy concerns and the largest coordinated effort to take on big tech since the 1990's. we will hear from the attorney general of texas, ken paxton. first, in the first big tech ipo of the year, lyft is hoping to raise nearly $2 billion. that would value the ride-hailer at nearly $20 billion. the company reported that lost $991 million in 2018 on just under $2 billion in revenue. price ons are set to march 28 and start trading on the nasdaq the next day. what new information do we have now that we know the pricing strategy? what we've about been talking about. for a while, the range was 18 to\n30, then 20 to 25 billion. now it seems like the market cap could be just under $20 billion. the stock grants go to employees. that puts us somewhere $20 billion to $23 billion. it looks like we are looking at a lyft valuation between $20 billion and $25 billion like we've been talking about. to me, the excitement is seeing how retail investors and the public markets value a company that on the one hand has been able to sell revenue but on the other hand continues to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. emily: what have investors been saying since they learned that lyft is losing half as much money as it makes? eric: to some degree, it feels like, to now, we are sort of numb to losses.\nit hasn't been a huge focus. uber have beend able to talk about contribution margins and sort of how they are continuing to improve margins over time. i looked at a video that lyft put together and they really talk about how they are making more on individual riders. losses andetween revenue. i think there are ways they are slicing it to make it more palatable. for risk factors, they have the palatable, we could never turn a profit. for lyft, it remains a big question mark. will: it looks like lyft beat uber to the public markets by at least several weeks. what does that mean? eric: lyft has a major incentive to move first.\ncenter ofsort of the anyone interested in ride-hailing's attention. uber is a much bigger company. there are much more pieces to put together. they need to explain ownership stakes. there have been talks about autonomous investment. there's a lot for uber to do. will: all right, we continue to keep you posted every step of the way. apple has debuted a new mid tier ipad with a larger screen and introduced the first ipad many updates since 2015. this comes a week before they plan to roll out a new entertainment bundle to compete with netflix. mark, why these surprise announcements? mark: not entirely a surprise. we wrote earlier this year that these were coming.\nthey are doing it a week in advance of their big event. you would think they would want to hold all this until march 25 but it seems like they want to clear the deck and make all the attention around the netflix competitor and the magazine services. emily: how does it sit -- how does it fit into the broader strategy? a lot of people thought the ipad many was long gone. >> previously, we were basically looking at two distinct types of ipads. $300,ry-level ipad around but also the ipad pro model around $1700. now we are seeing the return of the ipad many and the ipad air. these are priced at $400 and $500. just wi-fi, no cellular. a little bit more expensive than the education only models.\nthese are basically refreshers to older lines. expensivero is quite for most people. people wanted the faster performance and the better screens and they are getting that with the 10.5 inch ipad air. a lot of people wanted to see the pro version of the ipad many and you're getting that to some extent today as well. bely: i think there will some parents out there who might be excited about the new ipad many. a vote of confidence on the ipad? we know sales have been falling year after year but that apple isn't going to be breaking out ipad sales. mark: what you are seeing is an expansion of the product lineup. there are so many different macs. we see apple now expand the product lineup into new shapes,\nproducts, and sizes in a way they haven't done before. ipad, theyon of the are basically coming out and saying that the ipad is one complete product family as well, just like the mac. i think it is quite behind some of the software you are seeing from some of the other tablet makers. tell us more about what we are expecting out of this event on monday. it is not just an opportunity its content unveil strategy, but also a new subscription service. holding backally some articles from apple's news service. mark: i can tell you, the new imacs and imax -- and\nwon't be next week. apple is showcasing itself as a services company. been preservede for their highest profile products. new apple watches, new iphones, eight few other devices over the past few years. now they are putting services up there on par with their highest and hardware. is pretty much as important and this will showcase that. emily: all right, well you will be all over that event for us. thank you so much for stopping by. coming up, social media platforms like facebook rely heavily on algorithms to stop the spread of extremist content. as we saw in new zealand, that doesn't always work. we dig into why, next. if you like bloomberg news, check us out on the radio, the\nbloomberg app, and on sirius xm in the u.s.. this is bloomberg. ♪\n>> today, as we sit here, 97% -- 99% of the isis and al qaeda content we take down, systems flag it before a human sees it. proactively police and enforce safety across the community. emily: that right there is what mark zuckerberg told the senate judiciary committee in april of last year. this is what facebook newsroom tweeted the day after the new zealand mosque shootings that killed 50 people. \"in the first 24 hours, we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack globally, of which\n1.2 million were blocked at upload.\" to discuss, we have a professor of technology and digital business at the wharton school. he's also the author of a new book called \"a human guide to machine learning: a look at how algorithms are shaping today.\" that means the video still made it on facebook's platform 300,000 times. is that worse than we thought? >> we knew it was bad, not just on facebook but on youtube and other platforms on social media and the internet. we know it is bad when this many violent,n see such gruesome imagery. when these companies struggle to use the tools at their disposal, that is a lot of use. as we saw over the weekend, those things are being\npoliticized. 27 longe know it took minutes for the video to be caught and taken down in the first place. why so many hundreds of thousands of times does it still make it through the algorithm one facebook clearly doesn't want it on its platform? kartik: they have taken a number of steps over the years. we have to understand that live videos are particularly problematic for these algorithms. most of these firms, including facebook, they have a three-pronged approach to catch this kind of content. first, they have created a large database of known offensive or extremist content. isn it is uploaded, it compared against that. live videos don't look like something they have seen before. emily: why have live video at all? there have been murders and suicides on the platform before. kartik: that is their business\nthat they are looking at. it has a lot of potential, opportunities. people are at a music concert, they can stream what is happening there. i can be streaming to my friends, hey, i'm on bloomberg. they have machine learning algorithms that look at this content and predict the likelihood that the content is offensive, but it is not an exact science. you have video of someone shooting. it could be terror-related. it could be someone at a shooting range. it could be someone uploading a video game. live video in particular is very hard. emily: facebook and youtube know it is a problem. is there any way to put the monster back in its cage now that this is a feature on the site? do you disable it? do you delay live video? tom: that is a question that has come up, do you delay. on live television, you don't see the terrible things that\nhappen, the wardrobe malfunctions, what have you, because there is this delay. practically speaking, when you have millions of people at any given moment putting live video see, and, i don't maybe you can explain how you can physically delay live video. it doesn't even become live video in that instance. \"live\" and call it you delay in a little bit. in the end, no algorithm will have 100% accuracy. human beings, users to flag offensive content. that takes a few minutes, eight few hours sometimes. one has to in some way deal with this. the real question is not why a video got through. i think it is unavoidable with live content. the question to me is what exactly are these firms doing to\npolice the content? can they be more transparent? this is something we are starting to see from initial steps. these platforms have taken down terrorist, isis related content, but not nearly the same efforts have been taken to eliminate white supremacy on these platforms. often you will hear, this is free speech, this didn't quite cross the line. what about this problem that white supremacy and hate online can often feed violent acts? kartik: it is a tough line between what is free speech and what is clearly promoting hate and needs to go away. for every decision they are taking, there will be somebody on the others. they have to take an aggressive action. they have to view themselves as a media company that has to take on the responsibility of\ncurating. we are a platform, we are letting users share what we want. tom: this goes back to something that mark zuckerberg has talked about from the beginning. he wants us to think of facebook as a technological company, not as a media company. once you start to consider yourself for be considered a media company, you become subject to the same rules and regulations that other media companies in the u.s. are subject to. that comes with the government intervening and putting limits on things like delays and what kind of content. the other thing to bear in mind really quickly is that facebook has gotten in trouble in the past when it is viewed as filtering out political content. sometimes right-leaning content that we may see as extreme, facebook would be very careful about saying, this can't be on our platform because the right will come back and say, look him a facebook was discriminated against the same way the left\nsee themwe started to taking down left-leaning content. emily: we will talk about that later on the show. hosanagar, thank you so much for stopping by. they are bringing a city-based model to e-sports next. check us out and be sure to follow our global breaking news network tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪\noneweb, fresh off launching its first batch of satellites, has secured another round of funding.\nraised $1.25just billion, bringing its total investment to date to $3.4 billion. qualcomm and the rwandan government are among the investors. activision blizzard is bringing e-sports to a city near you. 2020, franchises will begin hosting matches in their home cities. much like nfl or nba teams, each franchise will have a home venue. the company's e-sports division -- continues to model itself after traditional sports organizations, hiring several veteran sports executives to its team.\nbloomberg's scarlet fu sat down with the e-sports ceo at the sports summit to discuss. >> we are proud of the fact that we've been able to -- teambuilding moves, bringing in sports expertise into their e-sports businesses. we think about the ecosystem a lot. the fact that, to build a successful sports league, you need a lot of partners growing with you in the same direction. , media sponsors partners, licensees, players. there are all these constituents whose success matters a lot to us. that's the way sports works. when we set out to build that kind of ecosystem around our we want to do it with a team we have done with before. >> you are taking best practices\nfrom different sports and putting it into this league. what do you have to start over from scratch? what do you have to come up with on your own? thatll, the advantages e-sports leagues have with respect to traditional sports are that e-sports is young, global, and digital native. areitional sports leagues looking for ways to become younger, more global, more digital native. we start there. thatbrings challenges traditional sports executives may not have dealt with how do way thatnt a game in a will capture and hold the attention of a 20-year-old fan as opposed to a 50-year-old fan? how do you present a broadcast real time in a dozen languages? how do you create a viewing\nexperience around the broadcast that matches the expectation that young people have for the kind of engagement and interaction with the stream that they are used to. those are challenges that i don't think sports executives really have about the top of their agenda. there is a bit of a learning curve for new execs coming in with sports. midhe league launched in february. you franchises. what did you learn so far about what works and perhaps what doesn't work? >> the big bet we made with the overwatch league is that we can unlock fans through the city-based model. it was the first city-based e-sports league and also the first permanent franchise e-sports league. we felt, if we found the right owners in the right markets, we could give people all over the world the reason to pay\nattention to this league that they wouldn't have had in the old e-sports model which was not rooted in any geography. but we have learned is that even though we are not in those home markets yet, next year will be the first year actually playing home matches in home markets. the first few years, we've been playing all of our regular season in los angeles. despite that, there already large groups of fans springing up in these cities to support the teams. we see them self organizing around viewing parties. are showing people up. it has been a surprise that this happened as quickly as it has. we still have a long way to go. to get these teams to a are hostingthey really fun events in their\nmarket. fromare all going to learn each other and it will take a long time to figure out what the model is. >> you also have a call of duty league. how will that be different from the overwatch league? >> the game is different. unlike with the overwatch league where we were starting from scratch, here there is an existing ecosystem of fans, sponsors, owners. that --to work within within those constraints for something that satisfies the core but creates an amount of upside for casual fans who aren't watching today. scarlet fumberg's with the activision blizzard e-sports ceo. coming up, looking closely at whether google presents an antitrust case.\nour attorney with texas -- our interview with texas attorney general ken paxton is next. plus, trying to create a seamless workflow for its users. competing with apple, google, and microsoft. this is bloomberg. ♪\nemily: this is bloomberg technology. last september, then u.s. attorney general jeff sessions called a meeting of state attorneys general to discuss whether google and facebook were suppressing conservative views. we know a smaller group of the state officials have been looking into possible antitrust consumer protection violations by google. this comes at a time where presidential hopefuls are calling for a breakup of big tech firms. a rallying cry that is reach across the aisle from the likes of texas senator ted cruz who retweeted senator warren's criticisms of facebook, adding \"she is right.\nbig tech has way too much power to silence free speech. they should not be censoring warren or anyone else.\" that was after facebook took down some campaign ad s for warren. i want about this more, to get to texas attorney general ken paxton who is standing by. thank you so much for joining us. i have to start off with -- are you in texas part of this group of attorneys general that is looking into whether google presents an antitrust case? mr. paxton: we absolutely are. we have serious concerns about those issues. antitrust, the power and wealth of these companies. we have a history in this country at looking at these issues. we also have concerns about privacy. the lack of transparency and how they collect this information, the lack of\ntransparency on either use the information.consumers are being not being paid and there are children getting their data gathered and we have no protection for them. did not have a response to this probe, if you will, or early stages of a probe saying they will continue to engage constructively with states attorneys general on policy issues. what kind of action do you think needs to be taken against google? mr. paxton: we need to get more information from them. a lot of the questions answered were very general answers about analytics. there was a not a lot of clarity for state attorneys general to understand what they are dealing with. i've heard google has literally thousands and thousands of data points on every consumer that uses them. and knows more about you than you do. it is a little concerning that most consumers are not aware of\nthe massive data that these companies have. then, how they are using it and selling it. the consumer is not getting any of that money. aware i am sure you are of senator elizabeth warren's proposal to break up big tech at this point. this is what she had to say at sxsw a week and a half ago without her proposal. sen. warren: the opportunity to do what you do best, to come up with a great idea, to work your heart out to make it happen. to be able to compete on a level playing field is taken away by these platform giants. my view is break those things apart and we will have a much more competitive, robust market in america. emily: you've got republicans on your side of the aisle like ted cruz agreeing with her, at least in principle. do you think big tech needs to be broken up? mr. paxton: i am not sure yet, but i have concerns. i have talked to a lot of their\ncompetitors that are being pushed out of the marketplace and they have no choice in how they respond because there is such controlled by a company like google that controls about 89% of the searches. it does put these smaller companies -- the either get purchased or pushed out of the marketplace. there are concerns about competitiveness and companies being able to start up and compete. emily: republicans generally resist the government getting involved. what makes this situation different? mr. paxton: we definitely tend to be free market. competition is the keyword. when you have companies dominate the marketplace, then competition goes away and you have this argument that consumers may be hard. med. the european union has already fined billions of dollars in different cases. there are concerns about the cod opportunity to create products that google\ndoes not put out. emily: how do you feel given your concerns about data? how do you feel about facebook specifically and would you be interested in taking on a similar exploration on whether facebook deserves scrutiny as well? mr. paxton: we are looking at companies like facebook and google. it is not just limited to those companies. it is any of these giant companies that are dominating the marketplace and potentially harming consumers and causing consumers to be in a position where all of this data is controlled by one company, two companies or three companies and the consumer does not have access to it, they don't get paid for it and don't know how it is being used. emily: do you think consumers should get paid for their data? mr. paxton: i think that should be looked at. this is incredibly valuable information when you know so much about every consumer and you are selling that data and the consumer does not even know. there ought to be at least some greater transparency involved.\nthe consumer realizes what they are turning over to these companies. emily: if you are looking at google and facebook and other big tech companies, is it fair to say you are looking at amazon and apple and microsoft? mr. paxton: we are just beginning. we don't necessarily have specific companies we have targeted, but we're looking at a broad range of companies that control a lot of the marketplace. trying to determine are they involved in viewpoint discrimination? are they protecting consumer data? how do we get more transparency in the process so consumers are treated fairly and their information is protected? we don't know how much these companies are protecting the consumer data. emily: last year, we reported this exploration of google came out of this meeting with then attorney general jeff sessions out of concern these tech companies were suppressing conservative views. were you at that meeting with then attorney general sessions? mr. paxton: i could not attend. we are concerned about this.\nthis happened this week in the texas senate. the texas senate caucus put up a facebook post about a born alive bill to protect children that are being aborted after they are alive. that content was taken down by facebook. they were arguing that was engagement. they also took done another facebook post by an individual senator that talked about that issue. i don't know what engagement is. i thought free speech is what they wanted, but that is certainly in issue that is coming up more and more often. emily: do you believe this is deliberate or inadvertent by facebook? mr. paxton: it is hard to know because it seems relatively planned. they don't seem hav to have gret answers why this post versus another post and why that is engagement bait. hundreds like it are not engagement bait. they always claim they have some analytics or algorithm, but we can never ge seem to get what\nthat algorithm is doing. emily: there is concerned about the video of the mass shooting that was uploaded onto facebook and shared on facebook hundreds of thousands of times. facebook was unable to stop it 300,000 times from being posted. what role do you think the state should have in these issues? mr. paxton: we are talking first amendment. free speech is dangerous. it allows people to talk about all kinds of things we might not like personally, but i think free speech ought to be very broad and very protected. it is something the founders listed first. religious expression being something else that was protected. i think we have to be very careful at obviously government limiting speech, but if businesses are going to limit speech, they have to be transparent about what they are doing. they need not to falsely advertise that this is free speech when they are controlling content. emily: all right, lots of issues\nto discuss. texas attorney general ken paxton, thank you so much for joining us. we will follow your actions and see what happens. meantime, president trump took to twitter over the weekend to criticize google specifically, saying google is helping china and their military, but not the u.s. the good news is they helped crooked hillary clinton and not trump. how did that turn out? in a statement, a spokesperson for the tech giant said we are not working with the chinese military. we are working with the u.s. government, including the department of defense in many areas including cybersecurity, recruiting and health care. coming up, dropbox adding new tools and integration to reprove workflow for millions of users. how the company is competing with the likes of apple, google and microsoft, next. this is bloomberg. ♪\nemily: time now for the work shifted series when he took a look at how businesses are leveraging tech to improve the workplace. one company expanding individual workspace is dropbox. best known for its cloud storage, dropbox is working on his third-party integration to offer tools like electronic signature. this as a growth partnerships with big tech companies like google, salesforce, which also\nhappen to be its biggest competitors. joining us is the dropbox vice president of products, adam nash. how do you work with and compete with the likes of these gigantic companies on a daily basis? adam: well, thanks for having me. you know, i think in technology, the best solution is always follow the customer. it turns out work is changing for most people. we use more and more applications, devices. our teams vary. it turns out a lot of people touch all of these services. even when technologies compete on some fronts, if you are focused on the customer, you have to focus on making everything worked together. this has been one of the strong areas for dropbox. everything comes together with content. emily: you are talking about the work landscape and dropbox is part of that shift. what trends will we see in workplace productivity and collaboration? adam: two trends have been\nrolling through the workplace for some time, but this year, they will become critically important for most organizations. the first is that most people realize work is being done in teams and those teams are becoming more varied. we work on with on one project is different than another. some cases, you are working with people outside the company. having tools and services that naturally connect across all those different boundaries is really important. emily: tell us about the tools you are offering. you just bought a company, a digital signing contract company. adam: that is a great example. i think that space, digital signature, is one of those areas and workflows that starts with content. documents created constantly. dropbox is a platform for huge of numbers of people have trusted with an incredible amount of content. making that workflow work between the creators, people running the process, people signing -- many outside the company -- it is one of those\nplaces where dropbox thinks it could have a lot of volume. emily: cybersecurity has been a big issue. we have seen these massive tech thefts. what are you doing to make sure that does not happen to dropbox, given the incredible amount of personal information that you have on your users? adam: it is something that is incredibly important to the company. dropbox's scale really is surprising to most people. over half a billion\ncontent. dropbox is built on the trust that our users, both individuals and the workplace, put into dropbox to protect the information. we pride ourselves on having world-class infrastructure, security system, technology and always pushing the front edge of that. many times collaborating with our peers and making sure we deal with threats as quickly as possible. emily: there has been a ton of consolidation in enterprise software. do you imagine that dropbox will continue to be an independent company? adam: i'm relatively new to the company, but i have to tell you there is a lot of excitement within the walls of dropbox about the potential for this platform. if you look at what is going on right now, content is really becoming king. more deliverables are the content people produce. share and collaborate around. as more and more collaboration happens online, we are seeing dropbox as more of a platform where all of these different platforms come together. whether you are using microsoft office, suite, the latest art of, all of that comes around the latest startup in dropbox. a more a role to play in enlightened way to work with less distraction, less noise and more focus on the work. we see that is a really high potential path. we still see the very early\ndays of what dropbox is building. emily: adam nash, good to have you back on the show. warner bros. ceo is the latest hollywood mogul to be toppled by scandal. he's leaving the studio over allegations he had a sexual relationship with an actress he helped promote. . at&t warner media says he brought risks to the company. \"kevin acknowledges his mistake is inconsistent with the leadership expectations, including the company's ability to execute going forward.\" still ahead, this week in san francisco, members of the video gaming industry gathering for the annual game developer conference. what is trending this year? we will tell you next. this is bloomberg. ♪\nemily: a new study has found most of amazon's private-label products are duds. the study looked at 23,000 products and found shoppers are more inclined to buy the brands, even when the company elevates them. more than 12,000 members of the videogame industry will gather at the annual game developers conference.\ngoogle is set to unveil a service that will allow people to play fortnite and other modern titles on a web browser or television using inexpensive hardware. this is the might herald the biggest shift in the global gaming market since super mario jumped arcade to the living room. joining us to discuss, the ceo of unity technology and former electronic arts ceo. good to have you back on the show, john. you're obviously a veteran in this business and have been around the block a few times. you are giving a keynote at gdc. what trends do you think we will see emerge this year? john: people will talk a lot about streaming and how that can change the living room for people. the netflix the video games from a number of big companies. i think we talk about rage racing, a new technology for\nrendering something. it can look absolutely real. we will show a demo tonight where we will challenge the audience to tell the difference between, there was no car there and we just drew it, technology versus live video. it is virtually indistinguishable now. i think digital humans is going to be interesting. again, we will show a demo tonight where we will show a human interacting in a very complex, science fiction environment, and he looks absolutely human. again, this guy does not live, he has never been anywhere. the possibility of recasting your favorite actor from days of wayne, wear-old john can do that. ingt is actually push the boundary. open platform, closed platform. i think that will play itself\nout. emily: what do you think of google's new netflix of gaming strategy given they are not making the content themselves? john: one i', i'm under nda. secondly, they happen event tomorrow. with all due respect to the many lawyers that back me up, i will stick with that for now. i think with streaming, it is definitely a part of the future. i don't think hardware under your tv is going anywhere anytime soon, but i also think that google is an amazing technology company. i know they put their heart and soul into what they are announcing tomorrow and i expect big things. emily: the gaming industry is grappling with big issues -- violence, lack of diversity, addiction. unity is in a unique position because your platform powers 50% of mobile games. what are some things you can do to help the gaming industry deal with these issues right through the actual development? john: we can unpack that\nquestion over the next two hours. emily: it is a big question. john: i will start by saying unity powers about half of the world's games across all platforms. it is a great vantage point. i start by saying one of the things that has plagued the industry is a lack of diversity, inclusion. you wrote the book on this sort of thing. it motivated me. we are doing more at unity to support diversity and inclusion than most anyplace i'm aware of. one of the things to ensure you get the right outcome is to have the right input. it we have a diverse and inclusive environment, i think the work our company does will be better and we can have a really big influence over the rest of the industry. one is you can do the right thing by being the right team and i think we can influence the industry. in terms of violence in video games and that type of thing, parents, did many\nmy best to make sure my kids saw the right kind of content when they were ready for it emotionally. i also chaired the esa and read all of the studies. i don't think there is a correlation between violent video games and actual violence than there is if you watch hamlet with a half-dozen dead bodies on stage. i don't think i ever left the theater and whacked anybody over the head. emily: you did not shoot those actors yourself though. john: no, i don't think the connection -- the connection has been research many times and i don't think it is there. emily: a.r. and v.r., when will they finally go mainstream and will they? john: i think they both will be mainstream. they will both be mainstream within about 24 months, 36 months. some great companies -- facebook and oculus, hololens and\nmicrosoft, vive and other really cool -- we support them all. what they have brought out so far is expensive and there is not a lot of content for it. they are in their early stages, not only ready for mainstream, but it takes a while to get these things set up. that changes in the next 24 months. emily: fortnite, will it be another flash in the pan or a lasting gaming phenomenon? john: there is always the next l asting gaming phenomenon to be replaced. the top 25 intellectual properties in the world are all games with revenues over $1 billion a year. this is a real industry now. whether it is fortnite or whatever, they will all be there. emily: john, thank you so much for stopping by. that does it for this edition of the show. we are as always livestreaming on twitter @technology.\nfollow our global breaking news network, tictoc, on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪\ncomcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. \"activecore, how's my network?\" \"all sites are green.\" all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast.\n>> welcome to daybreak australia. shery: i'm shery ahn in new york. sophie: i'm sophie kamaruddin in hong kong. we are counting down to asia's major market open. paul: here are the top stories we are covering in the next hour. theresa may's new brexit blues. sterling falls as the speaker refuses a new vote. oil hits its highest of the year as opec plus agrees to stick with curbs.\nBloomberg March 18, 2019 5:00pm-6:00pm EDT\nHighlighting innovation, technology, media and the future of business.\nEmily 28, Google 18, Us 11, Mr. Paxton 10, Bloomberg 9, Texas 8, John 8, U.s. 7, Adam 5, Ken Paxton 4, Microsoft 4, Warren 3, Kartik 3, Eric 2, San Francisco 2, Activision 2, New Zealand 2, Adam Nash 2, Netflix 2, Isis 2\nUploaded by TV Archive on March 18, 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1343775"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9123114347457886,"wiki_prob":0.9123114347457886,"text":"Skip to main content View sitemap\nLog in to cams\n(CFI Awards Management System)\nThe Canada Foundation for Innovation Awards Management System (CAMS) is the secure online portal that allows universities, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research institutions to apply for CFI funding and assists them in managing the full life cycle of a CFI-funded project.\nIf you notice any issues with CAMS, please inform the CFI at help.aide [at] innovation.ca.\nForgot password? Create a new account\nInnovation.ca\nSupporting the next generation\nFostering Commercialization\nPaving the way for a digital future\nSupporting Arctic and marine research\nApply & manage awards\nPolicy and program guide and supplemental information\nJohn R. 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Without this public-private partnership, physicians—and patients—would not have a sensitive imaging tool that helps immensely in the treatment of stroke.\nLee pioneered CT Perfusion—a type of diagnostic imaging that measures brain blood flow. Reading the imaging scans produced by CT Perfusion allows neuroradiologists and other physicians to tailor their treatment of stroke victims based on how much damage a stroke has caused to the brain. With this knowledge, physicians can see exactly what areas of the brain remain viable, and then administer medication that can relieve stroke symptoms.\nLee, a professor at The University of Western Ontario and a researcher at the Lawson Health Research Institute, the research arm of London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care, and Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario, developed the algorithms, the code, and ultimately the software that enables hospitals to perform perfusion scans using standard computed tomography (CT) imaging equipment. To date, about 3,500 hospitals around the world have bought licences to use Lee’s technology through the partnership with GE Healthcare, leading to a huge advance in stroke treatment.\n“We’ve taken his work and incorporated it into our products and made them available to health care institutions around the world,” says Saragnese. In fact, the partnership between Lee’s research and GE Healthcare has been the key to making the research valuable beyond academia and applicable in hospitals. “We like to think that what we bring to the relationship is an outlet for the technology. You’re only relevant if you can get yourself into the industry and have an impact on the general population,” he says.\nCT Perfusion, which has been a commercial success for GE, the university, and its affiliated research institutes is just one example from a group of spin-off companies and intellectual property applications that the university’s imaging specialists have created.\nUnder the leadership of Frank Prato, leader of the Lawson Health Research Institute’s imaging program, researchers have spun off four separate companies:\nMultiMagnetics Incorporated develops research protocols, hardware, and software to support veterinary imaging and services. The company is also developing support equipment, software, and protocols for neonatal imaging, particularly of premature infants. President Terry Thompson is a researcher at Lawson.\nThames Valley Veterinary Services is a clinic Lawson set up to enable researchers to look at spontaneously occurring tumors in older female dogs. It also serves as a model for studying breast cancer tumors in humans. In addition to research studies, the clinic also provides MRI and CT services for veterinarians, and bone scans and iodine therapies for cats with thyroid problems.\nFralex Therapeutics is a company that Prato and his then-graduate student, Alex Thomas, co-founded in 1998 to develop neuromodulation technology, a therapy to alleviate chronic pain. The cell phone-sized technology, complete with altered headphones, works by disrupting pain signals in the brain.\nMatheson Boulevard Veterinary Services is a veterinary clinic based in Mississauga that uses MultiMagnetics’ imaging protocols and works closely with Thames Valley Veterinary Services. It was founded by professionals trained at Lawson.\nOne of the major advantages of these companies, says Prato, is their ability to retain highly qualified people and to help bridge the gap between research grants and salaries for the experts who are now making London a world-renowned centre of excellence in imaging technologies and techniques.\nThe ability of Ting-Yim Lee’s CT Perfusion technology to provide clear images of blood flow and blood volume in the human brain helped his lab convince GE Healthcare that their technology could be applied to new markets. The Wisconsin-based company has since set up a plant in London to manufacture small animal CT scanners. The high-tech facility employs more than 30 people. The location of the plant purposefully takes advantage of the research Lee and his colleagues are conducting.\nWhat’s more, Lee’s relationship with GE was one of the important factors in determining the location of the plant. “The London plant wouldn’t have come about if we didn’t have this kind of track record,” says Lee. “We now have a very close working relationship with GE. Once you have established a track record, it becomes much easier to get further research projects from them.”\nThe CT Perfusion technology also generated another major benefit—more than $8 million in licensing fees for research at the university and its affiliated institutes. About $2.3 million of that money was used to purchase the first combination Positron Emission Tomography (PET) CT scanner in Canada, as well as new small animal imaging equipment to strengthen the Molecular Imaging Program at the Lawson Health Research Institute. “It’s paid for itself very quickly,” says Prato.\nThe health benefits of Lee’s technology are also far-reaching. Because strokes are caused by blood clots blocking blood vessels in the brain, the most common treatment today is to administer a drug called TPA (tissue plasminogen activator) to destroy the clot. For TPA to be effective, it has to be administered within a three to six-hour window after the onset of the stroke symptoms. But since strokes often strike during sleep, and many stroke victims are elderly, it’s hard for physicians to know when a stroke has occurred.\nCT Perfusion software can tell a neuroradiologist or stroke neurologist which parts of a patient’s brain are still functioning, and whether it’s safe or worthwhile to give TPA to a patient.\nIn the medical devices industry, collaboration among engineers and clinicians or researchers is crucial. It’s particularly important in the field of imaging, which is technologically based but grounded in clinical research. Although engineers understand the technology they can apply to problem-solve, it’s the clinicians and researchers who first determine and tell the engineers what the problems are.\n“The interaction between the engineers, who know what’s possible, and the clinicians, who know what’s needed, has resulted in every major breakthrough that I know of in imaging to date,” says Vice-President and General Manager of GE Healthcare, Gene Saragnese, who is based in Waukesha, Wisconsin. For example, Lee’s knowledge of the importance of blood flow measurement to help clinicians treat stroke patients was essential to helping him create software sensitive enough to provide clear images of the brain.\nBone weary\nNew-age sports camp\nResearch builds communities\nResearch supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation is helping build communities across Canada. That’s because the CFI gives researchers the tools they need to think big and innovate. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6304985880851746,"wiki_prob":0.36950141191482544,"text":"« The Incoherence and Bad Faith of Antonin Scalia’s Originalism — Updated\nRoger Farmer’s Prosperity for All »\nA Tutorial for Judy Shelton on the ABCs of Currency Manipulation\nPublished February 15, 2017\tcurrency manipulation , exchange rate protection , Judy Shelton 13 Comments\nTags: Max Corden\nCurrency manipulation has become a favorite bugbear of critics of both monetary policy and trade policy. Some claim that countries depress their exchange rates to give their exporters an unfair advantage in foreign markets and to insulate their domestic producers from foreign competition. Others claim that using monetary policy as a way to stimulate aggregate demand is necessarily a form of currency manipulation, because monetary expansion causes the currency whose supply is being expanded to depreciate against other currencies, making monetary expansion, ipso facto, a form of currency manipulation.\nAs I have already explained in a number of posts (e.g., here, here, and here) a theoretically respectable case can be made for the possibility that currency manipulation can be used as a form of covert protectionism without imposing either tariffs, quotas or obviously protectionist measures to favor the producers of one country against their foreign competitors. All of this was explained by the eminent international trade theorist Max Corden over 30 years ago in a famous paper (“Exchange Rate Protection”). But to be able to make a credible case that currency manipulation is being practiced, it has to be shown that currency depreciation has been coupled with a restrictive monetary policy – either by reducing the supply of, or by increasing the demand for, base money. The charge that monetary expansion is ever a form of currency manipulation is therefore suspect on its face, and those who make accusations that countries are engaging in currency manipulation rarely bother to support the charge with evidence that currency deprection is being coupled with a restrictive monetary policy.\nSo it was no surprise to see in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal that monetary-policy entrepreneur Dr. Judy Shelton has written another one of her screeds promoting the gold standard, in which, showing no awareness of the necessary conditions for currency manipulation, she assures us that a) currency manipulation is a real problem and b) that restoring the gold standard would solve it.\nCertainly the rules regarding international exchange-rate arrangements are not working. Monetary integrity was the key to making Bretton Woods institutions work when they were created after World War II to prevent future breakdowns in world order due to trade. The international monetary system, devised in 1944, was based on fixed exchange rates linked to a gold-convertible dollar.\nNo such system exists today. And no real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.\nAhem, pray tell, which rules relating to exchange-rate arrangements does Dr. Shelton believe are not working? She doesn’t cite any. And, what, on earth does “monetary integrity” even mean, and what does that high-minded, but totally amorphous, concept have to do with the rules of exchange-rate arrangements that aren’t working?\nDr. Shelton mentions “monetary integrity” in the context of the Bretton Woods system, a system based — well, sort of — on fixed exchange rates, forgetting – or choosing not — to acknowledge that, under the Bretton Woods system, exchange rates were also unilaterally adjustable by participating countries. Not only were they adjustable, but currency devaluations were implemented on numerous occasions as a strategy for export promotion, the most notorious example being Britain’s 30% devaluation of sterling in 1949, just five years after the Bretton Woods agreement had been signed. Indeed, many other countries, including West Germany, Italy, and Japan, also had chronically undervalued currencies under the Bretton Woods system, as did France after it rejoined the gold standard in 1926 at a devalued rate deliberately chosen to ensure that its export industries would enjoy a competitive advantage.\nThe key point to keep in mind is that for a country to gain a competitive advantage by lowering its exchange rate, it has to prevent the automatic tendency of international price arbitrage and corresponding flows of money to eliminate competitive advantages arising from movements in exchange rates. If a depreciated exchange rate gives rise to an export surplus, a corresponding inflow of foreign funds to finance the export surplus will eventually either drive the exchange rate back toward its old level, thereby reducing or eliminating the initial depreciation, or, if the lower rate is maintained, the cash inflow will accumulate in reserve holdings of the central bank. Unless the central bank is willing to accept a continuing accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves, the increased domestic demand and monetary expansion associated with the export surplus will lead to a corresponding rise in domestic prices, wages and incomes, thereby reducing or eliminating the competitive advantage created by the depressed exchange rate. Thus, unless the central bank is willing to accumulate foreign-exchange reserves without limit, or can create an increased demand by private banks and the public to hold additional cash, thereby creating a chronic excess demand for money that can be satisfied only by a continuing export surplus, a permanently reduced foreign-exchange rate creates only a transitory competitive advantage.\nI don’t say that currency manipulation is not possible. It is not only possible, but we know that currency manipulation has been practiced. But currency manipulation can occur under a fixed-exchange rate regime as well as under flexible exchange-rate regimes, as demonstrated by the conduct of the Bank of France from 1926 to 1935 while it was operating under a gold standard. And the most egregious recent example of currency manipulation was undertaken by the Chinese central bank when it effectively pegged the yuan to the dollar at a fixed rate. Keeping its exchange rate fixed against the dollar was precisely the offense that the currency-manipulation police accused the Chinese of committing.\nWhen governments manipulate exchange rates to affect currency markets, they undermine the honest efforts of countries that wish to compete fairly in the global marketplace. Supply and demand are distorted by artificial prices conveyed through contrived exchange rates. Businesses fail as legitimately earned profits become currency losses.\nIt is no wonder that appeals to free trade prompt cynicism among those who realize the game is rigged against them. Opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership in June 2015, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D., Mich.) explained: “We can compete with anybody in the world. We build the best product. But we can’t compete with the Bank of Japan or the Japanese government.”\nIn other words, central banks provide useful cover for currency manipulation. Japan’s answer to the charge that it manipulates its currency for trade purposes is that movements in the exchange rate are driven by monetary policy aimed at domestic inflation and employment objectives. But there’s no denying that one of the primary “arrows” of Japan’s economic strategy under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, starting in late 2012, was to use radical quantitative easing to boost the “competitiveness” of Japan’s exports. Over the next three years, the yen fell against the U.S. dollar by some 40%.\nThat sounds horrible, but Dr. Shelton conveniently forgets – or declines – to acknowledge that in September 2012, the yen had reached its post-war high against the dollar. Moreover, between September 2012 and September 2015, the trade weighted US dollar index in terms of major currencies rose by almost 25%, so most of the depreciation of the yen against the dollar reflected dollar appreciation rather than yen depreciation.\nNow as I pointed out in a post in 2013 about Japan, there really were reasons to suspect that the Japanese were engaging in currency manipulation even though Japan’s rapid accumulation of foreign exchange reserves that began in 2009 came to a halt in 2012 before the Bank of Japan launched its quantitative easing program. I have not kept up on what policies the Bank of Japan has been following, so I am not going to venture an opinion about whether Japan is or is not a currency manipulator. But the evidence that Dr. Shelton is providing to support her charge is simply useless and irrelevant.\nLast April, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew cautioned Japan against using currency depreciation to gain a trade advantage and he placed the country on a the“monitoring list” of potential currency manipulators. But in response, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso threatened to raise the bar, saying he was “prepared to undertake intervention” in the foreign-exchange market.\nObviously, the US government responds to pressures from domestic interests harmed by Japanese competition. Whether such back and forth between the American Treasury Secretary and his Japanese counterpart signifies anything beyond routine grandstanding I am not in a position to say.\nChina has long been intervening directly in the foreign-exchange market to manipulate the value of its currency. The People’s Bank of China announces a daily midpoint for the acceptable exchange rate between the yuan and the dollar, and then does not allow its currency to move more than 2% from the target price. When the value of the yuan starts to edge higher than the desired exchange rate, China’s government buys dollars to push it back down. When the yuan starts to drift lower than the desired rate, it sells off dollar reserves to buy back its own currency.\nChina’s government has reserves that amount to nearly $3 trillion. According to Mr. Lew, the U.S. should mute its criticism because China has spent nearly $1 trillion to cushion the yuan’s fall over the last 2½ years or so. In a veiled reproach to Mr. Trump’s intention to label China a currency manipulator, Mr. Lew said it was “analytically dangerous” to equate China’s current intervention policies with its earlier efforts to devalue its currency for purposes of gaining a trade advantage. China, he noted, would only be open to criticism that is “intellectually sound.”\nWhether China is propping up exchange rates or holding them down, manipulation is manipulation and should not be overlooked. To be intellectually consistent, one must acknowledge that the distortions induced by government intervention in the foreign-exchange market affect both trade and capital flows. A country that props up the value of its currency against the dollar may have strategic goals for investing in U.S. assets.\nFar from being intellectually consistent, Dr. Shelton is rushing headlong into intellectual incoherence. She has latched on to the mantra of “currency manipulation,” and she will not let go. How does Dr. Shelton imagine that the fixed exchange rates of the Bretton Woods era, for which she so fervently pines, were maintained?\nI have no idea what she might be thinking, but the answer is that they were maintained by intervention into currency markets to keep exchange rates from deviating by more than a minimal amount from their target rates. So precisely the behavior that, under the Bretton Woods system, she extols wholeheartedly, she condemns mindlessly when now undertaken by the Chinese.\nAgain, my point is not that the Chinese have not engaged in exchange-rate protection in the past. I have actually suggested in earlier posts to which I have hyperlinked above that the Chinese have engaged in that practice. But that no longer appears to be the case, and Dr. Shelton is clearly unable to provide any evidence that the Chinese are still engaging in that practice.\n[T]he . . . first step [to take] to address this issue [is] by questioning why there aren’t adequate rules in place to keep countries from manipulating their exchange rates.\nThe next step is to establish a universal set of rules based on monetary sovereignty and discipline that would allow nations to voluntarily participate in a trade agreement that did not permit them to undermine true competition by manipulating exchange rates.\nI have actually just offered such a rule in case Dr. Shelton is interested. But I have little hope and no expectation that she is or will be.\n13 Responses to “A Tutorial for Judy Shelton on the ABCs of Currency Manipulation”\n1 Henry February 16, 2017 at 1:56 am\n“How does Dr. Shelton imagine that the fixed exchange rates of the Bretton Woods era, for which she so fervently pines, were maintained?”\nMany a speculative attack on currencies during the 1960s and 1970s were fended off by central banks getting together under the aegis of the Bank of International Settlements no less. CBs lent to each other and swapped foreign exchange to sure up the foreign exchange reserves of countries under BOPs pressure. It was a form of institutionalized currency manipulation and on a grand scale. These defences would assist for a time but, given the nature of the imbalances, speculators/adverse capital flows eventually forced realignments and ultimately the demise of the Bretton Woods system.\n2 Scott Boone February 16, 2017 at 10:19 am\nA “universal set of rules” is a nice idea and actually, we have lots of them to use as an example. However, human nature being what it is, such rules tend to get used in whatever manner is most advantageous to one party over another. In a perfect world, everyone would play fair, but sadly, that’s not the world in which we live.\n3 William Ryan February 16, 2017 at 5:21 pm\nWe are just too late to the game. All the kings horses and all the kings men may never bring competitive advantage back gain. Concentrated wealth and political power wins again. The rig and gig economy will no doubt become a great thing in America because that is all that will be left standing.\n4 Miguel Navascués February 17, 2017 at 11:59 am\nSorry, David, I’m not totally sure, but I think that an export surplus must produce, all other things equal, an outflow of capital. So, I suppose that the high export surplus in Germany is compensated by an similar financial outflow. That is the reason of the high accumulation of external assets by Germany, that finance the countries with deficit.\n5 David Glasner February 27, 2017 at 10:33 am\nHenry, Under a fixed exchange rate regime, a country can pursue independent monetary policy only to the extent that it is willing to allow an outflow of reserves or accept an inflow of reserves, or can rely on the forbearance of other countries that will continue to accept its liabilities. Under Bretton Woods, such forbearance was occasionally forthcoming, but it was not unlimited.\nScott, And it’s getting less so even as we speak.\nWilliam, I share your pessimism, but I’m not sure if it’s for the same reasons.\nMiguel, An export surplus can be associated with an outflow or an inflow of capital depending on the circumstances. If there is net foreign investment, the inflow of capital will be associated with imported capital goods. However, there is an excess demand for money then goods must be exported in exchange for the money.\n6 Henry March 4, 2017 at 9:42 pm\n“Under Bretton Woods, such forbearance was occasionally forthcoming, but it was not unlimited. ”\nI guess this is correct given that Bretton Woods eventually cracked under the pressure when the USA could no longer countenance demands for convertibility. However, the level of co-operation and co-ordination in the 1960s was fairly extensive. Everything that could be done to hold the system together was done from the creation of the Gold Pool, the defence of Sterling in 1964, the defence of the US dollar in the mid to late 1960s. It wasn’t all plain sailing – speculators eventually getting the upper hand and the odd breach appearing in the institutional barricades.\nThe point is that Dr. Shelton seems to think that the Bretton Woods game was played by the rules.\n7 David Glasner March 7, 2017 at 9:11 am\nHenry, Obviously there were rules that governed what countries and their central banks could do under Bretton Woods. The basic problem was that once countries were not fully committed to their exchange rate pegs and it was realized that the pegs could and would be changed when it was either appropriate or convenient to do so, confidence in the pegs began to weaken as countries and central banks pursued domestic objectives that were inconsistent with the currency pegs. The cooperative measures that you cite could be effective only while confidence in the maintenance of the pegs was high; as confidence weakened, the system was destined to unravel. That’s why I cringe whenever I see someone hold up Bretton Woods as some sort of model for an international monetary system.\n8 Henry March 7, 2017 at 11:30 pm\n“That’s why I cringe whenever I see someone hold up Bretton Woods as some sort of model for an international monetary system.”\nI can’t understand it either – the Great Depression experience and then the Bretton Woods debacle – all to defend a system of fixed exchange rates – long term, it just doesn’t work. Now we have China edging the world to a similar system. I think it is fair to say that the Euro Zone is a system of fixed exchange rates (e.g. one German Euro = one Greek Euro) – with no end of trouble.\n1 Nominal exchange rates, real exchange rates and protectionism, by Scott Sumner – Indilens Times Trackback on June 23, 2017 at 6:22 am\n2 What Is This Thing Called “Currency Manipulation?” | Uneasy Money Trackback on June 28, 2017 at 1:39 pm\n3 Defining Currency Manipulation for Scott Sumner | Uneasy Money Trackback on September 6, 2017 at 8:49 pm\n4 Uneasy Money Trackback on April 24, 2019 at 8:57 pm\n5 Dr. Shelton Remains Outspoken: She Should Have Known Better | Uneasy Money Trackback on July 11, 2019 at 10:35 pm","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line874602"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6149923801422119,"wiki_prob":0.6149923801422119,"text":"Trump Says He's Looking at Protections for Venezuelans in US\nPresident Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Party of Iowa's annual dinner in West Des Moines, Iowa, June 11, 2019.\nPresident Donald Trump said his administration is considering granting Temporary Protected Status to thousands of Venezuelans who have fled to the United States amid ongoing unrest.\nThe once-wealthy oil nation is now facing severe shortages of basic goods and hyperinflation. Trump said the situation in Venezuela is a horrible thing that's \"been brewing for a long time.\"\nTemporary Protected Status is granted to people from countries ravaged by natural disasters or war and lets them remain in the U.S. until the situation improves back home.\nThe Trump administration has moved to discontinue that protection for many countries. But when the president was asked Tuesday about TPS for Venezuelans, he said \"we're looking at that very seriously.\"\nTwo congressional panels have advanced bills granting protections to Venezuelans, which conflicts with Trump's tough-on-immigration stance.\nCarlos Vecchio, a government opponent who the U.S. recognizes as Venezuela's ambassador, speaks during a news conference in Miami, June 11, 2019.\nCarlos Vecchio, who serves as ambassador to Washington for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, said at a Miami press conference Tuesday that he is confident that TPS or some other kind of relief for Venezuelans will come soon, either from the administration or from Congress.\nThe Trump administration was one of the first to recognized Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela, a measure that was adopted later by more than 50 other nations.\nVecchio thanked Trump for accepting the expired passports of Venezuelans living in the United States, and urged Canada, Spain and Latin American countries to do the same.\nOn Friday, the opposition-controlled National Assembly approved the validity of Venezuelan passports for five years beyond their printed expiration dates. The same day, the State Department announced that the expired passports will be considered valid for visa applications and entry into the United States.\nAround 4 million Venezuelans have fled their country in recent years and many of them don't have a valid passport.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1710001"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8223233819007874,"wiki_prob":0.8223233819007874,"text":"Blues, Avalanche attempt to get back on winning side\nby Brian Hunter\nAVALANCHE (14-3-0) at BLUES (11-2-3)\nTV: RDS, ALT, FS-MW\nLast 10: Colorado 8-2-0; St. Louis 6-1-3\nSeason series: This is the first of four meetings between the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues. The home team won all three games last season, two of them going to the Avalanche. The Blues did clinch a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 3-1 win in the most recent matchup at Scottrade Center on April 23.\nBig story: Each team is looking to avoid a losing streak. The Avalanche, who come off a 2-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday, haven't dropped consecutive games this season. The Blues, defeated 3-2 by the Phoenix Coyotes in overtime Tuesday, have lost two in a row on one prior occasion, but earned a point in each of those instances.\nTeam Scope:\nAvalanche: Despite putting 34 shots on net, including a career-high nine from rookie Nathan MacKinnon and five from Matt Duchene, Colorado could only put one puck past Justin Peters and saw its six-game road win streak to begin the season go by the wayside.\nPaul Stastny's power-play goal with 5:26 left in the second period put the Avalanche in position to at least salvage a point, but they never found the equalizer. A slow start was partially to blame for the defeat; the Hurricanes recorded 11 of the game's first 13 shots before the Avalanche began to control play.\n\"I think we played good enough to win,\" coach Patrick Roy said in The Denver Post. \"We just have to get ready for the next one. Our motto is the same: One day at a time.\"\nBlues: An Oliver Ekman-Larsson goal prevented St. Louis from setting the highest point total in franchise history through 16 games, but the Blues didn't come away empty-handed thanks to Roman Polak's game-tying goal early in the third period. Maxim Lapierre opened the scoring in the first, extending his point streak to three games.\n\"Our first focus is to play with good intensity and play strong defensively,\" Lapierre said in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. \"Personally I would like to focus on coming back to the player I was about three or four years ago when I had that 15-goal season [for the Montreal Canadiens].\n\"Obviously I'm not expecting to score 15 goals every season, but maybe just play with the same confidence offensively with the puck and read the play better. I feel since the game in Montreal, I kind of feel that way. I felt like I was more relaxed with the puck and I see the ice better.\"\nWho's hot: Stastny has three goals and one assist during a four-game point streak. … Blues forward Alexander Steen had the primary assist on Polak's goal to extend his point streak to 11 games, with 10 goals and four assists in that span.\nInjury report: Colorado defenseman Ryan Wilson (back) and forward Alex Tanguay (knee) are out. … St. Louis defenseman Jordan Leopold (hand) and forward Magnus Paajarvi (upper body) are on injured reserve.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line378264"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6865946054458618,"wiki_prob":0.3134053945541382,"text":"The Estonian National Museum’s building at Raadi. An essay on spatial culture\nOctober 01, 2016 – Gregor Taul\nThe Estonian National Museum’s building at Raadi: an essay on spatial culture tells the story of the new home of the National Museum of Estonia. My essay, accompanied by plenty of visual material, took the form of five separate books/booklets.\nPresentation of the book copied from behance by graphic designer team AKU.\nThe lower back side of the new building of the Estonian National Museum. It was built on the abandoned Raadi military airfield in Tartu.\nThe front side of the new building of the Estonian National Museum in Tartu.\nThis image shows the covers of the five different booklets. The base grid is more visible in every following chapter.\nA composition with the slipcases that contain the five booklets.\nHere you can see the cover of the first booklet.\nThis spread from the first booklet shows the contents of the slipcase – the titles of the five booklets.\nThe first, most capacious booklet, titled \"The museum and spatial culture\", gives an overview of the national museum's history and contemporary architecture in Estonia.\nIn this image, you can see the cover of the second booklet, titled \"From the architectural design competition to construction\".\nMikoff. Sculptures\nNotes on Space. Monumental Painting in Estonia 1947–2012","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line348800"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.601677417755127,"wiki_prob":0.601677417755127,"text":"Harvest One Selects 3 Sixty Secure Corp. to Provide Secure Transport, Secure Cannabis Storage and Retail Delivery Services\n3 Sixty Risk Solutions Ltd.\nMar 19, 2019, 07:00 ET\n/NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES/\nALMONTE, ON, March 19, 2019 /CNW/ - 3 Sixty Risk Solutions Ltd. (\"3 Sixty\" or the \"Company\") (CSE: SAFE) (FSE: 62P2) is pleased to announce that the Company, which operates through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 3 Sixty Secure Corp., has been selected by Harvest One Cannabis Inc. (\"Harvest One\") (TSX-V: HVT) (OTCQX: HRVOF) to provide a portfolio of security services which include secure transport, secure cannabis storage and retail deliveries. Harvest One has a global portfolio of brands including United Greeneries, Satipharm, Dream Water, and Burb that serves the adult recreational and medical cannabis markets from cultivation to retail distribution. The global footprint of Harvest One, with a presence in five countries, aligns with 3 Sixty's strategic goals of realizing significant organic growth and accelerating growth using M&A to expand operations within Canada, the United States of America and internationally.\n\"Harvest One is a tremendous example of a company serving the full spectrum of customer needs from cultivation to production to retail distribution of top-quality products,\" said Thomas Gerstenecker, CEO and Founder of 3 Sixty. \"It is led by expert growers, brilliant engineers and creative entrepreneurs and it has announced supply agreements in Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. We look forward to supporting Harvest One as it expands its cultivation footprint and retail distribution network in Canada and internationally.\"\n\"We consider 3 Sixty to be a leading seed-to-sale security provider serving the cannabis industry,\" said Grant Froese, CEO of Harvest One. \"We have consistently experienced their commitment to professionalism and deep expertise in security. As the legal cannabis industry grows in Canada, and internationally, we feel confident that the world-class security services provided by 3 Sixty will ensure the safety of our products and the timely distribution to our retail partners across Canada.\"\nAbout 3 Sixty Risk Solutions Ltd.\n3 Sixty Risk Solutions Ltd., operating through its wholly-owned subsidiary, 3 Sixty Secure Corp., is one of Canada's leading security service providers to the cannabis sector, transporting approximately $250 million of product every month. 3 Sixty provides cannabis security consulting, guarding and secure transport security services to more than 500 customers and more than 60 licensed cannabis producers, including some of the world's largest, such as licensed producers owned by Canopy Growth Corporation. 3 Sixty has a staff of over 275 employees and employs a fleet of over 60 vehicles, which management believes provides a combined security footprint to approximately 30 million square feet of patrolled area.\nAbout Harvest One Cannabis Inc.\nHarvest One is a global cannabis house of brands that develops and provides innovative health, wellness, and self care products to consumers and patients in regulated markets around the world. The Company's range of products are designed to enhance quality of life. Shareholders have significant exposure to the entire cannabis value chain through three wholly-owned subsidiaries: United Greeneries, a Licensed Producer; Satipharm (medical and nutraceutical); and Dream Water Global (consumer). For more information, please visit www.harvestone.com.\nThis news release contains \"forward-looking information\" and \"forward-looking statements\" (collectively, \"forward-looking statements\") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as \"expects\", or \"does not expect\", \"is expected\", \"anticipates\" or \"does not anticipate\", \"plans\", \"budget\", \"scheduled\", \"forecasts\", \"estimates\", \"believes\" or \"intends\" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results \"may\" or \"could\", \"would\", \"might\" or \"will\" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements relate, among other things, to: the business and operations of 3 Sixty. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. Except as required by law, 3 Sixty assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.\nNeither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.\nSOURCE 3 Sixty Risk Solutions Ltd.\nFor further information: regarding the Company, please contact: Carlo Rigillo, Chief Financial Officer, 3 Sixty Secure Corp., (866) 360-3360, IR@3sixtysecure.com\n3 Sixty Provides Results of Annual General Meeting...\n3 Sixty Secure Corp. to Provide Secure Transport and Guarding...\n3 Sixty Secure Corp. Announces Security Guarding Contract with...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line485887"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5284183025360107,"wiki_prob":0.5284183025360107,"text":"Agenda, Culture & Lifestyle\nMexican Acoustic Rock Duo Rodrigo y Gabriela\nBy Tribuna Staff\nMexican acoustic rock guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela made their mark with flamenco-style covers of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven” and Metallica’s “Orion.” With the release of the most ambitious music in their twenty-year career together, their new LP Mettavolution, brings together Rod and Gab’s passionate interest in Buddhism, the history of human evolution and…\nApril 19, 2019\tContinue to read\nMike Super: Magic & Illusion\nStar of “America’s Got Talent” and winner of NBC’s “Phenomenon,” magician Mike Super stuns audiences with his spectacular illusions, which defy gravity and control the elements. Imagine mind-blowing illusions combined with the hilarity of a headline comedian. Mike has turned the magic show on its side and dumped it out into the audience! YOU become…\nMarch 28, 2019\tContinue to read\nAcrobats of China: The New Shanghai Circus\nAcrobats of China: The New Shanghai Circus returns to The Ridgefield Playhouse stage on Sunday, March 3 at 4pm, presented by Maron Hotel & Suites. This fast-paced show combines Chinese dancing, tumbling, juggling, balancing and thrilling stunts that audience members of all ages will enjoy! In acts that often trace their origin to the harvest festivals…\nFebruary 6, 2019\tContinue to read\nPerformances of the Nutcracker Ballet in CT\nNothing represents the holidays like watching a live performance of the Nutcracker Ballet. It’s a tradition that many people enjoy. This family-friendly holiday classic centers on Clara’s dream world, brought to life after receiving a Nutcracker from her mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer, which is then transformed into a handsome Prince. Clara and the Nutcracker Prince journey…\nDecember 19, 2018\tContinue to read\nPeace Light: Passing the Flame of Peace, Hope and Harmony Across Communities\nFor the second consecutive year, Danbury Peace Light Coordinators, Gary Allen Prybylski and son Gary Allen Prybylski Jr., are bringing the light to Danbury and hoping to expand its reach. This year’s local Peace Light service event will be held at Saint Peter Church on Main St., Danbury, on Friday, December 7, 2018 from 7:00…\nDecember 5, 2018\tContinue to read\nHoliday Celebrations from Around the World with Guest Speaker Benjamin Teixeira\nBenjamin Teixeira de Aguiar will discuss “Spirituality With or Without Religion,” on Saturday, December 1, at 5 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Campus Center on the Western Connecticut State University Westside campus, 43 Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury. Benjamin is a medium, writer, public speaker, TV host, teacher and president-founder of the Quantum Leap Institute (The…\nNovember 21, 2018\tContinue to read\nAgenda, Culture & Lifestyle, News\nConnecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and the Black Business Alliance (BBA) Partner to Host Capitol Region Workshops for Minority Businesses\nBy Angela Barbosa\nMinority Businesses are invited to learn about the Minority Business Revolving Loan Fund (MBRLF), a Minority Business Initiative (MBI) Program. Learn how to gain Access to Capital and to help finance small and minority businesses with DECD loans. To facilitate the development, sustainability and growth of CT Minority Businesses, DECD and Black Business Alliance (BBA)…\nDance to the Holidays\n“American Idol” star Vonzell Solomon, also known as “Baby V!” Dance to the Holidays with Tony Dovolani & Karina Smirnoff, presented by La Quinta Inn & Suites, will jingle its way into town on Sunday, November 18 at 4pm and 7:30pm. Part of the Ridgefield Magazine Broadway & Cabaret Series, Ridgefield Academy Family Series with…\nNovember 8, 2018\tContinue to read\nFall Festival – Craft Fair & Bazaar\nStart your holiday shopping! Almost 40 vendors will be featuring their many one-of-a-kind items, including crafts, food from Vermont, chocolate, alpaca wool products, jewelry, hand-made cards, essential oils, holiday and Christmas decor, hand-painted signs, team blankets, bibs, knitted and crocheted items, recycled paper jewelry made by women in Uganda, wreaths, landscape paintings, Avon, Christmas ornaments,…\nOctober 24, 2018\tContinue to read\nArt Garfunkel Returns to The Ridgefield Playhouse on November 2\nBlessed with what the New York Times described as a “beautiful countertenor,” Art Garfunkel has made an indelible mark on the music world as both a solo artist and as half of the unrivaled duo, Simon & Garfunkel, with songs like “Mrs. Robinson,” “Scarborough Fair,” “The Sound of Silence,” “Cecilia” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” …\nTony Danza: Standards & Stories\nBest known for his starring roles on two of television’s most cherished and long-running series, “Taxi” and “Who’s The Boss,” for one night only, the iconic Tony Danza and his four-piece band are bringing their hit show to Ridgefield! Combining timeless music with wit, charm, storytelling and a dash of soft shoe and ukulele performances,…\nSeptember 20, 2018\tContinue to read\nManhattan Short Film Festival\nFilm lovers in Danbury will unite with an audience of over 100,000 film buffs, across 6 continents, when the Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to The Palace Danbury on Friday, September 28 at 8 pm. Manhattan Short is not a touring Festival; it’s a celebration that occurs simultaneously across the globe, bringing great films to great venues…\nSeptember 5, 2018\tContinue to read\nTaste of Greater Danbury 2018\nDo you enjoy free music and entertainment? What about a delicious food while discovering all that makes Danbury a great place to live and the historic downtown a great place to visit? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, check out the Taste of Greater Danbury, the downtown celebration which includes live music,…\nAugust 23, 2018\tContinue to read\nConcert on The Danbury Green: Country Music ‘n Food Truck Rally\nBring a chair and enjoy great food and great country music under the stars. The second Annual Country Music ‘n Food Truck Rally will be held on Saturday, August 4 from 3:00 pm to 10 pm on the CityCenter Green. The event will feature music, food from some of the best food trucks in the…\nAugust 1, 2018\tContinue to read\nWhat a great night — for kids and parents alike! You can enjoy some adult time while your kids are supervised by Jericho Partnership’s trained counselors in its state-licensed center! All for a donation of your choosing. And it’s all for a great cause – defraying some of the cost to send their Summer Learning Campers to…\nJuly 6, 2018\tContinue to read\n2nd Annual Family Fun Fest\nKick off the start of summer with the 2nd Annual Macaroni Kid and CityCenter Danbury Family Fun Fest! The fun takes place on Danbury’s CityCenter Green on Sunday, June 24 from 12-4pm. Live music by Al deCant, “The Singing Principal,” packed with toe-tapping music, great stories and heaps of audience participation that celebrate the reading…\nJune 20, 2018\tContinue to read\nNothing Left Unspoken – Leading Christian Rock Band to Play at Ridgefield Playhouse\nBy Emanuela Palmares\nUnspoken is an American Christian band, with an unapologetically soulful pop sound, adventurous production and complex vocal harmonies, mixed with the international influences of the band (guitarist Mike Gomez hails from the Dominican Republic and drummer Ariel Munoz from Puerto Rico). Their first Centricity Music album sold more than 100,000 physical copies and spawned four…\nJune 6, 2018\tContinue to read\nCommunity Action Agency Hosts 4th Annual Wine Tasting\nThe Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut, Inc. (CAAWC) will host its 4th Annual Wine Tasting on Thursday, May 31, 2018, from 6 PM to 9 PM at Tarrywile Mansion, located at 70 Southern Boulevard in Danbury. This exciting evening will feature exceptional wines and beers provided by New Fairfield’s Heritage Wine & Liquors and…\nMay 23, 2018\tContinue to read\nMotown: The Musical\nIt began as one man’s story…became everyone’s music…and is now Broadway’s musical. Motown: The Musical is the true American Dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many more. Motown shattered barriers, shaped our lives…\nMay 3, 2018\tContinue to read\nEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ruben Studdard on his Appreciation of Luther Vandross and Life After American Idol\nIn the world of contemporary music, there are just a handful of superstars whose first name alone brings instant recognition. But when it comes to male vocalists, one name towers above the rest in any discussion of black male singers whose impact and influence has been unparalleled – Luther Vandross. He was, and always will…\nRock Musical RENT\nIn 1996, an original rock musical by a little-known composer opened on Broadway…and forever changed the landscape of American theatre. Two decades later, Jonathan Larson’s RENT continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations and all over the world. And now, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning masterpiece returns to the stage in a vibrant 20th anniversary touring…\nApril 4, 2018\tContinue to read\nStepping Stones Hosts Egg-Stravaganza on March 31!\nStepping Stones Museum for Children is throwing their annual Egg-straordinary Egg-stravaganza on Saturday, March 31 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. We’re not eggs-aggerating when we promise a day filled with family fun. The festivities will be held outdoors in the Celebration Courtyard, or in case of inclement weather, indoors in the Multimedia Gallery. The excitement begins…\nConcert for George\nOn November 29, 2002, one year after the passing of George Harrison, Olivia Harrison and longtime friend Eric Clapton organized a performance tribute in his honor. Held at London’s Royal Albert Hall, the momentous evening featured George’s songs, and the music he loved, performed by a lineup that included Clapton, Joe Brown, Dhani Harrison, Jools…\nMarch 9, 2018\tContinue to read\nAgenda, News\nDanbury Eats Out\nThere is a new foodies’ group in Danbury, CT and they are gearing up to eat their way through downtown and beyond. On Friday, March 9, 2018, DEO or Danbury Eats Out will be meeting at El Ranchero Mexican Restaurant, located at 20 White Street, Danbury, CT, 06810, from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. El…\nFebruary 23, 2018\tContinue to read\nRock, Roll & Soul at The Danbury Palace\nGet ready for a great big night of Rock, Roll and Soul, when Christine Ohlman and Rebel Montez share the stage with legendary drummer Liberty Devitto and his new band, The Slim Kings on Saturday, February 24, at 8PM. Reserved seating only (all seats $40). The Palace is located at 165 Main Street in Danbury. For…\nDanbury Ice Arena to Celebrate Brazilian-American Figure Skating Champion\nDanbury, Conn. – Danbury Ice Arena announces its upcoming ice skating spectacular, the “2018 Olympic Dreams Skating Show,” featuring figure skater Isadora Williams, who will represent Brazil at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Also performing will be Amanda Kalluf, who recently moved to Junior Level on the Brazilian skating team, and skaters who…\nFourth Annual Hat City Ball\nThe Friends of The Danbury Museum & Historical Society will host their fourth annual Hat City Ball on Friday, January 26, 2018—with a speakeasy theme this year! The gala celebrates the museum’s mission to acquire, preserve and interpret the history of our city. As part of the festivities, the Friends of The Danbury Museum & Historical…\nJanuary 17, 2018\tContinue to read\nAround the World – Cuentos: Tales from the Latino World\nWith colorful tales from the Caribbean, South America, Spain and the Bronx, David Gonzalez paints a vivid picture of the people and rich cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From the enchanting Puerto Rican magician Milomaki to the friendship between young Delgadina and a magical snake, these stories are filled with memorable characters, fantastic plots and…\nTickets to Shows Make Great Holiday Gifts!\nThe Ridgefield Playhouse has something for everyone on your list, from stocking stuffers to fun family shows like Masters of Illusion on February 13 or Shanghai Acrobats on March 18 or a night out to a concert or comedy show – like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on February 24 and 25, Lewis Black on February 25, LaKisha Jones “With Love…\nFunnier Than Your Family\nAh, Thanksgiving weekend. A time for family, food and football! But once you’ve had enough of all three, come join us at The Palace for a night of comedy… we guarantee they’re funnier than your family! Hosted by comedian and master storyteller Shaun Eli, the evening will present stand-up comedians Andy Pitz and Frank Vignola….\nAn Evening of Art, Wine and Jazz With International Music Icon Sérgio Mendes and Brasil 2017 at The Ridgefield Playhouse\nSérgio Mendes is the most internationally successful Brazilian artist of all time. From the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, Mendes established his legend by taking numerous albums and singles, such as “Brasil 66,” “Mas Que Nada” and “The Look of Love,” to the top of the pop charts. The Ridgefield Playhouse and the Moffly Media…\nAgenda, Cover, Culture & Lifestyle\nTaste of Greater Danbury!\nDo you enjoy free music and entertainment? Enjoy delicious food? Enjoy discovering all that makes Danbury a great place to live and the historic downtown a great place to visit? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, check out the “Taste of Greater Danbury,” the downtown celebration that includes live music, family entertainment, games and local food…\nWhy Shop at the Farmers’ Market?\nBy Peggy Zamore\nIt’s the height of the growing season here in Connecticut! In the city, it’s so nice to see small yard gardens and tomatoes trellised onto porches that catch the most sunlight. Yet, with such limited space, it can be tough to grow your own produce. Seasonally, the Danbury Farmers’ Market has lots of locally grown…\nAgenda, Columns, News, What's Next In Your Life\nFrank Abagnale in Connecticut: Catch Him if You Can!\nBy Nora Duncan\nIn a joint collaboration, AARP Connecticut and the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) Office of Continuing Education will host a free fraud prevention event featuring Frank W. Abagnale, one of the world’s most respected authorities on forgery, embezzlement and secure documents, on Wednesday, September 27. Abagnale, who has advised the FBI on how to outsmart…\nAgenda, Cover\nThis Summer’s Last Hurrah! Top 6 CT Family Fun Spots of 2017\nWith amusement parks, museums and nature centers, there are enough family activities in Connecticut to keep everybody entertained during the last month of summer. Here are a few Indoor and outdoor options that are guaranteed fun for the whole family. INDOOR FUN It Adventure Ropes Course 40 Sargent Dr. Long Wharf New Haven, CT 06511…\nJuly 19, 2017\tContinue to read\nBrews & BBQ Festival Featuring Spin Doctors\nBy WCSU\nTownsquare Media will host the Brews & BBQ Festival featuring Spin Doctors on July 22 from 3 to 9 p.m. at Ives Concert Park on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the gate. Tickets are on sale at www.tixr.com/groups/americaontap/events/brews-and-bbq-5219. For more information,…\nAgenda, Kids & Family\nGood Morning, Superman! Be a Star, Wonder Woman! and Bedtime for Batman\nIn celebration of Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble, the bookstore is featuring Storytime on Saturday, July 29 at 11a.m. Superheroes have to get up in the morning, go to school and have a bedtime, just like you! Join them as they read about turning everyday situations into amazing super adventures! Kids can go dressed…\nOn June 20, Sister Shivani, an internationally renowned inspirational speaker, began a 14-city speaking tour of North America with the theme of “Awakening.” Sister Shivani presents spiritual solutions to the complex problems of contemporary life through a TV program called Awakening with Brahma Kumaris and a YouTube channel with over 33 million views and over…\nAgenda, WCSU\nBrian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot\nIves Concert Park will present Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot on Sunday, June 25, at 7 p.m. at Ives Concert Park on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketfly.com/event/1453533. For more information, go to www.ivesconcertpark.com.\nThe Ciclismo Classico: Bike Travel Film Festival\nWhat’s better than descending Italy’s legendary Monte Stelvio Pass… at an elevation of 9,048 feet/ 2,758 meters… with all of its 48 hairpin turns… on a bike with no handlebars or brakes… at night illuminated only by a torch and moonlight!? Watching someone else do it! On Friday June 16, The Palace Danbury will present the…\nThe TriState Spiritist Federation has the honor to host the seminar “Be Happy Today” presented by Brazilian famous medium Divaldo Franco in New York and Danbury, CT. Divaldo Franco is recognized as one of the most influential and greatest contemporary mediums. He has psychographed over 200 books and lectured at more than thirteen thousand…\nArt at Ives – Juried Fine Art and Crafts Show\nThe nonprofit Friends of the Ives will present the second annual Art at Ives, Juried Fine Art and Crafts Show from May 27 – 29, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Ives Concert Park on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury. This three-day event will feature a wide variety of high-quality…\nBrazilian Forró Band Bulé de Caminhão USA 2017 Tour comes to Connecticut\nStraight from the city of Brazilian popular oral poet and improviser of oral verse Antônio Gonçalves da Silva, popularly known as Patativa do Assaré, in Northeast Region of Brazil, the Forró band Bulé de Caminhão will be touring the United States in the New York and Connecticut regions. Organized by Rádio Press of Naugatuck,…\nTheater Production: Dancing at Lughnasa\nThe WCSU Department of Theatre Arts will present “Dancing at Lughnasa” on the MainStage Theatre of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the University’s Westside campus at 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Performances will be at 8 p.m. on April 28 and 29, with 2 p.m. matinees on April 29 and 30. The…\nAgenda, Culinary // Food, Culture & Lifestyle\n2017 Danbury Volunteer Firemen’s Association Carnival\nWinter is over, so come on down to enjoy some family fun with great rides, games and carnival food, while supporting the Danbury Volunteer Firemen’s Association. The association is hosting its annual five-day carnival, at the parking lot of Best Buy at 2 International Drive. The event will feature a food tent and rides by…\nRidgefield Academy Family Series: The Song of Mulan\nMeet Mulan and have your photo taken with her in the lobby before the show! Kids can also have their photos taken with Scooby Doo! Bring the family for a heartwarming celebration of culture, honor and the fighting spirit! When Mulan learns that her ailing father is drafted into Khan’s army, she protects him by…\nBy Western Connecticut State University\nThe 22nd Annual WCSU Jazz Festival will include three evening concerts in the Veronica Hagman Concert Hall in the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the University’s Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Thursday, April 20, will feature big band music performed by the WCSU Jazz Ensemble, select faculty and the Berkshire Jazz…\nTheatre Production: “Violet”\nThe WCSU Department of Theatre Arts will present “Violet” in the Studio Theatre of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the University’s Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Performances will be at 8 p.m. on March 31, April 1, 7 and 8; with 2 p.m. matinees on April 1, 2, 8 and…\nA Grand Night for Singing with Mad Hatter Chorus\nThe Mad Hatter Chorus announced that its 52nd annual show, “A Grand Night for Singing,” will take place Saturday, April 1, at Western Connecticut State University’s Visual and Performing Arts Center, 43 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury. The evening will spotlight Broadway tunes by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), one of America’s most beloved composers. The program is…\nAgenda, Community In Focus, Kids & Family\nFamily Camp “Together We Can Achieve More” Integrates School and Family\nBy Mariana Silva\nThe Family Camp, “Together We Can Achieve More,” organized by Danbury Public Schools, Danbury Family Learning Center, Inc. and Sodexo, Inc., will be held on April 1 at Rogers Park Middle School. The goal is to share strategies, perspectives and ideas that benefit our families, children, teachers and the community. The idea is to have…\nSecond Annual Juried Fine Art & Crafts Show\nThe Friends of the Ives nonprofit organization will present the second annual Art at Ives Juried Fine Art & Crafts Show during Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 27, through Monday, May 29, at Ives Concert Park on the Western Connecticut State University Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury, CT. This three-day event will feature high-quality original works in a diverse scope…\nView this post in Português, Español\nConnecticut Ballet to Hold Annual Danbury Dance Initiative Benefit Performance\nConnecticut Ballet will hold its annual benefit performance for Khalda Logan Dance Scholarships, awarded to talented middle and high school youth from greater Danbury, on Sunday, March 19 at 4:30pm at Broadview Middle School, 72 Hospital Avenue, Danbury. All members of the community are encouraged to attend this collaborative performance featuring dance styles from ballet…\nPeaceJam Connecticut Conference\nWestConn will host the 2017 PeaceJam Connecticut Conference from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb. 25 and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 26, in multiple locations on the University’s Midtown campus, 181 White Street in Danbury. This two-day event will feature Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee and hundreds of engaged students from…\nView this post in Portuguese, Español\nElizardi Castro’s: LAW & DISorder\nComedy comes to Bridgeport on February 11, when popular funny man Eli Castro returns to The Klein in his all-new show, Law & Disorder. Combining his Puerto Rican heritage with American culture, Eli reveals his tumultuous journey of a prosecutor, turned defense attorney, turned comedian! Proceeds from this performance will benefit arts education in Bridgeport!…\nVisiting Artist Lecture with Painter Nina Buxenbaum\nNina Buxenbaum will discuss her work on Monday, February 13 at 11 a.m. in Room 144 of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the WCSU Westside campus, at 43 Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury. The event, presented as part of the University’s Master of Fine Arts slide lecture series, will be free of charge…\nSteven Seagal Blues Band\nMost of us know Steven Seagal for his roles as an action hero in films like Hard to Kill, Marked for Death, Out for Justice, Above the Law, Under Siege, Executive Decision, The Glimmer Man, and Exit Wounds to name a few. What most aren’t aware of, is his lifelong love of the blues. Steven…\nExhibition Opening: “Women’s Work”\nThe Gallery Opening for “Women’s Work” will take place on January 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Art Gallery of the Visual and Performing Arts Center on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Avenue Extension in Danbury. The exhibition will be on display from noon to 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday and 1…\nTito Puente Jr Coming to Palace Danbury\nTito Puente, Jr. and his Latin Jazz Band are coming to The Palace Danbury with their high voltage celebration of jazz and Latin beats. Heir to the throne of El Rey—The King of Latin Music, he is unmistakably the son, physically, spiritually and musically, of Tito Puente, the 10-time Grammy winner, percussion superstar, veteran bandleader…\nMAGNUS: “The Mozart Of Chess”\nMAGNUS is a rousing, feel-good film about one the world’s most extraordinary chess players— 26-year-old Magnus Carlsen. This “Mozart of Chess,” who checkmated Bill Gates in nine moves, became a chess grandmaster at the age of 13. As a young boy, Magnus Carlsen was very different from his peers. Bullied by the other children, he usually…\nView This Post In: Español, Português\nWedding Steps Bridal Show\nA bridal expo, Wedding Steps Bridal Show, will be held on January 15, 2017 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Feldman Arena of the O’Neill Center on the WCSU Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension in Danbury. Vendors will include photographers, videographers, suppliers of transportation, bridal fashions, invitations, jewelry and more. Admission is $9….\nDanbury Museum & Historical Society to Host The Hat City Ball\nThe Friends of the Danbury Museum & Historical Society will host their third annual Hat City Ball on Friday, January 27, 2017. The gala kicks off the 75th anniversary year for the organization and celebrates their mission to acquire, preserve and interpret the history of our city. The evening features live music from Eight to…\nAgenda, Columns\nRudolph the Red‐Nosed Reindeer: The Musical\nThe beloved TV classic Rudolph the Red‐Nosed Reindeer soars off the screen and returns to The Bushnell stage by popular demand this holiday season from December 9 – 11. Come see all of your favorite characters from the special, including Santa and Mrs. Claus, Hermey the Elf, the Abominable Snow Monster, Clarice, Yukon Cornelius and,…\nBruce Bennett Nissan Party to Collect Charitable It ems for the Dorothy Day House\nBy Photo by Sherryl Hauck Solstice Soul Photography\nOn December 10, at 12pm, Bruce Bennett Nissan on Rt. 7 in Wilton, CT, will be hosting a holiday party and fund-raising event with all donations going to the Dorothy Day House. Donations can include new orgently used coats and unwrapped toys for children of all ages. Santa will be attending the party and posing for pictures FREE of…\nThe Largest Local Production of the Nutcracker Ballet, 2016…with a Live Orchestra!\nBy Sarianna Sabbarese\nLocal nonprofit, Danbury Music Centre, is thrilled to announce its annual production of the Nutcracker Ballet on Dec. 9, 10 & 11. This production will be performed in conjunction with the Danbury Symphony Orchestra, boasting some of the most virtuosic talent in Greater Danbury. Additionally, it is the sole full-scale production of The Nutcracker Ballet…\nView This Post In Espanol, Portuguese\nFestival of Trees Funds Local Cancer Support Service Non-Profit\nThe 14th Annual Festival of Trees to benefit Ann’s Place will be held on Thursday, November 17 through Sunday, November 20, 2016 at the Matrix Conference & Banquet Center, Exit 1, Danbury. This multifaceted event funds Ann’s Place cancer support services. Kicking off the Festival on November 17, from 6:30 – 10:30 pm, is the Prohibition Tree…\nView This Post In: Portuguese, Spanish\nThe 14th Annual Festival of Trees to benefit Ann’s Place will be held on Thursday, November 17 through Sunday, November 20, 2016 at the Matrix Conference & Banquet Center, Exit 1, Danbury. This multifaceted event funds Ann’s Place cancer support services. Kicking off the Festival on November 17, from 6:30 – 10:30 pm, is the…\nWCSU Trio at Ritcher Association for the Arts\nRichter Association for the Arts closes its fall season on Sunday, Oct. 30, with a 3 p.m. jazz concert at Richter House, 100 Aunt Hack Road, Danbury. WCSU students Anthony Pellegrini on saxophone, Niles Spaulding on bass and Larry Davis on drums comprise the trio. Anthony Pellegrini began his musical experience at the age of eight with the clarinet. He now…\nThe Rat Pack Together Again\nThe Rat Pack Together Again will take you back to a time when seeing Frank, Dean and Sammy in Las Vegas was the ultimate event in show business! Starring Tony Sands, Johnny Petillo and Geno Monroe—these three acclaimed performers embody the music, comedy and camaraderie of the legendary trio. The show has gotten great reviews! The New York Post raved, ”The vocals…\nOctober 6, 2016\tContinue to read\nSafewalk: Take a Stand Against Domestic Violence\nOctober is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. If you want to work to end the violence by walking to promote safety at home, school and everywhere in between, join the community for the Women’s Center 10th annual 4k “SafeWalk” on Sunday morning, October 2, inside the Danbury Fair. More than an opportunity to unite the community in the organization’s mission to…\nSinger Gian, Former Member of the Gian & Giovani Duet, Will Perform This Saturday in Danbury\nAs part of his travels through the United States, Brazilian country music singer Gian will perform this Saturday, September 24 at 10 p.m., at the Brazilian steakhouse Planeta Brazil Bar & Grill in Danbury. Singer Doug will join in and the Brazilian community can expect a great performance by the friends and the duet. Brazilian admirers will have an opportunity to listen to the…\nYou Be The Judge\nThumbs up or thumbs down? The Manhattan Short Film Festival gives you a chance to indulge your inner film critic. Film lovers in Danbury can unite with an audience of over 100,000 film buffs across six continents in over 250 cities, when the Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to The Palace Danbury on Friday, September…\nBrazilian Independence Day Celebrations in CT\nDANBURY, CT 2016 Brazilian Day Festival When: Sunday, August 28, 2016 from 2pm-8pm Where: Cellar Lounge at the Portuguese Cultural Center at 65 Sand Pit Road A celebration of Brazilian culture through live music performances, food, arts and dance and much more. More information: Visit the Brazilian Day Danbury 2016 Facebook page. Brazilian Flag-Raising Ceremony in Danbury When: Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 10am Where: Danbury City Hall at 155 Deer Hill Avenue Come celebrate the independent…\n62nd Annual Bridgewater Country Fair\nThe Bridgewater Country Fair is a long-standing tradition that preserves the character of the quintessential country fair. The fun kicks off with the annual Bridgewater Fair Parade. This fair is a major agricultural fair, featuring a midway, animal competitions, exhibits, home arts competitions, a tractor pull, food and bandstand entertainment. New attractions include a NASCAR style…\nEcuadorian Festival in Danbury\nHundreds of people from the region’s Ecuadorean community are expected to turn out for the annual Ecuadorean Festival on Sunday, August 7, 2016 at the Western Connecticut State University’s Westside campus. The annual event, planned from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., features food booths, games, music and dancing in celebration of Ecuadorean culture. The festival…\nFREE Youth Baseball Clinic\nFamily & Children’s Aid, Major League Baseball (MLB) player alumni and the Danbury Westerns are inviting you to a morning of lots of fun! Up to ten former MLB players will teach baseball and life skills to children from 4 – 18 years old. But don’t wait until the last minute. The first 300 youth…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1750274"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9712632298469543,"wiki_prob":0.9712632298469543,"text":"WoMag\nWorcester to hire assistant city manager for operations\nBy Nick Kotsopoulos TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF\nThe City Council has given a nod to City Manager Michael V. O'Brien's plan to add a new position in his office — assistant city manager for operations.\nThe city administration has been without a clear No. 2 person since January 2011 when former Assistant City Manager Julie Jacobson stepped down to become town manager in Auburn. The position was eventually eliminated.\nThe council last night gave the city manager the green light to restructure the staffing in his office when it gave preliminary approval to the fiscal 2013 budget for the city manager's executive office.\nAs part of that budget, two positions will be eliminated in the city manager's office — chief clerk of the works and director of administration — while two positions will be added, assistant city manager for operations and a principal staff assistant.\nMr. O'Brien said his office will have the same staffing level (eight) next fiscal year as it does this year, while the net addition to the budget will be about $45,000.\nThe assistant city manager's position has been pegged at $145,000.\nBut Mr. O'Brien said that salary amount is a “target” and is “by no means fixed.” He said the eventual salary figure for the job will be determined by the background and expertise of the person hired.\nHe said he will adhere to the requirements of the local residency ordinance in filling that position.\nIn 1996, then-City Manager Thomas R. Hoover implemented an administrative rule requiring newly hired department heads to move to Worcester within a year of their employment. That policy also allows the city manager to waive that requirement when the manager deems necessary.\nHaving the No. 2 person in the city administration live in Worcester was a source of contention during Ms. Jacobson's tenure because she lived in Paxton and was not forced to move into the city.\nMr. O'Brien pointed out that he hasn't had an assistant city manager dedicated solely to serve him for much of his tenure as city manager.\nHe said Ms. Jacobson was an assistant city manager for one year and then was given the assignment to also manage the Economic Development Department, as well as serve as executive director of the Worcester Redevelopment Authority.\nIn comparison, during Mr. Hoover's tenure as city manager, he had three different assistant city managers who solely worked for him and they did not also run a major department.\nThe manager said he would like to have an assistant city manager so he can remove himself from being involved the day-to-day operations of the city government and instead focus on the city's bigger, long-term picture.\n“Much of my time daily is spent on implementation of initiatives, reforms, reorganization of government, major economic development efforts and complex public/private partnerships,” Mr. O'Brien said. “I am involved in operations all the time.\n“My recommendation is based on a simple concept,” he added. “I must extricate myself from the implementation of these initiatives and day-to-day operations and have them addressed by an assistant city manager. I must shift and dedicate far more time to new initiatives, more significant reforms, and securing neighborhood revitalization partnerships in specific neighborhoods under strain.\nWe must push harder to adapt and create the next wave of progress and I must be able to dedicate the time to make all that happen.”\nDistrict 5 Councilor William J. Eddy and Councilor-at-Large Michael J. Germain said councilors have repeatedly urged Mr. O'Brien, both publicly and privately, to hire an assistant city manager so he can have someone handle the day-to-day operations of the city government.\n“We rely on the city manager for things we shouldn't be,” Mr. Germain said.\nSouth/West\nEast/Valley\nLocal Video\nHometeam\nRailers\nObituary FAQ\nWorcester Living\nT&G Santa\nBest of Hometeam\nBest of Central Mass\nIsaiah Thomas Award\nWoo Challenge\nCareers at the T&G","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line126066"}
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(photo: Christian Wenande)\nAugust 8th, 2018 12:19 pm| by Christian W\nWhen bitter rivals FC Copenhagen and Brøndby clash in the first New Firm derby of the season on Sunday at the Telia Parken Stadium, there’ll be a lot more than just pride and bragging rights at stake.\nBoth teams have started brightly this season, sitting one-two in the Superliga table, and the nemeses are desperate to wash away the disappointments of last season with a win in the Copenhagen derby.\nBrøndby still have a bitter taste in their collective mouths after throwing away their first championship since 2005 in the final games of the season, while FCK are more than keen to improve their fourth-place finish – their worst since the 99-00 season, where they came eighth.\nREAD MORE: Skinning the mighty bear: The game that united a nation\nTransfers galore\nNeither team have rested on their laurels in the off-season. The Lions signed five players over the summer, including Danish international Andreas Bjelland and club legend Dame N’Doye, now 33 after six years away, to bolster a rather limp attack.\nBrøndby, meanwhile, must be considered transfer titans of the break, bringing in no less than nine players, not including loan returnees, to bolster their squad. Among the most prominent are Dominik Kaiser and Anthony Jung from RB Leipzig, Josip Radosevic and Ante Erceg from Hajduk Split, Marvin Schwaebe from Hoffenheim, and Nikolai Laursen from PSV.\nBrøndby sits top of the Superliga with 10 points from four games, while FCK are a point behind – thanks to a surprise loss at home to Horsens in the first game of the season. Since then, however, the Lions have found their stride, winning the rest of their games with a goal difference of 8-1.\nThe New Firm on Sunday will kick off at 16:00 at Telia Parken Stadium.\nFirst gold at Euro Olympics\nAmalie Dideriksen and Julie Leth secured Denmark’s first gold medal at the inaugural ‘European Olympics’ held in Glasgow and Berlin – an expansion of the quadrennial European Athletics Championships to embrace sports such as cycling, rowing, golf and swimming – by winning the women’s Madison (cycling). Denmark currently sits 16th in the medal rankings with four, thanks to Casper Von Folsach’s bronze in the men’s omnium, a bronze in the women’s 4x100m freestyle (swimming) and Pernille Blume’s silver in the women’s 50m freestyle. Blume, however, grabbed the headlines today for her performance as one of the favourites in the 100m freestyle semis. Blume powered though the first 50m, taking a commanding lead, before turning above the surface, instead of the faster submersion turn, slowing down, finishing sixth and missing out on the final. A number of experts and coaches have voiced their disapproval of her display.\nAlm keeps dominating\nThe Danish orienteering queen Maja Alm continues to dominate the sport following her fourth consecutive sprint orienteering World Cup triumph. The 30-year-old, who also won a bronze in the relays with Denmark at the championships in Riga, finished first almost 17 seconds ahead of second-placed Tove Alexandersson of Sweden. It’s the first time that a participant has won four World Championships in a row in the orienteering sprints.\nOlesen impresses at Firestone\nThanks to a formidable round of 64 in his final round, golfer Thorbjørn Olesen finished third at the WGC – Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone in the US earlier last weekend. Justin Thomas won the event ahead of Kyle Stanley. Aside from vaulting him into the top 40 in the world rankings, Olesen’s sterling play comes at a good time with the Ryder Cup selection just around the corner. In fact, he is currently in fifth place in both the European and World Points standings, with the top four of each qualifying automatically.\nDanish teen Mathilde Helbo Larsen can call herself a world champion after triumphing at the Rope Skipping World Championships in Shanghai. The 18-year-old also set two Danish records in the ‘World Cup Senior Master Girls’ tournament, during which she needed to compete in three different events: the 30-second speed, the 3-minute speed and the freestyle. Check out a video of her performance below.\nVan der Vaart joins Esbjerg\nDespite a disappointing tenure with FC Midtjylland, Rafael van der Vaart has decided to make another go of it in Denmark, this time with first division side Esbjerg. The 35-year-old Dutch legend, whose girlfriend Estavana Polman plays handball in the west-coast city, has signed a one-year contract. Van der Vaart has 109 caps for the Netherlands and played for the likes of Ajax, Real Madrid and Tottenham before moving to FCM in 2016.\nWorld Cup star sought by English Championship sides\nDanish international Jonas Knudsen is a hot commodity in England following a strong season with his club Ipswich Town in the Championship and an appearance in the 2018 World Cup for Denmark. The left back has reportedly garnered interest from a number of the top Championship clubs, including Stoke City, Middlesbrough and Aston Villa. The 25-year-old has played 127 games for the Tractor Boys since joining in 2015.\nYoung talent joins Brighton\nYoung striker Andreas Dreyer has been snapped up by Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion for a fee of about 2 million pounds. Dreyer, who scored 21 goals for Esbjerg last season, will start his career on the south coast in the team’s under-23 squad.\nAnother Dane to join Celta Vigo?\nFC Nordsjælland’s inspirational midfielder Mathias Jensen is reportedly closing in a 50 million kroner move to Celta Vigo in Spain. Jensen, 22, has previously been linked with Ajax. Dane-friendly Celta recently sold Daniel Wass to Valencia and still have Pione Sisto and Andrew Hjulsager on the books – although Hjulsager has been rumoured to leave. Elsewhere, the 17-year-old former AGF talent Anders Fæster has signed a two-year deal with Dutch side Groningen.\nCulture and Sports News in Brief: Copenhagen Municipality criticised over art purchase\nSports News in Brief: Wozniacki crashes out of Wimbledon\nSports News in Brief: Denmark fined for fan behaviour at World Cup\nSports News in Brief: Denmark all set for clash with Socceroos\nSports News in Brief: Danes have 1.13 percent chance of winning World Cup","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line627672"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5536565780639648,"wiki_prob":0.44634342193603516,"text":"Record breaking A level results at ARK Putney\nSixth form students at ARK Putney Academy are celebrating a record breaking set of A level results this year with the numbers of passes at A* - C level jumping 5 points from 67% to 72% this year.\nParticularly impressive was the number of grades awarded at the top group A*, A and B grades to enable them to go on to university. This was high at 45%. Overall there was a 95% pass rate of exams graded A* to E.\nThe school joined the high performing ARK network in 2012 and last year was rated as good in all categories by Ofsted. A number of students did particularly well.\nSara Khoshraw has secured a place to study medicine at King’s College, Cambridge after getting an incredibly impressive A* in Maths, and As in Further maths, Biology and Chemistry.\nJoseph Tomlinson got an incredibly impressive four A* grades with A levels in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry and Physics. Joseph is going to Manchester University to study Physics\nHamza Arshad is a Year 13 student at ARK Putney who has just got 2 As in Maths and Chemistry and an A* in Design and Technology. He has a place to study engineering at Manchester.\n“Obviously education is quite important. My dad’s been to university before and he knows how important it is to you know, go to university and get a degree and get a job.\nAs well as his studies, Hamza has been volunteering his time to support an orphana ge in Pakistan, where he was born.\nMarie Mathison has again got straight As, with A*s in Chemistry, Biology and Spanish and an A in Mathematics. She is going to be studying dentistry at the prestigious Plymouth University Peninsula college of medicine and dentistry.\nAlison Downey, Principal at ARK Putney, said:\n\"This is a fantastic set of results for our students many of whom are going on to some of the country’s best universities. I am really proud of the journey they have made, and I wish them every success in the future.”\nARK Putney Academy is undertaking a £30 million project to refurbish its school buildings which began earlier this summer and is due to be completed next year. The project will provide new sports facilities – including a new four-court sports hall, an activity studio for classes such as boxing and dance, and three new outdoor games areas and a brand new art space.\nARK Putney is part of ARK Schools, a group of schools that aims to give children from all backgrounds an exceptional education. The group run 19 schools in London – all of those that have been inspected by Ofsted so far are rated as good or outstanding.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line597928"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7472081780433655,"wiki_prob":0.7472081780433655,"text":"« June 2017 | Main | September 2017 »\nMuch family history slips through the cracks. Through the generations, items are misplaced, destroyed, neglected, overlooked or simply tossed because somewhere along the line their significance faded.\nCalvin Riley has made it a personal mission over the last 40 years to keep such items from slipping into the trash heap of history. Riley, a retired English teacher living in St. Louis, Mo., began collecting black memorabilia four decades ago. He spent countless hours scouring St. Louis' basements and attics for artifacts he considered important to black culture over the years. He found a chair made by a slave, uniforms worn by black porters, civil rights posters, historic photographs of the area's movers and shakers -- even a sign from the Jim Crow era that hung in Union Station designating a \"Colored Waiting Room.\"\nRiley's collection grew so large he bought a fading 19th century mansion on St. Louis' former \"Millionaires Row\" and transformed it into a private museum. Now the tall stained glass windows that once served the building's former funeral home and church inhabitants overlook rooms of carefully curated collections of black St. Louis history. In the two years Riley and his wife have operated the George B. Vashon African-American Museum in north St. Louis, they estimate they've handled 5,000 visitors.\nVirtually all of us know sad stories of personal history lost. It's up to each generation to evaluate, document and pass on the artifacts from previous generations. You can't count on a Calvin Riley to step in and save them.\nLarry Lehmer is an author and personal history consultant. Contact him via e-mail or follow him on Twitter.\nPhoto credit: Calvin Riley at the George B. Vashon African-American Museum in St. Louis. (Carolina Hidalgo, St. Louis Public Radio)\nJohn Vlahos, like many people of a certain age, would probably tell you that his life was nothing special. To those who loved him, of course, nothing could be further from the truth.\nThe son of Greek immigrants, Vlahos was raised in Northern California where he worked his way through college at the University of California, wrestling ice blocks onto boxcars. He was sports editor of the school newspaper, fueling a lifelong love of sports that later found him announcing football games from the Cal press box. He eventually became a respected Bay Area lawyer while nurturing another of his passions, opera. Along the way he married and raised a family.\nBut the Vlahos family was rattled by the grim April 2016 diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to other vital organs in John Vlahos' 80-year-old body. Almost immediately his son, James, came up with an unusual plan to preserve his dad's legacy. James, a writer for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Popular Science and Wired, started with the time-tested tradition of saving his dad's stories.\nDigital recorder in hand, James Vlahos started recording his dad's memories just weeks after the diagnosis. It was the first of more than a dozen sessions, most lasting more than an hour, that would result in a transcript of 91,970 words that filled 203 printed pages of 12 point type. But instead of just putting the transcript into a binder, James had another idea -- he'd create a \"Dadbot,\" something of an electronic representation of his father similar to personal assistants Siri or Alexa.\nThe technical name for such a creation is chatbot, a digital companion capable of carrying on a conversation. The younger Vlahos knew his computer skills would only allow for a rudimentary chatbot, but he wasn't striving for a Siri-like relationship, he just wanted to preserve his dad's legacy in a uniquely dynamic way. Before formally launching his project, Vlahos persuaded his ailing father to go along with the scheme as long as he was able. As John's condition deteriorated, James' project blossomed. By the time John died earlier this year, James had a passable version of his Dadbot. He shared his experience with a touching article in a recent issue of Wired. The article also included a video.\nVideo selfies. Want to make a video of your own life story but don't have the necessary skills, equipment or money? No problem say the folks at Lifey. If you found this blog on the internet, you can probably make \"a video selfie of one's life,\" as the Lifey web site describes their process, which they say is free. Check it out and report back about what your Lifey experience was like.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line757581"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7439955472946167,"wiki_prob":0.7439955472946167,"text":"George Tulevski\n1,575,661 views • 9:35\nLet's imagine a sculptor building a statue, just chipping away with his chisel. Michelangelo had this elegant way of describing it when he said, \"Every block of stone has a statue inside of it, and it's the task of the sculptor to discover it.\" But what if he worked in the opposite direction? Not from a solid block of stone, but from a pile of dust, somehow gluing millions of these particles together to form a statue.\nI know that's an absurd notion. It's probably impossible. The only way you get a statue from a pile of dust is if the statue built itself — if somehow we could compel millions of these particles to come together to form the statue.\nNow, as odd as that sounds, that is almost exactly the problem I work on in my lab. I don't build with stone, I build with nanomaterials. They're these just impossibly small, fascinating little objects. They're so small that if this controller was a nanoparticle, a human hair would be the size of this entire room. And they're at the heart of a field we call nanotechnology, which I'm sure we've all heard about, and we've all heard how it is going to change everything.\nWhen I was a graduate student, it was one of the most exciting times to be working in nanotechnology. There were scientific breakthroughs happening all the time. The conferences were buzzing, there was tons of money pouring in from funding agencies. And the reason is when objects get really small, they're governed by a different set of physics that govern ordinary objects, like the ones we interact with. We call this physics quantum mechanics. And what it tells you is that you can precisely tune their behavior just by making seemingly small changes to them, like adding or removing a handful of atoms, or twisting the material. It's like this ultimate toolkit. You really felt empowered; you felt like you could make anything.\nAnd we were doing it — and by we I mean my whole generation of graduate students. We were trying to make blazing fast computers using nanomaterials. We were constructing quantum dots that could one day go in your body and find and fight disease. There were even groups trying to make an elevator to space using carbon nanotubes. You can look that up, that's true. Anyways, we thought it was going to affect all parts of science and technology, from computing to medicine. And I have to admit, I drank all of the Kool-Aid. I mean, every last drop.\nBut that was 15 years ago, and — fantastic science was done, really important work. We've learned a lot. We were never able to translate that science into new technologies — into technologies that could actually impact people. And the reason is, these nanomaterials — they're like a double-edged sword. The same thing that makes them so interesting — their small size — also makes them impossible to work with. It's literally like trying to build a statue out of a pile of dust. And we just don't have the tools that are small enough to work with them. But even if we did, it wouldn't really matter, because we couldn't one by one place millions of particles together to build a technology. So because of that, all of the promise and all of the excitement has remained just that: promise and excitement. We don't have any disease-fighting nanobots, there's no elevators to space, and the thing that I'm most interested in, no new types of computing.\nNow that last one, that's a really important one. We just have come to expect the pace of computing advancements to go on indefinitely. We've built entire economies on this idea. And this pace exists because of our ability to pack more and more devices onto a computer chip. And as those devices get smaller, they get faster, they consume less power and they get cheaper. And it's this convergence that gives us this incredible pace.\nAs an example: if I took the room-sized computer that sent three men to the moon and back and somehow compressed it — compressed the world's greatest computer of its day, so it was the same size as your smartphone — your actual smartphone, that thing you spent 300 bucks on and just toss out every two years, would blow this thing away. You would not be impressed. It couldn't do anything that your smartphone does. It would be slow, you couldn't put any of your stuff on it, you could possibly get through the first two minutes of a \"Walking Dead\" episode if you're lucky —\nThe point is the progress — it's not gradual. The progress is relentless. It's exponential. It compounds on itself year after year, to the point where if you compare a technology from one generation to the next, they're almost unrecognizable. And we owe it to ourselves to keep this progress going. We want to say the same thing 10, 20, 30 years from now: look what we've done over the last 30 years. Yet we know this progress may not last forever. In fact, the party's kind of winding down. It's like \"last call for alcohol,\" right? If you look under the covers, by many metrics like speed and performance, the progress has already slowed to a halt. So if we want to keep this party going, we have to do what we've always been able to do, and that is to innovate.\nSo our group's role and our group's mission is to innovate by employing carbon nanotubes, because we think that they can provide a path to continue this pace. They are just like they sound. They're tiny, hollow tubes of carbon atoms, and their nanoscale size, that small size, gives rise to these just outstanding electronic properties. And the science tells us if we could employ them in computing, we could see up to a ten times improvement in performance. It's like skipping through several technology generations in just one step.\nSo there we have it. We have this really important problem and we have what is basically the ideal solution. The science is screaming at us, \"This is what you should be doing to solve your problem.\" So, all right, let's get started, let's do this. But you just run right back into that double-edged sword. This \"ideal solution\" contains a material that's impossible to work with. I'd have to arrange billions of them just to make one single computer chip. It's that same conundrum, it's like this undying problem.\nAt this point, we said, \"Let's just stop. Let's not go down that same road. Let's just figure out what's missing. What are we not dealing with? What are we not doing that needs to be done?\" It's like in \"The Godfather,\" right? When Fredo betrays his brother Michael, we all know what needs to be done. Fredo's got to go.\nBut Michael — he puts it off. Fine, I get it. Their mother's still alive, it would make her upset. We just said, \"What's the Fredo in our problem?\" What are we not dealing with? What are we not doing, but needs to be done to make this a success?\" And the answer is that the statue has to build itself. We have to find a way, somehow, to compel, to convince billions of these particles to assemble themselves into the technology. We can't do it for them. They have to do it for themselves. And it's the hard way, and this is not trivial, but in this case, it's the only way.\nNow, as it turns out, this is not that alien of a problem. We just don't build anything this way. People don't build anything this way. But if you look around — and there's examples everywhere — Mother Nature builds everything this way. Everything is built from the bottom up. You can go to the beach, you'll find these simple organisms that use proteins — basically molecules — to template what is essentially sand, just plucking it from the sea and building these extraordinary architectures with extreme diversity. And nature's not crude like us, just hacking away. She's elegant and smart, building with what's available, molecule by molecule, making structures with a complexity and a diversity that we can't even approach. And she's already at the nano. She's been there for hundreds of millions of years. We're the ones that are late to the party.\nSo we decided that we're going to use the same tool that nature uses, and that's chemistry. Chemistry is the missing tool. And chemistry works in this case because these nanoscale objects are about the same size as molecules, so we can use them to steer these objects around, much like a tool. That's exactly what we've done in our lab. We've developed chemistry that goes into the pile of dust, into the pile of nanoparticles, and pulls out exactly the ones we need. Then we can use chemistry to arrange literally billions of these particles into the pattern we need to build circuits. And because we can do that, we can build circuits that are many times faster than what anyone's been able to make using nanomaterials before. Chemistry's the missing tool, and every day our tool gets sharper and gets more precise. And eventually — and we hope this is within a handful of years — we can deliver on one of those original promises.\nNow, computing is just one example. It's the one that I'm interested in, that my group is really invested in, but there are others in renewable energy, in medicine, in structural materials, where the science is going to tell you to move towards the nano. That's where the biggest benefit is. But if we're going to do that, the scientists of today and tomorrow are going to need new tools — tools just like the ones I described. And they will need chemistry. That's the point. The beauty of science is that once you develop these new tools, they're out there. They're out there forever, and anyone anywhere can pick them up and use them, and help to deliver on the promise of nanotechnology.\nThank you so much for your time. I appreciate it.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line143943"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7045841813087463,"wiki_prob":0.29541581869125366,"text":"HTN 95 - Sandstone cooperates with Western Cape Enthusiasts to restore McCormick threshing box and Mitchell baler\nIn January 2001, part of the historic Elgin Valley farm called De Hoop was sold at auction. Although I pass this farm often in the course of my work and the farm is easily visible from the approach road from the North, somehow I had never noticed a large metal object looking very much like a threshing machine!\nMaybe a tree had been cut down? With a new owner wishing to clean up his yard, there was no time lost for Philip Gray-Taylor and I, both committed collectors of Stationary Engines and Farm & Horticultural Equipment to make an appointment to view it and perhaps make a deal which would keep it out of the hands of the Scrap Dealers! There was also an Australian-made Mitchell stationary baler standing next to it.\nA deal was struck, and the following story describes how they was brought to my workshop, written as the story progressed:\nI made a deal yesterday with the new owner of the farm where the McCormick 'blikbak' and Mitchell baler are standing. So the baler is now mine, and the blikbak is 50/50 with Philip, who shares the Ransomes 10 NHP steam portable with me.\nI managed to get three of the four wheels off the baler, the 4th will definitely need a chain saw, as a tree which has since died, has grown up between the wheel and chassis, and then over the wheel. I was using a high lift jack and hoped that the root may have rotted away underground and pull out. No way! I had managed to get hold of 4 old 600/16 tyres recently, and will have them fitted, and then hopefully, just tow her away. How old were these old balers? What is amazing is the decals are almost like new, although the paint is almost gone, and there is some rust, caused by the seed pods of the tree (a gum) which tried to kill the baler, before the baler choked it to death!\nIt looks as if the colours were red, with yellow wheels.\nI went back to the baler this evening and put on the three wheels which I had had the old 600/16's put on to. (they are getting scarce!). I had to lift the one side higher than it was when I took off the flat tyre, and as I lifted it, I heard a crack underground...a root breaking! some more,and more cracks. Then I realised I had the Hi-lift on one of the roots, and moved to another place, with more joy. I put that wheel on, and put a block under it, lowered it, and went to the side with the tree. Also feeling around, and placing the jack between the roots, I have now managed to pull the whole root out! OK, you get roots and roots, but this is a ROOT! I still can't get the wheel off, though, and the thing is still standing on the jack. I will just have to take a photo, before I start cutting!\nPaid another visit this evening to the Mitchell. Managed to saw the piece that was growing down over the top of the wheel, and then thought I'd get lucky and take the split pin out of the hub and pull the whole wheel & hub off. Fat chance, even with the hi lift between the chassis and the wheel. The tree has grown right over the lip of the rim. Then I thought I might still be able to get at the heads of the bolts. (it doesn't have studs, just loose nuts & bolts. Got 3 off, but the tree has filled up the entire space between the chassis and the inside of the rim, and there's no way that you can get at the heads. I managed to put the hi lift between two legs of the tree, and broke one off at the root, but that still didn't expose anything more. Now, I think I'll have to disconnect the axle from the chassis (it hinges at one point in the middle, to be able to traverse very uneven ground), and lift the machine up, and try to move it away, and deal with the axle on its own. I took some shots.\nThe lower picture shows the hi-lift jack forcing the two limbs of the dead tree apart.\nBack at the workshop:\nI tried again to get the wheel off the baler. Didn't have a heavy enough hammer for the pin in the axle. I'm sure it will go better from there on. I have been greasing every time I go, and each hub has taken 200 pumps of grease! I managed to free off the input shaft and the angle drive box (which I'm not planning to use, but it might be handy some time)............\nWith much sweat, I managed to get the wheel off the Mitchell baler today. This morning, I tried to saw more through the trunk, but it was too big for the bow saw. As I thought, I would have to take the axle off. The two trailing arms were no problem, but the pivot pin was stuck, so I went back to the thing after doing another job in that area this afternoon, with a big hammer, and managed to get the pin to move, but it belled out. So I tried the other way, but couldn't get at it, and bearing in mind I didn't know how to deal with the machine once the pin was out, I decided to tip the machine on its side. 2 goes with the hi-lift, and an unbelievable tilt, and she flopped gently onto her side.\nThis meant that I could get a good swing at the pin, but in the process, that end belled out too. Bear in mind that the whole root and trunk had also tipped over with the machine, and was now free to rotate a bit, (about 90 deg) With a sweat, so I could swing it this way and that, to get at the end of the pin. I then had to saw through the section of the pin sticking out, and knock the pin back the other way. Of course, the punch I was using got stuck in the hole, and that was a whole process to get out!\nOnce the pin was out, the wheel at the bottom got trapped, and the whole machine had to be lifted up again. Once the axle was off, it was a question of the hi-lift in exactly the right place, to wrench the axle out of the wood and free the wheel. Phew!\nThere is a perfect indentation of three quarters of the inside of the wheel dish in the dead wood!\nThe Mitchell has since been given to Emile Cronje of Brakfontein, who must by now be world renowned for his collection of mostly restored grain harvesting equipment, which he showcases once a year on his farm between Heidelberg (Cape) and Riversdale. The show is usually held early in December.\nThen the Threshing Machine, or Blikbak as we call it. In NZ it would be called a 'Tin Mill'.\nThe 'blikbak' is safely at the workshop! I rocked it out of its resting place with the Mercedes Benz Sprinter service-van and reinforced towbar, and then found that the slope out of the farm was too much for the van. I let it roll back, but as you know, drawbar things are not easy to reverse! The whole caboodle landed up crossways across the new owner of the farm's drive way!\nSwitch to plan B. I had to go home for lunch past a friendly customer, and borrowed a biggish (for us) 4wd tractor. (One of my own Fendt 203V vineyard tractors would have been pushed dangerously downhill, even if it had been able to get up!) It is 14km from the farm to my workshop, 1⁄2 on gravel, 1⁄2 on tar. The gravel section was really slow, whereas on the tar section I managed at a fair lick of speed, watching all the time that the left rear wheel didn't go over the edge off the tar. The right rear wheel needs a visit to the bicycle shop, for the spokes to be tuned, it wobbles like mad, and makes the whole machine shake! But the worst noise and shaking came from the feed chute, folded down, right behind me. At one stage Philip and Ryan were trailing me, picking up fallen-off parts and a pulley. One other pulley had fallen off on the farm already. It shows nothing is seized up! Time for the trip, about 13⁄4 hrs. What a pleasure to drive the unencumbered tractor back! (a Lamborghini) (about 3⁄4 hrs).\nI felt I needed to pay for the use of the tractor, besides filling the fuel tank, so luckily found the oil pressure sender unit not working when I put it away. (It had been handed over to me running, otherwise I would have noticed). So I was able to donate and fit the unit as, it being similar to a SAME, I travel around with spares.\nNow it's at the workshop, I can see how big it is, and how Derick Kleynhans can say it can be towed behind a bakkie (once fitted with rubber tyres) I just don't know. It really pushed me downhill!\nOne interesting thing was inspecting the bushes of the pulleys which came off.....100%!\nThinking back to the collection and inspection of this machine..... I have no idea when grain was last planted in this fruit growing area, still less when last it would have been threshed with a stationary Threshing Machine. There was no sign of a shed on the farm which could have housed this big machine, so we can assume, I think, that it has been outside all along. Yet apart from superficial rust on the angle-iron framework and adjusting threads, no single axle was stuck, all the fan shafts turned, shakers shook, and augers turned.\nWe didn't have undercover space for it either, so our 'preservation' for the last 51⁄2 years has amounted to greasing all the nipples profusely and raising the steel wheels off the ground to on to lorry rims, to prevent them from rusting.\nSome time ago, I had a visit from oom Jannie du Toit, from Gordon's Bay, over the mountain. Everyone knows oom Jannie is the last word when it comes to McCormick Deering. I saw him walk several times around the machine and asked him why he was so interested. He replied that he used to contract with exactly such a machine! When asked whether he saw his way clear to restoring this one, he said \"Yes\" straightaway! A word with Philip, and he agreed that oom Jannie would be just the right person to take on the challenge.\nHowever, logistics, not keenness, have prevented him from making a start, but he obviously hadn't forgotten the offer. So it came as no surprise to get a call from Sandstone Heritage Trust, to say that he had asked them to assist. Oom Jannie is behind most of the splendid collection of International, McCormick Deering and Farmall tractors and implements already in the Sandstone Collection.\nWe are looking forward to news of this machine's return to pristine running order!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line450845"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9147664904594421,"wiki_prob":0.9147664904594421,"text":"EECA calls Government proposal for electric vehicles a 'game changer'\nProposals to get more low-emission vehicles on New Zealand roads could be a major step for the transport sector and for transitioning New Zealand to a low-carbon economy, according to the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA).\nThe Government is looking at phasing in minimum fuel efficiency standards for new and used imported vehicles from 2021, to improve the fuel efficiency and emissions intensity of the light vehicle fleet.\nIt is also considering a feebate system for imported vehicles so discounts are applied to certain low-emission vehicles, and fees are applied to high emission ones.\nFor the first year, 2021, new electric vehicles could be in line for a rebate of up to $8,000 and used EVs could get up to $2,600.\nEECA’s chief executive Andrew Caseley says with light vehicles being responsible for 13% of New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions, the sector ‘is our biggest opportunity to reduce energy-related emissions.’\n‘New Zealand’s light vehicle imports are among the most emissions-intensive and least fuel-efficient in the OECD, as most other countries already have efficiency standards,’ Mr Caseley says.\nListen to the interview above.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line431130"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7134536504745483,"wiki_prob":0.7134536504745483,"text":"Sunny Leone has a visibility score of 9.88 on the Internet. This grade (out of 10) represents the online visibility of Sunny. Karenjit Kaur Vohra , known by her stage name Sunny Leone (), is a Canadian-born Indian-American actress and model, currently active in Indian film industry. She is a former pornstar. Sunny is linked on the web to Karen Malhotra, Mia Khalifa, Daniel Weber. The keywords that caracterize Sunny are People, Student, Encounter, Karenjit, Ontario, Actriz, Sarnia, Perfiles, Personas, Unofficial.\nKarenjit Kaur Vohra (born May 13, 1981), known by her stage name Sunny Leone (), is a Canadian-born Indian-American actress and model, currently active in Indian film industry. She is a former pornstar. She has American citizenship. She has also used the stage name Karen Malhotra. She was named Penthouse Pet of the Year in 2003, was a contract performer for Vivid Entertainment, and was named by Maxim as one of the 12 top porn stars in 2010. She has played roles in independent mainstream events, films, and television series. Her first mainstream appearance was in 2005, when she worked as a red carpet reporter for the MTV Video Music Awards on MTV India. In 2011, she participated in the Indian...\nPeople Student Encounter Karenjit Ontario Actriz Sarnia Perfiles Personas Unofficial\nTwitter: @SunnyLeone\nSunny Leone's social profiles:\nKaren Malhotra\nDaniel Weber\nShow Connection Graph\nSunny Leone Hot Deleted Scenes | Sunny Leone Uncut Scenes\nSunny Leone Sex Videos","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line641781"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7486621737480164,"wiki_prob":0.7486621737480164,"text":"Numbers, MellowHype, 10/9\nLos Angeles’ Odd Future collective (officially Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All), burst on to the scene formed in 2007, and it quickly gained a considerable audience following frontman Tyler, the Creator’s release of his debut album Goblin in 2009. But interest in the group truly exploded following the posting of Tyler’s “Yonkers” music video on YouTube (seriously, watch this if you haven't seen it already) and his appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with fellow OF rapper Hodgy Beats. On Tuesday, Hodgy Beats and producer/occasional rapper Left Brain dropped Numbers, their third album as the duo MellowHype.\nFirst off, Numbers is overall a good album. It’s consistent in every regard, it’s sufficiently diverse, and it has a definition not common to many contemporary hip-hop albums. But listeners hoping for the chaos, anger, and general depravity of Odd Future’s early music will likely be disappointed. Numbers takes a decidedly more stable tone than Tyler’s releases, or even previous MellowHype joints YelloWhite and BlackenedWhite. That’s not to say that the duo is attempting to transition to the mainstream; rather, it feels as though we’re hearing their maturation as it happens. Its just that what they’re maturing from, a delinquent gang of anarchist skaters celebrating their rape fantasies, was pretty darn entertaining. Their early work was so startling and captivating that Numbers, which has more than its share of aggression and creepy allusions to satanism, comes across as relatively tame.\nThat being said, there are many strong aspects of Numbers. Left Brain’s production, which is featured on all 16 of the tracks, is consistently enjoyable. He rarely uses samples, and the built from scratch quality works well, for he rarely tries to do too much. His jumpy, dissonant sound is unique and effective when paired with Hodgy Beats’ nervous, almost compulsive delivery. Hodgy has certainly chilled out a bit, his rapping is more controlled than previous efforts, in which he often seemed right on the edge of dropping the lyrics and just screaming. He is technically sharp throughout the album; indeed, its hard to think of one poorly delivered verse, and his newfound precision makes his more aggressive lines cut sharper (“On a one to ten, you like an average 8, blow job, you suck, shall I, elaborate?”).\nNumbers starts out hitting on all cylinders, with assists from OF big shots Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt on “Astro” and “P2”, respectively. Earl’s verse is fantastic, despite being the consensus best MC in the collective, his flow and content has evolved. Again, this isn’t your high-school self’s Earl, there’s nothing on dismemberment or vomiting blood, but he explains, “Last year I didn’t know what the cost of a coffin was, so now I’m often buzzed, in the apartment bummin’”. Left Brain pulls out all the stops on “Grill”, with an awesomely twitchy, smokey beat and a rare verse, which is pretty average, but his spacey, deep voice is a lot of fun to listen to. The segmented “65/Breakfast”, which couldn’t be any more different than BlackenedWhite’s “64”, unless it was performed by the 2 Live Crew, is also quite strong, as are most of the album’s tracks. Left Brain and Hodgy Beats are just simply both very skilled at what they do.\nThere are weak spots, such as “Snare”, which sounds like MellowHype covering a rejected Talib Kweli cut, and “Gnc”, a hip-hop 101 piece filled with familiar rap tropes. And when Hodgy urges us to take care of our families and loved ones on “Nfwgjdsh” (your guess is as good as mine), it feels forced, and honestly, he’s not somebody I would ever consider taking advice from concerning the organization of my life. In these instances, MellowHype strays too far towards the middle of the pack, but they always find their way back, close to their unique place. Over the course of “Leflair”, “Untitled L”, and “Monster”, Left Brain deftly pulls off 3 beats which move through electro-freak-out, to a Lex Luger style blast of snares, to a Tyler-esque classic OF sound. Hodgy ramps up the intensity, bringing the album to a darker, moshier place. On these tracks his rhyming is most impressive, sometimes so rapid as to demand multiple rewinds, other times excruciatingly slow, scratching out every syllable. In an era in which guest spots from producers attract more attention than guest verses, there is a definite and refreshing flow to the way MellowHype’s two members move through the album together.\nAgain, Numbers is a really solid album. But, fair or not, it didn’t quite satisfy the itch that builds up as the release date for an Odd Future album approaches. I found myself pausing in the middle of songs and looking up old classics like “Drop” and “F666 the Police”. This is not a knock on MellowHype, so much as a testament to the degree to which Odd Future occupied such a specific spot in hip-hop. I really like Numbers as a showcase of Hodgy’s evolving skills and Left Brain’s unique touch, but I can’t help but feel a touch of nostalgia for the good old days, when you could count on two words to be screamed in every MellowHype song: “Fuck...you!”.\nBest Line: “I said...niggas be takin life to serious, that’s why my music be takin’ lives (uh) period”-Hodgy Beats, “Astro”\nAlso worth checking out: Wu-Block, Wu-Tang Clan and D-Block, presented by Ghost Face Killah and Sheek Louch\nPosted by Luke at 11:50 PM\ngood kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar, 10/22\nMath in Words (Part 3)\nI Can Feel Brit Coming ‘In the Air Tonight’\nWRMC featured on NPR website!\nGhost EP, Sky Ferreira, EMI, October 16th\nJohn \"Bonzo\" Bonham, Should we Give a Brit?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line791671"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9401759505271912,"wiki_prob":0.9401759505271912,"text":"S.F. Chronicle\nBy Jennifer Granick on October 3, 2001 at 3:49 pm\nOctober 3, 2001, San Francisco Chronicle, \"Computer Hacker - Vandal Or Terrorist\".\nBy Jennifer Granick on August 9, 2000 at 1:40 pm\nAugust 9, 2000: In Defense of Accused Computer Crackers, ComputerWorld\nAugust 2, 2000: Computer Crimes Expose Flawed Trial System, ComputerWorld\nBy Jennifer Granick on August 30, 1999 at 1:27 pm\nAugust 30, 1999: S.F. Lawyer Helps Hackers, Crackers Get a Break, San Francisco Chronicle\nOctober 1997, Wired Magazine, Scotty, Beam Down the Lawyers.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1210316"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8426892757415771,"wiki_prob":0.8426892757415771,"text":"Columns • DIY Faith • Opinion • Simran Jeet Singh: Articles of Faith\nHow 9/11 spurred New Jersey’s Sikh attorney general into public service\nNew Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal speaks during a news conference announcing pollution lawsuits filed by the state, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)\nSimran Jeet Singh @SikhProf\n(RNS) — Last January, Gurbir Grewal became New Jersey’s attorney general, making him the nation’s first Sikh to serve as a state’s chief law enforcement officer and lawyer, a recognition of New Jersey’s status as one of the most culturally diverse places in the country.\nAlthough Grewal, 45, says his faith is not the primary driver of his work as attorney general, its core teachings of service, justice and kindness align well with his progressive approach to policy.\nOne can hear this conviction when Grewal speaks about justice for all, especially for the marginalized, as he does often. In just over a year in office, Grewal has already taken part in dozens of legal proceedings against the Trump administration, each of which confronts discriminatory, inhumane or inequitable policies.\nRELATED: Meet Sadaf Jaffer, America’s first female Muslim mayor\nGrewal, who grew up in New Jersey, attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service before getting his law degree at the College of William and Mary. He was appointed attorney general by Gov. Phil Murphy in 2017 after a decade as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York and as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey in Newark.\nHe says that growing up as a visible religious minority has given him a sense of what injustice and disenfranchisement do to communities — a view of America that was put in relief by the attacks of 9/11.\nI had the opportunity to speak with Grewal about his upbringing, what he draws from his faith and the relationship between Sikhi and public service.\nThis interview has been edited for length and clarity.\nCan you tell me a little bit about your current role as attorney general and how that comports with your worldview as a Sikh?\nI’ve always said that being a Sikh lines up so naturally with being a public servant. It’s exactly what our tradition teaches us to do. But it’s just not that. Being a Sikh also lines up with being a public servant who is specifically focused on the goal of ensuring justice and fairness for everyone. There are so few professions that enable you to serve the public, to ensure justice, and to ensure that everyone’s rights are fully protected.\nSo much of who I am and what I believe is based on how I was raised, and Sikhi played a big part in that. You want to stand up for everyone. You want to ensure that everyone has a fair shot — and there’s an element of mercy that runs through Sikhi as well.\nAs a county prosecutor, where I had the ability to set policy and shape the way the office prioritized cases, that belief pushed me to prioritize cases that dealt with justice. For example, I could say we’re not going to lock up people on low-level drug offenses because it doesn’t help them and doesn’t bring justice to anyone. We focused instead on helping these people and their communities.\nIn my current role, I’m responsible for the entire criminal justice system in New Jersey. I have the ability to set policy and directives that shape how we treat our communities and ensure justice for everyone. My work ties back to everything that I’ve learned and believed about what it means to be a Sikh — to work for justice and to stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.\nAre there any particular Sikh teachings that you lean into as a source of support or guidance?\nFor me, it all goes back to the Guru Nanak’s radical egalitarian vision. I see that as the foundation of our religion, and I find so much inspiration in that. It’s central to who we are as a community, especially if you look at the origins of Sikhi.\nI also really love the line from the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh scripture) by Bhagat Kabir, where he says, “Sura so pahichaniai jo larahi deen ke het purja purja kat marai kabhu na chaadahi khet.” (“One is called a warrior who fights for the oppressed; one who is slashed and annihilated — yet never abandons the battlefield (of justice).”\nThat’s been an inspirational teaching to me about what it means to commit to something. The message I take away from this for myself is to have the strength to fight injustice and to fight bigotry and to fight intolerance. Whenever I hear these lines, I feel empowered.\nHow else do your Sikh values and worldview figure into your work?\nThere are plenty, especially when it comes to ideas around public service. I always come back to the idea of seva (“selfless service”) and serving those around us. I ask myself: “Are we doing the most we can to help all of our communities?”\nI’d also say there’s also more to it than just the beliefs. My work is informed by my worldview as a Sikh, and it’s also informed by my experience as a Sikh in America. You know what it’s like to be marginalized, you know what it’s like to be othered, you know what it’s like to be on the receiving end of bias and hate. And while these experiences can be difficult, they can also help teach us empathy.\nSo there’s the empathy we’re taught to have by our religious teachings, and then there’s also the empathy that’s produced through our experiences with oppressive policies, like racial profiling at the airport. To have experienced those sorts of oppressions, and to have felt that pain, and to now have the opportunity to help fix those issues at a broad level — that plays into a lot of what I do.\nHow have those experiences shaped your life and career?\nThe trigger for me was 9/11. At the time, I didn’t have a passion for public service, I hate to say. I was very content then. I went to a decent college, went to a decent law school, and landed a decent job at a law firm. I was just enjoying where I was.\nAnd then a tragedy befalls this country, and I found that I didn’t have the luxury to grieve like the people around me. Immediately in that moment, I was reminded that I was the other. And this was a real point of introspection for me. I was in my mid-20s, felt like I was a part of American society — and yet people on television kept showing people who looked like me, saying we were responsible for the tragedy.\nAnd when they showed Americans, they never showed anyone who looked like me. Especially when they showed public servants, including firefighters and police officers. For me, that was a wakeup call to do something. That’s when I really started to think about what we should be doing.\nOn the night of 9/11, my mom told me to just get groceries and stay in that night. She thought that would keep me safe. But honestly, that didn’t feel right. That’s not who we are as Sikhs. Our Sikhi teaches us that we stand out by design, so that we’re ready to step up in moments like this one.\nIt was then that I began to feel passionate about public service. I felt a desire to serve others and began thinking about what opportunities would be good for me. I also realized that public service would help show other Americans what Sikhi is all about. That’s how it all started.\nTags9/11 anti-Sikhism attorney general Gurbir Grewal Guru Nanak homepage featured New Jersey Sikh\nSimran Jeet Singh\nSimran Jeet Singh is a scholar of religion currently based at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media. He is also senior religion fellow for the Sikh Coalition.\nAtheist summits aim to find community, and power, in networking nonbelievers\nHouses of worship are not just for worship anymore","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line726117"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6432425379753113,"wiki_prob":0.6432425379753113,"text":"Find Health Care Services\nHow to Make an Appointment\nRood Family Pavilion\nAbout OHSU Health Care\nAdvice and Referrals\nCredentialing Resources\nEmergency Communications Center\nOHSU Connect\nPatient Complaint Process\nInclusive Patient Care and Communication\nEthics Consult Service\nFor Current Volunteers\nAdministrative Summer Internship\nWe are passionate and accomplished doctors, researchers and educators working together to provide innovative, world-class care.\nAs Oregon’s only academic health center, OHSU provides an extensive range of services, from everyday health care needs to complex, highly specialized therapies.\nOur knowledge translates into cures and disease prevention. Our research sparks new treatments. Our educators teach tomorrow’s health care leaders. Our outreach programs improve community health.\nOur hospitals, partners and other relationships\nOHSU includes two hospitals (OHSU Hospital and OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital) and numerous medical practices that are located on Marquam Hill, at the Center for Health & Healing, at the South Waterfront and in several neighborhoods in the Portland metro area.\nIn addition, OHSU has affiliated with other health care partners across the state. Currently, Tuality Healthcare and Adventist Health Portland are part of the OHSU health system, significantly expanding the Portland metro-area locations where Oregonians can connect with Oregon's only academic health center.\nOutside of Portland, OHSU has significant relationships with the Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria and the Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles.\nOHSU is a regional resource for patients from Oregon, southwest Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and northern California.\nMore than 34 percent of OHSU patients come from outside the Portland tri-county metropolitan area.\nPatients come to OHSU from every county in the state.\nOHSU is one of two designated Level 1 Trauma Centers in the state and played a pivotal role in the inception of the Oregon Trauma System.\nThe OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is the only cancer center between Sacramento and Seattle designated by the National Cancer Institute.\nOHSU is the only place in Oregon where adults and children can receive bone-marrow transplants.\nThe OHSU Center for Women's Health is one of 20 national Centers of Excellence for women's health.\nThe Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute is the home for OHSU’s clinical and translational research, bringing together medical researchers from every arena to share expertise, technologies and ideas. OHSU is conducting more than 700 clinical trials to bring new treatments and cures to patients sooner.\nOHSU’s Casey Eye Institute is home to the nation’s first research-oriented children’s eye clinic, the Elks Children’s Eye Clinic, established in 1949.\nThe discovery of the anti-cancer medication Gleevec by OHSU Knight Cancer Institute director Brian Druker, M.D., has saved more than 1,000,000 lives.\nHere's a detailed list of OHSU facts\nWhy choose OHSU for health care\nAs the only academic health center in the state, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is where personalized patient care is combined with the latest treatments and therapies to deliver you a quality of healthcare not available anywhere else in Oregon. Coming to OHSU for your healthcare means seeing doctors who are involved in developing new cures and new standards of care in Oregon and worldwide.\nYear after year, OHSU doctors, nurses, and staff are recognized as the top healthcare professionals working at the most preferred hospital in the Portland metropolitan area. Nationally, we are the only health system in Oregon to be recognized in US News and World Report’s Best Hospitals list. But awards aren’t what make us come to work every day. It’s working together to help people like you and your family.\nWhat is an academic health center?\nAn academic health center is more than a regular hospital.\nAn academic health center:\nProvides patients and the community with health care for everyday needs and the most specialized services for complex diseases, illnesses and injuries\nOffers unique care not available anywhere else in the region\nTeaches generations of health care professionals with an eye on training the right mix of providers for tomorrow’s needs\nDevelops technology and carries out research that improves lives\nWhy choose an academic health center?\nAt OHSU, we believe knowledge comes from questioning the status quo, discovering more about disease and using that knowledge to improve the health of our community. Out of more than 100 academic health centers in the U.S., we are the only one in Oregon. Nearly a third of Oregon’s practicing physicians did all or part of their training at OHSU.\nWe bring teams of physicians, nurses, researchers, teachers, technologists and other experts together all in one setting to advance health care in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. It’s an approach called multi-disciplinary care.\nAll these resources, knowledge and learning gleaned from all of us are all for one person: you.\nWhat can an academic health center offer me?\nBoard-certified doctors in all major specialties, working side-by-side to provide all-encompassing care, 24/7\nThe latest discoveries in medicine sooner; many are made right here at OHSU\nOpportunities to participate in clinical trials\nTraveling clinics and telemedicine technology delivered to rural sites around the state\nDoctors well-versed in the latest treatments, technologies and innovations to treat patients and educate doctors for the future.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1540286"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8876917958259583,"wiki_prob":0.8876917958259583,"text":"from the Press of 1 Books Appletree Alley\nSome retired men spend their days in the garage, tinkering with a classic car or motorcycle. When graphic designer and public relations practitioner Barnard Taylor retired in 1979, he chose to tinker with a Vandercook No. 4 letterpress.\nTaylor founded The Press of Appletree Alley, named for the setting of his garage-turned-print-shop, to produce beautifully printed limited editions of fine writings, poetry, prose and letters from 1981 to 2002. He collaborated with Bucknell writers, including Professor of English Jack Wheatcroft ’49 and several poets-in-residence, to create many of the press’ more than 30 titles, which were typeset and bound by hand, and frequently illustrated with linoleum-cut prints. Bertrand Library owns a complete collection of Appletree Alley limited editions, as well as a manuscript collection detailing the business of making each fine edition.\n2 The Burma-Bucknell What’s that silver bowl, so shiny and intricately carved, sitting on a shelf in Special Collections/University Archives? It’s a gift from Burma to Bucknell commemorating 100 years of friendship. The bond between the nation now known as Myanmar and the University began more than 150 years ago when Baptist minister and Bucknell trustee Eugene Kincaid encouraged Maung Shaw Loo, Class of 1864, to become the first international student at what was then called the University at Lewisburg.\nThe silver bowl is embossed with motifs of contemplation, peace and tranquility. And its hand-carved stained teakwood stand is supported by three half-lion, half-dog “protectors” of the bowl.\nEach spring the Burma-Bucknell Award is given to a community member or organization for outstanding contributions to intercultural and international understanding within the University community. Recipients are given a replica of the original bowl, which was presented to the University by the president of Burma in 1958. This year’s recipients were Professor Angèle Kingué, French & Francophone studies, and Mona Mohammed ’ 16.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line428028"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6111330389976501,"wiki_prob":0.6111330389976501,"text":"Raytown South High School music programs earns high marks at State Music Festival\nOn April 5, the Raytown South High School band program earned high marks at the State Music Festival for Large Ensembles at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts.\nRaytown South High School’s symphonic band received an exemplary (I) for their performance and the concert band received a satisfactory (III) rating for their performance.\nThe Raytown South High School band program is under the direction of Erin Johnson.\nOn April 6, the Raytown South High School vocal music program earned high marks at the State Music Festival for Large Ensembles at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts.\nRaytown South High School’s Cardinal Chorale and combined Cardinal Chorale and concert choir both received an overall outstanding (II) rating for their performances.\nThe Raytown South High School combined beginning women’s choir received a satisfactory (III) rating for their performance.\nThe Raytown South High School vocal music program is under the direction of Gretchen Kemp.\nOn April 2, the Raytown South High School orchestra program earned high marks at the State Music Festival for Large Ensembles at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts.\nRaytown South High School’s symphonic orchestra received an outstanding (II) rating for their performance.\nThe Raytown South High School orchestra program is under the direction of Brandon Ford.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line262296"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5397226214408875,"wiki_prob":0.5397226214408875,"text":"Airlines and Airports\nComment on what's happening in the air and on the ground\nAviation Landscape & Policies\nInternational Air Transport Association (IATA)\nKingfisher Airlines\nSamoa Air\nAirfare, fees, taxes and surcharges\nAs fuel prices go up, so will fares\nJuly 23, 2018 by Dingzi Leave a comment\nIT looks like the good times are running out. Airlines, faced with rising fuel costs, are raising fares. Delta Air Lines for one is expecting its fuel costs for 2018 to be US$2 billion higher than they were a year ago. Its CEO Ed Bastian warned travellers that “with higher fuel prices, you;re going to expect to see ticket prices go up as well.”\nAnd Delta is not the only airline heading in that direction. Other carriers are likely to follow suit if they have not already done so.\nOn the other side of the Pacific, Air New Zealand (Air NZ) and Jetstar have raised domestic fares by five per cent, and Air NZ is reviewing fares for international routes. According to Air NZ chief executive Christopher Luxon, every dollar increase for a barrel of fuel “adds $10 million of costs to Air New Zealand’s bottom line.”\nMr Christopher Luxon, Photo courtesy Air New Zealand\nInternational Air Transport Association (IATA) chief executive officer Alexandre de Juniac warned that against this background, “next year will be less positive.”\nMr Luxon of Air NZ painted this picture of the likely scenario: ”The normal cycle in aviation is that fuel goes up, prices rise, demand may fall and capacity gets reduced.”\nSo what are airlines doing about it, apart from raising fares because that alone has its limitations in view of the competition and the impact it may have on the consumer’s propensity to travel?\nDelta has already made known its intention to withdraw flights serving the less popular destinations. So too will other carriers after the summer peak.\nBeyond that, many airlines are ramping up hedging. Major European airlines including budget carriers Ryanair and EasyJet, for example, are increasing the ratio of hedged fuel to as high as 90 per cent of needs. Low cost carriers especially, because of their limited ability to hedge, were badly hit the last times when fuel prices careened upwards. But hedging is not a completely safe bet. Equally so, many airlines also reported significant losses when fuel prices came down.\nThe good news is that with more fuel-efficient aircraft in operation, the impact of the increased fuel costs may not be as hard on the airlines. Higher fares are as good as being ready to be rolled out, but the question is how far can the airlines go without losing customers, particularly at a time when the price of the fare is likely to matter more than allegiance?\nAgain, to quote Mr Luxon, ”All airlines, whether you’re in Australia or around the world are working hard to see how they can take prices up and ultimately how much of that cost increase can you recover through pricing.”\nFiled under Air New Zealand, Aviation Landscape, Policies & Trends, Delta Air Lines Tagged with Air New Zealand, Alexandre de Juniac, Christopher Luxon, Delta Air Lines, EasyJet, Ed Bastian, fuel costs, fuel hedging, Jetstar, Ryanair\n2018 Skytrax airline awards: Largely the same winners\nTop airlines remain largely the same ones as last year’s.\nYet again we note how the top ten airlines remained largely the same ones as last year’s. If you’re good, you’re good, so it seems, and consistency won the day.\nSingapore Airlines (SIA) which was second last year switched places with last year’s winner Qatar Airways. All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Emirates Airlines held steady in 3rd and 4th position. Cathay Pacific moved down one rung to 6th,, exchanging places with EVA Air. Lufthansa held its 7th position. Garuda Indonesian followed Hainan Airlines up one notch to 8th and 9th position respectively. The only new entrant to the list was Thai Airways International, which actually only moved up one rung from 11th last year, edging out Etihad Airways as it fell from 8th to 15th position.\nSo much for the excitement as the winning airlines, going by the result of the survey, continued to please their customers who found no reason to think otherwise of them.\nUnlike some high-brow surveys whose results lean heavily on the premium class, Skytrax does readings across all classes.\nBest for First Class was SIA followed by Etihad and Air France. This used to be the realm of Asian and Middle-East carriers, and let it not be a surprise to see two European carriers in the ranking. Lufthansa took 4th place.\nBest for Business Class was Qatar followed by SIA and ANA. You would imagine that if an airline is good in First, it should not be too far off in Business. However, Air France was not placed in the top ten list and Lufthansa ranked 8th.\nBest for Premium Economy was Air New Zealand followed by Qantas and SIA. It looks like the Pacific airlines are pretty good with this product. Lufthansa and Air France ranked 4th and 5th.. There was an absence of Middle-east carriers because they didn’t believe in such a class. Qatar chief CEO Akbar Al Baker had said: “We won’t roll out premium economy… I don’t think there is room for premium economy in our region, and of course in Qatar Airways. We give you a premium economy seat with an economy class price.” Sounds familiar if you recall the early days when SIA too expressed the same skepticism. However, Emirates has said its new Airbus A380 expected to be delivered in 2020 will feature premium economy.\nCourtesy Star Alliance\nBest for Economy Class was Thai Airways followed by SIA and Qatar. This category was dominated by Asian carriers with the exception of Lufthansa in 9th position.\nOnly these six airlines were placed in all three categories of First, Business and Economy (excluding premium Economy since not all airlines offer this sub-class): ANA, Cathay, Emirates, Lufthansa, Qatar and SIA. You can then rest comforted that whatever class you travel with these airlines, you will be treated without discrimination.\nBut is the Skytrax survey a good guide in choosing which carrier to fly with? Generally people can agree on makes a good airline. What matters when you travel with an airline? For the long haul, seat comfort is an important feature. Inflight entertainment, if you look for some distraction and are not otherwise doing something else or trying to catch up on shuteye. A good meal, if you are not one who will not eat airline food no matter what (unfortunately this is not featured in the Skytrax survey). Cabin cleanliness, of course, and that includes the condition of the washrooms. How often do you see the crew give it a clean-up and spraying some kind of deodorant to try and make it as pleasant as it possibly can be? Above all, the service provided by the cabin crew, to be treated in a friendly manner and with respect. Not forgetting service on the ground in the event that you may need assistance, as when your bag is damaged or has not arrived with you.\nPerhaps the ranking for some of these more specific services may be of some help:\nBest Economy seat (First and Business should be way better anyway): 1st Japan Airlines, 2nd SIA and 3rd Thai Airways.\nBest cabin crew: 1st Garuda, 2nd SIA and 3rd ANA.\nBest inflight entertainment: 1st Emirates, 2nd SIA and 3rd Qatar.\nCleanest cabin: 1st ANA, 2nd EVA and 3rd Asiana Airlines.\nBest airport service: 1st EVA, 2nd ANA and 3rd Cathay.\nBut, of course, you can’t expect a single airline to be best in all categories, but you get a pretty good idea of where they all stand, perhaps with exceptions.\nFiled under Air France, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Customer service & surveys, Emirates, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Garuda Indonesia, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways International Tagged with Air France, Air New Zealand, Akbar Al Baker, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Emirates Airlines, EVA Air, Garuda Indonesia, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Skytrax Best Airlines 2018, Thai Airways International\nAir New Zealand tops again\nNovember 4, 2017 by Dingzi Leave a comment\nCourtesy Air New Zealand\nAirlineRatings.com has named Air New Zealand as the world’s best airline for 2018. Other airlines that make the top ten in descending order are Qantas, Singapore Airlines (SIA), Virgin Australia, Virgin Atlantic, Etihad Airways, All Nippon Airways (ANA), Korean Air, Cathay Pacific and Japan Airlines.\nAccording to the editorial team, airlines must achieve a seven-star safety rating (developed in consultation with the International Civil Aviation Organization) and demonstrate leadership in innovation for passenger comfort to be named in the top ten.\nThe evaluation team also looks at customer feedback on sites that include CN Traveller.com which perhaps explain little surprise in both AirlineRatings and Conde Nast Travel naming Air New Zealand as their favourite. (See What defines a best airline? Oct 19, 2017) Four airlines, namely SIA, Virgin Australia, Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific are ranked in the top ten of both lists. These look like consistently global favourites.\nNotable absences from the AirlineRatings list are Middle east carriers Qatar Airways and Emirates Airlines. While these airlines scored for service in other surveys, they may have lost the lead in product innovation for which most of the airlines ranked by AirlineRatings are commended. Virgin Australia’s new business class is said to be “turning heads” and Etihad is said to provide a “magnificent product throughout the cabins.” Looking ahead, Air New Zealand will feel the pressure from Qantas and SIA for the top spot. (See Singapore Airlines steps up to reclaim past glory, Nov 3, 2017) In the same survey, Qantas is selected for best lounges and best catering services, and SIA for best first class and best cabin crew.\nFor those who think best airline surveys are often skewed by the halo effect of service provided in the upper classes, AirlineRatings has named Korean Air as best economy airline.\nFiled under Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Aviation Landscape, Policies & Trends, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Japan Airlines, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia Tagged with Air New Zealand, AirlineRatings.com, All Nippon Airways, Cathay Pacific, Conde Nast Travel, Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia\nWhat defines a best airline?\nOctober 19, 2017 by Dingzi Leave a comment\nWhat defines a best airline, considering the different surveys that rank them? Conde Nast Travel has just released its readers’ choice of the best in 2017, and it is no surprise the list is made up of Asian, Middle East, European and SW Pacific carriers.\nOf course, it depends on the readership, but recognizing that, it also points to what really makes these airlines stand out. It is clear that the premium class service weighs heavily – the seat comfort and the fine food.\nEtihad Airways (ranked #16) offers “the future of first-class comfort: a three-room “residence” with a bedroom, private bath with shower, and lounge.” Emirates (#4) offers “posh perks for premium fliers – cocktail lounges, in-flight showers… part of the reason it scores so high among travellers.” And the suites on Singapore Airlines (#3) offer “a pair of fully flat recliners that can be combined into a double bed.”\nMention is made of the premium economy class in almost all the ranked airlines” KLM (#20), Lufthansa (#19), Japan Airlines (#17), All Nippon Airways (#13), Qantas (#12), Cathay Pacific (#10), Virgin Atlantic (#7), Virgin Australia (#6), Singapore Airlines (#3) and Air New Zealand (#1).\nSo it may appear to be the voice of the premium travellers that is being heard. Maybe coach travellers aren’t too concerned about the ranking, more driven by price and less frilly factors, although to be fair, the Conde Nast report did mention of at least one airline, i.e. Etihad Airways (#16), not ignoring “those sitting in the back.” While many travellers may resign to the belief that the economy class is about the same across the industry, it is reasonable to assume that an airline that strives to please its customers in the front cabins will most probably carry that culture or at least part of it to the rear.\nAlthough you may draw consensus across many of the surveys, it is best best to treat each one of them in isolation. It is more meaningful to try and draw intra conclusions within the findings of the particular survey.\nYou will note in the Conde Nast findings, there is an absence of American (including Canadian) carriers, never mind that of African and South American carriers.\nAsiana Airlines (#8) is ranked ahead of Korean Air (#11).\nAll Nippon Airways (#13) is ranked ahead of Japan Airlines (#17). V\nVirgin Australia (#6) is ranked ahead of Qantas (#12).\nThe order of the “Big 3” Gulf carriers is as follows: Qatar Airways (#2), Emirates (#4) and Etihad Airways (#16).\nOf European carriers, there is the conspicuous absence of the big names of British Airways (compare Virgin Atlantic #7) and Air France, and the pleasant surprise of Aegean Airlines (#9) while SWISS seems to be regaining its erstwhile status years ago as being the industry standard.\nThe best belongs to Air New Zealand as the quiet achiever.\nUltimately, the results also depend on the group of respondents whose experiences may be limited to certain airlines.\nOther airlines ranked in the top 20 of the Conde Nast survey: Finnair (#14), Turkish Airlines (#15), EVA Air (#18).\nFiled under Aegean Airlines, Air France, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, Aviation Landscape, Policies & Trends, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Swiss International, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia Tagged with Air France, Air New Zealand, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Conde Nast best airlines 2017, Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Finnair, Japan Airlines, KLM, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia\nAir New Zealand leads the pack\nNovember 23, 2016 by Dingzi Leave a comment\nAir New Zealand is the world’s best airline according to AirlineRatings.com based on criteria that include fleet age, safety, profitability and leadership in innovation for passenger comfort. The agency’s Airline Excellence Awards program which lists the winning airlines is endorsed by the International Civil Aviation Organization.\nMany travellers would recognize ANZ for its attention-grabbing in-flight safety video that takes them into Middle Earth, the kind of out-of-the-aircraft features that a few other airlines have tried to imitate but fared only poorly. AirlineRatings.com Editor-in-Chief Geoffrey Thomas said: “Air New Zealand came out number one in virtually all of our audit criteria, which is an exceptional performance.” The airline was favoured for its record-breaking financial performance, award-winning in-flight innovations, operational safety, environmental leadership and motivation of its staff.\nSkycouch: Picture courtesy Air New Zealand\nBut, of course, there are surveys and there are surveys that publish their own lists of favourites. Some airlines such as Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Cathay Pacific have a ubiquitous presence, and there also notable absences. This is where it is most telling, bearing in mind that the ranking is dependent on several factors such as the excellence-defining criteria and the population surveyed.\nThe other nine airlines ranked behind ANZ in the top ten list by AirlineRatings.com are in descending order: Qantas, SIA, Cathay, Virgin Atlantic, British Airways (BA), Etihad, All Nippon Airways, EVA Air and Lufthansa.\nIt is interesting to note that the top two airlines come from the remote Southwest Pacific. Qantas has in recent years been working on upgrading its product offerings, winning accolades for catering and airport lounges. Not surprisingly, innovation along with good service seem to be the driving winning streak going down the list – SIA and Cathay for their premium economy and revamped business classes, Virgin for its cabin ambience and friendly crew, BA for its leadership in in-flight entertainment, and Etihad for its equally impressive service in front and at the back of the aircraft.\nNotable absences in the list are US carriers (no surprise there) and two of the big three Middle-East carriers (Emirates and Qatar).\nMany survey rankings are skewed by the weight they place on service in the premium classes. However, Mr Thomas of AirlineRatings.com said: “We are looking for leadership and airlines that innovate to make a real difference to the passenger experience particularly in economy class.” Considering that the majority of travellers are seated in coach, it is time that airlines crowned with the halo of excellence pay more attention at the back of the aircraft, for this may well make the difference as the competition intensifies. And, it is where the differentiation becomes even more challenging. Perhaps too, this could be the reason why Emirates and Qatar, known for their lavish premium service, did not make it to the top ten of the list.\nFiled under Air New Zealand, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic Tagged with Air New Zealand, AirlinesRatings.com, All Nippon Airways, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, Lufthansa, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic\nAir New Zealand poised for growth\nSeptember 10, 2015 by David Leo Leave a comment\nAir New Zealand (ANZ) is probably best known for its innovative approach in its in-flight safety video presentation. Drawing inspiration from the Men In Black to Hobbits of the Middle Kingdom, what used to be or is supposed to be a staid, no-nonsense delivery of critical information that is often ignored by many travellers, particularly repeat fliers, the presentation has become entertainment. Though not without controversy, the videos show how ANZ is not only innovative but also bold enough to break tradition. While the initiative cannot be said to be a marketing strategy to attract more customers, one is tempted to ask if ANZ is in like manner finally emerging, albeit slowly, from a lacklustre past and turning heads across the industry.\nThe kiwi airline has just reported an impressive full-year performance. Operating revenue as at end-June 2015 was NZ$4.92 billion (US$3.01 billion), increasing by 6% over last year. But annualised earnings before taxation rose by 32% to NZ$496 million, and the statutory net profit after taxation was NZ$327 million, up 24%. The results were released right after Qantas’ announcement of a dramatic turnaround and were not surprisingly overshadowed by the hype drummed up by the flying kangaroo’s performance and no less the outspoken personality of its chief executive Alan Joyce (See Qantas is Asia Pacific’s New Star Performer, Aug 27, 2015).\nIn their part of the world, ANZ and Qantas are major rivals. Indeed, considering that ANZ’s short-haul load makes up 88% of the 14.3 million passengers carried for the full year, the kiwi airline is more a regional than international airline. Australia was its biggest membership base for ANZ loyalty program Airpoints, with growth in that market exceeding 20% during the year. ANZ chief executive officer Christopher Luxon said: “This doesn’t surprise us as more Australian than ever are embracing the Air New Zealand product and service offering whether it be on the Tasman, to the Pacific Islands, North America or South America.”\nObviously Australia is an important market which is critical to ANZ’s growth as an international airline, perhaps an ironic corollary to how Qantas probably sees New Zealand as a necessary appendage by offering a one-dollar fare for onward travel through Australian gateways. Both airlines have enlarged their interest bases in each other’s land – Qantas through its budget subsidiary Jetstar Airways and ANZ its investment in Virgin Australia. And both airlines, situated at the far end of the kangaroo (and beyond) route, face competition beyond their shores from a slew of airlines such as Singapore Airlines (SIA), Cathay Pacific and Middle East carriers.\nMr Luxon said: “We remain focused on the Pacific Rim as our growth strategy and will continue to provide the best connections, product and service at competitive prices, to maintain and grow our market share in these regions. Next year will see further capacity growth in international markets as we look forward to new routes starting in December 2015 to Houston and Buenos Aires. And while we are gearing up to launch these exiting new routes we have a team assessing potential new opportunities in Australia, Asia and the Americas.”\nCan ANZ overcome an apparent geographical disadvantage and turn it into a strategic marketing benefit, and identify new windows of opportunities?\nMr Luxon has identified the Pacific Rim as its focus. So, fly west. The Americas are much closer and offer room for growth. Qantas too in recent years has been ramping up its connections westward, penetrating deeper into the US. It operates the world’s longest non-stop flight, between Sydney and Dallas (the record will go to Emirates when it introduces a service between Dubai and Panama City in February 2016). The challenge remains whether ANZ has enough hinterland traffic to sustain that initiative, and whether this will hinge on how successfully it can challenge Qantas on market share for the region. To turn a geographical advantage into a benefit demands a lot of the innovative spirit to make it work. ANZ is already flying onward from Los Angeles to London with fifth freedom rights.\nMeantime Qantas has not only strengthened its alliances with American Airlines but also entered into partnerships with airlines in other regions, especially China having identified Asia as a potential area of growth in its restructuring plans. While still maintaining a hub for Asian connections in Singapore (after moving the hub on the kangaroo route from Singapore to Dubai in partnership with Emirates Airlines), it has been active in mounting direct flights between Australian and Chinese destinations. This, of course, makes sense when China has become Australia’s biggest inbound tourism market. The Qantas/China eastern connection now commands 87% of the market share on the Sydney-Pudong (Shanghai) sector. Qantas would have commanded a strong presence in Hong Kong in a tie-up with China Southern Airlines had the Hong Kong administration not rejected the Jetstar Hong Kong’s application.\nQantas offers a ready lesson since Mr Luxon had expressed ANZ’s interest to grow in Asia although, to be noted, Virgin Australia which is 26% owned by ANZ has also entered into an alliance with Air China for flights between China and Australia. Just that it seems a couple of steps behind. However, there are situational differences between Qantas and ANZ although the challenges may be similar. Among the factors for ANZ’s success, ANZ chairman Tony Carter cited “the continued development of our alliance partner relationships”. ANZ and Air China will jointly launch a Peking-Auckland service in December.\nMr Carter is optimistic about ANZ’s immediate future. He said, “Given the current known operating environment, along with our increased capacity and improved operating efficiencies, we expect to achieve significant earnings growth in the coming year.” How “significant” that will be is to be seen, but Mr Carter seemed encouraged by “current sales momentum”. Of course, the lower fuel prices help, but then as Qantas Joyce said, “Every airline gets the benefit.” What lifted Qantas above the rest, according to Mr Joyce, was its transformation program. This does not mean ANZ should roll out a similar program. Far from it. We’d rather be surprised by ANZ’s knack for innovation a la Lord of the Rings.\nThis is an abridged version of the article which was first published in Aspire Aviation, titled “Partnership is Air New Zealand’s answer to litmus test” .\nFiled under Air New Zealand, Qantas Tagged with Air China, Air New Zealand, Alan Joyce, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Christopher Luxon, Jetstar Airways, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Tony Carter, Virgin Australia\nAir New Zealand reconstructed\nDecember 9, 2014 by David Leo Leave a comment\nIF you are planning to visit the Hobbits and the Kingdoms of Middle Earth, don’t think twice about flying Air New Zealand (Air NZ). The Kiwi carrier is probably best recognized in recent times for its innovative in-flight safety videos before take-off.\nKeeping a relatively low profile, Air NZ is entering a new era of growth. In a way it is like the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes if you recall how in 2001 with the collapse of Ansett Airlines, it had to be bailed out by the government. Air NZ acquired 50% of Ansett in 1996 for A$475m and the other 50% for A$680m in 2000. Ansett became bankrupt in 2001 and was written off with a tag of $1.32b, adding to the losses suffered by Air NZ itself.\nSince then it has been a long road of reconstruction for Air NZ, which today reported earnings growth for the third consecutive financial year ending June 2014. Normalised earnings before taxation were NZ$323m (US$254m), which was an increase of 30% on last year. Statutory earnings before taxation were NZ$357m, an increase of 40%. Operating revenue held steady at NZ$4.7b, increasing by NZ$48m. However, statutory net profit after taxation increased by an impressive 45% from NZ$181m to NZ$262m. Air NZ also reported a strong operating cash flow of NZ$730m.\nThe good results were attributed to an increase in passenger revenue of 4.6% to NZ$3.9b and yield improvements across its network of 3.3%. The airline carried 2.3% more passengers. Of course, like many airlines presently, it has benefitted from decreased fuel costs due to falling oil prices. But additionally and perhaps more importantly, Air NZ attributed the lower cost to fleet efficiencies.\nWhat makes Air NZ’s performance worthy of note is how it has been able to sustain a turnaround at a time when many of the world’s airlines are still see-sawing between profit and loss, that in spite of New Zealand’s not too favorable geographical at the end of the active business line. A comparison with neighbour Qantas, which was unsuccessful in bids to acquire stakes in the beleaguered airline during its tumultuous years, is inevitable. In the last three years, Air NZ has done far better than its bigger rival although Qantas has just announced a spectacular performance for 2014.\nAir NZ chairman Tony Carter said: “Air New Zealand continues to be a world leading airline both in terms of customer experience and financial performance.” He added, “We have made significant progress on our key strategic initiatives. With new aircraft offering better operating economics, an optimised network with the right alliance partners, disciplined cost management and a daily focus on improving the customer experience, we are very well positioned to continue growing.”\nAir NZ’s revival stems from a strategy of focussing on its strengths, and that means not pursuing willy nilly a certain course of action just because every other player is doing it. Its domestic arm is a sterling performer with a load factor above 80% and a yield of NZ$0.29 (cents per RPK). Capacity grew by 5.4%. While it is doing better, key rival Jetstar’s market share fell from 22.4% to 20.7%. It is also maintaining its market lead in the Tasman and Pacific Islands region, with a load factor of 83.4%. While Qantas was promoting Jetstar and other major airlines were spawning budget offshoots, Air NZ grounded its low-cost Freedom Air, preferring to carry “all” in one plane for trans-Tasman flights. The airline has learnt that what works for one airline may not necessarily work for another.\nInternationally, the airline continues to realign its long haul network. With capacity adjustment, the load factor continues to improve, up 1.4% pts to 85.4%. Air NZ withdrew from the Hong Kong route with onward connection to London. Although a Star Alliance member, it has instead tied up an arrangement with OneWorld member Cathay Pacific. While rival Qantas is expanding aggressively in Asia and boosting its kangaroo route dominance in an alliance with Emirates to use Dubai International as its European hub (replacing Singapore Changi), in a market that has become very competitive, Air NZ is turning New Zealand’s remote geographical location into an advantage by dominating trans-Pacific channels and flying to London via Los Angeles with full fifth freedom rights.\nThe Kiwi carrier has learnt the bitter lesson of hasty over-expansion in its bid to take on Qantas through Ansett and competing with others in the larger world. But it is crawling back, forming strategic alliances. It is reliving its Australian dream, having increased its equity investment to 25.99% in Virgin Australia, of which Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Etihad Airways are also partners. It has also expanded its alliance with SIA to recommence flying from Auckland to Singapore, aiming to boost route capacity by 30%.\nMr Carter is optimistic. He said: “Based on our current expectations of market demand and fuel prices, we expect to improve on the 2014 result in the coming year.”\nWith innovative product development, Air NZ is catching the attention of competitors. And it’s not just about jazzing up in-flight safety videos; this, to Air NZ’s credit, stands it out as being bold and refreshing. The airline was among the first to introduce a premium economy cabin. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5712112188339233,"wiki_prob":0.5712112188339233,"text":"Microsoft Shuts the Door on Several Russian Hack Attempts\nBy Shawn Hays Cyber Security\nWell, nice try Russia. In the spirit of Atlanta Hawks great, Dikembe Mutombo, Microsoft denied the Russian sponsored hacking group APT28, which is also referred to as Strontium or Fancy Bear. The organization has received extensive coverage recently because of its direct ties to the 2016 Presidential Election. Yet, this time they were not successful in their attempts.\nAccording to the Washington Post coverage, this group created several sites in the last 2-4 months mimicking the Hudson Institute (a conservative Washington think tank active in investigations of corruption in Russia), the International Republican Institute (IRI), several fake entities claiming affiliation with the Senate, and one of Microsoft’s own online products. Out of the six sites, four of them contained Microsoft related verbage in their domain names, such as \"sharepoint\", \"adfs\", \"office365\", and \"onedrive\".\nThe purpose of these sites were to direct traffic to malicious locations where unsuspecting visitors would pick up various forms of malware. In other cases, the site would solicit the visitor to deposit information that could then be later used for future attacks or coordinated manipulation efforts.\nAfter the Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) detected the beginnings of a malicious campaign, Microsoft used a previously successful tactic of getting court ordered access to the domains to transfer them to their own servers, research them, and shelve them. It's a move committed to muscle memory, as they've had to execute it against 84 sites (ran by APT 28) prior.\nDavid Tell of the Hudson Institute, one of the victims, remarked “This kind of stuff does happen. It’s happened to us before,” “It doesn’t surprise me that bad actors in nondemocratic states would want to mess with us.”\nIt's Happened to Us Before\nDue to the repeated attempts on political institutions and organizations involved in the political process, Microsoft has decided to openly offer up their security services to these organizations at a discounted rate: free.\nHere's an excerpt from Microsoft's release:\n\"We are expanding Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program with a new initiative called Microsoft AccountGuard. This initiative will provide state-of-the-art cybersecurity protection at no extra cost to all candidates and campaign offices at the federal, state and local level, as well as think tanks and political organizations we now believe are under attack. The technology is free of charge to candidates, campaigns and related political institutions using Office 365.\"\nIf you drill down into what is being offered, essentially all of the security features and benefits of Office 365 GCC are being offered free of charge. For example, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is included and enables Microsoft to detect and provide notification of attacks in a unified way across both organizational and sensitive email/data systems.\nIt's Happened to You Before\nRecent reports from Microsoft have reported that they detect 180,000,000-200,000,000 phishing emails each month. This includes emails with malicious links and attachments, domain spoofs, user impersonation, and links to fake SaaS apps. They have also estimated that 20% of small to medium sized businesses have been attacked with ransomware or through brute force methods. It is no surprise that the number is higher for government contractors - over 50%.\nAll businesses face security threats on premises and in the cloud, and truly the only way to keep up with threats and stay competitive is by coming to the cloud, where Azure and Office 365 Security teams can help you.\nMicrosoft has 3500+ security professionals that work tirelessly to make sure customers of all business types maintain a secure cloud infrastructure. Additionally, Microsoft spends over $1 billion per year in security research and development to stay ahead of attacks and attackers. Azure provides additional tools for you to leverage to protect your resources on the platform.\nThe Political Process is Important, but So is Defending It... The Importance for Government Contractors\nYou will be attacked, and in all likelihood you have already. With the Government trending towards heavier enforcement and changes in the contract award process, it is imperative to protect the Government's data and your contracts. The same foundational security practices that identified this coordinated attack, will prevent attacks on your business.\nOffice 365 and Azure can be configured to meet DFARS 7012 and NIST 800-171. The other options cannot.\nDon't wait. Begin the process now by looking at your licensing options. You can also download the updated licensing guide to compare certain features and offerings across the Microsoft Office 365 and Azure portfolio.\nAbout Shawn Hays\nShawn is a communication and collaboration professional. Prior to Summit 7 Systems, Shawn excelled as a marketing and PR strategist – working within health care and public relations consulting. During his career, he has served as the sole business development manager of a small IT-centric government contracting business and as a publications lead within a large defense and aerospace company. He graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with undergraduate degrees in Physics and Communications, and Tennessee Tech University's MBA program in 2017. It is this technical know-how and ability to convey various subject matters to, both, technical and non-technical audiences that brought him to Summit 7 Systems. In addition, Shawn is a super user of Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365, and possesses a high degree of ITIL process improvement experience.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line400702"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9221729040145874,"wiki_prob":0.9221729040145874,"text":"Another tragic test for ‘stand your ground’ laws, this time in Georgia\nBy Patrik Jonsson | 12/02/2013\nState and local prosecutors are reviewing whether Georgia‘s “stand your ground” law applies in the tragic case of a man who shot and killed a wandering man diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in the Lookout Mountain region.\nGiven the dynamics of the shooting, the case could become part of a national prodding around the laws, which were quickly enacted in more than 20 states, including Georgia, after Florida pioneered the concept in 2005.\nThe laws, which hold that armed citizens have to make no attempt to retreat before shooting at a perceived threat, came into the national spotlight in 2012, after the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, by a neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder in July after a furious national debate over whether race plays into the new breed of self-defense laws.\nSince then, a number of prominent groups and people, including Trayvon’s parents and even President Obama, have urged lawmakers to reconsider the laws. Critics say stand-your-ground laws dangerously change social dynamics by making it more difficult for prosecutors to charge people who claim self-defense under dubious circumstances.\nSo far, some studies have suggested the laws have played a role in decreasing crime rates, while other research has shown adopting states have seen noticeable increases in gunshot-related hospital visits. Studies have also yielded contradictory results about whether white or black males are most affected.\nThe incident in Georgia adds a new twist to the examination of the laws, focusing not on race, but on what kinds of actions qualify as a legitimate threat. During a 2007 symposium by the National District Attorneys Association, concerns were raised that touch on what happened on Wednesday in Georgia: namely, that misinterpretation of clues by an armed person could lead to deadly force being used even when there is no real danger.\nFor now, the state has not filed any charges against Joe Hendrix, who admits to shooting a 70-something man early Wednesday morning. The man was wearing a light coat and a straw hat in near-20 degree weather when he knocked on Mr. Hendrix’s door at 4 in the morning.\nAfter Hendrix’s girlfriend called police, Hendrix retrieved his handgun and walked into his backyard, where he says he saw the other man in silhouette. After the man didn’t respond to several verbal commands and began walking toward him, Hendrix shot him four times, once fatally.\n“In my personal opinion, I believe that [Hendrix] should have stayed inside the house,” Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson told the Chattanooga, Tenn., Times Free Press. “Did he violate any laws by exiting the house? No.”\n“Mr. Hendrix is clearly saddened and heartbroken,” the sheriff said. “Mr. Hendrix has to live with his actions for the rest of his life.”\nRonald Westbrook, the slain man, was clutching a sheaf of mail when police found his body. According to family, Mr. Westbrook had been suffering for two years from Alzheimer’s disease, a condition that affects memory and reasoning. He had been walking in the cold for four hours with his dog before he approached the home, perhaps drawn by a lit porch light, police said.\nThe incident came amid an ongoing debate over the conviction of Marissa Alexander, a black Florida mom sentenced under mandatory rules to 20 years in jail for firing a warning shot in what she said was self-defense. This week, Ms. Alexander was released on bond after a judge ordered a retrial of her case, saying the original judge gave a jury faulty information about the stand-your-ground concept.\nCritics have claimed that Alexander’s race played a role in the conviction, especially in light of the jury verdict in the Zimmerman trial, where six female jurors came to the conclusion that he acted lawfully when he killed Trayvon after pursuing the innocent teenager, thinking he was a burglar. Zimmerman said he shot Trayvon after taking a beating from the teenager.\nProsecutors have maintained the Alexander conviction was correct, since they say the mom had a chance to leave the premises, but instead actually returned with a gun and pointed it at her husband and children.\nProsecutors say that the shot could have killed or injured the husband and children if fragments had ricocheted in their direction. Alexander said her husband had been acting abusively, and she feared for her own life.\nMeanwhile, in Georgia’s Walker County, the investigation continues into whether Hendrix committed a crime when he shot Westbrook, or whether it was a legitimate self-defense situation.\nSheriff Wilson said it’s a tough case because he knew Westbrook personally. At the same time, he told reporters that Hendrix and his girlfriend plainly felt threatened.\n“We feel like at this point that we should proceed cautiously and with an open mind and let the evidence and the law take its place,” Wilson told WRCB-TV in Chattanooga.\nEarlier this month, the Rainbow PUSH coalition, headed by civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, filed a lawsuit against the state of Georgia for what it alleges are uneven interpretations of the stand-your-ground law.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1079347"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7492684721946716,"wiki_prob":0.7492684721946716,"text":"Opinion|Looking for Luck in Libya\nLooking for Luck in Libya\nThomas L. Friedman MARCH 29, 2011\nThere is an old saying in the Middle East that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. That thought came to my mind as I listened to President Obama trying to explain the intervention of America and its allies in Libya — and I don’t say that as criticism. I say it with empathy. This is really hard stuff, and it’s just the beginning.\nWhen an entire region that has been living outside the biggest global trends of free politics and free markets for half a century suddenly, from the bottom up, decides to join history — and each one of these states has a different ethnic, tribal, sectarian and political orientation and a loose coalition of Western and Arab states with mixed motives trying to figure out how to help them — well, folks, you’re going to end up with some very strange-looking policy animals. And Libya is just the first of many hard choices we’re going to face in the “new” Middle East.\nHow could it not be? In Libya, we have to figure out whether to help rebels we do not know topple a terrible dictator we do not like, while at the same time we turn a blind eye to a monarch whom we do like in Bahrain, who has violently suppressed people we also like — Bahraini democrats — because these people we like have in their ranks people we don’t like: pro-Iranian Shiite hard-liners. All the while in Saudi Arabia, leaders we like are telling us we never should have let go of the leader who was so disliked by his own people — Hosni Mubarak — and, while we would like to tell the Saudi leaders to take a hike on this subject, we can’t because they have so much oil and money that we like. And this is a lot like our dilemma in Syria where a regime we don’t like — and which probably killed the prime minister of Lebanon whom it disliked — could be toppled by people who say what we like, but we’re not sure they all really believe what we like because among them could be Sunni fundamentalists, who, if they seize power, could suppress all those minorities in Syria whom they don’t like.\nThe last time the Sunni fundamentalists in Syria tried to take over in 1982, then-President Hafez al-Assad, one of those minorities, definitely did not like it, and he had 20,000 of those Sunnis killed in one city called Hama, which they certainly didn’t like, so there is a lot of bad blood between all of them that could very likely come to the surface again, although some experts say this time it’s not like that because this time, and they could be right, the Syrian people want freedom for all. But, for now, we are being cautious. We’re not trying nearly as hard to get rid of the Syrian dictator as we are the Libyan one because the situation in Syria is just not as clear as we’d like and because Syria is a real game-changer. Libya implodes. Syria explodes.\nWelcome to the Middle East of 2011! You want the truth about it? You can’t handle the truth. The truth is that it’s a dangerous, violent, hope-filled and potentially hugely positive or explosive mess — fraught with moral and political ambiguities. We have to build democracy in the Middle East we’ve got, not the one we want — and this is the one we’ve got.\nThomas L. Friedman Credit Josh Haner/The New York Times\nThat’s why I am proud of my president, really worried about him, and just praying that he’s lucky.\nUnlike all of us in the armchairs, the president had to choose, and I found the way he spelled out his core argument on Monday sincere: “Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different. And, as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action.”\nI am glad we have a president who sees America that way. That argument cannot just be shrugged off, especially when confronting a dictator like Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. But, at the same time, I believe that it is naïve to think that we can be humanitarians only from the air — and now we just hand the situation off to NATO, as if it were Asean and we were not the backbone of the NATO military alliance, and we’re done.\nI don’t know Libya, but my gut tells me that any kind of decent outcome there will require boots on the ground — either as military help for the rebels to oust Qaddafi as we want, or as post-Qaddafi peacekeepers and referees between tribes and factions to help with any transition to democracy. Those boots cannot be ours. We absolutely cannot afford it — whether in terms of money, manpower, energy or attention. But I am deeply dubious that our allies can or will handle it without us, either. And if the fight there turns ugly, or stalemates, people will be calling for our humanitarian help again. You bomb it, you own it.\nWhich is why, most of all, I hope President Obama is lucky. I hope Qaddafi’s regime collapses like a sand castle, that the Libyan opposition turns out to be decent and united and that they require just a bare minimum of international help to get on their feet. Then U.S. prestige will be enhanced and this humanitarian mission will have both saved lives and helped to lock another Arab state into the democratic camp.\nDear Lord, please make President Obama lucky.\nA version of this op-ed appears in print on March 30, 2011, on Page A27 of the New York edition with the headline: Looking For Luck In Libya. Today's Paper|Subscribe\nMiddle East Protests (2010-11)\nThomas L. Friedman\nForeign affairs, globalization and technology.\nWho Is a Bigger Threat to His Democracy: Bibi or Trump? JUL 9\nThe Biggest Threat to America Is Us JUL 2\nTrump Takes On China and Persia at Once. What’s to Worry About? JUN 25\nTrump’s Only Consistent Foreign Policy Goal Is to One-Up Obama JUN 18\nConnect the Dots to See Where Trump’s Taking Us JUN 11","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line175579"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6879643201828003,"wiki_prob":0.3120356798171997,"text":"Add Todd Zeile's Name to Legends\nI had this printed back in 2006 in Legends of the Game, a Strato-Sphere publication. I remembered it today because of the mention of Daryl Boston's name in an article I was reading. So, here is the reprint. This actually happened.\nThis happened quite a few years ago, I would guess about 1991.\nTodd Zeile was on the opposite team versus my Pittsburgh Pirates. He single-handedly destroyed my club by hitting four homeruns. Four homeruns is special, but what made this feat even more spectacular is that Zeile hit for the homerun cycle – solo shot, two-run shot, three-run shot, grand slam. Additionally, Darryl Boston hit a homerun off a lefty in that game. For those who remember the left-handed hitting Boston, that in itself was quite a feat.\nI've played thousands of games since, none have matched that one.\nPacker Quarterback in 2025\nBRASS Regular Season Winding Down\nOne month to go, sportsfans.\nIn the Gold League, the Plainsfield Hitmen and the Diamond Gems are neck and neck at 104-36 in the battle for home field advantage in the playoffs. Both lead their respective divisions by wide margins. Meanwhile the Steel Division title remains up for grabs with the Green Bay Yoopers (78-62) holding a three-game lead over the New York Giants. The wild card race is exciting, too. Three teams are battling for two spots. The Great Kills Ghosts lead the race with a 77-63 mark. New York holds the second wild card slot with the Twin City Challengers just a game back.\nThe Silver League divisional races were wrapped up some time ago. Montreal (96-44), East Lyme (91-49) and Duluth-Superior (91-49) are waiting to see who will join them in the playoffs. As in the Silver League, three teams are vieing for two wild card slots. The Southtown Misers (74-66) and Dayton Dragons (71-69) are the frontrunners, but the Phoenix Phoenix have a shot at 70-70.\nAlfonso Soriano continues his push for MVP honors in the Gold League. He is having a phenomenal season. He leads the league with 127 runs, 49 homeruns and 136 RBIs. Did I forget to mention his 53 steals? I don't know if it's been done before, but with one more homerun, he could attain the first 50-50 season in BRASS history. Meanwhile, his teammate, Chien-Ming Wang, leads the league with a 20-6 mark.\nThe Silver League MVP race is tighter, but Travis Hafner seems to have a leg up on his rivals. Hafner is hitting .327 (2nd), has scored 102 runs (4th), has 38 doubles (7th), 45 homeruns (2nd) and leads all BRASS with 138 RBIs. Brett Myers leads the league in wins with 18 victories. Oddly enough, Jeff Francis of defending champ Cream City, which is suffering during its one-year rebuild at 42-98 mark, leads the ERA race with a 3.01 mark.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line219916"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6320375204086304,"wiki_prob":0.6320375204086304,"text":"Inland Varsity girls athlete of the week:…\nInland Varsity girls athlete of the week: Maniyah Willingham, Arroyo Valley\nManiyah Willingham of Arroyo Valley basketball is the Inland area’s girls athlete of the week. (Photo courtesy of Arroyo Valley High basketball)\nBy Pete Marshall |\nPUBLISHED: January 7, 2019 at 8:03 pm | UPDATED: January 7, 2019 at 8:10 pm\nThe Inland Varsity girls athlete of the week:\nName: Maniyah Willingham\nSchool: Arroyo Valley\nYear: Junior\nNoteworthy: Willingham led the Hawks to wins over Silverado and Victor Valley to secure the Serrano Tournament championship. She scored a season-high 23 points against Silverado, making 11 of 16 shots from the field, adding six rebounds, three assists and 10 steals. In the championship game against Victor Valley, she had 20 points, four rebounds, three assists and five steals. She is averaging 11.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 4.2 steals this season.\nGospel truth: La Luz del Mundo started building in Ontario 8 years ago\nPete Marshall started his career as a freelancer for The Sun in 1991, then later was hired full time by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in 1995. Since then he has covered a variety of sports for the Daily Bulletin and The Sun, primarily high school sports and minor league baseball. He's been doing it long enough that he's now covering the children of student-athletes he covered when he first started.\nFollow Pete Marshall\t@PeteMarshallLaw","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1685336"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6869957447052002,"wiki_prob":0.3130042552947998,"text":"Autonomous region: Cantabria\nProvince/Island: Cantabria\nWay of Saint James, the first European Cultural Route and World Heritage Site. See more\nThe history of Santoña has always been linked to the sea, to such an extent that it is the Cantabrian's major canning port. Its industry is based above all on the commercialization of tuna and its famous anchovies in olive oil. Santoña is divided into two areas: the town centre, which sits on a plain, and a mountainous area on the slopes of El Brusco and El Buciero. The history of the town is linked to the Monastery of Santa María del Puerto, which later gave rise to the Romanesque church of Santa María del Puerto. It was built between the 13th and 17th centuries and houses a reredos of San Bartolomé with Flemish paintings from the 15th century. Equally significant are its military fortifications, grouped around the mountain of Buciero, which is evidence of the strategic importance of the port. Still in good condition are the forts of San Martín, San Carlos and Mazo or Napoleon.\nSee all the information on the destination at:\nhttp://www.turismosantona.com/english/\nMust see views in: Santoña\nMonument to Juan de la Cosa\nChurch of Santa María del Puerto\nMap/Location\nIn the following map you'll find the locations of all the incredible views that we have recommended. Don't miss a thing!\nSpectacular Cantabria: Unique and Infinite\nDay 1. ...(+See more)\nNoja,Santillana del ...\nSee forecast: Santoña>\n>Laredo\n>Noja\n>Castro Urdiales","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line68879"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8124499320983887,"wiki_prob":0.8124499320983887,"text":"Written by Gerald H. Nelson • Fred B. Burch\nAlbum This song officially appears on the Red Rose Speedway (2018) Official album.\nSessions This song has been recorded during the following sessions\nRed Rose Speedway sessions at Olympic Studios (March 1972)\nOther unreleased songs from the double-album Red Rose Speedway project\nJazz Street\nTough On A Tightrope\nTrans Lunar Rising\n“Tragedy” is a song by Gerald H. Nelson and Fred B. Burch. A recording of the song by Thomas Wayne and the DeLons rose to #5 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1959. A 1961 cover version by The Fleetwoods rose to #10 on the charts. Brian Hyland also recorded it in 1969, but it only made it to #56.\nWayne’s hit version was released on Memphis, Tennessee-based Fernwood Records, which was owned by Ronald “Slim” Wallace (1957–1965). The single was made with a trio of girls recruited from the local high school. Wayne was a one hit wonder who cut around 20 songs including a remake of his hit for the reactivated Sun label which sounds similar to the original. Some of his other songs were hits for others such as “This Time” (Troy Shondell) and “Girl Next Door Went a Walkin’” (Elvis Presley). Despite all of his recordings for 3 different labels before his death in a car crash on August 15, 1971, he never cut an album and there has never been any CD been issued of his songs.\nPaul McCartney and Wings also recorded a version of the song for the planned 2 LP set Red Rose Speedway. The idea for the 2 LP set was later abandoned and instead they released a single LP with the same title, but without “Tragedy”. […]\n“Tragedy” covered by Wings has finally been issued as part of the 2018 reissue of Red Rose Speedway.\nWind and storm (ooh-ooh)\nGone's the sun (the sun, ooh)\nFrom the stars my dark has come\nYou've gone from me, oh, oh, tragedy (ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)\nOh, come back\nHave me here\nHold me, love\nBe sincere\nYou've gone from me, oh, oh, tragedy (ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee)\n(ah, ah, ah)\nLike smoke from a fire\nOf love oh, oh, oh, ooh\nOur dreams have all gone\nAbove oh, oh, oh, ooh\nBlown by wind\nKissed by snow\nAll that's left is the dark be-ee-ee-low\nYou've gone from me, oh, oh, tragedy\n(Oh, oh, oh)\nRed Rose Speedway (2018)\nPerformed by:\nPaul McCartney • Linda McCartney • Denny Laine • Henry McCullough • Denny Seiwell\nMark Vigars:\nMixing assistant engineer\nGlyn Johns:\nRichard Lush:\nAlex Wharton:\nSteve Orchard:\nPhil Ault:\nRecording assistant engineer\nThe Alternate Red Rose Speedway Volume 1: The Original Acetate\nThe Alternate Red Rose Speedway Volume 2: Outtakes & Rough Mixes\nComplete Cold Cuts\n3:17 • Alternate take\t• Basic Track\n3:21 • Alternate take\t• Rough Mix\nSee all bootlegs containing “Tragedy”\nPaul McCartney has never played this song in concert.\nKatie 3 months ago\nAh, my favorite McCartney quote; \"Find more lyrics at ? Mojim.com\"\nThe PaulMcCartney Project 2 months ago\noooops :D Thanks for noticing Katie","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line131529"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8683819770812988,"wiki_prob":0.8683819770812988,"text":"Even After Aaron Hernandez Killed Himself, No One Seems To Care About Inmate Suicide\nDiana Moskovitz\nFiled to: Aaron HernandezFiled to: Aaron Hernandez\nJail Suicides\nprison suicides\nPhoto: Elaine Thompson/Associated Press\nAaron Hernandez—convicted of murdering Odin Lloyd, charged but not guilty of murdering Safiro Furtado and Daniel de Abreu, living in prison after once being paid millions to play football—died with $7.20 in his inmate kiosk. The final printout registering his account said the balance will be released. It did not say who will receive it.\nThe final hours of Hernandez’s life are laid out in hundreds of pages of Massachusetts State Police documents. They range from dozens of incident reports filed by officers documenting their movements in the moments after his body was discovered to redacted interviews with other inmates to his discipline history to his toiletries. They note that Hernandez bought 977 pieces of media. (The last songs he bought, on April 13, were “Earned It” and “False Alarm” by The Weeknd and “Unfaithful” and “Selfish Girl” by Rihanna.)\nThese are among the thousands of picayune details pored over by reporters searching for clues about what led to Hernandez’s death by suicide. Since the news first broke nearly six months ago, seemingly every one of these details has been repurposed to fit under some sordid headline. You’ve seen these: Was Hernandez gay? Was Hernandez bisexual? Was Hernandez in a relationship behind bars? Was he a bad inmate? Was he in a gang? Did he have CTE? Did CTE make him commit his crimes? Did CTE cause him to kill himself? In death, Hernandez has become a vehicle for whatever headlines and narratives seem most compelling, or convenient, at that moment.\nThere is a story about Hernandez that few reporters and columnists want to touch, though, and which is not buried in the details surrounding his death. It’s the story of Hernandez’s death itself, which exists within the context of an ongoing national crisis. In 2014, 249 people committed suicide in state or federal prisons, according to federal data. Another 372 people died by suicide while in jail, which made suicide the leading cause of death in American jails. A person in prison or jail is more likely to commit suicide than a person who isn’t. This isn’t limited to the harshly punitive systems in traditionally conservative states, either. Liberal-leaning California has struggled with prison overcrowding and suicides, while Massachusetts’ prison system has been the focus of multiple Boston Globe investigations by the newspaper’s famed Spotlight Team.\nAnd yet the question of how Hernandez was able to kill himself in prison, despite living under some the most supervised conditions possible in American life, somehow remains largely untouched and even unanswerable. This is despite the fact that just about everything else about his life behind bars, from his sexual orientation to the contours of his brain to the night in jail that he binged on honey buns, has been placed before the public by journalists as evidence of whatever point it was they wanted to make.\n“This place ain’t shit to me. I’ll run this place and keep running it. Prison ain’t shit to me.”\nAny discussion of Hernandez’s life in prison should begin by acknowledging that the actions that landed him there were truly horrifying. He was found guilty by a jury of murdering Odin Lloyd and, according to prosecutors, the motivation was merely that Lloyd knew something that bothered him. (One theory is that Lloyd knew too much about Hernandez’s role in a deadly 2012 drive-by shooting.) Hernandez deserved to be punished, but that’s not all he deserved. A criminal conviction is not a mandate to strip a person of their humanity and will to live, although America has, through the mechanism of its prison system, increasingly allowed it to become just that.\nSince his death, prison officials in Massachusetts have released hundreds of pages documenting Hernandez’s life and death. His three-page “offender fact sheet” has a long list of “inmate characteristics,” that include race (white), “hispanic_flag” (yes), “comprehend English” (yes), culture (American), and religion (Christian). There’s an alias list that include “Hernandez,” “Boom,” “Double A,” “Rokk Boy,” “Chico,” “A Money,” and “Can’t Get Right.” Every one of his many tattoos is given a date, a time, location, and description, then documented, again, with photos.\nEven before his conviction, Hernandez’s life was the subject of hundreds of reports from the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office, which oversaw him before the conviction. The documentation ranges from Hernandez having an illegal “fishing line” to his stuffing his face with about 20 honey buns he got on accident so he wouldn’t have to return them to Hernandez calling an officer, who had denied him an extra meal tray, a “scared bitch” he would kill when he gets out of jail. (In his failed appeal, Hernandez wrote that he had said, “I’m going to slap the shit out of them.”) He threatened officers several times. He punched one inmate, spit at another, and curses a lot. In one appeal—a failed one regarding whether he spit at an inmate—he gave all his explanations in hashtag format.\nThe sheriff’s office reports, as obtained by NBC Boston, end in March of 2015. Once he was convicted in April of that year, the responsibility for Hernandez shifted to the state’s corrections department. The first incident or discipline report to mention Hernandez while he was in prison isn’t about something he did; it’s three pages filed by two different sergeants explaining why they looked up Hernandez in April 2015, the same month he was sentenced to life. One sergeant wrote in his incident report that he looked up Hernandez to make sure there was no conflict with the booking of another inmate but, “I don’t think I ever looked past the initial Administrative/V-stat/Admin view screen.” Another wrote that he looked up Hernandez because he heard Hernandez’s inmate number and “without thinking properly” put it into the system. In the inevitable quasi-military syntax found in such reports, one sergeant closes his report with, “I apologize for my actions and will face any discipline for me.”\nIn May of that year, Hernandez had his first disciplinary report. On May 13, a perimeter security officer, shortened to IPS in many reports, said that he noticed a new tattoo on Hernandez’s neck: the word “lifetime” and, below it, “loyalty,” with a hand sign making the L and the ending Y. Behind “loyalty” was a five-point star, and below the star was “a skull head on a spider web with flames as a foundation.” This was confirmed by another officer the next day.\nOn May 16, another disciplinary report. An inner perimeter officer, “while randomly monitoring inmate phone calls,” noticed an inmate’s pin was used to make a phone call. Video showed the inmate using that pin was Hernandez, not the inmate assigned the number. The call lasted 14 minutes. Again, Hernandez was given “loss canteen.”\nThe next day, Hernandez was the subject of two disciplinary reports. The first one says that, about 9:25 a.m., Hernandez “assisted with a non-witnessed altercation by acting as a lookout.” The report doesn’t give much detail, thanks in part to everyone else’s name being redacted, except that two inmates were inside the cell for eight minutes, and during that time Hernandez was seen going in and out of the cell several times. A little more than 12 hours later, the next report picks up. Hernandez was “tampering with a locking device, and being insolent toward staff.”\nFor these violations, Hernandez racked up the following sanctions: 45 units of “loss visits,” 60 units of “loss canteen,” 30 units of “loss telephone,” and 10 units of disciplinary detention, which the reports said were balanced out by 10 credits he had for disciplinary detention.\nOn June 10, 2015, Hernandez reported that the power in his cell was out. In July, he was written up in a disciplinary report on the 15th when a corrections officer “found a curtain hanging from the top bunk” as well as a curtain “hung across the doorway, obstructing the view” into Hernandez’s cell. Hernandez was placed “on AA” (the report does not clarify what AA is) and given “loss canteen” for 15 days. Nine days later, the same officer noticed another fresh tattoo on Hernandez during a pat search of inmates entering a recreation yard. For this, Hernandez had “loss of yard” for 30 days.\nHe ends the month being found guilty of smoking a homemade cigarette. Loss of canteen again, this time 60 days.\nBy August, Hernandez is on his eighth disciplinary report. This time, he got in a fight, which would go on to be the subject, in the highly-documented life of a prison inmate, of 15 incident reports.\n“A spontaneous use of force”\nAccording to the reports, Hernandez, who had been assigned to a new cell, went inside and put down his things. The other inmate, whose name is redacted, went up to Hernandez and they “exchanged words.” What those were isn’t noted by any of the reports, but they resulted in the two “exchanging closed fist punches.” Two officers told the inmates to stop, but they didn’t. This led to “a spontaneous use of force” and a “chemical agent was dispersed,” two phrases used again and again in the reports. What ultimately broke up the fight was officers separating the two men; one inmate was grabbed by his right shoulder and Hernandez was “guided” to the ground by two officers who took control of his upper torso. After medical staff cleared him, Hernandez was offered a “decontamination shower,” which he refused.\nVideo surveillance would later show that Hernandez threw the first punch, documents said, after the unnamed inmate went up and tried to shake his hand.\nThe final disciplinary report on the fight says that video surveillance as well as “confidential information” found that the two men had gotten into the fight for a reason that was redacted. It later says that “both [redacted] have been known to feud with each other within the institution.” The details are redacted.\nHernandez had 10 units of disciplinary detention, as well as loss of gym.\nFour more reports show malfunctions with the electrical outlets in Hernandez’s cell, stretching from late 2015 into early 2016. On Dec. 3, 2015, he’s found with a weapon, described in the report as a “5 3/4 inch piece of metal sharpened to a point with a cloth handle and a wrist tether.” It was found in his personal belongings. This meant more disciplinary detention and loss of canteen. In February, he was hit in the face during a basketball game, leaving him with blood on his shirt and a bloody nose. In May, he said he lost his inmate ID card. In June, he got in another fight; that one generated 10 incident reports.\nOne corrections officer wrote that a fight was reported during the “movement of inmates.” Lt. Curtis Keezer saw Hernandez and the other inmates, whose name is redacted, “exchanging closed fist punches.” The other inmates around them were ordered to “lock in.” A lieutenant told the two men to separate and they didn’t, so the lieutenant “disbursed an application of chemical agent towards the inmates.” (Another report later clarifies this to be “MK-IV chemical agent.”) The inmates separated. One prison officer restrained the unnamed inmates. Two more restrained Hernandez: “I took control of inmate Hernandez’ left arm and left upper torso, and Sgt. Peterson took control of his right arm and right torso.” A third tried to get Hernandez in “restraints,” but the former NFL star resisted.\n“Inmate Hernandez was agitated, resisting staff, and attempted to reengage with [redacted],” corrections officer Joseph Prato wrote. “He refused to comply with being placed in restraints, and Lt. Keezer issued an order to direct him to the floor. At this time, I applied pressure to his left torso and assisted responders in bringing Hernandez to the floor. CO Mitchell placed Hernandez in restraints at that time. Responders escorted both inmates to be medically cleared for segregation, and I had no further contact with any inmates.”\nThe punishment was more disciplinary detention, and 45 “units” of “loss visits.”\nOn Sept. 19, 2016, he was disciplined for having a homemade lighter. It was found after he refused to go through a metal detector during a strip search; Hernandez had stashed it in the waistband of his scrubs. Whatever he was using it to smoke has been redacted. He lost 30 units of gym. The next month, he was written up for “having another inmate locked in his cell.” The last report comes five months before his death. Hernandez reported that a light in his cell was broken.\nThere the prison reports end, at least until the day of Hernandez’s death. But days before his death, Hernandez was already in the news, courtesy of Boston sports-talk radio.\n“He’s probably doing well for himself, uh, romantically perhaps.”\nThe opposite of the informational black box that is a U.S. prison or jail would be the roaring 24/7 noise pollution of sports-talk radio. It’s hard to know exactly when the public questioning of Aaron Hernandez’s sexuality began, but it started before he died and, to little surprise, seems to have begun on air in Boston. Two days before Hernandez’s death, journalist Michele McPhee appeared on the Kirk and Callahan show to plug her new book about the Boston Marathon bombing. First, though, they talked about Hernandez.\nCallahan: “Michele knows the real motive for the murder of Odin Lloyd. And let’s just say that Odin Lloyd caught Aaron Hernandez in a compromising position.”\nMcPhee: “Let’s just say that Aaron Hernandez was a former tight end before he was kicked off the Patriots.”\nKirk: “Tight end on and off the field as well.”\nMultiple people: “Yes”\nCallahan (through giggles): “And then he became a wide receiver.”\nKirk: “So you think he’s comfortable in the prison lifestyle? He’s probably doing well for himself, uh, romantically perhaps.”\nMcPhee: “Well look it, he got a tattoo made out of, like, melted boot ink. Right, like melted boot rubber. He got a tattoo that says ‘lifetime’ which is kind of a chick Netflix, right? A whole chick network.”\nSomeone says “that’s true” in the background as McPhee talks.\nCallahan: “Well, he is a beautiful young man.”\nKirk: “He really is.”\nMcPhee: “Let’s just say that Aaron Hernandez is known to kick with both feet.”\nKirk: “There you go.”\nCallahan: “Wow. That’s big. And Odin Lloyd knew it and Odin Lloyd was, uh, telling people.”\nMcPhee: “He made the unfortunate move, Odin Loyd did, to say that out loud to somebody.”\nThey eventually got around to talking about McPhee’s book about the Boston Marathon bombing. McPhee said that one of her sources told her that one of the people involved in the bombing is “totally illegal.” That led to this brief exchange about 33 minutes in:\nKirk: “Straight or gay?”\nMichele: “Well, that’s Aaron Hernandez.”\nKirk: “Oh right.”\nMcPhee would solidify the ready-made narrative with her own article about Hernandez’s suicide in Newsweek, headlined “Aaron Hernandez’s Sex Life Probed As Murder Motive, Police Source Says.” She followed that five days later with “‘I Think I’m Going To Hang It Up, Lol’: Aaron Hernandez Note To Prison Boyfriend.” By then, the story had already spread to the New York Post, the New York Daily News, the Daily Mail, and Radar, among other outlets. TMZ reported on it by offering the staunch denials from Hernandez’s lawyer. This went on for more than a month, spreading until even the New Yorker worked the salacious story into its pages, fretting about “The Worrisome Reporting On Aaron Hernandez’s Sexuality.” That story quoted all the people you would expect—a Globe editor, a Boston sports-radio douchebag, an ethicist with the Poynter Institute. All of them talked about whether they thought it was okay to report, posthumously, on Hernandez’s sexuality.\nNothing of much substance has come out since to support McPhee’s narrative, which without any hard proof still managed to go on for more than a month before dropping out of the headlines. That was long enough to occlude all discussion of the larger context within which Hernandez died, and to reduce his death to a joke without a punchline. Meanwhile, prison officials went about the task of investigating the death.\n“Nothing seemed out of the ordinary”\nThe day of Hernandez’s death, investigators interviewed his fellow inmates. Who or how many are impossible to know from the documents because all their names are redacted. The documents look like this:\nThese prisoners, whoever they were, had heard the rumors. One inmate told them “the 98.5 radio broadcast had been disrespectful saying he deserved what he got and had also mentioned that they had brought up the fact that Hernandez may be gay.”\nThe report does provide summaries, written by the investigators, of what the anonymous inmates said. One is a terse four lines, summarizing what “inmates assigned to the G2 Housing Unit” told them.\nConsistent among the inmates interviewed was that Hernandez kept to himself, was very spiritual, appeared to be positive, liked to meditate and did not observe him to be acting differently or having any issues. Others indicated that they kept to themselves and did not get involved with Hernandez or any other inmates.\nA second report says that it, too, includes the interviews with inmates in the G2 housing unit, once again represented by a long block of redacted names. As summarized by the inner-perimeter security officers, these inmates called Hernandez a “private inmate.” Even those who interacted with him daily described it as “a respectful relationship with only ‘Hi’ or ‘Bye’ type of reactions. Many inmates said they had congratulated Hernandez on his recent court decision.”\nThose who were closer to Hernandez described him as excited after his verdict—describing him as “positive and even happily emotional, which was not usual for Hernandez—but overall, they said he was acting normal.\nAnother paragraph says it comes from inmates who said they were “tight” or “real close” with Hernandez. They, too, say nothing seemed wrong with Hernandez, but also note how he changed in prison, growing more spiritual.\nThe last source is a person “who claimed to be one of Hernandez’s closest friends.” This person says Hernandez was always spiritual, was looking forward to the future and talked about playing football again.\nThe very last summary is “one of the last inmates interviewed.” It’s mostly blacked out.\nTo read the official investigation is to retrace the steps of officers searching for something, anything, to explain what happened. An inmate, name inevitably redacted, is said via “intelligence” to have been inside Hernandez’s prison cell for about two hours on April 17. There’s an interview done and whatever happened is “referred to the Internal Affairs unit.” No inmates were removed or transferred from Hernandez’s housing unit during the week before. Hernandez’s property is rounded up by officials; a postmortem examination reveals that no drugs were found in his system. If anything definitive was found, of any kind, it was redacted.\nBefore his death, Hernandez made five phone calls, in which “Hernandez does not make any apparent indication of any intent to harm himself.” He went back to his cell, alone, around 8 p.m. The door stayed locked until an officer, doing checks, noticed that the window has been blocked. A note to Hernandez’s fianceé, Shayanna Jenkins-Hernandez—first revealed by prosecutors—promised her that she’ll be rich, but didn’t explain how or why.\nThe final report, dated May 4, reaches no conclusions about why Hernandez killed himself. There is no discussion of if any warning signs were missed or prevention of suicide going forward. The case is closed, it says, unless new information is uncovered.\n“It’s not surprising”\n“Suicide in prisons and jail is a very significant problem, and in a way that’s odd because these are environments of total control,” David Fathi, director of the ACLU’s national prison project, told me. “The staff controls where the prisoners are. What they do. They are under 24-hour surveillance. So, theoretically, there should be no suicides in prisons or jails. There should be no homicides in prisons or jails.\n“But the reality is that suicide is much more common among incarcerated people than the general population, and there [are] a number of reasons for that.”\nFathi says there are several key contributing factors. People with mental illness are vastly overrepresented in prisons and jails, and mental-health care in prisons and jails is “by and large abysmal.” All of this is on top of the inherently stressful nature of jails and prisons.\n“Prisons can be violent places. Particularly people who have recently been incarcerated and are facing a long period of time, maybe a life sentence, that’s an extraordinary stressor,” Fathi said. “Any type of violence perpetrated on someone by staff or other prisoners can be a trigger for suicide. And solitary confinement, which is endemic in our prison system, is a well known cause of suicide ...\n“You put this all together—a needy population, inadequate mental health treatment, and a very stressful environment—and it is a recipe for suicide.”\nThis has been revisited, again and again, in Massachusetts. The day of Hernandez’s death, the Globe ran an article that recapped much of the work done by its Spotlight Team, and the half-hearted responses by government officials. Advocacy groups sued the corrections department in 2007 alleging civil rights violations, just as a Globe Spotlight series revealed deepening mental illness and misery behind the walls of the state’s prisons. From that recap:\nThat series also identified numerous problems, including botched background screenings on suicidal inmates, missing mental health records, and skipped security rounds by officers.\nThe correction department hired a consultant, made several improvements to the segregation unit system, and attempted to reach a deal on the lawsuit.\nHowever, those negotiations failed, and plans for change were shelved because of the state’s fiscal crisis.\nThe department then saw another sharp increase in suicides, with 13 prisoners killing themselves between 2009 and 2010, including three at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center.\nIn response to an outcry from inmate advocates, the state rehired the consultant who had conducted the 2007 review.\nThe consultant said his subsequent review of the prisons, released in 2011, found that the Correction Department had once again made reforms, including increased training and new protocols for assessing inmates’ mental illnesses.\nThe department also created new alternatives to the segregation unit. In 2012, as part of a settlement of the advocates’ lawsuit, a federal judge ordered the department to maintain those alternatives.\nSuicides at Massachusetts prisons have not been eliminated, though. Advocates for prisoners said earlier this year that they believed the state was illegally isolating mentally ill inmates, and the situation is even worse in jails. A few weeks after Hernandez’s death, the New England Center for Investigative Reporting highlighted the ugly fact that since 2012, more than twice as many people have died by suicide in Massachusetts jails than in the state’s prisons. That matches the national trend of rising rates of suicides in local jails, even when the jail population overall decreases. America’s largest mental health hospital is a Chicago jail.\n“Many of the of people who are committing suicides in jails have never been sentenced,” said Brad Brockmann, director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights.\n“In 1970, there were about 200,000 prisoners in the United States. Because of the war on drugs, ‘getting tough on crime,’ and de-institutionalization, we now have 2.3 million. Literally, in 40 years the complexion of corrections has changed considerably,” said Robert Dumond, a licensed and board certified clinical mental-health counselor who has worked on these issues with prison systems, including Massachusetts, since 1970. He also has testified before the U.S. Department of Justice about prison rape.\n“There are more people in jail and prisons than in the entirety of hospitals nationwide,” Dumond said, adding that “corrections was never meant to be a mental health facility.”\n“No one knows why”\nLast month, researchers at Boston University announced that they had discovered evidence of CTE in Hernandez’s brain. This isn’t surprising if you’ve followed the research on football and the brain trauma it can cause; it also doesn’t mean that CTE caused either Hernandez’s murderous behavior or his suicide. That did not stop reporters and columnists from drawing the connection, seemingly thrilled to have finally found a way to explain Hernandez’s death that didn’t even involve parsing the ethics of outing a dead man. The Hernandez family’s lawyer, Jose Baez, made it easy, like when he was asked if he blamed Hernandez dying by suicide on CTE and responded, “We are still investigating everything. But the presumptive answer for that is yes.”\nAlan Schwarz, the reporter to whom much of America owes its understanding of CTE, deftly dismantled this thinking, writing:\nWhat does remain hard to understand—maddeningly so—is how truths about a group do not necessarily extend to all individuals within it. CTE does not inexorably seize the brain and control actions. Plenty of players, particularly those with early stages of the disease, seem to have been relatively unaffected by it, and no one knows why, whether it’s because of genetics or anything else. Further confounding matters, too many non-football-playing men act erratically and suffer from dementia to resolutely ascribe any specific case to football. Behavior at the individual level is too complicated, deriving from one’s parents, environment, trauma, experiences, genetics and so much more, to let CTE or anything stand alone as the explanation for their actions.\nThe \"CTE Drove Aaron Hernandez\" Narrative Is Too Convenient, And Dangerous\nThe hits arrived swiftly, recklessly, striking brains and causing damage. Not tackles on this…\nThe history of reporting on the NFL and brain damage suggests that this sort of argument will find little purchase with commentators and reporters who either can’t understand the truth, or have no motivation to do so.\n“We heard about this because it was Aaron Hernandez”\nOn April 23, 27-year-old Jesse J. Arvizo killed himself. His body was found in his Arizona prison cell—dubbed an “assigned housing location” in the cold parlance of a press release—and his cause of death was described as an “apparent act of self-harm.” His death would be followed by a morbid succession of inmate suicides in the Arizona prison system: James J. Krauss, 42, on May 4; Pedro S. Gonzalez, 60, on May 8; Dean L. Mills, 61, on May 13; Jonathan D. Wilson, 31, on Aug. 7. Several more inmates died in suspected homicides.\nTheir deaths generated a few stories in Arizona, but not didn’t get much attention beyond the southwestern state’s borders, which was no surprise. Their names were not Aaron Hernandez, after all. How little can Americans care about suicides behind bars? Even when one of the most famous inmates in America—a man who was a star in the nation’s richest and most popular sport, on a team so swathed in Americana that its mascot is a cartoon Patriot and its team colors are red, white, and blue—becomes part of a national epidemic, the broader wave of prison suicides will still be the last storyline considered. It will be given some thought in local news organizations, if that, and almost nowhere else.\n“We heard about this because it was Aaron Hernandez,” Brockmann told me. “If it was anyone else, everyone would be going about their business.”\nIf you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.\nAaron Hernandez&apos;s Murder Conviction Vacated\nPolice Release Their Report On Aaron Hernandez&apos;s Death By Suicide\nSenior editor at Deadspin\nPGP Fingerprint: FF57 38CF BB4A 84D1 834A 3BA2 D704 1D9F 659A B991 • PGP Key\nOTR Fingerprint: AEEB7418 00D6AEA9 112206FF 3E97529D CE8C29C9\nRecent from Diana Moskovitz\nThe New Tyreek Hill Audio Doesn&apos;t Contain Any Answers\nKawhiWatch: Holy Shit, Kawhi Leonard Is Going To The Clippers\nAn Officer Being Sued For Failing To Help Lauren McCluskey Screwed Up In Another Domestic Violence Case","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line189237"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6457360982894897,"wiki_prob":0.35426390171051025,"text":"East Carolina University Greenville Nc\nActivities For Teaching Point Of View This lesson gives you some activities for teaching point of view. To understand point of view is to understand that different people might see the same situation in very different ways. Points of view can be diverse because of culture, age, socioeconomic status, gender, or personality. Point of View Activities. Identifying the narrator’s view point\nApartments for Rent Near East Carolina University – Greenville, NC (University) Located between East 5th Street and East 10th Street in downtown Greenville, East Carolina University provides fast access to Greenville’s shops, restaurants, and theaters.East Carolina University, a public sea-grant university, is the third-largest in the state.\nFind free scholarships, financial aid, career and minority information and more at CollegeView.com today. We offer profiles of thousands of universities with our college finder tool.\nTraining takes place at VMC, the 900-bed flagship tertiary care teaching hospital of East Carolina University. VMC is a state of North Carolina accredited, and American College of Surgeons verified, level I trauma center, and is one of the busiest tertiary care academic medical centers in the country.\nJoyner Library has worked in partnership with the Greenville Museum of Art on this exhibit lending over 70 historical photos, documents and artifacts from Joyner Library’s Greenville history collection. University Archives, and the NC Collection. Visit our Special Collections. East Carolina University Joyner Library East 5th Street.\nState legislative leaders filled out East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees. It appointed trustees to governing boards of University of North Carolina campuses statewide. The governor does.\nGREENVILLE, NC (WITN. in eastern Carolina has joined the State Health Plan Network. State Treasurer Dale Folwell and.\nThe city’s official population as of the 2010 United States census is 84,554 residents. The Greenville Metro Area includes 183,000 people. It is the home of East Carolina University and Pitt County Memorial Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in North Carolina and employs over 6,000 people. Greenville was founded in 1771 as \"Martinsborough.\nFind homes near East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. Homes in this area have a median listing price of $169900. Explore these homes with our listing details, property photos, and school.\nTo kick off the Fourth ECU Annual Sustainability Film & Discussion Series, we will be showing \"Reuse! Because You Can’t Recycle The Planet.\" This is a documentary film that follows reuse pro Alex Eaves’ cross-country adventure to the 48 contiguous states where he finds sustainable reuse solutions for our growing waste problem.\nBy the late 1950s, many undergraduates embraced East Carolina’s new identity as a coeducational liberal arts college by organizing fraternities and sororities as centers for student empowerment, community service, and campus social life.\nEast Carolina University Jobs. Find jobs at East Carolina University: job title, keywords: Where: city, state, or zip : 308 jobs at East Carolina University. Research Associate. Greenville, NC. The Department of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Development Center at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, invite applications for a Research.\nThe College Of The State Bar Of Texas Alabama Social Studies Course Of Study This document is designed to show the connection between the required state-written curriculum (courses of study) and the state-tested curriculum (the Alabama High School Graduation Examination and the Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition [Stanford 9]) in Social Studies. Teachers select additional classes to fill a total of 12 hours\nGREENVILLE, NC (WITN) – Some Eastern Carolina kids experienced hoop dreams come true this week as they joined East Carolina.\nGREENVILLE, NC (WITN) – East Carolina University’s interim chancellor and the dean of the medical school are speaking out for the first time about the dispute between the UNC System, Vidant Medical.\nHighland Elementary School Seaside Ca HP this week announced the recipients of its 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant program. Forty-two colleges and universities and 130 K-12 schools will be receiving more than $7 million in cash, Seaside, CA 93955 Peninsula Adventist School 1025 Mescal St , Seaside, CA 93955 Central Coast High School 200 Coe Ave , Seaside, CA\nMD/MBA – Doctor of Medicine and Master of Business Administration. Our accelerated MD/MBA program provides tomorrow’s physicians with a world-class business education.\n“You can’t really image a better environment and location than East Carolina University Greenville,” said Tim Wiseman,\nPresident Trump is planning to stage a campaign rally in the battleground state of North Carolina on the same day this month.\nGREENVILLE, NC (WITN) – East Carolina University could see some changes at upcoming sporting events. Governor Cooper signed a.\nVidant Health officials pleaded on Wednesday for the N.C. Senate to remove a budget line that would cut the Greenville hospital’s Medicaid reimbursement by an estimated $35 million, saying the move.\nThe Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C. is the location of. moves aimed at Vidant “petty” and an attack on Eastern North Carolina. “On this issue you have plenty of people down east who are.\nan assistant professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and a specialist in military medicine ethics. “There’s a recurring theme in surveys:.\nHe also will encourage graduates to talk about the value of East Carolina University. “We are, make no mistake, North Carolina’s rural university. Golden LEAF Foundation and plans to move to.\nThe official Baseball page for the East Carolina University Pirates. The official Baseball page for the East Carolina University Pirates. Conference About the NCAA NCAA Eligibility Center NCAA Transfer Guide National Letter of Intent ACT SAT TOEFL FAFSA Form City of Greenville Visiting ECU Visitor’s Bureau Contact Us Autographs Charitable.\nState legislative leaders are on the verge of filling out East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees. Phillip Horne of Pitt County is expected to be appointed to the University of North Carolina.\nJul 26, 2010 · East Carolina University Police Department – 609 E 10th St, Greenville, North Carolina 27858 – Rated 4 based on 7 Reviews \"Thank you all so much for all.\nAlabama Social Studies Course Of Study This document is designed to show the connection between the required state-written curriculum (courses of study) and the state-tested curriculum (the Alabama High School Graduation Examination and the Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition [Stanford 9]) in Social Studies. Teachers select additional classes to fill a total of 12 hours of day class time, to the\nAramark-East Carolina University, Catering. Jones Hall, College Drive Greenville, NC 27858. (252) 328-4339\nThe Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C. is the location. to deliver on the health care needs of the eastern North.\nEast Carolina University’s Board of Trustees was not notified about the University of North Carolina System’s decision to file a legal complaint against Vidant Medical Center and Pitt County, the.\nGREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – North Carolina State Treasurer Dale R. ECU Physicians, the medical practice of the Brody School.\nECU Physicians, the medical practice of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU), is a leader. s.\nJeffrey is a graduate of North Carolina State University with a degree in Engineering. He graduated from East Carolina.\nThe mural project is a collaboration between Whirligig Stage and Visit Greenville NC. During the dedication, East Carolina University music professor Caroll V. Dashiell will speak about Taylor’s.\nHow To Learn Share Market Trading Pdf Introduction about Global Corporate Game-Based Learning Global Corporate Game-Based Learning Market Size (Sales) Market Share. Can the acquirer learn from its mistakes and get back in the game? This comes to mind in considering Zoom’s efforts to take market share from Cisco Systems in. provide video tutorials and a one. The College Of The State\nThe Oscar-winning actress and East Carolina University graduate is helping to produce. the decade when Bullock finished.\nPrevious Previous post: Bryan College Station Car Dealerships\nNext Next post: College Student Room Decorating Ideas","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line395678"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8113144636154175,"wiki_prob":0.8113144636154175,"text":"Details: C2004B01662\nAdministrative Appeals Tribunal Amendment (Review of Decisions) Bill 2004\n- C2004B01662\nA Bill for an Act to amend the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, and for related purposes\nFor authoritative information on the progress of bills and on amendments proposed to them, please see the House of Representatives Votes and Proceedings, and the Journals of the Senate as available on the Parliament House website.\nIntroduced HR 09 Aug 2004\nDownload RTF\nThe Parliament of the\nPresented and read a first time\nNo. , 2004\n(Mr Rudd)\n1 Short title\t1\n2 Commencement\t1\n3 Schedule(s)\t1\nSchedule 1--Amendment of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 2\nThe Parliament of Australia enacts:\n1 Short title\nThis Act may be cited as the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Amendment (Review of Decisions) Act 2004.\nThis Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n3 Schedule(s)\nThe Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.\nSchedule 1--Amendment of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975\n1 Subsection 27(1)\nRepeal the subsection, substitute:\n(1)\tWhere this Act or any other enactment (other than the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979) provides that an application may be made to the Tribunal for a review of a decision, the application may be made:\n(a)\tby or on behalf of any person or persons (including the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth) whose interests are affected by the decision; or\n(b)\tby a member of Parliament.\n2 After subsection 27(1)\n(1A)\tFor the purposes of paragraph (1)(b):\nmember of Parliament means a member of:\n(a)\tthe Parliament of the Commonwealth: or\n(b)\tthe Parliament of a State; or\n(c)\tthe Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory; or\n(d)\tthe Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1152866"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6680631041526794,"wiki_prob":0.33193689584732056,"text":"Andy Sneap\nProducer, Musician, Mixer & Mastering Engineer\n(Megadeth, Accept, Exodus, Hell, Killswitch, Onslaught, Testament)\nBackstage Recording Studio was originally set up in 1994 by ex-Sabbat guitarist Andy Sneap, to be used as a small demo facility for himself and local bands from within the Midlands area.\nThe studio has gone from strength to strength culminating in relocation to a 16th century 15 acre fully residential farm in 2001. Situated in rural Derbyshire the studio is within easy reach of the M1 and A38 and is within half an hours drive from Nottingham, Derby and East Midlands Airport. Birmingham International Airport is approx one hour’s drive away and rail links to London are direct from Derby.\nBackstage has directed itself towards the rock/metal fraternity, with labels including Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Roadrunner, Metal Blade, Ferret and Sony among others, making constant use of the facilities.\nBackstage now has two full Pro Tools studios equipped with Pro Tools HD set ups, with outboard by the likes of Focusrite, Tubetech SPL, SSL, Crane Song, Amek and Alan Smart.\nHaving worked with Megadeth, Accept, Killswitch Engage, Opeth, Testament, Exodus, Kreator, Nevermore, Arch Enemy and Machine Head, Andy is known worldwide for producing some of the heaviest albums released this last decade with Opeth’s ‘Deliverence’ being awarded a Swedish Grammy in 2002 and Killswitch Engage’s ‘End Of Heartache’ along with Megadeth’s ‘Headcrusher” nominated for a US Grammy.\nBackstage Recording Studios\nDerbyshire, United Kingdom\nwww.andysneap.com\n2 - EQP-WA Tube Equalizers","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line73763"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.695622444152832,"wiki_prob":0.30437755584716797,"text":"To inform and unite for progress\nIf you live in Karns, you are a member!\nTo reserve the Karns Community Club Center (Old Library) at 7708 Oak Ridge Highway or the Youth Center at 6616 Beaver Ridge Road (behind the Fire Station near Bojangles), please contact Pattie Loveday at (865) 938-8365. Send checks to: Karns Community Club, 7584 Glastonbury Road, Knoxville, TN 37931.\nThe next meeting of the Karns Community Club will be on Tuesday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Karns Community Club Center, 7708 Oak Ridge Highway, Knoxville, TN. All Karns residents are welcome to attend monthly meetings!\nThe next Planning Commission meeting is on Thursday, July 11th at 1:30 p.m., in the Main Assembly Room of the City-County Building. See www.knoxmpc.org for the agenda for this meeting and make your voice heard by calling and/or emailing the Planning Commissioners (commission@knoxmpc.org or, for individual email addresses and phone numbers, see: http://knoxmpc.org/aboutmpc/commiss.htm). If you have a particular interest in any agenda items, consider going to the Agenda Review meeting in the Small Assembly Room of the City-County Building at 11:30 a.m. on the Tuesday before the MPC meeting. There are sometimes much more detailed discussions of the issues at these meetings.\nThe next Board of Zoning Appeals meeting is on Wednesday, July 24 at 1:30 p.m. in the Main Assembly Room of the City-County Building. See https://www.knoxcounty.org/codes/bza.php for the agenda and other information about this Board.\nThe next County Commission meeting is in the Main Assembly Room at the City-County Building on Monday, July 22 at 5 p.m. with zoning Issues heard starting at 7 p.m. To contact County Commissioners, email them at: commission@knoxcounty.org\nor, for individual email addresses and phone numbers, see: https://www.knoxcounty.org/commission/commissioners.php.\nThe Northwest County Sector Plan Update was approved by the Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) at its July 2016 meeting, so it is now final until the next update in another five years or so. Sector Plans guide land use decisions made by the MPC and provide a broad vision for the future. There are some excellent ideas incorporated into the plan, but it is up to us, the local residents, to push the MPC and the County Commission to help make the vision become reality by advocating for what we want and need and against what would negatively impact our community. We need to work together to create the future for the Karns Community because there is nothing that requires the MPC or County Commission to implement the ideas in the Sector Plan. The plan is available here: http://knoxmpc.org/northwestcounty/. If you have questions about the Plan, please contact Liz Albertson at liz.albertson@knoxmpc.org.\nFirst Tuesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Karns Community Club Center at 7708 Oak Ridge Highway -- Karns Community Club planning meeting (Policy Board Meeting). Everyone is welcome to come and bring ideas as well as learn how to get more involved!\nJuly 20th, 2019 -- The Karns Community Fair & Parade -- Note that these will NOT be on the 4th Saturday in July this year, as has been customary, because school is starting back earlier so teachers go back to school on July 29th. There needs to be a week in between the Fair and when teachers return so the floors can be prepared. So, this year, the Fair will be on July 20th (the THIRD Saturday in July). The parade starts at Ingles on Oak Ridge Highway at 9 a.m. (Participants in the parade should come about an hour early to line up.) The parade proceeds to Karns High School where the Fair will start at 10 a.m. Oak Ridge Highway from Ingles to Walgreens, and Byington-Beaver Ridge Road from Walgreens to Karns High School, will be shut down shortly before the parade begins and will re-open shortly after the parade is over. The Karns Community Fair is the longest running community fair in the State of Tennessee and has something for everyone. See www.nwkbpa.com or go to the \"Karns Community Fair\" Facebook page for information on the Fair and how you can be involved. Questions can be sent to karnscommunityfair@gmail.com.\nFirst Thursday in December -- Christmas party (potluck) at 6:30 p.m. at the Karns Community Club Center.\n1st Saturday in December (or occasionally on the 2nd Saturday) -- Karns Community Christmas parade! The parade will begin at 10 a.m. with parade participants lining up starting at 9 a.m. in the Ingles parking lot. The parade proceeds to Walgreens on Oak Ridge Highway from Ingles to Walgreen's at \"the Karns red light.\" Prizes are given for the best floats! Oak Ridge Highway will be shut down shortly before the parade begins and will re-open shortly after the parade is completely over. (The road is typically closed for at least an hour.) For more information, contact Roger Kane at (865) 405-5103.\n© 2019 Karns Community Club","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1504387"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6301932334899902,"wiki_prob":0.6301932334899902,"text":"Heritage University campus and community celebrate El Grito de Independencia\nUniversity Home > Mexican Independence Day\nSeptember 18, 2018 /in HU Now, News /by David Mance\nThe Heritage University campus was festive this weekend as student clubs and organizations held the first ever “El Grito de Independencia” in observance of Mexican Independence Day. El Grito commemorates the “Cry of Dolores,” a historical event that set off the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.\nDiana Maria Oliveros Martinez delivering the El Grito at the El Grito de Independencia event at Heritage University, September 15, 2018\nClose to 500 people attended the Heritage festival which featured fun for the entire family. The cultural event included Folklorico dancers, piñata breaking, games for kids, and performances by Banda Parla Azteca and the CWU Mariachi Club. Families were treated to a free movie and popcorn.\nThe highlight of the night was the reenactment of the “El Grito” as delivered by special guest Diana Maria Oliveros Martinez of the Consulate of Mexico office in Seattle. We wish to thank everyone who made the event possible and those who attended.\nClick below to see videos and pictures from the event.\nVIDEO El Grito de Independencia Begins\nVIDEO El Grito de Independencia – Pinata Breaking\nVIDEO El Grito de Independencia – El Grito\nEl Grito de Independencia Facebook Album\nhttp://www.heritage.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/41948678_2154622074609304_4910333257934962688_o.jpg 1365 2048 David Mance https://www.heritage.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Heritage-University-Logo.png David Mance2018-09-18 18:34:572018-09-18 18:35:48Heritage University campus and community celebrate El Grito de Independencia\nHeritage University hosts festival for Mexican Independence Day, Yakima Herald-Republic, September 5, 2018\nSeptember 5, 2018 /in News Links /by David Mance\nTOPPENISH, Wash. — Heritage University will host a cultural festival in honor of Mexican Independence Day next week.\nThe festival, called “El Grito de Independencia,” will commemorate what’s known as the “The Cry of Dolores,” when a Roman Catholic priest in the Mexican city of Dolores Hidalgo rang the bell of his church and gave the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence in 1810.\nRead more at yakimaherald.com.\nhttps://www.heritage.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Heritage-University-Logo.png 0 0 David Mance https://www.heritage.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Heritage-University-Logo.png David Mance2018-09-05 17:47:082018-09-26 17:53:44Heritage University hosts festival for Mexican Independence Day, Yakima Herald-Republic, September 5, 2018\nHeritage University to host Mexican cultural festival in honor of Mexican Independence Day\nAugust 31, 2018 /in Press Releases /by David Mance\nHeritage University to host a Mexican cultural festival in honor of Mexican Independence Day\nToppenish, Wash. – Heritage University will host a Mexican cultural festival in honor of Mexican Independence Day. El Grito de Independencia, will take place on the Heritage campus, Saturday, September 15, 2018 beginning at 5:30 p.m. El Grito de Independencia commemorates the “Cry of Dolores,” a historical event in Mexico that set off the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.\nThe festival will feature fun for the entire family. From 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., there will be games for kids, jumpers, food and beverages, folklorico dancers and piñata smashing for all ages. Then at 8:00 p.m., a family movie will be played with free popcorn and sodas served and a “Banda Street Dance” with music performed by Banda Perla Azteca. Earlier in the evening the CWU Mariachi Club will also perform as a part of the festivities. There will be free door prizes for the first 100 people to arrive at the event.\nFor more information, contact Melissa Hill at (509) 865-0411 or Hill_M@Heritage.edu.\nhttps://www.heritage.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Heritage-University-Logo.png 0 0 David Mance https://www.heritage.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Heritage-University-Logo.png David Mance2018-08-31 21:46:182018-09-06 17:00:42Heritage University to host Mexican cultural festival in honor of Mexican Independence Day","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line158567"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.799156129360199,"wiki_prob":0.799156129360199,"text":"Philippines Takes Center Stage at 9th Best of ASEAN Performing Arts\nThe Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was proudly represented by the Bayanihan National Folk Dance Company in the 9th Best of ASEAN Performing Arts series to a jam-packed audience at the Gedung Kesenian Jakarta.\nThe Mission joined hands with the ASEAN Secretariat, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the Philippine Embassy in Indonesia, Shangrila Hotel, and the Philippine Airlines to feature “Philippinescape: Showcasing the Beauty of the Philippines through Dance and Music.”\nThe theater was overflowing with more than 450 guests, including members of the diplomatic corps, the Filipino community, Indonesian students, the media and representatives of government and international organizations.\nASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to ASEAN Elizabeth P. Buensuceso, NCCA Chairman Felipe M. de Leon, Jr., and Philippine Ambassador to Indonesia Maria Rosario Aguinaldo graced the occasion.\n“Culture helps to shape and build a community, and as we build an ASEAN Community, we will bridge the divide through culture and come together as one, with one common identity and one shared vision,” ASEAN Secretary-General Le said.\n“The Best of ASEAN Performing Arts celebrates ASEAN’s unity in diversity, showcasing ASEAN to the world,” he added.\nIn her remarks, Ambassador Buensuceso underscored the common dream of ASEAN to achieve one Vision, one Identity, and one Community in the midst of their rich and diverse cultures. She recalled the common objective of ASEAN to bring dignity, prosperity and freedom for their people under a canopy of a caring and sharing community.\n“I enjoin you who are with us tonight to tell others what you have witnessed of ASEAN and hopefully, you will be inspired enough to want to know more about it and later on, contribute directly in making ASEAN serve the purpose for which it was created- you,” Ambassador Buensuceso said.\n“The Philippines shares with her ASEAN brothers and sisters, the same love for life, the same ability to endure and triumph and the same traditions that speak of hospitality, perseverance, industry and faith. From the pulsating rhythms of the music and the dances to the rich costumes and sceneries, this show endeavors to bring out from you an exclamation that indeed, “it is more fun in the Philippines!” Ambassador Buensuceso added.\nFor his part, NCCA Chairman De Leon said that one of the most effective ways of strengthening the cultural identity is through the arts.\n\"Art showcases the life of one’s nation – a mirror that faithfully shows the deepest feelings of hopes and dreams, joys and sorrows, objects of affection and devotion, character and temperament and gems of insight and wisdom.\"\nHe added that true to the theme of the program, the Bayanihan performance served as a Filipino cultural tour for everyone through dance and music. “It is a journey of bringing the best pieces our country in the field of performing arts to the ASEAN community,” he said.\nThe Best of ASEAN Performing Arts aims to promote ASEAN awareness by showcasing the 10 Member States’ rich and diverse cultures and arts. (www.dfa.gov.ph)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line571624"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7496073246002197,"wiki_prob":0.7496073246002197,"text":"Traffic / DUI\nEntertainment/Art Law\nJUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA’S PASSING - THE FIGHT TO PROTECT OUR CONSITUTION IS NOW OURS.\nBy Rev. Mario Gonzalez, Esq.\nFor more, visit www.gonzlawgroup.com\nToday, America lost one of its greatest heroes. An Italian-American icon dedicated to defending the Constitution with every fiber of his being. A man who recognized the erosion of the family unit in America as the greatest threat to its stability, who understood the Constitution to be a document that, like any other document, should be read and analyzed as expressing the thoughts and values of the authors that wrote it at the time of its writing. A document much too precious to be twisted and contorted to support sentiments and ideologies anathema to the very patriots who poured their hearts, souls and minds into its drafting.\nI can’t tell you how many times I thought of custom designing a T-Shirt with his name and likeness on it that I could wear around my law school just to freak my professors out. Every time Scalia was derided during a discussion at law school by the backhanded comment of some confused liberal, my heart was broken. I saw his critics as lost souls, adrift in a sea of legal and logical instability destined to be helplessly marooned on an island of conflict and confusion by their fundamentally flawed ideologies.\nEven in his controversial decision on Employment Div. v. Smith, 484 U.S. 872 (1990) which ultimately prompted a religious backlash and evidenced the need for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993), I understood and agreed with Justice Scalia’s much criticized opinion. Justice Scalia penned the Court’s decision in Smith holding that though the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment protects the right of individuals to believe whatever they wish, it does not necessarily protect an individual’s right to act on that belief when doing so violates a neutral, generally applicable state law governing criminal behavior the state has a Constitutional right to regulate though its police power. In Smith, it was Oregon’s right to regulate the use of an illegal drug (Peyote) for religious purposes. However controversial, his decision in this case demonstrated Scalia’s consistent commitment to protecting an individual State’s rule of law. His steadfast support for state sovereignty and his commitment to limit the scope of the federal government’s ability to interfere with this Constitutional right was invariable.\nI secretly shuddered in fear when I envisioned what it would be like to have a Supreme Court without Justice Scalia. But in my heart I was comforted in knowing that Justice Scalia would continue to hang-on, if only to protect the Constitution until a President was elected that would properly select another constitutional originalist to fill his place. He hung on as long as he could, protecting the Constitution to his last breath. We now have the most liberal president in the history of our country poised to submit an appointee to the Supreme Court that will worsen the constitutional imbalance already present in this historically liberal Court. If ever conservatives needed to erect an impregnable firewall to a potential presidential appointee to SCOTUS it is now.\nWhat is at stake? Let me make it simple for you - the country. Simply put, SCALIA’S REPLACEMENT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT WHO THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE. The next president’s influence over our country is constitutionally limited to no more than eight (8) years. Conversely, the decisions of a newly appointed Supreme Court Justice will affect us for generations to come. We cannot now allow what Scalia’s life stood for to be lost with his death. The fight to protect our beloved Constitution now passes to you and me.\nRELIGIOUS COLLEGES SEEK AND RECEIVE WAIVERS ON TRANSGENDER STUDENTS\nSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nearly three dozen religious colleges and universities in 20 U.S. states have received federal waivers allowing them not to accommodate transgender students in admissions, housing and other areas of campus life, according to a report by the nation’s largest LGBT rights group and documents obtained by The Associated Press.\nThe church-affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.\n“What we want students to know is schools are serious about this, that they have gone out of their way to make sure they have the legal ability to discriminate against LGBT students,” said Sarah Warbelow, the campaign’s legal director.\nEighteen of the 34 universities and colleges that told the U.S. Department of Education that giving transgender students access to single-sex restrooms and facilities that correspond with their gender identity would be inconsistent with their religious tenets are controlled by the Southern Baptist Convention, according to public records obtained by both the Human Rights Campaign and the AP.\nThe Department of Education has seen the surge in waiver applications because its Office for Civil Rights has “exceeded its legal authority” by taking the position since 2013 that the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination applies to transgender students, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory Baylor said.\n“The schools have reasonably concluded that they are quite likely to become the next target of OCR if they follow their religious convictions on these matters,” said Baylor, whose Christian legal advocacy group has advised some colleges on how to seek the exemptions.\nThe tension mirrors disputes that have arisen over the refusal by Catholic hospitals and universities to offer contraception in their employee health plans and moves by local governments to stop contracting with religiously affiliated adoption agencies that refuse to place children in households headed by same-sex couples.\nHigher education institutions that receive federal funds for research or financial aid are barred from discriminating on the basis of sex under Title IX, the 1972 law that originally was used to open men’s colleges to women and to create more athletic opportunities for women at co-ed schools.\nColleges controlled by religious organizations always have been eligible to seek exemptions from Title IX. More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.\nCatherine Lhamon, the Department of Education’s assistant secretary for civil rights, said in a statement that the government would “vigorously enforce Title IX’s prohibition against discrimination on the basis of sex, including gender identity, in every applicable school.” But she noted that her office does not have discretion to deny waivers to colleges seeking a religious exemption.\n“Congress did exempt from Title IX’s protection institutions that are controlled by religious organizations, to the extent that Title IX conflicts with their religious tenets,” Lhamon said in a statement. “We are committed to protecting every student Congress gave us jurisdiction to protect.”\nAt least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith-based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.\nThe U.S. Supreme Court’s decision at the beginning of 2015 to accept the case in which a court majority ruled in June that state gay marriage bans are unconstitutional was a likely trigger, Warbelow said.\n“It’s indicative of the progress that LGBT people have made, both in terms of social acceptance so there are more LGBT people willing to live openly, and developments in the law,” she said.\nThe Department of Education says another 22 schools have exemption requests under review.\nNJ PARENTAL RIGHTS ATTACKED - Right to control the mental healthcare of minor children now limited.\nBy Mario Gonzalez, Esq.\nA3371/S2278, the bill to ban counseling efforts to change a minors' sexual orientation, has passed both houses of the NJ legislature. Absent intervention by governor Christie, parents in NJ can no longer seek professional (including psychiatric) help for their minor children struggling with their sexual identity if such counseling includes any manner of redirection of the child's \"stated\" gender affectional preference, even if the professional believes the affections to be misguided and/or mistaken. In saying what I am saying I am in no way condoning the recently reported ridiculous and harmful practices allegedly utilized by members of the psychiatric community in this regard, assuming such reports are true.\nWhat is of concern to me is that fact that this bill presents an impermissible intrusion into a parent's right to bring up their minor children according to the precepts of their particular faith without intervention by the government. The issue of gender identity is integrally tied to foundational religious beliefs affecting a majority of Americans - Beliefs which must be respected and over which the state cannot constitutionally intrude, irrespective of popular opinion to the contrary.\nIn light of this legislation, it would appear that mental health care professionals who are devout Muslims, Jews, or Christians are now at a crossroads in terms of reconciling their professions with their respective faiths. Licensed School teachers are sure to follow if they work in a school, public, private, or parochial, \"licensed\" by the State of New Jersey. This is a matter of a person's right to hold to their religious convictions and to impose the same onto their children, convictions held sacrosanct for thousands of years. To summarily dismiss and to publicly disparage and ridicule the views of millions of decent, law-abiding Americans who happen to hold to strong religious convictions on a particular matter of great moral controversy, and to now legislatively force a particular secular view into how parents choose to care for their children's psychological/psychiatric health, is simply both \"un-American\" and unconstitutional.\nThe practice in many Christian churches in Germany during WWII was to sing louder so as to drown out the screams of millions of Jews as they were herded to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps on train tracks near church buildings. Singing louder did not save the life of one precious Jew. When it comes to enacting legislation that directly or indirectly affects our religious beliefs or the manner in which we choose to raise our children, we can either sing or fight. I would highly recommend that we learn from past mistakes. Though I would legally fight for the right of any person not be discriminated against in terms of housing, employment, etc., I would fight even more strongly for people to be able to practice their faith unimpeded by government, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment.\nStanding For Your Rights | A Christian Obligation\nA Biblical Legal Analysis of Citizen's Rights\nThere are two instances in Scripture where the Apostle Paul exercises his rights as a Roman citizen, but he does so for different reasons. He does so in Philippi (Acts 16) to protest to the Government's misuse of power over its citizenry. We must make sure that Government appropriately uses the power with which they have been entrusted. He insists that those who harmed and humiliated him personally address the situation and make amends to him publically (apologize). The second instance is in Jerusalem found in Acts 21. In this case, an issue concerning the Gospel is at stake. He demands his rights be observed so that ultimately God's will for his life could be accomplished, having been told by God that he was to \"bear witness in Rome.\" Demanding justice of our leadership ultimately benefits the people and helps them to reach their divine destiny. By doing so, we often speak for those who do not have a voice.\nIn Acts 16, and then again in Acts 21-23, we see a part of the apostle Paul that might, at first glance, seem contradictory to the philosophy he espouses in Romans 13 concerning the divine appointment of governmental authority and the Christian's obligation to submit to it.\nIn these chapters we see Paul exercising his right of provocatio, or 'appeal' as a Roman citizen. This was a right rooted in the Roman right to appeal to the sovereign people, provocatio ad populum. The Lex Iulia de vi codified the rights of cives (Roman citizens – generally members of high Roman society of which Paul was a part) as opposed to the very limited rights of the perergrinus (the ordinary provincial). The Lex Iulia protected the Roman citizen who invoked the right of provocatio from \"from summary punishment, execution or torture without trial, from private or public arrest, and from actual trial by magistrates outside Italy. They (the provisions of the law) are to be understood in connection with the ordo system, which had been created for the protection of Roman citizens - a method of trial by jury at Rome for statutory offences.\"\nWhen Paul and Silas were dragged in before the magistrates in Acts 16, the procedure followed initially comported with that expected for \"extra ordinem\" charges by a party with standing. However, the magistrates departed from legal procedure when they ordered Paul and Silas to be flogged and thrown in jail, in direct violation of their rights as cives Romani. God of course miraculously intervened and dramatically set them free that evening, after which it could be said that they voluntarily submitted to their illegal detention. After discovering their incompetence and gross error the following morning, the magistrates sent word that Paul and Silas should immediately be set free. Paul, however, refused to leave demanding instead that the magistrates themselves come to get them, apologize, and personally escort them out of jail for all to see. He made it a point to publicly display his indignation over the fact that he, a Roman citizen, had been so mistreated by \"government officials\" who had abused their sacred trust (power - Romans 13) in violation of his rights.\nThere are many among us for whom we act as surrogates - legal residents as well as undocumented people groups. We are their only voice. Standing for the rights of people in the face of governmental abuse and neglect is not only biblically correct, it is our Christian duty.\nWE SAW IT COMING FOLKS - Constitutional Gender Confusion.\nBiological males now protected as having a Constitutional right to bathe along with biological females in High School, so long as they believe themselves to be female, notwithstanding the presence of a distinctly male organ for all (biological females) to see or turn away from. This is the finding of Federal education authorities in Illinois against an Illinois school district seeking to honor the requests of parents who found the practice disgraceful. It’s only going to get worse unless the Church and other groups rally together and demand basic common respect.\nHere’s an excerpt from my lecture series on the outcome of the Same-Sex Marriage Decision which foretold of this move. It is part of my section on “The Trojan Horse.” –\n“Here’s the problem - Allowing people who identify as gay or lesbian to marry is a question of what the State does. It governs the conduct of state or governmental officials. However, how you treat alleged discrimination against people who identify as gay is another question altogether. This is a question that addresses the behavior of private actors - business owners, private employers, pastors, licensed teachers, public and private schools, licensed counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and so on. Now we have a Supreme Court precedent that can be used to force people to act against their religious beliefs by claiming that simply acting on their faith is a discriminatory act.\nAs expected, WITHIN ONE MONTH OF THE DECISION, the EEOC in a 3-2 ruling (notice how close these rulings are – around 50% are AGAINST) held that discrimination against someone in employment for sexual preference is the same as sex discrimination (an established protected class) and is to be treated accordingly. This law basically proscribes disparate treatment of “similarly situated persons.” It essentially allows enforcement action by federal, state and local municipalities against private citizens, companies, or generally “actors” as an anti-discrimination effort.\nBy conflating the two issues (the right to marry and discrimination based on an individual’s personal sexual preference and/or preferred sexual identity) and by morally justifying homosexuality in its holding, Obergefell essentially established A NEW DE FACTO CIVIL RIGHT affecting an ever-expanding and as yet undefined group of people (LGBTQ…?). This decision not only forced states to ignore their democratically adopted domestic relations laws (family law) against the will of the people in those states, but it will now be used to demand equal protection for this as yet undefined group to engage in behavior considered by most as morally unacceptable for thousands of years, such as the unfettered use of restrooms or showers of one's choosing, irrespective of one's biological gender, based solely on a person’s claimed (and unchallenged) psycho-sexual proclivity or identity. This will be allowed and protected by law as a result of this holding irrespective of how morally repugnant the choice might be to others directly affected by it. For example, a young girl might now find herself in the same bathroom as an adult biological male with his organ in place and very much in working order.\nIn summary, based on this opinion, the Court has not only established itself as the Supreme Court of the land, but as a Supreme entity. It is no longer limited to merely interpreting the laws of the several States in light of the Constitution, but can now apparently confer dignity on what or who it sees fit. Look up the article in the New York times by clicking here:\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/us/illinois-district-violated-transgender-students-rights-us-says.html?mwrsm=Facebook&_r=0\nNEW CLOTHES - Examining the Supreme Court’s recent same-sex ruling.\nAn examination of the Supreme Court’s recent same-sex ruling, Obergefell v. Hodges.\nA Fairytale\nIn 1837 Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, penned the fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” about cunning swindlers who concocted a scheme to defraud a vain emperor. The emperor was duped into buying a garment hailed as being made from a valuable fabric invisible to anyone either unfit for his position or “hopelessly stupid.” The June 26, 2015 decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, came as a result of the use of the same deceptive technique by lobbying groups aiming to dupe the American public, the media, and now the U.S. Supreme Court into buying a fantasy to our collective shame as a nation.\nContrary to popular belief, marriage equality was not achieved by this ruling. Even before this decision, everyone in America had a legal right to marry. What this ruling actually did was obliterate the definition of marriage, an institution held sacrosanct for thousands of years. It defined the term into meaninglessness. As a result of the ruling, same-sex couples can now enter into an as yet undefined social compact which has no gender limitations and soon will have no numerical limitation, as limiting marriage to two people will be legally problematic based on the legal logic used in this holding.\nGovernment is God\nThrough this decision the Supreme Court has unilaterally overridden the legislative will of over thirty (30) states. And as in the Obamacare decision that preceded it, the Court here unequivocally solidifies its new standard that words no longer have a definite legal meaning. Words now mean only what SCOTUS says they mean. Based on this opinion, the Court has not only established itself as the Supreme Court of the land, but as a Supreme entity. It is no longer limited to merely interpreting the laws of the several States in light of the Constitution, but can now apparently confer dignity on what or who it sees fit.\nJustice Kennedy’s “Newspeak.”\nJustice Kennedy gives lip service to the virtues of marriage by saying, “It is fair and necessary to say these references [to marriage] were based on the understanding that marriage is a union between two persons of the opposite sex.” And that “…reasonable and sincere people here and throughout the world still hold this view of marriage.” But his soliloquy makes this irrelevant, as he ultimately uses the Court’s newly found divine authority to label these “reasonable” people as both wrong and biased. In this context he makes an ominous statement:\n“Many who deem same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that conclusion based on decent and honorable religious or philosophical premises, and neither they nor their beliefs are disparaged here. But when that sincere, personal opposition becomes enacted law and public policy, the necessary consequence is to put the imprimatur of the State itself on an exclusion that soon demeans or stigmatizes those whose own liberty is then denied.”\nThis statement essentially excludes people whose opinions are forged by their moral and religious ideals from involving themselves in the legislative process and further proscribes the application of their beliefs to democratically influence public policy. He ‘touts’ religious freedom apparently believing religious communities to be comprised of legal idiots when he says,\n“Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same-sex marriage should not be condoned. The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths, and to their own deep aspirations to continue the family structure they have long revered.”\nSo basically, religious people can constitutionally believe and teach whatever they want to [even if this Court has deemed it bigoted], so long as they don’t practice their beliefs, a right portentously excluded from this statement. Justice Thomas’ response to this ruse is significant, characterizing the majority’s assumption that government confers “dignity” through marriage as nonsensical:\n“Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved... [a]nd those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits. The government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.”\nHe calls out Kennedy’s attempt at deception, quoting portions of the above excerpt and adds,\n“Religious liberty is about more than just the protection for ‘religious organizations and persons… as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths’. Ibid. Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.”\nWhat About Marriage Equality?\nChief Justice Roberts, in his vehement dissent, states, “The majority’s decision [to announce a new civil right] is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent.” A person does not find their identity and gain civil rights by a pattern of willful behavior. Behaving or feeling a certain way is an aspect of our human experience and does not in itself establish an inherent immutable characteristic. To be “immutable” something must be permanent – unchanging. Being black, for example, is a legitimate constitutional immutable characteristic. Even using the amicus brief actually quoted by Justice Kennedy in support of this Court’s mistaken contention that “sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic,” (yeah, I read it), said “… fully 88% of gay men and 68% of lesbians reported that they had ‘no choice’ [about their sexual orientation] at all.” Based on this Court's own supporting briefs from which it draws its irrational conclusion, 12%, or 1-2 out of 10 self-professed homosexual men and over 1/3 of professed lesbians in the studies feel they have a choice as to their sexual orientation. By any stretch of the imagination these numbers do not support the conclusion that sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic. On the contrary, most modern studies support sexual orientation to be more fluid than we thought before.\nThat said, the question was never one of equality. The question always was whether an alleged committed relationship between two same-sex parties could legitimately be called a “marriage” and who should decide whether this is so. According to Justice Kennedy, a man who just two years ago in United States v. Windsor wrote an opinion that concluded, “[R]egulation of domestic relations is an area that has long been regarded as a virtually exclusive province of the States,” and then went on to write, “[T]he Federal Government, through our history, has deferred to state-law policy decisions with respect to domestic relations,” now has completely reversed his previous opinion and presently feels that it is the Federal Government, not States, through the divine Supreme Court that should decide what a marriage actually is.\nThe Court has now unfortunately legally codified a false narrative. Based on strained studies engineered to push an agenda bent on establishing a bogus civil right where such a right does not constitutionally exist, we are now faced with a “new” civil right for a non-existent and non-discrete class of people. As a result, people of faith will suffer greatly because of the tsunami of litigation that will follow against those who will dare to refuse to bow to Baal (figuratively) by not compromising their deeply held religious convictions. Justices, Judges and City Clerks will likely be fired all around the country if they do not perform same-sex ceremonies they find repugnant to their faith. Religious schools and organizations may also soon be sued and may well loose public grants and ultimately their tax-exempt status as a direct consequence of this ruling, a ruling purportedly aimed only at guaranteeing equality for a fluid burdened class.\nChief Justice Roberts issued this chilling warning of impending attacks against people of faith,\n“Today’s decision, for example, creates serious questions about religious liberty. Many good and decent people oppose same-sex marriage as a tenet of faith, and their freedom to exercise religion is—unlike the right imagined by the majority— actually spelled out in the Constitution (First Amendment). Respect for sincere religious conviction has led voters and legislators in every State that has adopted same-sex marriage democratically to include accommodations for religious practice. The majority’s decision imposing same- sex marriage cannot, of course, create any such accommodations. The majority graciously suggests that religious believers may continue to “advocate” and “teach” their views of marriage. The First Amendment guarantees, however, the freedom to “exercise” religion. Ominously, that is not a word the majority uses.”\nIn the end, this decision had little to do with equality or the U.S. Constitution and everything to do with a social agenda aimed at vilifying and ultimately mortally wounding all who look upon the sexual behaviors in question as morally wrong. Like the fairy tale, it is all about forcing the American people to recognize and laud a non-existent civil right fancifully displayed before the American people by a largely immoral Court. A Court that has, by its decision in this case, shown itself to be naked.\nHEARTBROKEN - Thoughts on the Eric Garner tragedy.\nEric Garner should not have died. Plain and simple. This is a case of excessive force, not necessarily motivated by racial animus. Sadly, more care is typically taken handling animals than was given to this man. The NYPD should man up, admit their mistake here, apologize to the family, and pay up.\nThis case must be distinguished from Ferguson where the decedent was a thug and the behavior displayed following the incident by the hoodlums feigning concern dishonored the distinguished memory of our revered civil rights icons. Both the autopsy and the video in Garner's case rightly indicate probable criminal negligence. Unlike Ferguson, there should have been an indictment in this case.\nHearing this man beg for air only to be ignored by the NYPD directly leading to his death is both heartbreaking and inexcusable. Once he let the officers know that he couldn't breathe, the officers were under a moral and legal obligation to release him enough to remedy the life threatening activity. End of story. The type of \"hold\" that was used to restrain Garner is irrelevant. There were no exigent circumstances here justifying turning a deaf ear to this man's cries for his life. Let's pray for his family and that the NYPD realizes its errors and does the honorable thing here to make this right.\nhttp://www.nbcnewyork.com/…/Timeline-Eric-Garner-Chokehold-…\nPRAYER IN SCHOOL - Prayer & Religious acts in public schools cannot be constitutionally forbidden.\nContrary to myths spread by the legally misinformed, the Supreme Court has not ruled that students are forbidden to pray, read a religious book, or otherwise worship on their own while at school.\nIn Engle v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) the Supreme Court simply concluded that officially conducted prayer, promulgated in this case by the Board of Regents in New York, violated the Establishment Clause. Similarly, in a subsequent Supreme Court ruling the following year involving school prayer and Bible reading, School District of Abington Township v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), the Court decided that opening exercises promoting either the reading of the Bible or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in a public school violated the Establishment Clause as applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment.\nThat said, it is critically important to point out to legally uninformed school officials that these decisions of the Supreme Court did not \"remove prayer [or other religious observances] from public schools.\" The Supreme Court simply and exclusively removed only government-sponsored worship from the public schools, as is expressly outlined in the Court’s rulings in both cases. Public school students have always had and still possess the right to pray, read the Bible, or worship on their own while attending a public school as class schedules permit.\nConversely, a public school official’s interference with such private religious observances would constitute an impermissible intrusion into religion by the state and would thereby violate the student’s First Amendment rights. Officially interfering in any manner with an individual’s non-disruptive religious observance, even within a public school environment, is proscribed by the U.S. Constitution. This would include interfering with such activities as quietly praying, reading the Bible, worshiping, or even outright proselytizing during a scheduled break time or even during class time when objectively appropriate due to the subject matter being discussed. Public School officials, including teachers cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination, even if the viewpoint in question is inherently religious.\nI hope this information will help many of you in defending your particular student’s constitutionally protected rights.\nNOT EVEN A “SMIDGEN OF CORRUPTION” IN THE IRS SCANDAL? Examining the cover-up.\nPresident Obama, a Harvard educated lawyer, used these words in his description of an investigation of the IRS that had not yet concluded at the time. He spoke of “knuckle-headed decisions” having been made, thereby denying by implication that laws had actually been broken with a straight face. This was said in the face of the legal fact that when Lois Lerner, a lawyer herself and head of the IRS Exempt Organization Division, was brought to testify before the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, she decided to invoke her rights under the 5th Amendment. In order for her to legally do this, as Ms. Lerner and President Obama both clearly know (a rookie lawyer knows this), it is mandatory that she have a “real and substantial fear” that her testimony would result in self-incrimination, or minimally contribute to her criminal conviction in the United States. She could not rightfully plead the 5th if there was absolutely no possibility of her being found guilty of a crime as a result of her testimony. Her actions evidently speak to her belief, notwithstanding the President's assertions, that answering Congress’ questions might well provide more than a “smidgen” of proof of criminal conduct on her part.\nThe President’s statement concerning the non-existence of criminal activity and Lois Lerner’s actions are thus both factually and rationally irreconcilable. Subsequent to the invocation of her right against self-incrimination, Ms. Lerner joined our previous U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, in the now highly esteemed “contempt of Congress club.” Ms. Lerner was rightfully held in contempt of Congress for which she could have, and perhaps should have, been jailed on the spot. This is where it really gets interesting. Now it appears that years of emails from Ms. Lerner to various parties in Washington have been “lost” by the IRS, along with her hard drive. Furthermore, it also appears that other critical parties in the IRS have also mysteriously lost their emails and hard drives as well – a statistical impossibility. These facts alone establish the need for the appointment of a special prosecutor - now.\nOne thing can be said of all of this - the present administration lacks a “smidgen of credibility,” a fact on which the American public, both conservative and liberal, seem to wholeheartedly agree.\nⒸ 2015 González Law Group, LLC\n110 Cambridge Avenue, Jersey City NJ, 07307 - (201) 305-3135","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line414254"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9078636169433594,"wiki_prob":0.9078636169433594,"text":"() comments\n189 views this week\nNancy Kovack\nAmerican actress\nBiography Lists\nOccupations Actor Stage actor Film actor Television actor Model\nCountries United States of America\nBirth March 11, 1935 (Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, U.S.A.)\nSpouse: Zubin Mehta\nEducation University of Michigan\nAuthority IMDB id ISNI id Library of congress id VIAF id\nNancy Kovack (born Nancy Kovach; March 11, 1935) is a retired American film and television actress.\nKovack became interested in acting when she went to New York City to attend a wedding and became one of the Glea Girls for Jackie Gleason. She has appeared on a number of TV series including Star Trek, Bewitched (playing Darrin Stephens' ex-fiancée and Samantha's nemesis, Sheila Summers), Batman (episodes 5 and 6), I Dream of Jeannie, Get Smart, Perry Mason, 12 O'Clock High, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Invaders (season 2 episode 16 Task Force), Burke's Law, and Family Affair (1968 episode titled \"Family Plan\"). She appeared in a key role as a sexy, native witchdoctor and femme fatale in one of the most sobering of the original Star Trek episodes, \"A Private Little War\". In 1969 she was nominated for an Emmy for an appearance on Mannix.\nAs her profile increased, Kovack began to gain roles in Hollywood movies, most notably as the high priestess Medea in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). She also had parts in Diary of a Madman (1963) with Vincent Price, The Outlaws Is Coming (1965) with The Three Stooges, Sylvia (1965), The Great Sioux Massacre (1965), The Silencers (1966) with Dean Martin, Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) with Mike Henry, Frankie and Johnny (1966) with Elvis Presley, and Carl Reiner's directorial debut Enter Laughing (1967).\nOn Broadway she appeared in The Disenchanted.\nHer last film role was in Marooned (1969), a science-fiction drama. Credited as Nancy Mehta, she played the murder victim in the made-for-TV movie/series pilot Ellery Queen (also known as Too Many Suspects; 1975).\nIn 1969, Kovack married conductor Zubin Mehta, then music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and later music director of the New York Philharmonic. Until 2006, the Mehtas spent some months of the year in residence in Munich, Germany, where Mr. Mehta was the Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera. Mehta is currently Music Director for life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Main Conductor for Valencia's opera house. Mehta is also the chief conductor of the Maggio Musicale festival in Florence, Italy.\nSusan McDougal (known for being a part of the Whitewater controversy) worked as Kovack's personal assistant in the early 1990s. After her employment ended, Kovack took legal action against McDougal for alleged embezzlement. McDougal was acquitted in 1998 on all twelve charges. A suit by McDougal in 1999 for malicious prosecution ended in a settlement.\nPartial filmography\nStrangers When We Meet (1960) - Marcia\nCry for Happy (1961) - Camille Cameron\nThe Wild Westerners (1962) - Rose Sharon\nDiary of a Madman (1963) - Odette Mallotte\nJason and the Argonauts (1963) - Medea\nThe Outlaws Is Coming (1965) - Annie Oakley\nSylvia (1965) - Big Shirley\nThe Great Sioux Massacre (1965) - Libbie Custer\nThe Silencers (1966) - Barbara\nFrankie and Johnny (1966) - Nellie Bly\nTarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) - Sophia Renault\nDiamond 33 (1966)\nEnter Laughing (1967) - Linda aka Miss B\nShab-e-fereshtegan (1968)\nMarooned (1969) - Teresa Stone\nThe contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.\ncomments so far.\nBiography Personal life Partial filmography\narrow-left arrow-right arrow-up arrow-down instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube stumbleupon comments comments pandora gplay iheart tunein pandora gplay iheart tunein itunes","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1322489"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9167794585227966,"wiki_prob":0.9167794585227966,"text":"Kyle Albertson\nKyle Albertson, Bass- Baritone\nRole: Carmen (Escamillo)\nBass-baritone Kyle Albertson is renowned not only for his versatile voice, confidence, and style, but also for his ability to bring a character to life on stage. A recent foray into the works of Wagner included his house début at Lyric Opera of Chicago in Das Rheingold, role and house débuts as Donner in the same work at Minnesota Opera, and covering Wotan in San Francisco Opera’s Ring cycle. The past season saw him perform Porthos in Les Trois Mousquetaires with Phoenicia Festival, JP Morgan in the world première of Tesla with SoBe Arts, DeGuiche in Cyrano with Opera Carolina, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with New Jersey Festival Orchestra, and Sam in Trouble in Tahiti with Opera Parallèle at SFJazz. Upcoming engagements for the 2018-2019 season will include a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Siegfried, a house debut with San Diego Opera to perform the role of Sparafucile in Rigoletto, and a reprisal of his performance as Liutenant Horstmayer in Silent Night with Arizona Opera.\nSharon Breslau\nSharon Breslau, Actress\nRole: Bleecker Street (Shelly)\nA “graduate” of the Stella Adler Studio and of six years of New York City improvisational theater with The First Amendment and Ultraprov (at Folk City), Sharon Breslau was half of the comedy team Breslau & Tiedemann at comedy clubs and was featured on television’s Kleintime starring Robert Klein. Her regional theater credits include A Shayna Maidel at the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo and Borders of Loyalty at the Portland Stage Company in Maine. Other favorite gigs include Ludlow Fair, Subject to Fits, and Echoes in Off Off Off Broadway theaters--plus film roles in Naked Gun 33½ and Ghost. She was a featured guest on Law and Order, Big Brother Jake, and Treacherous Crossing with Lindsey Wagner and starred in the NBC sitcom Maverick Square with Michael Chiklis. A Woodstock resident, Sharon has directed three plays for Performing Arts of Woodstock (PAW) and has acted in four. Her first full-length play, Callista Jumps, has had three staged readings in the last two years, and her one-woman show, Gloriously Naked & Flailing, has been performed multiple times.\nRaphael Brunn\nRaphael Brunn, Flamenco Guitarist and Composer\nRole: Carmen (Flamenco guitarist)\nBorn in Hackensack, New Jersey to a well-known family of jugglers, dancers, and trapeze artists, Raphael Brunn started playing bass guitar at the age of ten. At fourteen, he moved to Europe to join his father, a world renowned juggler and acrobat who had featured live flamenco music in his performances since he first saw Antonio Ruiz and Carmen Amaya dance in the 1950s. The move exposed Raphael to some of Spain’s finest flamenco artists including El Manzanita, El Recortao, Pepe Marquez, and many more. His public debut playing flamenco guitar was in the opening festivities of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Since then, Brunn has performed with many of the artists who initially inspired his dedication to the flamenco tradition. He worked with El Farruquito and El Torombo in Incognito, a theatrical flamenco experience performed in Frankfurt, Germany. Now based in New York City, Raphael performs with various flamenco artists and is currently working on his second CD.\nJeff Byrnes\nJeff Byrnes, Baritone\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Norton)\nA graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Louisiana State University, baritone Jeff Byrnes recently made his role debut as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Raylynmor Opera. Previous roles include El Dancairo in Carmen, William Dale in Silent Night, John Brooke in Little Women, Sonora in La Fanciulla del West, and Marcello and Schaunard in La Bohème. He was a national semi-finalist of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions in 2016, was a finalist in the 2017 Mildred Miller International Voice Competition and the 2017 Shreveport Opera Competition, and was recently awarded a grant from the Gerda Lissner Foundation. Byrnes has participated in the young artist programs at Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Martina Arroyo's Prelude to performance, Dayton Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and the Seagle Music Colony. This summer, in addition to his debut at Festival of the Voice, Jeff returns to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, performing the Baron and covering Germont in La Traviata as well as covering Sgt. Marcum in the world premiere of An American Soldier.\nGinger Costa-Jackson\nGinger Costa-Jackson, Mezzo-Soprano\nRole: Carmen (Carmen)\nA graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and a Samling Scholar, mezzo-soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson recently sang Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia on the Met stage, performed the title role in Carmen with the San Francisco Opera, and made her debut at Opera de Paris as Despina in a new production of Cosi fan Tutte. She performed her first Carmen ever in 2012 at Glimmerglass, while her European debut was as Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. Future engagements include Dorabella in Cosi fan Tutte with the Seattle Opera, her Los Angeles Opera debut as Maddalena in Rigoletto, her return to the Opera de Paris for Cosi fan Tutte, Carmen with San Diego Opera, debuts with Washington Concert Opera in Maria di Rohan, with National Theatre Tokyo as Carmen, in Hong Kong as Musetta, and with Opera de Toulon as Rosina. She was recently joined by her two sisters in a Costa-Jackson sisters concert at the Nantucket Musical Arts Society, and one sister, soprano Miriam Costa-Jackson, will join her in Carmen in the role of Micaela.\nMiriam Costa-Jackson\nRole: Micaela (Carmen)\nDelighted to be returning to the operatic stage under the aegis of Festival Directors Maria Todaro and Louis Otey, soprano Miriam Costa-Jackson, a resident of Utah, has most recently sung the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Brigham Young University and, at Utah State University, both Magda in Puccini's La Rondine and Rosita in Torroba's Luisa Fernanda. She was also a guest artist at the Italian Embassy in Washington and a soloist in the American Festival Chorus production of Orff’s Carmina Burana. Costa-Jackson began performing at age 14 and studied with Renata Scotto at Santa Cecilia in Rome and with Sherrill Milnes and Maria Zouves at their VOICExperience in Florida. The original Costa-Jackson opera singer, this mother of two is one of three Costa-Jackson Sisters and, with siblings Ginger and Marina, has toured Russia and Belarus twice; a highlight of the tour was an appearance with the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky in Minsk. Most recently, the sisters wound up a series of programs that took them from Nantucket to San Francisco with a concert with Sun Valley Opera.\nMatthew Curran, Bass\nRole: Carmen (Zuniga)\nPraised by The Baltimore Sun for his “smooth, rich sound” and “stylish power,” bass Matthew Curran is a major talent on the rise who has sung on the stages of opera houses in cities ranging from Seattle to Atlanta to Zürich—and in roles ranging from the classic operatic and concert repertoire to the contemporary. Recent appearances include Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Opera Carolina, Opera Grand Rapids, and Toledo Opera; Ramfis in Aida and Orbazzano in Rossini’s Tancredi with Opera Southwest; Basil in Lowell Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray with Odyssey Opera; Terry in Breaking the Waves by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek at the Prototype Festival; Thomas Betterton in Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players with Little Opera Theater of New York; Don Iñigo Gomez in L’Heure Espagnole with Opera Memphis; and Pistola in Verdi’s Falstaff with Opera Delaware. Recent concert performances include Handel’s Messiah, Jesus in Bach’s St. John Passion, the Mozart and Verdi Requiems, and an evening of new music in Manhattan with Random Access Music.\nAdam Diegel\nAdam Diegel, Tenor\nRole: Carmen (Don José)\nTenor Adam Diegel regularly earns international acclaim for his impassioned dramatic sensibilities, powerful voice, and classic leading-man looks. Last season, Diegel performed two of his signature roles throughout the world as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at Opera Hong Kong and Palm Beach Opera and as Don José in Carmen at San Francisco Opera, PORTopera, and Opera San Antonio. Acclaimed as Cavaradossi in Tosca, a role he has performed at Glimmerglass Opera and will soon reprise with Palm Beach Opera, Diegel will also be back at The Metropolitan Opera for performances in Norma and Madama Butterfly and at Mill City Summer Opera for Don José yet again. Diegel also sang the title role in Verdi’s Don Carlo with Lithuanian National Opera, Ruggerio in La rondine with Opera Santa Barbara, Ismaele in Nabucco with The Metropolitan Opera and Opera Philadelphia, and the tenor solo in Verdi’s Requiem with Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Spokane Symphony. He holds degrees from Yale University and University of Memphis.\nMichael Fennelly\nMichael Fennelly, Chorus Master\nEvent: Carmen\nIn a performance that the Huffington Post said “hit like a lightning bolt,” Dr. Michael Fennelly recently performed his own arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center. A veteran staff pianist and coach for several years at Juilliard and the Metropolitan Opera, working with many opera legends, he has performed in many of the world's great concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Munich’s Prinzregenten Theatre, and Berlin’s Komische Oper. Last season, Michael performed in concert with Renée Fleming, played Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, and performed on all seven continents—even Antarctica. Having kicked off a second career as a conductor with Les Trois Mousquetaires at last season’s Phoenicia Festival, Dr. Fennelly has now conducted the premieres of From My Mother's Mother at the Korean Cultural Center in New York and assisted on Four Nights of Dream with the Japan Society in sold-out performances in Tokyo. He has also conducted performances of Madama Butterfly, Faustine, Big Jim, and La Traviata, and has led innumerable chamber and operatic concerts from the keyboard.\nBlake Friedman\nBlake Friedman, Tenor\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Edward Milfort)\nCited by the New York Times for the “plummy fullness and dusky hue” of his voice and by the New York Classical Review for the voice’s “buttery top,” Blake Friedman this season made his Dallas Opera debut in the Donizetti and Company concert while also covering Florian in Der Ring des Polykrates by Korngold. Most recently, he took on the role of Irving Tashman in the New York City Premiere of Morning Star by Ricky Ian Gordon. Blake also serves as the current resident tenor for American Opera Projects’ Composers and for the Voice Symposium, where he premieres new works written specifically for his voice in a monthly workshop. Among his roles in the classical repertory are Nemorino, Almaviva , and Iago in Rossini’s Otello. He has performed as soloist with New York Choral Society, New York City Ballet, Ensemble for the Romantic Century, Choral Artists of Sarasota, Key Chorale, and York Symphony. Blake holds a Master of Music and Professional Studies Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from The Eastman School of Music.\nRole: Scott, Bleecker Street\nDavid Foster appeared in last year’s Festival of the Voice as the Waiter in La Bohème and was the stage manager for Closer Than Ever in the Festival’s first year. A 1992 graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, David has been acting, both professionally and otherwise, since 1985. He grew up in Warwick, New York and has lived, studied, and performed in Indiana, Iowa, Virginia, Italy, Florida, and Mississippi. The Foster family--David and his wife Teresa and their three children--settled in Woodstock in 2004, and David has been a fixture in local theater ever since. Favorite roles include Fred Graham in Kiss Me Kate, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Father in Ragtime, Moonface Martin and Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.\nEric Grant\nEric Grant, Playwright\nBorn and raised in Michigan, Eric Grant has been writing stories for stage and screen since he was eight years old. He is a two-time recipient of the coveted Hopwood Award for Drama from the University of Michigan, where his work was performed in the annual PlayFest reading series three years in a row. His second play, Paris at Dawn, was given a full production by the famed Basement Arts student group in 2017. Grant interned at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where the play being presented at the Festival, Bleecker Street, received its first professional staged reading. He recently moved to Chicago where he co-wrote Shalom! for The Second City while working at Goodman Theatre. This is Eric’s second year at the Phoenicia Festival; he unexpectedly stepped into the role of Assistant Director for 2017’s main-stage opera and will do so again this year, but Bleecker Street marks his debut as a Phoenicia artist. You can read more of Eric’s work in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2016 and in Five-Minute Plays.\nBeth Greenberg\nBeth Greenberg, Stage Director\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Director)\nRenowned for her work with the legendary New York City Opera, from classic revivals to new productions, and including the groundbreaking site-specific production of Il Tabarro staged aboard an historic ship moored in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Beth Greenberg is also widely known for her work developing new American opera. Working with composers like Gordon Beeferman, Tom Cipullo, Gerald Cohen, Lori Laitman, Nkeiru Okoye, Stella Sung, Dalit Warshaw, and Scott Wheeler among others, Greenberg collaborates on all phases of a new work's development, from first libretto reads to fully staged premieres. Recent world premieres include Opera Colorado's The Scarlet Letter (Laitman & Mason), The Three Feathers (Laitman & Gioia), The Red Silk Thread (Sung & Hilbert), and Pumped Fiction (Eaton). A Fulbright awardee and today a Guest Faculty member at Juilliard, Greenberg has staged works for Boston’s Odyssey Opera, the Crested Butte Music Festival, Utah Festival Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, Syracuse Opera, Opera Delaware. and the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice. Worldwide, she has directed original productions of Carmen in Tokyo and Tosca in Lima.\nJessica Hamorsky\nEvent: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Assistant Director)\nA student of vocal performance education since 2011, Jessica is a rising senior at the University of Miami’s Frost school of Music. She recently assisted Maria Todaro and Jeffrey Buchman in stage-directing Frost’s production of Massenet’s Cendrillon, and she is extremely excited to serve as the assistant director for La Cambiale di Matrimonio under Beth Greenberg. The multitalented Hamorsky also performs in Carmen. Past performances include Suor Angelica and Madame Butterfly with the Miami Lyric Opera Company, and The Rake’s Progress and various opera scenes with Frost Opera Theater.\nLady Parts\nEvent: Sirens of Gospel\nFour impressively stunning voices comprise the newly formed Lady Parts, an a capella group whose members bring to every performance a collective richness and variety of experience that spans the globe and includes some of the world's greatest performance venues. Their individual repertoire covers nearly every imaginable genre from early music to opera to big band to rock to new music. Together they create a kaleidoscope of vocal color and imagination that captivates and engages.\nRichard Leech\nRole: Master Teacher (Master Class)\nFrom the moment of his 1987 European debut with Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, to his debut two years later at the Met, to debuts in virtually all the world’s major opera houses, everyone knew that American tenor Richard Leech was a star. Over a 30-year career, he has interpreted the most demanding and well-known roles of the Italian, French, and German repertoire onstage and in recordings. Now, as Director of Resident Artist Programs at Michigan Opera Theatre, where he created and heads the company’s young artist development program, as a member of the faculty at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and Rutgers Opera Institute, and in this Master Class at the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, he brings his mastery of the vocal instrument and his wide-ranging experience to singers in the early stages of their careers. Raised in nearby Binghamton, Leech has sung everywhere and everything: opera and symphonic music, classical and contemporary and pops, solo and in company with world-class artists like himself in every genre. Little wonder he has received every award for distinction the music world can bestow.\nThe Levites\nEvent: Sirens of Gospel, Damien Sneed featuring The Levites\nMaking its mark in the realm of spiritual music, the gospel group The Levites expands the boundaries of contemporary gospel by showcasing a soulful mix of traditional gospel, jazz, and contemporary compositions. The group is the brainchild of musician/composer/producer Damien Sneed, who, starting in 2004 and through a series of seemingly ordained encounters, was wowed, one singer at a time, by each individual member’s vocal talent and technical skill. Inspired to action, Sneed gathered them into a collective, taking advantage of the group’s diverse collection of musical backgrounds that stretch across gospel, jazz, pop, soul, Hip Hop, R&B, Afro-Pop, even Zydeco. Diversity on top of unique ability, faith, and a singular cohesion are what give The Levites their exclusive sound and widespread appeal.\nPhil Mansfield\nPhil Mansfield, Director\nEvent: Bleecker Street\nA child actor in TV commercials and live New York theater, Phil Mansfield focuses today on performing, directing, and teaching theater and photography in our region. In addition to summer programs for teens at the Center For Photography at Woodstock, starring in Voice Theatre’s 2017 production of Skin of Our Teeth, and directing and fight-choreographing several Shakespeare plays for New Genesis Productions, Phil, his wife Barbara Mansfield, and Bobby Tisdale have taught improvisation to teens at the Playhouse in Phoenicia, where Phil has also appeared in several shows and directed the Dietz adaptation of Dracula. With musician Jason Bowman, Phil co-directed “Once More With Feeling,” the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon in 2016. The two collaborated again in 2018—and Phil also choreographed the staged violence—for Woodstock Rock Academy’s Zombie Prom. An Adjunct Teacher at Ulster Community College since 2008 teaching Photography and Commercial Photography, Phil is also Staff Photographer—and a photography teacher—for the Culinary Institute of America, and he does freelance lifestyle photography for The New York Times and other publications.\nDouglas Martin\nRole: Beauties of Broadway (Pianist)\nMr. Martin is grateful to Maria and Louis for their continued support and looks forward to celebrating Phoenicia Festival’s 10th anniversary! Just this past May Mr. Martin conducted La Traviata - his 8th production with Amore Opera in New York City in seven years. Other highlights at Amore have included the 2017 American Staged Premiere of Donizetti’s La Zingara (The Gypsy), and a recent gala with Francisco Casanova and Aprile Milo. In April last year, Eve Queler asked Douglas to conduct with her at Zankel Hall in New York City, in a program to honor tenor Giuseppe Giacomini. He led Dongwon Shin, Grigory Soloviov, and Tim Renner, among others, in operatic duets and arias with members of the Opera Orchestra of New York. During 2002-2004, Mr. Martin conducted 100 performances of Baz Luhrmann’s production of “La Boheme on Broadway” in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Singers from the original casts who continue to distinguish themselves include: Alf Boe, Eugene Brancoveanu, Ben Davis, Jesus Garcia, David Miller, and Daniel Okulich.\nLeading productions at Anchorage Opera in 2010, and Opera on the James in Richmond Virginia in 2011, Mr. Martin conducting history includes the Inspiration Fine Arts Colony, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas; Virginia Opera; 12 productions with the Ashlawn Highland Summer Festival in Charlottesville, VA - including the northeastern premiere of Mark Adamo’s Little Women; and Florida State University in Tallahassee. Since his apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera in 1982 Maestro Martin has spent 5 summer seasons at the famed operatic destination. Mr. Martin was trained at SUNY Fredonia, Indiana University, Bloomington, and has served as a Fellowship Teacher at both Indiana University’s Opera Theater, and the American Opera center at the Juilliard School.\nwww.douglasmartinmusic.com\nDavid Mayfield\nDavid Mayfield, Conductor\nEvent: La Cambiale di Matrimonio\nConductor David Mayfield trained with such illustrious exponents of Italian Bel Canto as Nicola Rescigno, Roberto Benaglio, Fiora Contino, and Donald Palumbo (legendary chorus master of the Metropolitan Opera) and has taught at Manhattan School of Music, the New School (The Actor’s Studio), the Brooklyn Conservatory, and New Jersey City University. At the latter, he conducted Die Zauberflöte, Dido and Aeneas, Baroque scenes with period instruments, and an evening of Baroque opera scenes.\nHis opera experience includes Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theater at Wildwood, Lyric Opera of Dallas, Fort Worth Opera, New York City Opera National Company, Opera Illinois, Mississippi Opera, The Dallas Opera, Utah Festival Opera, New Orleans Opera). His repertoire ranges from the standard—Aïda, Il Trovatore, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Carmen—to the unusual—Victoria Bond’s Mrs. Satan and Coyote Tales, by Henry Mollicone.\nSingers he has trained have recently sung with Merola Opera Studio, Prague Summer Nights, Chatauqua Institute, Miami Opera Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Martina Arroyo’s ‘Prelude to Performance,’ Saratoga Opera, Vienna Summer Opera, and the International Verdi Competition, and have won the Metropolitan National Auditions.\nMarissa McGowan\nEvent: Beauties of Broadway\nMarissa McGowan has appeared on Broadway in the original Broadway cast of A Little Night Music (and performs on the cast recording) starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Les Miserables—performing the roles of both Eponine and Cosette—Bonnie and Clyde (also with the original Broadway cast and on the recording), and Robber Bridegroom at Roundabout Theatre Company. Marvin Hamlisch chose her to star in the world premiere of his last musical, The Nutty Professor, directed by the legendary Jerry Lewis. Favorite regional credits include Chess at the Kennedy Center, Roman Holiday (pre-Broadway) at San Francisco Golden Gate, Guinevere in Camelot at the Goodspeed Opera House, Magnolia in Show Boat at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, Petra in A Little Night Music at American Conservatory Theatre, Maria in The Sound of Music at the Lyric Theatre, Johanna in Sweeney Todd at the Geva Theatre, and Adelaide in Guys and Dolls at the Weston Playhouse. She has made numerous appearances with symphony orchestras all across North America and on television has appeared in Major Crimes on TNT and Odd Mom Out for Bravo. Marissa holds a BFA degree from Syracuse University. You can catch her next season on Broadway in the revival of Kiss Me Kate.\nClaudia Montero\nClaudia Montero, Composer\nWinner of two Latin Grammy Awards for best contemporary classical composition, Argentinean Claudia Montero has emerged as one of the most outstanding and acclaimed composers in Latin America today. The 2016-2017 season saw major premieres: at Galway International Arts Festival, the Piano Concerto Blanco y Negro with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra led by conductor David Brophy— a second performance followed in Dublin; and in Valencia, the Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra with the Valencia Orchestra, and the Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra, with violinist Emanuel Salvador and the Baltic Neopolis Orchestra. Her works have been performed in the USA, Canada, and Latin America, across Europe, in Turkey, Russia, South Korea, Estonia, and China among others. She has collaborated with major chamber music groups and with such instrumentalists as harpist Floraleda Sacci and guitarists José Luis Ruíz del Puerto, Wolfgang Weigel, and Isabel Siewers. Montero has released six CDs, most recently “Luminosa,” featuring the Concerto Blanco y Negro for piano and orchestra, performed by pianist Allison Brewster Franzetti and the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra led by Carlos Franzetti, and Homage to Tarrega with guitarist Piero Bonaguri.\nKeillor Mose\nKeillor Mose, Shapenotes Presenter\nEvent: Shapenote\nShapenotes are a kind of musical notation designed to make it easy for everyone, including people who don’t read music, to find the pitch, follow the musical line in a score, and sing together as a congregation or community. It is one of America's oldest notated music traditions, and for years, Keillor Mose has traveled all across the country teaching, leading, and singing the Shapenote way. No wonder he believes there is no greater joy than to lift your voice with others. He contends that whether or not you fancy yourself a singer, Shapenote singing from the Sacred Harp tunebook will have you singing in harmony as if born to it. It starts with an old-fashioned “singing school” on the rudiments of music and ends with, in Keillor’s words, “a joyful noise.”\nIsai Jess Muñoz\nIsai Jess Muñoz, Tenor\nRole: Carmen (Remendado)\nPraised by the New York Times for \"deftly navigating the border of genuine emotion through his singing,” Isai Jess Muñoz has appeared with the New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Alvin Ailey Dance on Broadway, the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland among many world venues. In addition to a full schedule of recitals throughout the US, he will appear later this year as the Witch in Hansel und Gretel with Opera Orlando. A graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook, Muñoz is also a member of the voice and opera faculty at the University of Delaware. Honored by the National Opera Association, by the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and by the Delaware Division of the Arts for his performance activities of Iberian and Latin American Song Literature as well as for his work in stage direction, Dr. Muñoz also serves as Chair and Senior Editor of the Sacred in Opera Initiative of the National Opera Association.\nwww.JessMunoz.com\nBrian James Myer\nBrian James Myer, Baritone\nRole: Carmen (Morales and El Dancaire)\nPossessed of “both voice and character to make him stand out in the crowd\" (Sarasota Observer), baritone Brian James Myer’s 2018 debuts include soloist roles in Carmina Burana with Hawaii Symphony, Maximilian in Candide with Henderson Symphony, and Snowboy and Big Deal in West Side Story with the Grand Teton Music Festival. He’ll also return to Opera Las Vegas as Dandini in La Cenerentola. This versatile performer has shone in contemporary as well as classic opera—from Ponchel in the West Coast premiere of Kevin Puts' Silent Night to Schaunard in La bohème, and from the roles of Alessandro/Enrico and Gino Carella in the world premiere production of Mark Weiser's Where Angels Fear to Tread to Figaro in Barber of Seville and Masetto in Don Giovanni. His concert and recital schedule has included solo roles in Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, Milhaud’s Cantate de Psaumes, Bach’s Magnificat and Christmas Oratorio, Rutter’s Mass of the Children, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, and, in his Opera Orlando debut before sold-out audiences, The Three Baritones concert in their Opera in the Park summer concert series.\nRicardo Santiago\nRicardo Santiago, Dancer\nRole: Carmen (Dancer)\nRicardo Santiago began his dance training at age 7 as a scholarship student at Ballet Hispanico of New York and, as an undergraduate at SUNY Purchase, received dance scholarships with The Alvin Ailey School and with Dance Theater Of Harlem. His later flamenco training included study with such artists as Liliana Morales, Manolo Rivera, Edwin Aparicio, Nelida Tirado, and Omayra Amaya. Ricardo’s diverse performance career includes local, national, and international appearances—from Franco Zeffirelli's productions of Carmen and La Traviata at The Metropolitan Opera and Don Giovanni at Washington Opera, to Ballet Hispanico of New York, Bailes Ferrer, Sol y Sombra, Flamenco Latino, and Flamenco Vivo, to Edwin Aparicio's Selected Works and, most recently, with Omayra Amaya's repertory performance group and Andanza Flamenco. Santiago has also served as choreographer for Tri-Cities Opera in Binghamton, New York. He continues to work as a dance educator for such organizations as The Children's Arts & Science Workshops, American Academy of Ballet, and Young Audiences New York.\nValentin Shauger\nValentin Shauger, Actor\nRole: Bleecker Street (Steve)\nA resident of West Hurley, Valentin has been involved in musical theatre for as long as he can remember, but his role in Bleecker Street at this year’s Festival marks his first foray out of musical theater. That the debut is in a play as important and essential as Bleecker Street is icing on the cake and constitutes a worthy addition to Shauger’s previous roles in musical theater: Ghost the Musical, Les Miserables, The Wedding Singer!, Nine, Little Shop Of Horrors, and Into The Woods. Valentin would like to dedicate this performance to the victims of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting and to the wonderfully accepting LGBTQ+ community.\nDamien Sneed\nDamien Sneed, a recipient of the prestigious Sphinx Medal presented annually to emerging Black and Latino classical musicians, is a multi-genre recording artist who has also garnered attention in jazz, gospel, and popular music. He made his conducting debut in 2015 at Carnegie Hall for Wynton Marsalis’ “Abyssinian 200: A Celebration,” a role he reprised on the recording of the work with Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Chorale Le Chateau. Performer, composer, producer, arranger, vocal coach, and arts educator, Sneed has worked with such legends as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Ashford & Simpson, Jessye Norman, and Lawrence Brownlee. He is the founder and artistic director of Chorale Le Chateau and created the independent recording label LeChateau Earl Records in 2009.\nMore about Damien and the Sirens of Gospel event.\nJuan María Solare\nJuan María Solare, Composer\nThe Argentine composer and pianist was born in Buenos Aires and received his diploma in piano, composition, and conducting at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo. He also studied privately with Francisco Kröpfl. Now based primarily in Bremen, Germany, he teaches piano widely and, at the University of Bremen, teaches New Music Theatre and conducts the Ensemble Kagel. From December 2007 to April 2008, Solare was Assistant Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has given courses and lectures on contemporary music across Europe and at Texas A&M University in the U.S.. He also teaches piano and composition privately, has presented public seminars on tango music, and continues to give courses and lectures on contemporary music. Solare has composed some 300 works. His compositions are broadcast regularly throughout Europe and Latin America. He has received commissions from the Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea, the Kunststiftung NRW, the Bremen Music Council, and from Eva Espoleta. His Concertango was premiered by the Orchestra of Bremen University in 2004, conducted by Susanne Gläß.\nGlenda Sol Koeraus\nGlenda Sol Koeraus, \"La Argentinita\"\nBuenos Aires native Glenda Sol Koeraus has established herself as one of the top flamenco dancers/choreographers in New York City, with performances at Lincoln Center Out-Of-Doors, Town Hall, Symphony Space, and The Joyce Theater. A recipient of the Jerome Foundation's Travel and Study Grant, the Cristina Heren Foundation scholarship, and the Jacob’s Pillow Cultural traditions program, Sol has studied with many of flamenco’s greatest performers and teachers. For six years, she has also toured internationally with Soledad Barrios and Noche Flamenca, sharing the stage with such figures as Juan Ogalla, Alejandro Granados, and Alfonso Loza. Sol took part in Zeferelli’s production of La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera and was recently featured in the pre-production of Tony Award-winning Christopher Gatelli’s In Your Arms (Powerhouse Theater), Zorro! The Musical (Alliance Theater, GA), and The Latin Quarter Show at the Revel Hotel in Atlantic City. She choreographed and performed solo in Portland Opera's Carmen and is currently touring the U.S. as solo dancer and singer for the world-renowned Gala of the Royal Horses. www.flamencoysol.com\nMaria Todaro\nMaria Todaro, Stage Director\nRole: Carmen (Director)\nA versatile artist and art entrepreneur, the multi-talented Maria Todaro is a stage director, opera singer, stunt artist, writer, conductor, singing teacher/vocal coach, and general director of The Phoenicia International Festival of Voice, which she co-founded in 2010. She made her U.S. stage-directing debut in 2015 with the New Jersey Orchestra’s production of Cavalleria Rusticana and has directed for NJO every season since. In October, 2017, at Detroit’s Michigan Opera theater, Todaro assisted Ron Daniels in his direction of Carmen and was the production’s fight choreographer; that October, she assisted international stage director Bernard Uzan in directing Cyrano de Bergerac. Other directing assignments include La Boheme in March 2016 and La Traviata in March 2017 with New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Don Giovanni in January 2018 with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, and Massenet’s Cinderella in Miami. At the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice, she directed La Boheme in August 2017 with a prestigious cast including Metropolitan Opera stars John Osborn, Lucas Meachem, Richard Bernstein, and Mireille Asselin, and she is the director of the featured production of Carmen in 2018.\nLaura Virella\nLaura Virella, Mezzo-Soprano\nRole: Carmen (Mercedes)\nOf her Long Beach Opera debut last June as the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in the eponymous opera by Robert Xavier Rodríguez, the LA Times called Puerto Rican mezzo-soprano Laura Virella an “instantly believable Frida, a capable singer and actor, compelling on stage.” Virella has established herself as a leading singer-actor of her generation. She has been described as “powerful, compelling and exceptional,” captivating audiences in Spain with what the press there called her “fabulous, powerful and excellent Carmen,” charming Austrian audiences with her “impressive, fervent Octavian,” and gaining fervent East Coast applause with performances in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw as Mrs. Grose and as Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto. To her wide repertoire of operatic roles, Virella adds mastery of and passion for Puerto Rican art song, of which she is one of the world’s principal proponents. www.lauravirella.com\nJack Warren\nJack Warren, Actor\nRole: Bleecker Street (Zach)\nA Phoenicia resident since he was four years old, Jack Warren now travels between the verdant hills of the Hudson Valley and the somewhat lower hills of Middletown, Connecticut, where he studies Film and English at Wesleyan University. His most recent acting appearance was as Romeo Montague in the New Genesis Productions performance of Romeo and Juliet, under the direction of Phil Mansfield. He’s been a part of the cast of Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, The Tempest, and As You Like It, both locally and at Wesleyan. Last year, he performed at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in Muse of Fire, a special production of New Genesis Productions. Jack has also worked behind and in front of the camera on films that have been shown at the Woodstock Film Festival and the Wesleyan Student Film Festival.\nMegan Weston\nMegan Weston, Soprano\nRole: Carmen (Frasquita)\n“Superb, dramatic, a highlight!” said the Woodstock Times of Weston’s performance as Constance in the 2017 Phoenicia Festival’s world premiere of Les Trois Mousquetaires. Since then, Weston has concertized at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, in Spain, and in such far-flung venues as Bora Bora and Antarctica. She toured Macau and Beijing with conductor Lü Jia and sang Yum-Yum in The Mikado with Opera de Tijuana, Nedda in Pagliacci with Madison Lyric Stage, Gilda in Rigoletto with Bard Conductors Institute, the Cape Symphony, and Opera Orlando. She premiered new works by Nico Muhly and others in The Day Before at Manhattan’s Symphony Space. Recognized for her \"remarkable virtuosity and charm\" (Financial Times) and for her “gorgeous lyric soprano” (Opera Magazine), Weston first gained attention as Lightfoot McLendon in the premiere of Carlisle Floyd’s Cold Sassy Tree with San Diego Opera and as Lisa in La Sonnambula at Caramoor Music Festival. Her recordings include Anne in Harold Farberman's Diamond Street with Hudson Hall and Albany Records. Catch her later this summer as Jenny in Stephen Sondheim’s Company at Madison Lyric Stage in Connecticut.\nDavid Wroe\nDavid Wroe, Principal Conductor\nRole: Carmen (Conductor)\nDavid Wroe is Music Director of the New Jersey Festival Orchestra and a regular conductor of L’Orchestre Régional de Normandie as well as our Festival’s Principal Conductor. A Principal conductor with New York City Opera (2000-2014), Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (1993-5), director or conductor of opera houses in Heidelberg, Opera Delaware, and Opera Teatro Grattacielo, Wroe recently opened the newly formed Fresno International Grand Opera. He has also conducted symphony and ballet orchestras across the country and around the world—from New Jersey to Saint Louis to Des Moines, and from Scotland to Lille to Jerusalem, throughout Austria and across Asia, where he has conducted the Taiwan National Symphony, Pusan and Daegu Philharmonic, Macau, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Guiyang, and Taipei Symphony Orchestras. Maestro Wroe has conducted for such soloists as cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, recorded with L’Orchestre National de Lille, and, with Anna Moffo, judged the Metropolitan Opera National Council and New Jersey Regional Auditions. His crossover work includes partnerships with Kristin Chenoweth, Mannheim Steamrollers, Three Irish Tenors, Natalie Merchant, Bob Newhart, Jackie Evancho, and Celtic Thunder, to name but a few.\n2018 Young Artist Participants\nThe Festival of the Voice Young Artists program is aimed at emerging artists—those who are ready for a career, others still in school aiming for a career, and local talent who have demonstrated exceptional ability. The young artists take part in acting classes, receive vocal coaching, cover roles in the operas, are offered career counseling, and perform for internationally renowned artists as well as for our audiences. This year, the program has again expanded, affording selected participants the opportunity to perform a role in a fully staged opera.\nAlexandra Bailey\nAlexandra Bailey, Performer\nAlexandra Bailey began her singing career at age seven as Jojo in Dr. Seuss and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Her repertoire includes Stuart Little, The Little Mermaid, The Jungle Book, The Wizard of Oz, Anything Goes, and, most recently, The Witch in Into the Woods. She began training her operatic voice at age eleven under the mentorship of Maria Todaro and Louis Otey, performing concert arias by Pergolesi, Offenbach, Delibes, Bellini, and Gounod among others. Her Phoenicia Festival of the Voice debut was as Aeronwy in the 2015 international premiere of Do Not Go Gentle by Robert Manno. A rock-and-roll vocalist in more than 100 Rock Funk, Soul, Folk, Disco, Blues, and even Metal local and national concerts with the Paul Green Rock Academy, Alexandra has shared the stage with such luminaries as Scott Ian of Anthrax, Brendon Small of Metalocalypse, Ed Mann of Frank Zappa (Zappanale Festival-Germany 2016), Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, and Tracy Bonham. She plays classical piano and any keyboard she can find and is a student at Onteora High School.\nMysti Brooke Byrnes\nMysti Brooke Byrnes, Mezzo-soprano\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Clarina)\nA native of Dallas, Texas, mezzo-soprano Mysti Byrnes performs regularly with the Michigan Opera Theatre where she has been seen in Tosca, Cyrano, Little Women, and Carmen. An avid recitalist and concertizer, she most recently appeared as a soloist in Voices of Light with the Rackham Choir. While completing her Master’s degree at the University of Michigan, Mysti performed the role of Vitellia in La clemenza di Tito and was a soloist in Bright Sheng’s new opera, Dream of the Red Chamber. She has also performed in the young artist programs of Songfest at Colburn, Bay Area Summer Opera Theatre Institute, and the University of Miami at Salzburg. A current resident of Detroit, Mysti works to bring musical opportunities to the youth of that city. She is delighted to be making her Festival debut this summer.\nMatthew Ciuffitelli\nMatthew Ciuffitelli, Baritone\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Slook)\nOf his performance at a Columbus Citizen’s Foundation Event: Opera Night Live!, Brooklyn Discovery raved that baritone “Matthew Ciuffitelli has resonance and power.” These qualities were equally in evidence when he appeared as Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Bob and Ben in The Old Maid and the Thief, Sergeant Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, the Sacristan in Tosca with Eastern Opera, Papageno in Nyack, Eisenstein in Amore Opera’s Die Fledermaus, and Prince Yamadori in New Jersey Festival Orchestra’s Madama Butterfly. Ciuffitelli has performed in The Telephone with Light Opera of New Jersey, Die Zauberflöte in New York’s Pardington Hall, and at Sarasota Opera as a featured resident artist singing the Official Registrar in the company’s production of Madama Butterfly. Last fall, he also covered Valentin in the St. Petersburgh Opera’s production of Faust. While in Chicago, Ciuffitelli had the unique opportunity to perform with the Rolling Stones at Chicago’s United Center and to appear in the U.S. premiere of the mixed-media work, Mountain Top, by Dutch avant-pop composer Jacob Ter Veldhuis.\nFidelia Esther Darmahkasih\nFidelia Esther Darmahkasih, Soprano\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Fanny)\nA native of Indonesia, soprano Fidelia Darmahkasih is thrilled to be back at the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, this time performing the role of Fanny in La Cambiale di Matrimonio. She returns to us from a busy season that saw her make her debut with Bluffton University as soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah, while at the same time continuing her active engagement with Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit, where Ms. Darmahkasih was most recently seen in the company’s productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, The Summer King, and Toscathis past spring. Her other opera credits include Beth March in Little Women,Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Patience in Patience.With Toledo Opera, she has also performed in The Pearl Fishers, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca, and Porgy and Bess. In addition to opera, Ms. Darmahkasih has a passion for oratorios. An enthusiastic cook and a young woman committed to helping others, she holds Bachelor’s and Master degrees from Bowling Green State University.\nElijah Graham\nElijah Graham, Tenor\nEvent: Master Class, Performer\nElijah Graham recently graduated with a Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of Mark Oswald. He has performed the roles of Ferrando in Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte, First Knight (and understudy to the Prince) in Rumpelstiltskin, the title role in Candide, a Mandarin in Puccini’s Turandot (and cover for Calaf), Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the Snowman in A Childhood Miracle, and Tamino in Mozart’s Magic Flute. He was a featured soloist in the 2016 world premiere of Mass for the Oppressed, composed by Emerson Eads. He has also performed in scenes as Verdi’s Otello and as Dr. Cajus in Falstaff with Opera Fairbanks, as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and as Elder Hayes in Susannah and Dr. Cajus again with Manhattan School of Music. He placed first in the 2015 Alaska Concert Chorus Vocal Scholarship Competition and was selected as an apprentice artist by Opera Fairbanks for two consecutive years in 2014 and 2015.\nChristopher Jentzsch\nYoung Artist Program\nA senior at the University of Delaware, where he studies Vocal Performance under the direction of Dr. Blake Smith, Christopher has been involved with the University’s Chorale and with its Opera Theater since the fall of 2014. During his time at UD, he has sung such roles as Schmidt in Massenet's Werther, Man in O'Riordan's Masque of Edgar Allan Poe, and Vitellozzo in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, as well as chorus roles in The Magic Flute, Dido and Aeneas, and Cosi fan Tutte.\nCoburn Jones\nCoburn Jones, Baritone\nRole: La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Tobias)\nNoted for his “warm baritone,” “resonant heft,” and skilled acting by the South Florida Classical Review, Coburn Jones is a student at the University of Miami but has already compiled a portfolio of significant roles in key venues. He was Kecal in the The Bartered Bride, Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Balthazar and Melchior in Amahl and the Night Visitors, and Warden Frank in Die Fledermaus with the Appalachian Opera theatre and has also performed Pedro in Man of La Mancha with Asheville Lyric Opera. With Frost Opera Theater, Jones performed the role of Pandolfe in Massenet’s Cendrillon and excerpts from Hamlet, Currently studying under the tutelage of Dr. Robynne Redmon, Jeffrey Buchman , and Maestro Alan Johnson, Jones’s future engagements include the role of second armored man in The Magic Flute this coming May with Orchestra Miami under the baton of Maestra Elaine Rinaldi. His appearance as Tobias Mill in La Cambiale di Matrimonio, under the direction of stage director Beth Greenberg, marks his debut at the Phoenicia Festival of the Voice.\nJulia Chen Myers\nJulia Chen Myers, Mezzo-soprano\nEvent: The Beauties of Broadway\nJulia Chen Myers graduated this May from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami where she studied voice in the studio of Dr. Frank Ragsdale and earned a B.M. degree in Vocal Performance. Her previous credits include the role of Nina in In the Heights for Pinnacle Theatrics, Veronica in Heathers at Canestage, University of Miami, Little Red in Into the Woods at Frost Opera Theatre, and Nicklauss in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, also at Frost. Julia also has extensive costuming experience on both Broadway and Off-Broadway. She was part of the costuming team on the Broadway and national tour productions of the Tony award-winning musical Wicked. Later, she worked under Tony-winning costume designer Clint Ramos on Runaways, Jamboree!, and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater at the New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center concert.\nAndrew Pulver\nAndrew Pulver, performer\nRole: Performer, Beauties of Broadway\nSoon to be a junior at Newark Academy, Andrew has been singing publicly since he was 10, most recently the role of Prince Topher in Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at Oak Knoll School in Summit, New Jersey. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2013 as Real Jake in the premiere of Nico Muhly’s Two Boys and his debut with the Washington National Opera as The Little Prince at the Kennedy Center in 2014. Additional roles have included Jackie the Janitor in Robin Hood with Glimmerglass Opera, the title role in L’Enfant et les Sortileges with New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Pepicek (Brundibar) with Philadelphia International Music Festival, Virgil (The Long Walk) with American Lyric Theater, First Spirit (The Magic Flute) with both New York Lyric Opera Theatre and Light Opera of New Jersey, Third Spirit (The Magic Flute) with Glimmerglass Opera, and Amahl in Amahl and the Night Visitor with both Light Opera of New Jersey and Stony Hill Players of New Jersey. Andrew studies piano and voice privately and is on his school’s soccer and track teams.\nMaia Weiss\nMaia Weiss, Soprano\nEvent: Performer, Master Class\nMaia Weiss has been part of the Phoenicia Festival for four years, having appeared in a number of Festival productions—among them, Verdi’s Otello, Puccini’s La Boheme, and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate—and having performed as well, both solo and as part of an ensemble, in numerous other events. She has also performed at such venues as Lincoln Center—for the Wynton Marsalis Jazz Band, at the Byrdcliffe Theater, and at the Bearsville Theater in both jazz and classical singing. Her music video for her original jazz composition, Listen, has won various awards in both the Williamsburg Film Festival and the Woodstock Film Festival. Maia has also been the recipient of numerous awards in modern, classical, and jazz dancing at various competitions around the state.\nMaria Whitcomb\nMaria Whitcomb, Soprano\nRole: Young Artist Program\nA native of New York State’s beautiful Catskill Mountain region, Maria holds both an M.A. from Syracuse University’s Janklow Arts Leadership Program and a B.M. in Vocal Performance from Syracuse’s Setnor School of Music, where she studied under the tutelage of Janet Brown. An affinity for American art song runs like a theme through her career, evidenced in her having been awarded the Ernst Bacon Prize at the 40th annual Civic Morning Musicals Vocal Competition where this season, she will perform her award-winning recital, Escape from Amherst: Emily Dickinson’s Life of Freedom. Maria’s main stage debut came in the 2017 Rigoletto by Syracuse Opera, appearing in La Cenerentola, My Fair Lady, and La Bohème. Other favorite credits include Die Fledermaus (Adele), Dido and Aeneas (Belinda), and Too Many Sopranos (Sandman)--all with Syracuse University Opera Theatre; A Celebration Service with Meredith Monk’s M6 Vocal Ensemble and Plymouth Congregational Church; and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Woodstock Playhouse.\nPrevious Performers","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1498841"}
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Click on the links below for information about Women In Government activity as well as related policy resources.\nEconomic Security and Opportunities\nFormed in 2003, the Economic Security and Opportunities Policy Resource Center works to ensure that economic issues are presented to women state legislators in diverse ways through producing quality newsletters, holding engaging conferences on pertinent economic issues, and promoting information that allows legislators to make sound policy designed to enhance the financial opportunities and knowledge of their constituents.\nVisit the PRC\nLaunched in 2011, the Diabetes Policy Resource Center serves as a clearinghouse of information for state policymakers in order to promote the adoption of sound public health policies regarding diabetes and other diabetes health related complications such as obesity, heart disease, and kidney disease.\nLaunched in 2013, the Childhood Obesity Policy Resource Center serves as a clearinghouse of information for state policymakers in order to promote the adoption of sound public health policies regarding childhood obesity.\nLaunched in 2014, the Pulmonary Hypertension Policy Resource Center provides materials and information for state legislators to learn more about the disease, raise awareness, and promote treatment and management of Pulmonary Hypertension (PH).\nDid you know that Migraine and Headache disease impacts more than 37 million Americans and women are three times more likely to suffer from migraine than men? In addition to the human toll, migraine disease costs more than 200 million dollars a year in the United States in medical expenses and lost work productivity.\nAmerican Migraine Foundation\nThe American Migraine Foundation provides education, support, and resources for the millions of men, women, and children living with migraine. Its mission is to advance migraine research, promote patient advocacy and expand access to care for patients worldwide. Migraines and other disabling diseases that cause severe head pain impact more than 37 million people in the United States. By educating caregivers and giving patients the tools to advocate for themselves, the American Migraine Foundation has cultivated a movement that gives a collective voice to the migraine community.\nAssociation of Migraine Disorders\nThe Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD) is devoted to expanding the understanding of migraine disease and its true scope. 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Each year, the Summit brings together over 30 world leading experts to offer patients a breadth and depth of treatment insights that they can’t get from their local doctors. In 2018 Migraine Again added The Daily Migraine to its family of properties and is the largest social media community online.\nMigraine.com\nMigraine.com inspires people living with migraine to embrace their whole selves and engage in relationships with others to build community. Migraine.com features daily, original content with shareable, customized artwork, weekly email newsletters, and community-generated content and engagement through stories, Q&A, and forums. Migraine.com can provide a bridge between patient experience and health care providers.\nMigraine Disease.com\nMigraineDisease.com is an industry leader as the only patient-owned and operated migraine website to have a medical review of all content. All content is reviewed for accuracy by a team of board-certified Migraine and Headache specialists. Doctors who treat migraine and other headache disorders can feel confident in recommending MigraineDisease.com to their patients. The website covers all aspects of living with migraine disease, including diagnosis, treatment options, lifestyle management, and behavioral health. Research is explained in clear, concise terms that everyone can understand. MigraineDisease.com is a truly comprehensive resource for migraine and headache education.\nMigraine World Summit\nThe Migraine World Summit is the largest virtual patient event in the world for those with chronic headache and migraine disease. Its mission is to reduce the global burden of migraine through world-class education. Each year the event brings together tens of thousands of people to learn from world-leading doctors, experts, and specialists. It is complimentary for a limited time with registration and available online.\nMiles for Migraine\nMiles for Migraine creates live, patient-participatory events that reduce the burden of isolation and stigma for people with migraine and headache diseases and their caregivers. It builds community by bringing people together at fun walk/runs and through educational and support programs. Miles for Migraine also has programs specifically focused on engaging and supporting adolescents. Its programs foster empowerment, increase disease awareness, teach skills to advocate for better access to treatments and raise funds for headache fellowship programs.\nNational Headache Foundation\nFounded in 1970, the National Headache Foundation is the oldest and largest foundation for patients with headache. Its mission is “To cure headache, and end its pain and suffering.” Its vision is “A World Without Headache.” The Foundation is the premier educational and informational resource for those with headache, health care providers, and the public. The work of the Foundation is through education, raising awareness, advocacy, and research. The Foundation established the Certificate of Added Qualification in Headache Medicine for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, and clinical psychologists who treat headache patients. The NHF publishes HeadWise® magazine, and NHF News to Know.\nPatient Advocate Foundation\nPatient Advocate Foundation provides real-time help for patients facing critical illness and debilitating disease as they encounter barriers in their healthcare. Utilizing experience from 20+ years working alongside patients, PAF is well-known for its quality educational materials that help patients self-advocate to overcome common challenges. In addition, PAF’s skilled staff deliver tangible assistance through personalized case management services, financial support towards medication copayments and the connection to vital community resources, all at no cost to the patient or their caregiver. PAF is the producer for Migraine Matters, an educational resource for persons with migraine or headache disorders.\nRunnin' For Research\nRunnin’ for Research strives to improve the quality of life for people with migraine and other headache disorders through raising funds for much-needed research as well as promoting patient empowerment, public awareness, and local and national advocacy. The long-term goal is that R4R will have a network of nationwide run/walk events, locally organized and run by committed volunteers. The primary focus of R4R is to promote the creation of run/walk events in communities throughout the country and empower local volunteers (physicians, nurses, migraine sufferers, and caregivers) to plan, organize, and execute these events.\nU.S. Pain Foundation\nThe U.S. Pain Foundation is the leading advocacy organization for people with pain. Its mission is to empower, educate, connect, and advocate for individuals living with a chronic illness that causes pain, as well as their caregivers and clinicians. Through multiple programs and services, the U.S. Pain Foundation works to enhance the quality of life for people with pain, improve patient outcomes, address access and affordability issues, and increase public awareness and empathy for the issue of pain. The U.S. Pain Foundation is an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.\nPatient Opinion Leaders & Blogs\nThe Daily Headache\nThe Daily Headache is a blog that candidly addresses the emotional experience of living with migraine and headache disorders and also explores coping strategies, treatments, and research. Although living with these stigmatized disorders can feel lonely and bewildering, millions of other people face similar struggles. The Daily Headache is a place where people with migraine and headache disorders come together and remind each other that none of us are facing this alone.\nGolden Graine\nGolden Graine is a blog/brand created by professional patient, Katie M. Golden, to share how she lives a fulfilled life with chronic migraine and pain. Katie found a purpose in writing openly about her experiences in having to navigate an extremely misunderstood and stigmatized chronic illness.\nThe Migraine Diva\nThe mission of The Migraine Diva is to help empower and educate people living with headache, migraine disease, and mental illness through patient advocacy. Seeking valuable relationships with like-minded organizations, its goal is to share ideas, resources, and information on accessible treatments to better the lives of migraine patients and their caregivers. By sharing the realities of living with chronic intractable migraine, major depressive disorder and anxiety, The Migraine Diva hopes to empower, elevate and validate the patient voice and experience.\nMigraine Pal\nMigrainePal helps those with migraine get the facts with medically referenced answers. Readers can find practical and evidence-based information to empower themselves. MigrainePal was created by Carl Cincinnato who works with several charities and organizations to help lift the global burden of migraine. These include Headache Australia, the Brain Foundation, the Coalition of Headache and Migraine Patients, and the European Migraine and Headache Alliance.\nInflammatory Bowel Disease - IBD (Crohn's Disease and Colitis)\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control, \"Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a broad term that describes conditions characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The two most common inflammatory bowel diseases are ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Inflammation affects the entire digestive tract in Crohn’s disease and only the large intestine (also called the colon) in ulcerative colitis. Both illnesses involved an abnormal response to the body’s immune system.\"\nWomen In Government took a walk #InTheirShoes via a mobile-platform simulation to gain an experiential understanding of what people living with this disease encounter daily and featured this topic at our Chicago conference.\nCrohn's & Colitis Foundation - Step Therapy Infographic\nCrohn's & Colitis Foundation - State Policy Priorities\nPresentation - Unveiling Inflammatory Bowel Disease: What Policymakers Should Know, Jake Johnson, State Advocacy Manager, Chron's & Colitis Foundation\nwww.chronscolitisfoundation.org\nCannabis/Marijuana Legalization Public Policy\nPost-Conference Cannabis Consult Teleconference Transcript\nWhen: Monday, August 6, 2018 – 3p.m.\nFeaturing: Jennifer Flanagan, Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commissioner\nPurpose: Provide an opportunity for policymakers to engage more deeply on the topic of state cannabis legalization following panel segment in San Francisco. Click here to review Commissioner Flanagan’s presentation at WIG’s National Legislative Conference in June.\nAgenda: 1. Introduction – Moderator, Lucy Gettman, WIG Executive Director\n2. Massachusetts Implementation & Lessons Learned – Jennifer Flanagan, Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission & Former State Senator\n3. Response to Pre-Submitted Questions\n4. Open Q&A\nLucy Gettman, Executive Director: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Women In Government’s Teleconference and Policy Consult. I’m Lucy Gettman, Executive Director for Women In Government, and as you may know, Women In Government is observing its 30th anniversary this year. We are thrilled to offer this teleconference on a timely policy topic. We think this topic is of immense interest to states and communities, and we encourage folks to consider registering for our upcoming State Directors and Healthcare Summit Conferences in Washington, DC from October 3-6, where we will continue to explore policy solutions to other complex issues impacting our states.\nThe inspiration for today’s teleconference came from our National Legislative Conference in June. The cannabis policy session with Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission Member Jennifer Flanagan was a standing room only affair, and there were far more questions and comments than could be accommodated in the time available. We are delighted, therefore, that Commissioner Flanagan has graciously agreed to join us for a follow-up session, and listeners, if you haven’t already, please feel free to refer to Commissioner Flanagan’s presentation in San Francisco, the link for which was in the invitation for this teleconference, in addition to a link to submit questions. You may have heard earlier just a couple of minutes ago that this teleconference is being recorded so that we can produce a transcript later so that this can be accessible in multiple formats.\nA word about the format for today’s call – we will begin our session in listen-only mode to receive comments from Commissioner Flanagan, we will then respond to questions that were submitted prior to the call, and when Commissioner Flanagan has had a chance to respond to those questions, we will then open up the phone lines so that participants can ask any questions you may have. If you are listening on the phone and do not have any questions, we ask that you please mute your phones in order to minimize background noise.\nSo without further ado, I am pleased to introduce Massachusetts Cannabis Commission Control Board Member Jennifer Flanagan. Jennifer Flanagan was appointed to the fledgling commission by Governor Baker in 2017. This is an excellent bipartisan effort, the Governor being a Republican and Commissioner Flanagan being a Democrat. Prior to that, Jennifer Flanagan served in the Massachusetts State\nLegislature from 2004 to 2017, first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate, where she chaired the Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery; the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities; and the Special Senate Committee on Addiction Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery Options. And of course Women In Government proudly claims Commissioner Flanagan because she is a former member of our Board of Directors, where she led our Mental Health & Substance Use Disorders Task Force in 2016, which guided our development of a toolkit that was released in 2017. Commissioner Flanagan, thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. We look forward to hearing from you, and take it away!\nCommissioner Jennifer Flanagan, Massachusetts Cannabis Control Board: Thank you, Lucy, and I want to thank Women In Government for having this conversation today. I know there are a lot of states that are grappling with what to do with the legalization of marijuana. Massachusetts specifically had it come to us by ballot initiative. I understand that there are some legislatures that are doing it by their own doing, but I really wanted to be able to answer questions from people because I know that when I was appointed almost a year ago, the people I relied on were the people in other states who were going through it. Having been through it in Massachusetts, we know that there are a lot of things that come up. There are a lot of unintended consequences, and there seem to be a lot of questions around driving, public health, not to mention legalization potency and things of that nature, so I am more than happy to answer questions.\nAs Lucy said, I was appointed by the Governor. Our Governor here in Massachusetts was responsible for appointing a public health appointee, so a lot of the work that I have been doing in Massachusetts has been surrounding our public awareness campaign, has been working with our prevention people to get them to understand what we are doing, and also to look at regulations. Many people don’t know that regulations surrounding advertising, labelling, packing – all of that can help with the public health aspect of it because we are certainly concerned with diversions to youth, we are concerned about pets and animals getting this product – we just want be make sure that we are doing it responsibly here in Massachusetts, so I am more than happy to answer any questions you may have.\nLucy Gettman: Commissioner Flanagan, why don’t we start with the questions that were submitted prior to when this teleconference began? The first cluster of questions appears to relate to the general topic of can we treat marijuana like we treat alcohol? For example how is law enforcement being trained to accommodate legal marijuana as part of their practice? Can we reliably ascertain levels of marijuana exposure among drivers or other users? And now that Massachusetts has decriminalized recreational marijuana use, are there any plans to expunge or seal any past marijuana convictions or marijuana offenses? In other words, can we marijuana like how we treat alcohol?\nCommissioner Flanagan: You can, and you can’t. I get that’s a typical legislature answer of yes and no. So Massachusetts passed criminal justice reform, and part of that has the expungement of records – that is going to be part of the law here, and that is separate from what we do as the regulators here at the Cannabis Control Board. The expungement can happen. That’s going to probably have to be a legislative fix through criminal justice reform measures any legislature takes. When it comes to marijuana, and really the question comes down to driving and impaired driving, the major difference between THC and alcohol is that alcohol gets into your blood, so it’s water soluble. The more you drink, the more you feel the effects of it. You’re easily able to blow blood alcohol content on the side of the road if you’re stopped by a police officer. With marijuana it’s a little different because it gets to your liver and it metabolizes differently, you cannot have technically the same .08 per se that we all have for alcohol.\nHaving said that, that also leads us to “Well then, how do you deal with someone when you have to maybe stop them on the side of the road or you know that they’re impaired?” Our police officers are being trained as drug recognition experts. A lot of what happens with people under the influence of marijuana is that their behaviors change. They may be a little slower to do things, dilation of their pupils is a major indicator, some of the ways they act in dealing with people – so while there is a big push to regulate marijuana like alcohol, the reality is that it’s not as cut and dry as it is with the alcohol industry right now.\nI know that that frustrates people because we would all love to have a per se amount where if you stop someone on the side of the road you can certainly be able to tell the level. There are some devices out there - and I know that there have been some police departments including the Massachusetts State Police that have done pilots with them – that there is a type of device that can determine if you have use marijuana within the past hour.\nOne of the other things that we have learned is that once you use marijuana, there is a very significant drop after the last hour if you smoke it (if you ingest it by smoking) in the levels of THC that are in your body. That’s why the big questions becomes – if it stays in your body for 30 days – so if I used this 30 days ago, my levels are not as high as the day in which I used it, but you have traceable levels in your body, and so the conversation then for our public safety personnel becomes “What exactly can we do for them?”\nI will tell you that the underlying frustration of any regulator of marijuana is because this is federally illegal, we don’t have the resources given to other industries by the federal government to really deal with the everyday questions and concerns of this product. Our U.S. Attorney [for Massachusetts] Andrew Lelling – it seems like every week he has something else to say. This week it’s that states should be able to determine for themselves – well, that’s great, but that’s not what’s happening in Washington. We’re trying to get through this, and impaired driving is something that we take very seriously. This week our Executive Office of Public Safety will unveil their Drugs Driving Campaign, and on Thursday the Cannabis Control Board will unveil our Public Health Awareness campaign, so we’ve made a great effort to ensure that this happens before the stores are open.\nLucy Gettman: That’s very helpful, thank you. We’ve also had some questions related to resources available – questions regarding private sector engagement in the new policy landscape. How are entrepreneurial efforts leading to marijuana being supported? Is it strictly folks are on their own, or is there any seed money available, for example, to support the retail aspect of what’s happening in Massachusetts, and do you know of folks who are investing in the industry?\nJennifer Flanagan: Well, I know for a fact that in Massachusetts there’s no money to do anything right now because we haven’t opened up our stores yet, and we are just now taking licensing payments.\nWe’re just now starting to license adult use here in Massachusetts. We do have the medicinal program that has been up and running since I believe 2014, and they come under the Department of Public Health. By the end of the year, they will be inherited by the Cannabis Control Commission per the statute, and so once they come over we will have a little bit more money to deal with.\nWhen it comes down to entrepreneurship, the really difficult piece of this is the banking available. Here in Massachusetts Century Bank has said that they will bank medicinally, and they have been banking medicinal businesses, but they have not said that they will bank for adult use of marijuana, and so as of this moment there is no banking available here in Massachusetts, which means that if someone is looking to start a business or if someone is looking to be part of this, then they have to come up with the capital to do so.\nThis then leads us into the conversation a little down the road about Social Equity, and how are we trying to get people who have been disproportionately impacted by the drug laws as part of this industry here in Massachusetts, but for the most part, I honestly believe that what’s going to get people the most is the cost of security.\nWe have a very strict security regulation where we want to make sure that this thing is locked up, and we want to make sure that people cannot get to it. We know that it’s a cash business, and so that’s going to present challenges on its own. You know, I tend not to believe people when they tell me that there’s been no crime associated with this because as with any cash business you are ripe for people stealing. We’ve tried to work through that, and we’ve been trying to encourage banks to be part of this. Obviously banks are federally insured, so they have to be very careful as to what they do. Credit unions have been looking at it, but I think really what’s been happening is that people are afraid to pull the trigger. I think once one person says yes, we’ll see sort of an avalanche of people saying yes, but until that happens then we try to move forward.\nA lot of people coming to us have been the R & D’s, so they have the people who have been in the business. In Massachusetts we are very cognizant that we have a smaller population with only 6 million of us, and I wanted to make sure that people who are not the big money investors from say a Colorado or a California or an Alaska were going to come in and take over the market. I think that’s one of the biggest things as a legislator, you have to think about – who do you want doing business in your communities, in your state? So we took great effort to ensure that if you were going to get one of our smaller licenses, our craft cooperative licenses, our transport licenses, that you were going to be a resident of Massachusetts, that we were going to make sure that you are the little guy, that we were going to try to give you as much advantage as we possibly can to stake your claim in this industry.\nLucy Gettman: Thank you, Commissioner. One more question before we open up the lines, and that is what can you tell us about the state of play with regard to research on safety and health concerns regarding cannabis? Is there an equal playing field? Again, this gets back to the alcohol being comparable to marijuana question – what is the state of play regarding the state of research and data on the safety and availability of cannabis?\nJennifer Flanagan: Well, we have a Director of Research that works with the Cannabis Control Commission who comes from Johns Hopkins, and Dr. Julie Johnson is an amazing researcher who has done a lot of work in public health. We are looking for really validated types of research that we are going to rely on.\nWe understand that there’s a lot of research out there – some of it comes from the industry, none of it comes from the federal government. Again, we still have that concern that this is all part of industry or from academic institutions, but that may be limited because of the federal funding piece of this. We’ve been trying to find really validated sources of information to go on when it comes to creating policy.\nOur regulations are in place, and a lot of what’s in our regulations was mandated by Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2017, which I provided to Women In Government, so that people could see it.\nWe have a very robust research agenda mandated to us, and that comes in the form of dealing with Social Equity. It deals with diversion and youth use and risky behaviors, and we’re going to focus a little bit on pregnant women. The elderly have been a concern and the veterans have come up as a concern for us because again the veterans are in a tight spot because most of them have TRICARE from the federal government while at the same time some of them are trying to participate in this industry. So we are trying to ensure that all of the research we have is validated and that it can really be helpful to us as we move forward.\nLucy Gettman: Great. I’m going to ask Women In Government’s Managing Director, Maura LaGue, to open up the lines. We definitely want to hear from you and learn what your questions are, and again we ask folks to mute their phones if they are not going to ask a question so that we can all be heard. Any questions from the field?\nQuestion from New Jersey: The question I have is in terms of your Social Equity program and outreach to disadvantaged groups. What type of outreach activities did you feel were most successful out of any that you have incorporated already? In addition to that, I saw that you were doing some workforce type of training and entry for minority entrepreneurs, and I wanted to know what types of programs have been most successful for Massachusetts.\nJennifer Flanagan: We’re just starting to do all of this. September 1st we’re going to be a year old, and we’ve literally only approved provisional licenses in the past month. For Massachusetts, Social Equity came out of Chapter 55 of the Acts of 2017, making sure that the Cannabis Control Commission would actively reach out to the 29 disadvantaged, disproportionately impacted communities that were identified in a report that we had done about six months ago.\nOnce we had identified those 29 communities, and that was done on economic employment, arrest records, and a whole host of other criteria, we then hired a Community Outreach Coordinator. Shekia Scott has been amazing in setting up the presentations that we will be giving around our state. While we understand that the 29 communities have been identified, we do realize that there are people in the other 320 communities in Massachusetts that would like to be part of this. Shekia’s job is to go out into the communities and really meet people where they are at. So far there’s been a job fair to recruit people, to talk about possibilities in the industry. We have people go out and speak to the communities. I think that there are some churches and church groups that are on the agenda, and really she’s going to work with cities and towns to meet people where they’re at.\nIt’s interesting in Massachusetts. Boston is really popular, and you know about inner-city Boston and you know about the communities around Boston, but the further west that you go, the more people want to know about cultivation, the more people really want to know not so much about the retail aspect but can they maybe be part of a product manufacturer or a transport license. So just being very flexible in the way that we go about this and being very open to the communities is really what Shekia’s job is going to be.\nQuestion: Can you talk about Shekia’s role and clarify what it is that she does?\nJennifer Flanagan: Shekia is our Community Outreach Coordinator. She has been hired to actually go out to the communities, and she’s probably going to be the one doing the most traveling out of all of our employees and to really talk about our Social Equity program, talk about the training programs that you had just asked about. We’ve also made a concerted effort to recruit people who want to be a part of the training part of it. There are accountants that are willing to give accounting help to a business; there are people willing to help write business plans. Do we have attorneys who are willing to help those who can’t afford an expensive attorney? Through the Social Equity program, it really tries to help those who would otherwise not be able to become part of this to become part of the marijuana industry in Massachusetts.\nAs regulators, our job is to make sure that this is done correctly. We also have a mandate from our legislature to ensure that all people are able to be a part of this. When it comes down to training, we had a comment period back in February, and people came to the forums, they wanted to be a part of this, but they didn’t really know where to start. Since the marijuana industry is so unique to other industries, we felt it was important to ensure that we had a very robust Social Equity program.\nThe one thing I can add is that people tend to question us about public health aspects, what’s happening. We all know that in Massachusetts kids are vaping before they are smoking, and the first thing that they are trying to smoke is marijuana, not tobacco, because we’ve had such a robust tobacco program over the years. We took great effort, as you can see in the regulations I provided to Women In Government, that under our operations we have specific advertising requirements, and we have a lot of prohibited activities in our advertising.\nIn Massachusetts you’re not going to see the marijuana leaf in anyone’s logo. The only time you’re going to see the marijuana leaf is in the warning labels that were created by the Marijuana Control Commission. You’re not able to sponsor anything where presumably 85% of the audience is under the age of 21, so your Little League teams will not be sponsored by Flanagan’s Marijuana Facility, but your adult softball league may be if you can prove that a lot of kids don’t attend the games.\nWe ensure that you are required to follow all of the local charters, so if you have a sundown provision and you can’t have anything lit up in your window past a certain time, you won’t be able to do this either. The question earlier about alcohol – we took everything that was included in the alcohol advertising regulations in this, and then we added some that we felt were important for the public health of our communities.\nLucy Gettman: Just to be clear about the materials that Commissioner Flanagan provided, Women In Government has links to the following available:\nLegislation to Ensure Safe Access to Marijuana\nSocial Equity Program PowerPoint\nRegulations for Adult Use of Marijuana\nMassachusetts Cannabis Control Commission Final Regulations\nQuestion from New York: Can you address the homelessness issue that I understand has grown in Colorado, and I understand that in Colorado there have been more problems than say in the state of Washington, but is that something that you have set aside money for, or is that something that you have been anticipating, and how might you address that? I have not looked at the regulations you provided yet, but I will take a look at this call.\nJennifer Flanagan: We have not set aside money for anything right now because we don’t have any money. In Chapter 55, the legislature determined that the revenue collected by the sale of marijuana is going to go to four different places, one of which is substance abuse. My concern, given my background, is that we are going to have an increase in people searching for addiction services, and we have to be ready for that. While people who have a heroin addiction have to go inpatient to be detoxed, that’s not the same type of process for someone who is on marijuana.\nWe are very well aware of the homelessness issue that has gone on in Colorado, specifically what they call the young adult and the emerging adult homeless population. We were also aware that some of the schools had an uptick in the applicants because people thought it would be interesting to go to Colorado to go to college, and so we are looking at that type of information so that we can collect data as we move forward from the first day of the opening of our stores. We are very well aware of what’s going on in Colorado and we are trying in our own little pockets around the state to prepare for what could happen, but not the Commission specifically, just by themselves.\nThe one thing I can add to that, though, is that the Commission has been very proactive – and all five Commissioners have been very proactive – in partnering with the communities. We know that we can’t do this by ourselves. We realize we can’t do this by ourselves. We know that we have to work with the Department of Public Health, the Department of Public Safety. We’re working a lot with the Department of Agriculture, so we know that we have to go where people are and try to extract data as much as we can.\nQuestion: Of the revenue or the revenue that you anticipate from this, is there any that is designated for or carved up in any way for preventing youth use or homeless or any other kind of social ills that there have been some findings on?\nJennifer Flanagan: Yes, the revenue is going to go to the General Fund. It’s been determined that the revenue from the marijuana sales is going to be cut up, and substance abuse is the first thing on that. Also, I believe, drunk driving and education and things of that nature. Having been part of the Senate, they’re pretty well aware of what could happen, and I think that they’ve been flexible in listening to what we may need as we go forward.\nWe’re also going to have what’s known as the Marijuana Trust Fund, which means that we keep some of that revenue, and we keep that revenue so that we can have the community outreach staff member, have a research agenda, possibly get the IRBs (Institutional Review Boards) involved, making sure that all of the work that we do is validated. We’ve also committed to doing a yearly conference on marijuana research, and our Research Director will then partner with other people to have a national conference come to Boston. So we are very proactive in trying to anticipate where the money will absolutely be needed moving forward.\nThe one thing I will tell you about revenue, though, is that you probably heard just in random new stories because I know we hear about it from other states that we’re projected to make $63 million in our first year. People expected our doors to open July 1, and we’re almost at September 1, and nothing is open yet because in our law we are required to have an independent testing agency, and no independent testing agency has finished their application for licensure. Until we award a license to an independent testing lab, no store can be opened because the product can’t be tested.\nQuestion from New York: I’m wondering what the reasoning process and the rationale was to create a new commission as opposed to regulating under an existing liquor regulatory body?\nJennifer Flanagan: That was determined by the legislature. I think I mentioned that our initiative was under Question Four – the initiative was called Question Four in 2016 – and under that question they wanted to put in under the Treasurer. Our Alcohol Commission comes under our State Treasurer, and so that was initially the thought, that that was where it was going to go. But I think given the work of our Gaming Commission—given the separate Gaming Commission that is bringing casinos to Massachusetts—that the legislature determined that they wanted an independent agency that had five appointees and that could work independently of anyone else. I did notice in our research that when you call a lot of other states, they did sort of piggyback it with alcohol regulatory agencies.\nI have to say, though, in full disclosure, I’m the only one in the state who voted against Question Four for the law, and I’m now regulating it, so sometimes the legislative intent helps given the fact that I voted for this before I got here, not knowing that this was where I was going to end up.\nLucy Gettman: Commissioner Flanagan, we do have another question, and that is we understand that there are some energy efficiency standards that are part of the cannabis regulations in Massachusetts. Can you tell us about the reasoning behind including that language?\nJennifer Flanagan: Sure, the energy efficiency language is because years ago the legislature passed what we call the Global Warming Act of 2050, so by 2050 Massachusetts has to get to a certain point to reduce the carbon footprint. And no matter what type of industry comes into Massachusetts, they have to conform to what’s already in the law.\nCommissioner Doyle has been working extensively on the energy issues and working to inform companies that are coming in that we do have restrictions on how much energy you are allowed to use for your business. Growing marijuana is a light-intensive, high energy industry, but there are ways that industry members have been able to accommodate for that, and I believe that some are looking at solar, some are looking at different kinds of lightbulbs, the water filtration is a big deal, and a lot of the businesses are filtering the water that comes from the cities and towns because they want nothing in it except for what they put in it, and so they’ve had to make accommodations for that.\nOn top of that, the other thing that we are very cognizant of is farming. Farming was not included in Question Four back in 2016, but the legislature chose to highlight the farming industry here in Massachusetts. We allow for craft cultivation, we allow for outdoor growing; we are going to allow for a whole host of things that are going to hopefully benefit the farmers because we see that industry declining here in Massachusetts. At the same time, they have restrictions on the types of energy that they can use as well.\nQuestion from New York: I’m wondering how you are handling child protection, child removals, birth testing for drugs for marijuana – anything like that, if you’ve got anything in there. Thoughts about it?\nJennifer Flanagan: Technically we don’t do that as regulators. That’s going to come from the legislature. I know that when I was in the legislature I was Chair of the Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities Committee, so I dealt a lot with child protective services. I know the question is being brought up because now there are women who self-report that they are using marijuana while they are in delivery and they’re giving birth and how to handle that. I think that they’re trying to figure out to what extent the child is at risk. Certainly if you have a parent who drinks and there is the possibility of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome but we don’t yet know what happens with the children who come from parents who are ingesting marijuana. Part of that has been difficult for DCF, and they are working with the legislature to determine if anything needs to happen. That is on top of what we’ve already had to accommodate for in Massachusetts, for the heroin epidemic and the opiate epidemic.\nThe question becomes do you take the child or do you provide wrap-around services for the family and allow the family to keep the child? They’re grappling with that as well and they haven’t come to any answers yet. And the same thing with pregnancy – there’s been no determination. I know that I’ve gotten a lot of calls from people—nurses in the emergency room—as to should they be filing neglect charges against parents who come in, and the parents are being treated, and they’re obviously under the influence. I think unofficially they’re taking the stance that if you are under the influence, just as you were with alcohol, if you can’t properly care for your child then they’re going to have to do something about it. But if you self-report that you used it three weeks ago then there’s nothing that they can do.\nThat’s going to be something that needs to be addressed in our next legislative session. Our legislators have gone home for the year, so there are no more legislative sessions. That’s part of the things where I poke my nose around in the legislature and try to figure out if there’s a way that we can do policy instead of legislation because the Secretariats have the ability to set policy where if we’re going to legislate this, then we run the risk that we have advocacy groups coming in and trying to fight both sides of it.\nThe one thing I will add to that though, too, is that for your teenagers we’ve also … I added a social hosting provision to the law so that if you are someone who is providing marijuana to someone who is under the age of 21, we can get you on social hosting because essentially you are diverting the product to underage kids. We have the same thing here for alcohol. If you’re a parent having a party at your house and kids are drinking, the parents can get you on social hosting.\nThe one thing I will suggest to the staff and the legislators on the call is that under the medicinal program Massachusetts was required to do a baseline study report - and the report came out, and I can get that to Women In Government if you want to see it – just to see where your state stands before adult use starts to get sold, so that you can gauge pre- and post-utilization and see where you need to make additional changes or where you need to focus your dollars on. What we found is that 35% of people thought that it was ok to drive or have reported driving while under the influence, and that it was safer than alcohol, and that there was a large part of the population who don’t see what the problem is. For us, that’s something that we addressed in our public awareness campaign.\nLucy Gettman: Commissioner Flanagan, I know that it’s not going live until Thursday, but is there anything that you can share about the components of the public awareness campaign or things that the Commission thought about during its development?\nJennifer Flanagan: Sure. Under the law, under Section 51 of that statute, we were required to work with our Department of Public Health to come up with a scientifically based campaign, which means that we couldn’t just come up with all of these statements that weren’t proven.\nWe had 12 focus groups that we did throughout Massachusetts, we had some parent focus groups, and we had some general user focus groups. We did not have focus groups of minors. We didn’t get into that piece of it. From there we created a campaign that will have an online presence, meaning that we have one minute, 30 second, and 15 second spots. We will have billboards across Massachusetts. We have parent rack cards, so we will have things for people to hand out and know that they will be available to all 351 of our cities and towns should they need them. The Commission will give them out every time we do a presentation with our community outreach staff member. We have very black-and-white statements. “People under 21 cannot use this. It’s illegal. Make sure that you lock it up. Make sure that you only have one ounce in your possession at any given time.” Just the very basics of the law, and once we start to generate revenue, we are then going to go into more precise campaigns.\nPersonally I would like to talk more about youth aversion, pregnancy, veterans, the elderly – those types of populations. We were very specific about how the character looks, who the character is. If you look at Colorado’s, it’s very much Colorado, right? It’s very much walking trails and all of those types of things. Well, we’ve incorporated some of the beach colors here from Massachusetts because we have Cape Cod, we dress our person differently, our character differently, we have interactions that are very different. We think we’ve captured all populations of people as best as we can in the short amount of time that we have for this.\nI know there’s a big thing with Facebook. We’re trying to do Facebook ads, but obviously Facebook has this thing going on right now with the word marijuana, so we’ll make changes as we need to. You’ll be able to see a very robust type of campaign thus far. For the rack cards we have a parent rack card so that you can talk to your kids, and we have a general rack card so that you know the dos and don’ts of the law. The one thing that was glaring to me that we found in our pre-campaign research was that people didn’t know the law. They know it’s legal, they read a couple of headlines, they know that they can’t ingest outside. They don’t realize that they can’t have more than an ounce. It’s really sort of an education tool.\nMaura LaGue: I grew up in Massachusetts, and when you and I were talking earlier this year, you were describing to me the challenge of having a state law that may or may not conflict with the sentiments of the towns. I remember what that was like when smoking was banned where it just became a patchwork of ordinances. Can you describe that process a little bit for other states that may be in a similar situation where the law may come into conflict with the locals’ feelings?\nJennifer Flanagan: Sure. We have 351 independently operating cities and towns. We don’t have county government. We don’t have these big populations of people. Each city and town has the ability to set their own charter, and the way that I describe the marijuana issue is that we sort of have to grow within all of these cracks in the sidewalk.\nFor instance, in our regulations, you cannot be closer than 500 feet to a school or a playground. Well, for a community who’s trying to be very walkable and who’s trying to be very proactive in getting families out in public spaces, that doesn’t work. We give the cities and towns the ability to accommodate for that. We say K-12 and we say playgrounds – some towns have expanded it to you can’t be at a college campus. They’re nervous about the college campuses. Others don’t want it anywhere near daycares. So it depends on the city and town.\nThe other thing too is when it comes to zoning. There’s people who have commercial, industrial, retail, overlap, all these types of zoning. What we say in our regulations is that you cannot ban marijuana sales through zoning, which means that essentially you’ve got to figure it out. You have to figure out a way that this can be in your town.\nGoing back a little, because this was about a question, everybody went to the ballot to determine whether they wanted it or not. From that point, cities became “Yes” cities and “No” cities. If the majority of your residents voted “yes”, you were considered a “yes” town, and if a majority voted “no”, you were considered a “no” town. If you’re a “no” town, then your city government can just take a reaffirming vote and ban it so that you don’t have to have it in your town.\nIf you’re a “yes” town and you don’t like that and you want to ban marijuana sales or ban marijuana at all--even the cultivations--you’ve got to go to the ballot. You’ve got to go to the next ballot question that you have, and you have to put it to the town for a vote. It can’t be done by your local government, and so we feel as though giving the cities the power to determine for themselves what they want it to look like while at the same time they have to follow state regulations.\nFor instance, in the law it states that you can have up to 20% of your liquor store licenses for retail marijuana, meaning that if you’ve got 5 liquor stores, you can have up to 20% licenses go to marijuana. Now you can’t sell them side by side – you have to get a separate license – but if you’re a town that has one liquor store, we’ll make you round up so that you’re able to have one marijuana store if you’re a “yes” town. We know that there are some towns that are so small they don’t even have liquor stores, so we make provisions for that.\nBut all in all, we make sure that you have to comply with city charters and city ordinances for advertising. We make sure that when it comes to transportation, we’re not allowing people to have any type of advertising on their car. So if you’re driving through towns and one allows you and one doesn’t, we don’t want people getting caught for that. There are some things we determine for them, but the cities and towns will get to determine what their landscape will look like.\nThe one thing we do have which I don’t think other states really have is the Host Community Agreement. If you’re going to site yourself in the city of Fitchburg, you have got to work with the town of Fitchburg to do a Host Community Agreement. Under the law, the city is allowed to recoup up to 3% of your sales for impact fees, things like if you’re down this road that otherwise wouldn’t be used, and the road now needs to be paved, the money can go towards that because there’s an impact for you being there. If there’s an uptick in 911 calls and your police and fire are being used more, then you may be able to give them more money for an impact fee. We don’t allow you, however, to rake the businesses over the coals. You can’t be asked for roofs of schools or new playgrounds or any of those things. It has to be an impact from being in that town. So there are some things that we are pretty heavy-handed on.\nQuestion: Do you have any statistics at this time about how many people have applied for licenses or the various kinds of licenses yet?\nJennifer Flanagan: There have been a couple hundred people who have opened up applications, but they have not completed applications. Each entity is allowed up to 3 licenses. Some want to take that advantage, and some don’t want to take that advantage. The other day, we approved 3 licenses for this one company – one for cultivation, one for product manufacturing (which means making the edibles and extracting the oils), and one for retail. So he got 3 licenses but he’s one entity. Part of the hang-up is – because again, we have a very long, involved process – is that we have third-party background checks. When we send off for a background check, we have to wait for that to come back, and then when we call the city and town to ask if the Host Agreement is done and if they comply with the zoning, the city and town has up to 60 days to get back to us. A lot of our hang-up now is waiting for other people to get back to us.\nThe other thing that I should mention too though--as part of the social equity side with regards to licenses – we allow people with CORIs (Criminal Offender Record Information, see p. 5) to be part of this industry as long as they’re not selling it. So if you have a drug charge on you, a marijuana possession charge, if you have any type of charge like that then you can be part of this. If your CORI comes back and there is something on it, you’re not automatically disqualified. I will point you to the back of the regulations (starts p. 178) that will tell you the number of crimes that if you’ve committed you cannot be part of this industry – and that’s trafficking, distribution, gun charges, there’s a whole host of things that you can’t have. But we are very well aware of the people who can’t be part of the industry and may have a background, and so we do allow partially for that.\nQuestion: I know that you said the hang-up with the licenses is pretty much with the third-party background check company and the zoning, but do you have an entity that helps applicants to complete their application? Is there any technical assistance to help them complete their applications?\nJennifer Flanagan: There will be. There hasn’t been yet. Everything is online. The whole application is online. I’ve had people ask me if I can give them a copy of the application, and I can’t because we don’t have anything on paper. That’s apparently the way these types of applications are done. We contract out with a company who writes them up with the criteria for our application.\nThere will be technical assistance. I don’t believe it’s happened yet, but again because you’re up and running, it’s sort of like when you’re first in line, you kind of get the bad end of the deal because we don’t have all of these things in place, where I’m sure that two years from now we will.\nWe do have a licensing division of the Cannabis Control Commission, and they can provide answers for people who have questions. A lot of it is producing documents, but we’ve also had people open up license applications just to poke around because they’re curious, and we don’t know if they’ll finish the application or if they ever will. So we don’t reach out to people to ask what they’re doing. If they don’t finish it, they don’t finish it. What we do is we take the ones who have completed the four packets – and I think that’s in the PowerPoint that I provided – if you finish the four packets then it gets moved on to licensing, and from there a determination will be made.\nLucy Gettman: If there are no other questions, Commissioner Flanagan, thank you for being so generous with your time, your insight, and your experience to share with other states who might be considering a similar experience. Also, I want to remind folks that if you are interested in this and other compelling policy topics, please consider registering for our 24th Annual State Directors Conference and our 9th Annual Healthcare Summit October 3-6, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here in Washington, DC. We would love to see you! Any final comments, Commissioner Flanagan?\nJennifer Flanagan: If there’s anything that people need, feel free to contact me. I think that my contact information is somewhere with Women In Government. The way we learned was contacting other states, so if you feel as though there is something that you are concerned about, I can go through the regulations, the law, or whatever people would like.\nJennifer Flanagan, Commissioner\nMassachusetts Cannabis Control Commission\nEmail: Jennifer.Flanagan@mass.gov\nwww.Mass-Cannabis-Control.com\nMaura LaGue: Thank you for attending, and I will be following up with anyone who RSVP’d with Commissioner Flanagan’s contact information as well as links to the information that she provided before the call. As always, please reach out to Women In Government for this topic or any others, and we will try to help you as best as we can.\nLucy Gettman: It’s been a pleasure for us to conduct this policy consult, and please let us know what other topics may be of interest to you. We would love to do this again. Commissioner Flanagan, thank you so very much! 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8815372586250305,"wiki_prob":0.8815372586250305,"text":"The Casual Perfect\nLavinia Greenlaw\nISBN 9780571278169 Format Hardback\nPublished 01/09/2011 Length 64 pages\nIf Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw's explorations of light and the borders of vision, which include a journey to the four corners of Britain to observe the solstices and equinoxes, and a cycle about the East Anglian landscape which is nine-tenths sky. Questions of travel hover around many of these poems, or questions which need to be 'travelled fully' rather than answered -- and which involve the overheard and the glimpsed, what is gleaned from traces and external signs. The result is a collection that is under-stated, spare but inclusive, which invites our presence as readers.\nAbout Lavinia Greenlaw\nLavinia Greenlaw was born in London where she has lived for most of her life. She studied seventeenth-century art at the Courtauld Institute, and was awarded a NESTA fellowship to pursue her interest in vision, travel and perception.\nHer poetry includes Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has also published novels and works of non-fiction which include The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. She has won a number of prizes and held residencies at the Science Museum and the Royal Society of Medicine.\nHer work for BBC radio includes programmes about the Arctic, the Baltic, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line111585"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5033901929855347,"wiki_prob":0.49660980701446533,"text":"You are here: Sports Betting Online > NFL Betting Picks >\tSeahawks vs Lions – NFL Wildcard Round Betting Tips\nSeahawks vs Lions – NFL Wildcard Round Betting Tips\nThe Seattle Seahawks will bid to reach the divisional round of the post-season for the fifth campaign on the spin when they play the Detroit Lions.\nPete Carroll’s men have stuttered into the playoffs going 3-3 in their final six matches of the regular term. However, the club have proven pedigree in January and will be a forced to be reckoned with.\nThe Lions were eyeing a first-round bye when they were 9-4 heading into the final three weeks of the campaign. Jim Caldwell and his men were unable to secure another victory, and were only kept alive in the post-season when the Washington Redskins lost their week 17 clash.\nBreaking Down The Betting Options\nThe Seahawks have been outstanding in the post-season under the tenure of Carroll. They’ve won a Super Bowl and were a yard away from another title, only for Malcolm Butler to crush their dreams.\nLast season they were grateful to a miss from Blair Walsh to advance over the Minnesota Vikings in the wildcard round, but were then sent packing from the playoffs by the Carolina Panthers, despite a spirited second-half performance.\nSeattle do have their problems and have been inconsistent on both sides of the ball, but especially on defense without the injured Earl Thomas that could leave them vulnerable.\nDetroit backed into the playoffs and are heading into CenturyLink Field on a run of three-straight defeats. Quarterback Matt Stafford has been battling a finger injury, while the club have no meaningful running game to support him, leaving them with an uphill challenge on the west coast.\nAs a result, the Seahawks should be able to claim the victory to advance at 13/50 1.26 -380 0.26 -3.80 0.26 with Bovada sportsbook. However, due to the home side’s recent problems on defense, Detroit could be a solid option to cover the +8 spread.\nCould Seattle Make Another Surge?\nThe Seahawks endured an unsteady start to the season, needing a late effort to overcome the Miami Dolphins on the opening day before suffering their annual defeat to the Los Angeles Rams.\nA win over the Atlanta Falcons proved their mettle, only for a tie against the Arizona Cardinals in a crazy contest and a loss to the New Orleans Saints to knock them off track.\nHowever, within a week all was right for Carroll’s men as they produced a fine defensive stand to beat the Buffalo Bills before heading to New England to knock off the Patriots by holding Tom Brady and company at the goalline.\nRussell Wilson produced his best performance of the term at Gillette Stadium, shredding Bill Belichick’s defense with ease, and hinting that the club’s peak form was right around the corner.\nHowever, Carroll’s men stuttered to the finish line with a 10-5-1 record, suffering a crippling injury to Thomas in the process. The safety is the best player in his position in the NFL and an important leader for the Seahawks in the secondary.\nHis absence has seen his side exposed by Aaron Rodgers in their defeat to the Green Bay Packers as well as Carson Palmer against the Cardinals.\nOther than Wilson, Thomas is probably the player that the Seahawks could ill-afford to lose for their push for the Super Bowl. And although their secondary still possesses All-Pros Richard Sherman and Kam Chancellor, the safety blanket provided by the 27-year-old has been removed.\nEven in their win over the San Francisco 49ers on the final day they still gave up 23 points to a poor offense. For once heading in the post-season there are questions marks surrounding Seattle’s defense that they will have to answer without arguably their best player.\nStafford Can Launch Himself Into Elite Conversation\nMany quarterbacks have entered the post-season with a point to prove. At the age of 28 it is time for Stafford to make his move to put him – at the least – in the conversation as one of the top 10 signal-callers in the NFL.\nThe Lions quarterback can look no further than the example of Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens, who led the franchise to the Super Bowl in the 2012 campaign. He produced four flawless performances to secure the crown and a huge contract extension in the process.\nFlacco is not regarded as one of the top quarterbacks in the league due to his inconsistent play, but remains a potent threat in January. Stafford can take follow in his footsteps should he rise to the challenge in the playoffs, along with having solid regular-season numbers to back up his claim.\nThe Lions made a habit of winning close games at the start of the season, defeating the Philadelphia Eagles, the Washington Redskins and the Los Angeles Rams late in their respective contests. Stafford’s performances in the fourth quarter were crucial to those victories as were the displays of his receiving corps led by Marvin Jones, Eric Ebron and Anquan Boldin.\nDetroit’s defense has been inconsistent throughout the campaign, and let them down badly on their stretch run. They were porous in the second half against the Dallas Cowboys and in their defeat to the Packers, forcing them to take the road to Seattle and miss out on the NFC North crown.\nThey will have to step up to the mark at CenturyLink Field, while their playmakers will also need to rise to the occasion. The talent is there, but Caldwell will have to ensure that they can pull it together to advance to the divisional round.\nWho Has The Edge?\nThe Seahawks are a fearsome prospect on home soil, having won their last nine post-season matches on the spin in front of their own supporters. Their last defeat at CenturyLink Field in the playoffs came in the 2004 season against the Rams, highlighting the task at hand for the Lions.\nIt will take a flawless performance for Caldwell’s men to advance and Stafford will have to carve apart the vaunted Seahawks’ defense.\nThat will be an incredible tough task with Seattle likely to emerge to place themselves in the final four in the NFC Conference for the fifth season in a row.\nSeattle Seahawks to beat Detroit Lions\nSaturday 7th January 20:15 ET (Sunday 8th January 1:15 GMT)\nDetroit Lions to cover +8 spread\nOdds: 87/100 1.87 -115 0.87 -1.15 0.87\nFree Football Betting Tips & Football Predictions Today\nOur expert team of tipsters is tried and tested when it comes to football. Get the latest on all the major leagues and competitons and let us help you find valu...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1566951"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9206481575965881,"wiki_prob":0.9206481575965881,"text":"Argument: Iran’s Bubble Boys Iran’s Bubble Boys...\nIran’s Bubble Boys\nThese are the men who make up Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inner circle -- and will determine if the Iranian president can strengthen his tenuous grip on power.\nBy Geneive Abdo\n| January 29, 2010, 9:26 PM\nMajid/Getty Images\nOver the last seven months, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s base of support appears to have steadily shrunk: Countless conservative politicians and clerics, such as former Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, have even parted ways with the Iranian president and joined the expanding group of his foes. But though his list of detractors is getting longer, a number of men continue to stand behind the president, ensuring his hold on power.\nEven some symbolic leaders of the opposition green movement, such as former President Mohammad Khatami, declared in recent days that they recognize Ahmadinejad as president of Iran, even if they remain convinced that his re-election on June 12 was rigged.\nAll the president’s men — and they are all men, with the exception of the female health minister, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi — fall into two categories. Ahmadinejad’s chosen advisors and cabinet members are either his relatives or men close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, his powerful supporter. No matter the amount of criticism or condemnation heaped on the men in this inner circle, the president has remained as loyal to his appointees as they are to him.\nThe most glaring example is Ahmadinejad’s appointment two weeks ago of Judge Saeed Mortazavi as the head of Iran’s Task Force Against Smuggling. Mortazavi was just named in a report issued by the Iranian parliament as the man largely responsible for atrocities committed in July, following Iran’s contested presidential election, by state security forces at the Kahrizak detention facility. According to the report, some demonstrators in the opposition movement imprisoned in Kahrizak were killed, and others tortured, due to mismanagement and abuse. The parliamentary committee said the dissidents were taken to the detention facility based on orders from Mortazavi, who at the time was Tehran’s chief prosecutor. After the deaths were reported in July, Khamenei ordered the facility closed.\nDespite Mortazavi’s tainted reputation — he is also notorious for shutting down hundreds of reformist newspapers and imprisoning their journalists in the late 1990s when he was a judge — Ahmadinejad has ignored widespread criticism of his appointment as the anti-smuggling chief.\nThe closest person to Ahmadinejad is his chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie, who is also the president’s brother-in-law. After Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in the June 12 election, he initially tapped Mashaie to be his vice president. However, Mashaie’s statement in 2008 that Iranians are \"friends of all people in the world — even Israelis\" angered conservatives, who pressured Ahmadinejad to rescind the appointment. Ahmadinejad refused to back down until Khamenei instructed him to remove Mashaie. Ahmadinejad’s subsequent decision to appoint Mashaie as his chief of staff was striking because it defied even Khamenei.\nIgnoring Mashaie’s dismal reputation within Iran, Ahmadinejad praised him last week as \"Olya Allah,\" a man of God, when a group of supporters questioned him over his reliance on his chief of staff. Such public adulation has become one of the hallmarks of Ahmadinejad’s presidency. Last summer, when bidding farewell to outgoing Health Minister Kamran Baqeri Lankarani, who is highly respected in Iran, Ahmadinejad praised him by saying: \"He really worked hard. I like him in a very special way personally. He is such a clean and lovely person. I said somewhere that he is like a peach and you just want to eat him.\"\nUnswerving loyalty has proven to be the blueprint for career advancement within Ahmadinejad’s circle. When Ahmadinejad wanted to secure control of the Intelligence Ministry, he appointed Heydar Moslehi as minister in August 2009, even though Moslehi had no experience in intelligence work and was unknown in government circles. Shortly beforehand, the president sacked Mohseni-Ejei, then intelligence minister, after he refused to participate in cabinet meetings with Mashaie, who was vice president at the time. Some analysts in Iran think that Ahmadinejad used this as an excuse to place his own loyalist as head of the ministry, which plays a key role in spying on and identifying Iranians who work with the opposition movement inside Iran and outside the country.\nMoslehi has served Ahmadinejad well. He is the leading advocate of a government crackdown on the public intellectuals and journalists who form the intellectual wing of the opposition. After the massive demonstrations in Iran last December, Moslehi stated in an interview on state-run television: \"This unrest is different from that of the past and is a prearranged counterrevolutionary movement, designed by agents of the sedition.\"\nIn addition to these loyalists, Ahmadinejad has deliberately chosen others who have close ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), now the most important institution in Iran. Mojtaba Hashemi-Samareh, who is rarely seen in public, is Ahmadinejad’s chief political advisor and maintains close connections to both the IRGC and the Basij militias under their control. He is a close childhood friend of the president and served as his campaign manager during the last presidential election. He also shares Ahmadinejad’s affinity for Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, the powerful, radical cleric who thinks that a world war needs to occur for Islam to prevail around the globe. Such an outcome, according to Yazdi and his followers, will return the Hidden Imam in Shiite theology back to Earth.\nAhmadinejad and Samareh have benefited from the symbiotic nature of their relationship. When Samareh was the interim governor of the West Azerbaijan province, he appointed Ahmadinejad to be the governor of Maku, a small city in that province. Samareh also has a healthy relationship with Khamenei.\nDespite the greatest political upheaval in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, popular demands for his resignation, and the great disdain in which even many conservatives hold him, Ahmadinejad has endured the storm by surrounding himself with these staunch loyalists. This might enable him to complete his presidential term, but by ousting anyone who does not agree with him, he has deepened the fragmentation within the government and left behind a trail of enemies at a time when he could use more than a small circle of loyalists to confront an opposition movement that grows more formidable by the day.\nGeneive Abdo is a resident scholar at the Arabia Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, and the author of four books on the Middle East. Twitter: @AbdoGeneive\nTags: Argument, Default, Free, Iran, Middle East, Web Exclusive","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1175189"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5729061961174011,"wiki_prob":0.5729061961174011,"text":"Women’s World Cup: England Women v Japan Women: Prediction, Odds, Betting Tips and Team News\nNews Odds\nby Steve Ashfield June 16, 2019, GMT+0000, 23:07 pm June 16, 2019, GMT+0000, 23:09 pm\nWednesday 19 June: 8pm KO\nLive on BBC One\nLatest Odds\nSecond Half Strike\nIt’s all gone well so far for England as they bid to win the Women’s World Cup for the first time. Wins over both Scotland and Argentina have seen them qualify for the last 16 with one game to spare. They play Japan and avoiding defeat will see them finish top top of the group.\nEngland go into this final group fixture in the Women’s World Cup with increasing confidence. Their opening victory over Scotland wasn’t the greatest perfomance but the win was what they needed. They followed that win up with a 1-0 win over Argentina to clinch their place in the knock-out stages. England are now 7/1 (8.0) at Unibet to win this tournament.\nThe win over Argentina could have been more than 1-0 if not for their in-form goalkeeper Vanina Correa. That included a penalty save from Nikita Parris. She’s 12/5 (3.4) at BetVictor to score in this game. England didn’t look in danger of losing that game against Argentina but this is a tougher task.\nEngland lead the group by two points and are 1/4 (1.25) at Betfred to win the group. Just a draw will do the job for Phil Neville’s team and winning the group would likely see them face either China or Spain in the last 16. Finishing in the runners-up spot however would take them into a possible game against the Netherlands or Canada and a likely quarter-final against Germany.\nThere’s an element of revenge in this match after Japan’s win in the 2015 Women’s World Cup semi-final. Since then England have won the SheBelieve Cup since then and also reached the last four at the 2017 European Championships. They may well struggle when up against sides ranked higher than them but should be able to win this match. You can get 21/20 (2.05) on them beating Japan on Wednesday.\nJapan have also already qualified for the knock-out stages of this tournament. They are ranked seventh in the latest FIFA rankings (four places below England) but didn’t arrive in France in good form. Japan had only won one of their last six games before taking on Argentina in their group opener.\nThat game only ended in a goalless draw but Japan bounced back with a 2-1 win over Scotland to clinch a place in the last 16. However, that could yet be as one of the best third-placed teams if England win this game and Argentina defeat Scotland. That could see them having to take on either France or Germany. Japan are 3/1 (4.0) at Betfair to win this match and win the group. The odds on them winning the Women’s World Cup are 35/1 (36.0) if placing your bet at 888sport.\nEngland beat Japan 3-0 in March of this year on their way to winning the SheBelieves Cup. The loss to Japan in the 2015 Women’s World Cup semi-final is their only defeat in five meetings. Both of the last two games have had over 2.5 goals scored in them. You can get 5/4 (2.25) at Betway on that stat coming up in this match.\nThere are no major injuries reported for this game.\nThe last six England games have all seen at least one goal scored in the second half. The odds of the second half of this match seeing the most goals scored are 11/10 (2.1) at BoyleSports.\nEngland fans are used to a nervous final fixture in group matches. Thankfully, qualification for the knock-out stages is assured but they will want to go on and win the group. The problem with finishing top is it will put them in the same half of the daw as the USA. England have made a steady if not spectacular start to the tournament, but played better than Japan. A bet on England to win and under 2.5 goals scored has odds of 11/4 (3.75) at SkyBet.\nJapan v Chile: Prediction, Odds, Betting Tips and Team News\nNo-Show Boris Johnson Still Odds-On in Tory Leadership Race\nSteve Ashfield\nSteve is a self-employed freelance writer with years of experience writing about everything from sport to politics. He loves his statistics and quotes them at every opportunity.\nNapoli v Arsenal: Prediction, Odds, Betting Tips and Team News\nSteve Ashfield April 15, 2019, GMT+0000, 23:02 pm April 15, 2019, GMT+0000, 23:02 pm\nGMW Global Strikes iGaming Deal\nIan Harrison January 2, 2019, GMT+0000, 12:21 pm January 11, 2019, GMT+0000, 14:14 pm\nKeeping the Flame Alive: Who Will Host 2032 Olympic Games?\nStuart Stratford February 22, 2019, GMT+0000, 6:19 am February 22, 2019, GMT+0000, 1:30 am\nAspire Enters Irish Betting Market\nIan Harrison December 2, 2018, GMT+0000, 19:13 pm January 12, 2019, GMT+0000, 12:12 pm\nNick Bosa Favored to be Top Pick in Latest NFL Mock Draft\nAgony and Ecstasy: The Most Dramatic Last Minute Goals Scored in the Premier League\nThe Betting Bucket List: Top Ten Gambling Experiences\nStuart Stratford February 7, 2019, GMT+0000, 13:23 pm February 7, 2019, GMT+0000, 14:28 pm\nNow That’s How to Use a Free Bet\nSteve Ashfield January 30, 2019, GMT+0000, 17:26 pm January 30, 2019, GMT+0000, 17:26 pm","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1541806"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9277592897415161,"wiki_prob":0.9277592897415161,"text":"Japanese Emperor Akihito can step down with new law\nCrown Prince Naruhito is set to become Japan's 126th monarch.\nJun 10, 2017, 5:00 am SGT\nhttp://str.sg/4b5g\nSpecial law applies only to 83-year-old ruler; it will be first abdication in some 200 years\nWalter Sim Japan Correspondent In Tokyo\nJapan has passed a law to allow Emperor Akihito to step down in favour of Crown Prince Naruhito, in what would be the country's first abdication in some 200 years.\nIn a rare public address, the Emperor, who would be the first Japanese monarch to abdicate since Emperor Kokaku in 1817, had hinted at his desire to step down last August, citing old age and health.\nBut there was no law governing what to do with a monarch wanting to retire from what is meant to be a lifetime job.\nThe special one-off law, which was passed yesterday by the Upper House, would apply only to Emperor Akihito, 83, and expire in three years. It is widely expected that he will hand over the Chrysanthemum Throne on or around his birthday on Dec 23 next year.\nThe Emperor, who ascended to the throne in 1989, is known for supporting pacificism and consoling victims of natural disasters, along with his wife, Empress Michiko.\nCrown Prince Naruhito, 57, will become the 126th monarch in the world's oldest hereditary bloodline said to date back to 660BC. Next in line will be his brother, Prince Akishino, 51, and then the latter's son, Prince Hisahito, 10.\nThe proposed abdication triggered concerns about succession and renewed debates about whether female rulers should be allowed.\nUnder the Imperial Household Law, only males are allowed to ascend the throne, which means the burden of producing a heir will fall squarely on the young prince and his future wife.\nThe ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been reluctant to consider the idea of a reigning female monarch. Kobe College historian Hideya Kawanishi told The Straits Times: \"To them, the status of a man will always be higher than that of a woman, and so they see it as a must to strenuously avoid a woman acting as the country's symbol.\"\nHence, while female commoners can marry into the imperial family - as had Empress Michiko, 82 - male commoners are forbidden to do so. Female royals lose their status if they marry commoners.\nThis issue was highlighted recently when the impending engagement of Emperor Akihito's granddaughter, Princess Mako, 25, to paralegal Kei Komuro, 25, was announced. If she loses her status, the number of imperial family members will fall to 18, of whom 13 are women and eight are below age 40.\nAmid concerns about the shrinking pool of royals, a non-binding supplementary resolution was passed last week, stating: \"Issues related to ensuring stable imperial succession and the creation of female-led imperial branches are important matters that cannot be postponed.\"\nIntroducing female-led imperial branches means Princess Mako will effectively be allowed to retain her royal status after marriage. It could mean allowing the succession line to pass through females - for example, if the princess has a son, he will be considered for the throne - but the LDP is unlikely to support this.\nThe opposition had wanted to fix a timeline to deal with these issues but the LDP was reluctant, fearing it would upset its core right-wing support base. But it is a matter of time before Japan needs to confront the issues surrounding the monarchy, experts said.\nDr Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University Japan, said: \"Allowing female rulers will be a more pragmatic policy.\"\nA version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on June 10, 2017, with the headline 'Akihito can step down with new law'. Print Edition | Subscribe\nAKIHITO, ABDICATE","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1142514"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8483142852783203,"wiki_prob":0.8483142852783203,"text":"Oct. 22, 2017 / 10:02 PM\nHollywood Casino 400: Martin Truex Jr. roars to win\nAmanda Vincent, The Sports Xchange\nKANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Martin Truex Jr. bookended the second round of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series playoffs with his seventh win of the season Sunday in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway.\n\"Excited to get another one here at Kansas,\" Truex said. \"This feels really awesome. It's really Furniture Row's home track. It just feels really good to finally get -- to finally get another one here. We got that one in the spring after so many heartbreaks, and then, today it looked like it wasn't going to happen and we just persevered.\"\nKurt Busch finished second, Ryan Blaney was third, Chase Elliott fourth and Denny Hamlin rounded out the top five.\n\"I just feel like I'm on razorblades here,\" Busch said. \"I really wanted that one bad. At the end, I had the sticker tires. As I'm warming them up, they weren't grabbing in the back. I knew that I wasn't going to get the jump that I needed. I tried to play middle of the ground. Early in the race, with scuffs from qualifying, I brushed the fence. Kansas -- I don't know what it is about this place.\"\nRELATED NASCAR: Christopher Bell nabs first Xfinity Series win at Kansas\nTruex also was up front at the beginning of the race, starting on the pole and leading the first 35 laps before a restart penalty. He made his way from the back to the front twice in the first two 80-lap stages of the 267-lap race, also falling to the back because of an unscheduled pit stop for a loose wheel on Lap 91.\n\"Just couldn't believe some of the things that were happening and thought there was no way that we were going to win that race at some point,\" Truex said. \"That first restart violation really caught me by surprise and that hurt, but that wasn't the last blow we had to take. There was the loose wheel we had to pit for under green and getting a lap down and being able to stay out through that last stage and get that lap back was crucial; without that, we didn't have a shot.\n\"Then, we got back mid-pack and had a couple really good restarts to get some track position, and then really fought the car through that part of the race and had to make some big adjustments. And I felt like at the end, we got dialed in pretty good. I'm pretty happy with that.\"\nRELATED Auto Racing Glance\nTruex took his final lead of the race with just over 50 laps remaining.\nKyle Busch and Kevin Harvick dominated the race between Truex's two stints up front, including a Busch win of the opening stage. Hamlin won the second stage through a pit strategy of staying out when the yellow flag waved with four laps remaining in stage two.\nAfter pit stops, Harvick was up front for the restart at the beginning of the final stage. Kyle Busch retook the lead on a restart just past lap 200, giving way to Truex a few laps later.\nRELATED NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. expecting first child\nBusch and Harvick were snake-bitten by an ill-timed 10th and final yellow flag during a cycle of green-flag pit stops on lap 235. Both had already pitted under green and gone a lap down. They took the wave-around during the caution to get back on the lead lap.\nBrad Keselowski, who, like Truex, was already locked into the third round, incurred a pit-road speeding penalty during the caution.\nSeveral drivers not already with positions secured in the next round, had trouble throughout the race.\nMore than a dozen cars were collected in a crash on a Lap 198 restart that began with an Erik Jones spin. Among those involved included playoff drivers Ryan Blaney, Matt Kenseth and Jamie McMurray. Kenseth was parked for the rest of the race, because too many members worked on the car when it was under the crash-repair clock.\n\"I don't know what any of the rules are,\" Kenseth said. \"Seems like we got a lot of stuff that kind of gets, you know, changed so often. I honestly can't keep up with it. My head kind of spins from putting lug nuts out of pit boxes to one too many guys over the wall, you're not allowed to race anymore. I just don't get it to be honest with you. I really don't have a lot good to say right now. I'm more than disappointed.\n\"I'm just gonna say thanks to DeWalt. They've been a sponsor of mine off and on for 20 years. Awesome guys, there. They deserve better than this. We showed some flashes of brilliance this season, been off and on, been fast at times, had great pit stops at times, just haven't been able to put it all together like a championship team needs to. Unfortunately, this is an example of that. I hope that I can do a better job, here, the next four weeks and, hopefully, go get a win.\"\nThe race was red-flagged for track cleanup from the wreck that saw Jones' car get airborne after hard, head-on contact with the wall.\nRicky Stenhouse hit the wall with just under 100 laps remaining. Another playoff driver, Kyle Larson, retired from the race earlier, experiencing the first engine failure of his career on Lap 77.\nTwo Jimmie Johnson spins around Lap 190 resulted in two yellow flags.\nStill, Johnson advanced to the next round of the playoffs. Drivers eliminated at Kansas were Larson, Kenseth, Stenhouse and McMurray.\nNOTES: James \"Jim\" Watson, a travel fabricator for Furniture Row Racing, passed away after having a heart attack Saturday night. The 55-year-old was with the team at Kansas Speedway on Friday and Saturday. ... Martin Truex Jr. won at Kansas Speedway in May. ... Kevin Harvick won last year's Hollywood Casino 400. ... Ryan Blaney started in the back after posting the third fastest lap in the last round of qualifying Friday, because his car failed post-qualifying inspection. ... Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drivers Blaney and Austin Dillon were among the top 10 finishers of the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kansas on Saturday (Blaney third and Dillon sixth). ... Daniel Hemric was on standby for Paul Menard at Kansas, as Menard and his wife await the birth of their second child. ... Jimmie Johnson leads active drivers with three Kansas Speedway wins, tying him with Jeff Gordon for most all-time wins at the track. ... Sunday's race was the 500th career Cup Series start for Kasey Kahne and the 100th for Matt DiBenedetto.\nMartin Truex\nRicky Stenhouse\nKyle Larson\nErik Jones","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1026637"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9097834825515747,"wiki_prob":0.9097834825515747,"text":"Body of man found at scene in Northiam Girl shot in Sussex\nThe scene of the shooting in East Sussex has been sealed off by police\n11 Eylül 2014 Perşembe 14:10\nThe scene of the shooting in East Sussex has been sealed off by police. A girl has been seriously injured after being shot by a man believed to be her father in a village in East Sussex. Sussex police said the body of a man had been found at the scene of the incident in Spring Hill, Northiam, near Rye, and his death was not being treated as suspicious. The girl, aged between six and eight, is thought to have been shot in the head. South East Coast Ambulance described the gunshot wound as serious. She was transferred by ambulance to King's College Hospital in south London, where her condition was unknown. A Sussex police spokesman said armed officers were at the scene and there was no risk to the public. \"Spring Hill has been sealed off while officers investigate the incident and is likely to be closed for the next few hours,\" he said.\n16 Turkish soldiers killed in Daglica attack\nOn Sunday there will be road closures in Westminster...\nNine arrested in suspected £11m tobacco fraud\nDeadly blast near Turkey Syria border crossing\nLorry driver held over M26 crash in Kent","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line984754"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5267084240913391,"wiki_prob":0.5267084240913391,"text":"European enforcement order - Gibraltar\nFINDING COMPETENT COURTS/AUTHORITIES\nThe search tool below will help you to identify court(s)/authority(ies) competent for a specific European legal instrument. Please note that although every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the results, there may be some exceptional cases concerning the determination of competence that are not necessarily covered.\nCountry: United Kingdom Jurisdiction: Gibraltar\nInstrument: Recognising and enforcing judgements in civil and commercial matters - European enforcement order\n1. Procedures for rectification and withdrawal (Art. 10(2))\n2. Procedures for review (Art.19 (1))\n3. Accepted languages (Article 20(2)(c))\n4. Authorities designated for the purpose of certifying authentic instruments (Art. 25)\nBy virtue of Rule 6 of the Gibraltar Supreme Court Rules, the Civil Procedure Rules for England and Wales apply in Gibraltar.\nArticle 10 refers to the entitlement to apply to the court to have a certificate rectified (if it is at variance with the judgment) or withdrawn (if it is at variance with the Regulation). The procedure that is in place to deal with these situations is Part 23 of the Civil Procedure Rules which contains the rules for making applications to the court. An application under Article 10 will be made to the court which issued the European Enforcement Order using the procedure in Part 23. European Enforcement Orders will be made in Gibraltar by the Supreme Court.\nThe application will be made on an application notice known as Form (*) N244 The application notice must state what order the applicant is seeking (i.e an order for rectification or withdrawal) and why the applicant is seeking the order (for example, because there is a discrepancy in the certificate). http://www.justice.gov.uk/civil/procrules_fin/contents/parts/part74.htm\nPart 74.27 of the Civil Procedure Rules and it accompanying Practice Direction, Practice Direction 74B contain provisions for the European Enforcement Order in England and Wales including procedures for rectification and withdrawal.\n(*) UK confirms that the standard forms in the Regulation will be used. Annexes I-V of the R egulation are the forms in which the certificates shall be issued by the court. Creditors will use the relevant UK court forms to make the requisite applications and the certificate will be issued in the form provided by the Regulation. It is envisaged that an application under Article 10(3) may be made using UK´s standard form of application or the form at Annex VI of the Regulation.\nThe Rules of Court for England and Wales made under the Civil Procedure Act 1997 will be used to give effect to this Regulation. These Rules of Court are known as the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) and are made by statutory instrument.\nArticle 19(1) requires that the debtor must be entitled to apply for a review of the judgment in circumstances where the document instituting the proceedings did not reach him or he was prevented from objecting to the claim through no fault of his own.\nPart 13 of the CPR will permit the judgment debtor to apply for a review of the judgment in the circumstances described in Article 19. It sets out the procedure for making an application to set aside or vary default judgment. Default judgment can be obtained where the judgment debtor has failed to file an acknowledgment of service and/or a defence.\nThe full text of Part 13 can be found at: http://www.dca.gov.uk/civil/procrules_fin/contents/parts/part13.htm\nNo forms are prescribed for making an application to set aside or vary default judgment. It is usual for the applicant to make the application using the application notice in Form N244 ( http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/courtfinder/forms/n244_eng.pdf). The applicant should state the order he wants and why judgment should be set aside or varied, for example because he was not served the proceedings in sufficient time to prepare his defence. The hearing of that application will entail a review of the judgment.\nCertificates sent to Gibraltar will be accepted in English.\nWhile Authentic Instruments from other Member States will be enforced in Gibraltar they are not produced in Gibraltar. Therefore there is no need to designate an authority to certify them.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line372226"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5562607049942017,"wiki_prob":0.5562607049942017,"text":"Apple's Product Strategy Is Changing\nThis year’s WWDC felt different. While every WWDC keynote is filled to the brim with new features, this year’s announcements included highly anticipated items like a new Mac Pro and differentiated iPad software features. In addition, there were some genuine surprises such as SwiftUI (a big deal with wide-ranging implications for Apple’s ecosystem). Despite there being no discernible change to the grand vision behind Apple’s product development, there does appear to be a noteworthy change to strategy.\nApple had been following a product strategy that can be thought of as a pull system. The company was most aggressive with the products capable of making technology more relevant and personal.\nOne way of conceptualizing this product strategy is to think of every major Apple product category being attached to a rope. The order in which these products were attached to the rope was determined by the degree to which technology was made more personal via new workflows and processes for getting work done. Accordingly, Apple Watch and iPhone were located on the end of the rope held by Apple management. Meanwhile, Mac desktops were located at the other end of the rope while iPads and Mac portables were somewhere in the middle.\nAs Apple management pulled on the rope, the Apple Watch and iPhone received much of the attention while the Mac increasingly resembled dead weight.\nThe preceding exhibit may make it seem like all of Apple’s product categories moved in sync with each other as Apple management pulled on the product “rope.” In reality, the quicker Apple pulled on the rope, the more chaotic the end of the rope moved. The following exhibit does a better job of demonstrating the chaos found at the end of the rope.\nThe Apple Watch and iPhone were Apple’s clear priorities while the iPad, Mac portables, and Mac desktops ended up facing a battle for management attention. The iPad seemed to have the clear advantage in that battle, at least when it came to capturing mindshare among Apple’s senior ranks. Recall Tim Cook’s comment about the iPad being the clearest expression of Apple’s vision of the future of personal computing.\nOver the past two years, we received clues that a major change was beginning to take hold in Apple’s product strategy. This change was on display during this year’s WWDC. Consider the following announcements:\nThe Apple Watch continues to gradually gain independence from iOS and the iPhone with its own App Store and the ability to create watchOS apps without an iPhone app.\niPadOS is a promise from Apple that iPad will be given unique software features versus iPhone. Features like multitasking and Apple Pencil support give iPad differentiation from its more popular sibling (iPhone).\nThe new Mac Pro is clear evidence of Apple industrial design, along with the engineering and product design teams, attempting to come up with a long-term solution for the most powerful computer in the product line.\nSwiftUI is the kind of foundation Apple needs to properly leverage a thriving iOS developer ecosystem in order to benefit other product categories.\nApple no longer appears to be relying so much on a pull system when it comes to advancing its product line. Instead, a push system is being utilized, and every major product category is being pushed forward simultaneously. The change was designed to reduce the amount of chaos found at the end of the “rope” that Apple was pulling. Accordingly, the primary benefactors arising from this new strategy are the iPad and Mac. This explains why this year’s WWDC announcements felt more overwhelming than those of previous years. Apple was able to move its entire product category forward at the same time.\nThis revised strategy ends up supporting a core tenet of my Grand Unified Theory of Apple Products - a product category's design is tied to the role it is meant to play relative to other Apple products. (A deep dive into Apple’s product vision and the Grand Unified Theory of Apple Products is available here for Above Avalon members.) By pushing the products geared towards handling the most demanding workflows, Apple has a greater incentive to push the products capable of making technology more personal and relevant.\nIt’s not that every product category in Apple’s line is now on equal footing in terms of importance and focus. Some products will receive updates every few years while others require more attention due to needing annual updates. In addition, Apple’s revised product strategy likely won’t change the sales ratios between product categories (iPhone outselling iPad by four times while iPad outsells Mac by more than two to one). Instead, the change from a pull to push system manifests itself with each product category being given a defined and unique role to handle within the Apple ecosystem.\nWearables are tasked with handling entirely new workflows in addition to a growing number of workflows that had been given to iPhones and iPads.\nThe iPhone is the most powerful camera and video player in our lives.\niPads and Macs are content creation tools.\nThere are a number of product-related implications arising from Apple’s revised strategy:\nMac Desktops. Despite being in the post-PC era, desktops are experiencing some kind of renaissance. Some of this isn’t entirely surprising given how the desktop has always been viewed as an antidote to some of the ideals found with mobile. However, what is new is the realization of the desktop’s role in the AR era. Mac desktops are niche in terms of the number of users relative to other Apple product categories, albeit a very powerful and crucial niche.\nMac Portables. It is time to take Apple management at its word when it says the Mac is important to Apple’s future. Mac portables will likely retain a place in Apple’s product line for the foreseeable future. A few years ago, low-end Mac portables seemed to be on a dead-end path thanks to iPads. There is no longer any evidence that such thinking is widely held in Apple’s senior ranks. An ARM-based Mac portable seems inevitable at this point.\niPad. Just a few years ago, some in the tech pundit world thought the iPad lacked a future. Such thinking was due to slowing iPad sales combined with larger iPhones being able to handle many of the use cases originally given to iPad. While the iPad has always been viewed as the future of computing within Apple, we are starting to see that vision materialize. iPad sales are now routinely surprising to the upside as Apple adds a “pro” layer to the iPad category in terms of powerful hardware and software.\niPhone. The iPhone as a product category continues to mature, as seen with a longer upgrade cycle. Going forward, the iPhone will primarily be known as the most powerful camera in our lives and a video consumption device. Many of the less intensive use cases and workflows currently given to the iPhone will naturally flow to wearables over time.\nWearables. Apple is the wearables leader. Fitbit would arguably be the closest from the perspective of unit sales but even then, the company is quickly losing momentum. Lessons that Apple learned with iPhone and iPad are now giving the company a wearables advantage that is likely at least five years. An independent Apple Watch not requiring an iPhone to set up is inevitable. The move would increase Apple Watch’s addressable market by three times overnight. In addition, Apple is well on its way to establishing a wearables platform as it competes for prime real estate on our wrists, in our ears, and in front of our eyes.\nIs Apple making the right product strategy decision moving from a pull to push system? It’s too early to tell. At first, the revised strategy may seem like a no brainer as each product category ends up benefitting from more attention. However, it’s not a given that such a dynamic is in Apple’s best long-term interests.\nThe source of my hesitation in Apple’s new product strategy is that the company’s long-term success is dependent on one item: making technology more personal. Anything that takes away from that goal ends up being a hurdle. Is Apple supporting legacy workflows to the detriment of Apple’s long-standing mission of making technology more personal and relevant?\nOne reason Apple decided to change product strategies in the first place was to avoid an all-out uprising among the 1% of the user base creating content consumed by the other 99%. The mistake Apple made over the past few years was pulling the product “rope” too fast and in the process, leaving many of its pro users, defined by the workflows needed to be supported, behind.\nFor a company that is resource constrained when it comes to time and attention, there is no guarantee that Apple’s functional organizational structure and design-led culture can realistically scale to push an endless number of product categories at the same time. This was the key benefit found with Apple’s pull system. The focus was to advance the products capable of making technology more personal and relevant while trying to bring as much of the broader product portfolio along for the ride. The move to a push system is inherently more complex. Apple finds itself doing a whole lot more that it did just a few years ago.\nSome will push back at the claim that Apple is resource constrained considering the company has $113 billion of net cash on the balance sheet. However, such a view doesn’t take into account how Apple functions. Apple could have thrown together some components in a big box and shipped a new Mac Pro shortly after realizing that the previous Mac Pro design was a dead end. Instead, Apple’s industrial designers, working in close collaboration with various teams, took a little over two and a half years to come up with what is marketed as a long-term solution for handling the most demanding content creation workflows. Similar questions now plague Apple pertaining to its approach to “pro” Mac portables.\nMy concerns regarding Apple’s revised product strategy would be alleviated if Apple came up with a plan to push legacy platforms forward by doubling down on future initiatives involving making technology more personal. This is why SwiftUI is intriguing. Apple is positioning SwiftUI as a way to improve a developer's productivity by requiring less code, resulting in better code. What if that is only scratching the surface as to Apple’s ultimate objective? What if the Mac is being repositioned as an AR creation platform while iOS is gradually positioned as a platform for developing wearables apps? Using a billion iPhones to develop apps consumed on billions of wearable devices is the type of goal that would require years of work, foundation building, and periodic changes to product strategy.\nReceive my analysis and perspective on Apple throughout the week via exclusive daily updates (2-3 stories per day, 10-12 stories per week). Available to Above Avalon members. To sign up and for more information on membership, visit the membership page.\nTags: Apple product strategy, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, iPhone, WWDC","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line637385"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7185308933258057,"wiki_prob":0.28146910667419434,"text":"Dialysis – from hate to hope?\nBy Matt Brady and Mark Varley\nRenal disease is an extremely important target for effective medical treatment. It affects 26 million adults1 in the US, and every year nearly 50,000 Americans die from the condition – more than from breast (41,000) or prostate (28,000) cancer. The regular form of treatment is dialysis, first developed in 1943, which is a procedure for cleaning the blood when the kidneys stop functioning effectively - most commonly by haemodialysis which circulates the patient’s blood through a machine with a special filter called a dialyser. Whilst both the process and the equipment have seen significant enhancements over the years, kidney transplantation still has a substantial lead in terms of both survival rates2 and quality of life.\nThe key aims of nephrologists (specialist doctors who treat kidney diseases) are to manage chronic kidney disease to prolong kidney function for as long as possible; and secondly, only once the disease has progressed to end stage renal disease (ESRD), provide renal replacement therapy (RRT) until a suitable donor kidney can be found3. This clear priority order arises because RRT, which currently comprises a range of dialysis techniques, falls a distant second to a functioning human kidney in terms of both quality of life and long term patient outcomes.\nFrom a patient perspective, haemodialysis (HD) considerably affects quality of life, not only due to the time spent on dialysis three times a week (including travel for the vast majority who are treated in dialysis centres), but also feeling ill before, during and after any given treatment session. Further lifestyle limitations include a constant requirement for close control of diet and fluid intake. These considerations help explain why the leading internet forum4 for the patients who benefit from this miraculous, life-saving treatment is called www.ihatedialysis.com.\nYet as dialysis remains the main form of therapy for those with this serious condition, how can the impact on patients’ lives be improved?\nRecent evidence suggests that haemodialysis in the home setting, where feasible, can bring both reduced lifestyle impacts and improved outcomes – especially where it enables more frequent dialysis, widely believed to provide better results. Accordingly, this option is now becoming supported or encouraged by payers5. Based around this trend, recent and new market entrants6 are already offering more streamlined, ’user-friendly’ equipment for home use, seeking to unlock the potential for more frequent home treatment. Doubtless the major market players will also be investing R&D dollars in this space.\nSo, what other improvements can we hope to see in the management of kidney disease for the future?\nA good place to start is the way in which the patient and his/her disease are managed by the nephrologist. An important recent trend is the effort to educate general practice in making timely referrals so active management can begin earlier – with the promise of significant positive impacts, such as reduced patient mortality, or an increased likelihood of receiving a transplant7.\nIn the medium term, the wearable artificial kidney (WAK8) offers a vision where HD becomes continuous – with potential benefits including reduced lifestyle impact (including lifted dietary restrictions and ambulation during treatment), reduced cardiovascular stress, and elimination of inter-treatment toxin build-up. The current prototype, which leverages the miniaturisation possibilities offered by use of lower flow rates over longer periods, is a 10 -pound device which has already demonstrated promising results in an FDA-approved proof-of-concept trial9. Future prototypes are expected to be even smaller.\nProjecting this further into the future, it’s tempting to imagine artificial kidney technology becoming sufficiently miniaturised that it could be implanted into the patient. However this would require a fundamental change in the HD operating principle of transferring toxins and excess fluids into a secondary dialysate circuit – and at this point we are not aware of any proposed mechanisms which would allow this using conventional micro-fluidic technology.\nTissue engineering: improving incidence of kidney transplant\nWhilst both quality of life and outcomes are in general significantly better following kidney transplant than on RRT, unfortunately demand significantly outstrips supply: out of the 100,000 or so people waiting for a kidney transplant in the US, each year only 17,000 actually receive one10. Of these 7% of transplants fail within one year, 17% after three years and 46% after ten years. In reality over 20% of kidney transplants each year are re-transplants.\nAround a quarter of kidney transplants are from a living donor11 – and this figure would doubtless be many times higher if willingness on the part of potential donors were the only limitation. There is a long list of factors which contribute to the suitability of a given donor kidney for a particular patient, which severely limits the number of matches which can be made. The more conditions are met, the more successful a transplant is likely to be. Conversely, if too few conditions are met, a transplant cannot go ahead at all.\nThese considerations have driven considerable research and development in tissue engineering of kidneys: the attempt to ‘grow’ a new organ within a laboratory setting, ready to be implanted into the patient. There are three main strategies currently being seriously considered:\nSelf-assembling stem cells – extracting stem cells from the patient and causing them to differentiate and self-assemble into kidney-like structures. These could then be implanted near the damaged kidney and connected to the existing renal blood supply and ureter. Due to the perfect tissue match which should result, the body should naturally integrate these structures, so replacing lost kidney function.\nDecellularization – by removing the cells from a non-matched donor kidney, the complex kidney architecture can be preserved. It’s hoped that such a structure could be re-filled with cells from the patient, so creating a new kidney with an exact tissue match and effectively zero risk of acute immune rejection upon implantation.\n3D printed scaffolds – creating an artificial structure which can then be colonised by the patient’s cells. In this concept the scaffold can potentially be allowed to dissolve over time, as the structure is replaced by genuine tissues.\nOf these, the 3D printed scaffolds is the furthest away in development terms: due to the incredible complexity of the kidney, replicating the structure, signalling proteins and cellular niche is exceptionally difficult and unlikely to be possible even given foreseeable short to medium-term developments in 3D printing technology. The technique most likely to form a viable tissue-engineered kidney is decellularization – yet even this most promising solution is estimated at 20 -50 years in the future, with early animal models still being developed and clinical trials a pipe dream for now.\nBridging the gap: disruptive possibilities\nPerhaps combining the best of conventional technology with the best of biological science might generate a disruptive technology far sooner.\nA bio-artificial kidney12, consisting of thousands of microscopic filters and a bioreactor containing patient liver cells to replicate the metabolic and water balancing roles of the kidney. This would be implanted into the patient and function 24 hours a day using the patient’s own blood pressure to filter the blood. Proof of concept has been carried out and clinical trials will hopefully start this decade.\nOrgans harvested from human-animal chimera13 – an idea which has existed for decades but which is currently seeing spectacular progress following the discovery of CRISPR/CAS9 genome editing. Issues remain – from the risk of the unintended introduction of ‘human-like’ cognitive changes to the chimera, to the risk of porcine material in the organ causing rejection. However the promise of biologically-grown organ with a perfect genetic match for the patient is hard to ignore.\nMeanwhile for us the message is clear: this is a sector where there is an urgent need for innovation, and where several potentially-feasible pathways to radical and market-disrupting products have already been proposed. Today’s big industry players (both equipment suppliers and service providers) will need to monitor these developments closely, and ensure they are in a position to benefit from them as they advance – or risk obsolescence tomorrow. The best way to stay on board is likely to be by stepping into the innovation driving seat now: as Lincoln is often quoted, the best way to predict the future is to create it.\nThe real payoff, though, has to be the transformation of millions of lives promised by these innovations.\n1https://www.kidney.org/\n2See, for example, ERA-EDTA Registry Annual Report 2013 which shows 5-year survival rates for the 2004-2008 cohort of around 82% for transplant, versus around 53% for dialysis.\n3Kidney transplantation is sometimes also considered under the RRT heading, especially in the context of outcome comparisons with the various forms of dialysis.\n4At time of writing, more than 10,000 members and over half a million posts since 2005. The forum’s strap line is “We are not being negative, we just hate dialysis.”\n5Ibid\n6E.g. NxStage and Quanta FS\n7Timing of referral of chronic kidney disease patients to nephrology services (adult) – Nephrology 2010; 15, S2-S11\n8http://www.wakfund.org/, wearable HD endeavours also underway at AWAK / Neokidney\n9http://www.NephrologyNews.com, November 2015\n10https://www.kidney.org/\n11ERA-EDTA Registry Annual Report 2013\n12http://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney\n13http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/06/pig-human-embryos-scare-stories-stem-cells-organs\nHow much does sleep cost?\nBy Adam Turner\nEven though we spend around a third of our lives asleep, society it seems, has been mis-sold the value of a full night’s sleep.\nWhat’s next for Hemodialysis?\nBy Matt Brady & Jess Carroll\nMatt Brady & Jess Carroll consider the future of renal disease patient care, and how the growing home dialysis market could drive innovation.\nStay up to date with all our work and our latest news by signing up to our newsletter.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line450142"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8825791478157043,"wiki_prob":0.8825791478157043,"text":"date... any time last week last month last year headline and teaser full text author\nGaza Exodus to Egypt: A 'Blessing in Disguise' for Israel?\nGaza Exodus to Egypt A 'Blessing in Disguise' for Israel?\nHundreds of thousands of Palestinians have flooded across the border into Egypt since militants smashed down the border wall early on Wednesday. Israel is reacting with remarkable calm -- despite the added security risk.\nBy Pierre Heumann in Tel Aviv\nPierre Heumann\nE-Mail: pierre.heumann@weltwoche.ch\nMehr Artikel von Pierre Heumann\nThe border wall between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is gone. In the early hours of Wednesday morning masked Palestinians blew massive holes in the wall that had divided the two territories. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have since flooded across to Egypt.\nSo what is Israel doing about it? The open border to Egypt should surely be a security nightmare for the country. Terrorists are now free to bring weapons and ammunition into the coastal strip, which is controlled by the radical Islamist Hamas movement. Not all Palestinians who are going into Egypt, one suspects, are just bringing back bread and butter. The Israeli military is also worried that militant Palestinians could now leave Gaza to go to terrorist training camps for training in weapons and explosives. But the politicians in Jerusalem are reacting with remarkable restraint.\nThe truth is, the Israeli government doesn't regard the opened border as a new threat. After all there are hundreds of tunnels linking the Gaza Strip and Egypt through which weapons and ammunition have been smuggled in for years. These entrances are so cleverly concealed that they have only seldom been discovered by the Israelis. \"What has been happening underground in the Gaza Strip is now happening above ground,\" one government spokesman said.\nIn Jerusalem the opening of the border with Egypt is even being greeted with some relief. \"Cairo now has to solve the humanitarian problem that we have been dealing with until now,\" said one Israeli official. Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel told reporters Wednesday: \"It's the responsibility of Egypt to ensure the border works properly,\" pointing to the agreements signed between the two states.\nFind out how you can reprint this SPIEGEL ONLINE article.\nBut, as Jerusalem sees it, Egypt now has responsibility for more than just the Gaza Strip's southern border. \"The opening of the border relieves us of our responsibility for Gaza,\" a government official said, \"and if the international community demands that the Israeli border with Gaza be opened, we will now point to the Egyptian role.\" This view was echoed on Thursday when Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that Israel wanted to \"disconnect\" from Gaza. He told Army Radio: \"We are responsible for it as long as there is no alternative.\"\nIn fact the opening of the Egyptian border is being seen as a \"blessing in disguise,\" according to one diplomat. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that he would not allow the situation in the Gaza Strip to turn into a humanitarian crisis. But he has also insisted that the inhabitants there can not expect a normal life so long as Israel is being pounded by rockets coming from Gaza.\nLast Friday Israel imposed a complete closure of the Gaza Strip in reaction to the continuing rocket attacks by militant Palestinians. The blockade forced the Palestinians to close down the sole power plant in the strip, due to a lack of fuel. The shutdown left 800,000 people without electricity, particularly in Gaza City and its suburbs. The blockade also affected the supply of food, gas and medicines.\nAlthough Israel did relax the restrictions on Tuesday in the face of international pressure, the situation is still disastrous, Palestinian Amani Abu Rahmeh said by telephone. Since the border opened, one in four Palestinians has at least temporarily left the Gaza Strip. Around 350,000 got into their cars, if they had enough gas, took a taxi if they could afford it, or simply got on a donkey in order to avail of the one-off opportunity to be able to freely leave the Gaza Strip, usually completely cut off from the outside world. Tens of thousands more Palestinians were flooding across the border again on Thursday.\nThe isolation of the Gaza Strip has not only increased the misery of the 1.5 million people living here, a Palestinian diplomat warned. The blockade could also pose a problem for Israel's partner in the West Bank, President Mahmoud Abbas and his Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The peace process that was re-launched in Annapolis in November is losing credibility due to the boycott of Gaza.\nAbbas had claimed that he wanted to negotiate with Israel despite the crisis in Gaza. (The two Palestinian territories have been divided since Hamas won a power struggle with Abbas' Fatah movement in Gaza last June.) However, observers in Ramallah, in the West Bank, can hardly imagine that a substantial Israeli-Palestinian meeting can take place while there is such abject poverty in the Gaza Strip. And the complete closure could also end up being counter productive for Israel, the Palestinian diplomat says. Hamas is exploiting the misery of the people for its own gain and provoking a wave of sympathy across the Muslim and Arab World.\nThere are differing opinions as to how the crisis will affect Hamas' popularity within Gaza itself. Supporters of the radical Islamists speak of a \"conspiracy\" against Gaza, since the deterioration of the flow of supplies coincided with the visit of the US President George W. Bush to the Middle East. Fatah supporters, however, accuse Hamas of provoking Israel with rocket attacks.\nIn an effort to improve the lot of the Palestinians in the West Bank, Palestinian Prime Minister Fayyad is currently in Europe to hold talks with those countries that pledged a total of $7.4 billion (€5 billion) in financial aid over the next three years at the December donors' conference in Paris. Experience shows that only around half of the money pledged is ever handed over, a Palestinian diplomat says. That is largely to do with the lack of transparency about how the money will be used. The Palestinian territory officials now want to establish clear and binding rules.\nPierre Heumann is the Middle East correspondent for the Swiss weekly Weltwoche.\nArticle...\nRelated SPIEGEL ONLINE links\nThe World from Berlin: 'Hamas Is Not Going to Disappear Into Thin Air' (01/23/2008)\nPhoto Gallery: Gazans Flood Into Egypt\nThe World from Berlin: No 'Swiss Cheese' for the Palestinians (01/11/2008)\nNo Collective Punishment: Israel Criticized for Power Cuts to Gaza (10/30/2007)\nReproduction only allowed with permission","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line482346"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7830609679222107,"wiki_prob":0.7830609679222107,"text":"He Wanted Dirt\nBy Steven Crist\nHowever you look at it, I Want Revenge was dazzling winning the G3 Gotham Saturday by 8 1/2 lengths, an effort that may have been even better than Quality Road's Fountain of Youth a week earlier. Both races earned extraordinary Beyer Speed Figures of 113, but I Want Revenge's came around two turns and in a race half a furlong farther.\nThere's nothing fishy about the figure, which fit perfectly with the G3 sprint stakes that preceded it and the claiming route that followed it:\nNevertheless, the figure is being viewed with skepticism by some who find it impossible to believe that I Want Revenge improved around 20 points off his most recent California efforts. The figures must be broken, they argue, and either I Want Revenge isn't anything special, or the rest of the Californians with whom he's been in blanket finishes on synthetic tracks are all going to start running 113's when they head east and hit the dirt.\nI wouldn't bet on it. I Want Revenge instead strikes me as a good example of Bob Baffert's accurate pronouncement that synthetic tracks can \"make good horses look mediocre and mediocre horses look good.\" There's simply no way to torture the figures to conclude that I Want Revenge ran no better in the Gotham than he had in California. Even before the race, his connections were saying that he was \"spinning his wheels\" on synthetic tracks. Jockey Joe Talamo said he thought he was going to win the R.B. Lewis by open lengths at the quarter pole and that the horse virtually stopped running. That's why he was sent to New York and became Jeff Mullins's first starter here since the 2005 Breeders' Cup.\nRather than trying to reconcile his previous figures with the Gotham, handicappers would be better served by acknowledging that this horse wanted dirt and his quality was being camouflaged by the California tracks.\nI Want Revenge is not the only Gotham runner worth following. Imperial Council's distant second was better than it looks on paper. It was his first try beyond seven furlongs, and he fell far back behind moderate fractions before storming past six horses through the stretch. He earned a respectable 98 Beyer in defeat and should only improve with distance and experience.\n--The three Grade 1's at Santa Anita Saturday were all won by very nice horses with very different career arcs: the improving 4-year-old Gio Ponti, the steady 7-year-old Einstein and the stalled 3-year-old Stardom Bound.\nEinstein, who became the nominal leader of the handicap division winning the Santa Anita Handicap, is the flip side of an I Want Revenge -- he runs about the same race every time regardless of whether it's dirt, turf or synth. He's no match for a true world-class champion on any surface, but he's a very admirable and consistent performer at the Grade 1 level and it's easy to root for him.\nGio Ponti, who nosed out the the excellent mare Ventura to win the Kilroe, may have found his niche as a turf miler. He was one of the nation's top middle-distance grass 3-year-olds last year but might be at his best at a mile and seems to have taken a step forward as a 4-year-old.\nStardom Bound, however, seems not to have improved at all from her 2-year-old to 3-year-old seasons. It might seem untoward to criticize a champion who has won five straight Grade 1 races, but her desperate nose victory in the Santa Anita Oaks was a disappointment -- not just to hypercritical turf writers but to her own connections, who have dialed back the talk about trying her against colts in Kentucky.\nStardom Bound didn't have a perfect set-up Saturday. She trailed early behind moderate fractions and forced to go at least seven paths wide on the stretch turn. But she caught up to her mediocre opponents by mistretch and then just couldn't put them away, winning a four-way photo by a whisker. She ran a better race against a better field on the same track over four months ago in the BC Juvenile Fillies, and is going to have to step up her game in the months ahead to maintain her dominance of the division.\n--There's the first Magna 5 carryover of the year up for grabs next Saturday after no one came up with the sequence of Saarlight ($5.60), Sweet August Moon ($20.40), Discreet Treasure ($14.20), Judy Patootie ($22.00) and Apoplectic ($27.60) last Saturday. The pool was a season-low $374,692 and the carry is $218.895.\nThe Magna 5 was outhandled by the Aqueduct late pick-4 (the pool was $418,226), which offered outstanding value: a $4,257-for-$2 payoff on winners who paid $8.80 (Banker's Buy), $16.80 (Ah Day), $8.30 (I Want Revenge) and $14.60 (Friendly Pocket) -- nearly double the $2 parlay of $2,239.\nI didn't even notice there was a $117k pick-six carry into Sunday's card at Gulfstream and neither did many horseplayers -- the Sunday pool was only $188,013, an unusual case of a six-figure carryover attracting so little fresh money. The largely chalky sequence paid $18,260.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line115079"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5543509125709534,"wiki_prob":0.5543509125709534,"text":"‘Guerrilla’ trailer: Freida Pinto and Idris Elba star in Sky’s ’70s activism drama\nPosted February 21, 2017 by William Martin Filed under\nThe first trailer has been released for Sky Atlantic’s Guerrilla.\nCreated by Academy Award®-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave), the six-part drama series follows a group of activists in 1970s London.\nGuerrilla begins on Thursday 13 April on Sky Atlantic.\nThe all-star international cast includes Freida Pinto, Babou Ceesay, Rory Kinnear, Nathaniel Martello-White, Daniel Mays, Denise Gough, Brandon Scott, Zawe Ashton, Nicholas Pinnock, Wunmi Mosaku with Idris Elba.\nThe official synopsis reads: “Guerrilla follows politically active lovers Jas (Freida Pinto) and Marcus (Babou Ceesay) and their friends as the political becomes personal. Based in 1970s London, the group of activists go head-to-head with a racist police force who are dedicated to crushing them. Guerrilla explores the nature of a relationship under pressure and poses the question: what if the original Black Power movement in London had used violence?”\nWriter and director John Ridley commented: “Though a created narrative, Guerrilla is rooted in the realities of an era when the young and the passionate of differing backgrounds found themselves united by a struggle for the rights of people of colour, of the oppressed, the disenfranchised, and the marginalised.\n“If those rights could not be obtained by way of public referendum, they would be had with the blast of a bomb, or from the end of a gun. These beliefs are personified in our lead characters Jas and Marcus. They are reflected, as well, in an ensemble that must deal with the consequences of their own actions – and at times in action – both for and against ‘the cause’.”\nExecutive producer Idris Elba, who also plays Kent – a second generation Brit dedicated to achieving equality for black people in Britain through peaceful and intellectual methods – said: “Guerrilla has been the culmination of many ambitions.\n“First and foremost, the opportunity to tell a little-known story from our recent history, a story which not only feels relevant to our life in London today, but informs our understanding of it. Collaborating with John Ridley has been a longtime desire of mine. His work here is nothing short of a masterclass in character-building and storytelling.\n“I’ve had the honour of working on both sides of the screen on this project and coming back to my home town, working in East London, has made this experience, this story, even more personal. I know one thing for sure: this is a very special drama and TV is in for a treat.”\nGuerrilla will air on Showtime in the US later this year.\nAre you looking forward to Guerrilla? Let us know below…\nTags: Babou Ceesay, Brandon Scott, Daniel Mays, Denise Gough, Freida Pinto, Guerrilla, Idris Elba, John Ridley, Nathaniel Martello-White, Nicholas Pinnock, Rory Kinnear, Sky Atlantic, Wunmi Mosaku, Zawe Ashton","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line185487"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7598105072975159,"wiki_prob":0.7598105072975159,"text":"Philipp Plein: The Most Successful Designer You've Never Heard Of\n​“First rule, no rule,” says German designer Philipp Plein of his soon-to-be-launched athleisure brand Plein Sport. You had best make no mistake, it’s not a diffusion line of the main Philipp Plein label. “It’s an independent brand that wants to reach a different target group. You won’t find any Swarovski or studs,” says the flamboyant fashion impresario. “I want to keep it simple and basic, and each piece has to be functional and perfect for action.”\nPlein will launch Plein Sport by opening stores in Milan, where many of his products are made, Paris and Amsterdam by the end of the year. And what of Greater China? “We are opening one store in Hong Kong, three stores in China and one in Macau in 2017,” he says.\nPlein and action are symbiotic. The 38-year-old took to Instagram last month to announce the Plein Sport news, posting a red-and-white logo and the caption: “#PLEINsport is going to be the first luxury ACTIVE SPORTSWEAR BRAND in the market!!! Next week we will officially #UnleashTheBeast and start the global distribution of this NEW and ‘independent’ brand”.\nPlein has often produced sportswear items for his eponymous label, which he set up in 1998 but which didn’t become a fashion label until 2004. After many years studying the market and observing the Nike and Adidas duopoly, he’s decided to charge out of the blocks with his own offering on the strength of what he sees as a niche for something new. “The luxury brands have not really explored the territory,” he says. He adds that he feels their products are not very active and are very expensive. “I want to fill the gap,” says Plein. “My product is for action and performance but at the same time it has a luxury touch and the price range is between Nike-Adidas and the luxury brands.”\nThere’s also the cultural point about customer habits in matters of recreation. “Activewear is extremely successful because there is always a high demand for it. People are doing sports and they are taking care of themselves and their bodies more than ever. Everybody keeps buying activewear way more than they buy couture.”\nThe observation mirrors Plein’s previously held thinking about furniture and fashion. Trained not as a fashion designer but at a law school that did not overly enamour Plein, he began to design luxury furniture, largely constructed of stainless steel, in Berlin. “It was a completely different look and feel from the Philipp Plein brand today; it was Bauhaus-style, clean lines and steel. It was a passion.” Plein touted his luxury wares around trade shows in Europe, developed a niche clientele of interior architects working on hotel projects, private houses, planes, boats and restaurants, in which everything he created was custom-made. His small business became a “two or three-million-euro turnover” entity in as many years, so he bought a house in Munich at the age of 24 with the aim of growing the business.\nThe fashion came more or less by mistake. “I was starting to work with leather, covering furniture with it, and then, with leftover leather, we made some bags and belts and sold them at trade shows. I started to realise it’s easier to sell a pair of high heels for €1,000 than a chair for €1,000. And how often does a woman buy a pair of shoes compared to a chair? So I saw big potential.”\nPlein had a fashion epiphany. His clothing, accessories and interior design collections interpret his version of the new contemporary luxury lifestyle. Mostly made in Italy, his innovative designs are constructed from the finest materials with meticulous attention to detail. “I found a niche market with something special, strong and loud. With this niche, we created a demand and a market for our product.”\nPlein’s an oddity in the business – as unusual as the trademark Murano glass chandeliers and Swarovski crystal-studded macro-skulls that distinguish his stores – and an outsider; the most famous and seemingly profitable designer you’ve never heard of. Yet he works alongside photographers such as Terry Richardson, Steven Klein and Francesco Carrozzini to create original images for his advertising campaigns and the brand is a favourite among celebrities. He’s closely bound to the music industry and has hired emerging talents such as Angel Haze and Iggy Azalea, along with world-renowned artists including Rita Ora, Grace Jones and Snoop Dogg, to perform at his fashion shows.\nCounting more than 100 employees around the globe, the Philipp Plein brand is available at the world’s most prestigious boutiques and in such exotic locales as Casablanca, St Petersburg, Montenegro, Saint- Tropez, Marbella, Seoul and Miami.\nPlein’s not one to toe the line, either. His mindset and mantra are always distinct. “Most of the time, someone who’s successful on the market is someone who did something different from others. The biggest secret is not to be on a level with others. You will always lose. So, be out of range, then they cannot compare you. If you are different, they cannot say you are better or worse than others because you don’t give them the possibility to compare with others.” His cadence at times is redolent of former Chelsea and now Manchester United football manager José Mourinho, and much like two icons of the fashion world – Karl Lagerfeld and Tom Ford – who speak in paragraphs and chapters. You don’t so much converse with Plein as listen to him speak.\nHere’s Plein in full flow. “People always like to judge, especially when they don’t understand. They are always sceptical. It’s important to have an open mind. Ninety-five percent of people are followers, who follow trends; so what magazines say is right, and what the blogger says, they are not able to develop their own style or their own taste themselves, so they are followers. On the one hand it’s easy because people like to get manipulated and this is what they are doing, manipulating people. This is what the industry does. Tell them what they want to hear, give them what they want to have and make them feel. The cosmetics industry is the best example. We like to believe. We like to dream. When we are in a bad situation, we like to believe.”\nPlein cites two examples of retailing that he finds inspirational. “Selling is about psychology,” he says. “Look at Apple. Steve Jobs didn’t invent the telephone, it already existed. The market was already saturated, and touchscreens were already in the market. Nokia, Motorola and BlackBerry already had that capability. What did Steve Jobs do? He sold a phone with emotions. He created an aura around a normal telephone and made it a luxury object, and with all these kinds of emotions he transformed something normal into something special. It’s all about emotions. I respect brands and people who have this kind of possibility.”\nAnd then he singles out Louis Vuitton. “I am not a fan, but I think it’s really impressive what they have built because they are so, so huge. They became so commercial on the one hand, yet they still make people believe that they are luxury on the other hand. But luxury and commercial don’t fit together. Everyone has something from Louis Vuitton. The taxi driver, the cleaning lady, the manager, everyone has something. This doesn’t fit anymore, in my opinion, with the luxury image but still people believe it’s luxury. So they build the dream, they build the brand and they build around the brand the dream which makes people believe that they buy luxury, even though it’s commercial. There is success in what they’re doing. I really look up to that.”\nIn which case, who best represents the Plein Sport man other than the ubiquitous Herr Plein? “The man that perfectly represents the brand is the anti-hero, extreme athletes who push their minds and bodies to the farthest possible and that are not famous but have many followers.” Plein himself is no slouch in matters of fitness. “I love working out in the gym, I always work out wherever I am in the world and I also love swimming in my pool in Cannes.” Plein’s primary residence is Lugano, Switzerland, but he has vacation homes in Cannes and New York, and is currently building a new house in Bel Air.\n“We are selling dreams,” he says. “We are working in the dream factory. It’s like movies. People like to find, live and believe the dream, because we are all dreamers and dreams make people get up and go through hard times and survive.” And, in his case, prosper. Be it Philipp Plein fashion, sport or interiors, it’s always Plein time.\nIn This Story: #style /fashion\nDeborah Hung, Philipp Plein Throw Day of the Dead Party\n#style /runway\nPhilipp Plein Spring/Summer 2017\nGo on a heist with Diesel\nTiffany & Co Presents: Vision and Virtuosity Shanghai Exhibition\nArt exhibitions to check out in Hong Kong this July","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1212164"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8742868304252625,"wiki_prob":0.8742868304252625,"text":"Open efforts slash 3D costs\nBioengineering researchers have modified a commercial-grade laser cutter to create a low-cost laser sintering platform that can print intricate 3-D objects from powdered plastics and biomaterials.\nA team from Rice University in the US has launched OpenSLS – a system that could greatly reduce costs and allow researchers to work with their own specialised powders and materials.\nThe OpenSLS platform is designed as an open-source device similar to commercially available selective laser sintering (SLS) platforms, but the system costs at least 40 times less than its commercial counterparts.\nThe first OpenSLS system was built using low-cost, open-source microcontrollers at a cost of less than $10,000, whereas commercial SLS platforms start at around $400,000 and can easily reach $1 million.\n“SLS technology has been around for more than 20 years, and it's one of the only technologies for 3-D printing that has the ability to form objects with dramatic overhangs and bifurcations,” said engineer Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice, specialising in 3-D printing for tissue engineering.\n“SLS technology is perfect for creating some of the complex shapes we use in our work, like the vascular networks of the liver and other organs.”\nHe said commercial SLS machines cannot usually fabricate objects with custom powdered materials, which is particularly important for researchers experimenting with biomaterials.\nThe team has already showed OpenSLS can be used to print a series of intricate objects from both nylon powder (commonly used for high-resolution 3-D sintering) and polycaprolactone, or PCL; a nontoxic polymer used to make templates for engineered bone.\n“Our goal from the outset has been to do this in a way that makes it easy for other people to reproduce our work and help the field standardise on equipment and best practices,” said study co-author Ian Kinstlinger, a graduate student.\n“We've open-sourced all the hardware designs and software modifications and shared them via Github.”\nThe Github files are accessible here.\nMore details are available in the full report, published in PLOS ONE.\nThe device is demonstrated in the video below.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line708107"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9372825622558594,"wiki_prob":0.9372825622558594,"text":"Nike Reacts To Accused Murderer Oscar Pistorius' 'I Am The Bullet In The Chamber' Ad\nLaura Stampler\nNike came under the spotlight for an ad featuring double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius that reads “I am the bullet in the chamber” after the track star was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. She was shot to death in their South Africa home on Valentine’s Day morning.\nWhile the ad has already been pulled from Pistorius’ personal website, Nike has now spoken out on the incident and the nature of the company’s sponsorship.\nPhoto: Nike\nNike issued an official statement: “Nike extends its deepest sympathy and condolences to all families concerned following this tragic incident. As it is a police matter, Nike will not comment further at this time.”But more insight was given when Nike South Africa spokesperson Seruscka Naidoo told Agence France-Presse, “We’re not commenting on our sponsorship or relationship.”\nShe continued, “At this moment, it’s a matter that’s being investigated. We’re not speaking about the sponsorship, [there’s an] issue at hand here which is much bigger than a sponsorship.”\nNaidoo was sure to clarify, however, that the ad was displayed on “Oscar’s website, it’s not a Nike-owned website.”\nOakley and BP Global also had deals with Pistorius. Ad Age reports that both are “shocked” by the incident but wouldn’t provide further comment.\nA different Nike commercial, however, that features Pistorius has been pulled from South African television.\n“Out of respect and sympathy to the bereaved, M-Net will be pulling its entire Oscar campaign featuring Oscar Pistorius with immediate effect,” M-Net Movies tweeted.\nAlthough Pistorius is only shown running, the commercial has another athlete giving a voice-over about how athletes’ bodies are their weapons.\nWatch the ad below — Pistorius appears 37 seconds in.\nWhile Nike has dealt with controversies surrounding sponsorships in the past — including Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Lance Armstrong, and Michael Vick — an athlete charged with murder is relatively uncharted territory for the company.\nDisney decided to go with Ravens quarterback Trent Diller rather than Super Bowl MVP Ray Lewis in its “I’m going to Disneyland” ad probably due to the fact that Lewis was charged with two counts of murder in 2000. (The charges were reduced after he testified against another other defendants.)\nAlthough the most notable endorsed American athlete charged with murder is O.J. Simpson, Ad Age notes that Hertz dropped Simpson two years before his arrest, when he was accused of domestic violence in 1992.\nadvertising advertising-us madison avenue nike","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line26077"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5146234631538391,"wiki_prob":0.5146234631538391,"text":"The Problem of Solo Civic Engagement: An Interview with Doug McAdam\nCynthia M. Gibson\nTeach for America (TFA), a program that enlists recent college graduates in urban areas, has asserted that its value proposition goes beyond its immediate benefits to schools and students in that its participants, the teachers who emerge from the program, are likely to be more civically engaged than average. TFA leader Wendy Kopp has likened the program’s outcomes to those of Freedom Summer. Stanford professor Doug McAdam, the recent recipient of Tufts University’s Tisch Civic Engagement Research Prize, wrote a book on the Freedom Summer participants. He studied the TFA question at the invitation of Kopp, and his findings have now become a source of controversy. Here Cynthia Gibson, an expert on civic engagement, interviews McAdam to see what the fuss is about.\nCynthia Gibson: The TFA study has generated some lively discussion among those who are impressed with its rigor and breadth and those who have concerns about its conclusions. Then there are some in between who believe that service and service learning have long-term civic outcomes but want more solid data to affirm that. I would call them hopeful skeptics, perhaps.\nDoug McAdam: I think that actually describes nicely where I’m at. I don’t doubt that some forms of youth service or youth activism have longer-term civic impacts, but I’m also convinced that you can’t assume those impacts.\nCG: So let’s start with what interested you in pursuing this particular study.\nDM: Well, I’m a political sociologist who has mostly studied social movements and other forms of nonroutine politics, and the focus of that work has been either at the meso level looking at social-movement organizations or looking at the most macro level: under what conditions do movements emerge? How do they develop over time? What impacts, if any, do they have? And so on. So, with one notable exception, I haven’t been looking at individual-level data on the enduring effects of youth service or youth activism. I did a study 25 years ago where I looked at the biographical trajectories of all those who applied to take part in something that, at the time, was called the Mississippi Summer Project but which has come to be known as “Freedom Summer.” And I stumbled upon the original applications from that project. I realized as I was looking through these applications that I had the applications not only for those who applied, were accepted, and went to Mississippi, but also a large number of applications for people who applied, were accepted, and for whatever reason didn’t go.\nSo I had this wonderful naturalistic experiment dropped in my lap. You have two groups that look similar on the eve of the summer. One has the experience of Mississippi;? the other does not. Simple question: what difference, if any, did Freedom Summer make in their subsequent lives? And the answer was it made a huge difference. The biographies went in very different directions, largely, I would say, as a result of what they did or didn’t experience in Mississippi.\nThe work I did on Freedom Summer is also where the TFA started. In 1998 or ’99, Wendy Kopp [of Teach for America] called me and said, “Our 10-year anniversary is coming up. I just read Freedom Summer [by Doug McAdam]. I’m convinced that what you showed for the Freedom Summer volunteers is what happens for our alumni on a more regular basis, and I’d be interested in your doing a study of that.”\nWith funding from [the William] T. Grant Foundation, I conducted the study, which looked at three groups of applicants. Wendy was most interested in the impact on graduates: that is, people who are offered positions, take them, and fulfill their two-year teaching commitment. We were equally interested in two control groups: “dropouts,” or those who began the program but left sometime before completing the two years, and “nonmatriculants,” those who were accepted by TFA but declined the offer.\nWhen I took the study on, I was skeptical that there would be big enduring effects for the graduates, largely because TFA is not like Freedom Summer. I never regarded Freedom Summer as a typical youth-service experience at all because it was much more intense, much more collective, much more explicitly political, and it also took place at a particularly pregnant moment in U.S. history: the summer of 1964, just as the ’60s wave was starting to build. So I assumed a lot of what happened to those who went to Mississippi was a function of what happened immediately afterward—not just about what happened that summer.\nThere are other significant differences as well. Compared to Freedom Summer, TFA is much less explicitly political. Freedom Summer was also a very collective—intensely communal—experience, whereas TFA is a more solitary service experience. Finally, there are huge selection effects in TFA. That is, the most service-oriented, graduating seniors apply to TFA, and then TFA gets to select the most active of the most active. So I expected there would be small or minimal differences between the three groups, and I was really intrigued as a social scientist to see if in fact that was true.\nCG: What did you find?\nDM: We looked at six or seven measures of subsequent service—civic and political activity—and found that pretty consistently, TFA graduates lagged behind the nonmatriculants, who were consistently more active on all subsequent dimensions of civic participation, service, politics, etc. The contrast between the dropouts and the graduates was less clear. In general, the dropouts ranked slightly higher on some dimensions of subsequent service, but the differences weren’t that great or as consistent as the differences between nonmatriculants and graduates.\nI should say, parenthetically, that all three groups are wildly active. They would outpace their age peers by a factor of three or four. So these continue to be very civically engaged folk, and that has to be made clear. But it’s the differences between the groups that were intriguing and somewhat surprising even to me. As I said, I was not expecting to see big differences favoring the TFA graduates, but I certainly wasn’t expecting to see that they would lag behind nonmatriculants.\nCG: Your points about all three groups being very civically active is one that others have made to highlight the importance of this level of civic engagement, even among a cohort that may not include the entire youth population. That is, isn’t it good to see that some programs attract young people interested in being engaged and that support that engagement?\nDM: Absolutely. I think these programs are terrific, and I think TFA is terrific, especially in the educational service it provides. But that’s not the issue here. The question in this case goes beyond the educational service to a second claim made by the organization. TFA says it enhances the level of civic engagement of its graduates.\nBut we found that, relative to these other two groups, it doesn’t in fact increase subsequent civic engagement. That’s not a criticism of the organization. It’s a finding that reflects differences among three groups of subjects who were all very active before they applied to TFA, all three are accepted, but exhibit different trajectories afterward. TFA graduates wind up being, in general, less active than the other two groups and especially the nonmatriculants. That raises all sorts of interesting questions it seems to me about the impact of this particular service experience. What is it about that experience that’s seemingly depressing the levels of subsequent service? That’s the interesting question.\nCG: Almost a decade ago, there was quite a lot of debate about whether service led to more political engagement, and among some, there was the belief that service needed to lead to political involvement;? otherwise, it wasn’t “deeper” civic engagement. As a result, there was a great deal of effort in trying to ascertain—using data—whether service led to long-term political involvement among young people—efforts that included the development of new sets of variables representing political or civic engagement.\nToday, there doesn’t seem to be as much discussion about this issue. So is it important that these programs make an effort to prove that they lead to civic outcomes if they’re doing other things just as well?\nDM: It seems to me that TFA’s main mission is to provide important educational services to resource-poor school districts, urban and rural school districts. That’s a terrific mission. I’m persuaded that they do it pretty well and that that ought to be the fundamental basis for judging TFA. The fact that it doesn’t dramatically enhance the subsequent civic participation of its graduates seems to me to be a relatively minor matter. As a social scientist, it’s an interesting issue to me personally, but it shouldn’t be seen as a devastating critique of TFA given its central mission.\nCG: So why are the civic outcomes interesting or important, though, to you or to anyone else?\nDM: I go back to [political scientist] Bob Putnam, who claims that the foundations of civic life in the U.S. are weakening, that in some sense civic participation is in trouble in the United States and [that] for a democracy to be viable, there has to be an engaged civic sector.\nI think it’s a legitimate concern that the civic sector is atrophying and that young people are not encouraged to engage in civic behavior. So besides debating what the reality of civic life in the United States is, we ought to be concerned with what kinds of experiences encourage a kind of enduring commitment to civic participation among young people. Lots of people have worried about that, and I think, in general, we’re at a moment where we assume that any kind of youth service—youth civic engagement—invariably produces positive effects, and I think that’s absolutely false.\nI believe that, if we really did a series of systematic comparative studies of the long-term effects of various kinds of civic engagement or youth service, we’d see highly variable effects. That’s what I see in the study of Freedom Summer versus the study of TFA. I think if we took these studies seriously, we would see variation in effects, and we ought to then be interested in identifying those features of service experiences that help us understand the variation in impact. We ought to try to identify those features of youth service—youth civic engagement—that produce longer-term effects. If we’re concerned that civic life is on the wane in the United States, we ought to be interested in finding out what specific kinds of programs or activities encourage a longer-term engagement in politics, civic life, etc.\nI don’t like the fact that we simply assume that if kids do service-learning courses or people participate in Teach for America that, invariably, this is going to have long-term positive consequences for increased civic participation. I think that’s almost certainly not true, and we ought to be interested in looking at variation and trying to understand what’s producing it.\nCG: Recently there was a public back-and-forth about whether service—and people’s increasing interest in it—was a movement. Do you think it is?\nDM: I don’t think I would call it a movement. I think we throw that term around very loosely. And by movement, I think we should mean something a little more restrictive.\nCG: Why not?\nDM: For me, a movement typically involves some kind of organized, sustained effort to produce change—or maybe resist change—and that change effort has to involve—at least to a certain degree—some kinds of nonroutine, noninstitutionalized forms of collective action, and I think that’s the distinctive feature of a true social movement.\nThere are lots of activities in the world where people are allegedly trying to change something, but are we going to call all that activity social movements? That’s not fine grained enough. I think movements in general involve forms of collective action that are nonroutine, sometimes disruptive, and that’s what differentiates something that I would call a movement from other kinds of institutionalized change efforts.\nCG: One of your study’s findings is that graduates of TFA report lower levels of employment in pro-social jobs. How was pro-social employment defined? Did you look at post-TFA employment in terms of nonprofit work or government service? Also, what about people who work in these spheres and see that as part of their “service”?\nDM: Yes, that’s why we looked at, again, six or seven different measures, because we wondered whether people whose paid employment was very service oriented would not count that as volunteer service on some of our other measures. So we wanted to definitely differentiate the two.\nPro-social employment—I don’t have the specific operational definition in front of me—but it was jobs clearly in the so-called helping professions. That included teaching, but also nonprofit work, etc. Certain kinds of legal work were counted, but it depended on the kind of law. So we had lots of detailed information on what their current job was, and we had a set of criteria by which we defined some positions as pro-social employment, and we applied that across the three groups;? and again, all three groups were—the rates of pro-social employment were pretty darn high, pretty impressive—but the TFA graduates ranked lowest on that dimension as well.\nCG: Why is that?\nDM: In analyzing the data, we tried hard to figure out what kinds of factors explained this slightly lower rate of subsequent civic participation, service, etc., and it was hard to identify specific factors. Here’s as much as I can say: about 20 percent of the graduates report feeling disillusioned by their TFA experience at the end of the experience. Again, we tried to unpack that;? we tried to look at the factors that seemed to predict disillusionment, and we didn’t get very far. All we know is that about 20 percent in the end concluded that they were somewhat disillusioned by their experience, and they were also very likely to say they felt like they were not very effective as teachers, and then we had a lot of open-ended items. And so we’ve looked at a lot of what people actually told us on those open-ended items, and there was a fairly consistent story.\nA small percentage of all graduates—just under 20 percent—got to the end of the experience—they hung in there to the end—but in the end, came to see this whole issue of educational inequality as much bigger and much more systemic and they came to see the TFA approach as not very effective.\nYes, TFA was a great organization for trying to do the work it was doing, but the problem was much greater than the approach suggested. And so, they exited feeling somewhat ineffective themselves and disillusioned with this particular approach to this daunting problem of educational inequality. It doesn’t necessarily mean they were down on TFA, although some of them were. They simply came to doubt that this was an effective way of addressing this very challenging issue, and they felt pretty ineffective as teachers. If you feel that way, your willingness to re-up and engage in another really intensive service experience, I think, is obviously going to be diminished.\nIf you take that 20 percent who felt disillusioned out of the graduate group, the rates of subsequent civic participation, service, etc. are statistically indistinguishable from the nonmatriculants. So my sense is that—for a small percentage of the TFA graduates—their experience actually discourages subsequent participation. For the vast majority of graduates, they have a terrific experience, they feel positive about what they’ve done, and it has no real implications for subsequent service, political activity, etc. They’re very likely to stay very engaged and to continue to focus their energies on educational inequality, which is something that TFA does very well. It encourages the majority of their graduates to stay active on this issue, and that’s another part of TFA’s mission. They are committed to gradually building a very large alumni community around this issue.\nCG: Have you considered digging deeper into the data regarding that 20 percent and finding out whether there something that’s common to them that distinguishes them from the other 80 percent?\nDM: Yes, this is the core of this issue. It’s the key to the finding in general. The difference between these three groups is this 20 percent. And yes, I’d love to dig into it more.\nI think it would require interviews of some sort. This is a very intensive experience, and for graduates with very different characteristics, some percentage of them—again, in this case 20 percent—at the end wind up going, “Well, I worked really hard and I admire what this organization is trying to do, but I don’t think I was ultimately very effective, and I’ve come to the conclusion that this is not the most effective approach to this very tricky issue” and that they came to that [conclusion] for very different reasons or with very different background characteristics. So you’d want to interview them and say, “How did you come to this conclusion? What was it about your experience that led you in the end to this conclusion about your own efforts and about the effectiveness of the organization?”\nCG: One of the most interesting things in your article is your distinction between service learning and school-based community service and also between school-based service that stresses civic engagement and school-based activities that don’t. And that the latter seems to encourage more civic engagement over the long term. Can you talk about that?\nDM: I’m very interested in this issue too, and this is my provisional take on the matter. There are kinds of activities in schools, but also, I suppose, in the community where it’s not that the goal is to encourage service or civic engagement but these are collective activities where people are—whether they know it or not—engaged in civic life. They’re involved in collective action around some issue, even if that issue is not really about politics or civic life. They’re involved in some club on campus, and they’re developing a set of civic skills on the one hand and maybe an orientation to collective life that may pay dividends in the future.\nSo they’re developing a sense of themselves and their competence in groups that may in fact translate into various kinds of group participation—some of it civic—in the future. I touched on this earlier, but the more collective the service or civic experience—whether or not we call it that—I believe the greater the likelihood that you will engage in collective activity in the future.\nThe point is the Teach for America experience for many graduates is also a very individual one. They are up at 1:00 in the morning slogging through the next day’s lesson plan or grading papers or whatever. They weren’t engaged in the community in any meaningful way, and although TFA has all sorts of regional associations, they weren’t very involved in the regional TFA association;? they basically slogged through two years as a “lone” teacher. And that also appears to be related to whether you wind up being disillusioned.\nYou’re not getting this collective sense of empowerment or mission because your experience is fundamentally isolating. Freedom Summer—these folks were housed communally in freedom houses or in private homes in Mississippi with other volunteers, and on the outside was this hostile white community. So there was this really strong us-them dynamic, and they really came to feel a part of this movement community, and many of them came out of Mississippi absolutely committed to finding other versions of this experience in the North.\nSo if we really did this set of careful, systematic, comparative studies of youth activism or youth service, we’re going to find variation in the long-term effects, and what we really ought to try to identify are the mechanisms that account for that variation. I would bet that one of the big features that differentiates the longer-term effects is just how communal or collective the experience is.\nCG: The personal/?individual versus the collective service experience—and whether the latter results in a better one—continues to be debated, especially given the advent of online activism, which some argue is more individual. But some believe that these efforts can be just as effective in social change and that behind the arguments about “collectivity” is a mindset of a 1960s-sort of notion of civic engagement (e.g., protests, etc).\nDM: I’m not pushing politics with a capital P. I’m not pushing a version of ’60s politics. All I mean is that if your service experience [takes place] in the year 2010, the more collective it is, I’m betting that it’s more likely to produce enduring effects. And again, as I mentioned earlier, so you’re the president of the French club at your high school. Nobody is going to confuse that with ’60s politics. But I’m saying that probably has much greater implications for your behavior in the future than being in a service-learning course.\nEssentially, the more collective the experience, the more I think you are encouraged to engage in the future, and my point about Teach for America is that it looks like those who slogged through as individual teachers were more likely to get to the end of the experience and were more likely to go, “That was exhausting;? I don’t think I was all that effective;? I don’t see educational inequality changing in a big way;? I’m going to get back to my life;? I’m going to divest here a little.” And so, this is not about ’60s politics versus [today’s levels of civic engagement] to me. This is about how collective is this civic experience that you’re having—whether we characterize it as politics or not.\nCG: It’s interesting to me that your study found that the TFA organization was important to so many and that they got identity from it at a time when the way in which people—particularly young people—are choosing to engage and be excited about engagement is not about organizations. In fact, research shows [that] young people mov[e] away from organizations as their primary outlet for civic engagement, as evidenced by the decline in membership among large, nonprofit advocacy and political organizations. So what does it mean for civic engagement when TFA alumni feel so connected to TFA, the organization, but not necessarily to other forms of civic and political life?\nDM: I’ve got two daughters. They are densely connected, but not through formal organizations at all. They live on Facebook, among other things. They are wildly more interactive, engaged with other people, than I am, but it’s mediated through technology, as you’re pointing out. But fundamentally, people still are social creatures who derive their sense of themselves and their values and priorities through interaction with others. Nothing has changed. The medium through which they interact has changed,? but it’s not as if people are no longer influenced by their peers or something. My point here is that if, like TFA, you can create a set of procedures—a program that encourages people to engage with the organization—those organizations can continue to be central sources of meaning and identity in people’s lives.\nIt’s not that organizations have lost the capacity to do that;? it’s that they’re now competing with other mechanisms, other vehicles that connect people. So we go, “Oh, organizations are dying.” Well, yes, they’re in a much more competitive environment, and lots of young people don’t identify with organizations and seek their social connections through much more direct forms of mediation like Facebook, etc., which are themselves, again, communities of a sort. But it doesn’t mean that organizations can’t compete effectively. But they’re going to have to design programs that young people come to value, and if in fact they can successfully recruit individuals, those organizations can be again just as important as sources of identity and meaning as they’ve always been.\nCG: As you know, there’s a lot of energy around national service, with policies being promoted and passed, money allocated. Do you see this as a positive trend? Will they help to encourage civic engagement across the country?\nDM: I know I’m repeating myself here, but I really think we have to move away from the assumption that we’re going to invariably see effects from youth service or youth activism. I’d love to see a richer set of really systematic comparative studies of the longer-term effects of a range of service experiences, because I think what they would show is highly variable effects, and I think that would be very important for policy makers to understand. Just because you create a service program it’s not going to necessarily produce long-term civic engagement.\nCopyright 2010. All rights reserved by the Nonprofit Information Networking Association, Boston, MA. Volume 17, Issue 1. Subscribe | buy issue | reprints.\nCynthia Gibson, who helped design one of the first national participatory grantmaking initiatives with the Case Foundation, is a philanthropic consultant and author.\nAdvocates Fight to Save the Affordable Care Act if Individual Mandate Falls\nState of Siege: A Weekend of Racist Hostility Brought to You by the White House\nFatal Voluntourism: Aid Founder Sued in Uganda\nBy Niduk D'Souza\nUnusual Nonprofit Partnership Creates a Path to Housing for Vets\nBy Derrick Rhayn\nAbortion Victories Gather Momentum\nHow to Cocreate Your Nonprofit Brand with Your Stakeholders\nBy Christine Vallaster and Sylvia von Wallpach\nMoving beyond Feedback: The Promise of Participatory...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line157340"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9623146653175354,"wiki_prob":0.9623146653175354,"text":"[ July 8, 2019 ] Eagle Scout, valedictorian, state tennis champ — here’s how he found time for it all\tEagle Scout\nEagle Scouts among this year’s NFL draft class\nMay 3, 2019 Michael Freeman Eagle Scout, Scouting in the News 3\nDavid Montgomery credits what he learned in Scouting with leading him to this year’s NFL draft. Last week, he was drafted by the Chicago Bears.\n“To become an Eagle Scout was an experience I needed for me in my life that brought me here to this point and also influenced my mindset and the way that I carry myself every day,” Montgomery says in a recent interview in STACK, an athletic lifestyle magazine.\nA few picks later, the Indianapolis Colts selected Bobby Okereke, a Stanford linebacker and Eagle Scout (Class of 2013) from Troop 243 in Santa Ana, Calif., at the 89th overall pick. Pat McAfee, a former Colts punter and now football analyst, colorfully announced the pick, referring to Okereke as a “future Hall of Famer.”\nWhile in Scouting, Okereke attended the National Jamboree in 2010, completed National Youth Leadership Training and was elected to the Order of the Arrow.\nOn the field, in the classroom\nOkereke, a fifth-year senior at Stanford, speaks just as highly about his academic endeavors as his achievements on the football field. In 2014, he received the Watkins Award as the nation’s top African-American high school player for academic and athletic excellence.\nHe did two internships in college, one with former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, helping with a program for underprivileged children. His major — management science and engineering with a concentration in finance and decision analysis — prepares him for a career in private investments after his playing days, he says. He’s also working on a master’s degree.\nAnalysts predict he could be a quality NFL player, citing his football intelligence, speed and range as strengths. He served as a team captain for the Stanford Cardinal as he led the team in tackles with 96 last season. The Cardinal went on to win the Sun Bowl.\nOkereke has 162 career tackles, nine sacks and four interceptions, two of which he returned for touchdowns. He helped his squad win the 2016 Sun Bowl and 2015 Rose Bowl titles as well.\nRushing for success\nMontgomery, a junior Iowa State running back and Eagle Scout (Class of 2014) from Troop 772 in Cincinnati, Ohio, promised his mom she wouldn’t have to pay for his college education. He’d practice running drills in the front yard and in the street.\nDavid Montgomery\n“I was pretty driven at a young age,” he says in STACK.\nHe was ranked as the 67th-best high school running back in the country and recruited by Iowa State, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana and Marshall.\nHe chose Iowa State and finished his collegiate career with 2,925 rushing yards (6th in school history), 26 rushing touchdowns (8th in school history), 15 100-yard rushing games (3rd in school history) and 3,507 all-purpose yards (6th in school history). He helped the Cyclones win the Liberty Bowl in 2017.\nAnalysts spoke highly of Montgomery’s vision and leadership on the field, saying he would be a good fit in the Bears’ lineup. He was taken in the third round as the 73rd overall pick.\nAbout Michael Freeman\t91 Articles\nThe same topic came up in all four of this Eagle Scout’s interviews for West Point\nDog gone! The puppy ate this Scout’s merit badge, and wait till you hear which one","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1071358"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6092101335525513,"wiki_prob":0.6092101335525513,"text":"Jane Chastain\nPolitically Direct\nWhy the Media Shunned Jessica Lynch\nJane Chastain\tMilitary, Women in Combat\t May 3, 2007 3 Minutes\nLast week, Jessica Lynch, America’s media sweetheart in 2003, testified before Henry Waxman’s House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform beside Kevin Tillman, whose brother, Pat, was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan. This is the first time the former POW has made a major public appearance in three and a half years, and the media yawned.Why did the press give the West Virginia beauty the cold shoulder this time around?She didn’t follow the script that had been carefully crafted of her capture on March 23, 2003, after her Army maintenance company lost its way and was ambushed by the enemy. She didn’t toe the radical feminist line of\nI am a warrior, hear me roar!\nThe story of her capture, first reported by the Washington Post, quoted an “unnamed” U.S. official as saying Lynch fought valiantly and was taken by the enemy only after she succumbed to gun shot and stab wounds.\nAn investigation showed that her weapon jammed due to poor maintenance and was never fired. After she was retrieved by Special Ops forces, it was learned that Lynch had no battle wounds but was seriously injured by the crash of her Humvee and/or by her captors.\nNevertheless, the slight 105-pound maintenance clerk could have played along, since the other passengers in that vehicle were all dead. She could have said that she hit one of the enemy combatants with her rifle butt, threw a grenade, some rocks or anything to perpetuate the female warrior myth – but no, to her credit, she was honest. When the fighting started, she ducked down on her knees and prayed. That is the last thing she remembers before waking up in an Iraqi hospital.\nNot surprising, we haven’t heard much about her since the interviews for her book, which flopped.\nUnfortunately, Jessica is either misinformed or she misspeaks when she blames the fabrication of her story on the Pentagon. Who was the “unnamed” U.S. official who gave the story to the Washington Post? That tag could fit hundreds of people. The military is awash with feminists anxious to prove that men and women are interchangeable fungibles.\nThe first official report on Lynch’s actions released by the Pentagon said that she did not appear to have fought back against her captors. Nevertheless, the press ran with the Post report. On April 8, Pentagon spokesperson Victoria Clark was asked directly,\nCan you corroborate the Post story pretty much as they described it?\nClark answered,\nNo. I can’t.\nNevertheless, the Army did give in to demands from congressmen from her state that she be awarded a medal for bravery. It unwisely gave her the Bronze Star, essentially for being there.\nWhat happened to Jessica Lynch and other female soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait since the attack on America is unconscionable, and there is plenty of blame to lay at the feet of the Bush administration and Congress, which has oversight of military personnel.\nAs of Feb. 27, 75 women deployed to these areas have been killed. Currently, the Army is illegally placing female soldiers in units required to be all male, and the excuses being used are disingenuous and insulting. The military is a dangerous profession, but this sop to the feminists has made things even more difficult for the men in these units.\nWhen Jessica emerged from her trying ordeal, she unknowingly stepped into the middle of the debate over women in combat, and, by refusing to play the warrior role, she unwillingly poked her finger in the eye of the mainstream media, which seems hellbent on selling us on this notion. Yes, she can write a letter to Diane Sawyer or a network news organization and it will be read, but she isn’t likely to get more airtime because she is considered no longer useful.\nJessica was never a war hero. She is no longer a media hero. However, if she will go to the Center for Military Readiness and do some research on this issue of women in combat, she could use her position to wake up America and be a hero to all clear thinkers who don’t wish to see enlisted women used as cannon fodder just so a few female officers can make it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.\nIt may not be fair that the average man is six inches taller, 50 pounds heavier and has 42 percent more upper body strength than the average woman, but it is reality. There are many things women can do better than men, but being a warrior is not one of them!\nPublished by Jane Chastain\nView all posts by Jane Chastain\nPrevious Post Can’t We Agree This Is Reprehensible?\nNext Post How to Pick the next President\n4 thoughts on “Why the Media Shunned Jessica Lynch”\nI agree 100% with this and I am a woman!!\nI can’t believe this…Wake up to the 21st century. If someone told you that you couldn’t have a news column or opinion as they did in the 18th century because your a women and it’s just not your place would you agree? Guess what, some men in America still believe that women should be seen not heard. Try moving to the middle east.\nlexi says:\nthats bull ——. Like she said wake up in the 21st century just because we dont have a —– doesnt mean any thig i no women who have beat huge male athletes down so ya\nScott Drake says:\nWell it would seem that my website jessica-lynch.com had much more on this subject. Although most of women in combat has little to do with my wife, I think that the media shuns the people who are shunned (like me) who stalk anal warts on fat women!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line158979"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7657306790351868,"wiki_prob":0.7657306790351868,"text":"09/07/2019 CyprusDriving\nVehicle registrations dropped by 10 per cent in the first six months of 2019, compared with the respective period of 2018, the Cyprus Statistical Service (Cystat) has said.\nIn the period of January – June of 2019 total vehicle registrations declined to 23,449 compared with 26,059 in the respective period of last year.\nNew cars recorded the highest decrease with an annual 11.2 per cent dropping to 8,887 in the first six months of 2019, compared to 10,005 in January – June 2018, while used vehicle registrations dropped by 9.3 per cent to 14,562 compared with 16,054 in the respective period of 2018.\nRegistration of saloon cars dropped by 11.7 per cent to 19,102 compared with 21,642 in the period of January – June of 2018.\nAccording to Cystat, goods conveyance vehicles increased by 2.6 per cent to 2,680 in January-June 2019, compared with 2,613 in January-June 2018. Light goods vehicles increased by 3.3 per cent to 2,306, heavy goods vehicles decreased by 2.2 per cent to 273 and road tractors (units of trailers) decreased by 1 per cent to 101.\nScooters registrations increased to 165 in January-June 2019, compared to 149 in January-June 2018.\nMotorcycles (with engines over 50 cubic centimetres) sales dropped by 8.6 per cent to 1,189 in the first six months of 2019, compared with 1,301 in the corresponding period of 2018, Cystat added.\nSource: Vehicle registrations drop by 10% in the first half of 2019 – Cyprus Mail\nCyprus will have mobile traffic cameras in place by next year and a full system up and running by 2022, Transport Minister Vassiliki Anastasiadou said on Sunday.\nThe issue has been going on since 2006.\nAnastasiadou said the bidding process for the €35m system would last three months, which will be followed by an evaluation and the awarding of the contract, and “it is hoped by 2020 to at least have the mobile cameras” the minister said.\nShe said it would positively contribute to road safety. “Where this system has been implemented it has shown that accidents have been reduced dramatically but also the number of deaths from accidents,” she added.\nBy 2022, the minister said 90 fixed cameras would be in place at accident black spots, and 20 mobile units would also be in use.\nAfter years of delays, the latest was said to be due to the ministry decided to choose a more sophisticated system, which can photograph vehicles from the front and back.\nAs well as recording speed, they can also check for other violations such as not wearing a seatbelt, talking on the phone while driving, driving through a red light and crossing the white line at the traffic lights.\nThe request by police in mid-2018 came after the initial plan by the ministry was to install cameras that only photographed vehicles from behind.\nThe changes were to delay the previous plan by about a year as the tender process will now need to account for the new, more sophisticated cameras.\nIn late July 2018, the ministry’s initial plan was to have the tender process completed and the first cameras installed by the first quarter of 2019.\nA traffic-cams network was set up in 2006 but was quickly discarded. The cameras had numerous problems, including failure to store photographs, and extensive bureaucracy that in some cases resulted in fining a person twice for the same violation while letting others go unpunished.\nThe cameras were taken down in 2007 and in 2008 it was announced that new cameras would be put up by 2010. In 2011 the Tender Review Board challenged the specifications outlined in the process and cancelled the government’s plan for the fifth time. Failing to find a way of effectively setting up the system, the government decided to outsource the venture to a private firm.\nThe ministry of finance has decided to fund the latest attempt using a private company and will do so in one-year instalments over five years. The company that is chosen will install the cameras and be responsible for their functionality over those five years.\nSource: Full traffic-cam system by 2022, mobile units online next year, minister says – Cyprus Mail\nRoad works on the Nicosia-Limassol highway will be carried out from Monday until Friday, the public works department announced.\nAccording to the department, the right lane in both directions will be closed for approximately 300m close to the Moni exit between 10am and 4pm.\nThe works are expected to finish at around noon on Friday.\nSource: Road works to cause disruption on highway – Cyprus Mail\nThe bundle of seven new bills on implementing tougher traffic penalties is unlikely to be voted through by parliament before summer recess but more likely in the following autumn, it emerged on Friday.\nThe draft legislation was submitted to parliament in March but the European Parliament elections and change in leadership of the justice ministry has delayed the discussion of the bills in the House transport committee, which convened on Friday.\nIncluded in the bills is an increase in the fines for speeding from €1 per kilometre to €5 while using a phone while driving will fetch a €300 fine instead of the current €85.\nFailure to wear a seatbelt will cost €400, also up from €85.\nNot wearing crash helmets on motorcycles, running red lights, and parking on pedestrian crossings and spaces reserved for handicapped drivers will cost €200 from €85. Reckless driving that ends up causing bodily harm will be punishable with up to three years in jail and or a fine of up to €10,000.\nMPs do not unanimously agree on the fines and parties may try put forward amendments which is likely to mean the bills won’t be voted through in parliament before recess later this month.\nSource: New bills for tougher traffic penalties delayed again – Cyprus Mail\nTraffic police will no longer hide behind bushes to catch offending drivers, in line with instructions from their new head, Phileleftheros reported on Tuesday.\nIt said that Yiannis Georgiou, the new chief of the traffic unit at police headquarter had told a meeting with district traffic police heads that the presence of traffic police on the roads should be ‘evident’, with no officers hiding behind trees and bushes.\nDrivers should be aware of the presence of police officers on the roads and know that they could be subject to checks at any time, he said.\nTraffic heads were also asked to focus on black spots and on stretches where drivers tend to speed. Traffic police officers will no longer stand at spots where the speed limit suddenly changes so as to ‘trap’ drivers but instead some 500 metres away from where the limit changes, Phileleftheros added.\nInstructions were also given to focus on the secondary road network, while traffic police have been told not to pursue young motorists found to be breaking traffic regulations through the streets, but instead to take down their registration numbers and seek them out later.\nTISPOL President Volker Orben spoke at a road safety conference in Cyprus, on Friday 28 June, organised by the delegation of the European Commission in Cyprus and the Cyprus Police, at the House of the European Union, in Nicosia.\nVolker spoke about the mission of TISPOL, which is responsible for the coordination of activities at a European level, for the effective and efficient enforcement of traffic legislation as well as the implementation of road policing, a fundamental model for the prevention of criminality on the roads, which many European countries – including the Cyprus Police – adopted during the current decade.\nHe highlighted the impact Project Edward can have on casualty reduction and awareness raising – while also stressing the utmost importance of enforcement in the sector of the respect of traffic legislation and the prevention of road deaths and serious injuries. In this respect, he presented the operational results of TISPOL.He stressed that TISPOL appreciates the fact that the European Commission established in 2018 a new Strategic Action Plan on Road Safety to halve road deaths by 2030 and he indicated the importance of the joint cross-border road traffic enforcement operations organized in cooperation between police bodies.\nHe explained that the target set by the European Commission of a 50 per cent reduction in road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 is an important commitment of TISPOL and a key issue, indicating that in the frame of their daily duties the members of TISPOL are called to exchange information and best practice on a constant basis, bearing in mind the Valetta Declaration. He thanked the Cyprus Police for their contribution in the road safety campaigns, which include enforcement and publicity of the actions undertaken, especially for speeding, drink and drug driving, distraction and the non-use of seat belts.\nPolice on Thursday afternoon arrested a biker who attacked a police officer and an ambulance driver on the Nicosia-Larnaca motorway.\nAround 4.25pm, while the 36-year-old man was riding his motorbike near Koshi, a 35-year-old woman who was a passenger on the bike fell down and hit the asphalt.\nThe man stopped to help her while at the same time a police patrol car carrying out routine checks nearby also moved towards them to help.\nAs soon as the police car arrived, the 36-year-old allegedly started shouting at the officers and hit the bonnet of the car, damaging the vehicle.\nHe is said to have repeatedly punched an officer on his head.\nA few minutes later, when an ambulance arrived, the biker hit the 51-year-old ambulance driver with his helmet.\nThe ambulance transferred the woman to Larnaca hospital, from where she was taken to Nicosia general hospital and treated for burns.\nThe police officer and the ambulance driver were treated for head injuries.\nThe 36-year-old man was arrested. Both he and his passenger were wearing helmets.\nSource: Motorcyclist arrested after hitting policeman, ambulance driver – Cyprus Mail\n“Bike SAFE” motorcycle training program\nMotorcyclists are trained by members of the Police\nThe risks that motorcyclists face in the road network and the ways in which they can predict and cope with them were the subject of a training program that was held yesterday 16/6/2019) at the Police Headquarters Department of Traffic Police.\nThe program was attended by 15 civilian motorcyclists, who were briefed by trained members of the Special Motorcycle Squadron and the Police Driving School on the proper use of motorcycles on the road network, but also on how to prevent and deal with various dangers that lie ahead during driving. The training contained both theoretical information of the participants and practical training.\nThe “Bike Safe” training program is part of the general framework of the Police’s actions to inform and raise awareness of road safety and the prevention of traffic accidents.\nΜοτοσικλετιστές εκπαιδεύονται από μέλη της Αστυνομίας\nΟι κίνδυνοι που διατρέχουν στο οδικό δίκτυο οι μοτοσικλετιστές και οι τρόποι με τους οποίους οι ίδιοι μπορούν να τους προβλέψουν και να τους αντιμετωπίσουν, ήταν το αντικείμενο προγράμματος εκπαίδευσης, που πραγματοποιήθηκε χθες στο Τμήμα Τροχαίας Αρχηγείου Αστυνομίας.\nΤο πρόγραμμα παρακολούθησαν 15 πολίτες μοτοσικλετιστές, οι οποίοι ενημερώθηκαν από εκπαιδευμένα μέλη του Ειδικού Ουλαμού Μοτοσικλετιστών και της Σχολής Οδηγών της Αστυνομίας, για την ορθή χρήση των μοτοσικλετών στο οδικό δίκτυο, αλλά και για το πώς μπορούν να προλαμβάνουν και να αντιμετωπίζουν διάφορους κινδύνους, που ελλοχεύουν κατά την οδήγηση. Η εκπαίδευση περιείχε τόσο θεωρητική ενημέρωση των συμμετεχόντων, όσο και πρακτική εξάσκηση.\nΤο εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα «Bike Safe», εντάσσεται στο γενικότερο πλαίσιο των δράσεων της Αστυνομίας, για ενημέρωση και ευαισθητοποίηση του κοινού σχετικά με την οδική ασφάλεια και την πρόληψη των τροχαίων συγκρούσεων.\nWear helmets, police tell motorcyclists after three accidents overnight – Cyprus Mail\nPolice on Sunday appealed to motorcyclists and moped drivers to take measures to protect themselves in case of an accident.\nAfter three accidents overnight between Saturday and Sunday involving motorcyclists, one of whom is in critical condition and at least one of whom was not wearing a helmet, Limassol police traffic officer Michalis Michael called on motorcyclists to wear the appropriate gear, CNA reported.\nOnly on Tuesday, a report by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) highlighted the dangers to motorcyclists in Cyprus.\nAlthough Cyprus didn’t rank high in terms of pedestrian and cyclist deaths on city streets, a high level of traffic law violations leads in particular to the deaths of drivers of PTWs (powered two-wheelers). Motorbike and moped riders account for 31 per cent of all fatalities in urban areas.\n“Mopeds are widely used on urban roads by young and inexperienced people who are mostly students or delivery service providers. Most of the young moped users ride with a learners’ licence and they lack proper training,” the report said. It also said the use of safety helmets was not as widespread as desired and often when helmets were used, they were not properly strapped. It added that a culture of respect for PTW riders was lacking among other vehicle drivers.\n“Notwithstanding the above, an indepth study is required to provide evidence for the actual reasons for the large number of PTW deaths in Cyprus,” the report added, quoting George Morfakis, a Cypriot road safety expert.\nMichael said police planned to increase their weekly road safety campaigns to three weeks.\n“The weekly campaigns will last for three weeks,” he told CNA. “The first week will be on enlightenment and prevention issues and advice on legislation in an effort to raise public awareness for accident prevention and repression. Beyond that, the remaining weeks will be targeted to checks on motorcyclists and mopeds so as to limit as far as possible the number of deaths.”\nSource: Wear helmets, police tell motorcyclists after three accidents overnight – Cyprus Mail\nHands-free phones ‘just as distracting as hand-held’\nHands-free phone chats at the wheel are as risky as driving while holding your mobile and should be banned, expert warns\nMPs were told hands-free phone conversations are no less dangerous while driving. Experts warn that using a hands-free kit is as risky – if not more so – than driving at the UK’s legal alcohol limit.\nA hands-free phone conversation while driving is just as dangerous as chatting while holding your phone, MPs were told yesterday.\nExperts also said using a hands-free kit is as risky – if not more so – than driving at the legal alcohol limit.\nIn March 2017, the Government doubled the punishment for using a hand-held phone at the wheel to six penalty points and a £200 fine.\nBut Dr Shaun Helman, of the Transport Research Laboratory, said it should be extended to the use of hands-free devices.\nHe told the Commons transport committee that hands-free conversations are just as distracting.\nThis was echoed by Open University’s Dr Gemma Briggs, who said a conversation with a passenger is less dangerous than talking to someone on a hands-free device.\nShe explained: ‘This is because you create mental images of where they are, what they’re discussing, what they’re up to, and the mental resources required to create those mental images are also required for accurate perception of that driving situation.’\nSource: Hands-free phones ‘just as distracting as hand-held’","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line967536"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5461375117301941,"wiki_prob":0.5461375117301941,"text":"Commissioned Projects\nGLENN LIGON\nImages © Glenn Ligon\nTexts © Author\nNo reproduction without written permission.\nHarris, Gareth. “New Territory for Glenn Ligon with First Solo Show in Italy.” The Art Newspaper, May 1, 2018.\nCotter, Holland. “Colors That Unite and Divide.” New York Times, August 11, 2017: C13.\nSheets, Hilarie M. “How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue.” New York Times, June 2, 2017.\nCotter, Holland. “Refracting Race Through the Comic Lens of Richard Pryor.” New York Times, January 21, 2016: C21.\nCooke, Lynne. “Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions.” Artforum 54, no. 3 (November 2015): 294-295.\nO’Toole, Sean. “Reviews: 56th Venice Biennale.” Frieze 172 (June/July/August 2015): 166-167.\nKuo, Michelle. “Global Entry.” Artforum 53, no. 9 (May 2015): 85-90.\nPobric, Pac. “Glenn Ligon – The Same, But Different.” The Art Newspaper XXIII, no. 260, (September 2014): 52-53.\nMeyer, James. “Glenn Ligon: Whitney Museum of Art, New York.” Artforum 49, no. 10 (Summer 2011): 392-393.\nBerwick, Carly. “Stranger in America.” Art in America, No. 5, (May 2011): 120-131.\nCotter, Holland. “Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge.” New York Times, March 11, 2011.\nSchjeldahl, Peter. “Unhidden Identities: A Glenn Ligon retrospective.” New Yorker, March 11, 2011: 76-77.\nLehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects.” Artforum 48, no. 7 (March 2010): 255–56.\nCampagnola, Sonia. Review of Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Flash Art 43, no. 271 (March–April 2010): 117.\nCopeland, Huey. “The Blackness of Blackness.” Artforum 47, no. 2 (October 2008): 151–54.\nBedford, Christopher. “Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects II.” Artforum 46, no. 5 (January 2008): 288–89.\nMeyer, Richard. “Light it up, or How Glenn Ligon Got Over.” Artforum 44, no. 9 (May 2006): 240–47.\nBurton, Johanna. “Subject to Revision.” Artforum 43, no. 2 (October 2004): 258–62, 305.\nSchwabsky, Barry. “Glenn Ligon: D’Amelio Terras.” Artforum 40, no. 2 (October 2001): 158–59.\nCotter, Holland. “Stories About Race, Politics and Himself.” New York Times, February 1, 1998: 48-49.\nCotter, Holland. “‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’: Drawings by Glenn Ligon.” New York Times, October 18, 1996.\nTate, Greg. “Bring the Word.” Village Voice, September 17, 1996: 30.\nCottingham, Laura. “The Pleasure Principled.” Frieze 10 (May 1993): 10–15.\nSmith, Roberta. “‘Lack of Location Is My Location.’” New York Times, June 16, 1991.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1085443"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5213524699211121,"wiki_prob":0.47864753007888794,"text":"December 2011 - Blabbermouth Archive\nICS VORTEX Talks About The Return Of ARCTURUS In New Audio Interview\nGreece's Rock Overdose recently conducted an interview with ICS Vortex (real name: Simen Hestnæs), the former bassist/clean vocalist for the Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR and a current member of BORKNAGAR and reunited avant-garde metallers ARCTURUS. You can now listen to the chat using the audio player below. Interview (audio):\nGUNS N' ROSES Keyboardist Likes To Keep Band's Performances 'Fun And Cool'\nCaroline Fontein of Vegas.com recently conducted an interview with GUNS N' ROSES keyboardist Dizzy Reed. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below. Vegas.com: Aside from [singer] Axl [Rose], you're the only remaining band member from the \"Use Your Illusion\" era. What was it like for you back in 1990 when you ...\nAEROSMITH Singer To Wed For Third Time?\nAccording to TMZ.com, AEROSMITH singer Steven Tyler recently proposed to his longtime girlfriend Erin Brady. Brady, 38, was spotted wearing a diamond ring on her wedding finger during a Christmas vacation with Tyler in Hawaii and sources tell TMZ.com she's set to become the singer's third wife. Previously an accountant for Tyler on ...\nMusical Mastermind Behind GREEN JELLY Releases New Album\nAs musical mastermind behind the controversial early '90s band GREEN JELLY, guitarist/producer CJ Buscaglia crafted the slimy rock grooves on their million-selling album \"Cereal Killer\". Fans of their Grammy-nominated follow-up \"333\" know the self-proclaimed \"world's worst band\" was actually pretty good, powered by Buscaglia's crosshatched guitars and classic-sounding thrust. Long past the costumed juvenalia and ...\nDEF LEPPARD Guitarist's MANRAZE Completes Work On 'Take On The World' Video\nMANRAZE — the rock outfit featuring Phil Collen of DEF LEPPARD, Simon Laffy from GIRL and Paul Cook of THE SEX PISTOLS — has released a free download of \"Over My Dead Body\", the first single from the band's recently released LP \"punkfunkrootsrock\", now available via Rocket Science Ventures/RED. The download is available ...\nAGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED Releases Free Holiday EP\nAGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED has released a holiday EP, \"Make A Joyful Noise\", as a free download for a limited time at this location. The effort was originally released as a limited-edition flexi-disc in issue #87 of Decibel magazine. The issue is available for purchase here. \"Make A Joyful Noise\" track listing: 01. ...\nLACUNA COIL: New Audio Interview With ANDREA FERRO\nJorge Fretes of Spain's GoetiaMetal.com recently conducted an interview with vocalist Andrea Ferro of the Italian rock/metal band LACUNA COIL. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below. The first out of six short conceptual teaser clips for \"Dark Adrenaline\", the new album from LACUNA COIL, can be seen ...\nMETALLICA: Official 31-Minute Video Recap Of Third 30th-Anniversary Show\nMETALLICA has posted a 31-minute video recap of the third of four intimate shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco as part of the week-long celebration of its 30th anniversary as a band for fan club members only. Check it out below. Rob Halford (JUDAS PRIEST), Glenn Danzig (DANZIG, MISFITS, SAMHAIN), Jerry Cantrell (ALICE IN ...\nKILL DEVIL HILL Frontman Interviewed On 'The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show' (Video)\nEric Blair of \"The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show\" conducted an interview with KILL DEVIL HILL/ex-PISSING RAZORS singer Jason \"Dewey\" Bragg at a massive gathering on December 14 at the Key Club in Hollywood, California to help celebrate the life and music of \"Dimebag\" Darrell Abbott (PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN) as part of this year's Dimebash. ...\nDEEP PURPLE-Singer-Narrated 'Chopin's Story' Now Available On DVD\nDEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan has narrated a Polish documentary on the life of Frédéric Chopin, a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. Produced by TV Project and directed by Jerzy Szkamruk, \"Chopin's Story By Ian Gillan From Deep Purple\" aired on the Polish channel Discovery Historia on June 21 and ...\n← Previous 1 2 … 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 … 102 103 Next →\nBLACK STONE CHERRY Has 'A Lot Of Ideas' For Next Album\nTOM MORELLO Calls DONALD TRUMP An 'Orange-Faced Demagogue'\nUDO DIRKSCHNEIDER: 'A Portrait' German-Language Documentary Now Available Online\nWatch First Full Trailer For ROB ZOMBIE's '3 From Hell'\nGHOST's TOBIAS FORGE: 'We Wouldn't Have Been Here Had It Not Been For ALICE COOPER'","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line199359"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5988695025444031,"wiki_prob":0.5988695025444031,"text":"Summer 2002: Digging Up the Past\nPosted by Joellen Kemp 10/20/2016 11:28:03 AM\nPaleontology's determined pursuit of the elusive mosasaur - the 'T-Rex' of the ancient ocean - took a new turn last summer when nearly 100 eco-tourists descended on the Pembina Gorge in northeast North Dakota to become amateur scientists digging for fossilized marine bones.\nUnique to this enterprise was the genuine welcome of people of nearly all ages and stages of life. No previous excavation experience was required. The only real requisite for those who signed on was a willingness to learn and a determination to dig.\nLeading the 10-day program was Dr. John Hoganson, paleontologist with the North Dakota Geological Survey in Bismarck, and Melanie Thornberg, owner of Dakota Adventures in Walhalla, N.D. Their efforts combine to ensure the week's guests are well prepared and well cared for as they experience their adventurous dreams. In turn, their guests' \"vacation\" efforts contribute to the excavation of valuable fossils for the Geological Survey and to tourism development in the gorge.\nTeen-agers and grandmas, lawyers and college students all begin their dig at the same place - a short classroom hour at the Forestwood Inn in Walhalla.\n\"Most of the people who come on these digs have never done this before,\" says Hoganson. \"We take part of the first morning to explain how to dig and what they should be looking for. Some are afraid of destroying the bones. We talk about that a little bit. I usually tell them we've all broken things at times. That's why they made Superglue.\"\nHoganson's directions give each excavator a short course on what to look for when sifting through the rock layers and how to dig out fossils successfully.\nCyndy Lewis, a psychologist from St. Joseph, Mich., on her first dig in North Dakota, says, \"They explain everything from A to Z. It makes you feel really comfortable. And they don't make you feel like some kind of dodo. Next year if I can, I'll bring my son back here for another dig.\"\nBy mid-morning of the first day, each group is standing on a carved ledge on a shale hillside overlooking the peaceful Pembina Gorge ready to dig up some bones. Thornberg is busy handing out materials and chatting with group members. \"Don't forget hats and sunscreen,\" she says as she works through the lineup. \"And remember, no bones, no food!\" Amid the laughter and friendly banter, the work gloves, kneeling pads, brushes, picks, trowels, miniature shovels and other tools are passed around. Finally, the dirt begins to fly.\nAn air of excitement and expectation brings each group together in a common quest for scientific experience. Somewhere deep beneath the shale - or perhaps as close as their fingertips - lie fossilized remains of marine life from more than 80 million years ago. The excavation site is located near the edge of the ancient Pierre Sea, part of a vast, Cretaceous period ocean once covering most of North Dakota. The site overlooks the Pembina Gorge, a deep valley cut by the Pembina River through Cretaceous rock and glacial sediments laid down during the last ice age.\nAs digging goes deep and group members get to know each other, conversation along the ledge ebbs and flows. Chatter includes bits and pieces about kids, neighborhoods and work mixed with jargon related to digging. \"I found a tooth thingie!\" calls one young digger.\n\"Some bone has been found down here, if you want to look at it,\" confirms Hoganson. \"It could be part of a mosasaur jaw line.\"\nWith that some of the group resumes digging with renewed vigor. \"I already found a vertebrae!\" says 10-year-old Kelsey Leake of Emerado, N.D. Kelsey, her brother, Kelby, and their mother, Diane, came on the dig because \"these kids have been into dinosaurs since they were old enough to talk.\" Others, like Lewis, continue to pick away at the hillside in a more relaxed fashion. Says Lewis, \"I don't really care if I find anything...at least I'm not working. I'm not at my desk.\"\nWhile his diggers are at work, Hoganson continually moves back and forth along the ridge, stopping to talk, lending advice and keeping everyone focused. \"Most of the people who come on these digs are very interesting people,\" says Hoganson, \"so it's a lot of fun not only to talk about this work, but their work too.\"\n\"It's also important for me to talk to the people here about what they're seeing. I try to tell them about lots of stuff, not just the fossils, because that keeps the interest up when they're not finding the bones they're looking for. We talk about how all of this got here, about the action that deposited it here, anything that's helpful in developing an understanding of what they see.\"\nAll fossils found on the excavation site are wrapped and bagged for transport to the Geological Survey offices. Their winter tasks will be to sort through everything and identify significant material.\nThese excavators have come from all parts of the United States, Ontario and even Norway. A few have some experience on archeological digs elsewhere in the U.S., but most are novices. Several of this year's group had taken part in the first Pembina Gorge dig in the summer of 2000. Steve Ziegler of Bemidji, Minn., and Kathy Garceau of Garland, Texas, were both part of the first dig and returned to try to top their discovery of a 12-foot-long, giant squid.\nA combination of public and private groups working together gives both eco-tourists and the state the maximum opportunity for a successful adventure. The 2001 summer dig was a coordinated effort between North Dakota's Game and Fish, Parks and Recreation, and Tourism departments, the Geological Survey and Dakota Adventures. The Game and Fish and Parks departments own and manage the land on which the dig is held. Geological Survey personnel like Hoganson and Johnathan Campbell provide expertise. \"But one of the main reasons this all works is because of Melanie,\" emphasizes Hoganson.\nThornberg is the local contact who brings a high level of fun and excitement to the dig. She is the organizer keeping everyone comfortable and happy no matter what the situation is. Long before people begin their journey to Walhalla they get letters and e-mails to update them on the progress of the tour. Tammy Fischer of Devils Lake, N.D., who brought her three sons, explains, \"I read about it (the dig) in the paper and said, 'I want to be there.' I booked us in last year and kept in contact with Melanie through e-mail ever since.\"\nDakota Adventures' guests get constant information on what to expect while digging, what kinds of activities they can take part in while staying in the northeast corner of the state and what they can do for entertainment during the evenings or when it rains. Thornberg helps line up hotel or camping accommodations and, of course, the food.\nMake no mistake, food is an essential element to the success of an eco-tourist activity. Under a screened canopy set just below the digging ledge, Highway 32 Diner owner Nancy Belanus serves a noon feast every day of the excavation. A wide variety of specialty salads and sandwiches, coupled with fresh fruit, juices, sodas and bottled water, keeps everyone refreshed through even the hottest days.\nThe crowning glory is the homemade Juneberry pies made by local baker Adrienne Wellman of Cavalier, N.D. As Belanus arrives and pies begin to appear from the back of her van, someone on the ledge spies the activity and yells, \"Once you've had a piece of that pie, you're gonna feel like a new person!\" Ziegler, also an apparent veteran pie eater, leaves his pick and hurries down the slope. \"I feel like George Bush right now,\" he quips. \"God bless the pie lady!\"\nAt the end of the day, many adventurers check out activities of interest in the surrounding area. Some take in live theatrical productions, visit museums or historic sites or check out local shopping opportunities. Others take advantage of scenic areas in the Pembina Gorge or its recreation. Summer activities include hiking, fishing, floating down the Pembina River in tubes or canoes, golfing on several top golf courses in North Dakota and Manitoba, or spending time at nearby lakes.\nThis dig was divided into one-, two- and three-day sessions. Young people over the age of 11 were welcome during the regular digging week. A \"Kids' Day\" was added to the schedule, allowing those 11 and under to dig when accompanied by an adult. A dozen families filled up the kids' day slate soon after it was advertised.\nThis summer in mid-July a nine-day archeological dig is planned near Marmarth in extreme southwestern North Dakota. A shorter weekend dig in the Pembina Gorge is planned Aug. 3-5. Kids' Day is Aug. 5. The dig site is about 10 miles west of Walhalla.\nFor more information or to make reservations for the fossil digs, contact Melanie Thornberg, Dakota Adventures, Box 400, Walhalla, ND 58282; or e-mail walhallafossildig@hotmail.com. You can also call 701-549-2627 or 701-549-3939.\nReturn to Story Archive","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1144540"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5761812925338745,"wiki_prob":0.5761812925338745,"text":"Court appoints attorney to represent Fort Worth girl declared brain dead\nPosted Oct 05 2018 05:06PM CDT\nVideo Posted Oct 05 2018 05:47PM CDT\nUpdated Oct 05 2018 05:58PM CDT\nFamily of girl on life support seek different care\nFamily fights to keep 9-year-old on life support\nA judge appointed an attorney to represent the interests of the 9-year old girl at the center of a life support dispute in Fort Worth.\nDoctors from Cook Children's Medical Center recently declared Payton Summons brain dead. Her family took legal action to prevent her removal from life support.\nAttorneys for the parents of the 9-year-old were back in court on Friday. They want her to say on life support. Her family still has hope she can recover.\nThere was a different face at a court hearing to decide how long Payton will remain on life support. Attorney David Cook was appointed by the judge to represent the 9-year-old girl.\n“The court believes it’s in the best interest of Payton Summons that we have an independent third party to represent her interest,” said Justin Moore, attorney for Payton’s mother. “Of course, we would like Payton’s best interest to be represented by her mom and dad.”\nTiffany Hofstetter, Payton’s mother, was in court but didn’t comment afterwards. On Monday, Moore got a 14-day restraining order to prevent Cook Children’s from taking her off life support.\nDoctors say Payton has a tumor near her heart and suffered cardiac arrest. An initial test showed no brain activity.\n“She has more time to live. This is what we have. It’s why we came here today to extend her life,” Moore said. “And that’s what we did essentially.”\nThe family wants time to move Payton to a facility that will keep her on life support. Attorneys for the hospital and Payton’s mother spent the day in a conference. They reached an impasse.\n“We sat down with opposing counsel. We tried to work out an agreement,” Moore said. “We couldn’t really get anything down on paper.”\nThe hospital and the family have looked at several facilities that might take Payton. The family says they have a couple of options.\n“There are some preconditions that we have to work out with the hospitals, but it’s just something that we got to sit down at the table and have a discussion about,” Moore said. “As or right now, everything is still on the table.”\nTime is running out. It’s what Friday’s hearing was all about and will be continued next week.\n“We still have hope,” Moore said. “We still got faith.”\nAttorneys will try again next Wednesday to arrive at an agreement or will go ahead with a court hearing on how to proceed with the restraining order.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line165547"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6668168306350708,"wiki_prob":0.6668168306350708,"text":"1283: Headlines\nTitle text: 1916: 'PHYSICIST DAD' TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GRAVITY, AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HE FINDS. [PICS] [NSFW]\nThis comic satirizes the sensationalist language used in Internet headlines. Many websites generate ad revenue for getting visitors (\"getting more clicks\"), so some unscrupulous editors seek to manipulate their readers using tantalizing yet formulaic and crass headlines, designed to attract readers rather than summarize the article's contents. You might recognize this technique from those ridiculous text advertisements — \"local mom discovers 1 weird tip to reduce belly fat.\" The practice is nothing new: tabloid journalism has been doing this for many years (e.g. National Enquirer). The numbers shown at the headline are also often wrong and not covered by the article.\nSigns of a dishonest headline include giving undue weight to trivial topics, or appealing to readers' emotions or needs (fear, outrage, pity, lust, laziness) instead of offering serious information. In severe cases, it may be a bait-and-switch, claiming to offer something it isn't. By failing to give a useful summary of the story, whilst attempting to force the reader to click on every story on the off-chance that it's interesting, they amount to an intentionally deceptive form of spam.\nRandall parodies the formula in this comic with such trivializing headlines for important historical events:\n1905 - How a shocking new theory, discovered by a dad, proves scientists are wrong about everything!\nAlbert Einstein published his Annus Mirabilis papers, which changed views on space, time, mass, and energy, and laid the groundwork for much of modern physics. They included his papers on special relativity and on mass–energy equivalence (\"E = mc2\"). He had an infant son in 1905 (born May 1904).\nThe use of the term \"dad\" helps readers tune in emotionally. \"Proving scientists wrong about everything\" is obviously an inflation of Einstein's achievements. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect; his work on relativity was still not accepted by many physicists at that time.\n1912 - 6 Titanic survivors who should have died\nSinking of the RMS Titanic. \"should have died\" seems to be referring to six passengers whose survival was downright miraculous, though the wording is (deliberately) ambiguous to imply the six passengers deserved to have died. Possibly referred to here is the survival of J. Bruce Ismay, chairman and managing director of the White Star Line (the company responsible for the Titanic), who was condemned as a coward for leaving the sinking liner.\n1920 - 17 things that will be outlawed now that women can vote\nThe Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, guaranteeing voting rights for women in all US states. The prediction of new prohibitions is a reference to alcohol prohibition under the authority granted to the federal government by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. While the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified before women's suffrage was guaranteed by the Nineteeth, alcohol prohibition was widely seen as an issue driven by women's opinions (hence the suggestion that more things would be prohibited now that women had the vote).\n1928 - This one weird mold kills all germs\nPenicillin was discovered.\n1929 - Most embarrassing reactions to the stock market crash [GIFS]\nThis is a reference to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the most devastating stock market crash in history and the beginning of the Great Depression. The \"embarassing reactions\" may be a reference to the suicides of people suddenly impoverished by the depression.\n[GIFS] indicates that the post will contain animated GIF images, which are a crude form of short video. Presumably, these GIFs will feature the aforementioned suicides, which would be considered tasteless at best. The GIF89a specification which supports animation was released in 1990, so animated GIFs (or computers for that matter) didn't exist in 1929.\n1945 - These 9 Nazi atrocities will make you lose faith in humanity\n1945 is the year that World War II ended. It's also the year that many war crimes committed by Nazi Germany were discovered or declassified. These events would be cause enough for anyone to re-evaluate their belief in the inherent goodness of the human race. However, the specific phrase \"lose faith in humanity\" is one often employed on the web by rather over-dramatic people in response to something someone did to exasperate them; and because that particular wording is closely associated with exaggerative tendencies, its usage in relation to Nazi war crimes only downplays their seriousness.\n1948 - 5 insane plans for feeding West Berlin you won't believe are real\n1948 is when the Soviet Union established the Berlin Blockade, preventing food and other critical supplies from reaching occupied Berlin. In response, Western forces organized the Berlin Airlift.\n1955 - Avoid polio with this one weird trick\nThe polio vaccine was developed.\n\"One weird trick\" is a common phrase used in Internet ads: see this article for more information. It may also refer to the fact that polio viruses were used as the first vaccines.\n1957 - 12 nip slips potentially visible to Sputnik\nThe Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. A nip slip is when a woman unintentionally exposes all or part of one or both of her nipples; in the context of the internet, it generally refers to a photograph capturing such a moment.\nIt would of course have to be some really big nips to be visible from space... So click ahead then!\n1968 - This year's assassinations ranked from most to least tragic\nMartin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy (John F. Kennedy's younger brother) were both assassinated in 1968 (five years after JFK).\nAssassinations are rare and considered to be always tragic, so \"ranking\" them trivializes the political and emotional depth of the events.\n1969 - This is the most important photo of an astronaut you'll see all day\nApollo 11 performed the first manned lunar landing. During this historic trip newspapers printed as many pictures of astronauts as they could.\n1986 - This video of a terminally ill child watching the Challenger launch will break your heart\nSpace Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. See Space Shuttle Challenger disaster for details. This was the first shuttle mission that included a teacher on board as part of the crew (Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space Project), so there were many children -- a New York Times poll put the number at 48% of 9-13 year olds in the US -- watching this particular launch live as teachers around the country had TV sets in their classrooms showing the ill-fated launch in real time. The launch was not shown on most mainstream TV stations; only CNN broadcast it live.\nSince this many children did see it, there would also have been several terminal ill children watching, and likely also some press out at one such place. So they could get this picture. And again toy with our emotions.\n1989 - You won't believe what these people did to the Berlin wall! [video]\nFall of the Berlin Wall.\n[video] indicates a link to a video\nJan 1, 1990 - 500 signs you're a 90s kid\nA 90s kid is someone born in the late 80s or early 90s (and spent most their childhood in the 1990s). Headlines like this one from BuzzFeed toy with their readers' sense of nostalgia. The parody headline is funny because it starts precisely on the first day of the 1990s, meaning that the only \"90s kids\" that it would apply to would be newborns. This is a reference to a common joke about the 90s not having a concrete identity in some ways like the 70s or 80s did in terms of popular culture, and yet those born in that decade always seem to have long lists of things that make you a \"90s kid\".\nThe title text: 1916: 'Physicist dad' turns his attention to gravity, and you won't believe what he finds. [PICS] [NSFW]\nEinstein published his theory of General relativity, which is a vast generalization of the theory of Special relativity from 1905 and provides a model for gravity. In 1916 Einstein had two sons who lived in Zurich while he lived in Berlin.\n[NSFW] is \"Not Safe for Work\" - a tag to identify explicit images. Here it is used to trick readers hoping to find pornography.\n[PICS] tells the potential viewer that there are images embedded\nIf you think of Gravity as a girls name, then the references to porn becomes more obvious.\nThis topic is re-used in 1307: Buzzfeed Christmas.\n[Caption above the frame:]\n20th Century Headlines\nRewritten to get more clicks\n[The years are always written at the center. The text has a line pointing to the relevant year. The first text is written to the left of the year. Then the texts below is alternately written to the right and to the left, finishing at the right in 1990.]\n\"1912 is, of course, the year of the the sinking of the RMS Titanic.\" I don't think this is such a given fact that people know when the Titanic sank. I'm removing the \"of course\". And someone should add an explanation for how these titles are supposed to get more clicks, and what \"getting more clicks\" even means or worth. I'd do it myself, but I'm on my phone... on second thought, let me boot my laptop... 95.35.58.162 06:31, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nOkay, I added a short explanation for now. Someone should fix it, add mentions to NSFW photo articles and list articles (5 easy ways to add 10 years to your life expectancy!). I'm out. 95.35.58.162 07:10, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nDon’t you think the 1916 headline is a reference to the fatness of someone’s mom? Quoti (talk) 07:28, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nfat mom (married to physicist dad?) and gravity: Gravitational Mass. Perhaps he found pictures of her down in the gravity well? What do you think? 195.37.42.200 16:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nSurely \"1916 :'PHYSICIST DAD' TURNS HIS ATTENTION TO GRAVITY\" is a second reference to Einstein?[1] Wwoods (talk) 07:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\n\"1986 - This video of a terminally ill child watching the Challenger launch will break your heart\" - Probably has something to do with the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown as well? 212.123.0.8 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)\nI don't think so. The child is probably American. Xhfz (talk) 12:38, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nThe Challenger was in January. Chernobyl was in April. No one watching the Challenger launch was sick from Chernobyl, because it hadn't happened yet.108.162.215.61 19:21, 22 February 2014 (UTC)\n\"Jan 1st 1990: 500 signs you're a 90s kid\" - Can somebody explain this one? This is the only one I, and so far explainxkcd, cannot link to a specific historical event. Or is this supposed to be an example of an attention grabbing headline on a day nothing happened?--108.17.2.71 13:05, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nI think it is making fun of sensational news - making news out of nothing. Here, on the very first day of the 90's, the newspapers already have 500 signs that you are a 90's kid. But nothing has actually happened so far. Sayno2quat (talk) 13:16, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nAlternatively, it can be written as, \"20 signs you're a 70s kid\" 108.162.212.200 15:54, 5 November 2013 (UTC)\nI changed the line about the 1929 crash being \"the largest stock market crash in history\" to \"the most devastating stock market crash\", as it wasn't the largest. By points, it's not even worth mentioning. By percentage (which is more important anyway), it ranks second to the 1987 crash. In 1929, the crash was 13% in one day, and 24% over two days. The 1987 crash was 22% in one day, and 30% over five days. JamesCurran (talk) 15:55, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nAnd by sticking to the formula \"the most (something) in (something)\" you are inadvertently falling into the sensationalist language this cartoon mocks. (At least with checked facts) 173.245.53.110 14:26, 30 October 2013 (UTC)\n\"1969 - Last peek at Naked Singularities. [NSFW]\" --FbFree --128.135.70.205 15:59, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nThis seems like a subtle dig at Cracked.com 76.79.82.50 17:28, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nAnd Buzzfeed and Huffington Post and so on... (And not so subtle.) --Jeff (talk) 17:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nJohn Gordon Mein, the United States Ambassador to Guatemala, were also assassinated in 1968. he was \"the first United States ambassador to be assassinated while serving in office\". --valepert (talk) 18:14, 28 October 2013 (UTC)\nAm I the only one who wants to read these articles? 108.162.246.117 04:04, 1 November 2013 (UTC)\nKennedy was assassinated in 1963, not '68. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy 173.245.52.197 17:45, 24 November 2013 (UTC)\nPlease don't mix up Robert F. Kennedy with John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). I did revert your edit.--Dgbrt (talk) 19:53, 24 November 2013 (UTC)\nAnd just for some more understanding: 1968 has been the most terrible year for the United States. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated far after LBJ did sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 originally proposed by JFK. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while he was running as a candidate for the Democratic Party (United States) for the 1968 President election. Massive student protest did occur at that year, mainly caused by the Vietnam War. That year was a horror for every US citizen, and even more.--Dgbrt (talk) 20:20, 24 November 2013 (UTC)\nI saw this in Reader's Digest, specifically (named by date): 1912, 1920, 1928, 1929, 1948, 1969, and 1989. I just found this yesterday. --173.245.56.85 23:46, 12 February 2014 (UTC)\nRetrieved from \"https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1283:_Headlines&oldid=174062\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1582304"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.640740156173706,"wiki_prob":0.35925984382629395,"text":"Private jet is the best new way for VIPs to travel south: Casa Marina, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, now offers direct seaplane air service with Key West Seaplanes from Florida airports to the property’s private beach pier. Slightly farther north on Key Largo, Playa Largo Resort & Spa debuted last summer with signature Sunshine State coral reefs and sea glass, plus 144 rooms and suites, 10 secluded bungalows and a standalone luxury guesthouse.\nDespite all those staycations, the Channel Islands are as close as you get to the UK when it comes to water-surrounded land masses: you prefer to cast your net wider, to the warmer Indian Ocean, Caribbean or Mediterranean – and, increasingly, as far as the Philippines, which has more than 7,600 islands to choose between. The Greek Islands were the classical winners though, and this year’s overall number one, scoring highly for scenery and people, though Sicily’s food was tastier and the Maldives has better places to stay.\nLocated on the eastern coast of Malaysia, the Perhentians consist of two islands. Both are stunningly covered with a lot of palm trees, wide beaches, and crystal blue water. There’s not much to do here, and visitors typically lay on the beach all day, resting from last night’s drinking. It’s the perfect place to put up a hammock. A strong monsoon season limits when to go to between March and October. During the other times, it’s best to head to Thailand, where the weather is nicer.\nYou’d have to check the schedule for your specific dates but I think Santorini then Milos then Paros then Naxos and Athens would probably be the best order. 3 days in each sounds great. Or a small tweak: 2 days in Milos and then 4 days in Santorini (splitting time between 2 of the 4 caldera towns) or even 4 days in Paros (splitting time between Naousa and Parikia).\nThough this country has some 322 islands, less than a third are inhabited. Most of the action happens in the western islands, but no matter where you go, this is heaven. Any time the name Fiji is heard, visions of beaches and tropical ocean dance in people’s head. There’s a good reason for that – because this place is one of the best places to go in the world, and with so many islands, you’re bound to find one you like.\nIn 2017, 4.1 billion passengers have been carried by airlines in 41.9 million commercial scheduled flights (an average payload of 98 passengers), for 7.75 trillion passenger kilometres (an average trip of 1890 km) over 45,091 airline routes served globally. In 2016, air transport generated $704.4 billion of revenue in 2016, employed 10.2 million workers, supported 65.5 million jobs and $2.7 trillion of economic activity: 3.6% of the global GDP.[60]\nGreat list Matt! Indeed, there obviously there are some spots on this globe I have to visit. Can confirm the Maldives though. Has changed over time, but then again, the first time they were still “exploring” their “tourist economy” potential. Been there twice now and although definitely more crowded still holds its appeal. Be prepared for culture shock though. If you return to the “civilised world” you will wonder about the rest of the grubby world and catch yourself day dreaming regularly. 😉","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1163319"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5947816967964172,"wiki_prob":0.5947816967964172,"text":"Next:INFANTRY: Improvise Or Die\nWarplanes: F-35 Pilot Reviews\nApril 29, 2019: As more F-35 stealth fighters enter service their database of effective tactics and operating techniques is rapidly expanding. One thing the F-35 does extremely well is use automated flight controls that allow the pilot to carry out maneuvers that would require a lot more experience in older (F-15. Su-30) aircraft but are much easier for an F-35 pilot. The more experienced pilots know a lot more useful maneuvers than new pilots but because of the adaptive F-35 flight control software, it is much easier for new pilots to master an unfamiliar maneuver. The best way to explain this is the experience of British carrier pilots who formerly flew Harrier vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and were now using the F-35B (the vertical takeoff and landing version). The British pilots say difficult carrier landings that could be terrifying in a Harrier (which U.S. Marine Corps pilots also used on small carriers) were surprisingly easy with an F-35B. As British pilots began carrying out landings on the new British carrier they were pleasantly surprised. The F-35B flight control automatically adapted to all the rapidly changing wind and carrier movement variables and allowed you to land without a lot of stress. Handling the F-35B, in general, was much easier, and safer, than the Harrier. Hovering, for example, required a lot of continuous effort and attention from a Harrier pilot. In the F-35B the pilot could fly the aircraft to a position and hover and the aircraft would remain where it was flown to without additional effort by the pilots no matter how much the weather changed.\nAll this ease of flying enables F-35 pilots to concentrate on something that does still require a lot of decision making by the pilot; stealth management and threat management. The stealth characteristics of the F-35 make it more difficult for radar to detect it. How the pilots fly in a combat zone can improve the effectiveness of stealth. That is done by learning to manage the flood of “threat management” data that F-35 pilots have access to. By being able to concentrate on stealth and threat management F-35 pilots achieve what has been the key element in air combat since 1914; getting in the first shot. From 2014 into the 1940s the key to success in air-to-air combat was knowing how to fly into a position where you would see the enemy first and carry out a surprise attack. The earliest of these tricks was the World War I tactics of trying to have the sun behind you to make it more difficult for the enemy to see you coming. Another tactic was trying to get higher and out of sight (for as long as possible) until you could dive on the enemy aircraft in a high speed and unexpected attack. In effect, “stealth” and the resulting surprise was always the key to victory. The F-35 was designed with that in mind. The radar stealth and maneuverability isn’t as good as the F-22, but the F-35 “situational awareness” is much better. Pilots who have flown the F-22 and F-35 always note that and point out that, in the hands of an experienced pilot, it makes the F-35 a more effective aircraft than the older and more expensive F-22.\nThe F-35 was designed to have “affordable stealth” and much more effective sensors and electronics. The F-35 stealth is much less expensive than that in the F-22 and initial Israeli combat experience over Lebanon and Syria indicates that the stealth and internal electronic countermeasures more than make up to for that. The passive sensors and “sensor fusion” software of the F-35 also appear to be working as advertised. In the cockpit, the pilot has one large (20 inch diagonal) LCD showing all needed aircraft data with more showing on the pilots JHMDS helmet visor. That is all very well, but as with the very capable F-22, it wasn’t performance that limited procurement but excessive cost.\nWhat the F-35 flight management software and situational awareness demonstrate is that the usual measures of a superior fighter aircraft (speed, maneuverability) no longer matter as much. An F-35 is more likely to see the other aircraft first, fire first and be more aware of the changing battle situation than enemy pilots in, on paper, faster and more maneuverable aircraft.\nEven when the F-35 is hit and damaged the flight control software senses the damage and automatically flies differently to compensate for the damage. That takes a lot of stress off the pilot who can concentrate on threat and stealth management to complete the mission and get the aircraft back to base. Another important aspect of the F-35 is that its flight control and threat management software is built to be constantly updated by pilot experience. As more pilots fly the F-35 and experiment with different techniques, its software is updated to become more capable. Those updates require more attention to post-change testing. That’s because there are so many interconnections within the flight control software. Those have to be tested to prevent unexpected results when the pilot is most vulnerable to that sort of thing.\nAll these positive reviews from F-35 pilots have made it more likely sales will increase. In 2001 the U.S. believed 5,100 F-35s would be sold but the rising costs and increasing delays drove that down to 3,100 by 2013 and 2,500 by 2018. Now that some F-35s are actually in service (F-35As and 35Bs) and getting good reviews from users, existing and potential customers are increasing their orders. That may not last, because there is a lot still to be discovered about how well the F-35 will do in comparison to the many F-16s, F-15s, F-18s and AV-8s it will replace. The F-35C was supposed to enter service in 2018 but now it looks like 2019 is more likely and that will not have an impact on foreign sales because few, if any, were ever expected.\nCurrently, the F-35 is, at $405 billion, one of the most expensive defense procurement projects ever. Total development cost is now put at $70 billion, which comes to nearly $30 million per aircraft if only 2,500 are built. Development costs for the new U.S. F-35 fighter-bomber have grown more than a third over the last few years as the aircraft finally entered service. The additional development costs were accompanied by additional delays.\nThe 31 ton F-35 is mainly defined by the land-based F-35A which is armed with an internal 25mm cannon and four internal air-to-air missiles (or two missiles and two smart bombs) plus four external smart bombs and two missiles. All sensors are carried internally and max weapon load is 6.8 tons. The aircraft is very stealthy when just carrying internal weapons. The F-35B and C do not have the internal cannon and the B model has less internal space for weapons.\nLike the F-22, which had production capped at less than 200 aircraft, the capabilities, as superior as they are, may not justify the much higher costs. The F-22 fighter is stealthier than the F-35, especially from the side and rear. The F-22 is more maneuverable and has two engines instead of one in the F-35. Both are stuffed with a lot of new technology. Obviously, the F-35 tech is more recent and more powerful. For example, the stealth coatings in the F-35 are far easier (and cheaper) to maintain than those in the F-22. But time will tell (and soon) just how much cheaper the F-35 is to maintain as an operational aircraft.\nInitially, it was believed that most (about 60 percent) of the F-35s built would be used by foreign nations. The rising cost of the F-35 brought with it a reluctance to buy as many aircraft as customers originally planned. The success of smart bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan has also made it clear that fewer aircraft will be needed in the future. In any event, it's likely that F-35s will end up costing more than $100 million each and many current and potential customers realized they could upgrade some of their F-16s and get along just fine until it was clear that the F-35 was effective and affordable. That means the F-35 has to prove it is affordable to maintain. For most modern fighters operations and maintenance are 65 percent of the lifetime cost of the aircraft. Currently, the F-35A is 40 percent more expensive to maintain per flight hour than the F-16s most it will replace. The F-35 manufacturer says they can reduce that gap but potential buyers will want to see that in action first. Another deal breaker is the long time it takes to modify the F-35 software and certify non-U.S. weapons for use. This is proving to be another obstacle to foreign sales. So is the U.S. policy of allowing little foreign user access to the source code of the software. That’s a security measure and the only way around it (to help sales) is to make software changes requested by foreign users in a timely and affordable fashion. Same with construction costs, which are said to be falling to under $100 million per F-35A over the next few years but that goal seems out of reach and $110 million is more likely.\nSOMALIA: The Prize And The Pride\nINFANTRY: Improvise Or Die\nWarplanes: Current 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 ","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1341465"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9276948571205139,"wiki_prob":0.9276948571205139,"text":"Is Lebanon Embracing a Larger Russian Role in Its Country?\nCommentary World\nNour Samaha\nRussia is rapidly expanding its footprint in the Middle East as it seeks to assert itself as a dominant player in the region. Today, it has several military bases in Syria; it has signed lucrative business and military deals with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, and Iran; it has bought shares in oil and gas in the Mediterranean; and—as the only actor that has relations with almost everyone—it is proving to be the go-to mediator for the conflicts across the region. And now Lebanon is in Moscow’s crosshairs.\nBilateral agreements and trade deals over the last couple of years demonstrate that both Lebanon and Russia are working to forge a closer alliance. While many agree the groundwork has been laid, what is still lacking is the political will towards greater formal cooperation on the Lebanese side. But with the formation of a new government and a changing landscape in the region, Lebanon’s political, business, and religious communities are now looking to Russia as a more willing and suitable partner with whom to work, especially in light of mounting U.S. pressure on Lebanon’s political and economic systems.\nA more expansive Russian role in Lebanon today would prove to be significant for both states, and for Russia’s imprint in the Middle East. Russia is looking to cement its sphere of influence in the region, with Syria as its epicenter, and it views Lebanon, a smaller state whose eastern and northern borders Syria nearly surrounds, as a natural extension of that effort. Furthermore, for Russia’s Lebanese partners, Russia’s rise as a vigorous rival to the United States, European Union, and China suggests opportunities for an uncomplicated infusion into the Lebanese economy, an economy that is in desperate need of a boost as the latter powers retreat from engaging with the country. For Lebanon’s ruling majority—which today consists of Hezbollah and its local pro-Damascus allies—a close relationship with Russia would mean reduced dependence on the United States, and therefore a significant shift in regional dynamics.\nThe Lebanese government has already taken steps to bolster the country’s relationship with Russia. Lebanon’s trade and economy minister, Raed Khoury, told Russia’s Sputnik news site last year that he wanted to boost Lebanon’s trade with Russia threefold to some $1.5 billion within the next two to three years by increasing agricultural exports, signing bilateral agreements within the pharmaceuticals industry, and increasing mutual investment in the banking sector. A few days later, a cooperation agreement between the two states that focused on removing obstacles in trade was signed.\nOther bilateral agreements are also being forged, including one on educational and cultural exchanges and another on combating illegal drug smuggling and criminal activity, that latter of which is expected to be ratified after the government formation process has been completed.\nFor those within the pro-Damascus axis, Russia’s close ties with the Syrian government and Assad’s allies Hezbollah has transitioned into a close working relationship with Hezbollah and its local allies in Lebanon, who now hold the majority in the newly elected parliament.\nThose within the business community in Lebanon see Russia as a conduit to economic investment in Syria as the country gears up for reconstruction, given Russia’s de facto role as mediator for Assad’s government and the outside world. For those within the anti-Syrian government axis, Russia provides them with a link to Damascus without having to deal directly with the Syrian government; this month both right-wing Christian parties, Kata’eb and the Lebanese Forces, have called on Russia to mediate between the Lebanese government and the Syrian government to facilitate the return of refugees to Syria, and Saad Hariri, the current prime minister of Lebanon, is now actively working with a Russian delegation on a joint committee to facilitate their return.\nThose within the business community in Lebanon see Russia as a conduit to economic investment in Syria as the country gears up for reconstruction…\nLebanon’s political establishment and tycoons aren’t the only ones with a growing investment in Russia. There are, too, those within the minority sects who view Russia as a protector during a period where minorities are being targeted and driven out the region—which these sects claim is a direct result of U.S. foreign policy actions in the region. While in the past Russia has largely remained on the sidelines with respect to sectarian issues in Lebanon, in recent years it has positioned itself as a partner and ally of the eastern sects (the Christian sects rooted in the East, such as the Orthodox, Melkites, Assyrians and Maronites, as opposed to those who originated in the West, such as the Protestants, Evangelicals, and Roman Catholics), even taking on the role as mediator between the different Christian sects. For the eastern sects, Russia is seen as a natural ally in the face of America’s Evangelical Christians, who are viewed suspiciously for their close relationship with Israel.\n“The Russians are working on multiple fronts in Lebanon,” a former MP from the March 14 coalition, the alliance that brought Prime Minister Hariri to power, told The Century Foundation. “They are stepping into a void that has been left by the Americans.”\nHistorically, influence over Lebanon has been shared between different regional and international stakeholders: largely the United States, Saudi Arabia and France. But where these traditional guarantors are today weighing out the costs and benefits of continued investment in Lebanon in light of regional and domestic shifts—or have simply shifted their attention elsewhere—Russia sees this as an opportunity to step up and fill the vacuum they are leaving behind.\nChanges in a Traditional Sphere of Influence\nFor decades the United States has worked hard to keep Lebanon within its sphere, an investment so deep that it deployed Marines to Lebanon’s shores twice, once in 1958 and then again in 1982. It has entrenched itself in Lebanon’s educational, scientific, health, social, and cultural institutions: some of Lebanon’s most prestigious institutions are United States-affiliated, including the American University of Beirut, the Lebanese American University, and the American University Hospital. Last year, America broke ground for its new $1 billion embassy compound, a huge amount to spend on a massive complex in a country of only approximately five million people, and it also continues to be one of the largest donors in military aid to the Lebanese security forces—$1.7 billion since 2007. It has also embedded dozens of U.S. military officers within Lebanese security forces to help train and equip them.\nFor the United States, these efforts to maintain a strong foothold in Lebanon have been largely in the interest of attempting to offset Hezbollah’s power and what the United States sees as expanding Iranian influence in the country. But as Hezbollah’s local allies gain more power and the party continues its close working relationship with Lebanon’s security forces, there are now heated debates in Washington over whether Lebanon is a “lost cause” and whether American investment is costly and ineffective, or whether the United States should continue its efforts to build a stronger state that can eventually “absorb’ Hezbollah’s power—whereby, in theory, strong institutions, a centralised state and a strong army will reduce dependence on Hezbollah as a military force and as an organisation that provides welfare services in areas where the state is lacking.\n…as Hezbollah’s local allies gain more power and the party continues its close working relationship with Lebanon’s security forces, there are now heated debates in Washington over whether Lebanon is a “lost cause” and whether American investment is costly and ineffective…\nOn the ground in Beirut, America’s local allies say this uncertainty on what the United States should do with their Lebanon relations is further exacerbated by the “pro-Hezbollah, anti-Israel” rhetoric coming from leading political figures, including the president, the army chief, and the head of general security.\n“The Americans don’t like to hear this, that the Lebanese army chief and the president will fight ‘the Zionists,’” said a Lebanese source close to the United States in Lebanon. “Or that the security agencies are working closely with Hezbollah.”\nYet as the U.S. administration mulls whether to expand and enforce tougher sanctions on Hezbollah that could include political affiliates, many in Lebanon—on both sides of the political divide—are now looking towards Russia as a viable alternative willing to invest economically and militarily without political preconditions.\n“The Americans are willing to concede some influence if the other side is a side they can deal with, which would be Russia. We’ve seen this in Syria,” the source said. “And if it serves to counter or contain Iranian presence in Lebanon.”\nEyes on Lebanon\nHistorically, Lebanon was not of strategic value to Moscow. During the Soviet years, while it had close ties with the leftist, communist, and secularist factions in Lebanon (largely through arms and military training) and facilitated thousands of Lebanese students to study in the Soviet Union, it never had the ability nor the interest to invest in educational, scientific, or even cultural institutions that could compete with those of the United States in Lebanon.\nBut today, the re-establishment of joint military bases in Syria and the recent signing of a fifty-year military deal to maintain a presence in Syria, not to mention the millions of dollars’ worth of economic investments in the country, are concrete indications that Russia plans on staying in the Levant for the long term—and that they see Lebanon as a natural and vital extension to its presence and influence in Syria.\nTilting Lebanon into its sphere of influence would allow Russia to protect its continuing presence in Syria, and establish a strong and permanent foothold along the eastern Mediterranean coast, from there serving its oil and gas projects. In 2014 Russia signed the rights to exploration of Syria’s offshore gas fields, and further consolidated its presence on the Mediterranean in December last year after winning the offshore energy rights to explore for oil and gas in Lebanon’s fields. And as the terms of the agreement stipulate, exploration can last for up to ten years, and if commercial reserves are proved and a development plan is approved by the Lebanese government, they have the “right to tap gas and oil during 25 years after its approval with an extension option.”\nLebanese sources say Russia’s involvement in the oil and gas field means it can also play a positive role in preventing Israeli interference in the exploration and extraction in the blocks between the two countries—specifically Block 9, which Israel falsely claims as theirs and where Russia will be working.\nMilitarily, Russia had tried in the past to bolster a stronger cooperation with the Lebanese government—in 2008, then Lebanese defense minister Elias el Murr, a close U.S. ally, rebuffed a military package from Russia consisting of dozens of T-72 tanks, ammunition, and ten free MiG-29 fighter jets. Following a veiled warning from then-U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, Michele Sison, who told him the Moscow “deal” had led to many questions in Washington, he promised he would stall, later saying the Lebanese army would not be accepting them, not “before 2040!” The deal never came into fruition.\nBut the situation started to change last year. Suddenly, parliament approved a technical military cooperation agreement with Russia—a deal that had been frozen since 2012. An amendment was hastily added that would see Lebanon receiving military aid from Russia—the first shipment of which is expected to arrive at the beginning of September.\nTilting Lebanon into its sphere of influence would allow Russia to protect its continuing presence in Syria, and establish a strong and permanent foothold along the eastern Mediterranean coast, from there serving its oil and gas projects.\nThis paved the way for Russia to offer an even more lucrative military deal—one that would see the Lebanese army receiving Russian weaponry over a span of fifteen years to the tune of around $1 billion, and with no interest on the repayments. This time it looked likely to go through: the president approved it, the army approved it, and the defense minister was set to sign it on his trip to Moscow. But intense pressure from both the United States’ and the United Kingdom’s ambassadors in Lebanon forced Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri to shelve the deal—according to numerous sources close to the Russians and close to the premier—and he abruptly cancelled the defense minister’s trip.\nAccording to a source close to Hariri, the United States will only accept Russian influence in Lebanon within certain parameters. “If buying Russian weapons signals a big shift towards Russia, the Americans are not going to accept that. And as long as it won’t be used as a means to pressure America. America won’t accept this kind of game,” he said.\nFearing the deal may be formally accepted after the government formation, Washington reasserted pressure on Hariri not to sign the deal. But sources within the Russian camp in Lebanon have made it clear that while there is a consensus to give Hariri some space for the time being, they are confident that this deal and others will go through after the government is formed.\nAs one source close to the Russians in Lebanon said, “The Russians have patience because the groundwork is ready for this level of partnership, and they are betting on the shift in the political atmosphere.”\nAs this source’s confidence indicates, Russia has been playing a long game in the Middle East. It has carefully cultivated economic, military, and political ties with the region’s powerhouses, powerhouses that had traditionally been firmly in America’s camp: namely Turkey, the Gulf countries, and Egypt. Its historical alliances with both Iran and Syria are stronger than ever. Even Israel is turning to Russia as a security guarantor and mediator with its neighbors. And now Lebanon, where the United States has historically maintained outsized influence over the tiny state, is pivoting—the most recent indicator of a new Middle Eastern footprint for Moscow, and something which will have repercussions for decades to come.\nTags: lebanon, russia, putin\nTCF World Podcast: Israel’s Global Security Industry\nMarch 12, 2019 By Rohan Advani\nTCF World Podcast: The Challenges of Defending Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy\nDecember 4, 2018 By Thanassis Cambanis\nCommentary Arab Politics Beyond The Uprisings\nEnd the Atrocities in Yemen, Then End the War on Terror\nTCF World Podcast: How to Research Lebanon’s Youth Problem (and Other Questions)\nJuly 23, 2018 By Thanassis Cambanis\nNour Samaha, Contributor\nNour Samaha is a Beirut-based journalist who has been covering the Middle East for ten years. Her work from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and Egypt has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Newsweek Middle East, Al Monitor, and Al Jazeera.\nReport World\nA Return to American Restraint Begins in Syria\nJuly 10, 2019 — By Thanassis Cambanis and Michael Wahid Hanna\nTaking on Turkey’s Authoritarian President\nJuly 1, 2019 — By Selim Can Sazak\nTCF World Podcast: Defining a Progressive Middle East Policy\nJune 17, 2019 — By Thanassis Cambanis, Michael Wahid Hanna and Daniel Benaim\nThe UN Made a List of Hospitals in Syria. Now They’re Being Bombed.\nJune 13, 2019 — By Aron Lund\nThe Logic behind Israel’s Democratic Erosion\nMay 29, 2019 — By Dahlia Scheindlin\nTCF World Podcast: America’s Blind Spot on Palestine\nMay 28, 2019 — By Michael Wahid Hanna and Khaled Elgindy","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line329993"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6368181109428406,"wiki_prob":0.6368181109428406,"text":"NUTRITION&FOOD Published September15, 2015 By Angela Betsaida Laguipo\nMain Ingredient In Red Wine, Chocolates Show Promise In Alzheimer's Treatment\n(Photo : David Silverman / Getty Images News)\nA new study discovered that highly concentrated form of a compound in red wine and dark chocolates may have effects against the progression of Alzheimer's disease. They found out that resveratrol could show promise in the debilitating disease's treatment.\nResveratrol is an antioxidant that plants produce to protect them against stress from the environment. It can be extracted from wine, red grapes, berries or dark chocolate, reports the U.S. News and World Report.\nThe study, published in the journal Neurology, is the first to shed light on the effects of resveratrol on Alzheimer's disease which is the ninth leading cause of death among Americans. In fact, in 2013, as many as 5 million Americans were living with Alzheimer's disease and by 2050, this number is projected to reach around 14 million.\nAccording to Scott Turner, director of the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center and lead author of the study, reiterates that further research is needed despite the success of the phase 2 of their clinical trial, reports Washington Post.\nHowever, they found out that the compound produced a promising effect on the level of beta amyloid, the abnormal protein found in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Those who consumed two grams of resveratrol had stabilized levels of this protein. This protein should decrease in time as the disease progresses because it will form plagues in the brain.\nThe study did not specifically show whether people's symptoms were stabilized too. Health experts caution that this study needs further investigation and larger trials are needed .\n\"It does appear to be safe, and we did find evidence that resveratrol can get into the brain,\" Turner said.\nHe added, \"We're not ready to recommend it as a treatment for Alzheimer's.\"\nYet supplements containing the said compound are now available in many drug stores.\nStudy Shows Experimental Drug Can Encourage Bone Growth in Children with Dwarfism Being Overweight as a teen may be Associated with Higher Risk of Heart Muscle Disease… Protection by the Malaria Vaccine: Not Only a Matter of Quantity But Also of Quality What Happens When Your Picky Eater Becomes a Teenager? Receiving weekend Food Improves School Attendance Among Children Living with Hunger","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1715282"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5609409809112549,"wiki_prob":0.4390590190887451,"text":"First-trimester placental protein 13 screening for preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction.\nOBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate first-trimester serum placental protein 13 (PP13) as a screening test for preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). STUDY DESIGN: We performed a prospective, nested case-control study in the Massachusetts General Hospital Obstetric Maternal Study. PP13 was measured by solid-phase sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in serum samples that were collected at the first prenatal visit (9-12 weeks of gestation) from women who subsequently experienced preeclampsia (n = 47), IUGR (n = 42), or preterm delivery (n = 46). Women with uncomplicated term deliveries served as control subjects (n = 290) and were matched to cases by gestational age when serum was collected and for the duration of specimen storage. RESULTS: The median first-trimester PP13 level was 132.5 pg/mL in the control subjects. Median PP13 levels were significantly lower among women who had preeclampsia (27.2 pg/mL; P < .001), IUGR (86.6 pg/mL; P < .001), and preterm delivery (84.9 pg/mL; P = .007). When PP13 was expressed as multiples of the gestational age-specific medians among the control subjects, the multiples of the medians were 0.2 for preeclampsia, 0.6 for IUGR, and 0.6 for preterm delivery (P < .001 for each disorder compared with control subjects). Receiver operating characteristic analysis yielded areas under the curve of 0.91, 0.65, and 0.60 for preeclampsia, IUGR, and preterm delivery, respectively. At a 90% specificity rate, the corresponding sensitivities were 79%, 33%, and 28%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The screening of maternal PP13 levels in the first trimester is a promising diagnostic tool for the prediction of preeclampsia with high sensitivity and specificity.\nWolf, Myles Selig\nChafetz, I; Kuhnreich, I; Sammar, M; Tal, Y; Gibor, Y; Meiri, H; Cuckle, H; Wolf, M\nAmerican Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology\n35.e1 - 35.e7\n10.1016/j.ajog.2007.02.025\nEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay\nFetal Growth Retardation\nGalectins\nGestational Age\nObstetric Labor, Premature\nPre-Eclampsia\nPregnancy Proteins\nPregnancy Trimester, First","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line1022432"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6706790924072266,"wiki_prob":0.6706790924072266,"text":"2009-10Last 16Round 4\nLe Mans 73\nFebruary 23, 2010 CET: 20:45\nLocal time: 20:45 PALAU OLÍMPIC DE BADALONA\nWith just two games left in the Last 16, DKV Joventut became the exclusive leader of Group I when it outlasted visiting Le Mans 80-73 on Tuesday in Badalona, Spain. Joventut now has a 3-1 record, one victory more than both Aris BSA and Alba Berlin, while Le Mans is at the bottom of the table with a 1-3 record. After an even first half ended with Joventut getting a slim 48-46 advantage, the third quarter was all defense as the teams split only 15 points between them. The fourth quarter was all suspense as Dewarick Spencer tied 68-68 for Le Mans, but Joventut reacted with a 12-5 run to decide the outcome. Clay Tucker led the winners with 17 points, 8 of them posted in the last quarter. Pere Tomas added 12 and David Jelinek had 10. Spencer led all the scorers with 22 points but he went 0 for 5 from three-point distance. JP Batista amassed a double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds for Le Mans, while Maleye Ndoye contributed 12 points and Anotine Diot 10.\nLuka Bogdanovic opened the fire from beyond the arc for Joventut before Batista answered with 5 points in a row for Le Mans. Mario Fernandez gave a new 7-5 advantage to Joventut, but the teams exchanged leads until David Jelinek tied at 16-16 with a rocket from long distance. Thierry Rupert put Le Mans in front again and Diot kept the guests there with a triple worth a 21-23 lead after 10 minutes. Jelinek remained on fire with another triple to start the second quarter, but Maleye Ndoye showed all his skills scoring 8 consecutive points as Le Mans led 28-30. The game remained balanced with Christian Eyenga tying again on 30-30, Tucker and Kristaps Valters with 3 shots from downtown returned a 39-36 edge to Joventut, while Batista kept his side on track from the free throw line. Spencer put Le Mans in front again 39-40 after scoring 4 free throws, then the lead changed hands seven times in the last 3 minutes of the second quarter before Tucker's free throw fixed a 48-46 halftime score in Joventut's favor.\nBack from the lockers, Tomas ended 3 scoreless minutes from long distance to raise Joventut's margin to 51-46, Batista scored free throws for Le Mans, but the defenses remained dominant on both sides for several minutes. Edu Hernandez-Sonseca finally scored in the paint for the hosts, then Alain Koffi nailed a free throws for the game's biggest lead yet, 54-48. A three-pointer of Charles Kahudi and two easy points for Josep Franch moved the score before Rupert made it 56-53 after 30 minutes. Zack Wright slammed in the ball early in the last quarter to get Le Mans within 56-55. Tomas with another dunk and Tucker with a three-pointer restored a six-point Joventut difference, 65-59, with 5 minutes left. Batista pushed Le Mans with a three-point-play, Franch answered on the break and Spencer put Le Mans closer still at 67-66, forcing a Joventut timeout. Spencer completed the Le Mans surge by forging a 68-68 tie with free throws, but then Tucker matched him and added a triple in a 6-0 run that gave Joventut a 74-68 advantage entering in the last minute. After that, Fernandez was perfect scoring 4 of 4 free throw tries before Tomas sealed Joventut's first-place takeover win with a dunk on the buzzer that promised the home fans more big games ahead.\nReferees: DRABIKOVSKY, VOLODYMR; LOTTERMOSER, ROBERT; MANTYLA, PETRI\nDKV Joventut 21 27 8 24\nLe Mans 23 23 7 20\nDKV Joventut 21 48 56 80\nLe Mans 23 46 53 73\nDKV Joventut\n9 VALTERS, KRISTAPS 6:29 5 1/1 2/2 1 1 1 1 2 3 7\n10 BOGDANOVIC, LUKA 23:14 6 0/2 1/4 3/4 1 2 3 2 1 1 3 8\n11 BUENO, ANTONIO 15:20 6 3/6 1 2 3 1 2 2 1 2 2 6\n14 FRANCH, JOSEP 9:56 7 2/2 1/2 3 1 1 3 2 8\n15 JELINEK, DAVID 12:37 10 2/5 2/5 1 1 2 1 2 1 4\n16 HERNANDEZ-SONSECA, EDU 16:22 4 1/5 2/2 1 2 3 1 4 1 -1\n17 NOREL, HENK DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n19 TOMAS, PERE 27:49 12 4/5 1/4 1/2 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 10\n21 KOFFI, ALAIN 25:04 5 2/3 1/2 2 4 6 1 3 2 1 12\n23 EYENGA, CHRISTIAN 7:25 2 1/1 0/1 1 1 3\n24 TUCKER, CLAY 32:09 17 1/6 4/7 3/4 1 1 4 1 2 1 4 5 12\n34 FERNANDEZ, MARIO 23:35 6 1/1 0/2 4/4 1 5 6 4 2 3 3 16\nTotals 200:00 80 17/36 10/25 16/21 12 20 32 19 8 11 5 5 21 23 91\nHead coach: ALONSO, SITO\n4 WRIGHT, ZACH 21:57 4 2/5 0/1 1 3 4 3 3 2 2 2 6\n5 KAHUDI, CHARLES 18:38 3 0/1 1/1 4 4 1 1 1 2 7\n6 SPENCER, DEWARICK 32:20 22 6/11 0/5 10/10 2 3 5 3 1 1 4 6 22\n7 KAHUDI, HENRI DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n8 DIOT, ANTOINE 26:02 10 2/4 2/4 1 1 2 2 1 5 1 2 3 8\n9 NDOYE, MALEYE 21:03 12 2/3 2/4 2/2 1 1 1 1 3 1 8\n11 YANGO, GUILLAUME 12:28 2 1/3 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 -1\n12 RUPERT, THIERRY 20:50 4 2/10 3 4 7 1 1 1 2\n13 BATISTA, J.P. 25:23 16 4/10 1/1 5/5 4 6 10 1 1 1 2 2 7 24\n15 SALYERS, MARC 21:19 0/2 1 1 1 4 -6\n38.8% 37.5% 100%\nHead coach: JACKSON, JD\nALONSO, SITO\n\"I'm happy with the victory. Every game now is a final, and at times that makes us anxious. For that reason, sometimes players who normally shoot good percentages, like Bogdanovic, don't see the ball go in as comfortably now. The third quarter tonight we controlled thanks to defense. Our young players gave us fresh legs and it helped us. Mario Fernandez directed the team well. Little by little we are feeling better and that translates into more confidence and gets our spirits up. Le Mans still has chances for the Quarterfinals, and today they created lots of problems for us.\"\nJACKSON, JD\n\"I have been a lucky spectator for a game in which my players have given their best until the end against a team that plays in a great league. I am very proud of my players for having defended well against DKV and today we played without complexes. The young players on DKV surprised us and I liked them a lot. We were in the game until the end, and only their good shooting at the right moments has beaten us. DKV certainly showed its class.\"\nFRANCH, JOSEP\n\"It has been an intense game in which we were nervous and anxious at some point due to our desire to seal the outcome as soon as possible. This win will allow us to get confidence for future games. We need to get back our spirit and morale. Le Mans was not an easy opponent for us and made it tough for us until the very end of the game. Our effort and will stood out tonight.\"\nDIOT, ANTOINE\n\"We are leaving with a good taste in our mouths. We were better than Joventut in the first quarter, and the first half was a back-and-forth battle in which both teams played really well. I think we played in a good game and DKV Joventut won it in the end because they were better than us.\"\nREGULAR SEASON LAST 16 QUARTERFINALS FINALS\nRound 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6\nAris Thessaloniki 80\nFebruary 23 20:00 CET LIVE FINAL\nGroup J\nUnics 73\nPower Electronics Valencia 98\nGroup K\nBizkaia Bilbao 76\nBrose Baskets 66\nPanellinios Opap 85\nGroup L\nCrvena Zvezda 76\nGran Canaria 2014 71","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0000.json.gz/line725775"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6869329214096069,"wiki_prob":0.31306707859039307,"text":"Tone Sundgård Anker\nTone Sundgård Anker was born in Trondheim, Norway. She was educated as a music teacher at Østlandets Musikkonservatorium in Oslo. After her teaching diploma she graduated with an orchestral diploma from the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen in Germany as a student of professor Francis Orval. Furthermore she took soloist- and chamber music diploma from Hochschule für Musik Winterthur, Switzerland, with teacher David Johnson. Since 1996 Tone Anker has been the solo horn player in Odense Symfoniorkester, Denmark, and has had several solo performances with this orchestra. She is active as a teacher at Odense Musikskole and Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium and Southern Denmark Conservatory of Music. Besides this she frequently plays chamber music and is a member of a trio for horn, violin and piano. She was interviewed for the IHS E-Newsletter by Advisory Council member Kristina Mascher.\nQ: Tone, you came to Central Europe to study with David Johnson and Francis Orval. What was it that made you return to Scandinavia?\nA: I loved living, studying and working in Germany and Switzerland. I wanted, after 3 years of studying in Oslo, Norway, to get new inspiration and learn from fantastic hornplayers abroad. My plan was to get a job in an orchestra. As you know, you have to work hard, be at the right place at the right time, play your best AND be the one they are looking for..to get a job in an orchestra.I was lucky to be that one in september 1995 in Odense, Denmark. In one break during the audition, I went for a walk and got the feeling, that I would love to stay here, I felt welcome and at home. And I could speak my own language, norwegian, after 4 years of mostly german. I am happy to say, that I am still loving working here in my orchestra and in Denmark.\nQ: Would you say that there is such a thing as the Scandinavian horn sound? If so, how would you describe it?\nA: I don't know if we have our own sound. First, we play on a lot of different horns: Alexander, Paxman, Rauch, Dieter Otto, Dürk etc. So we do not play the same instrument as in Vienna. I also think that we do have a lot of fantastic hornplayers in each of the nordic countries. And they play their own way. We do have \"stars\" in each country that have a big influence of how the rest of the hornplayers are inspired to play.\nQ: What other Scandinavian musicians have been an inspiration to you?\nA: I could mention a lot of inspiring musicians..Frøydis Ree Wekre is one of them. She has had a positive influence for female horn players, by showing us that it is possible to be a woman and a professional hornplayer, in a brass section / world, full of men. I have the pleasure of leading my horn section, of me and 4 male hornplayers, and it has never been a problem, I do feel accepted. I also want to mention the Danish Radio Big Band. I had the big pleasure of playing, with this fantastic group of jazz musicians, a Gil Evans program, in some concerts in Denmark, Norway and Germany. I was totally “high” for weeks and months after. As an orchestra horn player, it was so inspiring to be in this “another world of music and playing”. Much more free! Of course they had music, but they were improvising and playing from their hearts! Beautiful musicians! A gift for me as a classical hornplayer!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line724057"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7002777457237244,"wiki_prob":0.7002777457237244,"text":"NIRF Ranks IIM Ahmedabad As The Best B-school In The Country\nIIMs top the list of best B-schools in a ranking by the National Institute Ranking Framework.\n04 April, 2018 by BW Online Bureau\nIIT Madras Collaborates With GE To Establish India’s First ‘Cold Spray’ SMART Lab\n'IIMs Will Soon Appoint Directors; JNU Research Seats To Go Up'\nIIM-A Held Its 54th Annual Convocation\nIIT Madras Sweeps Top Honours At NIRF And Atal Rankings On Innovation 2019\nThe Indian Institutes of Management – IIM-A, IIM-B, IIM-C and IIM-L were ranked as the best management schools in the country. In 2016 ranked IIM-A which has a rich legacy as an institution of excellence, was ranked as the second best by the NIRF. In 2017, the institute regained its top spot as the best B-school and it seems that 2018 ranking has cemented its position as the best IIM.\nAs the results of the ranking were announced, Prof Errol D’souza, director, IIM-Ahmedabad, said, “We are grateful to the NIRF for ranking us number one for a consecutive year. At IIMA, we constantly strive to strengthen our management education which nurtures future leaders and have always believed in giving a high value of education to our students. We are committed to continue to serve them with vigour by improving our quality on various fronts such as course development, research, placements and infrastructure.\nOther institutes who scored the top ranks in other categories were Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, (IISc) which was ranked as the best university in India, followed by Jawaharlal Nehru Univeristy (JNU) in the second place and Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in the third place.\nIn the best colleges category, Delhi University’s Miranda House retained its top rank while St. Stephens was ranked second and Bishop Heber College came in third.\nThe top engineering colleges were IITs from Madras, Bombay and Calcutta.\nThis year the government through NIRF has introduced nine categories – adding law, architecture and medical to the existing list of universities, engineering colleges, pharmacy and best colleges categories.\niim ahmedabad iim bangalore NIRF mhrd rankings","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1171036"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6610109210014343,"wiki_prob":0.3389890789985657,"text":"NYSE: LBY\n+0.00 +0% Volume: 182,397 July 15, 2019\nNews, Events & Presentations\nStock Purchase Plan\nInvestor Toolbox\nPress Release Details\nLibbey Inc. to Announce 2018 Third Quarter Financial Results November 6, 2018\nTOLEDO, Ohio, Oct. 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Libbey Inc. (NYSE American: LBY), one of the largest glass tableware manufacturers in the world, is scheduled to announce 2018 third quarter financial results on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange.\nChairman and Chief Executive Officer William Foley and Vice President, Chief Financial Officer James Burmeister will host an earnings conference call at 11 a.m. ET on November 6 to discuss the Company's financial results.\nInterested parties may listen to the conference call on Libbey's website at https://investor.libbey.com by clicking on the \"Q3 2018 Libbey Earnings Conference Call\" link. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Company's website. Financial information, including the earnings release and other investor-related material, will also be available online.\nAbout Libbey Inc.\nBased in Toledo, Ohio, Libbey Inc. is one of the largest glass tableware manufacturers in the world. Libbey Inc. operates manufacturing plants in the U.S., Mexico, China, Portugal and the Netherlands. In existence since 1818, the Company supplies tabletop products to retail, foodservice and business-to-business customers in over 100 countries. Libbey's global brand portfolio, in addition to its namesake brand, includes Libbey Signature®, Master's Reserve®, Crisa®, Royal Leerdam®, World® Tableware, Syracuse® China, and Crisal Glass®. In 2017, Libbey Inc.'s net sales totaled $781.8 million. Additional information is available at www.libbey.com.\nView original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/libbey-inc-to-announce-2018-third-quarter-financial-results-november-6-2018-300737312.html\nSOURCE Libbey Inc.\nShop Libbey Online |\nInvestors |\nwww.Libbey.com\nNovember 6, 2018 Libbey Inc. Announces Third-Quarter Results\nOctober 24, 2018 Libbey Inc. to Announce 2018 Third Quarter Financial Results November 6, 2018\nJuly 31, 2018 Libbey Inc. Announces Second-Quarter Results\n11:00 AM EST\nQ3 2018 Libbey Earnings Conference Call\nPress Release?()\n© Copyright - Libbey Inc. Terms & Policies\nSafe Harbor Disclosure:\nThis website may include statements that may be deemed \"forward-looking statements\" as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements reflect only the Company's best assessment at this time and are indicated by words or phrases such as \"goal,\" \"expects,\" \"believes,\" \"will,\" \"estimates,\" \"anticipates,\" or similar phrases. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainty and that actual results may differ materially from these statements, and that investors should not place undue reliance on such statements. These forward-looking statements may be affected by the risks and uncertainties in the Company's business. This information is qualified in its entirety by cautionary statements and risk factor disclosures contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including the Company's report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on March 1, 2018. Important factors potentially affecting performance include but are not limited to increased competition from foreign suppliers endeavoring to sell glass tableware in the United States and Mexico; the impact of lower duties for imported products; global economic conditions and the related impact on consumer spending levels; major slowdowns in the retail, travel or entertainment industries in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Western Europe and Asia, caused by terrorist attacks or otherwise; significant increases in per-unit costs for natural gas, electricity, freight, corrugated packaging, and other purchased materials; high levels of indebtedness; high interest rates that increase the Company's borrowing costs or volatility in the financial markets that could constrain liquidity and credit availability; protracted work stoppages related to collective bargaining agreements; increases in expense associated with higher medical costs, increased pension expense associated with lower returns on pension investments and increased pension obligations; devaluations and other major currency fluctuations relative to the U.S. dollar and the Euro that could reduce the cost competitiveness of the Company's products compared to foreign competition; the effect of high inflation in Mexico and exchange rate changes to the value of the Mexican peso and the earnings and cash flow of Libbey Mexico, expressed under U.S. GAAP; the inability to achieve savings and profit improvements at targeted levels in the Company's operations or within the intended time periods; and whether the Company completes any significant acquisition and whether such acquisitions can operate profitably.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line941436"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5486882925033569,"wiki_prob":0.45131170749664307,"text":"Uno Selects Mirus\nUNO’s selects Mirus to consolidate multiple data sets and create actionable reports for 150 restaurants.\nMarc Bloomstein, VP Operations/Controller of UNO’s, and Dave Bennett, CEO of Mirus Restaurant Solutions, announce that UNO’s has selected Mirus’s for its worldwide chain of restaurants. Bloomstein and his team were facing a flood of data in a variety of formats. “We had a lot of useful data, spread across legacy systems that couldn’t communicate easily. We had to spend a lot of time cutting and pasting to perform the analysis we needed.”\nMirus' cloud base reporting software solved both problems: it consolidated the data, and provided the tools to create actionable reports. Bloomstein adds: “We now have a comprehensive data warehouse, and just as importantly, we have the flexible Mirus Report Writer for quick and easy ad hoc analysis.”\nDave Bennett of Mirus considers that consolidation and custom reporting are two of the major benefits that the Mirus provides. “With our software, Uno’s can now view and analyze all their data drawn from a variety of formats and restaurant configurations, and quickly focus on opportunities and problems.” He adds that “Our field team did a superb job on a tight schedule to meet Uno’s specific needs.”\nMirus had an opportunity to catch up with Mike Scafidi, Loss Prevention Manager, Unos Restaurants, at the Mirus User Conference (MCON) check out an interviews he did with us, links below.\nVIDEO: Mike Scafidi explains why Mirus Restaurant Solutions is great\nVIDEO: Unos Restaurants Describes their Mirus Account Manager\nVIDEO: Unos Restaurants describes how they use Mirus reporting software\nAbout Uno Pizzeria & Grill:\nUno Restaurant Holdings Corporation, based in Boston, Massachusetts, with 28 locations and approximately 1,700 employees within the state, includes over 150 company-owned and franchised restaurants located in 24 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Honduras, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and approximately 9,000 employees worldwide. UNO's mission is to deliver intensely flavorful, delicious and nutritious food in an environment of heartfelt hospitality, and was named America's Healthiest Chain Restaurant by Health magazine. The Company also operates a fast casual concept called Uno Dué Go, a quick service concept called Uno Express and a consumer packaged foods business which supplies airlines, movie theatres, hotels, airports, travel plazas, schools and supermarkets with both frozen and refrigerated private-label foods and Uno branded products.\nFor more information, please visit: unos.com\nAbout Mirus:\nMirus is a web-based reporting software used by multi-unit restaurants. By leveraging information to measure and improve performance, Mirus supports decision makers across operations, finance, marketing, and IT. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Mirus has been a recognized leader in restaurant business intelligence since 1999.\nFor more information, please visit: www.mirus.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1341893"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5172433853149414,"wiki_prob":0.5172433853149414,"text":"Tag Archives: WALL·E\nOctober 5, 2013 by Rohit Jagadeesan\nSilver Week Edition\nWe are reaching a numerical milestone of 25 continuous weeks of publication. I would like to thank each and every one from the 49 countries across 6 continents who found something interesting to read here. This edition is a celebration of love and features 25 of the most romantic movies I have ever seen.\n25. The Yellow Handkerchief (Japan, 1977) [ IMDB: 7.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 79%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAOl7Ii-TKI\nThe Best Line: Too many to mention. Not really. I don’t know Japanese.\nThe Plot: Three unrelated people take a road trip, one of them an ex convict who is on his way to meet his wife for the first time after his release from the prison.\nWhere is the romance: Some endings are truly sensational. This is one such ending.\n24. Roman Holiday (1953) [ IMDB: 8.1, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIFo0txAvuE\nThe Best Line: “Tell you what. Why don’t we do all those things, together?”\nThe Plot: A princess enjoys her day in anonymity with an American newsman and falls for him.\nWhere is the romance: Everywhere, except in the end.\n23. Atonement (2007) [ IMDB: 7.7, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWPZDi723Eo\nThe Best Line: “Had they let me, every day, I would have been there every day.”\nThe Plot: A young girl changes the love story of her sister.\nWhere is the romance: In the book in the movie.\n22. An Affair to Remember (1957) [ IMDB: 7.3, Rotten Tomatoes: 87%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFWwFfRvClM\nThe Best Line: “There must be something between us, even if it’s only an ocean.”\nThe Plot: A playboy meets the love of his life on a ship. They decide to meet six months later at the Empire State building.\nWhere is the romance: When you want Cary Grant to know what you know, in the last scene of the film.\n21. Titanic (1997) [ IMDB: 7.6, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCy5WQ9S4c0\nThe Best Line: “Where to, Miss?” “To the stars!”\nThe Plot: An aristocrat lady falls in love with a poor artist on the doomed maiden voyage of the Titanic.\nWhere is the romance: In the tragedy.\n20. When Harry Met Sally (1989) [ IMDB: 7.6, Rotten Tomatoes: 88%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8DgDmUHVto\nThe Best Line: “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”\nThe Plot: Harry and Sally have been friends for a long time. It takes time for them to realize that they were meant to be together.\nWhere is the romance: For such an out and out sugary romance, the most memorable scene is the one in the restaurant.\n19. Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (India, 1995) [ IMDB: 7.8, Rotten Tomatoes 94%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U9SpwJ9TCs\nThe Best Line: ” Iss ladke se zyaada pyar tujhe koi aur nahi kar sakta” (No one can love you more than this boy).\nThe Plot: After Raj met Simran, love was never the same.\nWhere is the romance: Mustard fields got the biggest makeover in terms of reputation. After Raj met Simran, mustard fields were never the same.\n18. The Apartment (1960) [ IMDB: 8.4, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4OXm9-E8OQ\nThe Best Line: “That’s the way it crumbles.. cookie-wise.”\nThe Plot: The girl of his dreams is seeing his married boss.\nWhere is the romance: It is about finding true love and the triumph of the underdog.\n17. Gone With the Wind (1939) [ IMDB: 8.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc\nThe Best Line: “You should be kissed and often; and by someone who knows how.”\nThe Plot: A woman loves someone so blindly that she is not able to see the man who loves her the most.\nWhere is the romance: In the roughness.\n16. Doctor Zhivago (1965) [IMDB: 7.9, IMDB: 85%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWrXTn5Www\nThe Best Line: “There’s an extraordinary girl at this party.” “I know. I’m dancing with her.”\nThe Plot: Doctor Zhivago is in love with two women and in the background is the Russian Revolution.\nWhere is the romance: All the scenes at railway stations, especially the last one.\n15. Annie Hall (1977) [IMDB: 8.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBzHphcc2Jw\nThe Best Line: “That is the most fun I’ve ever had without laughing.”\nThe Plot: The compelling romance of a comedian and a singer.\nWhere is the romance: Love fades but the idea of love is intact.\n14. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) [ IMDB: 8.0, Rotten Tomatoes: 94%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q\nThe Best Line: “I knew you’d be watching.”\nThe Plot: A game show is his only hope for finding his long lost love.\nWhere is the romance: Every question brings him close to his love.\n13. Before Sunrise (1995) [IMDB: 8.0, Rotten Tomatoes; 100%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v6X-Dytlko\nThe Best Line: “Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”\nThe Plot: A man and woman meet on a train and spend an evening together in Vienna.\nWhere is the romance: If they did not make ‘Before Sunset’, you would still be thinking about the possibilities.\n12. Breathless (France, 1960) [ IMDB: 7.9, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJFFy3soy9Y\nThe Best Line: “Informers inform, burglars burgle, murderers murder, lovers love.”\nThe Plot: A murderer and a girl escape and hide in Italy.\nWhere is the romance: In the ambiguity.\n11. Wall-E (2008) [ IMDB: 8.5, Rotten Tomatoes: 96%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIq_wG9FNk\nThe Best Line: “Computer, define ‘dancing’.”\nThe Plot: A robot goes in search of his love.\nWhere is the romance: The moment when WALL-E falls in love with Eve.\n10. Notting Hill (1999) [ IMDB: 6.9, Rotten Tomatoes: 83%]\nThe Best Line: ” I’m also just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”\nThe Plot: The unlikely romance of a superstar and a bookseller.\nWhere is the romance: In the park.\n9. Lost in Translation (2003) [ IMDB: 7.8, Rotten Tomatoes: 95%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAS92XPvIM\nThe Best Line: “Can you keep a secret? I’m trying to organize a prison break. I’m looking for, like, an accomplice”\nThe Plot: Two lonely people bond in Tokyo.\nWhere is the romance: You can feel it. You can only feel it.\n8. The English Patient (1993) [ IMDB: 7.3, Rotten Tomatoes: 84%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKpU14Kqqw\nThe Best Line: “This… this, the hollow at the base of a woman’s throat, does it have an official name?”\nThe Plot: A spy and a married woman have a passionate affair.\nWhere is the romance: In the cave.\n7. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France, 1964) [ IMDB: 7.7, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bhJkQd1T4\nThe Best Line: “People only die of love in the movies.”\nThe Plot: The tragedy of lovers separated by war which leads them to take life altering decisions.\nWhere is the romance: The most practical film on love.\n6. Before Sunset (2004) [ IMDB: 8.0, Rotten Tomaotes: 95%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvFosXeqmDg\nThe Best Line: “You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.”\nThe Plot: They meet again after nine years, this time in Paris.\nWhere is the romance: Everywhere.\n5. It Happened One Night (1934) [ IMDB: 8.2, Rotten Tomatoes: 98%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALmnUBqbhuo\nThe Best Line: “I don’t know very much about him, except that I love him.”\nThe Plot: The mother and father of every romantic comedy ever made.\nWhere is the romance: In it and in all the movies made later using the same template.\n4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) [ IMDB: 8.4, Rotten Tomatoes: 93%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0ywpOFLHMY\nThe Best Line: “I’ve never felt that before.”\nThe Plot: A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. (From IMDB)\nWhere is the romance: When you know that some things are meant to be.\n3. Cinema Paradiso (Italy,1988) [ IMDB: 8.4, Rotten Tomatoes:96%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-GX0Tltgw\nThe Best Line: “Whatever you end up doing, love it.”\nThe Plot: Love and heartbreak in post war Italy.\nWhere is the romance: In the music.\n2. Brief Encounter (1945) [ IMDB: 8.1, Rotten Tomatoes: 90%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGDCTlVWduk\nThe Best Line: “This misery can’t last… Not even life lasts very long.”\nThe Plot: They meet by chance, they fall in love and ……\nWhere is the romance: Too many to mention.\n1. Casablanca (1942) [IMDB: 8.7, Rotten Tomatoes: 97%]\nTrailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLU41jUnWM4\nThe Best Line: “We’ll always have Paris.”\nThe Plot: Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into his.\nWhere is the romance: Whenever Ingrid Bergman is on screen.\nTagged Aditya Chopra, Amrish Puri, An Affair to Remember, Andrea Eckert, Anne Vernon, Annie Hall, Anthony Minghella, Antonella Attili, Atonement, Audrey Hepburn, À bout de souffle, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Ben Burtt, Bill Murray, Billy Crystal, Billy Zane, Brenda Blethyn, Brief Encounter, Carrie Fisher, Cary Grant, Casablanca, Catherine Deneuve, Celia Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, Chieko Baishô, Cinema Paradiso, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Daniel Boulanger, Danny Boyle, David Lean, Deborah Kerr, Dev Patel, Diane Keaton, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Doctor Zhivago, Eddie Albert, Elissa Knight, Enzo Cannavale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ethan Hawke, François Truffaut, Frank Capra, Fred MacMurray, Freida Pinto, George Cukor, Geraldine Chaplin, Giovanni Ribisi, Giuseppe Tornatore, Gone with the Wind, Gregory Peck, Hugh Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Ian McEwan, Ingrid Bergman, It Happened One Night, Jack Lemmon, James McAvoy, Jean Seberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jeff Garlin, Jim Carrey, Julia Roberts, Julie Christie, Julie Delpy, Juliette Binoche, Kajol, Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Ken Takakura, Leonardo DiCaprio, Les parapluies de Cherbourg, Lost in Translation, Loveleen Tandan, Meg Ryan, Michael Curtiz, Michel Gondry, Most Romantic Movies, Nino Castelnuovo, Nora Ephron, Notting Hill, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Omar Sharif, Paul Henreid, Philippe Noiret, Ralph Fiennes, Richard Denning, Richard Linklater, Richard McCabe, Rob Reiner, Roman Holiday, Romance, Romantic Movies, Saurabh Shukla, Scarlett Johansson, Shah Rukh Khan, Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi, Shirley MacLaine, Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire, Sofia Coppola, Stanley Holloway, Tetsuya Takeda, The Apartment, The English Patient, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Thomas Mitchell, Titanic, Tom Wilkinson, Tony Roberts, Trevor Howard, Victor Fleming, Vivien Leigh, WALL·E, Walter Connolly, When Harry Met Sally, Willem Dafoe, William Wyler, Woody Allen, Yôji Yamada","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1116453"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7461094856262207,"wiki_prob":0.2538905143737793,"text":"Justia US Law US Codes and Statutes Oklahoma Statutes 2014 Oklahoma Statutes Title 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System §85A-110. Alternative dispute resolution program.\nView the 2018 Oklahoma Statutes | View Previous Versions of the Oklahoma Statutes\n2014 Oklahoma Statutes\nTitle 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System\n§85A-110. Alternative dispute resolution program.\n85A OK Stat § 85A-110 (2014) What's This?\nA. The Workers' Compensation Commission shall develop an alternative dispute resolution program which affords an injured employee the opportunity to obtain benefits by request or informal procedure. The program shall include an increased emphasis on making mediation and other alternative dispute resolution programs affordable and convenient to an injured employee not represented by counsel.\nB. Participation in an alternative dispute resolution program is not a prerequisite to the commencement of a claim for benefits under this act. A request for alternative dispute resolution or a consent to participate in such program does not invoke the jurisdiction of the Commission.\nC. Mediation shall be voluntary, informal, and nonbinding in any claim arising pursuant to the provisions of this act, except for claims against the Multiple Injury Trust Fund and medical treatment issues subject to a certified workplace medical plan. Provided, however, the parties may waive mediation and proceed directly to an administrative hearing.\nD. A Commission mediator, appointed by the Commission, shall conduct an informal mediation between the parties in regard to claims for a closed period of lost time where the employee has returned to work, for medical benefits only, for reimbursement of travel expenses and medical treatment, in cases in which the employee is not represented by an attorney, or there is no record of insurance coverage. Such mediation shall be conducted by the Commission mediator within thirty (30) days of the filing of a request for any such benefit.\nE. Upon the filing of a request for an administrative hearing on issues not specifically listed in subsection D of this section, the Commission shall set the case for prehearing before the assigned judge within fifteen (15) days. At the prehearing, the administrative law judge shall accept a waiver of mediation by the parties or appoint a mediator and issue an order reflecting such appointment. The mediator shall contact the parties and schedule a mediation session within thirty (30) days of such order, unless otherwise agreed to by the parties.\nF. Mediation is confidential and no part of the proceeding shall be considered a matter of public record. Recommendations of the mediator are not binding unless the parties enter into a settlement agreement. If an agreement is not reached, the results and statements made during the mediation are not admissible in any following proceeding.\nG. The Commission shall be responsible for certifying those persons who are eligible and qualified to serve as mediators. An individual may be certified as a mediator if the applicant meets the qualifications as required by the Commission. A certified mediator may be an attorney or nonattorney who has worked in the area of Oklahoma workers’ compensation benefits for at least five (5) years. Mediators serving as Commission-certified mediators on the effective date of this section shall serve the remainder of their respective five-year certification periods and may reapply for successive certification periods.\nH. Each certified mediator shall remain on the list for five (5) years, unless removed. Mediators shall be required to complete at least six (6) hours of continuing education per two-year period in the areas of mediation and workers' compensation. Proof of compliance with this requirement shall be submitted to the Commission. This continuing education requirement shall be in addition to any other such general requirement which may be required by the Oklahoma State Bar Association. Cost of continuing education is to be borne by the applicant.\nI. Mediators shall be compensated at the rate or fee as determined by the mediator; provided, however, the rate or fee shall not exceed a maximum rate to be established by the Commission by rule. The cost of mediation shall be paid by the respondent or its insurance carrier. A mediator must schedule mediations for a minimum two-hour block of time, and may not schedule more than one mediation to take place at a time.\nJ. At the time of a mediation, the claimant shall be in attendance unless all parties agree, and all parties shall be represented during the entire mediation session by a person with full settlement authority to settle any issue of the claim. If a party does not have full settlement authority, or does not participate in good faith in the mediation process, the mediator shall report to the assigned administrative law judge of the Commission who may for good cause shown assess costs, attorney fees, and sanctions.\nK. To encourage early resolution of claims, an injured employee may participate in mediation without counsel. Upon compromise settlement of the claim, the parties may submit the settlement agreement to any administrative law judge for final approval.\nAdded by Laws 2013, c. 208, § 153, eff. Feb. 1, 2014.\nDisclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Oklahoma may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1631767"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9985532760620117,"wiki_prob":0.9985532760620117,"text":"Blatter raises doubts about 2022 World Cup safety in Qatar\nFIFA President Sepp Blatter has raised fresh doubts about the safety of playing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar during summer.\nBlatter raises doubts about 2022 World Cup safety in Qatar FIFA President Sepp Blatter has raised fresh doubts about the safety of playing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar during summer. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/V1udvj\nAP Published 7:08 a.m. ET Jan. 15, 2013 | Updated 7:10 a.m. ET Jan. 15, 2013\nSepp Blatter announces Qatar as the host of the 2022 World Cup at a ceremony in Dec. 2010.(Photo: Anja Niedringhaus, AP)\nThere have been calls to move the 2022 World Cup in Qatar from the summer to the winter\nBlatter says a decision will be made after the 2014 World Cup whether to move 2022 to the winter\nThe FIFA president says he'll step down in 2015 and wants to become a radio commentator\nLONDON (AP) — FIFA President Sepp Blatter has raised fresh doubts about the safety of playing the 2022 World Cup in Qatar during summer.\nThere have been growing calls to move the tournament to the winter to avoid the sweltering desert heat that is expected to exceed 104 degrees in June and July. UEFA President Michel Platini is one of those requesting the switch.\nLA LIGA: Madrid under pressure to keep Ronaldo\nBlatter says players and fans will be fine in the air-conditioned stadiums, but he adds that the World Cup is also an event outside the stadiums, \"so it is a question mark.\" He said a decision would not be made until after the 2014 tournament in Brazil.\nIn an interview with Sky Sports News, Blatter addressed other matters. He reiterated his belief in deducting points from teams in cases of racial abuse — which he believes is the one of the biggest scourges in soccer, along with match-fixing.\n\"Our committee at FIFA has given a sentence to play without spectators — this is one of the solutions, (but) I think a more radical solution would be deduction of points,\" Blatter said. \"Deduction of points would have a better impact on that than any other sanction.\n\"I think we can never do enough to eradicate all the racism in football,\" added Blatter, who said he was thinking of holding a summit \"with all the actors concerning discrimination and racism.\"\nBlatter also confirmed during the interview that in 2015 he'll be leaving his job as head of soccer's governing body. He says there is a \"good possibility\" Platini will be his successor but remains unconvinced that the former France midfielder is excited about the role.\n\"I am not so sure that he is willing to go into the position as the FIFA president,\" Blatter said. \"He has not declared officially but he could, would, should be a good successor always and ever.\"\nBlatter said he envisages becoming a radio commentator, providing analysis of matches, once his career with FIFA has finished.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line982299"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9400184750556946,"wiki_prob":0.9400184750556946,"text":"Rural Divide: Mid-Missouri is 'leaking' sales tax revenue\nBy Brendan CrowleyGateHouse Missouri\nEditor's note: This is the third article in a 10-part series. Part four will publish May 29.\nIn the Boonville Police Department, the longest-tenured patrol officer has been there since December 2015.\nOf the 16 patrol officers, only two have more than two years of experience, and everyone else has been there less than a year, Boonville Police Chief Bobby Welliver said.\n“If they stay here two or three years, we’re happy,” he said.\nAfter Boonville hires a new officer, it takes about three months of training before they go out on their own, Welliver said. If an officer leaves after six months, the department loses the training and equipment they invested without much in return.\n“We get a few months of work out of them, and then off they go,” he said.\nFor most of Welliver’s 33 years the department has never had a problem hiring people, he said. Now, finding new recruits is a struggle. The department can’t fill its staff, so it never has the four officers on duty at a time that it’s supposed to, Welliver said. The biggest problem is that there just aren’t as many people getting into law enforcement as there used to be, he said.\nThe other problem is pay.\nBryan Schultz is the chief of police in Hallsville. For the last nine weeks, he’s also been the only full-time officer on duty, while filling in for the other full-time officer currently on paternity leave. That leaves Schultz to handle administrative tasks, writing tickets and responding to calls. It’s been hectic, he said.\n“There’s no vacations for me, no taking my wife to dinner on a weekend,” he said. “I’ve gotta be back in uniform in a short period of time and respond to a call in the city.”\nThe difficulty smaller cities have maintaining their police departments illustrates a bigger issue for those communities. They are heavily reliant on sales taxes and must compete for retail dollars with Columbia’s big market and internet purchases.\nCommunities have struggled — many unsuccessfully — just to keep up with inflation.\nOver the past nine months, GateHouse Media gathered statistics and conducted interviews about every aspect of life in eight counties of Central Missouri — Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau and Randolph — and how things have changed over the past 20 to 50 years.\nFor cities, the story is similar whether they are large like Columbia or small like Boonville. Voters have been asked to approve higher sales taxes to compensate for a shrinking retail base.\nAlong with sales lost to the internet and larger communities, people also shop less than they used to, said Pat Curry, a University of Missouri economic development specialist.\nIn the 1980s, Missouri was one of the highest-income states in the U.S., but incomes in Missouri have been growing slower than the national average, he said. As costs like housing increase faster than income, people have less money to spend, he said.\n“It used to be people would get in the car and go shop for fun, to spend a day out,” Curry said. “That just doesn’t happen with the frequency it used to.”\nHigh turnover and short-staffing are systemic for small police departments around the U.S., but Schultz thinks it’s worse in the Midwest and southern United States. He retired from policing in California after 22 years, and he said the pay disparity between large and small departments is much larger in Missouri.\n“When the tax base is low, departments can never get their foot up, and get solid, well-paid officers,” he said. “We’re just used as training grounds for larger departments.”\nSmaller cities in mid-Missouri already have small tax bases relative to Columbia, and that gap has been widening for several communities. Taxable sales in Columbia have risen by over 20 percent over the last decade, while they’ve risen only 1.2 percent in Mexico, 5.1 percent in California, and have fallen 3 percent in Fayette, from $20.7 million in 2008 to $20.1 million in 2017.\nWhen adjusted for inflation, sales are lower in Mexico, Fulton, Moberly, California and Fayette than they were in 2008.\nEven Columbia’s sales tax revenue isn’t keeping up with its growing population. Per capita sales are down from 2014, falling from $19,832 to $19,439 in 2017.\nThere is also a shrinking pool of new officers graduating from training academies. Because of the shortage, officers can go where they get the best pay, Moberly Police Chief Troy Link said.\n“It’s a competition to get them to even come to you to do an interview. It’s a competition to get them to accept your job,” Link said. “And it’s an ongoing competition to keep them. It all boils down to dollars.”\nThe Columbia Police Department pays for new recruits to go to an academy, so recruiting officers from other departments who have already been through an academy saves money, Sgt. Curtis Perkins wrote in an email. Along with the higher pay, there is more variety in the duties assigned to Columbia officers, from detectives to community outreach, he said.\nThe three largest departments in Boone County — Columbia, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department and the MU Police Department — all start officers at $42,000 or more. Most small towns can’t match that level of pay.\nThe starting salary in Boonville is $32,344 for a full-time officer. In Hallsville, it’s $28,000.\nMoberly officers start at $32,490 and they’re not guaranteed a cost of living increase from the city. They didn’t get one last year, so Link gave officers a 1-percent raise after cutting two positions.\nThe Moberly Police Department budgets for 27 officers, with 16 patrol officers. The department has four vacancies, leaving only two officers each shift rather than the three officers Link wants to have on duty.\nThe 12 officers are spread thin answering calls, making it hard to find time to do proactive policing. Even things like writing reports take longer, slowing down the court process, Link said.\nTurnover in Moberly isn’t as quick as in Boonville, but it’s become enough of an issue that Link asked the Moberly City Council to fit a pay raise and a housing stipend into the budget this year. Officers typically move on after two years, but some stay up to eight years, Link said.\n“With more experience, you generally have officers who perform better in a lot of situations than if they’re brand new, straight out of the academy,” he said.\nIn Hallsville, Schultz has four part-time officers and one full-time officer aside from himself. Most of the part-time officers have different, full-time jobs and spotty availability, Schultz said. He needs more who can work weekends, and to reach his goal of a 24/7 department, he needs full-timers, he said.\n“I need two more full-time guys who can work the graveyard positions, and then we’re going to be a lot more self-sustaining,” Schultz said. “But I think we’re a ways off from that.”\nHallsville is growing, giving officers more work to do. But it still has a small sales tax base, so the budget is staying the same, Schultz said.\nIt’s working toward putting a half-cent sales tax dedicated to public safety on the ballot, but first needs approval from the Missouri General Assembly, which it failed to get this session. The half-cent tax would amount to about $50,000 a year in revenue, enough to fund another officer or buy a patrol car for the Hallsville police, Schultz said. It could also let the city raise officer pay, which now starts at $13.50 an hour.\n“That’s a big deal for a small town like this,” he said.\nSales migration\nTrying to keep pay competitive is a universal struggle for small cities, especially as Missouri’s minimum wage starts to rise. Low pay causes high turnover and makes it difficult to recruit qualified police officers, and the same is true for other city employees.\nCentralia used to have a four-person public works crew until one retired a few years ago. That position wasn’t filled, and the city hasn’t budgeted for it since, City Administrator Heather Russell said. With four people, the crew could split up and work on multiple projects. It’s hard for them to stay caught up with only three, she said.\nTight budgets have pushed cities to ask voters to pay higher sales tax rates to make up for the lower spending. Centralia voters approved a half-cent public safety sales tax in 2018.\nThe tax will let the city shift some of its police and fire costs out of the general fund, giving them room to budget another public works employee. That should help them keep up with fixing roads, Russell said.\nColumbia once enjoyed substantial annual growth in revenues because of its position as the retail hub of the region. It remains the largest retail center between St. Louis and Kansas City but the growth has slowed as internet commerce grows at a rapid pace.\nOnline sales have more than doubled their share of all retail sales over the past decade. Nationwide, they accounted for over 10 percent of all retail sales in the first quarter of 2019, compared to less than 4 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s most recent e-commerce report.\nThat’s hurt municipalities, many of which have no way of collecting tax on those sales. The shift to online retail is a main factor behind declining sales tax revenues everywhere, said Missouri Municipal League Deputy Director Richard Sheets. Smaller municipalities are hit especially hard by online retail because they rely on small businesses for their tax base, he said.\n“Their competitor now isn’t neighboring businesses, it’s the internet,” Sheets said.\nBusinesses popping up in smaller cities are usually specialty stores that don’t compete with big box stores, Sheets said. But coffee shops and restaurants don’t attract a lot of other business, or generate a lot of tax revenue compared to retail stores, he said.\nThe effect of online commerce is combining with the economic power of Columbia to strain the budgets of smaller communities. Boone County has added thousands of jobs in the last decade — including almost 1,000 retail jobs — while surrounding counties have lost employment.\nIn September, the federal Office of Management and Budget added Cooper County to the Columbia Metropolitan Statistical Area. That means 25 percent of Cooper County’s workforce commutes to Boone County for work.\nCooper County has lost nearly 800 manufacturing jobs in the past decade.\nThe loss of manufacturing jobs has two effects on retail sales — people have less money to spend and they’re having to look outside Cooper County for work, Curry said.\nCommuters tend to spend money where they work, he said. That’s especially true when commuting to a retail hub like Columbia, which has more options than smaller towns, both for shopping and for services like health care.\nCurry studies sales patterns and calculates whether counties are “leaking” — meaning they have less in retail sales than their population and income would suggest.\nLeakage rates for Audrain, Callaway, Howard and Moniteau counties are higher than three-quarters of all Missouri counties, and Callaway is the eighth-highest. Callaway lost $146.8 million in sales to leakage in 2017, according to Curry’s figures, equal to almost half of the $311.9 million in actual taxable sales that year.\nColumbia had $250.8 million more in taxable sales than expected, and it’s been above expectations in all of Curry’s calculations, going back to 2001.\nThe only county where taxable sales have grown faster than in Boone County over the past two decades is Cooper County. Taxable sales in Boonville jumped after the Isle of Capri casino opened in 2001, increasing from $75 million to $135 million.\nDowntown Boonville has many of the same issues as other small towns, said Chamber of Commerce President Laura Wax. Small shops and restaurants fill much of the historic downtown, but many storefronts are vacant. Small businesses are starting in Boonville, but most of them are small, employing two or three people, Wax said.\nAlong with the casino, expansion has helped maintain Boonville’s tax base. It has annexed along Highway B and Ashley Road to Interstate 70, gathering in the I-70 gas stations and truck stops as well as commercial corridors that include restaurants, services and big-ticket retailers like Black Rifle and retail giant Walmart, all of which draw shoppers into Boonville.\n“One of the things we know is that almost every place that has a Walmart is doing much better in sales than places that don’t,” Curry said.\nCut services or hike taxes\nA U.S. Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair last summer opened the door for states and municipalities to force out-of-state retailers to collect use tax like businesses within the state collect sales tax.\nBusinesses that make out-of-state purchases are already paying use tax. Individuals are technically required to pay a use tax on out-of-state purchases, but they’re not required to report those purchases to the state unless they spent over $2,000 in a year, effectively giving them an exemption, he said.\n“We can’t capture all of them because (the retailers) don’t have businesses here who we can go to and say, ‘You owe this tax,’” Sheets said.\nIt’s an issue of fairness for Missouri businesses, whose online competitors have a tax advantage. Their customers are buying from out of state instead of from their stores, and it affects local economies, Sheets said.\nClosing businesses mean fewer jobs for the community. It also means there could be fewer services in town, giving people another reason to go to Columbia, he said.\nA bill in the Missouri House of Representatives would have required out-of-state vendors to collect tax if they had 200 sales or at least $100,000 worth of sales in Missouri in a year. The bill did not pass before the end of the legislative session, so its supporters will have to try again next year, Sheets said.\nAs municipalities wait for Wayfair to be implemented, they’re also facing rising costs. Things like rising asphalt expenses can strain a city’s budget, and so can personnel.\nIn Centralia, the major rising costs are in payroll. The city has to keep its pay competitive with the rising minimum wage to attract and keep good employees, Russell said.\nBoonville and Moberly are also looking at increasing pay for police officers and other city employees. But raising pay increases other costs, too, like retirement funds, said Boonville Assistant City Administrator Kate Fjell. And unlike capital purchases, salaries are a recurring cost, and they get larger every year due to cost-of-living increases.\nThe city has to make sure decisions like that are sustainable over time, Fjell said.\n“I think that’s why we’ve been hesitant, because we want to feel good about that if we do it,” she said.\nThe two main ways municipalities are trying to keep up with declining sales tax revenues are raising their sales tax rates and cutting services, Sheets said.\nSince 2000, voters have approved sales tax increases in each of the eight counties studied for these reports as well as new sales taxes within the largest community in every county.\n“People don’t like taxes, that’s the bottom line, but we understand that’s how we pay for services,” Sheets said.\nThe tax increases haven’t been enough to avoid cuts in payroll and services. In Fayette, taxable sales have increased 32 percent since 2001, adding about $56,000 in revenue annually to the city budget. But when the totals are adjusted for inflation, sales are actually down.\nWhen city administrator and clerk Robin Triplett started working for Fayette 30 years ago, it had 32 employees. It’s now down to 20. She started as the city clerk and would fill in as city administrator when there wasn’t one.\nNow the roles are combined into one position. The city’s public works director also serves as the building inspector, Triplett said. The city has also cut down the street, sewer and police departments.\n“Sometimes I will say that the public works director and I feel rather overloaded with projects, and we try to do the best we can with the staff we have and the money we have to do it,” she said.\nVoters like earmarked taxes, with the money dedicated for a specific purpose such as parks or public safety. That cannot be used for general operations. That can help in one area of need but shortchange other services.\nPayroll is the biggest expense for most cities. The largest single cost in Moberly’s general fund is the police payroll and sales tax is the largest single source of funding. That pot of money isn’t growing, so fitting in a pay raise is a challenge.\nMoberly relies on its general fund and half-cent capital improvements sales tax to fund major purchases and projects. This year, it couldn’t fund all the capital improvement requests sought by departments and had to cut from the fire department.\nAt some point, the city is still going to have to replace its 1984 ladder truck and 2002 pumper truck, according to Moberly City Manager Brian Crane’s budget message.\nWhether it’s with a dedicated public safety sales tax like Hallsville is seeking, or making room somewhere else in the budget, Boonville’s police chief Welliver said his city is going to have to address pay, and not just for his officers.\n“I personally don’t think anybody in the city is getting paid enough money,” he said. “I don’t think our street workers are getting paid enough.”\nbcrowley@gatehousemedia.com\nPart I: While Boone County booms, neighbors struggle with change\nPart I Extra: Westmoreland: A journey together into 'Rural Divide'\nPart II: Effects of factory closures continue to linger\nPart II Extra: Some cities face uphill battle in tech-driven economy\nPart III: Mid-Missouri is ‘leaking’ sales tax revenue\nPart IV: Small schools see challenges, rewards\nPart IV Extra: Small town, big field of dreams\nPart V: Rural areas have limited health care, lower life expectancy\nPart VI: Communities struggling to maintain basic infrastructure\nPart VI Extra: Rocheport bridge rehab could be 'poison pill'\nPart VII: Fewer Mid-Missouri farmers are tending bigger farms\nPart VIII: Poverty a 'hidden epidemic' in mid-Missouri\nPart IX: Few alternatives to prison exist in Mid-Missouri","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line359361"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6464880108833313,"wiki_prob":0.6464880108833313,"text":"Lake Kisale\nlake, Democratic Republic of the Congo\nLake Kisale, expansion of the Lualaba River on the Katanga (Shaba) plateau of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lake Kisale, situated north of Lake Upemba, is 10 miles (16 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide and is swampy and overgrown with papyrus. The southern and southeastern shores are part of Upemba National Park.\nThis article was most recently revised and updated by Laura Etheredge, Associate Editor.\nLualaba River\nLualaba River, headstream of the Congo River. Its 1,100-mile (1,800-kilometre) course lies entirely within Congo (Kinshasa), central Africa. It rises on the Katanga (Shaba) plateau at about 4,600 feet (1,400 m), near Musofi, Congo. Its upper course descends to the Manika Plateau and is marked by falls and rapids. Its…\nDemocratic Republic of the Congo, country located in central Africa. Officially known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country has a 25-mile (40-km) coastline on the Atlantic Ocean but is otherwise landlocked. It is the second largest country on the continent; only Algeria is larger. The capital, Kinshasa,…\nUpemba National Park, park in southeastern Congo (Kinshasa). It was created in 1939 and has an area of 4,529 square miles (11,730 square km). Its northern and western borders touch the Lualaba River and the surrounding lakes and marshlands of the Kamolondo plains. Lake Upemba, an expansion of the Lualaba…\nLake, any relatively large body of slowly moving or standing water that occupies an inland basin of appreciable size. Definitions that precisely distinguish lakes, ponds, swamps, and even rivers and other bodies of nonoceanic water are not well established. It may be said, however, that rivers and…\nAfrica, the second largest continent (after Asia), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of Earth. The continent is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, and on the south by the mingling waters…\nLake Victoria\nEast African lakes\nLake Tanganyika\nLake Nyasa\nLake Rudolf\nLake Kivu\nLake Tana\nHawaii, constituent state of the United States of America. Hawaii (Hawaiian: Hawai‘i) became the 50th…\nMount Everest, mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia that lies on the border…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1173759"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5178194046020508,"wiki_prob":0.4821805953979492,"text":"Main » 2018 » March » 7 » ACI World Announces the World's Top Airports for Customer Experience in 2017\nACI World Announces the World's Top Airports for Customer Experience in 2017\nWave of new award winners reflecting increased competition amongst airports\nMONTREAL-Tuesday, March 6th 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]\n(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Airports Council International (ACI) World announces the winners of the prestigious 2017 Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards.\nThis year an unprecedented sixteen airports are first time winners, challenging best- in-class airports in top-quality customer service. This phenomenon reflects the increasingly competitive air travel business, where continuous service improvement is a key ingredient to performance.\nFirst-time winners this year are: Rome Fiumicino (FCO,) Newcastle (NCL), Athens (ATH), Zagreb (ZAG), Bandung (BDO), Indore (IDR), Ahmedabad (AMD), Casablanca (CMN), George (GRJ), Toronto Pearson (YYZ), San Jose (SJC), Cleveland (CLE), Los Cabos (SJD), Belo Horizonte (CNF) and Medina (MED).\nMumbai scoops first place for airports in Asia-Pacific serving over 40 million passengers a year. In North America, the top spot goes to Toronto Pearson and in Europe to Rome Fiumicino.\nASQ is the only worldwide programme to survey passengers on their day of travel, measuring passengers’ views of 34 key performance indicators. In 2017, over half of the world's 7.7 billion travelers passed through an ASQ airport. 74% of the world’s 100 busiest airports are part of the ASQ network which delivers 600,000 individual surveys per year in 42 languages across 84 countries. The programme served 343 airports in 2017.\n“Objective measurement and benchmarking are critical in driving performance in any business especially in such a competitive and dynamic one as an airport,” said Angela Gittens, Director General, ACI World. “These winning airports have dedicated themselves to delivering a stellar customer experience. ACI World proudly recognizes the accomplishments of all airports in the global ASQ network. I look forward to celebrating with them in September.”\nThe ASQ Awards Ceremony will be held during the inaugural ACI Customer Excellence Global Summit, to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 10–13 September 2018, hosted by Halifax International Airport Authority.\nView the 2017 ASQ Award Winners.\n1. Airports Council International (ACI). As of January 2018, provisional figures show that ACI serves 641 members operating 1,953 airports in 176 countries.\n2. Learn more about the global ACI ASQ Programme\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=51765572&lang=en\nHicham Ayoun\nManager, Communications\nACI World\nmediarelations@aci.aero\nAnita Berthier\nManager, External Relations and Special Events\nPermalink : http://aetoswire.com/news/5776/en","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line161058"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9216446876525879,"wiki_prob":0.9216446876525879,"text":"Kansas woman crochets for fallen law enforcement officers’ loved ones\nby: Krystle Sherrell\nA Wichita woman who taught herself to crochet more than 30 years ago is using her skills to bring happiness to law enforcement officers and their families around the country.\nTammy Volbrecht has crocheted everything from baby hats and gloves to blankets and even a Christmas tree.\nAfter being laid off by Sears years ago, she began using her free time to make things for others.\n“I always just enjoy creating for others,” said Tammy.\nAfter watching the news coverage of the death of Sedgwick County Deputy Robert Kunze, she felt the need to send something to his family. So, she crocheted a flag.\n“Something, I did one day just to see if I could make a flag,” said Tammy. “Then, it kind of grew from there.”\nIt grew quite a bit. Tammy has sent out dozens of gifts to officers all over the country, pregnancy and crisis centers and family members.\nShe also made a flag for retired Wichita police officer Brian Arterburn, who is recovering from injuries after he was ran over in 2017.\n“People need little bits of hope,” said Tammy. “It’s kind of mean out there right now, and people need that hope.”\nShe said she thinks about the families of the law enforcement officers as she’s crocheting.\n“What’s her life like, what does she think about, what does she worry about every day?” said Tammy.\nAnother person who takes a lot of pride in his gift from Tammy is retired Wichita police officer Doug Nolte.\nNolte is now the chief executive officer for the Union Rescue Mission but has the flag Tammy made hanging high in his new office.\n“I think it’s beautiful,” Nolte said. “In 26 years of law enforcement, now, there are a lot of things that are strained in terms of community and police relations and recognizing that someone cares enough to do a very nice gesture on behalf of law enforcement. When you think about the time that it takes to craft one of these flags, that’s no small task.”\nThe next project for Tammy is a gift for Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay. It will include a star for every fallen Wichita officer, including K-9 Rooster, who was shot and killed in the line of duty in 2017.\nShe also plans to make one for Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter.\nTammy doesn’t do any of this for herself, though. Instead, she does it for everyone else.\n“You make something to make somebody feel better,” Tammy said. “You don’t make something to get something from it.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1321001"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5473729372024536,"wiki_prob":0.4526270627975464,"text":"Tag Archives: global cooling\nby Caroline Ailanthus\t11 Comments\nThe Story of Global Cooling\nI’ve been hearing climate deniers talking about a global cooling scare in the nineteen seventies for a while now, and I finally got curious about where this narrative had come from–I didn’t think it had been made up whole cloth, but I hadn’t heard word one about it from any credible source, either. You’d think that if climate scientists had thought an ice age was imminent as recently as the seventies, at least some of the scientists I know would mention it occasionally?\nSo, I looked into it. And I found not one but two explanations.\nIn one story, Peter Gwynne, a science writer for Newsweek, wrote a short article on an idea some scientists were kicking around at the time–that a thirty-year cooling trend might continue and develop into a real ice age. The article was published on April 28, 1975, and attracted enough attention that other publications picked up the story with their own articles. Books and TV shows followed.\nScientific American, my source for this particular story, explains that the cooling trend is\nnow believed to be a consequence of soot and aerosols that offered a partial shield to the earth as well as the gradual retreat of an abnormally warm interlude.\nthere also was a small but growing counter-theory that carbon dioxide and other pollutants accompanying the Industrial Age were creating a warming belt in the atmosphere, and by about 1980 it was clear that the earth’s average temperature was headed upward.\nScientific American acknowledges that the global cooling thing has no legitimate place in the climate discussion today, and reports that Mr. Gwynne himself is somewhat embarrassed by the anti-scientific uses to which his writing is being put. He does stand by what he wrote, given the limits of available knowledge at the time.\nOk, but there are a couple of problems with that story, starting with the fact that the greenhouse effect was not a “small but growing counter-theory” in the 1970’s–the effect of carbon dioxide on the climate has been known since 1859. The first calculations of the human role in climate change were made in 1896.\nAnd it’s not like global warming was some far-out thing nobody was paying attention to back in the 1970’s, either. No less a person than the fiction writer, Ursula K. LeGuin had started making oblique references to climate change as early as 1969 (her novel, The Left Hand of Darkness, includes a flawless description of the natural greenhouse effect, as well as a reference to an alien planet that is hot because “an exploitive civilization wrecked its natural balances, burned up the forests for kindling, as it were.” Several of her later books also refer to the Earth itself getting warmer, too). Perhaps more starkly, the 1970’s were when Exxon was busy figuring out what it was going to do about global warming, of which its internal documents prove it was well aware.\nBeyond all that, there wasn’t a 30-year cooling trend, except perhaps in a mathematical sense. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the period from the mid-1940’s to the mid-1970’s was cooler than previous years had been, but there was a lot of minor temperature fluctuation, not a consistent cooling. A cool period of relative stability is not the same thing as an oncoming ice age.\nSo, I did some more poking and found the second story.\nApparently, in the 1970’s, the greenhouse effect was well-known, but the cooling effect of sulfate emissions (“aerosols”) had just been discovered and it wasn’t clear yet which would prove dominant. A few climate scientists thought the aerosols might win out–between 1965 and 1979, 10% of the scientific papers on the subject predicted cooling, but 28% could make no prediction and 62% predicted warming. In other words, the coming ice age was a legitimate scientific idea for a while, but only a small minority of studies ever supported it.\nI’m not actually sure, based on what I’ve read, whether anybody ever proved that sulfate emissions couldn’t have counteracted carbon emissions under some scenarios that were plausible back then. As history has actually played out, sulfate emissions have been dramatically reduced (they also cause acid rain), while carbon emissions have continued to climb. Aerosols still complicate climate predictions, but no one thinks they’re going to cause an ice age anymore.\nThere’s no cooling trend mentioned in there.\nThe way I see these two stories blending, I suspect that what really happened was that the end of the warming trend of the first third of the 20th century was taken (maybe correctly) as evidence of the cooling power of aerosols. Some climate scientists thought the aerosols could go on to trigger a cooling trend, but most did not. Peter Gwynne, being a writer who cared about science and about getting his writing published, chose to focus on the minority opinion, since that seemed more sensational at the time. He has admitted that the story “pushed the envelope a little bit,” in deference to Newsweek’s penchant for what Scientific American called an “over-ventilated style.”\nThe ventilation would have seemed harmless at the time, if the article was fundamentally accurate, as I’m willing to buy that it was. Nobody can represent the entire breadth of the scientific conversation on any one topic in just nine paragraphs. You have to choose which of all possible stories you’re going to tell, in order to tell any story at all.\nThat deniers have since pounced on his article for political and anti-scientific purposes is not Mr. Gwynne’s doing. Being co-opted is a risk all published writers run–it’s the Scylla to the charybdis of being utterly ignored.\nCuriously, the one detail I thought would enter the discussion apparently didn’t, except as a note of context written long after the fact by one or another of my sources–astronomically speaking, we’re supposed to be in an ice age already.\nThe primary factor that dictated the glacial/interglacial cycle through recent geological history was the Milankovitch Cycle, an interaction between three separate variations in Earth’s orbit that together dramatically how much solar radiation we get at different times of the year. We’re at a point in the cycle where we should be heading into a new ice age, but aren’t because our carbon dioxide levels are too high.\nThe connection between that cycle and climate was confirmed in 1976, so it may be another thread of the “global cooling” story that none of my sources happened to tease out–but if not, there may have been good reason to ignore it.\nThe onset of ice ages is very slow. I have to cite one of my grad school classes here (Tom Wessels was the teacher–I’ve cited him as a source here before) as I haven’t been able to lay my hands on an appropriate link, but ice ages melt quickly (as in many hundreds of years) and grow slowly (as in many thousands of years). In fact, the warmest point of our current interglacial (before now, anyway) was thousands of years ago. No, the cooling was never enough to initiate continental glaciation on North America or Asia, but cooling was in progress.There is an excellent illustration of this cooling, and how long and consistent it was, here (yes, that is a web comic, but this one’s not a joke).\nSliding towards an ice age doesn’t look like anything special, it turns out. More or less, it looks like all of human history.\nCategories: Climate Science | Tags: Arrhenius, carbon emissions, climate change, global cooling, global warming, greenhouse effect, history, Milankovitch Cycles, Peter Gwynne, sulfate emissions, the greenhouse effect, Ursula K. LeGuin, xkcd | Permalink.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1301216"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9097121357917786,"wiki_prob":0.9097121357917786,"text":"Clive Evans\nClive received training in imagery analysis at various stages of his military career in the Royal Air Force between 1987 and 2010.\nHe spent his early years as an Imagery Analyst at the Joint Air Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre (JARIC), RAF Brampton, which involved comparison and contrast of various objects utilising optical, electro-optical, infrared and radar imagery.\nIn addition to serving operational tours of duty in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, Clive also completed two tours as an instructor at the UK Imagery Analysis School. As a senior instructor he was responsible for the training of UK Tri-Service personnel, International students, reservists, civilians and trainees in the field of Imagery Analysis. His primary role included the design, development and delivery of the Sensor Studies training module and he was the Infrared and Radar imagery analysis specialist for the UK MOD.\nIn 2010, whilst still in RAF service, Clive was headhunted by a London based forensic company and spent the following four years as a forensic expert witness in the city. In May 2014 he was headhunted by LGC, now Eurofins Forensic Services, where he is employed as the Lead Imagery Investigator within the Forensic Imagery team at Fordham in Cambridgeshire.\nClive has produced an average of over 50 reports per year for the prosecution and defence, and has given expert evidence at the Central Criminal Court, other Crown Courts and was also engaged as an imagery analysis expert witness for the Al Sweady Inquiry.\nFIAD Committee","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1720186"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5033373832702637,"wiki_prob":0.49666261672973633,"text":"What is competitiveness? #1 – Robert Reich\nMarch 24, 2015 by Nick Shaxson Leave a Comment\nFrom the Fools’ Gold blog, an article that speaks for itself\nWhat is Competitiveness? #1 Robert Reich\nThis is the first in an ongoing series of articles we are planning, to explore what competitiveness is, from the perspective of particular public figures or intellectuals. For the first in this series we’ve chosen Robert Reich, a former U.S. Labor Secretary. He’s written an article in plain English that makes a number of clear and important points, which are still fully valid even though it was written in 2011.\nIt begins with an excellent summary:\n“Whenever you hear a business executive or politician use the term “American competitiveness,” watch your wallet. Few terms in public discourse have gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.”\n(We’ll add that to our new quotations page when it’s up and running.)\nAs we write this, the BBC has just published a pre-election article about UK politicians, reminding us that this lack of coherence on ‘competitiveness’ doesn’t only plague U.S. politics. In different guises, it’s global. The BBC quote is from UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who said:\n“The real common ground, the real centre-ground of British politics right now, is who has got the answers to making sure Britain competes and succeeds in the global race? That’s the question which wasn’t answered by Labour, which is being answered by us.”\nThis wasn’t an off-the-cuff mistake: Cameron has a record of using the fatuous Twitter hashtag #globalrace, and other nonsenses. We aren’t convinced that Cameron’s predecessors in the Labour Party would necessarily have said anything more sensible, but it would be fascinating if a television interviewer who understands the issues were to confront a politican who has said something like this and then proceeded to ask ‘exactly what do you mean by ‘compete,’ Prime Minister / President / esteemed CEO? And not give up probing this question until the politician has fallen off his or her chair or done something like this.\nBack to Robert Reich. We’ve copied plenty of his text but have internationalised it because his points are all quite generic.\nWhat is American “competitiveness” and how do you measure it? Here are some different definitions:\n1. It’s exports. Okay, but the easiest way for companies to increase their exports from this country is for locally-made products to become cheaper internationally. To do that, companies have to cut production costs here. Their biggest cost is their payrolls. So the simplest way for them to become more “competitive” is to cut their payrolls — either by replacing local workers with machines, or cutting their wages and benefits. How is this a good thing for the country?\n2. It’s net exports. The balance of trade: how much we import from abroad, versus how much they import from us. The easiest and most direct way to improve the trade balance is to devalue the currency, to make locally produced goods cheaper in world markets. But this creates two problems: first, everything we buy from overseas becomes more expensive; and second, this could lead to currency wars. How is this good for the country?\n3. It’s the profits of ‘our’ companies. In case you haven’t noticed, the profits of multinational corporations are soaring as sales from their foreign-based operations boom, and because they cut local production costs (see the first item above). “Our” multinationals have become increasingly global, so their profitability has relatively little to do with the number and quality of jobs here. “In fact, it may be inversely related,” Reich adds.\nSource: Fools’ Gold, derived from Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, FRED database.\n(FG: His article was written in 2011 but the basic point remains valid. Corporate profits in many countries have been soaring for decades, in large part because corporations have been winning political battles with workers and paying them lower wages and benefits, figuring out better ways to dodge taxes, and so on. Here’s a graph we created recently showing how U.S. corporate profits rose from a low point of under 4 percent of GDP in the mid 1980s to nearly 12 percent by 2013. Click to enlarge.)\n4. It’s the number and quality of local jobs created. This is Reich’s preferred definition. But the only sure way to improve the quality of jobs over the long term is to build the productivity of workers and the economy overall, which means major investments in education, infrastructure, and basic R&D. Which requires at least two big things: tax, and giving the middle and working classes sufficient purchasing power to get the economy going again, such as by getting corporations to pay their workers more. But this is kind of the opposite of what politicians tend to mean when they say ‘competitive economy’.\nReich summarises, briefly, by saying that it’s politically important for politicians, as for any president, to avoid being seen as “anti-business” — but that people must not be seduced into believing that the well-being of ‘our’ businesses is synonymous with the well-being of our country. If their wealth is substantially extracted from the rest of the economy, it’s not obvious how the country as a whole is any better off.\nAll these brief comments by Reich seem to make eminent sense. In fact, who could argue?\nOn his last point, “anti-business” is one of those code words, very much like ‘uncompetitive’, that is used to bludgeon opposition to policies that involve taking wealth from one part of the economy and giving it to wealthier people and multinational corporations. (See more code words here.) Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair highlighted the political effects that such use of language can have:\n“If… chief executives say it is Labour that will put the economy at risk, who does the voter believe? Answer: the chief executives. Once you lose them, you lose more than a few votes. You lose your economic credibility.”\nSo this is the first in our “What is competitiveness?” series.\nNext up, we may perhaps look at the work of Mariana Mazzucato, or visit a classic 1994 essay in Foreign Affairs by Paul Krugman entitled “Competitiveness: a Dangerous Obsession.” We will also visit a particular form of the ‘competitiveness’ obsession, called ‘tax competitiveness.’ Any other suggestions, of course, are welcome.\nFiled Under: Blog, Finance Curse, Tax Wars, Taxing corporations\nJob vacancy: Network and Partner Relations Coordinator\nSeeking a Portuguese language radio and podcast producer (Produtor programa de rádio/podcast português)\nJob vacancy: Tax Justice Network Conference Intern\nfour + three =","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1068186"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5264225602149963,"wiki_prob":0.5264225602149963,"text":"Abass Abdoul Aziz on trial\nAbout Abass Abdoul AzizTake Action. Support Abass Abdoul Aziz.Take action for Abass Abdoul Aziz\nOn the evening of 24 November 2017, following the judgment to drop all charges by Niamey High Court, Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa were released from detention.\nAbout Abass Abdoul Aziz\nAbass Abdoul Aziz is a human rights defender and president of the Association de Défense des Droits Consommateurs des Technologies de l'Information, de la Communication et de l'Énergie – ACTICE (Association for the Defence of the Rights of Consumers to Information Technology, Communication and Energy), a non-governmental organisation based in Niamey, Niger. ACTICE has been advocating against corruption and the Finance Bill which is to be approved by the National Assembly in 2018. ACTICE and a number of other civil society organisations have raised concerns regarding the Finance Bill, primarily that the measures included in it will drastically increase the cost of living for many of those who are already living in poverty. ACTICE argues that the source of the current economic situation in Niger is poor management and corruption by the government and that the bill does not address this.\nMeet Abass Abdoul Aziz\n24 November 2017 : Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa found not guilty\n21 November 2017 : Human rights defenders Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa on trial\nAbass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa found not guilty\nOn 24 November 2017, Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa were found not guilty on all charges by Niamey High Court. They are due to be imminently released from custody following nearly a month in detention.\nAbass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa are human rights defenders, and president and members respectively of the Association de Défense des Droits des Consommateurs des Technologies de l'Information, de la Communication et de l'Énergie – ACTICE (Association for the Defence of the Rights of Consumers to Information Technology, Communication and Energy), a non-governmental organisation based in Niamey, Niger. ACTICE has most recently been advocating against corruption in Niger’s government. ACTICE and a number of other civil society organisations have raised concerns regarding the Finance Bill, which is to be approved by the National Assembly in 2018; primarily that the measures included in it will drastically increase the cost of living for many of those already living in poverty. ACTICE argues that the source of the current economic situation in Niger is corruption and poor management by the government and that the bill does not address this.\nOn 24 November 2017, the Niamey High Court found that the protest in which Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa participated was not illegal and that they were innocent of all four charges of “participation in an unauthorised protest”, “armed gathering”, “theft” and “complicity in theft”. The human rights defenders were arrested and detained on 30 October 2017 following a protest which took place on 29 October 2017. The protest had received prior authorisation from the authorities and was organised to challenge corruption and the adoption of the 2018 Finance Bill. The Prosecutor had presented the case against the human rights defenders on 17 November 2017 and requested a sentence of 5 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 FCFA (around 840 EUR) for each. On 30 October 2017, the Minister of the Interior issued a decree banning ACTICE from operating throughout the national territory.\nFront Line Defenders welcomes the decision by the Court in finding the human rights defenders not guilty of all charges. However, Front Line Defenders expresses concern that the ministerial decree banning ACTICE is still in place, and by consequence, prevents Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa from continuing their legitimate and peaceful activities in defending human rights and tackling corruption in Niger.\nHuman rights defenders Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa on trial\nOn 17 November 2017, Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa were charged with “participation in an unauthorised protest”, “armed gathering”, “theft” and “complicity in theft”.\nAbass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa are human rights defenders, and president and members respectively of the Association de Défense des Droits des Consommateurs des Technologies de l'Information, de la Communication et de l'Énergie – ACTICE (Association for the Defence of the Rights of Consumers to Information Technology, Communication and Energy), a non-governmental organisation based in Niamey, Niger. ACTICE has most recently been advocating against corruption in Niger’s government. ACTICE and a number of other civil society organisations have raised concerns regarding the Finance Bill, which is to be approved by the National Assembly in 2018; primarily that the measures included in it will drastically increase the cost of living for many of those already living in poverty. ACTICE argues that the source of the current economic situation in Niger is poor management and corruption by the government and that the bill does not address this.\nOn 17 November 2017, the Prosecutor presented the case against Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa and requested a sentence of 5 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 FCFA (around €840) for each. On 30 October 2017, Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa were arrested by local police officers on charges relating to a protest which took place on 29 October 2017. They have been detained ever since. The protest had received prior authorisation from the authorities and was organised to challenge corruption and the adoption of the 2018 Finance Bill. On the day of the protest, a group of protesters strayed from the authorised route and began marching towards “Place de la Concertation” near the National Assembly. The protest was then repressed by police using tear gas.\nOn 30 October 2017, the Minister of the Interior issued a decree banning the organisation ACTICE from operating throughout the national territory. The decision by the judge in the human rights defenders’ trial will be released on 24 November 2017.\nFront Line Defenders expresses serious concern over the charges against human rights defenders Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa along with their continued detention which it believes is solely as a result of their legitimate and peaceful work in defending human rights and tackling corruption in Niger.\nFront Line Defenders urges the authorities in Niger to:\n1. Drop all charges against Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa as Front Line Defenders believes that they are being held solely as a result of their legitimate and peaceful work in the defence of human rights;\n2. Immediately release Abass Abdoul Aziz, Abdoulaye Harouna and Djibo Issa pending their trial result;\n3. Cease targeting all human rights defenders in Niger and guarantee in all circumstances that they are able to carry out their legitimate human rights activities without fear of reprisals and free of all restrictions including judicial harassment.\nViolations #Judicial Harassment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line567740"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7069718837738037,"wiki_prob":0.7069718837738037,"text":"Interactive Data Names Alex Goor Chief Information Officer\nAccomplished Executive Focused on Developing Innovative Technology to Support Company’s Growth Objectives\nSeptember 20, 2010 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time\nNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Interactive Data Corporation, a leading provider of financial market data, analytics and related solutions, today announced that Alex Goor has been appointed chief information officer, effective immediately.\nMr. Goor, 38, is responsible for development and operations across Interactive Data globally. He is based in New York and reports to Mason Slaine, Interactive Data’s chairman, president and chief executive officer.\n“Alex is an accomplished executive, and we are very pleased that he has joined Interactive Data,” said Mason Slaine. “We believe that his insight and expertise will help Interactive Data enhance all aspects of our technology infrastructure that supports the reliable delivery of our services, including our award-winning* evaluated pricing and reference data offerings. Alex will also lead efforts to continue our focus on creating increasingly sophisticated, yet easy-to-use applications that can help our clients make informed financial decisions. With Alex’s leadership, I am confident that Interactive Data will be able to advance our efforts to develop cutting-edge technology that supports our long-term growth objectives.”\nMr. Goor is a member of the Board of Directors of BondDesk Group LLC. From April 2005 to June 2007, he was Co-CEO and CIO of Instinet, Inc. Previously, he was president of Inet ATS, Inc., Instinet Group’s electronic marketplace subsidiary established in November 2003, and also supervised the merger between Instinet, LLC and Island Holding Company.\nBefore joining Instinet, Mr. Goor was the chief strategy officer of Datek Online Holdings Corporation (DOHC), where he supervised all corporate finance and business development efforts. He was also president of Watcher Technologies, a DOHC technology development and licensing subsidiary catering to professional traders and before that was president of Datek Online Brokerage Services, the firm's online brokerage subsidiary.\nMr. Goor currently serves on the technology committee of New York Presbyterian Hospital and is a graduate of Columbia University.\n*Interactive Data was recognized by Inside Market Data and Inside Reference Data as “Best Evaluated Prices Services Provider” in 2009 and 2010, “Best Reference Data Provider” in 2010 and for the “Best Reference Data Initiative” in 2010.\nAbout Interactive Data Corporation\nInteractive Data Corporation is a trusted leader in financial information. Thousands of financial institutions and active traders, as well as hundreds of software and service providers, subscribe to our fixed income evaluations, reference data, real-time market data, trading infrastructure services, fixed income analytics, desktop solutions and web-based solutions. Interactive Data's offerings support clients around the world with mission-critical functions, including portfolio valuation, regulatory compliance, risk management, electronic trading and wealth management. Interactive Data is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts and has over 2,400 employees in offices worldwide.\nFor more information, please visit http://www.interactivedata.com.\nInteractive Data Corporation\nBrian Willinsky (US media)\nbrian.willinsky@interactivedata.com\nEoin Bedford (European/Asia-Pacific media)\neoin.bedford@interactivedata.com\nAlex Goor has been appointed chief information officer for Interactive Data.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line331419"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6362317800521851,"wiki_prob":0.36376821994781494,"text":"Home » Posts tagged 'Shelley'\nTag Archives: Shelley\nA Short Guide to Hampstead Heath\nJune 6, 2016 7:03 pm / Leave a comment\nHampstead Heath is one of London’s largest and most popular open spaces, over time the area of the park has grown to cover 790 acres. The Heath is located in North London on a high ridge between Hampstead and Highgate, it is an area of great diversity with hills, large ponds, modern and ancient woodlands and features the stately home of Kenwood House and its grounds. One of the most popular parts of the Heath is Parliament Hill , from where you can enjoy panoramic views over London.\nThe Heath was first recorded in 13th century and was generally known as Hampstead Heath from the 16th century. A number of hollows were excavated to extract sand and gravel that gradually became ponds throughout the park. From the 18th century, the Heath became a popular place for Londoners to frequent including poets such as Shelley and painters, Constable made a series of paintings of the area. The quiet rural idyll was changed by the arrival of the railways in the late 19th century when thousands of Londoners made their way to the area to enjoy the country air.\nHampstead Heath John Constable 1820 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)\nThe Heath gradually became a recognized beauty spot away from the grime and dirt of industrial London. However its popularity amongst the young workers from the city led to accusations of rowdiness and violence especially on Bank Holidays and Bonfire nights. These concerns began to reduce at the start of the 20th century when the large crowds of visitors began to behave in a more respectable manner.\nThe Heath was bought under public ownership in the late 19th century and various additions of land made throughout the 20th century, most notably Kenwood House and its grounds to the north of the heath. Other developments have included turning some of the ponds into swimming areas and the creation of a number of havens for wildlife.\nIn the 21st century, Hampstead Heath probably does not attract the thousands of visitors from all over London, but as the north suburbs have grown considerably, the heath has become an important open space in an increasingly developed North London. The Heath is very popular with walkers, joggers, cyclists, swimmers and those who enjoy the wide open spaces.\nPublic transport near the Heath includes the London Overground railway stations of Hampstead Heath and Gospel Oak, Underground stations Hampstead, Belsize Park, Golders Green, Highgate and Archway. A number of bus routes serve the various parts of the Heath.\nIf you would like further information, visit the City of London website here\nSince our launch in January 2014, we have attracted thousands of readers each month, the site is constantly updated.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line976290"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6811566352844238,"wiki_prob":0.31884336471557617,"text":"Home Resources Statement by the Delegation of the United States of America on the ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation\nStatement / speech\nStatement by the Delegation of the United States of America on the ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation\n1089th Plenary Meeting of the Permanent Council\nAddress by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, H.E. Araz Azimov. Presentations by the Chairpersons of the Security Committee, the Economic and Environmental Committee, and the Human Dimension Committee. Ongoing aggression against Ukraine and violations of OSCE principles and commitments by the Russian Federation. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Freedom of expression in the OSCE area. The death penalty in the United States of America. Reports of threats against members of the political opposition by the Head of the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation. Report on the activities of the Chairperson-in-Office. Farewell to the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the OSCE, Ambassador T. İldem. Launch of a ballistic missile in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 7 February 2016. Parliamentary elections in Ireland, to be held on 26 February 2016.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1371584"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6808704733848572,"wiki_prob":0.6808704733848572,"text":"Sen. Bye Decries Today’s Controversial FCC Vote to Reverse Net Neutrality Rules\nNearly two years after attending a historic Federal Communications Commission event to adopt strong, open Internet rules, State Beth Bye (D-West Hartford) today lashed out at today’s FCC decision – made by appointees of Republican President Donald Trump – to scrap existing net neutrality rules and replace them with controversial, anti-democracy, anti-consumer, anti-business Internet regulations instead.\nToday’s FCC action has been widely criticized by various consumer, democracy, and small business advocates. According to an analysis by The Washington Post, Republican regulators voted today to allow Internet providers to speed up service for some apps and websites, and block or slow down others, despite a recent survey showing that 83 percent of Americans oppose the plan.\n“Today’s reversal by the FCC of America’s net neutrality law is a huge win for already profitable business monopolies and a huge loss for consumers and business start-ups,” Sen. Bye said. “Fair and equal access to the Internet is vital to our democracy. Today’s action by the FCC threatens our democracy and threatens our rights as citizens, as consumers, and as business owners. The dismantling of net neutrality only caters to and lines the pockets of massive communications companies like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and others.”\n“I have spent the last few years fighting these types of giant communications monopolies in my quest to bring high speed, affordable gigabit Internet service to Connecticut,” Sen. Bye said. “Now, with today’s action by the FCC, I will be working ever harder to restore net neutrality right here in Connecticut. It will be a difficult task, given that some of the companies that stand to benefit the most from today’s misguided FCC decision operate right here in our state. But we have to ensure an even playing field on the Internet for start-ups and small businesses We also need to ensure that all students, regardless of income, have access to the technology they need to innovate and succeed.”\nIn March 2015, at the invitation of former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler, Sen. Bye attended a historic FCC vote on net neutrality in Washington, D.C. Then, the FCC voted to adopt strong, open Internet rules to ensure that Americans reap the economic, social and civic benefits of an open Internet today and into the future, including the preservation of so-called “net neutrality.”\nSen. Bye attended that 2015 announcement in her role as a strong advocate for the “CT Gig Project” to help create local gigabit Internet networks across Connecticut that would deliver Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second (1,000 megabits per second), which is 100 times faster than the average home Internet speed.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1215981"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9940904974937439,"wiki_prob":0.9940904974937439,"text":"Todd Gurley-led Rams beat Lions 30-16, clinch NFC West title\n(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)\nBy LARRY LAGE\nDETROIT (AP) The Los Angeles Rams returned to their lockers in the Motor City, where NFC West championship shirts and hats were waiting to be worn.\nThe victors, though, refuse to be spoiled by this accomplishment.\nTodd Gurley ran for 132 yards and two touchdowns to help the Rams overcome a sputtering start to beat the Detroit Lions 30-16 Sunday and clinch the division title for a second straight season.\n\"We're not satisfied yet,\" said defensive tackle Aaron Donald, who had two sacks and forced a fumble. \"But we're headed in the right direction.\"\nThe Rams (11-1) moved a step closer to earning home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs, taking a one-game lead over New Orleans after it lost to Dallas on Thursday night. It is a cushion Los Angeles needs because its only loss was against the Saints last month.\n\"We're in a position right now that we feel good about,\" coach Sean McVay said. \"If we take care of our business, all the rest of that stuff takes care of itself.\"\nThe Lions (4-8) have lost five of six since a surge of success gave them a winning record in late October.\n\"I'm extremely tired of losing,\" center Graham Glasgow said.\nDetroit's defense held Los Angeles' high-powered offense in check for three quarters, giving the slumping team a shot to potentially pull off a stunning upset. The Lions, though, failed to make the most of the opportunity because their offense struggled to move the ball and score.\nDonald helped seal the win by forcing Matthew Stafford to fumble midway through the fourth quarter. The star defensive tackle had two strip-sacks in his last game on Nov. 19, a 54-51 win over Kansas City.\n\"He held the ball and was loose with it,\" Donald said. \"I just took advantage.\"\nDonald has an NFL-high 16 1/2 sacks this season, and the Rams say he should be an MVP candidate.\n\"He's unlike anything I've ever seen,\" quarterback Jared Goff said of the 2017 Defensive Player of the Year.\nLinebacker Samson Ebukam recovered Stafford's fumble at the Detroit 24 and Gurley scored on a 13-yard run three snaps later, giving the Rams a 23-13 lead.\nGoff, perhaps rusty coming off a bye week, was off the mark on many passes and lost a fumble to help keep the game close. His lackluster performance led to Los Angeles settling for Greg Zuerlein kicking three field goals. Goff was 17 of 33 for 207 yards with a tiebreaking, 8-yard touchdown pass to Robert Woods late in the second quarter. Goff also threw an interception on an overthrown pass in the second quarter and lost a fumble in the third quarter.\nThe Rams were able to lean on Gurley, who has a single-season franchise record with 15 rushing touchdowns. The star running back also caught three passes for 33 yards.\nStafford was 20 of 33 yards for 245 yards with an 11-yard touchdown pass to tackle Taylor Decker, who faked the Rams out by blocking for a moment before releasing into the flat where he was left wide open. Decker's touchdown pulled Detroit within three points late in the third quarter.\nThe Lions had a chance to cut its deficit to three again late in the game, but Kenny Golladay couldn't get both feet in the end zone on a pass from Stafford and they had settle for Matt Prater's third field goal.\nSAVVY MOVE\nGurley converted a third down late in the game, and after breaking free, he chose not to score to run more time off the clock and force Detroit to take timeouts. It proved a good move because Gurley ran for a 2-yard score with 1:54 left and the Lions were left with no timeouts on their final drive. That ended with Troy Hill intercepting a pass in the end zone with 12 seconds left.\n\"I wanted to waste some time,\" Gurley said.\nSUH OR BOO?\nRams defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh played against Detroit for the first time and made six tackles.\n\"I got a warm welcome back,\" he said.\nDetroit drafted Suh No. 2 overall eight years ago and he left for Miami as a free agent in 2015. After the Dolphins cut him earlier this year, he signed a one-year deal with the Rams.\nWhen he played for the Lions, the fans would say his last name after he made a play. When his name was announced after his first tackle Sunday, the crowd seemed to jeer him.\n\"I don't believe it was a boo,\" Suh said.\nSTILL COOKING\nLos Angeles receiver Brandin Cooks, who had four receptions for 62 yards, became the first player in NFL history with 1,000 yards receiving in three straight years with three different franchises. He helped set up a field goal that gave the Rams a 13-3 halftime lead.\nCooks surpassed 1,000 last year with New England and in 2016 with New Orleans. Cooks also had a 1,000-yard season with the Saints in 2015.\nRams: RB Malcom Brown left the game with a shoulder injury. CB Aqib Talib played for the first time since going down with an ankle injury in Week 3.\nLions: LB Devon Kennard went out with a hip injury.\nRams: Play at Chicago on Sunday night.\nLions: Play at Arizona on Sunday.\nMore AP NFL: https://apnews.com/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP-NFL\nUpdated December 2, 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line213985"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5991570353507996,"wiki_prob":0.40084296464920044,"text":"Editor’s Note: Additional letters penned by Henry D. Wharton during his time with Company C and the central command staff of the 47th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry are available, and will be added to this section as time permits. Selected letters which Henry wrote while serving with the 11th Pennsylvania Volunteers are also available on this site.\nPlease enjoy these samples of his letters, and check back frequently for updates.\nNote: The letters shown below were written by Henry Wharton during 1865, the fifth year of America’s Civil War. For letters penned by Henry during prior years, click on the year you are researching:\n12 and 24 April 1865\nHenry D. Wharton provided key details about the 47th Pennsylvania’s defense of Washington, D.C. immediately prior to and after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in two letters penned in April 1865 (written on 12 and 24 April, respectively), including the regiment’s reaction to the “unconditional surrender” of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the enlisted men’s presentation of a “splendid sword” to regimental 2nd Lieutenant Christian S. Beard to “show their appreciation of him as an officer and gentleman,” the impact made on members of the 47th Pennsylvania by President Abraham Lincoln’s murder and witnessing the passage of Lincoln’s funeral train, and the wisdom of America’s procedures for a smooth transfer of power. Published in the Sunbury American, 29 April 1865. (Click on images for enlarged views of letter excerpts. Click HERE for full transcripts of Henry’s two letters.)\nIn this letter home – penned while his regiment was stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, Henry D. Wharton briefly alluded to the feelings of his fellow 47th Pennsylvanians upon learning of the resignation of Union Brigadier-General William Dwight, Jr., commanding officer of the division to which they were attached at that time (and under whom many members of the regiment had served earlier). In addition to this commentary, he also provided the text of Dwight’s 20 July 1865 farewell letter to his troops from his headquarters at Savannah, Georgia. Published in the Sunbury American, 19 August 1865. (Click on images for enlarged views of letter excerpts. Click HERE for full transcript.)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line613959"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.923438310623169,"wiki_prob":0.923438310623169,"text":"AVQ&A\nThe best shows that didn’t make our Top 40\nAlasdair Wilkins, Kevin McFarland, Josh Modell, Myles McNutt, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Pilot Viruet, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell, David Sims, Dennis Perkins, and Emily Todd VanDerWerff\nAVQ&AWelcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences.\nWelcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer? Email us at avcqa@theonion.com.\nWhich TV show that didn’t make our top 40 were you most upset to see missing?\nTodd VanDerWerff\nWhen we first started the discussions that became our top-40 list, somewhere in the neighborhood of 125 different shows were mentioned. This meant that even when we pared them down to the 40-ish shows you see before you today (we did some cheating in the top 15, so it really ended up being closer to 50 shows), we still had a lot of great TV shows left out. So we thought we’d take this chance to make some recommendations of shows that deserved to make the big list but just didn’t.\nAcquisition theater\nNew Girl & Girls\nSundance Channel arrives\nComedy Central’s new wave\n25 honorable mentions\nI’ll start: The final few episodes of 30 Rock were ineligible for the big list for mostly tedious reasons that have to do with Dollhouse (seriously). But there were few single episodes of TV I enjoyed as much this year as the final three half-hours of the show, particularly the next-to-last episode where Liz finally adopted her kids and the hour-long finale that doubled as a rousing defense of women in the workplace. When I think back on 2013, I will remember those final few episodes fondly. As far as shows that are making me laugh consistently right now, few can match ABC’s The Neighbors, a series that packs a surprising number of belly laughs in every episode from where I’m sitting. I’m not too broken up that it missed the top 40, since its storytelling leaves much to be desired, but the goofy aliens are among my favorite TV characters of the year. Finally, I made a brave goal-line stand for HBO’s Getting On when we were finalizing our runners-up list, and while I was defeated, I hope more people catch up with it in the year to come. It’s a gem that’s being sadly ignored.\nPhil Dyess-Nugent\nI didn’t see anything on TV more exciting in 2013 than HBO’s five-part miniseries Parade’s End, smartly adapted from the Ford Madox Ford novel by Tom Stoppard. The show was filmed with the combination of literate sophistication and kinetic dynamism one might expect from director Susanna White, who worked on both the most recent TV versions of Bleak House and Jane Eyre and the Iraq War series Generation Kill. For some reason, it didn’t seem to excite Benedict Cumberbatch’s fan base as much as almost everything else he does, but he gave his best performance in it, and Rebecca Hall, playing the wife with whom Cumberbatch is mismatched, gave the sexiest performance seen on a TV or movie screen this year. The movie critic David Thomson called it Downton Abbey for grown-ups, which sounds about right. I’ll also give a shout-out to two shows that were maybe too small-scale for a best-of-the-year list but that were smart, fun, and took real chances: Ryan Quincy’s animated IFC series Out There and Ovation’s Mikhail Bulgakov adaptation A Young Doctor’s Notebook, with Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm.\nThe last few seasons of Futurama will never be considered among the show’s best; too many sloppy story ideas, along with a growing sense that the writers had lost the spark that animated the best years, made the series’ time on Comedy Central inconsistent and occasionally disappointing. Yet there were still high points, and in a final run filled with decent (and sometimes good) episodes, it was especially gratifying that the cast and crew managed to save the best for last. Futurama already had a perfect finale in “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings,” and while “Meanwhile” doesn’t surpass perfection, it does quite well for itself. A great hook—Professor Farnsworth creates a device that can take the user 10 seconds into the past—combined with the acerbic but generous heart that made the show a beloved cult classic, served to bring things to a close on just the right note. I’m not hugely disappointed that the final season didn’t make our top 40 list, but I do wish there had been some way to honor one of the year’s strongest finales. Oh wait, I just did.\nI’m not surprised we missed Don’t Trust The B—— In Apartment 23, since it ended early in the year and ABC mixed in a bunch of first-season episodes to extremely confusing effect, but it was a hell of a lot of fun. Krysten Ritter tore into her bitch character with biting relish. James Van Der Beek’s narcissistic parody of himself could have been its own show. And even Dreama Walker was better than she had any right to be as the B’s wet-blanket foil. The Sexiest Man Alive episode was one of my favorite half-hours all year. Also, not only is Aziz Ansari’s Netflix special Buried Alive exactly the kind of programming Netflix should be doing, but it sums him up perfectly: smart, more than a little manic, and enthusiastically contemporary. Love is the most well-worn topic for comedy, but Ansari stands out because he’s not just poking fun at depressing dating scenes; he’s truly fascinated with their modern evolution. It’s a credit to his talent that his bits seem so natural even as you can tell he’s practiced them to death.\nRowan Kaiser\n2012 was a bad year for The Vampire Diaries. As its third season ended, the show crawled up its own ass, chasing its mythology while losing its strong characterization. Then the fourth season started with the worst set of episodes the show had done. After several stories in a row that failed to acknowledge the horrible rape-based gender politics Diaries were utilizing, I was juuuuussssttttt about ready to give up on it. And then, starting in January, the show went back to its basics, using a simple premise—a race for a vampirism cure—that brought back all the series’ character strengths, shifting alliances, and crazy back-stabbings. And it was great again. Meanwhile, spinning off several characters from Diaries to The Originals has allowed a deep examination of themes the parent show always ignored. Maybe neither show deserved top-40 status, but I’m happy I didn’t give up on them.\nI’ve written plenty on this site about The Chris Gethard Show, but it really did have a tremendous year, from Murf’s on-air proposal to the rise of Messenger Bag to the big announcement that it’s shooting a pilot for Comedy Central. The archives are online, ready and waiting to be checked out. It’s honestly the most addictive show around. I’d also like to say some final words for the dear, departed Happy Endings, which is already dispersing its talented ensemble around the TV landscape. ABC burned off most of its terrific third season in 2013, but the show managed to end on a fun and hopeful note that emphasized its strengths while leaving things open for a fourth season that will never come. One of the most consistent comedies on TV, it’s already sorely missed from the sitcom landscape. And, finally, while there’s no reason to watch TNT’s Inside The NBA if you don’t like basketball, those who don’t watch are missing out on one of the funniest, frankest shows on television. The scintillating chemistry among Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kenny “The Jet” Smith cannot be overstated, and their willingness to discuss tough topics is pleasantly surprising.\nLes Chappell\nA lot of attention was justly paid to Netflix and Sundance for their new offerings this year, but there were some great shows on less prolific networks. IFC’s Portlandia delivered its most consistent season yet, applying a more serialized approach to its sketches while still sharply mocking the self-obsessed politics and small businesses of the Pacific Northwest. On the pay-cable side, Cinemax continued its commitment to developing scripted drama that’s full of the expected violence and gratuitous sex while also managing to be more fun than it has any right to be. Strike Back had another great year of explosions and mayhem, this time taking Scott and Stonebridge on a hunt for chemical weapons with set pieces ranging from a Beirut rooftop shootout to a Russian prison riot to a fight on top of a freaking train bound for Berlin. And a new series, Banshee, came out swinging, taking a fish-out-of-water/small-town-cop framework and spinning a plot that was just ludicrous enough to be delightful, involving the Russian mob, internal Amish politics, and a nearly invulnerable central character.\nSonia Saraiya\nHey, remember how much we loved Homeland last year? Yeah, me either. The spy drama went from being one of the most intriguing and suspenseful shows on television to being one of the most confusing. The second season was running on all cylinders, and it brushed the top of our year-end list for 2012. But that momentum sent the series into a wall, and it’s taken most of its third season to recover. It’s hard to stump for it, because I acknowledge its massive flaws. But Homeland is still one of the best canvases we have about the war on terror, delivering surprisingly subtle, insightful, and even beautiful episodes with characters who are becoming rapidly implausible. “Good Night” was a standout this season, proving the show could still be gripping. Meanwhile, Archer might never be able to live up to the glory of its second season, but its characters showed up and gamely played along, spinning out their stories with characteristic cynicism and invincibility. The visuals this year were better than ever, and Lana’s pregnancy promises an interesting fifth season, at the very least. And hey, I’m not even going to argue that it’s good, but Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. is one of the few shows I catch up with week-to-week, because it’s like a teen soap opera, but with superpowers, and you don’t have to pay attention if you don’t want to!\nPilot Viruet\nI’ve always loved MTV, but its original programming recently won me over, particularly Catfish and Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous. Catfish, depending on the episode, is either absolutely horrendous (the infamous slow-clap!) or shockingly sweet (you know, that one time it actually worked out). Either way, I couldn’t stop watching. Zach Stone, a clever takedown of reality shows, features an annoying main character and too much cringe-worthy humor, but it managed to inject some real sentimentality into its quieter moments. By the end of the short-lived series, I was rooting for Zach to make it. But the biggest surprise was how I somehow got sucked back into WWE’s Monday Night Raw. Ridiculous storylines, laughable pay-per-view events, the return of weirdos like Goldust, and the perfect duo of CM Punk and Daniel Bryan all made Raw hands-down the most entertaining program I’ve watched all year. It’s still no Attitude Era, but it’s the most I’ve cared about wrestling in about a decade.\nBrandon Nowalk\nIt’s not surprising that my pick for show of the year, Arrested Development, didn’t make our list. What’s surprising is that it had so much support in the first place. This beloved comedy came back into our lives with a prickly new look and feel. The fourth season covers a lot of ground, from that final SEC raid through the housing crisis and the recession to a complete tangle of storylines that converge on a holiday created in order to maintain the white upper-class establishment of Newport Beach. With nobody keeping the family together through the years, the structure follows suit in a way that capitalizes on Netflix’s all-at-once season dump. And when Michael Bluth is no longer the center, his actions reveal a man as selfish as his family—all those “Her?” jokes are seen for what they are. By the end of the season, the rebellion of the younger generation hits notes I didn’t think Arrested Development was capable of. So does Tobias’ musical. Two other A-worthy experiments: The Eric Andre Show, the anti-est anti-talk-show, and TCM’s The Story Of Film, a landmark of annotated television.\nAfter years of unremitting, unsentimental comic cruelty, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia uncapped its strongest season in a long time. Sunny’s audacious balancing act of callousness and comedy is breathtaking at its peak, and this year saw the show producing both huge laughs and some improbably affecting moments. There were missteps, but that’s the danger when you’re working the high wire. For History’s Vikings, the real challenge is convincing us that its characters are… other. They’re motivated by passions we can at least partly understand—but then often, shockingly, they’re operating from a cultural well that we cannot. The series is brilliantly anchored by Travis Fimmel’s performance as the ambitious, unpredictable Ragnar, whose enigmatic smile often signals impending Viking awesomeness. Finally, in defending The Mindy Project, I usually start with, “It’s funny, but…” Well, I’ve decided to end the sentence there for a change—The Mindy Project is funny. Oh, it’s a mess, but I laugh. A lot. She might not be “the next big female comedy TV voice,” but Mindy Kaling’s a gifted comedian, and she benefits from chemistry with an ideally suited sparring partner, Chris Messina. With the show’s future in doubt, it’s tempting to complain that it won’t have time to get its act together—but I like it messy.\nCarrie Raisler\nThough they’re not the flashiest shows, ABC Family has quietly built something special on Monday nights with Switched At Birth and The Fosters, creating a kind of television safe zone for socially conscious, multi-generational family dramas. After an iffy end to season one, Switched At Birth roared back in 2013 with a fantastic subplot about the school district’s threat to close the city’s all-deaf school, culminating in the groundbreaking episode “Uprising,” done almost entirely in American Sign Language. (If you watch any episode of the show, make it that one. It’s remarkable.) And while The Fosters, a drama about a lesbian couple raising a family of foster children—and one biological son, for maximum teen-romance plot awkwardness—is still only figuring out its way after 10 episodes, it’s a testament to this young show that its characters and their relationships feel so fully formed. (Check out “Vigil” if you want to have a good cry, and don’t say I didn’t warn you.) Neither were quite consistent enough to make my list, but both are tremendously moving—the kind of shows I’m just happy still exist somewhere in the television landscape.\nJosh Modell\nI’m more than a little shocked that the final season—probably?—of Eastbound & Down didn’t make the big list, especially considering the show was voted The A.V. Club’s 28th best of the 2000s. (And that’s a whole decade!) Season four did have a rocky start, though it ultimately proved itself more bizarrely cocksure—and Kenny Powers-like—by mid-season, which found Danny McBride once again ruining his own life in search of one more fame buzz. From his party time at the water park to his meltdown on a Christmas-themed episode of his own TV show within the TV show, McBride/Powers was never better, nor was a supporting cast that includes the incredible Steve Little (oh, that chin!) and Ken Marino as an even bigger asshole than McBride. It also tied things up better than the series’ original ending, calling back to Powers’ autobiography on tape with some more self-mythologizing. It was a hilarious, memorable end to a great, despicable character.\nI was surprised that HBO’s Family Tree struggled to find an audience, considering that creator Christopher Guest more or less taught TV how to make a mockumentary with his films Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, and A Mighty Wind. But the most common knock on what Guest would prefer we not call his “mockumentaries”—that they’re more amusing than funny—certainly rang true when stretched to four hours. The show kicked into high gear, though, once Chris O’Dowd reached the American leg on his journey of self-discovery—which also happened to coincide with the arrival of Guest regular Fred Willard. At the very least, Family Tree provided Stateside exposure to the weird ventriloquism of Nina Conti. That attraction that’s only out-niched by the second season of Brad Neely’s spectacular Animal House-in-reverse effort for Adult Swim, China, IL. Fifteen minutes could no longer contain the students and faculty of the University Of China, Illinois, and the show expanded to a half-hour without diluting its heady mixture of scrambled U.S. history, misinterpreted spirituality, and academic satire. Also mixed in there: comedic songs that match anything Guest and company have ever sung.\nRyan McGee\nHas Parks And Recreation lost a step or two since Leslie Knope won her City Council position at the end of season four? Even its most ardent fans would probably agree with that assessment. But did it lose enough to not merit mention in the top 40 shows of the year? That seems like a step too far. Due to its persistently perilous status, the show burned through plot in case it might not last another season. But at this point, it’s largely told the “necessary” stories it needed to, with many of its episodes going broad in the way that often happens with comedies at this stage of their runs. Still, even if Ann Perkins’ desire to have a child was often-cringe worthy, there’s plenty to love on this show. In particular, April Ludgate’s in-progress journey from disaffected introvert to committed citizen of Pawnee stands as a shining example of how Parks’ commitment to optimism is necessary in a medium filled with antiheroes. The show may soon be gone, but its importance will far outlast its run.\nKevin McFarland\nI’ve got a vicious love/hate relationship with Suits. No other show makes me desperately yearn for a career I would hate with a passion that burns like the fire of a thousand suns. For 15 minutes after each episode ends, I’m amped up to take the LSAT and put myself on the road to becoming Harvey Spector. Then I think about all the inconsistencies, and how horribly unappealing the Mike/Rachel relationship has been (despite starring two gorgeous humans), and I regain my sanity. But I devour episodes more quickly than I do with Scandal, which tends to accrue a backlog. Grimm finally turned a corner in its second season and sorted out much of the awkward distance between its best characters, and the show is now shaping up to be an acceptable successor to David Greenwalt’s previous series, Angel. And PBS’ League Of Denial (still available to watch online) is my pick for best television documentary of the year, flaying the NFL for an utter lack of humanity in the face of overwhelming data that a multibillion-dollar industry like football can cause catastrophic brain damage. I feel massive internal conflict whenever I watch a game now, and League Of Denial presents a compelling summary of why.\nMyles McNutt\nWhile there are shows that didn’t make our list—like Awkward. or Parks And Recreation—that would have made my personal top 40, I wanted to use this space to highlight great elements of shows that would otherwise not garner much recognition. Corey Stoll’s Peter Russo was the one character on House Of Cards who combined a strong performance with a reason to care about him, and the fact that nothing on TV made me angrier this year than what the series did to Russo indicates the strength of Stoll’s work. In what has been the year of Allison Janney, including on Masters Of Sex, her work on Mom has helped keep the uneven freshman sitcom chugging along while it discovers itself (and potentially lands on our list next year). And despite the fact that her storylines are often just as silly as those dragging down Nashville in 2013, the series has finally realized that no matter what horrible things Juliette Barnes is doing, we will root for her, because Hayden Panettiere is just so much damn fun—and occasionally heartbreaking—to watch.\nMolly Eichel\nTrophy Wife is not the show that it could be with a little time and nurturing. But in the age of time-shifting, there’s something to be said about a show I want to watch first. It’s a family sitcom sans aw shucks attitude and forced sentimentality. But where a lot of family comedies rely on the long-suffering, no-fun mom, each of the women—even ball-busting, type-A+ Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) and ultra space cadet Jackie (Michaela Watkins)—are imbued with so much humanity that it makes sense that Kate (Malin Akerman) hasn’t filed a restraining order against her previous incarnations. Trophy Wife’s greatest asset, though, is not the layered way it portrays the female relationships or a new perspective on the politics of the blended family, but Bert (Albert Tsai). His mere presence brings a lightness and enthusiasm to every scene. He’s Jackie’s partner-in-crime, but he’s got elements of all of the people who raised him, even if none of those people are blood relatives.\nWill Harris\nWhen the cast and creators of The Goldbergs made their appearance at the dog-and-pony show known as the Television Critics Association press tour, the stock line from just about everyone involved with the series was that the ’80s, while certainly part of the show, wasn’t really as much of a driving force as the show’s heart. I don’t know if that was just a line they were feeding the critics or if they just realized that the viewers actually wanted it to be more about the ‘80s, but either way, it ended up being complete bullshit. But I’ve fallen in love with the series, anyway. Yes, Jeff Garlin yells too much, and yes, Wendi McLendon-Covey takes it too far over the top at times, but there is still a lot of heart, and in addition to George Segal being uniformly great, the trio of young actors who play the kids—Sean Giambrone (Adam), Troy Gentile (Barry), and Hayley Orrantia (Erica)—work extremely well together as well as with the elder actors of the cast. Okay, so it’s kind of obnoxious that the show uses the ’80s as a playground for comedy rather than following any semblance of a real timeline. But it’s still funny, dammit.\nAlasdair Wilkins\nWhile 2013 did see The Colbert Report finally edge out The Daily Show for its first overall Emmy win, I’m a little disappointed that it couldn’t receive the far more prestigious honor of placement on our year-end list. The Report didn’t necessarily offer anything new in a year defined by innovation at Comedy Central, but it’s always worth recognizing just how absurdly difficult it is to churn out more than 150 episodes every year that are so consistently incisive and hilarious. Colbert can play his arch-conservative alter ego in his sleep at this point, but some of the year’s most memorable moments came when he dropped character—most notably his poignant eulogy for his mother—or when he blurred the line between reality and fiction with his response to Daft Punk’s cancellation. Elsewhere, Doctor Who fumbled its latest series-spanning mystery, but some strong individual episodes (particularly “Cold War” and “Hide”) and a bunch of rousing anniversary celebrations have allowed the show to close out its first half-century in style. Finally, Regular Show may be forever stuck in Adventure Time’s shadow, but its nimble, long-awaited progression of Mordecai and Margaret’s love story was emblematic of a generally impressive year for the series.\nBut, guys! What about Raising Hope? Or Parenthood?! Or Suburgatory or Childrens Hospital or The Greatest Event In Television History or Continuum or Call The Midwife or The Bletchley Circle or The Wrong Mans or The Bridge? Or, hell, even The Big Bang Theory, which had a surprisingly strong year. There was so much good TV! It was such a great year! And we haven’t even mentioned the glory and the wonder that was… Sharknado. C’mon, guys. We fucked that one up. See you in 2014.\nRecent from these authors\nRick Rubin’s Shangri-La is a magical-yet-hokey monument to music—and to Rick Rubin\nConan avenges Kumail Nanjiani&apos;s last-minute cancellation by plugging Nanjiani&apos;s competition\nDave Bautista finally gets his Stuber wrap gift from Kumail Nanjiani on Jimmy Kimmel Live!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line480862"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5571931600570679,"wiki_prob":0.5571931600570679,"text":"Seminar CXXXVII: reassessing the Pictish Church\nPosted on 27 February 2013 | 9 comments\nMaintaining this hectic momentum is obviously difficult but I thought it might be time to try and eat in a tiny bit more to my backlog of seminar reports. This one is slightly unusual, as it involved going back to Cambridge and returning to Oxford in the course of a day, something I’d usually try and avoid, but the cause was Alex Woolf of St Andrews giving the Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture on 30th April 2012 in Hughes Hall (no relation), and as an often-acclaimed Alex Woolf fan I might have tried to make that even if he hadn’t been speaking to the title, “The Churches of Pictavia”. Since he was, I was there, and therefore, despite a recent run of hostile comments about my daring to study Scotland with my mere one-eighth Scots blood, I’m going to write about it.\nSlide from my lecture, “The Kingdoms of the North”, British History I (300-1087), University of Oxford 25th October 2012\nNow, I have views on the Pictish Church, as you might expect, I’ve even explained them in lecture theatres myself albeit to a rather less exalted audience as you can see above, but my views are not very deep-seated. On the other hand they are not traditional, either. The traditional view of the Pictish Church would be that Bede knew what he was talking about and that half of Pictland was converted by missions from St Columba’s Iona and the other half by missions from St Nynia’s Whithorn, but that the southern half was more or less grabbed by Anglian Northumbria, to whom the Pictish king Nechtan map Der-Ilei entrusted the task of resourcing his new royal Church after he expelled the Columban monks around 717, whereafter the Church in Pictland seems to have remained roughly under royal control, with perhaps a centre at St Andrews (then Kilrymont), maybe later moved to Dunkeld, where its maybe-single bishop was based when not visiting the various monasteries that actually handled what passed for a ministry here.1 You can doubtless see a rather colonial narrative developed there in which the inhabitants of Scotland would be godless heathens but for foreign intervention, and predictably things seem to have been a bit more complex than that. Thanks to James Fraser we now have some doubts about where the Columban missions actually went, thanks to Thomas Owen Clancy we have doubts that St Nynia existed at all, and there’s a whole variety of older work pointing out other churches and founders around the edges of early Christian Pictland: Maelrubi at Applecross, Ethernan on the Black Isle (edit: of May), a Brigidine cult later claimed for Abernethy that might, if its association with the Pictish king-list has anything behind it, be the first `royal’ church centre….2 One could add more. Also, thanks to Thomas, it’s not clear that King Nechtan was actually in control of all of Pictland when he made his suit to Wearmouth-Jarrow, or that the expulsion of the Ionan monks was fully effective or durable, so I think that we have to think of several churches in Pictland: an Ionan one perhaps with a brief pause when they were subsumed into royal charge, an Anglian one that may likewise have later been combined with a royal one maybe based on Abernethy or St Andrews or both, whatever the grouping was that Whithorn apparently claimed in the south and a bunch of other smaller ones, single cells or clumps with their own founder legends.3 Mappings like that of James Fraser below thus seem to me a bit hopeful in their coherence, even when so unambitious.4 All of these groups were probably getting their episcopal ministry from outside quite often, I suspect, from Whithorn, from Anglian Abercorn while that lasted, from Gaelic Lismore, maybe even from Iona, though St Andrews and Dunkeld both have intermittent records of bishops in the Irish Annals in the tenth century so by then the united kingship may have been keener on centralising the Pictish or Alban epispocate near their new centres at St Andrews and Forteviot.5 It’s all so hypothetical, though, and I learnt much of this so long ago and may remember it so badly that I’d happily change any of this for a better-argued point of view; after all, it’s not so long ago that I saw Thomas Owen Clancy confront the questions, “when, where and what for were the churches of the Picts?” and conclude that the only safe answers were “during the Pictish period”, “in Pictland”, and “for the Picts to worship in”, and if anyone knows it’s him.\nHardly an ambitious set of claims and yet still I quarrel…\nThat said, Alex has this habit of making long-vexed questions look unexpectedly simple, so you might wonder whether this was one of those occasions. And I will rediscover this with you, my readers, because though I remember being gobsmacked by this lecture, I was also somewhat blind-sided by a professional faux pas I later realised I’d made and besides it was ten months ago now, I just don’t remember what was said. BUT I HAVE NOTES. So, if they can be trusted, it went something like this. Alex spent some time setting up Pictland for us as a basically-British polity, using the analogy of the carrion and hooded crow which are actually the same species but differently identified in highland and lowland Britain because of a varied colouring more common in the north. This works on many levels, I love it. Pictland’s not some weird alien space, in other words, but a joined-up part of northern Britain. Alex suggested that parallels might be found between the stone sculpture of Iona and that of Dunkeld, fitting nicely with the putative royal take-over of a Columban start but suggesting much more of a Columban reach than I’d have allowed for; he added another founder saint (I told you one could) at St Vigeans, where there is of course yet more sculpture; and he stressed that despite its various possible divisions this Church shared the same literate and artistic culture as its Irish and Saxon brethren, something that Martin Carver’s excavations at Portmahomack also pointed towards by turning up a Pictish symbol stone and styli and possible evidence for parchment-making on the same site.6 These guys may not all have been singing off the same hymn-sheet or singing the same hymns at the same time (Alex elected not to talk about the reckoning of Easter…) but the books out of which they read their hymns would have been decorated much like those anywhere else in Northern Britain. It’s a while ago that the late Julian Brown observed that we may only think we have no Pictish manuscripts because we don’t think there are any but it remains true; there are a good few possible contendors.7\nPictish beasts? Brown’s controversial contendor was none other than the Book of Kells, of which this is fol. 27v, from Wikimedia Commons\nSo far so much nuance; more characteristically iconoclastic in their problem-solving ability were a number of references to later Scottish churches associated with mounds, prompting the suggestion that we have few churches evidenced because worship was done outdoors at old meeting sites, though it is also true that the archæology of early possible church sites in Scotland is basically unknown bar Forteviot and that the one guaranteedly Pictish church site we have, Portmahomack, has no such forebear, at least not very nearby though it’s an area busy with Pictish stones. (I note, though, that the recently-discovered probable monastic site at Fortingall shares its location with a very very old yew tree…) In other respects, however, the Pictish Church probably shouldn’t have been very different from those northern formations with whom it shared artistic tendencies and likely therefore liturgy (since they would be in the same books). The resource concentrations that implies, however, must have taken time to amass, and so the whole realisation of this may have been late, later than Columba, later than Nynia, still in formation perhaps under Adomnán, Columba’s biographer who signally did not claim Columba as apostle of the Pictish kingdom.8 The Church’s ability to do intensive lordship probably attracted the attention of the kings (and here one can find a very similar argument in John Blair’s theory about the decline of minster churches in Anglo-Saxon England) and thus after the take-over we might think of German-style Klosterpfälze, albeit on a lesser scale.9 The chronology of this seems a little uncertain to me in retrospect: I’m sure I’ve heard Alex argue that the Pictish symbol stones are post-conversion so if it signifies that Portmahomack is in an area rich with them must there not be some kind of church structure before it? Isn’t that already really very close to the supposed take-over period? It is likely that I have failed to record the full subtlety of what was being suggested here. In any case, there was evidently so much variety in this ecclesiastical set-up that it is, alas, quite possible that our nice, new and all-but-unique type-site may actually have been unusual.\nThe St Andrews sarcophagus, famous for its combination of Celtic and Old Testament artistic motives, as displayed in 2006, from Wikimedia Commons\nYou may be forgiven for thinking that it would take a somewhat impressionable cast of mind to depart from this basically-reasonable and plausible-sounding lecture `gobsmacked’, and OK, that is perhaps true. This is because what I haven’t told you is that in the final minutes Alex brought in the St Andrews Sarcophagus.10 One of the enigmas about this fine article of Pictish sculpture is that its iconography appears to be partly Persian, which takes some explaining. There have been explanations, largely involving motives transmitted in textile, which is sort of fair enough but what’s it doing here? Alex has what must be the answer. But because the Hughes lectures are published, and I’ve already here anticipated half a dozen of the things you might want your copy for, though hopefully only so much as to sharpen your Pictophile appetites, I will leave this one secret so that you have to get hold of it. It’ll be worth it….\n1. One might seek such a view in works such as Alfred Smyth, Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland A. D. 80-1000 (London 1984), J. MacQueen, St. Nynia (Edinburgh 1961, rev. edn. 1991), or Alan MacQuarrie, The Saints of Scotland: essays in Scottish Church history A. D. 450-1093 (Edinburgh 1997). Perhaps the key introduction would be Kathleen Hughes, Early Christianity in Pictland, Jarrow Lecture 1970 (Jarrow 1970), repr. in eadem, Celtic Britain in the Early Middle Ages: studies in Scottish and Welsh sources, ed. David Dumville, Studies in Celtic History 1 (Woodbridge 1980), pp. 38-52, which was of course the prompt for Alex’s lecture subject.\n2. James Fraser, From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795, New Edinburgh History of Scotland 1 (Edinburgh 2009), pp. 94-115; Thomas Owen Clancy, “The real Saint Ninian” in Innes Review Vol. 52 (Glasgow 2001), pp. 1-28; P. A. Yeoman, “Pilgrims to St. Ethernan: the archaeology of an early saint of the Picts and Scots” in Barbara Crawford (ed.), Conversion and Christianity in the North Sea World, St John’s House Papers 8 (St Andrews 1998), pp. 75-91; Sally Foster, “Discovery, Recovery, Context and Display” in eadem (ed.), The St Andrews Sarcophagus: a Pictish masterpiece and its international connections (Dublin 1998), pp. 36-62 at pp. 42-50; and Abernethy and Dunkeld I have from Isabel Henderson, The Picts (Edinburgh 1967), pp. 84-90; there must be better references but I found it there in my notes and don’t fancy hunting for more.\n3. Clancy, “Philosopher-King: Nechtan mac Der-Ilei” in Scottish Historical Review Vol. 83 (2004), pp. 125-149.\n4. Fraser, Caledonia to Pictland, p. 110, though to be fair he does also observe, pp. 108 & 109: “It is a leap of faith to conclude from such scattered notices [as those he has just gathered] that Nér and Banchory were Columban monasteries in seventh-century Pictland….”\n5. Henderson as in n. 2 above; for Forteviot, see Leslie Alcock, “Forteviot: a Pictish and Scottish royal church and palace” in Susan Pearce (ed.), The Early Church in Western Britain and Ireland: studies presented to C. A. Ralegh Radford arising from a conference organised in his honour by the Devon Archaeological Society and Exeter City Museum, British Archaeological Reports (British Series) 102 (Oxford 1982), pp. 211-239, though there must by now be something more given recent digs. Ah yes: websearching reveals Nicholas Aitchison, Forteviot: a Pictish and Scottish royal centre (Stroud 2006), though I’ve not seen this myself.\n6. Martin Carver, Portmahomack: monastery of the Picts (Jarrow 2008); for wider context see Alcock, Kings & Warriors, Craftsmen & Priests in Northern Britain AD 550-850 (Edinburgh 2003), pp. 297-398.\n7. Julian Brown, Northumbria and the Book of Kells, Jarrow Lecture 1971 (Jarrow 1972), rev. as “Northumbria and the Book of Kells” in Anglo-Saxon England Vol. 1 (Cambridge 1972), pp. 219-246; repr. in Brown, A Palaeographer’s View: the selected writings of Julian Brown, edd. Janet Bately, Michelle Brown and J. Roberts (London 1993), pp. 141-178.\n8. Adomnán, Vita Columbae, edd. & transl. Alan Orr Anderson and Marjorie Anderson as Adomnán’s Life of Columba (London 1961), rev. M. Anderson as Adomnán: Life of Columba (Oxford 1991), II.32-35.\n9. John Blair, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford 2005), pp. 323-341; for Klosterpfälze see John W. Bernhardt, Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in early medieval Germany, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th Series, 21 (Cambridge 1993).\n10. Foster, St Andrews Sarcophagus.\nPosted in archaeology, Picts\nTagged Alex Woolf, Cambridge, Church, Dunkeld, Kathleen Hughes, Lismore, Portmahomack, St Andrews\nIn which Chris Lewis tells it better\nA lightweight one, to get the wheels back on the road! I’d like to dedicate this post to Ted Buttrey, who knows what I mean when I say this: there’s a particular form of academic achievement that is not often recognised as highly as it should be, which is the joke in the footnote. This is a special achievement, not just because one is always up against a word-count and it has to survive, fitter than some other reference you might have put, but also because it then has to satisfy the referees and editors that it’s worth leaving even though academia r srs bizniz and so on. If it does, though, it’s one of the few things where endnotes rather than footnotes are preferable, because it adds distance between feedline and pay-off. For example, when I was putting this virtual exhibition together, I was reading quite a lot because as you can see it’s not about something I really know much on myself, and when I found in Dick Doty’s history of the Soho mint a sentence saying that a whole history could be written from what Matthew Boulton’s correspondence revealed about the world of eighteenth-century art production, with a reference, the faff of having to find my way to the right place two hundred pages further on actually made it funnier when I found that the reference was merely, “But not by me.”1 And on the morning of the day when I first drafted this post I had just found Chris Lewis doing similar, and the passage in question is Quite Interesting so I thought I’d just quote it all.2 You don’t mind, right? The pay-off is in the second footnote, so you have to read to the end.\nThe origin of the name Englefield… has to be sought… in an English adaptation of the territory’s Welsh name, Tegeingl…. The processes by which ‘Tegeingl’ was Anglicized as ‘Englefield’ are perhaps illuminated by Gerald of Wales in the course of recounting a laboured joke which he alleged illustrated the witticisms of the Welsh. The joke hinged on the coincidence that Tegeingl was also the name of a woman who had slept with each of the two princes, Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd and his brother, who ruled the territory of Tegeingl in turn. Its punchline was a supposed saying from that time that Dafydd succeeded his brother as prince: ‘I don’t think Dafydd should have Tegeingl. His brother’s had her already.28 At first sight Gerald’s shaping of the story seems to be directed against the Welsh (dirty-minded, not funny), but it also acts in a more sophisticated way to score points off the English too. Teg was the Welsh for ‘beautiful’, and Teg-engl might be (deliberately) mistaken by a quick-witted Anglo-Welsh bilingual, such as Gerald, as meaning ‘the beautiful English(woman)’. Read like that, Gerald’s unfunny joke may have concealed a clever dig at the English: by ruling successively over the province of Tegeingl the two princely brothers had taken turns with a beautiful Englishwoman.29 When English speakers first reached north-east Wales, they may well have heard the Welsh name of of the territory as Gerald later would, as teg eingl, and understood its proper name to be Eingl, particularly appropriate (if misunderstood as a homophone) when they settled in part of it.\n28 Gerald of Wales, Descriptio Kambriae in Works, ed. J. S. Brewer, James F. Dimock and George F. Warner, 8 vols, RS 21 (1861-91) VI, 153-227, at pp. 190-1.\n29 Walter Map would have told the same joke better.\nHow true those words are, even today. More serious content shortly I hope!\n1. Richard Doty, The Soho Mint and the Industrialization of Money (London 1998).\n2. C. P. Lewis, “Welsh Territories and Welsh Identities in Late Anglo-Saxon England” in Nick Higham (ed.), Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 7 (Woodbridge 2007), pp. 130-143 at p. 138.\nPosted in Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Currently reading..., England, Humour\nTagged Chris Lewis, Ergyng, Gerald of Wales, place-names, Ted Buttrey, Wales","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line701350"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9066687822341919,"wiki_prob":0.9066687822341919,"text":"Youngstown police hiring policy changed\nBy David Skolnick | January 5, 2011 at 12:03a.m.\nYoungstown Mayor Jay Williams\nBy David Skolnick\nskolnick@vindy.com\nThe city is changing its policy on hiring police officers, including reducing the importance of the written test by 50 percent and providing free sessions on what to expect from the exam.\nThe city’s current policy of dual hiring lists — one for white men and the other for minorities and females — for those seeking to be police officers and firefighters has faced criticism from city administrators and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The city typically hired one minority or female for every two white men it selected for the police and fire departments.\nA federal appeals court declared the use of two lists by Shreveport, La., to be unconstitutional in 2006.\nMinorities and women haven’t scored as well on the written test as white males, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t qualified, said Mayor Jay Williams.\nThe city hired Barrett & Associates, a Cuyahoga Falls firm that specializes in legal and human-resources consulting, in October for $24,535 in October to change the policies and oversee the implementation.\nThose changes go into effect now.\nThe new policy will “provide a fair and level playing field” for all applicants, Williams said.\nThe city is likely to implement the changes for future hires at the fire department, too, he said.\nThe current policy had those who passed the written test, a score of at least 70, take a physical agility test.\nBut the new policy calls for 50 percent of the test to be written and the same percentage for physical agility. The latter includes the physical activity of a police officer such as running, scaling a wall and simulating a rescue.\nBeing a good police officer combines both “intelligence and physical skills,” Williams said. “Critics will say this is lowering the bar, but it couldn’t be further from the truth.”\nThe written test will be given at 10 a.m. Feb. 5 at Youngstown State University’s Cushwa Hall. A date for the physical test hasn’t been determined.\nThe city will accept applications for the test between Jan. 10 and 21, but will stop earlier if 400 applications are received, said Jennifer Lewis, the city’s civil service commission administrator. The civil service office doesn’t have the staff — there are only two employees — or the money to offer the test to an unlimited number of people, she said.\nThe applications must be picked up in person at the civil service office, 7th floor of city hall, 26 S. Phelps St.\nAs part of the new policy, Barrett & Associates is having free written exam seminars today. The first is from 2-4 p.m. at the McGuffey Center, 1649 Jacobs Road. The other is from 6-8 p.m. at the Mill Creek Community Center, 496 Glenwood Ave.\nApplications will be given at the sessions as well as study guides for the written test with Barrett employees going through the study guides, explaining the rules and procedures, and providing test preparation strategies.\nStill to be determined is how the city will hire new officers. The city’s civil service commission will meet Jan. 19 to decide whether there will be a ranking based on the results of the written and physical tests or whether everyone who passes the test will be lumped together on a single list, Lewis said. Also to be discussed is possibly changing the passing grade from its current 70 percent.\nThe city will probably hire five to 15 new police officers in the next 12 to 18 months, Williams said.\nAbigail Thernstrom, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ vice chairwoman, told The Vindicator the changes are “certainly a step in the right direction toward increasing the pool of qualified applicants regardless of race or gender.”\nShe said weighing the physical ability and written tests equally “is all well and good. But if in the end they end up hiring candidates because of their race or ethnicity that would be a violation of the law.\nJanuary 20, 2011 12:05 a.m.\nYPD hiring policy revised\nOctober 29, 2010 12:08 a.m.\nFirm to help city with its police-hiring policy\nUS panel applauds change in YPD hiring policy\nYoungstown to offer test for firefighters\nApril 21, 2010 12:08 a.m.\nUS civil-rights panel blasts Youngstown hiring policies","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1027413"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7094900608062744,"wiki_prob":0.7094900608062744,"text":"Grill Yr Idols: John Frusciante on fame, free jazz and the...\nGrill Yr Idols: John Frusciante on fame, free jazz and the genius of Public Enemy\nBy Jeremy Judelson, May 14 2016\nJeremy Judelson was a marketing intern at media outlet Mass Appeal when he snatched the chance to interview his idol, not knowing where his relationship with the reclusive musician would lead. A year later, he shares his rare conversation with the media-shy guitar-god-turned-synth-wielder, spanning hip-hop, Ornette Coleman, and why he may never play live again.\nJohn Frusciante has gone through many evolutions in his career. He joined his favorite band, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as a guitarist in 1988 at the age of 17. He spent the next 20 years in and out of the band, experiencing all the unimaginable highs and disturbing lows that rock and roll stardom has to offer. Throughout it all, he remained a prolific solo artist, his albums ranging from the drug-addled four-track experiments of Niandra Lades and Usually Just a T-Shirt (1994) to the acoustic folk-rock shamanism of Curtains (2005) and the enveloping studio mastery of The Empyrean (2009).\nAfter leaving the Chili Peppers for the final time in 2007, his solo output began to span a wholly new set of styles: experimental electro-pop, acid house, atonal jungle-rock fusion, and old school hip-hop. His latest release, The Foregrow EP, released last month via Acid Test, is a selection of tracks made during 2009 and 2010, a period in which Frusciante had just begun using the Renoise DAW to track and edit his wild synthesizer journeys. For anyone who’s already a fan of his modular creations, it’s a record that will delight and enthral. For everyone else, welcome to the world of Frusciante.\nThe first time I heard music from his solo catalog was in 2010. It was a beautiful, chilly Sunday during Thanksgiving break and I was home from my freshman year at Wesleyan University. It was mid-afternoon and I was smoking a spliff in my friend’s Columbia dorm room. We thought it would be funny to go to the Hayden Planetarium stoned. He put on Shadows Collide with People, Frusciante’s 2004 solo record. Looking back, hundreds of listens later, I still remember the force that dug into me as album opener ‘Carvel’, with the barely audible click of a hi-hat, took a head-first dive into a one-of-a-kind, egoless rock and roll anthem. It was as spiritual and visceral as any song I had ever heard. Each track drew me further into its world of shimmering soundscapes and skeletal pop songs.\nAt the time, I was struggling at college with a mental health triumvirate of anxiety, compulsions, and depression. And while that first listen to Shadows was a gasp of fresh air that I needed, it didn’t last long. I returned to Connecticut for the second half of the semester and a bitter winter threw me into a dark hole. I didn’t leave my room much beyond going to class. I spent hours screaming into pillows and learned how to really smoke pot. During this time, for reasons I have only just begun to grasp, Frusciante became important to me. I made him an idol, a legend, but also a dependable friend. His story became my passion – the rock star turned reclusive auteur, the junkie turned spiritualist, the guitarist gone electronic. No number of YouTube interviews could satiate my hero-worship. It’s a weird thing when you adore a public person – you feel like you know them, yet the appeal of the whole exchange is that you never actually meet them. They can never really be your friend.\nI graduated college in 2014, the same year that Frusciante began releasing hip-hop with the Black Knights, a Wu Tang-affiliated rap duo he had met through RZA. In 2015, I was interning at media outlet Mass Appeal when the collaboration’s second album was announced. My internship was in marketing, and although I didn’t necessarily want to be a music journalist, I wasn’t ruling it out. When I pitched the editor a review of the upcoming LP, The Almighty, he suggested I reach out for an interview. I contacted the Black Knights, who go by the names Rugged Monk and Crisis the Sharpshooter. They agreed to a phone call and I mustered up the courage to ask if John would be able to join. “Lol I know for a fact he isn’t doing no media type shit,” Crisis responded.\nI tried to reassure him. “If there’s any part of him that’s scared it will be another Heavyweights Radio interview where I don’t know what he’s all about, you could assure him that’s not the case. No Chili Peppers questions.”\nHe replied: “He is is very private. We have no problem asking but he has no problem saying no.”\nI knew this. I felt guilty at the prospect of imposing upon him, and selfish for trying to talk with him. I felt unqualified even asking. Yet, I already had. It didn’t seem realistic that he would say yes – if I could pull this off, then why couldn’t anybody? In spite of my doubts, it worked. I was put in touch with someone at his label, and two days later, John and I were set to speak over the phone.\n“When I heard Public Enemy’s second record, the production on it blew my mind”\nI spent the next two days constantly questioning myself: “What the fuck am I doing?” The whole thing was too perfect, and it scared me. But I prepared well. I returned to all of the old interviews, and the new ones. I asked my planetarium buddy Jacob what questions he would ask. I couldn’t help but see this moment as a turning point, some sort of narrative fulfilment in the arc of my relationship with John and his music. What was this going to mean for me me? Was it the end of the story or the beginning? How do I let him know what his music has meant to me? Do I want to?\nWhen it came time to call him, I breathed deep and dialed. I felt like a conman until the moment he picked up.\n“This is John.” It was odd to hear the voice addressing me, the same voice that I had spent thousands of hours listening to. We spent two hours talking, and since the context of the interview was his new album, I started by asking him about how he got into hip-hop.\n“Initially I wasn’t interested in hip-hop, because I was a young kid learning how to play guitar and admiring drummers, and drum machines just didn’t sound as expressive to me as real drummers,” he recalled. “Then when I heard Public Enemy’s second record, the production on it blew my mind. I had no idea that sampling and drum machines could be so expressive. What Hank Shocklee was doing on there was just so remarkable from a musical standpoint, to be creating this collage from so many different things and transforming little pieces of music into one piece of art.”\nAt first he was “mystified” by how the music came to exist, but over the years he began to understand the technical aspects of sampling and discover the expressive capabilities it held. His first foray into sampling was Sect in Sgt, a 15-minute synthesis of breakbeats, classic rock samples and musique concréte. He heard the piece in its entirety during a dream and tried to replicate it precisely. Finding his own way into this sample-based music made him realise he could attempt to make hip-hop as well, as he did on a trio of albums with Wu-affiliated rap duo the Black Knights.\n“Music like Autechre and Venetian Snares and Aphex and Squarepusher, [it’s] an extension of what Hank Shocklee had been doing with Public Enemy,” he explained. “This music that felt like it just came out of the air by magic or something.” (His belief in a near-mystical source of human creativity came up in conversation again and again.)\nTalking about the Black Knights, he seemed nervous about saying the right thing, and openly acknowledged that his partnership with Rugged Monk and Crisis was an unusual match. “There’s a lot of things about each other that we’ll never understand. In a lot of ways I think I’m a mystery to them, and they are certainly a mystery to me.” There were no doubts in the studio, though – the rappers trusted him with all of the music, and he trusted them with all of the rhymes.\n“Music like Autechre and Venetian Snares is an extension of what Hank Shocklee had been doing with Public Enemy”\n“In the rock world, there’s a lot of second-guessing and people being unsure of themselves and people hiring producers to make them better than they are. Monk and Crisis didn’t require anything like that. They believed in what they wrote and they went up to the mic and did it. I’ve always had that same kind of confidence as a guitar player.” In recognizing each other as opposites, each side of the relationship become more whole. “I’ve always had [friendships] like that,” he stuttered, “where we tend to find a peace in arguing with each other. Not about music – our roles there are specifically defined – but just about life and race and politics or social conventions.”\nAfter talking about hip-hop, I brought bring up his interest in free jazz – a genre that could be seen as a project of political and social, as well as musical, liberation. Frusciante played with Alice Coltrane-esque chord progressions and Sonny Sharrock-style guitar leads on The Outsides EP, and even has a tattoo of the album art from free jazz magus Ornette Coleman’s Dancing in Your Head. Coleman had died a few weeks prior to our interview, so I asked if he had any words to say about him.\nHe paused. “You’re kidding, I didn’t know that.” I apologized for being the bearer of bad news. He was flustered. “Fuck, I keep finding out about people like two weeks afterwards. Damn, pretty close to Charlie Haden, too.” I asked how their music influenced him but he was speechless; the news had hit him like a truck. “I’m just in shock about Ornette. Can I call you back?” He hung up.\nI got a call back the next day. He began by saying that he didn’t want to talk about Coleman, but only a few minutes passed before he returned to the subject naturally. “For me as a musician, the whole point is to take as much from history as possible,” he said. “[Coleman] found freedom because he understood tradition, and he grew and learned and taught his entire life because he had that. He was a gentle person, a humble person, and a mild-­mannered, shy person. As a musician he appeared to be some sort of anarchist or something, but the reason he was able to progress throughout his whole life and be just as good when he was 80 years old as when he was 30 is that he never stopped educating himself.”\nMusicians should never stop studying, he continued. “You’re only going to make money if you play all original material. That puts a really weird thing in musicians’ heads, and it seems like in hip-­hop especially, there’s no understanding of that kind of learning – that type of learning that every jazz musician had to do, that every folk musician had to do, that every rock musician had to do in the early days, which is spending years playing other people’s music. And with rap, with my friends, they were playing a CD of The Chronic or 36 Chambers, and I’m playing guitar along with it and Monk’s rapping along with it, and when we did that together it was kinda like studying together. It was like the teacher was coming out of the speakers and we were the students.”\nBy the end of our second call, all I wanted to do was go play along to some Frusciante records.\n“I don’t want to make a spectacle of myself in the way that I did when I was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers”\nFor months afterwards, I ignored the situation. I used a single quote in a piece for Mass Appeal and moved on to another job. In a way, I felt that as long as I kept the interview out of the public eye, our relationship was an authentic friendship rather than a professional engagement.\nLess than a year afterwards, John announced that he would be releasing The Foregrow EP. I felt incapable of having his number in my phone and not using it. I unthinkingly sent him a text to see if he would talk to me about the new record. I waited a day and then he agreed: “Sure.”\nThis time things came more naturally. He knew that our last interview hadn’t come to anything more than a single quote. He seemed a bit confused. Why would this kid go through a whole two-hour interview for one lousy quote?\nThe Foregrow EP was rumored to be influenced by John Carpenter and footwork. Turns out that was just clickbait for music nerds. He quickly dispelled both of those claims, assuring me that when the EP was recorded in 2009, he had heard neither the horror director’s synth scores nor the Chicago dance style, although since then he had become interested in the latter. The incident hinted at how Frusciante loves to hide within his art, particularly under his new guise. “I’ve always been very careful about how I incorporate guitar into electronic music. I don’t want to make a spectacle of myself as a guitarist in the way that I did when I was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I wanted to be inside the music, not standing outside of it to grab your attention.”\nThe EP came out on LA label Acid Test, run by Oliver Bristow. “He picked out the songs, not me,” said Frusciante. “The stuff on that Trickfinger album was recorded in 2007, despite the album saying that it was recorded in 2008 – that was a mistake. And by 2009, after I had already started working with Aaron Funk [Venetian Snares], I switched from recording directly from the machines into the mixer, then a CD burner, to recording on the computer on Renoise. Still using my machines, but Renoise became the recorder so I could do overdubs and stuff like in the second song, ‘Expre’act’, where the tempo is constantly shifting. That has been something I’ve been dying to do, because it’s something that Autechre has done wonderful things with, and Venetian Snares as well. That’s something you can’t do if you’re just syncing all your machines to each other without a master clock coming from the computer.”\nIt seemed that John had his talking points for the album prepared, and he was very to-the-point, which seemed odd. At the end of our interview he apologized for having drunk too much coffee. “What was also really exciting to me about having a computer was the fact that I could do what amounts to editing, where one section of music is totally unlike the next section of music,” he continued caffeinatedly. “I always liked it in progressive rock when a band like Yes would have a long piece of music with various sections that were clearly not done all in one pass. Where the entire atmosphere and environment is completely different and it’s like a different song. I was trying to do that same thing within a six or seven minute song.” There’s a lack of good prog-rock these days, he agreed, “and what parades as it is bullshit. I don’t consider it to be progressive rock, it’s all just heavy metal bullshit or whatever.”\nDespite his tenure in one of the world’s biggest bands, he’s wary of rock star manoeuvres describing his recent music as “a bunch of weird anti-rock star guitar solos”. He continues, “Kurt Cobain’s improvisations are very impressive guitar solos because it’s more about his energy, his looseness, not trying to impress you with the flying fingers or whatever. Not adhering to things like staying in the right key – just play whatever note you want. That’s how it is in electronic music.” Frusciante’s anti-rock star ideal is a rejection of the highly technical guitar playing that dominated the airwaves in the ‘70s and ‘80s. “That’s why I’ve always been very careful about how I incorporate guitar into electronic music. I don’t want to make a spectacle of myself as a guitarist in the way that I did when I was in the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I wanted to be inside the music, not standing outside of it to grab your attention.”\n“The best musicians often have to hide themselves in order to be appealing to people. That’s what David Bowie was a master at”\nHis unmistakeable voice has provided similar difficulties. When I showed my friends Frusciante’s electronic music, they’d hardly believe it was the dude from the Chili Peppers – until he began singing. His backing vocals were an integral component of the band’s pop success; it’s hard to remove yourself when the world has already heard so much of you.\nIn a recent post on his website, he wrote about a set of lyrical rules that began to coalesce for him in 1997 – a philosophy that would allow him to mask his individuality, as he explained. “I was living in the house of a woman who was a witch and an occultist, and she gave me a copy of Aleister Crowley’s Book of Lies. I was reading that and I also had the book that Ian Curtis’ wife’s wrote [with Joy Division lyrics in the back] and I saw a connection between the two of them, which was that the person was hidden, the personality was hidden, and they weren’t going to any great [lengths] to make the meaning of what they said clear. And yet you feel that they were revealing more of themselves than they would be if they were singing some romantic, sentimental ballad or something.”\nThe attention-grabbing aspect of his rock stardom still seemed to loom large as a perceived obstacle to Frusciante’s creativity. Of course, it always had. In the old interviews I’d watched so many times, he always rejected the “image as the thing,” the idea of the artist as an object, a cult of personality.\n“You can’t possibly appeal to people and be sincere all the time. Oftentimes the best musicians have to hide themselves in order to be appealing to people. That’s what David Bowie was a master at. He was hiding all the time. He was always interviewed as a persona, and he was hidden as a person inside that persona. And I think that was the correct way to deal with a world in which it’s understood that if you want the backing of a record company, you have to sell yourself. If you’re gonna be fake and if you’re gonna be insincere, make it into an art form! And that’s what Bowie did. But not everybody has that talent.”\nHe’s fond of John Lennon’s 1971 Rolling Stone interview, the one where he disavowed Beatles mythology, shit-talked his ex-bandmates, and called his fans a bunch of bourgeois hypocrites. Frusciante may not have Lennon’s sarcastic and political edge, but he wants to address his fans similarly, to tell them their idol is a mirage. That’s what Frusciante meant when he said he “no longer makes music for an audience” – he wasn’t referring to individuals, but the audience more broadly, the monolithic social force that limits and defines popular art. He hoped to obliterate its influence.\nThe last question I asked him was about live performance – why was it no longer attractive to him? His last solo gig was in 2005, but selfishly, I held on to the hope of one day seeing him play.\n“Music comes from the inside of the musician,” he responded, “and when you’re on tour, you’re so aware all the time of the impression you’re making on the people looking at you and listening to you. It gives you the feeling of being an object. And I think most musicians would be lying if they said that they didn’t, after touring for a long time, just think of an audience as a bunch of objects themselves. They objectify you, and you in turn objectify them. They respond the same way to the same things every night. They seem like machines at a certain point.”\nIt doesn’t surprise me that he is more comfortable making music with machines these days. People try desperately not to be automatons, yet when they are part of that crowd, that’s exactly what they become. The night after our second conversation, I closed my eyes with Shadows blasting in my headphones and heard a line that had never quite made sense before: “Omit myself as a favor to God. Suffer fate cause it’s the only lift you’ve got.” It struck me that, just as Ornette Coleman’s humility allowed him to become a visionary, Frusciante tries to keep his ego out of his art, in the hope of being a vessel for something greater.\nTags: John Frusciante\nJohn Frusciante announces acid EP influenced by John Carpenter\nJohn Frusciante gives away a trove of unreleased music","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line687746"}
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He has over 20 years experience in the Tax Prep and Accounting industry. He started working for Taxman in 2007 and is currently Manager of our Moorhead Taxman location. He is well known by his clients as Tony the Taxman. Tony will always offer free coffee, free conversation and free tax advice.\nShelane Hoverson\nEmail Shelane\nShelane has been employed at Taxman since 2010. She has a BA degree in Psychology from MSUM and has lived in Fargo with her husband since 2000. Their three daughters live and work in the Mpls/St Paul area. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, water sports, volleyball and spending time on Big Cormorant lake with family and friends.\nWe Focus On Your Unique Tax Planning , Tax Preparation & Business Consulting Needs!\nTAXMAN FARGO\n​4840 Amber Valley Parkway Fargo, ND 58104\n819 30th Ave. S. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6638180017471313,"wiki_prob":0.33618199825286865,"text":"Continu Selected for This Year’s Entrepreneur 360 List\nThe Entrepreneur 360 Ranking delivers the most comprehensive analysis of private companies in America. This study, forged by Entrepreneur, has been designed to provide a multidimensional view of entrepreneurship today, recognizing well-rounded, privately-held companies based on their impact, innovation, growth and leadership.\nContinu is thrilled to be included on this year’s Entrepreneur 360 list — an achievement that affirms our growth as a product and as a team.\n“The Entrepreneur 360 List celebrates outstanding companies for the value they bring to the world, not just the worth of their company,” says Ryan Shea, president of Entrepreneur Media, Inc. “The companies on this list exemplify growth, not just in top and bottom line, but in their ability to create a superior value for their customers, build adaptive learning cultures, and drive innovation in their marketplace.”\nLearn more about the award and this year’s recipients here.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1325355"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6099934577941895,"wiki_prob":0.6099934577941895,"text":"Obama Has Middle Class All Teed Up For New Taxes\nby Jeff Dunetz | Aug 4, 2009 | Other\nIn the past few days we have learned that Congress wants to tax the “rich” to pay for Obamacare, but even a tax on the rich cannot pay for Obamacare. So the money will have to come from the middle class, but the president promised no middle class tax hikes and a break with that promise will hurt Obama’s credibility as much as George HW Bush’s break with his tax pledge hurt his.\nBut Obama WILL break his tax pledge, well, it will be more like wiggling his way out of his way out of it.\nThe middle class will have their taxes increased, in two different ways, through the expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts, which he will be able to easily explain away, and through a national VAT (Sales Tax) which will enable him to say that he didn’t touch the tax rates of the middle class:\nTeeing Up the Middle Class\nJoe the Plumber’s tax vindication is nigh.\nFew of President Obama’s 2008 campaign pledges were more definitive than his vow that anyone making less than $250,000 a year “will not see their taxes increase by a single dime” if he was elected. And he was right, very strictly speaking: It’s going to be many, many, many billions of dimes.\nAsked about raising taxes on the middle class on Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” White House economist Larry Summers wouldn’t repeat Mr. Obama’s pre-election promise. “It is never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what,” Mr. Summers said—except, apparently, when his boss is running for office. Meanwhile, on ABC’s “This Week,” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner also slid around Mr. Obama’s vow and said, “We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically. And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”\nThese aren’t even nondenial denials. The Obama advisers are laying the groundwork for taxing the middle class while claiming the deficit made them do it.\nThe liberal establishment is even further along in finally admitting that Mr. Obama wasn’t, er, telling the truth. A piece in the New York Times over the weekend declared in a headline that “the Rich Can’t Pay for Everything, Analysts Say.” And it quoted Leonard Burman, a veteran of the Clinton Treasury who now runs the Brookings Tax Policy Center, as saying that “This idea that everything new that government provides ought to be paid for by the top 5%, that’s a basically unstable way of governing.” They’re right, but where were they during the campaign?\nIn an editorial on February 26, “The 2% Illusion,” we wrote that the feds could take 100% of the taxable income of everyone in America earning more than $500,000 and still have raised only $1.3 trillion even in the boom year of 2006. The rich are fewer and less rich now, while the Obama budget is nearly $4 trillion.\nDemocrats already plan to repeal the Bush tax cuts, but that won’t raise enough money. So they’re proposing an income tax surcharge on “the wealthy,” but that won’t raise enough either. Democrats have no choice but to soak the middle class because only they have enough money to finance the liberal dream of yoking the middle class to cradle-to-grave government entitlements.\nDemocrats have already taxed the middle class by raising cigarette taxes to pay for the children’s health-care expansion. They’re also teeing up average earners with their cap-and-tax energy bill. Mr. Obama had hoped that cap-and-tax would raise some $646 billion over a decade, but Democrats in the House had to give most of that away in bribes to business to pass their bill. To finance ObamaCare, they’re also proposing another 10-percentage-point increase in the payroll tax on firms and individuals that don’t purchase health insurance. But this won’t raise enough money either.\nSo waiting in the wings is the biggest middle-class tax increase of them all: a European-style value added tax, or VAT. This tax would apply to every level of production or service, and it is beloved by politicians in Europe because it raises so much money so easily without voters noticing. Ezekiel Emanuel, a White House aide and brother of Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, has advocated a 10% VAT to finance national health care. Look for a VAT to be one of the prominent options when Mr. Obama’s tax reform commission issues its report later this year.\nThe undeniable reality is that you can’t run a European-style welfare-entitlement state without European-style levels of taxation on the middle class (and eventually without low European-style growth and high jobless rates). It’s looking more and more like Mr. Obama’s no-middle-class-tax pledge was one of the greatest confidence tricks in American political history.\nHouse orders Pentagon to say if it weaponized ticks and released them (John M. Donnelly/Roll Call) memeorandum\nBuzzFeed Weighing Whether or Not to Doxx a Critic of the Media Ace of Spades HQ Ace of Spades\nLOCAL CONTROL? Philly’s injection site just picked up a ton of national support — but local opp… Instapundit Glenn Reynolds\nThe long knives are now out for Cortez IOTW Report MJA\nTrump Truths: Plan IMAO Harvey\nMillennial Writer Cries at Work, Puts Mother on Speakerphone after Editor Corrects Her Spelling VodkaPundit","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line132882"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9417935013771057,"wiki_prob":0.9417935013771057,"text":"Expert: Stuxnet Virus Infected Russian Nuclear Plant\nBy Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2013-11-12 16:49:53 UTC\nOnce a computer virus starts to spread, it's rather hard to stop. This is even true for Stuxnet, perhaps the most sophisticated computer worm ever designed, which was programmed specifically to target only Iranian nuclear facilities. But even Stuxnet spun out of control and now has allegedly reached a Russian nuclear power plant.\nEugene Kaspersky, a famous security expert and head of the eponymous antivirus firm, made this revelation at a talk in Australia last week. During this talk, he warned of the dangers of releasing powerful cyberweapons into the wild, where they can spread freely.\nSee also: How One Hacker's Mistake Fashioned the Internet You Use Today\nKaspersky referred to the Russian nuclear plant as a cautionary tale for the future: Targeted cyberattacks, like Stuxnet, can easily go awry.\n\"In cyberspace, everything you do it's a boomerang, it will get back to you,\" he said last week. (Watch his full remarks here.)\nEven presumably secure systems, like those of the International Space Station, can be infected from time to time, Kaspersky said in his talk. The ISS routinely gets infected by viruses from infected USB sticks, he added.\nIt's important to note, however, that Kaspersky didn't allege the ISS was infected by Stuxnet, as other outlets have reported.\nThe security expert didn't provide many further details about either of the two examples. He only referred to testimonies from a friend working at a nuclear power plant and \"Russian space guys.\"\n\"While there is no hard data to verify this information, the fact is that Stuxnet managed to infect many computer systems outside of its intended target and spread out of control (which led to its discovery),\" Kaspersky Lab wrote to Mashable in a statement.\nIn both examples, the viruses spread via infected USB sticks, since neither the ISS nor the Russian nuclear plant were connected to the Internet, Kaspersky said.\nStuxnet, which has been labeled an \"act of force,\" was allegedly designed in a joint effortby the United States and Israel as a cyberweapon against Iranian nuclear facilities. The virus was programmed to target the systems controlling the nuclear centrifuges, spinning them out of control.\nBut it then spread outside of Iran. By the end of September 2010, Stuxnet had infected more than 100,000 computer systems in approximately 30,000 organizations around the world, according to data from the Kaspersky Security Network.\nKaspersky has long advocated for caution in cyberspace and is a prominent supporter of the international regulation of cyberweapons. In his opinion, cyberweapons should be tightly controlled and treated like nuclear or biological ones.\nImage: Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images\nTopics: computer virus, Space, malware, stuxnet, U.S., World","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line24819"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7426990866661072,"wiki_prob":0.2573009133338928,"text":"I would like to hear your opinions on if the Bible has been redacted to make one passage or thought in the old testament so to be repeated in the new testament. And what is known about the JEDP theory? Then getting to the main purpose is how does these place a role [if any] in how the Bible Wheel has come about.\nLast edited by Beck; 11-14-2011 at 12:46 PM.\nOriginally Posted by Beck\nHey there Beck,\nExcellent question! For many years I had quite a bit of animosity towards the JEDP theory and those who promoted it. I never accepted it because it seemed like typical academic hubris designed to deny the divine inspiration of Scripture. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that means by which God produced the Bible said nothing about the fact that he was its designer, and I knew that he used many people without their knowledge over a span of many centuries to arrive at his final product so there was nothing about JEDP in principle that contradicted the divine inspiration of Scripture. But still, I never could read scholastic books about it without bristling because they reeked with unbelief.\nBut then I realized I was an unbeliever too, and one day I happened to open up my copy of Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman and man was I surprised! The book was very well written and he presented compelling evidence for the thesis. I now find it difficult to deny that there was some sort of combining of texts along the lines of the JEDP theory. But this does not impact the Bible Wheel in any way at all because the means by which it come be - it's natural history - says nothing about the existence fo the patterns or their origin except to show that it was no deliberately designed by any human or group of humans.\nWhat's your opinion on JEDP?\nOriginally Posted by RAM\nWell I've being looking into this off and on and haven't determine either way. All I know is that I admit that there is some redact, editing of some passages. Now to the intent I'm not sure of, but I would also say that the mayor portion of scripture used hebrew parallelism and by no means that requires an author or scribe to redact to make the passage seem to be fulfilled in the new testament.\nActually I don't have much of a disagreement about the JEDP theory it seems highly plausible. But to suggest that the old and new testaments have been redacted to aline with each other in the way that they are shown in the Bible Wheel is some what astonishing.\nI think it would be more than \"astonishing\" to discover that the Bible Wheel was deliberated designed by some redactors. This is impossible for many reasons. The OT was essentially completed without any knowledge of how it would later fit with the NT and the Hebrew alphabet. And there is absolutely no historical evidence supporting the idea that redactors did it.\nAs for JEPD - the evidence for the interweaving of J and E versions of the flood is very compelling. The story naturally divides into two stories that mention either Yahweh (J) or Elohim (E). Here is the entire text of the flood story in the order it is found in the Bible. Each column forms its own self-consistent story of the flood, but when the two are put together there are contradictions (e.g. seven pairs verses single pairs of animals).\nJ (YAHWEH) E (ELOHIM)\nGenesis 6:6 And it repented YAHWEH that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And YAHWEH said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of YAHWEH.\nGenesis 6:9 Noah perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with ELOHIM. 10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11 The earth also was corrupt before ELOHIM, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And ELOHIM looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. 13 And ELOHIM said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. 17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. 20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. 22 Thus did Noah; according to all that ELOHIM commanded him, so did he.\nGenesis7:1 And YAHWEH said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. 5 And Noah did according unto all that YAHWEH commanded him.\n7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.\n7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.\n7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as ELOHIM had commanded Noah.\n10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.\n11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. .\n12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.\n13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; 14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. 16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as ELOHIM had commanded him:\nand YAHWEH shut him in. 17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. 18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.\n21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:\n22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.\n7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. 8:1 And ELOHIM remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and ELOHIM made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; 3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. 4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.\nGenesis 8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:\n7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.\n8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. 10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. 12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.\n13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth:\nand Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.\n14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried. 15 And ELOHIM spake unto Noah, saying, 16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth. 18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him: 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.\n20 And Noah builded an altar unto YAHWEH; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21 And YAHWEH smelled a sweet savour; and YAHWEH said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.\nI was reminded of this thread today, and am surprised it has not generated more discussion. Of course, it could be that the Christians on this forum are reacting the same when I did when I was a believer. I remember well how I totally ignored the Documentary Hypothesis because I felt the \"scholars\" (I frequently used scare quotes when referring to Biblical scholars) were blinded by their presuppositions, so they would spend endless years tracing out any patterns no matter how tenuous if they thought they supported the idea of human authorship, but would reject any evidence, no matter how strong (such as the Bible Wheel) if it supported the thesis of divine authorship.\nBut now I can see why they find the evidence compelling. I just never really looked at it before (when I was a believer). The story really does natural divide into two coherent narratives based on the two divine names, and the story is quite incoherent when messed together as in our modern Bibles.\nTwo sides to the same coin!\nHi Richard:\nI do not see any issue with the two views of the same story. The idea that a coin cannot have two sides is laughable. So isn't it possible that these \"two\" versions are just telling the same story from two different views? It is too much to keep insisting that venerable word inspiration is being used in the Bible. It's more like ideas are being laid down which indicate a formula to understanding the nature of man and his life journey.\nI do not think that language just came about by chance. And this symbol for boat is very telling. It is found in many pre-christian writings and on oracle bone inscriptions.\n[Shem's commands to Melchisedek.]\nAnd Shem said unto Melchisedek, \"Thou shalt be the priest of the Most High God, because thou alone hath God chosen to minister before Him in this place. And thou shalt sit (i.e. dwell) here continually, and shalt not depart from this place all the days of thy life. Thou shalt not take a wife, thou shalt not shave thy head, and thou shalt not pour out blood [Fol. 21b, col. 1] in this place. Thou shalt not offer up wild beasts nor feathered fowl, but thou shalt offer up bread and wine always; and thou shalt not build a building in this place. And behold, the Angel of the Lord shall come down to thee and visit thee continually.\" And Shem embraced and kissed Melchisedek, and blessed him, and he returned to his brethren. And Mâlâkh, the p. 130 father of Melchisedek, and Yôzâdhâk, his mother, said [unto Shem], \"Where is the young man?\" And he said, \"He died on the journey, and I buried him there\" (i.e. where he died); and they mourned for him greatly.\n[NOTES.--A scribe's note says that in the manuscript of one Makbal Melchisedek's father was called \"Harklêîm\" and his mother \"Shêlâthîêl \" (Budge, Book of the Bee, page 34). Melchisedek wore a tunic of skin and a leather girdle, and an angel dwelt with him, and protected him, and gave him food (Book of Adam, iii. 21). When he was old, the kings of the earth heard his fame, and eleven of them gathered together and came to see him; and they entreated him to go with them, but he would not be persuaded. And when he did not conform to their wishes, they built a city for him there, and he called it Jerusalem; and the kings said to one another, \"This is the king of all the earth, and the father of nations.\"]\n[NOTES.--According to the Book of the Bee, Noah died on the fourth day of the week (Wednesday), on the second day of the month of Nîsân (April), at the second hour of the day. The Book of Adam says that he was buried on the mountain on which the Ark rested. The same authority states (iii. chapter xiv) that the Ark was closed during the days of Noah, but that Noah went into it every evening to light the lamp which he had made, and which burned before the body of Adam. It is also stated that during his dying speech Noah indicated to each of his sons which part of the earth he was to dwell with his posterity. The territory of Shem extended from Jerusalem eastwards as far as India, and southwards as far as the mountains which divided Egypt from the land of the Philistines. It included Mount Zion, Mount Sinai, and the Garden of Eden. Ham's territory extended from p. 125 Aris towards the south, as far as Fardundan and Gadariun, and also to the borders of the west. Japhet's portion was very large, and extended from the angle of the west to Damatha in the south, and all the north as far as Aris. Canaan, a descendant of Ham, had seven sons, and he seized seven of the great cities of Shem, and set these sons over them; and he doubled the size of his own portion. Later, God gave these cities back to the children of Shem, and blotted out Canaan's posterity, Kebra Nagast (chapter xii).]\nhttp://suite101.com/a/decoding-the-b...hs-ark-a358139\nDecoding the Bible: Noah's Ark\nIs Noah's Ark a literal or symbolic story? This article is about breaking down the esoteric symbolism behind the story of the Great Flood.\nPosted by Brandon Boucher | Last updated: Nov 28, 2013\nDecoding the Bible: Part III - Noah's Ark|Christopher C. Brown\nNoah’s Ark is one of the most prevalent stories that we know of. It's about a man called Noah who lived with his family amongst a degenerating civilization. God wanted to flood the rest of the world in order to purge it from humanity’s evil. However, Noah was an exception; and God told Noah to build an Ark where his family and two of every land creature would survive from the coming catastrophe.\nThere are some who claim that it’s an unrealistic story all together. Building such a large boat in such little time is impractical, many would claim; while others have a hard time fathoming the practicality of traveling the entire known world and rounding up two of every animal. It’s not unfaithful to agree that these speculations may be a bit, unrealistic. But sometimes speculation just raises curiosity. This article is about unraveling the possible messages behind the symbols of Noah’s Ark.\nThe Age of Kali Yuga\nSome anthropologists claim that other great civilizations may have existed before recorded history can tell us. One of these civilizations could have been the enigmatic continent of Atlantis. According to an article called The End of the Kali Yuga, Atlantis was a rich and prosperous civilization. Some say that they possessed advanced technology and an adequate distribution of wealth. Everyone was happy, or so they thought.\nThe article states that amongst the Atlanteans lived a wise man by the name of Vaivasvata Manu. Vaivasvata was said to be a spiritual person who practiced the virtues of the Great Arcanum and was a man of enlightenment. He perceived things that others did not, but was mocked when he tried to explain what he saw. Aside from perception, he was also very knowledgable. He knew of a solar cycle called the Sidereal Year, which is our solar systems rotation around the Zodiacal Belt. Just as the Terrestrial Year, the Sidereal Year is composed of four seasons. These seasons don’t last for a matter of months, but rather a span of thousands of years. They are labeled as follows:\nAge of Gold/Krita Yuga – Wisdom/Spring\nAge of Silver/Treta Yuga – Ritual/Summer\nAge of Copper/Dvapara Yuga – Doubt/Fall\nAge of Iron/Kali Yuga – Conflict/Winter\nAt the end of each Sidereal Year comes a chain of planetary events that are often extremely devastating. As the Atlantean civilization reached the age of Kali Yuga, they began to degenerate toward immorality and anthropophagy. Vaivasvata Manu, being a spiritual man, realized how deeply society had begun to over-indulge in its false science. Being aware of how degenerative society was becoming, Vaivasvata tried to warn the people of a coming disaster that would destroy all of Atlantis. Yet, not to Vaivasvata’s surprise, the people mocked his warnings and went back to their monotonous lifestyles.\nLeaving the rest of the Atlantean society behind, Vaivasvata fled from the Atlantean continent to avoid the coming catastrophe. It wasn’t long after until the predicted planetary shifts began to occur, and just as Vaivasvata predicted, the continent of Atlantis sunk to the bottom of the ocean. This resulted in the end of the Atlantean civilization, and from its demise emerged a new Root Race.\nIt is said that the Hebrews later changed Vaivasvata's name to Noah in order to bring a numerical value to his name. According to Hebrew4christians.com, the Hebrew language is featured with something called gematria, which is a language system that gives a numerical value to words and letters. Noah in Hebrew is written with two letters, Nun and Chet.\nAccording to the gematria, Nun holds the numeric value of 50. This number relates to the symbolism behind God telling Noah to build the ark 50 cubits wide.\nChet has the numeric value of 8. It is said to be the letter of life, which could be taken as Tree of Life; but it can also be used to symbolize the 8 souls of Noah's family that were saved during the great flood.\nThe Ark(anum)\nThe Ark is said to be a symbol for the Great Arcanum - a universal light of spiritual wisdom that has been perpetually suppressed throughout the course of antiquity. It is said that some religious groups diluted its meaning and articulated the counterfeit teachings, while others took the true message and expressed its implications through the writings of symbolic allegories such as Adam and Eve and Noah’s Ark. Each distinct allegory is a veiling cloak that is beckoning the guidance of the Great Arcanum to the rest of humanity through sub-texts and hidden messages.\nThe message of the Great Arcanum is the journey of storing and applying sexual energy in a spiritual manner in order to reach a state of spiritual purity. According to the teachings of the Great Arcanum, the common practice of releasing the fluids for sexual practice is spiritually forbidden. This is because it causes the individual to expel the spiritual energy that is necessary to secure a direct connection with divinity. According to the Great Arcanum, couples who defeat the urge and work together to overcome the temptation can both achieve the direct connection and develop a God-like state of being; this is known as enlightenment.\nNoah practiced the virtues of the Great Arcanum. Thus, he achieved a direct connection with God and was able to receive the warning of the coming disaster which would come to destroy the sinister Atlantean civilization.\nOften in Biblical symbology, water is used to symbolize sexuality. Various examples of this are the waters of the Flood of Noah, Moses separating the sea, and Jesus walking on water. All of these symbolize the individual’s triumph over the temptation of lustfulness. In the story of Noah, the flood symbolizes humanity drowning in the waters of their own sexual desire. As civilization began to spiritually degenerate, immoral behavior expanded. Everybody had become out of control with their temptations; having no social limit of what was done for the unquenching drive of instant gratification.\nMany spiritual advisors agree that the more an individual lives to satisfy their urges, the more they will degenerate spiritually. In the case of Noah’s story, the people were drowning in their own lust and temptations without any sense of remorse, causing them to lose their connection with God. The separation from God is the spiritual death (the first death), while the second death is the physical death caused by old age or disease. Civilization doomed itself to endure the second death through the flood of their driving temptations and immoral behaviors. Noah survived the flood by conquering the urge and applying his sexual energy for spiritual development.\nThe Sons of Noah\nNoah had three sons named Ham, Japith, and Shem.\nAccording to a Gnostic lecture titled as, The Ark of Noah, the three sons of Noah each symbolize the three lower solar bodies of the Tree of Life. Each sphere (sephirah) of the Tree of Life represents a various level of the soul. Gnosticism teaches that one must master each of the ten spheres of the tree in order to achieve a state of spiritual perfection. In this case, we are referring to the spheres Hod, Netzach and Tiphereth –which are symbolized in the story as being Noah’s three sons.\nShem is said to symbolize the solar body called Hod, which is the Astral Body. Astral Body is a vessel of the consciousness that is projectable from the physical body and can be used by the individual to explore the galactic planes. It is considered to be the body of emotional thinking.\nHam symbolizes the solar body called Netzach, which is the Mental Body. The Mental Body is the epicenter of art, creativity, and instinctual preference. It is a sephirah of intellectual being.\nJapith symbolizes the solar body called Tiphereth, which means Causal Body. The Causal Body is the soul, and solar body of conscious will. It is the sephirah that brings balance to all three of the solar bodies.\nBy awakening his three solar bodies, Noah achieved his Second Birth. In Christianity, the second birth is often referred to as being Born Again. To be born again means to have spiritually “given birthâ€� to the immortal triad of the three solar bodies. Hence, upon doing this, Noah gave birth to and saved his three sons.\nGenesis 6:20: “Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.â€�\nThe animals seem to represent a powerful energy that is stored inside of us called the Kundalini. The Kundalini is the same sexual energy mentioned in the Great Arcanum. It is stored in the second lowest sphere in the Tree of Life called the Yesod. Kundalini can either be used to bring temporary pleasure, or it can be used to awaken the ten spheres of the tree which results in achieving enlightenment. Two of every animal symbolizes the Ida (feminine) and Pingala (masculine) energy channels of the Caduceus. Noah was able to conquer the temptation of abusing the energy of the Kundalini by applying it toward his spiritual growth as opposed to utilizing it for animal pleasure. The story symbolizes this through displaying Noah's exposure to all the animals of the world and yet still remaining resistant to their impurity. Hence, he was able to conquer the lustful waters of temptation.\nGenesis 7:17: “For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.â€�\nAccording the gematrian system, the letter with the numeric value of 40 is called Mem .Traditionally, Mem has multiple meanings in the Hebrew language, but is most often used to signify water. As stated earlier, water is often used as a symbol of sexuality in esoteric spiritual teachings.\nHebrew4christians.com goes on to add that the letter Mem not only signifies water. It also associates with 40 days and nights of the flood, 40 days of Moses being atop Mount Sinai, 40 years of Israel being in the desert, and the list goes on.\nAside from the number 40 being associated with the Hebrew letter Mem, some spiritual scholars advocate that 40 years is the average amount of time that it takes in order to reach enlightenment through devotionally applying the customs of the Great Arcanum.\nThe Dove and the Olive Leaf\nGenesis 8:11: “When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf!â€�\nThe return of the dove symbolizes spiritual victory. Olive trees are where olive oil comes from, and olive oil is a symbol of transmutation. In this case, the transmutation invokes the sexual energy of the Kundalini being transmuted into the birth of the soul, or achieving enlightenment. The white dove symbolizes the Kundalini energy of the Holy Spirit that rises in the spinal column, and spiritual purity. So the dove (symbol of purity) flying back with the olive leaf (symbol of transmutation) in its beak symbolizes Noah’s conquest of storing and transmuting his sexual energy to illuminate his solar bodies and avoiding the consequence of drowning in the lustful waters of animal desire.\nI do not see any issue with the two views of the same story. The idea that a coin cannot have two sides is laughable.\nI agree it would be laughable to say a coin cannot have to sides, but it would be even more absurd to say that two equals seven!\nSo isn't it possible that these \"two\" versions are just telling the same story from two different views?\nYes, I suppose it could be \"possible\" but it doesn't seem very probable. It is quite incoherent when read as one story, but when divided into two according to the two different divine names, it flows very naturally and makes sense. Therefore, it seems much more reasonable to conclude that there were two different traditions, marked by different divine names, than to try to force it to fit an entirely unjustified presupposition of divine authorship.\nIt is too much to keep insisting that venerable word inspiration is being used in the Bible. It's more like ideas are being laid down which indicate a formula to understanding the nature of man and his life journey.\nNow I am confused. Most people cite that Chinese character as evidence that the story of the flood literally happened in real time. But you seem to be saying that there is some sort of \"encoded formula.\" What would that be? What \"formula\" does \"8 people saved from a flood in a boat\" encode?\nAs for the general idea of interpreting the story symbolically - that's great! We can all make up whatever we want. But then the book doesn't actually teach us anything. I can interpret the Sunday Comics as allegories of my spiritual journey. Now don't get me wrong. I think there is a deep mystery in the Bible and it may well encode some pretty amazing stuff from the \"deep psyche\" of the Universal Mind or whatever. Or not. I don't know. But I do know that our conversation keeps going in circles because you insist that the Bible - or rather, the Old Testament at least - is some sort of authoritative text and that the New Testament is too except that it's not really and it all really happened in REAL TIME but not really, except when it did ... etc.! Do you get my point? I get rather dizzy talking with you. But I enjoy it, and am really glad you are persevering.\nGreat chatting!\nThese Truths we hold as self evident....\nYes it is quite irritating talking to someone like me! You see the Taoist view of the world and life calls for a view which cannot be cerebral. It must be felt in a true way. Like a koan the mind is stilled when a dichotomy is presented to it. I believe that it is that system in which the Bible was written - hence all the seeming contradictions! It is possible that mere stupid people wrote down competing stories/myths but then stupid people ussually don't know how to write! Then we have the issue of IF there is a GOD who has to play by rules set up on some grand chess game in order to establish a \"free-will\" system for created beings to use. All very complicated stuff. But if it was simple then it would not have lasted this long and people would not be interested in the details. The truth is never on the surface! It is always hidden. The power to create is found in the ability to grasp the seemingly impossible position whch does exist...but is not easily found. I know we all want easy answers... But the process demands an absolute resolve which cannot be broken. \"I will not let you go unless you bless me!\" The cry of Jacob to the Angel who he \"wrestled\" with all nite... \"You will find me when you search for me with ALL of your heart.\" These ideas indicate that whatever the truth is in the context of \"saving faith\" cannot be found in the same manner as reading a science book. The intent must be there to grasp the unknowable. Crazy? Yes! But I do see many a sage who has found the way and we are a better world because of them.\n.\"As for the general idea of interpreting the story symbolically - that's great! We can all make up whatever we want. But then the book doesn't actually teach us anything.\nTo the contrary!... The symbolic meaning IS the lesson to be learned. And the true symbolism is not just made up by some fool somewhere anymore than the holographs are random gibberish! The fact that the flood story exists in so many ancient texts indicates that the story has a profound intent for all of mankind. The number 8 has always been a key player in numerical significance. The eternity principle comes to mind. Indicating that if we are to \"save\" the planet from total distruction we need to work out the issues presented in the eternity puzzle presented in the 8 people/minds/gods/universal thoughts/mouths talking the two eternal essences bonding together the circles of life/as above so below (\"thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven\"). This idea is everywhere! And it is repeated over and over in many ways as if we are to enter in to that \"eternal rest\" which can only be achieved by the union of the human and the divine. The eternal principle screams out as us to be understood. In the right context the number 8 is the key to unlocking the creative healing power. It has been used to cause great change in the world. The alchemical usages are many...\nNow maybe you just ignore all that and think that nothing really changes by thought processes. However, nothing could be further from the truth. The Bible is a book of magic. And as such has the ability to create and destroy. \"In the beginning was the Word.\" Words when applied to the esoteric principles of the Universe do alter reality. And \"Saving Faith\" is activated. \"If you have faith the size (quality) of a mustard seed you can say to that mountain 'Be removed into the sea!' and it will happen.\" Jesus\nSo the faith that Jesus spoke about was not some mere belief in gibberish religion - it actually worked in real time and changed the reality within the structure of the world as we know it. And that is by definition \"saving faith\".\nhttp://www.biblewheel.com//Wheel/Spokes/Chet_Eight.php\nEight, Baptism, and the Ark\nBaptism is the Sign of the Covenant in the New Covenant. Like Circumcision, it involves a \"cutting off\" of the flesh - only now it is a symbol of being crucified with Christ, \"buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life\" (Romans 6.4). God reveals the connection with the Number 8 in 1 Peter 3:18ff:\nFor Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:\n1 Peter 3:18ff\nOctangular Baptismal Font in Pisa\nThere is a strong typological association between Noah's Flood which washed away the wicked people of the world and Baptism which is the symbol of the washing away of our wicked sins. The correlation is simply astounding - it is a typological prophecy that everyone can see fulfilled in Christian Baptism. Of particular beauty is the correlation with the Baptism of Christ when the Holy Spirit descended upon Christ in the form of the Dove - there very animal released by Noah from the Ark as the sign of the new beginning! We have multiple independent converging lines of association between Baptism, Salvation through the Flood, Resurrection, and the Number Eight that points clearly to the deliberate design and Teaching of God's Wisdom. It is for this reason that the Church has traditionally designed baptismal fonts as octagons.\nEight and the Resurrection\nBut Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.\nThe Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the ultimate new beginning. In the perfect Wisdom of God, it occurred on Sunday, simultaneously the First Day and the Eighth Day of the Week. It is the temporal equivalent of the Octave, established from the foundation of the World to teach us forever the glory of the resurrected Lord of the Universe. This is reiterated yet again in Christ's appearance to Thomas on the Eighth Day after his resurrection. And what teaching did Christ give us? When I was an unbeliever, I thought that Christ was teaching blind faith when He said \"blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.\" How could this be anything but blind belief? The answer is as obvious as it profound. Faith is not blind - Faith is the fulfillment of Christ's promise that \"blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\" In plain English, the reason people need proof is because they are blinded by their sins and lack of faith. They are so cut off from God and Truth that they can not receive the witness of the Holy Spirit! They fulfill the words of Christ from Matthew 12:39:\nAn evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.\nThomas was called Didymus which means twofold or twin (S# G1324). The natural reason for this was because it was the Greek translation of his Hebrew name (Tawom, Twin, S# H8380 - note the phonetic similarity to the English). The supernatural reason is because the fundamental characteristic of doubt is double-mindedness (see James 1:8), and this is what was enscripturated in the record of Doubting Thomas. Oh! The glory of God's Wisdom! Finally, two elements of this story link to the Number 800:\nThen saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.\nWe have the pair of identities:\nPistis = 800 = Lord\nThe Risen Lord is the object of our Faith. It is by joining ourselves utterly to the Lord through faith, even unto death - the Omega Point of our natural lives - as Ruth with Naomi, that we can focus the mind, heart, and hope on the ultimate outworking of God's Creation - again symbolized by Omega - so that we can walk through this world in perfect peace. This is the marriage of the Soul with God! Note that this links to the Rainbow = 800 given as God's original sign of the covenant and the last letter of the Greek language, Omega.\nAll these ideas are both recognized and expounded upon in the traditional Jewish understanding of the Letter Chet. For example, on page 136 in his book Alef-Beit, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh declares (emphasis mine):\nAt the level of Divinity, the number eight alludes to the absolute Infinity of G-d. ... Whereas at the level of Souls, circumcision gives one the power to overcome obstacles, at this level of awareness G-d's true Infinity links one, in covenant, to His very Essence.\nWhen linked to Infinity, overcoming obstacles, even death, the secret of resurrection, becomes self-evident and \"second nature.\" When absolutely connected to the Infinite One, there can in truth be no obstacle.\nTo really appreciate the significance of this quote, it must be remembered that it comes from a Jewish Rabbi who is not trying to support the text of the New Testament, wherein we find the extremely strong Christian witness to the relation between the Number 8 and Resurrection.\nEight, Octaves, and New Beginnings\nIt is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.\nAV Lamentations 3:34-34\nThe verses above are two of the Chet Alphabetic Verses from Lamentations (vss 23 . 24). Of particular interest is the Chet KeyWord חדש (chadash, new, S# H2319) which relates to the fundamental symbolic meaning of the Number Eight in Scripture established by God in the Seven Days of Creation. The Eighth Day is the first day of the new week, precisely as the Octave is the Eighth Note that begins the musical cycle anew on a higher level. This meaning coheres with the shape of the Arabic Number 8 - the Figure Eight - which is an image of the physical shape of the standing wave of the Octave. All this naturally (and supernaturally!) integrates with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.\nThree numbers are closely associated in Scripture with the ideas of Marriage, Resurrection, New Beginnings. Each has the form of an Octave: N x 7 . 1. Specifically, the first, third, and seventh octaves, which are given by N = 1, 3, and 7:\nFirst Octave: New Beginnings: 8 = 1 x 7 . 1\nThird Octave: Number of Spokes: 22 = 3 x 7 . 1\nSeventh Octave: Pentecost: 50 = 7 x 7 . 1\nThe idea of the octave is very enlightening here. Books 8 (Ruth) and 22 (Song of Solomon) are deeply integrated on the idea of Marriage, which is the ultimate biblical symbol of our entrance into God's Covenant and the ultimate outworking of His Covenant when Christ receives His Bride. The Number 22 - the Number of Spokes on the Wheel and letters in the Hebrew alphabet - is the third Octave. Pentecost, which represents the fullness of God's Time, sealed by His Spirit is the Seventh Octave, in perfect harmony with God's use of the Number Seven in Scripture. These identities are discussed more in the Spoke 8 Pentecost article. They point to the everlasting Wisdom of God descending from above. The Key is knowing Jesus (888) and the power of His Resurrection (8).\nEnglish Eight\nGerman Acht\nLatin Octo\nMany, if not most words for \"eight\" from Indo-European languages are very similar to the name of the eighth letter Chet, in the sense that it is composed of a guttural like \"ch\" followed by a dental like \"t.\" The only significant variation noted in Klein's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language is the Old Slavic Osmi which - interestingly enough - is phonetically similar to the Hebrew name of the Number Eight, Shemunah (S# H8083). The value of this name integrates with the Aleph and Tav:\nShemunah = 401 = Aleph Tav\nThe Number 401 also coincides with the value of the name of Isaiah, the one book in the Bible that is an image of the Bible within the Bible, complete from Aleph to Tav (cf. Inner Wheel of Isaiah).\nThe idea of the Octave manifests in a slightly different way in the Greek Alphanumeric correlation, which begins with Alpha = 1 and ends with Omega = 800.\nThe Number 8 integrates with the Number 66 - the value of the Wheel (Galgal) - to yield the Key to the Bible, as revealed in Isaiah 22.22:\nAnd the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.\nWe have the identity:\nMaphte'ach = n528 = 8 x n66\nOf course, the name Isaiah is itself integrated with Eight and the Aleph Tav through the identity:\nYishaihau = n401 = Aleph . Tav = Eight\nNote also that the ordinal position of Isaiah in the Canon is as Book 23, which integrates with the sum of the ordinal values of Aleph (1) and Tav (22).\nYou Said,\n\"But I do know that our conversation keeps going in circles because you insist that the Bible - or rather, the Old Testament at least - is some sort of authoritative text and that the New Testament is too except that it's not really and it all really happened in REAL TIME but not really, except when it did ... etc.! Do you get my point? I get rather dizzy talking with you. But I enjoy it, and am really glad you are persevering.\nWell it is a pleasure to see you having to let go of your notions which up to now have worked so well for you! Confusion is a part of life. Embrace it! The crap you call Christianity is a sad bag of bones which by itself cannot provide for the needs of the human spirit. You are a seeker... I admire that in a person.\nYes it is quite irritating talking to someone like me! You see the Taoist view of the world and life calls for a view which cannot be cerebral. It must be felt in a true way. Like a koan the mind is stilled when a dichotomy is presented to it. I believe that it is that system in which the Bible was written - hence all the seeming contradictions!\nHey there my friend,\nWhile it's true that koans are contradictory, it does not follow that all contradictions are koans! If all contradictions are koans, you don't need the Bible, you could just as well be a Mystical Mormon or Muslim or Sunday Comics reader.\nIt seems to me that you are just arbitrarily (and with no good reason) declaring that the Bible is the perfect inerrant inspired Word of God no matter what it actually says, and then whenever you find an error, contradiction, absurdity, or moral abomination attributed to God, you simply treat it as a \"koan\" or something \"symbolic\" or whatever. And so the book really teaches you nothing. It's all just an exercise in creative thinking. You could do exactly the same thing with any self-contradictory text. So this then leads us back, by a commodius vicus of recirculation, to the fundamental question about which we have been turning for many months - how do you discern between truth and falsehood? Why should anyone believe the Bible is any more true than any other ancient religious text?\nIt is possible that mere stupid people wrote down competing stories/myths but then stupid people ussually don't know how to write!\nI've never said or suggested that the writers and redactors of the Bible were \"stupid\". On the contrary, they were the \"elite\" of their time since, as you noted, \"stupid people don't usually know how to write\" - especially back then when it was a rare talent.\nThen we have the issue of IF there is a GOD who has to play by rules set up on some grand chess game in order to establish a \"free-will\" system for created beings to use. All very complicated stuff. But if it was simple then it would not have lasted this long and people would not be interested in the details. The truth is never on the surface! It is always hidden.\nAs you know, I've always said there could be some kind of God. But I see no reason to think that the God described in the Bible is the true God, for the many reasons I've explained many times.\nThough I agree truth is not always easy to find, I wouldn't say that it is \"very complicated\" in essence - on the contrary, once it is seen it is usually very plain and easily demonstrated. Falsehood, on the other hand, hides under a veil of \"complication\". This is because it takes lots of words to confuse things enough to give the appearance of justification of falsehood. I would think this should be common knowledge. Just listen to a lawyer if you don't believe me.\nThe power to create is found in the ability to grasp the seemingly impossible position whch does exist...but is not easily found. I know we all want easy answers... But the process demands an absolute resolve which cannot be broken. \"I will not let you go unless you bless me!\" The cry of Jacob to the Angel who he \"wrestled\" with all nite... \"You will find me when you search for me with ALL of your heart.\" These ideas indicate that whatever the truth is in the context of \"saving faith\" cannot be found in the same manner as reading a science book. The intent must be there to grasp the unknowable. Crazy? Yes! But I do see many a sage who has found the way and we are a better world because of them.\nI agree completely with the need for perseverance and commitment. I see nothing \"crazy\" about that at all.\n\"As for the general idea of interpreting the story symbolically - that's great! We can all make up whatever we want. But then the book doesn't actually teach us anything.\nI don't think the number 8 is common to the flood stories found in many cultures.\nYour symbolic interpretation of the 8 is fine but still it seems rather idiosyncratic. How many people would interpret the flood story as having something to do with \"saving the planet from total destruction\"? That's not what the Bible teaches! On the contrary, in the immediate context of the flood story, Peter explains that the world would SOON be totally destroyed by fire! This is what I was talking about when I said that \"we can all make up whatever we want\". There are no standards by which to discern between the \"true\" and the \"false\" interpretations, and they are very idiosyncratic.\nThere you go again! How many Bible believers would be happy to describe the Bible as a \"book of magic\"? The creative word in the Bible is God's not ours. You say that faith \"actually worked in real time and changed reality\". That's your belief. You have not shown any evidence of that. And is is the same thing folks in most religions say, so why should I believe one over the other?\n<snip etc.>\nTrying to hang me by my own petard, I see!\nWell, that didn't work because you will note that I wasn't making up my own idiosyncratic interpretations, but rather showing correlations with things plainly taught in Scripture. It seems like you and I differ on this point. Much of what you say does not sound like things taught in the Bible. They sound more like your own private interpretations.\nWell, I'm not sure I've actually \"had to let go\" of any notions. You haven't shown any confusion in anything I've written as far as I can tell. But I agree that the world of busy buzzing confusing amazingness is a preferred place to be. It reminds me of this variation on the Lord's Prayer from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce (which opens with the words I italicized in my second paragraph above):\nIn the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!\nOk... In all seriousness, Think THEORIES!... NO PROOF for anything will be sufficient for you anyways so for now I am not attempting to go there! You say I am alone in my understanding of Scripture but I am not! I even reference you! You don't think your analysis is wrong or of your own interpretation per se... And just for the record - The idea that the Bible functions as a book of Magic is NOT my original idea that statement comes from a very well known Christian Leader who heads a church with more than two million followers - who I just happen to agree with that particular statement. So I think that you are trying to side-line me just because I sound so strange to you and my understanding of the Bible is NOT a typical Fundamentalist veiwpoint per se.\nI wish I could wash your brain and you could start over with the Christian belief system or the Bible and its true meanings. You have too many dead ends for me to be able to convey the true meaning which is there imbedded in Scripture. This is not my interpretation per se... I think you are making the same pointless argument the big wigs made agaisnt your book! Just because you do not understand something does not mean that it is false! You keep making references to the fact that:\nIt seems to me that you are just arbitrarily (and with no good reason) declaring that the Bible is the perfect inerrant inspired Word of God no matter what it actually says, and then whenever you find an error, contradiction, absurdity, or moral abomination attributed to God, you simply treat it as a \"koan\" or something \"symbolic\" or whatever.\nNo and No! If you look at what I said I never said I believe the Bbile to be the \"inerrant\" anything! I said the Bible is the Word of GOD in that it reveals a system called \"Saving Faith.\" The so called \"errors\" that we see in the Bible are not \"inspired\" per se... But despite these anomalies the holographs persit! The words are conveying a message and the Holy Spirit is still driving the enlightenment process home! It is beyond me why you keep ignoring this model! The facts become clear when we realize that the FACTS are not the issue all the time! The Truth is! And as I have said before FACTS or NOT TRUTH! The truth is a subtle thing which can only be understood through the Koan process or the meditation process. This is why I say the Bible is written as an Oriental book not as a Western book.... so that Greek is a corrupted language for the true meaning of the words to come accross like English or Latin. This is why it is absurd for Fundamentalists to insist on word inspiration of anything! The ideas however, still are peeking through the language despite all the \"errors\".\nMorality is a made up idea. One man's trash is another man's treasure. YOU act like GOD must live up to your STANDARD of moral judgment. Ok But what if your opinion is wrong? I know it's easy to get roped into thinking that our perspective is the right one. However, in the big picture it might be different. This is why I opt for the less leathal position of looking for hidden clues as to why the GOD of Love whould appear to be so Un-loving! The story is flawed... But the truth is still there waiting to be dug up and used as a way to save ourselves from self-destuction. Perhaps the surface story is just a way to hide the truth of the holographs! Or perhaps the Enemy of Souls planted a lot of weeds in the garden! Whatever the reason for all the crap it should not get in the way of the truth as seen through the meditative process as guided by the Holy Spirit. The surface level crap is just that - crap!\nThough I agree truth is not always easy to find, I wouldn't say that it is \"very complicated\" in essence - on the contrary, once it is seen it is usually very plain and easily demonstrated.\nTotally disagree! If salvation aka truth/saving faith) was \"easy\" why is it called the \"narrow way\" - \"And few there be that find it!\"? Matthew 7:14\nSo I know we say that the way to salvation is simple like believe in Jesus and say a prayer yada yada yada but that is a pack of lies! Nothing could be further from the truth! \"Many are called...But few are chosen.\"\nOnce again \"Spiritual things are Spiritually discerned.\" You keep acting like logic can explain all truth and all processes having to do with GOD or the Bible. And that is just not the right method to understand the hidden truths in the Word which lie below the surface.\nhow do you discern between truth and falsehood? Why should anyone believe the Bible is any more true than any other ancient religious text?\nSimple... The GOD of the WORD can raise you from the dead and give you life everlasting! No other GOD can do that! Period. I know! It happened to me. It happened to my uncle. It happened for many people who I know personally. The GOD of the Bible is real... you just have to find Him!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line943601"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.762785792350769,"wiki_prob":0.762785792350769,"text":"Center for Faculty Excellence\nFaculty Stories\nTools for Teaching\nLMS Review\nAcademics > Center for Faculty Excellence > Conferences >\nDr. José Antonio Bowen, Keynote Speaker\nJosé Antonio Bowen is President of Goucher College. Bowen has won teaching awards at Stanford, Georgetown, Miami and Southern Methodist University where he was Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts for 8 years. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (C.H.A.R.M.) at the University of Southampton, England. He has written over 100 scholarly articles, edited the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, and contributed to Discover Jazz (Pearson, 2011). He is an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). He has appeared in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the United States with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. He has written a symphony(nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music), a film score, and music for Hubert Laws, Jerry Garcia and many others. He has served on the Editorial Boards for Jazz Research Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music (Cambridge University Press), the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and Per Musi: Revista Acadêmica de Música.\nHe is also a Founding Board Member of the National Recording Preservation Board for the Library of Congress and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England. Bowen has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report, and on NPR for his book Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology out of your College Classroom will Improve Student Learning(Jossey-Bass, 2012, and winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on Higher Education from the American Association of Colleges and Universities). Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar in 2010.\nFor more in his teaching, see his blog at teachingnaked.com or follow him on Twitter @josebowen.\n5200 N. Barton Avenue M/S ML 121","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line358254"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9287667870521545,"wiki_prob":0.9287667870521545,"text":"Elemental Multiscreen Video Coverage for the 2012 London Olympics\nThe Summer Olympics: All about the Athletes, the Fans - and the Broadcasters\nThe technology and ingenuity of broadcasters with distribution rights to the 2012 Olympics were thoroughly tested in an effort to serve a wider viewing audience than ever before, measured both geographically and by sheer audience numbers. Following extensive evaluations to find the best encoding platforms for both live and on-demand video streaming, the BBC, CTV, Terra, NHK and Eurosport all selected Elemental video processing solutions to support coverage of the 2012 Olympics.\nThe clock ticks towards 9:00pm local time in London and the Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 Olympic Games are just minutes away. Fans in attendance and in their homes around the world await the spectacle they have been anticipating for months. Athletes prepare to enter the grand stage, a moment they have been working towards for years. These two groups—the fans and the athletes—are integral to the success of the Olympic Games and their stories are highly publicized.\nNearly invisibly in the background, a third group works to bring the event to a global audience: the broadcast rights-holders. This is the culmination of a relentless effort to provide the best possible viewing experience to an audience using a host of digital media platforms to tune into Olympic events. Seven years in the making, these next two weeks prove which networks hold the world’s attention through ubiquitous video delivery of the Summer Games.\nIn 2005, London claimed the right to host the 2012 Games. Seven years may seem like plenty of time for broadcasters to prepare, but the technology for streaming video was raw and unsettled at the time. U.S. television still broadcasted exclusively in SD, and the iPhone and iPad would not be released until 2007 and 2010 respectively. With London 2012 dubbed the first truly digital Olympics, broadcasters such as the BBC in the United Kingdom, Eurosport across the European continent, Terra in Latin America, NHK in Japan and CTV in Canada faced exceedingly high expectations for video delivery. How did these organizations around the world make sure coverage of this monumental event offered the best multiscreen video experience possible?\nBACKGROUND: AN EVENT LIKE NO OTHER\nThe Olympics historically drive innovation in media coverage. As the Olympic charter states, “The IOC [International Olympic Committee] takes all necessary steps in order to ensure the fullest coverage by the different media and the widest possible audience in the world for the Olympic Games.” In 1936, this meant broadcasting the games on television, albeit only to local audiences. The 1956 Winter Olympics were the first to be internationally televised, creating high demand for broadcasting rights. The very next Winter Games saw the first sale of rights to networks.\nFast forward half a century, and the value of Olympic broadcasting rights has skyrocketed. CBS, for example, paid $375 million for the rights to air the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics in the United States. NBC followed by spending $3.5 billion for the U.S. broadcast rights to the Olympic Games for 2000 through 2012. With these rights comes the responsibility to ensure extensive public access to coverage, and the IOC has not wavered in its push for better and broader viewing options. The evolution of the technology employed by broadcasters has been rapid—it was not long ago that the tape-delayed airing of a few select events on television during primetime was sufficient, whereas now the goal is to make any event available for viewing on any platform at anytime and anywhere.\nCHALLENGE: BIG GEOGRAPHIES AND RECORD VIEWERSHIP\nThe technology and ingenuity of broadcasters with distribution rights to the 2012 Olympics would be thoroughly tested in an effort to serve a wider viewing audience than ever before, measured both geographically and by sheer audience numbers. As the host-country broadcaster and one of the most innovative media companies in the world, possibly no organization felt the pressure to deliver a quality experience to its viewers more acutely than the BBC. Terra in Brazil, Eurosport in France and CTV in Canada faced unique challenges as well. Terra and Eurosport were tasked with regional distribution, serving more than 17 and 50 countries, respectively. CTV was tasked with multimedia delivery of the Games across Canada after logging record-breaking numbers airing the 2010 Vancouver Games.\nOne of the more lofty goals set by broadcasters for the 2012 Olympics was to provide subscribers with the opportunity to view any given event live. Whether it was an American who wanted to watch a team handball match at 2:00am or a South African interested in tuning into a volleyball game in the middle of the day, if the event was live, a viewing platform would be available. No one waits in today’s multiscreen world. Viewers expect events on demand on every platform—in some broadcasters’ cases, even while the event was still in progress.\nHowever, with 34 Olympic venues and 26 sports (many of which were scheduled to occur simultaneously), it would take very powerful video processing systems to make streaming vast quantities of content to an array of devices possible. High expectations were set with regard to availability of high quality video on televisions, PCs, tablets and smartphones, both live and VOD, via fast Wi-Fi connections and 3G networks. Certainly this was an extensive set of requirements, but the BBC, CTV, Terra, NHK and Eurosport knew one thing: coverage of the Olympics was not a project in which they could make tradeoffs. With millions of eyes glued to screens, there was no margin for error.\nIt was up to the broadcasters to select a partner with technology powerful enough to handle numerous streams in a single system and robust enough to prevent workflow failures come show time.\nSOLUTION: ELEMENTAL ENTERS THE GAMES\nFollowing extensive evaluations to find the best encoding platforms for both live and on-demand video streaming, the BBC, CTV, Terra, NHK and Eurosport all selected Elemental video processing solutions to support coverage of the 2012 Olympics. Although the products’ feature set, including throughput density, video quality, protocol support, Linux-based operating system and REST APIs, played a major role in making Elemental the right choice, product functionality was just one of many selection criteria.\nCovering the Olympics is unique because it is such a massive event—every four years it becomes the biggest sporting experience the world has ever seen. Much as athletes train for years to win events that last mere minutes, broadcasters build and prepare for Olympic broadcasts long before anything reaches the public. Each broadcaster begins with functional testing, but that is only one dimension of the evaluation process. Less tangible elements prove the strength and wisdom of the vendor during the process including timely communication, commitment to issue resolution and the overall responsiveness of the working relationship. Truthfully, these factors always have a role in an evaluation process. But in the case of the Olympics, nailing them was paramount. With knee-buckling pressure in the final months leading up to London, broadcasters had confidence that Elemental would deliver reliably every time. It gave broadcasters one less issue to worry about.\nAs a software solution running on powerful off-the-shelf hardware, Elemental immediately held an advantage over hardware-based encoding solutions. In the case of the BBC, Elemental rolled out several major software releases between the time of its selection and the start of the Games. Being able to move quickly, make updates and work through issues with customers in real-time showed broadcasters the strength of Elemental’s technology.\n“Elemental’s solution provides a level of quality that is unmatched in the market without sacrificing the traditional tradeoff of density and cost,” noted Werner Michels, engineering director at Terra. “We chose to partner with Elemental because compared to the vendor we used for the Vancouver Olympics, with Elemental we were able to increase our coverage of the games and throughput by more than 50% in less than half the rack space while improving quality.”\nThe BBC used Elemental® Live for its adaptive bit rate streaming service. The Web player took advantage of the archive feature of Elemental Live to provide VOD and catch-up TV capabilities, enabling viewers to rewind and have instant access to replays. The BBC also created a mobile application for iOS and Android devices that supplied access to live coverage, statistics and commentary. Lastly, it produced streaming content specifically for connected televisions and Sony PS3, giving viewers a plethora of platform options to tune into their favorite event at any time.\nTerra, CTV and Eurosport similarly leveraged Elemental Live by distributing streams to an array of devices, though each broadcaster had its own unique infrastructure for video delivery. Terra directed incoming HD and SD fiber optics and satellite feeds into Elemental Live for video processing and tightly integrated social media into the viewer experience, as did CTV. Eurosport, meanwhile, converted 42 live video streams in more than five bit rate profiles each, representing a global bandwidth of 400 Mbps. The sports media company made its streams available within its Yahoo! portal.\nAdditionally, Elemental provided file-to-file transcoding for over-the-top viewing of on-demand events in the U.S. as well as live streaming coverage of the Games in Japan, managed by broadcaster NHK. When all was said and done, Elemental powered Olympic coverage in more than 70 countries across four continents, delivering an estimated 600 million streams.\nBENEFIT: A MARATHON, NOT A SPRINT\nFor nearly all rights-holding broadcasters, the road to covering the 2012 Olympics started years ago. In several cases, Elemental played a large role in these journeys, offering unwavering support and technical guidance along the way. By leveraging Elemental systems, BBC, Terra, NHK, CTV and Eurosport delivered some of the most accessible and high quality video experiences the Olympics has ever seen.\nThe Olympics were an unquestionable success for each Elemental customer. In total, customers using Elemental products streamed thousands of hours of the Olympic Games:\nBBC The BBC announced that in the UK, data delivery peaked at 2.8 petabytes of content, featuring a peak rate of 700 Gbps when Bradley Wiggins took home the gold in men’s cycling. 34% of daily viewers used mobile devices, resulting in over 12 million mobile requests for video.\nCTV CTV reported 31.9 million viewers tuned in across all platforms in Canada, up 88% from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and reaching an incredible 95% of Canada’s population. Users logged over 662 million hours of content, an average of 21 hours per viewer.\nEUROSPORT Eurosport.com averaged 5.6 million daily visitors in France and across continental Europe during the Olympics, up 36% over its normal site traffic. Video viewership, on the other hand, increased 80% during the Games with a peak of 13 million viewers.\nNHK NHK reached more than 26 million online viewers in Japan and streamed up to 20 events each day across eight simultaneous Internet channels. In Tokyo, 38% of households viewed the Opening Ceremonies live despite a 4:30am start time, with many using IP connected devices to tune in.\nTERRA Terra hit 97.8 million total viewers in Latin America and streamed 122.4 million videos through its online portal, both live and on demand.\nWith their choice of which event to watch, when to watch it and how to watch it, Olympic fans shattered viewership records. Through the unmatched density of Elemental systems, broadcasters delivered the fullest, most complete Olympics viewing experience to their subscribers without incurring substantial cost.\nOlympic Games 2012 in London - A Review\nOlympic Games London\nElemental Technologies","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1244734"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7186967730522156,"wiki_prob":0.7186967730522156,"text":"Dig on Oslo Punkers Dark Times’ Chilling Video for ‘Dirt’\nZoe Camp\nCourtesy of Torgeir Nordbø\nOslo punk crew Dark Times made a big splash back in 2014 with their debut album Give, a candidate for the gnarliest LP nominated for a Spellemannprisen (the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy). Three years later, they're gearing up to release a new full-length, due out this fall. In the interim, they're keeping things hyperactive with an appearance at SXSW, followed shortly by a 7\" consisting of a new song titled \"Dirt,\" and covers of Melvins and Wipers songs.\nNo need to wait until release day (March 27) for the new stuff. Dark Times have unveiled their video for \"Dirt,\" which will be released on digital formats this Friday. Directed by Vebjørn Guttormsgaard Møllberg and shot in Copenhagen, Denmark, the chilling clip follows a strange woman as she clambers around the countryside in a New York hoodie and leggings, foaming at the mouth and — true to the song's title — digging in the dirt like a rabid dog. (She might want to get that checked out.) Check it below.\n\"Dirt\" will be released digitally on February 17, with a 7\" to follow on March 27.\nEisley Are Still Only Dreaming\nFiled Under: Dark Times\nCategories: Videos","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line147801"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.865911066532135,"wiki_prob":0.865911066532135,"text":"Get Benefit Concert essential facts below. View Videos or join the Benefit Concert discussion. Add Benefit Concert to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media.\nLive 8, a large, international series of benefit concerts staged in 2005\nA benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis.\nBenefit concerts can have both subjective and concrete objectives. Subjective objectives include raising awareness about an issue such as misery in Africa (such as Live 8) and uplifting a nation after a disaster (such as America: A Tribute to Heroes). Concrete objectives include raising funds (such as Live Aid) and influencing legislation (such as Live 8 or Farm Aid). The two largest benefit concerts of all time, in size, were the Live 8 and the Live Earth events, which both attracted billions of spectators.[1] Scholars theorize that the observed increase on concert size since the Live Aid is happening because organizers strive to make their events as big as the tragedy at hand, thus hoping to gain legitimization that way.[2]\nThe Concert For Bangladesh (1971), the first modern, large-scale benefit concert\nExamples exist in musical history of concerts being staged for philanthropic purposes. In 1749, the composer George Frideric Handel wrote his Foundling Hospital Anthem, and put on annual performances of Messiah, to support an orphans' charity in London.[3] While many composers and performers took part in concerts to raise donations for charitable causes, it was also not unusual in the 18th and 19th centuries for musicians to stage performances to raise funds for their own professional work, such as Ludwig van Beethoven's 1808 Akademie concert.[4][5]\nThe modern understanding of a benefit concert is of a large-scale, popular event put on to support a charitable or political cause. In the modern era, the first benefit concert is generally held to be the Concert For Bangladesh, a programme of two events held at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1971, which were organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar.[6] However, the format of most modern concerts was established in 1985 by Bob Geldof's Live Aid event.[1]\nBob Geldof, who led the Live Aid event in 1985\nBenefit concerts are a major example of celebrity charity for they involve popular musicians; actors and actresses; and other kinds of entertainment figures volunteering to a greater cause. The efficiency of celebrity charity is explained by the theory of Catalytic Philantihropy designed by Paul Schervish. His thesis explains that it is more beneficial to a cause that celebrities do not contribute by only donating their money, but by participating in event like benefit concerts. That way stars can inspire hundreds of thousands of others to give.[7]\nThe presence of celebrities can draw criticism, but that is outweighed by the benefits. Some argue that pop stars only take part in charity to improve their public image. That, arguably, may be a motivation, but their participation can be essential to the event's success. Celebrities not only promote catalytic philanthropy, they can produce an effect some call Geldofism: \"The mobilization of pop stars and their fans behind a cause.\"[8] Therefore, because of their visibility, celebrities are used by organizers as a mean to gain support to the cause in hand.\nFurthermore, the success of benefit concerts is tightly related to the quality of entertainment offered by them.[9] To gain space and legitimization in the media, benefit concerts must have a large audience, the kind of large crowd attracted by famous music stars. Bob Geldof himself responded to criticisms about the lack of African artists on the Live 8 by stating that, although those musicians produce great works, they do not sell many albums--and, for the sake of reaching as many people as possible, his concert had to include only popular artists.[10]\nFinally, the quality of entertainment is key to the creation of a public sphere where discussions about the concert's cause can occur. The better the entertainment, the more people watch the concert, and thus the more people become aware of the cause.[11] Furthermore, the music played in the concerts can lead spectators to interconnect and become more likely to act towards the cause. According to a theory, by Jane Bennett, when people sing in the presence of other people, and that happens in benefit concerts, they become connected to each other and are more likely to work together towards a goal.[12][13]\nCritics also say that benefit concerts are just a way for the rich West to forgive itself by helping the poor and distressed. These critiques argue that concerts like the Live Aid \"rob Africans of agency, reinforces Western ethnocentrism and racisms and see famine as a natural disaster rather than as a political issue\".[14]\nBenefit concerts are an effective form of gaining support and raising funds for a cause because of the large media coverage that they usually receive.[15] In addition to the results they generate themselves, benefit concerts also generate a kind of cascading effect. That is, larger benefit concert motivate smaller concerts and other kinds of charity initiatives.[2]\nAs media events\nLarge-scale benefit concerts attract millions of viewers and are usually broadcast internationally. As powerful means of mass communication, they can be highly effective at raising funds and awareness for humanitarian causes. Media scholars Dayan and Katz classify benefit concerts as \"media events\": shared experiences that unite viewers with one another and their societies.[16] In fact, in their book Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History, the authors suggest that the song synonymous with the Live Aid benefit concert, \"We Are the World,\" might as well be the theme song for media events, as it nicely encompasses the tone of such occasions: \"these ceremonies (media events) are so all-encompassing that there is nobody left to serve-as out-group\".[16]\nDayan and Katz define media events as shared experiences that unite viewers and call their attention to a particular cause or occasion.[16] They argue that media events interrupt the flow people's daily lives, and that such events create a rise of interpersonal communication or \"fellow feeling\".[16] Furthermore, they propose that media events transform the ordinary role of the viewer into something more interactive where they adhere to the script of the event.[16] All these principles of media events are true of benefit concerts. Benefit concerts interrupt the routine of people's lives because they occur (in most cases) for only for one night or for one week-end. Furthermore, they are broadcast as television spectacles that interrupt the regular scheduled programming on a given television network. Often, this kind of announced interruption has television viewers discussing the event with others beforehand, generating excitement around the event.[16] Moreover, benefit concerts encourage audiences to adhere to their script, such as by phoning in donations or signing an online pledge.\nBenefit concerts and para-social interaction\nAs media events, benefit concerts are widely broadcast and seen by millions of people. (The Live Aid charity concert in 1985, for example, was seen by an estimated 1.5 billion viewers worldwide.)[17] However, this mass dissemination is only one of the factors that contribute to the success of benefit concerts. The people who send the message for collective action are essential to a benefit concert's effectiveness.\nDayan and Katz suggest that media events are an expression of a \"neo-romantic desire for heroic action\", meaning that media events produce leaders who inspire collective action with belief in the \"power of the people\" to change the world.[16] Benefit concerts, therefore, have the potential to raise enormous sums of money for a cause because of the para-social interaction that occurs between the performing celebrities (the leaders) and the spectating fans (the people).\nDan Laughey describes para-social interaction as \"the apparent familiarity between media personalities and audiences\".[18] Seeing a favourite celebrity support a cause can influence fans to support the same cause--not because the cause is significant to the fans, but because it seems significant to the artist. To feel connected to a celebrity, fans are likely to participate in activities the celebrity considers important. For example, if a benefit concert starred unknown musicians performing songs for unknown people in Africa, the incentive for viewers to donate would be minimal. Bob Geldof, the founder of Live Aid, is aware of the need of familiarity and para-social interaction on behalf of the viewer. When criticised for not inviting enough African performers to play at Live Aid (of which the main purpose was famine relief for Africa), Geldof commented that only popular musicians were invited to play at the show because unfamiliar artists would cause viewers to lose interest and \"switch off\".[17] In seeing the familiar face of their beloved artist on stage endorsing a cause, fans feel more compelled to support the cause.\nCriticisms against benefit concerts go further than just criticizing the intentions of the celebrities involved. Some argue that benefit concerts are a wrong response for tragedies because the atmosphere involved on them is hardly one of mourning.[19] Further criticism comes from those who argue that Geldofism turns celebrities into the only legitimate spokespeople for a cause, robbing the NGOs of the possibilities to speak up for a cause.[20]\nNotable examples\nIn chronological order, beginning with the earliest date:\nThe Foundling Hospital Anthem (1749) and annual performances of Messiah (1749-59)\nStaged by the composer George Frideric Handel in support of the Foundling Hospital, a children's charity in London.[3]\nHistoric Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers (1918)\nJanuary 12, 1918 - The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers was held at the Konzerthaus, Vienna. Its patrons were Kaiser Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, with posters designed by Josef Divéky. An estimated 1,100,000 Austro-Hungarian men, mostly unmarried, were killed in the war.[21]\nThe Concert for Bangladesh (1971)\nAugust 1, 1971 - The Concert for Bangladesh took place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Conceived and produced by George Harrison, performers included Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell.\nFestival of Hope Rockfest (1972)\nAugust 12-13, 1972 - The Festival of Hope Rockfest took place at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, New York. It was sponsored by the Nassau Easter Seals Society to benefit crippled children. The performers were: Ike & Tina Turner, Sly & The Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Chuck Berry, James Brown, The Shirelles, Sha-na-na, Billy Preston, Dr. Hook, Looking Glass, Bo Diddly, Stephen Still, McKendree Spring, Elephant's Memory, The James Gang, and Commander Cody.[22]\nA Poke in the Eye (With A Sharp Stick) (1976)\nApril 1-3, 1976 - Amnesty International staged the first in what became its long-running Secret Policeman's Ball series of events raising funds for - and awareness of - human rights issues. The show titled A Poke in the Eye was staged at Her Majesty's Theatre in London over three consecutive nights. It was primarily a comedy gala starring Monty Python, Peter Cook, Beyond The Fringe and others. Produced by John Cleese and Martin Lewis.\nA Gift of Song: The Music for UNICEF Concert (1979)\nJanuary 9, 1979 - The A Gift of Song: The Music for UNICEF Concert was held at the United Nations General Assembly and broadcast worldwide to raise money for UNICEF and mark the International Year of the Child. Performers included ABBA, Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, Olivia Newton-John, John Denver, Earth, Wind & Fire, Rita Coolidge, Kris Kristofferson, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer. The concert was the idea of impresario Robert Stigwood, the Bee Gees, and David Frost.\nThe Secret Policeman's Ball (1979)\nJune 27-30, 1979 - Amnesty International staged the third of its Secret Policeman's Ball benefits. The show titled The Secret Policeman's Ball was staged in London over four consecutive nights. In addition to the usual comedic performers from Monty Python, producer Martin Lewis secured musical performances from Pete Townshend and Tom Robinson.\nThe No Nukes concerts (1979)\nSeptember 1979 - The No Nukes concerts in New York\nThe Concerts for Kampuchea (1979)\nDecember 26-29, 1979 - The Concerts for Kampuchea were held at the Hammersmith Odeon, benefiting the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of the tyrannical reign of dictator Pol Pot.\nThe Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981)\nSeptember 9-12, 1981 - Amnesty International staged the fourth of its Secret Policeman's Ball benefits. The show titled The Secret Policeman's Other Ball was staged in London over four consecutive nights. This show expanded on its 1979 predecessor with appearances by multiple rock musicians including Sting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Donovan and Bob Geldof.\nNuclear Disarmament Rally (1982)\nJune 12, 1982 - In New York City, 750,000 people marched from the UN to Central Park to protest nuclear weapons -- in what was probably the largest single protest in U.S. history. NYC was shut down for the day. The concert featured artists including Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, and Bruce Springsteen. Keith Haring created a poster for the event, which was handed out free to the audience.\nLive Aid (1985)\nJuly 13, 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concerts - conceived and organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure - took place in London and Philadelphia. Similar concerts were held in Sydney and Moscow.\nFarm Aid (1985)\nSeptember 22, 1985 - The first Farm Aid concert, organized by Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp to raise money for family farmers in the United States, was held in Champaign, Illinois. There have been 19 Farm Aid concerts as of 2007.\nSelf Aid (1986)\nMay 17, 1986 - The Self Aid concert held in Dublin, Ireland aimed to highlight the chronic unemployment problem in Ireland at the time. Performers at the event included U2, Van Morrison and The Pogues.\nConspiracy of Hope US Tour (1986)\nJune 4-15, 1986 - The Conspiracy of Hope US tour of six rock concerts for Amnesty International. Performers included U2, Sting, Joan Baez, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, The Neville Brothers and, at the final three concerts, a reunion of The Police.\nHeart Beat 86 (1986)\nMarch 15, 1986 - The Heart Beat 86 concert was held near Birmingham England to raise money for the Birmingham Children's Hospital.\nHuman Rights Now! World Tour (1988)\nSeptember 2 - October 15, 1988 The Human Rights Now! World tour of rock concerts for Amnesty International\nThe Wall - Live in Berlin (1990 July 21) Roger Waters (Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief)\nA live concert performance by Roger Waters and numerous guest artists, of the Pink Floyd studio album The Wall, itself largely written by Waters during his time with the band. The show was held in Berlin on 21 July 1990, to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall eight months earlier. The event was produced and cast by British impresario and producer Tony Hollingsworth. It was staged partly at Waters' expense. While he subsequently earned the money back from the sale of the CD and video releases of the album, the original plan was to donate all profits past his initial investment to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief, a UK charity founded by Leonard Cheshire. However, audio and video sales came in significantly under projections, and the trading arm of the charity (Operation Dinghy) incurred heavy losses. A few years later, the charity was wound up, and the audio and video sales rights from the concert performance returned to Waters. The show had a sell-out crowd of over 350,000 people, and before the performance started, the gates were opened, which let at least another 100,000 people watch. Guest artists Rick Danko, Levon Helm and Garth Hudson of The Band, The Hooters, Van Morrison, Sinéad O'Connor, Cyndi Lauper, Marianne Faithfull, Scorpions, Joni Mitchell, Paul Carrack, Thomas Dolby and Bryan Adams, along with actors Albert Finney, Jerry Hall, Tim Curry and Ute Lemper. Cheshire opened the concert by blowing a World War II whistle.\nThe Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992)\nApril 20, 1992 - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was organized by Queen, which took place at Wembley Stadium, London, to pay homage to their deceased lead singer Freddie Mercury and to raise money for the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a fund for victims of AIDS. Among the performers: David Bowie, Elton John, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Extreme, Robert Plant, Liza Minnelli, Roger Daltrey and George Michael.\nAmerica: A Tribute to Heroes (2001)\nSeptember 21, 2001 - America: A Tribute to Heroes was a telethon in the style of a benefit concert organized in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon by the four major United States television networks.\nThe Concert for New York City (2001)\nOctober 20, 2001 - The Concert for New York City was a benefit concert organized as a tribute to the heroes and survivors of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York. It was initiated by Paul McCartney and produced by a team including Harvey Weinstein and Jann Wenner.\nThe SARS Benefit Concert (2003)\nJuly 30, 2003 - 450,000 spectators saw The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Rush, The Guess Who, and others at the largest concert in Canadian history, the SARS Benefit Concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held to prove that the city was safe from SARS.\nLive 8 (2005)\nJuly 2, 2005 - Bob Geldof and Midge Ure organised Live 8, a set of 8 concerts held in 8 cities around the world on the same day - as part of a campaign to persuade the G8 member governments to increase their fight to eradicate poverty in third-world countries.\nLive Earth (2007)\nJuly 7, 2007 - Al Gore inspired and helped organize Live Earth. During its first year, it consisted of a series of concerts held on all seven continents of the planet on the same day.\nA Billion Hands Concert (2008)\nDecember 5, 2008 - Anoushka Shankar and Jethro Tull held A Billion Hands Concert in Mumbai, India. All proceeds from the concert went to victims of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks.[23]\nRockdrive (ongoing)\nDecember 11, 2010 - Max Lugavere held Rockdrive for its third year in Los Angeles, California at the Troubadour. Proceeds from the concert went to charities supporting public education, generally the Los Angeles Unified School District.[24] In 2011, the Rockdrive movement was initiated in Nashville and Miami.\n12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief (2012)\nDecember 12, 2012 - 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Proceeds went to the Robin Hood Relief Fund to benefit the victims of Hurricane Sandy.[25]\nMDA Show of Strength (2012-2014)\nThe former Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, which aired each year every Labor Day weekend, was dramatically reformatted over the course of 2011 and 2012; from the program's founding in 1966 until 2010, the program aired as a traditional long-form telethon over the course of 21 hours. By the time of the 2012 edition, its name was changed to the current moniker, its longtime host was ousted, and its format was reduced to a three-hour benefit concert for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The MDA announced the event's discontinuation in May 2015 in order to focus on other ways to raise support for the organization via mobile and digital media.[26]\nOne Love Manchester (2017)\nJune 4, 2017 - Ariana Grande organised a concert in dedication to the 22 victims killed at her concert that was held on 22 May 2017 at the Manchester Arena.\nHand in Hand: A Benefit for Hurricane Relief (2017)\nSeptember 12, 2017 - A one-hour, commercial-free benefit concert television special for the relief efforts from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma (with later benefits also going to victims of Hurricane Maria the following week).\nList of benefit concerts\nThe following is an incomplete list of benefit concerts with their own popflock.com resource page. For a more descriptive and inclusive list focusing on historically notable events, see the list above. Note that while some of the listed concerts feature only one headliner and several supporting acts, other benefit concerts feature diverse lineups and are also considered music festivals. This list may have some overlap with list of free festivals, which are rock festivals that often have a social agenda or fund-raising focus.\nRock and pop concerts\nJohn Sinclair Freedom Rally (1971)\nWattstax (1972)\nAloha from Hawaii (1973)\nConcerts for the People of Kampuchea (1979)\nParty in the Park (annual from 1982)\nHear 'n Aid (1985)\nBridge School Benefit (1986)\nDemocratic songs dedicated for China (1989)\nMusic for Montserrat (1997)\nNetAid (1999)\nUnited We Stand: What More Can I Give (2001)\nThrash of the Titans (2001)\nMolson Canadian Rocks for Toronto (2003)\n46664 (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008)\nTsunami Relief Cardiff (2005)\nTsunami Aid (2005)\nA Concert for Hurricane Relief (2005)\nShelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast (2005)\nFrom the Big Apple to the Big Easy (2005)\nConcert for Diana (2007)\nAhmet Ertegun Tribute Concert (2007)\nCocierto Alas (2008)\nSound Relief (2009)\nThe Clearwater Concert (2009)\nHope for Haiti Now (2010)\nStand Up To Cancer (biannually)\nA Concert for Charlottesville (2017)\n^ a b \"A world of charity concerts\". 2007-02-16. Retrieved .\n^ a b name=\"Wells\"\n^ a b Howell, Caro (13 March 2014). \"How Handel's Messiah helped London's orphans - and vice versa\". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 25 July 2017. Retrieved 2017.\n^ Carnelley, John (2015). George Smart and Nineteenth-Century London Concert Life. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 72-73. ISBN 9781783270644. Retrieved 2017.\n^ Moses, Don V.; Demaree, Robert W.; Ohmes, Allen F. (2004). Face to Face with Orchestra and Chorus: A Handbook for Choral Conductors. Indiana University Press. p. 178. ISBN 0253216990. Retrieved 2017.\n^ Pieper, Jörg (2009). The Solo Beatles Film & TV Chronicle 1971-1980. Lulu.com. p. 31. ISBN 9781409283010. Retrieved 2017.\n^ Forbes. \"The Truth About Celebrity Benefit Concerts\". Last modified: January 26, 2010. https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/26/haiti-clooney-wyclef-business-entertainment-charitable-celebs.html\n^ Hague, Seth, John Street, and Heather Savigny. 2008. \"The Voice Of The People? Musicians As Political Actors.\" Cultural Politics (Bloomsbury Publishers) 4, no. 1: 5-23.\n^ Wells, Paul. 2005. \"Songs For The Suffering.\" Maclean's 118, no. 3: 56. MAS Ultra - School Edition.\n^ name= \"Street 2007\"\n^ Street, John, Seth Hague, and Heather Savigny. 2008. \"Playing to the Crowd: The Role of Music and Musicians in Political Participation.\" British Journal of Politics & International Relations 10, no. 2: 269-285.\n^ John, Street (2012), \"Politics as music: the sound of ideas and ideology\", in Street, John (ed.), Music and politics, Cambridge, U.K. Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press, p. 150, ISBN 9780745635446, The repetition of songs and the experience of singing, suggests Bennett, can conjure up the meanings, identities and collectivities that enchant us and motivate our commitments. Bennett (2001: 133) detects in music the 'sonority' of language - in its (literal) sound effects.\n^ Bennett, Jane (2001), \"Ethical energetics\", in Bennett, Jane (ed.), The enchantment of modern life: attachments, crossings, and ethics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, p. 133, ISBN 9780691088136\n^ Reed, T.V., (Author). 2001. \"Famine, Apartheid and the politics of 'Agit-Pop': Music as (anti)colonial discourse.\" Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire Du Monde Anglophone no. 3: 96. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.\n^ MacAskill, Ewan, Patrick Wintour, and Larry Elliott. 2005. \"G8: Hope for Africa but Gloom for Climate\". The Guardian, July 9, 2005. Accessed April 4, 2012, http://www.peopleandplanet.net/?lid=28053&topic=23&section=51\n^ a b c d e f g Dayan, D., & Katz, E. (1992). Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press\n^ a b Davis, H. L. (2010). Feeding the World a Line?: Celebrity Activism and Ethical Consumer Practices From Live Aid to Product Red. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 9(3) 67-87\n^ Laughey, D. (2007). Key Themes in Media Theory. New York, NY: Open University Press\n^ \"Historical Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans\". World Digital Library. 2014-02-10. Retrieved .\n^ Heckman, Don (August 11, 1972). \"Rock Festivals on Upbeat Again\". The New York Times.\n^ A Billion Hands - Join The Fight Against Terror and For A Better Tomorrow\n^ - Locals Take Center Stage At Rockdrive 2010 Archived October 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine\n^ Bauder, David (12 December 2012). \"12-12-12 Concert For Hurricane Sandy Victims Includes Music Royalty\". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2012.\n^ \"MDA ends Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon\". USA Today. May 1, 2015.\nLineup Announced for Ariana Grande's UK Benefit Concert\nDave Matthews, Pharrell, Stevie Wonder & More Play Charlottesville Benefit Concert | Billboard News\nABC to Air Ariana Grande's Manchester Benefit Concert\nUK Police Issue Statement on Ariana Grande Benefit Concert\nTIDAL X Benefit Concert: Lil Wayne, Lauryn Hill, Anderson .Paak, Meek Mill to Headline 2018 Showcase | Billboard News\nUnited We Stand: Aerosmith (Benefit Concert 2001)\nMac Miller's Family to Host Benefit Concert Featuring Travis Scott, SZA & More | Billboard News\nOne Love Benefit Concert -Take That & Robbie Williams\nAriana Grande Leads All-Star Benefit Concert For Manchester Bombing Victims | Billboard News\nSilence (2005 Tsunami Benefit Concert) - Delerium\n\"The Black Eyed Peas\" 2011 PEAPOD Benefit Concert Red Carpet\nBob Dylan Hurricane Carter Benefit Concert\nMiley Cyrus \"The Climb\" at Nashville Rising Benefit Concert\nMiranda Lambert Tears Up On Stage For Oklahoma Benefit Concert\nDavid Lynch Foundation Benefit Concert CHANGE BEGINS WITHIN\nLinkin Park Philippines Benefit Concert\nRobert Plant & strange Sensations - In The Light- Live at the Robin Hood Benefit Concert NY 05-31-2001\nAriana Grande Fights Back Tears While Speaking at One Love Manchester Benefit Concert\nSAPNA SPONSORS VEGESNA BENEFIT CONCERT: MANI SASTRY AND KRISHNAPRASAD: KORA KAGAZ\nIn the wake of the past week's harrowing events, Ariana Grande has vowed to return to Manchester to perform a benefit concert for all affected.\nBenefit_concert","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line756203"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5322340130805969,"wiki_prob":0.5322340130805969,"text":"A family focus at the heart of government\nConnecting parents with politics\nSpeech to Fawcett Society\nAttlee Suite, Portcullis House\nFamily the framework for women's lives\nWhen I made my first speech on the family I was young and single. Two parents (who were getting on with their lives) and a gaggle of sisters.\nThen married, children, two parents (still getting on with their lives) and a gaggle of sisters.\nNow my children are getting on with their lives and we take more care of our mother as she is widowed and still a gaggle of sisters.\nNo grandchildren yet but the next generation has arrived through my great nephews and great niece.\nAsk about something that happened in the past and women date it by their family events- it was after our Sion was born, it was before your dad died, it was when Shane was still with Sandra.\nMost of what we become starts at home; our values and much of our knowledge is what we learn at home from parents, from spouse or partner, from brothers and sisters, from our children. The family, put simply, is the framework of our lives. It is everything for young children and becomes, as people age, once again just about the whole of their lives.\nThis is not a notion which is, or should be, separate from politics or public policy. It is central to it.\nI want to argue, today that far from being marginal, or separate from mainstream politics\n* Family policy is key to Labour achieving our aim of equality and opportunity\n* That family policy is not just no less important than economic or social policy, it is central to it\n* That family politics must be very careful and respectful of family autonomy. Taking their cue from the family, not dictating to it. Listening to parents, not lecturing at them.\n* That though Labour has opened itself up to the importance of family policy, family policy must stop being the poor relation and become central.\nWhy families matter to all of us\nFamilies matter to all of us as individuals but it matters to society too. It's at home where you learn to stand up for yourself and to compromise. Not just life skills for every individual but what is necessary for successful communities. It's at home where you first learn social behaviour.\nIt's at home where you learn to learn, as Michael Young said, the family is the most important educational institution. More important, even, than school.\nHome is where your health is determined and where, throughout your life, you get most of your healthcare. It provides the bedrock of mental and physical well being.\nHome is where you feel (or should feel) secure and learn to value security.\nHome is where you understand the way generations depend on each other. Where you have your strongest connections with the past and the future.\nWhat matters to families must be at the heart of policy making.\nIt has taken a long time to get this recognised as belonging in the mainstream political agenda.\nI remember when I asked my first question to the prime minister in l982. It was about after-school clubs for working mothers in my constituency. In those days you could talk in Parliament about the money-supply, motorways and the mines. But my question about my constituents' need for after-school clubs was greeted with derision not just from the Tory government benches, but from our side too. They thought that wasn't politics; that it was a private matter. Now no one questions their importance, just our progress in ensuring they are there for every community.\nI can remember too the unease and embarrassment at the time which greeted demands to get the law to tackle domestic violence. Now no-one would decree the priority we give within the criminal justice system to tackling domestic violence or argue now that it was a private matter between husband and wife.\nAnd I remember too when, as Shadow Employment Secretary, I developed the policy of a Low Pay Commission to set a National Minimum Wage underpinned by statute, I argued this as a question of time as well as money. You have to tackle poverty pay otherwise parents have to work all hours and don't have enough time to care for their children in the way they want. Though the proposal for a statutory Minimum wage was bitterly opposed by the Conservative Government as well as the CBI the Tories now embrace it and the director general of the CBI who led the attack on us went on to chair the Low Pay Commission.\nThese issues and family policies that are about time, as well as money, about services to support families, have migrated from being seen as just the private sphere, and no business of public policy, onto the public policy agenda. But I believe that family policy has yet to be understood as pivotal to our public policy aims.\nThough Labour in government has made great strides forward, Politics in this country has yet to fully recognise something that has always stared us in the face. Every area of policy-making touches families and is influenced by them. So every area of policy making, whether it is social and economic policy, housing or agriculture, environment or criminal justice, must take families into account- how they make the policy work, how they benefit from it. What they are doing now. As a first thought, not an afterthought.\nLabour is the true party of the family\nWhen I was first elected to Parliament, conventional wisdom had it that the Conservative Party was the party of the family. This came to mean two things. One, that Mrs Thatcher's government wanted to unravel the welfare state and shift the burden back on to women at home for services no longer supported by government. And, two, as Conservatives, they opposed the change in women's lives which saw women equalling men in educational qualifications and going out to work.\nI was advised that I would do best if I steered away from family issues, that this was narrow and I would get myself \"labelled.\"\nBut Labour understood and responded to the change in women's lives and aspirations and the huge impact that has on families and so it was that Labour became the \"party of the family of the 21st century.\" The 1997 government marked a watershed for families with more time off for parents, the Minimum Wage, the new deal to help unemployed people back into work, massive investment in childcare, education and health services, a stable economy, low unemployment, tax credits for poor families, a better deal for pensioners.\nNow David Cameron is trying to reclaim the family. But though the Conservatives now recognise the transformation of family life, they show no readiness to go beyond warm words. For the Tories, talking about families is a way to show the Tories have changed and so win support. For us, it's not about getting votes off families but delivering for them, with the recognition that the family is key to our aim to tackle disadvantage and ensure equality in a strong economy and a fair society. The Tories will stop at warm words and will go no further. We have not shrunk from public investment and legislation and we must go further.\nFamilies are the key to equal opportunity\nFamilies are not just vital for the individual, but also for our public policy objectives, for their central importance in achieving the aims that define Labour.\nThe key to social mobility and equal opportunity is not just a matter of class or economic privilege. It is not even just a matter of gender parity. It's a family matter.\nI firmly believe that stable, secure stimulating and supportive families are the key that unlocks social and economic well-being. The key that opens the door to mobility and opportunity for everyone.\nIf our quest is to end disadvantage and inequality - and it is - then we must start with families.\nI want public policy to make it possible for family to trump class disadvantage. To help end the inequalities that hold back human talent, turn people against one another, generate fear, conflict and hopelessness. We want families to help every individual to do their best in the world, not only for themselves, but for everyone around them - relatives, neighbours, workmates, fellow citizens - and for coming generations as well as their own.\nGovernment can help make that happen. It's what families want to do for themselves and it's what government should back families up to do.\nBut this cannot be by trying to assert one model of the family. Families come in all shapes and sizes. It's not the format of the family that matters, but how it functions. How it helps family members to learn, to live with others, build strong relationships, demand rights and exercise responsibilities, tolerate and care for one another.\nAnd this is not just about those who have children. We don't all have children, but we all have a stake in them growing up well and happy. And all of us have, or have had, parents.\nThe responsibility of government is to create the conditions in which families can do their best.\nThe importance of understanding change\nWhen I talk now about family policy inevitably, I don't mean quite the same as I meant when I used the same phrase twenty or even ten years ago.\nGood politics depends on understanding how things change and making sure that policies keep in touch with changing times.\nIn past centuries, family policy changed to meet changing economic and social circumstances.\nIn the industrial revolution, government passed laws to protect women and children who moved out of work in family groups and were exploited in factories. No worry about allegations of the nanny state there. This was family policy for the 19th century.\nAfter two world wars, the Labour government created the welfare state provided free healthcare and education, unemployment benefit, free orange juice, affordable housing, cash allowances for women with children. Again, no worry about the nanny state allegations. This was family policy for the first half of the twentieth century.\nThen, in the 1960's and 70's in an era of social liberalisation, Labour governments passed laws against sex discrimination and made divorce and family planning easier, gave new rights to married women. Family policy for the second half of the 20th century.\nThe makings of a modern family policy\nAnd the New Labour government, as I have said, has given us family policy for the dawn of the 21st century. But we need to look ahead again to help families meet the challenges of the future.\nToday family policy needs to acknowledge that mothers have entered the workforce and fathers are set to play a bigger role at home. Mothers working helps the family budget and fathers' greater role in the daily care of their children strengthens the relationship to the advantage of both child and father. The focus of trade union bargaining has shifted from just getting better wages to getting flexible conditions that allow men and women to combine work and family responsibilities.\nAnd the world of work has changed too.More services, more retailing, more skilled and white-collar work. A 24-hour, seven-day-a-week culture. Less manufacturing and manual work. People expect to change jobs, are more likely to work part-time. And the beginning and end of the working life is changing as paid work continues to start later and end later in life.\nThere's been a big change in the age when women start having children and how many they have. For some, later parenthood is a matter of personal choice or the time taken to find the right partner. But for others it's not really a free choice but instead them delaying having a child so they can first get a firm foothold in the world of work before they 'risk' having a family. The knock-on effect is profound. It is harder to conceive when you are older. And the demands of work (particularly to pay for the cost of your home) can force you to limit the size of your family. The health and well-being of children and mothers and personal choice should decide the age of childbirth. Not the labour market. This is not something that we should allow, by default, the labour market to be dictating.\nParents having fewer children than they want not only represents a personal disappointment for those who want to have a bigger family, it also contributes in two ways to the demographic problem of an ageing population.\nOlder parenthood means older grandparents. I delayed having my children, like many of my generation. I was 37 when I had our youngest. If she leaves it till she's 37 to have her children, I'll be 74 when I get to be a granny. Far from being an active leaping about granny, I might even need my daughter to do a bit of shopping for me. The growing gap between generations means grandparents who are less helpful, more dependent. And smaller cohorts of the generation who will pay taxes to fund the pensions of their parents and grandparents. It is parents who should have the choice; they will make the right choice for themselves and their family. Not the labour market.\nFamilies are where we first learn about the obligations that generations owe to each other. They are the reason why many of us feel so intensely that we must act against global warming. Many more of us now understand much better what terrible damage we are doing to the planet, that we are on the brink of ecological disaster that threatens the lives of our own children and grandchildren.\nFamily policy exists in a context of new international tensions. New sources of conflict between faiths and ideologies that scarcely registered in British politics 20 years ago. From the 'cold war' to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. From London bombings fuelled by the struggle between unionists and republicans in Northern Ireland, to London bombings by disaffected young Muslims. I have said that families are the place where we learn about tolerance and compromise. Strong, stable families are our best defence against social conflict. The more we can do to give families a sense of security and confidence, the more we enable them to turn outwards to respect and help their neighbours, not just inwards to protect their own.\nIn this changing world, we understand better what it takes to tackle disadvantage and promote genuine equality of opportunity. We know that equal opportunity in employment is limited unless work is shared more equally at home. Measures against sex discrimination will leave plenty of women mired in disadvantage unless they go hand in hand with action against racism, against discrimination on grounds of disability.\nI think we can see more clearly how families provide the infrastructure on which society and economy depend. If roads and railways and energy supplies and telecommunications are the hardware, families are the software - without which all that hardware is useless.\nMaking Family policy for the 21st century\nSo we have to make policy that listens to and understands how 21st century families are responding to these changes.\nI firmly believe the next stage of policy must be designed by and for families themselves. So I do not propose to set out an exhaustive list of new policies today. What I will be doing over the coming months, is putting a renewed focus on what I have done over the past decades - making the connection between parents and politics, listening to what parents say they want. Listening to what their demands of government are. And we will need to show them that, as with any area of vital public policy, we will be prepared to deploy the necessary public investment and legislate where required.\nI will listen to what parents say and give them the confidence that we will act. The Childcare Commission which I chaired in 1999 was based on listening to what parents wanted from childcare and work flexibility. Mothers in Manufacturing was a report based on listening to what mothers working in the East Midlands leather industry told me about their babies, their parents and their relationships. It was listening to them that underlined to me the importance of getting work patterns right, not just for children and their parents, but also for the parents' relationship. Though we've acted to improve maternity pay, introduce paternity leave and greater flexibility since then - in no small part due to what they said - we still have not done all that we need to do to really let them be the sort of parents they want to be.\nPublic policy for families will not be right unless families shape it. And currently people see precious little connection between their family and politics. People are familiar with Labour's determination to ensure a strong economy and good hospitals and schools. But family policy, is incredibly difficult territory. Any time government broaches the subject, parents feel judged. So, for example, when we press for more childcare for children of working mothers, mothers who are at home with their children feel criticised and mothers who are working feel they are being pressed to work even more. And when we argue for more rights for part-time workers, mothers working full-time feel blamed. So we need to be careful and we need to listen.\nOf course we have many ideas of where further change is needed. Let's start with money.\nThe pay gap has narrowed but it's still 12.6%. While the average wage has increased by £2.71 per hour since 1999, the minimum wage has gone up by only £1.45 per hour.\nUnequal pay between men and women prevents fathers playing a more active role in their children's early years.\nIt entrenches the division of labour in the home - women have to take time off when the baby is young because the father's pay is better. And that cements the father's exile from the home. She goes out to work less - he works longer to earn more and sees less of the children. Everybody loses.\nIf we want to make sure that all families can be the key to social mobility and equal opportunity, we have to tackle poverty and we have to tackle unequal pay and it is because it is important for family policy that I have proposed that we have compulsory equal pay audits in both the public and private sector and set a target for ending unequal pay between men and women\nAnd let me just point to another modest proposal that could give practical help with family finances. I'm thinking of those events and activities that family members plan for and do together. Weddings, christenings, holidays, Christmas and other religious festivals. I've already said that if your family is lower down the income scale you are not only poor in money terms but poorer in terms of time. And when it comes to saving it costs you more. The tragic failure of Farepak showed this all too clearly.\nGovernment could do more to help families save for these shared events. By setting up a Family Events Savings Trust. This could support a range of savings plans, including, for example, an 11-month tax-free savings plan, with interest paid at the end. And there could be a top-up for poor families.\nThis would help families plan for and save for what they want to do and spend time together. And it could offer a practical way of stopping those events, which are such a great source strength for families, becoming a financial booby-trap which undermines them instead of supporting them.\nAnd there's one more very important point about money. Pensions. Because women live longer than men, earn less than men, take time out of paid work to look after children and the elderly they get lower pensions and are more likely to live in poverty in old age.\nWe can't let caring for families be a ticket to poverty in old age. That?s why our forthcoming pensions changes are so important.\n\"I hated it, I hated the guilt, I felt guilty all the time. When you get home tired and miserable, you're juggling it all. You're trying to be a good mum, but you're trying to bring in the money as well.\"\nAnn, Coates Viyella, mother of 5 year old child, returned to work at 12 weeks\nNow let's talk about time. We now know only too well that we can't end the pay gap between men and women unless we tackle the issue of time. Nor can we hope to enable fathers to have more time with their children unless we tackle the issue of pay.\nIt's partly a circular issue, of course. The minimum wage and tax credits have helped greatly. But particularly for women and men who are lowest paid and have least control over their work, parents need to be able to fit their work around their family without losing out on better work prospects.\nThis is not just when children are very young. It matters throughout a child's school years.\nIt seems that the more we recognise how important it is to children that both their parents are actively involved in their upbringing, the more parents are under pressure to spend long hours away from their families, earning a living. However, the solution doesn't lie in some kind of throw-back to the 1950s, sending mothers back home from the workplace.\nThe answer is yet better maternity and paternity pay and leave and to make sure both parents have flexibility in their working lives - so that they, and not just their employers, have power to choose how best to mesh together earning and caring - to combine their responsibilities at work and at home.\nI want to see the legal right to request flexible work which Labour introduced, much more strongly entrenched, more widely recognised.\nWe'll find out more about how families themselves think this can best be done.\nBut why don't we put this right into every person's employment contract. We know smoking is bad for your health, so we put a notice on every cigarette packet. We know work flexibility is good for the family, so why don't we require every contract of employment - as well as setting out the details of pay and hours - to set out the employee's right to request flexible work and the employer's obligation to consider it reasonably. And shouldn't all workplace notice boards carry a poster setting this out. Parents should not feel they are on their own trying to struggle to balance work and family. They are not. The government is backing them with legal rights.\nFlexible work for people with family responsibilities should be vigorously adopted by employers too, because it helps them to build and sustain a committed, skilled and experienced workforce. There is a good business case for this.\n\"I didn't see my boyfriend after the baby. I worked 5 - 10. I'd leave for work as he'd come in.\"\nAmy, Coates Viyella, returned to work when child was 6 months old\n\"Shifting the baby from place to place shifted our marriage from place to place as well. It was a vicious circle\"\nDeborah, Courtaulds, mother of 5 year old daughter\n\"Our baby never sees his mum and dad together. It's a struggle on all sides - for me, my husband, our parents and especially for our baby.\"\nAmber, Pretty Polly, returned to work at 8 weeks for both children\n\"When I get in from work, he's not there. When he gets in I'm asleep. We leave each other messages.\"\nJoan, Coates Viyella, returned to work when child was 6 months\n\"At the mother and baby club you see how other children of the same age are doing. You exchange ideas of how to solve daily problems, but I can't go now I'm back at work\"\nStacey, Courtaulds, mother of 14 month old baby, returned to work at 14 weeks\n\"It's the mothers' right to take the child to the mother and toddler club. It helps bring them on. If it's your first child you learn from other parents.\"\nJane, Burberry's, mother of 2 children\n\"There's no time at work to talk about these things with other mums\"\nVicky, Courtaulds, mother of 3 year old child, returned at 7 months\nI'd like to turn to the question of the practical support and advice that families need, the sort of advice and information that was exchanged between all mothers when hardly any worked and every day included the chance to chat at the school gate or in the mother and toddler group. This is not about helicoptering in expert help, which can sap the confidence of parents.\nCan we knit that experience and support back together through a voluntary network like the one that has done so much to bring victim support to every community which has public funds sustaining the infrastructure and well-trained volunteers providing support.\nPublic services cannot substitute for families, but they can and must support them. And public services need families in order to give of their best. They depend on each other and public policy must be based on an understanding of how the two work together.\nTo enable families to function at their best Government must keep on investing in child care and in services to support people looking after disabled and elderly relatives.\nInvest and legislate\nA decent income. Time to care as well as to earn. Practical support that meets the real needs of families. These things combined will back up families and help open the doors to opportunity for every individual, regardless of class or race or gender or disability.\nWe mustn't shrink from investing in measures that meet the needs of families. I hope that before they say the public purse can't afford it, those who themselves can afford good childcare for their own children but who want to cut public spending, will reflect on the misery and anguish of hard-working parents on low incomes who tear their hair out trying to patch together arrangements between family and friends.\nNor must we shrink from using legislation where encouragement and exhortation is not enough.\nSo I hope that employers' organisations will reflect on the sheer misery and anguish of hard-working parents bringing up children on a low income before they decry as unnecessary, proposals for greater legal rights.\nPoliticians in the 19th century did not simply exhort mill owners to limit children's working hours, to treat their infectious diseases and to teach child employees to read and write. They legislated and so should we.\nFamily policy in a parliament of women and men\nAnd we need a body politic confident in its ability to have those discussions with parents and make those decisions. And that has to mean women and men are equally represented. It is unthinkable that a parliamentary debate about, or cabinet decision on, family policy should be the exclusive province of men. That is one of the many reasons we had to increase the number of Labour women MPs in Parliament and increase the number of women Ministers in Government.\nThe Labour Government since 1997 has done as much as it has on family policy largely because of the influx of women MPs. Quite simply a PLP made up of 97% men (as Parliament was when I joined in 1982) would not have done the job. My view is we would have done none of this had we remained as the Conservative Party still are - a party of men. Although they talk a lot about women in Parliament, disgracefully, they've got 179 male MPs and only 17 women - and of those, only 3 are younger women from the 2005 intake.\nIt is, however, gratifying to see the Tory men (and indeed women) who over the years have heaped such derision on us, Labour's women, now agreeing with the arguments we have been making for many years.\nBut Labour's women and men have established Labour as the party of the family in deeds as well as words and we want to do more. To take it to the next stage we now need to create a new connection between parents and politics and put the family at the very centre of all policy.\nDo you like this post? Share it with your family and friends","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line959296"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5645687580108643,"wiki_prob":0.43543124198913574,"text":"Home / Shipping News / International Shipping News / Corvus Energy expands to meet demand for battery-powered marine vessels\nCorvus Energy expands to meet demand for battery-powered marine vessels\nCanadian-Norwegian energy storage solutions provider Corvus Energy expands battery production facilities in Vancouver, Canada and announces intentions to build a factory in Bergen, Norway.\nRichmond, British Columbia, Canada and Bergen, Norway – July 11, 2018 – Corvus Energy is pleased to announce two production and R&D expansion plans underway in Canada and Norway. The new battery factories will be more modern and more automated than other similar factories, result in eight times the production capacity compared to today.\nCorvus Energy is a world-leading supplier of batteries for ships. New factories will increase production capacity 8-fold.\nFirst, the Corvus Energy factory in the Vancouver, Canada region will be expanded and upgraded to house a 200 MWh semi-automated battery production facility. A new product R&D, design and engineering facility will also be developed. The expansion is expected to be completed by the beginning of 2019.\nSecondly, a 400 MWh fully automated factory and a new marine system testing and development facility will be built in the Bergen region of Norway to fulfill strong growth in the Norwegian market resulting from new ferry tenders and high demand for hybrid energy systems in the offshore and shipping sectors. The new factory, test and development facilities are expected to be completed by the summer of 2019.\nThe market for maritime batteries has seen strong growth in recent years, and Corvus Energy is one of the dominant suppliers in the market. The company develops and sells specially designed battery storage solutions for the maritime and oil and gas sectors and is a world-leading supplier of batteries for ships.\n“There is an electric revolution going on in the maritime sector, and we want to deliver the best solutions in the industry. These strategic locations of our R&D and production facilities will enable us to quickly test and develop new systems that can meet the future needs of the industry. Further, by switching from manual processing to automated production, we will increase production capacity and remain price-competitive,” says Geir Bjørkeli, CEO of Corvus Energy.\n“There is an electric revolution going on in the maritime sector, and we want to deliver the best solutions in the industry.” Geir Bjørkeli, Chief Executive, Corvus Energy\nStrengthens the maritime cluster\nCorvus Energy is a partner in the NCE Maritime CleanTech industry cluster, which is assisting with consultancy and project development in the planning phase of the Norwegian factory.\n“We have a strong maritime cluster in Western Norway, and the Corvus facility will strengthen our position as a global hub within maritime environmental technology. With a battery factory in the Bergen area, the industry will have close access to core products that are vital to ensuring that shipping is more environmentally friendly and more profitable for the ship owners,” says Hege Økland, CEO of NCE Maritime CleanTech.\n“It will be natural for us to link our R&D activities with other relevant R&D institutions. In this way we can strengthen the cooperation between industry players and research institutions, which will be beneficial to all parties,” says Corvus Energy’s Bjørkeli.\nCorvus Energy was established in Canada in 2009 and has its head office, sales, product R&D, design and engineering, and production facilities in Vancouver, Canada. The Norwegian part of the business, Corvus Norway, was established in 2015 and currently operates sales, service and marketing activities in the Bergen, Norway area. Investors include Equinor Technology Ventures and Norsk Hydro of Norway, and BW Group of Singapore.\nAs the leading manufacturer of energy storage systems for maritime applications, Corvus offers the innovative Orca ESS solutions portfolio and has unsurpassed experience from 140+ projects, totaling over 100MWh and 2 million operating hours.\nSource: Corvus Energy\nPrevious: Nakilat achieves 9% increased profits for the first half of 2018\nNext: Shipping centres: Singapore maintains top spot as Asia-Pacific region continues to strengthen","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1244647"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6784627437591553,"wiki_prob":0.6784627437591553,"text":"University of Toronto Quarterly\nA Short History of Progress (review)\nJoseph Heath\nUniversity of Toronto Press\n10.1353/utq.2006.0104\nA Short History of Progress\nJoseph Heath (bio)\nRonald Wright . A Short History of Progress Anansi. 212. $18.95\nFor those who loved Jared Diamond's runaway bestseller Guns, Germs and Steel, but don't particularly feel like wading through all five-hundred-plus pages of his more recent Collapse, an agreeable alternative would be to flip through Ronald Wright's A Short History of Progress, the book version of his 2004 Massey Lectures.\nIn a mere 132 pages of text, Wright works through the same talking points, but with a great deal more pizazz. For example, his retelling of the Easter Island story, which Diamond first began publicizing over a decade ago, has considerable zip. The environment movement needs more people like Wright, who can worry about the fate of the earth so poetically: 'How long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark side of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space?' he asks.\nBoth Wright and Diamond are 'environmentalists' in both the normative and the explanatory sense of the term. They think that we should take better care of the planet. More controversially, they think that the environment constitutes the central variable when it comes to understanding variations in human culture, settlement patterns, and population levels, along with the 'rise and fall' of human civilizations.\nDiamond actually has a rather nuanced five-point classification of primary influences on the success of human civilizations, some of which include social factors (such as interaction with hostile neighbours). For Wright, on the other hand, it's all about the topsoil. Keep your topsoil in good shape, civilization flourishes. Wreck your topsoil, it's game over.\nSo why did the Roman empire collapse, while the Chinese were always able to stage a comeback? Whatever the proximate causes (corruption, plague, barbarian invasion, etc), the ultimate causes were environmental. The Roman empire 'impoverished the soils of southern Europe.' Chinese civilization was able to persist thanks to the miracle of the Yellow River, with its 'lump sum deposits' of renewed topsoil, making the land 'almost endlessly forgiving.' [End Page 208]\nOf course, what follows from this sort of environmental reductionism is the occlusion of any social factor as an explanatory variable. But having discounted the role of culture and social institutions in explaining civilizational collapse, Wright is left with almost nothing useful to say about what we, as a society, should do about our environmental problems (other than make 'the transition from short-term to long-term thinking'). In particular, he has no sense of the way that the development of the market economy makes the task of environmental sustainability in some ways easier, but in other ways more difficult. Indeed, one of the central lessons learned over the past twenty years about the inadequacies of 'limits to growth'-style environmental thinking is that we cannot ignore the way that the price system dynamically adjusts both production and consumption to conditions of relative scarcity.\nIt should also be mentioned that Wright's presentation is marred by some genuinely silly speculative asides. For example, he suggests that the disappearance of Neanderthals and their replacement by Homo sapiens may provide 'stone age forebodings of the final solution.' 'If it turns out that the Neanderthals disappeared because they were an evolutionary dead end, we can merely shrug and blame natural selection for their fate. But if they were in fact a variant or race of modern men, then we must admit to ourselves that their death may have been the first genocide.'\nThis makes one wonder just what Wright thinks an 'evolutionary dead end' is. It's not as though certain genetic variants just give up one day and decide to stop reproducing. Getting killed off, either directly or indirectly, by conspecifics or otherwise, is what makes a particular variant an 'evolutionary dead end.'\nNeanderthals may have disappeared because Homo sapiens girls didn't like boys with heavy brow lines, or they may have disappeared because Homo sapiens boys threw rocks at them. Since either explanation is equally plausible, there is something rather tabloid about Wright's suggestion that we may be 'genetically predisposed by the...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1413625"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9683471918106079,"wiki_prob":0.9683471918106079,"text":"Greenwich’s Tysen Comizio commits to play football at UPenn\nDavid Fierro | October 2, 2018\nGreenwich's Tysen Comizio carries the ball against Trumbull on Sept. 8 at Greenwich High School.\nPhoto: Lindsay Perry / For Hearst Connecticut Media\nFrom Greenwich’s 2017 season-opener against Trumbull when he totaled 141 receiving yards, to last week’s football game against Norwalk, which saw him rush for 117 yards on just 10 carries, Cardinals senior running back Tysen Comizio has been a formidable force out of the backfield.\nAnd plenty of schools at the collegiate level have noticed.\nThe University of Pennsylvania was one of the schools that saw the qualities Comizio brings to the Cardinals on a daily basis and Comizio made UPenn his choice.\nThe 5-foot-11, 185-pound Comizio announced future football plans on Twitter Wednesday.\n“Extremely excited and proud to announce that I have committed to the University of Pennsylvania,” Comizio said.\nAn All-FCIAC selection as a junior, Comizio rushed for 1,379 yards with 20 touchdowns last fall. He also had 34 receptions for 382 yards and four touchdowns in 2017. Through three games this season, he’s rushed for 262 yards on 32 carries (8.2 yards per carry) and has reached the end zone six times.\nCardinals coach John Marinelli saw Comizio burst onto the high school football scene last year, but wasn’t surprised by his success.\n“I am so happy for him,” said Marinelli, whose Cardinals sport a record of 3-0. “Some kids don’t put the work in and don’t realize what’s attainable. Tysen realized what he needed to do and he worked his way to have this opportunity to commit. To me that makes it all the more special.”\nMarinelli is impressed with how diligent Comizio is in terms of honing his skills and keeping himself well conditioned.\n“He’s not going to Penn because he is tall or fast, he worked his way into being a tremendous football player,” Marinelli said. “That’s’ what makes it more special.”\nComizio is following his father’s footsteps to the University of Pennsylvania. Richard Comizio, Tysen’s father, starred at running back for Penn from 1984-1986. He rushed for 596 yards his first season on the squad, earning the Ivy League’s Rookie of the Year Award. As a junior, Comizio gained 779 yards and was a Second Team All-Ivy League selection. His senior season saw him rush for 1,104 yards, which was then, a program record.\nSo Tysen Comizio will look to continue a legacy upon his arrival at Penn next fall.\n“For him, it was a really tough decision, but UPenn is like his second home,” Marinelli said. “It came down to education and their football team has a strong tradition. He is a highly recruitable athlete who was being looked at by a lot of places. All the schools loved how strong he was, how he finishes runs and how he runs through the holes.”\nIn Comizio, Marinelli sees a player with a wide range of skills capable of handling multiple tasks.\n“He is patient, quick, athletic and he reads his blocks well,” Marinelli said of Comizio. “As a running back in the spread, you have to be a blocker sometimes, which he does well. He is also really strong, it takes more than one guy to knock him down and he usually falls forward for positive yards. With him, it’s a combination of everything, he is the full package.”\ndfierro@greenwichtime.com\nAbout David Fierro\nOld Comments\nAce's Dad says\nWow, that’s awesome. Congratulations Tysen, and Best of Luck playing at the next level !","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line750044"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7483245134353638,"wiki_prob":0.25167548656463623,"text":"An Army of Ants, A Colony of Bats, A Pounce of Cats\nAnimal Group Names\nby Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg\nIn the Nick of Time\nDr. Sherry L. Meinberg\nAlzheimer’s ABC\nSeizing the Teachable Moment\nA Squirm of Worms\nA Cluster of Cancers\nDimensions : 8.5x11\nDimensions : 11x8.5\nThere are many ways to say a group of humans, like people, family, clan, tribe, troop, community, crowd, crew, gang, mob, rabble, team, and many more. And, too, there are several ways to describe groups of animals. Some of those names are in our everyday language, like a flock of sheep, a pack of coyotes, a cloud of gnats, or a school of fish. Other names are used only in certain areas of the country, so they might not be so well known. Some animal group names are the same, like a herd of deer, a herd of antelope, a herd of moose, a herd of buffalo, a herd of cattle, and so forth. Understand that there is more than one group name for most animals. Some animals have from two to seven group names. For instance, a group of camels can be called a caravan, a train, a flock, or a herd. But only one group name is printed herein for each animal. The artwork is provided by the winners of the Animal Groups Art Contest. The winners are from different grades, in different classes, in different schools, in different cities, and several states.\nIn addition to being an educator for over 50 years, Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg has written 18 books, and has been honored with well over 100 awards.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1557790"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6748420596122742,"wiki_prob":0.32515794038772583,"text":"Thousand Islands National Park\nBy Caroline Morrow\nPhotos and Text by Caroline Morrow\nThe Thousand Islands stretch across 80 kilometers of the St. Lawrence River sandwiched between Canada and the United States. The region is part of the Frontenac Arch, a granite outcrop that reaches from Algonquin Provincial Park to the Adirondack Mountains. Remnants of this ancient mountain range peek through the river producing 1,864 islands. Many are so tiny that they support nothing more than a tree.\nParks Canada performed a controlled forest fire to help with the regeneration of native plant species.\nAlthough the islands can sometimes feel overrun by boats, if you tough it out until the shoulder-seasons you’ll have the misty mornings and haunting loon calls all to yourself.\nThe Thousand Islands are a fern heaven. With all the lushness, it can sometimes feel slightly Jurassic.\nThe islands have a long and rich history. First Nations fished in the area for thousands of years, entrepreneurial pirates smuggled rum through its channels and many a great ship sank in its rocky shoals. During the early 1900s, a large number of islands were sold to private ownership. Concerned locals petitioned the government to secure public access. In 1904 the St. Lawrence Islands National Park (now Thousand Islands National Park) was established. It is one of the oldest National Parks in the country and the first in Eastern Canada.\nSpringtime in the Thousand Islands is mayfly season. Thankfully, they don’t do much more than photobomb your sunrise shots.\nThe Bridge to the U.S.A. as seen from Ivy Lea. Crossing the bridge puts you high above the St. Lawrence and offers incredible views of the Thousand Islands.\nLooking across to Georgina Island on a calm summer morning.\nPark rules and visitor attitudes differ between islands. Personally, I am inclined towards those with fewer docks and a ban on portable generators. Gordon Island, Leek Island and Mulcaster Island are three of my favourites. Gordon Island has a century-old stone gazebo and a number of wood-fired cook stoves that have long been used by fisherman to cook up the day’s catch. Mulcaster is a favourite for its cliffs and rugged coastline, whereas Leek Island provides a sandy beach that can only be accessed by paddling or swimming.\nPhotos (C) 2015 Caroline Morrow\nCaroline Morrow found a way to combine all the things she loves— food, travel, language, photography, urban spaces and the environment through Travel Photography. Her recent travels include Iceland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. She currently lives in Kingston, Ontario and studies Urban Planning. You can follow along through her social media accounts:\nPhoto of Caroline by Troy Glover\nWhat’s your favorite island to explore?\n« Previous Post: Tofino, British Columbia\nNext Post: The Canadian Rockies »\nMethoni, Greece Discover Methoni, Greece and follow Sam Watson-Wood and her husband…\nBadlands National Park Madeleine Boga is on a road trip, connecting the dots…\nHidden Lake, Glacier National Park Lauren Hurst walks the beaten path to Hidden Lake in…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line141354"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6666196584701538,"wiki_prob":0.3333803415298462,"text":"Senator Tom Cotton - Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington — in conversation with Bret Baier — at Politics and Prose at The Wharf\nWednesday, May 15, 2019 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm\nNOTE: Unlike most Politics and Prose events, this one will be starting at 7:30pm instead of 7pm.\nDating to 1784, the 3rd Infantry Regiment at Arlington National Cemetery is the oldest active-duty regiment of the U.S. Army. Membership in the Old Guard is one of the highest honors a U.S. soldier can receive, and Tom Cotton was privileged to serve in it for sixteen months between combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. In this moving and inspiring memoir, Arkansas Senator Cotton, a rising star of the Republican Party, offers a heartfelt glimpse of a revered part of American tradition. He recounts the Guard’s rigorous selection process, chronicles its traditional duties, which include performing military-honor funerals and welcoming heads of state, and writes movingly about presiding over the laying to rest of soldiers killed in the 2007 Surge. Senator Cotton will be in conversation with Bret Baier, Fox New chief political anchor.\n70 District Square SW\nSacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery (Hardcover)\nBy Tom Cotton\nPublished: William Morrow - May 14th, 2019\nNot Signed or Personalized\n/event/book/clay-risen-crowded-hour-theodore-roosevelt-rough-riders-and-dawn-of-american-century\nClay Risen - The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1275246"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9254178404808044,"wiki_prob":0.9254178404808044,"text":"Flyers’ MacDonald to miss six weeks with lower-body injury\nSeptember 9, 2018 Wayne Fish breaking news, Hockey, Philadelphia Flyers\nAnother key figure in the Flyers lineup has gone down with a significant injury long before the regular season begins.\nLast month, No. 1 center Sean Couturier suffered a knee injury in a charity game which will keep him out of action until the middle of preseason.\nSunday came word that veteran defenseman Andrew MacDonald suffered what general manager Ron Hextall is calling a “lower-body’’ injury during an offseason workout. He is expected to miss at least six weeks.\nThat means he probably won’t be back until near the end of October or about 10 games into the season. The Flyers open regular-season play in Las Vegas against the Golden Knights on Oct. 4.\nMacDonald, who turned 32 this past Friday, is coming off what was arguably his best season as a Flyer, playing in 66 games with six goals, 15 points and a plus-8.\nSince coming to Philadelphia in a trade with the New York Islanders during the 2013-14 season, MacDonald has played in 244 games with 11 goals, 52 assists for 63 points.\nMacDonald caused a stir a few years ago when he was given a five-year, $30-million contract. During the 2015-16 season, he was sent down to the Phantoms for 43 games, making the signing look somewhat questionable.\nBut MacDonald has bounced back to have two solid seasons.\nWith MacDonald out for training camp (which opens Friday) and the preseason, the door is left open for some young defense prospects to possibly win a temporary job with the team.\nSome candidates to look for include Phil Myers, Samuel Morin and Travis Sanheim, as well as veteran T.J. Brennan.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line52213"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5177989602088928,"wiki_prob":0.4822010397911072,"text":"Name: TWILIGHT TIME\nNumber: TWILIGHT312-BR\nWUTHERING HEIGHTS (1970) (SPECIAL PROMOTION) (BLU-RAY)\nStarring: Harry Andrews, Hugh Griffith, Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Pamela Browne, Ian Ogilvy\nDirected By: Robert Fuest\nComposed By: Michel Legrand\n“Recurring moments…when it’s possible to comprehend something of the wild and beautiful physical environment out of which Emily Brontë created her unique novel of transcendental love and hate.”\n– Vincent Canby, The New York Times\n“The intensity of the relationships is well-portrayed…The film looks very good…It also sounds very good, with an excellent score by Michel Legrand that can stand as a work of art in its own right.”\n– Enoch Sneed, The Spinning Image\nAnother passionate adaptation of Emily Brontë’s superbly strange, enduringly classic novel, this Wuthering Heights (1970) stars Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall as the doomed and deathless lovers, Heathcliff and Cathy. Directed by Robert Fuest (The Abominable Dr. Phibes); shot at wildly beautiful Yorkshire locations by John Coquillon (Straw Dogs); co-starring the stalwart likes of Harry Andrews, Pamela Brown, Julian Glover, Hugh Griffith, and Ian Ogilvy; and featuring a stunning score by the incomparable Michel Legrand.\nVIDEO: 1080p High Definition / 1.85:1\nAUDIO: English 1.0 DTS-HD MA\nSUBTITLES: English SDH 1970 / Color\nRATED G\nSpecial Features: Isolated Music Track / Audio Commentary with Film Historian Justin Humphreys / Original Theatrical Trailer\nLimited Edition of 3,000 Units\nPLAY DIRTY (1968) (SPECIAL PROMOTION)\nTHE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT (1977) (SPECIAL PROMOTION)\nTHE HAPPY ENDING (1969) (SPECIAL PROMOTION)\nPosted by James Shertzer on November 30, 2017 3:29 PM\nThe Michel Legrand score (featuring the haunting song, \"I Was Born in Love With You\") is perhaps the best thing about this film, but overall, it's not a bad picture. It can't hold a candle to Wyler's classic 1939 version with Olivier and Oberon, but in a way, it doesn't try to. I think of this is an adaptation for the hippie generation. Dalton is his own Heathcliff. There's good supporting work from some of England's finest character actors of the period, too. American-International production values tend to be on the skimpy side.\nPosted by Mark Turner on January 30, 2018 6:42 PM\nLet me say up front that my wife is a big fan of the original movie version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS that starred Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. I know she's watched it more than once and enjoyed it each time she has. Apparently all of those times were when I wasn't home because I've yet to see that version. So this one, shot in 1970, is my first exposure to the story of Cathy and Heathcliff.\nThe Earnshaw family in England isn't the most posh of the lot but they are well off. One night the master of the house (Harry Andrews) returns home to Wuthering Heights with a young boy in tow. His wife eludes that this is an illegitimate son but he insists that the boy is merely an orphan he saved from the streets. The young boy, Heathcliff, grows up among the Earnshaw children, favored by young Cathy and with contempt by her brother Hindley.\nThe children grow up, Hindley (Julian Glover) goes off to school and Cathy and Heathcliff fall madly in love with one another. All of this is under the watchful eye of servant Nellie (Judy Cornwell). Things change when Mr. Earnshaw passes away. Hindley returns to take over things with a new wife in tow. Immediately he has Nellie and Heathcliff move out of the house to more suitable accommodations for their stature in life.\nThe bitterness between Heathcliff and Hindley continues. Cathy and Heathcliff prank the nearby Linton house, the end result being Cathy falling and injuring herself. The Linton's take her in and son Edgar immediately falls in love with her. Enjoying the attention Cathy gives back what she receives and provokes Heathcliff when she sees him next. In a rage he leaves all behind at sets out on his own.\nThree years pass and Cathy has forgotten Heathcliff. She's now married to Edgar. Hindley has lost his wife when she was giving birth and has fallen into being an alcoholic who is in the midst of gambling away Wuthering Heights. At this time Heathcliff chooses to return, polished and refined and no longer the dirty farm hand he appeared to be when he left.\nCathy and Heathcliff once again fall hopelessly in love and meet behind the scenes. She doesn't intend to leave Edgar though and Heathcliff, now more vengeful than romantic, begins to seduce Edgar's sister Isabella. A pregnant Cathy seems to want her cake and eat it too remaining married and longing for her ex-love while he sets out to destroy those who thought themselves better than him.\nI won't go on so as to not spoil the ending for those who've never seen it. Suffice to say that I wasn't thrilled with much of this movie. I found few characters to sympathize with, especially the two star crossed lovers at the center of it all. Both seem narcissistic as if all others should cater to them only. Their romance revolves around cheating on their respective spouses, of talking adoration for one another while doing as much mental harm to one another at the same time. Talk about confused.\nThe movie was made by AIP, American International Pictures, which was synonymous with drive in fare at the time. This was an attempt to make a more artistic costume drama on their part and it does look great. But the plotting is slow, the jumps in time unexplained and the overwrought emotions of characters off-putting. Fans of the story may enjoy it but my guess is most won't.\nAnd yet Twilight Time has once more offered the film in pristine condition. Their presentation here in blu-ray format looks great. Would that the movie itself were as good as the efforts Twilight Time put into it. Extras include an isolated music track, an audio commentary track with film historian Justin Humphreys, the original theatrical trailer and writings by film historian Julie Kirgo. As with all Twilight Time releases this is limited to just 3,000 copies so if you're a fan then make sure you buy your copy as soon as possible.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1513615"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9231621623039246,"wiki_prob":0.9231621623039246,"text":"Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats at Newport Folk Festival (photo by Laura Fedele/WFUV)\nWFUV Staff\nTeam FUV made its annual pilgrimage to Fort Adams State Park for the Newport Folk Festival.\nOur friends at NPR Music recorded sets, and you can hear these performances on the radio tonight from 6 p.m. to midnight in a special Newport Folk Fest Highlights show on FUV: Elvis Costello, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, River Whyless, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Violent Femmes and Ryan Adams.\nThere's a visual recap in the Newport 2016 photo album on the WFUV Flickr Stream, and some of the FUV staff had Newport reports to share too.\nFRIDAY - From Rita Houston\nThis was year 57 for the Newport Folk Festival, and year 20 for me. This little gathering has grown into a full-on, three-day festival, and the Friday kickoff was a day packed with sunshine, sweet sounds, and a few surprises by the sea.\nI love a day that starts with a boat ride! The first order of business was catching a water taxi to Fort Adams State Park. Then an early-day highlight was catching St. Paul and The Broken Bones on the main stage, with an energetic, horn-fueled set that introduced material from their much-anticipated second album. The new songs stretch beyond the retro soul that put this band on the map and prove that these guys are more than just a throwback. The crowd loved them. Always-engaging frontman Paul Janeway kicked off his shoes and delivered a soulful set that touched on so many elements of Southern and American music.\nMidday, word started to spread about a surprise appearance from Kris Kristofferson! Newport Folk keeps it so real, always finding ways to honor the past while celebrating the present. The back story is that Kris played here once before — reluctantly and unannounced — when Johnny Cash insisted he get some stage time. It was the first time many heard \"Me and Bobby McGee\" and other songs that would grow into classics. Now 80 years old, Kristofferson returned with his daughter Kelly and did a 40-minute acoustic set for a packed, hushed, lucky, intimate crowd.\nk.d. lang made her Newport debut in 2016, as part of the new case/lang/veirs project. The unexpected and remarkable trio first got together three years ago at k.d.'s initiation, and is now on tour playing songs from their new album and adding in some from their own catalogs. If I had to pick just one, I'd say that this set was the absolute highlight of the festival for me.\nOther high points included sets from Matthew Logan Vasquez (from Delta Spirit), Brett Dennen, Aofie O'Donovan, Violent Femmes and Flight of the Conchords.\nThere are so many reasons why the Newport Folk Festival has become one of the most desired tickets on the festival scene. I'll be back for year #21!\nSATURDAY - From Alisa Ali\nSo many great moments at Newport on Saturday! One standout for me was Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats (although \"day sweats\" would be a better name, since they played during the hot hot heat of the afternoon). I love playing \"S.O.B.\" on the radio, but man, hearing it played live to an audience that was just waiting to scream out \"SON OF A BITCH\" was exhilarating!\nI also felt so blessed to hear the legendary Graham Nash sing. I had my niece with me while he did \"Teach Your Children,\" and I almost cried.\nBut then I had tears of laughter thanks to Ryan Adams. That guy is part musician and part comedian. He was saying he was grateful that Napalm Death cancelled so he could play a set. He also made jokes about Jack Johnson and Father John Misty, but it was all in good fun. Of course the real draw of Ryan Adams is his music. He played a bluegrass set, giving his songs really creative and imaginatively new arrangements. \"Winding Wheel\" and \"Let it Ride\" never sounded so good! (I do still love the originals arrangements too, though.)\nDancing under the sun to his set may have actually been my festival highlight, but then came Patti Smith, who is just so inspirational and powerful. Her combination of poetry, electric guitars, voice, and spirit was transformative. She has a way of making you feel like you can do anything. Sometimes we all need a reminder that \"people have the power!\"\nSUNDAY - From Carmel Holt\nA richly diverse range of sounds filled the final day of Newport. It was a day of moving solo performances, not-so-solo performances, collaborations, gospel spirit, new discoveries, and mainstays.\nThe South was well represented, providing the bookends to the Sunday lineup, and a lot in between. I started with Asheville, North Carolina band River Whyless, a new folk rock band that infuses their songs with hints of South African rhythms. Soon after, Louisville, Kentucky folk artist Joan Shelley delivered a set of her lovely songs in a sweet duo. Then it was on to a rollicking set by Juno-award winning Canadian newcomers, The Strumbellas. Then it was back to the South, for a similarly high-energy, joyful folk-rock set on the main stage from the Oh Hellos, a new discovery for me.\nFUV fave Son Little put on a fantastic show with his band, leading them through soulful faves “O Mother,” “Lay Down,” and a killer finish with the rocker “The River.” And as powerful as those last few bands were, filling their stages with stompers, there was an equally powerful set from an artist to watch out for, the pint-sized Julien Baker (another Southerner, from Memphis), who brought the crowd to their feet with her heartbreakingly beautiful songs, sung armed only with her electric guitar, and a soul-baring voice.\nSpeaking of power, another beloved FUV artist, Glen Hansard, took the main stage by storm for what was billed as a solo set, but was hardly so. Jocie Adams (The Low Anthem, Arc Iris) served as his vocal foil, and he came with a trombonist, as well. Then he pulled a member of the audience on stage, who got doubly-lucky when Elvis Costello came out to sing with them.\nIreland had two amazing artists at Newport Sunday, as Conor O’Brien, aka Villagers, came to do his very first Newport performance. His full-band set included a lot from his recent album, Darling Arithmetic (“Hot Scary Summer” was a highlight, dedicated to Donald Trump).\nThen it was a full-on dance party, as New Orleans institution Preservation Hall Jazz Band played to a packed tent. Not one person was standing still, and every face had a smile.\nOne of the most anticipated Sunday moments was the reunion of Middle Brother, bringing together Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, John McCauley of Deer Tick, and Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit (who also was here to do a solo set earlier this weekend). The band joked that they were going to play “their whole catalog”—which would be their only album, marking its fifth anniversary this year. It was a fantastic set which no one wanted to end, least of all the band.\nThe three were backed by Dawes, who continue to earn their reputation as not only a great band in their own right, but also as ace collaborators. They proved that this year, backing up Elvis Costello who also had been billed as “solo.” Dawes and duo Larkin Poe accompanied Costello through a brisk and favorite-filled set that included “Everyday I Write The Book,” “What’s So Funny (About Peace, Love & Understanding),” “American Mirror” (another reference to the political landscape), and a wonderful version of “The Scarlet Tide,” bringing out Preservation Hall Jazz Band for the second time. Glen Hansard and Conor O’Brien also joined in, making for a very full “solo” set, indeed!\nEdward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros were in full effect, making the tent feel like part traveling medicine show, part love-in. Alex Ebert crowd surfed twice, invited a fan to sing on stage, and in general brought some much-needed hippie love to Sunday afternoon. (How many people are in that band now, anyway?) Earlier in the day, Durham, North Carolina's Phil Cook’s Southland Revue brought a true gospel show to that same tent, with a set that featured The Blind Boys of Alabama.\nAnd closing the incredible day: The Alabama Shakes! The Athens, Alabama band has had an amazing year, winning multiple Grammys for their latest album, Sound & Color. Brittany Howard is a force of nature, and she brought the festival to a rousing and soulful close. (Plus it was not lost on me that the headliners on both Saturday and Sunday nights were bands led by women.) The slower-burning songs, like the title track to that album, were striking; rockers like “Don’t Wanna Fight” were impossible not to sing along to. Brittany Howard brought out Dawes for their third appearance on the main stage and the warmth between Brittany and Taylor was visible. The smiles and hugs they shared echoed the vibes of the day, and the whole weekend.\nAnother reminder that even in the darkest times, music can bring us together, and yes, change the world. Here’s to another great Newport on the books!\nFunding for WFUV’s ongoing coverage of live concerts and festivals comes from the Agnes Varis Trust, supporting affordable access to the arts, education and healthcare.\nWFUV at Newport Folk Festival 2016\n2 years ago ago by WFUV Public Radio. WFUV at Newport Folk Festival 2016\n2 years ago ago by WFUV Public Radio. Amasa Hines: Newport 2016\n2 years ago ago by WFUV Public Radio. The Staves: Newport 2016\n2 years ago ago by WFUV Public Radio.\nNewport 2016 Newport Folk\nFUV Music Weekends\nwith WFUV Staff","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line483279"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5264288783073425,"wiki_prob":0.5264288783073425,"text":"Interview with Director of SEAT Sport Jaime Puig \"We've covered all of our expectations\"\nMartorell 05/08/2015 - The 2015 SEAT Leon Eurocup 2015 has arrived at the midway point of the season. After the weekend at the Red Bull Ring where the fourth round of the championship was played out, the single-make series is taking a well-earned breather. Jaime Puig, Director of SEAT Sport, continues work however in order to maintain the level of success enjoyed thus far by the SEAT Leon Eurocup. With more than 30 entries every weekend, 32 at the Red Bull Ring alone, the international series is in good health and showing enviable growth in just its second season. Only a few weeks ago SEAT Sport shipped the 100th unit of their Cup Racer model; a car which is displaying a great level of evolution and potential. These factors give Puig an immense level of satisfaction for the work committed to the project and, above all, high enthusiasm for the second half of the '15 campaign that fires into action on the 19th and 20th of September at the Nürburgring.\nWe're halfway through the SEAT Leon Eurocup 2015. What is your impression and evaluation up until now?\n\"We've met and covered all of our expectations. The amount of entries has been really good for the last few races and we actually superseded 30 drivers at the Red Bull Ring with 32 enrolled. We're really happy because a lot of people have put their trust in us. Many new drivers, with five female racers also getting involved in the battles each weekend, taking good positions including a Pole and a podium, as we saw with Lucile [Cypriano]. So I have to say that everything has been going really well. We are doing all we can from our part, the circuits are good and the organisation is making a sound job. We hope we can carry on this way until the end of the season.\"\nA few weeks ago you shipped the 100th SEAT Leon Cup Racer and the driver Loris Hezemans took Pole Position and the first race win with it at the Red Bull Ring…\n\"That was a real co-incidence! We shipped the 100th SEAT Leon Cup Racer and then watched it take 'pole' and win the race. In the SEAT Leon Eurocup there are normally thirty entries, which is to say there are thirty cars. This means that the rest of them have been sold to race in other series and other international championships. When you organise a series like this then it is easy to sell a certain number of cars because you are essentially making up your own grid. The difficulty is in selling it to the professionals that contest other competitions. We have cars all over the world and this is really satisfying for us. We've established that it runs very well in various conditions. For this we've really happy and will continue to work hard so that the level does not drop.\"\nThere are a lot of new drivers trying and really liking the SEAT Leon Cup Racer. Is this one of the keys to success of the SEAT Leon Eurocup?\n\"When you make a new car you always have to make sure that it is a step beyond the older model. In our technical department, led by Xavier Serra, they were thinking hard and I remember there were some doubts: \"Jaime, maybe it won't be so fast\". The commercial department were also pushing hard in terms of it being an affordable price because it is easy to make a fast car but afterwards it can be too costly or too expensive to maintain. All of SEAT Sport has worked a lot in this direction and given everything to create something that we really wanted: quick, competitive, reliable, fun and easy to drive but also a tool for anybody who wants to push to the extreme. For this we have drivers of all types, from the more 'gentlemanly' to younger drivers who just want to rule the world.\nThis is one of the key points and people are happy. The car is reliable and people do not continually need spares. But if they do need them then they can see that there is a full servicing facility at the races, so if something needs to be done then it can be realised. We fill the trucks with all the components we need to cover a race weekend. This is one of the successful aspects, from a sporting point of view, in how the events are and how the people are treated and all the communication that is going on. Technically, we have made a good car.\"\nWhere do you see the SEAT Leon Eurocup heading?\n\"At the moment we are focusing on three years in Europe. Then maybe to more places. What we really want to do is make a platform where people can arrive, enter, race and stay as many years as they want. I think it has to be a jump to go to other championships. Luckily with this car you can now compete in other national and international championships. So it will be a quick jump to head to other places. I have always said, also in other competitions that we have organised previously, that a driver who can be fast here can also be quick in other competitions.\"\nInterview with Director of SEAT Sport Jaime Puig\nThe SEAT Leon Eurocup 2015\nThe drivers of the SEAT Leon Eurocup 2015\nStian Paulsen, Pol Rosell and Jaime Puig\nJaime Puig, Director of SEAT Sport\nSEAT starts production of a new gearbox\nAn electric 600 in the classroom\nSEAT and Grupo Sesé link up via drone.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line793377"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9204007983207703,"wiki_prob":0.9204007983207703,"text":"Begin HIV treatment immediately says major study, ending long debate\nBy Jon Cohen May. 27, 2015 , 5:30 PM\nA study in 35 countries that involved 4685 HIV-infected people has ended early because results showed that immediate treatment cut the risk of disease and death in half. The data, revealed today at a teleconference held by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), brings to a close a divisive issue. The United States and many other countries already recommend treating everyone diagnosed with an HIV infection, but guidelines in the United Kingdom and elsewhere call for starting treatment only after immune system damage occurs, in part because of worries about long-term toxicities of the drugs.\nAs NIAID Director Anthony Fauci explained, evidence suggested that early treatment benefited people but no randomized, controlled clinical trial had ever proven it until now. “These findings clearly demonstrate that starting antiretroviral treatment sooner rather than later is of significant health benefit to the HIV-infected individual,” Fauci said. “These results are certain to impact medical treatment guidelines.” He said the new findings also validate the push to use treatment as a prevention tool, as other studies have shown that HIV-infected people on antiretrovirals (ARVs) are far less likely to transmit the virus to others.\nThe Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment (START) trial began in March 2009. At the time, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended starting ARVs only after a person’s CD4 count had dropped to 200 or less per microliter of blood. CD4s are the white lymphocytes that HIV targets and destroys; normal counts range from 600 to 1200. START enrolled HIV-infected people who had more than 500 CD4s and had never taken ARVs. It randomly assigned half the participants to start treatment immediately, while the other half were offered ARVs after CD4 counts fell to 350 or they developed an AIDS-defining illness. The trial assessed development of the following “events”: AIDS, serious non-AIDS related ailments, and death. START planned to end in December 2016.\nA data safety and monitoring board that intermittently reviewed the START data—which were blinded to researchers—notified study leaders this month that after an average of 3 years of observation, the early treatment group had a 53% reduction in risk of suffering an event. Specifically, 41 people who received early treatment had an event versus 86 in the deferred treatment group. No evidence surfaced of increased drug toxicities in the early treatment group. All participants are now being offered treatment, and the trial will continue to follow participants through 2016 as originally planned to assess whether other differences surface because of the delayed treatment. NIAID, the study’s main sponsor, alone has spent $154 million on the trial to date.\nMichael Saag, who directs the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, initially thought START was a waste of money: He was already convinced by both the biology and less rigorously designed, smaller trials that earlier treatment made eminent sense. “I didn’t think the juice was worth the squeeze,” he says. But his initial reaction to these data? “Wow,” Saag says. “I was guessing that this is what they would find, but I frankly didn’t expect we’d see it as early as now. Maybe this effect is even more profound than I was thinking before the trial. And it makes me want to redouble my efforts to identify everyone who is infected and get them on therapy as fast as possible.”\nSaag, who sits on the WHO panel that issues international guidelines for HIV treatment, says the new data will likely influence the next revision. “I don’t see any way the WHO can ignore these data,” he says, noting that some poorer countries might still have to prioritize treatment to sicker patients.\nThe United Kingdom’s HIV treatment guidelines, now being updated, seem certain to change, too, says Ian Williams, an epidemiologist at the University College London who chaired the panel that wrote the previous version. “The START results are clearly very important and impressive,” he says, “and I fully expect will result in a review and change in the guidelines for 2015.”\ndoi:10.1126/science.aac4655\nJon Cohen\nJon is a staff writer for Science.\nFirst Ebola case in African border metropolis heightens worries, elevates Ebola concerns\nStarving children often don’t recover, even when fed enough. Restoring their gut bacteria could help\nSurging cases have dashed all hope that polio might be eradicated in 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line975321"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5555613040924072,"wiki_prob":0.5555613040924072,"text":"Cowgirls Play in 5th place Game\nBy Jody Brozik | January 25, 2017 - 7:19 pm | January 25, 2017 Sports\nWhite River beat Colome girls 57-26 in the fifth place game of the Southern Plains Conference tournament Saturday in Gregory. Colome was led by Abby Kortan with eight points and Callie Heath scored seven points. The Cowgirls made 8 of 13 field goals.\nOn Friday, Colome defeated Gregory 46-32. Callie Heath had 14 points and 7 rebounds. Kortan added 13 points. The Cowgirls went 19 of 55 from the field.\nRobert “Bob” Ryno, 80\nBy Jody Brozik | January 25, 2017 - 7:15 pm | January 25, 2017 Obituaries\nBob was born May 15, 1936 to Ralph and Neva (Eaton) Ryno at their home on the northwest corner of Wood. Bob attended Cody Township School and graduated Wood High School in 1954. Shortly, thereafter, he joined the Army; completing basic training at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX, Fort Carson, CO for infantry training then sent to Korea. He returned from the Army in 1956.\nUpon his return, he was a delivery truck driver for Kaplan Tires of Winner, SD. He returned to the home place, north of Wood, to help his father on the ranch. Shortly thereafter, he was united in marriage to Frances “Babe” Belak on June 25, 1960.\nIn 1966 he purchased his first two thoroughbred mares from Gene Strain.\nHe and Babe purchased the old Leat place, south of Wood, and also the Standard Oil bulk business from Rex Sinclair, in 1969. They spent the rest of their lives building a beautiful home place, raising their two kids, Karla, born in 1962 and Marty, born in 1963.\nBob put off his horse racing career until Karla and Marty were thru high school. He sold the bulk business to Scott Dimond in 1997, his brother, Larry, watched the cattle herd, and he devoted the rest of his life to his true passion, racing horses.\nBob’s most notable accomplishments, during his racing career, included two horses in the Hall of Fame at Canterbury Downs in Shakopee, MN. Little Bro Lantis was born, raised, and trained on the home place. KZ Bay was Kentucky bred and purchased as a yearling. Bob brought her to South Dakota where he trained her and raced her at Canterbury Downs, River Downs, Churchill Downs, Remington Park, Woodbine and Franklin Downs.\nThe ultimate racing accomplishment was winning the Lady Canterbury feature race at Canterbury Downs on 6-22-1997. This race was a one mile turf race; KZ Bay went off the board at 32 to 1 and won the race, going wire to wire. K Z Bay was the first local mare to win the race against shippers brought in from all over the country. The grandstand erupted with cheers as she came charging down the home stretch and hit the wire, two lengths in front.\nBob’s love of horse racing was only surpassed by his love of family, friends and particularly his granddaughters, Robin and Teneil. He could be found pulling the girls on sleds across the pasture, rigging a swing on the horse walker so they could swing while he walked the horses, and just spending time with his good ‘ol kidders.\nW. P. “Pete” Olson, 103\nOn Jan. 17, one week shy of his 104th birthday, Weldon Peter “Pete” Olson passed away at his home surrounded by several members of his family.\nPete was born Jan. 24th, 1913, on the family farm in Knox County Nebraska to Peter and Alma Olson. He was the oldest of five children.\nPete was a smart child and his teachers recommended he skip the 6th grade. He was later elected president of his class and graduated from Wausau, High School. He moved to Tripp County to farm with his Uncle Frank Lundgren.\nHe married Ruth Mack on April 5, 1941 in Ainsworth, Neb. and they enjoyed life together for 72 years. Pete and Ruth enjoyed dancing to waltzes and polkas. They decided on raising a large family. They had 13 children and were blessed with lots of grandchildren and great grandchildren who loved to spend time on the family farm. Pete enjoyed playing games such as Trivial Pursuit and cards with the family. All of his life, Pete was an avid reader enjoying books on tape when his eyesight was too weak. And, of course, he loved to rock the newest grandbaby.\nPete and Ruth moved to the farm in Ideal in 1947. Pete became very active in the community serving on the school board, various boards at the Ideal Presbyterian Church, the Ideal Township board and the Ideal Tigers Country basketball team board. As a member of the school board, Pete helped to start the hot lunch program at the Ideal school. He also loaded his car many times to transport students to Rosebud, SD, for dental and medical care. Pete and Ruth enjoyed living and raising their children in such a supportive community. Pete was able to go Christmas Eve Service at the Ideal Presbyterian Church in 2016 for his last venture from home.\nRoy Melvyn Lilly, 72\nRoy Melvyn Lilly was born on March 4, 1944 at Gregory Hospital to Oliver and Ruth (Kenaston) Lilly.\nRoy attended grade school through 8th grade at Kansas Flats and graduated from Colome High school in 1962 and went to work on the farm with his dad. He joined the National Guard in October 1962 and served with the 730 Medical Clearing Company until 1968.\nRoy was united in marriage to Carol Ring on October 10, 1970 in Colome, to this union three daughters were born, Linda Jane, Brenda Jean and Rhonda Joy.\nIn July of 1992 Roy decided to try something other than farming/ranching and went to work at the Colome School. He worked for the School for 20 years and always enjoyed the kids. Roy always said that the best kids always come through the doors of the Colome School. After he retired, he still drove the school bus, he just found so much joy in seeing the kids and enjoying the scenery.\nRoy was an active member of the Calvary Chapel Church as he served several years as a Church Board member, Sunday School Superintendent and Sunday School Teacher.\nRoy was a kind hearted Christian, that always put others before himself and saw the good in everyone. He had a wish for everyone to know and walk with the Lord. Roy had 2 passions, the love for the Lord and the love for his family. He enjoyed playing cards at night with Carol and at family gatherings, he also enjoyed his summers by having a large garden and taking time to enjoy baseball games in Minnesota and Kansas City with his daughters and grandkids.\nRoy passed away January 17, 2017 at the age of 72 at the Winner Regional Hospital.\nKenneth Watson, 70\nKenneth Leroy Watson was born July 15, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and passed away on Saturday, January 14, 2017, at age 70 in the Winner Regional Healthcare Center.\nKen graduated from high school in Ulysses, Kansas in 1963 and joined the Navy the following fall. He served in the Navy and Navy Reserves for a total of 14 years, including two tours in Vietnam. Ken cherished his time served in the military and was proud to say he served this great country.\nOn May 31, 1975, Ken married Lori Stritecky at the Colome United Methodist Church. They moved to Sioux Falls where he worked various jobs until he graduated from Southeast Area Technical Institute with a degree in Electronics. They had two sons, Kevin and Ryan.\nIn 1979, they moved to Crooks, SD where Ken was active in the community with the Crooks VFW, Tri-Valley Booster Club, Crooks Optimist Club, served on the church board of Benton Lutheran Church, and various baseball programs in Crooks. While in Crooks for 22 years, Ken and his family created lifelong friends not only in Crooks but the surrounding communities which he cherished until his death. He always cherished teaching and coaching not only his own two boys, but numerous kids of the community and showing them life lessons through sports. He was active in the Tri-Valley School district where his sons attended school and graduated from. If there was one thing Ken loved was attending the various activities with friends and supporting his beloved “MUSTANGS”. Ken was a current member of the Winner United Methodist Church and Gregory American Legion.\nAfter their sons graduated from high school, Ken and Lori moved to Gregory, SD in 1998 for 5 years. He then followed his wife with her Traveling Nurse Career. They bought a home in Peoria, AZ in 2007 where he worked as a cashier at AJ’s Fine Foods and Bashas’ Grocery Chain until his retirement in 2013. He was a season ticket holder for the Arizona Cardinals for seven years and enjoyed going to various Arizona Diamondback games and spending time with his family in the Phoenix area. Ken always had a passionate side for animals especially his fur babies Gizmo and Bella.\nDue to health issues they recently moved back to Colome, SD in July 2016 to be closer to family and friends. With his love for sports, Ken touched many lives teaching and mentoring kids in the various baseball and basketball programs in the Crooks and Sioux Falls area, but most of all was looking forward to watching his grandchildren grow up. In addition to family time, he also enjoyed his boating, coin collecting, camping, pheasant hunting, cheering on the Denver Broncos and bowling. Ken always wanted was best for the kids of the community and always strived to get the best out of the kids he taught and coached.\nVarney Daryl “Butch” Bancroft, 75\nVarney Daryl “Butch” Bancroft, age 75 of Vermillion, SD passed away Thursday January 19, 2017 in McCook, NE.\nButch was born on May 3, 1941 in Redfield, SD to Leonard and Genevieve (Bennett) Bancroft. He grew up in Burke, SD and graduated from Burke High School with the class of 1960. He married Karolee Gatson on June 10, 1962. He served in the US Marine Corp from 1965 until 1968, serving in Vietnam. After his discharge, he worked for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company (which later became AT & T) for over 40 years. After leaving AT & T, he opened T.D.C. where he worked on phone systems in South Dakota. He enjoyed hunting and was very artistic with his drawings and making wooden houses. He loved his family, especially his children and grandchildren. He was much loved by his family and will be greatly missed.\nNew Concealed Carry Weapon Permit and Permit System w/ Audio and Video\nBy Jody Brozik | January 25, 2017 - 6:49 pm | January 25, 2017 State\nSecretary of State Shantel Krebs announced a new concealed carry weapon permit program and permit design. Secretary Krebs said, “This permit is more official looking with a reflective hologram very similar to a driver’s license without the photo id. Because of the substantial increase in concealed carry weapon permits issued in recent years we needed to change the way the permits were produced to increase efficiency and decrease costs while also improving the quality and style of the cards. When I studied the work flow process time to produce the old cards I realized there was room to cut costs on labor. We have cut the cost of each permit from $4.75 to $1.48,” stated Secretary Krebs. Much of the cost was due to the amount of staff time to assemble the old permit by hand.\nPermits issued have nearly tripled in the past 10 years. In 2016 Secretary Krebs issued an all-time high for new and renewed permits of 30,029. In 2006 the Secretary of State’s office issued 11,763.\nThere are over 96,000 active permit holders that currently have the previous style laminated card that has been accused of resembling a library card.\nFor those wanting to upgrade to the new looking permit:\nIf they just want the new looking permit, address changed, name change (because of marriage) the request comes to the SD SOS office by writing a letter to request a replacement with the new permit to the Secretary of State’s office with name, date of birth, address, signature, permit number and a check for $2 made out to the Secretary of State’s office.\nPUC’s Chris Nelson Appointed to National Board of Directors\nSouth Dakota Public Utilities Commissioner Chris Nelson has been selected to serve on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Board of Directors, a group tasked with overseeing NARUC’s efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of public utility regulation. This is Nelson’s second appointment to the association’s supervisory board. He earned his first seat in January 2014 when he was selected to serve as chair of NARUC’s Committee on Telecommunications.\nAppointed to a new seat by NARUC President Robert Powelson of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Jan. 12, 2017, Nelson will serve on the board through October 2018. Along with other board members, he will focus on strengthening state commissions by engaging in public policy discussions, recommending resolutions to the NARUC membership and advocating among federal agencies.\n“I’m grateful to serve on my national association’s board of directors. This leadership position allows me to guide the direction of our organization in a manner that serves the needs of South Dakotans,” said Nelson.\nNelson has been a member of NARUC since 2011. He was part of NARUC’s Task Force on Federalism and Telecommunications and has been appointed by the Federal Communications Commission to the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, representing the interests of NARUC.\nGov. Dennis Daugaard appointed Nelson to the PUC in January 2011 to fill a vacancy. Nelson was elected in November 2012 to continue serving the remaining four years of the term. He was re-elected to the PUC in November 2016 to a full, six-year term. Prior to joining the commission, Nelson served eight years as South Dakota’s Secretary of State.\nA Peaceful Transition of Power\nEvery four years after a presidential election, Americans from all corners of the country flock to Washington, D.C., to attend the incoming president’s inauguration ceremony. At noon on January 20, 2017, President-elect Donald Trump becomes President Donald Trump, after he is administered the oath of office by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.\nThe oath of office of the President of the United States is only 35 words long, and is stated in the United States Constitution: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The first president to take the presidential oath was George Washington at his inauguration on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall in New York City, the temporary seat of government at that time.\nPresident Washington also set the precedent of delivering an inaugural address following his swearing-in ceremony, a tradition that has led to some of the most renowned quotes from our presidents. Washington swore to preserve “the sacred fire of liberty” and uphold the “Republican model of Government.” Other famous lines from inaugural addresses include John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” and Ronald Reagan’s “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These remarks continue to inspire Americans today.\nThe entire ceremony takes place on the West Front Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, as it has since 1981. Attendees fill the National Mall from the Capitol steps to the Washington Monument, all to catch a glimpse of living history. Following the swearing-in and inaugural address, an inaugural parade and numerous balls take place throughout Washington, D.C.\nWhile January 20th is the official day the president takes office, months of preparation have gone into the planning of the inauguration ceremony and official events, such as the parade and the formal balls. Since 1901, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has been in charge of setting up the swearing-in ceremonies. Thousands of men and women have been working behind the scenes to plan the ceremony and make sure the Capitol remains secure. I’d like to thank them for their hard work, as well as all the members of the law enforcement community who have been putting in long hours leading up to inauguration weekend. Their job protecting the attendees at the inauguration is incredibly difficult, and their dedication to the security of the attendees is deserving of praise. Without their commitment, this very special day for our nation could not run as effortlessly and with the dignity it deserves.\nIn his inaugural speech, Thomas Jefferson said, “But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle…We are all republicans. We are all federalists.” His wise words ring true today. Though we may disagree with one another on certain policies, we are all Americans, and our presidential inaugurations reflect a decidedly American ideal: the peaceful transition of power from one administration to the next.\nPath Forward for Trafficking Survivors\nI’ve heard stories like this many times over, even from within South Dakota: A young woman falls behind on rent or faces other financial straits. Someone steps in to help, but the apparent act of kindness comes with certain strings attached. It might begin as a requirement to just “hang out.” Perhaps they begin to date. But then, the threats come – both physical and emotional. A financial reliance has been established – perhaps a drug or alcohol addiction as well – so it’s difficult to find a way out. Within months, maybe even weeks, a supposed friend becomes the victim’s trafficker.\nThe manipulative control persists, often resulting in multiple run-ins with the law. Many victims are arrested, brought up on charges of conspiracy, money laundering, prostitution or drug trafficking. Even if they’re able to escape the horrors of trafficking, these criminal records can chain them to their past and leave them vulnerable to being exploited or trafficked again.\nAccording to a recent survey by the National Survivor Network, around 80 percent of trafficking survivors surveyed had lost or not received employment because of their criminal convictions. Around half had suffered from barriers to accessing housing. Trafficking survivors deserve a fair shot at rebuilding their lives, but that’s difficult when housing, employment, and education are out of reach.\nWith this in mind, I helped introduce the bipartisan Trafficking Survivors Relief Act earlier this year. This legislation would create a process in which trafficking survivors with non-violent federal offenses could ask a judge to free them of their records, vacating arrests or convictions that were a direct result of being trafficked. I’m hopeful this legislation will help relieve survivors of the past, open doors for them, and offer a path forward where healing can begin.\nIf enacted, this bill would build on our accomplishments from last Congress where we passed one of the most comprehensive anti-trafficking packages seen in a decade. The legislation allocated more resources for survivors, offered more tools to go after traffickers and buyers, and put policies in place to prevent trafficking.\nThe mission to end human trafficking is one that each of us can participate in. I encourage you to familiarize yourself with the signs of human trafficking. Is someone you know not free to come or go as they wish? Are they fearful, anxious, tense or paranoid? Do they appear malnourished or show signs of abuse? Do they lack control over their own money or financial records? These are just some of the indicators a victim may exhibit. To learn more, I encourage you to visit humantraffickinghotline.org.\nAdditionally, if you or someone you care about is being trafficked or at risk, please call the National Human Trafficking Hotline immediately at 1-888-373-7888. Correspondence with the National Hotline is confidential and you may request assistance or report a tip anonymously.\nThose who have been trafficked should be treated as survivors, not criminals. I’m hopeful our latest proposal can help clear the path for them to rebuild their lives.\nWould you rather be able to fly or take back one bad decision per day for the rest of your life?\nFly!\nTake back one bad decision\nRodney Grossenburg, 87\nZelda Dummer, 79\nVern Modine, 82\nDavid Leber, 56\nPheasants Take Care of Rockets\nThe Winner Advocate | Powered by Mantra & WordPress.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line254142"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7056707143783569,"wiki_prob":0.7056707143783569,"text":"The Most Popular Phone in the World\nFiled to: NokiaFiled to: Nokia\nDumbphones\nBudget Phones\nNokia has problems. Smartphone problems. Software problems. American problems. But to fully understand what's wrong, we've got to understand what's been right, or to put in another way, what's distracted Nokia. Meet the most popular phone in the world.\nWhy We&apos;re Not Reviewing the Nokia N8\nAs much as we&apos;d love to see a great new phone from Nokia, we&apos;re not reviewing the N8. The …\nIt has been said that more of the world's population has access to a cellphone than to a sanitary toilet. But of the planet's estimated 5 billion cellphone users, a privileged minority have smartphones; a paltry few, iPhones.\nIf you spend hours thumbing through pages of apps, scoffing at less-than-perfect software upgrades and grousing about screen resolution and pixel density, it's easy to forget that the very concept of a mobile phone is a miracle. It's a device that shrinks your day to day world into a single point, making you simultaneously accessible to and able to access nearly everyone you know, instantly and everywhere.\nOne summer in 2005, a man in Nigeria wanted in. He found a shop, put his money down on the counter, and left with a cellphone: a Nokia 1100, nearly identical to the model discontinued by AT&T that same year. Statistically, this was likely his first handset. He'd probably used a similar one through family or friends. Personal milestone or not, the tiny Clarkian miracle of that day represented a cold milestone for Nokia. It was their billionth phone sold.\nIn buying that phone, this man was joining a slightly smaller club. He became a Nokia 1100 user. Along with a staggering 250,000,000 others, he had traded up in the communications world, from little or no phone access at all to this little brick of a phone.\nThe 1100 is not pleasant to use. The keypad is too narrow for two-thumbed texting; it's thin enough that curling a thumb for one-handed use is strenuous. Tiny pedestal buttons are concealed behind a squishy rubber shield, and configured in such a way that learning how to use the phone is a process of rote memorization and habit-building rather than intuition.\nThe phone wasn't exactly a technological marvel, even by the standards of the time. (For perspective, in 2003 Gizmodo was writing breathlessly about the promise of the Palm Treo 600—a real smartphone.) The screen is small and the pixels large and monochrome. The ringer is both tinny and piercing. The whole assemblage feels suspiciously light.\nI say this all as someone coddled by smartphones, touchscreens, and the results of years upon years of careful and expensive interface research, but also as someone who has used a hell of a lot of phones. For a few years years I carried a Nokia 3595—a not-so-distant relative of the 1100—so the 1100 doesn't feel exotic to me, nor should it to most anyone.\nBut I was never really meant to buy a Nokia 1100, and its designers never meant to impress me. The phone's small size makes its extremely portable, and easy to carry or stow. That narrow, squishy keypad is dustproof and water resistant, so a splash of rain or a drop in the sand won't ruin it. The phone's plasticky shell and light weight make perfect sense the first time you see it bounce off your tile floor, skittering to a stop unscathed. The menu system and button configuration might clash with my design sensibilities, but I was raised on PCs and Nintendo. I have expectations of polish, and can mistake brutal simplicity for lack of design.\nThis phone was meant to survive and to do; its only jobs are to call and to text and to create convenience for as long as possible, as cheaply as possible. \"The way we get to those features is by spending a lot of time with consumers, with teams in their homes, interviewing them, seeing how they live,\" says Alex Lambeek, who, prior to becoming Nokia's VP of Phone Marketing, worked extensively with hardware design for the developing world. \"Take for example a feature like a torch (flashlight), and you might think: Who cares about a torch? Well, for a consumer who lives in an area, let's say, of India or Indonesia or Africa, where there is either no power supply or power is intermittent, having a torch is pretty important.\"\nLikewise, accessories and services aren't cast-offs from the Western world, but specifically adapted for their environments. Alongside new cellphones you'll see chargers that draw power from bikes, and by sending an SMS to a specific, Nokia-operated number, you can get a listing of local crop prices, or a weather forecast.\nA phone sold in an outdoor market can't exactly be brought back for a warranty claim. Software updates are mostly out of the question, so the phone you buy is the phone you'll be stuck with. Customer service is complicated by language differences, literacy issues and simple lack of awareness, so a short sort of troubleshooting guide has to be included in the phone's software.\nThe lesson, basically, is that a company won't do well in the developing world simply by hawking cheap, out-of-date hardware after it's become obsolete in places like America. Companies like Nokia, LG and Samsung spend a lot of time and money developing new phones that you and I might consider old-fashioned or odd, and with good reason: Emerging markets are huge. The 8th, 9th and 10th largest phone seller in the world, by volume, are companies you've never heard of—ZTE, G-Five and Huawei—which have made heaps of money selling millions of customers their first phones. Nokia is actually losing share in India, largely due to a burgeoning domestic phone industry, led by companies whose spectacular sales volumes belie their newness. They'd be stupid to try to sell their cast-off dregs to hyper-competitive exploding markets like this.\nThe hardware demands of the developing world are different. That much is obvious. Making things even more difficult is the way people sell phones outside of the US and Europe. Surprise! It's also different. \"In North America and many parts of Europe, operators typically subsidize handsets,\" says Lambeek. It's a familiar, unwieldy system of blood contracts and extravagant hardware. It's why we tend to loathe our carriers, and also why you can get a Droid for $150. But it's by no means universal. \"That is quite rare in places like Africa, for the simple reason that the economics of subsidizing don't make sense. Either the money doesn't come, or it takes far too long.\" This means that the price of the phone isn't distorted by subsidies, and that the operators are barely involved in phone distribution at all.\nThis makes things less complicated in a lot of ways, and more complicated in others. Phones have to be cheap enough that people can buy them outright, which basically renders all high-end smartphones like BlackBerrys or iPhones, which can cost well over $500 unsubsidized, almost comically inaccessible. It also means that phones need to be standardized and network-neutral, or unlocked, and that they have to work with whatever services are popular or available, be they voice or text or internet.\nThe developing world has no interest in the iPhone. It's impractically delicate and expensive, and its battery lasts a day, if you're lucky. But the concept of a smartphone is in some ways as attractive in rural Nigeria as it is anywhere else.\nCompanies like Huwei are already refiguring the Android phone equation to suit second-time phone buyers, and bringing prices for unsubsidized touchscreen smartphones well under $200, edging ever closer to $100. Nokia's C3 series has Wi-Fi, a 2.0MP camera, a full, metal-keyed QWERTY keyboard, microSD storage and an App Store. It comes with Facebook and Twitter access out of the box. Depending on tariffs, it sells for around $100 worldwide. It's coming to America, soon making an appearance on Wal-Mart's shelves. The price? $80. It's the anti-N8: Fairly simple, very cheap, and so far, wildly popular.\niPhone Queues? Get a Load of This Nokia C3 Queue\nSpotted in Indonesia: at least 63 people queuing for Nokia&apos;s QWERTY-equipped C3 phone. Anyone…\nThis is what the next generation of the mega-selling phone will look like. They'll be rough facsimiles of the high-end smartphones forged for well-heeled buyers, stripped of fat and excess—an embodiment of compromise. They'll be 90% of the phone for 20% of the price, with FM radios instead of digital music stores, and flashlights instead of LED flashes. This is how the other half will smartphone, if you want to be so generous as to call the developing world's users a half. We're not even close.\nRecent from John Herrman\nGiz Explains: Why Time Flies\nThe Best Apps for News Junkies\nGiz Explains: Why Your Call Dropped","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1490277"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7479172348976135,"wiki_prob":0.2520827651023865,"text":"Posts for: February, 2016\nTags: celebrity smiles chipped teeth\nA recent episode of “America’s Got Talent” featured an engaging 93-year-old strongman called The Mighty Atom Jr. The mature muscleman’s stunt: moving a full-sized car (laden with his octogenarian “kid brother,” his brother’s wife, plus Atom’s “lady friend”) using just his teeth. Grinning for host Howie Mandel, Atom proudly told the TV audience that his teeth were all his own; then he grasped a leather strap in his mouth, and successfully pulled the car from a standstill.\nWe’re pleased to see that the Atom has kept his natural teeth in good shape: He must have found time for brushing and flossing in between stunts. Needless to say, his “talent” isn’t one we’d recommend trying at home. But aside from pulling vehicles, teeth can also be chipped or fractured by more mundane (yet still risky) activities — playing sports, nibbling on pencils, or biting too hard on ice. What can you do if that happens to your teeth?\nFortunately, we have a number of ways to repair cracked or chipped teeth. One of the easiest and fastest is cosmetic bonding with tooth-colored resins. Bonding can be used to fill in small chips, cracks and discolorations in the teeth. The bonding material is a high-tech mixture of plastic and glass components that’s extremely lifelike, and can last for several years. Plus, it’s a procedure that can be done right in the office, with minimal preparation or discomfort. However, it may not be suitable for larger chips, and it isn’t the longest-lasting type of restoration.\nWhen more of the tooth structure is missing, a crown (or cap) might be needed to restore the tooth’s appearance and function. This involves creating a replacement for the entire visible part of the tooth in a dental lab — or in some cases, right in the office. It typically involves making a model of the damaged tooth and its neighbors, then fabricating a replica, which will fit perfectly into the bite. Finally, the replacement crown is permanently cemented to the damaged tooth. A crown replacement can last for many years if the tooth’s roots are in good shape. But what if the roots have been dislodged?\nIn some cases it’s possible to re-implant a tooth that has been knocked out — especially if it has been carefully preserved, and receives immediate professional attention. But if a tooth can’t be saved (due to a deeply fractured root, for example) a dental implant offers today’s best option for tooth replacement. This procedure has a success rate of over 95 percent, and gives you a natural looking replacement tooth that can last for the rest of your life.\nSo what have we learned? If you take care of your teeth, like strongman Atom, they can last a long time — but if you need to move your car, go get the keys.\nIf you would like more information about tooth restoration, please contact us or schedule an appointment for a consultation. You can learn more by reading the Dear Doctor magazine article “Crowns & Bridgework.”\nTags: oral health pediatric dentistry\nWhat do young saber tooth tigers, which have been extinct about 10,000 years, have in common with human kids today? At first glance, not a lot. Smilodon fatalis, the big cat of North America, reached adulthood at around age three and weighed up to 600 pounds. But these ice-age mammals are probably best known for their dagger-like canine teeth, which (as shown by many well-preserved skeletons) grew up to 7 inches long. And that’s where the comparison between kids and kitties gets interesting.\nThe toothy felines had primary (baby) teeth and adult teeth, which developed in a similar way to human dentition. The primary teeth came in first, persisted during the young cat’s development, and shared space in the mouth as the adult teeth were erupting (growing in) — with one big difference. According to a recent study reported in the academic journal PLOS ONE, those colossal canines grew at an astonishing rate: up to 6 millimeters per month! By comparison, human primary teeth emerge from the gums at around 0.7mm per month, while permanent teeth may grow up to 2mm per month.\nIt’s understandable why those tiger teeth developed so rapidly: Life in the Ice Age was hard, and predators needed every advantage just to stay alive. But while human baby teeth take longer to develop (and to go away), they, too, are vitally important. For one thing, the primary teeth let kids bite, chew, speak (and smile) properly, until they are replaced by adult teeth — a process that isn’t usually finished until a child reaches the age of 12-13. So those “baby” teeth allow kids to have good nutrition — and positive social interactions — for a significant part of childhood!\nThere’s another important thing primary teeth do before they’re gone: They help ensure that the succeeding teeth come in properly, by holding a space in the jaw that will later be filled by a permanent tooth. If baby teeth are lost prematurely, those spaces can close up, resulting in permanent teeth that emerge too close together, or in the wrong places. This condition, called malocclusion (bad bite), can usually be corrected by orthodontics. But it’s better to avoid the inconvenience (and cost) of braces, if possible.\nThat’s why it’s so important to take care of your child’s baby teeth. Even though they won’t be around forever, they have a vital role to play right now. So be sure proper attention is paid to your child’s oral hygiene: That means avoiding sugar, and remembering to brush and floss every day. And be sure to come in regularly for routine exams, cleanings, and needed care. It’s the best way to keep those little teeth from “going extinct” too soon!\nIf you have questions or concerns about your child’s baby teeth, please call our office to schedule a consultation. You can read more in the Dear Doctor magazine articles “Importance of Baby Teeth” and “Early Loss of Baby Teeth.”\nMarch (2) January (2)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line283067"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6573725938796997,"wiki_prob":0.3426274061203003,"text":"Patriotic family honors downed Naval aviator lost at sea in 1943\nDuke Williams\nin Headlines\nThursday, November 10. 2016\nEditor’s note: Four or five days a week, I walk in Greenwood Cemetery. As a result, I am very familiar with the place. I notice new graves and headstones. I was puzzled when I found new markers in the newest section of the cemetery for a Navy pilot killed in action in 1943.\nI reached out to local historian Tim Turner who was equally puzzled by the grave of Earnest Duke Williams. I wanted to learn his story.\nIt is one of sacrifice and patriotism that is timely as we prepare to celebrate Veterans Day Friday.\nBy Walter Geiger\nSuzanne Forster has a vivid memory of a visit to Arlington National Cemetery with her grandmother, Pauline Witherspoon Williams. Pauline gazed out at row upon row of white tombstones and said, “I will never see my son’s gravestone.”\nHer son was Earnest Duke Williams.\nThis was a family of patriots. Pauline’s husband, Earnest Wright Williams, served in World War I.\nSuzanne’s parents, Bill and Gaie Pittman, are buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Bill was a 1st Lieutenant in the Army and served in China in the Pacific Theatre in World War II.\nPlease login or register to read the rest of this story.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line228056"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5889500975608826,"wiki_prob":0.5889500975608826,"text":"Warner Offers DRM-Free Music on Amazon\nWarner Music Group, a major holdout on selling music online without copy protection, caved in to the growing trend Thursday and agreed to sell its tunes on Amazon.com Inc.’s digital music store.\nUntil now, Warner Music had resisted offering songs by its artists in the MP3 format, which can be copied to multiple computers and burned onto CDs without restriction and played on most PCs and digital media players, including Apple Inc.’s iPod and Microsoft Corp.’s Zune.\nThe deal raises the total number of MP3s for sale through Amazon’s music download store to more than 2.9 million. Warner Music’s entire catalog, including work by artists Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin and Sean Paul, will be added to the site throughout the week. The Amazon store launched with nearly 2.3 million songs in September.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line579634"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.675727903842926,"wiki_prob":0.675727903842926,"text":"Threats from ISIS at Philips Arena Taken Seriously\n(FOX 5 ATLANTA) -- According to an article in the International Business Times:\n\"Anonymous, the loose collective of online activists, also said the Islamic State group is planning an assault at the WWE Survivor Series event scheduled to take place in the Philips Arena in Atlanta Sunday at 7.30 p.m. EST, as well as attacks at multiple events in Paris.\"\nFOX 5 spoke with Jim Butterworth, Director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency who said there is no credible threat directed at the WWE event. According to Butterworth, the ISIS group has made a list of possible targets and doesn&apos;t think that this is an identifiable threat, which means WWE event wasn&apos;t specifically listed. \"In light of the world we live in, we take the suggested possibility of attacks seriously,\" said Butterworth.\n\"The FBI is aware of reports of an alleged threat that includes an Atlanta, Georgia venue and event. While we take all threats seriously, we do not have specific or credible information of an attack at this time. We have, however, made the proper notifications as we continue to work closely with our law enforcement and private sector partners to keep our community safe,\" said J. Britt Johnson, Special Agent in Charge, FBI Atlanta Field Office.\nPhilips Arena and WWE released a statement Saturday night :\n\"Federal, state and local law enforcement authorities have confirmed there is no specific or credible information involving a threat against tomorrow&apos;s WWE Survivor Series at Philips Arena. However, WWE and Philips Arena have coordinated with the appropriate agencies and law enforcement, and significantly increased security measures to ensure the safety of all those in attendance, which is our highest priority.\nDoors will open at 6 p.m. to help fans avoid any delays in entering the arena due to the additional precautionary security procedures put in place. Fans are encouraged to take public transportation (MARTA) to the event and are advised that bags will not be permitted in the arena.\"\nManning scores tiebreaker, Flyers beat Hurricanes 4-3\nFormer First Lady Laura Bush attacks Trump policy of separating kids from parents at border\nViewers help ID man taking selfie caught on wildlife cam\nDespite legal victory, Trump needs money for border wall\nChurch youth-group leader accused sexually assaulting teenage girls","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1535534"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5395434498786926,"wiki_prob":0.4604565501213074,"text":"TRVL Neighborhoods\nA day in... the Upper East Side, New York\nPhoto by Alex Maisuradze / Creative Commons\nTRVL Neighborhoods A day in... the Upper East Side, New York\nUpper East Side might not be the most budget-friendly of neighborhoods, but if you want to go all out and treat someone (and yourself) to something really special in New York City, then a stay in Upper East Side might be right up your street – or is that Fifth Avenue?\nJames Hiam Editor\nDuring the Gilded Age in the United States, the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Roosevelts and other members of the country's rich, famous, and influential elite lived along Fifth Avenue in grand, palatial residences. Their presence earned the street the nickname of 'Millionaire's Row,' and, while many of these old mansions have since been torn down and replaced with luxury apartment blocks, Fifth Avenue remains exclusive to this day.\nBefore you hit up Fifth Avenue, however, and only after you've had breakfast and a read of the day's paper at your hotel, first explore some of Upper East Side's less obviously glamorous but no less affluent side streets. There a few better neighborhoods in New York for brownstone buildings and leafy, tree-lined streets; enjoy a relaxed, aimless wander for an hour or so – stopping somewhere for coffee along the way – for the most pleasant of starts to your day.\nYou might not be able to resist the lure of Fifth Avenue for too long, however. As famous today for its luxury boutique shopping as it was in the late 19th-century for its Gilded Age mansions, Fifth Avenue is where you take your shiny new credit card or go for a spot of upscale window shopping. Alternatively, or after a spot of lunch in one of the neighborhood's hip cafes and posh restaurants, do some more aimless wandering, this time around Central Park. This most famous of green spaces runs along the western boundary of Upper East Side and is the perfect environment for people-watching and stretching your legs.\nFollowing lunch, it's time to head back to Fifth Avenue but this time to the area between 82nd and 105th streets, otherwise known as 'Museum Mile.' The Metropolitan Museum of Art (aka the Met), The Museum for African Art, El Museo del Barrio, the Guggenheim, The Jewish Museum, the Neue Galerie New York or one of the area's other renowned cultural institutions. Spend your afternoon in one of these or even try and see a couple, although you can always come back the next day, of course.\nThe Met also stays open late on Friday and Saturday evenings, which is perfect for if you want to dodge the worst of the crowds during the day. There's also an impressive rooftop bar, so you can have a drink here before heading out to a restaurant or another bar for more drinks. You'll find a high concentration of both around the East 82nd Street and 2nd Avenue intersection, or jump on the subway and head down to other neighborhoods for a more raucous night out – the Meatpacking District or East Village are always pretty good bets and are popular with the locals.\nComparing NYC neighborhoods? Read our New York city and neighborhood guide.\nOther stories about New York\nMeet the ghosts of New York’s oldest watering hole\nWith the lager warming me and history staring down from the walls, I can feel the spirits of McSorley’s Old Ale House creeping up on me.\nBrian Patrick Eha Journalist\nIf New York had a heart, it would be Central Park\nMore than anywhere else in the often-stratified New York, Central Park is a place where everybody – children, parents, lovers, friends – comes together.\nTara Isabella Burton Travel Writer\nStreets and buildings that are a part of all our memories\nHello New York, a city that is essentially American yet part of world culture with its starring role in so many films and TV shows. From Taxi Driver and Manhattan, to NYPD Blue and Seinfeld, its streets and buildings have become such a part of all our memories that we can share the nostalgia felt by New Yorkers as their restless city changes around them.\nThese are 3 of the best hotels in New York City\nI've been around New York long enough to know this: finding a great hotel in NYC ain 't easy.\nAlicia Butler\nSummertime in New York isn't all that bad\nNew Yorkers make a show of hating the city in summertime.\nBig night? Who ya gonna call?\nNew York is a taxi city. While hardly cheap, its yellow cabs are surprisingly affordable compared to London, Paris, or Rome.\nInside Prospect Lefferts Gardens, the last Brooklyn neighborhood\nWhen people ask me what’s “up and coming” or where to find an under-the-radar attraction in New York City, I usually respond with an eyeroll/talk-to-the-hand combo. Please. Tourists are everywhere.\n3 rooftop bars in NYC you need to put on your to-do list\nThere has been a surge in the popularity of rooftop living in New York over the last 15 years or so. It’s up, up, up in the City of Superlatives! So, it’s hardly surprising that many cool hotels have started to develop their top floors into amazing rooftop bars, all striving to have the best views, cocktails, and DJs.\nJoan de Haart\nRats, roaches – and romance?\nIt’s not the top of the Empire State Building. It’s not an afternoon in Central Park. But if you want to get a look at real New Yorkers, not buildings, New York City Subway – in all its grimy glory – is the single best place to watch the world go by.\nElegant icons of a (not so) bygone era\nThere’s a reason that some of Manhattan’s iconic landmarks – the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, for instance – are Art Deco in style. No era seems to encapsulate New York’s frenzied, forward-thinking energy as fully as the freewheeling, pre-Depression 1920s.\n5 things to do in New York on your first trip\nNew York: where to begin? NYC has it all, from Chinatown to Coney Island.\nNew York: closing shop after 51 years - “That’s so sad, man!”\nSome say you're not a real New Yorker until something that used to exist – a favorite diner, an independent bookstore – is more real to you than the thing existing in that place now.\n5 places you must eat in NYC\nNew York has something for everyone: but not everybody has good taste.\nSee New York's best sites: but not in the way you think\nYes, despite what we’d have you believe, New Yorkers do hang at the big tourist sites. We do go to Broadway shows, the Met, and Central Park. How could you live in the greatest city in the world and not take advantage of some of the world's best attractions?\nAnimals can have as much character as people\nPets: you either hate them or love them. But dog lovers in New York go all the way. They share their tiny apartments with dogs which might be as big as themselves.\nTon Koene Travel Photographer\nNew York’s best meal is not what you think\nChinatown isn’t beautiful. Garbage lines the streets and on hotter days the smell of fish – thrown out from many restaurants – is overpowering. But it’s precisely Chinatown’s refusal to accommodate the city’s ubiquitous would-be gentrifiers that makes the experience of being there so intoxicating.\nEnjoying the Great Outdoors in the Big Apple\nNew York City is an urban playground to be sure, full of great museums, bars and restaurants, but all those attractive indoor spaces can make you forget there is plenty to enjoy outdoors.\nNew York, city of small miracles\nSmall miracles can occur in every city, of course, but in New York they occur with prodigal frequency. Throughout the five boroughs, people find ways to establish intimate connections to the city, hoping for their own miracles.\nSerendipity: New York is positively brimming with it\nPart of the essential magic of New York is in the number of serendipitous encounters one has here. It is the city’s great natural resource of which there is a seemingly inexhaustible supply.\nHow art frames New York City\nThe image of a romantic New York is instilled in us through countless movies and books. New York artist James Gulliver Hancock tries to create a more realistic version of the city.\nDon’t lose sight of the bigger picture\nI came across the “Naked Cowboy” purely by chance, while I was photographing the street life around Times Square in New York City.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line498012"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.914112389087677,"wiki_prob":0.914112389087677,"text":"Home World UK Down’s syndrome: Advice scrapped after criticism\nDown’s syndrome: Advice scrapped after criticism\nMedia captionMidwife told me “Down’s test is for abortions”\nA leaflet for pregnant women who opt for Down’s syndrome screening has been scrapped after it was criticised for overly focusing on medical problems their baby could face.\nThe information was produced to accompany a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) for chromosomal conditions which was rolled out by NHS Wales in April.\nCampaigners said pregnant women were being “pushed towards terminations”.\nThe Welsh Government said parents were given information to make choices.\nNIPT can safely screen for genetic conditions such as Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome with more than 98% accuracy in the first three months of pregnancy.\nBut only an invasive amniocenteses test, which carries up to a 2% risk of miscarriage, can confirm a diagnosis.\nNew Down’s test ‘to cut miscarriage risk’\nA world without Down’s syndrome?\nIf women are found to have a high chance of having a baby with one of the conditions, they are offered a NIPT and given a booklet which explains the condition.\nHowever, in a letter to a campaigner Health Secretary Vaughan Gething admitted the initial booklets given to mothers having the test had to be replaced after the Nuffield Council on Bioethics said the information was “overly focused on the medical problems associated with the screened-for conditions”, “lacking in important information about NIPT” and “difficult to navigate”.\nPublic Health Wales NHS Trust\nThe replacement leaflet added more information about the social aspect of the condition after the first was criticised\nThe new leaflet has altered some information about medical problems such as heart conditions and cataracts.\nIt also states children with Down’s syndrome “lead healthy and fulfilled lives” and added that many go on to work and live in their own accommodation.\nBefore its introduction, campaigners had argued tests would lead to more terminations, with evidence suggesting 90% of women terminate with a positive diagnosis of the condition.\nMedia captionHealth Secretary Vaughan Gething says the test is safer for mothers and babies\n‘Punched in the guts’\nMother-of-two Leah has a sister with Down’s syndrome.\nLeah, who does not want to reveal her full name or where she lives, recently went for a dating scan and asked for the screening so she could be prepared if her baby had the condition, which it did not.\nShe claimed when she told the midwife she would not terminate the pregnancy if she was given a positive result the midwife told her “the purpose of the test is for terminations” and she should not be having the scan if she was not going to end her pregnancy in the event of a diagnosis.\n“We came out of the consultation, my husband and I, literally as if we’d been punched in the guts. We were sat there with tears in our eyes looking at each other and we couldn’t believe what we’d just heard,” she said.\n“It was just horrible. Really horrible.”\nNIPT is more than 98% accurate, but an invasive test is still needed to confirm a Down’s Syndrome diagnosis\nA spokeswoman for the Welsh health board in question said it was “grateful that this issue has been brought to our attention” and it would work to “make sure all information offered to women is in keeping with standards, promotes choice and an unbiased approach”.\nIt added midwives offer information on screening in line with the standards and policies set out by Antenatal Screening Wales.\nFrances Jenkins, whose 10-year-old daughter Darcie has Down’s syndrome, set up a support group for families in south Wales called T:21 Dragons shortly after she was born.\nShe said: “The support is not fair, it’s totally biased towards termination.\n“No parent to my knowledge has been offered to meet families that have successfully and happily brought a child with Down’s syndrome into the world, they were only directed towards families that had already terminated.\n“It has to be fair, unbiased information. I’m not saying termination isn’t the answer for some of these families, but it has to be done fairly.”\nShe added there was no counselling offered to women who wish to continue their pregnancy after a positive diagnosis and it is only available to women who choose to have a termination.\nMedia captionHeidi Crowter wants to break people’s misconceptions about Down’s syndrome.\nLynn Murray, who runs the Don’t Screen Us Out campaign, said the ethical issues which are leading to terminations have not been resolved.\nShe said: “Had due diligence been carried out in Wales, before NIPT was prematurely rolled out, then such action could have been avoided. The harms caused by antenatal screening must be negated. We continue to lobby in that regard.”\nThe Down’s Syndrome Association said accurate and up-to-date information about Down’s syndrome was “imperative” for couples to make informed decisions.\nIt also called for regular health professional training.\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: “Having any screening test is a matter of personal choice. In Wales at present around 60% of women choose to have the Down’s syndrome screening offered.\n“Parents are provided with information to enable a personal informed choice about the screening tests offered and need to be supported throughout their care, independent of the decisions made.”\nPrevious articleMigrant caravan: Mexico offers temporary work permits\nNext articleTwilight Needs A Reboot On One Condition, According To Kellan Lutz\nExtinction Rebellion: Who are they and what are their aims? 2019-07-16\nExtinction Rebellion: Who are they and what are their aims?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1344168"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7280934453010559,"wiki_prob":0.2719065546989441,"text":"New Women New Yorkers\nThis Saturday, February 17th from 1pm-4pm, New Women New Yorkers will be hosting the opening of their exhibit at the Queens Museum.\nby Alexandra Feldhausen\nBelieve in the myth of America’s melting pot or not, New York is undeniably an international city, but that does not always mean it is the most welcoming place. This is especially true for young women immigrants who encounter challenges finding a job alongside the added difficulties of discrimination, sexism, and juggling a family and career.\nFor the past two years, I have volunteered with New Women New Yorkers (NWNY), a non-profit which seeks to address many of the challenges young women moving to New York City encounter. I spoke with Arielle Kandel, the director of NWNY, in order to understand how she is trying to change the professional landscape for women, mothers, and immigrants to New York City.\nWhat made you decide to start NWNY?\nIt was not something that was really planned. It sort of just happened. I am originally from France which does not really have an entrepreneurial culture.\nThe idea of this organization really began six or seven years ago when I was working in Israel, where I started my professional career. I worked in a number of policy planning and research think tanks there, and afterwards, I spent time in South Asia and India volunteering with nonprofits that provided resettlement training to Tibetan refugees.\nEven with all this experience, when I first moved to New York five years ago, it was very difficult to find a job. It was clear I wanted to work with immigrants and refugees. NWNY began from these discussions when I started seeing other women with lots of similar challenges. There was no space in New York to start to talk about and solve these problems faced by immigrants to the city, so I decided to create one.\nInitially, NWNY was just a project. Soon though, I started getting volunteers on board, and from the start, the organization’s work was really driven by people who donated their time to make things happen. Once other organizations became interested in our work, I started realizing that this could really be important.\nI remember growing up with the stories from my Eastern European Jewish grandparents, who took refuge in the United States just before World War II, and then, ironically, about my father who was an American immigrant to France where my parents met and married. Between being an immigrant myself and coming from a family of immigrants it felt like the creation of NWNY really brought me full circle.\nYou said that one of your motivations was trying to find a job in New York and your desire to work with migrating populations. What were some of the other unique challenges women immigrants experience when coming to New York?\nFirst and foremost finding a job is really difficult. People will always find work that pays the bills, but it is very difficult to find a position that aligns with your interests. It’s really hard and for women especially.\nFirst, there are not many resources to support women who want to start a family. Not only that, women coming to this city don’t have a network or connections. They do not know how to access crucial information like how to look for a job, what resources are available, job interview skills (which are very different from country to country), and resume writing experience.\nA lot of women don’t feel they have many places to express themselves and practice their English without judgment. Many women come from countries where their voices are not particularly valued, so it’s important for them to practice in a safe space.\nNWNY's provides workshops as a means for overcoming some challenges. What are some of the other ways NWNY helps support women coming to New York?\nStarting with workshops, we help young women learn about the job search process and culture. We work with them to create their professional action plans.\nOver the past year, we have also been creating more spaces to connect with professionals from different industries and provide opportunities to see actual workplaces including field visits to Google, Linkedin, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). We also do mock interviews and career counseling sessions where we work with professionals from many different organizations like the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Rockefeller Foundation.\nAt this point, we are really try to go beyond just networks, and we hope to create meaningful spaces and partnerships with companies and organizations in order to offer job opportunities.\nBetween the Travel Ban and DACA, this is not the most welcoming climate for immigrants in the United States. Has this changed the kind of work you do or how you understand that work?\nIt has changed a lot, but also confirmed the importance of what we do. The first time I voted in the United States was in this past US election. I went with my daughter and explained everything. I was very excited, and I had a lot of hopes. She is going to be a woman, and she was born here. Her father is Israeli, and I am French-American. Growing up in America, she will have her own unique identity, and I am not sure what. I want to see her grow up in a place where women are valued and her different immigrant identities are appreciated.\nFor NWNY, the day after the election, I went to facilitate a workshop for a group of women in the Chinatown Library. Everyone was worried. Since then, this worry is something that has been omnipresent. There is always this fear behind the idea of starting in this country and what that means.\nTo create a space to talk about this, NWNY has really started to provide more spaces for story-telling. This past year was the first time we worked with the Moth, a storytelling non-profit. We want to be creating a space for women to talk about who they are, why they came here, and how they see what’s happening. For many women who grew up in another country, they came to the US precisely because it was seen as a space that was more welcoming of their differences.\nYour daughter sounds like one of the inspirations for your work. How has it been juggling childcare with starting and growing NWNY? How has that influenced the way you think about your programs?\nOur new professional development training LEAD for New Moms really grew out of my experience of being a mom. This is a six-week long workshop that teach women professional development skills as well as provide free childcare, so they don’t have to worry about their children while they are in workshops.\nWe just started this program last December and January in Staten Island. I had just had my daughter the July before, so it was a time where the personal and professional really coincided. Childcare is very expensive, and as an immigrant to this city I don’t have family here to help. It’s very isolating in New York in general, but as a mother, it is especially so. Plus, your hours are very different as a mom since evenings are when you can typically network, but they are also the main time you spend with your kid.\nOne of the things, I really want to do with NWNY is create more spaces where women can bring their children since there are really not enough them. I understand what that’s like since I also really value the time I spend with my daughter.\nAt the same time, NWNY is really my first baby, and I love what I do. It’s also very important to keep space for yourself while also developing new areas where we can include our children.\nYou have done so much in such a short amount of time. Do you have any advice for SIPA students as they embark on their careers?\nI would suggest, as I am sure you have heard before, to network, but in a meaningful way: Build genuine relationships with people in your field of interest.\nKeep your mind open: You learn from every experience, and sometimes an opportunity that doesn’t seem that attractive initially can actually become an important step or milestone in your professional path.\nAsk yourself the why question continuously: Why are you interested in this field? Why is this your dream job?\nAny last things?\nCome to our exhibit. It will be open from February 17th until March 18th in the Queens Museum. We also will be hosting pop ups for Women’s History Month, and please, men should also come! I know it’s far from where you are at SIPA but very worth it.\nAlexandra Feldhausen February 14, 2018 Comment\nMonologues on Anxiety and Depression\nSIPA: Stories, SIPA: ReflectionsSarah Hong February 16, 2018 mental health, SIPA, academics, graduate school2 Comments\nTo Go To Macau\nSIPA: ReflectionsJasper Lo February 9, 2018 Macau, Poetry, Cookbook, Chinese-American, Veteran, Masculinity, Diaspora, Race, Migration","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line343311"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9042790532112122,"wiki_prob":0.9042790532112122,"text":"About Hoover ›\nDirector of the Hoover Institution comments on McFaul’s new appointment\nWhite House/Pete Souza\nOn May 29, 2011, Michael McFaul, the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University, was announced as the next United States ambassador to Russia (subject to Senate approval). McFaul is currently on leave from his position at Hoover to serve as special assistant to President Obama for national security affairs and senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council. McFaul has become known in Washington as a passionate defender of Mr. Obama’s policy, arguing that the United States can speak out on democracy and Georgia while still seeking cooperation with Moscow in other areas.\n“The president has chosen one of the leading policy experts and intellectual lights on Russia with this appointment. Mike brings years of expertise, a wealth of knowledge, and an innate sense of diplomacy to this post—I can think of no one more deserving of this position. We are pleased for Mike, and we feel his tenure as ambassador will be wonderful for the American and for the Russian people,” states John Raisian, director of the Hoover Institution.\nBefore joining Hoover in 1995, McFaul worked for two years as a senior associate for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at the Moscow Carnegie Center. McFaul is also a research associate at the Center for International Security and Arms Control and a senior adviser to the National Democratic Institute. McFaul's current research interests include democratization in the postcommunist world and Iran, US-Russian relations, and American efforts to promote democracy abroad.\nMcFaul has written a multitude of books including Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should and How We Can (Hoover Institution Press, 2010); Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Bipolar Politics (Hoover Institution Press, 1997); with Sergei Markov, The Troubled Birth of Russian Democracy: Political Parties, Programs and Profiles (Hoover Institution Press, 1993); and Understanding Russia's 1993 Parliamentary Elections: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy (Hoover Institution Press, 1994).\nMcFaul is the author of numerous academic articles and opinion pieces and has served as an expert commentator on national television and radio. He also appeared frequently on Uncommon Knowledge, addressing a variety of Russian and Soviet topics.\nRead more about McFaul’s appointment in the Stanford Report and the Washington Post. Click here to read McFaul’s Hoover Digest article titled America’s Democratic Credentials.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1276075"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9311971068382263,"wiki_prob":0.9311971068382263,"text":"Jang Hyuk In Talks To Join Yang Se Jong And Woo Do Hwan In Historical Drama\nby C. Hong\nJang Hyuk is in talks for a new historical drama!\nRecently media outlets reported that the actor had confirmed his casting in the JTBC historical action drama, “My Country” (working title).\nOn January 16, his agency, SidusHQ, stated, “Jang Hyuk has received a casting offer from JTBC’s new historical drama and he is positively reviewing it.”\nIf he accepts the offer, he will be playing the role of Lee Bang Won, the prince who helped his father overthrow the Goryeo dynasty and begin the Joseon dynasty. He would later become known as King Taejong, the father of King Sejong the Great.\nBoth Yang Se Jong and Woo Do Hwan have confirmed their roles in the drama, which takes place between the end of the Goryeo dynasty and the beginning of the Joseon dynasty. Yang Se Jong plays the son of a general and Woo Do Hwan plays an aspiring military officer who is hampered by his background as an illegitimate son.\nAOA’s Seolhyun is also in talks for the role of the female lead.\nSource (1) (2)\nTop Photo Credit: Xportsnews\nJang Hyuk\nYang Se Jong\nWoo Do Hwan","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line928447"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8383400440216064,"wiki_prob":0.8383400440216064,"text":"About Nature Study\nHistory of Women in the Sciences\nThe Establishment of Science in America\nWomen, Gender, and Science\nGender and Scientific Authority\nOrigins of Natural Science in America\nHistory of Women in the Sciences: Readings from Isis (University of Chicago Press, 1999)\nThe Establishment of Science in America: 150 Years of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Rutgers University Press, 1999)\nWomen, Gender, and Science: New Directions, Osiris Volume 12 (University of Chicago Press, 1997).\nGender and Scientific Authority (University of Chicago Press, 1996).\nOrigins of Natural Science in America: The Essays of George Brown Goode (Smithsonian Institution Press, DATE).\nTeaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America is now available from the University of Chicago Press!\nSally Gregory Kohlstedt is a professor in the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests focus on the interface of science with American culture. She has also published widely on gender and science. You can find out more information about her courses and professional service at her university Web site. When not writing or teaching, Sally loves to canoe in the Boundary Waters Area in Northern Minnesota. Contact her at sgk AT umn DOT edu.\nHistory of Women in the Sciences: Readings from Isis features some of the most influential and pioneering studies of women in the sciences. Spanning the 17th to the 20th centuries, this edited volume demonstrates the meaning and power of gender as experienced by women in the sciences.\nThe Establishment of Science in America provides a comprehensive history of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest and most significant general organization of scientists in America. The book provides a unique window on the development of science in the United States during the past 150 years.\nWomen, Gender, and Science: New Directions brings together prominent historians and philosophers of science to examine women's participation in science, gender and science, and the potential for interaction between these two pieces of a larger puzzle.\nGender and Scientific Authority collects influential articles from Signs on the contributions of feminist historical research to debates on history and theory.\nThe Origins of Natural Science in America is a collection of essays by G. Brown Goode, an ichthyologist and Smithsonian museum administrator who pioneered the history of American science.\nCopyright © 2019 Sally Gregory Kohlstedt - All Rights Reserved - Maintained by The Outside Reader","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1328421"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.610578179359436,"wiki_prob":0.610578179359436,"text":"Motley Fool Australia » Investing » Soul Pattinson: Australia’s Berkshire Hathaway?\nSoul Pattinson: Australia’s Berkshire Hathaway?\nMike King | June 7, 2012\nWashington H. Soul Pattinson and Co. Ltd (ASX: SOL) is a diversified investment company, similar to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) with investments in whole companies as well as interests in several companies as you can see from the table below. Like Berkshire, the company also has its own share portfolio, with a market value of $425m as at the end of January 2012.\nOne of the major differences for investors is that Soul Pattinson pays dividends, whereas Berkshire does not.\nDespite its $3.14bn market cap, Soul Pattinson is not in the S&P/ASX 300 Index (ASX: XKO) (Index: ^AXKO) which would put it in the top 50 listed stocks by market capital. It’s even bigger than Qantas Limited (ASX: QAN) – though that’s easier than it used to be!\nSoul Pattinson is Australia’s second oldest listed company. Beginning as a chemist shop in Pitt Street, Sydney in 1872, the company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1902. Soul Patts, as it’s colloquially known, has paid a dividend every year since then, including throughout the depression of the 1930s. Today the company is a diversified investor in basic industries such as building products, property and coal, as well as equities, telecommunications, rural services, financial services and pharmaceuticals.\nSoul Pattinson’s wholly owned companies include Pitt Capital Partners Limited, a corporate advisory firm, Souls Private Equity as well as stakes in non-listed companies including CopperChem Limited (in which Soul Patts holds 93.4% of the shares), which produces copper sulphate and copper concentrate. The company’s holdings in listed investments include the following:\nCompany % owned by Soul Patts Share price Market value of Soul’s share Industry\nNew Hope Corporation Ltd (ASX: NHC) 59.7% $4.06 $2,008m Coal miner\nBrickworks Limited (ASX: BKW) 44.5% $10.40 $682m* Building products and property\nBKI Investment Co Ltd (ASX: BKI) 13.6% $1.15 $67m Investment company\nTPG Telecom Ltd (ASX: TPM) 26.9% $1.76 $369m Telecommunications\nRuralco Holdings Limited (ASX: RHL) 23.5% $3.02 $39m Rural products such as grain, water, fertilizer and stockfeed\nAustralian Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ASX: API) 24.6% $0.36 $43m Pharmacies and Priceline\nApex Healthcare Berhad (Malaysia) (7090.KL) 30.3% $0.89** $25m Pharmaceutical and healthcare products\nClover Corporation Limited (ASX: CLV) 28.6% $0.37 $17m Food and nutritional products\nTotal $3,250m\nSource: Annual reports, Google Finance, Yahoo Finance\n* Excludes 42% shareholding in Soul Pattinson\n** Converted from Malaysian Ringgit to Australian dollars at an exchange rate of 3.1492\nThe company’s share portfolio includes investments in Milton Corporation Limited (ASX: MLT), BHP Billiton Limited (ASX: BHP), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), Telstra Limited (ASX: TLS), Campbell Brothers Limited (ASX: CPB) and Perpetual Limited (ASX: PPT).\nMarket agitation to separate Brickworks from Soul\nFund manager Perpetual and some other institutional investors have been agitating to break the crossholding between Soul Pattinson and Brickworks. Brickworks owns 42% of Soul Pattinson, while Soul Pattinson holds 44.5% of Brickworks. Perpetual has argued that unwinding the arrangement could realise up to $1.5bn in underlying value in both stocks. Robert Millner, chair of Brickworks has defended the 40-year-old strategic alliance, saying that the current arrangement helps Brickworks to offset the cyclical earnings from its building products and property businesses.\nThe proposal to unwind the crossholding was recently rejected by an independent review panel. Unwinding the arrangement would see Brickworks having to pay substantial capital gains tax, as well as shareholders potentially facing additional tax.so it’s likely that the crossholding won’t be removed any time soon.\nThere’s a lot to like about an investment in Soul Pattinson. A shareholding offers instant diversity into many industries.\nThe company is shareholder friendly; over the past 15 years, Soul Pattinson has returned an average 11.5% per annum to its shareholders, including dividends and capital gains. The company has also paid special dividends in eight of the last 10 years, and unlike many other companies, hasn’t asked its shareholders to contribute more capital for at least the last 13 years.\nSoul Pattinson has no debt, and cash reserves of $229m — not including $1.4bn of term deposits sitting on New Hope’s balance sheet.\nManagement have shareholdings not just in the company, but in the associated companies as well, so shareholders should feel comfortable that directors will act in their best interests. The Millner family hold about 8% of the equity in both Soul Pattinson and Brickworks.\nThe Foolish bottom line\nTrading at a discount to both its book value ($15.72) and the current market value of its listed investments ($13.61), and with a long and profitable history, Soul Pattinson is one for the watchlist.If you’re in the market for some less risky, high yielding ASX shares, look no further than Secure Your Future with 3 Rock-Solid Dividend Stocks. In this free report, we’ve put together our best ideas for investors who are looking for solid companies with high dividends and good growth potential. Click here now to find out the names of our three favourite income ideas. But hurry – the report is free for only a limited time.\nMaybe I’m the idiot\nAre Buffett’s picks better than buying Berkshire?\nApple give Google the boot, faces off with Facebook\nMotley Fool contributor Mike King owns shares in BHP. The Motley Fool‘s purpose is to help the world invest, better. Take Stock is The Motley Fool’s free investing newsletter. Packed with stock ideas and investing advice, it is essential reading for anyone looking to build and grow their wealth in the years ahead. Click here now to request your free subscription, whilst it’s still available. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Bruce Jackson.\nEditor’s note: The table in the article originally listed Clover’s full market value, rather than Soul Pattinson’s share. Thank you to Mark, our Foolish reader who picked up the error. It has been corrected.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1081402"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6420326828956604,"wiki_prob":0.6420326828956604,"text":"Home Articles Cheap mortgages for everyone! Greens’ call for ‘People’s Bank’ unpicked\nCheap mortgages for everyone! Greens’ call for ‘People’s Bank’ unpicked\nJames Fernyhough| The New Daily| 4 April 2018\nhttps://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2018/04/04/greens-peoples-bank-unpicked/\nThe Greens have unveiled a radical plan to give Australians access to much cheaper home loans than are currently on offer, in an unabashed attack on the big four banks’ stranglehold on the mortgage market.\nSpeaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, Greens leader Richard Di Natale called for a government-owned ‘People’s Bank’ to be set up to compete with the commercial banks by providing mortgages with interest rates as low as 3.5 per cent.\nThe lender would be the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the loans would be delivered through Australia Post shops. The mortgages themselves would be “no-frills mortgage trackers”, meaning they would be formally linked to the cash rate.\nCrucially, borrowers would only be able to borrow up to 60 per cent of the value of their home – much less than the standard 80 per cent offered by commercial banks.\nHere are some of the policy’s key details, in Mr Di Natale’s words:\n“The minimum interest rate would be set at 3 per cent plus approximately 0.5 per cent for the administration costs of contracted service provides.\n“The interest rate would go up with the cash rate if it rises above 3 per cent, but it will always deliver loans that householders can pay off faster and with significant savings on interest compared to the current offerings of the big banks.”\nSo, is it a good idea? The New Daily spoke to two prominent economists: The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss, and independent economist Saul Eslake, to get their take. They provided two radically different assessments of the policy.\nIn favour: Richard Denniss\nDr Denniss supported the policy for one main reason: lack of competition is allowing the big banks to make huge profits off the interest rates they charge ordinary Australian home owners.\n“The big four have around 90 per cent of the home loan market, and they’re among the most profitable banks in the world. They’re increasing the cost of mortgages to enrich their shareholders,” he said.\nTAI’s Richard Denniss supports the Greens’ proposal.\n“So why wouldn’t we consider a national bank offering a competitive alternative?”\nDr Denniss claimed smaller banks and building societies often offered better rates than the big banks, but borrowers were still flocking to the big banks because they were “nervous” about switching to lesser-known banks.\nAllowing the RBA to offer competitive home loans would solve that problem.\n“It’s hard to have doubt about the RBA when the RBA stands behind the big four banks,” he said.\nHe dismissed concerns that access to cheaper home loans would add heat to the housing market.\n“The idea that high interest rates are good for the Australian economy is a very strange one.”\nHe argued scrapping negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions was a fairer, surer way to take heat out of the housing market.\nAgainst: Saul Eslake\nSaul Eslake told The New Daily that while it was logistically feasible for the RBA to offer home loans, it was not a good idea for three reasons.\nFirst, it would create a conflict of interest. He pointed to the once government-owned Commonwealth Bank, which until 1959 was both a mortgage lender and central bank.\nSaul Eslake said the policy is the wrong answer to a legitimate concern.\nThat meant it was both regulator and participant in the market it was regulating.\n“In 1959 the Menzies government decided it was an unacceptable conflict of interest for Commonwealth Bank also to be the central bank,” Mr Eslake told The New Daily, adding the same principle applied today.\nThe second reason he opposed the People’s Bank was that the Australian economy does not need more cheap money.\n“It’s not as if there’s any shortage of housing finance in Australia. In fact we’ve got too much,” he said.\nHis third reason for opposing the policy was that, because the RBA would only cover 60 per cent of the house price, it would only really benefit those who could save up the remaining 40 per cent.\nThe rest, he said, would have to borrow the remaining 20 per cent from commercial lenders at much higher rates of interest.\nPrevious articleHouse prices are falling and wages may soon be rising: RBA\nNext articleANZ says Australia’s housing slowdown is almost over with prices set to rise again","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1550829"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9298974871635437,"wiki_prob":0.9298974871635437,"text":"Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/0c6d91f7637b4bfe884b65ab6e6f58cb\nTerrance Mitchell\nBrowns sign cornerback E.J. Gaines, played for Bills in ’17\nBy TOM WITHERSMarch 23, 2018\nCLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns signed free agent cornerback E.J. Gaines, the latest addition to a revamped secondary.\nGaines played last season for the Buffalo Bills. The 26-year-old will be reunited in Cleveland with Browns defensive coordinator Gregg Williams as the two previously worked together with the Los Angeles Rams.\nThe 26-year-old Gaines, who also met with the New York Jets, will bring speed and depth to the Browns.\nNew general manager John Dorsey has been busy overhauling Cleveland’s defensive backfield. He also traded for cornerback Damarious Randall, signed free agents T.J. Carrie and Terrance Mitchell and dealt cornerback Jason McCourty to New England.\nGaines has started 26 of 37 regular-season games in the NFL, recording 185 tackles and three interceptions. Last year, the Rams traded him and a second-round draft pick to Buffalo for wide receiver Sammy Watkins.\nGaines started 11 regular-season games last season, but missed five with knee and shoulder injuries. He sat out the 2015 season with a foot injury.\nFor more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP_NFL","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1589920"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8878271579742432,"wiki_prob":0.8878271579742432,"text":"Joshua Jackson shares his biggest dating obstacle since splitting from Diane Kruger\nA lot has changed in the past decade, and newly single Joshua Jackson is finding the dating pool to be unchartered waters in the digital age. The Dawson's Creek star discussed his experiences since splitting Diane Kruger while on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday (Dec. 13).\n\"Things have changed a little bit since last time I was single,\" the 38-year-old told host Ellen DeGeneres. \"Maybe it was there, but I don't remember it. I mean, everything's on your phone now, right?\"\nHe continued, “There's no more talking to people anymore. You talk to somebody and they're like, 'Ugh! No, no, no, no, no! We don't do that anymore.' So, yeah, it's been quite a big change.\"\nWhile Joshua didn’t see opposed to joining a dating app or site, he did have one question: \"What would my Match.com profile be?\" Thankfully Ellen had plenty of vintage photos for the TV star to choose from for his possible profile.\n\"Look at you. You're adorable all the time,\" the host told her guest. He laughed, \"You see adorable. I see embarrassing. It’s funny how just a little shift in perspective.” Ellen jokingly replied, “You can tell that's a different time. That's probably two or three years ago.\"\nJoshua and Diane called time on their relationship earlier this year\nJoshua and Diane ended their decade-long romance back in July. In 2014, the actor opened up about why he and the actress had chosen not to tie the knot, telling Glamour magazine, \"I can tell you why we're not married: We're not religious.\"\nThe Dawson's Creek alum added, \"I don’t feel any more or less committed to Diane for not having stood in front of a priest and had a giant party. We are both children of divorce, so it's hard for me to take marriage at face value as the thing that shows you've grown up and are committed to another person. But it may change at some point. We may get married.\"\nWATCH JOSHUA'S INTERVIEW BELOW\nDiane Kruger reveals the reason she doesn't have a stylist\nDiane Kruger and Joshua Jackson split after 10 years of dating\nDiane Kruger and Joshua Jackson move in together after 10 years","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line422920"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6454067826271057,"wiki_prob":0.3545932173728943,"text":"Home > LAW > Law Review > Vol. 88 > Iss. 6 (2011)\nThe Role of Precedent at Japan's Supreme Court\nHiroshi Itoh, State University of New York, Plattsburgh\nThe Article examines the use of precedents in the judicial decision making of the Japanese Supreme Court. It outlines the paradigms of the behavioral approach of judicial decision-making analysis which include the attribute, strategic and role paradigm. It is inferred that the use of judicial precedents act as a means of justifying and rationalizing the court ruling.\nHiroshi Itoh, The Role of Precedent at Japan's Supreme Court, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1631 (2011).\nAvailable at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol88/iss6/11\nComparative and Foreign Law Commons, Courts Commons","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1678691"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9539713859558105,"wiki_prob":0.9539713859558105,"text":"Jail for drink-driver who blamed dead friend for fatal horror crash\nHe has been jailed for more than six years after finally admitting death by dangerous driving\nHelen KreftSenior reporter\nA lorry driver who crashed his car after a night of drinking in the pub tried to blame the accident on his friend who died in the smash, a court has heard.\nAlex Smith was heard to say at the scene: “That’s my job gone then,” while his friend Samuel Mcneil, who was known as Razor, lay dying as residents rushed to the scene to help.\nSmith, of Ferry Street, Stapenhill, tried to blame 21-year-old Mr Mcneil, from Branston, claiming that he was driving his Vauxhall Corsa when it clipped a kerb and rolled several times into a garden, off Burton Road, Overseal.\nMr Mcneil had not been wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene.\nHis death led to an outpouring of grief from family and friends with dozens of floral tributes laid at the scene in the weeks following the incident, and his funeral was paid for from funds raised by wellwishers.\nAlex Smith, pictured, was the driver of the car which killed his friend\nThe tragedy happened just before 11.15pm on December 16, 2016, but for 15 months Smith, now 22, maintained that Mr Mcneil, a structural engineer, was the driver of the car.\nHe only admitted a charge of death by dangerous driving following a hearing earlier this week, as his case was about to be prepared for trial.\nHe appeared at Derby Crown Court, on Thursday, March 15, for sentencing where Judge Robert Egbuna jailed him for six years and nine months, after hearing heart-breaking impact statements from Mr Mcneil&apos;s parents.\nReading his statement out in court, through tears, his father David Mcneil said: “Samuel told me about his plans, how things were going to be when he had children and what life would be like for him as a dad.\nSpeed sign concern following latest horrific crash in Overseal\n“I feel my heart has been ripped out and running with only half the beats it should. I have to talk myself into continuing with my day. I spend most of my day in a blur. I am left feeling empty and very angry. I am supposed to remain productive when all I feel is negative and destructive. I have not slept the whole night since this happened.\n“I have taken some comfort from Sam’s friends who have helped each other through since Sam’s passing and keep his memory alive.\n“Sam was loved by all who knew him. I will never get over the loss of my son. I know the pain will lessen but the loss will always be felt.”\nJames Macdonald, prosecuting, told the court: “Alex Smith was the owner and driver of a white Vauxhall Corsa. Alex drove both him and Samuel to the pub, the Cricketts Inn, in Acresford, not far from Overseal. Their arrival was captured on CCTV at 7.43pm that evening.\n“The video evidence also shows Alex get out of the driver’s seat and both going into the pub.”\nSam Mcneil died in a car crash after drinking with his friend in a pub\nOne staff member at the pub later told police both men had been in the pub for several hours and had a significant amount of alcohol. It was estimated they had between six and 10 pints of lager each and five glasses of Jägermeister and Redbull [known as a Jagerbomb] each.\nMr Macdonald continued: “The CCTV shows them leaving at 11.07pm and getting into the same car with Alex getting in the driver’s seat and they drove out of view.\n“It was dark and it was foggy, which would require some extra care on the road.\nAyeeshia-Jayne murder has changed the way serious cases are reviewed\n“The vehicle is next seen on CCTV in Burton Road, Overseal, about two miles from the pub. Evidence would suggest the car was travelling at about 65mph.\n“The vehicle clipped the kerb and started to roll into a front garden. The force of this crash and the roll threw Samuel from the passenger seat.”\nSeveral residents heard the crash and rushed to the scene. And, crucially, one resident said she saw someone climbing out of the car from the driver’s side.\nTributes were left at the side of the road following Samuel Mcneil&apos;s death\nThe prosecutor said: “It was only about five seconds from the time she heard the noise to looking out of the window and what she saw was a figure climbing out of the driver’s side which was Alex Smith.”\nThe court heard another man at the scene said he tried to calm the defendant down. He said Smith was ‘agitated’ and told him: “That is my job gone”.\nIt was then that Smith started his lies, and he told the man: “Help him [Samuel], I should have never let him drive.”, said Mr Macdonald.\nCannabis farmer jailed for three years after fleeing to Europe\nSmith was also heard speaking to family on the phone saying: “Sam has gone and smashed the car up and he’s in a bad way.”\nOne resident noticed the engine was still running.\nWhen police arrived on the scene Smith lied again claiming that the pair decided to swap seats during the two-mile journey, with Samuel getting into the driver’s seat.\nHe said: “I wanted to drive but Sam said he was ok to drive and I foolishly agreed to this.”\nFollowing the accident, Smith claimed he had climbed from the passenger side to the driver’s side to get out of the vehicle.\nDozens of floral tributes were left for Sam Mcneil\nMr Macdonald told the court: “Alex then said he would take the blame but continued to say Samuel was driving.”\nSmith was also breathalysed about an hour after the accident showing 52 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35 microgrammes.\nFollowing his arrest, he refused to answer any questions during his interview the following day and, again, in May 2017, the court was told.\nIn October 2017, a reconstruction of the crash was carried out taking into account the conditions at night time, while it was slightly foggy and lit by street lights. The court heard with these conditions, the vehicle would have been travelling in excess of 65mph when the driver lost control. The road is a 40mph stretch.\nTo disprove Smith’s lies, investigations by officers revealed that branch and foliage was found on the passenger side; there had been no attempt made to open the passenger door; and the engine was running.\nDespite Smith’s lies claiming the pair had swapped seats halfway through their journey, Mr Macdonald said: “The distance was only about two miles and took two-and-a-half minutes to get there so if they had swapped halfway through they would have had to be driving at 99mph to reach the location.”\nAndrew Vout, for Smith, said his client will have to live with what he had done for the rest of his life.\nHe said: “He is 22 with no previous convictions and with a clean driving licence prior to this incident. Through the actions of Alex Smith, Sam has lost his life, his parents have lost their son, friends have lost their friend.\n\"Alex is one of those friends. He is deeply sorry. He thinks about Sam every minute of every day. Not only is it the loss of a friend but he must bear the colossal responsibility for that and that will stay with him for the rest of his life.\n“On that day they were close friends spending the day together. Sam spent the day with Alex in his lorry and went for a drink after work. It was meant to be one drink but they carried on because they were having a nice time.\n“They left the pub and there was a debate over who should drive.\nUttoxeter man to appear in court again on weapon charge\n“His breath was 52 microgrammes. He was over the limit but people drive with much greater readings than that but it is still inexcusable.”\nThe court also heard Smith had previously lost his father in a road accident.\nIn summing up, Judge Robert Egbuna said Smith knew they were drinking and he was also aware Mr Mcneil wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.\nHe added: “The aggravating features of this are the speed, the drinking and you passing the blame. You persisted or made no attempt to dismiss until you pleaded guilty.”\nHowever, the judge said he had taken into account that Smith has never been in trouble before, that he eventually pleaded guilty and that he was Samuel’s friend.\nSmith will also be the subject of a seven-year driving ban, which will begin following his release from prison. The incident will then remain on his record for another 10 years.\nStapenhill","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line573088"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5155751705169678,"wiki_prob":0.5155751705169678,"text":"Home » Sponsorships » Sponsors/Partners\nOfficial Equipment Supplier\nGreen Hill Sports is an internationally renowned Sporting Goods company that specializes in sports equipment for Combative Sports including but not limited to Boxing, Kick-Boxing, MMA, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, BJJ and Combat Sambo. Sports Gear Canada Inc. is its Canadian satellite office and showroom. Green Hill is based on values of sportsmanship, athlete’s safety and providing the highest quality of sports products internationally!\nBe Your Best Self!\nwww.greenhillsports.com\nwww.sportsgearcanada.com\nUnit 107 – Albion Rd\nEtobicoke, Ontario M9V 1A9\nFacebook: greenhillsportscanada\nIstagram: @greenhillsportscanada\nTwitter: #greenhillcanada\nOntario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport\nBoxing Ontario gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ministry of Health Promotion. Through its support of the sport and recreation sectors at the provincial and local level, the ministry contributes to a strong provincial sport system and the development of athletic achievement in Ontario. It fosters the involvement of children and youth in sport and recreation, recognizing their contribution to healthy child development and positive youth development.\nClick here to learn more about the Ministry of Health Promotion.\nThe Ontario Trillium Foundation\nBoxing Ontario gratefully acknowledges the support of the Trillium Foundation. With $100 million in annual funding from the province’s charitable gaming initiative, the Foundation provides grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts, culture, sports, recreation, environment and social service sectors.\nClick here to learn more about the Trillium Foundation.\nIn 2001, Canada’s Federal-Provincial/Territorial Ministers responsible for sport came together to bring ethics and respectful conduct back into the way Canadians play and compete. They believed that damaging practices—cheating, bullying, violence, aggressive parental behavior, and even doping—were beginning to undermine the positive impact of community sport in Canada. The first step they took in turning back this negative tide was the signing of what is now known as the London Declaration, an unprecedented affirmation of positive sporting values and principles.\nThe Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport conducted a nationwide survey in 2002, which made clear the important role that sport plays in the lives of Canadians, as well as Canadians’ strong desire to uphold a model of sport that reflects and teaches positive values like fairness, excellence, inclusion, and fun.\nToday, the True Sport Movement has thousands of members. A growing number of schools, clubs, leagues, teams, and communities across Canada are declaring that “True Sport Lives Here”. True Sport is supported by the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Ministers responsible for sport, recreation and fitness through the Canadian Strategy for Ethical Conduct in Sport — A True Sport Contribution, as well as a national charitable organization called the True Sport Foundation.\nBoxing Ontario is pleased to be a True Sport Member.\nClick here to learn more about True Sport.\nBeanfield Metroconncect\nBeanfield fibre gets down to business\nIf you think beanfield Metroconnect is like other telecommunications companies, think again. With a 100% fibre-optic network – that we own, build and operate – we’re solely in control of our network. That allows us to set our sights high. And give your business more power. Since 1988, beanfield fibre has been transforming the way business communicates with Internet, phone, private line and colocation services. Our On-Net buildings are located across Toronto, in places you work, connecting you to a world of business.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line263276"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8369395136833191,"wiki_prob":0.8369395136833191,"text":"#BOXOFFICE: “SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME” ON-TOP A SECOND WEEK\nSPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME takes the top of the Box Office a second straight week with $44.5 million from 4,634 theatres across North America. This takes its tally to $273.7 million for Sony Pictures.\nTOY STORY 4 takes the second spot with $20.6 million in its third week out for Disney. Over four weeks it has grossed $346.3 million domestically.\nCRAWL is in third with $10.6 million for Paramount Pictures in its debut at 3,170 theatres. It gets 88% on the Tomatometer despite not being previewed for Canadian media and Audiences gave it a B CinemaScore.\nSTUBER opens in fourth with $8 million from 3,050 theatres for 20th Century Fox. The Comedy starring David Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani, gets 47% on the Tomatometer and a B CinemaScore.\nMIDSOMMAR lands in eighth spot with $3.5 million for A24/Elevation Pictures, a two week total of $18.4 million.\nMEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL rounds-out the Top Ten with $2 million for Sony Pictures, a five-week total of $76.3 million.\ncrawl Men in Black MIDSOMMAR Spider-Man Stuber toy story\n#GIVEAWAY: ENTER TO WIN ADVANCE PASSES TO SEE “STUBER”\n20th Century Fox Canada x Mr. Will want to give Readers a chance to win passes to an Advance Screening of STUBER. The Screening takes place in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa July 3, 2019 at 7:00PM.\nWhen a mild-mannered Uber driver named Stu (Kumail Nanjiani) picks up a passenger (Dave Bautista) who turns out to be a cop hot on the trail of a brutal killer, he’s thrust into a harrowing ordeal where he desperately tries to hold onto his wits, his life and his five-star rating. Directed by Michael Dowse, this action-comedy from 20th Century Fox also stars Iko Uwais, Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino and Karen Gillan.\nArtwork:\nTo enter to win, click “like” on this Post at MR. WILL ON FACEBOOK. Re-Tweet this Tweet from @mrwillw for an extra chance!\n(Photo/video credit: 20th Century Fox Canada)\ndavid bautista Kumail Nanjiani Stuber\n#SXSW: 2019 SXSW FESTIVAL PREVIEW\nBy Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong\nSXSW 2019 is beginning tomorrow in Austin, Texas and will run until March 17. It’s once again celebrating all things Film, Music and Comedy. The Festival runs from March 8-17.\nSXSW is known to showcase some marquee titles that star heavyweight talent. It appears that this year SXSW will be putting its entire support behind the Horror film genre because both the Opening and Closing Film are sure to scare audiences. One of the highest profile Films this year is the Opening Night Film, US. This is the second Feature Film for Writer-Director Jordan Peele and stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss and more. We have word that all those we have named will be on hand for the World Premiere tomorrow at the Paramount Theatre. Pet Sematary has been chosen as the Closing Night Film and stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow and more.\nOther Must-Sees which are having their World Premieres at SXSW are Long Shot starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron, Good Boys starring Canadian Jacob Tremblay, The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher and Zac Efron, The Highwaymen starring Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner, Booksmart which is the directorial debut of Actress Olivia Wilde, and Stuber starring Dave Bautista and Kumail Nanjiani. All those Films are apart of the Headliners section of the Film Festival and are expecting big Red Carpet arrivals. One close-to-home Film we should have our eyes on is Run This Town, which is the Toronto-filmed movie about the late Mayor Rob Ford. It stars Ben Platt, Nina Dobrev, Scott Speedman and Damien Lewis as Rob Ford.\nSomething that sets the SXSW‘s Film Festival apart from others is its Keynote Speakers and Featured Sessions. These panels and talks provide insight into many different industries and social issues. This year some noteworthy mentions are Jason Blum, Ethan Hawke, Jodie Foster, Amber Heard, Busy Phillips, Elizabeth Banks, Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry Winkler, Kathy Griffin, Trevor Noah and more. There are also some political officials set to speak at sessions during the Festival such as Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Elizabeth Warren, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and more.\nTomorrow is when things will be kicking into full swing, check back here for all the latest from SXSW.\nBooksmart Long Shot Pet Sematary Run this Town Stuber sxsw The Beach Bum US","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1719343"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5292553305625916,"wiki_prob":0.47074466943740845,"text":"HOSA-Future Health Professionals\nChartered Associations\nHOSA Brand\nHOSA Headquarters\nAffiliation Packet\nJoin HOSA\nMembership Certificates\nLocal Advisor\nState Advisor\nInternational Leadership Conference\nPublic Health Leadership Scholars\nState Conferences\nWashington Leadership Academy\nManaging Competitive Events\nCompetitive Event Winners\nCompetitive Events Team\nAlumni Division\nGive to HOSA\nAlumni Benefits Program\nFree e-Learning Resources\nHOSA Blog\nThe Future U\nHOSA Headquarters Staff\nJim Koeninger, Ph.D.\nJim has 54 years of experience in public education, higher education, corporate training and development, association management and strategic partnerships between government (federal, state and local) and corporations (for profit and non-profit). Following completion of a Ph.D. program at The Ohio State University, Jim held business and education faculty positions in six universities in Colorado, Texas and his home state of Oklahoma.\nJim and his wife, Karen, were the co-founders of Corporate Education Resources, Inc. (CERI), a management consulting group that has provided management services to HOSA-Future Health Professionals since 1984. CERI (formerly known as Leadership Development Institute) was founded in 1976 and conducted scores of summer camps, weekend retreats, workshops and regional conferences for high school and college students to develop their personal, leadership and teaming skills.\nJim and Karen have narrowed their activities to delivering management services to two non-profit organizations—HOSA-Future Health Professionals (serving 245,000 members) and JAG-Jobs for America's Graduates (serving 70,000 students). Since 1984, Jim has served as Executive Director of HOSA-Future Health Professionals.\nJim served as the lead designer and facilitator of the Walton Institute and the Advanced Leadership Development Program, funded by Sam and Helen Walton over an 18-year period for Walmart Stores, Inc. In addition, Jim was the designer of the Arkansas Leadership Academy for superintendents and principals through the University of Arkansas.\nJim authored numerous articles, monographs, training programs, videos, media productions and training manuals. With the McGraw-Hill Book Company, he was the lead co-author of a unique classroom simulation package called Jeffrey’s Retail Simulation.\nHe enjoys traveling, photography, playing golf and table tennis, and spending time with their four grandchildren--Quentin, Jake, Violet, and Cole.\nKaren Koeninger\nKaren is the co-founder of Corporate Education Resources, Inc. (CERI), a management consulting group that has provided management services to HOSA-Future Health Professionals since 1984. CERI (formerly known as Leadership Development Institute) was founded in 1976 and conducted scores of summer camps, weekend retreats, workshops and conferences for high school and college students to develop their personal, leadership and teaming skills.\nKaren taught at the secondary level, served as an Assistant State Supervisor at the Oklahoma State Department of Career and Technical Education, and has extensive experience with student organizations and conducting programs for teachers and students alike at state, regional and national levels. She has had lead responsibility for conferences with as many as 9,000 delegates, the oversight of HOSA’s annual Plan of Work and the day-to-day operations of the national headquarters as Deputy Executive Director. She received a Master of Science from Oklahoma State University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Central Oklahoma.\nShe enjoys working and traveling with her husband, Jim, and planning fun activities for their four wonderful grandchildren – Quentin, Jake, Violet and Cole.\nKimberly Spivey\nSenior Director of Advancement\nKimberly K. Spivey is the Senior Director of Advancement of HOSA-Future Health Professionals. She is in charge of increasing and diversifying HOSA's funding sources by developing a portfolio of corporate and foundation prospects. Kimberly is also responsible for providing leadership and oversight of an advancement program encompassing resource development and alumni relations for HOSA.\nPreviously, as a workforce development consultant, Kimberly worked with clients on building public-private partnerships, strategizing funding solutions, and writing grants and proposals. In recent years, she focused heavily on the healthcare industry including consulting with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and Tenet Healthcare (Tenet), among others. Kimberly successfully presented her clients’ interests and secured incentives in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia.\nKimberly is a graduate of the University of Texas (Hook ‘em Horns!) and makes her home in Dallas with her husband and two spirited children. When she’s not working or chauffeuring her children, you’ll find her enjoying live music or cheering on the Mavericks and Stars.\nLaura Sheppard\nLaura joined the National HOSA team in 2016 as the Chief of Staff where her focus was program management and strategic initiatives. Laura \"grew up\" with HOSA as a staff member at HOSA’s National Leadership Conference for the past 17 years. Most recently, she has served as the conference staff director, communications director and VIP specialist. For eight years, Laura worked in alumni relations providing a strong background in nonprofit management and event marketing.\nShe graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Management and Society, and earned her Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing Communications from West Virginia University in 2018.\nShe enjoys traveling far and wide and reading the next bestseller (preferably on a sandy beach) and spoiling her three nieces, Eliza, Madelyn and Chloe.\nNancy Allen\nNancy’s first exposure to HOSA happened during an interview with a career center director. The director’s comment, “By virtue of becoming the health science teacher on our campus, you also 'get to be' the HOSA local chapter advisor!” And so it was on in South Carolina—13 years as a chapter advisor and 12 years as the SC HOSA State Advisor. In 2012, upon retirement (at a young age) from the SC Department of Education as the health science state leader, Nancy became a member of the National HOSA staff working to expand partnerships and support state associations. She graduated from Clemson University (BSN) and keeps her nursing skills updated through volunteering at a free medical clinic.\nNancy enjoys traveling, HGTV and all sports—especially the Clemson Tigers. Nancy’s husband Mike joins her among the most loyal and obsessive Clemson fans in the nation!\nJeff Koeninger\nAs Director of Membership, Jeff works with the programming team to provide HOSA with an efficient online membership affiliation system capable of collecting state and national affiliation dues. The system provides a reporting system so that chapters, chartered associations and HOSA-Future Health Professionals are able to have up-to-date and accurate membership and affiliation dues reports. In addition, demographic reports can also be produced by the membership affiliation system.\nAs Director of ILC Site Selection, Jeff works with global account and property managers to recommend contracts to HOSA leadership that are extended ten years in the future. Having attended 34 consecutive HOSA International (National) Leadership Conferences, he has extensive experience in site selection, conference management, vendor selection and management and logistics. The same skills are applied to the annual Washington Leadership Academy (WLA) and the State Advisors Management (SAM) Conference as well as HOSA Ideas Meetings and HOSA-100 Advisory Council Meetings.\nJeff completed a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Technology--Training and Development from the University of North Texas. He is also one of the experienced staff members available to answer questions of callers.\nBobby Crandall\nDuring his 16 year tenure with HOSA-Future Health Professionals, Bobby began as a co-op student at a high school across the street from the HOSA Headquarters and demonstrated his worth by taking on a variety of assignments and leadership roles. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Radio, Television and Film from the University of North Texas in 2009 and completed a MBA at Western Governors University in 2016.\nBobby works with the programming team in launching and training users to take full advantage of the multiple online customized systems developed to enhance the productivity, efficiency, accuracy and reporting capabilities of all users. He also develops online surveys and other digital tools to harness the power of technology. Bobby is one of the experienced staff members available to respond to callers questions.\nTanya Loftis\nTanya Loftis joined National HOSA in November 2018 as Director of Finance. Tanya has over 15 years of experience in finance and accounting, and more than 20 years in database management for multiple nationwide companies. She also has experience in directing and supervising business operations.\nTanya enjoys camping & ATV riding with her family. She spends most of her free time just being mom of her two children. She also takes great pride in being a wife of a Law Enforcement Officer.\n“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela\nJason Koeninger\nJason has provided software development and system administration services to National HOSA for over 25 years. His current software development responsibilities include the Membership System, Conference Management System, Activity Tracking System, and Online Testing System. Jason also provides system administration services for all HOSA software and websites.\nJason received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University in 1995. He currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife Shannon and two children, Quentin and Violet.\nAmy Gallimore\nDirector of Publications\nBefore joining the National HOSA team, Amy has been a part of creating and facilitating the HOSA Leadership Academies for over a decade. She has worked with numerous HOSA organizations on the national, state, regional, and local level. In addition, Amy has over 20 years of experience collaborating with corporations, professional organizations, faith-based institutions, middle and high school associations, camping programs, and college campuses. Her goal is to deliver the best possible experiential leadership opportunities that are engaging, impactful, and applicable.\nAmy is a graduate of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she received a Bachelor or Arts in Speech Communication. She received her Master’s Degree from the University Of Georgia (UGA) in Higher Education. She worked in the area of collegiate Student Life at UGA and Kennesaw State University before transitioning to lead Tennessee 4-H’s initiatives on Citizenship and Leadership.\nAmy is a proud Army Wife who resides in Richmond, VA with her husband, Colonel Jay S. Gilhooly. She wears sunscreen, loves to kayak, believes kindness is reciprocated, and is in a life-long pursuit of trying to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich.\nBergen Morehouse\nDirector of Competitive Events\nBergen joined the National HOSA team in August 2013 and currently serves as the Director of Competitive Events. Her responsibilities include overseeing the direction and implementation of HOSA’s Competitive Event Program. Prior to this, Bergen served as the Montana State HOSA Advisor for four years and Assistant Director of the South Central Montana AHEC (Area Health Education Center) for five years. Her background is in rural healthcare workforce strategies including a focus on pipeline activities which connect K-12th grade students with healthcare industry resources and post-secondary education options. She also has experience in physician and allied health recruitment to rural and frontier areas.\nShe graduated from the University of Montana with a B.A. in Organizational Communication Studies and Minor in English Literature. Bergen loves camping, hiking, and boating on Flathead Lake; spending time with her spirited son, Liam; and traveling to games across the mid-west with her basketball-coach husband, Brett.\nJan Mould\nAssistant Director of Competitive Events\nHealth Professions, Emergency Preparedness and Health Sciences\nJan joined the National HOSA staff in 2015 as Assistant Director of Competitive Events for Health Professions, Emergency Preparedness and Health Science. She had been a member of the Competitive Events Committee since 2004 serving in numerous roles. Jan graduated from East Tennessee State University with a BS in Nursing. She also completed a MEd from ETSU. Entering the classroom in 1996, Jan continues to teach students interested in pursuing a career in health care.\nJan and her husband Mike, spend their free time enjoying four of the largest blessings in life – their grandchildren. Jan also enjoys a good book!\nCarie Staub\nTeamwork and Leadership\nCarie joined the National HOSA staff in 2015 after serving as a Lieutenant and Event Manager for seven years. She is currently a co-advisor to a local HOSA chapter averaging 150 members annually. Carie is a licensed athletic trainer and certified high school classroom teacher, as well as adjunct faculty for both Boise State University and Idaho State University.\nCarie earned her Master of Health Science degree from Boise State University, with an emphasis in Health Promotion, and enjoys spending time with her family. She also enjoys Crossfit, Brene Brown, and teaching for her church, in her spare time.\nGeorge Sifakis\nDirector, HOSA Washington, DC Office\nMr. George Sifakis is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Axela Government Relations LLC. He served as served the first Director of the Office of Public Liaison for the Trump adimistration. He has also served as Director of Economic Development Initiatives in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, where he was responsible for management and oversight of over $3 billion and worked closely and in a bi-partisan manner with members of the House and Senate as well as committees in both chambers. Prior to that he served at the United States Senate on the Small Business Committee, the US Attorney's Office and clerked for the US District Court in Rhode Island (Paralegal - published opinion on major telecom case) confirming his extensive knowledge of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the United States Government. Mr. Sifakis has also served as a lead Advance Representative for the First Lady on official travel throughout the United States. Mr. Sifakis has coordinated legislative initiatives for clients on capitol hill, implemented coalitions and coordinated advocacy campaigns and legislative briefings within the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. He is a frequent speaker on Congressional and Executive Branch. Mr. Sifakis is also the founder of The Bishop's Wish Charitable Foundation, GreekPAC and President of St. George Monastery. He has also been inducted as a life member of the Pi Sigma Delta Political Science Honor Society for high honors in study of political science. George is a member of the American League of Lobbyists and serves on the board of the Pancretan Association of America. Mr. Sifakis is an alumni of Suffolk University Graduate School of Government (Master of Science in Political Science), Rhode Island College, Northeastern University (Paralegal) and attended Southern New England School of Law.\nChristian Angelson\nWashington Office Associate\nHOSA SUPPLY SERVICE\nSupplies all chapter materials, member emblematic supplies and official HOSA blazer.\nTim Moravec\nAwards Unlimited\nKARSTEN ADVISORS\nUnder contract with the HOSA, Inc. Board of Directors to provide accounting and tax services to HOSA, Inc. and retained for consultation services with HOSA State Associations.\nTom Karsten, CRP®, EA., Treasurer, HOSA, Inc. Board of Directors\nKarsten Tax and Financial Management\n101 Northwest Renfro Street\nFax. 817.295.7488\nE-mail: tom@karstenfinancial.com\nkarstenadvisors.com\nCONTACT HOSA\n548 Silicon Drive, Suite 101\n(800) 321-HOSA\n© 2012, HOSA, INC.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line509295"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5714471340179443,"wiki_prob":0.5714471340179443,"text":"Vaccination Schedule for Children’s & Adult’s (बच्चों और वयस्कों के लिए टीकाकरण अनुसूची)\nVaccination Schedule for Children’s & Adult’s (बच्चों और वयस्कों के लिए टीकाकरण अनुसूची):\nVaccination Schedule:-\nA vaccination schedule is a series of vaccinations, including the timing of all doses, which may be either recommended or compulsory, depending on the country of residence. This topic can cause much controversy over whether or not it could impact health after dosage at an early age.\nPolysaccharide vaccines:-\nPolysaccharide vaccines are a unique type of inactivated sub-unit vaccine composed of long chains of sugar molecules that make up the surface capsule of certain bacteria. Pure polysaccharide vaccines are available for three diseases: pneumococcal disease, meningococcal disease, and Salmonella Typhi.\nconjugate vaccine:-\nA conjugate vaccine is created by covalently attaching a poor antigen to a strong antigen thereby eliciting a stronger immunological response to the poor antigen. Most commonly, the poor antigen is a polysaccharide that is attached to strong protein antigen.\nTrivalent Influenza Vaccine:-\ntrivalent influenza vaccine A synthetic vaccine consisting of three inactivated influenza viruses, two different influenza type A strains and one influenza type B strain. Trivalent influenza vaccine is formulated annually, based on influenza strains projected to be prevalent in the upcoming flu season.\nQuadrivalent vaccine:-\nFluzone Quadrivalent vaccine is an inactivated quadrivalent influenza virus vaccine indicated for the prevention of influenza disease caused by influenza A subtype viruses and type B viruses contained in the vaccine. Fluzone Quadrivalent vaccine is approved for use in persons 6 months of age and older.\nPentavalent Vaccine:-\nPentavalent combines five different vaccines in a single vial. It protects against five diseases: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib). Pentavalent vaccine is a successor to the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine.\nBCG Vaccine:-\nThe BCG vaccine is the only TB vaccine currently available, although there are other TB vaccines under development. Although far from perfect, the BCG vaccine is a relatively inexpensive, safe, and readily available vaccine that is still the only vaccine available for the prevention of human forms of TB.\nPolio Vaccine:-\nPolio virus can be transmitted through drinking water or food, acceptance, infected with a virus. It can also be transmitted from person to person. Polio can get sick any person. Virus mainly affects children up to five years of age.\nHPV Vaccine:-\nHPV infection is very common, and at least 50 percent of people who have sex have to face this infection in their own life. Many people usually do not see any signs of this and HPV also goes by them. But in some cases HPV can cause cervical cancer. With this, it can also lead to anal and gynecological cancers.\nMeningococcal Vaccine: -\nvaccine that protects against a germ that can cause meningitis and shock. He talks about the benefits and mild side effects of this important vaccine for infants under age one and teens and young adults between 15-21.\nChickenpox:-\nChickenpox is very contagious. However, since most of us are either vaccinated or have had chickenpox when we were younger, most of us are at low risk of catching the virus.\nRabies:-\nAnti rabies vaccine is effective in avoiding rabies. Its vaccine is available in many different types and is safe as well as safe. This vaccine, after being cut by a dog, is exposed to rabies virus; it is suitable to save the disease from time to time.\nHepatitis A:-\nolder, for travelers to certain countries, and for people at high risk for infection with the virus.\nHepatitis B:\nHepatitis B is an Infectious Disease causing Hepatitis B virus (HBV) Due to which the liver develops swelling and burning sensation, which is called hepatitis One-third of the population, more than two billion, have been infected with hepatitis B virus.\nYellow fever:\nYellow fever is an infectious and acute disease, which usually begins. There are symptoms of fever, vomiting, slow nerves, and presence of alveum in urine, bleeding and jaundice.\nRota virus:\nThe effect of the antirust virus vaccine will affect children up to two years, but its effect will remain only for the prevention of diarrhea.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line866427"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5151476860046387,"wiki_prob":0.5151476860046387,"text":"GDPR May Add Up To $915Μ Marriott's Data Breach Expenses\nYiannis Mouratidis Contributor\nMarriott data breach is a developing story that will give more news in the next days: ASSOCIATED PRESS\nMarriott data breach is under investigation in several countries, where the hotel and resorts giant has a presence. In the E.U., Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) leads the investigation. It is the UK independent body set up to uphold information rights. Local authorities of each country are interested to participate as 'supervisory authorities' in the cooperative framework of GDPR. According to ICO as the investigation is at an early stage no official attribution has been made. Given that the global annual revenue of the company reached $22.89 billion in 2017 and the strictest fine could amount to 4% of it, the sanctions imposed by the E.U. could be translated to $915 million. This will probably add up to the amount of $3.5 billion, analysts initially estimated some days after the incident went public. In addition, it is possible that some clients may take legal action against the company and claim damages which will elevate the cost of the breach even higher. In the worst case scenario if it is proved that the company was fully aware of the hacker attack well before it was revealed, then the Securities and Exchange Commission of the U.S. will pursue a prosecution against Marriott on the grounds of causing serious losses for its investors.\nThe exposure is smaller than initially estimated\nOn January 4, Marriott International issued a new announcement about the incident which determines the height of the damage. According to the latest report the attack involved 383 million guest records instead of 500 million initially estimated. Another clue is that 5.25 million unencrypted passport details were exposed in the breach together with 20.3 million encrypted passport numbers. As passports’ numbers may be used by criminals as an alternative form of identity, a number of affected customers, under certain conditions who will issue a new passport may be eligible for $100 compensation.\nIn the revised data breach notification there is no change concerning the number of breached payment cards, which amounts to 8.6 million encrypted cards of which some 354.000 were still active as of September 2018 which raises the possibilities for criminal use by unauthorized third party. Given that the data breach started in 2014 it is possible that some of the expired payment cards have been used in the past.\nMarriott tries everything in its power to avoid the worst\nTrying to help its customers and avoid the full fury of the E.U. privacy regulator plus the heavy financial implications involved, Marriott has taken some generous steps, such as offering compensation to breach victims for passport replacement, moreover, there is a special call center and an informative web page giving answers to all the possible questions of guests affected and lastly what sounds as a sigh relief is the fact that a big part of data was encrypted and therefore more difficult to be hacked.\nIn the aftermath, we consider there are very few possibilities that Marriott will receive the maximum penalty unless it is proved that there was no instant notification of the issue to the supervisory authority. Marriott data breach was the first that made headlines after GDPR came into effect last May, but it is not the only one reported. There are more than 200 intrusion incidents, being probed into, that call for cross borders cooperation. Some of them concern sensitive personal data breaches.\nThis post has been updated since it was originally posted: 4% of 22.89 billion is $915m and not $8.8B as originally posted\nYiannis Mouratidis\nI like to connect science and technology with everyday life. When something new comes on my horizon, I prefer to stay a little bit still and think what we will benefit f...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1146126"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6840969920158386,"wiki_prob":0.6840969920158386,"text":"Shoemaker (1807 book illustration, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).\nAlternate Spellings of Surname: Lilby, Lilley, Lilly\nBorn respectively on 8 October 1834, 12 April 1836 and circa 1843 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Joseph M. Lilly (1834-1876), James T. Lilly (1836-1870) and Harrison Lilly (c. 1843-1865) were sons of Pennsylvania natives Elisabeth (Billheimer) Lilly (1809-1867), and Joseph Lilly (1807-1881), a master shoemaker.\nIn 1840, at the ages of 6 and 4 respectively, Joseph and James Lilly resided in Moore Township, Northampton County with their parents and siblings, including Charles (1828-1914), Hannah (born 1831), and Stephen (born 1840).\nFederal census records also show that, by 1850, seven-year-old Harrison Lilly resided in Moore Township, Northampton County with his parents and siblings: Charles (1828-1914), Hannah (born 1831), Stephen (born 1840), Edward (born 1841), and Theodore (born 1848). Family patriarch Joseph Lilly was described on the federal census of this period as a laborer with an estate valued at $1,500 while son Charles was documented as a stone mason; sons Stephen and Edward were shown as having attended school within the past year.\nMeanwhile, sons James and Joseph Lilly may have temporarily departed from the Lilly family home to serve as apprentices to tradesmen elsewhere in Northampton County. Federal census records show that a Joseph Lilly worked as a blacksmith in 1850 while residing in East Allen Township with the family of foundry worker Jeremiah Flick while James Lilly may have learned from and worked as a farmer or shoemaker for the Arner family. Federal census records show that a James Lilly resided in Bethlehem, Northampton County with farmer “N. Arner” whose family was listed on the same census sheet as the listing for shoemaker “R. Arner.”\nOn 12 June 1851, the Lilly brothers greeted the arrival of another sibling – baby brother August, who survived barely a year. Passing away on 22 October 1862, August was laid to rest at what is now the Salem Union Church Cemetery in Moorestown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.\nBut by 1860, James and Harrison Lilly were back home, residing at the ages of 22 and 16 respectively, in Moore Township, Northampton County with their parents and siblings: Hannah (b. 1839), a housemaid, Stephen (b. 1841), “HapyAnn” (b. 1854), and Ellen (b. 1857). Henry Hoch (b. 1855) also resided at the Lilly family home at this time. Family patriarch Joseph Lilly was described on the federal census for this period as a master shoemaker with real and personal estate valued at $2,135 while son James was documented to have been employed as a shoemaker.\nMeanwhile, older brother Charles Lilly had become a successful carpenter, and resided at his own home in Moore Township with his wife, Lucinda (Shall) Lilly (1831-1914), and their daughter Ellen (1860-1940), who would later go on to take the married surname of “Lapp.”\nThe relatively untroubled years of the Lilly family, their friends and neighbors would soon end, however, as the United States wrestled with the secession of multiple southern states, and descended rapidly into the twilight of Civil War. The horizon darkened further during the fateful Spring of 1861 as President Abraham Lincoln readied the nation for war with his Proclamation of 3 May 1861:\nWhereas existing exigencies demand immediate and adequate measures for the protection of the National Constitution and the preservation of the National Union by the suppression of the insurrectionary combinations now existing in several States for opposing the laws of the Union and obstructing the execution thereof, to which end a military force in addition to that called forth by my proclamation of the 15th day of April in the present year appears to be indispensably necessary:\nNow, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy thereof and of the militia of the several States when called into actual service, do hereby call into the service of the United States 42,034 volunteers to serve for the period of three years, unless sooner discharged, and to be mustered into service as infantry and cavalry. The proportions of each arm and the details of enrollment and organization will be made known through the Department of War….\nCivil War Military Service\nJust over a month later, Joseph M. and Harrison Lilly enrolled for Civil War military service, and officially mustered in at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania on 30 August 1861 with Company F of the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.\n* Note: Company F of the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was the first company of this Union regiment to muster in for duty. The initial recruitment for members was conducted in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, where this company’s commanding officer – Captain Henry Samuel Harte – lived and worked as an innkeeper.\nJoseph Lilly, aged 27, joined at the rank of Corporal while his 18-year-old brother entered as a Private. Military records described Harrison Lilly as being a 5′ 7″-tall laborer with brown hair, light eyes and a dark complexion.\nCamp Curtin (Harper’s Weekly, 1861, public domain).\nFollowing a brief training period in light infantry tactics at Camp Curtin, the soldiers of Company F and their fellow members of the 47th Pennsylvania were transported south by rail to Washington, D.C. Stationed roughly two miles from the White House, they pitched their tents at “Camp Kalorama” on the Kalorama Heights near Georgetown beginning 21 September. Henry D. Wharton, a musician from the regiment’s C Company, penned an update the next day to the Sunbury American, his hometown newspaper:\nAfter a tedious ride we have, at last, safely arrived at the City of ‘magnificent distances.’ We left Harrisburg on Friday last at 1 o’clock A.M. and reached this camp yesterday (Saturday) at 4 P.M., as tired and worn out a sett [sic] of mortals as can possibly exist. On arriving at Washington we were marched to the ‘Soldiers Retreat,’ a building purposely erected for the benefit of the soldier, where every comfort is extended to him and the wants of the ‘inner man’ supplied.\nAfter partaking of refreshments we were ordered into line and marched, about three miles, to this camp. So tired were the men, that on marching out, some gave out, and had to leave the ranks, but J. Boulton Young, our ‘little Zouave,’ stood it bravely, and acted like a veteran. So small a drummer is scarcely seen in the army, and on the march through Washington he was twice the recipient of three cheers.\nWe were reviewed by Gen. McClellan yesterday [21 September 1861] without our knowing it. All along the march we noticed a considerable number of officers, both mounted and on foot; the horse of one of the officers was so beautiful that he was noticed by the whole regiment, in fact, so wrapt [sic] up were they in the horse, the rider wasn’t noticed, and the boys were considerably mortified this morning on dis-covering they had missed the sight of, and the neglect of not saluting the soldier next in command to Gen. Scott.\nCol. Good, who has command of our regiment, is an excellent man and a splendid soldier. He is a man of very few words, and is continually attending to his duties and the wants of the Regiment.\n…. Our Regiment will now be put to hard work; such as drilling and the usual business of camp life, and the boys expect and hope an occasional ‘pop’ at the enemy.\nWhile at Camp Kalorama, Captain Harte issued his first directive (Company Order No. 1), that his company drill four times per day, each time for one hour.\nChain Bridge across the Potomac above Georgetown looking toward Virginia, 1861 (The Illustrated London News, public domain).\nOn 24 September, the 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry finally became part of the U.S. Army when its men were officially mustered into federal service. On 27 September – a rainy day, the 47th Pennsylvania was assigned to Brigadier-General Isaac Stevens’ 3rd Brigade, which also included the 33rd, 49th and 79th New York regiments. By that afternoon, the 47th Pennsylvania was on the move again. Ordered onward by Brigadier-General Silas Casey, the Mississippi rifle-armed 47th Pennsylvania infantrymen marched behind their regimental band until reaching Camp Lyon, Maryland on the Potomac River’s eastern shore. At 5 p.m., they joined the 46th Pennsylvania in moving double-quick (165 steps per minute using 33-inch steps) across the “Chain Bridge” marked on federal maps, and continued on for roughly another mile before being ordered to make camp.\nThe next morning, they broke camp and moved again. Marching toward Falls Church, Virginia, they arrived at Camp Advance around dusk. There, about two miles from the bridge they had crossed a day earlier, they re-pitched their tents in a deep ravine near a new federal fort under construction (Fort Ethan Allen). They had completed a roughly eight-mile trek, were situated fairly close to General W. F. Smith’s headquarters, and were now part of the massive Army of the Potomac. Under Smith’s leadership, their regiment and brigade would help to defend the nation’s capital from the time of their September arrival through late January when the men of the 47th Pennsylvania would be shipped south.\nOnce again, Company C Musician Henry Wharton recapped the regiment’s activities, noting, via his 29 September letter home to the Sunbury American, that the 47th had changed camps three times in three days:\nOn Friday last we left Camp Kalorama, and the same night encamped about one mile from the Chain Bridge on the opposite side of the Potomac from Washington. The next morning, Saturday, we were ordered to this Camp [Camp Advance near Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia], one and a half miles from the one we occupied the night previous. I should have mentioned that we halted on a high hill (on our march here) at the Chain Bridge, called Camp Lyon, but were immediately ordered on this side of the river. On the route from Kalorama we were for two hours exposed to the hardest rain I ever experienced. Whew, it was a whopper; but the fellows stood it well – not a murmur – and they waited in their wet clothes until nine o’clock at night for their supper. Our Camp adjoins that of the N.Y. 79th (Highlanders.)….\nWe had not been in this Camp more than six hours before our boys were supplied with twenty rounds of ball and cartridge, and ordered to march and meet the enemy; they were out all night and got back to Camp at nine o’clock this morning, without having a fight. They are now in their tents taking a snooze preparatory to another march this morning…. I don’t know how long the boys will be gone, but the orders are to cook two days’ rations and take it with them in their haversacks….\nThere was a nice little affair came off at Lavensville [sic], a few miles from here on Wednesday last; our troops surprised a party of rebels (much larger than our own.) killing ten, took a Major prisoner, and captured a large number of horses, sheep and cattle, besides a large quantity of corn and potatoes, and about ninety six tons of hay. A very nice day’s work. The boys are well, in fact, there is no sickness of any consequence at all in our Regiment….\nSometime during this phase of duty, as part of the 3rd Brigade, the 47th Pennsylvanians were moved to a site they initially christened “Camp Big Chestnut” for the large chestnut tree located within their lodging’s boundaries. The site would eventually become known to the Keystone Staters as “Camp Griffin,” and was located roughly 10 miles from Washington, D.C.\nOn October 11, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers marched in the Grand Review at Bailey’s Cross Roads. In a mid-October letter home, Captain John Peter Shindel Gobin (the leader of C Company who would be promoted in 1864 to lead the entire 47th Regiment) reported that companies D, A, C, F and I (the 47th Pennsylvania’s right wing) were ordered to picket duty after the left wing companies (B, G, K, E, and H) had been forced to return to camp by Confederate troops. In his letter of 13 October, Henry Wharton described their duties, as well as their new home:\nThe location of our camp is fine and the scenery would be splendid if the view was not obstructed by heavy thickets of pine and innumerable chesnut [sic] trees. The country around us is excellent for the Rebel scouts to display their bravery; that is, to lurk in the dense woods and pick off one of our unsuspecting pickets. Last night, however, they (the Rebels) calculated wide of their mark; some of the New York 33d boys were out on picket; some fourteen or fifteen shots were exchanged, when our side succeeded in bringing to the dust, (or rather mud,) an officer and two privates of the enemy’s mounted pickets. The officer was shot by a Lieutenant in Company H [?], of the 33d.\nOur own boys have seen hard service since we have been on the ‘sacred soil.’ One day and night on picket, next day working on entrenchments at the Fort, (Ethan Allen.) another on guard, next on march and so on continually, but the hardest was on picket from last Thursday morning ‘till Saturday morning – all the time four miles from camp, and both of the nights the rain poured in torrents, so much so that their clothes were completely saturated with the rain. They stood it nobly – not one complaining; but from the size of their haversacks on their return, it is no wonder that they were satisfied and are so eager to go again tomorrow. I heard one of them say ‘there was such nice cabbage, sweet and Irish potatoes, turnips, &c., out where their duty called them, and then there was a likelihood of a Rebel sheep or young porker advancing over our lines and then he could take them as ‘contraband’ and have them for his own use.’ When they were out they saw about a dozen of the Rebel cavalry and would have had a bout with them, had it not been for…unlucky circumstance – one of the men caught the hammer of his rifle in the strap of his knapsack and caused his gun to fire; the Rebels heard the report and scampered in quick time….\nOn Friday morning, 22 October 1861, the 47th engaged in a Divisional Review, described by historian Lewis Schmidt as massing “about 10,000 infantry, 1000 cavalry, and twenty pieces of artillery all in one big open field.” Less than a month later, in his letter of 17 November, Henry Wharton revealed more details about life at Camp Griffin:\nThis morning our brigade was out for inspection; arms, accoutrements [sic], clothing, knapsacks, etc, all were out through a thorough examination, and if I must say it myself, our company stood best, A No. 1, for cleanliness. We have a new commander to our Brigade, Brigadier General Brannen [sic], of the U.S. Army, and if looks are any criterion, I think he is a strict disciplinarian and one who will be as able to get his men out of danger as he is willing to lead them to battle….\nThe boys have plenty of work to do, such as piquet [sic] duty, standing guard, wood-chopping, police duty and day drill; but then they have the most substantial food; our rations consist of fresh beef (three times a week) pickled pork, pickled beef, smoked pork, fresh bread, daily, which is baked by our own bakers, the Quartermaster having procured portable ovens for that purpose, potatoes, split peas, beans, occasionally molasses and plenty of good coffee, so you see Uncle Sam supplies us plentifully….\nA few nights ago our Company was out on piquet [sic]; it was a terrible night, raining very hard the whole night, and what made it worse, the boys had to stand well to their work and dare not leave to look for shelter. Some of them consider they are well paid for their exposure, as they captured two ancient muskets belonging to Secessia. One of them is of English manufacture, and the other has the Virginia militia mark on it. They are both in a dilapidated condition, but the boys hold them in high estimation as they are trophies from the enemy, and besides they were taken from the house of Mrs. Stewart, sister to the rebel Jackson who assassinated the lamented Ellsworth at Alexandria. The honorable lady, Mrs. Stewart, is now a prisoner at Washington and her house is the headquarters of the command of the piquets [sic]….\nSince the success of the secret expedition, we have all kinds of rumors in camp. One is that our Brigade will be sent to the relief of Gen. Sherman, in South Carolina. The boys all desire it and the news in the ‘Press’ is correct, that a large force is to be sent there, I think their wish will be gratified….\nSpringfield rifle, 1861 model (public domain).\nOn 21 November, the 47th participated in a morning divisional headquarters review by Colonel Tilghman H. Good, followed by brigade and division drills all afternoon. According to Schmidt, “each man was supplied with ten blank cartridges.” Afterward, “Gen. Smith requested Gen. Brannan to inform Col. Good that the 47th was the best regiment in the whole division.”\nAs a reward for their performance – and in preparation for bigger things to come, Brannan obtained brand new Springfield rifles for every member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers.\nU.S. Naval Academy Barracks and temporary hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, c. 1861-1865 (public domain).\nNext ordered to move from their Virginia encampment back to Maryland, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers left Camp Griffin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22 January 1862, marching through deep mud with their equipment for three miles in order to reach the railroad station at Falls Church. Sent by rail to Alexandria, they then sailed the Potomac via the steamship City of Richmond to the Washington Arsenal, where they were reequipped before they were marched off for dinner and rest at the Soldiers’ Retreat in Washington, D.C. The next afternoon, the 47th Pennsylvanians hopped rail cars on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and headed for Annapolis, Maryland. Arriving around 10 p.m., they were assigned quarters in barracks at the Naval Academy. They then spent that Friday through Monday (24-27 January 1862) loading their equipment and other supplies onto the steamship Oriental.\nAs the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers commenced boarding the Oriental during the afternoon of 27 January, they were ferried to the big steamship by smaller steamers. The officers boarded last and, per the directive of Brigadier-General Brannan, steamed away for the Deep South at 4 p.m. They were headed for Florida which, despite its secession from the Union, remained strategically important to the Union due to the presence of Forts Taylor and Jefferson in Key West and the Dry Tortugas.\nRendering of Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida (Harper’s Weekly, 1864, public domain).\nThe Lilly brothers and the other members of Company F arrived in Key West with their fellow members of the regiment in early 1862, and were assigned to garrison Fort Taylor. During the weekend of Friday, 14 February, the 47th Pennsylvanians introduced their presence to Key West residents as the regiment paraded through the streets of the city. That Sunday, soldiers from the 47th Pennsylvania also mingled with locals by attending services at churches nearby.\nDrilling daily in heavy artillery tactics, they also strengthened the fortifications at the federal installation. During this phase of duty, disease was the most fearsome foe, due largely to poor sanitary conditions and water quality. A significant number of 47th Pennsylvanians fell ill; several were ultimately laid to rest at the post cemetery.\nBut there were also moments of celebration. According to Schmidt, 4 June 1862 was a festive day for the regiment. As the USS Niagara sailed for Boston after transferring its responsibilities to the USS Potomac, the flagship of the Union Navy squadron in that sector, the guns of 15 warships anchored nearby boomed in salute, as did those manned by the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ F Company, which “fired 15 of the heavy casemate guns from Fort Taylor at 4 PM.”\nFrom mid-June through July, the 47th was stationed at Hilton Head, South Carolina where the men made camp before being housed in the Department of the South’s Beaufort District. Picket duties north of the 3rd Brigade’s camp were commonly rotated among the regiments present there at the time, putting soldiers at increased risk from sniper fire. According to historian Samuel P. Bates, during this phase of their service, the men of the 47th “received the highest commendation from Generals Hunter and Brannan” for their “attention to duty, discipline and soldierly bearing.”\nSometime during July according to Schmidt, Major William H. Gausler and Captain Henry S. Harte returned home to the Lehigh Valley to resume their recruiting efforts. Major Gausler was able to persuade an additional 54 men to join the 47th Pennsylvania while Harte rounded up 12 more.\nUnion Navy base of operations, Mayport Mills, circa 1862 (public domain).\nDuring a return expedition to Florida beginning 30 September, the 47th joined with the 1st Connecticut Battery, 7th Connecticut Infantry, and part of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry in assaulting Confederate forces at their heavily protected camp at Saint John’s Bluff overlooking the Saint John’s River area. Trekking and skirmishing through roughly 25 miles of dense swampland and forests after disembarking from ships at Mayport Mills on 1 October, the 47th captured artillery and ammunition stores (on 3 October) that had been abandoned by Confederate forces during the bluff’s bombardment by Union gunboats.\n* Note: The capture of Saint John’s Bluff followed a string of U.S. Army and Navy successes which enabled the Union to gain control over key southern towns and transportation hubs. In November 1861, the Union’s South Atlantic Blockading Squadron established an operations base at Port Royal, South Carolina, facilitating Union expeditions to Georgia and Florida, during which U.S. troops were able to take possession of Fort Clinch and Fernandina, Florida (3-4 March 1862), secure the surrender of Fort Marion and Saint Augustine (11 March), and establish a Union Navy base at Mayport Mills (mid-March). That summer, Brigadier-General Joseph Finnegan, commanding officer of the Confederate States of America’s Department of Middle and Eastern Florida, ordered the placement of earthen works-fortified gun batteries atop Saint John’s Bluff overlooking the Saint John’s River and at Yellow Bluff nearby. Confederate leaders hoped to disable the Union’s naval and ground force operations at and beyond Mayport Mills with as many as 18 cannon, including three eight-inch siege howitzers and eight-inch smoothbores and Columbiads (two of each).\nAfter the U.S. gunboats Uncas and Patroon exchanged shell-fire with the Confederate battery at Saint John’s Bluff on 11 September 1862, Rebel troops were initially driven away, but then returned to their battery on the bluff. When a second, larger Union gunboat flotilla tried and failed again six days later to shake the Confederates loose, Union military leaders ordered an army operation with naval support.\nBacked by U.S. gunboats Cimarron, E.B. Hale, Paul Jones, Uncas and Water Witch armed with 12-pound boat howitzers, the 1,500-strong Union Army force commanded by Brigadier-General John Milton Brannan moved up the Saint John’s River and further inland along the Pablo and Mt. Pleasant Creeks on 1 October 1862 before disembarking and marching for the battery atop Saint John’s Bluff. The next day, Union gunboats exchanged shellfire with the Rebel battery while the Union ground force continued its advance. When the 47th Pennsylvanians reached Saint John’s Bluff with their fellow Union brigade members on 3 October 1862, they found the battery abandoned. (Other Union troops discovered that the Yellow Bluff battery was also Rebel free.)\nIn the wake of this success, Union leaders ordered the gunboats and army troops to extend the expedition, which they did, capturing assorted watercraft as they advanced further up the river. During this phase, Companies E and K of the 47th were led by Captain Charles Yard (E Company’s captain) in capturing Jacksonville, Florida (5 October) and the Gov. Milton, a Confederate steamer. Docked near Hawkinsville, the Milton had been furnishing troops, ammunition and other supplies not only to the Rebel battery atop Saint John’s Bluff, but to other Confederate Army units scattered throughout the region.\nThat same day and ten days later, on 5 and 15 October 1862 respectively, a black teen and several young black men left the hardship they had known in Beaufort, South Carolina to become members of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, including:\nAbraham and Edward Jassum, who were just 16 and 22 years of age, respectively, when they joined; and\nBristor Gethers, a 33-year-old man.\nListed as “Presto Gettes” on his muster roll entry and entry in the Civil War Veterans’ Card File in the Pennsylvania State Archives, but as “Bristor Gethers” on his U.S. Civil War Pension Index entry, the older man was described as being 5’5″ tall with black hair, black eyes and a black complexion, and as having been employed as a fireman. In comparison, military records described Abraham Jassum as being 5’6″ tall with black hair, black eyes and a black complexion, noting that his occupation prior to enlistment was “Cook.” All three were enrolled with the title of “Negro UnderCook.”\nPocotaligo-Coosawhatchie Expedition, 21-23 October 1862 (Union Army map, public domain).\nFrom 21-23 October 1862, under the brigade and regimental commands of Colonel T. H. Good and Lieutenant Colonel George W. Alexander, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers next engaged the heavily protected Confederate forces in and around Pocotaligo, South Carolina – including at Frampton’s Plantation and the Pocotaligo Bridge – a key piece of southern railroad infrastructure.\nHarried by snipers en route to the bridge, they met resistance from an entrenched, heavily fortified Confederate battery which opened fire on the Union troops as they entered an open cotton field. Those headed toward higher ground at the Frampton Plantation fared no better as they encountered artillery and infantry fire from the surrounding forests. The Union soldiers grappled with Confederates where they found them, pursuing the Rebels for four miles as they retreated to the bridge. There, the 47th relieved the 7th Connecticut. But the enemy was just too well armed. After two hours of intense fighting in an attempt to take the ravine and the Pocotaligo Bridge, depleted ammunition forced the 47th to withdraw to Mackey’s Point.\nLosses for the 47th Pennsylvania were significant, ranging from front-line privates to company commanders. A fair number died where they were felled by rifle or cannon fire while others were discharged later due to the severity of their battle wounds. The graves of several members of the regiment remain unidentified to this day.\nOn 23 October, the 47th Pennsylvania returned to Hilton Head, where it served as the funeral Honor Guard for General Ormsby M. Mitchel, the commander of the U.S. Army’s 10th Corps and Department of the South who had succumbed to yellow fever on 30 October. (Mitchelville, the first Freedmen’s town created after the Civil War, was later named for him.) Men from the 47th Pennsylvania were given the high honor of firing the salute over his grave.\nFort Jefferson, Dry Torguas, Florida (interior, c. 1934, C.E. Peterson, photographer, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).\nHaving been ordered back to Key West on 15 November 1862, much of 1863 was spent garrisoning federal installations in Florida as part of the 10th Corps, Department of the South. Companies A, B, C, E, G, and I garrisoned Fort Taylor in Key West while Companies D, F, H, and K garrisoned Fort Jefferson, the Union’s remote outpost in the Dry Tortugas off the coast of Florida.\nOnce again, the regiment was plagued by disease and harsh living conditions. Felled by dysentery, Private Harrison Lilly was confined to the post hospital at Fort Jefferson from 7-15 May 1863.\nBut despite these harsh conditions, the majority of 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers chose to re-enlist when their three-year service terms were up, including Private Harrison Lilly, who re-upped at Fort Jefferson on 22 October 1863. His brother, Corporal Joseph M. Lilly, also re-enlisted.\nAs the New Year of 1864 dawned, another member of the Lilly family prepared to join his brothers in the fight to save America’s union. On 23 January, shoemaker James T. Lilly enrolled for military service at Easton, Northampton County. Officially mustering in for duty at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg as a Private with Company F of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers – the same company and regiment in which Joseph M. and Harrison Lilly had been serving for the past three years, James then connected with his regiment from a recruiting depot.\nOn 25 February 1864, the 47th set off for a phase of service in which the regiment would make history. Steaming first for New Orleans aboard the Charles Thomas, the men arrived at Algiers, Louisiana on 28 February and were then shipped by train to Brashear City. Following another steamer ride – this time to Franklin via the Bayou Teche – the 47th joined the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division of the Department of the Gulf’s 19th Army Corps. In short order, the 47th would become the only Pennsylvania regiment to serve in the Red River Campaign spearheaded by Union General Nathaniel P. Banks.\nFrom 14-26 March, the 47th passed through New Iberia, Vermillionville, Opelousas, and Washington while en route to Alexandria and Natchitoches. Often short on food and water, the remaining members of the regiment encamped briefly at Pleasant Hill the night of 7 April before continuing on the next day, marching until mid-afternoon.\n19th U.S. Army Map, Phase 3, Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield (8 April 1864, public domain).\nRushed into battle ahead of other regiments in the 2nd Division, 60 members of the 47th were cut down on 8 April during the back-and-forth volley of fire unleashed during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads (Mansfield). The fighting waned only when darkness fell. The exhausted, but uninjured collapsed beside the gravely wounded. After midnight, the surviving Union troops withdrew to Pleasant Hill.\nThe next day, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were ordered into a critically important defensive position at the far right of the Union lines, their right flank spreading up onto a high bluff. By 3 p.m., after enduring a midday charge by the troops of Confederate General Richard Taylor (a plantation owner who was the son of Zachary Taylor, former President of the United States), the brutal fighting still showed no signs of ending. Suddenly, just as the 47th was shifting to the left side of the massed Union forces, the men of the 47th Pennsylvania were forced to bolster the 165th New York’s buckling lines by blocking another Confederate assault.\nCasualties were severe. The regiment’s second in command, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander, was nearly killed, and the regiment’s two color-bearers, both from Company C, were also seriously wounded while preventing the American flag from falling into enemy hands.\nStill others from the 47th were captured by Confederate troops, marched roughly 125 miles to Camp Ford, a Confederate Army prison camp near Tyler, Texas, and held there as prisoners of war until they were released during prisoner exchanges between July and November. Several members of the regiment never made it out alive.\nFollowing what some historians have called a drubbing by the Confederate Army and others have called a technical Union victory (or at least a draw), the 47th Pennsylvania fell back to Grand Ecore, where the men resupplied and regrouped until 22 April. Retreating toward Alexandria, Louisiana, they then scored another victory against the Confederates, this time on 23 April at Monett’s Ferry in the Battle of Cane Hill.\nChristened “Bailey’s Dam” for Lt. Col. Joseph Bailey, the officer overseeing its construction, this timber dam built on the Red River in Alexandria, Louisiana in May 1864 facilitated Union gunboat passage (public domain).\nNext, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey, they helped to build a dam near Alexandria from 30 April through 10 May. Christened as “Bailey’s Dam,” this timber structure enabled federal gunboats to successfully traverse the fluctuating waters of the Red River. Beginning 16 May, Captain Henry S. Harte and F Company moved with most of the 47th from Simmsport across the Atchafalaya to Morganza, and then to New Orleans on 20 June.\nSheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign\nStill able and willing to fight after their time in Bayou country, the soldiers of Company F and their fellow members of the 47th Pennsylvania returned to the Washington, D.C. area aboard the McClellan from 5-12 July 1864 – but they did so without their commanding officer, Captain Henry S. Harte, who was ordered to serve on detached duty as the leader of the 47th Pennsylvanians serving with Companies B, G and K, who were left behind because the McClellan was unable to transport the entire regiment. (Captain Harte sailed later aboard the Blackstone with Companies B, G and K, and arrived in the Washington, D.C. area on 28 July.)\nAfter arriving on the East Coast, the bulk of the 47th Pennsylvania joined up with General David Hunter’s forces at Snicker’s Gap, Virginia, where the men from Companies A, C, D, E, F, H, and I assisted in defending Washington, D.C. while also helping to drive Confederate troops from Maryland. Attached to the Middle Military Division, Army of the Shenandoah beginning in August 1864, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was then assigned to defensive duties in and around Halltown, Virginia during the early part of that month. Over the next several weeks, the regiment then engaged in a series of back-and-forth movements between Halltown, Berryville and other locations within the vicinity (Middletown, Charlestown and Winchester) as part of a “mimic war” being waged by Sheridan’s Union forces with those commanded by Confederate Lieutenant-General Jubal Early.\nFrom 3-4 September, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers then fought in the Battle of Berryville.\nWith F Company once again under the command of Captain Henry S. Harte by September, the opening days of Fall 1864 also saw the promotion of several men from Company F and the departure of a significant number of others who had served honorably but whose terms of service were expiring, including F Company’s Captain Harte, who mustered out at Berryville, Virginia on 18 September 1864. For the Lilly brothers and other remaining members of the 47th, the fighting was not yet over – and they were about to engage in the regiment’s greatest moments of valor.\nBattles of Opequan and Fisher’s Hill, September 1864\nTogether with other regiments under the command of Union General Philip H. (“Little Phil”) Sheridan and Brigadier-General William H. Emory, commander of the 19th Corps, the members of Company F and their fellow 47th Pennsylvanians helped to inflict heavy casualties on Lieutenant General Jubal Early’s Confederate forces during the Battle of Opequan (also spelled as “Opequon” and referred to as “Third Winchester”). The battle is still considered by many historians to be one of the most important during Sheridan’s 1864 campaign; the Union’s victory here helped to ensure the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln.\nVictory of Philip Sheridan’s Union army over Jubal Early’s Confederate forces, Battle of Opequan, 19 September 1864 (Kurz & Allison, c. 1893, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).\nThe 47th Pennsylvania’s march toward destiny at Opequan began at 2 a.m. on 19 September 1864 as the regiment left camp and joined up with others in the Union’s 19th Corps. After advancing slowly from Berryville toward Winchester, the 19th Corps bogged down for several hours by the massive movement of Union troops and supply wagons, enabling Early’s men to dig in. After finally reaching and fording the Opequan Creek, Sheridan’s men came face to face with Early’s Confederate Army. The fighting, which began in earnest at noon, was long and brutal. The Union’s left flank (6th Corps) took a beating from Confederate artillery stationed on high ground.\nThe 47th Pennsylvania and the 19th Corps were directed by General William Emory to attack and pursue Major General John B. Gordon’s Confederate forces. Some success was achieved, but casualties mounted as another Confederate artillery group opened fire on Union troops trying to cross a clearing. When a nearly fatal gap began to open between the 6th and 19th Corps, Sheridan sent in units led by Brigadier-Generals Emory Upton and David A. Russell. Russell, hit twice – once in the chest, was mortally wounded. The 47th Pennsylvania opened its lines long enough to enable the Union cavalry under William Woods Averell and the foot soldiers of General George Crook to charge the Confederates’ left flank.\nThe 19th Corps, with the 47th in the thick of the fighting, then began pushing the Confederates back. Early’s “grays” retreated in the face of the valor displayed by Sheridan’s “blue jackets.” Leaving 2,500 wounded behind, the Rebels fled to Fisher’s Hill, eight miles south of Winchester (21-22 September), and then to Waynesboro, following a successful early morning flanking attack by Sheridan’s Union men which outnumbered Early’s three to one. Afterward, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were sent out on skirmishing parties before making camp at Cedar Creek.\nMoving forward, the surviving members of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers would continue to distinguish themselves in battle, but they would do so without two more of their respected commanders: Colonel Tilghman Good and Good’s second in command, Lieutenant Colonel George Alexander, who mustered out 23-24 September upon the expiration of their respective terms of service. Fortunately, they were replaced by leaders who were equally respected for their front line experience and temperament, including Major John Peter Shindel Gobin, formerly of the 47th’s Company C, who had been promoted up through the regimental staff to the rank of Major (and who would be promoted again on 4 November to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and Commanding Officer of the regiment).\nBattle of Cedar Creek, 19 October 1864\nAlfred Waud’s 1864 sketch, Surprise at Cedar Creek, which captured the flanking attack on the rear of Union Brigadier-General William Emory’s 19th Corps by Lieutenant General Jubal Early’s Confederate army, and the subsequent resistance by Emory’s troops from their Union rifle-pit positions, 19 October 1864 (public domain).\nIt was during the Fall of 1864 that General Philip Sheridan began the first of the Union’s true “scorched earth” campaigns, starving the enemy into submission by destroying Virginia’s farming infrastructure. Viewed through today’s lens of history as inhumane, the strategy claimed many innocents – civilians whose lives were cut short by their inability to find food. This same strategy, however, almost certainly contributed to the further turning of the war’s tide in the Union’s favor during the Battle of Cedar Creek on 19 October 1864. Successful throughout most of their engagement with Union forces at Cedar Creek, Early’s Confederate troops began peeling off in ever growing numbers to forage for food, thus enabling the 47th Pennsylvania and others under Sheridan’s command to rally and win the day.\nFrom a military standpoint, it was an impressive, but heartrending day. During the morning of 19 October, Early launched a surprise attack directly on Sheridan’s Cedar Creek-encamped forces. Early’s men were able to capture Union weapons while freeing a number of Confederates who had been taken prisoner during previous battles – all while pushing seven Union divisions back. According to Bates:\nWhen the Army of West Virginia, under Crook, was surprised and driven from its works, the Second Brigade, with the Forty-seventh on the right, was thrown into the breach to arrest the retreat…. Scarcely was it in position before the enemy came suddenly upon it, under the cover of fog. The right of the regiment was thrown back until it was almost a semi-circle. The brigade, only fifteen hundred strong, was contending against Gordon’s entire division, and was forced to retire, but, in comparative good order, exposed, as it was, to raking fire. Repeatedly forming, as it was pushed back, and making a stand at every available point, it finally succeeded in checking the enemy’s onset, when General Sheridan suddenly appeared upon the field, who ‘met his crest-fallen, shattered battalions, without a word of reproach, but joyously swinging his cap, shouted to the stragglers, as he rode rapidly past them – “Face the other way, boys! We are going back to our camp! We are going to lick them out of their boots!’”\nSheridan Rallying His Troops, Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, 19 October 1864 (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).\nThe Union’s counterattack punched Early’s forces into submission, and the men of the 47th were commended for their heroism by General Stephen Thomas who, in 1892, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his own “distinguished conduct in a desperate hand-to-hand encounter, in which the advance of the enemy was checked” that day. Bates described the 47th’s actions:\nWhen the final grand charge was made, the regiment moved at nearly right angles with the rebel front. The brigade charged gallantly, and the entire line, making a left wheel, came down on his flank, while engaging the Sixth Corps, when he went “whirling up the valley” in confusion. In the pursuit to Fisher’s Hill, the regiment led, and upon its arrival was placed on the skirmish line, where it remained until twelve o’clock noon of the following day. The army was attacked at early dawn…no respite was given to take food until the pursuit was ended.\nOnce again, the casualties for the 47th were high with more than 170 members of the regiment killed, wounded, or captured and carted off to Confederate prison camps. Sergeant William Pyers, the C Company man who had so gallantly rescued the flag at Pleasant Hill was cut down in view of his drummer boy son and later buried on the battlefield. Perry County resident and Regimental Chaplain William Rodrock suffered a near miss as a bullet pierced his cap. Privates Addison R. Geho and Rainey Grader of Company F were killed in action while Privates Josiah H. Walk and William H. Moll were wounded in action, but recovered and ultimately returned to continued service with the regiment.\nFollowing these engagements, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were ordered to Camp Russell near Winchester, where they remained from November through most of December. Rested and somewhat healed, they were then ordered to outpost and railroad guard duty at Camp Fairview in Charlestown, West Virginia. Five days before Christmas, they trudged through a snowstorm in order to reach their new home.\nAssigned in February to the Provisional Division of the 2nd Brigade of the Army of the Shenandoah, the men of the 47th moved back to Washington, D.C., via Winchester and Kernstown. Despite the relative strength of the Union Army, this was still a dangerous time for 47th Pennsylvanians. Tragically, Private Harrison Lilly was shot in the abdomen by Confederate guerillas at Summit Point, Virginia on 25 March; Corporal Franklin Arnold was then wounded there three days later. Corporal Arnold would ultimately be discharged on a Surgeon’s Certificate less than four months later on 15 July 1865, but Private Lilly was less fortunate. He succumbed to “Vulnus Sclopet” (the Latin term for gunshot wounds) at the 47th Pennsylvania’s regimental hospital on 29 March 1864, according to Union Army death records.\nPrivate Harrison Lilly, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers (fatal gunshot wound to abdomen documented in Registers of Deaths of U.S. Volunteers, 29 March 1865, U.S. National Archives, public domain).\nInitially laid to rest near the hospital, Private Lilly’s remains were later exhumed as part of the federal government’s program to respectfully rebury Union soldiers at national cemeteries. He now rests in Section 26, Grave No. 1043 at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.\nSpectators massing for the Grand Review of the Armies, 23-24 May 1865, at the side of the crepe-draped U.S. Capitol, flag at half mast following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Matthew Brady, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain).\nBy 19 April, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were once again responsible for helping to defend the nation’s capital – this time following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Encamped near Fort Stevens, they received new uniforms and were resupplied. During this time, Corporal Joseph Lilly was promoted to the rank of Sergeant (on 21 April 1865).\nLetters home and later newspaper interviews with survivors of the 47th Pennsylvania indicate that at least one 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer was given the high honor of guarding President Lincoln’s funeral train while others may have guarded the Lincoln assassination conspirators during their imprisonment and trial.\nThen, as part of Dwight’s Division of the 2nd Brigade of the Department of Washington’s 22nd Corps, the surviving Lilly brothers and their fellow 47th Pennsylvanians participated in the Union’s Grand Review on 23-24 May. A week later, on 31 May, Private James T. Lilly was honorably discharged, and sent home to Pennsylvania.\nOn their final southern tour, Sergeant Joseph M. Lilly and his fellow members of the 47th Pennsylvania served in Savannah, Georgia from 31 May to 4 June. Attached again to Dwight’s Division, this time they were assigned to the 3rd Brigade, Department of the South. Relieving the 165th New York Volunteers in July, the soldiers of the 47th Pennsylvania next quartered in Charleston at the former mansion of the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury.\nFinally, beginning on Christmas day of that year, the majority of the men of Company F, 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers – including Sergeant Joseph M. Lilly – began to honorably muster out at Charleston, South Carolina, a process which continued through early January. Following a stormy voyage home, the 47th Pennsylvania disembarked in New York City. The weary men were then shipped to Philadelphia by train where, at Camp Cadwalader on 9 January 1866, the 47th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers were officially given their discharge papers.\nReturn to Civilian Life\nJames T. Lilly’s Gravestone (Salem Union Church Cemetery, Moorestown, Pennsylvania, public domain).\nFollowing the death of his brother and his own subsequent honorable discharge from the military at the end of May 1865, James T. Lilly returned home to Northampton County, Pennsylvania, where he began to make a life and home with Emma Kelchner. Their daughter, Clara Jane Lilly, was born on 6 March 1867, just a few weeks after the passing of James’ mother, Elisabeth (Billheimer) Lilly (who had died on 16 February, and was laid to rest at the same cemetery where their younger brother August had been interred more than a decade earlier – the Salem Union Church Cemetery in Moorestown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania).\nTragically, the year would bring more darkness to the Lilly family when James and Emma Lilly’s daughter passed away on 23 November. Clara Jane Lilly’s tiny body was then buried in the same graveyard as her paternal grandmother – the Salem Union Church Cemetery.\nAnd then just a few short years later, on Christmas Eve of 1870, James T. Lilly also died. He, too, was laid to rest at the Salem Union Church Cemetery. At the time of his passing, he was described on his gravestone as the “Consort of Emma C. Kelchner.”\nThat same year (1870), carpenter Charles Lilly, the eldest of the Lilly brothers, resided in Moore Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania with his wife, Lucinda (Shall) Lilly (1831-1914), and their children Ellen (1860-1940) and Thomas (born c. 1865). His real and personal estate holdings were value at $2,400. By 1880, Charles, now a farmer, and his wife, Lucinda, were still residents of Moore Township. Also residing at his home by this time was his father, Joseph, a 73-year-old shoemaker.\nMeanwhile, Charles’ younger brother and former 47th Pennsylvanian, Joseph M. Lilly, resided in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania with his wife, Mary (1836-1897), and their Pennsylvania-born son Charles (aged 1). Employed as a brick mason, his real and personal estate holdings were valued by the census taker at $800.\nPer late 19th and early 20th century federal census records, it is clear that both James and Harrison Lilly were outlived by their older brothers, Charles Lilly and Joseph M. Lilly, as well as by their father. Joseph M. Lilly, the son of master shoemaker Joseph Lilly, passed away on 16 August 1876, and was laid to rest at Saint Johns Union Cemetery in Mickleys, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.\nFamily patriarch Joseph Lilly then died in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on 21 November 1881. He was laid to rest at the same cemetery where his wife, Elisabeth (Billheimer) Lilly, and granddaughter, Clara Jane Lilly, were buried in 1867, and where son James was also interred in 1870 – the Salem Union Cemetery in Moorestown.\nCharles, the oldest of the Lilly brothers, then died in Northampton County on 12 July 1914, and was laid to rest at the Fairview Cemetery in Moorestown, Northampton County.\n1. Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.\n2. Lilly, Harrison and James, in Civil War Muster Rolls, in Records of the Department of Military and Veterans’ Affairs (Record Group 19, Series 19.11). Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.\n3. Lilly, Harrison and James, in Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives.\n4. Lilly, Harrison, in Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, in Records of the U.S. Adjutant General’s Office. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 1865.\n5. Peters, Gerhard and John T. Wooley. Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation 83—Increasing the Size of the Army and Navy, May 3, 1861, in The American Presidency Project. Santa Barbara, California: University of California, Santa Barbara, retrieved online 1 October 2017.\n6. Schmidt, Lewis. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown: Self-published, 1986.\n7. U.S. Census. Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania: 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1119672"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8741616010665894,"wiki_prob":0.8741616010665894,"text":"Fantasia Coverage Dramas Hollywood Interviews All Features Documentaries How ScreenAnarchy Works\nJuly 10 2018, 8:00 AM\nInterview: Aislinn Clarke on the Evils of the Catholic Church and THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY\nIt's insane to type this, but Aislinn Clarke is Northern Ireland's very first female horror director. Her debut feature, The Devil’s Doorway, is being released by IFC Midnight. The trailer is currently terrifying the Internet with its spook-tacular scares. I was able to see the film at Cinepocalypse in Chicago, and fortunate to have interviewed Clarke after the fact.\nI learned about a host of horrific things done and the evil that good men do — in the name of greed in Northern Ireland/Ireland. Here, the dastardly deeds refer to the infamous \"Magdalane Laundries,\" where girls and women were forced into slave labor. If reading Clarke's answers to my questions doesn't give you a shiver, you might not be human.\nThe official synopsis:\nWhat unholy terrors lurk behind the walls of a secretive Irish convent? Northern Ireland, 1960: Father Thomas Riley (Lalor Roddy) and Father John Thornton (Ciaran Flynn) are dispatched by the Vatican to investigate reports of a miracle — a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood — at a remote Catholic asylum for “immoral” women. Armed with 16mm film cameras to record their findings, the priests instead discover a depraved horror show of sadistic nuns, satanism, and demonic possession. Supernatural forces are at work here — but they are not the doing of God. Inspired by the infamous true histories of Magdalene Laundries — in which “fallen women” were held captive by the Irish Catholic Church — this found footage occult shocker is a chilling encounter with unspeakable evil.\nThe Devil’s Doorway opens in select theaters and on all VOD platforms this Friday, July 13, from IFC Midnight. Check out the trailer below the interview. If you're in New York, check the film out! Clarke will also be appearing in person at this weekend's screenings at the IFC Center in NYC on Friday and Saturday night. Q&As with insightful directors like Clarke are always a real treat for any filmgoer. If you like horror, thrillers, history, found footage, or any of the above, definitely watch The Devil’s Doorway!\nThe Devil’s Doorway was based off real events; can you tell us more about what actually happened and how this horrific, hidden history influenced the script?\nThe Magdalene Laundries were church-run workshops for girls and women, where the inmates were detained indefinitely and mostly for life. The girls there were forced to launder clothes, sheets, etc. and all of the money went to the church. They were essentially a slave labor force. There were laundries all across the Catholic world, but because of the close partnership between the church and government in Ireland during the Twentieth Century, it was especially awful here — it was part of the system that kept the country running. Women and girls could be taken from their homes and families simply on the say-so of a man: because the man wanted them out of the way to access property, to hush up an affair, anything. The majority of the girls, though, were pregnant out of wedlock, and the church would hide them away and the babies put up for adoption. This was the case in theory, but recent revelations have shown multiple instances of babies being sold or, in former Magdalene sites, left to die, perhaps even murdered. It was recent cases in Tuam, Co. Galway and Newry, Co. Down that provided the basis for the event in the film.\nHas the Catholic Church (to your knowledge) gone on record in admitting its role in these “Magdalene Laundries?”\nThey never hid it. What went on in the laundries was never overt — it was known vaguely by the public — but there was no doubt that they were awful, vicious places. My father was a breadman who delivered to one of the local laundries and he used to tell us how hot and bright and terrible it was — his vision of Hell. He hardly knew what was going on. It was the apparatus of church and state in Ireland that allowed it to go on, even in the North — doctors, teachers, police were all complicit in it, for fear of losing power, status, or simply taking the brunt of the government and church’s power themselves. Since the worst of the revelations, though, there has been no formal or meaningful apology. The women whose lives were lost or wasted in these places are still seeking some form of justice, but it hasn't been forthcoming from the church and it hasn't been forthcoming from the state.\nWere there any real occurrences that didn’t make it into the script?\nThere are hundreds of true-life stories from the laundries that never made it into the film overtly. One of the most visceral memories my mother has is of her best friend being taking away, in a car, by a priest, to one of these places — they never saw each other again. She was literally dragged away screaming. The nuns used to give the girls new names to take away their old identities. Some of the cruel procedural elements didn't make it into the film. And, at the gross and absurd end, Hasbro, the multinational games company, had Buckaroo and Mousetrap assembled by girls in laundries during the 80s, with the girls seeing none of the money. I can ask the audience to suspend their disbelief around possession and the Devil, but not exploitation like that.\nThe 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution was just repealed, meaning that the abortion ban there has ended. I’m curious to know if these politics had any influence on The Devil’s Doorway.\nIt was a very special moment to have the film’s world premiere on May 25th. I went into the screening with no idea of how the vote was going to go and came out to the relief that the exit polls were conclusive that the amendment would be repealed. There is no doubt that the anger and frustration expressed in the repeal campaign was also funneled into the film. The 8th amendment and the laundries are certainly linked — the mistreatment of women in Ireland is historic in the sense that it has existed through all of Irish history. I had my son when I was 17, a year after the last laundry was closed; in a slightly different time line, I could have been one of those girls. And while I was always going to keep my son, who has grown into an extremely intelligent and kind young man, the climate for an unwed mother then — in the church, in hospitals, in schools — was still very hostile.\nHowever, while the repeal is a great move forward, we have to keep focus on the fact that there is still no abortion access in Northern Ireland. That part of the island — where I moved when I was 15 — is not covered by the constitution; it's part of the U.K., but is allowed to maintain its own laws on abortion, gay marriage, and other social issues. It will take a lot of pressure to align it socially with the rest of Ireland the UK.\nWhat made you decide to create The Devil’s Doorway using found footage techniques?\nThe producers came to me with the idea for a found footage film set in an abandoned laundry, in a contemporary setting. I was able to convince them that, if they wanted to make a found footage film, we could do something new by setting it in the ‘60s heyday of the laundries and restricting ourselves as much as possible, to the equipment available then. Producers never want to hear that you intend to shoot on film, but I was able to talk them into it. It allowed us to make something more like a Maysles Brothers documentary than Paranormal Activity or Grave Encounters. Those documentaries were an important reference for me. Also, because I wanted to make a proper Gothic horror film, full of dark corners, hidden secrets, and phantasmagorical turns, found footage was a sort of way to replicate the 19th Century epistolary sensational novels, like \"Maria Monk: The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life.\"\nYour Mother Superior is fantastic; illuminate us on how you found Helena Bereen and the rest of the cast. How long did casting take, and was it tricky to cast those roles?\nHelena is fantastic. She had just come to us from having played the personification of Belfast in Mark Cousins’ brilliant fantasy documentary I Am Belfast and my husband had worked with her in the theatre. Northern Ireland is small like that, so, while we came to most of the cast through the usual audition process, everybody was pretty familiar with everybody before we even began. Lalor, who plays the lead Father Thomas, is the only one who didn't come through the process. We had been looking to cast a little younger, but, somehow, the script had fallen into his hands and he just got in touch and asked to read for it, having seen the script somewhere. I invited him to my office, he auditioned there and then and he was Father Thomas. Lalor had lived through all the social upheaval in Ireland through the sixties and seventies and was full of the righteous anger that the project needed. Like Helena, he was just perfect off the bat.\nYou’re the very first female horror director in Northern Ireland. In 2018, does that feel odd? What’s the industry like in Northern Ireland?\nYes and no. I'd rather I wasn't. I would love to see what horror films would have come out of NI, by women or men, in the ‘60s,’ 70s, ‘80s; those were fascinating and terrifying times, but the film industry here was stultified and stymied by the Troubles and economic effects of that. However, in the past ten years or so, with Game of Thrones and other big international projects, the industry has transformed and we have so much opportunity and access to world-class, professional crews that there is a lot of great work coming out. And it will continue. If I am the first female horror director to make a feature here, I certainly won't be the last.\nI understand that the U.K. premiere is at FrightFest. If there have been test screenings, I’d love to hear about those audience reactions.\nYes, the U.K. premiere is on August 25th at FrightFest. The European premiere is at the Galway Film Fleadh on July 11th — it's important to have it there, so close to the mass grave in Tuam. There have been no test screenings; we simply didn’t have the budget for that. The festival screenings that we've had in the US have all been really positive and the ones that I had the luck to have attend had great atmosphere and the questions and interest shown by audiences, about the film, about the subject matter, about Ireland, about me, has all been enthusiastic and intelligent and engaged. It's really gratifying.\nWhat was the most challenging part(s) of production, and what did you learn?\nThe whole experience was different. I'd made shorts before and I've worked in theatre a lot, but making a feature is different. We had about 16 days to shoot, on a tiny budget, very little lead-in or development time — we just had to do it. The sort of all-encompassing focus that helps you work through so many consecutive hours, with little-to-no sleep, and leading a team of a dozens of people is an intense feeling. But I learned that this is where I thrive. In fact, I learned that the set is my favorite place to be and I can't wait to get on to the next one.\nIs there anything else you’d like us to know about The Devil’s Doorway?\nA lot of people ask me if, working on a film like this, there was any sense of demonic forces at work, Satanic presences. Perhaps we'd upset something or set something free. I know some people intimated that we might have a curse on our hands. I’m not a big believer in that sort of thing. But, in the end, I think someone — I don't know who — was watching over us. The day after filming, the roof completely caved in on the room we'd been using as the church. Who knows ­ if we hadn't kept to schedule, then we might been cursed after all.\nAislinn ClarkeIFC MidnightThe Devil's Doorway\nMore about The Devil's Doorway\nMayhem 2018: MANDY, ONE CUT OF THE DEAD And More Added to Festival","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line365866"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6063854694366455,"wiki_prob":0.6063854694366455,"text":"Dr. William J. Fecht Jr.\nDr. Paul K. Frederick\nOffice Visit Request\nContact Physician\nWill J. Fecht, Jr.\nWill J. Fecht, Jr.DevMaster2019-06-02T07:51:37-04:00\nDr. Fecht grew up in Carmel, Indiana after moving from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1983. He graduated cum laude from Wabash College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology.\nHe received his medical degree in 1998 from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He performed his internal medicine residency at Butterworth Hospital affiliated with Michigan State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During his final year he received the John R. Horn, M.D. Award for Best Clinical Research and Founders Trust Community Impact award for his work in evaluating preventive care. He also served as chief medicine resident.\nHe joined Indiana Gastroenterology in July 2005 after completing his three year gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at St. Louis University School of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and its subspecialty Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is a member of American Gastroenterological Association, American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American College of Physicians. His special interests include non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, preventive medicine, and electronic health information. He performs diagnostic and therapeutic upper endoscopy, colonoscopy, ERCP and capsule endoscopy.\nDr. Fecht and his wife Julie, a part-time pediatrician and full-time mother, have three children. His outside interests and hobbies include roller-blading, ice hockey and Lego.\nIndianapolis (primary) office\n9002 N Meridian St, Suite 200\nNoblesville (satellite) office\n325 Westfield Road, Suite D\n© 2019 Indiana Gastroenterology, Inc. All Rights Reserved.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line409818"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.617431104183197,"wiki_prob":0.617431104183197,"text":"Home / Sector News / Energy / Biofuels← Back\nBuilding|Design|Efficiency|Electrical|Energy|Engineering|Engines|Paper|Petrochemicals|Shell|Technology|Solutions\nStudent competition fosters innovative energy solutions\nECO-MARATHON Fostering an energy efficient-conscious mind-set among students is the first step towards embracing energy efficiency\nBy: Nica Schreuder\nIn a bid to allow South African engineering students to explore and understand energy efficiency and solutions, Gauteng-based tertiary institution the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has partnered with international energy and petrochemicals group Shell Global for the fourth time to host the annual Shell Eco-Marathon competition.\nThe Eco-Marathon, which took place on October 21 and 22 at the Zwartkops raceway, in Pretoria, challenged students from around the world to design, build and drive energy efficient cars. The competition focuses on distance rather than speed, with the team whose car can go the furthest distance on the least amount of energy deemed the winner, explains UJ School of Electrical Engineering head Professor Johan Meyer.\nHe explains that the marathon comprises different energy categories, namely internal combustion engines, battery electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cell-supplied energy.\nInternal combustion engines, made up of petrol and diesel-powered cars, required teams to fill a small glass with diesel or petrol to an accurate level before the race. When the laps were completed, the car was filled up with fuel again to measure how much fuel was used in those 10 km.\nIn the case of the fuel cell category, there is a special device that combines hydrogen and oxygen, which produces electricity. Cars are equipped with a small cylinder of hydrogen. Energy used on the track is expressed in kilometres per cubic metre of hydrogen.\nBattery-powered cars have on-board batteries, which supply an energy meter called a joule meter, which is able to measure the amount of energy consumed.\nEach of the 17 participating teams was required to do a minimum of 10 km, or four laps around the Zwartkops track at a minimum speed of 25 km/h.\n“Last year, South Africa’s fuel cell car ranked eighth globally, enthuses Meyer. The fuel cell-supplied vehicle travelled 317 km on one cubic metre of hydrogen. Being able to travel a significant distance on less than 100 g of hydrogen is what makes this competition so exciting,” Meyer motivates.\nBenefiting South African Students\nMeyer says UJ’s passion in participating in the marathon comes from wanting to motivate and stimulate its students with a real-life challenge. “It’s different than writing something on a piece of paper. If your car doesn’t run, that’s it – 50% is not good enough.”\nHe adds that students compete against themselves and other international teams, which allows them to form partnerships, network and pursue research and development opportunities. “The Eco-Marathon gives us an opportunity to engage with industry and other teams with different industry partners and sponsors. It helps our students to get plugged into the industry.”\nThe marathon is not just about building cars, but also about stimulating practical and creative engineering thought, while simultaneously building an awareness of energy efficient thinking and getting hands-on experience, says Meyer.\nHe points to competitions such as the Eco-Marathon playing a role in bridging South Africa’s current skills gap. He says, with engineering being one of the scarcest skills in the country, the more industry can attempt to stimulate and develop interests in engineering, the more tertiary institutions can educate students to become engineers that will ultimately make a difference to the country’s energy needs.\nA number of high schools are also eligible to participate, which fosters an emphasis on building science, technology, economics and mathematical skills at a high school level.\n“Initiatives such as these demonstrate commitment to harbouring young and dynamic talent displayed by learners and students who are dedicated to tackling the energy challenge. The event also serves as an ideal ground to attract and capture young people’s interest in the fields of science, technology and engineering,” Meyer says.\nThe Shell Eco-Marathon does emphasise technical aspects, but also allows for students to explore other skill sets, such as how to pitch an idea to raise funds and get sponsorships, and how to speak to people and teammates. Meyer believes this is integral to grooming students to graduate with practical experience of different skills in the engineering industry, both soft and technical.\nStudents, in turn, have an opportunity to broaden their mindsets regarding energy efficiency awareness. “They get a view outside the fence of UJ, and engage with industry to learn skill sets, which I believe makes them more well-rounded engineers. They also get to understand that there is an energy crisis, and can gear their solutions towards addressing it, once thinking differently about it,” he concludes.\nEdited by: Zandile Mavuso\nCreamer Media Senior Deputy Editor: Features\nMonitoring energy consumption fosters efficiency →\nSCG Paper Energy Co waste-to-energy plant, Thailand →\nNortham backs Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association’s awareness campaign →\nUS to strengthen energy partnerships in Africa, says US Energy Secretary\nBy: Kim Cloete\nUS Energy Secretary Rick Perry says his government is committed to strengthening its energy partnerships with African countries, but has called for a clear and transparent regulatory environment. “There is no more important message that governing bodies can send to both the US government and the private sector than to be very open, very transparent and to adhere to the rule of law.” →","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line59500"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.809868335723877,"wiki_prob":0.809868335723877,"text":"Rewriting Life\nRemote Monitoring of the Heart\nWearable, wireless technology detects early signs of heart failure.\nby David Talbot\nA 15-centimeter wireless sensor, recently approved by the FDA, holds the promise of reducing hospitalizations by allowing automated early detection of heart failure. The noninvasive device, which costs a few hundred dollars and adheres to a patient’s chest, monitors indicators of heart health–including heart and respiration rates, levels of patient activity, and even the accumulation of body fluid–as patients go about their daily lives.\nSensor patch: This 15-centimeter wearable patch measures temperature, heart and respiration rates, levels of physical activity, body position, and body-fluid levels using sensors that include an accelerometer and an impedance monitor.\nPart of a technology platform now being marketed by Corventis, a startup in San Jose, CA, the waterproof sensor beams data to a special cell-phone-like gadget in the patient’s pocket or home. From there, the data is wirelessly transmitted to the company’s servers. Algorithms detect anomalies and transmit data to physicians via the Web or a mobile device, drawing attention to patients who need immediate care.\n“We can transmit data from a patient to servers that can process the data–all without the patient knowing about it–24-7,” says Ed Manicka, the company’s president. “Your patient could be in Singapore, could be in Brussels, or could be across the room from you. And you can look at data from a website, or from an iPhone. Our system allows the computer to watch a patient all the time, not requiring the physician to continually look at data and act on it.”\nWhile some technologies exist that can do much of the same job, they are bulky and impractical or must be surgically implanted. “This is much more unobtrusive in people’s daily lives,” says Eric Topol, a cardiologist who directs the Scripps Translational Science Institute, a medical research center in La Jolla, CA.\nIn patients with heart disease, fluid buildup in the lungs leads to shortness of breath, places pressure on pulmonary arteries, and threatens to cause heart failure, requiring hospitalization to remove fluid. However, if the disease is caught early, before the patient feels symptoms, hospitalization can be avoided by giving the patient diuretics. Topol says that the Corventis device is unique in including an impedance detector, which measures the buildup of body fluid through an indirect electrical measurement. The buildup of body fluid serves as a proxy for the buildup of fluid in the lungs.\n“We’ve never had that before for remote monitoring,” Topol says. Beyond warning of heart failure through fluid detection, the device includes an accelerometer that tells if a person is generally less active–a sign that he is in distress–or not lying flat at night, which is another proxy measurement for fluid buildup in the lungs. (Lying flat makes the resulting shortness of breath worse, and sufferers will often sleep propped up on pillows.)\nA clinical trial evaluating whether the device can predict heart failure–the technical term is “decompensated heart failure”–is under way and nearly complete, Corventis says. Heart-failure decompensation is the leading cause of hospitalization in Medicare patients, with more than a million U.S. hospitalizations a year costing tens of billions of dollars. “The projections are that if you can do remote monitoring for heart failure, it would save $20 billion in hospitalizations each year,” says Topol.\nWhile scientists know that the device measures fluid accurately, it’s not yet clear whether having access to this information will ultimately reduce the incidence of hospitalization. This issue has plagued other cardiac monitoring devices, which accurately detected cardiac abnormalities but in the end failed to significantly improve clinical outcomes. “Intuitively, it’s really very exciting, but we still have to prove it,” says Topol. “But at least now there is a technology where you could see that the possibility is emerging.”\nThe company is also conducting a clinical trial to see if the sensor can diagnose sleep apnea through changes in respiration and blood oxygen levels. (Corventis plans to integrate a blood oxygen sensor in a future version of the device.) A third trial–to determine whether the device can predict imminent heart attacks by detecting subtle changes in heart rate and rhythm–is set to begin later this year, Manicka says.\nA second Corventis sensor under review by the FDA will do more fine-grained capture of heart-rhythm disturbances. This device could detect subtle changes in heart patterns suggestive of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation, which is associated with increased stroke risk and is diagnosed in 835,000 Americans each year.\nWith these kinds of small, unobtrusive wireless health sensing and analytic technologies emerging, “we’ve never had more exciting innovation in wireless medicine. It’s extraordinary,” Topol said at a recent conference. In a later interview, he added that wireless sensing could transform how many diseases are treated. “Someday, this will give the ability to transform one’s home into an [intensive-care unit], with continuous vital-sign measurements. There is a lot going on here, and there is the potential that it will transform health care.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line370027"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6799782514572144,"wiki_prob":0.6799782514572144,"text":"Africa, Aid, Featured, Gender, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva United Nations, Women's Health\nAccelerating Universal Health Coverage in Kenya-How do we get there?\nBy Werner Schultink and Rudi Eggers & Siddharth Chatterjee\tReprint | | Print |\nDr. Schultink is the UNICEF Representative to Kenya, Dr. Eggers is the WHO Representative to Kenya, Mr. Chatterjee is the UN Resident Coordinator to Kenya.\nPresident Uhuru Kenyatta greets a one-day-old baby when he commissioned medical equipment at the Mwingi Level 4 Hospital in Kitui. Kenya. Credit: State House\nNAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 27 2018 (IPS) - The Government of Kenya has prioritized universal health coverage (UHC) in its Big 4 agenda over the next 5 years.\nThis is a significant and perhaps the most important strategic priority. Why? Every year over a million Kenyans get trapped into poverty because of a catastrophic out of pocket payments due to health reasons.\nIn 1978, health campaigners worldwide achieved a major breakthrough at the UN Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care. This conference statement signaled a new approach to health care, often described as the ‘primary health care approach’ or the ‘Alma-Ata principles’ – deeply rooted in the social and structural determinants of health (such as poverty eradication), and emphasising the importance of health care being accountable and accessible to the people it serves. A global target of achieving “Health for All” by the year 2000 was established.\nHow do we ensure that Universal Health Coverage is possible in Kenya by 2022?\nThe answer is simple. The focus has to be on preventable and primary health care as emphasized in the Alma-Ata principles. The centrality of reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health will be critical to achieving UHC.\nKenya has made considerable but slow progress in reducing maternal, newborn and child mortality, but missing its 2015 Millennium Development Goal targets implies there is still a lot of pending work to give women and children the most basic of rights – the right to life and well being. As the First Lady of Kenya Ms Margaret Kenyatta has often said, “No woman should die giving life” which led to the launch of her signature Beyond Zero campaign and the Government declared a free maternal health care policy in 2013.\nThere are two reasons for seeing maternal and child health as a forerunner for UHC. First, it is clear that the mother’s overall state of health has a lifetime impact on an individual child’s health. Second, there is now evidence that households with maternal health complications spend considerably more of their savings to cover medical expenses. This is particularly key in rural settings where women play major economic roles.\nThe loss of women’s contributions combined with the spending shock they face can force households, particularly those already vulnerable, into deeply-entrenched poverty.\nReduction of out-of-pocket expenditure is central to achievement of UHC. One approach towards this reduction must be promotive and prevention-based intervention. We already have several proven, low cost-high impact interventions for significantly reducing the number of women dying during childbirth and shrinking new-born and childhood mortality.\nAbout 74,000 Kenyan children under the age of five died in 2016, including 33,000 aged below the age of one month. At the same time, about Kenyan 6,000 women die every year from giving life, many from treatable infections. Many of these deaths could have been averted with relatively simple interventions.\nKenya has done very well in developing relevant national guidelines and policies creating a framework that can efficiently deliver these high-impact maternal, newborn and child health interventions. Devolution of health services must now include cascading the policies to local health services, but more importantly, ensuring the guidelines are fully implemented.\nAnother concern is the variations in mortality, with differences between rural and urban communities, rich and poor and between developed and under-developed counties.\nEven though Nairobi is the most developed county, it has the highest annual absolute number of maternal, newborn and child deaths compared to all other counties. This will only increase as the city population rapidly expands. Conversely, maternal and newborn mortality rates are highest in counties such as Marsabit, Turkana, Kitui, and Kilifi.\nThe recently-released UNICEF report on the power of investing in the poor indicate that for every US$ 1,000 invested in health for the poorest children, nearly twice as many lives are saved compared to investing in areas where richer people live.\nThe attainment of UHC must not be seen as a purely technical objective, but must be accompanied by purposeful redistribution of resources for equitable gains.\nThe following low cost high-impact interventions will leapfrog UHC. These interventions should be included in the essential health service package that should be available to all Kenyans at no further cost: 1. 100% immunization coverage. 2. Scaling up maternal and child health by ensuring exclusive breastfeeding, hand-washing to prevent transfer of infectious diseases, chlorhexidine as an antiseptic for umbilical cord, newborn resuscitation, ‘Kangaroo’ mother care, family planning, antenatal and postnatal care and skilled delivery. 3. Prevention of water borne, vector borne, TB and HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. 4. Prevention of non-communicable diseases, particularly diabetes and hypertension. 5. Improving nutrition of women who conceive and follow this through to the first 5 years of a child’s life.\nThese 5 actions will not only help achieve universal primary health coverage within 5 years, but reduce the number of patients going into the referral systems. It will reinforce the famous adage, “prevention is better than cure.”\nInnovative approaches are needed to address weaknesses and shortages of human resources and focus more on improving performance of the existing workforce. Already, the government is emphasizing the role of community health volunteers in implementing some of these interventions.\nWith over 70% of Kenya’s population under 30 years of age, the government of Kenya’s focus on UHC is critical for Kenya to reap a demographic dividend.\nIt is crucial that we further strengthen our partnership between county governments, UN agencies, international development partners, civil society and private sector to seek the quickest pathways towards realization of universal health coverage.\nKenya can lead the way in achieving universal health coverage.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1484745"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6519966125488281,"wiki_prob":0.6519966125488281,"text":"Frances Smith-Dean\nA Native of New Orleans, Louisiana currently residing in Richardson Texas is the Executive Director of The Zan W. Holmes, Jr. Community Outreach Center in Dallas, Texas and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Richland College. Frances is the wife of Darryl Charles Dean and mother of Charles, Derrick, Frances and Darrylynn Dean. Frances has been actively involved in community, economic and political activism most of her life. Her motto in life is “ordinary people have the power to do extraordinary things.” Developer and creator of the Zan W. Holmes, Jr. Community Outreach Juneteenth Economic Forum.\nBecause of her leadership, internationally Frances was instrumental with establishing a foreign exchange trade business trip between the US-China Business Council, Southern University A & M of Baton Rouge and The City of Baker Louisiana in 2012. The City of Baker signed a Friendship City Agreement with China and Southern University Agricultural Center signed a partnership agreement with Dr. Walter Chen, who is one of the most influential Chinese American Economist for the top 100 businesses in China.\nIn 2010 Frances visited United Arab Emirates Cities: Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah with Leadership America exploring how the UAE manages Economic, Education and Healthcare systems. During this visit,the UAE Chief Economist explains the role of the Sovereign Wealth Funds and the impact of Sharia Law in business. The American University Chancellor provides an in-depth view on the role education and health systems.\nIn 2007 and 08 Frances was invited to speak at Freedom Fest Libertarian Think Tank Conference by Columbia University Professor and Former Chief Economist of the CIA, Mark Skousen where she discussed Reforming Urban Education and Creating Fair Markets within a Free Market Enterprise System. Frances noted the seven stages of an Empire and how she developed and implemented the New Orleans Public Schools Money Matter$ curriculum and program throughout many of the lowest-performingschools. Frances also served as Kaufman Business Advisor to the University of New Orleans Small Business Development Center where she trained and advised over 200 small business owners inthe City of New Orleans. The New Orleans Federal Reserve in1997 credited the Money Matter$ Program with the 2 percent growthin the savings rate in New Orleans while the national rate was declining.\nBeforeHurricane,Katrina Frances worked in the healthcareindustry as a financial consultant whichled to the implementation and expansion of healthcarefacilities throughout Louisiana and California. She was the lead consultant to Good Will Hospice, Louisiana Wellness and Rehabilitation Centers, and Metropolitan Hospital. Frances assisted with financing projects for these companies more than25 million dollars. During this time Frances also was a registered investment advisor for Nation-wide insurance where she managed over 1000 employees with theCity of New Orleans, Regional Transit Authority, and seven other municipalities within the New Orleans River Region’s PublicEmployee Deferred Compensation plans.\nToday, Frances still services as a business advisor to many faith-based organizations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. The owner of The Financial Educator, LLCFrances maintains her clients through coaching and training sessions in Arkansas, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas. She has developed coaching curriculum entitled: How to Maneuver in Any Economy, Accumulation, Acceleration, and the Six-figure Sister.\nFrances is currently working on her Educational Doctorate in Higher Education in Leadership from Trident University. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Xavier University in New Orleans and a Master of Science in Teaching Mathematics from the LoyolaUniversity of Louisiana. Frances has served on many state boardsand faith-based organization boards. A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Politically, Frances served as an At-large delegate in 2004 at the National Republican Convention for Former President George W. Bush and State Central Committee Member District 100 and District E Members in Louisiana for District 100 for the Republican Party and Louisiana Exploratory Committee for Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign.\nZan Wesley Holmes, Jr. Community Outreach Center\nAdministrative Offices Only | 2606 Martin Luther King Blvd., Suite 202 | Dallas, TX 75215 | 214.324.4443/Main\nFrazier House\nPrograms and Training Offices | 4600 Spring Ave. | Dallas, TX 75210 | 214.324.4443/Main\n©2019 ZAN WESLEY HOLMES, JR. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.561825692653656,"wiki_prob":0.438174307346344,"text":"Buck Up (2019)\nThat Boy\nAmerican Kid\nBuck Up\nVim & Vigor\nSo Ferocious\nLovin is Easy\nFat & Happy\nThe Animal I Am\nFever Dream\nLaziest Gal in Town\nHeavenly Thing\nTwo Sleepy People\nYou Don't Know What Love Is\nWhat Is This Thing Called Love?\nDo You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?\nSweet Lorraine\nDon't Come Too Soon\nNot Old, Not New\nUnder Your Thumb\nTogether Too Long\nLittle Death\nIdiot Heart\nAll We Got\nHonest Truth\nItches and Tugs\nO, Gabriella\nTwo at a Time\nEvery Punch You Throw\nBaby Can Dance\nCrazy for Love\nAnything At All\nAin't So Green\nDon't Wanna Know\nEverybody's All Alone\nTake Me Along\nTemporary Lapse\nWedding Song\nWilling To Fall\nRedemption Blues\nthoughts on love, sex, music and ferocity\ntagged: sex law\nCasual Love\nHow Not To Be A Nice Girl\nNew Rules for the Music Business\nEmotional Affairs Are Not a Real Problem\nHow to DO Creativity - Part II.\nSix Things I Hope I Learned in My Twenties\nThe Importance of Practicing Heartbreak\nOn Women Who Like Sex\nThree Myths About Art and Success\nThe Problem with Panic\nSexual misconduct, affirmative consent, and the dangers of shame and moralism.\nWe are in the midst of a massive reconnoitering of American sexual culture. At the convergence of the Weinstein watershed, the #MeToo movement, and the rapidly-changing standards of sexual negotiation and consent, it has become clear that we are undergoing a sea change.\nMost of the women I talk to are giddy with delight. There is a sense that the feminist movement has finally made it out of classrooms and courthouses, and is entering the intimate spaces of our everyday lives. There is a sense that the chickens are coming home to roost, and that men - who have enjoyed centuries of arbitrary and unmitigated power over us - are being cut down to size.\nBut there is also a sense, in some quarters, that this particular reckoning contains within it a kernel of panic, and that the legacy of sex panic in America is long and grotesque. There are those of us, for example, who feel that Al Franken might better serve women by staying in the Senate, attempting to divert the coming wave of fascism, than by sitting at home thinking about what he’s done. There are those who have been victimized not only by men, but by previous moral panics, and the misguided policy decisions that follow in their wake. And there are those of us who worry that while talking about sexual assault is a clear sign of progress, the way we are talking about sexual assault may be setting us up for a dangerous and regressive backlash.\nI’ve been reading voraciously for the past couple months, trying to absorb the many competing interpretations of this cultural moment. Much of what I’ve read has been deeply thoughtful, courageous, and gorgeously written. But some of it has been short-sighted and narrow-minded; more concerned with the thrill of the latest accusation, or with regressive, sensationalist theories, than with the broader meaning or direction of the movement. Pieces like these seem to present within them the very weapons that may be pointing back at us when the tide, inevitably, turns.\nAs an amateur student of sexual culture, history, and law, I can’t help but notice these troubling patterns, and feel obligated to address them. I worry that this will lose me friends and fans, because some of what I’m going to say is decidedly out of fashion; so much so that it may be interpreted as offensive or even immoral.\nBut I am an artist, not a politician. My obligation is not to fashion, or even to feminism, but to the truth, as I see it.\n1) The problem of sexual moralism.\nIn Christine Emba’s recent opinion piece “Let’s rethink sex”, she makes the following observation:\n“It’s unlikely that we’ll return to a society in which sexual encounters outside of marriage are disallowed or even discouraged — that sex train has already left the fornication station, if it was ever properly there to begin with. But now could be the time to reintroduce virtues such as prudence, temperance, respect and even love. We might pursue the theory that sex possibly has a deeper significance than just recreation and that “consent” — that thin and gameable boundary — might not be the only moral sensibility we need respect.”\nWhile this seems benign enough on its face (although, spoiler: the sex train was indeed never “properly” confined to marriage), it left me in a cold sweat. Consent may be an imperfect boundary – I’d even agree that it is thin and “gameable” - but it is the only practicable boundary that does not invoke sexual moralism, which is the opposite of sexual liberation.\nMoralism thrives on vague, nameless panic, and can only be beaten back with nuance and specificity. When we allow the media to lean on vague, catchall phrases like “sexual misconduct” and “inappropriate behavior”, we are inadvertently furthering the cause of sexual moralism, and making room for just such harebrained attempts to “rethink sex”.\nSexual moralism makes two claims:\n1. Sex is outstandingly powerful and magical. When it’s “good”, it’s sacred and holy and life-creating, but when it’s “bad” it’s terrible and evil and life-destroying. It’s really important that we protect the power/magic of sex, and don’t allow anybody to treat it with a laissez faire attitude; that’s why birth control and abortion are bad, and love and commitment are necessary.\n2. All sex is either “good” or “bad”. And, wow! We happen to have the rulebook right here! We can just look up the sex in question, and determine whether it is of the sacred/holy variety, or the terrible/evil variety. It’s oh, so simple!\nBut here’s the bad news for the moralists. Sex is rarely magical, sacred, evil, or simple. The magical part (if you ask me), is that humans are so incredibly sexually omnivorous. There is no more a “right way” to have sex than there is a “right way” to eat food. There are plenty of ways to do it, and plenty of reasons for doing it: we do it for fun, to connect, to satisfy hunger, to satisfy curiosity, to make each other happy, to make each other unhappy, to get power and status, to explore our own psychology, to express ourselves, to distract ourselves, and to perpetuate the species. We do it because we are ridiculous, dumb, playful animals.\nAnd as we consider resorting to sexual moralism in a desperate attempt to control sexual assault and violence, here’s the bad news for the rest of us:\nSexual moralism has more often resulted in panic-driven, counterproductive legislation (sodomy laws, Sex Offender Registries, limiting access to birth control and abortion, criminalizing gay marriage and trans use of bathrooms, and jailing teenagers for sexting) than in security or justice.\nAnd it has never, on the societal level, resulted in “prudence” or “temperance”.\nOf course, we are each free to enjoy our own preferred flavor of sexual moralism, in our own sex life. But if we hope to progress, we should avoid imposing it on large groups of strangers.\nAs we watch hordes of creepy, despotic men being thrown to the lions, it’s easy to enter a Coliseum-like mob mentality. It’s thrilling to see scums-of-the-earth like Weinstein and Moore destroyed, and difficult to see the potential negative fallout of this kind of justice. But as we begin to throw additional creeps into the pit without thoroughly reviewing the evidence, we are allowing ourselves to be seduced by righteous indignation, which is often the precursor to sexual moralism.\nRejecting sexual moralism doesn’t mean that we can’t criticize people for shitty sexual behavior; or fire, prosecute or jail them for harassment or assault. It means that we must remain committed to nuance, complexity, and evidence-based justice as we do so. All of these are necessary for us, as a society, to determine how to prevent sexual assault without surrendering the hard-won victories of the sexual liberation movement.\nOne of the reasons sexual moralism strikes me as a clear and present danger in contemporary American society is that any standard other than “consenting adults can have whatever kind of sex they damn well please” is just a short downhill slide from our conventional societal structure, wherein sexual morality is the purview of the Christian right.\nThe Christian right, in case you’ve forgotten, is allergic to all sex that isn’t straight, married, and potentially reproductive (as is alarmingly foreshadowed in Emba’s widely-shared piece, published not in Christian Living, but in the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune).\nAnd before you say “nah, this time is different!”, please cast your mind back to the ancient times of barely one year ago, when the Christian right – using their time-honored, folksy traditions of fear-mongering, nationalism, white supremacy and misogyny – helped to elect a fascist-leaning, fantastically underqualified President.\nWith this in mind, I think you’ll agree that it’s particularly important for us to keep our heads, and remain committed to evidence, nuance, and real progressive change. Righteous indignation – especially in times of creeping fascism - is a very bad organizing strategy.\n“So how about if we avoid turning Sexual Moralism 2.0 into shitty, regressive, life-destroying legislation, and just stick with the public shamings?” You might ask.\nUnfortunately, we already have plenty of evidence that shaming people about their sexual urges and behaviors doesn’t work. Instead, it drives those urges and behaviors deeper into the closet, where they get nastier and uglier and meaner. And then, in order to protect our shameful meanness, we construct whole philosophies and institutions around the denial of said urges and behaviors, until that precious house of cards finally self-destructs under the weight of the lie.\nJust ask the Catholic Church!\nOr even the Penn State Nittany Lions.\nWe have run plenty of experiments, and the results are in. Sexual shame and moralism do not serve to prevent sexual abuse; they serve to protect it.\n2) The problem of “Sex Offenders” and “Sexual Misconduct”.\nOn the topic of sexual moralism resulting in shitty, life-destroying legislation: let’s talk about Sex Offender Registries.\nIn the 1990s, a series of high-profile child sex abuse cases resulted in a cluster of sex offender laws. First, states were required to add all “Sex Offenders” to a registry; then “community reporting” laws required states to make those registries public; then “residency restrictions” were added in many states to bar registered offenders from working or living within a thousand feet of a school, park, swimming pool, or daycare.\nThe first problem with sex offender registries is that they have a tendency to destroy the lives of registrants. Residency restrictions can significantly impact a registrant’s ability to find legal housing or work, and most states allow potential employers and landlords to deny work or housing on the basis of sex offender status, even when the registrant has managed to meet those restrictions. Community reporting laws in some states require that whenever a registered sex offender moves or changes jobs, their neighbors and coworkers are notified, via flier or bulletin, of their status (for comparison: this does not happen when a convicted murderer moves in).\n“So what’s wrong with destroying the lives of rapists and child abusers?” You may ask.\nUnfortunately, the registries include large numbers of people whose “crimes” do not come close to qualifying as abuse, many of whom ended up on the list when they were teenagers, or even children themselves (according to Human Rights Watch, children as young as 9 have been placed on the registry, and Juvenile offenders account for 25 percent of the 800,000+ registrants). So even those among us with the deepest faith in punitive justice - and the deepest hatred for sex abuse - may have to admit that the implementation is less than ideal.\nThe second problem with sex offender registries is that they don’t work. Registry laws were passed based on a pervasive sense of panic, rather than on empirical evidence; and in the decades that have passed since their implementation, statistical data has failed to provide any.\nThere is vanishingly little evidence that sex offender registration, mandatory reporting laws, or residency restrictions have any measurable impact on deterring first-time offenders, or reducing recidivism.\nBoth of these very big problems may relate to the fact that sex offender registries fail to make distinctions between different kinds of “sex offense”. While the registries do include people who have been convicted of rape and child molestation, they also include people like a relative of mine, who was placed on the sex offender registry at the age of nineteen for having consensual sex with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend.\nEach state determines what qualifies as a sex offense, and due to the historical popularity of using sexual moralism to determine our sex laws, some states cast a particularly wide net.\nTwenty-nine states can require sex offender registration for consensual sex between teenagers. Twelve states can require sex offender registration for urinating in public. In a rash of recent cases, teenagers are being placed on sex offender registries for “distributing child pornography”, after being caught texting pictures of their own genitalia to another teenager.\nSex offender registries also include people who have visited a sex worker, people who “exposed themselves” to children when they were also children, and at least one parent who was found guilty of being “party to the crime of child molestation” for letting their fifteen-year-old daughter have sex with her boyfriend.\nBy calling all of these people “sex offenders”, we have obliterated any possibility of sex offender registries being a useful tool for protecting our families from abuse. Instead, we have succeeded only in depriving a huge and growing number of people - whose “crimes” consist of decidedly normal and innocuous sexual behavior – of the right to fair treatment under the law.\nWhen I read accounts of “sexual misconduct” among famous men, I can’t help but draw a correlation. I worry that we are in the process of conflating rapists and abusers with assholes (people who do mean or obnoxious things, out of thoughtlessness or insensitivity) and fuckwits (people who do dumb things, out of dumbness), and that this conflation is leading us down a dark and familiar road.\nBased on my reading of the allegations at hand (with the caveat that published accounts may be incomplete, new information is coming out every day, and accusations are usually true):\n- Harvey Weinstein is a rapist.\n- Donald Trump is a rapist, as well as a serial sexual-assaulter.\n- Kevin Spacey is a serial sexual-assaulter. He also may be attracted to adolescent teenagers, or was when he was in his twenties (not a pedophile, but a hebephile, in the name of specificity).\n- Roy Moore is a serial sexual-assaulter of minors, and probably also a hebephile.\n- Louis C.K. abused his professional power to manipulate several women into weird, creepy sexual situations. This may or may not qualify as sexual assault, but it certainly qualifies as assholery.\n- Al Franken is probably more of a fuckwit.\n- Garrison Keillor might be an asshole, a fuckwit, or both; but at this point, there is no public evidence to either support or refute that claim.\nSome of these cases constitute harassment or assault, and some of them may not. Some of these men have been sued by their accusers, some have not. That’s partly because it is not a crime to be an asshole, even when the expression of your assholery is sexual. And that is a good thing.\nWhen we conflate assholery with rape and assault, and approach all of them with the same fervor for punitive justice, we are inadvertently downgrading the seriousness of rape and assault. In addition to being an insult to survivors of rape and assault, this puts us at great risk of cultural and political backlash.\nThere is a danger of the #MeToo movement creating similar conflations. Although immensely useful in identifying and raising awareness of the problem (huge numbers of women have been coerced into uncomfortable and unwanted sexual situations, at work and elsewhere), the solution will require more from us. It will require lots of frank and specific conversations about what kinds of sexual behavior are dangerous, and should be labeled “criminal”; what kinds of sexual behavior are inappropriate at work, and should be fireable offenses; and what kinds of sexual behavior are socially unacceptable, but should be addressed directly with the asshole in question.\nIf the sex offender registry teaches us anything, it’s that a failure to make distinctions like these - when combined with our pre-existing culture of sexual moralism and punitive justice - is itself dangerous.\nI must’ve read the phrase “sexual assault is not about sex, it’s about power” a thousand times since November. While I don’t dispute the sentiment, it always strikes me as incomplete. Sexual assault is about power; sex works as a method of control because sex and its attendant cultural narratives are so powerful. And the less we understand and examine them, the more powerful they become.\nThat’s why it seems to me that in order to address sexual assault, we need to abandon catchalls like “sexual misconduct”, and be willing to talk - with honesty and specificity - about sex. We need to confront the confusion, anxiety, messiness, and shame of our sexual culture, and of sexuality itself, and not revert to lazy and dangerous oversimplifications.\nAs long as we defer that project, no amount of retribution will satisfy us, or protect us.\n3) The problem of consent.\nBack in October, I ran a Kickstarter campaign for a card game I created called The F’ing Truth. It’s a talking-about-sex game, and it includes over a hundred questions about players’ sexual experiences and interests. The purpose of the game is to make it fun and easy to talk about sex with the aforementioned honesty and specificity.\nHalfway through the campaign, I released a printable version of the game to Kickstarter backers. Some backers reacted negatively to a few of my questions, on the grounds that those questions could be construed as pertaining to nonconsensual sex. Here are the questions they took issue with:\n#23: Have you ever had sex while intoxicated, or with a partner who was intoxicated?\n#26: Have you ever had sex while asleep, or with a partner who was asleep?\n#34: Have you ever lied, withheld, or distorted information to encourage someone to have sex with you?\n#34: Have you ever had sex with your employee, subordinate, or student?\nWhile I agree with the fact that any of these questions could pertain to nonconsensual sex, I don’t agree with the assumption that they must. This reaction strikes me as a kind of consent-based sexual idealism, which does not leave room for the complexity, awkwardness, or confusion of actual sex.\nRegardless of whether you feel that these questions are referring to “bad” sex or “good” sex: did you answer yes or no?\nI, for one, answer “yes” to all of them, as have many of the people I’ve played the game with. All of these kinds of sex are prevalent, and often consensual. I worry that by vilifying them, we are – again – sacrificing a lot of valuable nuance in the name of an unrealistic standard of sexual righteousness.\nIn other words: this may be sexual moralism in new clothes. In this case, the measuring-stick of righteousness is “affirmative verbal consent”, combined with the belief that people who do not hold equal power (like bosses and employees) are incapable of consent. This is a better standard than, say, “sex is only for procreation”, but like all forms of sexual moralism, it makes one fatal error: it fails to thrive in reality.\nThe truth is, there are many healthy sexual behaviors besides fully-verbalized, enthusiastic, sober sex, between adults who know each other and enjoy the same socioeconomic status.\nThere is flirting – which is not only verbal, but also physical – and which by its very nature includes making a sexual overture when you don’t know for sure whether the other party feels the same way. There is the honest-but-awkward attempt to flirt, which often includes making the other party uncomfortable. There is joking, which - since the dawn of time - has included sex as a central theme, because sex is hilarious. There is non-sexual touch, which is sometimes misinterpreted as sexual. There is unwanted touch, and unwanted sex, which we are afraid or ashamed to admit is unwanted, until later. There is consensual sex that is stupid, or drunken, or just bad. There is consensual sex between bosses and employees, actors and directors, and teenagers and adults. There is the sexualization of power imbalances, which is exceedingly common for people of all genders and orientations. There is consensual sex which we regret having consented to.\nThere are sexual interactions that make us feel icky, or awkward, or even deeply hurt; and yet, no wrong has been done.\nI am not being prescriptive here, I am reporting. All of these kinds of interactions occur, regularly, in the actual world where we live. To chalk them all up to “nonconsensual”, and to then use “nonconsensual” as a bludgeon with which to beat each other, is to deprive ourselves of deeply important distinctions, and to shame ourselves and each other for many of the sexual interactions we have, and will continue having.\nAlthough “affirmative verbal consent” may be a good policy for institutions (because it removes the burden of proof from the victim), and a good guideline for men (because it treats them as responsible actors), it strikes me as a poor measure of sexual righteousness, and a potentially dangerous interpretation of feminism.\nLet’s review the brief history of “affirmative verbal consent”.\nIn 1991, Antioch College instituted the “Sex Offense Prevention Policy”, or SOPP, which includes the following: 1) all sexual activity at this college must be consensual. 2) “Consent” is defined as verbal. 3) Violations of this policy should be reported to the community standards board. 4) In response to complaints of a violation, the board will hold a hearing in which they interview all parties involved, including witnesses. 5) The board can respond to complaints in a variety of ways, including mediation, “restitution”, therapy, community service, loss of campus privileges (jobs, housing), and finally, suspension or expulsion.\nSince Antioch (which was roundly mocked for this policy in the early 90s, including by SNL), more than 1400 colleges have adopted similar policies, and two states (California and New York) have passed legislation requiring colleges to institute their own affirmative consent policies.\nA few clarifying notes: 1) Affirmative consent is a policy on college campuses. It is not a law for adults who live in the wild. 2) While the SOPP gives a lot of consideration to “due process” following violations of the consent policy, many of the campus policies that have followed do not. 3) At this point, there is no evidence that affirmative consent policies result in a decline in campus assault or rape. There is, however, some evidence that these policies result in disproportionate disciplinary expulsions of students of color.\nRegardless of our personal feelings or beliefs about verbal consent (which may, rightly, be totally positive): the evidence on whether affirmative consent policies work is conspicuously absent. They may be a triumph for women, or they may be another example of turning panic into law, and waiting a few generations to find out whether it was a good idea.\nAside from law and policy, though, I’d argue that the way we are talking about consent in the media and online is becoming increasingly more ominous, less helpful to women, and further removed from the realities of sex between adult people. The trend seems to be towards a view of women as passive recipients of sex, incapable of communicating desire, preference, or rejection.\nTake, for example, this mindboggling statement recently published in the New York Times:\n“Most of us understand, or at least we should, that a blackout drunk person cannot consent to sex. On some campuses, that inability to consent applies even if someone has had just a sip or two. But what about a woman who doesn’t feel that she can speak up because of cultural expectations? Should that woman be considered unable to consent, too?”\nSpeaking for myself, I’d have to say, absofuckinglutely not. I have spent my adult life developing a sense of sexual agency; of familiarity with, and entitlement to, my sexual desires and preferences. If you want to take it from me, you’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.\nThis is Dworkinesque anti-sex feminism, repackaged for the 21st century. It echoes both Victorian feminism and the religious right in its fantasies of female purity, chastity, and helplessness in the face of Big Bad Male Sexuality. While it can make for an interesting philosophical exercise, I find it useless - and potentially dangerous - for those of us who hope to live as women here on planet earth.\nAlthough it is too early to say conclusively, recent research suggests that sexual assault resistance training - unlike campus policies of affirmative consent - may reduce rates of assault and rape by up to 50%. The Canadian pilot program included (as part of a multi-faceted approach) training and education for young women “to explore ways to overcome emotional barriers to resisting the unwanted sexual behaviors of men who were known to them, and practice resisting verbal coercion”.\nIn light of this information (and supported by my own personal experience, and that of many of the women in my life), I think we should consider the potential dangers of encouraging women to view themselves as powerless, silent victims.\nTo my ear, the standard of verbal consent - requested by the male partner, granted by the female partner – seems to further the “women are powerless victims” narrative. It focuses only on the male actor, gives him full responsibility for the sexual interaction, and fails to provide any guidance whatsoever for how we, as women, can have better sex, or avoid traumatic sexual experiences.\nIf the conversation ends with “men should get our consent”, we have only succeeded in giving away our sexual agency, and inviting men to treat us as passive recipients of sex. Instead, it should be our goal to enter a sexual interaction as a full participant, which must necessarily include a measure of responsibility for pursuing what feels good, and changing or stopping what feels bad.\nBy saying this, I absolutely don’t intend to blame or shame women who have been victims of sexual assault, or of otherwise painful or traumatic sexual experiences. Many sexual assaults are physically forced, or perpetrated on a victim who is passed out, or who is a child. Some assaults are coerced in the context of power differentials that make consent complicated (I don’t believe that able-bodied, conscious adults are ever “incapable” of consent, but that does not preclude us from considering the complexities of power).\nBut still others fall into a gray area. Many of us have had a sexual interactions that felt terrible, but that we did not attempt to stop or change. If something like this has happened to you (as it has to me), have compassion for yourself.\nWe have, after all, been socialized to find sex terrifying and confusing, and to surrender our responsibility and agency to whatever random male is available. This combination means that the very act of being approached sexually brings up a fuckton of bullshit for us, which is at times difficult to see through.\nSome of that bullshit includes:\nSex is dirty and dangerous; you shouldn’t do it at all. Sex is sacred and holy and God cares about how and whether you do it. Sex is your only value as a human, so you should do it well. Sex is something men want, and are in charge of. Wanting or liking sex makes you a filthy slutty whore. Not wanting or liking sex makes you a dull unfuckable prude. Pleasing men is your whole job. No one will ever love you if you don’t do sex correctly.\nIf any of this sounds familiar, and reminds you of someone in your past, any media you’ve ever consumed, or the inside of your own brain: you may be a lucky recipient of American Female Human Socialization. If you’ve ever found yourself in an uncomfortable sexual situation and become paralyzed with confusion or fear, then congratulations! It worked.\nBut in the name of becoming happier, more empowered people: shouldn’t it be our goal to work through the bullshit, and become full participants in our sexual lives?\nAnd when we focus only on the idea that it’s a man’s job to seek consent, and that consent is some kind of magic incantation that renders us fuckable, are we not perpetuating the same bullshit, in a hip new outfit?\nWhat’s more: due to the aforementioned bullshit, even if our partners request and receive verbal consent 100% of the time, we will not be saved from the possibility of icky, awkward or hurtful sex.\nWe are all just too full of shit.\nTo avoid hurtful and traumatizing sexual interactions, we need to approach the problem from both sides of the bed. Men should seek enthusiastic consent, and women should seek to incinerate the bullshit inside us, confront anyone who makes us uncomfortable, and become active co-creators of the sex we have.\nThe seemingly-innocuous #BelieveAllWomen hashtag strikes me as a similarly infantilizing perversion of feminism. Isn’t the idea that women are immaculate Goddess-creatures, irreproachable and unable to engage in debate or stand up to scrutiny, something feminism has historically been fighting against?\nThese narratives of victimization (which I can’t help but notice, have a tendency to come from upper-class, educated, white liberal feminists (like me!)) also seem to lack acknowledgement of the larger power struggles playing out in society. Women like me have, in fact, scraped together a huge amount of cultural, economic, and institutional power and privilege. There are millions of women in this country (and the world) whose social conditioning has been more toxic than ours, and is combined with considerably more economic and institutional obstacles.\nThe victim narrative seems to imply that until we are free of all negative cultural conditioning, we cannot be expected to take responsibility for our action, or inaction. If we believe this, what does that mean for people who have received more negative cultural conditioning: women of color, men of color, gay and trans people?\nBy encouraging us to frame ourselves as powerless, the narrative of victimization seems to reduce our responsibility to protect ourselves, and obliterate our responsibility to engage in political struggles with those who have even less access to power.\nIt seems to me that in order to further the larger struggle for equal rights, we must reject the narrative that because we are not yet equal, we are powerless.\n4) The problem of shame.\nOne of the questions the media seems to be doing a poor job of grappling with is that of why this seeming “epidemic” is happening at all. In a stunning display of pseudo-journalistic bullshittery, the New York Times put it this way:\n“How are we supposed to create an equal world when male mechanisms of desire are inherently brutal?”\nRather than dignifying that regressive, biologically-deterministic, downright stupid question, how about we answer some different ones. Like:\n“Why is all of this coming out now?”\nThis cultural sea change is only possible because of the legal and institutional sea change that has taken place over the past century. The movements for suffrage, civil rights, reproductive rights, and rights and protections for women in the workplace have given us a world that is almost unrecognizable from that of our foremothers. We can vote, own property, enter any college or profession we like, and decide for ourselves whether and how to marry, have sex, or have children. We can even (and this one is fairly recent) sue and collect damages for workplace sexual harassment.\nNone of those statements would have been true one hundred years ago.\nI say this to point out that we are part of history, and history is still happening. This wave of cultural change is part of the larger story of the struggle for equal rights. The policies and laws we pass have an enormous effect on culture, which plays out over generations; and the culture we create has an enormous effect on future policy and law.\nHere’s another good question:\n“People are assholes in all kinds of ways. Why is regular assholery different from sexual assholery?”\nI’d argue that there are two reasons.\nThe first reason is that sexual assholery, especially when performed by a male perpetrator upon a female victim, is part of a historical context in which sex (and related issues like birth control, reproductive health, abortion and motherhood) is the primary battleground on which the war on women takes place. Sex has been used to control, devalue and silence women for actual millennia, and we are dealing with the legacy of that tradition every day of our lives. This is the conversation we are beginning to have in the culture at large, which is long-awaited and much-needed.\nThe second reason is shame.\nSexual assholery strikes us as more serious, dangerous, and shameful than general, everyday assholery, because we have not yet shaken our belief in the inherent danger and shamefulness of sex itself.\nHow can it possibly be more hurtful to touch someone’s breast than to punch them in the face?\nHow can it be a resignation-worthy offense for a senator to put his hand on a woman’s butt, but business-as-usual for a senator to go home for Christmas without renewing funding for CHIP (which provides access to basic medical care for 9 million low-income children)?\nIn part, because when someone commits an act of sexual assholery (and this is also true of sexual assault, harassment, and rape), they are weaponizing the shame that is already inside us.\nAnd shame – especially for women – is so incredibly powerful, deep-seated, and all-encompassing, that we will do almost anything to keep it hidden.\nWhich is why it is a revolutionary act - and a stride towards ending sexual violence - to become shameless.\n5) The problem of what to do.\nWhen we lose sight of the broader struggles taking place – in this case, the battles for women’s rights AND for sexual freedom and justice for sexual minorities – we risk making the wrong legal and institutional changes, and those changes bring with them a legacy that lasts for many generations (as in the case of sex offender registries).\nLaws and policies that are evidence-based, rather than driven by panic and moralism, typically do a better job at improving people’s lives.\nHere are a few examples of the kinds of evidence we might use to make laws about sexual behavior:\n-Decriminalizing sex work may reduce sexual violence by 30% (and some STDs by 40%).\n-“Sexual Assault Resistance Training” for female college students may reduce rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault by almost half.\n-Proactive counselling and group therapy for pedophiles seems to prevent child sexual abuse more effectively than mandatory reporting and sex offender registration.\n-Comprehensive sex education has been shown repeatedly to reduce unprotected sex, unintended pregnancies, and the spread of STDs.\n- Because this is my favorite statistic and everyone should have it on hand: abortion rates are about the same worldwide, regardless of legality (but where abortion is illegal, more women die from botched abortions). The only thing that has been shown to reduce abortion rates is access to free contraception.\nI don’t know yet how this will play out, and it’s possible that this sea change is, in fact, entirely healthy, and will result in a greater measure of justice for all involved. But I do know that panic and righteous indignation do not, historically, produce good legislation. So I can’t help but implore us to, first of all, stop panicking.\nOther than that, here are my humble suggestions:\nContinue to report, litigate, and speak out about sexual assault and harassment. This will help to improve our legal and institutional processes for handling accusations, which should be our #1 priority if we hope to stop the Weinsteins of the world.\nContinue to hire and elect women and sexual minorities into positions of institutional, legal and political power. This will continue to change sexual culture in the workplace and in society, and to dismantle the hierarchies that protect harassers and abusers.\nTalk about sex and sexual abuse using precise, shame-free language; continue to normalize and celebrate healthy sex (in all of its myriad forms); and maintain a commitment to evidence and data especially when dealing with sex. This will give us a head start if we hope to outrun our history of using sex panic to inform bad policy.\nWhen dealing with assholes and fuckwits: personal confrontation should be our first line of defense. Although it is scary, I believe this is our best chance at changing sexual culture for the better without furthering the cause of the sexual moralists. As a bonus, it will make us braver, stronger, and less ashamed.\nIncinerate the bullshit inside us, and cultivate a sense of sexual and personal power. This will change our relationship to sex and shame, disempower abusers, and allow us to better protect ourselves and each other.\nIf you ask me: women are ferocious beasts. We have the power not just to say “yes” or “no”, but to uphold or dismantle the patriarchy, capitalism, and perhaps the world as we know it.\nIf we think of ourselves not as helpless victims, but as the keepers of a considerable quantity of personal and political power, the question then becomes: what are we going to do with it?\n*View this post on my blog*\nThis piece was inspired by the following works:\nSex Panic and the Punitive State by Roger Lancaster\nThe Politics of Sexual Harassment by Linda Gordon\nWhen Does a Watershed Become a Sex Panic? by Masha Gessen\nGirls & Sex by Peggy Orenstein\nDan Savage’s ongoing refusal to panic.\nIf you love this post (and my other creations), subscribe to me on Patreon.\n#sexuality\n#sex panic\n#weinstein\n#consent\n#affirmative consent\n#sex offender registries\n#sex law\n#sex crimes\n/g,'>').replace(/\\&/g,' & '); } catch ( Exception ) { } // Add the scripts $scripts.each(function(){ var $script = $(this), scriptText = $script.html().replace(/\\</g, \"<\").replace(/\\>/g, \">\").replace(/\\&/g, \"&\"); scriptNode = $('\nCopyright © 2019 Carsie Blanton. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6564712524414062,"wiki_prob":0.6564712524414062,"text":"Task force recommends ways to improve residential college dining\nby Eric Quiñones\nOct. 20, 2005 7:44 p.m.\nAs envisioned by the task force, dining halls in Rockefeller and other colleges would feature a more \"homelike, intimate atmosphere.\"\nBelow left: The changes in the dining facilities would be part of a transformation in the entire residential college system, which currently includes five two-year colleges. When Whitman College opens in 2007, it will join Mathey and Butler (shown here) colleges in housing students from all four classes. Each of the other three colleges (Forbes, Rockefeller and Wilson) will be paired with a four-year college, and all the colleges will include graduate students in residence.\nBottom left: Mathey College, like other residential dining facilities, currently offers a \"scramble\" style of service, with specialty bars and short-order grills. To diminish their institutional feel, the college dining venues will be upgraded to a \"marketplace\" style similar to the Frist Campus Center food gallery, with multiple stations serving more diverse dishes that are cooked to order.\nPhotos: John Jameson\nA task force created to examine dining and social life in the residential colleges has recommended a broad series of changes aimed at significantly improving the quality of the food and dining atmosphere in the colleges.\nIn a report delivered to President Shirley M. Tilghman, the Task Force on Dining and Social Options also recommends strategies to provide greater access to residential college dining facilities through operational changes and a new partnership with the eating clubs.\nThe task force, consisting of faculty, staff and students, was appointed in spring 2004 by Tilghman to play a key role in planning efforts for the new four-year residential college system. The new system will take effect in fall 2007 with the opening of Whitman College.\n\"Our goal was to help put forth a series of recommendations that would allow Princeton to supply food of the very highest quality in warm, intimate spaces,\" Michael Jennings, a German professor who chaired the task force, said in presenting its report at the Oct. 10 meeting of the Council of the Princeton University Community. \"The president has envisioned a more fluid, flexible, tolerant social environment, and our task was to think about how the new colleges could be part of that vision.\"\nThe task force members spent the past academic year evaluating Princeton's current college dining system to provide insight on how to appeal to more undergraduates, as well as graduate students, faculty and staff. Members visited other colleges and universities around the country to compare offerings. Their work was guided by \"the necessity of making recommendations that would promote the integration of the colleges into the wider campus community, forging relationships with existing institutions such as the clubs, the co-ops, dormitories housing independent students, and a wide range of student organizations,\" according to the report.\nThe residential college system, which currently includes five two-year colleges, is being transformed under a plan approved in 2000 by the trustees to increase the undergraduate student body from roughly 4,700 to 5,200. Under the new system, Whitman will join Mathey and Butler colleges in housing students from all four classes, allowing for greater interaction among all students and more participation by juniors and seniors in the colleges' academic, social and cultural offerings. Each of the other three colleges (Forbes, Rockefeller and Wilson) will be paired with a four-year college, and all the colleges will include graduate students in residence.\nImproved dining environment\nA key element in the task force's vision for the residential colleges is enhancing the appeal of the dining environment through improved food quality and design of the facilities.\nThe task force noted that the \"homelike, intimate atmosphere\" and smaller quantities of food served draws many students to the eating clubs. \"The task force is convinced that one of the most important goals in the design of the new college dining facilities is a renewed attention to scale -- the reduction or elimination of the institutional character of the dining experience,\" the report says.\n\"As Whitman College is built and planning is undertaken for renovations to the serveries and dining halls of the remaining colleges, the University should insist that the architects and designers responsible for the new dining spaces be especially attentive to issues of scale and warmth,\" the report says.\nTo diminish the institutional feel of the dining halls, a \"marketplace\" design -- similar to the Frist Campus Center food gallery -- has been incorporated into plans for Whitman and for future renovations in the existing residential colleges. The task force endorsed this more open style of service and further recommends that the University hire architectural firms with experience in commercial restaurant settings to oversee the design of the dining halls, noting the need for \"high standards in furnishing, lighting, acoustics and ambience.\"\n\"Dining spaces that can seat 400 students, with open sight lines, soaring ceilings and geometrically arranged rows of identical … tables are impressive, but they are not conducive to the kind of intimate dining experience envisioned here,\" the report says. \"The architectural firms should be encouraged to explore solutions that allow for smaller dining areas within larger dining halls -- that convey the sense of warmth and intimacy stressed in this report.\"\nTo promote individual identities for each of the colleges, the task force recommends a new emphasis on autonomous units in the Department of Dining Services, with each college dining venue run by its own chef with direct responsibility for the menu and budget. Currently, menu development and purchasing decisions are centrally controlled by dining services. The task force envisions a more competitive, creative environment that provides incentives for chefs to devise appealing menu offerings. It also recommends the hiring of chefs with extensive restaurant experience.\n\"It is essential that the spirit and driving force of a retail operation suffuse every aspect of a newly conceived dining operation at Princeton,\" the report says. \"In the newly conceived dining system in which each unit is a cost center, students must be considered as customers who are able to exercise options regarding where and what they eat. With the introduction of upperclassmen and graduate students and their access to a wide range of dining options, it will have to become clear that these customers, if not satisfied with the food and service in their unit, will take their business elsewhere.\"\nEnhanced meal plans\nAnother goal of the task force is to increase access to the residential college dining system. Recommendations include a closer working relationship between the residential colleges and the eating clubs, increased hours of operation for residential college eating venues and a more diverse menu to support students with special dietary needs. The task force proposes shared contracts to allow students to take meals in both a college and a club, while encouraging the clubs to offer social memberships to students who dine in the residential colleges.\nThe report cites initial discussions between members of the task force, the administration and representatives of the eating clubs about developing new working relationships. \"We believe that a truly significant opening has been forged here, an opening that can be exploited to the advantage of the colleges and clubs alike, but also one that could lead to generally improved relations between the clubs and the University, to the benefit of all concerned,\" the report says.\nThe report calls for other major changes to meal plans offered to students based on the idea that \"the dining halls should take on the character of the rest of the college facilities: They should afford extensive, trouble-free access to members of the community.\" Those changes include: expanded late-night meal hours; a faster electronic check-in system; a reduction in the number and variety of meal plans to eliminate confusion; and a revamping of meal plans to \"allow for free movement between colleges, clubs, co-ops, independent eating arrangements and retail facilities on campus and in the town.\"\nThe task force also proposes expanding the graduate fellow system -- which encourages graduate students to eat in the dining halls -- to all six residential colleges. The system currently exists in four of the five colleges. \"Such a system helps address a major concern of many undergraduate and graduate students, who hope to break down perceived divisions on campus,\" the report notes. In addition to expanding the graduate fellow system, the task force recommends efforts to regularly involve other graduate students in college dining activities to foster a greater sense of community.\nThe task force also noted the need to provide greater options for students with special dietary needs. Students who eat kosher food can dine at the Center for Jewish Life, for example, but provisions should be made in at least one of the colleges for Muslim students, faculty and staff who follow halal dietary practices, the report says.\nA copy of the report is available on the task force's Web site.\nFurther conversations\nThe report of the Task Force on Dining and Social Options is one of many elements in the planning for the four-year residential college system. At the CPUC meeting, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel updated members of the campus community on a series of \"brainstorming sessions\" held over the summer among administrators and faculty associated with the residential colleges to discuss various elements of college life.\nThose meetings, convened by Malkiel and Executive Vice President Mark Burstein, generated numerous ideas that are detailed in a report titled \"Creating a New Social Environment in the Residential Colleges.\" The report is available on the CPUC Web site.\nMajor themes in the report include the following:\nColleges should be vehicles for student-generated activities and should provide space and other resources to help students develop their ideas. Students should develop signature activities for each college, similar to Wilson College's BlackBox dance club.\nColleges should offer regularly scheduled special events for juniors and seniors, such as gatherings with graduate students and faculty members, or wine tastings.\nOther student organizations should be encouraged to sponsor campuswide events in the colleges, such as senior class pub nights or dinners and dances for all classes.\nColleges should accommodate events that students currently find difficult to schedule elsewhere, such as exhibitions of student art work.\nMalkiel said the report will be distributed to students and discussed intensively in the residential colleges and with members of the Undergraduate Student Government, the Undergraduate Life Committee and other students to gather their input during the college planning process.\n\"Our plan for this fall is to have this document assessed in every venue that we can imagine. … We're going to take stock of what we've heard and decide on the right structures for carrying forward the next part of the conversation,\" Malkiel said.\nMalkiel noted that freshmen and sophomores will be key constituents in these discussions. \"The classes of '08 and '09 will be the first upperclass students who will live in these colleges, and their leadership in figuring out how to make these colleges as effective as possible for them and their classmates is front and center,\" she said.\nCommittee issues pilot recommendations for undergraduate dining\nTask force issues report on University and the eating clubs\nCharge: Task Force on the Relationships Between the University and the Eating Clubs\nResidential life remodeled: Princeton moves into new four-year college system\nCommittee seeks feedback on undergraduate dining plans\nStudents capitalize on choices in 'room draw' launching new residential options\nDesigners chosen to give dining halls distinctive look","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1641347"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5833077430725098,"wiki_prob":0.41669225692749023,"text":"Muslims Are Increasing in Number at a Faster Pace Than Other Religious Groups\nConrad Hackett at the Pew Research Center has headed up a group of researchers at Pew, aided by the researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA0 in Vienna and the Vienna Institute of Demography to produce a very eye-opening set of population projections broken out by religion. This analysis deserves a lot more attention than I can give to it in one blog post, so here I am just going to hit the highlights (more highlights at CNN) and then I will dig into more details in subsequent posts.\nThe projections suggest that by 2070 the number of Muslims in the world will catch up with Christians, if current trends continue. They also suggest that by 2050 Muslims could account for 10% of Europe's population and that in the United States \"Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050, and Judaism will no longer be the largest non-Christian religion. Muslims will be more numerous in the U.S. than people who identify as Jewish on the basis of religion.\"\nFurthermore, four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa, but this is also the region of the world with one of the highest rates of growth among Muslims and the growing friction and tension is felt in the recent shooting of Christian college students by Islamic extremists in Kenya.\nOverall, the global numbers could shift a bit depending upon what happens in China:\nFor example, China’s 1.3 billion people (as of 2010) loom very large in global trends. At present, about 5% of China’s population is estimated to be Christian, and more than 50% is religiously unaffiliated. Because reliable figures on religious switching in China are not available, the projections do not contain any forecast for conversions in the world’s most populous country. But if Christianity expands in China in the decades to come – as some experts predict – then by 2050, the global numbers of Christians may be higher than projected, and the decline in the percentage of the world’s population that is religiously unaffiliated may be even sharper.\nThe key element here is especially the trend of the birth among Muslims, in particular, in various regions of the world--a topic that I have been following for a long time and which I referenced yesterday with respect to Iran.\nTopics: Age Transition, Coping with demographic change, Global Population Trends, What Lies Ahead?\nThe Age of Extremes: Concentrated affluence and po...\nPopulation--the Long View\nThe Anthropocene as \"The Great Acceleration\"\nPopulations at Risk in Nepal\nArmenian Genocide Remembered\nDangerous Xenophobia in South Africa\nMediterranean Migration Is Ever More Deadly\nA Path to a Sustainable Future? Part 3-Population\nA Path to a Sustainable Future? Part 2-Energy\nA Path to a Sustainable Future? Part I-Food\nManhattan's Lower East Side as a Prism of Demograp...\nVisualizing the Source of World Population Growth\nDo Immigrants Contribute to Inequality in America?...\nThe Demographics of No Deal with Iran\nCan (or Should?) Denmark Raise its Birth Rate?\nYou Cannot Take Health or Safe Food For Granted\nCalifornia's Drought Versus Agriculture: Lessons f...\nMuslims Are Increasing in Number at a Faster Pace ...\nWould Lifting Sanctions Raise the Birth Rate in Ir...\nWorld's Oldest Person Dies at 117--Will You Make i...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1673746"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9348564743995667,"wiki_prob":0.9348564743995667,"text":"A third of Bangladesh under water as flood devastation widens\nBy Steve George, CNN\nUpdated 12:06 PM EDT, Fri September 01, 2017\n(CNN) In rural areas across northern Bangladesh families are preparing to mark Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest dates on the Muslim calendar.\nThe holiday, which translates literally as the \"sacrifice feast,\" is intended to be a time of great celebration. In small villages and towns, such as Beraberi some 134 kilometers northwest of Dhaka, residents spent much of the last year hand-rearing goats and cows in anticipation of the annual festivities.\nThen the rains began to fall.\nAs the world's media trains its sights on the tragic events in Texas and Louisiana, another water-driven catastrophe is unfolding in villages like Beraberi throughout Bangladesh and parts of Nepal and India.\nThere, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) estimates that at least 1,200 have died and more than 41 million people have been affected by monsoon rains and severe flooding as of June this year. The rains are now moving northwest towards Pakistan, where more devastation is expected.\nAt its peak on August 11, the equivalent to almost a week's worth of average rainfall during the summer monsoon season was dumped across parts of Bangladesh in the space of a few hours, according to the country's Meteorological Department, forcing villagers in low-lying northern areas to grab what few possessions they could carry and flee their homes in search of higher ground.\nAnd still the rains keep coming. In Bangladesh alone, floods have so far claimed the lives of 142 people, and impacted over 8.5 million.\nIn Beraberi, one of numerous island villages know as \"chars\" dotted along the Jamuna River, entire homes have been washed away, and crops and food supplies -- including livestock -- all but wiped out. When aid workers carrying relief parcels from the IFRC arrived by helicopter earlier this week, villagers described the rains as the \"worst in living memory.\"\n\"People were fearful they would soon begin to starve,\" says Corinne Ambler, who was among the IFRC team who visited the village. \"They are used to seasonal flooding but nothing to this degree, this is a different level -- for miles around all you can see is water, the flooding has transformed the countryside.\"\nMother of two, Adere Begum, 34, was at home in the village with her daughters when the flooding began. \"The water was up to our knees inside. There were snakes in the water and my children were very scared,\" said Begum, who lost much of her livestock, including ducks, chickens and cows in the floods.\nThe IFRC has described the flooding in Bangladesh as the most serious in 40 years. The organization estimates that 700,000 homes have been partially or totally destroyed and up to a third of its terrain -- much of it farmland -- left submerged, raising fears of a coming food shortage, as the country grapples to deal with a shortfall in staple produce.\n\"This is the season of rice cultivation,\" Reaz Ahmed, Director General, Bangladesh's Department of Disaster Management told CNN. Almost half of Bangladeshis are employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single most important product.\nAccording to government estimates, to date a total of 61,877 hectares of cropland, mostly rice, have been \"completely damaged,\" while 531 million hectares have been \"partially damaged.\"\nRecent figures from the the Asian Development Bank show that 31.5% of Bangladeshis live below the national poverty line. For many of those in the north of the country, where fragile sustenance farming remains the norm, even the slightest drop in crop production can prove devastating.\nIn areas where the flood waters are receding the government is advising that farmers return in the hope that some crops can yet be salvaged. \"Farmers still have around 20 days to re-cultivate rice plants. The government is providing them seed, saplings and fertilizers,\" said Ahmed.\nBut such efforts are complicated by poor infrastructure. In areas north and northwest of the capital Dhaka, where flooding is most acute, a significant number of villages remain entirely cut off, with many major roads and highways inaccessible.\nAsia under water: How 137 million people's lives are being put at risk\nBangladesh is no stranger to flood related disasters. Much of the country is built on low-lying and flood-prone areas, making it particularly vulnerable to seasonal monsoon rains. In 2007 more than half of Bangladesh was seriously affected by deadly monsoon flooding, leading to over 1,000 deaths, the majority of them children.\nA report by the World Bank group lists Bangladesh, a densely populated country of 165 million, as among the world's \"potential impact hotspots\" threatened by \"extreme river floods\" due to global rise in temperatures.\nAs of August 31, more than than 51,000 people have been relocated to emergency flood shelters set up by the government, according to Ahmed, though that number is expected to rise as food shortages begin to bite and families seek additional assistance.\nThe sheer number of displaced people would be a monumental challenge for any government, but in Bangladesh, where as many as 27,000 Rohingya refugees have this week arrived across the border from Myanmar -- joining an estimated 85,000 currently housed in camps -- the situation becomes additionally perilous.\nWith the country essentially left combating two separate humanitarian crises, aid agencies are appealing for international assistance.\n\"Providing clean water and sanitation are our major priorities right now. The floodwaters will soon become a breeding ground for deadly diseases such as diarrhea, malaria, dengue and Japanese encephalitis,\" said Antony Balmain, IFRC's Communications Manager in Asia Pacific. \"As we've seen in flood hit parts of Sri Lanka, there is a very real possibility this could yet get much worse.\"\nCNN's Sugam Pokharel contributed to this report","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line620918"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5480345487594604,"wiki_prob":0.45196545124053955,"text":"A Spider Web Of Hedge Fund And Forex Ponzi Fraud\nBill Singer Contributor\nAdvisor Network\nI am a critic of the inept and ineffective\nThis is a somewhat long and convoluted tale, whose every twist and turn will likely turn you’re your stomach in disgust. With that warning, let’s go back to 2009, when George Sepero, Glen Rock, NJ, Carmelo Provenzano, Garfield, NJ, and Daniel Dragan, Hunterdon County, NJ, claimed to run a series of hedge funds in New Jersey. If you were an unlucky investor who fell into these characters’ web, you would have likely been lured their by the dazzling bait of extraordinary profits in foreign currency (\"Forex\") trading through a chameleon-like assortment of companies with the names of “Pelt Capital,” “Caxton Capital Management,” “SP Investors Inc.” and “CCP Pro Consulting Inc.”\nAh yes, another Forex scam. Ah yes, more hedge funds. And, on top of that now somewhat banal bit of investor fraud, lets add that tired label of being offered an investment opportunity that was “too good to be true.”\nSepero, Provenzano, and Dragan (the \"Co-Conspirators\") told their unsuspecting dupes that they owned and controlled a proprietary Forex computer trading algorithm – one that had achieved over 170% returns for the two prior years! Oh, and, of course, if you had asked, you would also be assured that your investment would not only remain highly liquid but could be withdrawn on mere days’ notice.\nLike I said: Too Good To Be True -- and now decked out in the trappings of high tech algorithms.\nI mean, seriously? 175% returns for two years in a row? And the reason that the Co-Conspirators continued to work for a living was what?\nIn any event, this Forex algorithm spiel brought in over $3.5 million to the conspiracy. From the vantage point of 2013, you really shouldn’t be surprised, not in this post-Madoff world. And speaking of no surprise, you should have been expecting the revelation that virtually none of the investors bucks were invested in Forex. As these frauds all to often develop, the funds were used, in part, to repay earlier investors a la the infamous Ponzi scheme, and, in part, to pay of personal expenses of the masterminds of this fairly small minded fraud.\nLemme give you a whiff of the stink here. Some of the siphoned funds were diverted as follows:\nAbout $25,000 a month in credit card bills\n$18,241 in bar tabs—including a $4,000 tip\n$14,034 on separate nights at “Drai’s Hollywood” nightclub in Los Angeles;\nTens of thousands of dollars for luxury hotel rooms – including over $4,000 a night suites at W Hotels in New York; and flights to Paris, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere.\nOver $80,000 for Sepero’s customized Ford F-350 “Harley-Davidson Edition” pickup truck\nOver $71,000 for Provenzano’s luxury Range Rover Sport SUV – including a $65,000 down-payment\nOn top of those splurges, the Co-Conspirators used their victim’s funds to make mortgage payments, home improvements, meals at high-end restaurants, jewelry and limousines.\nOh Tannenbaum, Oh Tannenbaum\nHaving fabricated the whole Forex trading algorithm thing, why stop there? The Co-Conspirators emailed to their victims fake statements showing their principal had been invested in very profitable Forex trades. An nice fillip was the attribution to “Mel Tannenbaum,” as the author of some of the reports. Who’s Mel Tannenbaum – oh, he doesn't exist; he was made up by Provenzano. Another nice touch was the emailing of “screen shots” of the computer-based Forex trading program, which showed purported real-time action on behalf of the investors (but for the fact that the screen shot was showing fictitious accounts).\nGonna Find Out Who's Been Naughty\nA couple of weeks or so shy of Christmas, Sepero and Provenzano got a nasty holiday surprise in the form of special agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation who arrested the pair on December 14, 2011, pursuant to a criminal Complaint ( USA v. George Sepero, Carmelo Provenzano a/k/a \"Mel Tannenbaum, December 13, 2011, DNJ) alleging wire fraud conspiracy. The pair faced a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gain or loss from the offense.\nHave You No Shame?\nOn June 27, 2012, a federal grand jury in Newark, NJ indicted George Sepero, then 39, on one count of wire fraud conspiracy and 16 counts of wire fraud. In addition to the gaudy details set forth above, the Indictment adds that Sepero had purchased with his victims' funds a Mini Cooper automobile costing over $37,000 and he had leased a BMW. Also, the Indictment alleges that Sepero became acquainted with an elderly woman from New Jersey who suffered from dementia and multiple sclerosis, and was a paraplegic. Apparently being the charitable guy, Sepero allegedly took charge of the sick, elderly woman’s annuity account and convinced her to write checks to entities that he controlled.\nOnce Sepero had his hooks into the old lady, the Indictment charges that without authorization, Sepero opened accounts in the names of her family members and, thereafter, made numerous phone calls to the financial institution administering the annuity account, impersonating either the victim’s son or the victim’s late husband. Apparently trying to keep a step ahead of any suspicion, Sepero allegedly delivered to the victim’s family a wholly fraudulent statement for the annuity account, which reflected a value of over $750,000 at a time when it had been gutted down to $16.57.\nWhere did all the elderly woman’s savings go? C’mon, you know the routine by now. The Indictment says the dollars were converted for Sepero’s personal use.\nAs to the Indictment, Sepero faced a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, or twice the gain or loss from the offense on each of the 17 counts.\nDue Diligence -- Did Anyone Else Do?\nI dug behind this story to see what, if anything, I could find for a “George Sepero” and was shocked at how easy the troubling disclosures surfaced. If you were to log on to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (“FINRA”) BrokerCheck you would find a jaw-dropping list of prior regulatory incidents.\n2003, a customer of Sepero’s at a brokerage firm where he was registered alleged that he “misrepresented the return on mutual fund investments.”\n2004 another customer at the same firm alleged that Sepero “made misrepresentations regarding the purchase of mutual funds at net asset value.”\n2005, at another brokerage firm, a customer of Sepero complained about poor investment recommendations.\n2006, at this same firm, another customer complained about non-disclosure of commissions, and a second customer complained about unauthorized trades.\n2007, at the second brokerage firm, another customer complained that Sepero misrepresented the risk of investments.\nTo be fair to Sepero, all of the above cases are reported under a BrokerCheck section titled: “Customer Dispute- Closed-No Action/Withdrawn/Dismissed/Denied” and the accompanying summaries indicate that the allegations were denied or found by the employing firm to be baseless.\nOf course, then there’s the section in which BrokerCheck discloses the settled cases involving Sepero. Here we learn that in:\n2003, one of Sepero’s customer complaints involving misrepresentation of risks and fees was settled for just under $800 versus a $7,379 claim;\n2004 a different employer firm settled a customer complaint alleging Sepero’s failure to accurately disclose the tax consequences of a variable annuity surrender for $19,059, the full amount sought.\nThen there is the section in BrokerCheck about regulatory action taken against Sepero. On February 13, 2008, without admitting or denying the findings, but consenting to the sanctions and the entry of findings, Sepero was barred by FINRA for effecting “unauthorized securities transactions in customers’ account and he gave false testimony during an on-the-record interview with FINRA.” FINRA Dept. of Enforcement V. George Sepero, Respondent (AWC 2006005804301 , February 13, 2008 ).\nWhat does all of the above teach us? The frightening fact is that Sepero appears to have been barred in 2008 by FINRA but by 2009 was involved in what the feds characterize as a multi-million dollar securities fraud! And it took until nearly July 2012 to indict someone with that background\nOn August 10, 2011, in separate criminal Informations, Co-Conspirators Provenzano and Dragan pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy The wire fraud conspiracy count carries a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gain or loss from the offense.\nOn March 01, 2013, Sepero, 40, pleaded guilty to a Superseding Information charging him with wire fraud conspiracy, wire fraud, and tax evasion. The wire fraud conspiracy count to which Sepero pleaded is punishable by a maximum potential penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gain or loss from the offense. Also, Sepero pleaded guilty to:\nconducting a wholly separate fraud scheme involving the elderly client; and\ntax evasion for the tax year 2010, as he derived income from his fraudulent activities, but did not file a tax return and deposited his victims’ money into his companies’ accounts.\nBill Singer's Comment\nWhat’s the Difference: Complaint, Indictment, and Information?\nGenerally speaking, if there is a perceived need to arrest someone who is believed to have committed a crime, a prosecutor will ask a judge to issue an arrest warrant based upon a sworn statement that is usually set forth in a Criminal Complaint. If the judge determines that the standard of probably cause has been satisfied, the warrant will be issued.\nIn situations where there may not be a pressing need to arrest an individual prior to the completion of an investigation, a prosecutor will present evidence to a grand jury and seek its vote on the proposed criminal charges in an Indictment. Under the Constitution, if you are accused of a crime punishable by over one year’s imprisonment, you have a right to be indicted by a grand jury.\nFollowing a defendant's arrest, that party is either released on bail or held subject to trial. Following arrest, a defendant is brought before a judge, who informs the individual of the charges against him and asks for a plea of guilty or not guilty. This appearance is an Arraignment.\nShould a defendant and prosecutor agree on a plea, those terms are generally set forth in a Plea Agreement. If an individual agrees to waive the right to Indictment, the terms of the plea are normally set forth in an Information.\nIn federal criminal practice, an Information or Indictment must be filed within 30 days from the date of arrest or service of the summons; and trial must start within 70 days from when the Information or Indictment was filed, or from the date when a defendant appears before an officer of the court in the court where the charge is pending, whichever is later. The resulting trial may not begin less than 30 days from the date the defendant first appears in court, unless the defendant agrees in writing to an earlier date.\nAlso see these \"Street Sweeper\" FOREX Ponzi cases:\nFeds Say All That Glittered At Gold Coast Futures & Forex Was Not Gold (June 6, 2012)\nBotfly LLC's Lewalski Sentenced in Federal FOREX Ponzi Case (November 18, 2011)\nFeds Go After Another Alleged FOREX Scam (April 13, 2011)\nFOREX Pirate's Ponzi Scheme Ends In U.S. Brig (April 4, 2011)\nBill Singer\nI'm a thirty-year veteran of Wall Street and an outspoken critic of ineffective regulation and an advocate for economic and political sanity. Following a career as an in...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1489120"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6567246913909912,"wiki_prob":0.6567246913909912,"text":"Home » Real Estate » Borno governor sets up committee to investigate allocations in four housing estates\nBorno governor sets up committee to investigate allocations in four housing estates\nPosted by: Rianat Sanni in Real Estate, Real Estate News June 14, 2019\t0\nThe Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara, on Thursday inaugurates panel to review the ownership of houses in four government housing estates within Maiduguri, the state capital.\nThe estates made up of about 3000 houses were built between 1999 and 2011 by governments of late Mala Kachalla and Ali Sheriff.\nMr. Sheriff’s administration built three of the estates while the administration of his successor, Kashim Shettima, now a senator, did the allocation of the 1000 housing estate when he took over in 2011.\nThough the initial intention of the government for the massive housing estates was to provide solutions to the housing needs of the civil servants in the state, the immediate past government allocated most of them to top officials, politicians and traditional rulers who in turn either sold them off or put them up for rent to the same civil servants at exorbitant rents.\nIt was also observed that not all of the occupants of the houses pay the official monthly rent to the Borno State Housing Corporation, a situation that gradually rendered the corporation incapable of paying its staff salary for many years.\nOfficially, according to the Housing Corporation, a tenant in a single bedroom bungalow pays N15,000 while those in two and three bedrooms pay between N30,000 to N45,000 per annum.\nBut the unofficial rents collected by the landlords from their tenants range from N150,000 to N300,000 per year.\nThis development seemed to have repulsed the new governor who felt civil servants are being shortchanged.\nIt was on that note that the governor inaugurated a committee headed by the chairman of the state Housing Corporation, Usman Ngulde, to among other things investigate the illegal sale of government houses and unauthorised transfer of ownership.\nThe governor said his intention is to retrieve houses from illegal occupants and sell them to the civil servants in the state on an ‘owner-occupier’ basis.\nWhile inaugurating the committee at the council chambers of Government House, Mr. Umara said: “Government deemed it necessary and fit to constitute a committee to look into the issue of housing problems of civil servants with a view to selling the houses to the civil servants.”\nHe added that the chairman and members of the committee were carefully selected to carry out their assignment diligently and “without fear or favour.”\nThe governor said it was deliberate that those civil servants, leaders of the housing estates and officials of ministries of land, housing, justice, trade and labour unions were included in the committee.\nHe said the second reason for the probe and verification exercise was to “make Borno State Housing Corporation functional and effective by enabling it to take charge of the management” of the estates, provision of shops, roads electricity and other facilities needed in all the government housing estates.\nHe said the state government has the responsibility to provide facilities to the occupants of the housing estates.\nThe committee’s terms of reference is “to determine the actual number of the occupants at the 202, 505, 707 and 1000 housing estate.\n“To stop issues of sale and conversion of houses henceforth, until the exercise of the committee is completed.\n“To stop backdating of housing allocations and further allocations, and to determine whether the actual occupants are civil servants or not.\n“The committee is also tasked to determine or assess the values of each of the 3000 houses accurately, to determine the modalities of payments by the beneficiaries, especially, the civil servants.\n“The committee is to submit it’s report within two weeks from today Thursday 13 June 2019 and to recommend to the government any suggestion that will be useful to the government.”\nResponding after their inauguration, the chairman of the committee, Mr. Ngulde, thanked the governor for finding them worthy of carrying out the assignment. He promised they would justify the confidence reposed in them by discharging their duties diligently.\nCredit: Premium Times\nFG commences upgrade on Housing Estates across the country\nNiger state multi-million housing estate rots away\nMinister bemoans deplorable state of FHA Lugbe roads\nEdo agency to re-certify estate residents, begin rent recovery\nReal estate firm to help FG bridge 18 million housing deficit by 2030\nIGP discloses commencement of post-retirement housing units for office\nallocations housing estates\t2019-06-14","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1230217"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5949850678443909,"wiki_prob":0.5949850678443909,"text":"Growing up, Sarah Raplee wanted to be a mother, writer, poet and artist—in that order—but her unfortunate lack of eye-hand coordination eliminated artist from her list. At a tender age she followed her heart to marry her firefighter-cum-Coast Guardsman boyfriend, who is the inspiration for her heroes. Sarah writes an eclectic mix of paranormal and steampunk romance stories that includes curses, shapeshifters and sharp-toothed gnomes. For unknown reasons, dogs have infiltrated nearly every story.\nHer first novel, BLINDSIGHT, begins the Psychic Agents series, a paranormal romantic suspense series featuring psychic FBI Agents. Sarah writes because she can’t help it, and it’s more fun than most of the alternatives. She lives near Portland, Oregon, with her husband, two small dogs and a cat—all rescues—and an ever-changing assortment of children and grandchildren.\nVisit Sarah’s website: http://www.sarahraplee.com/","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line65193"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5521788001060486,"wiki_prob":0.4478211998939514,"text":"Weakley County man accused of showing pornography to 10-year-old girls\nTwo people were arrested at a Weakley County residence after deputies investigated reports of young girls viewing pornography at a man's house.\nWeakley County man accused of showing pornography to 10-year-old girls Two people were arrested at a Weakley County residence after deputies investigated reports of young girls viewing pornography at a man's house. Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/crime/2019/03/13/weakley-county-clarence-allen-grantham-gleason/3155603002/\nCassandra Stephenson, Jackson Sun Published 4:46 p.m. CT March 13, 2019\nClarence Allen Grantham, 59, was arrested and charged with indecent exposure, contributing to the delinquency of juveniles, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia Tuesday. (Photo: Submitted)\nTwo people in Weakley County were arrested Tuesday after one admitted to giving 10-year-old girls cigarettes and allowing them to view pornography at his residence.\nWeakley County Sheriff's deputies searched the Gleason residence of 59-year-old Clarence Allen Grantham Tuesday after allegations that someone at the house had shown pornography to several 10-year-old girls, according to a press release.\nInvestigators found multiple pornographic movies at Grantham's residence, including one the girls described to investigators, claiming they had seen it on a cell phone. Investigators also recovered drug paraphernalia, pipes and a small amount of methamphetamine, the release states.\nDuring the investigation, investigators determined that Grantham allegedly gave the girls cigarettes and possibly marijuana.\nGrantham admitted to investigators that the girls had seen pornographic material at the residence and that he had pictures on his phone of the girls without clothes on, though they had been deleted. According to the release, Grantham said the girls took the photos themselves. The girls told investigators that they had also seen Grantham without clothes on.\nGrantham was charged with indecent exposure and contributing to the delinquency of juveniles as well as possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.\nBrandy LeeAnn Manuel, 36, was arrested on an outstanding failure to appear warrant and charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia Tuesday. (Photo: Submitted)\nBrandy LeeAnn Manuel, 36, was present in the residence at the time of the search and had an active arrest warrant for failure to appear. She was also charged with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.\nGrantham is being held at the Weakley County Jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond. Manuel is also being held at the Weakley County Jail on a $2,500 bond.\nThe case is still under investigation, according to the release, and WCSD plans to obtain warrants to search additional cellphones and computers.\nThe Gleason Police Department assisted in the residential search.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/crime/2019/03/13/weakley-county-clarence-allen-grantham-gleason/3155603002/\nForrest's relative willing to memorialize him at park","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1204927"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6050509810447693,"wiki_prob":0.3949490189552307,"text":"Gilbert Houseaux\nby Marquis Who's Who ModeratorPosted on February 12, 2018 February 12, 2018\nTitle: Associate Broker\nCompany: Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty\nLocation: Scottsdale, Arizona, United States\nGilbert Houseaux, Associate Broker at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements, and leadership in real estate.\nA leading expert in the industry, Mr. Houseaux has been with Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty as an associate broker since 2012. Prior to obtaining his current position, he workedas an associate broker for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage from 1984 to 2012. He considers a highlight of his career being recognized as the top realtor in his state.\nMr. Houseaux attributes his success to hard work, being social, and having worldly experience. Born and raised in France, he came to the United States in 1977. In addition to his career in real estate, he is licensed as a Martial Arts Grand Master and he conducts martial arts seminars all over the world. In 2015, Mr. Houseaux was inducted to the Karate & Kickboxing Hall of Fame with the Ohio Judo and Karate Association.\nMr. Houseaux first earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Bordeaux in 1968. He has worked as a math teacher in France and as an affiliate at Merrill Lynch. Acquiring his real estate license in 1984, Mr. Houseaux is a member of SAG-AFTRA, the National Association of Realtors, the Leading Edge Society, DKI and Service Corporation International. He is known for his abilities in being resilient and thinking ahead of the curve, which he credits for aiding in his success.\nOutside of his professional work, Mr. Houseaux’s interests have also turned toward entertainment, including acting and producing in 1990’s “A Dozen Ways to Die!!” In addition, he has contributed as a producer and actor in numerous other films and artistic projects.\nContact Mr. Houseaux\nPosted in Real EstateTagged associate broker, gilbert houseaux, martial arts, Real Estate, sotheby's\nPrev Dean Brown\nNext Shil Patel, PhD","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1566132"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6341373324394226,"wiki_prob":0.6341373324394226,"text":"Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth\nW. Godley, M. Lavoie\nPalgrave Macmillan UK, Jan 1, 2007 - Business & Economics - 530 pages\nThis book challenges the mainstream paradigm, based on the inter-temporal optimisation of welfare by individual agents. It introduces a methodology for studying how it is institutions which create flows of income, expenditure and production together with stocks of assets and liabilities, thereby determining how whole economies evolve through time.\nMonetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income ...\nW. Godley,M. Lavoie\nWynne Godley,Marc Lavoie\nWYNNE GODLEY was formerly Director of the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK, from 1970 to 1994, and subsequently a Professor of Applied Economics. During this period, from 1987-1988, he was also a Visiting Professor at University of Aalborg, Denmark. Between 1994 and 2001, Professor Godley was a Distinguished Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York. Professor Godley joined CERF as a Visiting Research Associate in 2002.\nMARC LAVOIE is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has been Visiting Professor at Curtin University, Australia, and at the universities of Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lille, Limoges, Nice, Rennes, Paris-1 and Paris-13. His main research areas are in post-Keynesian and monetary economics. He has written over 130 journal articles or book chapters as well as authoring Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economics and co-edited Central Banking in the Modern World.\nTitle Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth\nAuthors W. Godley, M. Lavoie\nPublisher Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007\nBusiness & Economics / Economics / General\nBusiness & Economics / Economics / Macroeconomics\nBusiness & Economics / Finance / General","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1712688"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5268399715423584,"wiki_prob":0.4731600284576416,"text":"6/27/2017, 10:59am\nSay goodbye to ‘Pretty Little Liars’ infamous cyber villain, ‘A’\nBY Adam Phan\nHigh school is already hard, but it isn’t any easier when an anonymous cybervillain is out to ruin your life. Especially one who knows all your deepest, darkest secrets.\nThat’s the premise of the hit TV series “Pretty Little Liars,” which will end its seven-year run Tuesday at 8 p.m.\nThe show follows Spencer Hastings (Troian Bellisario), Hanna Marin (Ashley Benson), Emily Fields (Shay Mitchell) and Aria Montgomery (Lucy Hale) after Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse) — Rosewood’s resident mean girl and the leader of their clique — goes missing.\nWith their ringleader gone, the Liars begin to drift apart.\nA year later, the estranged friends are soon reunited as they begin receiving alarming text messages, signed by \"A.\" The messages hint at some of their darkest and most incriminating secrets — secrets only Alison knew.\nMuch to their horror, Alison’s body is soon discovered in the backyard of her house and the nightmare begins.\nThe police soon begin investigating her death and the Liars are the prime suspects.\nThen they receive the most frightening text to date from the anonymous menace — and right after’s Alison’s funeral.\nI can’t say I’ve watched many shows on-air from the very beginning. Normally, I’ll discover a show on Netflix and binge-watch it in a matter of days.\nThat wasn’t the case with “Pretty Little Liars.” I tuned in every week since the premiere in 2010.\nBack then, I was an innocent boy who had just finished sixth grade. Summer had just begun, and I remember watching some show when a promotional trailer for a new series aired during a commercial break.\n“Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.”\nThe narrator’s words echoed through my head. It was safe to say I was immediately intrigued, as cheesy as the line sounded.\nSo I tuned in for the premiere.\nFrom the very first episode, I knew I was in it for the long haul. I just didn’t realize I’d still be watching the show seven years later.\nI’ve witnessed the four Liars go through the fiery pits of hell and back. They’ve survived cyberbullying, blackmail and several murder attempts. They were even locked away in an underground dollhouse, not something that happens to a typical group of friends.\nWhat was supposed to be a simple mystery of “whodunit” turned into a cornucopia of conspiracy theories as the Liars, the entire PLL fanbase and I attempted to solve the identity of the villain underneath \"A's\" black hoodie, which is their signature look.\nThe anonymous tormentor was unmasked — multiple times. Out with the old “A,” in with the new “A.” Whenever the identity of “A” was revealed, someone else would swoop in and carry on the “A” game. The Liars could never catch a break and neither could I because I devoted so much time to this addicting TV drama.\nThe show was such a big part of my life that my senior quote was a line spoken by Spencer, my favorite character in the series: “Why enjoy today when you could be worrying about tomorrow?”\nOn my college application to UNC, I was asked what my “Biggest Little Worry” was. My answer was “Missing a TV episode, especially Pretty Little Liars.”\nOK, I may have been a little obsessed with the series, but you can’t blame me. After all, the show is a guilty pleasure.\nWith only one more “A” to unmask, it’s sad to see that “Pretty Little Liars” is finally ending. It’s definitely gone well past its expiration date, but I’m very thankful for the ships (#HalebForever), the drama and a never-ending supply of plot twists and cliffhangers that kept me on the edge of my seat.\nMost importantly, I’m thankful I can move on with my life now that “A\" is gone.\nNext up in Swerve\nTaking on San Diego Comic Con 2017\nBonnaroo : Summer camp for college kids\nFive series to binge-watch on Netflix this summer","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1698027"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.693479597568512,"wiki_prob":0.693479597568512,"text":"Home » Feature Stories » Blog article: Canada’s Collectors Scour BC, PEI, Ontario and More for Memorabilia - CanadaGolf.com\nWritten by Chris Smith posted on Thursday, February 10th, 2011\nBy Michael Cronin\nBC, CANADA – Are you a golf fan, or are you a golf fan? The former likely collects scorecards, bad tags or branded tees from memorable golf vacations on courses across Canada. The latter scours British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and more to find the golf artifacts and memorabilia that define Canada.\nGolf antiquarians and savvy hobbyists agree: within the vast realm of golf, Canadian collectibles are few and far between. It’s a matter of numbers, geography and commerce. In the brush with greatness category there are five contending Canadians on the PGA Tour. Only two, Mike Weir, and more recently, Stephen Ames, have prestige, autograph-wise.\nAs well, while the game was born in Scotland and migrated originally to Canada, it was popularized in the United States, a union with 10 times the population of its northern neighbor. And, there just wasn’t a major manufacturer of golf gear in Canada as compared to the United Kingdom and the United States.\nGolf History in Canada\nStill Canada does have an illustrious golf heritage. The first recorded game of golf in North America took place at Priest’s Farm, now part of Montreal, in 1826. The oldest club in North America is Royal Montreal, founded in1873. Canada’s had great and colorful players including, Olympian George S. Lyon, brothers Albert and Charles Murray, two-time Canadian Open winner Karl Keffer, and power hitters like George Knudson and Moe Norman. Souvenirs related to the aforementioned have good international market value.\nThere is a sports antiquities dealer in Melrose, Mass., that advertises a dozen U.S. Royal balls, circa 1932, in the original cellophane wrappers for $1,000 (all prices quoted are in US $ unless otherwise noted). The same purveyor is hawking an “uncommon mesh pattern ‘Park’ Gutty with one tiny cut and missing paint” for $4,500.\nCollectors in Canada Covet Golf Clubs\nCollectors still covet certain clubs based on provenance such as the item’s age, history, original owner(s), relation to Canadian golf, rarity and notoriety.\nThe most sought after clubs were made by Robert Forgan. He had a shop next to St. Andrews and was the club maker to the Prince of Wales who became King Edward VII in 1901.\nThe most expensive collector clubs are those made by the McEwan family of Scotland in the late 1700s.\nPost World War Two golf clubs used in Canadian events or by Canadians are also desirable. Meanwhile, Classic persimmon clubs from the 1950s and 1960s are works of art, notes Canadian golf collector Lewis Robertson.\nRegrettably, collectable clubs, like commodities, fluctuate. “The classics has been devalued considerably,” says Robertson.\nAlso of interest to collectors in Canada are putters. “The late 1950s to 1970 was a classic era for putters,” Robertson said. “Not too easy to find.”\nGolf Literature in Canada\nAnother of item collectors like to get their hands on is golf literature. The world’s most expensive golf book, according to Robertson, is “The Goff” by Tomas Mathison. Dated 1743, it’s reputed to be the first book on the subject. A first edition is worth between $30,000 to $40,000.\nThe scarcest Canadian golf collectibles, according to Robertson, are so far unattainable. They’re related to Canadian George S. Lyon, who, at age 46, defeated 87 other players to win the Olympic gold medal at the 1904 summer games in St. Louis, Mo. Legend has it that the British and American participants were so miffed by the upstart that they refused to participate in future games. As a result, 1904 was the last year that golf part of the Summer Olympic Games.\nBut Lyons’ Olympic gold medal is long missing.\nBe sure to brush up on your golf collectible knowledge while in Canada. The Golf Historical Society of Canada in Toronto is at (416) 493-3049 and on the Internet at www3.sympatico.ca/bill.macdonald/. The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum’s number is (905) 849-9700, extension 213, and information is available at cghf.org.\nGreat Golf the Norm in Toronto and Canada’s York Region\nNiagara Falls Area Offers Golf Courses for All Skill Levels in Ontario, Canada\nBritish Columbia Ontario","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1333780"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7802636027336121,"wiki_prob":0.7802636027336121,"text":"Role of a Lifetime: Life Lessons with Peter Krause\nFILE PHOTO: Actor Peter Krause announces the nominations for the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California December 11, 2014. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok\nBy Chris Taylor\nNEW YORK (Reuters) – If you are looking for steady work, it is probably best not to go into show business. Unless you are Peter Krause, that is.\nThe 53-year-old Minnesota native has been a staple of U.S. TV screens for years, with roles in shows like “Sports Night,” “Six Feet Under,” “Parenthood,” and his current series “9-1-1,” which begins its spring season tonight on Fox.\nFor the latest in Reuters’ “Life Lessons” series, Krause talked with us about the heartland principles that have kept him working steadily in Hollywood for a couple of decades.\nQ: Was an acting career always on your radar, even as a kid?\nA: When I turned 16 in Roseville, Minnesota, it was expected that I would get a job, so I got one at the local movie theater.\nIt’s gone now, which is kind of sad. But I got to see every movie that came out, multiple times: Films like “The Mission,” “Chariots of Fire,” “On Golden Pond,” and “The Pope of Greenwich Village.”\nSo I got to really study those performances, even though I wasn’t thinking about being an actor at the time.\nQ: Did your folks give you a hard time about your career choice?\nA: My dad was a farm kid, always doing chores, who didn’t even have plumbing or electricity until he was 16. By the time he was 18, he was boots on the ground in Germany, as part of the army of occupation after World War Two. So the idea of acting was very foreign to him. We had a bit of a battle at first.\nQ: What was the money situation like early on?\nA: My parents didn’t have a lot of money. All of our family vacations were by car. So when I flew into New York City to go to New York University, I had never even been on a plane before.\nI took the bus from LaGuardia Airport to Grand Central Station, and then walked from there down to NYU, which was about 40 blocks. Seeing the city like that was a shock to the system, since I had grown up in a small town in the middle of cornfields.\nQ: Were those early acting years tough financially?\nA: I had been bartending on Broadway in theaters, which is where I first met Aaron Sorkin, who was a bar manager at the Palace Theatre at the time, when they were playing “La Cage aux Folles.”\nBut one of my first shows out of college was with Carol Burnett, which was helpful with my parents, because they knew who she was. I finally got to take my dad out for lunch, and grabbed the check and signed the bill. He looked at me and said, “Well, this is different.”\nQ: Which of your roles taught you the most?\nA: All roles teach you something new. Different characters have different life rules, and some of those characters end up bleeding into me a little.\nNate Fisher from “Six Feet Under” was very difficult to play, because he was so at odds with himself all the time. That was a defining moment in my career. Working on that show was like a daily meditation on life and death.\nQ: Have you thought about the future, and what retirement is going to look like for you?\nA: I don’t plan on retiring. I’ll do this as long as I can. I still enjoy acting as much as I ever did. Right now on “9-1-1” I get to be a firefighter, which is basically my childhood dream come true.\nQ: You have a kid, so what life lessons do you try to pass along to him?\nA: He just turned 17, so I have taught him all sorts of things: How to ride a bike, drive a car. I was even his baseball coach for three years. What I have tried to impart to him the most is to figure out what makes him happy. For myself, I spent a fair amount of time trying to make my parents happy, and wanting to be a success in their eyes. That kind of messed me up. So I want to get my son to listen to his own compass.\n(The writer is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his own.)\n(Editing by Beth Pinsker; Editing by David Gregorio)\nRole of a Lifetime: Life Lessons with Peter Krause – The Patriotic Post\nRole of a Lifetime: Life Lessons with Peter Krause | | American-News.net","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line732726"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5465355515480042,"wiki_prob":0.5465355515480042,"text":"Hoskins Ministry\ngeneral happenings and updates from the Hoskins family working in Europe\nICCM-Europe 2016\nCampus Crusade for Christ becomes Cru\nAs you may have seen from the news coverage, Campus Crusade for Christ is changing its name to Cru, a nickname many used in the Campus ministry. There have been many questions and much confusion about the change. I am posting the text from a more “internal” note that I think answers the questions more clearly and is fairly comprehensive. And here it is…\nWhen was the new name announced?\nU.S. Director Steve Sellers made the live announcement at the U.S. Staff Conference on the evening of July 19 M.T. The public information can be found at www.ccci.org. After the announcement, there was a new site for more information.\nWhen will it take effect?\nThe new name for the U.S. is planned to take effect early in 2012. It could take up to a year or more for the name to receive widespread recognition throughout the U.S.\nWhy is the U.S. Ministry changing its name?\nMany things have changed since Campus Crusade for Christ was founded in 1951. The world has changed and we have changed. In the U.S., the term “crusade” has taken on severely negative associations. And the word “campus” no longer encompasses all that we do. The name no longer best communicates who we are. In fact, to those who do not know us, it has become a real hindrance to understanding—and therefore, joining—us. The U.S. ministry leaders simply wanted to remove any obstacle to attracting and keeping co-laborers in the Great Commission. They also wanted to make sure our name was not an obstacle to winning non-believers to Christ.\nMany of our ministries outside the United States have faced these same issues and have changed their name. Some examples are Life Ministries, Great Commission Ministries, Tandem, Power to Change and Agape.\nYou may already know that the name Campus Crusade for Christ was not part of the original vision, and Bill Bright considered changing Campus Crusade’s name as recently as the 1990s. He sensed even then that our name had become a hindrance to our mission.\nWhat was the process for considering new names?\nThe U.S. ministry leadership approached the Board two years ago and began putting the teams together in February of 2010. From there, we hired survey and branding firms for their expertise. We sought the Lord, we surveyed the staff and presented our findings to the Board, including Vonette, for their approval in the Spring of this year.\nWhat are the ramifications of the U.S.’ new name on the rest of the world?\nThere is no pressure for any other country to change its name. The U.S. has simply exercised the same privilege every other country has—to determine the best name to help execute our mission, in its context.\nWhat about the global name of Campus Crusade for Christ International? Has it changed?\nNo. This is an important clarification. It can be difficult to separate the U.S. name and the international name, but they are different entities. The U.S. ministry reports to the parent corporation (CCCI), not the other way around. National ministries may still identify themselves as “a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International”. We have not considered a change in the international name at this time.\nAre we changing our DNA?\nEmphatically no. For 60 years, we have been called to help to fulfill the Great Commission in the power of the Holy Spirit by winning people to Christ, building them in their faith and sending them to win and build others; and by helping the body of Christ do evangelism and discipleship.\nOver the last 10 years we have sought to make this calling even more visible and understood.\nGod wants us to launch and build movements of spiritual multiplication. He wants us to keep the total, worldwide scope of the Great Commission before us and the rest of the body of Christ. He wants us to mobilize as many followers of Jesus Christ as possible to own and help complete the task. He wants us to feature being filled with and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not changing our DNA.\nThad Hoskins cru 0\n» ask or deserve\n© Hoskins Ministry 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1588192"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7197715640068054,"wiki_prob":0.7197715640068054,"text":"Swedish Navy\nFind sources: \"Swedish Navy\" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nSwedish Royal Navy\nCoat of arms of the Swedish Navy.\n7 June 1522; 497 years ago (1522-06-07)\nSwedish Armed Forces\nGarrison/HQ\nKungliga Flottans paradmarsch by Wagner\n9 July (Battle of Svensksund)\n7 corvettes\n9 mine countermeasure vessel\n5 diesel submarines\n14 patrol vessels\n147 Gunboats\nother auxiliary vessels\nSwedish War of Liberation (1510–23)\nCount's Feud (1534–36)\nRusso-Swedish War (1554–57)\nNordic Seven Years' War (1563–70)\nPolish–Swedish War (1600–29)\nIngrian War (1610–1617)\nKalmar War (1611–13)\nThirty Years' War (1630–1648)\nTorstenson War (1643–45)\nSecond Nordic War (1657–60)\nScanian War (1675–79)\nGreat Nordic War (1700–1721)\nSeven Years' War (1756–1763)\nFirst Barbary War (1801–1802)\nWar of the Fourth Coalition (1805–1810)\nFinnish War (1808–1809)\nDano-Swedish War of 1808–09\nSwedish-Norwegian War (1814)\nCold War (1970–1991)\nWar in Afghanistan (since 2002)\nOperation Atalanta (since 2008)\nChief of Navy\nRear Admiral Jens Nykvist\nNaval ensign and jack\nNaval ensign 1844–1905\nThe Swedish Royal Navy (Swedish: Svenska marinen) is the naval branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.[1] It is composed of surface and submarine naval units – the Royal Fleet (Kungliga Flottan) – as well as marine units, the Amphibious Corps (Amfibiekåren).\nIn Swedish, vessels of the Swedish Navy are given the prefix \"HMS,\" short for Hans/Hennes majestäts skepp (His/Her Majesty's Ship). In English, this is often changed to \"HSwMS\" (\"His Swedish Majesty's Ship\") to differentiate Swedish vessels from those of the British Royal Navy.[2]\n2.1 Naval units\n2.2 Amphibious units\n2.3 Bases\n2.4 Training units\n3.1 Upcoming investments\n3.2 Submarines\n3.3 Surface vessels\n3.3.1 Corvettes\n3.3.2 Minesweepers\n3.4 Patrol boats\n3.5 Combat boats\n3.6 Ocean patrol vessels\n3.7 Signal intelligence vessels\n3.8 Auxiliary vessels\n3.9 Training ships\n4 Commanders\n4.1 Chiefs of the Navy\n4.2 Chiefs of Navy Staff\n4.3 Inspectors General of the Navy\n4.4 Inspectors of the Navy\n4.5 Chiefs of Navy\nEarly Swedish kings (c. 9th–14th centuries) organised a Swedish Royal Navy along the coastline through ledungen. This involved combined rowing and sailing ships (without artillery). This system became obsolete with the development of society and changes in military technology. No later than in the 14th century, the duty to serve in ledungen was replaced by a tax. In 1427, when Sweden was still part of the Kalmar Union (with Denmark and Norway), Swedish warships did however participate in the naval battle of Öresund (the Sound) against the Hanseatic League. It is unclear how this force was organised and exactly on what basis.\nOn 7 June 1522, one year after the separation of Sweden from the Kalmar Union, Gustav Vasa purchased a number of ships from the Hanseatic town of Lübeck. Official Swedish histories since the 19th century have often recorded this day as the birth of the current Swedish Navy. The museum ship Vasa in Stockholm was a 17th-century ship of the Royal Swedish Navy (Kungliga flottan).\nThe Amphibious Corps dates back to 1 January 1902, when a separate \"Coastal Artillery\" (Kustartilleriet) was established, and Marinen came into use as the name of the service as a whole. The last decade of the 20th century saw the abandonment of the coastal fortifications and the force became a more regular[citation needed] marine corps, renamed Amphibious Corps (Amphibious Corps) in 2000.\nFor most of the twentieth century the Swedish Navy focused on the threat of a full-scale invasion of Sweden via the Baltic and on protecting commercial shipping. Sweden's location on the Scandinavian peninsula makes it highly dependent of maritime trade: 90% imports and exports enter or leave Sweden through the Baltic. In 1972 the government decreed that non-military measures should be used to protect merchant shipping. The resolution led to the de-commissioning of all the navy's destroyers and frigates, though the non-military measures the government intended to use to protect shipping have never been specified.\nThe navy first participated in a UN-led peacekeeping mission in October 2006 when the corvette HSwMS Gävle began performing coastal surveillance duties for the United Nations Mission in Lebanon. HSwMS Gävle was relieved by HSwMS Sundsvall, which returned to Sweden in September 2007.\nHSwMS Malmö, HSwMS Stockholm, and HSwMS Trossö took part in the EU-led EUNAVFOR operation (2008- ) off the coast of the Horn of Africa. In 2010, HSwMS Carlskrona was the EUNAVFOR flagship, housing the fleet headquarters led by RADM (LH)(Flottiljamiral) Jan Thörnqvist.[3]\nOrganization[edit]\nUntil recently, the Navy was led by the Chief of the Navy (Chefen för marinen, CM), who was typically a Vice Admiral. This office has been eliminated, and the highest officer of the Navy is now the Chief of Navy (Marinchefen), Rear Admiral Jens Nykvist, who is the senior representative of the Swedish Navy’s combat forces.\nThe Marine units use the same system of rank as the Army.\nNaval units[edit]\n1st Submarine Flotilla (1. ubflj) located at Karlskrona\n3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla (3. sjöstridsflj) located at Karlskrona\n4th Naval Warfare Flotilla (4. sjöstridsflj) located at Berga at the Muskö naval base.\nAmphibious units[edit]\n1st Marine Regiment (Amf 1) located in Berga at the Muskö naval base\nBases[edit]\nKarlskrona naval base (MarinB) located at Karlskrona with detachments at Berga, Göteborg and Skredsvik.\nTraining units[edit]\nSwedish Naval Warfare Centre located at Karlskrona\nEquipment[edit]\nThe Swedish destroyer HSwMS Östergötland, decommissioned in 1982.\nIn the decades following World War II, the Swedish Navy was organised around three light cruiser groups (Tre Kronor, Göta Lejon and Gotland). In the early 1960s, a decision, known as Navy Plan 60 (Swedish: Marinplan 60), was made to scrap the cruisers and move towards a larger fleet of smaller vessels. The last cruiser, Göta Lejon, was sold in 1970 to Chile, where she was renamed Almirante Latorre. The fleet at the time comprised some 24 destroyers and frigates for surface warfare (mainly in the Baltic Sea) and anti-submarine warfare.\nThe Swedish Navy started to experiment with missiles, based on a recovered German V-2 rocket, as early as 1944. The main armament of the fleet was artillery and torpedoes for surface warfare and anti-submarine rockets for anti-submarine warfare. Helicopters (Alouette, Boeing Vertol) were introduced in the late 1950s and 1960s and this fleet air arm remained an integral part of the fleet and its operations until an independent helicopter arm was created in the 1990s.\nThe 1972 decision made by the Government to decommission all destroyers and frigates within the next decade limited the Navy's endurance considerably, but the use of smaller short-range ships was at the time deemed adequate for anti-shipping missions along the coast and in the archipelago. In the 1980s, this assessment was proven wrong by repeated failures in anti-submarine warfare operations with inadequate ships and equipment. Today, the largest (surface) combat ships are corvettes which combine surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare and mine clearance functions with a better endurance and seaworthiness than the budget fleet from the 1980s.\nSince the 1980s, Swedish surface warships have been named after Swedish cities, while submarines are named after Swedish provinces and minehunters after Swedish lighthouses. The surface ships are mostly small, relying on agility and flexibility. Examples of these are the Stockholm and Göteborg-class corvettes. The Navy is currently taking into service the new, larger, Visby class of stealth corvettes. A new submarine class, Gotland, similar to the older Västergötland, was commissioned in 1998. Its air-independent Stirling engine enables submerged endurance never before seen in conventional submarines. Gotland has been on lease with crew and all to the US Navy and was based in San Diego.\nThe Amphibious Battalion is built around the Stridsbåt 90H, a small combat boat capable of carrying 21 troops for fast transports and landings in the archipelago. It is also equipped with larger transport boats, but relies on the Army, Navy and Air Force for heavy transports and protection. Cooperation with the Royal Netherlands Navy is under investigation for Amphibious Warfare.\nThe Swedish Armed Forces (Swedish: Försvarsmakten) operate three types of helicopters: NHIndustries NH90 (HKP14) (18 in service), AgustaWestland AW109 (HKP15) (20 in service) and Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk (HKP16) (15 in service). Eight of the AgustaWestland AW109 helicopters have been modified to be operational from the Visby-class corvettes and HSwMS Carlskrona. Nine of the NHIndustries NH90 helicopters are equipped with sonars and radars for anti-submarine warfare.\nUpcoming investments[edit]\nThe next generation of submarines, the A26 class, was ordered from Saab Technologies in 2015 and will join the navy starting 2022. The two units will replace the submarines of Södermanland class. In parallel, the Gotland class will undergo a mid-life upgrade.\nIn 2017 a new intelligence ship to replace HSwMS Orion was ordered from Saab Technologies. The new ship is to be commissioned by 2020 and have a displacement of 2,300 tons.\nAn additional 18 units of the Swedish version of the CB90-class fast assault craft named Stridsbåt 90HSM, where \"M\" stands for \"modernized\", wlll be delivered to the Amphibious Corps during the end of 2018. Like previous versions, the units will be built at Dockstavarvet.\nSubmarines[edit]\nof ships\nGotland class 3 Kockums AB 2 out of 3 units has undergone a mid-life upgrade\nSödermanland class 2 Kockums AB Will be replaced in 2022 by two new units of A26-class\nSurface vessels[edit]\nCorvettes[edit]\nGöteborg class 2 Karlskronavarvet AB Total of 4 ships completed. 2 in service and 2 in mothball.\nVisby class 5 Karlskronavarvet AB\nMinesweepers[edit]\nKoster class 5 Karlskronavarvet AB Total of 7 ships completed. 5 in service and 2 decommissioned.\nStyrsö class 4 Karlskronavarvet AB 2 ships converted to diving support vessels and 2 ships to command and support vessels\nPatrol boats[edit]\nStockholm class 2 Karlskronavarvet AB Downgraded from corvettes[4]\nTapper class 11 Djupviks varv Total of 12 ships completed. 11 in service and 1 decommissioned.\nCombat boats[edit]\nStridsbåt 90 147 Dockstavarvet, Gotlandsvarvet 18 additional units on order\nStridsbåt 90E 5 Storebro Bruks AB Out of 54 units delivered, only 5 are still in use\nOcean patrol vessels[edit]\nHSwMS Carlskrona 1 Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona Former mine layer M04\nSignal intelligence vessels[edit]\nHSwMS Orion 1 Karlskronavarvet, Karlskrona Will be replaced in 2020\nAuxiliary vessels[edit]\nLanding craft\nG class (appr. 100 in service)\nAuxiliary vessels\nHSwMS Trossö (A264) (command and support ship)\nHSwMS Furusund (A320) (sub water research vessel)\nHSwMS Belos (A214) (submarine salvage vessel)\nHSwMS Hector (A254) Damen ASD3010 Coastal Tug\nHSwMS Hercules (A255) Damen ASD3010 Coastal Tug\nTorpedo salvage vessels\nHSwMS Pelikanen (A247)\nHSwMS Loke (A344)\nHSwMS Nåttarö (A608)\n600-class Fast Supply Vessels (16 vessels in service)\nHovercrafts\nGriffon 2000TD Hovercrafts (3 crafts in service)\nTraining ships[edit]\nHSwMS Falken (S02)\nHSwMS Gladan (S01)\nShips for navigation education\nHSwMS Altair (A501)\nHSwMS Antares (A502)\nHSwMS Arcturus (A503)\nHSwMS Argo (A504)\nHSwMS Astrea (A505)\nCommanders[edit]\nMain article: Chief of Navy (Sweden)\nChiefs of the Navy[edit]\n1937–1939 – Charles de Champs\n1939–1945 – Fabian Tamm\n1945–1953 – Helge Strömbäck\n1953–1961 – Stig H:son Ericson\n1961–1970 – Åke Lindemalm\n1970–1978 – Bengt Lundvall\n1978–1984 – Per Rudberg\n1984–1990 – Bengt Schuback\n1990–1994 – Dick Börjesson\nChiefs of Navy Staff[edit]\n1995–1998 – Peter Nordbeck\nInspectors General of the Navy[edit]\n1998–2001 – Torsten Lindh\n2001–2003 – Jörgen Ericsson\nInspectors of the Navy[edit]\n2005–2011 – Anders Grenstad\n2011–2013 – Jan Thörnqvist\nChiefs of Navy[edit]\n2016–present – Jens Nykvist\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Swedish Navy.\nRoyal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences\nLeidang\nList of Swedish wars\nList of Swedish military commanders\nList of Swedish monarchs\nList of ships of the Swedish Navy\nList of coastal defence ships of the Royal Swedish Navy\nSwedish Admirals\n^ Swedish Armed Forces: The Swedish Navy, accessed 8 July 2010\n^ Allied Command Operations. \"A Day Aboard HSwMS Kullen\". NATO. Archived from the original on 20 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.\n^ \"90 000 ton humanitär hjälp säkrades under svensk ledning\" (in Swedish). Swedish Armed Forces. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010.\n^ \"Patrullfartyg Stockholm\". Försvarsmakten. Försvarsmakte. Archived from the original on 11 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.\nSwedish Navy – Official site ‹See Tfd›(in English) ‹See Tfd›(in Swedish)\nGöran Frilund – The Swedish Navy 1788–1809\nMinsveparen M 20 webpage\nSwedish Army\nSwedish Air Force\nCurrent navies in Europe\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swedish_Navy&oldid=903701082\"\nCS1 Swedish-language sources (sv)\nUse dmy dates from January 2018\nArticles containing Swedish-language text\nArticles with Swedish-language external links","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1690515"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6941987872123718,"wiki_prob":0.3058012127876282,"text":"Ted Ligety - Alpine Ski Racer\n@tedligety\nOff the Slopes: New Rodeling Video!\nThis video is a collaboration of short clips taken throughout the winter put together by Audi. I stayed in one of the most amazing hotel rooms in Oberjoch, Germany at the Hotel Lanig and thought the room was really cool, so I captured some of the footage with my Gopro camera. The rodeling took place with some friends in Patsch when I had a couple days off before World Champs. The skiing segments are from all over… Enjoy!\nPark City Welcome Home Day\nThis past Saturday, Park City Mountain Resort hosted a welcome home party for me. It was a very humbling experience and all my friends and family came to watch along with the ski fans in the town. It started with a parade of flags down the main run at the mountain with a bunch of the kids and coaches on the Park City ski team. After the parade there were some speakers including the legendary Stein Eriksen, the mayor of Park City, myself and my Mom and Dad. They also put together a great/funny video from a lot of my competitors wishing me a congratulations on the season that I was surprised to watch (you can see it below!). I am so proud to have been fortunate enough to be raised in such an amazing town and to have the continued support from it throughout my career. I want to thank Park City Mountain Resort for having the event, I will never forget it.\nFinals Week in Lenzerheide, Switzerland\nFinals this year were held in Lenzerheide, Switzerland a couple weeks ago. It was an awesome finish to the whirlwind of a season at another amazing ski town. The weather in the beginning of the week was foggy and windy so the speed events were canceled, which was a bummer since that is a great hill for me in speed and home to my best WC DH finish (4th place). I clinched the GS title in Kranjska Gora the weekend prior going into finals, but still wanted to win the final race to cement my 4th GS title. It was awesome to end the season on such a high note. Ironically, the final GS race results were me, Hirscher, Pinturault and that was also the final standings for the GS title. I ended the season 3rd in the Overall; my best Overall ranking.\nLuckily my parents were there for the week to celebrate the end of the season with me!\nOverall podium; congrats again to Hirscher for an amazing season. It was awesome, motivating, frustrating and inspiring to watch him race this season. He is an admirable and fierce competitor pushing the boundaries of ski racing.\nThanks for all the support this season, I couldn’t have done it without you! It means more than you know to have positive fans, family, friends and coaches which I am fortunate to have in my career. After taking a couple weeks off the season will start up again in full force and I am already pumped and looking forward to doing it all over again many many many more seasons to come.\nAmazing GS season FROM THE DENVER POST DIARY\nTHE BELOW ARTICLE IS TAKEN FROM MY WEEKLY DIARY WITH THE DENVER POST AND JOHN MEYER ABOUT MY WORLD CUP EXPERIENCE AFTER THE RAINY GS AND SLALOM RACES IN KRANJSKA GORA, SLOVENIA.\nGiant slalom for me this season has been incredible, culminating Saturday when I clinched the season title with a week left in the season. It’s my fourth World Cup season title in GS, but it was definitely the best season of my career in GS. I won races by huge margins.\nThe rule changes reducing the legal amount of sidecut on our skis were an advantage for me, and that was a big reason I was so outspoken in criticizing them before they took effect. A rule change that determines winners and losers is a bad rule change. That was a big part of my opposition, in addition to my conviction that the FIS was wrong in its contention that reduced sidecuts would make the sport safer.\nTo have the season I had on the new skis, after I was such a vocal critic, was very important to me. I didn’t want it to seem like I was being critical because I thought it was going to threaten my stature in giant slalom. I was outspoken because the rule change lacked virtue. I worked hard on the new skis from the time the rule changes became official so I would have a head start over the other guys in adjusting to the new equipment.\nI think the new skis worked better with my technique than with most of the other guys because I start the turn earlier and finish the turn later. I have a swooping, longer arc than Marcel Hirscher of Austria, who will finish second in the GS standings. Hirscher kind of chops off a little of the top of the turn and gets a lot of rebound (and acceleration) out of the ski. That was really easy to do on the old skis; you could really accelerate out of a turn. On the new skis, you don’t get as much acceleration.\nI also lay the ski over on edge a little farther, which helps me arc on the reduced turn radius more cleanly.\nI suspected that early in the process, after I skied on them for the first time, and also because I understood the scientific difference between a ski with a 35-meter turn radius (the new rule) and one with a 27-meter radius (the old rule). In order to pull a turn with the same radius, you need to have a higher edge angle. You can pull the same radius on a 35-meter ski versus a 27-meter radius ski if you have like 7 degrees more edge angle. My style lends itself to having a higher edge angle, and that gives me an advantage on the new skis.\nPart of the team that helped me get there….\nOff The Slopes: Rookie Hair Cut\nThe rookie haircut tradition started on the team about 4 years ago, as a fun way to both initiate and include the young rookie into the team. The haircut honors go to the last guy to score his first world cup points, so majority of the time it is a recent rookie. It is also an incentive for the rookie because if they get top 15 they get to cut my hair, so at some point in my career I’m sure I will be sporting a horrible haircut and you’ll know why. Audi Off the Slopes put this video together of our last rookie cut in Garmisch.\nRussia to Norway in 5 days\nAs you may already know last week I had the opportunity to train in Sochi on the Olympic course. I couldn’t pass it up, but it meant I had a hectic traveling schedule in order to squeeze in training in Sochi between the Garmisch, Germany GS Sunday and the Kvitfjell, Norway SuperG the following Sunday. I got some cool photos while in Sochi and wanted to share. They have made a lot of progress since I was there last year for the World Cup, but I was amazed at how much more work they have to do to get ready.\nSecurity check to get on the Gondola\nI got to free ski on the Olympic Downhill course, behind me is the Olympic village\nThis photo was taken from the top Gondola looking down on the bottom where all the courses converge and then separate again to the finish area\nSunrise on the top of the mountain\nMilitary at the top of the mountain\nLooking down on Krasnaya Polyana; the main town for mountain events\nKvjetfill, Norway was a beautiful stop on the World Cup as always, too bad I couldn’t spend more time there. I headed back to Germany for some training before Kranjska Gora GS and Slalom this weekend right after the Super G race.\nI watched the DH race on Saturday from mid course….looks like I have a mustache!\nGoPro Video of the GS Olympic Hill in Sochi\nI took a video of my GS training runs on the Olympic hill in Sochi, Russia using my Gopro3 this week. One view is from me being followed by Alex down the run and the other is from my POV. This is the same slope that will be used in the 2014 Olympics for the Mens Giant Slalom run and part of the Downhill and Super G. It will be the longest GS on the World Cup, ranging from a 1 min 30 secs to 1 min 40 secs. My legs were burning midway not to even mention the bottom. Enjoy!\nWorld Championship Diary\nBELOW IS TAKEN FROM MY WEEKLY DIARY WITH THE DENVER POST AND JOHN MEYER ABOUT MY WORLD CUP EXPERIENCE ALONG WITH SOME OF MY PERSONAL PHOTOS FROM THE TWO WEEKS IN SCHALDMING.\nHard to Fathom Making History at World Ski Championships\nSCHLADMING, Austria — I still can’t really fathom what happened to me at the world championships. I knew I had chances for medals in super-G and super combined, and I really wanted to win the gold medal in the giant slalom. To win three gold medals definitely exceeded my expectations, and it’s been a crazy wave to ride.\nIt’s really weird thinking that it hadn’t been done since Jean-Claude Killy in 1968. It’s hard to imagine somebody hasn’t done it in 45 years, and it was such a cool feeling to put it together the way I did.\nAfter I won the third gold medal, the legendary Alberto Tomba spent some time with us and he was pretty taken aback, even saying it was something he couldn’t have done. It was cool having one of my childhood heroes talking about how neat my accomplishment was. That was special.\nI knew it was possible for me to win medals in all three events. On the World Cup this season, I’ve been skiing so well in super-G, with two fourth-place finishes and a sixth place, and this hill was perfect for me in super-G. I knew it was a really good opportunity.\nIn combined, if I hadn’t lost a ski three gates from the finish line in Wengen last month, I would have been second there, so I knew I had a chance in combined at worlds. After the combined downhill — one of the best downhill runs I’ve had in a long time, beating a lot of the best downhill skiers in the world — I could ski tactically in the slalom rather than taking a lot of risks.\nBut going into the giant slalom with two gold medals, I felt a lot of pressure because defending my title from the 2011 world championships was my No. 1 goal. It was stressful because I hadn’t been able to train much GS while focusing on the super-G and combined. Plus Austrian coaches set the course for the first run, and I knew they would really try to mess with me, setting a course that would be disadvantageous for me and advantageous for my main rival in GS, Marcel Hirscher, on his home hill.\nTo go out and win the first run by more than a second, and then be able to ski smartly on the second run, it was really cool to be in that position.\nWith the Olympics less than a year away now, I know winning these three gold medals has made my summer far more busy than normal. It will be a really good opportunity to project myself beyond ski racing.\nBut I’m not doing ski racing to become famous. I do it because I love it and I’m competitive. That’s what drives me. I’m not looking to be on the cover of People magazine. My main focus is on ski racing, not the red carpet.\nTHE ARTICLE ABOVE WAS PUBLISHED ON MONDAY, BUT I STILL WANTED TO SHARE IT. THE PAST COUPLE DAYS I HAVE BEEN TAKEN SOME TIME OFF TO RECOVER AND RECHARGE AFTER WORLD CHAMPS, NOW I AM READY TO FINISH OFF THE REST OF THE SEASON STRONG.\nDENVER POST DIARYS CAN BE FOUND BELOW ALONG WITH THE REST OF MY DIARYS WITH THEM:\nhttp://www.denverpost.com/extremes\nAudi off the slopes video!\nI have been capturing some of my adeventures in Europe this season from the Rockfest race, a heli ride to a training session in Switzerland and a bungy swing jump taken with my GoPro3 and sending them to Audi for a project they are doing with several racers called “Off the Slopes” to capture the behind the scenes of the World Cup.\nSUPER G GOLD MEDAL DAY: Schladming World Champs\nI still can’t believe I won the Gold medal at World Champs in the Super G yesterday. It was a great day of racing, I started 10th, so I was more nervous watching the rest of the top skiers come down than I was at the start of my run. Celebrating the victory with Aksel and DeTessiere, Alex, the Head team, Audi, my coaches and my girlfriend made for an awesome day that I will never forget. It wouldn’t have been possible to get the gold without the support of all those people.\nAfter the medal ceremony we were rushed across the street to tape a live show for ORF. I thought the studio was really cool.\nI celebrated over a couple beers, but had to get up early for the downhill training runs this morning. It’s still early in the World Champs, so I am looking forward to the Super Combined on Monday!\n© Copyright 2019 Ted Ligety","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line998241"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6510517001152039,"wiki_prob":0.34894829988479614,"text":"Public and Other Sectors\nAbout Daifuku\nProviding Optimal and Best Solutions to Our Customers\nSince 1937, Daifuku has focused on material handling – the movement of finished goods and work in progress. Our world-class systems lead the industry by combining conveying, storage, sorting, picking and controls. Our products serve customers in a range of industries and countries.\nWe have refined our expertise not only as a manufacturer but also as a system integrator, so that we can provide precise solutions to the challenges faced by customers across a variety of industries. We have also established a consistent support system ranging from consulting to after-sales service. Our System Support Center offers 24-hour telephone support, remote monitoring of equipment operation.and preventive maintenance service.\n* Click to enlarge image\nCore Businesses\nFA&DA (Factory & Distribution Automation)\nProvides automated warehousing, various storage and transport systems, and sorting and picking systems that are optimized for each customer, to distributors including e-commerce, retailers, wholesalers, transportation and warehousing, and to manufactures including food, pharmaceuticals and chemicals.\neFA (e-Factory Automation)\nProvides cleanroom transport & storage systems essential in manufacturing semiconductor, flat panel display for smartphones and tablet computers. We have delivered numerous systems to the world's leading electric device companies in North America, Korea, China and Taiwan.\nAFA (Automotive Factory Automation)\nProvides systems for automobile production processes worldwide, mainly for Japanese, Detroit's Big Three, Chinese and South Korean automakers. The system conveys car bodies between each assembly process, including oress/weld/paint/assembly shops.\nATec (Airport Technologies)\nProvides a wide range of systems for airports, from baggage handling systems, automated check-in and security systems, and software and control systems. The business is deployed worldwide in collaboration with its Group affiliates in the U.S., U.K., and New Zealand.\nAWT (Auto Washing Technologies)\nProvides mainly car wash machines to filling stations and automobile dealers. The business enhances eco-friendly functions, including saving water and using plant-based liquid detergents. This business boasts top shares in the Japan and South Korea markets.\nProvides high-end industrial personal computers, controllers used in medical devices, computers built in digital signage, and measuring/control systems for solar facilities through Daifuku's subsidiary Contec Co., Ltd.\nD-Tube!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line225499"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5073794722557068,"wiki_prob":0.4926205277442932,"text":"$7.3 Billion of FDI Since October, Investment Summit Connection Leads to Kentucky Groundbreaking & More\nInternational Trade Administration sent this bulletin at 06/28/2019 01:21 PM EDT\n(June 11, 2019) As a first stop, Stadler Rail Executive Chairman Peter Spuhler and CEO USA Martin Ritter hosted Ambassador Edward McMullen at its state-of-the-art facility in Salt Lake City for Stadler Rail’s grand opening/ribbon cutting event on May 9. The event was an opportunity to amplify Swiss investment as the catalyst for a new wave of transportation manufacturing in Utah. After 15 years of doing business in the United States, Stadler Rail broke ground in October 2017 and the construction of the new factory in Utah started in March 2018.\nHow can we help you? SelectUSA works one-on-one with investors and U.S. economic development organizations (EDOs) to provide information, counseling and connections. Our ombudsman program addresses investor concerns involving federal agencies. We also advocate on behalf of U.S. EDOs in competition with foreign locations.\nEmail info@selectusa.gov for assistance or to provide feedback.\nFor more information, please visit www.selectusa.gov.\n@SelectUSA SelectUSA on LinkedIn\nSUBSCRIBER SERVICES:\nManage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Help\nThe SelectUSA Digest was sent to you from SelectUSA within the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration.\nFind out how the United States is supporting foreign direct investors on the federal, state, and local level at SelectUSA.gov.\nP.S. If you have any questions or problems, please visit subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com for assistance.\nPrivacy Policy | Cookie Statement | Help","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line841559"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5486205816268921,"wiki_prob":0.4513794183731079,"text":"Focused on Helping Colorado Veterans\nJon Stone\nMedia Relations Manager\"\nJustin Beach\nDU hosts Veterans in Higher Education Summit\n“Working together to serve Colorado veterans.” That was the message last Friday on the University of Denver campus as it played host to the seventh annual Veterans in Higher Education Summit. The event was organized by the Colorado Advisory Council on Military Education (CO-ACME), which represents local educators and military members committed to providing the best educational opportunities to members of all branches of the military.\nThe daylong summit focused on how to help veterans in Colorado enter higher education and eventually find jobs that best fit their skills.\n“Our veterans have served our country very well,” said Maj. Gen. Michael Loh, Colorado’s adjutant general and the event’s keynote speaker. “What we need to do now is get them into education and get them learning and developing their skill sets to become 21st century civilians, contributing to society.”\nOne of the biggest challenges facing veterans is that their military transcripts and qualifications often don’t translate to college credit. That’s why Colorado’s legislature recently passed a measure requiring colleges to award academic credit for college-level learning acquired in the military.\n“We had a system where we were not giving our veterans enough credit for studies and work they have already done in the military,” said state Sen. Owen Hill, co-sponsor of the legislation and guest speaker on Friday. “So, if [they] were an electrician in the military or worked in avionics, we need to be doing everything we can to get them college credit for the work they have done to bring down the cost of overall tuition and make the transition as rapid as possible.”\nMost colleges in Colorado are members of CO-ACME, including the University of Denver. “We are trying to show DU’s support for veterans and grow DU’s network in the veterans’ community,” says Damon Vine, DU’s veteran services coordinator and treasurer for CO-ACME. Last spring, DU demonstrated a major commitment to veteran students by increasing funding for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Beginning this fall, DU will offer a $5,000 match for undergraduate and graduate students eligible for the post- 9/11 GI Bill.\nThe University of Denver is also supporting veterans through the Graduate School of Professional Psychology’s Sturm Specialty in Military Psychology. The program has two key components: an educational track that prepares graduate students to work with veterans and their families; and the Sturm Center, a clinic available to all veterans and their families.\nMore than 100 people participated in Friday’s summit, which for the first time included a job fair for veterans looking for employment.\n“We hope we are doing great things for the community, and we hope we are having a great impact on the community as well,” Vine said.\nTo read more about DU's contribution to the Yellow Ribbon Program, please click…\nTo read more about the Sturm Specialty in Military Psychology, please click her…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1232347"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7340790629386902,"wiki_prob":0.2659209370613098,"text":"An Editorial: “Campus Editors for Need-Blind”\nLast week, members of Wesleying and The Argus’s editorial staffs collaborated on a joint editorial regarding the whole need-blind thing. The piece appeared in Friday’s Argus, and while it’s not quite as poetic as Martin Benjamin ’57’s latest (which uses the phrase “fat-fannied corps of social engineers” and refers to President Roth as “Mike the Ripper”), it nonetheless appears below. If you don’t think opinion pieces belong on Wesleying, go ahead and skip this one.\nNext week, Wesleying will host a live forum with President Roth regarding the need-blind issue and general concerns. Check back for details later in the week.\nAs the editors of the two most prominent news publications on campus, The Wesleyan Argus and Wesleying, we’d like to make public our support for the movement to preserve need-blind admissions at Wesleyan University. Though we have never written a joint editorial before, we think it is now imperative that we use our platforms on campus to show solidarity with this cause. We’ve been concerned with how few details we have been provided regarding financial considerations and administrative decisions. We’ve been more concerned by the alarming shortsightedness of this decision—one that severely compromises the value Wesleyan places on socioeconomic diversity.\nLast spring, both Wesleying and The Argus covered the Affordability Forum, an open meeting with President Roth that was organized by the WSA. Both of our publications reported that Roth mentioned the idea of eliminating need-blind admissions. However, from our perspectives as reporters, it seemed clear that this was not a decision the administration was seriously considering for the near future.\nWe were misled. In late May, Wesleying reported that the Board of Trustees was voting to scale back need-blind admissions beginning with the class of 2017. In short, the Office of Admissions will now take into account an applicant’s ability to pay once a financial aid cap is reached. There was no formal announcement in time for students, faculty, or alumni to consider the University’s financial woes and join in the conversation. Wesleying only learned of the policy via members of the WSA Executive Committee.\nIn covering this issue, we have noticed a disconcerting tendency for the administration to pass over community suggestions about how to improve the University’s financial situation. Several times—including in Roth’s recent interview with The Argus—we have been told that the University considered all options. Roth called this “the least-bad option.” The lesser of all evils. “This is a business decision, and it’s terrible,” Roth declared.\nFrankly, we are not convinced. The University did not consider all options. The administration made the decision during Senior Week, when students were either off campus or otherwise occupied with graduation festivities. The administration moved forward without reaching out to alumni for additional support.\n“Where were the calls to fundraise letting people know that if [x amount] weren’t raised then need-blind admissions might have to be sacrificed?” Estrella Lopez ’07 asked in a comment on President Roth’s blog. “We are constantly hit with artificial cries for urgency that we have to give by end of this challenge or during GOLD giving month, but here, where there was real urgency, with real consequences if we didn’t act, we instead got silence.”\nLopez is rightly outraged. Given the magnitude of the decision, that lack of communication is troubling. It’s also telling. The administration has shown itself unwilling to facilitate a productive flow of ideas regarding the budget.\nBeyond our extensive network of alumni, the University failed to reach out even to current students for ideas and input. In a June 6 blog post, WSA President Zachary Malter ’13 called for the creation of a Student Budget Sustainability Task Force to find alternative solutions to the University’s financial problems.\n“Wesleyan students are smart and creative problem-solvers and with the necessary information and scholarship, may be able to come up with some powerful ideas to improve the budget sustainability and affordability of Wesleyan,” Malter wrote.\nIt’s high time for the University to move beyond what Malter has so aptly termed “token transparency” and consider in good faith the ideas of its own community members. In speaking to students, we have been consistently impressed with their creativity, commitment, and wherewithal in their efforts to reverse the administration’s decision and form a tenable solution to the University’s financial troubles.\nAmong the students and alumni protesting this policy, there has been no shortage of ideas. Quite the contrary. Some, like Lopez, have suggested an issue-specific fund-raising drive aimed to restore need-blind admissions. Others, like Jesse Ross-Silverman ’13, have advocated for another pricing model entirely, one that would make tuition costs proportional to families’ incomes. At the UOC/WSA-organized meeting to discuss the policy, several students voiced the opinion that preserving need-blind admissions is more of a priority than certain expenses that the University has deemed essential to the “Wesleyan experience.”\nRoth has repeatedly assured students that if a better option to allay budgetary concerns is proposed, he will jump at the opportunity to save need-blind admissions. But he has failed to give students the opportunity to give meaningful input on this issue. In the open forum, Roth vaguely mentioned the idea of scaling back need-blind administrations, but he has not made good on promises of student input or financial candor in the actual decision to end the policy.\nWhile the lack of communication and collaboration involved in the making of this decision are disturbing to us as journalists and community members, we are most troubled by the policy’s implications for future classes. Besides explicitly rejecting students who cannot pay, the University’s new policy will create a culture in which students from low-income backgrounds are discouraged from applying in the first place. As Leonid Liu and Benny Docter (both ’14) pointed out in their opinion piece for The Argus, the policy will directly compromise the pool of students that apply to Wesleyan. Both said that, despite their families’ different financial situations, they would not have applied if this policy were in place in the fall of 2009.\n“A need-aware admissions policy sends an inherently unfriendly message to applicants: you may be a great applicant, but we won’t accept you into our community because your family can’t pay enough,” wrote Liu and Docter in their opinion piece. “Or, you may be a great applicant, but the deciding factor in accepting you is your money.”\nDirector of University Communications William Holder, writing on behalf of the administration, acknowledged this likelihood.\n“This is a legitimate concern,” he wrote in response to a list of questions posed by Malter. “We don’t have any evidence [that this policy will not alter the pool of applicants].”\nBoth The Argus and Wesleying are committed to continuing to cover this issue in a thoughtful, comprehensive manner. However, we also feel the need to clarify our strong personal support for the reinstatement of a need-blind admissions policy.\nAs publications that aim to accurately portray student life and concerns, we value the diversity of our staffs and believe this policy will negatively affect the University’s ability to draw in students with a variety of viewpoints, backgrounds, and life experiences. We also question the University’s seriousness in its commitment to looking for new solutions and in working toward restoring a need-blind admissions process.\nWe firmly believe that this decision will have serious and negative ramifications for our unique campus culture and student body. More than anything, we encourage all students to inform themselves and make their own decisions about what they find fundamental to their Wesleyan education.\nPosted by Zach in Administration, Campus Life, Causes, Student Groups, Wesleying and tagged Administration, argus, editorial, fund raising, joint editorial, michael roth, need blind, Roth, Roth on Wesleyan, the argus on September 17, 2012 at 7:00 AM.\n← Drawing Co-op S&C Menu Week of Sept 17 →\n10 thoughts on “An Editorial: “Campus Editors for Need-Blind””\nPingback: Democracy Now! Airs Homecoming Protest, Bizarre Roth Confrontation – Wesleying\nPingback: Wesleying To Host Need-Blind Forum with President Roth – Wesleying\nPingback: Support Need-Blind On Your Way To Pi – Wesleying\nPingback: In the Name of All That is Blogged – Wesleying\n'12 September 17, 2012 at 8:42 AM\nIf anything, please read this by Gil Skillman. It’s not a decision to be made from the heart, but the mind. http://needblindfocus.group.wesleyan.edu/2012/09/16/professor-gil-skillman-on-the-socioeconomics-of-need-blind-admissions-at-wesleyan/\nBatte_A September 17, 2012 at 2:40 PM\nMind explaining why you think these things (deciding from the heart and the mind) are mutually exclusive here?\nalum September 17, 2012 at 4:13 PM\nBecause deciding from the heart puts Wesleyan in an even tighter bind financially, while thinking from the mind will allow Wesleyan to support need-blind more sustainably in the future. If Wesleyan can grow its endowment, it won’t have to face this situation again. (see: every wealthier peer school not debating ending need-blind – all of whom got wealthier because they were more conservative with spending)\nBatte_A September 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM\nI’mma have to object to your false dichotomy here. In the short term, one could argue that the net losses from scaling back need-blind for the moment and thus explicitly fostering the growth of inequality exceeds the gains of sitting on a marginally larger pile of cash. In the long term, there’s absolutely no guarantee that “need blind” will actually return, and if the neoliberalism of the last few decades is any guide, it likely won’t.\nFiltering out financially disadvantaged students is absolutely not the only way to address Wesleyan’s increasingly unsustainable practices. There are a few strands that run through all these There Is No Alternative arguments, but maybe the most salient one here is that they’re unilaterally false. We have options. The administration hasn’t considered them all. WE certainly haven’t considered them all. Now seems like a good time to start.\nOh, and as for Gil Skill’s editorial, I know that some people have been reading this as supportive of the current course the administration’s taking, but I’m not one of them. HIghlighting a lot of what’s “wrong” with Wesleyan economically does not translate to an endorsement of any and all courses of action presented as attempts to address the issues. Some solutions are terrible solutions.\nActually, if Wesleyan gains the $100 million in endowment (in today’s dollars) then need-blind will, in fact, come back. Roth said so himself. Reducing the endowment draw will help the endowment grow faster so that need-blind can return sooner. Again, think of it this way – Wesleyan is currently going to exclude X students’ apps from being read need-blind. If Wes gets conservative with spending, then need-blind will be restored sooner, allowing Y students’ apps to be read need-blind (as a result of need-blind reinstated) in the future. If you don’t think Y is a bigger number than X, I suggest you rethink time frames here. This is a decision for Wesleyan’s future. Is it at the expense of Wesleyan of today? Damn straight. it sucks, but the alternative is worse. Overspending is what got us into this mess in the first place. If you want to argue where to cut, fine, but we need to cut the budget.\nWhat about Skillman’s arguments are you refuting? It’s pretty cut and dry. Offer an alternative. I haven’t seen one.\nAgain, you’re assuming that need blind is actually going to return at some point in the near future, which is not at all guaranteed. You also haven’t established that 1) maintaining or (if necessary) increasing the endowment draw spells doom for Wesleyan’s future or 2) reducing the endowment draw is the only significant way for Wesleyan to start being “fiscally responsible”. What about significantly increasing revenue – for example, a major capital campaign, potentially explicitly linked to precarious status of need blind?\nI’ll be writing about a handful of alternatives I’ve barely seen addressed soon. Don’t let me put it off!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1683221"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5511574149131775,"wiki_prob":0.4488425850868225,"text":"Guided Tours, Tower Tours & Group Visits\nCafe and Restaurant\nPartner Attractions\nOpened in 2008, the Seeds of Hope Children's Garden is a unique garden designed to help children and young people explore feelings of loss of all kinds with the support of their families, teachers, and carers. The loss may be as a result of many different things including death, divorce, adoption, separation, a change of school, because a best friend has moved away or a treasured possession has been lost.\nFounder, Caroline Jay: \"Our aim is to provide a resource to help children and young people explore the feelings they may feel unable to articulate and to enable their friends and classmates to learn more about what they might be going through in order that no young person ends up feeling as isolated as the young boy who told us\nthe worse thing after my Dad died in the school holidays was going back to my school and nobody saying anything about my Dad, it was like it didn't matter. It did matter and was awful because Mum had told the school. I just didn't want to go to school after that.\nThe Garden is situated at the east end of the Cathedral and incorporates 4 separate areas, one for each season, together with a bronze sculpture of 2 life-sized children and a labyrinth. With the help of an Activity & Information Pack, children are encouraged to learn about change from the ever-present cycle of life in the Garden. These secular packs are downloadable from the charity's website. The Cathedral has written worksheets for adults (PDF) and children (PDF) to take around the garden.\nTo organise a children's visit, please refer to the school visits page of this website.\nYou are in: Home » Visit » What to See » Children's Garden","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line845592"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6417829990386963,"wiki_prob":0.6417829990386963,"text":"If The City Had A Voice Part 2\nPurpose - If The City Had A Voice Pt 2\nThe big homie Purpose outta Adelaide is about to drop the follow up to the first volume of his 'If The City Had A Voice' series, and if the below track is any indication, this shit is gonna be a banger. Peep the press release below, and watch out for the album later this year. There might even be a feature from Bekah...\nLeading up to ‘If The City Had a Voice II’, Purpose has released 5 projects, toured the country and continued to grow both in and out of the studio as he built up his resume. This mixtape serves as a pre-cursor to his debut solo album 'Where It Starts' DROPPING LATE 2011\nIt is a collaborative effort with DJ Hacksaw (Pagen Elypsis, Battlehoggs, Train of Thought) and is made up of both original music and a handful of remixes. This release paints an avid picture of a new era in Australian Hip-Hop music and offers a peak into the future of an artist that has laid a solid foundation both locally and internationally.\nIt features Pagen Elypsis, Kilenm (USA), Arkaic (UK), Motive & Prime and features production by Purpose, Eslev & Zarkov.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line282872"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7784634232521057,"wiki_prob":0.7784634232521057,"text":"Home Research > Members > 1790-1820 > HEYGATE, William (1782-1844)\nHEYGATE, William (1782-1844), of Chatham Place, Blackfriars, London and Holwood, Kent.\nBiography Detail\nFamily and Education\nb. 24 June 1782, 1st s. of James Heygate, banker, of Hackney, Mdx. and Southend, Essex by Sarah, da. of Samuel Unwin of Sutton in Ashfield, Notts. m. 19 May 1821, Isabella, da. of Edward Longdon Mackmurdo of Upper Clapton, Mdx., 4s. suc. fa. 1833. cr. Bt. 30 Sept. 1831.\nCommon councilman, London 1809-12, sheriff, 1811-12, alderman 1812-43, ld. mayor 1822-3, chamberlain 1843-4.\nDir. Eagle Insurance 1811-4, Grand Surr. Dock Co. (of which his fa. was treasurer) 1813-d.; Phoenix Fire Office 1819-42; Pelican Office 1823-d.; South Sea Co. 1823-9, 1832-d.; W. I. Dock Co. 1824-30; Reversionary Interest Soc. 1825-d.; commr. Exchequer bill loan office 1823-d.\nIn 1822 Heygate, who coveted a baronetcy, wrote to Lord Liverpool describing himself as ‘possessed of an adequate property, landed and otherwise, as well in possession as reversion and ... I am descended from a family which declined at its first institution the title of baronet for reasons which did them no discredit’.1 His family, which entered its pedigree at the Visitation of London in 1634, had acquired estates in Leicestershire and Essex. At the beginning of the 19th century his father, a hosiery manufacturer, helped to found the Leicester bank of Pares and Heygate. About 1805 a branch was started at 63 Aldermanbury, London, but Heygate, who was doubtless the firm’s London agent, did not become a partner in the parent bank until 1813. After moving to Blackfriars (1817) and Broad Street (1833), the bank was wound up on Heygate’s father’s death.2\nChosen a common councilman for Cripplegate Within in 1809 and an alderman for Colegate Street in 1812, and prominent as a Merchant Taylor and company director, Heygate was also a founder member of the Hampden Club to promote parliamentary reform. He was invited to contest the London by-election of 1817 on a moderate Whig platform, but declined. He promised (10 June) to offer at the next opportunity,3 but in 1818 he stood for the open borough of Sudbury and was returned after an easy contest, with corporation support. In the House he took an independent line. In his first speech, 2 Feb. 1819, he qualified his support for a committee on the Bank restriction by stating his preference for an open over a secret committee, as well as by admitting that he was an anti-bullionist, who doubted whether a hasty resumption of payments in specie would do as much good as an export drive. As a banker, he thought the Bank of England had a very creditable record. Rev. Sydney Smith commented, ‘This is the Augustan age of aldermen. Alderman Heygate has far exceeded Waithman, who spoke very well’.4 He voted against the proposals for the royal household, 22, 25 Feb., 19 Mar. 1819. He supported inquiry into criminal law reform, 2 Mar., and burgh reform, 1 Apr.; next day he objected to the rustication of the franchise of Barnstaple, which sacrificed ‘the interest of the trading and commercial parts of the community ... to those of agriculture’. He objected to the repeal of the salt laws, as it could only lead to compensatory taxation of another kind, 29 Apr. He opposed the Game Laws amendment bill, 14 May. On 18 May he spoke and voted for Tierney’s censure motion: the country was ‘now in a state of stagnation and decline’.\nOn 25 May 1819 Heygate opened the adjourned debate on the resumption of cash payments, having failed to secure a hearing the night before. John William Ward* remarked to Bishop Coplestone:\nThe anti-bullionists are too much overmatched to make any fight. You see they had nothing for it but to put forward Alderman Heygate as their champion ... It is not a very good subject for debate. It is too scientific, and consequently far better fitted for writing than for speaking.5\nHeygate criticized the composition of the secret comittee, which had examined ‘but one country banker’. He disliked the Bank restriction in principle, but objected to the proposals for lifting it: they would find the money market ill-prepared and might start a panic. He was a diehard opponent of the cash payment bill, 14 June. He also voted against the foreign enlistment bill, 3 and 10 June, and the excise duties bill, 25 June.\nHeygate took his own line on the government’s repressive measures in December 1819. He voted to limit the duration of the seditious meetings bill to three years, 6 Dec.; voted against the seizure of arms bill, 14 Dec.; supported the blasphemous libels bill, 23 Dec., but tried in vain to have it limited to three years, and spoke ambiguously on the newspaper stamp duties bill, 27 Dec., attributing the economic depression to the ‘great diminution of the currency’. He died 28 Aug. 1844.\nRef Volumes: 1790-1820\nAuthor: Lawrence Taylor\n1. Add. 38291, f. 156.\n2. Gent. Mag. (1845), i. 543; VCH Leics. iii. 50-51; N. and Q. (ser. 12), xi. 250; Hilton Price, London Bankers, 126.\n3. Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 112, 282; ii. 203; The Times, 10, 11 June 1817.\n4. Sydney Smith Letters ed. N. C. Smith, i. 320.\n5. Ward, Letters to Bishop of Llandaff, 223.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line961828"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5063859820365906,"wiki_prob":0.5063859820365906,"text":"Del Rio, TX weather in December 1991\nIn December 1991 the average high temperature in Del Rio, TX was 66.7°F, and this was 1.9°F warmer than the average of 64.8°F. The hottest day in December 1991 was 9 December when the temperature reached 81.0°F. Overnight the average temperature in December is 43.4°F and in 1991 the average overnight temperature was 7.3°F warmer at 50.7°F.\nIn December the average monthly rainfall in Del Rio, TX is 0.44 inches with rain usually falling on 7 days. In December 1991 there was a total of 2.87 inches of rain, that fell on 16 days.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line36216"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5479588508605957,"wiki_prob":0.5479588508605957,"text":"« Atrocity of history: Representing Castro as Cuba | Main | 2 days away: Democrats decide whether to destroy Sen. Joe Lieberman »\nSunni Arabs just can’t stand Shiite Hezbollah\nIt’s another sign of the Middle East’s screwed-up alliances that Sheik Safar al-Hawali, a former mentor to Osama bin Laden, has publicly labeled Hezbollah “the party of the devil.”\n“Don’t pray for Hezbollah,” Hawali says on his Web site.\nHezbollah means “the party of God,” but Hezbollah is Shiite Muslim. It is an organization of Arabs heavily influenced by the Shiites of Persian Iran. Sunni Muslims like Hawali and bin Laden, both from Saudi Arabia, just don’t think much of Shiites.\nIf you recall, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt weren’t quick to condemn Israel’s counteroffensive against Hezbollah. That’s because Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt are Sunni. And so is al Qaida.\nYou’d think they’d rally around Hezbollah just for its common cause against hated Israel. But in the Middle East, there’s a lot of hatred going on, and it goes in the most unexpected directions.\nAugust 05, 2006 in Current Affairs, Freedom, Religion | Permalink","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1374165"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7527477741241455,"wiki_prob":0.7527477741241455,"text":"Can a Broken Foster Care System Be Fixed? These Philanthropists Think So\nApril 10, 2018 / Caitlin Reilly\nphoto: Torgado/shutterstock\nThe foster care system in the U.S. is broken. More than a third of foster kids leave the system without a high school diploma or GED, according to the Children’s Law Center of California. Fewer than half are employed in the first 12 to 18 months after aging out. A third of kids exhibit mental health disorders, often post-traumatic stress disorder. More than a quarter will be incarcerated in the first two years after leaving the system, and a third will need public assistance.\nCalifornia is the state with the most kids in foster care by a long shot. The state’s system is twice the size New York's, the state with the second-largest foster care population. Foster care is a complicated problem, but improvements in California prove that these systems can change. In 2015, the state passed a bill that phased out group homes in favor of foster families. From 2000 to 2010, the state lowered the share of its children in the system by 45 percent, but there’s still a lot of work to do.\nWithin California, Los Angeles County is home to about a third of the state’s foster kids. Perhaps for that reason, L.A. is fast becoming a hub for foundations interested in moving the needle on foster care.\nLast month, Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker put up $10 million to start the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, which will focus on child welfare. The couple’s foundation has also been part of an ambitious public-private partnership with Los Angeles County to improve the foster care system that's included 12 other funders.\nThe center at UCLA will work to develop interventions for classroom and family support services and methods for addressing childhood trauma, and will pioneer new research on foster care, starting with the racial dynamics at play within the L.A. County system. Another big piece of the center's work, however, will be to collaborate with other stakeholders in the space, including nonprofits, other higher education institutions, K-12 systems, child and family advocates, and the county’s support services.\nIt’s a spirit of collaboration that has animated much of the philanthropic work on foster care in L.A., work in which the Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation has played a major role. The couple is part of that Pritzker family, the owners and heirs of the Hyatt Hotel chain. Anthony is brother to J.B. Pritzker, who's known in philanthropic circles for his extensive work on early childhood education, and Penny Pritzker, former secretary of commerce under President Barack Obama.\nRelated: So Many Pritzkers, So Much Philanthropy: Meet This Top Family of Givers\nUnlike his two siblings, Anthony and his wife Jeanne are based in L.A., and much of their giving goes to California causes. Sustainability and the environment are key causes for Anthony. He’s given a lot to the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, including a $15 million gift in 2013 to support the study of urban sustainability.\nFoster care is another big priority for the Pritzkers. In 2014, their foundation started the Pritzker Foster Care Initiative to support kids transitioning into adulthood. Grants from the initiative typically address emotional well-being, technological innovations, and financial independence.\nBack in 2012, Jeanne Pritzker founded Foster Care Counts, a nonprofit she still chairs. The organization leverages volunteers and donations to fill the gaps in the foster care system. The organization has a big network of partners in the foster space. One of the purposes of the center at UCLA is to better connect researchers with local nonprofit and L.A. County support services, many of which the Pritzkers have involvement through Foster Care Counts.\nThe Pritzkers were also among the 13 funders that joined L.A. County to start the Center for Strategic Public-Private Partnerships to focus on child welfare in 2016. Southern California Grantmakers played a key role establishing the center and has served as its fiscal agent. (The early history of this unique effort is described in a report by SoCal Grantmakers and Casey Family Programs that you can read here.) The center is funded by private and public money, and reports to the county’s office of child protection.\nPrivate-public collaborations are exciting because they mix the reach of the public sector with funds from the private sector. The county is better positioned to identify gaps in its own programs, and philanthropists can fill those gaps. A partnership that brings foundations together has the added benefit of encouraging coordination among private funders to ensure philanthropists aren’t duplicating efforts.\nRelated: Inside Los Angeles’ Ambitious Public-Private Child Welfare Partnership\nThe foundations that signed on were the Ahmanson Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, David Bohnett Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, California Community Foundation, the California Endowment, Community Partners, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Liberty Hill Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and Weingart Foundation.\nThe Pritzkers aren’t the only philanthropists betting big to reform the foster care system in L.A. The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, also a member of the private-public partnership, is another major player in foster care. The foundation splits its funding in this area between L.A. and New York, and just finished the first phase of its foster youth strategy in 2017. The five-year phase rang up an impressive total of $53.5 million in investments. The foundation’s foster care work focuses on strengthening systems and policy for transition-age foster youth, expanding and sharing knowledge with the field, and advancing innovative transition-age foster youth programs.\nIf foundations can move the needle on foster care in L.A., a county with more kids in the foster care system than many states, it could provide a template for better outcomes for these kids elsewhere. California’s improvements in the last 20 years show despite the foster care system's many problems, it can be improved. With big gifts and real efforts at coordination with the public sector, and among foundations and nonprofits, philanthropy may have a shot.\nHilton’s New Foster Youth Strategy: What L.A. Nonprofits Need to Know\nThis Funder’s Support for Child Well-Being Remains Consistent, Yet Growing in the Carolinas\nWith a Billionaire’s Backing, Philadelphia Aims to Remake Its Juvenile Justice System\nA Coveted Cash Prize for Jewish Teenage Leaders Offers a “Vote of Confidence\" and More\nHe Became a Billionaire Selling Tools. Now He’s Boosting Skilled Trade Education in High Schools\nTo Get More Young People Into Good Jobs, a New Focus on Apprenticeships\nGrowing its Education Work, a Silicon Valley Funder Looks to Boost the \"Whole Family\"\nOne of the Few Big Backers of After-School and Summer Programs Steps up with a Major Grant\nBehind a $180 Million Corporate Pledge to Connect Youth with Opportunity Worldwide\nA Growing Backer of Early Childhood Learning Steps up with Another Set of National Grants\nIn San Diego, a Corporate Funder Galvanizes a New Effort to Fight Human Trafficking\nCritical Connections: A Foundation Breaks Down Silos to Boost its Impact on Early Childhood\nIn a State with Deep Inequities, a Billionaire Couple is Catalyzing Action on K-12 and Jobs\nA Changing Landscape: Five Trends to Watch in Charter School Philanthropy\nInflection Point: Taking Stock of Philanthropy and the Charter School Movement\nWhen Eagles Hatch: Native Americans in Philanthropy and Native Youth Activism\nWhy Not You? A Star NFL Quarterback Aims to Empower Youth\nBehind a $25 Million Plan to Elevate Women in STEM and Use their Stories to Inspire Girls\nWhat’s Hot (and What’s Not) in Education Philanthropy Right Now\nPlanet Word: A Philanthropist’s Mission to Build a Museum of Language\nLong Game: Inside the Carnegie Corporation’s Quest to Improve Science Education\nAmong Regional Foundations, Early Childhood Commands Growing Attention\nHow the William T. Grant Foundation Gives Locally in New York City\nInside the Growing Push for Social and Emotional Learning in K-12 Education\nSpirit of Adventure: A Local Funder Helps Girls Chart Their Course\n“Highly Rational.” A Billionaire Donor's Latest Gift Sticks to the Script\nAn Initiative to Improve Health in Schools Puts Trauma Front and Center\nDivine Intervention: Who’s Giving to Faith-Based K-12 Schools?\nThe Gates Foundation’s Latest Move to Help Teachers Become More Effective\nIn Leadership Picks, Clues About the Education Plans of Top Tech Philanthropists\nApril 10, 2018 / Caitlin Reilly/\nChildren & Youth, Los Angeles, Social, Front Page Most Recent, Front Page - More Article\nFoster Care, Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation, Jeanne Pritzker philanthropy\nCaitlin Reilly\nTriage: A Tech Company's Bid to ...\nWhen City Hall Wants a Grant: ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line117957"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5464150309562683,"wiki_prob":0.5464150309562683,"text":"British woman, 92, takes to the skies in a WWII fighter plane\n[youtube=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=56&v=NvrlTzeFRKs”]\nAwesome story about this woman who is 92-years-old and a World War II veteran. she was a pilot in Britain during the war and was transporting the old birds around bases. Just a great story. Makes me happy to see this. Watch it, enjoy.\nThe flight went off without a hitch, and Lofthouse said she was grateful for the opportunity to once more take to the skies.\n“It was lovely,” she said. “It made me feel quite young.”\nAuthor Andy KravetzPosted on May 27, 2015 Categories VeteransLeave a comment on British woman, 92, takes to the skies in a WWII fighter plane","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1705316"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8631958365440369,"wiki_prob":0.8631958365440369,"text":"Long Islanders Sue Over Health Concerns About New Cellphone Towers\nMINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Long Island residents are raising health concerns as cellphone transmission equipment continues to be installed in many areas.\nAs CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan reported, some neighbors are joining together to fight towers going up close to their homes, schools and houses of worship.\nJodi and Peter Abraham anxiously clutched their just-filed federal lawsuit as they walked out of Nassau County Supreme Court Thursday, challenging hundreds of unregulated and wireless facilities, still going up by the dozens across Huntington and Oyster Bay.\n“We are not anti-tech. We are not anti-cellphone,” Peter Abraham said. “But we believe cell towers should be put up in a responsible way.”\nThe Abrahams called CBS2 to their home last December, when in an overnight period, they said a pole with a wireless box was installed on the edge of their front property. They confronted the installer – Crown Castle – and the town for an explanation.\n“I want a voice,” said Jodi Abraham. “And I want my town to stand up for us – you know, their residents. And they have told us their hands have been tied.”\nA Huntington town official explained the stated purpose of the cell towers.\n“Crown Castle has told the town that this is designed to fill in gaps in cellphone service in the town,” said Town of Huntington spokesman A.J. Carter.\nAs they joined hands in front of the courthouse, worried homeownerssaid the law must be changed to stop the new towers from being allowed.\n“This is an issue that is critical — not just to all of Long Island, but all of the United States,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Andrew Campanelli, “because across the United States, no wireless facilities are being tested.”\nSome call it a microwave brew – steps from their bedroom windows. Are radio frequency emissions mushrooming out to envelop nearby schools and churches?\nThe Federal Communications Commission has RF thresholds, but the agency says it has not enough resources to test them.\n“Who’s monitoring that what the FCC says is a ‘safe limit’ is actually what’s coming out of these things?” said Oyster Bay homeowner Sandra Decker. “We don’t know that.”\nCurrently, several California communities are requiring wireless installers to pay for independent safety checks.\n“We understand that technology is moving forward. I understand that,” said Oyster Bay homeowner Rosalie Menduni. “Let’s do it mindfully.”\nResidents now want the FCC to conduct regular radiation readings, and embark on a new study testing health effects of wireless boxes and cell phone towers.\nThe wireless company named in the lawsuit Thursday, Crown Castle of Texas, did not return CBS2’s calls for comment.\nhttp://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/10/19/long-island-cellphone-towers-lawsuit/\nOyster Bay supervisor vows town will limit cellphone antennas\nUpdated May 11, 2017 8:40 PM\nNassau, Oyster Bay, LONG ISLAND, NY\nBy David Olson\nOn Thursday, May 11, 2017, Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino, speaking to a group of Woodbury residents who had just held a news conference to express frustration over cellphone repeaters installed in their neighborhood, said the town is drafting a new ordinance to limit the installation of cellphone repeaters and is exploring legal ways to get about two dozen repeaters removed from residents’ properties. (Credit: Newsday / Chuck Fadely)\nOyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino on Thursday said the town is drafting a new ordinance to limit the installation of cellphone antennas and is exploring legal ways to get about two dozen of them removed from residents’ properties.\n“We will make sure our voice is heard as we stand in lockstep with our residents to protect their rights and protect our communities,” Saladino said.\nSaladino spoke on the street in front of a 30-foot-high antenna that was recently installed on the public right of way of Woodbury resident Denise Tufano’s front lawn. Tufano and others had held a news conference on the site to complain about the aesthetic, property-value and possible health effects of the antennas and urge the town to take action.\nThe antennas, part of the Verizon Wireless network, are called “small cells” and are installed closer to users to improve coverage, the company said in a statement.\nSaladino found out about the news conference and, several minutes after it ended, arrived with other town officials to talk to reporters and residents.\nOne of the speakers and organizers of the news conference was Democratic supervisor candidate Dr. Marc Herman. Saladino, a Republican, and Herman accused each other of playing politics with the issue.\nHerman said he was acting not as a candidate but as president of the Gates Ridge Civic Association in Woodbury. He asked why action hadn’t been taken earlier and why notice wasn’t given to residents of their installation.\nSaladino, who took office Jan. 31, said he and town officials have been looking into residents’ complaints about the antennas for weeks. He announced at Tuesday’s board meeting that the town had rescinded seven permits for antennas.\nSaladino said Thursday that the antennas should not be placed in residential neighborhoods and he urged the Federal Communications Commission to conduct radio-frequency testing near the devices, turn off any that are currently functioning, and study the health effects of antennas.\nDeputy Town Attorney Matthew Rozea said a federal law limits municipal restrictions on cell phone equipment. Saladino called on Congress to change the law “to give local municipalities the right to determine where these go.”\nVicki Kramer, who has an antenna next to her Woodbury driveway, said she is worried about her two teenagers and other neighborhood kids, especially with the long-term health risks of the antennas not known.\nhttp://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/oyster-bay-supervisor-remove-cellphone-repeaters-on-lawns-1.13612886\nLong Island, NY : Westchester Residents Concerned About Plans For New Cellphone Poles\nFiled Under: Cellphone Towers, Crown Castle Presentation, Huntington, Jennifer McLogan, Long Island, Lou Young, Rye, Suffolk County\nRYE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Towering poles topped with cellphone booster equipment are now lining the streets of some Westchester County and Long Island neighborhoods – and some are calling them an eyesore.\nBut as CBS2’s Lou Young reported, even more of the poles are expected to be installed.\nThe new cellphone equipment is invading Rye. Some towers already have been attached onto and above existing utility poles, and dozens in total are proposed in Rye alone.\nOpponents fear it is just the start. “The 64 coming in would be Verizon nodes, but other carriers and infrastructure builders can come in and do exactly the same thing,” said Joshua Cohn of Rye. The mayor said the fact is that upgrades for cellphone networks are necessary.\n“We all have (cellphones). We all use them,” said Rye Mayor Joe Sack. “And as a result, the wireless providers have to upgrade their network.” But while there are only 10 of the new units in Rye now, the sudden expansion proposal has stiffened opposition. Neighbors say they are not only big, but in the summer, internal cooling fans make them noisy as well.\n“Walking the dog, I can hear it. It’s like a low whirring sound,” said Madeline Peron of Rye. Other communities are already reacting to the arrival of cellphone equipment. In Huntington, Long Island, 166 poles were recently approved and went up – much to the shock of those living nearby.\nJodi Abraham awoke this week to a new pole with a booster box and converters pointed right at her Huntington home. “This is new technology, we’re not sure, like most people we don’t know the health effects of it,” she told CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan. Her husband Peter wants nothing to do with the new installations. “I don’t want it on my property,” he said. “And I don’t want it adjacent to my property and my children.” The Abrahams and their neighbors claim no one with Town of Huntington alerted the community that it was entering an agreement with a giant telecommunications company. Peter demands to know how permits were passed and why residents weren’t previously told about it. A public hearing called Crown Castle Presentation was held in July. As CBS2’s McLogan reported, few in the community knew it was a company seeking to rent space on the poles to multiple cellphone providers.\nThe township claims they have limited authority, and the antennas pass government health and safety testing. Huntington town spokesman A.J. Carter tells CBS2 that Crown Castle told the town that the equipment is designed to fill in gaps in cell phone service. He claims the initiative is not a money making venture for the town.\nCBS2 reports that Huntington stands to make about $230,000 in permit fees, along with 5 percent of future monthly gross revenue for 10 years for equipment placed in right-of-ways. “It feels like the town can do whatever it wants,” said Jodi.\nBack in Rye, opponents are petitioning their city council to keep the cell equipment on public property and out of residential neighbourhoods. Mayor Sack insists the equipment is safe despite the lack of aesthetic appeal. “Telephone poles are not pretty objects, OK?” he said. “And when you put one of these antennas on top of one, they kind of blend in, you know, with the preexisting ugliness.”\nTexas-based Crown Castle is trying to secure the utility pole leases for Westchester and Long Island, as well as for New York City. Multiple calls to the telecom company have not been returned.\nWATCH VIDEO :\nhttp://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/12/07/cbs2-exclusive-li-residents-concerned-about-cell-phone-poles/\nNewYork – CBSNewYork.com\nCell Phone Poles In Westchester County Causing Concerns\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nCellphone Antennas to Sprout Atop Light Poles and Signs\nBy IAN URBINA NY TIMES – JULY 30, 2004\nAt more than $6,000 a month for a few square feet, it may be the most expensive real estate in New York.\nThe thin sliver of space on top of lampposts, traffic signals and highway signs is where the city plans to allow telecommunications companies to put cellphone antennas and Internet transmitters.\nThe plan, which will add about $21.3 million to city coffers, will improve spotty cellphone reception — and turn many intersections into wireless Internet ”hot spots.” But, city officials say, it will also help those who cannot afford regular telephone service, by providing a cheaper option, through wireless Internet-based access, in neighborhoods with the fewest connections to the phone network.\nOpponents of the plan say that the only thing the antennas will bring is an increased health risk. ”We have no idea what dangers are posed by the concentration of these devices,” said Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr. of Queens, explaining that the city does not keep records of the numbers or locations of the antennas already in the city. ”They keep saying that these things are less dangerous than microwave ovens,” Mr. Vallone said, ”but no one has a microwave running 24/7, right next to their bedroom window.”\nCity officials say the plan is needed to keep pace with the rapidly growing use of cellphones and wireless Internet connections. The antennas and Internet relay boxes will start appearing on city poles before the end of the summer, said Gino P. Menchini, the city’s commissioner of information technology and telecommunications. About 18,000 spots will be leased.\nThe pole-mounted antennas will allow the city to shift away from the larger cellular base stations that emit higher radiation and are located on many rooftops, Mr. Menchini explained. And since one of the franchise companies will install universal antennas, which can be used by all cellphone providers, the new setup will actually lower the overall number of antennas needed.\n”We see this as a win-win situation,” Mr. Menchini said.\nEvie Hantzopoulos of the Astoria Neighborhood Coalition, which opposes the unchecked spread of antennas in the city, sees it otherwise.\n‘There has been a complete lack of public input on this and the city has given the telecommunications industry carte blanche access,” Ms. Hantzopoulos said. ”It’s not just dangerous, it’s irresponsible.”\nWhile there has been widespread concern about radiation from cellphone towers posing a risk of cancer and infertility, most scientific studies have not found a link.\nThe six companies granted access to the poles include two cellular providers, Nextel and T-Mobile, and three non-cellular companies, ClearLinx Network Corp., Crown Castle Solutions and Dianet Communications. The sixth company, IDT Business Services, will offer telephone service via the Internet. Each company will be allowed to use a maximum of 3,000 poles citywide for a term of 15 years.\nThe current plan offers access to poles in three separate zones for different prices. Zone A includes Manhattan south of 96th Street. Zone B is everywhere in the city not included in the other two zones. Zone C consists of a patchwork of neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx where five percent or more of the houses do not have telephone service.\nAgostino Cangemi, deputy commissioner of information technology and telecommunications, said a big advantage of the franchise plan is that it will provide phone access via the Internet in Zone C, areas typically home to lower-income and immigrant families that rely on public pay phones and high-priced phone cards.\nIDT Business Services, a company based in Newark, will provide customers in Zone C Internet phone devices and accounts to which they can add pre-paid minutes, Mr. Cangemi said. The Internet phones will cost less than most cellphones, and there will be no credit checks, he said.\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/nyregion/cellphone-antennas-to-sprout-atop-light-poles-and-signs.html\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nThe New York State Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials opposes a bill in the legislature to usurp municipalities’ power to regulate cell antennas.\nIf you live in New York State you can contact your municipality (city) and say you oppose this bill too.\nBill numbers are A. 9508/ S. 7508\nwww.nycom.org\nNew York Cities Object to Proposed State Rules on 5G Towers\nThe state of New York is looking to regulate what towns will be able to charge for the newest cell transmitters.\nBY RICK KARLIN, TIMES UNION / MARCH 20, 2018\n(TNS) — ALBANY — A regulation tucked into Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget plan regarding cell towers is pitting local governments against the state and major telecom providers like AT&T and Verizon.\nThe proposal would set statewide standards for approving and charging for the use of cell towers, telephone poles or other fixtures that wireless providers use to carry their signals via the newly emerging 5G technology.\nMunicipal officials say that impinges on their local control of cell towers.\n“This legislation would handcuff the ability of every municipality in New York state to manage access to their public rights-of-way,” states a memo on the proposal from the state Conference of Mayors.\nState officials, though, say local governments would still deal with cell tower applicants. “The bill sets up a uniform process entirely administered by local governments, allowing for local control while encouraging private investment to expand service,” said Budget Division spokesman Morris Peters.\nMuch of the fight appears to center on money and a clause that would impose a $200 annual rental limit for each small cell signaling device a carrier put on a pole.\n“Significantly, this bill seeks to limit how much a municipality may charge a wireless provider when renting space on municipally-owned structures,” reads the memo.\nSome municipalities including Buffalo have wanted to charge up to $2,000 annually for each device.\nThe catch is, with the developing 5G technology, wireless transmitters need to be placed as close as 500 feet apart. That means a town could have dozens or even hundreds of devices.\nPaying thousands of dollars per year, per device would make it uneconomical, say those in the telecom industry.\n“Who is going to deploy with those costs?” asked Robert Puckett, president of the state Telecommunications Association.\nAlso known as “small cell,” 5G is viewed as the next generation of wireless technology which has so much capacity that it could eventually replace the need for hard-wired services.\nRather than hooking into a copper or even fiber-optic wire, 5G proponents say consumers will eventually be able to get all their web-based services via these densely-packed wireless signals.\nProponents note that 5G technology will help bring high-speed broadband service to upstate areas that currently don’t have it.\n“It’s really an economic development issue,” said Marissa Shorenstein, Northeast President for AT&T which like Verizon is anxious to move forward with the technology.\nShe noted that some other states have already moved ahead with the kind of uniform regulations and price limits that they want in New York.\n“We’re going to deploy small cells to places where we’re wanted,” she said.\nMunicipalities aren’t the only ones upset with the proposal. Representatives of the cable industry, which relies on hard wiring, say the plan creates an unlevel playing field.\nThat’s because cable firms still have to negotiate their rights of way with local municipalities, said Lara Pritchard of Spectrum cable.\nShe as well as the Cable Telecommunications Association believe the proposal should also be discussed outside of budget talks, which are supposed to be finalized in less than two weeks.\nExisting cell tower transmitters have generated a lot of cash for municipalities around the state.\nIn the town of Bethlehem, for example, cell carriers pay about $2,400 per month to rent, or use the right of way on structures like a town water tower, said Paul Penman, the town’s deputy commissioner of public works.\nBut rather than having a handful, the 5G system would require scores of transmitters.\nSome industry observers believe the gap between the $200 cap and, say, the $2,000 fee sought in Buffalo, will serve as a starting point for bargaining that will likely take place between now and the final state budget.\nhttp://www.govtech.com/network/New-York-Cities-Object-to-Proposed-State-Rules-on-5G-Towers.html\nFCC Ruling on 5G Infrastructure May Hurt CitiesLeaders in Brunswick, Md., Adopt New Small Cell RegulationsGaston County, N.C., OKs Disputed Cell Installation\n5G Equipment Quietly Being Installed On Rhode Island Street Lamps\nJim Satney April 6, 2019\n5G is coming, whether any of us want it or not. At least that’s the approach some states and wireless companies seem to be taking when it comes to the controversial fifth-generation wireless network. Wires and boxes now clutter Providence light poles and traffic lights, however, people in the area have no idea how they got there. Worse more, state agencies and major telecommunication providers refuse to respond to media inquisitions. Yes, 5G is quietly being installed in some of our cities with no accountability.\nCity officials announced the first phase of 5G cell network roll-out last week. The new network aims to increase Internet speeds. However, 5G health risks have many citizens concerned.\nBut people seeing the new installs are at a loss for how they got there. This is because media request to Verizon, the governor’s office, and Rhode Island Department of Transportation have gone ignored. This leads many to believe the state is installing 5G without any accountability. State officials seem to refuse to communicate or debate the matter in a public forum. Instead, they will continue to establish the networks all over the region.\nGov. Gina Raimondo is a long-time promoter of 5G. Back in 2016, she made clear her position to “make Rhode Island one of the most desirable places to live, work and do business” via 5G network installations. Today, with 5G network installs occurring all over the city, its obvious she’s intent on achieving her goal. She also promoted legislation that sought to stop any regulations that could slow down the mass installations.\n“Since the beginning, cities have given utility companies a piece of the public right-of-way. This was necessary to extend electrical, gas and other services to the intended users. In the past, the most obvious result of this was the electric poles and wires that march down city streets or alleyways,” said Brent Runyon of the Providence Preservation Society.\n“As we’ve seen with electrical transformers, utility companies are coming up with new things to put onto the right-of-way and there’s been no discussion with the public about how this would affect the character of our communities,” said Runyon. “It is reasonable to expect them to work with the City when they are considering placing a transformer in front of some buildings, though perhaps not all. An example is the one they put underground at the Old State House on Benefit Street.”\nSamsung, who is partnered with Verizon on 5G equipment manufacturing, called it’s recent 5G installs in Rhode Island a “5G milestone.”\nRhode Island residents have flooded social media with criticism over the recent installs.\nBrooklyn5Gsummit.com\nwireless.engineering.nyu.edu\nBase Station Diversity Propagation Measurements at 73 GHz Millimeter-Wave for 5G Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) Analysis\nThis paper describes wideband (1 GHz) base station diversity and coordinated multipoint (CoMP)-style large-scale measurements at 73 GHz in an urban microcell open square scenario in downtown Brooklyn, New York on the NYU campus. The measurements consisted of ten random receiver locations at pedestrian level (1.4 meters) and ten random transmitter locations at lamppost level (4.0 meters) that provided 36 individual transmitter-receiver (TX-RX) combinations. For each of the 36 radio links, extensive directional measurements were made to give insights into small-cell base station diversity at millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. High-gain steerable horn antennas with 7o and 15o half-power beamwidths (HPBW) were used at the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX), respectively. For each TX-RX combination, the TX antenna was scanned over a 120o sector and the RX antenna was scanned over the entire azimuth plane at the strongest RX elevation plane and two other elevation planes on both sides of the strongest elevation angle, separated by the 15o HPBW. Directional and omnidirectional path loss models were derived and match well with the literature. Signal reception probabilities derived from the measurements for one to five base stations that served a single RX location show significant coverage improvement over all potential beamformed RX antenna pointing angles. CDFs for nearest neighbor and Best-N omnidirectional path loss and cell outage probabilities for directional antennas provide insights into coverage and interference for future mmWave small-cells that will exploit macro-diversity and CoMP.\nPublished in: 2017 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)\nDate of Conference: 4-8 Dec. 2017\nDate Added to IEEE Xplore: 25 January 2018\nhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8269045/\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n4G/5G Small Cell Antennas – United States\nCalifornia • Florida • Kentucky • Maryland • Michigan • Minnesota • Missouri • North Carolina • New Mexico • New York •\nOhio • New Jersey • Louisiana • Texas • Rhode Island • Iowa\n#BILLS #SB649 #SB331 #S19 #Bill C-648 #S3157","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1427388"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6783333420753479,"wiki_prob":0.6783333420753479,"text":"Mark Maverick\nMark Maverick’s Bio\nTechnical Rider\nMark Maverick’s Hypnotica Frequently Asked Questions\nHistory of Hypnosis\nIs Hypnosis Safe?\nHow Did Mark Become a Hypnotist?\nMore Facts About Hypnosis\nAs far back as 2000 B.C. the ancient Egyptians are the first in recorded history to describe the use of powers of hypnosis. In fact, the word Hypnosis comes from the Greek God Hypnos – the God of sleep. It is used not only in religious ceremonies but also a means of treating illness, achieving an enlightened state of being, and a means of escape from reality. It is said that Egyptian slaves used hypnosis to temporarily escape the chains of oppression.\nThe leaders of this movement also known as “Guides” were the first hypnotists. Followers gathered in large groups in dwellings known as “sleeping temples” as the Guides, using the power of suggestion, induced trance to free them from their earthly boundaries. The knowledge and power these guides possessed was passed on to generation after generation of their ancestors.\nAround 250 B.C. the Guides began to spread out into the other parts of the world, so did the ancient knowledge. Following the lead of the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were the next to recognize the power of hypnosis, carrying this ancient and mystical art into the future. Records tell of physicians using an “ancient and unexplainable power” to relieve and cure injuries by laying their hands on certain parts of the body. These two great societies also used hypnosis to achieve enlightenment in various rituals.\nIn Approximately 1750 tales of fantastic powers of trance began to make their way around the world. In the late 18th century, a Viennese physician named Anton Mesmer began to arouse scientific and popular interest in hypnosis. Drawing on his own powers as a Guide, he believed strongly in the benefits of using astrological forces to influence the human body, even going as far as hypothesizing that the subject’s imagination could bring about cures for disease.\nMesmer used magical elements to fill the patient’s surroundings with an air of mysticism, making use of dim lightning, the fragrance of sweet perfumes, and the strains of soft and mysterious music to achieve environmental atmosphere.\nIn Modern Times the hypnotic arts have greatly evolved from the hypnotic arts of the ancient Egyptians. Descendants of the first guides continued to spread the word about principles and knowledge they possessed. In the late 20th century, a new Guide was born into the world in Manchester, England – His name was Mark Maverick.\nSome people mistakenly believe that hypnosis puts someone “under the control” of the hypnotist – nothing could be further from the truth. Hypnosis is actually very relaxed state where a participant is more willing to accept suggestion. While under hypnosis, the volunteer is in complete control and will not do anything against their will.\nMark became aware of his mystical powers at an early age but was unsure of how to use them to enlighten and uplift others. His dream became clear when he saw a performance by world – renowned entertainer Paul McKenna. He immediately journeyed to London where he honed his craft at the country’s leading hypnosis institute while working behind the scenes in the stage production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Starlight Express.” But Mark did not wish to be simply misdirected stage hypnotist. His eyes were focused on something far grander than anything anyone had ever seen.\nIn 1993, Mark Maverick left England to pursue his dream. He believed America, the land of opportunity, was the ideal place to explore his possibilities and turn his vision into a reality. He began performing small scale comedy hypnosis shows in the early 1990′s and worked in Las Vegas on the set of the multi million dollar production “EFX.” There, he became enthralled by the art of musical theatre and started incorporating theatrical elements into his own show.\nAs his popularity and his reputation as an outstanding performer grew, Mark developed the idea of combining his skills as a Guide with his talents as an entertainer and producer. Now Mark has performed over 500 shows for audiences all over the country, including special engagements at Six Flags, numerous corporate and college shows, dinner theatre events and comedy club tours.\nAnybody can experience hypnosis, as long as they want to.\n1 hour of hypnosis is equal to approximately 4 hours of sleep.\nAs a rule of thumb, the more intelligent the person, the easier they reach a state of hypnosis.\nHypnosis heightens your senses, the Hypnotist does not have any special powers over a subject, he serves only as a guide for someone to hypnotize themselves.\nMany amateur and professional athletes use hypnosis to elevate their game!\nThe Vatican approved of hypnosis to ease pain during child birth.\nSince 1958, the American Medical Association recognized hypnosis as a science.\nContrary to common belief, hypnosis is not sleep but merely a heightened state of relaxation and suggestibility.\nHypnosis is the most fun, entertaining experience you can have for your next event.\nPlease Click Here to learn more about Mark Maverick’s Mysteries of the Mind.\n© 2019 Copyright. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5392577052116394,"wiki_prob":0.4607422947883606,"text":"Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 8 probably to have iris scanning capabilities\nSep 1, 2016, 2:41 am\nAnkita P.\nApple will celebrate its 10th anniversary of the iPhone in 2017. On this grand the company is planning to make it more grand. Technology giant is already in news for its upcoming iPhone 7 and now a new rumor suggests that Apple to introduce iris scanning capabilities in iPhone 8.\nSome news providing the information about the features of iPhone 8. It’s going to be a fiery redesign, having edge-to-edge display. That does away with the top and bottom bezels and features like the Touch ID fingerprint sensor and the front-facing camera are housed. Instead, Touch ID and the camera may be built directly into the display, meaning there will be no Home button.\nWith this kind of design, the display would take up the entire front of the iPhone. But it isn’t clear if the display will grow to fit the iPhone or the iPhone will be shrunken down to fit the display.\nThe display itself is said to be flexible OLED rather than an LCD, allowing Apple to introduce a thinner device that consumes less power and offers a better display with higher contrast ratio and more true to life colors. It may also feature edges that are curved on both sides, similar to the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.\nJony Ive, the Chief Design Officer of Apple has wanted to introduce an iPhone that looks like a single sheet of glass for several years, and it looks like 2017 will be the year for Jony to make this dream come true.\nSome rumors suggest Apple is finally omitting the aluminum which was used in the iPhone 5, 5s, 6, 6s, and SE, and re-adopting a glass body that’s similar to the body that was used previously in the iPhone 4.\nAccording to Apple supplier Catcher Technology, At least one iPhone model coming in 2017 will use a glass body.\niPhone 8 is expected to have a 10-nanometer A11 chip. That will be both faster and more efficient. Apple is said to be planning to position the dual-curve OLED iPhone 8. A “Premium” model that will be sold alongside standard flat display 4.7 and 5.5-inch iPhone 8 models.\nThe iPhone 8 is still under development and is expected to launch in the 2017. In 2016, Apple is expected to release the iPhone 7, a device with more modest design changes. And iPhone 8 is planned to be introduced & launched in 2017.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1250250"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5584911108016968,"wiki_prob":0.4415088891983032,"text":"The Michelson-Morley Experiment\nIn 1887 two physicists named A.A.Michelson and E.W.Morley created an experiment in search of what was named the \"Aether Wind.\"\nAssuming aether permeated all matter, the Earth's rotation would cause a relative movement between the Aether and the surface of the Earth. This relative moment is known as the Aether Wind.\nThe experiment works on a concept that can be explained with the analogy of two boats travelling the same distance at the same speed on a river with a current.\nAssume that the boats are going at 5km/h, the distance they travel is 2km and the current is 3km/h\nFor Boat A: It has to battle the current directly, and its speed is reduced to 2km/h, and it takes 1 hour to complete the trip.\nFor Boat B: While it has to battle current, it does not have to as much as Boat A. If Pythagoras' theorem is used, it is found that its speed vertically is 4km/h. Thus it takes 30 minutes to complete its trip.\nFor return trips, Boat A is helped by the current with a speed of 8km/h, and Boat B maintains the speed of 4km/h. Ultimately, they take different amounts of time to go forward and back.\nFrom this, it can be seen that depending on the direction one travels with a current, its speed will change.\nWhen applied to light, the existence of the Aether Wind implied that light travelling one direction will be at a different speed in the other direction, similar to the current of a river.\nMichelson and Morley set up an experiment to find this relative speed using this concept in an \"interferometer\"\nA beam of light is shot from S into M, a half-silver mirror that splits up the ray into 2 perpendicular directions.\nAssuming the Aether wind is travelling in v's direction:\nFor Beam 1: this is similar to Boat A, where it battles wind on the way there, and when bounced off full-mirror M1, flows with wind.\nFor Beam 2: this is Boat B's case, moving diagonally with the wind.\nWhen the two beams are reflected into telescope T, due to their different speeds, they create an interference pattern.\nThis apparatus was then rotated 90 degrees, which would create a different interference pattern due to Aether Wind's constant direction.\nHowever, they discovered no difference in the interference patterns, despite the extreme sensitivity and many, many attempts.\nThere was one attempt where they put the apparatus on a cement block floated in goddamned Mercury.\nResults and Implications\nMichelson and Morley received a null result as they could not determine the speed of the Aether Wind.\nScientists of the time were initiall baffled by this null result, but it only created doubt in the aether model.\nSome suggestions were made to adapt this lack of a result, but all were un-experimentable.\nUntil Einstein and Maxwell's theories in 1905, the Aether model remained used, but was waning in popularity.\nEinstein used the MM experiment as proof for his competing theory.\nEventually the theory was phased out since no one used it any more.\nThus it can be said that the MM experiment casted doubt onto the Aether model and allowed competing and possible correct models to be recognised.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line575838"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8765025734901428,"wiki_prob":0.8765025734901428,"text":"\"Six offered professional terms is great for the Academy and local area to be represented by their club.\" - Coventry City's Rich Stevens\nLaura Hunter\nCCFC Academy Manager gives his assessment on a positive season for the Sky Blues Academy...\nCoventry City Academy Manager Richard Stevens has praised the 2015/16 season as a ‘progressive’ year for the Sky Blues production line.\nIt’s been a busy year for the Sky Blues Academy which many changes and additions amongst the staff and the players of all age groups.\nWhilst the FA Youth Cup and Under-18s grab the headlines, the Academy’s key to success is it’s people power and Stevens has explained some of the changes and additions to the staff which should improve the future.\nStevens started: \"It's been another progressive season for the Academy. All the aims we set out at the start of the year have been achieved and even surpassed.\n\"The Academy is important to the club and it's important to have good staff around me. Scott Curry was previously at the Academy and went to Wolves. He has since returned here as the Head of Recruitment and has already set about reshaping our recruitment network.\n\"Scott has already been really busy forming links with local teams and getting out and about in Coventry and Warwickshire. At the end of the day, trying to get boys from the local area into the club is the brief.\n\"Jackson Moody joined the club from Swansea as the U5-U11 lead coach and has been excellent ever since he walked into the Academy. He's brought fresh ideas to the table and the children are really enjoying the sessions at that young age.\"\nThe Sky Blues Academy was pushed into the mainstream local news during the season after their progression in the FA Youth Cup. City progressed to the fifth round to face Premier League giants Arsenal at the Ricoh Arena where City were beaten on penalties after Bassala Sambou’s last-minute equaliser in a 2-2 draw.\nDespite the spot-kick defeat, Stevens only has fondness for the Youth Cup run.\n\"Clubs always go crazy for the Youth Cup but in my nine seasons with the club, we've done ok and had some good results over the years,” he remembers.\n\"We did well last season and eventually went out to Manchester City, but I think we learnt from that. This season, we just captured the magic of the competition.\n\"We had some tough games right through the rounds. Started with Walsall and then played Crewe Alexandra, Stoke City and Charlton; all difficult tests for the boys which they came through.\n\"Of course, that led to Arsenal at the Ricoh Arena which was a special occasion and can only bring a smile to the face. It was a magical evening with over 2000 supporters in the stadium cheering on the boys.\n\"We took them all the way to penalties and it was an excellent effort. It doesn't feel like a defeat looking back on it and it is a night we should all be proud of as a football club.\"\nOn the back of the FA Youth Cup run and another great season in the league for Jason Farndon’s Under-18s side, six players were offered professional terms. Corey Addai, Darragh Leahy, Callum Maycock, Jordan Shipley, Bassala Sambou and Jacob Whitmore were all offered, and Stevens says that is a great achievement for the staff.\n\"It's a great achievement for us. To have six offered professional terms here is a great for the Academy and the local area who will be represented properly by their football club,” Stevens says.\n\"Jason Farndon, Andy Hemming and Matthew Ellis do a fantastic job with the Under-18s and it's great for them as well. The players now need to make sure the hard work continues going into the summer.\n\"They'll have to be around it during pre-season and work hard to catch the manager's eye. The main focus for them is Under-21s but if they can progress, they might just succeed that.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1641003"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6511545777320862,"wiki_prob":0.3488454222679138,"text":"Tag Archives: Personal Connections\nWhen Churchill And Stalin Hit The Bottle\nThe BBC has an interesting story about a World War II summit meeting that tells us a bit about how the world has changed, and also, perhaps, about how it hasn’t.\nThe story took place in 1942, when Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, traveled to Moscow for a summit meeting with Joseph Stalin, the dictator who led the Soviet Union. The two countries were new allies, brought together by their common foe, Nazi Germany.\nThe initial meetings between the leaders didn’t exactly go smoothly. Churchill requested another meeting, which began at 7 p.m. At 1 a.m. an under-secretary of the British Foreign Office was invited to join the proceedings and found Stalin, Churchill, and Russian Foreign Secretary Molotov sitting around the shredded remains of a suckling pig on a table covered with countless bottles of liquor. By that time Churchill was just drinking wine and complaining of a headache, and Stalin made the bureaucrat drink a concoction that was “pretty savage.” The meeting continued until 3 a.m., when the Brits stumbled back to their rooms, packed, and headed to the airport.\nThe drinking party was unconventional — although not unusual for the Soviets, whose reputation for long, vodka-saturated banquets continued for decades — but it did the trick. Churchill and Stalin established a personal connection that helped the allies steer their way to victory over the Axis powers.\nIt’s hard to imagine our modern political leaders having drinking bouts and making bleary-eyed policy decisions at 2 a.m. after guzzling countless shots of booze. We obviously wouldn’t want them to do so. But the importance of making a personal connection remains as true today as it was 70 years ago during the dark days of a global war. Summit meetings still make sense because we want our leaders to be able to take the measure of each other and establish relationships that can stand the stress when times get tough.\nPosted in Politics, World\t| Tagged Alcohol, Drinking, Great Britain, History, Joseph Stalin, Liquor, Personal Connections, Politics, Soviet Union, Summit Meetings, Winston Churchill, World, World History, World Leaders, World War II\t| Leave a reply","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1041893"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.957671046257019,"wiki_prob":0.957671046257019,"text":"Frederick the Great and the Corporal's Watch\nOne day, Frederick the Great learned that a corporal in one of his regiments had a gold watch, which he wore suspended at the end of gold chain. Impressed by the man's frugality, the King approached him. Sure enough, he could see hanging from the man's waistcoat a gold chain which disappeared into a pocket.\n\"Corporal! You must be a very prudent fellow, to have saved enough out of your pay for a watch.\"\n\"I flatter myself that I am, Your Majesty, but the watch is of little consequence.\"\nHearing this, the king took out his watch, studded with diamonds, and examined it. \"My watch says that it's five. What does yours say?\"\nThe corporal hesitated, somewhat taken aback. Then he tugged on his watch chain. What emerged from his pocket at the end of the gold chain was not a gold watch but a lead musket ball. In a firm voice, the man said, \"My watch, Sire, says neither five nor six � but tells me that I ought to be ready at any hour to die for Your Majesty.\"\nRobert Jeffrey, HMS Recruit, and Sombrero /a>\nBorn in Polperro, Cornwall, in 1789, Robert Jeffrey went to sea in a privateer in 1806, to help support his widowed mother and three younger siblings. In 1807, as Jeffrey's ship was returning home, it was intercepted off Cornwall by HMS Recruit, an 18 gun brig-rigged sloop-of-war.Along with several of his shipmates, Jeffrey, then just 17, was pressed into service by the Royal Navy.�\nRecruit, commanded by Captain Warwick Lake, sailed to the West Indies. Shortly after reaching the Antilles, in December of 1807, Jeffery was caught stealing beer from the midshipmen's stores� He was hauled before the captain.� Apparently deciding that several score lashes were not sufficient punishment to fit Jeffrey's crime, on December 5, 1807 Lake marooned the young man without food or water on a remote and barren island known as Sombrero.�\nThe northernmost islet in the Lesser Antilles, about 38 miles from Anguilla, Sombrero is essentially a large, flat rock about a mile long, and about 400 yards across at its widest point.� With a total area of about 95 mostly barren acres, the island never stands more than about 40 feet above sea level.� Even on relatively calm days it's not unusual for larger rollers from the north to wash over the entire island.� Needless to say, the \"naked lump\" of an island had neither food nor potable water.��\nShortly after Jeffrey was marooned, Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, the commanding officer of the West Indies Station, learned of Lake's cruel deed and ordered him to rescue the lad. But when Lake returned to Sombrero, about two months after having abandoned the young man, there no sign of him.� What had happened was that on December 13th, just eight days after being marooned on Sombrero, the half-dead Jeffery had been rescued by a passing American schooner.� The Americans took Jeffrey to Massachusetts, where he found employment as a blacksmith.� .\nWhile Jeffrey was making a living in America, word of Lake's cruelty to the young seaman created a stir in England.� Questions were raised in Parliament, by such notable \"radicals\" as Samuel Whitbread and Francis Burdett.� After making inquiries, Whitbread discovered that Jeffrey's family, in Polperro, were in contact with the young man.� A ship was sent to fetch him, and early in 1810 he landed in Portsmouth, and was taken to London, where he became a temporary celebrity; and appeared on stage as the \"Governor of Sombrero\" and \"Jeffrey the Sailor.\"\nMeanwhile, pressed by Burdett, one of the great liberals of the age and later a champion of Catholic Emancipation, the Royal Navy subjected Captain Lake to a court martial.� On February 10, 1810, the court ruled that Lake be cashiered from the service and pay Jeffrey, �600 in compensation, an enormous sum for the day, equal to many years' pay for a common seaman. With that nest egg, Jeffrey returned to Polperro, where he was accorded a tumultuous reception.� He bought a small schooner and entered the coasting trade, married, and had a daughter.� Alas, his business efforts did not prosper, and he also acquired consumption. Robert Jeffrey died in 1820, leaving his family in poverty.\nAs for Sombrero, well, naturally, it's still there, and something of a tourist attraction, due to Jeffrey's ordeal, not to mention the fact that there's good fishing in the vicinity; in 1938 F.D.R. caught a 20-pound pompano off the island.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line392624"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5288985371589661,"wiki_prob":0.5288985371589661,"text":"What is augmented reality…\nAugmented reality or referred to as virtual reality, is an interactive technology that superimposes digital imagery over the physical world. Typically, this content is viewed through a camera of some sort, thus the technology has become quite popular for mobile devices. This technology is becoming a common component in gaming and marketing, with its interactive features garnering acclaim amongst a wide range of consumers. The technology has been seeing practical uses as well, finding uses in industries including medicine, construction, and space travel.\nAugmented reality is often considered an emerging technology, but it is actually older than many people think.\nThe technology was first developed in 1968 by Ivan Sutherland, who created a full-fledged augmented reality system for Harvard University. After a stint of popularity, augmented reality faded away from mainstream attention, finding a home with NASA and other agencies of the U.S. government. Part of the reason augmented reality was so poorly received was because of the lack of computer hardware that could support the technology.\nComputer hardware has come a long way since the late 60’s and now augmented reality is gaining more attention.\nWith the advent of mobile technology, such as smart phones and tablets, virtual reality is seeing more attention than it ever has in the past. Today’s smart phones are capable of handling the high demands of the technology, thus application developers are devoting more attention to it all together and what it can bring to the table. The vast majority of these applications are for entertainment, but some also have practical purposes.\nBeyond applications, augmented reality is gaining traction in the game industry.\nCompanies like Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are developing these systems for next generation game platforms and titles. Nintendo’s Wii U, for instance, boasts of augmented reality technology in its controller, allowing gamers to interact games in a more dynamic fashion. Both Sony and Microsoft are working to build augmented reality into their new consoles, as well, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox 720, respectively.\nFamed technology giant Google has become a big name in the world of augmented reality.\nThe company is part of the reason the technology is getting so much attention today. In early 2012, Google unveiled Project Glass, an effort to build augmented reality eyewear. Google had hopes that Project Glass would help bring augmented reality into the mainstream, but the technology has proven difficult to work with. Several other companies, Microsoft included, are now working on similar projects that could cast Project Glass into obscurity.\nAugmented reality is garnering a great deal of attention from many industries all over the world.\nAs computer technology becomes more advanced, augmented reality is expected to play a major role in many of these industries. The technology has already won the hearts of many consumers around t he world, a trend that is expected to continue well into the future.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line932463"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7600778937339783,"wiki_prob":0.7600778937339783,"text":"The Five Best Billy Zane Movies of His Career\nTom 4 days ago\nBrian Boone of Looper isn’t exactly accurate in stating that Hollywood won’t cast Billy Zane any longer, but it is evident that there are some roles that he can’t outrun and a feeling that he’s just not the leading man type. That’s pretty accurate to be honest but as a character actor he’s always been solid and he’s been able to bolster a movie since he can play the role of the bad guy in a big and very convincing way. It does seem as though this would put a big damper on his career since honestly it’s not what an actor wants to hear. But all in all he has been successful in his career quite often and it does seem that he’s been remembered for more than one role. That being said Billy is one of the most charismatic individuals in the business and he does still work when he wants to, meaning that he’s not the kind of guy that just disappears when the curtain falls, but instead will show up wherever and whenever he’s needed. In other words, he’s as solid an actor as can be found.\nHere are a few of his best movies.\n5. Sniper\nSnipers have to rely on the person next to them to survive, so when Beckett is given a replacement after his spotter is killed it’s no wonder why he’s not impressed. Miller was a SWAT sniper but without any confirmed kills and no jungle combat experience, so it’s too obvious that he had no idea what he was doing. It’s kind of amazing to think that something like this might ever happen, but it’s also highly unlikely since sending someone into a combat zone like this would be about as close to murder as you could get without pulling the trigger yourself. The fact that they have a prolonged spat before finally coming together to complete the mission is proof that you don’t pit a novice with an expert in this manner.\n4. Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight\nYes it was a campy movie and didn’t have a lot of redeeming qualities, but Billy still played it pretty well and was actually the star of the show despite the fact that he was supposed to be the supporting actor. William Sadler however is another supporting actor that’s not horrible but isn’t any more of a leading man than Billy is, so it was almost as though they had to play off of one another in an effort to create a credible movie. But hey, there was a time when Tales from the Crypt was actually one of the best things going, and this has Bordello of Blood beat eight ways to Sunday.\n3. Posse\nQuite honestly this was one of those movies you watch when you can’t find anything else, but find that it’s still somewhat enjoyable since Billy plays an over the top villain that is too arrogant to be believed and yet offers up the best performance out of half the cast. Mario Van Peebles made it a habit to star in movies that allowed him to be presented as a great action star, but this usually required that he be flanked by actors that had his back when it came to making him look credible, and Billy Zane, despite being a little dramatic, was the perfect man to do so in this movie, and even better is that his character was killed off in the end.\n2. Tombstone\nHe didn’t have a huge part in this movie and it ended in tragedy since he was shot by the Cowboys, the same men he’d been entertaining earlier in the movie. While he was more of a dandy and not much of a manly character as was defined by the rest of the cast, he was still impressive in his delivery since he did play his part with a great deal of skill that made him seem like someone that was self-assured, confident, and yet not fully capable of embracing the rough and tough nature of the old west. In this manner he was perfect for the role since he can definitely play the dramatic roles that give him leave to flash that smile and pomp.\n1. Titanic\nCal was just a disgusting human being, and trying to say that he was anything else is kind of difficult. So yes it’s true that Jack came along and wooed Rose, who was betrothed to Cal, but given that Jack wanted her to be sure of her place in life, Cal already had it picked out and wasn’t about to let Rose make any of her own decisions. Plus, grabbing up a child to make certain that he got a place on a lifeboat is just despicable, especially since after that he didn’t let anyone else on once it was in the water.\nBilly is a great actor, but he’s definitely not a lead.\nTom Foster\nWake has been a freelance writer for the past several years now and has continued to do what he loves to do while attempting to get his work out to the masses. His greatest loves in life are writing, being a family man, and entertaining readers with his take on pop culture as it continues to change throughout the years.\n‘The Hunger Games’: By the Numbers\nJosh Hayden March 21, 2012\nFive Classic Movie Comedies that Could Easily Be Made Into TV Shows\nMadison January 20, 2016\nVideo: Could Robert Pattinson be the Next James Bond?\nNew “Zoolander 2” Trailer Brings Stupidity and Hilarity to an Entirely New Level\nWhatever Happened to Bastian From Neverending Story?\n10 Movies That Capture the High School Experience Best\nFive Classic Movie Comedies that Could Easily …\nVideo: Could Robert Pattinson be the Next …\nNew “Zoolander 2” Trailer Brings Stupidity and …\nMomo Challenge is Becoming a Movie: This is So Wrong\nDo We Really Need A New Flintstones?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1307407"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6632078886032104,"wiki_prob":0.33679211139678955,"text":"Pages tagged \"religious freedom\"\nChelsea Pietch's speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nChelsea Pietsch is a lawyer and the executive officer of the Freedom 4 Faith group. She spoke at the ACL National Conference about her work with the group. Click here to listen to her speech.\nDavid Wilson's speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nDavid Wilson is a senior consultant with Sophia Think Tank, an initiative of the Bible Society Australia. He spoke at the ACL National Conference 2012 about work of Sophia Think Tank and its work to repair the social environment in Australia. Click here to listen to his speech.\nJim Wallace's speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nJim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He addressed the ACL National Conference 2012 about religious freedom and the importance of a Christian influence in modern society. Click here to listen to his speech.\nDennis Shanahan's speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nDennis Shanahan is a journalist and the political editor at The Australian. He spoke at the ACL National Conference 2012 about religious freedom in a secular democracy from a media perspective. Click here to listen.\nDennis Shanahan on The Political Spot\nDennis Shanahan is a journalist and the political editor of The Australian. He was one of the speakers at ACL's National Conference, addressing the topic of religious freedom in a secular democracy from a media perspective. Here are some of the highlights from his speech. Click here to listen to his whole speech.\nThe Hon Robert McClelland's speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nThe Hon Robert McClelland MP is the Labor Federal Member for Barton (NSW) and the former Attorney-General of Australia. He spoke at ACL's National Conference 2012 about the federal government's review of anti-discrimination law. Click here to listen.\nThe Hon Kevin Andrews' speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nThe Hon Kevin Andrews MP is the Liberal Federal Member for Menzies (Vic) and the Shadow Minister for Families, Housing and Human Services. He spoke at the ACL National Conference 2012 about religious freedom and persecuted people. Click here to listen.\nProfessor Greg Craven’s speech at the ACL National Conference 2012\nProfessor Greg Craven is a constitutional law expert and the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University. He addressed the ACL National Conference 2012, speaking about religious freedom in a secular democracy. Click here to listen.\nProfessor Greg Craven on The Political Spot\nProfessor Greg Craven is a constitutional law expert and the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University. He was one of the speakers at the Australian Christian Lobby's National Conference in Canberra, addressing the topic of religious freedom in a secular democracy. Here are some highlights from his speech. Click here to listen to the whole speech.\nThe Hon Robert McClelland on The Political Spot\nRobert McClelland has been the Labor Member for Barton since 1996, and was Attorney-General of Australia from 2007 to 2011. He spoke at the Australian Christian Lobby's National Conference about the federal government's review of anti-discrimination law. Here are some highlights of his speech. Click here to listen to the whole speech.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line249880"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8997908234596252,"wiki_prob":0.8997908234596252,"text":"The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century\n\", \"offers\": { \"@type\": \"Offer\", \"priceCurrency\": \"NZD\", \"price\": \"38.0\", \"availability\": \"1\", \"seller\": { \"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Carson's Bookshop\" } } }\nAuthor(s): Kirk Wallace Johnson\nAs heard on NPR's This American Life \"Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.\" --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air \"One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.\" --Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them--and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.\n\"A true-crime tale that weaves seemingly unrelated threads into a spellbinding narrative tapestry\" -- Mark Adams, author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu \"A captivating tale of an unlikely thief and his even more unlikely crime, and a meditation on obsession, greed, and the sheer fascination in something as seemingly simple as a feather\" -- Paul Collins, author of The Murder of the Century \"This is the type of book I absolutely love - one that takes a seemingly obscure topic and shines a brilliant and bizarre and endlessly fascinating light upon it. Kirk Wallace Johnson's portrayal of the crazy world of feather fanatics makes this an unforgettable read\" -- Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods \"This gem of a book, is marvelous, moving, and transcendent. I can't stop thinking about it\" -- Dean King, author of Skeletons on the Zahara \"This extraordinary book exposes an international underground that traffics in rare and precious natural resources, yet was previously unknown to all but a few. A page-turning read you won't soon forget, The Feather Thief tells us as much about our cultural priorities as it does about the crimes themselves. There's never been anything like it\" -- Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs\nKirk W. Johnson is an American author and founder of The List Project, a not-for-profit foundation that helps Iraqi refugees who previously worked for the U.S. government during the Iraq War. He lives in LA.\nImprint : Hutchinson\nPublication date : January 2018\nDewey classification : 364.1628598074\nAuthor : Kirk Wallace Johnson","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line472325"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5342293977737427,"wiki_prob":0.5342293977737427,"text":"Radiation therapy (also known as radiotherapy) uses high-energy rays to damage or kill cancer cells by preventing them from growing and dividing. Similar to surgery, radiation therapy is a local treatment used to eliminate cancer in a specific area. Radiation therapy is not typically useful in eradicating cancer cells that have already spread to other parts of the body. Radiation therapy may be externally or internally delivered. External radiation delivers high-energy rays directly to the tumor site from a machine outside the body. Internal radiation, or brachytherapy, involves the implantation of a small amount of radioactive material in or near the cancer.\nOptimal treatment of patients with Ewing’s sarcoma often requires more than one therapeutic approach. Thus, it is important for patients to be treated at a medical center that can offer multi-modality treatment involving radiation oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatric oncologists, and rehabilitation specialists.\nEwing’s sarcoma is relatively sensitive to radiation, and conventional radiation therapy plays a major role in treatment. When radiation therapy is given to patients with Ewing’s it is usually given with chemotherapy.\nExternal Beam Radiation Therapy\nRadiation therapy is delivered to areas of cancer from a machine outside the body, called a linear accelerator, or from a shielded repository of a powerful isotope, such as cobalt 60. External beam radiation therapy is most often administered in conjunction with chemotherapy. In some instances, patients with advanced disease are treated with radiation therapy alone for relief of symptoms. Conventional radiation therapy is administered over a course of five to seven weeks.\nThe main effect of radiation therapy is to prevent local and regional recurrences (cancer recurrence in the area of the primary tumor). A recent review suggests that radiation therapy can prevent local cancer recurrence in 58 to 93 percent of patients.[1]\nSurgery, Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy for Localized Ewing’s Sarcoma\nThe most common approach for the treatment of localized Ewing’s sarcoma is to remove as much tumor as possible surgically, deliver local radiation to eradicate microscopic tumor not removed by surgery, and administer systemic (whole-body) combination chemotherapy to eradicate micrometastases (very small areas of cancer that may have spread to other parts of the body). Radiation therapy has no effect on distant metastatic disease.\nResearchers from St Jude Children Research Center have reported the outcomes of 39 patients with localized Ewing’s sarcoma treated with definitive surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.[2] They reported a five-year survival of 90 percent and a local recurrence rate of 11 percent. Patients who had positive surgical margins (evidence of cancer at the edge of the tissue that was surgically removed) had a local recurrence rate of 17 percent compared to 5.2 percent for those with no tumor in the surgical margins.\nRadiation Therapy and Chemotherapy for Localized Ewing’s Sarcoma\nPatients who have inoperable tumors or tumors in sites not suitable for surgery are treated with radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Researchers at St Jude Children’s Research Center have reported the outcomes of 79 patients with Ewing’s sarcoma treated with low-dose or high-dose radiation and chemotherapy with vincristine, actinomycin D, and cyclophosphamide with alternating cycles of ifosfamide and etoposide.[3] The local recurrence rate was 30 percent. Overall survival was 65 percent. Patients who were older or who had larger tumors had worse outcomes. In addition, radiation doses below 40 Gy were associated with an increased rate of local recurrence.\nAlthough patients do not feel anything while they are receiving radiation treatment, the effects of radiation gradually build up over time. Large doses of radiation can cause skin damage in the areas receiving radiation. Large doses of radiation to patients with Ewing’s sarcoma can damage blood vessels and nerves. Researchers from Emory University have described several late effects of radiation therapy in children including: atrophy, fibrosis, bone growth abnormalities, impairment of mobility, edema, and peripheral nerve injury.[4] The most worrisome side effect among long-term survivors is second cancers due to radiation. One Italian study involving 597 long-term survivors with Ewing’s sarcoma found that the risk of second cancer after radiation therapy for Ewing’s sarcoma was higher than after other childhood and adolescent cancers treated in the same manner.[5] Some researchers have suggested that postoperative radiotherapy should be avoided when surgery is accomplished with adequate margins (no evidence of cancer near the edge of the tissue that was removed).\nSignificant progress has been made in the treatment of Ewing’s sarcoma. Future progress in the treatment of Ewing’s sarcoma will result from continued participation in appropriate clinical trials. There are several areas of active exploration aimed at improving the treatment of Ewing’s sarcoma with radiation therapy.\nIntraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT): Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) is a single dose of radiation therapy that is delivered directly to the area of surgery during the operation. IORT is performed in specially-equipped operating rooms. During IORT, the radiation doctor can see the area being treated, and sensitive normal structures, such as blood vessels and nerves, can be moved away from the radiation beam. Results from some studies evaluating IORT indicate that cancer may recur less often in the area of the surgery.[6]\nThree-dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy: Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy can precisely target radiation to the areas where cancer cells may be located and therefore, minimize side effects from radiation to normal structures such as the liver, stomach and kidneys. Intensity modulated radiation therapy is a newer method of precisely delivering specified doses of radiation to cancer cells. Neither of these techniques have been evaluated for treatment of Ewing’s sarcoma, although both techniques are probably utilized for this purpose in many radiation oncology centers.[7], [8]\nBrachytherapy: Brachytherapy is the placement of a radioactive material directly into the cancer at the time of surgery. This technique has not been systematically studied in patients with Ewing’s sarcoma. However, promising results in controlling local disease have been reported.[9],[10]\n[1] Donaldson SS. Ewing sarcoma: radiation dose and target volume. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2004;42:471-476.\n[2] Krasin MJ, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Davidoff AM, et al. Efficacy of combined surgery and irradiation for localized Ewings sarcoma family of tumors. Pediatric Blood Cancer. 2004;43:229-236.\n[3] Krasin MJ, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Billups CA, et al. Definitive irradiation in mulitidisciplinary management of localized Ewing sarcoma family of tumors in pediatric patients: outcome and prognostic factors. International Journal of Oncology Biology Physics 2004;60:830-838.\n[4] Paulino AC. Late effects of radiotherapy for pediatric extremity sarcomas. International Journal of Oncology, Biology, Physics. 2004;60:265-274.\n[5] Bacci G, Longhi A, Barbieri E, et al. Second malignancy in 597 patients with Ewing’s sarcoma of bone treated at a single institution with adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy between 1972 and 1999. Journal of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology 2005;27:517-520.\n[6] Sakayama K, Kidani T, Fujibuchi T, et al. Definitive intraoperative radiotherapy for musculoskeletal sarcomas and malignant lymphoma in combination with surgical excision. Int J Clin Oncol. 2003;8:174-179.\n[7] DeLaney TF, Trofimov AV, Engelsman M, et al. Advanced-technology radiation therapy in the management of bone and soft tissue sarcomas. Cancer Control. 2005;12:27-35.\n[8] Marec-Berard P, Philip T. Ewing sarcoma: the pediatrician’s point of view. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2004;477-480.\n[9] Ozaki T, Hillman A, Rube C, et al. The impact of introperative brachytherapy on surgery of Ewing’s sarcoma. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 1997;123:53-56.\n[10] Merchant TE, Parsh N, del Valle PL, et al. Brachytherapy for pediatric soft-tissue sarcoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2000;46:427-432.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1075746"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7291152477264404,"wiki_prob":0.27088475227355957,"text":"More in Crohn's Disease\nCrohn's Disease and Your Osteoporosis Risk\nSteps to Manage Crohn's Disease for the Newly Diagnosed\nReal-Life Advice for Handling a Sudden Crohn's Attack\n10 Daily Habits to Help You Avoid a Crohn's Flare\n8 Embarrassing Questions About Crohn’s — Answered\n9 Crohn’s Management Tricks You May Not Have Tried\nEveryday Health Digestive Health Crohn's Disease\nCrohn's and Fiber: Helpful or Harmful?\nMedically Reviewed by Ed Zimney, MD\nBeing a Mom With Crohn's Disease\n7 Tips on How to Chow Down at a BBQ When You Have Crohn's\nSign Up for Our Living with Crohn's Disease Newsletter\nMost experts agree that fiber is a vital part of any healthy diet. But how much fiber is appropriate? And could eating too much cause your Crohn's disease symptoms to flare? In this HealthTalk show, two opposing views are presented about the role of fiber in Crohn’s disease.\nAnnouncer:\nBefore we begin, we remind you that the opinions expressed on this show are solely the views of our guests. They are not necessarily the views of HealthTalk or any outside organization. And, as always, please consult your own physician for the medical advice most appropriate for you.\n[Medical editor’s note: Please note that some of the subject matter of this program is controversial and the speakers disagree on many points. You should read both opinions before following any of the advice that is given.]\nNow here’s your host, Mary White.\nMary White:\nHello and welcome to our show, Crohn’s and Fiber: Helpful or Harmful? I’m your host, Mary White.\nWe hear a lot about fiber being a vital part of any healthy diet. Yet fiber itself remains somewhat of a mystery. What is fiber, and how much is appropriate? Could eating too much fiber cause your symptoms to flare or help your symptoms? With all the controversy surrounding the role of fiber in Crohn’s disease, it’s no wonder we’re all confused. Tonight, we’ll discuss both sides of the debate and attempt to uncover the mystery with our expert panel.\nJoining us is Konstantin Monastyrsky. Konstantin graduated with a degree in pharmacology. He’s a member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants and a certified nutritional consultant. He has written two best-selling Russian language books entitled “Functional Nutrition, the Foundation of Absolute Health and Longevity” and “Disorders of Carbohydrate Metabolism.” In 2006, Konstantin released his first English language title, “Fiber Menace, the Truth About the Leading Role of Fiber in Diet Failure, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease and Colon Cancer.” Welcome, Konstantin.\nKonstantin Monastyrsky:\nHello everyone, and thank you, Mary, for inviting me to participate in your show. I look forward to helping our listeners with what some may say are very unusual insights.\nWe’re glad you’re here. Thank you for being here.\nAlso with us is Dr. Marcia Nahikian Nelms. Dr. Nelms is a professor, registered dietitian and director of the Dietetics Program at Southeast Missouri State University. She has over 25 years of experience practicing as a clinical dietitian and public health nutritionist, and she specializes in gastrointestinal diseases, hematology-oncology, nutrition support, bone marrow transplant, HIV and AIDS. She has published numerous articles and books including “Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology” and “Medical Nutrition Therapy – A Case Study Approach.” Welcome, Dr. Nelms.\nDr. Marcia Nahikian Nelms:\nThank you so much for having me.\nDr. Nelms, let’s start with you. We talk a lot about fiber, but most people don’t know what fiber actually is. Can you tell us what fiber is and how it is different from a carbohydrate?\nDr. Nelms:\nI would like to be able to give you a very simple definition because many scientists define fiber simply as the portion of plants that cannot be digested. But others may give you a slightly different definition, and therein lies some of the confusion about fiber. In order to understand fiber, you have to give a quick mini-lesson on carbohydrate.\nIn quick detail, remember that carbohydrates are like their name. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen and water. In their simplest form, we call them a monosaccharide, or one carbohydrate unit. Glucose [sugar] is a monosaccharide that is the simplest form of carbohydrate. All carbohydrates and fiber, for that matter, are combinations of glucose and other carbohydrate molecules. We call starch and fiber a polysaccharide, or simply another word for many glucose molecules.\nThe difference between fiber and other types of carbohydrates is the chemistry. It’s the bonding between the molecules and the other types of molecules that may be located on that structure. The other thing that’s important to remember is that carbohydrates come from plants, and fibers play different roles in the plants from which they come. Some of them may serve as the woody part or the outer covering of the plant, or some of them may be part of the plant cell wall. The differences among different types of fiber have to do with the plants that they come from, their chemical bonding and the chemical substances that are found within their structure. That is what makes up the difference between fiber and other types of carbohydrates.\nIn other words, a slice of bread is different from a carrot peel?\nAbsolutely. It’s difficult to define fiber as one word because in actuality we’re talking about lots of different substances. Our listeners may have heard some of those words like lignan, cellulose and hemicellulose. Those are all different types of fiber that make up different parts of plants. When you and I eat, we don’t eat one thing. We eat a mixture of foods, and, therefore, we eat a mixture of fibers.\nKonstantin, what are the different types of fiber?\nKonstantin:\nThere are two of them known, but the specifications may sound strange because fiber is an undigestible substance. On the other hand, it’s divided into soluble and insoluble parts. The closest thing to insoluble fiber is paper, which is made from cellulose, an alternative name for fiber. Just like paper, insoluble dietary fiber is undigestible in the small intestine because the human body, unlike sheep, pigs or cows, lacks the enzyme to digest cellulose. Hence, it absorbs water, gobs of water, about five times its own weight, and it expands in the process. This particular quality of insoluble fiber is employed in what is known as bulking laxatives, the substances which are intended to bulk up stools, stimulate intestinal peristalsis (movement of muscles that pushes food through the gastrointestinal tract), and plunges stools from your colon by means of mechanical pressure and gravitation. These particular physical properties of insoluble fiber are the primary, from my perspective, culprit behind hemorrhoids, diverticular disease, constipation and the subject of our conversation, Crohn’s disease. The human body wasn’t designed to process undigestible substances, and little children and, especially, senior citizens are the most vulnerable.\nExamples of insoluble fiber are the skins of fruits and some vegetables, bran, husks, and the shells of nuts and grains. It’s actually quite hard to consume a lot of undigestible fiber unless you are ready to eat a lot of potato skins, raw carrots, celery sticks or bran. So most of the insoluble fiber in the contemporary diet comes not from regular food but either from processed fiber, intentionally added to food, such as fiber in high- fiber cereals, or fiber in bran-enriched bread, or from laxatives that may contain psyllium or psyllium seeds. These are your laxatives Metamucil DM and Benefiber and a number of generics that specifically say they contain fiber. Soluble fiber is a much more complicated beast.\nAll soluble fibers that are found inside of plants and fruits and vegetables are the main sources of soluble fiber in our diet. A lot also comes from food additives, and that is where real harm comes. It’s in yogurt, ice cream, desserts, sauces, salad dressings, canned soups and even breakfast foods for kids.\nYou mean like carageenan?\nIt comes from carageenan, cellulose, guar gum, [agar], inulin (an extract of chicory root that’s used as a fiber supplement in some foods), modified corn starch and many others. Chemically, they go by names such as oligopolysaccharides, starches or complex carbohydrates. The most common type of soluble fiber is also used in laxatives. Psyllium, which I mentioned, contains 30 percent soluble fiber. Soluble fiber from my perspective is even more dangerous than insoluble because it isn’t evident. And because it is not evident, it’s harmful. The main harm comes from its inability to get fermented in the intestine and its ability to block intestinal absorption of water and gases, which are by-products of normal digestion.\nDoes fiber contain calories?\nFiber itself doesn’t contain calories, but here’s a very distinct point about it. If you are healthy and your gut is populated by healthy bacteria, when fiber finally gets into the large intestine it gets fermented. In the process of fermentation, bacteria generate short-chain fatty acids, and these fatty acids contain the same nine calories [per gram] that are attributed to regular fat. If they get absorbed into the bloodstream, they carry a fairly substantial caloric load. And, according to experts, up to 70 to 80 percent of insoluble fiber and almost a 100 percent of soluble fiber gets digested in the guts in people who have these bacteria.\nDr. Nelms, does fiber contain nutrients or vitamins?\nThere are a couple things that are important to remember. One is that when you asked the question, “Does fiber provide calories?” our other speaker is correct that some fibers are fermentable in the large intestine, and they do produce short-chain fatty acids and lactate. But all of us do that in a very different way, so the ability to measure that is very difficult. One of the reasons why calories from fiber are not listed on a soup label is that’s it’s very difficult to measure that.\nYour next question is, “Does fiber contain other things beside energy?” You have to put fiber in the context that plant foods are our best sources of not only carbohydrates but also vitamins. They are important for vitamins such as folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, and minerals such as iron and calcium. And plant foods contain our best sources of other substances such antioxidants and phytoestrogens. So in order to talk about fiber, we have to talk about the source. Our plants and whole grains that have the largest amount of fiber contain the largest concentration of these other nutrients.\nFiber – does it aid in vitamin absorption, or does it detract from that? Konstantin, would you have an answer to that?\nNatural food and natural plants do contain a great deal of minerals, vitamins, micronutrients and antioxidants. However, most Americans do not consume these kinds of foods. They mostly consume processed food that contains added fiber. The major source of fiber in the American diet is morning cereals. This is a very processed food, and all the fiber is artificially added, and not necessarily from the food. Also, minerals or vitamins in those foods are added artificially, so they (cereals) are all fortified.\nWhen we think about the fiber benefits from plants that also contain vitamins, it’s a great idea, but, unfortunately, we don’t consume these foods. Also, it is a well-known fact that insoluble fiber inhibits assimilation in the small intestine, and the primary reason for assimilation is to absorb the vitamins, minerals and micronutrients you’re getting from food. This would be quite inhibited by insoluble fiber. And insoluble fiber has a tendency to scoop up the supplements from pills we take and inhibit their digestion. [Medical editor’s note: This is controversial, see below.]\nDr. Nelms, do you agree with that?\nNo I don’t. There are a couple of things that were said that I think are misleading. One is that, when we think about the sources of fiber in the American diet, breakfast cereal is an excellent source, and a lot of breakfast cereals are made from whole grains. So I don’t think you can lump all of those together. I don’t think it’s an all or none principle. The other thing is that fiber does not necessarily inhibit digestion in the small intestine. It is the small intestine where most digestion does occur, but fiber does not interfere with digestion in the small intestine. There doesn’t appear to be evidence that consuming fiber within the recommended amounts of 25 to 30 grams for adults should have any impact on the absorption of vitamins and minerals.\nIs that all kinds of fiber, doctor?\nIt sounds to me like we have a couple of very strong opinions. Before we talk about how the body processes fiber, can you tell us, in general, Konstantin, how a healthy stomach and a healthy colon work to process foods verses how someone with Crohn’s disease processes foods?\nVery briefly, a healthy stomach and healthy intestine process food well, but for people with Crohn’s disease it’s a very serious problem. They pretty much don’t process food. The whole point of digestion is to digest. The digestion begins in the mouth with chewing and maceration literally soaking food with saliva. The stomach is the next step. It performs three primary functions: digestion of proteins; sterilization of food, not a well-known fact; and storage of excess food. To digest proteins, the stomach excretes hydrochloric acids and proteolytic enzymes. To sterilize food, the stomach excretes the same hydrochloric acid. That is why acidity is important in the stomach.\nTo store excess food and liquid, the stomach stretches out from its usual capacity of about 1, 1-1/2 to 2 quarts to a gallon or more, if you’re a big eater. A very important point is that the stomach does nothing to digest carbohydrates, including fiber, and the stomach has nothing to do with the digestion of fats. In fact, a great deal of fiber in the stomach stimulates appetite and causes the stomach to expand more. It’s why restaurants will give you free bread – so you order more food. The real digestion, as the doctor correctly mentioned, happens in the small intestine. This action takes place with the help of bile, very important for fat, and enzymes for the rest, including proteins and carbohydrates. Obviously, while a person is healthy, the whole process works likes clockwork. Once you get Crohn’s, it doesn’t, and here’s what’s going on. [Medical editor’s note: The following information is controversial and represents the personal opinion of the speaker.] Because inflammatory bowel disease blocks the digestion of essential nutrients, neither the stomach nor the intestines are capable of producing sufficient quantities of digestive enzymes to digest proteins in the stomach, and undigested proteins enter into the small intestine and begin to rot. It’s a natural consequence of not digesting food properly.\nRotting and undigested proteins may cause an allergic reaction and contribute to further inflammation of the immune response, and those undigested products slip into the blood and wreak even more havoc there. The same is true for pancreatic enzymes intended to assimilate carbohydrates and fats. The result is that whatever you eat doesn’t digest except, perhaps, simple carbohydrates like glucose, galactose and fructose in a simple form like table sugar, orange juice or grape juice because they digest very quickly.\nIf you don’t digest food too well, you can’t assimilate what you eat. And if you assimilate undigested food, it causes diarrhea and inflammation, and everything else suffers including your immunity, your brain and your mood. The body begins to waste.\nA reason for weight loss during Crohn’s is because proteins stored in our muscles and fat stored in the skin become a source of nutrients. It’s not a pretty picture but one that explains weight loss, muscle wasting, depression, fatigue, sexual diseases and other prominent manifestations of Crohn’s disease.\nDr. Nelms, did you have anything you wanted to add to that?\nI just want to make sure that our listeners understand that in normal digestion that is exactly correct. The stomach is a holding place where food is liquefied, and a small amount of protein digestion begins there. No carbohydrate digestion occurs in the stomach. In a normal, healthy small intestine, as carbohydrate passes into the small intestine, we separate the simple sugars and the starch, and they’re broken down by enzymes into glucose, which then can be absorbed. Then the fiber particles that cannot be digested in the small intestine reach the colon, chemically unaltered. This is where the micro-organisms will begin to act and chemically change different types of fiber. We then have electrolytes and water that are re-absorbed. What’s left is what makes up our feces.\nHow does the body process fiber specifically, Konstantin?\nActually, it doesn’t. That’s why the French and Italians skin their tomatoes. And if you go to an Italian restaurant in Italy and ask for a sandwich, they cut the crust from bread so they can enjoy lots of food without bloating, constipation and the risk of intestinal obstructions. That said, when fiber reaches a healthy large intestine, the local bacteria begin to ferment most of it. Up to 70 to 80 percent, according to some sources, gets digested. If there is too much fiber, that results in a lot of by-products of fermentation. The process is very similar to making alcohol at home. While gases cause bloating and flatulence, short-chain fatty acids get absorbed back into the bloodstream, and they may contribute to obesity. By the way, excessive acidity isn’t too welcoming by the large intestine because it’s an acid, I think up to 2.5 pH. It may cause severe diarrhea for the body to get rid of the offending acids. This point is irrelevant for people who suffer from Crohn’s because they took antibiotics for some time and may no longer have any bacteria left, so the fiber leaves their bodies unprocessed.\nDr. Nelms, is that why this process will be different for people with Crohn’s – because they don’t have the right bacteria?\nNot completely. One of the things that is important to remember is that Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory disease that can affect any portion of the gastrointestinal tract, unlike ulcerative colitis, which mainly affects the colon. Crohn’s disease can affect everything from the mouth all the way through the colon. Another distinction about this disorder is that individuals go through periods of exacerbations or flare-ups that are followed by periods of remissions. When someone is experiencing an exacerbation or flare-up of the disease, they may experience bleeding, diarrhea and inflammation of the GI tract, and that can interfere with normal digestion and absorption in any part of the GI tract. So processing of any nutrients is going to be affected. But during periods of remission, the ability to digest and absorb nutrients should return back to their normal state.\nA lot of people experience gas and bloating after eating fiber – why is that?\nThat is exactly what we were talking about with the fermentation process. The symptoms are due to the action of the micro-organisms in the colon, their processing and release of those by-products, including methane, carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Those gases have to be released. That is what you’re referring to.\nLet’s talk about the pros and cons of fiber from both your perspectives. Dr. Nelms, I want to start with you. If fiber isn’t absorbed by the body and it expands in the stomach, how can it be good for you, and, specifically, how can it be good for someone with Crohn’s?\nI have to go back to what I just said in that our nutrition therapy recommendations for someone with Crohn’s need to be highly specific for that individual. That’s one of my concerns in making a statement that all fiber may be harmful is that we have to be very individualized with our recommendations. During periods of acute flare-ups and exacerbation, fiber may make symptoms worse. But during periods of remission, fiber helps normalize gastrointestinal function. It produces normal soft bowel movements. It’s like aerobics for your intestine. We have to have fiber there in order to provide substrate for the micro- organisms in the large intestine to grow. It’s even been proposed that a disturbance in the bacteria population may, in fact, play a role in the development of Crohn’s. That’s where we have come into the discussion of pro- and prebiotics and their relationship in the inflammatory process that we see in Crohn’s disease. We might find in the future that fiber intake may help treat Crohn’s. So, in summary, a variety of plant sources can help provide the concentrated sources of our phyto-chemicals – the antioxidants, vitamins and minerals – and fiber. But how much fiber we recommend truly depends on the status of disease with that individual.\nIf fiber does expand in the stomach, how can that be good for someone with Crohn’s?\nIf it expands in the stomach, it is simply there for a short period of time. It may cause someone to feel full, but it doesn’t necessarily cause any damage by just being in the stomach. It will be liquefied and then slowly released into the small intestine. One of the things that was said a few minutes ago about the acidity reaching the small intestine if we have a normal pancreas, it’s going to release bicarbonate, and that will neutralize the acidity that’s going from the stomach to the small intestine. So that should not be an issue.\nYou mentioned earlier that for someone with Crohn’s in an active situation, fiber can be a negative. Do you think there are any cons to fiber?\nIf someone is experiencing acute exacerbation of their disease and if they have active bleeding or large amounts of diarrhea, high-fiber foods may be contraindicated at that time. It doesn’t mean that once they reach their remission stage they can’t add fiber back because if you eliminate all high-fiber foods, then you are eliminating large sources of nutrients that are important for you to consume.\nIn general, for healthy people, are there any cons to fiber?\nPrimarily the only situation that we would be concerned about large amounts of fiber is one, when we don’t consume adequate amounts of fluid with it because that might cause constipation if you’re increasing fiber intake but not increasing fluid intake.\nThat would be one. The second is that in young children when fiber makes them feel full, if they eat large amounts of fiber, it may decrease their appetite. So it would be important to monitor that so that they have large amounts of nutrients from all kinds of foods.\nKonstantin, let’s get your take on this. Many professionals and ads on TV say fiber’s great. Why do you think it’s bad?\nThat fiber feels great is a conventional point. It was made for over a 100 years, and there is a great body of circumstantial and observational evidence that points towards fiber’s greatness. I undertook very substantial research. I’m a recovering diabetic, and I was consuming a huge amount fiber. I was consuming an enormous amount of carbohydrates, and it brought my body to the point of destruction. I’ve been on a fiber-free diet for almost 11 years.\nWhat is a fiber-free diet?\nIt’s a very natural diet. It’s described in detail in my book. I’m 52 years old. I work for about 12 to 15 hours per day. I have a beautiful young wife. Obviously, so there is a huge lot of energy required for me just to exist. I get up in the morning and have a glass of water. My lunch is usually 50 grams of boiled rice. The rice contains only 0.5 percent of fiber, so the fiber load is minimal. To that I add about 100 grams of regular butter, and that keeps me happy until 6 in the evening. At 6 in the evening, I’ll just have a very simple dinner – lamb chops, filet mignon or meatballs, usually with a small salad. That’s about all I eat. I love drinks, but drinks make me gain weight, and they interfere with my work, so I try to drink as little as possible. I’ll maybe have half a glass of wine. I look with dread at holidays or birthdays because that’s where I get loaded with everything.\nWhat about vitamins, minerals and coenzymes?\nI take a lot of vitamins. Let me recite the points which I’m making in my book about how fiber harms.\nMy book begins with an opening statement, “If you consume a moderate amount of fiber, there is nothing wrong with it as long as it’s soluble.” The harm comes from processed foods, which are rich in carbohydrates, preservatives, colorings, trans-fats and neurotoxins, such as monosodium glutamate. It’s terrible for people who suffer from Crohn’s because the foods that contain a lot of fiber also contain a great deal of gluten, which is exceptionally allergenic, especially for someone with inflammatory bowel disease. If you have Crohn’s and are in remission and afraid of relapse, you have to stay away from all foods containing gluten. [Medical editor’s note: controversial, see below.] Most likely, if you once had an inflammatory disease, your body has already built up a great deal of antibodies, so it’s unable to respond the second time around.\nSecond, dietary fiber has zero nutritional value on its own. It contains no vitamins, minerals or micro elements. Worse, it removes most minerals and vitamins from the body or blocks their absorption, if it’s in an insoluble form. We mention the point that fiber absorbs water and expands, while the purpose of chewing and digestion is to reduce food particles to the barest minimum and liquefy them for easy passage through the digestive tract. Fiber does the complete opposite. It balloons from its normal size, four to five times. It grows in weight and has a tendency to congregate into large lumps. This particular property of fiber is a primary cause of intestinal obstruction and many hernias, especially in older people because their intestines are no longer as flexible as younger people.\nNext point, dietary fiber makes the stool large and heavy. The average American has about 500 grams of stool daily. A normal person should have no more than about 100 grams. When you carry four to five times more stool than necessary, that may cause constipation, hemorrhoids and diverticular disease. By age 70, about 80 to 90 percent of all adults already have all those combined.\nNext point, dietary insoluble fiber makes stools rough. It’s called roughage, and it’s rough enough to cause anal tears. That’s why, incidentally, many toddlers on high-fiber diets refuse to move their bowels because they experience pain. But they’re too young to actually verbalize this point. Parents have to go to the hospital, and doctors have to perform manual disimpaction, which is a terrible procedure by itself and will leave a child traumatized for the rest of his life.\nNext point, dietary fiber causes bacterial fermentation. Gases and acids, which are the by-products of fiber fermentation, cause bloating, flatulence, abdominal pain and are the driving force behind IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), diverticular disease, ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. That’s why, for people who have Crohn’s, doctors prescribe antibiotics specifically to wipe out those bacteria. Unfortunately, once the bacterial are gone, constipation becomes forced because in the healthy human being about 50 percent of the stool is made from those bacteria. At this point, doctors recommend even more fiber.\nNext point, dietary fiber, especially insoluble, causes diarrhea. It is specifically sold as a laxative, and its laxative effect is described as mucilage. Once inside the intestine, soluble fiber blocks water absorption. It acts like a hyperosmotic laxative. Along with blocking absorption, it blocks all essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals. [Medical editor’s note: controversial opinion, see below.] This causes diarrhea. Of course, consuming foods that have laxative effects can’t be good for our health, particularly for people who already have diarrhea coming from Crohn’s.\nKonstantin, do you think there is anything good about fiber?\nIf you’re young and healthy, and you have no chronic disease, do not consume processed food with added fiber, and don’t take fiber laxatives. There is nothing wrong with eating plenty of fruits and vegetables. Enjoy them. But once you develop problems or you go over 40, fiber, especially fiber from processed food, added fiber, and fiber consumed with laxatives, causes a great deal of harm to the body, and I would stay away from it.\nDr. Nelms, a lot of Crohn’s sufferers are confused about what they can and cannot eat, especially when it comes to fiber. How much fiber would you recommend for someone with Crohn’s?\nIf the recommendations are during the period of remission, my recommendations would be the same as for any adult – about 14 grams per 1,000 calories. That comes to be about 25 to 35 grams for most adult men and slightly less for women. During periods of an acute flare-up, all nutritional intake may need to be adjusted in order to minimize the symptoms and promote healing. It’s important for us to clarify a couple of positions that were stated a few minutes ago. In one of them, Konstantin was mentioning that all Crohn’s patients needed to restrict gluten in their diet. Gluten intolerance is in celiac disease, not inflammatory bowel disease, so that is wrong. Another point is that fiber doesn’t remove or block the absorption of nutrients. There is no evidence for that whatsoever. Another is that when physicians prescribe antibiotics for someone with Crohn’s, I’m not sure how Konstantin suggests that we repopulate the colon with bacteria, unless we consume fiber. That would be the only way that we could repopulate the bacterial population in the colon – provide it with food – and that would be from fiber.\nKonstantin, what is your fiber recommendation to someone with Crohn’s and why?\nCrohn’s disease is a very complicated affair, and it doesn’t take place on its own. This is a very important point. It manifests itself in what is known among physicians as gastroenterocolitis. Hence, you can’t treat Crohn’s on its own. You must undertake a whole gamut of actions intended to pacify your gastritis; which means stomach inflammatory disease; enteritis, which means inflammation of the small intestine; and colitis, which means inflammation of the large intestine. In the amount of time we have, I can’t provide a full-blown recommendation, so I’ll just go briefly over the points, which I make in my book.\nPoint one, you have to have prevention first. Remove all sources of soluble and insoluble fiber from your diet. That means excluding all processed foods.\nWhich would eliminate all vitamins and minerals.\nYou’re absolutely correct, but what I am talking about is the person with Crohn’s. We’re talking about somebody who is trying to prevent a relapse, so we have to undertake some drastic actions. I know everything is alarming you in my suggestions for the right reasons. We won’t be getting enough vitamins and minerals. So let’s take quality supplements. That is what our government does for our food supply. They require food processors to fortify foods with iron, folic acid, vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium and so on. Food processors don’t buy high quality supplements that you can get in a health food store, and they don’t add that much. My point for people who want to protect themselves is to consume all natural food in its least processed form. That means, from my perspective, fresh meats, poultry and fish.\nI don’t suggest eggs to people with Crohn’s because they may be highly allergenic. [Medical editor’s note: controversial] And, obviously, you must exclude all dairy. [Medical editor’s note: controversial] That will deprive you of dietary calcium. So cook yourself some bones for the bone marrow. It will have a very high amount of calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and other minerals. Take quality supplements and calcium ascorbate. It delivers a double punch.\nYou must also exclude all wheat products because of the gluten. [Medical editor’s note: controversial] Dr. Nelms mentioned celiac disease.This is an inflammatory disease of the bowel. It may become a precursor of Crohn’s. The reason this disease is unknown in the United States is because you can’t stick an endoscope in the particular region where it takes place, so physicians don’t know. It’s always a speculation. If you look at the Merck [Manual], it’s says only 0.5 percent of Americans suffer from celiac disease. But if you look at some European sources, they say 30 to 40 percent of the population who consume a great deal of whole wheat may suffer from this condition. It’s simply very hard to diagnose.\nAlso, if you are to the point of excluding all wheat from your diet, you have to be very careful because there is a great deal of hidden wheat and gluten in foods, like chicken nuggets. They use breading which contains a great deal of this stuff. Also, exclude all vegetable oils because they’re not synergistic in the human body, especially during inflammation. Yes, it will deprive our bodies of omega-3 fatty acids. So my suggestion is to take liquid cod liver oil instead.\nBut our bodies react differently to supplements than they do to food.\nThat’s true, but, again, we’re talking about people who are taking autoimmune modulators and who take antibiotics and steroids. We are talking about people who are facing 40 to 50 percent risk of having their colon or intestines removed. We are talking about people that have a 1,600 percent risk of colon cancer. With all that, I wouldn’t be so concerned about them taking supplements. I would be concerned about them surviving and staying away from this terrible disease.\nYour recommendations are based solely from your own personal experience, not from long-term research.\nIt’s not my personal experience. I’ve seen over 1,000 patients. I’m on the radio every week. I have sold many of my books, and a lot of people follow the particulars I’m offering. I don’t see patients. I work on a volunteer basis with a lot of people with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, as I can. Everybody who took my suggestions is in the remission stage. I cannot say they’re fully recovered. You are never fully recovered from an autoimmune condition. But if you stay in remission, that is good.\nHow old is this research – 10, 20 or 30 years? It means very little. A great amount of research is being done in academia, and most of the funding for this research comes from the industry.The Kellogg Foundation is the largest source of money for researchers who would write up articles on fiber benefits.\nAnd if you do what I do, the Kellogg Foundation would not let you in because they are a major purveyor for fiber. That is how it goes.\nWe have an e-mail from Bonnie. Her question is, “Are flaxseed and wheat germ okay for someone with Crohn’s?” Konstantin, what would you say to that?\nFlax is recommended because it contains flax oil, and it’s a well-known source of omega-3 fatty acids. Years ago, flax oil and flax seeds were used essentially as a food for cows, and flax oil was used primarily to grease sewing machines. So when I hear people taking flaxseed oil, it’s laughable. If you need high quality omega-3, take liquid cod liver oil. Wheat germ, it’s the same thing. It’s even more difficult to digest. And if you have Crohn’s disease, I would stay away from all wheat products.\nDr. Nelms, how about you?\nFlaxseed and flax oil are concentrated sources of omega-3 fatty acids. They can assist with the anti-inflammatory reactions. So I would not be opposed for someone who is in a remission period to take flaxseed and flaxseed oil.\nIn remission, you think those would be okay?\nSue from Cedar Hill, Texas, has a question. Her e-mail says, “I have had Crohn’s for almost 30 years. All fiber causes major pain for me. I can eat a salad, but I have major pain for several hours, sometimes for several days. But I experience the same with fruit, bread, milk as well as roughage. I must tell you also that I only have approximately 12 feet of small intestine left. Now, do you recommend the water soluble fiber that can be taken in water?” Dr. Nelms, what do you think?\nWhat is important is that last sentence in her e-mail, that she has only a very small portion of her small intestine left. When you remove large amounts of the small intestine, you have difficulty digesting and absorbing. So I would avoid large sources of fiber because of the difficulty in processing those nutrients. She has to also work very hard to meet her calorie and protein needs.\nThat’s one of the biggest issues that’s important about her situation and other patients with Crohn’s is that we have to take into consideration if someone has previously had surgery. How much of their bowel has been removed? What portions of their bowel have been removed? What medications are they on? We have to consider every single person’s case individually.\nHere’s an e-mail from Himstead, New York. The question is, “Whenever I add cereal to my diet, any type, I have increased stools, 15 times a day. Is this normal for a Crohn’s patient? I am on 100 milligrams, 6-MP daily. Thank you.” Dr. Nelms, what would you say to that?\nProbably, they are not tolerating that amount of fiber. I would reduce the amount of cereal fiber that they consume because it wouldn’t be normal to have that number of stools a day. But, again, it depends on if they’ve previously had surgery and how much damage they have to their intestine.\nKonstantin, what would you say to that?\nI would like to make a point about fats. Fat is the best source of calories for people with shortened intestines. It’s very important if you have Crohn’s to consume fat, and here are the reasons. First, you must neutralize bile because if there are no fats in your intestine, the bile slips through, and it is very astringent and will reach affected intestinal sections in its original form. And it will literally burn them and cause more inflammation and diarrhea. It’s very important to consume fats to neutralize bile. [Medical editor’s note: Information on bile is controversial – see below.]\nNumber two, fat is essential for assimilating vitamins A, D, E and K that are essential for health. Vitamin K is very essential for recovery for people with ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease because they lack bacteria, and the body no longer produces vitamin K. The production of vitamin K takes place in the colon thanks to these bacteria. Fat is also very essential for intestinal cells, particularly restoration of mucosal membranes. The turnover of mucosal cells takes place daily, and without innate fats – I mean animal fats, saturated fats – this turnover stops and our membranes suffer. I believe that lower fat diets are behind a great deal of cases of IBD (inflammatory bowel disease). The question comes up, what is the best source of fat? The best source of animal fat is regular butter. I prefer European brands because many of them are produced from milk harvested from cows whose nutrition comes from natural pastures, and it contains more vitamins. If cholesterol alarms you, don’t be alarmed. The membrane of each and every cell in your body, including your intestines, is made from cholesterol.\nSo you feel that fat is much more important than fiber?\nAbsolutely. Fat is a critical for a recovery, and fat contains a great deal of calories and digests quite well, up to 98 percent. It helps people, maybe 80 percent of people, who are not healthy and provides a source of energy. In fact, if you consume an adequate amount of fat, you can be on a completely carbohydrate-free diet, as I used to be for six years. I still feel great and have a great deal of energy.\nDr. Nelms?\nOne of the things I think is important to also remember is that when people have Crohn’s and they previously had surgery, fat is probably one of the things that is most difficult to digest and absorb. I have to agree with what Konstantin has said that fat is an essential part of our diet. We have to have those essential fatty acids and calories in order to maintain our nutritional status. But fat is oftentimes one of the things that causes diarrhea because it is not easy to digest and absorb. There are a couple of things Konstantin said that I disagree with. First of all, talking about fat neutralizing bile, bile is what allows us to digest fat. I’m not sure what we mean by the neutralizing of bile. The other point is that when we reduce the amount of time that food has in the small bowel, fat is the first nutrient that is not digested or absorbed well. It causes a condition called steatorrhea, which simply means fat in the stool, fat malabsorption. A lot of people with Crohn’s have fat malabsorption.\nMy research indicates that soluble fiber blocks digestion of fats a great deal.\nI think that’s totally not true.\nIt’s a very simple point. If something breaks absorption, it doesn’t matter what’s inside the small intestine – it can be water, fat, supplements, proteins or any other nutrients – as long as you have a substance which prevents assimilation of food, it impacts everything.\nI have to agree with that. One of the biggest issues we have with someone with Crohn’s is simply that they aren’t able to digest and absorb during those acute exacerbations of the disease. The other thing that’s important to remember is that some of the medications that we use for Crohn’s cause an increase in nutrient requirements. For example, steroids increase your need for both calcium and vitamin D.\nSome individuals with Crohn’s will be on methotrexate or sulfasalazine, and that increases the need for the vitamin folate. There are certain times that vitamin and mineral requirements change during treatment for Crohn’s.\nHere’s a question from Joe from Spartanburg, South Carolina. “I rarely find fiber to be helpful, even when in remission. I’ve had Crohn’s since before 1972, short gut since that year’s surgery, and now an ostomy means that unrelenting diarrhea makes life awful. How do I eat any fiber without blockages?” Doctor, what would say to that?\nThe deciding factor for him is that he has an ostomy and short gut syndrome. Fiber is not going to be tolerated well.\nWhat is short gut syndrome?\nShort gut syndrome is when more than 75 percent of the small intestine is not usable. That’s usually because of damage that has occurred because of an infection, because of the Crohn’s, and we’ve had to do a surgical resection.\nI have a question from Portland, Oregon. “If you’re eating bread at all, what kinds of breads are the best?” What do you think about that, doctor?\nI would recommend bread that the first ingredient says whole grain, so we know that the majority of the carbohydrate source is from a whole grain, whether it’s from wheat or whatever the grain source is, if we’re talking about encouraging a high-fiber diet during a remission period.\nKonstantin, even if the person was in remission, you would disagree?\nI would stay away from bread because any wheat bread is a source of gluten. Even if you’re not allergic to gluten, I would eat only white bread and would cut the crust. And if you go to whole wheat or high glutinous wheat bread, you consume a much greater deal of gluten and fiber, especially when it’s added with bran.\nYou guys have a very differing opinion.\nThat’s because there’s really no relationship between gluten intake and Crohn’s disease that we understand at this time. There is a definite relationship between gluten and celiac disease. We’re talking about two completely different disorders.\nHere’s a question from Morris from Tucson, Arizona. “I have Crohn’s disease, and eating high-fiber cereal just made me feel worse. Is this normal?” Doctor, what would you say to that?\nDuring a period of flare-up, a high-fiber cereal will cause an increase in pain. So we have to slowly increase fiber from fruits and vegetables in small amounts.\nWe have an e-mail from Carbondale, Illinois. “I’ve two friends recently diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. Both went to the same physician, but they were advised differently. One was advised to reduce his fiber intake and the possibility of surgery was discussed. The other, however, was advised to increase his fiber intake except during any flare-ups, of course. And he was prescribed several medications, but no surgery was discussed. Why would my friends, both suffering from the same disease, get different treatments?\nThat goes to the point that we have to have highly individualized recommendations. That’s what my biggest concern is with Konstantin’s recommendations. We have to look at everyone’s situation very differently. We cannot wholesale say that all fiber is bad.\nI respectfully disagree because, essentially, the genetic difference between us is about 0.1 percent. So whatever harms me will also harm you, and whatever heals me will also heal you. The reason the doctor gave different advice to those patients is because by experience he or she knows that the closer the person is to surgery, the more vigorous reaction he or she will experience to taking fiber. When you get admitted to the hospital, the first thing they do is put you on what is called a low-density diet, a diet which is completely free of fiber.\nIt’s to help reduce the symptoms that they are experiencing.\nNobody said, “I have Crohn’s, I eat fiber, and I feel great.”\nWe have an e-mail from Bolivar, Ohio. The question is, “I would like to know about fiber consumption for children. Our son is 10 years old, and he was diagnosed at age 8.” Konstantin, what would you say to that?\nChildren should stay away from fiber completely because their organs are much smaller and much more vulnerable. [Medical editor’s note: controversial, see below] They have a much more vigorous immune system, so it will respond with more vigor and inflammation. Also, if a child consumes a great deal of fiber, especially gluten, there is a high risk of developing celiac disease. [Medical editor’s note: controversial assertion] That immune condition stays with you for the rest of your adult life. Also, because children are growing up and developing, they need to consume a great deal of food and need to absorb it. They need to get all those vitamins and minerals for intellectual development. I would just keep them on a very basic, simple diet. Just provide them with what they want in abundance.\nRemember the big scandal about broccoli in the Bush family, and the kids never wanted it, but the mother was pushing broccoli onto them? It’s exactly the same point. Children cannot verbalize what’s wrong with fiber, but they sense it. They’re much more instinctive. If you have a cat or dog, try to give the cat or dog a food that contains a great deal of fiber and observe them. The dog may eat it, but the cat will not. That’s why it’s difficult to convince kids to consume fiber because they feel the sensation of pain much faster, and they’re more assertive about it. Dogs, because of conditioning, can do a lot of things to harm themselves unconsciously.\nDr. Nelms, do you have anything to add about what children should be eating?\nMy biggest concern in the recommendations that children should avoid fiber is that when we limit fiber, we’re eliminating fruits and vegetables that are our highest sources of vitamins and minerals. That’s a very drastic approach to young children who need to meet their growth needs. We need to make sure that we are not substituting a pill for foods. There are other things in foods that we don’t even know about as far as phytochemicals and phytoestrogens that can be helpful.\nKonstantin, are there any last words you’d like to leave us with?\nI wish to remind everyone that we started on this earth with breast milk or formula, and neither had any fiber. That didn’t stop most of us from having healthy and abundant stools and health, so let’s consume as little fiber as possible.\nI want to make sure that all of our listeners know that individual tolerance and needs are paramount for any nutrition recommendation. That’s especially true for you with Crohn’s. Your individual case is unique. You need to consider what portion of the gastrointestinal tract has been affected, whether you’ve had surgery and your medications. Make sure that you talk about your concerns with a registered dietitian and with your physician. Be careful in taking wholesale advice.\nYou both have been very interesting. I want to thank you all for listening tonight. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.516954243183136,"wiki_prob":0.516954243183136,"text":"(Redirected from Botox)\nBotulinum toxin (BTX) is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.[1] It prevents the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from axon endings at the neuromuscular junction and thus causes flaccid paralysis.[2] Infection with the bacterium causes the disease botulism. The toxin is also used commercially in medicine, cosmetics and research.\nBotulinum toxin A\nIM (approved), SC, intradermal, into glands\nM03AX01 (WHO)\n93384-43-1 N\nDrugBank\nDB00083 N\nECHA InfoCard\nC6760H10447N1743O2010S32\n149 kg/mol (149,321g/mol) g·mol−1\nN Y (what is this?) (verify)\nBontoxilysin\nIntEnz\nIntEnz view\nBRENDA entry\nExPASy\nNiceZyme view\nKEGG entry\nMetaCyc\nPDB structures\nRCSB PDB PDBe PDBsum\nAmiGO / QuickGO\nBotulinum is the most acutely lethal toxin known, with an estimated human median lethal dose (LD50) of 1.3–2.1 ng/kg intravenously or intramuscularly and 10–13 ng/kg when inhaled.[3][clarification needed]\nThere are eight types of botulinum toxin, named type A–H. Types A and B are capable of causing disease in humans, and are also used commercially and medically.[4] Types C–G are less common; types E and F can cause disease in humans, while the other types cause disease in other animals.[5] Type H is considered the deadliest substance in the world – an injection of only 2 ng can cause death to an adult.[6] Botulinum toxin types A and B are used in medicine to treat various muscle spasms and diseases characterized by overactive muscle. Commercial forms are marketed under the brand names Botox and Jeuveau, Xeominamong others.[7][8]\nMedical usesEdit\nBotulinum toxin is used to treat a number of problems.\nMuscle spasticityEdit\nBotulinum toxin is used to treat a number of disorders characterized by overactive muscle movement, including post-stroke spasticity, post-spinal cord injury spasticity, spasms of the head and neck,[9] eyelid,[10] vagina,[11] limbs, jaw, and vocal cords.[12] Similarly, botulinum toxin is used to relax clenching of muscles, including those of the oesophagus,[13] jaw,[14] lower urinary tract and bladder,[15] or clenching of the anus which can exacerbate anal fissure.[16] It may also be used for improper eye alignment.[17] Botulinum toxin appears to be effective for refractory overactive bladder.[18]\nOther muscle disordersEdit\nStrabismus is caused by imbalances in the actions of muscles that rotate the eyes, and can sometimes be relieved by weakening a muscle that pulls too strongly, or pulls against one that has been weakened by disease or trauma. Muscles weakened by toxin injection recover from paralysis after several months, so it might seem that injection would then need to be repeated. However, muscles adapt to the lengths at which they are chronically held,[19] so that if a paralyzed muscle is stretched by its antagonist, it grows longer, while the antagonist shortens, yielding a permanent effect. If there is good binocular vision, the brain mechanism of motor fusion, which aligns the eyes on a target visible to both, can stabilize the corrected alignment.\nIn January 2014, botulinum toxin was approved by UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for treatment of restricted ankle motion due to lower limb spasticity associated with stroke in adults.[20]\nOn July 29, 2016, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), of the United States of America approved abobotulinumtoxinA for injection for the treatment of lower limb spasticity in pediatric patients two years of age and older.[21] AbobotulinumtoxinA is the first and only FDA-approved botulinum toxin for the treatment of pediatric lower limb spasticity. In the United States of America, the FDA approves the text of the labels of prescription medicines. The FDA approves which medical conditions the drug manufacturer may sell the drug for. However, those approved by the FDA to prescribe these drugs may freely prescribe them for any condition they wish, called off-label use. Botulinum toxins have been used off-label for several pediatric conditions, including infantile esotropia.[22]\nExcessive sweatingEdit\nKhalaf Bushara and David Park were the first to demonstrate a nonmuscular use of BTX-A while treating patients with hemifacial spasm in England in 1993, showing that botulinum toxin injections inhibit sweating, and so are useful in treating hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).[23] BTX-A has since been approved for the treatment of severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis (excessive underarm sweating of unknown cause), which cannot be managed by topical agents.[12][24]\nMigraineEdit\nIn 2010, the FDA approved intramuscular botulinum toxin injections for prophylactic treatment of chronic migraine headache.[25]\nCosmeticsEdit\nBotulinum toxin injected in human face\nIn cosmetic applications, botulinum toxin (in this context also known as \"botox\") is considered safe and effective for reduction of facial wrinkles, especially in the uppermost third of the face.[26] Commercial forms are marketed under the brand names Botox by Allergan and Jeuveau by Evolus. [7] The effects of Botox last two to four months and Jeuveau last three to five months. [26] Injection of botulinum toxin into the muscles under facial wrinkles causes relaxation of those muscles, resulting in the smoothing of the overlying skin.[26] Smoothing of wrinkles is usually visible four days after treatment for Botox and two days after treatment for Jeuveau and both maximally visible a week following injection.[26] The treated muscles gradually regain function, and generally return to their former appearance three to four months after treatment.[26] Muscles can be treated repeatedly to maintain the smoothed appearance.[26]\nBotulinum toxin is also used to treat disorders of hyperactive nerves including excessive sweating,[24] neuropathic pain,[27] and some allergy symptoms.[12] In addition to these uses, botulinum toxin is being evaluated for use in treating chronic pain.[28] Studies show that botulinum toxin may be injected into arthritic shoulder joints to reduce chronic pain and improve range of motion.[29]\nSide effectsEdit\nCheck the protein content in your brand to rule out any anti body resistance.\nWhile botulinum toxin is generally considered safe in a clinical setting, there can be serious side effects from its use. Most commonly, botulinum toxin can be injected into the wrong muscle group or spread from the injection site, causing paralysis of unintended muscles.\nSide effects from cosmetic use generally result from unintended paralysis of facial muscles. These include partial facial paralysis, muscle weakness, and trouble swallowing. Side effects are not limited to direct paralysis however, and can also include headaches, flu-like symptoms, and allergic reactions.[30] Just as cosmetic treatments only last a number of months, paralysis side-effects can have the same durations.[citation needed] At least in some cases, these effects are reported to dissipate in the weeks after treatment.[citation needed] Bruising at the site of injection is not a side effect of the toxin but rather of the mode of administration, and is reported as preventable if the clinician applies pressure to the injection site; when it occurs, it is reported in specific cases to last 7–11 days.[citation needed] When injecting the masseter muscle of the jaw, loss of muscle function can result in a loss or reduction of power to chew solid foods.[30]\nSide effects from therapeutic use can be much more varied depending on the location of injection and the dose of toxin injected. In general, side effects from therapeutic use can be more serious than those that arise during cosmetic use. These can arise from paralysis of critical muscle groups and can include arrhythmia, heart attack, and in some cases seizures, respiratory arrest, and death.[30] Additionally, side effects which are common in cosmetic use are also common in therapeutic use, including trouble swallowing, muscle weakness, allergic reactions, and flu-like syndromes.[30]\nIn response to the occurrence of these side effects, in 2008 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration notified the public of the potential dangers of the botulinum toxin as a therapeutic. Namely, they warned that the toxin can spread to areas distant from the site of injection and paralyze unintended muscle groups, especially when used for treating muscle spasticity in children treated for cerebral palsy.[31] In 2009, the FDA announced that boxed warnings would be added to available botulinum toxin products, warning of their ability to spread from the injection site.[32] Additionally, the FDA announced name changes to several botulinum toxin products, meant to emphasize that the products are not interchangeable and require different doses for proper use. Botox and Botox Cosmetic were renamed onabotulinumtoxinA, Myobloc was renamed rimabotulinumtoxinB, and Dysport name renamed abobotulinumtoxinA.[32] In conjunction with this, the FDA issued a communication to health care professionals reiterating the new drug names and the approved uses for each.[33] A similar warning was issued by Health Canada in 2009, warning that botulinum toxin products can spread to other parts of the body.[34]\nRole in diseaseEdit\nMain article: Botulism\nBotulinum toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum is the cause of botulism.[10] Humans most commonly ingest the toxin from eating improperly-canned foods in which C. botulinum has grown. However, the toxin can also be introduced through an infected wound. In infants, the bacteria can sometimes grow in the intestines and produce botulinum toxin within the intestine and can cause a condition known as floppy baby syndrome.[35] In all cases, the toxin can then spread, blocking nerves and muscle function. In severe cases, the toxin can block nerves controlling the respiratory system or heart, resulting in death.[1] Botulism can be difficult to diagnose, as it may appear similar to diseases such as Guillain–Barré syndrome, myasthenia gravis, and stroke. Other tests, such as brain scan and spinal fluid examination, may help to rule out other causes. If the symptoms of botulism are diagnosed early, various treatments can be administered. In an effort to remove contaminated food which remains in the gut, enemas or induced vomiting may be used.[36] For wound infections, infected material may be removed surgically.[36] Botulinum antitoxin is available and may be used to prevent the worsening of symptoms, though it will not reverse existing nerve damage. In severe cases, mechanical respiration may be used to support patients suffering from respiratory failure.[36] The nerve damage heals over time, generally over weeks to months.[5] With proper treatment, the case fatality rate for botulinum poisoning can be greatly reduced.[36]\nTwo preparations of botulinum antitoxins are available for treatment of botulism. Trivalent (A,B,E) botulinum antitoxin is derived from equine sources using whole antibodies. The second antitoxin is Heptavalent (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) botulinum antitoxin, which is derived from equine antibodies which have been altered to make them less immunogenic. This antitoxin is effective against all known strains of botulism, except for strain H.[37]\nMechanism of actionEdit\nTarget molecules of botulinum neurotoxin (abbreviated BoNT) and tetanus neurotoxin (TeNT), toxins acting inside the axon terminal.[38]\nBotulinum toxin exerts its effect by cleaving key proteins required for nerve activation. First, the toxin binds specifically to nerves which use the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Once bound to the nerve terminal, the neuron takes up the toxin into a vesicle by receptor-mediated endocytosis.[39] As the vesicle moves farther into the cell, it acidifies, activating a portion of the toxin which triggers it to push across the vesicle membrane and into the cell cytoplasm.[1] Once inside the cytoplasm, the toxin cleaves SNARE proteins (proteins that mediate vesicle fusion, with their target membrane bound compartments) meaning that the acetylcholine vesicles can’t bind to the intracellular cell membrane,[39] preventing the cell from releasing vesicles of neurotransmitter. This stops nerve signaling, leading to paralysis.[1]\nThe toxin itself is released from the bacterium as a single chain, then becomes activated when cleaved by its own proteases.[12] The active form consists of a two-chain protein composed of a 100-kDa heavy chain polypeptide joined via disulfide bond to a 50-kDa light chain polypeptide.[40] The heavy chain contains domains with several functions: it has the domain responsible for binding specifically to presynaptic nerve terminals, as well as the domain responsible for mediating translocation of the light chain into the cell cytoplasm as the vacuole acidifies.[1][40] The light chain is a zinc metalloprotease and is the active part of the toxin. It is translocated into the host cell cytoplasm where it cleaves the host protein SNAP-25, a member of the SNARE protein family which is responsible for fusion. The cleaved SNAP-25 is unable to mediate fusion of vesicles with the host cell membrane, thus preventing the release of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine from axon endings.[1] This blockage is slowly reversed as the toxin loses activity and the SNARE proteins are slowly regenerated by the affected cell.[1]\nThe seven toxin types (A–G) have different tertiary structures and sequence differences.[40][41] While the different toxin types all target members of the SNARE family, different toxin types target different SNARE family members.[38] The A, B, and E serotypes cause human botulism, with the activities of types A and B enduring longest in vivo (from several weeks to months).[40]\nIn 1820, Justinus Kerner, a small-town German medical officer and romantic poet, gave the first complete description of clinical botulism based on extensive clinical observations of so-called “sausage poisoning”.[42] Following experiments on animals and on himself, he concluded that the toxin acts by interrupting signal transmission in the somatic and autonomic motor systems, without affecting sensory signals or mental functions. He observed that the toxin develops under anaerobic conditions, and can be lethal in minute doses.[43] His prescience in suggesting that the toxin might be used therapeutically earned him recognition as the pioneer of modern botulinum toxin therapy.[44]\nIn 1895 (seventy-five years later), Émile van Ermengem, professor of bacteriology and a student of Robert Koch, correctly described Clostridium botulinum as the bacterial source of the toxin. Thirty-four attendees at a funeral were poisoned by eating partially salted ham, an extract of which was found to cause botulism-like paralysis in laboratory animals. Van Ermengem isolated and grew the bacterium, and described its toxin,[45] which was later purified by P Tessmer Snipe and Hermann Sommer.[46]\nFood canningEdit\nFind sources: \"Botulinum toxin\" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nOver the next three decades, 1895-1925, as food canning was approaching a billion-dollar-a-year industry, botulism was becoming a public health hazard. Karl Friedrich Meyer, a prodigiously productive Swiss-American veterinary scientist created a center at the Hooper Foundation in San Francisco, where he developed techniques for growing the organism and extracting the toxin, and conversely, for preventing organism growth and toxin production, and inactivating the toxin by heating. The California canning industry was thereby preserved.\nWorld War IIEdit\nWith the outbreak of World War II, weaponization of botulinum toxin was investigated at Fort Detrick in Maryland. Carl Lamanna and James Duff[47] developed the concentration and crystallization techniques that Edward J. Schantz used to create the first clinical product. When the Army’s Chemical Corps was disbanded, Schantz moved to the Food Research Institute in Wisconsin, where he manufactured toxin for experimental use and generously provided it to the academic community.\nThe mechanism of botulinum toxin action – blocking the release from nerve endings of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine – was elucidated in the mid-1900s,[48] and remains an important research topic. Nearly all toxin treatments are based on this effect in various body tissues.\nStrabismusEdit\nOphthalmologists specializing in eye muscle disorders (strabismus) had developed the method of EMG-guided injection (using the electromyogram, the electrical signal from an activated muscle, to guide injection) of local anesthetics as a diagnostic technique for evaluating an individual muscle’s contribution to an eye movement.[49] Because strabismus surgery frequently needed repeating, a search was undertaken for non-surgical, injection treatments using various anesthetics, alcohols, enzymes, enzyme blockers, and snake neurotoxins. Finally, inspired by Daniel Drachman’s work with chicks at Johns Hopkins,[50] Alan B. Scott and colleagues injected botulinum toxin into monkey extraocular muscles.[51] The result was remarkable: a few picograms induced paralysis that was confined to the target muscle, long in duration, and without side-effects.\nAfter working out techniques for freeze-drying, buffering with albumin, and assuring sterility, potency, and safety, Scott applied to the FDA for investigational drug use, and began manufacturing botulinum type A neurotoxin in his San Francisco lab. He injected the first strabismus patients in 1977, reported its clinical utility in 1980,[52] and had soon trained hundreds of ophthalmologists in EMG-guided injection of the drug he named Oculinum (\"eye aligner\").\nIn 1986, Oculinum Inc, Scott's micromanufacturer and distributor of botulinum toxin, was unable to obtain product liability insurance, and could no longer supply the drug. As supplies became exhausted, patients who had come to rely on periodic injections became desperate. For 4 months, as liability issues were resolved, American blepharospasm patients traveled to Canadian eye centers for their injections.[53]\nBased on data from thousands of patients collected by 240 investigators, Allergan received FDA approval in 1989 to market Oculinum for clinical use in the United States to treat adult strabismus and blepharospasm, using the trademark Botox.[54] This was under the 1983 US Orphan Drug Act.[55]\nRichard Clark, a plastic surgeon from Sacramento (CA), was the first to document a cosmetic use for botulinum toxin.[56] He treated forehead asymmetry caused by left sided forehead nerve paralysis that occurred during a cosmetic facelift. Since the injured nerve could possibly regenerate by 24 months, a two-year waiting period was necessary before definitive surgical treatment could be done. Clark realized that botulinum toxin, which had been previously used only for cross eyed babies and facial tics, could also be injected to smooth the wrinkles of the right forehead to match her paralyzed left. He received FDA approval for this cosmetic application of the toxin and successfully treated the person and published the case study in 1989.[56]\nMarrying ophthalmology to dermatology, Jean and Alistair Carruthers observed that blepharospasm patients who received injections around the eyes and upper face also enjoyed diminished facial glabellar lines (“frown lines” between the eyebrows), thereby initiating the highly-popular cosmetic use of the toxin.[57] Brin, and a group at Columbia University under Monte Keen made similar reports.[58] In 2002, following clinical trials, the FDA approved Botox Cosmetic, botulinum A toxin to temporarily improve the appearance of moderate-to-severe glabellar lines.[59] The FDA approved a fully in vitro assay for use in the stability and potency testing of Botox in response to increasing public concern that LD50 testing was required for each batch sold in the market.[60][61]\nChronic painEdit\nWilliam J. Binder reported in 2000 that patients who had cosmetic injections around the face reported relief from chronic headache.[62] This was initially thought to be an indirect effect of reduced muscle tension, but it is now known that the toxin inhibits release of peripheral nociceptive neurotransmitters, suppressing the central pain processing systems responsible for migraine headache.[63][64]\nSociety and cultureEdit\nEconomicsEdit\nThis article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (October 2017)\nAs of 2018, botulinum toxin injections are the most common cosmetic operation, with 7.4 million procedures in the United States, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons[65]. Qualifications for Botox injectors vary by county, state and country. Botox cosmetic providers include dermatologists, plastic surgeons, aesthetic spa physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, nurses and physician assistants.\nThe global market for botulinum toxin products, driven by their cosmetic applications, is forecast to reach $2.9 billion by 2018. The facial aesthetics market, of which they are a component, is forecast to reach $4.7 billion ($2 billion in the U.S.) in the same timeframe.[66]\nBioterrorismEdit\nBotulinum toxin has been recognized as a potential agent for use in bioterrorism.[67] It can be absorbed through the eyes, mucous membranes, respiratory tract, and through non-intact skin.[68]\nThe effects of botulinum toxin are different from those of nerve agents involved insofar in that botulism symptoms develop relatively slowly (over several days), while nerve agent effects are generally much more rapid and can be instantaneous.[citation needed] Evidence suggests that nerve exposure (simulated by injection of atropine and pralidoxime) will increase mortality by enhancing botulinum toxin's mechanism of toxicity.[citation needed]\nWith regard to detection, current protocols using NBC detection equipment (such as M-8 paper or the ICAM) will not indicate a \"positive\" when samples containing botulinum toxin are tested.[citation needed] To confirm a diagnosis of botulinum toxin poisoning, therapeutically or to provide evidence in death investigations, botulinum toxin may be quantitated by immunoassay of human biological fluids; serum levels of 12–24 mouse LD50 units per milliliter have been detected in poisoned patients.[69]\nThe Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo produced botulinum toxin and spread it as an aerosol in downtown Tokyo during the 1990s, but the attacks caused no fatalities.[70]\nDuring the early 1980s, the German and French newspapers reported that the police had raided a Baader-Meinhof gang safe house in Paris and had found a makeshift laboratory that contained flasks full of Clostridium botulinum, which makes botulinum toxin. Their reports were later found to be incorrect; no such lab was ever found.[71]\nBrand namesEdit\nThe examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. You may improve this article, discuss the issue on the talk page, or create a new article, as appropriate. (April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nBotulinum toxin A is marketed under the brand names Jeuveau, Botox and Xeomin. Botulinum toxin B is marketed under the brand name Myobloc.\nIn the United States, botulinum toxin products are manufactured by a variety of companies, for both therapeutic and cosmetic use. A U.S. supplier reported in its company materials in 2011 that it could \"supply the world's requirements for 25 indications approved by Government agencies around the world\" with less than one gram of raw botulinum toxin.[72] Myobloc or Neurobloc, a botulinum toxin type B product, is produced by Solstice Neurosciences, a subsidiary of US WorldMeds. AbobotulinumtoxinA), a therapeutic formulation of the type A toxin manufactured by Galderma in the United Kingdom, is licensed for the treatment of focal dystonias and certain cosmetic uses in the U.S. and other countries.[33]\nBesides the three primary U.S. manufacturers, there are numerous other botulinum toxin producers. Xeomin, manufactured in Germany by Merz, is also available for both therapeutic and cosmetic use in the U.S.[73] Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products in China manufactures a BTX-A product; as of 2014 it was the only BTX-A approved in China.[73] BTX-A is also sold as Lantox and Prosigne on the global market.[74] Neuronox, a BTX-A product, was introduced by Medy-Tox Inc. of South Korea in 2009;[75]\nToxin productionEdit\nBotulism toxins are produced by bacteria of the genus Clostridium, namely Clostridium botulinum, C. butyricum, C. baratii and C. argentinense,[76] which are widely distributed, including in soil and dust. As well, the bacteria can be found inside homes on floors, carpet, and countertops even after cleaning.[citation needed] Some food products such as honey can contain amounts of the bacteria.[citation needed]\nFood-borne botulism results, indirectly, from ingestion of food contaminated with Clostridium spores, where exposure to an anaerobic environment allows the spores to germinate, after which the bacteria can multiply and produce toxin.[citation needed] Critically, it is ingestion of toxin rather than spores or vegetative bacteria that causes botulism.[citation needed] Botulism is nevertheless known to be transmitted through canned foods not cooked correctly before canning or after can opening, and so is preventable.[citation needed] Infant botulism cases arise chiefly as a result of environmental exposure and are therefore more difficult to prevent.[citation needed] Infant botulism arising from consumption of honey can be prevented by eliminating honey from diets of children less than 12 months old.[77]\nOrganism and toxin susceptibilitiesEdit\nThis section needs expansion with: modern content and referencing on antibiotic susceptibilities. You can help by adding to it. (February 2015)\nProper refrigeration at temperatures below 3 °C (38 °F) retards the growth of Clostridium botulinum. The organism is also susceptible to high salt, high oxygen, and low pH levels.[5] The toxin itself is rapidly destroyed by heat, such as in thorough cooking.[78] The spores that produce the toxin are heat-tolerant and will survive boiling water for an extended period of time.[79]\nThe botulinum toxin is denatured and thus deactivated at temperatures greater than 80 °C (176 °F).[80] As a zinc metalloprotease (see below), the toxin's activity is also susceptible, post-exposure, to inhibition by protease inhibitors, e.g., zinc-coordinating hydroxamates.[40][81]\nResearchEdit\nBlepharospasm and strabismusEdit\nSee also: Botulinum toxin therapy of strabismus\nUniversity-based ophthalmologists in the US and Canada further refined the use of botulinum toxin as a therapeutic agent. By 1985, a scientific protocol of injection sites and dosage had been empirically determined for treatment of blepharospasm and strabismus.[82] Side effects in treatment of this condition were deemed to be rare, mild and treatable.[83] The beneficial effects of the injection lasted only 4–6 months. Thus, blepharospasm patients required re-injection two or three times a year.\nIn 1986, Scott's micromanufacturer and distributor of Botox was no longer able to supply the drug because of an inability to obtain product liability insurance. Patients became desperate, as supplies of Botox were gradually consumed, forcing him to abandon patients who would have been due for their next injection. For a period of four months, American blepharospasm patients had to arrange to have their injections performed by participating doctors at Canadian eye centers until the liability issues could be resolved.[53]\nIn December 1989, Botox was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of strabismus, blepharospasm, and hemifacial spasm in patients over 12 years old.[54]\nBotox has not been approved for any pediatric use.[33] It has, however, been used off-label by physicians for several conditions. including spastic conditions in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy, a therapeutic course that has resulted in patient deaths.[33] In the case of treatment of infantile esotropia in patients younger than 12 years of age, several studies have yielded differing results.[22][better source needed]\nCosmeticEdit\nThe cosmetic effect of BTX-A on wrinkles was originally documented by a plastic surgeon from Sacramento, California, Richard Clark, and published in the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1989.[56] Canadian husband and wife ophthalmologist and dermatologist physicians, JD and JA Carruthers, were the first to publish a study on BTX-A for the treatment of glabellar frown lines in 1992.[57] Similar effects had reportedly been observed by a number of independent groups (Brin, and the Columbia University group under Monte Keen.[58]) After formal trials, on April 12, 2002, the FDA announced regulatory approval of botulinum toxin type A (Botox Cosmetic) to temporarily improve the appearance of moderate-to-severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines).[59] Subsequently, cosmetic use of botulinum toxin type A has become widespread.[84] The results of Botox Cosmetic can last up to four months and may vary with each patient.[85] The US Food and Drug Administration approved an alternative product-safety testing method in response to increasing public concern that LD50 testing was required for each batch sold in the market.[60][61]\nBTX-A has also been used in the treatment of gummy smiles,[86][87] the material is injected into the hyperactive muscles of upper lip, which causes a reduction in the upward movement of lip thus resulting in a smile with a less exposure of gingiva.[88] Botox is usually injected in the three lip elevator muscles that converge on the lateral side of the ala of the nose; the levator labii superioris (LLS), the levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle (LLSAN), and the zygomaticus minor (ZMi).[89][90]\nUpper motor neuron syndromeEdit\nBTX-A is now a common treatment for muscles affected by the upper motor neuron syndrome (UMNS), such as cerebral palsy, for muscles with an impaired ability to effectively lengthen. Muscles affected by UMNS frequently are limited by weakness, loss of reciprocal inhibition, decreased movement control and hypertonicity (including spasticity). In January 2014, Botulinum toxin was approved by UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for the treatment of ankle disability due to lower limb spasticity associated with stroke in adults.[20] Joint motion may be restricted by severe muscle imbalance related to the syndrome, when some muscles are markedly hypertonic, and lack effective active lengthening. Injecting an overactive muscle to decrease its level of contraction can allow improved reciprocal motion, so improved ability to move and exercise.\nSweatingEdit\nCervical dystoniaEdit\nBTX-A is commonly used to treat cervical dystonia, but it can become ineffective after a time. Botulinum toxin type B (BTX-B) received FDA approval for treatment of cervical dystonia on December 21, 2000. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9370659589767456,"wiki_prob":0.9370659589767456,"text":"Timeline by theme\nArts, Culture and Identity\nHistorical Figures and Acadians\nAcadians\nThis timeline highlights events and people related to Acadian History.\nChamplain's First Trip\nSamuel de Champlain boarded the Bonne-Renommée at Honfleur, France, destined for New France, as a private passenger on Gravé Du Pont's expedition.\nChamplain Arrives at Gaspé\nSamuel de Champlain arrived at Gaspé, where he first heard about Acadia.\nArts, Culture and Identity Politics and Society\nFounding of the Ordre de Bon Temps\nOrdre de Bon Temps (\"Order of Good Cheer\"), was founded at Port-Royal by Samuel de Champlain to maintain spirits and pass the time. Members took turns providing fresh game and, as chief steward of the day, leading a ceremonial procession to the table.\nExpedition to Massachusetts\nSamuel de Champlain and Jean de Poutrincourt launched another expedition from Port-Royal to explore the coast of Massachusetts, hoping to establish friendly relationships with the Secoudon and Messamouet in the area. Their efforts were met with hostility and soon abandoned.\nMarc Lescarbot's Theatre\nMarc Lescarbot put on the first European theatrical production in Canada, or North America, called Le Théâtre de Neptune.\nPort-Royal Abandoned\nThe Port-Royal settlement was abandoned on orders from France. On Sept 3, after skirting the Straits of Canso and mapping the Atlantic coastline from Cape Breton to the south of Cap Blanc, Samuel de Champlain and the other voyagers headed home to St Malo. Only Poutrincourt would return, in 1610.\nFirst Black Person in Canada\nThe first Black person thought to have set foot on Canadian soil was Mathieu Da Costa, a free man who was hired by Europeans to act as a translator.\nde Monts's Monopoly Renewed\nHenri IV of France renewed de Monts's fur-trade monopoly, temporarily saving the colony at Port-Royal.\nChamplain Leaves on 3rd Voyage\nAs lieutenant to the Sieur de Monts, Samuel de Champlain set out on his third voyage to New France. He arrived at Tadoussac on 3 June.\nFirst Jesuits Arrive in New France\nThe first Jesuits to arrive in New France, Pierre Biard and Ennemond Massé, arrived at Port-Royal on May 22, 1611.\nChamplain Becomes Governor\nLouis XIII wrote to Samuel de Champlain, commissioning him to govern New France and to do so in accordance with the laws and customs of France. From that point, Champlain devoted himself almost exclusively to administration and his career as an explorer ended.\nTreaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye\nFrance recovered Québec from England in the Treaty of Saint-Germain, along with compensation for goods siezed when Champlain surrendered Québec.\nHistorical Figures and Acadians Politics and Society\nIsaac de Razilly becomes governor of Acadia\nIsaac de Razilly was selected to lead an expedition to re-establish the colony of Acadia after three years of Scottish occupation. With his headquarters at La Hève and an establishment of some 300 soldiers and colonists, Razilly worked effectively to consolidate the French hold on Acadia until his unexpected death in 1635.\nChamplain Recommended to Lead Colony\nAsked by Cardinal Richelieu to take command of the colony, Isaac de Razilly deferred to Champlain as being “more competent in colonial affairs.”\nDeath of Champlain\nChamplain died at Québec. He had suffered a stroke the previous October and signed his will November 17.\nAttack on Fort La Tour\nD'Aulnay de Charnisay attacked Fort La Tour. La Tour's wife surrendered on the understanding that the garrison would be spared but Charnisay executed all the men but one, who had agreed to be executioner.\nBirth of Sir William Phips\nSir William Phips, adventurer, was born near Kennebec, Maine.\nLa Tour Made Governor\nCharles de La Tour was made governor of Acadia.\nSedgwick Captures Port-Royal\nRobert Sedgwick, commander-in-chief of the New England coast, captured Port-Royal.\nBirth of Daniel de Subercase\nDaniel d'Auger de Subercase, last governor of French Acadia, was born at Orthez, France.\nTreaty of Breda\nThe Treaty of Breda provided for French restoration of the English part of the island of St Christopher's, West Indies, in exchange for Acadia, captured from the French in 1654.\nPhips Plunders Port-Royal\nSir William Phips captured and plundered Port-Royal.\nTreaty of Ryswick\nThe Treaty of Ryswick between England and France provided for the restoration of all Hudson's Bay Co posts seized by Pierre le Moyne d'Iberville.\nEngland Declares War on France\nEngland declared war on France, beginning the War of the Spanish Succession; it lasted until 1713.\nNicholson Captures Port-Royal\nFrancis Nicholson and an English force of 2000 men captured Port-Royal.\nTreaty of Utrecht Signed\nThe Treaty of Utrecht was signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession. It recognized the claim of the Hudson's Bay Co to Rupert's Land, and Acadia became a permanent English possession.\nContract for Construction of Louisbourg\nA contract was signed for the building of the King’s Bastion and citadel barracks of Louisbourg. Contractor Michel-Philippe Isabeau became known for his speedy work but also for his poor bookkeeping, exploitation of contract loopholes and habit of paying workers in goods (especially liquor). Isabeau died in 1724, and the work was carried on by others for another 20 years before the great fortress was finally complete.\nWar of the Austrian Succession\nBritain declared war on Spain, opening the hostilities that led to the War of the Austrian Succession, called King George's War in the colonies.\nLouisbourg Surrenders\nThe fortress of Louisbourg surrendered to the English.\nRamezay's Attack on Grand Pré\nClaude de Ramezay, guided by Acadians, attacked the British position at Grand Pré.\nTreaty of Aix-la-Chapelle\nThe Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War of the Austrian Succession. PEI, Cape Breton Island and Louisbourg were returned to France.\nExpulsion of the Acadians\nAcadian delegates who refused the oath of allegiance were dispersed from Minas, and over the next few months most of the Acadian population of Nova Scotia was rounded up and transported away. About one half of the Acadians perished.\nThe fortress of Louisbourg surrendered for the last time. The French inhabitants were returned to France.\nAndrew Rollo Captures Île Saint-Jean\nBrigadier-General Andrew Rollo, the 5th Lord Rollo, captured Île Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island) from the French at the height of the Seven Years'' War. Roughly 3,500 Acadians were swiftly repatriated to France whilst Rollo constructed Fort Amherst in honour of, and on orders from, General Jeffrey Amherst.\nTreaty of Paris 1763\nThe Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Seven Years' War. France ceded to Britain all North American possessions except Saint-Pierre and Miquelon off Nfld, and Louisiana (sold in 1803). The treaty authorized freedom of religion in the colony.\nRoyal Proclamation\nThe Royal Proclamation was issued by King George III, setting the western boundary of British settlement following the Seven Years War. Historic, foundational, flawed, the Proclamation stated that Aboriginal title had existed and continued to exist. All land was considered Aboriginal land until ceded by treaty, which could only be annexed by the Crown.\nNew Brunswick Separates\nNew Brunswick was established as a separate colony from Nova Scotia.\nBirth of Edward Barron Chandler\nEdward Barron Chandler was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Popular in New Brunswick’s political circles, Chandler served in the House of Assembly. A Father of Confederation, he attended the major Confederation conferences, though he did not support Sir John A. Macdonald’s push for centralization.\nAroostook War\nNew Brunswick and Maine clashed over lumbering in what became known as the Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War), over the undefined border.\nBirth of Sir Pierre-Amand Landry\nSir Pierre-Amand Landry, lawyer, politician, judge, first NB Acadian Cabinet minister and Supreme Court judge, and the only knighted Acadian, born at Memramcook, NB.\nPublication in Boston of Evangeline, A Tale of Acadia\nEvangeline is a narrative poem (1847) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow inspired by the expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. The poem tells of the love and wanderings of two young Acadians, Évangéline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse, who, the day after their betrothal, were deported from Grand Pré, NS, on different Louisiana-bound ships. The pair are reunited years later in a Philadelphia almshouse where she, now a Sister of Mercy, finds him destitute and dying.\nArts, Culture and Identity Historical Figures and Acadians Politics and Society\nBirth of Pascal Poirier\nPascal Poirier, one of the leading figures of the Acadian Renaissance, was born in Shediac, NB. In 1885, he became the first Acadian appointed to the Senate.\nStanislas Poirier (Perry) elected to the PEI Assembly\nStanislas-François Poirier (Perry) became the first Acadian elected to the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island. Twenty years later, in 1874, he became the first Acadian Member of Parliament.\nBirth of Peter John Veniot\nBorn in Richibucto, NB, Peter John Veniot, \"Pierre,\" is the first Acadian NB premier from 1923 to 1925 (non-elected). He succeeded W.E. Foster as premier in 1923 and supported public ownership of the provincial hydro system and the Maritime Rights Movement. He was recognized as the leader of Acadian Liberalism. Following the defeat of his party in 1925, he ran successfully as MP for Gloucester and was appointed postmaster general by PM King. He sat as an MP until his death in 1936.\nCollège Saint-Joseph de Memramcook founded in NB\nFather Camille Lefebvre, member of the congregation of the Fathers of Sainte-Croix, founded the Collège Saint-Joseph in Memramcook, New Brunswick. The establishment of this institution was significant because the graduates quickly began to play active roles in the Acadian community and, with the help of the clergy, started questioning their own identity and asserting their aspirations as francophones in an anglophone environment. Collège Saint-Joseph was one of three colleges that merged in 1963 to become the Université de Moncton.\nLe Moniteur Acadien founded\nThe first Acadian newspaper, Le Moniteur Acadien, was founded by Israël Landry in Shediac, New Brunswick. The paper, whose first issue appeared on 8 July 1867, marked the beginning of the Acadian Renaissance.\nBirth of Aubin-Edmond Arsenault\nPremier of PEI Aubin-Edmond Arsenault was born at Egmont Bay, PEI. Arsenault was the first Acadian premier of any Canadian province.\nNew Brunswick Schools\nThe New Brunswick government passed the Common Schools Act to strengthen and reform the school system. At the same time, it abandoned an informal system of separate schools that had grown up since the 1850s.\nStanislas Poirier (Perry) elected to the House of Commons\nStanislas-François Poirier (Perry) became the first Acadian Member of Parliament, twenty years after becoming the first Acadian elected to the House of Assembly of Prince Edward Island.\nDeath of Edward Barron Chandler\nEdward Barron Chandler, a Father of Confederation, died in Fredericton, NB. Born to a prominent family, Chandler was deeply involved in the region’s politics. He was interested in constructing a Maritime rail line to Québec City and developing ties with the United States. Chandler also fought for Acadian language and cultural rights.\nFirst National Acadian Convention\nThe first National Acadian Convention was held in Memramcook, New Brunswick. Chaired by MP Pierre-Amand Landry, the convention drew over 5,000 people and saw the establishment of National Acadian Day on 15 August, Assumption Day.\nFlag of Acadia adopted\nIn 1884, Miscouche hosted the historic second Convention nationale acadienne (National Acadian Convention), during the course of which delegates adopted all the national symbols Acadians use today: the flag (the French tricolour with a yellow star in the blue stripe), the national anthem (Ave Maris Stella), the motto (“L’Union fait la force” or “Unity makes strength”) and the crest.\nPascal Poirier appointed to the Senate\nA leading figure of the Acadian Renaissance, Pascal Poirier, of Shediac, NB, became the first Acadian appointed to the Senate.\nLaunch of the L’Évangéline\nEstablished by Valentin Landry in Digby, Nova Scotia, this Acadian newspaper was moved to Moncton, New Brunswick in 1905 and published until 1982.\nCollege Sainte-Anne, NS is founded\nCollege Sainte Anne (today Université Sainte-Anne) was founded at Church Point, Nova Scotia by the Eudist Fathers and offered instruction in French.\nÉdouard-A. LeBlanc becomes the first Acadian Bishop\nAfter decades of petitions from Acadians, the Vatican appointed the first bishop of Acadian origin to the Episcopal seat of Saint John, New Brunswick.\nBirth of Gilbert Finn\nBorn in Inkerman Ferry, NB, Gilbert Finn is an Acadian businessman. After working 37 years at the Assumption Mutual Life Assurance Co, he served on the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council and the Economic Council of Canada, was president of the Université de Moncton and was active in Acadian and New Brunswick community groups. His service to his people and province was rewarded with membership in the Order of Canada. Upon his retirement in 1987 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, the second person of Acadian descent to be so honoured. He served in this capacity until 1994.\nPeter John Veniot becomes NB premier\nBorn in Richibucto, NB, Peter John Veniot, \"Pierre,\" was the first Acadian NB premier and served from 1923 to 1925. He succeeded W.E. Foster as premier in 1923 and supported public ownership of the provincial hydro system and the Maritime Rights Movement. He was recognized as the leader of Acadian Liberalism. Following the defeat of his party in 1925, he ran successfully as MP for Gloucester and was appointed postmaster general by Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King. He sat as an MP until his death in 1936.\nBirth of Antonine Maillet\nCelebrated Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet was born at Bouctouche, NB.\nArts, Culture and Identity Historical Figures and Acadians\nBirth of Angèle Arsenault\nAngèle Arsenault was a pioneering Acadian singer-songwriter. She was renowned for her catchy, upbeat melodies, playful social commentary and distinctive humour. She was perhaps best known for the songs “Évangéline, Acadian Queen,” “Je veux toute la vivre ma vie,” and the Acadian anthem “Grand-Pré.” An Officer of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of Prince Edward Island, she received the Ordre de la Pléiade from the Association of French-Speaking Parliamentarians for her role in promoting French language and culture.\nBirth of Jacques Savoie\nJacques Savoie, Acadian musician, author, screenwriter (born 3 February 1951 in Edmundston, NB). Savoie has left his mark on French-Canadian literature, television and film. A founding member of the Acadian musical group Beausoleil Broussard, he is also the author of close to 20 novels, including Raconte-moi Massabielle and Les Portes tournantes, both of which have garnered many international awards and been made into films.\nBirth of Raymonde April\nPhotographer Raymonde April, whose practice has influenced the development of photography in Québec and Canada, was born at Moncton, NB.\nLouis J. Robichaud becomes premier of NB\nElected leader of the NB Liberal Party in 1958, Louis Joseph Robichaud led it to victory over Hugh J. Flemming in 1960, served as attorney general between 1960 and 1965, and as minister of youth in 1968. The first Acadian elected premier of NB, he introduced far-reaching social reforms through the centralizing Programme of Equal Opportunity. His government passed an Official Languages Act, established Université de Moncton, increased Acadian administrative influence, and encouraged the mining and forestry industries.\nBirth of Roch Voisine\nRoch Voisine, popular award winning Quebec singer, was born at St Basile, NB.\nUniversité de Moncton is founded\nUniversité de Moncton was founded by the New Brunswick legislature in accordance with the recommendations of a royal commission. Université de Moncton began with the amalgamation of three institutions which agreed to suspend their charters in order to become affiliated colleges: Saint-Joseph (founded 1864), Sacré-Coeur (1899) and Saint-Louis (1946). As amended in 1977, the university's charter authorized campuses in each of New Brunswick's three francophone regions: Moncton, Edmundston and Shippagan.\n​Kouchibouguac National Park Established\nKouchibouguac National Park was established. Situated on the eastern New Brunswick shore of Northumberland Strait, the park is a delicate blend of beaches, sand dunes and salt marshes. A 25 km long barrier-island system shelters lagoons from the often violent sea. Several rivers flowing across the park inspired its Mi'kmaq name \"river of the long tides.\"\nNew Brunswick's Bilingual Acts\nNew Brunswick became the first province to draft statutes in both official languages.\nAcadian Historical Village Opens\nThe Acadian Historical Village (Village historique acadien) is an ambitious living history site located on the Rivière-du-Nord near Caraquet, NB, in the heart of the Acadian Peninsula. It presents the rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the large Acadian population who settled in this province.\nOpening of the first Jeux de l’Acadie\nThe first Acadian Games (Jeux de l’Acadie) were held in Moncton from 29 August to 1 September 1979.\nAntonine Maillet wins Prix Goncourt\nFor her novel Pélagie-la-Charrette, Acadian writer Antonine Maillet became the first non-French citizen to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.\nFirst Congrès mondial acadien\nThe first Congrès mondial acadien (World Acadian Congress) was held in Moncton and various communities of southeastern New Brunswick from 12 August to 22 August 1994.\nRose-Marie Losier-Cool appointed to the Senate\nBorn in Tracadie-Sheila, NB, Rose-Marie Losier-Cool became the first Acadian woman appointed to the Senate.\nBastarache Named New Supreme Court Justice\nPM Jean Chrétien named Justice Michel Bastarache to fill the vacancy left on the Supreme Court by Gerard LaForest. He became the first Acadian appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.\nThériault Becomes Premier\nCamille Henri Thériault was sworn in as premier of New Brunswick.\nConservatives Win in NB\nThe New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party won a surprising landslide victory in the provincial election. Thirty-three-year-old Bernard Lord became premier.\nMoncton becomes a bilingual city\nMoncton, NB, became the first officially bilingual Canadian city.\nHerménégilde Chiasson is installed as New Brunswick's lieutenant-governor\nHerménégilde Chiasson was born 7 April 1946 in Saint-Simon, NB. He is an artist, poet, playwright, film director and lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick. An Officer of the Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and New Brunswick's 29th lieutenant-governor, Chiasson is considered the father of Acadian modernism and is one of Canada's foremost advocates of Acadian culture and the arts. He is also notable for his insistence upon Acadian culture being a living culture rather than a persecuted and exiled one.\nCrown acknowledges deportation of the Acadian people\nIn a royal proclamation, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson recognized the responsibility of the British Crown in the decision to deport the Acadian people in 1755 and its tragic consequences. Since 2005, 28 July has been designated Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval.\nDay of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval\nTo mark the 250th anniversary of the deportation of the Acadian people in 1755, 28 July officially became Canada's Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval, as set by the Royal Proclamation of 6 December 2003.\nEdith Butler receives the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement\nBorn in 1942 in Paquetville, NB, Édith Butler has popularized a number of traditional Acadian songs.\nDeath of Roméo A. LeBlanc\nA fluently bilingual Acadian, LeBlanc was selected by PM Jean Chrétien in 1994 to succeed Ray Hnatyshyn as Governor General of Canada. Roméo LeBlanc was the first Maritimer and first Canadian of Acadian descent to hold the vice-regal office.\nFrance Daigle wins the Governor General’s Literary Award\nFrance Daigle, an Acadian author born 18 November 1953 in Dieppe, a suburb of Moncton, New Brunswick, is the leading representative of postmodern Acadian literature. Her work has sparked a great deal of interest in Québec, English Canada, and other parts of the Francophonie. She won the Governor General’s Literary Award for her masterpiece entitled Pour sûr (2011).\nDeath of Angèle Arsenault\nBrian Gallant elected premier of New Brunswick\nBrian Alexander Gallant was born 27 April 1982 in the Acadian community of Shediac Bridge, New Brunswick. He was a lawyer and leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party. At 32 years of age, he became the country’s youngest premier. Gallant is the son of Pierre Gallant, who is of Acadian heritage, and Marilyn Scholten, the daughter of Dutch immigrants.\nDeath of Gilbert Finn\nBorn 3 September 1920 in Inkerman Ferry, NB, Gilbert Finn is an Acadian businessman. After working 37 years at the Assumption Mutual Life Assurance Co, he served on the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council and the Economic Council of Canada, was president of the Université de Moncton and was active in Acadian and New Brunswick community groups. His service to his people and province was rewarded with membership in the Order of Canada. Upon his retirement in 1987 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, the second person of Acadian descent to be so honoured. He served in this capacity until 1994.\nRelated Timelines All Timelines","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line196416"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9468246102333069,"wiki_prob":0.9468246102333069,"text":"FATAH: India takes giant leap for mankind by decriminalizing homosexuality\nTarek Fatah\nGay rights activists hold a flag as they celebrate amid heavy downpour after the country's top court struck down a colonial-era law that made homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)\nWhen the German thinker Goethe said, “I am what I am, so take me as I am,” little could he have imagined that his profound quote would centuries later be invoked to decriminalize homosexuality and end centuries of stigma faced by the LGBTQ community in the ancient civilization that has given so much to the world — India.\nOn September 6, the Supreme Court of India delivered a decision that will be forever remembered as one giant step forward for humanity. It decriminalized homosexuality in a 495-page decision that included references to Shakespeare, John Stuart Mill and on precedent set in other societies, including our very own Canada.\nThe supreme court scrapped section 377 of the Indian constitution that had banned gay sex, ending the pariah status of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community in the world’s largest democracy.\nThe five judges issued four separate but concurrent judgments to seal the matter, ending a decades-long battle in which India’s religious right demonized the LGBTQ community in the most vicious and derogatory manner, but failed to pass the test of their much-touted moral and sanctimonious lecturing that brought Christian priests hugging Islamic clerics while a segment of the Hindus sulked, failing to recognize that Hinduism had never treated gay sex as a ‘sin’ or an immoral act.\nChief Justice Dipak Misra quoted Shakespeare as he read out the unanimous ruling of five judges to legalize gay sex.\n“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” Misra said, borrowing a phrase from “Romeo and Juliet,” as he overturned the homophobic Section 377 of the Indian constitution.\nAs I watched the LGBTQ community, their families and countless supporters dance in joy in Delhi, the reaction of the Christian churches and the Islamic institutions was one of dismay and anger.\nThe self-appointed All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) denounced the Supreme Court judgement, tweeting: “Legalizing homosexuality is against Indian values and culture. No religion allows immorality. The government must pass a bill to protect the rights of women as they are the major victims of legalised homosexuality.”\nThe Mullahs who run the AIPLMB were roundly denounced by even the Muslim community.\nYoung Muslim writer and activist from Kashmir, Irfa Jan tweeted back: “Who gave you guys [AIPLMB] the legitimacy to talk on behalf of All India Muslims? Were you elected by them as your name suggests? An oddly chosen body cannot represent 100 million diverse, multilingual, multicultural people. YOU DO NOT REPRESENT ME.”\nAs if the homophobic reaction by the Muslim Board was not enough, another group of India’s Islamic clerics, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind joined forces. The orthodox right-wing group’s General Secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani said, “Homosexuality is against nature, religion and cultural values of India. It should not have been allowed.”\nAt the last sitting of the court while the Muslim groups refrained from pushing forward their objections, three Christian groups continued to argue against decriminalizing gay sex, but could not sway any of the five justices.\nThe following words of the Indian Supreme Court can serve all of humanity as far as human rights are concerned. The justices said:\n“One defines oneself. That is the glorious form of individuality. … Sans identity, the name only remains a denotative term. Therefore, the identity is pivotal to one‘s being. Life bestows honour on it and freedom of living, as a facet of life, expresses genuine desire to have it. … And the sustenance of identity is the filament of life. It is equivalent to authoring one‘s own life script where freedom broadens every day.”\n“Identity is equivalent to divinity,” they declared.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1298190"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7416539192199707,"wiki_prob":0.2583460807800293,"text":"Tag: pco\nI Love Taxi Drivers\nOk I don’t really, the majority of my worst incidences have been with taxi drivers and they seem to be invincible! From my experience the police pass any reports to the PCO and the PCO hold their hands up and say it’s up to the police to sort it out.\nThe public carriage office in its current state is a bit of a shambles, I have been provided a small amount of inside knowledge from someone who was involved with the PCO from a day-to-day basis on a professional level. I won’t go into detail at present, it would be a very long post but the end result is taxi drivers in London are basically untouchable and a few of them act as if they know that.\nI’ve reported various incidences of varying degrees to the PCO, in every case I’ve not had a positive response, most of them result in a ‘It’s not our job to the police the roads’ and a few result in ‘we can’t view youtube videos so it’s your word against theirs’. It normally ends there, they are very understaffed and just don’t have time to look into these cases in enough detail.\nI’ve tried reporting it to the Police but the MET handed over regulation and licensing of hackney carriages to TFL in 2000 and they seem to try to push the reports on TFL/PCO.\nSo far I’ve gotten not a single result from anything that has happened with a black cab. If you follow what I’ve published on youtube then you will know there are some real shockers.\nI have had a few incidences which I’ve been told will be put on the driver’s record, but note these where not confirmed and the information did not come from someone who worked at the PCO. So I have no way to be certain.\nTransport for London have provided a handy document that outlines the laws which govern hackney carriages and it states\nIn this Abstract, ‘The Licensing Authority’ means Transport for London (TfL) which will exercise the duties imposed by the London Cab Order 1934 as amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.\nSo it is up to TFL/PCO to apply the laws in that document. In the document is the Standard Scale, which is the different fines that TFL/PCO are to apply to drivers when the break various laws, unfortunately the fines are maximum and do not have to be that exact amount.\nLevel 1 = £200\nLevel 3 = £1,000\nLets highlight a few of the laws and what fines should be applied to the drivers that break them.\n39. Various acts of misbehaviour by taxi driver (Act of 1843 s28; Act of 1831 s 56)\n(1) The following offences are punishable by penalty (Level 1) or two months imprisonment:\n(a) Wanton or furious driving.\n(b) Causing hurt or damage to any person by carelessness or wilful misbehaviour.\n(c) Drunkenness during employment.\n(d) Use of insulting or abusive language during employment.\n(e) Use of insulting gestures during employment.\n(f) Any misbehaviour during employment.\n(2) The following offences are punishable by penalty (Level 1 )\n(a) Injuring or endangering the life, limbs or property of any persons by intoxication, wanton or furious driving or any other wilful misconduct.\n(b) Using abusive or insulting language or rude behaviour towards any person.\n(c) Assaulting or obstructing any police officer in the execution of his duty.\n(3) This type of behaviour is also contrary to laws of general application, for example the Public Order Act 1986, carrying where appropriate heavy fines and/or imprisonment.\nSo it is up to TFL/PCO to deal with drivers who; drive dangerously, injury someone, damage someones property, swear at someone, use insulting gestures.\nIn several case I have been sworn at, threatened and had people driving dangerously around me. So that would mean that several drivers should have gotten fines but instead they may have a mark on their record or they got away with it.\nI guess I will have to push the PCO next time I have an incident with a taxi and get them to properly deal with the driver. At present it’s a joke and I get the feeling that taxi drivers are currently untouchable which is a problem when some of them think you shouldn’t be on the road and they are king.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line34478"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9944474697113037,"wiki_prob":0.9944474697113037,"text":"Former Armenian Leader Freed From Pretrial Detention\nFILE - Armenia's President Robert Kocharyan speaks to the media after casting his ballot during a parliamentary election in Yerevan, May 12, 2007.\nTBILISI, GEORGIA - An Armenian court on Saturday ordered former President Robert Kocharyan freed on bail from pretrial detention, local news agencies reported.\nKocharyan, 64, was arrested last July after peaceful protests drove his former ally and successor, Serzh Sarksyan, from power and propelled opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan into the prime minister's job.\nKocharyan, who was president from 1998 to 2008, has been charged with acting unlawfully by introducing a state of emergency in March 2008, following a disputed election. At least 10 people were killed in clashes between police and protesters.\nHe was freed on bail of 1 million drams ($2,000). He faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.\nKocharyan told Reuters earlier this month that powerful opposition forces were coming together to challenge the country's new leadership soon, and that he hoped to be among them.\nExperts See Russia Fingerprints on North Korea's New Missile\nThe three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military has deployed to Syria and has been actively trying to sell abroad for years. Ending a pause in ballistic missile launches that began in late 2017, and alarming North Korea's neighbors, Kim personally supervised the launch of the first missile from the country&#39…\nUS-Backed Syrian Forces Form Armenian Unit\nU.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) this week announced the establishment of a new force made up of ethnic Armenians. The SDF is a Kurdish-led multiethnic military alliance that played a key role in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Syria. The SDF liberated the last IS stronghold of Baghuz in eastern Syria last month and now controls more than one third of Syria's territory. \"We will follow the path of our martyrs…\nBy Sirwan Kajjo\nFrance Holds First 'Armenia Genocide' Remembrance Day\nFrance held its first \"national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide\" on Wednesday, provoking an angry reaction from Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Troops from the Ottoman Empire — which preceded modern-day Turkey — were responsible for massacres and forced deportations of Armenians from 1915, but Turkey has always denied that the killings amounted to genocide. France was the first major European country to…\nUkrainian Diaspora Voters Show Starkly Different Political Preferences for Kyiv\nThis story originated in VOA's Ukrainian Service. Pete Cobus contributed to this report. LONDON - Ukrainians who live abroad strongly prefer sitting President Petro Poroshenko to other candidates in last weekend’s first-round presidential election, contradicting the choice of voters who reside within the eastern European nation.According to official tallies of votes cast in Ukraine,…\nBy Bogdan Tsioupine","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line182621"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7430956363677979,"wiki_prob":0.25690436363220215,"text":"In Keynote Speech, Bennet Says New Approach Needed to Support, Reward and Retain Talented Teachers in America's Public Schools\nIn a Speech at Center for American Progress, Bennet Emphasizes Central Role Teachers Play in Improving Student Outcomes\nWashington, DC - In a keynote speech before the Center for American Progress, Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado and former Superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, highlighted the need for a new approach to support, reward and retain talented teachers in America's public schools and stressed the important role they will play in improving student outcomes and preparing our kids for the new economy.\n\"We have got to come together and design the system that's a 21st Century approach to attracting and retaining teachers to our schools,\" said Bennet. \"It is a national conversation that we should be having because this is a national issue that we have. I think that we should be doing everything that we can to encourage the kind of innovation that we see in Denver and see in other places.\"\nIn his remarks, Bennet highlighted the need to fundamentally transform our approach to recruiting and retaining talented teachers in America's public schools, and cited steps taken by the Denver Public Schools drive student achievement and improve student outcomes.\nBennet also stated that school districts across the country have proven that improvement is possible, and that the country must continue to identify and bring to scale successful models that drive student achievement and prepare our kids for the new economy.\nClick here to access the event footage. Scroll to minute 5 to watch Bennet's presentation and his answers to audience questions.\nA full transcript of Bennet's remarks is included below:\nThank you all, it's great to see you this morning. I really appreciate your letting me have the chance to come. I'm going to try to be as brief as possible. Having said that, I'll break that promise. And we'll have some Q&A afterwards. I want to recognize CAP's great work here and acknowledge two people from Denver with whom I have had a very cherished relationship. My union President Kim Ursetta, who's here, who ran the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, with whom I battled, with whom we struggled, and with whom we made a huge difference together. And with Brad Jupp, who worked with me side by side from the day I became Superintendent, Brad was a union leader in the Denver Public Schools for many years. He came over to work with me and to help refine and develop Procomp, and he is one of the true educational reformers in this country now working for Arne Duncan. And it is a great pleasure to see you. Even though we work in the same town, we never ever see each other anymore.\nAnd to CAP, I want to thank you, John, for focusing on what really matters, rather than the reform of the day, the flavor of the day. But to understand that fundamentally and at its core, education, just like almost everything else, comes down to the human beings that are actually in the class. And I'm very grateful for your focus on that and for the focus on the panels on that and the papers you are going to hear. I looked at them last night, and there's a lot of good stuff in there, so you are going to have a good conversation today.\nI always start by reminding people what we are really dealing with here because not enough people in the country understand what the outcomes are for kids in our country. I'm going to give you a couple statistics, I'm not going to bore you with a bunch, but I'll give you a couple. One, when I took the job as Superintendent of the schools, one of the most alarming statistics that I read was that on the 10th grade math test administered by the state, in a school district of 75,000 children and a city of 550,000 people, 33 African-American students were proficient on our 10th grade math test, and 61 Latino students were proficient on our 10th grade math test. Fewer than four classrooms-worth of kids in that 75,000-child school district proficient on a test that measures a junior high school standard of mathematical proficiency in Europe.\nWe know that children in poverty by the time they get to the 4th grade are already two to three grade levels behind their middle-class peers. And we know that today's 4th graders that are living in poverty, stand a one in two chance of graduating from high school and a one in 10 chance of graduating from college. Those are the same odds by the way, their older brothers and older sisters had and the same odds their parents had - a 1 in 10 chance of graduating.\nOur economy has already transformed itself. If you look at the last job creation we had in the United States of America, we created about 5 million jobs that required a four-year degree. We created somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 or 3 million jobs that required something less than that in terms of post-high school education. We lost jobs for people without high school diplomas. We lost jobs for people with a high school diploma, but not any work in college. That trend is not going to reverse itself. So these gaps that we have, that we confront today, if we do nothing different, are only going to grow. And they are going to grow exponentially.\nWe're not going to have time today to talk about all of the things that we need to change in our delivery of public education, which by in large owes its design to Colonial America and to the period right around World War II. We could take up the whole week talking about what we could do, but this is what I want to talk about today. In my view, there's nothing more important for us to recognize, than that we no longer live in labor market that discriminates against women and says you have two professional choices - one is being a teacher and one is being a nurse. Our entire system of training, of compensation, the way we think about retaining teachers, evaluating teachers, the way we think about inspiring teachers, maybe that's the most important thing, belongs to an era that no longer exists. And we got away with the system that used that discrimination to subsidize our public education system and to say, you know what, we are going to have the very best people in our classrooms, willing to teach Julius Caesar every year for 30 years, because nobody is going to ask them to do anything else.\nThis is not a political trope for me. This is the hardest job anybody can do, is teaching in one of these urban school districts. It's harder than whatever anybody else here does besides the teachers that are here. And we have got to come together and design the system that's a 21st Century approach to attracting and retaining teachers to our schools. And what I would just submit at the end of that, I'm going to say one more thing, is that the policy conversation we're having right now, is not at risk of actually dealing with the issue that we're confronting. It is too narrow, it is too small, it is a national conversation that we should be having, because this is a national issue that we have. And I think that we should be doing everything that we can to encourage the kind of innovation that we see in Denver and see in other places, encourage the kind of discussions that Kim and I had. They were tough, but they were worth it. And it shows it can be done.\nThe last thing I want to say is this, and this is something I really thought hard about last night before I came. One of the acquired learnings that I had, based on my time in Denver, is that there is enormous reform fatigue in this country. There's huge reform fatigue among our teachers. There's huge reform fatigue among our principals. And that's a particular problematic when you're dealing with a culture, that is defined, as much as this culture is, by mistrust and by worry. And so, while I used to say that our reform, our instructional reform, was absolutely breathtaking in its lack of originality, and I continue to believe that, our approach was different. And for reasons that I don't understand, no one else seems to be doing it.\nSo, let me give this to you as an idea for the people that are actually thinking about the policies and asking the question of yourself: how do we actually get this done? How do we move from a good idea, to getting it done? How do we deal with the conflict that inevitably arises in schooling? And, I think that the first piece of that is recognizing how tough the culture is and reasons why. It's hard when you've dedicated your life to teaching and your kids don't seem to make any progress and you lose all sense of your efficacy or collective efficacy, and that's tough. That's a tough starting point.\nSo, here were my two ideas on this and I thought they worked out well. One was, before I became Superintendent I asked Brad about this, I said that I would meet every morning, virtually every morning, with a group of 15 of our principals for two hours in their schools. Every three weeks I saw every principal in the school district for two hours, for the nearly four years that I was Superintendent of schools. And the conversations were not about who got left on the bus, or was the boiler broken, the conversations were all about teaching and learning.\nI'll give you an example, it was this narrow. For three weeks, we took around the same one and half page piece of student work. It's important for people to look at student work. Here's how professional development goes in America on student work. It's important that you look at student work. Go back to your building and tell your teachers they need to look at student work. We took the same one and half page piece around with us and we would pass it out to the principals. It was a 4th grader's writing, but we did it the same writing at every level. And the same thing would happen every single time. Which is, people would look at this, and they would say I can't read this, this doesn't make any sense to me, this looks like a foreign language. And just when they would crescendo, my chief academic officer would say, based on what you've read what are Nancy's strengths as a writer. So everybody would have to dive back into the piece of paper and for an hour we would have a discussion where people would say Nancy writes from left to right, she has some sense of story structure, she spells high frequency words correctly. We'd say, why is that, and they would say, well maybe she had a vocabulary test and we'd say maybe. Or maybe her teacher has a word wall in her classroom that she's using to scaffold her instruction. The point is we don't know, but let's not make an assumption about that. And then, they would say she has stamina as a writer. Which would turn out, for reasons that I am not going to bore you today, not to be true.\nThen the last part of our conversation was how do you take what you just went through and what you just learned back to your building and engage your teachers in this conversation, so that the instruction changes, not next year, not after professional development next summer, but in the next period, for Nancy and for all the Nancy's that are in every school district in our country who are writing something that our own folks are saying they can't read. That had an enormous impact on the culture because we built a principal core that understood that their job was not to keep the system the same; it was to change the system. And by in large they understood that their job was not to grind down the people that were working with our kids but to try to support them. And, I don't remember the numbers exactly but, the DCTA did a survey of its members every year and there was a question on that survey that said from the teachers. The question was, my principal supports me as a professional in the building and respects me. That went in a year from something like 35 percent yes, to something like 71 percent yes. Can you imagine how much easier it is to do the kinds of reforms you all care about and I'm thinking about when people feel like they're being respected by their principals.\nThe second thing I did was that I said I would meet with every faculty in the school district every single year. We had 150 schools, give or take, and we spent an hour. Five minutes at the beginning is all I took and the rest of it was completely open and completely free form. And the point of it was, the first year to be a piñata. To have people say, which they said, the first year, Kim will remember this, we were here before you got here, and we are going to be here after you leave. And you know nothing about what it is we do every day. To which I could say you're correct about that, that's why I'm here. But the next year what it allowed us to do is we were implementing the reforms, was to get feedback directly from the teachers, unmediated by the bureaucracy. And they would say things, like you must not have intended this, or you guys are completely out of your minds for doing this.\nThe one I remember that comes to mind today is a very simple one, we had gone to standard-based report card, no more ABC and D and F, but 1,2,3, and 4. The standard-based report card. Because of the reform that we did, because of what I did as Superintendent, teachers were no longer able to print their report cards at their desk when they needed them for their kids. The IT department was printing these things in the building downtown and then trucking them to our teachers when it was convenient. Because of their feedback, we changed that, we took that pain point away from people and we didn't, eh, other things. Except for Kim Ursetta's. But no, but there things like that, that we changed.\nAnd in January of the second year, we cut a video that said based on the feedback you guys have given us, here are all the changes that we're making to the reform that we're engaged in. Something that had never happened in the history of the Denver Public Schools, which was people actually listening. So my final observation is this, we need to radically change the delivery of public education in this country. But we're not going to do it if we don't intend to, the cultural work that has to be done to make sure we go faster on this, rather than slower on this. Thank you.\nPermalink: https://www.bennet.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2010/3/in-keynote-speech-bennet-says-new-approach-needed-to-support-reward-and-retain-talented-teachers-in-america-039-s-public-schools","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1007344"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5735229253768921,"wiki_prob":0.5735229253768921,"text":"Heatwave UNSUNG Full Episode TV One Documentary\nFrom TVOneOnline.com – In the late 1970’s, when disco, funk, and soulful ballads ruled the dance floors, few bands could match Heatwave’s range and originality. From the disco anthem “Boogie Nights” to the wedding classic “Always and Forever”, Heatwave combined driving dance rhythms with creamy melodies to create a lasting sound and legacy. Their unique approach was in part the result of a remarkably international makeup: led by brothers Johnnie Jr. Wilder and Keith Wilder, from, Dayton, Ohio, Heatwave included a keyboardist from England, a drummer who’d fled from Czechoslovakia, a bassist from Spain, and a keyboardist, Rod Temperton, who not only wrote most of their material, but eventually became the songwriter behind some of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits. With that kind of pedigree, Heatwave might have become superstars – but a series of violent and horrific tragedies, including a gunshot murder and a car accident that left Johnnie Wilder paralyzed from the neck down, doomed the band at the height of their powers.\n[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhuK5Mvtjqw]\nDocumentaryHeatwavesoulTVoneUnsung\nDave Chappelle’s First Interview in 5 Years – On Getting Booed and Kanye West + More!\nNPR Examines the Major Label’s Electronica Push in the ’90s\nDego from 4Hero Talks about What’s Next…\nNew D’Angelo Tune “Glass Mountain Trust”\nR.I.P. Teena Marie (3/5/56 – 12/26/10)\nJazmine Sullivan Dropped from J Records\nHappy Birthday Aretha Franklin – The Queen of...\nMore Unreleased Music from Sade “Still in Love...\nJulie Dexter “Come on Home”- FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD\nSoul Train Headed to the Smithsonian!\nA Tribe Called Quest Documentary in NYC &...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line180838"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7880972623825073,"wiki_prob":0.7880972623825073,"text":"NationalNational\nFormer MLB players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo killed in car crash, per reports\nPosted: 11:12 PM, Dec 06, 2018\nBy: Clayton Klapper\n<p>Former MLB players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo have been killed in a car crash in Venezuela, according to multiple media reports. </p><p> </p><p><script async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"></script></p>\nFormer MLB players Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo have been killed in a car crash in Venezuela, according to multiple media reports.\nThe two were teammates on a winter ball team in Venezuela at the time of the crash on Thursday.\nCastillo was 37 at the time of his death and finished his career with the Houston Astros. Valbuena, 33, most recently played for the Los Angeles Angels and was a sought after free agent in this MLB offseason.\nDetails on what led up to the crash have not yet been released.\nA front office member of Luis Valbuena's Venezuelan winter ball team confirmed the former Astros third baseman was killed in a car accident in Venezuela on Thursday.\nValbuena was 33 https://t.co/cWALLPz3Io\n— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) December 7, 2018\nOur hearts are extremely saddened to hear the news of Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo’s passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families, friends and anyone affected by this tragic loss. They’re now up there with the Angels in the outfield.\n— LA Sports Hub (@LA_SportsHub) December 7, 2018","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line534741"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5382683873176575,"wiki_prob":0.5382683873176575,"text":"Subscribe To Wait, They're Making A Theme Park Based On The Hunger Games? Updates\nWait, They're Making A Theme Park Based On The Hunger Games?\nBy Sean O'Connell\nTheme parks based on dangerous concepts tend to be terrible ideas. Just ask the folks behind Jurassic Park, who apparently didn’t learn their lesson. So you’ll forgive us for not embracing the concept of a theme park based on The Hunger Games, because from what we remember about those first two Games movies, not a lot of people make it out of the arena alive.\nLionsgate, however, has started down the path to bring both a Hunger Games and a Step Up theme park to Dubai through a partnership with Dubai Parks and Recreation. THR reports that the Motiongate Dubai parks would open in October 2016, and feature attractions, retail shops and stage shows inspired by both the Hunger Games and Step Up movie franchises. See, one of those makes a lot of sense! Step Up is a high-octane dance franchise that could inspire several DIY showcases for global talent.\nThe Hunger Games, on the flip side, just sounds deadly. Will there be a giant cornucopia filled with weapons that visitors will have to run to at the start of each morning? Instead of a traditional fireworks display, will each night end with cannon fire, signifying how many tourists gave their lives up in honor of the most exclusive, immersive vacation destination in film-fan history?\nWe’re exaggerating, of course. The rides and attractions at the Hunger Games theme park likely will do an excellent job of incorporating elements of the behemoth, dystopian YA film franchise, possibly letting you eat lunch in The Capitol, ride a roller coaster through District 13, or buy an Effie Trinket wig at a Hunger Games gift shop near the park’s entrance. You know a lot of girls will be leaving the Motiongate Dubai park with a customized Katniss Everdeen archery set.\nThis isn’t the only effort by Lionsgate to extend the Hunger Games brand after the final film, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 opens in theaters on November 20. Variety reported last year that the studio is teaming up with Imagine Nation and Triangular Entertainment to bring a Hunger Games live show to the stage. The show will be established in the UK at Wembley Stadium in London. Can’t travel overseas to either Great Britain or Dubai? Not a problem. The trade also reported that a U.S. tour of The Hunger Games: The Exhibition is expected to hit numerous locations this summer.\nCould it work? Sure. Universal Studios has an extremely popular Harry Potter theme park in Orlando. There have been plans for a Fast & Furious theme park. So yeah, theme parks based on very popular movies are the new fad. Expect Divergent to follow up with a copycat attraction in coming weeks.\nA Hunger Games Prequel Is Coming, So Bring On The Movie Deals\nThe 10 Best Jennifer Lawrence Movies, Ranked\nJennifer Lawrence's Top 5 Roles So Far, Ranked","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1267144"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7459595203399658,"wiki_prob":0.7459595203399658,"text":"Softball Wins Three of Four, Sweeps Rival FDU\nWritten by ED MORLOCK | ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR\nThe softball team went 3-1 last week, splitting with Villanova and sweeping a Northeast Conference (NEC) double-header against Farleigh Dickinson.\nThe Hawks (16-14, 7-5) are in fifth place in the NEC. They are two games behind the conference leader, Robert Morris. Monmouth also trails Long Island University - Brooklyn, Quinnipiac and Central Connecticut State.\nMU defeated their conference rival 6-5 in the first game and 8-0 in game two. Monmouth never trailed in either game.\n“These were very big wins for us. We control where we want to be at the end of the season, so if we just go out and take care of our business and not worry about anything else, that’s all we can do,” said head coach Louie Berndt. “We need to focus on one NEC game at a time and do what we did against FDU. Everyone needs to focus on their job and their job only and get it done. When we do that you saw against FDU the outcome that we can produce.”\nKate Kuzma led the team over the Knights (23-14, 5-7) with five RBI’s. She went three for eight with a double, triple and homerun. Kuzma also caught both games.\n“I think Kate Kuzma did an outstanding job of calling both games. It’s mentally challenging to catch back-to-back games and then to call them on top of that. I think Kate yesterday played her best ball games and I hope she continues to play as she did because we are so much stronger when our battery is on and they were on yesterday,” said Berndt. “Kuzma made a play with two outs and threw out the tying run at third base to end the game.”\nAlissa Schoelkopf (6-2) was the winning pitcher in game one. She pitched the entire game, allowing five hits and five runs, only one of which was earned. She struck out two and walked two.\n“Alissa was up in game one 6-1 in the bottom of the seventh before we started falling apart in that game,” said Berndt. “She continued to do her job and we just didn’t play behind her.”\nLauren Sulick (9-5) won the second game for the Hawks. She threw a complete game, three-hit shutout. She walked three and struck out three.\n“Lauren and Alissa both did a great job. I have been saying all along that our team needs to start in the circle with winning ball games and both pitchers really did a great job for us yesterday,” said Berndt. “Both Lauren and Alissa just mixed the ball and hit their spots and when our pitching staff takes care of business we are a pretty good ball club.”\nMonmouth laced 27 hits in the double-header against the Knights. Kaitie Schumacher led the team with five hits.\n“The offense was patient when they needed to be and to be honest they were all just in the zone,” said Berndt. “They all did a great job of just hitting the ball hard and making great contact.”\nChristine Scherr tallied four hits, including a home run. Freshman Vanessa Cardoza had three hits, as did Kayleena Flores.\nSulick was the losing pitcher in game one against Villanova. She allowed eight runs, four earned, in three innings of work. The Hawks lost 9-2.\nSchoelkopf defeated Villanova in the second game 5-1. She pitched the entire game, allowing one run on 10 hits.\nThe Hawks are on the road all this week. Wednesday, April 18 they travel to Philadelphia for a double-header against Temple. They return to NEC play over the weekend with double-headers against Bryant and Central Connecticut State.\nMonmouth has eight conference games remaining on their schedule. Four of these games are against teams ahead of them in the standings.\nPHOTO COURTESY of MU Photography\nSports: Articles By Volume","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line981551"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5736247897148132,"wiki_prob":0.5736247897148132,"text":"Wednesday, January 2, 2019 - The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard\n\"The Adventures of Augie March\" by Saul Bellow\nElizabeth Graham on Azure Logic Apps\nNatural Language Processing with LUIS\nAlex Mang on Azure Durable Functions\nQnAMaker\n\"The Way of Kings\" by Brandon Sanderson\nJim Wooley on Static Analyzers and Roslyn\n\"Appointment in Samarra\" by John O'Hara\nCreating a Chatbot in the Azure Portal\nFor Sharon\nAugie March is an unlikely and unassuming hero in an American saga.\nBorn of a working-class simple-minded single mother in depression-era Chicago during the Great Depression, Augie struggles to rise above his lot in life.\nSaul Bellow chronicles his struggles in The Adventures of Augie March.\nAugie March begins his way in the world as a small-time criminal - stealing books,\nSelf-described as \"an American, Chicago born\", Augie often drifts through life, finding work where he can and seeking love where he can. His adventures often occur because he follows others: He falls in love with a girl who takes him to Mexico to finalize her divorce and train an eagle; he accompanies a friend on a trip to smuggle workers into the US from Canada, but they become stranded when the police discover the friend is driving a stolen car.\nBut, Augie progresses. He travels the world and experiences life and meets a lot of people. He takes on a number of jobs: Running errands for a corrupt businessman; recruiting workers to a labor union; buying and selling on the European black market; eagle trainer; even a stint in the US Navy;\nOur hero's great hindrance is his desire to do the right thing. For example, his engagement to a rich girl is derailed when he helps a friend escape an abusive relationship and recover from a botched abortion. Augie's fiancé and her family refuse to believe he is not sleeping with the girl he is helping. He knows this will happen, but he does what he believes is right.\nchaos.\nIt's sometimes hard to tell where the story is going. There are so many characters and so much happens that the reader can't always see what is important. March seems to just travel through life experiencing his adventures, with little or no theme running through them all. He tries, and he fails, and he tries again - in his careers and in his romances. Repeatedly, he deals with the chaos that is life and moves on.\nBut I see Augie's life as a pursuit of the American Dream, which is bold in its reach, but limited in its explicit goals. March is more self-aware than most, seeing his weaknesses and strengths and he never stops growing. And he never stops trying to move forward. And he never stops dreaming.\nWednesday, January 2, 2019 5:46:58 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)\nDavid Giard | Disclaimer | Comments [0] |\nMicrosoft Global Black Belt Elizabeth Graham describes Azure Logic Apps and how to use them to solve integration and workflow projects.\nAzure | Interviews | Technology and Friends | Video\nMonday, December 31, 2018 9:06:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)\nGCast 28:\nLearn how to use Microsoft Language Understanding Information Service (LUIS) to build models that provide Natural Language Processing (NLP) for your application.\nAI | Azure | Cognitive Services | GCast | Screencast | Video\nThursday, December 27, 2018 9:53:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)\nAlex Mang describes Azure Durable Functions and some real-world examples of how he uses them.\nLearn how to use QnA Maker to create a bot that automatically answers questions.\nAzure | Bots | GCast | Screencast\nThe world of The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson is a dangerous one. The continent of Roshar on the planet Roshar is filled with perils. Violent \"highstorms\" destroy nearly everything in their path; giant carnivorous crustaceans roam the chasms; the Parshendi and the Alethi races have been at war for as long as anyone can remember with no victory in sight for either side; and godlike creatures battle each other every few thousand years to decide the fate of the planet.\nThe Alethi-Parshendi wars take place on the Shattered Planes - a vast series of high plateaus separated by deep chasms. Enslaved \"bridgemen\" push giant bridges between the plateaus in order for armies to advance and attack. These bridgemen also serve the purpose of drawing enemy fire away from the armies, keeping their survival rate close to zero.\nOn top of this is the caste system, which decrees at birth the fate of each person - from slave to king. There exist about a dozen specific castes, but they are grouped into two broad categories, based on eye color. The light-eyes are clearly at the top and dark-eyes are decidedly below.\nBut Roshar also has some marvels. The storms generate a mystical force called \"stormlight\" that can be captured in stones and other objects and can be harnessed by those with the power to do so. Powerful shardblades can cut through nearly anything and armor made of shardplate can protect the wearer from nearly any attack; soulcasters are devices that allow masters to transmute one object or substance into another; and spren - creatures made of light, who sometimes come to the aid of humans.\nThe book switches points of view between several characters. The most important are:\nKaladin, son of a physician, who goes to war to protect his younger brother. But ends up sold into slavery as a bridgeman - the most expendable people in the army. He begins to acquire powers from stormlight and learn how to use those powers to help his fellow bridgemen.\nShallan Davar, who apprentices herself to the heretic scholar Jasnah Kholin in an attempt to steal her soulcaster.\nDalinar Kholin, a decorated warrior, an honorable man, and the uncle of a king. Dalinar sees visions of ancient gods and begins to question the wisdom of the endless war waged by his countrymen.\nBy far, the most interesting story is Kaladin's. He progresses from idealist to cynic to reluctant super hero and it is all done with perfect plausibility. Kaladin miraculously survives every danger he faces, but often those closest to him perishes. Despite this, the other bridgemen rally around him and he eventually inspires and unites these dregs of society.\nFew of the stories overlap in this book, but we expect them to do so as the series progresses.\nAs he has done before, Brandon Sanderson does a masterful job of building a world in which to place his characters and stories. In fact, the first two-thirds of this book spends much of its time setting the scene for the final third.\nAt over 1000 pages, this is an intimidating book - particularly when you consider it is part 1 of a proposed 10-volume series (three volumes have been published as of this writing) It took me nearly a year to finish it as other patrons kept requesting it\nBut it was worth the time and effort. I loved the characters and the world and the plausibility of the world Sanderson creates. Sanderson doesn't simply allow magic to exist - he provides a source to that magic and a partial explanation of its uses and limits.\nThe Way of Kings not a perfect book. The story is long and the action is sometimes separated by hundreds of pages of character development. But it never suffers from the flowery language that often bogs down high fantasy stories\nThere is much to think about in this book. But one of Kaladin's men put it best when Kaladin asked the meaning of a story:\n\"It means what you want it to mean,\" Hoid said. \"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”\nTuesday, December 18, 2018 9:38:00 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)\nMicrosoft MVP Jim Wooley describes how to use Roslyn to create your own static analyzers to verify the quality of your code.\nC# | Interviews | Technology and Friends | Video\nAppointment in Samarra by John O'Hara takes place over a 72-hour period in the small eastern Pennsylvania town of Gibbsville.\nBut three days is all it takes for Julian English to destroy everything good in his life.\nJulian had it made. He was born into a wealthy family; he owned a car dealer that was successful even during the great depression; and he had a beautiful, faithful wife, who loved him.\nBut he drank. And one night, at a party, he grew tired of listening to loudmouth boor Harry Reilly and threw a drink in his face. Julian quickly regretted his actions. Harry was an influential man in Gibbsville and Julian owed him money; but rather than correct the situation, Julian hurtles down a path of self-destruction for the next 3 days, alienating himself from the rest of society, burning bridges in his life, and spiraling quickly downward until he reaches a breaking point.\nAppointment is an excellent look at America of the 1930s. It shows us the social castes, the gossip, the overt racism, and life inside a bubble that is small town America.\nO'Hara does a masterful job of building the characters of this town and the dynamics between them. He gives us a backstory about Julian's wife, so we understand why he is lucky to have her and a fool to risk losing her. We learn about Julian's family and the pressure his father places on him, so we understand why he sometimes feels useless and helpless.\nInterestingly, none of Julian's acts of self-destruction are described in the book. We hear about them later as characters discuss what happened. Sometimes, it's unclear exactly what Julian did. For example, his wife sees him leave a night club with the girlfriend of a local mobster; then later finds Julian passed out drunk in his car. Did he commit adultery? It probably doesn't matter, as that was clearly his intent. And he is now in trouble with both his wife and the mob.\nThis is a book that got better as it went along. As the story progresses, Julian's downfall seems inevitable. But I could not look away. Appointment in Samarra is an American tragedy that is well worth watching.\nSunday, December 16, 2018 7:56:16 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)\nIn this video, I show how to create, deploy, and edit a chatbot completely within your web browser using the Azure Portal. You can event download the source code and edit it in Visual Studio, if you wish.\nAzure | Bots | GCast | Microsoft Bot Framework | Screencast | Video\nSharon Spry was one of the finest people I've known.\nShe had a gift for understanding and relating and empathizing with others. She had a bright mind and a wonderful smile. She had a sense of humor that allowed her to laugh at the world and to laugh at herself and sometimes to laugh at her troubles.\nShe was someone I called when I was feeling down. She never failed to cheer me up.\nShe was someone I called to share good news. It always made me feel better.\nShe was always interested in what I was doing and always asking about my immediate family.\nI was at her wedding where my 5-year-old son Timmy (now a grown man known as \"Tim\") served as a ring bearer.\nWhenever I visited San Francisco, I made a point to visit her family. I stayed at their house many times.\nShe came to visit me on multiple occasions and we got together at places away from our homes.\nA few years ago, she was diagnosed with cancer and was in and out of chemotherapy and other treatments. I’ve forgotten where the cancer started; but, by the end of this year, it had spread throughout her entire body.\nI will always admire the courage with which she faced this disease. She was always open and honest about her chances and what she was going through. She didn’t ask for pity, but she didn’t hide anything or downplay the seriousness from the rest of us.\nSharon passed away last night at the age of 55. The cancer she battled the last few years finally overcame her.\nShe leaves behind a husband and two young children.\nShe was my cousin and my friend.\nAnd I miss her.\nWednesday, December 12, 2018 9:41:27 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line712292"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.598064124584198,"wiki_prob":0.401935875415802,"text":"On the Record with Thelma Plum\nDanica Spear April 23, 2019 LatestMusic\nAhead of two major music festivals, Thelma Plum found the time to chat to Grok about musical inspirations, break-ups and her personal identity.\nTell me about how your latest single, Not Angry Anymore, came about?\nI wrote Not Angry Anymore after I broke up with my last boyfriend, who I was just so in love with. We had a beautiful, loving relationship, for the most part [Laughs]. I guess, after the breakup, you start to hold a lot of resentment, or you can build up a sort of resentment towards the other person. It took me a bit of time and a bit of reflection to understand that it wasn’t all on him and that I didn’t want to hold onto that anger anymore.\nI think it’s something a lot of people can relate to.\nYeah, well I hope so [Laughs].\nI loved the music video, it fit the so song perfectly. How was it working with Claudia Dallimore?\nOh my god, amazing. She’s just fantastic; she’s so good at her job and she makes working really enjoyable. She shoots predominantly women as well, which is great. She makes a really safe space, so I really liked it.\nWhere do you typically draw your inspiration from?\nSo many different things I guess, you know obviously love or heartbreak. With the last EP, I wrote it when I was 19, so it was a little while ago. I think now I’m ready to share a different part of me that isn’t just those love songs, it’s more of a reflection of how I feel being an Aboriginal woman in this country and how that felt growing up. I sing a lot about growing up, so a lot of the inspiration I draw now is from those experiences as an Aboriginal woman, which is something I hadn’t yet felt ready to share.\nSo, it’s been five years since the release of your last EP, Monsters, has your creative process changed over the years?\nYeah for sure. With this album, there was one before it that nearly came out and nearly happened, and there were some songs that were a couple years old. When it was time to record them, I was in such a different space, and with the music I release, I want it to be a reflection of who I am now, and I would like for it to show that I’ve grown as an artist and as a person. I guess with what I spoke about before, being more willing to share my experiences, so my vision has changed a lot in that way.\nIs it difficult sharing something so personal for you with the public?\nYeah for sure, but it’s like, I’m a huge oversharer. I share way too much [Laughs]. I need to get a little bit better at that.\nI guess music’s one good way to go about that.\nYeah, it really is. There’s something so therapeutic for me, in I guess a selfish way, to share things through my music and open up in that way. It’s vulnerable as hell, especially when other people are involved when you’re talking about lovers or people in your life and songs that are about certain things and times. It brings back memories, for not just me but other people as well. It can be nerve-racking, knowing that I might potentially make someone feel a certain way with what I’m sharing.\nDo you typically warn people when they’re going to be featured in one of your songs or just let them figure it out?\nNo never [Laughs]. Unless you’ve really wronged me, then you can find out on the radio like everyone else [Laughs]. I think it’s really important to be aware as an artist of some of the things you might share, because we share so much and sometimes people might think that’s none of your business, but when I’m inspired by something, I’ll want to write about it, but I am very mindful of making sure that everybody is safe and protected.\nYour single, Clumsy Love has been a massive success. Was this something you expected?\nNo! Because I hadn’t released music in so long, I was so nervous that I would come back and no one would want to listen to me. You know you have all those negative thoughts, but I also worked so hard on this song, and I’m really proud of that. I still didn’t expect it, but I am so happy.\nAre you excited to be touring with Groovin the Moo?\nI am! I’m so excited, crazy excited.\nI also saw that you were announced in the Splendour line up!\nIt is, it’s pretty wild. These are both two festivals that have been huge career goals for me, so I’m really, really happy.\nDo you prefer playing festivals over your private shows? I can imagine they’re very different experiences.\nYeah, they’re just so different. I couldn’t really choose, because there’s something so special about playing at a festival and seeing such a big crowd watching you, and it’s a bit like you’re on a holiday or on an island, somewhere really isolated, and just in that moment. And there’s always such good energy. But intimate shows are also really special, I think that they can be great, but I’ll let you know after these two festivals [Laughs].\nCan we expect the release of your new album soon?\nYes, you can! So, it’s coming out in the next couple of months, so maybe by the Groovin shows there might be a new single out from it.\nThelma Plum will be heading to Bunbury for Groovin the Moo festival on May 11.\nartist interviewon the recordThelma Plum\nPrevious ArticleOn the Record with Bella Nicholls from Demon Days\nNext ArticleRefuge at the John Curtin Gallery: Refugees, Immigrants and Australia\nDanica Spear\nWould you eat 3000-year-old honey?\nAdilah Ahmad July 14, 2019\n‘A White, White Day’: living between heaven and the earth\nVenus Choo J. Q. July 13, 2019\nThe Natural World is the Muse: ‘The Botanical: Beauty and Peril’ Exhibition at AGWA\nParis Doick July 13, 2019\n‘Stuber’ is an uninspired and personality-deprived ride\nDaniel Patterson July 12, 2019\nOn the record with Mayhills\nAilish Delaney July 12, 2019\nOn the Record with Kristian Hopes from Grinspoon\nJenny Maxwell July 11, 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line858766"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5976428985595703,"wiki_prob":0.4023571014404297,"text":"Johnson & Johnson Ordered To Pay $72 Million For Ovarian Cancer Death Linked To Baby Powder – Here Are The Details\nJohnson & Johnson, an American multinational corporation that specializes in developing medical devices and selling pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods, has been ordered to pay $72 million US dollars to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her decades-long use of the company’s talc-based Baby Powder and Shower.\nThe decision was made last Monday by a Missouri state jury, and The Globe & Mail has shared details of the verdict:\nJurors in the circuit court of St. Louis awarded the family of Jacqueline Fox $10-million of actual damages and $62 million of punitive damages, according to the family’s lawyers and court records. . . . Johnson & Johnson faces claims that it, in an effort to boost sales, failed for decades to warn consumers that its talc-based products could cause cancer.\nApproximately 1,000 more cases have been filed in Missouri state court, and another 200 in New Jersey, but this may well be the tip of the iceberg.\nIn this specific case, jurors actually found Johnson & Johnson liable for fraud, negligence, and conspiracy.\nJere Beasly, a lawyer for the family of the victim, revealed that Johnson & Johnson “knew as far back as the 1980s of the risk,” and yet resorted to “lying to the public, lying to the regulatory agencies.”\nA Johnson & Jonson spokeswomen, however, continued to negate these claims:\nWe have no higher responsibility than the health and safety of consumers, and we are disappointed with the outcome of the trial. We sympathize with the plaintiff’s family but firmly believe the safety of cosmetic talc is supported by decades of scientific evidence\nThe ‘decades of scientific evidence’ to which she refers clearly have not withstood the scrutiny of either this trial or concerned members of the public; it also fails to account for who funded the research.\nHer remark also makes plain a disturbing trend amongst big corporations, which is the blind trust of their employees.\nMany clearly believe what they are told about the products they represent, without questioning or doing their own independent research.\nScientific fraud induced by major corporations in this field is no secret, and various medical experts around the world have been speaking out against it for decades.\nDr. Richard Horton, current Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, one of the largest medical journals in the world, has publicly and unequivocally called out the scientific community for this negligence and outright fraud:\nThe case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. (source)\nThe sheer volume of statements from very credible people, along with the documents and evidence, attesting to this disturbing trend, is simply overwhelming.\nSee also: The Science Behind Anti-Depressants May Be Completely ‘Backwards’\nYet the unfortunate reality is that employees of these big corporations stand behind their products, working under the assurances of corporately-funded science which, obviously, has profit in mind rather than safety.\nThis is a widespread and alarming problem, and it’s great to see more people raise their voice against these shady practices. Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and longtime Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ), is another such professional to do so:\nIt is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. (source)\nIt’s no secret that many household products are toxic to our health. Science has been confirming their dangers for years now (not that many of us needed this confirmation); these products are literally littered with a number of hazardous harmful chemicals.\nResearchers in the UK, for example, found that domestic products such as anti-insect sprays, deodorants, cleaning products, cosmetics, and more contain a number of cancer causing chemicals.\nThe researchers, from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, who concluded that these types of everyday household products maybe be contributing to 100,000 deaths every single year in Europe, warn that the public remains unaware of these risks.\nAnother example of an insider speaking out against the industry is Foster Gamble, the direct descendant of one of the founders of Procter & Gamble (a company similar to Johnson & Johnson).\nHe himself explains that he was groomed for the establishment, but his ethical concerns prompted him to change direction.\nTo the left you will see a picture of him with Gerald Ford.\nFoster decided to leave the business and instead raise awareness about many issues, including the hazards associated with everyday household products that the corporations like his father’s manufacture.\nHe’s had an interesting life to say the least, and you can watch a documentary he released a few years ago here.\nA Few Of Many Products You Don’t Want To Have In Your Home…\nUnfortunately, many personal care products, like the ones made by Johnson & Johnson, are demonstrably dangerous to our health, and putting these products on our skin makes absolutely no sense.\nCancer, for example, is caused by physical carcinogens, chemical carcinogens, and biological carcinogens, all of which we surround ourselves with on a daily basis, and all of which can be found in various personal care products, such as many deodorants.\nCorporate manufacturers also approve thousands upon thousands of chemicals for use in cosmetics.\nThis in-house validation is all that is necessary to get a product onto the shelves, there being no regulatory process for approving these chemicals, leaving plenty of room for bias to influence the decision.\nAgain, chemicals are very effectively absorbed via your skin. For example, the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Manitoba, Canada, conducted a study to quantify how many sunscreen agents penetrate the skin after it is applied, and their results demonstrated significant penetration of all sunscreen agents into the skin. We are talking about multiple chemicals entering multiple tissues within the body. (source)\nThe dangers are generally multiplied for women, as they tend to use several different products on a daily basis. This combining of products can contribute to an overload of toxic chemicals.\nMakeup, for example, is a huge source for heavy metals. In the report “Heavy Metal Hazard: The Health Risks of Hidden Heavy Metals In Face Make up,” Environmental Defense tested 49 different makeup items, including foundations, concealers, powders, blushes, mascaras, eye liners, eye shadows, lipsticks, and lip glosses.\nTheir testing revealed serious heavy metal contamination in virtually all of their products:\n96 percent contained lead\n90 percent contained beryllium\n61 percent contained thallium\n51 percent contained cadmium\n20 percent contained arsenic\nThe Environmental Working Group has a great database to help you find personal care products that are free of potentially dangerous chemicals. Better yet, simplify your routine and make your own products.\nA slew of lotions, potions, and hair treatments can be eliminated with a jar of coconut oil, for example, to which you can add a high quality essential oil for scent.\nHaving commercial cleaning products in your home is not a smart idea either. Combined with all of the above products, and all of the below, it becomes easy to understand the dramatic rise in disease we’ve seen over the past few decades.\nAlternatives include baking soda, white vinegar, lemon juice, hydrogen peroxide, liquid castile soap, organic essential oils, mixing bowls, spray bottles, microfiber cloths, and more.\nWhy is it that these products could be manufactured to be much less hazardous, and in some cases cheaper, but aren’t?\nIt’s not hard to see why so many people believe that corporations have no qualms about contributing to the decline of human health. It’s a scary thought to be sure, but there are things to do and preventative measures/ lifestyle changes you can make.\nIt is ironic that we are always talking about raising money and finding a cure for cancer without ever discussing cancer prevention. How can we ever hope to tackle a problem without addressing its source?\nWhen it comes to health, air fresheners are probably some of the worst products you can have in your home.\nThese commonly contain 2, 5-dichlorophenol (2, 5-DCP), a metabolite of 1,4 dichlorobenzene.\nThis stuff is present in the blood of nearly all Americans, has been linked to lung damage, and has been known to cause organ system toxicity. According to the National Resources Defense Council:\nAir fresheners have become a staple in many American homes and offices, marketed with the promise of creating a clean, healthy, and sweet-smelling indoor atmosphere. But many of these products contain phthalates (pronounced thal-ates) – hazardous chemicals known to cause hormonal abnormalities, birth defects, and reproductive problems. NRDC’s independent testing of 14 common air fresheners, none of which listed phthalates as an ingredient, uncovered these chemicals in 86 percent (12 of 14) of the products tested, including those advertised as “all natural” or “unscented.” (source) (source)\nSOURCEce\nThe Archbishop Currently Exposing Vatican Pedophilia Fears For His Life & Flees The Country\n‘A serious mistake’: Read Barack Obama’s statement on President Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal\nCalifornia is about to become the first state in the US to require solar power installations on all new homes\nA retired US Navy admiral just laid out a major threat from North Korea — and experts warn it could wipe out 90% of...\nHungary Introduces “Stop George Soros” Bill Effectively Forcing Out the Billionaire’s Organization\nGerman state orders crosses mounted at government buildings\nHigh Alert: State Warns Drivers To Use Caution On 4/20\nSen. Chuck Schumer to introduce marijuana decriminalization legislation\nUS & UK Intel Admits They Bombed Syria With No Proof of Sarin Chemical Attack\nWorld’s Most Diverse Rainforests Are Cleared For Breakfast Cereals, Margarine & Shampoo\nClinton Foundation Allegedly Hacked Exposing Thousands Of Donor Databases; “Pay To Play” Folder\nThis is What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Pink Himalayan Salt","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1397598"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.667629063129425,"wiki_prob":0.33237093687057495,"text":"Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie\nI have a love hate relationship with movie adaptations of books. Whenever I hear a new movie/TV show coming out is based on a book, I must immediately read said book, watch said movie/TV show, and proceed to point out all of the ways in which it differed from the book. How the characters look NOTHING like how I imagined (or EXACTLY as I imagined), and generally drive whatever poor soul is watching the film adaptation with me insane. Don't get me wrong- I generally end up enjoying the film version too, but I of course have to point out the minutia of differences between the two.\nWhich brings me to this weeks read, Murder on the Orient Express. When I saw it was being made into a movie, of course I had to read it so that I could watch the movie and dish ad nauseum on the similarities and differences to the book. Brief synopsis shall we?\nA man is murdered on an overnight train across Europe. Stabbed a dozen times and locked in his room bolted from the inside with a chain drawn across the door, the case is both intriguing and perplexing to Hercule Poirot, passenger and fortunately international detective. At the behest of his friend, and owner of the rail company, Poirot investigates the crime, interviewing the passengers on the train and examining evidence. When the train is held up, in the middle of nowhere, due to a snow drift barricading the tracks, there is nowhere for the killer(s) to hid. Someone on the Orient Express is guilty, but who?\nThis book was not what I was expecting, in the best of ways. It was insanely detailed and methodically planned out. It was like a grown up Nancy Drew meets Clue mystery. Each character was unique and interesting, well fleshed out to the minds eye. There were quite a lot of them to keep up with (over a dozen), but Christie does a good job of providing the reader with reminders about who each character was and how they were interconnected to the others on board. The ending was not what I was expecting, which is always fantastic in a mystery. Overall, it was a really great read, one that I am sad I hadn't read earlier!\nNow (of course) I need to tell you how the movie compared right? There were some minor differences (characters changed ethnicity and appearances weren't quite as I had imagined) which I felt there was really no need for, and a few major changes which I felt there was absolutely no need for. It was certainly frustrating to say the least. I will say, the casting for Poirot was spot on, he carried the movie effortlessly. Overall it was kind of a disappointment but hey, at least they had great popcorn!\nREAD MY OTHER BOOK REVIEWS HERE!\nIn Book Reviews Tags Murder on the Orient Express","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1578812"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5131412744522095,"wiki_prob":0.4868587255477905,"text":"Hank Roberts June 24, 2019\nWatson and the Labour Right are helping Johnson’s electoral chances\nSo now we have it. Tom Watson et al have not only stabbed our twice overwhelmingly elected leader Jeremy, in the back - actually now in the front - but are acting in a way that will ensure that Johnson has the best chance possible of winning the next election.\nThe Times has revealed the blatantly obvious - that Johnson is drawing up early election plans if he wins the leadership race. Two-thirds of Tory members would back an alliance with Farage and the Brexit party according to a YouGov poll. Tory donors are reported to have urged such a pact. Clearly there is a move to seek to get a single pro-Brexit candidate in all constituencies if an early election is called.\nIn the referendum, the Conservatives pledged to implement the referendum result. They have repeated this, as, for example, on 4th April 2019. “The Government stands by its commitment to uphold the result of the 2016 referendum and to deliver the UK’s withdrawal from the EU”. After the referendum result Labour said that it would honour the result. On the Labour website today their position is “Labour accepts the referendum result, and Britain is leaving the EU”.\nWatson wants Labour to go back on this promise. He has made it plain that he doesn’t want a Corbyn-led Labour victory, by campaigning for his removal. Further the fallacious basis of his basically right-wing thinking is clear from what he has said. “I love Europe (by which he means the EU not the continent) because I am a democratic socialist” – though not democratic enough to accept the result of the referendum everyone, including him, said would decide the issue. He continued, “Socialism is achieving common causes by the strength of collective endeavour. That is what Europe (EU) is.” I.e. the EU = socialism.\nI was unaware of this. I thought we wanted to elect a Labour Government to introduce some much needed socialism into our right wing neo-liberal basket case economy which has come about, by the way, whilst we were, as we still are, in the EU. If Labour is manoeuvred into a straightforward remain and second vote position this will give Johnson his best chance.\nJames Meek in his book Dreams of Leaving and Remaining talks about a discussion with a friend who voted remain. ‘\"I don't get it,\" he said. \"What about all these powerful backroom interests in the City that are supposed to have the government in their pocket? Why aren't they stepping in behind the scenes to stop this?\" I would never endorse corrupt, opaque methods of subverting democracy, he was saying, but somebody has to stop this Brexit nonsense. What had happened to this thoughtful and fair-minded citizen, not ready to ditch democracy himself, but reluctantly prepared to let somebody else ditch it for him? … Since the referendum I'd been troubled by similar dark impulses. … Although I had voted to remain in the EU, and would do so again, I had my inner Leaver too … I'm not sure I want to stay in an organisation that makes such a big deal about us leaving it.’\nEU Referendum Results 2016\n17.4m Leave | 16.1 m Remain\n406 Leave | 242 Remain\nConstituency By Party\nLab: 148 Leave | 84 Remain\nCon: 247 Leave| 80 Remain\n9 Leave | 3 Remain\nBy MP\nBrexit isn’t the problem. It’s our MPs who are the problem.\nThe will of the majority in the referendum and the unrepresentative nature of a majority of MPs, is well illustrated in this summary of the results.\nThose that say the result shouldn’t stand because the Brexit side told lies are disingenuous. Remainers claimed that an EU army was a figment of the Leave side’s imagination. However, The Guardian told us that ‘claims for the Leave side about moves to unify Europe’s armed forces were nothing more than fantasy. Lord Ashdown said the idea of an EU army was “Nonsense”.’ However, since the referendum, this has been proven to be false. In November 2018, the French and German leaders Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel joined politicians Jean-Claude Juncker and Guy Verhofstadt in seeking the establishment of an EU-wide army. Politicians lying in elections, surely not? This is beyond naivety. The truth is simply, I don't like the result, so I won't accept it.\nThe answer to this was well made in a letter to the Spectator, “We have referendums …. for a reason, which is that they are a peaceful means of resolving our differences. If the Brexit vote is overridden, then the resolution of our differences afterwards is less likely to be peaceful”.\nHank Roberts\nNEU activist in a personal capacity and Brent Central CLP member\nChernobyl: The dangers of nuclear power\nReviewsStuart King June 20, 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line41851"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6625180840492249,"wiki_prob":0.33748191595077515,"text":"Canada Ontario Ottawa\nCanada ›\nOttawa Division ›\nTop Undergraduate Studies in Administration Studies in Ottawa Canada\nGraduates of the Bachelor in Administration will have strong skills in management, business decision making and communication. This is because the degree, which is similar to a BBA program, intends to provide a broad education in the functional areas of a company.\nCanadians place great importance on learning, and have developed a first-rate education system with high standards. Not only does Canada provide a safe, clean environment, but it has been consistently ranked as one of the world’s best places to live in terms of quality of life by the UN.\nOttawa is recognized as one of the best educated cities in Canada. Almost half the population has graduated from the various universities and colleges. The main higher learning institution-University of Ottawa and Carleton University has contributed to this both directly and indirectly.\nBest Bachelor Degree in Administration Studies in Ottawa in Canada\nRead more about studying in Canada\nPrograms Online Read more about studying in Canada\nOnline | Pathway Programs | Masters | PhDs\nBachelor › Administration Studies\n1 Results in Administration Studies, Ottawa\nBachelor of International Business (BIB)\nCarleton University Undergraduate\nThe Sprott School of Business offers a Bachelor of International Business which is recognized as a leading program in international business education. With a focus on in ... [+]\nThe Sprott School of Business offers a Bachelor of International Business which is recognized as a leading program in international business education. With a focus on international business, you will develop cross-cultural skills, become proficient in another language and study abroad for a year in a country where that language is spoken.\nThe Bachelor of International Business delivers a unique business education that is truly international.\nThe Sprott School of Business also offers a separate Bachelor of Commerce degree program.\nExperience firsthand what Sprott has to offer by shadowing a Sprott student for a day. Learn more and register now for Sprott Student for a Day!... [-]\nCanada , Ottawa","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line496363"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7410709261894226,"wiki_prob":0.2589290738105774,"text":"NorthMarq Arranges $26.8 Million in Financing for Burr Ridge Medical Center in Metro Chicago\nNorthMarq Capital has arranged $26.8 million in first mortgage bridge financing for Burr Ridge Medical Center, a 105,000 sq. ft. medical office building in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, Ill. The major tenant at the site is Loyola University Health System, which was acquired by Novi, Mich.-based Trinity Health for $175 million earlier this summer.\nBank of America provided the loan. The borrower is an affiliate of Sterling Bay Cos., a Chicago-based real estate investor and developer. During the underwriting process, Trinity Health agreed to acquire the Loyola University Health System. The deal with Trinity closed about 30 days after the loan was funded.\nTrinity is the nation’s fourth-largest Catholic health care system in the country with 47 hospitals, 379 outpatient centers, 31 long-term care facilities and numerous home health offices and hospice programs in 10 states. Trinity generates $7 billion in annual revenue. Loyola operates two hospitals with 820 beds.\nThe owner was able to convert a lease for two-thirds of the building into a long-term lease for the entire facility. The owners are positioning the building for sale in 2012.\nHeadquartered in Minneapolis, NorthMarq provides mortgage banking and commercial loan servicing in 32 offices nationwide, with an average annual production of $7 billion. NorthMarq also services a loan portfolio of nearly $40 billion.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line213546"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.839474618434906,"wiki_prob":0.839474618434906,"text":"Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds pay tribute to Conway Savage\nMichael Bonner\nThe pianist dies has died aged 58\nPhoto by Noel Vasquez/Getty Images\nTAGS: Nick Cave\nConway Savage, pianist with The Bad Seeds, has died at the age of 58.\nThe musician, who first joined the band in 1990, was initially diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2017.\nThe band confirmed the news in a statement on Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds website.\n“Our beloved Conway passed away on Sunday evening. A member of Bad Seeds for nearly thirty years, Conway was the anarchic thread that ran through the band’s live performances. He was much loved by everyone, band members and fans alike. Irascible, funny, terrifying, sentimental, warm-hearted, gentle, acerbic, honest, genuine – he was all of these things and quite literally ‘had the gift of a golden voice,’ high and sweet and drenched in soul. On a drunken night, at four in the morning, in a hotel bar in Cologne, Conway sat at the piano and sang ‘Streets Of Laredo’ to us, in his sweet, melancholy style and stopped the world for a moment. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house. Goodbye Conway, there isn’t a dry eye in the house. Love, Nick and the Bad Seeds.”\nOrder the latest issue of Uncut online and have it sent to your home – with no delivery charge!\nHe first played on the band’s sixth album The Good Son and he went on to play on Murder Ballads, The Boatman’s Call, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!\nConway’s career also saw him Happy Organs, The Feral Dinosaurs and Dust On The Bible.\nLike us on Facebook to keep up to date with the latest news from Uncut.\nThe October 2018 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – with Jimi Hendrix on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, you’ll find exclusive features on Spiritualized, Aretha Franklin, Richard Thompson, Soft Cell, Pink Floyd, Candi Staton, Garcia Peoples, Beach Boys, Mudhoney, Big Red Machine and many more. Our free CD showcases 15 tracks of this month’s best new music, including Beak>, Low, Christine And The Queens, Marissa Nadler and Eric Bachman.\nUncut: the past, present and future of great music.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line131980"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6575771570205688,"wiki_prob":0.34242284297943115,"text":"Visit beautiful South Walsham Broad by turning off the River Bure opposite St Benet’s Abbey and continuing along Fleet dyke for a mile. The broad is divided into two sections – an outer broad which is a mecca for boaters in summer and is flanked by waterside houses – and a private inner broad.\nSouth Walsham village is a mile away from the broad and, unusually, has two historic churches in the same churchyard. The village also has a children’s play area and is home to Fairhaven Woodland and Water Gardens. This has stunning woodland pathways around South Walsham’s inner broad, where you can take a guided boat trip. There is also a cafe and shop.\nAfter cruising around South Walsham Broad the best place to moor is Fleet Dyke. From here take the footpath to South Walsham Broad’s tiny village staithe which is only suitable for rowing boats but has a lovely little green surrounded by thatched cottages and a bench overlooking the broad.\nNext visit the red phone box next to the village staithe which has been turned into a rather novel information point!\nA twenty minute walk along a footpath from the phone box brings you to School Road where there is a recreation ground and children’s play area next to the village hall.\nThe award-winning Fairhaven Woodland and Water Garden is located close to the village hall. This has 130 acres of wildlife gardens and nearly four miles of footpaths to explore through ancient woodland on the edge of South Walsham inner broad, on which you can take a guided boat trip. The beautiful water gardens were created by the 2nd Lord Fairhaven who bought the South Walsham Estate in 1946. On his death he requested that the gardens be left in Trust for the public to enjoy. Fairhaven has a popular tea room and gift shop plus plant sales, which are open to non-garden visitors. 01603 270449.\nAnother ten minute walk past the attraction brings you to South Walsham village centre which is worth visiting for its two medieval churches which share the same churchyard. St Mary’s dates from the late 13th century and is still used for worship today. St Lawrence’s was built in the following century but in 1827 was badly damaged by fire. It has since been restored as a centre for training and the arts.Don’t miss the atmospheric Sacristans gardens in the ruins of St Lawrence’s former nave and tower.\nIf you fancy a walk there is a six mile circular route from South Walsham Broad to Upton. This passes along Fleet Dyke and the River Bure taking in Upton Broad and Marshes Nature Reserve (see Upton).\nFleet Dyke\nFree overnight moorings in two main sections along Fleet Dyke managed by the Environment Agency. A footpath along Fleet Dyke leads to South Walsham Broad Staithe.\nRecently reopened pub serving lunch and dinner. 01603 270 049.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1253360"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7213484644889832,"wiki_prob":0.7213484644889832,"text":"Title 42. THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE\nChapter 7. SOCIAL SECURITY\nSubchapter XVIII. HEALTH INSURANCE FOR AGED AND DISABLED\nPart E. Miscellaneous Provisions\nSection 1395ii. Application of certain provisions of sub­chapter II\n42 U.S. Code § 1395ii. Application of certain provisions of sub­chapter II\nAuthorities (CFR)\nThe provisions of sections 406 and 416(j) of this title, and of subsections (a), (d), (e), (h), (i), (j), (k), and (l) of section 405 of this title, shall also apply with respect to this subchapter to the same extent as they are applicable with respect to subchapter II, except that, in applying such provisions with respect to this subchapter, any reference therein to the Commissioner of Social Security or the Social Security Administration shall be considered a reference to the Secretary or the Department of Health and Human Services, respectively.\n(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVIII, § 1872, as added Pub. L. 89–97, title I, § 102(a), July 30, 1965, 79 Stat. 332; amended Pub. L. 92–603, title II, § 242(a), Oct. 30, 1972, 86 Stat. 1419; Pub. L. 98–369, div. B, title III, § 2354(b)(36), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1102; Pub. L. 103–296, title I, § 108(c)(4), Aug. 15, 1994, 108 Stat. 1485.)\n1994—Pub. L. 103–296 inserted before period at end “, except that, in applying such provisions with respect to this subchapter, any reference therein to the Commissioner of Social Security or the Social Security Administration shall be considered a reference to the Secretary or the Department of Health and Human Services, respectively”.\n1984—Pub. L. 98–369 struck out the comma after “406” and struck out reference to subsec. (f) of section 405 of this title.\n1972—Pub. L. 92–603 struck out reference to provisions of section 408 of this title.\nAmendment by Pub. L. 103–296 effective Mar. 31, 1995, see section 110(a) of Pub. L. 103–296, set out as a note under section 401 of this title.\nAmendment by Pub. L. 98–369 effective July 18, 1984, but not to be construed as changing or affecting any right, liability, status, or interpretation which existed (under the provisions of law involved) before that date, see section 2354(e)(1) of Pub. L. 98–369, set out as a note under section 1320a–1 of this title.\nAmendment by Pub. L. 92–603 not applicable to any acts, statements, or representations made or committed prior to Oct. 30, 1972, see section 242(d) of Pub. L. 92–603, set out as an Effective Date note under section 1320a–7b of this title.\nTitle 42: Public Health\n42 CFR Subpart R - Provider Reimbursement Determinations and Appeals","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line699935"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7892633080482483,"wiki_prob":0.7892633080482483,"text":"Visitors » TV Series » Family Affair\nGILES FRENCH IS THE QUINTESSENTIAL GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN\nBack in the '60s, television was crowded with sitcoms about single parents. Divorce was still taboo, but death in the family, it seemed, served as the basis for a good comedy. Jed Clampet, Andy Griffith and John Forsythe were amongst the many men of the tube who tragically and unexplainably had lost the mothers of their children before they made it to the small screen. And then there was Bill Davis of \"Family Affair.\"\n\"Family Affair\" was a twist on the bachelor father trend. Swinging single Bill Davis has a bombshell dropped on him when his brother and sister-in-law are tragically killed in a car wreck. A second bombshell is dropped when each of their three children turn up at Bill's bachelor pad needing a place to live. Although reluctant at first, Uncle Bill acquiesces, and along with his \"gentleman's gentleman,\" Mr. French, agrees to keep the family together.\nThe show began in 1966 and ran through the summer of 1971, and aside from the twist of who was raising the kids, the show was sweet and tame, like most family oriented shows of the day. Most episodes revolve around the usual family type 30-minute crisis with an instant fix, although \"Family Affair\" had a tendency to remember that the kids, six-year-old twins Buffy and Jody and their sixteen-year-old sister Cissy, were indeed orphans from a troubled past and handled that with sensitivity.\nMuch of the show's comic relief came from fastidious Mr. French, who had inherited most of the responsibilities of raising the kids as Uncle Bill was often traveling on business as a consulting engineer. A little miffed at his responsibilities as a nanny, French often appeared exasperated with the role, although there was never any doubt he cared deeply for his young charges.\nOne unique quality of \"Family Affair\" was that it took place in New York City, where the family lived in a luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment. This was very unusual, as most television families seemed to live on Primrose Lane, with a white picket fence in front of their large, Tudor home. Most of the show took place in the apartment, although they made frequent visits to the local park for outdoor activity.\nAnother unique aspect to the show was Uncle Bill's social life. Having kids did not keep him at home, and he was often seen escorting a lovely new female suitor. Cissy, being a teenager, also dated, and there was never a dull moment with the situations that would arise from that. It was, after all, the '60s, which was an era that created conflicts of its own. Over all, they were a well adjusted bunch considering the turmoil and tragedy that brought them all together.\nGiles French is the quintessential \"gentleman's gentleman.\" He's a proper Englishman, and is quite happy in the service of his bachelor boss. Mr. French's life is turned upside down when the Davis children come to live in the Fifth Avenue apartment of his employer, and is a little unhappy to find himself somewhat of a \"Mary Poppins.\" It is not long before French is totally charmed by the children, and the stuffy butler quickly warms up to his new responsibilities. Mr. French also has ties to the Royal Family, as we find out not long after the children arrive, and he whisks off to London to take care of the Queen for nine weeks as his brother, Nigel French, fills in for him at the Davis residence.\nThe very English Sebastian Cabot got his start as an actor in British stage and films in the late 1930s. By the '50s, he had received many roles in the US including early episodes of \"Gunsmoke\" and \"Alfred Hitchcock Presents.\" Older viewers will remember him as the criminologist on the TV drama \"Checkmate,\" which ran from 1960 to 1962. Youngsters will know Cabot's voice as the narrator to all the Disney Whinnie the Pooh cartoons of the '60s and '70s. Of course, he forever will be Mr. French to millions of TV aficionados. Cabot died of a stroke in 1977 after a long and prolific career. During the show's first season, Cabot took ill and needed to take several weeks off to convalesce. For those nine weeks, actor John Williams played the part of Mr. Giles French's brother, Nigel.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1003915"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5765568614006042,"wiki_prob":0.5765568614006042,"text":"Study to address D.C.-area flooding\nWashington, D.C. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, signed an agreement July 18 with the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) to begin an approximately $3 million, three-year study on possible ways to address coastal flooding and storm damage across more than 57 square miles in the District of Columbia and surrounding areas of suburban Maryland and northern Virginia.\nThe National Capital Planning Commission will serve as a study advisor and will help coordinate federal participation.\n“As part of this study, we will investigate flood risk and identify ways to help protect vulnerable assets upon which the region relies,” said Col. Ed Chamberlayne, Baltimore District commander. “We hope the results of this study will aid in the long‐term resilience and sustainability of these coastal communities, and reduce the economic costs and risks to both people and property associated with large‐scale flood and storm events.”\nCoastal areas in metropolitan Washington contain a convergence of critical infrastructure that the region’s local governments, businesses, institutions and communities depend upon. This infrastructure includes water, energy and communication utilities; transportation hubs; federal buildings and military installations; national security facilities; and significant national monuments and cultural treasures.\nThis particular study, known as the Middle Potomac – Washington, DC and Metropolitan Area Coastal Flooding Feasibility Study, is a spin-off of the two-year North Atlantic Coast Comprehensive Study (NACCS) completed in January 2015 that was commissioned by Congress as part of the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort. The purpose of NACCS was to help local communities better understand their changing flood risks due to climate change and provide them tools to be better prepared for the future. The District is one of nine high-risk areas that was identified in NACCS as needing further analysis.\n“We are eager to work with our partners to assess these particularly-vulnerable urbanized areas and identify ways to manage the coastal flood risk to communities and infrastructure,” said Dave Robbins, Baltimore District coastal program manager. “This state-of-the-art analysis will expand on past studies by assessing a range of possible future conditions to account for uncertainty and changing risk over time resulting from climate and sea level change.”\nThe study costs will be split 50 percent from the Corps and 50 percent from COG and its cost-sharing partners.\n“This study is a critical next step in helping local governments along the Potomac and Anacostia rivers mitigate the risks from future flooding in metropolitan Washington coastal areas,” said Chuck Bean, COG executive director. “The study will help ensure the protection of the region’s investments in critical infrastructure into the future.”\nThe study area includes portions of the District of Columbia; Prince George’s and Charles counties in Maryland; and Arlington, Fairfax, and Prince William counties, and the City of Alexandria in Virginia, all located along the Anacostia and Middle Potomac rivers. The northern boundary for the study area is Bladensburg along the Anacostia River, and Little Falls along the Potomac River in Maryland. The southern boundary is near Fort Washington along the Potomac River.\n“Currently, the region lacks the tools to locally assess climate impacts on precipitation and groundwater, or to comprehensively understand how our infrastructure is vulnerable to flooding, coastal storms and sea level rise,” said Steve Walz, COG Department of Environmental Programs director. “Many individual agencies and organizations have been studying and making their own plans on how to deal with such risks; however, they still rely upon shared utilities, facilities and services. Therefore, each entity is only as protected as the weakest link in our regional infrastructure system. This study will help us to address those critical issues.”\nThis effort will result in a set of recommendations, which the Corps and others could implement. Coastal flood risk management strategies outlined in the plan and the study’s resulting data sets are meant to be customizable to incorporate into local mitigation plans. The Corps and coastal communities could seek additional funding for recommended flood risk mitigation projects to help the region reduce its risk from coastal flood hazards.\nIf you have any information or datasets related to flooding or flood risk management that may be relevant to this study, including reports, photos or other digital data, as well as climate change impact analyses or studies, please share this information with the study team by sending an email to MetroDCCoastalStudy@usace.army.mil.\nMetropolitan Washington Council of Governments\nU.S. Army Corps of Engineers","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line475225"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7343888282775879,"wiki_prob":0.7343888282775879,"text":"How infrastructure can improve mass evacuations\nIn recent months, there have been what seems like a steady stream of natural disasters, devastating communities across the U.S. and leaving their residents with the daunting choice of rebuilding or moving elsewhere.\nHouston saw unprecedented flooding after Hurricane Harvey made landfall late last month. Two weeks later, the entire state of Florida was battered by winds, a storm surge and inland flooding courtesy of Hurricane Irma. According to CoStar Group, as much as 27% of Houston’s commercial real estate market &mdash $55 billion worth — was damaged by flooding, and homebuilders there say they have growing customer lists yielding a years-long backlog of people desperate to have their homes repaired.\nCoreLogic estimated the total loss in Florida due to Irma at up to $65 billion. Meanwhile, many of the state's flooded rivers keep rising, contributing to additional evacuations and property damage.\nFollowing close on Irma's tail, Hurricane Maria left Puerto Rico without electricity for the foreseeable future and has called into question the U.S. territory’s ability to fully recover. Just as in Florida, the island’s rivers are swollen and ready to burst, raising fears about the structural integrity of dams. A crack in the Guajataca dam in the northwest region of Puerto Rico has already forced the evacuation of 70,000 residents downstream.\nWhile disasters like tornados present themselves too quickly to give the public much advance notice, others, like a hurricane or the slow spread of a wildfire, often, though not always, eave enough time for a quick and orderly mass evacuation. That is made easier through infrastructure capable of supporting such an exodus and the help of technology.\nWorking with what you've got\nBuilding extra highway lanes or a new roadway for the sole purpose of evacuation is unrealistic, said Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez, assistant professor of operations and decision technologies at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. Instead, successful evacuations are all about managing the infrastructure already in place.\n\"Infrastructure is planned for average use,\" he said. \"You don't plan infrastructure for extreme cases. It is super expensive and most of the time [would be] wasted.\"\nThat means municipalities need to keep existing secondary roads in good condition and ensure that the services along those routes — such as gas, lodging and food — are able to support a large-scale evacuation.\nDuring the pre-Irma exodus, Florida Gov. Rick Scott caught flak when he refused to open southbound lanes to northbound traffic to ease the bottleneck on Florida’s two main north–south highways, Interstate 95 and Interstate 75. That decision, a strategy called contraflow lane reversal, could have included some flexibility by reversing only one lane of southbound traffic to northbound vehicles. \"You can't cut off services altogether,\" Pedraza-Martinez said. \"Having [traffic move] exclusively one way might make things worse if emergency services cannot travel the other way.\"\nMass transit might seem like the panacea. However, while buses, trains and increased air service might get people out of immediate harm’s way, the question then becomes where those people should go and how to expedite their trip back home once the storm is over, Pedraza-Martinez said. What's more, residents would need to be educated on how to access emergency public transportation services, something state and local officials would need to do well in advance of an emergency — and likely with some degree of regularity for residents of regions continually subject to extreme weather events.\nThere's no such thing as too many options when it comes to a mass evacuation. \"The more alternative modes of transportation you have and the more available they are, the more effective the evacuation process is going to be,\" Pedraza-Martinez said.\nPlanning ahead for evacuations\nSean Qian, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, said the country's state transportation departments have been able to amass considerable information about driving patterns and the use of highways and main arterials during the last decade. That data could be useful in creating models that can inform officials' plans for high-capacity events like a mass evacuation. Closing lanes, reprogramming traffic signals and emergency traffic routing are some of the measures on the table when trying to get people from point A to point B safely and efficiently in such a situation, he said.\nEmergency information should be managed and dispensed from a centralized, informed state agency, he said, as current crowdsourced driving apps, like GasBuddy, have not proven reliable for such large-scale, coordinated use as a mass evacuation. That particular app relies on user updates to inform others about gas availability and pricing. In a fast-changing, emergency situation like a hurricane, the information posted online could lag real-time changes. \"What we really need from an agency perspective is for them to provide users a very specific supply map and [information about] congestion, and travel time in a much more accurate manner — the information people need to know as part of the evacuation process,” Qian said. \"These critical pieces of information should be updated and corrected in the real-time, along with information that proactively route evacuees.\"\nNew technology has a role to play as well. That can be as simple as LED lighting and as complex as flood simulation programs projecting water levels and making evacuation decisions more accurate and timely.\n\"Infrastructure is planned for average use. You don't plan infrastructure for extreme cases.\"\nAlfonso Pedraza-Martinez\nAssistant Professor, Indiana University\nKen Forbes, senior marketing representative for lighting and water at Johnson Controls, said LED roadway lighting could play a critical role in safer mass evacuations. State transportation departments like those in Washington and Michigan, are gradually adopting the technology to save money and create a better quality lighting experience for drivers.\n\"In an emergency, [officials] can highlight a problem area of the city by raising the light or changing the color of the light,\" he said. LEDs can also be programmed to illuminate an evacuation route, pinpoint areas of flooding — aided by an added layer of climate detection sensors — and improve visibility in heavy rain, fog or smoke.\nMost roads are already equipped with light poles, which is the basic infrastructure required for LED luminaires. That means installation would consist of swapping out the fixture head.\nTiming matters\nEvacuating as early as possible is critical. That's where simulation software comes in. Models can be created to project where, how much and for how long water will flow into a certain area during rain events. To be effective, they require accurate topography and an up-to-date layout of the structures that could change the flow of water, according to Eric Chappell, community evangelist for Autodesk’s InfraWorks 360.\n\"You model an event based on rainfall and topography,\" he said. \"Once you know what you're up against, you can change numbers and run a different model very quickly.\" The models can also include the impact of storm debris on water flow, as well as scenarios in which a dam bursts. InfraWorks modeled the Oroville dam spillway failure after the incident to give a clearer view of what happened as well as to forecast where the water might have ended up had the dam fully broken.\nIt takes a combination of practical and technology-driven measures to maximize public safety during an emergency and ensure a safe getaway for locals. State DOTs can lay the groundwork for future emergencies today by evaluating their evacuation procedures, promoting programs that keep infrastructure in working order and ensuring they have a viable plan to relay accurate information to the public before, during and after disaster happens.\nFiled Under: Technology Infrastructure","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1268970"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6231565475463867,"wiki_prob":0.3768434524536133,"text":"PSV 13/14 Nike Centenary Home Football Shirt\nDutch football club PSV Eindhoven will step onto the pitch next season in a bold new home kit that recalls some of the team's greatest achievements. PSV’s famous red-and-white stripes have been replaced by a solid red shirt that references the colours worn when they won the UEFA Cup in 1978.\nThe red jersey also recalls PSV’s successful 1987-88 campaign in which they won the Dutch league, the Dutch cup, and for the first and only time in their history, Europa Cup 1.\nCreative Football T-Shirts at Footytees.com - Featuring prints by a range of talented artists\nThe new shirt features a white collar and white cuffs with a gold trim on the sleeves.The club crest is adorned with the club’s founding year and encircled by a special golden laurel and the number \"100\" in honor of the club's centennial. The back of the shirt below the collar also features the club’s founding year of 1913 in a distinctive gold.\nInside the back of the neck on a bonded woven label is an outline of the famous arch from the main gates of Phillips stadium and the motto “Eendracht maakt macht” (\"Unity creates strength”). On either side of these gates are the years 1913 and 2013 to celebrate the club’s centenary.\nThe new home shorts are white with a thin red stripe along the side, while the socks are white with a red band at the top and a red block on the back.\nMike and Bert\nthat shoud be afc home kit next season\nMatthew Wilkinson\nNice, looks very similar to the 2000-02 kit\nProbably a bit too soon to return to this design, though it is cool\non really psv but I like it\nMatt Holman\nNot PSV's style, but for a centenary kit looks nice.\nThat is verry nice!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line531931"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6531841158866882,"wiki_prob":0.34681588411331177,"text":"Education Sciences\nSocial and Human Sciences\nSocial Communication – Journalism\nTourism and Hotel Business Administration (Hospitality)\nPublic Accounting\nCultural Heritage Studies\nFinance, Government and International Relations\nAdmissions – Undergraduate programs\nAdmission – Postgraduate programs\nStudents – Undergraduate\nEnglish Español Français EN\nThe Externado ascending continuism\nThe multiplier of the inheritance (1963-2012)\nThe Colonel who became a Teacher (1933-1963)\nStrength of character (1918-1933)\nThe young lawyer who revived freedom (1886-1895)\nRisk management and emergency plan\nPhysical spaces\nAir tour of the University\nAbout Bogotá\nBuildings H and I: Spaces for freedom\nWelcome, this is your home! With this traditional, affectionate, and endearing phrase, on Thursday, February 15, 2018, Rector Juan Carlos Henao will welcome Externadistas visiting the new H and I buildings the University inaugurates on its 132nd anniversary.\nWe have reasons to be happy. We are going to inaugurate two towers that virtually double the University’s capacity: 48 thousand new square meters. These buildings are a collective effort by the community – we have been building them for five years, we are excited to reach the end of the tunnel. This is a huge, beautiful, aesthetic, technological, intelligent, space so we can have more education for freedom, which is our main motto,” stated the Rector to frame such a special moment in the history of the Externado de Colombia.\nBrief history of a dream\nThe dream began to take shape soon after the completion of the last great work on the campus, building G, in February 2004. Motivated by the recurrent Externado phenomenon that whenever new spaces are opened, shortly thereafter they are outgrown due to the University’s growth, the then Rector, Fernando Hinestrosa, wondered why not take advantage of the terrain located between the two carriageways of the Circunvalar Avenue close to 12B Street, acquired in the 1970s that, for years, was used as a parking lot.\nWith this idea, the Rector began working with the firm García – Reyes Arquitectos; particularly with Enrique Garcia Reyes and his son Robert – who in the past had completed several flawless works at the Externado – with builders, and different University units.\nThus began the designs for this hillside, amoeba-shaped lot, with an unrivaled view: on the one hand, the eastern hills of Bogotá; and on the other, the city, its savanna, and on a clear day, the snowy peaks that crown the distant central mountain range.\nTo start, two “small’ drawbacks: the 35 thousand square meters lot was marked by a great X formed by high voltage power lines; plus, a main aqueduct pipe and a creek that flowed through the lot. The problem required costly and arduous work with the Bogotá Power Company to relocate the electrical lines to places where it would not affect the future construction.\nThen, the comings and goings of designs, initiatives, solutions, between Rector Hinestrosa and the designers to finally, in 2006, submit the results to the Capital District, where the initiative had to surmount tremendous challenges and obstacles. At long last, the approval of the project meeting all the requirements was obtained.\nThe land for the new construction encountered limitations; first by the transfer of the power lines, and then, due to planning regulations requiring work development in the surrounding area and land concessions. In the end, the available construction area was seven thousand square meters.\nShortly before his death, in early 2012, Rector Hinestrosa was able to view some excavations, machinery, and construction workers wearing helmets working on the site – a clear signal that his dream would become a reality.\nThe inside: A splendid reality\nThe companies involved, mainly García – Reyes Arquitectos and PAYC Construction Company, have aptly interpreted the philosophy of a university whose image is projected in aesthetic and comfortable spaces, but at the same time austere – there is no ostentation or splurge -, whose goal is to provide an ideal environment giving free rein to academic work, comprising research, imagination, creation, thinking, and discovering a better country and a better world.\nEven though for practical reasons, they are named H and I, they are not two buildings; in reality, it is a harmonic and integrated complex, where each unit is a mirror image of the other. Its stair-step design fits the slope, and an open space unites and separates the two buildings at the same time, allowing the flow of air, light, and view, between the hill and the city. The light brown marble of the facade – proposed by Rector Hinestrosa to break the brick tradition that characterized the Externado building complex, considering it more suitable to the environment – the stone, granite, fine woods, and latest technology synthetic materials are present, together with vertical gardens cascading from the upper floors to the basement.\nDifferent size and style classrooms occupy most of the space, contrasting with the static conception of the old classroom: furniture, equipped with wheels, adapts to different situations occurring in the teaching process – learning in a way to easily form small groups or a large round table. Noteworthy are two beautiful rooms for Law practices. Outside noise has been isolated, and the walls and ceilings have an overlay preventing resonance.\nDistributed throughout both buildings are 53 glass cubicles, sound-proofed, designed for study and small group discussion by students and professors. The perfect place to develop work, discuss, review, and even write on the wall, as there, it serves as a blackboard.\nLeisure areas for students and professors, with vending machines for snacks and drinks, and information screens. And, for those who prefer the outdoors, there are terraces with tables and umbrellas, surrounded by flower beds. Also, strategically located, are donuts and shakes concessions to satisfy cravings.\nA grand cafeteria, with concession restaurants, and a space equipped with microwave ovens for those who prefer to bring lunch from home; stationery, photocopiers, printers; restrooms, some mixed; and parking lots for cars, motorcycles, and bicycles.\nTower I has a large reconfigurable room for social events and art exhibits, connected to the modern kitchen facilities which, in turn, serve the Casa Externadista, which has been extended to the new complex.\nThe traditional Externadista Bookstore also has a space in the new complex; an enjoyable area to search for publications, get-togethers, and coffee tasting.\nPeople flow is guaranteed by elevators and escalators found at strategic and equidistant points. Individuals with disabilities can move around easily and have the services suitable for their needs – ramps, elevators, bathrooms – and in classrooms and auditoriums, places to comfortably park their wheelchairs.\nNot in vain these new buildings are considered “intelligent.” They are equipped with electronic systems enabling the automatic execution of an extensive set of functions providing users optimal connectivity.\nWi-Fi in all indoor and outdoor areas; electrical connections in all classrooms seats, students, and professors’ leisure rooms. Remote control for video beam, backdrop, sound, and room lighting; a centralized security system (door opening and closing) in lounges and auditoriums; simultaneous translation booths with state of the art technology in all auditoriums; programmable escalators in both directions; elevators that optimize trips based on passenger demand (destination floor is selected at the waiting room); LED lighting, among other elements and amenities.\nOther technological developments that stand out are the “floor overlays” of the terraces which can be lifted easily, without breaking, when performing additional work or making repairs. Also, the “sunshields” on the windows of the classrooms on which, at certain times of the year, the sun reflects directly, contributing to reduce the heat without affecting the amount of light; and a vertical power cable and data duct, allowing inspection without affecting the buildings’ structure. It is wonderful to see those perfectly combed skeins of cables.\nBuildings H and I breathe: the bio-climate system, consisting of permanent circulation of outside air in all spaces, allows the regulation of natural temperature, so the air-conditioning use is reduced to a minimum.\nA rainwater storage tank with a 210 cubic meters capacity, used for watering gardens and restrooms. An intensive tree-planting program seeking not only to replace some the ones that had to be cut down during the construction but also to increase the presence of new, mostly native species, are some of the features of the site, committed to the environment. A total of 1156 trees were planted.\nLand ceded to the Capital District\nAs expected, the project complies with all the Capital District urban specifications. The land corresponding to “type A” transfer was allocated at the northern end of the complex; an area of 3 thousand square meters with a “pocket park.” This land, to be delivered to the city of Bogotá as a public space, equipped with physical exercise equipment, gardens, and trails, also connects the city center with the forest reserve area located in the upper part of the Avenida Circunvalar. This contribution is of great significance for the communities surrounding the Externado, such as the Egypt area. Added to this conceded area is the “environmental control strip” – 10 meters wide – surrounding the lot, adding almost 7 thousand square meters.\nThe old path – refurbished – from the campus to the Circunvalar parking lot, passing through the Absent Maestros Garden is the main route for those going to the new buildings from the University. Two pedestrian traffic lights on the lower road will facilitate people flow. From this lower sector, the main entrance is through a wide stone staircase. Vehicle access is through the old parking entrance on the upper road, leading to three parking basements.\nThe main square\nThe main square unites and separates the two buildings. The decoration consists of a body of water where aquatic plants and a fountain will be placed.\nOn February 15, 2018, Externadistas will gather to corroborate that the new 48 thousand square meters construction, distributed in Buildings H and I, fulfill the initial objective of increasing, in geometric proportion, the quality of University life.\nTelephones: (571) 3537000, 3420288 and 3419900\nInstitutional documents and financial rights Política de tratamiento de los datos personales\nVisit the University\nAerial travel\nH & I Buildings\nMONITORED BY MINEDUCACIÓN\nLegal Registration: Resolution 92 of March 9, 1926, issued by the Ministry of Goverment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1681132"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6833505630493164,"wiki_prob":0.3166494369506836,"text":"Bangladesh!\nBangladesh: Traditional houses. Go Now!\nThis low-lying country has historic ties to India and Pakistan, but today maintains a wholly unique culture. Explore Bangladesh!\nIndonesia!\nIndonesia: Lombok. Go Now!\nThis archipelago nation is culturally diverse from big cities to isolated islands. Begin Your Journey!\nJordan!\nJordan: Petra. Go Now!\nTucked away in this Middle Eastern country, the famed city of Petra (pictured) links the past to the present culture. Explore Jordan!\nMongolia!\nMongolia: Desert. Go Now!\nThis vast country has a culture that spans past and present... a nomadic life shifting to a modern & sedentary society. Begin Your Journey!\nKyrgyzstan!\nKyrgyzstan: Tian Shan Mountains. Go Now!\nThe mountains, including the Tian Shan Mountains (pictured), give Kyrgyzstan a unique culture, partially formed from this isolation from the mountains. Go Now!\nArrival, Victoria Peak, & the Outlaying Islands\nAfter landing late, it took about two and a half hours to get out of the airport and to my hotel on Hong Kong Island; I immediately went to bed.\nI woke up and joined a colleague for breakfast; he's from Hong Kong and was excited to get me trying the local cuisine; soon after starting, I was not so excited to be trying the local cuisine. The first dish was a revolting dumpling, and after consuming it I inquired on it's content: shark fin and pork; not a good combination. Next was the sticky rice and pork, plus a number of other seafood-based dishes. Since seafood is not my taste, I choked down as much as I could, then headed off to Victoria Peak with my colleague.\nThe views from the peak are quite impressive, especially considering I got in late last night and this was my first view of the city's skyline. As you look towards Victoria Harbour you can see the skyline and Kowloon, however in the other direction you see little more than mountains, trees, and a small fishing village in the distance... that is once you look past the shopping mall beneath you.\nMy colleague had some business to take care of so I was on my own for the afternoon, beginning with an island he recommended, Cheung Chau, which is about an hour from Hong Kong Island by ferry. The island is within sight of Hong Kong Island, but is a world away. There are no cars here and the place boasts little more than mountains, fishing villages, and a rather large harbor filled with fishing boats. The streets are filled with bikers and street cleaners, but only a couple motorized vehicles, such as mopeds and golf carts. The island is peaceful and dotted with temples and lonely sand beaches. It made a great place to relax for an afternoon, a world away from the chaos of Hong Kong Island's busy business district.\nFor dinner I went to my hotel restaurant, but after sitting down I was informed that there was no menu, they only served a buffet (although when you arrive there is a menu sitting there to greet you). I was tired and hungry so decided to stay, but it seemed like everything was either seafood or contained duck liver... even the custard desserts were topped with chopped duck liver. I found it difficult to eat, but stumbled upon a pork chop and salad... I knew the threat of salad washed in the local water, but I had few options and the dirty salad was the best among those options. As I was leaving dinner, I got on the elevator to my room only to see a giant poster advertising the hotel restaurant's nightly \"Duck Liver Seafood Buffet.\" I wished I had gotten on this elevator earlier so I knew to avoid the place. It will be a lesson for tomorrow's dinner I guess.\nKowloon & the Temple Street Night Market\nI again ventured down to the hotel restaurant for breakfast, but was more cautious this time. Fortunately, the food was a combination of Chinese and Western and I found many suitable options, particularly the fried noodles and fried rice, both of which were simple, but good.\nDue to a work mix-up, I again had the entire day free to do as I pleased. I began by wandering around the city aimlessly. The city is very diverse, especially on Hong Kong Island; there are people from every part of the world, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Middle Easterners, and Europeans and it was not uncommon to see any number of these people in any single city block. Perhaps due to this diversity there are a number of confusions among the people. While the cars drive on the left (due to being under British rule for so many years) the people don't know which side of the sidewalk to walk on. Some walk on the right, some on the left, and escalators are just as confusing, with some forcing you to move left and others forcing you to move right. Even in the convention center, the escalators on one floor force a person to go up on the left side and the next floor will force a person to go up on the right side. After trying to figure out the system, which I failed to do, I escaped the heat for a couple hours before heading off to Kowloon.\nIn the afternoon I went to Kowloon, where I again wandered aimlessly, finding a nice park, some British-influenced architecture, Nathan Street, and finally Temple Street Night Market. Temple Street Night Market is an odd combination of local necessities, sex shops, and tourist souvenirs. While the local necessities are mostly reserved for shops just off the Temple Street, the sex shops (for sex toys and prostitute houses) are slightly hidden away from sight, behind the main shops, but still quite obvious it you have a keen eye. My focus however was on the tourist souvenirs; while I typically hate shopping and rarely buy souvenirs, I found a painting I liked so kicked my bargaining skills into full gear. I got them down quite a bit until I purchased it for about $3 US. I also ran into my flight attendant here and we talked for a bit before I headed off to find some food that didn't smell like grease or seafood... a greater challenge than one would expect.\nI found a shopping mall (one of many) that had a food court with a wide selection of Asian food: Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Sichuan, Hainan, Taiwan, etc. I found a beef place with great fried rice. It was served on a ironcast bowl that came straight out of the oven; it was piping hot and the food was thrown on raw (other than the rice of course). I sauteed the raw beef, corn, and sauce in the pan until it was cooked through and mixed thoroughly; it was incredibly good, despite coming from a food court in what is considered one of the culinary capitals of the world.\nMeeting & Work\nMy meeting started today at the Convention Center. The opening ceremony consisted of two guys dressed in a dragon costume running around the room as another person pounded a drum. As the dragon came up to me I was told to pet it as they took my picture. The meeting was typical, during free time I went down to the first floor to see the pictures of the hand over of power from Britian to China (which took place in this building) and stepped outside to see the Golden Bauhinia, a gift from the Chinese government to Hong Kong.\nMore meetings today; not much to add to that.\nMy last day of meetings, again spent most of the day indoors, just getting excited about my trip to mainland China and trying to figure out these sandal boots many of the locals are wearing; they're incredibly hideous.\nDragon Boat Festival & Hong Kong Disneyland\nI'm done with meetings, so decided to spend the day at the Dragon Boat Festival on Lantau Island before catching an evening flight to Beijing. The Dragon Boat Festival I went to (there are many) was in Tai O, which I was told is one of the more traditional festivals and is more about the ceremonies than the actual races. Tai O is a small fishing village on the western side of Lantau Island and many of the houses are perched on sticks over the river. The village is small and seemingly peaceful, but not on this day. Today the streets were packed, flags flew over head and buses to the village were running every 5-10 minutes.\nThe festival in Tai O begins with each of the four fishing associations rowing to one of the four local temples to gather the deity statues, which they then take to the race sight in order to pacify the waters. As the dragon boats do this, there is a parade of boats behind them burning paper and throwing it into the water, dropping rice dumplings into the water, and photographing every event through telephoto lenses.\nThe festival is a celebration to Qu Yuan, a national hero who drowned himself in protest of the government over 2,000 years ago. As the locals attempted to save their hero, they threw rice dumplings into the water so the fish wouldn't eat Qu's body and they beat drums to scare away the fish. At the end, they failed to save Qu, but a festival was created in his honor and today (in Tai O at least) these traditions continue as the rowers row in rhythm to the drums.\nMore than the festival and the eventual race, the crowd provided a great site and entertainment as kids played in the streets and rowers prepared for the race, which gave the winning team little more than pride, but also bragging rights for the entire next year.\nAfter the dragon boat races I headed to Hong Kong Disneyland to get my brother a shirt, but still had plenty of time before my flight so stopped in the park for a couple hours. The park is similar to Disneyland, but smaller and more kid-focused. There were few rides catered to anyone over the age of about 10 and this proved to be the crowd as well; teenagers and young adults (without kids) were scarce. Fortunately, this also meant that Space Mountain was practically a walk-on all day.\nTo read more about my trip to Hong Kong Disneyland, visit From Screen to Theme's Thursday Treasures. After Disney, I headed out to catch my evening flight to Beijing.\nTiananmen Square, Mao's Mausoleum, Forbidden City, & Temple of Heaven\nI got in real late last night, well this morning actually; at about 1:00am and got to the hotel at about 2:30 after standing in the taxi line for a good 30-45 minutes. This morning I did little other than wake up and try to get my bearings straight, which I did with the help of the front desk staff.\nI caught a public bus about 2 stops to the subway station, where I headed into downtown Beijing. The subway is very easy to use and quite efficient, although even at about 10:00am the crowds are large. I got off at Tiananmen East for my first stop: Mao's Mausoleum. After dropping my camera off across the street in the lockers I got in line and slowly went through security checkpoint after security checkpoint to see the man who created Communist China. The rules here were strict and they were turning away anyone with water, shorts, and even sandals.\nThe scene inside was disturbing, but expected. The locals paying their respects acted in an almost religious manner, while the guards demanded complete silence and ushered each of us in and out rather quickly. We were fairly far from Mao himself, perhaps 10-15 feet away, but even from that distance he looked slightly waxy and fake. After leaving the building, most people still remained silent, but I felt little emotion, so collected my camera and continued my day of sightseeing.\nI returned to Tiananmen Square after getting my camera and moved from south to north, photographing the incredible gates, beginning with Front Gate and ending with the Gate of Heavenly Peace, in the process being filmed by literally thousands of cameras, which are mounted on every light post on Tiananmen Square.\nI passed under the Gate of Heavenly Peace into the first of a couple courtyards leading to the Forbidden City. I shooed away a couple dozen hawkers, bought my ticket to the Forbidden City (or the Palace Museum) and headed in. The city is a maze of elaborately decorated gates and buildings. As you enter, it's easy to follow all the tourists from one gate to the next in a process leading straight through the middle until reaching the Imperial Garden at the city's northern end. I also followed this path, since most of the highlights are on this north-south axis, but after reaching the garden I got off the beaten track and found some corners of the Forbidden City quite lonely and forgotten.\nThroughout the complex there are a number of small exhibits, however few are well kept; most are difficult to see through the poor glass and layers of dust on each article being viewed. None-the-less, these side alleys and hidden rooms give one the sense of the size and enormity of the complex. Despite this, the highlight was still the Imperial Garden and the incredible temple standing on the rock mountain in the garden. Unlike the rest of the city, the garden seemed much more natural and at peace, being one of the few places that offered any sort of green space within the city walls.\nMy final stop for the day was the Temple of Heaven, however getting there proved to be a challenge. It is very rare to find anyone in Beijing that speaks English and even at the subway station I couldn't find a single person despite asking the person at the help desk, which had a sign in English that read something to the sorts of \"Need Help, Ask Here.\" I took an educated guess, but had no map with subway stations on it so got off one stop too soon. I showed a local the name of the Temple of Heaven in Chinese and he directed me to the temple, which was only a few blocks away.\nThe Temple of Heaven is a Confucian temple that is perfectly round. It stands on a square base (the symbol of heaven is the circle and the symbol of earth is the square), does not contain a single nail, and is so perfectly shaped that it echoes if you speak along the walls or if you stand directly in the middle of the temple and whisper. It is an architectural wonder and the detail work is amazing, however also appealing was the park surrounding the temple itself. This park seems to be a magnet for locals and dozens of people were out playing cards and gambling anyplace they could find enough seats to gather. The scene was active and lively, however the day and the heat had taken all the liveliness out of me so after only an hour or two I headed back to the hotel for the night.\nBack at the hotel I met up with Cindy and we headed out to eat at a dumpling place, which offered a substantial improvement from the food in Hong Kong. We had almond and walnut chicken with a spicy twist, pork and green onion dumplings, and beef dumplings with tomatoes and cilantro; all of which was delicious.\nForbidden City & the Great Wall of China\nSince Cindy got in late yesterday (due to a flight delay of about 20 hours) we decided to take a tour today so she could see both the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China.\nOur bus was running late in the morning, so we were informed that we should take a taxi to another hotel because the bus couldn't make it to our hotel due to traffic. We did only to find out that at the next hotel our bus was waiting on a few people who had decided to stop at Starbucks for their morning coffee. We paid for our trip, then waited on the bus in front of Starbucks. As we waited, our driver and the local guard in front of the Starbucks got in a fight and stood in the street blocking traffic as they yelled at each other at the top of their lungs. It was interesting and our English-speaking guide passed it off as a view into the life of locals in Beijing. Soon enough we got the rest of our party and were off to the Forbidden City.\nThe Forbidden City tour was typical and contained much of the same information I had read yesterday, but the tour seemed to brush over my favorites parts of the city and only breezed through the Imperial Garden as the focus was on history and naming Emperors that none of us had ever heard of. The most striking thing was that the skies were crystal clear since it had poured last night and that caused the smog to disappear (at least temporarily).\nAfter the Forbidden City, we headed to a Silk Factory, which only encouraged me to never buy silk, then off to a Jade shop for lunch and more sales being pushed at us. Lunch was very good though; we had a number of plates to chose from including vinegar pork, sweet and sour chicken, beef with onions and green peppers, something like buffalo chicken, roasted peanuts, and the standard rice. Everything I tried was very good and my chopstick skills are vastly improving.\nAs we were waiting for our bus to depart we watched the Turks in our tour group excessively buy all sorts of junk, including one girl who bought 4 pairs of knock-off glasses, but had no idea if she had gotten a good deal on them when asked.\nWe made it to the Great Wall of China and had about two hours there. Mao had climbed this same section of the Great Wall (Badaling) and stated that \"He who has not climbed the Great Wall is not a true man.\" Although he wasn't specific on which part of the Great Wall one must climb to be a man, he said it on this section of the Great Wall and it seems every Chinese tourist to the Great Wall must climb to the same exact tower from which he made this statement. Upon learning this, and the fact that 95% of the tourists to the Badaling Great Wall (also the most visited section of the Great Wall) go straight to the \"Mao watchtower\" (on the right side), we went left and had the wall nearly to ourselves; the views were spectacular and the crowds were minimal.\nBack in Beijing we headed off to dinner, got lost, then stumbled upon a place with great smelling beef and chicken kebabs. We found ourselves at a table with a local who spoke a bit of English and he helped us order fried rice and \"beef on a stick,\" an influence from the Mongols and Muslims in western China. The beef was very fatty and too spicy for us, however the fried rice was among the best I've ever had and for only 10 yuan ($1.60) it was well worth the money.\nUnfortunately, our time is limited so tomorrow morning we're off to Lhasa, Tibet.\nLhasa, Tibet\nArrival, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple & Barkhor Street\nAfter a lot of confusion and a mess at the airport in Beijing we finally made it to Lhasa, Tibet; there seemed to be a hold up due to the fact that we were going to Tibet. Flights to Tibet have a different security line and we had to have our Tibet visa to get our airline tickets, then needed to show our visa again at security and again at the gate getting on the plane. It seems the Chinese government has little interest in letting foreigners into Tibet.\nOur flight stopped over in Chengdu before continuing on to Lhasa, which stands at about 13,000 feet, making life a little more difficult considering the lack of oxygen at that altitude.\nWe arrived with no problems, met our guide at the airport and headed into Lhasa, which is well over 30 miles away, taking about an hour to get to our hotel. Along the path into town we stopped at a stone carved Buddha and passed by about a dozen Chinese military compounds, which seemed to take up about as much of the city as the Tibetan part of Lhasa.\nAs we closed in on our hotel our Tibetan guide, Dorje, informed us that the Chinese government was no longer issuing visas to Tibet. June posed many problems for the Chinese government in Tibet, such as the fact that the month is a holy month for the Tibetans and it was the anniversary of the \"opening of Tibet\" or as much of the world calls it, \"the Chinese takeover of Tibet.\" In fear of protests, we were one of the last groups into Tibet and Dorje said he heard that no one would receive a visa for two months, if not longer, so we were very fortunately to even get this far.\nWhen we were left at our hotel, Dorje warned us to take it easy and do nothing for the night or we'd regret it tomorrow. We took the advice to heart and, after discovering that the hotel restaurant was closed, ate granola bars in our room, drank plenty of water, watched a propaganda movie about Mao (in Chinese), then went to bed early.\nOur tour today began with the most iconic monument in Tibet: Potala Palace, the Dalai Lama's Winter Palace. The building is incredible from every perspective and viewpoint, making it truly breathtaking, particularly given the altitude.\nWe took our time in the palace's gardens and exterior, taking plenty of pictures of the 13-story building standing on one of the city's largest hills. On our way up the many stairs we heard singing and stomping, which Dorje explained was the traditional way of making Tibetan buildings. The people worked in two teams, divided into men and women, each group taking a turn singing as they stomped to the beat. The roofs and walls of parts of this, along with many buildings in Tibet are made of clay and stones; the people stomp the stones into the clay, beginning with large stones, then continuing on to finer and finer stones until the surface is smooth and solid. At this point the surface is covered with yak butter and the sun bakes it to form a surface that lasts for nearly 100 years. This labor-intensive process is the reason, Dorje explained, that there is a strict one hour time limit in the Potala Palace. The building is not strong enough to withstand thousands of tourists each day spending hours in there, so each day the building is limited to only 2,500 guests and each may only spend 1 hour in the building itself, although staying in the gardens for the rest of the day is not a problem.\nAs we reached the top, near the entrance, the Chinese tourists (which were about 99% of all tourists here) decided that us exotic white people were worthy of their pictures and soon there was a line of Chinese tourists waiting to get their pictures taken with us... I hope that wasn't my 10 minutes of fame, I didn't even understand what they were saying.\nOnce in the Potala Palace itself the tour was a combination of history and culture. The white buildings in the palace were the Dalai Lama's personal residence and government buildings, while the red buildings were the religious buildings. As both religious and political leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama ruled over both of these realms from the palace. Unfortunately, most of the white palace has been altered to destroy both the memories of the Dalai Lama as well as the independent political aspirations of Tibet. Due to this, most of the tour took place in the Red Palace, which contained numerous religious relics prized by the Tibetans, who are primarily \"yellow hat Buddhists.\" We made it out in just about an hour, took a few more pictures, then headed off to lunch.\nLunch consisted of yak momos and a pizza. Momos are much like Chinese dumplings, but these had yak meat inside along with a couple spices, including green onions. They were served with a sauce, much like an Indian curry and it was surprisingly good. The pizza, our fail-safe back-up option in case the momos were uneatable, was also good. The menu here truly symbolizes Tibet and its outside influences; there was a number of Indian, Nepalese, and Chinese dishes on the menu, as well as the tourist-focused western cuisine. Throughout our tour this morning Dorje has mentioned the close ties Tibet has to India and Nepal due to similar religious beliefs and clearly those similarities have influenced the food in Tibet.\nAfter lunch we headed to Jokhang Temple and Barkhor Street. The temple is the holiest in all of Tibet, however taking pictures of it prove difficult due to all the Chinese police officers and military posts in the area. It is illegal to take pictures of police, soldiers, or any military stand or post of any sort in Tibet; a big contrast to the Forbidden City where they had military parades seemingly just for the tourists' amusement. If a riot broke out in this area there were literally thousands of soldiers within a mile of the temple to shut it down immediately. To me it seems like overkill considering the peaceful nature of the Tibetans.\nAfter passing all these guard stands and having our guide detained briefly by police to explain who he was, who he worked for, who he was guiding, and proving that we were in Tibet legally, we made it to Jokhang Temple. The temple is impressive architecturally, but its true meaning comes in its significance to the religion. It contains the holiest statue in yellow hat Buddhism and is a pilgrimage spot for thousands of Tibetans, who travel miles to get here.\nAfter the temple, we circled Barkhor Street clockwise with many of the pilgrims. Despite the street's religious significance, it is almost entirely a shopping street with vendors lining both sides of the street. Having little interest in shopping, we quickly bypassed most of the shops, only ducking into a few to catch the air conditioning. Once our time here had come to an end, we met back up with Dorje, who took us to our hotel for the night.\nFor dinner, we headed across the street where we tried fried rice, noodles, and a beef dish. Again, the external influence on Tibet came into view in these dishes. The fried rice contained a hint of cumin and tumeric, two spices common in Indian curries, while the noodles had a Thai twist. Only the beef dish seemed unique to me, but it clearly had some Chinese influence, containing beef, tomatoes, and green onions in a sauce that had just a hint of spiciness. The lowlight of the meal was also the most culturally significant, yak butter tea. It's made of yak butter, tea leaves, water, and salt; one sip was enough for me.\nDrepung Monastery & Sera Monastery\nThere's a horrible syndrome occurring in many young Chinese males some foreigners call \"Little Emperor Syndrome.\" Due to the one child policy, many Chinese children are growing up completely, utterly spoiled and are taught that they are the most important thing in the world. I've seen this a number of times in a number of instances since arriving in China, most particularly in people doing as they please whether or not you are in their way. This morning on the way to breakfast however was the worst I've seen thus far. Waiting for the elevator (we had already pushed the down button), two Chinese men, about in their 30s, arrived to also go down. They budged in front of us so were inches from the elevator door, when it had opened they immediately got on and pressed the door closed button, forcing the door to close on us. There was no apology, just a scornful look they gave us since we had delayed their trip downstairs.\nThis \"Little Emperor Syndrome\" is rampant throughout China, but is magnified here in Tibet. Most of the Chinese people in Tibet either live here to drown out the local Tibetan population or are tourists and these tourists have money or influence. Although I can't account for every Chinese tourist in Tibet, my guess is that many of these people have money and were spoiled rotten growing up, learning that no one is more important than they are and today they truly believe this, treating others like nuances who exist only to cater to their needs. While we found people like this in Beijing as well, it was not as common or magnified as it is in Tibet and being here for only a couple days can easily make a person a complete racist, especially when you compare these little emperors' behavior to the local Tibetans'.\nEnough of that, after breakfast Dorje arrived at the hotel to begin our tour early today. We had a lot to see and not a lot of time so began at Drepung Monastery, which formerly housed between 7,000 and 10,000 monks before the cultural revolution. The monastery is huge, but primarily empty today. We got lucky in that today was a holy day so the monks do mid-day chanting; this is ordinarily only reserved for mornings and evenings. We also met a couple of Dorje's friends, which are many, including seemingly ever monk in both Potala Palace and here. This monastery was seemingly deserted compared to the sights we saw yesterday and Dorje said that it was because the Chinese tour groups don't generally go to Drepung Monastery.\nWhile at the monastery, Dorje explained death rituals in Tibet. People here have their bodies placed in a \"tombstupe,\" are buried/ cremated, placed in the river, or are fed to vultures. The most common death ritual, which Dorje said about 99% of Tibetans receive, is to have their bodies placed outside in sacred areas for the vultures to eat. At first the muscles are removed and the vultures eat the skin and organs, then once there is nothing left but bones, the meat is given to them (this is done because otherwise the vultures would only eat the meat and leave the skin and organs). Only lamas, like the Dalai Lama are placed in tombstupes, which are large ornate boxes, much like a coffin, but significantly more detailed. Infants who die are placed in the river, which is why Tibetans don't eat fish. Finally, those people who are sick, receive medicine, but never heal are buried or cremated. This is done so the vultures don't ingest the medicine the person took.\nOn that appetizing note, our next stop was lunch in Lhasa itself, but today's meal wasn't as good as the last two we had. We each had the yak sizzle on the recommendation of Dorje, and not having led us astray yet, we ordered it, but it wasn't quite everything I thought it would be. The two highlights from lunch were the dessert, chocolate cake, and watching the people outside. Many Tibetans make a pilgrimage around \"Old Lhasa City\" and this restaurant was on the path around the city, meaning pilgrims were constantly passing by our window seats. The people were dressed in all different manners, depending on where they were from in Tibet, some had long braided hair, some carried daggers, and many others appeared like cowboys, with classic hats, similar, but not identical to those found in the American west.\nAfter lunch we headed to the other perceived highlight, Sera Monastery, which was no disappointment. This monastery was also very impressive, but the highlight was clearly the monk debates in the courtyard. Monks of all levels would get into groups as small as two and as large as five or six to quiz each other. The monks are paired by knowledge level and switch positions every day or two. The teachers standing, the students sitting, some of the teachers were very animated and would ornately confirm a correct answer by clapping his hands, or symbolizing an incorrect answer by slapping the top of his hand into his other hand (both hands palm up). Although I didn't understand a word of what they said, the scene was energetic and lively.\nOur final tour stop of the day was Norbulingka, the Dalai Lama's former summer palace. This palace was nice, but is truly all about the grounds, which are large and were created for picnicking during the warm summer months, which the Tibetans love. In addition to the grounds however, the Dalai Lama's palace was fascinating because it was from here that the Dalai Lama fled to India and is even today decorated much as it was when he left.\nAfter being dropped off at our hotel and resting for a couple hours, we caught a taxi into town to grab a bite to eat near Jokhang Temple. We had yak fried rice and more cake, for me chocolate and for Cindy lemon. The cake was definitely the highlight.\nTibetan Family Visit & Departure\nWe awoke early to catch our flight to Xi'an, but on the way stopped at a Tibetan family's house in a village between Lhasa and the airport. This was fantastic because it gave us an opportunity to see daily life in Tibet from living circumstances to decorations.\nThis family was middle class on Tibetan standards, living near farms and raising a few chickens and cows in their courtyard to provide eggs and milk. Here there were four generations: a great grandmother and grandmother living with their daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren. During the days the grandmothers took care of their grandkids as the two parents worked.\nWe were offered yak butter tea and when I asked our guide if it would be rude to turn it down I was instead offered barley beer, which I accepted and drank at the early hour of 9:00am. It was much better than the yak butter tea though, so I'm happy with my decision even though, neither drinking beer at 9am, nor drinking at altitude are good ideas.\nWe were given free reign of their house (other than their storage room) and moved around to see their living spaces, temple (which most families have in their homes), and bedrooms. The most ironic part of this house was the living room, in which there was a Minnie Mouse stuffed animal just feet away from a poster of Mao, who is often seen in Tibetan homes for a number of reasons.\nThe people here are torn on views towards the Chinese government, but for the most part they wish for independence. Dorje avoided political conversations and we didn't encourage him to discuss a subject that could not benefit him and his career in any way.\nMany Tibetans place pictures of Mao in their homes to avoid governmental aggression, however others truly believe in the changes that he and the Chinese government have introduced in Tibet. The Chinese government has introduced the railway, better roads, expanded education, better healthcare, and improved communication in Tibet. Unfortunately, these changes have been introduced at the expense of the destruction of Tibetan culture... and with this improved infrastructure comes more and more immigrating ethnic Chinese, drowning out the local population in Tibet. The Chinese see the improvements they've introduced (healthcare, infrastructure, and communication) as the most important aspects of life, whereas the Tibetans view their religion and culture as the most important factors in their lives and this is exactly what the Chinese government seeks to destroy.\nThe Tibetan people seem so different from the Chinese, although they'll be the first to tell you that the two have always been historic friends. In Tibet the contrast between these two groups is magnified more than elsewhere; the difference between the enormous and multiple military bases with the peaceful and religious Tibetans. It appears, to a visitor, to be a one-sided war, in which a peaceful people who failed to fight for religious reasons were destroyed and brutally suppressed by an aggressor; an aggressor who fears these peaceful people so much that they have to dedicate a huge percentage of their military resources to the region.\nThe situation here feels like a family (China) so concerned with an ant hill (Tibet) they found in their backyard that they spend much of their time stomping the ant hill and spraying it with pesticides as the ants continue living through the hardships, never complaining, only surviving and hoping one day the aggressor will let them live in peace. The ants, no true threat to the people, don't know why they are the victims of prosecution, but accept the beatings as they know they have no true chance in a fight, which is something they wouldn't partake in anyway since that's not a part of their mental, cultural, and religious make-up. Today the beatings continue, but the ants continue to thrive.\nGoodbye Tibet. Off to Xi'an.\nTeracotta Warriors & the Muslim Quarter\nWe got in from Lhasa today without any problems. After a bus into town and a short walk to our hotel, we went out to explore the city; beginning with dinner. This part of China is known as the noodles epicenter so we sought out a noodle place. After first discovering that the noodle place that we were looking for no longer existed, we found a small place that served noodles with broth, a few spices, bean sprouts, and hot sauce for about 5 yuan a bowl. I finally got to use my Chinese when I asked for \"no spicy\" and soon we had a pretty good and extremely filling meal for less than a dollar.\nAfter dinner, we headed to the Muslim Quarter for wandering. Although the streets only seem fit for pedestrians, cars and mopeds seemed too eager to drive through the area as the streets were filled with street vendors making and serving roasted nuts, dates, and most popularly, meat on a stick, particularly squid.\nThe area was loud and active as it attracted both locals and foreigners alike. The scene alone was worth the trip, but while we were there we bought some roasted almonds, which later proved to be fantastic and long-lasting.\nOur ride home was on a negotiated fare from a auto rickshaw. He wasn't what I would call a \"good driver,\" but he got us home and gave us a cultural experience consisting of swerves and oncoming traffic stopping within feet of our vehicle.\nWe got up early, skipped the 170 yuan breakfast at the hotel and took a taxi to the bus station to catch a bus to the Army of Terracotta Warriors. The trip was uneventful despite promises from our hotel that the public buses were not safe (they were selling tours to the site) and we arrived to the Terracotta Warriors about an hour after leaving downtown Xi'an.\nAs recommended by our guidebook, we started with Pit 3, the smallest of the three discovered. It was, well, unimpressive. Much of it had been excavated, but few of the Terracotta Warriors had actually be completed; most stood headless in the pit below our observation platform.\nNext came Pit 2, a little bigger with some great Terracotta Warriors in display cases at ground level. This pit was not as far along in the excavation process and there were piles of arms, legs, and torsos of the Terracotta Warriors in the pits as very few of the warriors had been completed. This felt and looked more like an archeological dig site in process instead of an actual museum or world wonder.\nWe finally made it to Pit 1 to see the enormous site, where most of the completed Terracotta Warriors are held. In a way, even this pit was somewhat disappointing; perhaps 80-90% of it has yet to be uncovered or excavated as the lined soldiers that have been completed stand in lines. More interesting was the back of the building, in which they were putting together the fragmented pieces of the warriors. Visually, this was a disappointment, however trying to comprehend the enormity of the complex, the skill of the craftsmen, and the time and dedication to create such a monument still makes this a world wonder and a monument worthy of international praise.\nOur final stop was at the museum; the tour groups rushed downstairs to view the history of China and the archeological history of China exhibits, but the much more interesting exhibit was on the upper floor, which went into more detail regarding the Terracotta Warriors themselves and again offered some warriors up close. This exhibit brought to life the Terracotta Warriors as you could see them face to face and were close enough to truly appreciate the details of each.\nAfter the Terracotta Warriors, we returned to Xi'an where we relaxed for a bit before heading out to the airport. Being so pre-occupied with the exhibit, transportation, and overpriced food at the museum we snacked on almonds all day and they seemed to serve us well.\nOff to the airport for Guilin.\nDragon's Backbone Rice Terraces\nAfter a late arrival last night to Guilin, we checked into our youth hostel and went straight to bed. Today we got up early to head to the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces, but found ourselves locked in our hostel. There was a note on the door that said if we needed to leave before 7:00am to call them, but we had no phone and there was no phone in the room; I found it rather disturbing that they lock everyone into the building each night, since this is a horrible fire hazard. Fortunately, there is an escape route, jumping the fence, which is exactly what we did.\nWe caught a taxi to the bus station and got a bus to Longsheng, a trip that encountered no problems after our bus driver stopped to get some noodles. Once in Longsheng, the girl who collects money from passengers proved what we had felt the evening before, that the people here are among the nicest in China. She not only directed us to our connecting bus, but actually walked us over there.\nOur bus to Dazhai, a small village among the rice terraces, left within minutes, but after only a few minutes our bus turned into some sort of vegetable market or day care as it filled up with about five children and three or four farmers selling their berries (in addition to multiple other farmers bringing their food to the market). Despite watching a child pee all over her mother and having a bag of dead chickens in front of me, the bus ride began well. Our driver proved to be the passengers' best customers as he bought food from a couple farmers. Plus, we had only waited a couple minutes after arriving in Longsheng before heading out.\nAfter picking up a couple more passengers along the route, including a Swiss guy, our troubles began. First we stopped to have the bus looked at, then we filled up the gas. We also got stopped and were asked to pay 90 yuan a person to enter the town, which is apparently in a national park protection area. Next, our bus shut down and after a couple minutes we had to turn around to get a new bus. The new bus proved useful for about five minutes until it failed to get into gear and we got stuck on a hill for about ten minutes. This gave us time to meet the Swiss guy and share stories, but with a cliff behind us and the bus failing to get into gear, there were also some tense moments. After the bus began working we were again off and soon after arrived in Dazhai to begin our trek.\nThe village of Dazhai is just beyond the park entrance and seems like a nice little village, but our intentions were to see the terraced rice fields of the Dragon's Backbone so we continued on. The people here are primarily ethnic minorities and they offered us places to stay, food, and to help carry our bags. Although their advances seemed friendly, two of the ladies trying to carry our bags followed us for about a half hour and no matter how stern we were, they didn't seem to give up on what seemed like potential money walking through their village.\nThe area was beautiful though and as we climbed higher and higher the views became more and more amazing. It was rice planting season and many of the farmers were in the fields planting so we often stopped to grab a snack and enjoy the views. After about an hour we turned around and headed back, taking our time and finishing our trek at about two hours, which happened to be perfect timing. As we exited the park a bus was about to leave straight to Guilin, saving us a stopover in Longsheng; we jumped on and were off to Guilin, before continuing on to Yangshuo.\nA Few Days to Relax\nWe arrived to Yangshuo late after spending the day north of Guilin at the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces. Having been in China for a couple weeks now we were craving some western food so stopped at a place that served both Chinese and western food. Although my main course was Chinese (sweet and sour chicken, which was excellent), Yangshuo is known for their banana and Oreo shakes and trying one of those was a nice addition. It is sort of a combination of a smoothie and a milk shake, starting with banana flavor, moving on to Oreo, then finished with the banana again; it was surprisingly good.\nWe then got a taxi to our hotel, which was in a village west of Yangshuo near the Yulong River. The rest of the night consisted of cleaning up and attempting to not smell from the heat and humidity we faced while hiking all day.\nYangshuo is known as a slow moving town, in which to relax, and that's exactly how our day started. We got up, walked around aimlessly without a map, then decided to spend our afternoon on a bamboo raft down the Yulong River. Before heading on our raft trip we grabbed a bite to eat at our hotel: noodles with beef and more chocolate cake, this time freshly baked and topped with chocolate syrup.\nThe company that organized the bamboo raft ride picked us up and gave us a ride to the river on a motorcycle taxi. It was a small motorcycle for three people, especially considering the many potholes on the half paved road. The bamboo raft was a highlight on the slow moving Yulong River. The scenery was beautiful and the small waterfalls we went over gave us just enough excitement to keep us awake.\nAfter the bamboo raft we ran into two rather disturbing things; a downpour and a man with monkeys dressed up and chained to a stick. First we encountered the monkeys; a man was trying to have us give him money, but I was too revolted to find out what his ploy was; he even had one of his monkeys wearing sunglasses. The downpour, which came a few minutes later, was the better of the two options, plus with the heat reaching well over 90º F the downpour actually felt good as it very quickly cooled us off.\nAfter our mile or two hike back to the hotel through the rain we cleaned up and grabbed dinner, which consisted of beef and peppers. We also met a drummer from California at dinner who has been on the road for nearly four months, beginning in India to learn some native drumming techniques. True to Yangshuo form, we did very little today other than relax, and I think we needed the break.\nToday we got up somewhat early (in relative terms for Yangshuo) in order to rent bikes and head up to something called Dragon Bridge, which was about a two-hour bike trip. The bike trip was beautiful and we were so focused on the natural beauty of the area that we got lost... numerous times. We eventually made our way to a main road and followed the signs until we got to the little village of Yulong, which we were looking for.\nIn Yulong we relaxed, took pictures, and tried to eat, but were continuously hawked by people trying to get us to take a bamboo raft ride. We stayed long enough to watch a man do some cormorant fishing, then continued on. Cormorant fishing is when fishermen tie a string around a cormorant bird's neck so it's tight enough that the bird can't swallow a big fish, but big enough so the bird can breathe and can swallow small fish. Fortunately for the fishermen, the birds haven't seemed to catch on yet and always go after the big fish, but when they can't swallow them they return to the fisherman's boat and he removes the fish to later sell in the market. The fisherman we watched had incredible birds and they were each catching a fish every minute or two; he was also very rewarding to his birds and made sure they got fed well for their work.\nAfter moving on we again got lost, stopped to eat our lunch at a small watering hole, and met four young Chinese, who were eager to bike with us. We accepted their invitation and soon enough we were all lost together. We swerved in and out of fields and along built up earthen walls asking farmer after farmer how to get to the main path, which we eventually found. After a couple villages we each went on our own way and soon enough we made our way back to the hotel for a little mid-day relaxation (as it again rained outside).\nFor dinner we headed into Yangshuo itself, where we avoided hectic traffic, numerous touts, and offers for more bamboo raft and boat rides. Dinner was at a place like seemingly every place in Yangshuo, half western food, half Chinese food, with free WiFi access. As we ate I came to the conclusion that this is as close as it comes to a backpacker resort town: the scenery is beautiful, the attitude is laid back, biking is the main form of transportation, and nearly every restaurant serves both western and local foods. Plus, despite all the tourists, the town is still relatively inexpensive, meaning most travelers here are backpackers, and many of those backpackers tend to stay for weeks or even months. Additionally, with a growing tourism industry, there is high demand for English teachers here so it's easy to find a job.\nBy the end of the meal I had determined that I have seen more white people here than I have throughout the rest of China. That includes sights like The Terracotta Warriors, The Great Wall of China, and The Forbidden City combined (excluding Hong Kong, although even if Hong Kong was included it would be competitive).\nAfter dinner, we headed back to our hotel, which was about 20 minutes away by bike in order to prepare for our early morning flight the next day to Hong Kong.\nA Day Overview Before Heading Home\nI got back to Hong Kong from Guilin via Shenzhen and now I can confirm that Hong Kong is in no way China (other than legally of course). Hong Kong is on a different currency, a different customs stamp, they have their own passports, they speak English, they drive on opposites sides of the road, and most importantly, their mentality and culture is completely different from mainland China. Although legally they are one and the same, they are two worlds apart.\nUpon arrival to my hotel I was again reminded of a horrible, horrible trait the hotel service staffs in Hong Kong have, something I call \"suffocatingly attentive service.\" The bell hops and hotel employees (both at this hotel and my last hotel in Hong Kong, but not elsewhere in China) are so overly attentive it's almost an invasion of one's privacy. As I got off the shuttle bus from the airport I had literally three people waiting to help me, with another line of employees behind them to help the others on the bus. They tried to physically take my backpack off my back to carry it for me and when I refused, one followed me in to ask if I needed anything, almost begging for me to ask for assistance until he walked me all the way to the reception desk.\nI experienced the same thing at my last hotel in Hong Kong and even if I didn't have anything for them to carry (although the one time I was carrying nothing but a folder they tried to carry it for me), they would run ahead of me and press the elevator button so I wouldn't have to wait for an elevator. Then as I would get in the elevator, the bellhop would press the \"door close\" button so I could save those precious fractions of a second. Being very independent, I found all this service brutal and overly imposing, however anyone who feels he should be treated like royalty would love every second of it.\nHaving seen everything that interested me already, I spent the day with Cindy (it was her first time in the city) re-visiting the highlights, including the park, Temple Street Night Market, the Star Ferry across the harbor, and the fried rice place. We then returned to the hotel for our flights home tomorrow morning.\n● Learn more about China ● Return to Justin's Travel Blog ●","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line766879"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9906342625617981,"wiki_prob":0.9906342625617981,"text":"Thomas Garrett & Eddie Bernice Johnson\nCompare the voting records of Thomas Garrett and Eddie Bernice Johnson in 2017-18.\nThomas Garrett\nHakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)\nRepublican ∙ View profile\nRepresented Virginia's 5th Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.\nEddie Bernice Johnson\nRepresented Texas's 30th Congressional District. This is her 13th term in the House.\nThomas Garrett and Eddie Bernice Johnson are from different parties and disagreed on 71 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).\nDisagree: 71%\nBut they didn't always disagree. Out of 988 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 290 votes, including 48 major votes.\nHere are the votes they agreed on\nOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment to House Amendment\nDec. 20, 2018 — First Step Act of 2018\nSept. 5, 2018 — Empowering Students Through Enhanced Financial Counseling Act\nJuly 19, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes\nJune 28, 2018 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes\nJune 27, 2018 — Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018\nJune 21, 2018 — Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018\nPassed by a margin of 2 votes.\nJune 20, 2018 — Individuals in Medicaid Deserve Care that is Appropriate and Responsible in its Execution Act\nJune 15, 2018 — Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act\nJune 14, 2018 — THRIVE Act\nJune 6, 2018 — Water Resources Development Act of 2018\nMay 24, 2018 — National Defense Authorization Act FY 2019\nMay 22, 2018 — FIRST STEP Act\nMay 16, 2018 — Protect and Serve Act of 2018\nApril 27, 2018 — FAA Reauthorization Act\nApril 18, 2018 — Taxpayer First Act\nApril 18, 2018 — 21st Century IRS Act\nApril 17, 2018 — Protecting Children from Identity Theft Act\nMarch 15, 2018 — Financial Institutions Examination Fairness and Reform Act\nFeb. 27, 2018 — Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act\nJan. 11, 2018 — Rapid DNA Act of 2017\nJan. 11, 2018 — Amash of Michigan Substitute Amendment No. 1\nDec. 19, 2017 — Systemic Risk Designation Improvement Act of 2017\nDec. 7, 2017 — Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes\nDec. 7, 2017 — Small Business Mergers, Acquisitions, Sales, and Brokerage Simplification Act of 2017\nOct. 12, 2017 — Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017\nJuly 28, 2017 — Department of Veterans Affairs Bonus Transparency Act\nJuly 28, 2017 — Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018\nJuly 25, 2017 — Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act\nJuly 20, 2017 — King Cove Road Land Exchange Act\nJuly 12, 2017 — Gaining Responsibility on Water Act\nJune 28, 2017 — Protecting Access to Care Act\nMay 25, 2017 — Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017\nMay 19, 2017 — Probation Officer Protection Act of 2017\nMay 4, 2017 — To amend the Public Health Service Act to eliminate the non-application of certain State waiver provisions to Members of Congress and congressional staff\nApril 27, 2017 — Fannie and Freddie Open Records Act of 2017\nApril 26, 2017 — Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act\nApril 6, 2017 — Supporting America’s Innovators Act\nApril 5, 2017 — Self-Insurance Protection Act\nMarch 22, 2017 — Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017\nMarch 17, 2017 — To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to hire and retain physicians and other employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes\nMarch 8, 2017 — Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes\nFeb. 14, 2017 — Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act\nDec. 21, 2018 — Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act\nDec. 21, 2018 — Federal Personal Property Management Act\nDec. 21, 2018 — GAO-IG Act\nDec. 21, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 770 Ayrault Road in Fairport, New York, as the “Louise and Bob Slaughter Post Office”\nDec. 21, 2018 — Department of Transportation Reports Harmonization Act\nDec. 21, 2018 — To make technical corrections to provisions of law enacted by the Frank LoBiondo Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2018, and for other purposes\nDec. 21, 2018 — To amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to provide flexibility with respect to the leaseback of certain Federal real property, and for other purposes\nDec. 21, 2018 — To amend the Federal Assets Sale and Transfer Act of 2016 to ensure that the Public Buildings Reform Board has adequate time to carry out the responsibilities of the Board, and for other purposes\nOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree\nDec. 21, 2018 — Designating room H-226 of the United States Capitol as the “Lincoln Room”\nOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendments\nDec. 20, 2018 — Stigler Act Amendments\nDec. 20, 2018 — Forever GI Bill Housing Payment Fulfillment Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — Community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the “Douglas Fournet Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic”\nDec. 20, 2018 — VA Website Accessibility Act\nOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment\nDec. 20, 2018 — Stop, Observe, Ask, and Respond to Health and Wellness Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — Innovations in Mentoring, Training, and Apprenticeships\nDec. 20, 2018 — RBIC Advisers Relief Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — Stephen Michael Gleason Congressional Gold Medal Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018\nDec. 20, 2018 — Veterans Small Business Enhancement Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — Justice Against Corruption on K Street Act\nDec. 20, 2018 — Clean Up the Code Act of 2018\nDec. 20, 2018 — Ashanti Alert Act of 2018\nDec. 20, 2018 — Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act of 2018\nDec. 19, 2018 — To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain facilities, easements, and rights-of-way to the Kennewick Irrigation District, and for other purposes\nDec. 19, 2018 — SECURE Technology Act\nDec. 19, 2018 — Traumatic Brain Injury Program Reauthorization Act\nOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended\nDec. 13, 2018 — Calling on the Government of Burma to release Burmese journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo sentenced to seven years imprisonment after investigating attacks against civilians by Burma’s military and security forces, and for other purposes\nDec. 12, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018, and for other purposes\nDec. 10, 2018 — George W. Bush Childhood Home Study Act\nDec. 10, 2018 — Urging the Secretary of the Interior to recognize the historical significance of Roberto Clemente’s place of death near Pinones in Loiza, Puerto Rico, by adding it to the National Register of Historic Places\nNov. 30, 2018 — Federal CIO Authorization Act of 2018\nNov. 16, 2018 — Strengthening Coastal Communities Act\nNov. 13, 2018 — Gulf Islands National Seashore Land Exchange Act\nNov. 13, 2018 — To rename the Oyster Bay National Wildlife Refuge as the Congressman Lester Wolff National Wildlife Refuge\nSept. 26, 2018 — FDR Historic Preservation Act\nSept. 25, 2018 — Expanding Contracting Opportunities for Small Business Act of 2018\nSept. 25, 2018 — Encouraging Small Business Innovators\nSept. 13, 2018 — Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act\nSept. 12, 2018 — To authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska\nSept. 12, 2018 — Every Kid Outdoors Act\nSept. 12, 2018 — Walnut Grove Land Exchange Act\nSept. 4, 2018 — Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program Authorization Act\nOn Agreeing to the Conference Report\nJuly 26, 2018 — National Defense Authorization Act FY 2019\nJuly 25, 2018 — VA Hospitals Establishing Leadership Performance Act\nJuly 23, 2018 — Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act\nJuly 23, 2018 — National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act\nJuly 18, 2018 — Pearce of New Mexico Amendment No. 60\nFailed by a margin of 3 votes.\nJuly 18, 2018 — To authorize the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes\nJuly 17, 2018 — Protecting Diplomats from Surveillance Through Consumer Devices Act\nJuly 17, 2018 — Elie Wiesel Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Act of 2018\nJuly 17, 2018 — JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of 2018\nJuly 16, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 511 East Walnut Street in Columbia, Missouri, as the “Spc. Sterling William Wyatt Post Office Building”.\nJuly 16, 2018 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1075 North Tustin Street in Orange, California, as the “Specialist Trevor A. Win’E Post Office\nJuly 10, 2018 — Options Markets Stability Act\nOn Closing Portions of the Conference\nJune 27, 2018 — National Defense Authorization Act FY 2019\nJune 26, 2018 — Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act\nJune 26, 2018 — Prevention of Private Information Dissemination Act of 2017\nJune 25, 2018 — Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act\nJune 19, 2018 — Stop Excessive Narcotics in our Retirement Communities Protection Act of 2018\nJune 13, 2018 — Improving the Federal Response to Families Impacted by Substance Use Disorder Act\nJune 13, 2018 — Assisting States’ Implementation of Plans of Safe Care Act\nJune 12, 2018 — Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act\nOn Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment\nJune 6, 2018 — Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018\nJune 5, 2018 — Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument Act\nJune 5, 2018 — To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing the birthplace of James Weldon Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, as a unit of the National Park System\nMay 23, 2018 — Engel of New York Amendment No. 43\nMay 23, 2018 — McGovern of Massachusetts Amendment No. 10\nMay 21, 2018 — Veterans Opioid Abuse Prevention Act\nMay 21, 2018 — Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Programs Reauthorization Act of 2018\nMay 21, 2018 — Servicemembers Improved Transition through Reforms for Ensuring Progress Act\nMay 18, 2018 — Russell of Oklahoma Amendment No. 17\nMay 16, 2018 — Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act\nMay 10, 2018 — Titus of Nevada Amendment No. 3\nApril 26, 2018 — Iran Human Rights and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act\nApril 26, 2018 — Lipinski of Illinois Part A Amendment No. 78\nApril 25, 2018 — Music Modernization Act\nApril 18, 2018 — Justice for Victims of IRS Scams and Identity Theft Act of 2018\nApril 16, 2018 — To designate a National Memorial to Fallen Educators at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas\nApril 16, 2018 — Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act\nApril 10, 2018 — Combat Online Predators Act\nApril 10, 2018 — End Banking for Human Traffickers Act of 2018\nMarch 22, 2018 — Strengthening Local Transportation Security Capabilities Act of 2018\nMarch 22, 2018 — Strengthening Aviation Security Act of 2018\nMarch 22, 2018 — Surface Transportation Security Improvement Act 2018\nMarch 22, 2018 — Vehicular Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018\nMarch 22, 2018 — Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to H.R. 1625, Consolidated Appropriations Act and the TARGET Act; and providing for proceedings during the period from March 23, 2018, through April 9, 2018\nMarch 19, 2018 — Kennedy--King National Commemorative Site Act\nMarch 19, 2018 — To update the map of, and modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument\nMarch 14, 2018 — Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act of 2018\nMarch 13, 2018 — Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017\nFeb. 26, 2018 — Congenital Heart Futures Reauthorization Act of 2017\nFeb. 14, 2018 — Calling on the Department of Defense, other elements of the Federal Government, and foreign governments to intensify efforts to investigate, recover, and identify all missing and unaccounted-for personnel of the United States\nFeb. 14, 2018 — Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act\nFeb. 13, 2018 — To extend the Generalized System of Preferences and to make technical changes to the competitive need limitations provision of the program\nFeb. 13, 2018 — Lexington VA Health Care System\nFeb. 7, 2018 — Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation Act of 2017\nFeb. 7, 2018 — War Crimes Rewards Expansion Act\nFeb. 5, 2018 — Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018\nJan. 18, 2018 — Global Health Innovation Act of 2017\nJan. 17, 2018 — Expanding Investment Opportunities Act\nJan. 17, 2018 — Connolly of Virginia Part A Amendment No. 2\nJan. 17, 2018 — Family Self-Sufficiency Act\nJan. 16, 2018 — Alex Diekmann Peak Designation Act of 2017\nJan. 16, 2018 — Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018\nJan. 11, 2018 — Counter Terrorist Network Act\nJan. 10, 2018 — DHS Overseas Personnel Enhancement Act of 2017\nJan. 9, 2018 — Screening and Vetting Passenger Exchange Act\nJan. 9, 2018 — Post-Caliphate Threat Assessment Act of 2017\nJan. 9, 2018 — Supporting the rights of the people of Iran to free expression, condemning the Iranian regime for its crackdown on legitimate protests, and for other purposes\nDec. 21, 2017 — Jobs for Our Heroes Act\nDec. 20, 2017 — United States and Israel Space Cooperation Act\nDec. 19, 2017 — Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act\nDec. 19, 2017 — Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act\nDec. 18, 2017 — Keep America’s Refuges Operational Act\nDec. 18, 2017 — STEM Research and Education Effectiveness and Transparency Act\nDec. 11, 2017 — Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2017\nDec. 11, 2017 — Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2017\nDec. 7, 2017 — Venezuela Humanitarian Assistance and Defense of Democratic Governance Act\nDec. 7, 2017 — Expressing concern and condemnation over the political, economic, social, and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela\nDec. 6, 2017 — Condemning ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and calling for an end to the attacks in and an immediate restoration of humanitarian access to the state of Rakhine in Burma\nDec. 6, 2017 — Enhancing Veteran Care Act\nDec. 5, 2017 — Stopping Abusive Female Exploitation Act of 2017\nDec. 5, 2017 — Secret Service Recruitment and Retention Act of 2017\nNov. 28, 2017 — Superior National Forest Land Exchange Act\nNov. 28, 2017 — Fowler and Boskoff Peaks Designation Act\nNov. 15, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 520 Carter Street in Fairview, Illinois, as the “Sgt. Douglas J. Riney Post Office”\nNov. 15, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 430 Main Street in Clermont, Georgia, as the “Zachary Addington Post Office”\nNov. 15, 2017 — Connected Government Act\nNov. 13, 2017 — Federal Acquisition Savings Act of 2017\nNov. 13, 2017 — Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to United States policy towards Yemen, and for other purposes\nNov. 1, 2017 — Encouraging Public Offerings Act\nOct. 31, 2017 — South Carolina Peanut Parity Act of 2017\nOct. 26, 2017 — Iran Ballistic Missiles and International Sanctions Enforcement Act\nOct. 24, 2017 — Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions Act\nOct. 24, 2017 — International Narcotics Trafficking Emergency Response by Detecting Incoming Contraband with Technology Act\nOct. 23, 2017 — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Travel Cards Act\nOct. 23, 2017 — C-TPAT Reauthorization Act\nOct. 12, 2017 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018\nOct. 11, 2017 — FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017\nOct. 11, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the “Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office”\nOct. 10, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 New Chardon Street Lobby in Boston, Massachusetts, as the “John Fitzgerald Kennedy Post Office”\nOct. 10, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4514 Williamson Trail in Liberty, Pennsylvania, as the “Staff Sergeant Ryan Scott Ostrom Post Office”\nOct. 3, 2017 — To reauthorize the National Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, and for other purposes\nSept. 25, 2017 — North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act\nJuly 24, 2017 — Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act\nJuly 20, 2017 — Grijalva of Arizona Part C Amendment No. 3\nJuly 18, 2017 — To amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the criteria and process to qualify as a qualifying conduit hydropower facility\nJuly 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to a enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail Satefy Commission\nJuly 17, 2017 — Granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to amend the Washington Area Transit Regulation Compact\nJuly 14, 2017 — McGovern of Massachusetts Amendment No. 43\nJuly 14, 2017 — Byrne of Alabama Amendment No. 17\nJuly 13, 2017 — Garamendi of California Amendment No. 1\nJuly 13, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Part B Amendment No. 4\nJuly 12, 2017 — Medical Controlled Substances Transportation Act\nJune 28, 2017 — Robert Emmet Park Act\nJune 28, 2017 — Barr of Kentucky Amendment No. 5\nJune 27, 2017 — To authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric project, and for other purposes\nJune 27, 2017 — Santa Ana River Wash Plan Land Exchange Act\nJune 27, 2017 — Solemnly reaffirming the commitment of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s principle of collective defense as enumerated in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty\nJune 26, 2017 — Active Duty Voluntary Acquisition of Necessary Credentials for Employment (ADVANCE) Act\nJune 26, 2017 — Veterans Expanded Trucking Opportunities Act of 2017\nJune 20, 2017 — Improving Services for Older Youth in Foster Care Act\nJune 12, 2017 — J. Bennett Johnston Waterway Hydropower Extension Act\nJune 12, 2017 — To extend a project of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission involving the Cannonsville Dam\nJune 6, 2017 — Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Manchester, United Kingdom, on May 22, 2017, expressing heartfelt condolences, and reaffirming unwavering support for the special relationship between our peoples and nations in the wake of these attacks\nJune 6, 2017 — Condemning the violence against peaceful protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence on May 16, 2017, and calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and measures to be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future\nMay 24, 2017 — VA Scheduling Accountability Act\nMay 24, 2017 — PRIVATE Act\nMay 23, 2017 — Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017\nMay 22, 2017 — Global Child Protection Act of 2017\nMay 18, 2017 — Honoring Hometown Heroes Act\nMay 17, 2017 — Removing Outdated Restrictions to Allow for Job Growth Act\nMay 16, 2017 — Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017\nMay 4, 2017 — Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act\nMay 3, 2017 — To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act concerning the statute of limitations for actions to recover disaster or emergency assistance payments, and for other purposes\nMay 3, 2017 — Disaster Declaration Improvement Act\nMay 2, 2017 — FEMA Accountability, Modernization and Transparency Act of 2017\nMay 1, 2017 — Follow the Rules Act\nMay 1, 2017 — Small Business Capital Formation Enhancement Act\nMay 1, 2017 — Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2017\nApril 27, 2017 — Johnson of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 2\nApril 27, 2017 — To repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled “Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform”\nApril 26, 2017 — Deutch of Florida Amendment No. 1\nApril 25, 2017 — Aviation Employee Screening and Security Enhancement Act of 2017\nApril 25, 2017 — Relating to efforts to respond to the famine in South Sudan\nApril 3, 2017 — North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017\nApril 3, 2017 — Condemning North Korea’s development of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles, and for other purposes\nMarch 27, 2017 — To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to submit a report regarding certain plans regarding assistance to applicants and grantees during the response to an emergency or disaster\nMarch 24, 2017 — Department of Homeland Security Acquisition Innovation Act\nMarch 21, 2017 — Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Technical Corrections Act of 2017\nMarch 21, 2017 — Transparency in Technological Acquisitions Act of 2017\nMarch 20, 2017 — DHS Acquisition Authorities Act of 2017\nMarch 20, 2017 — DHS Multiyear Acquisition Strategy Act of 2017\nMarch 20, 2017 — Reducing DHS Acquisition Cost Growth Act\nMarch 17, 2017 — Hanabusa of Hawaii Part B Amendment No. 11\nMarch 15, 2017 — To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to amend the Definite Plan Report for the Seedskadee Project to enable the use of the active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir\nMarch 15, 2017 — Arbuckle Project Maintenance Complex and District Office Conveyance Act of 2017\nMarch 7, 2017 — To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Pago Pago, American Samoa, the Faleomavaega Eni Fa’aua’a Hunkin VA Clinic\nFeb. 27, 2017 — Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange Clarification Act\nFeb. 13, 2017 — BRAVE Act\nFeb. 13, 2017 — HIRE Vets Act\nFeb. 6, 2017 — Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion Act\nFeb. 6, 2017 — Bolts Ditch Access and Use Act\nJan. 30, 2017 — Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2017\nJan. 30, 2017 — To remove the sunset provision of section 203 of Public Law 105-384 and for other purposes\nJan. 23, 2017 — Kari’s Law Act\nJan. 23, 2017 — Anti-Spoofing Act\nJan. 9, 2017 — Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017\nJan. 9, 2017 — Improving Access to Maternity Care Act","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line537723"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6333143711090088,"wiki_prob":0.3666856288909912,"text":"History of Health Care in America – US 101\nPosted on July 14, 2019 July 14, 2019 By Kathryn AlvaTagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, ahca, america, american health care act, american healthcare act, american history, american medical association, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, civil war, Democrats, donald trump, education, franklin d roosevelt, great depression, harry truman, Health Care, health care bill, healthcare, hillary clinton, history, Medicine, News, obamacare, politics, repeal, replace, Republicans, single payer, socialism, united states, Universal health care, us 101, us history\nI am NOT a historian but neither are you so how about we the people learn this stuff together welcome to u.s. 101 Oh health care the thing that many of my friends and at one time myself did not have it's also the thing that your parents have and maybe because of that you're entitled to it and the thing that millions of Americans continue to debate and once again health care is on the forefront of America's mind now that the House of Representatives recently voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare would the American Health Care Act and I'm happy to report that once the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act they they accepted the votes with the grace and dignity that we have come to expect from our federal government [Applause] now the AHCA is not official yet as the bill has to go through the Senate before it can be enacted but this vote through the House of Representatives already has advocates of Obamacare freaking out now I'm not saying that the Affordable Care Act was a perfect system far from it okay insurance premiums were high and there was a tax levied against people who didn't sign up for health care insurance but opponents of the AHCA have also pointed out its flaws saying that anyone that has a pre-existing condition could be denied coverage eight hundred billion dollars are going to be slashed for Medicaid and the wealthiest Americans will receive a tax cut because of this bill and amidst this rigmarole that is the health care debate many people ask time and again why doesn't America the strongest and largest nation on the planet have a universal health care system like the one that they have in Canada or in England or in Australia which usually results in conservatives grabbing the torches and pitchforks and angrily yelling stop talking Bernie Sanders what I want to focus on for today's episode is when did the topic of health care even become a discussion in the United States when did some Americans first decide that going to a hospital seeing a doctor receiving prescribed medicine should be a right and not a privilege for that we have to head back to 1854 and meet the activist Dorothea Dix Dix was one of the first to present a health care proposal to the government she wanted the government to raise asylums for the indigent insane as well as the blind the Deaf and the poor she came really really close the bill actually passed both houses of Congress but was ultimately vetoed by President Franklin Pierce who claimed that social welfare was a state responsibility not a federal one and then later in 1865 at the end of the Civil War the government established what became known as the Freedmen's Bureau which raised hospitals and employed doctors to treat sick and dying former slaves in the south and from 1865 to 1870 the Freedmen's Bureau treated over 1 million former slaves but unfortunately by 1870 hospitals in the south had to start closing due to rising violence from a small group of cowards you may have heard of known as the Ku Klux Klan and it would be another 70 years until the topic of health care became a major talking point in the government in 1933 following the Great Depression millions of Americans couldn't afford medical care so President Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to create publicly funded health care programs but was vehemently opposed by groups like the American Medical Association who claimed that programs like this would be considered compulsory and due to staunch opposition Roosevelt unfortunately had to drop these programs from his New Deal and then later in the 1940s Roosevelt's successor Harry Truman tried to pass the universal health care bill but was again opposed by the American Medical Association who is now using a term that to this day still strikes fear into the heart of many Americans socialized medicine and by invoking socialism the AMA started stirring up fears that America was going to leave behind its capitalist roots and start going the way of a communist regime which we damn well would not do because we sure as heck ain't no Russians we're America goddamn it in fact the excuse of socialized medicine was also the reason that lyndon b johnson couldn't pass a universal health care bill in the 1960 but despite opposition from the AMA and some conservative republicans johnson did manage to pass what became known as Medicare in 1965 and for those either don't know what Medicare is Medicare provides health care coverage to anyone that's over the age of 65 as well as to the blind death and disabled throughout the 70s there were multiple attempts to try to get a universal healthcare bill passed and one of the leading advocates of universal health care was Senator Ted Kennedy Kennedy proposed what was known as the health security act which was a single-payer system that would provide coverage to almost every single American but unfortunately the bill never made it out of Congress and then we jump to the 1990s when Bill and Hillary Clinton attempted a major health care reform by introducing the American Health Security Act in 1993 the plan proposed health care for all Americans via private insurers in a regulated market furthermore employers would be required to provide health care to their employees pay 80% of the premiums and health care plans were required to provide a minimum of benefits but in 1994 following disputes between supporters of the bill and its opponents who claimed that the Ahsa gave more power to the insurers and took away the rights of the patient to choose their own doctor the bill was killed and then most recently we have the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act which was signed into law by President Obama in March of 2010 Democrats praised the plan saying that with the passing of the Affordable Care Act more Americans than ever would finally get health care insurance meanwhile Republicans didn't like the plan so much because again the claim of socialized medicine and then something about death panels and a whole lot more oh and it also didn't help that Republican turtle senator Mitch McConnell told many Republicans not to go along with Obama's plan because quote it tended to convey to the public that this is okay they must have figured it out end quote are you kidding me so now that you've gotten your history lesson let me turn it over to you guys man do you think that health care should be a right for all Americans should Americans be guaranteed health care across the board and should the government provide it or are you someone that prefers having the type of health care that lets you decide what kind of health care you get by being able to select your insurance provider I know that this can be a deep and divisive topic among people so can we please keep the discourse in the comments section below civil guys please that is it for this episode of US 101 guys if you want to read more about this topic I've included some links down below in the description box and thanks to all of you that have subscribed to the channel that are sharing the videos that are liking the videos that are commenting on them I sincerely appreciate your guys's a support of the channel and if you're brand new to the channel welcome we talk about history here hopefully you hang out as always guys you can follow us on the Facebook on Twitter on Instagram all those links down below in the description box I want to send a special shout out to my subscriber Beth for supplying today's intro thank you so much bet there was an awesome job and you are the first one to do it well done to you you have set the precedent if you guys want to submit your own intros so that you'll be able to kick-off future episodes of US 101 you can email me your videos you can email them to us history 182 at gmail.com or you can send them to me through Twitter at USA history one oh one and on that note guys thank you so much for watching I will see you next week for another episode of u.s. 101 until then we are all done now before I go you're looking a little you're looking a little pale do me a favor just just turn your head and cough do it again do it again don't know why doctors ever did that just prove that I could call I can call that I can call\n19 thoughts on “History of Health Care in America – US 101”\nKCI investments says:\nemotional intelligence is essential for educators, what is wrong with these youtube tutors?\nJoanne Steele says:\nI would have loved to have used this video in my Hc100 class. It is well-done, but the language both stated and implied is more than I can tolerate.\nDustin Hill says:\nACCURATE TITLE: The history of CRONYISM and INTERVENTION of Health Care in America since 1854.\nAmpwich says:\nWhere can I go to find a non biased introduction to politics and what the heck is going on? I wanna get involved by Idk where to start, and I don't wanna be led toward one side or the other, no tampering! I just wanna know what's what and make up my own mind…..\nTheAutobotPower says:\nI say all USAmericans die off and then all the world will live in peace.\nJesus Our Savior says:\nAny god would want this. Keep that in mind my religious people.\njayson says:\nI'm here from the R!OB\nMr. Beat says:\nDorothea!\nAudrey Lukas says:\nNo one deserves to die because they are poor\nSteven Williams says:\nYour quality is always so damn good! Still don't understand how you're only at 2.2k. I will forever be known as being here before 1k. So glad I stumbled upon this channel.\nEmily Milligan says:\nMan have I missed Sami's wise-cracking humor. I'm glad to have subscribed\nKixanum says:\nHealth care pretty much works very sustainably here in germany. On the other hand our countries economy is pretty socialistic. Our system is even called \"social marketeconomy\".\nheavymetalalldaylong says:\nWe are guaranteed Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It can be argued that the continuation of life is included in that guarantee\nB Mcgee says:\n\"We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; …\" seems to me like Thomas Jefferson felt that the right to live should be given to every American. It doesn't say \"we hold these truths to be self evident, except if you can't afford it\"\nPikiPiki says:\ni Sent one, its horrible X'D\nPhantom Rose says:\nHealthcare should be a right since we are the only developed country that does not have healthcare is a right and besides that Medicare is basically government run medicine socialized medicine for those who don't know. Ha!\nBryan Rothman says:\nIn answering your question, I do not believe that health care is a right because I only believe that negative rights (life, liberty, property, contract, etc…aka natural rights) are legitimate in a free and voluntary society. Positive rights like health care, education, housing, etc.. involve coercing a group of people to provide something for someone else. So morally speaking, I do not believe that the government has the right to coerce people into providing any services for anyone else. This does not mean I don't believe that everyone should have health care, but it should be done on a voluntary basis, with contract and/or charitable organizations. Historically, before the rise of governments getting involved in the health care business, there existed a vast array of voluntary organizations that made sure that their patients were taken care of, sometimes for free pro bono.\nEconomically speaking, the onerous rules and regulations that govern health care are the primary reason why costs are so high and why there is more dynamism in other sectors like luxury TVs than in so-called \"public goods.\" Governments cannot allocate goods as efficiently as the invisible hand. If we allowed for people to choose their own health care and let the market rationally allocate resources, we would be able to have more choices than we could ever dream of (Hayek's spontaneous order). Remarkably, even in our very hampered market, private health savings plans like Liberty HealthShare are providing cheaper market solutions than the inefficient government can provide. Neither the Republicans or Democrats want this as they both want corporations to gain oligarchic benefits at the expense of us. It's basically cronyism in the health care business rather than true free market capitalism. For evidence of everything I've just described, I'll include all my sources below.\nhttps://mises.org/blog/how-government-regulations-made-healthcare-so-expensive\nhttps://mises.org/library/100-years-governments-managed-health-care\nhttps://fee.org/articles/why-single-payer-health-care-delivers-poor-quality-at-high-cost/\nhttps://fee.org/articles/why-large-screen-tvs-are-affordable-and-health-care-is-not/\nhttps://fee.org/articles/health-insurance-is-illegal/\nhttps://fee.org/articles/why-pre-existing-conditions-should-be-left-to-the-market/\nhttps://mises.org/system/tdf/Compulsory%20Medical%20Care%20and%20the%20Welfare%20State_2.pdf?file=1&type=document\nKelsie Janney says:\nDid you know that preexisting conditions will be covered? No one just wants to mention it.\nJust an fyi.\nZalibeeth says:\nOH nO! That intro of mine is so bad… X'D Amazing work as always!!!!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1393171"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9653205275535583,"wiki_prob":0.9653205275535583,"text":"KN-C22137. President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, Speaks at Arrival Ceremony\nPresident of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (in back, partially hidden); President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou (partially hidden); Archbishop Makarios III (at microphones); Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; and Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., stands left of platform; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton, stands behind platform at right. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Ambassador of New Zealand, George Robert Laking; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Ambassador of Greece, Alexander A. Matsas; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; and U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nKN-C22136. President John F. Kennedy Speaks at Arrival Ceremony for President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III\nPresident John F. Kennedy (at microphones) delivers remarks at arrival ceremonies in honor of President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): Archbishop Makarios III; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou; President Kennedy; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; and Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., stands left of platform; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton, stands behind platform at right. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Ambassador of New Zealand, George Robert Laking; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Ambassador of Greece, Alexander A. Matsas; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; and U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nKN-C22130. Arrival of President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III\nPresident John F. Kennedy and President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III (both in center left), stand on the reviewing platform during arrival ceremonies in honor of Archbishop Makarios III. Also standing on platform (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou (partially hidden); U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, left of microphones); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (saluting), stands right of platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Ambassador of New Zealand, George Robert Laking; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Ambassador of Greece, Alexander A. Matsas; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; and U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nKN-22125. President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, Speaks at Arrival Ceremony\nPresident of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); Archbishop Makarios III (at microphones); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; and Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides. Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., stands left of platform; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton (mostly hidden), stands behind platform at right. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Ambassador of New Zealand, George Robert Laking; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; and U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd. The United States Army Band stands in background at left. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nPresident of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, delivers remarks during arrival ceremonies in his honor. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President John F. Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); Archbishop Makarios III (at microphones); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; and Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides. Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., stands left of platform; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton (mostly hidden in center right), stands behind platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; and U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd. The United States Army Band stands in background at left. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nKN-22116. Arrival of President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III\nPresident John F. Kennedy (center right) shakes hands with President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, during arrival ceremonies in honor Archbishop Makarios III. Standing on reviewing platform (L-R): the Archbishop; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; President Kennedy; Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou (mostly hidden behind the President); Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; and Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., stands left of platform; Military Aide to President Kennedy, General Chester V. Clifton, stands behind platform at right. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Ambassador of New Zealand, George Robert Laking; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Ambassador of Greece, Alexander A. Matsas; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; and U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nKN-22115. President John F. Kennedy Speaks at Arrival Ceremony for President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III\nPresident John F. Kennedy and President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III (both in center left), stand on the reviewing platform during arrival ceremonies in honor of Archbishop Makarios III. Also standing on platform (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou (partially hidden); U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, left of microphones); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (saluting), stands right of platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; and U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nPresident John F. Kennedy and President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III (both in center left), stand on the reviewing platform during arrival ceremonies in honor of Archbishop Makarios III. Also standing on platform (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, left of microphones); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (saluting), stands right of platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey, Bülend Uşaklıgil; Ambassador of Nigeria, Julius Momo Udochi; Ambassador of New Zealand, George Robert Laking; Ambassador of India, B. K. Nehru; Ambassador of Great Britain, Sir David Ormsby-Gore; Ambassador of Greece, Alexander A. Matsas; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Chief of Protocol of the Republic of Cyprus, George Pelaghias; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; and U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nPresident John F. Kennedy and President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III (both in center left), stand on the reviewing platform during arrival ceremonies in honor of Archbishop Makarios III. Also standing on platform (L-R): Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou (partially hidden); U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides (in front, left of microphones); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; and U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke (holding hat). Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr. (saluting), stands right of platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Robin Chandler Duke; Director of the Office of the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Patroclos Stavrou; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd; and U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King. The United States Army Band stands in background. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nPresident John F. Kennedy and President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III (both in center), stand on the reviewing platform during arrival ceremonies in honor of Archbishop Makarios III. Also standing on platform (L-R): U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk (partially hidden); Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Spyros Kyprianou; Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson, Jr. (U.S.N.); U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Fraser Wilkins; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; and Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Zenon Rossides. Naval Aide to President Kennedy, Captain Tazewell T. Shepard, Jr., stands right of platform. Also pictured: Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Ambassador of Ghana, William M. Q. Halm; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Phillips Talbot; Director of the Office of Greek, Turkish, and Iranian Affairs, Robert G. Miner; Counselor of the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Alaeddin Gulen; Director of the Public Information Office of the Republic of Cyprus, Pavlos Xioutas; Ambassador of Canada, Charles S. A. Ritchie; Chairman of the Citizens Committee of the District of Columbia, Edgar Morris; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; and U.S. State Department Protocol officer, Jay Rutherfurd. The United States Army Band stands in background at left. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) terminal, Washington National Airport, Washington D.C.\nHeads of state (16)\n(-)Gulen, Alaeddin, 1922?- (16)\n(-)Sevilla-Sacasa, Guillermo, 1908-1997 (16)\nAnderson, George W. (George Whelan), 1906-1992 (16)\nDuke, Angier Biddle, 1915-1995 (16)\nHalm, William M. Q. Halm (16)\nKing, Samuel L. (Samuel Larkin), 1917-2005 (16)\nKyprianou, Spyros, 1932-2002 (16)\nMakarios III, Archbishop of Cyprus, 1913-1977 (16)\nMiner, Robert G. (Robert Graham), 1911-1990 (16)\nMorris, Edgar, 1890-1967 (16)\nRitchie, Charles Stewart Almon, 1906-1995 (16)\nRossides, Zenon G. (Zenon George), 1892?-1990 (16)\nRusk, Dean (David Dean), 1909-1994 (16)\nRutherfurd, Jay, 1916-2005 (16)\nShepard, Tazewell (Tazewell Taylor), 1921-2013 (16)\nTalbot, Phillips, 1915-2010 (16)\nWilkins, Fraser, 1908-1989 (16)\nXioutas, Pavlos, 1908-ca. 1991 (16)\nDuke, Robin Chandler Lynn, 1923- (15)\nStavrou, Patroclos, 1933?-2014 (15)\nUdochi, Julius Momo, 1914- (14)\nUşaklıgil, Bülend (14)\nPelaghias, George, 1924?- (13)\nHarlech, William David Ormsby-Gore, Lord, 1918-1985 (12)\nLaking, George Robert, 1912-2008 (12)\nNehru, B.K. (Braj Kumar), 1909-2001 (12)\nMatsas, Alexandros, d. 1969 (11)\nClifton, Chester V. (Chester Victor), 1913-1991 (10)\nWashington (D.C.) (16)\nUnited States. Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Military Air Transport Service. (06/01/1948 - 01/01/1966) (16)\nWashington National Airport (16)\nKnudsen, Robert L. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8235374689102173,"wiki_prob":0.8235374689102173,"text":"NBCU’s hayu Reality TV Streaming Service Now Live in Canada, Pricing at $5.99\nBack in the spring, it was reported NBCUniversal International would launch its reality TV streaming service called hayu in Canada, by the end of 2018.\nHayu has now launched in Canada as of today, priced at $5.99 per month (including taxes), offering an on-demand video library for Canadians. The service here joins other successful launches in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark.\nTop reality shows such as Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Real Housewives and Million Dollar Listing franchises, Vanderpump Rules and Below Deck, plus others, are now available on hayu, which currently has over 6,000 episodes from over 200 reality shows available.\nHayu also offers offline viewing by allowing users to download video to watch on the go, without the need for an Internet connection.\n“We’re thrilled to now be delivering the innovative all-reality SVOD service – hayu – in Canada,” says Hendrik McDermott, SVP, Branded On-Demand, NBCUniversal International, in an issued statement to iPhone in Canada. “The proven healthy appetite for reality programming amongst Canadian viewers is reinforced by early enthusiasm for hayu, with thousands already bingeing on multiple favourite shows – and we are excited to build momentum with Canadian subscribers.”\nHayu Canada kicked off its launch last night at the Love Child Social House in Toronto, at an event with Dolores Catania from Real Housewives of New Jersey and Canada’s very own “Housewives Historian” and pop-culture guru, Shinan Govani, discussing TV reality life.\nApple users can watch hayu with the service’s iPhone and iPad app, along with the web, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku.\nHayu says the first month is free and after it’s $5.99 per month, while most episodes are available the same day as TV. Will you be signing up for hayu (please don’t tell my wife about this service)?\nClick here to sign up for your free month of hayu Canada.\nAmazon Launches Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote in Canada and Smart TVs","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1682590"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6180830001831055,"wiki_prob":0.38191699981689453,"text":"Research Journal of Health Sciences\nKnowledge and attitude towards onchocerciasis and community directed treatment with ivermectin in endemic communities in Edo State, Nigeria.\nAO Onowhakpor, OH Okojie, VA Wagbatsoma\nObjective: Community directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) was developed as a solution for the control and elimination of onchocerciasisis. It involves active and structural community participation. CDTI requires that ivermectin be administered continuously over a period of at least 14years before elimination can be achieved in hyper and meso-endemic communities. The study assessed the knowledge and attitude of community's members towards onchocerciasis and the CDTI strategy in endemic communities in Edo State, Nigeria.\nMethods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study involving seven hundred and twenty community members' selected using multistage sampling technique. Data was collected using a pre-tested structured interviewers' administered questionnaire and was analysed using IBM SPSS version 21.0 software. Level of statistical significance was set at p < 0.05\nResults: The mean age (SD) of respondents was 45.9 (15.2) years. Six hundred and one (83.5%) and 591 (82.1%) of the respondents had good knowledge of onchocerciasis and CDTI strategy respectively. The significant predictors of good knowledge on onchocerciasis were age (p = 0.001), sex (p = 0.001) and level of education (p = 0.001) while that of CDTI strategy were sex (p = 0.001) and level of education (p = 0.001). Five hundred and ninety seven (82.9%) of the respondents had a good attitude towards the CDTI strategy and its significant predictor was level of education (p = 0.006)\nConclusion: Findings from this study revealed that there are still gaps in knowledge as regards onchocerciasis and the CDTI strategy among community members in the study area. Re-enforcement of health education messages on onchocerciasis and CDTI strategy in endemic areas is recommended so as to improve knowledge and consequent acceptance of the CDTI strategy.\nKeywords: Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin, Onchocerciasis. Knowledge, Attitude, Nigeria.\nEMAIL FREE FULL TEXT\nhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/rejhs.v4i3.1","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1409293"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5535295009613037,"wiki_prob":0.4464704990386963,"text":"Antithesis appartments\nGuru nanak and meera bai\nThe impact of technological changes on the development of wireless technology\nHuman trafficking grammar\nSubsequently, ina meeting of the American Ministers for Foreign Affairs created the Inter-American Commission on Human Rightswhich has since undertaken important investigative activities in the region. The difficulties and the benefits associated with working abroad are many, especially in relation to family life.\nForeign Service can be exceptionally difficult. The country's first all-women university, named after Fatima Jinnahwas inaugurated on 6 August She was sentenced to fifteen lashes, five years imprisonment, and a fine of rupees.\nBy the first decade of the 21st century, however, only the first four of these regions had created enforcement mechanisms within the framework of a human rights charter. First, the American convention, reflecting the influence of the American Declaration, acknowledges the relationship between individual duties and individual rights.\nHad we not come through the fiery testing supplied by the devil and his corrupt world-system, we would never be able to appreciate God's marvelous provision for us and His deliverance of us from all our earthly trials 2Tim. So while these fellow creatures of God share with us the fact that the central issue in their existence is to choose for or against the Lord, the manner in which they have done so in the pre-human past is thus different from the manner in which we now do so in human history.\nThese and other facts speak to Human trafficking grammar immaterial aspect of their nature. Under this principle, states have a responsibility to protect their civilian populations against genocide and other mass human rights atrocities.\nLike us, they possess personality and individuality as evidenced, for example, by joy: If not, explain Human trafficking grammar students that after each round of questions, players have to decide who is the weakest link i.\nThe protocol has been favourably received in most of the countries of western Europe and in many countries in the Americas, though not in the United States. It is, in any event, fair to say that the African human rights system was still in its infancy at the beginning of the 21st century, given especially the turmoil and violence that beset northern and sub-Saharan Africa during this time.\nAlthough Pakistan is a very religious, orthodox country, the rate of prostitution is very high. This evolving International Law of State Responsibility for Injuries to Aliens, as these customs and conventions came to be called, represents the beginning of active concern—however much they served the interests of colonial expansion —for human rights on the international plane.\nIf governments fail to meet the minimum standards or fail to make strides to do so, the United States may cease financial assistance beyond humanitarian and trade-related aid. Yet we should point out that, by its very essence, the angelic nature is superior to our present earthly human nature in terms of appearance, intellect, power, mobility and authority 2Pet.\nAmbassadors at large are appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. For it was [God's] good pleasure for the fulfillment [of His plan] to reside entirely in [Christ], and so through Him to reconcile everything to Himself having made peace through Him, through the blood of His cross — whether things on earth, or things in heaven.\nThe guy asks you where you are headed to and you give him the address; he starts the meter and starts driving. What would you do if it would happen to you?\nUnaware of this, Shahida, after her mandatory day period of waiting iddatremarried. God's ineffable wisdom shines through pellucidly in this distinction of choices presented to us on the one hand and to our angelic fellow creatures on the other.\nHaving established that angels are creatures too, and that they are not possessed of infinite power and ability, it is important to acknowledge that this power and ability of theirs is considerable, especially in comparison to mankind. The trafficking scheme Human traffickers often create transnational routes for transporting migrants who are driven by unfavourable living conditions to seek the services of a smuggler.\nMigrant trafficking is one of the fastest-growing criminal enterprises. In this sense as well as others, the Arab human rights system compares unfavourably with its European, Inter-American, and African counterparts. Modern-day slavery is worse today than it was historically.\nHuman rights in Asia Despite efforts by NGOs and the United Nations, Asian states were at best ambivalent—and at worst hostile—to human rights concerns over many years, thus precluding agreement on almost all regional human rights initiatives.\nThe most frequent kind of illegal abuse of an official position concerns Consular Officers. She also announced plans to set up women's police stationscourts and women's development banks. As ofthe trend of Vani is decreased very much, allowing more young girls to live their childhood freely.\nThus, its controversial Article 2 3 provides that all forms of racism, Zionism and foreign occupation and domination constitute an impediment to human dignity and a major barrier to the exercise of the fundamental rights of peoples; all such practices must be condemned and efforts must be deployed for their elimination.\nIn addition to espionage, there is also the danger of personnel that use their position illegally for financial gain.\nTraffickers may also use a variety of techniques to instill fear in victims and ensure that they remain under their control: Shahida's second marriage was ruled invalid.Human trafficking happens in almost every country around the world, including the United States. Traffickers represent every social, ethnic, and racial group.\nTraffickers are not only men; women are also perpetrators.1 Increasingly, traffickers are using fear tactics to lure children and youth into commercial sex acts and/or compelled labor. As one of Georgia's most innovative institutions in teaching and learning, Kennesaw State University offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees across two metro Atlanta campuses.\nKennesaw State is a member of the University System of Georgia and the third-largest university in Georgia. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.\n90% of the time, speakers of English use just 7, words in speech and writing. These words appear in red, and are graded with stars.\nOne-star words are frequent, two-star words are more frequent, and three-star words are the most frequent. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5995655655860901,"wiki_prob":0.5995655655860901,"text":"Millennials are more willing to help out parents than you might think\nMillennials show a willingness to help out their parents as caregivers in more ways than one. Sometimes, the parents just have to communicate this. - photo by Sarah Anderson\nPosted: July 6, 2016, 3:11 a.m.\nAre millennials as unwilling to help their parents and relatives as they age as popular conception would have you think? Not exactly.\nAn opinion piece in Forbes discussed the recent results of the Fidelity Investments Family & Finance Study that interviewed 1,273 parents over the age of 55 and 221 of their adult children older than 25.\nIt was found, amongst other results, that it was the parents who were reluctant to become financially dependent on their children at 93 percent, while only 30 percent of adult children agreed, according to Forbes. However, 72 percent of parents said they expected their children to act as a long-term caregiver if needed, but 40 percent of those kids were unaware of that.\nThe articles conclusion was not that children were unwilling to do these things, but that these expectations and what was necessary to fulfill them werent being adequately communicated to the children.\nSimilarly, Time.com looked at the same survey and noted that most respondents said they did not have in-depth talks about monetary subjects such as long-term care, retirement expenses, wills and estate planning, or where important documents were kept.\nParents dont want to acknowledge these issues and children feel uncomfortable raising them, but you cant wait for the other person to bring the topic up, said John Sweeney, executive vice president of retirement and investing strategies at Fidelity, to Time.com.\nMillennials wanting to help parents isnt even a new train of thought, just now derailing the belief that millennials are indifferent to their older family members. An article from The Washington Post published last October talked about millennials who act as caregivers for family members.\nAbout a quarter of Americas adult caregivers fall between 18 and 34, The Post said, and millennial caregivers are as equally likely to be a man as a woman.\nThe makeup of the average millennial caregiver is someone who is 27, works a job 35 hours a week and with an average household income below the national median, according to The Post. Most live within 20 minutes of those they care for, if they dont live with them.\nAnd its not just medical assistance but lifestyle assistance millennials are giving, with a number reversing the accepted status quo and helping their parents find jobs, according to an article in The Atlantic.\nPossibly spurred on by a working market that prioritizes courting the younger generation over previous ones, millennials, such as 25-year-old Ashley Buchly, are helping their parents deal with being in-between jobs, as The Atlantic recounted.\nBuchlys father, a director of real estate at a university, left work when told it was either that or work at half his salary. He left, and sent out 500 resumes for another job, only for the rejections to start coming in, according to The Atlantic.\nHe even went to Wal-Mart and applied to be an overnight stocker, and they told him he was too qualified for the job, Buchly told The Atlantic.\nHe spent near three years unemployed until finding a job as a real estate agent, and even now Buchly helps him with networking both in everyday life and online as he looks for another job, as The Atlantic said.\nAnd aside from medical and lifestyle help, theres also the little things, like millennials Tweeting about helping their parents with technology.\nThe belief that millennials arent family oriented and there for older relatives may have some discrepancies to resolve.\nMillennials avoid credit cards and their accompanying debt\nWhy viewers choose video-streaming and how to make that decision yourself\nWhat still needs to be done for true workforce diversity and equality\nImmigration truths and myths during the election season","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line49510"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9197306036949158,"wiki_prob":0.9197306036949158,"text":"Anti-Semitic hate crimes spiked in 2017, according to B'Nai Brith\nPublished Tuesday, April 24, 2018 1:33PM EDT\nLast Updated Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:12PM EDT\nInstances of anti-Semitic vandalism went up by a “whopping” 107 per cent in 2017, according to an audit by B’Nai Brith Canada – setting a record for anti-Semitism in Canada, they said.\nTheir “Annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents” revealed that 2017 was the second consecutive year in which record numbers were reached. The audit showed 1,752 incidents throughout Canada last year – and they estimate only about 10 per cent get reported.\n“If the Hasidic community in Outremont reported every single incident, every single day of what happens to their community, we would have unbelievable numbers. But they don't because it's become so prevalent they kind of learn to live with it,” said Janna Minikovich, a B’Nai Brith first responder. “It makes me feel horrible because I am Jewish and so putting up with things like this, trying to decrease it and trying to eliminate it. It's not just anti-Semitism, it's hate in general.”\nAccording to their data, vandalism was especially prevalent. Homes, schools, parks and highways were reportedly defaced by Nazi graffiti and anti-Semitic epithets.\n“This problem will not solve itself,” Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’Nai Brith Canada, said in a statement Tuesday. “We need a concerted national effort to ensure that anti-Semitic outbreaks do not become a fact of life for Jews in this country, as in other developed countries such as France and Sweden.”\nOver 400 distinct incidents took place in Quebec – among them, B’Nai Brith pointed out “a rapper who promoted anti-Semitic violence” and “an imam who escaped criminal sanctions after twice calling for the genocide of Jews.”\nThe report states: \"While Canadians often stress their multiculturalism and tolerance as defining national traits, our record on anti-Semitism is just as problematic as that of our southern neighbours.\"\nThe organization said it saw a spike in incidents following white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, adding that more than ever, the hateful messages are transitioning from online to real life.\nB'nai Brith said Montreal police have taken a big first step by establishing the hate crimes unit, and is pushing other Canadian cities to follow suit.\nThe organization posited an eight-point plan to tackle anti-Semitism, including increased resources for police hate crime units, a no-tolerance approach to public funding of anti-Jewish events, and the development of a National Action Plan for anti-Semitism, among others.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line951898"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8527107238769531,"wiki_prob":0.8527107238769531,"text":"How the National Theatre protects its scripts and stars from cyber attacks\nThe arts venue uses Forcepoint Cloud Security to protect millions of customers and 1,200 staff members around the world\nTom Macaulay\nTom studied English Literature and History at Sussex University before gaining a Masters in Newspaper Journalism from City University. He's particularly interested in the public sector and the ethical implications of emerging technologies.\nTom Macaulay August 4, 2017\nThe National Theatre has turned to Forcepoint Cloud Security to keep its scripts, set designs and the personal information of its stars safe from hackers.\nForcepoint specialises in providing centrally-managed security, which provides protection wherever data is, regardless of where increasingly-mobile users are located.\nImage: Philip Vile\nThe performing arts venue on London's South Bank presents more than 3,000 live performances each year. It relies on extensive collaboration between people on highly sensitive information. In IT terms this means a variety of users sharing documents across a variety of devices and software platforms, all around the world.\n\"The reason we chose Forcepoint is because it's a platform-as-a-service and a cloud technology, so it's on all of our devices all of the time,\" George Tunnicliffe, the head of IT operations at the National Theatre told Computerworld UK.\n\"The combination of seeing where your data is going, assisting the users in using the internet, and keeping them safe without them having to really think about it is really crucial and useful for us. We didn't want anything to interfere with their work, and we don't want to set up lots of onerous policies.\"\nTunnicliffe is responsible for keeping up to 1,200 members of staff, the theatre's intellectual property (IP) including scripts and stage designs, and the private information and correspondence of actors, directors and designers safe from cyber attackers.\nThe recent hacking scandal at American TV network HBO showed that no production company is too big to be breached. Attackers stole an unreleased Game of Thrones screenplay and unaired episodes of hit shows such as Ballers and Room 104. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the 1.5 terabytes of data stolen was seven times that of the infamous 2014 Sony hack linked to The Interview, a comedy about North Korea.\nThe National Theatre wants to ensure that the plays it produces don't join the growing list of leaks. Its information is stored and shared across various services, such as Google Drive and with cloud-based document storage vendor Box. The theatre recently migrated from its on-premise Microsoft Exchange system to Office 365 to improve collaboration in the cloud.\nRead next: 13 must-watch TED Talks on cyber security\nThe workforce regularly changes across productions and is highly mobile. They may be working in the South Bank theatre, at home, or with a producer at an international location, which makes access controls and onboarding extremely important.\n\"There's a lot more collaboration in the theatre across different mediums that I've not seen at this level anywhere that I've worked before,\" says Tunnicliffe. \"A lot of adjustments of plans, things going back and forwards, and lots of people looking at one document.\"\nWhy Forcepoint?\nTunnicliffe opted for Forcepoint after deeming the legacy cybersecurity product he inherited as inadequate. It could only be deployed on-premise, which created a single point of failure on the network, and was complicated to maintain and update.\n\"Forcepoint [won] hands down because its platform-as-a-service offering really stood out to us,\" says Tunnicliffe.\nForcepoint is installed on the National Theatre servers and on every device, laptop, and work station it hands out. It gives every user the same level of security as they would get inside the office and allows Tunicliffe's IT team of 12 the ability to understand and track when and where staff are moving information on the internet.\nThe Forcepoint Web Security dashboard provides comprehensive information on security threats. Image credit: Forcepoint\n\"One of the crucial things is that it's invisible to them,\" he says. \"It's always on, so they don't need to worry about logging into a VPN and putting it on to make sure they're safe. They can just get on with their work and know that the information on their laptop is going to the right place.\"\nForcepoint automatically stops dangerous activities on compromised websites such as uploading information, and provides notification that it's happening, flagging any unusual activity or high-risk behaviour.\nRead next: Ransomware explained - What is ransomware and how can it be stopped?\nPreparing for GDPR\nThe impending GDPR deadline of May 2018 has provided the National Theatre with the opportunity to restructure their information usage and review their data practices.\nRead next: GDPR explained: How to prepare for the approaching General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)\nForcepoint prevents advanced threats that use sophisticated detection evasion techniques from stealing sensitive data. Information is tracked as it moves and early visibility of data incidents and advanced warnings of possible compromises are displayed on a screen in the office.\nThe IT team can then contact the individual and department involved to find out the implications on data protection and GDPR compliance.\n\"What Forcepoint allows us to do is understand where our information is flowing to and what kind of information is on there,\" says Tunnicliffe.\nHow to ensure GDPR compliance in the cloud How Salesforce has prepared for GDPR","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1632230"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9103681445121765,"wiki_prob":0.9103681445121765,"text":"The many tributaries of the Sandspruit that flowed through the farms Syferfontein and Klipfontein created a rich and fertile landscape, and though the farms are gone, many historic structures on the spruit remain. Explore a series of bridges built by the City Engineer’s department between 1926 and 1938 in unusual sympathy with their context. These structures, built from locally sourced granite, have weathered decades of neglect and look as beautiful today as when they were built. Our City’s rivers were not only important for agriculture, but also for doing the laundry! It may surprise some to hear that one of Joburg’s earliest laundries was founded on the banks of the Sandspruit by Tamil labourers in the vicinity of Melrose in the late 1890s, and that this community has endured to this day. Our walk takes us past their Shree Siva Subramaniar Temple. In this vicinity can also be found two of Joburg’s lesser known memorials, to the Katyn Forest Massacre of 1940 and to the fighter pilots of World War II. And our walk will also encompass some of our earliest residential architecture – a house in Oaklands dating back to 1896, and the oldest existing houses in Abbotsford, Norwood and The Gardens.\nHilson Bridge is the earliest suburban bridge built in Johannesburg, and dates back to 1926. It is constructed of locally sourced granite, and its low-slung and inconspicuous design is in unusual sympathy with its environment. The descendants of the Willow trees seen in this historic photo are still to be found here.\nHigh Road between Plantation and Nursery Roads was called Red Square by the Security Branch because of the number of residents involved in anti-apartheid activities. The Rochmans at 21 Nursery Road sheltered Nelson Mandela in the early 60s, Michael Harmel at 47 High was the chief theoretician of the communist party, and Eli Weinberg became the photographer of the Struggle.\nIn contrast to the modest Hilson Bridge, the Pretoria Street Bridge, constructed in 1938, asserts its importance with bulky, rough-hewn dark granite and imposing pediments. The construction of the bridge was necessitated by rapid suburban growth in Highlands North and neighbouring Oaklands and Abbotsford in the 1930s.\nThe Johannesburg Melrose Shree Siva Subramaniar Temple (Melrose Temple) was founded in 1897 by indentured Tamil labourers working in the Melrose Laundry on the Sandspruit. The Tamil community was granted rights to build a temple here by Kruger’s ZAR government, although restricted ownership laws meant that the land was owned by a white proxy. Sadly, the original buildings were demolished in the 1990s.\nThis odd looking structure is what remains of a memorial erected in 1976 to commemorate the Royal Air Force aircrews who died while undergoing training in SA. Sadly, the Harvard wings once attached to it were removed after being vandalised, and are now housed at the SAAF Museum at Zwartkops.\nIn 1927 it was decided to extend waterborne sewerage to the suburbs using the small natural drainage basins of Joburg’s streams. Gravity-fed plants were established and given Classical-sounding names that would not prejudice the neighbouring suburbs by association – Antea, Bruma, Cydna and Delta. These four schemes were constructed during the Depression of the 1930s and were capital projects and poverty relief endeavours using only ‘poor white’ labour. They were eventually superseded by the gigantic disposal works at Diepsloot/Dainfern.\nThe Cydna Bridge, constructed on Melrose Street in 1931, is the most modest, and perhaps the most charming of our neighbourhood’s three historic bridges. Sadly, this area has been tainted by association with Brett Kebble’s arranged murder-suicide just up the road on Melrose Street Bridge.\nThe Katyn Memorial was erected in 1981 to commemorate the Katyn Forest Massacre, in which 14,500 Polish officers, police officers and citizens were executed by the Stalin regime of the Soviet Union in 1940. It was the first memorial outside of Poland to this event. The monument has since been extended to commemorate the Warsaw Flights and Polish Home Army during World War II.\nThe oldest house in Abbotsford, built before 1913, is found next to the Park.\nThe Bram Fischer family house. After evading police for months in 1964, he was arrested just down the road from his home, at the corner of Beaumont and Stella.\n10, 11 and 12\nPretoria-born attorney MA Begemann arrived in Johannesburg in 1886, and in 1896 was living in a large house set in a block of 8 acres to which four magnificent oak avenues led – “Oaklands”. The house still stands, although the block has been carved up and many of the Oak trees are gone. A subsequent owner, RS Mennie, whose family still own the property, built the magnificent stables on Haswell Street, and the almost hidden water tower on the corner of African and Currie.\nBetween 1961 and 1974, Helen Suzman was the sole representative of the Progressive Party in Parliament, and used that position to bravely speak out against Apartheid. Using the privileges of that position, she visited political prisoners and campaigned against unjust laws that so many other activists were subjected to, including detention without trial. Suzman was elected by the Houghton electoral district, and her campaign office was situated at 38 Ivy Road, Norwood.\nThe suburbs of Norwood, Orchards and The Gardens were all founded in 1902, and are therefore amongst the oldest suburbs in Johannesburg. Norwood was immediately popular with the lower middle-class as it was served by the tram on Grant Avenue. Development in Orchards and The Gardens tracked the tram’s extension. Though gentrification from the 70s has almost obliterated its historic housing stock, Nellie Road contains the oldest remaining house (1911)at no 2, and a beautifully restored example of late 20s veranda architecture at no 52.\n17 and 18\nOrchards' oldest house, dating back to 1903, is found at 11 High Road. The historic St Luke's Church, designed in 1906 by Herbert Baker with later additions by Fleming, is situated across the road.\nThe Gardens was established in 1902, and its oldest remaining house was built soon after, for a Mr Cuthbertson on stand no 1 in 1905. Its late Victorian design is largely unaltered. Land to the east of The Gardens remained undeclared until the 1970s, and it was here that the thriving Portuguese Market Gardens were developed. Sadly increasing land prices resulted in a very attractive sale of the land to Sanlam and Pick n Pay in the 1970s, resulting in the disappearance of the irrigation dams and destruction of much of the wetland. NORA has bravely fought to restore the space in recent years.\nDo you have information on our neighbourhood's history that you would like to share? Contact us on noracommittee@gmail.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line701764"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7653325796127319,"wiki_prob":0.7653325796127319,"text":"Brandon Pollard\nBrandon Pollard - (Player) Inducted 2018\nBrandon played his youth soccer with the Richmond Strikers that became State Cup Champions and competed in Regionals in Niagara Falls. He later played with the Prince William Spartans. He was selected for VYSA ODP and Region I ODP in 1989, 1990, and 1991. In High School, Brandon was a four-time All Colonial District and All State Soccer player named Parade Magazine All-American as a senior. Brandon attended the University of Virginia. While at UVA, he was a member of the 1992, 1993, and 1994 NCAA Championship team. He was selected All-American in 1993, 1994 and 1995. During his collegiate career, he was also selected for various US Youth Soccer National Teams. In 1993, he was a member of the World University Games soccer teams. That same year he also started in all four games at the U20 World Cup. In 1995, Brandon was a member of the US team at the Pan American Games and in 1996, he was selected for the US Soccer U23 team participating in the Olympics. In 1996, Brandon was selected to the Dallas Burn. He continued to play with the Burn until he was injured in 2000. He retired from playing professionally in 2001 and found his next passion dedicating his time to helping bees make honey “Going inside a beehive is much like participating in and witnessing The Beautiful Game.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line987771"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9700261354446411,"wiki_prob":0.9700261354446411,"text":"Spurs boost as Son moves into Asian Games final four\nThe two medals from the compound teams have come as a welcome relief for the Indian archery contingent after the recurve archers drew a blank from the Games. They all want to make their countrymen proud, ” Guiao asserted. Hindi naman tayo naglalaro para sa sinasabi nilang multo (ghost) but for our country.”.\nCatalans Dragons stun Warrington Wolves in Challenge Cup final\nHe failed in the first objective, but later had a spell with Catalans' feeder club St Esteve and was then signed by the Perpignan-based side, making his debut in their Challenge Cup sixth round win over Whitehaven when he scored a brace of tries.\nSerena Williams downplays controversy over French Open 'catsuit' ban\nOn top of that, the catsuit serves a medical objective. In an Instagram post after that French Open first-round victory over Czech Kristyna Pliskova - her first match on clay since the 2016 French Open final - Williams wrote: \"Catsuit anyone?\" 'The president of the French Federation, he's been really wonderful.\nSpurs legend Ginobili announces retirement\nLeonard's departure meant Ginobili would have been the last player tied to the Spurs' title years. Taken in the second round of the 1999 NBA Draft, Ginobili made the jump to the NBA in 2002 following fours seasons in Italy where he was the back-to-back MVP in 2001 and 2002 for Virtus Bologna.\nZaha could play for Real Madrid - Souness\nTownsend then played James McArthur in in front of goal, but after the midfielder controlled possession to leave him with only Foster to beat he struck low and straight at the goalkeeper. Do you agree with Souness' opinion? \"Happy to be the record goalscorer for [Crystal] Palace in the Premier League and hope I can score many more for the club\", Zaha posted on Instagram.\nWhy Thibaut Courtois is not starting for Real Madrid\nReal Madrid Julen Lopetegui highlighted the importance of his \"collective\" team over individual talent in the post-Cristiano Ronaldo era after a 4-1 win at Girona on Sunday. Naturally in Ronaldo's absence, all eyes have been on Gareth Bale , and the Welshman has delivered. With the home side chasing the game, Real were a constant threat on the counter and Bale gave a glimpse of his searing pace when he latched onto an Isco through ball to score in his sixth consecutive league ...\nMourinho demands respect in presser after Man U loss\nIn his managerial career, Mourinho has won three Premier League titles at the helm of Chelsea FC, winning two (2004-05, 2005-06) during his first spell with the club, and another (2014-15) during his second tenure at Stamford Bridge. \"Three for me and two for them\", he said. Pogba, who cost United a then world record £89 million ($116 million) in 2016 claimed he would be fined for revealing his true feelings after the first game of the season as his agent Mino Raiola appears to be ...\nNASCAR Xfinity driver Conor Daly loses sponsorship\nWith three laps to go, second-place James Davison and third-place Justin Marks were jockeying for position, trying desperately to catch Allgaier, when their cars spun out around a tight left turn. The Roush Fenway Racing driver is behind the wheel of a relatively simple black and green vehicle in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race in rural Wisconsin.\nRumor: Odell Beckham Jr. deal with Giants ‘close, but not done’\nThe Odell Beckham Jr . contract-extension negotiations may soon be reaching their conclusion. Beckham is entering the final year of his rookie contract and is set to earn $8.5 million this season. The fan, who was decked out in a Sam Darnold USC jersey, was clearly ecstatic when Beckham concluded their game and said his farewells. He'll become a free agent after the 2018 season if he can't agree to a new deal with the Giants.\nMohammad Irfan sets world record in T20\nThe first 23 deliveries of his spell were all dot balls while the batsman denied him a fourth consecutive maiden over by scoring a run off his 24th and final delivery - which helped the quick register figures of 4-3-1-2. \"I liked bowling on the lively wicket, and I get an extra bounce because of my height, so yes, a satisfying performance\". Opting to field first, Patriots kept Tridents to 147 for 6 with Ben Cutting and Anton Devcich picking up two wickets apiece.\nGiants’ Landon Collins looking to ‘feast’ against Jets rookie QB Sam Darnold\nA stationary outlet for a pressured Eli Manning, Engram caught a pass between two defenders waiting to crush him. Aldrick Rosas kicked field goals of 48, 40, 27 and 21 yards to give the Giants a 19-13 lead into halftime. Jonathan Stewart fumble et Leonard Williams avec un énorme retour pour les Jets! Darnold then found Pryor, making his preseason debut for the Jets, for 12 yards and a touchdown to give the Jets the lead 56 seconds into the second quarter.\nManchester United Vs. Tottenham Live Stream\nAfter the match, Mourinho remained on the Old Trafford pitch to applaud the remaining United fans in the stand. Spurs , who didn't sign a single player in the summer, have so far bagged back-to-back wins over Newcastle and Fulham, and should they topple the Red Devils, they'll accumulate three top-flight wins out of three at the start of a campaign for the first time in nine years.\nVikings acquire center in trade with Giants\nHalapio appeared in 10 games with six starts at right guard for the Giants last season . Jones, who was a celebrated CFL lineman, was signed by the Giants as a free agent in 2016. Minnesota has already lost starting left guard Nick Easton for the entire 2018 season , center Pat Elflein is still on the PUP list, right guard Mike Remmers is dealing with an ankle injury , and right tackle Rashod Hill is also banged up.\nDeclan Rice: England switch possible for teen star - Martin O'Neill\nRice won't be part of the travelling panel. After revealing that England were in contact with the 19-year-old, there was an influx of opinions from several of the country's most influential figures. It's probably to do with the fact that he started the season with a new manager at club level, and he's trying to cement a place there. London-born Rice, 19, has earned three Republic caps after making his debut against Turkey in March but has not played in a competitive global.\nLiverpool hire specialist throw-in coach, who is somehow NOT Rory Delap\nGronnemark, 42, from Denmark, first worked with Liverpool players during a preseason training camp as Klopp hoped to strengthen his side's ability to retain possession after throw-ins. Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah celebrates a goal during a pre-season friendly against Manchester City on 25 July 2018. He was good as the six but brilliant as the eight.\nMarquise Lee Out For Season With Knee Surgery\nThe play in question involved Falcons safety Damontae Kazee going low to tackle Lee and the wide receiver's knee buckling in brutal fashion. Kazee was penalized on the play for lowering his helmet to initiate contact, and replays showed his helmet made contact with Lee's knee.\nFans react to Manu Ginobili's retirement announcement\nThe Spurs paid tribute to Manu Ginobili following his retirement announcement on Monday by tweeting a highlight reel video with the hashtag #GraciasManu. In a post on twitter, the 41-year-old wrote, \"It's been a fabulous journey\". His time in San Antonio earned him four championships and his place in \"The Big 3\" alongside Tim Duncan and Tony Parker.\nPatriots sign guard Shaq Mason to five-year, $50 million extension\nIf Isaiah Wynn can return at full strength and become the left tackle, the Patriots would suddenly have excellent continuity nearly completely across the offensive line. He did a real good job of learning new techniques. \"He can pull, run and hit\". Mason, 24, was drafted by the Patriots in the fourth round (131st overall) in the 2015 NFL Draft.\nReal Madrid boss explains Courtois exclusion for Girona match\nWhile former strike partner Benzema added: \"You can never forget Cristiano\". The Brazilian was hauled out and Nacho introduced when Madrid was leading 3-1 and accepted that he was surprised by the change made by Julen Lopetegui . The Belgian started on the bench behind Keylor Navas on Sunday. \"Girona have a good collective game, they started well got an early goal and could have had another\", said Lapotegui.\nMohamed Salah accuses Egyptian FA of ignoring complaints over image rights\nIn an angry rebuttal the football federation said Monday that it would not accept the requests, blasting some as \"illogical\" and insisting it would not \"favour one player over another\". Salah, who is due to be back in global action under new coach Javier Aguirre next month, could see himself sitting out the Pharaoh's fixture against Nigeria after he chose to call out the football association on social media.\nNike support Serena Williams in ongoing catsuit dispute\nThe six-time US Open champion made it clear that the catsuit won't make a return appearance in NY. \"I believe we have sometimes gone too far. Hi Queen Flo Jo\". Williams downplayed the controversy during a press conference leading up to the U.S. Open. When asked about her powerful look during the tennis tournament, she told reporters it made her feel \"like a warrior princess\" from the blockbuster Marvel Comics film \" Black Panther \".\nOakland Raiders Acquire Fifth-Round Selection, Trade Wide Receiver Ryan Switzer\nThe exact return for the Raiders remains unclear, although Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that draft picks are involved. Switzer, a fourth-round pick by the Cowboys in 2017 who has been traded twice in the past 121 days, finished his rookie year with six catches for 41 yards.\nOdell Beckham Jr., Giants Agree On Record 5-Year, $95M Contract\nWhile terms were not disclosed, the deal with the 25-year-old, 2014 first-rounder is worth about $95m (£73.5m) with £50m guaranteed. Beckham was previously set to play the 2018 season on the final year of his rookie contact, which would pay him $8,459,000 per Spotrac.\nAust's Dennis wins stage one of Vuelta\nThe Tasmanian is racing the Vuelta as a change of late-season plans after he crashed out of the Tour de France. It was also the first time I managed a top ten in a Grand Tour. With about 80km to go we began a loop which contained two 6km ascents of the Alto de Guadalhorce and the 5km long Alto de Ardales, both of which were third-category climbs.\nPatriots QB Tom Brady ends radio interview due to Alex Guerrero questions\nWhile this wouldn't have been Guerrero's first ever trip on the team's plane, it would have been his first team trip in quite some time. Last week, NFL Network's Michael Giardi reported that Guerrero flew with the Patriots for the preseason tilt versus the Carolina Panthers .\nEric Decker, New England Patriots WR, announces retirement from football\nThe 31-year-old Decker, signed by the Patriots on August 3, has struggled throughout the preseason, with issues with catching the ball and failing to develop any real chemistry with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady . Decker saw nearly no time on the field with Tom Brady in preseason, having dropped a number of his passes in training camp practices while also struggling with his route-running.\nHalep stunned by Kanepi in US Open first round\nOpen. It was the first match at the rebuilt Louis Armstrong Stadium. World No. 44 Kanepi was a quarter-finalist in Flushing Meadows past year, but her form has been unremarkable this season. Kanepi earned the first break when she launched a back-hand lob over Halep's head to jump out to a 2-1 lead. Halep made another slow start at a Grand Slam tournament by losing the first set in 28 minutes, before going down a double-break in the second.\nTiger Woods sidesteps questions about his personal relationship with Donald Trump\nAustralian Adam Scott, another late charger, was a stroke back of the leaders after a 64, with world number one Dustin Johnson (67) and Bryson DeChambeau (66) tied for fourth at eight-under 134. \"I didn't do it this week\". Lovemark, who has made 311 feet worth of putts through 36 holes, even reached 11 under before a bogey on the par-three sixth hole.\nFernando Alonso involved in a major crash at Spa\nAnalysing the crash for Sky F1, Davidson told viewers: \"We all have to say and admit in a way that the halo did its job today and we now have to appreciate the reason why it's on the vehicle\". \"It doesn't take much imagination to think that the tyre marks would have actually been on Charles' head\". \"It looks like it's had a fairly hefty whack.\nFederer lags behind big rivals in U.S. Open betting\nThe two are destined to meet at the final Grand Slam of the year if they both progress through their opening two matches. Should Halep remain number one for the rest of the year, a scenario that appears highly likely, only Wozniacki (71 weeks), Justine Henin (117) and Serena Williams (319) will have spent more weeks in the position since the latter first hit top spot in July 2002.\n« Back 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 Forward »","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1093706"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9940226674079895,"wiki_prob":0.9940226674079895,"text":"Lifestyle / Entertainment / Film\nNetflix reveals partnership deal to make film about cave rescue of Thai boy footballers\nThe young Thai football team The Wild Boars who were rescued from Tham Luang cave in Thailand during the Opening Ceremony of The Youth Olympic Games, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Jonathan Nackstrand/IOC/PA)\nNetflix has announced it is joining with the production company for the movie Crazy Rich Asians to make a film about last July’s dramatic rescue of 12 village boys in northern Thailand who were trapped with their football coach in a flooded cave for more than two weeks.\nNetflix and SK Global Entertainment said in Bangkok they have acquired the rights to the story from 13 Thumluang Co Ltd, a company that Thailand’s government helped establish to represent the interests of the boys and their coach, who attended the news conference for the announcement.\nThailand’s culture ministry in March first unveiled the deal, announced as a miniseries.\nMembers of the Wild Boars give thanks in front of Thailand King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s image (Sakchai Lalit/AP)\nDeputy government spokesman Weerachon Sukoondhapatipakat was quoted then as saying that the families of the cave survivors would each be paid three million baht (£81,000).\nThe boys of the Wild Boars football team and their coach became a centre of world attention after they became trapped in the cave on June 23 last year, with doubts they were able to find shelter from rising flood waters that poured in after unexpected rain.\nThey were found by two British divers and brought out by an international crew of experienced cave divers who teamed up with Thai navy Seals in a dangerously complicated mission that was successfully concluded on July 10.\n“We are grateful for the opportunity to thank the people and organisations from Thailand and around the world who came together to perform a true miracle, by retelling our story,” said Ekapol “Ake” Chanthawong, the boy’s assistant coach who shared the ordeal with them.\n“We look forward to working with all involved parties to ensure our story is told accurately, so that the world can recognise, once again, the heroes that made the rescue operation a success.”\nTuesday’s announcement said 13 Thumluang “has committed to donating 15% of the revenues derived from bringing this story to global audiences to charity organisations that focus on disaster relief”.\nJon M. Chu, who helmed Crazy Rich Asians, and Nattawut “Baz” Poonpiriya, a Thai filmmaker, will be directors on the cave project.\nPrime Minister Theresa May (centre) with the Thai Ambassador Pisanu Suvanajata (centre right) in Downing Street, London with the divers and support team from the British Cave Rescue Council who joined the rescue (Jonathan Brady/PA)\n“We are immensely proud to be able to support the retelling of the incredible story of the Tham Luang cave rescue,” Erika North, director of International Originals at Netflix, said in a statement.\n“The story combines so many unique local and universal themes which connected people from all walks of life, from all around the world.\n“Thailand is a very important country for Netflix and we are looking forward to bringing this inspiring local but globally resonant story of overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to life, once again, for global audiences.”\nThe rescue was a rare bit of feel-good news from Thailand, which has been mired in political conflict and heavy-handed military rule for more than a decade.\nThe cave rescue also allowed the government of prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who had seized power in a 2014 military coup, to share in some glory.\nAn independent film about the adventure, The Cave, was shot soon after the rescue and is supposed to be released later this year.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1067864"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6914175152778625,"wiki_prob":0.6914175152778625,"text":"Home > About BIMM > About BIMM London\nAbout BIMM London\nConnected to a life in music\nBIMM London is part of the BIMM Group – Europe’s largest and leading contemporary music college. We offer a full range of Higher and Further Education music courses including degrees and diplomas in a number of different disciplines, such as\nWe offer a full range of Higher and Further Education music courses including degrees and diplomas in a number of different disciplines, such as guitar, bass, drums, vocals, songwriting, music production, music journalism and music business. The high quality of learning opportunities provided for our students has been commended by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) – the independent body entrusted with monitoring standards in Higher Education – in their Higher Education Review (HER).\nWe first opened our doors back in 1983 under the name ‘Tech Music School London’, and over the years have worked hard to deliver professional, real-world training in the heart of the world’s music capital.\nIn 2010, ‘Tech Music School London’ was acquired by the BIMM Group of music colleges, who already had modern music institutes in Brighton (2001) and Bristol (2008), and went on to open further centres in Dublin (2011), Manchester (2013), Berlin (2015), Birmingham (2017) and in 2018 Hamburg. In 2014, ‘Tech Music School London’ was officially renamed ‘BIMM London’.\nThe eight BIMM institutes collaborate in perfect harmony, but at the same time, each individual music college has its own unique, independent regional identity which we continue to nurture.\nOur students love BIMM London because it operates right at the centre of the global music scene, giving them direct access to the most happening music venues, the coolest record labels, the most groundbreaking festivals, and the most iconic music brands in the world.\nThe BIMM London campus is in Effie Road, Fulham, South West London, housed in a five-storey building with state-of-the-art facilities, including recording studios, mac labs, post-production suites, rehearsal studios, lecture rooms, mixing rooms, performance spaces and teaching rooms. Our high-tech equipment and software is provided by the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers who actively support and endorse us. Find out more.\nOur BIMM London tutors are all very active in the London music scene, and between them have headlined festivals, contributed to Hollywood movie soundtracks, been coaches on TV talent shows, and performed in front of global dignitaries. Put simply, they’re really well connected and eager to pass their knowledge, experience and guidance onto you.\nSo, what are you waiting for? To make it in the music industry, connect with BIMM London today.\nBIMM London\nE: london@bimm.co.uk\nBarclay House, Effie Rd\nLondon, SW6 1EN\nCollege Principal:\nSimon Colam\nGrab a Prospectus\nOrder one now\nOr view online here if you’re in a rush","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1172084"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7556359171867371,"wiki_prob":0.7556359171867371,"text":"Category: Related News\nUniversal Coverage as Post-2015 Health Goal?\n23 October 2012 ( DevEx) - How should health goals be framed in a post-2015 development agenda? The World Health Organization chimes in on the debate with a proposal to address broadening health concerns under the umbrella of universal health coverage.\nWHO expounds on this proposal in a discussion paper where it identifies three issues that should be considered when discussing global health in the context of a new development agenda post-2015:\nHow to sustain health gains of the past years and protect existing and future investments in the sector.\nHow to address a changing global health agenda, which now includes “new” issues like noncommunicable diseases, while avoiding “promoting a long list of competing” goals.\nHow to position health in the context of sustainable development.\nPromoting universal health coverage is one way to address these issues and make sure health remains a key part of the post-2015 development agenda, WHO argues. It defines universal coverage as a “dynamic process” where everyone has access to needed health services as well as financial risk protection.\nWHO stresses that as a goal, universal health care “is not about a fixed minimum package” but about “making progress on several fronts: the range of services that are available to people; the proportion of the costs of those services that are covered; and the proportion of the population that are covered.”\nBut it’s not enough to identify universal health coverage as a goal, the agency notes. It also makes the case for the development of indicators and targets to monitor and measure results on both national and international levels. Among indicators WHO suggests is “health life expectancy,” which it says captures mortality, morbidity and disability.\nRead the original article on the DevEx website.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line532525"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6787564158439636,"wiki_prob":0.6787564158439636,"text":"Category: City Government\nProposals From the Bartholomew Master Plan For Dallas — 1940s\nBehold… (click for larger image)\nA few proposals from the Dallas master plan for post-war development and planning, commissioned by the city from the St. Louis firm of Harland Bartholomew and Associates (in association with Hare & Hare Landscape Architects). The scanned reports which made up this plan — submitted between 1943 and 1946 — can be found on the Portal to Texas History site, here, courtesy of the Dallas Municipal Archives. If you’re interested in urban planning and maps, these reports are fascinating.\nThe image above (from 1946, rendered by architect Erwin Earl Schmidt) shows a proposed municipal center on the familiar “South Akard Street Site.” The plan is below. (All images are larger when clicked.)\nThe previous year, the site for this proposed municipal center was north of Pacific:\nAnd Schmidt’s rendering for that compound is just as interesting:\nAlso discussed in the plan was what to do with Fair Park. Here’s a 1945 redevelopment proposal:\nAnd here’s the 1946 re-jiggering (the Cotton Bowl’s getting a lot of action):\nAnd, lastly, a 1946 plan for expansion of the “Hall Street Park for Negroes.” I’m not sure that any of this ever happened. The last mention I see of this park was in 1945 (the first mention I found of the park in the Dallas Morning News archives was 1922, and it had clearly been around for a while before that — perhaps it was absorbed into the existing Griggs Park? “Central Boulevard” would soon be built and renamed Central Expressway, the highway that sliced through the thriving black neighborhood centered around Hall Street.\nThe 1945 plates can be found in the original publication here; the 1946 plates here.\nAll illustrations are from the Bartholomew master plan proposal; these reports are from the collection of the Dallas Municipal Archives, accessible on UNT’s Portal to Texas History, here.\nAdditional images from the plan can be found in the Flashback Dallas post “‘Your Dallas of Tomorrow’ — 1943,'” here.\nAll images larger when clicked.\n“Your Dallas of Tomorrow” — 1943\nMain Street, 1943… (click for larger image)\nHarland Bartholomew, a St. Louis urban planner and civil engineer, was asked by the City of Dallas in 1943 to prepare a master plan for Dallas which would address the needs of the city’s post-war growth and livability. As then-mayor Woodall Rodgers said, “We need another Kessler Plan and have waited long enough to start. We want to be ready to put Dallas ahead when the war is over and we will have great opportunities to put a master plan in effect” (Dallas Morning News, April 1, 1943).\nRead Bartholomew’s incredibly thorough 51-page report titled “Your Dallas of Tomorrow” here. It has been scanned in its entirety and is presented (courtesy of the Dallas Municipal Archives) on UNT’s Portal to Texas History site. In addition to the report, there are drawings, graphs, maps, and the wonderful photo seen above showing an already-vibrant metropolis, with its newest addition to the skyline, the Mercantile Bank Building. Below are a few other things from Bartholomew’s master plan I found interesting. (All images are larger when clicked.)\nThis map showing the growth of the city, from 1855 to 1943, is really interesting. Check out the “disannexed” areas. (I think that area east of the Park Cities was disannexed because landowners — which included W. W. Caruth — argued that it was undeveloped farmland and shouldn’t be subjected to city taxation. …I think.)\nA somewhat recognizable skyline.\nLevee District.\nThe old Union Depot at the edge of Deep Ellum, demolished in 1935.\nThere is much more in this interesting report, including quite a bit of good historical information on the development and growth of Dallas.\nSource & Notes\nAll images from “Your Dallas of Tomorrow, A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas,” prepared by Harland Bartholomew and Associates of St. Louis, Missouri in September, 1943. Booklet from the Dallas Municipal Archives, accessible on the Portal to Texas History, here.\nThe report above was the first one issued — and it was the most glitzy. The ones that followed were more down-to-business. Some of the plans were implemented, some were not. See all of the reports of the master plan prepared by Bartholomew and Associates — issued between 1943 and 1946 — here. If you like maps, this link has your name all over it!\nHow Dallas Used to Get Election Returns\nA Dallas crowd waits for returns in 1928 (click for larger image)\nI think there’s some sort of political thing going on? Like most every other human being in the United States (…and beyond), I’m pretty sick of hearing about politics and politicians. Like nauseous sick. So why not write about elections! Below are some fun facts about how Dallasites used to get their election returns — share them with your fellow voters while standing in line at the polling station. They will think you are either very interesting or very annoying.\nForget the issues and the personalities, let’s look at election results: how were they passed along to the public in the days before radio and television? Other than newspapers (the primary source of all things informational), there was a time when results were “bulletined” by throwing images onto stretched canvases or even onto the sides of buildings by a powerful stereopticon or “magic lantern.” These results were continuously updated as manual counts in local races were tabulated; farther-flung races were updated via tallies received by telegraph or telephone. Crowds gathered in front of buildings — usually newspaper offices — to watch the returns. Some accounts have this form of information dissemination beginning in the 1860s (see an illustration from 1872 here), with the practice becoming more widespread by the 1880s and more technologically advanced by the 1890s.\nBelow, an illustration showing jubilant crowds watching congressional returns in Columbus, Ohio in 1884.\nColumbus, Ohio, 1884\nThings had been refined by 1896, as this illustration from the Atlanta Constitution shows. The caption: “Flashing out the returns in front of the Constitution office. Thousands of people gathered in front of the Constitution Building last night and watched the returns come in.” In the rain! That’s dedication.\nAtlanta, Georgia, 1896\nAlso in 1896 — things got crazy in New York, with a ridiculously large “screen” hung from a very tall building.\nfrom “Film and the American Presidency”\nThe first mention I found in The Dallas Morning News about projecting election results before a large crowd was in 1891. Not only did the newspaper have a large bulletin board (maybe like a large chalk board?), they also used the stereopticon. (The full article about the results of the 1891 election can be read here.) (All pictures and clippings are larger when clicked.)\nDallas Morning News, April 8, 1891\nThe magic lantern was called back into service the next year (read an entertaining DMN article about an 1892 election here in which the crowd huddled in front of the screen watching the returns despite rain and open saloons) — in fact, this “electric bulletin board” was so popular it was used for at least 40 more years.\nIn 1896, interest was really intense — an unbelievable 94% of Dallas’ registered voters had turned out to cast ballots. (It took four days to tally the votes!) A huge crowd gathered around the News building at Commerce and Lamar to watch the bulletins which were “flashed by means of a powerful stereopticon on a large canvas screen stretched across the street” (“Republicans Doubled Votes in ’96” by Sam Acheson, DMN, Jan. 1, 1968).\nBy 1900 this stereopticon thing was getting to be standard operating procedure.\nDMN, Nov. 6, 1900\nDMN, May 2, 1908\nBy 1911, “25,000 or 30,000 persons” were showing up to watch the returns.\nDMN, July 23, 1911\nI guess people used to just phone the papers after elections to ask about the results. The News would rather you didn’t, thanks.\n1918 was an interesting year for a few reasons: (1) WWI was underway, (2) the polls opened — for some reason — at 9:27 AM and closed at 8:27 PM (?), and … (3) it was the first election in Dallas in which women were allowed to vote. There was suddenly a huge number of registered voters to have to deal with. Newspaper reports showed registration of women outnumbering men in several precincts. The large number of new voters meant that votes began to be counted “one hour after the polls are opened and will continue until the work is concluded” (DMN, July 19, 1918). Which seems odd. Also, women were encouraged to vote early in the day so as to avoid long lines and men were instructed to watch their behavior if there were women present.\nIt’s surprising that the use of projectors to display election returns was used as late as 1930, well after the advent of radio. Apparently the Texas Election Bureau and Press Association had rules forbidding radio stations from announcing election results over the air until they had been printed in the newspaper — they were, however, allowed to give “relative standings” to their audiences at fifteen-minute intervals (DMN, July 27, 1930).\nSeems like the newspapers held all the power (probably not a huge problem for radio stations since most of them were owned by the newspapers, and, of course, no problem at all for the papers who printed oodles of “extra” editions). By 1930, though, crowds had gotten so large downtown that they were diverting people to Fair Park where they could sit and enjoy the cool breezes as they listened to see if their candidates had won or lost. (“Sitting” seems to be the operative word here.) But soon radio would wrest the “instant news bulletin” power away from the newspapers, and these quaint magic lantern watching-parties would be unnecessary. Eventually people wouldn’t know they’d ever even existed.\nFast-forward to today. I can’t even imagine trekking downtown to watch election results come in at a snail’s pace, magic lantern or not. It’s the 21st century, man, and I’ll be plopped in front of my TV, channel-hopping, stress-eating and stress-drinking, and wondering what friendly country I might consider “visiting” for a while.\nTop photo shows crowds of Dallasites watching election returns. This Frank Rogers photo — a Dallas Public Library photo reproduced in A. C. Greene’s book Dallas, The Deciding Years — shows a crowd (which seems to be devoid of women) watching the 1928 presidential election returns on Elm Street. Another Rogers photo from the DPL, undated, probably taken 5 or 6 years earlier:\nIt’s convenient that he was able to include his studio in the background! The photograph is undated, but Frank Rogers and the Adam Schaaf Piano Store shared a building — at 1303 Elm — between 1922 and 1923. The building to the right is the Dallas Times Herald Building, and it would make sense that the crowd was looking toward the other side of the street. In fact, this may have been the night that the KKK famously marched through downtown, past the large crowds gathered in front of both the Dallas Times Herald and Dallas Morning News offices, to celebrate that their candidates had won … and won big.\nDMN, Aug. 27, 1922\nThe illustration showing Ohio returns in Columbus being projected on the night of Oct. 14, 1884 is from Frank Leslie’s Weekly (this illustration was featured in the book Politicking and Emergent Media: U.S. Presidential Elections of the 1890s by Charles Musser).\nThe 1896 illustration is from the Atlanta Constitution, found on Twitter.\nThe 1896 photograph of the World Building in New York is from the trade journal The Electrical Engineer, Nov. 11, 1896. The paragraph below it is from the book Film and the American Presidency by Jeff Menne and Christian B. Long.\nFurther reading from the archives of The Dallas Morning News (regarding the July 26, 1930 election):\n“News and Journal To Give Two Election Count Parties” (DMN, July 25, 1930) — an announcement to voters where they could get the “flashed” returns of the next day’s voting (in front of the News building “as usual,” and at Fair Park “where results will also be thrown on a screen at the moving picture booth near the grand stand”\n“Fates of Favorites Watched on News and Journal Screens” (DMN, July 27, 1930) — two photos showing crowds at Commerce and Lamar and at Fair Park watching the returns\nClick pictures and clippings to see larger images.\nThe Fair Park Bond Issue — 1934\n“Forward 1936…” (DeGolyer Library, SMU)\nWith all the heated discussion currently going on about what the city is going to do with Fair Park, I thought this little pamphlet from 1934 seemed timely. Published by the “Centennial Fair Park Bond Committee” (comprised of all the Dallas movers and shakers one would expect), the get-out-the-vote brochure was issued to explain the $3,000,000 (about $54,000,000 in today’s money, adjusted for inflation) bond issue, the approval of which was essential in order to clinch the honor of hosting the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936. The entire pamphlet — part of the George W. Cook Collection in the DeGolyer Library — may be read on SMU’s website, here.\nA couple of excerpts:\nThe issue passed, overwhelmingly, by a 5-1 margin. It’s interesting to note that the voting restrictions on this referendum were … pretty restrictive. Not only was payment of a poll tax required to vote (…one had to pay for the “privilege” of voting…), but one also had to be a property owner — and that property owner was not allowed to vote until a “rendition” was signed downtown in the tax assessor’s office. Many property owners who had signed the necessary paperwork were still unable to vote as they had not paid (or could not afford) the poll tax. It’s pretty obvious here that a substantial number of lower income residents (i.e. non-property owners or property owners unable to afford the poll tax) — including many who lived in the area immediately surrounding Fair Park — were legally prohibited from casting a vote.\n6,550 ballots were cast (5462-1088), which represented “little more than one-third of the 18,000 supposed qualified to decide this important issue” (Dallas Morning News, Nov. 1, 1934). It was declared to be “the largest majority ever cast for a bond issue in [the] history of Dallas” (DMN, Oct. 31, 1934).\nThe passage of the October, 1934 bond issue assured that Dallas would host the Texas Centennial Exposition, a statewide celebration which proved to be a huge success and was a tremendous economic boon to the city.\nThe pamphlet “Texas and Dallas … Forward 1936: Why We Should Vote For Centennial Fair Park Bonds, Tuesday, October 30, 1934” is part of the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; the entire pamphlet is contained in a PDF which may be read and/or downloaded here.\nMore on this vote can be found in these two Dallas Morning News articles:\n“OK on Bonds For Huge Fair Up to Voters” (DMN, Oct. 30, 1934) — published on voting day, this article includes the particulars of the voting restrictions\n“Five-to-One Majority Scored As City Favors Centennial Bonds to Assure Huge Fair” (DMN, Oct. 31, 1934) — the results\nPayment of a poll tax was still required to vote in Texas elections until 1966, when the U. S. Supreme Court ruled such taxes were unconstitutional. More about that from the Dallas Public Library, here.\nSo You’re Considering a Move To Dallas … What’s That Tax Situation Like? — 1943\nYou and your gardener will *love* Dallas! (click for larger image)\nIt’s 1943. You’re considering relocating your business and your family to Dallas. You’ll probably be owning a mansion like the one pictured above. Should you and your large bank account settle in Dallas? I mean, is it really the best place … tax-wise?\nBelow is a page from a pamphlet called So This Is Dallas, a publication which was intended to sway decisions such as this. It was issued for several years by a group called “The Welcome Wagon,” and this edition came out sometime during World War II. Here’s what Big D had to offer in those days. (Click to see much larger image.)\nDallas offers a favorable tax situation that can be found in but few communities. There is no State income tax in Texas and no general sales tax.\nCorporations operating in the State are subject to three forms of taxation. If they are foreign corporations, they must qualify legally in the State and pay a permit fee, an annual franchise tax and ad valorem taxes. If they are domestic corporations, they pay a fee to secure a Texas charter, an annual franchise tax and ad valoreum [sic?] taxes.\nTexas laws do not discriminate against foreign corporations. The permit fee for a foreign corporation and the charter fee of a Texas corporation are arrived at in the same way, the proportionate amount of capital used in Texas by the foreign corporation and the capital stock of the domestic corporation. Franchise taxes for both foreign and domestic corporations are also assessed on the same basis.\nAd Valorem Taxes\nAll corporations, whether domestic or foreign, and all others owning property within the State of Texas, must render their property as of January 1 each year for city, State and county taxes. The property is rendered at its inventory value. The basis of assessment varies in different counties.\nCurrent ad valorem taxes in Dallas are: City of Dallas, $2.45 per $100 valuation, basis of assessment 53 per cent of value; Dallas County, 74 cents per $100 valuation, basis of assessment 50 per cent of value; State, 69 cents per $100 valuation, basis of assessment 50 per cent of value.\nDallas has the lowest tax rate of any large city in the Southwest. Each city has a different basis of assessment. Reducing their rates to a basis of assessment on 100 per cent of value, net tax rates for the four leading cities in Texas are:\nDallas ….. $20.56 net per $1,000\nHouston ….. $22.03 net per $1,000\nSan Antonio ….. $26.89 net per $1,000\nFort Worth ….. $29.25 net per $1,000\nI don’t know what ANY of that means, but it looks like Dallas wins. Welcome to your new mansion!\nPage from So This Is Dallas, published around 1943 by The Welcome Wagon; courtesy of the Lone Star Library Annex Facebook page.\nIf you recognize any of these homes, let me know and I’ll add the info here. I’m seeing what looks like Lakewood and Swiss Avenue, and maybe Highland Park and Oak Cliff.\nClick pictures for larger images.\nCold Smut: Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Cancer” Banned in Dallas — 1961\nToday is my late father’s birthday. He was a Dallas bookseller, and when searching on his name in the Dallas Morning News archives, I found this pithy letter to the editor he had written in the summer of 1961 (click for larger image; transcribed below).\nIt is refreshing that there is such a dearth of crime that the Dallas police department has to amuse itself by resorting to comstockery. The cops have been busy poking through the girlie mags at downtown newsstands, which is pleasant work. Now they have taken to harassing bookstores. If they get away with their ban of poor old Henry Miller’s tedious classic, it will only whet their appetite for more meddling.\nI resent a group who seldom, if ever, has entered a bookstore or voluntarily read a book dictating what can or cannot be read. Literary criticism should be left to Lon Tinkle: he gives us freedom of choice. To have a bunch of policemen drooling over juicier passages and then whooping pietistic nonsense is frightening. Dallas is sophisticated and progressive?\nDick Bosse\nAfter I looked up the word “Comstockery,” I was spurred to find out what he was writing about.\nHenry Miller’s “tedious classic,” Tropic of Cancer, was originally published in Paris in 1934. It was considered too vulgar to be published in the United States. In fact, it was considered “obscene” by the U.S. Customs Department, and its very presence in one’s suitcase after returning home from a holiday in France was illegal. The only booksellers in the U.S. that sold the book did so at the risk of being jailed. That’s not to say there wasn’t a lot of piracy, bootlegging, and hush-hush selling of this much talked-about book going on, because there was — especially in New York.\nIn 1961, the book was finally published in the U.S. by Grove Press, and it was an immediate hit. (Grove priced it at an unbelievably steep $7.50, the equivalent today to about $60.00! The typical new hardcover fiction title in 1961 was around $3.95.) Unsurprisingly, the book was immediately banned in Boston, because Boston’s “thing” was banning stuff. But then … it was unexpectedly banned in Dallas, even though it was the #1 bestseller at the respected McMurray’s Bookshop downtown.\nDallas Police Department officials had decided the book violated a new Texas “anti-smut” law, and, on August 15th, policemen visited all the large bookstores in the city and informed them that if any copies of the book continued to be offered for sale, criminal charges would most likely be brought against the booksellers and the stores. (The state law called for fines up to $1,000 and one year in county jail for selling lewd and obscene material.) Dallas joined Boston as the only major American city banning the book. And then the whole thing became a cause célèbre — a “Dallas-Boston axis”!\nThe Long Beach (California) Independent, Aug. 18 1961\nThe move was roundly deplored by most of the Dallas public. The “Letters to the Editor” section of the historically very conservative Dallas Morning News contained many, many letters to the editor from outraged Dallasites, speaking out against the police department’s action. Sure, there were a few who were happy that objectionable material was being removed from Dallas bookstores, but they seemed to be in the minority. Even those who vehemently disliked the book were steadfastly opposed to its being banned, including the editors of The News.\nAs with many other non-issues like this that tend to cause near-obsession by the media, this story would not go away. The summer of ’61 was, for Dallas, the Summer of Smut. Best headline throughout all of this? One which appeared on a Morning News editorial: “COLD SMUT.”\nBooksellers pulled the book, but, as the editorial says above, there were almost certainly sales continuing to interested clientele. Also, it should be noted that only Dallas was banning the book at this point (by 1962 other cities around the country had become embroiled in threatened legal action, resulting in books being pulled from shelves). You couldn’t buy the book in Dallas, but you could buy it in Fort Worth.\nElston Brooks, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Aug. 22, 1961\nOne assumes bookstores in Cowtown were cashing in on Tropic of Cancer sales — Barber’s Book Store must have been doing land-office mail order business.\nFWST, Nov. 8, 1961\nI thought this was a silly flare-up that lasted only a few weeks, but letters to the editor continued to show, at least through the winter of 1963, that it was still impossible to find the book in a Dallas bookstore. It probably wasn’t until 1964, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the book was not obscene, that Dallas booksellers were finally free to openly sell a book which was published in 1934. No one seemed to care much when the X-rated film version (starring Texan Rip Torn) played at the Granada in 1970.\nSept., 1970\nCartoon by Herc Ficklen, from Aug. 30, 1961.\nMore on Tropic of Cancer at Wikipedia, here. This article contains my favorite line of any I read from the people who really, REALLY hated the book. It came from a Pennsylvania judge:\n“[It is] not a book. It is a cesspool, an open sewer, a pit of putrefaction, a slimy gathering of all that is rotten in the debris of human depravity.”\nTons of articles on this appeared in The Dallas Morning News.in just ONE WEEK. Here are just a few (seriously, it’s the tip of the iceberg):\n“Sales Banned: Police Label Book Obscene” by James Ewell (DMN, Aug. 16, 1961)\n“Stores Stop Selling Book Called Obscene” by James Ewell (DMN, Aug. 17, 1961)\n“Censorship of ‘Tropic’ Looses Opinion Barrage” by Scott Buchanan (Aug. 17, 1961)\n“What Is Obscenity?” — editorial (DMN, Aug. 19, 1961)\n“Book Fight Takes On Circus Air” (DMN, Aug. 19, 1961)\n“Citizens Group Lauds Police Move On Book; Some Less Costly Smut Considered Main Problem” by Frank Hildebrand (Aug. 20, 1961)\n“Cold Smut” — editorial (DMN, Aug. 20, 1961)\n“Wade Orders Study On Smut Literature” by Carlos Conde (DMN, Aug. 21, 1961)\n“Police Lectured On Book Action” by Jimmy Thornton (DMN, Aug. 22, 1961)\n“Primer for Censors: A Few Basic Ideas” by Lon Tinkle, Book Critic of The News (DMN, Sept. 3, 1961)\nEvery time I came across the word “smut” mentioned in connection with this topic — and it was mentioned a LOT — I couldn’t help but think of Vera Carp and the other Smut Snatchers of the New Order from Greater Tuna.\nIf it looks too dang small to read, click it!\nHome Sweet Home at Commerce & Harwood\n“Main Street Garden?” (click for larger image)\nQuaint homes, mere steps from City Hall. Not sure of the exact date of this photo, but these homes and this service station were at the above location in 1920. Wonder when those homeowners finally decided to sell? Talk about your primo real estate!\nBelow is a similar photo, but this one shows more of Commerce looking east — I don’t come across a lot of photos of this era showing downtown past what was unofficially thought of as its eastern boundary.\nPhoto from Noah Jeppson’s Flickr page, here.\nSecond photo, titled “Dallas City Hall,” is from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; more info on this photo can be found here.\nMore on the building of the City Hall/Municipal Building in the post “The Elegant Municipal Building — 1914,” here.\nClick picture for larger image.\n“A City Built On the Solid Rock of Service” — 1927\n“Opportunity!” (click for larger image)\nBelow, a 1927 Dallas Chamber of Commerce ad with some interesting statistics.\nThe CITY OF PROGRESS invites YOU to share in its PROSPERITY.\nDALLAS–in 1900 a town of forty-thousand; in 1927 a city of a quarter million; forty-second in population; third as an agricultural implement distributing point; fifth as a dry goods market; fifteenth as a general jobbing center–the first city of the Southwest, in the fastest growing section of the United States.\nManufacturers, distributors and retailers are invited to investigate Dallas–a city built on the solid rock of service.\nPretty impressive. And the illustration of a dynamic city on the other side of that viaduct is all but throbbing with energy\nThe illustration from a 1929 Chamber of Commerce ad is even less modest: it shows Dallas as the center of the universe, center stage on Planet Earth, lit up by the sun and the giant Klieg lights of space.\nI kind of think Dallas has pretty much always seen itself like this.\nAds from the 1927 and 1929 editions of The Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide.\nTrinity Heights: The Tallent Furniture Studio and The Sunshine Home\nVermont & South Ewing… (click for larger image)\nThe postcard image above shows a bird’s eye view of a few blocks in the Trinity Heights neighborhood of Oak Cliff, from the late 1940s. As I looked at it, I wondered a) what does this intersection look like now, b) what is that unlabeled building that looks like a jail behind the furniture store, and c) what was Tallent’s Furniture Studio?\nTallent’s Furniture Studio, owned by Raymond E. Tallent, was located at 815 Vermont Avenue.\nNot only did it house a furniture store, but it also served as an office for Tallent’s real estate business. According to Tallent’s obituary, he came to Dallas in 1920 and started his real estate business five years later. Starting out, he’d’ve been happy to trade you property for diamonds. “What have you?”\nThe first mention I found for the furniture store is this Christmas ad from 1947.\nDec., 1947\nTallent died in January of 1950 at the age of 53. Both of his businesses continued after his death, and the furniture store was still going in the late 1960s.\nSo, nothing out of the ordinary — just a small business, like thousands of other small Dallas businesses. Probably the most interesting thing about Tallent was that he had the good taste to have that great promotional postcard made. That strange little building behind the store was a lot more interesting.\nWhat was that building? The first time it popped up on a Sanborn map was 1922: it was identified as a “County Detention Home” (click for larger image).\n1922 Sanborn map detail — see full page here\nDespite its name, the “detention home” was not a correctional facility for juvenile delinquents, but it was a home for dependent children who had been made wards of Dallas County because of neglect or abandonment or because parents had died or were simply unable to care for them. This detention home was built in 1917 at 1545 South Ewing (“south of Oak Cliff”). During its construction in 1917, its roof collapsed, killing one of the workers.\nDallas Morning News, Apr. 13, 1917\nThe home was almost immediately overcrowded, and its superintendents were constantly scrambling for an increase in funding. Children, ranging in age from toddlers to teenagers, lived there as long as they needed — some for a few months, some for several years. They attended nearby schools, and even though they were wards of the court and were living in an institution, the people who ran the place tried to make it as home-like as possible. In January, 1934, the name of the county facility was changed to the much more cheerful “Sunshine Home.”\nIn 1950, the Sunshine Home received $165,000 in bond money for improvements and expansion, adding modern structures to the large campus but still retaining the original two-story red brick building built in 1917.\nIn 1975, the Dallas County Sunshine Home and the Girls’ Day Center merged, and the former Sunshine Home was renamed Cliff House.\nIn 2014, the 28,000-square-foot property on just under five acres was put up for sale, and in early 2015 plans for a charter elementary school were approved.\nBelow, a Google Earth image of the same view as the postcard featuring Tallent’s Furniture Studio, captured before the old Sunshine Home buildings had been demolished (click for larger image).\nThe view is remarkably similar to the one taken more than 65 years earlier. A little bleaker these days, perhaps, but certainly still recognizable.\nTop postcard is from the Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection; it is viewable here.\nInformation on the plans for the KIPP Truth Academy submitted to the City of Dallas (with interesting illustrations/maps on pages 10 and 11) can be found in a PDF, here.\nA recent Google Street View of this block of Vermont Avenue can be seen here. The Tallent furniture store occupied the building to the left of the Vermont Grocery.\nThe heart-tugging article “For All Loving Care Bestowed, Sunshine Home, Space Small, Needs Much to Cheer Children” (DMN, July 24, 1941) — written by popular Dallas Morning News columnist Paul Crume — describes daily life in the Sunshine Home and can be found in the Dallas Morning News archives.\nA then-and-now comparison (click for larger image):\n“The Walls Are Rising” (1967): Watch It Online!\nDallasites love their cars…. (photo from “The Walls Are Rising”/AIA Dallas)\nLate last year I stumbled across mention of a 1967 film about Dallas called “The Walls Are Rising.” It was made by the American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter, and was sponsored by the Greater Dallas Planning Council as a sort of warning to the people of Dallas about the dangers of auto-centric sprawl and uncontrolled urban planning. I searched and searched for the whereabouts of the film, but it seemed to have disappeared without a trace. I contacted AIA Dallas, and after much searching, they found the film, still on an old reel. They digitized the film and screened it before a large and enthusiastic crowd in January, and after viewing the film and listening to a panel discussion, audience members launched into a lively and concerned discussion about the state of Dallas today. It turns out that most of the topics of grave concern in 1967 continue to be topics of grave concern today, almost 50 years later.\nAIA Dallas has uploaded the 27-minute film to Vimeo, and it is now available for all to watch online. Made to emphasize the dangers of out-of-control urban blight brought on by an over-reliance on automobiles, a lack of green spaces, and depressing expanses of visual clutter, the film is a sardonic look at a claustrophobically “modern” Dallas. It’s a hip documentary — absolutely a product of its era — made by a filmmaker with avant-garde tendencies; imagine what an industrial film would have been like had it been made by “with-it” ad men who were given free-rein to get their message across (and who may have indulged in illicit substances during the editing phase). Not as weird as the film itself (though still plenty weird) are some of the proposals from architects and planners on ways to improve the city’s “livability.”\nBest of all, though, are all the photos of the city. It’s great being able to hit “pause” and take a look at each and every 1967 photo of Dallas, from a jam-packed downtown, to a cluttered Oak Lawn, to a serene Turtle Creek.\nThanks again to AIA Dallas for finding the film and uploading this weird little slice of Dallas history!\nThe Walls are Rising from AIA Dallas on Vimeo.\nA few screengrabs (click for larger images):\nThe video can be found on Vimeo here.\nAll photos by Ronald Perryman, from his film “The Walls Are Rising” (1967), “produced by Greater Dallas Planning Council in collaboration with Dallas Chapter of American Institute of Architects.”\nThe AIA Dallas website is here.\nRobert Wilonsky’s Dallas Morning News blog post (May 21, 2015) on the uploading of this film is here.\nMy previous posts on “The Walls Are Rising” can be found here.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line482325"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8653126358985901,"wiki_prob":0.8653126358985901,"text":"(BB Gun Press)\n\"If we came out now, we wouldn’t have a chance in hell\": Shirley Manson looks back at 20 years of Garbage\nThe Garbage frontwoman looks back at the leap of faith that took her to the U.S. to play with guys she'd never met\nCheck out this article! https://www.salon.com/2015/10/08/if_we_came_out_now_we_wouldnt_have_a_chance_in_hell_shirley_manson_looks_back_at_20_years_of_garbage/\nAnnie Zaleski\nOctober 9, 2015 3:00AM (UTC)\nWhen Garbage’s “Vow” hit the airwaves in early 1995, the dizzying, electronic- and distortion-warped single sounded like nothing else out there at the time. Lyrically, its complexity was an especially refreshing change of pace: “Vow” explored the dichotomy between a burning desire to exact revenge on a spurned lover—while still trying to shake remnants of intense physical and emotional attraction.\nAs it turns out, unorthodoxy and complexity were also intrinsic to Garbage’s genesis. The Madison, Wisconsin-based group featured Butch Vig, who was then fresh off producing seminal albums by Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and Sonic Youth; Vig’s Smart Studios co-founder, Steve Marker; and Vig’s former bandmate, Duke Erikson. At the forefront was a fiery Scotswoman, Shirley Manson, who was most recently in the band Angelfish. Incredibly, Manson actually agreed to join Garbage before she had even collaborated with the other band members.\nThat leap of faith paid off in a big way, however. The group’s 1995 self-titled debut album—an aggressive, riotous amalgamation of hip-hop, electronic music, dance music and guitar-based rock & roll—catapulted Garbage into alt-rock’s upper echelons almost immediately. Not only did “Vow” become a hit, but so did the slinky “Queer,” a contradiction-celebrating “Only Happy When It Rains” and the glassy, dance-oriented “Stupid Girl.” A remastered version of the album, released October 2, only highlights how futuristic “Garbage,” sounded, especially in how tenaciously it tackled feminism, sexuality, self-perception and self-empowerment.\nManson checked in from Edinburgh, Scotland, just before midnight her time, a week before rehearsals kicked off for the band’s “20 Years Queer Tour,” which starts Tuesday in San Diego. She reminisced about her fateful decision to join Garbage and about recording the album, what made the unexpected band gel, and the impact the group’s had on her life and popular culture—both then and now.\nI saw in another interview that you guys were looking for archival material for this release, and were having trouble trying to find it.\nOh yeah, just our record labels over the years have basically lost all our content, and nobody really knows where anything is. We did full-camera shoots of gigs and radio performances and TV shows and so on and so forth. It’s just been all lost to the ages, for the most part, along with, artwork, raw materials—you name it. We were originally having a flip out because we couldn’t even find the analog tapes of the first record, and nobody really knew where they were either. [Laughs.] So, you know, welcome to the music industry: They demand that they own all your material and then they just shove it in a cupboard somewhere and forget all about it. It’s frustrating.\nYou finally did discover the tapes. Where did you end up finding them?\nWe did. We found them in a mixture of places. Some of them were in London; some of them were at Smart [Studios] in Madison; and some of them were in Los Angeles. Eventually, after a lot of work on our management’s part and my husband’s, our studio engineer, we tracked everything down. But it took months and months and months of detective work, and it was very frustrating and not for the faint of heart [Laughs.]\nI was going to say, that’s like the worst scavenger hunt ever.\nIt’s really maddening, though, you know, when you… I mean, I have enough problems with the way the music industry is run at the best times, but when you realize that a business is being run basically by [people] that squander all their investments, it’s bemusing, you know? It’s just ridiculous.\nConsidering that what you guys are making is art, basically, and it’s treated so carelessly, it’s a very odd juxtaposition.\nIt’s treated with contempt, yeah. So, you know, we all got over that that, but it does make me want to send a red alert to all bands, and say, “Be careful with your content.” But then my husband rushed to remind me that that’s not such an issue for people anymore, because it’s all digitally in a library now, whereas back then it was all physical content. So, you know, now everything’s on a computer database somewhere, but our stuff, our shit, is everywhere. [Laughs.]\nSo when you finally did get everything back, what were your takeaways hearing the songs again fresh 20 years later?\nI was really pleasantly surprised at how I think it still sounds pretty contemporary. You know, I think you could play it on modern radio, and it would still stand out, so I was really proud of that fact. I’m heartened by it. I’m proud of the record; I think it’s an interesting debut.\nBack then, the music sounded very futuristic to me. Listening to it now, it still feels like that—like it’s a far-off, light years away-type thing.\nI do think, looking back— and I cannot take any credit for this, because really this came from the band and specifically Butch—I feel like they had a grasp on [where music] was gonna go. They understood that to make a record that could stand up on its own legs, and compete with the kind of records that Butch had been making, they had to make a record that was very different from the records Butch was famous for producing. And in doing so, I think they created kind of a modern archetype almost for contemporary music.\nYou know, music changed then— like, all of a sudden it was fine to steal from all different types of genres and marriage them all together in a melting pot. I think that’s what you mean by futurism, you know. It was a very forward-thinking record. I think you could listen to it today and not necessarily think it sounds that edgy, because we’re all used to hearing records now that are a melting pot like that one was. But at the time, that had not really been done before, you know? I think people forget that. It’s like that was unacceptable. [Laughs.]\nI think people were very suspicious of us when we first came out with that record, because we were breaking rules that people just did not approve of; they didn’t approve of alt-rock taking elements of pop music and hip-hop and industrial and merging them all together. That was considered really uncool. But we felt that’s what made it unique and exciting, because it hadn’t been done before.\nPeople forget just how dominant guitars were in alternative rock in 1995. Like, keyboards were totally out of fashion. In the late ‘90s, there were people like The Chemical Brothers and, you know, even David Bowie—his stuff did get a lot more electronic and merged genres a lot more. But it wasn’t very common when Garbage started.\nNo, no, it wasn’t. And it was also frowned upon. You know, people were expected to stay inside their little boxes. People—particularly music journalists— were very keen on having labels, and God forbid that you break out of your box, you know. I think it made people quite uncomfortable. We definitely encountered a lot of cynicism and suspicions… A lot of people accused us of being fake and not real—not for real. It was interesting how we were treated at first, obviously by our detractors.\nWhen you first met everyone in the band, it wasn’t necessarily an instant creative connection. What made you keep plugging away and making things work? Was it kind of the sense that you guys were onto something different? What spurred you on?\nWe got a kick out of one another. We really liked one another, and we laughed a lot, and we had fun making music together. And I think that’s what made us keep coming back to try and make it work. In the process of doing that, we just, by default, became a band. You know, we started to think the same way we started to just find a rhythm together. We were very fortunate. We really did find a chemistry together. [And] for all our foibles and all our little arguments and squabbles, we still have this strange chemistry when we’re all together that really has endured and works for us. It’s special. I wouldn’t recommend anybody else to try and, you know, form a band across the Atlantic with people you’ve never met before, but in our case we really were fortunate.\nYeah, I mean, you think about that, that’s such a leap of faith. It’s weird! It’s like preposterous.\nIt is preposterous, that’s such a great word. It was an act of great stupidity, actually. [Laughs.]\nIt paid off! [Laughs.]\nYeah, it paid off but, you know, on paper it just looks— like you said— preposterous. You have all three older men living in the Midwest, in Wisconsin, and a girl, a strange creature, from Edinburgh, Scotland— we couldn’t have been more different. I mean, we still are very different human beings, but somehow we enjoy each other. It’s cool.\nWhat do you recall most now about making the record? You were in kind of the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin. I imagine it was a little bit of fish out of water.\nI was such a freak. I mean, I really was. I didn’t fit in at all. I couldn’t drive, which you being American will understand how difficult that is when you’re living in a Midwestern town that doesn’t have any real significant form of public transport. I had zero money— I mean, I really had zero money, so I couldn’t afford cabs, I had to walk everywhere, and it was either, you know, 100 degrees or it was -20 degrees. And so I really suffered making that record on a physical level. [Laughs.] I associate that first record with gross discomfort physically and, you know, mentally, because I felt very uncomfortable and I didn’t know the band. I mean, I got along with them, but I didn’t know them. I had no friends, no finances, no transport, and I was really very cut off from home because I couldn’t afford to call home, and I barely ate unless I was in the studio with the band. [Laughs.]\nI associate it with great discomfort but, you know, it was all part of the crazy ride of it. And I’m so happy that I suffered, because it makes it so much more rewarding when things start going right.\nTo me, I’ve always thought the album drew its power from espousing the idea that nonconformity was empowering. So when you say these things, it makes sense, then, why a lot of the themes evolved the way they did.\n[Laughs.] Yeah, yeah, I guess. [reflective pause] It was just the best we could do at the time, and now, looking back, it was enough. And when you’re an unproven artist, you don’t know if what you’re doing is going to have any value whatsoever. You can just follow your own muse, and hope that other people might be as interested in it as you are. [Laughs.]\nThat’s true. It seems like there might not be as much pressure then, too, because there was no real precedent as a band. I mean, obviously people knew Butch’s work as a producer, but as a band, it was an unproven quantity.\nYeah. I mean, I felt no pressure whatsoever that first record. That was all on Butch, you know? And I know for a fact he was stressed, like, beyond my wildest imaginings, you know, because he had a lot to lose. He had a reputation at stake, so I think he took that first record to heart and worked really hard on it and drove himself into the ground. He hardly ever slept; he was constantly at the studio. It was pretty intense.\nHow did kind of the making the album really stretch you as a musician and a person?\nWell, you know, I was writing for the first time in my life. When they invited me to join the band they said, “You know, we expect you to be a full quarter member of this band. You write, don’t you?” And I instinctively knew that somehow they needed and wanted me to write, so I said, “Yeah, I write! Of course I do!” [Laughs loudly.] And I had never written a word in my life or really ever had the confidence to contribute musically to any recordings I’ve ever been involved in. You know, at the time I could play piano, and I had been a singer in a band and I’d sung with choirs, and I’d played in orchestras, but I had never, ever contributed an idea in any sense whatsoever beyond some backing vocals. I was thrown into a creative melting pot, and I just had to fucking get it together. I just had to; I had no other choice. So I was lucky in that regard: I was just sort of forced into it without having to think about it too much.\nSometimes, though, that’s good, because if you overthink things — I mean, as a writer I know I have this problem. I’ll be staring at a blank document overthinking everything, and nothing will happen. You just let yourself go, and that’s when creativity can actually flow.\nYeah, I think you’re absolutely right. If things had turned out any other way, I probably would never, ever be a writer, never ever write a song in my life. By default I’ve been forced into the role, and as such, I was smart enough to understand that this is an incredible opportunity in my life, and I better get my shit together, and I tried, you know? I wanted to try. I was hungry, I wanted a future; I needed a job. I literally had no future when they approached me at all.\nWell, and then the record took off. I mean, I remember seeing the video for “Vow,” and it was one of those things that was just really aggressive, and it just really grabbed your attention right away. It seemed like that was the start of everything. So what was that like for you, then, I guess, the rocket ship of attention and everything right away?\nI mean, it was thrilling at first, and then it became incredibly intense and mind-blowing. But you’re right—I mean, “Vow” was the first track that blew up for us, and it created and garnered speed so fast it was shocking. I mean, even our record label was caught off guard. We hadn’t even finished the album by the time there was a little sort of storm about us in the U.K., and garnering force in Australia and in North America all at once. So it was crazy and exciting and exhilarating.\nHad you guys made this record as a new band in 2015, do you think that it would’ve been received as warmly or would you guys have been able to release it with so little interference?\nI mean, as a band, if we came out now, we wouldn’t have a chance in hell. We’d been saying this for the last, God, ten years. There’s no way we would’ve been able to enjoy that level of mainstream exposure for an alternative band. It hadn’t happened before—alternative music had never been in the mainstream up until that point of our first record, not really. I mean, there were other bands that enjoyed that explosion with us, but we were all part of a wave of alt-rock being the mainstream musical choice of radio, TV, media. And it hasn’t really been like that since. Yes, there’s successful alternative bands, but they’re not managing to just completely overtake mainstream media.\nThat is true. I mean, it seems like because perhaps there are so many bands, it’s hard to get to the same level of success, because there’s so many other people competing for that same level of success.\nYeah, where there’s so much noise and so much access and a different idea every day, and so to maintain any kind of momentum is really difficult for any band. And there’s this obsession by the public to be on top of the brightest, newest, shiniest penny—and, of course, there’s brand new shiny pennies every 30 seconds on the internet. So it’s very hard to garner a lot of following beyond your first record. I mean, there’s always that explosion of a new artist, and they’ll enjoy that crazy run, but then to try and follow that up with a second or a third record is practically unheard of at this point, particularly in alternative rock.\nAs a fan, it’s really fatiguing because it’s hard to keep up with bands you like and that there just is so much to follow. It’s physically difficult.\nIt is, it’s truly exhausting. I mean, I used to really know so much about contemporary music, because I was an avid reader of the music press and I really knew my shit. And now it’s too much. I’m just overwhelmed by it. I don’t even see a jumping in point without spending hours and hours and hours of my day trying to figure it all out and give everything a listen. It’s just impossible. I don’t have the time anymore, so it’s just overwhelming.\nI feel the same way. It’s kind of like it’s paralysis. I don’t even know where to begin. [Laughs.]\nI mean, obviously you ask people that you meet. I’m always asking everybody, “What are you listening to? What excites you?” It’s not that I don’t discover new music, but I certainly don’t have that feeling that I used to have of really knowing what is going on in general, you know. It’s just everything is so heavy with noise. Saturated, you know. Saturation point.\nAnd it’s more of a surface relationship to music, I guess at least personally. I feel like you used to have a lot more of a personal relationship to an artist or a band and their music. I find that’s harder to cultivate now, which is disappointing to me.\nWell, it’s interesting— yeah, I think you’re right. We all made deep connections. We were all looking for contact and connections in music, I think, and now it’s become a strange sort of way to define our lifestyles, and I’m not sure people even have the time to make a connection in the same way as we did.\nYou know, everything moves so fast right now. And I’m sure that will change and this is just how things are right now, but everybody’s moving so fast and ripping through information on their phones and watching movies on their telephones on their way to work and reading books and, you know, between working out and going to work and feeding the children or going on a date or, you know, blah blah blah. It’s just everyone’s doing so much all the time. It’s getting manic! [Laughs.]\nIt is. For me, I feel like someone’s grabbing my arms and legs and pulling in different directions, if that makes any sense.\nYeah, I mean it’s super intense, isn’t it? And well, I certainly was created pre-internet so, of course, it’s gonna be more peculiar, more intense for someone like myself, because that’s just— the speed at which everything moves now is still quite foreign to me. But I think it’s intense for— you know, I’ve watched some of my friends’ kids and they seem super stressed, too. [Laughs.] I don’t know why I laugh; it’s not funny.\nBut there’s also great things that come from it, too. I mean, I love the internet, too. There’s so many things I love about it, so… I think it’s just like anything. There’s great things that come from it, and there’s some horror as well, and that’s evolution. That’s how things change and move forward, and we all have to adapt or die.\nTo wrap up then: Twenty years out, where do you see Garbage’s legacy in popular culture, in music or really anywhere?\nYou know, I don’t really think too much in terms of legacy, per se. I mean, there’s so many other artists out there who are genius musicians and incredible singers. None of us in Garbage are particularly amazing at what we do, but we’ve managed to garner our forces to make interesting, eclectic-sounding records that are very unique. You know, you hear one of our records— we don’t sound like anybody else out there. And that, I think, is an achievement—to sound different from literally of millions of bands that the world has been exposed to, I think that’s kind of crazy and cool. [Laughs.]\nBut I do feel in some ways there is a legacy connected to our first record, this debut record, and I wish I could take credit for it, but I really can’t. I had a role in it, a small part in it, I definitely think it would’ve turned out very different had I not been involved, but what I think is our first record’s greatest achievement is it broke down a lot of barriers. And I think that has to be laid at Butch’s feet. He really did create an archetype for a contemporary record and showed the world that you can break down all the boxes, all the cliques and all the genres, and we can make interesting, fresh-sounding music by breaking down the walls.\nButch is a very modest man and he never really talks about himself in any grandiose terms. He’s very humble. But I do think he did something quite extraordinary, as it turns out. I’ve been lucky enough to be along on that ride with him and the rest of the band, too.\nAnnie Zaleski is a Cleveland-based journalist who writes regularly for The A.V. Club, and has also been published by Rolling Stone, Vulture, RBMA, Thrillist and Spin.\nMORE FROM Annie Zaleski\nAlternative Music Garbage Music Shirley Manson\nSet a path in audio production\nSave over 75% on these headphones\nEnjoy Spotify even without cell service\nPeter Buck is one busy Filthy Friend\nBest Sex Ever advice: Break or breakup?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line672277"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5044342279434204,"wiki_prob":0.5044342279434204,"text":"African Presidents wives to hold summit in Abuja on women’s development\nBy Amina Alhassan | Published Date Feb 21, 2018 15:14 PM Jul 18, 2018 16:19 PM\nAbuja will in April host wives of African Presidents, Vice Presidents and other female leaders across the African continent at the 2018 African Women Summit organized by the Coalition of Wives of Presidents and Vice Presidents in Africa (COWAP).\nAccording to a press statement issued by Belema Meshack-Hart, Team Lead, COWAP, the Summit which will be chaired by the former President of Malawi Joyce Banda will draw participation from all African countries live streamed to more than three million viewers across the globe.\nThe two-day Summit themed: ‘Using Innovative Technology to Solve Africa’s Development Challenges’ has been scheduled to hold between Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd April 2018 in Abuja.\nThe coordinators of the event have said the summit will serve as a melting pot of ideas towards achieving peace and development in Africa, anchoring on the four (4) thematic points of COWAP – Peace; Girl Child Education; Ending Hunger and Ending Poverty.\nThe cordinators also say, “The Summit will allow participants to identify the greatest barriers to peace and development and formulate sustainable solutions to these challenges, empowering women across the continent to become solution providers to themselves, their communities and the world around them.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line442644"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6146762371063232,"wiki_prob":0.38532376289367676,"text":"Home Miss Universe Jenny Kim is Miss Universe Korea 2016\nJenny Kim is Miss Universe Korea 2016\nMiss World Korea 2015 first runner-up, Jenny Kim, was appointed as Miss Universe Korea 2016! She will be competing in the 65th edition of Miss Universe which will be held in the Philippines in January 2017.\nKim is currently double majoring in International Office Administration and English Language and Literature at Ewha Womans University. Kim moved to Indonesia when she was only one year old with her family, and has attended an international school in Jakarta. She can speak English and Indonesian language fluently.\nThe highest placement of Korea was during Miss Universe 1988 by Jang Yoon-jeong, who placedas 1st Runner-up.\nJenny Kim is Miss Universe Korea 2016 Reviewed by Pageanthology 101 on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Rating: 5","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line164267"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6034874320030212,"wiki_prob":0.39651256799697876,"text":"Home → → Assessing the China-Philippines MOU on Cooperation on Oil and Gas Development\nBy Jianwei Li and Ramses Amer\nAssessing the China-Philippines MOU on Cooperation on Oil and Gas Development\nDec. 27, 2018 | | 0 comments\nOn November 20, 2018 during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the Philippines, 29 cooperation documents were signed between relevant authorities from both countries in the presence of President Xi and President Duterte. The 2nd among the long list of cooperation projects is the Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation on Oil and Gas Development between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (hereafter the MOU). The MOU is a carefully-drafted political document and its signing is an important step for bilateral efforts towards the direction of expanding their cooperation to marine resources development. Its evolvement will also impact bilateral dispute management and peace and security in the South China Sea (SCS) region and beyond.\nNature of the MOU\nAs Article II of the MOU states, the MOU is in relation to oil and gas exploration and exploitation in relevant maritime areas. Based on the context of Article I by referring to the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) and that both governments “have made substantial progress and meaningful gains in exploring opportunities and means to cooperate with each other in maritime activities”, the MOU is about bilateral cooperation in the SCS.\nThe topic of bilateral marine resources development in particular oil and gas cooperation has attracted attention from the political opposition in the Philippines headed by the group of politicians and judges who are either in opposition to Duterte or were involved in the 2016 Arbitration Case invoked by the former Aquino III Administration against China. They have been accusing the Duterte administration of “selling sovereignty and sovereign rights to China” defined by the award from the Arbitral Tribunal. It is important to note that from the very beginning of the Case, China considered it as not in line with the basic principles of international law and refused to participate and accept the award. After the signing of the MOU, two Philippine officials, Secretary of Foreign Affairs Locsin and Secretary of Energy Cusi, clarified that the MOU was an “agreement to agree”, that is, both parties agreed, through the MOU, to arrive at an agreement within a certain time. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo refers to the MOU as a “framework” that is “not legally binding.”\nFollowing concerns that the MOU could compromise the country’s sovereignty or lead to a debt trap, the Philippines’ Senate President called for a legislative review of the MOU. After examination of the MOU, Justice Secretary Guevarra said that he did not find any violation of the laws. He further elaborated that the MOU did not concern sovereignty issues and it merely expresses “a mutual desire to agree on specific cooperation arrangements within 12 months”.\nAlthough details of cooperation will be discussed afterwards, the MOU clarified the positions of both countries, that is, “the MOU, and all discussions, negotiations and activities of the two governments or their authorized enterprises under or pursuant to this MOU, will be without prejudice to respective legal positions of both governments” (Article IV). This MOU does not create rights or obligations under international or domestic law. This is a pragmatic attitude towards their SCS disputes. Both recognized the existence of differences relating to their claims of sovereignty and sovereign rights in the SCS, but they agreed to shelve the differences and begin discussing cooperation, leaving the disputes to be resolved by later generations.\nImplications of the MOU\nThe MOU conveys several messages. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson described the process at a press conference. It was, as he said, through in-depth exchanges of views for several times and after communication and negotiations that the two sides reached agreement on signing the inter-governmental MOU. During the whole process, the two sides demonstrated pragmatic attitudes and positive will to develop China-Philippines friendship and deepen bilateral cooperation. Therefore, the signing of the MOU is a testament to the mutual respect, equal-footed negotiation and mutual trust between China and the Philippines. Furthermore, based on the above working environment, marine resources development can work between the two countries.\nSecond, the signing of the MOU reflects strong political willingness from the top leaders of both countries to co-operate on oil and gas development in the SCS. The cooperation on oil and gas development is an important consensus reached by top leaders of both countries since Duterte took office in 2016. Back in October 2016 when President Duterte paid his first state visit to China, both countries signed a joint statement in which it was indicated that both sides agreed to explore (other) areas of co-operation in the SCS (Point 42 of 2016 Joint Statement).\nIn the 2017 joint statement signed during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s official visit to the Philippines, it was clearly emphasized that both sides “may explore means to cooperate with each other in other possible maritime activities including maritime oil and gas exploration and exploitation, in accordance with the respective national laws and regulations of the two countries and international law including the 1982 UNCLOS, and without prejudice to the respective positions of the two countries on sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction” (Point 14 of 2017 Joint Statement).\nTaking into consideration of the existing bilateral disputes in the SCS, any choice of cooperation area in the overlapping-claimed area which is located within the Philippines’ EEZ of 200 nm from the coast will be sensitive, even though there is “without prejudice to respective legal positions”.\nThe recent 2018 joint statement relating to President Xi’s visit, both sides welcomed the signing of the MOU, and agreed to discuss maritime cooperation including maritime oil and gas exploration, sustainable use of mineral, energy and other marine resources, among other consensus on implementing relevant international maritime instruments to ensure the safety of life at sea, marine environmental protection, and human resources development (Point 27 of 2018 Joint Statement). Without the strong support from the top leaders, it would be difficult to start co-operation in the unchartered water.\nThird, the MOU also reflects the commitment from both government agencies to push ahead with cooperation on oil and gas development in relevant maritime areas. It was declared in the MOU that relevant agreements would be reached on oil and gas exploration and exploitation within 12 months. Such development is important for the Philippines. Currently the Philippines relies overwhelmingly on imports to fuel its fast-growing economy and needs to develop indigenous energy resources. In 2016 it imported 10,670kt of crude oil and domestic production was only 760kt. In the same year natural gas supply met the domestic demand, both 153,275tj. However, its main source of natural gas, the Malampaya field located closer to disputed waters, will be depleted within a decade. To reach agreement for oil and gas development will be good news for the Philippines economic development.\nFourth, China-Philippine oil and gas cooperation in the SCS is not an easy task. Both governments have taken a cautious and careful move. As discussed above, the MOU was reached after two years of negotiations and consultations. In the meantime, some key issues still need to be tackled in the near future.\nTwo Articles in the MOU, Article II and III, give guidance for both governments to work together to reach arrangements to facilitate oil and gas exploration and exploration in an accelerated manner. Article II specifies the principles to be followed. They include “mutual respect, fairness, and mutual benefit, flexibility and pragmatism and consensus”, “equal and friendly consultation” and “being consistent with applicable rules of international law”.\nArticle III, entitled “Working Mechanism”, specifies the mechanism under the MOU and their relevant responsibilities. Two kinds of organizations will be formed, an Inter-Governmental Joint Steering Committee and one or more Inter-Entrepreneurial Working Group(s). The Committee will be co-chaired by the Foreign Ministries and co-vice chaired by the Energy Ministries with equal number of members of relevant agencies from the two governments. The Committee will be responsible for negotiating and agreeing the cooperation arrangements and cooperation maritime areas.\nIt is also the responsibility of the committee to decide on the number of Working Group(s). Each Working Group will consist of representatives from enterprises authorized by the two governments. The Working Group(s) is(are) responsible for negotiating and agreeing on inter-entrepreneurial technical and commercial arrangements. China authorizes China National Offshore Oil Corporation as the enterprise for each Working Group. The Philippines will authorize, depending on the applicable working area, the enterprises(s) where a service contract exists, or otherwise the Philippine National Oil Company — Exploration Corporation.\nFurthermore, with Article VI “Other Matters”, the Committee or a Working Group can be consulted for any other matters rather than those in the MOU.\nFuture Challenges\nThe MOU has sent a positive signal to the SCS region and beyond that cooperation in the SCS can be expanded to marine resources development, oil and gas in particular. However, from the MOU to any concrete bilateral cooperation agreement in the SCS, two key issues need to be agreed upon, co-operation area (where) and business arrangements (how). Taking into consideration of the existing bilateral disputes in the SCS, any choice of cooperation area in the overlapping-claimed area which is located within the Philippines’ EEZ of 200 nm from the coast will be sensitive, even though there is “without prejudice to respective legal positions”. The options of working areas will be under close scrutiny of the political opposition in the Philippines. The previous pretext used to bring the 2005 China-Philippines-Vietnam Tripartite Agreement on Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking on a halt might be invoked again — being inconsistent with the Philippine constitution and selling the Philippine sovereignty.\nHow China and the Philippines could really shelve their maritime disputes and how the MOU will evolve into a cooperation agreement will have significant impact not only on the Philippine domestic politics but also on China-Philippine relations over the SCS. Political wisdom is very important. The China-Philippine experience might set a precedent for co-operation on oil and gas development in the SCS region.\nJianwei Li and Ramses Amer\nJianwei Li is Director and Research Fellow, National Institute for South China Sea Studies, China. Ramses Amer is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Research and Associated Fellow, Institute for Security & Development Policy, Sweden.\nChina and Japan’s Business Cooperation in Third Countries\nThe 2018 Bangladesh Elections\nThe South China Sea Ruling: Akin to Opening Pandora’s Box\nSouth China Sea Framework Expected to Conclude in 1st Half of 2017","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line289685"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7678284645080566,"wiki_prob":0.7678284645080566,"text":"About El Camino Health\nIftikhar Hussain\nIftikhar Hussain joined El Camino Hospital as the chief financial officer in the spring of 2014. He has more than 30 years of healthcare financial experience. Most recently, Iftikhar was chief financial officer of Mills-Peninsula Health Services in Burlingame, California. Other previous roles include director of finance at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, and director of accounting services at Mercy Healthcare/Catholic Healthcare West in Sacramento, California. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of California, Berkeley. Iftikhar is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.\nAutocomplete Results\nPaul’s Story: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)\nBreast Density May Be Leading Indicator of Cancer Risk\nMindy’s Story: Colon Cancer\nSpring Forward Gala Raises Funds for Addiction Services\nLearn About Campus Construction\nStay current and sign up for our campus updates newsletter.\nSign Up for HealthPerks\nIt's a free membership program with a monthly newsletter, event registrations, and more.\nUse our directory to find a doctor with an office near our Mountain View or Los Gatos campus.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line420061"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5420026779174805,"wiki_prob":0.5420026779174805,"text":"Jiulong Baguazhang\nHistory of Jiulong Baguazhang\nJiulong Baguazhang Cirriculum\nThe art of Jiulong Baguazhang (pronounced Jee-ohLung BaGwaJong) or Nine Dragon, Eight Trigram Palm (boxing art) comes to us by way of the Li family of Sichuan province, China. It is but one facet of the Li family’s martial and health exercise system called Daoqiquan (pronounced Dao Chee Chewen) – which can be interpreted as “Martial Way of Vitality”\nThe history of Daoqiquan weaves a story about a wandering Tibetan monk, Lama Zurdwang (1530 -1620) from Quamdo Tibet. Lama Zurdwang is said to have been a student of the 5 Excellencies: philosophy, poetry, painting, medicine, and martial arts sometime during the Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644 AD).\nLegend has it that Lama Zurdwang left his native Tibet on a quest to learn more of Daoism, Buddhism, and Chinese martial arts. During his travels through China, Zurdwang is believed to have stopped at many Daoist and Buddhist monasteries, where he learned methods of healing, herbology, and various styles of Chinese martial arts.\nLama Zurdwang eventually came to take the Daoist name Dao, Long-Ren and eventually settled in the village of Daofu, in Sichuan province, where he became the tutor of a family named Li. He taught them the many skills he had learned over decades of travel and study. In this way, the arts of Dao, Long-Ren passed into the hands of the Li clan and over the years the family became known as highly reputable bodyguard/wagon masters, or Baobiao.\nEach patriarch of the clan learned the original methods of Lama Zurdwang’s martial arts and combined them with other styles and combat methods they came across that proved useful. Over numerous generations, the Li family developed their own interpretation of martial art styles such as Taijiquan (Tai Chi), Xingyiquan, and Baguazhang based on the martial principles they had learned from Dao, Longren. After many changes of name, their art came to be known as Daoqiquan.\nBaguazhang was incorporated into the Daoqiquan system by Master Li, Ching-yuen, who named it Jiulong, or Nine Dragon, Baguazhang, in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s, though it is not certain where he learned it. It is possible that the Li family system of Jiulong Baguazhang has the same roots as other systems of Baguazhang which developed from the lineage established in Beijing by the recognized founder of the art, Dong Hai-chuan. Whatever the case, Jiulong Baguazhang was initially taught only to Li family members and, as such, its connection to the lineage of Dong, Hai-chuan is uncertain. From the Li family it was passed on to the first Westerner, the current Shigong (grandfather teacher) of the art, Dr. John P. Painter, who has taught the method to thousands of students across the world.\nWhite Dragon Healing Arts\n950 Cty Hwy 10, Suite 117\nSpring Lake Park, MN 55432\nAll Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2018 White Dragon Martial Arts.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1713722"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7821321487426758,"wiki_prob":0.7821321487426758,"text":"Aston Martin Shows Off Electric Sedan Prototype Driving\nAston Martin is best known for its luxury sports cars but the company has been working on a fully electric sedan which it says has been engineered to “retain and enhance the feel, character and delivery of the V12-engined Rapide S.” The company’s CEO Andy Palmer tweeted a milestone moment for the upcoming vehicle recently. The video shows its Rapide E prototype driving under its own power for the very first time.\nThis also happens to be Aston Martin’s first fully electric car. It will be able to follow through on its promise of making customers feel they’re in a V12-engined Rapide S with an impressive 800V battery system that’s compatible with DC fast chargers. It will also have twin electric motors to deliver the equivalent of 602 horsepower and a top speed of 155 miles per hour.\nThe video tweeted out by the CEO shows the prototype slowly making its way across a parking lot. It’s not doing high speed runs or lighting up its rear tyres, but at least we know now that Aston Martin has reached the point in the development of this vehicle which ensures that it will be able to drive under its own power.\nFurther information about this electric sedan will be confirmed closer to its launch. Aston Martin is expected to launch it at some point in the fourth quarter of this year.\nA moment of @astonmartin history. First Validation Prototype Aston Martin RapideE moves under its own power for the very first time with its breakthrough 800v battery. Great work from the development team which includes Williams Engineering. pic.twitter.com/b2mRaeCsNP\n— Andy Palmer (@AndyatAston) January 21, 2019\nFiled in Transportation. Read more about Aston Martin and Electric Cars.\nApple Exploring The Idea Of Wirelessly Charging Electric Cars\nFirst Full-Electric Aston Martin Car Unveiled\nNext James Bond Aston Martin Could Be An Electric\nAston Martin Releasing Iconic DB5 With Working Gadgets\nAston Martin's Submarine Will Excite Your Inner James Bond\nAston Martin Expects To Have 100% Hybrid Cars By 2020","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line698489"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9263081550598145,"wiki_prob":0.9263081550598145,"text":"Roger Thomas Memorial Cup 2017\nOn Friday 24th March 2017 a staff select XI competed for the Roger Thomas Memorial Cup against a confident Year 13 XI ably supported by a number of hard working year 12 students.\nAs always, the match was to be played in memory of Mr Roger Thomas who was an exceptional man who did a vast amount for Sport at Westgate School during his time as Headmaster here. In his memory, this annual event has a charitable focus and we raised the sum of £165 which will be donated to Asthma UK.\nWe very much appreciate the supporters for their kind donations and continued enthusiasm throughout the match.\nThe game was a fantastic opportunity for the students to back up their confident pre-match chat and they became under immense pressure from the outset where it was clear that they were not going to have it all their own way against this strong, hard working staff side. Mr Innis scored the opening goal for the staff, followed shortly by a short tap in from Mr Watson to take a commanding 2-0 lead. It was then that the students had a glimmer of hope, with a mix up at the back, Sam Collins ably took control and neatly tucked away a confident finish into the bottom corner to keep the students in the game at 2-1.\nMr Watson was keen to make up for his slight error at the back and did so almost immediately with an outstanding diving header to put the staff side back in control with a 2 goal advantage going into half time.\nBoth sides came out into the second half with a new focus and determination and it was the staff side again who struck first with two goals coming in quick succession the first of which was delivered by Mr Mangat from a throw in and finally Mr Innis with a neat finish to get his second of the day. At 5-1 the staff side looked comfortable and the students struggled to get themselves back into the game. The staff continued to push but the game was called to an end with a confident 5-1 score line in favour of the staff who were very proud to be the 2017 holders after their loss on penalties in the 2016 tie.\nSpecial mention must go to Mr Clark for organising the match and the staff side and Maan Chana for organising the students side. The game was excellently officiated by Adam Mcloughlin who did an outstanding job, supported by Harvey Townsend and Mikolaj Pietluch from Year 11.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line517748"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6480575799942017,"wiki_prob":0.35194242000579834,"text":"Archive for the ‘Middlesex County’ Category\nPosted in New Jersey, Perth Amboy on June 17, 2009|\nNEWARK – Last week, a former advisor to state Assemblyman Joseph Vas pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of illegally funneling money into Vas’ 2006 congressional campaign.\nRay Geneske, a longtime friend of Vas, admitted accepting $30,0000 from a developer and giving most of it to “straw donors” who wrote checks to the campaign. The move circumvented campaign finance regulations that cap the maximum donation at $2,100 per individual.\nThe former Democratic committee chairman in Perth Amboy agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney General’s Office. Geneske faces a maximum of two years in prison, but he may only receive probation when he is sentenced on Sept. 21.\nAn Evening Of Elegance\nPosted in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey on June 10, 2009|\nThe courtyard at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison was filled with seniors and juniors dressed in exquisite gowns and tuxedos having their pictures taken before boarding a bus to attend Prom at The Farrington Manor in East Brunswick on June 2. Pictured above, Roland Marionni of Scotch Plains, Upper School chemistry teacher, poses with juniors Ayna Agarwal of Colonia, Devi Mody of Edison, Katie Lee of Edison, Lotus Cannon of Edison and Garima Kapoor of Edison before boarding the bus. (Photo by Bill Jenkins)\nVas Campaign Leader Pleads Guilty To Corruption Charge\nPosted in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Perth Amboy on June 5, 2009|\nTRENTON – A man who served as a leader of the 2006 congressional campaign of state Assemblyman Joseph Vas pleaded guilty today to soliciting fraudulent campaign contributions, Attorney General Anne Milgram and Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced.\nAccording to Gramiccioni, Raymond Geneske, 73, of Perth Amboy, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Frederick P. DeVesa in Middlesex County to a third-degree charge of financial facilitation of criminal activity, commonly known as money laundering.\nIn pleading guilty, Geneske admitted that he solicited employees of the City of Perth Amboy and others to make fraudulent contributions to Vas’ 2006 campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 13th Congressional District. At the time, Geneske was chairman of the Perth Amboy Democratic Committee and was a key advisor to the Vas campaign. Geneske admitted that he paid cash to the people he solicited to reimburse them for writing personal checks payable to “Vas for Congress.”\nRicigliano Wins Bitter Battle Against Choi\nPosted in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey on June 3, 2009|\nEDISON – Councilwoman Antonia Ricigliano is one step closer to becoming Edison’s first female mayor after defeating incumbent Jun Choi in Tuesday’s primary.\nThe two-term councilwoman had the backing of the township’s Democratic Committee as well as the local police union, but still trailed Choi by 18 points in a poll taken two weeks before election day.\n“Does it get any better?” Ricigliano asked at her campaign headquarters on Tuesday night. “I couldn’t believe it. When the phone call came in, I didn’t know who it was—it was Mayor Choi conceding. We didn’t even have all the numbers on our board yet.”\nH1N1 Flu Cases Confirmed In Middlesex County\nPosted in Middlesex County, New Jersey on June 3, 2009|\nMIDDLESEX COUNTY—Four cases of H1N1 flu have been confirmed in Middlesex County, according to the Middlesex County Public Health Department.\nThree of the cases, two from Highland Park and one from Edison, are from an influenza cluster in students from a private parochial school in Piscataway. A cluster is defined as two or more individuals with symptom onset within seven days of each other who have common exposure, i.e. school.\nThe private school was closed for a week, and reopened on Monday, June 1.\nCounty health officer David A. Papi said, “We have been working closely with the school, local physicians, parents, and all local health departments in the county, particularly Piscataway and Edison health departments.”\nAward-Winning Artist\nAthena Gerasoulis of Edison, a fourth grader at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, captured first place in the nationwide 2009 Creative Student Art Contest for her “vivid color usage and imaginative interpretation of the theme, ‘Outside World.’” She received a $250 check and $250 art supply gift certificate. She is pictured with her plaque and artwork at right. Athena is the daughter of Dr. Apostolos Gerasoulis and Xiaolan Zhang. (Photo Courtesy of Xiaolan Zhang)\nPosted in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey on May 28, 2009|\nMIDDLESEX COUNTY—Three cases of H1N1 flu have been confirmed in Middlesex County, according to the Middlesex County Public Health Department.\nTwo of the cases, one from Highland Park and one from Edison, are from an influenza cluster in students from a private parochial school in Piscataway. A cluster is defined as two or more individuals with symptom onset within seven days of each other who have common exposure, i.e. school.\nThe private school has been closed since Friday, May 22, and will remain closed until Monday, June 1. County health officer David A. Papi said, “We have been working closely with the school, local physicians, parents, and all local health departments in the county, particularly Piscataway and Edison health departments.”\nA third confirmed case involves an adult male from North Brunswick and is not related to the cases from the Piscataway school, officials said.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1162945"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7089573740959167,"wiki_prob":0.7089573740959167,"text":"Posts tagged 2012 News\nMI ballot committees raised $154.3 million in Campaign 2012\nLANSING - Michigan ballot committees smashed all previous records for fundraising and spending in 2012. In aggregate, the 2012 ballot committees raised $154.3 million. All six proposals lost at the polls on November 6th. The spending in three of the ballot contests - Proposal 2, 3 and 6 - broke t... read more\nDark money and justice\nBy Rich Robinson This commentary first appeared in edited form in the Detroit Free Press under the title, \"Who paid for those Michigan Supreme Court ads?\" Michigan earned national election notoriety in 2012. Our Supreme Court campaign appears to have been the most expensive, least accountable ... read more\nOutside groups outspending candidates 2:1 in1st Congressional\nLANSING - Spending by outside groups is already nearly twice what the candidate committees have raised in Michigan's most hotly contested congressional race. Through the pre-general campaign finance reports, incumbent Republican Rep. Dan Benishek had total receipts of $1,889,740 and Democratic chall... read more\nMichigan House candidates raised $13M by pre-general reports\nLANSING - Fundraising by Michigan House candidates is running well ahead of the pace of the last two election cycles. Through pre-general reports, the general election candidates have raised $13.04 million. The comparable figures for 2010 and 2008 were $9.45 million and $11.7 million, respectively. ... read more\nAmerica's most expensive, most secretive judicial election\nLANSING - Michigan's Supreme Court election campaign appears to be headed for the notorious distinction of being the nation's most expensive and least transparent judicial election campaign in 2012. The candidates' pre-general election campaign finance reports filed Friday show that the major-par... read more\nBallot committees have raised $141 M\namended 4:00p, 10/29/2012 LANSING - Active ballot committees raised $141.4 million in Michigan this election cycle, as of Friday, October 26th. Three of the six proposals voters will decide on November 6th have already smashed the state's previous record for a ballot contest, the 2004 campaign t... read more\nTop 150 state PACs have raised $34.7M\nrevised, 5:30p, 10/26/2012 LANSING - Michigan's top 150 state political action committees have raised $34.7 million through the October campaign finance reports. That total is the lowest recorded since the 2004 election cycle for the state's top 150 PACs. Rankings were compiled by the nonparti... read more\nMichigan's U.S. House candidates have raised $26.1M\nLANSING - Michigan's general election candidates for the United States House of Representatives have raised $26.1 million in campaign cash through September 30th, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. Michigan's most heavily contested U.S. House race is the 1st District... read more\nBallot committees' TV ad bill: $30M\nLANSING -Proponents and opponents of the proposed constitutional amendments that will be on Michigan's November ballot have spent approximately $30 million for television advertisements since August, according to figures compiled by the nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network. Sales totals ... read more\nSupreme Court race well-funded for final month\nLANSING - The Michigan Supreme Court campaign moves into its final four weeks with candidates who are well financed and political parties that are fully engaged. The six major-party nominees have collectively raised $2.26 million, so far. Incumbent Justice Brian Zahra, a Republican nominee wh... read more\nMichigan advertising one-sided for Senate, Presidential Races\nLANSING -- Television advertising records show one-sided advertising in Michigan's U.S. Senate race and the contest for the state's presidential electoral votes. However, data suggest a highly competitive campaign in Michigan's First Congressional District. Presidential In the presidential rac... read more\nLansing lobbyists' spending on record pace\namended 5:30p.m., 9/13/2012 LANSING - Lansing lobbyists have reported spending $20.7 million through the first seven months of 2012, according to reports filed with the Michigan Department of State and compiled by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. That figure is up by 4.5 percent compared to... read more\nMichigan presidential air war: $10.9M - $0\nLANSING -- The presidential television ad war in Michigan continues to unfold unlike anywhere else in America. Through Labor Day, a group of superPACs and nonprofit \"social welfare\" corporations opposing President Barack Obama and supporting Republican nominee Mitt Romney has spent $10.9 million. Ne... read more\nIncumbent Supreme Court justices have pre-convention campaign finance advantage\nupdated 8/31/2012, 8:00 a.m. LANSING - Incumbent Michigan Supreme Court Justices Stephen Markman and Brian Zahra have significant campaign finance advantages over other candidates for this year's election, according to pre-convention reports filed with the Michigan Bureau of Elections. Justice... read more\nA campaign like no other\nLANSING - The nonstop barrage of television advertisements Michigan viewers have seen attacking the policies and administration of President Barack Obama are part of a campaign targeting nine states considered to be potential battlegrounds for the November presidential election: Colorado, Florida, I... read more\nMI candidates for U.S. House, Senate have raised $40M\nLANSING - Michigan candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have raised more than $40 million so far this election cycle according to data compiled by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network from reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. The reports are complete th... read more\nState House candidates have raised $9.7M\nLANSING - Candidates for the Michigan House of Representatives raised $9,657,667 by July 22nd when they closed books on their pre-primary election reports. That total is up by 17.4 percent compared to the comparable point in the 2010 election cycle, and it is up by 14.6 percent compared to 2008. ... read more\nLANSING--Michigan's top 150 state political action committees have raised $27.3 million so far this election cycle according to reports filed this week with the Michigan Department of State. That total lags behind the corresponding total from 2010, when the Republican Governors Association had place... read more\nBallot committees have spent $20M\nLANSING -- Just twelve committees have raised $29.3 million - and already spent $20 million - in initial financial activity surrounding seven ballot questions that may be decided by the Michigan electorate in November. Records were compiled by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network from reports fi... read more\nIncumbents dominate Michigan congressional fundraising\nLANSING -Second quarter campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission by Michigan's 2012 congressional candidates show incumbents dominating fundraising with little financial competitiveness apparent for the August 7th primary election or the November general election. Incum... read more\nNonprofits blast Obama with $6M \"issue ad\" campaign\nLANSING - The presidential air war is playing out in Michigan without participation of the candidates' campaign committees. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney has paid for television advertising in Michigan since the presidential primary on February 28th. The television ad war has been a one-si... read more\nDIBC ad spending against bridge tops $3 million in 2012\nLANSING - A television advertising blitz by the Detroit International Bridge Company that ran from Memorial Day to the end of June has increased DIBC's ad spending in opposition to a new public/private bridge between Detroit and Windsor to $3.36 million so far in 2012. That figure is gross sales thr... read more\nMillions in Michigan political ads unreported\nLANSING – A five-party, multi-million-dollar Michigan television ad campaign orchestrated by Mentzer Media Services illustrates the major role of nonprofit advocacy corporations in contemporary presidential politics. Four nonprofits organized as 501(c)(4) corporations – Americans for Prosperi... read more\nTop PACs have raised $22.2M this cycle, up 12.2%\nComing on the heels of a record year of lobbyists' spending, there are more signs of recovery in the money-in-politics sector of Michigan's economy. Michigan’s top 150 political action committees have raised $22.2 million so far this election cycle. That figure is up by 12.2 percent compared to th... read more\nBipartisan task force calls for more transparency, less partisanship in Supreme Court selection process\nAfter a year-long study, the Michigan Judicial Selection Task Force yesterday released its report and recommendations for improving the state's process for selecting Supreme Court justices. Led by two veteran Michigan jurists, Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Kelly and Senior Judge James L. Ryan of ... read more\nCampaign reports suggest limits of congressional competition\nMichigan candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives have filed their campaign finance reports for the first quarter of 2012. Those reports suggest a limited number of competitive primaries and even fewer competitive races in the November general election. A synopsis of races that are likely to... read more\nPres TV 2012: Independents outspend candidates by 50%\nLANSING – First quarter television advertising in Michigan related to the 2012 presidential election stands at $7.6 million. SuperPACs and nonprofit “issue” advertisers have outspent the candidates’ campaign committees by 50 percent. Spending data were compiled by the nonprofit Michigan ... read more\nRecord spending by MI lobbyists in 2011\nLANSING – Reported Lansing lobbying expenditures totaled $35,348,800 in 2011, according to figures compiled by the Michigan Campaign Finance Network from reports filed with the Michigan Department of State. That amount is up by 11 percent compared to 2010 and it is a new state record for annual lo... read more\nMichiganders slow to feed SuperPACs\nLANSING – SuperPACs associated with individual presidential candidates raised $47 million in 2011 but Michigan donors were slow to join the fray. Only Restore Our Future, which Mitt Romney has referred to as, “my SuperPAC,” raised more than $1,000 from Michigan contributors. Michigan donors... read more\nCan Durant tap West Michigan donors?\nLANSING – Fund-raising for Michigan’s Republican senatorial primary campaign is competitive, as of year-end reports that cover the period through December 31, 2011. Pete Hoekstra had raised $2,001,832 and had $1,524,458 in cash on hand, while Clark Durant had raised $1,376,744 and had $1,183,885... read more\nCongressional fundraising reflects redistricting\nLANSING -- Fund-raising figures reported by Michigan’s active congressional candidates carry a strong suggestion of the effect of the 2011 redistricting process. There will be competitive Democratic primaries this year, as there were after the 2001 redistricting process, and less competition in No... read more\nMonetizing Democracy\nThis commentary first appeared in Dome Magazine By Rich Robinson This is campaign finance orthodoxy in early 2012: Corporations are people, money is speech and democracy is when my billionaire whups your billionaire. Comedians have lampooned the silliness of the first strained equivalence. ... read more\nOfficeholders raised $5.9M during reporting hiatus\nLANSING – Michigan’s legislators and elected constitutional executives filed their first campaign finance reports in more than a year on Tuesday, January 31st. In aggregate, they reported raising $5.9 million: $3.5 million by representatives, $1.6 million by senators and $832,000 by the Governor... read more\nEthics, lobbying and campaign finance reform\nIt was welcome news when Governor Snyder announced during his 2012 State of the State address that he believes Michigan needs campaign finance, lobbying and ethics reforms. It has been a long time since a Michigan governor has expressed serious interest in this important area of government accountab... read more","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line58405"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5226786732673645,"wiki_prob":0.4773213267326355,"text":"Volleyball – Quincy – Wednesday VA\nQuincy Park, 1021 N Quincy St Arlington, VA 22201Map\nWED 6:00-9:30PM Coed Social (D3) 8 to 13 6v6\nTeam Registration: $585\nIncluded Roster Spots: 9\nStatus: Sold Out\nWe are first and foremost a SOCIAL company. As we grow though we are starting to offer more and more variations and competitiveness levels for our leagues. For volleyball we have several different options:\n6v6 Social Coed – for the players looking to get out and be active. Leagues are 50% Games 50% Social. It’s a party! Level – B-BB\n6v6 Athletic Coed – for our more serious players who love the thrill of victory and loath the taste of defeat! Games are a little more intense and teams more organized. These leagues are designed for players that have significant experience with the sport. Level – BB-A (some AA)\n4v4 Athletic Coed – These leagues are designed for players that have significant experience with the sport. Level – BB-A (some AA)\n4v4 or 6v6 Women’s Athletic – Our all female league. These leagues are designed for players that have significant experience with the sport. Level – BB-A (some AA)\nVolleyball teams vary in size based on which type of league it is.\nFormat: 4v4 | Auto Promo Size: 6 | Full Team: 7\nThere may be gender requirements for certain leagues. Please check your rules sections.\nWe allow individuals, small groups and teams to all join our leagues. DC Fray reserves the right to add additional players to ANY team that is under the official roster size for the league. During registration captains can pick up free agents or mark their group as ready to merge via commish. After registration closes DC Fray goes through and finalizes rosters by placing free agents, merging groups and deleting unpaid players. Being a promoted team does not mean you may not receive additional players. Teams who want to “lock” their roster may prepay for a team at the official roster size. Example, 6v6 volleyball is 9 players officially but your team only wants 6 players. You can purchase a team spot for a roster of 9 and only fill your desired number but those additional spots are technically used and are not refundable.\nVolleyball Rules\nCo-Ed Volleyball is made up of two (2) teams of six (6) players each, with three (3) men and three (3) women on the court for each team\nException for Competitive nights where teams will have four (4) players on the court\nA best-of-3 format will be used for all matches. Generally, USVBA rules will be used.\n1. All players must be at least 21 years of age prior to participating in any Match and must be registered and in good standing with DC Fray Volleyball (herein: the “League”).\n2. Rosters must include no fewer than eight (8) players (minimum of 3 women)\nA. Competitive nights will be required to have six (6) players, consisting of a minimum of two (2) women, but may have as many players on the roster as a team chooses with no other restrictions.\nB. If a team of “free agent” registrations is assembled by the League, it will have no more than twelve (12) players.\n3. Each team may have six (6) players (exception for Athletic Leagues where is this 4 players) on the court at one time.\nA. For 6v6 If a team has two (2) women present, it may play with three (3) men and two (2) women on the court.\nB. For 4v4 games if a team has one (1) woman present it may play with two (2) men and one (1) woman on the court.\n4. As long as two (2) members of the team are present during the regular season, a team may use substitute players who are registered and in good standing with the league to field a full team.During the playoffs, teams may only use players on their roster.\nGame Personnel and Their Duties\n1. Teams and players are responsible for calling their own faults during play.\n2. Teams may be asked to provide one (1) referee for games before or after their own match to act as a referee (there will be a schedule). Referees will be the official timekeepers.\n3. Referees’ will be positioned, during game play, at the center line.\n4. Referees’ primary responsibilities are to serve as an arbitrator for difficult calls, start and maintain game flow, ensure the safety of all participants and spectators, and enforce the Sportsmanship Code. It is the PLAYERS’ responsibility to identify faults when they occur.\n5. League officials have the authority to eject anyone before, during and immediately after any match if they feel it is warranted.\nAll decisions made by referees are final.\nCode of Sportsmanship\n1. Volleyball is a self-regulated game that relies on the Honor System. If a fault occurs, you are expected to call it as such.\n2. Referees are there to rule on unclear plays, settle disputes, keep the game moving and ensure player safety. While they will at times call a fault, a lack of a call by a Referee does not remove your obligation to abide by the Honor System.\n3. Players must treat their fellow volleyball players, referees and spectators with respect and courtesy. Personal and malicious remarks directed at anybody in the volleyball community, obscene or otherwise, at any time, have no place in the League.\n4. Players must respect the authority of the referees to regulate the game and abide by their decisions. Referees’ decisions are final.\n5. Team captains must be the only players that address concerns to referees and league officials. They are expected to do so in a courteous and respectful manner, and to confine their discussions to interpretations of the rules and not challenge referees’ decisions regarding judgment.\n6. Players are expected to comply with the intent and spirit of the rules. Deliberately attempting to violate the rules is unacceptable.\n7. Teammates rely on players attending the games. If you fail to attend at least 3 games with no excuse, you may be replaced on the roster if both the captain and league management agree that it is best for your team.\nGame Procedures\nGame Start, Ending and Timing\n1. The Referee or league host will have a game of Rock,Paper,Scissors with the team Captains to determine the choice of serving first or choosing a side for the first game.\n2. Teams will switch sides for the second game and the team who did not serve to start the first game shall serve to start the second game.\n3. A 45-minute time limit will be placed on all games. If time expires in the middle of a game, the team with the most points will be declared the winner of that game. If less than a two (2) point difference exists between scores the referee or league host will set a cap and the teams will play to that point.\nForfeits\n1. Teams will forfeit one (1) game for every ten (10) minutes past the designated start time that they do not have the legal amount of players.\n2. If a team does not have the minimum number of players present 10 minutes after the designated start time, the entire match will be forfeited and the team that is present will be declared the winner.\n3. If you know in advance that your team is going to need to forfeit a game, we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible. We will do everything that we can to reschedule your game, but this does not mean that your team will not receive the loss as a forfeit if we cannot accommodate your needs.\n4. Playoff Eligibility: teams that notch more than two (2) forfeits in one (1) regular season will not be eligible for the playoffs.\n1. A game ball will be provided by DC Fray. Teams may use their own ball if both teams agree to use it.\n2. Players must wear athletic, closed-toe shoes (For Indoor Courts).\n3. Players must wear the t-shirts provided by DC Fray at all times during League play.\nMatch Format\nMatches will be played as a best-of-3 format.\n1. Rec Scoring: Games will be played to 21 points with a cap of 25 points. A team must win by 2 unless both teams are tied with 25 points. Rally Scoring will be used.\n2. the third game will be played to 15 points with a cap of 18 points. A team must win by 2 unless both teams are tied with 15 points. Rally Scoring will be used.\n3. Scores should be called out loudly before each serve.\nGender Rule\n1. There is no gender rule (subject to change if men/women are being intentionally excluded).\nSubstitutions/Rotations\n1. Teams are allowed an unlimited number of substitutions per match.\n2. Team members must rotate on the court and remain in that position until the serve has been contacted.\n3. The player in the back right-hand corner of the rotation will be designated to serve and continue to rotate clockwise.\n4. Any player may block or spike at the net, regardless of rotation.\n1. Overhand and underhand serves are allowed. Jump serves are not allowed.\n2. When serving the ball, the player has 5 seconds to make contact with the ball before a side-out is called.\n3. If the ball is served into the net, if it goes over, it is considered a legal serve.\n4. The serve can be returned with a pass or a set. The serve cannot be blocked or attacked at any time.\n5. The serve can be made from anywhere behind the end line and within the sideline.\n6. A server may not step over the end line until the ball has been contacted.\nPlaying Rules and Faults\n1. A maximum of three consecutive contacts per side after a serve or block attempt are allowed to return the ball.\n2. A block attempt is not considered a contact.\n3. No player may hit the ball twice in succession, except after a block.\n4. No part of the body may touch the net at any time unless a ball or person driven into the net causes the contact.\nA. Player contact with the net in a manner not directly relating to or affecting the course of play is not a violation.\nB. Contact with hair or part of the uniform will not be considered a fault.\n5. When executing a block or spike, a player may follow through over the net, as long as the individual does not interfere with players on the other side of the net.\n6. Out of bounds is the area outside the designated court line. The line is IN bounds.\nLiability Rules\n1. Alcohol is not permitted inside the volleyball facility, on the grounds, or any place where prohibited by area rules. Players caught with alcohol will be REMOVED FROM THE LEAGUE WITHOUT REFUND. Our permits are too valuable to risk!\n2. If League officials have reason to believe a player is too intoxicated to play, that player will be ejected.\n3. League Management reserves the right to suspend or expel any player from the league for any reason without refund.\nCategory: Volleyball Rules\n← Volleyball\nAll players must be at least 21 years of age prior to participating in any Match and must be registered and in good standing with DC Fray Volleyball (herein: the “League”).\nTeam rosters for 6v6 leagues must have a minimum of eight (8) registered players (minimum of 3 women). Team rosters for 4v4 leagues must have a minimum of six (6) registered players (minimum of 2 women. There is no cap on the number of players per roster in either league. The more, the merrier!\nIf a team of “free agent” registrations is assembled by the League, it will have no more than twelve (12) players.\nEach team may have six (6) players (exception for Athletic Leagues where is this 4 players) on the court at one time.\nFor 6v6 If a team has two (2) women present, it may play with three (3) men and two (2) women on the court.\nFor 4v4 games if a team has one (1) woman present it may play with two (2) men and one (1) woman on the court.\nAs long as two (2) members of the team are present during the regular season, a team may use substitute players who are registered and in good standing with the league to field a full team.During the playoffs, teams may only use players on their roster.\nTeams and players are responsible for calling their own faults during play.\nTeams may be asked to provide one (1) referee for games before or after their own match to act as a referee (there will be a schedule). Referees will be the official timekeepers.\nReferees’ will be positioned, during game play, at the center line.\nReferees’ primary responsibilities are to serve as an arbitrator for difficult calls, start and maintain game flow, ensure the safety of all participants and spectators, and enforce the Sportsmanship Code. It is the PLAYERS’ responsibility to identify faults when they occur.\nLeague officials have the authority to eject anyone before, during and immediately after any match if they feel it is warranted.\nVolleyball is a self-regulated game that relies on the Honor System. If a fault occurs, you are expected to call it as such.\nReferees are there to rule on unclear plays, settle disputes, keep the game moving and ensure player safety. While they will at times call a fault, a lack of a call by a Referee does not remove your obligation to abide by the Honor System.\nPlayers must treat their fellow volleyball players, referees and spectators with respect and courtesy. Personal and malicious remarks directed at anybody in the volleyball community, obscene or otherwise, at any time, have no place in the League.\nPlayers must respect the authority of the referees to regulate the game and abide by their decisions. Referees’ decisions are final.\nTeam captains must be the only players that address concerns to referees and league officials. They are expected to do so in a courteous and respectful manner, and to confine their discussions to interpretations of the rules and not challenge referees’ decisions regarding judgment.\nPlayers are expected to comply with the intent and spirit of the rules. Deliberately attempting to violate the rules is unacceptable.\nTeammates rely on players attending the games. If you fail to attend at least 3 games with no excuse, you may be replaced on the roster if both the captain and league management agree that it is best for your team.\nThe Referee or league host will have a game of Rock,Paper,Scissors with the team Captains. The winning Captain will choose to either pick a side or serve for the first set.\nTeams will switch sides for the second set and the team that did not serve to start the first set shall serve to start the second set.\nA 45-minute time limit will be placed on all games. If time expires in the middle of a game, the team with the most points will be declared the winner of that game. If less than a two (2) point difference exists between scores the referee or league host will set a cap and the teams will play to that point.\nCritical Mass & Gender Rules\nFor 6v6 leagues, teams must have three (3) registered players present to start a legal game.\nFor 4v4 leagues, teams must have two (2) registered players present to start a legal game.\nFor both leagues, only one more man than the number of women present on the court is allowed. For example, if a team only has one (1) woman present, it may play with two (2) men on the court.\nAdditional registered DC FRAY players who are in good standing with the league may be used as subs during regular season games. NO subs are allowed during the playoffs.\nTeams that do not have the minimum number of players present ten (10) minutes after the designated start time will forfeit the entire game and the other team will be declared the winner. Teams are welcome to use the court to scrimmage thereafter.\nIf you know in advance that your team is going to need to forfeit a game, we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible. We will do everything that we can to reschedule your game, but this does not mean that your team will not receive the loss as a forfeit if we cannot accommodate your needs.\nPlayoff Eligibility: teams that notch more than two (2) forfeits in one (1) regular season will not be eligible for the playoffs.\nA game ball will be provided by DC Fray. Teams may use their own ball if both teams agree to use it.\nPlayers must wear athletic, closed-toe shoes (For Indoor Courts).\nPlayers must wear the t-shirts provided by DC Fray at all times during League play.\nGame Format\nGames will be played as a best-of-3 format.\nScoring: Sets will be played to 21 points and a team must win by 2 points. A cap of 25 points is placed on the first two sets. Rally Scoring will be used.\nIf both teams win a set, the third set will be played to 15 points and a team must win by 2 points. A cap of 18 is placed on the third set. Rally Scoring will be used.\nScores should be called out loudly before each serve.\nThere is no gender rule as far as number of ball touches is concerned. For example, three men can touch the ball in a row before it is passed over the net. (subject to change if men/women are being intentionally excluded).\nTeams are allowed an unlimited number of substitutions per match.\nTeam members must rotate on the court and remain in that position until the serve has been contacted.\nThe player in the back right-hand corner of the rotation will be designated to serve and continue to rotate clockwise.\nAny player may block or spike at the net, regardless of rotation.\nOverhand and underhand serves are allowed. Jump serves are not allowed.\nWhen serving the ball, the player has 5 seconds to make contact with the ball before a side-out is called.\nIf the ball is served into the net, if it goes over, it is considered a legal serve.\nThe serve can be returned with a pass or a set. The serve cannot be blocked or attacked at any time.\nThe serve can be made from anywhere behind the end line and within the sideline.\nA server may not step over the end line until the ball has been contacted.\nA maximum of three consecutive contacts per side after a serve or block attempt are allowed to return the ball.\nA block attempt is not considered a contact.\nNo player may hit the ball twice in succession, except after a block.\nNo part of the body may touch the net at any time unless a ball or person driven into the net causes the contact.\nPlayer contact with the net in a manner not directly relating to or affecting the course of play is not a violation.\nContact with hair or part of the uniform will not be considered a fault.\nWhen executing a block or spike, a player may follow through over the net, as long as the individual does not interfere with players on the other side of the net.\nOut of bounds is the area outside the designated court line. The line is IN bounds.\nIf a player crosses under the net and interferes with a play, this is a violation (and it’s VERY unsafe).\nAlcohol is not permitted inside the volleyball facility, on the grounds, or any place where prohibited by area rules. Players caught with alcohol will be REMOVED FROM THE LEAGUE WITHOUT REFUND. Our permits are too valuable to risk!\nIf League officials have reason to believe a player is too intoxicated to play, that player will be ejected.\nLeague Management reserves the right to suspend or expel any player from the league for any reason without refund.\nHow much does it cost to join a DC Volley league?\nRegistration dues vary by location and night. DC Volley strives to keep dues low while still providing a quality experience for our members. Most leagues range in cost from $50 – $89. This fee covers insurance, court costs , equipment, player t-shirts, parties, prizes, recruiting, and the tons of other DC Fray events that we will be hosting throughout the year. You definitely get your money’s worth!\nEach league gets at least 6 organized nights of games, playoffs (if applicable), league shirts, and league-wide parties where you’ll get to meet literally hundreds and hundreds of other players. You’ll also have access to all our other non-volley related events, shindigs and parties throughout the year. Please note, DC Fray does not issue refunds.\nCategory: Volleyball\n← How much does it cost to join a DC Volley league?\nWe are first and foremost a SOCIAL company. We are starting to offer different competitive levels for volleyball. Each level from social, gender specific and athletic. Please read your season info page to see if the league is at a different level.\nWhat’s a DC Volley game night like?\nYou simply show up at the fields for your scheduled games, you and your teammates play your opponents for about 45 minutes and then everyone heads on over to the nearby sponsor bar for food, drinks, and partying! It’s a ridiculously easy formula that’s seriously fun! Game times vary by location but weekday leagues are run in the evening anywhere from 6pm to 10pm. Weekend leagues vary from morning to evening hours.\n← What’s a DC Volley game night like?\nFor 6v6 teams average 9 players. 4v4 – 7 players. There may be gender requirements for certain leagues\nFor 6s, there must be at least 3 of each gender on the roster. On the court, there must be at least 2 of each gender.\nFor 4s, there must be at least 1 of each gender to play but an official game is 2 males, 2 females.\n**Arlington DPR requires a minimum of 66% of participating players to be a resident of Arlington County. To meet this requirement teams/players must submit proof of residency. Please send a copy of this to [email protected] with the subject line \"Arlington Residency - (Insert Day/League)\".\nAt DC Fray we’re on a mission to make fun possible. To us that means bringing people together. All of our rules & policies are built to reflect this mission.\nVolleyball 411:\nAll good games have some rules and guidelines. Here’s some to keep you playing all season long:\nThis is a DC Fray Coed Social League. These leagues are for everyone! Never played before? Great! Former setter for the US Olympic Team? Awesome! Players of all skill levels are welcome in our Social leagues: the number one rule is to have a good time.\nGames begin Wednesday, June 26th and run weekly from 6:00-9:30PM.\nDates subject to change based on permits and availability and other league logistics. Number of teams to make the final tournament based on number of teams & league logistics.\nPlease keep in mind that this is a COED division when registering.\nWe welcome free agents and small groups and will do our absolute best to match players to teams. Please do not rely on Free Agents of one gender to be added to your team to fill it out.\nRebecca H.\nGrace H.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line908749"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.748848021030426,"wiki_prob":0.251151978969574,"text":"Chang Gung University\nhttp://www.cgu.edu.tw/bin/home.php?Lang=en\nOur school was established in April 1987 as the Chang Gung Medical College, and at that time had a mission of training outstanding medical personnel. To meet the needs of the country's economic development, we later added departments and graduate schools of engineering and management, enabling us to broaden our instructional resources and turn out talented workers in medicine, engineering, and management. Our engineering and management have accepted students since 1993, at which time the Ministry of Education permitted us to change our name to “Chang Gung College of Medicine and Technology.” After adding more departments in the subsequent years, the Ministry of Education formally approved our upgrading and name change to “Chang Gung University” in July 1997.\nThe University currently consists of the College of Medicine, College of Engineering, and College of Management; under which are the undergraduate programs that include Departments of Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nursing, Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Medical Imaging and Radiological Science, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Respiratory Care, Biomedical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical and Materials Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Science and Information Engineering, Health Care Management, Business Administration, Industrial Design and Information Management.\nThe graduate institutes include Nursing Sciences (Master), Biomedical Sciences (Master/Ph.D.), Clinical Medical Sciences (Master/Ph.D.), Traditional Chinese Medicine (Master), Medical Biotechnology (Master), Rehabilitation Science (Master), Clinical Behavioral Science (Master), Dental and Craniofacial Science (Master), Early Intervention (Master), Electrical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering (Master/Ph.D.), Chemical and Materials Engineering (Master/Ph.D.), Electronic Engineering (Master/Ph.D.), Computer Science and Information Engineering (Master), Electro-Optical Engineering (Master), Biochemical and Biomedical Engineering (Master), Medical Mechatronics Science (Master), Health Care Management (Master), Information Management (Master), Business Administration (Master/Ph.D.), and Industrial Design (Master). The University currently has approximately 642 full-time and 633 part-time faculty members, and has more than 7,200 students enrolled.\nWe have been striving for excellence in both instruction and research area since the establishment of our institution. While we have been continuously hiring outstanding scholars and experts to join our faculty community, our faculty members have played active roles in national-level research projects sponsored by the National Science Council, National Institute of Health, and other organizations. And in order to educate and shape our students to be “diligent, perseverant, frugal, and trustworthy” and well-versed in both theory and practice, we have instituted an extracurricular practicum system and been working closely with Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, the Formosa Plastics Group, and other institutions to conduct work-study programs.\nThe developmental goal of our university is to turn from a teaching oriented university to research oriented. We will continue to improve the quality of the teaching staff, equipments, and instruction, as well as to let students to have more opportunities of engaging in humanity studies. In taking advantage of Formosa Plastics Group's abundant manufacturing and medical service resources, Chang Gung University aims to be a first-rate internationally renowned university that prepares high standard professional talents in the fields of medical science, high technology, and knowledge management.\nEstablish year : Established in April 1987\nType of institution : Privates University\nFeature area : Information and communication technologies, Health and social welfare, Natural sciences, mathematics and statistics, Engineering, manufacturing and construction, Business, administration and law\nContact : Center for International Academic Cooperation\nEmail | iac@mail.cgu.edu.tw\nTEL | +886-3-2118800*3345\nGraduate 1685 International Students 187\nCollege 3 Department 18 Grad. Inst.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line984018"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6204283237457275,"wiki_prob":0.37957167625427246,"text":"Way to miss the issue, Snow!\nTony Snow, whom I otherwise enjoy reading, has a column, published at Jewish World Review’s online site, that just irritates the heck out of me. I’m going to comment on it bit by bit.\nIllegal immigration seems to have spawned a dreary debate about the merits of Mexicans, when it should be drawing attention instead to a very different matter: how to build on the luster and wonder of the American dream.\nThe debate isn’t about “the merits of Mexicans.” The debate is about the merits of doing nothing about the trampling of our laws. Part of the “luster and wonder of the Amrican dream” is living in a nation of laws, a nation where our rights are protected by virtue of recognition that those rights exist apart from the consitution which acknowledges them. It is also the dream of living in a nation whose leaders have to obey the laws, just like everyone else. Everyone else except illegal immigrants, I guess. Snow’s position means that we can ignore a set of laws. Well, if we can set aside immigration laws, Tony, why not constitutional law?\nImmigration is not the pox neo-Know Nothings make it out to be\nWell let’s just drive a tank over the point. I don’t know who has said that immigration is the pox. This pox (read slowly, Tony) is (I’m…writing…very…slowly…for…you…Know…Somethings…out…there) il…le…gal im…mi…gra…tion. Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?\nBegin with the astounding influx of illegal immigrants, the vast majority of whom hail from Mexico. While the population includes an eye-popping number of crooks, drug-dealers and would-be welfare sponges, it also provides a helpful prop for sustaining American economic growth and cultural dynamism.\nIn other words: It’s okay to ignore the law if, as a consequence of ignoring the law, we get “a helpful prop for sustaining American economic growth and cultural dynamism.” Oh, yeah. And all you would-be legal immigrants? Thank you for applying, but @#&* you! We’d rather have people who, though they don’t follow the law like you do, nonetheless help us prop up and sustain our economic growth and cultural dynamism. Because, after all, we’re Americans; and, as the world knows, our economic growth and cultural dynamism trumps all other considerations. Yes, even our own laws. So, again, @#&* you very much. Now go away; we already have 10 million immigrants; and they’ll do more work than you for a lot less money.\nPrinceton University sociologist Douglas S. Massey reports that 62 percent of illegal immigrants pay income taxes (via withholding) and 66 percent contribute to Social Security. Forbes magazine notes that Mexican illegals aren't clogging up the social-services system: only 5 percent receive food stamps or unemployment assistance; 10 percent send kids to public schools.\nHey kids! It’s okay to break a set of laws you find objectionable as long as you pay your income taxes, contribute to Social Security, and don’t clog up our social services system. So you just go on out there, pick a law or set of laws that you don’t like and live it up!!! You have Tony Snow’s kind permission . (Of course, Tony would like it very much if you didn’t break into his house and steal anything. Because if you were to do that, he would probably have you prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. And, of course, he’s free to do this because, like you, he pays taxes, contributes to social security, and doesn’t clog up our social services system.)\nOn the work front, Hispanic unemployment has tumbled to 5.5 percent, only slightly above the national average of 4.7 percent and considerably lower than the black unemployment rate of 9.3 percent. Economist Larry Kudlow praises Hispanic entrepreneurship: \"According to 2002 Census Bureau data, Hispanics are opening businesses at a rate three times faster than the national average. In addition, there were almost 1.6 million Hispanic-owned businesses generating $222 billion in revenue in 2002.\"\nThis would be very interesting if Hispanics—the merits of Mexicans—were the issue!!! They are not. This is an interesting statistic, but irrelevant.\nSkeptics counter that immigrants have clogged our hospitals, which is true — but primarily in places that offer lavish benefits to illegal immigrants.\nWe are, again, not concerned about immigrants, but (slowly again) il…le…gal im…mi…grants.\nAs for crime, the picture doesn't quite conform to conventional wisdom. Heather McDonald discovered that illegal immigrants in 2004 accounted for 95 percent of all outstanding homicide warrants in Los Angeles and two-thirds of unserved felony warrants. (Gangs, aided and abetted by laws that prevent local officials from handing illegal-immigrant criminals over to federal authorities, account for much of the mayhem.)\nOn the other hand, the most comprehensive survey to date of national crime data concludes, \"In the small number of studies providing empirical evidence, immigrants are generally less involved in crime than similarly situated groups, despite the wealth of prominent criminological theories that provide good reasons why this should not be the case.”\nOkay. It’s okay to break our laws, as long as you don’t…well…break our laws, that is, the laws that Tony Snow, and the other non-neo-Know-Nothings, do like and think people should obey. Besides, our problem is not—again—with “immigrants.” We have a problem with illegal immigrants; and we don’t care which of our many laws they graciously condescend to obey.\nAuthors Ramiro Martinez Jr. and Matthew T. Lee note, for instance, that the Latino homicide rate in Miami is three times that of El Paso, Texas, which has one of the nation's largest immigrant populations. That's not just an anomaly. Another major study, \"U.S. Impacts of Mexican Immigration,\" by professors Michael J. Greenwood and Marta Tienda reports that \"crime rates along the border are lower than those of comparable non-border cities.\"\nInteresting. But we are not concerned with Mexican immigration. We are concerned with illegal immigration, by anyone.\nThis doesn't mean immigrants from Mexico are saints — it just means that they may not be the marauding horde some make them out to be. As it turns out, crime rates in the highest immigration states have been trending significantly downward.\nTherefore, what? We should continue to do nothing about our immigration policy being trampled by those who see fit, for reasons that seem good to them? All you’re saying, Tony, is that it’s fine for people to break one set of laws (and you’ll decide which set, of course) as long as they don’t break another set of laws (and you’ll decide which set, of course).\nTotal crime and property crime in California are half what they were in 1980; violent crime has fallen more than a third. The state's Hispanic population during that time has increased 120 percent.\nIrrelevant. We’re are not talking about the behavior of Hispanics. I was raised by Hispanics. We’re talking about illegal immigration. And many Hispanics have a problem with illegal immigration. Here's an example of one of them (some may think that my own hispanic credentials are somewhat suspect, due to generations of interracial marriages).\nSimilar trends apply in other high-traffic states, with the exception of Colorado. While Arizona's population grew 41.8 percent between 1993 and 2003, for instance, the rates for every major category of crime fell.\nAll we find here is what we’ve already discovered. Tony thinks it fine for a group of people to break a set of laws that he doesn’t particularly care about, just so long as they don’t break sets of laws that he does care about. (In other contexts, we’ll no doubt be treated to a dose of his complaining about how we’re supposed to be a nation of laws, blah, blah, blah.)\nWhy, then, the fuss? In America today, unemployment remains low, employment is booming, wages have begun to grow in tandem with the economy, tax receipts are exploding at the federal and state levels, and the United States continues to run laps around its European and Asian economic rivals.\nWelcome to America, you law-breakers. Feel free to stay as long as you like as long as you don’t break any other laws that I, Tony Snow, care about, and unemployment remains low, employment continues to boom, wages keep growing in tandem with the economy, and tax receipts continue to explode at federal and state levels, and the United States continues to run laps around its European and Asian economic rivals. (But if all that comes crashing to a halt, Tony Snow may then be in favor of kicking your law-breaking butts out of here.)\nHey, Tony, try not paying your taxes and then tell the IRS what wonderful things you do for this country’s economy. See how kindly they treat you. I mean, hey, if we can excuse the breaking of one set of laws on the basis of some supposed good being done by the law-breakers, then quite possibly we can excuse the breaking of another set of laws on the basis of some good being done by the law-breakers in that case. Tony Snow, apparently, wants to have a “law buffet.”\nThe United States somehow has managed to absorb 10 million to 20 million illegal immigrants not only without turning into Animal Farm, but while cranking up the most impressive economic recovery in two decades and the most prolonged period of declining crime in a century — all in the teeth of the post-9/11 recession, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the double-whammy hurricane season of 2005.\nYes, well whether we’ve actually absorbed them is debatable. It may turn out that we’ll have absorbed them like the Romans did the Goths. Besides, it not a matter of how well we absorb them, but of how well we assimilate them. But hey, who cares about all that as long as we keep “cranking up the most impressive economic recovery in two decades and the most prolonged period of declining crime in a century — all in the teeth of the post-9/11 recession, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the double-whammy hurricane season of 2005.” Screw the laws! The money surf’s up! It’s time to party, dudes!\nRather than panicking, the political class might want to take a deep breath and attempt a little common sense. Virtually everyone agrees that we need to secure our borders, deport lawbreakers and slackers among the illegal-immigrant population, and revitalize the notion of citizenship by insisting that prospective citizens master the English language and the fundaments of American history and culture.\nIt is interesting to see him think he has something to say about deporting “lawbreakers…among the illegal-immigrant population” (italics added, by me). Is he kidding us?\nThe Statue of Liberty symbolizes America's affection for the world's tired and poor, the \"huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”\nYes, the Statue of Liberty does symbolize “America's affection for the world's tired and poor, the ‘huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ ”. But that affection is, like everything should be in a nation of laws, expressed by our immigration laws. It is our right and privilege, as a free nation, to decide and to prescribe by law, how—under what, if any, conditions— we will accept the world’s “huddled masses.” And we have done so.\nHey, Tony. Why don’t you take a drive down to Ciudad Juarez—just across the border from El Paso (the city you mentioned just above)—and take a walk around the city, draped in our flag. And just for kicks, while you’re walking around, yell at the top of your lungs, “América, América! Sí se puede!” See what happens. On second thought, don’t do any of that. I may disagree with you, but I wouldn’t want you to get yourself beaten to a jelly.\nBefore someone razes Lady Liberty and decides to erect a wall to \"protect\" America from the world, shouldn't we at least spend a little time trying to get our facts straight?\nYeah, Tony. Why don’t you go down to the border and do that; get your facts straight. Find one of those tunnels, that no one else has found, and be there to greet our illegal guests. Better yet, hang around with ranchers near the border, who have been warned by law enforcement authorities not to go out on their own land to check on their cattle. I myself wouldn’t want to see the welcome that they give to you. But you go ahead anyway. Get those facts straight.\nTags: Tony Snow, illegal immigration, illegal immigrants, Mexican immigrants\nStolen? By whom, precisely?\nIn my previous post, I linked to a photo album which contains this photo\nIf you will look in the upper right corner of the photo, you will notice a sign that says, “THIS IS STOLEN LAND”. That is an interesting proposition. To whom might the sign be referring? To the Spaniards, who stole it from the “natives”? To the Mexicans, who, after gaining independence from Spain, kept it? To the Russians, who stole Alaska—and a bit more—from the Eskimos? I mean, this sign couldn’t really be referring to the US, could it? After all, the US paid millions of (nineteenth century) dollars (to the Mexicans, the French, and the Russians) for the land that these people think we stole! (I know. I know. There are those who would like to think that we purchased this land by pointing our guns at the Mexicans. But, really, who points a gun at someone and says, “Here, let me give you some money that will help you pay a great many of your debts”?)\nBesides, I thought it was wrong for one group to force its morality on another. By telling us that we shouldn’t have stolen that land, aren’t these people sorting of forcing their morality on us? And aren’t they also doing so by, well, trying to steal it back after we bought it fair and square and telling us that we deserve it for stealing it in the first place?\nThere’s something else. I thought Mexico was so bad that this is why they are coming here. By flying the flag of Mexico (a country they are supposed fleeing from) flag here (in a country they are supposedly fleeing to) aren’t they saying “This land should be part of the hell-hole I just left”? To where would they then flee?\nAnyway, you can see more pictures of the new conquistadores at work here.\nTags: Aztlan, reconquista, illegal immigration.\n13 One Thousand Word Pictures\nHere is a photo abum of the aforementioned protest, courtesy of The LA Times, where you can see this photo.\nThere is nothing like loyalty to one's country. So noble.\nOne Thousand Word Picture\nTake a good look at this picture.\nIn my last post, I was concern to stress the importance of distinctions, relevant distinctions. The photograph above is technically correct: the US was, in fact built by immigrants. This would be a good point if anyone was talking about stopping all immigration. Maybe some are, but this protestor is not dealing with that particular issue. The protestor is addressing the issue of current proposed legislation that deals with illegal immigration.\nThis is an exercise in deliberately ignoring an issue. No one is talking about immigration per se; the current proposed legislation is not designed to stop immigration. The issue is illegal immigration. The question is whether the US were built by illegal immigrants. And even if someone wanted to claim that the US were built by illegal immigrants, previous abuse is no argument against proper use.\nMany people are trying to immigrate here legally. They are waiting upwards of 18 months for the paperwork to go through. They are following the laws. Those who immigrate illegally decide that the laws don’t apply to them.\nMany of those who are opposed to the proposed legislation are liberals, Democrats. It is interesting to watch them favor immigrants who migrate here illegally, while at the same time screaming about an illegal war in Iraq, and a President who, they claim, ignores the law in order to spy on Americans. I don’t want to make any unwarranted assumptions about the protestors, so it would be interesting to see the results of a poll which would ask respondents how they feel about the legality of the war in Iraq and about illegal immigration.\nYou know, one of the arguments in favor of illegal immigration, when whittled down to essentials is, “It’s good for us.” One of the arguments in favor of invading the sovereign nation of Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein is a great deal similar to that one.\nSo, I guess one question that I have is why can we permit illegal immigration on the one hand, but not an illegal war? Another question is, “We’re a sovereign nation. Why isn’t it wrong for our neighbors to the south to invade us?” Shouldn’t a sovereign nation be able to define by law who gets in and why?\nI used the word invasion. At several of these rallies there have been many more Mexican flags than US flags and people chanting, “México! México! Sí se puede!” (“Mexico! Mexico! Yes we can.”) One would expect that if these rallies were about what is good for the US, by people who wanted to be Americans, there would be no Mexican flags and that the chants would be something like “Queremos ser norte americanos!” (“We want to be Americans!”) As it is they are telling us, “We’re here! We’re Mexicans! Get used to it!” (Recall the leftist reaction to the flying of the US flag on Iraqi soil and compare the disimilar reaction to the flying of the Mexican flag on US soil.)\nI live two doors down from an immigrant, a German immigrant. He flies the US flag, not the German flag. He has flown the US flag every day since 9-11-01; and he was the first one on my block to do so. That shamed me.\nSo let’s not pretend that these immigrants want to participate in our building project. In flying their nation’s flag on our soil and chanting as they did, they have made their loyalties quite clear.\nYou want to immigrate here? Fine by me, if you will do so legally. Want to fly your nation’s flag? Then go back to that nation you are so proud of and fly that flag on your own soil. For I have no doubt what would happen to me if I vacationed down south and flew my nation’s flag out my hotel window.\nLest anyone think that my motivation is racist: I am the proud descendant of both Viking and Spaniard explorers on my mother’s side. I am the adopted son of a Mexican-American. Viva los estados unidos!\nCertain Distinctions are Supremely Relevant\nThe title of Justice Ginsberg’s speech which I mentioned in my previous post is \"’A decent Respect to the Opinions of [Human]kind’: The Value of a Comparative perspective in Constitutional Adjudication.” This title is an allusion to the very first sentence of our Declaration of Independence: “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation (italics added).”\nJustice Ginsberg finds some precedent for her “comparative perspective” in the fact that the Declaration expresses a concern for attention to the good opinion of foreign nations. She would have us to believe that in paying attention to foreign law, and using such to interpret and apply our own, judges do no more than what the Declaration does. It occurs to me that she overlooks certain distinctions, distinctions which are important and are made by our very Constitution—the one she has sworn an oath to protect and defend. I am referring to the distinction between the legistlature and the judiciary, specifically what sort of acts they each may perform, and not perform.\nFirst, she overlooks the fact that the Declaration which evinces this concern for the opinions of other nations, was a legislative act, not a judicial one. The people, through their representatives in the Continental Congress, expressed this concern and acted upon it by the act of the national Congress. At the very top of the document one reads: “In Congress, July 4, 1776.”\nSecond, she seems not to take due note of the fact that the very Declaration which expresses this concern for the opinions of foreign nations, in cataloging the grievances against the King of England, includes among those grievances that, “He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation…. (italics added).” It is interesting (is it not?) that Justice Ginsberg takes a theme from our Declaration of Independence to justify her (and her fellow travelers’) desire to “subject us to…jurisdiction[s] foreign to our Constitution and unacknowledged by our laws.” (It is just this sort of selectivity that Justice Scalia criticizes: judges who apply foreign law apply only that body of foreign law which agrees with the position they have already taken! Here, Justice Ginsberg does it with one of our founding documents!)\nThird, she seems unaware of the fact that there is a difference between concern for the opinions of others, and applying the laws of others. In expressing a concern for “the opinions of mankind” the Declaration does not adjudicate any matter before any court. It does no more than to express the desire that anyone in the world who may care to know, should know that the reasons behind the revolution were given by the unlawful acts of the King of England. It is not as if any contrary opinion held by “mankind” would have constituted a veto. “Mankind” had no vote in the Second Continental Congess. And I see no reason to give “mankind” a virtual seat on any of our courts.\nFourth, she overlooks the distinction between giving instruction and receiving instruction. Justices Ginsberg, Breyer, Kennedy and o’Connor, speak of foreign law as instructive though not binding. But in publishing the facts of the case “to a candid world” the colonists in revolt against the Crown were not seeking instruction; if anything they were giving it. “These are the reasons,” they inform the world. They do not—notice!—turn round and ask the candid world, “What do you think?” Had that candid world stood up in mass and said in unison, “You really should not revolt!” does anyone suppose that any of the colonists would have said, “Wait fellas. The world has an opinion on this issue we’re struggling with and though it isn’t binding, we really need to pause and consider it”?\nPatrick Henry, I’m certain, would have said, “Screw the world. I still say, ‘Give me liberty or give me death’!” (Or words to that effect, I’m sure.)\nThe same Declaration which Justice Ginsberg applies in error, also claims that governments derive \"their just powers from the consent of the governed.\" We may, from time to time, want to look around the world to see how they address certain issues. But it isn’t for judges to decide that we, the people, want or need this instruction. For them to make that decision is to (let me see now, how would Jefferson put it?) “subject us to…jurisdiction[s] foreign to our Constitution” without our consent, as expressed through our representatives in Congress. Thus another distinction that Justice Ginsberg overlooks: that between representatives and judges, a distinction made very clear in that document which she is supposed (a) to be a master of and (b) to protect and defend; I mean the Constitution, of course.\nTags for this post: Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Scalia, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, judges, judicial tyranny, tyrants, constitutional interpretation, originalism, living document, frozen-in-time interpretation, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry.\nNow We Call Them Judges\nAnyone who listens to Laura Ingraham, has heard about the speech (i.e., \"’A decent Respect to the Opinions of [Human]kind’: The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication”) the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg delivered to the Constitutional Court of S. Africa on 7 February, an argument in favor of using foreign law to interpret and apply the US Constitution. In keeping with my role as the Jack Ryan of the blogosphere (thanks, Mom) I’ve been reading through it. (It’s my pleasure to read and analyze liberal crap so no one else has to.) This could take a few days, what with having to stop occasionally and work (just kidding, boss).\nWithout taking time here to give it the analysis which, in any fair world, it doesn’t deserve, let me display this gem, as good a sampling of this woman’s genuis as surely there ever could be in a work such as this speech. After taking several pot shots at originalism, framing it as “frozen-in-time interpretation” (and coming very close to likening opponents of her view to Justice Roger Taney, of Dred Scot infamy) she affirms a position taken in the Restatement (Third) of Foreign Relations, that \"[W]herever the United States acts 'it can only act in accordance with the limitations imposed by the Constitution'\" (para. 28 of her speech). Here’s what’s interesting about that affirmation: her brand of Constitutional interpretation tacitly asserts that there are no limitations imposed by the Constitution! How could there be? There can be no limitations imposed by a document which, in order to avoid frozen-in-time interpretations must be treated as if it were living and breathing. A limitation is a boundary. A living breathing document specifies no boundaries (whether absolute or relative), lest any insistence upon such boundaries be criticized as a “frozen-in-time interpretation.” What limitations can be imposed by a document whose meaning may shift at any time, for any reason?\nThink of it this way. You are involved in a boundary dispute with your neighbor to the west of you. He claims, for reasons you don’t fully comprehend, that he owns the property which you believe you own. After all, you foolishly think to yourself, I have a deed to the property; and it’s recorded in the county clerk’s office. Off you and your neighbor go, to court that is, where you are certain that you will win hands down, because, again, you have a deed, a legal document stipulating that you have a right to the property it describes and which is also described in the records at the county clerk’s office. During the trial you produce the documents which specify your and your neighbor’s respective boundaries, that is the limitations on your and your neighbor’s respective property rights imposed by some legal document(s). You are, needless to say, shocked to find that the documents which describe the pieces of property owned by you and your neighbor respectively are, according to the judge anyway, not subject to “frozen-in-time interpretations;” because they are living and breathing documents and actually have changed in meaning and, when viewed according to some law in another country, the documents which used to say that you owned your property, now say that your neighbor really owns all the property that you thought was owned by you (and actually was owned by you until the meanings of the relevant documents changed without your knowledge)!\nDon’t let the sublties involved in the illustration distract you from seeing that Justice Ginsberg has pulled a barely perceptible trick on you. She has, in fact contradicted herself: she has said both that a (legal) document with no “frozen-in-time interpretations” imposes limitations. Think of it! A document which ultimately specifies nothing, somehow imposes limitations! Yes. On everyone except those who will tell us what those limitations are. We used to call such people tyrants.\nTags for this post: Laura Ingraham, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, judges, judicial tyranny, tyrants, constitutional interpretation, originalism, living document, frozen-in-time interpretation\nCensure without trial?\nSo, Senator Feingold wants to censure the President for “domestic spying” (see, Ed O’Keefe, “Feingold Calls for Bush’s Censure,” here).\nEven if it’s true—and I don’t claim to know or understand the applicable law, or even all of the relevant facts—consider that a censure is a punitive act. (Representative Hyde explained this during President Clinton’s impeachment.) You cannot have a punitive act in this country, without a trial of the facts. It is wrong for Senator Feingold to initiate a punitive measure without a trial. And there cannot be a trial, in this case, without an impeachment. Here’s why: you cannot censure someone except for some wrong-doing. And the wrong-doing must first be proved. At this point, the President has been accused of wrong-doing. And the President has admitted to eaves-dropping; but he has not admitted to any wrong-doing. Therefore, it must be proved before competent authority that wrong-doing has in fact taken place. You simply cannot, and ought not to be, punished for being accused of wrong-doing.\nSo far, all we have on all this amounts to: (1) the accusation of wrong-doing; (2) assertions that the evidence (including statements by the Administration) demonstrates wrong-doing; (3) assertions that this evidence is incontrovertible. All of this, is, at best the opening statement of the prosecution at trial. It sure as heck shouldn’t count as verdict!\nOh, one more thing. Typically, a censure is the act of a body of one of its members. The President, while not above the law, is not a member of the Senate.\nTags: Russ Feingold, domestic spying, censure Bush, impeach Bush\nGreat Moderates of our Times\nI am moved by a recent Michael Medved program to compile, impromptu, a short list of the greatest moderates of recent history. You see, several callers expressed dismay that there are no moderates in much of American politics. So, here it is, my short list of Great Moderates.\n1. Neville Chamberlain is the first person I normally think of when it comes to great moderates. And everyone knows who he is, right? Long after Churchill is forgotten, people will remember Chamberlain whose political legacy is defined by his dealings with and appeasment of Nazi Germany. He signed the Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler in 1938 which effectively allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland, leaving Czechoslovakia vulnerable to German attack, one of the steps on the road to World War II. Chamberlain remained in office during the Phoney War, from September 1939 to May 1940, but resigned the premiership immediately after Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Sure, he failed to act to avert war, a war which ultimately became a world-wide war; but—and this is important—he brought peace in his time. Of course, his time didn’t last very long. (Hmmmm. On the other hand, he wasn’t very moderate about avoiding war, at any cost, including not acting to enforce the terms of an international treaty violated by Adolph Hitler. Kind of like the UN.) Long after Churchill, Hitler, Stalin, and Roosevelt are fogotten, the world will remember Neville Chamberlain.\n2. Arlen Spectre. Who could be more moderate than a Republican who is pro-choice on the abortion issue? This guy is a Republican senator from a largely liberal state. He must work overtime trying not to piss off a sufficient number of both Democrats and Republicans in order to continue to be elected. Hmmmm. On the other hand, he isn’t moderate on the abortion issue. How could one be?\n3. How about Joe Leiberman?\nThis is a waste of time. Moderation for the sake of moderation is ridiculous. I think it was C. S. Lewis who said, “You can’t be a good egg all your life. Sooner or later you must hatch or rot.” Moderates are people who apparently stand for nothing except not standing for anything, or not pissing anyone off. In other words, they are people without commitments; or, if they have commitments, have not the courage of their convictions. More to the point: they are pussilanimous whimps.\nTags: Michael Medved, Neville Chamerlain, Arlen Specter, Joseph Leiberman, moderates, Munich Agreement, Sudentenland, Phoney War\nWas the President set up?\nA reader of this blog (thanks, for reading) writes:\n“Reading Philologous' latest on Dubai I thought I would mention an interesting tidbit I heard yesterday. Do you know that Democratic (former) Senator Daschle represents Dubai in some way? Pres Clinton was advising them for a $fee & there was another Democrat named but can't remember right now. You don't think the Bush Administration was \"set up\" by these guys do you? They might have guessed what the reaction of Republicans would be. The fact that Hillary says she didn't know Bill was involved, makes a person really skeptical as she isn't that stupid, or is she? Just some facts I heard & know that Philologous knows how to dig further into it.\nAlso there are two companies looking into buying the ports deal now but don't know if they have the capital to do it. But there is one that does that someone mentioned & that would be the former company of VP Cheney. Wouldn't that be a \"hoot\" if that came about? How could Congress veto that American company that came to the rescue?”\nI’ve done a bit of searching and what I have found is that, in fact, Daschle does not represent Dubai Ports World. The Daschle connection is this: he works for the Alston & Bird lobbying and law firm in Washington, D.C., which he joined in 2005 at Bob Dole's inviation. It is, in fact, Bob Dole, who represents DPW. (For more on this read this article, \"White House hastens to brief lawmakers on ports deal,\" by Keith Koffler.)\nI too have read and heard that President Clinton has received money from Dubai. However, what I have found is that this may have little or nothing to do with the ports deal. First, the money has come from the UAE’s leaders, not from the executives at Dubai Ports World. (Yes, DPW is a government-owned entity. But look, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a government-owned entity; that doesn’t mean that President Bush, or even Karl Rove, approves the programming.) Second, the money was given as a function of a relationship which has existed between the former President and the UAE and which may have nothing to do with any ports anywhere in the world. It seems to have more to do with the American Universtity in Dubai. (For more on this, read this article.)\nSo, no, I don’t think that the Administration was set up. It is not as if any and every sale of any and every bit of property (and a port terminal is property) goes across the President’s desk and awaits his personal approval and, on at least this occasion, he got caught. What I do think happened is that opportunists of both Democratic and Republican stripe took advantage of an opportunity to prey upon people’s fears, and, when accused of this, to blame the President for creating those fears in the first place, as if he has always encouraged us to fear every Muslim nation, never asserting that there are actually peace-loving Muslims in the world. Hasn’t he been chided for his oft-repeated assertion that Islam is a religion of peace? Indeed, my friends, The Red Sky Brothers, are constant in mocking this assertion. I’m sure that we may color them sceptical of the President’s assertions. BUT…the fact that he has made these assertions goes, I think, a long way toward demonstrating that the President has not, in fact, been urging in us a fear of every Muslim nation.\nDon’t get me wrong: I wish there was a way to implicate the Clintons (and Daschle) in all this. But it just doesn’t seem to be true.\nFinally, I for one would not mind seeing a US company owning these port terminals, even if it’s Halliburton. Operating port terminals is not a business engaged in by everyone. Besides even Charles Shumer has indicated that he has no objections to the port terminals being owned by Halliburton. That’s generous of him, isn’t it, that he has no objection to a company owning something?\nTesting, one, two, three\nThis post is a test. If you came to read an actual post, just scroll down. Thank you. Alternatively, you could go here, since the post below links to it anyway.\nWhy the Alien Media Nation hates the President\nThe Dragon Master Gunner has another good post (on the putatively impending civil war in Iraq) in which he asks\nWhy do they honestly hate him so much? Because they misunderestimated his strategery during the 2000 and 2004 elections? Or because they think of themselves as so much smarter than the rest of us, you know, Red Staters. Do they really think we're ignorant country bumpkins for voting our moral conscience?\nI have long pondered this question. I was clued in to the answer during the 1996 Olympics, thanks to Bryant Gumbel’s brother (whose name I cannot recall presently). Those who watched the games may recall being incredulous that the media covering the events just could not bring themselves to root for the American team. When asked about this, Brant Gumbel’s brother explained that they didn’t want to lose their “objectivity”.\nWhy do the media hate the President? Because they are marxist in worldview. As such they despise capitalism and virtually everyone and everything associated with it, including the nation-state. No doubt, they share Jay Bennish’s view that capitalism is, among other things, opposed to human rights. The action in Iraq, however it may be characterized, is an action by a free nation-state. More than that, it is the action of a free capitalist nation-state. And this free nation-state’s leader is a capitalist; and not just any type of capitalist, but an uber-capitalist. After all what is more capitalist than (gulp and spit) big oil?\nThat’s why the media hate the President, and their country. It’s part of their hatred of capitalism. And this isn’t their country; the world is their country.\nnation-state, capitalism, main stream media, MSM, Marxism, Iraq, Red Staters, Red States, Bryant Gumbel, Jay Bennish\nComparisons are odorous\nI was listening to Bill Bennett’s\nradio show on the way in to work this morning. James L. Swanson (author of the book, Manhunt: The 12 Day Hunt For Lincoln's Killer) was his guest. Bennett asked Swanson to compare Presidents Bush and Lincoln. Swanson, in commenting on Bush supposed violation of civil rights and of the Constitution generally, said, essentially, that President Bush has done nothing when compared to President Lincoln.\nNow, I don’t believe that the President has violated any provision of the Consititution. (In fact, I doubt that it is any secret that I am a fan of the President.) But really, saying that one President has done nothing when compared to some other President is like saying that an accused murderer (including a cop killer here where I live) has done nothing when compared to, say, Charles Manson.\nThat doesn’t strike me as the best defense. Should the President actually be impeached, I’m glad that Swanson won’t be managing his defense. Should President Bush be impeached, the question at his trial before the Senate will be whether he violated the Constitution or some other provision of federal law, not whether he engaged in fewer violations than some other President.\nBesides, I’m not very impressed by President Lincoln anyway. The man took the first step in virtually destroying federalism in this union. (It is possible, you know, to believe in states’ rights without at the same time believing in slavery, racism, or segregation.) In fact, this isn’t much of a union; it’s a dominion. But that’s just me.\nTags: Bill Bennett, James L. Swanson, impeachment, civil rights, Bush, Lincoln, federalism, states’ rights\nAn object argument in favor of the line-item veto\nRecall that the President said he would veto any bill that would stop the Dubai ports deal (of which I have not been a particular fan). Recall also that the President is committed to financing the war on terror. The President is now in the position of having either (a) to veto a bill financing the war in order to veto a bill blocking the ports deal or (b) signing a bill blocking the ports deal in order to sign a bill providing funding for the war. Why? Because a bill which, among other things, will provide additional financing for the war has an amendment attached to it; and this amendment blocks the port deal. With a line item veto, the President could get the funding for the war and still have the ports deal go through.\nDid I mention that I’m not a big fan of the ports deal? What I dislike more than things like this ports deal are dirty tricks like this latest stunt!\nBy the way: not being a fan doesn’t mean I’m opposed. It just means I’m a sceptic. That’s all. Of course, now that Dubai is pulling out, it doesn't really matter.\nIntelligent Design and Plausibility Structures\nI wanted to follow up my two posts on Intelligient Design with one on plausiblity structures. But this one at evangelical outpost is already written and posted. Why re-evolve the wheel? While you’re there, this one on dropping use of the term supernatural is also worth the reading.\nTerrorist mindset\nYou’ve got to go to Red Sky Brothers, specifically, right here. They have a 16 minute interview with three former Islamofascist terrorists. It is truly MUST SEE TV.\nThe Left’s Problem with America\nWe hear the Left scream, yell, and rant about American Imperialism. For a change of pace (not to mention tone and volume), try reading this article, “The New Geopolitics of Empire,” by John Bellamy Foster, which at least makes a case without engaging in the sort of annoying whining that most leftists do. How good a case? In the end, Foster’s problem is that the world empire that the US is supposedly building is a capitalist one and not a socialist one. Here’s his conluding paragraph:\nWhat hope remains under these dire circumstances lies in the building of a new world peace movement that recognizes that what ultimately must be overcome is not a particular instance of imperialism and war, but an entire world economic system that feeds on militarism and imperialism. The goal of peace must be seen as involving the creation of a world of substantive equality in which global exploitation and the geopolitics of empire are no longer the principal objects. The age-old name for such a radical egalitarian order is “socialism.”\nHe simply prefers a pax marxiana to a pax americana. That's his right. But he doesn't really make an ethical case for why socialism is superior to capitalism, or why capitialism is evil. He just writes under the implicit assumption that this is the case. More than likely he would say that the superiority is in the goal of socialism to bring about an equal distribution of wealth. But of course this assumes that such a state of affairs is ethically superior to that state of affairs in which there is an unequal distribution of wealth. Because the marxist worldview is atheistic, I deny that it is in a position to talk ethics. But that's just me.\nAt any rate, Foster offers something better than typical leftist screed. And he may actually be correct that the powers that be are building an American empire. Well, so what if we are?\nUnlike his students, you have a choice…\n[Headnote: This was supposed to have been posted on Friday. I have no idea what happened. File it under Better-late-than-never, even if, now, a bit irrlevant.]\nIf you would like to hear capitalism-hating Jay Bennish’s geography class anti-Bush tirade Michelle Malkin has posted a link to it here, or you can just click here. (Scroll down on the page to where it says \"Listen to the taped remarks made by Overland High teacher Jay Bennish in a 10th grade World Geography class. They were recorded by student Sean Allen. \"\nIn addition to “incompetent” and “whining”…\n…New Orleans Mayor Ray “School Bus” Nagin can add “disgraceful” to the list of adjectives that fit him.\nWhen you look at something like the photo of the son of a [sorry, I was about to have a Patton moment] below, you must surely agree with the Master Blaster’s assessment.\nCan you believe the gall of this sack of [sorry, almost had another Patton moment]? There he is, looking for all the world like a third world dictator, while dressed up in a mock-up of a US military uniform.\nWho didn’t know about those darn levees?\nAs we all know from listening to the news yesterday, the big story is that Bush knew about the levees. The Alien Media Nation, as Bill Bennett likes to call them, are worse marksmen than VP Cheney. Those of us who remember, know that what we all knew about the levees was the possibility that they would be topped, not breached. And that is what the President knew.\nThe media spent most of yesterday talking as if topped and breached were synonymous terms; and they are not. Of course, it is not very easy to fault them for this error: being so cozy with gays they could easily get the idea that being topped and being breached are the same thing because they are…for gays. Ahem.\nBut see\nfor a bit more information regarding what the President knew and, more importantly, where he got some of his information.\nNow, I just happen to believe that the AMN (i.e., Alien Media Nation) do know the difference—when it comes to levees—between being topped and breached. What they are counting on is this: that the majority of us do not know the difference.\nAnd their purpose for this? Must be to continue to work on the portrait of the President as a not-Benevolent Dictator (when compared of course to their Benevolent Dictators life Roosevelt and Clinton). For whatever it’s worth, I don’t care whether the President care about me. I don’t want a President to care about me. In fact, I want a government that doesn’t care about me. For, as I said in a previous post, at some point we just have to take responsibility for saving our own asses.\nClash of what?\nInteresting exchange here about the nature of the conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims. A brief defense of Jews and Christians by an Arabic-speaking secular humanist.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1698729"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5639243125915527,"wiki_prob":0.43607568740844727,"text":"An Initial Reaction to the Commission on a Bill of Rights Final Report\nGuest Contributor - 23rd December 2012\nConstitutions Institutions and Nation Building\nDavid Feldman, Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and former Legal Adviser to the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on Human Rights pens his preliminary thoughts on the final report released by the Commission on a Bill of Rights.\nHaving skimmed superficially over the report of the Commission, I am encouraged to find that it says nothing, and does so at great length. This is the best for which we could have hoped. The separate papers published by several members show how much worse the outcome could have been. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the report is that it was possible to produce it at all; the advantage of having an experienced, senior civil servant at the helm is evident on every page. Only such a person could have overseen the drafting of a document which says, very clearly, “Yes, no, perhaps, unripe time, don’t like the terms of reference” and makes it sound authoritative. It will be fascinating to see what the Government makes of it. At least it cannot be said to have made the Government’s task easier.\nPingback: 2012 and 2013: retrospect and prospect | Law & Religion UK\nSouth African Supreme Court of Appeal Confirms Principle of ‘Constitutional Damages’ for Homeless People Whose Property is Destroyed by State\nBrazilian Supreme Court Inquiry into ‘Fake News’ Violates Freedom of Speech\nPrivacy International: Reaffirming the Rule of Law\nThe Impact of Brexit on Equality Rights\nSpecial Blog Series: Supreme Court of Kenya’s Historic Judgment Nullifying the 2017 Presidential Election","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1688290"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9406896233558655,"wiki_prob":0.9406896233558655,"text":"Newsline - October 4, 2002\nOctober 04, 2002 00:00 GMT\nPUTIN APPOINTS GOVERNOR IN KRASNOYARSK\nOne day after the Krasnoyarsk Krai Election Commission refused to certify the 22 September gubernatorial elections and instead insisted on 2 March 2003 as the date for new elections, President Vladimir Putin announced on 3 October that the acting governor of the krai, Nikolai Ashlapov, had resigned and that Putin is appointing Taimyr Autonomous Okrug Governor Aleksandr Khloponin to replace him. Khloponin was earlier declared the winner of the 22 September election, only to see his victory snatched away by the election commission (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 1, 2, and 3 October 2002). Khloponin accused the commission of acting at the behest of Russian Aluminum (Rusal) head Oleg Deripaska and Khloponin's opponent in the race, krai legislature Chairman Aleksandr Uss. Putin said the \"fact that Aleksandr Gennadievich Khloponin received the most votes is not disputed by anyone, including the territorial election commission. What the argument is about is the way the election was held, and I believe that this argument has to be concluded, in the manner prescribed by law, by the territorial or the Central Election Commission.\" JAC\n...AS RUSSIAN ALUMINUM BELIEVED TO HAVE OVERSTEPPED THE LINE\n\"Kommersant-Daily\" noted on 4 October that the intervention of the president in the Krasnoyarsk situation is itself \"sensational,\" because the battle in the krai was essentially between two large financial-industrial groups: Interros, which supported Khloponin, and Rusal, which supported Uss. And on 3 October, Putin demonstrated his support for Interros. However, unidentified sources told the daily that even those members of the presidential administration who supported Rusal were disturbed by the krai election commission's conduct, which would have left one of the largest regions in Russia without leadership until the spring. The daily predicted that \"serious unpleasantness\" might await Rusal and not just from the new Krasnoyarsk Krai governor. Meanwhile, leaders of the pro-presidential groups in the Duma praised Putin's nomination of Khloponin. Yabloko Deputy Sergei Ivanenko, however, said it would have been more correct to resolve the situation in Krasnoyarsk Krai through the Supreme Court, ntvru.com reported. JAC\nRUSSIA'S POSITION ON IRAQ RESOLUTIONS UNCLEAR\nRussia has drafted its own United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 October 2002) that envisages the immediate return of UN weapons inspectors and the gradual lifting of economic sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov told reporters in Moscow on 3 October, RIA-Novosti reported. Saltanov said that Russia will not submit the draft resolution until after UN Commission for Monitoring, Control, and Inspection head Hans Blix files a report on his talks with Baghdad. However, the head of the Russian UN mission, Sergei Lavrov, said in New York on 3 October that his delegation will be ready to consider a new resolution \"if our leadership learns that one is needed.\" He added that he sees no obstacles to resuming weapons inspections in Iraq or to fulfilling the existing UN resolutions, strana.ru reported on 3 October. VY\nPUTIN CANCELS YELTSIN DECREE ON RFE/RL MOSCOW BUREAU\nPresident Putin on 4 October canceled a 27 August 1991 decree by former President Boris Yeltsin that guaranteed the legal and operational status of the Moscow bureau of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Russian and Western news agencies reported. Under Yeltsin's edict, the Russian government provided conditions for RFE/RL's journalistic activities \"because of its role in the objective coverage of the march of democratic processes.\" Putin did not issue any statement in connection with the cancellation, but the Kremlin's information office said Yeltsin's decree was revoked because it had \"lost its original significance,\" RIA-Novosti reported. According to the unidentified spokesperson, Yeltsin's decree was originally intended to demonstrate Russia's commitment to freedom of the press and to enhance Russia's image abroad. However, because of the progress of economic and political reforms in Russia since then, the decree put RFE/RL in \"a privileged position compared to other foreign mass-media outlets working in Russia,\" the Kremlin statement was quoted as saying. Moreover, the statement continued, RFE/RL's editorial policies, \"despite the end of the Cold War,\" have in recent years become \"biased,\" especially those of its \"Chechen\" and Ukrainian services. Ever since Yeltsin's decree, nationalists, Communists, and other reactionary elements have regularly called for an end to RFE/RL's activities in Russia. The Kremlin conducted campaigns of pressure against RFE/RL in 2000 in connection with the case of RFE/RL correspondent Andrei Babitskii and his coverage of the Chechnya conflict (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 17 February 2000) and this year in connection with RFE/RL's decision to begin broadcasts in three North Caucasus languages (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 and 25 April 2002). The Foreign Ministry said that Putin's decree is purely a technical measure designed to give equal status to all foreign media outlets in Russia and does not constitute a reaction to RFE/RL's policies, RIA-Novosti reported on 4 October. VY\nDEFENSE MINISTRY SUES FORMER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER\nDefense Minister Sergei Ivanov has ordered that a suit be filed against Colonel General Georgii Oleinik seeking the payment of $60 million in compensation for damages incurred to the ministry when Oleinik served as its chief financial officer, RIA-Novosti reported on 4 October. According to the suit, the losses resulted when Oleinik sold allegedly undervalued ministry bonds to a commercial bank. Oleinik was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment for embezzling $450 million in Defense Ministry funds (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 16 and 19 August 2002), but he was amnestied in August. VY\nPAVLOVSKII SUGGESTS BENEFICIARIES OF RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH MAY WANT LARGER STAKE IN POLITICAL SYSTEM\nIn an interview with \"Moskovskii komsomolets\" on 3 October, Gleb Pavlovskii, head of the Foundation for Effective Politics, said there are currently \"hundreds of thousands\" of new groups of active voters in Russia's cities. These groups comprise members of the new middle class and the new intelligentsia, including the financial intelligentsia. Pavlovskii said some of these groups are not \"dressed in white clothing\" -- that is, they aren't saints -- but they already \"have a sense of themselves as a potential ruling class.\" In all, this new force could amount to as many as 20 million people. Pavlovskii claims the members of these new groups \"are closely linked to economic growth and are oriented toward [capitalist-style] success.\" They might run for office as early as 2003 with a \"clear understanding of what they want.\" Pavlovskii mentioned these new groups in response to a question about whether there will be any \"surprises\" during the next parliamentary elections. JAC\nST. PETERSBURG GOVERNOR'S PLANS FOR THIRD TERM INCUR CRITICISM...\nRosBalt reported on 3 October that only 7.8 percent of respondents in a survey designed to poll influential residents of St. Petersburg welcome the idea of St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev seeking a third term. According to ITAR-TASS, the Marko marketing and communications agency conducted the poll among 150 of the city's most influential residents, including members of Unified Russia, the Union of Rightist Forces, the Communist Party, Yabloko, and the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. RosBalt's editor in chief is Natalya Chaplina, the wife of presidential envoy to the Northwest Federal District Viktor Cherkesov, whom many media sources have identified as a political opponent of Yakovlev's (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 28 June 2002). RosBalt also quoted Olga Zastrozhnaya, secretary of the Central Election Commission, as saying that Yakovlev demonstrated his disrespect for the law when he recently expressed his willingness to run again (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 October 2002). JAC\n...AS SOME KREMLIN SUPPORT MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH\nMeanwhile, St. Petersburg Deputy Governor Anna Markova said the recent decision of the St. Petersburg Charter Court ruling Yakovlev ineligible to seek a third term (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 October 2002) violated the Russian Constitution, and she called for experts to review the decision with deputy head of the presidential administration Dmitrii Kozak, RFE/RL's St. Petersburg correspondent reported. However, Ruslan Linkov, head of the St. Petersburg branch of Democratic Russia, told RFE/RL that even if Yakovlev has the hypothetical support of some members of the Kremlin, this cannot make his legal problems simply go away. \"Neither Mr. Kozak nor anyone in the presidential administration will go so far as to directly violate the constitution,\" Linkov said. Political analyst Nikolai Petrov noted that the Kremlin \"is hardly monolithic or homogeneous\" and has interests of greater and lesser priority. Kozak was one of the few members of former St. Petersburg Mayor Anatolii Sobchak's team to work for Yakovlev during the latter's first term (see \"RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly,\" 19 March 2001). JAC\nSENATOR URGES REVISION OF LAW ON MASS MEDIA\nFederation Council Information Policy Committee Deputy Chairman Yevgenii Yeliseev said on 2 October that the current law on the mass media must be changed in order \"to increase compliance with the constitution and the Civil Code,\" RIA-Novosti reported on 3 October. He said an amended law must address issues such as the quality of information, and it must define different types of information, including drawing a distinction between commercial and noncommercial information. In the past, efforts to change the law have been counterproductive, because they treated information from the positions of the producer and distributor, not the user, Yeliseev said. VY\nGOVERNMENT TO TIGHTEN CONTROL OVER SCIENTIFIC-INFORMATION TRANSFERS\nAt its 3 October meeting devoted to intellectual-property rights (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 October 2002), the government approved measures for tightening state control over the transfer abroad of scientific and technical information, \"Kommersant-Daily\" and other Russian news agencies reported. The government ordered the Justice, Industry and Science, and Property Relations ministries and other state agencies to increase supervision over information generated by research and development conducted with federal funds and told them to submit plans for achieving this goal by 25 December. A State Audit Chamber probe in July found that federally funded intellectual projects brought the state just 5 percent of anticipated revenues. VY\nMEMORIAL TO STALIN'S VICTIMS VANDALIZED\nFor the second time in less than a week, unidentified vandals defaced the stone marking the site of a future monument to victims of political repression in St. Petersburg on 3 October by smearing black paint all over its inscriptions, Interfax-Northwest reported. The vandals also drew a Star of David on the stone. The stone was defaced just three days earlier with black paint. JAC\nCELL-PHONE USAGE CONTINUES TO CLIMB\nThe number of cellular-phone subscribers in Russia jumped 8 percent from 13.43 million at the end of August to 14.46 million at the end of September, Interfax reported on 3 October, citing ACM Consulting. According to the agency, three different cell-phone service providers have a combined 6 million customers in the Moscow licensing area. Two mobile-phone service providers based in Kazan have a total of more than 300,000 customers. JAC\nTATARSTAN ASKS CONSTITUTIONAL COURT TO RESOLVE BATTLE WITH PROSECUTORS\nTatarstan's legislature announced on 2 October that it has launched two appeals to the Russian Constitutional Court in response to a protest lodged by Deputy Prosecutor-General Aleksandr Zvyagintsev against the amended Tatar Constitution, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau reported (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 27 September 2002). In another appeal, the republican legislature is also asking the court to verify whether Article 27 of the federal law on the judicial system of the Russian Federation conforms to the Russian Constitution. The Tatar parliament is also asking the court to outline a full list of powers of the constitutional courts of federation subjects. According to \"Vremya novostei\" on 3 October, Tatarstan's legislators have concluded that the articles of the amended constitution that have proven so controversial for federal prosecutors can only be examined by the Constitutional Court. JAC\nTATAR NATIONALISTS ATTACK ORTHODOX CHURCH CONSTRUCTION\nMembers of the moderate nationalist Tatar Public Center (TIU), most of them elderly, attacked the chapel of the St. Tatyana Russian Orthodox Church being built near Victory Park in Chally on 2 October and damaged its foundation, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau reported, citing tatnews.ru. According to Interfax, it took 30 people 90 minutes to destroy a wall that was 7 meters long and 1 meter high. The head of the chapel, Father Oleg Bogdanov, said the damage totaled 40,000 rubles ($1,290). The center's activists have protested the building of the chapel for more than a year, suggesting instead that a Tatar puppet theater be built on the same location despite the fact that such a theater already exists in the city and that the chapel construction was authorized by the city administration. One of the TIU members involved in the attack, who did not identify herself, said that as a result of building a Russian Orthodox chapel in the vicinity, the park itself would \"become Orthodox,\" thus \"leaving no room for Muslims.\" JAC\nKARELIAN LEADER CALLS FOR ETHNIC QUOTAS\nIn a 2 October meeting with Helle Degn, commissioner for democratic development of the Council of Baltic Sea States, Karelian Congress head Anatolii Grigoriev said he believes it is necessary to introduce quotas for ethnic minorities in the Karelian Republic's legislature and to give the Karelian language the status of a state language in Karelia along with Russian, ITAR-TASS reported. Grigoriev said that indigenous Finno-Ugric people of the republic, the Karelians and Veps, are practically unrepresented in government bodies. JAC\nNEW NIZHNII MAYOR MULLS REVIVING OLD TRADITION...\nNizhnii Novgorod Mayor-elect Vadim Bulavinov reportedly told reporters that he might revive an old political tradition of urinating on portraits of one's predecessor, VolgaInform reported on 3 October, citing NTA Privolzhe. \"This tradition should be restored independently of who these people were,\" he said. \"We should respect our history. On the one hand, it is necessary to act correctly, but on the other hand, [we should not] make the same mistakes and for that it is necessary to have a reminder.\" Bulavinov was elected in a very close race on 27 September (see \"RFE/RL Russian Political Weekly,\" 3 October 2002). JAC\n...AND MAKES FIRST APPOINTMENTS\nBulavinov on 3 October announced the first appointments to his new administration, RosBalt reported. He named the deputy general director of LUKoil's local affiliate, Aleksandr Meleshkin, as first deputy mayor. His chief of staff will be Nina Sokolova, who formerly worked as a chief legal adviser in the administration of presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District Sergei Kirienko. Sergei Gladyshev, who formerly served as director of the Nizhnii Novgorod Oblast's Energy Department, was named deputy mayor for social questions. RosBalt reported that the appointments correspond to statements Bulavinov made regarding personnel during the election campaign. RC\nFor his 50th birthday on 7 October, President Putin will receive an exact copy of the Cap of Monomakh, the most potent symbol of Russian autocracy, RosBalt reported on 3 October. The copy was prepared by a group of jewelers from the Urals under the supervision of the Russian Jewelers' Academy and has been insured for $10 million. The original Cap of Monomakh, which is on display in the Kremlin Armory, was made in the 14th or 15th century and was used in the coronation ceremonies of virtually all the Russian tsars before Peter the Great. RC\nCHECHEN FOREIGN MINISTER DENIES HE HAS RESIGNED\nIn a statement posted on chechenpress.com on 4 October, Ilyas Akhmadov rejected as untrue Russian media reports that he had resigned as Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov's foreign minister. Russian media recently reported that Akhmadov is seeking political asylum in the United States. LF\nEBRD WITHDRAWS FROM ARMENIAN ENERGY PRIVATIZATION\nThe European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced on 3 October that it will not purchase a 19.9 percent stake in the Armenian energy-distribution network that is being privatized, according to RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau. The EBRD decision is the latest blow to the $37 million sale and overturns an earlier understanding between the EBRD and the Armenian government under which the EBRD would have assumed a 20 percent share in the privatization deal once a foreign investor was found to buy the energy network in an open and competitive tender. The privatization has already been questioned by some observers, including the World Bank, after the Armenian government awarded the 80.1 percent share to a little-known offshore group with no experience in the energy sector (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 26 and 29 August 2002). RG\nARMENIAN GROUPS CONCERNED OVER ARREST OF ARMENIAN COMMUNITY LEADER IN DJAVAKHETI\nSeveral Armenian nongovernmental organizations and some political parties have expressed concern over the recent arrest of Fedya Torosyan, a founding member of the ethnic Armenian Djavakhk movement in the southern Georgian Djavakheti region, according to \"Yerkir\" on 2 October. Torosyan, also a leading member of the Virk political party in Djavakheti, was arrested on vague charges of \"financial negligence\" during his tenure as head of the regional power-distribution company. The situation in the Armenian-populated Djavakheti region has been tense in recent years due to a serious socioeconomic crisis and mounting calls for autonomy for the Armenian region by the Javakhk and Virk groups. RG\nARMENIAN WTO MEMBERSHIP IMPERILED BY U.S. DECISION\nArmenian Finance and Economy Minister Vardan Khachatrian announced on 3 October that the Armenian bid for membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been delayed by a U.S. decision to postpone Armenia's accession in order to allow for simultaneous Armenian and Azerbaijani entry into the trade body, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. The nearly six-year Armenian bid for WTO membership is also hindered by more serious obstacles related to shortcomings in Armenian laws. For nearly two years, Armenian officials have been saying the country will imminently enter the 144-member WTO (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 August 2002). RG\nCOUNCIL OF EUROPE OFFICIAL CALLS ON ARMENIA TO BAN CAPITAL PUNISHMENT\nCouncil of Europe Commissioner on Human Rights Alvaro Gil-Robles met with Armenian President Robert Kocharian and Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian in Yerevan on 3 October and urged the Armenian government to abolish the death penalty, according to Arminfo and Mediamax, as cited by Groong. Gil-Robles cited Armenia's progress in improving human rights protections but stressed Armenia's obligation as a Council of Europe member state to end capital punishment (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 27 September 2002). The Council of Europe official also discussed the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and reviewed the recent tension between Russia and Georgia, which he sees as exercising a \"negative impact on regional security and stability.\" RG\nFORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER CALLS ON AZERBAIJAN TO PREPARE FOR WAR\nA former adviser to Azerbaijani President Heidar Aliev, Vafa Guluzade, recommended on 2 October that Azerbaijan \"silently prepare for war\" as the only way to strengthen its position in the mediation talks over Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the Azerbaijani Lider television station. The former adviser cited mounting frustration over the mediation effort by the OSCE and warned that Azerbaijan might face new Armenian or Russian aggression in the event of a U.S. attack on Iraq. RG\nRUSSIA REDUCES MILITARY PRESENCE IN GEORGIA\nRussian Defense Ministry officials announced on 2 October that Russia will reduce the number of troops stationed at two military bases in Georgia, Interfax and Civil Georgia reported. Russian troops stationed at the Batumi base in Adjaria are to be reduced by 300, and another 700 servicemen are to be withdrawn from the Russian base at Akhalkalaki. According to the agreement reached at the 1999 OSCE Istanbul summit, however, Russia is obliged to withdraw completely from its bases in Georgia. RG\nGEORGIAN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCES PROGRESS IN HUNT FOR ABDUCTED BRITISH CITIZEN\nGeorgian National Security Council Secretary Tedo Djaparidze announced on 3 October that law-enforcement agencies have made \"great progress in the investigation\" of the kidnapping of British citizen Peter Shaw, Civil Georgia reported. The abduction in June of the consultant to the EU led to a warning by the European Union on 1 October that unless the Georgian authorities provide adequate security for foreign citizens, the EU will be forced to suspend nearly $40 million in EU-funded projects under way in Georgia (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 October 2002). Djaparidze stated there is evidence that Shaw is alive and is being held in the Pankisi Gorge and vowed that the next stage of the security operation targeting the gorge will result in his release. RG\nGEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER HOLDS TALKS AT NATO\nDuring talks in Brussels on 2 October, Irakli Menagharishvili and NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson discussed the situation in the Pankisi Gorge, Caucasus Press reported on 3 October. Menagharishvili also met with other senior NATO officials to discuss his country's participation in the Partnership for Peace program and NATO's help in rehabilitating territory formerly used as military bases. Menagharishvili and a NATO official signed an agreement under which NATO will fund the rehabilitation of former rocket bases near Tbilisi that will subsequently be used for agricultural purposes. LF\nHOUSTON INITIATIVE UNDER WAY IN KAZAKHSTAN\nAt a joint press conference on 3 October in Almaty, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kasymzhomart Tokaev and U.S. Ambassador Larry Napper announced the launch of a multimillion-dollar partnership aimed at boosting business relations between the two countries and building a strong entrepreneurial class in Kazakhstan, RFE/RL and Interfax reported. Dubbed the Houston initiative, the project was conceived during President Nursultan Nazarbaev's official visit to the United States in 1999. According to Tokaev, the partnership envisages \"massive support\" for small and medium-sized businesses in the form of credits and investment, with special encouragement given to housing construction through the establishment of mortgage facilities and savings banks. Napper said Washington has pledged about $10 million to fund the initiative during its first year. AA\nU.S. CASPIAN ENVOY WARNS THAT KAZAKHSTAN NEEDS STABLE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT\nAddressing the Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Exhibition in Almaty on 3 October, the U.S. special adviser on Caspian issues, Steven Mann, criticized the Kazakh government for its recent attempts to revise existing contracts with international oil companies, warning that such moves will drive investors away, Interfax-Kazakhstan reported. The government's attempts to force companies to replace foreign personnel and equipment with local equivalents are \"causing real concern,\" Mann said. He added that the country will lose investment unless it cuts red tape and eliminates corruption, and he emphasized the importance of transparent laws and an independent media. AA\nABLIYAZOV'S PRISON WOES\nGulam Mazanov, a defense attorney for former Kazakh Trade and Industry Minister Mukhtar Abliyazov, who was sentenced to six years' imprisonment in July, told journalists in Almaty on 3 October that his client is being subjected to daily humiliations and rights abuses in one of the worst labor camps in the country, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reported. Abliyazov is being held near Kokshetau in central Aqmola Oblast in a prison with \"no sewage system,\" Mazanov said. He complained that prison authorities have prevented Abliyazov from communicating with his lawyers and have maliciously harassed him. He added that his client might soon be transferred to another labor camp in Oskemen in the east of the country. AA\nKYRGYZ DEPUTIES OVERRIDE PRESIDENTIAL VETOES\nOn 3 October, Kyrgyzstan's Legislative Assembly (the lower chamber of parliament) overrode two presidential vetoes, one on an amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code and the other on an amendment to the Criminal Code, akipress.org reported. The first amendment gives defendants the right to contest in court the actions of prosecutors or police during arrests, detentions, and searches. The second makes it a crime to obstruct lawyers from performing their duties. Kubatbek Baibolov, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on criminal, procedural, and administrative legislation, told Interfax on 3 October that President Askar Akaev should understand that the articles -- although he vetoed them -- are conducive to democracy and human rights. Meanwhile, deputies upheld other presidential vetoes concerning arrest procedures, economic associations, and the amnesty law. AA\nEU GROUP IN KYRGYZSTAN\nOn 3 October in Bishkek, President Akaev and Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev received a European Parliament delegation to discuss human rights, media freedom, and the war on terrorism, RFE/RL's Bishkek bureau reported. Delegation leader Antonio Di Pietro said that democratic reforms require financial support and, consequently, the EU has decided to double its aid to the country. The same day, the Kyrgyzstan-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee held its first meeting in Bishkek, Interfax reported. The committee is intended as a forum for exchanging views on the political and economic situation in Kyrgyzstan and on combating terrorism, organized crime, and drug trafficking. AA\nRENEWED APPEALS TO RELEASE FORMER KYRGYZ VICE PRESIDENT\nMembers of Kyrgyzstan's Constitutional Assembly, which wrapped up its work on 2 October (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 October 2002), sent a signed appeal to President Akaev the following day to release jailed former Vice President Feliks Kulov, RFE/RL's Bishkek bureau reported. Kulov is serving a 10-year sentence on embezzlement charges, which he recently reiterated were politically motivated (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 27 September 2002). Akaev said the issue is beyond his competence, and the appeal should be redirected to Supreme Court Chairwoman Nelly Beishenavlieva. Representatives for the political party Moya Strana duly submitted it to her. Meanwhile, on 3 October, about 600 protesters demanding Kulov's release picketed the Bishkek municipal court that has been considering Kulov's appeal against his sentence since August. AA\nIMF STUDIES TAJIK REFORMS\nAn IMF delegation led by Robert Christiansen arrived in Dushanbe on 3 October on a one-week mission, Tajik radio reported. The delegation will assess Tajikistan's progress in implementing the IMF staff-monitored reform program that the government agreed to in a Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies in March. Fund representatives met with Finance Minister Safarali Najmuddinov and National Bank Chairman Murodali Alimardonov. The delegation will also discuss the government's new draft cooperation program on reducing poverty levels by 2005. AA\nTURKMENISTAN BUILDING UP CASPIAN COAST GUARD\nUkraine has supplied Turkmenistan with three more Kalkan-M patrol boats, bringing the number received since May to seven, turkmenistan.ru reported on 3 October. According to a gas-for-goods barter agreement signed in 2001, Ukrainian shipbuilders owe Turkmenistan a total of 10 Kalkan and 10 40-ton Grif patrol boats. Since last year, Turkmenistan has been steadily increasing its fleet patrolling its Caspian waters. AA\nUZBEKS CUT IMPORT DUTIES\nAs of 1 October, import taxes on foodstuffs brought into Uzbekistan by private individuals and \"shuttle traders\" have been reduced from 50 percent to 40 percent and those on other consumer goods from 90 to 70 percent, uzreport.com reported on 3 October. The duties are now payable in the local currency, rather than in hard currency as before. Tradesmen in Uzbek markets have staged protests in recent months against what they believe are exorbitant import taxes. AA\nBELARUSIAN VENDORS CONTINUE STRIKE...\nSome 120,000 small traders on 3 September continued their strike over what they say is the government's financial and administrative pressure to destroy small business in Belarus (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 October 2002), Belapan reported, quoting United Council of Entrepreneurs (ASP) Chairman Anatol Shumchanka. Shumchanka said his council is planning to hold a convention within a month and to invite President Alyaksandr Lukashenka so vendors can present their problems and demands directly. Shumchanka insists Lukashenka is being deliberately misinformed about the situation in the small-business sector by his ministers and local authorities. Meanwhile, outdoor-market traders from a strike committee headed by Valery Levaneuski are demanding Lukashenka's ouster, blaming him personally for the suppression of small business in the country. JM\n...WHILE LUKASHENKA VILIFIES THEM ON TV\nDuring a visit to the Khimvalakno chemical-fiber plant in Svetlahorsk (Homel Oblast) on 3 October, Lukashenka explained to workers that he is forced to increase financial pressure on small traders in order to protect domestic producers. \"Have you seen how these so-called 'poor entrepreneurs' are striking?\" Belarusian Television quoted Lukashenka as saying. \"Who is tormenting you? They go to Istanbul, to friendly China, or to some other place, buy goods there and bring them into Belarus without customs duties. They pay virtually no taxes here, that is, their goods are cheaper than those produced [in Belarus]. In this way, they ship out hard currency [abroad], feed foreign producers and importers, while [simultaneously] killing our production.\" JM\nBELARUS SLAMS LITHUANIA OVER ANNOUNCED END OF VISA-FREE TRAVEL\nDeputy Foreign Minister Alyaksandr Herasimenka told journalists on 3 October that Lithuania's intention to introduce full-scale visa requirements for all Belarusian citizens is an unfriendly step, Belapan reported. Last month, Vilnius announced that as of 1 January it will cancel the temporary agreement it concluded with Minsk in 1994 on visa-free entry into Lithuania for Belarusian pensioners, residents of border areas, and truckers (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 26 September 2002). \"[This measure] runs counter to the principles of good-neighborliness and contradicts the nature and provisions of fundamental OSCE agreements, in particular, the Helsinki Final Act of 1975...under which OSCE member states made commitments gradually to simplify and apply flexible border-crossing procedures and facilitate travel on their territory,\" Herasimenka noted. He added that Lithuania is being too hasty in introducing visa requirements for Belarusians, since accession to the European Union does not automatically imply accession to the Schengen Treaty. JM\nUKRAINIAN NEWS AGENCY SETTLES CONFLICT OVER ALLEGED CENSORSHIP\nUNIAN, Ukraine's second-largest news agency, published a statement on 3 October saying the agency's leadership and journalists had reached a compromise over the recent conflict in which journalists complained of being subjected to political censorship and pressure (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 October 2002). \"Both sides declare that political censorship in UNIAN is inadmissible. We are unanimous in the opinion that major changes in materials released by UNIAN may be made only by the journalists who wrote them,\" the statement reads. The dispute in UNIAN began on 1 October when journalists accused UNIAN's new executive director, Vasyl Yurychko, of censoring their work and of refusing to run reports that could be construed as portraying President Leonid Kuchma unfavorably, AP reported. JM\nUKRAINIAN NGO CLAIMS ITS LEADER KILLED FOR HIS POLITICAL ACTIVITY\nThe Public Control organization on 3 October claimed that its head, Ruslan Synyavskyy, was killed because of his public activity, AP reported. Police reported that an unidentified gunman shot and killed Synyavskyy, 44, late on 30 September near the entrance to his apartment building in downtown Kyiv. Interfax reported that the assailant shot several times in an attempt to rob Synyavskyy. \"It's very doubtful that an ordinary thief carries a gun. We [think] this [killing] was linked to his activity in the organization,\" Oleh Sadanets from Public Control told AP. Public Control helps citizens defend their rights if they believe state officials abused their power or violated laws. JM\nUKRAINIAN PRESIDENT IN INDIA\nPresident Kuchma is continuing a four-day official visit to India that began on 2 October. Kuchma's spokeswoman Olena Hromnytska told journalists on 3 October that the two countries signed four accords, including one on mutual legal assistance in criminal investigations and another on extradition, UNIAN reported. Kuchma reportedly said that Ukraine and India \"have no divergent opinions\" on any international issues. JM\nESTONIAN PREMIER SUGGESTS POSTS OF PRESIDENT AND PREMIER COULD BE COMBINED\nAt a forum of civil servants in Tartu on 3 October, Siim Kallas suggested that the position of prime minister could be eliminated in Estonia and the role handed over to the president, ETA reported. He added it appears likely that the constitution will be changed so that the president would be directly elected. Now the president is chosen by the parliament or by a special electoral body consisting of the parliament and representatives of local governments. Kallas said that if the next president is elected directly by the people, he or she would be able to play a greater role in governing the state. Combining the positions of president and prime minister would simplify foreign relations and make responsibilities and representative functions clearer, Kallas added. He also cautioned that his proposals were made simply for further discussion, with the aim of making the Estonian state more flexible. SG\nEC PLEDGES TO SOLVE LATVIA'S FARM-QUOTAS ISSUE\nEuropean Commission (EC) President Romano Prodi told visiting Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga in Brussels on 3 October that the EC will make every effort to resolve the question of Latvia's agriculture quotas, BNS reported. He said the EC has received new statistical data about Latvia's agricultural output, which are being assessed by experts. But he added that all countries should be treated equally. Earlier that day, EC Enlargement Commissioner Guenter Verheugen assured Vike-Freiberga that there should be no problems for Latvia to become a member of the EU. Later, Vike-Freiberga discussed European security and defense policy with European Council Secretary-General Javier Solana, who expressed the hope that the EU will form a rapid-reaction force by 2003. SG\nPUBLIC INITIATIVE TO CUT PERSONAL INCOME TAX IN LITHUANIA\nMembers of the right-of-center Liberal Union brought to the Chief Election Commission on 3 October a petition containing 60,891 signatures calling for the gradual reduction of the tax rate on personal income from 33 percent to 24 percent, ELTA reported. If the commission verifies that at least 50,000 of the signatures belong to Lithuanian citizens, parliament will have to consider a draft law on the tax cut. Liberal Union Chairman Eugenijus Gentvilas said his party took the initiative of gathering the signatures after parliament rejected its proposal for the tax reduction. He claimed the tax cut would boost the income of citizens by 950 million litas ($270 million) and lead to a revival of the economy and a decrease in unemployment. SG\nBASQUE PARTY SUPPORTS AUTONOMY FOR POLAND'S SILESIA\nSpain's Basque National Party is supporting the Silesian Autonomy Movement (RAS) in its bid to promote the idea of political and economic autonomy for Silesia (southern Poland) in the ongoing local election campaign in Poland, PAP reported. \"I came [to Poland] to back the RAS in their campaign, because I believe in autonomy, thanks to which authorities are closer to people,\" said Jose Mari Etxebarria, who is in charge of foreign contacts of the Basque National Party. The RAS has fielded some 200 candidates in Silesian and Opole provinces for the 27 October local election. According to the RAS website (http://www.raslaska.org/ras/index2e.htm), the movement's long-term political objective is the \"creation of Lower and Upper Silesian autonomous regions, within their historical borders.\" JM\nMORE THAN TWO-THIRDS OF POLES WANT RESTORATION OF DEATH PENALTY\nAccording to a poll conducted by OBOP in August among 1,017 Poles over the age of 15, 69 percent of respondents said they support the reintroduction of capital punishment, PAP reported on 3 October. Seventy-seven percent said they want to see harsher sentences for crimes, but only 31 percent declared their readiness to pay higher taxes to cover the cost of longer prison terms. JM\nCZECH FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS NO DECISION YET ON U.S. MISSILE-DEFENSE PROJECT\nForeign Minister Cyril Svoboda told journalists on 3 October that the Czech government is considering the possibility of joining the U.S. \"missile-shield\" defense program but stressed that no decision has been made, CTK reported. Svoboda added that the cabinet's attitude toward the prospect, which was first discussed with U.S. military experts by Defense Minister Jaroslav Tvrdik during a recent visit to Washington, is \"generally positive.\" Reports in the local media say the United States considers the Czech Republic's geographic location suitable for the deployment of missiles within the proposed system, which would be deployed to detect and destroy enemy missiles at high altitude. CTK reported that the view in Washington is that a single site in Europe is sufficient to provide defense against an enemy missile attack for the entire continent. Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Deputy Chairman Vlastimil Balin said on 3 October that his party will demand a referendum on the matter if the government decides in favor of such a plan. MS\nCZECH PREMIER MEETS AFGHAN PRESIDENT IN KABUL\nPrime Minister Vladimir Spidla met with Afghan Transitional Administration President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on 3 October and discussed Czech support for that country's postwar reconstruction effort and mutual trade, CTK and international news agencies reported. Spidla said after the meeting that the two had agreed to restore economic cooperation, which was effectively halted under the Taliban regime. Spidla and Defense Minister Tvrdik, who is accompanying him on the visit, also met with Czech soldiers staffing a field hospital as part of the Kabul-based International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Spidla said he does not believe that ISAF involvement will be extended to the rest of Afghanistan. Spidla and Tvrdik also met on 3 October with Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Qasim Fahim and with the ISAF commander, Turkish General Akin Zorul. MS\nFORMER CZECH PRIME MINISTER REPORTEDLY TO SEEK RE-ELECTION AS PARTY CHAIRMAN\nCivic Democratic Party (ODS) Chairman Vaclav Klaus will seek re-election to his current position at the ODS national conference scheduled for December, CTK reported on 3 October, citing the daily \"Vecernik Praha.\" After the ODS lost the June parliamentary elections, Klaus pledged to resign as chairman but refrained from saying whether he might run again for the post. Meanwhile, Moravia-Silesia Region Commissioner Evzen Tosenovsky last month announced his candidacy for the post. The daily says the Central Bohemian ODS regional council recently proposed that the ODS leadership in December be elected for one year only and that Klaus's mandate as re-elected chairman also be limited to that period. The proposal also calls for the creation of the post of first deputy chairman, to allow for a future successor to Klaus to gain experience, as well as the post of honorary chairman, which Klaus might occupy after 2003. MS\nFOURTH BSE CASE REPORTED IN CZECH REPUBLIC\nPreliminary tests detected what appears to be a fourth case of BSE (mad-cow disease) in the Czech Republic, AP reported on 3 October, citing a State Veterinary Authority spokesman. The spokesman said a 7-year-old bovine from a farm in Sestajovice, just outside Prague, tested positive for BSE. If the results of additional testing confirm the preliminary findings, 25 other bovines from the same farm are to be slaughtered as a precautionary measure, the spokesman said. The first BSE case in the country was detected last June, and the third case just last month (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 30 September and 3 October 2002). MS\nEMERGING SLOVAK COALITION AGREES ON GOVERNMENT PROGRAM\nFour Slovak center-right parties on 3 October reached agreement on the next government program and said they might sign the coalition pact early next week, Reuters reported, citing Prime Minister-designate Mikulas Dzurinda. Dzurinda declined to disclose the names of ministers in the proposed cabinet, saying that on personal issues \"nothing has yet been agreed 100 percent,\" according to CTK. The four parties -- the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union, the Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK), the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), and the Alliance of New Citizens (ANO) -- agreed that the issue of the Benes Decrees, relating to the postwar expulsion of ethnic Germans and Hungarians, will not be raised by any of them, thus dismissing speculation that the SMK might do so. MS\nBUSH CONGRATULATES SLOVAK PREMIER ON ELECTION SUCCESS\nU.S. President George W. Bush on 3 October telephoned Dzurinda and congratulated him on his party's electoral performance, AP reported, citing White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. According to CTK, Bush also expressed U.S. support for Slovakia's quest to join Euro-Atlantic structures. Dzurinda told Bush that the election outcome demonstrates that Slovakia's citizens understand the need for democratic development and integration in NATO and the EU, as well as for the continuation of the reform process. Also on 3 October, NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson said in Brussels that the Slovak electorate made a very wise decision in the recent general elections. \"Today they are part of the main democratic stream in Europe, and they voted for being part of integration, leading to stability and prosperity,\" Robertson told TASR. MS\nNEW SLOVAK PARLIAMENT TO MEET ON 15 OCTOBER\nThe newly elected Slovak parliament will meet on 15 October in its first session, CTK and AP reported. According to the CTK report, the coalition is expected to appoint a parliamentary speaker and three deputy speakers, while one deputy speaker's post will go to the opposition. MS\nFORMER HUNGARIAN PREMIER CLARIFIES EU STANCE\nFormer Prime Minister Viktor Orban told reporters in Budapest that he advocates speedy European Union accession, but, as the EU has adopted a tough negotiating stance, Hungary should also resort to \"as tough a negotiating position as possible,\" \"Magyar Nemzet\" reported on 4 October. \"I never said that Hungary should not join the EU,\" Orban said, adding that he \"only wanted to point out that we must act to make sure that the competitiveness of the Hungarian economy improves by protecting farmers and small and medium-sized enterprises with low-interest credits and by defending farmland from the onslaught of foreign purchasers.\" He also remarked that he would like to see two referenda held next year, one on the sale of farmland and the other on media policy. MSZ\nHUNGARIAN SUPREME COURT RULES IN SMALLHOLDERS' LEADERSHIP DISPUTE\nThe Supreme Court has ruled that Jozsef Torgyan is no longer chairman of the Independent Smallholders' Party, \"Nepszabadsag\" reported on 4 October. The court ruled that the 4 May national council meeting at which Miklos Reti, head of the party's Pest County chapter, was elected party chairman was legitimate (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 6 May 2002). The Metropolitan Court previously declared the May meeting invalid. Torgyan was re-elected party chairman again at a 20 August meeting attended by a small group of people at the party headquarters. Torgyan told \"Nepszabadsag\" that he has not received the text of the ruling, but \"there is no way that Reti can be the party leader, as I am the chairman of the party.\" MSZ\nSURVEY HIGHLIGHTS YOUNG HUNGARIANS' PREJUDICES\nAccording to a survey conducted during the 2000-01 school year, strong prejudices against Roma prevail among 32 percent of the 1,500 high-school students interviewed, Budapest dailies reported on 4 October. Some 75 percent of those surveyed are prejudiced to some extent and \"would not have a Roma for a friend.\" Only 8 percent of 17-year-olds can be said not to harbor any prejudice against Roma, according to the poll. Another 2.1 percent of respondents are strongly prejudiced against disabled young people, while 42.3 percent are tolerant toward them. The survey was conducted by the Kurt Lewin Foundation at the request of the ombudsman for educational rights. MSZ\nBOSNIA PREPARES TO VOTE...\nVoters across Bosnia go to the polls on 5 October in general elections to select members of cantonal assemblies, the three-person joint Presidency, and the 42-strong House of Representatives, international and regional media reported on 4 October. Voters in the Muslim-Croat federation will elect their own House of Representatives as well. In the Republika Srpska, voters will select a president and vice president, as well as members of the People's Assembly. Members of the joint House of the Peoples are selected by the parliaments of the two entities: 10 from the federation and five from the Republika Srpska. Members of the joint House of Representatives are elected directly, with 28 coming from the federation and 14 from the Republika Srpska. About 2.3 million voters are registered, as are 57 parties, nine coalitions, and three independent candidates. Initial results are expected on 6 October. PM\n...WITH THE NATIONALISTS EXPECTED TO WIN\nPolls suggest the Bosnian general elections will be won by the three main nationalist parties: Alija Izetbegovic's Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Radovan Karadzic's Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), and the Croatian Democratic Community (HDZ), which is the Herzegovinian branch of the Croatian party founded by the late President Franjo Tudjman, international media reported on 4 October. Non-nationalist parties dominated the 11 November 2000 elections thanks in part to intervention by officials of the international community. But now, many Muslim voters are put off by mudslinging in the media between the Social Democrats (SDP) of Zlatko Lagumdzija and the Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina (SBiH) of Haris Silajdzic. Many Serbian voters feel that only the SDS can protect their interests. And the HDZ remains the favorite in Herzegovina despite the emergence of the New Croatian Initiative (NHI) and some other small, moderate parties oriented toward the Croats of Sarajevo, central Bosnia, and the northern Posavina region. AP stressed that many people are apathetic or cynical and unlikely to vote. PM\nKOSTUNICA WARNS OF 'ALBANIAN EXTREMISTS' IN PROMOTING SERBIAN PRESIDENTIAL VOTE\nYugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said: \"One should participate in the [13 October presidential] elections so that Serbia does not definitively descend into chaos and anarchy, as well as so that the EU-mediated constitutional charter [replacing Yugoslavia with Serbia-Montenegro], admittance to the Council of Europe, and negotiations on a stabilization and association agreement with the EU are not delayed indefinitely. But there is one more reason: Instability in Serbia would lead to instability in the Balkans, I think above all by Albanian extremists in Kosovo, southern Serbia, and Macedonia,\" RFE/RL reported from Belgrade on 4 October (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 October 2002). Asked by RFE/RL to clarify what he meant by Albanian extremists taking advantage of the situation, Kostunica backed off and said: \"I was talking about Serbia, but this applies anywhere. Any instability can have an effect on [the situation of] others -- on Kosovo, Albania, or Macedonia and so on. That's clear, in the sense that any state -- not just Serbia -- should be firm, have institutions, a strong legal order and deal with organized crime.\" JN/PM\nDEL PONTE: CROATIAN GENERAL MUST GO TO THE HAGUE...\nMeeting in Brussels with EU security-policy chief Javier Solana on 3 October, Carla Del Ponte, who is the chief prosecutor of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague, said Croatia is obliged to extradite General Janko Bobetko to the Netherlands, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. She added that if he is seriously ill, the tribunal could send him home, but he must first present himself in The Hague. Meanwhile, in Zagreb, Defense Minister Zeljka Antunovic said she takes NATO's recent warning in the Bobetko affair seriously (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 October 2002). PM\n...AND SERBIA MUST ARREST MLADIC\nDel Ponte said in Brussels on 3 October that the tribunal knows that indicted war criminal and former Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic is living in Serbia, apparently under the protection of the army, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. She stressed that what is lacking is the political will to arrest him. Del Ponte added that the situation of wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, who is also one of the most-wanted indicted war criminals, is quite different. Karadzic is living in the Republika Srpska, where everyone regards him as a hero and protects him, including the authorities, army, police, politicians, and ordinary people. PM\nMORE BACKING FOR STEINER'S PLAN FOR KOSOVAR TOWN\nThe U.S. office in Prishtina said in a statement on 3 October that it strongly supports the plan of UN civilian administration (UNMIK) head Michael Steiner to reunite the divided city of Mitrovica (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 2 October 2002). Elsewhere, Steiner said after a meeting with Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic that Belgrade authorities support his program in part if not in its entirety (see \"RFE/RL Balkan Report,\" 23 August 2002), RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported. Covic called for the signing of a formal agreement on the matter. Any direct involvement by Belgrade in the affairs of Kosova is firmly rejected by the ethnic Albanian majority and its elected representatives. PM\nKOSOVAR PRIME MINISTER REQUESTS FUNDS TO END TEACHERS' STRIKE\nPrime Minister Bajram Rexhepi has appealed to the IMF, World Bank, and UNMIK for funds to help end a strike by elementary and high-school teachers, RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service reported from Prishtina on 4 October. The teachers began an open-ended strike on 1 October over pay, which is currently about $125 per month. The Kosovar parliament has expressed support for them. PM\nNEW MACEDONIAN PARLIAMENT HOLDS FIRST SESSION\nIn what was described as a \"tense atmosphere,\" the new legislature elected on 15 September held its first session on 3 October, Macedonian media reported. After the verification of 119 out of a total of 120 mandates, the parliament elected Nikola Popovski of the Social Democratic Union (SDSM) as new parliamentary speaker (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 3 October 2002). Three leading members of the Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) -- BDI Chairman Ali Ahmeti, former UCK commander Gezim Ostreni, and Fazli Veliu -- did not attend the first session because of \"other engagements.\" The two deputies of the ethnic Albanian Party for Democratic Prosperity (PPD) and the only deputy of the National Democratic Party (PDK) did not appear for unspecified reasons. The parliamentary group of the Democratic Party of the Albanians (PDSH) boycotted the first session. Dpa reported that, \"according to the sources within SDSM and BDI, the SDSM-led coalition will take 11 ministries, and three mandates will be given to the former rebels\" in the BDI. Meanwhile, the government of outgoing Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski is continuing in office in a caretaker capacity until the new cabinet is formed. UB/PM\nEU NAMES NEW REPRESENTATIVE FOR MACEDONIA\nThe European Union named Belgian diplomat Alexis Bruns as its new special envoy to Macedonia, Deutsche Welle's \"Monitor\" reported on 2 October. Bruns will replace French Diplomat Alain Le Roy, whose mandate expires on 31 October. UB\nHUNGARIAN PRESIDENT ENDS OFFICIAL PART OF ROMANIAN VISIT\nVisiting Hungarian President Ferenc Madl met on 3 October with the two speakers of Romania's bicameral parliament and with Hungarian Democratic Federation of Romania (UDMR) Chairman Bela Marko, Romanian Radio reported. Madl and Marko discussed in particular the restitution of church property in Romania, with Marko complaining that the process is proceeding far too slowly. Madl praised the role played by the UDMR in Romanian politics and its contribution to mutual cooperation. Madl also lectured at Bucharest University. The official part of the Hungarian president's visit ended later that evening. On 4 October, he is visiting the famous monasteries of Bukovina and the Transylvanian town of Targu-Mures. MS\nSWITZERLAND EXPELS ROMANIAN ROMA\nSwiss authorities on 3 October deported a group of 40 Romanian Roma, who were then flown to Bucharest on a charter plane accompanied by 12 Swiss officers after their asylum applications were rejected, AP reported. Several hundred Roma asylum seekers are currently in Switzerland, having arrived there from France, where they also faced deportation. A Swiss-Romanian agreement will ensure their deportation in the coming weeks. MS\nFORMER ROMANIAN DICTATOR'S BROTHER MAKES HISTORY ONE LAST TIME\nIlie Ceausescu, a brother of the executed president, died on 3 October in Bucharest, AP reported. He was 76. Ilie Ceausescu served as deputy defense minister when Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown by popular revolt in December 1989. Ilie Ceausescu claimed to be a historian by profession and for many years headed the Bucharest-based Institute of Military History, which promoted the nationalist line in Romanian historiography. MS\nMOLDOVAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES AGREEMENT ON MILITARY COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA\nMoldovan lawmakers on 3 October ratified an agreement with Russia on military and technological cooperation, ITAR-TASS reported. The vote was 78 for and seven against, with the only votes against ratification cast by deputies representing the opposition Popular Party Christian Democratic. The agreement was signed in 1997, but previous parliaments refused to ratify it on the grounds that Moldova does not participate in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) military-cooperation programs. Infotag reported that the agreement envisages joint design and production of military equipment. MS\nBULGARIAN PRIME MINISTER VISITS TURKEY\nPrime Minister Simeon Saxecoburggotski arrived in Ankara on 3 October for a four-day official visit at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Bulent Ecevit, BTA reported. Saxecoburggotski's talks with Ecevit and President Ahmet Necdet focused on bilateral issues including easing visa regulations for Turkish citizens and the improvement of cross-border infrastructure projects such as highways and the Upper Arda hydroelectric complex. The two sides also discussed Bulgaria's bid for NATO accession, for which the Turkish representatives reiterated their support. Saxecoburggotski and Ecevit also discussed the Iraqi crisis. Ecevit expressed his hope that there will be no armed conflict with Iraq, saying this would threaten all countries in the region. UB\nCONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION IN BULGARIA THREATENS VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE\nEkaterina Mihailova, the deputy chairwoman of the conservative opposition Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), announced on 3 October that her party will propose a vote of no confidence should the government fail to implement a parliamentary decision on shutdowns at the Kozloduy nuclear-power plant (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 25 September and 3 October 2002), mediapool.bg reported. She also demanded that Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi, Energy Minister Milko Kovachev, and European Affairs Minister Meglena Kuneva resign in connection with the government's position over Kozloduy. Government spokesman Dimitar Tsonev dismissed Mihailova's demands, saying there is no difference between the parliament's decision and the position adopted by the government. UB\nBULGARIAN PARLIAMENT DISMISSES HEAD OF STATE NEWS AGENCY, NAMES REPLACEMENT\nPowered by votes from the ruling coalition of National Movement Simeon II (NDSV) and the ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), parliament dismissed Panayot Denev as director of state-owned news agency BTA on 4 October, mediapool.bg reported. In the same vote, parliament elected Stoyan Cheshmedzhiev as the agency's new director. Cheshmedzhiev previously headed the local Radio Varna. Politicians of the ruling coalition have repeatedly called for Denev's dismissal, alleging a lack of loyalty toward the government. DPS Deputy Chairwoman Emel Etem accused the conservative opposition United Democratic Forces (ODS) of having used BTA management to tarnish the country's international reputation. When Cheshmedzhiev was first mentioned as a possible successor to Denev, unconfirmed media reports linked him to a number of scandals (see \"RFE/RL Newsline,\" 10 and 11 April 2002). UB\nThere is no End Note today.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line649465"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7757021188735962,"wiki_prob":0.7757021188735962,"text":"Lamar Odom found unconscious, taken to Las Vegas hospital\nBy Kurt HelinOct 13, 2015, 9:51 PM EDT\nUPDATE 11:03 pm: This is the press release on the situation from the Nye County Sherriff Department, which responded to the call. It confirms the key details from the original report:\nAt approximately 3:15 pm on October 13, 2015, a call came into the Nye County Dispatch Center from Richard Hunter, Media Director for Dennis Hof’s Bunny Ranch, requesting an ambulance for an unresponsive male experiencing a medical emergency at the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, approximately twenty miles north of Pahrump, Nevada in Nye County.\nAn ambulance from Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Service arrived at 3:34 pm and the patient, identified as Lamar Odom was stabilized and transported to Desert View Hospital arriving at 4:16 pm. Nye County Sheriff’s Office Detectives Cory Fowles and Michael Eisenloffel arrived and conducted an investigation on scene.\nAfter being treated by the physicians, arrangements were made to transport him by Mercy Air helicopter. However, Mr. Odom was unable to be transported by air due to his stature. He was immediately transported by Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Ambulance to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada for further treatment.\n9: 51 pm: Let’s hope that this is not as bad as it sounds.\nLamar Odom, whose NBA career was cut short due to his challenges with drug use, has been taken to a Las Vegas-area hospital after being found unconscious at a brothel in a city not far outside the city, according to the report from TMZ.\nLamar Odom is fighting for his life after falling into unconsciousness at Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch South in Pahrump, Nevada … TMZ Sports has learned.\nSources at the Love Ranch tell us … 35-year-old Odom arrived at the Ranch Saturday and was partying with the girls for days. A source at the Ranch said Lamar was taking an herbal substitute for Viagra. We spoke with Hof … who tells us Tuesday afternoon, a woman went into Odom’s room in the VIP suites and found him unconscious.\nOdom spent 14 seasons in the NBA, starting his career with the Clippers and going on to be a key figure in the 2009 and 2010 Los Angeles Lakers title teams. He won Sixth Man of the Year in 2011.\nWhile famous in basketball circles — and incredibly well liked by players and media, he was one of the funniest guys in the league — he became a pop culture sensation when he married Khloe Kardashian. However, it was about that time that his drug use started to take a toll on everything in his life. It was not long before he was traded to Dallas, and things started to truly spiral out of control for him. He went for treatment after that, but never returned to the NBA.\nWe will have more as the story develops. Our thoughts are with Odom, and we hope he pulls out of this.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line570712"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6907802224159241,"wiki_prob":0.3092197775840759,"text":"Albanian (Αλβανικα)\nHome » 2014 » Αύγουστος\nMonthly Archives: Αύγουστος 2014\nΑυγ,\nAge should not be a barrier to surgery for Parkinson’s\nResearch News (General)\nNew research published in JAMA Neurology suggests that the risk of complications associated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) do not increase with age in people with Parkinson’s.\nThis research based at Duke University Durham, North Carolina was funded by the National Institutes of Health.\nDeep brain stimulation is a well-established therapy for people with Parkinson’s. It uses electrical signals from an implant in the brain to help reduce Parkinson’s symptoms. DBS does involve invasive surgery and as with all surgical procedures can lead to complications.\nThe researchers at the Duke University involved more than 1,750 Parkinson’s patients and analyzed their data. All the patients had undergone the device implantation between 2000 and 2009. Following analysis of the data, the researchers found that 7.5 percent of those patients developed at least one complication within 90 days of the surgery. The complications included bleeding, wound infections, pulmonary embolism and pneumonia.\nInterestingly, the research team found that the risk of complications during the 90 days after surgery was not greater in those over the age of 75 when compared to younger patients.\nThe study was published on August 25 in the journal JAMA Neurology.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Deep Brain Stimulation, Parkinson's on Αύγουστος 26, 2014 by jpnd.\nResults from 2014 JPND “Rapid Action” Call for Working Groups on Longitudinal Cohort studies\nJPND News, JPND Progress\nTen international working groups to be funded under JPND call\nThe EU Joint Programme Neurodegenerative Disease Research (JPND) has released the results of a “rapid action” call to support ten groups of leading scientists in finding ways to enhance the use of longitudinal cohort studies for neurodegenerative disease (ND) research.\nJPND launched this call on 23rd April 2014 as part of a series of new JPND initiatives, designed to amplify the impact of research by aligning and building upon existing national programmes and initiatives, and to bring a more wide-ranging and multidisciplinary approach to research on neurodegenerative diseases.\nThe awarded proposals are for top ND scientists to come together and recommend how to address the most pressing issues that prevent full use of longitudinal cohorts. This includes population studies and disease cohorts, both having considerable potential for ND research. Funding decisions were based upon scientific evaluation and recommendations to the ten sponsor countries by a JPND Peer Review Panel.\nAwards cover a wide ND landscape (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, Lewy-body and vascular dementia) and different groups will address methodological challenges for studies in a number of areas, including cognition/functional assessment, biomarkers and biobanking, imaging, health and social outcomes and presymptomatic ND.\n“The plan is that each group will push forward the conceptualization of a key challenge and derive valuable guidelines and/or best practice frameworks for the wider research community” , commented Dr. Rob Buckle, Director of Science Programmes at the UK Medical Research Council, the organisation which facilitated the call process.\nAccording to Professor Philippe Amouyel, Chair of the JPND Management Board “this is an excellent outcome for JPND and a significant opportunity to advance the field. A rapid and flexible JPND process is now established to achieve JPND strategic goals, here to promote harmonisation of approaches and data sharing. These outputs will accelerate the progress of future studies by the global ND community”.\nEach Working Group is expected to run for a maximum of 6 months, reporting back to JPND by Q1 2015. Looking to the future, and drawing on advice emerging from the Working Groups. JPND is likely to launch a follow-up call for full scientific applications on longitudinal cohort studies, to be received next year.\nFor further information on the Working Groups awards, click on the link below:\nThis entry was posted in JPND News, JPND Progress and tagged JPND, Longitudinal Cohorts, Working Groups on Αύγουστος 26, 2014 by jpnd.\nDementia Friendly Communities\nThe Dementia Friendly Communities programme, run by the Alzheimer’s Society UK, focuses on improving inclusion and quality of life for people with dementia.\nThe programme’s five year strategy includes a key ambition to work with people affected by dementia and key partners to define and develop dementia friendly communities.\nIt has produced a number of films to highlight the programme’s work.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Community, Healthcare, Social Care, UK on Αύγουστος 25, 2014 by jpnd.\nMore evidence adult daycare eases stress on dementia caregivers\nThe stress of caring for a family member with dementia may take a toll on health over time, but a new study suggests that even one day off can shift caregivers’ stress levels back toward normal.\nBased on measurements of the stress hormone cortisol, researchers found that caregivers had healthier stress responses on days when the dementia patient went to adult daycare. Even anticipation of the day off had an effect on cortisol levels.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Care, Dementia, Stress on Αύγουστος 20, 2014 by jpnd.\nAlzheimer’s Brains Mottled with Epigenetic Changes\nEpigenetic modifications control gene expression, but scientists still don’t know if or how they contribute to disease. To address this knowledge gap, the National Institutes of Health launched the Roadmap Epigenomics Project in 2008 to compare epigenomes in healthy and diseased cells.\nIn the August 17 Nature Neuroscience, two papers from separate but collaborative research groups report on some of the fruits of that effort. Both groups surveyed DNA methylation in hundreds of human AD and control brains and identified several regions where changes in this epigenetic mark correlated with the amount of Alzheimer’s pathology. The results may help flag genes that are turned up or down in AD, and provide insight into pathogenesis, said Philip De Jager at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, the first author of one of the papers.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Alzheimer's, Brain, Disease, Epigenetics, Origins on Αύγουστος 18, 2014 by jpnd.\nAtlantic Philanthropies Makes Grants of €14.7m to Improve Care for Dementia Sufferers\nIn the lead up to the publication of the Irish Dementia Strategy (due in Autumn 2014), Atlantic Philanthropies have announced new grants totaling €14.7 million to improve the care and wellbeing of people suffering with dementia in the Republic of Ireland. These grants are the subject of ongoing discussions with the Government. The grants are being made to:\n– The Health Service Executive (€12m)\n– The Health Research Board (€2.7m)\nAs a result of this funding, The Health Research Board, and the Irish Department of Health are partnering with Atlantic Philanthropies to invest up to €4.7 million into research on dementia. The research will focus on improving prevention, intervention and care of people with dementia.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Dementia, Funding, Investment, Ireland on Αύγουστος 14, 2014 by jpnd.\nResearchers find infectious prion protein in urine of patients with variant C-JD\nThe mis-folded and infectious prion protein that is a marker for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – linked to the consumption of infected cattle meat – has been detected in the urine of patients with the disease by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School.\nThe results of the international study, are published in the Aug. 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.\nThe international team of researchers analyzed urine samples from 68 patients with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, 14 patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, four patients with genetic prion diseases, 50 patients with other neurodegenerative diseases, 50 patients with nondegenerative neurologic diseases and 52 healthy persons.\nThe team used a protein misfolding cyclic amplification assay which mimics the prion replication process in vitro that occurs in prion disease. The misfolded prion proteins were detected in the urine of 13 of 14 patients with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Alzheimer's Parkinson's, JPND, National Plan on Αύγουστος 10, 2014 by jpnd.\nPublication of the report “The role of Nutrition in Active and Healthy Aging”\nNutritional shortcomings are a key driver of age-related decline and disability whereas proper diet can increase years of healthy life. In support of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, Joint Research Centre (JRC) scientists have reviewed the evidence on the role key nutrients and diet plays in promoting healthy ageing.\nJRC scientists collected evidence on the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases with a focus on under-nutrition in older people, a main cause as well as a consequence of functional decline. The resulting report «The role of Nutrition in Active and Healthy Ageing» provides an important contribution to the overall target of the Partnership which is to increase the average healthy lifespan by two years by 2020, to enable EU citizens to lead healthy, active and independent lives while ageing and to improve the sustainability and efficiency of social and health care.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Active, Aging, Cognition, Nutrition on Αύγουστος 9, 2014 by jpnd.\nLargest ever therapeutic trial for Huntington’s disease ends in disappointment\nThe 2CARE study of coenzyme Q for Huntington’s disease was halted early because an analysis of the results to date showed that it was very unlikely to show positive results. The study, called 2CARE, was designed to test whether a treatment called coenzyme Q10 could slow the progression of HD.\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Clinical Trial, Huntington's, Theraputics on Αύγουστος 8, 2014 by jpnd.\nParkinson’s Vaccine Safe in Phase I Trial\nThe Austrian biotech AFFiRiS AG announced positive results of its Phase I safety trial of a vaccine against alpha-synuclein.\nAlpha-synuclein is the sticky protein that clumps in the cells of people with Parkinson’s, and AFFiRiS hopes to stop disease by inducing antibodies against alpha-synuclein accumulation. The Michael J. Fox Foundation funded this work with close to $2M, first with a grant for a pre-clinical study and then $1.5M in 2011 for the Phase I trial. This is the first drug against alpha-synuclein to reach clinical testing.\n“A treatment that could slow or stop Parkinson’s progression would be a game changer for the five million worldwide living with this disease and the many more who will become at risk as our population ages,” said MJFF CEO Todd Sherer, PhD. “This trial is one of the most promising efforts toward that goal.”\nIn two different doses the drug, called PD01A, was safe and tolerable. Half of those vaccinated showed alpha-synuclein antibodies, which is a promising but very early sign. Further trials will test PDO1A’s benefit to patients. The next step is a boost study that will test the safety and effect of a boost vaccination (another dose). MJFF will support that trial, which will take place in Vienna, Austria and start recruiting in September.\nSource: PharmaBiz and Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research\nThis entry was posted in Research News (General) and tagged Clinical Trial, Parkinson's, Vaccine on Αύγουστος 4, 2014 by jpnd.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line151971"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.84344083070755,"wiki_prob":0.84344083070755,"text":"US Supreme Court Decisions On-Line> Volume 132 > YOUNG V. CLARENDON TOWNSHIP, 132 U. S. 340 (1889)\nYOUNG V. CLARENDON TOWNSHIP, 132 U. S. 340 (1889)\nYoung v. Clarendon Township, 132 U.S. 340 (1889)\nYoung v. Clarendon Township\nArgued October 23, 1889\nDecided December 9, 1889\nAPPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED\nSTATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN\nIt is settled law that a municipality has no power to issue its bonds in aid of a railroad, except by legislative permission.\nThe legislature, in granting permission to a municipality to issue its bonds in aid of a railroad, may impose such conditions as it may choose.\nWhere authority is granted to a municipality to aid a railroad and incur a debt in extending such aid, that power does not carry with it authority to execute negotiable bonds except subject to the restrictions and directions of the Enabling Act. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nThe act of the Legislature of Michigan of March 22, 1869, \"to enable any township, city or village to pledge its aid by loan or donation to any railroad company, etc.,\" provided that the bonds when \"issued\" should be \"delivered by the person . . . having charge of the same to the treasurer of this state;\" that the treasurer should \"hold the same as a trustee for the municipality issuing the same and for the railroad company for which they were issued;\" that whenever the railroad company should\n\"present to said treasurer a certificate from the governor of this state that such railroad company has in all respects complied with the provisions of this act . . . , such of said bonds as said company shall be entitled to receive shall be delivered to said company;\"\nthat the treasurer should endorse upon each bond delivered the date of its delivery and to whom it was delivered, and that in case the bonds were not demanded in compliance with the terms of the act within three years from the date of delivery to the treasurer, \"the same shall be cancelled by said treasurer and returned to the proper officers of the township or city issuing the same.\" The township of Clarendon, in Michigan, having complied with the requirements of the act on its part, delivered to the state treasurer its bonds to the amount of $10,000, dated July, 1869, for the benefit of the Michigan Air Line Railroad Company. The company completed its railroad before February, 1871, and became entitled to the governor's certificate under the act, but on May 26, 1870, the supreme court of the state had declared the act to be unconstitutional, and the governor in consequence thereof refused to give the certificate. On the 28th May, 1872, before the expiration of three years from their delivery, the treasurer returned the bonds to the township. November 12, 1884, the appellant obtained judgment against the railroad company and an execution was issued, which was returned nulla bona. On the 24th February, 1880, he filed a bill in equity against the township and the company, claiming that the township was equitably indebted to the company to the amount of the bonds and coupons with interest, and that he was entitled to recover the amount of that indebtedness, and to apply it on his judgment debt.\n(1) That the municipal authorities had no power to deliver the bonds, after their execution except to the state treasurer, and that the word \"deliver,\" as used in the statute with reference to this act, was used in its ordinary and popular sense, and not in its technical sense.\n(2) That to the governor alone was given the power to determine whether the bonds should ever in fact issue, and if issued, when they should issue.\n(3) That the endorsement by the treasurer upon each bond of the date of its delivery and of the person to whom it was delivered was necessary to make it a completed bond, and that this could not be done until the governor's authorization was made.\n(4) That as the bonds were never endorsed and delivered by the treasurer, they never became operative.\n(6) That the rule in regard to escrows could be applied to these chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\ninstruments, because they were never executed in compliance with the peremptory requirements of the statute.\n(6) That if the railroad company had any cause of action against the township by reason of these facts, it was barred at law by the statute of limitations of the Michigan.\n(7) That by reason of laches in pursuing the remedy, the bar at law could be set up and maintained in equity.\nThe constitutionality of the Act of the Legislature of Michigan of March 22, 1869, which is considered in this case, was fully settled in the case of Taylor v. Ypsilanti, 105 U. S. 60, to which the Court adheres.\nOn the 21st of February, 1885, the appellant exhibited, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan, his bill, in the nature of a creditor's bill, against the appellees.\nThe bill averred that on the 12th of November, 1884, the appellant obtained a judgment against the railroad company for the sum of $355,865.21; that an execution upon the judgment was issued, and was returned \"nulla bona;\" that the judgment was still unpaid, and that the railroad company was a corporation, organized on the 28th of August, 1868, by a consolidation of two companies -- one organized under the laws of Michigan and the other under those of Indiana, which consolidated company was itself, on October 8, 1880, again consolidated with the St. Joseph Valley Railroad Company, retaining, however, its name of the Michigan Air Line Railroad Company.\nThe bill also alleged that after the first consolidation as aforesaid, and on the 22d of March, 1869, the Legislature of Michigan passed\n\"An act to enable any township, city, or village to pledge its aid, by loan or donation, to any railroad company now chartered or organized or that may hereafter be organized under and by virtue of the laws of the Michigan in the construction of its road.\"\nSaid act authorized the issue of aid bonds. In its fifth and sixth sections it provided as follows:\n\"SEC. 5. Whenever any such bonds as provided by provisions of this act shall have been issued as therein specified, the same shall be delivered by the person, persons or officers having charge of the same to the treasurer of this state, who\nshall give a receipt therefor and hold the same as trustee for the municipality issuing the same and for the railroad company for which they were issued, and to be disposed of by said treasurer in discharge of his trust, as hereinafter provided.\"\n\"SEC. 6. . . . Such bonds shall be safely kept by such treasurer for the benefit of the parties interested, and be disposed of by him in the following manner -- that is to say, whenever any railroad company in aid of which any of such bonds may have issued shall present to said treasurer a certificate from the governor of this state that such railroad company has in all respects complied with the provisions of this act and is thereby entitled to any of such bonds, the same or such of said bonds as said company shall be entitled to receive shall be delivered to said company, the treasurer first cutting therefrom, cancelling and returning to the municipality the past-due coupons. The treasurer shall endorse upon each of said bonds the date of such delivery and to whom the same were delivered, and the same shall draw interest only from the time when so delivered, and the treasurer shall notify the clerk of the township or recorder or clerk of the city issuing the same of the date of the delivery of its bonds to such railroad company. . . . And in case any bonds so delivered to said treasurer by any such township or city shall not, within three years from the time when the same were received by him, be demanded in compliance with the terms of this act, the same shall be cancelled by said treasurer and returned to the proper officers of the township or city issuing the same.\"\nThe bill further averred that in conformity with the provisions of this act, the electors of the township, on the 21st day of June, 1869, voted to pledge the aid of the township by the loan of $10,000, to be paid by its 10 percent bonds at par, upon certain terms and conditions in said vote stated, among which were that the road should be located and constructed through said township; that the time of payment of each of those bonds was to be postponed a year in the event of the noncompletion of the roadbed and the ironing before the 1st of November, 1869, and that the company would pay yearly chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nto the township a sum equal pro rata to the dividends paid stockholders, and said sums were to be in extinguishment of the interest on the bonds, and the excess over 10 percent, if any, to be applied on the principal. The bonds thus voted were issued in pursuance of said act, and were delivered to the state treasurer, to be by him held as trustee for both the township and the company on the terms and conditions of the act as aforesaid.\nThe bill then averred that the railroad company, in consideration of the township's action and relying thereon, entered upon the construction of said railroad, and, previous to the 1st of February, 1871, had fully constructed and ironed said road through the township, and at the time of the delivery of the bonds to the state treasurer as aforesaid, had duly executed and delivered to the township the agreement specified in the terms on which the aid was voted and had performed every condition precedent to the earning of said bonds, and had become fully entitled to have the same delivered by the treasurer, except that it had not secured the certificate of the governor as required by said act. While the road, however, was in the process of construction, the Supreme Court of the Michigan, on the 26th of May, 1870, declared the act in question to be unconstitutional, but as the railroad company had already expended the sum of a million of dollars and upwards in construction, it could not stop, but went on and completed the road in full compliance with all the conditions of the vote. The company then applied to the governor for his certificate under the statute, exhibiting to him proofs of its title to receive the bonds; but he refused to give the same, giving as his sole reason for such refusal the judgment of the Supreme Court aforesaid.\nThe bill then averred that on May 28th, 1872, the township, knowing the premises, and without the knowledge or consent of the company and in violation of the law and of the trust aforesaid and in fraud of the company's rights, induced the state treasurer, who had full knowledge of the foregoing facts, to surrender to the township the said bonds and the coupons thereunto attached; that the township had since retained the chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nsame, and withheld them from the company; that said bonds and coupons, by reason of all the premises, became in justice and equity the property of said railroad company, and the township became bound thereon according to their tenor and effect; that the said township was therefore equitably indebted to said company, to the whole amount of said bonds and coupons, with the interest thereon to the present time, and that the appellant was entitled to the said amount toward the satisfaction of his judgment against the company.\nTo this end, an account was prayed to be stated between the company and the township, the appellee, and a final decree against the township for the sum shown to be due in favor of the appellant was asked.\nThe bill was dismissed by the Circuit Court on demurrer (26 F.8d 5), and the cause came here on appeal by the complainant.\nMR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the Court.\nWe consider the decisive question in this case to be that of the laches in pursuit of the railroad company's right against the township. In this view, the controversy must be narrowed to a single issue. The township, which is the defendant below and which defends separately, claims that the cause of action accrued either 13 or 14 years before this bill was filed -- 13 years if the conversion of the bonds by the township and the treasurer be considered the gravamen, and 14 years if it be the governor's refusal to issue his official certificate; that since the statutes of limitation in Michigan touching these questions vary from 6 to 10 years, the cause of action is long since barred at law as to the railroad company; that it is therefore barred also in equity, and lost by laches in its chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nassertion, and that since the appellant by this bill is prosecuting a demand in the nature of a garnishment, and the railroad company's right is barred both at law and in equity, therefore that of the appellant is also barred. The appellant seeks to avoid the force of this position by claiming that the bonds had been so far perfected by the dealings between the parties that the railroad company was entitled to have them from the state treasurer; that, such being the case, the tort of the township and of the treasurer in converting them could not impair the rights of the company; that therefore the company was and is entitled to waive the tort and sue directly on the bonds, as in the case of lost or stolen bonds; that only a few of such bonds, if delivered, would have been barred at the time of the filing of the bill, since most of them were so drawn as to mature within 10 years of that time; and finally that as the company was thus still in possession of an enforceable demand, the appellant could avail himself of it by this bill.\nThe controlling question presented therefore is this: were the bonds in question so dealt with by the parties as at any time to vest in the railroad company a right to sue directly on the bonds themselves, as distinguished from a right to sue for their nondelivery or because of their cancellation? That question cannot be satisfactorily or properly answered without constant reference to the exceptional character of the circumstances by which these bonds were deprived of their value. It is not the case of a common negotiable instrument put forth by a natural person as obligor, but it is that of a railroad aid bond sought to be put forth by the municipality. In such case, the nature of the bonds, their force and effect, their value and character while in the hands of the state treasurer, the rightfulness and sufficiency of their issue, and all kindred questions must be referred to the statute authorizing them. In this case, the statute is the act of 1869. It is the touchstone. Whatever might be the rule in ordinary cases, so far as the act goes, it controls here, being the enabling act; outside of it there was no power whatever to issue these bonds. By an unbroken current of decisions by this Court and by all other courts too numerous to mention, it is settled law that a municipality has chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nno power to make a contract of this character, except by legislative permission. It is manifest that, such being the case, the legislature, in granting such permission, can impose such conditions as it may choose, and even where there is authority to aid a railroad, and incur a debt in extending such aid, it is also settled that such power does not carry with it any authority to execute negotiable bonds except subject to the restrictions and directions of the enabling act. Wells v. Supervisors, 102 U. S. 625; Claiborne County v. Brooks, 111 U. S. 400; Kelley v. Milan, 127 U. S. 139.\nThe analogy offered between the case at bar and a lost bond is misleading. There is in fact no analogy. There is no doubt about the right of the owner of a bond lost or stolen to sue on it, and in the absence of it to give secondary evidence of its contents, but the very statement of the principle assumes the existence of the instrument. A bond lost or a bond stolen is out of the personal possession and control of the owner, it is true; but it is also an instrument that has become executed -- to which those things have been done that were needed to give it legal existence as an actionable obligation.\nBut here the very question to be determined is whether there ever were any bonds. It is a question, in substance, of the very existence of the instruments themselves. As before remarked, the act of 1869 fixes the rights of parties in this case. All the questions concerning the execution of the bonds in controversy must be referred to that statute, tested by it, and decided in strict conformity with its terms. It is an enabling act, conferring a power not before existent, and any departure from its requirements cannot be allowed. Harshman v. Bates County, 92 U. S. 569.\nIn the case of @ 70 U. S. 96, this Court said:\n\"The commissioners or board of supervisors of a county, in the exercise of their general powers as such, have no authority to subscribe stock to railroads, and bind the people of the county to pay bonds issued for that purpose without special authority conferred upon them by the legislature. But when special authority is given to the people of a county to do these\nacts, and bind themselves by the issue of such bonds, the legislature may properly direct the mode in which it shall be effected. The persons specially appointed to act as agents for the people have a ministerial duty to perform in issuing the bonds, after the people at an election held for the purpose, have assented that they shall be bound.\"\nIn the case of Anthony v. County of Jasper, 101 U. S. 693, the Township of Marion had, by authority, subscribed in aid of the railroad. Afterwards the legislature passed an act requiring such bonds to be registered and certified by the auditor of the state. The Court said (pp 696-698):\n\"There can be no doubt that it is within the power of a state to prescribe the form in which municipal bonds shall be executed in order to bind the public for their payment. If not so executed, they create no legal liability. Other circumstances may exist which will give the holder of them an equitable right to recover from the municipality the money which they represent, but he cannot enforce the payment or put them on the market as commercial paper. The act now in question is, we think, of this character. It in effect provides that no bond issued by counties, cities, or incorporated towns shall be valid -- that is to say, completely executed -- until it has been countersigned or certified in a particular way by the state auditor. For this purpose, after being executed by the corporate authorities, it must be presented to that officer and he must inquire and determine whether all the requirements of the law authorizing its issue have been observed and whether all the conditions of the contract in consideration of which it was to be put out have been complied with. To enable him to do this, evidence must be submitted, which he is required to file and preserve. If he is satisfied, the registry is made and the requisite certificate endorsed on the bonds. This being done, the execution of the bond is complete, and, under the law, it may then be negotiated -- that is to say, put on the market as valid commercial paper. . . . When the bonds now in question were put out, the law required that to be valid, they must be certified to by the auditor of state. In other words, that officer was to certify them before their execution was complete, so as to bind\nthe public for their payment. We had occasion to consider in McGarrahan v. Mining Co., 96 U. S. 316, the effect of statutory requirements as to the form of the execution of patents to pass the title of lands out of the United States, and there say:\"\n\"Each and every one of the integral parts of the execution is essential to the validity of a patent. They are of equal importance under the law, and one cannot be dispensed with more than another. Neither is directory, but all are mandatory. The question is not what, in the absence of statutory regulations, would constitute a valid grant, but what the statute requires.\"\n\"The same rule applies here. The object to be accomplished is the complete execution of a valid instrument, such as the law authorizes public officers to put out and bind for the payment of money the public organization they represent. For this purpose, the law has provided that the instrument must not only be signed and sealed on behalf of the county court of the county, but it must be certified to or countersigned by the auditor of state. . . . In order to recover in this case, it became necessary for the plaintiff to prove that the bonds from which the coupons sued on were cut had been executed according to law. He did prove that they were signed by the presiding justice and clerk of the court, and were sealed with the seal of the court. This, before the Act of March 30, 1872, would have been enough, but after that, more was necessary. The public can act only through its authorized agents, and it is not bound until all who are to participate in what is to be done have performed their respective duties.\"\nThe bonds in that case were declared void. See also, to the same effect, Coler v. Cleburne, 131 U. S. 162.\nTurning now to the statute involved in the case at bar, we find its directions, among others, to be as follows:\n\"Such bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not exceeding ten percent per annum, and shall have attached thereto the necessary and usual interest coupons, corresponding in dates and numbers with the bonds to which they are attached, which shall be signed by written signatures by the same person or persons executing such bonds. Such bonds shall, if issued by a city, be executed by the mayor and clerk or recorder\nthereof, as the case may be, under the seal of said city, and if issued by a township they shall be executed by the supervisor and clerk thereof, and if any city or township issuing such bonds shall have a seal, the same shall be impressed upon each of such bonds. The bonds and coupons attached thereto shall be payable at the office of the treasurer of the county in which such township or city may be situate. Whenever any such bonds as provided by the provisions of this act shall have been issued as therein specified, the same shall be delivered by the person, persons, or officers having charge of the same to the treasurer of this state, who shall give a receipt therefor, and hold the same as trustee for the municipality issuing the same, and for the railroad company for which they were issued, and to be disposed of by said treasurer in discharge of his trust, as hereinafter provided. Upon receipt of any such bonds from any township or city in aid of any such railroad company, the treasurer of this states shall immediately register or record the same in a book or books to be kept by him for that purpose in his office, which record shall show the amount, date, and number of each bond, the rate of interest which it bears, by what township or city issued, to the benefit of what railroad company the same are issued, and the time when payable, which record shall be always open for the inspection of any citizen of this state or other interested person. Such bonds shall be safely kept by said treasurer for the benefit of the parties interested, and be disposed of by him in the following manner -- that is to say, whenever any railroad company, in aid of which any of such bonds may have issued, shall present to said treasurer a certificate from the governor of this state that such railroad company has in all respects complied with the provisions of this act, and is thereby entitled to any of such bonds, the same, or such of said bonds as said company shall be entitled to receive, shall be delivered to said company, the treasurer first cutting therefrom, cancelling, and returning to the municipality the past-due coupons. The treasurer shall endorse upon each of said bonds the date of such delivery, and to whom the same were delivered, and the same shall draw interest only from the time\nwhen so delivered, and the treasurer shall notify the clerk of the township or recorder or clerk of the city issuing the same of the date of the delivery of its bonds to such railroad company. . . . And in case any bond so delivered to said treasurer by any such township or city shall not, within three years from the time when the same were received by him, be demanded in compliance with the terms of this act, the same shall be cancelled by said treasurer, and returned to the proper officers of the township or city issuing the same.\"\nLaws Mich. 1869, p. 91.\nA critical analysis of this statute indicates this to have been the plan: in the preparation and perfecting of the plan persons described by certain official titles, and probably selected because of their titles, were to participate.\n(1) The bonds were to be \"executed\" -- that is to say, written or printed, signed and sealed by the supervisor and clerk of the township. Here, the powers of those persons ceased. They could not perfect the instruments by delivery. The word \"executed,\" used in the statute in connection with the acts mentioned, manifestly does not import the final delivery, for that is expressly directed to be done by the treasurer. Such delivery as they could make was clearly not the technical delivery needed to complete the bonds as negotiable instruments, because the power to hand over to the payee was not conceded to them in any event. The delivery which they were directed to make to the treasurer in his capacity of statutory trustee was only such as amounted to a \"giving up\" or the \"committing\" of them to the treasurer for his safekeeping. The word was used in its ordinary and popular sense, not in the technical one.\n(2) To the governor, and the governor alone, was given the power to determine whether the bonds should ever in fact issue, and, if issued, when they should issue. For to him was committed the decision of the important question whether the railroad had performed its part of the common undertaking. His certificate was to be the evidence of that fact, and the only admissible authentication of it to the trustee, the depositary. So far as the investigation and determination of that question were concerned, and the certifying of it, the governor was to chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\ndischarge that function in the process of issuing the bonds which was imposed on the auditor in the case of Anthony v. County of Jasper, supra, the difference being that in that case, the certificate was to be endorsed on the bonds themselves, but not so in this case.\nThe state treasurer was appointed to be a trustee for both the township and company, to receive the bonds, to register them, and to finish their clerical execution, using the word in its popular sense, by his endorsements on them of the date of delivery, and of the person to whom delivered. Such endorsements are clearly a part of the very form of the completed bond, as laid down in the Jasper County case, supra. He was also to cancel them and to return them so cancelled to the township authorities if not demanded in three years, and, finally, if demanded in compliance with the terms of the act within the three years, to complete their execution (using the word in its technical sense) by delivering them. Such, as we understand it, was the intention of the legislature. If it be said that such details are useless and technical, a sufficient answer is so the statute is written, and the courts cannot unmake or modify it. As already shown, the legislature in this class of cases has the right to provide the processes by which the contract is to be perfected. Moreover, we do not think these details are either useless or technical. When it is remembered that the whole policy of allowing contracts of this class has been deprecated by some of the oldest publicists and jurists, and that the negotiable form of such bonds has often led to the imposing of great burdens on municipalities for which there has been no return, we are not disposed to criticize the care of a legislature to establish a system of even rather severe checks as a condition to its concession of such extraordinary powers.\nThe appellant claims that the bonds were perfected instruments when delivered to the state treasurer; that the ministerial duties had been performed in full. The argument proceeds largely upon the idea that, as to this transaction, the township and its agents, the supervisor and clerk, were a complete and rounded organism, distinct from the state treasurer, chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nand capable of dealing with the treasurer as if he were a third party -- in making delivery to him, for instance. We do not so regard it. All the steps directed by the statute to be taken leading up to the final act of delivery to the railroad company constitute one progressive process. To adopt the language of the court in the McGarrahan case, supra, \"each and every one of the integral parts of the execution is essential to the validity of the bond.\"\nWe hold, therefore, that since the bonds were never endorsed and delivered by the treasurer, as required by the statute, they never became operative. The act of delivery is essential to the existence of any deed, bond, or note. Although drawn and signed, so long as it is undelivered, it is a nullity; not only does it take effect only by deliver, but also only on delivery. Bayley v. Taber, 5 Mass. 285; Marvin v. McCullum, 20 Johns. 288; Ward v. Churn, 18 Grattan 801; Lovejoy v. Whipple, 18 Vt. 379.\nThe appellant, however, contends that these bonds were, in effect, delivered; that\n\"by the delivery to the treasurer and by the performance of the conditions the title to the bonds vested in the company, the state treasurer holding them as trustee for the township and for the railroad company.\"\nWe cannot concur in this view. The law in reference to escrows seems to be involved in some uncertainty. What the effect is of a performance of the conditions by the grantee, the instrument remaining in the hands of the depositary -- whether, in such case, the second delivery by the depositary is or is not necessary to gave effect to the deed -- are questions about which the courts yet differ. But concede the appellant's position to be correct as a general rule, yet that general rule does not necessarily control this case. These are extraordinary instruments, and certain fundamental questions of power to contract and of details of execution underlie any action brought upon them, which render the usual rules in regard to escrows very unsafe guides. Too much stress cannot be laid on the necessity for consulting the statute. Even in the case of an ordinary escrow, nothing passes by the deed until the condition is performed. Calhoun County v. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nAmerican Emigrant Co., 93 U. S. 124. Here, the condition prescribed by the statute as that upon which the delivery was to be made to the railroad company, and on which the bonds were to be perfected instruments in its hands, was never performed. On this point, the statute seems to be very simple and clear. Indeed, it would be difficult to make it more clear. By its very terms, the bonds received by him in their uncompleted condition were to be by the state treasurer \"safely kept,\" and for three years after their reception could only be parted with by him in one way -- that is, to the railroad company interested, on its production of the governor's certificate. On that condition could they be delivered, not on any other. The certificate was not a mere formal act on the part of the governor, but was a condition precedent to the power of the treasurer to deliver. The statute is not only emphatic on this point, but also repetitious in its emphasis. Section 5 says the bonds are \"to be disposed of by said treasurer in discharge of his trust, as hereinafter provided,\" and § 6 provides that\n\"such bonds shall be safely kept by said treasurer for the benefit of the parties interested, and be disposed of by him in the following manner -- that is to say, whenever any railroad company . . . shall present to said treasurer a certificate from the governor,\"\netc.; also that\n\"in case any bond so delivered to said treasurer . . . shall not within three years . . . be demanded in compliance with the terms of this act, the same shall be cancelled by said treasurer,\"\netc. The certificate was designed to be the treasurer's sole authority to deliver. The question whether the railroad company had \"in all respects complied with the provisions of this act\" was one that he could not inquire into except by consulting the governor's certificate. This was his only and conclusive evidence, by the very terms of the statute. The company's compliance with the provisions of the act gave it the right to receive the governor's certificate, but it did not confer the right to receive the bonds. That was given by the governor's certificate alone. Had the treasurer made delivery without the certificate, he would have acted without authority of law, and the bonds would have been voidable in the hands of the company. Anthony chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\nv. County of Jasper, supra. These requirements are not novel. They are matters of administrative detail fixed by the statute. We cannot declare them to be merely directory or annul them by construction. It does not matter, so far as the question of the statutory power of the treasurer is concerned, that the failure of the company to produce the certificate might not be because of any fault in the company. The failure might be due to the governor's mistaken view of the law, or to his misconception of the facts, or even to his willful refusal to discharge his official duty -- all is immaterial to this aspect of the statutory scheme. A miscarriage in this particular was one of the risks taken by the company. The company knew the statute, was held by the law to know and understand it. It contracted with the township through the statute, and could so contract with it in no other way. Availing itself of the statute, it must take it cum onere. If the governor failed to give the certificate when he should, and could not be reached by a mandamus, those were but features of the company's risk.\nThere is another provision of the statute in question which supports the foregoing views. It is the direction that when the treasurer should make the delivery to the company, he should cut the overdue coupons from the bonds and cancel them, and that he should at the same time endorse the bonds with the date of that delivery, from which date the bonds should bear interest. Had the legislature inserted in the statute a declaration, in set and formal phrase, that it should be the issue of the bonds on the governor's certificate, and not the completion by the railroad company of the portion of its contract, that should perfect the bonds and give them effect, such declaration would not in any degree be clearer than this provision. Lovejoy v. Whipple, supra. It is to be observed that no question arises in this case of a bona fide purchaser of bonds improperly issued. The appellant stands exactly in the shoes of the railroad company, and his rights are no greater. Smith v. Bourbon County, 127 U. S. 105.\nHolding these views, it is unnecessary to pursue this discussion further. Whether the railroad acquired a cause of action against the township by the failure to deliver the bonds, or by chanroblesvirtualawlibrary\ntheir cancellation prior to the lapse of the three years fixed by the statute, on the one hand, or the whole project was a mere fiasco, on the other, and if such cause of action arose, what was its precise nature and form, are matters rather of curious speculation than of practical consequence. If no real cause of action arose, that is the end of the matter. If it did arise, then its form and nature are immaterial, since all forms are barred alike, being actionable as of the then date. It is not even suggested that any other method exists by which to escape the bar save the one considered and herein before rejected. We consider the question of the constitutionality of the act of 1869, herein mooted again, to be fully settled by the case of Taylor v. Ypsilanti, 105 U. S. 60, but this case is decided on other grounds, and it is unnecessary to dwell on that question.\nIt is further claimed by the appellant that the bonds in question were invested by the statute with the character of trust property, and that therefore they can be followed into any hands to which they may be traceable, and that that right is not subject to the limitation prescribed for a conversion. To this view there are two answers: first, the fact that the bonds were never perfected instruments, as already decided, and, while the treasurer returned them cancelled a few weeks prior to the lapse of the three years fixed by the statute, that error became immaterial from this point of view so soon as the three years did expire; secondly, the laches of the railroad company in pressing what claim it may have had. New Albany v. Burke, 11 Wall. 96.\nWe apply the doctrine of laches to this case with the less reluctance because, after all, we see but little of substantial merit in the bill. The scheme contemplated was a loan, not a donation. A loan on rather indifferent security, perhaps, but a loan nevertheless. While, therefore, it is possible that a loan may be so proposed and accepted as to give to the intended borrower a cause of action for any failure to perform the agreement, and a right to recover damages at law, yet on a bill in the nature either of a bill for specific performance or for an equitable garnishment, the court may well inquire where is the substantial equity in the case.\nThe decree of the circuit court is","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1184952"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9835302233695984,"wiki_prob":0.9835302233695984,"text":"Premier League Video\nJose Mourinho: Former Manchester United and Chelsea manager outlines plan for next job and admits World Cup attraction\nJack Rathborn\nThe Independent June 19, 2019, 9:43 AM UTC\nJose Mourinho would like to manage at international level as hopes of finding a new club before the start of next season fade.\nThe Portuguese has been assessing his options, having previously outlined his intent to find a club by the end of June.\nBut he is now intrigued by the possibility of his next job taking him to a World Cup or European Championship.\n\"I want to compete in new competitions,\" the 56-year-old told Eleven Sports. \"I think about the World Cup and the European Championships.\n\"For a long time I have had the desire to try out such an adventure. Right now, I see myself more at a national team than with a new club. Is Portugal the right team for me? Not necessarily.\nMourinho has been working as a pundit for beIN SPORTS, and featured alongside Arsene Wenger for the Champions League final.\nThe 56-year-old appears to have shifted his philosophy somewhat to, outlining his ambition to be happy, rather than striving to just win, with a long-term project \"to create conditions to win\" also appealing to him.\nJose Mourinho has featured as a pundit since being sacked by United (beIN SPORTS )\n\"Winning a fifth championship in a different country or the Champions League with a third club are things I'd like to do,\" he added.\n\"I wouldn't do it just for that. I only go where a project convinces me.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1265270"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8198348879814148,"wiki_prob":0.8198348879814148,"text":"Little, Brown and Company to Publish Katie Couric’s Long-Awaited Memoir, UNEXPECTED\nNew York, NY—February 12, 2019\nReagan Arthur, publisher of Little, Brown and Company, announced today the acquisition of Unexpected, a memoir from Katie Couric, one of the most celebrated and beloved journalists of our time. Judy Clain, Editor-in-Chief at Little, Brown and Company, acquired North America rights from Suzanne Gluck of William Morris Endeavor; publication is slated for spring 2021.\nKatie Couric said, “I’ve been privileged to lead an extraordinary life, one that I never anticipated. I’ve experienced so much, both professionally and personally, but have never really had an opportunity to reveal what was going on behind the scenes. I’m excited to share what it was like being at the center of so many historic events and game-changing stories. I’m also ready to talk about the fascinating and sometimes challenging people with whom I’ve worked, the radical transformation of my industry, and the heartbreaking losses I’ve endured. It feels like now is the right time to look back, reflect, and consider what I’ve learned and how those lessons might help others.”\nJudy Clain said, “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Katie Couric. What a perfect moment for a transparent memoir about a career in journalism from one of the most respected and recognized women in media today. Staying in the game is not a given, but Katie has evolved along with a changing media landscape and continued to contribute to the national conversation by consistently producing high-quality work that reflects her humanity and heart. She will write with her trademark humor and candor about her journey, which continues.”\nFor much of her 40-year career, Katie Couric has been the subject of endless fascination—her face on the cover of countless magazines, her career dissected in unauthorized biographies, her love life picked apart in supermarket tabloids. Now, with Unexpected, she’s ready to tell her own story, in her own words, her way.\nCouric will look back on her extraordinary career—a journey that led her to the very top of an intensely competitive, male-dominated industry. She will share the often hilarious, sometimes humiliating details of breaking into the business at ABC, where her principal duties included making coffee and fetching ham sandwiches for newsroom honchos like Frank Reynolds and Sam Donaldson, before moving on to CNN, where the then network president declared he “never wanted to see that girl on the air again.” She will reveal her proto-#MeToo brushes with workplace sexism, like the time a high-ranking executive commented on her breast size in front of the top brass during an editorial meeting; her scathing memo in response demonstrates the grit that would make Couric a singular force. She’ll recount the story of her dizzying rise to co-anchor of The Today Show at the age of 34—achieved while navigating a long-distance marriage and an unexpected pregnancy—as well as her early powerhouse partnership with 26-year-old boy wonder producer Jeff Zucker, today the president of CNN Worldwide. During her fifteen-year run, Couric helped catapult Today to number one and was a steady, trusted presence through some of the most turbulent moments in recent times, from the Gulf War to Columbine to 9/11 and beyond. Although her quick wit and girl-next-door charm would earn her the moniker “America’s Sweetheart,” at her core she was fiercely competitive—determined to transform morning television and set the agenda for the day.\nIn Unexpected, Couric won’t shy away from the enormous challenges she has faced: her battle with bulimia; the harrowing death of her husband, Jay Monahan, from colon cancer when he was just 42; losing her beloved and accomplished older sister, Emily, who many believed was on track to become the first female governor of Virginia, to pancreatic cancer four years later. She will also talk candidly about her occasionally crippling, lifelong feelings of insecurity, and the challenge so many women in power face: balancing being strong with the nagging need to be liked. In these pages she will spill the intriguing, little-known details of being wooed by Les Moonves to leave The Today Show and anchor CBS Evening News, and the less than warm welcome she received upon her arrival from some of her colleagues at the “Tiffany Network.” Couric will reveal the unapologetic Mad Men culture, ubiquitous in many news organizations, that led to revelations about some of the biggest names in the business, including her longtime co-anchor and friend Matt Lauer. And she’ll describe her failed efforts to follow in Oprah’s footsteps when she jumped into the treacherous waters of daytime syndication (Katie), and her misadventures as Yahoo global news anchor during CEO Marissa Mayer’s rocky tenure.\nThrough it all, Couric’s unparalleled skills as an interviewer never faltered, resulting in some of the most memorable moments in American journalism: grilling President George H. W. Bush about Iran-Contra when he unexpectedly showed up during Couric’s White House visit with his wife, Barbara; facilitating an unforgettable display of shared grief between two stricken relatives the morning after Columbine; infuriating President George W. Bush by asking his wife, Laura, her views on Roe v. Wade; ruffling the feathers of an unflappable Colin Powell by pressing him on WMDs; comforting Robert De Niro when he broke down in tears during a conversation about Silver Linings Playbook; and quite possibly changing the course of history when she interviewed vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, exposing the Alaska governor’s ignorance of public policy. Booking such big interviews is a story unto itself, and Couric will recount the often ridiculous behind-the-scenes machinations that went into scoring the many big “gets” throughout her career.\nBehind the ambition and the countless successes, Couric is first and foremost a woman who did her best to weather personal hardship, and as a single mom raise two happy, grounded, independent young women against the disorienting backdrop of fame and privilege. She’ll also share how she finally—despite many false starts—found love after loss with her current husband, John Molner, as well as the health scare that made them wonder if their wedding would even happen. Now, notwithstanding the countless achievements, accolades and awards, Couric’s proudest accomplishments are her family and her tireless work on behalf of cancer patients everywhere. Sixty-two years in the making, Unexpected will be the inspiring, instructive, entertaining account of someone we all feel we know. And in some ways we do—but, as Unexpected will reveal, we don’t even know the half of it.\nAbout Little, Brown and Company:\nLittle, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown has long been recognized as a publisher committed to publishing fiction of the highest quality and nonfiction of lasting significance. Hachette Book Group is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. For more information, visit hachettebookgroup.com.\nlittlebrown.com\nFollow Little, Brown on Facebook: facebook.com/littlebrownandcompany\nAnd on Twitter: @littlebrown","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line99169"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5751645565032959,"wiki_prob":0.4248354434967041,"text":"Disney Vacation Club Member\nSpecials: Discounted DVC Points & Confirmed Reservations will save you hundreds or thousand of dollars over booking through Disney.\nAs part of your Disney Vacation Club Member benefits, be among the first to register for Star Wars Rival Run Weekend presented by OtterBox and the Star Wars.\nDiscover Disney Vacation Club, a vacation ownership program or timeshare that can be a more cost-effective way of taking Disney vacations. Members can enjoy access to Disney Vacation Club Resorts like Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge and Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort.\nIf you're interested in purchasing Disney Vacation Club membership, Fidelity offers a variety of useful services and programs including vacation club financing,\nDisney Vacation Club. Disney Vacation Club (DVC) is a timeshare program operated by Disney. The program currently operates 14 resorts: ten DVC resorts at Walt Disney World and one DVC resort at Disneyland in California, as well as one resort each in Oahu, Hawaii, Vero Beach, Florida and Hilton Head, South Carolina. This page is primarily focused on evaluating the Disney Vacation Club for.\nDeciding to join the Disney Vacation Club is a big decision. We all went through it, and we had a thousand questions in the process. One of our goals is to try and answer as many questions as possible. The DVC forum on DISboards is also a great source of information. What are the benefits of.\nAt our domestic operations, operating income was 6% below prior year due to lower results at Walt Disney World, which were adversely impacted by Hurricane Irma, partially offset by growth at Disney Cr.\nSee what employees say it's like to work at Disney Vacation Club. Salaries, reviews, and more. Type Company – Private. Industry Membership Organizations.\nJan 8, 2013. 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You can rent DVC points for stays on property at Disney World in a Disney Vacation Club Resort.\nMar 7, 2008. Answer 1 of 16: I am toying with the idea of bankrupting myself with a DVC purchase. I know the prices must vary according to time of year and.\nThe Victoria Hotel Annandale\nHotel Green Plaza Joetsu","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line830027"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9508233666419983,"wiki_prob":0.9508233666419983,"text":"David Becker\n@DavidBe38674958\nInternational Sports Lawyer\nDavid Becker is an international sports lawyer and former General Counsel for the International Cricket Council. David has advised a range of leading businesses, governing bodies and athletes in his career, such as NIKE, Vodafone, the International Rugby Board, England & Wales Cricket Board, Paralympic World Cup, Clipper Round the World Yacht Race and Royal Thames Yacht Club. David has written chapters in the first edition of \"Sport: Law and Practice\" by Taylor and Lewis and recently published the first book dedicated to the legal aspects of event management, entitled \"The Essential Legal Guide to Events\".\nHe has advised on a number of high profile sponsorship deals, including Vodafone’s sponsorship of Ferrari and Michael Schumacher, Vodafone’s sponsorship of David Beckham, NIKE's multi-million pound sponsorship agreement with the RFU, (including the Rugby World Cup-winning England Rugby team) and Reliance’s US$102 million sponsorship of the International Cricket Council. Born and educated in Cape Town, David has also advised several leading South African sportsmen, including Ernie Els, Lucas Radebe, Charl Schwartzel, Louis Oosthuizen, Mark Fish, Shaun Bartlett, Benni McCarthy, Aaron Mokoena and Steven Pienaar. He has appeared on BBC News 24, BBC World, Radio Five Live and BBC Prime Time News on regular occasions advising on various high profile matters ranging from the Sven-Goran Erikkson affair to drug scandals involving Rio Ferdinand, Dwain Chambers, the Russian Football team, and Greg Rusedski.\nA keen sportsman, David represented Western Province at squash and has completed 27 marathons, including the 7-day Sahara Ultramarathon. He is a co-founder of the South African-based charity Starfish and is a trustee of the international charity Beyond Sport","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line56490"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7811276912689209,"wiki_prob":0.7811276912689209,"text":"Callers Claiming to be Prize Patrol on The Prowl in Plano\nBy Wayne Carter\nPublished May 19, 2017 at 9:56 PM | Updated at 10:48 PM CDT on May 19, 2017\n//www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Callers-Claiming-to-be-Prize-Patrol-on-The-Prowl-in-Plano_Dallas-Fort-Worth-423268494.html\nThe Prize Patrol is apparently making it's way through Plano but it's not who you think. These guys are apparently pretending to be the Publishers Clearing House and their goal is to take money, not give it. (Published Friday, May 19, 2017)\nDonna Matthews knows the real prize patrol. She's a sweepstakes regular. She picks the magazines, and places the stamps.\nBut when someone called claiming she won, she wasn't buying it.\n\"First of all that's now how they're supposed to contact me,\" says Matthews.\nShe listened anyway, after all, she's been attaching those little stamps for years.\nDallas Artist Merging Old School Art With New Technology\nThey claimed there were processing fees that had to be applied before they could process the winning check.\nThey told her to go into WalMart and send them $155.\nShe didn't do that. But as luck would have it, the phone rang again, only this time it was her mother Billie Bost. They told her that she won $600,000 and sent her a check that needed to be deposited before her winnings would be released.\nNew MD School in Fort Worth Welcomes Inaugural Class\n\"He said well as soon as you deposit, you call me,\" said Bost.\nNBC 5 Responds was there as she called them back, but we took over the phone.\nThe man on the other end of the line hung up. So we called Donna's prize winner. We identified ourselves as NBC 5 Responds and that didn't go so well.\nHow Amazon Handles Prime Day Shipping Rush\nThe more we questioned, the more he upped the money she had to pay, all the way to $950. They said she even needed to take out an insurance policy with Geico on the prize winnings for even more money. Eventually, he hung up.\nTwo different men, two different numbers preying on this North Texas mother and daughter who are fans of the real Publishers Clearing House.\nWe should mention the real Publishers Clearing House posts right on it's website to watch out for these guys.\nMemorial Service Planned for H. Ross Perot Later This Week\nEven our prize winning experts admits these men were hard to ignore.\n\"This is what the public needs to be aware of... they know how to hit that core desire of what you dream about, of what you wish you did have...\" said Matthews.\nPolice couldn't help because no money was exchanged. Even after it is, it's next to impossible to get any back. Don't let them get into your head. Never pay, and never cash a check sent to you out of the blue.\nUPDATED: DPD Investigating Officer Involved Shooting","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line177344"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5566856265068054,"wiki_prob":0.5566856265068054,"text":"Toyota – World’s Greenest Brand\nBy Arman Barari on Jul 29, 2011 with Comments 0\nAlthough there are now diesels out there more economical than the Prius, but Toyota gets the credit as the company that started this whole green movement by mass producing hybrid. And according to a a new global survey from the international brand consultancy Interbrand, they’ve been named the world’s greenest brand.\nThe first Best Global Green Brands, published this week, takes into account environmental performance coupled with public perception of a brand’s environmental sustainability – its “green profile” – to produce a Green Performance Score.\nOf course it’s not just the Prius, as Toyota now makes a range of hybrid vehicles in each segment and is working on many EVs as well.\nToyota press release:\nBased on data collected from the world’s leading markets, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan, Brazil and India, the report gives Toyota a top score of 64.19 points, ahead of 3M in second place.\nThe Interbrand report says that Toyota is “a leading example of making the environment a core management priority, while also engaging in a meaningful way with audiences around the world”.\nToyota’s market-leading development of full hybrid technology is a key contributor to Toyota’s strong green performance, according to the report, notably with Prius – now in its third generation. Since 1997, Toyota and Lexus have amassed more than 3.2 million hybrid vehicle sales worldwide*.\nToyota’s long-term, well-to-wheel approach towards sustainable operations is reflected in recent initiatives in the UK. The publishing of the report coincides with the official switch-on of a large-scale solar power system at the company’s car plant in Burnaston, Derbyshire, a facility that already enjoys special status as one of Toyota’s global “eco-plants”, leading the way in cleaner and more efficient manufacturing and operations.\nBurnaston is also a standard-bearer in Europe for hybrid vehicle production, as the manufacturing centre for the full hybrid Auris hatchback.\nElsewhere in Europe, Toyota has recently installed a solar wall at its factory in Valenciennes, France, and it plans to install wind turbines at its vehicle logistics centre in Zeebrugge, Belgium.\nThe “Best Global Green Brands” report’s measurement methodology was developed by Interbrand together with Deloitte, with the Green Performance Score designed to be applicable across differing industries. While compiling the report, Interbrand also interviewed some 10,000 consumers across 10 of the world’s largest markets to gauge consumer perceptions of a brand’s green performance. Performance data were sourced from publicly available information as well as data from Thomson Reuter’s ASSET4.\nToyota Hybrid Sales Top 4 Million\nToyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid Fuel Economy\nToyota Big Solar On Stream In UK\nPrius Plug-In For Prince Albert\nToyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line906655"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8684942722320557,"wiki_prob":0.8684942722320557,"text":"The actor who played the September 11 terrorist 'Saeed Alghamdi' presumably died in Pennsylvania when Flight 93 crashed there. He was one of the first group of terrorists to be linked to bin Laden. He had an interesting life:\nThe original, and to my mind still the best, Saeed Alghamdi grew up in Saudi Arabia with his boyhood friends, brothers Wael and Waleed Alshehri, two boys who would also grow up to be terrorists. He went on to train as a pilot. He is still very much alive, and works for Tunis Air. Obviously, at some point his identity was stolen. It is very interesting to note, to quote the Telegraph article, that:\n\"The FBI had published his personal details but with a photograph of somebody else, presumably a hijacker who had 'stolen' his identity. CNN, however, showed a picture of the real Mr Al-Ghamdi.\"\nIt makes you really wonder how this type of confusion could have occurred, but the fact there are two photos clearly proves that identity theft had occurred. Alghamdi thinks that \"CNN had probably got the picture from the Flight Safety flying school he attended in Florida.\" He had studied in Florida from 1998 to 1999 and then returned home and worked for Saudi Arabian Airlines. In August 2000, he returned to the U.S. for further training. The striking thing, and something that is of the utmost importance in our understanding what is going on here, is that he grew up with two boys whose identities were also stolen, and at least one of them, Waleed Alshehri, also became a pilot and is also still alive. In other words, the intelligence agency who stole the identities knew enough to steal identities from people who grew up together in Saudi Arabia, and later went on to train as pilots, taking some training in the United States. This would be excellent evidence that the hijackers were the original Saeed and Waleed, except we know both of these people are still alive. I have to tip my hat to whoever created these identities, as they knew enough to pick exactly the right identities to steal, and had to have unbelievable Saudi intelligence sources to do this. These people are good at what they do.\nThe most intriguing Saeed Alghamdi may have been a student at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. This is a U. S. government school used to train the military in languages. It used to be called the Monterey Language School, and it is possible but a matter of some debate that no less than Lee Harvey Oswald attended there (we can't be sure as Oswald's military records were 'lost'). My guess is that the actor who played Saeed Alghamdi went to this school as part of his usual military training. As foreign students of countries who were allies of the United States could be invited to go there, it may have even been intended to leave the option open to depict Alghamdi as working for some Middle Eastern country if they needed an excuse to blame some government there. The most telling thing about the school is that the fellow who recently made the headlines for daring to criticize Bush for 9-11 was vice chancellor for student affairs there. In other words, this isn't just some guy in the military with an opinion, this is a guy with special knowledge about people like Saeed Alghamdi. If he wondered publicly about Bush's role in 9-11, we have to take his words very seriously.\nSomeone called Saeed Alghamdi was living in Patterson, New Jersey in the apartment of Hani Hanjour.\nIn 1992 (probably too early for the real Alghamdi), someone named Saeed Alghamdi used the Social Security number of a Vermont woman who had been dead for almost 30 years.\nA Saeed Alghamdi lived in the Delray Beach, Florida area with Ahmed Alnami and Hamza Alghamdi (on one account from late 1992 on, although it is impossible or very unlikely that the real Saeed Alghamdi could have lived there that far back as he is too young). In an amazing coincidence, the wife of the editor of the Sun tabloid, where one employee died from anthrax, found the apartment for Saeed Alghamdi and Marwan Al-Shehhi ( but note that another report says the apartment was found for Marwan Al-Shehhi and Hamza Alghamdi).\nSaeed Alghamdi lived in December 1996 in Chino Hills in Orange County, California.\nSaeed Alghamdi may have trained at a school operated by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (this may very well be the real Saeed Alghamdi as we know he took training in the United States).\nSaeed Alghamdi lived in San Antonio, Texas, and, ever the linguist, may have graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base.\nSaeed Alghamdi lived from 1988 to 1991 in Florham Park, New Jersey. At that time, he had a wife and children, and was working for a pharmaceutical company. When he left the apartment, he told his landlord he'd been transferred to the midwest. This could not be the real Saeed Alghamdi, who is just 26 or 27 years old and is an airline pilot.\nSaeed Alghamdi lived in Pensacola, Florida and listed his address as 10 Radford Blvd. on Pensacola NAS, a base road on which residences for foreign- military flight trainees are located. (The Pensacola News Journal article states that the Naval Education and Training Security Assistance Field Activity, which administers training of foreign aviation students for the Navy, is headquartered in Pensacola and that fifteen percent of aviation students on any given day are foreign nationals.) Saeed Alghamdi and fellow terrorist Ahmed Alghamdi are listed as living in housing for foreign military trainees at Pensacola Naval Air Station. Saeed Alghamdi, Ahmad Alnami and Ahmed Alghamdi all may have trained in Pensacola. While any one terrorist's name associated with an institution may be a coincidence and refer to another man, can three terrorist's names training at the same U. S. military training center be a coincidence?\nSaeed Alghamdi in fact may have lived at two addresses near Pensacola Regional Airport, one a few miles north of the airport and another a few hundred feet away.\nSaeed Alghamdi was associated with suspected terrorist Raed Hijazi, a former Boston cab driver convicted in Jordan for a plot to kill Americans and other tourists in Jordan on Jan. 1, 2000 (Hijazi may also have been in charge of training the terrorists responsible for the attack on the USS Cole). Saeed Alghamdi may have lived in the Boston area.\nSaeed Alghamdi lived in Vero Beach, Florida.\nSaeed Alghamdi worked at Tyndall Air Force Base near Tallahassee, Fla.\nSaeed Alghamdi may have travelled to the Philippines, presumably to meet with other terrorists there.\nAlthough it is somewhat amazing, it appears that the identities of Saeed Alghamdi and Waleed Alshehri were stolen because they grew up together in Saudi Arabia and both became pilots. The real Saeed Alghamdi claims that his photo must have been stolen when he was in the United States on flight training. However, someone was possibly using his identity well before he ever entered the United States. In any event, a whole troop of actors may be playing the role of 'Saeed Alghamdi', in various places and at various times. Some of these were probably just people with the same name, but we can be sure that many of them can be tied to the terrorist, especially where more than one terrorist name is associated with the same place. A composite identity seems to have been built on the original stolen identity, with the identity filled out by attending military language school, taking flight training in the United States, and hanging out with members of the known September 11 terrorist group. The actor also made contact with other suspected terrorists (Nabil al-Marabh and Raed Hijazi). The actor who played Saeed Alghamdi is particularly suspicious for three reasons:\nthe fact that his identity was stolen to work in tandem with the stolen identity of Waleed Alshehri;\nthe fact that he may have attended U. S. military language school, and the fact that the head of the school in Monterey got in trouble for criticizing Bush; and\nthe sheer number of places he lived in and people he made contact with.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1484342"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5731174349784851,"wiki_prob":0.4268825650215149,"text":"Improved results for the fifth year in a row\nSome of the top performing Lismore Comprehensive School GCSE pupils following the release of results last Thursday. Also included are staff from left, Rosemary Lavery, vice principal, Fiona Kane, principal, and Shauna Lennon, vice principal. INLM34-202.\nLismore Comprehensive is celebrating fantastic GCSE results as 83% of students have achieved five or more GCSE passes at Grades A*-C this year - the highest achieved in Lismore in recent memory.\nIndeed the all-ability, non-selective school has maintained an upward trend for the fifth year in a row.\nThe results have shown an increase of over 16% on last year in this important category of pupils achieving at least five GCSE grades A*-C.\nHard work pays off!\nMrs Fiona Kane, Principal, said: “At Lismore, we very much view ourselves as a community and an extension of our pupils own families and parish.\n“We are truly blessed with the high quality of our local primary school partners and the excellent education our pupils received before joining Lismore.\n“Those excellent foundations set down in primary school have enabled us to build on solid ground. So we feel these fantastic results at GCSE are as much to be celebrated by our partner primary schools and we thank them for their on-going support and contribution.\n“We also wish to thank our Year 12 parents who have supported us particularly well over the last year in challenging our pupils to aim high and commit to giving their best to their studies.\n“On behalf of the Board of Governors, I wish to acknowledge the hard work, dedication, commitment and drive of our teaching staff and our support staff.\n“As Principal, I could not ask for a better staff, who work tirelessly often above and beyond the commitments of the school day to support and assist our pupils to help them reach their potential.\n“The buzz in our school on results day where staff return early from their holidays to be present to celebrate with and support our students in their next important decisions is testament to their commitment and service to the pupils of Lismore. I wish to thank each and every one of them.\n“Exciting times now lie ahead for our students as they choose their Level 3 subjects and I look forward to welcoming them back into Sixth Form to begin the next important step in their educational journey.”\nTop performances include: Clare McCorry, 5A*, 4A, 2B; Tiago Realinho, 1A*, 5A, 4B, 1C; Leo Mulholland, 4A*, 4A, 2B; Ellen O’Hara, 2A*, 6A, 1B, 1C; Nevin Donnelly, 1A*, 6A, 3B; Miollan Lavery, 8A, 2B\nJakub Czerny, 2A, 7B, 2C; Ruairi Heaney, 1A*, 5A, 4B; Gavin McCann, 1A*, 4A, 5B; Ruairi McParland, 1A*, 5A, 3B, 1C; Odhran O’Neill, 7A, 2B, 1C; Oisin O’Dowd, 5A, 5B; Abbie McKey, 5A, 4B, 1C; Amy Carson, 3A, 7B; Adam Henderson, 3A, 7B; Nathan Massey, 3A, 7B.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line828309"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6162096858024597,"wiki_prob":0.3837903141975403,"text":"It's a happy morning on a happy campus!\nPlaying in the national championship game, as the Butler Bulldogs will be doing tonight, tends to make people happy. I put myself in that category. As a former college basketball player, I certainly never made it to the \"big game\" so \"getting there\" as a faculty member of a participating school ... well, let's just say it puts an extra spring in my step.\nSo, it's with much institutional pride that I say \"Go Butler.\"\nLet's stick with the theme, but return \"on topic.\"\nFrom time to time, the DOJ comments that some voluntary disclosure cases never lead to an actual enforcement action. Analyzing the extent to which this may or may not be true is difficult, particularly as to non-public companies.\nNevertheless, a recent \"no action\" disclosure caught my eye.\nIt involves Global Industries Ltd., a publicly-traded provider of \"offshore construction, engineering, project management and support services...\" (see here).\n\"In June 2007, the Company announced that it was conducting an internal investigation of its West Africa operations, focusing on the legality, under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and local laws, of one of its subsidiary’s reimbursement of certain expenses incurred by a customs agent in connection with shipments of materials and the temporary importation of vessels into West African waters.\" (see here). As noted in this linked filing, the Global Industries investigation was not a pure voluntary disclosure in that the investigation was motivated, at least in part, on \"the settlement of the FCPA proceedings involving certain Vetco Gray entities\" and the fact that \"Company’s management and the Audit Committee were aware of press releases by three other companies disclosing that they are conducting internal investigations into the FCPA implications of certain actions by a customs agent in connection with the temporary importation of their vessels into Nigeria.\" As noted in the filing, against this backdrop, the \"Company’s management considered it prudent to review the Company’s operations since it uses customs agents and the Company’s vessels that have operated in Nigeria do so under temporary importation permits.\"\nFast forward to February 2010 when the company disclosed in this press release as follows:\n\"We are pleased to also announce that our and the Government’s investigation of our activities in West Africa have concluded without any fines or penalties being imposed upon the Company. Both the DOJ and SEC have concluded their investigations and are not recommending any enforcement actions against the Company.\"\nIn other words, a happy ending to an FCPA investigation and disclosure.\nMike Osajda April 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM\nCould this be a case that because the company had a compliance program in place that fit the Sentencing Guidelines, DOJ decided not to proceed? If so, it would be another reason for all entities doing business overseas to review their programs to detemine if they follow the Guidelines.\nMike Koehler April 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM\nThanks for your comment. While possible, my guess is that is not the case. As noted in the post, this was not a pure (or traditional) voluntary disclosure.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1302419"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5319831371307373,"wiki_prob":0.4680168628692627,"text":"Sponsor a child in India\nOur children's charity in India since 1963\nSOS Children's Villages has been present in India since 1964 and has continued to grow ever since. In times of emergency, our organisation has responded with emergency relief programmes. In many cases, these developed into permanent programmes which offered support to the local people. At present SOS Children's Villages supports children, young people and families throughout India.\nA country with much diversity\nSOS Children's Villages supports children so that they can look forward to a better future. (photo: C. Ashleigh)\nThe Republic of India is the seventh largest country in the world and the second most populous country; the population is over 1.2 billion (July 2011 est.), with the capital city of New Delhi being home to 21.7 million people. India is a vast and diverse country with many different languages, cultures and religions.\nA growing economy that still faces many challenges\nIn recent decades, India has emerged as an increasingly important economic power. Since economic liberalisation started in the 1990s, India's achievements have been astonishing - since 1997, the average growth in gross domestic product (GDP) has been over seven per cent. In 2010, GDP grew further - by over ten per cent. India has a mixed economy - more than half of the population works in agriculture, around 14 per cent in industry and 34 per cent in the service sector.\nDuring the past decade, India has managed to double its hourly wage rate and the number of people who now live above the nationally-defined poverty line has increased. However the benefits from this economic growth have not been shared by all: one in four people continue to live in poverty.\nPoverty is located in many areas of India, but it is mostly manifest in rural areas or in urban slums. Rural areas also suffer from poor infrastructure - for example, only 84 per cent of the population has access to clean drinking water and a mere 21 per cent to adequate sanitation facilities. Although around 70 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, the number of people forced to seek work in urban areas is increasing rapidly.\nIn addition to poverty, India continues to face many challenges, which include overpopulation, environmental problems and widespread corruption. The literacy rate continues to be low - around 73 per cent for men and about 48 per cent for women. The access to quality health care is also a concern. At present the life expectancy rate is relatively low at 65.7 years for men and 67.9 years for women. It is estimated that 2.4 million people live with HIV/AIDS (2009 est.).\nChildren are in need of better education and healthcare\nChildren can enjoy a safe and healthy life in the care of SOS Children's Villages (photo: Picture Alliance F.May)\nThere are over 447 million children under the age of 18 in India. In spite of improvements in recent decades, around half of the children of India continue to face many hardships.\nAlthough the health of children has improved of late, UNICEF reports that the lack of adequate health care results in high infant, child and maternal mortality rates. For example, around two million children die every year from preventable diseases, an estimated 400,000 of those under five die every year of diarrhoea. Around half of the deaths of Indian children are due to malnutrition, which is more common in India than in Sub-Saharan Africa.\nThe school attendance rate is low in India - only 72 per cent of children between the ages of six and ten attend primary school. Child labour is a conspicuous problem, with around 12 per cent of children between the ages of 5 and 14 involved in child labour. Many children are trafficked and forced to work as domestic workers, in factories or prostitution.\nAs the incidence of HIV/AIDS has risen, the number of children without parental care, or at risk of losing such care, is also increasing. The figure for children with HIV/AIDS is also growing. These children face social discrimination which hampers their efforts to improve their lives.\nGirls are in a particularly vulnerable situation as they are more likely to be poor, be homeless or end up as victims of violence. Particularly in rural areas girls do not have adequate access to basic health care, or education. In some states like Bihar, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, 60 per cent or more of girls drop out of primary education. Child marriages are also common: 47 per cent of children are married under the age of 18, with the number in rural areas nearly double that of urban ones.\nSOS Children's Villages in India\nThe economic plight, tense political situation and natural disasters that India has endured have led to a particularly intense involvement of SOS Children's Villages in the country. The programmes developed by SOS Children's Villages vary according to the needs of the local population and include: education at SOS Hermann Gmeiner Schools; guidance and accommodation for young people; vocational training and medical advice and assistance. Family-strengthening programmes are an important component of the work carried out: in cooperation with local agencies, SOS Children's Villages works directly with families and communities to empower them to effectively care for their children. When children can no longer stay with their families, they are cared for by their SOS mothers in one of the SOS families.\nWebsite of SOS Children's Villages India\n(available in English)\nLatest News WWH","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line656408"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.718326210975647,"wiki_prob":0.718326210975647,"text":"Windows 10 Technical Preview\nOn September 30th Microsoft announced that the forthcoming version of Windows, code named “Threshold,” would not be called “Windows 9,” but would skip a version and be called “Windows 10.” One speculation says that this is due to the significant changes from Windows 8. The Technical Preview edition became available for download to members of Microsoft’s “Insider Access” for testing and development on October 1. I downloaded the installation for testing purposes and installed it that same evening.\nThe first thing I noticed was the return of the Start Menu. You not only get access to your regular programs, as in previous versions of Windows, but you also see the new Windows Store apps. This means no more switching between the Desktop and Start Screen modes.\nWindows Store apps can now be resized like traditional programs. In addition, the “Snapping” feature has been upgraded with more useful options when running multiple programs. In Windows 8, Store apps could only be in full screen unless snapped with another app. This was often frustrating when using them on a desktop. In Windows 10, Store Apps will also scale automatically to fit the area you’ve snapped them to.\nWindows Search has been upgraded. Now when you search for an item, not only is your hard drive checked, but a web search is also initiated.\nWindows 10 will also customize itself to your platform. If you have a desktop you’ll get the Start Menu by default. With a tablet, the Start Screen will be enabled until you dock the tablet on a keyboard when the Start Menu will take over.\nThe other big new feature is the addition of virtual desktops. With virtual desktops you can group different programs together, then switch to another desktop and open more apps for a different set of tasks. For instance, you could run one desktop with your works apps and another with a game or recreational apps.\nSo far, I find Windows 10 to be a great improvement over Windows 8, in terms of ease of use. The new and updated multi-tasking features are a boon for productivity, while the return of the Start Menu and adaptability to different hardware forms will make it easier than ever to use. Only time will tell which of these features remain in the final version, but Microsoft seems to be heading in the right direction!\nSo when will Windows 10 be available? Probably mid to late 2015. Microsoft also hasn’t hinted at pricing yet, so no word on whether there will be a special upgrade incentive as with Windows 8, or if it will be strictly retail.\nIf you’re feeling adventurous and you’d like to try Windows 10 for yourself, head over to the Microsoft Website and click the “Get Started” Button. I recommend doing this only on a secondary computer, as Windows 10 is still being developed. However, it’s a good way to see what might be coming and take part in shaping it.\nDo you have a question or topic you’d like us to address? Email and let us know!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line257366"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6040434241294861,"wiki_prob":0.6040434241294861,"text":"Resources for Download\nBiographyDr. Marilyn Ray2018-03-31T14:21:30+00:00\nMarilyn Anne Ray, RN, BSN, MSN, MA, PhD, CTN-A, FSfAA, FAAN, FESPCH (hon) is Professor Emeritus at Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. She holds a diploma in Nursing from St. Joseph Hospital, Hamilton, Canada; Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Nursing from the University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; Master of Arts, in Cultural Anthropology from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; a Doctor of Philosophy in Transcultural Nursing from the University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah; and an honorary degree from Nevada State College, Henderson, Nevada. Ray has held faculty positions at the University of San Francisco, University of California San Francisco, McMaster University, the University of Colorado, and the Eminent Scholar positions at Florida Atlantic University and Virginia Commonwealth University, and Professorial and Professor Emeritus positions at Florida Atlantic University. In addition, Ray attended Ethics Courses at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and studied with the theoretical physicist, Dr. F. David Peat on Complexity Science at the Pari Center for New Learning in Pari, Italy. Ray is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (FSfAA), and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). She is certified as an Advanced Transcultural Nurse (CTN-A), and was awarded the position of a Transcultural Nursing Scholar from the Transcultural Nursing Society. For 32 years, Ray served in the United States Air Force Nurse Corps (USAF) in the field of aerospace nursing– flight nursing (during the Vietnam war), administration, practice, education, and research at the School of Aerospace Medicine. She retired in 1999 as a Colonel and is a Veteran of military conflicts. She attended a program in space education at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville, Alabama in preparation for the potential role of “nurses in space.” Ray is featured in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. Ray has researched, presented and published nationally and internationally on the subjects of the philosophy of caring, caring science, holistic nursing, transcultural caring in nursing and health care, technological caring, economic caring, and caring ethics in complex organizations, primarily hospitals. In 1981, Ray discovered the Theory of Bureaucratic Caring (1981, 1984, 1989, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2017) via research in organizational cultures, and with Turkel, the Theory of Relational Caring Complexity (2000, 2001, 2012, 2014). She also advanced the model and Theory of Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Health Care (2010, 2016) within her book of the same name. Her Theory of Bureaucratic Caring is being used widely nationally and internationally, and especially now as a framework in the USAF Medical Service under the leadership of Major General Dorothy Hogg and Colonel Marcia Potter for the development of an interdisciplinary, inter-professional practice model, and the Veterans’ Administration in Colorado and Wisconsin in nursing education under the leadership of Dr. Dana Lusk. Ray is a charter member and currently serves on the By-Laws Committee of the International Association for Human Caring (IAHC). Ray’s books include, The ethics of care and the ethics of cure: Synthesis in chronicity (with Jean Watson), A study of caring within an institutional culture: The discovery of the Theory of Bureaucratic Caring; Transcultural caring dynamics in nursing and health care [1st and 2nd editions]; and with her colleagues, Alice Davidson and Marian Turkel, Nursing, caring, and complexity science: For human-environment well-being (2011, American Journal of Nursing, Book of the Year Award for Professional Development and Trends). Ray also serves on the boards of the Global Qualitative Nursing Research (on line journal), Qualitative Health Research, and the Journal of Art and Aesthetics in Nursing and Health Sciences., She is a reviewer for the International Nursing Review, journal the International Council of Nurses, Journal of Transcultural Nursing, Nursing Outlook and Nursing Inquiry. She is a Board Member and Chair of the Faculty Development and Learning Partnerships Committee of the Anne Boykin Institute (ABI) for the Study of Caring Science in Nursing. As a FAAN, Ray serves on the Theory-Guided Practice Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing. She was elected to and awarded the prestigious, Honorary Distinguished Fellowship of the European Society for Person-Centered Healthcare (ESPCH) in London, United Kingdom, in 2016. Her Archives of Caring collection are housed at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University.\nCurriculum-Vitae-Dr.-Marilyn-Ray-September-2015, Download PDF Format\nCurriculum-Vitae-Dr.-Marilyn-Ray-September-2015, Download DOC Format\nACADEMIC:\nFellow, Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). Hyatt Grand Regency Hotel, Washington, DC, October 19, 2013.\nChair, Learning Partnerships: Faculty and Student Development and Mentorship of Caring Scholars, The Anne Boykin Institute on the Advancement of Caring in Nursing, 2012 and on-going.\nBoard Member, Anne Boykin Institute on the Advancement of Caring in Nursing, 2012 and on-going.\n2012-2015 Board Member, International Association for Human Caring, www.humancaring.org\n2011 Board Member, Qualitative Health Research Journal, University of Utah, College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah (Dr. Janice Morse, Editor).\n2010 Finalist for the International Award for Excellence: Creating Caring Organizations and Cultures through Communitarian Ethics. Journal of the World Universities Forum, 3(5), 41-52.\n2008 Lifetime Achievement Award, Life Time Member, International Association for Human Caring, University of North Carolina, Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina, May 2008.\n2007 Distinguished Alumna Award, University of Utah, College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 3, 2007.\n2005, Honorary Degree, Nevada State College, Henderson, Nevada, May 2005 (First Honorary Degree awarded at Nevada State College).\nWho’s Who in the World. 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, New Jersey.\nCambridge Who’s Who of Executive Women and Nursing and Health Care, Selected 2007. New York, New York.\nWho’s Who in American Nursing, 1990, 1991, 1996, 2007, 2008. Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, New Jersey.\nWho’s Who in America, Selected for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015. Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, New Jersey.\nWho’s Who in American Education, 2006, 2007-2008. Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, New Jersey.\nWho’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 2008-2009, 2009-2010. Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, New Jersey.\n2005 Research Award for Excellence in Research at Florida Atlantic University from Dr. Lemanski, VP of Research, Department of Sponsored Research, Florida Atlantic University, 2005\n2005 Transcultural Nursing Scholar. The International Transcultural Nursing Society. Awarded at Baruch College, New York City, October 2005.\nFellow 2005 1989, Applied Anthropological Association of the American Anthropology Association, June 1989. Sustaining Fellow, 2005.\nResearch Consultant Recognition for Service Award: Holy Cross Hospital, Nursing Research Council, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida 2002-2004, Awarded December 2004.\nDistinguished Teacher of the Year, Academic Year 1999-2000, College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, awarded March 2000.\nSelected participant in the annual Martha E. Rogers Center for the Study of Nursing Science, DIALOGUE ’99. New York University, New York, participated June 1999.\nSelected participant in the annual Martha E. Rogers Center for the Study of Nursing Science, DIALOGUE ’97. New York University, New York, participated May 1997.\nGranted Sabbatical Leave, Florida Atlantic University, granted for the Academic Year 1997-98.\nSelected participant in the Professional Development Seminar in Israel sponsored by the College Consortium For International Studies, Israel/Jordan/Palestine, participated May 9 -18, 1996.\nSelected participant in the first Martha E. Rogers Center for the Study of Nursing Science, DIALOGUE ’95. New York University, New York, participated June 1995.\nNamed in the Registry of Phenomenologists, The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. (p. 500) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, selected May 1995. (Published, 1997)\nResearch Award, Iota Xi Chapter, Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, awarded April 1995.\nPoster Session Finalist, 33rd Biennial Convention, Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing, Detroit, Michigan, November 1995.\nWho’s Who Among Human Services Professionals, 1992-93. The National Reference Institute, Wilmette, Illinois.\nCertificate of Recognition in Recognition of Outstanding Service and Dedication to the Profession of Nursing, Florida Nurses’ Association, National and Florida Nurses Week, presented May 1993.\nNominated and Inducted as Member, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Florida Atlantic University, Chapter 128, Boca Raton, Florida, April 1992.\nLeininger Transcultural Nursing Award for Excellence in Transcultural Nursing, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, awarded August 1989.\nChancellor’s Teaching Recognition Award (Graduate School), University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, awarded May 1987.\nBest Research Paper (Phenomenological Research), Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, selected 1987.\n1986 Nightingale Award Nominee, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, Denver, Colorado, May 1986.\nFaculty Teaching Award, Nominated by Faculty of University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, January 1986.\nMILITARY/VETERANS AFFAIRS:\nDNP Student of Regis University, Denver, Colorado, Dana Lusk, used Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring as a guide to study Nursing Education for new employees of the Veterans’ Administration Hospital, Denver, Colorado, June 2015.\nDNP Graduate of Chamberlain University, Colonel Marcia Potter used Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring as a guide to study Nurse-Directed (BCT Nursing Theory) Primary Care in terms quality improvement in outcomes of health-healing, time, and economic resources for the United States Air Force, Joint-Base Andrews, Washington, DC, June 2015.\nWomen in Aviation: Celebrating 50 Years of Women in Space. International Women’s Air and Space Museum. Titusville, Florida (Space Coast, Florida). March 8 & 9, 2013.\nSpeaker: Contemplation of Peace-making and Peace-building. Memories of Hanoi, Vietnam, Hiroshima, Japan, Corregidor, The Philippines, Military Officers Association of the United States (MOAA), Holiday Inn, Highland Beach, Florida, March 2013.\nFederal Nursing Service Essay Award, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS), Las Vegas, Nevada, November 8, 2000.\nCertificate of Retirement as Colonel from the United States Air Force Reserve, Nurse Corps, Washington, D.C., issued February 6, 1999.\nGeneral’s Letter of Recognition for Outstanding Service and Contributions to the United States Air Force Nurse Corps, 1967-1999 awarded February 1999.\nUSAF Meritorious Service Medal (1st Oak Leaf Cluster) for Outstanding Research Activities at USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Department of Aerospace Nursing, Brooks AFB, Texas, awarded 1997.\nRecognition for Outstanding Contribution to the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Department of Aerospace Nursing, Qualitative Research Workshop, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, presented July 1994.\nUSAF Meritorious Service Medal for Nursing Leadership at USAF Systems Command, Washington, D.C., Operation Desert Storm, Eglin AFB, Florida, awarded 1992.\nUSAF National Defense Service Medal (1st Bronze Star), Operation Desert Storm, Eglin AFB, Florida, authorized and awarded May 1991.\nUSAF Commendation Medal (1st Oak Leaf Cluster) for Nursing Education and Policy Development, HQARPC/SGPN, Denver, Colorado, HQAFSC/SG, Andrews AFB, D.C., awarded September 1989.\nUSAF Commendation Medal for the Development and Management of the USAF Reserve Continuing Education Program, and Personnel Administration, awarded 1984.\nMilitary Consultant to USAF Surgeon General, Headquarters, Bolling AFB, D.C. for Nursing Research and Administration, 1984.\nNational Defense Service Medal, United States Air Force, Sheppard AFB, Texas, awarded March 1968.\n© Copyright | Dr. Marilyn Ray | All Rights Reserved | Designed by Brand On Fire","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1085973"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5674844980239868,"wiki_prob":0.4325155019760132,"text":"Rhode Island's Trusted Personal Injury & Social Security Disability Law Firm\nThe Most Dangerous Roads\nDistracted Driver\nFailure to Obey Traffic Controls\nCommerical Vehicle\nFatigued Truck Drivers\nReview Our Attorneys\nJoseph Marasco\nDonna Nesselbush\nResultados De Casos\nNegligencia Medica\nAccidentes y Lesiones\nSeguro Social Por Incapacidad\nMarasco Nesselbush Sobre Nosotros\nContactenos Atraves De Cualquiera Oficina\nRhode Island Commercial Vehicle Accidents\nCommercial vehicles offer individuals, groups, organizations, and businesses convenient modes of transportation. These vehicles also present potential risks to their occupants, and to occupants of smaller passenger vehicles, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. Used by a business to transport goods or passengers, a commercial vehicle is required to be licensed by municipal or state agencies to operate on highways, roads, and streets. Drivers are required to have special commercial licenses. The most common types of commercial vehicles are large trucks, large vans and buses, school buses, and taxis.\nWhen someone is injured in a commercial vehicle collision, many questions arise about legal rights and liability. At Marasco & Nesselbush, Providence’s trusted personal injury law firm, our Providence accident lawyers have years of experience helping those injured by another driver’s negligence obtain the compensation they deserve for lost wages, pain and suffering, medical expenses, and other losses. We strive to provide each and every client with extraordinary case results and legal care.\nTypes of Commercial Vehicle Accidents\nLarge Truck Crashes\n15-Passenger Van Accidents\nVan Crashes\nBus Collisions\nTaxi Crashes\nBecause commercial vehicles are typically large, others on the road who are not occupants of the commercial vehicle often suffer the most serious injuries and fatalities. However, for commercial vehicles such as buses, seat belts are not typically required by law, therefore increasing the risk of passenger ejection and other circumstances that can lead to catastrophic injury or death.\nAccording to the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), which is maintained by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), a large truck is considered to be a truck with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of more than 10,000 pounds. Drivers of these vehicles are required to have a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) as well as pass additional tests to obtain specific endorsements on their CDL, depending on the type of commercial vehicle. Some common endorsements for large trucks include those for hazardous materials, tank vehicle, double/triple trailers, and combination of tank vehicle and hazardous materials.\nCommercial truck drivers operating big rigs, semi-trucks, or tractor-trailers, are required to obey the rules and regulations implemented by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) with regard to Hours of Service (HOS), inspection, repair, maintenance, transportation of hazardous materials, proper and secured loads, as well as abiding by traffic laws.\n15-passenger vans are a popular choice among churches, schools, and other groups who need to transport more people than the average car, truck, or SUV will hold. However, most states, including Rhode Island, do not require a chauffeur’s license or CDL to operate a 15-passenger van. These vans have particular safety concerns, especially in relation to rollover accidents, that typical passenger vehicles don’t pose, particularly when the van is fully loaded with passengers or cargo.\nSimilar to 15-passenger vans, vans are particularly prone to rollover accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). A van’s rollover risk increases as it is loaded with people and cargo, especially if any part of the load extends to or over the back axle. As the weight in the van increases, the van’s center of gravity shifts upward and to the back. This makes it far more likely to roll over at lower speeds and with less side-to-side movement than would be required to roll an ordinary passenger vehicle. Also like 15-passenger vans, drivers of vans are not required to have a CDL.\nIn addition to being required to have a CDL, bus drivers must also obtain a “P” endorsement on their CDL for which they must pass “Knowledge and Skills Tests.”\nWhile bus accidents occur less frequently than crashes involving small passenger cars, the injuries they cause to occupants of the buses and to others on the road can be devastating. Based on data provided by the FMCSA, in 2009, there were 9,000 bus crashes, causing injuries to 20,000 people. There were 221 fatal bus crashes, in which 254 people were killed.\nIn addition to being required to have a CDL, school bus drivers must also retain an “S” endorsement on their CDL for which they must pass “Knowledge and Skills Tests.”\nThe most severe school bus accident injuries often occur due to a lack of seat belts. The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) reports that five states (California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York) require that school buses provide seat belts, and that Texas requires all school buses purchased after September 2010 to have seat belts.\nRhode Island state law requires that a person who wishes to drive and operate a taxi must acquire either a valid chauffeur’s license or a valid Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) issued by the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), or an equivalent license issued by another state and acknowledged by the Rhode Island DMV.\nIn many taxi accidents, passengers suffer serious injury coming into contact with taxi windows. Although taxis have seat belts, a false sense of security sometimes leads passengers to feel that they don’t need to use them. Nevertheless, taxi drivers are required to drive safely and not put passengers in harm’s way by causing an accident.\nCall our Commercial Vehicle Accident Lawyer\nBeing injured in a commercial vehicle accident is not only physically painful, but often presents several unique legal hurdles with regard to determining the identity of negligent parties and proving fault. In some instances, the commercial vehicle driver, the owner of the commercial vehicle, and the company that employs the commercial vehicle driver may all be responsible for causing an accident that results in injury and/or death. At Marasco & Nesselbush, we have the legal resources and experience to help accident victims hold negligent parties liable and obtain rightful compensation. For years, we have been conducting thorough investigations, gathering effective evidence, and building successful cases on behalf of our clients. To learn more about how we can help, please fill out a contact form or call us at one of our local offices.\nwith an Experienced Attorney\nPractice Area*\nHow can we help you?Social SecurityCar AccidentMedical MalpracticePersonal InjuryOther\nHard work, honesty, intelligence and integrity are the hallmarks of our law firm. At Marasco & Nesselbush, our unwavering commitment is to quality legal work, attention to detail and extraordinary results.\nRead More About Our Firm\nMarasco & Nesselbush\nRead Our Google+ Reviews\nRead Our Yelp Reviews\nBicycle Accident Attorneys\nBoat Accident Attorneys\nTruck Accident Attorneys\nMotorcycle Accident Attorneys\nSocial Security Disability Attorneys\nSerious Injury Attorneys\nWorkers Compensation Attorneys\nProduct Liability Attorneys\nPremises Liability Attorneys\nVisit Our Wakefield Office Visit Our Woonsocket Office Visit Our Warwick Office Visit Our Providence Office\n© 2018 Marasco & Nesselbush · All Rights Reserved.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1040364"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7237812280654907,"wiki_prob":0.7237812280654907,"text":"Oneohtrix Point Never shares “Black Snow” video from new album “Age Of”\n“Black Snow” is the first single taken from Oneohtrix Point Never‘s upcoming album “Age Of,” to be released on June 1 on WARP. Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never re…\nLet Yllis brings you on his experimental “Parade”\nSergei Wicking 11 May 2016\nheck on the latest experience of Singaporean artist Yllis! “Parade” is an electro-pop kaleidoscope of a song and is as varied as it is random. It is a psychological and trippy experience a…\nAnohni – Drone Bomb Me (Video)\nMatias Calderon 9 March 2016\nfter declining to go the Oscars for her nomination, Anohni is coming back with music after the release of her track “4 Degrees“. Listen here to “Drone Bomb Me”, another collabo…\nAnohni (former Antony) – 4 Degrees\nMatias Calderon 1 December 2015\normerly known as Antony Hegarty, Anohni shared the first track of her upcoming new album “Hopelessness” due to be released during the spring of 2016. The first song revealed is called R…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1366947"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6140486001968384,"wiki_prob":0.3859513998031616,"text":"Park Jun-young | pjy970108@uos.ac.kr\nMost people have probably seen American college life in TV dramas or movies. It looks like a dream. Campus has a free, bright atmosphere, a fresh lawn, and wonderful, classical buildings. People have probably dreamed of living that life at least once, but many people may not have even tried to go to a U.S. college for many reasons. However, students from the University of Seoul (UOS) can enjoy this life more easily through our exchange programs. Here is an American university that you might consider: The University of Iowa.\n▲ Homecoming Parade\nThe University of Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa, the United States. It is in the Midwest of the United States and close to Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1847 and is the oldest public university in Iowa. It is also the second largest university in the state. Among American universities, the University of Iowa was the first public university to open as coeducational, and it was the first university to officially recognize an LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) student organization. In addition, it was the first university to use television in education, in 1932, and it has the largest library in the state, with four different specialized libraries. This university has few exchange students, but there are many Asians, especially Chinese. That is because there are many students studying abroad. However, about 90 percent of students are white.\n1. Application to the University of Iowa\nStudents can apply to enter the University of Iowa if they have higher than 80 points on the TOEFL Internet-based Test (TOEFL IBT) and higher than 17 points on a TOEFL Subscore. The cost is 5 million KRW per semester, including dormitory and meal tickets for five meals per week. If you only want to use the dormitory, but no meals, it is 4 million KRW per semester. Other costs amount to about 400,000 KRW a month.\n2. Introduction to scholarship\nThe UOS Times featured an article about the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) in the last issue. In addition to the support provided by UOS for exchange students, there are other programs providing assistance for costs. One of these is the Mirae Asset Scholarship. This Scholarship aims to provide more opportunities for Korean students to participate in exchange programs, helping them to find wider academic and cultural experience. The conditions of applying for this scholarship include a grade point average (GPA) higher than 3.3, and less than eight income quintiles . There are about 300 students who receive scholarships every semester. There are no restrictions on universities, countries, or majors. The scholarship provides 7 million KRW for students going to the Americas, Europe and other regions, and 5 million KRW for students going to Asian regions.\n▲ On Iowa event for transfer student and fresh men\n3. School life\nStudents at the University of Iowa are generally individualistic. Unlike Korea, there are no club rooms, and there are no official after-parties. These cultural differences provide some benefits, but also some challenges, for Korean students. Seo Jae-won (Dept. of Mechanical and Information Engineering, ’14) majored in liberal arts. He provided some examples of these experiences. Recalling one experience, Seo said there was a team project in his major class, in which students designed cars given by a company.\n“I was able to accumulate practical experience while doing this team project,” Seo said. Seo later took an acting class, but his experience was more challenging. In one assignment, he had to watch two English plays and report on them, which he found quite difficult.\nAs for campus living, the dorms at the University of Iowa are isolated from the campus, and students can choose between single rooms that live without roommates and double rooms that live with roommates . Double rooms are cheaper than single because students share a living room and kitchen with roommates\n4. Life off Campus\nA college town surrounds the University of Iowa, and the area just beyond is an agricultural region, with many cornfields. There are restaurants, bars, grocery stores, and Korean stores in the campus town where students enjoy their free time. Farther afield, it takes four hours by bus from the university to Chicago, with many famous sites such as Willis Tower, Millennium Park, Navy Pier, and Cloud Gate. Students often go to Chicago for sightseeing on weekends.\n▲ Iowa river\nSeo recommended going to the University of Iowa in the fall semester. If you start in the fall semester, you can finish the semester before the cold winter starts. The state of Iowa has very cold weather that easily falls below minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius in the winter, and it would be better to avoid it. He also said it is good for men to bring clothes from Korea because there are not many good places to buy men’s clothes, except training suits and hoodies. In addition, the Internet speed is rather slow, and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) does not work well in most buildings. He recommended the telecommunications company AT&T rather than T-Mobile.\nAlso, Seo strongly recommended joining OASIS, the club for foreign students. He said he had good opportunities to make friends in OASIS. For those who are religious, Seo recommends attending a local church. “Church people are very kind, so it is easy to make good friends,” he said. Finally, Seo said the most important thing is to take an active attitude toward meeting people. It is necessary to search for clubs or meetings for foreign students through the university homepage actively. When you make friends, you should do good things such as celebrating birthdays or giving consolation.\nThe UOS Times hopes that if you choose the University of Iowa for your exchange experience, this advice will help you to have a wonderful school life.\nPark Jun-young\npjy970108@uos.ac.kr\nChoi Hyun-jung\nguswjd5891@uos.ac.kr","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line273220"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.682252824306488,"wiki_prob":0.682252824306488,"text":"← Downtown Los Angeles, 1950: ‘The Underworld Story’ Part 2\nMovieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +) →\nMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: There Is a Lake in Toluca Lake\nPosted on June 24, 2019\tby lmharnisch\nPhoto: Janet Blair sits on the little platform off the banks of the Lakeside Golf Club. Courtesy of Mary Mallory\nNote: This is an encore post from 2013.\nSurrounded by homes and the Lakeside Golf Club, Toluca Lake is all but obscured from view by the public. Like the movie stars that soon flocked to it, the attractive little lake helped sell the community that grew up around it.\nThis area of the San Fernando Valley originally fell under the auspices of the San Fernando Mission before being broken into segments and sold off in chunks to Southern California businessmen like Isaac Van Nuys and J. B.Lankershim, among others. Gen. Charles Forman bought up ranchland just north of the Cahuenga Pass, growing Bartlett pears, walnuts, citrus and other fruit. He suggested the name Toluca for the post office erected in 1893 across from the Chandler railroad depot in North Hollywood, also known as Lankershim.\nReal estate developers Heffron, McCray, and St. John purchased 151 acres of the former Forman ranch just north of the Los Angeles River in 1924 to open a real estate tract called Toluca Lake Park, so named because of the eight-acre lake constructed in the middle of the property as an attractive selling feature.\nEmploying the overexaggerated prose of the day, the development’s first Los Angeles Times ad on Feb. 3, 1924, claimed that “Toluca Lake Park offers irresistibly all the alluring charms of Nature. Great oak trees, full bearing fruit trees, shrubbery, a picturesque park, a sparkling lake, an unchallenged breadth of view of surrounding mountain grandeur and stretches beyond.…”\nThe chief attraction for the area was the manmade lake, supplied by fresh water from the 27 natural springs situated at its bottom, which residents employed for boating, fishing and other recreation.\nNearby studios flocked to the lake for filming boat scenes. Actress Virginia Valli filmed a scene tipping over a canoe here in May 1924 for the Universal film “K – The Unknown.” The July 6, 1924, Times reported on an unidentified film shooting smuggling scenes on the lake, “The scene, depicting a rum-running fleet twelve miles out at sea, shows miniature oceangoing liners anchored on the center of the lake while small speed boats dash back and forth with their party of passengers.”\nResidents who bought lots adjoining the lake would gain exclusive right to use of the lake up to 155 feet from the shore. The real estate promoters claimed that they would construct a park for residents on the west end of the lake where huge eucalyptus would provide an inviting canopy for picnicking or other pursuits. A nearby walnut grove would provide peaceful vistas. Eventually the trees would be cut down to make room for more homes.\nA consortium of Hollywood businessmen, including comedy filmmaker Charles Christie, spent $400,000 buying 125 acres south of the lake on April 12, 1924, to construct the Lakeside Golf Club in 1925. The swanky club, a constant celebrity draw for decades, consisted of a modern Spanish hacienda with handmade tile and terraces offering attractive views of the lake, along with 18 holes of golf hugging the lakeside.\nToluca Lake Park immediately attracted film stars, thanks to its location only blocks from both Warner Bros. and Universal Studios, and just a short drive over the Cahuenga Pass to Hollywood studios. Matinee idols like Billie Dove, Mary Astor, Lupino Lane, and Charles Farrell built homes. Farrell constructed an elegant Norman estate along the lake in 1928. He introduced swans to the water and began canoeing along the banks. Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston soon built at 10025 Toluca Lake Ave. According to an interview in the newspaper, Arlen and Ralston bought and paid for their lot, before getting married and building their $8,000 Spanish house. The cinema colony also included Walter Huston, W. C. Fields, Frank McHugh, Dick Powell, Jack Oakie, Lyle Talbot, Belle Bennett, Herman Mankiewicz, and George Brent.\nActress Eva Tanguay built a home at 9936 Toluca Lake Ave., before auctioning off the home and furnishings in February 1930 after discovering that the man she married in 1927, Allen Parado, her accompanist at the time, was in fact only his alias. His real name was Chandos Ksiazkiewcisz. In 1933, Boris Karloff bought the residence.\nIn 1937, director Norman McLeod constructed a $25,000 home at 10010 Toluca Lake Ave. African American architect Paul Williams designed a home costing $40,000 for director Irving Bacon on the opposite side of Toluca Lake Avenue that same year, which actors Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli owned before selling earlier this year.\nAviatrix Amelia Earhart and her husband, George Putnam, constructed a home on Valley Spring Lane in 1935 to be near the Burbank Lockheed facility. After her disappearance, Putnam remained here for a time.\nToluca Lake continued growing beyond the boundaries of the small development toward both North Hollywood and Burbank, soon reaching Riverside Drive by the late 1920s. Within decades, however, the little lake disappeared from public view, save for occasional glimpses through the Golf Club gates or beyond private fences.\nThis entry was posted in Architecture, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, San Fernando Valley and tagged #valley, film, hollywood, Mary Mallory, movies, Toluca Lake. Bookmark the permalink.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1474664"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6944687366485596,"wiki_prob":0.30553126335144043,"text":"Grey's Anatomy Season 13 Episode 12\nNone of Your Business\nGrey's Anatomy Season 13 Episode 12 (None of Your Business) - You can watch Grey's Anatomy Season 13 Episode 12 online here at putlocker-hd.is. Tv Show Grey's Anatomy s13e12 (None of Your Business). Grey's Anatomy episodes can be found on our website including the new Grey's Anatomy episodes. Grey's Anatomy 13x12 (None of Your Business) online streaming. Watch Grey's Anatomy Online. You'll be able to watch and stream tv Grey's Anatomy with us here at putlocker-hd.is anytime without any restrictions or limitations. Just remember Grey's Anatomy videos are available at our site putlocker-hd.is.\nMaggie gets a surprise visit from her mother at the hospital. Bailey has to make a difficult decision when one of the attendings refuses to work with Eliza, and Stephanie gets caught up in Owen and Amelia’s personal drama.\nRing of Fire May. 18, 2017\nTrue Colors May. 11, 2017\nLeave It Inside May. 04, 2017\nDon't Stop Me Now Apr. 27, 2017\nIn the Air Tonight Apr. 13, 2017\nWhat's Inside Apr. 06, 2017\nBe Still, My Soul Mar. 30, 2017\nTill I Hear It From You Mar. 23, 2017\nWho Is He (And What Is He To You)? Mar. 16, 2017\nCivil War Mar. 09, 2017\nBack Where You Belong Feb. 23, 2017\nIt Only Gets Much Worse Feb. 16, 2017\nNone of Your Business Feb. 09, 2017\nJukebox Hero Feb. 02, 2017\nYou Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch) Jan. 26, 2017\nYou Haven't Done Nothin' Nov. 17, 2016\nThe Room Where It Happens Nov. 10, 2016\nWhy Try to Change Me Now Nov. 03, 2016\nRoar Oct. 27, 2016\nBoth Sides Now Oct. 20, 2016\nFalling Slowly Oct. 13, 2016\nI Ain't No Miracle Worker Oct. 06, 2016\nCatastrophe and the Cure Sep. 29, 2016\nUndo Sep. 22, 2016","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line930148"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5981423258781433,"wiki_prob":0.5981423258781433,"text":"The talking – about the gas-fired power station at Deli-mara and the storage of gas required to feed it – is far from over. It will probably never be over. Those who oppose the siting of the project will continue to do so for years, though now they say they welcome the fact that it will lead to cheaper tariffs. But note has to be taken that Mepa on Monday issued the basic approval required for the project to get going.\nThe hardest part is yet to come. Presumably the commercial operators are in advanced discussions with the banks that, together with them, will be financing the project. Such negotiations would have been dependent on the Mepa permit being issued.\nThat has now happened. Presumably the road is clear for the necessary physical works to be taken in hand soon. That will have to be done in the context of the Prime Minister’s commitment to see the project ready within 18 months of the start of the works.\nIt will be a race against time. It is not important that the race will be won within the established timeline because that is a challenge by the Prime Minister. He did not lay down the challenge as a matter of vain glory. It is important that the new gas-fired power station comes on stream because that is how the necessary cost savings to sustain lower domestic tariffs will come about.\nFollowing that, in a year’s time, tariffs should also come down for industrial users. Again, that is not important because it is a government promise. It is essential because it will help to increase competitiveness. That is a process that has to continue unbroken. Producers have to take their own steps to achieve it, together with their workforce and deploying production techniques which incorporate the latest technological innovation, to raise productivity also by lowering costs.\nReduced energy tariffs would be an important input towards that objective. It is not improbable that producers are already incorporating the proposed tariff cut into their cost projections from 2015/2016 onwards. They have expressed agreement that the reduction will be a welcome necessary boost at the margin.\nThe Opposition ... staked a lot on making the government change its power development plan by locating storage outiside Marsaxlokk Harbour, thus making the project cost much more than forecast and delaying it\nIn a broader context it is now important that nothing is done to delay progress on the project. That may prove to be too tall an order for the Opposition. It has staked a lot on making the government change its power development plan by locating storage outside Marsaxlokk Harbour, thus making the project cost much more than forecast and delaying it. It is unlikely that the Opposition will now admit defeat. Unfortunately, its history suggests that, along with genuine concern regarding safety factors, it will remain all out to delay, even break up, the project.\nAir Malta is grim evidence of that. When another Labour government proposed to set up a national airline the Nationalist Opposition of the time let all hell loose. Its scaremongering and the crude language used to try to frighten potential passengers remains disgusting to this day.\nYet, because the government had the courage to forge ahead while taking all possible safety measures, Air Malta has been a success story. Despite continuing criticism of it, it established itself and was profitable for a long time. Thanks for that goes mostly to Albert Mizzi, Joe Tabone and Louis Grech.\nThe Nationalists never apologised for the base way they had reacted towards the airline in its early years. There are other examples. Unfortunately the Opposition of the day always opposes. Nationalist Oppositions have a habit of doing so more and more fiercely.\nThat has already been seen in the first year of the life of the current Labour government. Criticism addressed at everything that moves in government camp has been so vicious that some government members are tacitly shying away from it. Leading Nationalists, like former minister Michael Falzon who is now retired from politics and wields a pen all the more mighty because it is free and unencumbered (though he surely retains his original political beliefs) came out with a blitzkrieg on Sunday.\nWhatever the Opposition does, the project managers have to forge ahead. They have to take into account that so much scaremongering could affect individuals who do not know better, pushing them towards some sabotage attempt. The keenest security measures are essential.\nMeanwhile, the story of the gas-fired power station project will unfold day by day.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line788351"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6165752410888672,"wiki_prob":0.6165752410888672,"text":"Memory of Centreville boy Jacob Stern lives on through toy drive in support of Salvation Army\nPublished: Nov 20, 2018 at 3:15 p.m.\nJacob Stern’s sister, Maddie Stern, and his mom, Melissa Benjamin, with a shopping cart loaded with toys donated last year as part of a toy drive held in Jacob’s memory. - File photo\nNEW MINAS, NS - The memory of a Centreville boy who touched the hearts of countless people through his brave battle against cancer is being honoured again this year with a toy drive named after him.\nFour-year-old Jacob Stern passed away in October 2016 after a courageous fight against a rare form of muscle cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma. He was only 15 months old when he was diagnosed.\nJudy Benjamin, Jacob’s grandmother, said he was a “real trooper” considering everything that he went through. The family now holds an annual toy drive to give back to the community that helped them so much during his ordeal. They want to help ensure that children from less fortunate families have smiles on their faces on Christmas morning.\nThis year’s toy drive takes place at Walmart in New Minas on Dec. 1 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Drop off locations include 415 Stead St., Kentville; RE/MAX Advantage, 17 Webster Ct., Kentville, and Forbes Kia, 5488 Prospect Rd., New Minas.\nJacob Stern’s mom Melissa Benjamin, centre, with volunteers helping out with a toy drive held last year in his memory. The volunteers included several members of the Valley Chapter of Pirate Off-Road Nation.\nTOYS DONATED IN JACOB’S MEMORY TO PUT SMILES ON FACES OF VALLEY CHILDREN IN NEED\nCENTREVILLE BOY BATTLING RARE CANCER MADE HONORARY FIREFIGHTER, GIVEN PARADE\nGIFT OF TIME NEEDED TO MAKE KENTVILLE SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS KETTLE CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS\nBenjamin said Jacob would have loved the toy drive and he would have loved knowing that, because of him, there will be many more boys and girls with gifts under the tree to unwrap. After all, he loved Christmas and the various toys and gifts that he received from so many different people.\n“I think he would have been ecstatic,” Benjamin said. “I’m positive that he’s going to be with us that day.”\nAll proceeds go toward supporting the Salvation Army in its effort to provide toys to kids in need at Christmas time. The Salvation Army and other area churches work together toward this goal, last year providing gifts to 621 children.\nBenjamin said the toy drive is a way for them to pay forward the support the Salvation Army provided to Melissa Benjamin, Jacob’s mom, while Jacob was battling cancer.\nBenjamin said people can support the toy drive by purchasing toys and dropping them off or by making cash donations. She said they’ve already raised about $780 through the sale of prize calendars and they’ll be selling 50-50 tickets on the day of the toy drive with the draw being held at the end.\nThe annual Jacob Stern Memorial Toy Drive is coming up at Walmart in New Minas on Dec. 1.\nMore Community stories\n‘Paddle your own journey’\nPublished Jul 03, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.\nApple Capital Drive delights at Berwick’s Grand View Manor\nPublished Jul 11, 2019 at 12:53 p.m.\nHot time in Middleton - Heart of the Valley Festival July 19-20 promises to be great community get-together\n‘It’s been my dream to help the environment’\n91-year-old shares childhood memories of living in Bug Lighthouse at entrance to Yarmouth Harbour\nKentville to host first KingCon games event","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1393776"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.549837052822113,"wiki_prob":0.549837052822113,"text":"„In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.“\nPaulo Coelho389\n„An amphibophile is the sort of girl who goes around kissing princes in the hope that one of them will turn into a frog.“\n— Michael Kurland American writer 1938\nChapter 10 (p. 137)\n„Not a frog, I hope?” he asked…She shook her head. “No. And if it was I wouldn’t kiss it, I promise you. I might kiss a prince if I could be sure he’d turn into a frog, but not the other way around.“\n— Eva Ibbotson, A Song for Summer\n„You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one\n-Henrietta Barett“\n— Julia Quinn, Minx\n„no more pep talks about believing in toads,\" Liza said.\n\"Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?\" Bonnie said.\n\"Thats frogs,\" Liza Said. \"Entirely different species.“\n— Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me\n„(on Ashley Tisdale) \"You don't need a prince to be a princess.\"“\n— Zayn Malik British singer 1993\n„(on \"Someday My Prince Will Come\" the Ashley Tisdale pop song) \"Just because your prince hasn't come doesn't mean you're not a princess.\"“\n„We have tried occasionally to buy toads at bargain prices with results that have been chronicled in past reports. Clearly our kisses fell flat. We have done well with a couple of princes — but they were princes when purchased. At least our kisses didn’t turn them into toads. And, finally, we have occasionally been quite successful in purchasing fractional interests in easily-identifiable princes at toad-like prices.“\n— Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930\n1981 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1981.html\n„Don't you know that I'm not joking?\nAah, you think you won't, I think you will.\nDon't you know that this tongue can kill?\nC'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon.\nLady kiss that frog.“\n— Peter Gabriel English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian 1950\nKiss That Frog\n„Prince or commoner, tenor or bass,\nPainter or plumber or never-do-well,\nDo me a favor and shut your face -\nPoets alone should kiss and tell.“\n— Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker\n„One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”\n“Right, and one day my prince might come.”\n“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.“\n— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever\n„Three days later the little princess was buried, and Prince Andrei went up the steps to where the coffin stood, to give her the farewell kiss. And there in the coffin was the same face, though with closed eyes. \"Ah, what have you done to me?\" it still seemed to say, and Prince Andrei felt that something gave way in his soul and that he was guilty of a sin he could neither remedy nor forget.“\n— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910\nBk. IV, ch. 9\n„Life invented it first, Zoe thought, like so many other things. Like eyes: Turning photon impacts into neurochemical events with such subtlety that a frog can target a fly and a man can admire a rose.“\n— Robert Charles Wilson author 1953\n„Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?“\n— Poul Anderson American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926 - 2001\nSection 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter X (p. 207)\n„Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with \"Once upon a time,\" and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase \"happily ever after.\"“\n— Daniel Handler American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Snicket 1970\nLemony Snicket\n„He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.“\n— William Goldman, The Princess Bride\n„It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake“\n— Laurell K. Hamilton, Bullet","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line2353"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5198875069618225,"wiki_prob":0.4801124930381775,"text":"What’s the Matter with the Kansas Supreme Court? (Part 1)\nOn Friday, in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt, a 6-1 majority of the Kansas Supreme Court struck down S.B. 95, a law that prohibits the use of dilation and evacuation (D & E) abortions except where necessary to preserve the mother’s life or to prevent a “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.”\nD & E abortions entail dismemberment of a fetus. They are a common form of abortion during the second trimester and later. Partial-birth abortion is a variation on this procedure, and the federal prohibition on it was upheld by the Supreme Court in Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), in a decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy.\nIn this case, the court grounded its decision in the Kansas Constitution rather than the U.S. Constitution, so no ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court reaching a different conclusion under the Fourteenth Amendment would limit the new abortion regime in Kansas.\nDoes the Kansas Constitution have any more to say about abortion than the U.S. Constitution? The Hodes & Nauser majority notes that Section 1 of the Kansas Bill of Rights’ declaration that “All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights” contains a phrase not found in the U.S. Constitution: “inalienable natural rights.” In other words, no.\nBut that was enough to convince the court it was on to something. Its 118-page per curiam (unsigned) judicial opinion meandered from the historical and “philosophical underpinnings of natural rights” to an exploration of bodily integrity to how “liberty and the pursuit of happiness” must include “decisions about parenting and procreation” to how natural rights extend to women in general and pregnant women in particular, before straining to downplay the one aspect of Kansas legal history that actually addresses abortion: Kansas’ longstanding statutes, dating back to the earliest years of statehood, that prohibited the practice.\nThe reality is that during the 19th century, abortion had been substantially proscribed under the common law, and at the time the Kansas Bill of Rights was adopted in 1859, the growing trend in that and other states was to strengthen criminal statutory abortion prohibitions. Those laws went much farther in restricting abortion than S.B. 95. The question presented to the court is not what policy should be, but what the law actually says. There can be no doubt as to what the drafters of Kansas’ constitution would have thought of extending their broad language about natural rights to include a right to conduct dismemberment abortions.\nYet the majority lacked enough self-awareness to invoke authorities from Locke to Lincoln as if they somehow supported their conclusion while dismissing the explicit historical evidence against them as “tethered to prejudices from two centuries ago.” “In this imagined world,” retorted Justice Caleb Stegall, the court’s lone dissenter, “the Liberty Bell rings every time a baby in utero loses her arm.\nThe outcome-seeking nature of the court’s flimsy analysis is transparent, and its attempt to invoke history is an embarrassment. One member of the majority even penned a concurrence that distanced himself from what he called the “historical back-and-forth” between the majority and the dissent, preferring the supposed clarity of admitted living constitutionalism. (Well, he sort of admitted it, preferring to use the euphemism “contemporary context.”) That only one justice on that seven-member tribunal had the good sense to dissent from this jurisprudential travesty should be a red flag for any observer of American courts.\nWhat’s the matter with the Kansas Supreme Court? The answer is to be found beyond the content of the court’s opinion. To understand the problem requires understanding the system of judicial selection that prevails in that and regrettably many other states. More on that in part 2.\nClick HERE to View Online\nFiled Under: In The News, JCN Bench Memo Tagged With: abortion, Carrie, Carrie Severino, JCN, Judicial Crisis Network, religious liberty","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1511078"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6547499299049377,"wiki_prob":0.34525007009506226,"text":"The 12th Man: How on earth has it come down to this?\nDarron Gibson in action against Hull\nLatics fans\nWhere do we go from here? It depends on your point of view and general leaning in life I suppose.\nBut if you’re looking to me for words of wisdom then look elsewhere (nothing new there!) as I simply don’t know. I have continued to put my weight behind Paul Cook when others have faltered, but maybe all the BMWing from elsewhere (bitching, moaning and whining) has been justified. Maybe some of the great visionaries among our fans have seen this coming, their direct criticisms of Mr Cook have been absolutely spot on, and now the League One chickens are coming home to roost. In terms of outcomes, there now looks likely to only be two. Firstly, we continue to match or better Rotherham’s results, or collect a few more points than say QPR or Millwall and finish above someone else – unlikely given our points run rate. Essentially, we ‘do enough’ to stay up and the naysayers can move on to their stock argument of ‘well, it was only because there were three teams worse than us’ (generally this supposedly incisive analysis is factually true about any relegation-based scenario). Those of us daft, remaining happy-clappers can say ‘well, the aim in August was to stop up and we’ve achieved it’. Again, technically true, but there can’t be another club in the country with worse away form than us. The more the weeks go by, the more it seems barely staying up maybe the most likely outcome and, although I’m sure we would celebrate if that happened. Well, effectively, we’re celebrating nine months of pure dismal mediocrity interjected with the odd great performance. Of course, the other outcome is we drop into the bottom three we have avoided all season and stay there. It could even be we only spend one day in the bottom three and that day is May 5 – the only day which matters. The culmination of all those continual gripes at the manager will be justified by those people who have expended considerable effort criticising Cook, whereas those who have (mostly) stuck by him, like myself, end up looking like a right wally. Well, anyway, it wouldn’t be the first time and I’m not changing horses now. Furthermore, perhaps implying we could avoid the bottom three before the last day is hopelessly optimistic given the opposition in our next two or three games, which is why so many have been fretting over our inability to pick up more points again Hull, Bristol City and Brentford. In both home and away games, we have been quite consistent in a way. At home, we usually seem to match our opponents without necessarily putting them to the sword, the awful Bolton excepted. Whereas away, well I’d go further than just say we have an away-day phobia. It seems to be we aren’t necessarily afraid of scoring and (attempting to try) to win away from home. The panic actually seems to take over, once we have taken the lead – as if they know collectively what’s coming. It is a managerial problem we cannot figure out the art of holding onto a lead, but it now seems to have reached fever-pitch psychological levels, and I don’t know the answer apart from perhaps (here comes the brickbats again) re-grouping in League One and learning how to win away again. In this respect, if League One is our destiny, well to quote that awful Catherine Tate character – ‘Am I bothered?’ Yes and no. Or rather no and yes. No, because a football club is about so much more than which division you are in. I have been so tied up organising the Joseph’s Goal ‘Walk to Leeds’ next week and trying to get a fanzine off to the printers that I have barely had time to sit there ruminating over the lacklustre performances of Wigan Athletic. However, indirectly, Wigan Athletic is still consuming nearly every minute of my spare time, but in a more productive way than the stuff I can’t control, like the results on the pitch. I mean we’ll all still be here next season right? Regardless of which division we are in, so why get so upset about it? I think it will now come down to the last three games and, if the players and manager can approach them like the FA Cup ties of last year, maybe all the indifference that has gone before will be forgotten. If we fail to stay up, I fully expect Paul Cook to walk. But as I said in my last robust defence of him a while back, maybe that was the plan all along, seeing as our form and approach to games turned dramatically downwards soon after the new owners came in. All we are left with is speculation as to what has gone wrong and how we fix it but, as I say, whatever the outcome, we’ll still have a club to support next season, and that’s the bit that matters, right?\nMARTIN TARBUCK\nWhen Paul Cook did his coaching badges, he clearly missed the ‘how to see out a game’ day. The number of points Latics have thrown away from winning positions this season is just incredible. The defence has been suspect all season, so why not bring back a goalkeeper who has looked like a shadow of the player he was last year? If teams were much better than us all over the pitch, I’d accept we’re not good enough and move on – but I don’t think they are. We hand goals to them like it’s part of the game-plan. If we had a game-plan, that is, which we almost certainly don’t. The game at Hull certainly wasn’t helped by losing Nick Powell at half-time. But then Cook settled into his usual tactic of talking off any attacking threat we might have, and handing control over to the opposing team. Hull’s winning goal came because they, like every other team, know we offer nothing going forward once Leon Clarke is wandering about up front. This time Clarke went one better, and was wandering about in his own box when Jordy de Wijs came strolling past him to win the header and score. Cook is blaming individual errors for costing us games, and he is right, but only up to a point. Eventually, he – or someone – is going to have to look at his own errors. Errors in team selection which left us in this position in the first place once we reached September, and errors in having no way to control a game for longer than 50 minutes. We could be four up at half-time, and we’d all still be expecting to walk away with no more than a point. That’s how bad we are. Ẁe have a defence that is too slow and lacks any kind of organiser and leader. We have a midfield that collectively think going forward is for other people, and we have a centre forward on loan who must be laughing every time he’s told to go on. A point at Hull might well have seen us safe. It would have left Rotherham needing to win two more games than us, due to their inferior goal difference. As it is, our persistent failure to play for 90 minutes leaves them just one win from going above us. This situation can’t go on. In fact I’ll say it, we were better under Owen Coyle than under Paul Cook. Not under Warren Joyce, but the end result might well be the same. Cook seems to have no idea how to fix things, and seems utterly unable to look at himself and where he’s going wrong. Roll on May 6 , whichever league we end up in, and let’s just get this nightmare over.\nPAUL MIDDLETON\nIt isn’t losing against Hull that’s the problem, it’s the manner of it. Latics have given away a startling number of points from winning positions away from home this season, 19 at the last count. The fact we haven’t won away from home since August tells its own story. Both mentally and physically, we’re shattered. It isn’t we can’t score away from home, or indeed get a lead it’s that we can’t hold on to it. As the clock ticked down on Wednesday night at Hull, it looked like another decent point for Latics against a side battling for a play-off place. To concede as we did – like we did against Reading, Derby, Villa and countless other sides – was unacceptable. Our game management is absolutely non-existent, and that sees us in this position. Individual errors have been present all season but, over the last few weeks, they’ve increased tenfold. Paul Cook looked like a broken man at Hull. There’ll be inquests galore post-season as to the manager’s future but, with five matches left, this must be the toughest test of his career. Can he live up to that and, in return, can his players? Injuries have once again reared their head, and it’s going to be a patched-up Latics side trying to get over the finishing line. Injuries have haunted us all season, but we’ve still had plenty of opportunities to get out of this mess – and for one reason or another have failed to take them. With five matches left to go, and only two points separating ourselves and the relegation zone, thoughts turn to just what we need to escape this mess. Two wins? Two wins and a draw? That may just be enough to see us over the line – but where exactly do those results come from? If we match or better Rotherham’s results over the coming weeks, we’ll stay up. It’s as simple as that. The worrying thing is Rotherham have shown a lot more heart and fight than we have this season. They may have lost in midweek like we did, but they have momentum. Sunday has become a huge match, one that no-one will expect us to win. The only two positives I can think of are Norwich may well be showing a bit of nerves as they edge to the finish line.\nEqually our home record has been fantastic, in stark contrast to that horrific away form. Time is running out, but amazingly it is still in our hands. There needs to be some honest words and some fresh thinking on the training ground this week. Something needs to change, so let’s start it Sunday with a performance like we had against Bolton. Paul Cook is a fighter, and I want to see that fight in his side. Starting on Sunday. Come on Latics. It isn’t over till it’s over.\nSEAN LIVESEY\nAs I sit here on my sofa watching the closing stages of Manchester United-Barcelona, a couple of things spring to mind. One is that even the best players can have off days, and the other is that when we see the world’s top players playing week in and week out, we often expect all footballers should be able to do the same sort of things that they do. I hear this latter sentiment at the DW Stadium, when fans question why players did that with the ball, rather than something more effective. It never seems to enter their minds that it may well just have been a poor pass rather than a conscious decision. Or they were just doing what they are capable of doing rather than attempting what Lionel Messi is capable of. On the former point, it is certainly true that when we Latics players have an off day, we are in trouble! Yet when it comes to Latics away games it doesn’t seem to matter how we play. We just cannot win. Saturday apparently was a very good performance. Yet having been in the a winning position, we ended up losing, until a late goal salvaged a point at Bristol City. During the week, again having been in a winning position, we managed to lose the game against a pretty poor Hull side. This was doubly disappointing as the three points would have put us five points above the relegation zone with just five games to play. As it is we have a two-point advantage, though with our goal difference that is effectively three points. And we only have ourselves to blame for dropping some of these points. We have thrown away so many points from winning positions. Obviously some teams just play well and come back and beat you but, more often than not with Latics, it seems to be us shooting ourselves in the foot. Clearly there is must be a psychological problem. An away run like this, dropping so many points in such a manner, cannot be a coincidence. There must be a root cause and it must be be in the mind. The belief we cannot win away is turning itself into a realty. And that is a real problem because it is not easy to solve. After such a bad run, even one win might not be enough to change the mindset and break the pattern. We might need a run of results to prove to ourselves we can do it. That can take time and we are rapidly running out of that. We have not been in the drop zone at all this season, but we could be if Rotherham beat Stoke on Saturday. That would heap further pressure on the team going into Sunday’s game, which we seriously do not need in what already looks like like the a mammoth task against Norwich.\nSTUART GLOVER\n'You have to show patience,' admits Wigan Athletic boss","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line415335"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6223490238189697,"wiki_prob":0.3776509761810303,"text":"Celebrate the five year anniversary of The 9/12 Project\nOn Thursday, Glenn will present an evening of programming to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of the 9/12 Project. At 5pm ET, Glenn will sit down with an audience of 9/12 members to discuss the evolution the movement has undergone these last 5 years. Then at 8PM ET, Glenn will narrate a special presentation of Meet John Doe starring the legendary Gary Cooper. On radio Wednesday, Glenn spoke about the plans for the evening and the importance of the 9/12 Project.\n\"Five years ago we were all afraid. Five years ago we could feel our country being lost. And we didn't know what to do about it,\" Glenn explained.\nOn March 13, 2009, Glenn asked people to tune in for a special episode of his FOX News show where he laid out the 9 principles and 12 values that showed the real power to change America laid with the people.\n\"We had no idea if anyone would watch. We had no idea if anyone would listen. We had no idea if people would actually gather together. And they gathered together unlike Americans had ever gathered together before,\" Glenn explained.\nSo where are we now five years later? How has not only the country changed, but all of the individuals involved? That's what Glenn wants to find out on Thursday's show.\nAnd then with Meet John Doe, Glenn hopes to show people the parallels between the fictional John Doe Clubs and the 9/12 Project, and how politicians and the media tried to co-opt both movements and use them to propel partisan agendas, when they were really all about principles and values.\n\"The ending is critical, because what happens in the end (of the film) needs to happen to us. There's a lot of people that got frustrated with politics and everything else. The point was never about politics. And the point was never about one individual. Watch it tomorrow night only on TheBlaze. Watch it with your family and join me all the way through it as I kind of take you through this movie and tell you exactly what it means.\" Glenn said.\nThe Beginning of the 9/12 Project\nWhen the 9/12 Project was first announced, Glenn called for people to return to the people they were on 9/12/2001 and wrote on GlennBeck.com:\nDo you watch the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it?\nDo you believe that your voice isn’t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore?\nDo you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach…as if you’re completely alone?\nIf so, then you’ve fallen for the Wizard of Oz lie. While the voices you hear in the distance may sound intimidating, as if they surround us from all sides—the reality is very different. Once you pull the curtain away you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don’t surround us at all.\nWe surround them.\nWhat were the 9 Principles and 12 Values Glenn asked people to untie around?\nThe Nine Principles\n1. America is good.\n2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.\n3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.\n4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.\n5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.\n6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.\n7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.\n8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.\n9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.\n12 Values\nAfter announcing the 9.12 Project on FOX News, Glenn went into detail on the origins the next day on radio (including the crying in the earlier video):\nThe following is from the transcripts of the 3/17/2009 radio show:\nGLENN: 9/10 we were burying our heads in the sand or we were playing politics. It was about Republicans or Democrats. On 9/11 we were freaking out and no one knew who attacked us, where did this come from, what is this. On 9/12 no one in the government had to tell us what to do. We just did it. We went and we found a place to give blood. We went and we gave money. We gathered together. We gathered our family around. We prayed. We were the people that our grandparents were and nobody had to tell us. But then again the parties got involved and George Bush told us to do our patriotic duty and go shopping. That’s offensive. That’s not our patriotic duty. That’s part of the reason we’re here now today because our patriotic duty was to go shopping. That’s not it. And I remember saying on the air, \"Please, Mr. President, give us something to do. Let us be involved in the solution.\" It’s not just, oh, we’re going to go and bomb them. We’ve got to fundamentally change. We’ve got to be involved. Give us something to do. And they didn’t — well, no, I take that back. The two parties, what they did is they gave us something to do, argue with each other and hate each other. And I was part of it. I didn’t see it. I didn’t see. Well, now I do. And I started seeing it, what, 2006, 2004 and said, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, guys, we’re on the wrong track here; wait a minute; see what’s going on? And others have woken up. And it’s both the Republicans and the Democrats. It’s both of them. And we just need to be those 9/12 people.\nLet me tell you this: Those values I had been working on for a long time, the values and the principles. And I had been reading and we really did a lot of research and et cetera, et cetera, but I just scribbled them down, the 9 and the 12. I just scribbled them down right before I went on the air. I hadn’t even counted the number of them. And I went on the air and I gave them to you and then I got into a break and I said to Stu, I said, gee, I wish I — how many do I even have here? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I wish I could have come up with another one but I ran out of time. And then I came up with the other ones and there were twelve. And I said, what a wild coincidence: 9/12.\nYou know, in Iran if you’re looking for the twelfth Imam, they call you a Twelver. The Twelvers over in Iran are evil. They are so bad that the Ayatollah Khomeini back after the Islamic revolution banned them, wanted them all killed. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a Twelver. But you know what? I’m not looking for the twelfth Imam, but I’m a Twelver, too. I’m a 9/12er. And that’s what I announced on Friday. Commit yourself to live the principles that you knew were true and the values that you knew were true on 9/12. Become a 9/12er and don’t be afraid of it. Don’t be ashamed. Try to understand all of what’s going on in your world through those values and those principles and don’t — you know what, I notice that the website is — has been — I mean, it’s remarkable what’s happening. It’sthe912project.com, the912project.com. And it’s a meeting place to look at the different news and then try to find solution and what principles are we violating. It’s a place where you can find some of the quotes from the founding fathers that might help you solve. There’s going to be so much more on this. But really hope this is a meeting place where you can find solutions and you can present solutions and you can meet together and you can say, look, we’re going to do this project, we’re going to do a march on Washington and it’s going to be on this day, and you can try to put it all together as long as it’s all framed with those principles and values, then I’d be with you. I’d be for you. The minute it gets out of — the minute it becomes a movement for power and a movement for political clout or a movement for anything else other than those principles and those values, I’m in. The minute it — or I’m out the minute it becomes about that. I’m in as long as it becomes about those.\nYou know, everybody says we don’t have a special interest group for us, we don’t have a lot. You are going to be the special interest group, but it is important that — and I’m going to let this happen organically. I’m not going to steer it. Whatever it is you decide to put together. Now look, this is a very libertarian idea and, you know, libertarian is like trying to round up a bunch of cats. It’s almost impossible. You are going to disagree with people. You are going to have a hard time getting through, but forget about arguing about the parties. Forget about arguing, \"Oh, well, you guys did this and you guys did that.\" Forget about it. It is a waste of time, and I really believe time is running out. So focus on what you are, who you believe, what you think we need to do as a country and stop tearing the other side apart because we — at least I do. I know who the Republicans are. They sold their soul to the devil, for power and money.\nNow, that’s not all of them, but the ones, the ones who have been in control, they are that. And a lot of them have decided they would become progressive Republicans. The Democrats who’s running the party right now is the same thing except they are an extreme to the left. There are good people in both parties, but they’re alone. And here’s what I believe can happen. It may not but it will be up to you. What can happen. If you decide to keep this as a grassroots, if you use the meetup.com, you use the912project.com and you heard these cats together and you put together some real principles and you live by those principles, I’m telling you that I can bring my camera from state to state, I can bring my television and radio show from state to state and there will be politicians that will beg you for your support. They will beg you because they will fear you because you will be in such great number. But that will only happen if you don’t make it about politics, if you only make it about principles and values. Once it becomes about politics, it’s done. You must stand for principles, and the number one principle you just stand for is to reestablish the Constitution. It has been so perverted by man, this country has been so perverted, it needs to be reestablished. And if you will stand on the founding principles and you know what you’re talking about, that’s why I said in the show — and people I know blow this off but, gang, unless you know what you’re supposed to know, unless you know who our founders are, you won’t be able to do this. They will win. They will win. You must know who the founders are.\nYou know, I read a great quote. I’m reading a book about Harry Truman right now and I was reading a part of his childhood and he was a mousey little kid. He had glasses. So he couldn’t go out and play and, you know, et cetera, et cetera. But all of the kids when they would be playing, you know, cowboys and Indians, they would ask him, \"No, no, no, wait a minute, what happened with Marshal Dillon, what happened?\" And he would explain it because he knew history. And he said all readers are not leaders but every leader must be a reader. You must know history. You must know ours. And it hasn’t been taught. Develop and we’ll help you on this on the 9/12 project. We’ll help you develop book clubs. We’ll help you with developing things where you can grab your neighbors together. I had notes stuffed in my mailbox in my neighborhood. I thought I was alone in my neighborhood. I had notes stuffed into my mailbox: Please, Glenn, will you join us at our table, will you join us in our… yes, I will, because you’re my neighbor and this is going to happen in the neighborhoods. It’s going to happen in your house. That’s the only way it will work, if it’s done on a small scale and yet everybody is doing it across the country. This is true grassroots.\nSTU: I still don’t see how any of this explains the crying.\nGLENN: I was going to explain that, wasn’t I?\nSTU: That was the thought at one point.\nGLENN: I’m a chick.\nSTU: That explains the crying.\nGLENN: I just believe in my country. I just believe in my country.\nSTU: A lot of people believe in their country without crying on national television every three minutes.\nGLENN: I believe that it has been so perverted and on Friday I had so much hope that it could be saved because there are so many people that feel the way I do, and it was amazing to see them and to feel them and to know that they were all across the country.\nSTU: There was a lot of people there, most of them not crying. Just pointing out.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line837097"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6576237678527832,"wiki_prob":0.3423762321472168,"text":"Community Foundation hires two new employees\nREADING, PA (April 26, 2019) – Berks County Community Foundation has hired two local residents as new employees.\nBrian Martin has been named to the newly-created position of Director of Accounting and Technology. He will assist the Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations in managing the financial and technology functions of the Community Foundation.\nBrian worked in the insurance business for a number of years before moving on to a wholesale company. There, he served as Vice President of Accounting and Administration.\nA lifelong Berks County resident and a graduate of Antietam High School, Brian received a scholarship from the Antietam Foundation Scholarship Fund of Berks County Community Foundation in 2000.\nThis marks the first time that a recipient of a Community Foundation scholarship has been hired by the Foundation.\nBrian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance with a minor in Legal Environment of Business from The Pennsylvania State University.\nJosie Munroe has taken on the visible role of receptionist at the entrance to the Community Foundation’s busy Community Conference Center at its headquarters at Third and Court streets. Nonprofits can hold meetings, workshops and events in the Conference Center at no charge.\nJosie Munroe\nAs the Community Foundation’s bilingual receptionist, Josie helps oversee the Conference Center and lobby, greets and directs all callers and visitors, and handles clerical duties.\nImmediately prior to coming to the Community Foundation, Josie worked on QVC’s live TV programming, operating behind the scenes to drive sales and increase profit margins through fashion styling, merchandising, and carrying out the vision of fashion designers and producers.\nA New York City native, Josie moved to West Reading in 2014. In New York, she worked for major TV studios, such as MTV, Paramount and Warner Bros., where she managed wardrobe and prop departments and executed the vision of art directors and television producers.\nJosie replaces Eunis Domenech as receptionist. As previously announced, Eunis was promoted to Finance and Operations Administrator to oversee the Foundation’s accounts payable and other finance-related functions.\nBerks County Community Foundation is a nonprofit corporation that serves as a civic leader for our region by developing, managing and distributing charitable funds aimed at improving the quality of life in Berks County. More information is available at www.bccf.org.\njasonb@bccf.org2019-04-26T11:49:38-04:00News|","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line135999"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9424963593482971,"wiki_prob":0.9424963593482971,"text":"One of the last remaining Confederate monuments in California is vandalized\nBy Colleen Shalby\nPalm trees surround the graves and headstones in Santa Ana Cemetery, seen here in 1996. (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)\nOne of the last remaining Confederate monuments in California was vandalized days after the Fourth of July.\nThe Sons of Confederate Veterans monument was erected in the Santa Ana Cemetery in 2004. On Sunday, it was discovered covered in red paint with the word “racists” written vertically down one side.\nThe 7-ton granite monument is dedicated to those who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. It includes the names of 33 people with ties to the Confederacy, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.\nIn the past two years, as monuments and statues dedicated to Confederate soldiers have been taken down throughout the country amid an outcry over the glorification of a history tied to slavery and racism, the Orange County Cemetery District Board grappled with a decision regarding the monument’s future.\nThe confederate monument at the Santa Ana cemetery was vandalized with paint https://t.co/aX3oMxlrOW #orangecounty\n— Orange County reddit (@OCReddit) July 8, 2019\nOrange County Cemetery District general manager Tim Deutsch said the board initially agreed that the monument could stay put with some modifications, which included limiting the names inscribed on the memorial to soldiers who died in Orange County after the war. More than 300 Civil War soldiers are buried in Santa Ana.\nBut more recently, the district couldn’t find details on the original board action regarding the monument’s approval. When the Sons of Confederate Veterans failed to respond to the board’s letters about modifications and permit violations, members approved its removal on July 2. Until it is removed, Deutsch said the monument remains concealed from public view under a tarp after efforts to remove the graffiti failed.\nCalifornia confronts its Confederate past as monuments are abruptly removed\nBy Esmeralda Bermudez, Corina Knoll and Anh Do\nDebate over the place of Confederate symbols in American history escalated in 2015 after a self-proclaimed white supremacist massacred worshipers at a Charleston, S.C., church. Following the mass shooting, President Obama called for the removal of the Confederate flag from places of honor, saying it was a “reminder of systemic oppression and racial subjugation.” Soon after, South Carolina lawmakers voted to take the flag down from the Statehouse.\nThe debate has continued, and escalated to a new level in 2017. A Unite the Right rally turned violent when a group protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va., clashed with demonstrators on the opposite side. The chaos ended with a white supremacist plowing his car into a crowd of demonstrators, leaving one woman dead.\nGordon Bricken, an amateur historian and former mayor of Santa Ana who helped establish the monument, uncovered much of Santa Ana’s Civil War connections before his death in 2013. With the help of a group of Civil War buffs, he was able to locate the graves of more than 800 Civil War veterans in Orange County.\nHis daughter, Patricia Bricken, told the Orange County Register that the monument was never meant to glorify the negative history often attached to the Confederacy.\n“That’s part of our freedom, is that we should be able to erect monuments to whoever we want, especially on private land,” she said. “We didn’t force it down anybody’s throat at all.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line628616"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.918344259262085,"wiki_prob":0.918344259262085,"text":"Report: Hawaii wasn't ready to handle missile threat alert\nAssociated PressMore from Associated Press\nUpdated: February 20, 2018 5:25 PM EDT\nAmazon rivals ride on Prime Day marketing as protests unfold\nGoogle exec claims search engine not biased against conservatives\nThis Jan. 13, 2018 file smartphone screen capture shows a false incoming ballistic missile emergency alert sent from the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency system.Caleb Jones / AP Photo\nHONOLULU — Hawaii’s nuclear missile scare showed that the state began testing alerts before fully developing a plan to address the ballistic missile threat and that a public outreach campaign months earlier wasn’t effective, said a report released Tuesday.\nThe state Department of Defence, the agency that oversees Hawaii’s emergency management, released the internal review after an alert was sent to cellphones, televisions and radio stations across the state last month.\nThe notification, which read “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” triggered widespread panic as more than a million residents and visitors feared they were about to face a ballistic missile strike.\nGov. David Ige assigned Brig. Gen. Kenneth Hara, the second in command at the Department of Defence, to conduct a comprehensive review of the agency’s operations.\n“The response and recovery sections of the plan were minimally developed,” Hara’s report said. “The plan lacked clear details for sheltering, county co-ordination and protocols for decision to send out all clear or false missile alert messages, e.g., interception, missile impact without effect to Hawaii, etc.”\nThe public didn’t get adequate directions about what to do, the report said.\nAn agency employee mistakenly sent the alert to cellphones and broadcast stations across the state during a shift-change drill at the agency on Jan. 13.\nOfficials later disclosed the employee didn’t think he and his colleagues were participating in a drill and instead believed a real attack was imminent. The state has since fired him.\nState officials said the worker, who had been employed at the agency for 11 years, had mistakenly believed two prior drills — for tsunami and fire warnings — were actual events. His supervisors counselled him but kept him for a decade in a position that had to be renewed each year.\nIn this Jan. 13, 2018, file photo provided by Civil Beat, cars drive past a highway sign that says “MISSILE ALERT ERROR THERE IS NO THREAT” on the H-1 Freeway in Honolulu. (Cory Lum/AP Photo) Cory Lum / Civil Beat via AP\nThe ex-worker disputed that, saying he wasn’t aware of any performance problems. The employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he feared for his safety after receiving death threats, told reporters that he was devastated about causing panic but was “100 per cent sure” at the time that the attack was real.\nSome managers didn’t follow proper procedures to deal with unsatisfactory performance, which contributed to the false alert, the report said.\nHara’s report recommends employee development training for supervisors and managers.\nThe agency’s administrator, Vern Miyagi, resigned on Jan. 30. The agency’s executive officer, Toby Clairmont, resigned down shortly after the incident because it was clear action would be taken against agency leaders, he said.\nA fourth employee was suspended without pay.\nIt took the agency 38 minutes to send a follow-up message to broadcast stations and cellphones notifying people the alert was a mistake, in part because the agency had no prepared message it could send out in the event of a false alarm.\nWithin hours of the alert, the agency changed protocols to start requiring that two people send an alert. It also made it easier to cancel alerts by preparing a pre-programmed false alarm message.\nThe report’s recommendations include suspending all activities related to the Ballistic Missile Preparedness Campaign, with the exception of the monthly ballistic missile alert tone siren testing, until a plan is published and the majority of Hawaii’s public know “what to do, where to go, and when to do it.”\nIt also recommends reviewing the feasibility of reinstituting “fallout shelters.” Hawaii stopped maintaining such shelters after the Cold War ended and funding ran out.\nAlthough spurred by the missile scare, the report provides recommendations about all the hazards the islands face. Because Hawaii relies on nearly all of its goods to be imported, the report recommends improving ports and expanding distribution infrastructure, but notes doing so will be expensive and time-consuming.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line801561"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5274434089660645,"wiki_prob":0.47255659103393555,"text":"Charity Corner: Book Aid International\nWelcome back to Charity Corner. This is my new series where I will be using my blog as a platform to lend a voice to different charities and organisations of all sizes, backgrounds and causes. Today’s Charity Corner, I speak to Jenny Hayes, the Communications Executive at Book Aid International, a charity which provides books to underprivileged places in the world.\nWhat is the mission of Book Aid International?\nBook Aid International is the UK’s leading international book provision and library development charity. We believe that books and reading give people the opportunity to change their lives for the better. Our mission is therefore to get brand new books to the places around the world where books are scarce but where, if people had access to books, they could make a huge difference. To do this, we work in partnership with libraries, providing brand new books, resources and training to support environments in which reading for pleasure, study and lifelong learning can flourish.\nWhat’s the story behind the creation of your charity?\nBook Aid International was founded in 1954 by Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly. Two years prior to that, Lady Ranfurly had moved with her husband to the Bahamas where he was Governor General. As she toured the islands, she was shocked at the lack of reading materials. She set about collecting books which she packed up and sent to schools, libraries and institutions on the islands. Thus the Ranfurly Library Service was born. On her return to the UK in 1956 Lady Ranfurly decided to expand her ‘book scheme’ to the British Commonwealth. The Ranfurly Library Service took up residence in London and sent books to countries all over the world. In 1994 the charity changed its name to Book Aid International.\nWhat outcomes has Book Aid seen through its work?\nThe charity has been going for over sixty years and in that time we have sent more than 33 million books to libraries around the world. There are more brilliant outcomes than we can count! The books we send are helping students at Mzuzu University in Malawi continue with their studies after their library was destroyed by a fire. In the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya, they allow people forced from their homes to continue their education. Prisoners in Uganda use them to study for law degrees while they await trial. In Sierra Leone, the books are helping pupils who missed a whole year of school during the Ebola crisis get back to learning; and that’s just to name a few! Take a look at these individuals’ stories of the positive difference books have made in their lives on our website.\nIn what way do donations to your charity benefit you?\nWhen it costs just £2 to send a book, donations achieve so much! We work with our partners to get books to the places and people where they can make the most difference, supporting libraries which might otherwise have empty shelves. This includes libraries in schools, hospitals, prisons, refugee camps, cities, slums and remote and rural communities. Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, each year we send our library partners around one million brand new books to fill over 2,600 libraries and provide hundreds of thousands of readers with the resources they need to develop their skills, make the most of their educations and discover a passion for reading . We also work with our partners to develop programmes to help readers get the most out of the books we send. In 2016 we launched our Inspiring Readers programme to create libraries in schools where it is common for children to share one book between many. Through this programme, we aim to improve the reading opportunities of a quarter of a million primary school children in Africa. As part of this, teachers are trained in bringing books to life in the classroom and they are linked up with a local library to access bigger book collections and to visit with their classes for further reading activities. In 2016, the programme launched in Kenya and Uganda and this year it will expand into schools in Malawi and Uganda.\nHow can people help Book Aid International besides just giving money?\nThere are many, many ways people can support us besides donating money, from packing books in our warehouse to running marathons to baking! There really is something for everyone. If you are able to join us at our warehouse in Camberwell, London, we always welcome regular help with stamping and packing books ready to ship to our partners. In 2016, we sent our library partners 1,032,610 books and we couldn’t have done this without the dedication and hard work of our fantastic warehouse volunteers! Many of our supporters choose to fundraise for us in a variety of ways, from holding cake sales at work to running marathons. We also have a team of dedicated Community Ambassadors who raise awareness about our work in their communities by speaking about our work at schools and festivals and holding events to fundraise for us.\nBook Aid International is one of World Book Day’s official partner charities and every year hundreds of school children fundraise for us by donating £1 to dress up as part of their schools’ celebrations. Last year, their efforts raised over £121,000 – that’s enough to send 60,500 books to our partners! People also hold cake sales, readathons and quizzes to support our work on World Book Day both in schools and workplaces. This year World Book Day will be on 2 nd March and taking part by dressing up or fundraising is easier than ever before. Visit our website to get started. We also welcome support on social media. Retweets and post-sharing are a great way our supporters can help spread the word about our work. We really couldn’t do the work we do without our supporters. You can find out more here.\nWhere can people find more information on your charity?\nFor further information about Book Aid International, from more details on where we work and what we do, to the stories of the people we support, visit our website.\nDo you have a charity that you’d like me to discuss in this series? Please email me for more info. Click here for more Charity Corner features.\nLet’s be friends, add me on Bloglovin\nFiled Under: Charity Corner\nTags: Books, Charity Corner, International Book Aid, Lady Ranfurly, World Book Day\nCharity Corner: ASH Wales\nCharity Corner: Battersea Dogs & Cats Home","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1477437"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6605281829833984,"wiki_prob":0.33947181701660156,"text":"When Vala Afshar Tweets, People Listen\nToday@UMass Lowell\nTell Us About It\nElectrical Engineering Alum a Leading Influencer as Salesforce’s Chief Digital Evangelist\nPhoto by Ed Brennen\nElectrical engineering alum Vala Afshar, chief digital evangelist at Salesforce, talks to students about digital business disruption at Alumni Hall.\nBy Ed Brennen\nAs “Chief Digital Evangelist” at Salesforce, a global leader in customer relationship management technology, Vala Afshar’s job is to understand the forces behind the digital business revolution – and to share his insights with the world.\nAfshar’s tallest soapbox is Twitter, where the UMass Lowell alum has more than 216,000 followers and he receives about 2 million mentions per day. He also has a popular HuffPost blog, a weekly web series and a book, “The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence.”\nForbes has named Afshar the top social media influencer of chief marketing officers (CMOs) for two years running. Not bad for someone who couldn’t even speak English when he emigrated to the United States from Iran at age 10. After resettling with his family in the Boston area, Afshar earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Francis College of Engineering and began his career in 1996 as a software developer.\nAfshar returned to campus recently to help the Manning School of Business launch its participation in the Trailhead for Students Program, a Salesforce initiative that lets students (of all majors) learn more about its technology and better prepare for internships, co-ops and jobs after graduation. Afshar spoke with students and faculty about digital business disruption and the role of technology. He also took time to answer a few questions about his own career (as well as one about President Trump’s Twitter use).\nVala Afshar poses for a photo with student Yomar Salazar Reyes after speaking at Alumni Hall.\nQ. How does an electrical engineering grad become chief digital evangelist at a $60 billion company that’s been ranked “Most Innovative” by Forbes for seven straight years?\nA. As a student, I learned that I could contribute most to project-based assignments. I enjoyed the beauty of a presentation, building a strong narrative, connecting technology to business outcomes. That’s when I knew there was a little marketing-sales guy in me. But it took me 15 years to pursue that marketing piece. The teachers I have fond memories of are great storytellers. They could explain not just the “what” and the “how,” but the “why.” And when you understand the thing that you’re building, how it can advance society, whether in health care, education, whatever industry you end up serving, that’s important.\nBut I didn’t go to UMass Lowell thinking I’m going to be a storyteller for one of the fastest growing, most successful companies in the world right now. What I did discover five years ago (as CMO at Enterasys Networks) is that if you take that small step of sharing things that you find interesting on social media, over time people will find you interesting. So now, when I read an article or watch a TED Talk or I’m at a conference and someone is doing something that inspires me, I share that. Social changed my career.\nQ. Why is it important for students to be active on social media?\nA. This year, for the first time, social surpassed SEO (search engine optimization) as the No. 1 way of finding digital content. There’s 1 million Facebook logins per minute and half a million tweets per minute. If you are a student and don’t have a digital footprint, you are losing big-time. I applied for my job at Salesforce on a direct message on Twitter. I didn’t even have a résumé, and they didn’t care. Digital-native companies – the ones born in the cloud, mobile, social – they don’t follow traditional rules. Students should work hard in class, get good grades and build awesome CVs, but trust me, employers are looking at your digital footprint and your digital exhaust – those unintended consequences of things you leave behind.\nTwenty years ago, I won a graduate research award here and I didn’t have the opportunity to share my achievement. Today I think about all those research papers and presentations that might be good to share with others outside the Lowell ecosystem. The reason I have 200,000-plus followers on Twitter is because when I find something interesting, I share. That’s how you increase your likelihood of being employable. And it doesn’t have to be Twitter. I don’t even know if Twitter is cool among UMass Lowell students. Maybe it’s Snapchat or WhatsApp. But my point is, your digital footprint and exhaust will define your career moving forward.\nQ. What skills should students be building to succeed in the digital economy?\nA. The most important skill in a digital economy is your ability to stay teachable. Your thirst and hunger for staying interested is so important. If you’re not teachable, you will not reach your full potential in your career. You need to be taking a personal inventory proactively. What did I learn this week? This month? Did I share it with anyone? If you’re not learning cool stuff every month, not becoming a better student, you’re falling behind.\nThe importance of emotional intelligence, of being mindful, is critically important. That’s why I believe liberal arts degrees are the most important in the digital economy. Liberal arts students can teach businesses. When you talk about artificial intelligence and the fact that we’re entering an algorithmic economy, how do you prevent biases from being baked into those algorithms? If we are worried about over-automating and taking the humanity out of business, it’s important to have a rich, diverse background.\nIf I could build a time machine and go back to school, I’d spend rigorous time fine-tuning my writing skills. I’m a first-generation immigrant who moved to the U.S. (from Iran) when I was 10 years old. I couldn’t speak the language, but I was really good at math, hence the engineering track. But boy, I should have spent more time reading and writing.\nStay teachable, always be interested and share what you learn were key points of advice Vala Afshar shared with students.\nQ. What does being named the top CMO influencer mean to you, and does the distinction bring any added pressure when you tweet?\nA. I’m humbled and surprised. As a former CMO, I appreciated when people would educate me on what investments I should make in marketing, or what tech would help grow a business and delight customers. So all I’m doing is giving back.\nThere is pressure, but it’s good pressure. There’s accountability, transparency – all these things that motivate you. There’s a sense of responsibility when you’re named someone who influences businesses and business leaders. It motivates me to curate and create quality content, because it’s a privilege to become a trusted adviser. I get to be in the room with influential CMOs who share content, and suddenly you realize your voice is being scaled based on the quality of connections and networks you’ve made.\nIf your North Star, your guiding principles, are such that you’re motivated by educating, inspiring and igniting positive action, then finding your name on these lists simply allows you to continue to appreciate your network. It’s a great feeling, and I don’t take it for granted.\nQ. As a social media expert, what do you think of President Trump’s use of Twitter?\nA. I believe one of the key factors in him being elected was his use of social. It’s the next generation of building a ground base. The way he used it, regardless if you agree or disagree with him politically, there’s no question that it was him. And therefore, if you appreciate authenticity, consistency and staying true to who you are, then I think it was brilliant use of social media.\nRegardless of your political affiliations, being able to connect at a level where no one’s questioning that it’s your words, your sentiment, your viewpoints, I think was very instructive. And lesson learned for future politicians or business leaders: It’s your face that’s on the avatar, it’s your bio and it’s your words, so stay true to who you are.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line457101"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6174330115318298,"wiki_prob":0.6174330115318298,"text":"Advanced detachment: The revolutionary Party of the African working class\nOmali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party\nFeature: Chairman Omali Yeshitela\nDual and contending power: The history and struggle for economic development in the African People's Socialist Party\nDavey D interviews Chairman Omali Yeshitela\nWatch: AZANIA! The People, the Land and the Revolution\nFortress America besieged: war penetrates imperialist sanctuary\nMessage to the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from the African Socialist International\nMessage to the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela from the African Socialist International (French)\nChristopher Dorner and the revolutionary struggle for Black Power\nDjango Unchained, or, \"Killing whitey while protecting white power\": A critical analysis\nA Call to Arms!\nEditor’s Note: This article is excerpted from an article that first appeared in the pages of The Burning Spear 28 years ago under the title, “The History and Role of the Proletarian Party of the Black Working Class.”\nAt the time, evidence of the crisis of imperialism that defines today’s reality was coming into sharp focus. The U.S. presidency of Ronald Wilson Reagan was the white ruling class’s war-mongering repressive response to that crisis.\nThe response of the African People’s Socialist Party was to help the African working class recognize its historical mission as the primary agent of revolutionary transformation and to help the class achieve its full capacity to carry out its mission.\nToday we are faced with the same task. It more important now than ever to mobilize the African working class in its own selfish interests and to equip the class to lead the international struggle for the liberation and unification of Africa and African people under its leadership as the new ruling class.\nThe U.S. presidency of Barack Hussein Obama and the success of the white ruling class in removing most evidence of the Black Revolution of the Sixties make it incumbent upon our Party to help African people and especially the working class, to become engaged in independent, self-serving political life.\nWe are printing this excerpt as one of the steps we will be taking to win African people and workers to independent revolutionary organization that is guided by advanced revolutionary theory.\nAn error in this piece is the reference of our philosophy as Pan Africanism developed to its higher stage. As the referenced quote in this piece clearly shows, we have never been Pan Africanists. The reader should be aware that it was the lingering ideological influence of the African petty bourgeoisie that made that error possible.\nPolitical parties are organizations of the most advanced representatives of a particular class. The tasks of political parties are directly tied to the material interests of the classes they represent.\nSometimes elements of a particular class are not aware of their own class interests. There are people from the white ruling class, for example, who are drunks or drug addicts, or even insane. Sometimes elements of the ruling class are wife beaters, bed wetters, or lazy ignoramuses who are unconcerned and disdainful of the overall interests of the capitalist-colonialist ruling class.\nNevertheless, some members and representatives of the white ruling class take it upon themselves to organize into political parties, which represent and look out for the interests of the entire class, including the drunks, wife beaters, etc. We call these people the advanced or activist elements of their class.\nWhat are the interests of the U.S. capitalist-colonialist class? The most fundamental interest of the capitalist-colonialist ruling class is the perpetuation of the capitalist system and itself as the ruling class. This fundamental interest gives rise to other interests:\nEconomically, there is the interest to eliminate all economic competition, both domestically and internationally. The interest of the capitalist-colonialist ruling class is in dominating the natural resources and markets of the entire world.\nPolitically, there is the interest in restricting the political liberties of the peoples of the entire world. This is an interest in crushing any political liberties that do not facilitate the economic domination of the U.S. capitalists. It is an interest in restricting the development of any independent political expression that would challenge the hegemony of U.S. capitalism.\nIdeologically, the interests of the white ruling class are served by idealism and obscurantism, which covers over reality. This keeps the oppressed and exploited peoples, especially the African working class, separated from an understanding of their own material interests. It keeps oppressed and exploited peoples ignorant of science and a scientific approach to an examination of the nature of class exploitation and national oppression. Ideologically, the interests of the white ruling class give rise to ideological imperialism, the imperialist imposition of its worldview, aims and ideology onto oppressed peoples. Imperialist domination of ideology is consistent with the economic domination of the capitalist system.\nDuring the sixties, black political parties began to emerge from within the colonized African population in the U.S. as a result of the internal pressures of class contradictions. As these contradictions began to crystallize, they revealed a colonial society that was much more complex than before.\nBefore the movement won our legal democratic rights, it was all of “us” (blacks) against “them” (whites). The U.S. government was not generally recognized as an agent of a particular class and social system. Our movement, under the leadership of the black petty bourgeoisie, courted the various U.S. presidents assiduously, hoping to find a “good” president who was sympathetic to the general democratic aims and demands of the movement.\nBy 1965, after a decade of most intense struggle, our movement won the vote and our legal democratic rights. In the process, the black petty bourgeoisie was growing as a result of the effectiveness of the movement and the intervention of the liberal white bourgeoisie. With the vote and legal rights, the basic aspirations of the black middle class were, in effect, realized. For them the movement had reached its goal.\nFor the new generation of fully mobilized African workers that was thrust onto the scene as the main social factor in the U.S. political life, its aspirations were far from being met by gaining legal democratic rights. The attempts by the petty bourgeoisie to moderate the Black Liberation Movement, to decelerate it and direct it toward liberal bourgeois democratic sops, were met with the cries of “Burn, baby burn,” in Los Angeles and “Black Power” in Mississippi.\nAt this point the independent aspirations of the African working class became clear. This new clarity fueled efforts to build independent political parties by and for the colonially oppressed African population. Nevertheless, our inexperience frustrated our efforts at party-building. More often than not, we were unable to build parties that clearly identified the class interests they served. Generally we were not able to show that the African working class had an interest in overthrowing the colonial oppression of our whole people.\nThe party-building movement was successful, however, in creating party formations that raised principles of unity going beyond the limitations of the liberal black petty bourgeoisie. Those who could unite with militant anti-colonial principles that clearly distinguished African workers from the black petty bourgeoisie joined the party and were able to characterize themselves ambiguously as revolutionaries and black nationalists. Such parties began to characterize sectors of the movement that were trapped inside the limitations of reform as Uncle Toms and sometimes as the black bourgeoisie.\nNone of these parties was capable of raising up the interests of the black working class as the hegemonic interests of the party. Although it was the pressure of the black working class resistance and struggle that pushed this party-building process forward, it was essentially petty bourgeois nationalists—often revolutionary—who were leading this effort. The black working class was yet to seize leadership of its own revolutionary movement, even as history was pushing events in that direction with growing urgency.\nBlack Panthers, first black worker’s party\nThe Black Panther Party, which emerged in 1966–67, came closest to being the party of the African working class. 6 For the first time in the history of our movement, an independent black political party had identified itself as a socialist or communist organization, with socialist or communist revolutionary objectives. 7\nInherent in this identification was the assumption of a worldview with the interests of the African working class at its center. Certainly the vast bulk of the membership of the Black Panther Party was working class, and its Ten Point Program and Platform raised fundamentally working class demands.\nThe Black Panther Party (BPP) gave the colonially oppressed African working class more experience in leading its own struggle than any organization before it. Nevertheless, it muddled its own effectiveness with an ideology that mystified the character of the black working class under colonialism. Instead of elevating its membership to the highest stance of the African working class, the Black Panther Party idealized the traits of the lumpen proletariat, a non-working class element of unstable and unemployable people, as the leadership of the Revolution. In this process, the BPP mistakenly identified colonized unemployed black workers, who sometimes have lumpen tendencies, as the lumpen proletariat. 8\nNevertheless, the Black Panther Party provided the closest thing to a revolutionary center that our movement had ever experienced. Although incorrect on some essentials, the BPP introduced the question of class struggle to our movement, a question that was briefly taken up within a large sector of the African working class itself.\nBourgeois democracy and the parties of the white ruling class\nThe parties of the white ruling class inside the U.S. are the Democratic and Republican parties. The objective of the Democratic and Republican parties is the perpetuation of the capitalist social system, which rests on the foundation of African oppression. Although both of these parties are capable of prattle about democracy, the democracy they talk about is only a description of the form of the U.S. State, which exercises capitalist rule with its organs of coercion such as the police, army, the courts, etc. Besides being “democratic,” the capitalist State can take the form of dictatorship or monarchy, among others.\nNeither the Democratic or Republican party is capable of talking about overthrowing the capitalist social system. Neither party will ever be able to bring about democratic self-determination for the broad mass of African people. This is because the capitalist social system within the boundaries of the U.S., perhaps more than any place else, rests on the foundation of African oppression going back to the days of what is called slavery.\nThe Democratic and Republican parties have been excellent tools of the white ruling class precisely because they appear to give African workers, oppressed peoples and even the general white population a choice in the U.S. They give the illusion of providing alternatives and freedom of democratic participation in American political life.\nThe Republican and Democratic parties make it possible for the white ruling class to monopolize political, economic and ideological power while obscuring the class interests that they represent. Since oppressed peoples, like sectors of the bourgeoisie, are often ignorant of their class interests, African workers generally attempt to pursue their class interests within the parties of the white ruling class, especially the Democratic party in this period.\nWithin the U.S. and most capitalist countries there is generally, but not always, more than one capitalist party. This allows the bourgeoisie to wear two hats, a kind of “good cop, bad cop” routine. In this way, the bourgeois social system protects itself by passing political power to one bourgeois party when the other has come into disrepute with the people.\nThe fact that the people can vote for one or the other bourgeois party gives the impression of political free will by the masses and acts as a social pressure release valve, blunting the development of class struggle. This is what is called bourgeois democracy.\nActually the people have not exercised free will, which presupposes information and science. Freedom is the recognition of necessity, which is prerequisite to exercising free will. Within the U.S. and other places where more than one capitalist party dominates political life, elections are means of nonviolent struggle by different sectors of the ruling class for control of the State.\nThe various social forces are not organized into their own independent class parties and engaged in conscious class struggle, one against the other. Instead, the American two-party system mobilizes African and other oppressed workers into the service of a sector of the white ruling class as it engages in intra-class struggle with another sector. The two-party system obscures the class interests of the exploited workers and oppressed peoples, reducing them to reserve forces for one sector of the bourgeoisie or another.\nThe question of class struggle within the U.S. has always been difficult enough even without the two-party duplicity of the bourgeoisie. This has to do with the parasitic nature of the capitalist system. Within the U.S., this parasitism stems from a social system built on stolen land, the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Native people and the enslavement of African people.\nThe entire white population—workers and bourgeoisie alike—and all social forces and classes that benefit from the development of the “New World,” find their happiness and freedom from political oppression and material want at the expense of the life, liberty and development of Indigenous and African peoples.\nHence, there is a material, economic basis for the political unity that exists between the North American bourgeoisie and the general white population. This political unity is directed against the African, Indigenous and other colonized peoples here and around the world, in defense of the capitalist social system.\nThe parasitic nature of the capitalist system is the basis for the political and ideological leadership of the modern U.S.-based African proletariat. The African working class is the only social force that has the exact combination of qualities which makes it an absolute, volatile opponent of the capitalist social system.\nAlong with the Indigenous people, the oppression of the African people represents the foundation upon which the capitalist social system rests. The nineteenth century philosopher Karl Marx termed this economic relationship “primitive accumulation…an accumulation not the result of the capitalist mode of production but its starting point.” The African population exists as a domestic colony upon which the U.S. capitalist system was founded.\nThe African population is a colonial population within the belly of the U.S., a factor with explosive social connotations in and of itself. In addition, the African population is essentially made up of workers, with estimates ranging from eighty-eight to ninety-four percent of U.S.-based African people falling into the working class.\nRacism or white nationalism, the ideological foundation of U.S. and world capitalism, has as its basis “primitive accumulation,” the material foundation of the U.S. and world capitalist social system that was born and maintained at the expense of African, Indigenous and other oppressed peoples.\nInside the U.S., the class struggle against the capitalist-colonialist social system is centered in the colonized African population, which constitutes the true proletariat. Through the Black Revolution of the Sixties, the African working class came to understand that the bourgeois parties are opposed to our genuine interests.\nWhen the black working class was organized into its own party in the sixties with the Black Panther Party as its legitimate representative, the African working class became a formidable opponent to the U.S. capitalist system. The threat of organized African workers was so great that the chief of the U.S. secret political police declared the Black Panther Party the greatest threat to the internal security of the U.S. since the Civil War.\nThe war against the Black Revolution\nWhen the black working class was organized into its own party, with its class and national interests summed up in the form of a political program opposed to colonial rule, the Democratic and Republican parties had to call into force the repressive arms of the State. These parties of the bourgeoisie were incapable of engaging in successful ideological and nonviolent political struggle with the black working class. It took an all out urban war against the black working class in the sixties for a return to imperialist class peace and the reinstatement of the facade of a two-party system supposedly representing the class interests of all the people.\nThis war saw African workers stand up alone not only against armed police organizations, but even armed military forces usually reserved for foreign U.S. intervention. In Detroit this included the Eighty-second Airborne Division. In urban areas throughout the U.S., military tanks and an assortment of other sophisticated armaments were deployed against the unarmed black working class communities.\nThe military offensive, directed by the Democratic and Republican parties, was faced with the immediate task of putting down a massive movement with insurrectionary characteristics similar to that presently occurring in Occupied Azania (South Africa). This military offensive, or counterinsurgency, was designed to destroy the will of the entire African working class to struggle by crushing their independent organizations, particularly the Black Panther Party.\nThe U.S. ruling class used its military power, its state power, to defeat the independent, revolutionary capacity of the African working class, the only internal social force that made it necessary to defend the capitalist social system. The African working class was the only social force inside the U.S. that was capable of challenging the bourgeoisie for power, the fundamental question for any revolution.\nFor all these years subsequent to the military defeat of the Black Revolution of the Sixties the bourgeoisie has expended a tremendous amount of energy and resources in keeping the African working class politically disoriented, disorganized and unable to come together organizationally in its own class interests.\nThe methods for this have ranged from open white ruling class bribery of nonproletarian social forces, to naked terror against the African working class itself. Evidence of the African working class in the popular culture has nearly disappeared. Michael Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Prince, and Lionel Ritchie have become the stereotypes of the acceptable African within the U.S. On the occasions when black working class elements are allowed to emerge as acceptable, it is as followers of Jesse Jackson into the Democratic party. Or it is as fictionalized pathetic, poor black working class children who manage to escape colonial poverty through being adopted by well-to-do white petty bourgeois families, as seen on television sit-coms.\nA significant sector of the liberal black petty bourgeoisie accepted neocolonial roles in the bourgeois Democratic party. This is payoff in material resources and prestige for administrating the African working class in areas where white direct colonial rule would be unacceptable. The Jesse Jackson presidential campaign was a manifestation of this, along with the bombing of an African working class community in Philadelphia by a black mayor and a black city manager. 9\nIn the years since the sixties, the white women's and homosexual movements have become virtual scabs on the Black Revolution. These movements are incapable of raising up and supporting the Black Liberation Movement which is the quintessence of the class struggle within the U.S.\nThe black petty bourgeois neocolonialist puppets and the women's and homosexual movements are conscious opportunist movements. They offer up the battered carcass of the collective African working class to the altar of capitalism as offerings of class peace in exchange for privileges for themselves. They all attempt to mute and obscure class struggle and call on the people to join the Democratic party to achieve their aims.\nWith the defeat of the Black Revolution of the Sixties, our independent working class organizations were destroyed and the mass of black workers were disorganized and dispersed. A variety of petty bourgeois social forces, mostly tied to the Democratic party, united with the white ruling class in assuring class peace. Such unity means the muting of any class struggle that has the interests of the African working class at its center.\nThis is the context of the significance of the existence and struggle of the African People's Socialist Party.\nStrategy for revolutionary African working class party\nOrganized in 1972 from surviving black working class organizations of the sixties, the African People's Socialist Party pulled together the best elements of the class subsequent to the defeat of our movement. While we are a revolutionary party, we understand that our task for this period is not to make the Revolution, but to build the capacity of the only consistently revolutionary social force within U.S. borders, the African working class. This means that our primary task is to build the African People's Socialist Party.\nWe must address our strategy for building a truly revolutionary African working class party. This is necessary because at least one petty bourgeois, U.S.-based African organization claims party-building as its main task. This party does not distinguish its main task from its general aim, hence the “task” of party-building has for all practical purposes, become its general aim. This party uses the slogan of party-building to obscure class struggle, to maintain the class peace which is necessary for successful bourgeois colonialist rule.\nFor the African People's Socialist Party, fundamental to the task of party-building is the need to smash the class peace. Otherwise, sectors of the black working class might remain ensconced within the Democratic party. Additionally, the millions of African workers who have rejected the false choice of the two white ruling class parties will be unable to see that we must do more than just turn our backs on this pitfall. We must join and support our own independent parties in order to achieve our own separate class interests.\nFor the African People's Socialist Party, the task of party-building is always a process deeply rooted in solving the concrete, practical problems of the Revolution for the period. A key, fundamental problem today is the reorganization of the black working class into its own independent revolutionary party. We are not, however, talking about party-building for its own sake. For us the task of party-building is for the purpose of solving the most fundamental problems of the Revolution. We are informed of the practical problems of the Revolution by our ability to sum up the period in which we live and assume the task of party-building.\nOur summation of this period informs us that objective conditions for revolution are ripe. The U.S. capitalist-colonialist class is engaged in several undeclared wars, a fact which currently divides the ruling class.\nThe conditions of existence for the black working class are reaching new and greater levels of desperation, and the use of overt police terror against the colonially oppressed African workers is becoming more blatant every day.\nThese conditions are evidence of the general crisis of imperialism. Although the election of Ronald Wilson Reagan as U.S. president was designed to confront this crisis, it continues unabated, nationally and internationally. Clearly, the objective conditions for the African Revolution are very strong.\nHowever, currently there are key weaknesses that we face in the subjective factors for revolution. These include the general state of disorganization of the African working class. This disorganization is facilitated by opportunism on every level. For example, there are the so-called revolutionary black parties that are fearful of class struggle and black working class hegemony over our own movement.\nThere are the silver-tongued, bourgeois-sponsored, neocolonialist black petty bourgeois stooges, whose prestige, appearance of power and material resources are dependent upon their ability to speak for the masses of unorganized black workers. There are the “communists,” “socialists” and “leftists” of all stripes, who can wear such appellations only so long as the African working class is voiceless and unable to impress our own version of class truth on the political life of the U.S. There are the women's and homosexual movements and every other social force that faithfully serves the U.S. bourgeoisie, and who remember with fear and trepidation the undiluted power of the Black Revolution of the Sixties.\nIn practical terms party-building today means, first and foremost, concrete work designed to activate the best of the class into political motion around concrete programs. Our immediate aim is to achieve absolute political hegemony over our movement and class in the process. Party-building means providing leadership for the class even when the party is small and has not yet fully achieved its desired capacity.\nFor example, although small, the African People's Socialist Party has been able to ignite a social movement in Oakland, California. The Party has successfully mobilized elements of the African working class. With the Party at its center, this movement has been able to mobilize social forces of various nationalities into the service of the African working class and away from absolute unity with the bourgeois colonialists.\nAlthough most of the African workers in Oakland are not Party members, the leadership of the Party in the city has made it possible for African workers as a whole to experience an organized fighting capacity around real, concrete, social needs. The Party-led Uhuru Movement in Oakland has led a campaign to successfully challenge the basic assumptions of bourgeois property relations. For the first time since the sixties, the Party has put the bourgeoisie on the political defensive in a struggle with African workers.\nIn 1984, the African People's Socialist Party put an initiative on the electoral ballot in Oakland calling for community control of housing. Known as Measure O, the initiative called for residential rents to be set no higher than twenty-five percent of the average income of a neighborhood. Measure O also called for abandoned houses to be turned over to homeless people. Essentially a land reform measure, the initiative won twenty-five thousand votes, a quarter of the votes cast, despite a half million dollars spent to defeat it by Oakland landlords and realtors. 10\nThus, our small Party, in the process of party-building, was able to provide leadership for African and other working class elements in a fashion greatly disproportionate to our physical size. More than this, the voters who were won to a working class stand in that election stood against the leadership of the bourgeois parties with whom they are registered.\nThe party-building process must awaken the black working class to practical participation in its own political life. This is why party-building is not an abstract process. Real political struggle must be coupled with real, practical leadership of the class when building the party. The party must be capable of mobilizing and leading the African working class and various social forces of various nationalities if it is to be worthy of the name “party.”\nToday we are confronted with a period when the last significant political lesson to be summed up by the black working class is military defeat. Still reeling from the U.S. military assault against our movement of the sixties, the masses of African workers today are restless. They have not yet, however, again concluded that their own interests are summed up in the African working class party, or that joining the party is worth the risk to life and liberty that may be suggested by party membership. Nevertheless, African workers must still have the leadership of the party available to them and be able to claim the party as their own.\nFor the African People's Socialist Party, the party-building process is an open one. We believe the African working class and our allies should have some idea of what parties are and what their functions are. We think our supporters should have a better grip on what it is they support and whether their support is what it needs to be.\nThe African People’s Socialist Party is a revolutionary African working class party, the only such party in the U.S. We are organized around a common General Program and policies that were ratified during our First Party Congress, the highest body of the Party, comprised of representatives of the entire membership.\nOur General Program and our policies are the practical, concrete manifestations of our revolutionary theory of African Internationalism. African Internationalism is Pan-Africanism developed to its highest stage, Pan-Africanism during the age of imperialism.11 African Internationalism unites the African people of the world in a revolutionary process to liberate Africa under the leadership of African workers and poor peasants.\nThe theory of African Internationalism is ever-developing with the new experiences of the international working class, African and otherwise. It is based on a scientific method of investigating and analyzing social life. It recognizes that the current oppressive circumstances of African people have their base in the slave trade, the fundamental feature in the development of world capitalism.\nThe scientific method of investigating social life employed by the African People's Socialist Party is called dialectical and historical materialism.\nBy dialectical we mean that our approach to the investigation of all phenomena is all-sided, taking into consideration the past and present. Dialectical means that we take into account the relationship of a phenomenon in motion to all other phenomena, even as phenomena come into being and die away.\nBy materialism we mean that our analysis of phenomena is based on an investigation of a phenomenon itself, not requiring an explanation of phenomena outside of it.\nBy historical materialism we mean the application of the principles of dialectical materialism to the investigation and interpretation of society and social life.\nThe opposition of the African People's Socialist Party to the U.S. government and the capitalist social system, which rests on our colonial oppression, is total and absolute. There are no circumstances under which we would ever find the foreign domination of our people or the economic exploitation of our class acceptable. We are convinced that capitalism, the social system, was built off the slave trade and the theft of life, liberty, and resources of African people and the non-European peoples of the world. We understand that the world's stolen resources are concentrated in Europe and the U.S., and are owned and controlled by a tiny minority of the people on the planet. Moreover, we are convinced that this capitalist system is on its deathbed.\nWe believe that the future belongs to the dispossessed colonized workers of the world. When armed with a revolutionary theory and led by a revolutionary party, African and other oppressed workers represent the conscious, subjective forces of history necessary for the overthrow of capitalism. This is the only way to bring about the advent of a new social system organized under the leadership of the working masses, the real producers of all material wealth.\nThis new social system will end production for profit and rule by a nonworking minority who maintain private ownership of our resources and control of the means of production.\nWe believe that the new social system that will follow capitalism is communism, a just social system based on labor according to ability and guaranteeing to each person the material resources of life and its reproduction according to need. Communism is the system that the white ruling class and all its hangers-on are attempting to suppress with the oppression of the African working class\nThus we recognize that the African People's Socialist Party, the advanced, conscious detachment of the African working class, is, like the class itself, locked in a life-and-death battle with the U.S. capitalist system. Hence, the members of our Party represent the advanced sector of the African working class. They must constantly strive for a self-motivated discipline that is steeled by conviction.\nAs the advanced detachment of the African working class, the African People's Socialist Party assumes the responsibility for advancing the cause of the whole class, which at any given time may be battered by ignorance, drug addiction, alcoholism, demoralization or other contradictions. The members of the African People's Socialist Party must become professional revolutionaries, individuals whose real profession is revolution with the Party as their vehicle.\nThe African People's Socialist Party recognizes that the colonially oppressed African workers are the most consistently revolutionary social force within the U.S. The African working class will not achieve revolutionary consciousness on its own, however. It is the task of the African People's Socialist Party, even as it is being built to full capacity, to intervene in the day-to-day struggles of the African working class, to forge deep lines in struggle and to lead the class to an ever higher, ever more precise understanding of African Internationalism, the science of black workers' revolution.\nThe African People's Socialist Party, a revolutionary African Internationalist Party based on a revolutionary African working class theory, is a party of professional revolutionaries. All distinctions between workers and intellectuals, laborers and “professionals,” lose their significance. We are welded into one by the common cause of a proletarian future that is being advanced by the party of the colonially oppressed African working class.\nOn one side stand the bourgeoisie and all the institutions which serve to preserve its rule. On the other side stands the oppressed African working class, represented by the African People's Socialist Party.\nTogether, these two social forces represent the great contest of our time. Separately, they represent the past and the future. The conscious representatives of these two great social forces are choosing sides. Every day makes the choice by the African working class and our allies more critical.\nFor us the question is clear. The future will prevail. It is urgent for all those who are taking a neutral seat as spectators in this contest, to take up the call. Take the Great Leap Forward and grab the future in your hands to help shape and mold it in our lifetime, for this generation.\nThose who can, must join the African People's Socialist Party; those who cannot, must support us.\nBuild the revolutionary Party of the African working class!\nBuild the African People's Socialist Party!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1435798"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5062969326972961,"wiki_prob":0.5062969326972961,"text":"Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations\nMission Activities\nRevitalization of the GA\nJuan Carlos Mendoza García, Permanent Representative\nCo-chairs,\nThank you very much for convening this informal meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the\nRevitalization of the work of the General Assembly. This is a great opportunity to exchange views on the\nproposal to appoint the next Secretary-General for a single non-renewable term.\nIn my national capacity my delegation would like to make some additional specific comments on the\nelection of the first female Secretary General, the presentation of more than one candidate and the\nsingle non-renewable term of seven years.\nWe firmly believe that it is high time for a female Secretary General. Costa Rica is convinced that after\neight Secretaries-General males and in the light of the commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of\nthe United Nations, it is time for a woman to occupy that high office. We are convinced that about half\nof the world population there is not one but many women with higher capacities and skills to occupy\nsuch a high post. Costa Rica calls upon Member States to present and support female candidates for the\nappointment of Secretary General.\nCosta Rica wants to see the democratization of the selection process of the Secretary General. Security\nCouncil providing plural number of candidates to the General Assembly for the post increases inclusivity,\ntransparency and most importantly legitimizes the process through voting. United Nations has\nchampioned the cause of democracy, and it is indeed ironical why the principle has not adopted in the\nselection process of the most important position in the organization.\nIt is clear that the length of term on the appointment of the Secretary General is open to revision and\nneeds to be debated. The UN Charter does not need any amendment in order to set the single term\nWe need to reflect on the next selection of the Secretary General having in mind that from now on we\nwill create a new precedent and a new culture on the topic, it is urgent to set a new practice in which\nthe General Assembly has an import role to play, in accordance with the UN Charter, the resolution\n69/321 and other relevant decisions, as well as drafting the final resolution for the appointment of\nSecretary General specifying that the next Secretary General is being appointed for a single non-\nrenewable term of seven years.\nThe single term provides the Secretary General with a political space to get his/her commitments and\ngoals without any distraction of getting reappointed. The world challenges, including the\nimplementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, require a Secretary General without\ncampaigning for a reappointment following interests of individual Member States neither.\nThe current arrangement which provides for a five year term with the possibility of getting re-elected for\na second term prevents the Secretary General from focusing entirely on the agenda at hand. The\npossibility of holding the office for a second term diverts the attention to campaigning, re-election and\nthe complications that comes along.\nA single terms guarantees the Secretary General independence, strengthen her stance, help in giving the\nperson in office a stronger voice and it could aid the Secretary General in ensuring that the\nappointments made at other levels are strong, thus raising the overall quality.\nWe believe that the single term contributes to the accountability of the Secretary General and that\naccountability should be on a regular basis between the Secretary General, the Security Council and the\nIndependence in the exercise of a position like Secretary General does not means lack of care and\nattention for the relative weight and power different countries exercise in global politics. In a\nmultipolar world is clear that balances are to be made in different tense situations. Nevertheless,\nfidelity is not to be expected from any country from a Secretary General that should be faithful to the\nCharter and its principles only.\nMy delegation appreciates the commitment and important role played by the President of the General\nAssembly in implementing the resolution 69/321 and in this regard the letter dated February 25th, 2016\nregarding informal dialogues with the six candidates for the position of Secretary General to be held\nApril 12-14th, 2016.\nIt is time to act in favor of transparency and democracy.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line814591"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.540197491645813,"wiki_prob":0.459802508354187,"text":"by Susan Gubar\nWas it curiosity, fear, hope, illusion or some other unplanned mixture of expectations that drew me to Susan Gubar’s LATE-LIFE LOVE?\nI’m still not sure, but now that I’ve traveled its 337 pages, one of the few certainties I have about this oddly mesmerizing and endearing book is that being unsure is all right in Gubar’s world. In fact, it can even be empowering.\nA cancer survivor who was supposed to meet her expiry date a decade ago, Gubar had the good fortune to receive a successful experimental drug that extended her remission. So what has she done with that extraordinary gift of quality time? As a cancer survivor myself, I want as little to do with this horrible disease as possible, for as long as possible, but not Gubar.\nShe delved even deeper into that scary world to write MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN (2012), about her battle with ovarian cancer --- the one that took my own mother far before her time---and READING AND WRITING CANCER (2016), whose gestation and birth slightly overlapped that of LATE-LIFE LOVE.\nThis latest work from Gubar, a retired university English professor best known for her brilliant and heartfelt New York Times essays on the challenges of aging, is a welcome addition to that rare list of books that truly straddles two genres --- that of memoir and literary criticism.\n\"[O]ne of the few certainties I have about this oddly mesmerizing and endearing book is that being unsure is all right in Gubar’s world. In fact, it can even be empowering.\"\nGubar easily could have filled LATE-LIFE LOVE with anecdotes and reflections on the hopes and realities of conjugal life begun at an age when many seniors have lost their spouses, are single again and often terminally lonely. She could have examined how life unfolds for couples whose age differences span a decade or more, as in her own marriage…and mine.\nOr she could have focused on how youthfully entered long marriages change and adapt over many decades to face the inevitable and often painful losses that come with advancing age. Any of these themes would have produced a memorable book, because that’s the only kind Gubar writes.\nBut LATE-LIFE LOVE is about all of them, and more, which makes it not only uniquely personal but universal, in the best consciousness-raising sense of the word. In the midst of coping with her own health issues and simultaneously supporting her much older husband through a difficult and prolonged recovery from major knee surgery, Gubar called upon her vast literary experience to explore how other writers and their characters over the centuries have dealt with love in the so-called twilight years.\nWhat she comes up with is a surprisingly mixed bag that includes dreamy nostalgia, passive acceptance of failing minds and bodies, defiant zeal for every last drop of ecstasy, fear of decay and death, faith in the unquantifiable strength of mutual devotion, dry humor about the dry years, practical insights for 21st-century relationships, and a renewed appreciation for mature compassion.\nAnd that’s where Gubar’s keen and unflinching critical powers are at their best. Far from escaping blindly into literature while waiting for medical appointments, or riding out bad days (of which she and her husband had more than their fair share), Gubar meticulously probed the intent, integrity and authenticity of an astonishing gallery of authors, from the familiar to the almost unknown.\nA partial list of contributors to LATE-LIFE LOVE includes Ovid, Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Donald Hall, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, John Donne and Colette. Each of them, in some way --- not always transparent or easily detectable --- contributes to a mosaic of understanding that our society has generally ignored or denied.\nThroughout the book, Gubar and her husband Don are repeatedly grateful for their large and willing network of supportive friends and relatives who prove indispensable in overcoming some of the critical logistics of aging, such as downsizing and transportation. The unspoken but clear teaching here is to build and care for your supporters before you need them!\nAnother issue that affects Americans more than we “spoiled” Canadians, with our more accessible national health care system, is that of getting the right medical help when you need it, and being able to afford it. High costs, red tape, long delays and even surgical incompetence all eroded this couple’s life more than they should have.\nLATE-LIFE LOVE is not for the faint-hearted, but neither is it a gloomy or fatalistic anthology of decline. Far from it! In fact, I would highly recommend it to couples decades younger who should know that there is not only “life” in one’s senior years, but beauty and pleasure as well. Like Susan Gubar, you just have to know where to find it.\nReviewed by Pauline Finch on January 4, 2019\nPublication Date: November 13, 2018\nPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1245225"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8713630437850952,"wiki_prob":0.8713630437850952,"text":"Full NASCAR TV schedule for Chicago\nNASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup starts this weekend\nLAT PHOTOGRAPHIC\nCheck out the TV schedule for this weekend's NASCAR action.\nThe NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup will start this weekend at Chicagoland Speedway. The 16 drivers competing for the championship will begin the 10-race quest for the title on Sunday. Check of out the TV schedule below. Friday, Sept. 16 -12:30-1:25 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity practice, NBCSN-1:30-2:55 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup practice, NBC Sports App-3-4:25 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity practice, NBC Sports App-4:45 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series qualifying, FS1-6:45 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying, NBCSN-8:30 p.m.: NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, FS1 Saturday, Sept. 17 -10:30-11:25 a.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup practice, CNBC-11:45 a.m.: NASCAR Xfinity qualifying, NBCSN-1:30-2:20 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup practice, NBCSN-3 p.m.: NASCAR Xfinity race, NBC Sunday, Sept. 18 -2:30 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup race, NBCSN","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1339339"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5985545516014099,"wiki_prob":0.4014454483985901,"text":"The Crash of Philip J. Imbrogno\nBy Kevin Randle\nIt has happened again in the world of the UFO. Another researcher, who talked of advanced degrees and of military service in the Special Forces has been found to have invented his background. Philip J. Imbrogno, who claimed a Ph. D. and service with the Army’s Green Berets had neither degree nor Special Forces training.\nLance Moody, who has appeared here in the past, wrote that he recently became interested in Imbrogno’s background and began a somewhat routine search to verify his credentials. Lance, on his web site penned the following exposé:\nSaucers, Lies and Audio Tape\nhe writes,\n“Recently, I became interested in the claims of ‘respected’ UFO and paranormal author, Philip J. Imbrogno. Imbrogno has written many paranormal books. Perhaps his best known was the account of the Hudson Valley UFO sightings he co-authored with J. Allen Hynek.”\nThe information provided by Imbrogo on his web site claimed, “\"Imbrogno holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics, astronomy and chemistry from the University of Texas and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2010 he was awarded a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from MIT. He is a staff member of the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford, Connecticut, and is a founder and former director of the Astronomical Society Of Greenwich, and former director of the Bowman Observatory.\"\nAs Moody noted, this suggested the Imbrogno, unlike so many others in the field, had a fine education and was a “real” scientist working in the paranormal arena. Radio show hosts often recited the information without bothering to check the validity of it (though I don’t really blame those hosts... they take the information supplied by the guest and because there are so many guests that it would be nearly impossible to check everything... besides, who would lie about something so easy to verify?).\nMoody wrote, “A telephone conversation with the [MIT] office further determined that there has never been a student with the last name ‘Imbrogno’ attending classes at MIT. Wow. Can it really be that easy?”\nThe answer was, “Yes, it can be that easy.”\nBut Moody also received a written reply, which he published on his web site. No one by the name of Imbrogno had attended classes there. The registrar even checked on various spellings. Nothing.\nMoody contacted Don Ecker of “Dark Matters” radio fame. Ecker said that he’d had Imbrogno on his radio show several times and when he and his wife, Vicki Ecker had been leading UFO, they’d published articles written by Imbrogno.\nEcker was somewhat skeptical of what Moody had found and cautioned that Moody had better be sure of his facts. I suggested the same thing. Be sure you’re right because you could cause yourself some real trouble.\nBut Moody had the goods. It made Ecker suspicious of Imbrogno. He wrote, “Then something else hit me. On the last two shows with Imbrogno he made a point of mentioning his ‘Viet Nam military service’ while a member of the U.S. Army’s elite Special Forces.”\nThis sent Ecker off in another direction. He began to investigate Imbrogno’s military claims. As with those from the academic world, Ecker was unable to verify that Imbrogno had ever served with the Army’s Special Forces.\nEcker sent a note to Imbrogno and a posted reply that sounded like Imbrogno that said, “One last thing Don, you are a great guy if you want my military record DD214. It will show I was a medic in the USAF and did a tour in indochina It might show I was attached to the army for a while I don't know when and where it was all pretty disorganized. I was part of a specialy trained group of medics (the first in line of what today is called a PA in medicine) Much more that a coreman [sic], more than a nurse, but less than a doctor. I was primarily stationed in Thailand, but was attached to a number of army units over the tour. I believe I was in every country in that area The hope was to increase the survival rate of the wounded getting aerovacted out. Get my DD214 it will show 90250 training... # I got punished and article 15 and had to run the VD clinic for a week.”\nThis answer is pretty disorganized and I’m not sure what to make of it. He is now suggesting he was a Air Force medic and was attached to the Army. While the Marines always use Navy “Corpsmen” (and wouldn’t he know how to spell it if he was a corpsman?) for their medics, the Army has had it’s own medics. It has no need to “borrow” them from the Air Force. And note that he has covered that by suggesting this service attached to the Army might not be reflected on his DD 214.\nI’m not sure why Imbrogno doesn’t know what is on his DD 214. He should have received a copy when he left the service, and he would have been told that it was an important document. It is needed to apply for veteran’s benefits, some states use it to determine property tax reductions for veterans, and it is proof of military service.\nHere’s where we are today. Imbrogno has dropped out of paranormal research, at least for the moment. One of his co-authors has severed her relation with him. He does not hold the academic honors he claimed and his military service was not with the Army’s Special Forces. He may or may not have served in Vietnam as a medic with the Air Force.\nDon Ecker wrote, “As I was in the process of completing this report, no verification of Imbrogno serving in the U. S. Army’s Special Forces, much less MACV-SOG was found by the SF Association. Imbrogno offered no copies of his DD-214. (Military Separation documents.) Since this scandal broke he has with-drawn from paranormal research, changed his telephone number and gotten a new and covert email address. His former working partner, Ms. Rosemary E. Guiley has broken her working relationship from Imbrogno. The paranormal field has once again been given a huge black eye from another person that felt the need to lie … for whatever reason. Okay, this has happened in the past and will undoubtedly happen in the future. But there is more here than meets the eye if you stop to think about it.”\nAs Ecker suggested, this is just another black eye for the field. We have had a large number of these problems in the last few years and I suspect we’ll have more in the future. What we need to do is be sure that the people who have come forward to tell their tales and those who investigate them are who they claim to be. In today’s world it is very easy to verify claims and we should be doing so. It won’t stop this endless parade of fakers and phonies but it will limit the damage they cause. It will also mean that we can stop wasting our time and get on with the work that needs to be done.\n. . . More\nPiracy: A Silent Plague on Ufology\nUFO NEWS | Long Time Criminal & Conman, Bill Knell To Cut Deal On Felony Charges with Boone County Prosecutor\nUFO NEWS | Criminal Actions of Bill Knell (AGAIN)\n↑Grab this Headline Animator\nLabels: By Kevin Randle , Embellishment , Fraud , Lance Moody , Philip J. Imbrogno\nMichael Morain 4:37 AM\nAs usual things are not all ways what they appear to be.Little wonder why the real truth is so hard to find. This is the reason why I am so reluctant to come forward with my evidence. The current belief about extraterrestrials is so far from the truth it is laughable. Hilarious ridiculous assuming!!! They're our creators our saviors our friends. Villainy squared bull shot to the nth degree.The truth will set you free and I have it.\nSad, if true about Imbrogno. Veracity is everthing when adderssing ET or related exotic tech, UFO history and lore. That said, THERE ARE some other, so-called \"respected\" speakers out there that demand proper vetting, and one other colorful personality is David Adair. I checked him out 1996-7, and I definitely found his background and authenticity more than lacking. He may pull some interestng facts out during his talks, but they are dressing on a wholly manufactured profile base. Go to his roots, to his high school in Centerville, OH. You'll find during his tenure thete his \"rocket\" was only a science fair novelty. No fusion power going on there. And the snowball grows from there. Many other items of hyperbole flow. Again, I feel bad having to say this, but then he could damage the legitimacy of others who deserve to be recognized, and PAID for speaking.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line377139"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6340333223342896,"wiki_prob":0.36596667766571045,"text":"Securing and Managing Your Cloud Data\nBusiness I.D. Theft\nTheft Methods\nPrevention Practices\nIdentity Theft Business I.D. Theft\nIs the cloud secure?\nNipitpon Singad / EyeEm/Getty Images\nBy Robert Siciliano\nDo you have data in a cloud? No, not a white, fluffy pillow, but on a technological cloud. This term, \"cloud,\" refers to servers that are operated remotely and owned by corporations or individuals. Though clouds can be quite convenient, many ask ourselves, \"Is the cloud secure?\"\nFor years now, there have been billions of dollars invested by major corporations to store and back up their data in a cloud, and it’s proven to be worth it.\nWhen storing data on a computer, it is all kept ‘together in one place. Data on a cloud, however, is spread out across the world, often redundantly. So, what is more secure? A PC that's on your desk or a random cloud server in Miami?\nThe truth is, all data on both a cloud and a PC is vulnerable to theft and damage if not protected. Data based on the cloud is also vulnerable based on where is it stored and through the transmission of the data.\nMost service providers that provide clouds do not give a lot of information about how they protect their data, as this could inform hackers about how to get into their networks.\nSome providers offer a two-factor authentication, which is a good way to protect the data and makes it difficult for hackers to access. With two-factor authentication, there are two different things required to prove identity. For instance, if you have online banking then you must enter your account number, then a password, and upon entering the password you may receive a text message to enter in another one-time password (OTP) to get account access. With your mobile phone in hand, that second factor OTP gets you in.\nHow Clouds Are Changing Technology\nYou may have realized that over the past 10 years or so, computers have grown more powerful and faster than ever before. They have larger hard drives, more RAM, and better processors. All of this has been made possible by cheaper and better technology and as a response to developers of software, who are making programs more complex and demanding.\nThe cloud, when it came along, allowed programs of all kinds, as well as data storage, to go virtual, and people understood that they don't necessarily require a local computer with speed or space. This allows a slower PC to find a new life and devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and e-readers do not require as much space, as data can be stored in a cloud.\nOne of the biggest impacts of the cloud has been with multi-streaming media such as music and movies. Since video and songs have become digitized, there have been dramatic changes in the hardware and devices used for the consumption of content, as well as how it is distributed.\nFurthermore, the cloud encourages the development of ID technology that is designed to authenticate people online and through mobile and card technologies. The advantages to this will eventually lead to more security and ease in our digital lives.\nThe Public Cloud\nThe public cloud is a term that describes the traditional way of using cloud computing, where resources are given to the general public on a self-service basis. It is available through the Internet, web services and applications or from third-party, off-site providers.\nThe Community Cloud\nA community cloud is one that shares its infrastructure between several organizations from a specific community. These communities have a common concern, such as compliance or security, and may be managed or hosted internally or externally, or through a third party. With this cloud, the costs are spread over fewer users, so only some of the benefits of using a cloud are available.\nThe Hybrid Cloud\nA hybrid cloud is one that has two or more clouds, either community, private or public, that remain unique parts, yet are bound, which offers the benefits of multiple models.\nThe Private Cloud\nA private cloud is a cloud that is used by only one person or organization. This cloud is either managed by a third-party or internally, and it may be hosted either externally or internally.\nThese clouds have attracted some criticism since users still have to build, buy and manage them, and there are no benefits such as low up-front costs.\nIs it Safe to Store Passwords in the Cloud?\nHow to Create a Secure Password\nLearn How a VPN Protects Your Computer, Identity, and Privacy\nHow Safe Is the Personal Information You Store in the Cloud?\nBest Security Practices for Mobile Banking\nThe 8 Best Cloud Backup Services of 2019\nHere Are Tips on Keeping Your Mobile Devices Safe From Cyber Threats\nProtect Your Company's Data With These Cybersecurity Best Practices\nPublic Wi-Fi Is Handy, But Is It Too Risky for Online Banking?\nATM Skimming: It’s About To Get Worse\nHow to Protect Your Privacy When Your ISP Sells Your Data\nHow to Protect Your Data From Identity Theft Rings\nWho Is Stealing Identities and How?\nWhich Tax Software Is Best: Online or Installed on Your Computer?\nHow to Prevent Your Mobile Number From Being Ported\nPetya Malware Exposes Vulnerabilities in Computer Software","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line476232"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8415359258651733,"wiki_prob":0.8415359258651733,"text":"Outdoor Sportsman Group Networks Pack Adventure in Top Shows, Movies and Talent in Q1 Programming Schedule\nMail Tweet\nOutdoor Channel Acquires Syndicated Cable Air Rights to Duck Dynasty\nDENVER (December 21, 2015) – Outdoor Sportsman Group Networks are responding to the diverse interests of today’s sportsmen and women by packing their first quarter (Q1) programming lineups for all three networks – Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel and World Fishing Network – with adventure, exceptional lifestyle experts and top talent, such as Ivan Carter, Steven Rinella, Lee and Tiffany Lakosky, Louie Tuminaro and Ted Nugent, to name a few; proven shows -syndicated cable airs of Duck Dynasty; and iconic movies with Joe Kidd and more. With original premieres and more than 1,300 new episodes from returning series across all three networks, viewers can expect the most original outdoor programming focused on their passions beginning on Monday, December 28.\n“The new quarter and beginning of 2016 promises to be the start of a programming bonanza for the three networks of the Outdoor Sportsman Group,” said Outdoor Sportsman Group Networks CEO and President Jim Liberatore. “We have been committed and have successfully increased ratings, brought new viewers to the network over the past two years and will continue building on that trend with the premiere of original series Carter’s W.A.R., as well as the newly acquired cable air rights to the first six seasons of Duck Dynasty. Other shows on Sportsman Channel and World Fishing Network continue to solidify our position as the world’s largest aggregator and content provider of outdoor lifestyle programming.”\nOutdoor Channel – with programming focused on outdoor adventure featuring rugged, dangerous and exciting shows – is unveiling a new compelling original series, Carter’s W.A.R. and has acquired exclusive syndicated cable air rights to the popular Duck Dynasty. These programs join a roster of several returning TV series, including: The Gunfather presented by Brownells, Flying Wild Alaska and Wardens presented by Streamlight as tentpole programming for Q1.\nCarter’s W.A.R. (Wildlife Animal Response) presented by Nosler (Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT): This Outdoor Channel original series tells the untold story of wildlife detective, conservationist and professional hunting guide Ivan Carter, and his quest to save his homeland – Africa. From heavily armed poachers butchering elephants for their tusks to the slaughter of rhinos for their horns, Africa’s most precious resource is in peril. Can one man expose the truth and make a difference?\nDuck Dynasty (Mondays at 7 p.m. ET/PT): Duck Dynasty follows the Robertsons, a Louisiana bayou family living the American dream as they operate a thriving business – Duck Commander – while staying true to their core values and outdoor lifestyle. They may look like your typical family – except for the beards – but with the antics of patriarch Phil, business-savvy Willie and the rest of the Duck Commander crew, including Willie’s wife, Korie, his brother Jase and Uncle Si, a Vietnam vet, the group is certainly anything but ordinary. Outdoor Channel will air the first six seasons of the series beginning January 18.\nThe Gunfather presented by Brownells (Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT): The Tuminaro family is back for Season Two. The Gunfather revolves around the life of Louie Tuminaro, a tough-talking New Yorker who moved his family from the Big Apple to the small town of Hamilton, Montana in pursuit of his lifelong dream: opening the greatest gun shop in the West. That dream is now a reality called the Custom Shop, a firearms sales and restoration business.\nFlying Wild Alaska (Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET): Also back for a second season on Outdoor Channel is Flying Wild Alaska. The show follows the unconventional Tweto family, who rule Alaska’s most dangerous skies through the operation of their family-run airline, Era Alaska. Watch as they battle unforgiving Alaska weather and terrain to transport life’s necessities – champion snow dogs and medicine for sick children – to the isolated rural inhabitants of the Bering Sea coastline.\nWardens presented by Streamlight (Mondays at 11:30 p.m. ET): When your job is protecting our most precious natural resources in some of the nation’s most remote areas, there is rarely a dull moment. The sixth season of Wardens chronicles the lives of Conservation Officers in Montana and highlights the men and women who protect\npublic lands.\nSportsman Channel’s lineup – highlighting programming that appeals to the hardcore hunter and angler – features outdoor lifestyle, adventure, travel, food and survival. With fishing returning to the minds of outdoorsmen, Sportsman Channel is responding with new fishing adventure television series, Wild Billz and Lake Commandos, among numerous other fishing shows already on the docket. Plus, the New Year means the highly-anticipated return of MeatEater and the new adventures of Steven Rinella and crew. Plus, don’t miss the new series Made for the Outdoors to get the inside scoop on how the most popular outdoor brands are made.\nWild Billz (Saturdays at 11 a.m. ET): What kind of person does it take to battle rough oceans, elite competitors, the fastest fish in the ocean and achieve success on the world’s largest stage in billfishing? Wildbillz follows three teams – 4 Aces, Liquid and Vitamin Sea Too – as they compete in the “Quest for the Crest,” a high stakes sailfish series off the Florida coast. Pride, ego and a cash purse in excess of $2 million will drive these teams to unimaginable limits.\nMeatEater (Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT): Host Steven Rinella continues to explore, hunt, and cook in some of North America’s most pristine landscapes. He shares his experience and insight about living off the land as he continues two life-long journeys – the pursuit of a huge public land mule deer and the hunt for his first and only grizzly bear. Other highlights include an impassioned defense of the American pronghorn, a deep dive into a traditional Virginia dove hunt and a return to the big woods of Wisconsin for deer camp on\nopening day.\nLake Commandos (Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. ET): Each week on Lake Commandos, host Steve Pennaz and an expert guest break down new water while trying to out-fish one another.\nMade for the Outdoors (Sundays at 7 p.m. ET): Made for the Outdoors throws open the factory doors to show how the most popular brands of outdoor gear are made. Americans are passionate about their outdoor gear – each year spending billions of dollars on the products they use most. Hosts Bill Sherck and Lindsey Hayes dig into the production process, starting with the raw materials and ending with a finished product at work in the field.\nWhether saltwater or freshwater, a local honey hole or abroad, World Fishing Network has what fishermen and women want with all new episodes of fresh fishing content, including Major League Fishing All Angles and World Fishing Journal.\nMajor League Fishing All Angles (Saturdays at 4 p.m. ET): This new series tells the story of Major League Fishing from a whole new perspective. Viewers have seen the game from the boat – now they’ll see all the intensity and winning techniques. It’s an exclusive look at the game that can only be told by the MLF family.\nWorld Fishing Journal (Sundays at 11:30 a.m. ET) World Fishing Journal chronicles current stories in the fishing world. This month we follow the California Water Crisis. California’s water drought threatened to dry up the state’s rivers. With the impending El Nino set to strike, higher than normal water levels and possible flooding would lead to a crisis of epic proportions. Tune in to find out if El Nino will affect fisheries on the West Coast.\nOther Q1 Highlights include:\nA number of movies will air throughout the quarter on Fridays at 9 p.m. ET, including: Winchester ’73 starring James Stewart and Shelly Winters; Joe Kidd featuring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall; and The Edge with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins.\nAdditional notable series returning with new episodes are: Jim Shockey’s Hunting Adventures (Sundays at 8 p.m. ET), starring Jim and Eva Shockey; Dream Season: The Journey (Sundays at 7 p.m. ET), featuring Mark and Terry Drury; Michael Waddell’s Bone Collector (Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET) with Michael Waddell, Nick Mundt and Travis “T-Bone” Turner; Crush with Lee & Tiffany (Sundays at 7:30 p.m. ET), starring Lee and Tiffany Lakosky; Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild (Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. ET) with Ted Nugent; Go Wild Camo’s Gridiron Outdoors with Mike Pawlawski (Sundays at 6 p.m. ET), starring former NFL quarterback Mike Pawlawski; and RMEF Team Elk with Brandon and Kristy Titus (Thursdays\nat 10:30 p.m. ET).\nFollow master hunter, guide and host Steve West through the untamed wilds of North America in The Adventure Series (Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET).\nMake a note of Outdoor Channel’s refreshed fishing programming, including new episodes of Major League Fishing GEICO Selects (Saturdays at 2 p.m. ET) and, beginning on February 8, new episodes of Jack Link’s Major League Fishing (Saturdays at 2 p.m. ET). Additional angling-focused series making a return are Buccaneers & Bones (Saturdays at 5 p.m. ET) with Yvon Chouinard, Tom Brokaw, Huey Lewis and Lefty Kreh; The Bass Pros (Sundays at 3:30 p.m. ET); and Modern Fishing with Jared Jeffries (Sundays at 3 p.m. ET), featuring former NBA player Jared Jeffries.\nExplore the passion of archery through the eyes of PRIME Pros presented by PRIME bows (Saturdays at 7 p.m. ET).\nProduced by the creators of Pigman: The Series, Just Junie can harvest it, drag it, skin it, gut it and cook it up all with a heavy dose of country-girl attitude (Sundays at Noon ET).\nSeveral series are moving over to Sportsman from Outdoor Channel including: Jay Gregory’s PSE’s Wild Outdoors (Fridays at 9:30 p.m. ET), Chris Bracket’s Arrow Affliction (Fridays at 10:30 p.m. ET), King of the Spring (Fridays at 7 p.m. ET), Steve West’s Hunting Adventures (Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET), Larry Dahlberg’s The Hunt for Big Fish (Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. ET) and Jackie Bushman’s Classics (Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. ET).\nWorld Fishing Network will highlight several shows including: Timmy Horton Outdoors (premieres Monday, January 4 at 8 p.m. ET); Robson Green Extreme Fisherman (premieres Saturday, January 9 at Noon ET) and South Bend’s Lunkerville (premieres Monday, January 11 at 9 p.m. ET).\nAbout Outdoor Sportsman Group: Outdoor Sportsman Group is comprised of the world’s foremost media and entertainment brands for outdoor adventure enthusiasts. It includes three leading multichannel networks: Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel and World Fishing Network. The Group also consists of a number of established integrated media assets: 15 outdoor magazines, such as Guns & Ammo, Petersen’s Bowhunting and Florida Sportsman, and 17 top websites, including BassFan.com. Additionally, Outdoor Sportsman Group includes television production operations, Winnercomm, as well as aerial camera businesses, SkyCam and CableCam.\nAbout Outdoor Sportsman Group – Integrated Media: As a premier destination for the most avid outdoors enthusiasts, Outdoor Sportsman Group’s Integrated Media division is widely recognized for its strong special-interest multichannel brands, including Petersen’s Hunting, Guns & Ammo, In-Fisherman, North American Whitetail, Game & Fish and 10 other leading magazines that reach more than 26 million readers. Its network of 17 websites, including BassFan.com, attract more than 38 million annual unique visitors, and hundreds of TV episodes of original branded hunting, sport shooting and fishing programming that airs on Outdoor Sportsman Group’s broadcast entities. Visit http://outdoorsg.com for more information.\nTom Caraccioli | Outdoor Sportsman Group | 212.852.6646 | tcaraccioli@thesportsmanchannel.com\nShareese Thompson | Outdoor Sportsman Group | 212.852.6639 | sthompson@thesportsmanchannel.com\nSkylar Isdale | Outdoor Sportsman Group | 303.615.8838| sisdale@thesportsmanchannel.com\nSportsman Channel’s Mike Schoby Retraces Epic Lewis and Clark Expedition in Annual Petersen’s “Border to Border” Mini Series\nWorld Fishing Network’s “World Fishing Journal” Features Sisters on the Fly and Heated Debates in Nova Scotia on Sunday, January 3 at 11:30 a.m. ET","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line953243"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7365413904190063,"wiki_prob":0.26345860958099365,"text":"CUProdigy hires and promotes executives\nLAYTON, UT (February 12, 2019) — CUProdigy has announced three new hires and three internal promotions. Two of the three new hires are filling new positions at the technology CUSO, which is led by CEO Bret Weekes who took over in November 2018.\nAmber Harsin was promoted to Executive Vice President of Market Engagement, a newly created position. She has 16 years of experience in the credit union industry and has worked at Prodigy for five years. In her new role, Amber will oversee engagement with new and existing clients, network partners, and peer group technology firms to identify market needs and trends. She will also serve as an ambassador for the cooperative business model and an expert in credit union core software technology and practices. She has a BS degree in Technical Sales from Western Governors University and is a Certified Scrum Master and SCRUM Product Owner from the Scrum Alliance.\nTom Kealamakia has filled the Vice President of Research Development position, a new position at CUProdigy. In this role, he will lead Prodigy’s engineers and project managers in the development of core processing and supporting software systems. Tom joins Prodigy having most recently worked at Overstock.com, where he held leadership positions in the retailer’s software engineering division and gained extensive experience in strategic team leadership, application development, software platforms, APIs and system architecture. He has a BS degree in Informational Systems & Technologies from Weber State University.\nGary McMullin has taken the position of Vice President of Client Development at CUProdigy, a new position leading the Client Development division responsible for customer success, conversion services and quality control. Gary comes to CUProdigy from the $700 million Deseret First FCU, where he was VP of Technology for nearly 20 years. He was responsible for defining and executing the credit union’s strategic direction during that time. He has a BS in Accounting from Arizona State University.\nA new Controller, Bryant Solomon, comes to Prodigy from Tesla, where he managed a team of accountants responsible for overseeing the financial reporting of the tech firm’s energy investments and partnerships. Bryant previously worked at Goldman Sachs. He has a Masters in Finance from the University of Utah.\nAmanda Garabedian was promoted to another new position, Assistant Vice President of Conversion Services. She has 10 years of credit union experience and for the last four years, has led Prodigy’s conversions and other technology projects for new and existing client credit unions. She has a BA degree in Finance and a Masters in Business Administration from Grand Valley State University.\nDerrick Pope was promoted to Assistant Vice President of Software Development, a new position. He will work with Kealamakia to assist in the design and development of CUProdigy’s core processing product and manage the development team’s quality standards. He has worked at CUProdigy for five years and has 25 years experience in credit union core software technology. He has a AS in Computer Science and a BS in Informational Systems & Technologies from Weber State University.\n“These new hires and promotions position Prodigy to provide superior execution of our core and cloud-based technology to the credit union community,” said President/CEO Bret Weekes. “This is a great leadership team, who share a passion for credit unions, and value the cooperative business model and all that it means for the member owner. I am very pleased to have each of them as part of our team at Prodigy.”\nAmanda Garabedian\nAmber Harsin\nBryant Solomon\nDerrick Pope\nGary McMullin\nAbout CUProdigy\nBased in Layton, Utah, CUProdigy is a technology-focused credit union service organization created to make its member credit unions more efficient and cost-effective through superior, cloud-based solutions. The CUSO offers its own modern, cloud-based core processing platform, as well as coreagnostic cloud-based IT infrastructure services that include a very robust virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. Additional information is available at www.cuprodigy.com.\nEVP Market Engagement\nJohn San Filippo\nOmniChannel Communications, Inc.\n(619) 467-0431 (o)\n(619) 274-1131 (m)\njohn@omnichannelcommunications.com","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line926376"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5812885761260986,"wiki_prob":0.41871142387390137,"text":"Asia's Sellout Season\nLast weekend your editor attended an Italian opera at the National Theater here in Taiwan. The actors were all petite locals, but that didn’t stop them from belting out arias in a sonorous enough fashion to make the fattest Italian leading lady blush. The audience consisted of well-to-do academic types and business people. Men came in dapper suits and the women wore silks and fine coral jewelry. It was a far cry from what you might expect from a society that, only a few generations ago, was largely agrarian-based.\nAs the orchestra’s notes filled the plush, cavernous hall, we wondered, “Could this be the new Asia? The Asia of the future?” Those who dream of a great global economic recovery certainly hope so. Now that the American consumer is all but tapped out, they look to Asian producers to fill the demand gap. But one opening night does not make a season, as those in the industry might say.\nTaiwan is not all Lucia di Lammermoor’s and lorgnettes, of course. Far from it. Indeed, few places we’ve visited in Asia more abundantly furnish the senses with the rich/poor, old/new dichotomies so prevalent around this region. Just outside the concert hall, for instance, looms a giant bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek, a stark and foreboding reminder of the not-so-distant past when the tiny South China Sea island was plunged into chaos and routine class purges.\nEver since Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Chiang, the one-time friend and later arch nemesis of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, fled to Taiwan (or Formosa, the Portuguese name meaning “beautiful [island]”) in 1949, the place has been a hotbed of political friction. Naturally, not all locals welcomed Chiang’s heavy-handed, authoritarian rule. There was plenty of bloodshed in the streets under Chiang’s “White Terror” and masses of dispossessed citizens rebelled against his iron fist. But Chiang did have a few things going for him. When the KMT party arrived in Taiwan, they brought with them a huge portion of the mainland’s gold and foreign currency reserves. Much of the intellectual and business elite also followed in order to avoid the communist crush of Mao’s “Reds” back home. And, vitally and with the help of aid from the US, the KMT also instituted an import-substitution policy, whereby the country began to manufacture previously imported goods domestically. This policy was to prove an invaluable part of the small island’s economic growth in subsequent years.\nAfter Chiang, the increasingly capitalistic, export-driven Taiwan grew its foreign reserves exponentially. Today it has the fourth largest stash in the world, behind only China, Japan and Russia. (As a point of interest, the US comes in 21st on the rankings, right between Poland and Libya.)\nIt’s not difficult to imagine a place like Taiwan, one of Asia’s four “Tiger Economies” (alongside Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea), leading some kind of regional renaissance. But the plot here is just as much tragedy as it is comedy.\nFor one thing, a not-insignificant portion of the island’s 23 million people still lives hand to mouth. Your editor buys his fresh fruit and vegetables from a local night market right next to his building, where vendors shuttle their produce in from farms in the surrounding mountains on the back of smoke-spluttering mopeds. These people work long, hard hours and are by no means equipped to pick up the conspicuously lagging consumption duties abandoned by their cash-strapped American cousins. The lines on their smiling faces run deep with the stresses and pains of the recent past and of a life spent laboring for little in return.\nNot two stops away on the world’s most advanced underground metro system, Taiwan’s tallest building, Taipei 101 (the world’s highest until the Burj Dubai opened earlier this month), towers as the centerpiece of the high-end retail area surrounding the City Hall. Streets there are lined with luxury items form Paris, Milan and Seoul. Vacationing shoppers gorge themselves on Hermès handbags and Prada pumps, the price tags of which would have been unimaginable here a few years ago.\nTo be sure, the island has come a long, long way over the past five or six decades. Where agriculture once made up more than one third of the GDP here, it now contributes less than 2%. The lion’s share of economic activity today belongs to the booming information technology and biotech industries. Semiconductors sales are a source of national university pride and cutting edge companies like Acer (TSE: 2353), Asus (TSE: 2357) and HTC Corporation (TSE: 2498) churn out $300 laptops and smartphones by the ton, which they then pump into hungry foreign markets.\nBut it is important to remember, especially when considering export driven/reliant economies, that not all demand is created equal. There is the kind forged in the crucible of the free market, rooted in sound money and underpinned by the desires of real people. Then there is the phantom, government-sponsored kind, masquerading behind a cloak of public stimulus boondoggles and debased currencies. Administrations from DC to Beijing and beyond are guilty of exactly this act of economic sleight of hand.\nIt is impossible to know exactly how much of the world’s current demand is real and how much is simply manufactured by make-work governments looking to pad their GDP figures with public works programs and easy money handouts. We’ve written in this space before about how liquidity inflows from the West, coupled with loose monetary policies locally, have pushed property prices and stock markets in China to bubble-like valuations.\nDan Denning, our mate who heads up the Aussie chapter of The Daily Reckoning, spent the week there warning his readers of China’s overly ambitious capital outlays.\n“Now it would be presumptuous to say that all Chinese capital spending was somehow derivative of American consumer demand,” observes Dan. “China has other trading partners and markets, although without America things might not be so flash. But it is without doubt true that Chinese capital spending is a direct consequence of the global credit bubble.”\nThe faux demand plot is yet to fully reveal itself on the world economic stage, but it would be foolish to assume export dependent economies have not grown somewhat accustomed to bloated order books. Taiwan’s generational gains are hard fought and the people here are among the most intelligent, driven individuals we’ve ever met. It is hard to ignore, however, that on both sides of the Pacific an over-consuming, publicly-funded “Chi-merican” fat lady may already be singing her swansong.\nGDP: The New “Slow” Normal\nEconomic growth requires dramatic increases productivity… The economy would be how much richer without the financial sector?…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1233432"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8993450999259949,"wiki_prob":0.8993450999259949,"text":"Welsh state trumpeter promises world-class fanfare at royal wedding\nCredit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images\nA senior state trumpeter, from Wales, taking part in the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has promised his team will perform like they are the best in the world.\nThe gold-jacketed brass players from the Band of the Household Cavalry are regulars at major state occasions where the Queen is present, as well as at national events and anniversaries.\nTrumpet Major Matthew Screen told the Press Association he will be playing along with five others in the organ loft during the ceremony at St George's Chapel in Windsor on May 19.\nThe 44-year-old, from Blackwood, near Newport, South Wales has completed a tour of Afghanistan and been deployed to Bosnia.\nUnable to reveal what the melodic blasts played at the wedding will be, Trumpet Major Screen, who has been in the military for 27 years, said all he can say is that they will be fanfares.\nThis will include the Royal Salute for the entrance of the Queen and another for the arrival of the bride, Ms Markle.\nFor me it is all about instilling enough confidence in the guys, and training and preparing that well that we are prepared until we can't get it wrong.\nWe have already got it right, we are a very, very experienced team, we have played at all sorts of major occasions for many years.\nThis (the wedding) is massive, isn't it? Eighty billion people might be watching live on television - it is a lot of pressure. But at the end of the day when it comes to being in that chapel, we are the best in the world at what we do - and we will perform like we are.\n– Trumpet Major Matthew Screen\nTrumpet Major Screen said over his time with the state trumpeters since joining them in 1995, he has played for prominent individuals on state visits, as well as Tina Turner and Nelson Mandela.\nHe has also played at events including Euro 1996, the London 2012 Olympics, the Eurovision Song Contest and appeared on Britain's Got Talent.\nSince he was a child Trumpet Major Screen said he can remember seeing the state trumpeters on television and deciding then that he wanted to join their ranks\nLast updated Thu 10 May 2018\nGeraint Thomas moves to second place in Tour de France","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line90628"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5808200240135193,"wiki_prob":0.4191799759864807,"text":"To Africanize, Decolonize Or Both?\nBrenda Wambui\n6 December ,2016\nThis conversation on what it means to be African has been happening since the days of the independence struggles in many African countries, and has been a major part of African post-colonial discourse. The conversation has mostly focused on knowledge, since knowledge is the beginning of identity formation, with some commentators saying that we need to Africanize, others saying that we need to decolonize, and many saying that we need to do both.\nIn the words of Tebello Letsekha:\n[Africanization] is a learning process and a way of life for Africans. It involves incorporating, adapting and integrating other cultures into and through African visions to provide the dynamism, evolution and flexibility so essential in the global village. Africanization is the process of defining or interpreting African identity and culture. It is formed by the experiences of the African Diaspora and has endured and matured over time from the narrow nationalistic intolerance to an accommodating, realistic and global form.\nThe Sankofa Youth Movement says:\nBy “Africanization”, we mean the embracing of our African heritage, and developing a sense of loyalty towards the Motherland – Africa. This involves adopting and promoting African culture, putting it on the pedestal currently occupied by the west.’ These reflections seem to suggest conflict between the idea of being African and the need to adopt aspects of Western culture. It is a situation that might impact negatively on the development of appropriate African curricula in education in general, and in higher education in particular. In fact, Le Grange (2007, 581) warns educators to be aware of this interaction between cultures, because it could complicate the learning process: ‘For non-Western learners, interaction between two worldviews characterizes much of their school experience, complicating the learning process and potentially resulting in cognitive conflict.’\nAfricanization, then, is an exercise in offering context. In learning our history. In changing our lenses. Much of the history of our continent is written by white men from Europe and North America, and this no doubt affects how the world sees us, but more importantly, how we see ourselves. For our children, it has meant a very narrow view of our continent. In many school books, the history of our continent is written in three broad categories: pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial. In doing so, we single out colonization as the single most important thing that has happened to Africa, and centre it.\nHowever, there is great, uncharted territory when it comes to re-writing our history from our own perspective. To begin with, our experience as Africans should form the foundation of this revisionist history. It should capture both the unique histories of our countries/peoples, and the common history we share by virtue of coming from the same continent, being othered by the rest of the world, and experiencing many other similar challenges. We have great stories of our peoples that do not begin and end with colonization, we must capture those.\nWe have been taught that we have no knowledge. That we do not like to read. This is not only false, but extremely damaging, and is as a result of seeing Africa through a Western lens. Our histories must be revised and expanded, and taught to our children. They must also be inclusive.\nChimamanda Adichie says this in her talk, The Danger of a Single Story:\nThe single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.\nIf the African story has traditionally been told through the white, male lens, then the revisionist history must be inclusive. I am reminded of the constant retort I receive whenever I speak of feminism, or the LGBTQI community. I am told that they “are unAfrican.” Which then begs the question, what qualifies as “African”? Who sets the standard? Because I would argue what many consider “African” is in fact 1800s Victorian England’s intolerance, prudishness and small mindedness.\nOur revisionist history must include the voices of women, of the queer community, of all other minorities on the continent. Africanization is a process in memory, both past and present. Thus even as we live our lives in the present, we are creating our history, and it is important that we tell our stories. From our perspective, and that these stories be inclusive, capturing the beauties and vagaries of every day African life, and resisting the two simplistic, prevailing narratives of our continent. Africa is not Schroedinger’s cat, that it could only ever be dead or alive; that we must endlessly speculate and bloviate on whether it is “the dark continent” or “rising.” Africa is many things to many people. It always has been, and will continue to be so.\nIf Africanization is a process in memory, decolonization is the removal of shackles – mental, economic, social and political. Decolonization was narrowly viewed by the West as the process in which African countries attained independence from their colonial rule, but the exit of the colonialists did not mean that the African had been fully decolonized.\nIn the words of Frantz Fanon:\nDecolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices, nor of a natural shock, nor of a friendly understanding. Decolonization, as we know, is a historical process: that is to say that it cannot be understood, it cannot become intelligible nor clear to itself except in the exact measure that we can discern the movements which give it historical form and content. Decolonization is the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature, which in fact owe their originality to that sort of substantification which results from and is nourished by the situation in the colonies.\nTheir first encounter was marked by violence and their existence together–that is to say the exploitation of the native by the settler–was carried on by dint of a great array of bayonets and cannons. The settler and the native are old acquaintances. In fact, the settler is right when he speaks of knowing “them” well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence. The settler owes the fact of his very existence, that is to say, his property, to the colonial system.\nDecolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences individuals and modifies them fundamentally. It transforms spectators crushed with their inessentiality into privileged actors, with the grandiose glare of history’s floodlights upon them. It brings a natural rhythm into existence, introduced by new men, and with it a new language and a new humanity. Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men. But this creation owes nothing of its legitimacy to any supernatural power; the “thing” which has been colonized becomes man during the same process by which it frees itself.\nIf decolonization is the removal of shackles, what does that mean for the trauma of colonization? I believe that this is the first point at which the paths of decolonization and Africanization cross. The memory of colonization should remain alive, just not centred as the main memory. We should think about the trauma, and everything that can possibly be done to alleviate it should be done.\nIt is important that reparations be made by colonial powers to the people they harmed. These amends should be direct, except when doing so would lead to more harm. The most vivid example I can think of in Kenya is when some members of the Mau Mau won a settlement of 20 million pounds against the British government for their crimes during colonialism. If we are to truly have justice, all the colonial powers must atone in a similar way to the peoples they colonized, because many of these countries remain shackled years later, relegated to the “third world” due to the pillaging of their economies and the presence of extractive, oppressive institutions that have their roots in colonial times.\nIt is also important that we address our new colonizers, the elites in African countries that continue the oppression that stemmed from colonialism. Many African countries merely switched colonizers. One only needs to read the 2013 Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission report to see the violence that our very own have occasioned on us. They too must pay reparations, and be held accountable for their crimes if we are to truly decolonize.\nDecolonization involves the removal of power structures and symbols that serve to keep us subjugated, disempowered, and forever at a disadvantage. Much of this includes denial of access to the public of what should be theirs.\nAccess to education, for example. The mere fact that only about 1% of the children in Kenya who start primary school go on to complete university is evidence of colonization. Especially because we place high importance on university education. We are denied access to public spaces, which we have already paid for using our tax money. The Nairobi Arboretum, for example, now charges KES 50 for access. We are denied access to land, which many of the rich and politicians grab from the public and privatize, when it does not belong to them in the first place.\nIt becomes apparent that it is necessary for us to both Africanize and decolonize. It is important that we remove others from the centre and place ourselves there instead. That we assert that blackness is not a backdrop against which white lives play out. We are living in an age when identity politics have gained new importance, and it is important that we claim our identity and our narratives. In this endeavor, we must prioritize freedom, and human dignity. We must accord everyone their rights, and avoid creating new strata which will only serve to oppress us. If all oppression is connected, then our freedom is intersectional, and it begins at the crossroads of Africanization and decolonization.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line870804"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5751226544380188,"wiki_prob":0.5751226544380188,"text":"Dayton Director, Professor of Liberal Arts\niberry@skidmore.edu\nThe Dayton Director is responsible for the overall direction of the museum. This includes the curatorial, publishing, and educational programming. As the primary spokesperson for the museum, the Dayton Director represents the museum on campus, across the country, and around the world.\nIan Berry is Dayton Director of The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Berry has organized over ninety museum exhibitions including interdisciplinary collaborations on subjects from the Hudson River to Shaker furniture, and monographic exhibitions with artists such as Terry Adkins, Nicole Eisenman, Nancy Grossman, Jim Hodges, Nina Katchadourian, Corita Kent, Nicholas Krushenick, Shahzia Sikander, Amy Sillman, Fred Tomaselli, and Kara Walker.\nBerry received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 1998 and served as Assistant Curator at the Williams College Museum of Art before coming to Skidmore in 2000. In his role as Professor of Liberal Arts at Skidmore he teaches the Art History seminar Inside the Museum and is a frequent guest speaker for a wide variety of academic departments. Berry is also the author and editor of many volumes devoted to contemporary art practice.\nFrom 2006-2012 Berry served as Consulting Director of the Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College and in 2009-10 was the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay University. He serves on the Saratoga Springs Arts Commission, has chaired the Visual Arts Panel of the New York State Council on the Arts and serves on several advisory committees for regional and national arts organizations.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line381751"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7151199579238892,"wiki_prob":0.7151199579238892,"text":"http://fna.ir/dapsz2\nThu Jun 27, 2019 2:34\n1st Debate: Democrats Criticize Trump for Withdrawing US from Iran's Deal as Root Cause of Crisis in ME\nTEHRAN (FNA)- Almost all democratic candidates in the scheduled debates on Wednesday blamed President Donald Trump for withdrawing Washington from the nuclear deal with Tehran, stating that the move has led to escalating tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic.\nSen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro (D), former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) kicked off their widely anticipated first debate of the 2020 campaign season on Wednesday evening as a crowded field of White House hopefuls compete to take on Trump.\nWhen the debate was drawn to Iran, all candidates criticized Trump for withdrawing the United States from the Barack Obama-era nuclear agreement between Tehran and the six major world powers (five member states of the United Nations Security Council - Russia, the United States, France, the United Kingdom and China - and Germany).\nWhile others raised their hand to say they would rejoin the pact, Booker declined to commit to rejoin the nuclear deal which Trump withdrew the US from last year.\n“We need to renegotiate and get back into a deal, but I’m not going to have a primary platform to say unilaterally I’m going to rejoin that deal, because when I’m president of the United States I’m going to do the best I can to secure this country and that region and make sure that if I have the opportunity to leverage a better deal, I’m going to do it,” he said.\nBooker slammed Trump for withdrawing from the deal, saying it has led to a recent spike in tensions between Washington and Tehran.\nKlobuchar, in response to a question about heightened tensions with Iran, said Trump is “10 minutes” and “one tweet” away from getting the United States involved in a war, adding, “I don’t think we should be conducting foreign policy in our bathrobe at 5 in the morning.”\nKlobuchar stated that she would renegotiate the 2015 agreement if she were elected president, describing the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as a good but “imperfect” agreement.\nKlobuchar asserted that Trump “has made us less safe than we were when he became president”, referencing recent comments by Iranian officials that Tehran will soon surpass the caps on uranium put in place under the agreement.\nIraq War veteran Gabbard stated that Trump’s “chickenhawk Cabinet” has led the United States “to the brink of war with Iran”, urging an end to escalating tensions and a return to the agreement.\n“Donald Trump and his cabinet, [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo, [National Security Adviser] John Bolton and others are creating a situation that just a spark would light off a war with Iran which is incredibly dangerous,” she said, adding that “the American people need to understand that this war with Iran would be far more devastating, far more costly than anything that we ever saw in Iraq\".\n“It would take many more lives, it would exacerbate the refugee crisis, and it wouldn’t be just contained in Iran, this would turn into regional war,” Gabbard stressed, noting that the nuclear deal was “an imperfect agreement”, but can be negotiated “to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon and preventing us from going to war”.\nAsked about her red line, Gabbard answered that if there was an attack against American troops “then there would have to be a response”.\nTensions around Iran have been rising since Trump torpedoed the landmark 2015 nuclear deal and re-imposed sweeping sanctions targeting large swathes of Iran’s economy. Recently, Washington raised the stakes in the standoff, sending additional military assets – including a carrier strike group, a bomber task force, and Patriot missiles – to countries bordering Iran. The latest conflict between the US and Iran started after an intruding American spy drone was shot down in Iranian sky last Thursday.\nTen other Democrats will take the stage on Thursday night, including former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).\nDeaths, Displacement as Heavy Rain, Floods Hit Northeastern India\nTEHRAN (FNA)- More than a million people have been displaced in Northeastern India after days of torrential rain. Flash floods in the region have killed 10 people while farmlands and residential areas have been submerged after rivers burst their banks. [VIDEO]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line181050"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6247065663337708,"wiki_prob":0.37529343366622925,"text":"children's literature\t9 months ago\ncivil rights\t22 months ago\nMartin Luther King\t33 months ago\nMLK\t103 months ago\nracial segregation\t14 months ago\nsegregation\t26 months ago\nRevisiting the Civil Rights movement through multicultural children’s books\nTina Lin | January 26, 2011\nTopics: Books\nWith Martin Luther King Jr. Day recently past, I thought it was quite fitting that I came upon two picture books, Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford (Call no. PZ7.W3535 Fr 2005) and Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles (Call no. PZ7.W6474 Fr 2001, both of which are beautifully illustrated by Jerome Lagarrigue. Freedom on the Menu, set in 1960, shares the experience of segregation and the onset of gradual change as everyday people “st[and] up [against racial injustice] by sitting down” from the perspective of Connie, a girl who has always wanted to but has never had a banana split at the counter because the counter only serves white people. Four of her brother’s college friends sitting at counters in protest of racial segregation laws mark the beginning of a wave of protests that spreads, and finally change is slowly ushered in. Blacks begin to be served at the counter and Connie finally gets to enjoy the long-awaited banana split there. But in the process she has come to realize that more than getting the actual food item, it is the equality behind being able to sit freely at a counter that is ultimately the most desirable.\nFreedom Summer tells the story of two boys’ deepening understanding of racism and the need to take courage to counter it the summer after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While John Henry’s mom works for Joe’s mom, the two are best friends and do everything together except swim in the town pool and go into stores to buy ice pops, since John Henry “isn’t allowed.” So instead, they swim in the creek and John Henry waits outside while Joe gets ice pops for the both of them. Told through Joe’s voice, the two of them excitedly race to the pool after the the Civil Rights Acts gets passed – only to find that county dump trucks have filled up the pool with asphalt. This slap of disappointment marks the first time the two boys talk about racism explicitly as they realize the depth of racial injustice that exists and the long road that must still be undertaken to bridge the disjunction between law and reality. John Henry says, “White folks don’t want colored folks in their pools” and Joe knows he’s right. And as the two of them go to get ice pops, this time they make a point of going in together and John Henry insists that he buys his own.\nWhile these two stories are told from the viewpoint of children and may seem a little simplistic at times, they are good starting points for discussions about racism and social justice with children. Because of how the stories are built around small everyday experiences of children, e.g. longing for dessert or wanting to go swimming with a friend, children may find it easier to relate to characters in the books. At the same time, my concern is that the stories, especially Freedom on the Menu, make the struggle for equality seem much simpler and smoother than it really was, since they do not delve very deeply into acts of discrimination, injustice, and atrocity that took place but provide a rather sanitized version of reality. I suppose that comes down to what one’s idea of what/how much children should or should not be exposed to is though. As it is, the books can serve as a launching point into exploring racism, segregation, and the Civil Rights movement, and it is up to one’s discretion to supplement the books with other sources (newspaper clippings, photos, primary documents, other books, etc.) and discussions that will appropriately build up one’s particular group of children’s awareness of and concern for issues of racial inequality and the power of taking a stand.\nBrian Hughes says:\nIt’s great to think about using these books in classrooms. Thanks for your thoughtful write-up.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line918398"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8827695846557617,"wiki_prob":0.8827695846557617,"text":"DIAMOND V-The Shade of J. Ballantine Hannay.\nBy Emily Hahn\nThe New Yorker, May 26, 1956 P. 102\nREPORTER AT LARGE about industrial diamonds, which account for 80% of the diamond trade in terms of bulk and 25% in terms of profit. In Feb., 1955, General Electric Research Laboratory, in Schenectady, announced that they had succeeded in producing man-made diamonds for industrial use. This is of interest to De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., who control practically the entire world trade in uncut diamonds. At the moment, though, it is no threat to them since it costs about twice as much to produce man-made diamonds as to mine them, and bulk production has not yet been achieved. De Beers markets their industrial stones thru Industrial Distributors, a subsidiary company, and 9 yrs. ago, they set up the Diamond Research Laboratory to conduct research into the properties & uses of diamonds. Industrials are small, drab stones. Being nature's hardest substance they are used in all sorts of cutting, grinding and boring tools. They are almost indispensable to some industries. The U.S. has been stockpiling them for the last ten years. Writer describes a visit to the Diamond Research Laboratory, where she talked with Dr. J.F.H. Custers, and learned a little about their research. Also tells about other attempts to produce man-made diamonds, including one hoax.\nWhat HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong\nBy Masha Gessen\nThe show’s creators imagine confrontation where it was unthinkable—and, in doing so, they cross the line from conjuring a fiction to creating a lie.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line686137"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7357935905456543,"wiki_prob":0.7357935905456543,"text":"Fun for Free: Children’s Museum celebrates 35th anniversary\nSeptember 19, 2018 September 19, 2018 Seacoast Roaming Reporter\nThirty-five years ago one of the first children’s museums in the country opened its doors in Portsmouth. In 2008 the museum was relocated to Dover to a facility that more than quadrupled the size of the original. The museum, formerly known as the Children’s Museum of Portsmouth, was renamed the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in an effort to better serve children and families throughout the Granite State, according to Jane Bard, the president of the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire.\n“We were able to add not only more exhibit experiences but also classroom spaces. We also expanded our efforts to reach out to communities that were not able to visit us by taking the museum on the road through outreach programs to libraries and schools,” she said.\nIn celebration of the changes and evolutions of the museum throughout its 35-year history, the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire will host a free family fun day Saturday, Sept. 22.\n“We will be bringing back some of our favorite activities,” said Bard. “We have a miniature version of that. We will be bringing back some of our favorite hands-on activities in the STEAM lab, and we will be bringing Books Alive character Curious George to the museum for meet-and-greet times throughout the day.”\nThe event will serve as the maiden voyage for a new exhibit, “One World,” which brings three popular immigrant cultures from around New Hampshire to the forefront of hands-on education.\n“It will focus on the cultures from Indonesia, India and Mexico. Children will be able to shop for food in the market and bring it to the cafe to prepare and serve. They’ll be able to choose musical instruments, masks, clothing, and bring it to a festival in celebration of those three areas of the world. It’s really an immersive sensory experience,” said Bard.\nThe free celebration, Bard said, is one way of giving back to a community that has supported the museum’s efforts over the past 35 years.\n“Thirty percent of our visitors do come for free or reduced admission, but we have never hosted an outright free day for everyone in the community,” she said. “We feel that it is really important to open our doors to welcome and celebrate the past 35 years and highlight all of the exciting changes that we have and will continue to make to the museum over the coming years.”\nBard hopes that the event will attract families who have never had the opportunity to spend a day at the museum, as well as families who have explored the different exhibits.\n“As children grow and change, the way that they experience the museum and exhibits grows and changes as well,” she said.\nFREE FAMILY FUN DAY SCHEDULE\nOn Saturday, Sept. 22, bring the whole family to the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire in Dover for a day full of free fun. Here’s a look at the day’s schedule. Visit childrens-museum.org or call 603-742-2002 for more information.\n10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Floating Boats outside the museum in upper Henry Law Park\nMake aluminum foil boats and test them out in our kiddie pool with representatives from SEED (Seacoast Education Endowment of Dover).\n10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Special visit from York Center for Wildlife & their Animal Ambassadors\nOutside the museum in upper Henry Law Park\n10:30 a.m.: Mini Wee Ones Class inside the Museum’s Deep Sea Classroom\nJoin CMNH Education Director Xanthi Gray for a mini version of our popular Wee Ones Wednesdays class, complete with storytime, crafts, music and games.\nNoon and 3:30 p.m.: Meet-and-greet with Curious George at the upper Henry Law Park Rotary Pavilion Stage. Say hello to the museum’s most popular Books Alive costumed character, Curious George. He will pose for pictures and offer high fives and hugs. Curious George will also be roaming around the museum and park from 1:30 to 2 p.m.\n11 a.m.: Magic Fred Show at the upper Henry Law Park Rotary Pavilion Stage. Join Magic Fred for an interactive high-quality magic show full of illusions and music.\n11 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Guacamole, Chips & Salsa with Tendercrop Farm outside the museum in upper Henry Law Park. To help celebrate the opening of the museum’s “One World” exhibits, Tendercrop Farms will be handing out fresh samples of guacamole, chips and salsa!\n1 p.m.: Dover Ducky Derby. Watch the ducks launch behind the museum, along the river fence.\nThe Dover Ducky Derby is a joint fundraiser between the Museum and SEED (Seacoast Education Endowment of Dover). Adopted rubber ducks will launch from Washington Street bridge. Prizes will be awarded to the first five ducks that finish the race. Ducks can be adopted for the race at the museum or online at www.childrens-museum.org: $5 for one duck, $50 for a gaggle of 12 ducks, or $100 for a flock of 50 ducks.\n2 p.m.: Lindsay and Her Puppet Pals at the upper Henry Law Park Rotary Pavilion Stage.\nJoin Lindsay Aucella and her menagerie of puppet friends for a high-energy, silly and interactive performance full of thoughtful storytelling that will inspire young audience members to explore creative play, self-confidence and empathy. Lindsay was mentored by Martha Dana, frequent performer and longtime friend of the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire, back when the museum was in Portsmouth. Martha gifted Lindsay her beloved puppet family when she retired, so you may recognize some old friends during Lindsay’s performance!\n2 to 4 p.m.: Catapults & Rollercoaster Making inside the Museum’s STEAM Innovation Lab and classroom. Join museum educators inside the museum to create catapults and rollercoasters.\n2 to 4 p.m.: Straws & Connectors inside the Museum’s Colorful Classroom\nPlay, construct and build with the museum’s popular set of straws and connectors.\n2:30 p.m.: Birthday cake cutting at the upper Henry Law Park Rotary Pavilion Stage\nNo birthday is complete without a cake! Join us for a special treat, while cake lasts. Thanks to Duston’s Bakery for their birthday cake donation.\n3 p.m.: Anyone Can Grow Food in the museum’s garden located in the Dover Adventure Playground. Visit the museum’s gardens in the Dover Adventure Playground and learn all about the plants growing there. Visitors may even get to try some vegetables fresh from the garden.\nOngoing throughout the day (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.)\nShake Your Sillies Out\nCMNH Anniversary temporary tattoo station\nStory Walk with “Do Like a Duck Does”\nCollaborative Art Activity\n*Featured photo: Lindsay Aucella and her Puppet Pals will be just one of the many special guests and activities offered at the Children’s Museum of NH’s Free Family Fun Day on Saturday, Sept. 22. Courtesy photo.\nMore than a Beach Town: Hampton Shows off its artistic side\n4 Shore Things: September 27-October 3","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1305864"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5443191528320312,"wiki_prob":0.45568084716796875,"text":"TAU research cause of Alzheimer’s disease\nThe study has just been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience and received a 2 million euro grant.\nDr. Ina Slutsky 370. (photo credit: courtesy)\nA new research study at Tel Aviv University hypothesizes that interference with brain activity at high frequency is liable to be the main cause of Alzheimer’s disease.\nThe study has just been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience and received a 2 million euro grant from the European Research Council.\nThere is as yet no cure for Alzheimer’s, which affects an estimated 100,000 Israelis. For over a decade, all attempts to develop drugs for preventing the decline of memory loss have failed, said Dr. Ina Slutsky, head of the research group on synaptic plasticity at TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine and Sagol School of Neuroscience.\n“The field is surely ripe for new research directions, and I believe that the answers will be found in basic processes that occur in the brain,” she said.\nSlutsky’s lab deals with basic science, meaning research that is far from being implemented into practical use. Three years ago, she discovered the physiological function of the amyloidbeta protein, which is the main component in the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. More recently, the group exposed the physiological processes that regulate the composition of the protein. The researchers believe these new findings will make it possible to identify – many years before the symptoms appear – what initially goes wrong in the brains of people who will develop this type of dementia.\nThe research, supervised by Slutsky, was led by post-doctoral student Yiftah Dolev and research student Hila Fogel.\nUntil now, Alzheimer’s researchers around the world focused on a rare genetic condition that occurs already in patients’ 40s rather than in their older years.\nThey managed to discover 150 genetic mutations that cause the disease, most of which involve two proteins – amyloid precursor protein (APP), from which amyloid-beta is made, and presenilin, which is involved in the final “cut” of the APP before amyloid-beta is produced.\nThe search for a medication dealt mainly with ways to minimize toxic forms of amyloid, but it did not succeed.\nUnlike the early-onset, familial Alzheimer’s that most researchers studied, the common form is sporadic Alzheimer’s, which appears in the last decades of life and causes dementia in 99 percent of sufferers in the world.\nSlutsky, aiming at finding the cause of the sporadic type, decided to study the connection between the activity of nerve networks in the brain and the components of amyloid-beta created in brain cells.\nThe amyloid-beta molecules that form in the brain come in a number of sizes, from 39 to 43 amino acids, Slutsky said. The shorter ones are more common than the longer ones, which produce the plaques. About 100 mutations connected to familial Alzheimer’s disrupt the balance between the two types of amyloid and cause the longer type to be the majority. This is the beginning of the disease. The question was what causes the disruption in the sporadic form of the disease in which people don’t carry familial mutations.\nThe researchers studied the question by giving electric stimulation to the hippocampus, the part of the brain involved in forming memories, in healthy rats and found that high-frequency “bursts” caused the production of shorter molecules.\nThey managed to show that a non-genetic factor affects the structure of the presenilin and the formation of amyloid-beta.\nThis was significant, Slutsky explained, as it is a major step in identifying factors that cause the sporadic type that affects million of people around the world.\nThe research, she said, is likely in the future to lead to a breakthrough in practical research aimed at finding ways to diagnose, prevent and cure the disease.\nWeizmann scientists bring nature back to artificially selected lab mice\nHealth Scan: The ‘memory’ of starvation is in the genes\nLooking young in old age\nMedical Corps training, improved technologies saved lives in Gaza\nGerman ‘reneges’ on optional fluoridation of drinking water","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1135757"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8878936171531677,"wiki_prob":0.8878936171531677,"text":"Diplomats Aim for Successful Finish\nFinal (13)\nFranklin & Marshall (16-20-1, 7-10-1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 2\nSwarthmore (22-17-1, 6-11-1) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 2\nHaverford (22-12, 11-5) 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 8 1\nFranklin & Marshall (15-20, 6-10) 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 1\nFranklin & Marshall (16-20, 7-10) 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 5 15 3\nSwarthmore (22-17, 6-11) 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 6 3\n2B: Roy Walker; Jaron Shrock\n2B: Ben Verducci; Spencer Sohmer; Nick Ott; Sam Partee\n2B: Matt Mezansky; David Iacobucci\n3B: Jimmy Whelan\n2B: Roy Walker\nF&M vs. Haverford | Caplan Field | 3:30 PM\nF&M at Swarthmore | Swarthmore | 12:30/3:30 PM\nSeries History: F&M closes out its regular season this week with a trio of games including its final home tilt against Haverford on Friday. The Fords earned a 6-4 win against the Diplomats on Monday afternoon but F&M owns the all-time series at 51-32-1 dating back to 1916.\nA doubleheader on the road against Swarthmore follows on Saturday, a team the Diplomats swept last season. F&M has won three straight against the Garnet and lead the all-time series at 53-42-2.\nLast Week: The conference schedule was particularly unkind to the Diplomats last week as F&M went 1-3 with a heartbreaking 7-6 loss (10 innings) against Washington on Tuesday, a 13-2 defeat from the Shoremen at Clipper Magazine Stadium on Thursday and a series split with Dickinson on Saturday (14-8 win in game one, 6-4 loss in game two).\nOn Tuesday against the Shoremen, F&M carried a 5-1 lead into the sixth inning before Washington began mounting a comeback. Clinging to the narrow advantage in the eighth, the Diplomats allowed a two-out, bases loaded single through the right side that evened the score.\nThe Shoremen led off the bottom of the 10th with a single to right field, before a sacrifice bunt put a runner at second with one out. Washington followed by scoring the tying run on an error at second base before Bryan Baquer's triple reached the right field fence for the game-winner.\nTo read the full recap, click here.\nThe series continued on Friday at Clipper Magazine Stadium, home of the Lancaster Barnstormers. David Iacobucci led off with a solo homer to right field in the bottom of the third to cut the deficit to four. However, that was all the closer the Diplomats would get as Washington followed with a run in the fourth, three in fifth and three in the seventh to close out the contest\nTo read the full recap, click here and to view photos from the game, click here.\nGame one on Saturday saw F&M surrender three runs in the bottom of the first before exploding for six runs on seven hits in the second inning that included five consecutive singles to open the frame. The Diplomats tacked on with a five-run frame in the top of the third after receiving RBI singles from Christopher Vincent, Tyler Daley, and Luke Seib, followed by a two-RBI double from Iacobucci to put F&M in front at 11-3. Another three Diplomat runs in the fifth firmly put the game out of reach for good.\nSeib had a career day going 3-for-6 with three runs scored and five RBIs. Iacobucci also tallied a 3-for-6 line to go along with one run scored and a pair drove in while Vincent went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and Brett Poniros tallied a 3-for-4 line with three runs scored as the designated hitter. The Diplomats registered five extra-base hits and 19 total in the game.\nIn game two, the Diplomats battled back from being down three in the fifth with three runs to knot the contest at 4-4, taking advantage of a pair of Dickinson errors in the frame. However, the lead only held until the seventh when the Red Devils tallied a pair, including a two-out RBI single to left field to go ahead for good.\nTo read the full recap from Saturday, click here.\nPlayoff Picture: With Monday's narrow 6-4 loss against Haverford, F&M is officially eliminated from CC Playoff contention.\nMezansky Milestone Watch: With just three games remaining in senior third baseman Matt Mezansky's career, several program records, and statistical milestones remain within his grasp. His 168 career hits are good for third all-time and are just five short of tying the program record held by Gary Kruger '06 and J.T. Triantos '12. He is also just one run shy of 100, and along with the 101 RBIs he has accumulated in his career, Mezansky is closing in on joining Will Benenson ' 14 as the second player in history to reach the plateau in both categories.\nMezansky is also second in games played at 153, just two short of Corey Carthers' record on 155. His 15 games started is also second only to Caruthers '06, who holds the record with 155. Mezansky has tallied 35 doubles in his career, a mark that is just three shy of second place.\nOther Milestones to Watch: With six saves on the season, closer Andrew Mascis continues to solidify himself atop the program's leaderboard with 15 in his career. Dan Tischler '08 holds the previous mark with 10.\nIacobucci cracked the top 10 for home runs and now stands in a three-way tie for sixth with eight in his career. Scott Haft '05 holds the program record with 14.\nGareth Fancher continues his ascent up the career appearances chart as the senior reliever is tied for fourth with 48. Chris Mathewson '15 holds the record with 64.\nIn the season-record book, Daley's .508 on-base percentage is the eighth highest all-time. Dennis Dowd '82 leads the program at .581.\nTop of the CC Class: As of Tuesday, Daley's .364 batting average on the season is the 12th-best in the CC. Iacobucci is close behind in 14th with a .363 clip. Mezansky is seventh in doubles with 12 and 12th in RBIs with 28.\nOn the mound, Mike Androconis' four wins are good for ninth while Mascis leads the conference with six saves.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1390210"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7882079482078552,"wiki_prob":0.7882079482078552,"text":"Latvia100\nSociety & Lifestyle\nHistory & Landmarks\nJog Latvia!\nContacts & Press\nPatriots Week\nNovember is one of the darkest and gloomiest months of the year. However, for Latvia and its people, it is the time of remembrance and cheerful celebration. Riga and Latvia shines along with its people and the thousands of candles lit by them, for it is the time of our Patriots Week.\nThe Patriot Ribbon\nLāčplēsis Day or how the Latvian heroes were born\nIdentity as the source of strength\nNovember 18 quotes from Latvian presidents\nPreparing for Latvia’s Centennial\nThis will be the tenth year since Latvians have been celebrating their Patriot Week, starting with Lāčplēsis Day on November 11, and culminating in a magnificent celebration of the state’s anniversary on November 18. To pay their respect to Latvia’s freedom fighters and express their love for the country, hundreds of thousands of Latvians wear a small carmine-white-carmine ribbon, in the colours of the flag of Latvia, pinned to the coat close to one’s heart. This symbol bears the message: „Latvia is in my heart no matter where I go!”\nThe tradition of Patriot Week with carmine-white-carmine ribbons was started in 2007 by the Independent Television of Latvia (LNT) to foster patriotism and knowledge of the history of Latvia among the youth. One example of misconception among younger citizens is the Lāčplēsis Day, which, as it turns out, is not a birthday celebration of the mythical hero Lāčplēsis (or Bear-slayer). It is the anniversary of the final victory of heroic Latvian soldiers over Bermondt’s army on November 11, 1919.\nToday, the idea of Patriot Week has become an important national tradition after being recognised and taken over by the Latvian Ministry of Defence and the National Armed Forces, providing miles of carmine-white-carmine ribbon for the pins each year. Events of collective ribbon folding are held all across Latvia and joined by more and more people – from children to seniors and from museum staff members to business people. Since the beginning of this tradition, more than 50 kilometres of ribbon have been folded into pins – more than 40 thousand ribbon pins being distributed to people in Riga each year.\nPeople often ask about the ‘correct’ way to fold and wear the carmine-white-carmine ribbon. It is worn with loose ends heading upwards, forming the shape of the letter “V” – an international symbol for “Victory”. An alternate way of folding the ribbon is in the shape of the number 11 to represent the date of the most important victory for Latvia.\nThe ribbons are worn until the Independence Day, the 18th of November, but most people acquire them a week before, making sure they have some spare ribbons for their families, friends or any fellow compatriots met along the festivities. It is a great way to honour the state of Latvia and its people, no matter where in the world one finds oneself this special time, and an opportunity to remember and share the story of our beautiful land, its history, culture and heroes.\nWe welcome you to get your own carmine-white-carmine Patriot Ribbon and join the celebration!\nPrinting material in PDF.\nThe Patriot Week in Latvia begins with commemoration events of Lāčplēsis Day and culminates with a cheerful celebration of state anniversary. First we pay tribute to the soldiers who gave their lives for the freedom of Latvia, and then it is time to celebrate the foundation of our country. The historical events that took place almost a century ago happened in a reverse order, perhaps to remind us that we must stay vigilant and protect our country’s independence every day.\nProclamation of the Republic of Latvia on November 18, 1918, took place at the current National Theatre of Latvia in an elated and festive atmosphere. The ceremony commenced with a collective singing of the national anthem “God, Bless Latvia“ (Dievs, svētī Latviju), followed by speeches from statesmen Gustavs Zemgals and Kārlis Ulmanis who talked about the bright future of the independent state of Latvia and its people.\nThough highly optimistic and idealistic, the well-educated leaders of Latvia knew that hard battles are still ahead of the newly formed state to secure its independence. And, indeed, there were. The freedom fights of Latvia lasted for almost two years, starting with proclamation of the state on November 18, 1918, and ending by signing of the peace treaty with Russia on August 11, 1920.\nDuring Latvia’s fight for freedom, there was one battle that gained eternal glory, and the Latvian soldiers who took part in that battle will always be praised as the first heroes of the independent Latvia. It happened on November 11, 1919, when the newly formed Latvian Army, with 15-year-old boys fighting alongside experienced men, defeated the Russian-German troops led by Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, an army three times the size of the Latvian forces.\nTo honour this historical victory, November 11 was immediately declared a national day of remembrance and named after Lāčplēsis, the strongest heroic character of Latvian folklore. The Lāčplēsis War Medal, awarded to freedom fighters for their extraordinary bravery, became the highest military award of the first state of Latvia. Between 1920 and 1940, the medal was awarded to 2146 national heroes.\nEvery year on Lāčplēsis Day we honour our heroes by placing lit candles in the windows of our homes or at the November 11 Embankment in Riga, named after the historic victory over the Bermondt army. Other traditional Lāčplēsis Day activities involve a Torchlight Procession though Old Riga, the honorary change of guard at the Freedom Monument, oecumenical services in the churches throughout Latvia as well as reconstructions of freedom battles across the country.\nLāčplēsis Day serves as a reminder to every citizen that one is not born as a hero, one becomes a hero, and courage is a conscious decision. Thus November 11 provides a good opportunity for everyone to look into one’s own heart and ask oneself – what can I do for my family, my people and our country.\nAwaken the hero within you!\nInfographic: What is Lāčplēša Day?\n“Identity is the basis for creativity and productivity. There is not a single person without a spark of creativity.” These were the words of the ex-president of Latvia, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, who spent more than 50 years of her life in six different countries on three different continents.\nHow do we answer the question of who we are? What is this special characteristic, which makes us, individuals, and Latvians as a nation, different from billions of others living in this world? Profound understanding of our own identity makes us special and interesting to others.\nIn the age of globalisation many young people consider themselves citizens of the world, thus the nationality as a part of own identity plays a diminishing role. However, the national identity – connection to a place of birth or where the roots of our parents are – goes beyond speaking a particular language or carrying a passport. Our system of values, way of thinking and models of behaviour, as well as sense of humour, is rooted in our belonging to a particular culture and traditions. For example, in which other country in Europe the knowledge on edible mushrooms or characteristics of medicinal herbs is retained, where else the daily life goes in accordance with the Moon calendar and know-how of ancestors are applied? The ancient Latvian respect and love of nature has transformed into innovative ideas in design, architecture, business and science.\nIdentity is like a human DNA, which we cannot change as easily as a name in the passport. Maybe we fully understand it only when we experience other cultures and countries, gaining understanding of how different, or similar we are. Latvian people not only possess their unique taste, favourite smells and flavours, but also a special regard for one’s family and loyalty to friends. Even gardening chores are planned according to ancestors’ know-how rather than contemporary Roman calendar.\nWe can try to become British, French or Scandinavian, or we can also choose a different path – remain being Latvian, carrying our belonging to this country with pride wherever our fate may bring us. As is with trees, strong roots allow us to grow strong and respected by others. Let us be proud of ourselves, of the achievements of our compatriots and our country, Latvia, wherever and whenever possible!\nSince the foundation of the country in 1918, Latvia has had nine presidents, whose official celebratory addresses on November 18 have become an indispensable part of the festive tradition. On Latvia’s 98th birthday let us remember their words which paint the history and challenges of our country for almost a century.\nPresident Raimonds Vējonis\nIn 1919, the first President of Latvia, Jānis Čakste said: “This day is the birthday of Latvia. We have a reason to celebrate now, a reason to cheer and reason to express our happiness in all forms outward. [..] This day will remain such until Latvia remains, but today we withhold from loud celebrations.”\nGustavs Zemgals in 1931, during the cornerstone celebration of the Monument of Freedom: “To state to our next generations about how important freedom is to this nation, how costly it was bought by the lives of heroes and how highly held and regarded it should be by the next generations, which will inherit this holy gift to be never let out of their hands.”\nAlberts Kviesis, on November 18, 1935, during the unveiling ceremony of the Monument of Freedom: “People have not only material cares and worries, but the monument attests to our ability to care for spiritual values, and the peak of this monument, it tends towards the sun, stars and skies – let it remind us of the need of our people to always remember about needs of our soul, the spiritual food, which is needed both for an individual and the people.”\nKārlis Ulmanis, November 18 celebration ceremony: “Let us take home a firm belief to provide, as much as each of us is able, that after 20 years we would gather here again as we stand here today, and for those who we have raised to be as passionate patriots of Latvia as we are today.”\nGuntis Ulmanis, November 18, 1997: “And if Latvia is a pearl on the coast of the Baltic Sea, as was said by Pope John Paul II, this pearl must shine brightly amidst the community of European countries of the future.”\nVaira Vīķe-Freiberga, November 18, 1999, the Dome Square in Riga: “I believe in future Latvia. I believe in the people of Latvia. In particular, I believe in you who is listening to this and hearing my voice. It is you whom Latvia needs. Latvia awaits you.”\nValdis Zatlers in 2010: “National celebrations are the time when we feel particularly patriotic. Once I asked a Latvian soldier: “What gives you strength during the hard and dangerous moments during the missions?” He said: “If you are a patriot of your own country everything is easy because you clearly see the meaning of your work and life.”\nAndris Bērziņš in 2011: “Let us not seek enemies! Let us seek kindred spirits! Let us support one another! Help those who are yet unable or no more able to help themselves! Our fate and fate of Latvia is only in our own hands.”\nRaimonds Vējonis in 2015: “You are the heroes, who make our country stronger and safer every day – you are Latvia! We are Latvia! Let us thank each other and say it loud in our hearts. Let us celebrate this day with gratefulness, happiness and love for each other and our homeland!”\nWhat shall we wish ourselves, our people and our country this year?\nThis year, we celebrate Latvia’s 98th birthday, already thinking of its upcoming centennial on November 18, 2018. While preparing for the grand celebration, it is time to define new goals for ourselves and agree on those values we wish to take with us for the upcoming hundred years.\nOn November 18, 1918, during the ceremony of proclamation of Latvia 38 members of People’s Council understood it was only a beginning and the future would bring difficult tasks. Just like at school when each year of studies is more complex than the previous one. However, the happiness for one’s own country was greater than the fear of future difficulties.\nAnd indeed, until 1940 Latvia blossomed, and the national self-esteem of the Latvian people become stronger. But the period of independence was followed by Soviet occupation, during which the nation lost its brightest and most talented minds, the economy built during the independence was destroyed, and the Soviet power attempted to crush the self-esteem and the free will of the people.\nBut the idea of a free and independent Latvia was not to be crushed. In 1980s, the individual creative protest manifestations of brave young artists, writers, poets and other activists gradually turned into a national movement of protest. On August 23, 1989, during the Baltic Way manifestation, two million people in all three Baltic countries joined hands to testify their wish to be free again. This 600 km long human chain which started in Tallinn, Estonia and led through Latvia all the way to Vilnius, Lithuania, was the grandest flash-mob in the modern history that inspired people all across the world. With the signing of the Declaration of Independence on May 4, 1990, the country of Latvia, in which we currently live, was reborn.\nVaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of Latvia, said in her public address on July 29, 2001: “We are a rich nation because we have inherited a lot. We are a beautiful nation because our heritage has been sifted and tested through centuries. We only have what was recognized as good. [..] We have been given our history so that we could choose how to handle it, how to accept it and make it ours.”\nThe human history has seen the rise and fall of many nations and countries. Today, 7 billion people live in 200 countries, and 0.029% of them live in Latvia. Our country is so small that its existence is a miracle, to be protected and cherished. The world is open, and information technologies allow us to be a part of the Latvian information space regardless of our physical location. But the Latvian state cannot exist without our physical participation – or the name “Latvia” might become nothing more than just a domain in the virtual space, and its land turn into an anonymous point of destination in the global movement of goods. Only our willingness to be a part of this land and people, readiness to act together, will provide a meaning to Latvia, to exist and develop for the next hundred years.\nThousands of years ago Aristotle defined that the supreme meaning for founding a state: “A state is founded not for us to survive in it, but mostly – for us to live happily in it.” The state of Latvia was born in difficult times, and during its first hundred years, its existence has been a story of survival and self-preservation. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5066944360733032,"wiki_prob":0.5066944360733032,"text":"How LinkedIn Impacts The Attention Economy\nTheo Miller Contributor\nCovering product marketing and design\nLinkedIn hurts their user experience by notifying users of nonevents. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)\nA tiny red badge can make you feel great. It can mean something wonderful has happened. It can also mean something horrible has happened. The one rule when it comes to notifications is something has to have happened.\nLike the boy who cried wolf, LinkedIn has betrayed my trust one too many times. From random work anniversaries to irrelevant birthdays, I've learned to ignore their pings.\nNotifications must be essential, or people stop paying attention. It's the same reason why no one puts lawn furniture on a fire escape — it's critical to keep some pathways clear.\nAn interview request is a great example of a true event on LinkedIn. It's something you want to know about. That needs to be the baseline standard for what qualifies as a notification.\nOtherwise it’s like talking to a friend that brags about something that never happened. It creates distance in the relationship. You can't put your guard down because you have to second-guess everything they say.\nThere's a popular concept called the Attention Economy. Everyone knows there's been an uptick in the amount of information there is to consume. Due to this increase, attention is in high demand. Every app on every device is after your eyeballs and the result is a competitive marketplace.\nIf you accept this premise, it's as though LinkedIn is selling subprime mortgages. One notification can't wreck the Attention Economy, but a surge of them could do some damage.\nThat's why it's important for tech giants to be careful with notifications. It's their responsibility to set an example for all the other apps out there.\nAt least Twitter and Facebook have pages where you can set granular preferences. LinkedIn has a settings page for communications, but there isn't one for notifications.\nThat's too obvious of an oversight to be a mistake. Their product team made a strategic decision. You can filter their notifications out one by one, but that’s not the same thing.\nIn defense of LinkedIn, they are still one of the biggest social networks around. Along with Facebook and Twitter, they are a pillar of the modern social media landscape. Within that elite group, LinkedIn stands alone as the professional network.\nIt doesn't provide fun photos from parties, or breaking news about politics. Even amongst new apps like Instagram or Snapchat, LinkedIn is the professional one.\nSo it makes sense that their notifications are boring. That's why LinkedIn has to work so hard to manufacture excitement around nonevents. Next to nothing is worth a notification on LinkedIn.\nSame with Quora — the educated elite’s response to Yahoo Answers. Quora notifies me every time someone answers a question that’s tagged as an interest. Never mind that I selected that \"interest\" to speed up my onboarding back in 2009. I swear, every 9 months when I log onto Quora, there’s a backlog of notifications about Barack Obama.\nThere's a reason why LinkedIn abuses their notification system. It makes their product sticky. A sticky product is one that compels users to log in everyday. This strategy informs product roadmaps throughout the tech industry.\nThis is because the leading business model in Silicon Valley is Software as a Service. SaaS only works if subscribers log in and engage often. It’s unlikely users would pay a recurring fee for a service they don't use on a regular basis.\nWhen subscriptions plummet, venture capital ceases to flow. That's why it's so important for pre-revenue (yes, pre-revenue) startups to be sticky. It's impossible to monetize a product if it doesn't attract a large number of daily active users.\nEven a company like LinkedIn cares about how many daily active users it has. It's an expression of their popularity. It represents the vitality of their platform.\nThere are great notification systems out there. Apple does a fantastic job with iOS. They list every installed app and provide notification preferences for each. It's an essential part of any modern operating system.\nAlthough it's shady how every mobile developer assumes you want their app to be central to your life. As soon as you sign up, you have to adjust your notifications to make sure they won't wake you up in the middle of the night.\nAs wearables become mainstream, it's important to recognize how consequential notifications can be. They might crowd our contact lenses in the crosswalk or overheat our glasses on the train. For everyone's safety, let's hope app developers don't abuse notifications in the future.\nTheo Miller\nTheo Miller is a storyteller and former product person. He joined Carta prelaunch as a designer and marketer in 2013. After leaving in 2018, Carta commissioned Theo to m...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line783490"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6492589712142944,"wiki_prob":0.6492589712142944,"text":"Our Blog Site\nHow the moral lessons of To Kill a Mockingbird endure today\nHow the moral lessons of To Kill a Mockingbird endure today.\nAug 17 2018 - Anne Maxwell\nMercatorNet\nHarper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the classics of American literature. Never out of print, the novel has sold over 40 million copies since it was first published in 1960. It has been a staple of high school syllabuses, including in Australia, for several decades, and is often deemed the archetypal race and coming-of-age novel. For many of us, it is a formative read of our youth.\nThe story is set in the sleepy Alabama town of Maycomb in 1936 - 40 years after the Supreme Court’s notorious declaration of the races as being “separate but equal”, and 28 years before the enactment of the Civil Rights Act. Our narrator is nine-year-old tomboy, Scout Finch, who relays her observations of her family’s struggle to deal with the class and racial prejudice shown towards the local African American community.\nAt the centre of the family and the novel stands the highly principled lawyer Atticus Finch. A widower, he teaches Scout, her older brother Jem, and their imaginative friend Dill, how to live and behave honourably. In this he is aided by the family’s hardworking and sensible black housekeeper Calpurnia, and their kind and generous neighbour, Miss Maudie.\nIt is Miss Maudie, for example, who explains to Scout why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird: “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.”\nThroughout the novel, the children grow more aware of the community’s attitudes. When the book begins they are preoccupied with catching sight of the mysterious and much feared Boo Radley, who in his youth stabbed his father with a pair of scissors and who has never come out of the family house since. And when Atticus agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who is falsely accused of raping a white woman, they too become the target of hatred.\nA morality tale for modern America\nClick here to read the article online (be sure that you do): MercatorNet\nBack to the future… or the end of the road?\nNeo-Marxist ideology has Christianity in its sights.\nAug 17 2017 - Michael Kirke\nHow bad can it get? The Mad-Hatter's Tea Party\nA British Conservative government minister, Justine Greening, says that gender is virtually meaningless by proposing to let adults come in off the street and change it at will. “Pronoun Committees” on campus warn, “If you fail to respect someone else’s gender identity, it is not only disrespectful and hurtful, but also oppressive.” Does anyone hear an echo, “Committee of Public Safety”?\nFrom there it was but a short step to the guillotine. Mozzilla’s CEO was removed from the company he founded because he privately supported traditional marriage – and that was also disrespectful, hurtful and oppressive. It certainly was for him – but that didn’t matter. A Google engineer is the latest casualty of the thought police because he expressed an opinion of doubtful orthodoxy.\nThis is just a very small sample from a long catalogue of seemingly mad events which are taking place around us. But they are not mad. They are the result of a cold, calculated dogma that has pervaded our culture.\nWe are, in truth, not a million miles, not even a few hundred miles from the nightmare of Stalinist Russia, where to write an opera (Prokofiev), compose a symphony (Shostakovich) or pen a novel (Pasternak) which was out of synch with the ideology of the State would reduce your career to ashes and even endanger your very life.\nIs there anyone out there prepared to defend mankind from this self-destructive ideology? Yes there is, perhaps too timidly yet, but the principles are sound and if this onslaught of injustice persists then surely the perennial voice of reason will be heard loud and clear.\nFor seventy-plus years Marxism was a political force in the Soviet Union, backed up by a lethal totalitarian state. In that time the one enemy which it constantly singled out for annihilation was the Christian religion. Wherever Christians were found the grotesque regime’s apparatus first sought to corrupt them. Failing that it sought to crush them.\nAfter soviet Russia led the way a handful of Eastern European followed under its tutelage – or its tanks. China and some Asian countries then joined the monstrous regiment and in the fifties and sixties of the last century the ideology made a largely unsuccessful attempt to subvert Latin America.\nEventually, bearing within itself the seeds of its own destruction, the states which embraced it began to crumble and fall. But to the very end Christianity remained its perpetual enemy and number one target for persecution and extermination. Even in the last decade of its hegemony it sought to assassinate – and almost succeeded – the Vicar of Christ on Earth.\nWhy was this so? Why should the followers of a peace-loving prophet from 2000 years ago be such a threat to what at first sight might be described as just one more attempt to solve the problems mankind faces in organising this world to meet the daily needs of its inhabitants?\nIt was so because the vision of humanity held by the followers of Jesus Christ, based on the belief and understanding that this God-man in fact created the world and all that is in it, is radically at odds with that of Karl Marx, his antecedents and his disciples. The essential contradictions inherent in the Marxist vision of man, its utterly flawed anthropology, eventually killed it – but not before it left tens of millions dead in its wake.\nMichael Kirke writes from Dublin. He blogs at Garvan Hill, where this article first appeared. Republished with permission.\nClick here to read the article online, be sure that you do: MercatorNet\nA visit to a baby market in Brussels\nA donor-conceived Belgian woman visits a fair for same-sex couples who want to be dads\nOct. 4, 2016 - Stephanie Raeymaekers\nBRUSSELS -- For the second time around a surrogacy fair organised by the American company Men Having Babies landed on Belgian soil. This time it took place in a slightly more upscale venue. The ground floor at The Brussels Hilton became a stage where 220 potential customers from 12 European countries were welcomed.\nLike last year, I was present. Me: the first in our generation to provide adults with a semi-biological child. It was the start of a lucrative business when fertility doctors discovered that the techniques used on a pig farm could also be useful for infertile heterosexual couples.\nFrom the 1950s Belgian wombs were being filled with the sperm of unknown men. Fertility techniques improved and not much later they tapped into new target groups: single women and lesbian couples.\nBranding unwanted childlessness as discrimination and injustice, several branches of the LGBT community are lobbying for gay men and transgender women to have biological children of their own.\nLast Sunday almost everything was on offer: interpreters, gadgets, price lists, different formulas, the dos and the don’ts… But most of all, straight-to-your-heart-and-into-our-wallet sales pitches from companies which are able to connect anyone directly with eggs, surrogacy agencies and lawyers to make “a dream come true”. Lawyers handed out the metaphorical road map with instructions on how to by-pass laws to get your purchased child(ren) “legally” in your own country.\nTowards an ethical framework...\nTransgender madness is sweeping our schools\nParents, protect your children\nThere are many pressing issues that have come to the forefront over the last two decades as the new post-Christian consensus crowds into spaces once dominated by those who took Judeo-Christian values for granted. “The illusion of a Christian majority is now gone,” Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention noted, “and churches are going to have to articulate things they used to assume.”\nThis is going to be more difficult than it sounds. The first and most important challenge is for parents, who must devise ways of ensuring that they pass their beliefs and values on to their children. Gone are the days when the culture’s residual reliance on Judeo-Christian assumptions could reinforce what was heard in church and at home. Gone, in fact, are thousands of the churches. Instead, parents are faced with the task of teaching their children beliefs and values that run counter to virtually every cultural influence faced by children today: Hollywood films, the music industry, television shows, the state school system, and in many cases, even the government promote values that run directly contrary to the Christian worldview.\nWhat is more dangerous still is the fact that the state is making an active attempt to stand between parents and children, utilizing the public school system not simply to teach, but to pass on a new set of values, values rooted not in Christian tradition but in the Sexual Revolution. That is why battles over sex education in Ontario, much to the confusion of the enlightened cosmopolitans in the chattering classes, provoked such a heated confrontation between the government and communities of traditionalists of all faiths: because each side was claiming the right to pass on values to the children. The state is insisting that their educational arm should teach children about sexuality, from their own perspective, with no right to “opt out.” Parents recognize that they are fighting for the religious and cultural identity of their children, and are insisting that the state stay out.\nThe state has no intention of doing so, of course. One particularly stark example is a letter published by Alberta’s Education Minister on August 16, titled “An open letter to Alberta’s students,” which was then posted to Facebook:\nClick here for entire article: LifeSiteNews\n'Angels' Block Protestors at Orlando Funeral\nDenison Forum on Truth and Culture - Dr. Jim Denison\nChristopher Andrew Leinonen was one of the victims of the Orlando massacre. As thousands gathered for his funeral last Saturday, a handful of protesters from Westboro Baptist Church arrived. The tiny church has made itself famous over the years by picketing the funerals of military personnel and anyone else with whom it disagrees.\nBut this time the protesters were met by a group of men and women dressed as angels. Their large wings formed a wall that shielded mourners from the picketers. The tactic worked: one attendee said, \"We couldn't even hear WBC. All you could hear was peace and love.\"\nAs a theologian who is convinced that the Bible forbids same-sex activity, I am saddened by the success of LGBT advocates in promoting their unbiblical agenda in our culture. But as a Christian who is convinced that God loves us all, no matter our sexual orientation or lifestyle, I am also saddened by the response of some Christians to the Orlando tragedy. A pastor in Sacramento said in a sermon, \"The tragedy is that more of them didn't die.\" A pastor in Arizona said of the massacre, \"I'm not sad about it; I'm not going to cry about it.\"\nGod disagrees.\nRead the entire article here: Denison Forum on Truth and Culture\n‘To kill or not to kill, that is the question’\nA new film about Jerome Lejeune shows the drama of his life after identifying the cause of Down syndrome.\n(\tMercatornet) - Mary Le Rumeur\nIt is August 1969 in San Francisco and Professor Jerome Lejeune is addressing the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics.\nTen years earlier he had discovered the genetic cause of Down Syndrome, when he saw under his microscope in a Paris laboratory the third little mark on the 21st chromosome. In 1962 he received the Kennedy Award from the hands of President John F Kennedy for his work with handicapped children.\nBut the drama of his life was that his discovery of trisomy 21 would lead to a medical holocaust, national health systems giving huge funds to track down and eliminate these children before they could be born.\nInvited to America to receive the highest distinction in genetics for his work, the William Allen Memorial Award, Lejeune decided to use this occasion to speak out in defence of \"his patients\" -- the children and their parents who already came from all over the world to seek his advice and help in Paris.\nClick here for entire article: (Mercatornet)\nThe video has been ordered and will be available for showing, contact Ross Whitelaw\nMedical experts rip Alberta’s ‘reckless’ and ‘dangerous’ transgender m\nFriday, 29 April 2016 (LifeSiteNews) - Steve Weatherby\nThe Alberta government’s new guidelines promoting transgenderism in the province’s schools have not only sparked a parental revolt, they have triggered a stinging rebuke from two medical professors at the University of Alberta, who call the them “incredibly misguided,” “reckless,” and “dangerous” to the youth involved.\nThe two U of A professors are Dr. Blaine Achen, MD, FRCPS, FASE, associate clinical professor in Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, and Dr. Theodore K. Fenske, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FACC, clinical professor of medicine, as well as staff cardiologist at the C.K. Hui Heart Centre.\nIn a paper published on the Alberta Parents for Choice in Education website, they dissect and eviscerate the New Democratic government’s recently released “Guidelines for Best Practices: Creating Learning Environments that respect Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Gender Expressions” with surgical precision.\nDonna Trimble, Parents for Choice in Education’s executive director, says the paper “expresses the views of many doctors, but these are the only two so far with enough courage to speak the truth and contradict political correctness.”\nThe guidelines in question ape ideologically-inspired policies enshrined in law in Ontario and California and other states and provinces. They not only unquestioningly endorse but enforce the gender-identity assertions of youth by allowing them to use the washrooms and school teams of their chosen “gender,” by affirming gender dysphoria in the curriculum and by keeping their cross-gender identification from their parents.\nIn their analysis, the two medical experts state, “This document is flawed both in the most basic assumptions it rests upon, and the conclusions thereby reached.” They implore Education Minister David Eggen “to reverse such an incredibly misguided and illogical statement and policy.” Apart from the governing NDP, the guidelines have been endorsed by the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives but not by the Wildrose Party.\nThe first premise the experts demolish is the assumption that a child’s so-called “self-identification” cannot be questioned but is the “sole measure of an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.”\nOn the contrary, explain the professors, gender is a social construct based on “subjective perceptions, relationships, and adverse experiences from infancy onward,” and as such is the rightful subject of psychotherapy and family therapy when it differs from biological reality.\nClick here for entire article: (LifeSiteNews)\n- See more at: http://www.smokylakebaptist.ca/index.php#sthash.0K9lmo8L.dpuf\nThe children of divorce: anything but resilient\nWEDNESDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2016 (\tMercatorNet) -\nThe News Story - Coping with a new home life\nIn Part I of a series called “Children of Divorce,” provided by New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the Lohud Journal News outlines some “strategies to help your child cope” with a parental divorce.\nAmong these strategies are “validate your child’s feelings,” “respect your partner’s rules,” and “make decisions based on what’s best for the child.” “Concerned parents,” according to the story, “have more power than they think when it comes to promoting their child’s resilience and facilitating the transition.”\nBut research suggests that, in spite of such parental palliatives, children’s “resilience” can only go so far, and a true decision “based on what’s best for the child” would be to stay married.\nThe New Research - The children of divorce: anything but resilient\nWhen pressed to admit that the divorce revolution they led has hurt children, progressives invoke the myth of children’s resilience. Yes, they say, parental divorce does hurt children, but—not to worry—children are resilient: they bounce back in a year or two. The latest empirical insult to this myth comes from a study recently completed at Vanderbilt University, a study showing that more than four decades after parental divorce, the children affected still manifest the malign effects of that divorce upon their health.\nThis damning new evidence comes out of a sophisticated analysis of how “adverse social environments . . . become biologically embedded during the first years of life with potentially far-reaching implications for health across the life course.” As these researchers press their analysis of the linkages between social disadvantage in childhood and chronic health problems in adulthood, family disintegration emerges as a particularly important component of that social disadvantage—more important, in fact, than even low household income.\nTo analyze the relationship between social disadvantage in childhood and chronic health problems in adulthood, the researchers carefully examine data for 566 men and women born between 1959 and 1966, individuals for whom they have the social data necessary to formulate “an index that combine[s] information on adverse socioeconomic and family stability factors experienced between birth and age 7 years.” Drawing from data collected in 2005-2007 from these same individuals as adults, the researchers look for correlations between their index of childhood social disadvantage and adult health problems as measured in two ways: first, in cardiometabolic risk (CMR), determined by combining data from eight CMR biomarkers (including waist circumference, blood pressure, and triglyceride levels); second, in a composite index derived by assessing eight chronic diseases (including diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis). - See more at: http://www.mercatornet.com/family_edge/view/the-ch...\nRead the entire article and it's conclusion on MercatorNet\nAdditional suggested reading:\nThe Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study by Judith S. Wallerstein\nDear Christians: It’s no longer enough to work hard, raise a family, and hope to be left alone\nJan. 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) - It’s a common complaint in pro-life circles: Why is it often so hard to get the churches involved in social causes? We know that Christians have abortions, too—so it is impacting us personally. We know that Christians are, for the most part, very anti-abortion—so it’s not as if they disagree with the pro-life movement. So what is holding so many people back from getting involved?\nApathy is part of it. Lack of awareness is part of it. But by and large, the real reason is an attitude that runs much deeper. The answer is simple: Church-going people are often traditional, conservative people. And here I don’t mean those terms in the way that political analysts might use them, to describe specific policy positions. I mean simply that they are people who want to work hard, raise their children, and be left alone.\n“Have you ever met a parent of nine kids who was a Democratic activist?” Dennis Praeger once asked wryly. Everyone laughed. Perhaps not everyone even knew why it was so funny—it was just an absurd thought. Such a parent, everyone presumes, would have better things to do. People like my grandparents, who immigrated virtually penniless to Canada from the Netherlands in 1953, began working the land, and raised eleven children on a farm they built through blood, sweat, toil, and tears. They were too busy raising children and putting food on the table to trouble themselves with the screechings of Canadian feminists and other such activists.\nHerein lies the problem the pro-life and pro-family movement has in recruiting conservative people to engage the culture to combat the social ills infecting our society: There is something fundamentally foreign about “activism.” Indeed, the term “conservative activist” itself seems to be something of a contradiction in terms. Small-c conservatives and traditionalists do not want to change the world. They want to live in it and not be bothered.\nIt’s in the very root of the word—“conserve.” It is markedly different in temperament from “liberal,” which denotes “liberalizing”—action. Thus, many suspicious church people even find that the word “activism” carries with it a whiff of liberalism. Ambrose Bierce brilliantly encapsulated the contrast between these two temperaments when he defined a conservative as, “A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”\nWhich brings us to our present unpleasant realization that from a cultural perspective, the traditionalists and conservatives have been thoroughly beaten in the war for the culture. For the most part, we never even showed up. We raised families, built farms and businesses, and attended church functions while secular revolutionaries took over the entertainment industry, the media, academia—and finally, the public education system that now dutifully serves as a conduit for secular “values.” Prayer is out, queer theory is in, and many a middle-aged conservative has found occasion recently to splutter his coffee and gape at his newspaper: “How did things change so fast?”\nRead the entire article and it's conclusion on LifeStieNews\nCecil The Lion Stirs More Outrage Than Abortion Mogul Cecile The Lyin’\nBy Ryan Scott Bomberger\nWedensday, July 29, 2015\nThe Radiance Foundation\nRead the entire article -\tclick here.\nSociety has a funny way of deciding when to express outrage.\nMillions of innocent humans (aka pregnancy tissue) are slaughtered and their fully intact body parts are sold. Crickets.\nA single lion, which most have never heard of, gets hunted for sport. International drama.\nI despise the thought of big game hunting, but it never ceases to amaze me how rhetorically violent animal rights activists become when these creatures are harmed or killed.\nPETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has called for the hunter involved, Dr. Walter Palmer, to be hanged. The puppy-killing, celebrity-studded, publicity-stunt-centered organization epitomizes the insanely hypocritical, progressive approach. The death threats through Yelp and Twitter are repugnant, but unsurprising given their disdain for human life.\nCelebrities have tweeted their utter disgust for the wealthy dentist. Debra Messing (Will & Grace, Mysteries of Laura) says: “I want them to take his citizenship away.” Sharon Osbourne hopes that “#WalterPalmer loses his home, his practice & his money. He has already lost his soul…#WalterPalmer is Satan.” Piers Morgan, proving that being a news journalist was never his forte, tweets: “I’d love to go hunting for killer dentist Dr. Walter Palmer, so I can stuff and mount him for MY office wall.”\nJimmy Kimmel even nearly melted down talking about it on his show, having to pull himself together to make it through the segment.\nOh, and look…the Obama administration is now offering its help into the investigation of Palmer’s hunting escapade. According to The Hill: “The Service is deeply concerned about the recent killing of Cecil the Lion.” Wow. That was quick.\nPlanned Parenthood’s baby-parts-trafficking elicits nothing but support from the Obama administration. But kill a lion halfway across the world, in a nation riddled with grotesque human rights abuses, and the administration is on it! (Well, on the abuses to lions, not to Zimbabweans). Cecil the Lion’s death warrants outrage from the political left, but their darling abortion mogul–Cecile The Lyin’–can do no act heinous enough (like selling “unwanted” babies’ wanted organs), no Medicaid fraud egregious enough, no teen sex education misleading enough to stir a moment of discomfort for liberals.\nWhat's Happening This Week\nThe sermon from July 07, 2019 is posted. This and previous sermons can be played back from the Website. .\nToday – Sunday School classes for ages 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Today all the classes will meet downstairs. The Nursery is available for children aged two and under.\nToday – All the ladies are asked to remain in the sanctuary after Worship Service for an important planning meeting.\nMidweek Summer Schedule – In July and August the church will be open each Wednesday for prayer. Fasting that day is also encouraged. Those who wish to host a Cottage Meeting on a Wednesday night are asked to contact Pastor Keith.\nPlease Also Note\nThank you for silencing your cell phone during Worship.\nOffering envelopes are available at the back of the sanctuary.\nThank you to everyone who donated toward the portable storage cabinets. They have been ordered!\nIf you are interested in participating in a short-term mission to northern Canada with the ministry On Eagle’s Wings, see Dwight or Val.\nThe grass-cutting schedule beside the front door is available for your signature.\nPioneer Bible Camp at Hanmore Lake Celebrating 60 Years of Ministry\nJunior Week Ages 10-12 July 14-19$275\nKids’ Camp Ages 7-9 July 21-25$250\nYoung Adult Ages 18+ July 26-28$50\nRegister online @ www.pioneerbiblecamp.ca\nVolunteers are needed to share the church custodian duties during the month of August. Find a friend to help you and let Sharon know which week you are available. Men and women are equally welcome!\nDo you have photos related to the history of our church, such as buildings, activities, special occasions, missions? If so, please submit them to Ross and Val Whitelaw with your name and details of the photo (date, place, people). You may also email them. Hard copies will be returned\nFinancial Report April-June 2019\nIncome $47,744\nLess restricted funds* -2,088\nNet for operating 45,656\nExpenses -45,578\nSurplus for April-June 2019 78\n*Restricted Funds are offerings that are given for a specific ministry, such as the Building Fund, Eat to Heat, Missions. These funds cannot be used for operating expenses.\nChurch Services:\nWednesday Evenings - 7:00PM - Suspended during July and August\nSunday Mornings - 11:00AM\nChildren's Ministry - for ages 2-11 during service time. All children welcome to attend. The Nursery is available for children under two.\nSaturday, July 27 – Men’s Breakfast, hosted by Lac La Biche Victory Church. Please notify Dwight if you plan to attend.\nSunday, August 4 – Our church will celebrate its 75th Anniversary and the 20th Anniversary of Pastor Keith and Helen’s ministry here. A special service and a meal are being planned.\nRegularly Scheduled Worship Times:\nWednesday Evenings at 7:00 PM -\nSunday Morning at 11:00 AM, including Sunday School for the children\n© 2012 - 2015 First Baptist Church in Smoky Lake.\nE-Mail: Church Office\nDeveloped by: MRW Computer Systems, Inc.\nWelcome Quick Answers Services Find Us Our Vision Considering Marriage Contact Us Form Donate Online Now\nAlpha Course Muffin Ministry Women's Ministry Fellowship Men's Ministry Youth Ministry Children's Ministry Community Outreach Missions Sunrise Community Cemetery Building Project Donate Online Now\nSermons Worship Services Sunday Service Sunday School Wednesday Service How to Find Us\nAbout Us Core Beliefs Our Vision Our Values Our History Our Leaders How to Find Us Alberta Baptist Assoc. 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{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5428822040557861,"wiki_prob":0.5428822040557861,"text":"Op-ed makes Trump even more paranoid and that's bad for all of us\nWhat the writer of the piece in the Times describes and what the people in Bob Woodward's new book describe is, in fact, reality.\nOp-ed makes Trump even more paranoid and that's bad for all of us What the writer of the piece in the Times describes and what the people in Bob Woodward's new book describe is, in fact, reality. Check out this story on clarionledger.com: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/09/07/op-ed-makes-donald-trump-even-more-paranoid-and-thats-bad-all-us/1221819002/\nErick Erickson, Columnist Published 9:23 a.m. CT Sept. 7, 2018\nAt a rally in Montana, President Trump said that the anonymous New York Times op-ed criticizing him is \"treason.\" Later, he went on to discuss Nike's ad campaign with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (Sept. 6) AP\nErick Erickson(Photo: Submitted photo)\nOn Wednesday, The New York Times released a piece by a \"senior official\" in the Trump White House. Do not let \"senior\" fool you. This could be a deputy-level staffer, an undersecretary or someone else at a lower level than chief of staff, vice president and Cabinet secretary. Many junior staffers have \"senior\" in their titles. This may be someone we have never heard of. It could be the chief of staff. None of us knows, though I suspect that this person will soon be revealed. In fact, the piece reads like the swan song of a burned-out politico ready to reveal and rehabilitate himself.\nWhat this piece does not suggest is a constitutional crisis. The phrase is being thrown about a great deal, but this is not a constitutional crisis. Every president has people who steer him — albeit this president has to be steered more than most. Every president has the occasional bad impulse. This president just seems to have more than every other one combined.\nThe constitutional crisis would be if the Cabinet invoked the 25th Amendment and did not have two-thirds of Congress to go along with it. Then the president would see mass forced resignations from his Cabinet members and have a vice president he could not trust. There is your constitutional crisis. On top of that, to do this to a president who was elected according to the laws and conventions of the United States and its Constitution would be not just an affront to American democracy but, again, a constitutional crisis. The people who are screaming \"constitutional crisis!\" the loudest are the ones hellbent on causing a constitutional crisis.\nThe president's advisers all swore to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Throwing out the lawfully elected president would violate that oath. Working tirelessly to make sure the president does not stray from his own oath is keeping their oath.\nThere is, however, a point that must be made that may be unpleasant for some, and they will struggle mightily. What the writer of the piece in the Times describes and what the people in Bob Woodward's new book describe is, in fact, reality. You can pretend otherwise, but these stories have been consistent since before the president set foot in the White House. You can call these people disloyal or traitors, but the reality is the American people elected a walking temper tantrum in response to their outrage over a political class that had ignored them. This is the logical outcome of the voters' temper tantrum.\nBefore we stop there, let's also point out that neither the Republican nor the Democratic establishment could stop Donald Trump and the voter temper tantrum. Perhaps politicians should be a bit more introspective about why voters threw a temper tantrum in the first place. Screaming \"they're racist\" is baloney and does not even begin to address what really happened in 2016.\nThe Trump voter reaction to this is to think it is not true, wave it all away, decide they don't care or conclude there really is a deep-state coup against the president. I really do wonder whether the president's base would have treated this with a bit more credibility if the media had not been 100 percent hostile to the president from day one and so focused on scandal from day one. Many of the pundits and reporters screaming about a constitutional crisis have been screaming about a constitutional crisis since before the inauguration when they were trying to get the Electoral College to reject the will of the people. They have cried wolf so much that it is hard to get anyone to believe them now.\nMore: President Trump coming to Mississippi\nMore: Ideological narratives trump truth\nThere is a great deal unknown about this piece that sent Washington into a frenzy this past week, but there is one thing we can know. The president now has confirmation in multiple media outlets that there are those within his White House working to stop him. He is bound to grow more paranoid over this, and we will all be worse off because of it.\nErick Erickson is a nationally syndicated columnist and conservative commentator.\nRead or Share this story: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/09/07/op-ed-makes-donald-trump-even-more-paranoid-and-thats-bad-all-us/1221819002/\nFoster's mindset at heart of sexual harassment\nWe should welcome the Enviva pellet plant\nNeshoba County Fair 2019 will bring the heat\nToyota is committed to Mississippi\nElectric vehicles are not as good as current cars\nColumn: Nice and friendly vs. arrogant","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line4662"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9411782622337341,"wiki_prob":0.9411782622337341,"text":"US wins 4th World Cup title, 2nd in a row, beats Dutch 2-0\nPosted: Jul 7, 2019 / 03:28 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 7, 2019 / 03:30 PM CDT\nLYON, France (AP) — The United States women’s soccer team was as good as American players promised — maybe even better.\nEspecially Megan Rapinoe, the pink-haired captain who emerged with the Golden Ball as top player, the Golden Boot as top scorer and a world-wide stature as a champion for gender equity.\nThe U.S. won its record fourth Women’s World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday night when Rapinoe converted a tiebreaking penalty kick in the second half and Rose Lavelle added a goal.\nRapinoe scored in the 61st minute after a video review determined Stefanie van der Gragt had fouled Alex Morgan with a kick to the shoulder in the penalty area.\nTwo days past her 34th birthday, Rapinoe slotted the ball past goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal for her sixth goal of the tournament. The oldest player to score in a Women’s World Cup final, she struck a familiar victorious pose with arms outstretched.\n“It’s surreal. I don’t know how to feel like now. It’s ridiculous,” Rapinoe said. “We’re crazy and that’s what makes us so special. We just have no quit in us. We’re so tight, and we’ll do anything to win.”\nLavelle, at 24 the team’s up-and-coming star, added her third goal of the tournament on an 18-yard left-footed shot in the 69th after a solo run from the center circle.\n“She’s superstar, not even in the making, she’s straight up superstar at this point,” Rapinoe said.\nFans, many dressed in red, white and blue, chanted “Equal Pay!” at the final whistle , a reminder players sued the U.S. Soccer Federation in March claiming gender discrimination.\nRapinoe drew the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump during the tournament by saying she and teammates would refuse to visit the White House, part of the team’s wider push for gender equity. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio needed just a few seconds after the final whistle to invite the team to a ticker-tape parade up the Canyon on Heroes in Manhattan on Wednesday.\nThe Americans never trailed in the tournament and set records with 26 goals and a 12-game World Cup winning streak dating to 2015. U.S. coach Jill Ellis became the first coach to lead a team to two Women’s World Cup titles, and the U.S. joined Germany in 2003 and 2007 as the only repeat champions.\n“It’s just chemistry. They put their hearts and soul into this journey,” Ellis said. “They made history.”\nFIFA president Gianni Infantino handed over the trophy, a stark contrast to four years ago in Canada, when then-president Sepp Blatter was a no-show as U.S. prosecutors investigated corruption in soccer’s governing body. While the U.S. added fourth star to its jersey, Germany is the only nation that has even two.\nWith confidence and brashness that some called even arrogant — triggering a backlash that the angry response was sexist — this American team established a standard of excellence that exceeded the U.S. champions of 1991, 1999 and 2015, becoming a goal for all others to match. Former American players joined the current generation on the field for the postgame celebration.\nAlyssa Naeher, the 31-year-old who succeeded Hope Solo in goal, faced repeated questions entering the tournament but allowed just three goals in the tournament and finished with her fourth shutout.\nThe U.S. had scored within the first 12 minutes of its previous six matches in the tournament but the European champions sat back to keep their defensive shape and kept the score 0-0 through the first half.\nVideo review, adopted by FIFA for the men’s World Cup last year, showed its impact when Stephanie Frappart, the first woman to referee a men’s Ligue 1 match, went to the screen at the side of the field and then signaled toward the spot.\nRapinoe, who missed Tuesday’s semifinal win over England with a hamstring injury, became the first woman to score on a penalty kick during a Women’s World Cup final, her 50th goal in 158 international appearances. She matched Morgan and England’s Ellen White for most goals in the tournament and won the Golden Ball based on fewer minutes.\nRapinoe was given a standing ovation by the crowd when she subbed out in the 79th minute. The crowd of 57,900 at Stade de Lyon for Le Grand Finale included French President Emmanuel Macron.\nThe Americans opened the tournament with a record 13-0 rout of lowly Thailand, triggering debate over whether the celebrations after each goal were excessive. Carli Lloyd responded the next match by following a goal with a polite golf clap. The Morgan stirred it up again when she scored against England with a tea sip, pinkie outstretched.\nPINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether possibly the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history is behind the death of an Arkansas woman in 1994.\nPolice in Pine Bluff are reviewing the case of Jolanda Jones's death after Samuel Little confessed to her killing, which had been determined to be drug-related.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line63094"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7495340704917908,"wiki_prob":0.25046592950820923,"text":"What is precocious puberty?\nPuberty that happens early is called precocious puberty. This means a child's physical signs of sexual maturity develop too soon. This includes breast growth, pubic hair, and voice changes. These are known as secondary sexual characteristics. Precocious puberty happens before age 8 in girls, and before age 9 in boys. Most children with the disorder grow fast at first. But they also stop growing before reaching their full genetic height potential.\nWhat causes precocious puberty?\nIt may be caused by tumors or growths on the ovaries, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, or brain. Other causes may include central nervous system problems, family history of the disease, or certain rare genetic syndromes. In many cases, no cause can be found for the disorder. There are two types of precocious puberty:\nGonadotropin-dependent. This is also known as central precocious puberty. This is the most common type of precocious puberty. Most girls and half of boys with precocious puberty have this type. The puberty is started by early secretion of hormones called gonadotropins. Gonadotropins include luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulation hormone (FSH). In girls, precocious puberty may be caused by the early maturity of the hypothalamus, pituitary glands, and ovaries. But in most cases, no cause can be found.\nGonadotropin-independent. This is a form of precocious puberty that is not started by the early release of gonadotropins. Instead it’s caused by early secretion of high levels of sex hormones. These include the male androgens and female estrogens.\nWho is at risk for precocious puberty?\nA child is at risk for precocious puberty if he or she has any of these:\nTumors or growths on the ovaries, testes, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, or brain\nCentral nervous system problems\nFamily history of the disease\nA rare genetic syndrome\nWhat are the symptoms of precocious puberty?\nThe signs are secondary sexual characteristics that happen early.\nCommon signs in girls can include:\nBreast growth\nPubic and underarm hair\nCommon signs in boys can include:\nEnlarging penis and testicles\nSpontaneous erections\nProduction of sperm\nDeepening of the voice\nOther signs of the disorder include:\nIncreased aggression\nGrowing taller earlier than other classmates\nThe signs of precocious puberty can be like other health conditions. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.\nHow is precocious puberty diagnosed?\nThe healthcare provider will ask about your child’s symptoms and health history. He or she may also ask about your family’s health history. He or she will give your child a physical exam.\nYour child may have blood tests to measure levels of hormones such as:\nLuteinizing hormone (LH)\nFollicle stimulation hormone (FSH)\nA form of estrogen called estradiol\nGonadotropin-stimulating hormone (GnRH) is made by the hypothalamus in the brain. It causes the pituitary gland to release gonadotropins. These then cause sex hormones to be made by the ovaries in girls, or the testes in boys. The GnRH blood test may show the type of precocious puberty.\nYour child may also have tests such as:\nX-ray. This test uses a small amount of radiation to make images of tissues inside the body. An X-ray may be done of the left hand and wrist. This can estimate your child's bone age. With precocious puberty, bone age is often older than calendar age.\nUltrasound (sonography). This test uses sound waves and a computer to create images of blood vessels, tissues, and organs. This may be done to look at the adrenal glands and ovaries or testes.\nMRI. This test uses large magnets and a computer to make detailed images of tissues in the body.\nHow is precocious puberty treated?\nThe goal of treatment for is to stop the onset of early puberty signs. In some cases, the signs can be reversed. Treatment will depend on the type of precocious puberty and the cause.\nTreatment may be done with synthetic gonadotropin-releasing hormone. This can stop the sexual maturity process. It does this by stopping the pituitary gland from releasing the gonadotropin hormones.\nWhat are possible complications of precocious puberty?\nEarly puberty will cause a child's body and moods to change much sooner than his or her friends and classmates. This may make a child feel self-conscious and embarrassed, or be teased by other children.\nHow to manage precocious puberty\nYou can help your child by treating your child like normal, boosting your child's self-esteem, and seeking a child counselor if more help is needed.\nCall your child’s healthcare provider if you see signs of sexual development in a girl before age 8 or in a boy before age 9.\nKey points about precocious puberty\nPuberty that happens early is called precocious puberty. This means a child's physical signs of sexual maturity develop too soon. Precocious puberty happens before age 8 in girls, and before age 9 in boys.\nSigns can include breast growth, pubic hair, and voice changes.\nIt may be caused by tumors or growths on the ovaries, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, or brain. In many cases, no cause can be found for the disorder.\nTreatment may be done with synthetic gonadotropin-releasing hormone. This can stop the sexual maturity process.\nEarly puberty may make a child feel self-conscious and embarrassed, or be teased by other children.\nOnline Medical Reviewer: Hurd, Robert, MD\nLeuprolide depot injection\nLeuprolide injection\nNafarelin nasal spray","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1708723"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5745108127593994,"wiki_prob":0.5745108127593994,"text":"Latest Wyoming Whiskey Honors Iconic Wyomingite\nWhiskey Review: Four Roses Small Batch Select\n/ Booker’s Roundtable: What Exactly It Is\nBooker’s Roundtable: What Exactly It Is\nBy Maggie Kimberl /\tMay 26, 2016\nWhen Booker Noe first came up with the idea of Booker’s Bourbon, a barrel-strength non chill-filtered whiskey that harkened back to the days of taking your jug down to the tavern to fill up, he would select each batch with a group of friends around his kitchen table. Nowadays, the Booker’s Roundtable panel consists of many different whiskey experts who all take turns on a rotating basis selecting your next bottle of Booker’s.\nThe Whiskey Wash recently caught up with noted bourbon author Chuck Cowdery, who is regularly a member of this panel, to learn more about his experiences on it over the years:\nBooker Noe and his Booker’s Bourbon (image via Beam-Suntory)\nBooker’s was the first bourbon to be marketed as “small batch.” This term means different things to different people. What does it mean to Booker’s?\n“Small Batch Bourbons Collection” was a name coined by Beam to describe Booker’s, Baker’s, Knob Creek, and Basil Hayden, although Booker’s had already been on the market for a year or two. Beam never really defined ‘small batch’ unless you asked. Then they said it meant a small (relative to Jim Beam white) selection of barrels dumped for a bottling run. The term became popular and other producers started to use it, along with their own definitions. Today a Booker’s ‘batch’ consists of 350 – 375 barrels and they do six batches per year.\nYou wrote back in 2014 the roundtables were being done over the phone. Are they still largely done this way? Have you ever done one in person?\nI haven’t participated in all of them, but I have participated in two in-person, including [one recently]. The original plan was to do them over Skype but that technology failed. We’ve done several on conference call and that works pretty well, although it’s more fun in person.\nHow many samples do you typically go through and what are you looking for in each one?\nIt is always three samples. We’re looking for the one that tastes the most like Booker’s, i.e., the usual Booker’s flavor profile. It’s not unusual for one of us to say, “I like A better but B tastes more like Booker’s.”\nWhat are some of the subtle or not-so-subtle differences in the samples?\nMore or less char, more or less vanilla, more or less sweetness. The amazing thing is that although they are all Booker’s, there are real differences.\nSometimes things in the whiskey business look more fun from the outside than they really are, but I can imagine the Booker’s Round Table is actually a lot of fun. Is it more laid back or is it all business?\nIt’s fun because it’s a fun group of people. That’s what makes it. There are always new people. And it’s pretty easy work.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line134781"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.555131196975708,"wiki_prob":0.444868803024292,"text":"Arab Spring, Winter for Christians?\nby Gary Jason | Posted April 05, 2012\nIn a recent piece, I suggested that the fall of a number of Middle Eastern dictators — most notably Hosni Mubarak of Egypt — actively pushed by the Obama administration, and collectively dubbed “the Arab Spring,” has shown a remarkably ugly side.\nOne of the ugly features I noted was the removal, in the case of Egypt, of a regime that had been actively fighting the practice of female genital mutilation (the removal of most or all of the clitoris from adolescent girls). Some of our readers were offended by my piece, either thinking, somehow, that I advocated going to war with Egypt, or else shocked that I would dare to criticize the practice at all.\nOf course, I was merely commenting on a dubious Obama foreign policy initiative — replacing a disreputable US ally by an unknown force, and hoping for the best.\nWell, the situation has developed a more ominous aspect. The Arab Spring is turning out to be not only a winter for women, but also a winter for Christians. Several recent stories bring this to light.\nLet’s begin by reviewing the results of the first round of elections for Egypt’s parliament. In a turn eerily reminiscent of what happened in Iran decades ago — when Jimmy Carter, a president as feckless as Obama, withdrew support from the Shah so that “democratic forces” could take over — the resulting elections were victories for hardcore Islamist parties. Once the Islamists consolidated their power, they created a state far more repressive and authoritarian than the Shah could ever have imagined. The consequence was the mass murder of political dissidents, people deemed “deviant,” and worshipers of religions other than Islam (Baha’is, Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians). It also created a state quite supportive of terrorism abroad.\nOnce the Islamists consolidated their power, they created a state far more repressive and authoritarian than the Shah could ever have imagined.\nIn the recent Egyptian elections, Islamists won two-thirds of the seats. And by “Islamist” I am not exaggerating. The Muslim Brotherhood, an extreme organization, from which sprang Al Qaeda, won about 39% of the seats. But the even more extreme Salafists won an astounding 29%. Together, the two liberal parties (the Wafd Party and the Egyptian Bloc) won a pathetic 17% total of the vote.\nSo much for the idea that waves of freedom and modernization are sweeping over the largest Arab country.\nThis should have come as no surprise, since earlier elections in Tunisia and Morocco saw Islamist parties win by large majorities. The results for Christians are ominous. The largest group of Christians in the Arab world — the Coptic Orthodox Church — resides in Egypt, where it constitutes 10% of the population. Mubarak, dictatorial bastard that he was, provided protection for them. He is now gone, and the Copts are at the mercy of the Islamists. Mercy, indeed!\nAlready reports have come in of the killing of Copts, such as the slaughter of 25 or more during a protest they staged in downtown Cairo recently.\nThe Copts are now deeply demoralized. If they do as the Muslim Brotherhood does — load supporters on buses and drive them to the polls to vote en masse (Chicago-style voting — maybe that’s why Obama supports the Brotherhood!) — they risk civil war. But if they do nothing, the Islamists will target them and slowly turn up the heat. As an American-based Coptic Christian put it, “They [the Copts] are a cowed population in terms of politics. They are afraid and marginalized.”\nThis is such a familiar pattern. The Islamists kill off or expel the Jews (if any are left by the time the Islamists take over); then they target other religious minorities (Bahai’s, Zoroastrians, pagans, or whatever). The pressure then mounts on Christians.\nThis is no less than religious ethnic cleansing.\nThe Egyptian government has recently taken the necessary first step in setting up the apparatus to carry out religious cleansing. It has raided 17 nongovernmental agencies, including three American agencies that are supposed to monitor the “progress” of “democracy” in Egypt — specifically, Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, and the National Democratic Institute. One witness to the raid on the Future House for Legal Studies said that a policeman taking part in it held up an Arabic-Hebrew dictionary he found and said it proved the organization was engaged in sabotage against Egypt.\nOne predictable result of the Egyptian war against minorities is happening already: an exodus of Copts to America. One story reports that thousands of Copts have come to America since Obama’s chosen “democracy” swept Egypt. The emigrants report growing levels of overt persecution and violence. One recent émigré, Kirola Andraws, fled to America on a tourist visa and applied for asylum. He was an engineer, but now works as a cook and a deliveryman in Queens. His story, unfortunately, is likely to prove typical.\nThe report also notes that already this year a number of Coptic churches have been burned down. Islamist-spawned mobs have rampaged against Coptic homes, stores, and church schools. Think of it as the Muslim Brotherhood’s take on Kristallnacht. Yet the US Commission on International Religious Freedom was recently rebuffed by the Obama administration’s State Department when it asked State to put Egypt on its list of countries that violate religious freedom.\nThis is only the beginning. Right now, the Muslim Brotherhood only controls the legislature, and it is still held in check by the military. But a very recent article reports that the Brotherhood is planning to run some of its chosen “leaders” for the presidency — something it had earlier promised to do. Should the Islamists take over the executive branch, the military’s influence will rapidly wane, and Egypt will likely go the way of Iran.\nThe report observes that the military and the Muslim Brotherhood have been in a struggle for 60 years, with the military coming out on top, until now. The military controls about a third of the manufacturing industry in Egypt, for example, so is not likely to surrender power easily. The Egyptian liberals, now seen to be a small minority, seem to be rethinking whether the military is at this point the main threat to them.\nThink of it as the Muslim Brotherhood’s take on Kristallnacht.\nWhether the military will back down and let the Brotherhood take control is unclear. If the military reacts by dismissing the legislature, Egypt could be in for a protracted and internecine civil war. In either case, however, Christians can expect to be demonized and targeted by the Islamists.\nChristians are also being targeted by Islamists in other countries besides Egypt. Nigeria — to cite one such place — recently experienced a wave of terror attacks against Christians, with at least 39 killed. Most of them died when Muslim radicals blew up St. Theresa Catholic Church last Christmas. Shortly thereafter a Protestant church was bombed as well.\nChristians in Iraq and Syria have been fleeing, as violence directed at them increases. Since the US toppled Saddam in 2003, 54 Christian churches have been bombed in Iraq, and over 8,900 Christians have been murdered. The number of Christians remaining has of course dwindled, down to 500,000 from 800,000 to perhaps 1.4 million in 2003. With American troops now gone, one suspects that this trend will dramatically increase. In an interesting twist, Christians are fleeing other areas of Iraq and moving to the Kurdish-controlled region, because the Kurds have offered them protection. Yet there are Islamists even among the generally pro-Western Kurds, and Christians have faced some attacks in their territory.\nThere is in the end the law of unintended consequences, in foreign policy no less than in domestic policy. Progressive liberals — and even conservatives — should start paying attention to it. It is all well and good to desire an “outbreak of freedom,” but one ought to be careful about what one desires, as he might just get it. Many on the Left and the Right welcomed the “Arab Spring,” but it may not turn out to be an explosion of tolerant democracy, as it first seemed to them.\nLest any reader mistake this story for some kind of call to arms, let me make my view explicit: I do not advocate going to war against anyone. But should the Muslim Brotherhood complete its takeover of Egypt and continue its vicious religious persecution of the Copts, our high level of foreign aid to Egypt — $1.3 billion in military aid alone — should certainly be stopped. And this should be made clear to the Egyptians in advance.\nGary Jason is a lecturer in Philosophy and a senior editor at Liberty. His books can be found on Amazon.com.\nMr. Jason writes \"because of repeated attacks by Islamists on American soil...\"\nHow many is that? 6 or 7 over the last 20 years? Only 2 or 3 serious attempts. I guarantee you I can come up with 6 or 7 attempts by Christians to kill Muslims in that same time frame.\nMr. Jason is the one who is over-estimating the animosity of Muslims towards Christians. In a very irresponsible way, I might add. I wonder if he ever bothers to question why those few attacks were made on the US, and not say, Switzerland. A much more Christian country? Could it possibly have nothing to do with religion at all?\nVan Brunt\nJust what \"freedoms\" have Egyptians gained by overthrowing Mubarak? It appears that Muslim apologists seldom criticize the religious repression in the Muslim world. The fact is that while there is hatred and prejudice in the United States, we do not tolerate it, and we rigorously prosecute those who harm the innocent. It's not enough to have a revolution to overthrow the bad guy if what follows is just as bad or worse. The author of this article is free -- in the US -- to write a criticism of Egypt. I hope there are numerous newspapers in Egypt doing the same but I sincerely doubt that is the case.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1233204"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8250163197517395,"wiki_prob":0.8250163197517395,"text":"IIHS Homepage\nUrban Lens 2018\nAbout IIHS\nSqueeze Lime in Your Eye\nAvijit Mukul Kishore\nKausik Mukhopadhyay’s art objects lie on the peculiar intersection of toy, machine and organism. Made out of discarded household gadgets, they have distinct personalities and quirks. They are noisy, humorous and sometimes break down. They invite the viewer to engage and complete the narratives embedded within them. These narratives contain signifiers of political, personal and art history. There is much beauty and poignancy in Mukhopadhyay’s fragile art works. This film takes an intimate look at Mukhopadhyay’s journey as an artist and teacher.\nDirector’s Bio\nAvijit Mukul Kishore is a film-maker and cinematographer. He studied cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and has a bachelors degree in history from Hindu College, Delhi. He works in different genres of film making with special interest in the documentary and inter-disciplinary moving-image practice. He is actively involved in cinema pedagogy and works as a curator of film programmes. His films as director include Nostalgia for the Future, Electric Shadows, Vertical City, Certified Universal and Snapshots from a Family Album.\nRun Time 57 mins\nLanguage Hindi | English\nCopyright © 2018 - Indian Institute for Human Settlements. All rights reserved | Terms of Use\nAnica Mann-Kapur\nAnica Mann-Kapur is a consultant with Tata Trusts and the India Country Team Lead for Global Xplorer. She was a 2017 YES Global Institute Fellow, and as a cultural practitioner who engages in antiquities through art history, she was also an Art Advisor for Delhi Art Gallery in 2016. In addition to writing extensively about arts and culture, she was a research associate at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities as well as a researcher at Kyoto University.\nParmesh Shahani\nParmesh Shahani is the head of the award winning Godrej India Culture Lab, and the author of the book Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)Longing in Contemporary India (Sage Publications, 2008). He is a TED Senior Fellow, a Yale World Fellow, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.\nJasmine Lovely George\nJasmine Lovely George is a Tedx speaker, lawyer, and a sexual and reproductive health advocate from India. She has founded Hidden Pockets, a community interest startup working on access to sexual and reproductive health in cities. She is passionate about changing technology spaces and making them more inclusive for people of all genders. She is also the member of RESURJ – a transnational feminist collective.\nAromar Revi\nAromar Revi is the founding Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, a global expert on Sustainable Development; and Co-Chair of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, from where he helped lead a successful campaign for an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 11) as part of the UN’s 2030 development agenda. He is also member of the Managing Board of Cities Alliance the global partnership for sustainable cities and urban poverty reduction and UNISDR’ Global Assessment of Risk. Aromar is one of the world’s leading experts on global environmental change, especially climate change. He is a Coordinating Lead Author of the 2018 IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C that assesses the feasibility of mitigation and adaptation options and defines potential implementation pathways and investment needs to implement the Paris Climate Agreement.\nSudharak Olwe\nSudharak Olwe has been a Mumbai based photojournalist since 1988 and has worked as a press photographer with some of the leading newspapers in India. His photography captures resilience, courage and change in both rural and urban communities across the country. His work has been exhibited in Mumbai, Delhi, Malmo (Sweden), Lisbon, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Washington and Dhaka. Apart from photographs, Olwe has also received the Padma Shri in 2016 for his documentaries on maternal and child mortality. Currently, he is the Photo Editor for the country’s most widely read Marathi newspaper, Lokmat. (http://www.sudharakolwe.com/)\nRajula Shah\nRajula Shah is a Visual artist, Poet and Filmmaker. After dropping out from the Fine Arts faculty Baroda, and completing a Masters in English Literature, she studied filmmaking at FTII, Pune specializing in Film Direction. Her work is located in the interstice of Poetry, Cinema and Anthropology. A keen interest in the indigenous knowledge systems, its practitioners and the changing practices thereof form the core of her study; her practice emerges through a close collaboration with people, their histories and environments.\nShe has been producing/ directing / writing/ editing & photographing films for well over a decade and continues to explore boundaries of fiction/non-fiction, photography, video essay, digital art and multi media installation. With her recent work, Pilgrimage in Nomad’s land she explores the emergent domain of Interactive Trans-media. It can be watched online @ www.nomadsfilmschool.com\nSameera Jain\nSameera Jain is a filmmaker and editor, and has worked for over 30 years in the arena of film and video. Sameera has edited several award-winning documentaries and some fiction feature films. Her directorial ventures “Portraits of Belonging”, “Born at Home” and “Mera Apna Sheher (My Own City)” have been acknowledged for cinematic excellence at national and international festivals. Sameera has been on film juries and participated in curriculum formulation at various institutions. She has been mentoring film students and filmmakers at diverse platforms and has been invited to teach filmmaking at many places, including her alma mater FTII. She has conceptualized, and is Course Director of the Creative Documentary course at SACAC (Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication) in New Delhi.\nRanjani Mazumdar\nRanjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-editor with Neepa Majumdar of the forthcoming Wiley Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema. She has also worked as a documentary filmmaker and her productions include Delhi Diary 2001 and The Power of the Image (Co-Directed). Her current research focuses on globalisation and film culture, and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema.\nRitesh Uttamchandani\nRitesh began his journey as a photographer watching his elder sister take photos of his family but sadly, he didn’t register it back then and began his journey as a professional in 2004 as an intern at the Indian Express. Inspired by the work of Reza Deghati, David Alan Harvey and of course, the usual suspects, Henri Cartier Bresson, Eugene Smith etc, he moved over to the Hindustan times and finally the OPEN Magazine where he worked for seven years before stepping into the fascinating and often scary world of freelance.\nIn his decade-long experience as a photojournalist, he has reported and documented some of the major events of national and international importance in the Indian subcontinent and has recently self-published his first photo book, The Red Cat and Other Stories, which looks at the city of Bombay through the lens of a fable his mother used to narrate to him when he was a child. The book, equal parts travelogue and journalism, is a tribute to the beauty in the mundane.\nRatheesh Radhakrishnan\nRatheesh Radhakrishnan teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay, Mumbai. He completed his PhD from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (Bangalore), and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Chao Centre for Asian Studies, Rice University (Houston, USA). While at Rice University, he founded and curated TITLES: A Festival of Experimental Films from India (2011- 2014). He is currently part of the India programming team of MAMI – Mumbai Film Festival. His research on Malayalam cinema has appeared in a variety of journals and other publications, both in English and in Malayalam.\nJabeen Merchant\nJabeen Merchant is a film practitioner with a wide and varied experience within the independent filmmaking community as well as the mainstream film industry. She is well known for her work editing and co-scripting a number of internationally celebrated documentaries in collaboration with some of India’s best filmmakers. Side by side, she has edited a range of fiction feature films, including the critically acclaimed ‘Anaarkali of Aarah’; commercially successful thrillers like ‘NH10’ and ‘Manorama Six Feet Under’; the off-beat comedy ‘The President Is Coming’; art-house films such as ‘Kadvi Hawa’ and the soon to be released ‘The Sweet Requiem’. Apart from editing films, she teaches, consults on scripts and occasionally writes on cinema.\nSwati Dandekar\nSwati Dandekar is a film practitioner with a special interest in creating visual narratives of the living history around her; of people, places, ideas, traditions and practices. Her most recent work is “Neeli Raag”, a feature length documentary on the natural dye indigo, and the few remaining craftsmen who still work with it.\nHer earlier work includes a series of essay films that look at urban India, in particular at the changes taking place in small towns and cities, and explore the relationship between land, people, resources and the institutions that govern them. She was also closely involved in documenting best practices in elementary education, as well as designing and making radio and video programmes for rural school children. As part of Vikalp, Swati has been involved in screening documentary films in the city for over 10 years.\nSwati teaches film at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore.\nAmit Mahanti\nAmit Mahanti is a filmmaker, cameraperson and editor, who has worked on films and video installations that explore questions of ecological transformation, culture and politics. His films include ML 05 B 6055 (2008), Malegaon Times (2012), Every Time You Tell A Story (2015) and Scratches on Stone (2017).\nHe has also been selected for art/film residency programs at Khoj Studios, New Delhi; Parco Arte Vivente Experimental Centre of Contemporary Art, Turin; Kran Film, Brussels and Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski, Warsaw. He was also a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Short-term Fellowship, 2016.\nSushma Veerappa\nAfter a Post-graduate diploma in Social Communications Media from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, Sushma joined the CIEDS Collective Here, she conceived and executed a film education programme for school children. Post this experience, she worked as Assistant Director and Scriptwriter with filmmaker M.S.Sathyu for 4 years. She began making documentaries in 1998.\nAs Producer / Director, her focus has been on documenting the work of grass root organizations working in Karnataka’s remote villages. Her films have been used as communication tools by these organizations to further engage with the people they work with. Her work encompasses a wide spectrum – about people’s co-operatives, leadership imaging as participatory research tool, training modules for blue collar workers, issues relating to water, women and violence.\nHer concerns with the city in transition led her to produce and direct her first independent documentary WHEN SHANKAR NAG COMES ASKING. Her last short film SHEELA GOWDA AT BATTARAHALLI CORNER was screened at the 13th IAWRT (International Association of Women in Film and Television) Festival. Along with 4 other filmmakers, Sushma is part of Vikalp Bengaluru, a group which has been screening documentaries in the city since 2005.\nSabari Pandian\nSabari Pandian works as an assistant director in documentary films. Some of the films that he has assisted on are ‘Nostalgia for the future’ and ‘Electric Shadows: Journeys In Image-making’. Based in Bombay he also loves to travel and take photographs. He is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Mumbai University. An avid film buff, Sabari loves being part of film festivals and has provided technical support for film festivals such as Urban Lens Film Festival (2016) and the IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (2017).\nKunal Deshpande\nKunal Deshpande is an alumnus of the Srishti School of Art Design and Technology, Bangalore. His diploma film, Daryache Raje (Kings of the Sea) was selected and screened at the 6th Kirloskar Vasundhara Environmental Film Festival.\nHe has since worked as a cinematographer, director and editor on projects ranging from documentaries on the water resources and climate adaptation practices in the north-east, to lifestyle exploration films in Kutch, and people-oriented films. He has worked on feature films like Ferrari Ki Sawaari, on television shows and various other projects.\nKunal also worked at the IIHS where he was part of the Media Lab, creating a variety of audio visual outputs for teams and projects. He worked on videos on the process of campus development, on climate change adaptation, and on festivals such as the Urban Lens film festival and Cityscripts. He is now engaged with IIHS in the capacity of an External Consultant.\nHe is currently producing and directing SupperClub India, a food and travel web series, as well as producing videos for several corporate clients and brands.\nTejInder Singh\nTejInder, is an independent photographer and researcher. He is also senior urban fellow at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. He has had a range of work experiences from that of a trainee architect to managing electoral campaigns, participating in Model UN conferences, and documenting and archiving contemporary issues. He has photo documented Gaurav Gagoi’s campaign for Assam assembly elections, Occupy UGC movement, Swaraj Abhiyaan’s Jai Kisan Andolon, City Scripts – The IIHS Urban Writing Festival, 2017 IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival Word to Screen Bootcamp and many more conferences and events across India. His work on Ennore Creek Power Plant has been published by Scroll.in and Urbanisation – a SAGE journal.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line61780"}
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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6041542291641235,"wiki_prob":0.39584577083587646,"text":"Tag Archive: Oversight Committee\nTestifying Before Full House Oversight Committee on Federal Spending Transparency\nby Ellen Miller Jun 13, 2011 1:28 pm\nTomorrow morning I will be testifying before the full House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Sunlight Foundation’s work... View Article\nThe Fresh Prince of Capitol Hill?\nby Nicko Margolies May 24, 2011 12:11 pm\nSunlight's eagle-eyed developer, Luigi Montanez, took the above screenshot of the official video feed from the House Oversight Committee. It raises the question, who is watching the watchers watching Fresh Prince?\nTestifying Before House Committee on Clearspending\nby Ellen Miller Mar 11, 2011 11:28 am\nThis morning I testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Technology and Information Policy about... View Article\nOrganizations Responding to Oversight Chairman Include Major Lobbies, Big Contributors\nby Paul Blumenthal Feb 3, 2011 2:59 pm\nIn December Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa sent letters to 142 organizations soliciting suggestions for regulations that were cumbersome and... View Article\nGet Offline Tonight\nby Ellen Miller Feb 1, 2008 11:24 am\nInstead of spending another Friday night surfing the Web for your news, here's some television you should watch tonight. Bill Moyers Journal will give you the best arguments you'll ever need to explain why it's so important for our government to do its work in the open. They have prepared an extensive report on government waste and abuse of power.\nSpecifically Moyers is going to look at some of the unsolved mysteries under investigation by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman. The program profiles the Committee's work, including its investigations of the mercenary army of Blackwater; Lurita Doan, who remains head of the GSA despite allegations of questionable no-bid contracts; and Condoleezza Rice's State Department, which is plagued by fraud and abuse. Waxman's Committee's Web site is a treasure trove of information and documents on these issues. (In fact, Sunlight regards it as a model site itself when it comes to revealing the details of the work of a committee of Congress.)\nAnd we're pleased that their Web page will highlight many of Sunlight's insanely useful Web sites for people are seeking more information.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line848665"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7283919453620911,"wiki_prob":0.7283919453620911,"text":"Phi Beta Kappa Member and UNH Trustee Donates $8 Million to UNH\nJudith “Jude” Blake ’77 has pledged $8 million of her estate to UNH to support students in the business college as well as to enable more students to participate in the university’s Northeast Passage program and the Shoals Marine Laboratory.\nMost of the bequest will provide scholarships for students in the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics and address needs that directly benefit business students.\n“Jude is one of the university’s most passionate supporters and her commitment to our students is inspiring,” said UNH President Mark Huddleston. “Jude’s generosity will ensure future generations of students have access to a world-class education as well as unique opportunities with Northeast Passage and the Shoals Marine Lab. We are grateful for her support and incredible generosity.” Huddleston also noted that Blake’s gift made it possible for the university to feel confident in setting its record-breaking $275 million campaign goal.\nBlake, a retired marketing executive and resident of Portsmouth, said she was pleased to learn her gift could advance the university’s fundraising goals.\n“I believe that in a state like New Hampshire one person really can make a difference and that if you have the capability to give back you should,” Blake said. “There are so many ways to give back -- time, talent and treasure – and they are all important.”\nBlake does it all at UNH. She has served or is serving on the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees, the UNH Foundation board of directors, the UNH Alumni Association board of directors and the Paul College advisory board. She mentors students and teaches beverage management classes. Her bequest builds on the endowed scholarship she created for business students more than a decade ago.\n“Higher education is so very important,” she added. “It’s the path to success in life, and making an outstanding UNH education more accessible and affordable for students is what drives me. It was important for me to make this gift now to recognize what Mark Huddleston has accomplished at UNH. It is because of his leadership that we are in the incredibly strong position we are in now.”\nIn 2016 UNH launched the largest fundraising campaign in its history to provide critical support for students, faculty, infrastructure and programs. Learn more about CELEBRATE 150: The Campaign for UNH and how you can help reach the $275 million goal.\nJune 11, 2018 | College of Liberal Arts\nPhi Beta Kappan Sasa Tang Back in Wildcat Country\nMay 22, 2018 | College of Liberal Arts\nPBK Chapter Initiates 61 Students\nFebruary 28, 2018 | College of Liberal Arts\nJustin Poisson '18: What PBK Means to Me","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line11887"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7128471732139587,"wiki_prob":0.28715282678604126,"text":"Don Bolognese\nCITY OF BIRTH\nSTATE/PROVIDENCE OF BIRTH\nNew York / Landgrove, VT\nCURRENT STATE/PROVIDENCE\nA graduate of New York City's prestigious Cooper Union Art School, accomplished artist and calligrapher Don Bolognese went on to teach art there and at New York University, the Pratt Institute, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval museum, the Cloisters. He has illustrated more than 90 books for children, many of which he wrote himself; on many others, he has collaborated with his wife, the author and illustrator Elaine Raphael.\nOne way in which Bolognese has been able to connect teaching and illustration is through his many “how-to” books for children, which range from relatively simple exercises in drawing skills to more complex lessons in art techniques. Bolognese himself has illustrated a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction works, and his attention to detail and vivid presentation have earned him critical acclaim and numerous awards. A native of New York City, Bolognese now lives in New York and Vermont.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line56475"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.681580126285553,"wiki_prob":0.681580126285553,"text":"'They've almost thrown tradition out of the window'\nLast updated : 06 October 2012 By Michael Morris\nIpswich manager Paul Jewell.\n“We’ve just got to make sure we’re brave and we play to the best of our ability. If Cardiff come and play well and we play well and they beat us, there’s not much we can do.\n“We know that they’ll come full of confidence. I know our record against Cardiff before someone tells me, and I’d say that we had a bad record against Watford.\n“We’ve played them three times since I’ve been here and we’ve beaten them twice and we’ve drawn with them once.\n“It’s always a hard game, they’ve got some quality players, they’ve spent a lot of money on trying to get in the Premier League, they’ve even changed the kit. I’m not sure what our fans would do if played in yellow!\n“They’ve almost thrown tradition out of the window and gone down the road of trying to get promotion through the owners from Malaysia.”\nMalky Mackay\n\"I see it as a tough, tough game. They have brought in a couple of loan players in the last day or so.\n\"I've never had an easy game at Ipswich since I've been in England.\n\"Any away game in this country is difficult.\n\"So we go there making sure we have got to give everything we can otherwise it's going to be a tough game.\n\"It's a strange league and it's a tough league and it's very uncompromising. Teams are confident in their home environment.\"\n\"Results breed confidence obviously, but performances breed confidence,\" he continued.\n\"To go and play against two tough teams [Blackpool and Birmingham City] and come away with six points in a real tough week is impressive.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1023807"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6964697241783142,"wiki_prob":0.6964697241783142,"text":"Category: Legal News\nAre Magic Mushrooms Next On The List Of Legalized Drugs?\nCiting the benefits of widespread marijuana reform throughout the United States, a handful of activists are now mounting a campaign to push for the legalization of psychedelic mushrooms.\nAs reported by The Guardian:\nKevin Saunders, a mayoral candidate for the city of Marina, just south of the San Francisco Bay, has filed a proposal that would exempt adults over the age of 21 from any penalties over possessing, growing, selling or transporting psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms.\nIf he can get 365,880 voter signatures by the end of April 2018, the California Psilocybin Legalization Initiative will be placed on the statewide ballot.\nA profound magic mushroom experience helped Saunders get over a “debilitating five-year heroin addiction” in 2003 when he was 32. “I got to the root of why I made a conscious decision to become a heroin addict; I’ve been clean almost 15 years.”\nThe study has since been verified by sufferers all over the country who tell their stories on Web forums. The Atlantic reports that one contributor wrote that he has been taking a preventative dose every 60 days for more than four years now, and he’s spent “the vast majority of the last four years completely pain-free.”\nRead more at PersonalLiberty\nIllegal Opium Trade Thrives Across Arunachal Pradesh\nGuwahati: The flourishing illegal opium cultivation in eastern Arunachal Pradesh has become a major area of concern for security agencies, with the state government miserably failing to tackle this menace. The drug mafia, with some help from Naga rebels, continues to call the shots in the frontier state, where people are reluctant to give up the practice of poppy farming in absence of any alternative for their economic survival.\nIt is significant than that Arunachal Pradesh tops the list of states with illegal poppy cultivation.\nThe Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in its last report of 2015 claims to have destroyed poppy fields spread over 399 acres in eastern Arunachal Pradesh.\nBut as per NGOs, the state still has around 10,000 hectares of opium fields and the annual yield of opium is around 100 tonnes, an average of 10 kg a hectare.\nFor NCB, opium cultivation in eastern Arunachal Pradesh has become an eyesore. Despite the regular destruction of poppy fields by the authorities, a large section of people is still not ready to give up the practice. This is a huge challenge in the fight against drug smuggling.\nAccording to the bureau officials, apart from Lohit and Anjaw districts, which share borders with Myanmar and China, there are reports of poppy cultivation from Changlang, Longding, Upper Siang and Tirap districts too.\nRead more at The Asian Age\nUse of CBD Oil Has Doubled in the UK in One Year\nA trade organization in the United Kingdom that oversees the rapidly expanding cannabidiol (CBD) and hemp market, has published a study that shows the use of CBD oil in the U.K. has doubled in a single year.\nThe Cannabis Trades Association U.K.’s (CTAUK) figures reveal 250,000 people are now using CBD oil to treat their health conditions. CTAUK added that the number of users is up from 125,000 last year, with approximately 1,000 new users each month.\nIn October 2016, the U.K. government recognized the medicinal value of CBD, stating the cannabinoid has “restoring, correcting, or modifying” properties. This admission has allowed suppliers to sell CBD by obtaining a medicinal license, which is a lengthy and strict process. Many retailers have been able to circumvent the process by selling CBD products as food supplements.\nMost recently, the public debate around medical cannabis in the U.K. has seen a lot of attention, with a bill to legalize going through its first parliamentary reading Oct. 10 unopposed. That same day, a protest incited by a member of parliament and cannabis activist Paul Flynn took place in front of the Parliament building in London.\nMore of this news at Marijuana.com\nFirst Big Ayahuasca Study Shows Promising Early Results\nAyahuasca is a potent psychedelic that’s recently come into vogue among hipsters backpacking around South America.\nThe Nature journal Scientific Reports has just published a new piece of research on ayahuasca, making it the largest and most authoritative scientific study on the matter to date. The findings suggest this Amazonian “Shaman’s Brew” might be linked to improved everyday well-being, and potentially offer a treatment for alcoholism and depression.\nResearchers from University College London (UCL) and the University of Exeter in the UK sifted through the Global Drug Survey data of over 96,000 people worldwide and found 527 ayahuasca users. This group reported higher general well-being, along with less problematic alcohol and drug use, over the previous 12 months than other respondents in the survey.\n“Recent research has demonstrated ayahuasca’s potential as a psychiatric medicine, and our current study provides further evidence that it may be a safe and promising treatment.”\nRead more at IFL Science\nPolice: Zombie Drug’ Flakka May Have Hit Winnipeg Streets\nA spokesperson for the Winnipeg Police Service says officers are “very aware” of the drug and have made what could be their first seizure of the synthetic stimulant. Testing is pending.\nFlakka, which resembles finely ground glass, is chemically similar to “bath salts,” a term used to describe a number of recreational designer drugs (the name derives from instances in which the drugs were sold disguised as true bath salts).\nIt is most commonly snorted or injected, according to Dr. Marc Myer, medical director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Minnesota.\n“It gives an effect that includes euphoria and stimulation that usually lasts for one to two hours,” Myer said. “It can also cause undue side effects like psychosis, homicidal behavior, suicidal behavior, and that makes it difficult to treat these patients.”\nFlakka emerged in the southern United States in 2013 and has been making its way into more mainstream drug use, Myer says. Florida has seen a significant surge in the drug’s popularity in recent years.\nRead more on CBC News\nPosted on October 31, 2017 November 2, 2017\nIs Marijuana In Candy A Real Concern This Halloween?\nBefore you send your kids out for Halloween, warn them about the dangers they could encounter. Wear reflective clothing, carry a flashlight, look both ways before crossing the street and it is never a good idea to go into someone’s house.\nThe other concern this year is to be on the lookout for people slipping kids marijuana-laced candy. It is always a good idea to remind your kids to have an adult inspect all candy before eating it.\n“You probably can’t tell the difference between medicated gummy bears and the regular ones if you put them side by side,” said Encanto Greens owner Bill Brothers.\nAll the edibles sold at his store are manufactured someone else and sold locally. The packaging does list marijuana on it but it is often small and the box or wrapping looks like a candy wrapper.\n“I think there is an opportunity to improve the labeling of medical marijuana, especially in edibles,” said Brothers.\nBut is there a significant physical danger if your child were to ingest marijuana found in cookies or gummy bears?\nExperts warn parents and kids to never accept treats that don’t come in the original wrapping and always wait to get home and inspect the candy or sweets before eating it.\nFull article at 10 News\nHow Coca Leaf Became Colombia’s New Superfood\nNo other plant in human history has been as demonized as coca.\nIn 1961, it was placed on the Schedule I list at the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which stated that “The Parties shall so far as possible enforce the uprooting of all coca bushes which grow wild. They shall destroy the coca bushes if illegally cultivated.” The plant has been public enemy number one in the worldwide War on Drugs for decades.\nBut when the World Health Organization announced last year that the Monsanto-made pesticide, glyphosate, was actually highly carcinogenic, Colombia’s days of kissing America’s ass came to a screeching halt. In an abrupt turnaround, Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos is now challenging the War on Drugs in its entirety; this a reflection of the national psyche of a country that has borne the brunt of failed policies for far too long and is ready for real change.\n“We are trying to promote the proper use of this plant, as it has been perverted for centuries, and show how it is actually used as indigenous tradition,” says Ximena Robayo, who runs the restaurant/café/health food store in the heart of the city’s bohemian La Candelaria district.\nBesides chewing the leaves of coca, or brewing them into a tea, a wide variety of cooked and baked goods and dishes can be made with coca by grinding the leaves into a flour, called harina. This harina can also be stirred into juices, blended in smoothies, and used to make green drinks of all types.\nRead the full article at Q Costa Rica\nMaine Lawmakers To Debate Sale Of Marijuana\nAUGUSTA (WGME) – Maine voters approved recreational marijuana nearly a year ago, but there is still no market set up in the state.\nThe marijuana debate has yet to happen in the house or senate, but what we do know is Governor LePage and House Republicans seem to be ready to delay the sale of recreational marijuana in Maine.\nPortland Senator Mark Dion says the marijuana legalization implementation committee he serves on worked for eight months on a bill that allows for the safe, regulated, taxed and legal sale of marijuana in Maine, which Maine voters approved.\nBut House Republican Leader Ken Fredette says the bill passed out of committee is far from ready. That’s why he is presenting a governor’s bill to delay the regulated sale of marijuana in Maine.\n“There needs to be rulemaking done as part of passing this bill,” Fredette said. “And that rulemaking, in my opinion, is not going to be done anywhere near Feb. 1, 2018.”\nThe Republican chair of the Marijuana Legalization Committee says there is no need for a delay.\nRead more at WGME\nWarn Experts: E-Cigarettes Being Adapted To Smoke Illegal Drugs!\nElectronic cigarettes are being used to vape illegal substances like cannabis, crack cocaine, ecstasy, and heroin as part of a disturbing new drugs culture.\nA study by public health experts has revealed alarming numbers of e-cigarette users are modifying their vaping devices so they can inhale vapor from banned drugs.\nThe research found 39 percent of people with electronic vaping devices admit to using them to take illegal drugs or former ‘legal highs’ such as mephedrone.\nThe researchers who led the study warned too little is known about the risks of taking drugs in this way and that it could easily lead to overdoses among other problems.\nRead the full article in Daily Mail UK\nLos Angeles County Issues Its First Cannabis License\nYvonne Delarosa Green was awarded the first cannabis business license for Los Angeles County for her dispensary 99 High Tide Collective in Malibu. The city and county of Los Angeles are expected to become the capital of cannabis once the state of California’s regulated adult-use market is up and running.\nThere is a great deal of confusion over the cannabis licenses in the city versus the county. Los Angeles, the city, hasn’t issued any licenses, and it is rumored that existing dispensaries will have to close until they receive the new 2018 license under the new regulations.\nKeith Knox, chief deputy treasurer and tax collector for the county, confirmed that Los Angeles County administers some functions like business permits for three cities and Malibu is one of those three. However, Los Angeles County is banning marijuana for now, which makes the licensing in Malibu even more unique.\nThe mayor’s office in Malibu said in a statement:\n“The City of Malibu’s Municipal Code allows for two medical marijuana dispensaries to operate within City limits. Two medical marijuana dispensaries have been in operation in the City for several years. Los Angeles County issues business licenses on behalf of the City of Malibu, and approved a business license for one of the two existing medical marijuana dispensaries today.”\nRead the full article at Forbes\nHome Brewed Death Tea\nPoppy seed tea has potentially lethal consequences according to a new paper published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. Researchers at Sam Houston State University decided to look into home-brewed poppy seed tea and its lethality.\nDeaths attributable to opioids have quadrupled since 1999 and account for the six out of every ten overdose deaths. Whereas heroin and opiate-containing medications have been the primary source of addictions and deaths, it seems that brewing tea from unwashed poppy seeds can also kill.\nThe opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) has been cultivated for centuries as a source of opium. Poppy seeds produced from the poppy plant produce a milky sap containing opiates. Poppy seed tea is made by washing or soaking the seeds in water. Opium is contained within the seed capsule and also contains a variable mixture of alkaloids, including roughly ten percent morphine, 6 percent noscapine, one percent papaverine, 0.5 percent codeine and 0.2 percent thebaine.\nHow lethal ingestion of opiates can depend on individual tolerance which develops rapidly with long-term use. As the authors of the study point out, “The level of information that is shared online contributes to the facilitation of drug abuse practices such as extracting opium alkaloids by brewing poppy seed tea,” and they add, “However, this practice can have fatal consequences.”\nProfessor Madeleine Swortwood, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forensic Science at Sam Houston State University, was contacted by the parent of a young man who died after drinking home-brewed PST.\nRead more at American Council on Science and Health\nOpium Tincture Market Plan, Supply and Revenue to 2020\nA tincture is an alcoholic extract of plant or animal material or solution of such low volatility substance. Tincture of opium which is also known as laudanum is an alcoholic herbal preparation containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight.\nOpium is a highly narcotic drug acquired as dried latex that contains approximately 12% of the analgesic alkaloid morphine. Opium is processed chemically to produce heroin and other synthetic opioids for medicinal use and other uses. Opium tincture is reddish brown in color and bitter in taste.\nOpium tincture contains morphine and codeine and it is primarily used as an analgesic and cough suppressant. Opium tincture enhances the tone in the long segments of the longitudinal muscle and inhibits propulsive contraction of circular and longitudinal muscles.\nOpium tincture remains in the British Pharmacoepia, where it is referred to as Tincture of Opium, B.P., Laudanum, Thebaic Tincture, or Tinctura Thebaica.\nMajor methods of preparation of opium include processing it into regular opium tincture (tinctura opii).\nRead the full article at Miltech\nWhy Is Weed Getting More Potent?\nThe feds began monitoring the potency of the nation’s pot supply in the ‘70s by drawing samples from stashes seized by law enforcement, and boy was it schwag. The percentage of THC—the main psychoactive component in cannabis—averaged from less than 1% in 1975 to just under 3% a decade later, according to the data.\nThese notoriously low levels reflected the times, as the weed subculture in America was just starting to take root and could help explain why some of the most memorable old school brands have names like Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, Afghani, Thai stick, and Jamaican sensi; they were all originally cultivated outside of the country.\nNow, as some critics have pointed out, it’s impossible to empirically confirm how strong domestically grown pot was back in the day due to inferior testing and sampling methods, however, there does seem to be enough prevailing research, firsthand testimony, and common sense to show that the illicit reefer from decades ago wasn’t nearly as powerful as today’s.\nA recent federal study found that “the potency of illicit cannabis plant material has consistently risen over time since 1995 from approximately 4% in 1995 to approximately 12% in 2014.” This marked increase represents a shift when smokers began to pivot from dirt to mid-grade and hydro. In one standout bust from 2009, the DEA nabbed some sticky-icky that scored an impressive 33.12%, the highest concentration of THC the agency has ever seen in a domestic sample of weed.\nContinue Reading at Gizmodo\nCDC Launches Campaign To Fight Opioid Crisis In US\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a national campaign to help fight the prescription opioid crisis in this country.\nThe campaign will use online advertising, billboards, newspapers and radio/TV ads to increase awareness about the risks of opioids.\n“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is committed to using evidence-based methods to communicate targeted messages about the opioid crisis and prevent addiction and misuse in every way we can,” said HHS Secretary Tom Price, M.D.\nHe added, “Prevention is a key piece of the five-point strategy HHS unveiled under the Trump Administration for combating this crisis, which has left no corner of America untouched.”\nWSB Radio\nWING Officials Report Increase In Heroin Usage\nGERING — Scotts Bluff County Sheriff Mark Overman refers to Colorado as the area’s “canary in the coal mine” because law enforcement and drug problems experienced in northern Colorado soon spread to the Nebraska Panhandle.\nUse of the powerful painkillers, both prescription and non-prescription, has been rapidly increasing in both the U.S. and Canada since about 2010. By 2015, overdose deaths from opioids surpassed deaths from both car accidents and guns.\nAccording to the Drug Enforcement Administration, overdose deaths, especially from prescription opioids and heroin, have reached epidemic levels.\nNebraska State Patrol Sgt. Brian Eads serves as the WING Drug Task Force commander. He said the area has been dealing with opioids, particularly prescription drugs, for some time. But now heroin is starting to make more of an appearance in even smaller towns in the Panhandle.\nMuch of the heroin they’re seeing is cut with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid painkiller that has a rapid onset and short duration of action. It’s 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.\nEads said DEA statistics show a large majority of seized heroin has been cut with fentanyl, which is considerably stronger than the heroin itself.\nRead more at Starherald\nPosted on September 17, 2017 October 11, 2017\nOpioid Addiction: Humanizing A Crisis\nSerious, chronic health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, represent just a few of the staple diagnoses in developed countries, but few are as stigmatized as addiction. The opioid epidemic is at the forefront of public health issues capturing national attention in the United States, affecting communities from Hollywood to small town USA.\nThe term opiate is a classification for a drug that contains the highly addictive drug opium, a narcotic derived from the Papaver somniferum poppy plant. Opioids are appealing because the user feels a great sense of euphoria, followed by both decreased pain and increased drowsiness.\nAdding to the complexity of this epidemic is the availability of similar, and often illicit, drugs that produce the same euphoric feelings of prescription pain medications. The abuse of, and addiction to, illicit versions of opiates, such as heroin, is growing as regulations and costs make it more difficult to obtain legally prescribed opiates.\nIt makes sense, then, that the United States consumes 80% of the global opioid supply. Individuals hit hardest by this epidemic are between the ages of 25 to 54, with higher overdose rates seen in non-Hispanic whites and Native Americans or Alaskan Natives. Men die from overdoses at higher rates than women, but that gap is said to be closing.\nContinue Reading at Crixeo\nBig Weed Will Capitalize On Cannabis At Any Cost To Society\nCigarettes are good for your health. There’s no such thing as global warming, so keep on burning coal. Benzodiazepines like Valium are a godsend — “mother’s little helper.” “Anything’s possible when you learn to handle Smirnoff.” These are some of the vintage ads and canards that we look back upon today with wonder.\nWhat’s stupid is our collective amnesia about what happens in a democracy when a forbidden fruit hits the market: namely, capitalism at its worst. The response of capitalism to legalized cannabis will be to capitalize, as is its nature. To imagine that there will be no Big Weed akin to Big Tobacco is stupid. Consolidation is assured, and Big Weed will be run by executives from the other Big Bad Wolves.\nThe health benefits of “medical marijuana” will one day be equated with the disservice done by a generation of doctors who overprescribed opiates and benzos, the previous generation of doctors being suckered into smoking and recommending Camel cigarettes as good for you.\nRead more at The Star\nPosted on September 11, 2017 December 14, 2017\nScientists Want to Synthesize Salvia’s Hallucinogenic Molecule\nYou’re probably familiar with Salvia divinorum, the hallucinogenic plant used for religious purposes in some indigenous cultures, and for watching celebrities giggle in some decaying cultures.\nA team of scientists is now reporting that they’ve found an easier way create a slightly-altered version of the chemical responsible for salvia’s hallucinogenic effects, Salvinorin A. They’re not doing it so that you can continue having wild trips with your high school friends, though. Instead, these researchers are looking for a painkiller with opiate-like effects, but with a lower potential to abuse.\n“Drug overdose has become the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, driven largely by abuse of opioids,” the authors report in their paper published recently on the new preprint server, ChemRxiv. “To counter this epidemic, replacement of abused opioids with alternate pain therapeutics has emerged as an increasingly sensible goal.”\nThe authors write that Salvinorin A is unstable, making it difficult to alter. Others have been able to produce the chemical in the lab and change its structure somewhat, but some complexities have limited the options available to alter the molecule and change the effects it might have on the nervous system.\nThe final molecule, called 20-nor-Salvinorin A, differs just slightly from Salvinorin A. One single piece of the large molecule, a dangling carbon atom with three hydrogen atoms attached, is replaced by a hydrogen atom.\nWhy Michigan’s Marijuana Regulators Want to Shut the Pot Industry Down\nMichigan’s medical marijuana industry has had a licensing authority—in this case, the Michigan Medical Marijuana Licensing Board—for less than three months. It took two meetings before the licensing board, in charge of overseeing and regulating the state’s cannabis landscape, suggested shutting it all down.\nMedical marijuana has been legal in Michigan since 2008. Under state law, a caregiver is allowed to cultivate up to 72 marijuana plants—no more than 12 plants for no more than six patients.\nRetail outlets offering cannabis in Michigan are technically illegal—and will be until the state starts issuing licenses, a development expected to come as soon as later this year—yet dispensaries have been operating with varying levels of transparency in select cities for years.\nIn Detroit, there are more than 70 dispensaries offering marijuana for sale that has completed or at least started the city licensing process, according to the Detroit Free Press.\n“Every dispensary out there is open in violation of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act,” Bailey said during a recent board meeting, according to the Detroit Free Press. “It’s a felony for every sale that occurs from a dispensary.”\nContinue Reading at High Times\nPosted on August 29, 2017 September 7, 2017\nCalifornians Might Vote on ‘Magic Mushroom’ Legalization in 2018\nCalifornians might vote on whether to decriminalize the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms as early as 2018, under a newly proposed ballot measure.\nThe measure — which was filed on Friday (Aug. 25) with the state Attorney General’s office — would exempt people ages 21 and over from criminal penalties for using, possessing, selling, transporting or cultivating psilocybin, a hallucinogenic compound found in certain mushroom species.\nThe measure is not currently on the ballot — supporters need to get at least 365,880 signatures to qualify for the 2018 ballot, according to the Sacramento Bee, a newspaper in Northern California.\nContinue reading at LiveScience\nPrevious page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 … Page 7 Next page","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1073518"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5762993097305298,"wiki_prob":0.5762993097305298,"text":"By Josie Morss in Opinion July 11, 2019\nEvery year the LGBTQ+ community awaits the month of June: Pride month. Today, Pride go-ers are guaranteed celebrations accessorized with rainbow flags, celebrity appearances, and parade floats. However, fifty years ago, Pride was without the fame, floats, and flags. Instead the event was solemn, quiet, and conformed to a sexist society. Over the years, Pride has frequently been interjected by trial and error which ultimately created the current, and the most familiar, Pride Parade.\nThe 1970’s became the ultimate time to utilize activism and drive change especially to promote LGBTQ+ rights and universal awareness. Annual Reminder, the first LGBTQ+ rights rally, was the first step towards today’s Pride Parade.\n(Image: CNN)\nThe Annual Reminder acted as a silent rally where lesbians and gays picketed Liberty Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Compared to today’s Pride, this rally was anything but the ‘Come as you are’ mantra. Instead, men and women were expected to wear gender normative clothes. Women wore dresses and men wore suits and ties. Nowadays, Pride encourages decorated drag ensembles, “Gay Pride” shirts, and personally comfortable clothing.\nAlthough Annual Reminder stood for LGBTQ+ rights, it was quiet, and the men and women involved were unable to be their authentic selves in the public eye. Ultimately, it wasn’t enough. People were tired of waiting for a big, bold, brazen gay pride event and partners Craig Rodwell and Fred Sargeant were tired of waiting for someone to step up. No one took charge and people were waiting, so they finally took matters into their own hands.\nAfter months of planning alongside LGBTQ+ activist groups, Pride debuted with five thousand people within the New York streets, five times more than expected. After Pride tore up the town in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles soon adopted their own Pride Parades.\nPolitics and pride: two unique worlds that constantly clash and converge have instead created a foundation of the original purpose of Pride. During the first Pride, one year after the Stonewall riots, where the LGBTQ+ community fought violently against police raiders who frequently visited in order to shaken morale, harass, and even arrest gays. People chanted, “Say it clear, say it loud. Gay is good, gay is proud.” The chant acted as a beacon of hope for the LGBTQ+ community of receiving decent human rights.\n(Image: World Pride NYC)\nA powerful chant proved to be necessary after spending years being discriminated against in all realms of life: relationships, career, and unique family dynamics with same sex couples, adopted children, or IVF babies. The chant lifted people’s spirits into believing that the LGBTQ+ commuity is powerful, and that it’s okay to be gay.\nThe chant, although meaningful, was somber. It was a political stance to create waves in the media. Today, Pride is famous for housing an atmosphere of chaotic liveliness. Even though most LGBTQ+ members are engaged in politics, protest, and vote for the most inclusive candidates, chants are no longer necessary to be politically aware.\nPride fifty years ago compared to Pride 2019 is nearly unrecognizable. However, the week long events have stayed consistent since the beginning. “The Mother of Pride,” Brenda Howard organized a whole week to feature dance and drag competitions, which still run to this day. Even the day of the parade has stayed the same since the 70’s. Every parade falls on the last Sunday of June to commemorate not only the Stonewall Riots but recent community advancements and a renewed sense of self acceptance and most importantly the acceptance of others.\nSince the late 60’s the LGBTQ+ community have consistently fought for rights in various aspects of life. Even though every decade’s cause changes, there’s always a new issue to fight for. In the 80’s it was the HIV/AIDS crisis and in the 90’s it was deep rooted homophobia within the workforce. Most recently, marriage and family laws have been at risk. These generational dilemmas share an unspoken bond with the first Pride Parade in 1970. Even though it’s a different time with different issues, it’s the same community celebrating and advocating at the same place: Pride.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line297581"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9777161478996277,"wiki_prob":0.9777161478996277,"text":"Aladdin Will Fly the Magic Carpet Across the U.S. in 2017 National Tour\nJanuary 26th, 2016 | By Ryan Gilbert\nWith new horizons to pursue, the hit Disney musical Aladdin will launch a national tour in April 2017, beginning at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre. Casting for the touring production, as well as future engagements, will be announced at a later date.\n“We have had the great privilege of entertaining more than one million people in New York City with Casey Nicholaw’s glorious production,” said Thomas Schumacher, President of Disney Theatrical Productions, in a statement. “I am delighted that audiences in Chicago and throughout North America will soon have the opportunity to experience Aladdin in their own backyards.”\nAdapted from the 1992 Disney animated film, Aladdin is the story of a street urchin who uses the help of a magic Genie to win the heart of Princess Jasmine. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, the production features a book by Chad Beguelin, music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice, Beguelin and the late Howard Ashman.\nAladdin is currently running on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The production officially opened on March 20, 2014, starring Adam Jacobs as Aladdin, Courtney Reed as Jasmine, Tony winner James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie and Jonathan Freeman as Jafar.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line747981"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9330027103424072,"wiki_prob":0.9330027103424072,"text":"Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan Confirmed as New ‘American Idol’ Judges\nRick Diamond, Getty Images\nKaty Perry's American Idol judging panel just got bigger.\nABC confirmed Friday (September 29) that Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan will join the \"Swish Swish\" singer as judges on the network's reboot of American Idol, Entertainment Weekly reports. The duo had been linked to the show for weeks.\nThe series is set to premiere in January.\n“I am very excited to be joining Katy, Luke, and Ryan on American Idol,” Richie said in a statement. “As a singer, songwriter, and producer, I feel I can bring a great deal of experience to the table. It’s going to be so much fun!”\nBryan echoed the sentiment: “I’m excited at the chance to help some deserving artists reach their dreams,\" he said. \"To be in a position in my career to help facilitate this along with the other judges is just a complete honor. It’s gonna be a blast!”\nRichie and Bryan wasted no time spreading the news.\nPerry, Bryan and Richie will all appear together for the first time on Good Morning America on Monday (October 4). Original host Ryan Seacrest will also return to the series.\nSay Goodbye to American Idol With These Rare Season 1 Photos:\nNext: 5 DRASTIC CHANGES WE HOPE TO SEE ON THE NEW ‘AMERICAN IDOL’\nSource: Lionel Richie, Luke Bryan Confirmed as New ‘American Idol’ Judges","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1377777"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5082322955131531,"wiki_prob":0.4917677044868469,"text":"Donald Hank\nJust invert the compass, Part II\nBy Donald Hank\nThe goal of worldly \"leaders\" is not to engage the opponent but to annihilate him by any means possible. Fairness is not an issue. The mob rules.\nIn Philadelphia, eleven Christians were arrested and charged with the \"hate crime\" of peacefully reaching a group of homosexuals with the gospel.\nPastor Ake Green of Sweden was arrested and charged for a \"hate crime\" for preaching from a part of the Bible now banned from public discourse.\nThe Bible is officially a dangerous book in Sweden, but child pornographers sell their wares virtually unhindered there, while Imams freely preach wife abuse, based on Koran passages.\nLikewise, an arrest warrant has recently been issued against a Brazilian youth leader who had the cheek to minister to homosexuals desirous of leaving their dangerous, spiritually empty lifestyle. Such Christian outreach ministries are now banned in Brazil and parts of Europe, where homosexuals are regarded as a \"victim\" group and are \"protected\" by legislators, presidents and other chief executives, courts and a willing propaganda machine — the perverse media — all of whom have converged against humble defenseless Bible-believing Christians, as if these meek followers of Christ were armed foreign invaders and not the last remnant of faithful spiritual descendants of the god fearing stalwarts who dominated these regions since the founding of these civilizations, bringing prosperity and stability.\nAs a result, pastors have been arrested (as mentioned above), and Christian homeschoolers have been arrested, fined, sometimes jailed, and often deprived of the custody of their children (Germany and Sweden), who have been ruthlessly ripped from the comfort, love, and security of homes with natural parents and subjected to the cruelest imaginable mental and spiritual torture — forced to live in foster homes together with juvenile delinquents, drug addicts, sex addicts and the like. Children typically with IQs far beyond their chronological age (having been taught by caring parents unfettered by leftist ideology and biased textbooks, and with that powerful secret ingredient of faith) are traumatized by \"legal\" kidnapping, snatched without warning by police or social workers, and then slowly brainwashed and taught to hate what they loved and love what they hated — socialized to believe that faith in Christ is morally equivalent to faith in Mohammed and morally inferior to Marx.\nConsidering the tiny percentage of true believers in Christ and their modest resources vs the almost limitless resources of the adversary — governments that can marshal trillions of dollars for their cause — it is like using an industrial press to swat a fly!\nTwo questions beg an answer:\n1 — How can a people growing up in a \"democracy,\" who are taught to empathize with the poor and downtrodden, to care for the environment, and to do what is best for the collective, allow such cruelty to defenseless people of faith to occur under such an absurd and flimsy pretext as \"protecting\" homosexuals, particularly when such \"protection\" usually implies denying them vital information about the hazards of their lifestyle?\n2 — What is it about this gentle man Jesus Christ, who gave his life for humanity, that makes them hate Him so much?\nThe answer is out of reach for the human mind, but crystal clear to the spiritually discerning.\nIn fact, there can be only one answer to both questions, and therein lies not only the key to understanding our world but also a note of greatest encouragement to those suffering under the ubiquitous assault on faith in our Western world.\nAs absurd as it may seem to the spiritually dead, the answer is that Jesus really is who He said he was, the Christ and Savior, and Satan is His adversary.\nIn a world that were indifferent to Christ, one might suppose that the Bible is a book of myths.\nI once thought it was, having made the decision to be an atheist, giving up my Christian beliefs under the influence of a \"humanities\" education.\nBut then an odd thing happened: as a language student, I took a study tour to the USSR in the early 70s.\nOn the way in across the Finnish border, a Russian border guard boarded our vehicle and started asking each passenger to open their carry-on luggage. I turned around and asked one of our chaperones — a Russian émigré who taught at the University of Michigan — \"what is he looking for?\"\n\"Bibles,\" she replied with a wry smile.\n\"Wait a minute,\" I thought. \"The Soviet system banned religion over 50 years ago. People here must all know that the Bible is a book of myths. How could there be a real threat from the Bible now that Christianity is expunged, unless the authorities themselves don't really believe that the Bible is just a book of myths?\"\nThe question contained its own answer.\nSince then I have learned, in every encounter with the Left, that these people have no fear of myths. They fear only one thing: the truth.\nPhilosopher Olavo de Carvalho wrote an article on the Left titled \"The Stucture of the Revolutionary Mind,\" in which he shows that the revolutionary mind inverts everything — truth inverts to the lie and vice-versa.\nYou know how they say if you want to know what a corrupt politician is up to, follow the money trail?\nWell, in the case of the Left, pay attention to what they say and then invert that. The result will normally be very close to the unvarnished truth.\nWhat I am saying is very good news, my Friend.\nIt means that, while Biblical truth is often hard to prove, and doubts assail the Christian walk daily, we can sometimes be more sure of the truth simply by listening to the enemies of Christ and inverting their code than, say, by looking for clues in the physical world that affirm the veracity of the scriptures. If they say A, you can be sure the truth is somewhere around B, and vice-versa.\nI know that I am failing to express this as well as I would like. What I have experienced in the 40 odd years since my stay in the USSR — experience piled upon experience, upon experience — is almost impossible to analyze here. Words are at best a clumsy vehicle for spiritual truth. I beg your forgiveness for my own clumsiness on top of this fact.\nBut I would ask you to pray for spiritual discernment.\nI have heard pastors say that Christ's truth is so simple most people miss it. They are exactly right. The world is full of rocket scientists, who have seized control of every facet of our lives, asserting without evidence that the truth is so complex and nebulous that ordinary people need them to sort things out for us — for a fee.\nPaul said that the preaching of Christians in his day sounded like the ranting of madmen to the listeners.\nTo someone brought up in our inverted world (inverted by the Left in schools, the media, academe, professions, the DNC and GOP (they're the same, you know)), the truth cannot but sound like ranting. Good cannot help but sound like evil and vice-versa in a world where murder of the unborn is a \"right,\" where politicians can \"legally\" steal trillions and give them to their rich banker friends, and where children imbibe Marxist impulses with their mothers' milk.\nYet as Paul also points out, the heathen (lost) have a built-in detector for good vs evil. Something inside us tells us there is a God, there is right and wrong. Our compass points to Christ. It is only through a very major constant effort and highly structured organization (cf. \"community organization\") that the adversary can keep the hand of the compass pointing south.\nRemember my analogy of the anti-sun propaganda? More than anything, the constant drone of voices declaring there is no God suggests very strongly that He must be real.\nSo go ahead and listen to Richard Dawkins ranting against God. But don't forget to remind yourself that Richard doth protest too much — way too much.\nListen with spiritually enlightened ears, and you will hear the inversion of his words. The West has a broken compass that points consistently south, but you can find your way with a little trick:\nJust read the compass backwards.\n© Donald Hank\nUntil July of 2009, Don Hank was operating a technical translation agency out of his home in Wrightsville, PA. He is now retired and residing in Panama with his wife and daughter.\nA former language teacher, he holds an undergraduate degree in French and German from Millersville State University (PA), a Master's degree in Russian language and literature from Kutztown State College (also in PA), has studied Chinese for 3 years in Taiwan at the Mandarin Training Center, and is self-taught in other languages, having logged a total of 8 years abroad in total immersion situations.\nHe is also the founder of Lancaster-York Non-Custodial Parents, a volunteer organization that provides Christian counseling for non-custodial parents.\nReceive future articles by Donald Hank: Click here\nThe latest fake story from US intel\nThere's only one way Europe can be saved\nMerkel down for the count\nSecurity conscious Americans entrust the most vital security task of all to amateurs\nHammond standoff in Oregon: Feds MAY NOT own that land\nCruz or Trump: Who supports the Founders?\nHow the oligarchy will die\nThe only solution to Washington tyranny: Restore state sovereignty\nRMB up, dollar down\nNo, Obama is NOT a Muslim","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line870665"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5877315998077393,"wiki_prob":0.41226840019226074,"text":"Global Trade Expertise\nWho We Are Attorneys Consultants\nWhat We Do Practice Areas Services Education and Training\nAsk the Experts Ask an Expert Pose Your Own Question\nAsk the Experts/\nPose Your Own Question\nCustomized Solutions for International Trade\nUSTR Requests Comments on Annual GSP Product Review\nJune 20, 2019 / Jennie Kessinger\nThe Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will be accepting petitions regarding the 2019 GSP (Generalized System of Preferences) Annual Product Review until June 26, 2019.\nJune 26, 2019 at midnight EDT is also the deadline for submission of comments, pre-hearing briefs, and requests to appear at the GSP Subcommittee Public Hearing on the 2019 GSP Annual Product Review.\nOn July 2, 2019 at 1:30 p.m. EDT, the GSP subcommittee will hold a public hearing on all petitioned product additions, product removals, and competitive needs limitation waiver petitions that it accepted for the 2019 GSP Annual Product Review. The hearing will be held in Rooms 1 and 2, 1724 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20508.\nAugust 15, 2019 is the deadline for submitting any comments or briefs following the July 2 hearing. On September 7, 2019, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) is expected to deliver a report to USTR providing advice concerning probably economic impacts of adding products to GSP eligibility, of removing products from eligibility, and of granting CNL waiver petitions during the GSP Annual Product Review.\nComments can be posted on the USITC report at www.regulations.gov using Docket Number USTR-2019-0001. Electronic comments are preferred. For alternatives to on-line submissions, please contact Yvonne Jamison at (202) 395-3475. Additional information can be obtained by contacting: Erland Herfindahl, Deputy Assistant USTR for GSP, 1724 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20508. The telephone number is (202) 395-2974 and the email address is gsp@ustr.eop.gov.\nSuzanne DeCuir, Global Trade Expertise\nJune 20, 2019 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nJennie Kessinger\nTreasury’s OFAC Adjusts Civil Monetary Penalties\nEffective June 14, 2019, The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets\nControl (OFAC) is adjusting civil monetary penalties for inflation pursuant to the\nFederal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 and the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.\nAccording to the Office of Management and Budget, the adjustment multiplier for the year 2019 is 1.0255. In order to complete the 2019 annual adjustment, each current CMP (Civil Monetary Penalty) is multiplied by the 2019 adjustment multiplier.\nOFAC currently is authorized to impose CMPs pursuant to five statutes: The Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. 4301–4341, at 4315) (TWEA); the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706, at 1705) (IEEPA); the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104–132, 110 Stat. 1212–1319, at 1250; 18 U.S.C. 2339B) (AEDPA); the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Pub. L. 106–120, 113 Stat. 1626– 1636, at 1632; 21 U.S.C. 1901–1908, at 1906) (FNKDA); and the Clean Diamond Trade Act (Pub. L. 108–19, 117 Stat. 631–637, at 634; 19 U.S.C. 3901–3913, at 3907) (CDTA).\nHere are the existing and new maximum CMP amounts:\nTWEA: Previous Max. $86,976; New Max. $89,170\nIEEPA: Previous Max. $295,141; New Max. $302,584\nAEDPA: Previous Max. $77,909; New Max. $79,874\nFNKDA: Previous Max. $1,466,485; New Max. $1,503,470\nCDTA: Previous Max. $13,333; New Max. $13,669\nComplete information regarding the adjustment of all CMPs can be found at this link to the Federal Register.\nOFAC\nQualcomm Prevails in One Patent Battle, but Loses AnotherQualcomm Prevails in One Patent Battle, but Loses Another\nMarch 27, 2019 / Jennie Kessinger\nQualcomm Inc. has worked for several years to succeed in proving patent infringement and securing an import ban on the Apple iPhone. In separate cases, one attempt succeeded and one failed.\nOn March 26th, 2019, the US International Trade Commission found Qualcomm’s patent for a battery-saving feature invalid. However, earlier the same day, a different judge ruled that Apple had infringed on another Qualcomm patent; this judge recommended that certain older iPhone models be banned. A final decision is expected on that case this July.\nThere have been some 80 cases filed worldwide between these two companies. Qualcomm’s technology is an integral part of modern communication products. The company is earning money from all of its chips in mobile devices as well as collecting fees for the use of its inventions in chips made by other companies.\nQualcomm argues that it is being shorted out of billions of dollars in royalties on the iPhone as the two tech companies debate the value of Qualcomm’s patents. At the crux of the argument is Qualcomm’s claim that the Intel chips Apple uses are inferior and that Apple has been incorporating unlicensed Qualcomm inventions into the Intel chips to upgrade their quality.\nIn the second case, Qualcomm believes that the iPhones which contain Intel Corp. chips infringed two patents concerning methods for improving the quality and speed of data downloads as well as one for power-saving features. Qualcomm is requesting an order to ban imports of the iPhone and iPhone 7 Plus. Even if the ban is limited to these models, the impact could run to billions of dollars per year. It is anticipated that Apple would probably discontinue these models in the next two years.\nRegarding this case, ITC Judge MaryJoan McNamara said she would be recommending a band pertaining to a broad wider range of iPhones, including the iPhone 7, iPhone 8, and iPhone X; only those with Intel chips are affected. iPhones with Qualcomm chips are not part of this legal battle. Until this matter is settled, Apple has directed its contractors to stop paying Qualcomm and is purchasing all its modem chips for new models from Intel.\nThe Federal Trade Commission has leveled an accusation at Qualcomm for using its patents on industry standards to weaken competition and gain market share and high licensing fees. To date, Qualcomm has won sales bans on iPhones in China and Germany, although the ban in China has not been enforced and Apple is working on measures to resume sales in Germany.\nMarch 27, 2019 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\npatents, Apple\nU.S. Customs Ruling Concerning Country of Origin for Section 301 Purposes\nOctober 25, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nOn September 13, 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced a new ruling that will be pertinent to any company seeking to shift production from China to Mexico (or Canada) in hopes of mitigating the effect of Section 301 duties. The most important take-away is that although the NAFTA Marking Rules (19 C.F.R. Part 102) are used to determine the country of origin of articles imported into the U.S. from Mexico for marking purposes, the traditional substantial transformation test is used to determine the country of origin of articles for Section 301 duty purposes.\nCBP illustrated the application of the ruling using the example of parts of a motor imported into Mexico for assembly. The assembly operation in Mexico was sufficient to satisfy the applicable NAFTA Marking Rule and thus for marking purposes, the finished article was deemed to be a \"product of Mexico.\" However, CBP went on to say that the traditional substantial transformation test is used for purposes of \"antidumping, countervailing, or other safeguard measures[.]\" CBP then applied the traditional substantial transformation test to the facts and reached the conclusion that the Mexican assembly operations were not sufficient to confer origin and, therefore, the finished motor imported into the United States was a \"product of China\" for Section 301 purposes. So, in short, the product had to be marked to indicate that it was of Mexican origin, but the importer had to pay the Section 301 duty applicable to Chinese-origin articles.\nImporters should be aware of what CBP’s analysis indicates: while the traditional substantial transformation test and the NAFTA Marking Rules are intended to rest on the same origin principles, they do not always produce the same result due to the nature of the tests. This is largely because the NAFTA Marking Rules are objective and the substantial transformation test is more subjective. Further, where Section 301 is concerned, the traditional substantial transformation test must be used even if the goods are imported from an FTA-partner country such as Mexico, Canada, Singapore, etc. Thus the NAFTA Marking Rules may be useful to that analysis, but cannot be considered determinative. In some cases, then, a company might find that an article marked as a product of Mexico could still be subject to duties applicable to products of China.\nOctober 25, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nRulings, cbp\nTrump Tariffs Impact on Sourcing\nSeptember 04, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nThe recent set of tariff revisions to section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 are the latest in an expanding and extensive set of the Trump Administration’s controversial tariffs. Effective July 6th, 2018 this revision added duties of 25% to select Chinese goods with the USTR announcing in the current edition of The Federal Register that additional increases (on over $200 billion worth of Chinese goods) are under proposal and awaiting comment. Moreover, while the dollar amounts of the U.S. tariffs and the Chinese counter-response are known for specific goods, the final effect of the tariffs and the overall outcome of what China calls “the largest trade war in history” is still uncertain and disputed.\nOf chief concern to many is the effect that these tariffs may have on corporate profits and sourcing. Many companies have come out against the tariffs for this reason; in fact, Walmart and other top retailers who together generate over $1.5 trillion in GDP jointly sent out a letter to President Trump this past March. The concern has only grown with the implementation of the tariffs and a report that Walmart has recently asked its beauty suppliers if they would be able to change the sourcing of their products to a country other than China. While the effect has, so far, been relatively small, according to their latest earnings reports companies such as Walmart have already taken hits to their current and predicted bottom lines as a result of the tariffs. However, while some large companies such as Hasbro and Puma have announced a move away from China to other South-Asian countries, most large corporations seem to be only contemplating the possibility of changing production while they try to gauge how long these tariffs may last or if they can garner tariff exemptions for their products. Additionally, small businesses seem to have the most to fear regarding the additional section 301 tariffs and potential shifts in sourcing as 46% of small business owners have indicated that they anticipate the tariffs will have a negative impact on their businesses.\nAside from China, this set of tariff revisions, designed to hurt China's economy due to an \"unbalanced trade deficit\" and \"intellectual property issues,\" has not been without consequence to the U.S. economy. Companies such as BMW and Moog Music have announced that they may need to shift production from the U.S. to China as a result of retaliatory tariffs. This result should not occur as a surprise. After all, after the Trump administration levied tariffs on the European Union, iconic American manufacturers such as Harley-Davidson were forced to move production to Europe from the U.S., costing certain states billions in exports and jobs.\nA recent study by the National Retail Federation indicated that American consumers stand to lose $6 billion this year as a result of the currently proposed tariffs on Chinese \"furniture, travel goods, and handbags\" alone. Even if American companies can successfully re-source their products to countries other than China, American consumers will likely still be worse off due to increased prices and competition in these other countries. No figures on whose economy will be most affected are available, but initial reports seem to indicate that U.S. economic growth remains relatively stable, while China's has weakened just slightly. Either way, what is clear is that the economic effect of the tariffs on both countries will only grow over time and companies are necessarily considering long-term strategies to minimize the hit to their bottom lines.\nSeptember 04, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nPresident, Imports\nConsequences of Non-Compliance – Lacey Act Enforcement\nJuly 19, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nOne particular area where U.S. companies have failed to comply with stringent import laws, knowingly or unknowingly, involves wildlife and natural products. The Lacey Act, 16 USC 3371, is one of the primary federal statutes employed to combat the illicit trafficking of products within these categories. Initially enacted to protect animal species, the Act was amended in 2008 to more broadly include plant species. Specifically, the Act now prohibits the U.S. importation of illegally-harvested timber, meaning it is unlawful to trade in any plant that is taken, possessed, transported or sold in violation of the laws of any U.S. state, Indian Tribe, or any foreign law that protects plants. The Lacey Act does not impose U.S. law on other countries. “Illegally sourced” is defined by the content of a sovereign nation’s own laws. In addition, it is unlawful to falsify or submit falsified documents, accounts or records of any plant covered by the Lacey Act.\nViolations of the Lacey Act carry serious penalties for companies and individuals. In addition to civil fines and forfeiture of goods, criminal penalties may also attach to the companies and individuals found to have knowingly violated the Act. A misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act is punishable by up to one year in prison and a fine of $200,000.00 for companies and $100,000.00 for an individual. Felony culpability is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $500,000.00 fine per violation for a company and $250,000.00 for an individual.\nTwo Lacey Act enforcement agreements that demonstrate the severity of violations and highlight the importance of companies having compliance infrastructure that properly functions to avoid such violations are the Gibson Guitar Corporation Settlement and the Lumber Liquidators Settlement.\nGibson Guitar Corporation (“Gibson”) came under federal scrutiny not once but twice, first in 2009 and again in 2011 for violations of the Lacey Act. Gibson is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and manufactures a variety of musical instruments, most notably guitars. The violations involved parts of the guitar called fretboards. The imports at issue were orders of Madagascar ebony fingerboards (used to make fretboards) from a supplier called T.N. GMBH (“TN”), located in Hamburg, Germany. Gibson failed to verify that TN was sourcing its wood legally from Madagascar, and it turned out that it was illegally sourced. In addition, Gibson knowingly ignored red flags that the wood TN was providing was illegally obtained. For example, TN’s failed to provide documentation to Gibson evidencing that the ebony sourced from Madagascar was harvested lawfully. Madagascar law states that all ebony harvested after a specific date was illegal unless it was considered “finished wood” or had received “exceptional authority” from the government.\nIn addition, prior to purchasing the wood, Gibson had sent a specialist to Madagascar to assess the potential for supporting sustainable forestry. During his investigation, the specialist obtained the Madagascar Order regarding the particularities about finished and unfinished wood and in his report highlighted that this would be an issue for Gibson. Despite this knowledge, Gibson continued to purchase wood from TN.\nThese violations resulted in the finding of a Lacey Act misdemeanor violation with a fine of $300,000.00 plus a $50,000.00 community service payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. In addition to the monetary fines, Gibson also was required to strengthen its compliance program.\nGibson established a new compliance program that clearly stated the objectives of maintaining compliance with relevant laws and in particular the Lacey Act. The new program provided the history and applicable penalties for the Lacey Act, listed the due care standard that it would apply to its processes to assure compliance with applicable law, and then listed the internal checks and balances that would be implemented to demonstrate the satisfaction of this duty. The compliance program also stressed Gibson’s commitment to developing policies and procedures for the procurement of wood and for verifying that all necessary foreign licenses and/or certifications are obtained prior to approval of a purchase. The compliance program listed resources to obtain current applicable law and stated a commitment to an annual audit of its wood purchasing processes, a commitment to training its employees, and plans for retaining adequate records.\nThe compliance program created by Gibson emphasizes the necessary steps required under the Lacey Act to specifically detail the unique company processes and procedures created to effectuate compliance and satisfy reasonable care in conducting imports.\nThe second settlement involved Lumber Liquidators (“LL”). LL is a Virginia-based flooring retailer that was sentenced to pay a total of $13.15 million for five counts of Lacey Act violations. The fines included 7.8 million in criminal fines, $969,175.00 in criminal forfeitures, $1.23 million in community service payments, and 3.15 million in civil forfeitures. They were also sentenced to a five-year probationary term during which they were to create an Environmental Compliance Plan and engage an outside accounting and environmental consulting firm. The $13.5 million dollar penalty constitutes the largest financial penalty ever for illegal trafficking in timber under the Lacey Act.\nThe retailer pleaded guilty to one felony count of importing goods through false statements and four misdemeanor violations of the Lacey Act. The charges stated that Lumber Liquidators was using timber that was illegally logged in Far East Russia and had submitted false Lacey Act declarations that obfuscated the true species and the source of the timber. Although, LL had a compliance program in place that identified this activity, it ignored the red flags and continued to purchase the timber.\nLL imports wood flooring from China and distributes it throughout the U.S. However, the timber used to manufacture the flooring in China was harvested from different countries, two of which were Far East Russia and Myanmar. LL had a compliance program at the time of the violations and, in fact, employees were aware that some of the wood was harvested from Far East Russia and posed a significant compliance risk. In addition, LL had also been conducting employee training discussing the compliance risk of Far East Russia. But despite this information, LL continued to import wood coming from Far East Russia and Myanmar. Thus, although the compliance program was in place, LL failed to uphold the policies in its manual. In addition, LL also submitted inaccurate information on Lacey Act documentation required upon importation.\nWhat these examples illustrate is that the enforcement of U.S. Customs laws, and in particular the Lacey Act, has significant monetary and functional consequences. There is a strict duty to comply imposed on the party conducting the international trade and the responsibility to develop processes to comply with U.S. Customs laws is imposed on both the business and individual level. The penalties go far beyond mere monetary fines, and include forfeitures, corporate governance and operational restrictions.\nFurthermore, having a compliance program alone does not protect against violations or mitigate penalties. Compliance programs will be judged on their actual application to relevant internal processes, the effectiveness of their implementation, and their actual capacity to successfully identify and remedy trade violations. Ultimately, the law imposes a corporate responsibility to educate employees and management who oversee trade functions and instruct them on how to effectively remedy identified violations.\nWhat does this mean for the US business? Investing resources into developing a compliance program and implementation is an upfront cost that is absolutely necessary and indirectly required to avoid the significant consequences of violating US Customs laws.\nAmber M. Johns\nJuly 19, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nenforcement, Lacey Act\nLimitations of 4th Amendment Border Exceptions: United States v. Kolsuz\nThe Federal Government has consistently maintained, and been upheld in, the assertion that the border search exception allows it to conduct searches and seizures at international borders without a wrrant or probable cause. While this assertion is generally accepted, the government's stance that electronic devices, such as computers and smartphones, also fall within this exception has been a point of contention. However, a recent 4th Circuit Court of Appeals case, United States v. Kolsuz, is being hailed as a significant victory by civil rights organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.\nUnited States v. Kolsuz, deals with the case of Hamza Kolsuz, a Turkish national charged with three counts of violating the Arms Export Control Act. According to court filings, Kolsuz had attempted to smuggle prohibited firearms parts from the U.S. to Turkey on three separate occasions. On the third and most recent attempt, Customs officials were prepared and intercepted Kolsuz at Washington Dulles International Airport. Importantly, after his arrest, Customs agents conducted an immediate manual search of his smartphone and an additional month-long, off-site forensic analysis of the phone. Kolsuz's appeal concerns the suppression of this forensic analysis, which he maintains does not fall under the border search exception.\nIn many ways, this was a case that many likely saw coming. Case law concerning the 4th Amendment and electronic devices has been frequent and in the public eye. The notion that electronic devices may not fall under the border exception first came to the forefront in 2013. United States v. Cotterman, a 9th Circuit decision, held that manual searches of computers at the border fell under the exception, but forensic searches required reasonable suspicion. Prior to this, the governing decision was United States v. Ickes which held that computers were ordinary searches. Then, in 2014, the Supreme Court ruled in Riley v. California. Riley held that a warrant is required to search a cell phone following an arrest. The Supreme Court essentially established differential treatment between digital and physical items due to the sheer amount and sensitivity of personal information that can be stored on cell phones.\nThese two cases, among others, caused many to question if Riley might influence Cotterman and also apply to the border. More recently, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits heard cases on forensic searches but failed to reach a substantive conclusion due to the scope of their cases.\nThe Kolsuz decision, citing Riley, affirms that at least reasonable suspicion is required for forensic searches of cell phones seized at the border. Taking Riley into account, the 4th Circuit, using language similar to United States v. Flores-Montano, found that forensic searches of phones are clearly non-routine border searches, but did not challenge Ickes due to the scope of the appeal. Moreover, the court left open the possibility that a standard even higher than reasonable suspicion could be required, but that which standard made no difference to the Kolsuz case. In response to Kolsuz, the Department of Homeland Security now internally requires reasonable suspicion for forensic searches of electronic devices.\nWhile the outcome of Kolsuz may not have been positive for Kolsuz himself, who was convicted of his export violations, it is being hailed by many as a win. Moreover, it is likely just one of many upcoming cases concerning the Fourth Amendment's application to digital searches as the ACLU and EFF, among other organizations, push ahead with their own cases.\nCustoms, Enforcement\ncaselaw\nProtests in the New ACE Single Window System\nMay 26, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nIn an effort to streamline and automate the process of documenting the importing and exporting of goods, Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) has stated its aim of shifting fully to using the Automated Commercial Environment (“ACE”) by the end of 2016. Under this process, ACE with become the “single window” through which the trade community will be able to report imports and exports and receive information regarding admissibility from the government. The entire process will eventually eliminate paper processing, allowing the trade community to comply with US laws more efficiently. Core ACE trade processing capabilities should be completed and deployed by December 2016.\nOne processing capability under development is the ACE module for filing protests. CBP recently hosted a webinar to review the current design of the ACE protest module, though it’s not yet finalized. CBP intends that ACE will provide an electronic mechanism for the submission of protests, thus reducing the need for the submission of paper, and this will allow for seamless processing by the agency. In order to submit a protest electronically through ACE, those wishing to file protests will be able to do so by creating an account. If already in possession of an ACE account, then ‘protest filer’ may be added to the list of business partners. Those without an ACE account will be able to obtain a ‘protest filer’ account (this is not yet available). In addition, attorneys will be able to have filer accounts, as well as corporate representatives.\nWithin the protest module, the data fields found on the traditional CBP Form 19 will be able to be populated. The lead entry number for the protest, once input, will auto-populate the importer identification number (“IIN”), port and team number for the protest based on that entry number. However, the assigned review team will be able to be overridden if it is known that a CEE or specific team should be assigned the protest. In other cases, CBP assigns the reviewing party based on the lead entry number. It will be possible for filers to see the protest history for an importer, but the history will only relate to protests submitted by that particular filer. For instance, a broker would be able to see protests that it filed but it wouldn’t be able to access the history of protests filed independently by an importer client. CBP is still developing certain processes within the module, such as the handling of samples, the submission of protests relating to situations without entry numbers, and the uploading of supplemental information. The protest module is currently designed to allow for additional arguments or amendments to be uploaded (“see attachment” can be noted in the reason field).\nA few details still need to be worked out, since paper documents have not yet entirely been eliminated. For requests for accelerated disposition of the protest, the regulations specify that requests must be made by certified or registered mail. To handle this, CBP is asking that the filer input the protest in the module, and subsequently go into the protest record and request an “action” that specifies accelerated disposition. The filer will then still need to upload the proof that the request was mailed, the date, etc. As long as the regulations specify that accelerated disposition requests must be submitted by mail, extra steps will be required to designate accelerated disposition in ACE.\nSince all the details on the ACE protest module have yet to be completely finalized and it has not yet been deployed, it is helpful to follow postings on its progress at CBP’s website.\nSuzanne DeCuir\nMay 26, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nDeadlines for Objecting to Proposed Tariffs\nApril 08, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nAccording to the United States Trade Representative (USTR), U.S. companies and individuals will have until May 22nd to voice objections to President Trumps’ proposed 25% tariffs on some 1,300 foreign goods. In general, products subject to this retaliation against China fall within the sectors of aerospace, information and communication technology, robotics and machinery. (Left off the list are retail mainstays such a mobile phones and clothing, items that might provoke a U.S. consumer backlash.)\nImportant dates are as follows:\nApril 23 - due date for filing all requests to appear and to submit a summary of testimony to be presented at the public hearing; it is also the date for filing pre-hearing submissions\nMay 11 - due date for submission of written comments\nMay 15 - date of the 10 a.m. public hearing to be held at US International Trade Commission, 500 E. Street SW, Washington, D.C., 20436.\nMay 22 - due date for rebuttal comments following the May 15 hearing\nNote: USTR strongly prefers electronic submissions made through the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Instructions for submitting comments in sections F and G can be found at this link. The docket number is USTR-2018-0005.\nOn April 3, 2018, the United States Trade Representative published a proposed tariff retaliation list. This follows just a few weeks after the USTR’s March 22nd release of its Section 301 Report detailing findings regarding Chinese acts, policies, and practices related to technology transfer, innovation and intellectual property. The 301 Fact Sheet states that “the United States is committed to rebalancing the U.S.-China trade relationship to achieve more fair and reciprocal trade. After years of U.S.-China dialogues that produced minimal results and commitments that China did not honor, the United States is taking action to confront China over its state-led, market-distorting forced technology transfers, intellectual property practices, and cyber intrusions of U.S. commercial networks.”\nThe complete list of products that could be subject to a 25% tariff is included in the annex to the 301 Report.\nSince the April 3 USTR tariff list was published, China responded by publishing its own list of products it may subject to increased tariffs if President Trump moves forward. These items include agricultural commodities such as soybeans as well as exports such as autos, aircraft, and chemicals. In response, Trump has threatened to slap additional tariffs on more goods, stating that he might consider whether an additional “100 billion in tariffs might be appropriate.”\nApril 08, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nTrade, Customs\nRegulations, president, tariffs\nThe GDPR: A Broad-Reaching Game Changer\nPassed by the European Union on April 26, 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to take effect on May 25, 2018. Replacing the 1995 Data Protection Directive, the GDPR contains key changes that affect businesses throughout the world, including U.S. companies. Understanding these new regulations is essential to maintaining compliance and avoiding harsh penalties.\nThe GDPR is an EU regulation concerning data privacy. In the United States, data privacy laws tend to be segmented to specific fields (FERPA, HIPPA, etc.). However, the European Union considers data privacy to be a fundamental human right and thus applies data privacy laws consistently across the board. The main purpose of this regulation is to protect “personal data” in European Union member countries or countries where “personal data” originating in the EU is stored, processed or retained. This is important as it greatly expands who is regulated in comparison to its predecessor directive.\nIn this context, personal data is defined as “any information relating to an individual, whether it relates to his or her private, professional or public life. It can be anything from a name, a home address, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer’s IP address”. Note that the inclusion of information as simple as email addresses, login-information, or computer IP addresses means that the GDPR can apply to many U.S. corporations simply through the course of normal business activities.\nCompanies are specifically required to comply with the GDPR if they fit any of three specific criteria. The GDPR applies to any company that maintains an “establishment” in an EU member nation, whether or not data collection or processing occurs there. Establishment generally means “any real and effective activity – even a minimal one” through “stable arrangements” in the EU. Secondly, the GDPR applies “where the processing activities are related to offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.” This provision even includes goods and services that are free. Moreover, the bar to “offering goods” is low and can be as simple as the specific language, shipping options, or currencies being that of an EU member. Lastly, the GDPR applies to a company “if it processes the personal data of data subjects in the EU and that processing is related to the ‘monitoring’ in the EU of the ‘behavior’ of data subjects as their behavior takes place within the EU”. In this context, “monitoring” includes the use of cookies and other information frequently used by advertisers to track and recommend products to consumers.\nThe GDPR can alternatively come into force against U.S. corporations who do not collect data but instead import/export data from the EU. Under the GDPR, in language mostly unchanged from the 1995 directive, data can only be exported to countries that are deemed to have equivalent or stronger data protection laws than the EU. However, the U.S. is not considered one of these countries and U.S. corporations must be able provide adequate assurances that data will be handled in accordance with the GDPR. An exception to this is U.S. companies under the authority of the Federal Trade Commission or Department of Transportation that have signed on to the 2016 EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. The Privacy Shield, the successor of the Safe Harbor Program struck down in 2015 after the Edward Snowden leaks, allows companies that self-certify compliance to receive EU personal data as if they were in a country approved by the commission. Companies that are unable or do not wish to join the Privacy Shield program have alternatives. The European Commission allows companies to use pre-approved standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules, or codes of conduct that have been approved by the European Commission or independent state supervisory authorities. Importantly, companies are not only responsible for their own exports and compliance but also for any “onward transfers” and the compliance of any company down the chain.While companies can share data protected by the GDPR, they must ensure that said company or their contract meets the criteria above.\nKnowing these broad categories for which a U.S. company can be subject to the GDPR, examining what must be met for compliance is essential. Penalties for the GDPR are extreme, failure to comply can result in fines of up to 4% of global revenue or 20,000,000 euros, whichever is greater, and direct liability to anyone impacted by mishandled data.\nThe GDPR has two different sets of requirements depending on a company’s classification as either a data “controller” or data “processor”. A data controller “acting alone or together with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.” A data processor “processes personal data on behalf of the controller”. While not all encompassing, important requirements for data controllers include: establishing when privacy notices are required, including insufficiency of pre-checked boxes which are common practice in the U.S; placing restrictions on choosing data processor; establishing data breach notification timelines and individual rights; recordkeeping; and appointing a data protection officer. This differs slightly for data processors who have regulations on issues such as data breach notification, data security, recordkeeping, and subprocessing, but not many of the restrictions concerning privacy and the actual notices themselves.\nThe GDPR updates EU data protection laws to provide a far-reaching jurisdictional range. The data protected includes many data types commonly used by US businesses. Act now, before May 25th, and review the specific controller or data processor regulatory requirements if you believe that your business falls under the GDPR’s authority.\nMax Krauskopf\nEuropean Union, Regulations, privacy\nA Hard Lesson Learned: What Capella v. United States Teaches Us\nFebruary 25, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nOn January 4th, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reaffirmed the decision of the United States Court of International Trade in regard to Capella Sales & Services LTD v. United States, Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee. In its affirmation, the court decision highlighted the importance of importers staying current with countervailing duty (CVD) legislation and Timken notices.\nBackground: The United States Department of Commerce is empowered to impose CVD’s on imported goods when they find a country is directly or indirectly subsidizing a given good. Under this authority, a 2010 investigation by the Department of Commerce found the People’s Republic of China (PRC) guilty of said subsidies for aluminum extrusions and assessed an all-others rate CVD of 374.15%. Numerous aluminum importers challenged this CVD in the Court of International Trade (“CIT”) in MacLean-Fogg Co. v. United States. The CIT ruled in favor of the importers, which resulted in a new all-others rate of 7.37% for imports of aluminum extrusions from the PRC. However, Capella was not a party to this legislation.\nFollowing the CIT’s decision, the Department of Commerce issued a Timken notice notifying the public that the court’s decision differed from its original final determination. As a result of this notice, some importers requested and received an administrative review of 2011 and 2012 entries subject to Commerce’s original determination. However, Capella never requested administrative review for its entries.\nConsidering that Capella’s entries were not enjoined by the court due to legislation and they did not request an administrative view within the appropriate period, Capella was charged the original CVD of 374.15%. This case was the final failure in their attempt to avoid payment.\nThe Court of Appeals reaffirmation of the Capella decision upholds the status quo in regard to CVD’s. Importers must stay up to date on current legislation. If they do not join legislation, they must file for an administrative review within the proper time period. Simply attempting to benefit retroactively without said actions will not fly, as Capella roughly discovered. Importers have plenty of time to join legislation and request administrative reviews. They should be considered with the utmost priority as they can often result in significant savings.\nFebruary 25, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nCIT, CAFC\nFrance To Sidestep Sanctions by Setting up New Trade Financing Vehicles\nEver since France, the U.S., and other world powers agreed in 2015 to lift certain economic sanctions in exchange for controls on Iran’s nuclear program, European countries have been searching for a way to step up trade with Iran. France plans to structure financing in such a way as to increase trade with Iran while avoiding the long reach of U.S. sanctions. By offering euro-denominated credits to buyers in Iran, the French will be able to increase sales of its goods.\nAccording to Nicolas Dufoursq, the head of France’s state-owned investment bank, Bpifrance, a lot of preparation has gone into this plan to provide new loans. “This is a completely separate flow (of money),” he explained. “There is no (U.S) dollar in this scheme.” He added that there is as much as 1.5 billion euros in potential contracts from French exporters alone.\nThe French have maintained trade ties with Iran for decades and still have large factories there, including a Renault plant. Other European countries such as Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Austria are working on their own financial mechanisms to enable them to bolster trade while not running afoul of U.S. sanctions.\nAs recently as October of 2017, Trump criticized such efforts to sidestep nuclear agreements, but has since told French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel they could \"keep making money\" in Iran.\nFebruary TFTEA Implementation\nThe U.S. Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is preparing for the implementation of new changes to duty drawback specified in the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (TFTEA). Passed in 2015, the law gave CBP a two-year implementation period which expires on February 24, 2018.\nImportant changes of note concern ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) and how drawback, the refund of duties, taxes, and other fees, are handled. Starting on February 24th, drawback, as defined under current statue, will begin to be filed through ACE. Furthermore, TFTEA greatly changed many aspects of drawback law. These new TFTEA claims will also become effective starting on February 24th. This distinction is important because core drawback claims, under the current legislation, will continue to be accepted via ACE until February 24th, 2019, as specified under TFTEA. During this transition, claimants will be able to choose whether they would prefer to submit under the current legislation or under TFTEA.\nOther important changes under TFTEA include:\nRedefining the concept of “substitution” of exported goods for imports. This change\nuses the Eight-digit Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)\nclassification or Export Schedule B numbers instead of part number-based criteria.\nThe timeline for filing a drawback claim related to a given import has been expanded\nfrom three years to five years from the date of importation.\nCertificates of delivery are no longer required. Claimants must only be able to produce\n“normal business records.”\nFinal touches are still being put on the exact specifics for how ACE and TFTEA will function. No new or revised regulations relating to TFTEA have been issued. However, regulations are currently being reviewed by the Treasury and must still be reviewed by other agencies as well. CBP is planning to release a guidance document for policies that will be applied to TFTEA claims while these regulations are still being reviewed. Keep your eye out for these finalized documents, as understanding the regulations and differences between regulations will be especially important for this transition year.\nDHS/CBP Amends Customs Regulations to Include Civil Monetary Penalty Adjustments\nJanuary 11, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger\nOn December 8, 2017, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) amended its regulations to adjust for inflation the amounts that CBP can assess as civil monetary penalties for the following three violations:\nThe penalty for transporting passengers between coastwise points in the United States by a non-coastwise qualified vessel has been increased from $750 to $762.\nThe penalty for towing a vessel between coastwise points in the United States by a non-coastwise qualified vessel has been increased from $875-$2,750 plus $150 per ton to a new amount of $889-$2,795 plus $152 per ton.\nThe penalty for dealing in or using an empty stamped imported liquor container after it has already been used once has been increased from $500 to $508.\nThese changes are being made in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 which was enacted on November 2, 2015. In addition, a number of other CBP civil penalty amounts were adjusted pursuant to this 2015 Act in previously published documents published in the Federal Register on July 1, 2016, and January 27, 2017; however, the adjustments for these three civil penalties were omitted from those documents inadvertently and so are being published now. The rule went into effect on December 8, 2017. The adjusted penalty amounts will be applicable for penalties assessed after December 8, 2017 if the associated violations occurred after November 2, 2015.\nJanuary 11, 2018 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nCBP, Enforcement\ncbp, Penalties\nDOC Announces New Civil Monetary Penalties Adjusted for Inflation\nThe Department of Commerce has announced new civil monetary penalty amounts adjusted for inflation that may be assessed for the following regulatory violations after January 15, 2017, including in instances when the associated violation took place before that date.\nfailure to file export reports or information required by 13 USC 304 within prescribed period – maximum for each day’s delinquency has been increased from $1,333 to $1,360, maximum per violation has been increased from $13,333 to $13,605\nother unlawful export information activities under 13 USC 305 – the maximum has been increased from $13,333 to $13,605\nfailure to provide the information required under 22 USC Chapter 46 (international investment and trade in services survey) – minimum increased from $4,527 to $4,619, maximum increased from $45,268 to $46,192\nforeign-trade zone violations (19 USC 81s) – maximum increased from $2,795 to $2,852; false or fraudulent claims under the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act (31 USC 3802(a)(1) and (2)) – maximum increased from $10,957 to $11,181\nprohibited acts relating to inspections or recordkeeping violations under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act (22 USC 6761(a)(1)(A) and (B)) – maximum increased from $36,849 to $37,601\nviolations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 USC 1705(b)) – maximum increased from $289,238 to $295,141\nSeveral other adjustments were also made pertaining to the use of false records to pay or transmit money or property to the federal government (31 USC 3729(a)(1)(G)) and to Fastener Quality Act violations (15 USC 5408(b)(1)). To see the full list of adjustments, see the Federal Register.\nPenalties, commerce\nAirbus Faces Probe into Compliance Irregularities\nNovember 09, 2017 / Jennie Kessinger\nIt has been reported that Airbus of Toulouse, France, faces legal difficulties regarding its failure to notify U.S. authorities about the use of outside sales agents to broker defense equipment and services deals; this presents a compliance lapse and could lead to financial penalties and perhaps a criminal investigation.\nAccording to The Guardian of London, the problems stem from the use of so-called “commercial agents” who act as intermediaries in “difficult” territories where they sometimes assist large companies in securing contracts. In some cases these intermediaries act as legitimate consultants on technical matters, while in other cases they are really nothing more than individuals who know whom to bribe for a government contract. This kind of action is contrary to Part 130 of U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) concerning political contributions, fees, and commissions involved in the export of military equipment.\nAirbus’ Chief Financial Officer Harald Wilhelm briefed reporters on October 31 regarding these legal issues. He would not speculate on the company’s potential financial or criminal exposure. Both the U.S. State Department and the Justice Department are looking into the matter.\nFailure to comply with regulations can lead to large penalties. Airbus engine manufacturer, Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC , recently agreed to settle allegations of corruption to the tune of an $800 million dollar penalty. Because Rolls-Royce agreed to the settlement, the company avoided prosecution.\nThe compliance lapses at Airbus came to light during an internal review and were first reported at the end of 2016. After discovering irregularities in certain foreign transactions, Airbus came forward to report the problems it had found. The company’s hope is that by self-reporting, the penalties might be less punitive.\nNovember 09, 2017 / Jennie Kessinger/ Comment\nEnforcement, ITAR\nITAR\nU.S. Based Paper Company Settles with OFAC on Sanctions Violations\nWhite Birch Investment, LLC, a paper company headquartered in Greenwich, CT, recently reached an agreement settling a case brought by the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC). White Birch’s Canadian subsidiary was facing possible civil liability for three alleged violations of the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 538 (SSR). White Birch USA was accused of facilitating the sale and shipment of 543 metric tons of paper of Canadian origin valued at approximately $354,000. According to OFAC, White Birch USA and its Canadian subsidiary were “actively involved in discussing, arranging, and executing the export transactions to Sudan.” OFAC concluded that White Birch USA did not voluntarily self-disclose these apparent violations; however, it was determined that these violations constituted a non-egregious case. These transactions date back to between April and December of 2013.\nThis settlement underscores how critical it is that U.S. companies put processes in place to effectively wall off their U.S. operations and staff interactions to prevent violation of OFAC’s regulations. This is especially important for U.S. companies with overseas affiliates who may be transacting business involving sanctioned territories; such territories currently include Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syrian and the Crimea area of Ukraine.\nSuzanne DeCuir, Global Trade Expertise, October 23, 2017\nUpdate: H.R. 3551: C-TPAT Reauthorization Bill\nOn September 25, 2017, the House Homeland Security Committee favorably reported a bill concerning C-TPAT to the House of Representatives. This bill, H.R. 3551, would reauthorize the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program (C -TPAT) which has not been reauthorized in its 11-year history. The bill was introduced by Rep. Martha McSally of Arizona. If passed, a number of changes will be put in place reflecting current global security concerns and trade conditions.\nSome of the changes that the bill calls for are as follows:\n1. Each C-TPAT participant must designate a company employee (not a contractor or third-party) to hold the participant accountable for managing participation in the program.\n2. The bill would require CBP (in consultation with industry) to review the C-TPAT minimum security criteria at least every two years, making updates as needed.\n3. CBP would be required to put in place additional security procedures for certain categories of participants, individual participants, and specific entities in order to focus closely on security vulnerabilities.\n4. The bill would extend eligibility to participate in C-TPAT to exporters, importers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, air carriers, ocean carriers, land carriers, and contract logistics providers.\n5. The bill establishes C-TPAT as the authorized economic operator program to grant CBP the latitude and flexibility to improve and expand its trusted trader program as needed.\nCTPAT\nTransition to New ACE System Begins July 8, 2017\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that July 8, 2017 is the effective date for the transition to the new electronic CBP authorized system for entry filings. This transition had been delay repeatedly, but it is finally ready for implementation, and all electronic drawback, duty deferral entries and entry summary filings will need to be processed using this system. ACE will be used for all flagging of entries as well. The old system, ACS, will no longer be a CBP-authorized EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) system after the transition.\nAdditional information about the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) is available on the CBP website and includes the types of entries that will be supported by ACE, along with details related to filing protests, drawbacks, duty deferrals, reconciliations, liquidations, and other filings.\nIn December of 2016, CBP described in detail that changes that will affect reconciliation; these can be found on the first CBP site listed under sources, below. Two important changes pertain to flagging of entries and the filing of reconciliation entries. Under the new system, blanket flagging will be eliminated. Where filing of reconciliation entries is concerned, importers and their brokers will no long be able to submit entries using CD/ROMs or paper. The type 09 reconciliation entry using ACE is to be used even though the entries being reconciled were not initially filed using ACE. “Entry by entry” or “aggregate” reconciliation entries will still be accepted.\nCBP, Imports\nNAFTA Renegotiation\nOn May 18, 2017, Robert Lighthizer, the recently confirmed United States Trade Representative (USTR), notified Congress of the Administration’s intentions to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This notification, required by section 105(a)(1)(A) of the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015, started the 90-day period in which the Administration must wait before beginning the renegotiation. This period ends on August 16, 2017, after which the Administration may begin negotiations. During this period, the USTR shall conduct both Congressional and public hearings in order to better clarify the intentions of the renegotiation. Notification from the public to testify and written testimony must be submitted by June 12, 2017.\nNo changes shall take effect until after the 90-day period, so importers and exporters should continue with business as usual. However, they should also note that significant changes might occur after that time period. The Office Of The United States Trade Representative has released a preliminary list of objectives about which they are seeking public comments. These objectives are presented with the goal of modernizing the NAFTA to better reflect a modern U.S. economy. These objectives include, among others, a reexamination of remaining tariffs and non- tariff barriers, changes in the treatment of digital goods, and changes to rules of origin procedures. A full list of objectives can be found here.\nGTE will continue to monitor the specific objectives and changes of the renegotiation. If you have any questions or desire a consultation as to how these changes may affect your organization please contact us.\nNAFTA, Trade\ncustoms, nafta\nA law and consulting firm specializing in international trade matters such as Customs, export control, OFAC embargoes and sanctions, and other import/export matters.\n©Global Trade Expertise Attorney Advertising Legal Disclaimer Privacy Policy IP Policy Terms of Use","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1037569"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7279707193374634,"wiki_prob":0.7279707193374634,"text":"UCCI Board Announces New President\nMr. Anthony Ritch, Chair of the Board of Governors of the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI), is pleased to announce that the Board has appointed Dr. Stacy R. McAfee as the next President of the institution to take office on the 1st of January 2019.\n“On behalf of the Board of Governors, I am delighted to welcome Dr. Stacy McAfee as the next President of UCCI,” said Chairman Ritch. “Dr. McAfee was selected following a most rigorous recruitment process that started in January of this year.”\nChairman Ritch explained that the months-long presidential search process included approximately 200 applications, 11 interviews and four candidates visiting the UCCI campus to meet faculty and staff. Dr. McAfee demonstrated the strongest expertise, motivational fit, and vision to carry out the duties of the institution’s chief executive officer in accordance with the new President position description and UCCI’s mission.\n“We look forward to working with Dr. McAfee as we embrace our new Strategic Plan and seek to build on the many improvements, positive initiatives and landmark successes achieved under President Roy Bodden’s visionary and astute leadership. We also look forward to introducing Dr. McAfee to Cayman and to our many stakeholders in the public and private sector and across numerous NGOs who continue to provide significant and impactful support to the University College,” he said.\nThe Chairman also expressed appreciation for President Bodden who is retiring at the end of the year, saying, “We thank President Bodden for his nine years of extraordinary dedication to UCCI and for his immeasurable contribution to education across the Cayman Islands. He is leaving us with an enduring legacy and the Board is committed to ensuring that we continue to set exacting standards for excellence and educational achievement that build on the great work he has done.”\nSimilar sentiments were echoed by the Hon. Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, Minister for Education, Youth, Sports, Agriculture, and Lands.\n“As Minister for Education, I am pleased to welcome Dr. Stacy McAfee to the Cayman Islands and the UCCI family. Under the exceptional leadership of outgoing President Roy Bodden, UCCI has experienced a rebirth; there is a newfound vitality, stability, enthusiasm, and sense of purpose that permeates both the campus and the classroom,” she said. “He has surely laid a solid foundation upon which Dr. McAfee can build. I look forward to working with President McAfee and the UCCI Board as we continue to provide students with educational programmes that meet internationally recognised standards of learning in the core and developing industries relevant to the socio-economic wellbeing of the Cayman Islands and its citizens.”\nDr. Stacy R. McAfee served as the Associate Vice President for External Relations, Strategic Partnerships and Presidential Initiatives for University of the Pacific, a selective nationally-ranked (#110) university in California. Dr. McAfee led business, government and community relations advancing corporate, foundation, educational, alumni and government relations across Northern California. The strategic partnerships she established bolstered experiential learning, philanthropy, new program development, career placement, and faculty research. As a member of the president’s cabinet, she led presidential initiatives including the clarification of institutional core values in 2017.\nPrior to joining University of the Pacific, Dr. McAfee led University of Phoenix’s Bay Area campus that served over 4,000 students in the San Francisco Bay Area online and at various campus sites. She directed admissions, academic affairs, student services, operations, alumni relations, and financial services. Under her direction, the campus received national recognition for multi-faceted performance excellence. Prior to her Bay Area campus leadership position, she directed academic affairs for University of Phoenix’s West Region leading regulatory, legal, and academic quality assurance for 11 campuses.\nDr. McAfee has more than 30 years of leadership experience with a variety of public and private organisations across various industries. She served on the executive board of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the Capitol Public Radio board and Joint Venture Silicon Valley and as an executive with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. She has served on the faculty of institutions of higher education including DePaul University, Elmhurst College, University of Phoenix, St. Charles Community College, and College of DuPage. Dr. McAfee serves as a speaker, subject matter expert, and regular contributor for panels, events, and interviews.\n“I am honoured to have the rare privilege of serving as the President and CEO of UCCI. Together, we will build upon the successes of the past while fulfilling a new vision for locally relevant and internationally recognized tertiary education for the Cayman Islands,” Dr. McAfee said.\nDr. McAfee holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership and Management from Drexel University, an MBA from DePaul University, a Bachelor in Business Administration from Iowa State University, and an Associate of Arts from Highland Community College. She is a member of American Leadership Forum Mountain Valley Chapter and Leadership Sacramento.\nShe is passionate about improving educational and career outcomes for traditional students and working adults. Dr. McAfee believes that access to quality education enables both personal and professional development and is essential to sustained economic growth, civic leadership, and innovation. In addition to enjoying mentoring and developing others, she is actively engaged in her community supporting various non-profits and her church. She and her husband Terry have been married for 32 years and have two adult sons and a daughter-in-law.\nUCCI Hosts International Business Practicum in Roatan\nDr. McAfee's Remarks at Chamber of Commerce Economic Forum 2019","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line548817"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6924353241920471,"wiki_prob":0.3075646758079529,"text":"Baris Ekincier\nBaris Ekincier (Azerbaijani: Barış Əkinçiər; born 24 March 1999) is a German-born Azerbaijani footballer who plays as a midfielder for VfL Bochum.[1]\n(1999-03-24) 24 March 1999 (age 20)\nHemer, Germany\nPlaying position\nYouth career\nFC Iserlohn\nRot-Weiss Essen\nSenior career*\nTeam Apps (Gls)\nVfL Bochum 1 (0)\nNational team‡\nAzerbaijan U17 2 (0)\n* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:31, 5 April 2019 (UTC)\n‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18:31, 5 April 2019 (UTC)\nClub careerEdit\nEkincier began his football career with the youth teams of FC Iserlohn and Rot-Weiss Essen, before joining the VfL Bochum youth academy in 2017. In August 2017, he played for the first team in a friendly match against Bayer Leverkusen.[2]\nIn June 2018, Ekincier signed his first professional contract with VfL Bochum, lasting two years until 30 June 2020.[3] On 19 August 2018, he appeared for Bochum in the first round of the 2018–19 DFB-Pokal, coming on as a substitute in the 62nd minute for Tom Weilandt in the 0–1 away loss against Regionalliga Nord side Weiche Flensburg.[4] Ekincier made his 2. Bundesliga debut for Bochum on 5 April 2019, coming on as a substitute in the 74th minute for Miloš Pantović in the 1–2 away loss against Jahn Regensburg.[5]\nInternational careerEdit\nEkincier was included in hosts Azerbaijan's squad for the 2016 UEFA European Under-17 Championship in May 2016. He appeared in Azerbaijan's first two matches, with the team being eliminated in the group stage of the tournament.[1]\nEkincier was born in the German city of Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia and is of Turkish descent.[1]\n^ a b c \"Baris Ekincier\". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL. Retrieved 5 April 2019.\n^ \"Spielpraxis für Kießling und Lars Bender\" (in German). Kicker. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 6 April 2019.\n^ \"Baris Ekincier erhält Profivertrag\" (in German). VfL Bochum. 6 June 2018.\n^ \"Gelungenes Debüt: Weiche Flensburg kegelt Bochum raus\" (in German). Kicker. 19 August 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2019.\n^ \"Zuerst Assist, dann eigenes Tor – Grüttner Matchwinner für den Jahn\" [First an assist, then a goal – Grüttner match winner for Jahn Regensburg]. kicker.de (in German). kicker-sportmagazin. 5 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2019.\nBaris Ekincier – UEFA competition record\nProfile at DFB.de\nProfile at kicker.de\nBaris Ekincier at Soccerway\nThis biographical article relating to Azerbaijani association football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baris_Ekincier&oldid=898572921\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line870927"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5593792796134949,"wiki_prob":0.5593792796134949,"text":"Home > NEWS > / / Stars / Buzz\nSM Entertainment Explains Why Sulli Was Not Included in f(x)'s Baskin Robbins CF\nSulli's non-appearance once again unearthed rumors and speculations about her leaving f(x). Baskin Robbins recently released a CF featuring its brand endorser f(x).\nTAGㆍf(x)ㆍ sulli\nBaskin Robbins recently released a CF featuring its brand endorser f(x). However, the CF stirred a buzz as f(x) member Sulli was noticeably absent from the said commercial. Sulli's non-appearance once again unearthed rumors and speculations about her leaving f(x) which first came out when she suddenly went on hiatus from group activities last year. Baskin Robbins and SM Entertainment have released individual statements to explain why Sulli is not in the CF.\n\"Sulli is not included in f(x)'s contract [with Baskin Robbins],\" the brand rep explained, \"When the contract was drafted and signed, Sulli was caught up in a dating scandal with Choiza. Thus, after discussing matters with SM Entertainment, we decided to sign the contract without Sulli's involvement.\"\nSM Entertainment responded to speculations that Sulli's absence from the CF marks her looming departure from f(x). The agency denied rumors about Sulli's disbandment from the group. \"Sulli's absence from f(x)'s [Baskin Robbins] CF was due to her hiatus at the time the contract [with Baskin Robbins] was signed. There are no other reasons behind her non-appearance.\"\nIn recall, Sulli officially went on hiatus starting July 25, 2014. She's only re-appeared in the limelight later that year to attend promotions for her movie \"Fashion King\".\nMeanwhile, f(x)'s Victoria, Luna, Amber, and Krystal will appear in Baskin Robbin's summer special \"bingsu\" or shaved ice dessert CF in which they will lunch the \"Shaved Ice Song\" this month.\nAlso, f(x) is scheduled to make a comeback, as confirmed from an official statement from SM Entertainment's rep.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line392994"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8628455400466919,"wiki_prob":0.8628455400466919,"text":"Mark Guiliana is an acclaimed drummer, composer, educator, producer and founder of the independent record label Beat Music Productions. His forward-thinking, conceptual approach to the instrument is also featured in Mehliana, the electric duo featuring Brad Mehldau on keyboards and synthesizers. The group’s highly anticipated debut album, Taming the Dragon (Nonesuch), was released in early 2014.\nOver the past decade, Guiliana´s extensive touring has taken him across six continents with artists including Meshell Ndegeocello, Gretchen Parlato, Avishai Cohen, Matisyahu, Lionel Loueke, Now vs. Now, Dhafer Youssef, and his own groups, Beat Music and Heernt. He has also appeared on over 30 recordings to date.\nStill in his early thirties, Guiliana, recognized by The New York Times as “a drummer around whom a cult of admiration has formed,” has earned international acclaim for his innovative and creative style. Time Out London sums him up perfectly: “What happens when you add hard bop drum masters Elvin Jones and Art Blakey to a 1980s Roland 808 drum machine, divide the result by J Dilla and then multiply to the power of Squarepusher? Answer: Mark Guiliana.”\nLesson Packs Featuring Mark Guiliana\nPhrasing Fills in 16ths\nPhrasing Fills in Triplets","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line755257"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9016527533531189,"wiki_prob":0.9016527533531189,"text":"Rare Colorado fish pulled back from extinction\nLocal | October 4, 2018\nDan Elliot\nIn this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 photo, a Colorado River razorback sucker fish is shown swimming in a tank at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Lakewood, Colo. Officials say that the rare Colorado River fish has been pulled back from the brink of extinction, the second comeback this year for a species unique to the Southwestern United States. (AP Photo/Dan Elliott)\nAP | AP\nDENVER — Another rare Colorado River fish has been pulled back from the brink of extinction, wildlife officials said Thursday, the second comeback this year for a species unique to the Southwestern U.S.\nThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended reclassifying the ancient and odd-looking razorback sucker from endangered to threatened, meaning it is still at risk of extinction, but the danger is no longer immediate.\nThe Associated Press was briefed on the plans before the official announcement.\nHundreds of thousands of razorbacks once thrived in the Colorado River and its tributaries, which flow across seven states and Mexico.\nBy the 1980s they had dwindled to about 100. Researchers blame non-native predator fish that attacked and ate the razorbacks and dams that disrupted their habitat.\nTheir numbers have bounced back to between 54,000 and 59,000 today, thanks to a multimillion-dollar effort that enlisted the help of hatcheries, dam operators, landowners, native American tribes and state and federal agencies.\n“It’s a work in progress,” said Tom Chart, director of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program. “We get more fish out in the system, they’re showing up in more places, they’re spawning in more locations.”\nChart’s program oversees the campaign to restore the razorback sucker and three other fish, all of them found only in the Colorado River system.\nIn March, the Fish and Wildlife Service recommended changing the humpback chub from endangered to threatened. It takes 18 to 24 months to complete the process, including a public comment period.\nThe razorback sucker’s name comes from a sharp-edge, keel-like ridge along its back behind its head. Chart thinks the ridge may have evolved to help the fish stay stable in the turbulent waters of the Colorado.\nIt can grow up to 3 feet (1 meter) long and live up to 40 years.\nRazorbacks have been around for between 3 million and 5 million years, but trouble arrived as the population expanded in the Southwest. State and federal agencies began introducing game fish into the Colorado without realizing they would devour the native fish, Chart said. A spurt of dam-building was a boon to cities and farms but interrupted the natural springtime surge of melting snow, which in turn shrank the floodplains that provided a safe nursery for young razorbacks.\nDams also made parts of the rivers too cold for razorbacks, because they release water from the chilly depths of reservoirs. And they blocked the natural migration of the fish.\nBy the late 1980s, most of the wild razorbacks were old, an ominous sign they were no longer reproducing, Chart said. The Fish and Wildlife Service began capturing the remaining wild razorbacks and moving them to hatcheries to begin rebuilding the population.\nThe agency designated razorbacks an endangered species in 1991, although Utah and Colorado enacted state protections earlier.\nBiologists began restocking rivers with hatchery-raised razorbacks in 1995. Now, about 55,000 are released into the Colorado and its tributaries annually.\nThe Fish and Wildlife Service began working with dam operators to time water releases to help razorbacks spawn and restore flood plains for them to mature. Some dams were modified to help razorbacks to get by.\nWildlife officials began reining in non-native predator fish with nets and screens to keep them from escaping reservoirs, or removing them by electrofishing — stunning them with electricity and euthanizing them with an overdose of anesthetic.\nChanging the fish from endangered to threatened will allow more flexibility in the way it is protected, said Kevin McAbee, deputy director of the recovery program.\nUnder endangered status, individual fish have to be protected, but threatened status means biologists can take steps to improve the overall population even if some fish might be hurt, McAbee said.\nRazorbacks still face challenges. The first-year survival rate of hatchery fish, each roughly 14 inches (36 centimeters) long, is about 20 percent or less in the wild, Chart said. It climbs to 80 percent after that.\nDrought, climate change and increasing human demand are straining the rivers, which makes it harder for fish to survive.\nMcAbee said the Fish and Wildlife Service took the river’s uncertain future into account before recommending the change for the razorbacks. Their long lifespan helps them endure low-water years when few young fish survive, he said.\nCooperation among water users in 2018, a year of devastating drought in much of the Southwest, shows the razorbacks’ needs can be accommodated, McAbee said.\n“Things could have been catastrophic,” he said.\nTaylor McKinnon of the Center for Biological Diversity is doubtful about how healthy the razorbacks really are.\nThe government’s reliance on hatcheries to boost the population shows they are not self-sustaining, he said, and he worries about their future in the overtaxed Colorado River.\n“I think the elephant in the room right now with regard to recovery is climate change and river flows and regional aridification,” he said.\n“We’re skeptical of the merits of this,” McKinnon said.\nGlenwood prosecutor wins award for welfare fraud trial\nGlenwood’s Midland Bridge to be closed July 19-20 for re-decking\nSunday profile: Glenwood resident Annie Zancanella known as ‘Tanzanian Tooth Fairy’ after 5 months in African nation\nUPDATE: CDOT partially re-opens one lane of Highway 325 to all travelers\n¡Postindependent.com ahora disponible en español!","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line206656"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7124171257019043,"wiki_prob":0.2875828742980957,"text":"Alice's Garage\nUntil recently, little was known about LGBTI Australian’s experiences of dementia. There was a myth that LGBT people who had dementia ‘became straight’ or ‘reverted’ to gender assigned at birth. On this page we share research and narratives about LGBTI people’s experiences of dementia.\nA series of narrative based resources and a guide in LGBTI inclusive services for people living with dementia has been developed:\nStill gay… Narrative resource (here)\nStill gay … Guide to inclusive services (here)\nEdie, a day in the life of a lesbian living with younger onset dementia (link)\nUnderstanding the experiences and needs of LGBT people living with dementia. Article (link)\nWe are still gay … Article (link)\nPulse of My Heart\nPulse of my Heart, or ‘A chuisle mo chroi’, is an Irish Gaelic expression meaning ‘my darling, my love’. It involves an annual film documenting the importance of love in the life of Edie Mayhew and her partner Anne Tudor. Edie was diagnosed with younger onset dementia in 2015. Header photo (c) Lisa White, The Social Photographer.\n2017: The Circle of Love\nOur 2017 film has been made and is very, very beautiful. The film was shot at the Circle of Love celebration of Edie and Anne’s 33 years together – which happened during the Marriage Equality postal vote in Australia.\n2016: Our Hearts Are Bigger\nThis second film was our first with professional film maker Andy Ferguson. Between this and the previous film Edie has needed more support from Anne – and so we decided to include both Edie and Anne in the film. In preparation for the film Edie and Anne were invited to write each other a letter about love every day for a week – and then to open and read them on film. The letter writing approach provided structure and opened up the possibilities. This film led to an international campaign called: Letters of Love and Dementia.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eUQNDGFlcM\n2015: A Day in the Life of Edie\nThis first film is a series of photographs and a sound track produced by Catherine Barrett as part of a project documenting the experiences of LGBTI people living with dementia.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGFUQhCkT6U\nWebsite by Dvize","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line245702"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5896924138069153,"wiki_prob":0.5896924138069153,"text":"The Promise of Electric Buses for Low Carbon Mass Transit\nA new generation of fully electric buses is on the way making low carbon transport a reality. If we are to keep temperatures from rising more than 2C above preindustrial times we must find efficient, emissions-free solutions to mass transportation. The new generation of electric buses are a critical piece of the zero emissions puzzle. Electric buses will also reduce the air pollution that is plaguing urban environments.\nElectric buses are not new, the Chinese automaker BYD introduced an electric bus in 2010. It is called the K9 and it is powered with an Iron-phosphate battery, that has a range of 155 miles or 250 kilometers on one single charge. Newer e-buses have quadrupled that range.\nHowever a new generation of electric buses have much better ranges and are capable of traveling an entire day without recharging. In 2015 an Australian all-electric bus broke a record by driving 1,018km on a single charge. The bus was built by Brighsun in Melbourne and employs a high performance lithium ion battery with proprietary eMotor, battery management and a regenerative braking system.\nAs reported by One Step Off the Grid, Brighsun communications director, Gladys Liu, said:\n\"We believe it will bring a whole new concept of public transport with no pollution to Australia and to the world.\"\nThe company is planning on opening manufacturing facilities across Australia.\nAnother electric bus called the EV350 is GreenPower’s flagship product. This bus has the latest electric drive, battery technologies, and battery management system combined with a lightweight chassis and low floor body. The EV350 has a range of 185 miles or 300 kilometers. Another GreenPower product the 550 has an even better range of 240 miles or 385 kilometers.\nThe Proterra is an electric bus that has recently been analyzed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). It received high marks and as reviewed in EV Obsession, a recent analysis of the Proterra e-bus, \"possess an average fuel economy roughly 4 times higher than that of baseline CNG [compressed natural gas] buses.\"\nAccording to the NREL analysis, the Proterra is also highly reliable. This Proterra is touted as being \"exceptional for an advanced technology bus in the early stage of commercialization.\"\nHowever, the Green Car Congress reports that the average runtime per day is 13.2 hours with an average of 13 charges per day. Each charge averages 20 kWh energy delivered.\nHere is an excerpt from the analysis:\n\"One major challenge is addressing demand charges and time of use charges that affect electricity cost. This will be a major challenge for any fleet looking to deploy electric buses that charge during peak times.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line509421"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6340909004211426,"wiki_prob":0.3659090995788574,"text":"THE CHEMIST by Stephenie Meyer is a riveting page-turner that solidifies her debut as a Thriller author\nNovember 30, 2016 November 30, 2016 / Amie's Book Reviews\t/ Leave a comment\nTitle: THE CHEMIST\nAuthor: STEPHENIE MEYER\nGenre: FICTION, THRILLER\nPrice: $36.50 CDN (HARDCOVER)\nRating: 4.5 OUT OF 5 STARS 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟\nStephenie Meyer became famous as the author of the TWILIGHT SERIES of Young Adult books wherein a regular teenage girl meets a guy and falls in love. She learns that the love of her life is actually a vampire, but that’s okay because he is a “good” vampire. Anyone who has not read the Twilight books or who has not at least seen the movies made based on the books must have been living under a rock for the past decade.\nAfter writing that series, she then penned the Young Adult science fiction novel – THE HOST which also became a movie. So, potential readers of THE CHEMIST can be forgiven if, at first, they expect this latest book to be another work of Young Adult Fiction.\nHowever, after reading the first few pages of THE CHEMIST, it became readily apparent that this book was written for an adult audience.\nAlex (not her real name) is on the run from her former employer – a shadowy, secret arm of the U.S. government – and has been running for the past three years. She doesn’t know what led to them trying to kill her, but somehow she went from prized asset to liability.\nHer existence now consists of little more than trying to find a way to keep breathing for one more day.\nShe had been known as “The Chemist” and her skills at creating concoctions to help speed along interrogations of terrorist subjects was unsurpassed. But, actual field missions and the art of subterfuge were never part of her job.\nSo, when she receives an email from her former handler telling her that she is needed and that if she completes one last job for him, they will stop hunting her, she is cautiously optimistic. She knows it is likely a trap, but she is so tired of running that she agrees.\nWhat she had thought would be a routine interrogation quickly becomes anything but.\nThe information she learns makes her an even bigger threat than she was previously,\nComplicating matters even further she starts to fall for a man shè shouldn’t. She knows that the only chance of her ever having anything resembling a normal life will require her to go even deeper down the rabbit hole and to do things she had never believed herself capable of.\nThis book is so fast paced that readers become so swept up in the story that the everyday world falls away.\nStephenie has created characters so believable and so compelling that readers will be outraged with the treatment they receive from the very country they love.\nThis book has no sickeningly sweet (and therefore wholeheartedly unbelievable)love scenes that were so common in the TWILIGHT series. That series was written by a much younger Stephenie Meyer. With THE CHEMIST she proves that she has grown up. Stephenie dominated the Young Adult literary world for years. THE CHEMIST proves that she is ready to do the same with Adult Fiction.\nThoroughly researched and exceptionally well plotted, THE CHEMIST takes readers on a heart-pounding roller coaster ride that has so many twists and turns that 518 pages literally fly by. #TheChemist\nI heartily endorse this book and give it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟\nThe only negative I can see is that readers who had hoped that Stephenie Meyer had stayed stagnant, who hoped that she would remain a YA author forever may find themselves disappointed to discover that #StephenieMeyer has grown up and so has her writing.\nBest known for her Twilight series, Stephenie Meyer’s four-book collection has sold over 100 million copies globally in over 50 countries, with translations in 37 different languages. Meyer was the highest-selling author of 2008 and 2009 in the United States, having sold over 29 million books in 2008, and 26.5 million books in 2009. In 2008, Meyer also released The Host, which debuted at #1 on The New York Times and Wall Street Journalbestseller lists. Additionally, USA Todaydeclared Meyer “Author of the Year,” citing that she had done something that no one else had in the 15 years of the USA Todaybestselling book list– she swept the top four slots in 2008. Meyer also accomplished this feat in 2009, when The Twilight Saga once again dominated the top of the bestseller list. All together, her books have spent over 303 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.\nStephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English Literature. She lives in Arizona with her husband and sons.\nTo learn more about Stephenie Meyer visit any or all of the following links:","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line930825"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5904662013053894,"wiki_prob":0.4095337986946106,"text":"On 7 December 2015 the government announced, as part of its National Innovation and Science agenda, that the current ‘same business test’ for company losses will be relaxed to allow businesses to access past year losses when they have entered into new transactions or business activities.\nTo give effect to this, a new ‘similar business test’ will be introduced. Under this test, companies will be able to access losses where their business, while not the same, is similar having regard to:\nthe extent to which the company generates assessable income from the same assets and sources, and\nwhether any changes to the business are changes that would reasonably be expected to have been made to a similarly placed business.\nThis measure is expected to take effect from 1 July 2015. At the time of publishing, these changes had not become law.\nA head company of a consolidated group or multiple entry consolidated (MEC) group must complete the schedule and lodge it with the Company tax return 2016 (NAT 0656), if any of the following apply:\nThe total of the group's tax losses and net capital losses carried forward to later income years is greater than $100,000.\nThe total of its tax losses and net capital losses transferred from joining entities is greater than $100,000.\nThe total of its tax losses deducted and net capital losses applied is greater than $100,000.\nIt has an interest in a controlled foreign company (CFC) that has current year losses greater than $100,000.\nIt has an interest in a CFC that has deducted or carried forward a loss to later income years greater than $100,000.\nIt is a life insurance company, or is treated as a life insurance company under Subdivision 713-L of the ITAA 1997, and has a total of complying superannuation class tax losses and net capital losses carried forward to later income years greater than $100,000 (complete part D of the schedule).\nThe examples provided in these instructions are for illustration purposes only and may use lower figures, for simplicity.\nA head company may need to complete the schedule for certain aspects of its net capital losses. While some of the information requested in the schedule is also requested in the Capital gains tax (CGT) schedule 2016 (NAT 3423) (CGT schedule), a head company that completes a consolidated groups losses schedule may also need to complete a CGT schedule.\nIf the head company completes the schedule for any aspect of its losses, it must complete all relevant parts of the schedule. For example, if a head company completes the schedule as a result of having tax losses and net capital losses carried forward to later income years greater than $100,000, it must also provide details of controlled foreign company (CFC) losses, even if the total of these losses is less than $100,000.\nThese instructions are based on provisions relating to consolidated groups. Some of those provisions are modified in Division 719 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997) in relation to MEC groups.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1735710"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6164149641990662,"wiki_prob":0.6164149641990662,"text":"Some banking businesses are structured so that shares in the licensed bank are held by a holding company. Members of the public invest in the bank by acquiring publicly listed shares in the holding company.\nTo allow for this, the exemption for certain shares in a publicly listed foreign bank is extended to an interest that an Australian resident holds in a holding company with a wholly owned subsidiary that is a foreign bank. [section 504]\nA company will qualify for the exemption from the FIF measures as a holding company of a bank if the following requirements are satisfied:\nYou hold shares in the holding company of a class listed on any stock market of a stock exchange approved in regulation 152I, Schedule 12 of the Regulations. See Appendix 1: Approved stock exchanges for more information.\nDesignated a bank\nThe holding company is included in a class of companies designated as a bank or engaged in banking on either:\nan approved international sectoral classification system.\nSee Appendix 3: Approved international sectoral classification systems for more information.\nThe class of shares you have in the holding company must be widely held and actively traded on a regular basis on a stock market of an approved stock exchange during the period in which the exemption applies.\nSubsidiaries principally engaged in banking business\nIf the holding company has only one wholly owned subsidiary, that subsidiary must be authorised under the law of its place of residence to carry on banking business and have been principally engaged in the active carrying on of a banking business.\nIf the holding company has more than one wholly owned subsidiary, the principal activities of the wholly owned subsidiaries in the group, considered together, must be the active carrying on of a banking business. At least one of the wholly owned subsidiaries must be authorised under the law of its place of residence to carry on banking business.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1656664"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5548303723335266,"wiki_prob":0.4451696276664734,"text":"How much of the day has passed\nTime plays very important role in life of any person . Time and clock are very closed relation of each other in modern age\nTime, a central theme in modern life, has for most of human history been thought of in very imprecise terms.\nThe day and the week are easily recognized and recorded – though an accurate calendar for the year is hard to achieve. The forenoon is easily distinguishable from the afternoon, provided the sun is shining, and the position of the sun in the landscape can reveal roughly how much of the day has passed. By contrast the smaller parcels of time – hours, minutes and seconds – have until recent centuries been both unmeasurable and unneeded.\nSundial and water clock: from the 2nd millennium BC\nThe movement of the sun through the sky makes possible a simple estimate of time, from the length and position of a shadow cast by a vertical stick. (It also makes possible more elaborate calculations, as in the attempt of Erathosthenes to measure the world – see Erathosthenes and the camels). If marks are made where the sun’s shadow falls, the time of day can be recorded in a consistent manner.\nThe result is the sundial. An Egyptian example survives from about 800 BC, but the principle is certainly familiar to astronomers very much earlier. However it is difficult to measure time precisely on a sundial, because the sun’s path throug the sky changes with the seasons. Early attempts at precision in time-keeping rely on a different principle.\nThe water clock, known from a Greek word as the clepsydra, attempts to measure time by the amount of water which drips from a tank. This would be a reliable form of clock if the flow of water could be perfectly controlled. In practice it cannot. The clepsydra has an honourable history from perhaps 1400 BC in Egypt, through Greece and Rome and the Arab civlizations and China, and even up to the 16th century in Europe. But it is more of a toy than a timepiece.\nThe hourglass, using sand on the same principle, has an even longer career. It is a standard feature on 18th-century pulpits in Britain, ensuring a sermon of sufficient length. In a reduced form it can still be found timing an egg.\nA tower clock in China: 1094\nAfter six years’ work, a Buddhist monk by the name of Su Song completes a great tower, some thirty feet high, which is designed to reveal the movement of the stars and the hours of the day. Figures pop out of doors and strike bells to signify the hours.\nThe power comes from a water wheel occupying the lower part of the tower. Su Song has designed a device which stops the water wheel except for a brief spell, once every quarter of an hour, when the weight of the water (accumulated in vessels on the rim) is sufficient to trip a mechanism. The wheel, lurching forward, drives the machinery of the tower to the next stationary point in a continuing cycle.\nSource : www.historyworld.net\nDisaster's countdown\nPatriotic Energy Booster ...Vande Mataram\nFountain of Wealth...\nProteins from 80-million-year-old dinosaur bones.\nResearchers recently confirmed it is possible to extract proteins from 80-milliodinosaur n-year-old dinosaur bones. The discovery sparks hopes for new insights…\nSmartphone and 5 minuets charging\nSmartphones with batteries that fully charge in five minutes could be available to consumers next year. The technology was first…\nD o n ' t Depress ......Read this ........\nDon't Depress ......Read this ........ “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”– Dennis…","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1460685"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6027964949607849,"wiki_prob":0.3972035050392151,"text":"Early Christian/Byzantine Art (1)\nAncient Greece and Hellenistic States (2)\n10000–1000 BCE (1)\n1000–300 BCE (2)\nCE 500–1000 (1)\n1000–300 BCE x\nFashion, Jewellery, and Body Art x\nArtist, Architect, or Designer x\nDexamenos of Chios\nDimitris Plantzos\n(fl 5th century bc).\nGreek gem-engraver, presumably born on the island of Chios. His signature survives on four of the gems he engraved, all fine specimens of 5th-century Classical Greek art. Two of these works come from sites in southern Russia, in the region to the north of the Black Sea, widely populated by Greek colonists since the 6th century bc. It is thus suggested that Dexamenos was active in the Black Sea colonies, catering for the Greeks residing there or for clientele drawn among the native populations, who widely interacted with the Greeks in most matters, as well as art.\nBetween 480 and 450 bc, gem-cutting in mainland Greece and the islands had undergone significant changes, gradually abandoning Late Archaic forms and motifs. The shape of choice was the scaraboid, a plain-backed, often highly domed oval stone, carrying a device engraved on its flat side. These stones were perforated lengthways, in order to be fitted in a metal swivel hoop or a plain piece of string. Chalcedony is the commonest material, in its white and blue varieties, though there are many examples cut in cornelian, rock crystal, agate and jasper. Dexamenos’ four signed works show a remarkable variety of subject-matter, as well as being some of the finest examples of Greek art of the time (...\nEleutherna\n[Satra]\nGreek city situated on the island of Crete, by the north-west foothills of mount Psiloritis (anc. Ida), 30 km south-east of the present-day city of Rethymnon. It was a centre for Aegean and Greek culture from the Prehistoric to the Byzantine periods (4th millennium bc–7th century bc).\nAncient Eleutherna is a typical example of a Cretan polis (city) inhabited continuously from at least from the 9th century bc (the so-called ‘Dark Age’ of Greek history) to the late Roman and Byzantine period (6th–7th century bc). Even before that, archaeological finds suggest the existence of a continuous presence on the site from the late Neolithic (4th millennium bc) through to a flourishing Minoan site of the 3rd to 2nd millennia bc. Although later construction all but eliminated traces of prehistoric architecture, there is still significant evidence to confirm unbroken habitation. In historical times (9th century...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1115596"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6681641340255737,"wiki_prob":0.6681641340255737,"text":"String of Burger King burglaries reported on North, South Sides\nCHICAGO (WLS) -- Businesses are being warned after a string of reported burglaries targeting Burger King restaurants on the city's North and South Sides.\nInvestigators say each time, the two suspects allegedly damaged security systems and cut wires to outside lighting. Once inside, the suspects broke into the restaurant's safe, police said.\nIncidents were reported at the following locations:\n5211 S. Cicero Ave. on Jan. 7 around 1:30 a.m.\n2701 N. Western Ave. on Jan. 27 around 2:05 a.m.\n3728 S. Archer Ave. on Jan. 29 around 1:45 a.m.\n2840 W. North Ave. on Feb. 2 around 2 a.m.\nAnyone with information on these incidents is encouraged to contact Chicago police at 312-744-8263.\narcher heightslincoln parkburglary","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line818714"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.571384847164154,"wiki_prob":0.42861515283584595,"text":"CHIN344 Writing China: Texts, Ideas and History\nA cultural-historical approach to examining the transformations of the Chinese culture of writing in the modern world. The course is taught in English. No previous knowledge of Chinese is required.\nWhy did language activists propose to abolish Chinese characters and replace them with the Latin alphabet at the beginning of the 20th century? How do Chinese characters enjoy a reversal of fate in the 21st century by tapping into new media technology? This paper examines the history of modern China and the transformations of today's China in terms of the changing mediums and practices of the Chinese language.\nWriting China: Texts, Ideas and History\nCHIN344\n18 200-level CHIN or HIST points\nCHIN 244\nSuitable for students specialising in any discipline.\nlanguages@otago.ac.nz\nConvenor: Dr Lorraine Wong\nThe paper examines the relation between Chinese \"language\" and \"culture\" by analysing the cultural implications of different modern mediums of the Chinese language appearing in China from the late 19th century to the present. The primary materials of this paper include not only Chinese literary texts and intellectual essays on the themes of linguistic modernisation and nationalisation, but also songs, films, art works and digitalised representations.\nQuestions to be explored include: the interface between Pinyin, Chinese characters and the Latin alphabet in relation to global media culture; Mao Zedong as a poet and a calligrapher; the allegorical articulations of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) in the fake Chinese characters created by Chinese avant-garde artists; as well as the ways Chinese artists respond to and resist globalisation by re-imaging the Chinese script in terms of digital culture.\nNOTE: This paper is also offered as CHIN 344 - the content of the paper is the same for both CHIN 244 and CHIN 344, but assessment is differentiated between the two levels.\nAll required readings are available on Blackboard.\nGlobal perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Research.\nBy participating in lectures, tutorials and screenings, students will gain:\nAn understanding of the complex, evolving and non-homogenous nature of the Chinese language (both as a medium and as a practice).\nAn understanding of the main themes of Chinese intellectual debates and their influences on Chinese society.\nA critical awareness of the tensions between old traditions and modern situations facing Chinese thinkers, writers and artists.\nBy reading and completing the assigned readings/tasks, student will develop:\nAn ability to articulate the connections between modern Chinese history and media culture in the global contexts.\nA historically-informed, up-to-date and critical knowledge about the transformations of Chinese literary culture.\nAn ability to independently investigate a particular topic focusing on aspects of past or contemporary Chinese society by refining their research and argumentation skills through essay-writing, tutorial discussion and in-class presentation.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line933534"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.591729998588562,"wiki_prob":0.591729998588562,"text":"SumUp becomes first mobile payment company to hit profitability\nEurope’s leading mPOS provider doubled its revenue in six months\nLONDON – SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2016 – SumUp, the leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company, today announced that it has reached profitability. The company has doubled its revenues in the last six months and is approaching $100 million in annual revenue. Launched four years ago, SumUp has disrupted the payment industry by offering card acceptance at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Today, the company enables small merchants in 15 countries to accept card payments in a simple, secure and cost-effective way with a team of more than 300 people. By focusing on small businesses, SumUp targets the so-called long tail of the market, a space with tight margins where no other payment company has ever been able to make a profit.\n“We are the world’s first company to prove that empowering small merchants with card acceptance can be a profitable business, despite tight margins in the long tail”, said Daniel Klein, CEO of SumUp. “By building our own hardware, payment gateway and merchant service business we have reduced the cost of owning a card acceptance terminal to a tenth in just four years. Nothing can stop us now and we will keep making card acceptance more and more affordable around the globe.”\nAbout SumUp SumUp is a leading financial technology company that is set to become the first ever global card acceptance brand. The company enables businesses to accept card payments at the Point-of-Sale or on the go in a simple, secure and cost-effective way. SumUp is the only company to offer an end-to-end EMV card acceptance solution built on proprietary hardware and mobile apps. This unique offering enabled SumUp to rapidly expand into 15 markets, including the U.S., Brazil and Germany, making it the mPOS company with the largest global footprint. The company has gone on to develop a full suite of SDKs and APIs for third parties to integrate card payments into their mobile apps. SumUp has been backed by renowned investors, including Groupon, BBVA Ventures, Holtzbrinck Ventures and American Express. In April 2016 SumUp has merged with the mPOS company payleven to create the global leader in mobile payment.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line225289"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.985291063785553,"wiki_prob":0.985291063785553,"text":"Mid-Days with Jen AustinMid-Days with Jen Austin\n35 Years Ago: Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright Goes Pop With Zee\nHarvest/EMI\nThe only album released by Richard Wright’s band Zee will be remastered 35 years after its arrival. Sadly, the late Pink Floyd keyboardist isn't here to see if this synth-pop detour receives a better welcome than it did in 1984.\nZee was a short-lived collaboration between Wright and Dave Harris, frontman of the New Romantic band Fashion, and Identity was their only release. Based heavily on the Fairlight CMI, then a cutting-edge synthesizer and audio workstation, its electronic sound failed to inspire fans of either parent band, and it sank without trace. Later, even Wright called it an “experimental mistake.”\nThe partnership was formed after Harris left Fashion in 1982, and was told by saxophonist Raff Ravenscroft that Wright was in a similar position. “Raff mentioned that Rick had been fired by the band, and Rick was looking to set up a new band,” Harris told A Fleeting Glimpse in 2018. “When we got back to London, I met up with Rick, Raff and some other musicians who had been selected. From here we had two or three rehearsals. The other musicians were mainly session guys and had a heavy workload. Therefore the number of players started to change every time due to their work constraints. … I suggested we did the album as a two-piece, and worried about the players when we came to gig. Rick agreed and the plan was set.”\nHarris moved into Wright’s home to be closer to the studio where the Fairlight could be used. “We spent hours and hours just experimenting with it at first,” Wright said soon after the record’s release. “The great thing about the Fairlight is that every time you go back to it, you learn something else. We had to get control over it though, because it would have been very easy just to have ended up making funny noises.”\n“Rick wanted to take a more modern approach to this new album,” Harris added, noting that the keyboardist was going through “an insecure period in his life.” Ultimately, that meant Wright abandoned plans to sing lead vocals. “I came up with the name Zee after the album was recorded,\" Harris said. \"I just liked the sound of it and the look; Identity was a good name because of the two different characters involved.\"\nWhatever he came to think of it, the album offered Wright a rare moment to work outside the confines of his legacy with Pink Floyd. \"For me it is exciting working with Dave because there were things that he was doing that I had not done before and vice versa,\" he once mused. \"I think that Zee has given us musical opportunities that quite frankly neither of us were able to explore in our previous groups.\"\nListen to Zee Perform &apos;Confusion&apos;\nHarris told A Fleeting Glimpse that he'd been unaware of the LP’s poor reception on release, only discovering it as social media expanded. At the same time, however, he said easier global communication meant Harris heard from others who actually loved Identity. “Rick wanted to do a follow up album straight away,” Harris said. “I had been offered a co-production of an album for another artist [and] I took the production job. Obviously, I wasn’t as financially well off as Rick, and couldn’t afford to take another year off writing a new album.”\nWright didn't issue another solo album for 12 years, and by then he'd already served a stint with David Gilmour and Nick Mason with a reunited Pink Floyd. In keeping, Broken China focused on more typical prog sounds, rather than the synthy experiments of Identity. \"We made the whole record on the Fairlight, which was an amazing machine at the time,\" Wright told M. Blake in 1996, \"but which now seems rather dated.\"\nIdentity remains, Harris admits, a product of its era. “The main thing I wish is that the Fairlight wasn’t so strong in the compositions,\" he told A Fleeting Glimpse. \"Having said that, it was the keyboard and the new sound and sequencer of the time, so that’s that. I wish Rick had been up to singing some lead vocals, and writing some lyrics.”\nThe remastered, extended version of Identity – which Burning Shed describes as “one of the most intriguing pop music partnerships of the 1980s” – will be released on May 24. Harris is thrilled with the results: “The digitalization and subsequent EQing has brought out a lot of frequencies,\" he said in a news release, \"especially bottom end which have become available because of the new amazing software plugins that are available.\"\nPink Floyd Solo Albums Ranked\nYou Think You Know Pink Floyd?\nNext: Top 10 Richard Wright Pink Floyd Songs\nSource: 35 Years Ago: Pink Floyd’s Richard Wright Goes Pop With Zee\nFiled Under: Pink Floyd, Richard Wright\nTemple Mayor’s Fitness Council Issues 2019 Corporate Challenge","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line67653"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6766785979270935,"wiki_prob":0.3233214020729065,"text":"Daily Content Archive as of Tuesday, July 3, 2018\n(as of Tuesday, July 3, 2018)\nsoul-searching\nDefinition: (noun) A penetrating examination of one's motives, convictions, and attitudes.\nSynonyms: self-analysis\nUsage: Mary's therapist told her she was going to have to be introspective and do much soul-searching if she hoped to learn what was at the root of her depression.\nThe past simple tense (also called the simple past tense, or simply the past simple) is used to express completed actions. The past simple is often used with what other part of speech?\tMore...\nIn Hinduism, Maya is recognized as a powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real. Seeing through the illusion is seen as a path to liberating the soul. Originally, the word was used to refer to the wizardry with which a god can make humans believe in an illusion. Maya is also the name of the Hindu goddess of illusion, and because of this association, it is a common girl's name in India. What other religion regards the physical world as illusory and unreal?\tMore...\nQuebec City Founded by Samuel de Champlain (1608)\nFrenchman Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City as a trading post at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and St. Charles rivers. From this and subsequent settlements Catholic missionaries, explorers, and fur traders pushed across N America. Begun with just 32 colonists, the city is now home to about 500,000. Most residents are of French descent, despite the fact that the area was ceded to the British in 1763. Because many continental explorations began in the region, Quebec is known as what?\tMore...\nAlfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski (1879)\nKorzybski was a Polish-American linguist who developed a school of thought known as general semantics. He aimed to distinguish between words and the objects they describe, as well as between individual objects all described by the same word. He stressed the arbitrary nature of language and other symbols and the problems that result from misunderstanding their nature. Why did Korzybski once trick his students into eating dog biscuits during a lecture?\tMore...\nExamine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings.\nGeorge Eliot (1819-1880)\ncool customer\n— Someone who remains even-tempered, especially in stressful situations. More...\nZambia Unity Day (2018)\nBecause Zambia is composed of several different tribal groups, the founders of the country promoted the idea of national unity as a means to keep the young nation from falling apart. Zambia Unity Day was created to help foster solidarity between the diverse groups that make up the country. The slogan \"One Zambia, One Nation\" is used to signify the goal of the holiday. Remembrance speeches on Unity Day stress that people of varying backgrounds and political beliefs had come together to work for Zambian independence. More...\nToday's topic: sending\ngranulated sugar - So called because the last step in processing white table sugar is sending it through a granulator, where it is dried and formed into tiny grains. More...\nmission - First denoted sending the Holy Spirit into the world, from Latin mittere, \"send.\" More...\nperennial - First meant \"remaining leafy throughout the year\"; plants living three or more years—dying aboveground and sending up fresh growth every year—are perennials. More...\nradio - An abbreviation of radiotelegraphy, the sending of messages by electromagnetic rays. More...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1083486"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6568926572799683,"wiki_prob":0.6568926572799683,"text":"June 25, 2019 / mascara / 0 Comments\nJungle Without Water and Other Stories\nby Sreedhevi Iyer\nGazebo Books\nReviewed by MATTHEW da SILVA\nThe good things in this collection of short stories, Jungle Without Water, are very good indeed. But before talking about some of them in detail I want to briefly touch on the major theme of this book, which is the migrant experience in many of its different phases. In each of the stories mentioned in this review the main subject of the work is the way that people fit into society when they, or their antecedents, come from somewhere else. In some of the stories the main characters are people from India living in Malaysia but the title story, for example, takes as its subject an Indian student living in Brisbane, in Australia.\nWhile it’s easy to thus find a unifying theme for the book, the narratives Iyer creates are not totally dominated by it. The clash of identity and custom that in one of her stories troubles an Indian-Malay living in Kuala Lumpur might be equally relevant for an Anglo businessman living in a house in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. In fact, where Iyer stumbles it is where the standard postcolonial narrative gains unnecessary prominence and politics overshadows art. The best stories here focus on the seeming-random details of lived experience.\nThe second story in the collection, which is titled ‘The Lovely Village’, is written as a fairytale and it takes as its subject the treatment of migrants who want to come into a village where there is equality for all. This story stood out for me in that it seemed not to be as deeply rooted in lived experience as the other stories in the book, and I found it to be rather weak in conception and lacking in the kind of impact that characterises many of the other stories.\nAfter finishing several of the stories I felt a physical thrill on the skin of my neck, which is always a sign to me that the work I have just completed was particularly successful. I more often get this kind of sensation when reading a good short story or a good poem, as such methods of storytelling tend to conclude on a strong tonic note that reverberates once the final word has been consumed. Novels do not usually finish in this way and their impact tends to be spread out over longer stretches of text, with less sudden impact.\nThe first story in the collection, which I have already mentioned, is its title story. It deals with a young man named Jogi who is living in the Queensland capital with the aim of studying at university. His links with his family back in India remain strong, and one day after he has arrived in Australia his mother, who has stayed behind in his homeland, asks him to say a prayer for her husband who has to undertake a transfer for work. She is worried about how the transfer will affect Jogi’s father and family tradition maintains that prayers Jogi says are particularly effective.\nJogi relies on his friend Sandeep, who has lived in Brisbane for three weeks longer than Jogi, to help him carry out his assigned task. They visit a holy man in a place of worship in multicultural Brisbane but when Jogi sits down to pray nothing comes out of his mouth. They visit another holy place, this time one run by Westerners who follow Krishna, and they tell him that the particular prayer he wants to say is not permitted. Once again Jogi leaves a place where he should have been able to perform his familial duty, without being able to do so. He eventually fulfils his obligation but it happens, almost by accident, with the aid of a teenage girl who does nothing more than talk to Jogi one day on the street.\nI won’t say anything more, as I feel as though I have already given away more than I should, but I felt that this story served to say important things about multiculturalism and about the migrant experience, things that other types of document would struggle to say. The words of the title, “a jungle without water”, pop up at two places in the story and they function to bring together disparate parts of the narrative, making the interstices between things so narrow that what happens seems like fate. This is an elegant story that functions to convey truths about immigration in a way that everybody can understand.\nThe context of that story is local for an Australian and so the way into the narrative was easier for me than it was in some of the other stories in the collection, for example ‘The Man With Two Wives’. This story is focalised entirely through the consciousness of a Indian-Malay who runs shops in Malaysia retailing food and it is written using the kind of language that the man, who is not badly educated but who uses Malay, Indian, and English words in his daily conversations, would normally employ. It is a small tour-de-force that says much about the culture that underpins the story. You feel as though you know this man well and when you hear his story of starting a course of study in accountancy, and there meeting a young woman named Lata, you get to experience his feelings in a way that vividly brings his world to life.\nThe protagonist is never named and neither is his wife. His daughter is Malathi and she ends up gaining prominence at the end of the story. His relationship with Lata, which causes so many tongues in his town to wag, is one of great importance to the protagonist and it is clear that while he married for the sole purpose of satisfying his mother’s wishes, with Lata things are different. His wife is only interested in buying gold jewellery and sarees, but Lata listens to what he has to say and her attention serves to justify an interior existence that the man’s daily business and family life does little to fulfil.\nOne day, the protagonist attends a job interview that Lata has encouraged him to go to. He enters a tall building by the sea and sits down in a room in front of a group of men, one of whom is a Westerner. The way his wife and the way Lata behave once the interview is over, however, tell him things about his world that he didn’t understand before. This is an effective, thoughtful, and powerful work of fiction that efficiently performs the tasks the author has set for it.\nI will take a quick look at one other story in the collection, and it is also one that appears in the first half of the book. This is ‘Green Grass’, and it deals with a man named Mohan and his wife, who is a Westerner named Rachel, who come back to India to visit family. The event is an important one for the whole village where Mohan grew up. The way people living in the village treat Rachel, because of where she comes from and because of her relationship with her husband, contains the dramatic material the story relies on to communicate its messages about globalisation. It is focalised entirely through the consciousness of one of the villagers.\nEach of these stories is different from the others in so many ways: in the way the narrative evolves, in the kinds of characters portrayed, and in the plot devices that each relies on to fulfil its purpose. There is a wry and knowing candour in many of Iyer’s stories. It not only helps to give the reader confidence in the author’s sincerity and intelligence but it also, paradoxically, allows Iyer to set herself apart from the drama and to view the events that unfold with a dispassionate eye. Even as you sense she cares very much about her creations, she also situates herself at a certain distance from them as they go about their business in her narratives. And despite their differences, each story mentioned here is excellent because it communicates a large amount of information in a small space.\nI found other stories in Jungle Without Water to be less powerful than these and there are others too that I have not mentioned that I also thought good. There is plenty in this collection, which was first published two years ago, for any reader, and especially for an Australian one. After all, we are living in an Asian nation.\nI want to finish with a note about the cover illustration used for the book. The watercolour employed is by Julian Meagher and his gallerist is Edwina Corlette, who has her shop, appropriately for the collection, in Brisbane.\nWith my mother I lived up north for five-and-a-half years. On one occasion I drove her when she was elderly down to the capital to see Corlette’s shop. Corlette’s parents had lived in the same suburb in Sydney where I grew up and she remembered mum because of our family’s gift shop. In fact everybody living there knew about Miss Phyllis Caldecott’s Home Accessories – the name used for the shop was my paternal grandmother’s – and we did a roaring trade at Christmastime, when people give presents to family members and to friends. Among the items mum and granny sold in large numbers were Indian cotton print dresses; this was the 60s and these kinds of garments were all the rage.\nThe use of Meagher’s painting for this collection seemed to me to be something, therefore, like fate, like what happens in its title story. A small sign of a kind you sometimes come across telling you that there are things in the world that cannot be understood entirely through reason.\nMATTHEW da SILVA is a journalist and writer who lives in Sydney.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1300714"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.994059681892395,"wiki_prob":0.994059681892395,"text":"Bill O’Reilly Covered Falklands War From “Expense Account Zone” Says Fellow CBS News Correspondent Eric Engberg\nBy Lisa de Moraes\nLisa de Moraes\nTV Columnist\nMore Stories By Lisa\nThird Democratic Debates Set For Houston, But Format Details TBA – Update\n‘CBS This Morning’ Makes More Headlines With Bill Barr Exclusive\nJeff Glor Sticks With CBS News As Co-Host Of Morning Show’s Saturday Edition\n“It was not a war zone or even close. It was an ‘expense account zone’,” former CBS News correspondent Eric Jon Engberg says of Bill O’Reilly’s time in Buenos Aires covering the Falklands War. Engberg jumped into the fracas between the Fox News Channel star and Mother Jones, which this week published an article, “Bill O’Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem.” NBC News has suspended Williams for six months while it continues to investigate the degree to which Williams misrepresented his experiences covering various breaking news stories for NBC including the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina and other situations, including gifts he said, in talk show appearances, he received from members of the military. In the article, Mother Jones questions O’Reilly’s descriptions of some of his experiences as a CBS News correspondent covering the 1982 Falklands War between Great Britain and Argentina.\nCBS News has now been dragged into the controversy – Fox News says it’s contacted the news division and asked them to release the footage in question.\nMeanwhile, Fox News said this afternoon in a statement O’Reilly will address Engberg’s claims on Fox News Channel’s Mediabuzz program tomorrow. FNC also said The O’Reilly Factor asked Engberg to appear on his Monday show but he declined.\nHere is Engberg’s Facebook post about being in Buenos Aires with O’Reilly covering the Falklands War for CBS News:","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1351752"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6315333843231201,"wiki_prob":0.3684666156768799,"text":"Guidance for Resilience Planning\nThis diagram outlines the key steps in Second Nature’s framework for resilience planning. See the Commitments Implementation Handbook for an example timeline for completing these steps for the Climate or Resilience Commitment.\nSecond Nature’s framework encourages schools to not only assess and reduce vulnerability, but also to assess and enhance overall resilience and adaptive capacity. Campuses should go beyond managing extreme and potentially catastrophic events; they should proactively plan for preferable futures.\nThese key steps appear to be separate and linear components of resilience assessment and planning. In reality this is an iterative process, and campuses may be working on several steps at once.\nCampus Community Task Force\nIt is not possible to be a resilient campus without being part of a resilient community. All campuses interact with some form of external community and share resources across campus-community boundaries. A requirement of the Climate and Resilience Commitments is to coordinate resilience planning and implementation with the community.\nMany cities, towns, and neighborhoods already have resilience-focused efforts in place. Some may already have existing Resilience Plans. Campuses are not required to write a resilience plan for their town or city, however it is important to be aware of efforts happening in the community and understand how they may align with campus goals and progress.\nIn some cases campuses may comprise the majority of a town’s population and resources. If they have the capacity to do so, colleges or universities can choose to create a joint campus-community resilience plan that includes shared goals and indicators.\nIt is up to each campus to set the boundaries of what they consider their “community,” and to determine the best way to coordinate around climate resilience.\nThis document provides guidance on how to develop a Campus-Community Structure:\nWorking with the Community on Resilience: Campus-Community Structure\nResilience Assessment\nThe resilience assessment is meant to provide a baseline of current resilience activities on campus and in the community, develop initial indicators of resilience through a multi-stakeholder process, and identify current vulnerabilities related to climate change.\nKey steps in a resilience assessment include:\nUnderstand strengths and assets on campus, in the community, and across both.\nUnderstand weaknesses and vulnerabilities on campus, in the community, and across both. This includes climate change hazards, impacts, and existing conditions that may be exacerbated by climate change or affect a school and community’s capacity to cope and adapt.\nDevelop initial indicators of resilience that help benchmark current status as well as identify where a campus and/or community hopes to improve capacity in the future.\nIdentify key overlaps and gaps between the campus and community assets and vulnerabilities.\nThere are many approaches to completing an initial campus-community resilience assessment. Schools should tailor the comprehensiveness of their assessment to the capacity of the staff or committees doing the work. For the purposes of fulfilling the Climate or Resilience Commitments, the assessment could be part of a short workshop, a series of longer workshops, interviews and surveys across the campus and community, or part of a different process the campus develops.\nWhether campuses are organizing a workshop, conducting surveys, or developing a different process to complete the Resilience Assessment, it is important to incorporate the views of a wide range of stakeholders. Capturing input from many stakeholders will help campuses understand all the dimensions of resilience, ensure no major vulnerabilities are left out of the assessment, and identify a broader range of opportunities.\nThis document includes examples of campus and community stakeholders to consider as part of the Resilience Assessment:\nIdentifying Stakeholders\nWorkshop Exercise Idea:\nAs part of a workshop, ask people to write down their ideas of strengths, assets, and vulnerabilities on sticky notes and place them on a large poster. After the initial ideas are there, participants can use colored dots to vote on which ones they agree with. This is a great way to engage a diversity of participants and get very different ideas of what people consider to be assets or vulnerabilities.\nThis document provides guidance on completing an initial campus-community resilience assessment and filling out the Resilience Assessment report in the Reporting Platform. It includes examples of completed assessments and additional ideas for indicators and metrics:\nHow to Conduct a Campus-Community Resilience Assessment\nStrengths and Assets\nSecond Nature recommends that campuses begin the resilience assessment process by identifying current strengths, capacities, and existing resilience activities. This process may also include envisioning ideal future scenarios, so that campuses and communities have an idea of what a preferable future might look like.\nWhy lead with strengths?\nMany planning efforts for resilience begin with a vulnerability assessment. If campuses already have a vulnerability assessment, great! It is perfectly fine to begin with this. However, Second Nature advocates beginning with existing strengths, assets, and capacities for a couple reasons:\nStarting with vulnerabilities means decisions tend to focus on reducing negatives. This can limit the opportunity to create more rounded, long-term, multi-faceted and ongoing resilience efforts across the campus and community.\nWhen campuses address vulnerability before considering where the campus and community want to be in the future, they tend to assess future vulnerability based on current systems and infrastructure. For example, planning for the level of heat waves expected in 20 years should be in the context of the civic and campus systems expected in 20 years.\nIn other words, focusing on building a resilient system can be more beneficial than reducing individual vulnerabilities.\nStrengths and assets include features, capacities, characteristics, and resources that will help a campus and its community cope with climate change. The strengths and assets that the campus and community identify during the assessment are likely characteristics that should be continually reinforce and improved going forward (e.g. wage equality, recreational space that also protects against flooding, a healthy community). These strengths and assets will help the campus and community adapt and thrive in the face of climate impacts.\nIdeal Future Scenarios\nCampuses may choose to incorporate scenario planning exercises as part of the initial Resilience Assessment as a method to envision ideal future scenarios. This can help create a shared understanding of the type of future that is desirable for the campus and/or community. Scenario planning enables a campus and community to explore a range of futures and weigh the associated opportunities, benefits, challenges, and expected vulnerabilities. It can help bring to light common values, and identify a positive vision for the future. However, this is not required to implement the Climate or Resilience Commitment.\nMany communities have already been through scenario planning exercises. In this case campuses can use the information to inform resilience planning. If the scenario process did not involve the college or university campus, schools may want to organizing their own campus version to assess the role of the institution in the future of the community.\nIf a community has not already been through a scenario-driven process, it is recommended to spend some time considering what an ideal future may look like. This could be a brief “visioning exercise” as part of a resilience workshop, or it may be a more in-depth process itself. There is no single way to complete future scenario planning. Below are some steps that can be included.\nTip: Clearly articulate the end goal for the process and be clear about the geographic boundaries.\nExample: we want to focus on scenarios for 2030, create several scenarios and compare futures while keeping options open. This will be for the campus and city.\nExample: we want to create several scenarios and converge on one main scenario. This is just for the campus.\nInstead of starting with the whole community or campus, it’s possible to start with being a ’water resilient city’ or a ‘transportation resilient city’. While Second Nature encourages systems thinking, beginning with one theme will still touch on many of the areas of resilience capacity. This may be a more manageable process for those who are new to this effort.\nSuggested steps for Ideal Future Scenario Planning\nIdentify the stakeholders and ensure there is a communication plan to reach them.\nWhile the process should be inclusive with underrepresented groups present, there is also appropriate balance between inclusivity and too large a group to be productive. Some schools organize a series of stakeholder meetings, and some do just one or two workshops. Schools should decide based on staff, budget and the amount of joint effort possible with the city or community.\nSet a timeline for the scenario process.\nCreate a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario.\nBefore the workshop, create a scenario that includes a future campus and/or community that reflects development continuing as expected, demographics shifting as expected, and climate changing as expected.\nHold the scenario workshop(s).\nThere are many ways to do this, but consider starting by understanding what the participants think are strongly-held community values. This can include asking some either/or questions to gauge priorities. The answers may start to yield insights about whether there is more focus on economic development, natural resource conservation, social enhancement, etc.\nCreate the scenarios.\nUse the information gathered during the workshop(s) to generate one or more future scenarios. This may be an opportunity to utilize experts at the college or university. What are the high priorities of the future scenarios? What policies would support these priorities? What are some of the implications for the campus and community?\nAt this point, campuses should share the ideal scenario(s) back with the community. Now that there is a vision for the future, campuses can assess specific threats to achieving that vision. This likely includes climate changes and associated vulnerabilities that may impact the feasibility of the ideal scenario.\nArizona State University included a future visioning exercise as part of the Resilience Assessment. This blog post briefly describes how a shared vision was created and incorporated into the Resilience Assessment process.\nCampuses also need to identify weaknesses, and current and future vulnerabilities to climate change. This includes vulnerabilities both on campus, in the community, and across both. The weaknesses or vulnerabilities identified will be things to reduce or eliminate going forward (e.g. residents in floodplains, lack of weatherization of community housing, obesity, poor air quality days). Vulnerabilities may include direct hazards from the changing climate (such as drought, heat waves, and severe storms), and impacts from climate change or related events (such as infrastructure failure and disease outbreak). They may also include existing factors that are exacerbated by the effects of climate change, or that reduce a campus and community’s ability to cope and respond positively.\nAssessing Vulnerability\nFor the initial resilience assessment, some campuses may choose to focus on a high level understanding of vulnerabilities from the experience of various stakeholders, while some may complete a more in-depth vulnerability analysis. Both of these strategies are important. Campus and community stakeholders will understand vulnerabilities from their own perspectives and experiences, which helps ensure the needs of all community members are included. At the same time it may be necessary to complement this with a data-driven approach to further capture vulnerabilities. The exact extent of the vulnerability assessment will depend on campus capacity. A campus may also do an initial review of vulnerability towards the beginning of the resilience planning process, and complete a more detailed vulnerability assessment later as it incorporate resilience into a Climate Action Plan.\nSchools can look at past weather and climate events along with other stressors the community has experienced and do a preliminary analysis of impacts. Most communities will have events in the last couple decades to draw on – from snow emergencies to flooding, storms, and heat waves. Non-climate events such as widespread power outages or transportation failures can also be instructive.\nCampuses likely have faculty who study local events and their impacts and who can assist in providing data and information. This analysis is also a great opportunity for student projects and engagement. Schools should enlist as much help as possible from across the campus and community, drawing on existing data sets and input from experts.\nExample questions to assess impact:\nIf there have been heatwaves – are there particularly affected neighborhoods? what was the additional death rate? is that changing over time between different events? what was the lost income (not just damage cost)? Was there associated loss of power or public transportation? Was there damage to roads or transmission lines? Was there habitat impact? Are there policy changes as a result?\nAnticipating Climate Changes\nThere are many resources that project climate changes in the United States. Federal and state-level resources are a good place to start. Second Nature provides projected climate changes by region from the U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA). This includes climate information from observed (recent) trends, near-term projections, and future projections out to 2100. It also provides information for several different emissions scenarios.\nThe information in the NCA and other government sources is unlikely to be as granular as the city scale. Schools may feel that this data is not detailed enough and seek out projections that are higher resolution and include a specific number instead of a range. A word of caution on this: High resolution future climate projections are not always supported by the science. Specific future values imply accuracy in prediction, which the scientific community does not currently have. Campus vulnerability assessments will need to incorporate some degree of uncertainty in projections. Framing the process as building overall resilience capacity (instead of responding to a specific expected climate change) can help reduce vulnerability to a range of possible impacts.\nInitial Indicators of Resilience\nA resilience assessment should help institutions understand where the campus and community currently stand, and lay the groundwork to develop a Climate Action Plan that incorporates resilience. Indicators and metrics are an important part of this process. In this guidance Second Nature considers indicators to be features or characteristics of the campus and/or community that the school wishes to assess. Metrics are specific values or data points that can describe the indicator, and can be measured to show progress over time. There may be many metrics that can measure and illustrate the status of any given indicator.\nBecause resilience relates to all aspects of a campus and community, Second Nature asks schools to consider each of these five dimensions of resilience:\nSocial Equity & Governance\nSocial Equity and Governance refers to the systems of governance on campus and in the community, levels of engagement among campus and community members, and the capacity of different groups to adapt and respond to climate change. This includes leadership, transparency and accountability, and communication across stakeholders both on campus and in the community. Campuses should consider the social fabric of the campus-community, education levels and opportunities, active networks among different groups in the campus-community, and social justice dynamics.\nHealth and Wellness refers to the ability of different groups on campus and in the community to fulfill their basic needs. This includes access to healthcare, food, water, housing, and sanitation. Campuses should consider the availability and affordability of healthcare, including emergency medical care capacity, food and potable water, and secure housing. Campuses should consider indicators for health & wellness both on an ongoing basis and in the case of emergencies or severe climate-related impacts.\nEcosystem Services refers to the environmental systems and services present in the campus-community. This may include the natural and geographic features of the region, city or town, and neighborhood. Campuses should consider natural assets such as tree canopy, undeveloped floodplains, air quality, and biodiversity. Campuses should also consider systems in place to govern or protect these assets, such as conservation easements, recreation parks, and rainwater management systems.\nInfrastructure refers to the physical structures built, owned, managed, and/or used by the campus-community. It also includes systems such as communication and public transportation. Infrastructure is often the most intuitive dimension of resilience, and many resilience assessments and plans tend to focus on physical infrastructure. Campuses should consider transportation systems, buildings, communication technology, and key features in the area such as bridges and dams.\nEconomic refers to the financial ability of the campus and community to proactively adapt to changing climate conditions and to respond positively to climate change events. This may include high-level trends such as GDP and unemployment rates, and more campus-specific indicators such as the existence of a climate adaptation fund. Campuses should consider the diversity of the campus-community’s local economy, availability of tax or other financial incentives to increase resilience, and levels of financial planning for emergencies.\nReporting on Indicators for the Resilience Assessment\nSecond Nature asks institutions to report on at least one indicator per dimension for the initial campus-community resilience assessment. The goal is to consider the entire social, environmental, and economic system that the campus is part of. The indicators for the Resilience Assessment are initial. Some of them may be strengths or capacities that were identified during the assessment process, and some may be vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. Institutions may also identify indicators that they wish to understand better but do not currently have all of the data on. In this case, they may report on the metrics that they plan to measure in the future.\nExample Indicators and Potential Metrics of Resilience\nIncorporating Resilience into the Climate Action Plan\nAfter completing the initial campus-community resilience assessment, schools need to develop a Climate Action Plan (CAP) that includes goals for increasing resilience. While schools may create a separate resilience plan, Second Nature recommends folding resilience objectives into the overall sustainability approach. The end result should be an integrated CAP that includes emissions mitigation along with adaptation and resilience.\nMany principles of planning for resilience are the same as planning for carbon neutrality, however campuses with existing CAPS should revisit their plans to ensure objectives are aligned and up to date. Consider whether or not the goals outlined for emissions reductions fit with increasing resilience. This may require amending some of the existing goals. The intent with this planning work is that it allows the campus (and community) systems to become more integrated and to reduce emissions while also enhancing the adaptability of the system.\nAs with the Resilience Assessment, there is no single correct process for incorporating resilience into a CAP. Campuses should use the outcomes from the Resilience Assessment process to select and prioritize actions, set measurable goals and targets, and identify strategies for implementation. For campuses that developed a shared future vision, consider what action steps need to be taken to achieve the desired future while moderating climate risks.\nThis document outlines how to incorporate resilience goals into CAPs, and how to complete the resilience portion of the Climate Action Plan report.\nHow to Report on Resilience Goals in a Climate Action Plan\nPrioritizing Action Steps\nResilience can be a broad topic that touches on every aspect of the campus and community; schools will likely need to narrow down actions from a long list of potential focus areas. The scope of resilience in a campus’ CAP should reflect the capabilities of the school. This means that campuses will need to prioritize actions and initiatives that address the most pressing vulnerabilities.\nThere are many strategies institutions can use to organize and prioritize action steps for inclusion in the CAP. The Resilience Prioritization Quadrant is one framework to help schools evaluate potential resilience action steps or initiatives.\nVisit the Resilience Prioritization Quadrant page for details.\nClimate Action Guidance\nInternal Carbon Pricing in Higher Education Toolkit\nMore Tools and Resources","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1578240"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6390582323074341,"wiki_prob":0.6390582323074341,"text":"The Middle East’s meeting place for crime\nWhy the United Arab Emirates needs a test to tackle shady characters\nJohn Coyne\nPHOTO: Chris Combe on Flickr\nLaw, National security | The World\nThe UAE has an enviously low crime rate, but has become a preferred destination for international criminals. A character test for those wanting visas to the country could help, John Coyne writes.\nThe United Arab Emirate’s low crime rates for offences ranging from pickpocketing to murder are the envy of most western countries. And the government’s continued investment in law enforcement ensures that it has the police to prevent this from changing anytime soon.\nBut over the last decade, despite these investments, a dark criminal cloud has descended on Dubai and Abu Dhabi.\nFor a long time, international criminals and terrorists have abused the UAE’s economic freedoms to launder their proceeds of crime. Over the last two decades, Dubai and Abu Dhabi gained reputations in international law enforcement circles as global money laundering hot spots.\nWith the introduction of new laws and legislation in 2014, the UAE government began a shock and awe campaign against financial crime in earnest. Since then, there’s been plenty of action, and plenty of arrests.\nLast year, Abu Dhabi’s Attorney General Ali Mohammad Abdullah Al Beloushi referred 54 men to the courts for their involvement in a single money laundering conspiracy. The regulators have also been busy. In June of this year, the Central Bank downgraded the licenses of seven exchange houses for anti-money laundering violations.\nPublicly, the government is sending a clear message to those committing financial crime: ‘we’re coming for you’.\nWhile this is all good news, a previously unrecognised crime problem is now emerging in the Emirates. Some of the globe’s most notorious international criminals are using it to lay low after committing crime, while other criminals are using it as a meeting place from which to plan and direct their next moves.\nMore on this: Does the world need an international anti-corruption court?\nLast year, a joint Dutch, Australian, and Dubai police operation revealed how notorious Australian criminals had travelled to the UAE to meet with criminal associates. This group had been involved in the smuggling of 1.9 tonnes of narcotics into Australia. While on this occasion the group were arrested, plenty of other similar meetings continue to occur in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.\nEarlier this year Australian authorities prevented another alleged organised crime figure from fleeing to Abu Dhabi. The man in question had been implicated in the attempted murder of a second Australian underworld figure.\nIn one case, a senior figure from an Australian motorcycle gang permanently resides in Dubai – and is allegedly still involved in criminal activities. Dubai authorities are unable to do anything about this man, as he has committed no criminal offence in the UAE and has no prior convictions.\nFar too many senior organised crime figures from western countries, like Australia, believe that the UAE offers them a degree of anonymity and safety. And for the moment this belief is well founded.\nThis year the problem was exacerbated by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations suspension of the requirement for visa applicants to obtain good conduct certificates.\nIf the UAE’s police are going to be able to do anything about these criminals, then legislative change is needed. One possible avenue for addressing this problem is the re-introduction of a ‘character test’ for non-citizens and visa applicants seeking to enter and stay in the UAE. This character test should include obtaining records of the criminal histories of those wanting to enter and reside in the UAE.\nWhile there are plenty of dimensions to a character test, the issue of membership or association with criminals and crime groups should be covered. The bottom line should be that if you are, or have been, a member of a group or organisation, or had or have an association with a person, group or organisation that is suspected of being involved in criminal conduct, then you’re not welcome in the UAE.\nIf the UAE wants to shake off its international reputation as a meeting place for organised crime groups, then it’s going to have to ensure that its non-citizen visitors are not only law-abiding, but of good character.\nJohn Coyne is Head of Border Security at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.\nThe unspoken threat that’s hurting Australians John Coyne\nA national determination to tackle hate crime John Coyne\nThe US, the new Myanmar and the dragon in the background MONISH TOURANGBAM\nNorth Korea is the litmus test for a nuclear weapons ban JOHN CARLSON\nHow to stop North Korea’s bomb JOE CIRINCIONE\nPolicy Forum’s top ten posts of 2018 TERRY WAITE\nThe sword of Damocles still hangs over the South China Sea YUN SUN\nTackling the region’s policy challenges MARTYN PEARCE","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line463869"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.583526074886322,"wiki_prob":0.583526074886322,"text":"Traditional, Folk and Indigenous Musics (2)\nChordophones (Stringed Instruments) (1)\nBowed Chordophones (1)\nIdiophones (Instrument Body Percussion) (1)\nXylophone (1)\nSouthwestern and South Central Europe (1)\nMusic Educator (10)\nMusic Educator x\nAfrica x\nAbdel-Rahim, Gamal\nSamha El-Kholy\n(b Cairo, Nov 25, 1924; d Königstein, Nov 23, 1988). Egyptian composer. His father performed classical Arab music with his own ensemble. After learning the piano and developing an interest in Western music, Gamal studied history at Cairo University (BA 1945), at the same time continuing his musical studies with Hans Hickmann and others. A government bursary enabled him to study musicology in Heidelberg with Georgiadis (...\nDoozie, Christopher\nLaurence Libin\n(b Jirapa, Ghana, June 22, 1958). Ghanaian xylophone maker, player, and teacher. Born into a family of gyilli makers and players in northwest Ghana, Doozie began playing at six years of age. When he was 12 his father taught him to make his first ...\nEssiet (Okon) Essiet\nLara Pellegrinelli\n(b Omaha, NE, Sept 1, 1956). Bass player of Nigerian descent. He learned classical violin for two years and began playing double bass and electric bass guitar while at high school in Portland, Oregon; he continued his education at Mount Hood Community College, where he studied privately with faculty members. After graduation he performed in Portland for three years and spent a brief period in Los Angeles. Essiet then moved to Europe and toured there with Don Moye’s quartet in ...\nForsyth, Malcolm\nWesley Berg\n(b Pietermaritzburg, Dec 8, 1936; d Edmonton, Alberta, July 5, 2011). Canadian composer and trombonist of South African origin. He earned undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Cape Town. After playing the trombone with the Cape Town SO (1961–7), he emigrated to Canada in ...\nGulli, Franco\nAnya Laurence\n(b Trieste, Italy, Sept 1, 1926; d Bloomington, IN, Nov 20, 2001). Violinist and teacher of Italian birth. Gulli began violin studies with his father, who had been a pupil of Ševčík and Marak at the Prague Conservatory, and graduated from the Conservatory of Trieste in ...\nKeïta, Mamady\nVera H. Flaig\n(b Balandugu, Guinea, West Africa, 1950). Drummer, director, and teacher of Guinean birth. Mamady Keïta began his official apprenticeship with the village djembéfola at the age of eight. By his late teens, he was lead drummer of Ballet D’Joliba. By 22 he became the company’s first drummer to act as artistic director. Upon his retirement from the ballet in ...\nMuyinda, Evaristo\nUlrich Wegner\n(b Nabbale, Kyaggwe, Buganda, June 2, 1916; d Oct 11, 1993). Ugandan instrumentalist and teacher . At the age of nine, Muyinda learnt to play the amadinda and akadinda log xylophones. In 1939, when Muteesa II became Kabaka of Buganda, Muyinda was appointed court musician in the ...\nPapas [Papadopoulos], Sophocles\nThomas F. Heck and Peter Danner\n(b Sopiki, Greece, Dec 18, 1893; d Alexandria, VA, Feb 26, 1986). American guitar teacher and publisher, born in Greece. At the age of 14 he moved from Greece to Cairo, Egypt, where he learned to play the mandolin. He returned to Greece in ...\nSeiber, Mátyás\nHugh Wood and Mervyn Cooke\n(b Budapest, May 4, 1905; d Kruger National Park, South Africa, Sept 24, 1960). British composer and teacher. Born into a musical family, he started to learn the cello at the age of ten, and from 1919 to 1924 studied at the Budapest Academy of Music with Adolf Shiffer (cello) and Kodály (composition). In ...\nZervos, Giorgos\nGeorge Leotsakos and Katerina Levidou\n(b Cairo, Dec 17, 1947). Greek composer and musicologist. Born to Greek parents in Egypt, he settled in Athens in 1961, where he studied theory and piano at the Hellenic Conservatory (1975–7), and composition with Yannis Ioannidis (1977–81) as well as physics at the University of Athens. He then went to Paris, where he studied musicology and the aesthetics of music at the Sorbonne, Panthéon Paris 1, with Michel Guiomar and Daniel Charles, as well as ‘musique formelle’ with Xenakis. He also attended Boulez’s seminars at the Collège de France (...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1290040"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8464863896369934,"wiki_prob":0.8464863896369934,"text":"Catholic schools in the united states\nTitle: Catholic schools in the united states\nSt. Thomas High School, a Catholic high school, in Houston\nCatholic schools in the United States are accredited by independent and/or state agencies, and teachers are generally certified. Catholic schools are supported through tuition payments and fund raising.\n2 Operation\n3 Entrance requirements\n4 Enrollment\n5 Public funding debate\nBy the middle of the 19th century, the Catholics in larger cities started building their own parochial school system.[1] The main impetus was fear that exposure to Protestant teachers in the public schools, and Protestant fellow students, would lead to a loss of faith. Protestants reacted by strong opposition to any public funding of parochial schools.[2] The Catholics nevertheless built their elementary schools, parish by parish, using very low paid and sisters without college educations as teachers.[3] This was not unlike the public school system, where college-educated teachers became the norm only in the 20th century.\nIn the classrooms, the highest priorities were piety, orthodoxy, and strict discipline. Knowledge of the subject matter was a minor concern, and in the late 19th century few of the teachers in parochial schools had gone beyond the 8th grade themselves. The sisters came from a wide number of religious orders, and there was no effort to provide joint teachers training programs. The bishops were indifferent. Finally around 1911, led by the Catholic University in Washington, Catholic colleges began summer institutes to train the sisters in pedagogical techniques. Long past World War II, the Catholic schools were noted for inferior conditions compared to the public schools, and less well-trained teachers.[4][5]\nMost Catholic elementary schools are operated by a local parish community, while secondary schools are usually operated by a diocese or archdiocese, or a religious institute, and often those in major cities are also attached to a Catholic university.[6]\nIn the United States, the term parochial school is commonly used to refer to Catholic schools, to distinguish it from private school (which can refer to either a nonsectarian school or other church-based school).[7]\nMost elementary schools are owned by a particular parish while high schools are often owned by a group of parishes (more common in the South), a religious institute (more common in Northeast), or a diocese. In the West, a mixture of schools operated by dioceses and religious institutes is common, with the older schools generally run by such institutes. Except in the case of independent schools, local priests are invariably members of the school board, and often at secondary schools are found among the teaching staff as well. In some dioceses the bishop holds the title of superintendent, while others have delegated this responsibility to the head of the Office of Catholic Schools. In terms of practicality, it is often the local priests who fulfill this function.\nMater Dei High School, a small Catholic high school in New Jersey\nMost Catholic elementary schools tend to be smaller than their public counterparts, and it is not unusual for such schools to have only one teacher and classroom per grade level. Additionally, grade levels often separated between grammar and middle schools (in the public schools) are generally not separated in Catholic schools; thus a student may attend the same school from kindergarten or first grade through eighth grade. One other major difference is that in most parts of the country, public schools provide bus service to their students, while Catholic schools rarely do.\nCatholic schools in the United States accept students of all religions, ethnic backgrounds, and ability. More competitive Catholic secondary schools tend to have tighter academic requirements and/or an entrance exam. It is a common expectation that non-Catholic students take religion classes and attend the spiritual exercises of the school. Many schools have a policy (sometimes written) banning proselytizing in any form.[8]\nThe United States had 7,498 Catholic schools in 2006-07, including 6,288 elementary schools and 1,210 secondary schools. In total there were 2,320,651 students, including 1,682,412 students in the elementary/middle schools and 638,239 in high schools.[9] Enrollment in the nation’s Catholic schools has steadily dropped to less than half of its peak at five million students 40 years ago, The New York Times reported in early 2009. At its peak in 1965, the number of U.S. parochial schools was more than 12,000, and roughly half of all Catholic children in America attended Catholic elementary schools, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. The same share in 2009 is about 15 percent. Among Latinos, the fastest-growing church group — soon to comprise a majority of Catholics in the United States — it is three percent. The article also reported on \"dozens of local efforts\" to turn the tide, including by the Archdiocese of Chicago and Washington, and dioceses in Memphis and Wichita, Kansas, as well as in the New York metro area.[10]\nPublic funding debate\nHeavily Protestant in the 19th century, most states passed a state constitutional amendment, referred to as the Blaine Amendment, forbidding tax money be used to fund parochial schools, a possible outcome of heavy immigration from Catholic Ireland after the 1840s. In 2002, the United States Supreme Court partially vitiated these amendments, in theory, when they ruled that vouchers were constitutional if tax dollars followed a child to a school, even if it were religious. However, no state had, by 2009, changed its laws to allow this.[11]\nSince 2000, 1,942 Catholic schools around the country have shut their doors, and enrollment has dropped by 621,583 students, to just over 2 million in 2012, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. Many Catholic schools were being squeezed out of the education market by publicly funded Charter schools.[12]\n^ Timothy Walch, Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1996).\n^ Thomas E. Buckley, \"A Mandate for Anti-Catholicism: The Blaine Amendment,\" America 27 September 2004, 18–21.\n^ Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) pp 262-74\n^ Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) pp 286-91\n^ James W. Sanders, The Education of an urban Minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833–1965 (Oxford University Press, 1977).\n^ Timothy Walch, Parish School (1996).\n^ Dolan, The American Catholic Experience (1985) ch 14\n^ James A. Banks (2012). Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. SAGE Publications. pp. 303–6.\n^ Annual Data Report - National Catholic Educational Association\n^ \"For Catholic Schools, Crisis and Catharsis\" by Paul Vitello and Winnie Hu The New York Times January 18, 2009 p. A29 NY edition. Retrieved 1-17-09.\n^ Bush, Jeb (March 4, 2009). NO:Choice forces educators to improve. The Atlanta Constitution-Journal.\n^ Sean Cavanagh, \"Catholic Schools Feeling Squeeze From Charters.\" Education Week, 29 August 2012.\nCassidy, Francis P. \"Catholic Education in the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. I.\" Catholic Historical Review (1948): 257-305. in JSTOR\nCoburn, Carol K. and Martha Smith. Spirited Lives: How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920 (1999) pp 129–58 excerpt and text search\nDolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience (1985) ch 10, 14\nGleason, Philip, et al. \"Baltimore III and education.\" US Catholic Historian (1985): 273-313. in JSTOR\nMcGuinness Margaret M. Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America (New York University Press, 2013)\nSanders, James W. The Education of an urban Minority: Catholics in Chicago, 1833–1965 (Oxford University Press, 1977).\nWalch, Timothy. Parish School: American Catholic Parochial Education from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1996)\nRoman Catholic schools in the United States\nRoman Catholic elementary schools in the United States\nRoman Catholic secondary schools in the United States","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line118796"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9877926707267761,"wiki_prob":0.9877926707267761,"text":"The deputy was out of radio range, so the airplane was dispatched to help find the car and suspects from the air and to make sure the deputy was safe, sheriff’s spokeswoman Teresa Douglas said.\nThe airplane was already in the air in the area of Highway 198 and Road 182 and sent to the area, she said.\nThe man and woman were arrested at the end of a road west of Lake Success, Douglas said.\nJoshua Williford, 34, was arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon and criminal threats.\nSage Emerson, 18, was arrested on charges of evading an officer and resisting arrest.\nNoon: Gov. Jerry Brown sent his condolences to the relatives of the two men killed in the plane crash.\nBrown said he and his wife Anne “extend our deepest condolences to the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department and the friends and family members of Deputy Ballantyne and pilot Chavez during this difficult time. We are grateful for these men, who made the ultimate sacrifice doing what they did everyday – serving and protecting their community.”\nFlags at the State Capitol are being flown at half staff Thursday in their honor.\n11:50 a.m.: Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said at a news conference Wednesday night that the airplane came equipped with a parachute that was not deployed, nor was a distress call made.\n“It happened so quickly – there was no distress call, no Mayday, or the deployment of that safety device,” he said.\nThe sheriff’s department air unit operates an “Eyes in the Sky” program that uses a light sport aircraft based at the Visalia airport. It’s flown five or six days a week, Boudreaux said.\n11 a.m. Thursday: Staff from the National Transportation Safety Board have arrived at the crash scene and have started their investigation into what caused the aircraft to go down.\nTeresa Douglass, spokeswoman for the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department, said Boudreaux and his staff are also investigating the mishap. He is also meeting with relatives of the men who were killed and is assisting with making funeral arrangements.\nBoudreaux told reporters Wednesday night that the aerial crew was helping deputies on the ground respond to a report of someone brandishing a weapon.\n9 p.m. Wednesday: A veteran Tulare County sheriff’s deputy and a civilian pilot were killed Wednesday afternoon when their single-engine plane crashed near Springville in Tulare County.\nSheriff Mike Boudreaux, looking visibly shaken at an evening news conference in Visalia, identified the men as Deputy Scott Ballantyne, 52, of Visalia, and pilot James Chavez, 45, of Hanford.\nThe crash on a mountainside happened with no warning, Boudreaux said. “There was no distress call, no mayday,” he said.\nThe department first learned of the crash, which occurred about 4 p.m. east of the Eagle Feather Trading Post, from eyewitnesses who said they saw the wreckage ablaze, Boudreaux said. Caltrans closed Highway 190 in the area of the crash about 4:45 p.m. and reopened the highway by 7:09 p.m.\nBrian Duke, who lives near the crash site, said one of his friends watched the plane pitching from side to side before it crashed.\nShawn Winter, a resident of Springville, was driving down the hill to pick up his daughter from school when he saw something on the hillside.\n“I saw the black color of smoke. There was a big old ball of flame,” he said.\n3,000The number of flight hours logged by the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office aircraft before the crash\nLester Lawton, who lives on Success Valley Drive, said the plane crashed just off the highway on the hill behind Eagle Feather Trading Post.\n“I couldn’t even see an airplane. I could see a black spot on the ground on the hill,” he said. “It didn’t look like there was remains left.”\nBallantyne and Chavez had just completed assisting deputies on the ground with the arrest of a suspect brandishing a weapon when the crash occurred, Boudreaux said.\nHe said Chavez was a veteran military pilot who had flown Black Hawk helicopters and served with the California National Air Guard. Chavez, who was hired in 2014, “was a fantastic pilot,” the sheriff said. Ballantyne, who began working for the sheriff’s office in 1989, had become a full-time observer in the plane a year and a half ago, Boudreaux said.\nDavid Williams, a reserve sergeant and retired captain who oversees the air unit, said the aircraft that crashed was a two-seater Flight Design CTLS light sport aircraft that the sheriff’s office obtained in August 2011 and had more than 3,000 flight hours. The aircraft was selected because of its reliability and number of safety features, Williams said.\nThe safety features included a parachute, Boudreaux said. The plane was based at the Visalia airport and typically was in the air five to six days a week, he said.\nThe FAA and NTSB have launched an investigation of the crash, Boudreaux said. Duke said the hillside behind his home was bathed in light Wednesday night as investigators worked at the crash site.\nThe sheriff’s office as well as the community are hit hard by the loss of the two employees, Boudreaux said. He asked for prayers for the victims’ families as well as the department.\n“Our community is a strong one, and we will come through this, and our department is a strong one, and we will come through this,” he said.\nMarc Benjamin: 559-441-6166, @beebenjamin\nLewis Griswold: lgriswold@fresnobee.com, 559-441-6104, @fb_LewGriswold\nDebris from a crashed plane can be seen on a hillside near Lake Success in Tulare County on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Photos courtesy of Lester Lawton Special to The Bee\nTwo people were killed Wednesday when a single-engine plane crashed near Springville. BRIAN DUKE Special to The Bee\nDeputy Scott Ballantyne TULARE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE\nPilot James Chavez TULARE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE\nFresno, Bee Staff\nComplimentary death notice listings are provided by funeral homes and include name, age, residence, date of passing and funeral home in charge of arrangements.\nYosemite will get historic names back, including Ahwahnee Hotel, lawsuit settlement says","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1468402"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7728672623634338,"wiki_prob":0.7728672623634338,"text":"Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil\nQuick. Name the very first things that come to mind when you think of Brazil. Carnival? The girl from Ipanema? Carmen Miranda? Cowboys?\nWhat? Cowboys! It may be the Old West in the U.S. but it’s the Old South in Brazil.\nIn fact Rio Grande do Sul (sounds Texan already) is the southernmost state in Brazil and, in many ways, more like its neighbors Uruguay and Argentina than Brazil. It boasts Brazil’s highest standard of living, is the center of the country’s wine region, features great Italian restaurants, and claims the world’s longest beach. Called Cassino Beach, it measures something like 130 miles long, give or take a dune or two. How did it get that way?\nGauchos, Grapes and Gastronomy\nBefore Brazil was Brazil, Spain and Portugal vied for dominance in this part of South America. Spanish Jesuits were the first Europeans to arrive. In 1627, they began establishing missions to convert local Guarani Indians to Catholicism, a tale we’ve heard before. The original missions were destroyed by bandeirantes who wanted these indigenous people as slaves and didn’t care whether they were Catholic or not. But the Jesuits bounced back and, within fifty years or so, reestablished the missions.\nBy this time merchants, military adventurers, and settlers had begun arriving in the region and the focus was on consolidating territorial claims.\nThe Guarani Wars\nIn 1680, Portugal founded Colonia do Sacramento across the Rio de la Plata, also known as the Plate River, from modern Buenos Aires. The area around Colonia is in what is today Uruguay. The Portuguese planned to contain the Spanish on the south side of the river. Therefore a search ensued to find a suitable port east of Colonia in order to form a line of defense. This search resulted in the establishment of a fortified village, now the city of Rio Grande, as the companion bulwark to Colonia. The Spanish, of course, weren’t about to take this lying down. However, they were also busy plundering the rest of their possessions so a half-hearted war “raged” for about a century.\nThe Cisplatine War\nMeanwhile, the Portuguese were busy populating the region between the two bastions. In 1816, they captured Uruguay and declared it the province Cisplatina, which literally means the province this side of the Rio de la Plata. This then would become part of the Empire of Brazil. But, Brazil declared its independence from Portugal in 1822. Then Uruguay declared its independence from Brazil in 1825, lead by Juan Antonio Lavalleja, and in 1828 succeeded in formally breaking from Brazil.\nFrom that point on, disputes between the Portuguese and the Spanish morphed from territorial to commercial.\nThe Jerky War\nIn order to populate the Rio Grande do Sul region, enormous tracts of land were distributed to settlers. In these latifundia, raising cattle became the dominant activity. The Jesuits had brought cattle a century before, but they’d escaped and gone feral when the missions were destroyed. Enterprising settlers, seeing the potential for profit, captured and redomesticated them to create immense herds. Unfortunately the limitations of transportation meant that beef was most efficiently distributed only in a dried form called charqueadas.\nHowever jerky producers in Argentina and Uruguay were blessed with greener pastures and superior seaports. They soon began producing and distributing a better grade of jerky that became preferred. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul asked for trade protection from the central government and, when denied, declared independence from Brazil. That resulted in a ten-year war that ended with the defeat of the rebels but also with the institution of the trade protections originally requested.\nThe Port of Rio Grande\nArchitects of the port city’s original site at the mouth of a river could never have contemplated the growing size of commercial vessels that would call there. So, in 1855, a military engineer was sent to make a plan for increasing the depth of the channel and port area from the current two-meters. He concluded that the task was “unviable”. But in 1875, Sir John Hawkshaw was commissioned to have another go at it. He proposed a pair of two-mile long breakwaters extending out into the sea. His plan was undertaken in 1906 and the resulting Porto Novo, with its ten-meter draft, is where ships enter today.\nThe port city still displays touches of Portugal’s colonial past in its architecture and streets. But signs are also visible of the other cultures that have joined the region’s population. People of German, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, and African descent have all added to this mélange.\nTo celebrate this destination, do as the locals do. Sample a cup of maté (called chimarrão here), the traditional gaucho tea. Also enjoy churrasco, the typical barbecue. And be sure to take home a pair of bombachas, those baggy gaucho trousers. You’ll be pleased at how skillfully they cover a wide variety of personal flaws.\ncategories South America\ntags Rio Grande do Sul Brazil\nPuerto Chacabuco, Chile","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1484803"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6929558515548706,"wiki_prob":0.6929558515548706,"text":"By: Earnie Wright | 04-25-2017 | News\nPhoto credit: Savageultralight | Dreamstime.com\nFailure To Maintain Eye Contact = Racism: Oxford University\nOxford University has unleashed the latest guidance which contains perplexing provisions that advocate for eye contact amongst students. Those not doing so may be accused racism.\nOxford’s University’s Equality and Diversity Unit has insinuated that students who don’t speak directly to people could be deemed as racial microaggression which can lead to ill mental health. Students were also told to desist from asking people where they are originally from.\nFortunately, the Oxford University's Equality and Diversity Unit understands the fact that some people who engage in such things may be entirely well-meaning, and would be horrified to realize that they had caused offense.\nThe University also emphasized that if words or actions of an individual suggest that they intend to fulfill a negative stereotype, the consequence may be of a different nature.\nThis comes amidst the accusations that Universities are pandering to the snowflake generation of students, who are seen as over-sensitive and quick to take offense.\nOne lecturer in higher education at the University of Kent, Dr Joanna Williams, revealed that the guidance was completely ridiculous and will make students hyper-sensitive on matters concerning their interactions with their acquaintances.\nDr. Williams made a statement to The Telegraph saying that people are being accused of a thought crime, adding that they are being accused of thinking incorrect thoughts based on an assumption of where they may or may not be looking.\nSome people feel differently concerning the controversial issue. Such include Dr. Williams who is the author of Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity. Williams pointed out that Oxford University’s guidance was overstepping the mark by telling students how they should feel and think.\nDr. Joanna revealed that instead of people seeing each other as potential friends, equals, the recent guidance re-racializes academia. This is especially true if they force people to see each other as a person of color. The new policy will force people to be put into boxes.\nThe controversial issue will be very problematic since people can’t relate to each other naturally. Instead, they have rules in the back of their mind and they can’t be spontaneous as their interactions are all overlaid with the desire to follow all these rules.\nCardiff Metropolitan University banned phrases such as right-hand man and gentleman’s agreement under its code of practice on inclusive language. The move took place earlier this year.\nGender-neutral terms, as dictated by the university guidance should be used where possible. Students should not allow their cultural background to affect their choice of words.\nTrigger warnings have started being issued by the University of Glasgow for theology students studying the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Students are told they may see distressing images and are given the opportunity to leave.\nThe Oxford University spokesman made a statement saying that the Equality and Diversity Unit works with University bodies to ensure that the University's pursuit of excellence goes hand in hand with freedom from discrimination and equality of opportunity. The move is commendable, despite the few considerations that were not taken into account.\nSOURCE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk.fxsc.ru/education/2017/04/22/students-avoid-making-eye-contact-could-guiltyof-racism-oxford/\nEverything Is Problematic: Charcoal Face Masks","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1027975"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5662022233009338,"wiki_prob":0.43379777669906616,"text":"India Successfully Lifted 27.1 Crore People Out Of Poverty In 10 Years, Fastest Reduction Among Fellow Nations: UN\nPoverty Representational Image. (Kalpak Pathak/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)\nAs per a global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2019 report released on Thursday (11 July), India lifted 27.1 million people out of poverty between 2005-06 and 2015-16, reports Indian Express.\nAs per the report released by Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India showed marked improvements in areas like assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition.\nThe report states that India has registered the fastest absolute reduction in the MPI value among ten developing countries with a combined population is two billion people.\nAs per the report, out of the four Indian states with the most acute MPI - Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand has made the most progress.\nThe global MPI tracks 101 countries on deprivations across ten indicators in health, education, and standard of living. This MPI was developed in 2010 by OPHI and UNDP.\nOverall, India was among three countries where poverty reduction in rural areas outpaced that in urban areas, which as per the report, is an indicator of pro-poor development.\nUNDP India Resident Representative Shoko Noda, said, “The MPI captures the huge progress India has made in reducing multidimensional poverty across the country, while also providing a more complete picture of who is deprived, how they are deprived, and where they live”.\nPoverty,\nMultidimensional Poverty Index (MPI),","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line326019"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5648944973945618,"wiki_prob":0.43510550260543823,"text":"Final report on 2017-18 spending shows $19B federal deficit last year [UPDATED]\nThe deficit is slightly smaller than Finance Minister Bill Morneau's prediction of $19.4 billion in last winter's budget\nby CP Staff\nOTTAWA—The federal government ran a shortfall of $19 billion in the last fiscal year, virtually unchanged from the previous year, Ottawa’s annual financial report card shows.\nThe deficit for 2017-18 was slightly smaller than the federal government predicted in February’s budget.\nHowever, the Finance Department’s fiscal monitor estimated in May the federal books would post a deficit of just $16.2 billion for last year.\nTo confuse matters, the government says it has changed the way it calculates its pension liability—a fix officials say has been at the top of the list for auditors for years. And that led to revisions of 10 years’ worth of budget numbers.\nAs a result, the slim surplus Conservatives left with much fanfare in 2014-15 is now noted as a small deficit.\nTax revenues rose year-over-year, but it was less a windfall than what officials described as a “new normal” after the Liberals created a new tax bracket for high-income earners. The Finance Department says there was a $9.9-billion increase in personal tax revenue from the previous year.\nBeyond 2017-18, Morneau’s February budget predicted an $18.1-billion shortfall for this fiscal year—a number that’s expected to gradually shrink to $12.3 billion in 2022-23, including annual $3-billion cushions to offset risks.\nFollowing the 2015 election, the Liberal government abandoned campaign pledges to run annual deficits of no more than $10 billion and to balance the books in four years—by 2019.\nInstead, Morneau has been focused on reducing the net debt-to-GDP ratio—also known as the debt burden—each year. After the pension-related revisions were taken into account, the debt ratio dropped to 31.3 per cent of GDP in 2017-18, from 32.0 per cent a year earlier.\nThe latest numbers for 2017-18 pushed the overall national debt to $671.3 billion.\nThe document didn’t provide a long-term outlook for the debt burden, but officials say internal projections still show the measure on a downward track, even if the numbers have shifted slightly due to accounting changes.\nMorneau has cited a weaker-than-expected economy for the bigger shortfalls as well as a need to make investments to lift Canada’s long-term growth.\nBut the economy has delivered a strong performance for more than a year and the lack of a road map to return to balance has drawn criticism, particularly from the opposition Conservatives.\nThere are concerns over the Liberals’ deficit-spending plan at a time of economic expansion and warnings it could find itself far deeper down the deficit hole in the event of a recession.\nPBO says 2017 federal deficit will be $2B higher than forecast, but it’s on the decline\nFederal deficit through first eight months of fiscal year totals $9.1B\nFederal budget deficit significantly less than expected\nOttawa reports $5.9B deficit over first half of 2017\nChina’s growth slows as officials try to reassure investors [UPDATED]\nCannabis retailers, governments warn of lingering supply shortage","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1197782"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5880650281906128,"wiki_prob":0.5880650281906128,"text":"Ecuador Weather\nEcuador Average Temperatures\nCity Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec\nPapallacta Low 50 50 50 50 50 49 49 49 49 49 49 50\nHigh 66 66 66 66 67 67 67 68 69 68 67 66\nGuayaquil Low 70 72 72 72 68 68 67 65 67 68 68 70\nPatate Low 52 54 55 53 54 54 52 53 53 53 54 52\nQuito Low 50 50 50 50 50 49 49 49 49 49 49 50\nAmazon/ Punta Ahuano Low 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75\nThe climate varies widely according to geographical area. The highlands are cold and dry. Along the coast it is warm and sunny year round. Bring comfortable walking shoes, clothes you can layer and an all-weather jacket. At times, the temperature s and a warm jacket is necessary. Some religious sites may require modest dress to enter (no shorts, short skirts, or sleeveless tops).","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line115862"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8536508083343506,"wiki_prob":0.8536508083343506,"text":"From the \"The Rainey Chronicles\" series, volume 1\nby B.G. Cousins\nA debut novel offers political intrigue set within the perilous complexity of the Russian Revolution.\nJeremy Clarke has just returned from France, where he fought as an American soldier in World War I. The son of a wealthy steel magnate, Jeremy now plans to join the family business under the tutelage of his formidable sister, Elizabeth. His plans are temporarily thwarted, however, when a representative from the State Department, Charles Appleton, suddenly arrives unannounced and reveals that Jeremy and Elizabeth’s father, who had vanished in Russia, is still alive. He asks Jeremy to lead a military team—really a small army—into Russia to rescue him and to secure a “package,” the contents of which remain, for the moment, mysterious. Appleton himself is a nebulous fellow, described as a “ghost” with virtually no government file. Jeremy accepts the assignment, and Elizabeth is put in charge of its logistics, which include procuring firearms. While crossing through Romania, Jeremy is taken prisoner and shot while escaping, forcing Elizabeth to take over as commander of the mission. All the while, Russian intelligence tracks the team’s every move, as interested in the package as it is in Elizabeth’s father. Cousins masterfully keeps the story moving at a fast clip, interspersing action at every turn. The inner machinations of the Russian Revolution are numbingly convoluted, and Cousins does a credible job navigating its infinite nuances. The story is driven by the relentless force of Elizabeth’s character, whose motto is: “Observe. Learn. Dominate.” In fact, her bravery—she is only 26 years old— in combat strains credulity: “The rat-tat-tat of the machine gun continued to ring in her ears as she became aware of what was happening around her. She had a job to do and she couldn’t do it lying on her back. She pulled herself up and got back to the gun belt.” But Cousins artfully presents the implausible as easy to digest, a skill that is the hallmark of this relentless thriller. Strictly speaking, this is almost too fantastic a tale to carry the label historical novel, but the author’s research of the period, and of Russia in particular, remains impressive.\nAn exciting and unpredictable tale of espionage and adventure in the early 20th century.\nPub Date: Feb. 22nd, 2016\nPublisher: Corrxan Inc.\nProgram: Kirkus Indie\nReview Posted Online: May 23rd, 2016\nby Alan Furst\nCRITICAL COMPANION TO THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1914-1921\nby Edward Acton\nRUSSIA’S FATE THROUGH RUSSIAN EYES\nby Heyward Isham","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line882047"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5783743858337402,"wiki_prob":0.42162561416625977,"text":"Evaluate the effectiveness of your service\nIt is important to establish the criteria for assessing the effectiveness of the services.\nWhen assessing the effectiveness of the services provided to young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, there are three criteria to consider:\nIs the joint protocol clear, legally accurate and geared to the best possible outcomes for young people, including a focus on joint preventative work?\nIs the assessment and options process performing within the timescales and information-sharing criteria established by the protocol?\nAre the outcomes for young people the best that can reasonably be achieved?\nThere are considerable challenges in each of these areas which need to be addressed, including:\nestablishing a shared vision, and commitment, to young people and their needs, and a shared (correct) interpretation of the law\nsharing data and/or establishing systems which can be interrogated\nrecording outcomes for young people from the point of first contact onwards, in a consistent and longitudinal way\nThe process of preparing a joint protocol is likely to indicate the extent of each of these challenges in each locality. Experience so far has shown that in some areas these challenges have proved impossible to overcome. The government is monitoring the position.\nShelter has published a benchmarking guide to joint working between services. It provides a useful model, examples and assessment criteria for achieving good outcomes for children and young people in housing need, including governance, strategy, processes and delivery. Further sources of information and guidance are listed in the bibliography.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line715571"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.512082040309906,"wiki_prob":0.487917959690094,"text":"91 MiG-21 Fishbed\nBritish Secret Projects 3.Fighters 1935-1950\nContinues the process of revising and expanding the hugely successful British Secret Projects series New materials and illustrations found since the original publication means a separate volume on fighters has now been produced\nIllustrations Black/White and Colour photos,line drawings\nPublisher Crecy\nThe British Secret Projects series covers the design and development of UK military aircraft since the mid-1930s with strong emphasis on designs that were never built, particularly those types generated by various design competitions. The original Volume Three (Fighters and Bombers 1935 to 1950) has now been split into separate volumes with this book covering fighters and a new Volume Four in preparation solely devoted to bomber designs. This split has allowed space for the inclusion of much new information and many new photographs. This book describes the design and development of the British fighter from the end of the biplane fighter to the start of the jet era. The projects and programmes which feature in its pages begin with those prepared in the mid-1930s in the knowledge that war was coming and go through to some which appeared after the war had ended. During this period the art of fighter design took some big and important steps forward and here can be found fixed-gun fighters and turret fighters, in both single and twin-engine form, plus the first generation of jet fighters. Types designed to meet the requirements of both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm are included. Drawings new to this volume include the Folland Fo.118 and the Westland P.13. As with the companion volumes, the author has undertaken extensive research and made full use of primary source material. Three-view drawings plus photographs of models or original artist’s impressions combine to show how these unbuilt designs would have appeared. Data and appendices summarise the projects, contracts and specifications and provide a detailed insight into many fascinating aircraft.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1637463"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9155846238136292,"wiki_prob":0.9155846238136292,"text":"RETRO: Flying Scotsman saved and restored by Doncaster businessman\nThe iconic locomotive, The Flying Scotsman, did its last run for British Rail in January 1963, before the engine became the property of Doncaster businessman and railway enthusiast Alan Pegler for a sum of £3,000.\nSaturday, 27 January, 2018, 08:10\nSelby, Great Heck 1st May 1968 The Flying Scotsman on her way, non stop, from King's Cross, London, to Edinburgh. This was its last run to Edinburgh.\nMr Pegler effectively ‘saved’ the A3 class locomotive from becoming scrap and subsequently managed to secure an agreement for it to still run on the main line for a set number of years.\nThe engine was restored to its former glory at great cost, and re-acquired the LNER (London and North Eastern Railway) green livery.\nFor several years The Flying Scotsman was celebrated as it pulled a variety of trains across the country.\nIt was then launched in the States by Pegler in 1970 on a promotional tour of Buy British and covered 15,400 miles in all, many of which were travelled with Pegler himself in the driving seat. The railroad charges were steep and he was payng the bills.\nBy 1972 the locomotive’s owner had spent up and was bankrupt. Later, in 1973, Pegler persuaded another strong steam enthusiast, William McAlpine, to buy and ship the engine back to Britain.\nThe Flying Scotsman had been the first locomotive of the new London and North Eastern Railway when it was completed early in 1923.\nThe Flying Scotsman crossing the Ribblehead Viaduct, on its journey from Oxenhope to Carlisle to celebrate the re-opening of the Settle Carlisle Railway line. 31 March 2017. Picture Bruce Rollinson\nIt later became famous in the British Empire Exhibition, and was also known as the first locomotive in the UK to clock up 100mph in 1934, and the only steam train to run the 393 miles from London to Edinburgh without stopping.\nIt was back in 1952 that Alan Pegler had journeyed to Wales to view the crumbling Ffestiniog Mountain Railway, with a friend. He ended up buying the railway that is now seen as one of Britain’s most successful tourist attractions.\nThe late Mr Pegler was made an OBE in 2006, at the age of 86.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1484208"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5430534482002258,"wiki_prob":0.45694655179977417,"text":"Health, Environment, Safety And Security Manager\nLocation: From Ngcareers a month ago\nCGC Nigeria Limited (China Geo-engineering Company), a Chinese company with its headquarter in Abuja is a subsidiary of CGCOC GROUP CO., LTD. in mainland China. Our company CGC Nigeria Limited is a re...\nSales Executive Job at African Alliance Insurance Plc\nAfrican Alliance Insurance Plc\nAfrican Alliance Insurance PLC. is one of the leading and reputable Life Insurance Company with networks of Branches/Agency offices across Nigeria and Investment in some West African Countries. The company…\nResearch Doctor at Medecins Sans Frontieres - Belgium\nResearch Doctor at Medecins Sans Frontieres - Belgium Medecins Sans Frontieres is a private, international organisation. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5366101264953613,"wiki_prob":0.46338987350463867,"text":"You are here: Home / Connecticut - Military / South Windsor, CT. – February 23, 1919\nSouth Windsor, CT. – February 23, 1919\nOn February 23, 1919, two U.S. Army lieutenants took off from Hartford, Connecticut, bound for Boston, Massachusetts, to photograph the arrival of President Woodrow Wilson’s aircraft landing at Boston.\nThe pilot was identified as Lt. S. W. Torney, and the photographer was identified as Lt. Cundiff.\nAs the plane was en-route to Boston it developed engine trouble, and Lt. Torney was forced to make an emergency landing in a field on private property in South Windsor. After inspecting the engine, it was decided that trying to reach Boston would be too risky, so Lt. Cundiff was told to stay behind and return to Hartford via trolley while Torney would fly alone back to Hartford with the airplane.\nAfter making some minor adjustments to the motor, Lieutenant Torney took off and was approximately fifty feet in the air when his airplane suddenly lost power and crashed in another field about a quarter of a mile away. The airplane suffered significant damage, but Lieutenant Torney was relatively unhurt.\nLieutenant Torney stayed with his airplane to protect it from the gathering crowds until a local constable arrived.\nLt. Torney’s airplane had begun its trip from Mineola, Long Island, New York, the previous day with two others, all bound for Boston. One of the three developed an overheated engine and was forced to return to Mineola shortly after taking off. The other two made it to Hartford where they spent the night. After receiving word of Lt. Torney’s accident, the third was sent to Boston to complete the assignment. It was reported that it flew over the spot where Lt. Torney had crashed before proceeding to Boston.\nHartford Courant, (Conn.) “Army Airplane Wrecked In Fifty Foot Fall In So. Windsor Pasture”, February 24, 1919\nFiled Under: Connecticut - Military Tagged With: Connecticut Aircraft Accident, Connecticut Aviation Accident, Connecticut Aviation History, Lieutenant S. W. Torney Aviator, South Windsor Connecticut History, South Windsor Connecticut Plane Crash","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1151605"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9578083157539368,"wiki_prob":0.9578083157539368,"text":"Bob Buckley\nBob Buckley (credited as Robert Buckley) is the Composer of ReBoot, responsible for all featured episode music.\nBob Buckley was born in Brighton, England (UK). Spending part of the year in England, and the rest of his time in Vancouver, Canada, As he holds both British and Canadian passports.\nBob took up the piano at the age of ten and put it back down again when he realized it was too heavy. He began composing almost immediately. At the age of twelve he started playing the clarinet inspired by the opening solo in \"Rhapsody In Blue\". Soon after that he began playing the saxophone and flute. He formed various bands in high school for which he wrote music; he also wrote for the school orchestra, concert band and jazz band. He studied with California composer Hubert Klyne Headley who exposed him to the twentieth century music of Stravinsky, Bartok, Ravel, Shostakovitch. He studied composition, conducting and arranging at the University of Washington with American composer William Bergsma and studied electronic music at the University of British Columbia.\nUpon leaving university Bob started working professionally and appeared weekly on the television series \"Let's Go\" as keyboardist, saxophonist and arranger. In his quest to combine rock, jazz and symphonic music he formed the band Spring and performed the original work \"Song Cycle\" with the Vancouver and Edmonton Symphonies. Also with the band Spring he had his first top ten single. Then, as a member the rock bands Straight Lines (CBS Records) and Body Electric (A&M Records) his keyboard and songwriting talents contributed to five albums containing several top-ten singles and a gold record with the number one single \"Letting Go\". Bob has recorded and worked with many artists throughout his career in the music industry.\nDuring this time Bob worked professionally as a composer, arranger, performer, producer and conductor for records, theme music for television series and specials, commercials, audio-visuals, dance, musicals, symphonic works and films. The diverse nature or his background has given him the opportunity to write every conceivable kind of music, including orchestral, rock, jazz, country, techno, experimental, Broadway and contemporary. He composed the music for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, B.C. In 1986 he composed \"This Is My Home\" for the Canada Pavilion at Expo '86, a song which has been performed at every Canada Day since and has become like a second National Anthem. He did string arrangements for Bryan Adams' latest two albums, Celine Dion's Christmas album and Our Lady Peace's latest album. He composed two musicals for the Charlottetown Festival, one of which has been running for nine years.\nHe has scored hundreds of television programs including the award-winning computer-animated series \"ReBoot\", \"Transformers\" and \"Shadow Raiders\" and most recently the computer-animated movies \"Casper's Haunted Christmas\" and \"Scary Godmother\". Bob is currently writing a musical in England called Tinsel with novelist Michelle Magorian and a physical theatre show in Vancouver called 'The Bridge' with Axis Theatre. He has a state-of-the-art digital music studio with a huge template of instruments and sounds and is equally at home in front of a rack of synthesizers, a symphony orchestra or playing jazz saxophone.\nBob has received much recognition for his outstanding work including Gold Records for 'Letting Go' and 'Association for Multi-image International'; Leo Award for Best Musical Score; Caras Music Awards for Artist of the Year, Producer of the Year and Album of the Year; BMI Award for Best Symphonic Composition; PRO Awards for Outstanding Success in Canadian Music and Excellence in Canadian Music; Juno Nomination for Composer of the year and Song of the year; ALFIE award for U.S. radio commercial music, and I.B.A. awards in U.S. radio and television commercial music.\nBob is a member of 'SOCAN' and the 'Guild of Canadian Film Composers', currently working from his company in Vancouver B.C, Canada, called 'Bob Buckley Productions, Ltd'.\nBob Buckley is now currently providing musical score for Nerd Corps' CGI animated series \"Storm Hawks\" (2007).\nBob Buckley Productions, Ltd.\nRetrieved from \"https://reboot.fandom.com/wiki/Bob_Buckley?oldid=17563\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line941614"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5911736488342285,"wiki_prob":0.4088263511657715,"text":"Truly driverless cars\nby Tyler Cowen February 28, 2018 at 2:24 am in\nCalifornia regulators have given the green light to truly driverless cars.\nThe state’s Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday that it was eliminating a requirement for autonomous vehicles to have a person in the driver’s seat to take over in the event of an emergency. The new rule goes into effect on April 2.\nCalifornia has given 50 companies a license to test self-driving vehicles in the state. The new rules also require companies to be able to operate the vehicle remotely — a bit like a flying military drone — and communicate with law enforcement and other drivers when something goes wrong.\nThat is from Daisuke Wakabayashi at the NYT, via Michelle Dawson.\nFebruary 28, 2018 at 3:01 am Hide Replies 1\nAs a Tesla bear I enjoyed this: 0 (zero) miles of vehicle test on public roads in California in autonomous mode. They babble about billons of miles of driving data around the world, but data is not accessible. Thus, trust the \"engineers\".\nAlso, I love the passive-aggresive tone of this Tesla report.\nhttps://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/wcm/connect/f965670d-6c03-46a9-9109-0c187adebbf2/Tesla.pdf?MOD=AJPERES\nI don't think Tesla has any cars ready to go driverless yet. This is more likely to apply to mobs such as Google.\nThat Tesla does not have such vehicles was his point. When the rubber hits the road, Tesla's reputation appears to be just a tiny bit inflated - sort of like its stock price, hence his bear reference.\nI'm also a Tesla bear, but I notice people hated Amazon.com about a decade ago, or more, and said they would fail, but they did not. Having said that, I'm long Walmart and I would bet that Amazon will not match Walmart, and further 'drone deliveries' are overrated due to the high cost of energy (flying is energy inefficient).\nGood point. I was quite skeptical of Amazon, particular Bezos's lack of concern with turning a profit for years, but he has been vindicated.\nI'm not sure drone delivery will be more than a gimmick, but I doubt it really is less efficient compared to a human driver operating a vehicle that weighs thousands of pounds to deliver small packages.\nAs for Tesla, I'm still somewhat of a skeptic, but they have forced me to shift my position. I used to think that electric cars would not be a viable product at all, and I think their success so far disproves this. However, I continue to doubt whether they can transition to a moderately-priced mass market product.\nFebruary 28, 2018 at 12:46 pm Hide Replies 6\nFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.\nTesla not having a full autonomous car ready is the point. Google, Bosch and others have developed and tested full autonomous driving while collaborating with California's DMV. Performance statistics are public information.\nThis post from Mr. Tabarrok brings context. What if a company brings the technology to the market first while following burdensome regulations. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/07/robot-car-safety-the-case-for-laissez-faire.html\nHow is the laissez-faire approach going?\nCallan\n(\"full autonomous car\" ???)\nWhat is that ?\nHow does it compare with a \"Driverless Car\", a \"Truly Driverless Car\", \"self-driving vehicles\", an \"autonomous vehicle\", etc ??\nThe terminology is so sloppy on this topic that very few people know what they are talking about.\nThe Federal government (NHTSA) has 5 official categories of automated road vehicles based upon the degree of automation. You are just bullshi__ing if you don't specify which automation category you are addressing in any discussion of 'driverless vehicles'.\n\"Level 5\" is what most people have in mind with the concept/reality of 'driverless vehicles'.\nLevel 5 is what Google’s aiming for -- a car that can handle all driving tasks and go anywhere. No human, no steering wheel, no pedals. Climb in, tell it where you want to go.\nNobody yet has even marketed a Category 3 vehicle. Dream on.\nIt's really puzzling how any time driverless cars make a step forward, this army of gnomes comes out of the woodwork to announce that driverless cars are impossible and will never happen. I'm sure this will continue right up until driverless cars are ubiquitous, and perhaps beyond.\nMulp\nSo, the only thing required for a car or truck is a driver, and a driver is just a computer with hands?\nIe, drivers never open and close doors and assist passengers, or put in oor take out things of the vehicle, or diagnose and get flats fixed, or clean windows, refuel, ...\nNot to mention dealing with confusing construction workers, or accident detour directions.\nI don't understand the point of the driverless pizza delivery vehicle recently featured. I don't want to dress to go outside and drive 5 minutes to pick up a pizza, so i call for delivery and then need to dress to go outside to get my pizza, and if I wait 3 minutes to finish my game, the truck sits in the street and all the other pizzas get delayed 3 minutes? If I wait to leave to pick up the pizza, no one else is delayed in picking up their pizza. A driver will keep ringing the door bell or start pounding on the door, plus I can have the 6 year old open the door and give him the money if not already paid for, and take the pizza.\nIf UPS had set a standard for UPS package delivery boxes at curbside decades ago, maybe installed them like news delivery drivers installed tubes for new customers, I can see a vehicle that is designed to open, deposit, and close that standard delivery box, even pickup packages first. But when packages go inside lobbies or business or get placed on porches, inside garages, or stuck in the storm door or put in the grill or hidden behind the bush, the UPS truck will always have a human in it. He might not need to drive most of the time and be doing package handling between stops, saving a minute per stop.\ncarlospln\nFebruary 28, 2018 at 3:33 pm Hide Replies 8\nTroll Me\nIt's possible to know what you're talking about at the same time as not using the same terminology or categorization as that used in the regulating federal agency.\nHowever, knowing one or more approaches to categorization on a particular matter may be instructive ...\nMarch 1, 2018 at 2:04 am Hide Replies 10\n\"Truly driverless cars\" simply means cars that literally do not have a driver in them. This is blatantly obvious, given that the post is about a law change to no longer require drivers.\nAnd yeah, who cares about the federal government's categorization? When I was a kid, I thought there were actually four food groups, as in this is a property of reality. Then I grew up and learned better.\nFebruary 28, 2018 at 3:25 am Hide Replies 14\n'The new rules also require companies to be able to operate the vehicle remotely — a bit like a flying military drone — and communicate with law enforcement and other drivers when something goes wrong.'\nConsidering how famously secure so many data connections to commercial products are, this is not exactly encouraging. Swatting a car seems just like the sort of thing a certain demographic would jump on, for example.\n'A feud between two Call of Duty players led to the death of a 28-year-old Kansas man, who was shot and killed by police after a fraudulent 911 call sent a SWAT team to the man’s private home. The news was first reported by local newspaper The Wichita Eagle, which cites numerous now-deleted tweets in which Call of Duty players take responsibility for participating in or observing the intended prank, which came after an argument about an online wagered match reportedly worth just $1.50. One player allegedly provided a fake address to someone with a history of calling in fake threats. That person, later identified and arrested by the LAPD, proceeded to embroil the innocent stranger in the feud, according to independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs.'\nNotice that the procedure leading to that shooting death involved a third party making the actual threat - the buzzword at this website is MIE.\nAnd taking over a vehicle means that one does not need to trust law enforcement to use their weapons to uphold law and order - 'In this case, Wichita local Andrew Finch, whose family members say did not play video games and was a father of two young boys, answered his door only to face down a SWAT team-level response. Allegedly, one officer immediately fired upon Finch, who later died at a hospital. It’s unclear why Finch, who is said not to have had a weapon on him, was fired upon. The Wichita Eagle reports that the police department is investigating the issue, which occurred late Thursday night.' https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/29/16830626/call-of-duty-swatting-prank-kansas-man-dead-police-shooting\nFebruary 28, 2018 at 4:48 pm Hide Replies 15\nLying to the police is far easier than hacking a car, even an insecure one. I assure you that random gamers don't have the technical chops or motivation needed to hack a company. The risk is a real hacker creating and distributing scripts that do it for others, but this is still harder than lying to the police - there's no well-known route to becoming a script kiddie.\nSo Much For Subtlety\nhe new rules also require companies to be able to operate the vehicle remotely — a bit like a flying military drone — and communicate with law enforcement and other drivers when something goes wrong.\nSkynet approves.\nWho in their right mind would want such a thing? Presumably it is so you get your pizza in 20 minutes or less. But what else is it good for?\nI can't access the article, but I assumed it was solely related to the vehicles used for testing. In that context, it seems logical. For example, it would enable moving a test vehicle so it isn't blocking traffic, if something goes wrong.\nSuch a requirement for production vehicles would raise lots of questions, I agree.\n'it was solely related to the vehicles used for testing. In that context, it seems logical.'\nYes, because there is no way one operator could oversee several thousand vehicles. Even in this scenario, though, it is a bit of a fig leaf. A certain number of failures are going to occur inside of any possible reaction time from a remote operator. Still much better than nothing, of course. (If reporting is to be trusted, the first fatal Tesla Autopilot crash was in part due to the software incorrectly classifying the side of a trailer as a street sign - the only way a remote operator could have prevented that crash was by being actively engaged with how the vehicle was travelling - which in that particular case, the driver was not - https://www.recode.net/2017/9/12/16294510/fatal-tesla-crash-self-driving-elon-musk-autopilot )\n'For example, it would enable moving a test vehicle so it isn’t blocking traffic, if something goes wrong.'\nOr in a less benign scenario, opening a still travelling vehicle that is burning, so as to allow the occupants to escape. There will be a number of interesting trade-offs to be made in the future regarding such decision making, but a test vehicle is more likely to have a variety of problems than a production vehicle.\nThe feature would not be to prevent accidents (it's clearly infeasible to have a human operator take over quickly enough, as you note) but to enable the car to be moved if the software is unable to operate in a given scenario.\nPrevent accidents is a broad concept. Obviously there are lots of variables, but there will likely be situations where the problem might be something like a panic button being pushed by an occupant. Assuming that the test vehicle allows for such user feedback, of course.\nThat first fatal Tesla crash is instructive in that regard. Autopilot was not designed to handle cross traffic apparently, and failed to properly identify that the vehicle was about to smash into a truck at over 70mph. If one were merely a passenger, without any chance to push a panic button in a situation that was comparable (for the sake of discussion, because the vehicle was unable to properly identify a hazard - say a fire after a tanker spill that an occupant would recognize instantly). And that does happen - I have driven by one such accident on the A5 (going the other direction and as fast as possible), and a friend actually (moronically) drove through a tanker accident on the Beltway in the late 80s.\nIt's plausible.....But the human still needs to recognise the incident, AND recognise that the autopilot HASN'T recognised the incident, and hit the button, and have the car react.\nHow many accident/incident timelines is this feasible in? Quite a few, certainly, but not many.\nAgreed,\nThe notion that a human operator could successfully \"take over\" in the event of machine error in these driving modes is slight. The fall-back wetware is redundant.\nAylok\nUnfortunately I have been reading articles about driverless cars for long enough that I no longer consider them impressive.\nWhat is unfortunate about that?\nI'm not sure if unrealistic expectations for autonomous cars is a good thing or a bad thing. It's a good thing if it accelerates the development and use of them, but a bad thing if unrealized expectations cause most to abandon or never use them. Realistically, autonomous cars will be a safe and efficient alternative if but only if we replace all non-autonomous cars or build a separate right of way for them (which is the same as replacing non-autonomous cars since there won't be any on the separate right of way). In any case, I'm surprised that economists would be so enthusiastic about autonomous cars because they are not an efficient way to move people from place to place as compared to the alternatives. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/27/opinion/automated-vehicles-cant-save-cities.html I suspect those economists are so impressed with \"tech\" and the billionaires \"tech\" has produced that they have convinced themselves that \"tech\" can perform miracles. I would remind them that not even all \"tech\" billionaires are happy with \"tech\" anymore, at least one having moved on in search of Galt's Gulch.\nchuck martel\nThe obvious plan is to structure the use of autonomous vehicles in a configuration similar to cable television. Passenger/subscribers will pay a monthly fee for the service with an additional fee for each use to the owner of the vehicles. Passengers won't have any control over the vehicle except for its destination. A similar, and easier to operate, system could have been established years ago for air traffic in the far-less congested skies but no, there are still pilots. The only way autonomous vehicles will be common is if a national bureaucracy like the FAA takes over surface transportation, which is easy to imagine.\nIn other words, autonomous vehicles is a euphemism for \"transit\".\nAre rental cars \"transit\"? This seems closer to that.\nButler T. Reynolds\nLike the FAA? Jesus.\nCowen's irony never disappoints. This time he follows a post about nudge theory with a post about autonomous cars and California's \"nudge\" to make them truly autonomous. Other nudges for autonomous cars include exempting the participants (i.e., the makers of the autonomous cars and the software that makes them autonomous) from liability for the likely mayhem. I fear that this nudge will be a reverse nudge since photos of the casualties will discourage the use of autonomous cars.\nApparently any law or policy is now a \"nudge\"?\nThere's a difference between mandating one option instead of another, as opposed to allowing both options but making one of them the default option and/or cheaper.\nIn direct contradiction to the whole 'tacocopter' claim. Innovation doesn't come from removing regulations, innovation drives regulation. Regulation is accumulative because there's often no value in actually pruning regulations that innovation has made moot.\nInnovation flourishes where regulatory constraints are relaxed.\nAhh, the Greek Chorus of MR sings!\nFebruary 28, 2018 at 12:44 pm Hide Replies 35\nExcept that's not the case here. No one relaxed laws about self-driving cars. There was no laws about them until recently and probably 20 years from now there will be a huge amount of self-driving car law. Innovation demands and drives the regulation.\nsine causa\nThis has been done before. It was called a horseless carriage.\nYep. They didn't have the internet in 1900 but plenty of people wrote letters to their newspapers abut the menace of switching from horses to cars. Safety, practicality, cost. All the same arguments.\nIn 1900, they did not switch from horses to self-driving horses which are potentially remotely operated by their owners and/or the government and/or criminals.\nFor example, the reins of horses and the steering wheel of a horseless carriage are both firmly in the hands of the person who is taking themselves from one place to another.\nIf things go well, for practical purposes it won't matter. But in the meantime, history has long shown that there are those who would exploit basically any possibility toward exercising political and/or economic control that may be exploited, were they permitted to get away with directing things toward being set up in a manner that facilitated it.\nFor example, would you tolerate a regulation which allows an an autonomous car company to refuse to make a pit stop for \"Starbucks coffee\" out of preference for a stop 5 minutes later, due to some predicted efficiency? Without thinking about how the same technology could be hacked and/or repurposed for subtle-yet-in-fact-extreme draconian control over people's movement and activities?\nHopaulius\nIf an operating company or manufacturer can operate an \"autonomous\" vehicle remotely, so can a determined hacker. Presumably the processors used in AVs have the same Spectre and Meltdown flaws we have been told are in all processing chips heretofore manufactured, so they must be in these vehicles as well.\nDallas Weaver Ph.D.\nLeave it to the Calif DMV to do something stupid and make testing of truly self-driving cars near impossible. It is like they want to appear not to be the blockers of new technology evolution while blocking it.\nThe requirement: \"The new rules also require companies to be able to operate the vehicle remotely — a bit like a flying military drone \" would require full data streams to a remote location or operator and that assumes that the vehicles data streams are valid and it didn't shut down because its software didn't detect an error or inconsistency.\nStep 1) require companies to be able to pilot \"autonomous\" vehicles remotely (by definition, then, not in fact being autonomous).\nStep 2) mandate that faux-autonomous vehicles may only transport people with identity verified at the beginning, middle and end of every trip.\nStep 3) enable to turn off or otherwise mess with the operations of any vehicle transporting a person with politically inconvenient views, ideally at the maximally troublesome time and/or location.\nStep 4) equip vehicles with some means of verifying sufficient progress toward ideological reform before the problem may be rectified on the basis of some faux premise.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line881507"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.626103937625885,"wiki_prob":0.626103937625885,"text":"I go for a middle-of-the-road approach—I enable alerts for most of my installed apps, save for ones that are niche (mostly shopping apps that alert me to coupons) or ones I don't use regularly. All alerts make the Charge 3 vibrate and show the message on its screen, and all past alerts live in the notification drawer that you can access by swiping down from the top of the Charge 3's display.\nApple is back with the Apple Watch Series 4, the latest in the smartwatch game that's focused on helping wearers live a healthier lifestyle. Running on Apple’s S4 64-bit dual-core processor and the new WatchOS 5 operating system, it’s twice as fast as its predecessor. Available in two sizes — 40 mm and 44mm — it has a 30 percent larger display than the Series 3 and comes in six different aluminum and stainless steel finishes. New improvements include Walkie Talkie mode and a speaker that is 50% louder than in the Series 3. The microphone has been moved to the watch’s opposite side to reduce noise and create clearer phone calls. The bottom, now made from black ceramic and sapphire crystal for better radio wave transmission, is intended to help with cellular reception and call quality.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1295433"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6911086440086365,"wiki_prob":0.3088913559913635,"text":"Group of Experts on Climate Change Impacts and\nAdaptation for Transport Networks and Nodes\nSixteenth session (Geneva)\nRegistration form or online registration\nECE/TRANS/WP.5/GE.3/31 - Annotated provisional agenda for the sixteenth session (29-30 January 2019)\nECE/TRANS/WP.5/GE.3/32 - Report of the sixteenth session (29-30 January 2019)\nInformal document (2019) No. 1 - Implications for Transport from climate variability and change (submitted by Prof. Adonis Velegrakis, University of Aegean)\nInformal document (2019) No. 2 - Climate Change: Trends and Projections (submitted by Prof. Adonis Velegrakis, University of Aegean)\nInformal document (2019) No. 4 - Main transport networks and nodes (Note by the secretariat)\nInformal document (2019) No. 7 - Input into the National Policies and Good Practices Section of the UNECE Group of Experts Report (submitted by the Government of Canada)\nDocument shared at the session\nInformal document (2019) No. 8 - Case study: Polish practice in carrying sensitivity and vulnerability analysis for the identification of hotspots on transport infrastructure due to climatic factors (submitted by the Government of Poland)\nInformal document (2019) No. 9 - The French National Climate Change Adaption Plan (submitted by the Government of France)\nInformal document (2019) No. 10 - Case study: A methodology to assess the risks due to climate change on transport networks – the case study “DIR Med” (submitted by the Government of France)\nInformal document (2019) No. 11 - Case study: Winter Roads in Canada and the implications of climate change (submitted by the Government of Canada)\nInformal document (2019) No. 12 - New Guidelines for Winter Maintenance of Roads in Finland (submitted by the Government of Finland)\nInformal document (2019) No. 13 - Case study: Low flow extremes on the River Rhine – Causes, Impacts, Adaptation of the most important inland waterway in Europe (submitted by the Government of Germany)\nInformal document (2019) No. 14 - Adapting the infrastructure network to a changing climate - a case-study of the Netherlands (submitted by the Government of the Netherlands)\nInformal document (2019) No. 15 - Development of a Climate Adaptation Strategy for the InnovA58 highway in the Netherlands (submitted by the Government of the Netherlands)\nInformal document (2019) No. 16 - Analysis of responses to the climate change adaptation questionnaire 2016 (submitted by Prof. Adonis Velegrakis, University of Aegean)\nInformal document (2019) No. 17 - Case study: Influences of weather and climate extremes on traffic flows – stress test scenario Middle Rhine (submitted by the Government of Germany)\nInformal document (2019) No. 18 - Case study: Impact on Kiel Canal (submitted by the Government of Germany)","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1166332"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8871294856071472,"wiki_prob":0.8871294856071472,"text":"Some Dreams Come True\nPhoto from Bangles website.\nHard Rock Cafes and Hotels around the globe will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Pinktober by holding concerts and parties throughout October. Their goal is to raise money for The Caron Keating Foundation, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and other breast cancer awareness organizations. You can also help the cause by purchasing selected items at www.hardrock.com/promo/pinktober09. The website provides an extensive rundown of the upcoming Pinktober events.\nThe Bangles got things off to an early start with a September 24th concert at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando. Band members Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson, and Debbi Peterson can also be seen online modeling comfy-looking Pinktober robes, which, along with a guitar-shaped Pinktober pin, are part of the extensive line of merchandise for sale.\nPhoto from Vedera MySpace page.\nThe Chicago Hard Rock Cafe will present Vedera, an indie rock quartet fronted by vocalist-guitarist Kristen May, on October 6th, and sell raffle tickets for a pink Vespa throughout the month. The raffle takes place on the 31st. Vedera (check www.myspace.com/vedera for details) also has Pinktober gigs scheduled at Hard Rock Cafes in Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Minneapolis.\nPinktober will have a regal finale in London’s Royal Albert Hall on November 1st with a Women Of Rock concert that includes Joss Stone, Melanie C, and Bananarama.\nIndex: Bangles, Hard Rock Cafe, Pinktober\nI’ve Got My Foot On The Accelerator\nPhotos by Pam Minch (Click to see larger image.)\nThe 2nd Annual Zimmer Classic Cup Car Show, sponsored by Zimmer’s Hardware in honor of its 125 years of being in business, was held recently in Palatine. Since promoting special events is a lost art in this sleepy northwest suburb, residents could be forgiven for not knowing there had been a 1st Annual Zimmer Classic Cup Car Show. Nevertheless, the competition drew a good sized crowd to marvel at antique and muscle cars with their hoods open to display powerful, gleaming engines.\nThe DJ played 1960s music from The Byrds, The Beatles, The Monkees, The Hollies, Paul Revere & The Raiders, and Jimi Hendrix, but the most appropriate songs came from earlier acts like The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean. That was the era when rock songs were almost as likely to be about cruising in a Stingray, Jaguar, or GTO as finding the perfect romance. The fun and freedom that comes with driving would continue to be celebrated over the decades, via artists like Bruce Springsteen, ZZ Top, Commander Cody, and Tracy Chapman. Even the one-hit new wave band Pearl Harbour & The Explosions got in on the act, joyously singing, “I’ve got my foot on the accelerator” on “Drivin’.”\nThis year’s Zimmer Classic featured Mustangs, Camaros, Galaxie 500s, and Fairlanes sporting vibrant colors, which caused my wife Pam to lament the unimaginative palette used for today’s mainstream cars. (Our white Neon literally pales by comparison.) I was drawn to a 1968 VW Camper infused with flower power by owners Bill and Jenni Casale, and a 1971 VW Karmann Ghia that owner David Howard said once belonged to actor Ricky Schroeder. “I kind of manned it up a bit,” Howard explained, describing the new two-tone color scheme. He also plans to replace the headlights. But the really cool thing is the way he imaginatively decked out the car with rock and roll decals of Pink Floyd, The Who, and The Beatles, and other bands. And check out that Beach Boys license plate.\nI might have voted for the Karmann Ghia as the best car in the Zimmer Classic Cup, but an official explained that only the car owners are eligible to cast a ballot. For me, David Howard has found a great way to commemorate the long-time, loving relationship between cars and rock and roll.\nIndex: David Howard, Karmann Ghia, Zimmer Classic Cup Car Show\nCD Review: Tomorrow The Moon - He Saw Red\nPhoto from Tomorrow The Moon’s MySpace page.\nWhen Bad Examples guitarist Steve Gerlach decided to embark on a side project, he chose a rocket ship as his mode of transportation. He Saw Red, the five song debut from Tomorrow The Moon, offers a futuristic sound forged from Gerlach’s ringing guitar and Jim Dinou’s adventurous synthesizers. Bassist Ryan Nelson and drummer John Carpender add to the fun. The band was impressive in a live performance at this year’s International Pop Overthrow in Chicago.\nAt times, the music on He Saw Red has a 1980s feel that sounds like an updated, slightly rougher version of The Cars. Gerlach, who mainly sings harmonies behind Ralph Covert in the Bad Examples, proves he can be a strong lead vocalist, whether it’s on the dramatic “French Goodbye” or on the lighter, melodic pop of “Paperweight.” The catchy “Accounts Deceivable” has the feel of classic rock, and the driving beat of the title track twists through rapid tempo changes as Tomorrow The Moon tosses in voice samples and assorted sci fi effects. The epic “Sane?” gets He Saw Red off to a low key start, but its spacey atmosphere sets the stage for the songs that follow.\nTomorrow The Moon will perform an entire set of music by the Psychedelic Furs as part of an intriguing Halloween weekend at the end of October. Several local acts will impersonate famous rock bands at The Abbey Pub on Chicago’s northwest side. Stay tuned for details. Check out Tomorrow The Moon’s MySpace page at www.myspace.com/tomorrowthemoon\nIndex: Psychedelic Furs, Steve Gerlach, Tomorrow The Moon\nIt's A Long, Long Road ...\nHollies illustration by Pam Minch\nFinally! The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has taken the first step toward honoring The Hollies. The British Invasion group was among 12 nominees recently announced for induction in 2010. It’s not a done deal; only five of the dozen acts will actually make the cut, and The Hollies will have to overcome the misconception that they were strictly a Top 40 singles band.\nA lot of solid material could be found on The Hollies’ albums throughout their career, including tracks like the exotic “Tell Me To My Face,” the delicately beautiful “Butterfly,” the ambitious mini rock opera “Confessions Of A Mind,” the melodic pop of “To Do With Love,” and the harder-edged “Won’t You Feel Good That Morning.” The band’s three-part harmonies and infectious melodies continue to set the standard for power pop bands to this day. The Hollies were second only to The Beatles in terms of hit songs in the U.K.\nThe Hollies gave us one third of Crosby, Stills, & Nash, who have already taken their place in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. When I interviewed Graham Nash for the Illinois Entertainer last January, he agreed The Hollies should be there as well. “It infuriates me when I think of the lack of respect for The Hollies,” he said. “They were very influential in the ‘60s and part of the British Invasion. It would be great to induct them.”\nIf The Hollies are inducted, there may be a logistics problem in terms of getting all the past and current members on stage. Of course, Graham Nash should be there, as well as former lead vocalist Allan Clarke, and Terry Sylvester, who replaced Nash back in 1969. Mikael Rikfors, who filled in for Clarke for a few years in the early 1970s, should also be considered. Some mention should be made of the late Carl Wayne, who replaced Clarke in 2000. Wayne, who got his start with The Move, was a kind-hearted performer who strived to bring The Hollies closer to their fans. (And I have an autographed program to prove it.) But should they reach all the way back to the earliest days for bassist Eric Haydock and drummer Don Rathbone? The Hollies continue to record and tour to this day, although guitarist Tony Hicks and drummer Bobby Elliott are the only original members. Still, some of the current band members have been in The Hollies for a longer period than Nash. Who knows? Let’s just hope that come next year, there’ll be a huge Hollies reunion going on at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.\nIndex: Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Terry Sylvester, The Hollies\nCD Review: The Valley Downs - Behemoth E.P.\nPhoto from The Valley Downs website.\nAside from their annual performance each April when International Pop Overthrow touches down in the Windy City, we just don’t see or hear enough from The Valley Downs. Led by vocalist/guitarist Marianne Shimkus and her husband vocalist/bassist Mike Galassini, the Chicago-based quartet’s catchy power pop is certainly worthy of wider exposure. It’s been a while since The Valley Downs’ debut, the Behemoth E.P. was released, but it’s worth revisiting while we wait for a follow-up.\n“Better” is an optimistic mid-tempo number that sounds remarkably like The Bangles as Shimkus sings of the power of love and support. She uses a tougher vocal approach for the social satire of “Drama Queen,” declaring, “I’m gonna rule the world just for you” and “Everything I do, you’re gonna do too.” The more energetic “Sorry” deals with leaving a relationship, and Shimkus channels Deborah Harry on the hard-edged and sexy “Twister.” Galassini, who got his start with the power pop trio 92 Degrees and still performs with them on occasion, brings his bass playing to the forefront throughout the E.P., and joins Shimkus on harmonies.\nHopefully, the band will release a full-length effort in the near future. Their MySpace page, at www.myspace.com/thevalleydowns, offers a professional video of a new song, “Play For You” as well as live performance videos, and a photo montage of the The Valley Downs’ visit to Liverpool (for an IPO performance) set to their version of The Beatles’ “For No One.”\nIndex: Marianne Shimkus, Mike Galassini, The Valley Downs\nWhen WXRT morning disk jockey Lin Brehmer announced that Little Steven Van Zandt, guitarist for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and host of the syndicated Underground Garage radio show, would be dropping by the station Monday morning, most listeners probably expected a five minute interview. Surprisingly, Van Zandt and Brehmer chatted, joked, and played classic garage rock songs, including ones by Paul Revere and The Raiders and Tinted Windows, for an hour. If Van Zandt was tired from being onstage for a three hour, high energy performance at the United Center the night before, he showed no signs. He talked about watching Dick Clark’s Where The Action Is TV show as a kid, as well as the troubled state of current rock’n’roll.\nVan Zandt, whose Underground Garage show airs on WXRT each Sunday night, recalled the days when rock music was meant to make people dance and bands honed their skills by performing cover songs before moving on to original material. Even The Beatles worked that way, he insisted. On their current tour, which showcases Born To Run in its entirety, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band go back to their bar band roots by taking audience requests to perform other groups’ material. Van Zandt confessed it can be a challenge to whip up those songs on the spot.\nA self-proclaimed keeper of the flame, Van Zandt feels too many bands today lack the necessary fire. Still, he’s no crabby elder statesman lost in the past. Through his radio show, he promotes new acts like The Urges and The Cocktail Slippers alongside classic artists like The Rolling Stones and The Ronnettes. He champions female bands from any era. He’s also launched the ambitious interactive website Fuzztopia where fans as well as bands can promote and present music. Van Zandt explained the site is still a work in progress.\nHis philosophy meshes well with WXRT’s \"Past, Present, Future\" ad campaign. Years ago, the station took a huge risk by including punk and new wave songs on its playlist, along with the progressive rock favorites listeners had grown to love. That gamble has made WXRT stronger. Today, Van Zandt and Brehmer came across as kindred souls who love rock music and are determined to keep its fire burning.\nIndex: Lin Brehmer, Little Steven Van Zandt, Underground Garage, WXRT\nPhotos from the Doctor Who website\nThe cover of a recent issue of the U.K. publication Doctor Who Magazine proclaimed exciting news for Anglophiles and sci-fi fans: Tom Baker will once again play the time and space traveling, universe-saving alien known as the Doctor. Alas, his performance won’t be one we’ll see on TV or in a movie. Baker is reprising his most famous role for a BBC Audio Series called The Hornets’ Nest.\nStill, the interview (the first he’s granted the mag in 12 years) is funny and informative, and should delight anyone who loved the actor’s charismatic work on the cult series back in the 1970s. Baker’s was the fourth, and for many, the best incarnation of the Doctor; a character a friend of mine once described as “the coolest guy in the universe.” Flashing a toothy grin in the faces of terrifying villains, the Doctor used his wits to thwart their diabolical plots. Doctor Who could be a violent show, but its hero always sought peaceful solutions. Describing his take on the Doctor, Baker tells Doctor Who Magazine, “I prefer a kind of benevolent lunacy . . . because I’m an alien.”\nNow 75, Baker seems to dismiss the specter of old age with the same irreverence he used on Daleks and Cybermen. He gets a kick out of fans who approach him with photos they took with him when they were children. “Well, it amuses me no end, when I’m looking at a bald, middle-aged man who’s worn out with domesticity, then there he is in the picture, sitting on my knee. But it’s all about the happy memories, isn’t it?”\nBaker is well aware of the current buzz surrounding actor David Tennant ‘s work as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor. Tennant seems to be having a blast, and his winning mix of strength, compassion, and youthful looks have placed him in several publications’ most popular or sexiest male entertainer polls. (To me, he looks like a cross between John Lennon and Elvis Costello, but that might be because I always thought Lennon would have been a great choice to play the Doctor.) In a 2006 Doctor Who Magazine reader survey, Tennant replaced the usually unbeatable Baker in the Best Doctor category. But Baker is not about to be mastered by the green monster of envy. “We all owe David Tennant a great debt,” he says in the recent DWM, “because, with his style and brio, he has revitalised the whole thing!”\nThere are similarities in the way Baker and Tennant handle the role, but one major difference is that Tennant’s Doctor had a romantic connection with his female companion, Rose Tyler while Baker worked in a more innocent era. “We didn’t think of that,” Baker recalls, looking back on companions like Leela and Sarah Jane Smith. “So, for my part, I played the Doctor without any sexuality at all.”\nJust as Tom Baker eventually left Doctor Who, Tennant will wrap up his tenure this year. Each actor will always be remembered as the coolest guy in the universe.\nIndex: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Tom Baker\nCeltic Fest Chicago\nPhoto from Navan Website\nEven if you don’t have tickets to see U2 at Soldier Field, you can still experience a blast of great Irish music on the weekend of September 12-13 by checking out Celtic Fest Chicago, which will be celebrating its13th anniversary in Grant Park. This year’s event offers big names like Gaelic Storm and Leahy at the Petrillo Music Shell; lesser known but entertaining acts from around the world on the smaller stages; roaming bagpipe bands; and a variety of dance troupes. Visitors will also find plenty of food and beverage options, as well as vendors selling art, jewelry, and clothing.\nThe best thing about Celtic Fest Chicago for any music fan is the opportunity to discover a new favorite band, and the Next Generation Tent is a great place to do that. It’s an inspirational showcase of talented young musicians, many of whom are students from the Shine School, Irish Music School, Murphy Roche Music School, or Academy of Irish Music. Baal Tinne, a mixed group of younger and older musicians, can always be counted on for a lively, and sometimes majestic performance. Baal Tinne, as well as many of the younger musicians, have CDs for sale.\nNavan, a Wisconsin based a cappella group comprised of three women and one man, is another prime example of what Celtic Fest has to offer. Acting as a sort of coed, Gaelic Crosby Stills, Nash, and Young, the quartet uses beautiful harmonies to spin ancient tales from Scotland, Ireland, and England. Even though singer Paul Gorman once joked that it’s probably better that Navan’s songs aren’t sung in modern English because some of the lyrics are pretty gruesome, the band’s music is always entertaining.\nLast year, much of Celtic Fest Chicago was canceled due to heavy rainfall, so the perfect weather forecast for this weekend should bring out an especially appreciative crowd.\nIndex: Celtic Fest Chicago\nCD Review: Cheap Trick - The Latest\nThe first time I saw Cheap Trick was at Harlow’s rock club (or was it Haywires or Pip’s at that point?) on Chicago’s southwest side. Rick Nielsen used his guitar to poke out the ceiling tiles above the stage, and Robin Zander so effectively conveyed the raw emotions of “Oh, Candy” I could've sworn he was crying. That was prior to the release of Cheap Trick’s self-titled debut, and decades later, it’s inspiring to see the band releasing solid albums at a fast enough pace to make a long-time fan’s headphones spin. The Latest followed on the heels of Rockford, and preceded Sgt. Pepper Live.\nPrimarily written by the band, The Latest finds Cheap Trick concentrating on what it does best; creating irresistibly catchy power pop. Several references to The Beatles foreshadow the decision to take on the entire Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for performances in Las Vegas. “Miracle” sounds like it could have been one of the better ballads from John Lennon’s solo days. The enticing “Miss Tomorrow” sets guitar-driven rock amidst symphonic swirls while the lyrics mash The Beatles with The Rolling Stones: “Love, you said that love is all you need./Cold, you taught The Beatles “Let It Bleed.” The high-speed “California Girl” sounds like a gender reversal of The Beatles’ early cover of Larry Williams’s “Bad Boy,” and describes the title character as a Sexy Sadie.\nA rousing take on Slade’s “When The Lights Are Out” kicks off with Bun E. Carlos’s signature drumming, and Cheap Trick also roars through “Everyday You Make Me Crazy,” “Sick Man Of Europe,” and “Alive.” Even the romantic ballads “These Days” and “Times Of Our Lives” sport a full-bodied sound, while the lush psychedelia of “ Closer, The Ballad Of Burt And Linda” once again taps into those Beatles influences. Luckily, this was the latest from Cheap Trick, and not the last.\nIndex: Cheap Trick, The Beatles\nYes Virginia, There Is A Santa Bash\n(photo from David Bash Facebook page)\nSince September 2nd is David Bash’s birthday, now would be the perfect time to pay tribute to him. As the founder of International Pop Overthrow, David brings the gift of power pop music to boys and girls around the globe. He doesn’t do it all in one night, and wears a cowboy hat instead of a red cap, but for many of us, he works magic.\nNamed after a song by the Chicago band, Material Issue, International Pop Overthrow made its debut in L.A. back in 1998. The festival has since become a world-wide affair, making stops in numerous cities, including Liverpool, Vancouver, Boston, and San Francisco.\nChicago power pop fans eagerly anticipate David’s annual arrival around the middle of April, with visions of settling into a club like the Abbey Pub where they can catch an eight-band showcase for a mere $10. IPO Chicago usually offers a mix of local bands like The Valley Downs, The Bad Examples, and The Handcuffs; visitors from neighboring cities, like Milwaukee’s The Lackloves; as well as an overseas act like Anison, who are based in England.\nA tireless supporter of the power pop genre, Bash enthusiastically introduces all the acts with a brief bio and explanation of why he chose them for the fest. Musicians interested in being part of International Pop Overthrow can contact David via SonicBids. See http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com for details.\nSo let’s raise a glass and wish David a Happy Birthday!\nIndex: David Bash, International Pop Overthrow, The Bad Examples, The Handcuffs, The Valley Downs","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1093710"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9695464968681335,"wiki_prob":0.9695464968681335,"text":"Apollo 11 Podcasts: How the Apollo 11 mission still inspires\nTom Steyer launches 2020 campaign after saying he wouldn’t\nby: JUANA SUMMERS, Associated Press\nPosted: Jul 9, 2019 / 06:02 AM PDT / Updated: Jul 9, 2019 / 09:28 PM PDT\nFILE – In this Jan. 9, 2019 file photo, billionaire investor and Democratic activist Tom Steyer speaks during a news conference where he announced his decision not to seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Steyer is now joining the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, reversing course after deciding earlier this year that he would forgo a run. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and activist, said Tuesday he’s joining the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, reversing course after deciding earlier this year that he would forgo a run.\nSteyer, 62, is one of the most visible and deep-pocketed liberals advocating for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. He surprised many Democrats in January when he traveled to Iowa, home to the nation’s first presidential caucus, to declare that he would focus entirely on the impeachment effort instead of seeking the White House.\nSince then, Steyer, of California, has said he’s grown frustrated at the pace at which the Democratic-controlled House is approaching Trump. Roughly half of the Democratic presidential contenders, seeking to appeal to the party’s progressive base, have called on House Democrats to start an impeachment inquiry. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi has resisted, warning that Democrats need to collect the facts and that a rush to impeachment could ultimately help Trump politically.\nDespite becoming a national voice on the impeachment issue, Steyer made no mention of it in his campaign announcement. Instead, he said his campaign will focus on reducing the influence of corporations in politics. He also plans to target climate change, which is the focus of the Steyer-backed advocacy group NextGen America.\n“The other Democratic candidates for President have many great ideas that will absolutely move our country forward, but we won’t be able to get any of those done until we end the hostile corporate takeover of our democracy,” Steyer said in a statement.\nSteyer confirmed to The Associated Press on Tuesday that he would spend at least $100 million on his campaign, a figure that was first reported by The New York Times.\nSens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who are competing for the support of liberal voters in the Democratic presidential primary, decried the influence of billionaires in the 2020 race.\nWarren, who didn’t mention Steyer by name, tweeted after his announcement: “The Democratic primary should not be decided by billionaires, whether they’re funding Super PACs or funding themselves. The strongest Democratic nominee in the general will have a coalition that’s powered by a grassroots movement.”\nSanders said that while he may “like Tom personally,” he is “a bit tired of seeing billionaires trying to buy political power.”\nAsked about Warren’s and Sanders’ criticism of his plan to invest so heavily in his own campaign, Steyer said the common goal among all candidates is to present a vision that connects with voters.\n“That’s what Americans are waiting for, that’s what’s missing, and that’s something that every single candidate, including Sen. Warren and Sen. Sanders, have to address,” he said. “And so, if I can’t do that, all the money in the world isn’t going to help me.”\nAs he seeks the presidency, Steyer is resigning his leadership positions in both NextGen America and Need to Impeach. He says he has committed more than $50 million through 2020 to the two organizations.\nSteyer joins the race three weeks before the next presidential debates , and he could struggle to get a spot on the stage. He told the AP that he does not expect to qualify for the second Democratic presidential debates, which will be held July 30-31 in Detroit.\n“We’re serious about making the debates in September and October, but I think we’re too late to make the July one,” he said.\nThere are 20 spots at the debate for a field that includes two dozen candidates . If more than 20 people qualify, the Democratic National Committee will hold a tiebreaker to determine who gets on stage.\nSteyer also could potentially face challenges hiring staff. Several of his former NextGen America staffers have joined Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s presidential campaign. A former Steyer spokeswoman, Aleigha Cavalier, recently joined Beto O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign.\nThe sprawling Democratic field is in flux as Steyer becomes the newest contender. Some lower-tier candidates are facing increasingly dire prospects if they don’t secure spots on the debate stage this fall.\nCalifornia Rep. Eric Swalwell exited the race on Monday , and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s campaign has undergone a shake-up after his debate performance last month, with some staffers encouraging him to consider a Senate campaign instead.\nThis is not the first time Steyer has considered running for office. He eyed bids for governor of California in 2018 and the Senate in 2016. His net worth, according to Forbes, is estimated at $1.6 billion.\nPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The chairman of the Oregon Republican Party has filed paperwork to launch a recall against Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, citing some of the laws passed in the 2019 legislative session.\nThe Oregonian/OregonLive reports Chairman Bill Currier in the Monday filing also pointed to Brown's announcement the day after lawmakers went home last month that if necessary, she would use executive powers to implement climate change policies similar to the plan defeated at the Capitol this year.\nOregon / 1 hour ago","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1585648"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8257562518119812,"wiki_prob":0.8257562518119812,"text":"Daily Archives: April 15th, 2014\nWhich franchise has had the best trio of running backs in NFL history?\nBy Jerry Tapp on April 15, 2014 | 2 Comments\nThink back to your childhood. Do you remember…\n* My dad can beat up your dad\n* Hank Aaron is better than Willie Mays\n* Superman could beat up Batman\nArguments or debates as a child were always fun. So, let’s turn back the clock a little. It’s the offseason for the NFL. There’s a few weeks until the NFL draft. We’ve got some time to debate this issue…\nWhich NFL franchise has had the best trio of running backs in NFL history?\nTo get the ball rolling, here’s my top 10. I looked at a few stats, looked up a few numbers, and tried to recall the careers of some of these running backs. I’m not willing to go to war with these picks, but it should be a good start for some debate. What’s your choice?\nBest running back trios in NFL history\n1. Dallas Cowboys (Emmitt Smith, Tony Dorsett, Don Perkins). Smith and Dorsett are both in the Hall of Fame and are one of only three pairs of running backs to have over 10,000 yards rushing for one team. Perkins had 6217 yards in his Cowboys career. Smith is the league’s all-time leading rusher and led the league twice for most yards in a season. Smith had 11 1,000-yard seasons, Dorsett had eight. Smith was a league and Super Bowl MVP.\n2. Cleveland Browns (Jim Brown, Leroy Kelly, Marion Motley). Each of these RBs is in the Hall of Fame, although Brown is the only one of the group to gain over 10,000 yards with the team. Kelly had 7274 yards, while Motley had 4712. Brown led the league in rushing a record eight times.\n3. Buffalo Bills (Thurman Thomas, O.J. Simpson, Fred Jackson). Thomas and Simpson both gained over 10,000 yards with the Bills. Jackson had 5121. Simpson led the league in rushing on four seasons. Both Thomas and Simpson are in the Hall of Fame.\n4. Pittsburgh Steelers (Franco Harris, Jerome Bettis, John Henry Johnson). Another pair of 10,000-yard rushers in Harris and Bettis. Harris and Johnson are in the Hall, and Bettis will likely make it three. Johnson had only 4381 yards rushing in his Pittsburgh career. Harris had a Super Bowl MVP Award on his resume.\n5. St. Louis Rams/L.A Rams (Steven Jackson, Eric Dickerson, Marshall Faulk). Dickerson and Faulk are Hall of Famers, although neither gained over 8,000 yards in their career with the Rams. Jackson had 10135 yards in his St. Louis career with eight 1,000-yard seasons. Faulk was a league MVP recipient.\n6. Tennessee Titans/Houston Oilers (Eddie George, Earl Campbell, Chris Johnson). One of only two teams to have three runners with more than 7500 career rushing yards. Campbell is in the Hall of Fame and was a league MVP in 1980 with the Oilers.\n7. Chicago Bears (Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, Matt Forte). Payton is second on the all-time career list for yards and had 10 1,000-yard rushing seasons. Sayers and Payton are both in the Hall of Fame, although Sayers had under 5000 yards rushing in his career. Forte has 6666 rushing yards in his career with the Bears.\n8. Green Bay Packers (Ahman Green, Jim Taylor, Paul Hornung). Hornung and Taylor both have Hall of Fame and league MVPs on their resumes. Hornung had only 3711 yards rushing in his career. Green holds the team career rushing record with 8322 yards gained.\n9. San Francisco 49ers (Frank Gore, Joe Perry, Roger Craig). This trio each had over 7000 yards rushing with the 49ers. Perry is a Hall of Famer, while Craig made his mark as not only a runner, but as a receiver out of the backfield.\n10. New York Jets (Curtis Martin, Freeman McNeil, Emerson Boozer). Martin is in the Hall after gaining 10302 yards for the Jets in his career. McNeil gained over 8000, while Boozer had 5135. Martin also had 10 1000-yard seasons, including seven with the Jets.\nSo which team is your choice for the best trio of running backs? Let the debate begin.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1019344"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7723192572593689,"wiki_prob":0.7723192572593689,"text":"Concert ReportsUncategorizedFebruary 11, 2017\nLive Report: Code Orange & Youth Code in Los Angeles\nJanuary 28, 2017 | Los Angeles, CA | UNION\nWritten & photographed by Ben Manzella (More Than Flashing Lights & Sound)\nI think it’s fair to say that chaos or misunderstanding has been in the air as of late; while I was looking forward to the Code Orange show at Union this last week, I didn’t plan to have the anxiety attack that ended up making the night a challenging but interesting experience. While I don’t know if it was sold out: there was already a decent-sized crowd when the music started around 8pm with the local hardcore act, Momentum.\nHaving been a musician for most of my life, I immediately have respect for anyone who will put the work and time into playing live for what can sometimes be a crowd of ungrateful people. Luckily for Momentum, it seems like their following is growing while they’ve seemingly been active for only a few months. Unfortunately, on both accounts, my camera was having technical difficulties and I can’t say their music was anything I hadn’t heard from countless other bands before them. While working on my camera, Disgrace officially kicked off the night for me. Led on vocals by Taylor Young (known for playing drums in Nails among other acts), Disgrace are a group I would associate with Arizona’s Gatecreeper as band with clear death metal roots which also fits very well in a hardcore/crossover metal setting, enabling them to fit alongside a band like Code Orange just as easily as they could have played with Entombed.\nYouth Code | Credit: Ben Manzella\nWith my camera finally working properly, Youth Code was next and I was very much excited to see them again. 2016 was a year where my interest in the vast world that comes under the umbrella term of “industrial” grew exponentially, through exploring artists/groups both old and new, and Youth Code was a discovery that I was very grateful to make. Having seen them this past August, I had an idea of what to expect but because they were the more ‘unique’ band on the bill, it made me curious as to what the crowd reaction was going to be. One of Youth Code’s greatest strengths is their chameleon-like nature in that they seem like they can adapt to nearly any crowd, and they certainly took control of the room at Union without any struggle.\nIt may have been a challenging or unfamiliar sound for some that night, but I have a feeling that Youth Code caught the attention of plenty of people that night just as much as their fans welcomed them for this hometown stop on their current tour. The incensed energy of both Sara and Ryan makes for an explosive performance from beginning to end; I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a focused yet unhinged approach to manipulating sounds and samples while doing vocals as what I’ve seen twice now from Ryan George. Being that he was vocalist in the hardcore band, Carry On, I’m sure this influences his way of interacting with music; and while Sara hasn’t been in a band previous to Youth Code, she has certainly come into her own and made a home at whichever venue is next on the itinerary. Reminded of the “Industrial Music is Protest Music” shirt designed by ANNIHILVS POWER ELECTRONIX (made with the proceeds being donated to Earthjustice), Sara touched on the travel ban imposed by President Donald Trump; while I won’t act as though I remember everything that was said, it was a poignant moment of unity and encouragement to seek to understand in the face of fear mongering and to avoid the very obvious fact that we as individuals are not all-knowing. While we all have the ability to see things change, the closing lyrics of Youth Code’s “Anagnorisis” seem very fitting at this time; “This is a trigger. This is despair. These eyes are poison, a sad state of affairs. (Nothing ends well with a start like this.)”\nWith the almost capacity room clearly anxious, a very ominous sample began playing. Launching into the title track of their latest release, Forever, Code Orange made the room erupt into a frenzy. For an effectively audio equivalent to a “1-2” punch combination, “Kill the Creator” was immediately started with no break between songs as would be a consistent rhythm for the remainder of night; but the crowd wasn’t worried, if anything they were clearly grateful and didn’t hesitate in releasing every bit of energy on the floor and stage as there were many stage dives. With textured keyboards and synths included in their sound even more on Forever than they were on 2014’s I Am King, Code Orange could very well have a future touring with industrial acts with a heavier sound just as easily they’re sure to continue their presence in the hardcore music scene. I really believe this is just the beginning for Code Orange; with this already being their third full-length release in nine years, they’re firmly establishing themselves as a band to watch for in the current heavy music scene.\nCode Orange | Credit: Ben Manzella\nBen Manzella Code Orange Disgrace More Than Flashing Lights and Sound Youth Code","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1055409"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7533384561538696,"wiki_prob":0.7533384561538696,"text":"Mission Society of Boronyavo\nLinks/Acknowledgements\nWelcome to Mission Society of Boronyavo\nThe Mission Society of Our Lady of Boronyavo\nThe Mission Society works to provide support for the Byzantine Catholic Church in Slovakia and the Transcarpathia Oblast in western Ukraine. We are all volunteers who belong to the Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh.\nWhat We Do/Where We Work\nFirst of all, we PRAY to God for healing of the division of the Churches, for the spiritual growth of the American Byzantine Catholic Chruch; for the renewal of the Greek Catholic Church in Trans-Carpathia and Slovakia; for the canonization of Bishop-Martyr Theodore Romzha of the Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church; and for the building up of the Kingdom of God in justice and charity among all people.\nWe assist the (Ruthenian) Greek Catholic Church in the Trans-Carpathian Oblast of the Republic of Ukraine, which is the territory of the ancient Eparchy of Mukachevo; the Exarchate of Kosice in southeastern Slovakia; the Eparchy of Presov and Blessed Paul Gojdich Seminary in eastern Slovakia; priests in those dioceses and the Eparchy of Hajdudorogh, Hungary, with Liturgy intentions.\nOur Office in America\nThe Mission Society Office is in the Blanchette House at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our chaplain is Father Christopher L. Zugger, former pastor of the parish (1985-2008). Our office workers and board members are all volunteers who give of their time freely. You can Email us at admin@missionboronyavo.org . At this time we can only take donations by postal mail.\nThe Shrine of Boronyavo\nBoronyavo is a small town in the eastern part of Trans-Carpathia, not far from the junction of the Hungarian and Romanian borders with Ukraine. It is in a mountainous area known as the Hutsul Region or Hutsylchyna, a district of rugged mountaineers with a distinct culture and dialect. The small church was surrounded by fields in a valley of these mountains, and was defended against Communist destruction by devout Greek Catholic faithful of the area.\nThe church and monastery date back for centuries, and a small community of monks has lived here since the 1400s at least. After the Union of Uzhorod in 1646, whereby the local Orthodox Church entered into union with the Roman Catholic Church, the monks came under the Rule of Saint Basil. The Austrian Emperor Joseph II saw no need for small, contemplative communities in his empire, and the monks of Boronyavo were forcibly dispersed by imperial decree in 1771. However they kept their vows, and were able to reestablish their monastery.\nThe icon is based on a vision of Our Lady that one of the monks had. It was enshrined in the chapel. During the closure, the shrine was protected through the intervention of townspeople who loved the monks. Immediately God began to work miracles in the church, including the dramatic conversion of an atheist and many healings. Huge pilgrimages began to the shrine, particularly on the feast of the Annunciation (March 25), Saint Elias (July 20), and the Dormition/ Assumption of the Virgin (August 15), which is the largest of all the pilgrimages.\nAfter the Soviet conquest of 1944-1945, and Czechoslovakia’s forced cession of the entire province to the USSR, the native Greek Catholic Church was bitterly persecuted by the Soviets. The monastery was closed, the monks arrested, and plans set to destroy the entire site. But the icon of Our Lady was taken away to the city of Khust and hidden in an apartment there, and the local peasants regularly defended the buildings against destruction, even when bulldozers were brought in. Many people were arrested, but the church was never given over to Orthodox use, and it survived Soviet rule. Barbed wire was wrapped around the site of the shrine, and people would tie rags as a sign of their prayers onto the wire in defiance of the guards.\nIn 1991, after three years work of restoration, the church was re-dedicated. Bishop Ivan Semedi of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo stepped aside at the altar to allow the former superior, arrested in 1946 and sent to the Arctic prisons, to come forward and offer the first public Divine Liturgy. The icon was enthroned above the Royal Doors of the iconostas in 1992, back where it belonged at last.\nBasilian monks from Galicia were brought in by Bishop Semedi, and they ultimately replaced the humble church with a Ukrainian Baroque church that now serves as the shrine. The icon travels around Transcarpathia to visit parishes so that people have the chance to honor the Mother of God and ask her Divine Son's blessings through her prayers.\nAbout Father Chris Zugger\nFather Chris Zugger is an ordained priest of the Byzantine Catholic Church (1981). He hears confessions, assists at Divine Liturgies, services and classes in the parish, under the direction of the pastor. He provides spiritual direction for laity and clergy.\nFather Chris’ health problems give him a good perspective on the redemptive value of suffering, and his research over the years provides information for talks on topics as diverse as Contemplative Prayer in the East; Carmelite Saints; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Scottish Catholics; Irish Catholics in Penal Times; Catholic resistance to the Nazis and Communists; the Church in China; Eastern Church Fathers; Syriac Spirituality; Liturgical Life of Eastern Churches.\nFather helps where he can in the Eparchy of the Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix and in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. He is very thankful to God for the opportunity to continue to serve Him in new ways, and for the fact that Bishop Gerald Dino created this arrangement whereby he can continue to live where he has spent most of his priesthood.\nFinding a Hidden Church\nHis new book is the result of eight years of interviews and research covering the history of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic church in the USSR and independent Ukraine. Here you will find not only background history of the Church before 1945, but the heroic witness of Blessed Theodore Romzha (killed in 1947), Bishop Petro Oros (executed 1953), Bishop Alexander Khira who died in Kazakhstan, and scores of priests, their wives, their children, and other people who fought to keep their beloved Church alive in a hostile society.\nRead about the anti-religious attitudes of the Soviet Union, the imposition of harsh legislation, and the rupture of a 1,000 year old culture and Church. Also discover the determination of people to keep their faith in Jesus Christ and Catholicism alive by worshipping secretly at night, in forests, in barns, and how the Church survived with not one legal building and constant harrassment by the feared secret police. Discover the new ways Bishop Khira and underground priests came up with training new priests, establishing forbidden parishes, and nurturing the faith in an incredibly hostile atmosphere.\nIncluded are short histories of what happened to the other Byzantine Catholic Churches in the Soviet bloc, five maps, over 70 photographs including some from the dreaded Gulag camps. Be inspired to renew your own faith in God and your own dedication to His Church and to realize that the impossible can be achieved, but only when relying on God's grace.\nThe book available through the Our Lady of Perpetual Help website, or through Eastern Christian Publications, or through Amazon.\nFather Chris' Blog\nVisit Father Chris' Blog\nThis work traces the history of Soviet Catholicism from its rich life in 1914 through its tentative fate in the first sixty years of the USSR. It tells of the faithful men and women shackled by dictatorship, doomed to deportation, and abandoned by their own church in the west.\nThe book is available through the Our Lady of Perpetual Help website, through Eastern Christian Publications, or through Amazon.\nYour Donations Make it Possible\nPlease mail your tax-deductible donations to: The Mission Society\n1838 Palomas Drive NE\nAlbuquerque NM 87110\nEmail: admin@missionboronyavo.org AT THIS TIME PLEASE SEND CHECKS TO THE POSTAL ADDRESS. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5363189578056335,"wiki_prob":0.46368104219436646,"text":"War With Iran Depends on a Battle Between John Bolton and Tucker Carlson\nby David Atkins\nThis moment in history would read as an absurd farce if the consequences weren’t deadly serious.\nAs we speak, the United States teeters on an armed conflict with Iran. The consequences of yet another forever war in the Middle East—this time with one of the proudest and most powerful nations in the region—would be ruinous in ways that dwarf even the monumental catastrophes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet only 10 minutes separated the president of the United States from calling off an airstrike that would have reportedly killed roughly 150 Iranians. President Trump was egged on to launch the strike by most of his foreign policy advisers, including and especially National Security Advisor John Bolton, a warmonger so obscene that even the Bush-Cheney administration was forced to jettison him.\nWhy did he stop it? Apparently, because he saw Tucker Carlson argue against it on his Fox News show. During the broadcast, Carlson called Bolton a “bureaucratic tapeworm.”\nSo here we are: the fate of the world depends on a battle for the whimsical favor of an incurious commander-in-chief–waged between Fox News’s favorite racist, protectionist buffoon and the neoconservative Republican old guard’s favorite blood-soaked imperialist hawk.\nHow did we get here? The story almost defies belief. A bigoted real estate tycoon with a reality TV show and a flailing brand who needed a visibility boost successfully tapped into a surging torrent of white male resentment. A revanchist swell of prejudiced anger against pluralistic modernity swept through certain parts of the country alongside a generic anti-establishment backlash, accentuated at a time of middle-class economic decline. That created the conditions for Trump to actually become president, even against all his own expectations. And since ascending the White House, he’s proved that he hates America’s first African-American president so much, that he’ll do just about anything, no matter how irrational, to undo all of Obama’s accomplishments and destroy everything he had built.\nOne of those things was a hard-fought nuclear deal with Iran, which he scuttled for no other reason than that his predecessor had achieved it.\nTrump always acts first, worries about the consequences later or not at all, and wrongly believes that every act of aggression on his part leads inevitably to capitulation by his opponents. (Apparently, no one in the New York social or real estate scene ever had the guts or means to put him in his place over the course of his decades of malfeasance, a fact that says much more about the well-heeled New York social scene and the world of real estate investors generally than it does about Trump’s supposed talents.)\nSo not once did it apparently occur to Trump that Iran might escalate his provocations to the point of armed conflict. It surely occurred to his neoconservative advisers, however, who were only too happy to steer the Mad King into a war he never saw coming. He apparently would have initiated that confrontation, until the intervention of one of his favorite TV hosts.\nIt’s a farce, all right. But a deadly and depressing one in which we are not the audience but unwilling background actors looking on as the lead actors set fire to the stage.\nDavid Atkins\nDavid Atkins is a writer, activist and research professional living in Santa Barbara. He is a contributor to the Washington Monthly's Political Animal and president of The Pollux Group, a qualitative research firm.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line720378"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8246526718139648,"wiki_prob":0.8246526718139648,"text":"OnStage Collection Home\nBrowse and Search Productions\nHome OnStage on Campus Funny Girl\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre's\npresented in sponsorship with\n1998 American Classics\nSummer Theatre V\n\"HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING\"\nThis is a simple story of a young man who climbs\nto a position of great power and of the girl who\nloyally hangs on during his climb and\neventually wins him. In this wonderful musical\nsatire on the Organization Man, his success is\ndue neither to hard work nor any other ancient\nprescriptions for success. He gets ahead by following\nthe simple rules in a book called How To Succeed in\nBusiness Without Really Trying.\nOur hero, J. Pierrepont Finch, runs into many\nobstacles and overcomes them like a modern, comic\nSeigfried: there's his rival, the boss's nephew, the\nmailroom trap, the office wolf, the office party, the\ndangerous secretary, the board meeting, jealous\nexecutives and, of course, the big boss himself.\nFrom the first coffee break to the last elevator\nload on Friday night, office life is never the same once\n\"Ponty'' Finch settles in for the trip to the top.\nBook by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert\nBased on the novel by Shepherd Mead\nMusic and lyrics by Frank Loesser\n\"Crafty, conniving, sneaky, cynical, irreverent, impertinent,\nsly, malicious, and lovely, just lovely\"\n-New York Herald Tribune\n\"Stings mischievously and laughs uproariously ...\nIt belongs to the blue chips among modem musicals.\"\n-New York Times\n\"A big, beautiful, smart, tuneful, and shining musical comedy\"\n- United Press International\nJune 26, 27, July 2, 3, 9, 10, 11 at 8 p.m.\nJune 28, July 5, 12 at 2:30 p.m.\nOn behalf of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort\nWayne and the School of Fine and Performing Arts, I\nwould like to warmly welcome you and your family to the\n1997 summer professional theatre program. We are\nespecially pleased to be hosting the American Classics\nSummer Theatre Series IV with its outstanding\nperformances of both music and drama.\nUnder the artistic leadership of Larry L. Life, professor\nand chair of our theatre department, this program offers\ntalented campus and community performers an opportunity\nto enhance their relationship with the community and to\nhelp reinforce IPFW's role as a center of artistic influence\nin northeastern Indiana. We appreciate your support of the\nfine and performing arts and look forward to an exciting\nand rewarding cultural partnership in the years ahead.\nMichael A. Wartell\nBringing the Best of Broadway to Fort Wayne\nWelcome to the fourth year of the American Classics\nSummer Theatre series. We in the IPFW Department of\nTheatre are very proud of our annual summer presentations\nof the best of the Broadway theatre. Broadway, after all, is\nthe heart of the American theatre and as such, has given us\ncountless memorable musicals and plays.\nOur production this summer is an example of one of the\nmany classic Broadway musicals. It is musical theatre\ntelling the story of itself in its early and formative years.\nFunny Girl is as much a musical history lesson as it is the\nstory of one of the theatre's greatest stars. In this production\nyou will see numbers that are recreations of various musical\ntheatre styles. The early Music Hall-Burlesque offerings of\nthe early 1900s (\"Comet Man\") are followed by the lavish\nZiegfeld showgirl number (\"His Love Makes Me\nBeautiful\"). Of course, no show that chronicles the early\nhistory of musical theatre would be complete without the\ntraditional patriotic comedy-tap number (\"Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat\"),\nand similarly, no show that attempts to tell the story of\nFanny Brice's early career would be complete without the\nsecond-act song that suggests Fanny's closely identified\ntheme song from the later Follies, My Man (\"The Music\nThat Makes Me Dance\").\nIntertwined with all of this theatre history is the story of\nthe immigrants who came to this country at the tum-of-the­century\nand settled in New York's lower east side. The rich\ntradition of the mingling of the cultures is depicted in Rose\nBrice and her poker buddies and in the ensemble number\n(\"Henry Street\").\nAt the center of the show is the story of one of the\ngreatest stars of the American theatre, the celebrated\ncomedienne, Fanny Brice. Many will remember Brice for\nher later success on radio in the 40s and 50s as Baby\nSnooks. Funny Girl was produced on Broadway in the early\n1960s. This was the time that produced such blockbuster\nhits as Fiddler on the Roof; Hello, Dolly!; How to Succeed\nin Business Without Really Trying; Camelot; A Funny Thing\nHappened on the Way to the Forum; and Bye Bye Birdie. All\nof these well-remembered shows made their debut on\nBroadway between 1960 and 1964.\nFunny Girl was announced variously under such titles\nas a Very Special Person, My Man, and The Luckiest People\nbefore David Merrick (who was to have been the show's\ncoproducer) suggested Funny Girl. Numerous script\nalterations-including 40 rewrites of the final scene\nalone-and five opening-night postponements were\nrequired before the show was considered ready for its\nofficial premiere. Film producer Ray Stark, Brice's son-in­law,\nhad long wanted to make a movie based on the Fanny\nBrice story, but he became convinced that it first should be\ndone on the stage. Mary Martin, Anne Bancroft, and Carol\nBurnett had all turned down the leading role before it was\nwon by Barbra Streisand, whose only other' Broadway\nexperience had been in a supporting role in I Can Get It for\nYou Wholesale. During the Broadway run, Streisand was\nfollowed by Mimi Hines.\nIn addition to our bringing you Broadway's biggest and\nbest hits, The American Classics Summer Theatre\nproductions over the past four years have brought some of\nthe most outstanding talents in the area onto the IPFW\ncampus. A large part of our mission is to join students from\nall area schools with community and university members in\nthe presentation of top-quality American theatre. This cross­culturalization\nbenefits all of us and provides memorable\nexperiences for actors, technicians, designers, and audience\nWe are happy to welcome all of our newcomers and\nreturnees. Most of all, we are appreciative of your\nattendance. If this is your first visit to our campus and the\nWilliams Theatre, please come back again and again. Our\nhome is your home, and you are our favorite guest. We love\nyour applause and enthusiastic response to all of our\nperformances. Thank you for choosing American Classics\nSummer Theatre, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy your\nexperience with us.\nLarry L. Life\nChair/ Artistic Director\nIPFW Department of Theatre\n1997 American Classics Summer Theatre Company\nDanielle Andersen-Cathy, Mrs.\nWinston, Female Chorus\nAndersen is a recent graduate of\nSouth Side High School and will be\na theatre major at IPFW in the fall.\nShe is employed at a tanning salon\nand is also a dance instructor and a\ndance coach. She also enjoys\nballroom dancing. Andersen makes\nher PIT debut with Funny Girl.\nEric Brown-Male Chorus\nBrown is an eighth-grader at St.\nJude's School and enjoys swimming,\nplaying the piano, acting, singing,\nand dancing. He has received the\nPiano Guild Award two years in a\nrow and has been involved in dance\nfor five years. He recently made a\nmusic video for McMillen Health\nCenter. This is Brown's third\nappearance on PIT's stage,\npreviously performing in Hello,\nDolly! and Gypsy. He has also been\nwith the Fort Wayne Youtheatre\nperforming in the Best Christmas\nPageant Ever for two years, Alice in\nWonderland, and Laura lngells\nWilder.\nBelinda R. Buckler-Milliner\nBuckler will graduate from IPFW's\ntheatre program this fall with an\nemphasis in costume design. She has\ndesigned for numerous shows here at\nPIT, most recently Waiting For\nGodot. She is employed at PIT's\ncostume shop and received the 1997\nKenworthy Scholarship.\nChad W. Burnworth-Paul, Dance\nBurnworth returns to the PIT stage\nafter performing as Baby John in\nWest Side Story with the Fort Wayne\nPhilharmonic. He is a graduate of\nWest Noble High School and is\nemployed at Frank's Nursery and\nCrafts. He hopes to make landscape\ndesign and horticulture his career.\nTimothy Byers-Technical Director\nByers is the resident technical\ndirector for Purdue-Indiana Theatre\nand has been an invaluable asset to\nthe Mainstage and Studio series\nduring the academic year. This\nsummer marks his third association\nwith the American Classics Summer\nTheatre. Byers has a degree in\ntheatre from Ball State University,\nwhere he worked in numerous\ntechnical capacities for their summer\ntheatre. He is a native of Logansport\nand considers his active involvement\nwith his five children to be one of his\nmost prized possessions.\nBrandon Conley-Dance Ensemble\nConley, an eighth-grader at\nMemorial Park Middle School, is\ninvolved in the Show Choir 78\nEdition, which received a second\nplace at the Opryland Show Choir\nContest in April. He makes his PIT\ndebut with Funny Girl and is very\nexcited about being here. \"I would\nlike to thank my parents and my\nmusic teachers, Jeanette Snyder and\nKirby Volz. Without them I wouldn't\nbe where I am today. Thanks!\"\nColette Cress-Female Chorus\nCress will be a freshman this fall at\nSouth Side High School, where she\nwill keep busy with cheerleading, the\nspeech team, show choir, and\nperforming in shows. Cress was last\nseen at PIT in the chorus of Hello,\nDolly! and was Baby June in Gypsy.\nShe has also been in Oklahoma!,\nHans Christian Anderson, To Kill a\nMockingbird, and Charlottes Web.\nHer credits at Memorial Park Middle\nSchool include Bye Bye Birdie,\nDavid and Lisa, Music Man, On The\nRazzle, Damn Yankees, and Anything\nGoes.\nTommy D' Annunzio-Scene Shop\nD' Annunzio graduated from IPFW\nwith B.A. in theatre and an emphasis\nin acting. Some of his credits include\nThe World Goes 'Round, Burn This,\nWest Side Story, A Chorus Line, An\nEvening of Fractured Shakespeare,\nThe Fantasticks, A Flea In Her Ear,\nThe Rainmaker, and Damn Yankees.\nHe is hoping to move to New York\nlater this year to pursue his\nprofessional career.\nNoelle E. Davis-Box Office Staff\nDavis is an IPFW senior theatre\nmajor. Among her many\nperformances are Minnie Fay in\nHello, Dolly!, Connie in A Chorus\nLine, Whitney in A Piece of My\nHeart, and Juliet in Romeo and\nJuliet. She received the Withers\nScholarship for 1996 and spent the\npast two semesters studying in New\nYork and North Carolina. This next\nyear she will be back at PIT to\nportray Little Red Riding Hood in\nthe spring production of Into The\nWoods for her senior performance\nAudra Eberly-Dance Ensemble\nEberly makes her PIT debut in\nFunny Girl, but has been in two\nproductions at the Fort Wayne Civic\nTheatre: The King and/, and\nBrigadoon. She has had 11 years of\ntap, jazz, and ballet from Karen Ehle\nNewman and is currently an assistant\nteacher. A junior at Whitko High\nSchool, Eberly has studied with the\nFort Wayne Ballet and plans to\ncontinue in dance.\nPatrick Foster-Box Office Staff\nFoster comes to IPFW after spending\n1994-95 studying musical theatre at\nRoosevelt University in Chicago. He\nis currently pursuing a liberal arts\ndegree. Foster has appeared in Arena\nDinner Theatre's production of\nYou're A Good Man Charlie Brown\nas Schroeder, and in Fort Wayne\nYoutheatre's production of The\nOutsiders as Johnny.\nJane Rebekah Frazier-Mrs.\nStrakosh\nFrazier is a sophomore in the\ntheatre department at IPFW and a\npart-time assistant manager at\nThings Remembered. She was last\nseen in The World Goes 'Round at\nPIT and has performed in\nEleemosynary, Damn Yankees, and\nGypsy. Her Civic Theatre credits\ninclude The King and I, Man of\nLamancha, Joseph 94, Oklahoma!,\nEvita, and Hans Christian\nAnderson. She also has helped out\nbackstage at PIT and the Civic\nTheatre. The Snider High School\ngraduate has recently returned from\nthe American Music and Dance\nAcademy in New York.\nLuke Hancock-Tom Keeney\nHancock has been seen in numerous\nproductions throughout the Fort\nWayne area. His last appearance with\nPIT was as Officer Krupke in West\nSide Story. He is a senior at South\nSide High School and is on the\nspeech team. He has received the\nSpectrum Spotlight Award for\nexcellence in drama, the \"B izzie\"\nBromley Award for excellence in\nspeech, and a Rising Star in\nPerforming Arts Award. This past\nyear Hancock went to nationals and\nCatholic nationals for speech. He\nhopes to continue to be active in the\nperforming arts and to possibly teach\nwhen he is older.\nHeath Hays-Properties Supervisor,\nScene Sh~p Staff\nHays is an IPFW theatre major with\nan emphasis in scenic design. Some\nof his credits include Burn This,\nEleemosynary, and James Dean: The\nBoy From Fairmount. He has\nperformed in An Evening of\nFractured Shakespeare, Equus,\nA Flea In Her Ear, Tent Meeting, The\nRainmaker, Damn Yankees, and\nRomeo and Juliet. His next project\nwill be this fall as scenic designer for\nUncle Vanya.\nJohn C. Hermes-Musical Director,\nCostume Shop Staff\nHermes is an IPFW sophomore\nmajoring in theatre with an emphasis\nin acting and directing. He has been\nthe musical director at PIT for Hair,\nGypsy, Oh, Dad ... , Pippin, The\nF antastics, and The World Goes\n'Round; at Arena Dinner Theatre for\nOnce Upon A Mattress, Chicago, and\nDames at Sea; and at the Civic\nTheatre for Pump Boys and Dinettes,\nTaffetas, and Prelude To A Kiss. He\nhas performed in The World Goes\n'Round, Dracula, A Chorus Line, A\nFlea In Her Ear, Romeo and Juliet,\nPump Boys and Dinettes, and Oh,\nDad .... His next directing project\nwill be Daddy's Dyin ', Who s Got\nThe Will? this fall in the Studio\nTheatre. He will also be musical\ndirector for PIT's 1998 spring\nproduction of Into The Woods.\nMelissa Hershberger-Emma\nHershberger makes her PIT debut\nthis summer. She is a senior at South\nSide High School, where she has\nreceived various awards including\nthe Drama Scholarship two years in a\nrow. She has spoken at school board\nmeetings and competed at Catholic\nnationals for speech. She has also\nbeen in the Honors Choir for three\nyears at the Fort Wayne Choral\nFestival. Hershberger wants to major\nin criminal justice and minor in\ntheatre when she goes to college.\nCassandra C. Holst-Mrs. Meeker\nHolst, a Canterbury High School\njunior, makes her PIT debut this\nsummer as Mrs. Meeker. A fan of\ndancing, singing, theatre, and\nspeech, she has performed as Miss\nJohnson in Manley, Mother in 0 Je\nJigs and Juleps, Lynette in 1940s\nRadio Hour, and Kate Gardner in\nSmile at Canterbury. She has\nreceived the most-promising speaker\naward in 0.1. Speaking and received\na first at state JCL in English oratory.\nCraig A. Humphrey-Costume\nHumphrey has worked off-Broadway\nas assistant to Laura Crow on the\nCircle Repertory Theatre production\nof Lanford Wilson's Burn This. He\nhas designed costumes in\nMassachusetts, Wisconsin,\nMississippi, and Pennsylvania. His\nexperience includes The Normal\nHeart for the Pittsburgh Public\nTheatre and six seasons with\nTheatre-By-The-Grove. He is an\nIPFW associate professor of theatre,\nresident costume designer for\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre, associate\nchair of the department, and head of\nthe design program. Locally,\nHumphrey has designed for Red,\nHot, and Cole at First Presbyterian\nTheatre and for L'Histore Du Soldat\nfor the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. He\nhas also designed Bedroom Farce for\nthe Touchstone Theatre in Chicago.\nHis most recent works at IPFW\ninclude The World Goes 'Round;\nWest Side Story; Dracula; Hello,\nDolly!; A Chorus Line; A Flea In\nHer Ear; and The Glass Menagerie.\nHe has directed The F antastics, Once\nUpon A Mattress, Forum, and will be\ndirecting Into The Woods this spring.\nHumphrey has an M.F.A. in costume\ndesign from the University of\nMassachusetts and a B.F.A. in\ntheatre performance from Indiana\nUniversity of Pennsylvania.\nNatalie Y. Jones-Mrs. Brice\nJones returns to the PIT stage after\nappearing in The World Goes\n'Round. Some of her other numerous\ntheatre credits include Glad Hand in\nWest Side Story with PIT and the\nFort Wayne Philharmonic, and\nQueen Aggravain in Once upon a\nMattress at Arena Dinner Theatre. At\nArena, she has received awards for\noutstanding supporting actress for\nQueen Aggravain and outstanding\nlead actress for Mildred in\nSquabbles. Jones is a theatre student\nat IPFW, pursuing a B.A. She hopes\nher degree and experience will lead\nher to Broadway, but in the\nmeantime, she enjoys collecting\nAngela Lansbury paraphernalia.\nJ. Tom Keel-Adolph, Mr. Vance\nKeel is employed at the Indiana Auto\nAuction and enjoys tools and\nreading. In his spare time, he\nvolunteers for the Fort Wayne Civic\nTheatre and would like to someday\nbecome an accomplished amateur\nactor.\n~GEORGE D. I,\n& ASSOCJ'f';f!sll~\nP.O. Box 234, Suite A 526 State St., New Haven, IN 46774\n219-486-WINE\nBill Kerchevai-Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.\nKercheval ~as worn many hats for\nthe IPFW theatre department over\nthe years. With the opening of Hair\nand the new Williams Theatre in\n1993, he served as resident house\nmanager and production\nphotographer for both Studio and\nWilliams theatres until the end of the\nsummer of 1996. He has continued\nthe photography duties, and during\nthe 1994 Classics Season, was\nevening scene shop foreman for\nGypsy and Picnic set construction.\nPrior to Hair, Kercheval was house\nmanager and photographer for Six\nCharacters in Search of an Author,\nand photographer and member of the\nrunning crew for A Streetcar Named\nDesire. Recently, he wore yet\nanother hat as follow-spot operator\nfor The World Goes 'Round. \"Being\ncast as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in Funny\nGirl represents my Fort Wayne\nacting debut. I am thrilled to be a\npart of this fine cast and hope that I\nhave performed to everyone's\nexpectations. Enjoy!\"\nMarty Kercheval-Stage Manager\nKercheval has worked in a technical\ncapacity for The World Goes 'Round;\nDolly!; Damn Yankees; Who s Afraid\nof Virginia Wotf?; and other plays at\nArena Dinner Theatre, the Civic\nTheatre, Open Door Theatre, and\nFirst Presbyterian Theatre.\nRobert M. Koharchik-Guest\nKoharchik has spent the past few\nyears designing for the Indianapolis\nCivic Theatre as well as the Red Bam\nPlayhouse in Saugutuck, Mich. His\ndesign credits include Show Boat,\nThe Glass Menagerie, The Pajama\nGame, The All Nite Strut, Rumors,\nPump Boys and Dinettes, Steel\nMagnolias, Nunsense, A Funny Thing\nHappened on the Way to the Forum,\nI'm Not Rappaport, A Midsummer\nNights Dream, Cabaret, and The\nCrucible. Some of Koharchik's\ndesigns have been exhibited at New\nYork's Lincoln Center.\nRyan M. Koharchik-Guest\nAfter receiving his Master of Fine\nArts in lighting design from Boston\nUniversity, Koharchik returned to the\nMidwest in the spring of 1993 as a\nguest faculty artist for Ball State\nUniversity's summer season. Since\nthat time, he has worked as a lighting\ndesigner in Chicago, Indianapolis,\nColumbus (Ohio), and Michigan.\nSome of his many credits include\ndesigning Tom Leopold's world\npremiere of Henry and the Second\nGunman at the Griffin Theatre in\nChicago, the New World Theatre's\nproduction of Death and the Maiden,\nthe Red Bam Playhouse's 1994\nsummer season, and The Glass\nMenagerie at the Indianapolis Civic\nTheatre. Koharchik has also worked\nat the Goodman Theatre and with\nDance Kaleidoscope.\nSarah N. Lankenau-Costume\nLankenau is an IPFW junior\nin costume design. She has\nperformed in many of PIT's shows,\nincluding West Side Story, Dracula,\nA Chorus Line, The F antasticks, and\nA Flea In Her Ear. She has designed\nfor Indiana Voices and has helped\nout backstage for many shows. She\nis very excited about her next\nproject, Uncle Vanya, which she will\ndesign this fall at PIT.\nLarry L. Life-Artistic\nLife is professor and chair of the\nIPFW Department of Theatre, where\nhe has been a member of the faculty\nsince 1 971. In 1992 he was given the\nIndiana Theatre Association's\nOutstanding Artist-Educator Award\nfor his 23 years of service as a\ndirector/choreographer, actor, and\ntheatre educator in Indiana. Life\nworked professionally in New York\nin the 1 960s, appearing in the revival\nof Harold Rome's Pins and Needles\nat the Round-a-Bout Theatre and off­Broadway\nwith Fran and Barry\nWeissler's National Theatre\nCompany. He has appeared in the\nfilms The Detective with Frank\nSinatra and Me Natalie with Patty\nDuke and has worked with Madeline\nKahn and Roberta Flack. He has\nbeen director/choreographer for\nmusical theatre productions at Black\nHills Playhouse, Louisiana State\nUniversity, Wabash College,\nUniversity of Nevada at Las Vegas,\nTulane University, and Miami\nUniversity at Oxford-Ohio, and has\nstudied musical theatre with Lehman\nEngel at the Goodspeed Opera\nHouse in East Haddam, Cpnn. He\nhas studied acting with Utah Hagen\nand Charles Nelson Riley and dance\nwith Matt Mattox, J aimie Rogers,\nCharles Weidman, and Robert\nLunnon. He is listed with Who's\nWho in Entertainment. His\nproductions of Dames At Sea and\nHair were granted the Amoco Award\nof Excellence and selected for\npresentation at the Kennedy Center\nin Washington, D.C., for the\nAmerican College Theatre Festival.\nLife has acted, directed, and\nchoreographed for the Fort Wayne\nCivic Theatre, the Fort Wayne\nPhilharmonic, Arena Dinner Theatre,\nand First Presbyterian Theatre. He\nhas conceived, directed, and\nchoreographed nine original musical\nreviews for the Fort Wayne Civic\nTheatre Guild, and one in 1994 for\nthe Fort Wayne Bicentennial\nAnnaL. Mossburg-Jenny, Dance\nEnsemble, Set Construction\nMossburg has been seen recently in\nThe World Goes 'Round at PIT. Her\nother musicals roles at PIT include\nGraziella in West Side Story and Judy\nin A Chorus Line, as well as parts in\nDamn Yankees and Hair. In addition,\nshe has been seen at Arena Dinner\nTheatre in Once upon a Mattress and\nwas in the original play, In The\nCompany of Men at the Studio\nTheatre. This fall Mossburg will be a\nsenior in the IPFW theatre\ndepartment and will portray\nCharlotte Corday in Marat-Sade as\nher senior performance project. She\nhas been involved backstage with the\nbuilding of the sets, as floor crew\nand light crew for numerous shows,\nand as a member of the Funny Girl\nset construction crew.\nSandy McNeil-Costume Shop\nMcNeil has worked in the Purdue­Indiana\nTheatre costume shop for the\npast four years on shows such as\nDamn Yankees; The Rainmaker; A\nChorus Line; Hello, Dolly!;\nDracula; and West Side Story. She is\nretired from GTE Data Services, and\nher hobbies include sewing, crafts,\nand cross-stitch.\nGavino C. Olvera-Scene Shop\nOlvera is an IPFW senior majoring\nin theatre. He has performed in West\nSide Story, A Chorus Line, An\nThe Fantastics, A Flea In Her Ear,\nOlvera hopes to pursue a career in\nacting after graduation.\nSara Pauley-Maude, Mimsey, Mrs.\nVance, Dance Ensemble\nPauley, a sophomore at Indiana\nUniversity Bloomington pursuing a\nB.A. in drama, makes her debut with\nIPFW in Funny Girl. She has\nappeared in The Boy Who Ate the\nMoon at IUB, and has been seen in\nFunny Girl, Pippin, The Pajama\nGame, West Side Story, Dark of the\nMoon, and The Night of January\n16th at Northrop High School. She\nhas appeared in the films of In The\nCompany of Men, Ninth Day, and\nSave the Bones for Henry Jones. She\nwas also a Sterling Sentinel nominee\nin drama. Pauley would like to\npursue acting on a professional level\nin New York and Chicago.\nChristina Pentsos-Mrs. Nadler,\nPentsos returns to the PIT stage after\nbeing in Damn Yankees. She was also\nHunyek in Chicago at Arena Dinner\nTheatre. An IPFW junior pursuing a\nB.S. in health science, she enjoys\nsoccer and dance, and wishes to\ncontinue performing. Pentsos hopes to\nwork in the medical field after college.\nBrenda Porter-Mrs. O'Malley\nPorter returns to PIT after appearing in\nThe World Goes 'Round. She is\ncurrently pursuing a doctorate at the\nAdler Institute of Psychology and is\nemployed at Lutheran College. She has\nappeared in many shows throughout\nFort Wayne, including favorite roles as\nthe Mexican woman in Human\nComedy, and the soprano soloist in\nSweeney Todd at the Civic Theatre,\nPeggy in Godspell at First\nPresbyterian, Christine Donovan in\nFollies, and a soloist in On Broadway\nat PIT. Porter has worked\nprofessionally at the Circle Theatre in\nIndianapolis in Yuletide Celebration as\na singer/dancer.\nBrian Porter-Snub Taylor, Ziegfeld\nTenor, Dance Ensemble\nAlthough Porter makes his PIT debut\nin Funny Girl, he is not new to the\ntheatre. His credits include Dickon in\nSecret Garden both at Civic Theatre\nand at Grey Lite, and Closer Than Ever\nat Grey Lite. At South Side High\nSchool he has perfonned in West Side\nStory as Big Deal, Kiss Me Kate as Bill\nCalhoun/Lucentio, and Fame as Nick\nPiazza. He has also done backstage\nwork for Civic Theatre. He is a 1997\ngraduate of South Side High School\nwhere he was involved in the Vocal\nEnsemble, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble,\nand the Show Choir. Porter will be\nentering IPFW in the fall to pursue a\nB.A. in theatre. After that, he hopes to\nbecome a professional actor.\nGary L. Reed-John, Stage Manager\nReed is a senior at the IPFW\nDepartment of Theatre and will\ngraduate this December. His PIT\ncredits include director of lnsence for\nShiva, one of the three one-act plays\nproduced for Indiana Voices in the\nStudio Theatre, Baptistin in A Flea in\nHer Ear, and Balthasaar and Friar John\nin Romeo and Juliet. He is self­employed\nand enjoys rock climbing\nand golf. Reed hopes to find work in\nprofessional acting when he is finished\nwith school.\nKathy Robertson-Polly, Georgia,\nRobertson makes her PIT debut in\nFunny Girl. This will be her second\nyear at IPFW, but her first year as a\ntheatre major. Robertson is in her\nsecond year on the IPFW dance team\nand this year will serve as cocaptain.\nThis summer she will be\nchoreographing for the Rochester\nHigher School Dance Team. This 1996\ngraduate of Carroll High School is\nemployed at Bowtique Gallery and\nGifts. She hopes to become a\nprofessional actress and a dancer.\nLynne L. Steiner-Assistant Stage\nSteiner, an English teacher at Carroll\nHigh School, has a B.S. in English\neducation and a minor in theatre and is\nworking on her master's in secondary\neducation. Steiner has performed in\nplays and musicals throughout high\nschool and college and is in the process\nof learning more about directing and\nstage managing so she can finalize her\ntheatre teaching license and\nprofessionalize her master's degree.\nJohn S. Strachan-Nick Arnstein\nStrachan is a theatre major pursuing a\ndegree in theatre education at IPFW\nand is employed at Kittles Home\nFurniture. He was last seen at PIT in\nthe World Goes 'Round, and his other\nPIT credits include Riff in West Side\nStory with the Fort Wayne\nPhilharmonic, and Burton in Bum This\nin the Studio Theatre.\nElizabeth A. Wagar-Bubbles, Vera,\nDance Ensemble, Set Construction\nWagar is a junior at IPFW's theatre\ndepartment and was last seen in The\nWorld Goes 'Round. Her many theatre\ncredits at PIT include Minnie in West\nSide Story, Lucy in Dracula, I Hope I\nGet It Chorus in a Chorus Line,\nTrooper in Equus. Her credits at Civic\nTheatre include Brigadoon, Joseph 94,\nOklahoma!, Oliver, and at Arena, Once\nupon a Mattress. Having worked\nbackstage for numerous shows, Wagar\ndiscovered that she enjoys stage\nmanagement and hopes to make it her\nprofession.\nSynopsis of Scenes\nTime: Shortly before and after World War I\nFanny's dressing room-the New Amsterdam Theatre\nBackstage-Keeney's Music Hall\nIn front of Keeney's Music Hall\nBackyard-Fanny's neighborhood\nOn stage-Keeney's Music Hall\nBackstage and chorus dressing room\nMrs. Brice's kitchen\nBackstage-the New York Theatre\nOn stage-the New York Theatre\nIn front of Follies curtain\nHenry Street\nInterior of Mrs. Brice's Saloon\nA Private dining room-Baltimore\nBaltimore railroad terminal\nThere will be a fifteen-minute intermission.\nThe Arnstein Long Island mansion\nMrs .. Brice's saloon\nBackstage-the New Amsterdam Theatre\nOnstage-the New Amsterdam Theatre\nFanny's dressing room\nStudy-the Arnstein house\nKlaehn, Fahl & Melton\n420 W. Wayne St.\n6424 Winchester Road\nThe cast of Funny Girl\nFanny Brice ................................................................... Leslie Beauchamp\nJohn, Stage Manager ................................................................. Gary Reed\nEmma ......................................................................... Melissa Hershberger\nMrs. Brice ......................................................................... Natalie Y. Jones\nMrs. Strakosh .......................................................... .Jane Rebekah Frazier\nMrs. Meeker ..................................................................... Cassandra Holst\nMrs. O'Malley ...................................................................... Brenda Porter\n·Tom Keeney ........................................................................ Luke Hancock\nEddie Ryan .............................................................................. Gary Lanier\nSnub Taylor ............................................................................. Brian Porter\nBubbles ............................................................ ............ Elizabeth A. Wagar\nPolly ................................................................................. Kathy Robertson\nMaude .................................................................................... Sarah Pauley\nNick Arnstein ...................................................................... .John Strachan\nFlorenz Ziegfield Jr ............................................................. Bill Kercheval\nMimsey .................................................................................. Sarah Pauley\nZiegfield Tenor ........................................................................ Brian Porter\nAdolph ................................................................................... Thomas Keel\nMrs. Nadler ..................................................................... Christina Pentsos\nPaul, Waiter ...................................................................... Chad Burnworth\nCathy ............................................................................. Danielle Andersen\nVera .............................................................................. Elizabeth A. Wagar\nJenny ..................................................................... , ....... AnnaL. Mossburg\nGeorgia ............................................................................ Kathy Robertson\nMr. Renaldi ........................................................................... Brian Wagner\nMrs. Winston ................................................................. Danielle Andersen\nMrs. Vance ............................................................................... Sara Pauley\nMr. Vance .............................................................................. Thomas Keel\nChorus ................................................................................... Colette Cress\nJohn C. Hermes, conductor\nJodi Hakes, piano\nSue Devito, clarinet and saxophone\nNancy Drew, flute and piccolo\nKevin Drew, trumpet\nEd King, trombone\nJody Smith, bass\nSean McBryde, percussion\nEric Brown\nBrandon Conley\nAudra Eberly\nFunny Girl produced through special arrangement with Tams-Witmark,\n560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022-6828.\nMusical Numbers fl\nAct One Act Two\nOverture .. ..... ......................................................... Orchestra Entr'acte ............................................................... Orchestra\nPoker Chant .......................... Mrs. Brice and Mrs. Strakosh Sadie, Sadie ............................................ Fanny and Chorus\nIf A Girl Isn't Pretty .................. Mrs. Strakosh, Mrs. Brice, Find Yourself a Man ....................... ........ Eddie, Mrs. Brice,\nMrs. Meeker, Mrs. O'Malley, ................................................................ and Mrs. Strakosh\nEddie, and Chorus Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat ............................ Eddie, Jenny, and Chorus\nI'm The Greatest Star ................................................. Fanny Who Are You Now? ................................................... Fanny\nReprise: I'm The Greatest Star ............ ......... ............. Fanny Don't Rain On My Parade ............................................ Nick\nComet Man ............................................. Fanny and Chorus The Music That Makes Me Dance ............................. Fanny\nWho Taught Her Everything .............. Eddie and Mrs. Brice Finale Act Two ........................ ................................... Fanny\nHis Love Makes Me Beautiful ................. ......... Tenor Solo,\nChorus, and Fanny\nI Want To Be Seen With You Tonight ........ Nick and Fanny\nHenry Street .................................. -........................ .... Chorus\nPeople ......................................................................... Fanny\nYou Are Woman, I Am Man ...................... Nick and Fanny\nDon't Rain On My Parade ............... .............. .... ........ Fanny\n© /997 Norwest Bank Indiana, N.A.\nFor a great theatrical performance, you couldn't be in a better\nplace than at Purdue-Indiana Theatre.\nFor an outstanding banking performance, you couldn't do better\nthan to head toward Norwest Bank, where you'll find the full range\nof financial products and personal attentive service you'll need to\ntake you where you want to go.\n•·•·•~•·•· NOIIItiWSf •••••\n··~··® To The Nth Degree®\nAmerican Classics Summer Theatre Production Staff\nArtistic Staff:\nDirector/Choreographer .......................... ..... ................ ..... .... ....................... .... Larry L. Life\nMusical Director .......................................................................................... John C. Hermes\nTap Choreographer ................................................................................. Anna L. Mossburg\nScenic Designer ................. ........ .. .. .. ............................................................. Rob Koharchik\nCostume Designer .................................................. ...... ......................... Craig A. Humphrey\nLighting Designer ....................................................................................... Ryan Koharchik\nSound Designer .......................................................... ....................................... Tom Temple\nTechnical Director ......................... ................................................................ Timothy Byers\nStage Manager ........................................................................................... Marty Kercheval\nAssistant Stage Manager. ..................................... ..... .. .. ................... Lynn L. Kinzer-Steiner\nRehearsal Pianist ................................... ............. ....... ... ....................................... Jodi Hakes\nDance Captain ............... .............................................................................. Anna Mossburg\nProperties Supervisor .............. · ............................................................................ Heath Hays\nProperties ........................................... Tommy D' Annunzio, Heath Hayes, Anna Mossburg\nMaster Carpenter .... ....................................................................................... Gavino Olvera\nScenic Construction ........................................................ ..................... Tommy D' Annunzio\nCostume Shop Supervisor .................. ............... .... ................................... Sandra L. McNeil\nCostume Construction ............................................... .John C. Hermes, Sarah R. Lankenau\nMilliner ................................................................................................... Belinda R. Buckler\nWardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................. Sarah R. Lankenau\nMaster Electrician .............................................................................. ....... .... .. .. Ryan Berkes\nLight Board Operator .............................................. ......................................... Ryan Berkes\nSound Technician ............................................................................................. Tom Temple\nBox Office Manager .......................... ............... ................................................. Gary Lanier\nBox Office Staff ................................. Noelle E. Davis, Elizabeth A. Wagar, Patrick Foster\nPhotographer ·······························································.:: ······························· ·Bill Kercheval\nDepartment of Theatre Secretary .................................................................... Nancy Blasch\nPoster Design .......................................................................................... IPFW Publications\nBowtique Gallery and Gifts, Bill Carlton, The News-Sentinel; Steve Penhollow, The Journal Gazette;\nand Charles Rogers, Rogers Formal Wear; Bowtique Gallery and Gifts\nThe photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any\ndevice for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written\npermission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by\nejection, and violations may render the offender liable for money damages.\nLet your castaway items be part of the cast. As you clean your attics, closets, and garages, remember that\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre is always in need of used furniture, clothing, and housewares. All such donations\nare eagerly accepted and tax deductible. Call 219-481-6551 for additional information.\nThe Real Fannie Brice\nFannie Brice, born Fannie Borach on New York's Lower\nEast Side in 1891, made her stage debut at age 14 in Brooklyn\nduring amateur night at Keeney's Theatre. She worked in\nburlesque halls until 1910 when producer Florenz Ziegfeld\nasked to see her. Brice claimed she was 17 when she signed\nher exclusive eight-year contract with Ziegfeld. Technically\nBrice's contract was thus illegal, so Ziegfeld signed her for\n$7 5 a week the first year and $100 the next year. Brice was so\nexcited about her contract that she showed it to everyone.\nAfter she wore out eight contracts showing it around, Ziegfeld\nrefused to give her another one.\nBrice performed in seven Follies between 1910 and 1923\nand in several Midnight Frolic editions (1915 to 1921). Brice\nwas then in the Music Box Revue (1924) and toured in\nvaudeville ( 1925-26). She was also in a few Broadway shows and in movies, including The\nGreat Ziegfeld (1936) and The Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Following Ziegfe1d's death, Brice starred\nin the Shubert-produced Ziegeld Follies (1934 and 1936). She first appeared as Baby Snooks in\nthe 1934 Follies.\nBrice's radio career started in 1932 but really took off in 1936, after she appeared as Baby\nSnooks. Her Baby Snooks character was on the radio almost continuously until 1948. In 1944\nBrice got her own half-hour show on CBS and earned $6,000 a week.\nBrice had her brief first marriage to Frank White annulled. Then, from 1918 to 1927, she was\nmarried to Nicky Arnstein and had two children. In 1929 she married showman Billy Rose,\nwhom she divorced nine years later .. According to Billy Rose, Fannie told him \"she married\nFrank White, the barber, because he smelled so good; she married Nicky Arnstein because he\nlooked so good; ·and she married me because I thought so good.\" In the 1920s, Brice had her\nname changed from \"Fannie\" to \"Fanny.\" She eventually gave up performing for art collecting,\ndress designing, and interior decorating. She was 59 when she died in 1951, five days after\nsuffering a stroke. The films Funny Girl ( 1968) and Funny Lady ( 1975), both starring Barbra\nStreisand, were based on Brice's life.\n1997-98 Purdue-Indiana Theatre Season\nMainstage in Williams Theatre\nThe Persecution\nand Assassination\nof Jean Paul Marat\nas Performed by\nthe Inmates of the\nAsylum of Charenton Under the\nDirection of the Marquis De Sade\n(Marat-Sade)\nby Peter Weiss\nEnglish version by Geoffrey Skelton\nverse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell\ndirected by Larry L. Life\n''Total theatre\" is the expression critics\nhave used to describe this unique\ntheatrical event. The Marquis De Sade,\nwhen an inmate of the asylum of\nCharenton, staged plays that were\nperformed by fellow inmates. With this\npoint of departure, Peter Weiss has\ncreated one of the most powerful and\nexciting plays of the century, which\nreceived the Tony Award and New York\nCritics Award for best play.\nOct. 10, 11, 17, 18 at 8 p.m.\nby Anton Chekhov\nguest director to be\nA striking, indelible\npicture of Chekhov's\nRussia, and the memory\nof his rich, bittersweet, and deeply\nhuman characters. An uncle has a\nfrustrating passion for a lovely young\nlady, who is married to an old and ill\nman. She, in turn, is attracted to a doctor\nwho attends her husband. And the\nyoung miss of the house, in her turn, is -\nirrevocably and hopelessly in love with\nthe same doctor. A tender and\noftentimes funny story of the foibles of\nlove and the intrigues of passion.\nNov. 21, 22, 28, 29 at 8 p.m.\nby Mart Crowley\nRecently on broadway\nin a new and major revival, this candid\nand shocking depiction of gay life in the\n1960s still creates controversy and\nheated discussion in the '90s. A group of\ngay men gather to celebrate their friend\nHarold's birthday. The celebration turns\ninto an evening of high camp and human\nexperience. The play has riveting power\nthat remorselessly peels away the\npretensions of its characters and is\nuncompromising in its honesty.\nFeb. 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8 p.m.\nmusic and lyrics by\nbook by James Lapine\ndirected by Craig A.\nmusical direction by John C. Hermes\nchoreography by Larry L. Life\nInterweaving an intriguing mix of\nCinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, The\nBaker's Wife, Jack and the Beanstalk,\nand Rapunzel (with cameo appearances\nby Sleeping Beauty and Snow White) is\na multilayered plot that ends happily in\nact one. The musical then explores\n\"happily ever after'' in act two as previous\nactions come home to roost-with a\nvengeance as well as wit, melody,\nsentiment, and a musical company of\nspecial characters.\nApril 17, 18, 24, 25, May 1, 2 at 8 p.m.\nHigh school matinees: April 20, 23 at\nIPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre\nMusic by Jule Styne,\nLyrics by Bob Merrill\nBook by Isobel Lennart\nfrom an original story by Miss Lennart\nProduced for the Broadway stage by Ray Stark\nNew York production supervised by Jerome Robbins\nOriginal production directed by Garson Kanin\nDirected and choreographed by Larry L. Life\nin the Williams Theatre\nMusical Direction ......................................................... John C. Hermes\nScenic Design ............................................................ Robert Koharchik\nCostume Design ..................................................... Craig A. Humphrey\nLighting Design ........................................................... Ryan Koharchik\nSound Design ..................................................................... Tom Temple\nFunny Girl is produced by arrangement with, and the music and dialogue material furnished by\nTams-Witmark Music Library Inc., 560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022\nThe photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device\nfor such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written\npermission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection,\nand violations may render the offender liable for money damages.\nOrder form for season tickets or season passes to\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre Mainstage Series\nName (please print) ___________________ _\nAddress __________________________________ __\nZip _______________ _ Phone{ __ ) ____ _\nSeason ticket orders fill in the following information:\npreferred dates\n(circle one for each production)\nThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean The Boys in the Band\nPaul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Feb. 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8 p.m.\nthe Asylum of Charenton Under the\nOct.1 0, 11 , 17, 18 at 8 p.m.\nApril17, 18, 24, 25, May 1, 2 at 8 p.m.\nPrice: Adult $36-a $4 savings over individual tickets.\nSenior Citizen $28-an $8 sav1ngs over individual tickets.\nSeating: (indicate first and second preferred seating location)\nHouse right center, rows A through F\nHouse left center, rows A through F\nHouse right, rows A through G\nHouse left, rows A through G\nTickets will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and specific seat\nnumbers will be assigned at the discretion of the management.\nNote: A Studio Theatre voucher will be issued to each Mainstage Season ticket/pass\nholder. The voucher can be exchanged for a ticket to any of the productions of the Studio\nTheatre Season. Reservations to Studio Theatre productions must be made in advance of\nopening. Seating in the Studio Theatre is festival seating; no specific seats are assigned.\nGift certificates are now available at $12 each for Mainstage shows.\nCall the box office at 219-481-6555 for more information.\nI enclose my check (payable to Purdue-Indiana Theatre) in the\namount of $ for season tickets/season passes.\n(Please, no cash or credit card orders.)\nMail order form and check to:\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre, Williams Theatre Box Office, IPFW,\n2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499\nIf you would like your tickets mailed, please include a self-addressed,\nstamped envelope. Other_wise, tickets can be picked up at the box office.\nStudio Theatre in Kettler Hall\nby Jean Anouilh\nA modern adaptation of\nthe classic Greek\ntragedy. The play's\nparallels to modern\ntimes are exciting and\nprovocative. What is\nmoral order? Does the\nindividual have an obligation to pursue\nthat which is righteous and good even\nwhen doing so defies the social and\npolitical mores of the time? Does\npower corrupt, forcing those in power\nto destroy anyone that gets in their\nway? The dimensions of the play are\nnoble and its intentions uncompromising.\nSept. 25, 26, 27 at 8 p.m.\nHigh school matinees: Sept. 25, 26\nat 1 0:30 a.m.\nThis masterful comedy,\nconcerning the reunion\n~ of a family gathered to\n~ await the imminent\ndeath of their patriarch,\nis the story of the rebirth of the spirit of\nthe family unit. Set in a small Texas\ntown, the hilarious action is fast paced\nand filled with tense moments, funny\nmoments, and characters you care\nOct. 30, 31, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.\nThe Effects of Gamma\nRays on Man-1 n-The­Moon-\nby Paul Zindel\nWinner of the Pulitzer\nPrize, the .Obie Award,\nand the New York Drama Critics Circle\nAward as best American play of the\nseason, this play is a powerful and\nmoving study of an embittered,\nvindictive widow and her two young\ndaughters. It is a testament to the\nhuman spirit and proves that\nsomething beautiful and full of promise\ncan emerge from even the most\nbarren, afflicted soil. A play that\nteaches a timeless lesson, the root of\nits moving power and truth.\nFeb. 5, 6, 7 at 8 p.m.\nDurang-Durang\nDurang\nIf you need a break\nfrom the heaviness\nof the world, then Christopher\nDurang's silly, funny, over-the-top\nsketches are for you. This series of\none-act plays are bitingly irreverent\nand aim their barbs at everything from\norganized religion to Hollywood and\nTennessee Williams. With the help of\nDurang, the fine art of parody has\nreturned to the theatre in a production\nyou can sink your teeth and mind into\nwhile laughing like an idiot. Parody of\nthis comic verve is as much fun as the\n\"marvelous party\" Noel Coward once\nsang about.\nMarch 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m.\nCall to advertise in Purdue-Indiana Theatre programs: 219-481-6551\nOrder form for a season pass to\nPurdue-Indiana Theatre Studio Theatre Series\nName (please print) __________________ _\nAddress ______________________ _\nCity and State ____________________ _\nZip ___________ _ Phone{ __ }\nPrice: Adult $16-an $8 savings over individual tickets.\nSenior Citizen $13-a $7 savings over individual tickets.\nA season pass guarantees a seat at a performance of each play, with\nthe performance date chosen at a future time.\nAntigone-sept. 25, 26, 27 at 8 p.m.\nDaddy's Dyin' (Who's Got The Wi/1?}-0ct. 30, 31, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m.\nThe Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds­Feb.\n5, 6, 7 at 8 p.m.\nDurang Durang-March 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m.\nReservations to Studio Theatre productions must be made in advance of\nopening. Seating in the Studio Theatre is festival seating; no specific\nseats are assigned.\namount of $ for season passes.\nFor more information, call the box office at 219-481-6555.\nstamped envelope. Otherwise, tickets can be picked up at the box office.\nTheatre Department Donations\nPlease make a tax-deductible contribution for the IPFW Department of Theatre. Your\ncontribution works this year and will continue to work, helping us to upgrade our\nacademic program, enhance our productions, and attract talented theatre students.\nFRIEND: $25\nPATRON: $50\nDIRECTOR: $100\nPRODUCER: $150\nIndiana-Purdue Foundation at Fort Wayne-note theatre fund on your memo line\nSchool of Fine and Performing Arts\nIndiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne\nName (please print)\nCity _____________ State ____ Zip\nDay telephone ( _ } _____ Evening telephone { _ }, _____ _\nName as it should appear in program\nD My company will match my gift. J INDIANA UNIVERSITY\n------------------------------------------------------ Would you like to receive The ArtScene? Just fill out your name and address below\nand drop in basket at door as you leave.\nand the generosity of thousands on and off stage ...\nThis is Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today:\nYou can help by generously responding to the audience appeals and fundraising sales\ntaking place at this performance.\nFor more information on how you can make\na further contribution to help people with AIDS, write:\n165 W. 46th St., #1300, New York, NV 10036\nRodger McFarlane/executive director • Tom Viola/managing director\nTRAVEL WITH THE\nIPFW SCHOOL OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS TO THE\nFESI'IVAL\nFOR CLASSICAL THEATRE IN STRATFORD, ONTARIO\nSEPT. 11-14, 1997\nAgain this year, those with a passion for classical theatre can get their fill\nby joining the School ofFine and Performing Arts for a trip to the Stratford\nFestival, Sept. 11-14, in Stratford, Ontario. The largest classical repertory theatre\nin North America, the Stratford Festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors\nevery season from all around the world.\nTravel package includes round-trip luxury motorcoach transportation, three\nnights lodging at the Queen's Inn-the finest accommodations in Stratford, three\nevening theatre performances, and a day trip for shopping in the nearby town of\nSt. Jacobs. Performances will include Romeo and juliet (Thursday night), and\nchoices between Death of a Salesman and Richard III (Friday night), and between\nCamelot and Little WOmen (Saturday night). The price is $489 per person, double\noccupancy (price varies slightly based on room type; please inquire). Spaces are\nlimited and are expected to sell quickly.\nReservations should be made as soon as possible; deposits are required,\nwith final balance due Aug. 1. To receive a registration form, or if you have\nquestions, please call Fine and Performing Arts, 219-481-6977.\nYTravel with the Professionals to See\nThe IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts and the IPFW Department of Theatre annually sponsor a\nwide variety of Theatre Excursions to various theatre centers. All trips are open to the public and are\naccompanied by a theatre professional from the Department of Theatre to provide critique and\ncommentary on the productions seen.\nThese trips have proved to be very popular in the past and the ease of arranged travel and\naccommodations plus the educational experience of the critiques and commentary have drawn high\npraise from the many theatre-lovers who have traveled with us.\nThe following are future trips being planned. For further information and to be placed on a mailing list.\ncontact the IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts at 219-481-6977.\nCall now to become a part of one of these exciting theatre travel adventures!\nA one-day round-trip on a luxury motor coach to Chicago to see the exciting, new Broadway revival of\nthe fabulous Bob Fosse/Kander and Ebb musical Chicago. Your host for this trip will be Larry L. Life, chair\nand artistic director, Department of Theatre.\nA four-day trip to Stratford, Ontario, home of the largest classical repertory theatre in North\nAmerica. Travel package includes round-trip luxury motor-coach transportation, three nights, lodging at\nthe Queens Inn-the finest accommodations in Stratford- and evening performances of Romeo and\nJuliet, Richard Ill, and Camelot Your hosts for this trip will be Craig A. Humphrey, associate professor of\ntheatre and PIT costume designer, and Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre.\nA five-day trip to London, England. Experience theatre in Shakespeare,s London. See the best of the\nWest End Theatre, as well as productions at the Royal Shakespeare and Stratford-Upon-Avon. Travel\npackage includes round-trip airfare from Fort Wayne, hotel accommodations, guided tours of London\nand surrounding locales, tickets to five shows, and optional guided activities. Your host for this trip will be\nLarry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre, and another faculty member from the\nDepartment of Theatre.\nA one-day trip on a luxury motor coach to Chicago to see the hottest new Broadway Dance Musical,\nBring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk. Your host for this trip will be Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director,\nDepartment of Theatre, and Gary Lanier, associate faculty and instructor of dance, Department of\nTheatre.\nMake reservations now for this very special holiday experience. 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For information regarding reproduction and use see: http://cdm16776.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about/collection/p16776coll1\nmDON ID / Accession Number PIT199697I\nDate digital 07-28-2016\nSubject Theater programs\nDescription Program with bios of the performers and production staff, lists of scenes and musical numbers, notes, and information on upcoming performances\nContent Type Text\nOriginal Format Seven sheets and insert, half fold, printed on both sides, black on white (pages), blue and red on white (cover), 17 x 11 and 8 1/2 x 11 inches\nmDON ID / Accession Number PIT199697I001\nCollection OnStage at IPFW\nTranscript Purdue-Indiana Theatre's American Classics SUMMER THEATRE presented in sponsorship with Purdue-Indiana Theatre's 1998 American Classics Summer Theatre V \"HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING\" This is a simple story of a young man who climbs to a position of great power and of the girl who loyally hangs on during his climb and eventually wins him. In this wonderful musical satire on the Organization Man, his success is due neither to hard work nor any other ancient prescriptions for success. He gets ahead by following the simple rules in a book called How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Our hero, J. Pierrepont Finch, runs into many obstacles and overcomes them like a modern, comic Seigfried: there's his rival, the boss's nephew, the mailroom trap, the office wolf, the office party, the dangerous secretary, the board meeting, jealous executives and, of course, the big boss himself. From the first coffee break to the last elevator load on Friday night, office life is never the same once \"Ponty'' Finch settles in for the trip to the top. Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert Based on the novel by Shepherd Mead Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser \"Crafty, conniving, sneaky, cynical, irreverent, impertinent, sly, malicious, and lovely, just lovely\" -New York Herald Tribune \"Stings mischievously and laughs uproariously ... It belongs to the blue chips among modem musicals.\" -New York Times \"A big, beautiful, smart, tuneful, and shining musical comedy\" - United Press International Performance Dates: June 26, 27, July 2, 3, 9, 10, 11 at 8 p.m. June 28, July 5, 12 at 2:30 p.m. Welcome On behalf of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne and the School of Fine and Performing Arts, I would like to warmly welcome you and your family to the 1997 summer professional theatre program. We are especially pleased to be hosting the American Classics Summer Theatre Series IV with its outstanding performances of both music and drama. Under the artistic leadership of Larry L. Life, professor and chair of our theatre department, this program offers talented campus and community performers an opportunity to enhance their relationship with the community and to help reinforce IPFW's role as a center of artistic influence in northeastern Indiana. We appreciate your support of the fine and performing arts and look forward to an exciting and rewarding cultural partnership in the years ahead. Michael A. Wartell Chancellor Bringing the Best of Broadway to Fort Wayne Welcome to the fourth year of the American Classics Summer Theatre series. We in the IPFW Department of Theatre are very proud of our annual summer presentations of the best of the Broadway theatre. Broadway, after all, is the heart of the American theatre and as such, has given us countless memorable musicals and plays. Our production this summer is an example of one of the many classic Broadway musicals. It is musical theatre telling the story of itself in its early and formative years. Funny Girl is as much a musical history lesson as it is the story of one of the theatre's greatest stars. In this production you will see numbers that are recreations of various musical theatre styles. The early Music Hall-Burlesque offerings of the early 1900s (\"Comet Man\") are followed by the lavish Ziegfeld showgirl number (\"His Love Makes Me Beautiful\"). Of course, no show that chronicles the early history of musical theatre would be complete without the traditional patriotic comedy-tap number (\"Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat\"), and similarly, no show that attempts to tell the story of Fanny Brice's early career would be complete without the second-act song that suggests Fanny's closely identified theme song from the later Follies, My Man (\"The Music That Makes Me Dance\"). Intertwined with all of this theatre history is the story of the immigrants who came to this country at the tum-of-the­century and settled in New York's lower east side. The rich tradition of the mingling of the cultures is depicted in Rose Brice and her poker buddies and in the ensemble number (\"Henry Street\"). At the center of the show is the story of one of the greatest stars of the American theatre, the celebrated comedienne, Fanny Brice. Many will remember Brice for her later success on radio in the 40s and 50s as Baby Snooks. Funny Girl was produced on Broadway in the early 1960s. This was the time that produced such blockbuster hits as Fiddler on the Roof; Hello, Dolly!; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Camelot; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; and Bye Bye Birdie. All of these well-remembered shows made their debut on Broadway between 1960 and 1964. Funny Girl was announced variously under such titles as a Very Special Person, My Man, and The Luckiest People before David Merrick (who was to have been the show's coproducer) suggested Funny Girl. Numerous script alterations-including 40 rewrites of the final scene alone-and five opening-night postponements were required before the show was considered ready for its official premiere. Film producer Ray Stark, Brice's son-in­law, had long wanted to make a movie based on the Fanny Brice story, but he became convinced that it first should be done on the stage. Mary Martin, Anne Bancroft, and Carol Burnett had all turned down the leading role before it was won by Barbra Streisand, whose only other' Broadway experience had been in a supporting role in I Can Get It for You Wholesale. During the Broadway run, Streisand was followed by Mimi Hines. In addition to our bringing you Broadway's biggest and best hits, The American Classics Summer Theatre productions over the past four years have brought some of the most outstanding talents in the area onto the IPFW campus. A large part of our mission is to join students from all area schools with community and university members in the presentation of top-quality American theatre. This cross­culturalization benefits all of us and provides memorable experiences for actors, technicians, designers, and audience members. We are happy to welcome all of our newcomers and returnees. Most of all, we are appreciative of your attendance. If this is your first visit to our campus and the Williams Theatre, please come back again and again. Our home is your home, and you are our favorite guest. We love your applause and enthusiastic response to all of our performances. Thank you for choosing American Classics Summer Theatre, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy your experience with us. Larry L. Life Chair/ Artistic Director IPFW Department of Theatre 1997 American Classics Summer Theatre Company Danielle Andersen-Cathy, Mrs. Winston, Female Chorus Andersen is a recent graduate of South Side High School and will be a theatre major at IPFW in the fall. She is employed at a tanning salon and is also a dance instructor and a dance coach. She also enjoys ballroom dancing. Andersen makes her PIT debut with Funny Girl. Eric Brown-Male Chorus Brown is an eighth-grader at St. Jude's School and enjoys swimming, playing the piano, acting, singing, and dancing. He has received the Piano Guild Award two years in a row and has been involved in dance for five years. He recently made a music video for McMillen Health Center. This is Brown's third appearance on PIT's stage, previously performing in Hello, Dolly! and Gypsy. He has also been with the Fort Wayne Youtheatre performing in the Best Christmas Pageant Ever for two years, Alice in Wonderland, and Laura lngells Wilder. Belinda R. Buckler-Milliner Buckler will graduate from IPFW's theatre program this fall with an emphasis in costume design. She has designed for numerous shows here at PIT, most recently Waiting For Godot. She is employed at PIT's costume shop and received the 1997 Kenworthy Scholarship. Chad W. Burnworth-Paul, Dance Ensemble Burnworth returns to the PIT stage after performing as Baby John in West Side Story with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. He is a graduate of West Noble High School and is employed at Frank's Nursery and Crafts. He hopes to make landscape design and horticulture his career. Timothy Byers-Technical Director Byers is the resident technical director for Purdue-Indiana Theatre and has been an invaluable asset to the Mainstage and Studio series during the academic year. This summer marks his third association with the American Classics Summer Theatre. Byers has a degree in theatre from Ball State University, where he worked in numerous technical capacities for their summer theatre. He is a native of Logansport and considers his active involvement with his five children to be one of his most prized possessions. Brandon Conley-Dance Ensemble Conley, an eighth-grader at Memorial Park Middle School, is involved in the Show Choir 78 Edition, which received a second place at the Opryland Show Choir Contest in April. He makes his PIT debut with Funny Girl and is very excited about being here. \"I would like to thank my parents and my music teachers, Jeanette Snyder and Kirby Volz. Without them I wouldn't be where I am today. Thanks!\" Colette Cress-Female Chorus Cress will be a freshman this fall at South Side High School, where she will keep busy with cheerleading, the speech team, show choir, and performing in shows. Cress was last seen at PIT in the chorus of Hello, Dolly! and was Baby June in Gypsy. She has also been in Oklahoma!, Hans Christian Anderson, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Charlottes Web. Her credits at Memorial Park Middle School include Bye Bye Birdie, David and Lisa, Music Man, On The Razzle, Damn Yankees, and Anything Goes. Tommy D' Annunzio-Scene Shop Staff D' Annunzio graduated from IPFW with B.A. in theatre and an emphasis in acting. Some of his credits include The World Goes 'Round, Burn This, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, An Evening of Fractured Shakespeare, The Fantasticks, A Flea In Her Ear, The Rainmaker, and Damn Yankees. He is hoping to move to New York later this year to pursue his professional career. Noelle E. Davis-Box Office Staff Davis is an IPFW senior theatre major. Among her many performances are Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly!, Connie in A Chorus Line, Whitney in A Piece of My Heart, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. She received the Withers Scholarship for 1996 and spent the past two semesters studying in New York and North Carolina. This next year she will be back at PIT to portray Little Red Riding Hood in the spring production of Into The Woods for her senior performance project. Audra Eberly-Dance Ensemble Eberly makes her PIT debut in Funny Girl, but has been in two productions at the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre: The King and/, and Brigadoon. She has had 11 years of tap, jazz, and ballet from Karen Ehle Newman and is currently an assistant teacher. A junior at Whitko High School, Eberly has studied with the Fort Wayne Ballet and plans to continue in dance. Patrick Foster-Box Office Staff Foster comes to IPFW after spending 1994-95 studying musical theatre at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is currently pursuing a liberal arts degree. Foster has appeared in Arena Dinner Theatre's production of You're A Good Man Charlie Brown as Schroeder, and in Fort Wayne Youtheatre's production of The Outsiders as Johnny. Jane Rebekah Frazier-Mrs. Strakosh Frazier is a sophomore in the theatre department at IPFW and a part-time assistant manager at Things Remembered. She was last seen in The World Goes 'Round at PIT and has performed in Eleemosynary, Damn Yankees, and Gypsy. Her Civic Theatre credits include The King and I, Man of Lamancha, Joseph 94, Oklahoma!, Evita, and Hans Christian Anderson. She also has helped out backstage at PIT and the Civic Theatre. The Snider High School graduate has recently returned from the American Music and Dance Academy in New York. Luke Hancock-Tom Keeney Hancock has been seen in numerous productions throughout the Fort Wayne area. His last appearance with PIT was as Officer Krupke in West Side Story. He is a senior at South Side High School and is on the speech team. He has received the Spectrum Spotlight Award for excellence in drama, the \"B izzie\" Bromley Award for excellence in speech, and a Rising Star in Performing Arts Award. This past year Hancock went to nationals and Catholic nationals for speech. He hopes to continue to be active in the performing arts and to possibly teach when he is older. Heath Hays-Properties Supervisor, Scene Sh~p Staff Hays is an IPFW theatre major with an emphasis in scenic design. Some of his credits include Burn This, Eleemosynary, and James Dean: The Boy From Fairmount. He has performed in An Evening of Fractured Shakespeare, Equus, A Flea In Her Ear, Tent Meeting, The Rainmaker, Damn Yankees, and Romeo and Juliet. His next project will be this fall as scenic designer for Uncle Vanya. John C. Hermes-Musical Director, Costume Shop Staff Hermes is an IPFW sophomore majoring in theatre with an emphasis in acting and directing. He has been the musical director at PIT for Hair, Gypsy, Oh, Dad ... , Pippin, The F antastics, and The World Goes 'Round; at Arena Dinner Theatre for Once Upon A Mattress, Chicago, and Dames at Sea; and at the Civic Theatre for Pump Boys and Dinettes, Taffetas, and Prelude To A Kiss. He has performed in The World Goes 'Round, Dracula, A Chorus Line, A Flea In Her Ear, Romeo and Juliet, Pump Boys and Dinettes, and Oh, Dad .... His next directing project will be Daddy's Dyin ', Who s Got The Will? this fall in the Studio Theatre. He will also be musical director for PIT's 1998 spring production of Into The Woods. Melissa Hershberger-Emma Hershberger makes her PIT debut this summer. She is a senior at South Side High School, where she has received various awards including the Drama Scholarship two years in a row. She has spoken at school board meetings and competed at Catholic nationals for speech. She has also been in the Honors Choir for three years at the Fort Wayne Choral Festival. Hershberger wants to major in criminal justice and minor in theatre when she goes to college. Cassandra C. Holst-Mrs. Meeker Holst, a Canterbury High School junior, makes her PIT debut this summer as Mrs. Meeker. A fan of dancing, singing, theatre, and speech, she has performed as Miss Johnson in Manley, Mother in 0 Je Jigs and Juleps, Lynette in 1940s Radio Hour, and Kate Gardner in Smile at Canterbury. She has received the most-promising speaker award in 0.1. Speaking and received a first at state JCL in English oratory. Craig A. Humphrey-Costume Designer Humphrey has worked off-Broadway as assistant to Laura Crow on the Circle Repertory Theatre production of Lanford Wilson's Burn This. He has designed costumes in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania. His experience includes The Normal Heart for the Pittsburgh Public Theatre and six seasons with Theatre-By-The-Grove. He is an IPFW associate professor of theatre, resident costume designer for Purdue-Indiana Theatre, associate chair of the department, and head of the design program. Locally, Humphrey has designed for Red, Hot, and Cole at First Presbyterian Theatre and for L'Histore Du Soldat for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. He has also designed Bedroom Farce for the Touchstone Theatre in Chicago. His most recent works at IPFW include The World Goes 'Round; West Side Story; Dracula; Hello, Dolly!; A Chorus Line; A Flea In Her Ear; and The Glass Menagerie. He has directed The F antastics, Once Upon A Mattress, Forum, and will be directing Into The Woods this spring. Humphrey has an M.F.A. in costume design from the University of Massachusetts and a B.F.A. in theatre performance from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Natalie Y. Jones-Mrs. Brice Jones returns to the PIT stage after appearing in The World Goes 'Round. Some of her other numerous theatre credits include Glad Hand in West Side Story with PIT and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and Queen Aggravain in Once upon a Mattress at Arena Dinner Theatre. At Arena, she has received awards for outstanding supporting actress for Queen Aggravain and outstanding lead actress for Mildred in Squabbles. Jones is a theatre student at IPFW, pursuing a B.A. She hopes her degree and experience will lead her to Broadway, but in the meantime, she enjoys collecting Angela Lansbury paraphernalia. J. Tom Keel-Adolph, Mr. Vance Keel is employed at the Indiana Auto Auction and enjoys tools and reading. In his spare time, he volunteers for the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre and would like to someday become an accomplished amateur actor. ~GEORGE D. I, & ASSOCJ'f';f!sll~ P.O. Box 234, Suite A 526 State St., New Haven, IN 46774 219-486-WINE Bill Kerchevai-Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. Kercheval ~as worn many hats for the IPFW theatre department over the years. With the opening of Hair and the new Williams Theatre in 1993, he served as resident house manager and production photographer for both Studio and Williams theatres until the end of the summer of 1996. He has continued the photography duties, and during the 1994 Classics Season, was evening scene shop foreman for Gypsy and Picnic set construction. Prior to Hair, Kercheval was house manager and photographer for Six Characters in Search of an Author, and photographer and member of the running crew for A Streetcar Named Desire. Recently, he wore yet another hat as follow-spot operator for The World Goes 'Round. \"Being cast as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. in Funny Girl represents my Fort Wayne acting debut. I am thrilled to be a part of this fine cast and hope that I have performed to everyone's expectations. Enjoy!\" Marty Kercheval-Stage Manager Kercheval has worked in a technical capacity for The World Goes 'Round; West Side Story; Dracula; Hello, Dolly!; Damn Yankees; Who s Afraid of Virginia Wotf?; and other plays at Arena Dinner Theatre, the Civic Theatre, Open Door Theatre, and First Presbyterian Theatre. Robert M. Koharchik-Guest Scenic Designer Koharchik has spent the past few years designing for the Indianapolis Civic Theatre as well as the Red Bam Playhouse in Saugutuck, Mich. His design credits include Show Boat, The Glass Menagerie, The Pajama Game, The All Nite Strut, Rumors, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Steel Magnolias, Nunsense, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, I'm Not Rappaport, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Cabaret, and The Crucible. Some of Koharchik's designs have been exhibited at New York's Lincoln Center. Ryan M. Koharchik-Guest Lighting Designer After receiving his Master of Fine Arts in lighting design from Boston University, Koharchik returned to the Midwest in the spring of 1993 as a guest faculty artist for Ball State University's summer season. Since that time, he has worked as a lighting designer in Chicago, Indianapolis, Columbus (Ohio), and Michigan. Some of his many credits include designing Tom Leopold's world premiere of Henry and the Second Gunman at the Griffin Theatre in Chicago, the New World Theatre's production of Death and the Maiden, the Red Bam Playhouse's 1994 summer season, and The Glass Menagerie at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre. Koharchik has also worked at the Goodman Theatre and with Dance Kaleidoscope. Sarah N. Lankenau-Costume Shop Staff Lankenau is an IPFW junior majoring in theatre with an emphasis in costume design. She has performed in many of PIT's shows, including West Side Story, Dracula, A Chorus Line, The F antasticks, and A Flea In Her Ear. She has designed for Indiana Voices and has helped out backstage for many shows. She is very excited about her next project, Uncle Vanya, which she will design this fall at PIT. Larry L. Life-Artistic Director/Choreographer Life is professor and chair of the IPFW Department of Theatre, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1 971. In 1992 he was given the Indiana Theatre Association's Outstanding Artist-Educator Award for his 23 years of service as a director/choreographer, actor, and theatre educator in Indiana. Life worked professionally in New York in the 1 960s, appearing in the revival of Harold Rome's Pins and Needles at the Round-a-Bout Theatre and off­Broadway with Fran and Barry Weissler's National Theatre Company. He has appeared in the films The Detective with Frank Sinatra and Me Natalie with Patty Duke and has worked with Madeline Kahn and Roberta Flack. He has been director/choreographer for musical theatre productions at Black Hills Playhouse, Louisiana State University, Wabash College, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Tulane University, and Miami University at Oxford-Ohio, and has studied musical theatre with Lehman Engel at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Cpnn. He has studied acting with Utah Hagen and Charles Nelson Riley and dance with Matt Mattox, J aimie Rogers, Charles Weidman, and Robert Lunnon. He is listed with Who's Who in Entertainment. His productions of Dames At Sea and Hair were granted the Amoco Award of Excellence and selected for presentation at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for the American College Theatre Festival. Life has acted, directed, and choreographed for the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Arena Dinner Theatre, and First Presbyterian Theatre. He has conceived, directed, and choreographed nine original musical reviews for the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre Guild, and one in 1994 for the Fort Wayne Bicentennial Commission. AnnaL. Mossburg-Jenny, Dance Ensemble, Set Construction Mossburg has been seen recently in The World Goes 'Round at PIT. Her other musicals roles at PIT include Graziella in West Side Story and Judy in A Chorus Line, as well as parts in Damn Yankees and Hair. In addition, she has been seen at Arena Dinner Theatre in Once upon a Mattress and was in the original play, In The Company of Men at the Studio Theatre. This fall Mossburg will be a senior in the IPFW theatre department and will portray Charlotte Corday in Marat-Sade as her senior performance project. She has been involved backstage with the building of the sets, as floor crew and light crew for numerous shows, and as a member of the Funny Girl set construction crew. Sandy McNeil-Costume Shop Supervisor McNeil has worked in the Purdue­Indiana Theatre costume shop for the past four years on shows such as Damn Yankees; The Rainmaker; A Chorus Line; Hello, Dolly!; Dracula; and West Side Story. She is retired from GTE Data Services, and her hobbies include sewing, crafts, and cross-stitch. Gavino C. Olvera-Scene Shop Staff Olvera is an IPFW senior majoring in theatre. He has performed in West Side Story, A Chorus Line, An Evening of Fractured Shakespeare, The Fantastics, A Flea In Her Ear, The Rainmaker, and Damn Yankees. Olvera hopes to pursue a career in acting after graduation. Sara Pauley-Maude, Mimsey, Mrs. Vance, Dance Ensemble Pauley, a sophomore at Indiana University Bloomington pursuing a B.A. in drama, makes her debut with IPFW in Funny Girl. She has appeared in The Boy Who Ate the Moon at IUB, and has been seen in Funny Girl, Pippin, The Pajama Game, West Side Story, Dark of the Moon, and The Night of January 16th at Northrop High School. She has appeared in the films of In The Company of Men, Ninth Day, and Save the Bones for Henry Jones. She was also a Sterling Sentinel nominee in drama. Pauley would like to pursue acting on a professional level in New York and Chicago. Christina Pentsos-Mrs. Nadler, Dance Ensemble Pentsos returns to the PIT stage after being in Damn Yankees. She was also Hunyek in Chicago at Arena Dinner Theatre. An IPFW junior pursuing a B.S. in health science, she enjoys soccer and dance, and wishes to continue performing. Pentsos hopes to work in the medical field after college. Brenda Porter-Mrs. O'Malley Porter returns to PIT after appearing in The World Goes 'Round. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Adler Institute of Psychology and is employed at Lutheran College. She has appeared in many shows throughout Fort Wayne, including favorite roles as the Mexican woman in Human Comedy, and the soprano soloist in Sweeney Todd at the Civic Theatre, Peggy in Godspell at First Presbyterian, Christine Donovan in Follies, and a soloist in On Broadway at PIT. Porter has worked professionally at the Circle Theatre in Indianapolis in Yuletide Celebration as a singer/dancer. Brian Porter-Snub Taylor, Ziegfeld Tenor, Dance Ensemble Although Porter makes his PIT debut in Funny Girl, he is not new to the theatre. His credits include Dickon in Secret Garden both at Civic Theatre and at Grey Lite, and Closer Than Ever at Grey Lite. At South Side High School he has perfonned in West Side Story as Big Deal, Kiss Me Kate as Bill Calhoun/Lucentio, and Fame as Nick Piazza. He has also done backstage work for Civic Theatre. He is a 1997 graduate of South Side High School where he was involved in the Vocal Ensemble, the Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and the Show Choir. Porter will be entering IPFW in the fall to pursue a B.A. in theatre. After that, he hopes to become a professional actor. Gary L. Reed-John, Stage Manager Reed is a senior at the IPFW Department of Theatre and will graduate this December. His PIT credits include director of lnsence for Shiva, one of the three one-act plays produced for Indiana Voices in the Studio Theatre, Baptistin in A Flea in Her Ear, and Balthasaar and Friar John in Romeo and Juliet. He is self­employed and enjoys rock climbing and golf. Reed hopes to find work in professional acting when he is finished with school. Kathy Robertson-Polly, Georgia, Dance Ensemble Robertson makes her PIT debut in Funny Girl. This will be her second year at IPFW, but her first year as a theatre major. Robertson is in her second year on the IPFW dance team and this year will serve as cocaptain. This summer she will be choreographing for the Rochester Higher School Dance Team. This 1996 graduate of Carroll High School is employed at Bowtique Gallery and Gifts. She hopes to become a professional actress and a dancer. Lynne L. Steiner-Assistant Stage Manager Steiner, an English teacher at Carroll High School, has a B.S. in English education and a minor in theatre and is working on her master's in secondary education. Steiner has performed in plays and musicals throughout high school and college and is in the process of learning more about directing and stage managing so she can finalize her theatre teaching license and professionalize her master's degree. John S. Strachan-Nick Arnstein Strachan is a theatre major pursuing a degree in theatre education at IPFW and is employed at Kittles Home Furniture. He was last seen at PIT in the World Goes 'Round, and his other PIT credits include Riff in West Side Story with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and Burton in Bum This in the Studio Theatre. Elizabeth A. Wagar-Bubbles, Vera, Dance Ensemble, Set Construction Wagar is a junior at IPFW's theatre department and was last seen in The World Goes 'Round. Her many theatre credits at PIT include Minnie in West Side Story, Lucy in Dracula, I Hope I Get It Chorus in a Chorus Line, Trooper in Equus. Her credits at Civic Theatre include Brigadoon, Joseph 94, Oklahoma!, Oliver, and at Arena, Once upon a Mattress. Having worked backstage for numerous shows, Wagar discovered that she enjoys stage management and hopes to make it her profession. jl Scene 1: Scene 2: Scene 3: Scene 4: Scene 5: Scene 6: Scene 7: Scene 8: Scene 9: Scene 10: Scene 11: Scene 12: Scene 13: Scene 14: Scene 1: Scene 2: Scene 3: Scene 4: Scene 5: Scene 6: Scene 7: Scene 8: Scene 9: Synopsis of Scenes Time: Shortly before and after World War I Act One Fanny's dressing room-the New Amsterdam Theatre Backstage-Keeney's Music Hall In front of Keeney's Music Hall Backyard-Fanny's neighborhood On stage-Keeney's Music Hall Backstage and chorus dressing room Mrs. Brice's kitchen Backstage-the New York Theatre On stage-the New York Theatre In front of Follies curtain Henry Street Interior of Mrs. Brice's Saloon A Private dining room-Baltimore Baltimore railroad terminal There will be a fifteen-minute intermission. Act Two The Arnstein Long Island mansion Mrs .. Brice's saloon Backstage-the New Amsterdam Theatre Onstage-the New Amsterdam Theatre Fanny's dressing room Study-the Arnstein house Backstage-the New Amsterdam Theatre Onstage-the New Amsterdam Theatre Fanny's dressing room-the New Amsterdam Theatre Klaehn, Fahl & Melton Funeral Homes 420 W. Wayne St. 6424 Winchester Road Fort Wayne, IN The cast of Funny Girl Fanny Brice ................................................................... Leslie Beauchamp John, Stage Manager ................................................................. Gary Reed Emma ......................................................................... Melissa Hershberger Mrs. Brice ......................................................................... Natalie Y. Jones Mrs. Strakosh .......................................................... .Jane Rebekah Frazier Mrs. Meeker ..................................................................... Cassandra Holst Mrs. O'Malley ...................................................................... Brenda Porter ·Tom Keeney ........................................................................ Luke Hancock Eddie Ryan .............................................................................. Gary Lanier Snub Taylor ............................................................................. Brian Porter Bubbles ............................................................ ............ Elizabeth A. Wagar Polly ................................................................................. Kathy Robertson Maude .................................................................................... Sarah Pauley Nick Arnstein ...................................................................... .John Strachan Florenz Ziegfield Jr ............................................................. Bill Kercheval Mimsey .................................................................................. Sarah Pauley Ziegfield Tenor ........................................................................ Brian Porter Adolph ................................................................................... Thomas Keel Mrs. Nadler ..................................................................... Christina Pentsos Paul, Waiter ...................................................................... Chad Burnworth Cathy ............................................................................. Danielle Andersen Vera .............................................................................. Elizabeth A. Wagar Jenny ..................................................................... , ....... AnnaL. Mossburg Georgia ............................................................................ Kathy Robertson Mr. Renaldi ........................................................................... Brian Wagner Mrs. Winston ................................................................. Danielle Andersen Mrs. Vance ............................................................................... Sara Pauley Mr. Vance .............................................................................. Thomas Keel Chorus ................................................................................... Colette Cress The Orchestra John C. Hermes, conductor Jodi Hakes, piano Sue Devito, clarinet and saxophone Nancy Drew, flute and piccolo Kevin Drew, trumpet Ed King, trombone Jody Smith, bass Sean McBryde, percussion Eric Brown Brandon Conley Audra Eberly Funny Girl produced through special arrangement with Tams-Witmark, 560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022-6828. Musical Numbers fl Act One Act Two Overture .. ..... ......................................................... Orchestra Entr'acte ............................................................... Orchestra Poker Chant .......................... Mrs. Brice and Mrs. Strakosh Sadie, Sadie ............................................ Fanny and Chorus If A Girl Isn't Pretty .................. Mrs. Strakosh, Mrs. Brice, Find Yourself a Man ....................... ........ Eddie, Mrs. Brice, Mrs. Meeker, Mrs. O'Malley, ................................................................ and Mrs. Strakosh Eddie, and Chorus Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat ............................ Eddie, Jenny, and Chorus I'm The Greatest Star ................................................. Fanny Who Are You Now? ................................................... Fanny Reprise: I'm The Greatest Star ............ ......... ............. Fanny Don't Rain On My Parade ............................................ Nick Comet Man ............................................. Fanny and Chorus The Music That Makes Me Dance ............................. Fanny Who Taught Her Everything .............. Eddie and Mrs. Brice Finale Act Two ........................ ................................... Fanny His Love Makes Me Beautiful ................. ......... Tenor Solo, Chorus, and Fanny I Want To Be Seen With You Tonight ........ Nick and Fanny Henry Street .................................. -........................ .... Chorus People ......................................................................... Fanny You Are Woman, I Am Man ...................... Nick and Fanny Don't Rain On My Parade ............... .............. .... ........ Fanny Just The Ticket © /997 Norwest Bank Indiana, N.A. For a great theatrical performance, you couldn't be in a better place than at Purdue-Indiana Theatre. For an outstanding banking performance, you couldn't do better than to head toward Norwest Bank, where you'll find the full range of financial products and personal attentive service you'll need to take you where you want to go. •·•·•~•·•· NOIIItiWSf ••••• ··~··® To The Nth Degree® Fort Wayne 219-478-6904 • 800-688-8510 Member FDIC American Classics Summer Theatre Production Staff Artistic Staff: Director/Choreographer .......................... ..... ................ ..... .... ....................... .... Larry L. Life Musical Director .......................................................................................... John C. Hermes Tap Choreographer ................................................................................. Anna L. Mossburg Scenic Designer ................. ........ .. .. .. ............................................................. Rob Koharchik Costume Designer .................................................. ...... ......................... Craig A. Humphrey Lighting Designer ....................................................................................... Ryan Koharchik Sound Designer .......................................................... ....................................... Tom Temple Production Staff: Technical Director ......................... ................................................................ Timothy Byers Stage Manager ........................................................................................... Marty Kercheval Assistant Stage Manager. ..................................... ..... .. .. ................... Lynn L. Kinzer-Steiner Rehearsal Pianist ................................... ............. ....... ... ....................................... Jodi Hakes Dance Captain ............... .............................................................................. Anna Mossburg Properties Supervisor .............. · ............................................................................ Heath Hays Properties ........................................... Tommy D' Annunzio, Heath Hayes, Anna Mossburg Master Carpenter .... ....................................................................................... Gavino Olvera Scenic Construction ........................................................ ..................... Tommy D' Annunzio Costume Shop Supervisor .................. ............... .... ................................... Sandra L. McNeil Costume Construction ............................................... .John C. Hermes, Sarah R. Lankenau Milliner ................................................................................................... Belinda R. Buckler Wardrobe Supervisor .............................................................................. Sarah R. Lankenau Master Electrician .............................................................................. ....... .... .. .. Ryan Berkes Light Board Operator .............................................. ......................................... Ryan Berkes Sound Technician ............................................................................................. Tom Temple Box Office Manager .......................... ............... ................................................. Gary Lanier Box Office Staff ................................. Noelle E. Davis, Elizabeth A. Wagar, Patrick Foster Photographer ·······························································.:: ······························· ·Bill Kercheval Department of Theatre Secretary .................................................................... Nancy Blasch Poster Design .......................................................................................... IPFW Publications Acknowledgments Bowtique Gallery and Gifts, Bill Carlton, The News-Sentinel; Steve Penhollow, The Journal Gazette; and Charles Rogers, Rogers Formal Wear; Bowtique Gallery and Gifts Warning The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection, and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. Recycle Let your castaway items be part of the cast. As you clean your attics, closets, and garages, remember that Purdue-Indiana Theatre is always in need of used furniture, clothing, and housewares. All such donations are eagerly accepted and tax deductible. Call 219-481-6551 for additional information. The Real Fannie Brice Fannie Brice, born Fannie Borach on New York's Lower East Side in 1891, made her stage debut at age 14 in Brooklyn during amateur night at Keeney's Theatre. She worked in burlesque halls until 1910 when producer Florenz Ziegfeld asked to see her. Brice claimed she was 17 when she signed her exclusive eight-year contract with Ziegfeld. Technically Brice's contract was thus illegal, so Ziegfeld signed her for $7 5 a week the first year and $100 the next year. Brice was so excited about her contract that she showed it to everyone. After she wore out eight contracts showing it around, Ziegfeld refused to give her another one. Brice performed in seven Follies between 1910 and 1923 and in several Midnight Frolic editions (1915 to 1921). Brice was then in the Music Box Revue (1924) and toured in vaudeville ( 1925-26). She was also in a few Broadway shows and in movies, including The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and The Ziegfeld Follies (1946). Following Ziegfe1d's death, Brice starred in the Shubert-produced Ziegeld Follies (1934 and 1936). She first appeared as Baby Snooks in the 1934 Follies. Brice's radio career started in 1932 but really took off in 1936, after she appeared as Baby Snooks. Her Baby Snooks character was on the radio almost continuously until 1948. In 1944 Brice got her own half-hour show on CBS and earned $6,000 a week. Brice had her brief first marriage to Frank White annulled. Then, from 1918 to 1927, she was married to Nicky Arnstein and had two children. In 1929 she married showman Billy Rose, whom she divorced nine years later .. According to Billy Rose, Fannie told him \"she married Frank White, the barber, because he smelled so good; she married Nicky Arnstein because he looked so good; ·and she married me because I thought so good.\" In the 1920s, Brice had her name changed from \"Fannie\" to \"Fanny.\" She eventually gave up performing for art collecting, dress designing, and interior decorating. She was 59 when she died in 1951, five days after suffering a stroke. The films Funny Girl ( 1968) and Funny Lady ( 1975), both starring Barbra Streisand, were based on Brice's life. 1997-98 Purdue-Indiana Theatre Season Mainstage in Williams Theatre The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade (Marat-Sade) by Peter Weiss English version by Geoffrey Skelton verse adaptation by Adrian Mitchell directed by Larry L. Life ''Total theatre\" is the expression critics have used to describe this unique theatrical event. The Marquis De Sade, when an inmate of the asylum of Charenton, staged plays that were performed by fellow inmates. With this point of departure, Peter Weiss has created one of the most powerful and exciting plays of the century, which received the Tony Award and New York Critics Award for best play. Oct. 10, 11, 17, 18 at 8 p.m. Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov guest director to be announced A striking, indelible picture of Chekhov's Russia, and the memory of his rich, bittersweet, and deeply human characters. An uncle has a frustrating passion for a lovely young lady, who is married to an old and ill man. She, in turn, is attracted to a doctor who attends her husband. And the young miss of the house, in her turn, is - irrevocably and hopelessly in love with the same doctor. A tender and oftentimes funny story of the foibles of love and the intrigues of passion. Nov. 21, 22, 28, 29 at 8 p.m. The Boys in the Band by Mart Crowley directed by Larry L. Life Recently on broadway in a new and major revival, this candid and shocking depiction of gay life in the 1960s still creates controversy and heated discussion in the '90s. A group of gay men gather to celebrate their friend Harold's birthday. The celebration turns into an evening of high camp and human experience. The play has riveting power that remorselessly peels away the pretensions of its characters and is uncompromising in its honesty. Feb. 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8 p.m. Into the Woods music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by James Lapine directed by Craig A. Humphrey musical direction by John C. Hermes choreography by Larry L. Life Interweaving an intriguing mix of Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, The Baker's Wife, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel (with cameo appearances by Sleeping Beauty and Snow White) is a multilayered plot that ends happily in act one. The musical then explores \"happily ever after'' in act two as previous actions come home to roost-with a vengeance as well as wit, melody, sentiment, and a musical company of special characters. April 17, 18, 24, 25, May 1, 2 at 8 p.m. High school matinees: April 20, 23 at 10:30 a.m. IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts Department of Theatre Purdue-Indiana Theatre presents Music by Jule Styne, Lyrics by Bob Merrill Book by Isobel Lennart from an original story by Miss Lennart Produced for the Broadway stage by Ray Stark New York production supervised by Jerome Robbins Original production directed by Garson Kanin Directed and choreographed by Larry L. Life in the Williams Theatre Musical Direction ......................................................... John C. Hermes Scenic Design ............................................................ Robert Koharchik Costume Design ..................................................... Craig A. Humphrey Lighting Design ........................................................... Ryan Koharchik Sound Design ..................................................................... Tom Temple June 27-July 12 Funny Girl is produced by arrangement with, and the music and dialogue material furnished by Tams-Witmark Music Library Inc., 560 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10022 Warning The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection, and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. Order form for season tickets or season passes to Purdue-Indiana Theatre Mainstage Series Season Tickets Name (please print) ___________________ _ Address __________________________________ __ City and State Zip _______________ _ Phone{ __ ) ____ _ Season ticket orders fill in the following information: preferred dates (circle one for each production) The Persecution and Assassination of Jean The Boys in the Band Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Feb. 20, 21, 27, 28 at 8 p.m. the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade Oct.1 0, 11 , 17, 18 at 8 p.m. Uncle Vanya Nov. 21, 22, 28, 29 at 8 p.m. Into the Woods April17, 18, 24, 25, May 1, 2 at 8 p.m. Price: Adult $36-a $4 savings over individual tickets. Senior Citizen $28-an $8 sav1ngs over individual tickets. Seating: (indicate first and second preferred seating location) House right center, rows A through F House left center, rows A through F House right, rows A through G House left, rows A through G Tickets will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and specific seat numbers will be assigned at the discretion of the management. Note: A Studio Theatre voucher will be issued to each Mainstage Season ticket/pass holder. The voucher can be exchanged for a ticket to any of the productions of the Studio Theatre Season. Reservations to Studio Theatre productions must be made in advance of opening. Seating in the Studio Theatre is festival seating; no specific seats are assigned. Gift certificates are now available at $12 each for Mainstage shows. Call the box office at 219-481-6555 for more information. I enclose my check (payable to Purdue-Indiana Theatre) in the amount of $ for season tickets/season passes. (Please, no cash or credit card orders.) Mail order form and check to: Purdue-Indiana Theatre, Williams Theatre Box Office, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 If you would like your tickets mailed, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Other_wise, tickets can be picked up at the box office. 1997-98 Purdue-Indiana Theatre Season Studio Theatre in Kettler Hall Antigone by Jean Anouilh A modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy. The play's parallels to modern times are exciting and provocative. What is moral order? Does the individual have an obligation to pursue that which is righteous and good even when doing so defies the social and political mores of the time? Does power corrupt, forcing those in power to destroy anyone that gets in their way? The dimensions of the play are noble and its intentions uncompromising. Sept. 25, 26, 27 at 8 p.m. High school matinees: Sept. 25, 26 at 1 0:30 a.m. This masterful comedy, concerning the reunion ~ of a family gathered to ~ await the imminent death of their patriarch, is the story of the rebirth of the spirit of the family unit. Set in a small Texas town, the hilarious action is fast paced and filled with tense moments, funny moments, and characters you care about. Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-1 n-The­Moon- Marigolds by Paul Zindel Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the .Obie Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best American play of the season, this play is a powerful and moving study of an embittered, vindictive widow and her two young daughters. It is a testament to the human spirit and proves that something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil. A play that teaches a timeless lesson, the root of its moving power and truth. Feb. 5, 6, 7 at 8 p.m. Durang-Durang by Christopher Durang If you need a break from the heaviness of the world, then Christopher Durang's silly, funny, over-the-top sketches are for you. This series of one-act plays are bitingly irreverent and aim their barbs at everything from organized religion to Hollywood and Tennessee Williams. With the help of Durang, the fine art of parody has returned to the theatre in a production you can sink your teeth and mind into while laughing like an idiot. Parody of this comic verve is as much fun as the \"marvelous party\" Noel Coward once sang about. March 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m. Call to advertise in Purdue-Indiana Theatre programs: 219-481-6551 Order form for a season pass to Purdue-Indiana Theatre Studio Theatre Series Name (please print) __________________ _ Address ______________________ _ City and State ____________________ _ Zip ___________ _ Phone{ __ } Price: Adult $16-an $8 savings over individual tickets. Senior Citizen $13-a $7 savings over individual tickets. A season pass guarantees a seat at a performance of each play, with the performance date chosen at a future time. Antigone-sept. 25, 26, 27 at 8 p.m. Daddy's Dyin' (Who's Got The Wi/1?}-0ct. 30, 31, Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds­Feb. 5, 6, 7 at 8 p.m. Durang Durang-March 19, 20, 21 at 8 p.m. Reservations to Studio Theatre productions must be made in advance of opening. Seating in the Studio Theatre is festival seating; no specific seats are assigned. I enclose my check (payable to Purdue-Indiana Theatre) in the amount of $ for season passes. (Please, no cash or credit card orders.) Mail order form and check to: Purdue-Indiana Theatre, Williams Theatre Box Office, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 For more information, call the box office at 219-481-6555. If you would like your tickets mailed, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Otherwise, tickets can be picked up at the box office. Theatre Department Donations Please make a tax-deductible contribution for the IPFW Department of Theatre. Your contribution works this year and will continue to work, helping us to upgrade our academic program, enhance our productions, and attract talented theatre students. FRIEND: $25 PATRON: $50 DIRECTOR: $100 PRODUCER: $150 Please make check payable to: Indiana-Purdue Foundation at Fort Wayne-note theatre fund on your memo line ------------------------------------------------------ Purdue-Indiana Theatre School of Fine and Performing Arts Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 Name (please print) Address City _____________ State ____ Zip Day telephone ( _ } _____ Evening telephone { _ }, _____ _ Name as it should appear in program Employer D My company will match my gift. J INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE ------------------------------------------------------ Would you like to receive The ArtScene? Just fill out your name and address below and drop in basket at door as you leave. Name (please print) Address City _____________ State ____ Zip y and the generosity of thousands on and off stage ... This is Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS today: You can help by generously responding to the audience appeals and fundraising sales taking place at this performance. For more information on how you can make a further contribution to help people with AIDS, write: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 165 W. 46th St., #1300, New York, NV 10036 Rodger McFarlane/executive director • Tom Viola/managing director TRAVEL WITH THE IPFW SCHOOL OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS TO THE ORD FESI'IVAL FOR CLASSICAL THEATRE IN STRATFORD, ONTARIO SEPT. 11-14, 1997 Again this year, those with a passion for classical theatre can get their fill by joining the School ofFine and Performing Arts for a trip to the Stratford Festival, Sept. 11-14, in Stratford, Ontario. The largest classical repertory theatre in North America, the Stratford Festival draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every season from all around the world. Travel package includes round-trip luxury motorcoach transportation, three nights lodging at the Queen's Inn-the finest accommodations in Stratford, three evening theatre performances, and a day trip for shopping in the nearby town of St. Jacobs. Performances will include Romeo and juliet (Thursday night), and choices between Death of a Salesman and Richard III (Friday night), and between Camelot and Little WOmen (Saturday night). The price is $489 per person, double occupancy (price varies slightly based on room type; please inquire). Spaces are limited and are expected to sell quickly. Reservations should be made as soon as possible; deposits are required, with final balance due Aug. 1. To receive a registration form, or if you have questions, please call Fine and Performing Arts, 219-481-6977. YTravel with the Professionals to See Professional Theatre The IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts and the IPFW Department of Theatre annually sponsor a wide variety of Theatre Excursions to various theatre centers. All trips are open to the public and are accompanied by a theatre professional from the Department of Theatre to provide critique and commentary on the productions seen. These trips have proved to be very popular in the past and the ease of arranged travel and accommodations plus the educational experience of the critiques and commentary have drawn high praise from the many theatre-lovers who have traveled with us. The following are future trips being planned. For further information and to be placed on a mailing list. contact the IPFW School of Fine and Performing Arts at 219-481-6977. Call now to become a part of one of these exciting theatre travel adventures! September 1997 A one-day round-trip on a luxury motor coach to Chicago to see the exciting, new Broadway revival of the fabulous Bob Fosse/Kander and Ebb musical Chicago. Your host for this trip will be Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre. A four-day trip to Stratford, Ontario, home of the largest classical repertory theatre in North America. Travel package includes round-trip luxury motor-coach transportation, three nights, lodging at the Queens Inn-the finest accommodations in Stratford- and evening performances of Romeo and Juliet, Richard Ill, and Camelot Your hosts for this trip will be Craig A. Humphrey, associate professor of theatre and PIT costume designer, and Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre. January 1998 A five-day trip to London, England. Experience theatre in Shakespeare,s London. See the best of the West End Theatre, as well as productions at the Royal Shakespeare and Stratford-Upon-Avon. Travel package includes round-trip airfare from Fort Wayne, hotel accommodations, guided tours of London and surrounding locales, tickets to five shows, and optional guided activities. Your host for this trip will be Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre, and another faculty member from the Department of Theatre. August 1998 A one-day trip on a luxury motor coach to Chicago to see the hottest new Broadway Dance Musical, Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk. Your host for this trip will be Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre, and Gary Lanier, associate faculty and instructor of dance, Department of Theatre. December 1999 Make reservations now for this very special holiday experience. Spend the weekend in New York City, see two Broadway hits, and welcome in the Millenium in Times Square. Reservations are now being accepted. Round-trip airfare from Fort Wayne to LaGuardia, hotel transfers, hotel accommodations, and theatre tickets are all included in this package. Your host for this trip will be Larry L. Life, chair and artistic director, Department of Theatre. * 95.1tm rahdes ----' '--- ~lJRDlJE-INDI.A.N.A. JHEATRE T~ Best Varie:ty} T~ But Musil/ .( BIENVENIDOS NUESTRA CASA ES SU CASA The gold standard for Mexican food in Fort Wayne for 22 years. 535 E. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.507168173789978,"wiki_prob":0.492831826210022,"text":"Cuba offers 3G mobile internet access to citizens\nImage caption Cubans will be invited to join the 3G network between Thursday and Saturday\nCuba’s population is to be offered internet access via a 3G mobile network from later this week.\nTelecom provider Etecsa said citizens would be able to start subscribing to the service from Thursday.\nUntil now, locals have mostly relied on wi-fi hotspots and internet cafes and the 3G service has been restricted to state-employed journalists and foreign businesses among others.\nThis will change – but many will still be unable to afford the new contracts.\nEtecsa’s packages range from a month’s use of 600MB of data for 7CUC ($7; £5.50) to 4GB for 30CUC.\nUsers get a bonus 300MB use of local .cu domain websites.\nBut the average state wage for the island’s 11.2 million residents is the equivalent of about $30 per month.\nLooser limits\nThe launch marks a further relaxation of the government’s restrictions on online activity.\nUntil five years ago, access was largely limited to tourist hotels and state-operated clubs.\nImage caption Many Cubans have relied on wi-fi hotspots to get online\nBut in 2013, the authorities began opening internet cafes.\nIn 2014, they began allowing mobile phone owners access to the state’s Nauta email service at a charge of 1CUC per megabyte – the price has since fallen to the same charge for 50MB.\nIn 2015, the first wi-fi hotspot opened at a cultural centre. Hundreds of other public spaces then followed.\nAnd then in 2017, Etecsa began offering a limited number of home connections.\nAccess to the new 3G service will be rolled out over a three-day period in order to reduce the risk of it being overwhelmed with demand.\nThe order in which existing subscribers will be invited to join will be determined by the first two digits of their mobile phone number.\nImage caption Cuba’s president began tweeting in October\nHowever, Etecsa has not ruled out the possibility of glitches.\n“Incidents could be experienced in certain areas,” it has warned.\n“If customers experience any problems, they should inform the company.”\nNearly half of Cuba’s population own a mobile phone although not all are compatible with the radio frequency the service will use.\nAnalysis: Will Grant, Cuba correspondent\nImage copyrightReuters\nCubans have long wanted to catch up with the rest of the world when it comes to internet access.\nSince Raul Castro stood down and was replaced as president by Miguel Diaz-Canel, that has looked increasingly likely – at least on their mobile phones.\nThe new president has an active Twitter account and several members of the Council of State followed his lead recently.\nStill, based on their experience, most Cubans are distrustful of major announcements and unveilings until they can see real change for themselves.\nThe last time a 24-hour pilot for 3G was run, for example, other mobile services such as SMS messaging went down.\nThey will want to see that mobile internet works well and is dependable before deciding whether they can afford the packages.\nStill the desire is there, especially among young people who never considered it fair that they lagged so far behind their cousins elsewhere in the world.\nOne electrical engineer told me he was exhausted with having to sit in hot public squares to get online.\n“Why did we have to be the offline island?” he said.\nTo date, Cuba has generally allowed users to interact with most of the internet if they could gain access.\nA report by the US think tank Freedom House last year noted that the US government-backed news site Marti Noticias and local blog 14ymedio were blocked.\nHowever, it added that foreign news sites – including the BBC and Spain’s El Pais – were available, as were social networks including Facebook and Twitter.\nCitizens can also use video chat services that allow them to keep in touch with family members who have emigrated abroad.\nGame-on for UK’s Team Tao in ocean XPRIZE final\nDeliveroo wins latest court battle over rider rights","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line604346"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6504992246627808,"wiki_prob":0.6504992246627808,"text":"Cachão da Valeira\nUntil the end of the 18th century the Cachão da Valeira, or Valeira Gorge, was the easternmost limit of navigation on the Douro River. The gorge was blocked by massive outcrops of rock which formed a waterfall and prevented boats from travelling upstream into the eastern reaches of the Douro. The work of demolishing the rock and opening the gorge to navigation began in 1780. The first vessels were able to pass through the gorge in 1789 and the work was finally completed in 1791. The opening of the Cachão da Valeira to river traffic allowed viticulture to develop in the eastern reaches of the Douro, which became known as the Douro Novo or 'New Douro'. It is now known as the Douro Superior, or 'Upper Douro' and is the location of some of the finest Port estates including Taylor's Quinta de Vargellas. Until the building of the Valeira dam in 1976 just downstream from the gorge, the Cachão da Valeira was one of the most dangerous points on the Douro River. It is infamous as the place where Baron Forrester, a prominent figure in the history of Port, was drowned in 1862 when his boat was wrecked as it travelled downstream through the treacherous fast running rapids of the gorge.\nSee Traditional measures.\nA cask is a barrel used to age Port wine. Casks usually hold around 630 litres of wine but this can vary. Today all casks are made of oak. They are seasoned before being used to age the Port so that the wood does not impart too strong a flavour to the wine. See also 'Traditional measures'.\nChalk mark\nThe chalk mark, sometimes known as the splash mark, is a dash of white chalk or paint placed on the side of a bottle of Vintage Port to show in which position it was stored in the Port house's cellar. Bottles of Vintage Port should be stored lying down to keep the cork moist. The chalk mark is placed on the upper side of the bottle. Any sediment which forms in the bottle will therefore settle on the side opposite to the chalk mark. This is useful information when decanting a bottle of Vintage Port. If the bottle is held with the white mark uppermost, there is less likelihood of the sediment being disturbed. If there is no white mark, as is often now the case, the bottle should be held with the label uppermost.\nCima Corgo\nSee 'Sub Regions'\nColheita is the Portuguese word for a harvest. It is also the name given to a small category of Ports which are aged in wood and bear the date of the harvest on the label. These dated wood Ports should not be confused with Vintage Ports.\nA cooper is a person skilled in the making and repair of wooden casks and vats. The workshop in which the coopers build and maintain these wooden vessels is known as a cooperage. The skill of cooperage is often passed down from father to son within the same family.\nSee 'Treading'.\nSee 'Sediment'.\nCrusted\nCrusted Port is a full bodied red Port which has formed a sediment or 'crust' in the bottle. Like a Vintage Port, Crusted Port will improve in bottle. Unlike Vintage, however, it is usually blended from wines of more than one year and does not bear the vintage on the label. Crusted Port is a very small category of Port and not many houses produce it. In the past Crusted was also sometimes referred to as Crusting Port but this name is no longer used.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line452959"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6282196044921875,"wiki_prob":0.6282196044921875,"text":"B.I.R. Reminds USVI Residents Not To File Tax Returns With IRS\nCommunity Center / News / Virgin Islands / February 8, 2019\nIn a release issued Thursday, Bureau of Internal Revenue Director nominee Joel Lee said bona fide U.S. Virgin Islands residents should file their tax returns in the U.S. Virgin Islands and not with the IRS on the mainland.\n“Bona fide residents of the Virgin Islands must not file their individual income tax returns, electronically or by mail, with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),” Mr. Lee said. “This is a violation of the law. The income tax return is only considered filed on the date that it is received by the Bureau, not the date received by the IRS. Taxpayers who receive erroneous refunds from the IRS will have to repay the erroneous refund issued by the IRS, and will be subject to penalties and interest. The due date for tax returns this year is Monday, April 15, 2019.\nThe reminder, which has been issued before, comes as Dept. of Finance Commissioner nominee Kirk Callwood said he could not say when tax refunds would be issued.\nB.I.R. also reminded taxpayers that the 2018 tax return has been revised. The format has changed significantly, it said, so taxpayers are asked to review the tax return and ensure that the information being provided is accurate.\nTaxpayers must use Form 1040 to file their 2018 taxes. Forms 1040A and 1040EZ are no longer available for use by taxpayers. Self-employed taxpayers are required to file two tax returns. The individual income tax return (Form 1040) and the self-employment tax return (Form 1040SS). The Form 1040 is filed with the Bureau. The self-employment tax return must be mailed to the IRS. B.IR. said taxpayers should not include payment of self employment taxes on Form 1040.\nMr. Lee reiterated that there is no electronic filing in the Virgin Islands. Taxpayers must submit or mail the returns to the Bureau for processing.\nFor more information about filing requirements for bona fide residents, please call the Office of Chief Counsel at 715-1040, ext. 2249 or 714-9312.\nRuling On Fate Of Excise Taxes Could Come 'Any Day Now,' New B.I.R. Director Says\nNeed Help With Filing Taxes, Let U.V.I., B.I.R., Help","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line513597"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7983453273773193,"wiki_prob":0.7983453273773193,"text":"Administration moves to ease drive-time rules for truckers\nby: RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press\nPosted: Jul 1, 2019 / 04:02 AM PDT / Updated: Jul 1, 2019 / 09:38 AM PDT\nTruck driver Terry Button drives his truck near Opal, Va., Thursday, June 13, 2019. The Transportation Department is poised to relax the federal regulations that govern how many hours a day truckers can be behind the wheel, a long sought goal of the trucking industry. (AP Photo/Tom Sampson)\nOPAL, Va. (AP) — Truck driver Lucson Francois was forced to hit the brakes just five minutes from his home in Pennsylvania.\nHe’d reached the maximum number of hours in a day he’s allowed to be on duty. Francois couldn’t leave the truck unattended. So he parked and climbed into the sleeper berth in the back of the cab. Ten hours would have to pass before he could start driving again.\n“You don’t want even a one-minute violation,” said Francois, a 39-year-old Haitian immigrant, recalling his dilemma during a break at a truck stop in this small crossroads town southwest of Washington.\nThe Transportation Department is moving to relax the federal regulations that required Francois to pull over, a long sought goal of the trucking industry and a move that would highlight its influence with the Trump administration. Interest groups that represent motor carriers and truck drivers have lobbied for revisions they say would make the rigid “hours of service” rules more flexible.\nBut highway safety advocates are warning the contemplated changes would dangerously weaken the regulations, resulting in truckers putting in even longer days at a time when they say driver fatigue is such a serious problem. They point to new government data that shows fatal crashes involving trucks weighing as much as 80,000 pounds have increased.\n“I think flexibility is a code word for deregulation,” said Cathy Chase, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of insurance companies and consumer, public health and safety groups. She said the hours of service requirements, which permit truckers to drive up to 11 hours each day, are already “exceedingly liberal in our estimation.”\nThere were 4,657 large trucks involved in fatal crashes in 2017, a 10% increase from the year before, according to a May report issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an agency of the Transportation Department. Sixty of the truckers in these accidents were identified as “asleep or fatigued,” although the National Transportation Safety Board has said this type of driver impairment is likely underreported on police crash forms.\nThe NTSB has declared fatigue a “pervasive problem” in all forms of transportation and added reducing fatigue-related accidents to its 2019-2020 “most wanted list ” of safety improvements. A groundbreaking study by the Transportation Department more than a decade ago reported 13% of truck drivers involved in crashes that resulted in fatalities or injuries were fatigued at the time of the accidents.\nThe trucking industry has developed a strong relationship with President Donald Trump, who has made rolling back layers of regulatory oversight a top priority. At least a dozen transportation safety rules under development or already adopted were repealed, withdrawn, delayed or put on the back burner during Trump’s first year in office.\n“First of all, this administration is not as aggressive as the prior,” said Bill Sullivan, the top lobbyist for the powerful American Trucking Associations, whose members include the nation’s largest motor carriers and truck manufacturing companies. “Most importantly, the partnership with them has not been as suspicious of industry as in the past.”\nTrucking interests had pressed the administration and Congress for the rule changes and last year secured support from 30 senators, mostly Republicans. The lawmakers wrote in a May 2018 letter to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration chief Ray Martinez that the rules “do not provide the appropriate level of flexibility” and asked him to explore improvements.\nIndependent truckers in particular have chafed at what they see as a one-size-fits-all directive written by Washington bureaucrats who don’t understand what they face on the highways.\n“How can you judge me and what I do by sitting in a cubicle in an office?” said Terry Button, a burly hay farmer from upstate New York who owns his truck. Button estimates he’s logged about 4 million miles since he started driving a truck in 1976. He said he’s never caused an accident, although he’s been hit twice by passenger vehicles.\nThe regulations have existed since the 1930s and are enforced by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The proposed revisions are being reviewed by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget and have not yet been released, according to a spokesman for the motor carrier safety office.\nThe regulations limit long-haul truckers to 11 hours of driving time within a 14-hour on-duty window. They must have had 10 consecutive hours off duty before the on-duty clock starts anew. And a driver who is going to be driving for more than eight hours must take a 30-minute break before hitting the eight-hour mark.\nBreaking the rules can be costly. A trucker might be declared “out of service” for a day or longer for going beyond the time limits. Many are paid by the mile, so if they’re not driving they’re not making money. Francois, who was hauling 45,000 pounds of drinking water to a Walmart warehouse in Woodland, Pennsylvania, said he gets 50 cents a mile and earns, after taxes, around $900 a week.\nOff-duty and on-duty time for most truckers is recorded automatically and precisely by electronic logging devices, or ELDs. Responding to a congressional directive, the Obama administration set in motion the mandated use of ELDs as of December 2017 — a regulatory requirement that Trump has not overturned.\nPaper logs could be fudged pretty easily, but not the ELD, which is wired to the truck’s engine and has a display screen visible to the driver. Chase’s organization says an accurate accounting of a trucker’s hours is one of the most effective ways to help prevent drowsy driving. But for many truckers, the logging devices have only highlighted the inflexibility and complexity of the regulations.\n“If you run out of time in the middle of the George Washington Bridge, are you just going to pull over and park?” said Button, referring to the world’s busiest span connecting New Jersey and New York.\nThe Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, which represents small business truckers like Button, said the schedule dictated by the rules is out of step with the daily realties confronting most of their members. Heavy traffic, foul weather and long waits for cargo to be loaded or unloaded keep them idle. All the while, the 14-hour clock keeps on ticking, pushing them to go faster to make up lost time.\nEspecially vexing is the mandatory break requirement, according to organization president, Todd Spencer. The pause forces drivers to pull over when they don’t really need to rest, he said. And parking for a big rig is often hard to find and they may end up stopping in unsafe places, such as highway shoulders.\nSpencer’s organization, which says it has more than 160,000 members, has been pushing for the 30-minute break to be eliminated. In comments filed with the Transportation Department, the group recommended that truckers instead be allowed to effectively stop the 14-hour clock for up to three consecutive hours. During this off-duty period, drivers could rest or simply wait out heavy traffic.\n“This is not rocket science stuff,” Spencer said. “Rest when it makes sense to rest. Drive when it makes sense to drive.”\nBut critics of the stop-the-clock idea said that would result in a 17-hour work window, heightening the risk of drowsy driving and accidents. There’s no guarantee a trucker can or will sleep during that three-hour stop and a number of them would be driving at the end of a long period of being awake, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional society of doctors and scientists.\nHarry Adler, executive director of the Truck Safety Coalition, criticized the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration for “appeasing industry.” He said the agency has made the potential rule changes a higher priority than pushing forward with safety technologies such as software that electronically limits a truck’s speed. Bipartisan legislation was introduced in the Senate last week that, if passed, would circumvent the Trump administration’s indefinite delay of a proposed rule requiring new trucks to be outfitted with speed limiters.\n“None of this should be up for consideration,” he said. “There is no reason for any of this.”\nFollow Richard Lardner on Twitter at http://twitter.com/rplardner\nOregon GOP launches effort to recall Gov. Brown\nPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The chairman of the Oregon Republican Party has filed paperwork to launch a recall against Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, citing some of the laws passed in the 2019 legislative session.\nThe Oregonian/OregonLive reports Chairman Bill Currier in the Monday filing also pointed to Brown's announcement the day after lawmakers went home last month that if necessary, she would use executive powers to implement climate change policies similar to the plan defeated at the Capitol this year.\nBooker’s Iowa senior adviser leaves, citing personal reasons\nby ALEXANDRA JAFFE, Associated Press / Jul 15, 2019\nDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's Iowa senior adviser is departing his 2020 presidential campaign, leaving Booker without a top staffer in a key early voting state.\nIowa senior adviser Joe O'Hern confirmed to The Associated Press on Monday that he departed the campaign last week for personal reasons. O'Hern was Martin O'Malley's caucus director in 2016, managed a Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign in 2018 and is widely known among Iowa's political class as a seasoned organizer with a deep understanding of the caucus process.\nUS, Russian delegations to discuss arms control in Geneva\nby DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press / Jul 15, 2019\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Delegations from the U.S. and Russia are expected to meet this week to discuss arms control and the possibility of coaxing China into negotiating a new, three-way nuclear weapons pact, two senior administration officials said Monday.\nThe New START treaty, the last major arms-control treaty remaining between the U.S. and Russia, expires in 2021. There has been talk of negotiating an extension to the existing treaty, but the White House thinks the next generation of arms control must include China.\nPolitics / 1 min ago","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line297179"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7310900092124939,"wiki_prob":0.2689099907875061,"text":"← Exit: SEC’s Dan Gallagher – Enter: The Crowdfunders!\nJOBS ACT CROWDFUNDING IN 2016 – IT’S TIME TO CONNECT THE DOTS IN THIS NEW ERA →\nFinal Title III SEC Crowdfunding Rules – Done (almost)!!! Next Act: The Missing Title VIII (a/k/a H.R. 3784)\nPosted on October 28, 2015 by Samuel Guzik\n[As published on October 28, 2015 in Crowdfund Insider]\nI will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.”\nJoseph B. Lightfoot\nThe bigger than life headline yesterday? The long-awaited news that the SEC’s five Commissioners would be convening this coming Friday to vote on, and presumably approve final Title III rules. Yet as we wait with great anticipation to see what the final rules will actually say, I wanted to throw out some thoughts to the crowd – thoughts which I and a growing number of others believe are important.\nFirst, a heartfelt thanks, along with my sympathies, to the Staff at the SEC who despite the media headlines to the contrary have worked tirelessly on the Title III rules to get to this day. Not an easy task to build out an entirely new capital formation ecosystem which brings together the riskiest of companies and the most financially vulnerable investors. And to make the task that much more difficult, Congress left much, if not most, of the important details to the SEC. And if that were not enough, the Staff at the SEC was saddled with a statutory structure which was not a product of rational legislative deliberation, but instead the final work product of some very ugly and partisan sausage making on the Senate side of Capitol Hill before Congressman Patrick McHenry’s original House bill would make it to the legislative finish line in April 2012\nAnd I would be remiss in not giving a special thanks to Sebastian Gomez Abero, Chief of the SEC Office of Small Business Policy, who had the herculean task of wrestling with all of the fine details, and assimilating the many views of those inside the walls of the SEC, not to mention the hundreds of persons who took the time to provide the SEC with their brain share in the form of written comments on the proposed rules and meeting personally with the Staff.\nBut alas, let us not lose perspective – Friday will come and go, like any other day. And regardless of what the final rules say, there will be much important work left to be done. So the question du jour is how will this work will get done? And how quickly?\nTo answer this question properly, one needs, as their starting point, not the 270-day deadline for Title III rules, set by Congress back in April 2012. Actually, I go back a lot further – 1980 to be exact – to remind everyone that long before the bipartisan JOBS Act of 2012 became part of the legislative landscape, Democrats and Republicans alike came together back in 1980 to forge important legislation with a singular purpose – to strengthen the interests of small and emerging businesses in the legislative and regulatory process. These were to be important reforms for SME’s, some of which included:\nProtection of the interests of small business from unduly burdensome requirements in the federal regulatory process (the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980)\nCreation of an annual SEC Government Small Business Forum, to provide a sharper focus on issues directly impacting small business at the SEC and to facilitate communication and cooperation between the SEC, state regulatory agencies, and the other stakeholders in the SME ecosystem.\nThough these were important steps, the promise of these measures and measures of similar ilk over the past few decades have not really moved the needle very much – given the amount of time elapsed. In fact, I believe it is fair to say that since 1980 it has pretty much-been business as usual for small business interests in Washington – still lacking strong, effective advocates, both at the SEC and in the halls of Congress.\nThat is not my opinion alone. Indeed, it would be challenging to find well-grounded opinions to the contrary.\nSo What is Needed? The Missing Title VIII of the JOBS Act: Creation of a Strong Independent Voice at the SEC – Small Business Advocate.\nWell, when it comes to my views on how to ease legislative and regulatory burdens on small business, I first spoke to this issue back in February 2014, in an article first published in Crowdfund Insider: an independent office at the SEC – one whose sole mission was to advocate for the interests of small business capital formation – and with the gravitas to actually have a chance to make a difference. Something more was needed than simply an office in the SEC, dedicated to small business, which has a line of authority on the SEC organizational chart which ends with the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance. What was needed was a strong and independent voice, one that reported directly to not only the full Commission but also to Congress.\nTo me, the need for this new office at the SEC was obvious. Yet I could find nothing in the public literature discussing this idea before I first advocated for it in February 2014. So in the absence of any prior authority on the subject I questioned: was this was really a good idea; would it really make a difference for small business? Or would such a new office perhaps do more harm than good, as some might postulate. Who would know better the answer to this question than now former SEC Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher, I thought. After all, he was not only a sitting SEC Commissioner who was a staunch supporter of small business but one who had headed up the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets, amongst other SEC Staff positions, in a former life.\nWell, I heard Commissioner Gallagher’s answer to my questions in a private meeting with him back in June of 2014. And the public heard his answer in the affirmative in a major address he delivered at The Heritage Foundation in September 2014, aptly titled “What Ever Happened to Promoting Small Business Capital Formation, complete with a shout out to me in a footnote.” You see, from the perspective of Commissioner Gallagher, one of the line items in his personal “to do list” of necessary reforms to enhance the ability of small business to raise capital and to otherwise comply with SEC rules, was to create an entirely new office at the SEC, an Office of Small Business Advocate.\nHis words proved to be an inspiration for many, including those within the Beltway who are better positioned than most to make things happen. It started with an organization known as the Small Business Investor Alliance. A stone’s throw from the Hill they took the initiative to garner enough support to have legislation introduced into Congress on October 21, 2015. They started out by finding a friend in the offices of Representative John Carney (D-Del) and Representative Sean Duffy (R– Wisc). Also lending support as co-sponsors of the bill – Ander Crenshaw (R-FL), and Mike Quigley (D-IL).\nWhat started with what seemed like one lone voice with what seemed like a good idea soon became a bill, introduced into the House of Representatives on October 21, 2015, with bi-partisan backing of four members of the House of Representatives, and introduced with a letter of support signed onto by major national trade associations:\nSmall Business Investor Alliance\nBiotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)\nSmall Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBEC)\nAssociation for Corporate Growth National Small Business Association\nCrowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA)\nNational Venture Capital Association, and\nThe bill, now officially designated as H.R. 3784, entitled “The SEC Small Business Advocate Act of 2015,” is chocked with details. But suffice it to say that this legislation, which empowers a single individual, the SEC Small Business Advocate, and an office dedicated to the single mission of advocating for promoting capital formation for small business, while also protecting the interests of small business investors, contains the key ingredients. This bill envisions, by legislative fiat, the insertion at the SEC of an individual and an office with a singular focus on small business advocacy, and with the organizational gravitas to get the job done – reporting to the full SEC Commission and to both houses of Congress.\nAnd for those who may think that this legislation is not necessary, all one needs to do is to look at the relatively short shrift that small business has received over the past decades, not to mention the (very) long waits to accomplish tangible reform for small business capital formation. Indeed, the long wait for final Title III rules – long not by my watch, but by Congress’s watch – a 270 day rulemaking deadline mandated by the 2012 JOBS Act itself, pales in comparison when one looks at the small business regulatory landscape going back to the then highly touted small business reforms instituted back in 1980.\nSo yes, when the jubilation of the crowd in many corners of the U.S. over the long-awaited final Title III crowdfunding rules subsides, let’s pause and take a brief moment to look back a few decades – to learn from history – and then, look not down, but forward. There is much work left to be done to facilitate smarter, right sized regulation of small business capital formation – consistent with necessary investor protections. But we need to work at a more efficient pace then we have over at least the past 35 years.\nSo after the elation from having final Title III rules subsides, please read this new legislative bill – think about how things might be much different – and better – for small business capital formation if this bill were to become law. Perhaps, the final Title III rules might have been even better than the best efforts of the Staff and the Commission could make them, given that they were already hamstrung by defective legislation passed without the involvement of the Commission. And, perhaps they might have arrived just a tad sooner.\nFor a link to the text of H.R. 3784 and the Letter of Support accompanying the bills introduction, it is available for viewing and download here: bit.ly/1P4Jj00 ]\nThis entry was posted in Business Formation, Capital Raising, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Crowdfunding, General, Regulation A+ Resource Center. 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{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6729415655136108,"wiki_prob":0.32705843448638916,"text":"VAN DIEST: 5 takeaways from Women's World Cup: United States keep raising bar\nWORLD CUP NOTES: Success attracts criticism in the Netherlands\nAfter a U.S. player's controversial tea-drinking celebration, here are some of the most notorious goal celebrations in World Cup history\nVAN DIEST: United States should be commended for continuing to raise bar of women's soccer\nUnited States gets past England and move on to Women's World Cup final\nWORLD CUP NOTES: United States show up at rivals' hotel\nDEREK VAN DIEST: A trip to World Cup final would put semifinal heartbreak in Canada to rest for England\nDEREK VAN DIEST: Rapinoe gets last laugh for U.S. against France at World Cup\nUpdated Jun 28, 2019 at 8:22 p.m.\nU.S. soccer captain Megan Rapinoe embodies all it is to be American\nDEREK VAN DIEST: French consider themselves underdogs against United States\nWORLD CUP NOTES: Canadian referee Carol Anne Chenard missed in France\nDerek Van Diest\nPARIS — Canadian Carol Anne Chenard was considered an early candidate to referee the final at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup had she not been forced to miss the tournament after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Italian ...\nTAKE 3: Janine Beckie still destined for stardom despite loss at Women's World Cup\nPARIS — You could not help but feel bad for Canada’s women’s national soccer team as they filed past the media mix zone at the Parc des Princes on Monday with tears in their eyes following a painful defeat at the 2019 FIFA ...\nGALLERY: Canada gutted with loss to Sweden at Women's World Cup\nPARIS — They had been together so long and worked so hard, it was tough for Canada to hide the disappointment of being knocked out in the second round of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Canada’s tournament came to an abrupt end, ...\nChristine Sinclair offers crucial penalty kick to Janine Beckie at Women's World Cup\nPARIS — It brought flashbacks of Wayne Gretzky being left on the bench during the shootout at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. This time it was Canada captain and second-leading scorer of all time Christine Sinclair not stepping up to take a ...\nTAKE 3: Canada still in the fight at Women's World Cup\nPARIS — Canada is not accustomed to losing, at least not the current make-up of the national women’s soccer team. The 2-1 defeat to Netherlands on Thursday at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup was the first time Canada lost since ...\nWORLD CUP NOTES: Canada on the wrong side of video reviews against Netherlands\nREIMS — The way things were going, it was inevitable Canada would eventually have a run-in with the Video Assistant Referee at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It took just over a minute for the controversial VAR system, used for ...\nANDREW POTTER: Women's World Cup fiascos show video review has no place in soccer\nBefore they’d even made it into the Round of 16, video review was wreaking havoc with the Women’s World Cup. It has completely ruined at least two key matches while disrupting many others. The video assistant referee, or VAR, is being ...\nVAN DIEST: Canadian defence ready for dangerous Dutch trio\nREIMS — Canada is in unchartered territory having qualified for the second round of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup with a game to spare. On the two occasions Canada advanced past the group stage in previous World Cups, they ...\nWORLD CUP NOTES: Dutch expected to attack back against Canada\nREIMS — Group E at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup saved the best for last when Canada and the Netherlands face each other here at the Stade Auguste Delaune on Thursday. With both teams having already qualified for the second ...\nDEREK VAN DIEST: American women's soccer machine keeps rolling at Women's World Cup\nPARIS, France — They’re loud, they’re proud, they’re well supported, and for the moment, the United States are taking it to opponents at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The United States defeated World Cup ...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1646764"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9562139511108398,"wiki_prob":0.9562139511108398,"text":"Headlines > Forest: plain pack review \"premature\"\nSat 23rd November, 2013\nCampaigners opposed to plain packaging of tobacco have accused the government of ignoring the views of hundreds of thousands of people who opposed the policy in a public consultation.\nThey also describe as \"premature\" the government's decision to commission a further review of the evidence.\nThe review, announced this morning in a written statement by public health minister Jane Ellison, follows a public consultation in 2012 that attracted over 700,000 responses, almost half a million of them opposed to standardised packaging.\nAngela Harbutt, campaigns manager at the smokers' group Forest which runs the Hands Off Our Packs campaign, said:\n\"Over 700,000 people took part in the public consultation and a huge majority opposed plain packaging.\n\"Fifteen months later the government seems to be ignoring the outcome of that consultation despite the fact that very little has changed in the intervening period.\n\"Although Australia introduced plain packaging twelve months ago it's far too early to say what the long-term impact will be.\n\"Recent reports however suggest that smoking prevalence has remained the same while illicit trade has gone up.\n\"In contrast, there is no evidence that plain packaging has had any impact on youth smoking rates.\"\nShe added:\n\"Although we think it's premature, we welcome a further review as long as it considers all the available evidence and is genuinely independent and impartial.\"","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1464050"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.6032845377922058,"wiki_prob":0.6032845377922058,"text":"University’s Stafford base opens its doors\nUniversity gears up for Clearing\nStudent satisfaction remains high\nInspirational people to be honoured\nOn-the-spot offers at Open Day\nSuzi Perry to star at University business event\nClearing calls to University increase\nName of new Science Centre revealed\nNew professors help boost University research profile\n£500,000 investment in engineering facilities\nCapital FM visit University Campuses\nStudent’s delight at silver medal\nBusiness project to be extended\nStudents elect new president\nUniversity to support Music Festival\nThe University of Wolverhampton is leading a consortium of universities in delivering a support programme designed to help small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the region that are in the early stages of developing new products.\nThe £1m Innovative Product Support Service (IPSS) project, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), has been granted an extension and will now run until December 2015.\nSince the project started in early 2013, over 100 companies have signed up to access the wide range of support.\nThe programme is particularly interested in businesses developing environmental, digital, electronic or medical technologies.\nProfessor Andrew Pollard, Director of the IPSS programme, said: “Through the IPSS project businesses within the West Midlands area will have access to the expertise offered by four universities from across the region. It is a great opportunity for West Midlands SMEs to get a helping hand in getting their new products to market and will make a real difference to the growth of their businesses.”\nIPSS offers eligible businesses up to six days of funded support in areas such as product design, market research, electronics development and intellectual property rights protection. In some cases, SMEs can also access grant support for businesses to continue the development of their innovative products.\nAs part of the IPSS programme each beneficiary will receive an objective review of their product. For those businesses with a viable proposition, the programme aims to offer assistance regardless of whether it is a concept design model, a review of the IP status of a product or the development of an electronics based prototype\nProject Manager, Abi Hopkins said: “The demand for support has been fantastic and new applications are received almost daily. We have established strong referral links with other University projects and external agencies to highlight the support available which has been effective. Regional SMEs are able to access a wide range of new product development support not only through the IPSS project but also through other funded programmes, therefore offering added value.”\nThe programme has attracted high profile keynote speakers and manufacturing enthusiasts such as TV presenter and historian Adam Hart-Davis, TV star and innovation enthusiast Robert Llewellyn and Martin McCourt, ex CEO of Dyson and additional events are being planned for later in 2014.\nThe project will continue to run until December 2015. For more information about the project and events, please contact Abi Hopkins on 01902 321105 or visit IPSS.\nDate Issued: Tuesday, 26 August 2014","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1422129"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.8024459481239319,"wiki_prob":0.8024459481239319,"text":"Martin Mor\nSnapper -\nMartin Mor!\n\"Martin is the act who has influenced me the most.\" - Frankie Boyle\nOne of the world's funniest and most respected comedians comes to Stagetime Comedy Club!\nMartin comes from Northern Ireland, and after a successful career as a circus performer, he turned his attention on the unsuspecting comedy circuit.\nWith over 30 years experience as a professional performer, Martin has established himself as one of the UK’s most popular and in-demand comedians.\nMartin has performed successfully at events of all description; from the Hammersmith Apollo to a show for the inmates of an Italian prison, from comedy clubs to performing in some of the most unique, and unusual locations.\nIn April 2016 Martin was part of a team that set the world record for the highest altitude comedy show by performing at 5,300m/17,600ft at Mount Everest basecamp.\nVery much the comedian’s comedian, Martin has been the support act of choice for; Frankie Boyle, Jack Dee, Lee Evans, Jasper Carrot, Patrick Kielty, Johnny Vegas, Steve Coogan, and once Tina Turner. Most recently Martin was part of legendary Doug Stanhope's podcast!\nMartin has made numerous appearances on radio and television.As well as devising and performing his own BBC television show, he has written jokes for some of the biggest names in British comedy.\nMartin is a specialist MC, and a regular headline act at most of the UK’s major comedy clubs, and also performs at comedy, music, and arts festivals around the world.\nA truly global performer, Martin has worked throughout the known world performing his shows in Britain, Ireland, Australia, USA, Canada, Croatia, Belgium, Slovenia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Cyprus, Crete, Falkland Islands, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Nepal, Myanmar, Hong Kong, and Mainland China.\nMartin’s photograph is featured on the popular board game Trivial Pursuits, (The Genus Edition). On an arts entertainments square, he is seen wearing a leotard.\nExperience World Class comedy where comedy is supposed to be enjoyed in an intimate up close environment of Thailand's favorite comedy club!\n\"Explosive, visual comedian who should carry a government health warning!\" - City Life\n\"The comic least likely to be heckled.\" - The Irish Post\n\"Off beat , unusual, outrageous!\" - Time Out\nSpecial Early Bird Price ฿350!\nAdvanced ฿500/ Door ฿700\nThursday 11 October 2018 at 8:00 PM\n4/8 Sukhumvit Soi 8, Sukhumvit Rd., Khlong Toei Nuea, Khet Khlong Toei, Krung Thep Maha Nakhon 10110","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line526964"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.916323184967041,"wiki_prob":0.916323184967041,"text":"Surprise! Chance The Rapper Is In The 'Lion King'\nChance the Rapper can keep a secret!\nOn Wednesday (July 10), the 26-year-old surprised fans when he revealed that he managed to make a lifelong dream come true by snagging a role in the forthcoming Lion King. Chance shared the news on Instagram, detailing how his infatuation with the film led to him voicing the character Bush Baby.\n\"I grew up my whole life obsessed with all things related to #TheLionKing; like all three films, the Timon and Pumbaa tv show, the broadway play and especially the broadway soundtrack. Needless to say the original film was immensely impactful on my music and overall life,\" he shared. \"So when my big bro Donald [Glover] got casted as Simba, he did the coolest thing ever and told director Jon Favreau to call me in as a consultant to keep the original flavor.\"\nChance continued, \"So for about a year I would go to the LK studio and see early animations, scenes, music direction or assemblies and they’d always be out of this world amazing. One day I’m there Jon asked me to do some singing stuff, another day he asks me to do some lines. Its all a blur, but I’ll tell u its one of the best blurs of my whole life. I am so blessed to know people like Donald and Jon man. AMAZING FILM, AMAZING CAST AND AN AMAZING NIGGHT LAST NIGHT. GOD BLESS AND LONG LIVE THE KING.\"\nNews of Chance's Lion King role comes ahead of the release of his debut album. As fans know, the \"Groceries\" rapper is set to release the project this month.\nLion King hits theaters on July 19.\nChance is also performing at this year's iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas in September alongside a lineup of superstar artists. Fans across the country can tune in and watch an exclusive live stream of the show via The CW App and CWTV.com. Then, on October 2nd and 3rd, relive all of the epic performances from the weekend during a televised special on The CW Network at 8pm ET/PT. And leading up to the official television special, The CW will also air an hour-long Best Of Special on Sunday, September 29th at 8 p.m. ET/PT.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line986892"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5042361617088318,"wiki_prob":0.5042361617088318,"text":"Oecd better existence index\nFebruary 15, 2018Education in Spain\nHow’s Existence?\nThe country performs well in couple of measures of well-finding yourself in the greater Existence Index. The country ranks over the average in work-existence balance, housing, health status, social connections, and private security but substandard in earnings and wealth, social engagement, ecological quality, education and skills, and jobs and earnings.\nMoney, although it cannot buy happiness, is a vital way to achieving greater living standards. In The country, the typical household internet-adjusted disposable earnings per person is USD 22 007 annually, under the OECD average of USD 29 016 annually. There’s a substantial gap between your wealthiest and poorest – the very best 20% of people earn near to seven occasions around the underside 20%.\nWhen it comes to employment, around 57% of individuals aged 15 to 64 in The country possess a compensated job, underneath the OECD employment average of 66%. Some 62% of males have been in compensated work, in contrast to 52% of ladies. In The country, nearly 6% of employees work very lengthy hrs, under the OECD average of 13%, with 8% of males working very lengthy hrs in contrast to just 3% of ladies.\nGood education and skills are essential requisites for locating employment. In The country, 57% of adults aged 25-64 have finished upper secondary education, reduced compared to OECD average of 76%. This really is truer of ladies than men, as 55% of males have effectively completed high-school in contrast to 58% of ladies. With regards to the excellence of the educational system, the typical student scored 490 in studying literacy, maths and science within the OECD’s Programme for Worldwide Student Assessment (PISA), less than the OECD average of 497. Typically in The country, women outperformed boys by 1 point, reduced compared to average OECD gap of 8 points.\nWhen it comes to health, existence expectancy at birth in The country is 83 years, 3 years greater compared to OECD average of eighty years, and among the greatest within the OECD. Existence expectancy for ladies is 86 years, in contrast to 80 for males. The amount of atmospheric PM2.5 – small air pollutant particles sufficiently small to go in and damage the lung area – is 11.6 micrograms per cubic meter, less than the OECD average of 14.05 micrograms per cubic meter. The country performs underneath the OECD average when it comes to water quality, as 71% of individuals appear at first sight pleased with the caliber of their water, underneath the OECD average of 81%.\nIn regards to the public sphere, there’s a powerful communal feeling and moderate amounts of social participation in The country, where 96% of individuals think that they are fully aware someone they might depend on over time of need, greater compared to OECD average of 88%, and among the greatest figures within the OECD. Voter turnout, a stride of citizens’ participation within the political process, was 73% during recent elections this figure is greater compared to OECD average of 68%. Social and economic status can impact voting rates voter turnout for that top 20% of people is definitely an believed 81% but for the bottom 20% it’s an believed 70%, a rather narrower gap compared to OECD average gap of 13 percentage points.\nGenerally, Spanish are slightly less satisfied with their former lifestyle compared to OECD average. When requested to rate their general satisfaction with existence on the scale from to 10, the Spanish gave it a 6.4 grade, less than the OECD average of 6.5.\nFor additional info on estimates and many years of reference, see FAQ section and BLI database.\nResourse: http://oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/the country/\nThe Visual Du Jour – OECD Better Life Index\nBuying property in the country like a foreigner –…\nProperty for purchase the country – houses purchase in\nThe country – history background – education,…\nThe training system in the country\nCheap hotels in barcelona, the country from $76\nTags: better, existence, oecd","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line176382"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5698199272155762,"wiki_prob":0.43018007278442383,"text":"How to Make Clean Versions of Songs\nHave you ever had the problem of playing songs with explicit lyrics in public? Well, software such as Audacity and Adobe Audition could be used to censor these lyrics, so that a song with explicit content can be transformed into a clean version like a radio edit.\nInstall and open Audacity.\nGo to File > Import > Audio and after selecting the audio file that has explicit content, click on “Open”.\nClick on the “Zoom In” tool and select the area of the track that has to be censored.\nFigure 1 : Audio track to be censored\nFor the next step, there are two options :\nGo to “Effect” and click on “Reverse”. This is will flip the selected section vertically, so that the explicit word becomes meaningless.\nThe other option is go to Effect and click on “Vocal Remover” and then click on “OK”.\nFigure 2 : Vocal Remover window\nHowever, it should be noted that sometimes the instrumental part of the selected section could get removed as well by using the second method.\nFinally, click on “File” and then on “Export” to save the censored version. After checking the details (info) of the track are correct, click on “OK”.\nThese are the ways that could be used to remove or alter the f-bombs and s-bombs in tracks. Hope this helps.\n2015/05/24 Audacity, censor, clean, lyrics, radio edit, reverse, songs, track, version, vocal removerLeave a comment\nFeel Those Beats\nRecently, I have been listening to more hip-hop songs, especially the ones produced by Timbaland. According to what I feel, he is the best producer of hip-hop music. Timbaland has worked with so many pop artists such as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, JAY Z and Nelly Furtado.\nI thought of producing my own hip-hop, R&B and dance tracks and the results were satisfactory. These have been shared in my Soundcloud page and on Twitter but I will share them at the end of this post. Various instruments such as piano, drums, koto and violin have been used in the production stage. I use Apple Logic Pro X for music production. A bit of Photoshop was also learnt to create cover art.\nWell, check the tracks out. I hope you’ll love them. If you like my tracks, please “like” and “share” them on Soundcloud and other social media.\n2015/02/01 2015/02/01 Apple, dance, hip-hop, instruments, JAY Z, Justin Timberlake, Logic Pro X, Nelly Furtado, R&B, Soundcloud, Timbaland, tracksLeave a comment\nProducing Music\nI have been using Apple loops found in Logic Pro X software for my tracks (except for the first one). After sharing eight tracks on Soundcloud and being satisfied with eight likes, two comments and 82 plays (which I never expected), I thought, “Enough with loops. Why not create my own melodies and beats?”\nThen, I had to think of a suitable melody and a beat for my next track, which was not easy because it should be made unique and grooving, so I placed some notes on the piano roll of Logic Pro X software and did a playback. The starting and the middle sections were great but the end was not that good. After fiddling around with the notes, I finally managed to get a fine melody. For the beat, I listened to some sequences in the “Boom” plug-in found in Pro Tools to get an idea and drew the notes on the piano roll again.\nMy next step was to figure out how to get the “whoosh” sound found in electronic tracks, which can be created from white noise. After watching some tutorials, I was able to do this using the “ES P” and “Autofilter” plug-ins. A screenshot showing the two plug-ins can be found below:\nCurrently, I am investigating on filter sweeping and time compressing, so that I could get the “weew” sound found in electronic tracks (for example, in Vicetone’s remix of “We Come Running” by Youngblood Hawke).\nHere are the tracks that I created after the three tracks found in my previous post. Hope you would enjoy them. One of them is R&B.\n2014/02/21 2014/02/28 beats, electronic, filter sweeping, Logic Pro X, melodies, plug-in, Pro ToolsLeave a comment\nMy Electronic Tracks\nSince childhood, I have been interested in music. In the good old days, I liked listening to pop and rap songs. My favourite groups were Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC and Five. As time passed by, I started listening to R&B, rap and hip-hop. Eminem is one of my favourite rappers and Timbaland, who can create amazing beats, is my favoured producer of all time.\nIn the year 2007, one of my friends introduced me to the flavour of house music. At first, I thought it was just noise (as most people in the older generations think) but then after listening to that genre for several times, I got the hang of it. Since then I’ve been listening to artists such as David Guetta, Avicii, NERVO, Nicky Romero, Fedde le Grand, Vicetone…..and the list goes on. House music has several genres, a common one found these days is Progressive House. I don’t really mind about the genre sometimes : If a particular song puts me in the mood, I listen to it.\nRecently, after being inspired by some of my friends who produce music, I too started creating my own tracks in my free time using a software called Logic Pro X. Getting used to a different type of software was difficult in the beginning but I continue to learn and master it. After checking out some YouTube videos on producing music, I created three electronic tracks. Hope people will enjoy them. So far, I’ve got some positive feedback on one of my tracks and I wish to increase my fan base as time goes by. Some people will say that it is very easy to produce music using a laptop, but there is a series of stages involved in producing. The major step involved in the production process is coming up with a great idea. I think that is what matters the most, not the techniques or tricks used to release a great track.\nHere are the tracks that I have created so far :\n2014/02/13 2015/01/10 audio production, hip-hop, house, music, Progressive house, R&B, softwareLeave a comment","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1571278"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5604046583175659,"wiki_prob":0.5604046583175659,"text":"Posted by Ricky Zeller on December 29, 2011 – 5:22 pm\nSome numbers worth noting as the Packers prepare for the Lions:\n18.6 – Average points Green Bay has allowed this season at home. The Packers have scored an average of 39.4 points per game at Lambeau Field in 2011, which ranks No. 2 in the NFL. The club’s record for scoring average at home is 38.0, set in 1942.\n6 – The Packers can become only the sixth team in NFL history to finish a season 15-1.\n17 – Passing attempts by Aaron Rodgers the last time the Lions visited Lambeau Field, Oct. 3, 2010. It was the fewest attempts by the QB in a game he finished since he took over as a starter in ’08. The Packers prevailed, 28-26, with Rodgers’ 16-yard scramble helping the club run out the final 6:32 of the contest.\nIn the ’10 victory over Detroit, he recorded a passer rating of 105.3. Rodgers completed 12 passes vs. the Lions, tied for the fewest in his career (vs. Seattle, 12/27/09). The only game where Rodgers has thrown or completed fewer passes was last year at Detroit (7 of 11, 46 yards), when he departed in the first half with an injury.\n2002 – The last year Green Bay went undefeated at home. The Packers enter the finale with a 7-0 record at Lambeau Field. Green Bay is one of three teams unbeaten at home this season, joining the Ravens and Saints.\n3 – Charles Woodson has returned an interception for a touchdown vs. the Lions each of the last three years. Woodson picked off a pass in the Thanksgiving game at Detroit, no touchdown. The cornerback’s feat of three-straight seasons is an NFL record.\n1,089 – Rushing yards combined between running backs James Starks (578) and Ryan Grant (511).\n5 – Both the Packers and Lions have lost only five fumbles in 2011.\n385 – Completions by Matthew Stafford this season. Rodgers has completed 343 passes. The Detroit QB has 604 attempts, Rodgers has 502. Stafford has set team records with 4,518 yards and 36 TDs.\nTags: aaron rodgers, charles woodson, lambeau field, Lions Thanksgiving, Packers history, Packers interceptions, Packers preview, Packers-Lions","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1503312"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.7624176144599915,"wiki_prob":0.7624176144599915,"text":"DOJ to sue Texas under Voting Rights Act 'bail-in' provision\nBy Brentin Mock\nJuly 26, 2013 - The U.S. Supreme Court may have struck down one provision of the Voting Rights Act, but the Department of Justice is turning to another to sue Texas over its discriminatory redistricting law.\nZombie voter fraud attack proved false, again\nJuly 12, 2013 - South Carolina is the latest state where politicians' tales of dead voters casting ballots have been proven false, but restrictive voting laws are still being passed in response to these myths. Perhaps it's time for a law to ban such false claims as a form of voter fraud?\nWater pollution a problem for Southern beaches\nJuly 5, 2013 - The NRDC's annual report on bacterial contamination at U.S. beaches finds serious problems at popular swimming spots across the South. The group is calling on the federal government to take action to better protect beachgoers from serious health risks.\nSouth remains the epicenter of U.S. child poverty crisis\nJune 24, 2013 - An annual report that measures the well-being of U.S. children finds improvements among some Southern states -- and slippage among others. Where does your state stand?\nWhat happens if the Supreme Court cuts out the heart of the Voting Rights Act?\nJune 12, 2013 - With the high court expected to hand down a ruling soon on the constitutionality of the key section of the landmark civil rights law, a new report warns of what could come to pass if Section 5 is weakened or eliminated altogether.\nRape and other sexual violence prevalent in juvenile justice system\nBy ProPublica\nJune 11, 2013 - Georgia and South Carolina are among the states with the highest rates of sexual assault of juvenile detainees, and most of the abuse involves the very staff members charged with supervising and counseling the troubled youngsters.\nReversal of fortune: A prosecutor on trial\nMay 2, 2013 - In the world of abusive prosecutors, Ken Anderson stands out: Anderson, a Texas prosecutor who abused his authority to help send an innocent man to prison for decades, now faces 10 years behind bars for his misconduct.\nThe South, still ruled by 'the handful'\nBy Joe Atkins\nApril 22, 2013 - As the South's hard-right pols block expanding Medicaid to a population in need, they show that civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer's description of the region's government as \"with the handful, for the handful, by the handful\" remains true today.\nCoal, poor water management endanger Southern rivers\nApril 17, 2013 - The Flint in Georgia, the San Saba in Texas, the Catawba in the Carolinas, and the Black Warrior in Alabama are among the nation's 10 most threatened rivers, according to the latest tally from American Rivers.\nThe strange politics of TVA privatization\nApril 16, 2013 - President Obama's latest budget proposes privatizing the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has been criticized as a socialist enterprise, yet Southern Republicans are opposing the plan. What's going on here?","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line178899"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9590380787849426,"wiki_prob":0.9590380787849426,"text":"Success is relative for Bill Haas\nJeff Siner / McClatchy-Tribune\nBill Haas, the clubhouse leader with a four-under-par 68 on Thursday in the first round of the Masters, eyes his put on the 17th green at Augusta National Golf Club.\nBill Haas, the clubhouse leader with a four-under-par 68 on Thursday in the first round of the Masters, eyes his put on the 17th green at Augusta National Golf Club. (Jeff Siner / McClatchy-Tribune)\nTeddy Greenstein and Dan Wiederer\nAUGUSTA, Ga. — Craig and Kevin Stadler (\"Walrus\" and \"Smallrus\") became the first father-son combo to play in the same Masters, but perhaps they're not the first family of this week's festivities.\nCheck out the Haas household.\nBill Haas overcome a first-hole bogey Thursday to shoot a four-under-par 68, good for the first-round lead. Father Jay Haas played in 22 Masters, making 19 cuts. Uncle Jerry Haas participated in 1985. An uncle from his mother's side, Dillard Pruitt, teed it up here in 1992 and '93.\nOh, and great-uncle Bob Goalby won the 1968 event, avoiding a playoff after Argentina's Roberto De Vicenzo signed for the wrong Sunday score.\nBill Haas, 31, said Goalby encourages him by saying, \"You're a better player than the scores you shoot.\"\nJay got Bill on Augusta National when he was in high school, and Bill remembers getting a \"full day's worth\" — 27 holes plus the par-three course. He caddied in the 1999 Masters for his father, who finished tied for third in 1995.\n\"He's the person I idolized golf-wise,\" Bill said. \"I wasn't interested in the Masters. I was interested in my dad's score at the Masters.\"\nJay won nine times on the PGA Tour. At 60, he is still cashing large checks on the Champions Tour.\n\"I don't beat him much, honestly,\" Bill said. \"Even now.\"\nJay never won a major, tying for third in the 1999 PGA Championship and fourth in the 1995 U.S. Open.\n\"I think he deserved a major,\" Bill said. \"But as a family, we all know that he left it out there.\"\nBill dominated at Wake Forest and was viewed as cocky when he reached the tour in 2006. His fine career includes a heavyweight champion's payday of $11.44 million at the 2011 Tour Championship.\nHis only flaws are a suspect short-iron game and a fiery temperament that sometimes costs him. That's where Scott Gneiser hopes to help. Gneiser carried David Toms' bag for 16 years, but he just joined Haas.\n\"We're still in our honeymoon phase,\" the caddie said. \"If something goes wrong, we shake it off and get to the next hole instead of going nuts on each other.\"\nThere goes that\nJason Dufner's bid to win a second consecutive major derailed on the par-five 13th. Dufner sent a well-hit second shot rolling just off the back of the green. But he blew his eagle chip past the hole and down a hill toward Rae's Creek. His subsequent chip hit the slope above him and rolled back into the water.\nHe chunked another chip and eventually made a quadruple-bogey 9, the highest score on any hole Thursday.\nWith a back-nine 44 that gave him an eight-over 80, the reigning PGA Champion will start Friday tied for 90th in the 97-player field.\nOldies and goodies\nIn a tournament packed with a bunch of young newcomers, the 50-and-over crowd made a bit of a stand in the first round.\nMiguel Angel Jimenez was leading the tournament for a time before stumbling on the back nine. 1992 champion Fred Couples was on the leaderboard himself before tying the 50-year-old Jimenez with a 71 that left both players three shots off the lead.\nAnd two-time Bernard Langer managed to shoot even par in his 31st Masters.\n\"A 72 is not that shabby,\" the 56-year-old Langer said.\nPower still counts, but sometimes the older players can make up for it by knowing where to put the ball and being crafty.\n\"Can a 50-year-old win here?\" the 54-year-old Couples asked. \"I think so. I'm one of them.\"\nLuke Donald got hit with a two-stroke penalty after his round. He failed to exit a greenside bunker on No. 9 and touched the sand with his club before his second attempt. The penalty pushed Donald's score to an ugly 79. \"Pretty dumb mistake,\" Donald tweeted. … Brandt Snedeker assessed himself a one-shot penalty on No. 13 when his ball moved after he took a practice swing. There was no wind, he said, so he could not invoke a new rule that permits players to replace their ball if wind is the culprit. Snedeker still shot a two-under 70.\nDodgers’ Chris Taylor on injured list with a fractured left forearm\nBoxing legend Pernell ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker dies after being struck by a car\nOn the matter of the USWNT and equal pay, it’s complicated\nBill Haas\nJason Dufner\nBrandt Snedeker","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1414827"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.5531267523765564,"wiki_prob":0.4468732476234436,"text":"The Birth of a Climate Commons for Theatre and Performance\nJanuary 21, 2019 Artists and Climate Change\nby Lanxing Fu\nOn a weekend in June, I sat in a blackbox theatre for three days with a group of mostly strangers.\nWe talked. We ate. We laughed. We challenged. We listened.\nI heard the same refrain over and over again those three days. Wow, I’m so happy to be with others for once. It’s nice to be… un-lonely.\nThe Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Convening, hosted in Boston on 8-10 June 2018 gathered people together around a common purpose: to galvanize the community around making theatre and live performance in the age of climate change, to dissect and challenge the present ideas in this emerging field, and to distill all this talk into concrete, positive actions. Our earnest surprise at feeling seen and the joy of solidarity in people who felt they had spent years, decades, their entire lives talking into a void about the intersection of performance and climate are testament to how needed this convening was.\nAfter we took some time to understand the landscape of this intersection of climate and performance, we broke off into groups to develop ideas for action. There were hard questions to ask and attempt to answer. Whose voices were not represented in the room that needed to be there? How can we use our collective power, and the many twisting, interconnected arms of this work to nourish our communities and our non-human brethren? What kinds of shifts in thought do we need to undertake ourselves as we work to shift larger consciousness? How can our collective action outrun the changing atmosphere? It was rich. It was inspiring as hell. The breadth of skills and knowledge expanded my mind like crazy. The voices in the room were beautifully articulate at calling in others who were not. It was far from smooth and sometimes contentious. We all fought the urge to perform when the microphone was in our hand and the cameras were on our faces. Some got lost in the language. Others struggled to be heard. We were as human as can be, as human as any group of humans trying to do something together— the weight of our own egos held in taut balance with strong, strong passion for our collective goal.\nThe weekend had started off with a cold splash of water to the face. We learned in our opening conversation that The Guardian’s Carbon Countdown Clock gives us just over eighteen years until we exceed the IPCC’s 2C carbon budget, if our emissions stay as they are now. Eighteen years to figure this mess out. Eighteen years to put systems in place to take care of people as the effects of climate change get worse and worse, to shift radically the way we relate to each other, our economy, and the land. In the same span of time as it takes the average American kid to journey from infanthood to adulthood, we need to “fucking save the planet.”\nLanxing Fu and other convening participants. Photo by Blair Nodelman.\nFrom this urgency, this joy of togetherness, this friction of brains and bodies meeting, grew an idea like a sprig of bamboo racing towards the sun. One working group, though I cannot separate this group from the work of the group at large, seeded the idea of a Climate Commons for Theatre and Performance. An expression of our desire for horizontal connectivity, the Climate Commons takes its shape from mycelia, the underground, branching, threadlike fungal colonies that can grow to the size of 1600 football fields. We imagine that this is a network of interconnected nodes of activity at the intersection of performance and ecology, sharing knowledge, strategies, resources like mycelia share sustenance, across vast distances and through all forms of terrain. These nodes could potentially consist of geographic clusters of people already present at the conference; Miami, Boston, New York City, New Orleans, DC, Los Angeles, Standing Rock, Amherst, São João del Rei, London, Abu Dhabi. And it should necessarily expand to include people and geographies not present in the conference, in the Global South, in rural communities, in the Arctic, in the East. You can visit the HowlRound Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Convening page for updates on our progress with Climate Commons, and to learn how to get involved as it grows.\nConvening participants. Photo by Carolina Gonzalez.\nOne big statement of intent that came forward is that we want to foster the kinds of imaginations that are needed in the future. We want to specifically examine what live performance can bring to the table in service of that pursuit. How do we tackle such a huge endeavor? Step one, understand what we have to work with. Because we were together for a short, intensive period of time, we left Boston having only scratched the surface of the wealth of knowledge and experience in the room. A few members of this group are leading an interview series, in which we who attended the convening interview each other, to dive deeper into the work we do in our home communities in order to gain a holistic understanding of where we are beginning. We want to uplift each other by tapping into and amplifying the abundance of energy, artistry, resilience, and skill that has been driving these kinds of revolutions for centuries.\nWithout knowing exactly where we are going, or what our ultimate goal is, we are moving forward with the knowledge that we want to keep connecting. We want to keep connecting because it’s easy to not. It’s easy to silo ourselves off into the narrowness of day-to-day life and keep putting on the lenses that already fit. Because the challenge of a global crisis demands that we be more expansive than we are individually built to be, we hope to establish a body that acts as a broker across distances and differences, bringing people together around the shared goal of using performance to change the story around climate and build a more equitable world.\n(Top image: Convening participants having a small group discussion. Photo by Blair Nodelman.)\nThis article was originally published on HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community, on September 18, 2018.\nFor more on the convening, read MJ Halberstadt’s Art on a Damaged Planet: The Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Convening.\nLanxing Fu is a Chinese-American writer, director, and performer. She is the co-director of Superhero Clubhouse, for which she is program director of The Living Stage NYC and a co-creator of Pluto (no longer a play) and Jupiter (a play about power). She has collaborated on and led interdisciplinary projects on globalization and the environment through research in Sri Lanka, Morocco, Turkey, and the United States through The Center for 21st Century Studies, as previous associate director of Critical Point Theatre, and as an ensemble member of Building Home, working in the New River Valley. She participated in JACK’s “Creating Dangerously” series, led by Virginia Grise and Kyla Searle, has trained with SITI Company for two years, and is an alumnus of Orchard Project’s Core Company. She holds a B.A. in Humanities, Science, and Environment and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line31245"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9768247008323669,"wiki_prob":0.9768247008323669,"text":"Tom Steyer Building ‘Political Death Star’ to Run for President\nJeff Chiu / Associated Press\nAdelle Nazarian\nBillionaire left-wing environmental activist Tom Steyer has reportedly built what some have described as a “political death star” through his multi-million dollar campaign to have President Donald Trump impeached — laying the groundwork for a potential presidential run by Steyer himself.\n“If I were a rich person and I wanted to run for president,” one top Democratic strategist told the Daily Beast, “I would be doing exactly what he’s doing.”\nHe could run for president as early as 2020.\nSteyer has so far spent nearly $40 million on his campaign to impeach Trump and take on Republicans through NextGen Rising, his 2018 campaign to increase millennial voter turnout.\nThe Daily Beast noted:\nWhat Steyer is doing is acquiring the equivalent of prime political real estate. Through his self-funded Need to Impeach campaign, he has now built an email list of more than 5.1 million members, a total that one former presidential campaign manager called “staggering” and a top digital adviser called “one of the biggest Democratic lists out there.”\nThe first million people reportedly signed up to be on Steyer’s mailing list in the first six days.\nRepublicans are reportedly also impressed.\nImpeachment, however, remains Steyer’s main focus for the time being. He has even started holding town halls on the subject.\nIn October, Steyer spent $10 million on a TV ad calling for Trump’s impeachment. He soon followed with another.\nHis efforts are said to be focused on Orange County, where Hillary Clinton won the presidential vote in 2016 and where there are several vulnerable Republican incumbents.\nHe is also active in contests throughout the country. In 2014, Steyer’s efforts could not help Democrats hold the Senate. This year, however, he is more optimistic about his chances to help House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) regain the Speaker’s gavel.\nAdelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.\nLocalMidterm ElectionPolitics2020 Democratic candidates2020 presidential candidatesimpeachmenttom steyer","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1616394"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.7451077103614807,"wiki_prob":0.2548922896385193,"text":"Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market- SWOT Analysis, Top Key Players, Trends, Drivers, Strategies, Size, Applications and Competitive Landscape to 2025\nSeamus — July 14, 2019 comments off\nGlobal “Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market” report provides useful information about the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market along with the price forecast for the forecast period of 2019-2025. The report presents a detailed analysis of the parent market based on leading players, present, past & futuristic data which will serve as a profitable guide for all the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market competitors. The Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market data like market drivers, challenges, latest trends & technological developments are also discussed in this report.\nManufacturers in the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market Report:\nCDNetworks\nEdgeCast\nInisoft\nVerivue\nRequest a Sample Copy of the Report – http://www.industryresearch.co/enquiry/request-sample/13757635\nGeographically, the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market report provides segment analysis and import and export status, demand status, production volume, of Content Delivery Networks (CDN) including regions such as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America & Middle East, and Africa.\nAbout Content Delivery Networks (CDN):\nContent Delivery Networks is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers.\nCDN is an umbrella term spanning different types of content delivery services: video streaming, software downloads, web and mobile content acceleration, licensed/managed CDN, transparent caching and services to measure CDN performance, load balancing, multi-CDN switching and analytics and cloud intelligence.\nIn 2018, the global Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market size was xx million US$ and it is expected to reach xx million US$ by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during 2019-2025.\nContent Delivery Networks (CDN) Market by Applications:\nContent Delivery Networks (CDN) Market by Types:\nVideo Content Delivery Network\nStandard/Non-Video Content Delivery Network\nFor More Information or Query or Customization Before Buying, Visit at http://www.industryresearch.co/enquiry/pre-order-enquiry/13757635\nQuestions Answered in the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market Report:\nWhat will the market growth rate of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market in 2025?\nWhat are the key factors driving the global Content Delivery Networks (CDN)?\nWho are the key manufacturers in the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) space?\nWhat are the market opportunities, market risk and market overview of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN)?\nWhat are sales, revenue, and price analysis of top manufacturers of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market?\nWho are the distributors, traders, and dealers of the market?\nWhat are the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) opportunities and threats faced by the vendors in the global market?\nWhat are sales, revenue, and price analysis by types and applications of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market?\nWhat are sales, revenue, and price analysis by regions of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market?\nPurchase this Report (Price 3900 USD for a Single-User License) – http://www.industryresearch.co/purchase/13757635\nIn the end, the report focusses on Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Market major leading market players in Content Delivery Networks (CDN) industry area with information such as company profile of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) market, sales volume, price, gross margin of the Content Delivery Networks (CDN) industry and contact information. Global Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Industry report also includes Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Upstream raw materials and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) downstream consumer’s analysis.\nPhone: US +1424 253 0807/ UK +44 203 239 8187\nOur Other Report Here: Sealants Market 2019 Global Industry Analysis, Key Players, Market Share, Revenue, Trends, Growth, Opportunities, And Regional Forecast to 2023\nOur Other Report Here: Elliptical Machines Market 2019 Top Key Players, CAGR Status, Dynamics, Growth, Opportunities and Industry Segments Poised for Rapid Growth by 2022","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1115354"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6586846709251404,"wiki_prob":0.3413153290748596,"text":"The rise of European SaaS: apply now to be included in the Accel Euroscape 2019\nEditor’s note: This is a sponsored article, written by Philippe Botteri, a partner at VC firm Accel, as a follow-up to earlier guest posts on their annual list of the top 100 cloud companieson the EuropeanSaaS startup industry, with significant contribution from his colleague Maxim Filippov. If you would like to learn more about sponsored […]\n4 days ago by Philippe Botteri\nParis-founded HR and payroll startup PayFit secures €70 million\nFrench HR tech startup PayFit has landed €70 million in a funding round led by Eurazeo and Bpifrance, with participation from prior investors Accel, Frst, and Xavier Niel. This capital injection brings the total amount raised by the company to €83 million. PayFit has developed a SaaS payroll and HR platform that’s focussed on the […]\nUK-based data privacy startup Privitar raises $40 million\nLondon-based data privacy software startup Privitar has secured a funding round of $40 million led by Accel, with participation from existing investors Partech, Salesforce Ventures, 24Haymarket, and IQ Capital. Seth Pierrepont, partner at Accel, will join Privitar’s board of directors. Founded in 2014, Privitar provides data protection software for large organisations, including the NHS, HSBC, […]\n1 month ago by Andrii Degeler\nAccel raises a sixth fund to the tune of $575 million, now has a total of $3 billion under management\nVenture capital firm Accel has raised a $575 million fund, its sixth to be invested in early-stage companies across Europe and Israel, and its biggest to date. Accel, which set up shop in London back in 2000, has backed the likes of Spotify, BlaBlaCar, Monzo, UiPath, Deliveroo, Prezi, Supercell, Funding Circle and Rovio, so it’s […]\nUK-based derivative analytics startup OpenGamma raises $10 million\nLondon-founded derivative analytics startup OpenGamma has landed a $10 million funding round led by Dawn, with participation from Accel, CME Ventures, and ex-SunGuard CEO Cristóbal Conde. OpenGamma claims that its solution allows “the world’s banks, hedge funds and asset managers to dramatically reduce the cost of trading derivatives.” The startup stated that it’s seen a […]\nBritish email security startup Tessian raises $42 million from Sequoia\nThe US-based VC firm Sequoia Capital has led a $42 million funding round in Tessian, a cybersecurity startup headquartered in London; Latitude, Balderton Capital, and Accel also participated in the round. The deal was first reported by TechCrunch in January and confirmed by the company today. Founded in 2013 and formerly known as CheckRecipient, Tessian […]\nDanish-founded log analysis startup Humio raises $9 million\nAarhus-based real-time log analysis startup Humio has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Accel. The company claims to have seen 13-fold revenue growth in 2018 and lists companies including Bloomberg, Microsoft, Netlify, Lunar Way, SpareBank 1, On the Dot, and Logibec. Founded in 2016, Humio currently has offices in Aarhus, London, and […]","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line525683"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9758455157279968,"wiki_prob":0.9758455157279968,"text":"Mental illness and threatening messages often come before mass-casualty attacks, Secret Service finds\nSecret Service: Mental illness stalks mass casualty attackers; nearly all made prior threats\nMental illness and threatening messages often come before mass-casualty attacks, Secret Service finds Secret Service: Mental illness stalks mass casualty attackers; nearly all made prior threats Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/09/mental-illness-and-threats-came-before-mass-attacks/1684609001/\nKevin Johnson, USA TODAY Published 3:08 p.m. ET July 9, 2019 | Updated 5:26 p.m. ET July 9, 2019\nLaw enforcement personnel gather near the scene where an active shooter was reported in Aurora, Ill., Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. (Photo: Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune via AP)\nALEXANDRIA, Va. — Two-thirds of suspects in mass casualty attacks in the United States suffered from some form of mental illness, and nearly all of them engaged in threatening or suspicious communications beforehand, the Secret Service concluded in an analysis Tuesday.\nThe analysis covered 27 attacks in 2018 that left 91 people dead and 107 injured at office buildings, schools, a synagogue and other prominent public spaces, scattered from a sidewalk in Portland, Oregon to a high school Parkland, Florida.\nThe Secret Service identified 28 such attacks in 2017.\nFederal investigators found that 67% of suspects displayed symptoms of mental illness or emotional disturbance, up slightly from last year's 64%. In at least 93% of last year's incidents, authorities found that the suspects had a history of threats or other troubling communications, up from 86% in 2017.\nAnd in more than three-quarters of all cases – 78% – suspicious communications elicited concerns for the safety the attackers or others.\n\"Because these acts are usually planned over a period of time, and the attackers often elicit concern from the people around them, there exists an opportunity to stop these incidents before they occur,\" the report concluded.\nMore: Pittsburgh synagogue rampage spotlights rising anti-Semitism in America\nMore: 5 dead, several 'gravely injured' in Capital Gazette newspaper shooting\nRobert Bowers, 46, was allegedly armed with one assault rifle and three handguns during his shooting spree inside the Tree of Life synagogue as innocents were worshipping, the FBI said. USA TODAY\nCiting numerous cases in which the attackers engaged in threatening communications before their strikes, Secret Service Director James Murray and Lina Alathari, chief of the agency's National Threat Assessment Center, appealed for the public's help to thwart future assaults.\n\"We need to let people know who they can reach out to,\" Alathari said Tuesday.\nThe 2018 Parkland high school attack, which reinvigorated a national debate on gun safety, stands as perhaps the most chilling of the cases in which others called attention to the troubled gunman before he struck.\nSocial workers, mental health counselors, school administrators and law enforcement all had been warned about Nikolas Cruz's deteriorating mental state and risk of violence before he launched the attack that killed 17 and injured 17 others.\nAbout a month before the attack, the FBI received a tip about Cruz and his \"desire to kill people,\" but the information was never forwarded for investigation, the bureau later confirmed.\nSince Parkland, Alathari said Secret Service threat analysts were dispatched to provide training at FBI call centers to assist operators in assessing tip information.\n\"Prevention is everyone's responsibility,\" she said, adding that the FBI invited the additional training.\nAt least 17 dead in school shooting in Parkland, Fla.\nA police officer helps direct traffic as Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students begin arriving for their first day of school since the shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. ANDREA MELENDEZ/USA TODAY NETWORK\nA crossing guard hugs a student as he walks to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first day of school since the shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. ANDREA MELENDEZ/USA TODAY NETWORK\nPolice officers line up outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to welcome the students back to on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018. This is the official first day of school since the shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. ANDREA MELENDEZ/ USA TODAY NETWORK\nReturning faculty and administration at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fla., are taken on a walk around the fenced-off freshman building where the Feb. 16, shooting took place, Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Today marked the first day back for teachers at the school. JOE CAVARETTA, AP\nA small group of parents and neighbors welcome returning faculty and administrators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Fla., Monday, Feb. 26, 2018. Today marked the first day back for teachers at the school. JOE CAVARETTA, AP\nPeople visit a makeshift memorial in front of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in, Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 20, 2018. CRISTOBAL HERRERA, EPA-EFE\nJulia Salomone, 18, front row left, Lindsey Salomone, 15, front row right, Jose Iglesias, 17, second row left, and Isabelle Robinson, 17, second row right, student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday, talk on their bus between Parkland, Fla., and Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 20, 2018, to rally outside the state capitol and talk to legislators about gun control reform. Gerald Herbert, AP\nMourners leave the funeral of Peter Wang, 15, who was a JROTC cadet, at Kraeer Funeral home on Feb. 20, 2018 in Coral Springs, Florida. Wang was killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School along with 16 other people. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nAlex Wang holds a picture of his brother, Peter Wang, a victim in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, after his brother's funeral on Feb. 20, 2018, at Kraeer Funeral Home in Coral Springs, Fla. Taimy Alvarez, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, via AP\nTom Carmo, father of survivor Ethan Rocha, hugs student Joey Cordova, as students from Stoneman Douglas High School board buses in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 20, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP\nTyra Hemans, 19, who survived the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, waits to board a bus in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 20, 2018. The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state's Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider. Gerald Herbert, AP\nMadyson Kravitz, 16, right, and Melanie Weber, 16, students who survived the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, wait to board buses in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 20, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP\nStudents who survived the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School,along with survivors of the Pulse nightclub shooting, cheer before the students board a bus in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 20, 2018, to rally outside the state capitol and talk to legislators about gun control reform. Gerald Herbert, AP\nSheryl Acquarola, a 16-year-old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines. Acquarola was one of the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 dead, who were in Tallahassee on Feb. 20, 2018 to meet with Florida lawmakers. Mark Wallheiser, AP\nSurvivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other students from Broward County, Fla. high schools listen to Sen. Bobby Powell in his office at the Florida Capital in Tallahassee, Fla., Feb 20, 2018. Mark Wallheiser, AP\nRep. Bobby DuBose thanks the survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and other students from Broward County, Fla. high schools for coming to see him at the Florida Capital in Tallahassee, Fla., Feb 20, 2018. Mark Wallheiser, AP\nMourners react as they leave the funeral services for slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Carmen Schentrup on Feb. 20, 2018, at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Coral Springs, Fla. Joe Cavaretta, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, via AP\nCinthia Rios helps Jasmine Battifora, 6, light her candle during a candlelight vigil at Betti Stradling Park in Coral Springs, Fla. The Florida PTA organized a statewide candlelight vigil to remember and honor the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nCommunity members hold hands and surround a memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nAlice Simon, right, helps Nancy Brodzki light her candle during a candlelight vigil at Betti Stradling Park in Coral Springs, Fla. The Florida PTA organized a statewide candlelight vigil to remember and honor the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nPeople visit a makeshift memorial in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Police arrested and charged 19 year old former student Nikolas Cruz for the February 14 shooting that killed 17 people. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nAshley Boul, right, and Joel Robinson, who is an alumni of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, visit a makeshift memorial in front of the school on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nMax Bromberg hugs his brother Samuel Bromberg, both of whom graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as they visit a makeshift memorial in front of the school on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nCindy Sotelo, right, cries with her daughter, Jessica Malone, an alumna of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as they visit a makeshift memorial in front of the school on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nNekhi Charlemagne writes a message on a cross in a makeshift memorial in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nThomas Mirisola and his mother Michele Mirisola visit a makeshift memorial in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nPeople visit a makeshift memorial setup in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 19, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nMourners hug as they leave the funeral of Alaina Petty, in Coral Springs, Fla. on Feb. 19, 2018. Petty was a victim of Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Gerald Herbert, AP\nSara Smith, left, and her daughter Karina Smith visit a makeshift memorial on Feb. 19, 2018 outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday, in Parkland, Fla. Gerald Herbert, AP\nAn investigator climbs to the roof of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 19, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP\nThe flag draped coffin of Alaina Petty is taken out after her funeral at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Feb. 19, 2018 in Coral Springs, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nCamila Valladares, 9, and brother Miguel Piacquadio, 25, light a candle at a memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018, in response to a shooting at the high school Wednesday that took 17 lives. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK\nPeople visit a makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 18, 2108, where 17 students and faculty were killed in Wednesday's mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Gerald Herbert, AP\nPall bearers carry the casket of Scott Beigel after his funeral in Boca Raton, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018. Beigel, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, was killed along with 16 others in a mass shooting at the school on Wednesday. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Gerald Herbert, AP\nCommunity members hold hands at a memorial outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK\nBryan and Amber Gruzenksy place flowers on crosses with their son Joshua, 14, outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018, where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday. Gerald Herbert, AP\nHadley Sorensen, 16, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, is comforted by her mother Stacy Sorensen at a makeshift memorial outside the school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP\nIsabella Vanderlaat, 15, and Gabriella Benzeken 15, both students of Scott Beigel, the 35-year-old geography teacher who was killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings, attend the funeral service at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018. Charles Trainor Jr, Miami Herald, via AP\nA memorial outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is seen on Feb. 18, 2018. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK\nEmma Gonzalez, 18, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, cries as she hugs a supporter of the #NeverAgain movement at North Community Park on Feb. 18, 2018. Gonzalez became a viral sensation after videos of her impassioned speech at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale flooded social media. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK\nPeople hug outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 18, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nFlowers are placed near unretrieved bicycles outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018, where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting. Authorities opened the streets around the school, which had been closed since the shootings. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Gerald Herbert, AP\nMourners arrive at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs at Heron Bay in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2018, for the funeral service of Alex Schachter, 14, who was one of the 17 victims of the Parkland mass shooting. Matias J. Ocner, Miami Herald, via AP\nMimi Milton receives a hug after a church service dedicated to the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, at the First Church of Coral Springs, on Feb. 18, 2018, in Coral Springs, Fla. Mark Wilson, Getty Images\nNoelia Negreira carries heart shaped balloons as she walks past the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 18, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nMaria Cristina and Vincent Collazo pray at the fence near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb.18, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nA student retrieves his bicycle that was left behind after mass shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, on Feb. 18, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Mark Wilson, Getty Images\nDonna Biederman, bottom right, gets emotional while listening to speeches during a gun control rally in front of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Feb. 17, 2018. Students, community members, elected officials and gun control advocates gathered together to call for common sense gun laws and firearm safety legislation in the wake of the school shooting that left 17 people dead and 15 others injured this past Wednesday in Parkland, Fla. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez reacts during her speech at a rally for gun control at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on February 17, 2018. A student survivor of the Parkland school shooting called out President Donald Trump on Saturday over his ties to the powerful National Rifle Association, in a poignant address to an anti-gun rally in Florida. \"To every politician taking donations from the NRA, shame on you!\" said Emma Gonzalez, assailing Trump over the multi-million-dollar support his campaign received from the gun lobby -- and prompting the crowd to chant in turn: 'Shame on you!' Rhona Wise, AFP/Getty Images\nTaylor Green, 19, from right, Victoria Mejia, 15, Ashley Laurent, 20, and Ashley Hernandez, 16, get emotional while listening to speeches during a gun control rally in front of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Feb. 17, 2018. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nAlessandra Mondolfi wears statement jewelry, which she designed and created herself, during a gun control rally in front of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Feb. 17, 2018. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nProtesters hold signs at a rally for gun control at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on February 17, 2018. Rhona Wise, AFP/Getty Images\nMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Cameron Kasky speaks at a rally for gun control at the Broward County Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Feb. 17, 2018. Rhona Wise, AFP/Getty Images\nThe soccer teammates of Alyssa Alhadeff listen to the live stream of her mother as she speaks about her daughter and gun violence. Alyssa Alhadeff, 15, was one of the 17 victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,Fla. The practice at Pines Trail Park offers an outlet for the team, said Laurie Thomas, coach of the Parkland Soccer Club. Andrew West, The News-Press via USA TODAY Network\nSad scenes of remembrances are still playing out at the Parkland amphitheater on Feb. 17, 2018. Crosses have been set up to honor those killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Andrew West, The News-Press via USA TODAY Network\nAna Paula Lopez (L) is hugged by Cathy Kuhns during a protest against guns on Feb. 17, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nA woman becomes emotional while visiting a temporary memorial at Pine Trails Park on Feb. 17, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Mark Wilson, Getty Images\nThilaka Sritharan (L) whose daughter was in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when 17 people were killed is hugged by Lauren Duck during a protest against guns on Feb. 17, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle, Getty Images\nMiami Hurricanes players wears wear 'Praying for Stoneman Douglas' T-shirts before an NCAA college basketball game against Syracuse Orange. Steve Mitchell, USA TODAY Sports\nCandles glow at a memorial site to honor 17 people who were killed in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, on Feb. 17, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Mark Wilson, Getty Images\nFour young children approach a vigil post at Park Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 16, 2018. C.M. Guerrero, The Miami Herald via AP\nLisa McCrary-Tokes, a resident of Parkland says a prayer at each of the crosses that were erected at the Parkland, Fl, Amphitheatre on Friday. McCrary-Tokes lost a daughter to gun violence in Ohio last year and another daughter graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year. \"You can't feel safe anywhere in this country,\" she said. ANDREW WEST, The News-Press via USA TODAY Network\nSouth Broward High School senior Sophia Villiers-Furze, center, protests with her classmates in front of their school on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018 in response to a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. DOROTHY EDWARDS, Naples Daily News via USA TODAY Network\nA candlelight vigil draws thousands to the Pine Trails Park amphitheater to mourn a day after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Mandatory XAVIER MASCARENAS, TCPalm via USA TODAY NETWORK\nZachary Valdes, 13, attends a candlelight vigil with his family at the Pine Trails Park amphitheater to mourn a day after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Valdes was at neighboring Westglades Middle School when the two campuses went on lockdown. XAVIER MASCARENAS, TCPalm via USA TODAY NETWORK\nA candlelight vigil draws thousands to the Pine Trails Park amphitheater to mourn a day after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. XAVIER MASCARENAS, TCPalm via USA TODAY NETWORK\nPeople attending a candlelight vigil at Parkland Amphitheater mourn the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. ANDREW WEST, The News-Press, via USA TODAY NET\nBrayden Meddaugh, 7, and his mother, Stefanie Mion, both of Deerfield Beach, pay their respects at a small makeshift memorial under the Sawgrass Expressway across from the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. XAVIER MASCARENAS, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nA small makeshift memorial is seen under the Sawgrass Expressway across from the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. XAVIER MASCARENAS, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY NETWORK\nFreshman Nyallah Penn cries during a prayer circle after a vigil at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 15, 2018. The vigil was held after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday in Parkland, Fla., that took 17 lives. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK\nDustin Singh, left, and Jason Price hang flowers alongside a makeshift memorial where 17 crosses hang on a fence outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Singh and Price both graduated from the high school. Nicole Raucheisen, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETW\nJuniors Staci Esterman, right, and Jaclyn Corin hug after a vigil at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 15, 2018. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News, via USA TODAY NETWORK\nKevin Siegelbaum, a special education teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, leans in to pray on Feb. 15, 2018, in Parkland, Fla., during a community vigil at Pine Trails Park for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Brynn Anderson, AP\nMarla Eveillard, 14, cries as she hugs friends before the start of a vigil at the Parkland Baptist Church, for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 15, 2018. Gerald Herbert, AP\nAustin Burden, 17, cries on the shoulder of a friend after a vigil at the Parkland Baptist Church, for the victims of the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. Gerald Herbert, AP\nMilan Hamm, right, 17, joins hundreds of community members at a prayer vigil in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 5, 2018. Members of the community gathered for a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. GIORGIO VIERA, EPA-EFE\nFriends embrace in tears at the Parkridge Church in Coral Springs before the start of a community prayer vigil for Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victims, Feb. 15, 2018. ERIC HASERT, USA TODAY NETWORK\nAttendees react at a prayer vigil for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at the Parkland Baptist Church, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nAttendees comfort each other at a prayer vigil for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at the Parkland Baptist Church, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nEmmy Halulko, 13, (left) and her sister Evie, 5, both of Coral Springs stopped to pet Jacob, a Lutheran Church Charities comfort dog while at the Parkridge Church in Coral Springs for a community prayer vigil for all the shooting victims at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School. \"Awful\" Emmy said about the shooting before breaking down in tears, acknowledging she knew several people at the school, Feb. 15, 2018 Eric Hasert, USA TODAY NETWORK\nKristi Gilroy hugs a young woman at a police check point near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman yesterday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. MARK WILSON, GETTY IMAGES\nSheree Spaulding stands with her 15-year-old son, Justin who is a 9th grader at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman yesterday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Police arrested the suspect after a short manhunt, and have identified him as 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz. MARK WILSON, GETTY IMAGES\nSheree Spaulding walks with her 15-year-old son, Justin Spauling, who is a 9th grader at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman yesterday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. MARK WILSON, GETTY IMAGES\nPolice control a road near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman yesterday, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. Police arrested the suspect after a short manhunt, and have identified him as 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz. MARK WILSON, GETTY IMAGES\nLaw enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nKristi Gilroy hugs a young woman as a police officer tries to clear a closed road at a police checkpoint near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed by a gunman Feb. 15, 2018, in Parkland, Fla. Police arrested the suspect after a short manhunt and have identified him as 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz. MARK WILSON, GETTY IMAGES\nDr. Louis Yogel, chief of staff, right, address the media during a press briefing outside of Broward Health Medical Center. Dr. Benny Menendez, chief of emergency medicine, left, listens. Dorothy Edwards/Naples Daily News\nDr. Benny Menendez, chief of emergency medicine, addresses the media during a press briefing outside of Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla, Wednesday. Dorothy Edwards/Naples Daily News\nFamilies reunite after a mass shooting at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. XAVIER MASCARENAS, Treasure Coast Newspapers via USA TODAY NETWORK\nMax Charles, second from right, 14, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., speaks to members of the media after being picked up by family members at a nearby hotel, in Coral Springs, Fla. A former student opened fire at the Florida high school Wednesday, killing more than a dozen people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation's deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Wilfredo Lee, AP\nPeople wait outside the main entrance of Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. due to the hospital being on lockdown after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL. Dorothy Edwards, Naples Daily News via USA Today\nSheree Spaulding hugs her son, Justin, 15, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in nearby Parkland, Fla., as she speaks to members of the media after picking up her son at a nearby hotel, Wednesday, in Coral Springs, Fla. Wilfredo Lee, AP\nJorge Zapata,16, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hugss his mother, Lavinia Zapata, after a mass shooting earlier in the day at the school. “I was just really incredibly, indescribably happy to see him, because you never know,” Lavinia said. XAVIER MASCARENAS, Treasure Coast Newspapers via USA TODAY NETWORK\nDalila Ladero, 16, of Coral Springs, Fla. stands near friends after being reunited with her mother at University Drive and Holmberg Road in Parkland. \"When all that happened, I wasn't in my class, I just started following people...I was just seeing everyone screaming and crying and I didn't know what was happening,\" she said. \"I was calm, I just started praying.\" XAVIER MASCARENAS, Treasure Coast Newspapers via USA Today Network\nStudents wait outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. XAVIER MASCARENAS, Treasure Coast Newspapers via USA Today Network\nTrauma surgeon Dr. Igor Nichiporenko (C) and director for emergency medicine Dr. Evan Boyar (R) address the media outside the Broward Health Emergency facility where victims were taken following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a city about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Miami, Wednesday. MICHELE EVE SANDBERG, AFP/Getty Images\nA student reacts as she talks to a television reporter following a school shooting. MICHELE EVE SANDBERG, AFP/Getty Images\nStudents react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School following a school shooting. MICHELE EVE SANDBERG, AFP/Getty Images\nPeople react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School following a school shooting. MICHELE EVE SANDBERG, AFP/Getty Images\nStudents run with their hands in the air following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOHN MCCALL, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nStudents released from a lockdown walk away following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOHN MCCALL, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nA young woman gets a hug outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. AMY BETH BENNETT, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nMedical personnel tend to a victim following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOHN MCCALL, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nPolice officers ride in the back of a pick up truck as they tend to a victim following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOHN MCCALL, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nA parent talks on cellphone waiting for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOEL AUERBACH, AP\nStudents wait to be picked up after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nPeople hug following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nA member of the Broward County Sheriff's Office stands watch at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOEL AUERBACH, AP\nStudents released from a lockdown embrace following following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. JOHN MCCALL, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nFire rescue vehicles arrive at Stoneman Douglas High School. JOHN MCCALL, South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP\nPeople are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting in Parkland, Fla. Feb 14, 2018 South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Getty Images\nPeople are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting. JOE RAEDLE, Getty Images\nThe campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after a shooting that reportedly killed and injured multiple people. JOE RAEDLE, Getty Images\nParents wait for news after a report of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. JOEL AUERBACH, AP\nA law enforcement officer tells anxious family members to move back. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nAnxious family members wait for information on students in Parkland, Fla. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nA student shows a law enforcement officer his phone. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nA law enforcement officer talks with students outside of the school. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nFamily members embrace after a student walked out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nAnxious family members watch a rescue vehicle pass by in Parkland, Fla. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nFamily members wait for news of students after a school shooting. WILFREDO LEE, AP\nIn this frame grab from video from WPLG-TV, students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., evacuate the school following a shooting. WPLG-TV via AP\nIn this frame grab from WPLG-TV, emergency personnel wheel an injured person from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., following a shooting WPLG-TV via AP\nRead or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/09/mental-illness-and-threats-came-before-mass-attacks/1684609001/","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line632295"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5503755211830139,"wiki_prob":0.5503755211830139,"text":"US home sales ticked up in September as Houston recovers\nThis Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, photo shows a \"House for Sale by Owner\" sign in a yard in Fort Washington, Pa. On Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, the National Association of Realtors reports on sales of existing homes in September. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)\nChristopher Rugaber\nWASHINGTON — U.S. home sales rose slightly last month as the Houston housing market quickly recovered from Hurricane Harvey. Still, a shortage of available homes is thwarting many would-be buyers and limiting sales.\nThe National Association of Realtors said Friday existing home sales increased 0.7 per cent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.39 million. That’s the first increase after three months of declines.\nYet sales have fallen 1.5 per cent from a year ago, the first year-over-year decline since July 2016. That’s because so few homes are for sale, particularly at lower prices. Buyers have bid up prices: The median home price rose to $245,100, up 4.2 per cent from a year ago. That’s faster than wage gains.\nAnd sales are likely to remain sluggish in the coming months, the Realtors said. Construction workers — and building materials such as lumber — are being diverted to repair and rebuilding work in the aftermath of the storms and the wildfires on California. That should slow new home building and limit the number of homes for sale.\nThe number of homes for sale sank 6.4 per cent from 12 months ago to 1.9 million homes, the fewest in any September since the Realtors began tracking the number in 2001.\nIn Houston, sales rose 4 per cent from a year ago after plunging 25 per cent in August. Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the Realtors’ group, said some of that gain may reflect investors purchasing damaged properties.\nIn Florida, Hurricane Irma sharply lowered sales last month, which were 22 per cent lower than a year ago, the Realtors said.\nSales fell more than 15 per cent from a year earlier in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando and Tampa, according to real estate brokerage Redfin. Sales in Miami plunged 38.4 per cent.\n“The housing market is running on fumes due to low inventory,” said Redfin chief economist Nela Richardson. “The inventory shortage is most severe for affordable homes. There has not been an increase in homes priced under $260,000 in two years.”","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line730111"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.944014847278595,"wiki_prob":0.944014847278595,"text":"Vintage plane crash in Switzerland kills all 20 people on board\nAugust 5, 2018 Sexual Health\nTwenty people were killed when a vintage aircraft operating a sightseeing flight over Switzerland crashed into the Alps over the weekend. There were no survivors, Swiss police announced yesterday (SUN) as a search and rescue operation was called off. The historic Junckers Ju-52 propellor plane disppeared on Saturday afternoon after taking off from Locarno in southern Switzerland on its way to a military airfield near Zurich. On board were three crew members and 17 passengers aged between 42 and 84 who had paid for the chance to travel on the 1930s-era aircraft. Among the passengers were an Austrian couple travelling with their grown-up son. The rest were believed to be Swiss. Locator: WWII vintage plane crash The wreckage of the aircraft was found 8,330 feet above sea level near Piz Segnas in the remote and rugged mountains of eastern Switzerland. “Based on the situation at the crash site we can say that the aircraft hit the ground almost vertically at a relatively high speed,” Daniel Knecht, head of aviation at the Swiss Accident Investigation Board, told a press conference on Sunday The cause of the accident is unclear, but investigators said they could not rule out a link to the current heatwave in Europe. “What we can rule out at this point is a mid-air collision before the crash, either with another aircraft or with some other obstacle such as a cable,” Mr Knehct said. There was no indication of any external interference with the flight, he added. Wreckage of the old-time propeller plane Ju 52 Credit: AP Although the Junckers aircraft was almost 80 years old, it was serviced after every 35 hours of flying time and was believed to be in good condition after its most recent service at the end of July. Both pilots were experienced and had flown for regular civilian airlines and the Swiss air force. An investigation into the cause of the crash is likely to be complicated and take considerable time. The historic aircraft was not fitted with a black box or other modern data recording devices that could help explain what happened. The German-made Junckers Ju-52 was first produced in 1932 and was one of the earliest civilian passenger aircraft. During the 1930s it was the most widely used aircraft type in Europe. Affectionaly known in German as Tante Ju, or Auntie Ju, Ju-52s are chiefly remembered in Switzerland for providing a lifeline to parts of the country that were cut off by heavy avalances in 1952. A general view of the accident site of a Junkers Ju-52 airplane Credit: REUTERS The plane involved in the crash was being operated by Ju-Air, a Swiss company that specialises in sightseeing flights using historic aircraft. It had previously been used for tourist flights in Germany. Ju-Air said on Sunday it had suspended all operations until further notice in the wake of the crash. “The Ju-Air team is deeply saddened and our thoughts are with the passengers, the crew and families and friends of the victims,” the company said in a statement posted on its website. In a separate incident a family of four were killed when their light aircraft crashed near Lucerne, in central Switzerland, on Saturday. The family was from the local area. Two children were among the dead.\nboard, crash, kills, People, plane, Switzerland, Vintage","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1627477"}
{"pred_label":"__label__cc","pred_label_prob":0.6434817910194397,"wiki_prob":0.3565182089805603,"text":"April 16 – 20\nConference Tips\nRSA Conference Awards\nRSAC onDemand\nEstablished in 1998, RSA Conference Awards acknowledge the outstanding contributions of individuals and organizations in the field of cryptography, public policy, information security and new in 2018 – security humanitarianism.\nExcellence in the Field of Mathematics\nThe RSA Conference Award for Mathematics recognizes innovation and ongoing contribution to the field of cryptography. The judging committee seeks to acknowledge those nominees who are pioneers in their field, and whose work has applied lasting value. Nominees are affiliated with universities or research labs.\nExcellence in Information Security\nThe RSA Conference Award for Excellence in Information Security recognizes outstanding achievement in the industry. The judging committee seeks to recognize a security practitioner for their security program or initiative.\nExcellence in the Field of Public Policy\nThe RSA Conference Award for Public Policy is designed to recognize significant contribution and leadership in the field of cyber security public policy. The judging committee seeks to reward nominees who hold elected or appointed office, are associated with public interest organizations or are associated with an organization that has significantly contributed to the development or application of current information security and/or privacy policy.\nNEW! Excellence in Humanitarian Service Award\nHumanitarian efforts across the globe are growing exponentially, and technology is often deployed as part of the solution. Technology used on projects to do good and positively enhance and protect lives in tangible, impactful ways, brings with it the need for effective protection. Heroes are those who have established a record of providing necessary expertise and efforts to ensure humanitarian project success, which deserves recognition. We seek your input in nominating deserving recipients to this award.\nThe winners will be announced in a tribute video during the opening keynote sessions on Tuesday, April 17th, 2018.\nSubmission Guidelines*\nTHE SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS PASSED.\nThere are no specific criteria for selection but in order for your candidate to be seriously considered, please be as specific as possible about your nominee’s accomplishments. Here are some suggestions to include:\nHow has he or she helped to improve the security or business processes at their organization?\nHow did the achievements help the nominee’s organization? What were the results?\nWhat “best practices” mentioned as part of the nomination should be repeatable and be of use to other organizations.\nExcellence in Mathematics\nWhat is his or her contribution to the field of cryptography?\nDescribe the lasting value of his or her work\nExcellence in Humanitarian Service\nHow has the work of the nominee benefitted a specific humanitarian- focused effort or many different efforts in achieving greater security?\nWhat lasting impact has the nominee had on the humanitarian effort(s)?\nThe nomination review committee will entertain nominations of individuals who are still active in their work and will also consider posthumous recognitions.\n*Please note, we only accept nominations for the Excellence in Mathematics and Excellence in Information Security Awards and Excellence in Humanitarian Service Award.\nEntry Rules\n1. You may nominate more than one person for either award, but multiple submissions for the same person will not increase their chances of winning an award.\n2. A selection committee will be created, which will review the nominations submitted and select a winner.\n3. All submitted material will remain confidential.\n4. Descriptions of submissions may be published in connection with the awards. Entrants may mark sensitive parts of their entry clearly as 'not for publication'.\n5. Entries may be withdrawn or re-submitted at any time up to the closing date upon written request. Please send requests to rsaconferenceawards@rsaconference.com\n6. The committee reserves the right to amend category selection where appropriate.\n7. The committee will decide if there is any conflict of interest in a committee member voting or finding in favor of a specific entry. In the event that there is, that member will not be permitted to influence any decisions regarding that entry.\n8. The committee’s decision is final in all cases.\n9. Finalists will be notified approximately four to six weeks in advance of the presentation of the awards.\nIf you have any questions about the RSA Conference 2018 Awards Program, please email rsaconferenceawards@rsaconference.com.\nThis document was retrieved from http://www.rsaconference.com/events/us18/about/awards\ton Mon, 15 Jul 2019 18:38:30 -0400.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line234517"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5467847585678101,"wiki_prob":0.5467847585678101,"text":"Risking one’s life for a moment of freedom\nArt therapy: a safe haven of healing\nCulture and art bring people together\nBiH: Arts can heal past and present wounds\nWar scars are difficult to overcome, both at the psychological and societal level. Legal and Communications Officer Adisa Fišić Barukčija examines arts as a seldom-explored avenue for healing.\nIt is hard to imagine people risking their lives to attend a movie screening. Yet this is what happened during the siege of Sarajevo, even as the city was shelled on a daily basis.\nDespite the omnipresence of violence, cultural life remained vibrant throughout the war in Bosnia & Herzegovina: hundreds of concerts, theatre plays, and other cultural events flourished in improvised venues across Sarajevo. For civilians, these cultural events were a neutral space where they could, for a small amount of time, forget about their terrible situation.\nAfter the war, survivors who underwent trauma participated in creative art therapy. People who suffer from psychological wounds often find it difficult to discuss their experiences orally, even with a professional therapist. Art therapies have proven to be effective because they do not necessarily require people to speak.\nThey can also help people dealing with repressed memories. Some people do not have any recollection of the disturbing events they suffered. Art therapy can be a way to bring these memories back to the surface to help the healing process.\nDecades after the conflict, this period still inspires artists, no less because divisions are still a reality in today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina. Even children who did not live through the war grow up with destructive narratives that shape their opinion about the past, exacerbating divisions.\nWhen the Sarajevo Film Festival was created at the end of the war, one of its goals was to facilitate dialogue among communities. The organizers initiated a “Dealing with the past” program to give voice to personal stories from all sides. Understanding the suffering of others is essential to fostering empathy among communities and improving their interactions.\nPost-conflict countries generally focus on security and social welfare, at the expense of culture. But the arts should not be neglected as they can provide a space for questions, dialogue, and hopefully reconciliation.\nAdisa Fišić Barukčija, Legal and communications officer\n@AdisaFisic\nAlieu Kosiah was a commander of a faction of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) between 19...\nGuus Kouwenhoven is a Dutch businessman, born in 1942. The Second Civil War in Liberia (1999-2003) caused about 250’000...\nBorn in 1946 in Liberia, Jucontee Thomas Smith Woewiyu is a former co-founder and one of the leaders of the National Pat...\nAhmed Hamdane Mahmoud El Ayach El Aswadi\nAhmed Hamdane Mahmoud Ayach El Aswadi was born on 15 April 1984 in Samarra, Iraq. In 2014, El Aswadi was imprisoned in Tikrit for terrorist acts. It was before the Islamic State (ISIS) attacked the city. He reportedly fled the prison where he was detained and left the city towards Erbil. A...\nUnpunished international crimes: how NGOs lead the investigations\nEmmanuelle Marchand is a Senior Legal Counsel and Investigator for the NGO Civitas Maxima. Like TRIAL International, it...\nGerman and Belgian prosecutors urged to shed light on exports of dual-use goods to Syria\n(Geneva, Berlin, New York, 3 June 2019) Three groups working on accountability for atrocity crimes – the Syrian Archiv...\nBosnia and Herzegovina: Thousands of people still expecting justice\nTRIAL International and Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic submitted a General Allegation to...\nPercy Mahendra Rajapaksa\nPercy Mahendra Rajapaksa also known as Mahinda Rajapaksa was born on 18 November 1945 in Hambantota, Sri Lanka. His fami...\nLafarge / Eric Olsen and others\nLafarge is a French company created in 1833 and considered as a global leader in construction material and as one of the major actors in cement, aggregates and concrete production. The company is present and active in 61 countries, including Syria. It merged with the Swiss Group Holcim in...\nMustafa K., Abdullah K., Sultan K., and Ahmed K.\nIn November 2012, Mustafa K., Abdullah K., Sultan K., and Ahmed K. allegedly joined Jabhat al-Nusra (rebellious terrorist group) in Syria and fought against Syrian government troops in the city of Ras al-Ayn in northern Syria. Mustafa K., Sultan K., and other Jabhat al-Nusra members report...\nIn 1974, the Communist military regime, known as the Derg, overthrown the Emperor Haile Selassie I and seized power in Ethiopia. In an attempt to consolidate power and eliminate its political opponents, the Derg subsequently launched what is now known as Qey Shibir or “Red Terror”. The fir...\nSix months after its start, an update on the Sheka trial in the DRC\nThe hearings began in November 2018, yet they are still far from over. Why? The trial of warlord Ntabo Ntaberi, known as...","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1543831"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5811857581138611,"wiki_prob":0.5811857581138611,"text":"Tag Archives: Dublin\nMarch 24, 2019 by barbara\nThe Springs of Affection, by Maeve Brennan\nMaeve Brennan was a staff writer for The New Yorker, and by all accounts a colorful character. In his Introduction, William Maxwell described some of her antics such as hanging her large framed photograph of Colette by Louise Dahl-Wolfe on the wall above his desk, removing it later when he said or did something she didn’t like. One day it was back again. It came and went “like a cloud shadow. I never knew why and thought it would be a poor idea to ask.”\nThe stories in this book, all quite stunning, are set in Dublin where Brennan grew up. The first set seem to be autobiographical. They are in first person and the characters have the names of Maeve and her family. The home is the rowhouse on a dead-end street in a Dublin suburb where Maeve grew up.\nEach recounts some incident—whether small, such as a man coming to the house to sell apples or the delivery of a new sofa, or large, such as a fire in the garage out back or raids by men looking for her father during a time of dissension between those in favor of a Republic and those supporting the Free State—but imbues it with such accuracy and character that it seems to hold a whole lifetime.\nThese stories remind me of writer and teacher Meg Rosoff advising us writers to look at the incidents that stick in our memory’s colander, those seemingly unimportant bits of the past. Yet there is a reason we remember them, and if we dig deeper we may be surprised by what emerges.\nThe second section is a series of stories exploring the particulars of Hubert and Rose Derdon’s unhappy marriage. Their only son John has become a priest, leaving Rose bereft. Over the course of the stories, details emerge about the family dynamics and the psychological burdens borne by the couple.\nThe stories in the third section are also about a marriage, not quite so fraught as the Derdons’ but held in a precarious balance. Martin and Delia Bagot lead mostly independent lives, he working late while she is responsible for the house, garden and two girls. However, the eponymous final story, told through Martin’s twin sister Min after the couples’ deaths, gives us a different slant on their relationship, though not perhaps the one Min intended.\nWhat especially fascinates me about the Derdon and Bagot stories are the narrative scenes. As writers we usually balance narrative, also known as exposition, with dramatic scenes. These scenes usually have action and dialogue and conflict between characters. However, it is possible to write scenes that are all narrative. Usually writers are advised not to include long narrative passages, as they can be boring and slow the story to the point where momentum is completely lost.\nHowever, a narrative scene is different, containing all the drama and emotion of an action scene. C.S. Lakin says, “What makes for great narrative scenes is the character voice.” I agree, but Brennan in these stories also shows the value of burrowing deep into her characters’ hearts and minds. Her astute understanding of their psychology, their fears and dreams, their upbringing and social context makes for stirring reading.\nFor example, 87-year-old Min is still furious about Martin having married Delia, even though both of them are now dead. She believes that his doing so broke up their family, saying of their mother:\n. . . who had sacrificed everything for them and asked in return only that they stick together as a family, and build themselves up, and make a wall around themselves that nobody could see through, let alone climb. What she had in mind was a fort, a fortress, where they could build themselves up in private and strengthen their hold on the earth, because in the long run that is what matters—a firm foothold and a roof over your head. But all that hope ended and all their hard work was mocked when Delia Kelly walked into their lives.\nThis is telling about something that happened instead of showing it in a scene with action and dialogue. Yet it works, because of the vivid language, the voice—can’t you just hear Min?—and the accuracy and precision of the author’s insight into this character.\nAs I closed the book, moved by Min’s unconscious revelations about herself and by the two couples and Maeve herself as a child, I found myself thinking about my own childhood. Like Brennan, like all of us I suspect, those early years of family and the house that contained us have almost mythic status in my imagination. I can understand how she wanted to return again and again to that well of inspiration.\nHave you read a collection of short stories that you’d recommend? Perhaps they carried you away to a faraway place or gave you a new understanding of human nature? Perhaps they introduced characters whom you can’t seem to forget?\nTagged Dublin, short stories","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line1415425"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.5449764132499695,"wiki_prob":0.5449764132499695,"text":"Adam Tihany\nAdam D. Tihany is widely regarded as one of the world’s preeminent hospitality designers and an early pioneer of the restaurant design profession. After attending the Politecnico di Milano, Tihany apprenticed in renowned design firms in Italy. In 1978, he established his own multidisciplinary New York studio. The practice began specializing in restaurant design with the creation of La Coupole, the first grand café in New York City in 1981. In 1987, Tihany became a co-owner in Remi restaurants, which together with his partners, he continued to own and operate for the following 25 years.\nTihany was one of the first designers to collaborate with celebrity chefs creating signature restaurants for culinary stars such as Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Jean Georges Vongerichten, Charlie Palmer, Heston Blumenthal, Paul Bocuse, and Wolfgang Puck. His work in the hospitality field can be experienced at many luxury hotels and iconic properties around the globe: One&Only Cape Town resort in South Africa, Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas, Westin Chosun in Seoul, Korea and The Joule in Dallas, The King David Hotel in Jerusalem, The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, Hotel Cipriani in Venice, The Four Seasons Hotel DIFC in Dubai, The Breakers in Palm Beach and The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs to name a few. His studio perpetuates the philosophy that every project should be a living, relevant, and unique entity. Each project is custom-tailored to fit the vision of the client and stay true to its location.\nIn addition to restaurants and hotels, Tihany’s renowned work includes his creation of innovative design concepts for the next wave of cruise ships for Holland America Line and Seabourn brands. As appointed Creative Director for Costa Cruises, Tihany is overseeing the design development of the next generation of ships as well as the overall rebranding efforts of the iconic Italian travel brand.\nTihany frequently lectures at universities and conferences around the world and currently sits on the advisory board of Israel's Design Museum Holon. His contribution to design has been recognized with numerous honors and awards including an Honorary Doctorate from the New York School of Interior Design and induction into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. He served as Art Director of the Culinary Institute of America and is a former member of Pratt's Board of Trustees. Tihany was recognized by Who’s Who in Food and Beverage in the United States by The James Beard Foundation in 1997, named Bon Appetit’s Designer of the Year in 2001, and awarded the prestigious Lawrence Israel Prize from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2005. Monacelli Press published his first monograph, Tihany Design, in 1999 and his second book, Tihany Style, was published by Mondadori Electa in May 2004. Tihany’s third book, Tihany: Iconic Hotel and Restaurant Interiors was published spring of 2014 by Rizzoli.\nProdukte von Adam Tihany\nTHEA Sessel\nTHEA Sofa\nTHEA Tische","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line819800"}
{"pred_label":"__label__wiki","pred_label_prob":0.9343627095222473,"wiki_prob":0.9343627095222473,"text":"A timeline of 10 pulsating Oracle-era Warriors…\nNewsNews Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources.\nA timeline of 10 pulsating Oracle-era Warriors memories\nOracle Arena was home to multiple Warriors championship teams, an All-Star game and several Hall of Famers\n(Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)\nConfetti drops from the ceiling as Warriors fans celebrate their win over the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 6 of their Western Conference NBA playoff series at Oracle Arena on Thursday, May 1, 2014.\nBy Gary Peterson | gpeterson@bayareanewsgroup.com and Mark DuFrene | mdufrene@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group\nPUBLISHED: June 5, 2019 at 6:00 am | UPDATED: June 5, 2019 at 10:31 am\nTime is running out in the Golden State Warriors’ Oracle Arena era, which has borne witness to four NBA championships (and counting?) an All-Star game, 12 Oracle-era Warriors elevated to Hall of Fame status, thrills, chills and dozens of favorite sons. Here are 10 memories that will linger long after Stephen Curry packs up his tunnel shot and moves it to the Chase Center.\n1. Franklin Mieuli plants his flag in Oakland\nGolden State Warriors owner Franklin Mieuli watches the Warrios from courtside at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in 1978. (Ron Riesterer/Bay Area News Group)\nRobert T. Nahas leads supervisors on an inspection of the Coliseum Arena under construction in 1966. (Roy H. Williams/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGuard Jeff Mullins shows off the new uniform of the Golden State Warriors during team workouts at San Jose City College. (Leo Cohen/Bay Area News Group)\nUndated aerial view of the OaklandÐAlameda County Coliseum complex under construction. (Bay Area News Group Archives)\nMilwaukee Bucks and San Francisco Warriors big men Lew Alcindor and Nate Thurmond (42) push and shove as Thurmond tries to work his way to the basket during the National Basketball Association playoffs on March 31, 1971 at Madison, Wis. (AP Photo)\nJerry Lucas, playing for the San Francisco Warriors in 1971, grabs a rebound against the Atlanta Hawks. (Bay Area News Group Archives)\nAl Attles, #16, makes the jump during a San Francisco Warriors versus Los Angeles Lakers game. From left are Jeff Mullins, #23, and Happy Hairston, #52. (Bay Area News Group Archives)\nFranklin Mieuli, owner of the Golden State Warriors, in 1974, the year before he brought Oakland their first NBA Championship. (Ron Riesterer/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nFormer Golden State Warriors forward Rick Barry and former owner Franklin Mieuli. (Roy H. Williams/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nIn the first decade after they arrived from Philadelphia, the Warriors called four venues home. They played in the Cow Palace in Daly City from 1962-64 and 1966-71. It was a no-frills barn with a certain olfactory charm inside which team owner Franklin Mieuli installed an ornate chandelier he bought on a European vacation.\nThe Warriors also played home games at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium and USF’s War Memorial Gym from 1964-66.\nIn 1966 and ’67 they tried out a new venue in the East Bay. The Oakland Coliseum Arena was clean, spacious and still had that new building smell. Mieuli was impressed. On Aug. 2, 1971, he announced his team’s move to the Coliseum Arena. He also announced the team’s rebranding. San Francisco was out; Golden State was in.\n2. We beat the Bucks!\nCenter Nate Thurmond gives a locker room interview following the Golden State Warriors' defeat of the Milwaukee Bucks for the 1973 NBA Western Conference Semifinals title at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena. (Kenneth Green/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nJim Barnett (lower right) had an 11-year NBA career including three years with the Golden State Warriors (1971-74). A starting five photo includes Cazzie Russell, Nate Thurmond, Clyde Lee, Jeff Mullin. (Golden State Warriors photo)\nThe Warriors were weary of seeing the Milwaukee Bucks, and their superstar center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in the postseason. The Bucks bounced the Warriors from the playoffs in 1971. It happened again in 1972. They met yet again in 1973, with the Bucks winning two of the first three games.\nThen, incredibly, the Warriors fought back. Leading the charge was unassuming power forward Clyde Lee, a 6-foot-10 nose-to-the-grindstone worker bee. He was everywhere, doing everything as the Warriors charged to a 3-2 lead in the series. Game 6 was in Oakland. Before tipoff, Warriors fans gave Lee a wild two-minute standing ovation. After the game, a 100-86 victory that clinched the series, fans joyously chanted, “We beat the Bucks! We beat the Bucks!”\nThe Roaracle vibe that has been the wind at the back of generations of Warriors? They say it was born that night.\n3. Sleepy Floyd is Superman!\nEric \"Sleepy\" Floyd gets congratulations from coach George Karl and other Warriors during the fourth quarter in Game 4 of the playoffs against the Los Angeles Lakers in Oakland on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored 51 points in the game. (By Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGolden State Warriors' Eric \"Sleepy\" Floyd drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers' James Worthy during their playoff game at Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif., on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored an NBA playoff record-setting 29 points in the fourth quarter, 12 field goals in the same quarter and 39 points in a half, to lead the Warriors to a 129-121 victory over the Lakers. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group Archives))\nGolden State Warriors' Eric \"Sleepy\" Floyd (21) drives to the basket during their playoff game against the Lakers at the Oakland Arena in Oakland, Calif., on May 10, 1987. Floyd scored an NBA playoff record-setting 29 points in the fourth quarter, 12 field goals in the same quarter and 39 points in the half, to lead the Warriors to a 129-121 victory over the Lakers. (Reginald Pearman/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nSleepy Floyd wasn’t ready for summer vacation. But early on May 10, 1987, it appeared he had no choice in the matter. The Showtime Lakers were running Floyd’s Warriors out of the gym in their conference semifinal playoff series.\nGame 4 figured to be another sad story for Golden State, which trailed 102-88 after three quarters. That’s when Floyd went to work.\nPlaying with a tender hamstring, Floyd soared to the rim, getting to the line, scoring on jumpers, flips and soft banks. He went wild, scoring 29 points in the quarter, 39 in the half, and 51 in the game, inspiring Warriors broadcaster Greg Papa to blurt, “Sleepy Floyd is Superman!” The Warriors lived to fight another day.\n4. An unexpected title\nGolden State Warriors Steve Bracey jumps into the arms of teammate Clifford Ray after the Warriors won the fourth and final game of the NBA championship playoff games at Capital Center in Landover, Md., May 25, 1975. Washington Bullets' Phil Chenier walks off the court with bowed head after the Bullets lost four straight. The Warriors won, 96-95. (AP Photo)\nGolden State Warriors' Phil Smith (20) drives by Washington Bullets Phil Chenier for two points in the fourth period of NBA Championship game at Capital Centre in Landover, Md., May 19, 1975. The Warriors' won the first game of a seven game series 101-95. (AP Photo)\nThree Golden State Warrior defenders surround Washington Bullets center Wes Unseld but he grabbed this rebound and scored a basket in the final minutes of the Warriors 92-91 victory over the Washingtonians in San Francisco, May 21, 1975. Warriors, left to right: Bill Bridges, George Johnson and Keith Wilkes. (AP Photo/RB)\nGolden State Warrior George Johnson steals this rebound from Washington Bullets center Wes Unseld during the fourth quarter of Golden State's 92-91 win over the Bullets in San Francisco, May 21, 1975. The Golden Staters now hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Championship playoff. (AP Photo/RB)\nPhil Chenier (45) of the Washington Bullets is chased by Butch Beard of the Golden State Warriors in the first half of third game of the best of seven NBA championship series in San Francisco, May 23, 1975. The game was played at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. (AP Photo)\nCharles Johnson (10), Clifford Ray (44) and Keith Wilkes (41) of the Golden State Warriors go after a loose ball in the first half of NBA championship game against the Washington Bullets at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, May 23, 1975. Bullets in the background are Elvin Hayes right, Kevin Porter. (AP Photo)\nWashington Bullets' Elvin Hayes, center, appears to be pleading for a little room as he tries for a two pointer in the first game of the NBA Championship series at Capital Centre, Landover, Md., May 19, 1975. Golden State Warriors' George Johnson (52) and Rick Barry (24) double teamed Hayes and stopped him from making the shot. The Warriors won 101-95. (AP Photo)\nMore than 3,000 fans were on hand to greet the Golden State Warriors as they returned to San Francisco, May 26, 1975, after handing the Washington Bullets a 96-95 loss to take four straight games and the NBA championship title. The Warriors landed in Oakland and engine problems forced them to take cabs to San Francisco where the waiting crowds mobbed the procession. (AP Photo/RB)\nIt didn’t seem to augur well for the Warriors when they parted ways with stalwarts Jim Barnett, Joe Ellis, Clyde Lee, Cazzie Russell and Nate Thurmond after the 1973-74 season. But the new-look Warriors — Rick Barry surrounded by role players and promising youngsters — started fast and never slowed down.\nBarry was a virtuoso, averaging 30.6 points, 6.2 assists and 2.9 steals. The Warriors gutted out a Game 7 win over the Chicago Bulls in the conference finals, then swept the 60-win Washington Bullets in the NBA Finals to earn the franchise’s third championship.\nThe Warriors hosted their two Finals home games in the Cow Palace, because the Coliseum had booked the Ice Follies; no one dreamed the Warriors would still be playing in late May.\n5. We believe\nBaron Davis #5 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nJason Richardson #23 of the Golden State Warriors dunks the ball against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nDirk Nowitizki #41 of the Dallas Mavericks passes the ball against Stephen Jackson #1 of the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nStephen Jackson #1 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nMatt Barnes #22 of the Golden State Warriors argues a call in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals against the Dallas Mavericks during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nDirk Nowitizki #41 picks himself off the floor against the Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nStephen Jackson #1 of the Golden State Warriors shoots over Jerry Stackhouse #42 of the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nBaron Davis #5 of the Golden State Warriors hugs Dirk Nowitizki #41 of the Dallas Mavericks after Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nBaron Davis #5 of the Golden State Warriors talks to his teammates against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nBaron Davis #5 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates after defeating the Dallas Mavericks in Game 6 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2007 NBA Playoffs on May 3, 2007 at the Arena in Oakland, California. (Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)\nIn the 32 seasons after the Warriors’ stunning championship in 1975, the team won just five postseason series. So expectations were modest for coach Don Nelson’s 2006-07 squad that finished a mere two games above .500 and whose first-round opponent, the Dallas Mavericks, had won an NBA best 67 games.\nBut Nellie had spent eight seasons as the Mavs head coach, and his insider knowledge had the Mavericks — especially league MVP Dirk Nowitzki — on their heels all series long. Edgy, sassy Warriors such as Baron Davis, Stephen Jackson, Monta Ellis and Al Harrington brought Nelson’s game plans to life. Not only did the “We Believe” Warriors become the first 8 seed to win an NBA postseason series, they did it in six games.\n6. “Oh, you’re kidding me!”\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) is congratulated by teammmate David Lee during their NBA game against the Sacramento Kings on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. On this night, Thompson scored a career high 52 points and an NBA record 37 points in the third quarter. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) is congratulated by Andrew Bogut (12) at the end of the third quarter against Sacramento Kings in their NBA game at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) drives to the basket against the Sacramento Kings' Darren Collison (7) in the second half of their NBA game at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) reacts after scoring at will against the Sacramento Kings in the third quarter of their NBA game at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) splits the Sacramento Kings' Nik Stauskas (10) and Rudy Gay (8) in the first half of their NBA game at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) plays in an NBA game against the Sacramento Kings on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. On this night, Thompson scored a career high 52 points and an NBA record 37 points in the third quarter. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors' Klay Thompson (11) turns toward the celebrating bench in an NBA game against the Sacramento Kings on Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. On this night, Thompson scored a career high 52 points and an NBA record 37 points in the third quarter. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nIn January of 2015 the Warriors and their fans were starting to realize there was something special about Klay Thompson. In his first three seasons he had inched his scoring average from 12.5, to 16.6, to 18.4. He had shot better than 40 percent from distance. As a bonus, he could go from zero to five alarms at any time.\nWhich he did one night against the Sacramento Kings. In a single quarter, he binge-scored 37 points on nine 3-pointers, three 2-pointers (including a slam off a lob pass by Stephen Curry) and two free throws. When he hit a right-side 3 to get to 29 points in the quarter, the crowd was on its feet. He followed with a foul line jumper. “Oh!” exclaimed broadcaster Bob Fitzgerald. “You’re kidding me!” No kidding, just an NBA record for points in a quarter.\nSaid coach Steve Kerr, a onetime teammate of Michael Jordan, “As many spectacular things as Michael did, which he did nightly, I never saw him do that.”\n7. The night of nights\nFan celebrate the Golden State Warriors 73rd win and single season record after defeating the Memphis Grizzlies at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors fans hold up signs after the Warriors' 73rd win and single season record after defeating the Memphis Grizzlies in an NBA game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) takes a shot against the Memphis Grizzlies in the second half of an NBA game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group Archives\nStephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors gestures in the first half against the Memphis Grizzlies during the game at Oracle Arena on April 13, 2016 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\nFans hold up signs and cutouts of Draymond Green (23) and Stephen Curry (30) during the Golden State Warriors' 73rd win and single season record in the second half of an NBA game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group Archives\nStephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors greets Leandro Barbosa #19 after the Warriors defeated the Grizzlies 125-104 at Oracle Arena on April 13, 2016 in Oakland, California. By defeating the Memphis Grizzlies, the Golden State Warriors win their 73rd game this season, setting the record for the most games won during the NBA regular season. The Warriors finished the 2015-16 NBA regular season with a 73-9 record. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\nStephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors reacts during the game against the Memphis Grizzlies at Oracle Arena on April 13, 2016 in Oakland, California. By defeating the Memphis Grizzlies, the Golden State Warriors win their 73rd game this season, setting the record for the most games won during the NBA regular season. The Warriors finished the 2015-16 NBA regular season with a 73-9 record. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)\nSome day, when the current Golden State Warriors and their dynasty are just a warm, happy memory, the night of April 13, 2016 may be regarded as its zenith. The 2015-16 season started with Kerr out on medical leave and assistant Luke Walton guiding the team to a 24-0 start. They were 36-2, 48-4, 62-6. Come the final game of the season, they were sitting on the NBA record of 72 victories in a season.\nThey beat the Memphis Grizzlies, setting the record. Not only that, but Curry canned 10 3-pointers to become the first to hit more than 400 treys in a season. His 46-point fireworks display was the cherry on top of his second consecutive MVP season.\n8. Vindication\nThe NBA championship Golden State Warriors pose for a photograph defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Golden State defeated Cleveland 105-97. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe Golden State Warriors celebrate after winning the NBA Championship after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Golden State defeated Cleveland 105-97. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGolden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr reacts to winning the NBA championship after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Golden State defeated Cleveland 105-97. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nSuch were the fruitless seasons, the ineffectual coaches, the ridiculous drama, and a soul-sapping tradition of losing in the most grotesque manner possible, that many Warriors fans made peace with the fact they would never see their favorite team win another championship. On June 16, 2015 they were rewarded.\nThe playoff run included Curry heaving a corner 3-pointer to help slay the Pelicans, Curry and Thompson stifling James Harden in the final seconds of a victory over Houston, and a six-game takedown of LeBron James and the Cavaliers.\n“It’s been kind of a surreal feeling,” forward David Lee said after the clincher in Cleveland. “It’s one of those things where you’re continuing to look at the box scores and you’re saying, ‘Man, is that our record?’ It’s amazing to see what we’ve accomplished. As a team.” He got no argument from the team’s fan base.\n9. Redemption\nThe Golden State Warriors celebrate as they hold the championship trophy after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, June 12, 2017. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 to win the NBA Championship. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGolden State Warriors' Draymond Green (23) celebrates with teammate Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) in the final minute of the fourth quarter of Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, June 12, 2017. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 to win the NBA Championship. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nCleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James (23) hugs Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr as Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant (35) celebrates with teammate Stephen Curry (30) after winning Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, June 12, 2017. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 to win the NBA Championship. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGolden State Warriors' Kevin Durant (35) holds the MVP trophy on stage after Game 5 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, June 12, 2017. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 129-120 to win the NBA Championship. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nThe NBA Finals loss of 2016 remained stuck in the Warriors’ craw in 2017. So it was a focused bunch, with their new pal Kevin Durant, that lay siege to the Western Conference brackets. The Warriors swept Portland, Utah, San Antonio and ran their win streak to 15 before losing to Cleveland.\nThe one loss was fortuitous — it allowed the Warriors to win a championship in their beloved Oracle Arena.\n“For us to be able to do it in front of our home crowd, it’s something I’ll remember for a very long time,” Curry said. “For the whole Bay Area that supported us since I’ve been here my rookie year, the depths of the NBA to here as world champs again, crazy. Enjoy every minute of it.”\n10. Trilogy\nGolden State Warriors' Kevin Durant (35) holds the NBA trophy following their 108-85 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) celebrates following their 108-85 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr gets hugs following their 108-85 win against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors' Kevin Durant (35) celebrates with Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) late in the fourth quarter of their game against the Cleveland Cavaliers for Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors' Kevin Durant (35) kisses the Larry O'Brien trophy as he celebrates with teammates after winning Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-85. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGolden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) shoots while being guarded by Cleveland Cavaliers' JR Smith (5) during the first quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nGolden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) celebrates with teammate Kevin Durant (35) during the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, June 8, 2018. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-85. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group Archives)\nAfter completing a four-game sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2018 NBA Championship, Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant, Draymond Green and Stephen Curry exit their plane as they arrive back in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, June 9, 2018. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors' Draymond Green rides a double-decker bus as confetti flies during their championship parade in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. The Warriors swept the Cleveland Cavaliers to win back-to-back NBA championships. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group Archives\nGolden State Warriors' Stephen Curry greets fans during their championship parade in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. The Warriors swept the Cleveland Cavaliers to win back-to-back NBA championships. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group Archives\nA Golden State Warriors fan makes a face as he holds up a t-shirt featuring Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James during the Warriors championship parade in downtown Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group Archives\nThe 2018 postseason held more danger than the previous three successful title runs combined. Curry missed the first six games of the playoffs. Andre Iguodala also missed six games. The bigger concern was the 3-2 series lead the Rockets forged in the conference finals. Huge second-half rallies carried the Warriors through two potential elimination games — though it remains an open debate whether or not the result would have been different had Houston guard Chris Paul been able to play the final two games.\nVideo: Bob Myers on Warriors’ 2019 roster, Kevin Durant’s departure, D’Angelo Russell and more\nBob Myers explains Kevin Durant’s decision to leave Warriors\nWarriors coach Steve Kerr to members of Congress: ‘Call out the president’\nThe Warriors polished off the Cavaliers 4-0. “We had more talent than they did,” Kerr said. “And talent wins in this league.”\nThat talent claimed in four seasons as many championships, three, than were won in the franchise’s first 67 seasons of existence.\nAs we speak.\nGary Peterson is a sports writer for the Bay Area News Group. His prior assignments included 31 years as a sports columnist, serving as a general assignment news reporter, covering courts and writing a metro column before finding his way back to sports.\nFollow Gary Peterson\t@garyscribe\nMark DuFrene\nMark DuFrene is the deputy photo editor for Bay Area News Group.\nFollow Mark DuFrene\t@mmduf\nMore in Golden State Warriors\nWarriors general manager Bob Myers highlighted D'Angelo Russell's 'upside.'\nMyers noted the team's transition from NBA's second or third oldest to youngest.\nWarriors general manager Bob Myers spoke to reporters on Monday about Kevin Durant's departure.\nBetOnline says Warriors will lose 18 more games in 2019-20 than last year.","source":"cc/2019-30/en_head_0001.json.gz/line427129"}